Any device can be easily mod'd. The main saving grace is that the effect of the interference is too indeterminate and probably too ineffective for the risk.
If you agree that the body of the aircraft is conductive enough to qualify as a Faraday cage, then it should be a simple matter to insert metal plates between the cabin and the cockpit to completely insulate signals between the 2 parts. If we're spending good money to harden the cockpit doors, we may as well insulate electronically also.
> I might add that the Japanese military would have shown no similar sense of honor.
That is not entirely true. The Japanese army did try to preserve some of the cultural treasures of China while they were invading. It's the Chinese people whom they had no problem destroying. You have to remember, a treasure in hand is better than a treasure in ruin. #=(
You are using a special definition of 'power' quite different from the common usage. dictionary.com shows these top definitions for 'power':
1. The ability or capacity to perform or act effectively. 2. A specific capacity, faculty, or aptitude. Often used in the plural: her powers of concentration. 3. Strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted; might. See Synonyms at strength. 4. The ability or official capacity to exercise control; authority. 5. A person, group, or nation having great influence or control over others: the western powers. 6. The might of a nation, political organization, or similar group. 7. Forcefulness; effectiveness: a novel of unusual power.
If you insist on your definition, I won't argue with you. But please don't try to mislead others by not pointing out your special definition.
When you follow the common usage, it is apparent that there are many different kinds of power which influence our thoughts and behavior: economical, emotional, aesthetic, media, intellectual, technological, legal, as well as physical. I believe everyone would agree that MS has vastly greater economical, technological, and legal power than yourself.
Secondly, think about what one has to do to voluntariy disassociate with the entire technological infracture of the western society. I think you'd have to become a survivalist or move to a hardly developing country. That is about as likely as becoming a monk, I suspect.
So sure, there's a choice. But it's not a realistic choice for the vast majority of the people in the first world.
Even if you run all Linux, etc. at home, Think of the workplaces and all the offices you have to deal with. What if MS suddenly decides to add DRM to everything on it and stop access by 'blanks' ?
What if your electric company decides to just triple your rate?
Unless you're among the select few, your power is insignificant compared to a big business.
>1) an Armageddon style battle. Not a Last Bttle, but a huge, all-out, good-vs-evil battle. I think people are just getting a feeling, though they're looking externally when they should be looking internally. > That is your best observation overall.
>3) Lord of the Rings is about internal moral struggles. > Indeed. The focal point of the story is primarily on Fordo and not Aragorn, the externalized hero.
>(4) Lord of the Rings upholds that the right will be victorious.
I think you give Tolkien too little credit here. Unlike the C.S. Lewis tales, the Good Side do not win by a 'Deus ex machina' device. In fact, Frodo LOST his internal battle and it's up to the selfishly consumed Gollum to save the day. THAT surely presages the prevalence of Irony today. When they return to the Shire, they did not get a hero's welcome and find that things have turned for the worst.
You may be right that many people look for moral certainty in times when they feel threatened. But allow me to suggest that true wisdom and maturity comes from confronting the uncertainties rather hiding from them. It is similar to the choice Frodo makes: to return to the Shire or undertake the journey. It would be ironic indeed for people to use LOTR to hid from their choices.
While they do not have the nifty captain's chair, they DO have a room where they monitor the key financial data that affects the monetary supply and exchange rates. If they move out of expected and prescribed relations, the Fed can and does take action to adjust the amount of money supply and the rates. One of the Federal Reserve Committee headed by Allen Greenspan, deliberates and set such policies. While they do not have fine control over most aspects of production in the US, what they can DO will affect economies around the world.
Thanks to cheap computing power, just about everyone can have access to the same data at reasonable prices. So many individual players will act to influence the world financial markets. A large number of these markets have balanced demand and supply, but a great many markets also lark the liquidity to 'clear'.
Although Hayek and his followers believes that such decentralized market (we might call they self-organized today) will inevitably reach an optimum solution, the problem is that there is no way to prove this mathematically given realistic assumptions (not to mention the markets which don't clear). In other words, for a nonlinear system, it's easy to get stuck at a local maximum when you optimize locally (analogous to trading on only the latest data).
This is IMHO why the US does not have a true lassez-faire economy. In addition to meeting the political and psychological needs of the population, there also a case for looking for global changes which can globally optimize the narrow goal of production.
Electrical power and landline telephone are categorized as 'natural monopolies' because the costs to run multiple electrical lines or phone lines to each home and each office is prohibitive and very inefficient.
The Cell phone businesses are perfect for competition as the cost of adding antennaes is relatively cheap. One also increases useful bandwidth with more companies.
The roads are entirely public project - private companies are basicaly contractors to the state and federal governments. What a surprise that politics play a role here!
The 3 cases you discuss are entirely different fruits! Any conclusion one can draw in one area cannot be meaningfully applied to the others.
You might be old enough to remember a time when your local utility company ran BOTH the generation portion and the transmission portion of the system. Part of the deregulation regime was precisely to separate the two so that the utility company who sells to you ran mostly the transmission portion and it buys power (in theory) from several generation companies. Remember Co-Generation? This actually caused quite a lot of headache for the utility company as they now have to interface with a variety of hardware NOT under their control.
If we can get away from the politcal grand-standing and free-market ideologies, we might gain some insights by weighting the track record of the impact of deregulation on the whole SYSTEM of power generation and use: the plusses and minuses.
I don't believe such matters have black/white answers. I hope you will have the patience to come to a deeper understanding first.
"Having said that, I usually vote Republican, though I consider myself a moderate... if it weren't for the Democrat's stupid fiscal and monetary policies, I'd vote for them;-) But, I digress."
Do you mean that big government, big spending liberal policy which ran a huge deficit?
Let's see. We now got a shining new BIG cabinet level Department. We got a little tax cut (for most of us) by issuing a historic high amount of federal debt ( not to mention the state/city debts ).
By the time the immortality technology becomes practical, it should be easy to grow several brainless clones for spare body parts. We'll keep the brain encased in shockproof gels and than we can go play Rollerball. Wheee!
So you're saying that the entire universe is populated by Pupeteers?
Well, they can still travel by propelling their planet.....
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So you think that a Disorderly Conduct and Unlawful assembly charge warrants a ONE YEAR sentence?
Do you believe that the US WEF protesters were trying to commit sedition?
There is a huge difference between opposing certain policies of a government and attempting to overthrow it. ( A ridiculous possibility in the case of the US ).
Ummm. If your first priority is to keep the troops safe and finish the war quickly, there is ONE PERSON who can make it happen with a snap of his finger. But its' NOT Michael Moore. I suggest you go talk to him first.
If freedom and democarcy are what you value most, let me ask you: did you cheer or jeer when Clinton and Carter tried to make Human Rights a part of US foreign policy.
For an example of how other interests or sheer expediency overrides human rights and self determination of a people in the current administration, just look at the deal the US tried to make with Turkey to the detriment of the Kurds (AGAIN).
Ummm. For dispersing biological and chemical agents, a Balloon is much more useful as it'll stay afloat in one area for much longer. So are we going to ban helium and party balloons !
In any case, the effectiveness of Bio/Chem is very doubtful, any mild breeze might compromise it completely.
The problem is that people are ruled by FEAR. Unscrupulous and naive politicians / officials are taking FULL advantage of that.
I choose not to live in fear and deny myself freedoms.
While not a movie, it has the most relistic portrayal of the software developing process in fiction that I've ever come across. Even though the 3D virtual world interface is somewhat futuristic, the process and concern with crafting a well-architiected system is clearly presented. Of course, it should be no surprise as Rudy Rucker does know something about software!
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Any device can be easily mod'd.
The main saving grace is that the effect of the interference is too indeterminate and probably too ineffective for the risk.
If you agree that the body of the aircraft is conductive enough to qualify as a Faraday cage, then it should be a simple matter to insert metal plates between the cabin and the cockpit to completely insulate signals between the 2 parts. If we're spending good money to harden the cockpit doors, we may as well insulate electronically also.
> I might add that the Japanese military would have shown no similar sense of honor.
That is not entirely true. The Japanese army did try to preserve some of the cultural treasures of China while they were invading. It's the Chinese people whom they had no problem destroying. You have to remember, a treasure in hand is better than a treasure in ruin. #=(
You are using a special definition of 'power' quite different from the common usage. dictionary.com shows these top definitions for 'power':
1. The ability or capacity to perform or act effectively.
2. A specific capacity, faculty, or aptitude. Often used in the plural: her powers of concentration.
3. Strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted; might. See Synonyms at strength.
4. The ability or official capacity to exercise control; authority.
5. A person, group, or nation having great influence or control over others: the western powers.
6. The might of a nation, political organization, or similar group.
7. Forcefulness; effectiveness: a novel of unusual power.
If you insist on your definition, I won't argue with you. But please don't try to mislead others by not pointing out your special definition.
When you follow the common usage, it is apparent that there are many different kinds of power which influence our thoughts and behavior: economical, emotional, aesthetic, media, intellectual, technological, legal, as well as physical. I believe everyone would agree that MS has vastly greater economical, technological, and legal power than yourself.
Secondly, think about what one has to do to voluntariy disassociate with the entire technological infracture of the western society. I think you'd have to become a survivalist or move to a hardly developing country. That is about as likely as becoming a monk, I suspect.
So sure, there's a choice. But it's not a realistic choice for the vast majority of the people in the first world.
Even if you run all Linux, etc. at home, Think of the workplaces and all the offices you have to deal with. What if MS suddenly decides to add DRM to everything on it and stop access by 'blanks' ?
What if your electric company decides to just triple your rate?
Unless you're among the select few, your power is insignificant compared to a big business.
The antonym in this case is: parochial.
catholic vs. parochial.
Check it out.
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>1) an Armageddon style battle. Not a Last Bttle, but a huge, all-out, good-vs-evil battle. I think people are just getting a feeling, though they're looking externally when they should be looking internally.
>
That is your best observation overall.
>3) Lord of the Rings is about internal moral struggles.
>
Indeed. The focal point of the story is primarily on Fordo and not Aragorn, the externalized hero.
>(4) Lord of the Rings upholds that the right will be victorious.
I think you give Tolkien too little credit here. Unlike the C.S. Lewis tales, the Good Side do not win by a 'Deus ex machina' device. In fact, Frodo LOST his internal battle and it's up to the selfishly consumed Gollum to save the day. THAT surely presages the prevalence of Irony today. When they return to the Shire, they did not get a hero's welcome and find that things have turned for the worst.
You may be right that many people look for moral certainty in times when they feel threatened. But allow me to suggest that true wisdom and maturity comes from confronting the uncertainties rather hiding from them. It is similar to the choice Frodo makes: to return to the Shire or undertake the journey. It would be ironic indeed for people to use LOTR to hid from their choices.
While they do not have the nifty captain's chair, they DO have a room where they monitor the key financial data that affects the monetary supply and exchange rates. If they move out of expected and prescribed relations, the Fed can and does take action to adjust the amount of money supply and the rates. One of the Federal Reserve Committee headed by Allen Greenspan, deliberates and set such policies. While they do not have fine control over most aspects of production in the US, what they can DO will affect economies around the world.
Thanks to cheap computing power, just about everyone can have access to the same data at reasonable prices. So many individual players will act to influence the world financial markets. A large number of these markets have balanced demand and supply, but a great many markets also lark the liquidity to 'clear'.
Although Hayek and his followers believes that such decentralized market (we might call they self-organized today) will inevitably reach an optimum solution, the problem is that there is no way to prove this mathematically given realistic assumptions (not to mention the markets which don't clear). In other words, for a nonlinear system, it's easy to get stuck at a local maximum when you optimize locally (analogous to trading on only the latest data).
This is IMHO why the US does not have a true lassez-faire economy. In addition to meeting the political and psychological needs of the population, there also a case for looking for global changes which can globally optimize the narrow goal of production.
Electrical power and landline telephone are categorized as 'natural monopolies' because the costs to run multiple electrical lines or phone lines to each home and each office is prohibitive and very inefficient.
The Cell phone businesses are perfect for competition as the cost of adding antennaes is relatively cheap. One also increases useful bandwidth with more companies.
The roads are entirely public project - private companies are basicaly contractors to the state and federal governments. What a surprise that politics play a role here!
The 3 cases you discuss are entirely different fruits! Any conclusion one can draw in one area cannot be meaningfully applied to the others.
You might be old enough to remember a time when your local utility company ran BOTH the generation portion and the transmission portion of the system. Part of the deregulation regime was precisely to separate the two so that the utility company who sells to you ran mostly the transmission portion and it buys power (in theory) from several generation companies. Remember Co-Generation? This actually caused quite a lot of headache for the utility company as they now have to interface with a variety of hardware NOT under their control.
If we can get away from the politcal grand-standing and free-market ideologies, we might gain some insights by weighting the track record of the impact of deregulation on the whole SYSTEM of power generation and use: the plusses and minuses.
I don't believe such matters have black/white answers. I hope you will have the patience to come to a deeper understanding first.
That's what I'd do with the extra money. See old Slashdot article below.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/180
What about One Piece or Captain Harlock?
How can we talk about Pirate Animes without mentioning these classics?
"Having said that, I usually vote Republican, though I consider myself a moderate... if it weren't for the Democrat's stupid fiscal and monetary policies, I'd vote for them ;-) But, I digress."
Do you mean that big government, big spending liberal policy which ran a huge deficit?
Let's see. We now got a shining new BIG cabinet level Department. We got a little tax cut (for most of us) by issuing a historic high amount of federal debt ( not to mention the state/city debts ).
Horrors.... Could George W be a L____ ?
No problem with risks.
By the time the immortality technology becomes practical, it should be easy to grow several brainless clones for spare body parts.
We'll keep the brain encased in shockproof gels
and than we can go play Rollerball. Wheee!
So you're saying that the entire universe is populated by Pupeteers?
.....
Well, they can still travel by propelling their planet
So you think that a Disorderly Conduct and Unlawful assembly charge warrants a ONE YEAR sentence?
Do you believe that the US WEF protesters were trying to commit sedition?
There is a huge difference between opposing certain policies of a government and attempting to overthrow it. ( A ridiculous possibility in the case of the US ).
You're using the wrong search terms.
I DS
Try this.
http://search.china.com.cn/websearch.exe?word=A
Hope you now feel like the idiot that you are.
Title said it.
The current reality shows have NOTHING on that film. I love the scene with the cow blood + ... pool.
Delicatessen is also very good.
But City of Lost Children definitely more surreal.
Ummm. If your first priority is to keep the troops safe and finish the war quickly, there is ONE PERSON who can make it happen with a snap of his finger. But its' NOT Michael Moore. I suggest you go talk to him first.
If freedom and democarcy are what you value most, let me ask you: did you cheer or jeer when Clinton and Carter tried to make Human Rights a part of US foreign policy.
For an example of how other interests or sheer expediency overrides human rights and self determination of a people in the current administration, just look at the deal the US tried to make with Turkey to the detriment of the Kurds (AGAIN).
Any network that has to advertise: "Real and Unbiased News" ....
It's like any discipline that was the word "Science" is not really a science, i.e. political science, social science...
Ummm. For dispersing biological and chemical agents, a Balloon is much more useful as it'll stay afloat in one area for much longer. So are we going to ban helium and party balloons !
In any case, the effectiveness of Bio/Chem is very doubtful, any mild breeze might compromise it completely.
The problem is that people are ruled by FEAR. Unscrupulous and naive politicians / officials are taking FULL advantage of that.
I choose not to live in fear and deny myself freedoms.
Yes, he supported low rates rental from baby bells on DSL services. However, he wanted to end regulation on line rental rates for VOICE services.
For most people, the lower rates on Voice service is probably more important. DSL is NOT a big part of revenue for the baby bells really.
While not a movie, it has the most relistic portrayal of the software developing process in fiction that I've ever come across. Even though the 3D virtual world interface is somewhat futuristic, the process and concern with crafting a well-architiected system is clearly presented. Of course, it should be no surprise as Rudy Rucker does know something about software!