Drivers have always been an issue with Linux as PC users have gotten spoiled with Windows driver support. Today's user wants to grab just about anything and not worry about installing it and making it work.
Just about anything works plug and play with Windows? Great, then this HFS format drive should mount jusssst fine under XP... right?
Most of my reading time is spent maintain skills, or learning new ones, so I don't get to read outside of carreer material as much as I used to. I've seen more pages of "Oracle 9i on Linux and Unix" or one of many "HP OpenView Solutions" guides than anything else recently.
The rest of my down time is spent being daddy. So I do get to re-read some of my favorite kid's books with my daughter. But when I do get the time... =) I suspect my reading list will explain some of my Slashdot posts.
I'm presently reading The Physics of Immortality, by Frank Tipler.
On my list (which is my bookshelf, chock full of things I've not had the time to read):
-The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene) -On Being Black: Essays In Honor of W. E. B. DuBois -Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston) -Through A Glass, Darkly (Jostein Gaarder) -Nation of Rebels : Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture (Joseph Heath, Andrew Potter)
Things I've recently read or re-read:
-V for Vendetta (Alan Moore) -The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy At Home And Abroad (Fareed Zakaria) -Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (Bob Woodard)
I can second this, although last year I actually didn't enter zero =). To be honest, the Ohio Use tax has only been pushed since 2001/2002 (least that's the first time I remember seeing it). Here it's commonly referred to as the "internet tax". The problem I've had with it is regarding perishable items, as here in the state you arent required to pay tax on perishables, yet say you order from out of state, they expect it noted?
I suspect they will eventually start zeroing in on this as Michigan has, considering the budget cuts going on here...
Kyoto isn't as simple as "Let's stop polluting, and redo our entire infrastructure." There's other considerations regarding the treaty as well, that most people don't hear about (There was a good deal on NPR about it this morn).
When people think about the cost of beginning down this road, they look at the economic pain versus the reward. Well, there's a reason they say you have to spend money to make money. With Kyoto, you *could* be making money on top of spending it and coming out. For instance, emissions trading(and this was outlined on NPR this morning, and for the life of me, I dont understand WHY it doesn't get more play).
What is emissions trading?
Emissions trading works by allowing countries to buy and sell their agreed allowances of greenhouse gas emissions.
Highly polluting countries can buy unused "credits" from those which are allowed to emit more than they actually do.
After much difficult negotiation, countries are now also able to gain credits for activities which boost the environment's capacity to absorb carbon.
These include tree planting and soil conservation, and can be carried out in the country itself, or by that country working in a developing country.
By investing in the infrastructure of developing nations (building plants, utilizing other technologies in India, China and the like) and "helping" them along the path of better energy management and minimizing environmental impact, rich nations can take advantage of this in a big way and lessen the economic hit, WHILE improving thier own infrastructure. Eventually we're gonna have to get on board, would you want to get on board once all the good opportunities to take advantage of this are gone?
It's been argued that what we do best here in the US is innovate; the key then becomes ratifying the treaty and investing more in R and D and technologies that will maximize our energy usage and minimize environmental impact. If it means we pay a little more, so be it. It also requires forward leaning leadership to do this; there's going to be more than one energy lobby group screaming about it. That's is the piece we're missing in the US to make this happen.
For those that are "security minded", taking advantage of Kyoto now over the next 15 years will do more for US national and economic security than any projection of force or diplomatic posturing.
No, but you can be sued for breaking one. It isn't as though the information being revealed showed Apple violated some law, which in spite of a NDA, authorities may want to know. If that were the case, of course the first amendment would apply.
In this case, although I'd hope that Apple would realize that they benefit from this type of interest ('reporting) in the platform, Apple is fully within thier rights. But I will say, with such rumor sites to see what's coming down the pipe, I might have left the Mac platform to the wind.
Well last night was a make-up. The guy had what (Ray Charles) won three Grammys in a 50 plus year career? What better time to make up for it than this year... when it looks like his bio pic could win best Oscar. Maybe the next fella won't have to get a movie deal and expire to get respect.
I dont mind that the major awards shows do this (You can't tell me to this day that Al Pacino "deserved" an Oscar for Scent of a Woman), it's when they choose to do it that irks. At times they choose to reward when a truly deserving or powerful film/performance is up as well. So you know what gets shafted. case in point: This year I think it will be Hotel Rwanda.
I'm very happy for Ms Schneider's good fortune; her Grammy probably was voted for by people who actually heard her music and knew how exceptional it was..versus the at large catagories and normal areas where they play favorites...
Er, and i say this as a DIE HARD Mac user... Ease up on that word "dominance" when three of the top games of the last year have yet to show up on Macs. Two (HL2 and Rome: Total War) sure as hell won't, and Doom 3... what... next year? It pains me to have to boot up the 2.4 Ghz Athlon XP box to play em' but hey, I like my games, and for me, Console games just dont cut it. I can't see playing say... a Baldur's gate derivative on a console. Just feels wrong.
It's been like that for awhile, and will continue to be like that as long as the installed base is of a different flavor than Mac/MacOS X... It's going to take market demand for that, and no matter how many ppl (myself included) stampede out and buy Mac-Minis; until Apple's mid-range hardware is competitively featured (more vid card choices?) and priced and more developers write games not to Direct X... this outlook kinda looks like a pipe dream. no offense, my friend.
"People might wonder if it's scary to use HIV as a therapy," said Irving Chen, who led the UCLA team. "But in actuality we have completely removed 80 percent of the virus. So really it's just a carrier."
It' would be just our luck that in the remaining 20 percent lurks HIV"s ability to mutate and unleash some other horror. But hey, I guess turning one "enemy" of mankind against another enemy. I guess the guys working on this know the risks... so hey.
I hope this holds significant promise, but considering this on the heels of the resistant HIV strain discovered/found in New York recently, it's just not the right time for PR spin on virii...
I've seen that here in North America, to an extent.. While visiting my girlfriend in Toronto, I'd take in the occaisional Net cafe' at about noon. Soon as I arrive, there's 50 kids either dodging school or on lunchbreak in the cafe.
I guess here in North America, it's a community standards thing. In a "closed society, maybe it's a tad bit more serious. Regardless, the kids should be 'getting their lesson' versus surfing, chatting or playing. That makes closure or denial to those underaged during certain hours in itself isn't a bad idea.
The problem (if you want to call it that, i'm sensitive to what side of the argument on, and not really interested in an argument on 'freedom vs. free-dumb') comes with the shuttering of these access spots. For a country trying this commu-capitalism thing, it's it's yet another "fit" for the infrequent "starts". But the Chinese seem to have learned well from the breakup of the Soviet Union and are determined not to meet that fate...
I'm not a huge MMORG gaming fan; probably due to the number of MMORG's aren't geared toward what i would play. After a while.. Asheron's Call, Everquest.. World of Warcraft, Planetside... Sims Online... all kind of blend together. Most seem like absolute fantasy, which I'm into but not to where I feel the need to create virtual lives..
Now something politically oriented, nation building, projecting military and diplomatic power...
I remember there was one I'd be interested in like that... called Sovereign... but it got shelved.
Thinking about it scientifically, along with the terrible loss of life in this event is incredible.
To me, this is a huge reminder that the planet in itself is capable of incalculable (in terms of lives affected) violence. And also that there will be in due time, something comparable. Or worse.
And to think about the squabbles we have, our territorial ambitions, our day to day lives, it really means nothing in the face of these kinds of forces.
I don't understand what can be gleaned from the logs... other then x.x.x.x/xx downloaded (whatever).torrent.
The torrent file itself is not the copyrighted material, therefore, is possessing a torrent file in itself illegal? I can see if you were in the process of sharing BITS of a copyrighted material, and one of the other participants was legal representation of the MPAA, But possesion of a file that is NOT the work in question, simply a pointer to that file and a checksum for the copywritten work...that's a long jump.
I know this is a poor analogy but it's like having a gun, and no bullets... or proof the gun was ever fired. right?
No, but you really must like that Nelly/Tim McGraw cut;)
I don't understand the argument whether it's right or wrong.
Matter of fact, I don't think that's the issue. Considering that last few time's I've been to a film, it's been packed. Film revenues are at what, an all time high? With, ironically the originality in filmmaking coming from the low budget, indie market, not seen on 50 trillion megaplexes. But that's the cash cow because no ones trading stuff like.. say Monsoon Wedding, I'm betting.
It sounds like it's reaching a fevered pitch ala Napster in its final days. Hopefully Apple can get together a model for movie downloads fast enough to add to ITMS.
And hopefully it will have a fair price point, minus the fifty bucks in concessions that i shell out every time I go. That's a more important battle to fight IMHO; If I'm paying to go see a film for 10 bucks plus, I should be able to eat what I damned well please.
Apple, hurry so that this is no longer an issue...
I think the Supremes would rubber stamp this, split 6-3. I think The President would sign it into law, and the Senate, well, after much wrangling, would pass it. Why? Well, the systems of checks and balances doesn't work to well when all three branches are on the same team.
Wasn't a national ID card floated a number of years ago and shot down?
Er, they couldnt do anything while the cameras were in place. LIVE cameras. Kinda hard to work in secret when the reactor's being viewed in real time. SO the previous policy was working... coupled with an exchange in reactor technology that would enable power but little risk of enriched nuclear material. So I'd say that approach was working, if not BUYING time as well. Saving face politically is important, period. Each side has to come back looking like a winner, regardless of whether or not that's what happened. As nuts as Kim is, he still has to answer to the apparatus around him... and those who have bought into the belief. NK did not pursue enrichment again until mid 2001 once they disconnected the cameras. Last I checked, that wasn't on Clinton's watch.
Er, no. maybe we should have saved our chips for them in the FIRST PLACE. NK versus us? well, that's a war I could get behind. least I'd know it was for the right reasons.
Once we reneged they had NOTHING to lose, and no way to save face.
*nod* A bit of this I said in my post, and I agree. I don't know why anyone is so suprised.The opportunity to keep the peace was in early 2001, and without a counterweight in the White House to make noise about aid, the NK's were not going to get it. this simply wasn't a prority for the new administration.
not to mention the US actually failed to live up to the previous agreement:
Korea - we want to develop nuclear power USA - we'll help you with technology for nuclear power so you don't need to develop it yourself...many years later... Korea - er, hello. where's our help? USA - fuck you Korea - fuck you too then
Not quite. Clinton and the IAEA negotiated to place cameras in the reactor. To behonest, it was a fair arrangement. The imminent change in policy after George Bush took office, and his lack of PERSONAL policy detail (being in front of dealing with other nations as a personal engagement; palm pressing; making them feel they were a part of the process) immediately made the already paranoid NK government renege.
Thier feeling was now they were no longer dealing with an American administration that believed in exhausting diplomacy and would allow the NK's to save face (by exchanging the ability to give up weapons for aid and a security guarantee), but one that if pushed, strike.
NK almost seems to belong on another planet in how it's citizens behave; from all accounts it's closed society is in a different world. I remember seeing a documentary recently where the power went out in a family's home and then blinked back on, only to hear "Damned Americans", like we had something to do with it.
The regime maintains power through fear and the projection of military strength while the basic necessites for citizens are ignored. Without external aid, this might be the one legitimate regime that may decide "you know, fuck it. Let's take someone else with us."
So they felt that by holding the region "hostage" by becoming a nuclear power, they can: One, guarantee thier own hold on power as the US and UN would dare not invade lest Seoul or Tokyo get turned into one big sheet of glass and two, demand food and supply aid to feed and maintain control of its' population.
To us, now we're damned if we do aid them, because we're caving in and damned if we don't, because I've got a feeling the Asian nuclear proliferation problem may get a lot worse. Japan has made minor rumblings about getting a deterrent, and they can have a bomb at any time within six months of starting a program.
Clinton mulled a cruise and air missle strike to take away NK's ability to make weapons, and opted for the placement of cameras in the hope that a diplomatic response coupled with aid would work. Plus, he knew hitting NK could result in seoul being behind enemy lines in 48 hours in the event of a war.
Bush has fanned flames, and then with tunnel vision zeroed in on Iraq since his election, while NK might, just might, pose the biggest threat to democracy and stability in a number of the worlds critical economies: China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, India, Australia to name the big ones. Ignoring this, and possibly fighting the wrong war could seriously come back to haunt us.
Coupled with the perception in the world that to get any respect from Washington you have to have weapons, what can we expect? Which is why Iran isn't CLOSE to thinking about giving up thiers, knowing they're that close.
"And why do people not see that by restricting the sale to minors returns control to the parents, who's job it is to determine which values they want to pass on to their kids anyway? If the parent wants li'l Johny to have GTA3 then they can go buy it for him."
Then mommy and daddy need to have a better idea on what their kids are playing, versus demanding this type of legislation. Regardless, as a gamer with a 12 year old, I take responsibility for what he is allowed to play, on his system, that I paid for. If I deem it inappropriate, it does not get bought. NO matter how much he protests.
One problem is that you have parents who think of video games as harmless or worse as a "babysitter", and buy anything their children hold up for them at EBGames. You've all seen the mom with her son there, buying some game she hasn't LOOKED at during the purchase. Most of them are not gamers, therefore are not involved in that aspect of thier kid's recreation.
Hence the look of shock when they walk by the kid's room and see the kid playing something they most definetly would not have bought if they knew the content. Gee, I can't really think of a game that does not have a posted warning.
This is something that is an item of self responsibility. You dont want to contribute to your child's ADD? Limit their game playing time. DOn't rely on it as a time sitter. Don't want them playing Streets of LA? Then pay attention and READ the box. Ask the sales person. Become in SOME fashion involved in it.
I'm waiting on this same debate to come back to books... but then again, I'm quite sure with the amount of reading time now being chewed up by kids playing Halo 2, maybe the books are safe...
I'm all for affordable space launches... but...
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Lovely. Ferrari...Honda... I'd think I'd rather have the expensive launch vehicle to deliver payloads into orbit, not the "Rocket most stolen for parts". Then again... maybe I should look into setting up a rocket chop shop...
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...they'll sue Microsoft.
"You said we'd win! how can you let this happen to us!?!?!"
Just about anything works plug and play with Windows? Great, then this HFS format drive should mount jusssst fine under XP... right?
I need to get a job like Mr. Dvorak's.
Most of my reading time is spent maintain skills, or learning new ones, so I don't get to read outside of carreer material as much as I used to. I've seen more pages of "Oracle 9i on Linux and Unix" or one of many "HP OpenView Solutions" guides than anything else recently.
The rest of my down time is spent being daddy. So I do get to re-read some of my favorite kid's books with my daughter. But when I do get the time... =) I suspect my reading list will explain some of my Slashdot posts.
I'm presently reading The Physics of Immortality, by Frank Tipler.
On my list (which is my bookshelf, chock full of things I've not had the time to read):
-The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene)
-On Being Black: Essays In Honor of W. E. B. DuBois
-Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston)
-Through A Glass, Darkly (Jostein Gaarder)
-Nation of Rebels : Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture (Joseph Heath, Andrew Potter)
Things I've recently read or re-read:
-V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
-The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy At Home And Abroad (Fareed Zakaria)
-Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (Bob Woodard)
I can second this, although last year I actually didn't enter zero =). To be honest, the Ohio Use tax has only been pushed since 2001/2002 (least that's the first time I remember seeing it). Here it's commonly referred to as the "internet tax". The problem I've had with it is regarding perishable items, as here in the state you arent required to pay tax on perishables, yet say you order from out of state, they expect it noted?
I suspect they will eventually start zeroing in on this as Michigan has, considering the budget cuts going on here...
OK... OK... but name five others :)
When people think about the cost of beginning down this road, they look at the economic pain versus the reward. Well, there's a reason they say you have to spend money to make money. With Kyoto, you *could* be making money on top of spending it and coming out. For instance, emissions trading(and this was outlined on NPR this morning, and for the life of me, I dont understand WHY it doesn't get more play).
By investing in the infrastructure of developing nations (building plants, utilizing other technologies in India, China and the like) and "helping" them along the path of better energy management and minimizing environmental impact, rich nations can take advantage of this in a big way and lessen the economic hit, WHILE improving thier own infrastructure. Eventually we're gonna have to get on board, would you want to get on board once all the good opportunities to take advantage of this are gone?
It's been argued that what we do best here in the US is innovate; the key then becomes ratifying the treaty and investing more in R and D and technologies that will maximize our energy usage and minimize environmental impact. If it means we pay a little more, so be it. It also requires forward leaning leadership to do this; there's going to be more than one energy lobby group screaming about it. That's is the piece we're missing in the US to make this happen.
For those that are "security minded", taking advantage of Kyoto now over the next 15 years will do more for US national and economic security than any projection of force or diplomatic posturing.
No, but you can be sued for breaking one. It isn't as though the information being revealed showed Apple violated some law, which in spite of a NDA, authorities may want to know. If that were the case, of course the first amendment would apply.
In this case, although I'd hope that Apple would realize that they benefit from this type of interest ('reporting) in the platform, Apple is fully within thier rights. But I will say, with such rumor sites to see what's coming down the pipe, I might have left the Mac platform to the wind.
Well last night was a make-up. The guy had what (Ray Charles) won three Grammys in a 50 plus year career? What better time to make up for it than this year... when it looks like his bio pic could win best Oscar. Maybe the next fella won't have to get a movie deal and expire to get respect.
I dont mind that the major awards shows do this (You can't tell me to this day that Al Pacino "deserved" an Oscar for Scent of a Woman), it's when they choose to do it that irks. At times they choose to reward when a truly deserving or powerful film/performance is up as well. So you know what gets shafted. case in point: This year I think it will be Hotel Rwanda.
I'm very happy for Ms Schneider's good fortune; her Grammy probably was voted for by people who actually heard her music and knew how exceptional it was..versus the at large catagories and normal areas where they play favorites...
Er, and i say this as a DIE HARD Mac user... Ease up on that word "dominance" when three of the top games of the last year have yet to show up on Macs. Two (HL2 and Rome: Total War) sure as hell won't, and Doom 3... what... next year? It pains me to have to boot up the 2.4 Ghz Athlon XP box to play em' but hey, I like my games, and for me, Console games just dont cut it. I can't see playing say... a Baldur's gate derivative on a console. Just feels wrong.
It's been like that for awhile, and will continue to be like that as long as the installed base is of a different flavor than Mac/MacOS X... It's going to take market demand for that, and no matter how many ppl (myself included) stampede out and buy Mac-Minis; until Apple's mid-range hardware is competitively featured (more vid card choices?) and priced and more developers write games not to Direct X... this outlook kinda looks like a pipe dream. no offense, my friend.
It' would be just our luck that in the remaining 20 percent lurks HIV"s ability to mutate and unleash some other horror. But hey, I guess turning one "enemy" of mankind against another enemy. I guess the guys working on this know the risks... so hey.
I hope this holds significant promise, but considering this on the heels of the resistant HIV strain discovered/found in New York recently, it's just not the right time for PR spin on virii...
I've seen that here in North America, to an extent.. While visiting my girlfriend in Toronto, I'd take in the occaisional Net cafe' at about noon. Soon as I arrive, there's 50 kids either dodging school or on lunchbreak in the cafe.
I guess here in North America, it's a community standards thing. In a "closed society, maybe it's a tad bit more serious. Regardless, the kids should be 'getting their lesson' versus surfing, chatting or playing. That makes closure or denial to those underaged during certain hours in itself isn't a bad idea.
The problem (if you want to call it that, i'm sensitive to what side of the argument on, and not really interested in an argument on 'freedom vs. free-dumb') comes with the shuttering of these access spots. For a country trying this commu-capitalism thing, it's it's yet another "fit" for the infrequent "starts". But the Chinese seem to have learned well from the breakup of the Soviet Union and are determined not to meet that fate...
This thing wasn't engineered by Ben Affleck was it? ;)
Sorry, but this reeks of a P.K. Dick type prediction/tale... pretty cool and dangerous if it's true...
I'm not a huge MMORG gaming fan; probably due to the number of MMORG's aren't geared toward what i would play. After a while.. Asheron's Call, Everquest.. World of Warcraft, Planetside... Sims Online... all kind of blend together. Most seem like absolute fantasy, which I'm into but not to where I feel the need to create virtual lives..
Now something politically oriented, nation building, projecting military and diplomatic power...
I remember there was one I'd be interested in like that... called Sovereign... but it got shelved.
Or is there something of the sort out there...?
Easy... that's in the sequel. :)
Thinking about it scientifically, along with the terrible loss of life in this event is incredible.
To me, this is a huge reminder that the planet in itself is capable of incalculable (in terms of lives affected) violence. And also that there will be in due time, something comparable. Or worse.
And to think about the squabbles we have, our territorial ambitions, our day to day lives, it really means nothing in the face of these kinds of forces.
I don't understand what can be gleaned from the logs... other then x.x.x.x/xx downloaded (whatever).torrent.
The torrent file itself is not the copyrighted material, therefore, is possessing a torrent file in itself illegal? I can see if you were in the process of sharing BITS of a copyrighted material, and one of the other participants was legal representation of the MPAA, But possesion of a file that is NOT the work in question, simply a pointer to that file and a checksum for the copywritten work...that's a long jump.
I know this is a poor analogy but it's like having a gun, and no bullets... or proof the gun was ever fired. right?
No, but you really must like that Nelly/Tim McGraw cut ;)
I don't understand the argument whether it's right or wrong.
Matter of fact, I don't think that's the issue. Considering that last few time's I've been to a film, it's been packed. Film revenues are at what, an all time high? With, ironically the originality in filmmaking coming from the low budget, indie market, not seen on 50 trillion megaplexes. But that's the cash cow because no ones trading stuff like.. say Monsoon Wedding, I'm betting.
It sounds like it's reaching a fevered pitch ala Napster in its final days. Hopefully Apple can get together a model for movie downloads fast enough to add to ITMS.
And hopefully it will have a fair price point, minus the fifty bucks in concessions that i shell out every time I go. That's a more important battle to fight IMHO; If I'm paying to go see a film for 10 bucks plus, I should be able to eat what I damned well please.
Apple, hurry so that this is no longer an issue...
I think the Supremes would rubber stamp this, split 6-3. I think The President would sign it into law, and the Senate, well, after much wrangling, would pass it. Why? Well, the systems of checks and balances doesn't work to well when all three branches are on the same team.
Wasn't a national ID card floated a number of years ago and shot down?
Er, they couldnt do anything while the cameras were in place.
LIVE cameras. Kinda hard to work in secret when the reactor's being viewed in real time. SO the previous policy was working... coupled with an exchange in reactor technology that would enable power but little risk of enriched nuclear material. So I'd say that approach was working, if not BUYING time as well.
Saving face politically is important, period. Each side has to come back looking like a winner, regardless of whether or not that's what happened. As nuts as Kim is, he still has to answer to the apparatus around him... and those who have bought into the belief.
NK did not pursue enrichment again until mid 2001 once they disconnected the cameras. Last I checked, that wasn't on Clinton's watch.
Er, no. maybe we should have saved our chips for them in the FIRST PLACE. NK versus us? well, that's a war I could get behind. least I'd know it was for the right reasons.
Once we reneged they had NOTHING to lose, and no way to save face.
*nod* A bit of this I said in my post, and I agree. I don't know why anyone is so suprised.The opportunity to keep the peace was in early 2001, and without a counterweight in the White House to make noise about aid, the NK's were not going to get it. this simply wasn't a prority for the new administration.
Not quite. Clinton and the IAEA negotiated to place cameras in the reactor. To behonest, it was a fair arrangement. The imminent change in policy after George Bush took office, and his lack of PERSONAL policy detail (being in front of dealing with other nations as a personal engagement; palm pressing; making them feel they were a part of the process) immediately made the already paranoid NK government renege.
Thier feeling was now they were no longer dealing with an American administration that believed in exhausting diplomacy and would allow the NK's to save face (by exchanging the ability to give up weapons for aid and a security guarantee), but one that if pushed, strike.
NK almost seems to belong on another planet in how it's citizens behave; from all accounts it's closed society is in a different world. I remember seeing a documentary recently where the power went out in a family's home and then blinked back on, only to hear "Damned Americans", like we had something to do with it.
The regime maintains power through fear and the projection of military strength while the basic necessites for citizens are ignored. Without external aid, this might be the one legitimate regime that may decide "you know, fuck it. Let's take someone else with us."
So they felt that by holding the region "hostage" by becoming a nuclear power, they can: One, guarantee thier own hold on power as the US and UN would dare not invade lest Seoul or Tokyo get turned into one big sheet of glass and two, demand food and supply aid to feed and maintain control of its' population.
To us, now we're damned if we do aid them, because we're caving in and damned if we don't, because I've got a feeling the Asian nuclear proliferation problem may get a lot worse. Japan has made minor rumblings about getting a deterrent, and they can have a bomb at any time within six months of starting a program.
Clinton mulled a cruise and air missle strike to take away NK's ability to make weapons, and opted for the placement of cameras in the hope that a diplomatic response coupled with aid would work. Plus, he knew hitting NK could result in seoul being behind enemy lines in 48 hours in the event of a war.
Bush has fanned flames, and then with tunnel vision
zeroed in on Iraq since his election, while NK might, just might, pose the biggest threat to democracy and stability in a number of the worlds critical economies: China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, India, Australia to name the big ones. Ignoring this, and possibly fighting the wrong war could seriously come back to haunt us.
Coupled with the perception in the world that to get any respect from Washington you have to have weapons, what can we expect? Which is why Iran isn't CLOSE to thinking about giving up thiers, knowing they're that close.
What's that old adage about catching more flies?
Hence the "Express". Any longer trip and it would be the Local ;)
If I recall, the Viking missions took just inside a year to arrive at Mars; 10 months or so. seven months is pretty good speed...
Then mommy and daddy need to have a better idea on what their kids are playing, versus demanding this type of legislation. Regardless, as a gamer with a 12 year old, I take responsibility for what he is allowed to play, on his system, that I paid for. If I deem it inappropriate, it does not get bought. NO matter how much he protests.
One problem is that you have parents who think of video games as harmless or worse as a "babysitter", and buy anything their children hold up for them at EBGames. You've all seen the mom with her son there, buying some game she hasn't LOOKED at during the purchase. Most of them are not gamers, therefore are not involved in that aspect of thier kid's recreation.
Hence the look of shock when they walk by the kid's room and see the kid playing something they most definetly would not have bought if they knew the content. Gee, I can't really think of a game that does not have a posted warning.
This is something that is an item of self responsibility. You dont want to contribute to your child's ADD? Limit their game playing time. DOn't rely on it as a time sitter. Don't want them playing Streets of LA? Then pay attention and READ the box. Ask the sales person. Become in SOME fashion involved in it.
I'm waiting on this same debate to come back to books... but then again, I'm quite sure with the amount of reading time now being chewed up by kids playing Halo 2, maybe the books are safe...
Lovely. Ferrari...Honda... I'd think I'd rather have the expensive launch vehicle to deliver payloads into orbit, not the "Rocket most stolen for parts". Then again... maybe I should look into setting up a rocket chop shop...