The right wing has been cutting school funding for decades, and this is just another cut.
Their goal is an electorate that has no skills in logic, no ability to tell fallacy from truth, and no practice in learning any.
And it seems to be working to the point that now blatant lies by right-wing politicians are accepted as true simply because they come through the television, and Hitlerite chief executives can not only be elected (albeit by SCOTUS fiat) but re-elected.
"We found the loose screw, tightened it, and now we're suing the victim to shut him up because a court is epistemologically unable to determine what really happened."
This is not the same thing as archiving common knowledge, which is the first and best way to make a FAQ totally unreadable for the newbie and therefore useless to a discussion group.
It is most certainly not the same thing as archiving the FAQ-writer's knowledge, which is the product of an overactive ego and generally results in frequently-argued FAQ entries.
Glenn Mahone/Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington Oct. 4, 2004 (Phone: 202/XXX-1898/1600)
RELEASE: 04-329
NASA CONGRATULATES SPACESHIPONE'S X PRIZE WIN
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today congratulated the SpaceShipOne team on the third successful flight of a private human spacecraft. The team also wins the $10 million X Prize competition.
"Burt Rutan, Paul Allen and the rest of the SpaceShipOne team are to be congratulated for this important achievement. They successfully demonstrated a new human spacecraft, a new propulsion system and a new high-altitude airborne launch platform," said Administrator O'Keefe. "The spirit of determination and innovation demonstrated today show that America is excited about a new century of exploration and discovery. We wish the SpaceShipOne team continued success and many more safe flights," he added.
Aboard the International Space Station 230 miles up, the Expedition 9 crew, made up of NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and Russian Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, noted that for a few minutes this morning, they were joined in space by SpaceShipOne pilot Brian Binnie. "From Gennady and myself and the International Space Station team, congratulations on a job well done, and we're really glad SpaceShipOne returned safely," said Fincke.
The X Prize Foundation created a $10 million prize designed to encourage space tourism through competition among entrepreneurs, engineers and other rocketry experts. The Ansari X Prize was conceived to reward the team, which designed the first private spaceship to successfully fly to a sub-orbital altitude of just over 62 miles (100 kilometers) on two consecutive flights within two weeks.
The competition was modeled after the Orteig Prize, won in 1927 by Charles Lindberg for the first non-stop flight between New York and Paris. All teams had to be privately financed.
For information about SpaceShipOne and the White Knight carrier aircraft on the Internet, visit:
http://www.scaled.com/
For information about NASA's exploration initiatives on the Internet, visit:
http://www.exploration.nasa.gov/
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Glenn Mahone Headquarters, Washington Sept. 29, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1898)
RELEASE: 04-323
NASA SALUTES SPACESHIPONE TEAM AFTER SECOND FLIGHT
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe congratulated the SpaceShipOne team on the second successful flight of a human on a private spacecraft. Administrator O'Keefe was in the Mojave Desert, Calif., today to watch SpaceShipOne pilot Mike Melvill take off and safely land.
"Burt Rutan and Paul Allen and the rest of the team are great examples of the kind of determination and creativity that is helping America achieve its exploration goals," Administrator O'Keefe said. "We at NASA applaud their terrific achievement today, as well as the spirit of competition behind the Ansari X Prize.We wish Mike continued safe travels to space," he said.
>From the orbiting International Space Station, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke took note of the SpaceShipOne flight. "Well, it was nice that [cosmonaut] Gennady [Padalka] and I weren't the only two humans off the planet, even if it was only for a little while," he said during space-to-ground transmissions today. "So, good job and congratulations to the SpaceShipOne team!"
Fincke's comments are available on the NASA TV Video File available on the Web and via satellite in the continental U.S. on AMC-6, Transponder 9C, C-Band, at 72 degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. In Alaska and Hawaii, NASA TV is available on AMC-7, Transponder 18C, C-Band, at 137 degrees west longitude. The frequency is 4060.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. For NASA TV information and schedules on the Internet, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For information about NASA's exploration and discovery programs, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
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There will always be one limiting factor. A machine with top-line processor, memory, and display would still be level 1 if its video driver hardware is shite.
The fact is, the Republican Party as a whole hates the environment. A pro-environment Republican winning in your state will help ten anti-environment Republicans in neighboring states. Supporting Democrats removes their impetus to use anti-environmentalism as a platform plank. Once we're all moving in the same general direction, we can start getting detailed.
Party politics isn't simple, and treating it as though it's simple is why the Fuhrer has a positive approval rating.
If you want to make one decision on one criterion that will improve the environmental behavior of the American people the most, that decision would be to stop voting for Republicans.
When they determine that being responsible on the environment will get them votes, they will become responsible on the environment.
I installed the SP2 upgrade on my notebook yesterday, then spent about 6 hours trying to get it not to lock up my computer, then spent an hour in safe mode watching Add/Remove Programs clean it the hell out.
At least Microsoft got that part of it right. My notebook again operates as it did before the upgrade. I hope...
Slashdot Mirror
Save the Internet.
It's magic.
-Arthur C. Clarke
The fallacy of Proof by Popularity, without the Popularity.
I haven't seen one WMA or AAC on any of the pirate-music sites I look at.
Not that I download any, mind you. Unless I'm already licensed to possess a copy of them.
The right wing has been cutting school funding for decades, and this is just another cut.
Their goal is an electorate that has no skills in logic, no ability to tell fallacy from truth, and no practice in learning any.
And it seems to be working to the point that now blatant lies by right-wing politicians are accepted as true simply because they come through the television, and Hitlerite chief executives can not only be elected (albeit by SCOTUS fiat) but re-elected.
It may be time for a Revolution.
"We found the loose screw, tightened it, and now we're suing the victim to shut him up because a court is epistemologically unable to determine what really happened."
If your ISP can't read users' incoming email, it can't know what is and is not SPAM.
If your ISP can't read users' outgoing email, it can't know who is and who is not a SPAMMER.
The question isn't the act; it is the intent.
Answer only frequently-asked questions.
This is not the same thing as archiving common knowledge, which is the first and best way to make a FAQ totally unreadable for the newbie and therefore useless to a discussion group.
It is most certainly not the same thing as archiving the FAQ-writer's knowledge, which is the product of an overactive ego and generally results in frequently-argued FAQ entries.
Glenn Mahone/Bob Jacobs
Headquarters, Washington
Oct. 4, 2004
(Phone: 202/XXX-1898/1600)
RELEASE: 04-329
NASA CONGRATULATES SPACESHIPONE'S X PRIZE WIN
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today congratulated the
SpaceShipOne team on the third successful flight of a private
human spacecraft. The team also wins the $10 million X Prize
competition.
"Burt Rutan, Paul Allen and the rest of the SpaceShipOne team
are to be congratulated for this important achievement. They
successfully demonstrated a new human spacecraft, a new
propulsion system and a new high-altitude airborne launch
platform," said Administrator O'Keefe. "The spirit of
determination and innovation demonstrated today show that
America is excited about a new century of exploration and
discovery. We wish the SpaceShipOne team continued success
and many more safe flights," he added.
Aboard the International Space Station 230 miles up, the
Expedition 9 crew, made up of NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and
Russian Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, noted that for a few
minutes this morning, they were joined in space by
SpaceShipOne pilot Brian Binnie. "From Gennady and myself and
the International Space Station team, congratulations on a
job well done, and we're really glad SpaceShipOne returned
safely," said Fincke.
The X Prize Foundation created a $10 million prize designed
to encourage space tourism through competition among
entrepreneurs, engineers and other rocketry experts. The
Ansari X Prize was conceived to reward the team, which
designed the first private spaceship to successfully fly to a
sub-orbital altitude of just over 62 miles (100 kilometers)
on two consecutive flights within two weeks.
The competition was modeled after the Orteig Prize, won in
1927 by Charles Lindberg for the first non-stop flight
between New York and Paris. All teams had to be privately
financed.
For information about SpaceShipOne and the White Knight
carrier aircraft on the Internet, visit:
http://www.scaled.com/
For information about NASA's exploration initiatives on the
Internet, visit:
http://www.exploration.nasa.gov/
-end-
* * *
NASA press releases and other information are available automatically
by sending an Internet electronic mail message to domo@hq.nasa.gov.
In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type
the words "subscribe press-release" (no quotes). The system will
reply with a confirmation via E-mail of each subscription. A second
automatic message will include additional information on the service.
NASA releases also are available via CompuServe using the command
GO NASA. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, address an E-mail
message to domo@hq.nasa.gov, leave the subject blank, and type only
"unsubscribe press-release" (no quotes) in the body of the message.
Xerox PARC might have a word with Ballmer about misappropriation of intellectual property.
Glenn Mahone
Headquarters, Washington Sept. 29, 2004
(Phone: 202/358-1898)
RELEASE: 04-323
NASA SALUTES SPACESHIPONE TEAM AFTER SECOND FLIGHT
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe congratulated the
SpaceShipOne team on the second successful flight of a human on
a private spacecraft. Administrator O'Keefe was in the Mojave
Desert, Calif., today to watch SpaceShipOne pilot Mike Melvill
take off and safely land.
"Burt Rutan and Paul Allen and the rest of the team are great
examples of the kind of determination and creativity that is
helping America achieve its exploration goals," Administrator
O'Keefe said. "We at NASA applaud their terrific achievement
today, as well as the spirit of competition behind the Ansari X
Prize.We wish Mike continued safe travels to space," he said.
>From the orbiting International Space Station, NASA astronaut
Mike Fincke took note of the SpaceShipOne flight. "Well, it was
nice that [cosmonaut] Gennady [Padalka] and I weren't the only
two humans off the planet, even if it was only for a little
while," he said during space-to-ground transmissions today.
"So, good job and congratulations to the SpaceShipOne team!"
Fincke's comments are available on the NASA TV Video File
available on the Web and via satellite in the continental U.S.
on AMC-6, Transponder 9C, C-Band, at 72 degrees west longitude.
The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical, and
audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. In Alaska and Hawaii, NASA TV is
available on AMC-7, Transponder 18C, C-Band, at 137 degrees
west longitude. The frequency is 4060.0 MHz. Polarization is
vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. For NASA TV
information and schedules on the Internet, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For information about NASA's exploration and discovery
programs, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
-end-
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by sending an Internet electronic mail message to domo@hq.nasa.gov.
In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type
the words "subscribe press-release" (no quotes). The system will
reply with a confirmation via E-mail of each subscription. A second
automatic message will include additional information on the service.
NASA releases also are available via CompuServe using the command
GO NASA. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, address an E-mail
message to domo@hq.nasa.gov, leave the subject blank, and type only
"unsubscribe press-release" (no quotes) in the body of the message.
Ah,shite.
Musta been a microsoft bug that ate my close-bracket....
It's not helping any. (Currently down 3.38% on the day, for you clickers of the future.)
If it's not seen as a sales improvement, what good is it technologically?
There will always be one limiting factor. A machine with top-line processor, memory, and display would still be level 1 if its video driver hardware is shite.
For the same reason, we have a 11th-Century politician running the country.
The fact is, the Republican Party as a whole hates the environment. A pro-environment Republican winning in your state will help ten anti-environment Republicans in neighboring states. Supporting Democrats removes their impetus to use anti-environmentalism as a platform plank. Once we're all moving in the same general direction, we can start getting detailed.
Party politics isn't simple, and treating it as though it's simple is why the Fuhrer has a positive approval rating.
No they won't.
Go read the law some time.
I have.
Put it up George W. Bush's ass and detonate the fucker.
Most people aren't going to see that.
If you want to make one decision on one criterion that will improve the environmental behavior of the American people the most, that decision would be to stop voting for Republicans.
When they determine that being responsible on the environment will get them votes, they will become responsible on the environment.
Stop voting for Republicans.
"you couldn't fill a 128-bit file system unless you boiled the oceans"
Uh, bunky? Burning all the oil and boiling the oceans are opposite classes of thermodynamic processes.
One is exothermic and will help you fill a filesystem. The other is endothermic and will require burning your filesystem to accomplish.
So now I really wonder if this thing doesn't conk out at like 4 GB (or even 2!) due to some similar stupidity in the driver stack...
Yvonne Craig [insert slavering sound here] was in Mars Needs Women in 1967. That same year, she debuted as Batgirl in Batman. She was 30 years old.
THIRTY!
Wow.
Do you suppose she was America's first faux MILF?
Mars doesn't need women.
Slashdot needs women.
I installed the SP2 upgrade on my notebook yesterday, then spent about 6 hours trying to get it not to lock up my computer, then spent an hour in safe mode watching Add/Remove Programs clean it the hell out.
At least Microsoft got that part of it right. My notebook again operates as it did before the upgrade. I hope...
I see a market for maybe five WWW's in the world.
You telling us you don't read newspapers at all?