I've never hated a series finale like this. It's genuinely difficult to mess up TV this badly. I despise BSG after that ending. I've deleted all copies on PC and Tivo. I will not watch any spin-offs.
Sci-fi fans aren't the proper demographic for this. The idea that "tech causes us to be evil" is irrational propaganda. The idea that the "good life" requires that we get rid of technology is utterly irrational.
Teachers' unions keep bad teachers employed. Our kids suffer for it. Education unions are uniquely powerful and political. They fight perfectly valid education reforms. They abuse kids with impunity.
I'm unwilling to make the more general case. Unions are overall positives for other workers.
The key to this is controlling funding at the state level.
Push to deny funds for state and local police agencies to cooperate with the DEA for any purpose. Change this only if DEA agrees to limit S.W.A.T. raids on medical marijuana clubs.
Also, push your statehouse to counter the DEA's raids at the state level by implementing a state-run legal insurance program for those running medical marijuana clubs.
Make sure this insurance program also provides funds for defendants to hire PR agencies to keep stories of DEA's heavy-handedness in the news.
And finally, explain to your U.S. House member that unless s/he seriously opposes the drug war in votes, you will give your money and your vote to anyone who opposes them in the next election, in both the primary and the general election. Remind them them they work for us.
Ideally our government and laws would be pro-choice on BOTH abortion access and gun rights.
But the flip side of the cognitive dissonance in your example is that it's okay to end a pregnancy because it will negatively impact a woman's life, but that it's wrong to point a gun at someone who wants to hurt you and tell them to go away.
5. Congress made them set the fire control system, missiles, and software back to that before the operation. So nobody can even reasonably claim it's provocative.
That's an effective idea. But let's take it one step further.
Contact your senators and house member. Tell them you will support any opponent they have in the next primary with your money and your vote if they support telcom immunity.
The reason there's a rush to count in the US is to avoid cheating. In past decades, political machines would, if given enough time, find enough votes in graveyards and elsewhere to put their candidates over the top.
It just so happens I'm large-earred sales rep for a pre-owned starship firm. We have spiffy, cutting-edge starships for war and profit at bargain basement prices!
Vincennes had been harassed by Iranian F-14 Tomcats mere minutes earlier. Also, for some reason, the airliner was using a military-mode transponder. This made it easy to assume the airliner was military. The airliner was far too far away to see optically.
Cheap, shoulder-fired missiles use optical, IR tracking, or laser seeking (See RBS-70.) Even if the jamming systems on airliners handled all these perfectly, sensors using millimeter wave and other parts of the spectrum are getting cheaper. There's weapons like the British Blowpipe that won't be jammed by the proposed system.
Active optical/IR jamming systems will not enable home-on-jamming. The laser is pulsed. Google "angle pull-off"
See if Earthlink offers cable Internet through your cable system. They do where I am. Earthlink has it's own gateways, etc. They have better policies. They allow low-bandwidth servers on a residential connection. And no, I don't work for them.
I made the mistake of getting cellphones from Verizon. They never followed the contract from day one. They wouldn't fix billing irregularities. They separated my family share program into separate accounts which cost far more.
After trying to fix these issues for most of a year, I concluded there was no way to get out of this contract without getting my credit damaged.
Had Verizon not been able to ding my credit, they might have been willing to solve the issues.
The target of that no-holds barred retaliation should be the current administration
Some are so intent on proving president "W" an evil puppet that they fail to notice how poorly his man, Rumsfeld, ran the war.
This war is isn't immoral simply because it's a war. It's not immoral because the current president is a republican.
It's immoral because they didn't have clear aims, strategy, and tactics, but still insisted on "Staying the course."
Were president "W" merely an evil puppet, he'd have dividied Iraq, made oils deals with the Kurds and Shia, then declared victory and left. As "W" left, he'd hand the Shites a note saying, "Oppress the Sunni all you like. We'll make popcorn."
Real understanding requires more than simply calling someone evil.
Threating peoples' jobs because they disagree with you isn't a good idea. It'll energize and grow the opposition. The argument can be won without it. It's both a bad and unethical tactic.
Some years back we added a camera phone to our Verizon account. We had to sign up for a new rate plan. This was a national rate plan. It included free long distance and roaming. It was also a family share plan so that all four of our phones could share the same minutes.
Months later, after many, many phone calls, hang ups, and promises to call me back that never happened, here was the situation:
1 - The phones were still not on the originally-promised rate plan when we switched to another cellular provider.
2 - We were been billed for long distance and roaming that was supposed to be free.
3 - Verizon extended the contract end date by repeatedly changing my rate plan without permission. The only rate plan change I authorized was the one we were supposed to get with the camera phone.
4 - One Verizon representative told me, "(she didn't) care" about the original contract.
5 - Verizon demanded I buy extra equipment before they would honor the original contract. They offered no way to leave the contract without paying unreasonable charges. Their only solution was to buy the additional equipment.
6 - Even if we purchased the equipment, Verizon customer reps refused to provide any written documentation of their promises to fix the account.
7 - I have told Verizon I would continue with their service if they: A - Move the contract end date back to the agreed end date for all phones. B - Remove the roaming and long distance charges that should have been free under the nation calling plan we signed up for. C - Verizon's representatives refused.
8 - Verizon's customer reps indicated Verizon planned to charge me $175 per phone to terminate the contract. I refused to pay these charges since Verizon has never honored the contract I signed.
9 - We have moved to another cellular provider.
10 - Verizon damaged our credit, so we've contacted an attorney. Texas allows triple recovery for fraudulent business practices.
I'd rather see it broken apart, melted and recycled Going to the moon was a great effort and accomplishment. Then the whole thing was abandoned. I've walked around the Saturn V. For me, it's a profoundly sad place.
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I've never hated a series finale like this. It's genuinely difficult to mess up TV this badly. I despise BSG after that ending. I've deleted all copies on PC and Tivo. I will not watch any spin-offs.
Sci-fi fans aren't the proper demographic for this. The idea that "tech causes us to be evil" is irrational propaganda. The idea that the "good life" requires that we get rid of technology is utterly irrational.
Teachers' unions keep bad teachers employed. Our kids suffer for it. Education unions are uniquely powerful and political. They fight perfectly valid education reforms. They abuse kids with impunity.
I'm unwilling to make the more general case. Unions are overall positives for other workers.
The key to this is controlling funding at the state level.
Push to deny funds for state and local police agencies to cooperate with the DEA for any purpose. Change this only if DEA agrees to limit S.W.A.T. raids on medical marijuana clubs.
Also, push your statehouse to counter the DEA's raids at the state level by implementing a state-run legal insurance program for those running medical marijuana clubs.
Make sure this insurance program also provides funds for defendants to hire PR agencies to keep stories of DEA's heavy-handedness in the news.
And finally, explain to your U.S. House member that unless s/he seriously opposes the drug war in votes, you will give your money and your vote to anyone who opposes them in the next election, in both the primary and the general election. Remind them them they work for us.
Those alarmed by this story should realize there are no peer-reviewed science papers showing this is happening to humans.
Ideally our government and laws would be pro-choice on BOTH abortion access and gun rights.
But the flip side of the cognitive dissonance in your example is that it's okay to end a pregnancy because it will negatively impact a woman's life, but that it's wrong to point a gun at someone who wants to hurt you and tell them to go away.
"urinate freely as they feed."
Holy urination, Batman! :)
5. Congress made them set the fire control system, missiles, and software back to that before the operation. So nobody can even reasonably claim it's provocative.
1) Talk to the local media. Explain how terribly worried you are about your bank account.
2) Then heads will roll. Enjoy the carnage.
3) Profit from the videos.
That's an effective idea. But let's take it one step further.
Contact your senators and house member. Tell them you will support any opponent they have in the next primary with your money and your vote if they support telcom immunity.
The reason there's a rush to count in the US is to avoid cheating. In past decades, political machines would, if given enough time, find enough votes in graveyards and elsewhere to put their candidates over the top.
It just so happens I'm large-earred sales rep for a pre-owned starship firm. We have spiffy, cutting-edge starships for war and profit at bargain basement prices!
Death penalty for spammers!!! grr! snarl! :)
Assume RAND is right, and it costs $41 billion to do this. What would the same amount of additional money spent on intel and special ops accomplish?
Vincennes had been harassed by Iranian F-14 Tomcats mere minutes earlier. Also, for some reason, the airliner was using a military-mode transponder. This made it easy to assume the airliner was military. The airliner was far too far away to see optically.
Cheap, shoulder-fired missiles use optical, IR tracking, or laser seeking (See RBS-70.) Even if the jamming systems on airliners handled all these perfectly, sensors using millimeter wave and other parts of the spectrum are getting cheaper. There's weapons like the British Blowpipe that won't be jammed by the proposed system.
Active optical/IR jamming systems will not enable home-on-jamming. The laser is pulsed. Google "angle pull-off"
See if Earthlink offers cable Internet through your cable system. They do where I am. Earthlink has it's own gateways, etc. They have better policies. They allow low-bandwidth servers on a residential connection. And no, I don't work for them.
I made the mistake of getting cellphones from Verizon. They never followed the contract from day one. They wouldn't fix billing irregularities. They separated my family share program into separate accounts which cost far more.
After trying to fix these issues for most of a year, I concluded there was no way to get out of this contract without getting my credit damaged.
Had Verizon not been able to ding my credit, they might have been willing to solve the issues.
The target of that no-holds barred retaliation should be the current administration
Some are so intent on proving president "W" an evil puppet that they fail to notice how poorly his man, Rumsfeld, ran the war.
This war is isn't immoral simply because it's a war. It's not immoral because the current president is a republican.
It's immoral because they didn't have clear aims, strategy, and tactics, but still insisted on "Staying the course."
Were president "W" merely an evil puppet, he'd have dividied Iraq, made oils deals with the Kurds and Shia, then declared victory and left. As "W" left, he'd hand the Shites a note saying, "Oppress the Sunni all you like. We'll make popcorn."
Real understanding requires more than simply calling someone evil.
Threating peoples' jobs because they disagree with you isn't a good idea. It'll energize and grow the opposition. The argument can be won without it. It's both a bad and unethical tactic.
Some years back we added a camera phone to our Verizon account. We had to sign up for a new rate plan. This was a national rate plan. It included free long distance and roaming. It was also a family share plan so that all four of our phones could share the same minutes.
Months later, after many, many phone calls, hang ups, and promises to call me back that never happened, here was the situation:
1 - The phones were still not on the originally-promised rate plan when we switched to another cellular provider.
2 - We were been billed for long distance and roaming that was supposed to be free.
3 - Verizon extended the contract end date by repeatedly changing my rate plan without permission. The only rate plan change I authorized was the one we were supposed to get with the camera phone.
4 - One Verizon representative told me, "(she didn't) care" about the original contract.
5 - Verizon demanded I buy extra equipment before they would honor the original contract. They offered no way to leave the contract without paying unreasonable charges. Their only solution was to buy the additional equipment.
6 - Even if we purchased the equipment, Verizon customer reps refused to provide any written documentation of their promises to fix the account.
7 - I have told Verizon I would continue with their service if they:
A - Move the contract end date back to the agreed end date for all phones.
B - Remove the roaming and long distance charges that should have been free under the nation calling plan we signed up for.
C - Verizon's representatives refused.
8 - Verizon's customer reps indicated Verizon planned to charge me $175 per phone to terminate the contract. I refused to pay these charges since Verizon has never honored the contract I signed.
9 - We have moved to another cellular provider.
10 - Verizon damaged our credit, so we've contacted an attorney. Texas allows triple recovery for fraudulent business practices.
Microsoft and the USA are different. The USA doesn't deserve to be hated. :)
The U.S. Army is prolly buying anthrax for testing defenses and new equipment.
Some terrorists have professed the desire to strike the U.S. with bioweapons. It makes good sense to prepare to defend against it.
Dugway Proving Ground has tested defenses in the past. Google it, and check it's history after 1967.
But the U.S. government wants to hinder adoption, not keep the bad guys from getting good cyphers.
It's still a brain dead policy, but their behavior makes more sense viewed in this light.
I agree. Some have confused ELF sonar and ELF radio. The article discusses ELF radio for sub communications.
ELF sonar is, umm, different. It might interfere with sea life. ELF radio would not.
Because ELF radio wavelength is huge, it won't have any biological effects on human or other animal life.
I'd rather see it broken apart, melted and recycled
Going to the moon was a great effort and accomplishment. Then the whole thing was abandoned.
I've walked around the Saturn V. For me, it's a profoundly sad place.