Oh ok that’s what he meant, yeah I tried to do the same for my kid
sister, no one local would mess with her it was tourists that got her.
That’s the only problem with that kind of rep, it only works when
people know you. And if the cops know of you, it’s hard to get your
hands on either of them…
Interesting, so both sides know of each other’s biggest secrets of
tech and both have gone to great lengths to make it nigh impossible
to reverse engineer. Remind me of the book, Battlefield Earth.
Not the movie, they cut so much detail of the book to make it fit the
format. In the book the control unit of the interstellar transporter
they created used a control unit that not only was pressurized that
would trash the contents if depressurized, but the main board’s
circuits were fake, totally fake. The materiel the board was made
of something that couldn’t be cut with the vibro-tool they used
but if used on the board it would draw the real circuit on the board
that couldn’t be seen. If you haven’t read the book I highly
recommend it. It’s a long read though the book has about 1000 pages.
Another thing they did to hide their tech was to use a base 11
math, they had 6 fingers on one had and 5 on the other. Try
figuring out that math if you’re used to a base 10! Sure it can
be done but you had to know that part first and the humans
in the story were basically caveman level.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
Base 11?! Damn! And here I thought I was decent
enough with binary, octal, and hexadecimal.
I’ll have to sit down with pencil & paper
for this. Fun stuff!
I have the book. Not a bad read. Not great literature, mind you,
but still an okay read. Hubbard was a decent enough writer if
you’re into space opera. I think E.E. Smith or the Binder
Brothers or even Burroughs were way better writers than Hubbard.
That said, IMNSHO, Hubbard was a better writer than a messiah.
Scientology is just weird.
I have to agree but he does have some decent work.
The whole Scientology thing I suspect started out as
a plot line and was turned into a money grab/attention
thing….
I highly doubt a being smart enough to create us would
want to be worshiped by a bunch of apes barely past
the OOK OOK stage lol.
The odds that anyone can duplicate their research are near zero.
What happened is that early on, one scientist made a mistake in
the math which set their research off on a dead end. Later,
another scientist made a different mistake which turned the
dead end path into a path to gravity amplification. In order to
come to the same results, someone would have to make the
exact same mistakes.
Some of the best discoveries were accidental.
Like moldy bread having the cure for septicemia.
If you don’t just tinker around, you’ll miss the
next best thing.
Well, looks like I’m going to have to start a petition.
To increase Postal employees’ Christmas bonuses.
So they won’t have to steal their presents from their customers.
That’s two “lost” packages so far this season.
What really pisses me off is that I paid extra for UPS to carry
a third, so they would bring it to my door. UPS turned it over
to USPS for final delivery, who promptly lost it. “Delayed”, they
say. Which means lost/stolen.
Several years back the company I work for got a hard disk drive
replacement mailed via UPS. The package looked like somebody either
dropped it from at least 9ft. high or ran it over with their truck.
Since then my personal nickname for UPS is “oops”.
I watched a video clip where a USPS had 2 large packages
to deliver, the guy took out the first one and leaned it against
the back of his usps truck, dragged the second one through
the heavy snow to the sidewalk NEAR the door, ignored the
first one and drove off. The package slid down and snagged
on the rear bumper. Dragging the one along until he was
out of the camera’s range. These boxes were long, flat like
LCD TV’s or something like Ikea tables.
Packages take a Drunkard’s Walk sometimes.
I had an ebay package start in Atlanta and reach me via San Francisco,
Okinawa, Johannesburg, Berlin, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico, back to
Jacksonville, then finally to my PO Box.
The seller and I both watched the package’s travels with awe and envy.
while in military at Hawaii. package from Kbay to Pearl.
it went to nine bases around the world,. judging by postal
stamps. (as we did not have “tracking” at that time.)
My father told me he had mail delivered to him AFTER
he was discharged in San Fan, never even left the states!
One letter from his mother was well over 2 months old.
I hear you. I cross my fingers every time I request a refill of meds from the VA.
For some reason the postal delivery person has a penchant for sticking my stuff
in the wrong box. We get our mail at group mailbox clusters of which there are 4
in our subdivision. For some reason our packages get put in the right # box but
in the wrong cluster. One time I had to drive across town and pick up one of my
blood thinner meds at the VA Hospital. Actually went without for a couple of days.
Luckily the stuff takes a while to get completely out of your system so I don’t
have to worry about a stroke immediately. Also I am on both Xarelto and Plavix
so even if I run out of one I’ve still got the other. I do fear a stroke.
That’s what took my Dad out.
military = i had 7 different ‘official’ (went to school) MOS.s an
twice that un-official,. and yes, one was “Postal Clerk -0161.”
‘did you know?’..
as a Marine, by law (never rescinded the 1921 law)
a marine has to help the USPS if in distress.!
I don’t think that’s what Cissy & Cowart have in mind.
Most likely going to set up a booby trap to stop/delay the
CSA agents after The Battle for Catian’s Head, and everyone
Imperial has to didi mao the f**k outta there postest hastest.
Oh no doubt, this will be a very clear message,
do NOT mess with us, ever! Now if they were
smart enough to get the message… Although
if they are successful, the leaders will be dead.
But their replacements will.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
I figured as much, a small charge to kill the elevator’s power,
or if he’s feeling mean (I would be over Cissy) cut the cable.
then go down the stairway setting motion sensor mines as
they went. Better yet set 3 flash-bangs and a anti-personal
mine. that way any survivors won’t want to keep going >:[
I meant to say a AP mine near the top and space flash bangs
the rest of the way down that way they would be dazed and
deaf and if it didn’t discourage, the mine would finish the job.
Back when we lived in Austin in the mid 80s there was a tiny –
one man – postal substation in a strip mall near us. We used
to buy stamps there and mail letters and bills. The guy who
worked there told me about a little experiment he once did. He
dropped 6 envelopes into different drop boxes all addressed to
a P.O. box at the substation and recorded the date/time he
dropped them in the box. All the envelopes were just going
across Austin. The fastest anything made the trip was 3 days.
All but one made it within a week. The last one took – no shit
– SIX WEEKS! Just to cross Austin! It had been postmarked,
among other places, Nome, Alaska. Go figure.
I had a friend that worked as a mailman and he told me
very often letters or small packages would get mixed up
and sent to the wrong place so it would have to be sent
back. Providing it didn’t happen again on the way back!
I once (upon a time) had a small package which took many weeks to get here.
According to their tracking webpage it got bounced back and forth several times
between two places quite a bit away from both my place and the people who sent
it.
At least one of the places it kept been visiting seemed to be some kind of facility for
dealing with “sorry we can’t read the recipient address on this” problems.
But why need this, if you’re still able to track the damn thingy?
Oh ok that’s what he meant, yeah I tried to do the same for my kid
sister, no one local would mess with her it was tourists that got her.
That’s the only problem with that kind of rep, it only works when
people know you. And if the cops know of you, it’s hard to get your
hands on either of them…
Interesting, so both sides know of each other’s biggest secrets of
tech and both have gone to great lengths to make it nigh impossible
to reverse engineer. Remind me of the book, Battlefield Earth.
Not the movie, they cut so much detail of the book to make it fit the
format. In the book the control unit of the interstellar transporter
they created used a control unit that not only was pressurized that
would trash the contents if depressurized, but the main board’s
circuits were fake, totally fake. The materiel the board was made
of something that couldn’t be cut with the vibro-tool they used
but if used on the board it would draw the real circuit on the board
that couldn’t be seen. If you haven’t read the book I highly
recommend it. It’s a long read though the book has about 1000 pages.
Another thing they did to hide their tech was to use a base 11
math, they had 6 fingers on one had and 5 on the other. Try
figuring out that math if you’re used to a base 10! Sure it can
be done but you had to know that part first and the humans
in the story were basically caveman level.
Base 11?! Damn! And here I thought I was decent
enough with binary, octal, and hexadecimal.
I’ll have to sit down with pencil & paper
for this. Fun stuff!
I really like python (programming language) …
>>> int (‘100’, base=11)
121
I got pretty fluent in Basic, MS basic +,
binary, and hex but when C++ came out
I got overwhelmed, had too much to
unlearn.
You should definitely check out python.
I found it very easy to “slip into”.
I have the book. Not a bad read. Not great literature, mind you,
but still an okay read. Hubbard was a decent enough writer if
you’re into space opera. I think E.E. Smith or the Binder
Brothers or even Burroughs were way better writers than Hubbard.
That said, IMNSHO, Hubbard was a better writer than a messiah.
Scientology is just weird.
Hubbard was really hit-or-miss.
The good stuff he wrote was very good,
the bad stuff was very bad.
He didn’t do mediocre.
Yup
I have to agree but he does have some decent work.
The whole Scientology thing I suspect started out as
a plot line and was turned into a money grab/attention
thing….
I highly doubt a being smart enough to create us would
want to be worshiped by a bunch of apes barely past
the OOK OOK stage lol.
The odds that anyone can duplicate their research are near zero.
What happened is that early on, one scientist made a mistake in
the math which set their research off on a dead end. Later,
another scientist made a different mistake which turned the
dead end path into a path to gravity amplification. In order to
come to the same results, someone would have to make the
exact same mistakes.
Some of the best discoveries were accidental.
Like moldy bread having the cure for septicemia.
If you don’t just tinker around, you’ll miss the
next best thing.
ah yes,. the 1930’s cure all
Penicillin,. ‘mold broth filtrate’.
Well, looks like I’m going to have to start a petition.
To increase Postal employees’ Christmas bonuses.
So they won’t have to steal their presents from their customers.
That’s two “lost” packages so far this season.
What really pisses me off is that I paid extra for UPS to carry
a third, so they would bring it to my door. UPS turned it over
to USPS for final delivery, who promptly lost it. “Delayed”, they
say. Which means lost/stolen.
Several years back the company I work for got a hard disk drive
replacement mailed via UPS. The package looked like somebody either
dropped it from at least 9ft. high or ran it over with their truck.
Since then my personal nickname for UPS is “oops”.
‘drop & run over’,. both, both is likely
I watched a video clip where a USPS had 2 large packages
to deliver, the guy took out the first one and leaned it against
the back of his usps truck, dragged the second one through
the heavy snow to the sidewalk NEAR the door, ignored the
first one and drove off. The package slid down and snagged
on the rear bumper. Dragging the one along until he was
out of the camera’s range. These boxes were long, flat like
LCD TV’s or something like Ikea tables.
My wife and I once flagged a Fedex driver down who was merrily speeding
down an expressway scattering packages out of his open back hatch.
He did not wear a red coat and sport a long white beard, maybe?
Perhaps he thought he was Santa and just doing his job?
I hear you, I’ve had stuff from ups, fedex, and usps lost.
Next day delivery turned into next month etc…
Packages take a Drunkard’s Walk sometimes.
I had an ebay package start in Atlanta and reach me via San Francisco,
Okinawa, Johannesburg, Berlin, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico, back to
Jacksonville, then finally to my PO Box.
The seller and I both watched the package’s travels with awe and envy.
while in military at Hawaii. package from Kbay to Pearl.
it went to nine bases around the world,. judging by postal
stamps. (as we did not have “tracking” at that time.)
My father told me he had mail delivered to him AFTER
he was discharged in San Fan, never even left the states!
One letter from his mother was well over 2 months old.
I hear you. I cross my fingers every time I request a refill of meds from the VA.
For some reason the postal delivery person has a penchant for sticking my stuff
in the wrong box. We get our mail at group mailbox clusters of which there are 4
in our subdivision. For some reason our packages get put in the right # box but
in the wrong cluster. One time I had to drive across town and pick up one of my
blood thinner meds at the VA Hospital. Actually went without for a couple of days.
Luckily the stuff takes a while to get completely out of your system so I don’t
have to worry about a stroke immediately. Also I am on both Xarelto and Plavix
so even if I run out of one I’ve still got the other. I do fear a stroke.
That’s what took my Dad out.
military = i had 7 different ‘official’ (went to school) MOS.s an
twice that un-official,. and yes, one was “Postal Clerk -0161.”
‘did you know?’..
as a Marine, by law (never rescinded the 1921 law)
a marine has to help the USPS if in distress.!
Good thing that suite has an elevator.
Trying to carrying anything substantial
up that narrow staircase would be nigh impossible!
I don’t think that’s what Cissy & Cowart have in mind.
Most likely going to set up a booby trap to stop/delay the
CSA agents after The Battle for Catian’s Head, and everyone
Imperial has to didi mao the f**k outta there postest hastest.
And it shall go down in history as “The Battle of Catian’s Head”.
The Cats will love it – they do have a wicked sense of humor.
Thus sayeth the Cat.
Oh no doubt, this will be a very clear message,
do NOT mess with us, ever! Now if they were
smart enough to get the message… Although
if they are successful, the leaders will be dead.
But their replacements will.
You’re welcome. Accidental, but you’re welcome.
I figured as much, a small charge to kill the elevator’s power,
or if he’s feeling mean (I would be over Cissy) cut the cable.
then go down the stairway setting motion sensor mines as
they went. Better yet set 3 flash-bangs and a anti-personal
mine. that way any survivors won’t want to keep going >:[
I meant to say a AP mine near the top and space flash bangs
the rest of the way down that way they would be dazed and
deaf and if it didn’t discourage, the mine would finish the job.
Back when we lived in Austin in the mid 80s there was a tiny –
one man – postal substation in a strip mall near us. We used
to buy stamps there and mail letters and bills. The guy who
worked there told me about a little experiment he once did. He
dropped 6 envelopes into different drop boxes all addressed to
a P.O. box at the substation and recorded the date/time he
dropped them in the box. All the envelopes were just going
across Austin. The fastest anything made the trip was 3 days.
All but one made it within a week. The last one took – no shit
– SIX WEEKS! Just to cross Austin! It had been postmarked,
among other places, Nome, Alaska. Go figure.
I had a friend that worked as a mailman and he told me
very often letters or small packages would get mixed up
and sent to the wrong place so it would have to be sent
back. Providing it didn’t happen again on the way back!
I once (upon a time) had a small package which took many weeks to get here.
According to their tracking webpage it got bounced back and forth several times
between two places quite a bit away from both my place and the people who sent
it.
At least one of the places it kept been visiting seemed to be some kind of facility for
dealing with “sorry we can’t read the recipient address on this” problems.
But why need this, if you’re still able to track the damn thingy?
From the way he talked sometimes things fall behind
equipment and lay there for weeks if they are found
at all.
I while back I heard about what was then supposed to be at least the national record
for “delayed delivery because of technical stuff”:
A letter somehow escaped from the transporting belt in our largest dispatch center
and hid in a dark place somewhere under it for several decades.
They eventually found it when they replaced the sorting machine.