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The 6 Most Important Sci-Fi Ideas (Were Invented by a Hack)
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is credited as one of the most influential science fiction books ever written, having introduced ideas like super-advanced aliens coming to Earth and said aliens hating the shit out of us and trying to wipe us out. Even though it was published as a novel all the way back in 1898, it's seen as the blueprint for every alien invasion blockbuster released more than a century later. This article isn't about that book.
In the same year, a writer named Garrett P. Serviss crapped out an unauthorized sequel to Wells' book called Edison's Conquest of Mars, in which famed inventor Thomas Edison turns the tables on the aliens from The War of the Worlds by flying to Mars and killing all of them with his revenge boner -- it's the Victorian-era equivalent of shameless straight-to-DVD crapfests like Transmorphers and Titanic II.
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Oh, you thought we were joking about the boner part?
Also, it was one of the most revolutionary sci-fi novels ever written.
That's right -- many fundamental elements of science fiction as we know it can be tracked back to this cheap knockoff, not the classic it was ripping off. Like ...
#6. The First Mention of Ray Guns and Handheld Disintegrators
You can't have a science fiction story without a ray gun of some sort, from Han Solo's Greedo-murdering blaster in Star Wars to Marvin the Martian's beak-displacing gun in the Looney Tunes cartoons. In Star Trek, the phasers (which apparently do everything from stunning people to disintegrating them) are the most used gun in the universe after Captain Kirk's dong.
Surely such an idea must have originated in an era where, at the very least, revolvers were no longer considered cutting-edge technology, right? Wrong: Back in 1898, Edison's Conquest of Mars described the Martians as carrying "hand engines, capable of launching bolts of death of the same character as those which emanated from the knobs of their larger machines." So, rather than coming up with new weapons, Serviss had simply taken the giant mounted heat cannons used by the aliens in The War of the Worlds and made them smaller, accidentally inventing one of the most classic staples of science fiction.
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"Making a whole new weapon sounds hard, I'll just revolutionize the genre instead."
In Edison's Conquest, the effect of these rays can reduce the humans to "heaps of cinder" -- but what about flat-out disintegration? This book has that, too ... on the human side. Early on, Edison invents a little portable device with the power to break molecular structures and disperse the atoms of any given object, leaving only an existentially haunting mist behind. The characters even refer to it as a "disintegrator," despite the device being described as something resembling a pocket mirror.
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"Hey, does it say 'Patented by Nikola Tesla' on the side?"
Before leaving for Mars, Edison demonstrates the weapon by aiming it at a crow and disintegrating its feathers while leaving the bird unharmed. He of course then kills the bird anyway because, as we never get tired of mentioning, Edison was kind of a dick.
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"Hahaha, fuck you, bird. Hahahahaha."
#5. The First Spacesuits (and Space Flight in General)
The War of the Worlds was ahead of its time in many ways, but space flight wasn't one of them. The Martians arrive on Earth via "meteors," and at no point do humans themselves leave the planet. H.G. Wells wouldn't write about that until a few years later in the also classic The First Men in the Moon (1901), which did feature a description of space flight, but obviously lacked things like spacesuits, zero-gravity walks, airlocks and such, because come on, Wells was a great writer and all, but it's not like he could actually see into the future.
The dude who wrote Edison's Conquest, on the other hand, apparently could. If another novel or story mentioned the concept of spacesuits before this, nobody can seem to find it.
If not for Edison's Conquest, NASA would have just Saran Wrapped our astronauts and called it a day.
For someone who claimed to have never been on a spaceship, Serviss suspiciously nailed down a lot of things about space travel ... roughly five years before humanity even figured out how to make a regular plane lift off the ground for more than a few seconds. In the book, Edison invents possibly the first fictional spacesuit ever, which is described as "an air-tight dress constructed somewhat after the manner of a diver's suit" and could be used to leave the dildo-shaped spaceships (also made by Edison) without freezing to death.
The suits were heated via an intricate series of tubes, had their own propulsion system and even had built-in phones -- oh, and they looked like ridiculous gimp suits.
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Serviss' working title for the novel was Sadomasochistic Ninjas from Outer Space.
Edison's ships also feature a "double-trapped door which gave access to the exterior of the car without permitting the loss of air" ... which is a very rough description of the same protective airlock chamber you've seen in every space movie ever made. At one point, the book's narrator describes the awesome feeling of stepping outside the ship and experiencing weightlessness thanks to his all-body leather condom; or, as he put it, "the delicious, indescribable pleasure of being a little planet swinging through space, with nothing to hold me up and nothing to interfere with my motion."
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Why do they move like Terrance and Phillip mid-fart?
This was written 67 years before the first real spacewalk, but the impressive part isn't that a science fiction book predicted it: It's that a cheap ripoff sequel by a hack writer did it. Along with ...
#4. The First Epic Space Battles
The main difference between modern science fiction and classic science fiction is the amount of explosions: We don't expect a book by Jules Verne to have awesome space battles like in Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica or Firefly, because we're pretty sure that awesomeness hadn't even been invented back then. The War of the Worlds was the first book to feature an all-out confrontation with alien invaders, but the "war" consists mostly of one side shooting death rays and the other trying to dodge them.
Edison's Conquest of Mars took a look at The War of the Worlds, and the first problem it found with it was that the humans there came off as giant pussies. The sequel immediately fixed that mistake by having the Edison fleet fight and straight up obliterate the Martian Air Force, right there on their own red turf, and, as far as we can tell, invented the concept of massive ship vs. ship space battles in the process. Though why Edison didn't think to bring up this revolutionary Martian-stopping technology during the weeks when the Earth was being continuously raped by the same guys, nobody knows.
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"Well, I had to file for a patent first, obviously."
The battle between the Martian bat planes and the Edison dick rockets is described in great detail, focusing on swooping, diving and shooting enemies in midair, and this was written back when the only kind of dogfights in real life included actual dogs. Here's a typical sentence during one of those fight scenes:
Almost in an instant, it seemed, a swarm of airships surrounded us, while from what, for lack of a more descriptive name, I shall call the forts about the Lake of the Sun, leaped tongues of electric fire, before which some of our ships were driven like bits of flaming paper in a high wind, gleaming for a moment, then curling up and gone forever!
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Looking at those bug eyes and bulging faces, we have to add Total Recall to the list of movies this book influenced.
The sequel also expands on the warmongering nature of the Martian race, giving them a long history of conquests around the galaxy. It turns out that before coming down to Earth and kicking all of our asses, the Martians attacked and defeated the 40-foot-tall inhabitants of Ceres, a dwarf planet in our solar system. Edison and company even encounter a slave woman from Ceres on Mars ... who dies in a flood caused by Edison.
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Making him the first interplanetary douchebag.


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[Air Liquide]
[refinery closure]
[Shell Clyde refinery]
Air Liquide recently celebrated the formal startup of a new
steam methane reformer (SMR) in La Porte, Texas. The 120
million scfd of gaseous hydrogen (H2) produced by
the SMR will feed into the companys pipeline system along
the Texas Gulf Coast, including the recently built, 85-mile
pipeline expansion to supply refineries in
Port Arthur, Texas. The H2 will be used to convert
heavy crude oil into clean-burning transportation fuels and petrochemical feedstocks.
In addition to the benefits of H2 in
manufacturing cleaner gasoline, the gas increasingly is being
used with fuel cells for transit buses and forklift trucks for
materials handling. In April, Air Liquide announced a
demonstration project for an H2-powered
fuel-cell transit bus in Birmingham, Alabama. In January 2012,
the company began supplying H2 to a fleet of 37
H2-powered fuel-cell forklifts at a leading soft
drink makers bottling and distribution facility in
Gunvor has signed a purchase agreement to acquire
Petroplus refinery in Ingolstadt, Germany, and
related marketing activities. Gunvor said it intends
to restart operations as soon as possible. That follows the
refinerys closure in early February as a result of
Petroplus ongoing financial woes. The company said the
Ingolstadt refinery has a strong regional footprint
in Germanys prosperous Bavaria region. It has a
processing capacity of approximately 100,000 bpd. Gunvor said
it is committed to operating the refinery on a long-term basis,
and the more than 400 existing employees will be retained.
Earlier this year, Gunvor also acquired the Petroplus refinery
in Antwerp, Belgium.
Honeywells UOP has been selected by Haldor
Topsøe to provide technology to purify hydrogen from a
steam reforming unit to be installed at the Antipinsky
refinery in Tyumen, Russia. The UOP pressure swing adsorption
system will recover and purify hydrogen to help the refinery
meet increasing demand for clean transportation fuels, such as
diesel and gasoline, the companies said. The new hydrogen unit,
which is scheduled to startup in 2013, is part of the
refinerys plan to increase its capacity for crude oil
processing by as much as 7 MM tpy. It will also enable the
production of fuel products that meet the European Unions Euro-5 emissions standards aimed at
reducing emissions from light-duty vehicles.
Shell has confirmed that refining operations at its
79,000-bpd Clyde refinery in Australia will cease on
September 30. This follows an announcement in July
2011 that the refinery would be converted into a dedicated fuel
terminal. According to Shell Australia Downstream Vice
President Andrew Smith, The initial decision to close and
convert Clyde, taken in July last year, was consistent with
Shells strategy to focus its refining portfolio on larger
assets and to build a profitable downstream business here in
Australia. Since the decision was taken, the refinery has
continued to struggle against sustained poor industry margins
and intense competition from mega-refineries in Asia.
A ceremony was recently held at the Motiva refinery
in Port Arthur, Texas, to celebrate the completion of
a five-year expansion project that more than
doubled crude processing capacity to 600,000 bpd, making the
Motiva refinery the largest in the US. With more than 14,000
employees working on the project at peak construction and more than 300 new
permanent jobs, the expansion bolstered Motivas
position as an employer and as a leading revenue source for the
city, county and local public schools, the company said. The
regional economic impact of the project has been estimated in excess
of $17 billion. The expanded refinery can process a wide variety
of crude oils, ranging from relatively light to heavy. It also
has the flexibility to switch between producing primarily
gasoline and diesel to adapt to varying market conditions.
The US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has issued standards informed by input from
stakeholders, including industry, for new flares and
process heaters at petroleum refineries. The final rule, which
responds to petitions requesting the agency to reconsider
standards issued in 2008, provides industry with greater
compliance flexibility than did earlier standards, and it
ensures that companies can make routine operational changes
without triggering new requirements. These updates are expected
to save the refining industry approximately $80
million per year. These reductions will also provide up to $610
million in annual health benefits. The standards will reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide,
nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). VOCs
react in the air to form fine particle pollution and
ground-level ozone. While the revised standards do not address
greenhouse gas emissions, they will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 2 million
tpy as a co-benefit.
ExxonMobil said that it will expand the size of its
campus under construction in Houston to
accommodate additional employees from the immediate
area and from company locations in Fairfax, Virginia, and
Akron, Ohio. The affected units include ExxonMobil Refining and Supply in Fairfax,
which had played host to the business unit for some time. Mobil
was based in Fairfax prior to its 1999 merger with Exxon. Other
companies involved are ExxonMobil Research and Engineering;
ExxonMobil Fuels, Lubricants and Specialties Marketing; the
Akron-based employees of ExxonMobil Chemical; and select
positions from ExxonMobil Research and Engineering and
ExxonMobil Chemical now located at the Baytown, Texas, refinery
complex. The new campus is located on a 385-acre wooded site on
company-owned land north of Houston. It will accommodate
approximately 10,000 employees. Construction began in 2011, and full
occupancy for employees is expected by 2015.
Neste Oils refinery in Naantali, Finland, is
back to normal operation following the completion of a
scheduled major maintenance turnaround. The
turnaround began in April and lasted about six weeks. During
the turnaround, approximately 2,000 pieces of equipment were
overhauled, and replacements were made for various process
furnaces and other equipment. The cost of the turnaround and
related investment projects amounted to 60
million. Approximately 1,000 people took part in the
turnaround, 700 of which were contracted employees.
Brenntag has acquired Petrolube, the exclusive
distributor of Infineum specialty fuel and oil additives based
in Milan, Italy. For financial year 2012, the Italian
company expects an EBITDA of about 800,000. The
acquisition follows Brenntags November 2011 purchase of
Multisol Group, a specialist in the distribution of lubricant
additives and base oils in Europe and Africa.
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Jake Koranda is both New York's most brilliant playwright and Hollywood's hottest actor. Difficult, talented, and tormented, he has no patience for international glamour girls, not even ones with beautiful bodies and smart-aleck mouths. But there's more to the Glitter Baby than shine, and Fleur's tougher than Jake expects. Even with the odds stacked against her, she's fiercely determined to discover the woman she's destined to be. An ugly duckling who can't believe she's turned into a swan . . . A tough-guy movie star with a haunted past . . . In a land of broken dreams, can two unlikely lovers trust their hearts?
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"Another SEP Winner"
This is an old book that SEP updated and re-released. It is easy to "read", funny at times, sad, sexy and traditional SEP - a great read. Unlike other authors that I've read that have rereleased older books, SEP does this one in a way that makes it seem like she wrote it recently (though I liked the old version too). If you like SEP, you can't go wrong.
PS Good choice for the narrator. I was curious who could possibly narrate after the fabulous Kate Fleming / Anna Fields. Julia Gibson does a nice job. I've enjoyed her work with Catherine Anderson as well.
"Love the story, hate the new narrator"
I have to say, this story is classic SEP, but the new narrator just can't do Anna Fields justice. Although this book was better than the other one she recently narrated for SEP, it still lacks vitality and distinguishing between the characters. If this narrator does the next SEP book, I won't be purchasing it.
"Not my favorite SEP book...."
If I could rewind time and not choose this book, I'd do it. I struggled with the characters a bit and found the book depressing throughout. Although I felt for their struggles and rooted for each character to overcome their own hurdles, it is a far cry from my absolute favorite book from SEP, Match Me If You Can, which I've listened to several times and laugh each time. Glitter Baby won't get a second listen.
"Not SEP's best, but very enjoyable nevertheless"
Susan Phillips is in my opinion the best contemporary romance writer of all times and 3 of her books are in my top 10 favorite books ever. I understand that this is SEP's first contemporary romance being rereleased. It is better than Fancy Pants, Just Imagine and Hot Shot, but not as good as Lady Be Good and Natural Born Charmer. The story lacks the humor of her Chicago Stars series, and the topic is more serious. Just like Honey Moon, it is the story of a teenager struggling to find her identity and dealing with becoming an overnight celebrity. Fleur is the bastard child of Errol Flynn and his groupie Belinda. She is dealt a selfish, manipulative mother and a cold souless and calculating step father. The love story in the book is very touching, the struggles facing the hero & heroine are tangible and real. The only thing that bothered me is the step father. He was a tad too creepy for me. While there may have been less humor in this book than her usual style, it is compensated by a lot of heart. Julia Gibson did a fabulous job narrating, even though she had big shoes to fill after the tragic death of SEP's usual narrator Anna Fields/Kate Fleming. I gave this book 4 stars only because I have a much higher expectation for SEP than any other author. Download any of her books and enjoy the ride. She is outstanding.
"First SEP book I did not like"
I have always been a fan of Susan Elizabeth Phillips. I have listened to all her previous books and loved every one. Not this one; however, it just goes on and on with nothing to say and the characters are not likable. I just gave up mid way. I could not make myself listen to another word. The narrator was fine. It was the writing that was terrible. What were you thinking SEP? This is a recycled old book that should have stayed buried.
"Not what you expect from Susan Elizabeth Phillips"
Not what I've come to expect from this author. No funny sassy characters in this novel. Moved a little slow. An interesting view of the rich and famous. A prequel to What I Did For Love.
"Not so great"
I also adore SEP. She always has witty lines and the dialogue between characters is often fast paced and cheeky. This book, however, lacked that. I simply could not like the characters. The narration was well done, I liked how distinct she made each voice/character. Those musical interludes drove me absolutely insane. I cannot see the purpose they served other than making me think I had hit a button on my ipod that made the audiobook skip. I still love SEP, this just wasn't her at her best. Match Me If You Can and Natural Born Charmer are both winners though.
"Really enjoyed this book"
I love Susan Elizabeth Phillips and it was great to listen to this older book. The book is a little slow in wrapping up all the story lines, but it was still a very enjoyable listen. The narrator was very good. I am a real fan of Anna Fields and will miss her wonderful narrations of Phillips's novels. I was a little worried that I might be constantly comparing the new narrator to Fields, but that didn't happen. This narrator was quite good and made the story come alive.
She did it again. More character development, moving, even suspenseful storyline that makes you not want to turn the player off. I expected to hear Anna Fields voice, (I love her in the series) but this narrator did a fantastic job! I loved it so much that I actually emailed the author. Another SEP book that made me look for places to drive in order to listen to the novel. Keep em coming, Susan! Keep em coming!
"Absolutely loved it!"
I always enjoy Susan Elizabeth Phillips' books and this was no exception. The story kept me completely entertained from beginning to end. I waited a long time for this release and was not disappointed. Kate Fleming/Anna Fields was one of my favorite readers, and I miss her, but Julia Gibson was very good and I look forward to listening to her in the future.
"Boring as hell"
This was one of the worst books I've ever heard ! It was so slow going I forced myself to keep listening in the hope it will get better. Most of the book was dwelling about the past and not the main two characters! I did not understand half the time if we are still in the past or if we have finally moved on to the present. If I could give a zero star I would.
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Let $X$ and $Y$ be elliptic curves over an algebraically closed field $K$. If the characteristic of $K$ is nonzero, assume both curves are ordinary or both are supersingular. Does it follow that $X$ and $Y$ have equivalent small etale toposes?
In characteristic zero, I believe the answer is "yes". More generally, if $X$ and $Y$ are two smooth proper curves over algebraically closed fields $K$ and $L$ of characteristic zero, then $X$ and $Y$ have equivalent etale topoi if and only if they have the same genus and card($K$) = card($L$). The "only if" claim follows from the fact that the etale topos has both the etale fundamental group and the Zariski site as invariants (the first being determined by the locally finite constant objects and the second being determined by the lattice of subobjects of the final object). This is more of a remark; the question is about the "if" claim.
For that, choose a set S and bijections $f: S \to X(K)$ and $g: S \to Y(L)$. Now, for every finite subset $T$ of $S$, let $$a_T: Spec(K) \to M_{g,T}$$ be the map classifying $f(T)$ inside $X$, and ditto $b_T$ for $g(T)$ inside $Y$. Furthermore let $A_T$ be the Henselization of $a_T$, and ditto $B_T$ of $b_T$. For $T$ inside $T'$ we have maps $A_{T'} \to A_T$ and $B_{T'} \to B_T$, mapping compatibly to $M_{g,T'} \to M_{g,T}$; we consider the inverse limit of the fiber products $$A_T \times_{M_{g,T}} B_T$$ along these maps. Since it is (eventually) a filtered limit of nonempty schemes along affine dominant maps, it has a point over some algebraically closed field $F$. Let $Z$ be the induced curve over $F$ and $h:S \to Z(F)$ be the induced injection.
Here is how that equivalence goes. For $U \to X$ be etale (suppose nonempty), let $X'$ in $X$ be an open subset of $X$ for which the pullback $U' \to X'$ is finite (i.e. proper). Take $T = f^{-1}(X-X')$, and recall we have maps $Spec(K) \to A_T \to M_{g,T}$ where the composite classifies $f(T)$ inside $X$, and similarly $Spec(F) \to A_T \to M_{g,T}$ classifying $h(T)$ inside $Z$. Let $C'$ denote the pullback to $A_T$ of the universal $T$-punctured curve over $M_{g,T}$; it gives $X'$ over $K$ (special fiber) and $Z':=Z-h(T)$ over $F$ (generic fiber). Since $C' \to A_T$ is a smooth map with a smooth proper relative normal crossings compactification, the maps $X' \to C' \leftarrow Z'$ induce equivalences on categories of finite étale covers; thus we can transport $U' \to X'$ uniquely over to a $V' \to Z'$, via some $W' \to C'$.
But in fact I claim that the same is true of $U \to X$. Indeed, let $C$ be the completed curve of $C'$ (over $A_T$), and for $t$ in $T$ with corresponding section $c$ of $C-C'$ consider the completion of $C$ along $c$, then subtract the section $c$ to get $L \to A_T$. On pullback to $K$ this becomes $L_x$, Spec of a Laurent field at $x=f(t)$ in $X$, and ditto for $F$ and $L_z$; furthermore once again the maps $L_x \to L \leftarrow L_z$ induce isomorphisms on categories of etale covers of $L$. On the other hand, the Galois type of the pullback of $U' \to X'$ to $L_x$ completely determines the points at infinity of $U'$ lying above $x$ (and ditto on the $F$ side): they are the orbits of Galois (which is the profinite completion of $\mathbb Z$) over any geometric fiber. Thus we can add in points at infinity on both sides in a consistent and canonical manner.
This finishes the proof, I suppose: functoriality of this one-to-one correspondence (and its independence of $X'$) comes from us having made our constructions compatible with changing $T$ and the fact that smooth proper compactifications of curves over fields are unique and functorial.
Some remarks:
1) This proof is close to the proof I gave in the comments for $K$ the complex numbers: the fact that all elliptic curves are homeomorphic is symptomatic of connected moduli, which was again a key fact in this proof (though in a hidden manner?)
2) However, the real surprise lies in the differences: to get an equivalence of &eactue;tale topoi one needn't choose a homeomorphism -- in fact any bijection will do! The field $F$ whose existence was ensured above guarantees some measure of continuity no matter what the bijection. In fact I imagine that in higher dimensions the notions of being homeomorphic and having equivalent étale topoi diverges. For instance, I'll bet that $E \times \mathbb A^1$ doesn't have the same étale topos as $\mathbb G_m \times \mathbb G_m$. Similarly, I wonder about two varieties occurring in the same proper smooth family having inequivalent étale topoi.
3) The positive characteristic case is a bummer for me because of non-topological (i.e. "wild") phenomena and I don't have much to say.
Let $E$ be your curve. Let $x:=(E \leftarrow E_1 \leftarrow E_2 \ldots)$ be a system of etale covers that is cofinal in the sense that any etale cover of $E$ factors through an $E_n$. The etale fundamental group of $E$ based at $x$ is then given by $$ \pi_1(E,x) = \lim_n Gal(E_n/E) $$ and is a pro-(finite group). The pro-set $X:=\lim_n E_n(K)$ has an action of $G$, and can be thought of as the set of "set of points of the universal cover of $E$".
So it all comes down to the following observation:
In the case of supersingular curves, you get a similar description of $G$, but the factor $\mathbb Z_p$ is now gone.


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Read the reviews on Targets website. Very bad, many commenting on it turning itself off and poor to no support.
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Without doing the arithmetic here, the "length" of the Earth is 0.444 cm; and of the sun is 1.477 km. To what do these distances correspond? What is their physical significance, generally?


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A bit over a year ago I applied for (and got) an ESTA for travel to the USA, valid for two years. That validity takes the ESTA to pretty close to the end of the passport validity.
I've just renewed my passport a bit early, to avoid problems with having enough passport validity on a different trip. Do I need to also get a new ESTA (for another 2 years starting today), or can I continue to travel on the existing ESTA until that expires, and only need to renew it then? (I am planning to travel to the US before the old ESTA expires)
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©2003 William Gibson; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
"Ten brilliant, streetwise, high-resolution stories from the man who coined the word cyberspace. Gibson's vision has become a touchstone in the emerging order of the 21st Century, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of Burning Chrome. With their vividly human characters and their remorseless, hot-wired futures, these stories are simultaneously science fiction at its sharpest and instantly recognizable Polaroids of the postmodern condition." (Amazon.com review)
But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it. - J.D. Salinger ^(;,;)^
"Anticipates Gibson's later, great Cyberpunk novels"
A set of 10 short stories: early Gibson cyberpunk and sic-fi that anticipate both his SPRAWL and BLUE ANT series. All the Gibson tropes are there just waiting to bud and bloom. Gibson's cyberpunk, dark and messy near-future; his obsession with technology, music, clothing; his uncanny ability to describe and name the bleeding edge where culture and technology blend; his noirish tribalism; his satire; his slick style; his curvy asians. The book is an uneven group of stories that approximate a pimply and adolescent Gibson sitting confidently on a couch ready to hack your future and steal your dated sci-fi pulp.
There are 2 trueths in life. If it were not for the dreamers, the corp. generals would have nothing to sell. The question is not what, but when and how do we get there.
"Short Stories With some other authors also."
Necromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive.
In Burning Chrome there are 10 short stories.
The first and the last one are 10 out of 10.
First "Jonnie Neumonic"
The Last one is "Burning Chrome"
From these 2 short stories came the three great books that followed ( mentioned them above ) Better known as the "Sprawl Trilogy"
Well I own the original Neuromancer (abridged) read by William Gibson on tape.
When I listen to the one I downloaded here, I get to here what BG left out.
The ride down on the I. C E. into the T.S. core.
This book and the others mentioned set SFX in a new direction.
Just Like Punk Rock. when this new genera was labeled CYBER PUNK it killed the vain.
I have read a book that is almost as good as these for a possible future "Reality 36"
Very creative.
I am looking for any other books that have an A.I. as one of the characters.
Gen-Xer, software engineer, and lifelong avid reader. Soft spots for sci-fi, fantasy, and history, but I'll read anything good.
"Hypnotic dreams of a gleaming, gritty future"
If science fiction is a reflection of the time in which it was written, William Gibson's short fiction captures the zeitgeist of the late 70s and early 80s, when the likely future was looking less and less like the clean utopia of Star Trek, and more like something else entirely. In his classic "Johnny Mnemonic", Gibson extrapolates energy crises, urban decay, corporate wars, radical body alteration, Asian economic domination, punk rock, and the dark, gleaming possibilities of worlds behind the glow of computer screens towards a half-sinister neon-lit horizon. Imagine (if you can, ha) a reality where one's data trail leaves no safety from enemies whose presence pervades the air, and the only retreat may be into the darkest shadows.
While the specific ideas of the future represented in this collection aren't quite as on-target as they were when I first read it in the 90s (when it was already getting dated), the combination of Gibson's cool, lean, mildly sardonic style and the smoldering intensity of his imagination still feels visionary. He gives us a few tastes of possibilities, and lets those tastes linger on the palate, dark and beautiful. "New Rose Hotel", which concerns agents in a future biotech trade war, has an almost wistful, poetic quality, aided by Brian Nishi's Asian-accented audio narration. To me, the only recent writer who is somewhat in the same territory is Paolo Bacigalupi (I recommend his short fiction collection).
Not every piece is cyberpunk. "The Gernsback Continuum" imagines a photographer whose travels around Los Angeles give him hallucinations of a Raygun Gothic future that never was, and is a little frightening in its cleanness. The Bruce Sterling collaboration "Red Star, Winter Orbit" deals with an entirely different sidestepped future (in retrospect), in which an aging cosmonaut on a space station above an Earth dominated by the Soviet Union realizes that the dream of space has abandoned his country -- but not necessarily humanity. In "The Belonging Kind", a loner in a bar notices a girl making the nightclub rounds who fits in just a little too easily, which leads to a Twilight-zoney pondering of what a life free of social awkwardness might cost. It's interesting to see other ways Gibson might have gone, if Neuromancer hadn't been a hit.
But the real gems here, worth the price of admission to me, are "Dogfight" and "Burning Chrome", prototypes for Gibson's Sprawl novels. The former turns as tightly as WWI flying aces in combat, sending three characters -- a ratty young drifter who sells boosted merchandise, a privileged college student whose parents have taken drastic measures to keep their daughter from losing her shot at staying in the economic elite, and a used-up combat veteran, whose permanently-rewired brain leaves him but a single talent -- into a tragic duel of skill. This, more than any other piece, feels uncomfortably close to our current world, and the personality in Oliver Wyman's reading only enhances the prose. And "Burning"'s hallucinatory vision of a dangerous hacker incursion into a forbidden fortress in cyberspace, while bearing almost no connection to anything in cyber-reality, is still stunning in its vividness.
Bottom line: even if he got things wrong about the future (who got it *right*, though?), William Gibson remains one of the finer visionaries of its allure and angst, and crackled in short form.
I am brutally honest. Popular, love everything they read, reviewers are scared to go neg. and risk their ranking. It's your money!!!
"abstract art"
Gibson starts out with an intro, in which he states that Asimov and Heinlein never did anything for him. He was influenced by Bester, Swanwick, and Sheckley. Another reviewer stated these stories were like abstract art. These statements should tell you how you will feel about these stories.
I am more of a Heinlein, Asimov person and prefer my art to be realistic, so I was not happy with these stories. If you are in the same camp as me, but want to try Gibson, I would suggest you start with Virtual Light. Virtual Light is my favorite Gibson book and I liked Al Tomorrow's Parties. I did not like this book, Spook Country, Count Zero or Neuromancer. You can not claim to be an expert in Sci-Fi fiction, if you have never read any William Gibson. In the middle 80's he was the hottest author in the field and was the leader in a new wave of Sci-Fi literature. Some of what you read today, you would not be reading if Gibson had never been published. So even though l did not like this, Kudo's to Gibson for having the vision to go a different direction then the norm.
"A Mixed Bag"
This volume contains two of Gibson's most legendary short stories; Johnny Mnemonic and Burning Chrome. It's worth getting for Johnny Mnemonic and a few of the lesser known stories (Red Star, Winter Orbit and New Rose Hotel being personal favorites). Don't get me wrong, the titular story is great, but they should have just done it first. It's not the greatest performance, and it's following some damn tough acts.
"loved it!"
at first the stories seemed to be all over the place, and I did wish I had some sort of foreknowledge about the characters and their past in a few of the stories, but over all it was nice. There was quite a bit of techno-babble in the entirety of the book, but if you can get past that, then you're in for a treat. I look forward to listening to more of William Gibson's stuff in the future.
Shiloh Bound Doc! University of Iowa graduate. Iowa Writer's Workshop fan. Hawkeye Fan! Believer. Husband. Father. Physician.
"Spotty with flashes of light . . . 😱"
5 is very good.
4 is good.
3 is OK.
Ok is what this is. Some themes show promise but ultimately disappoint.
Read it is you're a fan or a completist. 😱
"Don't waste your money."
Some one out there might enjoy these shorts but they are not my idea of enjoyable. For me they have no depth. If you enjoy abstract art you may like these stories.
"Found the Chrome a bit patchy"
Heard a lot of great things about this collection of short stories, and even about film spin offs from some, so thought it must be good.
I think it is fair to say, William Gibson's writing has matured over the years, as some of the earlier works on here are really not that brilliant. That said, I can't deny that some of stories on here are great, and they show the genius that he is and the great worlds he can create. The mix of narrators is also a good move, but again, some are better than others.
Overall, good, but approach with care.
"Lovely, but The Winter Market needs a re-record."
It's a real shame, because the narrator gives the story a very spirited reading, but the tone of The Winter Market is all wrong. The narrator seems to think he is reading a jazzy comic pop tale, rather than a hauntingly beautiful riff on post-humanism.
Other than that this is a terrific collection of SF classic shorts.
"Stunning and brilliant"
Great and brilliant book full of massive imaginative leaps and flurries of genius - I loved it.
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My current textbook (Information Security: Principles and Practice by Mark Stamp) discusses how to determine the CRC of data via long-division, using XOR instead of subtraction to determine the remainder.
If our divisor has N-bits, we append (N-1) 0 bits to the dividend (the data) and then use long-division with XOR to solve for the CRC.
For example:
Divisor: 10011
Dividend: 10101011
101010110000 / 10011 = 10110110 R 1010, where 1010 = CRC
I'm able to perform this computation fine. However, the book mentions that in the case of the divisor being 10011, it's easy to find collisions.
I'm missing something here -- why is it easier to find a collision when the divisor is 10011?


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I am using the Facebook Graph API to get the genders from a list of Facebook users. I have the user's IDs (they are current users of my app). For this, I won't need to use the API because gender does not require special permissions (even though I have obtained the basic info permissions anyhow). Basically I'm using a while loop to loop through all the rows on a MySQL table which has stored the FB ids that I grabbed when the user uses the app. When I do the json_decode code outside the while loop, it works great (but obviously only grabs the first instance in the table). Then when I put it in a loop, the page just won't load. It just sits and tries to load forever. Here's the code:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM fb_id ORDER BY timestamp DESC";
$result = $mysqli->query($sql);
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
$jsonurl = "https://graph.facebook.com/".$row['fb_id'];
$json = file_get_contents($jsonurl,0,null,null);
$json_output = json_decode($json);
$user_gender = $json_output->gender;
echo $user_gender;
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
echo "";
You'll see the top bit of code is for the gender. The bottom loop is to display the user's profile pictures. That bottom loop works fine.
Any ideas why the call to the Facebook Graph would be getting stuck? Thanks!


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County looks to finance projects
February 8, 2013
STEUBENVILLE — Jefferson County commissioners next week are expected to announce the purchase of the Towers building on Market Street and how it and other capital improvement projects may be financed....
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So what!!! Why do we have to pay anything to park downtown when we can go every else any pay NOTHING!!! Thats where it starts at.
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"Graham said the county pays the parking price for employees at lots in the downtown area. He said the auditor's office will be compiling a cost for the employees' parking. Gentile said cost for parking for workers at the county Job and Family Services Department totals about $300 a month."
I was'nt aware that it was responsibility of employer to pay employee parking costs. Just a small glimpse of what's wrong with goverment in Jefferson county.
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A friend of mine took up writing letters this summer as a way of keeping track of friends during the school break. I have to admit that when she told me about the idea, I was immediately struck by a wave of nostalgia and the yearning for the simplicity of pen, ink, and paper. I came across this
WordPress article and I realized that I'm not the only one. Sometimes it's nice to slow down and remember simpler times.
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text: The steady erosion of newspaper circulations naturally has led many to predict that the printed ad circular is not much long for this world and will quickly disappear as consumers demand more digitized ads and coupons. Last year, the Associated Press, along with 32 other publishers and 30 retailers, launched iCircular to help stave off declining ad revenue. Even Google has jumped into the fray with the launch of Google Circulars, a service that creates digital versions of full-page print inserts normally found in newspapers, with the goal of "trying to get online visitors into [offline] stores." From the stark decline in demand for print publications, it appears that printed circulars are well on their way to extinction…or are they?


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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M senior middle blocker Lindsey Miller has been named the SEC Offensive Player of the Week after posting back-to-back outstanding performances and leading the Aggies to two five-set road victories last week, the conference office announced today.
Miller, from Katy, Texas, had consecutive season highs in kills, posting 17 in a crucial win at Tennessee and a match-high 20 kills at Ole Miss which gave her 1,000 kills for her career. She averaged 3.70 kills per set and hit a combined .530 for the week, posting only two errors in 66 swings.
Miller, who garners a weekly conference award for the first time in her career, also averaged 1.10 blocks per set, tying a season high and tying for match-high honors with seven blocks against the Lady Vols.
Miller helped the Aggies (24-5, 16-4 SEC) close out the regular season on a nine-match winning streak to win the SEC Western Division and finish second overall to Florida. Texas A&M received an at-large bid to the 2012 NCAA Volleyball Championship and will face North Carolina State in the first round, Thursday, Nov. 29 at Gregory Gym in Austin, Texas. The match against the Wolfpack (22-9) will begin at 4 p.m.
Tickets are available online at TexasSports.com or by calling (512) 471-3333.


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Let $n>1$ be an integer. An old result of Selmer, See Theorem 1, page 289 in
(If the link does not work try googling:
selmer trinomials)
says that
$$ S(n) = x^n-x-1 $$ is irreducible over the the field $k= \mathbb{Q}$ of rational numbers.
Question : What is known about the possible irreducibility (or not) of the sligthly more general trinomial
$$ T(n,m) = x^n - x^m -1 $$
(with $0 < m < n$)
over the prime field
$$ k =GF(p) $$
such that (say)
(a) $p>2,$
(since seems there are many known results for binary polynomials)
(b) $n$ goes to infinity when $p$ goes to infinity.
EDIT: Observe that something can be said about the parity of the number of irreducible factors: Use Stickelberger's parity theorem.


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Is installing the tree command line utility on Ubuntu server has security issues? It's not included by default on the server.
What I will be describing now is most likely a very hypothetical situation.
Under such circumstances it is possible that tree could be tricked into running unintended instructions with the privileges on your user account. Obviously that damage would be far worse assuming tree had been called with root privileges.
Yet, this is nothing different from what you expose yourself to every time you use any application to handle data created by an external/unknown party. No matter if you viewing a web page in your browser, listening to a mp3 file in your music player or editing a document in your word processor you still need to trust your application to handle incoming data in a sane manner.
This is by the way why security vulnerabilities in a web browsers are such a big deal, since they are constantly exposed to input from external/unknown parties. The same, even more, goes for server daemons, where a potential attacker has a constant opportunity to feed you "bad" input data. Compare this to your calculator, where you yourself are the one inputing all the data as you feed it numbers.
Yes, there is a theoretical security consideration in installing and running tree, just like with pretty much any other software.
That being said, the majority of applications you find in the Ubuntu repositories will be reasonable safe to install and to use. As long as we are talking about regular user applications I don't think you should worry to much.
(Save your worries for publicly reachable server daemons.)
I suspect tree is not installed by default because it is in
A quick look through the changelog doesn't show a record of security issues, and there are no bug reports in Ubuntu, even going back as far as Dapper.
So my advice would be to just go ahead and install


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6 Awful Jobs That Must Exist in Video Game Universes
#3. Link's Neighbor
I know what you think I'm gonna complain about. The broken pots, right? The holes in my walls? The bushes that used to stand tall in my garden, and are now nothing but mulch? Well, all that stuff I was expecting. Really. People told me that if you're gonna live next to the Hero of Hyrule, you're gonna get some property damage. And hey -- it's my fault for storing my valuables in clay pots, for having weak walls that were so susceptible to bombs. For ...
For maintaining an attractive ... garden? OK, that one's confusing. But I'll let it pass.
I can't deny that he's making an absolute fortune from it.
No, the thing I truly hate about living next to Link? The guy is always asking me to housesit for him. I mean, I get it, dude -- you've got to rescue Zelda. We all love Zelda, we all sympathize. But c'mon: Your house is exactly the same as mine. It's barely even a house, man! I'm pretty sure houses aren't just single rooms with beds and pots in them. I'm almost certain that if worse came to worst and your home really did somehow get damaged while you were gone, you could replace everything in there with one single trip to Ikea.
When he's not rescuing Zelda, he's asleep. Pretty sure the guy's a depressive.
Still, I get my revenge on the jerk. In little ways. I keep a bunch of chickens in my yard, for instance. For some reason, they don't seem to like Link much. It's almost as if somebody has trained them to hate him.
#2. Conservationist from Frogger's Town
My entire career has led me to this moment, the moment in which I admit that everything I know about nature is wrong.
A few years ago, we in the naturalist community noticed a rapid decline in the local amphibian population -- a decline that we couldn't link to any environmental cause. We were starting to get extremely worried that our local frogs were simply dying out, never to return. A breakthrough came when we heard that drivers were reporting an unusual amount of animals getting in their way on the road. We surveyed everyone with a car, asked them if there was one animal in particular that they were observing. And there was.
The frog.
Atarius nostalgium.
We didn't understand why, but almost every frog in the vicinity was engaged in an attempt to cross the local highway. There were no food sources over the road, no fertile breeding grounds. And yet they were hopping over there anyway. Some evolutionary instinct gone haywire? Regardless, we had to protect these creatures.
We lobbied for an overpass for the frogs to use, and after several intense debates with the town council, we won. Almost a million dollars was spent constructing a frog-only bridge to take the critters over the highway and to the other side safely. It was a great achievement for us activists.
And it didn't work.
Not even when we rebuilt the roads in shitty 3-D.
The frogs are still trying to cross the road, even after we have done everything we can to make the overpass appealing to them. We've populated the entrance with food for them, put up small barriers to guide them and even tied small leashes to some frogs and attempted to walk them across the overpass ourselves. To no success. On one particularly galling occasion, I dragged a frog halfway over the bridge before it loosed itself and then dove over the side into oncoming traffic. I was horrified.
The humanity!
At this point, I can only conclude that the local frog population is engaged in some insane form of the game "chicken," and that they are daring each other to try and cross the highway without getting harmed. But of course, that's insane. Clearly, I am going insane.
#1. Kirby's Therapist
I have no idea what is going on in my client's head, but I think he's planning to kill me.
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After upgrading to 12.10 and installing VirtualBox guest additions, they cannot be enabled in the Additional Drivers pane.
If I click the only available option, "Continue using a manually installed driver, the Apply changes button will stay grayed out, and the current selection seems to be Do not use the device (though it's grayed out.)
Any idea about this?


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Broadband Competition in the Internet Ecosystem
Like the other information technology (IT) markets that comprise the Internet ecosystem, broadband communications services are characterized by rapid innovation, declining costs, product differentiation, competitive price discrimination, network effects, and "multisidedness." Broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) make large sunk cost investments and seek to differentiate their products so that they can earn economic returns on those investments. They seek to assemble or participate in systems that create value for consumers and do so by choosing both the platforms they join and the products with which they interconnect. They experience both supply-side economies of scale and scope and demand-side externalities that create powerful incentives to increase volumes by maximizing system openness, but as with other IT firms, these incentives do not always outweigh the costs of interoperability. In short, like other IT markets, broadband (1) is characterized by rapid innovation, high sunk costs, and declining average costs (dynamism); (2) functions as a complementary component in modular platforms (modularity); and (3) is subject to demand-side economies of scope and scale (network effects).
Despite these similarities, broadband is treated differently from other IT industries when it comes to competition policy: competition in the rest of the IT sector is subject to scrutiny under antitrust laws, while broadband is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Indeed, the FCC is currently in court defending its authority to impose "net neutrality" regulations prohibiting broadband ISPs from engaging in business practices that are both presumptively legal and commonplace in other industries. In the wireless arena, the FCC asserts its authority over the electromagnetic spectrum to impose economic regulation on wireless ISPs. And the commission's recent decision to extend the $9 billion "universal service" program (heretofore limited to telephone services) to broadband promises to impose de facto price controls on broadband ISPs that participate. In short, while other elements of the "Internet ecosystem"—applications, content and devices— receive ex post treatment under the antitrust laws, broadband ISPs are subject to ex ante regulation.
Broadband is regulated differently from other IT markets in part because it is analyzed differently. Although important unsettled questions remain about how best to police competition in such markets, it is generally agreed that analysis of such markets should deemphasize the traditional "structure-conductperformance" paradigm and assess the consequences of potentially harmful conduct on a case-by-case basis. Thus, high levels of concentration in IT markets such as handsets, operating systems, search engines, and social networks are not regarded as signals of market power (or at least not market power sufficient to justify ex ante regulation), but the FCC often still utilizes anachronistic measures of concentration to justify regulation of broadband markets.
One asserted rationale for asymmetric treatment is the notion that broadband networks are uniquely at the "core" of the Internet while content, applications and devices are at the "edge." This metaphor is at best misleading, and in any case does not justify differential policy treatment. To the contrary, for purposes of competition analysis, it is no longer possible to distinguish meaningfully between the competitive characteristics of broadband markets and other IT markets, and accordingly, there is no basis for asymmetric regulatory treatment. Accordingly, ex ante oversight of competition by the FCC should be replaced by the same ex post enforcement framework that applies to the rest of the Internet ecosystem.


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GENESEO, N.Y. - The Geneseo Symphony Orchestra opens its fall season Oct. 16 with an all-Scandinavian program featuring works by Jan Sibelius and Edvard Grieg. Conducting the orchestra will be James Walker, distinguished service professor of music, who begins his 42nd year as conductor of the orchestra. The concert begins at 3 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium and is open to the public without charge.
On the program are Sibelius's "The Swan of Tuonela: A Legend from the Finnish Folk-Epic, The Kalevala." The orchestra also will feature Grieg's "Symphonic Dances, Opus 64" and "Piano Concerto in A minor." The Grieg concerto, the only concerto he completed and one of the most popular of all piano concerti, will feature pianist Jonathan Gonder, chair of Geneseo's department of music. It will be Gonder's fourth appearance as a soloist with the Geneseo Symphony.
The Sibelius work "Swan of Tuonela" features faculty member Anna Steltenpohl on English horn. She recently performed the work with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and received glowing reviews in the Democrat and Chronicle for her performance.
The Geneseo Symphony Orchestra is a collaboration between the best wind, percussion and string players in the SUNY Geneseo student body and members of the music faculty who coach and perform in the ensemble. The result is the performance of some of the finest literature written for a large orchestra.
For more information on the concert, call 585-245-5824.
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I have a road bike with look style pedals, and I am looking for an attachment I can clip-in to the pedals (where my cleats clip in) to provide a platform so that I can temporarily use ordinary shoes to pedal. I find this convenient if I have to lock up/walk somewhere after so I can wear whatever walking shoes I want (I can't walk in my look cleats and don't want to convert to SPD).
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I don't know of any commercial attachment, but there are at least two other ways you can solve the problem.
Walking around in cycling shoes with cleat covers can be a little awkward at first because your toes are pointed slightly upward (the covers have to go over the cleat, obviously, so that adds even more thickness to the front of the shoe). Most people get used to them pretty quickly, though, and it's really not a big deal. One thing you can try is walking on the balls of your feet. Normally that wouldn't work in cycling shoes because the cleat is smooth and slippery, but with cleat covers you get just as much traction as you would in regular shoes.
Personally, I wouldn't do it. For the platform to be of any benefit it will have to have grip of some sort. The resulting grip combined with the torque from your foot twisting naturally can cause the platform to un-clip accidentally.
I would recommend just buying a cheap pair of platform pedals and swap as required.
http://www.cyclelicio.us/2012/diy-flat-pedal-adapters/ If you have looked everywhere and cannot find anything this might work for you
Fly Pedals came out with the best version of a clipless pedal adapter. Works with every kind of clipless pedal, and the best part is they have a lifetime warranty. They sell on flypedals.com but shipping is cheaper on Amazon
There is the Deckster clipless pedal adapter. Works with most 2-bolt cleats.
These guys too. I have not tried them but they look cool. www.bikedabs.com


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Dark energy rules the universe
Tuesday, 20 August 2013 60
Great Moments in Science Darth Vader got it wrong - - it's not 'The Force' that rules the universe; it's dark energy. And it's pushing us towards either a very lonely or violent end, says Dr Karl.
How do we know how fast the universe is expanding?
Tuesday, 13 August 2013 26
Great Moments in Science Dark energy is speeding up the expansion of our universe. Dr Karl explains how astronomers use exploding stars to detect dark energy's fingerprint.
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Biorhythms are so last century
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Biorhythm numbers don't stack up
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This page describes the specifications and implementation of a NoisyCalendar, a calendaring solution that adheres to Noisebridge's practices and principles.
- Publicly editable
- Anonymously editable
- Revert edits
- Publicly linkable
- Has the usual variety of calendar layouts (day, week, month, list)
- Events have a time, duration, description, recurrence, location
- Exports to iCalendar (RFC 5545)
- Widget on the wiki homepage
- Free, as in free speech and free beer
- Hosted locally
Bonus points
- Can use wiki logins or some other kind of identification in addition to anonymous
- Events have a field for which room/area of NB
- Calendars show which room/area of NB
- open source or some other moral superiority
- easy publishing to email (for nb-announce, for instance)
- misc bells and whistles
- RSS feed
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- Tagging/Categorizing of events are useful so as to group similar events. There's a lot going on at NB! IE: "5MoF", "Conlang", "Not Happening on a Regular Basis", "Reoccuring"
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The Osage Community Elks Lodge #2705 April Students of the Month Recipients are Kirstie Hunter and Lukas Burris.
Kirstie Hunter is a sophomore at Camdenton High School enrolled in the Foundations of Education class at the Lake Career & Technical Center. At the high school she is involved in A+ Freshman Mentoring. She is also the Secretary and member of FTA. Kirstie has won awards for Superior Achievement and Exemplary Attendance at LCTC. After high school graduation Kirstie wants to attend college and become certified in secondary education.
Lukas Burris is a junior at Camdenton High School enrolled for the second year in the Lake Career & Technical Center Collision Repair and Customizing Basics Class. At the high school he is a member of the Track Team, Football Team and BASS Club, as well as an A+ Mentor. At LCTC he is a member of SkillsUSA. Lukas was 1st in his SkillsUSA District Contest, and has received Superior Achievement and Exemplary Attendance Awards at LCTC.
He plans on going to a community college or a tech school after graduating high school.
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The 5 Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High
#2. A Coke Addict Makes a Coke-Flavored Cola and Calls it Coke
The Accomplishment:
The invention of Coca-Cola might not seem to belong on a list next to things like DNA. After all, way more people drink Coke than have heard of the double helix.
Coca-Cola is simply the most well known brand in the history of the world. Sure, it's mostly just soda water and sugar. But they sell about 400 billion cans of the stuff a year to about 200 countries, an average of more than 60 cans to every single human being on the planet.
Pretty impressive for a drink that routinely gets beat in taste tests by Pepsi.
The Drug:
Coke has it right there in the name. When Coca Cola was created in the summer of 1885, the market was even more crowded with sodas than it is today. In addition to Coke, Pharmacists were selling thousands of sodas, including Dr. Pepper, which got its name from the Texas doctor who marketed it as a cure for impotence. The belief that effervescent water contained health benefits goes back to the Romans, and given the state of mainstream medicine in the 1890s, customers were more than happy to believe Dr. Pepper got your dick up just as well as an old fashioned leech bleeding. Coca Cola was able to stand out in the crowded market because it's purported health benefits weren't total and utter bullshit.
John Pemberton, the Atlanta pharmacist that invented Coca Cola, claimed that the ingredient it was named after, the Coca leaf, cured everything from depression and nervousness to morphine addiction. If those purported effects sound familiar, congratulations, you could beat a chimpanzee in a game of memory. Coca is the leaf that produces cocaine, and like Freud, John Pemberton was incredibly enthusiastic about its "health benefits."
But surely he wouldn't go so far as to stake the claim of his fledgling business on an unproven drug, right?
Why It Makes Sense:
Like Freud, Pemberton practiced what he preached. In fact, when he said he was convinced from "actual experiments that coca is the very best substitute for opium addicts," he was speaking from personal experience, since he was a himself a morphine addict. But whereas Freud retired his cocaine megaphone once doctors sounded the "shit kills you" alarm, Pemberton chose to put it in his soda, plug his ears, and hum loudly.
In his history of the beverage, Mark Pendergrast claims there was about 8.45 milligrams of cocaine in each serving, which is about 1/4th of what people put up their nose to get high these days. But fans of the drink were known to chug up to five at a sitting, or to drink it with five times the syrup called for in the recipe. When combined with the sugar and caffeine, that brings the drug to right around street level.
So it's not surprising that by the time cocaine was removed from the drink in the early 20th century, people were ordering Cokes by asking for "a dope."
Before You Go Trying It...
If that story makes you think cocaine is cool, you should check out the Russell Crowe smoking commercial The Insider.
#1. Moses Takes 'Shrooms, Shits Out Ten Commandments
The Accomplishment:
There's plenty of controversy surrounding certain parts of the Bible, (where are the dinosaurs?), but most can agree that the Ten Commandments make some good points: killing is wrong, stealing is wrong, and weekends are for sleeping.
When the whole world was presumably murdering whoever they wanted and coveting the shit out of anything that crossed their paths, Moses was the one who God deemed suitable enough to pass his commandments onto. So, one day in... Biblical times, an audience gathered and politely waited while Moses met with God on the top of Mount Sinai to discuss the rules that we still use today, (or are, at the very least, aware of).
The Drug:
Drugs weren't invented yesterday, you know. In fact, they grow right up out of the ground, all on their own. The area surrounding Mt Sinai, for example, was home to two common psychedelic drugs and, according to a 2008 Time and Mind article written by Benny Shanon, a professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, psychedelic mushrooms and other mind-altering substances played a huge role in the religious rites of Israelites during Biblical times.
While it would be irresponsible of us to assume Moses was drugged up based solely on the fact that drugs were both acceptable and available at the time, Professor Shanon maintains that the scene described in Exodus, (involving blaring trumpets, bright lighting and thunder), fits the "classic imaginings of people on drugs" and further that "the seeing of light [that occurs in hallucinations] is accompanied by profound religious and spiritual feelings."
Why It Makes Sense:
The evidence isn't completely conclusive, but a closer look at our choices leads to a fairly obvious answer. Either:
1. God visited Moses and decided that he was the perfect spokesman for his commandments, (despite Moses's total lack of previous experience in the supernatural-commandment-liaison department), and all of Moses's friends and family believed him when he said "God spoke to me" and instantly stopped coveting shit.
2. A group of extremely bored Israelites ate a bunch of easily-accessible mushrooms and imagined a bunch of crazy shit.
"Is anybody else freaking out a little bit?"
It was thousands of years ago. No Internet, no TV. There wasn't much to do other than eat plants, particularly when those plants led to conversations with God. It doesn't take a college professor to figure this one out, (although, technically, it did this time).
Still, this is a pretty huge deal. Everyone wants to say how dangerous it is to use psychedelic drugs, but Moses takes a few and comes up with a set of morally sound rules that have held up for thousands of years and, for some, serves as a reason not to murder the guy in front of you who's taking an annoyingly long time at the ATM.
Before You Go Trying It...
There's a really good chance that eating random mushrooms you find on the ground will kill your ass.
Also, we don't think we're speaking out of turn here when we point out how sloppy and half-assed the Ten Commandments are. If you're going to create a system of unchangeable rules meant to govern large groups of people, you might want to think "manual" instead of a "grocery list."
"We should be good with just this, right guys?"
Something with a FAQ page at least. "What about murdering in self defense? And what if your neighbor's wife is really hot? Do two Commandments cancel each other out? Can I murder my hot neighbor's stupid husband?"
Like most stoners (take for instance the ones in Pineapple Express, a movie you should totally see), Moses was probably too lazy to do all that extra work so he just sort of summarized, but the rest of us can agree that it would've been nice to have those answers.
To find out which of these stories involved the shameless screwing of an ingenious female scientist, read Four Great Women Buried By Their Own Boobs only in the new Cracked.com book.


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Hunter's Camouflage Paint
By popular demand, we now are carrying Camouflage Paint other than the Dull Dead Grass we have always carried. Hunter's Camouflage Paint is …
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