Author: kmilyun

New Figure Skating Scoring System Equals Confusion

I just can not get the new skating scoring system. Doing an internet search produced results that made my head hurt. A simplistic explanation is that under the old 6.0 system, judges scored skaters on a scale of 0-6. 6 was a perfect performance. Now the score is based on cumulative points. Points are awarded for a technical score combined with points awarded for five additional components: skating skills, transitions, performance/execution, choreography/composition and interpretation. There are no penalties or deductions under the new scoring, except program length or other violations. If a skater performs less than the required elements, they receive less points, not deductions.

Yeah, so you can throw the first triple throw axle and finish in six place with score of 61.27. I am so confused! I have a simple mind, seems if you accomplish a “first” it ought to be worth a 10. If you really want to find out all about the scoring system here are complete regulations in pdf form.

What To Do With My Batteries

California’s Universal Waste Rule became effective on February 8, 2002.

More items have been added to the list. No longer can I throw mercury wastes, consumer electronic devices and cathode ray tubes (CRTs), non-empty aerosol cans, fluorescent tubes and batteries into my garbage can.

I separate my glass, aluminum, and paper trash and put them in the recycle bin. I would never toss oil or mercury into my waste can. Here is the problem, what do I do with my depleted batteries. The flashlight, watch, remote control, camera, GPS . . . go dead and I replace the batteries. I now must collect them in a box or bag until I can take them to the proper disposal site. It is a worthy cause but I know myself. How many month’s or year’s will my dead batteries sit oozing away before I actually take them to the site. I can just see them now covered with the white fuzzy fungus like growth and the yellow-brown sticky gunk leaking from them.

In my dream world, the city will set up a bi-yearly pickup, for my batteries

Worked on a Puzzle Today

Worked on the jigsaw puzzle again today. Something I find fun and frustrating at the same time.

dog on hay bail in barn

Puzzle building strategy:

  • Find the edge pieces and build the perimeter.
  • Group by color. Put together obvious features.
  • Group color piles into smaller pattern style groups.
  • Work on more features.
  • Once a prominent feature has been pieced together
  • Refinement of color and pattern groupings takes place.
  • After an exhaustive search for a piece it is time to take a break.
  • Repeat until assembly is complete. Usually missing a piece by this time.

Email Surveillance Permitted By U.S Court Judge Thomas Hogan

CNet has reported that some surveillance of your email has been permitted by U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan in Washington, D.C.,

“without first requiring any evidence of wrongdoing. Curiously: ‘instead of asking to eavesdrop on the contents of the e-mail messages, which would require some evidence of wrongdoing, prosecutors [of the US Justice Dept.] instead requested the identities of the correspondents. Also included in the request was header information like date and time and Internet address–but not subject lines.”

I knew it. Anyone who thinks that anything they write, say, or do is private, is in my opinion: A Mushroom. You do know how they grow mushrooms. They are kept in the dark and feed on Bull dung. I do not take any web new source information at face value. So here is the link to the PDF file of Court: MS-11 11:4:55 2-7-2006 Just in case you do not know where/how to find it.

“This Court is of the view that an order explicitly identifying the permissibble information to be captured by the pen register and trap and trace process or device (e.g. the originating IP address, originating header information, return header information, in bound packet payload and outbound packet payload, and the date and time of the communications) –versus simply copying and pasting the language from the statute allowing “dialing, routing, addressingand signaling information” -as well as an admonition making clear that the content of e-mail is prohibitied, serves the same purpose.”

Do I have this right?
When I go to a public function (ie. Super Bowl) face recognition programs might be scanning my mug to see if I am a bad person.
Anytime I talk on the telephone wireless/land line I can assume that there is the possibility if
I use the wrong terms someone will start tracking my phone calls.
If I do not support the war I am not patriotic.
If I support the troops, I am obligated to support the war and this administration.
If I do not support this administration, I am against the troops.
If I send or recieve email it is ok for the government to access it.
When I post this, it can be scanned for certain phrases.
My IP will fork over the information if it is requested.
The three branches of government as set out in the United States Constitution are seemingly not taught in school anymore.
The expansion of Executive Branch/Presidential Powers is a part of this administration’s agenda.
When directed by the President, the United States Secret Service is authorized to participate, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the planning, coordination, and implementation of security operations at special events of national significance, as determined by the President.

I see what has made this country so great being eroded