Actually the seemed to have worked out a good balance. A lot of people are crabbing about the exceptions but those exceptions are for the protection of political and religious speech. Commercial speech has less protections which is why cigarette companies can not advertise on TV and such.
"2) Still ineffective against pollsters, politicians, and fundraisers" That is covered under freedom of speech. The Supreme Court has ruled that commercial speech does not have the same protection as political or religious speech. Which I feel is a good thing. I am not fond of the other calls but they are clearly protected in the US. As to opt out? Fine with me since I did.
"Show me research, that nanomaterials are safe. Otherwise we shouldn't allow them based on speculation that they are safe. " I can show you research that Oxygen, water, cars, airplanes, ships, trains, and fire are not safe.
I am all for doing research to see what the dangers are but if you require any technology to be be proven safe then nothing will ever pass. You can not prove anything is "safe".
The enter thing seems way to far fetched. Motors running without getting hot? Yea it would be freaking brilliant if it worked but until I see the chemistry or the cheap fuel I just don't think it is possible.
Maybe you should have read my post and the post I was responding to. The post that I was responding to was suggested that people should buy small solar panels and use them to charge a few batteries or run a few LED lights. You want to talk about gnats. There is a lot of ways to cut your power bill. The thing that gets me about standby and phantom loads is that they are 100% waste. Not only are they waste but the contribute to the cost of cooling your home since they are dumping that electricity as heat.
Exactly my point. Sweden has every reason to want to tap internet traffic going to and from Russia without any encouragement from the US. And your right SAABs doesn't just cars with the ignition key in a strange place.
"Unlike, say, using a backyard barbeque grill? C'mon, how frequently do homes get burnt down by solar panels? Especially since most put out 24 volts of power or even less." That statment proves that you shouldn't be allowed to install solar cells! The voltage doesn't matter. A good example of a really dumb idea take a charged car battery. It is only 12 volts so have your voltage and hook it up as a dead short through a common nail. She how long it takes to get hot enough to start a fire. enough solar cells to run your home or even a good part of it backs more than enough power to kill you. As to the BBQ example. Most people don't BBQ every day and the smart ones don't do it in there home but well away form it. Also if you have a relatively modern diesel you don't have have to do any modifications to run bio-diesel. You do have to if you are going to run veggie oil.
Instead of buying a little solar panel to charge a few batteries you would be much better off replacing your lights with CFs. Putting your TV, DVD, WAP, Consoles, and other gadgets on to a power strip and turn them off at the power strip.
I wonder how much power we waist with things that go on to standby and don't turn off. I kind of miss power switches that where big and went clunk.
Hey I am a big fan of the Nuke plant in my back yard. I have a nuclear power plant in my city and I am just fine with it. I do agree with the NIMBY problem. Oh and your wanting to ban cruisers from motorcycle parking? I am not a cruiser fan but you probably have never looked at the mileage that bikes get. Modern 600s and 1000cc Sports bikes only manage mileage in the 30s. Many cruisers get better mileage than the sports bikes. Oh I am not a fan of cruisers myself. They just tend to get better mileage then a lot of the light sports bikes. The typical cruiser engine makes less power then a sports bike, they tend to have fewer cylinders than sports bikes, and tend to ridden at a less frantic pace. Over all twins seem to get better mileage then fours even in sports bikes. I think it because they dissipate less heat to the radiator and tend to rev slower. Seems to me that a obvious key factor to energy efficiency is to use the biggest cylinder and the lowest RPM that is practical. Of course when you get to bikes like the Ninja 250(sports bike), Honda Rebel(cruiser), and some of the other small bikes you are getting 60+mpg. Of course the simple fact is that my Mazda3 gets 30+ mpg and my wife and I work at the same place so we get the same mileage as I would get from a small bike if I worked apart from my wife.
Well why has Sweden been flying Elint missions for fifty plus years? Intelligence is always an advantage. Also this is a pretty cheap way to get Comint. As I said the US would have many other options that didn't involve a public referendum.
I would. Simple if most the data flows through those cables then the US would just tap the cable off shore. Or if possible tap them in Norway or some other NATO country. Sweden prides it's self on being neutral. Odds are that Sweden want to do this for their own reasons. Sweden has been flying their own Elint aircraft since the 50s. Sweden knows that they have a lot more to fear from Russia than the NATO members but because they are outside of NATO they don't have access to all the NATO Intelligence data.
I already do. Why do you think I am on both Yahoo and Slashdot. That is the problem. Slashdot probably has some ads I would be interested in and I would love to see Slashdot get the revenue for those ads. The problem is that there are so many annoying ads I can not stand to turn off AdBlock Plus when I am on Slashdot.
Except I am pretty sure that when you install it you now have access to the source. I am pretty sure that Ubuntu takes you right to the Canonical website which gives you the source.
All the hub bub seems like people getting bent just so they can get bent.
I keep expecting to see Apple jump on this market. We know that they can scale OS/X down to run on these. Combine that with an iTunes like store for software and all of a sudden you have the mass market mac. I see it at $399 and it will have a doc for your IPod to use the bigger screen to watch movies on.
I do tend to agree that Yahoo ads are just annoying. Slashdot's ads are also annoying to me. I have some rules. 1. NO POPs I don't care if they are up down over or under. 2. NO ANIMATION. Motion drives me nuts. 3. Don't put them in the middle of the text. Off to the side is fine. I don't think that Yahoo's are any worse than Slashdot's.
"You are right; and thats why making big solids is tricky. The shuttle SRBs are a notable exception of course" What about the Titan III and Titan IV SRBs? The MX?
The reason that Hybrids are not used has very little to do with testing and a lot to do with performance. Of course NASA is now looking at hybrids.
I think this is a bit unfair. I actually like Yahoo. I use the my.yahoo home page. I think it is better than the Google version. I actually like the directory. Sometimes I like to browse a subject and not do just a search for it. It is real handy when looking for things like towns in a state. I think Yahoo has it's strengths as does Google. I will admit that I wouldn't use my.yahoo if I didn't have firefox.
The Shuttle was a victim of budget cuts and being over optimistic. The shuttle was supposed to be a space 747, the problem is we never built the space Ford Tri-Motor, space DC-3, or space 707. We tried to go from the Wright Flyer to the 747 in one step. We should have built one shuttle and flew it for four years and then started on the next generation. The shuttle as flown was nothing like what NASA wanted to build. It is a shame because what NASA wanted would have worked a lot better and would have been a lot cheaper per flight. It just would have cost a lot more more to develop.
"The fuel tank and the combustion chamber are the same thing," How is that any different than a solid rocket booster? It isn't, but with a hybrid you at least have the option to abort the run or only do a partial burn.
The reason that hybrids have not been used for orbital flight is that they tend to have a lower specific impulse than liquid fueled systems and are more complex than solid fueled systems.
I don't think Best Buy has to. Canonical does. CompUSA used to sell Mandrake, RedHat, and Suse and they didn't include the source in the retail package. Well at least not for Suse which is the one I bought. It was available for download from Suse's website. I don't think Best Buy has to provide the source on request, Canonical does if Best Buy is just acting as a reseller for Canonical.
You only have to swap out fuel lines on pretty old diesels. The injectors should be no problem. The only real problem with bio diesel is that it tends to "clean" old diesel engines. You get a bunch of old crude floating around and hopefully clogging your filters. Any modern diesel can run bio right now. Now straight vegetable oil takes some mods. So to meet the goals all MB has to do is drop there gasoline power plants. Of course what people tend to forget is that you can make gasoline from a lot of non petroleum sources including water and air. The only thing that prevents it is cost.
"Who really owns something that you make in Flash?" You do. "Just as when you write a document in Word," Yep still you "when you compose in a proprietary format, you hand the keys over to the vendor." Gnash for Flash and save as RTF for Word.
"You, and anybody who wants to view or edit what you've created, have to go through the One Software Company." Umm no. At least not when it comes to Word. I am no fan of flash but grand sweeping false statements make my feet itch. Macromedia has documented FLASH and gnu is producing a flash player. RTF works at least a bit for document exchange.
Sometimes you may need extra bodies on a project or a fresh outlook on a problem. Suppose team on is having a problem you might ask your best debugger on team two to take a look at it. Of course if team one is using Ruby on Rails and team two is using PHP then it can be a total mess. People come and people go. Then you come to the real answer. For a lot of projects there isn't one best tool. I have seen great projects in Python, Perl, PHP, and Ruby. I have also seen total crap in all of them.
If you read the link you provided you would see that the book has no proof of the US being involved in the coup. "He said a coup attempt against President Saddam Hussein of Iraq in June 1996 coincided with the presence of an inspection team that included nine C.I.A. officials.
Mr. Ritter, who does not provide documentation for all of his conclusions and has been criticized repeatedly by the Clinton Administration, speculated in his book that the intelligence agency might have orchestrated the timing. "
And ''There was no proof of Dobbs's involvement,'' Mr. Ritter said, ''but there was a strong set of coincidences. The inspection was directed almost exclusively at Special Republican Guard sites; the coup plotters were from some of the same units we were trying to inspect.''
As to there being CIA people in the team? Well yeah of course their was. Who else would you put on a team to find secret weapon programs. Do you honestly think that there was any country that didn't receive intelligence of military value from their team members? But none of that matters since the statement was Iraq was cooperating. No it wasn't.
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Actually the seemed to have worked out a good balance. A lot of people are crabbing about the exceptions but those exceptions are for the protection of political and religious speech.
Commercial speech has less protections which is why cigarette companies can not advertise on TV and such.
"2) Still ineffective against pollsters, politicians, and fundraisers"
That is covered under freedom of speech. The Supreme Court has ruled that commercial speech does not have the same protection as political or religious speech. Which I feel is a good thing.
I am not fond of the other calls but they are clearly protected in the US.
As to opt out? Fine with me since I did.
"Show me research, that nanomaterials are safe. Otherwise we shouldn't allow them based on speculation that they are safe. "
I can show you research that Oxygen, water, cars, airplanes, ships, trains, and fire are not safe.
I am all for doing research to see what the dangers are but if you require any technology to be be proven safe then nothing will ever pass.
You can not prove anything is "safe".
The enter thing seems way to far fetched. Motors running without getting hot?
Yea it would be freaking brilliant if it worked but until I see the chemistry or the cheap fuel I just don't think it is possible.
Funny but I would say that Phoenix is anything but primitive.
Maybe you should have read my post and the post I was responding to.
The post that I was responding to was suggested that people should buy small solar panels and use them to charge a few batteries or run a few LED lights.
You want to talk about gnats.
There is a lot of ways to cut your power bill.
The thing that gets me about standby and phantom loads is that they are 100% waste. Not only are they waste but the contribute to the cost of cooling your home since they are dumping that electricity as heat.
Exactly my point. Sweden has every reason to want to tap internet traffic going to and from Russia without any encouragement from the US.
And your right SAABs doesn't just cars with the ignition key in a strange place.
"Unlike, say, using a backyard barbeque grill? C'mon, how frequently do homes get burnt down by solar panels? Especially since most put out 24 volts of power or even less."
That statment proves that you shouldn't be allowed to install solar cells!
The voltage doesn't matter. A good example of a really dumb idea take a charged car battery. It is only 12 volts so have your voltage and hook it up as a dead short through a common nail. She how long it takes to get hot enough to start a fire.
enough solar cells to run your home or even a good part of it backs more than enough power to kill you. As to the BBQ example. Most people don't BBQ every day and the smart ones don't do it in there home but well away form it.
Also if you have a relatively modern diesel you don't have have to do any modifications to run bio-diesel. You do have to if you are going to run veggie oil.
Instead of buying a little solar panel to charge a few batteries you would be much better off replacing your lights with CFs. Putting your TV, DVD, WAP, Consoles, and other gadgets on to a power strip and turn them off at the power strip.
I wonder how much power we waist with things that go on to standby and don't turn off.
I kind of miss power switches that where big and went clunk.
Hey I am a big fan of the Nuke plant in my back yard. I have a nuclear power plant in my city and I am just fine with it. I do agree with the NIMBY problem.
Oh and your wanting to ban cruisers from motorcycle parking? I am not a cruiser fan but you probably have never looked at the mileage that bikes get. Modern 600s and 1000cc Sports bikes only manage mileage in the 30s. Many cruisers get better mileage than the sports bikes.
Oh I am not a fan of cruisers myself. They just tend to get better mileage then a lot of the light sports bikes. The typical cruiser engine makes less power then a sports bike, they tend to have fewer cylinders than sports bikes, and tend to ridden at a less frantic pace.
Over all twins seem to get better mileage then fours even in sports bikes. I think it because they dissipate less heat to the radiator and tend to rev slower. Seems to me that a obvious key factor to energy efficiency is to use the biggest cylinder and the lowest RPM that is practical.
Of course when you get to bikes like the Ninja 250(sports bike), Honda Rebel(cruiser), and some of the other small bikes you are getting 60+mpg.
Of course the simple fact is that my Mazda3 gets 30+ mpg and my wife and I work at the same place so we get the same mileage as I would get from a small bike if I worked apart from my wife.
Well why has Sweden been flying Elint missions for fifty plus years? Intelligence is always an advantage. Also this is a pretty cheap way to get Comint. As I said the US would have many other options that didn't involve a public referendum.
I would.
Simple if most the data flows through those cables then the US would just tap the cable off shore.
Or if possible tap them in Norway or some other NATO country.
Sweden prides it's self on being neutral. Odds are that Sweden want to do this for their own reasons. Sweden has been flying their own Elint aircraft since the 50s. Sweden knows that they have a lot more to fear from Russia than the NATO members but because they are outside of NATO they don't have access to all the NATO Intelligence data.
I already do. Why do you think I am on both Yahoo and Slashdot.
That is the problem. Slashdot probably has some ads I would be interested in and I would love to see Slashdot get the revenue for those ads. The problem is that there are so many annoying ads I can not stand to turn off AdBlock Plus when I am on Slashdot.
Except I am pretty sure that when you install it you now have access to the source. I am pretty sure that Ubuntu takes you right to the Canonical website which gives you the source.
All the hub bub seems like people getting bent just so they can get bent.
I keep expecting to see Apple jump on this market.
We know that they can scale OS/X down to run on these.
Combine that with an iTunes like store for software and all of a sudden you have the mass market mac.
I see it at $399 and it will have a doc for your IPod to use the bigger screen to watch movies on.
I do tend to agree that Yahoo ads are just annoying.
Slashdot's ads are also annoying to me.
I have some rules.
1. NO POPs I don't care if they are up down over or under.
2. NO ANIMATION. Motion drives me nuts.
3. Don't put them in the middle of the text. Off to the side is fine.
I don't think that Yahoo's are any worse than Slashdot's.
"You are right; and thats why making big solids is tricky. The shuttle SRBs are a notable exception of course"
What about the Titan III and Titan IV SRBs?
The MX?
The reason that Hybrids are not used has very little to do with testing and a lot to do with performance. Of course NASA is now looking at hybrids.
I think this is a bit unfair.
I actually like Yahoo.
I use the my.yahoo home page. I think it is better than the Google version.
I actually like the directory. Sometimes I like to browse a subject and not do just a search for it. It is real handy when looking for things like towns in a state.
I think Yahoo has it's strengths as does Google.
I will admit that I wouldn't use my.yahoo if I didn't have firefox.
The Shuttle was a victim of budget cuts and being over optimistic.
The shuttle was supposed to be a space 747, the problem is we never built the space Ford Tri-Motor, space DC-3, or space 707. We tried to go from the Wright Flyer to the 747 in one step.
We should have built one shuttle and flew it for four years and then started on the next generation.
The shuttle as flown was nothing like what NASA wanted to build. It is a shame because what NASA wanted would have worked a lot better and would have been a lot cheaper per flight.
It just would have cost a lot more more to develop.
"The fuel tank and the combustion chamber are the same thing,"
How is that any different than a solid rocket booster? It isn't, but with a hybrid you at least have the option to abort the run or only do a partial burn.
The reason that hybrids have not been used for orbital flight is that they tend to have a lower specific impulse than liquid fueled systems and are more complex than solid fueled systems.
I don't think Best Buy has to.
Canonical does. CompUSA used to sell Mandrake, RedHat, and Suse and they didn't include the source in the retail package. Well at least not for Suse which is the one I bought. It was available for download from Suse's website.
I don't think Best Buy has to provide the source on request, Canonical does if Best Buy is just acting as a reseller for Canonical.
Well I am hoping that the Polywell reactor will work out. If it does then making gas from air and water will be pretty cheap.
You only have to swap out fuel lines on pretty old diesels. The injectors should be no problem.
The only real problem with bio diesel is that it tends to "clean" old diesel engines. You get a bunch of old crude floating around and hopefully clogging your filters.
Any modern diesel can run bio right now. Now straight vegetable oil takes some mods.
So to meet the goals all MB has to do is drop there gasoline power plants.
Of course what people tend to forget is that you can make gasoline from a lot of non petroleum sources including water and air. The only thing that prevents it is cost.
"Who really owns something that you make in Flash?"
You do.
"Just as when you write a document in Word,"
Yep still you
"when you compose in a proprietary format, you hand the keys over to the vendor."
Gnash for Flash and save as RTF for Word.
"You, and anybody who wants to view or edit what you've created, have to go through the One Software Company."
Umm no. At least not when it comes to Word.
I am no fan of flash but grand sweeping false statements make my feet itch.
Macromedia has documented FLASH and gnu is producing a flash player.
RTF works at least a bit for document exchange.
Sometimes you may need extra bodies on a project or a fresh outlook on a problem. Suppose team on is having a problem you might ask your best debugger on team two to take a look at it.
Of course if team one is using Ruby on Rails and team two is using PHP then it can be a total mess.
People come and people go.
Then you come to the real answer. For a lot of projects there isn't one best tool. I have seen great projects in Python, Perl, PHP, and Ruby. I have also seen total crap in all of them.
If you read the link you provided you would see that the book has no proof of the US being involved in the coup.
"He said a coup attempt against President Saddam Hussein of Iraq in June 1996 coincided with the presence of an inspection team that included nine C.I.A. officials.
Mr. Ritter, who does not provide documentation for all of his conclusions and has been criticized repeatedly by the Clinton Administration, speculated in his book that the intelligence agency might have orchestrated the timing. "
And
''There was no proof of Dobbs's involvement,'' Mr. Ritter said, ''but there was a strong set of coincidences. The inspection was directed almost exclusively at Special Republican Guard sites; the coup plotters were from some of the same units we were trying to inspect.''
As to there being CIA people in the team? Well yeah of course their was. Who else would you put on a team to find secret weapon programs.
Do you honestly think that there was any country that didn't receive intelligence of military value from their team members?
But none of that matters since the statement was Iraq was cooperating. No it wasn't.