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Comment: Re:Requirements - Purple Wigs (Score 2) 141

by 7bit (#36026742) Attached to: DARPA Building Futuristic Space Exploration Group

# 1: Female uniforms must include mandatory Shiny Purple Sexy Wigs.

http://fortresstakes.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/ufo_moonbase_girls_purple_wigs.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UFOTVDVDnew.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(TV_series)

Said organization must comply with the following requirements:

- Uniforms should be brightly colored, vaguely indicating role, and adaptable to look good while allowing for command-level officers to engage in hand-to-hand combat on a regular basis.
- All senior officers should be skilled in everything. Yes, everything. We'll decide who does what based on who's standing around at the moment, not based on some specialized set of skills or designated responsibilities.
- The organization should construct a fleet of vessels, with one vessel getting all the priority assignments while the rest of the fleet does Sudoku until needed for a well-intentioned but otherwise ineffective show of support.
- The organization should be composed of scientists and explorers who just so happen to run around with the most powerful weapons currently available. Asteroids can hurt, right?

Comment: Re:Questions. (Score 1) 481

by 7bit (#35776254) Attached to: FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO

And as to the assumptions made by a number of posters here that the FBI never followed up on this or took it seriously.. There is nothing in the memo or TFA to indicate that; simply a lack of announcement from the FBI, which many would expect.

Yes, this memorandum to the Director of the FBI does state that the agent who took the statement had not further evaluated "the above". This refers to that single lone agent as of the time the memorandum was submitted, it does not in any way tell us what the FBI as a whole did to "further evaluate" the statement and circumstances it refers to once the Director of the FBI received and read this memorandum.

The lone agent would likely not be in a position to "further evaluate" something of this scale and magnitude by himself without support, planning and discretion given to him by his superiors; which would have to occur After giving them the info he had on it in the first place. Notice who this memorandum is addressed to?

Comment: Re:Questions. (Score 1) 481

by 7bit (#35776138) Attached to: FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO

It's the FBI noting that some dude claimed

"An Air Force Investigator" is hardly just "some dude". And I guess you thought the fake quote with made up info was funny.

Great ways to try and falsely trivialize something, debunking 101. Though I suppose it's understandable to have a knee-jerk reaction like that when you read more into an article title than you believe should be there after actually reading TFA, so there's that.

Still, please sit back and calmly think about what is in that memo. A statement from an Air Force Investigator in 1950 made to an FBI agent. That actually is pretty serious. And as to the assumptions made by a number of posters here that the FBI never followed up on this or took it seriously.. There is nothing in the memo or TFA to indicate that; simply a lack of announcement from the FBI, which many would expect.

Feel free to look the document-scan over again and allow yourself to see it in a clearer context.

http://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/Guy%20Hottel%20Part%201%20of%201/at_download/file

Comment: Yay!!! (Score 4, Interesting) 113

by 7bit (#33492570) Attached to: Plagiarizing a Takedown Notice

Yay!!! Thank you for this story! Whatever your point is or the controversy is supposed to be, all that matters is that I now know that there is movement again on the Commodore/Amiga front. Who knows when I would have learned about any of this otherwise? CommodoreUSA owes you a debt of gratitude for this advertising I'm sure.

Most of what brought me into the computer age was my C64 and later my Amiga. Many today won't have been old enough to remember that computer/software/game stores like Software Etc. in the malls at one point were at least half Amiga software, written by Microsoft even. If that oil barron hadn't bought out Commodore and purposely run it into the ground to bankrupt it Commodore would have shaped the entire computer industry!

Today a computer is a computer, but back then an Amiga was so far ahead of everything else it was amazing! A fully windowed multitasking color OS that was easy to use 10 years before Windows 95. Think about that shit. Even Billy Gates was writing software for it. God, what could have been... And the games for it were amazing, and not just for when they came out.

I'll have to read up on what the new version of the company is up to but good luck to them. Years ago I thought about how Amiga would be the perfect way to reintroduce the concept of a complete computer in a keyboard etc. I'm gratified to see that someone else had the same idea and dream. I hope it succeeds in some way.

Comment: IVT - 1988 Paul Pires - Epilogics (Score 1) 609

by 7bit (#32222750) Attached to: Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission

It's great to see IVT (Infinitely Variable Transmission) tech getting some attention again. It's important to note the it was invented around 1988 by Paul Pires in California. I remember reading about it in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics around that time.

Paul Pires is an electronics guy and designed the IVT using a circuit methodology that auto designers don't use. He came at the problem from a completely different point of view than anyone else before. The company that he Patented this under is called Epilogics, also in California.

His IVT has been fully functional for years and has the same benefits as this D-Drive claims to have. I would be very curious to know what the functional differences are between these designs, if there are any... I wonder if Paul Pires Patent has expired? I read that it has been theorized his design didn't get much uptake because car companies only wanted to use the designs that they had their own patents for, and their CVT designs were good enough that they didn't want to pay licensing fees to use his superior IVT design. In fact, his design is a breakthrough! It has been used in high torque trucks and was going to be used in race cars until racing rules were changed to not allow automatic.

Here are some pages with some more info on it with images of his design:

http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?page_id=960

Popular Science 1992 Article:
http://books.google.com/books?id=mgEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=Epilogics+ivt&source=bl&ots=H7oaFk_PTZ&sig=OTtkBd1ddU8kRz_bgPmpl6-HIQE&hl=en&ei=lBLvS-_GDJDqsQPLi7X8BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Epilogics%20ivt&f=false

http://www.autostechpro.com/heavy-duty-cvt-works-without-a-belt

Comment: IVT - 1988 Paul Pires - Epilogics (Score 1) 609

by 7bit (#32222244) Attached to: Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission

It's great to see IVT (Infinitely Variable Transmission) tech getting some attention again. It's important to note the it was invented around 1988 by Paul Pires in California. I remember reading about it in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics around that time.

Paul Pires is an electronics guy and designed the IVT using a circuit methodology that auto designers don't use. He came at the problem from a completely different point of view than anyone else before. The company that he Patented this under is called Epilogics, also in California.

His IVT has been fully functional for years and has the same benefits as this D-Drive claims to have. I would be very curious to know what the functional differences are between these designs, if there are any... I wonder if Paul Pires Patent has expired? I read that it has been theorized his design didn't get much uptake because car companies only wanted to use the designs that they had their own patents for, and their CVT designs were good enough that they didn't want to pay licensing fees to use his superior IVT design. In fact, his design is a breakthrough! It has been used in high torque trucks and was going to be used in race cars until racing rules were changed to not allow automatic.

Here are some pages with some more info on it with images of his design:

http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?page_id=960

Popular Science 1992 Article:
http://books.google.com/books?id=mgEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=Epilogics+ivt&source=bl&ots=H7oaFk_PTZ&sig=OTtkBd1ddU8kRz_bgPmpl6-HIQE&hl=en&ei=lBLvS-_GDJDqsQPLi7X8BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Epilogics%20ivt&f=false

http://www.autostechpro.com/heavy-duty-cvt-works-without-a-belt

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