I worked in a somewhat radical, punk rock art department once. We all listened to music all day, speakers, headphones, whatever. There was a guy that worked next to me that was always blaring Mckenna fused with techno. I hated it. I still do not like McKenna mixed with music. I thought McKenna was insane. And he was to a degree, haha.

Somehow I got into to him on my own time, specifically for his DMT talks and branched out. Without the techno he is very soothing to listen to. I often put on the cassette tape series he made "True Hallucinations" just to go to sleep. Those ultimately become some very adventurous times in sleepy land.

>> ^Payback:

>> ^raverman:
Many printers now have the obsolescence blatantly built in to the ink cartridges.
To stop recycling and reuse, the cartridge is programmed to short circuit and fuse it's control chip if it passes a level approaching empty.
Other manufacturers do it at the driver level, when the cartridge is empty it sets a value to lock the printer unless a new branded cartridge is used.
DRM for digital media has a logical argument at least. But why is there not a class action law suit against this deliberate sabotage of a product after purchase?

With even colour laser printers (decent ones too) in the range of sub-$200 why would ANYONE buy an ink printer anyway? Laser toner doesn't dry out. As a matter of fact, the drier it is, the better.


Because they want to print photos. And because doing so with a laser printer requires specialist laser photo paper rather than the easily available inkjet photo paper.

I'm not trying to defend the ridiculous $30 for a printer, $90 for the ink crap that the inkjet printers have going, just saying why people would. I hate blanket statements like yours.

And Laser toner Cartridges are also easily refillable several times with sometimes just minor parts some times needing cleaning or replacing. In yet most people send perfectly good cartridges to the dump... because the company who wants to sell you the next one tells you to?>> ^Payback:

>> ^raverman:
Many printers now have the obsolescence blatantly built in to the ink cartridges.
To stop recycling and reuse, the cartridge is programmed to short circuit and fuse it's control chip if it passes a level approaching empty.
Other manufacturers do it at the driver level, when the cartridge is empty it sets a value to lock the printer unless a new branded cartridge is used.
DRM for digital media has a logical argument at least. But why is there not a class action law suit against this deliberate sabotage of a product after purchase?

With even colour laser printers (decent ones too) in the range of sub-$200 why would ANYONE buy an ink printer anyway? Laser toner doesn't dry out. As a matter of fact, the drier it is, the better.

>> ^raverman:

Many printers now have the obsolescence blatantly built in to the ink cartridges.
To stop recycling and reuse, the cartridge is programmed to short circuit and fuse it's control chip if it passes a level approaching empty.
Other manufacturers do it at the driver level, when the cartridge is empty it sets a value to lock the printer unless a new branded cartridge is used.
DRM for digital media has a logical argument at least. But why is there not a class action law suit against this deliberate sabotage of a product after purchase?


With even colour laser printers (decent ones too) in the range of sub-$200 why would ANYONE buy an ink printer anyway? Laser toner doesn't dry out. As a matter of fact, the drier it is, the better.

Many printers now have the obsolescence blatantly built in to the ink cartridges.

To stop recycling and reuse, the cartridge is programmed to short circuit and fuse it's control chip if it passes a level approaching empty.

Other manufacturers do it at the driver level, when the cartridge is empty it sets a value to lock the printer unless a new branded cartridge is used.

DRM for digital media has a logical argument at least. But why is there not a class action law suit against this deliberate sabotage of a product after purchase?

It's 4am, my muscles are atrophying and my skin is starting to fuse with the couch. Just a couple more quests and I'll go to bed.

My friend used to throw lit firecrackers on the ground in front of his dog.
The dog would bite them as they exploded--over and over again--dog loved it.
One day my friend was opening a beer and it hissed--I guess it sounded like a firecracker fuse.
The dog attacked the beer and bit his hand.

HARVESTMEN
(Daddy Longlegs)
HARVESTMEN AREN'T SPIDERS

THE NAME
"HARVESTMAN"

Harvestmen are called harvestmen because they're most conspicuous in the fall, at harvest time!

If you look at the body of a Daddy-longlegs with your magnifying glass, you'll see why it's not a spider. First of all, instead of its body consisting of two parts, the cephalothorax and the abdomen, as with spiders, there's just one thing. A Daddy Longlegs has its head, thorax, and abdomen all fused together. Second, instead of the spider's usual eight eyes, a Daddy Longlegs just possesses two.
-http://www.backyardnature.net/longlegs.htm

This reminds me of the puzzle in the Gamecube game Eternal Darkness that required using a penny in place of a missing fuse. >.>

That reminds me of the safety poster which lists nails, screws, etc. with their amp rating when used as fuses (with the implication of well don't do that then, I don't remember what the actual written message was).

A *quality talk. Very interesting ideas. I like his idea of fusing philanthropy and capitalism--to make the human impact "the bottom line" so to speak.

I wonder how many engineers they went through (both the British and the Germans) to discover that they were up against a new type of fuse.

What a wholly horrible mess war is.

For these bombs in the middle of the road, wouldn't it be safer to just pack explosives around it, back up 100 yards, and light the fuse? Best case you tear apart the bomb and break the fuse. Worst case you set the main explosive off and do modest infrastructure damage (although less than if the bomb had simply gone off as originally intended).

When fireworks go bad - I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.... considering the amount of sparks and fuses in one little area.

Oops, my bad, I assumed it would be known that "lyrical hip hop" is a dance style.

Fixed the title.


>> ^raverman:

Here's me expecting someone rapping along to a hip hop tune played by an orchestra.
Silly me... now i know lyrical means without any singing.