Wormholes entirely governed by the laws of quantum mechanics, on the other hand, would likely transport their payloads to an undesired time and place.
And with the right source of brownian motion, you could make your host's undergarments jump an entire foot to the left.
Yippie! I always thought they looked cooler than those so-called "s1" galaxies. I'm soo proud to live in such an upscale neighborhood. Eat my dust, S1 riffraff!
Nonsense! At some point, Jupiter's atmosphere will be so dense that Galileo is crushed many times over, until the atoms themselves become one with the near-heliodal soup that is our fifth planet. Then shall the firmament rejoyce!
And I'll say it again: US-Government domination of space needs to end. Since the end of the cold war, NASA and, to a very small extent, its Russian counterpart have more or less ruled space. Sure, there've been a number of "private" or corporate launches, but all of them have come from Cape with a heavy kickback to NASA.
What is needed is for private corporations to take up the slack, building their own launch sites and launching their own whatevers. If this means corporate domination of space, then so be it. I would rather see the Microsoft Starship Gates make warp one than none at all.
You're traveling through another dimension - a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead. Your next stop... The Twilight Zone. But first... Friends, have you been down in the dumps lately? Life got you going... slow? Well, we've got just the thing to get you going: The Xbox! (Not for use with the "Linux" system, which is the devil.)
I recently set my hotmail filter to "exclusive", and I have yet to see anything that I didn't explicitly ask for. The rest is easily flushed out of the Junk Mail folder. Somebody, somewhere, got something right for once. I'm happy.
For an airworthiness directive of this magnitude, Airbuses should have been grounded until they were fixed. Note the addition of this clause:
(c) Special flight permits may be issued in accordance with sections Secs. 21.197 and 21.199 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR 21.197 and 21.199) to operate the airplane to a location where the requirements of this AD can be accomplished.
This means that the/only/ reason a faulty plane would be in the air is if it was on its way to be fixed. It wouldn't surprise me, however, that people would fly these things without being compliant; I'd expect that somebody's going to loose their FAA ratings.
We can claim their stuff, right? Will there be big sell-offs and auctions? I'd pay $1.5k for a shuttle, but that's my final offer. Since they'll either space the station or leave it in orbit, it theoretically could be claimed or *ahem* stolen...
Russia made it into space with five missles welded together. We could do likewise. Eh? Eh?
The reason laws exist is to protect the people. As Plato said (massive condensing), "The proper function of a government is to provide justice for the people, and not for its own benefit." This means, basically, that optimum government is for the people and not nepotism.
How does this relate to RIAA and such? Well, the point here is that we have laws, we create laws, to protect the people as a whole and not individual groups or sub-groups. Further, the actions the RIAA takes and desires to take, are not those which are for the law, but function as a kind of sub-law. Despite all you who wish you had been born into a Shadowrun campaign, Megacorps do not run everything, and do not have the power to do such nefarious acts.
This probably won't get heard, but oh well.
The deal here isn't one of censorship, it's one of logic. What sense does it make to summarily ban any works that mention flying, planes, blowing things up, fire, new york, or america? Submitted for your perusal:
Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian"
Do what? Someone explain this one to me.
Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World"
Three Degrees "When Will I See You Again"
The Doors "The End"
Seems these would help folks heal.
On the other hand, there's a few (Disco Inferno, etc.) that/should/ have been banned a long time ago.
It's been two days, and I'm still numb. I don't even have witty comments anymore - there's nothing that can be said that hasn't already been said, except that now is not the time to start WWIII and I'm hightailing it to the woods. See you all through my Grandchildren in 2146.
Well, this is a good thing, you know, since it allows for movies that do really cool things without the limitations of human actors. However, it does lead to a future wher we are robbed of human actors in the first place. Rummages through SF library. Lesse, I got a Poul Anderson, some Heinlein, a little Asimov... coupla Kubrics, a nice Piers Anthony or three.... Read and think, people, read and think!
If the subject is "all Greek to you", good! Take a classical language today! Live life to the point of tears
The likelyhood of a democratic china in 2008 is slim. Governments do not change that quick, even when they appear to (since I'm sure you'll jump to the "But-Russia" defence). What will be seen at the olympics, and indeed all around the world for the next ten years, will be a shiny, happy "It's-a-small-world-after-all" China, full of people who/love/ working for The Party. Executions and purges will be quieted up even more. Faulon Gong will "mysterously fall out of favour with the People." Uniforms will shift to pink pastels in the spring.
It's still the same old China, though. Only thing'll change that is time or, if you're in a hurry, nukes.
Geek Culture killed my dog/ and I don't think it's fair...
Right, but my point is: what good is it telling us about their violations (other than to illustrate their creative ways of doing them) without telling us how they're being dealt with by either internal or external forces. I don't want to hear about censorship so much as I want to hear about the various attempts of the People at getting around the censorship.
Geek Culture killed my dog/ and I don't think it's fair...
Look, people, how is this even news anymore? It should by now be startlingly obvious that China a) is an agressivly oppressive government (as opposed to the US and Russia, who quietly remove their dissidents) and b) is run by sociopaths. Therefore I propose (and no one will adopt) that there be less of a proliferation of stories concerning both Chinese Oppression and Human Rights Violations. We know it's happening. Tell us how you're stopping it.
Geek Culture killed my dog/ and I don't think it's fair...
... but I'm too lazy to read through the three thousand lamers and phreaks to care.
Anyway, I'd like to remind you that when Heinlein's kids went to the moon with a rocket built in their backyard (with an atomic pile in the rocket, I remind you), there were space Nazis up there already. Unless he can sing Deustchlund Uber Alles, he'd best watch out.
(I'm not a Nazi, I'm just warning, that's all. Read some Heinlein and figure it out for yourself.)
Geek Culture killed my dog/ and I don't think it's fair...
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Isn't this just a periodic Mandela of the elements, like KSR suggested in The Years of Rice and Salt?
Starring Ricky Gervais as Darth Brent, Mackenzie Crook as Captain Gared, and Martin Freeman as Commander Ti Canbu.
"I am the assistant Regional Sith--"
"Assistant to the Regional Sith, yeah."
Wormholes entirely governed by the laws of quantum mechanics, on the other hand, would likely transport their payloads to an undesired time and place. And with the right source of brownian motion, you could make your host's undergarments jump an entire foot to the left.
Yippie! I always thought they looked cooler than those so-called "s1" galaxies. I'm soo proud to live in such an upscale neighborhood. Eat my dust, S1 riffraff!
Wayback doesn't load right in my Win98-Opera6 browser. *Waaah* *Waah* (runs into corner and cries)
Nonsense! At some point, Jupiter's atmosphere will be so dense that Galileo is crushed many times over, until the atoms themselves become one with the near-heliodal soup that is our fifth planet. Then shall the firmament rejoyce!
(Singing) Io hymen hymnaee io, Io hymen hymnaee!
And I'll say it again: US-Government domination of space needs to end. Since the end of the cold war, NASA and, to a very small extent, its Russian counterpart have more or less ruled space. Sure, there've been a number of "private" or corporate launches, but all of them have come from Cape with a heavy kickback to NASA.
What is needed is for private corporations to take up the slack, building their own launch sites and launching their own whatevers. If this means corporate domination of space, then so be it. I would rather see the Microsoft Starship Gates make warp one than none at all.
You're traveling through another dimension - a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead. Your next stop... The Twilight Zone.
But first...
Friends, have you been down in the dumps lately? Life got you going... slow? Well, we've got just the thing to get you going: The Xbox! (Not for use with the "Linux" system, which is the devil.)
I recently set my hotmail filter to "exclusive", and I have yet to see anything that I didn't explicitly ask for. The rest is easily flushed out of the Junk Mail folder. Somebody, somewhere, got something right for once. I'm happy.
1938) in his play R.U.R. ('Rossum's Universal Robots') (1920).
Just my $0.02.
It means that they have 18 months or the planes are grounded perminantly. Airworthiness directives ground planes. Period.
For an airworthiness directive of this magnitude, Airbuses should have been grounded until they were fixed. Note the addition of this clause:
/only/ reason a faulty plane would be in the air is if it was on its way to be fixed. It wouldn't surprise me, however, that people would fly these things without being compliant; I'd expect that somebody's going to loose their FAA ratings.
(c) Special flight permits may be issued in accordance with sections Secs. 21.197 and 21.199 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR 21.197 and 21.199) to operate the airplane to a location where the requirements of this AD can be accomplished.
This means that the
We can claim their stuff, right? Will there be big sell-offs and auctions? I'd pay $1.5k for a shuttle, but that's my final offer. Since they'll either space the station or leave it in orbit, it theoretically could be claimed or *ahem* stolen...
Russia made it into space with five missles welded together. We could do likewise. Eh? Eh?
Well, that's nice, Thrasymachus, but we are speaking of ideal forms here (or, for pansies, here.
The reason laws exist is to protect the people. As Plato said (massive condensing), "The proper function of a government is to provide justice for the people, and not for its own benefit." This means, basically, that optimum government is for the people and not nepotism.
How does this relate to RIAA and such? Well, the point here is that we have laws, we create laws, to protect the people as a whole and not individual groups or sub-groups. Further, the actions the RIAA takes and desires to take, are not those which are for the law, but function as a kind of sub-law. Despite all you who wish you had been born into a Shadowrun campaign, Megacorps do not run everything, and do not have the power to do such nefarious acts.
Score -1 redundant, of course.
The deal here isn't one of censorship, it's one of logic. What sense does it make to summarily ban any works that mention flying, planes, blowing things up, fire, new york, or america? Submitted for your perusal:
- Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian"
- Do what? Someone explain this one to me.
- Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World"
- Three Degrees "When Will I See You Again"
- The Doors "The End"
- Seems these would help folks heal.
On the other hand, there's a few (Disco Inferno, etc.) thatIt's been two days, and I'm still numb. I don't even have witty comments anymore - there's nothing that can be said that hasn't already been said, except that now is not the time to start WWIII and I'm hightailing it to the woods. See you all through my Grandchildren in 2146.
Never mind the fact that most of the commercial airline pilots I've met I've /trained/ with, and absolutly none of them were "ex air-force pilots".
/commercial/ pilots how to fly /commercial/ jets.
(In the US about the only way to learn to fly jets is to join the US Airforce.)
You're not entirely right, here. Thousands of flight schools across the country train
(John Cleese says:) Your arugment is flawed. Good morning.
Actually, this is really cool. A lego based robot that can manipulate a 3D object and possibly stump most mathematic and chaos theorists? Wild.
BTW, FP.
notcarlos out.
Well, this is a good thing, you know, since it allows for movies that do really cool things without the limitations of human actors. However, it does lead to a future wher we are robbed of human actors in the first place. Rummages through SF library. Lesse, I got a Poul Anderson, some Heinlein, a little Asimov... coupla Kubrics, a nice Piers Anthony or three.... Read and think, people, read and think!
If the subject is "all Greek to you", good! Take a classical language today!
Live life to the point of tears
This is just like the Japanese in Reich-5, and the Hind in Caliph. Did I miss the Parachronics post, or is it just a case of mistaken insanity?
Geek Culture killed my dog/
and I don't think it's fair...
The likelyhood of a democratic china in 2008 is slim. Governments do not change that quick, even when they appear to (since I'm sure you'll jump to the "But-Russia" defence). What will be seen at the olympics, and indeed all around the world for the next ten years, will be a shiny, happy "It's-a-small-world-after-all" China, full of people who /love/ working for The Party. Executions and purges will be quieted up even more. Faulon Gong will "mysterously fall out of favour with the People." Uniforms will shift to pink pastels in the spring.
It's still the same old China, though. Only thing'll change that is time or, if you're in a hurry, nukes.
Geek Culture killed my dog/
and I don't think it's fair...
Right, but my point is: what good is it telling us about their violations (other than to illustrate their creative ways of doing them) without telling us how they're being dealt with by either internal or external forces. I don't want to hear about censorship so much as I want to hear about the various attempts of the People at getting around the censorship.
Geek Culture killed my dog/
and I don't think it's fair...
Look, people, how is this even news anymore? It should by now be startlingly obvious that China a) is an agressivly oppressive government (as opposed to the US and Russia, who quietly remove their dissidents) and b) is run by sociopaths. Therefore I propose (and no one will adopt) that there be less of a proliferation of stories concerning both Chinese Oppression and Human Rights Violations. We know it's happening. Tell us how you're stopping it.
Geek Culture killed my dog/
and I don't think it's fair...
... but I'm too lazy to read through the three thousand lamers and phreaks to care.
Anyway, I'd like to remind you that when Heinlein's kids went to the moon with a rocket built in their backyard (with an atomic pile in the rocket, I remind you), there were space Nazis up there already. Unless he can sing Deustchlund Uber Alles, he'd best watch out.
(I'm not a Nazi, I'm just warning, that's all. Read some Heinlein and figure it out for yourself.)
Geek Culture killed my dog/
and I don't think it's fair...