because every leaf you turn over will provide a new group to challenge the building of a nuclear plant. Wind is not a competitor to Nuclear, it cannot fulfill the same role. Nuclear is base load, Wind can do peak. Wind is starting to feel the regulation and lawsuit issues Nuclear has, not to the same extent. It will, there are enough loons to oppose anything.
Look up how many "studies" are needed to put up a new reactor, even on a site with them, then compare it to the willingness to look to look the other way when putting up any power generation associated with "green". Then go read the stories where people can't stand the noise of wind farms and ask yourself, how long before that study increases costs to the point people think twice, three times, or more. Then to top it off, you can have your windfarms, provided only the poor are afflicted with them, and pretty soon no coast will be safe because of sight pollution concerns.
Really? Here at Slashdot we have those who discount the accomplishment of others on nothing more than "they won life's lottery" - "they were connected"? Then we have the declaration of how a certain poster is obviously astronaut quality while trying to make it appear that he is claiming many of/. is.
Here, I will give you a hint, instead of trolling bbs message boards in his younger days, or hanging out at the mall (it was the 80s after all) he was probably busting his ass. Actually, reading his and his brothers wiki pages would show that they both worked pretty hard to get there and just didn't have it handed to them.
I guess most astronauts would feel great in being classified as "got in because of who they knew".
You have two highly driven people who happen to be family, that they are twins probably helped too. Both did very well at everything they worked at and most likely one got the itch and the other said "if he can do it, I can do it".
Successful people do, the rest bitch on message boards
the UK pays people for their kids if they are in school, then thrown in all the horror stories of deadbeat families with pads bigger than most higher income people coupled with wide screens and the like and we can see that the UK suffers from an entitlement society of the worst kind. When you are in financial straights like the UK (the US needs to get a hint) everything must be on the table, even if it slows you down in the future a bit, if you don't make it to that future what did it matter?
Congress reigning in spending increases to less than 2% per year. Either way we can save lots of money. I doubt that if Republicans get the House and/or Senate they will do much about it, even if they did try they would be hounded by the Democrats for picking on the poor and the press who has been silent these two years would join in the smack down orgy.
this is what happens when people do have to take responsibility for their own actions.
We have a group of people, this happens in other places across the US, who live in areas with limited services, including some totally absent. I have been in areas where phone service required months of wait. Cable was "you pay us to run it and we do it" but still fire and police were part of my taxes.
The problem here is, that this should not have been an optional service. Public safety is one area where government should not be opt in.
I can find lots of wonderful disasters or reduced services in socialist countries by reading the news search engines, where those in power are far more than equal to those they served.
This has nothing but government type, but living in areas where essential services have not been fully established and for some odd reason, an opt in on essential public safety services was chosen. It is quite possible this choice was valid when only a handful of people were involved.
the power down to the Earth but being able to get a satellite into orbit where the components can handle the power coming off the line and converted to the beam. Wouldn't the conversion generate a lot of heat?
"The arcology dwellers have evolved a different culture, sacrificing privacy - there are cameras (not routinely monitored) even in the private apartments - in exchange for security."
and before setup top boxes monitor your movement like current game consoles are doing. Nah, will never happen. Once they get you to pay for a feature don't you think they are going to make sure that you want to pay?
It was amazing the extent which Sony went to win the Blu-Ray game, I am quite sure there is enough money here to warrant companies making similar expenditures to come with a way to keep the revenue stream. (fwiw, the fight for blu over hd was the fight over forcing you to watch commercials before the main feature which hd did not allow - so now they will bring that to broadcast)
One of the big changes, no more support PowerPC Macs. Needless to say it caused quite a bit of forum posting. While I understand the issue what I do not understand is those claiming that it is financially impossible for them to upgrade to a new machine yet they have time to play a MMORPG.
never under estimate how many went to that movie and "saw" bits of themselves in the various characters, trying to justify their behavior to themselves. From the beyond college student dialog to their dress and the speed it appears they act. Oh yeah, I can see where they found people to go see the film
A good way to clean out those who were not toeing the line properly. I am sure a few foes will vanish. I am sure the UN's Human Rights Council or whatever that farce is now called will not bat an eye, well maybe they will find a way to blame Jews for it.
Oh, I WTFV, but still, like there have been other oracles before him, it matters not. Technology has change government, it has given it more methods to keep people in line, to feed them what they want, to play one class off another, to better mince boundary lines to keep officials in power, to better redistribute wealth to do what boundaries cannot, and a host of other abuses. We have all the fun of McCain/Feingold followed by an Administration that seems to have free speech if it is of a differing opinion. One that takes the worst of the previous abuser and exaggerates them.
China operates like the Orwellian nightmare of a business, uprooting people and destroying history and nature in its relentless march forward, hoping to get where its going before something irrevocably breaks. China has to look over its shoulder as well, up and coming countries arise all the time, each more hungry than the last. Let alone their real problem, how to keep North Korea from causing an all out war next door.
Sounds like someone who also was familiar with the WWIV BBS system, one of the few which you could get source too. A very interesting code base which spawned quite a few other BBS systems; telegard/renegade/etc. The best feature back then was WWIVNET which served messages and primitive e-mail between sites across the country, it was pretty seamless and a breeze for both operators to setup and users to make use of. Throw in the dearth of mods one could make to the later version's C source code and it was close to be a shared project, not quite open source (you had to buy it for less than $50 and you could not sell it yourself) but a beginning.
The earlier Pascal version was used the most by other writers, in the Pascal 3.0 days "door" games on it were not even complete programs, instead run by a feature native to Pascal 3.0 itself.
Of course I may be rambling and door games is a term used elsewhere, but during my BBS days I only saw it in one place.
Sorry, any legislation crammed through in the last few days of a session is bound to be crap. Which apparently this one was, as it excluded wireless providers from the rules applied to wired providers. I guess one group pays better than the other.
We are already seeing the pull back in wireless, we are losing uncapped plans. I do not doubt that if we had the ham fisted regulation we normally get out of the Fed we would soon see that popping back up on wired plans. If abusers cannot be managed away then everyone will simply get clamped down to limits.
now all we need are options for machine guns and spike throwers. Having each wheel with its own motor makes for some good safety enhancements but how are they handling the weight of motors at wheels?
Hopefully within three to five years more and more range extenders will become available, I just want it in a form other than sedan or sports car; read: cuv/suv
Big Pharma saw the pot at the end of the Rainbow with the Health Care Bill. So they made a deal, this is simply part of the payoff. Of course they will be paying those who pushed the law onto the land with nice contributions to their political campaigns.
it fouled up my reading to no end. From the different layouts to it choosing stuff it thought I wanted over others. I prefer the old version much better. I am more likely to visit sites like DrudgeReport which throw it all up there and I pick and choose with ease instead of trying to figure out where something I might want to read went. I bounce between CNN/FOX to get all the stories afterward and then back to google's news collector.
Its getting to the point where my local newspaper's website, with its lack of customization is much more readable. With customization I am never sure what I miss.
pumping plain text to anyone identified coming to my website as impaired.
It is the safest route to follow. Any attempt by me or other others to gracefully handle it only will invite lawyers whose occupation is find those who slip up while acting on good intentions. No, take it to the minimums required and forget it. This is a far different issue than handling weaker devices. You are not up against a finite thing, that is what a device is capable of, your up against a new infinite, what the impaired user thinks they can accept. You can't win except by going for zero.
Been there, done that, you won't believe the crap with ADA my cousins have been hit with at a bakery/cafe. There are people out there whose only business is to use laws like to make money, they could care less that you finally complied, they want money.
The flip side is, perhaps we will get back to deliver information instead of delivering effects. I am so tired of websites that make me work for the content
Censorship is sometimes a requirement in a society who use the anonymity of the internet to be dicks. People also forever underestimate the desire of many people to play in environments free from jerks. Let alone keep them away from their kids. When growing up jerks tended to be hauled off by parents or teachers. We have gone from real playgrounds to virtual ones but we still need supervision.
than the graduates. Far too many colleges are all about the money they can bring in. Hence they jumped for joy when the feds took over college loans. The costs of education soared in proportion with how much money was being poured into financing and paying for it by the government.
if one person's work and effort (result is riches) then no one's work or effort is worth defending.
Besides, all those big names we see (soros, gates, jobs, murdoch) and such are not affected by income taxes. Yet people love to soak the evil rich and instead his the working rich, those who go to very good paying jobs they got through investment in school and work. It also soaks many multi employee small businessmen.
Purchasing should be taxed, not income. The evil rich can very much pay for society by taxing the spending of all. Taxing income is simply the best way to hide the burden the state puts on people as a whole. With the subtle deceit of having the taxes paid before the employee sees his check he does not have the same connection as the small businessman when it comes to just how much tax is out there.
So, yeah I will defend the working rich, the small businessman, the doctor, the broker, and such. Those in the range of 150 to 500k should not bear the brunt of a society which is more and more turning into lazy gimme children.
I am pretty sure the name was not much of a concern, only now when "sensitivities" are the issue of the day. Now, since the talent in the game comes from all over the globe it has a good reason to use the name. Let alone the simple fact, they created it in 1903 who is to object? How does it offend people of other countries where baseball is not played at a similar level? If it does offend, then get over it, its a sporting event. Nothing to take offense at.
So, there you have it, they were first so they claimed whatever named appealed to them, out of tradition the name stays. Sometimes tradition is better than being correct.
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because every leaf you turn over will provide a new group to challenge the building of a nuclear plant. Wind is not a competitor to Nuclear, it cannot fulfill the same role. Nuclear is base load, Wind can do peak. Wind is starting to feel the regulation and lawsuit issues Nuclear has, not to the same extent. It will, there are enough loons to oppose anything.
Look up how many "studies" are needed to put up a new reactor, even on a site with them, then compare it to the willingness to look to look the other way when putting up any power generation associated with "green". Then go read the stories where people can't stand the noise of wind farms and ask yourself, how long before that study increases costs to the point people think twice, three times, or more. Then to top it off, you can have your windfarms, provided only the poor are afflicted with them, and pretty soon no coast will be safe because of sight pollution concerns.
Really? Here at Slashdot we have those who discount the accomplishment of others on nothing more than "they won life's lottery" - "they were connected"? Then we have the declaration of how a certain poster is obviously astronaut quality while trying to make it appear that he is claiming many of /. is.
Here, I will give you a hint, instead of trolling bbs message boards in his younger days, or hanging out at the mall (it was the 80s after all) he was probably busting his ass. Actually, reading his and his brothers wiki pages would show that they both worked pretty hard to get there and just didn't have it handed to them.
I guess most astronauts would feel great in being classified as "got in because of who they knew".
You have two highly driven people who happen to be family, that they are twins probably helped too. Both did very well at everything they worked at and most likely one got the itch and the other said "if he can do it, I can do it".
Successful people do, the rest bitch on message boards
the UK pays people for their kids if they are in school, then thrown in all the horror stories of deadbeat families with pads bigger than most higher income people coupled with wide screens and the like and we can see that the UK suffers from an entitlement society of the worst kind. When you are in financial straights like the UK (the US needs to get a hint) everything must be on the table, even if it slows you down in the future a bit, if you don't make it to that future what did it matter?
Congress reigning in spending increases to less than 2% per year. Either way we can save lots of money. I doubt that if Republicans get the House and/or Senate they will do much about it, even if they did try they would be hounded by the Democrats for picking on the poor and the press who has been silent these two years would join in the smack down orgy.
Left MacRumors because of the religious hate there, the constant harassment and the like, why should facebook be any different.
People don't stick around negative people for very long. Just like in real life, I tend to stay away from those who are sour.
this is what happens when people do have to take responsibility for their own actions.
We have a group of people, this happens in other places across the US, who live in areas with limited services, including some totally absent. I have been in areas where phone service required months of wait. Cable was "you pay us to run it and we do it" but still fire and police were part of my taxes.
The problem here is, that this should not have been an optional service. Public safety is one area where government should not be opt in.
I can find lots of wonderful disasters or reduced services in socialist countries by reading the news search engines, where those in power are far more than equal to those they served.
This has nothing but government type, but living in areas where essential services have not been fully established and for some odd reason, an opt in on essential public safety services was chosen. It is quite possible this choice was valid when only a handful of people were involved.
the power down to the Earth but being able to get a satellite into orbit where the components can handle the power coming off the line and converted to the beam. Wouldn't the conversion generate a lot of heat?
guess we might actually get there one day, I wonder how long before someone builds a Todos Santos and how long the line for admission will be.
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Fealty_(novel)
"The arcology dwellers have evolved a different culture, sacrificing privacy - there are cameras (not routinely monitored) even in the private apartments - in exchange for security."
and before setup top boxes monitor your movement like current game consoles are doing. Nah, will never happen. Once they get you to pay for a feature don't you think they are going to make sure that you want to pay?
It was amazing the extent which Sony went to win the Blu-Ray game, I am quite sure there is enough money here to warrant companies making similar expenditures to come with a way to keep the revenue stream. (fwiw, the fight for blu over hd was the fight over forcing you to watch commercials before the main feature which hd did not allow - so now they will bring that to broadcast)
One of the big changes, no more support PowerPC Macs. Needless to say it caused quite a bit of forum posting. While I understand the issue what I do not understand is those claiming that it is financially impossible for them to upgrade to a new machine yet they have time to play a MMORPG.
never under estimate how many went to that movie and "saw" bits of themselves in the various characters, trying to justify their behavior to themselves. From the beyond college student dialog to their dress and the speed it appears they act. Oh yeah, I can see where they found people to go see the film
Really, this should be fun to watch, to see just how ridiculously one sided that they will be.
never waste a good crisis.
A good way to clean out those who were not toeing the line properly. I am sure a few foes will vanish. I am sure the UN's Human Rights Council or whatever that farce is now called will not bat an eye, well maybe they will find a way to blame Jews for it.
Oh, I WTFV, but still, like there have been other oracles before him, it matters not. Technology has change government, it has given it more methods to keep people in line, to feed them what they want, to play one class off another, to better mince boundary lines to keep officials in power, to better redistribute wealth to do what boundaries cannot, and a host of other abuses. We have all the fun of McCain/Feingold followed by an Administration that seems to have free speech if it is of a differing opinion. One that takes the worst of the previous abuser and exaggerates them.
China operates like the Orwellian nightmare of a business, uprooting people and destroying history and nature in its relentless march forward, hoping to get where its going before something irrevocably breaks. China has to look over its shoulder as well, up and coming countries arise all the time, each more hungry than the last. Let alone their real problem, how to keep North Korea from causing an all out war next door.
Sounds like someone who also was familiar with the WWIV BBS system, one of the few which you could get source too. A very interesting code base which spawned quite a few other BBS systems; telegard/renegade/etc. The best feature back then was WWIVNET which served messages and primitive e-mail between sites across the country, it was pretty seamless and a breeze for both operators to setup and users to make use of. Throw in the dearth of mods one could make to the later version's C source code and it was close to be a shared project, not quite open source (you had to buy it for less than $50 and you could not sell it yourself) but a beginning.
The earlier Pascal version was used the most by other writers, in the Pascal 3.0 days "door" games on it were not even complete programs, instead run by a feature native to Pascal 3.0 itself.
Of course I may be rambling and door games is a term used elsewhere, but during my BBS days I only saw it in one place.
Sorry, any legislation crammed through in the last few days of a session is bound to be crap. Which apparently this one was, as it excluded wireless providers from the rules applied to wired providers. I guess one group pays better than the other.
We are already seeing the pull back in wireless, we are losing uncapped plans. I do not doubt that if we had the ham fisted regulation we normally get out of the Fed we would soon see that popping back up on wired plans. If abusers cannot be managed away then everyone will simply get clamped down to limits.
now all we need are options for machine guns and spike throwers. Having each wheel with its own motor makes for some good safety enhancements but how are they handling the weight of motors at wheels?
Hopefully within three to five years more and more range extenders will become available, I just want it in a form other than sedan or sports car; read: cuv/suv
Big Pharma saw the pot at the end of the Rainbow with the Health Care Bill. So they made a deal, this is simply part of the payoff. Of course they will be paying those who pushed the law onto the land with nice contributions to their political campaigns.
it fouled up my reading to no end. From the different layouts to it choosing stuff it thought I wanted over others. I prefer the old version much better. I am more likely to visit sites like DrudgeReport which throw it all up there and I pick and choose with ease instead of trying to figure out where something I might want to read went. I bounce between CNN/FOX to get all the stories afterward and then back to google's news collector.
Its getting to the point where my local newspaper's website, with its lack of customization is much more readable. With customization I am never sure what I miss.
pumping plain text to anyone identified coming to my website as impaired.
It is the safest route to follow. Any attempt by me or other others to gracefully handle it only will invite lawyers whose occupation is find those who slip up while acting on good intentions. No, take it to the minimums required and forget it. This is a far different issue than handling weaker devices. You are not up against a finite thing, that is what a device is capable of, your up against a new infinite, what the impaired user thinks they can accept. You can't win except by going for zero.
Been there, done that, you won't believe the crap with ADA my cousins have been hit with at a bakery/cafe. There are people out there whose only business is to use laws like to make money, they could care less that you finally complied, they want money.
The flip side is, perhaps we will get back to deliver information instead of delivering effects. I am so tired of websites that make me work for the content
A communications disruption can mean only one thing - invasion.
well, what better time to fix that pesky reactor.
and older kids who do won't be missed.
Censorship is sometimes a requirement in a society who use the anonymity of the internet to be dicks. People also forever underestimate the desire of many people to play in environments free from jerks. Let alone keep them away from their kids. When growing up jerks tended to be hauled off by parents or teachers. We have gone from real playgrounds to virtual ones but we still need supervision.
than the graduates. Far too many colleges are all about the money they can bring in. Hence they jumped for joy when the feds took over college loans. The costs of education soared in proportion with how much money was being poured into financing and paying for it by the government.
if one person's work and effort (result is riches) then no one's work or effort is worth defending.
Besides, all those big names we see (soros, gates, jobs, murdoch) and such are not affected by income taxes. Yet people love to soak the evil rich and instead his the working rich, those who go to very good paying jobs they got through investment in school and work. It also soaks many multi employee small businessmen.
Purchasing should be taxed, not income. The evil rich can very much pay for society by taxing the spending of all. Taxing income is simply the best way to hide the burden the state puts on people as a whole. With the subtle deceit of having the taxes paid before the employee sees his check he does not have the same connection as the small businessman when it comes to just how much tax is out there.
So, yeah I will defend the working rich, the small businessman, the doctor, the broker, and such. Those in the range of 150 to 500k should not bear the brunt of a society which is more and more turning into lazy gimme children.
I am pretty sure the name was not much of a concern, only now when "sensitivities" are the issue of the day. Now, since the talent in the game comes from all over the globe it has a good reason to use the name. Let alone the simple fact, they created it in 1903 who is to object? How does it offend people of other countries where baseball is not played at a similar level? If it does offend, then get over it, its a sporting event. Nothing to take offense at.
So, there you have it, they were first so they claimed whatever named appealed to them, out of tradition the name stays. Sometimes tradition is better than being correct.