From a quick look, things like high speed rail, tax credits for future transportation technologies, street car projects, cheese museums, signs denoting something a national scenic byway, wetland preservation, Federal Debt reduction, etc.
They should just tie the gas tax as a floating percentage of the average price of fuel for the year before, like 5% instead of a number they pulled out of their asses 18 years ago. So if the price of gas for a tax was 4 dollars a gallon, the current tax would be 20 cents instead of 18.4.
Taxes from things like this shouldn't be spent on anything else.
Heavier vehicles burn more fuel, the farther you drive the more fuel you burn, so heavier and farther already pay a tax.
Now I'd support a per mile tax if the current fuel taxes for road repair and maintenance were removed from the price of gas, but I won't accept a black box in my vehicle.
"...it makes me nervous getting my OS from an App Store — which is strange considering how many kernels I've downloaded, built and booted over the years."
Then buy it in physical media, like the summary and the article clearly state you can.
"...however, Lion will also be available for purchase via the Mac App Store."
"Users will be able to upgrade instantly without the need for physical media by purchasing Lion through the Mac App Store."
"Will be able" does not mean forced.
And this is from a rumors site, not a press release or developer note, take it with a grain of salt.
Its the United Nations, not the United Solar System.
Space Stations have already fallen, two militaries (US and China) have shown the capability to shoot down satellites and by extension, shoot and hit a space station. I can think of three other nations (Israel, Japan and the Russian Federation) who likely have the same capabilities, but just haven't tried it.
The same rules for civilian and commercial aviation should apply to spaceflight, everything is going to have to be IFR of course, but thats the framework they should work from.
The hell they don't, the mandate of the FAA is to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S. Aviation includes everything from zero to 50 miles up for the US regulators.
A large chunk of Pakistan is "war lord wilderness", and OBL wasn't found there, he was found in a middle class neighborhood in a city known for military training establishments and academic institutions.
It's well known that the Pakistani intelligence community assists the Taliban and Al Qadea, hence the CIA and SOCOMs inability to find OBL.
Pakistan entered into a counter terrorism relationship with the United States after 9/11, in part to keep the United States from invading Pakistan on the way to Afghanistan, and they had captured hundreds of Al Qadea members over the last 10 years. Before that, the US and Pakistan had closer relations during the 1960s and 1980s with alot of US military and intelligence assistance going to Pakistan.
Al Qadea had conducted operations against the Pakistani government after 9/11, however some factions of the Pakistani government, the intelligence service and some of the Army, favor the political and religious stance of Al Qadea over the more liberal leanings of the majority of urban Pakistanis.
Pakistan had a legal responsibility to find bin Laden and other Al Qadea members, the fact that his compound was a couple hundred meters from a major Pakistan military academy makes it hard to believe they didn't know where he was.
So you missed the US sending military and technological assistance to Japan after the Earthquake and Tsunami, the US sending food aid to North Korea or the US sending aid or offering to send aid to everyone touched by a natural disaster for the last 60+ years.
You missed the US involvement in the Dayton Peace Talks and US Peacekeepers in Bosnia and later Kosovo, US de-mining operations in North Africa, Afghanistan, South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the constant US Peacekeeping presence in the Sinai since 1982, US involvement in the UN, NATO and a bunch of other organizations.
You are right about North Korea though, they really don't cooperate with anyone.
"Apple's M-O is to *not* implement bleeding edge technology until it can be made practical for most users."
USB on the iMacs and then G3 towers before LINUX had support for it, NT 4 couldn't use it at all and it was a super kludgy hack for Win 95 and 98. Firewire/IEEE 1394 well before it'd work on LINUX and it was a almost impossible to get running and keep running on Windows 98/ME or 2000. DV editing on a desktop, Apple pushed that with iMovie and the Firewire ports on their towers and iMacs. Wifi, first company to push Wifi on laptops and desktops, while not the first computer to ship with a wifi card, first mass marketed computers with it and first advertising campaigns for it DVD mastering - iDVD and the Superdrive chopped the cost of DVD mastering from around 15-20,000 a machine to 2,000 less than a year after the first DVD mastering workstations were available.
I guess no one involved in green lighting this read the PDF.
The NSA pamphlet was only for Windows and Mac users, it didn't mention migrating to LINUX or BSD because it wasn't about alternative OSes, just what current users should go to.
Flight Data Recorders have to do a lot more than what you are proposing.
EUROCAE, which the FAA takes it's specifications from, specifies that a recorder must be able to withstand an acceleration of 3400 g (33 km/s) for 6.5 milliseconds. This is roughly equivalent to an impact velocity of 270 knots (310 mph) and a deceleration or crushing distance of 450 cm. Additionally, there are requirements for penetration resistance, static crush, high and low temperature fires, deep sea pressure, sea water immersion, and fluid immersion.
They record significant flight parameters, including the control and actuator positions, engine information and time of day. There are 88 parameters required as a minimum under current U.S. federal regulations.
Most modern units self eject, they have to be big enough to show up on sonar and have an acoustic and visual beacon for 30 days.
According to the 9/11 Commission Report, both black boxes from Flight 77 and both black boxes from Flight 93 were recovered. However, the CVR from Flight 77 was said to be too damaged to yield any data. On April 18, 2002, the FBI allowed the families of victims from Flight 93 to listen to the voice recordings. In April 2006, a transcript of the CVR was released as part of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial.
As for Kapparot and Brit milah, they are legal because its a damned religious issue.
The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from making a law "respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" This provision was later expanded to state and local governments, through the Incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Outlaw Brit milah and Mohels and you violate the First Amendment.
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From a quick look, things like high speed rail, tax credits for future transportation technologies, street car projects, cheese museums, signs denoting something a national scenic byway, wetland preservation, Federal Debt reduction, etc.
They should just tie the gas tax as a floating percentage of the average price of fuel for the year before, like 5% instead of a number they pulled out of their asses 18 years ago. So if the price of gas for a tax was 4 dollars a gallon, the current tax would be 20 cents instead of 18.4.
Taxes from things like this shouldn't be spent on anything else.
My odometer is tied to a GPS and it uploads travel data? Thats what this proposal was talking about when it first came to light a few months ago.
I can assure you that the odometer on the two automobiles in my family do not have GPS, nor do they transmit any data.
This proposal would have a device installed that did all of that, in the name of gas taxes.
Fact, the Federal Gasoline Tax was last raised in 1993, not the 1980s.
Fact, 40% of the Federal Gasoline Tax doesn't go to transportation construction or maintenance, but to Federal Budget earmarks.
This already happens with fuel taxes.
Heavier vehicles burn more fuel, the farther you drive the more fuel you burn, so heavier and farther already pay a tax.
Now I'd support a per mile tax if the current fuel taxes for road repair and maintenance were removed from the price of gas, but I won't accept a black box in my vehicle.
Maybe the editors should read the summary thats right above their editorialization.
"...it makes me nervous getting my OS from an App Store — which is strange considering how many kernels I've downloaded, built and booted over the years."
Then buy it in physical media, like the summary and the article clearly state you can.
"...however, Lion will also be available for purchase via the Mac App Store."
"Users will be able to upgrade instantly without the need for physical media by purchasing Lion through the Mac App Store."
"Will be able" does not mean forced.
And this is from a rumors site, not a press release or developer note, take it with a grain of salt.
It works right now on a 10.6.7 15" MacBook Pro6,2 with an i5 and 8GB of RAM
Its the United Nations, not the United Solar System.
Space Stations have already fallen, two militaries (US and China) have shown the capability to shoot down satellites and by extension, shoot and hit a space station. I can think of three other nations (Israel, Japan and the Russian Federation) who likely have the same capabilities, but just haven't tried it.
Egypt was a terrible, terrible place to try and start or expand a business.
Unless of course you were a crony of the Mubaraks, then it was easy.
The same rules for civilian and commercial aviation should apply to spaceflight, everything is going to have to be IFR of course, but thats the framework they should work from.
The hell they don't, the mandate of the FAA is to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S. Aviation includes everything from zero to 50 miles up for the US regulators.
A large chunk of Pakistan is "war lord wilderness", and OBL wasn't found there, he was found in a middle class neighborhood in a city known for military training establishments and academic institutions.
It's well known that the Pakistani intelligence community assists the Taliban and Al Qadea, hence the CIA and SOCOMs inability to find OBL.
Pakistan entered into a counter terrorism relationship with the United States after 9/11, in part to keep the United States from invading Pakistan on the way to Afghanistan, and they had captured hundreds of Al Qadea members over the last 10 years. Before that, the US and Pakistan had closer relations during the 1960s and 1980s with alot of US military and intelligence assistance going to Pakistan.
Al Qadea had conducted operations against the Pakistani government after 9/11, however some factions of the Pakistani government, the intelligence service and some of the Army, favor the political and religious stance of Al Qadea over the more liberal leanings of the majority of urban Pakistanis.
Pakistan had a legal responsibility to find bin Laden and other Al Qadea members, the fact that his compound was a couple hundred meters from a major Pakistan military academy makes it hard to believe they didn't know where he was.
Right, but it's hard wired into us for the reasons I mentioned.
Or is supposed to be hard wired into us.
The United States doesn't cooperate?
So you missed the US sending military and technological assistance to Japan after the Earthquake and Tsunami, the US sending food aid to North Korea or the US sending aid or offering to send aid to everyone touched by a natural disaster for the last 60+ years.
You missed the US involvement in the Dayton Peace Talks and US Peacekeepers in Bosnia and later Kosovo, US de-mining operations in North Africa, Afghanistan, South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the constant US Peacekeeping presence in the Sinai since 1982, US involvement in the UN, NATO and a bunch of other organizations.
You are right about North Korea though, they really don't cooperate with anyone.
You might get to have sex and reproduce, its not about what's good for you, but for the species.
"Apple's M-O is to *not* implement bleeding edge technology until it can be made practical for most users."
USB on the iMacs and then G3 towers before LINUX had support for it, NT 4 couldn't use it at all and it was a super kludgy hack for Win 95 and 98.
Firewire/IEEE 1394 well before it'd work on LINUX and it was a almost impossible to get running and keep running on Windows 98/ME or 2000.
DV editing on a desktop, Apple pushed that with iMovie and the Firewire ports on their towers and iMacs.
Wifi, first company to push Wifi on laptops and desktops, while not the first computer to ship with a wifi card, first mass marketed computers with it and first advertising campaigns for it
DVD mastering - iDVD and the Superdrive chopped the cost of DVD mastering from around 15-20,000 a machine to 2,000 less than a year after the first DVD mastering workstations were available.
Never had that problem in the US, I've taken out up to 6,000 in cash and no one said anything beyond "would you like that all in hundreds?"
Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, Naval Station Everett and Pensacola NAS all have real military guarding them, or have had within the last year.
JB-ER has them right now.
I guess no one involved in green lighting this read the PDF.
The NSA pamphlet was only for Windows and Mac users, it didn't mention migrating to LINUX or BSD because it wasn't about alternative OSes, just what current users should go to.
They have a bunch of these fact sheets, shocking the securing iPhones and iPads one doesn't talk about migrating to Android or Win 7.
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/fact_sheets.shtml
Maybe they'll be able to get BOSE to make equipment that is testable for reviews and has some midrange.
Where are you going to get the satellite bandwidth of all of that?
5300 odd commercial aircraft operating per day over the US, about 9,000 worldwide.
Flight Data Recorders have to do a lot more than what you are proposing.
EUROCAE, which the FAA takes it's specifications from, specifies that a recorder must be able to withstand an acceleration of 3400 g (33 km/s) for 6.5 milliseconds. This is roughly equivalent to an impact velocity of 270 knots (310 mph) and a deceleration or crushing distance of 450 cm. Additionally, there are requirements for penetration resistance, static crush, high and low temperature fires, deep sea pressure, sea water immersion, and fluid immersion.
http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgTSO.nsf/0/CDFB8415D43E695786256DAC0061EC73?OpenDocument
They record significant flight parameters, including the control and actuator positions, engine information and time of day. There are 88 parameters required as a minimum under current U.S. federal regulations.
Most modern units self eject, they have to be big enough to show up on sonar and have an acoustic and visual beacon for 30 days.
What about them?
According to the 9/11 Commission Report, both black boxes from Flight 77 and both black boxes from Flight 93 were recovered. However, the CVR from Flight 77 was said to be too damaged to yield any data. On April 18, 2002, the FBI allowed the families of victims from Flight 93 to listen to the voice recordings. In April 2006, a transcript of the CVR was released as part of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial.
http://articles.cnn.com/2002-04-18/us/rec.flight.93_1_family-members-deena-burnett-flight-attendants?_s=PM:US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/apr/13/usa.september11
As for Kapparot and Brit milah, they are legal because its a damned religious issue.
The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from making a law "respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" This provision was later expanded to state and local governments, through the Incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Outlaw Brit milah and Mohels and you violate the First Amendment.