Definition 5 from the regulations: "The term 'land remote sensing' means the collection of data which can be processed into imagery of surface features of the Earth from an unclassified satellite or satellites, other than an operational United States Government weather satellite." It appears to only apply to 'satellites'?
Well, if you jump and take a picture while in freefall, you need a licence because you are a satellite. Don't forget that your orbit happens to intersect the surface of the Earth...
Both of our countries are culturally rich, with a fascinating history, but yours seems far superior when it comes to the management of public services.
The thing is, the britshit have been totally subverted by the bourgeois, and those only want everyone to use their own motorcars, so they can enslave the people into being utterly dependent on the bourgeois selling petrol and tyres so the people can get along, as well as putting up with anorak bosses so they can make their car payments.
Those very same bourgeois do not want any State involvement in any thing at all, so public transportation is being inefficiently doled-out to private operators that will give less bang for the pound as they have to divert operating/maintenance funds to their bottom-line (inexistent in publically-operated systems), and it is thus priced in a very anticompetitive manner so people will want to get their own motorcars.
This is a wake-up call. The issue is public transit financing; hardasses who want the public to pay more than their fair share (public transit benefits ***EVERYONE***, including motorists, and most importantly motorists who see decreased congestion; as well as employers who can have their workforce brought on site cheaply, so they don't have to pay exorbitant salaries so the workforce has to be able to afford a car - look no further to see the reasons why jobs are going to China) will only drive fares up, and thus the incentives to cheat (where I live, I cheat all the time; illegally, of course, but in a way that's effectively very hard to catch - it would take a cop to tail me all the time). With reasonable fares, the incentive to cheat is simply not there. (But transit can't be free; you need a fare to insure systems don't load up with homeless winoes).
It's like music: with $20 CDs, everyone downloads. Not so when they cost $2.
My brother had a way of finding trouble and so my parents didn't like the idea of him driving at 14. My brother hated farm work and so my parents led him to believe that they would force him to get his license when he turned 14 and make him help on the farm. He didn't get a license until much, much later.
ROTFL! When I turned 16, we used to live in a snob so-close-it's-actually-included-in-the-city suburb where parking was very strict. Only alternate sides of street at wonky hours, so you had to go out after supper to go park the car on the other side of the street.
This was some years after one of the oil shocks of the 70's, which convinced me that cars were not the way of the future (and besides, I **HATE** being in a car, being scared shitless everytime), so I had put off the idea of having one.
After I turned 16, my parents would keep insisting I get my license; I saw them coming: they'd want me to go change the car on the other side of the street, so everytime I said no.
Some 15 years later, a friend wanted me to work for his business and offered me a company car. Wrong way to get me, buddy! At the time, he bought a car that "came" with a racing class, and he even offered me to take a racing class. Needless to say, I still said "no"...
Now, I'm on the wrong side of the 40's, and I have yet to get my license.
If it's an applicance, why not start from scratch?
I mean, just get the necessary drivers/libraries, stick-em up together and voilÃ, there you go.
Why bother with a complete OS when you have a fixed hardware; you power-up, you setup your stack pointers, then setup your hardware. How long can it take?
Do you really have to do all the extraneous stuff an OS will do?
I used to program industrial machines running on 8 bit Motorola chips; Iâ(TM)d burn an Eprom then stick it in the prototype. I had to basically write my own OS; Iâ(TM)d merely do the bare minimum I needed and the thing ran perfectly fast enough.
Why the hate towards the public sector? I have found the exact same shit going on in private companies, many of them quite successful.
That's because the anglo-saxon culture has a visceral hatred of everything that comes from the State. Anglo-saxons find that the State is the embodiment of evil, that it cannot do anything good and they will always try to gut it to it's simplest expression.
This dates back to 1215 when weak king John (Jean d'Angleterre) got bullied by his barons and signed the magna carta which essentially robbed him of most of his power. Thus started the notion that people other than the king could earn more power to the point of rivalling the State.
At the beginning, this was restricted to nobility, but when the industrial revolution saw the bourgeois rise to unprecedented wealth, to the point of even eclipsing the State's, the bourgeois managed to totally subvert the State and effectively gut it to an almost nonexistent value during victorian times.
Such distrust of the State is not found amongst other cultures. For example, the French have no problem with an overbearing State that nitpickingly regulates every aspect of their life, but since their culture will not demean the State, working for the State is not viewed as something bad, and the State will have no problem in recruiting competent people which will insure that whatever action the State takes, it will be done competently. Witness, for example, the network of high-speed trains ran by the French State Railroad, all developped by the State-Owned railroad. The same comment can be made about the extensive network of french nuclear power plant, all operated by a State agency, and exporting power to the rest of Europe.
I'd like to see less government involvement in the workplace, and just let the employee and employer agree on work conditions and rules and expectations.
Don't like the policies? Go get another job. It's that easy, really.
I'd like to see one of those stony heart libertarians get really fucked-up in the arse to the hilt by one of those wall-to-wall lawyered mega croporations and lose everything down to the last fermion of his soul.
Then we'll see if he's still against "government involvement" in life...
Law enforcement isn't welcome to just destroy property because they feel like it. They can't burn down your house and say "Well we thought there might be drugs in it, even though we never found any." Likewise they can't just screw up your data for shits and grins. That'd be a great way to get sued.
Law enforcement/prosecutors ***WILL*** go to great lengths to fuck you up if they don't like your face (like you do something they don't like, but they are unable to nail you as hard as they'd want for it). They do not care about being sued because as public servants, they are essentially beyond responsibility. If ever they are sued, they will not foot the bill, the public will, so they really don't care about that.
Sarkozy (le sarcôme) is a yankee-sucking scumbag. He is pretty well all-aligned with the americans, thanks to his bourgeois and scientology connections. And the fact that he married a showbiz slut gives him a dangerous exposure to the "media" "industry", hence his lopsided approach to the subject.
A telling fact is that his popularity after one year in office has plumetted to levels never seen in France.
Actually, "white" monitors weren't as easy to manufacture, because it involved a mix of various phosphors to re-create the white colour, whereas monochrome (green, amber) did not have this problem.
The "green on black" was more a function of available technology than plain ergonomics. The old wonderful P4 phosphor was great mostly because it's very slow decay (on the order of the ½ second) made it impossible for the screen to flicker (flicker = headaches).
(Who else despises geeky websites that try to recreate P4 phosphor CRTs???)
To those environmental factors, I would also add two items: proper hydration (don't go thirsty) and not dwelling too much on an empty stomach.
As for colours, nowadays it's mostly very dark on very light, but back in the pre-GUI days, white on blue was pretty soothing (which is odd, given the higher energy of blue photons versus red...).
Railroad rules call for a bridge to be inspected whenever it is hit by a vehicle.
While a friend of mine was the stationmaster at $MAJOR_COMMUTER_RAIL_TERMINAL, I was near one such (amply signalled) bridge when I heard a loud noise. When I arrived at the bridge, there was this big van with the roof dangling in the back, neatly folded like an accordion.
Of course, as always, 911 was totally useless (they don't know the railroad emergency numbers), so I went to $MAJOR_COMMUTER_RAIL_TERMINAL to warn my friend, the stationmaster. It was just at the beginning of the rush hour, the concourse was swarming with commuters and several trains were already lined-up, waiting to board their passengers.
I get in the stationmaster's office, which was full of train crews getting ready to go. My friend sees me, and his stare meant "don't you see it's not time to come for a chat?".
-- No need to rush, your trains ain't going nowhere...
-- What do you mean?
-- Well, a truck just hit the $NEARBY_STREET bridge...
If your bridge is 8 feet high, you simply need a metal arch 9 feet high, and a 'low bridge' sign suspended from it by two one-foot pieces of chain.
(It's called a "tell-tale").
I've seen better. In Toronto, underpasses have a photocell (and light source) setup 200 feet from it, and a flashing light "too high truck" is fitted on the underpass. The flasher kicks-in whenever the light beam is interrupted.
And, yes, kids *DO* take a plank and cut the light beam whenever a truck goes by...
Ther will be some problems... If you look in the release,
4. How will offensive names be prevented?
Offensive names will be subject to an objection-based process based on public morality and order. This process will be conducted by an international arbitration body utilizing criteria drawing on provisions in a number of international treaties. ICANN will not be the decision maker on these objections.
This will obviously not work.
One innocent word in a language can be an offensive word in another. For exemple, the french word for "seal" is phoque, which is pronounced exactly like you think it is.
And even in the same language, various countries will give totally different meanings to a given word. Think of "lift" -vs- "elevator", "boot" -vs- "trunk" or "crisps" -vs- "chips"...
And it can be even worse; for example, in France, gosses means "children", whereas in Québec, it means "testicles".
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Well, if you jump and take a picture while in freefall, you need a licence because you are a satellite. Don't forget that your orbit happens to intersect the surface of the Earth...
I can see that there is a bright future in the cluestick market...
Killfile him. Ban him. Ban his IP. There's many options available for that. Use them.
See rule#3
The thing is, the britshit have been totally subverted by the bourgeois, and those only want everyone to use their own motorcars, so they can enslave the people into being utterly dependent on the bourgeois selling petrol and tyres so the people can get along, as well as putting up with anorak bosses so they can make their car payments.
Those very same bourgeois do not want any State involvement in any thing at all, so public transportation is being inefficiently doled-out to private operators that will give less bang for the pound as they have to divert operating/maintenance funds to their bottom-line (inexistent in publically-operated systems), and it is thus priced in a very anticompetitive manner so people will want to get their own motorcars.
This sounds to me like a rather limpet argument.
This is a wake-up call.
The issue is public transit financing; hardasses who want the public to pay more than their fair share (public transit benefits ***EVERYONE***, including motorists, and most importantly motorists who see decreased congestion; as well as employers who can have their workforce brought on site cheaply, so they don't have to pay exorbitant salaries so the workforce has to be able to afford a car - look no further to see the reasons why jobs are going to China) will only drive fares up, and thus the incentives to cheat (where I live, I cheat all the time; illegally, of course, but in a way that's effectively very hard to catch - it would take a cop to tail me all the time).
With reasonable fares, the incentive to cheat is simply not there.
(But transit can't be free; you need a fare to insure systems don't load up with homeless winoes).
It's like music: with $20 CDs, everyone downloads. Not so when they cost $2.
ROTFL! When I turned 16, we used to live in a snob so-close-it's-actually-included-in-the-city suburb where parking was very strict. Only alternate sides of street at wonky hours, so you had to go out after supper to go park the car on the other side of the street.
This was some years after one of the oil shocks of the 70's, which convinced me that cars were not the way of the future (and besides, I **HATE** being in a car, being scared shitless everytime), so I had put off the idea of having one.
After I turned 16, my parents would keep insisting I get my license; I saw them coming: they'd want me to go change the car on the other side of the street, so everytime I said no.
Some 15 years later, a friend wanted me to work for his business and offered me a company car. Wrong way to get me, buddy! At the time, he bought a car that "came" with a racing class, and he even offered me to take a racing class. Needless to say, I still said "no"...
Now, I'm on the wrong side of the 40's, and I have yet to get my license.
Incentive, my dear, incentive... :) :) :) :) :)
When they reach puberty, will you allow them to masturbate? If so, will you watch them do it or will you grant them some privacy?
If it's an applicance, why not start from scratch?
I mean, just get the necessary drivers/libraries, stick-em up together and voilÃ, there you go.
Why bother with a complete OS when you have a fixed hardware; you power-up, you setup your stack pointers, then setup your hardware. How long can it take?
Do you really have to do all the extraneous stuff an OS will do?
I used to program industrial machines running on 8 bit Motorola chips; Iâ(TM)d burn an Eprom then stick it in the prototype. I had to basically write my own OS; Iâ(TM)d merely do the bare minimum I needed and the thing ran perfectly fast enough.
That's because the anglo-saxon culture has a visceral hatred of everything that comes from the State. Anglo-saxons find that the State is the embodiment of evil, that it cannot do anything good and they will always try to gut it to it's simplest expression.
This dates back to 1215 when weak king John (Jean d'Angleterre) got bullied by his barons and signed the magna carta which essentially robbed him of most of his power. Thus started the notion that people other than the king could earn more power to the point of rivalling the State.
At the beginning, this was restricted to nobility, but when the industrial revolution saw the bourgeois rise to unprecedented wealth, to the point of even eclipsing the State's, the bourgeois managed to totally subvert the State and effectively gut it to an almost nonexistent value during victorian times.
Such distrust of the State is not found amongst other cultures. For example, the French have no problem with an overbearing State that nitpickingly regulates every aspect of their life, but since their culture will not demean the State, working for the State is not viewed as something bad, and the State will have no problem in recruiting competent people which will insure that whatever action the State takes, it will be done competently. Witness, for example, the network of high-speed trains ran by the French State Railroad, all developped by the State-Owned railroad. The same comment can be made about the extensive network of french nuclear power plant, all operated by a State agency, and exporting power to the rest of Europe.
I'd like to see one of those stony heart libertarians get really fucked-up in the arse to the hilt by one of those wall-to-wall lawyered mega croporations and lose everything down to the last fermion of his soul.
Then we'll see if he's still against "government involvement" in life...
Law enforcement/prosecutors ***WILL*** go to great lengths to fuck you up if they don't like your face (like you do something they don't like, but they are unable to nail you as hard as they'd want for it). They do not care about being sued because as public servants, they are essentially beyond responsibility. If ever they are sued, they will not foot the bill, the public will, so they really don't care about that.
Time to look for another business method...
I thought that the memories of the Geheime Staatspolizei made sure the germans would never approve of such things...
"Don't like" is an understatement... :)
A telling fact is that his popularity after one year in office has plumetted to levels never seen in France.
Actually, "white" monitors weren't as easy to manufacture, because it involved a mix of various phosphors to re-create the white colour, whereas monochrome (green, amber) did not have this problem.
The "green on black" was more a function of available technology than plain ergonomics. The old wonderful P4 phosphor was great mostly because it's very slow decay (on the order of the ½ second) made it impossible for the screen to flicker (flicker = headaches).
(Who else despises geeky websites that try to recreate P4 phosphor CRTs???)
To those environmental factors, I would also add two items: proper hydration (don't go thirsty) and not dwelling too much on an empty stomach.
As for colours, nowadays it's mostly very dark on very light, but back in the pre-GUI days, white on blue was pretty soothing (which is odd, given the higher energy of blue photons versus red...).
While a friend of mine was the stationmaster at $MAJOR_COMMUTER_RAIL_TERMINAL, I was near one such (amply signalled) bridge when I heard a loud noise. When I arrived at the bridge, there was this big van with the roof dangling in the back, neatly folded like an accordion.
Of course, as always, 911 was totally useless (they don't know the railroad emergency numbers), so I went to $MAJOR_COMMUTER_RAIL_TERMINAL to warn my friend, the stationmaster. It was just at the beginning of the rush hour, the concourse was swarming with commuters and several trains were already lined-up, waiting to board their passengers.
I get in the stationmaster's office, which was full of train crews getting ready to go. My friend sees me, and his stare meant "don't you see it's not time to come for a chat?".
-- No need to rush, your trains ain't going nowhere...
-- What do you mean?
-- Well, a truck just hit the $NEARBY_STREET bridge...
The rush hour was delayed for two hours...
(It's called a "tell-tale").
I've seen better. In Toronto, underpasses have a photocell (and light source) setup 200 feet from it, and a flashing light "too high truck" is fitted on the underpass. The flasher kicks-in whenever the light beam is interrupted.
And, yes, kids *DO* take a plank and cut the light beam whenever a truck goes by...
One innocent word in a language can be an offensive word in another. For exemple, the french word for "seal" is phoque, which is pronounced exactly like you think it is.
And even in the same language, various countries will give totally different meanings to a given word. Think of "lift" -vs- "elevator", "boot" -vs- "trunk" or "crisps" -vs- "chips"...
And it can be even worse; for example, in France, gosses means "children", whereas in Québec, it means "testicles".
We once had a country house on the street named after the neighbour who was my father's best friend (he got the idea to subdivide the lot he bought).