Yes. It looks like a sinkhole. One google earth picture doesn't tell much. The fact is it COULD be something else, within the confines of the information presented. If the geologist "laughed you out of his office" on just that image, he's a fool...unless you talked about spaceships, aliens, etc., in which case it's difficult to afford you even polite dismissal. It probably is a sinkhole, and doesn't require the "mother of all caves" to do it. Could be a deposit of soft rock gouged away by a glacier. Could be a very old impact crater torn up by glaciers. Probably a sinkhole, though.
"new-metal" looks like a blob of zinc. Perhaps an outbuilding was in that location and burnt down? I've seen a lot of zinc-head nails, and a haymow burning would melt all the zinc on top of a corrugated roof sending it down in rivulets to solidify on the ground.
It's really hard to take you seriously when you talk about the "vibe" of the place. That says you've already decided to believe things not in evidence. That greatly reduces your usefulness as a source of information.

Let me translate: pull your panties out of your slit and use what works. Sure, Oracle's going to start making nonsensical tie-ins with their main products. They haven't done it yet, and even when they do, it'll just be irrelevant wasted efforts, not harming the functionality you need. My old boss had a hissy fit and decided there would be no more IBM products in the company, ever. The existing products got starved (TSM shall have no more tapes when we're keeping everything forever and doubling the data under management every 6 month) and their failure under that pressure was used to justify the irrational personal decision. Are you that guy?

You're right. They boogie. The difference is subtle. Very acute observation.

no. lasers

If a hash were a replacement for data. that's all we'd need....goedelize the universe? Sometimes I just want to scream, or weep, or shoot everybody....or just drop to my knees and beg them to think - just a little tiny insignificant bit - think. Maybe it'll add up. Probably not, but it's the best I can do.

I searched for the first person to use the word "heartbeat", and sure enough, in the same sense I use it in this question. No hesitation. They don't need me, but I'll go if they'll take me. Wife knows that from early conversations - I wouldn't ask her, and she'd be stuck with the kids. Everything you need to know me is in my username.

In.a.heartbeat.

He is spruking the for CEI lobbyists Someone set up us the bomb. All zigs take off!

That is to give the spammers your new address on mail that's forwarded from an Bld and possibly expiring one.

Back in 1998, when I was putting my company on the internet, I received a spam on my regular address. I created a new fake user, and opted out with it. Within a day, it was receiving spam. Over the following week, its level of spam reached that sent to my own. One opt out was the only way anyone in the world except me could possibly have known about the existence of 5l1ckw1lly@kingsystems.com. I tried a few others after that in case the one I chose was a "bad apple". The other usernames were less clever and I don't remember them, but they all got the same result.

Honestly, there were so many duplicates of my experiment (it was 11 years ago - I was probably a duplicator, not an originator) that it's surprising to me to see this question even asked. Spammers know you don't want to hear what they're saying. They try to fool you into reading it, like a tranny trying to fool you into letting it... well, just ask that Anrade idiot. What makes you think anything else they say or do is trustworthy? I wouldn't trust a spammer I saw crossing the street to actually be there when I ran over him.

Make a mount for it inside a Jeep, and then use the Jeep like it should be used. I know two gorgeous young ladies who know that's the coolest thing on the planet, and though it means nothing to them, they have their own existence as proof of my virility.

Well said. I have contempt for people who can't tell the difference between GPS and mapping.

nekulturny

Until a couple of years ago, this was a "red state". Unfortunately, enough sheeple moved here for the jobs our intelligent government attracted, so now we're a blue state, so that type of government is gone.

This is a dead thread on a board discussing driving jeeps at 12000 feet with no water anywhere around. http://www.colorado4x4.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=141946 Why are we talking about this outrageously overpriced bit of silliness again, especially here, on the cutting edge?

If the benchmark he's using sends a set of data, which is stored on disk and then sent back, at least in my experience, there could be a WORLD of difference between windows and Linux on similar hardware, even with twice as much RAM for windows as for Linux. Every windows desktop I use becomes almost unusable during any continuous disk access - rsync, cp, etc., while much lesser-equipped Linux systems don't act any different doing the same tasks.
I'm talking desktops here - 1G or less RAM, single IDE hard drive, single-core post-pentium somethingorother. The server-class windows systems seem to be every bit as capable as the desktop-class Linux systems.