Where were the repercussions for the offending officer though?
The simple fact is the police can arrest you at anytime if they don't like what your doing, under the guise of being drunk/abusive/offensive etc. It's more hassle than its worth to try and make a complaint and even then it's unlikely any action will be taken (your word against theirs) also police are just people and 'people make mistakes'. So what happens is as a citizen do you stand up and have the inconvinience of spending the night in a cell? no, it ends up being far easier to just do as they say...
Most likely nothing. And that's as it should be. Why? Because he most likely thought that he was in the right. All the police can do is arrest you. Here is the secret though, once you are in jail, you can easily get out through lawyers and the justice system. If you are being "targeted" by your police department, then I'd say contact your local news media, and you'd find some reporters willing to look into it. The number one thing though. Document everything on your end. What has the police got going for them? Radar guns, in-car dash video cameras, radio, other police, and police reports. What can you do? Make it your hobby to video tape your life and entire property as much as possible. If a "domestic violence" offense happens at home and you are recording your home, you'd have your own evidence to counter their verbal recall. Note: Lawyers do call police on everything. I work as the IT guy in a police department, and I've learned that my police hates one judge because he throws out almost all DWI offenses.
Now the sad truth. I live in a state where it's a state law if you don't show up for work for 2-3 days without notice any employer can fire you at will. For poor people or those living pay check to pay check, that could mean easily sliding down in income by lost work. The police can only put you in jail. Never make a fuss and be calm around them. They can't do anything to you unless you throw a fit. The police arresting you isn't even a negative on you, or shouldn't be anyway. It's mainly a notice to the public that the police "did something" and now it's up to the judical branch to determine what the proper course of action is. Note: It's the judical branch that determines if you are guilty of anything and let's citizens out of jail not the cops.
http://www.monolithic.com/. I couldn't afford to build a home though and bought a home that is 25-30 years old. I'm using more energy heating/cooling my home than I should be. Heck, I felt that I was doing good to finally afford to replace all my light builbs to the compact 13 watt bulbs. It's not much, but that's what I can personally afford. Heck, I can't even afford a new car. Part of me is mixed and thinks that the government should buy/recycle all cars after the car is 5-8 years old. Just so we'd be forced into buying newer cleaner energy efficient cars.
I myself support Biodiesal as an alternative fuel... just so much more 'waste' areas could be used. (Even LITERALLY! Human waste could be used)
If you're going to be using poop, it makes much more sense to make butanol, which is made by bacteria, instead of biodiesel, which is made through a cracking process.
You could also run the poop into a pond, and grow algae on it, which would produce both "clean" ("gray") water and the algae. Oceanic algae produces something like 85% of the world's oxygen and is dying off rapidly due to pollution and climate change. Anything that makes more algae is good. The algae can be used to produce oil, for biodiesel, and organic waste, which can be used for fertilizer or processed into butanol. The process also produces methane gas, which can be captured and itself used to produce energy. The water output from the process is clean/safe enough to be used for irrigation.
I've often wondered why their hasn't been atleast a push to move our farming equipment over to either ethanol or biodiesel. I'll say o.k. we are going to throw money at our domestic farmers to farm a crop to run their equipment and very limited transportation industry otherwise. Say trucking companies that make daily stops for the farming industry would be the only trucking company targeted for conversion. If we could get that one segment worked out, the price of international oil shouldn't mess with our domestic farming and food transportation much, which would be a really good thing.
I've been disappointed that Califorinia stopped their zero emmissions vehicles for hybrids. Mainly because I'd think that they'd be the only state that would want to bother with it. No one else seems to have pushed pure electric vehicles lately. I don't think a switch to hydrogen will work. A short term switch to hybrid will work, but still leaves us tied to oil. It would have been nice if electric vehicles were pushed if only to see how they compared with hybrids. We have plenty of energy stocks other than oil, which is one reason why they are pushing hydrogen. The same reasoning could be put forward for electric vehicles though as well.
Large families and boats are both lifestyle choices as well. Choices which it's perfectly valid to criticize.
Well, all choices are open to criticisim from some one. Define "large" family. I've got 2 kids. Is that large? It would be if you were in a country were the government wanted every family to only have one child. I'm one of 3 kids. I typically think 4 children or over is a large family. My grandparents would have considered 6-8 a normal sized family and 9 or more a large sized family. They'd have considered a 2-3 child family dangerously small. Why dangerously small? Why 1-2 of them could die on you and you'd only have 1 left over.
We can critize everything about this hypotical person as well. How dare he potentially privately own a boat! Why he would be able to go on lakes and rivers and disrupt environment! The only ones that should own boats should be the government or highly licensed corporate entities that can properly train their boat pilots how to use the boat without disrupting the natural envirnoment! If this individual should ever need to cross water, then he should pay passage on a ship/boat that is properly licensed. What about private rec. boating/ jet sking/ sailing as life style choices? How dare you even think any of those should be legal! They all polute and disrupt the natural environment.;)
The scary part, I'd say the same people in different places. I understand the red-tape of NASA. It's the mentality that demands that we have zero US deaths in space that caused it. That's why I think we shouldn't even think about manned space flight until just after we figure out nano-tech. Nano-tech would be neat if we could just send a probe to an asteroid and have an orbital hab after 1-2 years of it working to rebuild the asteriod. We could do the same thing without nanotech. If we really figure out robotics, or just remote controlled construction we could do similiar things. We'd need alot more equipment and bandwidth than what we currently have though, but it's do able. I agree NASA can make some good stuff. I'd actually like NASA to be incharge of the entire federal IT backbone after seeing how they test everything. Actually NASA does do alot of good, but and here is the key things, they aren't what NASA should be responsible for. The Feds really need to go over NASA with a fine tooth comb and actually break it down into several functions/organizations and stick those good things in other organizations. Anything educational related should be funded through the department of education rather than NASA. I work for a police department. There are about of half dozen police tech that we'd like to buy that was R&Ded through/with NASA. The money should have come out of department of justice budgets for police spin offs rather than one of the many NASA projects. I really think that we should be monitoring the "weather" on every planet in our solar system. We should be able to do that. I'd actually that be run under NOAA.
It appears that behind the public posturing about sovereignty and national identity, the defense of North America takes priority over everything. Some people will find that fact comforting and others find it alarming.
We are both just afraid of the British coming back! Of course, we were never taking chances with the USSR or anyone else as well.;)
All in all you have to wonder about the wisdom of replacing America's penultimate bunker and command and control facility with an extremely vulnerable office building that could easily be attacked with conventional weapons, a truck bomb or chemical or biological weapons. Cheyenne Mountain was, if nothing else, good for PR and intimidation value.
One question would be where the ABM system is controlled from. If its NORAD, and your worried the ABM system might work, then you take out NORAD first and then open the door for the ICBM's from North Korea.
All in all it just seems like a silly move to make especially after you've just sunk $700 million in to Cheyenne Mountain.
Um, what if they aren't "moving it" to where they say that they are moving to? What if the DOD has version 4 of the internet and is ready for its entire system to go down/be bombed at random points and still keep on ticking? (I don't believe that one, but it would be nice.) Honestly, I tend to think that we need to have monthly cyber warfare drills to test out our entire government systems. I think that the next major war that the US gets in with a first world nation will be an economic/cyberwar rather than straight military war. Will our systems be able to make it through a real cyberwar?
People tend to underestimate the impact of one successful mission. Voyager, Hubble, Apollo and The Mars Rovers have done more for science and education around the world than any congressman.
That's kinda why I think the entire organization of NASA should be replaced with something else. You are happy with one successful mission a decade that spends tons of money doing it! NASA needs to go now. I'd like to get into space alot more than you seem to People tend to underestimate the impact of one successful mission. We've not make any progress since the 1960s it seems like. If it was up do me, I'd have NASA build 52 rockets at min. that they know work and launch a rocket a week. NASA should have been doing that through the 1970s with space probes to every planet setting up a space communciations network. We should have probes monitoring every one of our major plantery bodies and have all the asteriods mapped out through the 1980s. Heck, NASA should be responsible for tracking every object that could hit Earth from within our solar system rather than spending time on projects like SETI and looking at really deep space. I'm for practical space travel and exploration now rather than spending NASA's budget on long term star gazing. Note: to star buffs, I think star gazing is neat and should be funded, but it should be a tiny fraction of NASAs budget. Heck, once we really start going into space "star gazing" will get alot of money pumped into it just so we'd know where to go and mine/setup shop. You are happy with the big news of "one" success a decade almost. I'm not. I'm pissed at it.
It worked. Now our actions around the world more than support the funding of our defense contractors. Time to stop wasting money on the space station and put NASA's budget doing what it does best.
Sounds like they are doing that if the are taking away the money from the space assets that NASA doesn't do well to science museums, planetariums and science labs for colleges and Computers, classrooms and lab space for colleges and schools across the U.S, and a website and laboratory for the Gulf of Maine Aquarium that NASA has a shot at doing well at. I'm sorry, other than those "spin off" techs, I've hated NASA with a passion since getting out of highschool and actually learning about the organization rather than their PR. I read sci-fi and know what space could be. All this talk off running out of oil is funny because we have damn near unlimited energy/space/resources just above our heads. It's expensive for us to get to it though. I blame NASA for sitting on their butts since the 1960s. I could care less about a dozen men walking on the moon for the science or 6 freaking scientists floating around doing little expertiments. We should have had a space station housing 500-5,000 personnel back in the early 1970s. I blame NASA and freaking JFK for "racing" to the moon instead of building a proper space industry. I'd like almost all of NASA's budget to be cut and redirected. Heck give it all to DARPA atleast they give us results.
Personally, I think this thing is going to be a tremendous blessing. When a relative calls me still using Windows (I've been trying to push them all to Mac), and says "My god, I deleted this crumb cake recipe! I'm doomed!" I'll be able to get it back after a couple clicks. Sounds great to me.
I think that MS is missing a few other backup features though. They need to apply this same concept to all office products and actively save everything that you've been working on even if you didn't actually make a file of it. Why? Because autosave isn't good enough. It's a step in the right direction, but I've had people open up documents change things and then close the document without saving and they want me to recover the document! It would be really nice if MS made sure to store all that active working copy that most people just close out and never think about. Is it a privacy concern? Yeap. It would make my life alot easier knowing that "everything" is actually being saved somewhere and that I can find it if needed. Come on with these 150-200 GB hard drives for business use, there is plenty of space to "save" everything that you've actively been using. The only thing that really eats up file space is video. I've had one user that used up around 6.5 GB with audio, but that would still live plenty of space for your usual excel and word docs to be saved to.
The provided light for the whole hut at night. I am not joking, when asking for feed back from the parents of children who were testing the idea, the parents said they thought it was great because it was by far the brightest light they had at night.
I simply cannot fathom a purpose for 8 cores for any "desktop" application that isn't in the "workstation" class. Dynamic AI spyware killer/removers, AI anti-virus programs that take viruses personally, Vista with service pack 1 or 2, real-time hi-def video editing, ripping/encoding the next Hi Def standard DVD replacement format, MS home security where 4-16 webcams encode video feeds to your 1-2 TB HD, damn near photo-realistic gaming and physics modeling, or an running a new app that "fixes" programs with memory leaks.
"Our entire communications infrastructure is a disgrace."
You're saying this maybe 12 years into the mainstream internet boom. In 12 years we've gone from Dial-up to broadband for almost everyone in America and that's a huge achievment.
Um, no it wasn't. Why? Because what you consider "broadband" is barely a step up from dail-up. DSL is good now, but it is only slightly better than POTS. Most folks started getting "broadband" through cable modems. It was just using cable as a data pipe. Um, that wasn't a big achievement in my book. An achievement yes, big no.
If you kill the earth, humans die too. That's kinda the point.
Um, I like fiction with the Gaia living earth concept every now and then. I don't believe that our Earth is an intellient sentient entity. What I want isn't to kill off the entire freaking ecosystem. I want to kill of the sentient spirital Gaia element that creates monsters. Call creating monsters, the planet's method of antibodies. Oh, I've got an idea. An FF game where the humans are the 3-4 generation of colonists from space and the Gaia planet is just starting to react to the humans on the world by creating monsters to remove them. The humans are terraforming the Gaia world to be more habitable and do have a nice high tech civilization, but are basically cut off for generations at a time so can't just leave.
I hated the story in FFX, but it was an excellent game besides the story or the characters of Wakka, Yuna, or Tidus. I found FFX fun inspite of the story not because of it. I'd almost say the same thing about KH2. I love playing KH2 and the actual game playing excellent, but the story isn't something that I really cared about.
I'd like to see Square make a game that wasn't a super environmentalist the world will end because the life blood of the planet is running out because of our single evil corporation/empire. I've been kinda of sick of that plot thread for awhile. I'd actually like to see the reverse that the evil Mana/heart of the world is flourishing creating monsters and its your group's task to stop/kill off the evil heart of the world so that humans can continue to live peacefully in a hightech civilization.
Not that he was a major character, but Tim Choate also passed away a few years ago. Luckily he's survived by his brothers Zathras, Zathras, Zathras, and Zathras.
But he was my favorite part time character! He was just so funny.
I'd be interested if they made a new B5 series that has another 5 season arch, and they were sold straight to DVD for $45-$60 a season. I'd like someone to try it. I think B5 could prove the concept workable.
"Daddy, will you buy me a membership to this website! It's only $2.99 for three days!"
Valacosa to congress: children are not the "target audience" for pornography!
This has got to be the funniest thing that I've read today. If my boy was really interested in it, then he should be able to find my storage directory that has gigs of that type of data. My son shouldn't have to search the internet for what is already on the local computer!
Say what you may about the French, but when they do big infrastructural projects, they tend to get it right; TGV, Nuclear power, Millau Viaduct, etc.
Hey, atleast we bet them building that canal! Of course that's mainly because of some inventions to kill off the bugs that where killing lots of workers that we were able to do it. But it doesn't matter, we once built really big things. We also have a few big dams. Um, most of which were built along time ago. Um we've sent a man to the moon. Um, almost 50 years ago. Quick guys, I need help what big project have we built on a national scale that the US can point to and be proud of within the last 5-10 years? I'm coming up with a blank myself.
I think some sort of boost is needed, but I'm not sure what. Obviously, the market is providing enough incentive to innovate and expand services.
Um, no. The phone companies are happy soaking us for what we little bandwidth they'll sell you. I want a $15-20 a month bill that pays for Gigabit speeds up and down. I want to be able to watch IP TV and use IP telephones instead of the piece of crap system that we currently have. We should have not just full video conferencing now, but we should have hi-def video conferencing anywhere in the US by now. Our entire communications infrastructure is a disgrace.
You mean when you don't devote all the country's resources to war, you can actually spend money on developing infrastructure at home and abroad that improves the lives of citizens?!?? AMAAAAAZING!!
Um, no. We actually spent the money to have "hispeed" like 45 MBps to all of the US through tax cuts and deregulation of the Baby Bells during the Clinton/Gore era. Those that have paid for telephone services from I think it was around 1993-current have been basically given their phone companies more profit rather than government taxes and a regulated phone industry. It was a massive bait and switch, they promised something like this French system, and after the Feds gave the Bells their carrot, the Bells gave the Feds a stick and said we can't/won't roll out/upgrade fiber to the door and will instead offer DSL. From what I've since, DSL is ok for those who can get it. The Feds were promised more than 30 times the speed of DSL though both up and down stream to us. This is something that should have been built during our 1997-2000 the internet is the wave of the future time. The Bells have screwed us. I'd actually love for the Feds to fine each one of the billions in back taxes with interest for not providing services to us and then regulating the phone industry to bring it up to spec.
However, I hope that they keep the currency version around for a long time. To a kid, having large wads of paper in front of yourself to show off and rub the fact that you're winning in the other players' faces. If everyone has the same boring card, that just makes things even, now doesn't it?
As a parent, I love this idea. Now they just need to get rid of all those houses/apartments. The kids version has lemonade stands, but that's still far to many pieces. Heck, I won't be happy until we have holographic gameboards that you just fold out and it does all the behind the scenes book keeping itself to allow the players to have fun and not bother with all the math and potential cheating problems.
Now if you are a Democrat voting to split means giving away electoral votes while voting the other way means you get to effectively sieze the votes of the outnumbered Republicans and vote em the 'right' way. Which way to you see some Act Up freak in Frisco voting? Uh huh, exactly.
And this is basically why the smaller states don't want to go by the popular vote. The larger states could afford to split their votes. The smaller states really need to have all our votes go together for our entire state to matter vs a large state.
What's interesting is that the people demanding a change in the method used to count the vote is almost always the folks from heavily populated areas. i.e. The exact people the electoral college was setup to protect against. The concern is that these people have little understanding of other areas, and would do insurmountable damage to the rest of the nation. Considering that our food production as well as many forms of research and manufacturing are handled in rural areas, failing to represent them could be disasterous.
I've got an idea. I like the present system myself. For those that want their states to split their vote by their popular vote, then they need a field on their election form to choose if the state votes in the classic manner or will split their electoral votes by the popular vote. This would keep balance. All those reformers in the large states can have their electoral votes split up. The small states could choose each election to vote in the classic manner or popularly. I'd predict the larger states would split their votes while the small states would vote in the classic manner. The future presidents would all be determined by the small states and not the large states if that happened. Of course the wild card would be if a large state choose to vote in the classic manner rather than popularly. I think this simple concept could be added and those of us that like the classic manner can vote to use that means of voting our states electors each race.
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Where were the repercussions for the offending officer though?
The simple fact is the police can arrest you at anytime if they don't like what your doing, under the guise of being drunk/abusive/offensive etc. It's more hassle than its worth to try and make a complaint and even then it's unlikely any action will be taken (your word against theirs) also police are just people and 'people make mistakes'. So what happens is as a citizen do you stand up and have the inconvinience of spending the night in a cell? no, it ends up being far easier to just do as they say...
Most likely nothing. And that's as it should be. Why? Because he most likely thought that he was in the right. All the police can do is arrest you. Here is the secret though, once you are in jail, you can easily get out through lawyers and the justice system. If you are being "targeted" by your police department, then I'd say contact your local news media, and you'd find some reporters willing to look into it. The number one thing though. Document everything on your end. What has the police got going for them? Radar guns, in-car dash video cameras, radio, other police, and police reports. What can you do? Make it your hobby to video tape your life and entire property as much as possible. If a "domestic violence" offense happens at home and you are recording your home, you'd have your own evidence to counter their verbal recall. Note: Lawyers do call police on everything. I work as the IT guy in a police department, and I've learned that my police hates one judge because he throws out almost all DWI offenses.
Now the sad truth. I live in a state where it's a state law if you don't show up for work for 2-3 days without notice any employer can fire you at will. For poor people or those living pay check to pay check, that could mean easily sliding down in income by lost work. The police can only put you in jail. Never make a fuss and be calm around them. They can't do anything to you unless you throw a fit. The police arresting you isn't even a negative on you, or shouldn't be anyway. It's mainly a notice to the public that the police "did something" and now it's up to the judical branch to determine what the proper course of action is. Note: It's the judical branch that determines if you are guilty of anything and let's citizens out of jail not the cops.
http://www.monolithic.com/. I couldn't afford to build a home though and bought a home that is 25-30 years old. I'm using more energy heating/cooling my home than I should be. Heck, I felt that I was doing good to finally afford to replace all my light builbs to the compact 13 watt bulbs. It's not much, but that's what I can personally afford. Heck, I can't even afford a new car. Part of me is mixed and thinks that the government should buy/recycle all cars after the car is 5-8 years old. Just so we'd be forced into buying newer cleaner energy efficient cars.
I myself support Biodiesal as an alternative fuel ...
just so much more 'waste' areas could be used. (Even LITERALLY! Human waste could be used)
If you're going to be using poop, it makes much more sense to make butanol, which is made by bacteria, instead of biodiesel, which is made through a cracking process.
You could also run the poop into a pond, and grow algae on it, which would produce both "clean" ("gray") water and the algae. Oceanic algae produces something like 85% of the world's oxygen and is dying off rapidly due to pollution and climate change. Anything that makes more algae is good. The algae can be used to produce oil, for biodiesel, and organic waste, which can be used for fertilizer or processed into butanol. The process also produces methane gas, which can be captured and itself used to produce energy. The water output from the process is clean/safe enough to be used for irrigation.
I've often wondered why their hasn't been atleast a push to move our farming equipment over to either ethanol or biodiesel. I'll say o.k. we are going to throw money at our domestic farmers to farm a crop to run their equipment and very limited transportation industry otherwise. Say trucking companies that make daily stops for the farming industry would be the only trucking company targeted for conversion. If we could get that one segment worked out, the price of international oil shouldn't mess with our domestic farming and food transportation much, which would be a really good thing.
I've been disappointed that Califorinia stopped their zero emmissions vehicles for hybrids. Mainly because I'd think that they'd be the only state that would want to bother with it. No one else seems to have pushed pure electric vehicles lately. I don't think a switch to hydrogen will work. A short term switch to hybrid will work, but still leaves us tied to oil. It would have been nice if electric vehicles were pushed if only to see how they compared with hybrids. We have plenty of energy stocks other than oil, which is one reason why they are pushing hydrogen. The same reasoning could be put forward for electric vehicles though as well.
Large families and boats are both lifestyle choices as well. Choices which it's perfectly valid to criticize.
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Well, all choices are open to criticisim from some one. Define "large" family. I've got 2 kids. Is that large? It would be if you were in a country were the government wanted every family to only have one child. I'm one of 3 kids. I typically think 4 children or over is a large family. My grandparents would have considered 6-8 a normal sized family and 9 or more a large sized family. They'd have considered a 2-3 child family dangerously small. Why dangerously small? Why 1-2 of them could die on you and you'd only have 1 left over.
We can critize everything about this hypotical person as well. How dare he potentially privately own a boat! Why he would be able to go on lakes and rivers and disrupt environment! The only ones that should own boats should be the government or highly licensed corporate entities that can properly train their boat pilots how to use the boat without disrupting the natural envirnoment! If this individual should ever need to cross water, then he should pay passage on a ship/boat that is properly licensed. What about private rec. boating/ jet sking/ sailing as life style choices? How dare you even think any of those should be legal! They all polute and disrupt the natural environment.
Come on we can critize anything.
Who is going to replace NASA?
The scary part, I'd say the same people in different places. I understand the red-tape of NASA. It's the mentality that demands that we have zero US deaths in space that caused it. That's why I think we shouldn't even think about manned space flight until just after we figure out nano-tech. Nano-tech would be neat if we could just send a probe to an asteroid and have an orbital hab after 1-2 years of it working to rebuild the asteriod. We could do the same thing without nanotech. If we really figure out robotics, or just remote controlled construction we could do similiar things. We'd need alot more equipment and bandwidth than what we currently have though, but it's do able. I agree NASA can make some good stuff. I'd actually like NASA to be incharge of the entire federal IT backbone after seeing how they test everything. Actually NASA does do alot of good, but and here is the key things, they aren't what NASA should be responsible for. The Feds really need to go over NASA with a fine tooth comb and actually break it down into several functions/organizations and stick those good things in other organizations. Anything educational related should be funded through the department of education rather than NASA. I work for a police department. There are about of half dozen police tech that we'd like to buy that was R&Ded through/with NASA. The money should have come out of department of justice budgets for police spin offs rather than one of the many NASA projects. I really think that we should be monitoring the "weather" on every planet in our solar system. We should be able to do that. I'd actually that be run under NOAA.
The Cheyenne Mountain complex was never secret. They didn't use security through obscurity, they used security by freaking mountain shield.
Maybe one of those blue sky DARPA DOD projects has allowed them to upgrade to big freaking force shield.
It appears that behind the public posturing about sovereignty and national identity, the defense of North America takes priority over everything. Some people will find that fact comforting and others find it alarming.
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We are both just afraid of the British coming back! Of course, we were never taking chances with the USSR or anyone else as well.
All in all you have to wonder about the wisdom of replacing America's penultimate bunker and command and control facility with an extremely vulnerable office building that could easily be attacked with conventional weapons, a truck bomb or chemical or biological weapons. Cheyenne Mountain was, if nothing else, good for PR and intimidation value.
One question would be where the ABM system is controlled from. If its NORAD, and your worried the ABM system might work, then you take out NORAD first and then open the door for the ICBM's from North Korea.
All in all it just seems like a silly move to make especially after you've just sunk $700 million in to Cheyenne Mountain.
Um, what if they aren't "moving it" to where they say that they are moving to? What if the DOD has version 4 of the internet and is ready for its entire system to go down/be bombed at random points and still keep on ticking? (I don't believe that one, but it would be nice.) Honestly, I tend to think that we need to have monthly cyber warfare drills to test out our entire government systems. I think that the next major war that the US gets in with a first world nation will be an economic/cyberwar rather than straight military war. Will our systems be able to make it through a real cyberwar?
Let's put it up for auction! This would be a really cool geek house. It would be even better than living in an old missile silo!
That's all we need is for eveyone here to be mad at Bill Gates for being able to afford buying and remodeling it.
People tend to underestimate the impact of one successful mission. Voyager, Hubble, Apollo and The Mars Rovers have done more for
science and education around the world than any congressman.
That's kinda why I think the entire organization of NASA should be replaced with something else. You are happy with one successful mission a decade that spends tons of money doing it! NASA needs to go now. I'd like to get into space alot more than you seem to
People tend to underestimate the impact of one successful mission. We've not make any progress since the 1960s it seems like. If it was up do me, I'd have NASA build 52 rockets at min. that they know work and launch a rocket a week. NASA should have been doing that through the 1970s with space probes to every planet setting up a space communciations network. We should have probes monitoring every one of our major plantery bodies and have all the asteriods mapped out through the 1980s. Heck, NASA should be responsible for tracking every object that could hit Earth from within our solar system rather than spending time on projects like SETI and looking at really deep space. I'm for practical space travel and exploration now rather than spending NASA's budget on long term star gazing. Note: to star buffs, I think star gazing is neat and should be funded, but it should be a tiny fraction of NASAs budget. Heck, once we really start going into space "star gazing" will get alot of money pumped into it just so we'd know where to go and mine/setup shop. You are happy with the big news of "one" success a decade almost. I'm not. I'm pissed at it.
It worked. Now our actions around the world more than support the funding of our defense contractors. Time to stop wasting money on the space station and put NASA's budget doing what it does best.
Sounds like they are doing that if the are taking away the money from the space assets that NASA doesn't do well to science museums, planetariums and science labs for colleges and Computers, classrooms and lab space for colleges and schools across the U.S, and a website and laboratory for the Gulf of Maine Aquarium that NASA has a shot at doing well at. I'm sorry, other than those "spin off" techs, I've hated NASA with a passion since getting out of highschool and actually learning about the organization rather than their PR. I read sci-fi and know what space could be. All this talk off running out of oil is funny because we have damn near unlimited energy/space/resources just above our heads. It's expensive for us to get to it though. I blame NASA for sitting on their butts since the 1960s. I could care less about a dozen men walking on the moon for the science or 6 freaking scientists floating around doing little expertiments. We should have had a space station housing 500-5,000 personnel back in the early 1970s. I blame NASA and freaking JFK for "racing" to the moon instead of building a proper space industry. I'd like almost all of NASA's budget to be cut and redirected. Heck give it all to DARPA atleast they give us results.
Personally, I think this thing is going to be a tremendous blessing. When a relative calls me still using Windows (I've been trying to push them all to Mac), and says "My god, I deleted this crumb cake recipe! I'm doomed!" I'll be able to get it back after a couple clicks. Sounds great to me.
I think that MS is missing a few other backup features though. They need to apply this same concept to all office products and actively save everything that you've been working on even if you didn't actually make a file of it. Why? Because autosave isn't good enough. It's a step in the right direction, but I've had people open up documents change things and then close the document without saving and they want me to recover the document! It would be really nice if MS made sure to store all that active working copy that most people just close out and never think about. Is it a privacy concern? Yeap. It would make my life alot easier knowing that "everything" is actually being saved somewhere and that I can find it if needed. Come on with these 150-200 GB hard drives for business use, there is plenty of space to "save" everything that you've actively been using. The only thing that really eats up file space is video. I've had one user that used up around 6.5 GB with audio, but that would still live plenty of space for your usual excel and word docs to be saved to.
The provided light for the whole hut at night. I am not joking, when asking for feed back from the parents of children who were testing the idea, the parents said they thought it was great because it was by far the brightest light they had at night.
Go study kids, I need the light!
I simply cannot fathom a purpose for 8 cores for any "desktop" application that isn't in the "workstation" class.
Dynamic AI spyware killer/removers, AI anti-virus programs that take viruses personally, Vista with service pack 1 or 2, real-time hi-def video editing, ripping/encoding the next Hi Def standard DVD replacement format, MS home security where 4-16 webcams encode video feeds to your 1-2 TB HD, damn near photo-realistic gaming and physics modeling, or an running a new app that "fixes" programs with memory leaks.
"Our entire communications infrastructure is a disgrace."
You're saying this maybe 12 years into the mainstream internet boom. In 12 years we've gone from Dial-up to broadband for almost everyone in America and that's a huge achievment.
Um, no it wasn't. Why? Because what you consider "broadband" is barely a step up from dail-up. DSL is good now, but it is only slightly better than POTS. Most folks started getting "broadband" through cable modems. It was just using cable as a data pipe. Um, that wasn't a big achievement in my book. An achievement yes, big no.
If you kill the earth, humans die too. That's kinda the point.
Um, I like fiction with the Gaia living earth concept every now and then. I don't believe that our Earth is an intellient sentient entity. What I want isn't to kill off the entire freaking ecosystem. I want to kill of the sentient spirital Gaia element that creates monsters. Call creating monsters, the planet's method of antibodies. Oh, I've got an idea. An FF game where the humans are the 3-4 generation of colonists from space and the Gaia planet is just starting to react to the humans on the world by creating monsters to remove them. The humans are terraforming the Gaia world to be more habitable and do have a nice high tech civilization, but are basically cut off for generations at a time so can't just leave.
I hated the story in FFX, but it was an excellent game besides the story or the characters of Wakka, Yuna, or Tidus. I found FFX fun inspite of the story not because of it. I'd almost say the same thing about KH2. I love playing KH2 and the actual game playing excellent, but the story isn't something that I really cared about.
I'd like to see Square make a game that wasn't a super environmentalist the world will end because the life blood of the planet is running out because of our single evil corporation/empire. I've been kinda of sick of that plot thread for awhile. I'd actually like to see the reverse that the evil Mana/heart of the world is flourishing creating monsters and its your group's task to stop/kill off the evil heart of the world so that humans can continue to live peacefully in a hightech civilization.
Not that he was a major character, but Tim Choate also passed away a few years ago. Luckily he's survived by his brothers Zathras, Zathras, Zathras, and Zathras.
But he was my favorite part time character! He was just so funny.
I'd be interested if they made a new B5 series that has another 5 season arch, and they were sold straight to DVD for $45-$60 a season. I'd like someone to try it. I think B5 could prove the concept workable.
"Daddy, will you buy me a membership to this website! It's only $2.99 for three days!"
Valacosa to congress: children are not the "target audience" for pornography!
This has got to be the funniest thing that I've read today. If my boy was really interested in it, then he should be able to find my storage directory that has gigs of that type of data. My son shouldn't have to search the internet for what is already on the local computer!
Say what you may about the French, but when they do big infrastructural projects, they tend to get it right; TGV, Nuclear power, Millau Viaduct, etc.
Hey, atleast we bet them building that canal! Of course that's mainly because of some inventions to kill off the bugs that where killing lots of workers that we were able to do it. But it doesn't matter, we once built really big things. We also have a few big dams. Um, most of which were built along time ago. Um we've sent a man to the moon. Um, almost 50 years ago. Quick guys, I need help what big project have we built on a national scale that the US can point to and be proud of within the last 5-10 years? I'm coming up with a blank myself.
I think some sort of boost is needed, but I'm not sure what. Obviously, the market is providing enough incentive to innovate and expand services.
Um, no. The phone companies are happy soaking us for what we little bandwidth they'll sell you. I want a $15-20 a month bill that pays for Gigabit speeds up and down. I want to be able to watch IP TV and use IP telephones instead of the piece of crap system that we currently have. We should have not just full video conferencing now, but we should have hi-def video conferencing anywhere in the US by now. Our entire communications infrastructure is a disgrace.
You mean when you don't devote all the country's resources to war, you can actually spend money on developing infrastructure at home and abroad that improves the lives of citizens?!?? AMAAAAAZING!!
Um, no. We actually spent the money to have "hispeed" like 45 MBps to all of the US through tax cuts and deregulation of the Baby Bells during the Clinton/Gore era. Those that have paid for telephone services from I think it was around 1993-current have been basically given their phone companies more profit rather than government taxes and a regulated phone industry. It was a massive bait and switch, they promised something like this French system, and after the Feds gave the Bells their carrot, the Bells gave the Feds a stick and said we can't/won't roll out/upgrade fiber to the door and will instead offer DSL. From what I've since, DSL is ok for those who can get it. The Feds were promised more than 30 times the speed of DSL though both up and down stream to us. This is something that should have been built during our 1997-2000 the internet is the wave of the future time. The Bells have screwed us. I'd actually love for the Feds to fine each one of the billions in back taxes with interest for not providing services to us and then regulating the phone industry to bring it up to spec.
However, I hope that they keep the currency version around for a long time. To a kid, having large wads of paper in front of yourself to show off and rub the fact that you're winning in the other players' faces. If everyone has the same boring card, that just makes things even, now doesn't it?
As a parent, I love this idea. Now they just need to get rid of all those houses/apartments. The kids version has lemonade stands, but that's still far to many pieces. Heck, I won't be happy until we have holographic gameboards that you just fold out and it does all the behind the scenes book keeping itself to allow the players to have fun and not bother with all the math and potential cheating problems.
Now if you are a Democrat voting to split means giving away electoral votes while voting the other way means you get to effectively sieze the votes of the outnumbered Republicans and vote em the 'right' way. Which way to you see some Act Up freak in Frisco voting? Uh huh, exactly.
And this is basically why the smaller states don't want to go by the popular vote. The larger states could afford to split their votes. The smaller states really need to have all our votes go together for our entire state to matter vs a large state.
What's interesting is that the people demanding a change in the method used to count the vote is almost always the folks from heavily populated areas. i.e. The exact people the electoral college was setup to protect against. The concern is that these people have little understanding of other areas, and would do insurmountable damage to the rest of the nation. Considering that our food production as well as many forms of research and manufacturing are handled in rural areas, failing to represent them could be disasterous.
I've got an idea. I like the present system myself. For those that want their states to split their vote by their popular vote, then they need a field on their election form to choose if the state votes in the classic manner or will split their electoral votes by the popular vote. This would keep balance. All those reformers in the large states can have their electoral votes split up. The small states could choose each election to vote in the classic manner or popularly. I'd predict the larger states would split their votes while the small states would vote in the classic manner. The future presidents would all be determined by the small states and not the large states if that happened. Of course the wild card would be if a large state choose to vote in the classic manner rather than popularly. I think this simple concept could be added and those of us that like the classic manner can vote to use that means of voting our states electors each race.