Posts by GrimJack

More people get killed annually by donkeys than elephants. Now that is Republican humor at its finest!

Yeah, but cleaning up after donkeys is always easier than cleaning up after elephants.

$ telnet barackobama.com 443
Trying 66.39.143.229...
Connected to barackobama.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
$ telnet johnmccain.com 443
Trying 64.203.107.149...
Connected to johnmccain.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by a real American.

I did not think I would have to explain this to anyone on this board but since someone actually dinged my (good?) reputation with this note

I just did my research on the server and it shows that it is located in arizona how is that foriegn?

Now, if that had been posted here I would have thought it a brilliant piece of Republican satire or if he had given me even a neutral but I don't think he understood the joke. Heck, I still hold out the hope that this is actually double, inverted poke at me - we shall see.

Please tell me that most Republicans actually got the joke?

The master is the farthest from the motherboard and the slave is the middle connector...

depending on how new the laptop is it could be SATA in that case you will need a computer with sata. is the connection really small or is it about 2 1/2" wide?

I am so embarrassed! Shortly after I wrote that, I pulled an hd out of one of my old computers to get some data from it and the cable was very clearly labeled 'Master' on the end and slave in the middle. I am sure I knew the correct answer but fell back on what 'seemed' right, sigh.

Thank you all for your input. It was SATA. My neighbor had some gizmo that had the connections. He was able to hook everything up and copy it. There was a glitch of course. The files on my hard drive were buried - hard to find. I dont know what that was about. At first glance it looked as if there was nothing on the drive. He called me to tell me the drive was clean.

After I arrived, we dug around a little and found my files. I dont know what that was about.

I mentioned the Windows ME, because the software that came with the Rocketfish would not install. Ultimately it didnt matter since the RF didnt fit my hard drive.

So now, I have my files, I guess I can turn my computer over to BestBuy for weeks and weeks for repair. So scary

THANKS AGAIN

I am going to guess that the 'expert' you hired screwed the data up somehow - you saw how easy it was to do WHY COULDN'T THAT SUPPOSED EXPERT DO IT?!

I am glad everything turned out for the best.

If you still have space around your monitor .....

That is either really kool or really sick - but I love it.

Right now I am listening to NPR - All Things Considered on my local station KUOW

I was amazed by some of the things I saw on this site.
http://www.topfive.com/arcs/t5050302.shtml
but I especially found these ones to be the weirdest :)

• Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
  
• SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
  
• Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
  
• King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
  
• Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
  
• To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.
  
• Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
  
• Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.
  
• In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.
  
• Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

you don't actually believe any of that do you? Do you smear dog feces on your insect bites? Flammable urine? someone drinks zebra urine?

sigh - for my own sanity, I am going to believe that you just have a weird sense of humor.

I agree, although they say that the analysis satge from the hundreds of sensors and instrumentation will take 10 - 20 years. that kind of sucks.

imagine we might finally know why there was a slight imbalance in the amount of matter to antimatter ratio during the start of the universe, giving us a matter filled universe, among countless other information.

What really baffles me is the fact that the matter that makes up the universe is just a very small amount of the matter/antimatter created from the energy of the big bang. Once the annihilation of all matter/antimatter that was proportionate happened the matter left over was a minuscule amount. That means the energy from the annihilations is still in the universe , largely out scaling the matter.

Boggles my mind.

Yep, entropy has already won! and the heat death of the universe is already here - the corpse is just no aware of it yet.

It has a thermal black body spectrum at a temperature of 2.725 K, thus the spectrum peaks in the microwave range frequency of 160.2GHz, corresponding to a 1.9mm wavelength. Although the general feature of a black-body radiation spectrum could potentially be produced by many processes, the spectrum also contains small anisotropies, or irregularities, which vary with the size of the region examined. They have been measured in detail, and match to within experimental error that would be expected if small thermal fluctuations had expanded to the size of the universe …

If opposites attract, why doesn't an electron simply combine with a proton to make some energy?

The answer to that is pretty deep are you sure you want to know?
first though - Mathematically, if you subtract a proton from a neutron you will get an electron + some energy which will be enough to put the electron in orbit.

Well, here goes:

If the electron were sitting still at a certain distance away from the nucleus, then the coulomb force would pull the electron into the nucleus. Since the electron is moving with a given velocity, call it V, then the coloumb force causes centripetal acceleration towards the nucleus. Remember, in centrifugal motion there is no centripetal velocity, only acceleration. Therefore, this combination of the tangential velocity and centripetal acceleration causes the electron to orbit around the nucleus.

Also, consider the p-orbital in an atom. If we solve schrodinger's 1-D equation for the n = 2 orbital, we find that the electron is allowed to exist anywhere except very close to the nucleus or very far away from it (at the end of the orbital radius).

Remember, however that this is only the one dimensional equation. If you solved the 1-D schrodinger equation for n=1, or for your hydrogen atom for example, we find that the electron can exist anywhere except the end of the orbital radius. So from the result it would seem that the electron is actually allowed to move closer and closer to the …

A guy is sitting at the bar, drinking a LOT. H finally says to the bartender "I bet you $20 I can bite my own eye"

The bartender says "you're on!" and slaps down a 20.

The guy pull out his fake eye and bites it.

He drinks for another hour then calls the bartender over and says "I bet you another $20 that I can bit my other eye"

The bartender thinks - I know he can see so he does not have 2 fake eyes so says "your on"

The drunk pulls out his false teeth and bites his other eye.

The bartender is really p*ssed now and slaps another 20 onto the first.

Another hour goes by, and the drunk is now completely blasted; he tries to stand up a couple times but can't seem to stay up.

He calls the bartender over and, slurring his words really badly, says "You want to win your money back? I bet you $40 that I can pee on your leg without getting you wet"

The bartender is so pissed that he says "your on".

The drunk walk around the bar and p*sses on the bartender's leg and the bartender yells and jumps back stuttering "you, you got my pants all wet"

The drunk says "Can't will 'em all" then laughs and walks out of the bar.

<there are other ending s for this but this is the …

Definition of a Cigarette:
A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

I usually end it with "and a sucker at the other end" - it works on 2 levels.

Sigh

No I am not a twit. Why did you go to the extent to photoshop your face so it looks better then it does in real life?

It was an either/or question - this implies you have no concept of humor.

Now I see that your repartee is not too good either.

Hey you can't have a good election without the jackass party. I am serious Democrats have a donkey also called a jackass as there animal and I don't think they could have picked one that fits them better.

So, you're a twit? Or is that limit of your idea of Republican humor?

I already have my AIDS badge and my Human Proteome Folding 2 badge - working on my Rice and Dengue Fever badges

I googled'em - this is only one review. Google is your friend

$ telnet barackobama.com 443
Trying 66.39.143.229...
Connected to barackobama.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
$ telnet johnmccain.com 443
Trying 64.203.107.149...
Connected to johnmccain.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by a real American.

No possible risk of harm for you then.

I meant to say this a couple of weeks ago - nice avatar.

So....
Who do you want to control your medical records?
Google or Micro$oft? There are others fighting for the prize but they will just end up as brown-stuff between the toes of these giants.

I am listening to BOOM BOOM BOOM by The Iguanas

Right now im enjoying WDAS Quiet storm :)

http://www.wdasfm.com/cc-common/hdradio/player.php?strid=211

I did not know that the Quiet Storm was real - I only know it from a Saturday Night Live skit

I get my cartridges refilled at Walgreen's - a drugstore chain. They have this really cool machine that they stick the cartridge in press a few buttons and it gets refilled. Of course, it is more complicated than that but --- Apparently, you can't refill the cartridges too often so after a while take it to a place that has you send in your cartridge and they send you one back.

I Y Q Y Q R
(it took me about 10 minutes following the car to figure this one out - you have to say it out loud).

I just found this site - you have to go here to create an account for yourself. It looks like the front page tracks most recent acticity.
Do you want to plot the curse of your life?
Do you think 'they' have a more interesting life?
Look no further.

I like the idea of the openid project and I want to see how long Mycro can keep my attention.

Lardmeister. :icon_lol:

I am numbed; I was shocked to hear that McCain used the c-word towards his wife - that site uses it in place of woman/girl/female. Dave you have just been moved to my list of moderates. If that is where Lard hangs out, he has no shame.

Just took my younger brother to the zoo and we learned that camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

and they can close their nostrils - Though often called the one-humped camel, the dromedary has two humps used for energy storage in the form of fat. The under-developed anterior hump sits over the shoulders and the large rear hump is found in the centre of the back.

And why the rest of us may have to put up with concept of Lardmeister voting. :D

I am sure we can distract him enough - no, wait - it is you we want to distract. Look, Dave - over there, a bright shiny object.

Heh,heh - I was not sure - thanks for clearing that up. On the other hand, I purposely brought ID to tweak "them". The problem that the Holocaust Deniers face is that the Nazis were so darned detail oriented, they tracked everything in triplicate.

It would be hard to argue that your signature in and of itself is a private document. Whether or not the a document is, w/your signature uploaded and placed onto a website would be determined by the nature of the document, the nature of the website, and the nature of the 'usage'. If you are concerned about the document, have a lawyer write a cease and desist letter.

You're right. I didn't read the link very closely and I missed this: It did not require equal time for opposing views, but required that contrasting viewpoints be presented. So they are not required to give the Flat Earth Society 15 minutes of "equal time". That still leaves my larger point that it is going to be extremely hard to decide what is "controversial" and has "contrasting viewpoints" and which viewpoints are so fringe and ridiculous as to no longer be "controversial", as well as whether a radio/TV station is truly trying to present both sides of an issue. It's an extremely subjective opinion. I sort of like the idea, but I don't think it really worked the last time and it seems like a nightmare to enforce and I can imagine it opening up the doors for millions of lawsuits from loonies who want their air-time for opinions that only twelve people in the world share.

I think you are setting up a straw man argument here. It was not extremely difficult to decide while it was place; there were not 'millions' of lawsuits. Doing the right thing should not be limited by perceived difficulties. I agree with you on the difficulty in determining the difference between "which viewpoints are so fringe and ridiculous as to no longer be "controversial"" - just look at the silly attempt to get Intelligent Design considered a scientific theory on par with Evolution. The Fairness Doctrine should be considered a work-in-progress - to …

The Fairness Doctrine is confusing to me. Does it mean that if you have a guest on CNN for 15 minutes who thinks that the Earth is round, you also must invite someone from the Flat Earth Society to give the "opposing viewpoint" for fifteen minutes? At what point is a viewpoint officially decreed to be too dumb to merit equal time?

VD - did you follow the link and read it as far as "It required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters. Stations were given wide latitude as to how to provide contrasting views: It could be done through news segments, public affairs shows or editorials.I find the bolded phrase pretty self-explanitory

I think the long list of bad books was issued by the church she is a member of. She had no choice but to follow her Christian edicts.

That is a pretty scary thought!!

Then I am genuinely interested in your views on The Fairness Doctrine, among other things.

This should come as no surprise - I am fully behind the concept of The Fairness Doctrine wrt broadcast media.

Censorship is censorship is communism. She may be a great mom, a great wife, a great hunter, but anyone who advocates censorship of any book doesn't belong in the white house. My wife is a great mom and wife too, but I wouldn't vote for her either :)

Good line - too bad you had to stick 'communism' in there when all political forces try for censorship at one time or another in their histories.

What do we really know about Sarah Palin other than "loving mother, apple pie, articulate thinker all rolled into one". Answer: Not a damed thing. But I'm sure we will find out in the next couple months.

I will buy into 'loving mother', 'apple pie' and 'articulate' but so far there is not proof for 'thinker'. She spent the time since McCain introduced her to the nation closeted with Bush's speech-writer. We know she can read a teleprompter well - we will have to wait until she is in a more 'free' and open arena to see if she is a thinker.

I think your meter's broken. Did you catch Palin's speech tonight?

WOW! She made a lot of good points.
On Obama :
"....this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state senate."
"Victory in Iraq is finally in sight … he wants to forfeit."
"Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons without delay … he wants to meet them without preconditions."

She has experience as a leader and an executive - what have Obama or Biden done other than be in Congress?

I think the race is going to get more interesting in the coming weeks.

Let's go over some of what she said:
PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."
PALIN: "There is …

I love it, thank! I needed that.

You are correct sir. I will stop complaining when someone posts 2 screens worth of garbage to tell you that they changed a line in there somewhere.

If this were about new, improved scams, I would agree but pages and pages of minor variants of the Nigerian scam is just tedius. I will take my whinging to a different thread.

Why do you guys keep posting the entire scam here - especially right after I pointed this thread to scambusters. Do think it gets more interesting after the 10,000th time we see it?

Have you looked inside a UPS - the batteries are often replaceable 'packs' - just a thought.

Here's an interesting recent link from some Nigerian official who thinks that the victims are as guilty as the perpetrators and should be arrested too:

http://merimbula.yourguide.com.au/news/national/national/general/jail-the-greedy-scam-victims-says-nigerian-diplomat/1251111.aspx

One of WC Fields' movies was titled "You can't cheat an honest man". Most scams are based on the idea of getting something for nothing ie GREED - sometimes it is dressed up with some do-good/feel-good stuff but but greed it is.

<wow, I can't believe that this thread is someone's first look at the Nigerian scam! Take a look at some of the other scams available.>

The word GOLF entered into the English language from the sport's rules originally used in Scotland:
"Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden"

"The word Golf was first mentioned in writing in 1457 on a Scottish statute on forbidden games as gouf,[1] possibly derived from the Scots word goulf (variously spelled) meaning "to strike or cuff". This word may, in turn, be derived from the Dutch word kolf, meaning "bat," or "club," and the Dutch sport of the same name. It is often claimed that the word originated as an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden", but this is strictly a false etymology"

The state of Alaska, like most states, has a website.

So, you got nothin'! I see that they took down the ad where Stevens asks for all good Alaskans to vote for Palin for Governor to keep the good times rolling.

Most Google ads from searches at least show up where you know they are ads. It is true that, like M$, their business model is ad-based and I can't imagine either allowing the blocking of in-page ads like FF does.

She has experience as a leader of what? What did she execute as an executive?
Actual examples of each would be appreciated.

Thanks for the response. You said 'depending on the HD.' What are the determining factors? Is there a way I can find out if it'll work before I start disassembling?

Does using the standard ribbon cable mean that I will have to disconnect the hard drive that is already in the desktop? Or will both be connected, so I can copy from one to the other?

you can buy a 'laptop-to-USB' connector kit that includes a hard-case. I dont know what that is - would it work with a dead laptop?

Funny, I actually read the data that comes off the drives collected in legal discovery.

There are usually 2 IDE connections on the motherboard; one cable connected to the motherboare can handle 2 hard drive - 1 master, 1 Slave - the slave being the farthest out from the MB connector. The second connector can handle 2 more drives; 1 master and 1 slave.

I used the phrase for wiggle room on the chance that I left something out. I really suggest that you try to get to the drive by using the ribbon cable - get all the data off the drive to a safe place before you do any playing ariound.

get all the pieces you need together 1 working pc; a ribbon cable with room for the drive - it should come together just fine - if it doesn't, then let me know - I accept private messages

They differ for each OS and each drive manufacturer - you might be able to find what you want here

I just found this site: here

What is your weight limit? I found a couple 2700mAh

One of the first things I noticed after I quit smoking was easy it was to smell who the smokers are. This is especially bad on the bus when you don't have any way to avoid the smell of stale smoke.

I'm eating peanuts and drinking A&W Root Beer - boring butr it is nearly 3:am