Don't sell me that line of crap. You first completely mix up the idea of "reasonable doubt" (hint: it's used as the standard for showing something to be false in court). Then you go off and talk about something that doesn't even have anything to do with nuclear weapons (hint: a dirty bomb is not a nuclear weapon), and somehow tie the whole thing together to show that Iraq was a threat.
And lastly, I never said that you never managed to graduate from third grade. I merely wondered how you managed to do so.
In short, this is no doubt why you "used to" work for lawyers, instead of being one. Ability to follow a coherent argument is a big requirement there.
Iraq had a nuclear power program, until the reactor was bombed into little pieces by the Israelis.
Iraq may have had a nuclear weapons program. If they did, the fact that the uranium was still in yellowcake form means they didn't get very far at all, and thus were not any kind of threat.
So rather than lie, they were simply wrong about the whole thing? Are you saying that it's somehow better to be a horrendously incompetent President than it is to be a liar?
Shows that Saddam could have made weapons out of them.
What bullshit! How did you ever manage to graduate from the third grade with this kind of "reasoning" skills? Your quote discusses four devices that might be involved in one step of nuclear weapons manufacture. You need an awful lot more than that to actually build a functioning nuclear weapon.
You're the one who went off invoking religion, not me. Honestly I really couldn't figure out what anything in your post had to do with this conversation.
Almost nobody has been around a manufacturing facility for this sort of vehicle. Unless your space-manufacturing experience includes something like the X-15, you certainly haven't.
There's an enormous difference between what's needed for an autonomous satellite that's going to spend years or decades operating in space, and a piloted vehicle that's going to spend minutes at a time.
An utterly locked-down portable communications device, let's not forget.
Not so in two ways:
1) You can in fact always jailbreak it and do anything you like, so by definition it is not locked down. Or unlock it to use on other carriers as it would seem tens or hundreds of thousands are doing so today.
Jailbreaking is unreliable and risky.
2) An "utterly locked down" device would not let me develop software for it, which in fact I am doing today.
Nonsense. You get to develop software for it because the manufacturer decided that they wanted to let you. It's still utterly locked down, it's just that you have convinced the lockers to let you in. If Steve Jobs woke up tomorrow and decided that you should no longer be allowed to develop software for it, guess what, you would no longer be able to develop for it. Apple retains absolute control (unless you jailbreak), so you obtain access at their whim.
If Apple would let me load any code I felt like onto the thing, I might be willing to pay $70. But the thing is extremely restricted, and I certainly don't feel like paying $70/month so I can get e-mail, a web browser, and not be able to put my own code on it.
The developer program is cheap and lets you load any code you like onto your own phone. Jailbroken phones have further freedom still as to what the software you load can actually do, but even the official development stuff has a great deal of room to develop in.
That's fine if what you want to do fits with their vision of the device. If I want to do something as horrific as, say, make my app run in the background, guess what: I'm shit out of luck.
Not to mention that, as before, your existence in the developer program is entirely at the whim of Apple. Many people are having trouble getting accepted, and even once you are accepted Apple can cut you off at any time for any reason.
Have you ever wondered why a small shop like Scaled Composites is able to do things so cheaply compared to what Boeing or Hughes would cost? Well, here's part of your answer....
Not to mention, your experience with satellite manufacturing is almost entirely irrelevant. Satellites get launched once and then run for years, independently, in space. This thing is going to live out in the desert and get launched for quick rides into space a couple of times a week. They might as well get it dirty while they're making it, because it sure isn't going to stay clean once it's finished.
Your sig is an awesome rebuttal to your claim. You do remember Apollo, don't you? That was less than 40 years ago. If you're going to invoke the Great Wall of China, a largely useless structure built in fits and starts over a period of a thousand years, then surely a pause of 40 is nowhere near sufficient.
And you couldn't possibly care less about the fact that if you hit somebody else then you'll be doing far worse damage to them.
It's all heading toward a crazy Nash equilibrium. If we all drive SUVs then we'll be no more safe than if we all drove compacts, because impacts really only care about relative sizes. (We'll probably be less safe, in fact; most SUVs are much less crashworthy than small cars overall, due to the fact that in a regulatory sense they are considered to be trucks and thus are only required to meet truck standards.) There's only an advantage in having an SUV if the population is mixed, and in that case you trade off other people's safety for your own. It's an astonishingly selfish decision.
Fortunately the current rise in gas prices seems to finally be breaking the trend.
$20 for unlimited data? That's not bad. If I could get an iPhone 3G for $30 for data and the prepaid rates for talk time, I might just go for that... I'll have to look into it. Thanks for the tips!
This is one of those things that sounds extremely simple in concept but turns out to be very difficult to construct in practice, even ignoring the ridiculous amount of money that such a thing would cost. It is therefore beyond current technology.
An utterly locked-down portable communications device, let's not forget.
If Apple would let me load any code I felt like onto the thing, I might be willing to pay $70. But the thing is extremely restricted, and I certainly don't feel like paying $70/month so I can get e-mail, a web browser, and not be able to put my own code on it.
I'm pretty sure the bank will mind greatly if you steal money from your own account, then report it as stolen and tell them you expect them to refund you for failing to protect it.
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Don't sell me that line of crap. You first completely mix up the idea of "reasonable doubt" (hint: it's used as the standard for showing something to be false in court). Then you go off and talk about something that doesn't even have anything to do with nuclear weapons (hint: a dirty bomb is not a nuclear weapon), and somehow tie the whole thing together to show that Iraq was a threat.
And lastly, I never said that you never managed to graduate from third grade. I merely wondered how you managed to do so.
In short, this is no doubt why you "used to" work for lawyers, instead of being one. Ability to follow a coherent argument is a big requirement there.
Why does there need to be another reason?
Iraq had a nuclear power program, until the reactor was bombed into little pieces by the Israelis.
Iraq may have had a nuclear weapons program. If they did, the fact that the uranium was still in yellowcake form means they didn't get very far at all, and thus were not any kind of threat.
Saddam had no choice but to sit on the damaged reactors and fuel, and try to build a nuclear research program.
Wow, those evil Israelis and Americans gave him no choice but to conduct nuclear weapons research?
Tell me another one!
So rather than lie, they were simply wrong about the whole thing? Are you saying that it's somehow better to be a horrendously incompetent President than it is to be a liar?
Shows that Saddam could have made weapons out of them.
What bullshit! How did you ever manage to graduate from the third grade with this kind of "reasoning" skills? Your quote discusses four devices that might be involved in one step of nuclear weapons manufacture. You need an awful lot more than that to actually build a functioning nuclear weapon.
You're the one who went off invoking religion, not me. Honestly I really couldn't figure out what anything in your post had to do with this conversation.
For the religious this would be the line God has chosen and who are you to question God?
I sure as hell am not religious, so I reserve the right to question everybody's invisible sky friend.
Almost nobody has been around a manufacturing facility for this sort of vehicle. Unless your space-manufacturing experience includes something like the X-15, you certainly haven't.
There's an enormous difference between what's needed for an autonomous satellite that's going to spend years or decades operating in space, and a piloted vehicle that's going to spend minutes at a time.
An utterly locked-down portable communications device, let's not forget.
Not so in two ways:
1) You can in fact always jailbreak it and do anything you like, so by definition it is not locked down. Or unlock it to use on other carriers as it would seem tens or hundreds of thousands are doing so today.
Jailbreaking is unreliable and risky.
2) An "utterly locked down" device would not let me develop software for it, which in fact I am doing today.
Nonsense. You get to develop software for it because the manufacturer decided that they wanted to let you. It's still utterly locked down, it's just that you have convinced the lockers to let you in. If Steve Jobs woke up tomorrow and decided that you should no longer be allowed to develop software for it, guess what, you would no longer be able to develop for it. Apple retains absolute control (unless you jailbreak), so you obtain access at their whim.
If Apple would let me load any code I felt like onto the thing, I might be willing to pay $70. But the thing is extremely restricted, and I certainly don't feel like paying $70/month so I can get e-mail, a web browser, and not be able to put my own code on it.
The developer program is cheap and lets you load any code you like onto your own phone. Jailbroken phones have further freedom still as to what the software you load can actually do, but even the official development stuff has a great deal of room to develop in.
That's fine if what you want to do fits with their vision of the device. If I want to do something as horrific as, say, make my app run in the background, guess what: I'm shit out of luck.
Not to mention that, as before, your existence in the developer program is entirely at the whim of Apple. Many people are having trouble getting accepted, and even once you are accepted Apple can cut you off at any time for any reason.
Have you ever wondered why a small shop like Scaled Composites is able to do things so cheaply compared to what Boeing or Hughes would cost? Well, here's part of your answer....
Not to mention, your experience with satellite manufacturing is almost entirely irrelevant. Satellites get launched once and then run for years, independently, in space. This thing is going to live out in the desert and get launched for quick rides into space a couple of times a week. They might as well get it dirty while they're making it, because it sure isn't going to stay clean once it's finished.
Since you guys clearly know more about this business than Scaled Composites, maybe you should go start your own composite aircraft company.
Your sig is an awesome rebuttal to your claim. You do remember Apollo, don't you? That was less than 40 years ago. If you're going to invoke the Great Wall of China, a largely useless structure built in fits and starts over a period of a thousand years, then surely a pause of 40 is nowhere near sufficient.
And you couldn't possibly care less about the fact that if you hit somebody else then you'll be doing far worse damage to them.
It's all heading toward a crazy Nash equilibrium. If we all drive SUVs then we'll be no more safe than if we all drove compacts, because impacts really only care about relative sizes. (We'll probably be less safe, in fact; most SUVs are much less crashworthy than small cars overall, due to the fact that in a regulatory sense they are considered to be trucks and thus are only required to meet truck standards.) There's only an advantage in having an SUV if the population is mixed, and in that case you trade off other people's safety for your own. It's an astonishingly selfish decision.
Fortunately the current rise in gas prices seems to finally be breaking the trend.
Yes, just like the only illegal part of having your iPhone "stolen" would be the report. It's fraud, not theft.
$20 for unlimited data? That's not bad. If I could get an iPhone 3G for $30 for data and the prepaid rates for talk time, I might just go for that... I'll have to look into it. Thanks for the tips!
Their rates aren't bad, and coverage looks decent. The roaming charges are painful, but I shouldn't hit those areas too often.
Do you happen to know whose network(s) they use?
This is one of those things that sounds extremely simple in concept but turns out to be very difficult to construct in practice, even ignoring the ridiculous amount of money that such a thing would cost. It is therefore beyond current technology.
Such as what? The technology simply isn't there for anything else, especially not for the miniscule budget these guys have.
Are you also a pilot? I concede that you may well be, but if so it's a strange omission to make.
If you want to run a server on your home computer, maybe you should, you know, buy a server connection for it.
Just don't get a stinking cell phone in the US!
Great plan there, buster. What should I do, get one in Canada? I can't realistically go without one.
An utterly locked-down portable communications device, let's not forget.
If Apple would let me load any code I felt like onto the thing, I might be willing to pay $70. But the thing is extremely restricted, and I certainly don't feel like paying $70/month so I can get e-mail, a web browser, and not be able to put my own code on it.
I'm pretty sure the bank will mind greatly if you steal money from your own account, then report it as stolen and tell them you expect them to refund you for failing to protect it.
That's fearmongering, not coercion. Coercion would be if the Republicans threatened to do something bad to you themselves if you didn't vote for them.
I recall reading that the Gophone plans are extremely expensive if you use data. Do you just avoid using cellular internet, or am I mistaken on this?