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errr, I thought the OR forum had a spell checker... And funny that, all the power Mac users at work use FireFox. Oh, and "All Tool Bars Must Die" I'll stick with my plugins and addons in FireFox. They do wonders for speeding up browsing. No ads, no flash, no garbage, no cross scripting, no crap floating across the screen when I'm trying to read!, etc etc. Everything that wasn't necessary is suppressed.

Ohio Hedgehogs - for sale, wanted, & breeders

RIP Pepper was the yard cat. She was rather old, and didn't make it through the cold part of last weekend. I found her this afternoon, after the neighbors that feed her, asked if I'd seen her. Good company in the middle of the night. To sit outside and look at the night sky. She would always come around and keep me company. Goodbye Pepper.

I saw that one listed. Your pics show it looking pretty decent. Those were pretty much bullet proof & low maintenance. The chrome is kinda fragile, so keep an eye on the front forks. There was a service bulletin on a stator output problem, but I don't remember much of what it was about. I think some early stators didn't work very well. Yours is probably ok if it's still working now.

Noticed that the engines are now free. Disassembled. I'm pretty sure we could assemble one. If someone can come up with some LOX and LH2 fuel, I'm pretty sure we could do something with that.

Yes it is, but it won't be cheap. And manufacturers are reluctant. It will probably use the existing shutter specs. One of my co-workers was into it, and there's a bunch of geeks that have been experimenting with it for years. The 3D TVs won't cost much more (or shouldn't), but the 3D shutter spectacles will be pricey. Samsung is squawking about the development of 3D TV on Facebook. Samsung 3D TV on FaceBook Btw, some people can't see 3D content. I remember older 3D movies where it took a while for the 3D to kick in. You kind of had to train your brain to work with it. Newer stuff with polarizing or shutter specs are easier, but still, 4 percent to 10 percent of people can't see the 3D. Why I can't Watch 3D TV

hmmm, that's what +/-3.3V was in the first place. An energy savings... Good luck lowering the threshold. But it will have to go that low or lower for quantum computing anyway. But if I understand the use of quantum, there is no bad data. Just maybe no data at all. "Angular reflection aggregations" is the reflection (bouncing) of the light off the sides (angular) of the fiber during transmission through the fiber. It basically goes out of sync with the stream and becomes noise (aggregations) at the far end. There are other circumstances, but that's the basic one. Fiber has a distance limitation because of the accumulation of this noise. Amplifiers (repeaters) are used to clean and pass the data.

argh... Vietnam Era... 1. Get the deepest darkest tan you've ever seen anyone have, before you go. You'll need it. 2. Go ahead and get a second degree sunburn. 3. Learn to go without drinking water for at least one 24 hour day, and if offered a single can of warm beer, take that instead of water. 4. Go without any easy water at all for around 30 days. Simultaneously, learn where the nearest 500gal water tank trailer is located, and get there early ever day for one helmet (steel pot) and one 1qt canteen full of water to use for whatever. 5. Practice signaling every helicopter you see, to come in for a landing. If one lands, jump on board and ask for ammo, food, or a ride home. 6. Get some Georgia style red mud, and rub it into your skin continuously until no one from home recognizes you without screaming. 7. Collect smoke grenades of every color possible, and keep them with you at all times. Better yet, make it two of each. 8. Practice field stripping and cleaning an antique M16 (Mattel) in the dark. Repeat. 9. Collect every weapon you can find in the neighborhood, and put them all in a big pile in the center of your front yard. 10. Eat some rice. 11. Eat some more rice. 12. Eat some rice with bugs for flavor. 13. When the moon is full, go outside and howl at the moon until the neighbors threaten to shoot and mean it. Or actually do shoot. 14. Collect P38 can openers and church keys and sell them for profit. 15. Learn the art of pooping without toilet paper. 16. Carry a shovel at all times to bury the poop so the neighbors won't find it by smelling it and follow you around and kill you. 17. Turn the heat up to 120F in the daytime, and turn it down to 40F at night. 18. Teach yourself guard duty, by putting a bag over your head so you absolutely cannot see, and stand out in the dark with razor wire in front of you, and pretend nothing is happening. Don't make a single sound, or the neighbors will shoot at you. 19. Learn to sleep regardless of any sound heard, except for random ticking/slapping sounds, at which point immediately crawl to the nearest bunker. If a barely audible dull thump is heard at great distance, immediately jump up and run to the nearest bunker. Be sure to practice diving head first into a dark bunker ahead of time. (Bring the rifle and all the ammo you own. Go ahead and clean the rifle again if you have the time.) 20. Collect cans of peaches, and find a place to bury them where you hope no one else will ever find them. 21. Get a bayonet and practice using it for absolutely everything. Especially heating it with a zippo to scorch leeches off. Learn to eat with the same bayonet. (Especially opening and eating the cans of peaches.) 22. Get a second bayonet and tape it upside down on your field harness, and learn to draw it with your arms pinned to your sides. Get a friend to help, don't stab him. Don't stab yourself either. 23. Get several rolls of black duct tape and tape everything in sight so it won't make any noise. Jump up and down frequently to see if you make any noise. 24. Grab up socks, green dye, and kool aid whenever you see them. Keep some, and trade the rest for even more cans of peaches. 25. And finally, find a water buffalo, and figure out just how fast they can get up out of the water and chase you. Disclaimer: I was not in Vietnam. I was in Okinawa, Taiwan, Philippines, and Thailand.

You know... I wouldn't doubt that some weirdo virus could do something like that. Take some DNA code from one animal and modify another animal. Sounds impossible, but I'm pretty sure we haven't seen everything a virus can do to biological critters. Both plant and animal.

^^ Thank You. I hadn't figured out how to say that yet. You speak quite well, and have pointed out the basic truth. Haiti is rather close to home for us here, and it wouldn't work out well for either side. We wouldn't tolerate it, and it's way better to do something about it before hand. And to be doing so in a more humanitarian way, of course.

And how well does it all combine with future quantum transmissions and the current new mil-spec spinoff of ultra high compression of data stream? Just wondering... I've already seen compression ratios of about 44 to 1 in use. 44 times less data stream. And it can go a lot higher than that on the mil-spec side. Wouldn't that be a savings beyond anything else? Just wondering...

Ok, so far I'm not getting past thinking of "The Thing" - 1982, Kurt Russell, et al And would that dead thing please quit smiling, that's disturbing...

If you look closely, there is a cable visible on the front bucket, attached to the far end of the rail car. Either to pull or to stabilize or both.

There is no doubt that CO2 jumped at the start of the Industrial Age with coal and fossil fuels. But that's only about 4% of the total. 95% of the CO2 comes from the ocean and green plants. That 95% is the steady state (more or less), and if that other 4% were removed from the equation, the balance would be restored. In other words, fossil fuel emissions of CO2 would have to be removed from the atmosphere. The ocean also absorbs 60% of the CO2, and green plants absorb the rest. Converting it to carbon compounds, and releasing oxygen. Yeah, the ocean both absorbs and releases CO2. It's all about the oceans. Two things I notice. If respiration by animals is 38% of the total CO2 emission sources, what effect does Human population growth have on the totals? Or domestic animals? The other is that what if we over fish the oceans, would that cause an increase in plankton from lack of fish to eat it. Then would plankton go out of control, turn the oceans green, and remove a large portion the CO2 from the atmosphere? Never mind that a large percentage of the human population would die off from lack of food from the ocean. So I guess what I'm saying, is that the carbon dioxide problem is probably self correcting from the damage Humans are doing to the oceans. Of course that ignores the real problem, which is running out of food and fresh water, somewhere in the future. edit: That problem is also self correcting, there would suddenly be less people and animals.

This just in... It's suddenly been discovered that green plants absorb huge quantities of CO2. Due to the excess CO2 in the atmosphere, the researchers now believe that the green plants are not doing their job. Unable to regulate or administrate, the overwhelmingly vast amount of green plants, the government, supported by quasi science, is prepared to destroy all green plants for not doing their job... Moral of the story: If you let most people "shoot themselves in the foot", they will try to do that.

no worries, I just got this thing about microsoft giving me useless outdated bogus information when I'm working on fixing stuff. It's aggravating... so Jesse, googling does give a lot of code examples, it sure beats the old fashioned way, checking 20 programming books out of the library and searching for code examples...

yeah buddie, microsoft is soooo reliable... just clicked the samples and got this...

I googled. When humanitarian aid is measured by the recipients satisfaction instead of the aid quantities sent, America ranks way low on the scale. Apparently most aid recipient countries just want cash, not ... errr.... aid. Humanitarian aid that countries promise to the UN, is typically reduced to 25% of the total promised. The USA tends to contribute all that was promised. The UN would still not be happy, because the USA still won't pay their portion of the UN charter. Mostly because the USA is not paid by the UN for UN enforcement using American military forces. This scenario will probably never change.

This is a huge response by the USA. USAF airport recovery teams. USN Carl Vinson aircraft carrier will handle helicopters and supplies. USNS Comfort hospital ship preparing to go on call. One US Marine amphibious ship (equal to hospital ship, 2000 Marines). 3500 US Army 82nd Airborne Division. First U.S. military aid reaches quake-stricken Haiti

Since I can be an idiot, I once pushed a door jam striker through a finger. It shredded the skin down to the muscle. About an inch square. Nothing left to stitch. I ran cold water on it and let it bleed to clean it, till I tried to pass out. Took a little while. I pushed it all back in the right places, like a jigsaw puzzle. Coated it in anti-biotic, covered with gauze and wrap and tape and then splinted it with another finger, the most important part. It healed near perfect, but it looked really nasty for a long while. awww, I just realized that was the same finger I bashed the knuckle. Poor finger gets all the crap.

Experience says there will be some ice in places, especially in the mornings when it's still near or below freezing. So watch out for that. The snow will probably be melting during the day and freezing up the puddles at night.

Yeah, shoot. I woulda considered stitching that one myself. Your clutch hand is worse. I bashed a knuckle three years ago in the late Winter. It still won't quite straighten out. It swelled up about twice normal size. It was bad enough to get 5 xrays to see if it was broken. I worried that I wouldn't be able to clutch up with it. It was close, but it was healed just enough to work the clutch. Although I was clutching with two fingers and skipping the bad one a lot.

Humanitarian aid? Yes, this country, regardless of administration, unlike any other, gives about 4 times more per capita than any other country in the world. Promises are made, but only the USA keeps its word. We also kick ass the same way...

Perhaps it will be announced that one or our humanitarian hospital ships will go there, if one can get away from whatever it's doing now. Or even one of the Marines assault ships, they are nearly as well equipped as a hospital ship. Maybe better in some ways.