I'll get stuff that isn't the main number for PPD or PFD but it shows up as Portland Police or Portland Fire Department, I'll get my number and my last name, I'll get my number but one digit off the last number, like a 21 instead of a 22 at the end of my number.
I get 503.111.2222 as the number but the caller isn't in Oregon, all sorts of crap like that.
Actually the Income Tax in the United States came about to pay for the Civil War.
From our friends at the IRS - who are still deciding if my grandmother who has been dead for 19 months is really dead or if it's a tax dodge.
"Before the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, the federal government lacked the power to raise revenue directly. Even after the Constitution was ratified, federal revenues came mostly from tariffs and excise taxes. These taxes tend to be regressive, because people with lower incomes had to pay a higher percentage of their income than did people with higher incomes.
"During the Civil War, the federal government required much more revenue than the tariffs and excise taxes could provide. A tax on income was established in 1862 but was abolished after the war. The ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913 gave Congress the right to levy and collect income taxes. Income taxes tend to be progressive because they tax a larger percentage of income from high-income groups than from low-income groups."
http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/jsp/s_ st udent_lessons.jsp
That's assuming that the reporter from the Times even went to Florida and did the interview.
With thier winning record in the last three years, chances are the dude in the picture is stockphoto from a Walmart and the story was written from an iBook in the Queens.
The situation between China and the EU's naviation system and the American GPS system are *not* about the irregularities that might crop up in war-time for commerical applications.
GPS was first and foremost a system to guide naval vessels and weapon systems in bad weather for navigation and warfighting.
The deployment of hand-held GPS units to the VII Corps in Jan-Feb of 1991 ensured a military sucess over the Republican Guards during the massive tank battles in the middle of the desert.
It's the military applications for this navigation system that have the Chinese interested.
So deployment of a warfighting system which gives one an advantage is what is at stake here.
The Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty, Conventional Forces Europe, Washington Naval Treaty all dealt with the construction of warfighting systems and thier limitations and are as stratigic as the develop of and use of weapons systems.
So, in my mind, the arguement that the EU is developing this for prevention and the attack on Iraq for prevention are equally justified.
There is a fine difference...but both are stratigic move none the less.
Everytime you fly or travel by ship to another country, you are controlled by a "system on which our lives increasingly depend being under the control of a foreign military."
LORAN, ATC radar, Radio Beacons, Air Defence is all capable of being turned off by a local government. Remeber what happened over Georgia when that SAM took it down, which is much more likely to happen than Space Command turning off GPS.
Since GPS got into the hands of civilians and commercial users, there have been major NATO/US wars in Serbia-Kosovo, Iraq (twice), Afghanistan, and terror attacks on the US which may have been agumented by GPS, in addition man portable SAM attacks on an airline and against US military aircraft.
How many times has the DoD/Space Command degraded GPS capabilities world-wide or in highly populated regions like Western Europe, China, Eastern Europe, Russia, SE Asia?
Never.
So you want the EU to spend billions of dollars on a redundant system to augment a system which is going to be backed up by a military only navigation system, because the first navigation system *might* be degraded during a war, even though there have been multiple conflicts in multiple theatres of operation and it's not been degraded ever?
Lumber is measured vaugely because of the differences in swelling and shrinking inherent in different kinds of wood and from different treatments.
In the engine specs you can see exactly what the displacement of engines are, it's not in the tiny little print of - Note we use 1,000,000 bytes to measure a megabyte, computer software may read it differently.
For lumber and engine makers to do the same thing as Maxtor or Dell or Apple, they'd sell you a 2x4* and when you measure it you can either use a Georgia Pacific tape measure which shows it as a 2x4 or a regular tape measure which shows the actual dimensions.
Or when you buy your 1100 cc bike, instead of the specs listing is as 1085, there is an 1100* - we measure 1085 as 1100.
I know, but all I read for defense is aerospace, the regular "IT" stuff for the DoD is as boring as the regular "IT" stuff for the private sector
But I imagine that since there seems to be that slow, plodding, Officer-think at DoD that the long-time-system thought that has taken hold since the DoD switched from a new system every 3 years to a new system every 30 years probly trickles down to conventional "IT".
Hell I don't know a thing about the actual state of IT in the DoD, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express lastnight.
From what I've read about system purchasing for the combat arms and aviation the following seems to be important to the DoD when it comes to computing technology.
1. Robustness is important 2. There is growing motivation to buy common systems for all the branches (including Coast Guard) rather than have many specialized systems. 3. Anything you sell the DoD today you have to support for at least 15 years, that includes CPUs like the PowerPC and IA. The new JSF, F-22 and Super Hornet are using Cat-5 and PowerPC chips (in the 132-400 MHz range IIRC) to power the flight computers and to connect systems and buses.
I think the move towards Microsoft isn't so much of a whoring out to MS, as it's a decision based on the fact that MS will be there in 15 years.
What has always struck me as idiotic is that the 959 wasn't street legal in the US while other, non-crash-worthy super cars like the Ferrari F40 and F50, Pantera and Shelby Cobra have been.
And in Germany during the Second World War, for the most part bombing didn't greatly degrade the infrastructure.
Even as the Soviets entered eastern Berlin, it was possible to make a phone call from Nazi Berlin to Soviet Berlin and to grab a train out of the city, as long as the Hitler Youth and SS Warewolves didn't shoot you.
Tactical bombing did have some good times over France at slowing down the rail operations, but for the most part, American, British and German bombing didn't do a good job with the tactics they used.
Also remember that it's estimated that hundreds of thousands of Allied POWs were on the verge of starvation within the Septemeber-December 1945 timeframe, POWs who were saved by the quick end of the war from the atomic bombing.
"At one point, Apple Records sued Apple Computer for trademark infringement because the computer company broke their earlier agreement not to add sound to its computers. The case was settled out of court. Apple computers ever since have included a sound labelled sosumi ("So, sue me")."
No, Teller wasnt't the mad one, Curtis LeMay was the crazy one.
He scared the Congress and President so much as both the head of SAC and as a loon that they instituted the Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons so that he couldn't use them as much as he wanted to.
Actually, 100% of Japanese cities were NOT bombed flat in WW2, but if the Atomic Bombs hadn't been developed and deployed, things would have been much worse.
From the United States Stratigic Bombing Survey for the Pacific War - http://www.anesi.com/ussbs01.htm
"he physical destruction resulting from the air attack on Japan approximates that suffered by Germany, even though the tonnage of bombs dropped was far smaller. The attack was more concentrated in time, and the target areas were smaller and more vulnerable. Not only were the Japanese defenses overwhelmed, but Japan's will and capacity for reconstruction, dispersal, and passive defense were less than Germany's. In the aggregate some 40 percent of the built-up area of the 66 cities attacked was destroyed. Approximately 30 percent of the entire urban population of Japan lost their homes and many of their possessions. The physical destruction of industrial plants subjected to high-explosive attacks was similarly impressive. The larger bomb loads of the B-29s permitted higher densities of bombs per acre in the plant area, and on the average somewhat heavier bombs were used. The destruction was generally more complete than in Germany. Plants specifically attacked with high explosive bombs were, however, limited in number."
And like in Germany, the extensive bombing didn't do as much damage to the infrastructure as hoped or needed.
"The railroad system had not yet been subjected to substantial attack and remained in reasonably good operating condition at the time of surrender. Little damage was suffered which interfered with main line operations. Trains were running through Hiroshima 48 hours after the dropping of the atomic bomb on that city. Damage to local transport facilities, however, seriously disrupted the movement of supplies within and between cities, thereby hindering production, repair work and dispersal operations."
Years ago, when I started working in the Public Sector I remeber there was a place that would sell PowerMac G3s in special configurations for schools, local government and the Federal Government who didn't allow Macs to be bought.
The included a CD of either AIX or MKLinux and were billed on FRPs and Invoices as "Unix RISC Workstations".
They were reboxed so that receiving wouldn't see the Apple boxes, but in all other reguards were G3 Minitower PowerMacs.
I used to play the old Avalon Hill games like MBT and the Israel-Arab conflict stuff, so when I heard about Tac-Ops I bought it.
I buy every new version, and while I don't take part in any multi-player stuff, mainly cause I'm self consious about it, I subscribe to the mailing lists and keep up to date on things.
I have a folder called "downloads" on my Docs volume and a folder called "desktop shit" in my home directory.
When the list of files on my desktop starts to backup under my Konfabulator weather for Portland and Rapid City, it goes into "desktop shit" while all downloads go into downloads.
Once in a while I move all the.dmgs and.sits into another volume on a Firewire drive called "Installers".
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One time I picked up and demanded to talk to a supervisor. I'd looked up the rules on the Oregon State website and told him the rules.
The supervisor laughed and said that he didn't care what Oregon Law said since they were not in Oregon.
I'll get stuff that isn't the main number for PPD or PFD but it shows up as Portland Police or Portland Fire Department, I'll get my number and my last name, I'll get my number but one digit off the last number, like a 21 instead of a 22 at the end of my number.
I get 503.111.2222 as the number but the caller isn't in Oregon, all sorts of crap like that.
I have ID block and Oregon's no solicitation and they still call me.
Thier usual tactic is to use the phone number of the Portland Police or Fire Department or to use my phone number as the spoof when calling me.
Actually the Income Tax in the United States came about to pay for the Civil War.
_ st udent_lessons.jsp
From our friends at the IRS - who are still deciding if my grandmother who has been dead for 19 months is really dead or if it's a tax dodge.
"Before the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, the federal government lacked the power to raise revenue directly. Even after the Constitution was ratified, federal revenues came mostly from tariffs and excise taxes. These taxes tend to be regressive, because people with lower incomes had to pay a higher percentage of their income than did people with higher incomes.
"During the Civil War, the federal government required much more revenue than the tariffs and excise taxes could provide. A tax on income was established in 1862 but was abolished after the war. The ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913 gave Congress the right to levy and collect income taxes. Income taxes tend to be progressive because they tax a larger percentage of income from high-income groups than from low-income groups."
http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/jsp/s
"The postman leaves one of those little slips, and you have to drive to the office to pick the package up."
That's flawed. I don't HAVE to go pick it up.
If Johnny Spaman spends me snail-mail spam that overflows my box, I don't have to get it.
If Timmy Spaman spends me email spam, I have to deal with it and pay for it in someway.
That's assuming that the reporter from the Times even went to Florida and did the interview.
With thier winning record in the last three years, chances are the dude in the picture is stockphoto from a Walmart and the story was written from an iBook in the Queens.
I want to see how an Itanium and Xeon compare, not just the P4 Extra Spicy
The situation between China and the EU's naviation system and the American GPS system are *not* about the irregularities that might crop up in war-time for commerical applications.
GPS was first and foremost a system to guide naval vessels and weapon systems in bad weather for navigation and warfighting.
The deployment of hand-held GPS units to the VII Corps in Jan-Feb of 1991 ensured a military sucess over the Republican Guards during the massive tank battles in the middle of the desert.
It's the military applications for this navigation system that have the Chinese interested.
So deployment of a warfighting system which gives one an advantage is what is at stake here.
The Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty, Conventional Forces Europe, Washington Naval Treaty all dealt with the construction of warfighting systems and thier limitations and are as stratigic as the develop of and use of weapons systems.
So, in my mind, the arguement that the EU is developing this for prevention and the attack on Iraq for prevention are equally justified.
There is a fine difference...but both are stratigic move none the less.
Is also attacking a nation-state like Iraq before they get thier shit togeather enough to bother a Kuwait or an Israel again.
Prevention didn't fly for the Bush Administration as an excuse for the war in many circles.
When you say "degraded" you mean accurate to a couple feet instead of 18-36 inches in perfect conditions.
Everytime you fly or travel by ship to another country, you are controlled by a "system on which our lives increasingly depend being under the control of a foreign military."
LORAN, ATC radar, Radio Beacons, Air Defence is all capable of being turned off by a local government. Remeber what happened over Georgia when that SAM took it down, which is much more likely to happen than Space Command turning off GPS.
Since GPS got into the hands of civilians and commercial users, there have been major NATO/US wars in Serbia-Kosovo, Iraq (twice), Afghanistan, and terror attacks on the US which may have been agumented by GPS, in addition man portable SAM attacks on an airline and against US military aircraft.
How many times has the DoD/Space Command degraded GPS capabilities world-wide or in highly populated regions like Western Europe, China, Eastern Europe, Russia, SE Asia?
Never.
So you want the EU to spend billions of dollars on a redundant system to augment a system which is going to be backed up by a military only navigation system, because the first navigation system *might* be degraded during a war, even though there have been multiple conflicts in multiple theatres of operation and it's not been degraded ever?
Lumber is measured vaugely because of the differences in swelling and shrinking inherent in different kinds of wood and from different treatments.
In the engine specs you can see exactly what the displacement of engines are, it's not in the tiny little print of - Note we use 1,000,000 bytes to measure a megabyte, computer software may read it differently.
For lumber and engine makers to do the same thing as Maxtor or Dell or Apple, they'd sell you a 2x4* and when you measure it you can either use a Georgia Pacific tape measure which shows it as a 2x4 or a regular tape measure which shows the actual dimensions.
Or when you buy your 1100 cc bike, instead of the specs listing is as 1085, there is an 1100* - we measure 1085 as 1100.
I know, but all I read for defense is aerospace, the regular "IT" stuff for the DoD is as boring as the regular "IT" stuff for the private sector
But I imagine that since there seems to be that slow, plodding, Officer-think at DoD that the long-time-system thought that has taken hold since the DoD switched from a new system every 3 years to a new system every 30 years probly trickles down to conventional "IT".
Hell I don't know a thing about the actual state of IT in the DoD, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express lastnight.
From what I've read about system purchasing for the combat arms and aviation the following seems to be important to the DoD when it comes to computing technology.
1. Robustness is important
2. There is growing motivation to buy common systems for all the branches (including Coast Guard) rather than have many specialized systems.
3. Anything you sell the DoD today you have to support for at least 15 years, that includes CPUs like the PowerPC and IA. The new JSF, F-22 and Super Hornet are using Cat-5 and PowerPC chips (in the 132-400 MHz range IIRC) to power the flight computers and to connect systems and buses.
I think the move towards Microsoft isn't so much of a whoring out to MS, as it's a decision based on the fact that MS will be there in 15 years.
What has always struck me as idiotic is that the 959 wasn't street legal in the US while other, non-crash-worthy super cars like the Ferrari F40 and F50, Pantera and Shelby Cobra have been.
There are places that won't take cash.
For instance, I can't pay my rent in cash.
That annoys me.
And in Germany during the Second World War, for the most part bombing didn't greatly degrade the infrastructure.
Even as the Soviets entered eastern Berlin, it was possible to make a phone call from Nazi Berlin to Soviet Berlin and to grab a train out of the city, as long as the Hitler Youth and SS Warewolves didn't shoot you.
Tactical bombing did have some good times over France at slowing down the rail operations, but for the most part, American, British and German bombing didn't do a good job with the tactics they used.
Also remember that it's estimated that hundreds of thousands of Allied POWs were on the verge of starvation within the Septemeber-December 1945 timeframe, POWs who were saved by the quick end of the war from the atomic bombing.
Sosumi did come from the Apple Records situation
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Records
"At one point, Apple Records sued Apple Computer for trademark infringement because the computer company broke their earlier agreement not to add sound to its computers. The case was settled out of court. Apple computers ever since have included a sound labelled sosumi ("So, sue me")."
No, Teller wasnt't the mad one, Curtis LeMay was the crazy one.
He scared the Congress and President so much as both the head of SAC and as a loon that they instituted the Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons so that he couldn't use them as much as he wanted to.
Actually, 100% of Japanese cities were NOT bombed flat in WW2, but if the Atomic Bombs hadn't been developed and deployed, things would have been much worse.
From the United States Stratigic Bombing Survey for the Pacific War - http://www.anesi.com/ussbs01.htm
"he physical destruction resulting from the air attack on Japan approximates that suffered by Germany, even though the tonnage of bombs dropped was far smaller. The attack was more concentrated in time, and the target areas were smaller and more vulnerable. Not only were the Japanese defenses overwhelmed, but Japan's will and capacity for reconstruction, dispersal, and passive defense were less than Germany's. In the aggregate some 40 percent of the built-up area of the 66 cities attacked was destroyed. Approximately 30 percent of the entire urban population of Japan lost their homes and many of their possessions. The physical destruction of industrial plants subjected to high-explosive attacks was similarly impressive. The larger bomb loads of the B-29s permitted higher densities of bombs per acre in the plant area, and on the average somewhat heavier bombs were used. The destruction was generally more complete than in Germany. Plants specifically attacked with high explosive bombs were, however, limited in number."
And like in Germany, the extensive bombing didn't do as much damage to the infrastructure as hoped or needed.
"The railroad system had not yet been subjected to substantial attack and remained in reasonably good operating condition at the time of surrender. Little damage was suffered which interfered with main line operations. Trains were running through Hiroshima 48 hours after the dropping of the atomic bomb on that city. Damage to local transport facilities, however, seriously disrupted the movement of supplies within and between cities, thereby hindering production, repair work and dispersal operations."
Years ago, when I started working in the Public Sector I remeber there was a place that would sell PowerMac G3s in special configurations for schools, local government and the Federal Government who didn't allow Macs to be bought.
The included a CD of either AIX or MKLinux and were billed on FRPs and Invoices as "Unix RISC Workstations".
They were reboxed so that receiving wouldn't see the Apple boxes, but in all other reguards were G3 Minitower PowerMacs.
Stuff on the US Navy and Cold Fusion
s /t r/1862/tr1862-vol1.pdf
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/pub
Hubble was not built under the cheaper=better flag. Hubble was built in the same time frame as Cassini and Calileo.
I used to play the old Avalon Hill games like MBT and the Israel-Arab conflict stuff, so when I heard about Tac-Ops I bought it.
I buy every new version, and while I don't take part in any multi-player stuff, mainly cause I'm self consious about it, I subscribe to the mailing lists and keep up to date on things.
Great game, great support, great community.
I have a folder called "downloads" on my Docs volume and a folder called "desktop shit" in my home directory.
.dmgs and .sits into another volume on a Firewire drive called "Installers".
When the list of files on my desktop starts to backup under my Konfabulator weather for Portland and Rapid City, it goes into "desktop shit" while all downloads go into downloads.
Once in a while I move all the