It seems just a tad disengenous to ridicule the concept by only bringing up the current idiot's stupid use of the term. The previous idiots have used the same language to ram their pet projects through
Once caught, you'd probably be in trouble, but it can be done.
Impersonating the IRS and frauduently cashing tax checks? Yeah, that will probably get you in trouble. If you consider the almost certain 20 year sentence in FPMITA prison to be "trouble."
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You nationalize the patent and allow local production. Much like Brazil did with AIDS drugs when big pharma tried to play hardball. All of the international patent treaties allow governments to seize patents and issue mandatory licenses.
This guy is an armchair General. Why isn't he an officer? Because he's incompetent for a commission, that's why.
Well, you just destroyed any shred of credibility you had. This guy may be an asshole with an agenda, but I dare you to walk up to a First Sergeant and tell him the only reason he isn't a felching butterbar Lieutenant is that he's incompetent. I will gladly administer first aid afterward, you'll need it.
Hell, I know a couple of officers who would gladly hold you while the said noncom fed you your balls, if he had the optical magnification equipment to find them.
"Resurrecting" the Saturns isn't really an option any more. Although we still have the plans (contrary to popular belief) most of the factories to produce components no longer exist. By the time we found modern day replacements and qualified them, we'd have designed a new heavy booster anyway.
In fact, a big booster with some variant of the SSME in the upper stages, and the Proton engines in the first could probably be produced faster. Both engines are man rated and at least have spare parts still being produced. I would guess that it would take less than a decade to design and fly such a booster, if the funding were made available. Saturn went from drawing board to flight status in about that much time, but it was definitely a crash program.
OK, I haven't done any geology in over two decades, so take this with a grain salt, but my understanding is that one of the reasons that the "big one" was so big was that St. Helens had not erupted for centuries and the top of the lava tube was blocked like a giant zit. When enough pressure finally built up to blow the cap off, it threw crap everywhere. That would indicate that the currently forecasted eruption is unlikely to be as large, although it could still be a significant event.
This is pretty much what Von Braun wanted to do when he realized the size of a vehicle required to go all the way to the moon and back. When the idea of the lunar module was proposed (von Braun's vision called for the same craft the astronauts took off in to land on the moon and return in one piece) a single rocket was found to be more effective at the time.
The Saturn V was capable of putting more payload on the surface of the moon than the Shuttle or even Energia can put into LEO. The real crime of the Shuttle program was that it necessitated the shutdown of the Big Dumb Booster programs in order to be adequately funded. If we also had a man-rated descendant of the Saturn on hand, the recent Shuttle tragedy wouldn't be effecting us so badly, and the ISS would already be complete.
This was discussed at the time and determined to be far more complicated than sending things up in one launch. This is still true. A single Saturn V launch could have lifted almost two of the current ISS structures in a single launch.
The general wisdom was the X-15 was a better bet for getting into space vs. missiles but it lost out to the rocket boys in the politics at NASA.
No, the flyboys at Yeager's Test Pilot school believed that the X-15 was a better bet, in particular because Mercury was just a "man in a can." At that time, missiles were the best bet to get to orbit in a sustainable fashion, as the re-entry problem for blunt bodies had already been solved during the design of ICBM nosecones.
Furthermore, there is no chance that Rattan's craft will scale up to a lunar vehicle as the mothership aircraft would have to be enormous. If he can get an orbital vehicle out of this technology then this could prove to be an excellent way to ferry people to LEO, but it won't have the cargo capacity of even a Delta, much less a Saturn V.
And NASA and the Air Force (and the Russians) have already proved it can be done and where the safety margin lies. Doing a hard thing the first time is generally a lot more expensive than doing it again, even with all new technology. The X-15s didn't come that long after the sound barrier had been broken for the first time, after all.
Actually, they're not doing much more than the Air Force did with the X-15 program in the fifties and sixties. I'll be curious to see if Scaled's promised orbital vehicle retains the same elegant lines. I doubt it. Orbital velocities are much higher, so I'm betting we end up with a much chunkier vehicle, a la the Shuttle or Buran, only smaller.
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Unisys never did the same with their submarine patent. They simply said nothing and then enforced it. Adobe has already precluded themselves from that.
Actually, from reviewing the information on astronautix.com, it appears that one test article had jets so it could conduct automatic landing tests. The production articles lacked these engines and were essentially gliders like the Shuttle.
Americans don't have a tolerance for death to match the amount of people they end up killing.
All broad generalizations are false. Of course you've forgotten Tarawa, Iwo Jima, the Chosin Resevoir, and countless other places where the US public put up with high casualty counts but went forward. In general, what the US public seems to want is casualties proportional to the worth of the enterprise. The average US citizen didn't think Somalia was worth much, if anything at all. This appears to be an appraisal shared by the rest of the world, who didn't exactly jump in to set the situation right after the US withdrawal.
You are assuming of course that what they are selling is actually Levitra or Cialis. Considering that at least 10% of the worldwide drug market is counterfeit, and that percentages can be as high as 60% in countries without strong drug regulators, you are more likely getting relabeled asprin or a sugar pill.
we have a stereo receiver here that was apparently the first thing my dad bought when he got a job, its a hell of a lot older then I am and works just as well as it did new. On the other hand, we got a 5 disk CD changer 5~6 years ago, and its had to be replaced already. Cheap parts at a premium price.
How many moving parts are in that receiver? I'm guessing not many, and those it does have (volume knobs and selector switches) aren't used that much. Do you still have the turntable your father purchased with that receiver? Has it ever been serviced?
In these cases (where a work is deliberately made unavailable, even though it is in demand) the government should revoke copyright protection to the works in question - the studio can still release it anyway they like, but they can't stop anyone else doing likewise.
Look, I don't like Lucas' changes any more than the next guy, but this is retarded. We grant the creator of a work exclusive rights ostensibly to encourage people to create new works so they to can make a mint. Exclusive rights include the right to not release it if they choose not to. I'll agree that these rights should expire after a time, but in this case the author is still living and I believe that it is worthwhile to adhere to his wishes.
You do not have a right to see the original Star Wars. You have a desire to do so. Lucas does have the right to monkey with it, and I have the right to think he's a money grabbing talentless jerk who got lucky once and is desperately trying to prove that it wasn't a fluke (and failing.)
I give up. There's no way I can convey that atmosphere of fear.
I grew up in Washington, DC. Ground Zero in the event of an all out war. Please spare me the condescending crap. As any European war was likely to flare in to an all out nuclear armageddon, I fully understand the "atmosphere of fear." As the Mohawks say about working on tall buildings it's not that you don't feel fear, it's how you deal with it.
The Soviet block did not have neutron bombs and they had a stated policy not to use nukes *first*
They also had a stated policy of observing the soveriegnty of neighboring nations that they ignored when it was convienient for them to so. Trusting that that "policy" would actually be enforced if Russia was losing a convential all out war with NATO was extremely naive.
oh yeah, that and the wording on the back of the ticket rubbed me the wrong way, I believe it starts "This ticket is a revokable license..." - I shit you not.
That's no different from the language on any concert ticket. Basically it gives them license to throw you out should you start acting like an asshat.
Upthread a guy mentioned that the hospital he worked at was already cutting the internal USB cables and locking the machines to prevent these devices from being attached. I think you can see that having the option to do this is necessary in some fields, as the cost of a single security breach can be astronomical.
This feature will not be turned on by default. I probably won't enable it in my office. If I were the administrator of a bank, hospital, or defense contractor, however, it would be turned on in a heartbeat. As for your other options, I happen to know that hospitals have designated machines with e-mail and net access, and those are not on the same network as the other machines, nor are those networks connected to each other.
Sort of. Your analogy works well for a private college, but starts to break down when it is a state owned one. At that point your landlord is the government, and things get a bit murkier as you are technically on public, not private, property.
I still bet that the current FCC won't overrule the Universities on this one. They're too busy fellating Verizon and SBC to even notice.
We're not suggesting that you trash your new system. It is interesting however that your 11 month old system doesn't support USB booting. My two year old Dell laptop does, although it might have gotten it from a BIOS update. In fact, I don't own a single machine with a floppy drive and I haven't missed it. They do seem to be on their way out.
Floppies do take up significant case real estate, particularly in small form factor laptops, by the way. Liberating the BIOS from the floppy requirement has led to all kinds of ultraportable or hidable machines.
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It seems just a tad disengenous to ridicule the concept by only bringing up the current idiot's stupid use of the term. The previous idiots have used the same language to ram their pet projects through
Impersonating the IRS and frauduently cashing tax checks? Yeah, that will probably get you in trouble. If you consider the almost certain 20 year sentence in FPMITA prison to be "trouble."
You nationalize the patent and allow local production. Much like Brazil did with AIDS drugs when big pharma tried to play hardball. All of the international patent treaties allow governments to seize patents and issue mandatory licenses.
Well, you just destroyed any shred of credibility you had. This guy may be an asshole with an agenda, but I dare you to walk up to a First Sergeant and tell him the only reason he isn't a felching butterbar Lieutenant is that he's incompetent. I will gladly administer first aid afterward, you'll need it.
Hell, I know a couple of officers who would gladly hold you while the said noncom fed you your balls, if he had the optical magnification equipment to find them.
In fact, a big booster with some variant of the SSME in the upper stages, and the Proton engines in the first could probably be produced faster. Both engines are man rated and at least have spare parts still being produced. I would guess that it would take less than a decade to design and fly such a booster, if the funding were made available. Saturn went from drawing board to flight status in about that much time, but it was definitely a crash program.
OK, I haven't done any geology in over two decades, so take this with a grain salt, but my understanding is that one of the reasons that the "big one" was so big was that St. Helens had not erupted for centuries and the top of the lava tube was blocked like a giant zit. When enough pressure finally built up to blow the cap off, it threw crap everywhere. That would indicate that the currently forecasted eruption is unlikely to be as large, although it could still be a significant event.
The Saturn V was capable of putting more payload on the surface of the moon than the Shuttle or even Energia can put into LEO. The real crime of the Shuttle program was that it necessitated the shutdown of the Big Dumb Booster programs in order to be adequately funded. If we also had a man-rated descendant of the Saturn on hand, the recent Shuttle tragedy wouldn't be effecting us so badly, and the ISS would already be complete.
This was discussed at the time and determined to be far more complicated than sending things up in one launch. This is still true. A single Saturn V launch could have lifted almost two of the current ISS structures in a single launch.
No, the flyboys at Yeager's Test Pilot school believed that the X-15 was a better bet, in particular because Mercury was just a "man in a can." At that time, missiles were the best bet to get to orbit in a sustainable fashion, as the re-entry problem for blunt bodies had already been solved during the design of ICBM nosecones.
Furthermore, there is no chance that Rattan's craft will scale up to a lunar vehicle as the mothership aircraft would have to be enormous. If he can get an orbital vehicle out of this technology then this could prove to be an excellent way to ferry people to LEO, but it won't have the cargo capacity of even a Delta, much less a Saturn V.
And NASA and the Air Force (and the Russians) have already proved it can be done and where the safety margin lies. Doing a hard thing the first time is generally a lot more expensive than doing it again, even with all new technology. The X-15s didn't come that long after the sound barrier had been broken for the first time, after all.
Actually, they're not doing much more than the Air Force did with the X-15 program in the fifties and sixties. I'll be curious to see if Scaled's promised orbital vehicle retains the same elegant lines. I doubt it. Orbital velocities are much higher, so I'm betting we end up with a much chunkier vehicle, a la the Shuttle or Buran, only smaller.
Unisys never did the same with their submarine patent. They simply said nothing and then enforced it. Adobe has already precluded themselves from that.
No, but Aragorn and Arwen honeymoon on Naboo at the Jar Jar Arms.
Actually, from reviewing the information on astronautix.com, it appears that one test article had jets so it could conduct automatic landing tests. The production articles lacked these engines and were essentially gliders like the Shuttle.
All broad generalizations are false. Of course you've forgotten Tarawa, Iwo Jima, the Chosin Resevoir, and countless other places where the US public put up with high casualty counts but went forward. In general, what the US public seems to want is casualties proportional to the worth of the enterprise. The average US citizen didn't think Somalia was worth much, if anything at all. This appears to be an appraisal shared by the rest of the world, who didn't exactly jump in to set the situation right after the US withdrawal.
You are assuming of course that what they are selling is actually Levitra or Cialis. Considering that at least 10% of the worldwide drug market is counterfeit, and that percentages can be as high as 60% in countries without strong drug regulators, you are more likely getting relabeled asprin or a sugar pill.
How many moving parts are in that receiver? I'm guessing not many, and those it does have (volume knobs and selector switches) aren't used that much. Do you still have the turntable your father purchased with that receiver? Has it ever been serviced?
Look, I don't like Lucas' changes any more than the next guy, but this is retarded. We grant the creator of a work exclusive rights ostensibly to encourage people to create new works so they to can make a mint. Exclusive rights include the right to not release it if they choose not to. I'll agree that these rights should expire after a time, but in this case the author is still living and I believe that it is worthwhile to adhere to his wishes.
You do not have a right to see the original Star Wars. You have a desire to do so. Lucas does have the right to monkey with it, and I have the right to think he's a money grabbing talentless jerk who got lucky once and is desperately trying to prove that it wasn't a fluke (and failing.)
I grew up in Washington, DC. Ground Zero in the event of an all out war. Please spare me the condescending crap. As any European war was likely to flare in to an all out nuclear armageddon, I fully understand the "atmosphere of fear." As the Mohawks say about working on tall buildings it's not that you don't feel fear, it's how you deal with it.
They also had a stated policy of observing the soveriegnty of neighboring nations that they ignored when it was convienient for them to so. Trusting that that "policy" would actually be enforced if Russia was losing a convential all out war with NATO was extremely naive.
That's no different from the language on any concert ticket. Basically it gives them license to throw you out should you start acting like an asshat.
This feature will not be turned on by default. I probably won't enable it in my office. If I were the administrator of a bank, hospital, or defense contractor, however, it would be turned on in a heartbeat. As for your other options, I happen to know that hospitals have designated machines with e-mail and net access, and those are not on the same network as the other machines, nor are those networks connected to each other.
I still bet that the current FCC won't overrule the Universities on this one. They're too busy fellating Verizon and SBC to even notice.
Floppies do take up significant case real estate, particularly in small form factor laptops, by the way. Liberating the BIOS from the floppy requirement has led to all kinds of ultraportable or hidable machines.