I found a domain I wanted two and a half months ago, and promptly bought it. I then looked for an economical hosting agency and arranged to move the domain - no go! I have to wait 60 days before I can move it!
I have waited the sixty days, and put in a transfer request. After a while, I get an email asking if I requested the transfer. If so, do nothing - your transfer will be initiated after a 72 hours (+++) wait. The transfer will take between 7 and 14 days! This in the 21st century, on the INTERNET. I still have not found out how to see if there is any progress, and meanwhile - on my money - my domain name is hosting adverts which I do not wish to be associated with me or mine.
This seems unacceptably poor policy.
- Roger -
Richard Feynman tells me the earth carries a large negative charge, daily replenished by lightning. This rotates at a mean speed. Will this rotating charge not give (some of) us what we want?
- Roger -
Agree wholeheartedly. Had a parrot once; modeled on Cap'n Flint (Silver's parrot). Came back one day to find my wife had got rid of him - she said the shrieking upset the neighbors. Anyway, I read once that the spiny ant-eater was the highest form of life that didn't dream. I suspect that dreaming is necessary for intelligence, and ask if anyone can tell if parrots dream?
If you can't get it in royalty form, get a copy, and send the author a postcard saying 'thank you'. That's probably all the royalty is worth to him/her/it.
A chemist, a physicist and a mathematician are stranded on a desert island, and all they have is a can of beans. They need to open the can so that they can eat, so they each in turn set about devising a method to open the can.
The chemist comes up with a method that involves making seawater acidic enough to get the top off (while neutralizing the acid with some basic coconut juice from a nearby tree.)
The physicist comes up with a complicated rock apparatus to basically smash open the can.
The mathematician scratches his head, and walks around the beach for a while considering the problem. Finally, he comes and sits down next to his fellow castaways and says, "Assume a can opener..."
Mathematician's solution: Excuse me if I ruin an old joke. Put a plate by the tin of beans, and wait for them to appear. They probably will! (See "How to catch a lion" passim).
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Thank you. I shall look into this. Regards - Roger -
I found a domain I wanted two and a half months ago, and promptly bought it. I then looked for an economical hosting agency and arranged to move the domain - no go! I have to wait 60 days before I can move it! I have waited the sixty days, and put in a transfer request. After a while, I get an email asking if I requested the transfer. If so, do nothing - your transfer will be initiated after a 72 hours (+++) wait. The transfer will take between 7 and 14 days! This in the 21st century, on the INTERNET. I still have not found out how to see if there is any progress, and meanwhile - on my money - my domain name is hosting adverts which I do not wish to be associated with me or mine. This seems unacceptably poor policy. - Roger -
Richard Feynman tells me the earth carries a large negative charge, daily replenished by lightning. This rotates at a mean speed. Will this rotating charge not give (some of) us what we want? - Roger -
... there was little salt, and little conductivity, in the oceans. Where does the remnant field in the rock come from?
Agree wholeheartedly. Had a parrot once; modeled on Cap'n Flint (Silver's parrot). Came back one day to find my wife had got rid of him - she said the shrieking upset the neighbors. Anyway, I read once that the spiny ant-eater was the highest form of life that didn't dream. I suspect that dreaming is necessary for intelligence, and ask if anyone can tell if parrots dream?
If you can't get it in royalty form, get a copy, and send the author a postcard saying 'thank you'. That's probably all the royalty is worth to him/her/it.
A chemist, a physicist and a mathematician are stranded on a desert island, and all they have is a can of beans. They need to open the can so that they can eat, so they each in turn set about devising a method to open the can.
The chemist comes up with a method that involves making seawater acidic enough to get the top off (while neutralizing the acid with some basic coconut juice from a nearby tree.)
The physicist comes up with a complicated rock apparatus to basically smash open the can.
The mathematician scratches his head, and walks around the beach for a while considering the problem. Finally, he comes and sits down next to his fellow castaways and says, "Assume a can opener..."
Mathematician's solution: Excuse me if I ruin an old joke. Put a plate by the tin of beans, and wait for them to appear. They probably will! (See "How to catch a lion" passim).
Someone sends you an email with an encrypted attachment - what then?
[They later ask you to send it back. You never knew what was in it.]