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Mother Box (266 comments)
Obvious. What are you guys, jocks?
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I am submitting a FOIA request to get that anal probe data.
It's all about the cones. (121 comments)
Just make sure he doesn't believe that copyrighting his game designs will yield money in the future.
Re:BGP? (57 comments)
I see Fry narrowing his eyes.
Perfect for ratting you out to health insurance (48 comments)
...so they can deny your claim and get you turned into soylent faster! Go future, go!
Plays Fruit Ninja as well as the Kinect (129 comments)
You just shout "SLICE! CHOP! SLICE!" at it and it makes fruit slicing noises and tells you afterwards how well you did. When you're not using it, it quietly keeps a compressed log of human presence information and keyword flags that get sent to Amazon's supercustomers. Just like the Kinect, but no Xbox required. Awesome innovation.
Gadget users who think they are nerds... (47 comments)
...are gradually replacing computer operators, even on communities like Slashdot, because time and aging and dying and stuff. Those gadget users who don't understand GPOS's and don't want to...they want stuff like this. To me, it looks like a waste of time, but maybe they'll make some money. Not with my help, though.
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The advantage is that all of the Google maps-based map pages you see embedded at various sites will now be configured the same way, and any pins you've stuck in or any other notes you've made will now be consistent across sites. The disadvantage is that now sites don't have a means of utilizing a Google map without their customers being tracked by Google.
Re:If people don't want Google to have their info (39 comments)
They haven't been signed in to Google. This change will force users of pages that utilize Google maps to auth to Google in order to display the result.
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Funny, I discovered Youtube ads had invaded my FireTV YouTube client after updating last night. I was also previously unaware youtube was forcing ads. Adblock FTW.
PRIVACY THEATER!!!!!! (284 comments)
Time for popcorn!!!
Re:Well, DUH. (106 comments)
Anybody with a brain knows this has been going on for years.
You are a WIT, my friend. Have you considered stand-up comedy? Good thing you posted anonymously, because that kind of blazing display of wordsmithery is likely to make you some enemies.
Re:They may be giants, (29 comments)
Only hipsters use the term "hipster" derisively. It's fun to watch.
Grossly inaccurate article. (482 comments)
They claim that the best looking man only received 38 messages in four months. That's totally untrue. I received 43 messages.
Re:Boost mobile (209 comments)
$45 unlimited. nuff said.
A lucky group of mice? (119 comments)
How did we confirm the luckification of these mice? Are the mice in my lab as lucky as the ones in this experiment?
This is a serious breach. (46 comments)
Since Xbox Live and all siloed online gaming is a means by which we are tracking the gifted and talented drone pilots and Dalek operators of the future, this is a mission-critical breach. We need to get computers out of the hands of these hacker terrorists, or else parents might get wise.
Re:Why is 1984 in this poll? (410 comments)
Publishers revoking editions ebooks isn't a ban. It's stupid, irritating, and a great example of why I am against DRM, but it's not a ban.
Re:Can't help plugging Atwood (410 comments)
I was talking about selling books.


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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany's landscape has changed dramatically. Foreign correspondent Rupert Cornwell returns to his old stamping ground
Sunday 08 November 2009
AFrench writer once mused, "Germany? Ah yes ..." before adding, with all the catty wit at which his compatriots excel, "... I love Germany so much, that I'm delighted there are two of them." And in the immediate aftermath of a war, inspired by Germany, that had left a continent in rubble, anyone who didn't happen to be German almost certainly agreed.
But on a magical November night in 1989, the Berlin Wall was finally breached – and, within a year, two had become one again. Not only was the map of Europe returned to normal, one of Europe's greatest tourist destinations was reborn.
History is part of it; for better or worse, no place on earth has more of the stuff per square mile than Germany, above all in the east. But these first decades of reunification will surely be remembered as a German golden age – a country finally at peace with itself and its neighbours, rich, relaxed and, as my wife and I found out over a fortnight this summer, a fantastic place to visit.
How different it was when I was based in the old West Germany in the mid-1980s as the Financial Times' correspondent in Bonn (a capital described by an American colleague as "the size of Chicago's cemetery, and twice as dead"). For us West-based journalists, the East was forbidden territory. Comparisons, the communist regime was well aware, would not be flattering.
Nothing though is more tempting than the fruit just out of reach. Back then, the one thing that made Germany exotic was the innocently named Innerdeutsche Grenze, the "inner German border" – a barrier of walls and armed guards, watchtowers and steel fences, that stretched 850 miles from the Baltic Sea to the Czech border.
Most of my best travel moments in those days were border related. There was, for example, the British military train, which every day, except Christmas Day, did the round trip between Brunswick in the British zone of western Germany and West Berlin, just 120 miles apart. Protected by a laisser passer signed by the commandant of the British sector of Berlin (and examined by Russian soldiers at three separate checkpoints), and nourished by deliberately splendid food and drink, you watched the regimented existence of the workers' state roll by beyond the window. You were also vaguely aware that if you opened that window and leant out to talk to those workers you might just start World War Three.
Less cheerful, and less forgettable, were visits to towns and villages on the Western side that were slashed in two, severed from their hinterland. You walked on ghostly roads that now led nowhere, except to a literal Iron Curtain that never parted. Then, of course, there was Berlin itself.
For sheer spookiness, nothing matched the trip across civilisations on an all but empty underground train in Berlin, as it passed from East to West at the Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse. They called the station the Tränenpalast. Even seasoned Western travellers could not avoid a frisson of relief as they made it back. But for East Germans who could go no further, it was a place of partings, truly a "palace of tears".
Only when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union was there a glimmer of hope that the city's division might not be eternal. "The Berlin Wall could disappear when those conditions that created it disappear," Gorbachev told us, enigmatically, during a visit to Bonn in June 1989. Yet, even at that apogee of Gorby-mania, no one could conceive that it would be gone just five months later.
But the breaching of the Wall was only a start. Physically, financially, and not least psychologically, Germany was still a land divided. Over a series of irregularly spaced visits since then, I've watched a country heal.
The first was in December 1992, when we were living in Washington DC. We arrived in Frankfurt and headed east to the once forbidden city of Weimar where the best and worst of German history are on display. Spared by Allied bombers, the city of Goethe, Schiller and Germany's first attempt at genuine democracy was a joy, even in winter. But just a 10-minute drive north are the Ettersburg hills and the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp, a monument not only to the bestiality of the Nazis but to the refusal of the former East Germany to admit the slightest responsibility.
Weimar itself was a building site, and the traffic a nightmare, with hordes of fat, newly arrived Mercedes and Audis jamming roads too narrow and decrepit to accommodate them. Russian troops, meanwhile, were still to be seen in the town (they did not finally leave the East until 1994). Driving south to Nuremberg, we entered another world as we crossed the old Innerdeutsche Grenze, still there in spirit.
In 1999 we were back – this time to Berlin and Dresden. The old-new capital was assuming its post-Cold War shape, but the hinterland in the old East was still a different universe, a time-warp of cobbled roads and crooked houses that might have come from the Brothers Grimm.
Dresden, too, was mending. The East Germans had started the colossal work of reconstruction after the entire city centre was obliterated in the Allied air attack of February 1945, and the Federal Republic stepped up the pace after re-unification. But the Frauenkirche, the Baroque church that was Dresden's symbol, was barely a third risen from the rubble. Inside a fenced perimeter were rows of stones, some new cut, some blackened from the 1945 inferno, each with a number signifying where it would go in the restored structure.
In 2004, we were in Berlin again, and the progress was startling. Checkpoint Charlie, the Cold War's ground zero, had been downsized to near vanishing point; hardly a trace remained of the Wall itself. The area still had a bedraggled look, but Potsdamer Platz, hub of the pre-war city that had been a wasteland severed by the Wall, was now a forest of glittering mini-skyscrapers, emblem of a Berlin reborn.
And so to this summer. In the mind, some wounds remain open. "Ossies", as the former Easterners are known, grumble about having been colonised, while "Wessies" say their cousins should feel gratitude not self-pity. (Yet they put differences aside to twice elect East-German raised Angela Merkel as their first woman Chancellor.)
Physically though, the two halves are one. Occasionally, there's a give-away – a strip of cobbled road, houses painted that DDR-patented drab grey-ochre, an ancient barracks or apartment block awaiting refurbishment or demolition. Otherwise, you can't tell where the infamous border ran.
Just as 17 years before, we flew from Washington to Frankfurt, rented a car and headed east. The warm summer helped, parching the rolling landscape and giving central Germany a Tuscan quality. Then there were the towns: first Erfurt, hardly damaged by the war, where Martin Luther was ordained, then Weimar again, now enhanced by a marvellous museum on the Bauhaus, the design movement founded in the city by Walter Gropius in 1919.
Buchenwald was as grim as ever, but at least the exhibits now told the unvarnished truth about the place – including how the occupying Soviets saved on building a camp for their prisoners by using the Nazi one.
The next stop was Wittenberg – or rather Lutherstadt Wittenberg – sparkling as it awaits the 500th anniversary of that hinge moment in history when, on 31 October 1517, Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Schlosskirche. Visitors should beware: a decade of commemorations is already under way. If the initiator of the Reformation leaves you cold, steer clear of these parts until 2018.
For history, however, Wittenberg and Luther don't come close to Berlin and adjacent Potsdam. If Nazis haunt Berlin, then Potsdam – once part of East Germany – belongs to the ghosts of the Cold War. You might not think so at first; your initial impression these days is of traffic gridlock caused by the rebuilding of the Stadtschloss, the City Palace, destroyed in the war but soon to become the new Brandenburg state parliament building.
Everyone knows imperial Potsdam, of the Sanssouci Palace and the Cecilienhof – the faux Tudor mansion built by Willhem II in 1914 – where Stalin, Truman and Churchill met in July 1945 to carve up the post-war world. Less familiar is the sinister subsequent history of the area. Take, for example, an imposing pink-painted mansion a couple of hundred yards away. Once it was the Empress Augusta Foundation, housing the orphaned daughters of fallen Prussian officers; now it has been converted into luxury apartments with views over the Cecilienhof park. But during the Cold War, it was the headquarters of the KGB. Down a side street stands a house, nondescript apart from the bars on its windows. For decades this was a mini Lubyanka prison, where Soviet soldiers and German citizens suspected of collaboration were tortured by the secret police before shipment to the Gulag. Today, the building is a small museum, preserving another small fragment of Germany's anguished 20th-century history.
Some museums, however, exhilarate – and none more than the living museum of today's Dresden, our next stop. A couple of years ago, we received a postcard of the rebuilt Frauenkirche. "Da steht sie wieder," our German friends had written, "There she stands again". The same may be said of the entire city. The view of the old town from the opposite bank of the Elbe is once more among the most magnificent in Europe.
Almost, I say. Happily, they've not torn down the Palast der Kultur, built in 1969 in the concrete-and-dark-glass, socialist-modern style complete with a garish mosaic depicting the triumph of the working class. The whole thing is either hideous or deliciously kitschy, depending on your taste. But it, too, is part of Dresden's history, a pertinent reminder that only 20 years ago there were, indeed, two Germanys.
Then it was back into the West, from Berlin across the northern plains to the weathered red brick and green copper church spires of Lübeck, queen of the Hanseatic league cities and, since 2007, home of a wonderful museum recounting the life of Willy Brandt. Born in Lübeck to an unmarried store check-out girl, he rose to become the Chancellor who initiated West Germany's reconciliation with the East. Nothing catches Cold War tensions more vividly than the original letter that Brandt, as Mayor of Berlin, wrote to President John F Kennedy, when the Wall had just gone up in August 1961, pleading with the leader of the "free world" to stand firm in the city's defence.
Then we headed south on a serendipitous whim that took us to Goslar, an unspoilt (and little known) jewel of a town on the northern edge of the Harz mountains, a few miles from the former Grenze but associated with an empire that was neither Nazi nor Soviet, but Holy Roman.
Next morning, we explored the Harz, stopping for lunch at a biergarten in the resort town of Braunlage. The old border was supposed to be three kilometres down the road to Wernigerode (another little known gem of the Harz). But the three kilometres came and went, with no border. So, we went back and looked more closely. Sure enough, there was a stone monument with a cleft, bearing the inscription, "Germany divided 1945-1989".
Nature, however, had taken back the old frontier strip. Twenty-foot tall firs and silver birches stood where once were fences and minefields. All that remained was the concrete Kolonnenweg, a former patrol path for military vehicles on the eastern side. Now, it's merely a perfect trail for hikers, with sumptuous views of the woods and mountains of the Harz. Germany is one again, and surely even a catty French writer would approve.
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... his 9 a.m. Saturday show on KOIL, "America's Healthcare Challenge," and www.healthreformexplained.com. He is chief healthcare consultant for E.D. Bellis in Omaha.
Also enjoyed meeting Neil Nelkin, John Rathouz, Jerry Gray and many other fine folks at Mighty 1290 on a cold but sunny Saturday morning.
Fun in the Midwest!
... up our computer to the big screen to live stream the Vixens v Thunderbirds semi-final (after finally working out how to pay Telstra for the rest of the series without access to our Australian phones?!). Sadly, we didn't get to teach them with one of the Vixen's finest games - we were leading for a significant part of the game and ended up going down by 10, with a demoralizing injection of the whole Thunderbirds bench at the end of the game :( - oh well ...


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Wayne Trail Elementary is one of six schools in the Maumee City School district to be awarded the ENERGY STAR for superior energy performance. Using a computer, our lighting panels can be quickly modified to accommodate activities in minutes. After school, the lights in the hallways are reduced to one every four fixtures to minimize usage. The gym has 16 400-watt fixtures, but only eight need to be on for most activities. In the winter months, the temperature of the primary loop for the boilers is set at 160 degrees and the secondary loop is set to 140 degrees. These temperatures have been lowered at least 30 degrees from the original installation. Also, the boilers are turned off during weekends. Our efforts to reduce costs and consumption have been done with our staff only. In addition to this, students are educated on composting, litter prevention, and reducing the amount of landfill space by stacking disposable lunch trays and folding milk cartons.
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Parenting from prison: The collateral damage of harsh mandatory sentences
Today, the future of mandatory minimum sentences stands at a crossroads. Movement has been slow, even glacial, but more and more of the ice is cracking. At first, budget concerns spurred the shift, says Julie Stewart, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, "but lately there has been a shift in thinking, perhaps a moral shift, in how law enforcement, legislators and the public look at who should be behind bars."
The crime
People often asked Stephanie how she ended up in prison. She didn't fit the mold. Unlike most of her cellmates, she never used drugs. She didn't drink, had never even smoked tobacco. None of that interested her. But she was naïve, and had no real idea what drugs did to people, or how addiction controlled and destroyed lives.
When she was a teenager, she said, honest work had been hard to come by in Mobile, and a boyfriend's influence amidst a street culture awash in crack cocaine had sucked her in to a life of crime.
She sold crack off and on for a couple of years. That she admits. When she was 20, she briefly helped coach a new dealer from Tampa learning the ropes of the Mobile market. She never handled, sold or transported drugs while helping him, she says. Once she did pick up some cash. Six weeks later, she ended the association and moved to Boston.
That brief association would haunt her. That associate was later swept up in a federal drug sting, and to lower his own sentence he accused others, including Stephanie, inflating her role in the drug ring significantly. By the time the prosecutors were done, what Stephanie insists was a brief advisory role had ballooned into kingpin status. She was charged with 18 kilos of cocaine, moving her into major player status under federal law. Those heightened charges, she insists to this day, were false.
Disputed testimony
With mandatory minimums as their chief weapon, critics argue, prosecutors are tempted to pile heavy drug weight burdens on low-level defendants to force their cooperation, forcing them to plead guilty and implicate others in exchange for leniency. Conviction will often hinge on disputed testimony offered by a witness motivated by something other than telling the truth.
"The easiest lie to tell is in a drug case," said Leonard Goodman, a prominent Chicago area defense attorney. "In a murder case there are known facts: a time of death, a body, a cause."
But with drugs, the entire case often hinges on what people say, and federal prosecutors are deft at making it clear what they want, he said.
"They'll interview these people 18 times," Goodman said, "and they'll keep asking, 'Was so-and-so there, too?' It doesn't take them long to figure out what they want them to say."
Proving false testimony is rare. In 2010, Goodman had a stroke of luck when a prosecution witness told a detailed lie that placed his client in a place he could never have been. The conviction was overturned, with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals holding on appeal that "the government's star witness had testified falsely, that the government knew this testimony was false, and that the government relied upon it to secure the defendants' convictions."
"But the same prosecutor is still working on this case," Goodman said. A prosecutor who can suffer no career consequences after the 7th Circuit body slams her for knowingly using false testimony, he argues, has no incentive to play straight.
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But even if Stephanie was guilty as charged, her sentence would by any measure be extreme. In 1988, she was handed a 30-year sentence for a first-time nonviolent offense, a sentence designed for violent drug kingpins leading gangs and cocaine smuggling rings. Federal law has no parole, just a 15 percent "good time" reduction. The minimum she would serve would be 25 ½ years.
The average convicted rapist in the era in which Stephanie was convicted served 5.4 years of a 12-year sentence, said a 1992 U.S. Justice Department study.
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Does anyone know if the Orlando area water is considered soft or hard? Any particular concerns with this water? I've lived in the south Orlando area for about 11 years and brew with store-bought drinking water. Wondering if I should give tap water a try. Sent from my DROID X using the HomeBrewTalk app.
I have used Orlando tap water through the filter on my refrigerator with no issue. I have been meaning to send it out to one of those mail-order labs, but given the scale it leaves on everything I'm going with hard water. At least here in the Baldwin Park area.
My water is from Orange County Utilities. Is yours the same? I'm pretty sure you can get a chemical analysis from your water provider. For free. I haven't mainly because I've been using bottled water, but I've been thinking about asking for one. My main reason for using bottled water is the smell of the water. It's, I don't know... sulfurus? It does leave scaling. But is that the type of water you get from a swamp?
I have been using unfiltered OUC water for a while with no issues. I am in Colonialtown if that makes any difference. I haven't done any testing of the water aside from pH to ensure it wasn't out of control. I add a bit of gypsum and do nothing extra. I originally thought I was getting off flavors from the water, but once my fermentation was done with consistent temperature that went away.
I have no quantitative info but I know it is not soft. And the sulphur although that is not as bad as it used to be. I wonder what they do to reduce that and if that treatment yields water that makes a difference to brewers? Mine is also chloramine-ated. I used bottled Spring water (generally only a gallon or two) and the rest is RO from the machine at the grocery store. The RO stuff from the machine is only 25 cents a gallon and is 'almost' distilled, i.e. very soft.
SpanishCastleAle: Do you do extract only or do you do all/partial grains? I ask because I'm wondering about the effects of using almost destilled water with no minerals in it. That has a marked effect on the mash, no? I haven't gone destilled and I've been using bottled drinking water because of that. Sent from my DROID X using the HomeBrewTalk app.
I called Orange County Utilities, Water Division, and got answers to some of my questions. For the remaining questions, they gave me the e-mail address of one of their water quality people who hopefully will be able to answer them. Basically, Orlando area water is considered "moderately hard", with measurements of 7.7 "grains/gallon" (I don't know what that means). I live in south Orange and the water there measures 7.8 grains/gallon and/or 133.2 ppm. The OCU water quality web page has a link to the 2010 Water Quality report in PDF format, which contains an analysis of the water provided by each processing plant. For the report itself, click here. One key piece of information that is, strangely, missing from the report is water pH. That's one of the questions I've asked via e-mail. So far for brewing I've been using Crystal Springs Natural Spring Water, which I can get quite inexpesively from Costco. I got a copy of their water analysis. To get it, click here. I don't do all grain yet. I've been doing partial mashing. However, I'm going all grain with my next batch, so mash pH will be of more importance. And, quite frankly, while it's quite convenient and inexpensive to use bottled water, I'd like to use the local water instead. Call me crazy...


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Take a Self-Guided Walking Tour
The top of attractions of Old San Juan can easily be seen on foot for the most part. Although for anyone wishing to save the shoe leather or just get there faster, a taxi to El Morro or San Cristobal should not be too expensive. Since Old San Juan is considered to be the area within the old fort or castle walls and only 7 square blocks, you can see alot in one day on foot if you are so inclined. This area will delight you with its Spanish architecture, churches, shops, restaurants, and museums, not to mention historically significant buildings and other features. Calle Fortaleza is a street favored by many tourists because of its attractive restaurants, hotels and shops.
Since the old town is bordered by San Juan Bay, a walk along the waterfront can be a pleasant way to start or end your walking tours or enjoy a respite while taking in the great vistas it has to offer.
Guided tours of Old San Juan or excursions to other sites on Puerto Rico can be arranged from La Casita (see General Tips) or from your hotel. -
La Plaza de las Palomas
This is an old park that locals use to bring their kids to feed the birds here. Literally, it means "Plaza of the Doves," and all you see is pigeons (for those zoologists here, you know that pigeons are a species of dove). On the ground, there are so many pigeons that you cannot see your feet, and it looks like the ground is moving. Truly a sight to see, and younger children will get a kick out of it. Be careful where you step, though, because you might squash one of the birds. Best part: it's totally FREE! Minus the price you'd pay for the bread if you decide to bring some.
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La Fortaleza
Currently the Governor's Mansion, this is the place where the Spanish government would send their hostages and inmates back in the colonial times. You can get a tour of the place, now blue but when I was last there, it was white. The tour is highly reccomended, as the guides take you down to the tiny dungeon and through the grand rooms of the "palace." A home for the conquistadors way back when, the name and shape of the edifice definatley makes one think that it is still a fortress. Even when I was a kid, I enjoyed la Fortaleza for some reason.
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One walk around this beautiful city and you'll fall in love. It has it's own unique charm. My favorite thing here were all the colorful houses. The old fashioned cobble stone streets are very charming also. Old San Juan is loaded with shops. It's easy to find a bargain if you don't impulse buy. My favorite store hear was called The Butterfly People, it's a store that sells preserved butterflies to use as decoration. Old San Juan is loaded with historical sites to visit, including El Morro and San Cristobal. Just about every hotel will have a walking tour map of Old San Juan available, if not pick up a free copy of Que Pasa, the local tourist magazine. The best part is most of the places to see here are free, although it will cost you a small amount to tour the forts.
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Must-see: Old San Juan
The cobblestone streets and colonial buildings of Old San Juan have been declared UNESCO World Heritage Site and every visitors to San Juan will likely come here without needing of any specific recommendation.
The area is only few square blocks wide and can easily be walked around. I have no specific places, monuments, squares, buildings to recommend, all the places blend well together and there is really in my opinion no monument, plaza, building etc standing out; just walk around and enjoy the architecture and the atmosphere. The most picturesque blocks in my view are bounded by Calle Luna and Calle San Sebastián South/North and Calle Tanca and Calle del Cristo East/West, but, wherever you are landed, Old San Juan is so compact that you don't need a map and, if you enjoy walking, you will likely walk through every "calle" of the center.
The Northern part of Old San Juan overlooks the ocean, and it is here where you will find the two forts El Morro and San Cristóbal. The Southern part faces the San Juan's Bay and it is especially enjoyable at sunset, when the sun sets on the Bay and you can enjoy scenic walks along the bay side. After dark you may want head to Southern part of Calle Fortaleza, adjacent to Plaza Colón, the center of dining and night entertainment.
Those who have visited other colonial towns in Mexico, Central and Latin America will find Old San Juan different. A Colonial Town with a mild flavor, with the look but not the soul of Latin America, the colors without the sounds and the atmosphere, a kind of reconstruction of a Spanish-colonial Town in an American environment.
It is enjoyable though and a must-see if you come in town.- Architecture
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Plaza de Armas
This is the central square in the city, the site of the city's government, souvenir shops, fast food franchises, what must be a thousand pigeons, tourists, lovers sitting on a bench in the shade of a tree, older city residents chatting... You should start your tour of the city here, and end it here as well, sitting on one of the benches and taking in the atmosphere of the city.
City Wall and City Gate
San Juan is known as "La Ciudad Amurallada" (the walled city). The wall is made of solid sandstone blocks and held together with mortar, limestone, sand and water. They are 40 feet high in places, 45 feet thick at the base
The red City Gate is the only remaining city gate. It was called the Water Gate. It was one of six original massive wooden doors that, centuries ago, were closed at sundown to protect the residents. We saw this only from the ship but this pretty red-painted Puerta de San Juan or San Juan Gate is where you would have entered the city. Above the gate is inscribed "Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini"- Latin for "blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord". The wall is about 15 feet thick. If you go straight through the gate and up the hill, you are following the same path many sailors took after a long voyage - straight up the street, to the cathedral, to thank God for a safe journey.
Some of the wall has been torn down in order for the city to expand.- Historical Travel
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A Walking Tour of Old San Juan
Although I had walked around in Old San Juan on my own during an earlier trip to Puerto Rico, in our most recent visit Karen and I decided to cough up the $45 each for a three hour guided walking tour. Although we thought it a bit pricey, the tour did enable us to see much more than we would have on our own and to also understand more of what we saw. Our tour guide was very knowledgable, animated, and obviously proud to show us around her city. We began with a short bus ride to La Princesa Boulevard where we started our walking tour through fountains and around the old city wall. We passed the Rogativa Monument, walked to San Felipe del Morro, saw the oldest church in the western hemisphere and much more. Our tour went down famed Cristos Street and through other narrow cobblestone streets before ending up at San Juan Bautista Cathedral and Cristo's Chapel. It was a wonderful educational and cultural experience, although we were tired and sweaty after three hours walking in the tropical heat.
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Coastal Road: Calle San Miguel
Calle San Miguel is a picturesque coastal road that runs between El Morro and San Cristobal. On one side of the road you have a sweeping view of the ocean and the other side are pastel colored houses built in colonial style. If you planning on seeing both forts I would recommend parking at one and then walking down this road to the other, its a perfect way to spend a afternoon in Old San Juan!
Paseo de la Princesa
This is a promenade built for (and used by) the tourists who get off the cruise ships. Nonetheless, it offers great views of the city walls and the bay, and a fountain in front of which the cruiseship tourists feel compelled to photograph each other.
- Architecture
Old San Juan is a great place to spend at least a few days. Consisting of less than ten blocks north to south and east to west, Old San Juan's narrow, cobblestone streets are best explored on foot. Many of the colorful buildings have been taken over by shops and restaurants competing for money from cruise ship passengers, but the further away from the cruise pier you get the more the old town shines. Whether simply admiring the architecture, seeking out the local galleries and eateries, or entertaining yourself watching the cruisers (almost invariably these are people who think merely stepping foot in Old San Juan is a brave thing, eating at Senor Frogs is adventurous, and standing around smoking a cigar and bullsh#$&ing in the street with another American with fish-belly white legs is experiencing Puerto Rican culture), Old San Juan will not disappoint.
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Driving in Old San Juan
I don't do much walking, and particularly when it is hot and humid and when the footing is uneven. The streets here are blue cobblestones which do make for sometimes uneven footing. And the streets are steep. The cobbles were used as ballast on the empty Spanish trade ships. The ballast was unloaded when the ships were filled with sugar cane produced in Puerto Rico.
We did have Marian drive us through the city and point out landmarks.
At the end of the street in photo 5, is the old Capilla del Cristo (Cristo Chapel). It was built in 1753. There are different versions of the story of why it was built - either by a thankful father whose his son lived after his son and his horse fell over the wall, or by a sad father whose son died after falling over the wall on his horse.- Historical Travel
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Marble Building
I forgot what it was called, but there is a government building there that is made entirely of marble. It's beautiful. There are paintings of Ponce de Leon and Columbus on the walls. It only cost a half a million to make. Just breathtaking!
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The Streets of Old San Juan
Walking through Old San Juan is like walking through a museum dedicated to the conservation and preservation of Spain's culture in the new world. Multi-colored cement buildings covered with balconies practically explode with charm. You'll want to venture down every street and peek inside every window.
But don't do the latter. You might *** some of the residents off.- Historical Travel
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Governor's Mansion
This elegant building is hard to see because of the fences, city wall and gardens surrounding it. This is supposed to be the oldest governor's building in the US - it dates from Spanish colonial times.
By contrast, the congress building is a derivative of the US state capitols, without any creative or custom touches; it is located to the east of the old city.
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Okay the helicopter can easily maneuver on top of the canopy and make its kills from there. Of course if the forest can fit the MS then hell yes it could also fit tanks. As far as canyon goes just check out some documentary on battles in North Africa and Italy during WW2. Last edited by kiramuro; 2007-02-15 at 14:41. |
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We already have planes/tanks that top that now. In 50 years they would be in even more of an advantage. A question - what could a MS do better(assuming it can even perform evenly with tanks/planes, which is assuming a lot, because it can't) than a tank/plane ? (besides being a giant bullseye) Human-like agility ? What's it gonna do? Do acrobatics ? (if we ignore the fact that it would fall over very easily, and, most likely, is not going to get up without the help of a crane.) Assuming that it does achieve human-like agility with the help of black magic and evil underworld gnomes... what's it gonna do with it ? Not like it brings any foreseeable advantage - unlike the utter bullcrap we see in gundam shows you won't be able to dodge Tank shells... or missiles. Quote:
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It will never be able to fly properly. Why ? Because humans are not meant to fly. There is a reason why birds fly, and not humans. Aerodynamics. And the last time i checked humans are not very aerodynamic. Arms...legs...head... its all useless in air. (Heck, they are useless on ground as well). A flying rock would have better aerodynamics than a MS. You would have to mount a spaceship engine on that contraption for it to match the speed of an airplane. Lets not even talk about maneuverability issues. Not to mention that moving arms/legs would change your flight trajectory. And lets not forget the engine that would consume energy/fuel faster than a black hole to make that thing airborne. Imagine the costs of that thing as well.... Now imagine all the above listed disadvantages wrapped up in a 20m high tin can that goes to hell with a hit from one tank that you couldn't even see. Oh, the joy A mobile suit brings no foreseeable advantages to the field, and only a bunch of disadvantages. I will build a couple of tanks instead of that giant pile of inefficiency and would achieve much better results, regardless of what had to be achieved. To quote 4Tran: Quote:
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I never indicated flight in my last post. In fact, the only use of "jet packs" I see for mobile suits would be to help them with possibly "jumping." Their ability to fly can be added on later after everything else has been perfected enough. As for the human-like ability, assuming that the tanks and jets are upgraded by the time a mobile suit is created, humans are not stupid enough to create a slow-moving mobile suit with backwater technology. Don't make it sound as if it's as if tanks and jets get the higher technology while mobile suits get technology of the past. Mobile suits falling down and needing a crane for assistance? That's why I suggested that there be an automation to mobile suits that can get up just like a human being who has taken a fall. I've thrown out quite a bit of theories and concepts of what would help mobile suits to their advantage, given that some of the concepts would also apply to tanks and jets. I haven't spoken much about radars since I know I'm no expert in regards to radars. But, from what I've learned, the smaller the object, the larger of a "blip" it is on the radar. So, yes, size does matter in multiple applications. I specified 15 meters because it's still a big difference in contrast to 20 meters. I already explain a fraction of it, but another would be that it helps reduce the mobile suit's unfortunate problem of being a "big target," even if it's just a little. Complex or not, it doesn't mean that the mechanism will be weak. There's ways to reinforce it so that it wouldn't fail so easily from a single hit. Yes, I even took into consideration the damages it will recieve. I never said it would somehow dodge everything that's thrown at it, but having human-like agility will help avoid a portion of it. I don't mean that it can do backflips and will excell in gymnastics, but the ability to twist and turn and move around well enough just like a human being. It can't really be denied that it's not possible. It's already a fact that there's a cybernetic arm that can move and act just like a normal human arm. Even the fingers are ambidextrious. Although it's run through the connection of nerve impulses, it's not too far different.
And no, I'm not referring to just suits found in a Gundam series. The M6 and M9s from Full Metal Panic are examples as well, though the cloaking technology would not be included. The "fakes" from Gasaraki are another example, and not to mention they're not even two stories high. (Though I'll admit the fakes were weak.) From what I can tell, the creators even gauged the comparison in technological enhancements regarding other military vehicles like tanks and jets and helicopters. In the end, I'll have to repeat this again: In the end, it seems this debate seems to fall upon the fact that mobile suits don't exist and therefore cannot be backed up by solid proof like the latter (tanks and planes), but theories and concepts. Or to some who percieve it, "assumptions." Technological advancements apply to both, but mobile suits have yet remained to be seen and tested to prove their true capabilities. We can debate for years about this, but it can't be proved or disproved without truly testing it outside of paper and in people's thoughts. |
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Instead, ground units rely on passive LOS detection like thermal sights, lasers, and the like. These are mostly dependent on the target profile of whatever it's detecting. A 20m tall mobile suit will present a target profile about 25x that of a tank, while a 15m tall mobile suit will still have a target profile ~18x that of a tank. As you said, it does help a little, but it still looks awful compared to a tank. Quote:
Why do you imply that the ability for a human-range of motion is somehow intrinsic to mecha designs? Also, can you source the statement about "cybernetic arms" that are like normal ones? As far as I can tell, we can approximate the real thing, but they're still far short of the real thing. Also your comment about it "fingers being ambidextrous" makes no sense since ambidexterity is a function of the brain, not the arm. Quote:
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Not from what I can gather, especially in Full Metal Panic. Mithril had jets and helicopters that were advanced along with their suits. Gasaraki on the other hand... As I thought about it, the fakes were more advanced due to the fact that a private corporation had secretly created them and introduced into conventional warfare. Of course, removing the magical (or whatever it was) aspect of the series (ie Gasaraki, itself/himself), the fakes weren't extremely advanced and from what it looked like, the internal mechanisms are something we have, minus the drugs to drive the pilots off the deep end. An adrenaline boost perhaps? |
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If that's the case, I would rather be in something that can move around like a human being, whether to flee or fight, and if I have to, at least be able to damage the enemy's cannon by shooting back at it or bending it (or denting it) enough to the point that it can no longer fire correctly. Quote:
And that's right. I didn't talk about radars because I've already indicated twice I didn't know much about radars. I'm happy to learn off of it, but it may seem I may need to conduct my own research either way. |
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The whole fiasco reminded me very much of what was reported about the Russians in the first Chechnya campaign, and we know how that worked out. If you're that stupid, the other side doesn't need mecha to wipe you out. And sure, mobile suits can crouch or go prone to be less visible in the field. But it's worth noting that the M2 Bradley IFV's height of only 3 metres was criticised for making the vehicle too vulnerable in combat. Even the South African Ratel IFV seems to be considered tall, and it stands a mere 2.4 metres high. How low does a 15-metre MS have to crouch to even approach that? Of course, you can lie down... but then you can't move quickly out of cover without exposing yourself and being unable to fire back properly while getting up. Your frontal armour, which would logically be the thickest on the mecha, is also pointing at the ground. That could be a real problem when the opposition notices they're taking fire and returns it, or simply calls in a suppressing artillery strike on the MS's position... Last edited by Guppy; 2007-02-16 at 06:46. |
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No, I've got an idea. Let's follow the idea of the prone position to its logical conclusion: if it's on its belly, it'll be easier to move if you put wheels or treads there. Hm, but then, the limbs will be useless. Take them off and just mount the gun on a turret on the suit's back. See what I'm getting at?
The arguments against mechas aren't just a matter of feasibility. Star Trek Batt'leh have been possible since antiquity. Why weren't they used? Because they're stupid weapons and there are simpler ways to commit suicide than making one and taking it to a swordfight. |
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So the question becomes, lets say you design a anti-grav technology and weight balancing mechanisms that would make machines much lighter. Sure that would help Mechs but why not apply it to tanks or fighters? Beam cannons? PS armor? I'm pretty sure its cheaper and cost-effective to put those on tanks and fighters. I don't find mechs impractical but more on the lines of being exoskeletons or powered armor for military applications. For civilian applications I was thinking of the mech from Aliens which ripley used to fight the queen(But in turn the machine would be for moving stuff). Or essentially turning a platoon of marines into walking tanks that are only 2-3m tall but with just as much firepower and agility. Quote:
Something I remembered awhile back. Kid, "Why do you guys transform into cars?" Autobot, "because it's better than walking/running" |
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As for melee combat being a last resort in a battle, this is why I've found war to be quite meaningless at this day and age. We might as well nix the entire idea of any future weaponry and simply build robots that will do the fighting for us. Quote:
Actually, yes I have. I was the melee while my best friend was the sniper in Counter-Strike. I still managed headshots while moving. I never liked Source, but I adapated eventually. Of course, I still prefer 1.6 over Source. Fear, I've played, but not enough to say. All I know is that the game play is very similar to Counter-Strike. But, the games are not 100% accurate to real life. It's set on algorithms that you can follow to increase your accuracy. Last edited by Phantom-Takaya; 2007-02-16 at 15:17. |
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Archictectural engineers has to deal with a lot of artistic inputs which understandably result in the a lot of structurally unsound drawings. Most other engineers don't have to deal with that. When we design a plane we only care about the performance and stability (time/cost/politics are factors too). Ideally every design decisions that are made should be geared exclusively into improving those two areas. Plane too unstable? Well let us forget about the forward-swept wings and go with the traditional delta shape wings. |
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And you also hit a perfectly good reason why mobile suits won't be used any time soon, if ever. I've even said something very similar in my first post. Time, cost and politics. Although time shouldn't be too much of a problem once the actual final design is down pat, the cost may be quite high, considering experimentation and tests would have to be done for a few things. Politics simply tends to get involved in the other two.
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Your analogy with architecture is not quite on the mark. It would be more accurate to presume that the architect's job was to design a fortress. There are two main design choices available: a thick-walled squat design built low to ground or a graceful tower. While it may be possible to build the fortress using the tower design, the limitations of such a shape dictates that it won't be anywhere nearly as good as the squat design could be. Quote:
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This doesn't mean that the back or flanks of the tank are unarmoured. It's simply an acknowledgement that no vehicle, anywhere, can ever carry enough armour to be invulnerable. The designers will therefore concentrate the armour on the areas that are most likely to be hit - in an armoured vehicle that's the frontal arc, because you want to spend most of your time facing the enemy. Last edited by Guppy; 2007-02-16 at 18:59. |
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Weight. It's not that the jets have to be huge, but it would have to be able to handle the weight of the tank as well as balance the horizontal surface of the tank. I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I actually think it's an interesting idea for a tank. The tank would have to be lifted off the ground a little so there would be space for the "boosters," but then it has to be spread out evenly so the tank wouldn't tip forward or backward and ruin the drivetrain in the process. On top of that, the hydraulics would need compensators for the shock from the impact of landing. I'm not sure if the military's tested what it's like to throw a tank off a one story building, but I can't even guarantee the wheels will survive. Quote:
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Most fighters generally do mount cannons, but they're considered weapons of last resort. I once read a collection of letters home from WWII-era pilot, and was struck by his observation that, even in 1944, "strafing is great fun - but avid strafers seldom grow old." Quote:
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Well, in any case, I have to withdraw from this discussion. It's not because I'm admitting defeat or anything of that sort. In fact, I still stand firm next to what I've said so far. I did enjoy this discussion (though the it appeared to be an endless cycle) and I would continue, but I unfortunately have inadequate amount of time that the discussion seems to demand. I'll continue reading the thread, and I might possibly add in once in a while. I'd like to see what others might say in my place. I'll have to say that it's not bad to see the other side's point of view and could sometimes be refreshing, but I'll stick to my line of work and not give up.
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Met him once at the famous 308 shop in Holloway road London. But why does it say K 61 on the bottom beneath the RJL logo ? Was the reference to Kraft ment to point out the engine was available again under the other name ? I still do need an new or used needle for that RJL of mine. |
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I can't believe we're back to the lockout mindset all over again. They had months to talk in the summer. Months to plan the approach. They have to know eachothers' positions inside out. There really aren't that many different ways this can go. Holding on to the very last minute and hoping that the other side finally cracks, or gives slightly better terms just because it's the last minute...
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Oct. 28, 2010 — Guifx, an interface design studio specializing in touchscreen interfaces for home automation and embedded systems, today announced it has named Morgan Strauss as the company's new president. Formerly Guifx's director of operations, Strauss will lead the company as it continues to grow and expand its presence in the home automation and embedded systems markets. more
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MONTREAL — Oct. 25, 2010 — SENSIO Technologies Inc. (SENSIO) (TSX-V: SIO) today announced that the Indian Patent Office has granted patent no. 242873 covering the SENSIO(R) S2D Switch. SENSIO already holds a patent covering this product in the United States. more