I live in Portland and I've read alot about the morons running PGE Park.
When the Willamette Week webpage works, it's a good place to do a search for PGE Park.
Here are some tidbits
"City officials do not know whether two of Portland's wealthiest businessmen--timber tycoon Peter Stott and car king Scott Thomason--will meet the April 30 deadline to refinance their deal to operate PGE Park. Nor do they know whether their partnership, Portland Family Entertainment, will pay the $1.3 million in back rent and other fees they owe or what the city will do if PFE misses the deadline. The only thing that the city knows for sure is that lawyer Steve Janik, whose law firm represents Stott's company and who has personally represented Stott on other matters, is still representing the city in its efforts to get Stott and Scott to pay up. "
"At that moment, Janik, 55, seemed to be worth every penny of the $480,000 in legal fees that records show the city has paid him for his PFE work since 1998. What few at City Hall apparently knew, however, was that during the time Janik was representing the city regarding PFE, his law firm, Ball Janik, also represented Stott and the company he heads, Crown Pacific, in other legal matters. In fact, several city officials were unaware of the connection until informed by WW."
"Although Stott is crying poor on the $864,000 debt he and his partners at Portland Family Entertainment owe the city, the tycoon reportedly plans to build a house only slightly smaller than PGE Park on the Davenport lot."
"Murmurs hears that with opening day less than a month away, Metropolitan Sports, the successor to Portland Family Entertainment, is in disarray and that the group's revamped deal to operate city-owned PGE Park is in jeopardy. Metropolitan's principals--who include timber tycoon Peter Stott, car king Scott Thomason and Rite Aid CEO Bob Miller--recently asked their former PFE partners to make good on personal guarantees to stadium concessionaire Aramark. Those guarantees were given in exchange for a $2 million advance from Aramark, which the partners used to pay creditors."
They are assholes and idiots and morons, but the ful bodied flavor of all that doesn't come to light entirely from the press release, you have to be here in PDX and read about all the goodness the PGE Park management does.
I'm sorry but the morons that run PGE Park are idiots.
And besides, the city of Portland owns the Park and the group that runs the stadium for the city owes them back rent.
In my mind, since they don't own the stadium, they shouldn't be bitching. It's not like this is going to damage thier hold on the lease. They are doing that without any Wi-Fi signals coming across the fence without Comcast's permission.
You are right, and so was I. The law is grey on deadly force for property.
Generally you can't just kill someone to kick them off your land, however where an intruder threatens personal safety, as well as a threat to property, or where the intruder is committing a forcible felony, deadly force may be appropriate.
I know I've fired a 12 guage in the air before as a warning, which may be thought of as deadly force, but the local police who rolled up later thought it was perfectly acceptable.
Discrimination based on sex and race in hiring or other employment is against Federal and State laws.
However when you are on private property the property hold has the right to refuse service, monitor communications, tape whatever they want. When you go into a 7-11 you don't have the right to tell the manager of 7-11 or a franchisee to turn off the video camera because it may or may not infringe on your rights.
Likewise, if someone comes onto someone else's property the property owner or a representative of that owner has the right to defend the property with deadly force.
It's property, that means it belongs to someone and they have the right to do whatever they want with it as long as it doesn't break federal, state or local laws.
It is more complicated than my early blanket statement
Types of Reservists
All reservists fall into three categories: Ready Reserve - The Ready Reserve includes military members of the Reserve and National Guard, organized in units, or as individuals, who are liable for recall to active duty to augment the active components in time of war or national emergency as provided by law. The Ready Reserve consists of the Selected Reserve, Individual Ready Reserve and Inactive National Guard.
Standby Reserve - The Standby Reserve includes people who maintain their military affiliation without being in the Ready Reserve, who have been designated as key civilian employees or who have a temporary hardship or disability. These individuals are not required to perform training and are not part of units. The Standby Reserve is a pool of trained individuals which can be mobilized if necessary to fill manpower needs in specific skills.
Retired Reserve - The Retired Reserve includes all Reserve officers and enlisted who receive retired pay on the basis of their active duty and/or Reserve service; all Reserve officers and enlisted who are otherwise eligible for retired pay but have not reached age 60, and who have not elected discharge and are not voluntary members of the Ready or Standby Reserve; and select others.
If you've been active duty and served out a stint in active duty you might be called up for duty in case of a national emergency, war, mobilization or if your MOS is needed for up to 10 years. It's called the inactive reserves.
So even if the service is going to delete the records after a person serves it might be a while till they really aren't part of the system.
Like other people mentioned, Fireworks might be illegal in Oregon, but legal across the border in Washington, so we drive up there, buy them, drive home. Or to really mess with thing, stuff might be legal on an Indian Reservation and illegal in the state which surrounds the Reservation, or a Reservation might ban alcohol sales so you drive off the Reservation to buy your booze.
I'm from South Dakota and I once went to college in Minnesota, at the time grain alcohol was illegal in Minnesota so I got beer money by purchasing Everclear in South Dakota, watering it down and selling it in Minnesota for a 300% markup.
If you have a G4 or whatever you DO have a choice of OS. Either an Apple OS or Linux or Darwin.
If you buy a computer from SGI what OS choice do you have when you order it? For the workstation, it don't look like it http://www.sgi.com/workstations/fuel/sys_softw are. html http://www.sgi.com/workstations/tezro/sys_so ftware.html http://www.sgi.com/workstations/octane2/sys _softwa re.html
What Lexmark is doing and what Apple/Sun/SGI are doing is like comparing Apples and Oranges.
Yea, when you buy a G4 you get stuck with OS X and Classic. But Apple doesn't use the DMCA to keep you from installing Linux on the box.
Actually, X-15 was to be replaced by a space plane which had incorporated the lessons learned in the NF-104 Starfighter (which had motors to manouver above 120,000 feet to learn the basics of orbital manouvering). But that was cut.
X doesn't mean buzz when it comes to a project. The X-31 ESTOL is a very sucessful X-plane right now. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/syste ms/air craft/x-31.htm X-32 JSF X-35 JSF
A black budget in the sense of Have Blue (stealth aircraft development) has a line-item of a code name. Members of the Senate and House who are in on the important budgets know about the programs, go see the aircraft. For example aviation magazines mentioned that Senate Select for Defense went to California and saw B-2 as early as 1983 and '85.
Secret programs kept from the Senate would be under discressional spending which is harder to track and harder to procure.
I didn't say it had anything to do with free speech, free expression or free anything.
I said that the Government should, since we are tax payers, make it work with anything.
If it's over the Web (which is supposed to be an open standard for communication across OS/platform/hardware) then the government needs to abide by that standard.
The highway is also an open standard for vehicles, locking out an OS or platform from an open standard is no difference than limiting a make of vehicle or engine type (rotary/V/in-line/diesel).
Porsche isn't a religion either and I didn't say a thing about MP3s now did I?
That's the standard pat answer but it's still not the right answer.
If it's over the Web it should be cross-platform.
Period.
It's the same as if there were highways that didn't allow German cars, or Fords on them.
Percentages don't mean a thing when every professional HTMl editor will validate for Mac OS, Netscape, Windows, IE.
If the Federal Government has anything to do with it, then it should have to work across the major platforms (Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP, Mac OS 9/X, Netscape, KDE browser, Opera).
Volkwagon accounts for less than 2% of the cars sold in North America, so it is acceptable to keep them off the Interstate?
Actually, yea a 5 billion dollar CVN will save the taxpayer money over an old Kitty Hawk.
Firstly a nuclear carrier does away with the need for 2-3 refueling ships. Secondly a newer carrier needs fewer sailors. Thirdly it's not excessively-advanced. Each carrier is the next generation of the carrier before it and each one incorporates the lessons learned from the 70-odd Fleet Carriers which came before it. It's an evolution.
Carriers aren't built for a low intensity conflict like the irregulars (or regulars) causing trouble in Iraq, they are to project power at a stratigic or theatre level. M-16s and tanks are for dealing with the guy on a roof with a sniper rifle.
That said the carrier based strike aircraft and tankers which were off the coast of Pakistan amplified greatly the amount of force the Special Operations units on the ground had when dealing with the Taliban and Al Qadea. F-14s, F-15s, F-16s and F-18s and Mirage 2000s would loiter over Afghanistan until the operators on the ground needed an airstrike, they would aim a laser at the target or feed in the GPS information and the aircraft would drop the bombs with great effectiveness.
If something breaks out the Carriers and Assault Ships of the Navy are the quickest way to project power.
This is a popular arguement and the problem with it is, it's not the job of the Federal Government to solely fund education in the United States, it's the State and local governments job but it is the job of the Federal Government to fund the military.
There's been alot of talk about this big expensive war while local governments are having budget problems and schools are underfunded. That's not the Federal Governments fault, thats the fault of the city, county, district, and state.
I went to a BIA school funded by the Feds, and it was a grand example of how crappy the Federal Government is at funding public education.
Nearly $373 billion of revenues were raised to fund public education for grades prekindergarten through 12 in school year 1999-2000. Total expenditures made by school districts came to nearly $382 billion in the 1999-2000 school year.
According to the U.S.Department of Education, total elementary and secondary education spending is projected to have constituted about $406 billion of that total in the 2000-2001 school year, an increase of about 4 percent over the previous year. It is estimated that about $30 million (7 percent) of these resources are for private schools, while the remaining $375 billion (93 percent) is for public schools.
Total funding for the Department of Education is $50.3 billion, an increase of $374 million over FY02 and the same as the President's Request. Federal funding for education has more than doubled under the leadership of House Republicans.Total discretionary education funding has climbed from $23 billion in FY 1996 to $50 billion in FY 2002, an increase of 117 percent.
You want to help schools, do away with US Department of Ed and give those 50 billion dollars to the state and districts.
The administration of President George W. Bush is requesting $399.1 billion for the military in fiscal year 2004 ($379.9 billion for the Defense Department and $19.3 billion for the nuclear weapons functions of the Department of Energy). This is $16.9 billion above current levels, an increase of 4.4 percent.
Military Personnel - $98.6 billion (care/feeding/pay) Housing - $4.0 billion Operations & Maintenance - $117.0 billion Procurement - $72.7 billion Research & Development - $61.8 billion Military Construction - $5.0 billion
A 'mothballed' ship is held as a long term stratigic reserve force.
An obvious example would be the 4 battleships which were mothballed after the Second World War, some brought out for Korea, some for Vietnam and then in the 80s to give the USN capabilities similar to the Soviet Kirov class battlecruiser.
Another example would be the Lend-Lease Destroyers from the First World War which were handed over the Canadian and British Navies in 1941.
The Connie is in bad shape, it was commissioned in 1961, did 7 tours in Vietnam, had an overhaul in 1975 did the Persian Gulf during the Hostage Crisis in '79-'80, overhauled in 1982-84 then went back to the Gulf, it was put through the SLEP (Service Life Extension Program) from 1990-93 which gave it 15 more years of operational use.
In early April 2002 it was reported that the Navy was considering an option to extend the life of the Constellation beyond 2003. According to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark, the extension would require about $150 million in additional maintenance funds, and about $500 million for each additional year of operations.
A Nimitz class carrier costs around $160 million to operate for a year. If you take into account the total cost of the ship and operations over a 50 year life, a Nimitz costs $444 million a year.
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I live in Portland and I've read alot about the morons running PGE Park.
When the Willamette Week webpage works, it's a good place to do a search for PGE Park.
Here are some tidbits
"City officials do not know whether two of Portland's wealthiest businessmen--timber tycoon Peter Stott and car king Scott Thomason--will meet the April 30 deadline to refinance their deal to operate PGE Park. Nor do they know whether their partnership, Portland Family Entertainment, will pay the $1.3 million in back rent and other fees they owe or what the city will do if PFE misses the deadline. The only thing that the city knows for sure is that lawyer Steve Janik, whose law firm represents Stott's company and who has personally represented Stott on other matters, is still representing the city in its efforts to get Stott and Scott to pay up. "
"At that moment, Janik, 55, seemed to be worth every penny of the $480,000 in legal fees that records show the city has paid him for his PFE work since 1998. What few at City Hall apparently knew, however, was that during the time Janik was representing the city regarding PFE, his law firm, Ball Janik, also represented Stott and the company he heads, Crown Pacific, in other legal matters. In fact, several city officials were unaware of the connection until informed by WW."
"Although Stott is crying poor on the $864,000 debt he and his partners at Portland Family Entertainment owe the city, the tycoon reportedly plans to build a house only slightly smaller than PGE Park on the Davenport lot."
"Murmurs hears that with opening day less than a month away, Metropolitan Sports, the successor to Portland Family Entertainment, is in disarray and that the group's revamped deal to operate city-owned PGE Park is in jeopardy. Metropolitan's principals--who include timber tycoon Peter Stott, car king Scott Thomason and Rite Aid CEO Bob Miller--recently asked their former PFE partners to make good on personal guarantees to stadium concessionaire Aramark. Those guarantees were given in exchange for a $2 million advance from Aramark, which the partners used to pay creditors."
They are assholes and idiots and morons, but the ful bodied flavor of all that doesn't come to light entirely from the press release, you have to be here in PDX and read about all the goodness the PGE Park management does.
I'm sorry but the morons that run PGE Park are idiots.
And besides, the city of Portland owns the Park and the group that runs the stadium for the city owes them back rent.
In my mind, since they don't own the stadium, they shouldn't be bitching. It's not like this is going to damage thier hold on the lease. They are doing that without any Wi-Fi signals coming across the fence without Comcast's permission.
You are right, and so was I. The law is grey on deadly force for property.
Generally you can't just kill someone to kick them off your land, however where an intruder threatens personal safety, as well as a threat to property, or where the intruder is committing a forcible felony, deadly force may be appropriate.
I know I've fired a 12 guage in the air before as a warning, which may be thought of as deadly force, but the local police who rolled up later thought it was perfectly acceptable.
Discrimination based on sex and race in hiring or other employment is against Federal and State laws.
However when you are on private property the property hold has the right to refuse service, monitor communications, tape whatever they want. When you go into a 7-11 you don't have the right to tell the manager of 7-11 or a franchisee to turn off the video camera because it may or may not infringe on your rights.
Likewise, if someone comes onto someone else's property the property owner or a representative of that owner has the right to defend the property with deadly force.
It's property, that means it belongs to someone and they have the right to do whatever they want with it as long as it doesn't break federal, state or local laws.
Aerial photos in the past five years?
In South Dakota we were getting aerial photos of the farmland 30 years ago.
It is more complicated than my early blanket statement
Types of Reservists
All reservists fall into three categories:
Ready Reserve - The Ready Reserve includes military members of the Reserve and National Guard, organized in units, or as individuals, who are liable for recall to active duty to augment the active components in time of war or national emergency as provided by law. The Ready Reserve consists of the Selected Reserve, Individual Ready Reserve and Inactive National Guard.
Standby Reserve - The Standby Reserve includes people who maintain their military affiliation without being in the Ready Reserve, who have been designated as key civilian employees or who have a temporary hardship or disability. These individuals are not required to perform training and are not part of units. The Standby Reserve is a pool of trained individuals which can be mobilized if necessary to fill manpower needs in specific skills.
Retired Reserve - The Retired Reserve includes all Reserve officers and enlisted who receive retired pay on the basis of their active duty and/or Reserve service; all Reserve officers and enlisted who are otherwise eligible for retired pay but have not reached age 60, and who have not elected discharge and are not voluntary members of the Ready or Standby Reserve; and select others.
If you've been active duty and served out a stint in active duty you might be called up for duty in case of a national emergency, war, mobilization or if your MOS is needed for up to 10 years. It's called the inactive reserves.
So even if the service is going to delete the records after a person serves it might be a while till they really aren't part of the system.
Virtual PC already had a Windows licence for most versions although there was a Linux version too.
You can buy AKs legally. I don't have one but I do have a semi-auto AR-15 carbine.
And one can own a full auto one if they register with the Feds and pay the machine-gun tax every year.
BTW the Assault Weapons Ban will sunset in September 2004
No, that's not covered.
But if I set up iTunes to sharing, and my girlfriend across the room or at work listens to those MP3s is that illegal?
I emailed these two idiots this morning and the DNC about this bill.
I bought G3 ROMs before.
I had an older G3 which couldn't handle slave on the IDE bus so I got a newer rev ROM.
Actually, Apple used DMCA to keep Other World Computing from patching iDVD so it'd work with other external and internal DVD-RWs
That's all I found from looking for Apple DMCA and Apple DMCA ROM
It's common here.
Like other people mentioned, Fireworks might be illegal in Oregon, but legal across the border in Washington, so we drive up there, buy them, drive home. Or to really mess with thing, stuff might be legal on an Indian Reservation and illegal in the state which surrounds the Reservation, or a Reservation might ban alcohol sales so you drive off the Reservation to buy your booze.
I'm from South Dakota and I once went to college in Minnesota, at the time grain alcohol was illegal in Minnesota so I got beer money by purchasing Everclear in South Dakota, watering it down and selling it in Minnesota for a 300% markup.
If you have a G4 or whatever you DO have a choice of OS. Either an Apple OS or Linux or Darwin.
w are. htmlo ftware .htmls _softwa re.html
If you buy a computer from SGI what OS choice do you have when you order it? For the workstation, it don't look like it
http://www.sgi.com/workstations/fuel/sys_soft
http://www.sgi.com/workstations/tezro/sys_s
http://www.sgi.com/workstations/octane2/sy
What Lexmark is doing and what Apple/Sun/SGI are doing is like comparing Apples and Oranges.
Yea, when you buy a G4 you get stuck with OS X and Classic. But Apple doesn't use the DMCA to keep you from installing Linux on the box.
I first used NeXT on 486 in 1995 at a print shop, it was running a big ( room sized) Oce printer/scanner. It was really slick.
Then when Mac OS X Server 1.0 came out we bought that and used it to replace an AppleShare IP 6.5 install.
Actually, X-15 was to be replaced by a space plane which had incorporated the lessons learned in the NF-104 Starfighter (which had motors to manouver above 120,000 feet to learn the basics of orbital manouvering). But that was cut.
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X doesn't mean buzz when it comes to a project.
The X-31 ESTOL is a very sucessful X-plane right now.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/syst
X-32 JSF
X-35 JSF
Indeed, the guy who wrote it did sound like a smart ass.
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The United States has come to the point of a reusable space-plane a number of times and at the last minute gives it up.
Like the X-15. It flew, it worked, the engine worked, 1 man to almost space, it could have gone to space and back but the budget was cut.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/x15/c
Dyna-Soar
ttp://www.aerospaceguide.net/dynasoa
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/dynasoar.
X-24
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/x24a.htm
I'm unsure of the use for TIA and I'm unsure of how bad it would be and unsure of what good they will get.
/. in the 1980s have been like?
Totally off topic, what would
What would the comments to stories about F-117 or B-2 or GPS have been like?
Apple releases IIsi - 20 MHz and a 20 MB SCSI drive for under $7,000!
That's not how it works.
A black budget in the sense of Have Blue (stealth aircraft development) has a line-item of a code name. Members of the Senate and House who are in on the important budgets know about the programs, go see the aircraft. For example aviation magazines mentioned that Senate Select for Defense went to California and saw B-2 as early as 1983 and '85.
Secret programs kept from the Senate would be under discressional spending which is harder to track and harder to procure.
I didn't say it had anything to do with free speech, free expression or free anything.
I said that the Government should, since we are tax payers, make it work with anything.
If it's over the Web (which is supposed to be an open standard for communication across OS/platform/hardware) then the government needs to abide by that standard.
The highway is also an open standard for vehicles, locking out an OS or platform from an open standard is no difference than limiting a make of vehicle or engine type (rotary/V/in-line/diesel).
Porsche isn't a religion either and I didn't say a thing about MP3s now did I?
That's the standard pat answer but it's still not the right answer.
If it's over the Web it should be cross-platform.
Period.
It's the same as if there were highways that didn't allow German cars, or Fords on them.
Percentages don't mean a thing when every professional HTMl editor will validate for Mac OS, Netscape, Windows, IE.
If the Federal Government has anything to do with it, then it should have to work across the major platforms (Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP, Mac OS 9/X, Netscape, KDE browser, Opera).
Volkwagon accounts for less than 2% of the cars sold in North America, so it is acceptable to keep them off the Interstate?
The first iMac could have a Voodoo 2 card put in the seriously unsupported expansion slot.
The G3 All-In-One box (education and government only) which I have has 3 PCI slots and works great with a Radeon card for a second display.
Actually, yea a 5 billion dollar CVN will save the taxpayer money over an old Kitty Hawk.
Firstly a nuclear carrier does away with the need for 2-3 refueling ships. Secondly a newer carrier needs fewer sailors. Thirdly it's not excessively-advanced. Each carrier is the next generation of the carrier before it and each one incorporates the lessons learned from the 70-odd Fleet Carriers which came before it. It's an evolution.
Carriers aren't built for a low intensity conflict like the irregulars (or regulars) causing trouble in Iraq, they are to project power at a stratigic or theatre level. M-16s and tanks are for dealing with the guy on a roof with a sniper rifle.
That said the carrier based strike aircraft and tankers which were off the coast of Pakistan amplified greatly the amount of force the Special Operations units on the ground had when dealing with the Taliban and Al Qadea. F-14s, F-15s, F-16s and F-18s and Mirage 2000s would loiter over Afghanistan until the operators on the ground needed an airstrike, they would aim a laser at the target or feed in the GPS information and the aircraft would drop the bombs with great effectiveness.
If something breaks out the Carriers and Assault Ships of the Navy are the quickest way to project power.
This is a popular arguement and the problem with it is, it's not the job of the Federal Government to solely fund education in the United States, it's the State and local governments job but it is the job of the Federal Government to fund the military.
There's been alot of talk about this big expensive war while local governments are having budget problems and schools are underfunded. That's not the Federal Governments fault, thats the fault of the city, county, district, and state.
I went to a BIA school funded by the Feds, and it was a grand example of how crappy the Federal Government is at funding public education.
Nearly $373 billion of revenues were raised to fund public education for grades prekindergarten through 12 in school year 1999-2000. Total expenditures made by school districts came to nearly $382 billion in the 1999-2000 school year.
According to the U.S.Department of Education, total elementary and secondary education spending is projected to have constituted about $406 billion of that total in the 2000-2001 school year, an increase of about 4 percent over the previous year. It is estimated that about $30 million (7 percent) of these resources are for private schools, while the remaining $375 billion (93 percent) is for public schools.
Total funding for the Department of Education is $50.3 billion, an increase of $374 million over FY02 and the same as the President's Request. Federal funding for education has more than doubled under the leadership of House Republicans.Total discretionary education funding has climbed from $23 billion in FY 1996 to $50 billion in FY 2002, an increase of 117 percent.
You want to help schools, do away with US Department of Ed and give those 50 billion dollars to the state and districts.
The administration of President George W. Bush is requesting $399.1 billion for the military in fiscal year 2004 ($379.9 billion for the Defense Department and $19.3 billion for the nuclear weapons functions of the Department of Energy). This is $16.9 billion above current levels, an increase of 4.4 percent.
Military Personnel - $98.6 billion (care/feeding/pay)
Housing - $4.0 billion
Operations & Maintenance - $117.0 billion
Procurement - $72.7 billion
Research & Development - $61.8 billion
Military Construction - $5.0 billion
A 'mothballed' ship is held as a long term stratigic reserve force.
An obvious example would be the 4 battleships which were mothballed after the Second World War, some brought out for Korea, some for Vietnam and then in the 80s to give the USN capabilities similar to the Soviet Kirov class battlecruiser.
Another example would be the Lend-Lease Destroyers from the First World War which were handed over the Canadian and British Navies in 1941.
The Connie is in bad shape, it was commissioned in 1961, did 7 tours in Vietnam, had an overhaul in 1975 did the Persian Gulf during the Hostage Crisis in '79-'80, overhauled in 1982-84 then went back to the Gulf, it was put through the SLEP (Service Life Extension Program) from 1990-93 which gave it 15 more years of operational use.
In early April 2002 it was reported that the Navy was considering an option to extend the life of the Constellation beyond 2003. According to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark, the extension would require about $150 million in additional maintenance funds, and about $500 million for each additional year of operations.
A Nimitz class carrier costs around $160 million to operate for a year. If you take into account the total cost of the ship and operations over a 50 year life, a Nimitz costs $444 million a year.