That's still engineer think, Grunt think is "How do I bail outa thins low-bid piece of shit when it FUBARs, it's not like this is the Energizer bunny or anything"
Our public schools were doing just fine until Reagan created the federal Dept of Education.
The United States Department of Education (also referred to as ED, for Education Department) is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. Created by the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88), it was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 17, 1979 and began operating on May 4, 1980. United States Department of Education
Reagen tended to cut tax rates and decrease the size of government, especially unearned entitlements.
Great Idea so it would never work, it's too simple for special interests to inject draconian administrative procedures help their own industry, no room for politicians to weasel out campaign contributions from PACS, my state is almost bankrupt so they'd never give up a 1/2% of tax rate to increase tax revenues, wash rinse repeat.
when I was online, I had a statement on the page that last the last step in sending in an order that said "please print out this page for you tax records" just for that reason. I remember the CEO of Tyco got hit for $millions in sales-use tax evasion a few years back.
Now that was insightful, yet the bottom line is Americans especially American Soldiers and Sailors don't like to kill people, the quickest way to end a war with us is to stop providing the moral counter-balance to the American GI aversion to killing
That still starts you down the same slippery slope, the shoddy CCTV with the useless image quality on one end of the spectrum isn't that much better the the satellite image that only resolve 5 cm^2 to the pixel; and as far a "reasonable expectation of privacy" the prosecutor is going to talk for 15 minutes about the definition of "reasonable", 30 minutes about the word "expectation" and 2 hours about "privacy".
I don't think anyone would like to feel they can be watched at any time, even indoors in their own home.. this is absolutely the essence of a police state. The problem isn't as much that the Police can but that anybody can, most of the Police other than a handful that go mustang are honorable people, but any whacko can aquire pretty high=tech gear.
KYLLO v. UNITED STATES Held: Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a Fourth Amendment "search," and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant. Pp. 3-13. Ever watch "Ghost Hunters" or a Cadillac commercial, Thermal imaging has been available to the general public for quite a while now
If a UAV can discern objects and people through a roof, monitor radio emissions and so forth, is that the same thing? My intuition says no, but I doubt it's defined. yes it is and you are wrong, if you are doing something and it is observed from a public space, it is fair game legaly; and has been that way since they started using thermal imaging to see the heat signature from in home hydroponic pot gardens back in the Clinton administration.
Is it illegal for the police to watch walking down the street without a warrant, no. One of my friends is a cop, he is required by the courts to look through the cars windows for a handicap sticker before he can write a ticket for parking in a handicap space, do you think this is a unreasonable search? Is looking through a window with your eyes any different from using a camera on a pole. from a police helicopter of a blimp? Is taking a picture with a camera from an aircraft any different than looking and is doing something like taking a picture from a aircraft any different than takeing a picture from a spacecraft? Is taking a picture through the your window with visible light coming through really that much different from taking a multi-spectral image of the thermal IR pouring through your houses walls?
The problem isn't that the Government is taking away any rights you have, the problem is believing you have rights that you don't.
Missing doesn't always mean the something as stolen, they might have been cannibalized
for repair parts to repair others or decommissioned and the serials numbers not deleted, or sitting in a bunker somewhere and the transfer paper work lost as well as thew more likely physically stolen
Government Liquidators are a private auction company commissioned by the USG, we've gotten a few things from them, bought a whole lots to get one or two items for less then the item would sell for on Ebay. Sometimes you get total junk, sometimes you get something that has never been used. Stuff from the Navy and Air Force is usually in the best shape, Army stuff is usually used to death. You also have to be careful to include shipping costs which can be considerable at times.
Not everything can be taken apart in a way that preserves dimensions some pieces of the airframe for example may take 2 pieces of different aluminum alloys, glued together with high-strength epoxy and held together with rivets until the epoxy cures; good luck getting that apart. Often the order of assembly can change a brain numbingly difficult step into a totally impossible one; how many times have you had to redo step 12 correctly so you could do step 27 when putting together one of the pressed saw-dust board entertainment centers for WallMart! Like the entertainment center the parts have to be assembled correct and often in the correct order because just they will not go together out of order, also like the entertainment center, the individual part are often very fragile and easy to break, they are only strong when put together. Even more difficult, aircraft like high-performance fighter can have part at wildly different temperature a leading edge might be 600-700 C, a foot back on the wing might be -50, everything not only has to be put together but stay together as the aircraft cycles through those temperature range every flight.
Why do we have wars? because there are a series for predatory despots that come to power and will suck the life out of not only their own countries but the whole world if allowed to. Frequently we start out using diplomatic pressure to get them to moderate their excessive behavior and that is sufficient, less frequently we have to escalated to economic sanctions and unfortunately we sometimes have to resort to military operations. Some people hate war because of some mamby-pamby lets sing Kumbya BS, and some of us hate it because we've been enforcing the line that separates the wolves from the sheep but still know that we want that line in somebody else's backyard.
listen all you want, with frequency hopping, digital spread spectrum, fully encrypted military communications your not going to hear more than a chirp or two.
That sounds about right, I know more about Wal-Mart's corp policies from reading slashdot than my daughter-inlaw does from the meetings at the local store. The problem in a lot of places is they try to promote from within, which is great if you can hire quality entry-levels but most of these places can't or quickly lose the few they do.
Just because it's Over-The-Air doesn't mean it doesn't use bandwidth, an analog TV reciever receives signals beginning at 54MHz and has a channel every 6 MHz up to 588MHz OTA (87 channels), newer TV receive more channels but are only used on cable, the Television band has a width of 534 MHz. The whole FM band occupies one TV channel between channel 7 and channel 8. The Digital channels are compressed and occupy less than the 6MHz so other new services can be slipped in the spaces opened up by the conversion.
The fly in the ointment is they have to label the TV's as non-digital or pull them from the shelves so the FCC can go back and hit them again next month and probably raise the fines for a second offense!
Consider this, 1. I can sit in a tank turret, aim the Coax machinegun using the turret elctro-mechanical systems to point it at a target that I'm observing through an electronic imaging system and fire it and it's OK, 2. Connect the systems to a remote unit via an RF link rather than a hardwire and suddenly it's a "robot" and scary, What the difference? This "robot" turned guns on it's fleshy comrades, operator error is much more likely; the guided missiles we've been shooting for half a century are closer to be a "robot" than this glorified RC car is.
It's pretty universal in the Army, a friend of mine transfered from the Army Guard to the Air Guard and was given an opportunity to be a crew chief for F16; he turned it down because he wouldn't be able to ride in one, but was responsible for declaring it airworthy. A parachute packer can and is asked to jump any chute he or she packs
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In the Army, I went to school on "b" shift, twice the utilization of the fixed costs.
That's still engineer think, Grunt think is "How do I bail outa thins low-bid piece of shit when it FUBARs, it's not like this is the Energizer bunny or anything"
Wow, Real Daleks don't climb stairs do they.
Reagen tended to cut tax rates and decrease the size of government, especially unearned entitlements.
Great Idea so it would never work, it's too simple for special interests to inject draconian administrative procedures help their own industry, no room for politicians to weasel out campaign contributions from PACS, my state is almost bankrupt so they'd never give up a 1/2% of tax rate to increase tax revenues, wash rinse repeat.
It's a sale-use tax, you pay the tax to the state that the item is going to be used in so in this case you'd pay the taxes due to Washington.
when I was online, I had a statement on the page that last the last step in sending in an order that said "please print out this page for you tax records" just for that reason. I remember the CEO of Tyco got hit for $millions in sales-use tax evasion a few years back.
Now that was insightful, yet the bottom line is Americans especially American Soldiers and Sailors don't like to kill people, the quickest way to end a war with us is to stop providing the moral counter-balance to the American GI aversion to killing
That still starts you down the same slippery slope, the shoddy CCTV with the useless image quality on one end of the spectrum isn't that much better the the satellite image that only resolve 5 cm^2 to the pixel; and as far a "reasonable expectation of privacy" the prosecutor is going to talk for 15 minutes about the definition of "reasonable", 30 minutes about the word "expectation" and 2 hours about "privacy".
I don't think anyone would like to feel they can be watched at any time, even indoors in their own home.. this is absolutely the essence of a police state.
The problem isn't as much that the Police can but that anybody can, most of the Police other than a handful that go mustang are honorable people, but any whacko can aquire pretty high=tech gear.
KYLLO v. UNITED STATES Held: Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a Fourth Amendment "search," and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant. Pp. 3-13.
Ever watch "Ghost Hunters" or a Cadillac commercial, Thermal imaging has been available to the general public for quite a while now
If a UAV can discern objects and people through a roof, monitor radio emissions and so forth, is that the same thing? My intuition says no, but I doubt it's defined.
yes it is and you are wrong, if you are doing something and it is observed from a public space, it is fair game legaly; and has been that way since they started using thermal imaging to see the heat signature from in home hydroponic pot gardens back in the Clinton administration.
Is it illegal for the police to watch walking down the street without a warrant, no. One of my friends is a cop, he is required by the courts to look through the cars windows for a handicap sticker before he can write a ticket for parking in a handicap space, do you think this is a unreasonable search? Is looking through a window with your eyes any different from using a camera on a pole. from a police helicopter of a blimp? Is taking a picture with a camera from an aircraft any different than looking and is doing something like taking a picture from a aircraft any different than takeing a picture from a spacecraft? Is taking a picture through the your window with visible light coming through really that much different from taking a multi-spectral image of the thermal IR pouring through your houses walls?
The problem isn't that the Government is taking away any rights you have, the problem is believing you have rights that you don't.
wish I had a dollar for every M17 mask turned in for a lost M17A2
Missing doesn't always mean the something as stolen, they might have been cannibalized
for repair parts to repair others or decommissioned and the serials numbers not deleted, or sitting in a bunker somewhere and the transfer paper work lost as well as thew more likely physically stolen
Government Liquidators are a private auction company commissioned by the USG, we've gotten a few things from them, bought a whole lots to get one or two items for less then the item would sell for on Ebay. Sometimes you get total junk, sometimes you get something that has never been used. Stuff from the Navy and Air Force is usually in the best shape, Army stuff is usually used to death. You also have to be careful to include shipping costs which can be considerable at times.
Not everything can be taken apart in a way that preserves dimensions some pieces of the airframe for example may take 2 pieces of different aluminum alloys, glued together with high-strength epoxy and held together with rivets until the epoxy cures; good luck getting that apart. Often the order of assembly can change a brain numbingly difficult step into a totally impossible one; how many times have you had to redo step 12 correctly so you could do step 27 when putting together one of the pressed saw-dust board entertainment centers for WallMart! Like the entertainment center the parts have to be assembled correct and often in the correct order because just they will not go together out of order, also like the entertainment center, the individual part are often very fragile and easy to break, they are only strong when put together. Even more difficult, aircraft like high-performance fighter can have part at wildly different temperature a leading edge might be 600-700 C, a foot back on the wing might be -50, everything not only has to be put together but stay together as the aircraft cycles through those temperature range every flight.
I thought that that GM bought the automotive division from Saab and everything else remained.
Why do we have wars?
because there are a series for predatory despots that come to power and will suck the life out of not only their own countries but the whole world if allowed to. Frequently we start out using diplomatic pressure to get them to moderate their excessive behavior and that is sufficient, less frequently we have to escalated to economic sanctions and unfortunately we sometimes have to resort to military operations. Some people hate war because of some mamby-pamby lets sing Kumbya BS, and some of us hate it because we've been enforcing the line that separates the wolves from the sheep but still know that we want that line in somebody else's backyard.
listen all you want, with frequency hopping, digital spread spectrum, fully encrypted military communications your not going to hear more than a chirp or two.
That sounds about right, I know more about Wal-Mart's corp policies from reading slashdot than my daughter-inlaw does from the meetings at the local store. The problem in a lot of places is they try to promote from within, which is great if you can hire quality entry-levels but most of these places can't or quickly lose the few they do.
Just because it's Over-The-Air doesn't mean it doesn't use bandwidth, an analog TV reciever receives signals beginning at 54MHz and has a channel every 6 MHz up to 588MHz OTA (87 channels), newer TV receive more channels but are only used on cable, the Television band has a width of 534 MHz. The whole FM band occupies one TV channel between channel 7 and channel 8. The Digital channels are compressed and occupy less than the 6MHz so other new services can be slipped in the spaces opened up by the conversion.
The fly in the ointment is they have to label the TV's as non-digital or pull them from the shelves so the FCC can go back and hit them again next month and probably raise the fines for a second offense!
Consider this,
1. I can sit in a tank turret, aim the Coax machinegun using the turret elctro-mechanical systems to point it at a target that I'm observing through an electronic imaging system and fire it and it's OK,
2. Connect the systems to a remote unit via an RF link rather than a hardwire and suddenly it's a "robot" and scary,
What the difference? This "robot" turned guns on it's fleshy comrades, operator error is much more likely; the guided missiles we've been shooting for half a century are closer to be a "robot" than this glorified RC car is.
It's pretty universal in the Army, a friend of mine transfered from the Army Guard to the Air Guard and was given an opportunity to be a crew chief for F16; he turned it down because he wouldn't be able to ride in one, but was responsible for declaring it airworthy. A parachute packer can and is asked to jump any chute he or she packs