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LatterBrisk: Considering you can go up as slow as you want.
I Ball SoF: ?
I Ball SoF: using what?
LatterBrisk: Space-elevators.
I BaLL SoF: Yeah. And then you get stuck.
I Ball SoF: LatterBrisk: Space-elevators.
I Ball SoF: Yeah.And then you get stuck.
I Ball SoF: You quickly push the Alarm button and a voice answers.
I Ball SoF: "What seems to be the problem?"
I Ball SoF: "Uh, I think that I'm stuck."
I Ball SoF: "Well, don't worry,we'l have a rescue team meet you there in about, oh let me see now.... 2 weeks. Those stairs are a bitch to climb."
I Ball SoF: "But I'm in a wheelchair!"
I Ball SoF: "Oh, fuck."
I Ball SoF: Fin.
LatterBrisk: "Jump."
I Ball SoF: hahaha
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| HOLY SHIT! 2005-01-09 20:54:17 ET |
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| Question for upcoming project 2005-01-09 16:47:29 ET |
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Does anybody know any good but cheap motels in Manhattan?
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| BRI and PRI 2005-01-09 14:57:29 ET |
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I Ball SoF: okay, so a BRI line uses 3 channels. 2 B channels for voice and data and a D channel for call info signalling.
Mister Murd0c: PRI
Mister Murd0c: yes
I Ball SoF: But what the hell does "B channel" and "D" channel mean
I Ball SoF: no, BRI. The ISDN version of the PRI line.
Mister Murd0c: oh
Mister Murd0c: i dont know, i'll find out for you
I Ball SoF: Strom Carlson mentioned it on BinRev so I looked it up in this old "Cyberspeak" dictionary I pawed off B&N a while back
Mister Murd0c: eventually, I have to wait for my telco homie to get online
I Ball SoF: Lucky's on.
I Ball SoF: You can bother him.
I Ball SoF: which telco homie?
Mister Murd0c: you can too
Mister Murd0c: you don't know him
Mister Murd0c: its an older phone phreak I know from MN
I Ball SoF: I kinda know him. He kinda knows me. He IMed me one day.
Mister Murd0c: uh huh
Mister Murd0c: just ask him then
I Ball SoF: Did I mention that I'm psychic and have visions.
I Ball SoF: Like just now I had a vision of a huge sign saying
I Ball SoF: GOOGLE
I Ball SoF: and so I shall
Mister Murd0c: heheh
Mister Murd0c: <3
I Ball SoF: what's the first C in CLEC stand for again?
Mister Murd0c: competitive
I Ball SoF: ah
I Ball SoF: also the "B" in B-channel stands for "Bearer" cause it bears the main data
I Ball SoF: both B channels on a BRI are 64Kbps each while the D-channel is 16Kbps.
I Ball SoF: oh, and the D stands for Delta.
I Ball SoF: ah.
I Ball SoF: BRI = 2 B channels (64Kbps each) + 1 D channel (16Kbps)
I Ball SoF: PRI (U.S.) = 23 B channels (64Kbps) and 1 D channel (also 64Kbps)
I Ball SoF: PRI (Europe) = 30 B channels and 1 D channel
I Ball SoF: okay, now the word "channel" looks weird
I Ball SoF: It now sounds french in my head.
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| Interesting article. 2005-01-09 13:19:18 ET |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek/
Jan. 8 - What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon’s latest approach is being called "the Salvador option"—and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried Donald Rumsfeld really is. "What everyone agrees is that we can’t just go on as we are," one senior military officer told NEWSWEEK. "We have to find a way to take the offensive against the insurgents. Right now, we are playing defense. And we are losing." Last November’s operation in Fallujah, most analysts agree, succeeded less in breaking "the back" of the insurgency—as Marine Gen. John Sattler optimistically declared at the time—than in spreading it out.
Now, NEWSWEEK has learned, the Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration’s battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers. Eventually the insurgency was quelled, and many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success—despite the deaths of innocent civilians and the subsequent Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal. (Among the current administration officials who dealt with Central America back then is John Negroponte, who is today the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Under Reagan, he was ambassador to Honduras.)
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