"Total contradiction. Honest people don't break laws." Do you speed? Download music? Videos? Are you an honest person? Truth is that a good person may break the law out of need. They are not bad people just desperate. "Most people I know don't hire illegals because the legitimate businesses here have to have very low pricing too, just so they can compete in this economy." Really what about five years ago? Ten? Dude I am no PeeCee liberal. And I live in Florida where we have people washing up on the beach and coming in by sea. We also have problems with drugs and gangs.
I want to stop the drugs and gangs but here is something for you to think about.
Yes a lot of the illegals are just people tomming here to try and work. If we make it easier for them to come to the us legally then. 1. They would pay the proper taxes. 2. They would have the same legal protection under the law so they would report the businesses that pay under minimum wage or have unsafe working conditions. 3. They would not be sneaking across the boarder any more.
The benefits would be. 1. Taxes == revenue for your local governments. 2. Protections under the labor laws means that they compete on a level playing field with US workers. 3. With no reason to cross the boarder illegally there wouldn't a human tidal wave for the gangs and drug dealers to hid in. It will be easier to secure our boarders and the legal immigrants will help us stop drugs and gangs because they will no long be criminals themselves and the drugs and gangs hurt them as much as they hurt us. I am no peecee liberalist. I see a problem and try to find the best way to solve it.
In this case yes. Environmentalists are well educated people that have an honest concern for the environment and are reasonable.
Environuts protest the launching of space probes because they use nuclear power. Bring up Chernobyl when trying to scare people away from using modern nuclear reactors. And want to ban all air craft "even those at say 20,000 ft" from over flying national parks so that they can commune with nature undisturbed.
They usually follow some guru or organization that tells them what is bad and what is good and they follow them with out question.
Environmentalists are what everybody on the earth should be. Environuts are a real pain in the rear, hurt more than help, and generally give Environmentalism a bad name.
Yea that is trouble free... Did you read the one line concerns? "Other concerns include: shipping routes, marine ecology, sediments, and storm surges.Other concerns include: shipping routes, marine ecology, sediments, and storm surges."
So just take a look at that for a second and read it. I live in South Florida. Do you know the environmental problems that inlets and jetties cause! Beach erosion destroying habitat for nesting sea turtles and sea birds. Sedimentation causes the loss of sea grass beds and reefs! And let's not even think about storm surges and the destruction that could bring. And you freaking want to risk building TWO 50KM jetties! Something that has NEVER been done. And will cost billions and could destroy the coastline for how goodness knows how many miles! Hey we already have a nuclear power plant and it hasn't killed anybody. Frankly it is a HECK of a lot safer than that nightmare you are proposing.
Nope Chernobyl was caused by. 1. The fact that the reactor had a positive moderator temperature coefficient. 2. A lack of a containment building. 3. Turning off several safety systems and running a test that should have never been run.
So there is as much chance of seeing another Chernobyl as their is as seeing another Titanic. Actually as much chance as seeing a Titanic style accident involving a modern cruise ship on the Miami to Freeport run!
Anybody that brings up Chernobyl when talking about a modern reactor is simply spreading FUD.
Not a problem. And yes I too like Stella. Being an old guy it is fun to play with now and again. Never even though about using a game pad... Maybe I will try it sometime. Thanks for your hard work.
I don't think you are right about that. Atari joysticks and paddles do not use a serial interface. Just because they use a DB-9 does not mean that they are serial devices. The Atari Joy stick uses four digital switches for the direction and one for the fire button. The paddles use pots that must be read using and analog to digital converter.
Here are the pin outs for the Atari port http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/JoystickAtari2600_pinout.shtml And here are the pin outs for the DB-9 serial port http://www.quatech.com/products/images/db9pinout_male.gif
Yea I built my own joystick using mercury switches and PVC back in the early 80s so I hacked these bad boys way back when. I also built a wireless one using DTFM encoder decoders chips and two cheap walkie talkies back in the day as well.Not legal but I don't think anyone cared.
1. We are not at war with Mexico. 2. Most Mexicans that cross our boarder are honest but poor people that are just trying to make some money by working. 3. The business and people complain about it but they like the sub minimal wage lawn maintenance people and maids they hire.
Really what we need to do is reform our immigration. What people don't get is we asked for this. Back in WWII the US asked Mexicans to come to the US to work in our fields. That program didn't end until the 60s then we just tried to cut it off. Of course we really didn't try to cut it off. We just made it illegal but looked the other way. Hey if they are illegal they will not run the police if you cheat them. Frankly what we need to do is reform immigration to make it easy for honest people to come here to work legally. Then close the boarder to keep out the scumbags that hide in the mass of of illegal but basically good people.
Doing anything else will just not work. It is like trying to stop a flood.
Nope they learned them in a real bloody and brutal war. The DMZ is a no man's land. It is full of mines and signs telling you to keep out. Pretty much it is a kill or be killed situation. Maybe you missed NK sinking a SK ship with a torpedo?
Do not go in the DMZ and you should be okay. Well until NK pushes too hard or they figure they have nothing to lose. Or if they just snap. Or if they think the US will not intervene, Or they think China will intervene on their side. Or if the moon is full and the dictator is drunk. Then all bets are off.
I usually get a day of use out of my phone but yes I would love a longer battery life. But that is universal on all smart phones. Every time I read a review of any phone and they talk about how "thin" it is and then give the runtime I just want to hit people! make the phone 3mm bigger and double the runtime folks. Really I would take that trade any day!
Really you just paid $299 for your phone. You pay goodness knows how much a month for your 2 GB capped data plan. Just suck it up and buy the $30 bumper! what is the big deal! (This message was sent from my Android phone on the Sprint network).
First of all no. It is not popular at all. Giving money to the car companies for anything is not popular. Unless you work for the car companies. He would have to give the money to the car companies because he is a Democrat and depends on the Unions. Finally I don't think that throwing 20 billion dollars at the electric car will make it practical. There is already a lot of money being thrown at battery research for all our portable devices. They are not their yet and throwing money at a problem usually doesn't provide you with a an affordable solution. So no I think that this could be a huge boondoggle.
Frankly at this point I would like the US to invest say 50 to 500 million in the Pollywell reactor. So far that project looks very promising and if it works would really change everything. It may fail but it is a cheap roll of the dice at this point.
Another thing is where they will be adopted. I think there is another lucky break their. Odds are they will be adopted first in California. Usually the cooling load in California is low at night so they probably do have excess power. In the south east and even north east I don't think there is as much excess because it just doesn't really cool off as much at night. Then you have Florida where you can actually have the highest power loads on winter nights.
Still a cruise missile. Not all cruise missiles have an SRB to launch them. Some are air launched. A cruise missile is just a one way UAV with a warhead
True but you will also not be playing video games. And probably not for days afterwords as well since you will have no AC and only a generator for power.
There are many that do not agree with you. If for no other reason that it is hard to search for a single char and not get a bunch of bad useless hits. But then again I still use it way too often.
And we could call it a cruise missile. It is true that if you are using them to drop nukes that last thing you will really worry about is getting it back. Of course you could drop the weapon and then use the UAV as a decoy. Or you could fit multiable weapons in the UAV but at that point it is all just terrible.
I can do that with my motorcycle. I live in Florida:)
The thing is simply what do you want to spend your money on for fun. Truth be known it would probably be better if we used it to pay down any debt that we have and or put into our retirement accounts but man does not live by bread alone.
True but riding a motorcycle and or riding around in a boat will not always burn any more calories than playing video games. Off road riding or track time on a motor cycle probably will. Getting on your cruiser and going to the bar for a beer not so much.
Well for a hard core gamer that is pretty cheap. I do not spend that much on video cards but if it is your hobby. Ever see how much golf clubs costs? Or motorcycle gear? How about the cost of gas for a boat? This isn't that bad in comparison.
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"Total contradiction. Honest people don't break laws."
Do you speed? Download music? Videos?
Are you an honest person?
Truth is that a good person may break the law out of need. They are not bad people just desperate.
"Most people I know don't hire illegals because the legitimate businesses here have to have very low pricing too, just so they can compete in this economy."
Really what about five years ago? Ten?
Dude I am no PeeCee liberal. And I live in Florida where we have people washing up on the beach and coming in by sea.
We also have problems with drugs and gangs.
I want to stop the drugs and gangs but here is something for you to think about.
Yes a lot of the illegals are just people tomming here to try and work. If we make it easier for them to come to the us legally then.
1. They would pay the proper taxes.
2. They would have the same legal protection under the law so they would report the businesses that pay under minimum wage or have unsafe working conditions.
3. They would not be sneaking across the boarder any more.
The benefits would be.
1. Taxes == revenue for your local governments.
2. Protections under the labor laws means that they compete on a level playing field with US workers.
3. With no reason to cross the boarder illegally there wouldn't a human tidal wave for the gangs and drug dealers to hid in. It will be easier to secure our boarders and the legal immigrants will help us stop drugs and gangs because they will no long be criminals themselves and the drugs and gangs hurt them as much as they hurt us.
I am no peecee liberalist. I see a problem and try to find the best way to solve it.
In this case yes.
Environmentalists are well educated people that have an honest concern for the environment and are reasonable.
Environuts protest the launching of space probes because they use nuclear power. Bring up Chernobyl when trying to scare people away from using modern nuclear reactors. And want to ban all air craft "even those at say 20,000 ft" from over flying national parks so that they can commune with nature undisturbed.
They usually follow some guru or organization that tells them what is bad and what is good and they follow them with out question.
Environmentalists are what everybody on the earth should be.
Environuts are a real pain in the rear, hurt more than help, and generally give Environmentalism a bad name.
Yea that is trouble free... Did you read the one line concerns?
"Other concerns include: shipping routes, marine ecology, sediments, and storm surges.Other concerns include: shipping routes, marine ecology, sediments, and storm surges."
So just take a look at that for a second and read it.
I live in South Florida. Do you know the environmental problems that inlets and jetties cause! Beach erosion destroying habitat for nesting sea turtles and sea birds. Sedimentation causes the loss of sea grass beds and reefs! And let's not even think about storm surges and the destruction that could bring.
And you freaking want to risk building TWO 50KM jetties! Something that has NEVER been done. And will cost billions and could destroy the coastline for how goodness knows how many miles!
Hey we already have a nuclear power plant and it hasn't killed anybody. Frankly it is a HECK of a lot safer than that nightmare you are proposing.
Nope
Chernobyl was caused by.
1. The fact that the reactor had a positive moderator temperature coefficient.
2. A lack of a containment building.
3. Turning off several safety systems and running a test that should have never been run.
So there is as much chance of seeing another Chernobyl as their is as seeing another Titanic. Actually as much chance as seeing a Titanic style accident involving a modern cruise ship on the Miami to Freeport run!
Anybody that brings up Chernobyl when talking about a modern reactor is simply spreading FUD.
You mean like this?
http://www.vtiger.com/
Not a problem. And yes I too like Stella. Being an old guy it is fun to play with now and again.
Never even though about using a game pad... Maybe I will try it sometime. Thanks for your hard work.
I don't think you are right about that.
Atari joysticks and paddles do not use a serial interface. Just because they use a DB-9 does not mean that they are serial devices.
The Atari Joy stick uses four digital switches for the direction and one for the fire button.
The paddles use pots that must be read using and analog to digital converter.
Here are the pin outs for the Atari port http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/JoystickAtari2600_pinout.shtml
And here are the pin outs for the DB-9 serial port http://www.quatech.com/products/images/db9pinout_male.gif
Yea I built my own joystick using mercury switches and PVC back in the early 80s so I hacked these bad boys way back when.
I also built a wireless one using DTFM encoder decoders chips and two cheap walkie talkies back in the day as well.Not legal but I don't think anyone cared.
1. We are not at war with Mexico.
2. Most Mexicans that cross our boarder are honest but poor people that are just trying to make some money by working.
3. The business and people complain about it but they like the sub minimal wage lawn maintenance people and maids they hire.
Really what we need to do is reform our immigration. What people don't get is we asked for this. Back in WWII the US asked Mexicans to come to the US to work in our fields. That program didn't end until the 60s then we just tried to cut it off.
Of course we really didn't try to cut it off. We just made it illegal but looked the other way. Hey if they are illegal they will not run the police if you cheat them.
Frankly what we need to do is reform immigration to make it easy for honest people to come here to work legally.
Then close the boarder to keep out the scumbags that hide in the mass of of illegal but basically good people.
Doing anything else will just not work. It is like trying to stop a flood.
Nope they learned them in a real bloody and brutal war.
The DMZ is a no man's land. It is full of mines and signs telling you to keep out. Pretty much it is a kill or be killed situation.
Maybe you missed NK sinking a SK ship with a torpedo?
Do not go in the DMZ and you should be okay.
Well until NK pushes too hard or they figure they have nothing to lose. Or if they just snap. Or if they think the US will not intervene, Or they think China will intervene on their side. Or if the moon is full and the dictator is drunk.
Then all bets are off.
I usually get a day of use out of my phone but yes I would love a longer battery life.
But that is universal on all smart phones. Every time I read a review of any phone and they talk about how "thin" it is and then give the runtime I just want to hit people!
make the phone 3mm bigger and double the runtime folks. Really I would take that trade any day!
But man do you get points in my book for going back and owning up :) :)
Heck that should be modded up to a 5 funny
I really thought that part about being sent from my Android phone on the Sprint network would have prevented the whoosh part but I was wrong.
wow....
Well then maybe Apple should give you the bumper to fix the problem rather than charging $30 for a gloried rubber band?
Just maybe?
Really you just paid $299 for your phone. You pay goodness knows how much a month for your 2 GB capped data plan. Just suck it up and buy the $30 bumper! what is the big deal!
(This message was sent from my Android phone on the Sprint network).
First of all no.
It is not popular at all. Giving money to the car companies for anything is not popular. Unless you work for the car companies.
He would have to give the money to the car companies because he is a Democrat and depends on the Unions.
Finally I don't think that throwing 20 billion dollars at the electric car will make it practical.
There is already a lot of money being thrown at battery research for all our portable devices. They are not their yet and throwing money at a problem usually doesn't provide you with a an affordable solution.
So no I think that this could be a huge boondoggle.
Frankly at this point I would like the US to invest say 50 to 500 million in the Pollywell reactor. So far that project looks very promising and if it works would really change everything.
It may fail but it is a cheap roll of the dice at this point.
Another thing is where they will be adopted.
I think there is another lucky break their. Odds are they will be adopted first in California. Usually the cooling load in California is low at night so they probably do have excess power. In the south east and even north east I don't think there is as much excess because it just doesn't really cool off as much at night. Then you have Florida where you can actually have the highest power loads on winter nights.
Still a cruise missile. Not all cruise missiles have an SRB to launch them. Some are air launched. A cruise missile is just a one way UAV with a warhead
True but you will also not be playing video games. And probably not for days afterwords as well since you will have no AC and only a generator for power.
There are many that do not agree with you. If for no other reason that it is hard to search for a single char and not get a bunch of bad useless hits.
But then again I still use it way too often.
And we could call it a cruise missile.
It is true that if you are using them to drop nukes that last thing you will really worry about is getting it back.
Of course you could drop the weapon and then use the UAV as a decoy. Or you could fit multiable weapons in the UAV but at that point it is all just terrible.
I can do that with my motorcycle. I live in Florida :)
The thing is simply what do you want to spend your money on for fun.
Truth be known it would probably be better if we used it to pay down any debt that we have and or put into our retirement accounts but man does not live by bread alone.
True but riding a motorcycle and or riding around in a boat will not always burn any more calories than playing video games.
Off road riding or track time on a motor cycle probably will. Getting on your cruiser and going to the bar for a beer not so much.
No they don't. 450 lbs is more than enough payload for a 100kt+ nuke.
Nukes weighing several tons went out in the 1950s/1960s
And in doing so reviels where the SAM is. Mr. Sam meet the stealth UCAV with a HARM tasked with SEAD.
Well for a hard core gamer that is pretty cheap. I do not spend that much on video cards but if it is your hobby.
Ever see how much golf clubs costs? Or motorcycle gear? How about the cost of gas for a boat?
This isn't that bad in comparison.