So that's what those places look like. I could not help but think of rowers that powered Roman Empire naval vessels the way these people are lined up in rows and columns. Battle speed!
I'm concerned as well as I have a yahoo email. I'm also on a few yahoogroups that are informative and useful even if the formatting these days is worst than it used to be (hotmail is worst). Everyone says go to gmail and googlegroups, but it seems I continually have to upgrade to upgrade in order to meet the next upgrade of google systems (OK so I don't fully understand all of google services, I don't work for them nor do I do work for them for free).
Maybe have it such that taking a credit card number is not as easy as getting a number. Let me explain: Someone commented getting a credit card even using someone else's name and address, all you have to do is fill out a form and put down a bunch of numbers. Unlike getting a car, you have to show them that it is really you is you getting the car. But I guess credit cards are becoming more commonplace (damned as I see someone buying lousy cup of coffee for $1.25 with their credit card), so with more of these but less of honest jobs that pay a livable wage only bound to have more credit card number thefts.
This isn't to say that Bernie is super pro-gun or anything like that, but he's more moderate on the issue,
I think Bernie understands the whole issue of gun control is a non-starter. There will never be agreement on that issue (people will argue about it longer than Clinton's emails!). In meantime he wants to concentrate on issues like reducing wealth inequality i.e. restore Glass–Steagall Act.
Every time there is a mass-shooting or similar, gun sales go up because the marketing department of the gun manufacturing lobby (NRA) goes into full swing about how the gubement is gona take yer guns. So this is perfectly timed to capitalize on the latest shooting.
I don't think they have to fire up their marketing dept, more people go to gun stores shortly after a mass shooting anyway. There are ***only two*** political positions. One group wants more regulation, the other wants less. Each group is so opposed to the other's views there will never be agreement (really, take a look at the replies. All are "you are anti-American, part of the problem," etc. and this is why nothing will ever get done). The more shootings the more gun sales, and the more drive for various political groups to push their cause. Meanwhile as the economy further tanks, there are more frustrated people, and some of them will take it out on others. I think the only certain thing is there will be more shootings, become more commonplace, and we will have to simply "live" with it like a third world country. Time to review that training video or take another course in how to deal with active shooter situations.
ah yes, the big wings for 1500 mile cross track ability (or whatever term) for single orbit from Vandenberg, deploy satellite and land. Or better yet, grab a Soviet "bird." But when Challenger blew up and Titan down for the count, Space Command was in a bind with no way to put up a recon satellite. Whatever the case may be, those orbiters sure looked cool in space, and with those big windows! Actually engineers were not "wrong" it was overall management had to oversell the program which has always been the case. I believe exception was Apollo program when James Webb took the estimates of $12B and doubled it with a little padding.
Back in 1990s a documentary by Robert Cringely featured Halted (or was it HSC) in Mountain View, CA where it shows a teenage boy examining surplus computers and other electronics. Cringely talks about how some of these teenagers will become the next Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
Though it is not like in the days along with Halted and a few others that have disappeared, I occasionally shop there when looking for certain kinds of cables. My recent purchase was a PC tower for $80, has professional XP on it. Didn't need to get a keyboard, mouse, monitor as I already have some of those. It doesn't have MS office but I loaded it up with Firefox and some software to do ham radio packet (Outpost, UI-view), and a few other programs like WXIMG. A nice item to run this stuff standalone.
Shortly after orbiter Columbia crashed in 2003, (story I heard) Paul Shawcross and others at NASA HQ pushed proposal to not return Shuttle to flight, de-orbit the space station, cut NASA budget in half, and focus remaining NASA to develop new technology (i.e. put a end to HSF as program was not developing anything new). Obviously that didn't happen. But wait, NASA was in same situation in 1969/1970/1971 when looking for "the next big thing" after Apollo. Space budgets were being slashed, proposed Mars mission, lunar base, and space station was removed from any planning. Top men at NASA were trying to come up with a shuttle design that OMB will approve its budget (Dale Myers said in a lecture at MIT in 2005), it looked like manned space flight for US will end after Skylab as even Apollo/Soyuz was not approved. Finally Shuttle was approved as it was election year and Nixon needed electoral votes from Calif and Florida (aerospace industries took a heavy beating and lots of layoffs). President told OMB to approve Shuttle. I sometimes wonder what if things turned out otherwise.
I was talking with someone that when you have a large ENG shoulder camera (no, not some old thing from 1980s, but a new one like Panasonic with P2 cards), they will think you are with media. This person was saying he works at a TV station and one time he wanted to attend a concert but also get a good spot. So he borrowed a dead camera and also grabbed a mic. Him and his girlfriend approach the concert, guard was welcome to let them in. In fact the guard wanted to be interviewed so he can be on the news. So the both of them played the part, she as the anchor and he as the ENG guy, with a dead camera. And they had a great time at the concert.
Another I heard is this guy wanted to get into a swanky nightclub where you are either a celebrity or previous invite. So he went across the street into bathroom of a restaurant, saw a dispenser with a label PRESS. He peeled off the label, fashioned with some business cards a makeshift Press Pass ID card. He briefly showed the bouncer he is news media, and was let in. Few seconds later the bouncer just thought, "wait, something was not right about that badge." The guy was gone.
I second your feelings on this. ISS has been a huge Peace Dividend. I wonder when in 1990s when we had an air war in Kosovo which also relations with Russia significantly deteriorated but we never got into a shooting war with them (all this was in same area of their former Warsaw Pact allies), maybe it was ISS program that prevented Kosovo spreading beyond like in WWI.
Well let's see if NASA abandons ISS will Russians or Europeans take control of it? There is Japan as they have an awesome module on ISS and they are very capable. Then there is the new spacers, let's see if they can maintain this facility. Several "Ayd Rand in Space" people have been saying for years they can do it better and cheaper without govt funds...
It would be interesting to see what this impact site looks like up close, in significant detail like Mars rovers (we got plenty of those). Is there any significant piece of metal or because of impact energy it exploded like a high powered bomb where entire third stage is bits and pieces scattered over miles. Probably most interesting is the soil, be able to look at fresh soil that hasn't been exposed for millions of years. Also what would it look like up close on impact (i.e. a GoPro on a tripod near impact site). A lunar rover can go to all these interesting places like landing sites, take a close up of what solar radiation does to materials over past 45 years. Unfortunately Mars Underground folks hijacked the space program setting most resources to bypass the Moon and go straight to Mars.
Speaking of Apollo 13, the third stage impact was the only planned objective accomplished by that flight. Geologists were very interested to see how much the Moon shakes. They did alert the crew good data was measured by seismographs left by Apollo 11 and 12, though crew probably didn't give it that much thought as there were more pressing matters to deal with.
Cellphones were dramatically better at calls back in the analog days.
I'm old enough to remember when Sprint commercials, also featured Candice Bergen, featured some guys in lab coats testing Sprint phone service (not sure if this was cellphone or landline service). One of them dropped a pin next to the mic, the other guy asked, "was that a pin dropping?" (illustrating quality of their audio fidelity). Later on, they used 1-800-PIN-DROP for their phone number. Nowadays Sprint company logo is an abstract drawing of a pin bouncing off a flat surface. Youngsters have no idea what that illustration means.
We got civilian, and eventually commercial spaceflight primarily because we were spending a million tons of money getting ready to nuke our enemies
Dennis Wingo described in one of his articles at https://denniswingo.wordpress.... (I cannot find that specific one right now), it showed a chart of expenditures on rockets in late 50s/early 60s. The amounts were staggering, i.e. $40 billion on developing Atlas (and this was 1960 dollars!), $30B on Titan, etc. These are not actual quotes but were these magnitudes. Besides development and testing (lots of activities at facilities like in Huntsville, Edwards RPL, and Santa Susana), they were cranking out these ICBMs like sausages. Of course a few were used for launching men into orbit.
When it comes to Space Exploration, it would be kind of nice if Ivan would stop talking and start doing.
Yes. Every few years Russians make a grand announcement then few years later it is forgotten. Then another big announcement (rinse, repeat). Meanwhile they are still sorting out problems at Vostochny launch site (NASAwatch and other sites frequently have articles about delays in having that site ready for HSF), I guess Putin and his cronies can't do what their predecessors of USSR were able to do when building and putting to use very large facilities (probably putting too much resources into their personal mansions and diamond covered Mercedes). Perhaps they can't shake Soviet style 5 year plan, or 10 year plan, etc to nowhere but makes good press in Pravda. Meanwhile Soyuzes keep on flying from Baikonur (Korolev lives forever).
Every day I read about zillion emails and other personal information is hacked. Like MobyDisk asks why are they storing this stuff? I think companies should be liable for loss of personal information so then they will first think is it necessary to gather information. Then if they do they better have some damn good methods of keeping it safe. Yes, I have personal firewall on all the time. I also have computers that are never put online. Then these places ask for name, birthdate and address. I may give them name and address, birthdates are different than my actual.
So now here's another hack and loss of data, ho hum, just another disaster in IT land, yawn. This can be serious. There might be a breach that will really screw things up and nobody will flinch.
I wanted every step in my chain of reasoning on its own line
actually I thought that was an excellent post. The line "A terrorist recruiter is trained to spot these disaffected students" reminded me of what I heard how cultists i.e. Moonies recruit members. They avoid confident, well connected, and sociable people.
On some PBS program someone commented about these multiple page policies are so large that nobody including educated lawyers have time to read. That is a ***major*** problem from product EULAs to home loans.
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So that's what those places look like. I could not help but think of rowers that powered Roman Empire naval vessels the way these people are lined up in rows and columns. Battle speed!
I'm concerned as well as I have a yahoo email. I'm also on a few yahoogroups that are informative and useful even if the formatting these days is worst than it used to be (hotmail is worst). Everyone says go to gmail and googlegroups, but it seems I continually have to upgrade to upgrade in order to meet the next upgrade of google systems (OK so I don't fully understand all of google services, I don't work for them nor do I do work for them for free).
nothing to do but piss and moan about such things.
OK, now tell us what you really think.
Maybe have it such that taking a credit card number is not as easy as getting a number. Let me explain: Someone commented getting a credit card even using someone else's name and address, all you have to do is fill out a form and put down a bunch of numbers. Unlike getting a car, you have to show them that it is really you is you getting the car. But I guess credit cards are becoming more commonplace (damned as I see someone buying lousy cup of coffee for $1.25 with their credit card), so with more of these but less of honest jobs that pay a livable wage only bound to have more credit card number thefts.
This isn't to say that Bernie is super pro-gun or anything like that, but he's more moderate on the issue,
I think Bernie understands the whole issue of gun control is a non-starter. There will never be agreement on that issue (people will argue about it longer than Clinton's emails!). In meantime he wants to concentrate on issues like reducing wealth inequality i.e. restore Glass–Steagall Act.
Every time there is a mass-shooting or similar, gun sales go up because the marketing department of the gun manufacturing lobby (NRA) goes into full swing about how the gubement is gona take yer guns. So this is perfectly timed to capitalize on the latest shooting.
I don't think they have to fire up their marketing dept, more people go to gun stores shortly after a mass shooting anyway. There are ***only two*** political positions. One group wants more regulation, the other wants less. Each group is so opposed to the other's views there will never be agreement (really, take a look at the replies. All are "you are anti-American, part of the problem," etc. and this is why nothing will ever get done). The more shootings the more gun sales, and the more drive for various political groups to push their cause. Meanwhile as the economy further tanks, there are more frustrated people, and some of them will take it out on others. I think the only certain thing is there will be more shootings, become more commonplace, and we will have to simply "live" with it like a third world country. Time to review that training video or take another course in how to deal with active shooter situations.
sorry I have no imagination so I can't create one.
ah yes, the big wings for 1500 mile cross track ability (or whatever term) for single orbit from Vandenberg, deploy satellite and land. Or better yet, grab a Soviet "bird." But when Challenger blew up and Titan down for the count, Space Command was in a bind with no way to put up a recon satellite. Whatever the case may be, those orbiters sure looked cool in space, and with those big windows! Actually engineers were not "wrong" it was overall management had to oversell the program which has always been the case. I believe exception was Apollo program when James Webb took the estimates of $12B and doubled it with a little padding.
Back in 1990s a documentary by Robert Cringely featured Halted (or was it HSC) in Mountain View, CA where it shows a teenage boy examining surplus computers and other electronics. Cringely talks about how some of these teenagers will become the next Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
Though it is not like in the days along with Halted and a few others that have disappeared, I occasionally shop there when looking for certain kinds of cables. My recent purchase was a PC tower for $80, has professional XP on it. Didn't need to get a keyboard, mouse, monitor as I already have some of those. It doesn't have MS office but I loaded it up with Firefox and some software to do ham radio packet (Outpost, UI-view), and a few other programs like WXIMG. A nice item to run this stuff standalone.
Shortly after orbiter Columbia crashed in 2003, (story I heard) Paul Shawcross and others at NASA HQ pushed proposal to not return Shuttle to flight, de-orbit the space station, cut NASA budget in half, and focus remaining NASA to develop new technology (i.e. put a end to HSF as program was not developing anything new). Obviously that didn't happen. But wait, NASA was in same situation in 1969/1970/1971 when looking for "the next big thing" after Apollo. Space budgets were being slashed, proposed Mars mission, lunar base, and space station was removed from any planning. Top men at NASA were trying to come up with a shuttle design that OMB will approve its budget (Dale Myers said in a lecture at MIT in 2005), it looked like manned space flight for US will end after Skylab as even Apollo/Soyuz was not approved. Finally Shuttle was approved as it was election year and Nixon needed electoral votes from Calif and Florida (aerospace industries took a heavy beating and lots of layoffs). President told OMB to approve Shuttle. I sometimes wonder what if things turned out otherwise.
I was talking with someone that when you have a large ENG shoulder camera (no, not some old thing from 1980s, but a new one like Panasonic with P2 cards), they will think you are with media. This person was saying he works at a TV station and one time he wanted to attend a concert but also get a good spot. So he borrowed a dead camera and also grabbed a mic. Him and his girlfriend approach the concert, guard was welcome to let them in. In fact the guard wanted to be interviewed so he can be on the news. So the both of them played the part, she as the anchor and he as the ENG guy, with a dead camera. And they had a great time at the concert.
Another I heard is this guy wanted to get into a swanky nightclub where you are either a celebrity or previous invite. So he went across the street into bathroom of a restaurant, saw a dispenser with a label PRESS. He peeled off the label, fashioned with some business cards a makeshift Press Pass ID card. He briefly showed the bouncer he is news media, and was let in. Few seconds later the bouncer just thought, "wait, something was not right about that badge." The guy was gone.
I second your feelings on this. ISS has been a huge Peace Dividend. I wonder when in 1990s when we had an air war in Kosovo which also relations with Russia significantly deteriorated but we never got into a shooting war with them (all this was in same area of their former Warsaw Pact allies), maybe it was ISS program that prevented Kosovo spreading beyond like in WWI.
Well let's see if NASA abandons ISS will Russians or Europeans take control of it? There is Japan as they have an awesome module on ISS and they are very capable. Then there is the new spacers, let's see if they can maintain this facility. Several "Ayd Rand in Space" people have been saying for years they can do it better and cheaper without govt funds...
Am I missing something?
no, it's all about click-baits.
It would be interesting to see what this impact site looks like up close, in significant detail like Mars rovers (we got plenty of those). Is there any significant piece of metal or because of impact energy it exploded like a high powered bomb where entire third stage is bits and pieces scattered over miles. Probably most interesting is the soil, be able to look at fresh soil that hasn't been exposed for millions of years. Also what would it look like up close on impact (i.e. a GoPro on a tripod near impact site). A lunar rover can go to all these interesting places like landing sites, take a close up of what solar radiation does to materials over past 45 years. Unfortunately Mars Underground folks hijacked the space program setting most resources to bypass the Moon and go straight to Mars.
Speaking of Apollo 13, the third stage impact was the only planned objective accomplished by that flight. Geologists were very interested to see how much the Moon shakes. They did alert the crew good data was measured by seismographs left by Apollo 11 and 12, though crew probably didn't give it that much thought as there were more pressing matters to deal with.
Cellphones were dramatically better at calls back in the analog days.
I'm old enough to remember when Sprint commercials, also featured Candice Bergen, featured some guys in lab coats testing Sprint phone service (not sure if this was cellphone or landline service). One of them dropped a pin next to the mic, the other guy asked, "was that a pin dropping?" (illustrating quality of their audio fidelity). Later on, they used 1-800-PIN-DROP for their phone number. Nowadays Sprint company logo is an abstract drawing of a pin bouncing off a flat surface. Youngsters have no idea what that illustration means.
Remind you of anyone we know? cough-US-manned-space-program-cough.
But our delays are better than their delays, otherwise we will have a Delay Gap!
We got civilian, and eventually commercial spaceflight primarily because we were spending a million tons of money getting ready to nuke our enemies
Dennis Wingo described in one of his articles at https://denniswingo.wordpress.... (I cannot find that specific one right now), it showed a chart of expenditures on rockets in late 50s/early 60s. The amounts were staggering, i.e. $40 billion on developing Atlas (and this was 1960 dollars!), $30B on Titan, etc. These are not actual quotes but were these magnitudes. Besides development and testing (lots of activities at facilities like in Huntsville, Edwards RPL, and Santa Susana), they were cranking out these ICBMs like sausages. Of course a few were used for launching men into orbit.
When it comes to Space Exploration, it would be kind of nice if Ivan would stop talking and start doing.
Yes. Every few years Russians make a grand announcement then few years later it is forgotten. Then another big announcement (rinse, repeat). Meanwhile they are still sorting out problems at Vostochny launch site (NASAwatch and other sites frequently have articles about delays in having that site ready for HSF), I guess Putin and his cronies can't do what their predecessors of USSR were able to do when building and putting to use very large facilities (probably putting too much resources into their personal mansions and diamond covered Mercedes). Perhaps they can't shake Soviet style 5 year plan, or 10 year plan, etc to nowhere but makes good press in Pravda. Meanwhile Soyuzes keep on flying from Baikonur (Korolev lives forever).
He's probably getting laid for this shit.
Perhaps we can all learn something from him after all....
this should be noted as "Insightful" instead of "Funny"
Every day I read about zillion emails and other personal information is hacked. Like MobyDisk asks why are they storing this stuff? I think companies should be liable for loss of personal information so then they will first think is it necessary to gather information. Then if they do they better have some damn good methods of keeping it safe. Yes, I have personal firewall on all the time. I also have computers that are never put online. Then these places ask for name, birthdate and address. I may give them name and address, birthdates are different than my actual.
So now here's another hack and loss of data, ho hum, just another disaster in IT land, yawn. This can be serious. There might be a breach that will really screw things up and nobody will flinch.
I wanted every step in my chain of reasoning on its own line
actually I thought that was an excellent post. The line "A terrorist recruiter is trained to spot these disaffected students" reminded me of what I heard how cultists i.e. Moonies recruit members. They avoid confident, well connected, and sociable people.
Unless you are a registered engineer (PE) then you are not allowed to use the title Engineer.
nice 100-page privacy policy
On some PBS program someone commented about these multiple page policies are so large that nobody including educated lawyers have time to read. That is a ***major*** problem from product EULAs to home loans.