Personally, I think this way too. Nature finds a way to return to balance things out. Frankly, another scenario is that the fields shrivel up in the heat and global starvation causes us to start eating each other, or at least, shooting each other for what food remains, and then that drops populations back down to acceptable levels, which drives down industry as well, which reduces emissions.
This is the most powerful UNELECTED man in Federal Government. Because a large number of the GOP have signed his pledge to NEVER raise taxes, the GOP has scuttled or stalled every proposal to get this nation back on it's feet.
So my question is for Grover. And my question is this: "What gives you the fucking right? Nobody in America cast even one vote for your sorry ass, and yet you are dictating policy more than any elected official, even the goddam president. Do you really think you represent everyone in America? Do you even realize how much damage you are causing to our poilitcal system? Do you realize that YOU created the gridlock that ultimately lowered America's credit rating? And that further gridlock will ultimately cause this nation's downfall?"
Anybody who lives in the reality of the USA knows the political system is completely broken.Representatives do NOT represent "the people", they represent whomever is cutting them the biggest check. It's the best politics money can buy.
You can ask anyone from Obama on down to the lowliest D.C. Paige anything you like, but there won't be any action unless you're handing over a suitcase of cash.
So, really Slashdot, what's the point? Our politicians are bought and paid-for whores, and unless you're waving money, they won't lift a finger. That's the reality. Representative government has failed via corruption.
The Supreme Court has even ruled that Corporations are people, so therefore, those with the money get to write their own laws, and the rest of us chattel have to live by them.
So, I guess my question is: Is there anyone left in government that actually represents the interests of the people? And before they answer, make sure you know EXACTLY how much they've accepted from lobbyists, because that will tell you up-front how much they are lying.
These were the same dorks who pushed the "internet boom" in the 90's, claiming that every new startup, no matter how fucked their business plan was, was a "gold mine". We even had a parody called "F*cked Company" which daily documented all the businesses failing in Silicon Alley (NYC) during the bust period of 2000 to 2002.
They have a lot of nerve to call the App Store a "casino", when they are the lapdogs of the stock market.
You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged.
Time to drag Bruce Willis back into the fray, so he can get shot at the Philly Airport, and David Morse can release the plague that will force us all to live underground...
So, if I sell a motorcycle on Craigslist and the buyer pays in cash, this is now illegal? That's somehow gotta be unconstitutional, but I need a lawyer for that... And can I pay the Lawyer in cash?
May I be the first to say... Fuck You Louisiana. I'm never going there and I hope you get wiped out by a Hurricane.
You're assuming that "we" can enact legislation. "We" cannot. We can only elect representatives that "we" hope will represent our interests.
But that's not the way it works anymore. Those guys that make legislation only seem to represent big corporate interests, because that's who's funding their re-election campaigns. Then they use that money to make TV commercials that lie to us, telling us to vote for him so he can represent us. Then, when we stupidly elect him, he goes and screws us, and enacts legislation for the interests that really got him re-elected, which is big money.
So "we" really have no voice in government at all. "We" cannot enact legislation, "we" are only subjects to the king and queen -- i.e. big companies.
And, can we test the DHS's computerized system by running Colin Powell's speech to the UN about Iraq's WMDs through it? I'd love to see what that comes back with.
I mean, you could see he didn't want to be there saying what he was saying, but he did it anyhow.
And more than 100,000 lives lost, 5000 American soldiers dead, a trillion dollars flushed down the toilet, that's gotta be the biggest crime in history.
Can we use this on politicians to tell when they are lying?
I mean, those guys are worse than the terrorists, they've destroyed way more lives in the past 5 years than 9/11 ever did (George W. Bush has killed more than 100,000 civilians around the world).
Maybe if the politicos knew that their heart rate, eye movements, and breathing patterns were being monitored all the time, maybe, just maybe they'd let their brains get ahead of their mouths, and actually consider what crap it is they are spouting.
Actually, the really sad part about the 2nd Ave Subway is that most of it is ALREADY built. That project has been started and stopped a few times already.
Michael Jackson's "BAD" video was shot in a 2nd Ave Subway station -- that's an idea of how far back that goes. I think it was started in the 70's under Ed Koch. I remember going through a section of it back in my college days when I was doing some NYC archeology.
All they really need to do is clear out the homeless communities down there and more of it would be complete than you think. The fact that it's going to take a decade for that is really down to corruption, not a lack of being able to do the job.
So, if my daughter is changing out of her sweats and into her cheerleader uniform in back seat (and we have tinted windows), and this device just happens to snap a photo at the right time...
Someone needs to remind these iPass (can't Apple Sue?) people of the Penn. School Board people that were surreptitiously monitoring kids in their homes via laptop webcams.
I fail to see how kids can be prosecuted as adults to "sexting" themselves to other's cell phones, but the government is OK with taking photos at random everywhere and yet, they fail to see the potential for creating tons of kiddie porn, which will, no doubt, get itself distributed somehow. So America, which wants to stamp out kiddie porn, the government is the biggest producer of... go figure.
The similarities between the Original Star Trek, and the fictional TV show that was the basis for the spoof "Galaxy Quest" are well-known.
Star Trek has become more than a TV show, it's now a bona-fide cultural icon -- something that just doesn't make films of its own, but influences other films, as well as real-life science and technology.
What's your opinion of a role you created, being, not just picked up to continue by actors like Chris Pine, but lampooned by actors such as Tim Allen?
And on a larger scale, how that role has actually changed the course of history, as it clearly has influenced a large number of scientists and engineers to make Roddenberry's vision a reality?
The project I'm talking about was the DC-X Delta Clipper. It looked like a flying salt shaker, took off and landed vertically (i.e. on its tail).
The engines were not aerospike, but gimbaled like the shuttle engines, so they could individually pivot to maintain balance as well as provide a form of thrust vectoring (the vehicle could hover for example, and then slide sideways to a different landing area, while maintaining an upright flight profile).
I peripherally worked on the DC-X program which was a single stage to orbit concept vehicle that would have eventually lead to a larger rocket that was considered as a shuttle replacement.
The problem with the DCX was that it had to reserve fuel for the landing. The whole idea was to take off from something no bigger than a heli-pad (no gantry, and just a few people manning launch control) fly, and land back on the heli-pad.
Worked great until you got to the landing part: Two big issues were during landing, thrust would bounce off the tarmac, and end up setting the rocket on fire, the other problem was the landing gear. On one test flight, one leg failed to deploy, the rocket landed, then tipped over and exploded... which essentially killed the project.
The DCX was conceived during Reagen's "Star Wars" project, and built and flown during the Clinton era.
Unless there's been some breakthrough for the Falcon, I believe Musk is going to run into exactly the same issues.
Personally, I believe Rutan is on a better track, following the X-15 and scaling up. That's the only method for full re-useability.
Anybody remember this awful movie? You must since it's on TBS every other weekend. Their idea of "interactive TV" was that things were still broadcast, but you get to vote, or something like that. This is what these passive media devices (tablets) are moving us towards. "The Cloud" provides us with TV and we watch it on our mobile device.
For interactivity, we get to vote, or perhaps read something of our choice (from what's available)... Sorta like cable TV is now with 1000 channels.
Starship Troopers (the movie) really predicted 'American Idol' more than anything else, but I see Tablets headed this way as well, where The Cloud decides what we can watch and what we can't.
I'm probably dating myself to all the kids on Slashdot, but when did web pages get so complex that work now needs to be split?
I still write all my HTML by hand, optimize my images, specify the actual size of the image in the IMG tag, yadda yadda.
I *never* understood the purpose of CSS, except that it mucked things up. I was very happy with black text against grey (woot Mosaic). Heck, my favorite browser was Omniweb for NeXT.
When exactly did things get so bad that web browsers are at their limit and these tablets, which have far more power than my Amiga, can't render web pages without help?
It doesn't look like this thing has bluetooth, which limits its usefulness. While it *does* have a USB port, there's no mention of what types of devices are supported via USB.
Can I plug in a flash drive? A USB keyboard? A printer? -- heck, can I attach this tablet to a USB hub and access all my regular peripherals? Or is the USB port just for charging up the tablet?
See, I'm looking for a nice portable terminal to SSH to my servers -- and while a tablet seems like a good idea for this role, it needs to allow me to plug in a good keyboard, and use this keyboard.
Seriously, there's nothing left here. Unless Meg has an amazing trick up her sleeve (and she doesn't), there's no saving this downward spiral.
Last I checked, she's just another MBA with no idea how to run a technology company. She's *not* Steve Jobs, who actually can bring a company back from disaster.
And that's what HP really needs. A Steve Jobs type, someone who can turn a company around and move it into a new market. HP has been, for more than a decade now a "me too" company with dwindling fortunes.
Unfortunately, "Steve Jobs types" are not easily discovered.
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Personally, I think this way too. Nature finds a way to return to balance things out. Frankly, another scenario is that the fields shrivel up in the heat and global starvation causes us to start eating each other, or at least, shooting each other for what food remains, and then that drops populations back down to acceptable levels, which drives down industry as well, which reduces emissions.
This is the most powerful UNELECTED man in Federal Government. Because a large number of the GOP have signed his pledge to NEVER raise taxes, the GOP has scuttled or stalled every proposal to get this nation back on it's feet.
So my question is for Grover. And my question is this: "What gives you the fucking right? Nobody in America cast even one vote for your sorry ass, and yet you are dictating policy more than any elected official, even the goddam president. Do you really think you represent everyone in America? Do you even realize how much damage you are causing to our poilitcal system? Do you realize that YOU created the gridlock that ultimately lowered America's credit rating? And that further gridlock will ultimately cause this nation's downfall?"
Douche.
Anybody who lives in the reality of the USA knows the political system is completely broken.Representatives do NOT represent "the people", they represent whomever is cutting them the biggest check. It's the best politics money can buy.
You can ask anyone from Obama on down to the lowliest D.C. Paige anything you like, but there won't be any action unless you're handing over a suitcase of cash.
So, really Slashdot, what's the point? Our politicians are bought and paid-for whores, and unless you're waving money, they won't lift a finger. That's the reality. Representative government has failed via corruption.
The Supreme Court has even ruled that Corporations are people, so therefore, those with the money get to write their own laws, and the rest of us chattel have to live by them.
So, I guess my question is: Is there anyone left in government that actually represents the interests of the people? And before they answer, make sure you know EXACTLY how much they've accepted from lobbyists, because that will tell you up-front how much they are lying.
These were the same dorks who pushed the "internet boom" in the 90's, claiming that every new startup, no matter how fucked their business plan was, was a "gold mine". We even had a parody called "F*cked Company" which daily documented all the businesses failing in Silicon Alley (NYC) during the bust period of 2000 to 2002.
They have a lot of nerve to call the App Store a "casino", when they are the lapdogs of the stock market.
You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged.
Or, if you want to listen to music you've already purchased, you need to manually enter your DRM code...
Or, you'll need your phone to access Sony Online, and when they get hacked again, you'll have your phone number all over the world...
Or they promise a phone that runs linux, and halfway through your contract, they remove linux...
I mean, this is *SONY*... If there's a way to screw this up, they will find it.
Time to drag Bruce Willis back into the fray, so he can get shot at the Philly Airport, and David Morse can release the plague that will force us all to live underground...
So, if I sell a motorcycle on Craigslist and the buyer pays in cash, this is now illegal? That's somehow gotta be unconstitutional, but I need a lawyer for that... And can I pay the Lawyer in cash?
May I be the first to say... Fuck You Louisiana. I'm never going there and I hope you get wiped out by a Hurricane.
You're assuming that "we" can enact legislation. "We" cannot. We can only elect representatives that "we" hope will represent our interests.
But that's not the way it works anymore. Those guys that make legislation only seem to represent big corporate interests, because that's who's funding their re-election campaigns. Then they use that money to make TV commercials that lie to us, telling us to vote for him so he can represent us. Then, when we stupidly elect him, he goes and screws us, and enacts legislation for the interests that really got him re-elected, which is big money.
So "we" really have no voice in government at all. "We" cannot enact legislation, "we" are only subjects to the king and queen -- i.e. big companies.
I think it's time for Anonymous to take down Verisign...
And, can we test the DHS's computerized system by running Colin Powell's speech to the UN about Iraq's WMDs through it? I'd love to see what that comes back with.
I mean, you could see he didn't want to be there saying what he was saying, but he did it anyhow.
And more than 100,000 lives lost, 5000 American soldiers dead, a trillion dollars flushed down the toilet, that's gotta be the biggest crime in history.
Can we use this on politicians to tell when they are lying?
I mean, those guys are worse than the terrorists, they've destroyed way more lives in the past 5 years than 9/11 ever did (George W. Bush has killed more than 100,000 civilians around the world).
Maybe if the politicos knew that their heart rate, eye movements, and breathing patterns were being monitored all the time, maybe, just maybe they'd let their brains get ahead of their mouths, and actually consider what crap it is they are spouting.
Actually, the really sad part about the 2nd Ave Subway is that most of it is ALREADY built. That project has been started and stopped a few times already.
Michael Jackson's "BAD" video was shot in a 2nd Ave Subway station -- that's an idea of how far back that goes. I think it was started in the 70's under Ed Koch. I remember going through a section of it back in my college days when I was doing some NYC archeology.
All they really need to do is clear out the homeless communities down there and more of it would be complete than you think. The fact that it's going to take a decade for that is really down to corruption, not a lack of being able to do the job.
So, if my daughter is changing out of her sweats and into her cheerleader uniform in back seat (and we have tinted windows), and this device just happens to snap a photo at the right time...
Someone needs to remind these iPass (can't Apple Sue?) people of the Penn. School Board people that were surreptitiously monitoring kids in their homes via laptop webcams.
I fail to see how kids can be prosecuted as adults to "sexting" themselves to other's cell phones, but the government is OK with taking photos at random everywhere and yet, they fail to see the potential for creating tons of kiddie porn, which will, no doubt, get itself distributed somehow. So America, which wants to stamp out kiddie porn, the government is the biggest producer of... go figure.
" Engineers.... They LOVE to change things! "
The similarities between the Original Star Trek, and the fictional TV show that was the basis for the spoof "Galaxy Quest" are well-known.
Star Trek has become more than a TV show, it's now a bona-fide cultural icon -- something that just doesn't make films of its own, but influences other films, as well as real-life science and technology.
What's your opinion of a role you created, being, not just picked up to continue by actors like Chris Pine, but lampooned by actors such as Tim Allen?
And on a larger scale, how that role has actually changed the course of history, as it clearly has influenced a large number of scientists and engineers to make Roddenberry's vision a reality?
No, you're thinking of the X-33 VentureStar.
The project I'm talking about was the DC-X Delta Clipper. It looked like a flying salt shaker, took off and landed vertically (i.e. on its tail).
The engines were not aerospike, but gimbaled like the shuttle engines, so they could individually pivot to maintain balance as well as provide a form of thrust vectoring (the vehicle could hover for example, and then slide sideways to a different landing area, while maintaining an upright flight profile).
I peripherally worked on the DC-X program which was a single stage to orbit concept vehicle that would have eventually lead to a larger rocket that was considered as a shuttle replacement.
The problem with the DCX was that it had to reserve fuel for the landing. The whole idea was to take off from something no bigger than a heli-pad (no gantry, and just a few people manning launch control) fly, and land back on the heli-pad.
Worked great until you got to the landing part: Two big issues were during landing, thrust would bounce off the tarmac, and end up setting the rocket on fire, the other problem was the landing gear. On one test flight, one leg failed to deploy, the rocket landed, then tipped over and exploded... which essentially killed the project.
The DCX was conceived during Reagen's "Star Wars" project, and built and flown during the Clinton era.
Unless there's been some breakthrough for the Falcon, I believe Musk is going to run into exactly the same issues.
Personally, I believe Rutan is on a better track, following the X-15 and scaling up. That's the only method for full re-useability.
Looks like Otomo was right on the money _
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujin_Z
BTW: this is an excellent anime film.
Anybody remember this awful movie? You must since it's on TBS every other weekend. Their idea of "interactive TV" was that things were still broadcast, but you get to vote, or something like that. This is what these passive media devices (tablets) are moving us towards. "The Cloud" provides us with TV and we watch it on our mobile device.
For interactivity, we get to vote, or perhaps read something of our choice (from what's available)... Sorta like cable TV is now with 1000 channels.
Starship Troopers (the movie) really predicted 'American Idol' more than anything else, but I see Tablets headed this way as well, where The Cloud decides what we can watch and what we can't.
He who controls the cloud, controls the world?
I'm probably dating myself to all the kids on Slashdot, but when did web pages get so complex that work now needs to be split?
I still write all my HTML by hand, optimize my images, specify the actual size of the image in the IMG tag, yadda yadda.
I *never* understood the purpose of CSS, except that it mucked things up. I was very happy with black text against grey (woot Mosaic). Heck, my favorite browser was Omniweb for NeXT.
When exactly did things get so bad that web browsers are at their limit and these tablets, which have far more power than my Amiga, can't render web pages without help?
It doesn't look like this thing has bluetooth, which limits its usefulness. While it *does* have a USB port, there's no mention of what types of devices are supported via USB.
Can I plug in a flash drive? A USB keyboard? A printer? -- heck, can I attach this tablet to a USB hub and access all my regular peripherals? Or is the USB port just for charging up the tablet?
See, I'm looking for a nice portable terminal to SSH to my servers -- and while a tablet seems like a good idea for this role, it needs to allow me to plug in a good keyboard, and use this keyboard.
How soon before pieces of it show up on eBay?
My prediction: pieces are already on eBay, because they are fake, as will be most of the pieces after it lands as well.
Selling it now cheap! Only a thousand bucks!
Seriously, there's nothing left here. Unless Meg has an amazing trick up her sleeve (and she doesn't), there's no saving this downward spiral.
Last I checked, she's just another MBA with no idea how to run a technology company. She's *not* Steve Jobs, who actually can bring a company back from disaster.
And that's what HP really needs. A Steve Jobs type, someone who can turn a company around and move it into a new market. HP has been, for more than a decade now a "me too" company with dwindling fortunes.
Unfortunately, "Steve Jobs types" are not easily discovered.
What does NASA have to do with space?
I thought they officially gave up in that area, and now it's just a jobs program for contractors.