by choosing to use voluminous over something definitely "big and heavy" it is, in the context, fair to assuem was are talking about feathers and not bricks
which would make him BRITISH but certainly NOT English.
People from places as "english" as the Isle of Man and Cornwall would make a similar distiction too.
But the Welsh do actually have a language (which few speak), a flag (very cool dragon) and a Legislative Assembly which is normally best at comic relief
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Maybe, they could wait to be poked maybe.
when put in context with their treatment of scientology (which i despise, but i'd like to see crushed by disinterest not government oppression) you start to get a pattern emerging.
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Leavinbg aside the technical aspects of Can it be done? lets look at Should this be done?
Adherents of free speech have long held that they must tolerate those who's speech is objectionable in order to be heard themselves.
While the present German Government is undoubtedly more benign than its regrettable predecessors it seems they share an incapability of tolerating dissenting voices.
Well i've got a Seiko Perpetual on my wrist
(I realise most geeks go digital)
So i don't think that one has died quite yet
And i'm working in New Parliament House in Canberra (Capital of Australia for the Geographically impaired) which was built in 1988 and has an operational Pneumatic Tube to transfer legislation between the Government Printers and the Parliament.
To be honest, if they were to build the building today they'd be using PDF to zap the legislation around on the internet, because, as the article said, pneumatic tubes are expensive to build.
Whats more i used to work in a cinema in London that used to use a Pneumatic tube to move money from the box office to the tab room.
The problem was that the tube ran over the ladies toilets.
Cunning theives with inside knowledge lifted the ceiling panels, cut the tube and put in a "catcher" came back 8 hours later and took away 30,000 quid.
The fallback technology was walking across the foyer with locked cashboxes and an escort, which turned out to be cheaper and never lost a penny.
Most *real* security people (for example the UK's GCHQ) acknowledge that "security through obscurity" is a placebo at best.
As for funding... even the best funded military has a somewhat limited budget.
If they can save $10 on every device they build.. and build 10,000,000 of them then thats enough money left over to buy more cool toys.
I *Think* it was John Glenn who when asked what was going through his mind on the launchpad of a space mission replied along the lines of "I am sitting on top of tons of rocket fuel in a device built by the lowest competitive bidder"
Hell i was at a dinner party the other day when a bunch of rich people pontificated that it was far too dangerous to stop and help someone in distress on the side of the road.
When England creates a company half as important as Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, or PlaySkool, we might consider their input (before we arbitrarily discard it).
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and looking further back at a REAL monopoly the British East India Company
They might have made a virtue of necessity with some of their production.
But compare the environmental damage in the former East Germany with that in the "evil capitalist industrialist" West Germany and you'll have a pretty compelling argument against the green credentials of the reds.
All of politics is about saying one thing and doing the other.
And the Peace Loving Environmentalists of the Workers Paradises (where tiny elites bled the masses white while waging indiscriminate wars and laying waste to their environments) are a fine case in point.
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Thats a more compelling reason for these companies to give their changes back to the developers.
by choosing to use voluminous over something definitely "big and heavy" it is, in the context, fair to assuem was are talking about feathers and not bricks
they don't have a dual licence option here.
You've got to code from the ground up if you want to do that.
People from places as "english" as the Isle of Man and Cornwall would make a similar distiction too.
But the Welsh do actually have a language (which few speak), a flag (very cool dragon) and a Legislative Assembly which is normally best at comic relief
The wonder of precise language no?
when put in context with their treatment of scientology (which i despise, but i'd like to see crushed by disinterest not government oppression) you start to get a pattern emerging.
Adherents of free speech have long held that they must tolerate those who's speech is objectionable in order to be heard themselves.
While the present German Government is undoubtedly more benign than its regrettable predecessors it seems they share an incapability of tolerating dissenting voices.
"voluminous yet light" it is
As long as you are messing around with small prototypes you are stuck with crummy lift.
But once the breakthrough is made and they start building BIG ones then the lift REALLY starts to get impressive.
They might never be great for shipping bricks
But for moving massy, yet light things around quickly they might well prove to be big winners
(I realise most geeks go digital)
So i don't think that one has died quite yet
And i'm working in New Parliament House in Canberra (Capital of Australia for the Geographically impaired) which was built in 1988 and has an operational Pneumatic Tube to transfer legislation between the Government Printers and the Parliament.
To be honest, if they were to build the building today they'd be using PDF to zap the legislation around on the internet, because, as the article said, pneumatic tubes are expensive to build.
Whats more i used to work in a cinema in London that used to use a Pneumatic tube to move money from the box office to the tab room.
The problem was that the tube ran over the ladies toilets.
Cunning theives with inside knowledge lifted the ceiling panels, cut the tube and put in a "catcher" came back 8 hours later and took away 30,000 quid.
The fallback technology was walking across the foyer with locked cashboxes and an escort, which turned out to be cheaper and never lost a penny.
Having been in the military doesn't make you military
and don't think they'll stop at the edge of your skull.
If we allow this moackery of law and liberty to go on your thought will not be your won.
How DO you want to live???
The right to swing your fist ends at my nose.
The right to make money ends at the tramelling of my freedoms.
In your twisted logic murder would be justified if it was commerically feasible?
Most *real* security people (for example the UK's GCHQ) acknowledge that "security through obscurity" is a placebo at best.
As for funding... even the best funded military has a somewhat limited budget.
If they can save $10 on every device they build.. and build 10,000,000 of them then thats enough money left over to buy more cool toys.
I *Think* it was John Glenn who when asked what was going through his mind on the launchpad of a space mission replied along the lines of "I am sitting on top of tons of rocket fuel in a device built by the lowest competitive bidder"
do what you can to protect the equipment
Then when you have to put the peices back together after something nasty you have more peices to play with.
It's rough and it's tough and it don't take no sh!t
He's a US Senator.. which i'm pretty sure precludes him from being a serving member of the armed services.
Might make him GOVERNMENT to some peoples minds.
LOTS of civilian payload specialists tho.
Apparently that was one of the reasons for the great debate obver the ethics of exterminating the virus.
It was because the good samaritan DID something.
Hell i was at a dinner party the other day when a bunch of rich people pontificated that it was far too dangerous to stop and help someone in distress on the side of the road.
They got the money but they won't do squat.
Its in the doing not in the "being able to do"
Its about being SEEN to do something about it.
And that works because thats democracy folks
The collective wisdom of the ignorant.
For maintaining records in a historical condistion pdf just can't be beat.. its ONE flat file that will always look the same
b) some people want layout control, some want layout that works straight up
c) get linux apache mysql php working and nuke runs out of the box, slash needs a lot of help.
all depends on what u want
some people would rather get something that works and dedicate their effort to the content you know.
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and looking further back at a REAL monopoly the British East India Company
For those who thought the Fionavar Tapestry was Tolkienish that might explain it.
Chris Tolkien knows his fathers work and Kay is a great writer in his own right.
Anyone who's career is based solely on tweaking the imagined worlds of others is a hack.
Re: the Star Wars books; Zahn's written a fair whack of original (albeit pretty uninspired) works.
They might have made a virtue of necessity with some of their production.
But compare the environmental damage in the former East Germany with that in the "evil capitalist industrialist" West Germany and you'll have a pretty compelling argument against the green credentials of the reds.
All of politics is about saying one thing and doing the other.
And the Peace Loving Environmentalists of the Workers Paradises (where tiny elites bled the masses white while waging indiscriminate wars and laying waste to their environments) are a fine case in point.
that you cannot or did not read the article and its identification as a peice of satire.
I will bear this in mind.