why would they? they never break. I still have mine, "Bell System Property. Not For Sale." You can buy them on ebay.

Motracs can be a problem if the final PA tube were to blow but both these mobile radios are incredibly rugged. Unit mounts in trunk, control head under the dash. They are big, heavy, and scary. Cheap to purchase but shipping costs are brutal. However, cannot be used for Part 90 anymore as they are not narrowband. Crystal controlled and not many channels can be awkward. These trunk-mounted units can also be used for armor-plating on vehicles as they can stop a uranium-depleted artillery shell or a TOW missile.

Regarding hairdos, I love the gal's hairstyle at 6:30, very bouffant and probably needs lots of Aqua-net.

as they go high rpm, scream to a stop, slowly move, then wham ram up to high rpm in opposite direction. Like rest of the equipment in those rooms, all made of heavy duty steel and cable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Could it be deliberate? They don't want to publish something useful (I thought this is what magazines are for unless they are simply ad rags nowadays or teasers for the "good stuff") i.e. like this person argues "No, You Can't Pick My Brain. It Costs Too Much" http://www.forbes.com/sites/wo...

Pen and paper, mail forms to IRS as always since the early days. I have copies of ***exactly*** as submitted. Nobody else gets a cut except USPS for mailing costs.

some reason that link is back to /. try this one, http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/O...

now that sounds really cool doing your own laser reflection but are you using facility scope? Have amateur astronomers done this before? Does it require a really powerful laser, i.e. the kind that guvmint doesn't want in hands of individuals?

Now you people commenting of they don't think this is possible, this is one of these reflectors wwphx is talking about, http://spie.org/Images/Graphic...

How about go outdoors, outside the city, and look up (or out) and beyond instead of always looking forward or down like typical flatlanders (the same kind of people that hounded Galileo).

Actually I prefer more of their profits going into maintenance such as clearing tree branches growing into power lines, replacing sagging lines and decaying poles. Infrastructure! It's what keeps this country going. Wasting on more on security for something that happens very rarely is not good investment into future (but hey like most Americans don't think of such things).

you mean PG&E unless there is some subtle joke which I'm too dense to get. (or how about for those old enough to remember the fictious CG&E that managed the ill-fated Ventana power plant).

for me in college I would see a BASIC program (this was in pre-internet days when magazine articles listed programs) I'd type it in and run the program to see what it does. Of course I have to go back and read the article to better understand what I just entered into the computer. Not the best way to learn but had fun with it. Regarding pre-internet, I did have a Compuserve electronic mail account but far from going to article online and do copy/paste.

Europa may be hard but I like to imagine a submarine launched into the water below and take pictures of the little fishes. Well maybe not but as SETI's Cynthia Phillips says when looking for life go where the water is.

Yep, if you are a country or a corporation then you gotta have spies (like all other big organizations need accountants and other staff to do specific jobs). As earlier post, whoop de do. What really gets me though is when we export our engineering and manufacturing offshore. Hey, they don't need spies, we will send stuff to them.