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  1. Re: Most will be paid by others on Teachers Fake Gunman Attack · · Score: 1

    Try it on my kids and see just how bad it is for you! I have had to do therapy with kids who have been traumatized. These teachers deserve to go to prison for child abuse and terrorism! You obviously do not have children, take a hint and don't! You would SUCK as a parent!

    I GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE RATINGS!

  2. Re:Predicting? How about controlling? on Hurricane's Eye Reveals a New Power Source · · Score: 1

    So if it is a pressure relief valve, why not focus on trying to create one instead of killing one? If we create on early enough it will not have the reserve energy to become a "mega cat5" or what ever and their for should not be near as damaging. To kill one would likely take more force than creating one as to create one you should be able to apply lower force for longer time, not an option on a moving one.

  3. Re:Assumptions on Prof. Johan Pouwelse To Take On RIAA Expert · · Score: 1

    Would the RIAA then not just decide that this case is better un-fought and just drop the charges? If they did this would the court disallow new cases to be brought using similar evidence?
    I'm just wondering if they will simply attempt to duck the setting of precedence instead of chancing their case.

  4. Re:So borrow/rent a proper towing car when needed. on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    You are correct, however you may be surprised at the efficiency of these systems. (for their size weight and horse power)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Fuel_Managemen t/ From the wiki
    http://www.gmc.com/modelSelector.jsp/ select trucks - Active Fuel Management
    These look like a step in the right direction. These (according to specs) can get up to 22MPG and 367max hp. Doesn't list torque but states towing cap of 10,500 pounds. (bet that mpg isn't at that hp rating or towing anything:)

  5. Re:Nah on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    Ahhh but id you are driving really nice HARLEY.... ;)

  6. Re:So borrow/rent a proper towing car when needed. on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    but the fact that you, as a foster parent, had seven children at one point does mean that somewhere there are humans reproducing who likely needed a lesson in birth control.

    OOOOOH you have no idea how bad I would like to stop some of these people from reproducing!!!
    and the occasional Redneck(tm) always stops us in WalMart or where ever and ask me all sly like if I have figured out what causes the excess children to... I just smile and then tell him/her that if they would take care of their kids no one else would have to!

    I completely agree not everyone who drives an SUV needs one. However, before someone decides to "Key the SUV" they need to find out why the SUV is there in the first place. Yes I have had mine keyed at least once.
    Oh and another time at a mall 2-3 or 5 miles from MIT with Oklahoma tags on it. I had no idea I was even near MIT and MUCH less idea that MIT and OU were playing football that day! What are the odds, I was just driving through! I don't count that as an anti SUV though ;)

  7. Re:So borrow/rent a proper towing car when needed. on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they like children? Perhaps they believe that they are much better at creating a more productive person than others and choose to help even the number of productive / unproductive people in a given society? Your guess is as good as mine, however, I currently have 4 and have had 7 at one time.

    My reason... I am a foster parent! Yes my wife drives an SUV. It is a Chevrolet Trail Blazer Extended with the 3rd row of seats, the 2 youngest are in car seats and the 2 oldest are teenagers. At one time i had 4 teenagers and 2 babies, another time i had 4 babies and the 2 teans. (Now THAT was a car full)

    Perhaps if more people were foster parents there would be less children needing a home and people like us would be able to purchase smaller vehicles.

    To work and back everyday I drive a small Nissan Pickup, I need a pickup for haling things and pulling trailers, etc. but when I need to pull my boat... I am going to take the kids as well so I don't need a big truck as the blazer will do just fine. Don't knock my blazer when you see it parked in a grocery store parking lot, some times next to my pickup just so we can hall all the food these kids, and inevitably their friends or nieces and nephews, are going to eat. Working for the .gov I am paid once a month so I make one major trip to acquire resources needed for the month. The rest of the month I can make a stop here or there as necessary.

    Not that I feel the need to justify my self or my SUV but to explain that just because you see some people waling around with 4+ kids doesn't mean (always) they don't know about / use birth control.

  8. Re:So borrow/rent a proper towing car when needed. on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    Perhaps cars with more variable horsepower could have a towing capacity for times when you need it and reduced power to save gas when it is just you.

    Take a look at the newest GMC hd trucks with the Active Fuel Management System, they are dynamically changing the number of cylinders which are being used depending on engine load. A step in the right direction.

  9. Re:In the immortal words of Mr. T on New US Computer Forensic Institute · · Score: 1

    You missed an entire segment of investigation, Financial. The IRS has a very nice computer crimes lab as well as the SEC. Neither of which are interested in finding the type of data you suggest. In fact if we do find anything related to a crime other than what we are investigating we must simply forward a "Tip" to the local law enforcement or FBI field office explaining that this individual should be investigated for this crime. This usually caused the current investigation to lag as the FBI/Local law enforcement now also has to take the machines and image them, It creates a chain of custody nightmare which can sometimes derail our investigation for some time.

  10. Re:More of the same on New US Computer Forensic Institute · · Score: 1

    Err. If I find evidence of a crime I am investigating on your hard drive it can NEVER be destroyed and must be locked in the case file in case of future appeals.

  11. Re:Buy a direct injection turbo charged car today! on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 1

    It is also used in the US M1 Tank, It is used for power to size/weight ratio not fuel economy. It generates a tremendous amount of power in a fairly small package but as you said most of the energy seems to be sent out the back of the machine. If you follow with in about 30 feet you will find your paint pealing off your hood and possibly your windshield warping soon.

  12. Re:I wonder... on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 1

    And actually, a Redneck would be VERY proud of this tech! In my time going to vo-tech (google it) in mid Oklahoma I have seen pickups with windshield washers modded to spray watter mist into a carburetor! The even swore it boosted the horse power by some insane %!
    Ah the memories! Wonder we didn't kill ourselves!

  13. Re:Rudolph Diesel on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 1

    The glow plug in all so equipped diesel engines are required to bring the combustion chamber up to a temp high enough to allow the fuel to detonate when injected. In large (i.e. Over the road trucks) Diesels the combustion chamber compression presser is high enough to achieve this temp. In (some) smaller engines (i.e. hobby, some car/light truck engines) the engine is built small and lite and cannot generate the presser with out a little help from a glow plug. In older GMC 6.2ltr Diesels the operator had to hold the "Glow Plug" button for ~30 sec before trying to start the engine, however if the temp outside was high, or the engine was already warm, an engine in good condition would usually start with out it.
    The thing is, every engine make is different, some smaller engines never reach the required compression and require the glow plug to always preheat the fuel instead of the combustion chamber, while others would burst a glow plug if used during normal engine operation because it was exposed to the presser of the combustion chamber and when "glowing" the material it is made of usually was much weaker in this state.
    As for priming the engine you speak of, I have never tried dealing with a diesel so small, however I would start by assuring fuel delivery to the injector and then setting the glow plug for 10-30 sec before attempting to start the engine. That is... If I had no owner/users manual and could find none on the internet;)

  14. Re:Fantastic on New Details on Xerox Inkless Printer · · Score: 1

    A very good solution for this is to use a product like Zan Image Printer to print to a tif/jpg and store the file instead of paper.
    We use it to automatically print the faxes coming into our fax server into a shared folder so we have an online archive and the users can access the faxes when they need them. Can't remember the price but I think it was not much, maybe $100 or less, has been over a year since purchase.

  15. Re:Fuel Tank Made From Corncob?? on Fuel Tanks Made of Corncob Waste · · Score: 1

    And wasted old moldy bread dose not seem like appropriate material for making medicine.

  16. Re:For those hand-wringing about eco issues on Fuel Tanks Made of Corncob Waste · · Score: 1

    Ok, with this being said, how hard would this be to adapt to a septic tank system in a rural home? For example, most rural homes in the south western US are too far from sewage systems and are required to have a septic system which appears to be very similar to your description except that is is a closed system buried in the ground with the liquefied waist overflowing the tank (algae vat) after the algae has reduced the solids to liquid, into pipes with holes in them to be absorbed into the ground. Seems to me all one needs to do is attach some methane reclamation system to the top of the tank and some type of storage system/pump that would make this gass available to the home/autos. Currently most of these homes require LP tanks or run off of electricity or both. Perhaps this would not produce enough gas to run the generator to run the house, but if it would run the water heater and furnace it would be worth $200 per month in the winter to me, and more than that if it would be able to handle cooking, clothes drying, fuel one or more cars, etc.
    Designing a system where you would use both on the same appliance doesn't work unless you have 2 separate burners as the jets are of different size and a CNG jet would not let LP through in quantity to be functional, where as an LP jet would burn the house down running CNG. Of course you could build custom valves which would handle each however the cost/complexity would increase as well. The jets are interchangeable however it is done by a licensed service rep or LP/CNG dealer.

  17. Re:Scary on Fuel Tanks Made of Corncob Waste · · Score: 1

    Steam engines operate under very high presser. Many explosions have happened by boiler failure.
    Flywheel tech requires something to build up the momentum in the flywheel, perhaps a series of gears attached to a set of peddles? ;)

  18. Re:Chuck & the List on SETI Finally Finds Something · · Score: 1

    google / wiki Chuck Norris ;)

  19. Re:Oblig. Definitely fatty acids... on Possible Cure For Autism · · Score: 1

    google rain man.

  20. Re:I shall be the first to say on Earth's Constant Hum Explained · · Score: 1

    Actually the Earth, as it has been proven, is simply a giant Space Mollusk and the hum is simply it's normal communication processes.
    For the literary impaired: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_World_Scream ed

  21. Re:One big question on Big Blue Designing Chip to Decode the Big Bang · · Score: 1

    So to better get my head around this correctly, check my thoughts and tell me how far off base I am.
    As I understand it in this compressed state the atomic matter was present but basically had no space between the pieces? The protons/neutrons/electrons? or what ever they were made of, and at the time of the BANG something caused this mass to decide "it needed some space" and the atoms were formed which caused enough presser to force everything to expand.

    I am not trying to be foolish here I am, unfortunately, simply uninformed as the the theory of the actual mechanics of the event.
    If you do not wish to answer, I can research the information in time, however thank you for any effort to explain the mechanics. (laymen terms please;)

  22. Re:pissed off on Big Blue Designing Chip to Decode the Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Why? Because most of them don't understand the 1st chapter of Genesis? Let's walk through it a second.

    2: And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

    What are they saying here? That there is a mass that existed, or was created.

    3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

    Bang! Light ... everywhere, Light doesn't come from nowhere it has to have a source. The sun wasn't made yet neither were the stars or other planets. Sounds like this "Mass" called earth in #2 has been turned into plasma during an explosion to me.

    4: And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

    Wow here we see that things are starting to settle out, the light (or plasma or what ever) is starting to coagulate to me.

    5: And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

    Ok stay with me for a sec and remember the term "Day" keep in mind the term is used thought time as a frame of reference. So here it is stating that the time period where the light was divided from the darkness (the universal material? Plasma? W/E) is called the first day.

    6: And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

    Waters ... this is what the one who seen the vision of the "Big Bang" thought it looked like. Here we see that these "Waters" are starting to form into things like planets, stars, what ever but at this point they all pretty much looked the same.

    7: And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

    8: And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

    Here we are into the 2nd time period and now have seen the material left from the "Big Bang" formed into bodies or masses.

    9: And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

    10: And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
    11,12
    13: And the evening and the morning were the third day.

    Ok now in the 3rd time period, we are talking about the formation of the earth it's self. Were other planets formed at the same time? Most likely but do the fact that there was not yet a sun or other stars how would the recorder of the event know. Perhaps this event was the impact that caused the moon to be formed? The one who recorded the vision of the event did not say.

    14: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

    15: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

    16: And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

    17: And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

    18: And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

    19: And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

    Here we are in the 4th time period when the mases of the stars are igniting, to the observer/recorder of this event the moon seemed like a smaller version of the sun, perhaps if you were not ever told it was in fact a planet reflecting the sun you too would have a similar description of it?

    After this the recorder begins to tell us about the creation of life, we are left to go and discover wh

  23. Re:No back doors? on Seagate To Encrypt Data On Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Please see Bitlocker in the new MS Vista OS

  24. Re:It should be EASY to track. on Counterfeit Cisco Gear Showing Up In US · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps the company you were shipping to set it up so as to get 2 shipments for the price of one.
    Was the hijack reported by the driver or the receiver?

  25. Re:Like the Pointer Sisters.... on The Sun Had Sisters · · Score: 1

    Brothers! Sons are not girls! OMGWTFROLFMAOWTHBBQRTFA ;)