Oh hell, when they are 7 or 8 years old I'm more worried about what they will accidentally stumble across. When they grow up and "know better" in their teens it what scares me. And it's not just porn, it's getting into ID theft, breaking into system, and generally making as big a pain in the ass out of themselves on the Net as in the real world.
By that measure, give your kids a laptop, take it away in their teens, and give it back in time for college.
That's the "Restitution" the judge hands out when putting the bully on probation for assault.
Ever wonder why bullies don't "Hit a kid with glasses"? Because glasses are $300 and it comes out of the bully's dad's pocket. (Having had my glasses shatterd, a contusion, and my scooter nearly stolen by a bully.)
The only difference to us westerners is we haven't seen any of it as normal citizens so far, but for a Vietnamese who basically lived in a war-torn country between 1946 and 1975, it mustn't have felt very different from WWII.
1946? They were taking potshots at the Japanese occupation WAY before 1946. (Ho Chi Min and his underground helped rescue downed American pilots and sabotague the Japanese war machine.) 1946 just marks the point where the Japanese occupation ended and the French tried to move back in.
I'm not saying that war is a wonderful thing. What I said was that the advent of the Bomb ended any idea that war could be a way of life for a civilized state. If WWIII were to break out, the next Hitler of the world would not be able to mass his forces anywhere. His cities and factories could be annialated at will by an opposing side. If you cannot mass your forces, and if you cannot supply them with arms, the war is over.
It took the world 10 years to stop tyrany in WWII. It would take 35 minutes to stop tyrany today.
No, I'm comparing the bombing of 2 military targets that ended the war in the Pacific to a REAL atrocity. The United States did not just wake up one morning and say "You know, I feel like starting a global war today."
And frankly, if there had been a bit less face saving on the part of the Japanese Government the war would have ended before it came to dropping the Bomb.
Nothing would have happend. 60 miles of WAY over the horizen. There was talk of detonating a bomb over Tokyo Bay as a warning. But you have to remember, these things cost billions of dollars to produce. If a warning did not have the desired effect, you just shot your wad. And remember, we were up against a warrior culture. A 'warning' could have been read as a sign of weakness, complicating negotiations and possibly forcing us to select a real target before they would take the threat seriously.
In the end, the damn things are so nasty and so dirty that you don't use them as a warning. When a cop fires a bullet, he is shooting to kill. When you drop a nuclear bomb, you better want to destroy something.
You mean the cruelty that United States of America visit upon the world? That USA, as the only nation in the world, actually used a nuclear bomb, not only once but twice, should never be forgiven nor forgotten
You've obviously never reviewed the body counds from Japan's Rape of Nanking.
Will the rich simply raise the walls on their gated communities and wait for the rest of us to starve?
Last I checked, the food is grown on the outside of said wall. Ammunition is also manufactured outside of said walls. Sooner or later they are going to run out of food, bullets, or both.
One genius will outperform and entire department full of 'researchers.' One area that the U.S. has been particularly ahead of the world in is the fact that while we don't tend to grow many of our own, we are an attractive enough environment that Geniuses from elsewhere like to emigrate here.
Last I checked, the Government was also handling children's education WAY back in our glory days during WWII and the space race.
What is a sin and a shame to me is the "one size fits all" mentality that shapes education. When are we going to finally grow up and realize that not everyone is cut out for college. Of course that would also require a measure of respect for the trades as a legitimate line of work, and not simply something for the "special" kids.
Rather than try to keep water out of the suit (like a dry suit), wet suits purposefully allow water to seep in at all the joints. The tension on the suit keeps the water down to a film that the body heats up. This warm water trapped in the suit keeps the diver's body warm. I've been in one in 34F degree water. (2 degrees colder and the water would freeze.) Sure it's cold, but I was actually colder on the surface out of the suit.
Getting back to the story at hand, you just need to shield the body against a few extremes and it's natural survival mechanisms will fill in.
Last I checked VMS and Unix were developed around the same time (Late 60's, Early 70's). The idea that everything should look the same and act the same didn't appear until the Macintosh in 1984.
You don't exactly walk around Europe and say "narrow streets are so difficult to drive around." Ok, Americans do, but last I checked the streets were there first.
And before you get all high fallootin about how MS-DOS has used CD since the begining, it hasn't. There were no subdirectories before the release of DOS 2.0 in 1983. (I started using DOS with version 2.1, so I don't know how it worked before then.)
I know it was meant as a donation for the poor or whatever but I`m not rich and I couldn`t pass up perfectly good hardware just sitting at the side of the road.
My wife just recently got OUT of the business of cleaning spyware off of people's PCs. She's been doing this for years, but lately the darn buggers are buried so deep nothing really flushes them out short of a reformat.
The UN is a broker of peace between nations, it is not a form of government, it is not a regulatory authority. Thinks like Radio spectrum usage, International Maritime Law, bans on biological and chemical weapons, etc are handled by treaties and conventions.
This attempt to mold themselves into a regulatory agency is a power grab where none is needed. The NET runs just fine, and IPV6 will take care of many of the contentious issues that crop up with IP address allocation.
The Ford Escort is no longer manufactured. I should know, I wanted to buy one back in 2000. The only Escorts made after 1999 were strictly for Rental Car outfits, and a believe they were cut of in 2003.
Having worked on a 1986 Mercury Lynx (A rebadged 1985 Ford Escort) I can tell you a LOT changed over the years. Pick up the a Chilton's manual. Each section is devoted to a 4 year run of the car. Wireing harnesses change. Drive trains change. You have models with Dual Carborators, others with Fuel Injection. Some models have 1.9l engine. Others have a 2.4.
Even if you stick to just the base model, there are several revisions of the body style. You go from a boxy car, and as the years go on it get progressively rounder. One thing that infuriated me was trying to find a replacement reflector for a tail light. I scrounged a junkyard for hours trying to find a match, and let me tell you, there seems to be a different reflector for each model year.
I discovered that hard way that the wiring harness changed between 1985 and 1986 when I ordered the wrong parts to install a radio.
The Escort is probably the car I have the most intimate history with. I would venture a guess that someone with a similar experience repairing a Civic or a Cavelier would report the same goofiness with their cars.
Suburu is an odd cookie in the Automotive world. All of their cars are built on the principle of "design it once" with minor bug fixes between model years. That is probably why there is one parked in front of my house.
With all the changes to the tank, the most likely answer is that one of the design changes either:
Introduced a faulty sensor design
Created and electrical problem that mucked up the operation of the sensor system
Altered the mechanics of the tank sufficiently to muck up the operation of the sensors.
Produced a faulty test produre.
I was an Electrical engineering major in college, I worked on solar race cards, and now I'm a network engineer. I have learned the hard way that past performance is no guarentee of future returns.
When you make a design change, you really do have to go back and re-test everything. Previously undiscovered bugs come out of the woodwork. New operation modes spring up. And in some cases, you just haven't made the appropriate offerings to appease the Random Number God.
How the heck did NASA put men on the moon in a decade? They did not have a bunch of high tech crap that they have now, it was the ability to take risks.
Simple, they had a single goal: Land a man one moon, get him back to Earth safely. That was it. Everything else was gravy. The hardware for the Apollo missions were built from the ground up around that goal and that goal alone.
Along the way they did discover a few really cool side-applications for the Saturn V launch system. It was really good at getting big things into orbit, ala that Skylab. Other than that, the system was useless. It was too big and too costly for day-to-day satellite launches. It was also too big and too costly to support a manned presence in orbit. (Which is why skylab was allowed to de-orbit.)
Perhaps Nasa should take a lesson from Henry Ford. Forget multi-billion dollar boondoggles (with quadruple backups out the wazzoo) like the shuttle. build a freaking factory to mass produce a SIMPLE, STANDARDIZED rocket.
Either that or let free enterprise take over...
A rocket is neighter simple, nor subject to much standardizing. You need one design for a low Earth orbit. You need another design for Geo-Sync orbit. Still another to carry things out of Earth's orbit. What works for one application doesn't really work too well for another.
The size and type of payload also dictates the performance requirements of your launch system. A heavy payload requires a large launch system. Payloads that require a specific trajectory require a launch system with a good deal of control and precision. Depending on your mission, perhaps a very great deal of control and precision, to the point of needing additional fuel and bulkier control systems.
As such, you would need a plethora of "off the shelf" designs, or one design with so many modules and modes of operations as to make it the burdonsome monster we call "The Space Shuttle."
I favor a component-based approach. Instead of designing a compete system, design and mass-produce the components. When it comes to to plan a mission, each "rocket" would be a custom job, but built on well known and well-tested parts.
The Auto Industry has forgotten this lesson. Every model year is a complete re-design from the ground up, that tends to create as many problems as the fix from last year's model.
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Oh hell, when they are 7 or 8 years old I'm more worried about what they will accidentally stumble across. When they grow up and "know better" in their teens it what scares me. And it's not just porn, it's getting into ID theft, breaking into system, and generally making as big a pain in the ass out of themselves on the Net as in the real world.
By that measure, give your kids a laptop, take it away in their teens, and give it back in time for college.
My mom bought me a computer when I was 7, and look how I turned out.
(Why did I go into Engineering? I could have partied through school...)
Ever wonder why bullies don't "Hit a kid with glasses"? Because glasses are $300 and it comes out of the bully's dad's pocket. (Having had my glasses shatterd, a contusion, and my scooter nearly stolen by a bully.)
1946? They were taking potshots at the Japanese occupation WAY before 1946. (Ho Chi Min and his underground helped rescue downed American pilots and sabotague the Japanese war machine.) 1946 just marks the point where the Japanese occupation ended and the French tried to move back in.
I'm not saying that war is a wonderful thing. What I said was that the advent of the Bomb ended any idea that war could be a way of life for a civilized state. If WWIII were to break out, the next Hitler of the world would not be able to mass his forces anywhere. His cities and factories could be annialated at will by an opposing side. If you cannot mass your forces, and if you cannot supply them with arms, the war is over.
It took the world 10 years to stop tyrany in WWII. It would take 35 minutes to stop tyrany today.
The dropping of the bombs ended war as the World had known it until then. It's been 60 years, and the world has not been thrown into conflict.
And frankly, if there had been a bit less face saving on the part of the Japanese Government the war would have ended before it came to dropping the Bomb.
In the end, the damn things are so nasty and so dirty that you don't use them as a warning. When a cop fires a bullet, he is shooting to kill. When you drop a nuclear bomb, you better want to destroy something.
Last I checked, most of the Americans being pillored as evil for dropping the bomb weren't even alive at the time.
You've obviously never reviewed the body counds from Japan's Rape of Nanking.
Last I checked, the food is grown on the outside of said wall. Ammunition is also manufactured outside of said walls. Sooner or later they are going to run out of food, bullets, or both.
That and it looks better to have 7th graders snore their way through pre-algebra than challenge themselves (and possibly get a C in a course.)
One genius will outperform and entire department full of 'researchers.' One area that the U.S. has been particularly ahead of the world in is the fact that while we don't tend to grow many of our own, we are an attractive enough environment that Geniuses from elsewhere like to emigrate here.
What is a sin and a shame to me is the "one size fits all" mentality that shapes education. When are we going to finally grow up and realize that not everyone is cut out for college. Of course that would also require a measure of respect for the trades as a legitimate line of work, and not simply something for the "special" kids.
We need a paper to tell us that?
Rather than try to keep water out of the suit (like a dry suit), wet suits purposefully allow water to seep in at all the joints. The tension on the suit keeps the water down to a film that the body heats up. This warm water trapped in the suit keeps the diver's body warm. I've been in one in 34F degree water. (2 degrees colder and the water would freeze.) Sure it's cold, but I was actually colder on the surface out of the suit.
Getting back to the story at hand, you just need to shield the body against a few extremes and it's natural survival mechanisms will fill in.
Last I checked VMS and Unix were developed around the same time (Late 60's, Early 70's). The idea that everything should look the same and act the same didn't appear until the Macintosh in 1984.
You don't exactly walk around Europe and say "narrow streets are so difficult to drive around." Ok, Americans do, but last I checked the streets were there first.
And before you get all high fallootin about how MS-DOS has used CD since the begining, it hasn't. There were no subdirectories before the release of DOS 2.0 in 1983. (I started using DOS with version 2.1, so I don't know how it worked before then.)
Are you confessing or bragging.
My wife just recently got OUT of the business of cleaning spyware off of people's PCs. She's been doing this for years, but lately the darn buggers are buried so deep nothing really flushes them out short of a reformat.
(Pats iBook.)
This attempt to mold themselves into a regulatory agency is a power grab where none is needed. The NET runs just fine, and IPV6 will take care of many of the contentious issues that crop up with IP address allocation.
No. We would just have USNET inside the states, with THEMNET being everywhere else.
Having worked on a 1986 Mercury Lynx (A rebadged 1985 Ford Escort) I can tell you a LOT changed over the years. Pick up the a Chilton's manual. Each section is devoted to a 4 year run of the car. Wireing harnesses change. Drive trains change. You have models with Dual Carborators, others with Fuel Injection. Some models have 1.9l engine. Others have a 2.4.
Even if you stick to just the base model, there are several revisions of the body style. You go from a boxy car, and as the years go on it get progressively rounder. One thing that infuriated me was trying to find a replacement reflector for a tail light. I scrounged a junkyard for hours trying to find a match, and let me tell you, there seems to be a different reflector for each model year.
I discovered that hard way that the wiring harness changed between 1985 and 1986 when I ordered the wrong parts to install a radio.
The Escort is probably the car I have the most intimate history with. I would venture a guess that someone with a similar experience repairing a Civic or a Cavelier would report the same goofiness with their cars.
Suburu is an odd cookie in the Automotive world. All of their cars are built on the principle of "design it once" with minor bug fixes between model years. That is probably why there is one parked in front of my house.
I was an Electrical engineering major in college, I worked on solar race cards, and now I'm a network engineer. I have learned the hard way that past performance is no guarentee of future returns.
When you make a design change, you really do have to go back and re-test everything. Previously undiscovered bugs come out of the woodwork. New operation modes spring up. And in some cases, you just haven't made the appropriate offerings to appease the Random Number God.
If you RTFM, timing belts have to be changed every 70,000 miles.
Simple, they had a single goal: Land a man one moon, get him back to Earth safely. That was it. Everything else was gravy. The hardware for the Apollo missions were built from the ground up around that goal and that goal alone.
Along the way they did discover a few really cool side-applications for the Saturn V launch system. It was really good at getting big things into orbit, ala that Skylab. Other than that, the system was useless. It was too big and too costly for day-to-day satellite launches. It was also too big and too costly to support a manned presence in orbit. (Which is why skylab was allowed to de-orbit.)
Perhaps Nasa should take a lesson from Henry Ford. Forget multi-billion dollar boondoggles (with quadruple backups out the wazzoo) like the shuttle. build a freaking factory to mass produce a SIMPLE, STANDARDIZED rocket.
Either that or let free enterprise take over...
A rocket is neighter simple, nor subject to much standardizing. You need one design for a low Earth orbit. You need another design for Geo-Sync orbit. Still another to carry things out of Earth's orbit. What works for one application doesn't really work too well for another.
The size and type of payload also dictates the performance requirements of your launch system. A heavy payload requires a large launch system. Payloads that require a specific trajectory require a launch system with a good deal of control and precision. Depending on your mission, perhaps a very great deal of control and precision, to the point of needing additional fuel and bulkier control systems.
As such, you would need a plethora of "off the shelf" designs, or one design with so many modules and modes of operations as to make it the burdonsome monster we call "The Space Shuttle."
I favor a component-based approach. Instead of designing a compete system, design and mass-produce the components. When it comes to to plan a mission, each "rocket" would be a custom job, but built on well known and well-tested parts.
The Auto Industry has forgotten this lesson. Every model year is a complete re-design from the ground up, that tends to create as many problems as the fix from last year's model.