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In article <na.0b2f2a4dcb.a806e0tennant.DeleteThis@orpheusmail.co.uk>, Tennant Stuart
wrote:
> What if one set of breeders was the most powerful culture on the planet,
> using technology to survive the damage it was doing to the environment,
> whilst harming the potential descendants of rival sets of breeders?
>
And the bastard offspring of the dominant culture outside the
political control of the dominant culture? From the machinations of Teela
in Ringworld Engineers to get Louis to toast 5% of the Ringworld's
population, it's evident that Protector's motivations don't play the "I
care about descendants in one location more than another location" game.
And I'd bet that the externally-domiciled descendants of a certain
temporarily dominant culture number more than 15 million (5% of 300
million). So, protectors don't have much choice but to protect the planet
rather than the particular location. (One could come to the same conclusion
from a "atmospheres don't stop at political borders" argument, but Dubya
the First might think we're being anti-American, and the climate in Cuba is
so sweaty this decade.)

> >> Spelunker!
>
> > Guilty. The next issue (or a couple further) of Cave and Karst
> > Science may have a paper in it which I contributed to. More work this
> > summer coming, it would seem too.
>
> I only knew the word from playing Adventure, many moons ago.
>
But you managed to associate it (correctly) with GG.

> > more weight in the baggage - every second flight to the rigs this year
> > the passengers are getting weighed along with their baggage with *lots*
> > of pressure to cut your baggage weights down.
>
> Aren't there now mobile phones where GPS is merely one more feature?
>
Mobiles are intermittently banned. Currently the flavour is that
they must be stowed in your baggage at check-in, switched off, and NEVER
switched on while on board. But I wouldn't be in the least surprised to
sdee you having to leave them at the heliport again (which is a right royal
pain in the proverbials, both for the workforce and for the heliport
management). Actually, if you fly out of Blackpool heliport (or Morcambe
Bay, or Liverpool), you still have to leave your phones onshore because the
rigs are close enough inshore that you can sometimes get mobile service. To
quote an OIM of my acquaintance "I want to be able to take a hammer to one
box in the Radio Room and *know* that no information is leaving the rig
without my say-so."
None of which affect the fact that GPS signals don't penetrate
through steel plate (or aluminium foil, or Hastelloy 516 mesh). And since I
don't use my laptop in the open air, and do have to quote wellbore
positions to a precision of +/- 3 mm ... well, I'd rather not be
unnecessarily misleading.

> > phrase of NMEA. Do-able without rocket science.
>
> Or just have a lookup table for the wi-fi hub currently in use.
>

WiFi hub? I've still never seen WiFi in use. Anywhere. Ever.

In a corporate network environment composed of fixed workstations
with minimal local storage (i.e. everything has to be stored on a network
drive), and with the necessary lock-down on installation of new hardware
(to prevent data theft through a USB memory stick), would you view WiFi as
anything other than a massive security hole?
Mobile workers with laptops? - if they're part of your company, the
laptops already have the appropriate remote management and locked-down
environment on them. If they're not part of your company's network, then
they don't matter.
Let's give you an idea of how much provision is made for personal
usage - the best equipped rig I've seen as far as personal access to the
Internet goes had 3 PCs (locked down, only a floppy drive available) for a
POB (persons on board) of 170 people working 3 weeks on/ 3 weeks off. The
same company has, in the last couple of months, rejigged all network
permissions so that you could either log on as a "job title" (e.g.
'Wellsite Geologist, Smith Installation') when you have access to network
drives, the internal network, and email OR you had to log on personally
(e.g. "aidan.karley") when you could only access the company's web gateway.
Specifically, as a personal user, you could not use email except through
something like Yahoo or HotMail. Oh, and getting a personal account would
take a minimum of 2 weeks.
That is how much personal utility is valued.
(Actually, the main reason that the network was opened up to this
extent for personal use is that several voice phone lines were constantly
engaged with people trying to make arrangements for their flights home, and
other people were losing working time forwarding faxes for other people,
which costs money! Cheaper to allow some email access and to be able to
lose 24 hour cover in the Radio Room (about $100,000 per year).

> > Ho hum. Midnight approaching and Lara Croft has fallen to her
> > death for the enough'th time tonight. I feel a snooze coming on.
>
> Hold down both shifts while hitting the B & N keys for Lara to join you
> in her Babydoll Nightie...
>
This is a previously-unencountered combination of "holding down a
shift" and "Lara in a Babydoll Nightie". Shouldn't I stop holding down her
shift in order to grab something more interesting?
(Besides, Lara sleeps in her skin. Isn't it obvious?)
--
Aidan Karley,
Aberdeen, Scotland,
Location: +57d10' , -02d09' (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233
Written at Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:47 GMT

> Aidan Karley wrote:
>> Define "planet".
>> Now define it again, differently.
>> I'd go for a dividing line of whether an object is massive
>>enough to have compacted into a more-or-less spherical shape under the
>>influence of it's own gravity.

I would vote for 8 'planets'. 4 rocks & 4 gas giants.
Then 'planetismals' /moons - spherical under their own gravity.
- define more-or-less spherical boundry -
Asteroids - rocks not spherical.
Comets - dirty snowballs boiling volatiles while in system.

In system - inside Neptune.
KBO's Kuiper(?) belt.
Ourt Cloud.

Jim Lillie