Oh please, enough with the Libertarian drivel. The US space program was moving boldly enough until the general public got bored with moon landings. Even now, NASA is accomplishing some pretty remarkable things with a relatively meager budget. Private industry will ride the government's coattails like they always do. All of these recent ventures are built on almost 70 friggin' years of governments' accomplishment. Hell, Space One amounted to a glorified X-15. Libertarians like you were just salivating at the chance to use that in another "government bad, business good" debate.
Goddamned private industry can't even maintain terrestrial air travel without truck loads of government subsidies and hand-holding. But, no, let's all forget about that and cheer another victory for Private Capitalism's conquest of space!
Precisely, which is why I think the subpoenas came in coincidentally right after he made is statement. BTW, the trash news shows (like Chris Matthews) are debating this issue like Cheney has some sort of an ingenious, legitimate argument. All you need to look at Article II of the Constitution (and related amendments) as well as Cheney's behavior right up until the point he made this ridiculous argument.
The simple fact is this "man" will tell bold-faced lies right in your face if he thinks it will win him 1 more day of power. His claims to have never made the Iraq-WMD connection, his "insurgency in its last throws" comment, hiding overseas when the Libby jury convened and announced a verdict. Pure shamelessness enabled by a cowardly, self-serving press and an ignorant and apathetic electorate.
This is part of the rationalization for the "Reagan beat the commies!" argument. The CIA was predicting back in '73 that the Soviet Union would economically collapse. I think it was Truman who originally came up with the "outspend 'em" Cold War strategy anyway.
I'm not an authority on this, except that I once did a 6 minute presentation for one of my biology classes.
On the Slashdot scale, that makes you a Doctor of Autistic Studies.
No I don't. I'm guessing you're a Libertarian. "Put the money in my pocket and I'll decide how best to use it!" Never mind if collective efforts are more efficient. It's still a free market, so you can choose to work at Microsoft.
Don't tell me about the importance of elections; we've seen the results of uninformed and apathetic voters over the last 6 years. Even some of the most die-hard dittoheads are abandoning ship (you'll hear a lot more people calling themselves "Libertarian" rather than "Conservative" nowadays).
But, you're telling me that you don't find it interesting that there's such a disparity in Linux preference and that it doesn't belong on Slashdot?
This issue is a subtle indication of how the campaign organizations of each party really work. Just as if you were to *ahem* discover that local operatives in one party were using caging lists that the candidates themselves were unaware of. It all speaks to the broader campaigning philosophies.
Somehow, the author interprets the great perks like free T-shirts, meals, health care, and facilities as Google playing your parent and running your life. That's a hell of a spin job on what I'd consider a dream environment.
"I'm not saying he should have killed her, but I understand..."
Anytime you can't explain things like missing vehicles and scrubbed interiors, you got problems. I was expecting a police conspiracy after reading the comments, but there are a lot of arrows pointing at him. And, what's with his "friend" Sturgeon? It's almost as if he doesn't get that banging your buddy's wife might cause some strain on your relationship!
No sympathy for the guy, though. A hot Russian mail order bride doctor and you don't suspect the package might be a little too good to be true?
I thought it was an obsolete format the day I first saw one. I was one of those audio tape holdouts because I hated the downgrade that CD players meant for me. Back when I actually exercised, the bulk, cost, and skipping of CDs made them prohibitive. I foolishly thought (maybe just hoped) they were a passing fad.
Think about the data/area ratio you get nowadays. You could compress all the songs, music videos, and band gimmicks on a SD card. I'm just waiting for the industry to find their next "copy-proof" medium to upgrade/downgrade to.
I don't have the tools to calculate this, but if you can get a lunar lander/command module unit up to the space station (I'd guess it would fit in the shuttle's payload bay), wouldn't a moon landing be a relatively easy next step? I just watched the Pluto mission special on the Science Channel and it made moon orbit in friggin 9 hours! Of course, it's smaller.
I just watched the previously mentioned Mars colonization special on the Science Channel. Everything starts from warming the planet. You release CO2 and water locked up in the ground which causes the Green House effect to speed up. It takes a long time for gases to bleed off a planet, so you can way more than will be lost naturally.
I just watched this again a few weeks ago. A lot more things I noticed after hearing that Deckard was rumored to be a replicant. You left out a lot of FOR arguments:
* Deckard was an older, presumably more reliable, model. * When the sergeant tells Deckard that replicants have a life expectancy of 4 years, he looks at him and apologizes. * The unicorn dread that Deckard has. The cop makes an origami unicorn as well. How the heck did he know what he was dreaming? A little too coincidental to me. * There's a scene in his apartment where Deckard has that weird glare in his eyes like you see with other replicants.
If you've been following the progress of the current Congressional investigations, he's going to be spending his time dodging and fighting impeachment.
Ummm, the ACLU pays more attention to your rights than YOU do! When most of the nitwits in this country were gleefully handing over their civil liberties via the Patriot Act, the ACLU was our champion. They're the ones who defend transgressions against us when YOU would be too blinded by snap judgment to see the indignity. When government wants to take away rights, it won't be in a landmark case against a nun. It will be against the terrorist, murderer or child molester. This is the organization that defended one of its biggest deriders in Rush Limbaugh simply because they view encroachments on our rights through an agnostic lens.
Now, if you can cite an example to validate your distrust...
Of course he's full of shit. This is the same administration currently being investigated for violating the Hatch Act and the Presidential Records Act. Basically, in a poor attempt to circumvent law, they've been using RNC servers to conduct official business. The Bush Administration is going to go down HARD this year as those emails start surfacing. We already have black and white evidence that Republicans were using illegal caging lists (attempting to suppress the Black vote). Tim Griffin didn't up and quit to "spend more time with his family." He quit the day after the story broke...overseas of course.
No, ECONOMICS as usual. Instead of chalking up anything negative of the president to blind hatred, how about reading some of the previous insightful posts? Bush decided he wanted to go to Mars almost on a whim and started slashing existing programs (friggin' Hubble for God's sake). Congress is simply saying if you want a new program, then give NASA the money without playing the shell game with their existing budget.
Conspiracy time, but doesn't the Aurora look a lot like the NAS? I wonder if it was axed to slow the leaking of its technology into the civilian sector.
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Subsequently replaced by the Stinky Hippy Bomb bullets. Fight fire with fire I say!
Oh please, enough with the Libertarian drivel. The US space program was moving boldly enough until the general public got bored with moon landings. Even now, NASA is accomplishing some pretty remarkable things with a relatively meager budget. Private industry will ride the government's coattails like they always do. All of these recent ventures are built on almost 70 friggin' years of governments' accomplishment. Hell, Space One amounted to a glorified X-15. Libertarians like you were just salivating at the chance to use that in another "government bad, business good" debate.
Goddamned private industry can't even maintain terrestrial air travel without truck loads of government subsidies and hand-holding. But, no, let's all forget about that and cheer another victory for Private Capitalism's conquest of space!
Precisely, which is why I think the subpoenas came in coincidentally right after he made is statement. BTW, the trash news shows (like Chris Matthews) are debating this issue like Cheney has some sort of an ingenious, legitimate argument. All you need to look at Article II of the Constitution (and related amendments) as well as Cheney's behavior right up until the point he made this ridiculous argument.
The simple fact is this "man" will tell bold-faced lies right in your face if he thinks it will win him 1 more day of power. His claims to have never made the Iraq-WMD connection, his "insurgency in its last throws" comment, hiding overseas when the Libby jury convened and announced a verdict. Pure shamelessness enabled by a cowardly, self-serving press and an ignorant and apathetic electorate.
This is part of the rationalization for the "Reagan beat the commies!" argument. The CIA was predicting back in '73 that the Soviet Union would economically collapse. I think it was Truman who originally came up with the "outspend 'em" Cold War strategy anyway.
So did they stop giving them shots with thimerosal?
I'm not an authority on this, except that I once did a 6 minute presentation for one of my biology classes. On the Slashdot scale, that makes you a Doctor of Autistic Studies.
No I don't. I'm guessing you're a Libertarian. "Put the money in my pocket and I'll decide how best to use it!" Never mind if collective efforts are more efficient. It's still a free market, so you can choose to work at Microsoft.
I think you guys are just pissed off that your team has a Microsoft preference.
Don't tell me about the importance of elections; we've seen the results of uninformed and apathetic voters over the last 6 years. Even some of the most die-hard dittoheads are abandoning ship (you'll hear a lot more people calling themselves "Libertarian" rather than "Conservative" nowadays). But, you're telling me that you don't find it interesting that there's such a disparity in Linux preference and that it doesn't belong on Slashdot?
Wow, great potential angle on this case. This makes the story even weirder (mod parent UP). I demand a Lifetime Channel movie!!!
This issue is a subtle indication of how the campaign organizations of each party really work. Just as if you were to *ahem* discover that local operatives in one party were using caging lists that the candidates themselves were unaware of. It all speaks to the broader campaigning philosophies.
Somehow, the author interprets the great perks like free T-shirts, meals, health care, and facilities as Google playing your parent and running your life. That's a hell of a spin job on what I'd consider a dream environment.
"I'm not saying he should have killed her, but I understand..."
Anytime you can't explain things like missing vehicles and scrubbed interiors, you got problems. I was expecting a police conspiracy after reading the comments, but there are a lot of arrows pointing at him. And, what's with his "friend" Sturgeon? It's almost as if he doesn't get that banging your buddy's wife might cause some strain on your relationship!
No sympathy for the guy, though. A hot Russian mail order bride doctor and you don't suspect the package might be a little too good to be true?
Much better explanation. Plus, I was confused by the replicant count.
I thought it was an obsolete format the day I first saw one. I was one of those audio tape holdouts because I hated the downgrade that CD players meant for me. Back when I actually exercised, the bulk, cost, and skipping of CDs made them prohibitive. I foolishly thought (maybe just hoped) they were a passing fad. Think about the data/area ratio you get nowadays. You could compress all the songs, music videos, and band gimmicks on a SD card. I'm just waiting for the industry to find their next "copy-proof" medium to upgrade/downgrade to.
I don't have the tools to calculate this, but if you can get a lunar lander/command module unit up to the space station (I'd guess it would fit in the shuttle's payload bay), wouldn't a moon landing be a relatively easy next step? I just watched the Pluto mission special on the Science Channel and it made moon orbit in friggin 9 hours! Of course, it's smaller.
I just watched the previously mentioned Mars colonization special on the Science Channel. Everything starts from warming the planet. You release CO2 and water locked up in the ground which causes the Green House effect to speed up. It takes a long time for gases to bleed off a planet, so you can way more than will be lost naturally.
I just watched this again a few weeks ago. A lot more things I noticed after hearing that Deckard was rumored to be a replicant. You left out a lot of FOR arguments:
* Deckard was an older, presumably more reliable, model.
* When the sergeant tells Deckard that replicants have a life expectancy of 4 years, he looks at him and apologizes.
* The unicorn dread that Deckard has. The cop makes an origami unicorn as well. How the heck did he know what he was dreaming? A little too coincidental to me.
* There's a scene in his apartment where Deckard has that weird glare in his eyes like you see with other replicants.
If you've been following the progress of the current Congressional investigations, he's going to be spending his time dodging and fighting impeachment.
Ummm, the ACLU pays more attention to your rights than YOU do! When most of the nitwits in this country were gleefully handing over their civil liberties via the Patriot Act, the ACLU was our champion. They're the ones who defend transgressions against us when YOU would be too blinded by snap judgment to see the indignity. When government wants to take away rights, it won't be in a landmark case against a nun. It will be against the terrorist, murderer or child molester. This is the organization that defended one of its biggest deriders in Rush Limbaugh simply because they view encroachments on our rights through an agnostic lens. Now, if you can cite an example to validate your distrust...
Of course he's full of shit. This is the same administration currently being investigated for violating the Hatch Act and the Presidential Records Act. Basically, in a poor attempt to circumvent law, they've been using RNC servers to conduct official business. The Bush Administration is going to go down HARD this year as those emails start surfacing. We already have black and white evidence that Republicans were using illegal caging lists (attempting to suppress the Black vote). Tim Griffin didn't up and quit to "spend more time with his family." He quit the day after the story broke...overseas of course.
No, ECONOMICS as usual. Instead of chalking up anything negative of the president to blind hatred, how about reading some of the previous insightful posts? Bush decided he wanted to go to Mars almost on a whim and started slashing existing programs (friggin' Hubble for God's sake). Congress is simply saying if you want a new program, then give NASA the money without playing the shell game with their existing budget.
Conspiracy time, but doesn't the Aurora look a lot like the NAS? I wonder if it was axed to slow the leaking of its technology into the civilian sector.
Users != testers, a lesson that too many programmers obviously haven't learned.
Oops, botched my HTML. That link should be www.flytheroad.com.