When the time limit was set at 25 years, people knew that the information released could be embarrasing to the government, but they didn't think it would matter anymor. After 25 years, they assumed that nobody at the top levels of government then would still have a visible role. Any really dumb stuff (like trying to kill Castro with an exploding cigar) could be blamed on people who were dead or at least retired.
Then Dubya got "elected". We expected him to dig up members of his father's and Reagan's cabinets, but Gerald Ford's? Most of the members of the current administration have been active in the government for over 30 years. And as another poster mentions, the records from the CIA while the Elder Bush ran it are just turning 25.
I like Dennis Miller's version- "When an out of work plumber can have sex with Claudia Schiffer from the comfort of his Barca-lounger, it will make crack look like Sanka."
1) Does anyone else use GPS guided munitions? I can't believe the Iraqis have that level of technology.
2) I've never been in the military, but I would have to guess that a 100 meter error is the difference between firing artillery over your troops and onto the enemy and putting artillery into your own troops. As you said, there are older methods that worked fine. But if troops are under fire, they may not be thinking about double checking their position.
The stem cell legislation passed in the US specifically bans the import of any product based on stem cell research. I think the goal was to prevent US companies from doing research in labs abroad and then selling the treatment here. What I think is going to end up happening is that people are going to have to fly to China to cure their Parkinsons Disease.
The above poster mentions India and the UK. I think that China is going to be the place were the real "wow" developments come from.
If a company gets insurance on a communications sattelite launch, they pay the least if they use a Russian launch vehicle. That's unmanned of course, but it's the same space program. Among manned missions, the US has had two fatal incidents in the past 20 years. I don't think the Soviets/Russians have had any.
You guys must not have tried hard enough. I hid things from my parents successfully from the time I was 9 or 10. I didn't just hide stuff in my underwear drawer. I would actually build good hiding places in the basement, batcave style.
When I was in college, I told my mom that she used to drive me to my friend's houses to smoke pot when I was 15. She didn't care that I smoked (she was a hippie). She was pissed off that a I had gotten away with it right under her nose.
Hey asshead, this guy was 12 in 1982. The only people who had computers in 82 were rich geeky college kids and big companies. Just because you were 12 in 1998 doesn't mean everyone was.
Scenario 1) You go into a computer store in a strip mall and a guy in a Babylon 5 T-shirt sells you a CD-R with Win 2K Pro and a serial number written on it in Sharpie. You ask him "Is this legit?" and he says "Absolutely, we're a licensed Microsoft distributor. We ran out of the packaged copies, so we burned a few until the next shipment comes."
Scenario 2) You buy enterprise level database software from Microsoft, one of the largest corporations on the planet. They assure you that everything is legit and that you can do what you want with the software as a foundation of your small business.
In scenario 1, you're an idiot. Just because the guy lied to you doesn't get you off the hook. You should have realized that things were fishy.
In Scenario 2, you were acting in good faith. You have an expectation that a giant company is going to handle these kind of legal issues for you before you hand then 5 to 100 thousand dollars for a few CDs worth of software.
So what other huge corporations that I deal with will require me to pay a lawyer 600 bucks before I do any business with again?
Bad sensor readings are still data. If all the sensors in the left wing become strange a half second before the rest of the sensors do, you can conclude that the damage started there. With as little phsyical evidence as the accident investigators are likely to find, that telemetry may be most of what they have to work with.
I'm imagining Dubya at the 2004 state of the union:
"The threat that Ireland poses to the stability of the world cannot be ignored. The vegatable inspection process has been a failure. Our only option now is to forcibly remove these dangerous foods from the hands of the evil Irish."... "And as part of my economic stimulus package, I propose cutting taxes from all Americans with the last names of Bush or Cheney. This will help all middle class Americans...somehow. God bless America. Good night."
Before the comic book geeks get worked up about "They may not be Homo Sapiens, but they're human dammit", it's just a stupid tax matter. There used to be different import taxes on "dolls" and "toys". The guv'mint said the Marvel figures were dolls because they're human figures and wanted them taxed at twice the rate of toys. Marvel disagreed and won.
The taxes have since been repealed. Nothing to see here.
When I saw the picture next to the CNN story about you getting back online, I thought they had made a mistake. The guy in the nice suit with little glasses couldn't be the geeky Kevin I remember. My question is: Do you have a fashion or image consultant?
And a little hint for someone that hasn't gotten email in a while, Staci doesn't really want you to test her new webcam for her.
Being basically a disk of hard plastic and a piece of aluminum foil glued together, there isn't much to rot or distort. The only thing I've seen that really ruins CD is spending more than a week in my car.
I had always hoped that the Zahn books would become movies after Lucas had retired or died. I'm sure that Lucas will never touch them while he's at the helm because then the plots wouldn't be a suprise to everyone. He should look at another trilogy of books, LOTR, to notice that a suprise plot is not needed for great movies.
Any grassroots attempt at a SW film will certainly be met with a legal team that will make stormtroopers seem like nice, reasonable guys.
Just this week I looked all over CompUSA for a power supply that could withstand the radiation of deep space for 30 years. The one I found was $635,000. I think I'll wait until after Christmas. Maybe it will go on sale.
Doom made two huge improvements that created the FPS genre we know now, non-grid based maps, and the DeathMatch (and put that term into our vocabularies). Those two things really paved the way for the mainstream popularity of the hundreds of FPS games released since.
Just last week I payed cash for my one way ticket from Amman, Jordan to Baltimore. Everyone was very understanding when I explained that I had lost my wallet in a taxi and didn't have any ID. If you're just polite to people and smile, it will go a long way.
At first I was going to say that you could fill the iPod signature with ink and stamp the albums, but that would indeed make a reverse image. You make a negative image when you create the stamp and a positive image when you use the stamp.
1. Pour plaster or some other softer substance over the signature section of your engraved iPod. Let harden and remove. 2. Buy all the old Madonna albums from the used section of your local music store. 3. Put ink on the tip of your plaster mold. 4. Stamp album covers. 5. Ebay some autographed Madonna albums. (you knew it was coming) 6. PROFIT!
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When the time limit was set at 25 years, people knew that the information released could be embarrasing to the government, but they didn't think it would matter anymor. After 25 years, they assumed that nobody at the top levels of government then would still have a visible role. Any really dumb stuff (like trying to kill Castro with an exploding cigar) could be blamed on people who were dead or at least retired.
Then Dubya got "elected". We expected him to dig up members of his father's and Reagan's cabinets, but Gerald Ford's? Most of the members of the current administration have been active in the government for over 30 years. And as another poster mentions, the records from the CIA while the Elder Bush ran it are just turning 25.
-B
I like Dennis Miller's version-
"When an out of work plumber can have sex with Claudia Schiffer from the comfort of his Barca-lounger, it will make crack look like Sanka."
-B
1) Does anyone else use GPS guided munitions? I can't believe the Iraqis have that level of technology.
2) I've never been in the military, but I would have to guess that a 100 meter error is the difference between firing artillery over your troops and onto the enemy and putting artillery into your own troops. As you said, there are older methods that worked fine. But if troops are under fire, they may not be thinking about double checking their position.
-B
The stem cell legislation passed in the US specifically bans the import of any product based on stem cell research. I think the goal was to prevent US companies from doing research in labs abroad and then selling the treatment here. What I think is going to end up happening is that people are going to have to fly to China to cure their Parkinsons Disease.
The above poster mentions India and the UK. I think that China is going to be the place were the real "wow" developments come from.
-B
If a company gets insurance on a communications sattelite launch, they pay the least if they use a Russian launch vehicle. That's unmanned of course, but it's the same space program. Among manned missions, the US has had two fatal incidents in the past 20 years. I don't think the Soviets/Russians have had any.
-B
You guys must not have tried hard enough. I hid things from my parents successfully from the time I was 9 or 10. I didn't just hide stuff in my underwear drawer. I would actually build good hiding places in the basement, batcave style.
When I was in college, I told my mom that she used to drive me to my friend's houses to smoke pot when I was 15. She didn't care that I smoked (she was a hippie). She was pissed off that a I had gotten away with it right under her nose.
Remember, kids, only suckers get caught.
-B
Hey asshead, this guy was 12 in 1982. The only people who had computers in 82 were rich geeky college kids and big companies. Just because you were 12 in 1998 doesn't mean everyone was.
-B
Scenario 1) You go into a computer store in a strip mall and a guy in a Babylon 5 T-shirt sells you a CD-R with Win 2K Pro and a serial number written on it in Sharpie. You ask him "Is this legit?" and he says "Absolutely, we're a licensed Microsoft distributor. We ran out of the packaged copies, so we burned a few until the next shipment comes."
Scenario 2) You buy enterprise level database software from Microsoft, one of the largest corporations on the planet. They assure you that everything is legit and that you can do what you want with the software as a foundation of your small business.
In scenario 1, you're an idiot. Just because the guy lied to you doesn't get you off the hook. You should have realized that things were fishy.
In Scenario 2, you were acting in good faith. You have an expectation that a giant company is going to handle these kind of legal issues for you before you hand then 5 to 100 thousand dollars for a few CDs worth of software.
So what other huge corporations that I deal with will require me to pay a lawyer 600 bucks before I do any business with again?
-Barry
The Mexican INS? Now that's funny. Why do I imagine them kicking in the door of a shack and dragging out a 60 year old white couple in formalwear.
-B
Bad sensor readings are still data. If all the sensors in the left wing become strange a half second before the rest of the sensors do, you can conclude that the damage started there. With as little phsyical evidence as the accident investigators are likely to find, that telemetry may be most of what they have to work with.
-B
I'm imagining Dubya at the 2004 state of the union:
...
"The threat that Ireland poses to the stability of the world cannot be ignored. The vegatable inspection process has been a failure. Our only option now is to forcibly remove these dangerous foods from the hands of the evil Irish."
"And as part of my economic stimulus package, I propose cutting taxes from all Americans with the last names of Bush or Cheney. This will help all middle class Americans...somehow. God bless America. Good night."
-Barry
And detecting their presence wouldn't be that hard. Simple electronics would notice a large ammount of radiation being emitted from an empty field.
-B
Before the comic book geeks get worked up about "They may not be Homo Sapiens, but they're human dammit", it's just a stupid tax matter. There used to be different import taxes on "dolls" and "toys". The guv'mint said the Marvel figures were dolls because they're human figures and wanted them taxed at twice the rate of toys. Marvel disagreed and won.
The taxes have since been repealed. Nothing to see here.
-B
When I saw the picture next to the CNN story about you getting back online, I thought they had made a mistake. The guy in the nice suit with little glasses couldn't be the geeky Kevin I remember. My question is: Do you have a fashion or image consultant?
And a little hint for someone that hasn't gotten email in a while, Staci doesn't really want you to test her new webcam for her.
Good luck.
-B
Being basically a disk of hard plastic and a piece of aluminum foil glued together, there isn't much to rot or distort. The only thing I've seen that really ruins CD is spending more than a week in my car.
-B
I had always hoped that the Zahn books would become movies after Lucas had retired or died. I'm sure that Lucas will never touch them while he's at the helm because then the plots wouldn't be a suprise to everyone. He should look at another trilogy of books, LOTR, to notice that a suprise plot is not needed for great movies.
Any grassroots attempt at a SW film will certainly be met with a legal team that will make stormtroopers seem like nice, reasonable guys.
-B
But they would make it up on volume.
-Jeff Bezos
"Explosion-resistant cargo bay to enhance survivability should a bomb make it on board."
They could use steel reenforced concrete. It would be impervious.
-B
Just this week I looked all over CompUSA for a power supply that could withstand the radiation of deep space for 30 years. The one I found was $635,000. I think I'll wait until after Christmas. Maybe it will go on sale.
-B
Doom made two huge improvements that created the FPS genre we know now, non-grid based maps, and the DeathMatch (and put that term into our vocabularies). Those two things really paved the way for the mainstream popularity of the hundreds of FPS games released since.
-B
Just last week I payed cash for my one way ticket from Amman, Jordan to Baltimore. Everyone was very understanding when I explained that I had lost my wallet in a taxi and didn't have any ID. If you're just polite to people and smile, it will go a long way.
US Space Station would be USSS. On the USSS they could have a BBBQ. The extra B is for BYOBB.
I don't want to live in Iowa either, but I don't think we should bomb it.
At first I was going to say that you could fill the iPod signature with ink and stamp the albums, but that would indeed make a reverse image. You make a negative image when you create the stamp and a positive image when you use the stamp.
-B
1. Pour plaster or some other softer substance over the signature section of your engraved iPod. Let harden and remove.
2. Buy all the old Madonna albums from the used section of your local music store.
3. Put ink on the tip of your plaster mold.
4. Stamp album covers.
5. Ebay some autographed Madonna albums.
(you knew it was coming)
6. PROFIT!
-B