While we are trading with China, supplying arms to both the Isrealis and Palistinians, and giving gobs of bucks to Yugoslovia, we are preventing Cuba from being all it can be by our economic sanctions against it. How can this be justified? Do you feel that this policy is good for the people of either country? What is the "worst case" scenario if Cuba were allowed to enter into say, NAFTA? Do you favor lifting the embargo to Cuba, and if not why not?
If you want the government to take care of you, they will take care of you as best they know how. That leaves you with three choices: 1.) Teach them how to take care of you in the way you want to be taken care of (but folks with more time and money have better instructional methods), 2.) learn to live with what they want, or 3.) realize that they will never get it right and take care of yourself.
The Libertarian Party is running 1400 canidates this election, and they all want you to take care of yourself. As radical as this sounds, it makes sense to a lot of us. Harry Browne is leading Pat Buchanon is lots of polls, and he's passed Ralph Nader in some. If you want to vote for government to decide what video games you can play, what movies you can watch , and how the internet should be made better for "the people", just vote for either Gush or Bore. There isn't a nickel's worth of difference between them. If you think you could make *your* world a better place, visit this site.
What with one-click shopping, no-click shopping, point and click shopping, and keyboard shopping, I can't help but think that the indecisive of the world should have an option.
"Whereas it is altogether too easy to buy stuff on the web, I propose to patent a way to cancel any purchases made with a computer by using a computer. In any way. It being common knowledge that the only way to get out of an on-line purchase is to call a non-responsive 800 number, I think having a way to use the instrument of your destruction as an instrument of your salvation is a good thing. If you disagree, please call 1-800- TUFLUCK."
I don't know much about military submarines, but I have spent over 20 years working with, on, and in research submersibles. Maybe I can shed a little light on the subject of underwater email.
For research purposes, there are lots of uses for tranfering data between a submerged sub and the surface. After all, one of the things research is involved in is collecting data. For some of the data, real time analysis is important.
F'rinstance, the geodetic position of the sub is of interest to more than an enemy. If you are collecting information about a wellsite for an oil company, it would be nice to know that you are on their lease. Because GPS, Loran, or any other RF-based surface navigation signals don't travel underwater, the sub can't know its geodetic position without a little help from the surface. Sea-mail (a term I coined for underwater email) can provide that help.
Another way that sea-mail can help is to reduce misunderstandings between the bottom and the surface. Voice communicatons underwater are so bad that 2400 BPS sounds good by comparison. If the folks in the sub encounter something that needs to be discussed with the surface, text on a screen is less prone to mistakes in interpretation than poor conversation. Especially when the topic of conversation is homophores or suckopods or other things that techs on the sub aren't familiar with.
Finally, comm from a moving sub is a natural evolution from what underwater acoustic modems were developed for: getting data from the bottom to the surface without wires. If you want to know the temperature, visability, or whatever conditon on the bottom, you have to place a sensor there. To collect the data, either a wire or an acoustic link must connect the sensor with the surface. If you've ever strung a few miles of wire off a moving platform, you can see why folks are putting money into the alterative.
Getting email to submerged subs is a good thing. I hope it continues to improve until it becomes as reliable as wired commo up here where the sun shines.
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While we are trading with China, supplying arms to both the Isrealis and Palistinians, and giving gobs of bucks to Yugoslovia, we are preventing Cuba from being all it can be by our economic sanctions against it. How can this be justified? Do you feel that this policy is good for the people of either country? What is the "worst case" scenario if Cuba were allowed to enter into say, NAFTA? Do you favor lifting the embargo to Cuba, and if not why not?
If you want the government to take care of you, they will take care of you as best they know how. That leaves you with three choices: 1.) Teach them how to take care of you in the way you want to be taken care of (but folks with more time and money have better instructional methods), 2.) learn to live with what they want, or 3.) realize that they will never get it right and take care of yourself. The Libertarian Party is running 1400 canidates this election, and they all want you to take care of yourself. As radical as this sounds, it makes sense to a lot of us. Harry Browne is leading Pat Buchanon is lots of polls, and he's passed Ralph Nader in some. If you want to vote for government to decide what video games you can play, what movies you can watch , and how the internet should be made better for "the people", just vote for either Gush or Bore. There isn't a nickel's worth of difference between them. If you think you could make *your* world a better place, visit this site.
What with one-click shopping, no-click shopping, point and click shopping, and keyboard shopping, I can't help but think that the indecisive of the world should have an option. "Whereas it is altogether too easy to buy stuff on the web, I propose to patent a way to cancel any purchases made with a computer by using a computer. In any way. It being common knowledge that the only way to get out of an on-line purchase is to call a non-responsive 800 number, I think having a way to use the instrument of your destruction as an instrument of your salvation is a good thing. If you disagree, please call 1-800- TUFLUCK."
I don't know much about military submarines, but I have spent over 20 years working with, on, and in research submersibles. Maybe I can shed a little light on the subject of underwater email.
For research purposes, there are lots of uses for tranfering data between a submerged sub and the surface. After all, one of the things research is involved in is collecting data. For some of the data, real time analysis is important.
F'rinstance, the geodetic position of the sub is of interest to more than an enemy. If you are collecting information about a wellsite for an oil company, it would be nice to know that you are on their lease. Because GPS, Loran, or any other RF-based surface navigation signals don't travel underwater, the sub can't know its geodetic position without a little help from the surface. Sea-mail (a term I coined for underwater email) can provide that help.
Another way that sea-mail can help is to reduce misunderstandings between the bottom and the surface. Voice communicatons underwater are so bad that 2400 BPS sounds good by comparison. If the folks in the sub encounter something that needs to be discussed with the surface, text on a screen is less prone to mistakes in interpretation than poor conversation. Especially when the topic of conversation is homophores or suckopods or other things that techs on the sub aren't familiar with.
Finally, comm from a moving sub is a natural evolution from what underwater acoustic modems were developed for: getting data from the bottom to the surface without wires. If you want to know the temperature, visability, or whatever conditon on the bottom, you have to place a sensor there. To collect the data, either a wire or an acoustic link must connect the sensor with the surface. If you've ever strung a few miles of wire off a moving platform, you can see why folks are putting money into the alterative.
Getting email to submerged subs is a good thing. I hope it continues to improve until it becomes as reliable as wired commo up here where the sun shines.