The question remains however, is what will happen once these countries catch up to the US and overtake it (yes, that WILL happen, just not soon and no, I'm not trying to start a flame war).
Not if the US military has anything to say about it. Why do you think the US supports Taiwan militarily with the Seventh Fleet sitting there? Before the recent earthquake, why were we selling a squadron of F-16 fighters to Pakistan, who hates our guts but hates the Indians more? The United States invaded Iraq because of WMDs and because Saddam violated human rights. Amnesty International says that both China and Indian violate basic human rights. (They say the same about the United States, but they're just kidding there, apparently.)
If America does fall, it will go down fighting. Do you see India or China stopping the US on the battlefield ever?
Rip CDs to FLAC, which is a Free Lossless Audio Codec and then transcode to lower bitrate formats as needed. I buy music from www.allofmp3.com in FLAC format for this reason. If you buy from other online music stores, they have all the incentive to lock you into their format and their hardware media devices. FLAC will never go obsolete because there is no quality loss from transcoding (well, as compared to when you go from MP3 -- > AAC --> OGG, etc.)
The United States military needs this. Four Marines were killed a few days ago from a suicide bomber at a checkpoint. The weapon seems to be used while the "bad guy" is still far away from the roadblock. Hard to keep going down the road towards the roadblock when you cannot see. So the bad guy flies off the road or stops his car. If he is able to keep going at the roadblock, well, then the Marines open fire with their.50 caliber Ma Deuce. Or their 25 mm cannon.
The pilot claimed that the engine did not spool up to power in time. Of course, the official investigation said that the engines did spool up and it was pure pilot error. Not that the government has any incentive to benefit AirBus, of course.
Scientific theories must be falsifiable. See? A theory must be able to be proven wrong. Not only does it have to predict what will happen if it is true, it must also make predictions about what will happen if it's false. There is no faith required in science.
That brings me to the major WTF about Kansas. You can teach ID if you want, but to say that you are going to redefine science to go outside the "natural" is mind-boggling. You cannot test something that is not of this world, un-natural. So there is no science going on in whatever the heck you would be doing there.
I think science requires a disproveable hypothesis, not a provable hypothesis. Otherwise, you could say that intelligent design would result in life as we know it today because that is God's will. Hey! There is life as we know it today! There has to be a way to disprove a scientific theory. Like gravity. If I put two masses near each other, and they DO NOT follow my formula, then I would be wrong. Of course, gravity has been proven right repeatedly. But there is a way to disprove it. There is no way to disprove intelligent design.
Linux is dying for driver support. Ideological fundamentalism opposes closed-source drivers, so the end result is no drivers at all. This is horrible. If manufacturers want to abstract their drivers, let them. The community will figure out which ones will work and which will not. Linux needs driver support by any means necessary.
Actually,.50 caliber machine guns are used on boats against fast-moving rubber vehicles the bad guys use to attack/board. A gun of this caliber destroys any rubber or fiberglass hull bad guys are using. Rockets are unnecessary overkill.
The bird flu will only become a international problem if the virus mutates from a bird-to-human ailment to a human-to-human problem. In other words, if it evolves. Why should we be worried at all, then? If it does change, then there is intelligent design at work. And if God wants to wipe us out, who are we to say no?
People will say, "Oh, but God created evolution." Nice try. Where in Genesis does it say, "God created ape. Ape became man." Nowhere.
They are not going to go wardriving and fining people because the technology you need to figure which house is sending the unsecured waves out would be pretty tough. But they probably are sick and tired of child porn and other stuff being done online, then having the suspects say, "Oh, someone must have stolen my wireless connection." The cops are just going to use this law to say, "Well, sucks for you. You should have secured this instrumentality to a crime."
But you don't have to bother to go to the bookstore. You can do it at home. That's all that Amazon does, really, it lets you do things that otherwise would take place in a physical store.
He could just shoot the guy yelling at the French clerk for not speaking English. That guy is probably American.
No, seriously though. Aren't there many other ways to figure out who is an American, such as attacking the American Embassy and the guys walking out of it? Why bother doing RFID when you might end up killing a French dude who bought an American-made T-shirt with an RFID tag in it?
The goal of modern torture is not to injure the suspect but rather to make him completely dependent on his interrogator. America and Britain does a lot of research and training because, uh, their soldiers might be subject to these techniques and have to be taught how to resist. (R2I: resistance to interrogation training.) "It is recognised that in inexperienced hands, prisoners can be plunged into psychosis." Article.
One can cover a suspect with a rancid smelling hood having three to four layers that allows him only enough oxygen to survive. He must wear the hood for weeks or months. A Muslim suspect may be stripped naked and interrogated by a woman. Or tying someone into a chair, covering their head in plastic, and simulate a drowning by dipping them headfirst into a bucket of water. Or depriving someone of sleep for a few days and altering light/dark cycles so he thinks that time has never passed or has passed very quickly. Or pretending to send someone to Israel and having Israeli-looking American agents interrogate you. Freezing someone who is from a desert region works well. By the end of such treatment, the suspect will be gratefully to tell anyone anything to stop the torture.
Such a product would be a killer app for those on the go. You can go to an Internet cafe, which would have the free GOffice base installed. You log into your Google account and do your work there. When you're done, logout. The data is backed up. You leave.
Gmail already has this level of functionality. I e-mail documents to myself along with descriptors. I e-mail Lexis documents to myself as well. I pretty much have a little law library stuck in my Gmail browser.
A man beat up his pregnant wife with the specific intent to abort the baby she was carrying. He was successful. The mother survived. In addition to the assault charge, the DA wanted to charge him with the murder of the unborn child. The court dismissed the claims very reluctantly, calling upon the state legislature to fix the criminal statutes. They took up the invitation but left an exception for abortion.
The whole story. It was found in the fifties in American embassy in Moscow. The metal post was stuck in a carved wooden eagle schoolchildren gave to the ambassador. When found, the device was called "The Thing" because the US couldn't figure out what it was for. Peter Wright of MI5 eventually figured it out.
I guess with the processing power and algorithms of NASA, the US can do this microwave espionage without a metal post. Hrm.
I think we ain't seen nothing yet from Google. The projects are synergistic. Once it all comes together, then watch out.
Froogle wasn't meant to compete with Amazon because Google never stocked products. But pretend Google gets a good micropayment system going. GMoney lets you buy from vendors that show up on Froogle. Or GMail/GTalk gives you an ad from a GMoney accepting vendor. So Google makes money from the ads and from the GMoney transaction fees.
GVideo? Yep. Micropayments.
GData? Don't use Microsoft. Just use our webbrower based system.
You sell your Google stock. I think Google will do just fine.
Experience. With the new vehicle, NASA will not be beholden to the huge sunk costs of the Shuttle system. They can redesign the boosters with lessons learned. (O-Rings, insulation problems, etc.)
Furthermore, the new design will allow for emergency escape systems. Yep, an ejection capsule.
So not 1/10000 safe, but possibly more than the Shuttle.
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The question remains however, is what will happen once these countries catch up to the US and overtake it (yes, that WILL happen, just not soon and no, I'm not trying to start a flame war).
Not if the US military has anything to say about it. Why do you think the US supports Taiwan militarily with the Seventh Fleet sitting there? Before the recent earthquake, why were we selling a squadron of F-16 fighters to Pakistan, who hates our guts but hates the Indians more? The United States invaded Iraq because of WMDs and because Saddam violated human rights. Amnesty International says that both China and Indian violate basic human rights. (They say the same about the United States, but they're just kidding there, apparently.)
If America does fall, it will go down fighting. Do you see India or China stopping the US on the battlefield ever?
Hey, look! Survival of the fittest! How utterly ironic, don't you think?
Rip CDs to FLAC, which is a Free Lossless Audio Codec and then transcode to lower bitrate formats as needed. I buy music from www.allofmp3.com in FLAC format for this reason. If you buy from other online music stores, they have all the incentive to lock you into their format and their hardware media devices. FLAC will never go obsolete because there is no quality loss from transcoding (well, as compared to when you go from MP3 -- > AAC --> OGG, etc.)
The United States military needs this. Four Marines were killed a few days ago from a suicide bomber at a checkpoint. The weapon seems to be used while the "bad guy" is still far away from the roadblock. Hard to keep going down the road towards the roadblock when you cannot see. So the bad guy flies off the road or stops his car. If he is able to keep going at the roadblock, well, then the Marines open fire with their .50 caliber Ma Deuce. Or their 25 mm cannon.
The pilot claimed that the engine did not spool up to power in time. Of course, the official investigation said that the engines did spool up and it was pure pilot error. Not that the government has any incentive to benefit AirBus, of course.
Scientific theories must be falsifiable. See? A theory must be able to be proven wrong. Not only does it have to predict what will happen if it is true, it must also make predictions about what will happen if it's false. There is no faith required in science.
That brings me to the major WTF about Kansas. You can teach ID if you want, but to say that you are going to redefine science to go outside the "natural" is mind-boggling. You cannot test something that is not of this world, un-natural. So there is no science going on in whatever the heck you would be doing there.
I think science requires a disproveable hypothesis, not a provable hypothesis. Otherwise, you could say that intelligent design would result in life as we know it today because that is God's will. Hey! There is life as we know it today! There has to be a way to disprove a scientific theory. Like gravity. If I put two masses near each other, and they DO NOT follow my formula, then I would be wrong. Of course, gravity has been proven right repeatedly. But there is a way to disprove it. There is no way to disprove intelligent design.
I thought we agreed "NP" stands for "Natalie Portman" on this forum. Wait. I guess the two are synonymous.
Carry on!
Linux is dying for driver support. Ideological fundamentalism opposes closed-source drivers, so the end result is no drivers at all. This is horrible. If manufacturers want to abstract their drivers, let them. The community will figure out which ones will work and which will not. Linux needs driver support by any means necessary.
Actually, .50 caliber machine guns are used on boats against fast-moving rubber vehicles the bad guys use to attack/board. A gun of this caliber destroys any rubber or fiberglass hull bad guys are using. Rockets are unnecessary overkill.
The bird flu will only become a international problem if the virus mutates from a bird-to-human ailment to a human-to-human problem. In other words, if it evolves. Why should we be worried at all, then? If it does change, then there is intelligent design at work. And if God wants to wipe us out, who are we to say no?
People will say, "Oh, but God created evolution." Nice try. Where in Genesis does it say, "God created ape. Ape became man." Nowhere.
Maybe this is why I never started smoking.
They are not going to go wardriving and fining people because the technology you need to figure which house is sending the unsecured waves out would be pretty tough. But they probably are sick and tired of child porn and other stuff being done online, then having the suspects say, "Oh, someone must have stolen my wireless connection." The cops are just going to use this law to say, "Well, sucks for you. You should have secured this instrumentality to a crime."
So what happened was that some guy created "The Dude's Fishstore" at Yahoo with Google's address. See?/A? He was waiting to see whether any mapping service would say that Google was a fishstore. Yahoo bought it hook, line, and sinker. So it wasn't Yahoo playing a prank on Google, it was Yahoo being inadequate and making boo-boo.
But you don't have to bother to go to the bookstore. You can do it at home. That's all that Amazon does, really, it lets you do things that otherwise would take place in a physical store.
He could just shoot the guy yelling at the French clerk for not speaking English. That guy is probably American.
No, seriously though. Aren't there many other ways to figure out who is an American, such as attacking the American Embassy and the guys walking out of it? Why bother doing RFID when you might end up killing a French dude who bought an American-made T-shirt with an RFID tag in it?
The goal of modern torture is not to injure the suspect but rather to make him completely dependent on his interrogator. America and Britain does a lot of research and training because, uh, their soldiers might be subject to these techniques and have to be taught how to resist. (R2I: resistance to interrogation training.) "It is recognised that in inexperienced hands, prisoners can be plunged into psychosis." Article.
One can cover a suspect with a rancid smelling hood having three to four layers that allows him only enough oxygen to survive. He must wear the hood for weeks or months. A Muslim suspect may be stripped naked and interrogated by a woman. Or tying someone into a chair, covering their head in plastic, and simulate a drowning by dipping them headfirst into a bucket of water. Or depriving someone of sleep for a few days and altering light/dark cycles so he thinks that time has never passed or has passed very quickly. Or pretending to send someone to Israel and having Israeli-looking American agents interrogate you. Freezing someone who is from a desert region works well. By the end of such treatment, the suspect will be gratefully to tell anyone anything to stop the torture.
Says that raised floors may be inefficient if it gets block. Then says alternatives are expensive. Direct AC where you need it, the article says.
Why wouldn't raised floors be bad if you used them properly?
Such a product would be a killer app for those on the go. You can go to an Internet cafe, which would have the free GOffice base installed. You log into your Google account and do your work there. When you're done, logout. The data is backed up. You leave.
Gmail already has this level of functionality. I e-mail documents to myself along with descriptors. I e-mail Lexis documents to myself as well. I pretty much have a little law library stuck in my Gmail browser.
Don't you mean slightly smaller issues at hand, if his mate is a fruit fly?
A man beat up his pregnant wife with the specific intent to abort the baby she was carrying. He was successful. The mother survived. In addition to the assault charge, the DA wanted to charge him with the murder of the unborn child. The court dismissed the claims very reluctantly, calling upon the state legislature to fix the criminal statutes. They took up the invitation but left an exception for abortion.
Yeah. We love to have our cake and eat it, too.
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The whole story. It was found in the fifties in American embassy in Moscow. The metal post was stuck in a carved wooden eagle schoolchildren gave to the ambassador. When found, the device was called "The Thing" because the US couldn't figure out what it was for. Peter Wright of MI5 eventually figured it out.
I guess with the processing power and algorithms of NASA, the US can do this microwave espionage without a metal post. Hrm.
I think we ain't seen nothing yet from Google. The projects are synergistic. Once it all comes together, then watch out.
Froogle wasn't meant to compete with Amazon because Google never stocked products. But pretend Google gets a good micropayment system going. GMoney lets you buy from vendors that show up on Froogle. Or GMail/GTalk gives you an ad from a GMoney accepting vendor. So Google makes money from the ads and from the GMoney transaction fees.
GVideo? Yep. Micropayments.
GData? Don't use Microsoft. Just use our webbrower based system.
You sell your Google stock. I think Google will do just fine.
Experience. With the new vehicle, NASA will not be beholden to the huge sunk costs of the Shuttle system. They can redesign the boosters with lessons learned. (O-Rings, insulation problems, etc.)
Furthermore, the new design will allow for emergency escape systems. Yep, an ejection capsule.
So not 1/10000 safe, but possibly more than the Shuttle.