I was typing Big Three, then I back spaced, because honestly, Chrystler hasn't been a Big since at least 1976.
Toyota might actually fit in as the third Big one, but for now, I'll stick to the Big Two.
With the tax breaks to commercial and farmers reguarding propane and natural gas, it's becoming a no brainer that just good business sense to move away from gas.
In the United States, where the people won't cotton to a vast change, tax breaks and tax hikes to move industries are the only way to make these kinds of moves.
There are vast tracks of the United States, that are not in wildlife preserves, which have not been survyed for oil reserves yet.
An example, on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in north-central South Dakota, there has been 10 test wells drilled, 7 produced oil in the 1950s, 9 were shut down, and there is one producing oil, those test sites were drilled 10-14 miles north of Lantry SD, no other surveying was done at the time.
Yet 12 miles away, 2.4 miles north of Eagle Butte SD near the Bruschke Dam, you will sometimes find small puddles of oil that have bubbled to the surface.
From what I have seen, between the Black Hills and the Missouri River there were only a handful of test wells dug in the 40s and 50s, yet there is considerable evidence of oil in those locations, like there is in Wyoming and Colorado.
I think you'll see it in the United States sooner than you think.
Already farmers and heavy machinery is moving towards natural gas or propane.
The Big Two automakers are pushing fuel cells hard.
What I would hope for in the United States, France and Japan is increased work on advanced fission plants and large scale fuel cell, to replace the gas fired and coal burning fuel plants, then get an H2 infrastructure in place.
Reading the article makes it sound like Iceland isn't going completely oil free.
Sure, it's going oil free for fuels, but what about ink, crayons, bubble gum, dishwashing liquids, deodorant, eyeglasses, CDs, tires, ammonia, road pavement or plastics?
Oh, there would be fallout, just not radio-active fallout.
Drop a 5 ton moon rock on Dallas, and it'd do near as much damage as a 5 ton metorite falling on Dallas.
Personally, I think we should refit some of the Trident D-5s with inert warheads and drop those on hardend targets, 400 pounds of stuff falling from 450 miles will leave a mark.
You are assuming that Bill Gates makes all the business decisions at MS.
I don't assume that, nor do the people writing articles about the XBox.
The article was about the pricing of the consoles and how Microsoft, not Bill Gates, not Steve from the Planet of the Apes, but Microsoft has mishandled the consoles.
I see Bill Gates as living in an Ivory Tower surrounded by Yesmen. Bill Gates was in the right place at the right time, he's no Warren Buffett.
Bill Gates hasn't proven anything about Good Business to me, just that the right connections help, and having packs of $1000 dollar an hour Lawyers help too.
Yea, if the Moon was over the US and the Chinese dropped a penny, the penny would fall right there at the Chinese Astronaut's foot, imagine the horror in the US!
Now if the Chinese put a big mass driver up there and chucked a couple metric tons a shot at the US, it'd be something.
I was at work, and when I walked by a radio I caught something about Concorde. I yelled to my boss "The Concorde crashed I think!". He said. "No way, it can't crash, it's the Concorde."
For me, an aerospace buff, that crash was as big as the Challenger.
I remeber when the transcripts from the Concorde crash were released, it was really chilling, thinking about those pilots, knowing something bad is happening, and trying with all thier might to abort to Le Bourget, and that big Delta is stalling and Christian Marty can only say "Too late".
Dialogue was never strong in any of the Star Wars films, partly because Lucas is trying to do a rework of the 30s and 40s serials. Partly cause he can't write.
But frankly, I don't care what movie reviewers say, like Michael Atkinson of the Village Voice, there trying to make an issue out of the "racist sterotypes" of the last film. It's these attempts at making films non-confrontational or "clean" and non-offensive to everyone that has taken the story from "Sum of All Fears" and rewrote it so the Arabs won't be offended. Do the Germans get to be offended at World War Two films protraying them as killers?
I rambled, I need a Coke, in short. I don't feel movie critcis should be listened too, IMO they are nothing more than paid Comic Book Store Guys with newspapers and TV programs to vent upon.
"I can work for a software company completely over the internet, both in work and in payment. You can be sure that the government is going to want to collect income tax on that employment."
Sure you can, and the Government, Federal, State and Local can get a piece of your money based on where you reside, because I doubt you reside on the Internet, and where your employeer's physical location is.
An Adult is allowed the rights set forth in the Constitution, but a Minor is a ward of a parent and does not have the same protections that an Adult has.
Besides, no where in the Constitution does it say that persons are afforded free and clear access to any content or media they want.
The Supreme Court has ruled many times that "fringe" or "obsence" or "dangerous" speech can be infringed upon by State, Local and Federal laws. Child porn, yelling fire in a crowed space, sales of porn to minors, are all Constitutional.
I would say that a ban on the sales of these games to minors at a county or state level would be proper, but not at the Federal level.
That's what the Air Force calls it, and when you refer to the "Stealth Fighter", you are usually considered to be refering to the 117.
I think the Air Force gave the 117 the F, because at the time, Fighters and Attack were under control of TAC, and if they'd given it a B, it'd be under SAC.
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I was typing Big Three, then I back spaced, because honestly, Chrystler hasn't been a Big since at least 1976.
Toyota might actually fit in as the third Big one, but for now, I'll stick to the Big Two.
With the tax breaks to commercial and farmers reguarding propane and natural gas, it's becoming a no brainer that just good business sense to move away from gas.
In the United States, where the people won't cotton to a vast change, tax breaks and tax hikes to move industries are the only way to make these kinds of moves.
There are vast tracks of the United States, that are not in wildlife preserves, which have not been survyed for oil reserves yet.
An example, on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in north-central South Dakota, there has been 10 test wells drilled, 7 produced oil in the 1950s, 9 were shut down, and there is one producing oil, those test sites were drilled 10-14 miles north of Lantry SD, no other surveying was done at the time.
Yet 12 miles away, 2.4 miles north of Eagle Butte SD near the Bruschke Dam, you will sometimes find small puddles of oil that have bubbled to the surface.
From what I have seen, between the Black Hills and the Missouri River there were only a handful of test wells dug in the 40s and 50s, yet there is considerable evidence of oil in those locations, like there is in Wyoming and Colorado.
We just havn't explored there yet.
I think you'll see it in the United States sooner than you think.
Already farmers and heavy machinery is moving towards natural gas or propane.
The Big Two automakers are pushing fuel cells hard.
What I would hope for in the United States, France and Japan is increased work on advanced fission plants and large scale fuel cell, to replace the gas fired and coal burning fuel plants, then get an H2 infrastructure in place.
What does that mean?
No fuel oils, gasoline, kerosene?
Or does it mean no products made from oil at all?
Reading the article makes it sound like Iceland isn't going completely oil free.
Sure, it's going oil free for fuels, but what about ink, crayons, bubble gum, dishwashing liquids, deodorant, eyeglasses, CDs, tires, ammonia, road pavement or plastics?
The days of the 300 dollar toilet seats is from the era of sealed bids that the militray had to accept no matter what.
A contractor hears about an obscure bid, then submits a crazy bid in hopes he gets it. He does, the military is screwed.
It's a legacy of the Democrat controlled Senate from the early 60s.
The system was reformed in the late 80s under intense pressure from the Reagan and Bush administrations.
I got a GameCube this weekend and I found it to have better controllers than the PS2.
I hate the Dreamcast and XBox ones.
"We have historically seen the game industry pave the trail for the military. Doom. Quake. Combat. The list goes on."
Does it? I thought the idea of using rockets and machine guns and assault rifles came during the Second World War, silly me, it came from id software.
"I think that the next thing we can expect is military vehicles with this kind of high-tech controller. Imagine a tank or helicopter with 40 buttons."
From the fighters, cargo planes and helicopters I've seen, there are more than 40 buttons in the cockpit.
"but names like Sony and Linux are going to be very important to security and stability in this new world we are forging."
Names like Colt, Armalite, Boeing, BAe, Airbus, General Dynamics Land Systems and FLIR are going to be much more important.
Yep, but in the Mars series, wasn't the ice much deeper?
Didn't they use big Fusion bombs like 40 km down to melt the ice?
PBS isn't a business model that's sustainable.
Unless you consider Federal funding as a viable model for TV business.
The majority of PBS money comes from the Federal Government, other money comes from companies, and then what debt is left, they bug the public for.
Oh, there would be fallout, just not radio-active fallout.
Drop a 5 ton moon rock on Dallas, and it'd do near as much damage as a 5 ton metorite falling on Dallas.
Personally, I think we should refit some of the Trident D-5s with inert warheads and drop those on hardend targets, 400 pounds of stuff falling from 450 miles will leave a mark.
You are assuming that Bill Gates makes all the business decisions at MS.
I don't assume that, nor do the people writing articles about the XBox.
The article was about the pricing of the consoles and how Microsoft, not Bill Gates, not Steve from the Planet of the Apes, but Microsoft has mishandled the consoles.
I see Bill Gates as living in an Ivory Tower surrounded by Yesmen. Bill Gates was in the right place at the right time, he's no Warren Buffett.
Bill Gates hasn't proven anything about Good Business to me, just that the right connections help, and having packs of $1000 dollar an hour Lawyers help too.
Yea, if the Moon was over the US and the Chinese dropped a penny, the penny would fall right there at the Chinese Astronaut's foot, imagine the horror in the US!
Now if the Chinese put a big mass driver up there and chucked a couple metric tons a shot at the US, it'd be something.
It was a failure, but it wasn't a technology distaster, what, three people died there?
I was at work, and when I walked by a radio I caught something about Concorde. I yelled to my boss "The Concorde crashed I think!". He said. "No way, it can't crash, it's the Concorde."
For me, an aerospace buff, that crash was as big as the Challenger.
I remeber when the transcripts from the Concorde crash were released, it was really chilling, thinking about those pilots, knowing something bad is happening, and trying with all thier might to abort to Le Bourget, and that big Delta is stalling and Christian Marty can only say "Too late".
Dialogue was never strong in any of the Star Wars films, partly because Lucas is trying to do a rework of the 30s and 40s serials. Partly cause he can't write.
But frankly, I don't care what movie reviewers say, like Michael Atkinson of the Village Voice, there trying to make an issue out of the "racist sterotypes" of the last film. It's these attempts at making films non-confrontational or "clean" and non-offensive to everyone that has taken the story from "Sum of All Fears" and rewrote it so the Arabs won't be offended. Do the Germans get to be offended at World War Two films protraying them as killers?
I rambled, I need a Coke, in short. I don't feel movie critcis should be listened too, IMO they are nothing more than paid Comic Book Store Guys with newspapers and TV programs to vent upon.
It's a 122.8 MB Quicktime Movie.
Just a warning.
My 1991 Olds 98 has the auto-off delay headlights.
:)
My Grandma's 89 Buick Park Ave did the same thing.
There's 2 pre 1992s
Because, between oh...about 1905 and 1989 there was a push for Communism to take over the world.
The FBI was paranoid about that.
But the words "Windows XP" stood out in the Japanese text.
Thanks, but I'm alright with my TiBook.
"I can work for a software company completely over the internet, both in work and in payment. You can be sure that the government is going to want to collect income tax on that employment."
Sure you can, and the Government, Federal, State and Local can get a piece of your money based on where you reside, because I doubt you reside on the Internet, and where your employeer's physical location is.
So, when this is in effect, and someone pays for Slashdot to be add free, does Slashdot have to collect the tax on the transaction and pay the EU?
An Adult is allowed the rights set forth in the Constitution, but a Minor is a ward of a parent and does not have the same protections that an Adult has.
Besides, no where in the Constitution does it say that persons are afforded free and clear access to any content or media they want.
The Supreme Court has ruled many times that "fringe" or "obsence" or "dangerous" speech can be infringed upon by State, Local and Federal laws. Child porn, yelling fire in a crowed space, sales of porn to minors, are all Constitutional.
I would say that a ban on the sales of these games to minors at a county or state level would be proper, but not at the Federal level.
How so?
My 4 and a half year old Mac is still running OS 9.2.2 and OS 10.1.4 just fine.
I doubt that when I go home tonight, OS 9 won't run.
All he said is whats been happening since 9.1 came out, Apple has stopped devloping the OS 7-8-9 code base and are going to move everything to OS X.
Since Oct 2000, there were only 2 minor updates to OS 9 anyway.
Just because they arn't going to develop for OS 9 anymore doesn't mean OS 9 that's installed is going to stop working.
The F in F-117, means Fighter.
That's what the Air Force calls it, and when you refer to the "Stealth Fighter", you are usually considered to be refering to the 117.
I think the Air Force gave the 117 the F, because at the time, Fighters and Attack were under control of TAC, and if they'd given it a B, it'd be under SAC.