Oh, just to blow your minds, the long axle you see in the pic is what Germans used to call a 'Transmission'. This was the way mechanical power was distributed throughout the building.
Huge steel axles were built right into the architecture. I grew up in a house like that, it used to be a mill. So incredible. We made our own electric power, DC, 110 Volts, and there even was a... WHOLE FUCKING ROOM... filled with lead acid batteries, acting as an UPS.
kbye, uwer

What a trip down memory lane.
These used to be sold here in Germany when I was a kid. One Xmas I got a Wilesco Toy Steam Engine. Even back then, they advertised their peripherals. There was the Table Saw, the Drill Press, the (sp?) Grinding Wheel...
Inspired by my Grandfather I built my own peripheral for it. BTW, it had a standard, open interface for everyone to hook up their own shit to the engine... it was a drive wheel, hooked up to the flywheel where you could place a rubber band and drive anything you could imagine. I chose to drive a tiny Electric Motor, that was hooked up to a flashlight bulb. It just might have started my ongoing involvement with science.

Kudos, Spielberg!

Sweet.
Thanks for you having balls of brass and providing a forum for less than mainstream views.
Neato!

uwer

Interesting. (Twirls Mustache)
The poison has now been introduced into ze organism. Ve vill now find out, how it reacts zusly.

Seriously, what were you thinking? This is so very crap, tears are squirting from my looking holes!

No need to be defensive, either. Why IN GODS NAME would you pour THIS excrement all over this poor guy? This is nothing else but _sad_.
Quote:
ted (23):
"So what, our comments all got deleted?"
It's wonderful how you can write like that without being able to read. Someone should tell Oliver Sacks about you.

So what you're saying there, is... wait for it...
He is a dumb sh!t, he can't even read. This is from a moderator, no less.
Quoting Oliver Sacks within this context kind of defeats its own purpose. As they say in my country, "Don't Sacks me, and I won't Sacks you." Do not wield the Sacks, unless you mean to wield the Sacks. ;-)
It's OK, though. I still like you. I have only stopped believing anything you say. It takes years, to build a reputation, it takes only one transgression to ruin it.

_Please_ tell me, you were only kiding.

Has anyone ever seen the $1M?
Or was it just a magicians trick?

uwer

Rushkoff sez:
"I believe that 9-11 theorizing debilitates the counterculture. It robs us of some potentially creative thinkers.
It replaces truly important questions with trivial ones.
It marginalizes more constructive investigation of American participation in the development of Al Qaeda as well as its subsequent aggravation."

Well, looking into the 9-11 attacks was what made me aware of the development of Al Quaeda among a lot of other things.

The nerve of some people!