Water is an issue. But it's not because of pollution, it's because more and more people are living because of increased food production and distrobution where there isn't enough water to support them.
Market forces will force advances in desal and moving water to where the demand is.
Without the EPA, the public will demand clean and abundant water and the industry will bend to that will.
I was just down to the store yesterday for new cartridges for the gasmask...
No, I wasn't. Infant mortality is down about everywhere, the water is getting cleaner in industrialized countries and the Corps hate organic food. People are living longer and longer with high quality of living through thier lives. So how is it like now?
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/ Ho me
"Armadillo Aerospace is a small research and development team working oncomputer-controlled hydrogen peroxide rocket vehicles, with an eye towards manned suborbital vehicle development in the coming years. The team currently consists of a bunch of guys, a girl, and an armadillo named Widget. Ourfearless leader, John Carmack, will lead us to space and, well, outer space. Please feel free to make yourselves at home and check out our journey."
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Books and the setting are great. His is the only Sci-Fi I read these days.
Some notes/corrections to your post.
The Culture is NOT the human race. The Humanoids in the Culture are from across this Galaxy, but if they've made contact with Humanity on Earth is alluded to in a post-scrip to one of the early Culture novels. Basicly Humanoids that can inter-breed are widespread across the Galaxy, a reason for this is alcohol, mentioned while a character was drunk and in jest.
There are many species in Culture, a large percentage of them are humanoid with various differences, but mostly like us.
AI have been given full rights in Culture and it's late shards, on a sliding scale of rights vs. sentience.
Player of Games is a good start for the setting, Extension I liked the least.
Me? I remeber alot of it. It's important to look at a subject from multiple angles.
I'm a Historian, I don't read one book or source on something and decide, well that's it.
The BBC or CNN or Foxnews or FT aren't enough.
The goal of a copyright when copyrights were established was the have a short window for the author, then to open it wide for people to copy. Copy Right.
Look at Piri Reis's atlas of 1517, it says that those who copy it and offer it freely are doing the work of God and will be blessed by the Creator of the Universe.
I don't "trust" any news organization. Everyone has a slant, a bias, even those who claim to not have one, like Reuters does in regards to not using words so as not to piss off thier "sources", sources that might be inclined to murder/rape/kidnap Reuters reporters if the organization calls the source a murder/terrorist/kidnapper.
I trust a columnist or"talking-head" even less than I trust a news organization.
That said, I like BBC.co.uk enough that I don't hardly ever surf CNN, well for headlines sometimes CNN updates faster than BBC, most of the time for quick look at whats up I hit Drudge, and Drudge is a great source for breaking news.
I forgot one, a must read each and every day.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm News From KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK
"As a Brit, news.bbc.co.uk is the only news source I check."
And people say Americans don't look close enough at things outside the US for thier own good.
The BBC is good, but like CNN and Reuters, it can not be considered good enough to be the only source of news for a person.
Not only am I an American, I'm one of those terrible "neo-con" "red-staters". You know the type of person that is working for a Jewish cabel and watches nothing but Fox News and listens to Limbaugh all the time.
In my News Menu http://www.drudgereport.com/ http://www.sla shdot.org/ http://www.jpost.com/ http://www.maar ivintl.com/index.cfm http://www.haaretzdaily.com/ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/ http://www.a rabnews.com/ http://www.dailystar.com.lb/ http:/ /news.bbc.co.uk/ http://www.cia.gov/cia/publicati ons/factbook/index.html http://news.google.com/ http://www.gulf-da ily-news.com/home.asp http://news.ft.com/home/us
It's Israeli and Middle East heavy because that's my speciality, well Ottoman 16th century till now in the Middle East.
OK, what's going on to Arab citizens or those percieved of being Arabs is NOTHING at all like what happened to Italians, Japanese or Germans in the United States or UK during WW2.
There were 10,905 German and German-American internees in WW2. The Alien Enemy Act of 1798 allows the detainment of foreign nationals of any country with whom the USA is at war. Thus, there were internees of Japan, Germany, and Italy.
Internment is different from the better known relocation of enemy aliens from a war zone. Internment is an arrest process by the FBI with internment administered by the Justice Department and, during WW2, detention through the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
About 300,000 German-born U.S. resident aliens were not detained; they and their families, were required to carry I.D. certificates limiting their travel and seizing of their personal property such as cameras and radios.
http://www.ww2pacific.com/german.html
Roughly 120,000 Japanese were interned or removed from the coast
6-7000 Italians interned in Canada, 4000 in the United States.
Whats happening with Patriot Act, is less invasive than what happened during the Civil War, WW1 and WW2.
"Someone working for our president can point his finger at you and say, "you, come with me," and then you spend years in a cage without a lawyer, due process, a phone call, etc, is bad." Well Lincoln did that to lawyers and newspaper editors that didn't go along with the War. Has Ward Churchil been thrown in jail or kicked out of the country yet? Nope, in the 1860s he would have been.
After the Revolution thousands of families were forced out of the Colonies because of thier Loyalist feelings. In the First World War Germans were discriminated against and the speaking of German was all but outlawed.
German Agents found in the US were declared spies, denied Civil Trials and executed.
If it does really allow for Civil Rights violations than the Supreme Court will deal with it. Until the Supreme Court or Federal Courts say it's violating Civil Rights, its not.
That's comparing Apples and Roast Beef. The POW/Detention Camp at Gitmo has NOTHING at all to do with Patriot Act.
In the Second World War POWs were held until over 18 month after the war in the US camps, there was a call to hold them through '47-48 to held with the harvests.
Making a long distance call in the US is complicated?
You dial the number, like 1-987-654-1212 and it goes through.
And with 181 million land lines, theres a chance you get bad connections, in my experiance, the vast majority of land line calls I hear are crystal clear. But I've got a good line at home, less than a km from the main exchange for Portland Oregon.
Compared to my experiance with landlines in Israel or Holland and how terrible the sound quality was, I think from a landline pov we do really well.
Profits have ALWAYS come before speech and personal freedoms, here, there, anywhere. Hell the maps during the Age of Exploration were written in code to keep someone else from reading them.
Now, Apple or Microsoft or IBM or Ford have as much right to protect thier company secrets as I have at keeping Joe Hacker out of my personal documents at home on my computer.
And yea, everyone has the right to sound like a jackass.
Free speech is between the people and the government, all over the World there are cases where an individual takes someone to court and is able to make them stop saying or printing something, or win damages.
People do it, companies do it. Don't confuse that with a governmental issue, blaming America is just flamebait reactionary.
Stephen King did this with the Stand, no one is ripping on King for it. It was prased in the reviews I saw of it at the time (1990). Hell it was done to the Bible lord knows how many times with books removed, translations changed, etc.
Historians do this sometimes with reprintings and new editions. For example, one sitting on my desk right now, Guilmartin, John F. Gunpowder and Galleys, Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the 16th Century , a new edition came out recently and he'd changed things, rewrote things and so on.
I don't know about Seattle, but holy hell Portland news is in that awkward phase between a small town and a city so we have the worst mix of human interest and big city news. Last night the eruption coverage was terrible.
I was back in South Dakota last summer watching the old KELO news out of Sioux Falls and it was more professional than all of the Portland stations put togeather.
Well a handgun is an "arm" like the Second Amendmenters might scream, since the introduction of firearms in the Western military tradition Officers carried handguns, so they are legitimate military arms.
The United States Congress indicated who is in the actual militia.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode10/ us c_sec_10_00000311----000-.html TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > 311 The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are-- (1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
It's because of word count. Word doesn't properly count the number of words in footnotes/endnotes and Lawyers need the word count to be spot on for billing purposes.
That's what a couple bosses who worked in IT in lawoffices told me. Some english professors told me about other things in WP that are better than MS Word for formatting, but I don't recall what they are.
Even if much of it is lower quality, and really, filmed documentaries usually aren't very high quality in terms of documentation or peer reviewing like a book or journal does. However a filmed documentary does allow accessability to a subject for someone that might not know about something, and that accessability allows more people to become exposed to the subject.
In allowing accessabiliy and exposure, I'd say the Discovery-History arc of channels and programing are doing a good thing.
Oh, I don't think that Sci Fi and Comedy are the only real innovators in Cable, at least in North America. HBO reinvented the miniseries, Discovery-History reinvented the documentary/educational series and later on the whole home and auto improvement genre. ESPN totally redid sports reporting and news as well as creating events like the NFL draft which had gone from a non-event to 3-4 day round the clock event with very high ratings for cable.
And of course Cinemax created a whole new market for softcore porn at all hours.
I live in Portland OR, where the radio market sucks, but I also travel back and forth to South Dakota and Wyoming, so Satellite radio (XM) is a huge bonus, you get out there in Montana and Wyoming and theres nothing on FM and often nothing at all on AM during the day. You can put the tuner on search for an hour and get no hits.
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Water is an issue. But it's not because of pollution, it's because more and more people are living because of increased food production and distrobution where there isn't enough water to support them.
Market forces will force advances in desal and moving water to where the demand is.
Without the EPA, the public will demand clean and abundant water and the industry will bend to that will.
"Seems pretty much like now to me"
I was just down to the store yesterday for new cartridges for the gasmask...
No, I wasn't. Infant mortality is down about everywhere, the water is getting cleaner in industrialized countries and the Corps hate organic food. People are living longer and longer with high quality of living through thier lives. So how is it like now?
He means Armadillo Aerospace
/ Ho me
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo
"Armadillo Aerospace is a small research and development team working oncomputer-controlled hydrogen peroxide rocket vehicles, with an eye towards manned suborbital vehicle development in the coming years. The team currently consists of a bunch of guys, a girl, and an armadillo named Widget. Ourfearless leader, John Carmack, will lead us to space and, well, outer space. Please feel free to make yourselves at home and check out our journey."
Books and the setting are great. His is the only Sci-Fi I read these days.
Some notes/corrections to your post.
The Culture is NOT the human race. The Humanoids in the Culture are from across this Galaxy, but if they've made contact with Humanity on Earth is alluded to in a post-scrip to one of the early Culture novels. Basicly Humanoids that can inter-breed are widespread across the Galaxy, a reason for this is alcohol, mentioned while a character was drunk and in jest.
There are many species in Culture, a large percentage of them are humanoid with various differences, but mostly like us.
AI have been given full rights in Culture and it's late shards, on a sliding scale of rights vs. sentience.
Player of Games is a good start for the setting, Extension I liked the least.
Me? I remeber alot of it. It's important to look at a subject from multiple angles.
I'm a Historian, I don't read one book or source on something and decide, well that's it.
The BBC or CNN or Foxnews or FT aren't enough.
The goal of a copyright when copyrights were established was the have a short window for the author, then to open it wide for people to copy. Copy Right.
Look at Piri Reis's atlas of 1517, it says that those who copy it and offer it freely are doing the work of God and will be blessed by the Creator of the Universe.
So, hell, Google is doing God's Work.
I don't "trust" any news organization. Everyone has a slant, a bias, even those who claim to not have one, like Reuters does in regards to not using words so as not to piss off thier "sources", sources that might be inclined to murder/rape/kidnap Reuters reporters if the organization calls the source a murder/terrorist/kidnapper.
I trust a columnist or"talking-head" even less than I trust a news organization.
That said, I like BBC.co.uk enough that I don't hardly ever surf CNN, well for headlines sometimes CNN updates faster than BBC, most of the time for quick look at whats up I hit Drudge, and Drudge is a great source for breaking news.
I forgot one, a must read each and every day.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm
News From KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK
"As a Brit, news.bbc.co.uk is the only news source I check."
a shdot.org/r ivintl.com/index.cfm/ a rabnews.com// /news.bbc.co.uk/i ons/factbook/index .htmla ily-news.com/home.asp
And people say Americans don't look close enough at things outside the US for thier own good.
The BBC is good, but like CNN and Reuters, it can not be considered good enough to be the only source of news for a person.
Not only am I an American, I'm one of those terrible "neo-con" "red-staters". You know the type of person that is working for a Jewish cabel and watches nothing but Fox News and listens to Limbaugh all the time.
In my News Menu
http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://www.sl
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.maa
http://www.haaretzdaily.com
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/
http://www.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
http:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publicat
http://news.google.com/
http://www.gulf-d
http://news.ft.com/home/us
It's Israeli and Middle East heavy because that's my speciality, well Ottoman 16th century till now in the Middle East.
I check all of those at least once a day.
This the only MMORPG I've played because, it works on the Mac and because none of the other ones really made me want to buy them for my PC.
Its rock steady on my G5, Cosmos works and I can play 8-12 hours straight without it crashing.
All the planets have an atmosphere of some sort. Mercury is trace, but there is something, a little something.
Venus to Pluto have atmo, so there are 8 bodies and Io, Callisto, Ganymede, Titan, Enceladus and Triton.
I thought I'd hit submit Monday, but I forgot to.
OK, what's going on to Arab citizens or those percieved of being Arabs is NOTHING at all like what happened to Italians, Japanese or Germans in the United States or UK during WW2.
There were 10,905 German and German-American internees in WW2. The Alien Enemy Act of 1798 allows the detainment of foreign nationals of any country with whom the USA is at war. Thus, there were internees of Japan, Germany, and Italy.
Internment is different from the better known relocation of enemy aliens from a war zone. Internment is an arrest process by the FBI with internment administered by the Justice Department and, during WW2, detention through the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
About 300,000 German-born U.S. resident aliens were not detained; they and their families, were required to carry I.D. certificates limiting their travel and seizing of their personal property such as cameras and radios.
http://www.ww2pacific.com/german.html
Roughly 120,000 Japanese were interned or removed from the coast
6-7000 Italians interned in Canada, 4000 in the United States.
Whats happening with Patriot Act, is less invasive than what happened during the Civil War, WW1 and WW2.
"Someone working for our president can point his finger at you and say, "you, come with me," and then you spend years in a cage without a lawyer, due process, a phone call, etc, is bad." Well Lincoln did that to lawyers and newspaper editors that didn't go along with the War. Has Ward Churchil been thrown in jail or kicked out of the country yet? Nope, in the 1860s he would have been.
After the Revolution thousands of families were forced out of the Colonies because of thier Loyalist feelings. In the First World War Germans were discriminated against and the speaking of German was all but outlawed.
German Agents found in the US were declared spies, denied Civil Trials and executed.
If it does really allow for Civil Rights violations than the Supreme Court will deal with it. Until the Supreme Court or Federal Courts say it's violating Civil Rights, its not.
That's the way things work.
That's comparing Apples and Roast Beef. The POW/Detention Camp at Gitmo has NOTHING at all to do with Patriot Act.
In the Second World War POWs were held until over 18 month after the war in the US camps, there was a call to hold them through '47-48 to held with the harvests.
Just for some numbers, and I think it'd be good for the discussion if someone pointed to all the numbers, not me, I've got finals...
o s/ nl.htm
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ge
Telephones - mobile cellular - 12.5 million
Telephones - main lines in use: - 10.004 million
Making a long distance call in the US is complicated?
You dial the number, like 1-987-654-1212 and it goes through.
And with 181 million land lines, theres a chance you get bad connections, in my experiance, the vast majority of land line calls I hear are crystal clear. But I've got a good line at home, less than a km from the main exchange for Portland Oregon.
Compared to my experiance with landlines in Israel or Holland and how terrible the sound quality was, I think from a landline pov we do really well.
And parts of the aircraft can be transonic while the whole thing isn't and sometimes smaller booms can be heard of, like the tip of the tail.
Profits have ALWAYS come before speech and personal freedoms, here, there, anywhere. Hell the maps during the Age of Exploration were written in code to keep someone else from reading them.
Now, Apple or Microsoft or IBM or Ford have as much right to protect thier company secrets as I have at keeping Joe Hacker out of my personal documents at home on my computer.
And yea, everyone has the right to sound like a jackass.
Free speech is between the people and the government, all over the World there are cases where an individual takes someone to court and is able to make them stop saying or printing something, or win damages.
People do it, companies do it. Don't confuse that with a governmental issue, blaming America is just flamebait reactionary.
Stephen King did this with the Stand, no one is ripping on King for it. It was prased in the reviews I saw of it at the time (1990). Hell it was done to the Bible lord knows how many times with books removed, translations changed, etc.
Historians do this sometimes with reprintings and new editions. For example, one sitting on my desk right now, Guilmartin, John F. Gunpowder and Galleys, Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the 16th Century , a new edition came out recently and he'd changed things, rewrote things and so on.
I don't know about Seattle, but holy hell Portland news is in that awkward phase between a small town and a city so we have the worst mix of human interest and big city news. Last night the eruption coverage was terrible.
I was back in South Dakota last summer watching the old KELO news out of Sioux Falls and it was more professional than all of the Portland stations put togeather.
Well a handgun is an "arm" like the Second Amendmenters might scream, since the introduction of firearms in the Western military tradition Officers carried handguns, so they are legitimate military arms.
/ us c_sec_10_00000311----000-.html
The United States Congress indicated who is in the actual militia.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode10
TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > 311
The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are--
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
It's because of word count. Word doesn't properly count the number of words in footnotes/endnotes and Lawyers need the word count to be spot on for billing purposes.
That's what a couple bosses who worked in IT in lawoffices told me. Some english professors told me about other things in WP that are better than MS Word for formatting, but I don't recall what they are.
Even if much of it is lower quality, and really, filmed documentaries usually aren't very high quality in terms of documentation or peer reviewing like a book or journal does. However a filmed documentary does allow accessability to a subject for someone that might not know about something, and that accessability allows more people to become exposed to the subject.
In allowing accessabiliy and exposure, I'd say the Discovery-History arc of channels and programing are doing a good thing.
Oh, I don't think that Sci Fi and Comedy are the only real innovators in Cable, at least in North America. HBO reinvented the miniseries, Discovery-History reinvented the documentary/educational series and later on the whole home and auto improvement genre. ESPN totally redid sports reporting and news as well as creating events like the NFL draft which had gone from a non-event to 3-4 day round the clock event with very high ratings for cable.
And of course Cinemax created a whole new market for softcore porn at all hours.
I live in Portland OR, where the radio market sucks, but I also travel back and forth to South Dakota and Wyoming, so Satellite radio (XM) is a huge bonus, you get out there in Montana and Wyoming and theres nothing on FM and often nothing at all on AM during the day. You can put the tuner on search for an hour and get no hits.