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resopalrabotnick ;I will check it out.I thought maybe the engine used steam for power generated by the heat from a parabolic mirror. VanBuren ;I'm not sure I could even hit hot ground water here.

EWO;Old salt mines either are or are planned to be used as nuclear waste storage too. The Tabasco Sauce company mines their own saly & I think they use the ols salt mines their for their aging process too.I haven't been to Luray Caverns their are actually quite a few caverns to see in the USA.I haven't been to ny even close to Carlsbad in size.One "Cave of the Winds " in Colorado was disapointing.They stopped the reason it was called cave of the winds.It was some hole that caused it they blocked it off because it annoyed the employees .I guess to hell with the tourists that pay to get in.I've only been the one time so it cost them my business. ROM-DOS ;I guess I've lost count on how many times I've went to Carlsbad.It's only 350 miles or so from Amarillo.The first time I went it was a dollar a carload.Now I think it's $8.00 per person.The last time was when I took the special tour that was around $40.00 so I didn't pay attention if the regular admission had gone up.Like everything else they charge you to see some things that were part of the regular admission the first 3 or 4 times I went. & there are 2 more special tours I haven't done yet but will if possible. resopalrabotnick;I haven't heard of a sterling motor.It sounds like it generates electricity.Would that be correct?I saw a simular use of a parabolic mirror to heat water for home use.It also had an electric motor & sensor so it self tracked the sun for more efficiency.I bet the sterling motor could be added to the same device & get two for one.This was it could generate its own electricity for the tracking motor.

ratchet ;I guess I did the "Send Pictures with Message" in format so long ago I forgot about doing it.Aparrently it stays formatted once you do it.I looked at mine & it is checked.It's good to know just in case though.

That is a little cool for me too.You have to go down in the cavern a ways before it is the constant temperture .I think the depth at the elevator & lunch room area is 700 ft below ground level.It feels good in the summer when the outside temp is above 100 F.I really like Carlsbad Caverns.I even went on one of their special tours. If you ever decide to go on one of the special tours book it about 3 months in advance. The one I went on allows only 8 people & 2 park rangers.They only have one a week so that's only 416 people a year that can go on this tour.This is the white giant tour.

I never light my pills on fire so they don't smoke.

I like the idea.Kind of geothermal in reverse.I don't know just how efficient the 50 stories down office buildings would be but heating & cooling should be more efficient.With fiber optis day time lighting could be efficient.It would be pretty strange to drive to the new efficient city with the largest population & it looked like a big park because all buildings are underground. btw Carlsbad Cavern in NM is a constant 55 degrees F. year round.

ratchet;Not to give you too hard a time .Isn't this what I posted as the first answer to your question? You can also put images on a floppy or CD & use them they don't have to be on your Hard Drive.

tommie gorman ;I guess you read the link in ROM-DOS's post.The light that went faster than the speed of light through the fiber optics was negative. I'm sure there is somebody studying what I put after.I haven't seen much on it. But lets take light positive at regular light speed.A laser lense alters the light to a specific spectrum of color or frequency of light.Red is the most common but not the only one.I would like to see more on shifting the spectrum for the effects or even combinig the light from two laser lenses of different spectrum into one lense.Then further altering the frequency by appling sound waves to the lense or laser beam to see the effect this has on what the beam does.For instance does it cut metal better;produce antigravity.a transport beam, or cure cancer.Then to alter it further apply a strong magnetic force to the laser beam to see how this effects it. I'm not sure how to apply radioactivity maybe add an xray beam to the laser beam. So no not a load of smoke.

Very interesting.I would like to see the effect of running the faster negative light through different color spectrum laser lenses & see the effect magnetic & sound waves applied at the same time have on it.Maybe even add a little applied radioactivity to the mix.

ratchet ;I went to the image hosting site you posted & did an image then I copied all the codes.I then tried to send them to my gmali & back to outlook express.They never even changed from code.I tried to put them in like FallowEarth's & dlewis23's examples. I had no problem sending it as an image the way I posted before . So if you can't insert a picture in OE the regular way.Maybe your OE has became corrupt & you need to reinstall it.

EWO :we agree on most of this.I am somewhat of an enviromentalist.But with care I think we could do both.But I will say this the Alaskan oil belongs to every citizen of the USA & if we allow it to be drilled the oil companies shouldn't be allowed to make a profit even if the United States government has to do the drilling.This profit from this oil should be used to take care of all the things the USA needs like rebuilding New Orleans. I have even seen requests for Naive Americans needing wood stoves.If we are neglecting them to this point then some of the profit could go there.We sure don't have the money to send out of the USA. On the Alaskan oil:They pump natural gas back into old wells because they have no way to ship it.In the great forsight the builders (our government) didn't build a natural gas pipeline with the oil one.Now they wont to build a second gas pipe line costing billions.We do have a pipeline fairley close that could be used .It belongs to Canada.But I,m sure we could work somethig out with them. I would also send the UN packing.They should be in Geneva not in the USA. I really think we have been lied to about oil & you can hit it almost anywhere on Earth you drill.They sure seem to be able to off shore drill almost anywhere so why not onland as well.It's not done because of diplomacy & economics.Because if they let us know this is possible the price goes down & the Middle East goes back to camel herding.

Hi all;I decided this topic might be viewed more in general discussion.The polls section is a good idea but sometime polls aren't viewed as much.Since it located below archives. EWO ; Another nice picture

EWO;I'm adding these they are links to a slide show & video from the link in your post. http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/news/finalSalute/ http://cfapp2.rockymountainnews.com/slideshow/slideshow.cfm?type=DEFAULT&ID=012006lundstrom&NUM=1 I think I will put the links in the Ameriacn flag topic too.

ratchet;In OE when you are sending a new message there is a picture selection in the insert pulldown.Mine has an icon on the toolbar in new message too. If your trying to put in a picture that will be in every e-mail you send then I don't know how to do that.Except to put it in each time.

tommie gorman ;Your being too nice.My idea is more of tell the ones we owe "Go to hell"we've decided we don't owe it .If you don't like do something about it.Or bend over & take it like the American taxpayers do.If we don't mind sticking it to our own people why should we mind sticking it to you? For the UN send them packing from the USA to Geneva where they should be anyway.

I'm with resopalrabotnick I want to know more of the why do you want the slow down? I doubt you could get it down to 20kpbs without it being dial-up.Or that anyone could help you do that. I haven't used a bandwidth manager but it might be able to.If it's someone elses computer they should notice if you add software.They will also probably check their cablenut settings. To give you the correct cablenut information if someone wants to we would need to know what OS you are using. Now I will give you some help I wouldn't give any direct registry hacks but since cable nut is easy to change back this is my suggestion.go to this site: http://j79zlr.com/ Use their analyser for your OS for cablenut settings.I would suggest using the dial-up settings.This might change the MTU down to 576 & will use a smaller RWIN.& that shuld slow it some.Turn up any security settings in the brower,firewall,av,& spyware programs.Make sure these run at start up with as much of them running as you can.The same with any other resource hog software run it at start up.The more programs you have running the slower the pc will be.If you have any RAM freeing soft ware turn it down as much as possible where it really doesn't do anything. Now for the warning you shouldn't do this unless it's your PC it is wrong to do this to someone else.I hope they have their software &OS password protected so you can't change even these settings.

Let them try to collect it.We could just declare all US debts to foreign countries null & void.Wipe the slate clean.What would they do about it other than not give us more credit & they can't even afford to do that .They would just have to eat the loss.

Roco .Some of the members were posting about pancakes & breakfast.So I thought that would add some humor to the topic. I voted way back at the start of the topic. Gas has gotten too high.I bet you really enjoy your small engined car. But it has nothing to do with mangles/ wringers/ Banners.Did you read my post about my grandmothers old washing machine?

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paladin;Thats from the Red Green tech school at Possum Lodge isn't it .

Heres some Frank Zappa lyrics to go with the pancakes mentioned earlier. Yes indeed, here we are! At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast Where I stole the mar-juh-reen An' widdled on the Bingo Cards in lieu of the latrine I saw a handsome parish lady Make her entrance like a queen Why she was totally chenille And her old man was a Marine As she abused a sausage pattie And said why don't you treat me mean? (Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me, oooooh!) At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast (Hah! Good God! Get off the bus!) Where I stole the mar-juh-reen . . . Saint Alfonzo Saint Alfonzo Saint Alfonzo Saint Alfonzo Ooo-ooo-WAH .

tstillery ;As a mature adult it burns me too.When I was 20 & times were different she would have been a "cool" mom. I agree with tommie gorman not to always tell all the things you did growing up.I would take it a step further & lie if I thought that was the best.I have done things I wouldn't even tell children even when they became adults.Not out of fear but not to teach the wrong lesson.When they saw I got away with it & survived. & i have seen children use what a parent told them about their youth against the parent.with the "you did it" excuse. I'm not a parent by choice but I have observed a great deal.I have had friends that raised their children without discipline who have visited their children in prison & ones that raised their children with a firm hand have adults they can be proud of .

tommie gorman ;I didn't think you downgraded my info.I just put the other in for someone that might need it too.The one the tech had you do is the easiest & that's sometimes the best. Sometimes doing it that way reinstalls the corrupt driver file & sometimes it finds the uncorrupted driver file or repairs the damaged file.Anyway I guess it does because it works.

tommie gorman ;I'm glad the tech was able to fix you up.I didn't say to reinstall the OS just reinstall the sound controller In the same section of the control panel you used.The tech did it different than I would have but that way sometimes works too. I have Windows ME so it might be a little different. I'll start from device managerSound, Video, and Game ControllersYour sound control device or there may be more than onepropertiesdriverupdate driverFrom there try the automatically searh first then see if it fixes the sound If this doesn't you need to find your install files Or CAB files & sometimes the driver is in the inf files.Then select specify the location of the driver.This is also the way to install an updated driver that you DL.This will usually replace the corrupt file.I just put this in if you had the problem again. In Windows ME you can do a "dirty" install that leaves a lot of the software you have installed. I don't think it can be done with XP.To do this you go to the install file in Windows & to setup.exe & click it & let it run.Most of the time this works.If you have system restore enabled you can try that first.

I got a story to tell related to the first post.Before I get started I have no idea where these people I knew way back then are today.If they are still alive.The child that this is about would probably be 30 years old now. I was over at this acquaintance of mine & his daughter about 5 years old was there.We were smoking herb & needed to roll another joint.He called his daughter over & had her roll the joint.Then let her smoke it with us.I had been at his house before & this was the only time I saw him do this.I probably should have done something but my youthful judgment back then was not always the best.& if you had used the term child abuse they would have said what is that?So a different time.