My HP Color Laserjet 4500 has a menu option to override the low toner block on printing. It takes some virtual digging to find it, but it is indeed there.

I repaired laser printers years ago, and suspect the potential damage they describe is from a worn cleaner blade on the drum internal to the toner cartridge, and not from an actual lack of toner. The blade is supposed to wipe the excess toner from the drum as it rotates, but if it becomes worn you can get a toner buildup on the drum, and sometimes this will make a mess outside the cartridge that needs to be cleaned. A bigger risk is the plastic gears in the cartridge wearing out and locking up and stripping out the driving gears inside the printer. But unless I start seeing big black streaks on the page, I am going to keep bypassing the toner empty message.

The fact that they are, "empoying high quality insulation", makes me think that maybe this is a fake ad. Wouldn't somebody spellchek an ad for a high dollar cable?

A non-trivial portion of the lyrical content of bluegrass is about shooting, killing, going to prison, women doing you wrong, and all that sorta gangsta stuff.

' had a 44 buckled around her, and a banjo on her knee'

Phase I is complete.
Phase II involves weapons training.
Phase III is Total World Domination

So I'm guessing the attacker communicated his intent via thought by staring into Mr Sheldrake's eyes. It must have been communicated in a foreign language, or Mr Sheldrake would have known for sure.

I just pack a bunch of dirty laundry around anything I don't want picked over - it seems to work. And if you think checked baggage is for chumps, maybe you never delighted in checking a 40 lb box of Dukes mayo, White Lilly flour, Toms bbq corn chips, Sundrop, and other delights only available on the lower east coast. Next time I'm going to check 40 lbs of hickory wood for smoking meat. I hope TSA doesn't rip that off.

Someone at CNCzone discussed using Inkscape. I installed it, and my five minute review suggest that it kicks butt. Looks like it will import bitmaps, jpg, and a variety of other formats then let you adjust the picture and convert to a path and save as .svg or .dxf.

I have a little Sherline CNC milling machine and like the .dxf export. ACE converter will turn the .dxf into a toolpath and I can engrave the picture.

Solving the earth-moon-projectile gravity thing with a mechanical device is really interesting. I had heard of a ballistics type computer. But I always heard it described as artillery trajectories, and it seemed like a table of trig functions would have worked for that. This makes much more sense.

I had to implement the Runge-Cutta Feldberg (I think) algorithm in Fortran for a class one time to generate a set of plot points for a projectile leaving the earth and passing the moon. I don't recall what order differential equation it was, but having to compute each point by hand would definitely be a week long endeavor.

The person to feel sorry for is dad. He is the one footing the bill for all of this, both metaphorically and in the (non)real sense. Anybody that makes enough to support all that, has enough upstairs to realize the (non)reality of it all. But is it? How much virtual ink is spent on Britney Spears versus a math bowl champ? Our society, of which we are all members, endorses this behavior. My prediction is that this little girl will go off to college, not graduate, but instead marry a well-to-do beau and either live happily ever after, or get a good settlement.

OK, so point the thing somewhere that doesn't have windows if you are so concerned. Yawl sound like a bunch-o-babies that were raised after playgrounds got padded and every kid gets a bicycle helmet.

What if the message is more important than the arguably weak ass little coherent light that hits somebodies eyeholes? What if the message is being broadcast on the side of Experion or TransUnion in protest of the behavior of the people inside? Did the people that chucked Boston's tea into the harbor worry about the environmental impact? Hell no. If you have a good point, make it at any cost.

And to think I was factory authorized to fix those things. g=c800:5

If someone commits a felony, they are pretty much branded for life anyway. They give up their rights under the Constitution when they fail to uphold the responsibility that comes with it. Personally I'm very much in favor of civil liberties, but with rights come responsibility. If someone demonstrates a fundamental lack of responsibility, be it mooning an old lady, or skinny dipping at an apartment complex like one of my buddies got busted for, or much worse, they deserve whatever election year laws get imposed on them.

Yawl sound like a bunch of Dudley Do-Rights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Do-Right). Why is it OK for the police to fly around and shine searchlights at the people, but if the people shine something back they go to jail? Couldn't a motorist be blinded by a police spotlight? Isn't the cumulative damage to society inflicted by the police spotlights greater than that inflicted by a single kid experimenting with the range of his new device?

I'm just trying to throw out an opposing viewpoint and stir some thinking, please don't take up your time answering these questions point by point.

State of Colorado already got some of my biometric data so I could get a drivers license. This sort of effort is why I put off trading in my out of state license for three years. I was hoping I would move again before giving my print to the man, but things didn't work out that way.

Wow, dig that 5-1/4" platter and linear drive for the head gimbal assembly. Might be a little harder to do this with a present day voice coil actuated device.

Maybe junior stabbed Pluto with a sharp object or something, who knows.

Years ago I got to drive the RC R2D2-like robot from behind the two way glass at a science fiction themed restaurant. A kid was kicking the robot so I followed him around with R3 for a while, not unlike Pluto - just slower. He eventually got scared and hid behind mommy in their booth where I parked the robot and left. He was old enough to know better.

I really think water crossings are the most environmentally responsible way to get occasional traffic across water. And the ones I have crossed have flat rocks placed on the bottom to prevent digging into the soft streambed - they would become quickly impassable otherwise. When this stream floods it won't have bridge abutments forcing a velocity increase in the water flow and churning up more silt than the wet crossing ever did. Just take a look under the bridges you cross every day to see what I mean.

Those Jeep camper tops at .earthroamer. are way cool. I didn't know such a thing existed.

And the state should definitely have driven a bunch of heavy equipment up there and installed a bridge to protect the rock bottom of the water crossing from the dangerous rubber tires.

Don't forget that Jimmy Neutron sent his little robotic brother to live there!

I installed a lift kit and big tires on my Jeep and didn't really have to weld anything. Lifting a van for camping and offroad looks like a fun project. Here is a site that has more vans like pictured above: http://www.glinx.com/~sbest/vandavid.htm

I wonder why a transparent gauge needle with an orange tip wouldn't work? But I suppose I'm just old fashion about gauges, or is it steampunk?

Howdy again pork person.

You have a fleece vest, dog, and Subaru, don't ya.

I was really thinking more of the southern end of the Appalachians, where I lived around NC and GA. Mt Mitchell in NC is 6684 ft, with a base around 800 ft I think. Doing the math on that doesn't come up with a fourteener, but it is still pretty good sized mountain. And without an actual count of yuppies, or whatever they call those people, the Appalachians are way more pleasant to spend time in.

Bee cool Mr Pork.

The base of Colorado's big ugly pointy rocks are at 5K feet on the high plains, so the actual sizes of them aren't that much bigger than the Appalachians. And at least the Appalachians aren't full of obnoxious yuppies from Denver with their dogs, but rather full of trees that turn nice colors in the fall. I live(d) around both ranges and would take the eastern version any day.

But to comment on the hammocks: I looked around their site a while back, I really like the looks of these. If I were camping somewhere that had ample trees, I would really consider one. I'm going with a cot for the tent for now.

I'll hang on to my Italian made Atlas pasta machine, thanks.

Wow, what a great new idea. Uhhh, I think the old folks call this going 'full time' in the RV. I'll bet you can even read their experiences online at alt.rv, or similar sites.

I have seen similar bulges in a cement access tunnel for a dam built in the 1920s. They weren't quite as large, but did have the same characteristic shape.

They need to hit that with some Kilz so it doesn't rot.

This really needs a two stage steam engine with the spinning speed control weights and a huge flywheel running gear driven wheels. The steering should be accomplished by by hydraulic hosed foot pedals that actuate a cam link assembly for the steering rods and also connect to silhouette of a hand in the rear that indicates the direction of the turn. Steam output should be condensed into water droplets that are released by mechanically actuated valves driven by a player piano type paper tape assembly that drips messages on the road behind the rider.

The Houston Chronicle had crime maps in the local (Northwest?) section of the paper. It was interesting how the vehicle property crimes were around the dense retail and apartments, and got worse the closer to the interstate highway.

Wow, I must have listened to my Screaming for Vengeance cassette about ten times a day back when it came out. Now I get all that on the satellite radio. 27