Shuttle model from the Chinese Pavilion at Hannover Expo 2000 indicates a spaceplane similar to the cancelled European Hermes.
"The spacecraft strongly resembled the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and like the Soyuz, consisted of a forward orbital module, a re-entry capsule, and an aft service module. The configuration was very much like the original Soyuz A design of 1962 (itself, in turn, alleged to be very similar to the US General Electric Apollo proposal of the same period). Orientation instruments, evidently consisting of horizon, ion flow and/or stellar/sun sensors, were located at the middle bottom of the service module, as on the Soyuz spacecraft."
I like Apple having cash in hand instead of debt. A lack of debt keeps Apple in business and keeps PowerBooks coming out.
I'd wager that MS is showing interest to nuke Apple's hopes. Push the price up and get Apple into a bidding war and in the end let Apple buy it at a higher price than Apple wanted to. then while Apple scrambles around shoring up finances and cutting small software projects, start cutting support for Apple at MS.
As for this "effectively lock Apple out from some of the best musicians" From looking at Universal's artists, I don't see much that is in the "best" catagory.
In the US improvments to the road network in the west have made it much faster to get around and the improvments are still coming.
An example - I-90 in Washington to I-84 in Oregon - it used to be a hilly 2 lane with a passing lane up hill from with a speed limit of 45-55 where you go to dodge tractor-trailers and farm equipment.
Now it's a four lane state freeway.
It cut off the time of the trip considerably.
Speed limits in the US used to be 55 everywhere, now they get up to 80-85. Even the 2 lane highways in western states are 65-70 mph.
Not to mention the fact that in the west one can still speed with little danger of a ticket.
I would say that the Romans introduced total war a long time before Sherman did.
Of course he had to live off the land, 62,000 troops, 14,500 horses, 19,500 mules, 5,500 cattle and 2,500 wagons cut off from supply trains. Confederate soldiers in the field were no better than Sherman and his 'total war."
"I hope to God he (Wheeler) will never get back to Georgia." - CSA Secretary of State Toombs to CSA Vice-President Stephens.
"Private homes are visted, carpets, blankets and other furniture they can lay thier hands on are taken by force in the presence of the owner" - Charleston Mercury on Wheeler's men.
It is also important to remeber that Sherman didn't just face "old men and boys" in Georgia. Wheeler had 3,000 cavalry against Sherman's 2,000 under Kilpatrick. 10,000 regulars sat in barracks down in Augusta. And Bell had 40,000 regulars heading towards Thomas's Army of Tennessee.
If Sherman when faced those old men and boys, it's not because the South was weak, but because the South didn't send it's regulars to fight him. If Hardee, Wheeler and Bragg had hooked up and entrenched slowing down even a part of Sherman's army, then all might have been lost.
"General Sherman ought to have been totally defeated and ruined, but the sad fact will be handed down to posterity that while Sherman's minions were devastating the country with fire and committing outrages against defenseless women, the men of Georgia staid at home, or at least a portion of them, trying to save what they had." - Texas trooper with Wheeler.
"Now that war has come home to you, you feel very different. You deprecate its horrors, but did not feel them when you sent carloads of soldiers and ammunition, and moulded shells and shot, to carry war to Kentuckey and Tennessee to desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of good people who only asked to live in peace at thier old homes, and under the Government of thier inheritance. But these comparisons are idle. I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect and early success." - Sherman to the mayor of Atlanta.
And Sherman didn't do anything that didn't need to be done to put an end to the war.
Many point to Lee as the "good" general and Sherman as the "bad" general in the war but ignore the fact that Lee was on his way up into Gettysberg looting for supplies. Had the Confederacy won at Gettysburg and started a march across the heart of the Union, would that be a war crime?
As for Sherman - what war crimes did he commit? When one side of the war was still keeping slaves I find it difficult for them to point at the other side and talk about "crimes."
It's not been voted on. Hell all the articles about this story state clearly "the move is likely to touch off strong objections from many Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress." Or that "Congressional Republicans, working with the Bush administration, are maneuvering to make permanent."
Where are we at in this process? Is the President signing it? Hell no it's being discussed. Discussed, not being voted on as we speak, discussed.
The best part is down at the bottom of the SF Gate piece.
"But political jockeying over separate, bipartisan legislation sponsored by Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., appears to have given Hatch the chance to move on the issue much earlier than expected. The Kyl-Schumer measure would eliminate the need for federal agents seeking secret surveillance warrants to show that a suspect is affiliated with a foreign power or agent, such as a terrorist group."
If you are going somewhere for a long period, it's better to take more than less.
Diskwarrior isn't all you need. I'm not talking about installing without a licence. What if you are having a wierd little problem and need to reinstall? Thats why I carry the OS CDs everywhere.
I carry a 30GB drive with all my disk images and burn them when I need them.
Yea, Alpha can't, but I guess if the Beta isn't strong enough it can't either.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium
"It is radioactive (an average 6 keV beta emitter) and has a half-life of 12.26 years. The low-energy beta radiation from tritium cannot penetrate human skin, so tritium is only dangerous if consumed in large quantities."
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Thebe, Amalthea, Metis and Adrastea are small and close in, then Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto. The rest of them are in a mess of orbits going out quite a way.
"Support" is a long, long way from "holding gun to thier heads".
The Soviet Union "supported" all kinds of nasty things but for some reason Marxist-Stalinism doesn't get near as bad of a rap as the US does.
"As for Cambodia, you chose an interesting case. During the U.S. invasion of South Vietnam, the U.S. bombed both Laos and Cambodia without telling congress."
No, the United States President ordered the bombing of VC and NVA troops and thier infrastructure. I don't recall an invasion of South Vietnam, I recall the US sending forces to help the South Vietnamese government who was being invaded by the North.
"Sure, they weren't exterminated with glee, but three years in detention for doing nothing is a tad extreme." You ask any Californian who was alive in 1942 and they'll tell you that if the Japanese hadn't been removed they would have been murdered for being Japanese by the civilians.
I don't remeber the Japanese Americans being put to death during the Second World War. Maybe I was out of town.
"After supporting dictators, initiating military coups, practicing state terror, outright invasion of other countries to maintain its sphere of influence, etc., people still stand up and say, "Yeah, but the U.S. isn't no Hitler!" That Pol Pot was no Hitler either doesn't mean he wasn't a really bad guy."
I'll take what the United States had to do to win the Cold War over the things the Soviet Union, Communist China and North Korea did and do any day of the week.
Pol Pot was nearly as bad as Hitler, and if he'd not had literate people put to death, maybe he could have been as bad as Hitler or strove to be as bad as Mao.
"The genoice of Khmer Rouge really turned out to not be genocide, and more people died that year in US backed wars. Imagine that!"
But the United States didn't target the literate for execution. The United States didn't put classes of people into concentration camps.
"In 1975 the movement, led by Pol Pot , overthrew the Cambodian government, establishing ?Democratic Kampuchea.? The new government carried out a radical program of evacuating cities, closing schools and factories, and herding the population into collective farms. Intellectuals and skilled workers were assassinated, and a total of perhaps as many as 1.5 million died, inclusive of starvation and forced marches."
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/k/khmerr1ou.asp
You find me a source that documents the United States killing or supporting the killing of 1.5 million people from 1975-1979.
"The Khmer Rouge (KR) Communist insurgency ended in 1999 after a series of defections, military defeats, and the capture of group leader Ta Mok. The US State Department removed the group from the list of designated foreign terrorist organizations in 1999. The Cambodian Government has been working on a draft law for the United Nations to establish a court to try former KR for the deaths of up to 2 million persons in Cambodia during the 1975-79 period. "
Noam Chomsky liked the Khmer Rouge's actions in Cambodia.
"If a serious study?is someday undertaken, it may well be discovered?that the Khmer Rouge programs elicited a positive response?because they dealt with fundamental problems rooted in the feudal past and exacerbated by the imperial system.? Such a study, however, has yet to be undertaken." That was written in 1979.
In 1977 he wrote "...analyses by highly qualified specialists who have studied the full range of evidence available, and who concluded that executions have numbered at most in the thousands; that these were localized in areas of limited Khmer Rouge influence and unusual peasant discontent..."
If I spend my life working on something, driving my family into debt and I succeed and make something that will bring money in, my family and I shouldn't be allowed to profit from it?
I personally think the Copyrights have become turned around and should be so that people have the right to copy, but there needs to be a period so that the creator can profit some from the creation.
Profit and betterment from one's work is a right too.
Remeber that in the 1850s the majority of Americans thought whites had the right to own slaves.
Then the majority of Americans didn't want to give voting rights to blacks.
Remeber that in 1940 the majority of Americans thought that the US should stay out of the European war even if Germany defeated the UK. Some polls put the numbers at 70-90% against helping the Allies in Europe against the Germans.
There is no Government imposed tax on Trance or Honky-Tonk that is inflicted on you if you like that music.
See, the American Colonists liked Tea. The British Parliment needed increased tax-revenues to pay for the defense of the American Colonies, so they said "lets tax the tea and make them only get thier tea from Crown companies." Alot of Americans started making thier own alternatives like coffees made from native nuts and barks. Some smuggled tea and some got loaded and threw tea in Boston Harbor. They didn't FORCE anyone to buy anything.
I don't want to buy music, so I don't buy music. It's pretty easy to do.
But don't tell me (tax payer/public University student) that I have to pay for the bandwidth for you to download music. Don't tell me that you have a right to download music on public university networks. Because you don't have the right to tell me that I have to pay for your music "learning".
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Actually, China is the one doing the copying.
Shuttle model from the Chinese Pavilion at Hannover Expo 2000 indicates a spaceplane similar to the cancelled European Hermes.
"The spacecraft strongly resembled the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and like the Soyuz, consisted of a forward orbital module, a re-entry capsule, and an aft service module. The configuration was very much like the original Soyuz A design of 1962 (itself, in turn, alleged to be very similar to the US General Electric Apollo proposal of the same period). Orientation instruments, evidently consisting of horizon, ion flow and/or stellar/sun sensors, were located at the middle bottom of the service module, as on the Soyuz spacecraft."
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/shenzhou.htm
Naw...
I like Apple having cash in hand instead of debt. A lack of debt keeps Apple in business and keeps PowerBooks coming out.
I'd wager that MS is showing interest to nuke Apple's hopes. Push the price up and get Apple into a bidding war and in the end let Apple buy it at a higher price than Apple wanted to. then while Apple scrambles around shoring up finances and cutting small software projects, start cutting support for Apple at MS.
As for this "effectively lock Apple out from some of the best musicians" From looking at Universal's artists, I don't see much that is in the "best" catagory.
With the current economy, I'd rather see MS buy Vivendi.
Then they lose 6-7 billion down a hole of crappy music and Apple keeps it's money in the bank.
I got a dead pixel in my 17 iMac.
Luckily it's way up in the left corner and doesn't really bother me.
Some makers will only swap LCD panels with 5 or more bad pixels.
In the US improvments to the road network in the west have made it much faster to get around and the improvments are still coming.
An example - I-90 in Washington to I-84 in Oregon - it used to be a hilly 2 lane with a passing lane up hill from with a speed limit of 45-55 where you go to dodge tractor-trailers and farm equipment.
Now it's a four lane state freeway.
It cut off the time of the trip considerably.
Speed limits in the US used to be 55 everywhere, now they get up to 80-85. Even the 2 lane highways in western states are 65-70 mph.
Not to mention the fact that in the west one can still speed with little danger of a ticket.
If it doesn't get thrown out by a Federal Court, then it's not unconstitutional.
I was thinking of the Second and Third Punic Wars and what the Romans did to Carthage.
The Huns and other Mongol advances across Asia and Europe are also pretty total war-ish.
I would say that the Romans introduced total war a long time before Sherman did.
Of course he had to live off the land, 62,000 troops, 14,500 horses, 19,500 mules, 5,500 cattle and 2,500 wagons cut off from supply trains. Confederate soldiers in the field were no better than Sherman and his 'total war."
"I hope to God he (Wheeler) will never get back to Georgia." - CSA Secretary of State Toombs to CSA Vice-President Stephens.
"Private homes are visted, carpets, blankets and other furniture they can lay thier hands on are taken by force in the presence of the owner" - Charleston Mercury on Wheeler's men.
It is also important to remeber that Sherman didn't just face "old men and boys" in Georgia. Wheeler had 3,000 cavalry against Sherman's 2,000 under Kilpatrick. 10,000 regulars sat in barracks down in Augusta. And Bell had 40,000 regulars heading towards Thomas's Army of Tennessee.
If Sherman when faced those old men and boys, it's not because the South was weak, but because the South didn't send it's regulars to fight him. If Hardee, Wheeler and Bragg had hooked up and entrenched slowing down even a part of Sherman's army, then all might have been lost.
"General Sherman ought to have been totally defeated and ruined, but the sad fact will be handed down to posterity that while Sherman's minions were devastating the country with fire and committing outrages against defenseless women, the men of Georgia staid at home, or at least a portion of them, trying to save what they had." - Texas trooper with Wheeler.
"Now that war has come home to you, you feel very different. You deprecate its horrors, but did not feel them when you sent carloads of soldiers and ammunition, and moulded shells and shot, to carry war to Kentuckey and Tennessee to desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of good people who only asked to live in peace at thier old homes, and under the Government of thier inheritance. But these comparisons are idle. I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect and early success." - Sherman to the mayor of Atlanta.
Nope. I am not from the South.
And Sherman didn't do anything that didn't need to be done to put an end to the war.
Many point to Lee as the "good" general and Sherman as the "bad" general in the war but ignore the fact that Lee was on his way up into Gettysberg looting for supplies. Had the Confederacy won at Gettysburg and started a march across the heart of the Union, would that be a war crime?
As for Sherman - what war crimes did he commit? When one side of the war was still keeping slaves I find it difficult for them to point at the other side and talk about "crimes."
"Congress to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent"
Well that's not at all accurate.
It's not been voted on. Hell all the articles about this story state clearly "the move is likely to touch off strong objections from many Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress." Or that "Congressional Republicans, working with the Bush administration, are maneuvering to make permanent."
Where are we at in this process? Is the President signing it? Hell no it's being discussed. Discussed, not being voted on as we speak, discussed.
The best part is down at the bottom of the SF Gate piece.
"But political jockeying over separate, bipartisan legislation sponsored by Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., appears to have given Hatch the chance to move on the issue much earlier than expected. The Kyl-Schumer measure would eliminate the need for federal agents seeking secret surveillance warrants to show that a suspect is affiliated with a foreign power or agent, such as a terrorist group."
If you are going somewhere for a long period, it's better to take more than less.
Diskwarrior isn't all you need. I'm not talking about installing without a licence. What if you are having a wierd little problem and need to reinstall? Thats why I carry the OS CDs everywhere.
I carry a 30GB drive with all my disk images and burn them when I need them.
Yea, Alpha can't, but I guess if the Beta isn't strong enough it can't either.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium
"It is radioactive (an average 6 keV beta emitter) and has a half-life of 12.26 years. The low-energy beta radiation from tritium cannot penetrate human skin, so tritium is only dangerous if consumed in large quantities."
Deuterium is stable.
Tritium isn't but it is a low energy beta emitter which can't penetrate human skin.
Fusion does produce neutrons, so you deal with it through a neutron absorber like boron carbide.
Fusion is much cleaner than fission.
OS 9.2.2 CD
OS 10 Install
OS 10.1 Install
OS 10.2 Installs
TechTool Pro
DiskWarrior
2.5 inch Firewire case with at least a 20GB drive
1.8 inch Firewire case with 5 GBs
Apple Software Restore
Application CDs or Disk Images and a CD-RW
Actually, they could. They control most of the distribution system.
They do have a wildly sucessful marketing unit.
If people stopped buying them for jewlery and there was another use like CPUs DeBeers would still control the market.
No, natural diamonds are expensive because DeBeers controls the market.
Aluminum was expensive because it was very hard and expensive to refine.
Gold, Platinum and Silver are rarer metals on Earth, but diamonds are quite common but a cartel is trying to control the entire supply.
For example diamond mining on the Namibian coast consists of sorting diamonds out of the along the coast.
Right now the only non-DeBeers diamonds I know of are the Polar Bear diamonds from Canada.
Many of Jupiter's moons have distant orbits.
Thebe, Amalthea, Metis and Adrastea are small and close in, then Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto. The rest of them are in a mess of orbits going out quite a way.
You can only get the multiple wives if you are in a offshoot Mormon sect. To get statehood the Mormons had to offically do away with polygamy.
No, thier business failed because we could all get something cheaper that did the job as well or better.
Something that seems to be catching in Utah with Novell and Iomega.
"Support" is a long, long way from "holding gun to thier heads".
The Soviet Union "supported" all kinds of nasty things but for some reason Marxist-Stalinism doesn't get near as bad of a rap as the US does.
"As for Cambodia, you chose an interesting case. During the U.S. invasion of South Vietnam, the U.S. bombed both Laos and Cambodia without telling congress."
No, the United States President ordered the bombing of VC and NVA troops and thier infrastructure. I don't recall an invasion of South Vietnam, I recall the US sending forces to help the South Vietnamese government who was being invaded by the North.
"Sure, they weren't exterminated with glee, but three years in detention for doing nothing is a tad extreme." You ask any Californian who was alive in 1942 and they'll tell you that if the Japanese hadn't been removed they would have been murdered for being Japanese by the civilians.
I don't remeber the Japanese Americans being put to death during the Second World War. Maybe I was out of town.
"After supporting dictators, initiating military coups, practicing state terror, outright invasion of other countries to maintain its sphere of influence, etc., people still stand up and say, "Yeah, but the U.S. isn't no Hitler!" That Pol Pot was no Hitler either doesn't mean he wasn't a really bad guy."
I'll take what the United States had to do to win the Cold War over the things the Soviet Union, Communist China and North Korea did and do any day of the week.
Pol Pot was nearly as bad as Hitler, and if he'd not had literate people put to death, maybe he could have been as bad as Hitler or strove to be as bad as Mao.
"The genoice of Khmer Rouge really turned out to not be genocide, and more people died that year in US backed wars. Imagine that!"
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But the United States didn't target the literate for execution. The United States didn't put classes of people into concentration camps.
"In 1975 the movement, led by Pol Pot , overthrew the Cambodian government, establishing ?Democratic Kampuchea.? The new government carried out a radical program of evacuating cities, closing schools and factories, and herding the population into collective farms. Intellectuals and skilled workers were assassinated, and a total of perhaps as many as 1.5 million died, inclusive of starvation and forced marches."
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/k/khmerr1ou.as
You find me a source that documents the United States killing or supporting the killing of 1.5 million people from 1975-1979.
"The Khmer Rouge (KR) Communist insurgency ended in 1999 after a series of defections, military defeats, and the capture of group leader Ta Mok. The US State Department removed the group from the list of designated foreign terrorist organizations in 1999. The Cambodian Government has been working on a draft law for the United Nations to establish a court to try former KR for the deaths of up to 2 million persons in Cambodia during the 1975-79 period. "
http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/khmer.htm
Noam Chomsky liked the Khmer Rouge's actions in Cambodia.
"If a serious study?is someday undertaken, it may well be discovered?that the Khmer Rouge programs elicited a positive response?because they dealt with fundamental problems rooted in the feudal past and exacerbated by the imperial system.? Such a study, however, has yet to be undertaken." That was written in 1979.
In 1977 he wrote "...analyses by highly qualified specialists who have studied the full range of evidence available, and who concluded that executions have numbered at most in the thousands; that these were localized in areas of limited Khmer Rouge influence and unusual peasant discontent..."
OK...
If I spend my life working on something, driving my family into debt and I succeed and make something that will bring money in, my family and I shouldn't be allowed to profit from it?
I personally think the Copyrights have become turned around and should be so that people have the right to copy, but there needs to be a period so that the creator can profit some from the creation.
Profit and betterment from one's work is a right too.
And that is why a democracy isn't always right.
Remeber that in the 1850s the majority of Americans thought whites had the right to own slaves.
Then the majority of Americans didn't want to give voting rights to blacks.
Remeber that in 1940 the majority of Americans thought that the US should stay out of the European war even if Germany defeated the UK. Some polls put the numbers at 70-90% against helping the Allies in Europe against the Germans.
You arn't forced to buy anything you don't want.
There is no Government imposed tax on Trance or Honky-Tonk that is inflicted on you if you like that music.
See, the American Colonists liked Tea. The British Parliment needed increased tax-revenues to pay for the defense of the American Colonies, so they said "lets tax the tea and make them only get thier tea from Crown companies." Alot of Americans started making thier own alternatives like coffees made from native nuts and barks. Some smuggled tea and some got loaded and threw tea in Boston Harbor. They didn't FORCE anyone to buy anything.
I don't want to buy music, so I don't buy music. It's pretty easy to do.
But don't tell me (tax payer/public University student) that I have to pay for the bandwidth for you to download music. Don't tell me that you have a right to download music on public university networks. Because you don't have the right to tell me that I have to pay for your music "learning".