And what happens to you when you sell fake dope to the mafia? You get taken out, kind of like, you know, what happened to them? *harumpf* *cough*... Maybe Kim Jong Un got pissed he wasted an hour downloading a file full of anti-piracy ads!

The whole lame-brained idea of dilution of the "stolen" or "illegal" product, so "buyers" won't know if they are getting the "genuine illegal" product or not is not going to stop anyone, and usually people with half a brain will know approximate file sizes, so they won't waste their time trying to download a 3 GB MP3 file... Duh...

I think, mayhaps, you need to do a little more learning on things you attempt to speak about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

Some of the crusades came about from the Catholic churches desire to expand their empire, others came about because the Catholic church decided it needed to kill some Christians that weren't giving the church enough money.

Christianity and Islam are the same... the masses defer to the few leaders "interpretations" of massively convoluted texts, while the most radical use convoluted interpretations of those texts to justify their personal hatreds and bigotries. Your opinion of Christianity is warped because YOU claim to be Christian, and YOUR side can do no wrong. You want to claim anything THEY do is terrorism, when if YOUR side did the same thing, it's not terrorism. It's called fucking hypocrisy.

As for "their flag"... who's? There's all sorts of flags by all sorts of groups and countries that are predominantly Muslim... and they mean different things. Your logic is just stupid on this.... by your logic, everyone in Mississippi is an anti-American insurrectionist that needs to be hung because their state incorporates the confederate battle flag. See... stupid.

They were used on belt-driven tables, too. I have a Thorens that is belt-drive and it has a strobe.

Actually the grid frequency is very stable, it has to be, so that generators going on and off-line don't fight for dominance against the "inertia" of the grid (a Bad Thing). Any variation in the grid frequency would cause a change in the strobe speed, not the turntable speed, but would give (very slightly) incorrect readings due to that. However, the grid varies only +/- 0.1 Hz on the average, so that tiny difference would not be noticeable by most people. With a scope or a frequency counter, maybe...

Usually, not. The cheap idler-wheel and C-Frame motor (think BSR) turntables had AC synchronous motors, and could not have their speed adjusted short of changing the AC electrical grid frequency, and that ain't gonna happen. Those were fixed speed, but had different "gearing" ratios to provide multiple speeds.

Yes, I positioned it highly so it would be seen. However, you don't get Karma from humor., so get some Karma of your own!

Butthurt? ITHINKSO. Until your moronic karma-jealous comment hit, mine was pretty much being ignored... So, thanks!

Not to mention how the hell are we gonna clean weed on CD covers or iPods?

You could de-seed a whole oz. in 5 minutes on a good double album and a card back in the day.

But then, the weed today isn't half seeds like it used to be, either...

Stroboscope. Or, stroboscopic rings. The intervals were set so a 60 Hz flash of a neon lamp would, at the right speed, stand still. There was a set of 2-4 rings, one for each speed the turntable would do.

Pink Floyd and Yes covers FTW. Hipgnosis and Roger Dean were gods!

And fizzy rockets! Lots of fizzy rockets!!!

Actually, that would be an interesting poll!

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Likewise, welcome! We hams have so much to keep us busy these days, with SDR, digital voice modes, internet linking and relaying, etc. There's lots of overlap from the IT world, as computers are playing a much larger part in the ham radio world these days. There is still the antique brigades, too - they still get goose bumps working some far away land on 5 watts using CW (what real hams call the code). Then there are the VHF/UHF/Repeater types like myself that like playing with the latest $7000 government/military/public safety radios. Then, there's the weather spotters, SkyWarn, ARES and RACES services. Basically, there are so many facets to Ham radios nowadays, there is something of interest for just about everyone. Congratulations!

Same thing they fly in now... nothing. The F-35 program, all 1.45 TRILLION of it's "current" projected cost and near decade long delays has produced a couple test planes that can't turn, can't climb, can't run, and can't fight worth a shit. It is an inferior piece of crap that cowards in congress keep funneling money to because they're cowards.

My bud had the same issue. Several shots from his .45 ACP, and guess what - the next day they replaced the transformer!

You mean your browser was trying to access the internet?? Oh, the horror!

Sounds like a decent solution, we have a similar issue with our space telescopes in the US, so we have a radio quiet zone to deal with it. However, the residents are simply required to make do without WiFi, cellular broadband, etc.

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Hah - you should be glad you didn't get one! We ordered one a few years ago and the damn thing was only 6 pounds! It was only slightly larger than a chicken. The company was so embarrassed they were so tiny they sent along another bird, I think it was a domestic turkey, about 12-15 pounder. The meat was okay, but not worth the over $100 price tag (this was a few years ago...).