>It partly is the user's fault for signing up for these things>
Pardon me, but this is crap. I have NEVER signed up for ANY mailing lists [other than technical] and DO NOT belong to ANY pr0n "club" yet I am spammed 50+ times per week with messages stating that I am recieving this crap due to my membership or other erroneous horseshit.
How can I get IDENTICAL emails with five different return addresses [designed to defeat filter i presume] each claiming that I am getting info I "requested" when I have done no such thing? I have traced several of them back to the fact [as mentioned by another poster] that my wife tried to "unsubscribe" from these lists - the resilt being a 4 fold increase in my alleged "requests".
All of this exists soley due to the fact that enough congress-creatures were paid off by the "advertising" industry such that they are allowed to do this to people as long as they offer the "opt out" feature: read this as the ability to resell a "live" account for their profit at our expense.
Next time I hope congress "entitles" all citizens to free K-Y jelly so we are prepared for their brand of "help"
I agree: I recently allowed my 12 yr old niece to place quake (in coop) with me and a friend (yes, I had her mother's permission). She had seen us play before and was curious. Botton line: she kicked ass (a natural with the GL) and has yet to freak out in school and take out a few students. She has demonstrated herself to be rational and stable so we decided to let her try.
I guess she has turned out alright because the people in her life care about her and are interested in how she relates to the world at large. If she had just been pushed off to the videogame babysitter and had been ignored for most of her life I doubt she would be the cool and levelheaded young lady she is today.
That is the real issue: how kids are raised - not necessarily what they are exposed to.
Energia - perhaps 'shuttle launcher' - no such animal
The Soviet engineers made many improvement to the shuttle design when they took a crack at the problem. Primarily, they have the engines for the vehicle mounted on the main tank with the option of _several_ sidemount boosters (heavy load? add more boosters). Downside - engines are not recovered/reuseable. Upside - they could launch a heavy payload instead of the Buran vehicle (as you suggest). The american version has the main engines mounted on the orbiter instead of the the main tank. This makes the main engines reusable but completely eliminates the possibility of launching a payload other than the orbiter vehicle since you are left with only a large tank of fuel and two boosters. I believe plans have been made for a heavy launch vehicle but I haven't seen one launched yet...
-Y2K Hype
Re:They'll just declare independance
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On to Mars
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Are you suggesting that you would like to see those wide open spaces filled with houses/shopping malls/airports/landfills/highways/skyscrapers/ad nausium? I don't see how you can encourage unimpeded population growth with no outlet unless you do.
The outlet for expanding populations is to move to some other hunk of dirt. Now, perhaps you want them to move to a hunk of dirt neighboring you. I think eventually that will wear thin. We either get off this rock and expand into the rest of the solar system [a _really_ big place...] or we stack on top of each other like cordwood. The wide open place, of course, would have to be reserved for food production [as would large bodies of water (we should do more ocean farming anyway, but not the point here)].
The other option is forced global population control. Sounds like a good time, doesn't it?
-Y2K Hype
Re:It's logical to go to space
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On to Mars
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>It partly is the user's fault for signing up for these things>
Pardon me, but this is crap. I have NEVER signed up for ANY mailing lists [other than technical] and DO NOT belong to ANY pr0n "club" yet I am spammed 50+ times per week with messages stating that I am recieving this crap due to my membership or other erroneous horseshit.
How can I get IDENTICAL emails with five different return addresses [designed to defeat filter i presume] each claiming that I am getting info I "requested" when I have done no such thing? I have traced several of them back to the fact [as mentioned by another poster] that my wife tried to "unsubscribe" from these lists - the resilt being a 4 fold increase in my alleged "requests".
All of this exists soley due to the fact that enough congress-creatures were paid off by the "advertising" industry such that they are allowed to do this to people as long as they offer the "opt out" feature: read this as the ability to resell a "live" account for their profit at our expense.
Next time I hope congress "entitles" all citizens to free K-Y jelly so we are prepared for their brand of "help"
I agree: I recently allowed my 12 yr old niece to place quake (in coop) with me and a friend (yes, I had her mother's permission). She had seen us play before and was curious. Botton line: she kicked ass (a natural with the GL) and has yet to freak out in school and take out a few students. She has demonstrated herself to be rational and stable so we decided to let her try.
I guess she has turned out alright because the people in her life care about her and are interested in how she relates to the world at large. If she had just been pushed off to the videogame babysitter and had been ignored for most of her life I doubt she would be the cool and levelheaded young lady she is today.
That is the real issue: how kids are raised - not necessarily what they are exposed to.
Energia - perhaps
'shuttle launcher' - no such animal
The Soviet engineers made many improvement to the shuttle design when they took a crack at the problem. Primarily, they have the engines for the vehicle mounted on the main tank with the option of _several_ sidemount boosters (heavy load? add more boosters). Downside - engines are not recovered/reuseable. Upside - they could launch a heavy payload instead of the Buran vehicle (as you suggest). The american version has the main engines mounted on the orbiter instead of the the main tank. This makes the main engines reusable but completely eliminates the possibility of launching a payload other than the orbiter vehicle since you are left with only a large tank of fuel and two boosters. I believe plans have been made for a heavy launch vehicle but I haven't seen one launched yet...
-Y2K Hype
Are you suggesting that you would like to see those wide open spaces filled with houses/shopping malls/airports/landfills/highways/skyscrapers/ad nausium? I don't see how you can encourage unimpeded population growth with no outlet unless you do.
The outlet for expanding populations is to move to some other hunk of dirt. Now, perhaps you want them to move to a hunk of dirt neighboring you. I think eventually that will wear thin. We either get off this rock and expand into the rest of the solar system [a _really_ big place...] or we stack on top of each other like cordwood. The wide open place, of course, would have to be reserved for food production [as would large bodies of water (we should do more ocean farming anyway, but not the point here)].
The other option is forced global population control. Sounds like a good time, doesn't it?
-Y2K Hype
>Congress listens to people who vote.
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