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We have the same problem in the UK too. Do not trust the media is the only outcome we'll end up with. This is not good.

I found this one via the B3TA Newsletter. http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue465/

* HOW THE DAILY MAIL WORKS - Long, long blog entry, but interesting and quite damning. To put it bluntly, they make stories up. http://goo.gl/acMZq

Just like fish in the ocean, space junk is not evenly distributed.

Funny, I seem to remember something about over-fishing
is causing species numbers to dwindle and overall reduction
http://goo.gl/Nu9kT
in fish populations... yeah, big nets could NEVER work to
clean up non-evenly distributed anything.

-AI

Most "retro spam cans" landings were on the ground (yes, there are limits to parachute sizes - but far after sensible limits of crew and hence capsule size; plus there are other landing systems possible...)

Why "retro", anyway? Have we forgotten that spaceplanes were the mode of space travel in scifi of 30s, 40s or 50s? (no doubt influenced by rapid advances in airplane technology) How the blunt ballistic shape came out as a bit of a surprise, after long domination of dreams with spaceplanes? (on which many Shuttle designers and decisionmakers were no doubt raised, so there might have been a problem with pushing ... perhaps not particularly good idea; kinda like those "airplanes" from our times (we can even build them! Start with a Harrier, remove wings and canopy...doesn't mean it's a good idea), no doubt influenced by advances in marine tech; vs. "retro"; not many flying boats around, too)

This is your style of imagination (if you are really capable of asking "so?" when faced with how your pet fantasy would require EVERYTHING, but with much tighter tolerances for error, than what it's meant to "replace" ... plus a megastructure of doubtful practicality even in easiest of conditions), airplanes from "our" times (and we CAN even build them! Take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy ... doesn't mean it's anywhere near a good idea) - vs. boring reality

Yeah, you've descended into abuse now. Here's what's really happened: you've come across a concept, which I supported with technical discussions, real world examples, and a variety of articles, which is far outside your comfort zone, as in that area where you feel the real world exists and can be controlled, a conservative place where nobody steps too far out of line.

You responded to this intrusion by raising nonsensical objections (the space shuttle? really?) and ignoring the facts presented to you, dancing around your intuition that this all must be somehow against the laws of physics or something, which puts you right in the same ballpark as creationists and flat earthers.

With the best of intentions I say it is this kind of knee jerk counter-rational dogmatism, inspired by a misunderstanding of what science actually does to advance, that is strangling innovation and creativity, and it would appear Mr. Stephenson agrees with me.

But please, do link to this discussion, it might help some other seekers of philosopher's stone.

Indeed I will.

This is your style of imagination (if you are really capable of asking "so?" when faced with how your pet fantasy would require EVERYTHING, but with much tighter tolerances for error, than what it's meant to "replace" ... plus a megastructure of doubtful practicality even in easiest of conditions), airplanes from "our" times (and we CAN even build them! Take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy ... doesn't mean it's anywhere near a good idea) - vs. boring reality

But please, do link to this discussion, it might help some other seekers of philosopher's stone.

And why do you think 1) might be the case, hm? (do our airplanes resemble this wishful thinking?) You really don't see, "ahh, this is the way, it will be great!" analogies? Where are any actively suspended buildings?! (nvm of a scale of megastructures)

Talk to the nice lady from India (or Southern California) who has never seen ice in any amount larger than a water pitcher, and tell her you're kind of lost.

No need to work that hard, just do what I did. Run out of gas in West Texas, say between Childress and Quanah. Make it on a sunny 100-degree-plus Sunday afternoon in the middle of summer. You, too, can have a conversation with OnStar like I did!

Me (sheepish): I ran out of gas.
OnStar: We'll send someone right out.

Time passes...

OnStar: Sir, we show you near Childress, Texas, but I don't have any facilities there. What's the nearest larger town?
Me: This is West Texas, Ma'm. There are no larger towns.

They ended up sending out the county sheriff with a five-gallon jug of gas.

That doesn't, by itself, automatically mean there must be higher hills to climb. We may have purposefully or accidentally climbed the highest hill we are currently capable of climbing. Perhaps we would have been further along with some other technology if we hadn't climbed this hill, but it might not have been better overall.

It might be actually slightly the other way around - did we already forget the absolute dominance of "spaceplanes" in scifi of 30s, 40s or 50s?! (even design attempts - Silbervogel, or early winged visions of von Braun) Flying saucers even, at some point...

No doubt fueled by rapid advances in aircraft technology at the time. What almost everybody wished for. And we still do, it's easy to remember and relate common experiences of air travel, while forgetting how it's "supposed to" look like (airplanes from "our" times as envisioned ~130 years ago, no doubt influenced by rapid advanced in marine technology), when approached in the same style as "spaceplanes" (actually, I wonder how much the Shuttle was influenced by designers and decision-makers growing on spaceplane scifi ... and we know how that ended, it didn't deliver on any of its main points as advertised; not a lot of flying boats around, too)

We are, among few things he does is basically hoping for "proper" airplanes from our times (we CAN build them! Take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy ... doesn't make it a good idea) vs. boring reality

Starting as an ICBM (the first operational ICBM, R-7 Semyorka) doesn't prevent getting "the most reliable ... most frequently used launch vehicle in the world". One of the more inexpensive ones, too... (if anything, efforts at departure away from what physics & rocket equation tells us tended to end ... inefficiently)

There are relatively subtle signs that our science is incomplete. For what you wish for, it would have to be very, very wrong. A Universe with FTL (=time travel) would be most likely very different from the one we observe (and which agrees remarkably well with our understanding of it)

It seems to be a very fundamental limit; I wouldn't be too surprised if even more integral to our reality than we suspect now. Inertia appears to act like a gravitational influence from the rest of the Universe. Of course you'll say "so what?" ... well, that brings with it few headaches, like requirement for instantaneousness or requiring the "interaction" to go backwards in time! Couple it with how the Universe doesn't appear to have signs of expansive intelligence which developed (that's almost exactly equivalent to "will ever develop"!) FTL / time travel. Trying to work around it might not matter - the relative values, properties and characters of interactions remaining similarly limited for all sensible Universes.

Don't treat works of fiction like an oracle (airplanes from "our" time, as envisioned ~130 years ago, probably a mix of rapid advances in marine tech + a large doze of wishful thinking ... I don't see much in common with the boring reality ... but, the best part in this case - we even can build them! Basically: take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy. Nobody in their right mind would).

Can't you at least see that wishful thinking must have limits? Don't extrapolate progress (hm, I've seen a nice movie recently ... one happening in 2010); if anything, relative technological stability with shorts spurts of progress is a normal state for our species.
(but you might start by building a ship with a hull not constrained by Archimedes' principle ... its over 2 thousand years old, surely should be easier to ignore!)

How many times...

Don't work in the realm of works of fiction (airplanes from our times, as envisioned ~130 years ago .... I seem to notice few differences). But while you insist (hey, where we would be without trying, right? Right?) - maybe start with building a hull for ships which isn't constrained by Archimedes' principle? (it's quite old, at over 2 thousand years, should be much easier to ignore...)

Possibly no warp drive, too

(but you might start by building a ship with a hull not constrained by Archimedes' principle ... its over 2 thousand years old, surely should be easier to ignore; those airplanes from "our" times, depicted in works of fiction from mere ~130 years ago, shouldn't be too far away now, too - because reality is just too boring)

They may be crossing two bridges to get there, but unless they're lost, they aren't going to be paying two tolls. Or do people commute from the Richmond area by going over the GG? Otherwise, I fail to see how you can pay two tolls going into SF.

Sacramento, CA to San Francisco, CA - Google Maps There is a toll on the Carquinez Bridge and a toll on the Bay Bridge. They could get around the Carquinez Bridge by going down through Stockton, but we have to be at work by around 6AM to get free parking and I don't think they want to leave home at 3:30.

Such a protocol makes
perfect sense in case of
real encounters, please
KNOW however there are
REAL efforts afoot to
create a FAKE ALIEN
GOVERNMENT MASK
from behind which evil
HUMANS intend to rule

READ HERE:
http://goo.gl/uVtK

VIDEO HERE:
http://goo.gl/avCXe

Such a protocol makes
perfect sense in case of
real encounters, please
KNOW however there are
REAL efforts afoot to
create a FAKE ALIEN
GOVERNMENT MASK
from behind which evil
HUMANS intend to rule

READ HERE:
http://goo.gl/uVtK

VIDEO HERE:
http://goo.gl/avCXe

Are we overtaking anytime soon our existing interstellar probes launched over 30 years ago? (mind you, NOT launched in the fastest way possible - a Saturn V with NERVA upper stage and ion engine & reactor borrowed from the Soviets would give Pioneers and Voyagers a heck of a lot more kick - it was not for strictly technical reasons why we didn't do it ... but, funnily enough, we couldn't do it the "faster way" now!) Are current planes much faster / different than those from half a century ago? Do we build ships defying Archimedes' principle? (come on, that's over 2 thousands years old! Surely it should pass by now)

You really can't assume a technological scenarios depicted in works of fiction. Look at those airplanes (probably influenced by rapid advances in naval technology, plus an unhealthy doze of wishful thinking) from "our" times, as depicted over a century ago. Vs. what reality actually dictates

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Humans started writing 5000 years ago.
http://goo.gl/eSqS

Hence no religion is older than 5000 years.

The police stepping in is vastly different from God stepping in. And yes, God stepping in would very well undermine you ability to have free will.

Think of it this way - an over-protective parent causes great harm to their child. So does a parent that is not protective enough. There's a balance that must be struck. The child might not like the balance - thinking it is too over bearing at times, or that their parent is not paying enough attention at other times.

Now some of us might want the over-protective God, but that would come at great cost. Others might want the under protective God, and that would come at an equally great cost. We may complain - thinking an injustice has been done (and I'm not saying that injustices don't happen); but in the end - it will all come to bear. Whether justice now, or later.

$100 a year for a website, when you can buy
a 1TB drive for $50? http://goo.gl/9jQJm
and make two distinct archives each year,
every year.

Or get a Dlink DNS-321 and RAID them.

For that money, you could shrink wrap one
and bury it in the yard so you have a copy after
12/12/2012 =)

-AI

fwiw, I would never, EVER put the bulk of
my photos online for hackers to plunder at
the next onset of vulnerabilities that just
happen to plague whatever site is hosting
your website.

From D-Link, http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=666:
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I have a few of these in my AV setup. One is Raid 1, for stuff that I can't
replace, pictures, home movies, important docs, etc. The others are JBOD.

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Not expensive for what it does...

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Last I checked (a year ago) it would accept up to
2x 1.5TB drives. And I started with two spare 250's,
when I got my first one, and JBOD'd them into a
half TB. Which was really nice.

[ If anyone else is considering it... if you have
spare SATA's laying around, this thing is GREAT! ]

Oh yeah, fast too on the ethernet, giga ethernet.

-AI

If there was say a well established set of rules that virtually all operating systems followed, wouldn't you think it would be prudent that the ugly kid on the block follow those rules? I've worked on Linux, Solaris (and cousins), BSD (and cousins), OSX, Irix, and Digital Unix. I've also worked on every Windows platform since Windows 3.1, and touched OS/2 and BeOS. Every modern OS (like, you can still find one in production), except for the Windows platform, you can use the same tools on any of them, with rare exceptions. They don't require add-ons for standard tasks. They don't rename standard tasks to obscure names. They "just work"(tm).

I don't know why it gets any special advantages at all.

It should have to physically push a buzzer.

Being able to control a small servo from a computer is really no great feat is it? Have you heard of automated garage doors?

... and a printer with comic sans makes this more impressive, how?

Also, it should have to watch the board itself.

Realtime OCR has been done on computers with much less CPU power. See Word Lens.

It should have no electronic linkages to any outside information.

It has to be able to parse the physical environment of Jeopardy, and interact with the physical environment of Jeopardy (At least while the show it running, it doesn't have to enter or leave under its own power.)

Until then, it's not really 'playing Jeopardy', is it?

All the other elements to playing Jeopardy can be easily solved. These guys are handling language processing. That is no small feat in itself. Try RTFA. It helps to appreciate what was done here.

There's actually a lot of cool things on those sites, including the Strategy of Brilliant Commander. It reminds me of that shouting NK news anchor we keep seeing...

    Well, people can levitate. To understand how, a separation of mysticism, mythology, and technology must be maintained.

    You can watch a magician (mysticism) make a human float, and he/she will have the audience believing exactly what they saw.

    You can hear and read about how a religious figure (mythology) floated.

    And then you can be taught (technology) hundreds of ways to make a person levitate. theatrical flying harnesses, forced air, glass floor/ceiling and perspective. How about not just a person, but an entire train full of people? Even something as simple (and expensive, and stupid) as hanging from a rope under a helicopter (ala Robert Downey Jr in Air America).

    Illusionists by a variety of names have been making people believe in impossible things. All it takes is an audience to believe the mysticism or mythology, before asking to understand the technology. Too many people are willing to believe the "miracle" answer, without understanding the technological answer.

    If I read your comment right, you've grown beyond the mysticism answers. If we can only drag a few billion other people past the threshold, humanity would be in good shape.

    Well, people can levitate. To understand how, a separation of mysticism, mythology, and technology must be maintained.

    You can watch a magician (mysticism) make a human float, and he/she will have the audience believing exactly what they saw.

    You can hear and read about how a religious figure (mythology) floated.

    And then you can be taught (technology) hundreds of ways to make a person levitate. theatrical flying harnesses, forced air, glass floor/ceiling and perspective. How about not just a person, but an entire train full of people? Even something as simple (and expensive, and stupid) as hanging from a rope under a helicopter (ala Robert Downey Jr in Air America).

    Illusionists by a variety of names have been making people believe in impossible things. All it takes is an audience to believe the mysticism or mythology, before asking to understand the technology. Too many people are willing to believe the "miracle" answer, without understanding the technological answer.

    If I read your comment right, you've grown beyond the mysticism answers. If we can only drag a few billion other people past the threshold, humanity would be in good shape.

Actually, the web browser does exactly what it is told to by the HTML and CSS. You can tell it to indent P tags.

<p style='text-indent: 50px; text-align:justify; letter-spacing:3px;'>

As it is, I've never seen any site enforce paragraph indention, probably because it would break other layout items.

    As I learned writing letters way back in grade school, the first line of paragraphs are indented. Optionally, in styles such as business form letters, you can leave the indention out. That is optionally, where it is not forbidden to indent the first line of a paragraph. Maybe you were taught differently, or maybe those who taught you, and therefor you, never learned the appropriate use of indenting paragraphs.

    Typically, I would use the tab to indent, but when web based email clients became popular (and generally online forums didn't exist), I had to stop using the tab, since it was a great way to end up sending the message before it was complete. Tab typically replaces three to five spaces. Again way back in the day of web based email clients, any more than two spaces would frequently be eaten by the web application, resulting in two spaces. Rather than risk differences, I adopted two spaces.

    Using spaces for tabs isn't unusual to me, since I originally learned to type on mechanical typewriters. Computers were just showing up in school for general use around the time I had reached typing classes (around 8th grade) with electric typewriters. With years of experience typing already, the only thing that I had to really adjust for was that you can't press electronic keyboard keys quite the same way that you have to pound on a mechanical typewriter. Well, that and the fact the numeral one (1) key was no longer missing. :)

    I know a lot of these items are totally archaic, and many people on here have only seen them in museums. Some of us had them and used them. We also learned a long time ago how to format documents, and those little social graces have stuck with us. And yes, I'm terribly annoyed when I write out something in a web form, and extra spaces are collapsed to be one space, so indentions and space between paragraphs are destroyed.

Actually, the web browser does exactly what it is told to by the HTML and CSS. You can tell it to indent P tags.

<p style='text-indent: 50px; text-align:justify; letter-spacing:3px;'>

As it is, I've never seen any site enforce paragraph indention, probably because it would break other layout items.

    As I learned writing letters way back in grade school, the first line of paragraphs are indented. Optionally, in styles such as business form letters, you can leave the indention out. That is optionally, where it is not forbidden to indent the first line of a paragraph. Maybe you were taught differently, or maybe those who taught you, and therefor you, never learned the appropriate use of indenting paragraphs.

    Typically, I would use the tab to indent, but when web based email clients became popular (and generally online forums didn't exist), I had to stop using the tab, since it was a great way to end up sending the message before it was complete. Tab typically replaces three to five spaces. Again way back in the day of web based email clients, any more than two spaces would frequently be eaten by the web application, resulting in two spaces. Rather than risk differences, I adopted two spaces.

    Using spaces for tabs isn't unusual to me, since I originally learned to type on mechanical typewriters. Computers were just showing up in school for general use around the time I had reached typing classes (around 8th grade) with electric typewriters. With years of experience typing already, the only thing that I had to really adjust for was that you can't press electronic keyboard keys quite the same way that you have to pound on a mechanical typewriter. Well, that and the fact the numeral one (1) key was no longer missing. :)

    I know a lot of these items are totally archaic, and many people on here have only seen them in museums. Some of us had them and used them. We also learned a long time ago how to format documents, and those little social graces have stuck with us. And yes, I'm terribly annoyed when I write out something in a web form, and extra spaces are collapsed to be one space, so indentions and space between paragraphs are destroyed.

Actually, the web browser does exactly what it is told to by the HTML and CSS. You can tell it to indent P tags.

<p style='text-indent: 50px; text-align:justify; letter-spacing:3px;'>

As it is, I've never seen any site enforce paragraph indention, probably because it would break other layout items.

    As I learned writing letters way back in grade school, the first line of paragraphs are indented. Optionally, in styles such as business form letters, you can leave the indention out. That is optionally, where it is not forbidden to indent the first line of a paragraph. Maybe you were taught differently, or maybe those who taught you, and therefor you, never learned the appropriate use of indenting paragraphs.

    Typically, I would use the tab to indent, but when web based email clients became popular (and generally online forums didn't exist), I had to stop using the tab, since it was a great way to end up sending the message before it was complete. Tab typically replaces three to five spaces. Again way back in the day of web based email clients, any more than two spaces would frequently be eaten by the web application, resulting in two spaces. Rather than risk differences, I adopted two spaces.

    Using spaces for tabs isn't unusual to me, since I originally learned to type on mechanical typewriters. Computers were just showing up in school for general use around the time I had reached typing classes (around 8th grade) with electric typewriters. With years of experience typing already, the only thing that I had to really adjust for was that you can't press electronic keyboard keys quite the same way that you have to pound on a mechanical typewriter. Well, that and the fact the numeral one (1) key was no longer missing. :)

    I know a lot of these items are totally archaic, and many people on here have only seen them in museums. Some of us had them and used them. We also learned a long time ago how to format documents, and those little social graces have stuck with us. And yes, I'm terribly annoyed when I write out something in a web form, and extra spaces are collapsed to be one space, so indentions and space between paragraphs are destroyed.

Actually, the web browser does exactly what it is told to by the HTML and CSS. You can tell it to indent P tags.

<p style='text-indent: 50px; text-align:justify; letter-spacing:3px;'>

As it is, I've never seen any site enforce paragraph indention, probably because it would break other layout items.

    As I learned writing letters way back in grade school, the first line of paragraphs are indented. Optionally, in styles such as business form letters, you can leave the indention out. That is optionally, where it is not forbidden to indent the first line of a paragraph. Maybe you were taught differently, or maybe those who taught you, and therefor you, never learned the appropriate use of indenting paragraphs.

    Typically, I would use the tab to indent, but when web based email clients became popular (and generally online forums didn't exist), I had to stop using the tab, since it was a great way to end up sending the message before it was complete. Tab typically replaces three to five spaces. Again way back in the day of web based email clients, any more than two spaces would frequently be eaten by the web application, resulting in two spaces. Rather than risk differences, I adopted two spaces.

    Using spaces for tabs isn't unusual to me, since I originally learned to type on mechanical typewriters. Computers were just showing up in school for general use around the time I had reached typing classes (around 8th grade) with electric typewriters. With years of experience typing already, the only thing that I had to really adjust for was that you can't press electronic keyboard keys quite the same way that you have to pound on a mechanical typewriter. Well, that and the fact the numeral one (1) key was no longer missing. :)

    I know a lot of these items are totally archaic, and many people on here have only seen them in museums. Some of us had them and used them. We also learned a long time ago how to format documents, and those little social graces have stuck with us. And yes, I'm terribly annoyed when I write out something in a web form, and extra spaces are collapsed to be one space, so indentions and space between paragraphs are destroyed.

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Wrong the caps here check them out yourself: ROGERS http://goo.gl/s4Guu Additional Usage Charge Monthly Fee Monthly Usage $5.00/GB* $27.99 2GB $4.00/GB* $35.99 15GB $2.00/GB $46.99 60GB $1.50/GB $59.99 80GB $1.25/GB $69.99 125GB $0.50/GB $99.99 175GB Bell Canada http://goo.gl/NOfae Keep in mind they are "Discounted" Bundle prices 21.95 (in the Bell Bundle) Included monthly Internet usage 2 GB 31.95 (in the Bell Bundle) Included monthly Internet usage 25 GB it goes up from there but you get the idea And its only getting worse in Canada with the pricing. TheCanadianCoward

I was curious just how far off that is. Turns out, it's quite a bit.

Thanks! I was looking for something like that...

I was curious just how far off that is. Turns out, it's quite a bit.

http://goo.gl/sF5kz

Be careful what you wish for...

Well said. http://goo.gl/fuylm This will probably be marked troll but any news with the word China = I grab my salt shaker and remind myself about a cliche.

Before buying a membership to ancestry.com check and see what resources are available at your local library. My library has Ancestry.com Library Edition for free use AT the library. They allow full access to HeritageQuest.com at the library and at home. At home I have to go to the library's genealogy page and login from there with my library card number. If you haven't been to HeritageQuest lately you might not know they are in the process of adding Obituaries, War Pensions and other records. If the library in my little town in Arkansas offers this surely libraries most everywhere do the same. We also have an Obituary Index of our area that took over two years to create that has over 269,000 entries from 1866 to present day. I myself made a small contribution by working 20-24 hours a week for over a year going through old newspaper microfilm page by page looking for obits or any references to deaths. It was particularly difficult to gather information in the older papers because obits were not always grouped under a heading but instead scattered throughout the paper. This made it necessary to scan every page of every days paper column by column to find as many death references as possible. The older microfilm was so poor that we were limited to four hour shifts to avoid headaches and fatigue. Check and see if your local library has taken the initiative to provide this kind of information. Here's a link to the genealogy sources page including a link to the obituary database. http://goo.gl/IzERY Might be useful to anyone who had an ancestor who lived (or happened to die) in Arkansas. The Library Director also writes a genealogy blog that is very informative. It can be found here: http://goo.gl/XhZwc

Before buying a membership to ancestry.com check and see what resources are available at your local library. My library has Ancestry.com Library Edition for free use AT the library. They allow full access to HeritageQuest.com at the library and at home. At home I have to go to the library's genealogy page and login from there with my library card number. If you haven't been to HeritageQuest lately you might not know they are in the process of adding Obituaries, War Pensions and other records. If the library in my little town in Arkansas offers this surely libraries most everywhere do the same. We also have an Obituary Index of our area that took over two years to create that has over 269,000 entries from 1866 to present day. I myself made a small contribution by working 20-24 hours a week for over a year going through old newspaper microfilm page by page looking for obits or any references to deaths. It was particularly difficult to gather information in the older papers because obits were not always grouped under a heading but instead scattered throughout the paper. This made it necessary to scan every page of every days paper column by column to find as many death references as possible. The older microfilm was so poor that we were limited to four hour shifts to avoid headaches and fatigue. Check and see if your local library has taken the initiative to provide this kind of information. Here's a link to the genealogy sources page including a link to the obituary database. http://goo.gl/IzERY Might be useful to anyone who had an ancestor who lived (or happened to die) in Arkansas. The Library Director also writes a genealogy blog that is very informative. It can be found here: http://goo.gl/XhZwc

Actually... you aren't. ;)

Thing is, reality is not a movie. Rarely do the well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels overthrow the evil world government and usher in a new era of freedom and prosperity.

You're right, but it does happen every now and then...

1. The Indian Independence movement
2. The French revolution
3. Mao and The Peoples Republic of China (freedom and prosperity may not apply here, but it was an improvement, no?)

So thar.

Thing is, reality is not a movie. Rarely do the well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels overthrow the evil world government and usher in a new era of freedom and prosperity.

You're right, but it does happen every now and then...

1. The Indian Independence movement
2. The French revolution
3. Mao and The Peoples Republic of China (freedom and prosperity may not apply here, but it was an improvement, no?)

So thar.

Thing is, reality is not a movie. Rarely do the well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels overthrow the evil world government and usher in a new era of freedom and prosperity.

You're right, but it does happen every now and then...

1. The Indian Independence movement
2. The French revolution
3. Mao and The Peoples Republic of China (freedom and prosperity may not apply here, but it was an improvement, no?)

So thar.

    This has got to be one of the dumbest arguments I've ever heard. No, not you, you are stating the facts. It's the conspiracy nuts grasping at any conspiracy they can.

    The idea that Obama (in chronological order): ... was born in and is a citizen of another country. ... was groomed for the last 40-some years to become President of the United States. ... was not vetted by the Democratic party. ... was not vetted by any of his previous employers, associates, affiliates, political enemies, etc. ... plans to take over the world.

    is just nuts. I can make up my own list, that sounds just as plausible.

    Obama was... ... born the son of Malcolm X. ... is really a reptilian alien. ... was trained by senior Nazi officers in South Africa. ... to take over the United States, ... and then take over the world.

    And oh my gosh, that last link explains how serious the matter really is. :)

    This has got to be one of the dumbest arguments I've ever heard. No, not you, you are stating the facts. It's the conspiracy nuts grasping at any conspiracy they can.

    The idea that Obama (in chronological order): ... was born in and is a citizen of another country. ... was groomed for the last 40-some years to become President of the United States. ... was not vetted by the Democratic party. ... was not vetted by any of his previous employers, associates, affiliates, political enemies, etc. ... plans to take over the world.

    is just nuts. I can make up my own list, that sounds just as plausible.

    Obama was... ... born the son of Malcolm X. ... is really a reptilian alien. ... was trained by senior Nazi officers in South Africa. ... to take over the United States, ... and then take over the world.

    And oh my gosh, that last link explains how serious the matter really is. :)

    This has got to be one of the dumbest arguments I've ever heard. No, not you, you are stating the facts. It's the conspiracy nuts grasping at any conspiracy they can.

    The idea that Obama (in chronological order): ... was born in and is a citizen of another country. ... was groomed for the last 40-some years to become President of the United States. ... was not vetted by the Democratic party. ... was not vetted by any of his previous employers, associates, affiliates, political enemies, etc. ... plans to take over the world.

    is just nuts. I can make up my own list, that sounds just as plausible.

    Obama was... ... born the son of Malcolm X. ... is really a reptilian alien. ... was trained by senior Nazi officers in South Africa. ... to take over the United States, ... and then take over the world.

    And oh my gosh, that last link explains how serious the matter really is. :)

    This has got to be one of the dumbest arguments I've ever heard. No, not you, you are stating the facts. It's the conspiracy nuts grasping at any conspiracy they can.

    The idea that Obama (in chronological order): ... was born in and is a citizen of another country. ... was groomed for the last 40-some years to become President of the United States. ... was not vetted by the Democratic party. ... was not vetted by any of his previous employers, associates, affiliates, political enemies, etc. ... plans to take over the world.

    is just nuts. I can make up my own list, that sounds just as plausible.

    Obama was... ... born the son of Malcolm X. ... is really a reptilian alien. ... was trained by senior Nazi officers in South Africa. ... to take over the United States, ... and then take over the world.

    And oh my gosh, that last link explains how serious the matter really is. :)

    This has got to be one of the dumbest arguments I've ever heard. No, not you, you are stating the facts. It's the conspiracy nuts grasping at any conspiracy they can.

    The idea that Obama (in chronological order): ... was born in and is a citizen of another country. ... was groomed for the last 40-some years to become President of the United States. ... was not vetted by the Democratic party. ... was not vetted by any of his previous employers, associates, affiliates, political enemies, etc. ... plans to take over the world.

    is just nuts. I can make up my own list, that sounds just as plausible.

    Obama was... ... born the son of Malcolm X. ... is really a reptilian alien. ... was trained by senior Nazi officers in South Africa. ... to take over the United States, ... and then take over the world.

    And oh my gosh, that last link explains how serious the matter really is. :)

Any individual can only control themselves. We sure as hell can't make everyone else do it.

    But ugly isn't just their weight. Actually, there are a lot of just plain ugly people out there.

    I really expected your link to go to something like this. It would definitely help thin out the herd, as it could be said.

It WOULD be hard to not look up stuff when you went home in the evening, on a multi-day trial.

It's really to hear the people saying "Just turn off your damn phone!" and say "Right on!" but a lot of these juror misconduct cases have been about a juror looking things up online, and then using that information when deliberating in the jury room later.

I'm so used to looking up ANYTHING I'm wondering about... but tour rules are that you're not supposed to base your decision on anything you didn't see or hear in the courtroom.

Interesting discussions here. http://goo.gl/zc77H

The problem is not the media, but the access to data. Given the breadth of the information topics, no one below cabinet level should have been able to see it all, much less some low level clerk. This was a failure of the need to know policy, and the attempt to blame wikileaks or the clerk for the release is clearly an attempt to disguise the failure of method. I covered the technology and ethical issues at length in a blog post when it happened.

I have held DoD and DoE clearance, and have worked with information control for companies like GE and SBC (now at&t)