I hate southwest. I came home on leave via them once. Leaving san diego, we were late. Leaving Pheonix I missed my flight due to that. I did get first class for free on the next available flight, but that flight left late too! This was pre 9/11, so it wasn't just that they were still getting used to big brother security
I did a full program, functions and all, even resizing arrays, file access and everything, in two weeks off of a little sheet the instructor gave us and the included help files. This came after a good 12 years of not touching any basic. Ok, so I was wrapping up a C++ class, but still... BASIC, is, well, *basic*!
You might also be forgetting the Marines that were sent in to calm down LA in the wake of the Rodney King riots. Or the Marine mail Guards in the 1920s. Granted, there is a lot of beuracratic hassles that must be gone through, but federal forces in some situations can do such things.
While the miltary forces cannot arrest people, they can support the operation and provide a show of force and extra firepower to teh cops in extreme situations.
You might also be forgetting the Marines that were sent in to calm down LA in the wake of the Rodney King riots. Or the Marine mail Guards in the 1920s. Granted, there is a lot of beuracratic hassles that must be gone through, but federal forces in some situations can do such things.
Depends on the battlefield. If we tried to take them in a march to Beijing, we'd lose. If we fortified Taiwan against invasion, we'd win. Limited ops to take a shoreline city or two I'd have to call it even.
The only real advantage they have is numbers. They could field an army nearly as big as our entire population, which would be great for defending their turf, but they don't have power projection capabilities worth a damn. If they tried to mount an invasion of Taiwan, we'd sink most of their fleet. The troops that did get through would be cut to ribbons on the beaches. Naval aviation assets that could be brought to battle can take several times their number in chinese- The Chinese do have some good, modern fighters, but the bulk of their air force is old and obsolete.
I'd say more... but I don't want to go to leavenworth.
"the US is easily capable of defeating any army in the field. unless military intelligence is expecting alien invaders to land in the near future, this hardware will in no practical way affect US military superiority. Dictators won't suddenly think, shit, now the US can defeat me in 24 hours instead of a 48, so I'd better fall into line. It's hard to see why any of this stuff is necessary for anything except justifying ever-increasing military spending."
If we don't constantly advance, building new and better ways of winning wars, then other countries will. The US used to have serious problems with complacency. WWII we had problems because we were complacent and let others advance beyond us. Korea, we had already forgotten the lessons of WWII. Vietnam, we forgot the lessons of the period between WWI and WWII. IF we don't constantly improve our equipment and our tactics, someone else will and will kick our ass on the battlefield. The reason no army can defeat us in open battle is BECAUSE we spend so much on defense. If we don't keep doing so, we will lose that edge.
Speaking for the Marine Corps... Shit breaks. A lot. A common joke in the Corps is if you put a couple marines, naked, in an empty room with three steel balls, one ball will be eaten, another broken, and the third lost. STuff like this... bad news.
Give these systems to Marines at CAX, and give them an order to see how easy it is to break. I guarantee you the failure rate will be astronomical. Don't field it to regular forces until the Marine Corps cannot break it any more regularly than they can the current gear, AND don't field it until the weight is brought down.
The article mentioned lower weight... Quite a bit of a combat load is things like tents, shovels, extra uniforms, socks, another pair of boots, food, water, how does this system propose to deal with that? Especially with the requirement to carry spare batteries. What I read of the article, the equipment this stuff replaces is not any heavier- the gear involved in this is a fraction of a real combat load. IT might be significantly lighter for a heavily armed sentry, but for an infantryman in the field, any gain would be marginal, and not worth the greater potential for failure. The OICW is about twice the weight of an M-16... Even if the overall system weight is less, thats still double the weight on the arms in combat. Anyone who has used the M-16 in rifle PT knows how quickly even a lightweight rifle can become extremely heavy.
Military forces do best when they stick to simple gear that gets the job done. Aviation and naval forces may be able to get away with more complexity by the nature of their jobs, but the basic infantryman doesn't have time to worry about all that crap. Field simple to use, lightweight, and reliable gear and go out and raise hell. Thats how the infantry wins.
Terminate said license. Novell owns that IP. SCO is throwing it around in a way that can hurt Novells forays into the Linux/OSS worlds. I can't imagine any judge would stand in the way of Novell defending themselves from their own IP by terminating said licenses.
Can a copyright owner actually completely surrender their distribution rights without actually surrendering the copyright itself?
What are the rules regarding termination of licenses to distribute IP in this situation? Could Novell terminate SCO's right to redistribute their IP at this point? What justification would they need?
"Unless, of course, what SCO means by having the "contract rights" to Unix involves having the exclusive right to license the source (but if so, why didn't they say so?). And, how exactly would posessing the exclusive right to license be different from copyright itself?"
Novell could just terminate the license.
This is funny... Ok, SCO may have a contract issue with IBM... would be nice if they were clearer on that and their comments that way didn't seem like misdirection... but its possible. But its sounds like the original owner of the IP in question is willing to grant permission for it to be used by IBM in the manner under dispute.
Ok, so does SCO have a case, if IP it is licensing, and has the right to sublicense, is used in violation of the sublicensing deal from them, BUT, the ORIGINAL IP owner gives permission?
AOL without using a profile is pointless. The one thing AOL has over other internet services is the profile search- hands down the best out there. People actually fill them out and keep them updated, the search mechanism works, and the system is reliable.
bordered on pornographic? It was one of the tamest sex scenes I have ever seen... They probably could have gotten away with a PG-13(based on that scene, the massive violence however...)
The scene was a bit long... But the rave scene which so obviously inspired that scene is all about life and love and freedom... it made perfect sense, though yes, it could have been cut a bit.
Asvab is pathetically easy. Only the speed sections gave me trouble. My computed scores from last time- maximum in all but one of them... They go up to 130, I've got 7 130s and one 126...
I got a 1340... Planning on taking it again, now that I'm more current on math should do well(only got 590 on math.. if I can match the 750 verbal on the retest, and do better on math... insane score coming)...
ASVAB is a fun if easy test... Scored in the 95th percentile my first time, then when I changed services and they couldn't find my scores, got in the 97th. Would have done better, but you can only fill bubbles/press keys so fast...
Build a Shuttle Mk II... Keep the basic design, but with more modern materials(lighter and stronger).. a B-1 style ejection system(should be feasible with modern materials) and incorporating all lessons learned from the current shuttle. This would be far less expensive than designing a completely new vehicle, far less risky than a completely unproven design, while still providing huge benefits in safety, reliability, operating costs, and mission capability. It is also possible that with this tactic, the existing shuttles can be upgraded- Probably not to full MkII status, but some of the parts could be upgraded.
The basic design of the shuttle is good. No need to completely replace it. Advances in metallurgy, composites, and computer technology could be used to build an awesome second generation shuttle along the same basic lines as the current one.
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I hate southwest. I came home on leave via them once. Leaving san diego, we were late. Leaving Pheonix I missed my flight due to that. I did get first class for free on the next available flight, but that flight left late too! This was pre 9/11, so it wasn't just that they were still getting used to big brother security
Oh shit. That means SCO is right and will win.
Problem is we don't know what the parts are.
For weblogs, that is simple. Use a system that allows user comments.
http://www.misanthropic-bitch.com/stupid.html
I did a full program, functions and all, even resizing arrays, file access and everything, in two weeks off of a little sheet the instructor gave us and the included help files. This came after a good 12 years of not touching any basic. Ok, so I was wrapping up a C++ class, but still... BASIC, is, well, *basic*!
Since when do we really NEED to write in cursive. Printing tends to be more legible anyways.
The National Guard are soldiers.
You might also be forgetting the Marines that were sent in to calm down LA in the wake of the Rodney King riots. Or the Marine mail Guards in the 1920s. Granted, there is a lot of beuracratic hassles that must be gone through, but federal forces in some situations can do such things.
While the miltary forces cannot arrest people, they can support the operation and provide a show of force and extra firepower to teh cops in extreme situations.
The National Guard are soldiers.
You might also be forgetting the Marines that were sent in to calm down LA in the wake of the Rodney King riots. Or the Marine mail Guards in the 1920s. Granted, there is a lot of beuracratic hassles that must be gone through, but federal forces in some situations can do such things.
Depends on the battlefield. If we tried to take them in a march to Beijing, we'd lose. If we fortified Taiwan against invasion, we'd win. Limited ops to take a shoreline city or two I'd have to call it even.
The only real advantage they have is numbers. They could field an army nearly as big as our entire population, which would be great for defending their turf, but they don't have power projection capabilities worth a damn. If they tried to mount an invasion of Taiwan, we'd sink most of their fleet. The troops that did get through would be cut to ribbons on the beaches. Naval aviation assets that could be brought to battle can take several times their number in chinese- The Chinese do have some good, modern fighters, but the bulk of their air force is old and obsolete.
I'd say more... but I don't want to go to leavenworth.
"the US is easily capable of defeating any army in the field. unless military intelligence is expecting alien invaders to land in the near future, this hardware will in no practical way affect US military superiority. Dictators won't suddenly think, shit, now the US can defeat me in 24 hours instead of a 48, so I'd better fall into line. It's hard to see why any of this stuff is necessary for anything except justifying ever-increasing military spending."
If we don't constantly advance, building new and better ways of winning wars, then other countries will. The US used to have serious problems with complacency. WWII we had problems because we were complacent and let others advance beyond us. Korea, we had already forgotten the lessons of WWII. Vietnam, we forgot the lessons of the period between WWI and WWII. IF we don't constantly improve our equipment and our tactics, someone else will and will kick our ass on the battlefield. The reason no army can defeat us in open battle is BECAUSE we spend so much on defense. If we don't keep doing so, we will lose that edge.
Speaking for the Marine Corps... Shit breaks. A lot. A common joke in the Corps is if you put a couple marines, naked, in an empty room with three steel balls, one ball will be eaten, another broken, and the third lost. STuff like this... bad news.
Give these systems to Marines at CAX, and give them an order to see how easy it is to break. I guarantee you the failure rate will be astronomical. Don't field it to regular forces until the Marine Corps cannot break it any more regularly than they can the current gear, AND don't field it until the weight is brought down.
The article mentioned lower weight... Quite a bit of a combat load is things like tents, shovels, extra uniforms, socks, another pair of boots, food, water, how does this system propose to deal with that? Especially with the requirement to carry spare batteries. What I read of the article, the equipment this stuff replaces is not any heavier- the gear involved in this is a fraction of a real combat load. IT might be significantly lighter for a heavily armed sentry, but for an infantryman in the field, any gain would be marginal, and not worth the greater potential for failure. The OICW is about twice the weight of an M-16... Even if the overall system weight is less, thats still double the weight on the arms in combat. Anyone who has used the M-16 in rifle PT knows how quickly even a lightweight rifle can become extremely heavy.
Military forces do best when they stick to simple gear that gets the job done. Aviation and naval forces may be able to get away with more complexity by the nature of their jobs, but the basic infantryman doesn't have time to worry about all that crap. Field simple to use, lightweight, and reliable gear and go out and raise hell. Thats how the infantry wins.
several sites near me! gotta borrow my dads GPS unit.
Terminate said license. Novell owns that IP. SCO is throwing it around in a way that can hurt Novells forays into the Linux/OSS worlds. I can't imagine any judge would stand in the way of Novell defending themselves from their own IP by terminating said licenses.
Can a copyright owner actually completely surrender their distribution rights without actually surrendering the copyright itself?
What are the rules regarding termination of licenses to distribute IP in this situation? Could Novell terminate SCO's right to redistribute their IP at this point? What justification would they need?
"Unless, of course, what SCO means by having the "contract rights" to Unix involves having the exclusive right to license the source (but if so, why didn't they say so?). And, how exactly would posessing the exclusive right to license be different from copyright itself?"
Novell could just terminate the license.
This is funny... Ok, SCO may have a contract issue with IBM... would be nice if they were clearer on that and their comments that way didn't seem like misdirection... but its possible. But its sounds like the original owner of the IP in question is willing to grant permission for it to be used by IBM in the manner under dispute.
Ok, so does SCO have a case, if IP it is licensing, and has the right to sublicense, is used in violation of the sublicensing deal from them, BUT, the ORIGINAL IP owner gives permission?
This is getting to be a fun case to follow.
AOL without using a profile is pointless. The one thing AOL has over other internet services is the profile search- hands down the best out there. People actually fill them out and keep them updated, the search mechanism works, and the system is reliable.
Wouldn't entirely shock me if they set something up specifically for fans trying that.
bordered on pornographic? It was one of the tamest sex scenes I have ever seen... They probably could have gotten away with a PG-13(based on that scene, the massive violence however...)
The scene was a bit long... But the rave scene which so obviously inspired that scene is all about life and love and freedom... it made perfect sense, though yes, it could have been cut a bit.
The dance scene made perfect sense. It was an exaltation of life and freedom. Music and dance has always been used to celbrate life.
As a raver, it makes total sense to me. Thats what a rave is- Celebrating life and freedom through dance.
Asvab is pathetically easy. Only the speed sections gave me trouble. My computed scores from last time- maximum in all but one of them... They go up to 130, I've got 7 130s and one 126...
OP is a stupid troll who makes me wish I had mod points to send him into oblivion.
I got a 1340... Planning on taking it again, now that I'm more current on math should do well(only got 590 on math.. if I can match the 750 verbal on the retest, and do better on math... insane score coming)...
ASVAB is a fun if easy test... Scored in the 95th percentile my first time, then when I changed services and they couldn't find my scores, got in the 97th. Would have done better, but you can only fill bubbles/press keys so fast...
Build a Shuttle Mk II... Keep the basic design, but with more modern materials(lighter and stronger).. a B-1 style ejection system(should be feasible with modern materials) and incorporating all lessons learned from the current shuttle. This would be far less expensive than designing a completely new vehicle, far less risky than a completely unproven design, while still providing huge benefits in safety, reliability, operating costs, and mission capability. It is also possible that with this tactic, the existing shuttles can be upgraded- Probably not to full MkII status, but some of the parts could be upgraded.
The basic design of the shuttle is good. No need to completely replace it. Advances in metallurgy, composites, and computer technology could be used to build an awesome second generation shuttle along the same basic lines as the current one.