I think the reactions from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island accidents have actually made nuclear power much more dangerous than it would be today if these major disasters hadn't happened. We would have probably advanced our reactor designs and have had safer reactors as a result.
That's an awful nice schedule you got there, Senator, be a shame if someone were to put you on the No Fly list!
I'd venture to guess that that's not how it's done, Kennedy's token, highly-publicized difficulties not withstanding:
Paul Wellstone was the only progressive in the U.S. Senate. Mother Jones magazine once described him as, "The first 1960s radical elected to the U.S. senate." He was also the last. Since defeating incumbent Republican Rudy Boschowitz 12 years ago in a grassroots upset, Wellstone emerged as the strongest, most persistent, most articulate and most vocal Senate opponent of the Bush administration.
In a senate that is one heartbeat away from Republican control, Wellstone was more than just another Democrat. He was often the lone voice standing firm against the status-quo policies of both the Democrats and the Republicans. As such, he earned the special ire of the Bush administration and the Republican Party, who made Wellstone's defeat that party's number one priority this year.
Various White House figures made numerous recent campaign stops in Minnesota to stump for the ailing campaign of Wellstone's Republican opponent, Norm Coleman. Despite being outspent and outgunned, however, polls show that Wellstone's popularity surged after he voted to oppose the Senate resolution authorizing George Bush to wage war in Iraq. He was pulling ahead of Coleman and moving toward a victory that would both be an embarrassment to the Bush administration and to Democratic Quislings such as Hillary Clinton who voted to support "the president."
Then he died.
Wellstone now joins the ranks of other American politicians who died in small plane crashes. Another recent victim was Missouri's former Democratic governor, Mel Carnahan, who lost his life in 2000, three weeks before Election Day, during his Senatorial race against John Ashcroft. Carnahan went on to become the first dead man to win a Senatorial race, humiliating and defeating the unpopular Ashcroft posthumously. Ashcroft, despite his unpopularity, went on to be appointed Attorney General by George W. Bush. Investigators determined that Carnahan's plane went down due to "poor visibility."
Carnahan was the second Missouri politician to die in a small plane crash. The first was Democratic Representative Jerry Litton, whose plane crashed the night he won the Democratic nomination for senate in 1976. His Republican opponent ultimately captured the seat from his successor in November.
While an article in the New York Times on Saturday pointed out the danger politicians face due to their heavy air travel schedules, the death of a senator or member of Congress is still relatively rare, with only one other sitting U.S. Senator, liberal Republican John Heinz, dying in a plane crash since World War II. Heinz, who entered office as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, later emerged as a strong proponent of health care, social services, public transportation and the environment. He also urged reconciliation with Cuba. He died when the landing gear on his small plane failed to function, and a helicopter dispatched to survey the problem crashed into his plane.
One former senator, John Tower, also died in a small plane crash. Tower was best known as the chair of the Tower Commission, which investigated the Reagan/Bush era Iran/Contra scandal.
Another member of a prominent government commission who died in a small plane crash was former Democratic representative and House Majority Leader Hale Boggs. Boggs was best known as one of the seven members of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone when he killed the president. Boggs, it turns out, had "strong doubts" that Oswald acted alone, but went along with the commission findings. Later, in 1971 and 1972, he went public with his doubts. He was presumed dead after the small plane carryi
Isn't this more an indiciation of a widening income gap between working class and middle class backgrounds?
The working class and the middle class are steadily settling into one layer, if you take the inevitable collapse of the dollar into consideration. The average blue-collar American will be able to buy one toxic, genetically-modified hamburger with a month's earnings and the average white-collar American will be able to afford not two-and-a-half but three.:p
You seem to have figured it all out; the question is, how long did it take you?:p
Seriously though, there've been rumors for decades that the CIA has plants throughout the mainstream media, subtly influencing what does and doesn't get coverage and of course how. If we're willing to connect the dots, it becomes almost mindnumbingly obvious that this would have to be the case. As for Chinese media, definitely simpler, cruder and perhaps more obvious, but... whatever works, right?
We're leaving a lot more up to the Iraqis than we did with, say, Japan after WWII. Japan is actually a very respectable part of the world community today, despite the kind of atrocities they were committing during WWII. We used a heavy hand in the aftermath. We're using a much lighter hand in post-war Iraq.
That's an oversimplification that I don't necessarily agree with. I'm fairly certain that we didn't parcel out the contracts [to rebuild Japan's infrastructure] to US firms like we did in Iraq. The OSS, with their characteristic ties to organized crime, made sure to grease the right palms during the Occupation of Japan: real power there is wielded by a trilateral coalition of the Zaibatsus, the government and the Yakuza (all discretely controlled by the same old-money aristocracy that was in charge before the war, and still is to this day) and the OSS made sure Japan's 'powers that be' greatly benefited from the Reconstruction (which you can bet was primarily funded, of course, by us but I digress).
The "peasants" in Japan have pretty much always been subservient to the Samurai-class and with their overseers instructing them to cooperate with the Gaijin Invaders, everything went as smoothly as can be. Of course, it didn't hurt that the Japanese public were expecting to be raped and pillaged by GI's and instead of that happening, our boys tended to show incredible restraint and politeness - so much so, in fact, that Japan fell in love with virtually everything American...
Iraq, on the other hand... no, I definitely don't think the US Government has used a lighter hand in Iraq than they did in during the Occupation.
Studying gravity, quarks and the strong and weak forces have got us.... crickets and tumbleweed.... what, exactly?
Perhaps nothing at all... but someone should point out that there's a huge body of evidence which suggests that highly-classified technologies (such as advanced "blue sky" propulsion methods, gravitation manipulation, etc) might be more than just rumors. Numerous people including Ben Rich (former head of Lockheed's Skunk Works), a senior aviation analyst at Jane's Information Group (don't recall his name), Paul Hellyer (Canada's former Minister of Defense), John Lear (record-breaking pilot and son of Learjet founder William Lear Jr) and countless military personnel have risked their careers and reputations with their claims in support of this. Hell, there've been reports from all over the world for over a decade of large, black triangular-shaped craft (according to the Internet, it even has a name: the "TR-3B"); I met a college professor who claimed to have witnessed it and his daughter (an officer in the U.S.A.F.) even gave a smug, knowing smile but refused to acknowledge or speculate.
Me, I take it all with a grain of salt. It could all be misinformation, I suppose... however, in my meager twenty or so years of adult life, I've learned that reality is a strange and surreal setting... and there's plenty about it that doesn't jibe with what I was taught in my history and science textbooks. I guess that makes me willing to consider all possibilities.
At $0.84/gigabit, that's $27 for 4GB worth of loose DDR3 chips. Considering that a pair of 2GB DDR3 modules (@CAS latency 9) runs about $35 and up, the margins must be next to nonexistent. I just ordered a pair of 2GB DDR3 1600 modules (CL6) for $72; I wonder how much extra I got taken for...
Have you ever noticed during certain kinds of weather cold clear low humidity that the contrail from planes last longer.
Riiiggght... that's why the trails crisscrossed the sky like crazy this past summer, in ever-repeating patterns from horizon to horizon... and a new series would be begun a couple days later (I guess that means the airlines are now only flying every third or fourth day?), all while it was humid and hotter than hell.
Its the black hole at the center of the earth sending our fairy farts and fucking with our birds and fish in Arkansas.
There's a goddamned good reason this kind of thing doesn't happen very day (no, I don't know what that reason is; I'm trying to make a point here:p). Anybody here ever read Earth by David Brin? No, I'm not suggesting that beams of coherent/concentrated gravitational energy were what took out these birds (and the nearby fish). What I am suggesting is that we be willing to explore various possible explanations, regardless of how far fetched and outlandish they may seem to the properly-indoctrinated, unimaginative philistines that compromise the loudest voices on Slashdot.
Anyone heard of HAARP? Anybody bother to look overhead at any point over the past decade? If so, you might have noticed these so-called "contrails" that remain in the sky for dozens of miles (if not hundreds!) and form into clouds (nevermind that the conditions under which actual contrails form, and the behavior they exhibit, has been observed and well-understood for decades).
Perhaps, if we're going to get at a likely explanation, we need to open up our minds a bit... just a suggestion.
Having just woken up with my vision still a bit fuzzy, I read the title as "Epileptic Labs To Bring Touchless Gestures..." and it actually made sense in a strange sort of way...
This comes as somewhat of a disappointment: I've been toying with the idea of trying to get my 13-year-old stepson (a relatively intelligent, moderately creative and incredibly mature 13 year old with zilch for prospects) interested in 3D modeling and content creation. Therefore I've begun assembling a dedicated workstation for running UDK (Unreal Development Kit), an integrated package from Epic that allows you to create redistributable games and standalone 3D apps that utilize the latest Unreal Engine.
I also considered Blender (in fact, I far prefer he learn it instead) but I think UDK will be a lot more likely to sustain his interest through that initial critical phase.
What I always liked about Epic was their platform-neutral stance. Their Glide and unofficial/after-the-fact OpenGL renderers really made UT99 scream: I could jack up resolutions to unheard of levels on the junkiest of hardware and the game would still FLY (for years after UT99 was obsolete, I was able to amuse myself and my friends running custom UT maps I'd found, thanks to this)
Anyhow, my point is that Epic seems to be compromising on the flexibility that set them apart. Hell, they still rely on PhysX for physics acceleration, and as most of you are no doubt aware, PhysX is a proprietary dead-end: according to nVidia, it's up in the air as to whether or not there'll be any more driver updates for dedicated PhysX hardware and the API won't even run on your nVidia GPU if it detects a Radeon present (apparently there's a hack for this but I don't consider that viable). I'm not sure if there are plans for Unreal to utilize Microsoft's presumably hardware-neutral DirectCompute API for future GPU-based physics calculations or not; perhaps someone could shed some light on the subject.
With all due respect, your projection completely lacks a basis in reality. Fascism isn't brought about by "heavily armed ideologues running around the woods." It's brought about the elites (landed aristocracy, captains of industry) who hold the puppet-strings of the politicians they control. Your "heavily-armed ideologues" occasionally serve a purpose, if they can be manipulated (think Tea Party, brownshirts, etc) but they're an unstable element as far as those in power are concerned. Witness the Nazis' - and the US Goverment's - determination to control and eventually eliminate all firearms except those directly under their control.
On display at the Creationism Theme Park: people who believe in Creationism! A variation of this would be to have the Park visitors being the actual display (a sort of moving exhibit, if you will). Ever seen the beginning of Idiocracy? Like that.
Perhaps they could criminalize the possession and use of gold and silver while they're at it. That might encourage the use of the new system. Alright, alright, let's be honest here: they'll need to criminalize bullion and foreign currencies in order for this Orwellian shit to stand a chance... and even then, they'll get to watch as everything goes black market, including money!
...but I have seen many other distractions. Some I have witnessed include application of makeup using rear view mirror, reading books and newspapers, browsing for items out of reach, eating with both hands occupied, using a laptop computer, and watching a movie on portable devices.
That is not anywhere close to an exhaustive list, but it is quite obvious that technology cannot solve all distractions.
No, tech can't solve all distractions but it can certainly supply a few more: I refer to those mother-fucking infuriating digital billboards.
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It really makes me wonder, though, what would they get out of saying stuff like that if it weren't true?
What did 60 Minutes get out of making up that bullshit about Audis, back in the 80's?
It could be made against it as well.
Pardon me for troll-feeding... but where's the "Score: -1, Bullshit" mod when you need it?!
I think the reactions from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island accidents have actually made nuclear power much more dangerous than it would be today if these major disasters hadn't happened. We would have probably advanced our reactor designs and have had safer reactors as a result.
Care to explain your reasoning??
Too bad the workers who plummet to their deaths at the iPhone factory aren't similarly protected...
That's an awful nice schedule you got there, Senator, be a shame if someone were to put you on the No Fly list!
I'd venture to guess that that's not how it's done, Kennedy's token, highly-publicized difficulties not withstanding:
Paul Wellstone was the only progressive in the U.S. Senate. Mother Jones magazine once described him as, "The first 1960s radical elected to the U.S. senate." He was also the last. Since defeating incumbent Republican Rudy Boschowitz 12 years ago in a grassroots upset, Wellstone emerged as the strongest, most persistent, most articulate and most vocal Senate opponent of the Bush administration.
In a senate that is one heartbeat away from Republican control, Wellstone was more than just another Democrat. He was often the lone voice standing firm against the status-quo policies of both the Democrats and the Republicans. As such, he earned the special ire of the Bush administration and the Republican Party, who made Wellstone's defeat that party's number one priority this year.
Various White House figures made numerous recent campaign stops in Minnesota to stump for the ailing campaign of Wellstone's Republican opponent, Norm Coleman. Despite being outspent and outgunned, however, polls show that Wellstone's popularity surged after he voted to oppose the Senate resolution authorizing George Bush to wage war in Iraq. He was pulling ahead of Coleman and moving toward a victory that would both be an embarrassment to the Bush administration and to Democratic Quislings such as Hillary Clinton who voted to support "the president."
Then he died.
Wellstone now joins the ranks of other American politicians who died in small plane crashes. Another recent victim was Missouri's former Democratic governor, Mel Carnahan, who lost his life in 2000, three weeks before Election Day, during his Senatorial race against John Ashcroft. Carnahan went on to become the first dead man to win a Senatorial race, humiliating and defeating the unpopular Ashcroft posthumously. Ashcroft, despite his unpopularity, went on to be appointed Attorney General by George W. Bush. Investigators determined that Carnahan's plane went down due to "poor visibility."
Carnahan was the second Missouri politician to die in a small plane crash. The first was Democratic Representative Jerry Litton, whose plane crashed the night he won the Democratic nomination for senate in 1976. His Republican opponent ultimately captured the seat from his successor in November.
While an article in the New York Times on Saturday pointed out the danger politicians face due to their heavy air travel schedules, the death of a senator or member of Congress is still relatively rare, with only one other sitting U.S. Senator, liberal Republican John Heinz, dying in a plane crash since World War II. Heinz, who entered office as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, later emerged as a strong proponent of health care, social services, public transportation and the environment. He also urged reconciliation with Cuba. He died when the landing gear on his small plane failed to function, and a helicopter dispatched to survey the problem crashed into his plane.
One former senator, John Tower, also died in a small plane crash. Tower was best known as the chair of the Tower Commission, which investigated the Reagan/Bush era Iran/Contra scandal.
Another member of a prominent government commission who died in a small plane crash was former Democratic representative and House Majority Leader Hale Boggs. Boggs was best known as one of the seven members of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone when he killed the president. Boggs, it turns out, had "strong doubts" that Oswald acted alone, but went along with the commission findings. Later, in 1971 and 1972, he went public with his doubts. He was presumed dead after the small plane carryi
for when it's time to retire a mouse that's losing its effectiveness due to old age: anyone know if rodents are kosher? :p
Isn't this more an indiciation of a widening income gap between working class and middle class backgrounds?
The working class and the middle class are steadily settling into one layer, if you take the inevitable collapse of the dollar into consideration. The average blue-collar American will be able to buy one toxic, genetically-modified hamburger with a month's earnings and the average white-collar American will be able to afford not two-and-a-half but three. :p
You seem to have figured it all out; the question is, how long did it take you? :p
Seriously though, there've been rumors for decades that the CIA has plants throughout the mainstream media, subtly influencing what does and doesn't get coverage and of course how. If we're willing to connect the dots, it becomes almost mindnumbingly obvious that this would have to be the case. As for Chinese media, definitely simpler, cruder and perhaps more obvious, but... whatever works, right?
We're leaving a lot more up to the Iraqis than we did with, say, Japan after WWII. Japan is actually a very respectable part of the world community today, despite the kind of atrocities they were committing during WWII. We used a heavy hand in the aftermath. We're using a much lighter hand in post-war Iraq.
That's an oversimplification that I don't necessarily agree with. I'm fairly certain that we didn't parcel out the contracts [to rebuild Japan's infrastructure] to US firms like we did in Iraq. The OSS, with their characteristic ties to organized crime, made sure to grease the right palms during the Occupation of Japan: real power there is wielded by a trilateral coalition of the Zaibatsus, the government and the Yakuza (all discretely controlled by the same old-money aristocracy that was in charge before the war, and still is to this day) and the OSS made sure Japan's 'powers that be' greatly benefited from the Reconstruction (which you can bet was primarily funded, of course, by us but I digress).
The "peasants" in Japan have pretty much always been subservient to the Samurai-class and with their overseers instructing them to cooperate with the Gaijin Invaders, everything went as smoothly as can be. Of course, it didn't hurt that the Japanese public were expecting to be raped and pillaged by GI's and instead of that happening, our boys tended to show incredible restraint and politeness - so much so, in fact, that Japan fell in love with virtually everything American...
Iraq, on the other hand... no, I definitely don't think the US Government has used a lighter hand in Iraq than they did in during the Occupation.
Studying gravity, quarks and the strong and weak forces have got us.... crickets and tumbleweed.... what, exactly?
Perhaps nothing at all... but someone should point out that there's a huge body of evidence which suggests that highly-classified technologies (such as advanced "blue sky" propulsion methods, gravitation manipulation, etc) might be more than just rumors. Numerous people including Ben Rich (former head of Lockheed's Skunk Works), a senior aviation analyst at Jane's Information Group (don't recall his name), Paul Hellyer (Canada's former Minister of Defense), John Lear (record-breaking pilot and son of Learjet founder William Lear Jr) and countless military personnel have risked their careers and reputations with their claims in support of this. Hell, there've been reports from all over the world for over a decade of large, black triangular-shaped craft (according to the Internet, it even has a name: the "TR-3B"); I met a college professor who claimed to have witnessed it and his daughter (an officer in the U.S.A.F.) even gave a smug, knowing smile but refused to acknowledge or speculate.
Me, I take it all with a grain of salt. It could all be misinformation, I suppose... however, in my meager twenty or so years of adult life, I've learned that reality is a strange and surreal setting... and there's plenty about it that doesn't jibe with what I was taught in my history and science textbooks. I guess that makes me willing to consider all possibilities.
From what I've heard, McDonald's is already halfway there...
Disemboweling the Cingular Sysadmin?? Huh?!
>heads on in search of caffeine...
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
On second thought, you're right: "ammo box" was a typo; it was supposed to be "give up."
At $0.84/gigabit, that's $27 for 4GB worth of loose DDR3 chips. Considering that a pair of 2GB DDR3 modules (@CAS latency 9) runs about $35 and up, the margins must be next to nonexistent. I just ordered a pair of 2GB DDR3 1600 modules (CL6) for $72; I wonder how much extra I got taken for...
Have you ever noticed during certain kinds of weather cold clear low humidity that the contrail from planes last longer.
Riiiggght... that's why the trails crisscrossed the sky like crazy this past summer, in ever-repeating patterns from horizon to horizon... and a new series would be begun a couple days later (I guess that means the airlines are now only flying every third or fourth day?), all while it was humid and hotter than hell.
Its the black hole at the center of the earth sending our fairy farts and fucking with our birds and fish in Arkansas.
Strawman much? :p
There's a goddamned good reason this kind of thing doesn't happen very day (no, I don't know what that reason is; I'm trying to make a point here :p). Anybody here ever read Earth by David Brin? No, I'm not suggesting that beams of coherent/concentrated gravitational energy were what took out these birds (and the nearby fish). What I am suggesting is that we be willing to explore various possible explanations, regardless of how far fetched and outlandish they may seem to the properly-indoctrinated, unimaginative philistines that compromise the loudest voices on Slashdot.
Anyone heard of HAARP? Anybody bother to look overhead at any point over the past decade? If so, you might have noticed these so-called "contrails" that remain in the sky for dozens of miles (if not hundreds!) and form into clouds (nevermind that the conditions under which actual contrails form, and the behavior they exhibit, has been observed and well-understood for decades).
Perhaps, if we're going to get at a likely explanation, we need to open up our minds a bit... just a suggestion.
Having just woken up with my vision still a bit fuzzy, I read the title as "Epileptic Labs To Bring Touchless Gestures..." and it actually made sense in a strange sort of way...
This comes as somewhat of a disappointment: I've been toying with the idea of trying to get my 13-year-old stepson (a relatively intelligent, moderately creative and incredibly mature 13 year old with zilch for prospects) interested in 3D modeling and content creation. Therefore I've begun assembling a dedicated workstation for running UDK (Unreal Development Kit), an integrated package from Epic that allows you to create redistributable games and standalone 3D apps that utilize the latest Unreal Engine.
I also considered Blender (in fact, I far prefer he learn it instead) but I think UDK will be a lot more likely to sustain his interest through that initial critical phase.
What I always liked about Epic was their platform-neutral stance. Their Glide and unofficial/after-the-fact OpenGL renderers really made UT99 scream: I could jack up resolutions to unheard of levels on the junkiest of hardware and the game would still FLY (for years after UT99 was obsolete, I was able to amuse myself and my friends running custom UT maps I'd found, thanks to this)
Anyhow, my point is that Epic seems to be compromising on the flexibility that set them apart. Hell, they still rely on PhysX for physics acceleration, and as most of you are no doubt aware, PhysX is a proprietary dead-end: according to nVidia, it's up in the air as to whether or not there'll be any more driver updates for dedicated PhysX hardware and the API won't even run on your nVidia GPU if it detects a Radeon present (apparently there's a hack for this but I don't consider that viable). I'm not sure if there are plans for Unreal to utilize Microsoft's presumably hardware-neutral DirectCompute API for future GPU-based physics calculations or not; perhaps someone could shed some light on the subject.
With all due respect, your projection completely lacks a basis in reality. Fascism isn't brought about by "heavily armed ideologues running around the woods." It's brought about the elites (landed aristocracy, captains of industry) who hold the puppet-strings of the politicians they control. Your "heavily-armed ideologues" occasionally serve a purpose, if they can be manipulated (think Tea Party, brownshirts, etc) but they're an unstable element as far as those in power are concerned. Witness the Nazis' - and the US Goverment's - determination to control and eventually eliminate all firearms except those directly under their control.
Doing that without a court order would be illegal.
And we know THAT always stops the government!
On display at the Creationism Theme Park: people who believe in Creationism! A variation of this would be to have the Park visitors being the actual display (a sort of moving exhibit, if you will). Ever seen the beginning of Idiocracy? Like that.
Perhaps they could criminalize the possession and use of gold and silver while they're at it. That might encourage the use of the new system. Alright, alright, let's be honest here: they'll need to criminalize bullion and foreign currencies in order for this Orwellian shit to stand a chance... and even then, they'll get to watch as everything goes black market, including money!
Excellent point, good chap. The sheer number of concealed weapons has surely made America one of the most respectful places in the world today!
Actually, I think it's "The sheer number of defenseless citizens has surely made the UK one of the most respectful places in the world today!"
Or not.
...but I have seen many other distractions. Some I have witnessed include application of makeup using rear view mirror, reading books and newspapers, browsing for items out of reach, eating with both hands occupied, using a laptop computer, and watching a movie on portable devices. That is not anywhere close to an exhaustive list, but it is quite obvious that technology cannot solve all distractions.
No, tech can't solve all distractions but it can certainly supply a few more: I refer to those mother-fucking infuriating digital billboards.
Our controllers are made to operate reliably up to 260 degrees (127C) and down to -40 degrees (-40C) for the life of the vehicle.'"
Seeing as how this is GM, does that mean 4yrs/40k miles?