My father was once on a flight that dumped fuel over the ocean, circled back, and landed five minutes after takeoff.
Reminds me of a flight I was on in Australia at the end of my R&R from Vietnam. We left Sydney on a Flying Tiger Stretch 707 headed for Cam Ranh Bay with a fuel stop in Darwin. Over the Outback, we experienced an hydraulic failure involving a control surface; the rudder, as I recall. We land in Darwin with no problem, the plane is worked on for about nine hours and we take off around midnight for Cam Ranh.
We're thirty minutes or so out of Darwin, over ocean of course, pilot comes on the intercom, "Well fellas, looks like we didn't get our problem fixed. Please extinguish your cigarettes and we'll be heading back to Darwin." As he is saying this I glance out the starboard window to see the outboard engine on fire which is immediately extinguished. Holy shit! All that time in the bush and I'm going to die here? We circle off the coast of Darwin for about thirty minuets dumping fuel and we catch glimpses of the airport runway which is lined with the flashing red lights of emergency vehicles. We finally make a safe landing.
Another eight or nine hours of mechanical work and we take off for Cam Ranh and this time we make it, however, upon landing the gear catches fire and we are told to stay on the aircraft until the fire is extinguished; no inflatable escape shoots back then.
Great and Manifold are the Blessings of his Holy Pastaness but I don't recall the simplest overhand knot in hundreds of pots of spaghetti that I have cooked. Perhaps I should reevaluate my faith and say some Hail Marinaras .
Used a Keuffel&Esser with double length scales for maths and science in the early sixties. For a young college student on his own, it was expensive, bulky and a pain in the ass to keep aligned; due to temperature changes, I suppose, or the eight(6?) screws that held it together. Many a time I kicked myself for not buying a trusty Pickett. I foolishly sold it about ten years ago.
You have the option of using a downloaded list of possible phishing sites or Google. Personally, I don't have a problem using Google as they are probably more up to date than a list and, as far as them collecting more info on me, they already have my 'Web History' from my iGoogle page anyway. Hopefully, they will never turn on their users.
Perhaps you can answer this question. Did they consider using a NOAA aircraft for this project? If so, why did they reject the idea? I would think NOAA's P3-Orion would be well suited for this job (they hunted Russian submarines over hundreds of miles of open ocean in the Bering Straits at low level in all kinds of weather) and, the information being gathered very useful to N0AA, the government might offer free or reasonable use of the aircraft.
And believe me, MILITARY health care sucks worse than civilian health care. Ask any vet.
My wife and I are Vietnam era veterans who have opted to receive health care through the VA and that has not been our experience. We were never happy with the care my Blue Cross retirement plan provided. We still make co-payments, pay for office visits and prescriptions and Blue Cross picks up 80% after an annual $1,000 deductible for each of us. The big difference for us is that the quality of care from the VA is much higher than what we experienced with Blue Cross member-physicians.
Yes, I've heard lots of good things about thinkpads and it is encouraging that Lenovo has said they will support Linux, though I haven't heard much about how well supported Linux is on the Lenovo Thinkpads since they said this.
My daughter gave me this Acer after she finished her masters program at university, so I can't complain about the price. In the two years I've had it, support for its hardware and such in Debian has improved greatly and the only things unsupported are a few of the specialty (Acer only) buttons. My only complaint is with the Matshita DVD-R on which the DVD portion died shortly after the one year warranty; a problem, I learned, very common with Matshita. The cost to repair it was a hefty down payment on a new laptop. Since it still reads and writes CDs, I kept it in there.
Or, set a boot password in the BIOS along with an administrator password. Anything beyond 'ON' is none of their business.
Laptop hard disks can be very difficult to remove and doing so may void the warranty anyway.
I completely disassembled my Acer TravelMate 240 once and it was a nightmare of little stainless steel clips, brackets and micro screws. Managed to get it all back together minus a couple of clips and screws but everything still works. I disassembled it again in an attempt to figure out where the extra parts went with no luck.
I'm guessing you get your blood saturated to the point just below where you would pass out?
It depends on what you are going to do under water, e.g., a deep dive or a shallow swim. However, both of these activities can result in blackout. I was a competitive swimmer, surfer and free diver so I was in excellent physical condition, knew my limitations and always had a buddy nearby in case it all went south.
In my prime, after hyperventilating (not recommended for beginners), I could swim about 130 meters under water without the aid of fins. Now I'm old and not much good for anything.
These guys can't even plan an invasion and take into account the aftermath, even after being asked what they were going to do about the aftermath before the invasion, and we're supposed to believe they can simulate Earth with billions of variables? Sounds like someone is taking it in the ass without the benefit of a reach around. I think it might be us?
I was thinking along the same line. What we used to call a hobby is now an addiction?
So, I was addicted to surfing? I surfed almost every day from age 8 to 53, spent a lot of money on the sport over the years for the latest design in surfboards, wet-suits etc and hear I thought all the time I was being close to nature, staying fit, meeting and interacting with other people. What a wasted life, huh?
Kudos to the AMA though, god knows they need it.
Oh, been living in the central US for the last nine years and have managed to survive, a wave hasn't broken here in about 70 million years, but I'm on my way back to the ocean in a few months where I will resume my addiction.
I know that Debian Etch does and the user selects the level of protection during install. From then on I guess it does its own thing. There is no man page and I haven't gotten around to reading up on it so I have no clue as to what it is or is not doing. I would guess that Ubuntu uses SELinux in a similar fashion. See if/etc/selinux and/usr/share/selinux exist.
I figured the coffee can of parts I had left over from taking apart and reassembling my Acer laptop might come in handy some day if I have a probzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.........NO_CARRIER
In truth, one small stainless steel clip, which should have been held with a screw somewhere, fell out of the case when I first opened it. I never was able to determine where it should have gone and I believe it was accidentally dropped in there during its original assembly. This Acer has been happily running Debian the last four years and its only problem is the DVD part of the DVD-R died (common Matshita problem I understand) before I got the machine but the CD-RW is fine.
TiVo reminds me of the guy who murdered his parents then begged for mercy from the court because he was an orphan.
They violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the GPLv2 and now they are worried because, under GPLv3, they can't continue to take advantage of OSS to insure their business future. I say, good riddance.
Now the airlines have the option of putting the planes in the air, and flying the long way around to avoid the weather.
With fuel prices up and production now down due to refinery maintenance, as per the evening news, this seems like the perfect solution to a TSA created problem. Perhaps it would be more economical if the airlines could figure out a way to debark the passengers of a weather grounded airplane without creating extra TSA problems. They could save some fuel and wouldn't have to raise ticket prices, again.
You did a lot of babysitting, didn't you? "Single parent" is an oxymoron--a myth.
No. She waited until the youngest was old enough for preschool and all three children attended their classes on the OU campus up to either third or fourth grade, can't remember. From there they went to regular public school but this was still only blocks away from the campus. My daughter was fortunate in that she was always able to coordinate her schedule with the children's.
Oh, and I wouldn't be a very good grandparent if I didn't tell you that my grandson, the youngest, is gifted and scores in the top 2% in national testing for 5th graders. The girls are middle school honors students and regularly score above the national average in maths and science. I believe their success is partially due to the excellent start they got in their education at OU.
My daughter is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with bachelors and masters degrees in human resources, criminology and psychology. Her overall GPA for both degrees was 3.8. By the way, she did all of this while raising three children as a single mom.
Prior to graduating from the masters program she sent out over 50 resumes and responded to many letters of interest from major corporations and government agencies. Every one ended up requiring more experience than you could reasonably expect a recent college graduate to have. It makes one wonder what the point of contacting recent graduates is; better annual reports perhaps. I can just hear these companies and agencies complain that they can't find qualified candidates to fill their positions and have no choice but to out-source.
Don't give up Crazyjim1. My daughter finally found a job, although the pay wasn't quite what she had hoped, across the street from the university no less.
My hearing aids have two directional microphones; one at 90 degrees forward and the other at 180 to the side. I have to push a tiny button on the aid to make the selection, I sometimes get self conscious about people thinking I'm sticking my finger in my ear, and switching becomes a pain-in-the-butt at times. These aids also have irritating sound limiters which partially block constant high or low pitch sound.
I believe it would be great to have sound pick-up focused in the direction I'm looking and I hope this technology is developed for hearing aids. Can't imagine what they'd cost though. My aids are about $3k each.
Pandora is being forced to block non-US listeners.
From the article:
Pandora.com, a popular streaming music recommendation service (which is already facing some challenges due to the new webcaster rates) is being forced to block all non-US users of its service. This is because the recording industry wants Pandora to sign separate licensing deals in every country where it has listeners -- a nearly impossible task.
You have to wonder how much longer the RIAA will get away with its ignorance and greed.
I must say that my "favorite" has been VistA [vistasoftware.org] (the medical records software used by the Veteran's Administration, and no relation to Microsoft Vista).
As a recipient of VA health care, I have been very impressed with the efficiency and reliability of the VA records system. I can go in for x-rays, lab tests or whatever and twenty or so minutes later be in consultation with my doctor who has the results on his computer. Prescriptions and referrals are also handled by the system with no paper work needed to be carried by the patient. It is nice too that any VA office I visit will have access to my medical information. I even receive computer generated reminders of appointment dates.
I had Kaiser health care for 24 years and rarely had any records related problems but I always felt like an errand-boy carrying around paperwork. Their biggest problem then was patient care. I got smacked in the face by a surfboard one day and I knew that, at the very least, my nose was broken. The doctor said there was nothing he could do; my nose was straight (for the first time in many years from previous fractures) and I had controlled the bleeding. Four days later I get a call telling me to come to the emergency room immediately and that this was a medical emergency. Seems someone got around to looking at the x-ray of my face and I had a fracture completely around the base of my nose with a chance of brain injury and cerebral/spinal fluid leakage.
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Reminds me of a flight I was on in Australia at the end of my R&R from Vietnam. We left Sydney on a Flying Tiger Stretch 707 headed for Cam Ranh Bay with a fuel stop in Darwin. Over the Outback, we experienced an hydraulic failure involving a control surface; the rudder, as I recall. We land in Darwin with no problem, the plane is worked on for about nine hours and we take off around midnight for Cam Ranh.
We're thirty minutes or so out of Darwin, over ocean of course, pilot comes on the intercom, "Well fellas, looks like we didn't get our problem fixed. Please extinguish your cigarettes and we'll be heading back to Darwin." As he is saying this I glance out the starboard window to see the outboard engine on fire which is immediately extinguished. Holy shit! All that time in the bush and I'm going to die here? We circle off the coast of Darwin for about thirty minuets dumping fuel and we catch glimpses of the airport runway which is lined with the flashing red lights of emergency vehicles. We finally make a safe landing.
Another eight or nine hours of mechanical work and we take off for Cam Ranh and this time we make it, however, upon landing the gear catches fire and we are told to stay on the aircraft until the fire is extinguished; no inflatable escape shoots back then.
I was happy to get back in the jungle.
Great and Manifold are the Blessings of his Holy Pastaness but I don't recall the simplest overhand knot in hundreds of pots of spaghetti that I have cooked. Perhaps I should reevaluate my faith and say some Hail Marinaras .
Used a Keuffel&Esser with double length scales for maths and science in the early sixties. For a young college student on his own, it was expensive, bulky and a pain in the ass to keep aligned; due to temperature changes, I suppose, or the eight(6?) screws that held it together. Many a time I kicked myself for not buying a trusty Pickett. I foolishly sold it about ten years ago.
You have the option of using a downloaded list of possible phishing sites or Google. Personally, I don't have a problem using Google as they are probably more up to date than a list and, as far as them collecting more info on me, they already have my 'Web History' from my iGoogle page anyway. Hopefully, they will never turn on their users.
Perhaps you can answer this question. Did they consider using a NOAA aircraft for this project? If so, why did they reject the idea? I would think NOAA's P3-Orion would be well suited for this job (they hunted Russian submarines over hundreds of miles of open ocean in the Bering Straits at low level in all kinds of weather) and, the information being gathered very useful to N0AA, the government might offer free or reasonable use of the aircraft.
My wife and I are Vietnam era veterans who have opted to receive health care through the VA and that has not been our experience. We were never happy with the care my Blue Cross retirement plan provided. We still make co-payments, pay for office visits and prescriptions and Blue Cross picks up 80% after an annual $1,000 deductible for each of us. The big difference for us is that the quality of care from the VA is much higher than what we experienced with Blue Cross member-physicians.
Yes, I've heard lots of good things about thinkpads and it is encouraging that Lenovo has said they will support Linux, though I haven't heard much about how well supported Linux is on the Lenovo Thinkpads since they said this.
My daughter gave me this Acer after she finished her masters program at university, so I can't complain about the price. In the two years I've had it, support for its hardware and such in Debian has improved greatly and the only things unsupported are a few of the specialty (Acer only) buttons. My only complaint is with the Matshita DVD-R on which the DVD portion died shortly after the one year warranty; a problem, I learned, very common with Matshita. The cost to repair it was a hefty down payment on a new laptop. Since it still reads and writes CDs, I kept it in there.
Or, set a boot password in the BIOS along with an administrator password. Anything beyond 'ON' is none of their business.
Laptop hard disks can be very difficult to remove and doing so may void the warranty anyway.
I completely disassembled my Acer TravelMate 240 once and it was a nightmare of little stainless steel clips, brackets and micro screws. Managed to get it all back together minus a couple of clips and screws but everything still works. I disassembled it again in an attempt to figure out where the extra parts went with no luck.
"Colin Powell was a man, and he would not continue to sacrifice his own personal honor to give Bush credibility."
There, fixed that for you.
It depends on what you are going to do under water, e.g., a deep dive or a shallow swim. However, both of these activities can result in blackout. I was a competitive swimmer, surfer and free diver so I was in excellent physical condition, knew my limitations and always had a buddy nearby in case it all went south.
In my prime, after hyperventilating (not recommended for beginners), I could swim about 130 meters under water without the aid of fins. Now I'm old and not much good for anything.
These guys can't even plan an invasion and take into account the aftermath, even after being asked what they were going to do about the aftermath before the invasion, and we're supposed to believe they can simulate Earth with billions of variables? Sounds like someone is taking it in the ass without the benefit of a reach around. I think it might be us?
I was thinking along the same line. What we used to call a hobby is now an addiction?
So, I was addicted to surfing? I surfed almost every day from age 8 to 53, spent a lot of money on the sport over the years for the latest design in surfboards, wet-suits etc and hear I thought all the time I was being close to nature, staying fit, meeting and interacting with other people. What a wasted life, huh?
Kudos to the AMA though, god knows they need it.
Oh, been living in the central US for the last nine years and have managed to survive, a wave hasn't broken here in about 70 million years, but I'm on my way back to the ocean in a few months where I will resume my addiction.
Well, there is one, albeit small, link to Microsoft. From the "About Privacy International" page, UK advisory board:
I know that Debian Etch does and the user selects the level of protection during install. From then on I guess it does its own thing. There is no man page and I haven't gotten around to reading up on it so I have no clue as to what it is or is not doing. I would guess that Ubuntu uses SELinux in a similar fashion. See if /etc/selinux and /usr/share/selinux exist.
I figured the coffee can of parts I had left over from taking apart and reassembling my Acer laptop might come in handy some day if I have a probzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.........NO_CARRIER
In truth, one small stainless steel clip, which should have been held with a screw somewhere, fell out of the case when I first opened it. I never was able to determine where it should have gone and I believe it was accidentally dropped in there during its original assembly. This Acer has been happily running Debian the last four years and its only problem is the DVD part of the DVD-R died (common Matshita problem I understand) before I got the machine but the CD-RW is fine.
TiVo reminds me of the guy who murdered his parents then begged for mercy from the court because he was an orphan.
They violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the GPLv2 and now they are worried because, under GPLv3, they can't continue to take advantage of OSS to insure their business future. I say, good riddance.
With fuel prices up and production now down due to refinery maintenance, as per the evening news, this seems like the perfect solution to a TSA created problem. Perhaps it would be more economical if the airlines could figure out a way to debark the passengers of a weather grounded airplane without creating extra TSA problems. They could save some fuel and wouldn't have to raise ticket prices, again.
Yo, dude! We just sold you on ebay.
~The Cats
No. She waited until the youngest was old enough for preschool and all three children attended their classes on the OU campus up to either third or fourth grade, can't remember. From there they went to regular public school but this was still only blocks away from the campus. My daughter was fortunate in that she was always able to coordinate her schedule with the children's.
Oh, and I wouldn't be a very good grandparent if I didn't tell you that my grandson, the youngest, is gifted and scores in the top 2% in national testing for 5th graders. The girls are middle school honors students and regularly score above the national average in maths and science. I believe their success is partially due to the excellent start they got in their education at OU.
Mod Crazyjim1 up. He is absolutely correct.
My daughter is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with bachelors and masters degrees in human resources, criminology and psychology. Her overall GPA for both degrees was 3.8. By the way, she did all of this while raising three children as a single mom.
Prior to graduating from the masters program she sent out over 50 resumes and responded to many letters of interest from major corporations and government agencies. Every one ended up requiring more experience than you could reasonably expect a recent college graduate to have. It makes one wonder what the point of contacting recent graduates is; better annual reports perhaps. I can just hear these companies and agencies complain that they can't find qualified candidates to fill their positions and have no choice but to out-source.
Don't give up Crazyjim1. My daughter finally found a job, although the pay wasn't quite what she had hoped, across the street from the university no less.
I think most folks should wait at least until sp2-axle comes out.
My hearing aids have two directional microphones; one at 90 degrees forward and the other at 180 to the side. I have to push a tiny button on the aid to make the selection, I sometimes get self conscious about people thinking I'm sticking my finger in my ear, and switching becomes a pain-in-the-butt at times. These aids also have irritating sound limiters which partially block constant high or low pitch sound.
I believe it would be great to have sound pick-up focused in the direction I'm looking and I hope this technology is developed for hearing aids. Can't imagine what they'd cost though. My aids are about $3k each.
Pandora is being forced to block non-US listeners.
From the article:
You have to wonder how much longer the RIAA will get away with its ignorance and greed.
As a recipient of VA health care, I have been very impressed with the efficiency and reliability of the VA records system. I can go in for x-rays, lab tests or whatever and twenty or so minutes later be in consultation with my doctor who has the results on his computer. Prescriptions and referrals are also handled by the system with no paper work needed to be carried by the patient. It is nice too that any VA office I visit will have access to my medical information. I even receive computer generated reminders of appointment dates.
I had Kaiser health care for 24 years and rarely had any records related problems but I always felt like an errand-boy carrying around paperwork. Their biggest problem then was patient care. I got smacked in the face by a surfboard one day and I knew that, at the very least, my nose was broken. The doctor said there was nothing he could do; my nose was straight (for the first time in many years from previous fractures) and I had controlled the bleeding. Four days later I get a call telling me to come to the emergency room immediately and that this was a medical emergency. Seems someone got around to looking at the x-ray of my face and I had a fracture completely around the base of my nose with a chance of brain injury and cerebral/spinal fluid leakage.