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| 2004/8/8 [Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:32764 Activity:high |
8/7 Terrorism (ALF) is winning, and nothing is being done to stop it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/08/international/europe/08rights.html?hp
(This kind of terrorism can kill far more people invisibly.)
\_ I always love this argument that we don't need animal testing
for medical research. Just goofy. ALthough I suppose if
they're so interested in saving the animals, they could just
volunteer to be tested on themselves...
\_ 1. PC in the UK is far worse than any such stupidity we ever came
up with in the US
2. It's my personal observation that people in the UK are far more
likely to jump on whatever bandwagon du jour they hear about in
the rainbow press
3. Carrying handguns is all but illegal there.
Add this up, and you have pretty fertile ground for this kind of
crap. -John
\_ The problemis no one, government, private association, or
individual, is making an organize resistance to such groups.
Imagine if someone turns ALF's tactics on itself, it will go
away in a few months.
\_ You mean like the way the isrealis have eliminated Palestinian
terrorism in a few months? |
| 2004/8/8-9 [Consumer/Camera] UID:32765 Activity:very high |
8/8 What affect does heat have on a digital camera? In particular,
suppose I leave my camera in my car all day once every few weeks
during the summer when it's 90 degrees and sunny outside. I've
found mixed results searching the net. The flash card web site
claims that no amount of heat will damage any pictures. The image
recovery software site says they can recover pics lost due to
extreme heat. From other sites, I gathered that the biggest risk
is that the battery could explode. If so, would leaving a digital
camera without it's battery in the car contain no risk, or could
the camera (or the flash memory) be damaged from occasionally being
left in the hot car all day?
\_ I took mine outside once when it was 20degrees F and now I
have a bunch of bad pixels.
\_ My manual says that the operating temp range is 32-104 F. It
doesn't say anything about storage temp, but I did find specs
on the web for a similarly priced camera that said that it
can be stored at up to 176 F, which is probably hotter than it
would get in any car parked in the sun in 100F weather (I would
hope). My manual, however, does say not to store the camera in
places subject to high heat, without giving numbers. So, I wonder
if there's anyone out there who's left their camera in their car
on a hot day and if this has affected the camera in any
noticeable way. I'm thinking it's probably not going to
be a problem, but is this wishful thinking? -op
\_ Temperatures inside a parked car can reach 200F.
\_ Temperatures inside a parked car can reach 260F.
\_ Temperatures inside a parked car can reach 360F.
\_ Can, in the most extreme conditions (black car, 115F
outside), or will with say, 95 degree heat parked in the sun?
\_ on a related question, how many times can the compact flash
store/delete? Someone told me 300, which IMHO is a bit small.
\_ that's ridiculous.
\_ Which part of the car stays coolest? Would it be the trunk
since it gets no direct sunlight? Or would the lowest place
(under the seat, for example) be best, since heat rises?
\-i'd guess some place with poor convection subject to randiant
heating, i.e. direct sunlight hitting it at close to 90deg,
like maybe the the top of the dash or front seat and subject to
direct light.
\_ OK, but where is the coolest place in the car among the
following 4 choices: trunk, under the driver's seat,
glove compartment, or in the little compartment between the
2 front seats? |
| 2004/8/8 [Uncategorized] UID:32766 Activity:nil |
8/8 John, why is the Swiss domain suffix .ch? What was wrong with .sw?
\_ Found the answer myself, sorry:
"Switzerland is also known as "Confoederatio Helvetica",
therefore the abbreviation CH. "Confoederatio" stands for
"confederation", "Helvetica" derives from the Latin word
"Helvetier", the name of the people who lived in the area which
became later Switzerland.
http://www.about.ch |
| 2004/8/8 [Recreation/Pets] UID:32767 Activity:very high |
8/8 What level of laser would be necessary to blind a bird? I need to
eliminate pigeons around my house hazard (health hazard!) Would
shining a 4.99 mW laser into their eyes do the trick (highest IIIa
legal)? Humane stuff is not working and I am limited by what I can
do due to homeowners association rules ...
\_ Can't you put up some of those little spikey things that keep
them from landing? I see those on buildings where they don't
want birds to shit all the time.
\_ that's pretty freaking cruel. just shoot the bird and kill it
altogether. no need to blind it and make it forever miserable.
\_ are you in a large city? what is this health hazard? you sound
like a pretty weird person to want to go shining lasers into
the eyes of birds.
\_ Good luck shining the laser directly into the poor pigeon's eye.
\_ Just hunt 'em with a blowgun.
\_ You need to buy a .22 rifle.
\_ Blinding probably won't work. It would be really hard to get
both eyes anyway. A better choice would be a powerful BB gun,
if you're into shooting them. I you could keep it up long
enough, they would also learn to stay away from your house.
However, probably more effective would be poison bird seed.
Just mix some rat poison with bird seed, or, even easier, just
buy some gopher poison, which is usually wheat with cyanide.
Or maybe try the old bread and alka-seltzer trick, all though
I'm not sure that works on pigeons.
\_ This is one of the oddest posts I've ever seen. |
| 2004/8/8 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/HateGroups] UID:32768 Activity:nil 60%like:32760 |
8/7 http://www.bamn.com/doc/1997/do.asp?970415-flyer.asp \_ why are you posting a 7 year old url? weird. No free speech for fascists! w00t! \_ Note the date. In other news, any retard with an internet connection can make a billion dollars by saying the words "dotcom" and "e-business" and the world as we know it will end in 2000 with that "y2k" bug. |
| 2004/8/8-9 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:32769 Activity:insanely high |
8/8 So in an effort to rise above the partisan bickering, let me ask a
serious question: what do you really believe Kerry has to offer?
I'm interested in any answer other than !GWB
\_ For me personally, the most important issues are addressed
in this document:
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/technology/plan.html
In particular, the current visa system for foreign scientists
is in a *crisis* state, and seriously threatens America's
dominance in the sciences. I've never heard Bush even mention
this. Letting the good guys in is actually more important
for longterm security than keeping the bad guys out. Also,
I think Kerry will be much more agressive about investing in
new technologies that will lead to cleaner energy and a generally
higher standard of living around the world. yes, i do give Bush
credit for the hydrogen power initiative. I think it's one of
the few really great things bush has done, but I think a Kerry
administration would do a lot more in that direction.
There are many other reasons I'm voting for Kerry, but i have
a feeling you would classify most of them as "!GWB" type
reasons.
\_ While I disagree re "good guys in is actually more important for
longterm security than keeping the bad guys out", thanks for the
reasonable response. That's also part of his platform that I
hadn't seen. -op
\_ For me it's 2 things: 1 is that he seems to consider things
deeply rather than shoot from the hip- long run this will be
important for reducing/eliminating acts of terrorism. The other
is that he has seen war, and he spoke out against it- ordinarily
this wouldn't be an issue for me, but in the present climate I'd
like the guy in charge to have a sense of what's going on in the
trenches.
\_ What examples suggest "he seems to consider things deeply"?
Also, do you take issue with Kerry for voting for the war? How
about the "I voted for it before I voted against it" bit? This
suggests to me that he's just saying what is politically
expedient rather than noodling it out and finding the best
solution for the country. -op
\_ Now you're just trolling; "he voted for it before he voted
against it" was about a bill where he voted for an amendment
which would have changed the bill, the amendment failed, and
he voted against the unmodified bill. Nothing about political
expediency.
\_ I'm not trolling. I know what he meant. But when he said
that it appeared that he was trying to say he was for it
and against it. Furthermore, the amendment was to remove
some of the tax cuts. Instead of a rider, he could have
sponsored a separate bill and while I would disagree with
the bill, I wouldn't be criticizing him for political
expediency. -op
\_ This is how Congress works. It's built into the system
now, and while I tend not to agree with this sort of
tactic, a congressperson whose policy was never to try
this would be cutting themselves off from a fairly
political tactic.
\_ And how would that have changed his "no" vote?
\_ GWB needs to pay for his failures, which are significant.
(note this answer is different from "he's not Bush")
\_ Looks the same to me. -!op
\_ I dont' know where to start. Foreign policy: picking fight with
wrong nation such as China, Iraq, Iran, while completely ignoring
real threats. Fiscal policy: run deficit off the roof while still
gave tax cut to the wealthy. Running government in secrecy (energy
task force, classify numerious documents which suppose to be
declassified), remove all the check and balances created a legal
blackhole in Cuba and Iraq... stripping civil liberty (ear dropping
without any oversight?), and worse, ask subordient to bear the
consequences for things he has done.
\_ You know, an excoworker of mine now works for the FBI, and
he explained much of the reasoning behind the Patriot Act
to me. It actually makes a lot of sense to me.
\_ This all looks like !GWB. How is Kerry any different? BTW, who
do you consider to be the right nation to pick a fight with?
What are the real threats you mention and how do you figure we
should go about dealing with them? Cuba? WTF are you talking
about re: Cuba???
\_ His current statement is that he voted no because the
amendment failed. If really supported the ongoing
effort in Iraq, he could have voted yes on the
$80B funding, and then if the tax rollback failed he
could hammer the president for not being fiscally
responsible. -op
\_ (!GWB answer deleted) |
| 2004/8/8-9 [Transportation/Car, Transportation/Airplane] UID:32770 Activity:very high |
8/8 Has anyone done traffic school via the Internet? How long does
it typically take? Recommedations [for SF]?
\_ In SF, don't you have to take an inperson test at a UPS store or something?
\_ Also you can only go to approved online traffic schools:
http://sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/courts/online_traffic(2).pdf
\_ About 2 hours. I forgot which one I did (just randomly chose
one off of the list of allowable places). It was great: fast,
quick, and very easy.
\_ Most of them also let you save your progress, so I did just
a little at a time over three days while watching TV, piece
of cake.
\_ I went with http://internettrafficschool.com. It's supposed to take
about 8 hours, and they actually time your progress to prevent you
from skimming- this just means you're watching TV in between
skimming. Nice site layout, fairly engaging content. Customer
service was fair, took them a few days to resolve my complaint but
it happened.
\_ My brother did this a few months ago. He said it took about
2 hrs total. He did it during his lunch hour over two days.
\_ I used http://opentrafficschool.com, it was easy. I don't remember
exactly how long it took, but 2 hours sounds reasonable.
They allow you to save and come back, so I spread it out a
little bit. The final test had errors in it though.
\- i did this as well. i just loaded all the pages in different tabs
so that i could skip to the tests. i surfed the web for about 5-10
minutes between some of the page loads. i probably spent 30
minutes on the site itself, but time elapsed was about an hour.
\_ partha is that you? psb #1 fan
\_ you are not the psb #1 Fan. pick your own #.
\_ no, the \- was a slip. but thanks for the compliment.
- psb #17 fan.
\_ gf got ticket in San Mateo County. I went online and took her
test for her, 40 minutes (includes registration time). Damn easy.
\_ What did you get for doing that? ;)
\_ They didn't check ID?
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\_ what is the purpose of this line?
\_ maintaing the horizontalness of the motd.
\_ It's purpose is to prompt question like these.
\_ its
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\_ This is a bad sign: she is lazy, irresponsible, and evasive of
unpleasant tasks. Dump her NOW!!! |
| 2004/8/8-9 [Uncategorized] UID:32771 Activity:nil |
8/8 any alternative to bttb for backup/splitting large dir to CD?
bttb tries too hard and the files in each directory are
spread across too many CDs.... thx.
\_ How about the "span" option in PKZIP? |
| 2004/8/8-9 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:32772 Activity:moderate |
8/8 I despise Bush, and will certainly not vote for him in november,
but IMHO Bush's recent speech at the UNITY conference was the best of
his presidency. Definitely worth viewing. Go to http://www.cspan.org
and click on "Pres. Bush Remarks at UNITY Conference"
He actually manages not sound like a dumbass or a right-wing nut for
over half an hour. Particularly impressive in front of an openly
hostile audience.
\_ 1/2 hour out of 4 years just doesn't cut it.
\_ Erm, wasn't this the speech where the audience was laughing at him,
mostly to do with his answer to the question about Indian
sovereignty? Something like "sovereignty is well ... sovereignty,
and if you have sovereignty you are sovereign."
\_ I said "over half an hour." There were still some dumbass parts
during the q&a session. OTOH the fact that they got him to
publicly come out against legacies in admissions is pretty
funny.
\_ Without legacies how would the next generation of politicians
like Al Gore get into school? We know he isn't smart enough
to get in on his own. |