I will be out of communication until Hotmail Italy can get it together again. I may be able to work off of the Web page or something, but it'll be a neat...
... Back again, courtesy of the htw website. My problem with private space flight is the dependence on wealthy, hypothetical tourists. If there is no other...
About the light switches, they are ... a while, and ... kind of pre- ... something down ... that's over- ... that off ... These are rocker switches. You push...
... leaded ... Dunno. There's some sort of gas station at the dock for the fishing and pleasure boats, but nobody, but nobody, speaks English down there....
... the ... extracted ... paying that ... firearms so ... I believe they had crude jokes about this even then. A better source was the stables and cattle...
... We have one of those in our attic. The first switches were sort of a key affair that was purposely made similar to the valve on a gas fixture. The...
... evolved, so ... Dunno. Europe was electrified very early on. Italian wiring in the home is something of a mess. And each block has its own big power ...
I always assumed that the ground pin went up as a way to guide a plug in faster and easier without having to look since the ground is longer. Not having the...
... erich> In a message dated 6/30/2004 8:03:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I would have thought that aircraft engines can be obtained for either direction....
Paul Koning
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Jul 1, 2004 1:30 pm
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... kinsler33> Fishing boats here are wood. But they have radar. But do they have corner cube radar reflectors so one can see the other? :-) paul...
Paul Koning
pkoning@...
Jul 1, 2004 1:41 pm
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... kinsler33> Back again, courtesy of the htw website. kinsler33> My problem with private space flight is the dependence on kinsler33> wealthy, hypothetical...
Paul Koning
pkoning@...
Jul 1, 2004 1:47 pm
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... kinsler33> Our house in Lancaster, OH has some of that. Scares hell kinsler33> out of me; gotta rewire the whole place. Why? Unless it's in a place where...
Paul Koning
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Jul 1, 2004 1:52 pm
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... Nicholas> This seems to be a single-author project written by a very Nicholas> capable fellow. I found the descriptions of the world's Nicholas>...
Paul Koning
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Jul 1, 2004 2:29 pm
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Referring to Mark's message about cold Hotmail, I Googled on [snav ship] and got lucky. (In Googlish, that means the first hit is the one you hoped to get.)...
Minesweepers have been made of wood, so that magnetically-triggered mines wouldn't blow up. I'd be surprised if none had radar. I can remember degaussing tests...
Mostly Serbo-Croatian, I think. Offer some vowels, politely? (Just kidding. On the Qalam list, we can't resist branching out into linguistics. There are some...
... Just think of all the fun you could have walking around a shopping mall with a bag full of RFID tags. Hide them on maintenance equipment, drop them in ...
... Wealthy tourist or deck hand? _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it...
Scott Livingston's ongoing nightmare with the 3 partnered optometry firm is one problem I wish to avoid. Recall that I was the one who about a month ago asked...
Larry Hmurcik
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Jul 1, 2004 4:32 pm
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Paul Koning wrote: The 60 Hz thing makes me wonder. Clearly it's NOT optimal -- large airplanes use 400 Hz because it makes the transformers smaller yet. ...
... Nicholas> [nb]: Optimal for the technology: I had considered Nicholas> that. Insulation as well as core materials were inferior, Nicholas> not that I'm in...
Paul Koning
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Jul 1, 2004 6:37 pm
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... [Joel P.] Just think of all the fun you could have walking around a shopping mall with a bag full of RFID tags. Hide them on maintenance equipment, drop...
(Reply to Larry Hmurcik) [LH] Scott Livingston's ongoing nightmare with the 3 partnered optometry firm is one problem I wish to avoid. Seems like one of the...
Paul, do contemporary computer "supplies" work at 1 MHz or above? I'm also thinking of rectifier losses, but maybe those aren't too significant. -- Nicholas...
Paul Koning wrote, some time ago: I have a clock (wedding present from my father, who built it) which has 7 segment numeric displays for the minutes and hours,...
... I think Helium is just an alpha particle that has captured 2 electrons. It can be produced by a number of different nuclear reactions. It was first...
John Tinker
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Jul 1, 2004 7:19 pm
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... Nicholas> (Reply to Larry Hmurcik) [LH] Scott Livingston's ongoing Nicholas> nightmare with the 3 partnered optometry firm is one Nicholas> problem I wish...