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From: Archimedes' Lever on 17 Jan 2010 06:34 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:37:16 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >And, let's face it, is is all because of GW Bush and his cronies. >How sick one nut case can make a whole population, how really really sad.. You're a goddamned retard.
From: Archimedes' Lever on 17 Jan 2010 06:42 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:02:12 +0100, Reinardt Behm <reinhardt.behm(a)t-online.de> wrote: >On Sunday 17 January 2010 10:02 Falk Willberg wrote: > >> Common sense. And common sense (Hollymood movies) teaches, that >> cylindrical objects are not batteries but dynamite and the wires are >> used to ignite the dynamite. >> But it is also general knowledge how to deactivate any bomb: Wait for >> the counter to go down to 00:05 and the cut the blue wire. (Never cut >> the red wire!) > >This always makes me wonder wether there is a published standard for wire >colors in a bomb. >And what the punishment for not adhering to this standard? :-) You end up hooking them up in the wrong sequence and end up with a "pre-mature" or "just-in-time" detonation, depending on who does the analysis. :-) All of mine would use redundant blasting caps, and all wiring would get packed inside heat shrink tubes so a lot of jostling would need to be done before any wires would even become available for such a decision. Nobody would get disconnect access. Once initiated, it would be set in stone.
From: petrus bitbyter on 17 Jan 2010 07:20 "Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> schreef in bericht news:hitg2e$vdn$1(a)news.albasani.net... > On a sunny day (Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:43:26 -0700) it happened don <don> > wrote > in <HeGdne8ObvOX3M_WnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4p2d(a)forethought.net>: > >>http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-school-chollas-view/ > > US has turned into a bunch of paranoid schizofrenics. Well, think the chance of facing a real bomb is negligible. The real risk is to be hold reponsible for even the tiniest scratch one sustained while only looking at the device, followed by American claims :) petrus bitbyter
From: PeterD on 17 Jan 2010 09:49 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:41:20 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On a sunny day (Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:50:39 -0500) it happened PeterD ><peter2(a)hipson.net> wrote in <a6r4l511glt7gq6ru1m6alo9g9ujirk7cd(a)4ax.com>: > >>On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:49:10 -0800 (PST), "J.A. Legris" >><jalegris(a)sympatico.ca> wrote: >> >>>On Jan 16, 5:53�pm, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> On a sunny day (Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:43:26 -0700) it happened don <don> wrote >>>> in <HeGdne8ObvOX3M_WnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4...(a)forethought.net>: >>>> >>>> >http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-sch... >>>> >>>> US has turned into a bunch of paranoid schizofrenics. >>> >>>No, the U.S. has turned into a place where there's a reasonable chance >>>of being harmed by crazies using anything from handguns, to assault >>>rifles, to homemade bombs. When confronted in the classroom with an >>>unrequested homemade device about the size of a bomb, bearing wires, >>>what would you do - ask the kid to demonstrate its safeness? >> >>Did they ask? No... Funny how a bit of communication could resolve so >>many problems, but instead it full tilt towards the nearest windmill. > >LOL >How nicely you put it :-) There was a case where a passenger on an airline filled out a comment card, sealed it in an envelope, and gave it to the flight attendant. (Sealed in an envelope, would one expect it to be opened in flight, since it is addressed to the airline?) http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/01/08/oregon.unruly.passenger/index.html?eref=ib_topstories Again, asking "Sir, is there a problem?" would likely have solved the issue without any other issues. But instead...
From: PeterD on 17 Jan 2010 09:55
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:37:16 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On a sunny day (Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:28:37 -0800) it happened "Joel Koltner" ><zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote in ><WQs4n.51973$er1.24343(a)en-nntp-07.dc1.easynews.com>: > >><don> wrote in message >>news:HeGdne8ObvOX3M_WnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4p2d(a)forethought.net... >>> http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-school-chollas-view/ >> >>That's sad. I wonder what "school policies" he supposedly violated? >> >>A guy I'm acquainted with was telling me the other day that he build a Xenon >>flash bulb driver circuit from Popular Electronics back in the '80s, took it >>to school, and tried to convince his "friends" to touch the output terminals >>while he hit the trigger button. :-) >> >>I suppose these days you'd get expelled for that sort of thing... >> >>When I was in high school I built various "photogate" sensors and timers... >>the photogates were made out of PVC piping (cheap, strong, and readily >>available); no doubt that'd get you in trouble today too. >> >>Make Magazine must be considered terrorist literature by now... >> >>---Joel > >In high school I once brought a TV tube (CRT) for the physics teacher, >so we could do experiments with electron beam deflection. >What implosion danger, on the back of the bike... what wires :-) >What glass tube? >He did not want it, dunno why, but we stayed after school with a blackboard full >of equations about electrons... >Very inspiring guy. > >So, anyways, in these day I would be arrested and counselled for that? >Or worse, shot in the head first just in case it was dangerous, like they shot that >guy in the UK from South America who had a backpack? >Paranoid schizofrenia!! >And, let's face it, is is all because of GW Bush and his cronies. >How sick one nut case can make a whole population, how really really sad.. No, its all because of Clinton, Bush just inherited the problem. |