I can answer this one: : Back in my rock and roll days a girl I lived with, I was a tall blond "party girl" type, y'know, the kind that likes to "play blonde".. and you'd never quite know if she was acting or not. One particularly hot set, one of the folks I was playing with had one of those headstock-less Steinberg guitars , where the tuning pegs are down by the body of the guitar.. She apparently did not notice, or at least claimed not to notice, and after the set, said for all to hear "Wow! The music was so good the top of the guitar fell off!!";-);-);-) The press folks just stared at each other,and so did anyone else with this weird look like I've never seen before.. more than your typical "here we go again".. Nobody's really sure if it was a blonde moment or a remark of pure genius.. as everybody STILL remembers that gig!!
I'm glad someone took the time to give an honest answer to your question.. If, however,those first replies you got made the slightest effort , to look at your/. number they'd have noticed you as one of the most long standing members here and maybe backed off the rudeness.... Good job on such a restrained response from you!
Shame you posted as AC.. "I'd buy you a drink for that excellent link" . Really well written, and easy to understand article.. And absolutely true, unfortunately..
Well, that's why i've said before that the planes should be the real things, outfitted with absolutely identical cockpits , and vibration and audio sensors that reproduce the smallest sensory, audio, and video input to the remote cockpit, in an IDENTICAL manner to how it would be received while in the air. The only things not wanted are the intense G-forces, after all..... The amount spent on these remote cockpits could be vastly higher than spent now, as they would not be lost in battle.. certainly I would have never called these kinds of planes "drones"..
Well, I simply *can't* agree with this doctrine.. Not because criminals don't deserve to get caught, but because , inevitably, it will be used more for political dissidents, as happens EVERY SINGLE TIME!! Now that the US has pretty much abandoned an pretense of moral behavior in it's dealings towards those it accuses of a crime (shoot on sight, kill orders,Indefinite detention without charges, and all 3 are just as applicable to it's own citizens as foreign nationals) , coupled with the fact that now, there is no more any safe harbor for the innocent to shelter on the whole planet, how could *any* right minded persoon really support such a travesty? So OK a few criminals get away if it's not implemented.. isn't that a small price to pay to avoid a global dictatorship?
Unless we jam transmissions so that you can't control your drones in the target area. At that point throwing more drones at the problem isn't going to fix it.
Better tell your Prez then, because "throwing more drones at the problem" is *precisely* what he's been doing over the last 4 years (!)
Well actually, they're *not* planning on getting rid of pilots. Quite the opposite, in fact... it's just that when sitting in a remote cockpit you wouldn't need to eject anymore.. All they have to perfect is secure and stable communications between the fighter and remote cockpit...
That's NOT so nice for the consumer either.. I am abandoning OSX because of this same thing.. 2 years ago my new iMac came with 10.5 on it.. in only 2 years they've already gone through 3 major OS iterations (up to 10.8 already!) , while quietly obsoleting the earlier ones.. On Snow leopard (10.6) I *already* can't run any new applications, as they are all 10.7 minimum.. and I only got 10.6 because a little more than 6 months after I bought my new Mac my OS was already under the minimum requirements for new apps.
I am never ever going to use Apple again, and if M$ follows this blatant copy of Apple's post Jobs "to hell with what the user wants" I will not touch Windows either.. My last experience with linux was tedious to set it up, but it looks like there's nowhere else to go...maybe mint?
Re artists being prosecuted (or at the very least , harassed) by the record label for distributing their own music is more common than you might think.. The old style record contracts often stipulated that the label owns the rights, not the artists.. That's why it was such a big deal for MJ to buy back his own recordings...
A lot of artists are making NO money,. even with an album that did well for them before, because they cannot reissue their albums, as the label owns it and doesn't see enough profit potential to bother..
It's called a "protection racket" "We'll charge you with a crime, but we will take a bribe to back off" Is there NOBODY that can stop this disgraceful behavior?
Every word may be true, but a life sentence is too harsh for anything less than violent asexual assault or premeditated murder. If judges don't make sure the punishment fits the crime fairly, it send a very bad message to society, like countries where the death sentence is proscribed for even minor infractions. Just because the person is an a-hole, that doesn't automatically justify throwing away the key..
And no, it's not the methane from the elephant's farts, although grain eating livestock *are* responsible for a large amount of it.. Rather, it's the seldom discussed methane that's bubbling up from the sea floor, and deep lakes all over the world, in ever increasing amounts. Methane is a *far* more serious problem than CO2, having far more of a greenhouse effect than CO2, even though it (carbon dioxide) is obviously a problem, particularly in the oceans, the fixes exist to lock it up. All the naturally stored methane however (as hydrates), is sufficient to create an extinction level event in a few short years, were it all released.. And, it *is* being released. Notice all the bubbling lakes and ocean lately? All it takes is a few degrees warming to the seas,to start thawing the Methane Hydrates currently frozen at the sea floor.Deep lakes can also have stores of methane in them.. same as permafrost.. I think the media's continual focus on carbon dioxide, to the exclusion of anything else, is doing the world a disservice.
Quite true.. free doesn't mean "free".. By this logic, otherwise, money is free, since you don't have to pay for it.. just trade some (or all;-) of your time for it..
China is absolutely the best example.. I am not entirely sure that there are *any* legit installations there.. Now, what's the current estimate of the population there? And, any fix would not be retroactive.. However, we get the last laugh.. Just imagine billions of Chinese trying to figure out the Win 8 interface;-)
I assume this person is fighting the "mark of the beast" thing that preachers have been spouting.. Unfortunately, by fighting a simple id card, which she could simply have left in her locker at day's end, she'sonly giving the legislators ideas on how to force compliance when the *REAL M.O.T.B.* comes along, injected under the skin, and unremovable without drastic surgery..
In B.C. Canada, where I live, new drivers are *seriously* restricted.. the actual learners phase lasts 3 years , 1 year with simple learner's licence, which means no driving between 12 - 6 am and a passenger with a fully valid licence, and two years restricted "new driver" where you have to slap a big "N" on your car, and be "prohibition free; ticket and violation free; and not have any at-fault collisions" (http://www.ibc.ca/en/Car_Insurance/BC/Graduated_Licensing.asp)..
Screw up and they send you back to the beginning..
Sadly, we still have terrible accidents from young drivers.. three 19 year old women recently died on the highway from driving very fast in the fog and rain.. not pot or drinking, just carelessness..
I think Obama won because of the American press, more even than Sandy.. the press, by the last week, were making Romney out to be a blathering fool.. Most people in America believe the news, unfortunately. Furthermore, there was nerver any mention in the press about Obama's most aggrevious decisions, such as NDAA or the inordinate amount of executive decisions limiting the constitution even more..
Agreed.. I'm wondering , actually, if M$ looked at these worst examples of Apple's recent "user unfriendliness" and thought "wow that's a good idea".
It "didn't take but a few minutes" for Apple to completely destroy everything they used to stand for after Steve passed on..
I think , although I may reluctantly need to install Lion on another drive someday, that that will be the end of my 16 year association with the multicolored fruit.. Looks like it's gonna be penguins from then on...
It's not about the amount of money.. of *course* the amount of the CEO's wage increase wouldn't have bankrupted the company..Rather, it's about a corporate culture that rewards incompetence and a management style that cares not a whit about how bad these decisions appear to the rank and file.. It's like an iceberg.. the small amount of what you see of it (a completely unwarranted wage increase) , is indicative of far more serious mismanagement, and complete lack of trust from those in the trenches, of upper management,.. If the baker's union trusted a single word management had told them, perhaps they would have relented, and the company survived another day..
Where I live, it's easier to find a place that sells record LPs than CDs only.. although usually all the record shops sell CDs, they tend to be new releases, whereas the records are mostly old (60's-70's).. 15 years ago you couldn't find a vinyl shop to save yer ass.. Even cassette tapes are making a comeback, but mostly only as collectibles..
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I can answer this one: : Back in my rock and roll days a girl I lived with, I was a tall blond "party girl" type, y'know, the kind that likes to "play blonde".. and you'd never quite know if she was acting or not. One particularly hot set, one of the folks I was playing with had one of those headstock-less Steinberg guitars , where the tuning pegs are down by the body of the guitar.. She apparently did not notice, or at least claimed not to notice, and after the set, said for all to hear "Wow! The music was so good the top of the guitar fell off!!" ;-) ;-) ;-) The press folks just stared at each other,and so did anyone else with this weird look like I've never seen before.. more than your typical "here we go again".. Nobody's really sure if it was a blonde moment or a remark of pure genius.. as everybody STILL remembers that gig!!
I'm glad someone took the time to give an honest answer to your question.. If, however,those first replies you got made the slightest effort , to look at your /. number they'd have noticed you as one of the most long standing members here and maybe backed off the rudeness.... Good job on such a restrained response from you!
Shame you posted as AC.. "I'd buy you a drink for that excellent link" . Really well written, and easy to understand article.. And absolutely true, unfortunately..
Well, that's why i've said before that the planes should be the real things, outfitted with absolutely identical cockpits , and vibration and audio sensors that reproduce the smallest sensory, audio, and video input to the remote cockpit, in an IDENTICAL manner to how it would be received while in the air. The only things not wanted are the intense G-forces, after all..... The amount spent on these remote cockpits could be vastly higher than spent now, as they would not be lost in battle.. certainly I would have never called these kinds of planes "drones"..
Well, I simply *can't* agree with this doctrine.. Not because criminals don't deserve to get caught, but because , inevitably, it will be used more for political dissidents, as happens EVERY SINGLE TIME!! Now that the US has pretty much abandoned an pretense of moral behavior in it's dealings towards those it accuses of a crime (shoot on sight, kill orders,Indefinite detention without charges, and all 3 are just as applicable to it's own citizens as foreign nationals) , coupled with the fact that now, there is no more any safe harbor for the innocent to shelter on the whole planet, how could *any* right minded persoon really support such a travesty? So OK a few criminals get away if it's not implemented.. isn't that a small price to pay to avoid a global dictatorship?
Unless we jam transmissions so that you can't control your drones in the target area. At that point throwing more drones at the problem isn't going to fix it.
Better tell your Prez then, because "throwing more drones at the problem" is *precisely* what he's been doing over the last 4 years (!)
Well actually, they're *not* planning on getting rid of pilots. Quite the opposite, in fact... it's just that when sitting in a remote cockpit you wouldn't need to eject anymore.. All they have to perfect is secure and stable communications between the fighter and remote cockpit...
I haven't noticed any focus on "user experience" lately with OSX, rather it looks like the focus is "Apple's Experience of Profit"
That's NOT so nice for the consumer either.. I am abandoning OSX because of this same thing.. 2 years ago my new iMac came with 10.5 on it.. in only 2 years they've already gone through 3 major OS iterations (up to 10.8 already!) , while quietly obsoleting the earlier ones.. On Snow leopard (10.6) I *already* can't run any new applications, as they are all 10.7 minimum .. and I only got 10.6 because a little more than 6 months after I bought my new Mac my OS was already under the minimum requirements for new apps.
I am never ever going to use Apple again, and if M$ follows this blatant copy of Apple's post Jobs "to hell with what the user wants" I will not touch Windows either.. My last experience with linux was tedious to set it up, but it looks like there's nowhere else to go...maybe mint?
Re artists being prosecuted (or at the very least , harassed) by the record label for distributing their own music is more common than you might think.. The old style record contracts often stipulated that the label owns the rights, not the artists.. That's why it was such a big deal for MJ to buy back his own recordings... A lot of artists are making NO money,. even with an album that did well for them before, because they cannot reissue their albums, as the label owns it and doesn't see enough profit potential to bother..
It's called a "protection racket" "We'll charge you with a crime, but we will take a bribe to back off" Is there NOBODY that can stop this disgraceful behavior?
Every word may be true, but a life sentence is too harsh for anything less than violent asexual assault or premeditated murder. If judges don't make sure the punishment fits the crime fairly, it send a very bad message to society, like countries where the death sentence is proscribed for even minor infractions. Just because the person is an a-hole, that doesn't automatically justify throwing away the key..
And no, it's not the methane from the elephant's farts, although grain eating livestock *are* responsible for a large amount of it.. Rather, it's the seldom discussed methane that's bubbling up from the sea floor, and deep lakes all over the world, in ever increasing amounts. Methane is a *far* more serious problem than CO2, having far more of a greenhouse effect than CO2, even though it (carbon dioxide) is obviously a problem, particularly in the oceans, the fixes exist to lock it up. All the naturally stored methane however (as hydrates), is sufficient to create an extinction level event in a few short years, were it all released.. And, it *is* being released. Notice all the bubbling lakes and ocean lately? All it takes is a few degrees warming to the seas,to start thawing the Methane Hydrates currently frozen at the sea floor.Deep lakes can also have stores of methane in them.. same as permafrost.. I think the media's continual focus on carbon dioxide, to the exclusion of anything else, is doing the world a disservice.
After all, that's what money does, right? Makes people do things?
Incorrect.. Money ALLOWS people to do things.. given that it's enough, and allowed in the first place.
Quite true.. free doesn't mean "free".. By this logic, otherwise, money is free, since you don't have to pay for it.. just trade some (or all ;-) of your time for it..
China is absolutely the best example .. I am not entirely sure that there are *any* legit installations there.. Now, what's the current estimate of the population there? And, any fix would not be retroactive.. However, we get the last laugh.. Just imagine billions of Chinese trying to figure out the Win 8 interface ;-)
I assume this person is fighting the "mark of the beast" thing that preachers have been spouting.. Unfortunately, by fighting a simple id card, which she could simply have left in her locker at day's end, she'sonly giving the legislators ideas on how to force compliance when the *REAL M.O.T.B.* comes along, injected under the skin, and unremovable without drastic surgery..
In B.C. Canada, where I live, new drivers are *seriously* restricted.. the actual learners phase lasts 3 years , 1 year with simple learner's licence, which means no driving between 12 - 6 am and a passenger with a fully valid licence, and two years restricted "new driver" where you have to slap a big "N" on your car, and be "prohibition free; ticket and violation free; and not have any at-fault collisions" (http://www.ibc.ca/en/Car_Insurance/BC/Graduated_Licensing.asp).. Screw up and they send you back to the beginning.. Sadly, we still have terrible accidents from young drivers.. three 19 year old women recently died on the highway from driving very fast in the fog and rain.. not pot or drinking, just carelessness..
Are you saying that in America you can get a criminal record for littering?
I think Obama won because of the American press, more even than Sandy .. the press, by the last week, were making Romney out to be a blathering fool.. Most people in America believe the news, unfortunately. Furthermore, there was nerver any mention in the press about Obama's most aggrevious decisions, such as NDAA or the inordinate amount of executive decisions limiting the constitution even more..
Yeah.. aneroids.. saw the doctor about that recently actually..
Agreed.. I'm wondering , actually, if M$ looked at these worst examples of Apple's recent "user unfriendliness" and thought "wow that's a good idea". It "didn't take but a few minutes" for Apple to completely destroy everything they used to stand for after Steve passed on ..
I think , although I may reluctantly need to install Lion on another drive someday, that that will be the end of my 16 year association with the multicolored fruit.. Looks like it's gonna be penguins from then on...
It's not about the amount of money.. of *course* the amount of the CEO's wage increase wouldn't have bankrupted the company..Rather, it's about a corporate culture that rewards incompetence and a management style that cares not a whit about how bad these decisions appear to the rank and file.. It's like an iceberg.. the small amount of what you see of it (a completely unwarranted wage increase) , is indicative of far more serious mismanagement, and complete lack of trust from those in the trenches, of upper management,.. If the baker's union trusted a single word management had told them, perhaps they would have relented, and the company survived another day..
The Baker's Union was told that if they continued to strike the company would fail.
Twinkies are baked? Like real food?
Where I live, it's easier to find a place that sells record LPs than CDs only.. although usually all the record shops sell CDs, they tend to be new releases, whereas the records are mostly old (60's-70's).. 15 years ago you couldn't find a vinyl shop to save yer ass.. Even cassette tapes are making a comeback, but mostly only as collectibles..