FREE DNF$ GIVEAWAY!!!!! I Promised Another... AND HERE IT IS!

[Andrew Shaw]

1 day is..............
is...24 hours...
is...1,440 minutes
is...86,400 secconds
is...1/7th of a week
is...1/365th of a year
is...1/3650th of a decade
is...1/36,500th of a century
is...how long you have to reply to this post.
tick.... tick.... tick.... tick


1,000DNF$ is laying on the table RIGHT NOW...

Post something that is worth reading, something interesting, something weird, an unusual fact, something that will blow someones mind... or even something that will help other members here on DNF.

If you are the only person to post in 24 hours from the start of this thread... you will be taking the entire 1000DNF$! If you are not, you will be splitting the pot with whoever else posts.

I will interupt the contest for any unfair or stupid remarks to anyones posts. content of posts MUST have significance.

Just have fun, and remember.... It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

[Edder]

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -- A French woman who is terrified of flying admitted in an Australian court Monday that she drunkenly tried to open an airplane door mid-flight to smoke a cigarette.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapc...ia.tourist.ap/

[Andrew Shaw]

!!!

[tekz999]

4r3 y0u 4 1337 h4x0r l1k3 g00gl3?!
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/

[Edder]

Is Google.com running Apple OS X?

Mirror of the original site: http://www.theplaceforitall.com/googlex/

[Jonathan]

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
-Thomas Jefferson

[Andrew Shaw]

looking good... no more links though...

[mmkrulz]

looking good... no more links though...

Well, since it has to be interesting, why not?
"Intimidated by the lies
The wind came over once again
In its own drunkenness, it brought over the flies
Figment of imagination, brought to life with a pen
Distancing away from thoughts, it is impossible to live again

Summer time brought to life
A sweet and bitter passage of time
Shiny and glittering objects cut through like a sharp knife
Opening the vessels of time, it gave birth to crime

Time itself was too busy to notice
The purpose which it was to fulfill
The crime itself had just learnt
The devil that lies within itself

What was unleashed now, inevitable
Crime knew what it had to do
The power of imagination, incredible
Infect the humanity which time was to brew

The human mind, so easy to control
Crime had found an entertaining incentive
Now it was time to infect every soul
The human mind, it made inventive
And now the infection spread

Simple peace and harmony left
The sight of all that was
Inventions brewed and humans grew
Now lost was the cause

With wars at hand and death, a virus
Everyone saw the true nature
Left in distrust and agony ignored
It was a perfect crime"

[j8jweb]

The "Zen" of Entrepreneurship

A business cannot provide an Entrepreneur with a purpose in life. An Entrepreneur uses a business, injecting it with a purpose - and not vice versa. Without this quality, a business becomes an end in itself, and is stunted by lack of vision before it has begun. An individual's own motivations, own goals, are the life-force of any venture.

[droplister]

Read all this http://p-p-p-powerbook.com/

Or

"Student Suspended Over
Suspected Use of PHP
By Brian Briggs

Topeka, KS - High school sophomore Brett Tyson was suspended today after teachers learned he may be using PHP.

"A teacher overheard him say that he was using PHP, and as part of our Zero-Tolerance policy against drug use, he was immediately suspended. No questions asked," said Principal Clyde Thurlow. "We're not quite sure what PHP is, but we suspect it may be a derivative of PCP, or maybe a new designer drug like GHB."

php_logoParents are frightened by the discovery of this new menace in their children's school, and are demanding the school do something. "We heard that he found out about PHP at school on the internet. There may even be a PHP web ring operating on school grounds," said irate parent Carol Blessing. "School is supposed to be teaching our kids how to read and write. Not about dangerous drugs like PHP."

In response to parental demands the school has reconfigured its internet WatchDog software to block access to all internet sites mentioning PHP. Officials say this should prevent any other students from falling prey like Brett Tyson did. They have also stepped up locker searches and brought in drug sniffing dogs.

Interviews with students suggested that PHP use is wide spread around the school, but is particularly concentrated in the geeky nerd population. When contacted by BBspot.com, Brett Tyson said, "I don't know what the hell is going on dude, but this suspension gives me more time for fraggin'. Yee haw!"

PHP is a hypertext preprocessor, which sounds very dangerous. It is believed that many users started by using Perl and moved on to the more powerful PHP. For more information on how to recognize if your child may be using PHP please visit http://www.php.net. "

[slimcrazy.com]

well ok,

why did the chicken cross the road?
Sorry but the chicken never crossed the road.

OK OK

Knock Knock!
who is there?
( no one you took to long to answer )



LOL

I ok i am done messing around.

[damitssam]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - In an unusual case of mistaken identity, a woman who thought a block of white cheese was cocaine is charged with trying to hire a hit man to rob and kill four men. The woman also was mistaken about the hit man. He turned out to be an undercover police officer.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051206/...NlYwN5bmNhdA--

[RegFee]

The Victoria's Secret show is on right now.
I am in love with Heidi Klum.

[cooljeba]

Google Mirror! Literraly a mirror. :smartass:

http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/

..:: peace ::..
Jeba

[Andrew Shaw]

!!!!!gnirahs rof sknaht....abej gnitseretni ytterp staht

[dotti]

1000DNF at 0.005 rate is $5 which at £1 is roughly $1.65 is about £3.

This is 3 times as much as Desmond Sargent who was paid £1 by British Telecom, as the one personally responsible for patenting BT's hyperlink claim.

[cooljeba]

D: ti dekil uoy dalg

..:: ecaep ::..
abeJ

[Andrew Shaw]

Just sent 1100DNF$ to all those who took part in this...

Hope you didnt find it too stupid...

Enjoy!

[cooljeba]

It was refreshing to read all posts

..:: peace ::..
Jeba

[PeterMan]

Is it too late? Oh well, this is a good read...

It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time

Scientists call for plans to change asteroid's path Developing technology could take decades
Alok Jha
Wednesday December 7, 2005

Guardian
In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness.

A fitting name, astronomers reasoned, for a menace now hurtling towards Earth from outerspace. Scientists are monitoring the progress of a 390-metre wide asteroid discovered last year that is potentially on a collision course with the planet, and are imploring governments to decide on a strategy for dealing with it.

Nasa has estimated that an impact from Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. Thousands of square kilometres would be directly affected by the blast but the whole of the Earth would see the effects of the dust released into the atmosphere.

And, scientists insist, there is actually very little time left to decide. At a recent meeting of experts in near-Earth objects (NEOs) in London, scientists said it could take decades to design, test and build the required technology to deflect the asteroid. Monica Grady, an expert in meteorites at the Open University, said: "It's a question of when, not if, a near Earth object collides with Earth. Many of the smaller objects break up when they reach the Earth's atmosphere and have no impact. However, a NEO larger than 1km [wide] will collide with Earth every few hundred thousand years and a NEO larger than 6km, which could cause mass extinction, will collide with Earth every hundred million years. We are overdue for a big one."

Apophis had been intermittently tracked since its discovery in June last year but, in December, it started causing serious concern. Projecting the orbit of the asteroid into the future, astronomers had calculated that the odds of it hitting the Earth in 2029 were alarming. As more observations came in, the odds got higher.

Having more than 20 years warning of potential impact might seem plenty of time. But, at last week's meeting, Andrea Carusi, president of the Spaceguard Foundation, said that the time for governments to make decisions on what to do was now, to give scientists time to prepare mitigation missions. At the peak of concern, Apophis asteroid was placed at four out of 10 on the Torino scale - a measure of the threat posed by an NEO where 10 is a certain collision which could cause a global catastrophe. This was the highest of any asteroid in recorded history and it had a 1 in 37 chance of hitting the Earth. The threat of a collision in 2029 was eventually ruled out at the end of last year.

Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer from Queen's University Belfast, said: "When it does pass close to us on April 13 2029, the Earth will deflect it and change its orbit. There's a small possibility that if it passes through a particular point in space, the so-called keyhole, ... the Earth's gravity will change things so that when it comes back around again in 2036, it will collide with us." The chance of Apophis passing through the keyhole, a 600-metre patch of space, is 1 in 5,500 based on current information.

There are no shortage of ideas on how to deflect asteroids. The Advanced Concepts Team at the European Space Agency have led the effort in designing a range of satellites and rockets to nudge asteroids on a collision course for Earth into a different orbit.

No technology has been left unconsidered, even potentially dangerous ideas such as nuclear powered spacecraft. "The advantage of nuclear propulsion is a lot of power," said Prof Fitzsimmons. "The negative thing is that ... we haven't done it yet. Whereas with solar electric propulsion, there are several spacecraft now that do use this technology so we're fairly confident it would work."

The favoured method is also potentially the easiest - throwing a spacecraft at an asteroid to change its direction. Esa plans to test this idea with its Don Quixote mission, where two satellites will be sent to an asteroid. One of them, Hidalgo, will collide with the asteroid at high speed while the other, Sancho, will measure the change in the object's orbit. Decisions on the actual design of these probes will be made in the coming months, with launch expected some time in the next decade. One idea that seems to have no support from astronomers is the use of explosives.

Prof Fitzsimmons. "If you explode too close to impact, perhaps you'll get hit by several fragments rather than one, so you spread out the area of damage."

In September, scientists at Strathclyde and Glasgow universities began computer simulations to work out the feasibility of changing the directions of asteroids on a collision course for Earth. In spring next year, there will be another opportunity for radar observations of Apophis that will help astronomers work out possible future orbits of the asteroid more accurately.

If, at that stage, they cannot rule out an impact with Earth in 2036, the next chance to make better observations will not be until 2013. Nasa has argued that a final decision on what to do about Apophis will have to be made at that stage.

"It may be a decision in 2013 whether or not to go ahead with a full-blown mitigation mission, but we need to start planning it before 2013," said Prof Fitzsimmons. In 2029, astronomers will know for sure if Apophis will pose a threat in 2036. If the worst-case scenarios turn out to be true and the Earth is not prepared, it will be too late. "If we wait until 2029, it would seem unlikely that you'd be able to do anything about 2036," said Mr Yates.