Recent content by Willmeister

A good book on IBM is Big Blue: IBM's Use and Abuse of Power. It was written in the 1980s by a former federal prosecutor and starts with it's inception and mostly up through their System 360 days. It might be difficult to find now, but it's a very good book.

Bin Laden held Saddam Hussein directly responsible for the US military presence in Saudi Arabia and had repeatedly called on Iraqis to assassinate him.

There are still some health concerns about carbon nanotubes. One is the effects of such an abrasive structure on the human respiratory tract. Nanotubes have a very rigid structure so they MAY NOT ALL burn in the atmosphere and that's one major concern at the moment. What if the structure...

Actually, no. The Red Brigades and Baider-Meinhof did the same didn't they? To be honest, I was wondering when this would happen. In general, violence on the eve of an election isn't new. Ask anyone from Guatemala, like my sister's friend (more specifically, her mother). As for it's...

Can you start an induction motor with two-phase?! And I also thought that utilties only supplied one delta-connected phase per household... I do like the idea of having an 'array' of DC outlets that supply, what 5V at 500 mA? Most ICs are now mostly 3.3 right? 5.0V could be used to supply...

It's hard to find one, I agree.

Edit: sorry misread. Thought you said convert ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD to DC. VERY BAD IDEA. DC motors which is probably where all the power is going anyway (fans, etc) are more mechanically unreliable and the only advantage they have over AC induction motors has largely evaporated given the state...

There is also another serious drawback to electronics. And that's the power grid. Having many connected as a load to the grid is nearly impossible to balance. What makes it even worse is that a lot of smaller firms are plugging in huge networks without using another reactive power device...

I wasn't demonizing Bush. If I was going to demonize him, trust me, it'd be on his lame-brain policies, not on religon. I'm not worried about Christians or Muslims, or whatever. Just sociopaths.

It's always either-or with you isn't it, just like your run-of-mill fundamentalist. How very limited. I guess you have to 'elitist' to see all the shades of grey in between.

What you call paranoia is misplaced. Most of us call it responsibile behaviour. Expect the worse, it's a lot less stressful.

What are you reading?! Simple point: don't ignore religous upheavals at home by obsessing over religous upheavals everywhere just because local issues seem minor now. I think you're the only one here that hasn't seen my slippery slope warning. I'm very concerned that victories by...

Too bad you're not a clinical psycologist. You may have just invented a new condition. Paranoia of oneself. And what exactly would I be paranoid of ? And this whole nonsense about me somehow ignoring the rise of fanatics on the other side of the planet is something new to me. I always...

If you can't see that the word 'we' represented the voting public, and instead chose to insert 'vast Christian conspiracy', then I'm sorry, you're beyond hope. If you want to read into my postings of some vast Papal conspiracy to dominate the world, I guess there is nothing I can do to stop...

Well, if say, any leader got up and appealed to those of other religions using the tenets of their religon, it could easily be seen as pandering on the part of the politician. The answer is not for a person like Bush to give 'equal time' for each religion because from a simple pratical purpose...