Passing through a countries air space is not a problem. It's a matter of altitude, thats why NASA shoots over the Atlantic. By the time a vehicle crosses land, it's too high to do anything about.
You can claim anything, what you can defend or enforce is what is paid attention too.
And in between the two was the Parche SSN 683, the ultimate spy boat. She was much smaller than a 688 (LA) class boat (60 ft shorter), could handle better in shallow water. My roommate in New London got orders to her in '77, and had to go through the proceedure to get a Top Secret clearance. Just to be an A-ganger (auxilliary, non-nuclear equiptment, like hydraulics, trim and drain, atmosphere control...). Then in Dec. 78 my boat got a new skipper who had been XO on the Parche. He would barely admit she existed. Our XO then had been the Chief Engineer with him. I wonder which Atlantic boat did special operations for awhile after that?
There was an article on/. about a year ago, about a proposed law in Canada to allow jamming in movie and stage theaters, resturants and concert halls. What happened with it and if passed how is it working?
I wish it would get passed here(US). I had one university instructor that ejected students from class for a cell phone ringing, it was one of the best classes on campus because of the discipline and lack of distraction.
The Feds wrote the rule and can change it as needed. Since somewhere around 90% of all cell phone traffic is needless bulshit, give em an attaboy. The world was a much better place before cell phones.
This is an excuse for employers to try to work people around the clock. Instead of paying a living wage for a normal day, and staffing the facilities correctly.
My wife and I spent 18 months without a phone. It was the most peaceful time of the last 21 years.
No they are not. It's just the wording that gets you riled up. Many fees are collected because the (Fed., State, County, or City) Govt. makes them. The Feds passed a law about listing these separately instead of a blaket 'fees line'. It was supposed to be less confusing. Then some marketing degree type got out his book of mumbo jumbo ways of saying something in the most meaningless way possible and..........
Operating expenses, taxes, payroll, raw materials, building and equiptment depreciation, or anything else is actually the cost of putting something "on the shelf" for purchase. This is the operating expense that is deducted from the gross to leave profit.
No it's not. They tack on the charges as tax and Govt. mandated fees. Since most of this actually is through regulation by the Govt. It is not repeat not false advertising. It's absolutly normal.
1. There is a difference between advertising and billing. 2. All advertisments are lies to one extent or another. Some are smooth and some hit like a sledghammer. 3. 99.9% of prices advertised are before sales tax.
Add the fact that telephone companies (cell or landline) are the worst at this of any industry. Hell, they make electric and cable TV companies look honest, and most of us know better.
Why is this news? It's just business as usual in the good ol US of A.
Thompson and Ritchie wrote unix so they would not have to port space war to the PDP 11 from thr PDP 7 since everything was done in assembly. The original Unix was also written in assembly. They wrote C to make the switch easier for use in latter computers.
You are right however about the restrictions on AT&T being able to sell it. The way they treated Unix the first few years was a harbinger of what open source is now. After some Govt. adjustments to the settlement they tried to reign it in and make $.
I got the story from an instructor who was with AT&T for 25 years and was at Bell labs at the time.
Thompson and Ritchie wrote Unix to play a game on. To make it portable they wrote C and a compiler. This was done at Bell Labs on their dime. They let Berkley, and some others, have copies to evaluate and improve, thus causing BSD, and other variants. AT&T allows this and causes the forking of Unix. Then through mirad stupidity and laywer speak we end up with todays chinese fire drill. All because AT&T did not think to guard their original IP by copyrighting it. Then allowed several groups to modify it without central control.
At least all Linux kernal mods have to be approved by Linus. It's more control than AT&T ever exerted when it mattered.
There is another posibility, 10% flat rate income tax on individuals and companies. No exceptions, no excuses, no loopholes. This of course has the same problem with shysters and tax accountants.
Why does the US tax system create it's own industry of accountants and lawyers to explain and defeat itself?
I knew a guy that worked at White Sands in the early 90's. His project was the rail gun. One evening he brought a few thing by my work and showed me the possibilities. A 5mm plastic BB, not even hard plastic, and a 4inch square of 2 inch thick aluminum with a one inch dia. hole in it. The gun accelerated the BB to mach5 and it went throug the plate like a knife through butter. Very impressive technology.
This kind of research goes on all the time, it does advance science. Wheather it ever gets used or not, who knows. Once the technology gets developed it can be adapted to other uses. Anyone think the space programs computer research was wasted? While your sitting in front of the result?
Who but the Japanese or the British have the technology? All US national labs have them, + CIA, NSA, DOD, and several other Govt agencies. My guess is the US Govt has at least 35 supercomputers spread out all over the place. Thats a bunch of power. Most is used in research and weapons design. NSA for code making and breaking. They probably have several more on order.
Treasury could use one to figure out the tax code, nothing else has worked.
For 3. Several RIAA members just lost a big case where they claimed they didn't have curent address for many "stars". They now have to pay them the 40M in royalties they were "holding". I think I could jump over to Tennesee and leave Dolly Partons check at her amusement park.
If this works it will be the first time in history that a cure for a virus has been found. Thats right, medical science can't even cure the common cold! The only virus protection has been the development of a vaccination. That prevents new cases from happening, but does nothing for those already infected.
Maybe thats why nobody is doing much about africa. You can slow it down but that is all.
That anyone with SCO would be capable of pouring piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel?
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Gee, where I was raised you were taught to read the contract before signing and get any adjustments needed to make the agreement then. After reading the revision you signed, or not, but if you signed, that was it, binding contract. If your dumb enough to sign and it isn't exactly right, in Russia the say tough shitsky.
The duties of the sponsor? I was never on a new vessel or at the commisioning of one. She is the one that breaks the champagne bottle on the bow at launching. Other than that, I don't know. I think it's a cremonial thing only. Probably has a great story behind it that I never heard.
My old boat was last seen at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard waiting for her turn to go into the death dock and be cut up for scrap. Thanks draft dodger Bill "the blazing zipper" Clinton.
Let me correct myself. The first missle subs, George Washington (SSBN 598) btoke the tradition. Being named after significant people in US history, like destroyers still are.
I can't believe we got this far off topic without getting hammered.
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This story was in my newspaper yesterday. This is very old news.
Passing through a countries air space is not a problem. It's a matter of altitude, thats why NASA shoots over the Atlantic. By the time a vehicle crosses land, it's too high to do anything about.
You can claim anything, what you can defend or enforce is what is paid attention too.
And in between the two was the Parche SSN 683, the ultimate spy boat. She was much smaller than a 688 (LA) class boat (60 ft shorter), could handle better in shallow water. My roommate in New London got orders to her in '77, and had to go through the proceedure to get a Top Secret clearance. Just to be an A-ganger (auxilliary, non-nuclear equiptment, like hydraulics, trim and drain, atmosphere control...). Then in Dec. 78 my boat got a new skipper who had been XO on the Parche. He would barely admit she existed. Our XO then had been the Chief Engineer with him. I wonder which Atlantic boat did special operations for awhile after that?
Been there, done that.
Linus not only believes in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. He has a better sense of humor than 90% of the people in the entire computer industry.
Sir, I take exception to that. Some of us use SWAG for things like this.
That's a Scientific Wild Assed Guess.
There is intelligent life on this planet after all!
There was an article on /. about a year ago, about a proposed law in Canada to allow jamming in movie and stage theaters, resturants and concert halls. What happened with it and if passed how is it working?
I wish it would get passed here(US). I had one university instructor that ejected students from class for a cell phone ringing, it was one of the best classes on campus because of the discipline and lack of distraction.
The Feds wrote the rule and can change it as needed. Since somewhere around 90% of all cell phone traffic is needless bulshit, give em an attaboy. The world was a much better place before cell phones.
This is an excuse for employers to try to work people around the clock. Instead of paying a living wage for a normal day, and staffing the facilities correctly.
My wife and I spent 18 months without a phone. It was the most peaceful time of the last 21 years.
that some of these companies would figure out that, 'if you throw enough shit' your going to get splattered.
No they are not. It's just the wording that gets you riled up. Many fees are collected because the (Fed., State, County, or City) Govt. makes them. The Feds passed a law about listing these separately instead of a blaket 'fees line'. It was supposed to be less confusing. Then some marketing degree type got out his book of mumbo jumbo ways of saying something in the most meaningless way possible and..........
Thank you for a bit of reason.
Operating expenses, taxes, payroll, raw materials, building and equiptment depreciation, or anything else is actually the cost of putting something "on the shelf" for purchase. This is the operating expense that is deducted from the gross to leave profit.
No it's not. They tack on the charges as tax and Govt. mandated fees. Since most of this actually is through regulation by the Govt. It is not repeat not false advertising. It's absolutly normal.
1. There is a difference between advertising and billing.
2. All advertisments are lies to one extent or another. Some are smooth and some hit like a sledghammer.
3. 99.9% of prices advertised are before sales tax.
Add the fact that telephone companies (cell or landline) are the worst at this of any industry. Hell, they make electric and cable TV companies look honest, and most of us know better.
Why is this news? It's just business as usual in the good ol US of A.
Thompson and Ritchie wrote unix so they would not have to port space war to the PDP 11 from thr PDP 7 since everything was done in assembly. The original Unix was also written in assembly. They wrote C to make the switch easier for use in latter computers.
You are right however about the restrictions on AT&T being able to sell it. The way they treated Unix the first few years was a harbinger of what open source is now. After some Govt. adjustments to the settlement they tried to reign it in and make $.
I got the story from an instructor who was with AT&T for 25 years and was at Bell labs at the time.
Thompson and Ritchie wrote Unix to play a game on. To make it portable they wrote C and a compiler. This was done at Bell Labs on their dime. They let Berkley, and some others, have copies to evaluate and improve, thus causing BSD, and other variants. AT&T allows this and causes the forking of Unix. Then through mirad stupidity and laywer speak we end up with todays chinese fire drill. All because AT&T did not think to guard their original IP by copyrighting it. Then allowed several groups to modify it without central control.
At least all Linux kernal mods have to be approved by Linus. It's more control than AT&T ever exerted when it mattered.
There is another posibility, 10% flat rate income tax on individuals and companies. No exceptions, no excuses, no loopholes. This of course has the same problem with shysters and tax accountants.
Why does the US tax system create it's own industry of accountants and lawyers to explain and defeat itself?
No, but it shows the mindset of the so called "people" we are facing.
If they din't want to be treated as animals, they might quit acting like them.
I knew a guy that worked at White Sands in the early 90's. His project was the rail gun. One evening he brought a few thing by my work and showed me the possibilities. A 5mm plastic BB, not even hard plastic, and a 4inch square of 2 inch thick aluminum with a one inch dia. hole in it. The gun accelerated the BB to mach5 and it went throug the plate like a knife through butter. Very impressive technology.
This kind of research goes on all the time, it does advance science. Wheather it ever gets used or not, who knows. Once the technology gets developed it can be adapted to other uses. Anyone think the space programs computer research was wasted? While your sitting in front of the result?
Who but the Japanese or the British have the technology? All US national labs have them, + CIA, NSA, DOD, and several other Govt agencies. My guess is the US Govt has at least 35 supercomputers spread out all over the place. Thats a bunch of power. Most is used in research and weapons design. NSA for code making and breaking. They probably have several more on order.
Treasury could use one to figure out the tax code, nothing else has worked.
For 3. Several RIAA members just lost a big case where they claimed they didn't have curent address for many "stars". They now have to pay them the 40M in royalties they were "holding". I think I could jump over to Tennesee and leave Dolly Partons check at her amusement park.
They lied, they got caught, they will pay.
If this works it will be the first time in history that a cure for a virus has been found. Thats right, medical science can't even cure the common cold! The only virus protection has been the development of a vaccination. That prevents new cases from happening, but does nothing for those already infected.
Maybe thats why nobody is doing much about africa. You can slow it down but that is all.
That anyone with SCO would be capable of pouring piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel?
Gee, where I was raised you were taught to read the contract before signing and get any adjustments needed to make the agreement then. After reading the revision you signed, or not, but if you signed, that was it, binding contract. If your dumb enough to sign and it isn't exactly right, in Russia the say tough shitsky.
The duties of the sponsor? I was never on a new vessel or at the commisioning of one. She is the one that breaks the champagne bottle on the bow at launching. Other than that, I don't know. I think it's a cremonial thing only. Probably has a great story behind it that I never heard.
My old boat was last seen at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard waiting for her turn to go into the death dock and be cut up for scrap. Thanks draft dodger Bill "the blazing zipper" Clinton.
Let me correct myself. The first missle subs, George Washington (SSBN 598) btoke the tradition. Being named after significant people in US history, like destroyers still are.
I can't believe we got this far off topic without getting hammered.