That's a PC term for "Bible Thumpers", who should simply provide a Complete Alternative Media Experience for their Christian Taliban and totally boycott conventional media. Call it the Madrassah Approach, where the superstitious cna fap to what they wish and leave the rest of us alone.
"Seemed to have ended Lloyd Bridge's career as well."
No. His career was long and even survived HUAC blacklisting. The "Airplane" casting took advantage of his straight roles which made the jokes funnier by contrast. It also made him famous to another generation.
This is why research should be outsourced. The US has become a barrier to its own progress, so cut a deal and work somewhere else.
Consider the Phillipines. Their society and government are as fucked up as a concrete bicycle, but the people are bright, eager workers who go worldwide to find employment.
"Every time I read about scumbags like this, I'm more and more convinced that this is indeed the only way."
There is no hope for peaceful change in the US. The public, outside of a few vilified visionaries like Timothy McVeigh and Joe Stack, are welded to the government sugar teat and will never act unless it quits giving them milk. If THAT stops, watch out...
When everyone is part of the problem, there is no solution. Brilliant really.
""US air force disclosed that some 30,000 of its troops had been re-assigned from technical support "to the frontlines of cyber warfare"
Many USAF "computer" weenies are essentially paper-pushers who also do very basic tech support. Career field consolidation and all that.,,
Waving a magic wand (the same thing as referring to every troop as a "warrior", as if doing your fucking job was somehow unworthy!) and changing a job description is mostly a gesture.
No insult intended to the folks who do tech support. They deal with the same silly shit and demanding lusers as do their civilian counterparts.
"Any implementation" wouldn't be necessary if we simply wait for vehicles whose engines do not run at low speed to become commonplace. No extra shit to break, the problem is solved with no additional expense.
There is no need to shut down the engine on a hybrid, it takes care of shutdown and restart as needed. PHEVs don't need any such intervention at all.
"It's about giving your car additional information that it can choose to use to increase fuel efficiency."
There is no particular reason self-contained systems in the car cannot accomplish this goal without building an expensive and permanently burdensome infrastructure that will likely be obsolete by the time it's in place.
That doesn't "work" very well in practice, and couldn't even compete with the Capitalism you hate in terms of worker benefits. Eating the rich is great fun until you run out of rich to eat, then everyone else goes on the exploitation menu, for the good of the workers, of course.
Capitalism leavened with a humane but not overpowering dose of Socialism arguably produces the best results. Business should be restrained by government, government restrained by business, and both restrained by the votes of an engaged and informed citizenry. Makes a lousy slogan though.
"How's that? There are no humans to feed or otherwise keep comfortable and alive. Small craft, electronics for spying, stable orbit. Sounds like it could stay up longer if needed."
Yet another demonstration of why remote-manned space systems offer far greater ROI than carrying expensive tourists.
The casualties incurred in transportation are already at an easily tolerable level (demonstrated every day). Adding gross complexity would increase purchase cost, maintenance cost, and add potential points of failure (as we are seeing with 'Yota electronic problems).
You have far too much faith in sensors.
As an aircraft mechanic and former avionics tech, I note that even Very Expensive Sensors still shit the bed. Affordable Consumer Sensors will be much less reliable.
"That will certainly make it easier to pull out of the way of the 5-ton fire engine coming up behind you when you're the first one on the line at the red light.
And that use-case didn't even take me 2 seconds to figure out."
It's fair and reasonable to call the idea "fucking stupid". Not "questionable", or "of doubtful utility", just "fucking stupid".
That every response to it on this thread isn't one of instant scorn suggests that some readers are technically illiterate, clueless, airheaded, or just need to be savagely LARTed.
"The kids at the Air Force never got over it. Now their toys are bigger and much more expensive - but they're still fun to shoot off in a blaze of glory - never to be recovered. I love this country - and how our tax dollars get used."
What special knowledge makes you sure recovery is cost-effective, and that simply smashing it into the water doesn't cost far less?
For a research vehicle, one can dispense with heavy landing gear and the structures needed to support it. The machine can be designed to be fast, unencumbered by durability and recovery considerations of conventional aircraft design. (Landing is bouncy and slammy.)
The purpose of the missions is research, not saving a static display. I have 26 years maintaining combat aircraft, and note that ALL aircraft are disposable. Some are worn beyoned economical repair, some go obsolete, some crash, some are kept for the memories they evoke, but they were built to accomplish a mission. So is a missile, and one doesn't usually retrieve those either.
"Please someone tell me, why shouldn't these soulless suits be lined up and shot, and the event televised for the education of other similar corporate psychopaths?"
The Chinese do shoot people who commit corporate crimes such as selling poison milk. It makes great sense compared to executing those who commit crimes of passion. People behave themselves out of fear. Corporations know no fear, but public execution would get their attention. It should be used on those who commit economic as well as ecological sabotage. Bernie Madoff comes to mind.
"Maybe then oil compnaies will start taking security serious and not "the nuisance necessary to keep the insurance premium low".
No, they'll just move elsewhere. They don't need to exist in their current form, and can organize differently to adapt as needed. They don't need to be US corporations, they don't need US basing, they only need to sell oil. US oil companies can simply decide not to drill here. There are plenty of places to make money.
Accidents are inevitable in offshore drilling. Pointing this out should offend no one. If we don't want another such spill, the only choice is to ban offshore drilling in areas we control-. If we are willing to accept another spill, then we allow drilling with the understanding that it will eventually happen.
Reagan was remarkably moderate, likely due to cosmopolitan life in Hollywood. He wasn't of the frothing "God Hate Fags" persuasion typical of recent Republicans, and his communication skill made him appealing.
The Republican Party has purged most of its moderates, so we'll not see his like for a very long time.
I want the protection restricted access to the US provides. If I wanted to live in poverty in a failed state I'd move to Mexico, so why should I want Mexico to move here? I want MY country to benefit ME, I don't care about foreigners who refuse to change their societies, and I don't care that they want free access to MY country. I don't want to pay for poor people. Why should I? We have a large enough lower class that we don't need to be flooded with people who NEED what we have. I don't want to share. What don't you understand about that?
I want to deter illegal immigration under the guise of deterring terrorism. I want people to stay out of the US unless they are here on commercial business and bring money with them. I don't care, at all, about tourists.
"As for your relationship with the LEO -- hanging out in chat rooms and pretending to be a 13 year old girl does not make you a federal agent, it makes you a useful idiot looking for a pat on the head."
Angry much? After serving for 26 years in the AF, I don't regard these people as my enemy because I know they are not. If foreigners are inconvenienced, they can stay home. I don't need them and it's all about me.
The US is full, we don't have anything to share, and THE ONLY WAY WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE WELFARE STATE OUR PUBLIC RELENTLESSLY VOTES FOR IS TO RESTRICT ACCESS TO LIMITED RESOURCES.
"Everybody shits, right?"
If they are healthy. Want pics? Classic Log, Baskin-Robbins Twist, or Taco Bell aerosol if you like.
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It's just performance art.
"As Christopher Hitchens says, never forget how these people behaved back when they had enough power to do whatever they wanted."
Go visit Afghanistan for a Taliban refresher. :)
"$#*! "family values" conservatives."
That's a PC term for "Bible Thumpers", who should simply provide a Complete Alternative Media Experience for their Christian Taliban and totally boycott conventional media. Call it the Madrassah Approach, where the superstitious cna fap to what they wish and leave the rest of us alone.
"So if you study steel, all steel structures should be yours? And if you study the world..."
I'll study poontang, thank you very much!
"Seemed to have ended Lloyd Bridge's career as well."
No. His career was long and even survived HUAC blacklisting.
The "Airplane" casting took advantage of his straight roles which made the jokes funnier by contrast. It also made him famous to another generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Bridges
"and we are very much part of 'the western world'. Right there next to you. A little to the north. There you go."
Still in assimilation range. Asia is safer.
This is why research should be outsourced. The US has become a barrier to its own progress, so cut a deal and work somewhere else.
Consider the Phillipines. Their society and government are as fucked up as a concrete bicycle, but the people are bright, eager workers who go worldwide to find employment.
"Every time I read about scumbags like this, I'm more and more convinced that this is indeed the only way."
There is no hope for peaceful change in the US. The public, outside of a few vilified visionaries like Timothy McVeigh and Joe Stack, are welded to the government sugar teat and will never act unless it quits giving them milk. If THAT stops, watch out...
When everyone is part of the problem, there is no solution. Brilliant really.
"This is Slashdot not 4chan."
There but for the grace of mods go we.
Damn. I'm out of mod points.
Quite right:
"Finally, if your AFSC doesn't begin with "2A", you are a weenie. Bonus points for 2A0XX, 2A3XX, and 2A5XX."
""US air force disclosed that some 30,000 of its troops had been re-assigned from technical support "to the frontlines of cyber warfare"
Many USAF "computer" weenies are essentially paper-pushers who also do very basic tech support. Career field consolidation and all that.,,
Waving a magic wand (the same thing as referring to every troop as a "warrior", as if doing your fucking job was somehow unworthy!) and changing a job description is mostly a gesture.
No insult intended to the folks who do tech support. They deal with the same silly shit and demanding lusers as do their civilian counterparts.
"Any implementation" wouldn't be necessary if we simply wait for vehicles whose engines do not run at low speed to become commonplace. No extra shit to break, the problem is solved with no additional expense.
There is no need to shut down the engine on a hybrid, it takes care of shutdown and restart as needed. PHEVs don't need any such intervention at all.
"It's about giving your car additional information that it can choose to use to increase fuel efficiency."
There is no particular reason self-contained systems in the car cannot accomplish this goal without building an expensive and permanently burdensome infrastructure that will likely be obsolete by the time it's in place.
"Workers to power!"
That doesn't "work" very well in practice, and couldn't even compete with the Capitalism you hate in terms of worker benefits. Eating the rich is great fun until you run out of rich to eat, then everyone else goes on the exploitation menu, for the good of the workers, of course.
Capitalism leavened with a humane but not overpowering dose of Socialism arguably produces the best results. Business should be restrained by government, government restrained by business, and both restrained by the votes of an engaged and informed citizenry. Makes a lousy slogan though.
"How's that? There are no humans to feed or otherwise keep comfortable and alive. Small craft, electronics for spying, stable orbit. Sounds like it could stay up longer if needed."
Yet another demonstration of why remote-manned space systems offer far greater ROI than carrying expensive tourists.
The casualties incurred in transportation are already at an easily tolerable level (demonstrated every day). Adding gross complexity would increase purchase cost, maintenance cost, and add potential points of failure (as we are seeing with 'Yota electronic problems).
You have far too much faith in sensors.
As an aircraft mechanic and former avionics tech, I note that even Very Expensive Sensors still shit the bed.
Affordable Consumer Sensors will be much less reliable.
"That will certainly make it easier to pull out of the way of the 5-ton fire engine coming up behind you when you're the first one on the line at the red light.
And that use-case didn't even take me 2 seconds to figure out."
It's fair and reasonable to call the idea "fucking stupid". Not "questionable", or "of doubtful utility", just "fucking stupid".
That every response to it on this thread isn't one of instant scorn suggests that some readers are technically illiterate, clueless, airheaded, or just need to be savagely LARTed.
"The kids at the Air Force never got over it. Now their toys are bigger and much more expensive - but they're still fun to shoot off in a blaze of glory - never to be recovered. I love this country - and how our tax dollars get used."
What special knowledge makes you sure recovery is cost-effective, and that simply smashing it into the water doesn't cost far less?
For a research vehicle, one can dispense with heavy landing gear and the structures needed to support it. The machine can be designed to be fast, unencumbered by durability and recovery considerations of conventional aircraft design. (Landing is bouncy and slammy.)
The purpose of the missions is research, not saving a static display. I have 26 years maintaining combat aircraft, and note that ALL aircraft are disposable. Some are worn beyoned economical repair, some go obsolete, some crash, some are kept for the memories they evoke, but they were built to accomplish a mission. So is a missile, and one doesn't usually retrieve those either.
Have some historic scrapping:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZgDNYwLWrU
"Does anyone else think it is odd that the fastest plane in the world is still the SR-71, which came into service in 1964."
The fastest one that you know about.
Let's not pretend that it's important for the public to know what the real leading edge of technology is.
They are spectators, not participants.
"Your sarcastic remark would seem to indicate that we could trust corporations to use nuclear technology to create transportation solutions for us."
We trusted them with oil rig safety. What could possibly do wrong?
"Please someone tell me, why shouldn't these soulless suits be lined up and shot, and the event televised for the education of other similar corporate psychopaths?"
The Chinese do shoot people who commit corporate crimes such as selling poison milk. It makes great sense compared to executing those who commit crimes of passion. People behave themselves out of fear. Corporations know no fear, but public execution would get their attention. It should be used on those who commit economic as well as ecological sabotage. Bernie Madoff comes to mind.
"Maybe then oil compnaies will start taking security serious and not "the nuisance necessary to keep the insurance premium low".
No, they'll just move elsewhere. They don't need to exist in their current form, and can organize differently to adapt as needed. They don't need to be US corporations, they don't need US basing, they only need to sell oil. US oil companies can simply decide not to drill here. There are plenty of places to make money.
Accidents are inevitable in offshore drilling. Pointing this out should offend no one. If we don't want another such spill, the only choice is to ban offshore drilling in areas we control-. If we are willing to accept another spill, then we allow drilling with the understanding that it will eventually happen.
Reagan was remarkably moderate, likely due to cosmopolitan life in Hollywood. He wasn't of the frothing "God Hate Fags" persuasion typical of recent Republicans, and his communication skill made him appealing.
The Republican Party has purged most of its moderates, so we'll not see his like for a very long time.
I want the protection restricted access to the US provides. If I wanted to live in poverty in a failed state I'd move to Mexico, so why should I want Mexico to move here? I want MY country to benefit ME, I don't care about foreigners who refuse to change their societies, and I don't care that they want free access to MY country. I don't want to pay for poor people. Why should I? We have a large enough lower class that we don't need to be flooded with people who NEED what we have. I don't want to share. What don't you understand about that?
I want to deter illegal immigration under the guise of deterring terrorism. I want people to stay out of the US unless they are here on commercial business and bring money with them. I don't care, at all, about tourists.
"As for your relationship with the LEO -- hanging out in chat rooms and pretending to be a 13 year old girl does not make you a federal agent, it makes you a useful idiot looking for a pat on the head."
Angry much? After serving for 26 years in the AF, I don't regard these people as my enemy because I know they are not. If foreigners are inconvenienced, they can stay home. I don't need them and it's all about me.
The US is full, we don't have anything to share, and THE ONLY WAY WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE WELFARE STATE OUR PUBLIC RELENTLESSLY VOTES FOR IS TO RESTRICT ACCESS TO LIMITED RESOURCES.
"Everybody shits, right?"
If they are healthy. Want pics? Classic Log, Baskin-Robbins Twist, or Taco Bell aerosol if you like.
"Additionally, we could easily use ultra-capacitors to power electric cars that would take us in a range of 500 + miles and have fast recharging."
Wake me when I can order a suitable cap from Mouser or Digikey.