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Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:24 pm

Good point, but I think Internet, which seems vital today is a foregone conclusion. If you wrote this message from work you are probably accessing the inet through a network based proxy server. If at home you may be using wireless networking to a wireless hub to cable or DSL. Typically only direct modem access is not what we think of as traditional network. I assume therefore, a modem card may be installable. Let me see if I can track down more info and post it here.

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:27 pm

marduk wrote:you can buy second hand internet ready wifi laptops on ebay now for less than £100 anyway

The ones I've seen are Windows '98, 128MB, 20G HD. By the time you upgrade 'em ur spending a little. They are still as vulnerable as Windows ever will be. If you need a throwaway machine, great. Buy it, use it till it breaks and throw it away.

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:35 pm

one of these went for £75 last week
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DELL-INSPIRON-640 ... dZViewItem
this one has less than a day less and is the huge price so far of 1 pence

second hand reconditioned ex company laptops are the best
not second hand ex nerd who wanted to impress his geek buddies and is finally selling his baby after 5 years because he needs a new game for his playstation

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:20 pm

Now that you've exposed it, its up to over 300 pounds (as of 3:00 GMT). Sure it isn't yours?

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:38 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/02/robert ... index.html

Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a "mass killing" late in 2007.

"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network.

"The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."

Robertson said God told him about the impending tragedy during a recent prayer retreat.

God also said, he claims, that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.

Cognito · Post by **Cognito** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:29 pm

Why on earth would God take time out from his/her universal duties to speak with Pat Robertson, a mere mortal living on an insignificant rock twirling around an insignifant sun in an insignificant galaxy? Isn't that being just a tad bit too conceited?

Manystones · Post by **Manystones** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:10 am

He's probably seen him on television.

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:43 am

doesn't say which God does he
maybe he's talking about Om

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:08 am

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 010207.php

Sheets has been collaborating with NASA archaeologist Tom Sever -- who earned his doctorate in anthropology at CU-Boulder in 1990 -- as well as a number of CU-Boulder undergraduate and graduate students during the past several years. The project has been supported primarily by the National Science Foundation and NASA.

Images of the footpaths were made by various NASA satellites and aircraft and by a commercial satellite known as IKONOS. Built by Space Imaging of Denver, IKONOS has a resolution of less than one meter and is equipped with infrared sensors that can peer through deep jungle foliage. The team used computer software known as TerraBuilder, a 3-D terrain construction application created by Skyline Software Corp. of Reston, Va., and provided free to the researchers, Sheets said.

Cutting edge archeology!

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:30 am

That is neat Bruce. My youngest son enjoys video games. I'll tell him that the technology was actually put to good use.

Stuff like this is really going to open up archaeological discoveries.

stan · Post by **stan** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:08 pm

Thanks for posting that one, Bruce.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:56 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070103/wl ... 0103192513

PARIS (AFP) - The Tang dynasty, seen by many historians as a glittering peak in China's history, was brought to its knees by shifts in the monsoon cycle, according to a study.

From todays Arch. News

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:56 am

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/04/news/journal.php

RANU RARAKU, Easter Island: As remnants of a vanished culture and a lure to tourists, the mysterious giant statues that stand as mute sentinels along the rocky coast here are the greatest treasure of this remote island. For local people, though, they also present a problem: What should be done about the hundreds of other stone icons, many of them damaged or still embedded in the ground, that are scattered around the island?

Commercial and political interests, as well as some archaeologists, would like nothing better than to restore more — or perhaps even eventually all — of the moai, as the statues are known. But many residents of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian name for Easter Island that is the preferred term here, regard that possibility with a mixture of suspicion and dread.

It seems to me that these statues should be left alone. When the ocean covers the island for a few thousand years we won't be able to tell how it was originally.

From the News Section.

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:21 am

Commercial and political interests,

These usually trump science, Beags.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:28 am

Alas, but that always seems to be the case.