Illegal aliens do not pass through a modern Ellis Island, and the rates of pneumonia, TB, and other diseases have skyrocketed in all the border states, as well as any jurisdiction where illegals congregate
Please provide a reference for that claim that does not come from a white supremacist or Michelle Malkin.
This appears to confirm once again that open source software isn't inherently more secure than closed source software. It's just that open source is less popular, and therefore not as big a target. With the increasing popularity of Firefox and other open source software, expect more and more vulnerabilities to surface.
You're not only too lazy to find the link, you're too lazy to RTFA. This technique is mentioned right there in the article, and the author claims this yields spammers a relatively trivial amount of email addresses.
If I can't download a movie I want, I definitely will not be buying it. I can't afford it.
You can't afford to buy (or rent, or go see at the movies, presumably) a movie, but you can afford a computer and broadband access? Gimme a break. That's just another lame variation of the old "I can't afford to pay for software"-argument. Maybe if you didn't insist on getting the latest and greatest graphics accelerator every 6 months, there'd be some money left for the software!
From the article: Any device fitted with a SplashModule instantly begins to recharge through magnetic inductive power transfer when placed anywhere on the SplashPad.
Sonicare electric toothbrushes have been recharging via magnetic induction for years. Another example of the patent office granting a bogus patent, or is there something truly innovative here?
This has been a requirement for any non-US citizen flying from Europe to the US for quite some time now. You have to list which countries you've already visited on your trip, where you're going to stay in the US, whether or not you have bad intentions coming into the US (no kidding), etc. It would seem logical that those same rules apply whenever you're using a non-US passport, even if you're Cory Doctorow.
To me, it simply seems to impossible to think that the universe and all that's in it, including us, is the result of some random roll of the cosmic dice.
Yes, a lot of religious folks seem to think like that: if I can't understand how this came to be, it must have been the work of God. And then for some reason they choose a particular faith, even though there is no proof whatsoever that that particular faith is any more valid than any of the other ones.
As far as the "why am I here" question goes: what makes you think that there is a reason? We just are. There doesn't have to be a reason. Now, some people don't like that idea, and again they turn to religion, because they cannot bear the thought that there is no reason, no purpose.
As opposed the highly probably theory of Noah's ark being beached and somehow the Kangaroos and Koalas all flew to Australia, and only Australia
Not to mention the rather incestuous relationships that must have taken place in order for Noah, his wife, their three sons and their son's wives to repopulate the entire world.
Iraq had just let the inspectors back in and given them unconditional access. Iraq had turned over thousands upon thousands of pages of documentation regarding the destruction of their WMD. The US didn't even bother reading them all, they just told the inspectors to get back out, and then attacked.
No matter how you feel about Bush, at least he is opening up the discussion.
He could do much better opening up the discussion about taxcuts, Medicare, Medicaid, or the general fund, all of which have much bigger problems than Social Security. There is no Social Security crisis, no matter how often Bush says there is. He fabricated a "crisis" with regard to Iraq, and now he's fabricating another "crisis".
Thanks for playing, dimwit. "taking out more than it's taking in" does not equal "bankrupt". It means that after 2018 the size of the trust fund will start to diminish (it's currently still growing). It is true that money was borrowed from the trust fund. However that just means that the trust fund will need to start collecting on those IOUs.
You could go read the reports by the Social Security Administration or the Congressional Budget Office yourself, but I'm sure you're much happier believing Bush's lies...
the justifications given over and over by Bush and his crew was that they (the wmds) were either there, or that Saddam had the capability to either make them, or get them from someone else
bull-shit. The Bush administration flat out said that he had WMD. They claimed to have proof. At some point they even claimed they had found them. None of that turned out to be true.
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction - Dick Cheney, Speech to VFW National Convention, Aug. 26, 2002
We know for a fact that there are weapons there. -
Ari Fleischer, Press Briefing, Jan. 9, 2003
Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. - George W. Bush, Address to the Nation, March 17, 2003
There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. - Gen. Tommy Franks,
Press Conference, March 22, 2003
We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat. - Donald Rumsfeld, ABC Interview, March 30, 2003
We found the weapons of mass destruction - George W. Bush, Polish TV Interview, May 29, 2003
Social Security is already going to be bankrupt in a few years
That is a deliberate LIE that is repeated over and over again by the Bush administration.
The TRUTH is that Social Security is fully funded until 2042 (according to the Social Security Administration. The Congressional Budget Office thinks it can go until 2052). At that point its trust fund runs out, and benefits will have to be reduced, taxes increased, or a combination of both. Without tax-increases, Social Security should still be able to pay out 73% of benefits in 2042, going to 68% in 2078.
That is a far cry from "bankrupt in a few years".
By my calculation, the true miles-per-Watt would "only" be about 16K miles, if the transmitter is omnidirectional, which would make its signal strenght decrease with distance-to-the-power-of-three: ((1/0.0000406)^(1/3))*546.8 (just over 15909) miles is the distance you could reach with one Watt, if 0.0000406 Watts gets you 546.8 miles. (of course, if it's a record using the dumb/linear way of calculating it, it's still a record when calculated the other way)
Professor Ockels says a few hundred of the installations, each requiring some 400 kites with 27ft wingspans, could generate enough electricity to supply the needs of a city the size of Seattle
"A few hundred"? That's at least 200, so we're talking about a minimum of 80,000, 27-foot kites, for a single large city. Then consider that each of these trains will be 5 miles long, and swaying in the wind. That means they need to stay some distance away from each other. My guess would be that half a mile between them (that's only 1/10th the length of a train) wouldn't be overly conservative. For a 14*14 installation (196 trains) that means just over 40 square miles (more than 25,000 acres) for a single installation. Sure, you can let some cows graze inbetween, but still. Somehow this whole scheme seems a little... impractical...
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Please provide a reference for that claim that does not come from a white supremacist or Michelle Malkin.
Not just 'probable', Bush actually said that.
Seems to me like this method would mostly cool the circuitboard, whereas the part that gets hot is the metal housing (or rather: what's inside).
How does "bloggers should not be allowed to publish sensitive personal information about individuals" equal "strong censorship" ?
I take it your place of work does not do nightly backups of all the systems then. Tsk, tsk...
This appears to confirm once again that open source software isn't inherently more secure than closed source software. It's just that open source is less popular, and therefore not as big a target. With the increasing popularity of Firefox and other open source software, expect more and more vulnerabilities to surface.
Oh right, I forgot that my Radeon will stop working the moment ATI goes out of business...
"Free as in beer" is good enough for all but the most demanding zealot.
And why would a suicide-bomber care about that?
You're not only too lazy to find the link, you're too lazy to RTFA. This technique is mentioned right there in the article, and the author claims this yields spammers a relatively trivial amount of email addresses.
You can't afford to buy (or rent, or go see at the movies, presumably) a movie, but you can afford a computer and broadband access? Gimme a break. That's just another lame variation of the old "I can't afford to pay for software"-argument. Maybe if you didn't insist on getting the latest and greatest graphics accelerator every 6 months, there'd be some money left for the software!
France has AZERTY, Germany has QWERTZ, I'm sure other layouts exist as well.
Sonicare electric toothbrushes have been recharging via magnetic induction for years. Another example of the patent office granting a bogus patent, or is there something truly innovative here?
This has been a requirement for any non-US citizen flying from Europe to the US for quite some time now. You have to list which countries you've already visited on your trip, where you're going to stay in the US, whether or not you have bad intentions coming into the US (no kidding), etc.
It would seem logical that those same rules apply whenever you're using a non-US passport, even if you're Cory Doctorow.
Yes, a lot of religious folks seem to think like that: if I can't understand how this came to be, it must have been the work of God. And then for some reason they choose a particular faith, even though there is no proof whatsoever that that particular faith is any more valid than any of the other ones.
As far as the "why am I here" question goes: what makes you think that there is a reason? We just are. There doesn't have to be a reason. Now, some people don't like that idea, and again they turn to religion, because they cannot bear the thought that there is no reason, no purpose.
Not to mention the rather incestuous relationships that must have taken place in order for Noah, his wife, their three sons and their son's wives to repopulate the entire world.
Iraq had just let the inspectors back in and given them unconditional access. Iraq had turned over thousands upon thousands of pages of documentation regarding the destruction of their WMD. The US didn't even bother reading them all, they just told the inspectors to get back out, and then attacked.
He could do much better opening up the discussion about taxcuts, Medicare, Medicaid, or the general fund, all of which have much bigger problems than Social Security. There is no Social Security crisis, no matter how often Bush says there is. He fabricated a "crisis" with regard to Iraq, and now he's fabricating another "crisis".
Thanks for playing, dimwit. "taking out more than it's taking in" does not equal "bankrupt". It means that after 2018 the size of the trust fund will start to diminish (it's currently still growing). It is true that money was borrowed from the trust fund. However that just means that the trust fund will need to start collecting on those IOUs.
You could go read the reports by the Social Security Administration or the Congressional Budget Office yourself, but I'm sure you're much happier believing Bush's lies...
He had no WMD. He had no WMD programmes. Sounds to me like he was complying alright...
That directly contradicts this statement from Hans Blix: "But then came Duelfer last November [who] said that he hadn't seen any programmes, but maybe Saddam would have intended to restart the programme, and there is no evidence of that."
bull-shit. The Bush administration flat out said that he had WMD. They claimed to have proof. At some point they even claimed they had found them. None of that turned out to be true.
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction - Dick Cheney, Speech to VFW National Convention, Aug. 26, 2002
We know for a fact that there are weapons there. - Ari Fleischer, Press Briefing, Jan. 9, 2003
Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. - George W. Bush, Address to the Nation, March 17, 2003
There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. - Gen. Tommy Franks, Press Conference, March 22, 2003
We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat. - Donald Rumsfeld, ABC Interview, March 30, 2003
We found the weapons of mass destruction - George W. Bush, Polish TV Interview, May 29, 2003
The list goes on and on and on...
That is a deliberate LIE that is repeated over and over again by the Bush administration.
The TRUTH is that Social Security is fully funded until 2042 (according to the Social Security Administration. The Congressional Budget Office thinks it can go until 2052). At that point its trust fund runs out, and benefits will have to be reduced, taxes increased, or a combination of both. Without tax-increases, Social Security should still be able to pay out 73% of benefits in 2042, going to 68% in 2078. That is a far cry from "bankrupt in a few years".
By my calculation, the true miles-per-Watt would "only" be about 16K miles, if the transmitter is omnidirectional, which would make its signal strenght decrease with distance-to-the-power-of-three: ((1/0.0000406)^(1/3))*546.8 (just over 15909) miles is the distance you could reach with one Watt, if 0.0000406 Watts gets you 546.8 miles.
(of course, if it's a record using the dumb/linear way of calculating it, it's still a record when calculated the other way)
"A few hundred"? That's at least 200, so we're talking about a minimum of 80,000, 27-foot kites, for a single large city. Then consider that each of these trains will be 5 miles long, and swaying in the wind. That means they need to stay some distance away from each other. My guess would be that half a mile between them (that's only 1/10th the length of a train) wouldn't be overly conservative. For a 14*14 installation (196 trains) that means just over 40 square miles (more than 25,000 acres) for a single installation. Sure, you can let some cows graze inbetween, but still. Somehow this whole scheme seems a little... impractical...