...is to make a version of Firefox that is essentially a fat client for web applications.
Think client server architecture, but the client is generic and provides complete access to the OS GUI API, robust security and complete control of the app.
No more alphabet soup of languages, syntax and extensions to provide a real GUI interface. They could even leverage AJAX to eliminate the fucking PostBacks.
Of course it will all end up in some standards committee, get raped by Microsoft and finally killed as everyone rewrites the apps yet again to support I.E. 23.
About the time China gets her aircraft carriers built, debugged and they learn how to operate from them and what the hell to do with them, we might have drones that can deliver ordinance anywhere in the world in just a few hours.
The need for a carrier group to project power may well go by the wayside.
...are buying more paint, poster boards, Redbull and getting ready to protest something. They aren't sure yet, but if the U.S. is going to mine resources, there has to be something worth getting their panties in a bunch about.
But..absolute, full and immediate disclosure. Violators (corporations) should face what amounts to the death penalty. Revocation of he corporate charter and auctioning off of all the assets. Individuals who violate the disclosure rule should face confiscation of their assets. And if they are acting as an agent for any other corporation or person, they would face the same.
And Politicians who violate the rules "accidentally" should get the political death penalty, barred from running for any office for the rest of their lives.
If they knowingly violate the disclosure rules, then about 20 years in prison.
When there is a "consensus" of scientists and the IPPC committee that we should move to nuclear power (in whatever form) to mitigate the CO2 emissions, then I will know that they truly believe what they are selling.
If they don't have enough confidence in their predictions to go against he wild eyed, antinuke crazies, then I don't think they are serious.
MDsolar and soulskill (if they are different people) can carp all they want about solar, etc. But nuclear is the ONLY viable replacement for fossil fuel.
So put up or shut up. Do you believe what you are preaching or not?
"But there are so many better things that the government could be spending money on if they wanted to stimulate the economy"
Jets, washing machines, cars, etc. ARE the fucking economy. The Government is NOT the economy. Every penny it spends, it took from someone who worked for it. The manufacture and sale of products and services is at the heart of the economy. The Government, even when taxing and spending in laudable and constitutionally valid ways is still a giant leach. It is like a symbiotic-parasitic organism. And right now, it's a bit out of control and is trying to kill it's host.
In most medium sized towns you will find a general aviation airport with many small private planes and usually at least one Private Jet FBO that charters, maintains and sometimes sells business jets. The large majority of the cost of the airport is paid for by that guy. The airport can sometimes supports hundreds of jobs, all of which contribute to the local economies. Mind you, we are not talking about the big commercial airports running airliners, but smaller, regional general aviation airports.
And just to reiterate, Obama himself supported the tax break in these jets to encourage the manufacture and sale of these jets. So he either was ignorant of that fact or he's just a demagogic hypocrite.
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...is to make a version of Firefox that is essentially a fat client for web applications.
Think client server architecture, but the client is generic and provides complete access to the OS GUI API, robust security and complete control of the app.
No more alphabet soup of languages, syntax and extensions to provide a real GUI interface. They could even leverage AJAX to eliminate the fucking PostBacks.
Of course it will all end up in some standards committee, get raped by Microsoft and finally killed as everyone rewrites the apps yet again to support I.E. 23.
About the time China gets her aircraft carriers built, debugged and they learn how to operate from them and what the hell to do with them, we might have drones that can deliver ordinance anywhere in the world in just a few hours.
The need for a carrier group to project power may well go by the wayside.
...idiots.
Seriously stupid people who couldn't pour piss out a boot if it weren't for the instructions on the heel.
Posting anon because you are a PUSSY
...are buying more paint, poster boards, Redbull and getting ready to protest something. They aren't sure yet, but if the U.S. is going to mine resources, there has to be something worth getting their panties in a bunch about.
Sometimes I say stuff using terms that mean one thing, but I assume and then insist that people take that word to mean what I wanted it to mean.
Since when does common sense come into play in all of this?
As loath as I am to quote wikipedia, they seem to have a nice concise discussion on what exponential means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_function
I must have missed the press release detailing how our energy production is rising on an exponential curve.
No restrictions what-so-ever.
But..absolute, full and immediate disclosure. Violators (corporations) should face what amounts to the death penalty. Revocation of he corporate charter and auctioning off of all the assets. Individuals who violate the disclosure rule should face confiscation of their assets. And if they are acting as an agent for any other corporation or person, they would face the same.
And Politicians who violate the rules "accidentally" should get the political death penalty, barred from running for any office for the rest of their lives.
If they knowingly violate the disclosure rules, then about 20 years in prison.
Al Gore, calling Al Gore!
Nancy Pelosi, calling Nancy Pelosi!
Calling Barack Obama, Calling Barack Obama!
Please report to the Governments Don't care about Global Warming room for an attitude readjustment.
When there is a "consensus" of scientists and the IPPC committee that we should move to nuclear power (in whatever form) to mitigate the CO2 emissions, then I will know that they truly believe what they are selling.
If they don't have enough confidence in their predictions to go against he wild eyed, antinuke crazies, then I don't think they are serious.
MDsolar and soulskill (if they are different people) can carp all they want about solar, etc. But nuclear is the ONLY viable replacement for fossil fuel.
So put up or shut up. Do you believe what you are preaching or not?
Power and money, that's all it's about.
That's all the whole damned thing is about.
Seems kinda like shooting you the chest with a .22 to show how vulnerable you are to lead bullets.
Oh look! The data doesn't agree with my theory. Hmm, well we can just change the instrument to get the "ahem...correct" data.
And here we have it. It's "for the children".
What utter bullshit. It's about power and control, nothing more.
Waffle Iron, khasim, artor3, ScentCone...
I would say our schools have failed us, but they still have at least 7 years before the graduate High School.
Parental choice, personal responsibility, property rights...what crap huh?
"But there are so many better things that the government could be spending money on if they wanted to stimulate the economy"
Jets, washing machines, cars, etc. ARE the fucking economy. The Government is NOT the economy. Every penny it spends, it took from someone who worked for it. The manufacture and sale of products and services is at the heart of the economy. The Government, even when taxing and spending in laudable and constitutionally valid ways is still a giant leach. It is like a symbiotic-parasitic organism. And right now, it's a bit out of control and is trying to kill it's host.
"If a scientist cannot tell that an unfalsifiable claim is not science then he is not to be trusted with any other "scientific claims" he makes."
You mean like...ummm AGW?
Hey, what about if he's paid by Exxon?
You can add that to you huge pile of ignorance.
Break out the sun screen!
NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted
You don't get it.
You get a washing machine and that's it. You pay $17 for a gallon of detergent every few months and hope you never have to call a repairman.
Jets keep giving and giving to the economy.
Taxes on airport ramp space, hanger space, fuel, maintenance parts.
Employment for the pilots, ground crew, airport personnel, etc.
In 2006, general aviation, of which private jets are a very large part, paid out over $53 billion in wages in salaries and employed 1.2 million people.
In most medium sized towns you will find a general aviation airport with many small private planes and usually at least one Private Jet FBO that charters, maintains and sometimes sells business jets. The large majority of the cost of the airport is paid for by that guy. The airport can sometimes supports hundreds of jobs, all of which contribute to the local economies. Mind you, we are not talking about the big commercial airports running airliners, but smaller, regional general aviation airports.
And just to reiterate, Obama himself supported the tax break in these jets to encourage the manufacture and sale of these jets. So he either was ignorant of that fact or he's just a demagogic hypocrite.