Just what is the Windows equivalent of sudo that ships standard with Windows XP?
Shift + Right-Click, select 'Run As'. Select Administrator and put in the password. Granted not every single icon responds in this way, but there you go.
My father was proud when I did creative things to circumvent restrictions too. However that didn't stop him from grounding me after giving me a pat on the back. In the end, I still did something that went against his rules. I'd like to think that your dad would have reacted similarly.
The satellite is coming down, as a whole, right now. If no actions are done (saving 60$M in the process), the block of metals and circuits will just crash down somewhere vaguely predictable.
What if that 'vaguely predictable' crash site is somewhere over the eastern seaboard of the US? It's a pretty densely populated area and could cause fairly significant damage on impact, possibly resulting in loss of life.
Mir was sent purposely into the ocean (missing the fun target), but it was still targeted there. Now this satellite is going to go wherever it pleases, regardless of our actions.
That's kind of why we've decided to shoot it down - because we can't control it at all at this point, making a controlled re-entry to a safe crash zone impossible.
Yes, but then you also need to put in a bunch of safe-guards against someone figuring out the triggering mechanism and simply blowing all of our satellites up. The problem with that is the more systems and failsafes you add, the more complex the system becomes. Invariably this results in the weight of the total payload increasing, which is a big factor in getting things to orbit in the first place. Plus it creates more areas for error, such as a controlling CPU not functioning, rendering the satellite useless.
I'm no rocket-scientist, but one could argue the logistics (and subsequent pricetag) of capturing and redeploying a satellite are far, far greater than simply blowing it up. Doubly so when it is in such a decayed orbit.
Why not use those thrusters to drop it into the ocean at a planned location with the Navy there to pick it up on splashdown.
Kind of hard to do that when the master CPU fails on boot-up, which is the whole reason why something needs to be done about it. It is literally out of control.
I believe the point trying to be made is that this is the first extra-Solar organic compound observed. Granted, I don't know if that is true or not. I'm at the office right now so I can't spend the little bit of my remaining lunch-break researching it, otherwise I'd provide linkage.
I'm not denying that, I was merely pointing out that the absolute worst that a pro-choicer can expect from President Paul would be him saying "Hey you States sort it out", then having the issue never cross his desk again. Which I think would be a good thing, it would free up time and resources for him to focus on things more deserving of the President's attention.
And for those that might want to know my personal opinions on the subject, I think Bill Clinton said it best. Abortions should be legal, safe, and above all else rare.
. . . he believes the earth and the universe is billions of years old, that we evolved from monkeys and that E=mc^2 during the week and that the earth is 4600 years old and humans are made from divine clay at weekends . ..
You do realize that one can believe in the ideals of Christianity (and from that, be a 'Good Christian') without believing in the literal interpretation of the Bible, right?
The point, I think, is the illusion of safety. Otherwise you'd have a perfectly safe plane full of raving lunatics thinking they're all dead as soon as the engines kick on.
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Just what is the Windows equivalent of sudo that ships standard with Windows XP?
Shift + Right-Click, select 'Run As'. Select Administrator and put in the password. Granted not every single icon responds in this way, but there you go.
There is such a beast as a layer 3 switch.
All Politics is dirty.
My father was proud when I did creative things to circumvent restrictions too. However that didn't stop him from grounding me after giving me a pat on the back. In the end, I still did something that went against his rules. I'd like to think that your dad would have reacted similarly.
The satellite is coming down, as a whole, right now. If no actions are done (saving 60$M in the process), the block of metals and circuits will just crash down somewhere vaguely predictable.
What if that 'vaguely predictable' crash site is somewhere over the eastern seaboard of the US? It's a pretty densely populated area and could cause fairly significant damage on impact, possibly resulting in loss of life.
Mir was sent purposely into the ocean (missing the fun target), but it was still targeted there. Now this satellite is going to go wherever it pleases, regardless of our actions.
That's kind of why we've decided to shoot it down - because we can't control it at all at this point, making a controlled re-entry to a safe crash zone impossible.
Yes, but then you also need to put in a bunch of safe-guards against someone figuring out the triggering mechanism and simply blowing all of our satellites up. The problem with that is the more systems and failsafes you add, the more complex the system becomes. Invariably this results in the weight of the total payload increasing, which is a big factor in getting things to orbit in the first place. Plus it creates more areas for error, such as a controlling CPU not functioning, rendering the satellite useless.
I'm no rocket-scientist, but one could argue the logistics (and subsequent pricetag) of capturing and redeploying a satellite are far, far greater than simply blowing it up. Doubly so when it is in such a decayed orbit.
Why not use those thrusters to drop it into the ocean at a planned location with the Navy there to pick it up on splashdown.
Kind of hard to do that when the master CPU fails on boot-up, which is the whole reason why something needs to be done about it. It is literally out of control.
I believe the point trying to be made is that this is the first extra-Solar organic compound observed. Granted, I don't know if that is true or not. I'm at the office right now so I can't spend the little bit of my remaining lunch-break researching it, otherwise I'd provide linkage.
I'm not denying that, I was merely pointing out that the absolute worst that a pro-choicer can expect from President Paul would be him saying "Hey you States sort it out", then having the issue never cross his desk again. Which I think would be a good thing, it would free up time and resources for him to focus on things more deserving of the President's attention.
And for those that might want to know my personal opinions on the subject, I think Bill Clinton said it best. Abortions should be legal, safe, and above all else rare.
Oh, and for the record, Ron Paul is extremely pro-life.
I think it's important to note that he's extremely against the legality of abortions being a Federal issue, for the record.
. . . he believes the earth and the universe is billions of years old, that we evolved from monkeys and that E=mc^2 during the week and that the earth is 4600 years old and humans are made from divine clay at weekends . . .
You do realize that one can believe in the ideals of Christianity (and from that, be a 'Good Christian') without believing in the literal interpretation of the Bible, right?
The point, I think, is the illusion of safety. Otherwise you'd have a perfectly safe plane full of raving lunatics thinking they're all dead as soon as the engines kick on.