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The 8008 646
Back about 1958, English Ford attempted to sell models through franchised US dealers (the sort of guys who also sold Renault or other less than highly marketable...
The 8008 647
TOliver Remarkable coincidence. My very first car that was entirely my own was a '58 Anglia, white...
The 8008 648
While I don't live in Aridzone, I do see my pool (of water) pretty frequently, have been known to...
The 8008 649
back when we were doing hsdt we were working with one of the reed-solomon company on FEC for high-speed communication. they had done a lot of the work for the cdrom iso standard...
The 8008 650
They won't die until the digital ones have replaceable media at a quid for 3 hours. For as long as they live (and tvs have an analogue video signal), the copyright barons will just have...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 651
HDTV episodes available on BitTorrent today are about 700MB per ~42 minutes with MPEG-2...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 652
I've only seen such things available as pay-per-view. There are simply not enough channels available (at a reasonable cost) to provide one to every...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 653
Cable modems are heavily oversubscribed; there may be dozens or hundreds of people in your cell sharing a single 6Mb-s channel. You need 1.5-2Mb-s per TV to do realtime video at...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 654
I work in the industry; it's common knowledge. The precise figures I can't give you thanks...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRE
Charles Shannon Hendrix) writes: Oh good, I'm not alone. I came as close to walking out of "The...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 656
That horse already left the barn. Betamax came out a long, long time ago. TiVO...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 657
I'd expect the more popular programs would charge more, and live content would be highest (with a discount for people who watch it later...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 658
Interesting. US TV is 54-88MHz (VHF-LO), 174-216MHz (VHF-HI), and 470-806MHz (UHF). 806-890MHz used to be part of the UHF band, but that was reclaimed and (IIRC) given to analog cell phones...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 659
Wrong. ATSC fits into a 6 MHz channel quite nicely. You may be confusing rules regarding adjacency...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 660
For the moderatly rich the normal banking system isn't working. Imagine the guy who has no mortgages, pays the cars in cash, and the 3-4 Credit Debt cards are...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 661
While theoretically all that you claim may be valid, the "appreciating inventory in a warehouse" can represent actual examples of a product or...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 662
Every year, at tax time, I get to make some decisions as to whether to view some transactions as reductions in the cost of doing business or increases in earnings. No matter which choice I...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 663
That's one! There are other amusing variations too. But none of Al Greenspan, Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac believe in any of...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 664
Colonel Forbin" wrote ... Home mortgage lending loss rates are considerably lower than the loss percentages on vehicle loans, and, while foreclosures are a bit...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 665
The way it works here, or at least every bank that's issued me a debit card, is there is an "available balance" that is maintained separately from the normal balance. On top of that, there's...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 666
Woah there a minute -- please include a modicum of reality. In the first place -- not any schmoe with your account data can initiate an ACH-EFT transaction. Only participating financial...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 667
First -- banks have been settling drafts electronically for roughly fifty years -- the only thing new about ACH is that now it is done in real time instead of moving boxes of {punch cards9-track...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 668
spit And I'm trying to explain that the rules are outdated and there is no code back the old rules. The old rules worked because the users were very few (banks). Now those...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 669
This is the thing I was lamenting about the US mindset just before 9-11. The US system tends to evolve towards a lax verification; because the cost in...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 670
This is exactly the opposite of TOPS-10's philosophy. I call it mess prevention. The up-front checking is...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 671
check Many high-dollar stores, particularly tech ones, insist on checking and will refuse to let you charge...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 672
But a paperwork step is getting eliminated. I don't care what the written rules are; this changes the "bit flows" and creates all new kinds...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 673
This sentence does not parse as English; I cannot find the typo. The rules have not changed -- the OFDI is still responsible for any posting they make on behalf...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 674
Agreed. And my earlier posts did discount (I was hoping someone would bring it up...) the psychopath factor -- there are some people who will expend outrageous effort -- far more than they would expend doing 'honest...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 675
message values There is a compromise: hire two new security departments that are charged with finding attacks and...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 676
Actually people have been consulting with the "dark side" for a long time. Some get plea bargains to do this sort of "public service" work. At some...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designedENTIRELYwith slide rules
On Sat, 18 Jun 05 11:29:15 GMT True - but the first detection of radar bounced off the moon was more than twenty years earlier in 1946. In 1954 a modulated voice signal...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 678
Electronic banking (of reduced magnitude substantially less and less "retail" oriented than in Western Europe) has been around in the US for years (although many seem not to have understaood that it was quite commonplace...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 679
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:25:47 +0930, David I hate to open this can of worms yet again, but you don't really undertand what "legal tender...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 680
I'm not familiar enough with contract law here to respond competently, but as a Consumer Debt and independent contractor, I don't see a Debt Consolidation being established...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 681
In the same boat, that would be my interpretation, that a "contract", in this case verbal, required performance by both parties, payment & delivery. To obtain delivery before payment, a buyer would have...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules
I believe a "bank note" was printed by a bank and payable by that bank, so any number of such "bank notes" could exist. ISTR that the Federal Reserve only printed a small number of...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 683
Bogosity meter pegged! I walked into the Shawmut (I am 99% sure that was the bank -- their logo was an indian-head in profile, right?) in spring of 1989 with three checks totaling roughly...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 684
Hell, Barb -- I can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, much less what flight I took 16 years ago1 :). I can guess that it was probably American -- they had a routing...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 685
at the height of the internet bubble, american put in non-stopes between sjc and bos as well as sjc and aus. in the early 80s, i use to take twa #44 red...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 686
For what it's worth, I suspect the Australian answer may be more restrictive than the...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 687
furiously: I understand that the Decimal Currency Act 1966 (as amended) requires this and specifies the amounts...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 689
com: My grandma was born in 1903. She completed high school, went to college (as did her mother), taught chemistry...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 690
I haven't run into that problem, but then again I wouldn't notice it since I have balls in my pants :) What I have noticed is that one or two women on a...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 691
I spoketh, in part, My grandmother's family came first and foremost. That she delayed marriage, and children, as long as...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 692
On Sun, 29 May 2005 23:06:40 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein A lot of war-time production was switched over to civilian production, to provide all the...
The 8008 693
The washing was done outside, it tended to get messy, and the mangle was far to big to get into the tiny kitchen! The...
The 8008 694
BTDTGTTS, that was all plumbed in on most houses when I was a kid. Single storey extension at rear of house, cast concrete roof, 2-400 gallon rainwater tank on roof, piped down...
The 8008 695
concerning 'swive' A Concise edition (as stated by the OP) may have been bowdlerized. The full edition has not. In order to avoid...
The 8008 696
At the least you need an extended font with diacritical marks. The OED is actually a very good example of what HTML would be ideal for (sensible use of bolding...
The 8008 697
Ah, the compiler bootstrap problem. Say, you have a compiler, 'A' you don't trust; but you have carefully crafted an alternative compiler. It has conditionals in the code to be...
washing machines, was: The 8008
Can't give you a qualitative number, but whenever anyone in my laundry room (apartment complex with bunch of washers, dryers, and a high speed extracter) uses the...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 699
snipt It is a treated fabric - duck cloth, I think. With a special lining that...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 700
And from all this laundry and ironing debate, comes another tale of yesteryear... When I was a high schooler, we wore Levis, traditional heavy cotton denim type with the...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 701
This was a spectacularly Tom Wolfeish post. You should collect this stuff, edit and publish it. Sadly, my main well developed professional...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 702
Usually nothing until they cease to work and are replaced. Otherwise, whatever they use to launder their...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 703
Apparently California has seceded from most of the US, then... SECTION 1. The Legislature finds...
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