Maybe you would have been happier about 60 years ago in a time when they could lock you away because your neighbor said you might be a communist.
Maybe you would have been happier about 320 years ago in a time when they could burn you at the stake because your neighbor said you might be a witch. Salem is only 20 miles from Watertown.
No matter what you should switch for personal use (which is what I consider banking, health, etc) to a gmail/yahoo type email account that will always be there no matter what your hobbies or attention span are.
No. Then Google / Yahoo own the domain name. Bite the bullet and buy your own domain name that you use only for personal stuff like email. It is ok to use Google to provide the service (like Goodle Apps for your domain), but YOU own the domain. You can then change providers at will over the next 50 years without ever changing your email address again.
1) You don't haul cargo in the same vehicle as humans. Cargo doesn't need the super-expensive "last 1%" reliability that a human crew demands.
2) You don't put the vehicle next to the rocket. You put it on top, where ice can't hit it, and exploding booster rockets are survivable. The astronauts on the Challenger, as least some of them, survived the explosion and died on impact with the water. A small crew capsule perched on the top, with a parachute system, might, just might, have survived.
3) You don't need humans up there at all. The future, for a generation or two at least, is unmanned exploration of the solar system. Look at where virtually all the meaningful scientific knowledge has come from in the last 20 - 40 - 60 years: unmanned probes.
Even with lights and pedestrian signals, you are still going to cross my pedestrian cross walk when I have the green walk light (your right and left turns)
Yep. We need pedestrians to adapt to the cars, not the other way around. It's a ROAD. Try opening your fucking eyes...
I completely agree. In return, your car should stay off the pedestrian paths. Good luck getting anywhere more a few hundred feet in my city without being blocked by a crosswalk.
Even with lights and pedestrian signals, you are still going to cross my pedestrian cross walk when I have the green walk light (your right and left turns)
You need to go back to preschool and learn how to share.
If I want to unlock the car, presumably I want to drive it. For that I'm going to need a key anyway, so...??
My car doesn't have a key, just a button to press. (Volkswagon, not a Ferrari or something else fancy). It just has a fob that needs to be in range for the "start" button to be enabled. This would be more convenient if my cell phone could be the fob, but only if it can't be hacked like this.
Check out "Starship Troopers" by Robert A. Heinlein. The scenario you describe is virtually identical to the political backdrop of that story. Good book. TERRIBLE movie. Not a bad idea for a democratic form of government. I just would like to skip the chaotic transition phase.
Even the TSA workers aren't too happy about the possibility of getting cancer from the scanners.
It should be a crime that these TSA workers don't get to wear simple film dosimeter badges when they work near those scanners. It is routine practice in health care.
A jump seat at the front and rear of every plane occupied by a uniformed marshal with a clearly visible assault rifle would stop pretty much all of this nonsense.
Wow. Really? Do these Marshalls have special magical unicorn tear bullets in their assault rifles that make it impossible for a bomb to off? They are looking for explosives on the kid.
My family has chosen to drive to our destinations the last couple of years
Wow. Great idea. You sound technically oriented, can to tell me why my GPS navigator won't give me driving directions to my daughter's grandparents in Tokyo?
I suspect some of these people do it simply because they want to figure out who the owner is so they can return it.
Storage devices should be untrusted. This is an OS problem, not PEBKAM.
Even if I were the undisputed dictator for life, an autocrat with absolute power, a sovereign whose orders are always obeyed without question and without hestiation, a ruler without rival, the man in charge of everything... I still would not want to live in a dictatorial police state.
Sure you would. Otherwise men and women who would rather be free or die would kill you.
I read them there for free after done skiing or simply take them home after which I shred and compost
Hey! So YOU are the shmuck who keeps stealing the newspapers from the gym (when other people still want to read them). Are you also the guy who steals all the toilet paper from the bathroom and takes it home?
Anyone who works in Hollywood should know enough to either ask for a cut of the profits (if they think they have a hit) or a flat fee...
Don't EVER ask for a cut of the "profits." The studios always manage to jigger the ledger to make it look like a hit movie made little to no "profit." You need to ask for a cut of the box office GROSS not profit. Note that this is exactly what worked for Alec Guinness.
They did name one after Daddy Bush though... fair enough because he did fight in WWII in the Navy.
My apologies, I assumed everyone would know that, but you are right, we should explain that here.
In the US Navy's defense, they do have a "theme" where many aircraft carriers are named after U.S. Presidents:
USS John F Kennedy
USS Dwight D Eisenhower
USS Thodore Roosevelt
USS Abraham Lincoln
USS George Washington
USS Harry S. Truman
USS Ronald Reagan
USS George H.W. Bush
USS Gerald R. Ford
"Daddy Bush" was indeed a real honest-to-god carrier pilot, and actually did real honest-to-god fighting. He had already been admitted to Yale, with the war time draft deferment to go with it, but joined the Navy instead. He became the Navy's youngest pilot. He was shot down while bombing a Japanese radio tower on Chichi Jima, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross. (His plane was hit and on fire but he finished his bombing run first before bailing out).
My not so funny joke was pointing out that things were going to get a lot less defensible if they continued to follow the calendar and named the next two after Clinton and Baby Bush. (See, ma, bipartisan dissing!)
we can't seem to fight a ground war against a 14th century tribal rabble armed with 1950's eastern bloc shit without getting our stuff blown up all the time...
The problem is, we want to fight the war without blowing THEIR stuff up. Obviously we could "glass" the place. The Mongol's conquered that place (and just about every other place) easily. Their approach: "kiss our toes or we will kill every single person in your entire tribe." The longstanding way to conquer Afghanistan is to just drive through. If someone shoots at you from the hills, drive to the nearest village and shoot everyone there, then burn the crops and kill/steal all the livestock. As a matter of fact, you don't really need to shoot the people. Taking away their food clothing and shelter works well enough. The "warriors" in those hills will starve to death, and the "warriors" in the next set of hills will decide not to shoot. They are utterly incapable of defending their farms/villages in a stand up fight.
What we are trying to do is track down gang members without blowing up the civilian population's stuff. We have to do it because any central government we set up will be too corrupt to do it themselves. If we pull out, the punks will go back to setting up schools to teach brainwashed American kids how to build car bombs to explode in Times Square or Portland tree lighting ceremonies.
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Maybe you would have been happier about 320 years ago in a time when they could burn you at the stake because your neighbor said you might be a witch. Salem is only 20 miles from Watertown.
No. Then Google / Yahoo own the domain name. Bite the bullet and buy your own domain name that you use only for personal stuff like email. It is ok to use Google to provide the service (like Goodle Apps for your domain), but YOU own the domain. You can then change providers at will over the next 50 years without ever changing your email address again.
"Most OUT OF DATE conference rooms" = "most conference rooms"
It was a dumb design from the beginning.
1) You don't haul cargo in the same vehicle as humans. Cargo doesn't need the super-expensive "last 1%" reliability that a human crew demands.
2) You don't put the vehicle next to the rocket. You put it on top, where ice can't hit it, and exploding booster rockets are survivable. The astronauts on the Challenger, as least some of them, survived the explosion and died on impact with the water. A small crew capsule perched on the top, with a parachute system, might, just might, have survived.
3) You don't need humans up there at all. The future, for a generation or two at least, is unmanned exploration of the solar system. Look at where virtually all the meaningful scientific knowledge has come from in the last 20 - 40 - 60 years: unmanned probes.
See also: parking lots.
I completely agree. In return, your car should stay off the pedestrian paths. Good luck getting anywhere more a few hundred feet in my city without being blocked by a crosswalk. Even with lights and pedestrian signals, you are still going to cross my pedestrian cross walk when I have the green walk light (your right and left turns) You need to go back to preschool and learn how to share.
If I want to unlock the car, presumably I want to drive it. For that I'm going to need a key anyway, so...??
My car doesn't have a key, just a button to press. (Volkswagon, not a Ferrari or something else fancy). It just has a fob that needs to be in range for the "start" button to be enabled. This would be more convenient if my cell phone could be the fob, but only if it can't be hacked like this.
Check out "Starship Troopers" by Robert A. Heinlein. The scenario you describe is virtually identical to the political backdrop of that story. Good book. TERRIBLE movie. Not a bad idea for a democratic form of government. I just would like to skip the chaotic transition phase.
There will be panic, riots, more riots, cultural clashes if not mini-wars.
Lex, you forgot to take your medicine this morning.
"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order". - Larry McDonald
Even the TSA workers aren't too happy about the possibility of getting cancer from the scanners.
It should be a crime that these TSA workers don't get to wear simple film dosimeter badges when they work near those scanners. It is routine practice in health care.
A jump seat at the front and rear of every plane occupied by a uniformed marshal with a clearly visible assault rifle would stop pretty much all of this nonsense.
Wow. Really? Do these Marshalls have special magical unicorn tear bullets in their assault rifles that make it impossible for a bomb to off? They are looking for explosives on the kid.
in the case of children, they need to have actual medical staff like RNs and MDs on hand to handle children
Or we could use other respected professionals. I hear that some Catholic priests have extensive experience in the field of child groping.
My family has chosen to drive to our destinations the last couple of years
Wow. Great idea. You sound technically oriented, can to tell me why my GPS navigator won't give me driving directions to my daughter's grandparents in Tokyo?
Typo. PEBCAM (Problem exists between chair and machine)
I suspect some of these people do it simply because they want to figure out who the owner is so they can return it. Storage devices should be untrusted. This is an OS problem, not PEBKAM.
Oops. Mea culpa. You are exactly correct. I will retreat back into my ignorant "acts like a Texan" cave now.
You are forgetting: Bush WON reelection. It worked out just fine for him.
Even if I were the undisputed dictator for life, an autocrat with absolute power, a sovereign whose orders are always obeyed without question and without hestiation, a ruler without rival, the man in charge of everything ... I still would not want to live in a dictatorial police state.
Sure you would. Otherwise men and women who would rather be free or die would kill you.
Hey! So YOU are the shmuck who keeps stealing the newspapers from the gym (when other people still want to read them). Are you also the guy who steals all the toilet paper from the bathroom and takes it home?
Don't EVER ask for a cut of the "profits." The studios always manage to jigger the ledger to make it look like a hit movie made little to no "profit." You need to ask for a cut of the box office GROSS not profit. Note that this is exactly what worked for Alec Guinness.
Oops, missed one:
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV 42
My apologies, I assumed everyone would know that, but you are right, we should explain that here.
In the US Navy's defense, they do have a "theme" where many aircraft carriers are named after U.S. Presidents:
USS John F Kennedy
USS Dwight D Eisenhower
USS Thodore Roosevelt
USS Abraham Lincoln
USS George Washington
USS Harry S. Truman
USS Ronald Reagan
USS George H.W. Bush
USS Gerald R. Ford
"Daddy Bush" was indeed a real honest-to-god carrier pilot, and actually did real honest-to-god fighting. He had already been admitted to Yale, with the war time draft deferment to go with it, but joined the Navy instead. He became the Navy's youngest pilot. He was shot down while bombing a Japanese radio tower on Chichi Jima, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross. (His plane was hit and on fire but he finished his bombing run first before bailing out).
My not so funny joke was pointing out that things were going to get a lot less defensible if they continued to follow the calendar and named the next two after Clinton and Baby Bush. (See, ma, bipartisan dissing!)
They wanted to name one after Bush, but they didn't want it to look bad. Solution: name a different one after Gerald.
The problem is, we want to fight the war without blowing THEIR stuff up. Obviously we could "glass" the place. The Mongol's conquered that place (and just about every other place) easily. Their approach: "kiss our toes or we will kill every single person in your entire tribe." The longstanding way to conquer Afghanistan is to just drive through. If someone shoots at you from the hills, drive to the nearest village and shoot everyone there, then burn the crops and kill/steal all the livestock. As a matter of fact, you don't really need to shoot the people. Taking away their food clothing and shelter works well enough. The "warriors" in those hills will starve to death, and the "warriors" in the next set of hills will decide not to shoot. They are utterly incapable of defending their farms/villages in a stand up fight. What we are trying to do is track down gang members without blowing up the civilian population's stuff. We have to do it because any central government we set up will be too corrupt to do it themselves. If we pull out, the punks will go back to setting up schools to teach brainwashed American kids how to build car bombs to explode in Times Square or Portland tree lighting ceremonies.