I've never seen anything like that in the Connecticut market (Charter Cable or airwaves) - if anyone _has_ then I'd like to hear from them so I can try to catch one or more instances.
Went outside 0100 to 0230 (it's always best after local midnight because THEN your location has swung around the limb so that the debris is coming head-on - kind of useless to go out before 0000). Saw 'bout a couple dozen - big 'uns 'n little 'uns. Last couple years have been cloudy in August, so this was a good one in CT.
If a new tomb _is_ located, somebody should warn Zahi Hawass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahi_Hawass) about the 'blindness' and 'hairy palms' historically said to be the fruits of his not-unexpected actions - and that he should at least wash his hands when he's finished...
Absolutely not! All this means... a good long while yet.
What's more important in this collective fetish to colonize Mars (manned bases, mining, etc.) - to determine that some kind of life was ONCE there? Or to prove that, whatever the circumstances, we can introduce sustainable life to aid in colonization? (And, yes: I've read K.S.Robinson's 'Red/Green/Blue Mars' trilogy.)
I can't see where it matters at all, in the grand scheme of extraterrestrial colonization, whether or not bugs (cells, bacteria, etc.) once existed there whereas I _can_ see the benefit(s) in determining what may be there _now_ - primarily to determine if the dirt there can support plant life or in any way contribute to nitrogen/oxygen/hydrogen/carbon production, along with the use of planetary ice(s).
All that dirt & ice are already there, and _they're_ going to be the determining factor in whether or not the planet can support a colony - _not_ whether bugs once lived there and are all dead now.
Christ forbid they should get fed, watered, vaccinated, housed, clothed, educated, kept from self-infection (i.e. indiscriminate f**king), and kept from shooting each other _before_ they get to cruise MySpace, Amazon, and eBay while downloading porn, receiving spam (though, receiving Nigerian '419' emails would be delightfully ironic), and enduring BSODs.
I haven't used Brasso - I use aluminum oxide powder, with a little surfactant (i.e. Dawn detergent) in water - but I can suggest a slightly different method: use a plastic bag.
I lay a clean terrycloth (short nap) towel on a flat surface (formica countertop) - large enough to gove you room to swirl the disc around. Saturate the towel with the solution. Use a couple of pieces of double-sided tape to secure the HUB of the disc to the center of one side of the plastic bag (I've used partially inflated 'zipper' bags as well as the 'airbags' now used as dunnage; as long as they're big enough), laser-side out, and a piece on the back for your palm/fingers.
Pressing the bag down on the towel even distributes the load all across the disc - so that you're not polishing dents/hollows into the surface - and the tape is sufficient in 'shear mode' to keep hand to bag and disc to bag.
Things polish very quickly and evenly. I'll have to try Brasso
1) how long will it be until tivo adds a feature to disable the skipping of commercials? They _know_ you'll still use it 'cause you want to capture the shows...
2) several years ago I was contacted by my cable provider's marketing goons, flogging porn channels and crappy-pay-movie channels. Their 'kicker' was that by getting their digital cable box my monthly base-rate would drop by almost US$10.
Needless to say, I took the box and the monthly reduction. I plugged the box in, connected the cable, and there it sits - nothing on the upper channels interests me and I get along quite nicely with my cable-ready (i.e. untraceable by them) television.
Several times I've gotten marketing calls asking me if I liked digital service. One time one of them slipped-up by saying "but there's no activity from the box" after I said "I like it fine".
Since looking through their terms, I can find no stipulation that I actually have to _use_ the box. and it kind of verifies that they _are_ watching everything.
(from the article) "The proposal by John Koza, who also invented the scratch-off lottery ticket..."
Says a lot, right there.
Just remember: his 'idea' will only be considered good until his candidate loses again, at which time he'll think-up something else to keep his name 'published' in the news.
Just out of curiosity, what information does your 'letter of identity' contain (name, address, SSN, DOB, driver's license, height, weight, fingerprints(?), blood type(?), images (front/side?)) that make you _so_ absolutely identifiable to affirmative-action-education-equivalent screeners with it?
In short, you life someday (perhaps even now) might litterally depend on the navigation equipment of the vehicle you are in (read airliner) knowing precisely where you are at, and a more accurate clock will give that vehicle better accuracy to keep you alive.
I really can't figure that an accumulated error of one second in four hundred-million years versus an error of one second in seventy million years is going to make much of a difference-in-position on a six hour cross-country flight...
I tried FileVault; too chancy encrypting a whole directory that way.
A better way for what I require: make a big sparse disk image with DiskUtility and password-encrypt (AES-128) it. I mount it when I need it, add/remove files, and eject it.
Not everything in my home directory needs to be encrypted (I mean - PREFS files???), I can make multiple images for multiple projects, the mounted images work pretty quickly, sparse images only take up as much space as they need, I can run them off of usb/firewire drives, safely send the encrypted images to people (whereupon they can open them) - they're pretty useful!
1) you can make a working-copy of the original, and retain the original to clone a new working-copy if the working-copy is damaged
2) however many copies you have, only ONE item (copy or original) can be in use at a time
3) if you sell one you cannot retain the other - they must either be sold together or one must be destroyed (presumably the working-copy; why would someone sell the copy and destroy the original?)
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Speaking of Nomad: http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/insp_nomad.jp g
I've never seen anything like that in the Connecticut market (Charter Cable or airwaves) - if anyone _has_ then I'd like to hear from them so I can try to catch one or more instances.
cary sherman wants them for fertilizer for the rooftop garden at the RIAA's HQ - a place even the pigeons won't crap-upon.
Went outside 0100 to 0230 (it's always best after local midnight because THEN your location has swung around the limb so that the debris is coming head-on - kind of useless to go out before 0000). Saw 'bout a couple dozen - big 'uns 'n little 'uns. Last couple years have been cloudy in August, so this was a good one in CT.
If a new tomb _is_ located, somebody should warn Zahi Hawass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahi_Hawass) about the 'blindness' and 'hairy palms' historically said to be the fruits of his not-unexpected actions - and that he should at least wash his hands when he's finished...
What's more important in this collective fetish to colonize Mars (manned bases, mining, etc.) - to determine that some kind of life was ONCE there? Or to prove that, whatever the circumstances, we can introduce sustainable life to aid in colonization? (And, yes: I've read K.S.Robinson's 'Red/Green/Blue Mars' trilogy.)
I can't see where it matters at all, in the grand scheme of extraterrestrial colonization, whether or not bugs (cells, bacteria, etc.) once existed there whereas I _can_ see the benefit(s) in determining what may be there _now_ - primarily to determine if the dirt there can support plant life or in any way contribute to nitrogen/oxygen/hydrogen/carbon production, along with the use of planetary ice(s).
All that dirt & ice are already there, and _they're_ going to be the determining factor in whether or not the planet can support a colony - _not_ whether bugs once lived there and are all dead now.
Good words, yours are.
Christ forbid they should get fed, watered, vaccinated, housed, clothed, educated, kept from self-infection (i.e. indiscriminate f**king), and kept from shooting each other _before_ they get to cruise MySpace, Amazon, and eBay while downloading porn, receiving spam (though, receiving Nigerian '419' emails would be delightfully ironic), and enduring BSODs.
I haven't used Brasso - I use aluminum oxide powder, with a little surfactant (i.e. Dawn detergent) in water - but I can suggest a slightly different method: use a plastic bag.
I lay a clean terrycloth (short nap) towel on a flat surface (formica countertop) - large enough to gove you room to swirl the disc around. Saturate the towel with the solution. Use a couple of pieces of double-sided tape to secure the HUB of the disc to the center of one side of the plastic bag (I've used partially inflated 'zipper' bags as well as the 'airbags' now used as dunnage; as long as they're big enough), laser-side out, and a piece on the back for your palm/fingers.
Pressing the bag down on the towel even distributes the load all across the disc - so that you're not polishing dents/hollows into the surface - and the tape is sufficient in 'shear mode' to keep hand to bag and disc to bag.
Things polish very quickly and evenly. I'll have to try Brasso
Have a look at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/044006550X and http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006Y2ORW - I've read the latter, and it is...interesting...to say the least. Enough to keep me searching for a (cheap) copy of the former.
Oh, great - South-Central Los Angeles is gonna burn again?
Rock bolts are self-wedging - like a lag shield - aren't they?
How were these tunnel bolts installed? Threaded ends (or headed bolts), epoxied into drilled holes, in concrete?
Does anyone know if it was a steel/epoxy failure? Or a concrete/epoxy failure? Or did the concrete or epoxy just shatter?
Does anyone know the IP to which it sends the information? THIS sounds like a job for Your Hosts File!
I see an article; with an illustration that could easily have been photoshopped.
Has anyone seen any video demonstration(s)? (yes, I know _they_ could be synthetic images too; but it's more-likely they wouldn't be)
Two things:
1) how long will it be until tivo adds a feature to disable the skipping of commercials? They _know_ you'll still use it 'cause you want to capture the shows...
2) several years ago I was contacted by my cable provider's marketing goons, flogging porn channels and crappy-pay-movie channels. Their 'kicker' was that by getting their digital cable box my monthly base-rate would drop by almost US$10.
Needless to say, I took the box and the monthly reduction. I plugged the box in, connected the cable, and there it sits - nothing on the upper channels interests me and I get along quite nicely with my cable-ready (i.e. untraceable by them) television.
Several times I've gotten marketing calls asking me if I liked digital service. One time one of them slipped-up by saying "but there's no activity from the box" after I said "I like it fine".
Since looking through their terms, I can find no stipulation that I actually have to _use_ the box. and it kind of verifies that they _are_ watching everything.
Porn. They're French - they don't look at their wives; they look at everybody else's wives.
"The proposal by John Koza, who also invented the scratch-off lottery ticket..."
Says a lot, right there.
Just remember: his 'idea' will only be considered good until his candidate loses again, at which time he'll think-up something else to keep his name 'published' in the news.
Just out of curiosity, what information does your 'letter of identity' contain (name, address, SSN, DOB, driver's license, height, weight, fingerprints(?), blood type(?), images (front/side?)) that make you _so_ absolutely identifiable to affirmative-action-education-equivalent screeners with it?
Is it just a piece of paper? barcoded? magnetic-strip? any of these: http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/stack.html ?
Here: http://www.astronautix.com/articles/womspace.htm
Go thou and read, Read, READ.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362. stm
I would _love_ to hear Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett beat-up the Potter movies!
Yup - AND, at a cost of a bazillion $$$ for each group of half a dozen or so: prepare to be disappointed.
I guess since it's not all shiney lights and space babes like Star Trek, no one seems to care.
Even better: purple space chickies, green-skinned heroes, cyclopean space engineers, and, occasionally, sitcom TV show themes and 80's pop lyrics!
I really can't figure that an accumulated error of one second in four hundred-million years versus an error of one second in seventy million years is going to make much of a difference-in-position on a six hour cross-country flight...
I tried FileVault; too chancy encrypting a whole directory that way.
A better way for what I require: make a big sparse disk image with DiskUtility and password-encrypt (AES-128) it. I mount it when I need it, add/remove files, and eject it.
Not everything in my home directory needs to be encrypted (I mean - PREFS files???), I can make multiple images for multiple projects, the mounted images work pretty quickly, sparse images only take up as much space as they need, I can run them off of usb/firewire drives, safely send the encrypted images to people (whereupon they can open them) - they're pretty useful!
Actually, I thought it was:
1) you can make a working-copy of the original, and retain the original to clone a new working-copy if the working-copy is damaged
2) however many copies you have, only ONE item (copy or original) can be in use at a time
3) if you sell one you cannot retain the other - they must either be sold together or one must be destroyed (presumably the working-copy; why would someone sell the copy and destroy the original?)
IMO, it sounds like Murphy and his gang are just desperate to get published - somewhere, for anything.