He signed the treaty, despite it not being ratified by the Senate. I don't think he can weasel out by whining the Senate was ignoring it. The Constitution is pretty clear on this.
[The President] shall have Power, by and with Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.
I'm reviewing my comment to see where I mentioned "corporate".
nope...not there. So either you are on drugs or you just have some ax to grind. Use some other comment to go off on please.
Regardless. The Supremes have said that's the law. That's the system we have. If you don't like it, get your ass elected and change it because bitching on slashdot will accomplish zilch.
I don't think Pons and Fleischmann were fraudsters. In fact they don't deserve the derision they still suffer today. They saw and reported the results. Part of science is being wrong yet these guys were lynched for it.
LENR experiments seem to have a modicum of truth in that many times there is excess heat. It's just not easily reproduced or explained. Hell, if NASA is looking into it, no matter how down low they try to keep it, unless you feel NASA employees cranks and nuts, then there is evidently enough there to keep them poking and prodding it.
If you think about it, all this secrecy and mystery does make sense. Today, Energy is what gold was in the past. Anyone who can find a way to generate it cheaply (which $150 Kw is not), without the expense and mess of fossil fuels or the potential risk of fission, will become so fucking rich they would make the so-called 1% look like hamburger flippers. I wouldn't be real surprised if there were many well respected folks working on this, but just keeping it under their hats.
That all being said, wake me when I can buy it at Home Depot.
In the 80's Middle East, did anyone ever notice that the Russians didn't have the legions of kidnap victims like the U.S. did?
Here's why (and don't ask for a cite. It was before all the internet tubes and shit)
A Russian diplomat was kidnapped by some radical Islamic group (there were/are many) and held hostage. The Russians kidnapped one of that group's higher ups and then started sending him back, one piece at a time. The Russian diplomat was release before they got to any important pieces.
The fact is that war is the end result of the breakdown of the diplomatic process. All the talking and reasoning is done, all the peaceful protesting is over, the hunger strikes finished, the occupy camps empty, etc. and all that's left is to kill each other.
And like it or not, the best way to conduct a war is to visit horrible violence on the enemy as quickly and massively as possible. Half measures, warning strikes, etc., are useless and only prolong the suffering on both sides.
And the only way to truly end a conflict is the utter and total defeat of the enemy. They need to be cowering in a corner, wondering what the fuck was that just hit them and absolutely wanting no part of any more. Anything less and they will rebuild and come back at you. Just witness what happens every time Hamas pushed Israel too far and they get into a serious dustup. If Israel were to just ignore all the bullshit from the U.N. and deal with the problem, there wouldn't be any future problems.
And when you enemy knows that you are willing to do just this, that you will come in and totally fuck them up, they will leave you alone. It is how things have been and always will be. Peace through Strength is not just a political slogan, it is reality.
In local news, police are struggling to deal with the startling increase in traffic around local area strip clubs. Apparently the new "augmented reality" displays in the new cars are showing 30 second previews of their wares.
Since I started in computing in 1980, I can't remember when the term Hacker meant anything other than someone taking something and "hacking" or, making changes, to something so that it performed its original function differently or performed an entirely new function. Almost always these were done with illicit intentions.
Ask any non-computer person who writes the stuff that breaks their computer, steals their data and/or money and they'll say "Hacker".
I'm afraid Hacker will always be associated with people that most folks would like to see in jail or simply shot in the face.
Melville's Moby-Dick was like that too...the last I remember of that book was the detail in which he described the Tavern in the first several pages. The book didn't even sell out the first printing.
Now, that book is "hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature"
But then, he didn't get a Nobel Prize either.
Crap! Does that mean Lady Gaga will be considered a musical genius in a few hundred years?
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He signed the treaty, despite it not being ratified by the Senate. I don't think he can weasel out by whining the Senate was ignoring it. The Constitution is pretty clear on this.
[The President] shall have Power, by and with Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.
One of the problems with a "hydrogen economy" is storage as hydrogen leaks out of pretty much everything.
Wonder how well this blocks it.
I wonder when he will hold office hours?
Airport security was done by cheap, thug, thief, rent-a-cops before TSA.
Now it's done by expensive, thug, thief, federal cops in the TSA.
Hopefully, the whole damned department will lose their job.
The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away...
-Grand Moff Tarkin
Take it up with the Supremes.
You haven't checked in a long time then have you?
I'm reviewing my comment to see where I mentioned "corporate".
nope...not there. So either you are on drugs or you just have some ax to grind. Use some other comment to go off on please.
Regardless. The Supremes have said that's the law. That's the system we have. If you don't like it, get your ass elected and change it because bitching on slashdot will accomplish zilch.
Lobbying = Right to Petition.
Contributing to a campaign = Free Speech.
Quid Pro Quo ( for contributing to a campaign ) = Bribery.
Official White House response...
Well, we talked to Chris and he said that it was nothing like it sounded, so we are satisfied.
Yikes..."Tesla"
I thought it was going to be some large spectacular Telsa coil. That would be far more interesting than some electric car I can't afford.
"Would you like to play a game?"
a place for folks who are either atheist or agnostic and don't allow religion to factor into any of their opinions
China, North Korea, whatever other third world backwater communist dictatorships are left.
Ba Bye!
At this point in time I wish all the ACs would die from a treatable disorder.
by pumping high-pressure cold water down an injection well into the rock, creating tiny fractures in the rock, a process known as hydroshearing.
They can't call it Fraking because all the folks in Oregon would come at them with torches scythes, and pitchforks.
I don't think Pons and Fleischmann were fraudsters. In fact they don't deserve the derision they still suffer today. They saw and reported the results. Part of science is being wrong yet these guys were lynched for it.
LENR experiments seem to have a modicum of truth in that many times there is excess heat. It's just not easily reproduced or explained. Hell, if NASA is looking into it, no matter how down low they try to keep it, unless you feel NASA employees cranks and nuts, then there is evidently enough there to keep them poking and prodding it.
If you think about it, all this secrecy and mystery does make sense. Today, Energy is what gold was in the past. Anyone who can find a way to generate it cheaply (which $150 Kw is not), without the expense and mess of fossil fuels or the potential risk of fission, will become so fucking rich they would make the so-called 1% look like hamburger flippers. I wouldn't be real surprised if there were many well respected folks working on this, but just keeping it under their hats.
That all being said, wake me when I can buy it at Home Depot.
In the 80's Middle East, did anyone ever notice that the Russians didn't have the legions of kidnap victims like the U.S. did?
Here's why (and don't ask for a cite. It was before all the internet tubes and shit)
A Russian diplomat was kidnapped by some radical Islamic group (there were/are many) and held hostage. The Russians kidnapped one of that group's higher ups and then started sending him back, one piece at a time. The Russian diplomat was release before they got to any important pieces.
The fact is that war is the end result of the breakdown of the diplomatic process. All the talking and reasoning is done, all the peaceful protesting is over, the hunger strikes finished, the occupy camps empty, etc. and all that's left is to kill each other.
And like it or not, the best way to conduct a war is to visit horrible violence on the enemy as quickly and massively as possible. Half measures, warning strikes, etc., are useless and only prolong the suffering on both sides.
And the only way to truly end a conflict is the utter and total defeat of the enemy. They need to be cowering in a corner, wondering what the fuck was that just hit them and absolutely wanting no part of any more. Anything less and they will rebuild and come back at you. Just witness what happens every time Hamas pushed Israel too far and they get into a serious dustup. If Israel were to just ignore all the bullshit from the U.N. and deal with the problem, there wouldn't be any future problems.
And when you enemy knows that you are willing to do just this, that you will come in and totally fuck them up, they will leave you alone. It is how things have been and always will be. Peace through Strength is not just a political slogan, it is reality.
In local news, police are struggling to deal with the startling increase in traffic around local area strip clubs. Apparently the new "augmented reality" displays in the new cars are showing 30 second previews of their wares.
I'll stick with my trusty MagnaVolt System.
I want to be able to attach smart stuff to the TV...smart stuff I choose.
When the smart stuff dies or is obsoleted, I can get new smart stuff and keep the old TV.
This Tessler guy is just doing the foundation work for future lawsuits.
Just watch, in several years someone will sue Apple or other tablet makers and Tessler will be in the expert witness seat.
Since I started in computing in 1980, I can't remember when the term Hacker meant anything other than someone taking something and "hacking" or, making changes, to something so that it performed its original function differently or performed an entirely new function. Almost always these were done with illicit intentions.
Ask any non-computer person who writes the stuff that breaks their computer, steals their data and/or money and they'll say "Hacker".
I'm afraid Hacker will always be associated with people that most folks would like to see in jail or simply shot in the face.
They need to find a new name.
Melville's Moby-Dick was like that too...the last I remember of that book was the detail in which he described the Tavern in the first several pages. The book didn't even sell out the first printing.
Now, that book is "hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature"
But then, he didn't get a Nobel Prize either.
Crap! Does that mean Lady Gaga will be considered a musical genius in a few hundred years?