Self Help & Misc. Instresting Stuff.

DSM

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There is a saying, People tend to overestimate what they can achieve in short term (of days or weeks) but vastly, underestimate what can be achieved by consistent focus and effort over a period of month or years.

Great achievements are possible over time, even if we make limited progress, but daily and consistently. And it is definitely better being satisfied with small achievements everyday, which builds up over time, than to try achieve big victory daily, ending up disappointed and frustrated......



 

DSM

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What is the connection between NASA's Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End? Edited excerpt


http://www.rosenblumtv.com/2009/07/what-does-a-horses-ass-have-to-do-with-the-space-shuttle/



Now here's an interesting link to the size of Nasa's Space Shuttle Rocket Boosters and the horses behind..... When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit bigger, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory had to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, the major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a Horse's Ass!

Here is some history : The US standard railroad gauge (width between the two rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.

Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons which used that wheel spacing.

Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in Europe (and England) were built by Imperial Rome for their legions. The roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots first formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for (or by) Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Specifications and bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses. Thus, we have the answer to the original question.

Note :

Well what do you think of the above story? The article is well written, it has facts, a bit of history a bit of science. Most of us would believe it and think nothing more about it, and most likely quote or forward it to someone else.... Except for the fact that it is not true and is entirely made up.

I have posted this story just to make a point. That everything we read in the papers or see on TV, is not necessarily true. Much of the information we get is presented (or even twisted) as seen thru the eyes of the channel editor or the political affiliation of the business house owing it. The second bias is our own. We too have our own prejudice and most likely to accept as true what confirms our bias while at the same time, are likely to find faults with data, logic or reality - especially when it does not match our beliefs.....


Repudiation of the above article is on snopes. Link here :

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp
 

DSM

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KV Ram,

Sorry to disappoint you. But this is a Multi Level Marketing/Referral site. Usually these are all scams, and people who put in time, money and effort get taken for a ride.....

Here is a quick review from the net :

The website: "gopaidmonthly dot com," which the owners claim is a large-scale marketing and referral company in the United States of America, is a scam. The website trick potential victims into joining by claiming there is no fee to join and that visitors can earn money performing certain tasks and activities that are given to them. But, do not register with GoPaidMonthly Inc or similar websites like it, because the scammers who operate the website will never pay their users; they will just take all the money earned by their users for themselves.

The website is similar to a lot of other fake online job websites. All the scammers did was to change the name of the website and the content. Also, the website should not be trusted because it does not provide a secure connection on its registration page or other sensitive pages, which is used to secure information like your name, address, email and password, when you submit it to them. A secure website starts with "https", instead of the standard unsecured "http". Every legitimate website that deals with personal and financial information must have a secure connection (https://) that is used to protect its users information when it is transmitted over the internet.

These scammers will continue to use the same website under different website names. So, if you stumble upon a website looking like the one above, please do not register or take part in any activity on it.

http://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/a...fake-internet-and-work-from-home-job-website/

How did gopaidmonthly dot com get a Trust Score of 0% ?
When checking the site we looked at many factors, such as the ownership details, location, popularity and other sites relating to reviews, threats, phishing etc. Although a site like may have a high trust rating, it's worth just checking the countries involved as these could indicate that goods would be shipped from abroad rather than your home country. The internet is populated with many fake and scam sites - with many being created daily purely to look genuine. Even many review sites are tainted with fake reviews making it almost impossible for somedbody to detect a safe site from a scam. We attempt to analyse the website information and provide a trust guide that will help you determine the risk rating.


http://www.scamadviser.com/is-gopaidmonthly.com-a-fake-site.html

 

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