"Bigger is always better for the Americans. Yet, some airplane hijackers were able to deliver a serious blow to the american societies armed with only knives."
Yes, but try decimating the Taliban and the Republican Guard with a boxcutter and see how far it gets you. Terrrorists are generally cowards with penis envy issues. "Look what we did!" "We are big and great...like the Americans"....No, you're not.
I read a lot of comments i.e. "Why do we need this? 5 billion is too much!"
You need to put it into perspective. All told, we have (I think) 13 carriers. Of those, the most expensive to operate are the 5 oldest, with the Kitty Hawk and Enterprise basically being money holes. That 5 billion price tag is nothing. It costs about 3.5 billion a year to run and maintain the Kitty Hawk!
The Navy is looking to decomission about 4 carriers over the next 5 years. Those carriers cost something like 12 billion a year to deploy. The Reagan is estimated to only cost about 2 billion a year to maintain. A significant savings. Once we decomission, the average age of our carrier fleet will decrease from 35 years to about 18. The cost goes down.
Why do we need carriers? Because they are one of the most flexible ways to project military power around the world. Unlike a fixed airbase, they cam be anyware in about a month. Unlike long range bombers, they can divert and change missions in minutes instead of hours. A B2 sent from the US is in the air 33 hours on a round trip. If you decide you suddenly need it to deliver different armaments once it's in the air, you need to fly all the way home to rearm. Being closer to the action, a carrier can recall airborne units or launch additional units and strike with the appropriate munitions within an hour or two. That is impossible with LRBs. One final thought, Turkey. We lost an entire division (Army 4thID) and an entire airwing when starting the Iraq war. This wasn't because they were destroyed, but because Turkey refused airspace and land access. Carriers don't have that restriction. Do we need carriers? Yes, so long as we need a flexibility in our doctrine that other nations may refuse us.
As to the concerns about carriers being built to kill people...that is what armies and warfare are for children. War is about killing people and breaking things. It's a cold reality, but it is true. The person who kills the most people and breaks the most "things" usually wins.
Funny they will do a recall on this, but when they had about 100k laptops with bad LCDs 3 years ago they told everyone with the problem that the vertical stripe in the middle of their screens was a "feature" of their new video chipset. I haven't bought a Sony product since, and probably never will again.
The real message when you read between the lines is one we have all known for a long time. SCO is killing themselves with this suit. Animosity is all they will win whether the case is in their favor or not. They have pissed everyone off.
I am also guessing someday we will find that Microsoft offered it's legal department to help SCO with this. They lose nothing, and COULD eliminate two competitors with one stroke.
Good job Ed. He has little enough time up there maintaining that thing without having to worry about posting a blog for those of us destined to dig in the dirt our whole lives. I for one am glad he posted these, even if some are a bit bland technically for an engineer.
Far more downloaders buy the CDs than those who don't download. RIAA is entrenching itself against it's primary customers (young, poor, college & HS students). It is a genocide alright. The systematic elimination of the very buyers they need.
As for me, I look for stuff that I can't get on an album anymore. Jazz that hasn't been released in 50 years, techno-mixes that are actually good but homemade, and the occasional classic hit I don't already have in my extensive collection. Do I feel that I have the right to download a song or two considering I have $5-8000 of legally purchased music? Absolutely. Am I buying MORE since RIAA decided to get nitpicky? Absolutely not. When they bitch about the 20% decline, I can guarantee you I am a part of it. When they ask "wha happened?" I am sure they can comfort themselves by blaming it on downloading, but in my case, it's just a LONG overdue case of buyers remorse.
In the time it took you to type this non-puncutuated, illeterate rant and the lame picture, you could have read every fucking dupe on this thread twice. Seek medication or counselling man.
How do you think HP got the cash to buy out Compaq? God knows Carly had yet to make HP produce a decent PC themselves. Whole-lotta profit in those itty-bitty cartriges.
Space isn't hard, NASA's bureacy and lack of vision are.
x-33 - Cancel it SRV - Cancel it Saturn 5 - Cancel it Shuttle - Build it as a bastardization of the Dynasoar (which would hhave been flying by about 68-70.) Space Station - Overpay contractors and then retreat from space and fix the permanent crew at 3 instead of 7...oh, did they mention that there will be absolutely no science in a station manned by 3. It takes 3 just to keep it maintained? Our "scientific" space station isn't very scientific is it? $60 bill down the tubes.
Frankly, I would be willing to bet if we gave 4 billion a year each to Rutan and Orbital Sciences and told them they would get a $1 bill prize for the first to put a permanent station on the moon, it would be there in 5 years. Let them hire millionaires if they want, just PLEASE don't let me see NASA start and cancel another program after blowing 2-3 billion on it.
I don't suck, most of my friends don't suck, and having lived in a foreign land a few times I can tell you this country doesn't suck. I am sorry if you get offended so easily. Perhaps there is a care-bear forum where you won't feel quite so hammered by someone objecting to a stupid, blanket comment. If anything shows the bad in America, it's idiots that generalize everything and expect us all to swallow it.
The UN is asking us (once again) to get involved in Liberia and solve it's problems (the UN's and France's). We probably will. Will we suck then? How bout we ask the Chinese or Iranians to do the job instead? I am sure they are all for international peacekeeping and humanatarian aid...not!
Take a valium and chill. Just because someone thinks you suck doesn't mean you do. It's an interactive demoracy here. You have to stick with it in the hard times too. We suck today, we are everyone's friend tomorrow. Just know YOU don't suck and stick to your guns, everything will be OK.
The cold hard truth is that nations (especially powerful ones) that do not innovate get attacked, lose territory, and invaded (Egypt, Greece, Rome, Spain, UK). It's not nice thoughts and clicking your heels together that allows you to bitch about it, it's bombs and flesh.
As to the 3rd world, China isn't too far away from becoming first world, Europe and the US will continue to butt heads, Iran is developing nuclear weapons (oh the joy of having insane Islamic clerics with nukes and a hardon for destroying Israel), and last time I checked, Pakistan was a popular revolt from being an enemy. Add to that the possibility that our economic and cultural stranglehold on the world will slip over the next 50 years and I would say any fool willing to dismiss the fact that we live on a dangerous cesspool of a planet deserves getting blown away.
Putting an internal immune-enhancement that monitors the bloodstream and zaps anything foreign, even cancer cells. Early detection begins at the 4-50 cell rance instead of the 1000 cell range now considered "early".
Now for the super-powers:)
A built-in "tazer". Two electrodes in the tips of your intex fingers. Touch someone and ZAP! down they go.
A video record/playback system for espionage. Go on the tour. Pass the body-search. Look at everything and record in clear, digital format for later review.
A built in electromagnet system wired to your feet and grafted to your bones. Stick to any metal surface. Astronauts suddenly have gravity in a microgravity environment. Wire the palms too and climb up walls.
Fun stuff, it's gonna take one mother of a battery to do it all. And the recharge will take a while.
No, he is actually saying that most Linux and Mac publications have consumed the "poison koolaid" and can only blow sunshine up their rears. He means objectivity, not agnostic, but doesn't understand the the diff.
Jesus! Fox has been trying to schlock this weak-ass Simpsons knock-off for fucking 2 years with no luck...SOMEBODY HAS TO KILL THE BABYSITTER!
The producer of this brain-dead show must be blowing Rupert Murdoch. TLG is gonna get killed. Knew that was inevitable....it was put in the friday DEATH-slot. Unfortunately The Family Guy lives on like some vampire in a crossless, sunless, steakless world. Fat-slob comedy is dead...unless you live in New England...get over it Fox. Whew...I feel better now:)
Whatever you do, don't take free information you got from your visitors, then lock it up and CHARGE them to get to it. Don't be a net-dweeb. There are a lot of good strategies on this list, follow them. If it comes down to you charging for illicit-gained info or closing shop....have some ethics and close shop. Distribute your DB on CD.
www.eqmaps.com should rot in hell. I hope their user-traffic clicks to zero.
I watched all you sworn Open-Source slashdotters get all cozy with Apple and Jobs because he wears jeans instead of a three-piece suit and spoke the open-source buzzwords.
OS-X is a failure, Apple is a failure, and Apple Legal is just as bad as M$ Legal. Get over it. Quit wasting cycles on these corporations and get back to supporting real open-source. When Windows XP and the licencing attached to it finally start hitting home machines, Linux will be THE thing. Don't lose focus again.
China is nice eh? I am sure they were within their rights to kill 5000 in Tiennanmen Square too right? How about making children MAKE FIREWORKS instead of getting an education? Is that nice you propogandist freak? Seen and religious orders being persecuted in your part of China? Oh I forgot...they are already KILLING them all! Those Chinese....what a NICE bunch of guys.
Your pilot RAMMED an unarmed PROPELLER plane and almost killed 24 people. Let's remember that the cowboy that died caused this crash, and the only apology owed is from the Peoples Army to the families of the US Airmen they almost killed. Weing Wu was a reckless idiot who deserved to die for his actions. Pull your nose out of the propaganda you Red-Book idiot and realize the facts. Under international law it can not be the US's fault in any way. The faster, more manuverable jet is ALWAYS responsible for the safety of all involved in an intercept. Flame over...
To make wide assumptions, and proclaim an idea a failure based on narrow interpretation is irresponsible journalism. Mr. Katz seems to feel that a Virtual Nation must meet his eliteist criteria.
I am of the opinion that a rosey future, virtual nation, world-bank-government, homogenous, overpopulated,"CareBear" planet is not a place I necessarily want my children to live in. This is especially true if a Katzocracy requires me to fester with self-hatred like Herr Katz.
To write with arrogance (stereotyping Americans Mr. Katz?) and assume you and a few others are the ONLY people with the answers is Facist by nature. A Virtual Nation may not be an answer at all. Hell...the last 50 years, MAD was a WORKING solution! The idea that mutual destruction and brinkmanship has a better track record so far than the Virtual Nation should hopefully taper that hubris I see peeking out from your words. I believe you would like nothing better than to be the same "Bully" on a world stage you profess to hate in a High School one.
My GOD...you have no clue what was really going on. Why not read BEFORE forming an opinion. The US does not shoot down planes over international waters/borders. The Chinese have never sent recon planes, but the USSR had sent Tupolev Bear recon planes along the Atlantic coast all the time. US fighters followed international law and "escorted" them without incident. This is a SIMPLE assignment for a jet fighter, and the USA did it for 3 decades! Electronic surveillance is also common. The Chinese prefer fishing trawlers over aircraft, but ALL countries monitor open airwaves to look for intelligence. War and Politics live on good intelligence gathering.
The USA is not at fault for anything. There is no narcissism in understanding an enemy's goal and not being a party to it. A US apology is a propoganda coup the Chinese can and WILL use to justify Tiennanmen, child labor, and whatever else they can wrap in "Patriotic Duty".
The USA has been portrayed by the Chinese Military as the "evil hegemonistic nation". That nation bowing down to China would ensure the continuance of the current regime for another 20 years minimum.
These are facts some Americans seem incapable of understanding or too lazy to care about. They just want to be little "Care Bears". Bring our troops home at any cost/disgrace, and go on hitting the bar to get a food pellet. There is a WORLD out there, and the US has the onerous job of playing responsible parent till a few other "adults" join in. Understand your world you live in before posting ignorant, PC drabble like this.
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By your logic, Clinton's perjury and blowjob should absolutely require New York to change it's name to New Willie.
Send us your address and we'll make sure you get what you deserve too. :)
Yes, but try decimating the Taliban and the Republican Guard with a boxcutter and see how far it gets you. Terrrorists are generally cowards with penis envy issues. "Look what we did!" "We are big and great...like the Americans"....No, you're not.
OK Mr. Borg. You and your "millions" can go back to Unimatrix Zero now.
I read a lot of comments i.e. "Why do we need this? 5 billion is too much!"
You need to put it into perspective. All told, we have (I think) 13 carriers. Of those, the most expensive to operate are the 5 oldest, with the Kitty Hawk and Enterprise basically being money holes. That 5 billion price tag is nothing. It costs about 3.5 billion a year to run and maintain the Kitty Hawk!
The Navy is looking to decomission about 4 carriers over the next 5 years. Those carriers cost something like 12 billion a year to deploy. The Reagan is estimated to only cost about 2 billion a year to maintain. A significant savings. Once we decomission, the average age of our carrier fleet will decrease from 35 years to about 18. The cost goes down.
Why do we need carriers? Because they are one of the most flexible ways to project military power around the world. Unlike a fixed airbase, they cam be anyware in about a month. Unlike long range bombers, they can divert and change missions in minutes instead of hours. A B2 sent from the US is in the air 33 hours on a round trip. If you decide you suddenly need it to deliver different armaments once it's in the air, you need to fly all the way home to rearm. Being closer to the action, a carrier can recall airborne units or launch additional units and strike with the appropriate munitions within an hour or two. That is impossible with LRBs. One final thought, Turkey. We lost an entire division (Army 4thID) and an entire airwing when starting the Iraq war. This wasn't because they were destroyed, but because Turkey refused airspace and land access. Carriers don't have that restriction. Do we need carriers? Yes, so long as we need a flexibility in our doctrine that other nations may refuse us.
As to the concerns about carriers being built to kill people...that is what armies and warfare are for children. War is about killing people and breaking things. It's a cold reality, but it is true. The person who kills the most people and breaks the most "things" usually wins.
Funny they will do a recall on this, but when they had about 100k laptops with bad LCDs 3 years ago they told everyone with the problem that the vertical stripe in the middle of their screens was a "feature" of their new video chipset. I haven't bought a Sony product since, and probably never will again.
The real message when you read between the lines is one we have all known for a long time. SCO is killing themselves with this suit. Animosity is all they will win whether the case is in their favor or not. They have pissed everyone off.
I am also guessing someday we will find that Microsoft offered it's legal department to help SCO with this. They lose nothing, and COULD eliminate two competitors with one stroke.
Good job Ed. He has little enough time up there maintaining that thing without having to worry about posting a blog for those of us destined to dig in the dirt our whole lives. I for one am glad he posted these, even if some are a bit bland technically for an engineer.
Just shot my morning milk out my nose.
Far more downloaders buy the CDs than those who don't download. RIAA is entrenching itself against it's primary customers (young, poor, college & HS students). It is a genocide alright. The systematic elimination of the very buyers they need.
As for me, I look for stuff that I can't get on an album anymore. Jazz that hasn't been released in 50 years, techno-mixes that are actually good but homemade, and the occasional classic hit I don't already have in my extensive collection. Do I feel that I have the right to download a song or two considering I have $5-8000 of legally purchased music? Absolutely. Am I buying MORE since RIAA decided to get nitpicky? Absolutely not. When they bitch about the 20% decline, I can guarantee you I am a part of it. When they ask "wha happened?" I am sure they can comfort themselves by blaming it on downloading, but in my case, it's just a LONG overdue case of buyers remorse.
In the time it took you to type this non-puncutuated, illeterate rant and the lame picture, you could have read every fucking dupe on this thread twice. Seek medication or counselling man.
How do you think HP got the cash to buy out Compaq? God knows Carly had yet to make HP produce a decent PC themselves. Whole-lotta profit in those itty-bitty cartriges.
Space isn't hard, NASA's bureacy and lack of vision are.
x-33 - Cancel it
SRV - Cancel it
Saturn 5 - Cancel it
Shuttle - Build it as a bastardization of the Dynasoar (which would hhave been flying by about 68-70.)
Space Station - Overpay contractors and then retreat from space and fix the permanent crew at 3 instead of 7...oh, did they mention that there will be absolutely no science in a station manned by 3. It takes 3 just to keep it maintained? Our "scientific" space station isn't very scientific is it? $60 bill down the tubes.
Frankly, I would be willing to bet if we gave 4 billion a year each to Rutan and Orbital Sciences and told them they would get a $1 bill prize for the first to put a permanent station on the moon, it would be there in 5 years. Let them hire millionaires if they want, just PLEASE don't let me see NASA start and cancel another program after blowing 2-3 billion on it.
Human Space Exploration rules, NASA sucks.
I don't suck, most of my friends don't suck, and having lived in a foreign land a few times I can tell you this country doesn't suck. I am sorry if you get offended so easily. Perhaps there is a care-bear forum where you won't feel quite so hammered by someone objecting to a stupid, blanket comment. If anything shows the bad in America, it's idiots that generalize everything and expect us all to swallow it.
The UN is asking us (once again) to get involved in Liberia and solve it's problems (the UN's and France's). We probably will. Will we suck then? How bout we ask the Chinese or Iranians to do the job instead? I am sure they are all for international peacekeeping and humanatarian aid...not!
Take a valium and chill. Just because someone thinks you suck doesn't mean you do. It's an interactive demoracy here. You have to stick with it in the hard times too. We suck today, we are everyone's friend tomorrow. Just know YOU don't suck and stick to your guns, everything will be OK.
The cold hard truth is that nations (especially powerful ones) that do not innovate get attacked, lose territory, and invaded (Egypt, Greece, Rome, Spain, UK). It's not nice thoughts and clicking your heels together that allows you to bitch about it, it's bombs and flesh.
As to the 3rd world, China isn't too far away from becoming first world, Europe and the US will continue to butt heads, Iran is developing nuclear weapons (oh the joy of having insane Islamic clerics with nukes and a hardon for destroying Israel), and last time I checked, Pakistan was a popular revolt from being an enemy. Add to that the possibility that our economic and cultural stranglehold on the world will slip over the next 50 years and I would say any fool willing to dismiss the fact that we live on a dangerous cesspool of a planet deserves getting blown away.
As long as one keeps a core body temp, imagine:
:)
Replacing a diseased heart with a turbine
Creating an internal dialysis system
Recreating almost any organ's function
Putting an internal immune-enhancement that monitors the bloodstream and zaps anything foreign, even cancer cells. Early detection begins at the 4-50 cell rance instead of the 1000 cell range now considered "early".
Now for the super-powers
A built-in "tazer". Two electrodes in the tips of your intex fingers. Touch someone and ZAP! down they go.
A video record/playback system for espionage. Go on the tour. Pass the body-search. Look at everything and record in clear, digital format for later review.
A built in electromagnet system wired to your feet and grafted to your bones. Stick to any metal surface. Astronauts suddenly have gravity in a microgravity environment. Wire the palms too and climb up walls.
Fun stuff, it's gonna take one mother of a battery to do it all. And the recharge will take a while.
Out
No, he is actually saying that most Linux and Mac publications have consumed the "poison koolaid" and can only blow sunshine up their rears. He means objectivity, not agnostic, but doesn't understand the the diff.
Peace-out
Palm has no Linux distro, and never will. A Palm is just a paper pad, but an iPaq is a meal!
Jesus! Fox has been trying to schlock this weak-ass Simpsons knock-off for fucking 2 years with no luck...SOMEBODY HAS TO KILL THE BABYSITTER! The producer of this brain-dead show must be blowing Rupert Murdoch. TLG is gonna get killed. Knew that was inevitable....it was put in the friday DEATH-slot. Unfortunately The Family Guy lives on like some vampire in a crossless, sunless, steakless world. Fat-slob comedy is dead...unless you live in New England...get over it Fox. Whew...I feel better now:)
Whatever you do, don't take free information you got from your visitors, then lock it up and CHARGE them to get to it. Don't be a net-dweeb. There are a lot of good strategies on this list, follow them. If it comes down to you charging for illicit-gained info or closing shop....have some ethics and close shop. Distribute your DB on CD. www.eqmaps.com should rot in hell. I hope their user-traffic clicks to zero.
I watched all you sworn Open-Source slashdotters get all cozy with Apple and Jobs because he wears jeans instead of a three-piece suit and spoke the open-source buzzwords. OS-X is a failure, Apple is a failure, and Apple Legal is just as bad as M$ Legal. Get over it. Quit wasting cycles on these corporations and get back to supporting real open-source. When Windows XP and the licencing attached to it finally start hitting home machines, Linux will be THE thing. Don't lose focus again.
China is nice eh? I am sure they were within their rights to kill 5000 in Tiennanmen Square too right? How about making children MAKE FIREWORKS instead of getting an education? Is that nice you propogandist freak? Seen and religious orders being persecuted in your part of China? Oh I forgot...they are already KILLING them all! Those Chinese....what a NICE bunch of guys. Your pilot RAMMED an unarmed PROPELLER plane and almost killed 24 people. Let's remember that the cowboy that died caused this crash, and the only apology owed is from the Peoples Army to the families of the US Airmen they almost killed. Weing Wu was a reckless idiot who deserved to die for his actions. Pull your nose out of the propaganda you Red-Book idiot and realize the facts. Under international law it can not be the US's fault in any way. The faster, more manuverable jet is ALWAYS responsible for the safety of all involved in an intercept. Flame over...
To make wide assumptions, and proclaim an idea a failure based on narrow interpretation is irresponsible journalism. Mr. Katz seems to feel that a Virtual Nation must meet his eliteist criteria. I am of the opinion that a rosey future, virtual nation, world-bank-government, homogenous, overpopulated,"CareBear" planet is not a place I necessarily want my children to live in. This is especially true if a Katzocracy requires me to fester with self-hatred like Herr Katz. To write with arrogance (stereotyping Americans Mr. Katz?) and assume you and a few others are the ONLY people with the answers is Facist by nature. A Virtual Nation may not be an answer at all. Hell...the last 50 years, MAD was a WORKING solution! The idea that mutual destruction and brinkmanship has a better track record so far than the Virtual Nation should hopefully taper that hubris I see peeking out from your words. I believe you would like nothing better than to be the same "Bully" on a world stage you profess to hate in a High School one.
My GOD...you have no clue what was really going on. Why not read BEFORE forming an opinion. The US does not shoot down planes over international waters/borders. The Chinese have never sent recon planes, but the USSR had sent Tupolev Bear recon planes along the Atlantic coast all the time. US fighters followed international law and "escorted" them without incident. This is a SIMPLE assignment for a jet fighter, and the USA did it for 3 decades! Electronic surveillance is also common. The Chinese prefer fishing trawlers over aircraft, but ALL countries monitor open airwaves to look for intelligence. War and Politics live on good intelligence gathering. The USA is not at fault for anything. There is no narcissism in understanding an enemy's goal and not being a party to it. A US apology is a propoganda coup the Chinese can and WILL use to justify Tiennanmen, child labor, and whatever else they can wrap in "Patriotic Duty". The USA has been portrayed by the Chinese Military as the "evil hegemonistic nation". That nation bowing down to China would ensure the continuance of the current regime for another 20 years minimum. These are facts some Americans seem incapable of understanding or too lazy to care about. They just want to be little "Care Bears". Bring our troops home at any cost/disgrace, and go on hitting the bar to get a food pellet. There is a WORLD out there, and the US has the onerous job of playing responsible parent till a few other "adults" join in. Understand your world you live in before posting ignorant, PC drabble like this.