First off it seems that you want to trash everyone's regional values and desires in order to assume a super humanity state. Why do that? If the whole point of freedom is to be able to support diversity, then, why use that freedome to have a single culture smashing state.
In a sense, the current war on terrorism is a war of the "global culture" against insular local cultures. It's not talked about much, but I bet the prospect of McDonalds in Mecca rouses more anger in the mideast than does anything else.
Why build this state if we have a world of 6 billion drones all doing the same thing and having the same values? Why get rid of the nation state, or even the state or even the city for that matter.
The whole trend of technology is build to order anyway, and we can increasingly make whatever we want and with less people, so, there's not even particurlarly any economic reason to have the super state. Perhaps instead of the super state, we should be breaking up countries and trade pacts across the globe and having a world where we share intellectual property but not physical goods. That way, each culture can decide whether or not to participate.
Any action designed to bring about a single world culture is imperialism. You on the left can argue that your "imperialism" is for the good cause of saving the environment, but it's still imperialism. Given the choice between being a member state of some super world government, or having an all out nuclear war, I might actually prefer the latter to thin the human herd out rather than be subjugated to some pan-world government that has some french ass trying to tell me how to live.
Gasp! There's more than one search engine out there besides Google. And you can't police them all. So, maybe, instead of searching all the time, use some of the other search engine brands like lycos or even the pre-google favorite, alta-vista, just to keep google honest.
IT could also be good for Africa too. A few million years ago, before the last ice age, Africa was a much lusher place than it is today, as was parts of the USA. If we free up all that water in the ice caps, it's going to rain more often, and suddenly deserts in the western USA and Africa might be more hospitable places.
It's fairly simple. The ESA doesn't have a rocket capable of putting a payload on a lunar path. AFAIK Arianne is really only good for LEO stuff. The only two countries with lunar capable rockets are I believe the Russians and the USA. Of course, the ultimate lunar capable rocket, the Saturn V, is dead, so all we can do is cross our fingers and hope that NASA will come to its senses and bring back the big dumb booster.
Kyoto is a sham. China's economy right now is only 1/2 that of the USA but is growing at 10% a year. By the end of the decade, China will probably surpass the US economy, but will still be considered a developing nation under Kyoto. So under Kyoto the USA could conceivably wind up paying billions of dollars in emissions credits to China, but China would actually be emitting more CO2. It's a bogus treaty.
The way to get rid of greenhouse gasses is to build many nuclear power plants, which the left opposses. To that end, the Bush Administration has opened up the NRC to license new reactor designs for a tentative construction around 20/20. If the USA retires all of its coal, natural gas, and oil electric plants, and replace them with nuclear plants, then we would effectively meet Kyoto targets.
that the problem lies more with lefties that think kids can learn or want to learn while shuffling between parents and daycare.
I would say that the real problem underlying our national demise is a lack of social stability. Birthrates are down, kids know that their world is so random that learning is arguably pointless so they don't.
While it's easy enough to blame George Bush for kids being put on prozac because their parents suck, maybe, it's time to start asking parents to grow up and give a shit about their children.
I don't think JIMO or the Prometheus Project is a pipe dream at all. The shuttle is getting long in the tooth, for sure, and we need a newer one. Would a booster type apollo style spacecraft be really all that bad?
Instead of bitching about how Bush hasn't made any jobs, he ought to take some of those brains of his and start selling his inventions. That will do more good for the economy than any stupid protest will.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but many of the issues we have are because we are running in flat memory models. The Intel architecture from the 386 onward is quite capable of supporting a model where applications have segments that can may be quite protected from each other.
Couldn't you theoretically give each thread its own selector, rather than process? And, if you want to get down to it, couldn't you have thousands of selectors, and maybe even go down to an even more granualar level than threads? Like, I always thought that many of the hardware security features of the x86 are actually not used.
Mercury cars are all old technology, that's about the worst body roll cornering car that you can get.
Let's see this before and after with a more modern suspension, like a Cadillac STS, CTS, Chrysler 300C, the Pontiac GTO, and of course, any BMW or Mercedes, and then we'll see how good this suspension really is.
I mean, jeez, half the computer people in the country are unemployed, let's go out of our way to bring more people into the field. Sorry ladies but this boat is booked.
Bev Harris and her attorney are suing so they can get rich. Diebold is probably more innocent than not, and what you have here is a partisan Democrat looking to smear a corporation and get rich quick at the same time.
Critical thinking usually means that accusations filed in court should be taken with the grain of salt they deserve.
You have a garage door open that you know will be interfered with by military frequencies, and so you attach explosives to it. It's almost the perfect trap.
Paper voting has been the subject of infamous handling since voting began. Counting the votes, letting the people count the votes, etc, has been an art form since the birth of American democracy.
Both political parties have been playing games with the vote, there's been an understood rule that some cheating was expected ever since the end of a very bloody civil war.
Today, any decent political machine will put its partisans into the counting of paper votes. You don't even have to tell your partisans to cheat to swing an election. You can just tell them how to do it fairly and evenly and there will be enough with a desire to win that they will figure out how to cheat to manufacture ballots.
For example you could say, be careful holding the vote this way or your thumb might cause a chad to get knocked out, disqualifying the vote. But, the election workers, partisan, would start doing exactly that if they were counting a vote that went against their man.
Or, you might have accidently ripped ballots, a stray pen market that accidently blots a second vote, invalidating the ballot (ala the chad), a different mark, an extra hole, a rip, a tear, a piece of dirt. In close elections, a staf that counts 100,000 ballots and invalidates 1% of them just bought you 1000 votes.
"Letting the people count the votes" is really American slang for "let my partisans have a whack at them." It sounds good on the surface, but in reality it just means a brilliant machine is just working the votes, touching the paper, working it, changing it. That's not to say that Democrats are the only party that cheats just because things didn't work out for them in 2000. After all, Republicans used to do there sneaky things like have voters have to take tests to vote. To pass, white people know that 2+2=4 to white people, and black people to produce PI to 100 digits. Every now and then you get elections where it turned out that dead people voted.
The issue with electronic voting, thus, is not the "real" argument of security or ownership of the voting company, it's that, Democrats have for some reason has decided that the loss of their ability to work the paper ballot is not worth the gain. With a Republican owning the voting machine company, this is understandable. There's things he could do to swing a few votes his way, nothing really illegal, either. For example, he might say that screens with one font might wind up with 0.1% more republican votes, and that's enough to swing a close election.
Fuel cells are energy storage devices. There will be no big hydrogen fuel cell plant producing hydrogen for smaller fuel cells. The best way to do fuel cells is build nuclear power plants everywhere, then, produce hydrogen with all that electricity at night.
Actually, the conquest of the west was done in part by Germans coming from the old world to the new. So, the Germans good at conquering came over, and helped conquer the indians, but the rest stayed behind. Now if only we would have gotten the ones good at making cars.
Answer: The germans never named militairy hardware after races/tribes they wiped out.
Actually, the Germans didn't wipe anyone out. They tried to, but they lost. Native Americans were a lot easier to fight than Russians armed with T-34s and supplied by American trucks. Americans got the Western USA for their efforst. Germans got Russian soldiers buggaring their wives and daughters in East Prussia.
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First off it seems that you want to trash everyone's regional values and desires in order to assume a super humanity state. Why do that? If the whole point of freedom is to be able to support diversity, then, why use that freedome to have a single culture smashing state.
In a sense, the current war on terrorism is a war of the "global culture" against insular local cultures. It's not talked about much, but I bet the prospect of McDonalds in Mecca rouses more anger in the mideast than does anything else.
Why build this state if we have a world of 6 billion drones all doing the same thing and having the same values? Why get rid of the nation state, or even the state or even the city for that matter.
The whole trend of technology is build to order anyway, and we can increasingly make whatever we want and with less people, so, there's not even particurlarly any economic reason to have the super state. Perhaps instead of the super state, we should be breaking up countries and trade pacts across the globe and having a world where we share intellectual property but not physical goods. That way, each culture can decide whether or not to participate.
Any action designed to bring about a single world culture is imperialism. You on the left can argue that your "imperialism" is for the good cause of saving the environment, but it's still imperialism. Given the choice between being a member state of some super world government, or having an all out nuclear war, I might actually prefer the latter to thin the human herd out rather than be subjugated to some pan-world government that has some french ass trying to tell me how to live.
Gasp! There's more than one search engine out there besides Google. And you can't police them all. So, maybe, instead of searching all the time, use some of the other search engine brands like lycos or even the pre-google favorite, alta-vista, just to keep google honest.
IT could also be good for Africa too. A few million years ago, before the last ice age, Africa was a much lusher place than it is today, as was parts of the USA. If we free up all that water in the ice caps, it's going to rain more often, and suddenly deserts in the western USA and Africa might be more hospitable places.
It's fairly simple. The ESA doesn't have a rocket capable of putting a payload on a lunar path. AFAIK Arianne is really only good for LEO stuff. The only two countries with lunar capable rockets are I believe the Russians and the USA. Of course, the ultimate lunar capable rocket, the Saturn V, is dead, so all we can do is cross our fingers and hope that NASA will come to its senses and bring back the big dumb booster.
Kyoto is a sham. China's economy right now is only 1/2 that of the USA but is growing at 10% a year. By the end of the decade, China will probably surpass the US economy, but will still be considered a developing nation under Kyoto. So under Kyoto the USA could conceivably wind up paying billions of dollars in emissions credits to China, but China would actually be emitting more CO2. It's a bogus treaty.
The way to get rid of greenhouse gasses is to build many nuclear power plants, which the left opposses. To that end, the Bush Administration has opened up the NRC to license new reactor designs for a tentative construction around 20/20. If the USA retires all of its coal, natural gas, and oil electric plants, and replace them with nuclear plants, then we would effectively meet Kyoto targets.
Suddenly Foale seems to be coming around to the Russian point of view about space. Wasn't MIR a lot cheaper than ISS?
that the problem lies more with lefties that think kids can learn or want to learn while shuffling between parents and daycare.
I would say that the real problem underlying our national demise is a lack of social stability. Birthrates are down, kids know that their world is so random that learning is arguably pointless so they don't.
While it's easy enough to blame George Bush for kids being put on prozac because their parents suck, maybe, it's time to start asking parents to grow up and give a shit about their children.
One Parachute Engineer. Responsible for designing parachute systems.
"with us or against us" evil politics, characterized as best by the guys who don't vote the way I do. :-)
I don't think JIMO or the Prometheus Project is a pipe dream at all. The shuttle is getting long in the tooth, for sure, and we need a newer one. Would a booster type apollo style spacecraft be really all that bad?
Instead of bitching about how Bush hasn't made any jobs, he ought to take some of those brains of his and start selling his inventions. That will do more good for the economy than any stupid protest will.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but many of the issues we have are because we are running in flat memory models. The Intel architecture from the 386 onward is quite capable of supporting a model where applications have segments that can may be quite protected from each other.
Couldn't you theoretically give each thread its own selector, rather than process? And, if you want to get down to it, couldn't you have thousands of selectors, and maybe even go down to an even more granualar level than threads? Like, I always thought that many of the hardware security features of the x86 are actually not used.
Thanks to everyone who posted on this thread. I really enjoyed learning everything here.
I missed the video where the wheels went up and down over a speed bump like a fricking cartoon. It's pretty amazing. BMW, it's been nice knowing ya!
Mercury cars are all old technology, that's about the worst body roll cornering car that you can get.
Let's see this before and after with a more modern suspension, like a Cadillac STS, CTS, Chrysler 300C, the Pontiac GTO, and of course, any BMW or Mercedes, and then we'll see how good this suspension really is.
The STS V8 has magnetic ride control
Magnetic Ride Control
It's not a purely electrical suspension, but uses computers to control the amount of damping the suspension gives.
Boy, I must be really lame that I can't even start a troll anymore on slashdot.
I mean, jeez, half the computer people in the country are unemployed, let's go out of our way to bring more people into the field. Sorry ladies but this boat is booked.
That does seem to be the more pressing problem.
Bev Harris and her attorney are suing so they can get rich. Diebold is probably more innocent than not, and what you have here is a partisan Democrat looking to smear a corporation and get rich quick at the same time.
Critical thinking usually means that accusations filed in court should be taken with the grain of salt they deserve.
You have a garage door open that you know will be interfered with by military frequencies, and so you attach explosives to it. It's almost the perfect trap.
Clever people, those Iraqis.
Paper voting has been the subject of infamous handling since voting began. Counting the votes, letting the people count the votes, etc, has been an art form since the birth of American democracy.
Both political parties have been playing games with the vote, there's been an understood rule that some cheating was expected ever since the end of a very bloody civil war.
Today, any decent political machine will put its partisans into the counting of paper votes. You don't even have to tell your partisans to cheat to swing an election. You can just tell them how to do it fairly and evenly and there will be enough with a desire to win that they will figure out how to cheat to manufacture ballots.
For example you could say, be careful holding the vote this way or your thumb might cause a chad to get knocked out, disqualifying the vote. But, the election workers, partisan, would start doing exactly that if they were counting a vote that went against their man.
Or, you might have accidently ripped ballots, a stray pen market that accidently blots a second vote, invalidating the ballot (ala the chad), a different mark, an extra hole, a rip, a tear, a piece of dirt. In close elections, a staf that counts 100,000 ballots and invalidates 1% of them just bought you 1000 votes.
"Letting the people count the votes" is really American slang for "let my partisans have a whack at them." It sounds good on the surface, but in reality it just means a brilliant machine is just working the votes, touching the paper, working it, changing it. That's not to say that Democrats are the only party that cheats just because things didn't work out for them in 2000. After all, Republicans used to do there sneaky things like have voters have to take tests to vote. To pass, white people know that 2+2=4 to white people, and black people to produce PI to 100 digits. Every now and then you get elections where it turned out that dead people voted.
The issue with electronic voting, thus, is not the "real" argument of security or ownership of the voting company, it's that, Democrats have for some reason has decided that the loss of their ability to work the paper ballot is not worth the gain. With a Republican owning the voting machine company, this is understandable. There's things he could do to swing a few votes his way, nothing really illegal, either. For example, he might say that screens with one font might wind up with 0.1% more republican votes, and that's enough to swing a close election.
Fuel cells are energy storage devices. There will be no big hydrogen fuel cell plant producing hydrogen for smaller fuel cells. The best way to do fuel cells is build nuclear power plants everywhere, then, produce hydrogen with all that electricity at night.
Actually, the conquest of the west was done in part by Germans coming from the old world to the new. So, the Germans good at conquering came over, and helped conquer the indians, but the rest stayed behind. Now if only we would have gotten the ones good at making cars.
Answer: The germans never named militairy hardware after races/tribes they wiped out.
Actually, the Germans didn't wipe anyone out. They tried to, but they lost. Native Americans were a lot easier to fight than Russians armed with T-34s and supplied by American trucks. Americans got the Western USA for their efforst. Germans got Russian soldiers buggaring their wives and daughters in East Prussia.
Boy, Hitler was stupid.