Why would that be a secret. Oh!my god, if this data fell in the hands of the likes of Russia, China, Iraq and other pariah nations then they could use it to:
<SHOCK><HORROR>Get rid of their nuclear arsenals!</SHOCK></HORROR>
Actually that would be bad news for US defense contractors who have built a cosy life based on the fears of the US politicians and military.
What information about nuclear bombs could be deemed so secret that it would create such a scandal? You can read about the inner workings of nuclear weapons in any library and on the internet. Besides, with Bill Clinton being best buddies with the PRC who needs nuclear spies anyway?
I wonder what the likes of Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart would have to say about this?
They are the real and true fathers of hypertext (and thus hyperlinks). If anyone should benefit it should be them (or in case of Bush his estate), not some lameass monopolist who probably stole their ideas and filed a patent for it (and that goes neatly with what I said on the Mir discussion that inventors and creators rarely benefit from their idea's, it is always some corporatist shark who files a patent for the idea and becomes the sole benefitor).
Here is some reading about it, for those not in the know:
Nuclear weapons work the best when they are detonated far above the ground.
Not that that is going to save thousands of people if it would happen.
But really an atomic bomb is not a very user friendly device and trying to make one yourself if you had your hands on some plutonium would prove detrimental to your health. Apart from that it would cost a few tens or hundreds of million bucks to make one or buy one. Not all terrorist groups have oil millionaires backing them and even for those who do money is not something to be lightly spent.
I think a chemical or biological attack would be much more likely. Cheaper to make, easier to smuggle and just about as deadly.
It also created a huge market for American companies. Before WWI America was a minor power, the results of the two world wars made America into the major player it is now. I sincerely doubt that America entered WWII out of purely altruistic motives. I think you were more worried about the Russians and Germans carving up the world and some of your government saw it as a way to get more power. And BTW you did not lose millions of people, in WWII the US lost 270,000 people, in WWI it was about half of that. The deadliest war in US history is one with which the rest of the world had nothing to do with, it was your own Civil War that cost 900,000 lives, which was the most American lives lost in any war you fought. Well, thank you. But without Europe there would not have been an America, try to remember that next time you think your conduct in WWII gives you the idea that you own the world.
You don't get rich by working, you can only get rich for making other people work for you and exploiting them and their creativity. People who create generally do not benefit much from their work, most of the rewards go to people who have never worked a day in their life but who have got a lot of cash by making other people work for them. Take Bill Gates for instance, how many original ideas has he had? None whatsoever. Most technologies which his company controls were developed by other companies who were swallowed up. Call me cynical, but I think that is why wallstreet types love open source. Here you have a bunch of saps (from their viewpoint) who do not need to be bought out, but who can be exploited without monetary gain. Some American professor said that slavery was the most effective economic system, well he is right. Modern slavery is here!
I don't know if you are aware of it, but the ISS is originally an American space station (they were going to call it "Freedom").
But I agree, it doesn't really add anything new, it is basically an updated version of a Mir type space station (Mir+?).
Now if they would build a space station like the one in 2001 then you would have something to talk about.
NEW SDI??? Hasn't that lark been going on for 20 years now??? Now if you want to talk about a waste of money, you have one there. Chances are that it won't fully defend America during a full scale missile attack (if it knocks out 90% of the missiles the remaining 10% are still able of rendering the USA into a nuclear wasteland) and so you're buying into false security (besides, can this thing keep fallout from spilling over to the USA if the rest of the world gets nuked???).
Ending the nuclear menace once and for all through negotiations is much cheaper and guarantees world peace much more.
OK so you still have to worry about countries like North Korea and Iraq, but with this SDI thing you risk pissing off Russia who have much more nukes.
This technology this increases the chance for war, because it threatens the security of other nations and because it makes the USA more likely to use nuclear weapons first because they feel "secure" that they can't be touched (like the people on the Titanic decided to sail at full speed through an iceberg area because their ship was "unsinkable").
But really, ANYTHING to keep the generals in the Pentagon amused with their new toy, right?
At least the Russians got it up there in '86 and it has stayed in use for nearly three times as originally intended. It was meant to be replaced somewhere around '91 but certain political events prohibited that from happening.
Whereas you Americans kept saying, yes...ooh, but WAIT TILL YOU SEE OUR SPACE STATION, it's gunna be great! Well you finally launched the first module 5 years after was originally promised (Mr. Reagan said in 1984 that America was going to have a spacestation in ten years time). And it had to be turned it into the International Space Station because you didn't get enough money from the politicians.
I think it is just an example of how sore losers Americans are. They expect to be the winners and if someone else beats them they try to put the other guys acheivement down. I once saw an athletics event on TV when I was in the States and the best American got the silver medal, he was treated by the commentators as the winner and the guy who won the gold medal was completely ignored.
Don't get me wrong, I don't blame you for having a winner's mentality (I wish my own country had it more) but why do you need to dis everyone else's acheivements to feel better, especially because you already acheive so much yourselves?
Well the future is going to be a bit different than in Star Trek. For starters, Khan Noonian Singh didn't start a war back in '92. Or maybe I slept throught he whole thing. Dam!
Yes, that is why you have the "World Series" in which only teams from the USA and Canada compete. I once saw a bit of sports coverage when I was in the USA and the best American came in second and was treated like the winner by the competitor. And recently I saw Craig Breedlove in an American TV item being introduced as the "holder of the land speed record" (when in fact it is held by Andy Green, a Briton). Americans may have a healthy winners mentality, but they are the worst losers there are. They always negate the winner's efforts or ignore them when they finish up last, whilst they boast and praise their own efforts as being better and more deserving.
Constitutions generally have a clause which sets treaties on the same level as the constitution or higher:
Even in the US constitution there is such a clause:
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
It can only be registered with a state and town prefix. So Toys R Us couldn't register toysr.us, which would be a pretty good name to have, but only toysrus.sf.ca.us e.g. if they were based in San Francisco
Prior to 1971 China's seat in the UN Security Council was held by the Republic of China (Taiwan) not the People's Republic.
In 1971 Taiwan (in General Assembly Resolution 2758) was expelled from the UN General Assembly and Security Council, a situation which continues to this day.
The UN still recognises the government of the People's Republic of China as the only legal representative of Taiwan and the PRC votes in name of all of China, which was acknowledged by the US in the Shanghai Communique in 1972.
It's true but treaties with big powerful countries are only useful as long as they suit them. It is nearly impossible for a smaller country to settle a treaty dispute with a large power. Might does make right in international politics.
The USA doesn't own the moon because they placed their flag there first, like Spain owned the America's by having Columbus plant their flag there. 2 years before the moon voyage the US was a signatory to the UN Outer Space Treaty in which it was forbidden for any government to declare ownership of any property outside Earth.
Some people even still use Linux 2.3!;-) The version of the distro says nothing of the Linux version, you should look at the kernel version and the versions of the software packages that are installed. In fact Slackware jumped from 4.0 to 7.0 in one go. It is a marketing ploy (from the books of Microsoft, who went from Word 2 to 6) to look "newer" than the competitor.
Well your typical feminazi keeps harping on about men rating women by their good looks and how evil that is but they hang Chippendale calendars on their walls and whistle when a good looking man walks by and go to movies only because Brad Pitt is in it. I don't see any problem with those kind of pictures, after all no-one is forcing those girls to pose like that. To see a hypocrit is to know one, Miss (as in opposite of hit) Geek!
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I have the same problem with a version of Truster that I bought at a sale. I phoned the license center but their phone was not being used anymore. How am I going to get it working? Mhh, seems I have to look for a pirated copy!
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The book was published in the mid '90s, so why is it been reviewed as if it was new?
doe the Chinese intelligance have Presidential clearance? ;-)
<SHOCK><HORROR>Get rid of their nuclear arsenals!</SHOCK></HORROR>
Actually that would be bad news for US defense contractors who have built a cosy life based on the fears of the US politicians and military.
What information about nuclear bombs could be deemed so secret that it would create such a scandal? You can read about the inner workings of nuclear weapons in any library and on the internet. Besides, with Bill Clinton being best buddies with the PRC who needs nuclear spies anyway?
They are the real and true fathers of hypertext (and thus hyperlinks). If anyone should benefit it should be them (or in case of Bush his estate), not some lameass monopolist who probably stole their ideas and filed a patent for it (and that goes neatly with what I said on the Mir discussion that inventors and creators rarely benefit from their idea's, it is always some corporatist shark who files a patent for the idea and becomes the sole benefitor).
Here is some reading about it, for those not in the know:
Vannevar Bush
Ted Nelson and Xanadu
Douglas Engelbart
Not that that is going to save thousands of people if it would happen.
But really an atomic bomb is not a very user friendly device and trying to make one yourself if you had your hands on some plutonium would prove detrimental to your health. Apart from that it would cost a few tens or hundreds of million bucks to make one or buy one. Not all terrorist groups have oil millionaires backing them and even for those who do money is not something to be lightly spent.
I think a chemical or biological attack would be much more likely. Cheaper to make, easier to smuggle and just about as deadly.
It also created a huge market for American companies. Before WWI America was a minor power, the results of the two world wars made America into the major player it is now. I sincerely doubt that America entered WWII out of purely altruistic motives. I think you were more worried about the Russians and Germans carving up the world and some of your government saw it as a way to get more power. And BTW you did not lose millions of people, in WWII the US lost 270,000 people, in WWI it was about half of that. The deadliest war in US history is one with which the rest of the world had nothing to do with, it was your own Civil War that cost 900,000 lives, which was the most American lives lost in any war you fought. Well, thank you. But without Europe there would not have been an America, try to remember that next time you think your conduct in WWII gives you the idea that you own the world.
You don't get rich by working, you can only get rich for making other people work for you and exploiting them and their creativity. People who create generally do not benefit much from their work, most of the rewards go to people who have never worked a day in their life but who have got a lot of cash by making other people work for them. Take Bill Gates for instance, how many original ideas has he had? None whatsoever. Most technologies which his company controls were developed by other companies who were swallowed up. Call me cynical, but I think that is why wallstreet types love open source. Here you have a bunch of saps (from their viewpoint) who do not need to be bought out, but who can be exploited without monetary gain. Some American professor said that slavery was the most effective economic system, well he is right. Modern slavery is here!
But I agree, it doesn't really add anything new, it is basically an updated version of a Mir type space station (Mir+?).
Now if they would build a space station like the one in 2001 then you would have something to talk about.
NEW SDI??? Hasn't that lark been going on for 20 years now??? Now if you want to talk about a waste of money, you have one there. Chances are that it won't fully defend America during a full scale missile attack (if it knocks out 90% of the missiles the remaining 10% are still able of rendering the USA into a nuclear wasteland) and so you're buying into false security (besides, can this thing keep fallout from spilling over to the USA if the rest of the world gets nuked???).
Ending the nuclear menace once and for all through negotiations is much cheaper and guarantees world peace much more.
OK so you still have to worry about countries like North Korea and Iraq, but with this SDI thing you risk pissing off Russia who have much more nukes.
This technology this increases the chance for war, because it threatens the security of other nations and because it makes the USA more likely to use nuclear weapons first because they feel "secure" that they can't be touched (like the people on the Titanic decided to sail at full speed through an iceberg area because their ship was "unsinkable").
But really, ANYTHING to keep the generals in the Pentagon amused with their new toy, right?
Whereas you Americans kept saying, yes...ooh, but WAIT TILL YOU SEE OUR SPACE STATION, it's gunna be great! Well you finally launched the first module 5 years after was originally promised (Mr. Reagan said in 1984 that America was going to have a spacestation in ten years time). And it had to be turned it into the International Space Station because you didn't get enough money from the politicians.
I think it is just an example of how sore losers Americans are. They expect to be the winners and if someone else beats them they try to put the other guys acheivement down. I once saw an athletics event on TV when I was in the States and the best American got the silver medal, he was treated by the commentators as the winner and the guy who won the gold medal was completely ignored.
Don't get me wrong, I don't blame you for having a winner's mentality (I wish my own country had it more) but why do you need to dis everyone else's acheivements to feel better, especially because you already acheive so much yourselves?
The RIO constantly falls out because Diamond designed the battery compartment poorly
I have to tape it shut with sticky tape every time I use it and oh, you must remove the battery after you used it or it will go flat in a few hours.
What a pain. Does anyone know an MP3 player with a built in battery, that you can charge up easily?
Yeah, I know...offtopic, but I just had to vent my frustration about this...
Well the future is going to be a bit different than in Star Trek. For starters, Khan Noonian Singh didn't start a war back in '92. Or maybe I slept throught he whole thing. Dam!
Yes, that is why you have the "World Series" in which only teams from the USA and Canada compete. I once saw a bit of sports coverage when I was in the USA and the best American came in second and was treated like the winner by the competitor. And recently I saw Craig Breedlove in an American TV item being introduced as the "holder of the land speed record" (when in fact it is held by Andy Green, a Briton). Americans may have a healthy winners mentality, but they are the worst losers there are. They always negate the winner's efforts or ignore them when they finish up last, whilst they boast and praise their own efforts as being better and more deserving.
When shit happens to you, your perspective change quit a bit.
What goes around, comes around...
Even in the US constitution there is such a clause:
It can only be registered with a state and town prefix. So Toys R Us couldn't register toysr.us, which would be a pretty good name to have, but only toysrus.sf.ca.us e.g. if they were based in San Francisco
Would slashdot mind if you did a parody site of them?
I wonder if people are not celebrities have the right to sue for their names when they are registered.
Prior to 1971 China's seat in the UN Security Council was held by the Republic of China (Taiwan) not the People's Republic.
In 1971 Taiwan (in General Assembly Resolution 2758) was expelled from the UN General Assembly and Security Council, a situation which continues to this day.
The UN still recognises the government of the People's Republic of China as the only legal representative of Taiwan and the PRC votes in name of all of China, which was acknowledged by the US in the Shanghai Communique in 1972.
It's true but treaties with big powerful countries are only useful as long as they suit them. It is nearly impossible for a smaller country to settle a treaty dispute with a large power. Might does make right in international politics.
The USA doesn't own the moon because they placed their flag there first, like Spain owned the America's by having Columbus plant their flag there. 2 years before the moon voyage the US was a signatory to the UN Outer Space Treaty in which it was forbidden for any government to declare ownership of any property outside Earth.
Some people even still use Linux 2.3! ;-) The version of the distro says nothing of the Linux version, you should look at the kernel version and the versions of the software packages that are installed. In fact Slackware jumped from 4.0 to 7.0 in one go. It is a marketing ploy (from the books of Microsoft, who went from Word 2 to 6) to look "newer" than the competitor.
Well your typical feminazi keeps harping on about men rating women by their good looks and how evil that is but they hang Chippendale calendars on their walls and whistle when a good looking man walks by and go to movies only because Brad Pitt is in it. I don't see any problem with those kind of pictures, after all no-one is forcing those girls to pose like that. To see a hypocrit is to know one, Miss (as in opposite of hit) Geek!
Yes, they should do more with models. Recompiling the kernel is not something you would let the average user do.
I have the same problem with a version of Truster that I bought at a sale. I phoned the license center but their phone was not being used anymore. How am I going to get it working? Mhh, seems I have to look for a pirated copy!