My letter said something about the IRS helped with the mailing or provided the addresses - I don't remember exactly. Interestingly enough though from what I heard about it I'm probably not in that group as I'm just a bit older than the main group involved. I guess though they were covering all bases to make sure they didn't miss anybody. Oh well maybe someboyd will steal my ID and FIX my credit:)
They build a LOT of cinder block houses in Florida and they don't hold up quite as well in the sandy soil as I would like. I live in one that's 3 years old and there are a number of cracks in the walls and the sliding patio door no longer mates properly to the frame due to the frame shifting as the concrete pad seems to have settled a bit as well. The house HAS stood up so far to hurricanes quite well with not even losing shingles but a lot of that is due to the building codes and not the cinder block construction. Under the right circumstances in hurricane force winds, especially Cat 3 or better, a 2x4 coming end-wise would come right through the cinder block like an artillery shell. In fact I've seen air cannons rigged to fire 2x4s at cinder block walls to simulate debris damage from hurricanes and tornadoes. If you fill the core with concrete and do several layers of cinder block thus building a bunker then you start getting some protection. But when you're building on what's essentially a swamp and you get some settling then you get all those minor cracks and such and I wonder what the long term integrity of the structure really is going to be although the homeowner's manual states that it's nothing to worry about unless the cracks get to be more than 1/4" in width..... But I'm seeing enough cracks and warps that I'm seriously starting to wonder about these houses that have nearly tripled in value in the past 3 years.....
Although even that is part of a rant about how everything is meaningless:
"What does man profit from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?
Generations come and generations go but the earth remains forever"
etc...
It would be quite a stretch to interpret it to mean that creation as a whole is TOTALLY unchanging. It was part of an example of what was meaningless to drive home the point of what was important.
It wasn't that extreme although the risks tend to get exaggerated to provide a margin of safety. But there's been quite the "Chicken Little" attitude about lately for some reason. Possibly because there's been so much interest focused on private space launches due to the X-prize and such. NASA's official stance has actually been along the lines that the risk was of developing cancer before they died and it was actually quite a bit less for somebody travelling to Mars than for someone who smoked cigarettes. The biggest problem is that until we actually GO there we really won't KNOW and can only SPECULATE about the risks....
Here's a few links with some info: http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=162 0 http://www.spacefellowship.com/Forum/about1155-0-a sc-60.html http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/rel eases/2003/03-183.html
Perfectly safe as long as there's no major leaks leading to large accumulations of hydrogen gas. The Hindenberg disaster unfortunately pretty much placed a spectre over hydrogen that persists to this day even though it's come out now that the flammable skin of the ship was the problem. But they let the hydrogen gas take the blame to escape liability and then so many people talk about when Challenger "blew up".... Hydrogen overall can be a very SAFE fuel but somehow it's retaining a stigma. Gasoline is more volatile yet we have cigarette lighters in cars.
I like the idea of a giant airship with a smoking room and would love to sit there enjoying a Cuban cigar on a slower paced journey rather than the nonsense of the air travel we suffer with nowdays:(
He IS comical. I read Enderle for the comic value not for any insightful commentary. He wants so badly to be a propaganda tool against open source but is just humorous in his efforts.
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Yeah complaints that have no specifics are just flamebait as they have no intention of finding a resolution. I do recall having dcop problems at one point probably with KDE 3.1 on Redhat 8 or so. Currently running 3.2.something on an out-of-the-box Mandrake 10.0 for like a year or so with no problem.
NRG is apparently sort of an ISO with some Nero-specific header info. I've heard you can strip the header and get a real ISO but I found a nrg2iso rpm that makes it real easy.
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My letter said something about the IRS helped with the mailing or provided the addresses - I don't remember exactly. Interestingly enough though from what I heard about it I'm probably not in that group as I'm just a bit older than the main group involved. I guess though they were covering all bases to make sure they didn't miss anybody. Oh well maybe someboyd will steal my ID and FIX my credit :)
They build a LOT of cinder block houses in Florida and they don't hold up quite as well in the sandy soil as I would like. I live in one that's 3 years old and there are a number of cracks in the walls and the sliding patio door no longer mates properly to the frame due to the frame shifting as the concrete pad seems to have settled a bit as well. The house HAS stood up so far to hurricanes quite well with not even losing shingles but a lot of that is due to the building codes and not the cinder block construction. Under the right circumstances in hurricane force winds, especially Cat 3 or better, a 2x4 coming end-wise would come right through the cinder block like an artillery shell. In fact I've seen air cannons rigged to fire 2x4s at cinder block walls to simulate debris damage from hurricanes and tornadoes. If you fill the core with concrete and do several layers of cinder block thus building a bunker then you start getting some protection. But when you're building on what's essentially a swamp and you get some settling then you get all those minor cracks and such and I wonder what the long term integrity of the structure really is going to be although the homeowner's manual states that it's nothing to worry about unless the cracks get to be more than 1/4" in width..... But I'm seeing enough cracks and warps that I'm seriously starting to wonder about these houses that have nearly tripled in value in the past 3 years.....
Although even that is part of a rant about how everything is meaningless:
"What does man profit from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?
Generations come and generations go but the earth remains forever"
etc...
It would be quite a stretch to interpret it to mean that creation as a whole is TOTALLY unchanging. It was part of an example of what was meaningless to drive home the point of what was important.
It wasn't that extreme although the risks tend to get exaggerated to provide a margin of safety. But there's been quite the "Chicken Little" attitude about lately for some reason. Possibly because there's been so much interest focused on private space launches due to the X-prize and such. NASA's official stance has actually been along the lines that the risk was of developing cancer before they died and it was actually quite a bit less for somebody travelling to Mars than for someone who smoked cigarettes. The biggest problem is that until we actually GO there we really won't KNOW and can only SPECULATE about the risks....2 0 a sc-60.html l eases/2003/03-183.html
Here's a few links with some info:
http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=16
http://www.spacefellowship.com/Forum/about1155-0-
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/re
Perfectly safe as long as there's no major leaks leading to large accumulations of hydrogen gas. The Hindenberg disaster unfortunately pretty much placed a spectre over hydrogen that persists to this day even though it's come out now that the flammable skin of the ship was the problem. But they let the hydrogen gas take the blame to escape liability and then so many people talk about when Challenger "blew up".... Hydrogen overall can be a very SAFE fuel but somehow it's retaining a stigma. Gasoline is more volatile yet we have cigarette lighters in cars. I like the idea of a giant airship with a smoking room and would love to sit there enjoying a Cuban cigar on a slower paced journey rather than the nonsense of the air travel we suffer with nowdays :(
This is /. so reading posts with a semblance of seriousness is optional......
He IS comical. I read Enderle for the comic value not for any insightful commentary. He wants so badly to be a propaganda tool against open source but is just humorous in his efforts.
Yeah complaints that have no specifics are just flamebait as they have no intention of finding a resolution. I do recall having dcop problems at one point probably with KDE 3.1 on Redhat 8 or so. Currently running 3.2.something on an out-of-the-box Mandrake 10.0 for like a year or so with no problem.
NRG is apparently sort of an ISO with some Nero-specific header info. I've heard you can strip the header and get a real ISO but I found a nrg2iso rpm that makes it real easy. Google is my friend....