During a power outage, would there still be a signal for your cable box or modem to receive?
Probably not, but your home network would work, as would OTA TV and satellite. If you had the right cell phone plan you could feed the internet to your internal network from your phone. When we had two tornados hit here in March 2006, everything was out for a week except my cell phone.
How many innocent children can you kill with your computer?
How many innocent children can you kill with your car?
Guns kill people and only arseholes can think otherwise.
Guns kill animals and only idiots think "guns kill people." I don't have a gun, but thes anti-gun sentiments are brain-dead stupid. I have a lot of friends who hunt, and I appreciate the game meat they often give me.
if you drank such water it would strip all the nutrients out of your body and kill you
Do you have a credible link to that obvious bullshit statement? I've seen it before, but it makes absolutely no sense at all.
They're using sterilized water so as not to pollute the lake itself with organisms or minerals.
My old man always told me "don't believe nothin' you hear and only half of what you see." You should follow that advice; whoever told you distilled water would strip the nutrients out of your body and kill you was someone you should NEVER get "information" from.
Yeah? Then find "Yello There" for me, I really miss that site. AFAIK there's only one page from it still existing, and it's in the internet archive cache of my old site*, the "Springfield Fragfest", and much of the Fragfest is missing as well (except on some CDs I kept). You'd probably have a hard time finding any trace of Bob Waring's "Sgt Hulka's Boot Camp," too, since his host's servers were in the Twin Towers on 911.
* Kneel and I were fans of each other's sites and often collaborated.
The other thing with gas furnace and hot water you still have heat in the winter.
Only if you have a furnace that's older than I am, what they called a "gravity furnace." You need electricity for the blower and thermostat, and with newer furnaces, the starter. If your power goes out, you have no heat.
The old gravity furnaces didn't have blowers, they relied on the fact that heat rises. A pilot light, rather than an electric starter, ignited it, and the thermostat was powered by a little device called a "power pile", a cylinder about an inch long that was placed in the pilot light's flame.
I don't think one has been manufactured in 70 years or more, the one I had was an old house that had a coal furnace converted to gas.
And while intelligent criminals (hmmm, ok, I see the problem allready)
Only the dumb ones get caught. Something like, what, 10% of crimes are ever solved? Stupidity doesn't cause criminality, lack of morals causes criminality.
In the US, analog TV used to be broadcast in NTSC format, 320 x 240 pixels
Completely incorrect. Analog TV had no pixels at all, it had scan lines, and there were 525 of them. You only have pixels in digital media, not analog.
WAY to much detail and no motion blur or warm moments for your eyes to pause on
You sound like an old audiotard who says he hates CDs because they don't have pops and rumble and hiss and flutter and wow like the LPs and tapes he was used to did. Oh, and the motion blur is still there, it's just that there's only half as much of it.
we had the technology to go as many FPS as we wanted to for the last 50 years, there is a reason we use 24
Wrong, kid, we didn't have the tech, but that's not the only reason. In 1962 there was no such thing as digital. All movies were film, and doubling the frame rate meant doubling the cost of distribution, since you needed twice the film -- and film wasn't cheap. THAT is what kept movies at 24 fps.
jackson is a retard.
Looks to me like you're the one lacking in IQ points, dufus.
It seems to be a popular name in some places. My guess is his parents weren't English speakers when he was born. However... the plant with the same name, Indigofera suffruticosa, commonly known as Anil, Guatemalan indigo, Small-leaved indigo (Sierra Leone), West Indian indigo, and Wild indigo,[2] is a flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae. In Hawaiian it is known as either ÊInikÅ/Inikoa, or KolÅ; in Fijian it is called Vaivai, the Samoans call it LaÊau mageso, on Guam it is called Aniles, and in Tonga it is referred to as Êakauveli (itchy plant).
You're right, what were they thinking?
Oh, and moderators... that comment wasn't offtopic, it's the author's name. WTF is wrong with you guys?? Overrated perhaps, funny perhaps, but on topic.
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TV copied it and even added a pay TV model that a lot of people liked for a decade or two and now the internet is trying to work out its own version of the pay TV model
Yes, except they're trying to emulate the crappy pay TV now instead of what it was when young. I first got cable in 1980. The only commercials were on the OTA stations, the movies weren't censored, the Discover Channel actually had science instead of "trick my truck" and the History channel had history instead of "ice road truckers". Now? Commercials on the pay stations, and not just commercials during breaks but while the actual content is playing. Rather than a dozen channels you get hundreds, few of them you would ever care to watch and most redundant is many cases -- there are so many sprts channels ESPN is showing pool and poker as "sports" and it costs an arm and a leg.
TV got frog boiled. Unfortunately, the web just followed pay TV. And to paywalled sites I say the same as I say to pay TV: Fuck 'em. You want me to pay? Get rid of the goddamn commercials, have a decent product and charge a reasonable price. They're doing none of these nowadays, either on TV or the web. Fuck 'em, I refuse to play or pay.
This is simply a controlled demolition, instead of just letting it drift around the solar system, possibly eventually crashing into the side of your house.
As Sheldon would say, "Oh, good lard!" They're small. They don't have enough fuel to escape the moon's gravity. If they could hit the earth, they'd burn up completely in the atmosphere.
There's bureaucracy like you described, and then there is excessive bureaucracy, which is rampant throughout government... especially federal government. When you start having bureaucracy to determine whether all fences in a neighborhood are no taller than 48 inches exactly
BZZZT! That's not federal beaurocracy, son, that's a local ordinance. You're using an apple to illustrate what's wrong with grapes. How about an example of excessive FEDERAL regulation, not an ordinance in some hick town with two traffic lights.
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Capitalism is for those with capital. If you think everything revolves around money, I pity you.
Betteridge's law of headlines is like Hanlon's razor: very often wrong. In fact, Betteridge has admitted to breaking his own law, in an article published at his own site!
You guys forget two facts: Stories are submitted by readers, and voted on in the firehose. Submitted any stories lately? Been to the firehose lately? If not, stop bitching.
There are two good moderations for that: troll, and flamebait. We, on the other hand, are -1 offtopic.
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Most of the stuff this guy is bitching about is stuff that is STILL THERE.
I think his point is more along the lines of "get off my lawn". Ten years ago the web was far better in some ways -- almost no intrusive advertising, because it was mostly folks putting up personal sites. No ford.com or pepsi.com. Yes, most of it was poorly designed by people who had no clue how to design anything, but now you have the web 99% commercial, still designed by people who have no business designing anything.
On the other hand, ten years ago you didn't have Hulu, you didn't have every radio station on the planet broadcasting over IP, you didn't have almost every TV network put its wares on the web. Before Google, all the search engines sucked horribly. And the blink tag is gone! In some respects it's gotten better, in others it's gotten worse.
Pretty much like anything else in the word, you take the good with the bad.
You come so close to understanding... my pain only matters to me, and that includes the pain I feel when someone else is in pain. But it won't change anything in the long run.
Wow, an after all these years basic humor still escapes some readers
Yeah, well, I didn't think "Dumb and dumber" was funny, either. The GP comment was the same sort of "humor". And notice the moderation on it: 40% Insightful, 30% Overrated, 10% Redundant. Not a single "funny" mod.
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Oh, man, I miss that magazine. Its subscription was some of the best money I ever spent.
During a power outage, would there still be a signal for your cable box or modem to receive?
Probably not, but your home network would work, as would OTA TV and satellite. If you had the right cell phone plan you could feed the internet to your internal network from your phone. When we had two tornados hit here in March 2006, everything was out for a week except my cell phone.
Nobody can fake a tape - except the Met Police who can play back their recorded hum in a soundproof room.
No, a faraday cage. The hum isn't picked up from ambient sounds, it's EMF that gets picked up.
How many innocent children can you kill with your computer?
How many innocent children can you kill with your car?
Guns kill people and only arseholes can think otherwise.
Guns kill animals and only idiots think "guns kill people." I don't have a gun, but thes anti-gun sentiments are brain-dead stupid. I have a lot of friends who hunt, and I appreciate the game meat they often give me.
I know very little about electricity but surely the frequency of the national grid has no effect on recordings made on battery-powered devices?
It's called induction. Your microphone wire will pick up the hum like a radio picks up a distant station.
if you drank such water it would strip all the nutrients out of your body and kill you
Do you have a credible link to that obvious bullshit statement? I've seen it before, but it makes absolutely no sense at all.
They're using sterilized water so as not to pollute the lake itself with organisms or minerals.
My old man always told me "don't believe nothin' you hear and only half of what you see." You should follow that advice; whoever told you distilled water would strip the nutrients out of your body and kill you was someone you should NEVER get "information" from.
Once it is on the NET it never goes away.
Yeah? Then find "Yello There" for me, I really miss that site. AFAIK there's only one page from it still existing, and it's in the internet archive cache of my old site*, the "Springfield Fragfest", and much of the Fragfest is missing as well (except on some CDs I kept). You'd probably have a hard time finding any trace of Bob Waring's "Sgt Hulka's Boot Camp," too, since his host's servers were in the Twin Towers on 911.
* Kneel and I were fans of each other's sites and often collaborated.
The other thing with gas furnace and hot water you still have heat in the winter.
Only if you have a furnace that's older than I am, what they called a "gravity furnace." You need electricity for the blower and thermostat, and with newer furnaces, the starter. If your power goes out, you have no heat.
The old gravity furnaces didn't have blowers, they relied on the fact that heat rises. A pilot light, rather than an electric starter, ignited it, and the thermostat was powered by a little device called a "power pile", a cylinder about an inch long that was placed in the pilot light's flame.
I don't think one has been manufactured in 70 years or more, the one I had was an old house that had a coal furnace converted to gas.
And while intelligent criminals (hmmm, ok, I see the problem allready)
Only the dumb ones get caught. Something like, what, 10% of crimes are ever solved? Stupidity doesn't cause criminality, lack of morals causes criminality.
In the US, analog TV used to be broadcast in NTSC format, 320 x 240 pixels
Completely incorrect. Analog TV had no pixels at all, it had scan lines, and there were 525 of them. You only have pixels in digital media, not analog.
WAY to much detail and no motion blur or warm moments for your eyes to pause on
You sound like an old audiotard who says he hates CDs because they don't have pops and rumble and hiss and flutter and wow like the LPs and tapes he was used to did. Oh, and the motion blur is still there, it's just that there's only half as much of it.
we had the technology to go as many FPS as we wanted to for the last 50 years, there is a reason we use 24
Wrong, kid, we didn't have the tech, but that's not the only reason. In 1962 there was no such thing as digital. All movies were film, and doubling the frame rate meant doubling the cost of distribution, since you needed twice the film -- and film wasn't cheap. THAT is what kept movies at 24 fps.
jackson is a retard.
Looks to me like you're the one lacking in IQ points, dufus.
It seems to be a popular name in some places. My guess is his parents weren't English speakers when he was born. However... the plant with the same name, Indigofera suffruticosa, commonly known as Anil, Guatemalan indigo, Small-leaved indigo (Sierra Leone), West Indian indigo, and Wild indigo,[2] is a flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae. In Hawaiian it is known as either ÊInikÅ/Inikoa, or KolÅ; in Fijian it is called Vaivai, the Samoans call it LaÊau mageso, on Guam it is called Aniles, and in Tonga it is referred to as Êakauveli (itchy plant).
You're right, what were they thinking?
Oh, and moderators... that comment wasn't offtopic, it's the author's name. WTF is wrong with you guys?? Overrated perhaps, funny perhaps, but on topic.
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TV copied it and even added a pay TV model that a lot of people liked for a decade or two
and now the internet is trying to work out its own version of the pay TV model
Yes, except they're trying to emulate the crappy pay TV now instead of what it was when young. I first got cable in 1980. The only commercials were on the OTA stations, the movies weren't censored, the Discover Channel actually had science instead of "trick my truck" and the History channel had history instead of "ice road truckers". Now? Commercials on the pay stations, and not just commercials during breaks but while the actual content is playing. Rather than a dozen channels you get hundreds, few of them you would ever care to watch and most redundant is many cases -- there are so many sprts channels ESPN is showing pool and poker as "sports" and it costs an arm and a leg.
TV got frog boiled. Unfortunately, the web just followed pay TV. And to paywalled sites I say the same as I say to pay TV: Fuck 'em. You want me to pay? Get rid of the goddamn commercials, have a decent product and charge a reasonable price. They're doing none of these nowadays, either on TV or the web. Fuck 'em, I refuse to play or pay.
This is simply a controlled demolition, instead of just letting it drift around the solar system, possibly eventually crashing into the side of your house.
As Sheldon would say, "Oh, good lard!" They're small. They don't have enough fuel to escape the moon's gravity. If they could hit the earth, they'd burn up completely in the atmosphere.
I think you need some more coffee, son.
There's bureaucracy like you described, and then there is excessive bureaucracy, which is rampant throughout government... especially federal government. When you start having bureaucracy to determine whether all fences in a neighborhood are no taller than 48 inches exactly
BZZZT! That's not federal beaurocracy, son, that's a local ordinance. You're using an apple to illustrate what's wrong with grapes. How about an example of excessive FEDERAL regulation, not an ordinance in some hick town with two traffic lights.
Capitalism is for those with capital. If you think everything revolves around money, I pity you.
You never heard of the Voyager probes?
Betteridge's law of headlines is like Hanlon's razor: very often wrong. In fact, Betteridge has admitted to breaking his own law, in an article published at his own site!
You guys forget two facts: Stories are submitted by readers, and voted on in the firehose. Submitted any stories lately? Been to the firehose lately? If not, stop bitching.
Where is -1 offensive when you need it ?
There are two good moderations for that: troll, and flamebait. We, on the other hand, are -1 offtopic.
Most of the stuff this guy is bitching about is stuff that is STILL THERE.
I think his point is more along the lines of "get off my lawn". Ten years ago the web was far better in some ways -- almost no intrusive advertising, because it was mostly folks putting up personal sites. No ford.com or pepsi.com. Yes, most of it was poorly designed by people who had no clue how to design anything, but now you have the web 99% commercial, still designed by people who have no business designing anything.
On the other hand, ten years ago you didn't have Hulu, you didn't have every radio station on the planet broadcasting over IP, you didn't have almost every TV network put its wares on the web. Before Google, all the search engines sucked horribly. And the blink tag is gone! In some respects it's gotten better, in others it's gotten worse.
Pretty much like anything else in the word, you take the good with the bad.
You come so close to understanding... my pain only matters to me, and that includes the pain I feel when someone else is in pain. But it won't change anything in the long run.
Without God, life is completely meaningless.
It doesn't have to be cow's milk, you can make cheese from any mammal's milk.
Wow, an after all these years basic humor still escapes some readers
Yeah, well, I didn't think "Dumb and dumber" was funny, either. The GP comment was the same sort of "humor". And notice the moderation on it: 40% Insightful, 30% Overrated, 10% Redundant. Not a single "funny" mod.