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genius girl scout sells cookies outside pot club (http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/02/20/genius girl scout sells cookies outside pot club/)
Did you get the Thin Mint or Samoa... :p
Don Quixote
02-21-14, 08:08 PM
Here we are trying to have a serious discussion regarding aerodynamics, and Nappy and Mappy have the munchies.
This aggression will not stand, man.
Plan to split California into 6 states
A plan to divide California into six separate US states is closer to making it on to a November ballot, with organizers gaining approval to collect signatures.
http://news.yahoo.com/plan-split-california-six-states-gains-ground-222139687.html
**** that.
TravelGal
02-22-14, 11:28 AM
I saw that yesterday. Calling the constitutional scholars in the group.... I was told during a fairly long and detailed tour of a West Virginia history museum in Wheeling that the Constitution forbids this. The only reason WV was allowed to become a separate state was that Virginia had already left the United States and joined the Confederacy. Therefore Virginia was no longer a state and part of it could split off and become a state.
cameraman
02-22-14, 12:43 PM
It isn't banned by the Constitution but it requires Senate approval and there is no way on earth that the other 98 senators are going to essentially give California 10 new senators. That will just never ever happen.
Napoleon
02-22-14, 03:08 PM
I saw that yesterday. Calling the constitutional scholars in the group.... I was told during a fairly long and detailed tour of a West Virginia history museum in Wheeling that the Constitution forbids this. The only reason WV was allowed to become a separate state was that Virginia had already left the United States and joined the Confederacy. Therefore Virginia was no longer a state and part of it could split off and become a state.
That is not my understanding. Lincoln was pretty careful about avoiding handing the rebels any kind of explicit or implicit recognition that a state could leave the union. Instead somehow or another the sitting state government was considered by the Feds as not representing the state, some "rouge" state government that was recognized as legit by Washington was elected and voted to permit West Virginia to petition to be a state, which Congress, controlled by the North since the South had walked out, consented too. That satisfies the constitutional restrictions against carving a state out of an existing state without state consent. By the way, Virginia was not unique among states for having competing state governments during the War of the Rebellion (i.e., the War of Southern Aggression to perpetuate slavery). I think Tenn and MO had the same thing, but there was never any attempt to split those states.
It isn't banned by the Constitution but it requires Senate approval and there is no way on earth that the other 98 senators are going to essentially give California 10 new senators. That will just never ever happen.
The constitution directly forbids creating a state from another state w/o its consent. The whole CA thing is just another example in the last few years of the crybaby rich in this country (which with every day its becoming more obvious is a redundant phrase) who want to pick up their ball and go home because they don't get to pick CAs senators without a vote. In this case it is the crybaby rich in Silicon Valley who are upset they don't get their very own senator.
TravelGal
02-22-14, 04:24 PM
That is not my understanding. Lincoln was pretty careful about avoiding handing the rebels any kind of explicit or implicit recognition that a state could leave the union. Instead somehow or another the sitting state government was considered by the Feds as not representing the state, some "rouge" state government that was recognized as legit by Washington was elected and voted to permit West Virginia to petition to be a state, which Congress, controlled by the North since the South had walked out, consented too. That satisfies the constitutional restrictions against carving a state out of an existing state without state consent. By the way, Virginia was not unique among states for having competing state governments during the War of the Rebellion (i.e., the War of Southern Aggression to perpetuate slavery). I think Tenn and MO had the same thing, but there was never any attempt to split those states.
The constitution directly forbids creating a state from another state w/o its consent. The whole CA thing is just another example in the last few years of the crybaby rich in this country (which with every day its becoming more obvious is a redundant phrase) who want to pick up their ball and go home because they don't get to pick CAs senators without a vote. In this case it is the crybaby rich in Silicon Valley who are upset they don't get their very own senator.
Thanks. Yes, this comes back to memory now, two years after having had the tour. It was all news to me at the time. Another point, perhaps not germane to this discussion but interesting to me, was that each county in all of Virginia was allowed to vote. We were told that the folks in SW Virginia rue the day they decided to stay with Virginia because they are stuck out in a sort of limbo geographically. I took that with a grain of salt.
cameraman
02-22-14, 11:33 PM
The constitution directly forbids creating a state from another state w/o its consent.
Well yes, obviously the people of California have to vote on and pass the proposal first. My point is that it doesn't matter if every single citizen of California votes in favor of it, the other 98 senators will laugh in their faces. It will never happen.
If auto racing has taught me anything, it's that splitting a big thing into multiple smaller things is ALWAYS a good idea. :tony:
The constitution directly forbids creating a state from another state w/o its consent. The whole CA thing is just another example in the last few years of the crybaby rich in this country (which with every day its becoming more obvious is a redundant phrase) who want to pick up their ball and go home because they don't get to pick CAs senators without a vote. In this case it is the crybaby rich in Silicon Valley who are upset they don't get their very own senator.
In fact, the proposed plan makes it pretty clear that this has nothing to do with federal office. There's no way you can gerrymander California into six sections and end up with something that benefits "the crybaby rich" on a national level. The truth is that "the crybaby rich" in silicon valley are generally post modern hippies who struck it rich and are now trying to figure out a way to have their pot and smoke it too. They want more control over their state government, not federal.
Of course this will fail for the reason cameraman notes. Eventually tech money will start to leave California the same way that film money has.
cameraman
02-25-14, 06:51 PM
"Without warning, the woman has picked up a large bream from the fish stall and slapped the worker across the face"
Way to make the most wanted list (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26345264) :rolleyes:
Way to make the most wanted list (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26345264) :rolleyes:
definition: bream, a greenish-bronze deep-bodied freshwater fish native to Europe, popular with anglers
Python did it.
cameraman
02-25-14, 07:49 PM
Getting smacked upside the head with this might hurt....
http://lancasterhousefarmfishery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/bream.jpg
Report into training mishap where jet fuel sprayed onto burning aircraft mock up (http://www.statter911.com/2014/02/26/read-report-training-mishap-jet-fuel-sprayed-onto-burning-aircraft-mock/)
Firefighters with the Port of Seattle at Sea-Tac tried to put out a training fire in the aircraft mock up at The State Patrol Fire Academy in North Bend. The firefighters discovered they were spraying jet fuel through their fire engines and not water. The flare-up slightly injured two firefighters. An investigative report has now been written about the incident.
http://i58.tinypic.com/domces.jpg
Jet fuel, It's what fire craves! ;)
Don Quixote
02-26-14, 12:18 PM
Putting out a fire with gasoline.......
cameraman
02-26-14, 01:22 PM
Man. If you read the report on the incident, the list of operational problems is just epic.:shakehead:
Report into training mishap where jet fuel sprayed onto burning aircraft mock up (http://www.statter911.com/2014/02/26/read-report-training-mishap-jet-fuel-sprayed-onto-burning-aircraft-mock/)
The investigation into this by a Kent battalion chief concludes no one at the academy had a full understanding of how to run the academy’s out-dated oil-water separator. It’s supposed to filter the jet fuel out of the firefighting water. The two employees who ran it for decades at the academy retired and it’s not an easy thing to operate.
Can someone explain why there is jet fuel in firefighting water so that it has to be filtered out in the first place? Do they reclaim water from airport run-off or something?
Can someone explain why there is jet fuel in firefighting water so that it has to be filtered out in the first place? Do they reclaim water from airport run-off or something?
My guess is they are capturing water from the training and and storing it in some manner to provide water back to the facility. Not drinking water, but water for training uses. Honestly, I have NO clue though. :saywhat:
What is surprising to me is that there are facilities still using liquid fuels for training. Most places have converted to propane props. Perhaps something required by FAA for fire fighter training on airports?
cameraman
02-26-14, 02:29 PM
They use both liquid and gas here. You can check out the Salt Lake City International Airport Rescue Fire Fighting Training Center here:
http://www.slcarff.com/default.htm
These are the bullet points for the basic class:
1. Demonstrate donning/doffing proximity personal protective clothing.
2. Demonstrate response to an incident or accident.
3. Demonstrate ability to communicate an incident sizeup.
4. Perform an airport standby operation according to P & P.
5. Demonstrate extinguishment of 250sq. ft.aircraft fuel spill fire.
6. Demonstrate extinguishment of 786sq. ft.aircraft fuel spill fire.
7. Demonstrate extinguishment of 1,923sq. ft.aircraft fuel spill fire.
8. Demonstrate an attack on a three dimensional aircraft fuel fire.
9. Demonstrate an attack on the interior of an aircraft fire.
10. Demonstrate an attack on an aircraft engine or APU/EPU fire.
11. Demonstrate an attack on a wheel assembly fire.
12. Demonstrate ventilation of an aircraft through doors or hatches.
13. Replenish extinguishing agents on an ARFF vehicle.
14. Preserve the aircraft accident scene.
15. Demonstrate the overhaul of an accident scene.
16. Demonstrate the ability to gain access on an aircraft, assist with evacuation.
From today's briefing. Any comments from the aviation folk among us?
United Takes First Commercial Flight Using Split Scimitar Winglets
A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft freshly retrofitted with new Split Scimitar Winglets took to the skies marking the first commercial flight worldwide to operate with the advanced winglet technology. United flight 1273 on Tuesday took off from the airline's Houston hub and flew to Los Angeles. The airline installed the innovative winglets on the Boeing 737-800 after the FAA approved the technology made by Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) earlier this month. This new winglet design demonstrates significant aircraft drag reduction over the basic Blended Winglet configuration United uses on its current fleet. Using a newly patented design, the program retrofits United's Boeing Next Generation 737 Blended Winglets by replacing the aluminum winglet tip cap with a new aerodynamically shaped "Scimitar"™ winglet tip cap and by adding a new Scimitar-tipped ventral strake. The new design will reduce fuel consumption by up to 2 percent per aircraft. United currently has more than 350 aircraft fitted with advanced blended winglet technology. Once the Split Scimitar Winglets installation is complete, the combined winglet technology on United's 737, 757 and 767 fleet is expected to save the airline more than 65 million gallons of fuel a year, equivalent to more than 645,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide and $200 million per year in jet fuel costs. The savings from the Split Scimitar Winglets will contribute to United's overall fuel-savings initiative to reduce its fuel costs by $1 billion by 2017.
Winglets go a long way to give airlines fuel savings (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-airline-winglets-0302-biz-20140304,0,4880624.story)
Savings of 4 percent and 2 percent might not sound like much, but consider that United uses 4 billion gallons of fuel in a year, or 1 percent of the world's annual oil supply. And consider that jet fuel prices have soared during the past 15 years, to $3 per gallon today from about 50 cents per gallon.:eek:
Winglets go a long way to give airlines fuel savings (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-airline-winglets-0302-biz-20140304,0,4880624.story)
:eek:
Travelgal beat you to that one.
http://www.offcamber.net/forums/showthread.php?16493-Tales-of-Interest&p=324851&highlight=Scimitar#post324851
Some actual good news for a change...
Young volunteer firefighters hop off school bus to save life in Calvert County, MD (http://www.statter911.com/2014/03/09/young-volunteer-firefighters-hop-school-bus-save-life-calvert-county-md/)
It started out as an ordinary day for students from Huntingtown High School in Calvert County as they were on their way to class Friday morning. But as they looked out the windows of their school bus, they saw a man lying face down on the ground in the snow holding his dog on a leash.
Four of the students jumped off the bus and rushed to his aid. Two of them are training as volunteer firefighters and administered CPR.
cameraman
03-12-14, 12:07 AM
How would you like to look out the window of your plane and see this happen in flight:eek::eek:
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiaYCYaCMAAjShm.jpg:large
The picture is after the plane turned around and landed in Minneapolis. The cowling came off on take off, the plane circled for 25 minutes to lighten the fuel load and it landed again.
It was supposed to be an 8 hour flight to the Dominican Republic but it ended up like this:
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Cynops/DL309.jpg
Boeing 737-800, Delta Airlines flight 309.
Al least nobody was hurt but I'm thinking some mechanics might need new careers.
Available for comment on the above?
http://i57.tinypic.com/n35bpz.jpg
Needs more Shatner...
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/3/21/twilight.gif
Owner sets her Pet Store full of Puppies on Fire for Insurance Scam...too Bad she Forgot that it was Equipped with Sprinklers... (http://www.surenews.com/crime/owner-sets-her-pet-store-full-of-puppies-on-fire-for-insurance-scamtoo-bad-she-forgot-that-it-was-equipped-with-sprinklers-.htm#TwCKqyiIYAYHiqYL.99)
Pet shop owner jailed after puppies saved from Vegas fire (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pet-shop-owner-jailed-after-puppies-saved-from-las-vegas-arson/)
:saywhat::mad:
+1 for sprinklers though
cameraman
03-18-14, 01:48 PM
Owner sets her Pet Store full of Puppies on Fire for Insurance Scam...too Bad she Forgot that it was Equipped with Sprinklers... (http://www.surenews.com/crime/owner-sets-her-pet-store-full-of-puppies-on-fire-for-insurance-scamtoo-bad-she-forgot-that-it-was-equipped-with-sprinklers-.htm#TwCKqyiIYAYHiqYL.99)
Pet shop owner jailed after puppies saved from Vegas fire (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pet-shop-owner-jailed-after-puppies-saved-from-las-vegas-arson/)
:saywhat::mad:
+1 for sprinklers though
She's quite the piece of work. Seems she forgot about the video cameras too.
Don Quixote
04-01-14, 05:22 PM
I know this is old, but it is great.
http://www.thatericalper.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/4729648_700b_v2.jpg
http://www.thatericalper.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/4729648_700b_v2.jpg
Donate your kid today
Lakewood, NJ- April 1, 2014- National car donation charity Kars4Kids announced today the launch of its new division Kids4Kars, a kid donation program. Kids4Kars provides free pickup of all donations of kids, offering a free lifetime vacation to donors in return.
Prospective donors are directed to the charity’s website, www.kids4kars.org, where they can submit a donation using the quick online form and get answers to commonly asked questions about the donation process. The program’s website boasts that they will accept kids up to age 12 “in any condition,” provided that the donor is the child’s legal parent.
http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/88239/kars4kids-wins-april-fools-day/
Good one. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0WzU7py9VU
Don Quixote
04-01-14, 06:38 PM
The street value of a 12 year old is very low. You would be basically buying a teenager.
91 year old Indiana man busted by the feds for having thousands of "cultural artifacts".
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/fbi-seizing-artifacts-at-rural-indiana-home
91 year old indiana man busted by the feds for having thousands of "cultural artifacts".
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/fbi-seizing-artifacts-at-rural-indiana-home
why is his last name not jones?
:)
With 100 agents, several tractor trailers, and a bunch of tents, you'd think that he must have the Ark of the Covenant in there somewhere. If some agents turn up with their faces melted off we'll know what happened.
cameraman
04-04-14, 05:28 PM
He seems to have a vast collection that predates most laws concerning archaeological artifact collection. We will see what happens but there is probably a long list of nations that want there stuff back. Considering the manpower the FBI has called in his place must look like the warehouse where the government is keeping nrc's Ark.
Here's a link to a story in the Indy Star that has a few pictures.
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2014/04/02/fbi-seizing-artifacts-rural-indiana-home/7210675/
Here's an older story about his collection from the Star.
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/04/03/rush-county-fbi-probe-artifacts-confiscated-collectibles-from-missionary-work/7266389/
I wonder who complained to the Feds?
One of the pictures of the house had what appeared to be a Chinese clay soldier on the porch. :thumbup:
Smart Car Tipping
Andrew Smith sure wants to know. Early Monday morning, just past 1, he heard a loud racket outside his apartment in San Francisco's Bernal Heights, and thought nothing of it. But when a neighbor knocked on his door and told him, you-gotta-see-this: His wife's 2009 Smart Car -- all 1,808 pounds of it -- was sitting on its roof.
San Francisco was abuzz over the trail of teeny-tiny two-seaters that turned up turned on their sides -- and a fourth propped up on its rear end -- in two sections of the city.
http://www.mercurynews.com/popular/ci_25512434/san-francisco-vandals-tip-smart-cars-around-city?source=most_viewed
Sucks for the owners, and it's not very clever, but it does make me smile. :D
RaceGrrl
04-09-14, 01:37 PM
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RaceGrrl
04-09-14, 01:38 PM
PETA wanted to turn Jeffrey Dahmer's childhood home into a vegan restaurant. :yuck: :eek: :eek:
Moira Colley, spokeswoman for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, tells The Akron Beacon Journal the group "won't be able to move forward" with the proposal to convert the large northeast Ohio house into a restaurant called Eat For Life: Home Cooking.
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2014/04/09/oh--dahmer-house-for-sale.html
So were they serious or was this a very distasteful April Fool's joke?
TravelGal
04-09-14, 02:20 PM
I love stories like this. Anyone have any favorite local candies, cakes, etc.? Ours used to be See's but it's gone just about nationwide by now. Hey Cameraman, do they still make Catherine's Chocolates in SLC? Best chocolate creams I ever ate.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/04/08/idaho-candy-company-this-built-america/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl12|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D462792
gerhard911
04-09-14, 03:32 PM
^^^ Cincinnati's closest.
http://www.aglamesis.com/
Andrew Longman
04-09-14, 05:14 PM
Sucks for the owners, and it's not very clever, but it does make me smile. :Din high school some football teammates and I carried an assistant coach's VW beetle into the building and plopped in a crossroad where two hallways intersected. We had to turn it on its side to get it through the door. :D
cameraman
04-10-14, 12:26 AM
in high school some football teammates and I carried an assistant coach's VW beetle into the building and plopped in a crossroad where two hallways intersected. We had to turn it on its side to get it through the door. :D
The Department Chairman & much of his lab took a faculty member's car and deposited it in the foyer of the research center. It involved the complete disassembly and reassembly of the entrance to the building but the got it through a 40" door.
I love stories like this. Anyone have any favorite local candies, cakes, etc.? Ours used to be See's but it's gone just about nationwide by now. Hey Cameraman, do they still make Catherine's Chocolates in SLC? Best chocolate creams I ever ate.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/04/08/idaho-candy-company-this-built-america/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl12|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D462792
I had an Idaho Spud a few years ago in Bozeman MT. Now for the rest of the story....
TravelGal
04-10-14, 11:40 AM
Why I love reading my ARTA newsletter every morning. Today's tidbit:
Plane makes emergency landing due to overheating cows
A pilot flying a Boeing 747 was forced to issue a "mayday" call and make an emergency landing after overheating cows were mistaken for a fire. The jet was reportedly over the Irish Sea when an alarm started sounding to warn the cockpit of an apparently catastrophic fire in the hold, where almost 400 cows were being transported. Pilots sent out a distress signal and received permission to come down at Heathrow Airport, London. Yet when technicians inspected the cows' deck they found no evidence of flames or even smoke. Cows emit large quantities of methane and maintain body temperatures slightly higher than that of a human - the combination of which may have explained the sounding of an alarm.
cameraman
04-10-14, 11:50 AM
Hey Cameraman, do they still make Catherine's Chocolates in SLC? Best chocolate creams I ever ate.
Not sure that there ever was a Catherine's Chocolates in SLC. I thought that was an Massachusetts company. The long time SLC company(s) are run by the Cummings family. A nasty family feud split the company into two competing firms
Cummings Studio Chocolates - this might be the one you are thinking of.
C. Kay Cummings Fine Candies
TravelGal
04-10-14, 12:40 PM
Not sure that there ever was a Catherine's Chocolates in SLC. I thought that was an Massachusetts company. The long time SLC company(s) are run by the Cummings family. A nasty family feud split the company into two competing firms
Cummings Studio Chocolates - this might be the one you are thinking of.
C. Kay Cummings Fine Candies
You are right, cm. That's what 30 years will do to my memory. Cummings! Probably the first one, as you say. I lived in DC and a colleague brought out a couple of boxes a month. I moved from there to Pittsfield, MA and that where I met Catherine's. Good but not AS good. Thanks for jog down memory lane.
Napoleon
04-10-14, 02:43 PM
in high school some football teammates and I carried an assistant coach's VW beetle into the building and plopped in a crossroad where two hallways intersected. We had to turn it on its side to get it through the door. :D
From my freshman year in high school. This is the school's courtyard:
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Why I love reading my ARTA newsletter every morning. Today's tidbit:
Plane makes emergency landing due to overheating cows.
I had no idea they shipped live cattle by air. Trucks, trains, boats, spaceships...not airplanes.
Who needs 400 head of cattle next day air?
cameraman
04-10-14, 04:55 PM
I had no idea they shipped live cattle by air. Trucks, trains, boats, spaceships...not airplanes.
Who needs 400 head of cattle next day air?
You can't put a cow in a container. There really isn't a good way to ship cattle across the Atlantic. Not enough volume to support an Australian-esque cattle ship.
This article is four years old, but who knew?
Texas cowboys ferry cattle to Turkey
The company that owns and provides the cows — Sexing Technologies — is based in Texas. The cows are shipped to Maine from breeding farms in Pennsylvania, Vermont, Ohio and Michigan. They board a Danish freighter and will arrive in Turkey in about two weeks.
http://bangordailynews.com/2010/10/29/business/cows-on-cruise-show-global-export-growth/
cameraman
04-10-14, 06:52 PM
So you can put cows in containers.
http://076dd0a50e0c1255009e-bd4b8aabaca29897bc751dfaf75b290c.r40.cf1.rackcdn.c om/images/files/000/006/085/original/original.0
cameraman
04-10-14, 06:54 PM
Horses fly once a month with no more than nine head per shipment....
http://www.pacificairlift.com/
chop456
04-11-14, 01:44 AM
http://www.pacificairlift.com/
That may be one of the worst logos I've ever seen. :laugh:
Bank of Walmart
Wal-Mart is delving deeper into financial services at its stores and shaking up the money transfer business.
The world's largest retailer introduced a new money transfer service ["Walmart-2-Walmart"] that it says will cut fees for its low-income customers by up to 50 percent compared with similar services elsewhere.
Wal-Mart's announcement is the latest way it's acting more like a bank. About a decade ago, Wal-Mart applied unsuccessfully for an industrial bank charter. Those efforts were blocked even though the retailer vowed it would not open retail branches but wanted to use its bank to process card transactions. In 2007, it abandoned those plans, but it has been creating an expanding menu of financial offerings for customers, aimed particularly at those with limited access to banks. Wal-Mart already offers prepaid cards, check cashing services and tax preparation services.
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2023402115_apxwalmartmoneytransfers.html
They should sponsor the new American F1 Team in exchange for free toasters.
TravelGal
04-18-14, 09:45 PM
Horses fly once a month with no more than nine head per shipment....
http://www.pacificairlift.com/
That may be one of the worst logos I've ever seen. :laugh:
Who knew I'd start of real convo about the cows? I'm just getting back to this thread.
1) How often do pigs fly?
2) I nearly choked myself trying not to laugh so loud I'd wake up TravelMom when I saw that logo. Lord have mercy. :laugh:
TravelGal
04-24-14, 12:57 PM
PULEEZE don't turn this into a political commentary, which will get the posts nuked, but I thought you might like to know about a project on Kickstarter. It only has 9 days to go and needs help with the funding. It's called the Havana Motor Club about the efforts to hold the first sanctioned drag race in Cuba since the revolution. Here's the link to the trailers. http://www.havanamotorclub.com/video/
I've been thinking for years that I'd love to get a group together to go see those old cars and talk to the gearheads that keep them running. Then I discovered this. Pretty close to my idea so I'm supporting it.
stroker
04-24-14, 01:04 PM
PULEEZE don't turn this into a political commentary, which will get the posts nuked, but I thought you might like to know about a project on Kickstarter. It only has 9 days to go and needs help with the funding. It's called the Havana Motor Club about the efforts to hold the first sanctioned drag race in Cuba since the revolution. Here's the link to the trailers. http://www.havanamotorclub.com/video/
I've been thinking for years that I'd love to get a group together to go see those old cars and talk to the gearheads that keep them running. Then I discovered this. Pretty close to my idea so I'm supporting it.
Which automatically begs the question of just how much hp and torque a Russian truck transmission can stand?
:p
RaceGrrl
04-24-14, 03:54 PM
Story about the discovery of Andy Warhol's digital work-on an Amiga computer in a format so old it had to be reverse-engineered to be viewed. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27141201
A film crew working on a documentary about Atari has found thousands of copies of the Atari 2600 "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" game that were buried in a landfill after the game bombed.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/04/26/game-enthusiasts-find-atari-et-games-in-landfill
TravelGal
04-29-14, 04:42 PM
Crickets in here in OC about Donald Sterling. Local news around here in LA. I always thought he was sleaze bag. :yuck:
crazy story without a single sympathetic character. :shakehead:
cameraman
04-29-14, 05:54 PM
I don't care about basketball.
I care even less about LA basketball.
And words can begin to express how little I care about ....* billionaires and their staff whores.
*I can't find an appropriate term for him. It isn't like English is short on descriptive terms but none seems to be that perfect fit.
bigot creep degenerate deviant dirtbag maggot misogynist pervert pig racist scum scumbag sleazeball slimebag slimeball slimebucket
They're all too broad or just don't quite fit the job. What am I missing?
cameraman
04-29-14, 08:02 PM
On to more important topics...
Threat Of Exploding Blue Whale Looms Over Newfoundland (http://hasthewhaleexplodedyet.com/)
http://hasthewhaleexplodedyet.com/uploads/3/4/5/8/3458784/8898923_orig.jpg
Still there, still there, still there....
cameraman
04-30-14, 04:03 PM
I really don't understand why the authorities don't get a high powered rifle and perforate that carcass. You would need a major league round to penetrate deeply but a bunch of smaller holes would allow the gasses to safely vent. Plus you could be 100' away while you did it.:eek::eek::eek:
If that whale washed up in Kentucky, there might be some volunteers. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSee_VJqTaE
datachicane
04-30-14, 05:48 PM
I really don't understand why the authorities don't get a high powered rifle and perforate that carcass. You would need a major league round to penetrate deeply but a bunch of smaller holes would allow the gasses to safely vent. Plus you could be 100' away while you did it.:eek::eek::eek:
100'? Not nearly far enough.
http://home.comcast.net/~longo13/articles/whale.jpg
KaBoom21
05-01-14, 11:52 AM
A film crew working on a documentary about Atari has found thousands of copies of the Atari 2600 "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" game that were buried in a landfill after the game bombed.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/04/26/game-enthusiasts-find-atari-et-games-in-landfill
http://i.imgur.com/UzyAH5Z.jpg
TravelGal
05-01-14, 03:22 PM
Just another day in LALA Land. And if you think you luggage HAS to be on the same flight with you, a friend of mine was on the last flight out yesterday before the ground stop and her luggage hasn't arrived yet (in Phoenix, they could have trucked there quicker than they are going to find it, I'm afraid).
Flight Operations At Los Angeles LAX Getting Back To Normal
Flight operations at Los Angeles International and other area airports came to a stop
Wednesday afternoon after technical problems at a Southern California control center
prompted a temporary grounding of departing flights. At 8.30 pm California time
operations resumed and airport authorities released this assessment statement:
After completing an assessment of flight operations of the nearly 60 passenger airlines
at LAX, LAX Airport Operations reports the following impacts resulting from today's
ground stop through midnight tonight: 27 arriving flights were cancelled, 212 were
delayed and 27 diverted to other airports; Departing flights: a total of 23 flights were
cancelled and 216 were delayed; No international arriving or departing flights were
cancelled. The number of passengers on the 50 total arriving and departing cancelled
flights is estimated at nearly 6,800. The number of passengers on the 455 total arriving
and departing delayed flights is estimated in the tens of thousands. The FAA said a
computer outage forced a halt to departures at airports in Los Angeles, Las Vegas,
Phoenix, Salt Lake City and other airports out west.
Someone in the LAX control tower must have kicked the Atari's plug out of the wall and crashed the system.
Stevie Wonder could have directed air traffic with better results.
I got another story about Stevie Wonder and airports. Like to hear it? Here it goes:
I once saw Stevie Wonder at the Chicago airport. My first time in Chicago, the first thing I see after walking up the jetway and through the gate is Stevie Wonder sitting in a chair directly in front of me. He was surrounded by a small crowd on both sides, including two sailors in their dress white uniforms. Boom! Welcome to Chicago.
U2 spy plane fly over caused LAX system shut down.
The computers at the L.A. Center are programmed to keep commercial airliners and other aircraft from colliding with each other. The U-2 was flying at 60,000 feet, but the computers were attempting to keep it from colliding with planes that were actually miles beneath it.
Though the exact technical causes are not known, the spy plane’s altitude and route apparently overloaded a computer system called ERAM, which generates display data for air-traffic controllers. Back-up computer systems also failed.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/spy-plane-fries-air-traffic-control-computers-shuts-down-lax-n95886
Fascinating. I wonder if the computer program had a maximum altitude setting so that any plane above 40,000 feet would appear to be at the same altitude.
Like in Jurassic Park when the computer only counted the number of dinosaurs the humans expected instead of the total number of dinosaurs.
stroker
05-03-14, 10:23 PM
U2 spy plane fly over caused LAX system shut down.
Fascinating. I wonder if the computer program had a maximum altitude setting so that any plane above 40,000 feet would appear to be at the same altitude.
Like in Jurassic Park when the computer only counted the number of dinosaurs the humans expected instead of the total number of dinosaurs.
What I'm hearing is that the LAX software was modified to not report planes at that altitude since it's so rare. Other than fly the U2 did nothing to cause the problem.
cameraman
05-06-14, 09:41 PM
On to more important topics...
Threat Of Exploding Blue Whale Looms Over Newfoundland (http://hasthewhaleexplodedyet.com/)
http://hasthewhaleexplodedyet.com/uploads/3/4/5/8/3458784/8898923_orig.jpg
Still there, still there, still there....
Dang it's still there…
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm-yKUrCAAAVz6z.jpg:large
You can probably taste the smell by now. Mmm, chewy. :yuck:
cameraman
05-07-14, 01:21 AM
Actually it seems to be lessening now that the methanogens have exhausted their food supply. This next wave of bacteria are not quite as bad. Not that they smell good, just not as bad.
Can they sell the skeleton to a museum?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBgThvB_IDQ
:D
cameraman
05-07-14, 01:39 PM
Can they sell the skeleton to a museum?
If you want to wade into that mess that's still about 10 feet of rancid grease high and cut loose the bones, scrub them clean, bleach and preserve them, well have at it. There's also some rather ugly legal paperwork concerning harvesting endangered wildlife, living or dead. Without the proper permits it is a felony. You could realistically get the permits but it is a hoop you would have to jump through first.
stroker
05-07-14, 04:14 PM
If you want to wade into that mess that's still about 10 feet of rancid grease high and cut loose the bones, scrub them clean, bleach and preserve them, well have at it. There's also some rather ugly legal paperwork concerning harvesting endangered wildlife, living or dead. Without the proper permits it is a felony. You could realistically get the permits but it is a hoop you would have to jump through first.
Obviously far better to let it sit and stink.
Government in action.
:shakehead:
cameraman
05-07-14, 04:32 PM
Obviously far better to let it sit and stink.
Government in action.
:shakehead:
No, in the Canadian whale's case they have done the paperwork and assigned it to a museum but there are no volunteers to go blubber diving & pay the not inconsequential cost of processing it. None of the museums have a budget line for "random whale carcass collection & processing".
Actually I just saw that the Royal Ontario Museum is getting them and the Canadian Government has come up with the cash to do the work.
TravelGal
05-08-14, 06:22 PM
So what do you think they are going to do with the carcass?
Norwegian Breakaway Hit A Whale In New York Harbour
A dead 30-foot whale found on the Brooklyn side of New York Harbor Monday morning is believed to have been struck by a cruise ship that was later disabled for several hours as it approached its Manhattan dock. A spokeswoman for Norwegian Cruise Line, said Wednesday the cruise ship's delay on Sunday was not related to the whale strike. According to the Coast Guard, the Norwegian Cruise Lines ship called the Breakaway reported a problem with its steering system at around 7:40 a.m. The Coast Guard issued a tug assist plan and the boat was tugged to Pier 88 on West 48th Street just after 10 a.m., once the tide had changed. The 45-year-old whale was found near Pier on Monday, and towed to the New Jersey side of the harbor. It was found during a necropsy Tuesday to have blunt force trauma and broken ribs. The NOAA Fisheries Service said it's not known if the whale was killed by the ship or if it was already dead when it was hit. The ship was stalled for several hours in the Hudson River as it was preparing to dock in Manhattan.
How do they know the whale was 45 years old?
Was it carrying ID? ;)
cameraman
05-08-14, 07:07 PM
Lord the NYC media really is terrible. The sei whale has been reported to be a ***** (not even close) or a fin whale and its length has been listed as 25, 30, 35, 45 and 60 feet. Sheesh.
The 45 foot whale found floating in the harbor was a northern sei whale. It was towed to a dry dock at the Caven Point Marine Terminal in New Jersey. They couldn't figure out what killed it. They were not able to determine if it was dead before it was hit by the ship. A healthy whale should have been able to get out of the way of a cruise liner moving slowly through the harbor. So that will always be a bit of a mystery. The Army Corps of Engineers hauled it to a landfill after the scientists were done with it. The skeleton was too damaged by the collision to be worth collecting. 45 feet is pretty close to average adult size for a sei whale.
A few weeks ago a young minke whale washed up in New Jersey and was tagged before the scientists got to it. It also has made its way to the local landfill.
And before that a container ship showed up at the port with a 60 foot fin whale attached to its bow.
It's been a busy spring for the whale disposal crews.
TravelGal
05-09-14, 03:13 AM
Last edited by cameraman; Yesterday at 04:09 PM. Reason: Oh come on, really? A ***** whale?
:laugh: At least your comment made me realize what kind of whale you meant. :laugh:
Isabella Rossellini Has A New Series Of Animal Seduction Videos (http://www.popsci.com/article/science/yes-new-isabella-rossellini-animal-mating-videos?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=5&con=watch-isabella-rossellini-has-a-new-series-of-animal-seduction-videos)
:thumbup::thumbup:
She is charmingly crazy here.
645
"You promised me Mars colonies. Instead, I got Facebook - why we can't solve big problems."
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/429690/why-we-cant-solve-big-problems/
cameraman
05-13-14, 12:04 PM
No, in the Canadian whale's case they have done the paperwork and assigned it to a museum but there are no volunteers to go blubber diving & pay the not inconsequential cost of processing it. None of the museums have a budget line for "random whale carcass collection & processing".
Actually I just saw that the Royal Ontario Museum is getting them and the Canadian Government has come up with the cash to do the work.
Here is the blog of the dissection.
The whole job should be finished by Tuesday, when everyone involved plans to burn their work clothes.
Dismantling a dead whale, Day 1: Retch count high (http://www.thestar.com/news/the_world_daily/2014/05/dismantling_a_dead_whale__day_1__retch_count_high. html)
http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/uploads/2014/5/9/1399672244191.jpg
Dead Whale Diaries, Day 3: a ribcage emerges (http://www.thestar.com/news/the_world_daily/2014/05/dead_whale_diaries__day_3__a_ribcage_emergeth.html )
http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/uploads/2014/5/10/1399760038197.jpg
Dead Whale Diaries: Four fun facts from day four (and one sad one) (http://www.thestar.com/news/the_world_daily/2014/05/dead_whale_diaries__four_fun_facts_from_day_four_a nd_one_sad_one.html#)
http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/uploads/2014/5/11/1399843168236.jpg
Dead Whale Diaries, Day 5: Our favourite dead whale gets a name and a chin job (http://www.thestar.com/news/the_world_daily/2014/05/dead_whale_diaries__day_5__our_favourite_dead_whal e_gets_a_name_and_a_chin_job.html)
http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/uploads/2014/5/12/1399936826164.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMJe0BDmI30
TravelGal
06-11-14, 06:50 PM
As long as they don't monitor what's IN them....
Heathrow's Smart Loos Count Users And Alert Cleaners
Heathrow airport has installed sensors into its toilets at the newly opened Terminal 2 to monitor the number of people using each unit. When a certain number of people have used a unit, cleaners are alerted and they are cleaned. The data is also sent to the cloud so it can be analysed by planners who are then able to see where the highest demand for toilet facilities around the terminal is. In the long term, loos can be added or removed depending on usage trends. The sensors were developed by embedded computing firm EuroTech, using Intel technology, building on the company's Internet of Things strategy. In addition to monitoring how often the toilets are used, the sensors will also collect data about how long it takes cleaners to get to the facility and clean them. Eurotech has experience monitoring toilet usage. In 2012, the company developed a cloud-based platform to monitor how often train toilets were used on TBM Rail Group's services.
As long as they don't monitor what's IN them....
Heathrow's Smart Loos Count Users And Alert Cleaners
Heathrow airport has installed sensors into its toilets at the newly opened Terminal 2 to monitor the number of people using each unit. When a certain number of people have used a unit, cleaners are alerted and they are cleaned. The data is also sent to the cloud so it can be analysed by planners who are then able to see where the highest demand for toilet facilities around the terminal is. In the long term, loos can be added or removed depending on usage trends. The sensors were developed by embedded computing firm EuroTech, using Intel technology, building on the company's Internet of Things strategy. In addition to monitoring how often the toilets are used, the sensors will also collect data about how long it takes cleaners to get to the facility and clean them. Eurotech has experience monitoring toilet usage. In 2012, the company developed a cloud-based platform to monitor how often train toilets were used on TBM Rail Group's services.
Has anyone tested the sensors whilst prepping for a colonoscopy?
:D
TravelGal
06-11-14, 08:20 PM
Has anyone tested the sensors whilst prepping for a colonoscopy?
:D
How did I KNOW that's what this post would be about? LOL LOL LOL.
Don Quixote
06-12-14, 01:34 PM
http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/fb1DYIg88bya5ITfeK.eLQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTQyMTtweG9mZj01MDtweW 9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz03NDk-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/669c729ad3c1c916560f6a7067005231.jpg
I wonder what a couple of A-10s would do to this column.
TOY-O-TA! :D
I always wonder if the Islamists really have a preference for the Japanese manufacturer, or if it's just coincidence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ9TsZb6XmM
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/06/19/sot-hln-biker-confronts-news-crew.kron.html
Cyclist decides to confront film crew for daring to film his bad behavior. Karma ensues.
cameraman
06-27-14, 01:55 PM
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/06/19/sot-hln-biker-confronts-news-crew.kron.html
Cyclist decides to confront film crew for daring to film his bad behavior. Karma ensues.
It takes a special kind of stupid...
Eight years ago, an old man told me a story that took my breath away. His name was Louie Zamperini, and from the day I first spoke to him, his almost incomprehensibly dramatic life was my obsession.
That first conversation with Louie was a pivot point in my life. Fascinated by his experiences, and the mystery of how a man could overcome so much, I began a seven-year journey through his story. I found it in diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs; in the memories of his family and friends, fellow Olympians, former American airmen and Japanese veterans; in forgotten papers in archives as far-flung as Oslo and Canberra. Along the way, there were staggering surprises, and Louie’s unlikely, inspiring story came alive for me. It is a tale of daring, defiance, persistence, ingenuity, and the ferocious will of a man who refused to be broken.
http://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-World-Survival-Resilience-Redemption/dp/1400064163
Louie Zamperini has died at the age of 97. Thanks SU for the recommendation. I read his story a year or so a ago and found it as advertised - amazing, touching, and inspiring. As his generation continues their walk into the sunset, I'm left wondering how many stories like this have remained untold.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20140703/us--obit-zamperini-679eb5b18e.html
TravelGal
07-08-14, 11:38 AM
Just want to be sure you travelers are aware of this. I have literally 5 emails in my inbox about it today but it may not be making it to the general public as thoroughly. From yesterday's ARTA briefing:
Security On Electronics Tightened For US-bound Flights
The new measure is part of the TSA's effort announced last week to boost security amid concerns that Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Islamist Nusra Front, al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, are plotting to blow up an airliner. Security agents may ask passengers to turn on their electronic devices at checkpoints and if they do not have power, the devices will not be allowed on planes. US officials are concerned that a cellphone, tablet, laptop or other electronic device could be used as a bomb. They singled out smartphones including Apple iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones for extra security checks on US-bound direct flights from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The TSA also called for closer checks on passengers' shoes.
I recall during Desert Storm having to power up my laptop to show a DOS prompt while clearing security for domestic flights .
When I went to London 2.5 years ago, I turned off my cell phone before I left and never powered it on until I arrived home just to make sure I didn't get any calls or text messages at international rates. Now if I go again, I'll have to take a charger to make sure there's a charge on it when I return and make sure I place it in airplane mode before I power it off to avoid being bombarded with text messages once I turn it on at security.
cameraman
07-08-14, 12:37 PM
I recall during Desert Storm having to power up my laptop to show a DOS prompt while clearing security for domestic flights .
When I went to London 2.5 years ago, I turned off my cell phone before I left and never powered it on until I arrived home just to make sure I didn't get any calls or text messages at international rates. Now if I go again, I'll have to take a charger to make sure there's a charge on it when I return and make sure I place it in airplane mode before I power it off to avoid being bombarded with text messages once I turn it on at security. Just make sure it is an international charger...
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