Good post and it touches on a big problem with Europeans being critical of the United States in matters like Katrina and Creationism.
They don't have the first frackin' idea how the United States works and they blanket everything on the Feds and "The United States does X".
OK everyone, first thing to grasp is that the Federal Government doesn't run the United States at every level. The Federal Government does international relations, military, and crap between states. If Tommy murders someone in Detroit, the Federal Government doesn't deal with that, there are no national police to arrest Tommy. If Wilima hits Miami, Bush can't send in troops unless Jeb Bush asks formally for em and so on and on.
The second thing to grasp is the States of the United States have governments of thier own and have many, many more powers than the Feds in terms of the crap that's not in the Constitution of the United States. Oregon and Kansas and Iowa decide on gay marriages, NOT the Feds.
The third thing to grasp are the tens of thousands of lower sub-state governments with the power to tax, levy and call elections, School Districts, School Boards, Local Governments, Counties, Parishes, Townships, Cities, Regional Governments, special entities, etc.
Example - I live in Portland Oregon. So theres the United States - Oregon - Metro (regional government) - Multnomah County - Portland - Portland Public Schools - Oregon Liquor Control Commission - DEQ and a other governments/entities that oversee where I live in basicly that level of importance.
School Districts are the battle ground of the Creationism fight, NOT the United States.
I've read wikipedia,/., the Register and alot of other places for a long long time. I'm a geek. I remember/. when it was Chips and Dips for godsake and the great comment ban of '98 during Operation Desert Fox.
The Register has gotten more and more snarky in it's reporting. I don't know if it's a change in writers or tightening due to the Recession in Tech since '00. It's gotten so rough IMO that I don't go there anymore.
Orlowski is terrible, when I've corrected him or commented to him I've gotten crappy responses when I was civil.
He said on Beyond the Music that'll he'll take any role offered because he's been poor and been a thief and he's not above taking people's money when they offer it for a role.
So he'll taking crappy bit parts in crap movies because it's a paycheck.
He's one of the few rappers that are still around who actually came up from the street and used rap to get away from a real life of crime.
"Ice-T was born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents died when he was young and he was orphaned to Los Angeles. There he found a passion in music but became immersed in South LA gang life and whores. He enlisted in the U.S. Army." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-T
If I remember correctly, he was a pimp for a while and also robbed jewlery stores and did a stand in the California Prison System, then got out, stole more, settled down with a girl and rapped.
First, lets get a fusion reactor to work before we claim it's the best system. For all we know 1.4 billion gerbils in balls might be the best system, which also hasn't been tried.
So, the Space Elevator which has none of the materials in existence at this time and none of the engineering done is LESS tangled and complicated that the ISS?
Thats BS, a 144,000 km long construct of materals that don't exist right now can not cost less than two ISS.
He lost me when he said the Space Elevator would be easier than rebuilding New Orleans.
"It is similar in size to that, but it's also similar in size to the Boston Big Dig. It's small compared to, say, rebuilding New Orleans in money or effort."
BS, we have no idea how much it would cost in money or effort because it's not been done. None of the technology exists, none of the materials exist, none of the real engineering work has been done.
Thats either trolling or ignorance. This is what governmnets do, they tax people or make them get licences so the government can pay for things. Nothing about fascism, its all about revenue streams for the local and state governments.
We have small business licences, drivers licences, health inspection, car inspections, DEQ checks, mufflers, building inspections, licencing and bonding, it's all about exclusion to raise your fees and revenue streams for the government.
In mammals and reptiles Passive flight a. Gliding b. Parachuting; Soaring Powered flight
Bugs The first animals to take to the air under control. Carboniferous The only flying creatures that evolved flapping flight without sacrificing limbs to form the wings.
Parachuting can evolve in animals with rather low metabolic rates. It does not require the high metabolic rate of birds and bats, which have powered flight. Late Permian reptile Coelurosauravus Bones jointed for folding
No gliding lepidosaur is known from the fossil record after the Triassic, so the living lizard Draco which also uses elongated ribs to support an airfoil, must represent yet another independent evolution of gliding
Insects, much much earlier, gliding flight in reptiles, gliding flight in mammals, powered flight in birds, powered flight in reptiles, powered flight in mammals.
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Capitalist or Marxist, it doesn't matter. The Soviets wern't sending folks from Albania and Vietnam up because they were great scientists of the revolution.
This is spam in a can, don't matter why, as long as they can pay.
Well, yea the UK has censored the situation in NI. Articles in American and European magazines about the IRA were censored, the one I remember the most was Playboy in the 80s which had an interview with the IRA removed and blacked out when they went on sale in the UK.
After a series of controversies in the 1970s, successive governments were able to stop broadcasters interviewing active members of the IRA or INLA. The INLA interview on the BBC's Tonight was the last occasion on which such an interview was heard on British television. On October 19 1988 Douglas Hurd introduced a notice under clause 13(4) of the BBC Licence and Agreement and section 29(3) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 prohibiting the broadcast of direct statements by representatives or supporters of eleven Irish political and military organisations. The Broadcasting Ban, as it became known, is the first and, so far, the only use of this power to directly and overtly rule out a whole class of political viewpoints since the beginning of British broadcasting history.
Now as to the comment that the Bush administration is the most anti-democratic administration in recent history, in what context? Do town, local, state and Federal elections go on in the US? Yes. In many states in 2004 there were a record number of voter driven referendums, so where do you come up with that statement?
"... so all the U.N. needs to do is to get buy in from those countries and pass laws that say conflicts must be resolved to show the U.N. specified authoritative DNS"
Yea and then the US vetos it at UN Security Council.
"The EU, China, Russia, and most other big players in the U.N. are on board."
Gee, I wonder why, so the EU looks like it's important and so they can quash speech, so Russia does...something and so China and quash speech. Theres a huge leap from "The company running.com for the entire world once, without warning, redirected and failed requests to for-profit advertisements" to China's saying there is no Tibet and no Taiwan.
If the UN takes it over, hell.il could be banned. What happens when you have a situation where nations that don't reckonize one another (Israel - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc or China - Taiwan) don't allow traffic to flow between the countries? It's a terrible scheme they are talking about.
You are completely correct. This is a case of the EU wanting to "fix" something that isn't broken and by "fixing" I mean allow governments the ability to shut down speech. Before people point fingers at the United States for percieved wrong when it comes to speech, one only need look at The UK's stance on speech with it's continous censorship of the Northern Ireland situation in the media and a recent comment by a Minister in France stating that the people of France shouldn't have been allowed to see the EU Constitution because it "confused" them and thats why the EU Constitution vote in France failed.
The EU is failing and the last 60 years of Nanny-State is failing due to lower birthrates and higher welfare expenses in the EU and so some states are lashing out to try to make the EU mean something.
I am 100% against the EU's push in regards to the Internet.
And also there are domestic and international laws and treaties which stifle this. The VirginGalactic sale skirted the Non-Proliferation Treaty and American laws on transfering techonolgy with military applications.
No, manned space is not for the public. Manned spaceflight is government spending to keep sectors of the aerospace industry alive and to provide dollars to engineers and to further materials and rocket science.
Its similar to the trickle system of continously building large warships, fighters and rebuilding tanks, the Federal Government has to keep spending money to keep those sectors afloat for when they are really needed like from a protracted war.
They are called submarines. In the littorals, quiet subs have a very, very good chance of getting within torpedo range of American warships, even in deep water the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano shows that a fast-attack can sneak into a group and hit a captial ship.
Detecting submarines isn't easy, even for the US Navy. You get into an area with wrecks or noise from cross currents and it's very easy to miss a diesel-electric on batteries. As more and more people move to urban areas along the coastlines the Navies of the world will be concentrating in those shore areas and the whole war navies fight and defend against submarines change due to the fact that littorals are different than deep water. US Navy is moving big into littoral combat systems.
Go to Boeing's products heading, defense systems, space systems, commerical aviation, military aviation. Airbus builds commerical airplanes, that's it.
Just because it's the 9th most common element in the crust does not mean it exsists in deposits or forms that can be economically mined.
It is widely distributed and occurs primarily in the minerals anatase, brookite, ilmenite, perovskite, rutile, titanite (sphene), as well in many iron ores. Of these minerals, only ilmenite and rutile have significant economic importance, yet even they are difficult to find in high concentrations.
Thats the important part, the minerals with economic importance are hard to find in high concentrations.
Seriously, from your comment that it's irreversible, why should anyone change anything? Infact from that statement that "Climate change is irreversible", we should stop all fuel cell R&D, all fusion and pebble reactor R&D and throw that money into exploiting all the fossil fuels on Earth, all the coal, all the natural gas, methane clathrates, tar sand and oil shale.
I took an undergraduate course on Global Climate change and I remember one student who was always going on about hidden costs and price supports and how unstable things were and that we need fuel cells and a hydrogen economy and once we have a hydrogen economy where fuels have basicly no emissions, we need to then cut energy use. The two ideas don't work togeather, if we have cheap fuels that pollutive, why do we need to cut energy use?
Same with your comment, if we can't fix the problem with reducing CO2 or anything, why the hell should we cut CO2 at all?
1. Looking at recent hurricanes says nothing about climate change, it says more about a cyclical nature of Atlantic Basin Tropical Storms. 2. The climate might be changing itself, we see a marked increase in solar radiation and other bodies in the Solar System are warming at rates similar to Earth. Theres not near as much research into this as there is into human created climate change however for a number of political reasons. 3. Kyoto wasn't as much about changing the climate as it was about shackling the US industry with the same sort of political restraints as the European nations have. Nor will Kyoto solve any problems at all while it costs economies trillions of dollars. How much does Kyoto cost? Roughly 95 billion dollars at this point while it's lowered the temprature 0.001003259 C
A Minuteman III goes up 700 miles, then at the top of the arc kicks off the MIRV platform.
"CryoSat will measure variations in ice elevation and thickness with an accuracy of the order of a centimetre per year. CryoSat, weighing about 700 kg, will circle the earth in a polar orbit of about 720 km. From there its radar will measure the changes in the thickness of the polar and ocean ice."
447 miles, well within the design celling of an ICBM.
XM does compress the music channels alot. But they have a very good compression system in place, when XM and Sirius were first in beta testing I read a review in an audiophile magazine on them, I want to say from memory that music channels were lower bit-rates than 128k mp3s and even then they were dogging Sirus over thier quality.
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Good post and it touches on a big problem with Europeans being critical of the United States in matters like Katrina and Creationism.
They don't have the first frackin' idea how the United States works and they blanket everything on the Feds and "The United States does X".
OK everyone, first thing to grasp is that the Federal Government doesn't run the United States at every level. The Federal Government does international relations, military, and crap between states. If Tommy murders someone in Detroit, the Federal Government doesn't deal with that, there are no national police to arrest Tommy. If Wilima hits Miami, Bush can't send in troops unless Jeb Bush asks formally for em and so on and on.
The second thing to grasp is the States of the United States have governments of thier own and have many, many more powers than the Feds in terms of the crap that's not in the Constitution of the United States. Oregon and Kansas and Iowa decide on gay marriages, NOT the Feds.
The third thing to grasp are the tens of thousands of lower sub-state governments with the power to tax, levy and call elections, School Districts, School Boards, Local Governments, Counties, Parishes, Townships, Cities, Regional Governments, special entities, etc.
Example - I live in Portland Oregon. So theres the United States - Oregon - Metro (regional government) - Multnomah County - Portland - Portland Public Schools - Oregon Liquor Control Commission - DEQ and a other governments/entities that oversee where I live in basicly that level of importance.
School Districts are the battle ground of the Creationism fight, NOT the United States.
I've read wikipedia, /., the Register and alot of other places for a long long time. I'm a geek. I remember /. when it was Chips and Dips for godsake and the great comment ban of '98 during Operation Desert Fox.
The Register has gotten more and more snarky in it's reporting. I don't know if it's a change in writers or tightening due to the Recession in Tech since '00. It's gotten so rough IMO that I don't go there anymore.
Orlowski is terrible, when I've corrected him or commented to him I've gotten crappy responses when I was civil.
He said on Beyond the Music that'll he'll take any role offered because he's been poor and been a thief and he's not above taking people's money when they offer it for a role.
So he'll taking crappy bit parts in crap movies because it's a paycheck.
He's one of the few rappers that are still around who actually came up from the street and used rap to get away from a real life of crime.
"Ice-T was born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents died when he was young and he was orphaned to Los Angeles. There he found a passion in music but became immersed in South LA gang life and whores. He enlisted in the U.S. Army."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-T
If I remember correctly, he was a pimp for a while and also robbed jewlery stores and did a stand in the California Prison System, then got out, stole more, settled down with a girl and rapped.
First, lets get a fusion reactor to work before we claim it's the best system. For all we know 1.4 billion gerbils in balls might be the best system, which also hasn't been tried.
So, the Space Elevator which has none of the materials in existence at this time and none of the engineering done is LESS tangled and complicated that the ISS?
Thats BS, a 144,000 km long construct of materals that don't exist right now can not cost less than two ISS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
He lost me when he said the Space Elevator would be easier than rebuilding New Orleans.
"It is similar in size to that, but it's also similar in size to the Boston Big Dig. It's small compared to, say, rebuilding New Orleans in money or effort."
BS, we have no idea how much it would cost in money or effort because it's not been done. None of the technology exists, none of the materials exist, none of the real engineering work has been done.
Licensing sales is now fascism?
Thats either trolling or ignorance. This is what governmnets do, they tax people or make them get licences so the government can pay for things. Nothing about fascism, its all about revenue streams for the local and state governments.
We have small business licences, drivers licences, health inspection, car inspections, DEQ checks, mufflers, building inspections, licencing and bonding, it's all about exclusion to raise your fees and revenue streams for the government.
Not facsism.
Theres alot of throw away prototypes in the Burgess Shale.
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/Burgess_Shale/
Now on that note, auto and aerospace programs throw away alot of prototypes too.
In mammals and reptiles
Passive flight
a. Gliding
b. Parachuting;
Soaring
Powered flight
Bugs
The first animals to take to the air under control.
Carboniferous
The only flying creatures that evolved flapping flight without sacrificing limbs to form the wings.
Parachuting can evolve in animals with rather low metabolic rates.
It does not require the high metabolic rate of birds and bats, which have powered flight.
Late Permian reptile Coelurosauravus
Bones jointed for folding
No gliding lepidosaur is known from the fossil record after the Triassic, so the living lizard Draco which also uses elongated ribs to support an airfoil, must represent yet another independent evolution of gliding
Insects, much much earlier, gliding flight in reptiles, gliding flight in mammals, powered flight in birds, powered flight in reptiles, powered flight in mammals.
Capitalist or Marxist, it doesn't matter. The Soviets wern't sending folks from Albania and Vietnam up because they were great scientists of the revolution.
This is spam in a can, don't matter why, as long as they can pay.
Well, yea the UK has censored the situation in NI. Articles in American and European magazines about the IRA were censored, the one I remember the most was Playboy in the 80s which had an interview with the IRA removed and blacked out when they went on sale in the UK.
After a series of controversies in the 1970s, successive governments were able to stop broadcasters interviewing active members of the IRA or INLA. The INLA interview on the BBC's Tonight was the last occasion on which such an interview was heard on British television. On October 19 1988 Douglas Hurd introduced a notice under clause 13(4) of the BBC Licence and Agreement and section 29(3) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 prohibiting the broadcast of direct statements by representatives or supporters of eleven Irish political and military organisations. The Broadcasting Ban, as it became known, is the first and, so far, the only use of this power to directly and overtly rule out a whole class of political viewpoints since the beginning of British broadcasting history.
Now as to the comment that the Bush administration is the most anti-democratic administration in recent history, in what context? Do town, local, state and Federal elections go on in the US? Yes. In many states in 2004 there were a record number of voter driven referendums, so where do you come up with that statement?
"... so all the U.N. needs to do is to get buy in from those countries and pass laws that say conflicts must be resolved to show the U.N. specified authoritative DNS"
.com for the entire world once, without warning, redirected and failed requests to for-profit advertisements" to China's saying there is no Tibet and no Taiwan.
Yea and then the US vetos it at UN Security Council.
"The EU, China, Russia, and most other big players in the U.N. are on board."
Gee, I wonder why, so the EU looks like it's important and so they can quash speech, so Russia does...something and so China and quash speech. Theres a huge leap from "The company running
If the UN takes it over, hell .il could be banned. What happens when you have a situation where nations that don't reckonize one another (Israel - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc or China - Taiwan) don't allow traffic to flow between the countries? It's a terrible scheme they are talking about.
You are completely correct. This is a case of the EU wanting to "fix" something that isn't broken and by "fixing" I mean allow governments the ability to shut down speech. Before people point fingers at the United States for percieved wrong when it comes to speech, one only need look at The UK's stance on speech with it's continous censorship of the Northern Ireland situation in the media and a recent comment by a Minister in France stating that the people of France shouldn't have been allowed to see the EU Constitution because it "confused" them and thats why the EU Constitution vote in France failed.
The EU is failing and the last 60 years of Nanny-State is failing due to lower birthrates and higher welfare expenses in the EU and so some states are lashing out to try to make the EU mean something.
I am 100% against the EU's push in regards to the Internet.
And also there are domestic and international laws and treaties which stifle this. The VirginGalactic sale skirted the Non-Proliferation Treaty and American laws on transfering techonolgy with military applications.
No, manned space is not for the public. Manned spaceflight is government spending to keep sectors of the aerospace industry alive and to provide dollars to engineers and to further materials and rocket science.
Its similar to the trickle system of continously building large warships, fighters and rebuilding tanks, the Federal Government has to keep spending money to keep those sectors afloat for when they are really needed like from a protracted war.
They are called submarines. In the littorals, quiet subs have a very, very good chance of getting within torpedo range of American warships, even in deep water the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano shows that a fast-attack can sneak into a group and hit a captial ship.
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Detecting submarines isn't easy, even for the US Navy. You get into an area with wrecks or noise from cross currents and it's very easy to miss a diesel-electric on batteries. As more and more people move to urban areas along the coastlines the Navies of the world will be concentrating in those shore areas and the whole war navies fight and defend against submarines change due to the fact that littorals are different than deep water. US Navy is moving big into littoral combat systems.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/sh
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/sh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano
In the long run, Boeing is in better shape than Airbus since Boeing is diversified and Airbus is not.
http://www.airbus.com/en/
http://www.boeing.com/flash.html
Go to Boeing's products heading, defense systems, space systems, commerical aviation, military aviation.
Airbus builds commerical airplanes, that's it.
Just because it's the 9th most common element in the crust does not mean it exsists in deposits or forms that can be economically mined.
It is widely distributed and occurs primarily in the minerals anatase, brookite, ilmenite, perovskite, rutile, titanite (sphene), as well in many iron ores. Of these minerals, only ilmenite and rutile have significant economic importance, yet even they are difficult to find in high concentrations.
Thats the important part, the minerals with economic importance are hard to find in high concentrations.
If we can't stop it, why try?
Seriously, from your comment that it's irreversible, why should anyone change anything? Infact from that statement that "Climate change is irreversible", we should stop all fuel cell R&D, all fusion and pebble reactor R&D and throw that money into exploiting all the fossil fuels on Earth, all the coal, all the natural gas, methane clathrates, tar sand and oil shale.
I took an undergraduate course on Global Climate change and I remember one student who was always going on about hidden costs and price supports and how unstable things were and that we need fuel cells and a hydrogen economy and once we have a hydrogen economy where fuels have basicly no emissions, we need to then cut energy use. The two ideas don't work togeather, if we have cheap fuels that pollutive, why do we need to cut energy use?
Same with your comment, if we can't fix the problem with reducing CO2 or anything, why the hell should we cut CO2 at all?
A couple of points.
1. Looking at recent hurricanes says nothing about climate change, it says more about a cyclical nature of Atlantic Basin Tropical Storms.
2. The climate might be changing itself, we see a marked increase in solar radiation and other bodies in the Solar System are warming at rates similar to Earth. Theres not near as much research into this as there is into human created climate change however for a number of political reasons.
3. Kyoto wasn't as much about changing the climate as it was about shackling the US industry with the same sort of political restraints as the European nations have. Nor will Kyoto solve any problems at all while it costs economies trillions of dollars. How much does Kyoto cost? Roughly 95 billion dollars at this point while it's lowered the temprature 0.001003259 C
ICBMs were all multistage when you got to the later generations.
- 100n.htm
This was an UR-100N / SS-19 STILLETO correct?
Number of Stages - 3
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/ur
The demilitarization for commercial use generally has the final stage removed, destroyed under treaty varification, and a commercial stage added.
Actually, they went up a long way.
3 -specs.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/lgm-30_
A Minuteman III goes up 700 miles, then at the top of the arc kicks off the MIRV platform.
"CryoSat will measure variations in ice elevation and thickness with an accuracy of the order of a centimetre per year. CryoSat, weighing about 700 kg, will circle the earth in a polar orbit of about 720 km. From there its radar will measure the changes in the thickness of the polar and ocean ice."
447 miles, well within the design celling of an ICBM.
XM does compress the music channels alot. But they have a very good compression system in place, when XM and Sirius were first in beta testing I read a review in an audiophile magazine on them, I want to say from memory that music channels were lower bit-rates than 128k mp3s and even then they were dogging Sirus over thier quality.