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I hear one of the nice things about making it to this age is you can hide your own easter eggs! Yippie! We are all engines of karma

Me: I DIDN'T DO IT! God: Why didn't you do it? We are all engines of karma

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So true. Also, if you're copying from a windows machine to unix machine you're filenames become case sensitive. Just a potential gotcha, FYI. We are all engines of karma

I was thinking this, but really don't want to piss off my other neighbors. She keeps it in her backyard, which is right by my bedroom and office. Any way to have a more "directional" effect? I've gone out and googled webcams. My goodness, didn't realize they were that cheap and potent. This is definitely on the horizon, to be done this weekend. Since you''re a lawyer, how do I debunk the accusations that are already coming from her? She told the Animcal Control officer that I was out to get her since our kids don't play well together. Hell, our kids don't play together at all! She sent a scathing email to my wife that was bullshit. She's very litigous, and proud of it. That's one of the reasons I decided _many_ years ago to have _nothing_ to do with her. At this point, I guess all I can do is let her dig a hole for herself and kick in the dirt when the opportunity comes. We are all engines of karma

There is a huge amount of "industrial plumbing" (read pipes) all through that area. It's still there, and will stay there. They're not going to move it, nor or they going to put in new plumbing up river. Baton Rouge is already up river. We are all engines of karma

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Yes, you can put this in a bat file with hardcoded paths. Just beware that if someone is using the file while it's being copied, problems could come up (file's get locked by O/S, or the copies aren't actually in sync like you thought). Unless many people are using the files alot, I wouldn't worry about it. If you are using the files alot, maybe should look into putting the data in a relational database (MS SQL Server, etc.). We are all engines of karma

Taken from http://www.weatherwars.info/. This guy believes the KGB and Japanese Yakuza are creating hurricanes by electromagnetic means. Sounds like he should start wearing a hat lined with tin foil... The following is a brief excerpt from his most recent paper dated October 13, 2004. So in early 1990, the weather engineering operations over North America were assumed from the FSB/KGB by the Yakuza/Aum Shinrikyo teams, and operations continued with the Yakuza's leased giant scalar interferometers. The weather engineering against the United States continues today under the rogue Japanese teams on site in Russia, with direct FSB/KGB supervision. In 2004 we have entered the 2-year "final preparation phase". These operations have been intensified and will continue to be intense, wreaking great economic damage. Hurricanes Charlie, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne, etc. have been no exception to the Yakuza weather engineering, which included directly influencing and controlling each hurricane's power and behavior, as well as directing its course and speed so as to choose its targeting path. Indeed, Ivan did a 180 degree turn, and Jeanne did a 360 degree loop before reaching Florida, demonstrating the degree of control available. Meteorologists do recognize periods of increased or decreased hurricane activity for various reasons, but they do not consider deliberate human induction of hurricanes or human control over their direction, power, and progress. Indeed, in latter March of 2004, Hurricane Catarina -- the first-ever recorded hurricane in the South Atlantic--formed and came ashore in Brazil on March 28 with 90 mph winds, doing substantial damage. So while the conventional wisdom is that hurricanes cannot form (naturally) in the South Atlantic; this one did and "broke all the records". It appears to have been a "deliberate probe" by the Yakuza: Produce and drive ashore a hurricane where the textbooks state one is impossible, to test whether Western governments and scientists recognize the artificial weather engineering . The answer, of course, is that -- as expected -- the West did not recognize its importance, or that it was a deliberate "stimulus." Western meteorologists and governments simply shrugged off Hurricane Catarina as an interesting little phenomenon but of no great concern. For conventional consideration of hurricane increases, see (a) Lennart Bengtsson, "Hurricane Threats," Science , Vol. 293, 20 July 2001 p. 440-441; (b) Stanley B. Goldenberg et al ., "The Recent Increase in Atlantic Hurricane Activity: Causes and Implications," Science , Vol. 293, 20 July 2001 p. 474-479. This full 60 page paper is a MUST read! http://www.cheniere.org/articles/ We are all engines of karma

If you're using NT, you can "schedule" the xcopy command to run at regular intervals. I'm sure you can even do it with a Windows workstation, just not off the top of my head. We are all engines of karma

Very original idea. I like it. We are all engines of karma

Excellent question. I specifically asked the Animal Control officer what he thought regarding vido. He said it was a good thing to do. FYI. We are all engines of karma

I'd rather shoot the owner, but I can't do either. I'm gonna have to go with the Big Eye on this one. We are all engines of karma

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Any brand name/model suggestions? I'm an absolute klutz when it comes to electronic hardware. We are all engines of karma

So, had to call animal control on my neighbor with the yappy dog the other day. She's now claiming harrassment and a whole bunch of other BS. I'm going to start videoing the dog from my bedroom window. But, I don't want her to see a bulky camera pointing at her yard. I need something small that can keep 1-2 hours of video. Any suggestions on what to buy? We are all engines of karma

New Orleans is the major port for the Mississippi River basin. It will be rebuilt, without a doubt. We are all engines of karma

1) When I see my kids doing stupid things whereby they can hurt themselves, I tell them that if they do indeed get hurt and have to go to the hospital we may have to sell them for body parts since we don't have insurance. 2) Several years ago, I came home one night to find a State Police helicopter flying up and down my road with the spot light on. Hum, I thought, that's peculiar. So, I called the town police, and sure enough, they were searching for a perp that was hiding on my street (...come to find out 2 days later, he was an ex-convict just out of jail, armed, tried to rob a bank, stole a car, and finally abandoned it while being chased by the cops about 2 streets from where I live). I immediately go get a gun out, bring my kids around, told them about the gun, that they couldn't even look at it unless I was with them, and to keep their ears open for anyone coming into the house. A week later, I get a call from my youngest child's preschool teacher. Seems my daughter was telling her friends that if they knew any bad guys to tell her dad, because I would kill them. I didn't say anything during the conversation, but immediately informed my town's detective (who I drink with at the local pub) about the call. He thought it was hilarious. To this day, my youngest daughter can't wait to own a gun (...she'll get one when she's 12, 7 more years to go). We are all engines of karma

It's going to be state time, not federal time. It won't be cushy. We are all engines of karma

For those that are going to ride the storm out, you may find this article interesting: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3046592 Models show 'massive devastation' in Houston Houston's perfect storm would feed on late summer's warm waters as it barreled northward across the Gulf of Mexico, slamming into the coast near Freeport. A landfall here would allow its powerful upper-right quadrant, where the waves move in the same direction as the storm, to overflow Galveston Bay. Within an hour or two, a storm surge, topping out at 20 feet or more, would flood the homes of 600,000 people in Harris County. The surge also would block the natural drainage of flooded inland bayous and streams for a day or more. Coastal residents who ignored warnings to flee would have no hope of escape as waters swelled and winds roiled around their homes. Very likely, hundreds, perhaps even thousands, would die. Meanwhile, as the storm moved over western Harris County, its most dangerous winds, well in excess of 120 mph even inland, would lash the Interstate 45 corridor, including Clear Lake, the Texas Medical Center and downtown. Many older buildings could not withstand such winds. Anything not tied down, from trees to mobile homes to light poles, would become missiles, surreally tumbling and flying through the air, flattening small houses, shattering skyscraper windows and puncturing roofs. "Unfortunately, we're looking at massive devastation," said Roy Dodson, president of the engineering firm Dodson & Associates, which Harris County asked to model realistic "worst-case scenarios" for a major hurricane hitting the area. Dodson's firm modeled more than 100 storms of varying power, speed and landfall. It concluded that a large Category 4 or Category 5 -- a storm only moderately larger than the four that struck Florida last summer -- would cause as much as $40 billion to $50 billion in damage. That's 10 times the cost of Tropical Storm Allison and approximately the city of Houston's entire budget for the next 15 years. And this wasn't an academic exercise. Of the 17 Category 4 and Category 5 storms that have struck the United States since 1900, three, all Category 4 storms, have hit the Greater Houston area -- unnamed storms in 1900 and 1915 and Carla in 1961. Coastal development With considerable coastal development since then and lower elevations because of groundwater pumping, no one knows what will happen when a major storm hits. But what's clear is that models of a hurricane's three modes of destruction -- winds, storm surge and inland flooding from heavy rainfall -- offer little comfort. With sustained winds between 131 mph and 155 mph, the power of a Category 4 storm exceeds that of most building codes. Houston's commercial building rules call for structures to withstand three-second bursts of at least 110 mph, said Dennis Wittry, managing director of Houston Structural Operations at Walter P. Moore, an engineering firm. Newer skyscrapers, including many built during Houston's downtown boom in the '80s, were modeled in wind tunnels to determine their performance in extreme weather events. Most should survive the storm, Wittry said. And the downtown window loss like that experienced during Hurricane Alicia, a Category 3 storm that struck in 1983, actually could be less in a bigger storm. That's because roofs that were then anchored by gravel -- which become bullets in high winds -- are now held down by specialized concrete that should not blow off, Wittry said. Residential homes, built with less exacting standards and lesser materials, would fare worse. "You'll definitely see more significant damage in residential construction," he said. "Lower-end homes, or some homes in older areas, would probably be completely destroyed." Tie-downs, a structural device that prevents wind blowing over a structure, creating a vortex and sucking off the roof, have been mandatory only since the late 1980s, Wittry said. Various studies of a large storm hitting the Houston area have estimated that 100,000 to 125,000 homes would be destroyed. 20-foot wall of water More devastation would be caused by winds blowing over the Gulf of Mexico and pushing surface water inland -- creating up to a 20-foot storm surge. Such a wall of water would swamp most development near Galveston Bay, including Texas City, Kemah and Johnson Space Center. Varying levels of water would flood much of the area between Sam Houston Parkway and the bay. On Galveston Island, the seawall could hold back much of the storm surge, but at some point the water would creep onto the island from the bay side. The island's highest point is just 22 feet above sea level. Much like a river becomes deeper and more turbulent when it narrows, a storm surge also can increase in height and intensity when its source of water narrows. Dodson said this has profound implications for the Port of Houston. Some models ended with a 30-foot wall of water in the Ship Channel near the port's turning basin, he said. "It would be huge," he said. "It could overwhelm chemical storage facilities, water treatment plants and other sensitive areas." The port's severe-weather plan calls for most cargo ships to exit the facility and weather the storm at sea in preparation for the possibility of flooded buildings. Wave modeling Another, perhaps even-now-unanticipated effect is large waves accompanying the storm surge. A waves expert at Texas A&M University at Galveston, Vijay Panchang, said he and colleagues were surprised when they observed wave data associated with Hurricane Ivan shortly before it slammed into Alabama last September. A wave-measuring buoy about 60 miles south of Dauphin Island, before it snapped, registered an average wave height of about 50 feet, Panchang said. That means the biggest waves were a staggering 100 feet tall. Such wave heights, according to his modeling, should only occur every 300 years or so. Either Ivan's waves were a freak event, or hurricane forecasters may need to adjust their wave expectations for large storms in the warm Gulf waters. "This is from a storm that hit only a few hundred miles to the east of us," he said. "There's nothing to say that another storm won't create really big waves for us." These large waves caused by Ivan may have been as responsible, if not more so, than the storm surge for severely damaging the I-10 bridge bear Pensacola, Fla., Panchang said. Surprises after landfall Engineers and forecasters say the most unpredictable element of a storm comes after landfall, when it either dumps rain and floods creeks and bayous or moves quickly enough that relatively little rain falls. Tropical Storm Allison probably isn't a good model for what to expect. The system was so poorly organized and slow moving that some hurricane forecasters say it wasn't a tropical storm. In some areas of the city, enough rain fell to classify Allison as a 10,000-year rainfall event. Still, because a large hurricane's storm surge likely would block the flow of bayou waters into Galveston Bay, any significant rainfall could back up into inland streets and homes quickly, Dodson said. The last major hurricane most Houston residents remember was Alicia, which made landfall on the west end of Galveston Island in August 1983. Unfortunately, planners say, as devastating as that storm was, it's a poor predictor of what to expect from a larger, Category 4 or bigger storm. Alicia's highest sustained winds on land were measured at 96 mph. Most of the Greater Houston area received just 5 inches of rain. Storm surges across much of the area were less than 10 feet, although Seabrook measured 12 feet. The storm spawned 23 tornadoes, killed 21 people and destroyed 2,300 homes. "Alicia was a marginal Category 3," Dodson said. "Its rainfall doesn't come close to this area's top 20 historical floods. "I guess what I'm saying is that I hope people don't ignore evacuation warnings because they remember that things weren't apocalyptic during Alicia." Know where your nearest "new building" shelter is, and don't wait until your street is flooded to try and get there. Good luck to everyone staying in Houston. We are all engines of karma

Just spoke with a friend who's a senior refinery planner for Exxon. Asked him if we're going to see $5/gallon. To quote - "It's possible" We are all engines of karma

Even worse. He thinks he's a god... We are all engines of karma

What??? Their votes didn't count? We are all engines of karma