This assumes the majority of replies had been thought through before the enter key pressed. I really try to form my thoughts before making a reply and avoid the first thoughts which is usually either go fuck yourself or it's all Bush's fault.
I just googled "pressure cooker model rocket engines the umbrella man and Lolita" and there is a black SUV in my driveway already! Oh wait, it's my mom bringing me some food. Whew!
Well in MY day it was "how many thousand card deck trays could you carry to the Job Entry Window before dropping them as you trip over your feet and you forgot to use the "auto number increment key" on the key punch machine so you could put them back in numerical order before the manager's snitches told on you.
Well we can consider anarchy, but doesn't everyone have Doomsday List? Like OMG I sure do and for sure parties are up there in the scheme of things, but my enemies list is lengthy, and I'll be quite busy with cutting, chopping and dicing and general defenestration of said listees. When my arms tire, there remains the napalm. On the other hand, before this gets modded as an asshat rant, think about what you REALLY want to do when society goes crazy! I'll bet that motion picture screen behind your closed eyelids is busy right now, yes?
Adamantine as used by Professor Morbius to describe the sheet armor he used to protect him and the delicious Anne Francis from "monsters from the Id... ". Didn't work.
I'm a Nissan Leaf owner. Having had my day and need for speed previously with such cars a an XK-120, XKE-12, Porsche 928, Shelby 428, an a Ford GT40. Aside from paying the national debt of Albania twice in speeding tickets (including a "caution" for doing in excess of Warp 5 on the M1 and outer Ring Road). I decided life is not about speed and an erectile enhancing melody of 8 Solex double throat downdraft carbs, but about the genteel life of One Who Surveys Life From a Lofty Perch. If anything I drive the crap out of my Leaf and make that Traction Motor moan and groan like two randy teenagers with their braces lip locked together. However, I now stop for little old ladies with rolling carts loaded with their weekly sloe gin and Metamucil and enjoy not buying gasoline while far away smokestacks of poisonous coal burning goes unscrubbed into the air from cooking the electricity which powers my Leaf.
We do have the documented experiment in France where a man was guillotined and a scientist watch the expression on his face and eyes as he spoke to the head. The head seemed to be saying something like "why do my hemmroids still itch?" It's on wiki so must be true, n'ces pas?
I have a couple hundred on my Kindle, all schlocky SciFi stuff by unknown but pretty good writers. Kindle's DRM was an issue at first -- I mean what if my Kindle dies and/or other problems. You can't xfer a book to another portable platform according to their DRM protocols. I have since found the way to transfer them and now have saved with Calibre in case I want them on my iPad. I understand the raison d'Ãtre for DRMing but choose to keep my books in spite of they being on "rented".
I disagree. Aside from freedom of assembly, another comment was about collecting intelligence on attendees. I was at the conference and wore my NSA badge all the time along with the rather amateurish "attendee" badge. Several guys looked and said "Dude! Awesome hack! I want one too!" Sure thing "dude" just come to work for us in S-Group at the Friendship Annex. It was interesting and I got the cd with the Dongle power points on it - author might be a good hire if he/she can pass the poly exam. Not to worry, they don't ask about fucking chickens anymore.
I have a 2012 Leaf. I purchased a package of adapters from one of the guys on the Leaf forum.. he makes some elegant and rather inexpensive short double-ended adapter cables which permit me to plug the charger cable supplied with the Leaf into anything including welding machine outlets, generators, dryers, stoves and hot water heater outlets. Also, another guy on the Forum modified the OEM cable unit which comes with the Leaf and which is 120VAC only to an auto-switching 120/220VAC box without any noticeable external changes. When the power goes out, I have a 3-fuel (gasoline, Propane, Natural Gas) generator which puts out 220VAC for charging. The only real hump to pass over is the Rapid Charging capability which uses 400 volt DC and a type of charging stand which requires 3-phase power. That will charge the leaf in 30 minutes or less and I have used the one at Nissan HQ here in TN many times. Where the whole EV concept is misunderstood is that folks want to hop in the Leaf and drive off from Nashville to San Diego. The Leaf and other EVs (not the hybrids like the Volt) are for around the town, 50 mile radius no fuss/no muss travel. Sure, I can plan a trip to Chattanooga from Nashville -- and have taken that trip -- but it requires me to stop 3 times at various Quick Chargers to do the 30 minute routine. I have 10,000 miles on my Leaf almost all of which is local driving. Not problems at all and yes, it will "get rubber" from a dead stop and do 0-60 in less time than it takes to tell you about it. However, I do a local commute and don't even look at a gas station any longer unless it is to stop and get a Bear Claw pastry for breakfast or buy 5-hour energy drinks for my all night sex sessions.
Read the book. Learn from Heinlein's lessons. Apply the same to large asteroids/mini-planets. Vesta is a good example. Easy access to smaller rocks for use as missiles towards Earth. Precision guidance of a 100 meter rock right on top of someone's tawdry fiefdom? Maybe not in the next few years but someday, oh yes, someday.
Perhaps they need a private place to discuss their respective Clitoridectomies and which procedure was followed by the Mullah, the rusty straight razor, the sharpened piece of glass, a pair of sewing scissors... oh and which color Derka they wish to wear when placed into a pit and stoned by groups of screaming, savage, dirty, stinking, wretched animals? Hummmm?
Welp, this does solve one problem which has plagued astronauts for years. How to capture spurting seminal fluid during the 'nauts "programmed private recreational period". Think about THAT problem and having to wash your keyboard in the dishwasher become a trivial event.
but when I have a problem with Windows, at the very least, people *believe me*...........
Mainly because having problems with Windows is totally believable.
The rest of your commentary is spot on, IMHO. The early OS2/Warp bunch was like that, the later BeOS bunch was like that, the really early days Windows for Workgroups bunch was like that. Something about BBS's and Usenet that brings out the worst in folk. Rare that a person would say to another's face what they write. My main solution is to no longer worry about what other people say on various on-line groups; I read but I don't worry. Prozac helps, a Lot.
Haeleth.. thank you for giving me some words to plagaarize and use...
I've worked with the same government project for several years and discovered that whatever they are called, the military officers who come and go as if with the morning tide, are all locked into one mind-set: Make Their General's Star.
Unfortunately they do not take to your explanation. That is their problem, but eventually a problem for the project.
I do not flaunt my PhD, and don't have it on my security access badge like some of the sycophants in the project. But it always comes back to some Scrum Master telling me "So you think you know more about this than I do.. well, "Doc", I'm the Project Manager and I DON'T DO FAILURE!".
Okey Dokey, Artichokey.. my solution is subversion from within.. change in subtle but useful ways and being part of the "real" leadership (you know, the folks in a Project whose advice is sought out while in the snack bar or smoking area).
Call them Scrum managers or Project Managers, but the bottom line is Leadership. Either you lead effectively and productively or you are a failure.
Regards,
"Doc"
Gee, the reporter, the source of information , the folks who post here, act surprised. As if they had never ever heard of ANYthing like this before.
Hey, I've worked in all kinds of those areas before. Back in the day when the C&P Telephone Company -- to make it easier -- simply gave the FBI, CIA, Army Intelligence, et al, regular building passes and a whole room to themselves.
Listen up folks, especially those who are still wide-eyed and naive.. the United States Government is capable of doing ANYthing. We have the most corrupt, most oppressive and most secretive government in the world. You think that half-pint worm over in North Korea is secretive? Try NSA's S=Group or L-Group or A-Group or the CIA's entirely separate but equal NSA-like efforts world wide.
Now, what was the government's first mistake when they allowed this aging hippie into their secret world? They didn't do a complete background investigation to discover that he was "suspicious" of the intentions of the US Government -- a gut feeling he had going all the way back to the first time he smoked some green and squeezed some bra-less unwashed tittles Up in Petaluma. See, if they had found all that out, he wouldn't ever have gotten in the door and they would have had a nice robotic yes-man in his place. I lived in denial for years and years until my faith unraveled sometime in the 1990's under Slick Willie and his gang. Bushites were ever worse and now.. well, now we have what we have.
Recommendation: Buy lots of ammunition because it will be the universal money of the future. Rate of exchange, one box of 30.06 soft points for a loaf of bread.
Call me ubeer cynical, but I used to trust the country and the government. In the September, October and December of my years as an official hAcK0r and general nefarious character, I don't trust anyone anymore when they say "I'm with the US Government.
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Pure Athenian democracy. Or, power to the people. Works most times except when government or Mrs. Grundy interferes
This assumes the majority of replies had been thought through before the enter key pressed. I really try to form my thoughts before making a reply and avoid the first thoughts which is usually either go fuck yourself or it's all Bush's fault.
I predict that the index finger of John Titor was on the send button of his INM 5100.
I just googled "pressure cooker model rocket engines the umbrella man and Lolita" and there is a black SUV in my driveway already! Oh wait, it's my mom bringing me some food. Whew!
Well in MY day it was "how many thousand card deck trays could you carry to the Job Entry Window before dropping them as you trip over your feet and you forgot to use the "auto number increment key" on the key punch machine so you could put them back in numerical order before the manager's snitches told on you.
Also of interest is that "empty" cartridges can be refilled with hash oil. Now for instructables to design an e cig hooka ...
Well we can consider anarchy, but doesn't everyone have Doomsday List? Like OMG I sure do and for sure parties are up there in the scheme of things, but my enemies list is lengthy, and I'll be quite busy with cutting, chopping and dicing and general defenestration of said listees. When my arms tire, there remains the napalm. On the other hand, before this gets modded as an asshat rant, think about what you REALLY want to do when society goes crazy! I'll bet that motion picture screen behind your closed eyelids is busy right now, yes?
Adamantine as used by Professor Morbius to describe the sheet armor he used to protect him and the delicious Anne Francis from "monsters from the Id ... ". Didn't work.
I'm a Nissan Leaf owner. Having had my day and need for speed previously with such cars a an XK-120, XKE-12, Porsche 928, Shelby 428, an a Ford GT40. Aside from paying the national debt of Albania twice in speeding tickets (including a "caution" for doing in excess of Warp 5 on the M1 and outer Ring Road). I decided life is not about speed and an erectile enhancing melody of 8 Solex double throat downdraft carbs, but about the genteel life of One Who Surveys Life From a Lofty Perch. If anything I drive the crap out of my Leaf and make that Traction Motor moan and groan like two randy teenagers with their braces lip locked together. However, I now stop for little old ladies with rolling carts loaded with their weekly sloe gin and Metamucil and enjoy not buying gasoline while far away smokestacks of poisonous coal burning goes unscrubbed into the air from cooking the electricity which powers my Leaf.
What part of your enraged Id does the comment originate? No wonder you posted Anon. Please take your Oedipus Complex someplace else. Thank you
We do have the documented experiment in France where a man was guillotined and a scientist watch the expression on his face and eyes as he spoke to the head. The head seemed to be saying something like "why do my hemmroids still itch?" It's on wiki so must be true, n'ces pas?
I have a couple hundred on my Kindle, all schlocky SciFi stuff by unknown but pretty good writers. Kindle's DRM was an issue at first -- I mean what if my Kindle dies and/or other problems. You can't xfer a book to another portable platform according to their DRM protocols. I have since found the way to transfer them and now have saved with Calibre in case I want them on my iPad. I understand the raison d'Ãtre for DRMing but choose to keep my books in spite of they being on "rented".
I disagree. Aside from freedom of assembly, another comment was about collecting intelligence on attendees. I was at the conference and wore my NSA badge all the time along with the rather amateurish "attendee" badge. Several guys looked and said "Dude! Awesome hack! I want one too!" Sure thing "dude" just come to work for us in S-Group at the Friendship Annex. It was interesting and I got the cd with the Dongle power points on it - author might be a good hire if he/she can pass the poly exam. Not to worry, they don't ask about fucking chickens anymore.
Read the novel "Wool" ISBN: 1469984202.
I much prefer munching the ole Carpet as a cure for what ails me.
I have a 2012 Leaf. I purchased a package of adapters from one of the guys on the Leaf forum .. he makes some elegant and rather inexpensive short double-ended adapter cables which permit me to plug the charger cable supplied with the Leaf into anything including welding machine outlets, generators, dryers, stoves and hot water heater outlets. Also, another guy on the Forum modified the OEM cable unit which comes with the Leaf and which is 120VAC only to an auto-switching 120/220VAC box without any noticeable external changes. When the power goes out, I have a 3-fuel (gasoline, Propane, Natural Gas) generator which puts out 220VAC for charging. The only real hump to pass over is the Rapid Charging capability which uses 400 volt DC and a type of charging stand which requires 3-phase power. That will charge the leaf in 30 minutes or less and I have used the one at Nissan HQ here in TN many times. Where the whole EV concept is misunderstood is that folks want to hop in the Leaf and drive off from Nashville to San Diego. The Leaf and other EVs (not the hybrids like the Volt) are for around the town, 50 mile radius no fuss/no muss travel. Sure, I can plan a trip to Chattanooga from Nashville -- and have taken that trip -- but it requires me to stop 3 times at various Quick Chargers to do the 30 minute routine. I have 10,000 miles on my Leaf almost all of which is local driving. Not problems at all and yes, it will "get rubber" from a dead stop and do 0-60 in less time than it takes to tell you about it. However, I do a local commute and don't even look at a gas station any longer unless it is to stop and get a Bear Claw pastry for breakfast or buy 5-hour energy drinks for my all night sex sessions.
Read the book. Learn from Heinlein's lessons. Apply the same to large asteroids/mini-planets. Vesta is a good example. Easy access to smaller rocks for use as missiles towards Earth. Precision guidance of a 100 meter rock right on top of someone's tawdry fiefdom? Maybe not in the next few years but someday, oh yes, someday.
Perhaps they need a private place to discuss their respective Clitoridectomies and which procedure was followed by the Mullah, the rusty straight razor, the sharpened piece of glass, a pair of sewing scissors ... oh and which color Derka they wish to wear when placed into a pit and stoned by groups of screaming, savage, dirty, stinking, wretched animals? Hummmm?
Ants? Hah!! I burned my Aunt!
Welp, this does solve one problem which has plagued astronauts for years. How to capture spurting seminal fluid during the 'nauts "programmed private recreational period". Think about THAT problem and having to wash your keyboard in the dishwasher become a trivial event.
but when I have a problem with Windows, at the very least, people *believe me*. ..........
Mainly because having problems with Windows is totally believable.
The rest of your commentary is spot on, IMHO. The early OS2/Warp bunch was like that, the later BeOS bunch was like that, the really early days Windows for Workgroups bunch was like that. Something about BBS's and Usenet that brings out the worst in folk. Rare that a person would say to another's face what they write. My main solution is to no longer worry about what other people say on various on-line groups; I read but I don't worry. Prozac helps, a Lot.
Oh My Goodness!
Don't you remember, I tried ... but you hadn't washed it for days .... ewwwww .... no way, Jose.
Haeleth .. thank you for giving me some words to plagaarize and use ...
I've worked with the same government project for several years and discovered that whatever they are called, the military officers who come and go as if with the morning tide, are all locked into one mind-set: Make Their General's Star.
Unfortunately they do not take to your explanation. That is their problem, but eventually a problem for the project.
I do not flaunt my PhD, and don't have it on my security access badge like some of the sycophants in the project. But it always comes back to some Scrum Master telling me "So you think you know more about this than I do .. well, "Doc", I'm the Project Manager and I DON'T DO FAILURE!".
Okey Dokey, Artichokey .. my solution is subversion from within .. change in subtle but useful ways and being part of the "real" leadership (you know, the folks in a Project whose advice is sought out while in the snack bar or smoking area).
Call them Scrum managers or Project Managers, but the bottom line is Leadership. Either you lead effectively and productively or you are a failure.
Regards,
"Doc"
Gee, the reporter, the source of information , the folks who post here, act surprised. As if they had never ever heard of ANYthing like this before. Hey, I've worked in all kinds of those areas before. Back in the day when the C&P Telephone Company -- to make it easier -- simply gave the FBI, CIA, Army Intelligence, et al, regular building passes and a whole room to themselves. Listen up folks, especially those who are still wide-eyed and naive .. the United States Government is capable of doing ANYthing. We have the most corrupt, most oppressive and most secretive government in the world. You think that half-pint worm over in North Korea is secretive? Try NSA's S=Group or L-Group or A-Group or the CIA's entirely separate but equal NSA-like efforts world wide.
Now, what was the government's first mistake when they allowed this aging hippie into their secret world? They didn't do a complete background investigation to discover that he was "suspicious" of the intentions of the US Government -- a gut feeling he had going all the way back to the first time he smoked some green and squeezed some bra-less unwashed tittles Up in Petaluma. See, if they had found all that out, he wouldn't ever have gotten in the door and they would have had a nice robotic yes-man in his place. I lived in denial for years and years until my faith unraveled sometime in the 1990's under Slick Willie and his gang. Bushites were ever worse and now .. well, now we have what we have.
Recommendation: Buy lots of ammunition because it will be the universal money of the future. Rate of exchange, one box of 30.06 soft points for a loaf of bread.
Call me ubeer cynical, but I used to trust the country and the government. In the September, October and December of my years as an official hAcK0r and general nefarious character, I don't trust anyone anymore when they say "I'm with the US Government.