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Wilhammer

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  1. An interesting point is made in a link followed above; much technology is discovered by accident, and in all likelyhood the carbon in the glue was one such thing. Perfect Example: "In the 1960s Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were working at AT&T Bell Laboratories, trying to improve microwave communications by reducing antenna noise. They found a noise in their antenna they simply couldn't remove. They considered all kinds of possibilities including bird droppings, but nothing helped. If the antenna was pointed at the sky, the noise appeared. The pointing direction and time of day didn't matter. Finally they called an astrophysicist at Princeton, who told them what the signal probably was, hung up the phone, turned to his associates and said, "We've been scooped." The annoying noise was, in fact, the primordial radiation left over from the Big Bang. Penzias & Wilson won the Nobel Prize for their discovery."
  2. Torrents. When Battlestar Galactica resurfaced, it was shown several months ahead on Sky One before it got to the USA- I would get the episodes the next day via EZTV or Mininova. It is said that this helped 'kill television' at the time. http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html ------------------------- Yes, a BoB type show chronically a unit that went to North Africa, Greece, Crete, back to North Africa, Italy would be rather great.
  3. HBO had youtube drop the video. You can see it here: http://www.hbo.com/events/pacific/
  4. For you, John: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/hitler-s-stealth-fighter-3942/Overview23 "Back when stealth was very, very secret, a few people quietly advised me to take a look at the Horten Ho229, one of WW2 Germany's most advanced designs - a jet-powered flying wing made of wood. In a German book, a British documentary producer had found something even more interesting: the Horten brothers, Walter and Reimar, had planned to use a primitive radar absorbent structure (RAS) in the leading edges. They were to be made from a sandwich of plywood around a carbon-loaded filler. The only question: how well would it actually have worked?" Hmmm, Our Tax Dollars at work, again?
  5. ...and as long as those who see these things don't use them for proof of the existence of bizarre history....
  6. John, From what I have read, your preferred tome that claims the radiation levels is the ONLY source that claims the high levels, and that the Germ Gv't itself tested the area, and found nothing significant, after they the compensated for the elevated levels due to Chernobyl. In other words, the book and the Mussolini Mission is all a farce.
  7. Its a spare. Notice the picture of the plane diving on the UfoNazi? It's turrets have been replaced. But what with?
  8. No, I did not forget. One of my more recent FTF opponents I found for the Eden War Room is a die hard Zionist Conspiracy fruitcake, so I guess it was a matter of thinking I have already delivered a beating about it, most recently this past Saturday. ============= On another note, The Website those antiNaziUfo plane pictures came from is awesome!
  9. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/ John will eventually get us to the above website - I figured we can just rush this along...or, in order to reinvigorate the old GF, which is all but dead, should we go the whole nine yards - Nazi Nuke and UFO Technology used by Greys and Reptoids controlled by the Illuminati bring down the WTC on 9/11 by Presidential Request stuff again? Ahh, the Good Old Days...
  10. good Luck Mike.... BTW, the choice of the word Atomic Weapons is misleading - it is entirely possible they tried a dirty bomb, but anyone can do that. Obviously the idea of a Trinity level test is absurd - had they done so it is logicla it would have been 'tested' on the battlefield. And despite the testing claims, the real tests by real authorities turned up nothing. The kernel of truth - the Germans were working on atomic energy - but they lacked the industrial capacity and wiped out or cause the emigration of their best scientists.
  11. Hey, Kettler, I was reading an older magazine on wargaming last week, I want to think it was a Fire and Movement; probably the GIAV issue. Anyway, some guy was talking about minis vs. board wargaming, and he refers to his first exposure to minis, when he found Ed, George and John Kettler owned a sand table.
  12. It is a real paper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Chew_Jit_Poh_%28Malaysia%29
  13. Being at higher Ed, faculty generally never wants to comply with anything. Students don;t care - they bypass everything. We have a pretty solid AD environment, but thinks like INB Banner ruin it; that and a lot of other Web Based Apps. VMing in our environment is just trying to please those Faculty Tech Wannabes who think 'Virtual Classroom' is so Cool, but they soon find out they don't really understand it. It will work in the classroom, but still, one flaw of the VM concept is narrowed points of failure - one piece of hardware hosting an Virtual Environment kills the whole thing. Sure, we can go redundant and cluster some servers, but that is more expensive than just going with desktops locked down in the Classroom AD subdomain. In that case, the Point of Failure is spread out over every desktop, and each one only costs about 1000 dollars, vs one VM server in the 15K to 20K range. And don't even try graphically intense stuff over VM....like Autocad. Oh well, we will make it work, and like so many other It projects, it will likely dead end.
  14. Being in Higher Ed, we are looking at this for Academic Labs. Your final point is why.
  15. Yikes, we are doing something quite similar with Xen. Just got done with a meeting with one of the vendors quoting us. http://www.citrix.com/english/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=163057
  16. ....youtube follows with YouTube EDU http://www.youtube.com/edu
  17. This is REALLY cool! A video Aggregation of free online lectures from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale. Totally awesome, and by totally awesome, I Mean 10 Stars out of Five! (guess I need to work on my math skills) http://academicearth.org/main-page.html
  18. See, we don't need to outsource to the Indo-Pakistan region!
  19. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1knkTZwcmHE AIG and the polies.
  20. I am almost surprised that we don't have folks hunting down a killing these Chief Extortion Offenders - most of them do deserve being shot.
  21. This might explain why Cylons are so Fraked in the head.
  22. I think it is safe to say that Israeli Policy is not concerned with the well being of the Palestinian People. Why else target the civilian infrastructure? Of course, its also safe to say that the Palestinians don't care for the Israeli's well being either. Why else attack their civilian infrastructure (and civilians)? It is an ugly conflict.
  23. The '67 war had a significant cause factor with Syria trying to divert the Sea of Galilee to prevent Israeli use of it as a fresh water/irrigation source. The '67 War was also about Palestine.
  24. Terminator is not that far away.... A Japanese robot has been programmed with 'emotions' that turned it into a stalker. http://www.muckflash.com/?p=200
  25. This is too funny - propaganda foot shooting....(found on the BGG) http://forums.canadiancontent.net/news/82468-far-right-british-national-party.html
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