The "service" personnel in coach are actually safety officers
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It's ridiculous to assume that all flight attendants are Air Marshalls. That's just ignorant of how the airlines work. I assure you, anyone allowed on a commercial airliner with a gun is most DEFINITELY not being paid a flight attendant's wage, and has undergone MUCH more rigorous training and on-the-job experience than they have.
She never said "Stop" or "Don't", and had previously said "Yeah, let's do it." That is consent. You can withdraw consent during sex, but only if you SAY YOU DON'T WANT TO CONTINUE - which she never did.
It's malicious prosecution, and the fact that it came to light about a day after the WikiLeaks fiasco should be all you need to know in order to figure out it was staged and coerced prosecution of a man who has committed no crime.
I'm glad it's so easy for you, but for my grandmother she's not as technically inclined. If I had to make a page for each of my non-tech-savvy relatives who ask me to upload pictures or music for them, I'm sure I'd end up remaking half of Facebook's features. They're already on Facebook, might as well use what they've already got.
1. There is no nuclear threat from nuclear power. There have been 2 major disasters in the 60 years nuclear power has been running, and one of them has caused zero injury. This is a bunch of media-fueled hype, probably funded by the oil industry.
2. Congrats on removing a relatively clean source of power without any plans for what will replace it. I'm sure the options are coal, or oil, or natural gas...all of which are huge polluters and are not in any way as clean as nuclear. Yay progress.
Fucking idiots. Everybody in politics, no matter which country, is a moron.
There was an episode of Stargate SG-1 where they put a nuclear-sized device in the chest of a little girl, and then tricked the SG-1 folks into rescuing her and bringing the bomb home.
"Things like this exist in Mining, Oil refining, basically all kinds of corrupt politically-influenced manufacturing processes, where some big company decides they need more resources and pay off the man in charge to give it to them with taxpayer money or under the table."
B.S. Apple produces most of its shiny plastic crap in China, where intellectual property means absolutely zero. Their designs will be leaked and copied by other manufacturers they don't control before Apple even knows they've come up with it.
All those other companies have to do is build their own private-output factories and hope their factory comes up with the components before the Apple factory.
Somehow I think Apple would probably still sue and say "Our factories came up with it first!" while their factories secretly steal/produce whatever they are contesting. They have become the evil giant. They are no longer innovative, but are now just blanket-grabbing anything in the tech field to try to profit from patent whoring.
All-in-all one of the worst tech companies on the planet. Even for the $65k/year they offered I would never work for them. Ever.
None of this is going to be terribly effective. All you have to do to thwart this system is coat the thing in retro-reflective paint like an industrial version of the striping on traffic cones and stuff. If the target can reflect the incoming photothermal energy instead of absorbing it, the laser no longer works as intended.
I would like to have seen the ISS constructed without the Shuttle. I would like to see any major space-related progress that NASA and/or the shuttle didn't play a part in since the 80s.
The shuttle may not have been optimal for space flight, but it was far from setting back access or progress with regards to space. The ISS missions alone provided countless invaluable insights into space habitation and docking, as well as microgravity physiological changes.
the military space budget is at least the size of NASA's
As usual, a lot more than NASA's budget. $22.5 Billion as of 2006 (compared to NASA's $15.125 Billion), and increasing every year.
Why is it that the US always places killing people above all other goals? It's really wearing on my nerves and is about to drive me out of this violence-hungry shithole.
Or they could always, I don't know, end some bullshit wars across the globe and put a little MORE money into NASA? Develop a more efficient shuttle BEFORE dismantling the old program? Not rely on a single barely-tested ballistic rocket to achieve everything their space program wants?
Because NASA is the only group who has gotten it right so far. I don't see an ESA shuttle, or a JAXA shuttle...I don't see their own independent space stations.
The fact is, the WORLD came to NASA for the ISS project, because they knew what they were doing. This hasn't changed. NASA still has far more experience and information about space travel than ANYONE else in the world.
The worry for me is that if they just shut down, as they're doing, they will lag behind and others will garner superior knowledge and technology in the area of space travel. We will then be subject to whatever prices and political bullshit they want to pull in order to 'use' their technology. I really hope Vatican City never develops a space program, or we're all fucked.
You say "NASA monopoly" like there were any valid other options out there for the US. Sorry, but SpaceX's Dragon rocket is not going to be the end-all be-all answer to the US's space needs. It's a moderately-capable lifting rocket, but under no circumstances does it have, say, what is required to go to the moon, or mars, or anywhere but around our rock.
Exploration implies that we will be going SOMEWHERE else in the future, which this contingency does not allow for as it stands.
Why couldn't they have redesigned a shuttle-type vehicle using more modern technology and components to 'update' the shuttle program? It would be an improvement over shutting it down completely and replacing it with some ho-hum lifting rockets that will get stuff to the ISS and back, but not much else.
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The "service" personnel in coach are actually safety officers
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It's ridiculous to assume that all flight attendants are Air Marshalls. That's just ignorant of how the airlines work. I assure you, anyone allowed on a commercial airliner with a gun is most DEFINITELY not being paid a flight attendant's wage, and has undergone MUCH more rigorous training and on-the-job experience than they have.
She never said "Stop" or "Don't", and had previously said "Yeah, let's do it." That is consent. You can withdraw consent during sex, but only if you SAY YOU DON'T WANT TO CONTINUE - which she never did.
It's malicious prosecution, and the fact that it came to light about a day after the WikiLeaks fiasco should be all you need to know in order to figure out it was staged and coerced prosecution of a man who has committed no crime.
Calling The Guardian valid news is like saying all reports on Fox News are complete and unbiased.
What a fucking tabloid rag. Seriously? It wasn't rape. She said yes, and never said no. No means no, but silence means nothing.
By "flattened" it meant "bloated through interpretation and unnecessary recompilation".
Nullsoft should sue them both. I was making playlists in WinAmp before OSX even existed, much less the iPod.
I'm glad it's so easy for you, but for my grandmother she's not as technically inclined. If I had to make a page for each of my non-tech-savvy relatives who ask me to upload pictures or music for them, I'm sure I'd end up remaking half of Facebook's features. They're already on Facebook, might as well use what they've already got.
Where can I just get a live feed of the SOHO coronograph camera?
Did you die for something? I must have missed the memo...
1. There is no nuclear threat from nuclear power. There have been 2 major disasters in the 60 years nuclear power has been running, and one of them has caused zero injury. This is a bunch of media-fueled hype, probably funded by the oil industry.
2. Congrats on removing a relatively clean source of power without any plans for what will replace it. I'm sure the options are coal, or oil, or natural gas...all of which are huge polluters and are not in any way as clean as nuclear. Yay progress.
Fucking idiots. Everybody in politics, no matter which country, is a moron.
There was an episode of Stargate SG-1 where they put a nuclear-sized device in the chest of a little girl, and then tricked the SG-1 folks into rescuing her and bringing the bomb home.
At least that security theater was entertaining.
Let me fix that for you...
"Things like this exist in Mining, Oil refining, basically all kinds of corrupt politically-influenced manufacturing processes, where some big company decides they need more resources and pay off the man in charge to give it to them with taxpayer money or under the table."
B.S. Apple produces most of its shiny plastic crap in China, where intellectual property means absolutely zero. Their designs will be leaked and copied by other manufacturers they don't control before Apple even knows they've come up with it.
In the world of High Definition, please abbreviate Hard Drive properly as HDD.
I was wondering what the hell you were talking about "Mini High Definitions"...
Due to the modern-day patent nonsense we all must tolerate, they CAN'T just do the same thing with other fabricators. Then Apple whines and sues.
All those other companies have to do is build their own private-output factories and hope their factory comes up with the components before the Apple factory.
Somehow I think Apple would probably still sue and say "Our factories came up with it first!" while their factories secretly steal/produce whatever they are contesting. They have become the evil giant. They are no longer innovative, but are now just blanket-grabbing anything in the tech field to try to profit from patent whoring.
All-in-all one of the worst tech companies on the planet. Even for the $65k/year they offered I would never work for them. Ever.
Dude, we ARE the world's jerks.
None of this is going to be terribly effective. All you have to do to thwart this system is coat the thing in retro-reflective paint like an industrial version of the striping on traffic cones and stuff. If the target can reflect the incoming photothermal energy instead of absorbing it, the laser no longer works as intended.
Lol, Troll.
I would like to have seen the ISS constructed without the Shuttle. I would like to see any major space-related progress that NASA and/or the shuttle didn't play a part in since the 80s.
The fact is, there isn't one.
That's absolutely false.
The shuttle may not have been optimal for space flight, but it was far from setting back access or progress with regards to space. The ISS missions alone provided countless invaluable insights into space habitation and docking, as well as microgravity physiological changes.
the military space budget is at least the size of NASA's
As usual, a lot more than NASA's budget. $22.5 Billion as of 2006 (compared to NASA's $15.125 Billion), and increasing every year.
Why is it that the US always places killing people above all other goals? It's really wearing on my nerves and is about to drive me out of this violence-hungry shithole.
(Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget , http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/space/RL33601.pdf )
When did Americans become such pussies?
September 11, 2001. Just FYI.
Or they could always, I don't know, end some bullshit wars across the globe and put a little MORE money into NASA? Develop a more efficient shuttle BEFORE dismantling the old program? Not rely on a single barely-tested ballistic rocket to achieve everything their space program wants?
"Why MUST it be a NASA developed rocket?"
Because NASA is the only group who has gotten it right so far. I don't see an ESA shuttle, or a JAXA shuttle...I don't see their own independent space stations.
The fact is, the WORLD came to NASA for the ISS project, because they knew what they were doing. This hasn't changed. NASA still has far more experience and information about space travel than ANYONE else in the world.
The worry for me is that if they just shut down, as they're doing, they will lag behind and others will garner superior knowledge and technology in the area of space travel. We will then be subject to whatever prices and political bullshit they want to pull in order to 'use' their technology. I really hope Vatican City never develops a space program, or we're all fucked.
You say "NASA monopoly" like there were any valid other options out there for the US. Sorry, but SpaceX's Dragon rocket is not going to be the end-all be-all answer to the US's space needs. It's a moderately-capable lifting rocket, but under no circumstances does it have, say, what is required to go to the moon, or mars, or anywhere but around our rock.
Exploration implies that we will be going SOMEWHERE else in the future, which this contingency does not allow for as it stands.
Why couldn't they have redesigned a shuttle-type vehicle using more modern technology and components to 'update' the shuttle program? It would be an improvement over shutting it down completely and replacing it with some ho-hum lifting rockets that will get stuff to the ISS and back, but not much else.