I no taht Intel-igent Desine is betta. And its true to. Its a fact. Not like you're evolution theory. And us christian's people are celverer than you, becaus we have comma sense. And your alway hating us and sayin were dum.;)
I did a few minutes of googling on various bits from that site and apparently the guy who runs it is called Shimon Gendlin, a mad russian spammer^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hscientist, who, apart from not only not having the luxuring of an msn email account, also has one on optonline.net, but none on atomchip.com nor on the only other site on the web crosslinked to his site, compu-technics.com, which pretends to be an industry trade show giving out medals to our dear mad russian.
It's all good for a laugh, though. Props to him if he actually finds some poor fucker of an investor dumb enough to part with dollars for some gold plated audio jacks and some photshopped jpgs.
Talking about photoshopped jpegs, the image of the laptop is a bit strange since they somehow managed to stick in the trackpad and single button of an apple powerbook instead of the usual PC two button one.
I am, to this day, still amazed at the graphics that were produced for the Riven game. All those thousands of intricate 3D scenes, with a huge number of inlaid Quicktime movies for moving parts still remains to me a milestone of what computers are capable of. The riveting story with its sometimes extremely hard puzzles was second to none.
Sigh. Even Cyan couldn't improve on their own quality with the last Myst game which used modern 3D graphics techniques like OpenGL etc.
And thta's not even talking about the designers who came up with all the 19th cenbtury gizmos and doodahs that filled the game.
Chavez is mainly pissed off by the way the US condoned the coup attempt in 2002. His policies inside Venezuela may be socialist but why don't you wait and see if they actually help people first before screaming communist all over the place?
Venezuela has a huge amount of poverty and he is actively doing something with state money to change that. If it works, good for him. If it doesn't then you can unfurl your anti-communist slogans and cry for war or something.
While I'm pretty sure that Microsoft can and will use an OSDL refusal to partake in this study as fodder for yet another attack on Linux along the lines of "Linux refuses to partake in neutral and unbiased comparison of the two operating systems which shows their fear of real competition bla bla bla", OSDL would be literally insane to take MS up on the offer and they seem to relaise this, thank God.
MS, IMO, wants this study for a certain reason: They are having terrible trouble finding a source target, a tangible thing to abuse, threaten and dominate, in Linux. Attacking Linux itself is extremely difficult as there are no less than two major enterpise level commercial distros: SuSE/Novell and Red Hat, and numerous non-commercial ones with very good reputations, such as Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Knoppix etc. In fact the only thing they really have in common is Linus, who, surprise surprise, works at OSDL.
MS, IMO; perceives OSDL as the source of Linux and has, IMO, determined that damaging OSDL's reputation would damage all the Linux distros' reputations. There is no way on earth in heaven or hell that Microsoft would let this comparison be truly neutral. There's simply too much at stake for them. They would almost certainly try to force certain factors into the test that would push the results in Microsoft's favour, be it by providing a hacked version of Windows that runs faster on the compared tasks, or comparing toolsets (Visual Studio etc), or by forcing OSDL partakers into NDAs and non competitive agreements for seeing MS code.
The reality, though, is that Linux, if it doesn't take the bait for rubbish like this, will continue to grow in the enterprise space. Buyers might be confused by MS marketing, but I'm pretty sure they trust IBM's backing of Linux, and no amount of FUD marketing by MS will change that.
There are several things to be considered if portable laser weapons are available.
1.The laser will obviously be tied into the plane's radar and computer, enabling it to track up to 20 targets at once, and fire at the most dangerous one.
2.The laser will probably not be capable of firing numerous times second in the beginning. That will probably improve with time though.
3.In the beginning, a saturation attack by many missiles would overwhelm the missile's cooling system, but since in air combat their are not that many missiles fired, it would certainly give the edge to the plane with one.
4.Lasers are easily impeded by atmospheric disturbances, like smoke, clouds etc. A good way to shield targets would simply be to make a lot of smoke around them. Enemy planes could do this quite easily to defend themselves.
5.The computers used these days would annull any dogfighting. The computer's ability to track and fire at targets is far far better than any human could be. The result would most probably be drone aircraft firing at one another with the winner being the one with the more powerful laser and better computer.
6. In addition to the points in number 5, I'm sure this would make advances in radar and thermal stealth important in order to avoid the computer's radar and thermal sensors and allow one's craft to get closer to the enemy. I'm sure that ablative shielding on future drone craft will also eventually become important in order to absorb laser burns. Probably missiles would also be coated in these materials.
7.Remember that this is all fine for conventional warfare but for guerilla warfare this will still be useless. A huge laser is no more effective against suicide bombers than a cannon or gun is.
I grew up in South Africa and we had neither TV nor an open press, and we missed the moon landings, but my father collected national geographic and my childhood dreams were filled with articles and photos of brave men piloting rocket powered craft like the X-15 without the benefit of modern technology to unheard of speeds and heights and controlled landings.
Those guys deserve medals, not just astronaut's wings.
These new processors are the reason Apple is switching to x86. They're coming out in the 2nd half of 2006, just when Apple said its first x86 machines would be released and they offer improved "performance per watt", i.e. the exact same terms Jobs used when he announced the switch. My guess is that Apple will also be wanting the.5W handtop cpus for its Video iPod and that there will be some video enabled version of Airport Express to go along with it.
"It's rather strange that we would have such a tremendous response for the purchase of a laptop computer -- and laptop computers that probably have less-than- desirable attributes," said Paul Proto, director of general services for Henrico County.
If I had a choice between a 4 year old iBook and a four year HP Bompaq, I would definitely take the ibook. A 500MHz iBook runs OSX10.3 oe 10.4 very nicely, and a hell of a lot better than a 4 year old laptop runs XP, and with an iBook, you have at least a good idea of the quality.
Apart from which you could have sold them for $100 and the people would still have come.
The ISS is the ONLY way that the astronauts aboard the shuttle would have been able to survive any length of time while waiting for a possible rescue if the shuttle had indeed been damaged enough to make reentry unsafe.
Sooner or later there will be hotels, transit points and repair stations in orbit. The ISS is a precursor to that. Take a look at the facts: The fact that the ISS was there enabled NASA to get complete 360 images of the shuttle's surface by doing a roll in fornt of it. The ISS helped the repair of the tile gap fillers by providing a vantage point to see what the astronauts were doing.
Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttleworth have been simply the two first paying tourists in space at the ISS hotel. I guarantee you that if there weren't such a load of bad noise about the shuttle that there would be more multi-millionaires willing to go up.
Apart from all that, the ISS is the only way that science can learn how humans react to very long stays in zero gravity. This is highly important to future travels in the solar system.
Since just about any extant technology can be used to share data, such as downloading a file via http or ftp or sending attachments vial email, where exactly does this end? If a pirated music file is sent as an attachment with an email, does it suddenly make email illegal too?
P2P is simply a more convenient form of file transfer. That's all. This measure must be opposed!
Since just about any extant technology can be used to share data, such as downloading a file via http or ftp or sending attachments vial email, where exactly does this end? If a pirated music file is sent as an attachment with an email, does it suddenly make email illegal too?
P2P is simply a more convenient form of file transfer. That's all. This measure must be opposed!
In Europe, during the dark ages, i.e. from around the 5th century to the renaissance, there was a huge stagnation in scientific and philosophical study. Europe was about as religiously dogmatic, bigoted and backward as it got in the then civilised world. This was the time when wars were fought over which sect of Christianity one belonged to.
At the same time, Islam was a shining light of medical, scientific and philosphical study, which later started to taper off due to dogamtic influences in Islamic society. But until that happened, Islam was where it was at. The only universities and places of rational study were in Islamic countries. Baghdad was the center of culture, ironically.
Now, we have the beginnings of a major Christian backlash in terms of bigotism and dogma replacing the rational study of science and thought.
Interestingly, today on the BBC, there was an article about the trends in youth culture in Egypt, not exactly a place known for its swinging nightlife. It paints a very different picture from the one that the western media so eargerly embraces about how backward and oppressive the middle east is supposed to be, socially.
I wonder if the pendulum isn't perhaps swinging back to the other end of the scale again.
... a Microsoft spolesman announced today that Microsoft is going to innovate and design a one button mouse. "Microsoft is always on the leading edge of product design", he said, adding that, "We are always careful to differentiate our products from those of our competitors"
So, great and wise Pro-Israeli (or should I say settler) commentator of great values, if the Palestinians are too backward to reason about anything, what do you call the firing of tank shells into crowds of civillians? A demonstration of Salomonian wisdom? What do you call the outright theft of Palestinian land via the security wall and the wholesale destruction of Palestinian livelihood by destroying their orange groves and olive tree plantations? Divine thinking?
With all respect and honor - Shalom - to the memory of those lost in the holocaustIsn't it just a little too cheap to bring up the holocaust when trying to evoke sympathy for Israel?
I couldn't even really be bothered to go into a detailed rebuttal of your post. Israel is a brilliant nation that has survived a huge amount of travesty, but, sadly, along the way it started behaving towards those it conquered similarly to those that has conquered it. A huge historical irony that the Palestinians live in ghettos very similar to those that Jews lived in in Nazi occupied Poland and Russia.
Much of the EU really is socialist with Germany coming to mind in particular, featuring strong central government planning of the economy and extensive social safety nets, workers' unions with real power truly representing their membership, and so on.
Uhm, what central planning of the economy???????. Your assumption is more or less what I meant, I think. There is no centrally planned economy in the EU. In fact it's one of the rules of the EU to have free markets. If you're talking about the agricultural subsidies, then I would point out The US' farm subsidies in response. It has nothing to do with centrally planned economies.
While you're certainly right that Soviet politics caused a lot of harm to the Soviet space programme (The N1 Lunar rocket is a good example as well), the Soviets generally overengineered everything they designed, possibly because they were used to such low quality engineering and workmanship. The results became obvious later with the Soyuz boosters performing remarkably well with no serious problems even in the chaos of post Soviet Russia.
And if you take a look at the Energia booster (the most powerful booster ever, I believe), the thing just looks extremely robust, even if it only flew twice. Once to launch a military payload, and once to launch Buran.
But you're dead right about Buran. It's laughable to judge on the basis of one single flight.
I'd like to start this off by saying that this isn't the first article to stir up fears of an ascendant Asia vs. a descendant America. Slashdot is full of them. Just take a look at any single article noting a technical achievement anywhere, and I mean anywhere outside the US, be it Europe, China, Brazil or India.
And what is the typical slashdotter's reaction? One of blatant chauvinism, racism and derogatory remarks about backward Chinese spacecraft supposedly copied from the Russians, supposedly socialist Europe supporting a dying dream of having the wrong vision of passenger aircraft future or not even knowing that Brazil has had a working ethanol based gasoline system for more than two decades.
That is the typical reaction. If you ask me, the problem of the US is perhaps one of arrogance based on ignorance. Ignorance on what happens beyond the US' borders. I suppose it comes from 60 years of superpower status and genuine leadership in many areas. It's gone on for so long that people in the US possibly take it for granted.
It's also not the first economic scare the US has had. The Japanese frightened many in the 70's and 80's. And now the outsourcing of jobs to China and India is frightening many more.
So where is the problem? Is it education as so many slashdotters like to believe? Is it the US media that is almost exclusively US centric to the extent that your average slashdotter knows neither the difference between Sweden and Switzerland or between Austria and Australia, and has vague and unsettling notions about the EU being socialist or even communist, let alone about place that have cultures even more remotely removed from the US such as China and India?
I think it's probably a bit of all of that, but that the real problem is that the US population is simply not interested in the rest of the world. It's US consumers that drive the US media. It's US parents that drive the education system. It's the US population that votes in a President who is only semi-literate. It's the US population that votes to supplant science with dogmatic religion and yet rail against another equally dogmatic religion, that being ironically, one of the few foreign affairs that genuinely, even if only out of fear, interests the average US person.
Taking an active interest in our world is step one to rejuvinating the US. IMO.
I'm not a windows user but I think Ms is perfectly within its rights here, and they're not being overly draconian about it. They're simply disallowing updates, but are allowing security patches, if the copy is pirated. No draconian system shutdown etc.
Of course, without Linux and OSX around and no anti-trust suit, I seriously doubt MS would have been so benign.
Also, this doesn point out one advantage of one manufacturer making both the hardware and the software as Apple does: Apple doesn't check for serials because when you buy a Mac you already paid for at least one copy of the software.
The thing is thta the US gov would have had to have kept all the UFO stuff secret for over 50 years. Do you really think they would have been capable of that?
And if they did have anti-grav craft, why on earth would hey even bother with the shuttle?
It was Apple that popularised it. I can imagine that Apple will be one of the first to EFI as well, since the others have major legacy problems to contend with.
I listened to the interview and found the guy fascinating in his openess. He even stated quite plainly how he found out that there were others on the computer where he had gotten in by doing a netstat. That begs the question as to what the others got from their searches.
His comment about Non-Terrestrial officers and retouched photos to hide anti-grav technology sound a bit on the far side, though. While there have been numerous claims about anti-gravity using ihgh powered electro magnetic fields, given the way that the US seems unable to keep any secrets very well, I can't imagine that stuff would not have come out in the mean time.
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I no taht Intel-igent Desine is betta. And its true to. Its a fact. Not like you're evolution theory. And us christian's people are celverer than you, becaus we have comma sense. And your alway hating us and sayin were dum. ;)
I did a few minutes of googling on various bits from that site and apparently the guy who runs it is called Shimon Gendlin, a mad russian spammer^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hscientist, who, apart from not only not having the luxuring of an msn email account, also has one on optonline.net, but none on atomchip.com nor on the only other site on the web crosslinked to his site, compu-technics.com, which pretends to be an industry trade show giving out medals to our dear mad russian.
It's all good for a laugh, though. Props to him if he actually finds some poor fucker of an investor dumb enough to part with dollars for some gold plated audio jacks and some photshopped jpgs.
Talking about photoshopped jpegs, the image of the laptop is a bit strange since they somehow managed to stick in the trackpad and single button of an apple powerbook instead of the usual PC two button one.
So perhaps it's really all an atom heart mother.
That's a great achievement. I'm happy for SA.
I am, to this day, still amazed at the graphics that were produced for the Riven game. All those thousands of intricate 3D scenes, with a huge number of inlaid Quicktime movies for moving parts still remains to me a milestone of what computers are capable of. The riveting story with its sometimes extremely hard puzzles was second to none.
Sigh. Even Cyan couldn't improve on their own quality with the last Myst game which used modern 3D graphics techniques like OpenGL etc.
And thta's not even talking about the designers who came up with all the 19th cenbtury gizmos and doodahs that filled the game.
You guys from Cyan will be sorely missed.
Chavez is mainly pissed off by the way the US condoned the coup attempt in 2002. His policies inside Venezuela may be socialist but why don't you wait and see if they actually help people first before screaming communist all over the place?
Venezuela has a huge amount of poverty and he is actively doing something with state money to change that. If it works, good for him. If it doesn't then you can unfurl your anti-communist slogans and cry for war or something.
While I'm pretty sure that Microsoft can and will use an OSDL refusal to partake in this study as fodder for yet another attack on Linux along the lines of "Linux refuses to partake in neutral and unbiased comparison of the two operating systems which shows their fear of real competition bla bla bla", OSDL would be literally insane to take MS up on the offer and they seem to relaise this, thank God.
MS, IMO, wants this study for a certain reason: They are having terrible trouble finding a source target, a tangible thing to abuse, threaten and dominate, in Linux. Attacking Linux itself is extremely difficult as there are no less than two major enterpise level commercial distros: SuSE/Novell and Red Hat, and numerous non-commercial ones with very good reputations, such as Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Knoppix etc. In fact the only thing they really have in common is Linus, who, surprise surprise, works at OSDL.
MS, IMO; perceives OSDL as the source of Linux and has, IMO, determined that damaging OSDL's reputation would damage all the Linux distros' reputations. There is no way on earth in heaven or hell that Microsoft would let this comparison be truly neutral. There's simply too much at stake for them. They would almost certainly try to force certain factors into the test that would push the results in Microsoft's favour, be it by providing a hacked version of Windows that runs faster on the compared tasks, or comparing toolsets (Visual Studio etc), or by forcing OSDL partakers into NDAs and non competitive agreements for seeing MS code.
The reality, though, is that Linux, if it doesn't take the bait for rubbish like this, will continue to grow in the enterprise space. Buyers might be confused by MS marketing, but I'm pretty sure they trust IBM's backing of Linux, and no amount of FUD marketing by MS will change that.
There are several things to be considered if portable laser weapons are available.
1.The laser will obviously be tied into the plane's radar and computer, enabling it to track up to 20 targets at once, and fire at the most dangerous one.
2.The laser will probably not be capable of firing numerous times second in the beginning. That will probably improve with time though.
3.In the beginning, a saturation attack by many missiles would overwhelm the missile's cooling system, but since in air combat their are not that many missiles fired, it would certainly give the edge to the plane with one.
4.Lasers are easily impeded by atmospheric disturbances, like smoke, clouds etc. A good way to shield targets would simply be to make a lot of smoke around them. Enemy planes could do this quite easily to defend themselves.
5.The computers used these days would annull any dogfighting. The computer's ability to track and fire at targets is far far better than any human could be. The result would most probably be drone aircraft firing at one another with the winner being the one with the more powerful laser and better computer.
6. In addition to the points in number 5, I'm sure this would make advances in radar and thermal stealth important in order to avoid the computer's radar and thermal sensors and allow one's craft to get closer to the enemy. I'm sure that ablative shielding on future drone craft will also eventually become important in order to absorb laser burns. Probably missiles would also be coated in these materials.
7.Remember that this is all fine for conventional warfare but for guerilla warfare this will still be useless. A huge laser is no more effective against suicide bombers than a cannon or gun is.
Infra-red lasers do not get reflected by shiny things. Most military class lasers operate in the IR spectrum.
I grew up in South Africa and we had neither TV nor an open press, and we missed the moon landings, but my father collected national geographic and my childhood dreams were filled with articles and photos of brave men piloting rocket powered craft like the X-15 without the benefit of modern technology to unheard of speeds and heights and controlled landings.
Those guys deserve medals, not just astronaut's wings.
These new processors are the reason Apple is switching to x86. They're coming out in the 2nd half of 2006, just when Apple said its first x86 machines would be released and they offer improved "performance per watt", i.e. the exact same terms Jobs used when he announced the switch. My guess is that Apple will also be wanting the .5W handtop cpus for its Video iPod and that there will be some video enabled version of Airport Express to go along with it.
"It's rather strange that we would have such a tremendous response for the purchase of a laptop computer -- and laptop computers that probably have less-than- desirable attributes," said Paul Proto, director of general services for Henrico County.
If I had a choice between a 4 year old iBook and a four year HP Bompaq, I would definitely take the ibook. A 500MHz iBook runs OSX10.3 oe 10.4 very nicely, and a hell of a lot better than a 4 year old laptop runs XP, and with an iBook, you have at least a good idea of the quality.
Apart from which you could have sold them for $100 and the people would still have come.
The ISS is a huge waste though.
The ISS is the ONLY way that the astronauts aboard the shuttle would have been able to survive any length of time while waiting for a possible rescue if the shuttle had indeed been damaged enough to make reentry unsafe.
Sooner or later there will be hotels, transit points and repair stations in orbit. The ISS is a precursor to that. Take a look at the facts: The fact that the ISS was there enabled NASA to get complete 360 images of the shuttle's surface by doing a roll in fornt of it. The ISS helped the repair of the tile gap fillers by providing a vantage point to see what the astronauts were doing.
Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttleworth have been simply the two first paying tourists in space at the ISS hotel. I guarantee you that if there weren't such a load of bad noise about the shuttle that there would be more multi-millionaires willing to go up.
Apart from all that, the ISS is the only way that science can learn how humans react to very long stays in zero gravity. This is highly important to future travels in the solar system.
The ISS is by no means a waste.
Since just about any extant technology can be used to share data, such as downloading a file via http or ftp or sending attachments vial email, where exactly does this end? If a pirated music file is sent as an attachment with an email, does it suddenly make email illegal too?
P2P is simply a more convenient form of file transfer. That's all. This measure must be opposed!
Since just about any extant technology can be used to share data, such as downloading a file via http or ftp or sending attachments vial email, where exactly does this end? If a pirated music file is sent as an attachment with an email, does it suddenly make email illegal too?
P2P is simply a more convenient form of file transfer. That's all. This measure must be opposed!
In Europe, during the dark ages, i.e. from around the 5th century to the renaissance, there was a huge stagnation in scientific and philosophical study. Europe was about as religiously dogmatic, bigoted and backward as it got in the then civilised world. This was the time when wars were fought over which sect of Christianity one belonged to.
At the same time, Islam was a shining light of medical, scientific and philosphical study, which later started to taper off due to dogamtic influences in Islamic society. But until that happened, Islam was where it was at. The only universities and places of rational study were in Islamic countries. Baghdad was the center of culture, ironically.
Now, we have the beginnings of a major Christian backlash in terms of bigotism and dogma replacing the rational study of science and thought.
Interestingly, today on the BBC, there was an article about the trends in youth culture in Egypt, not exactly a place known for its swinging nightlife. It paints a very different picture from the one that the western media so eargerly embraces about how backward and oppressive the middle east is supposed to be, socially.
I wonder if the pendulum isn't perhaps swinging back to the other end of the scale again.
So, great and wise Pro-Israeli (or should I say settler) commentator of great values, if the Palestinians are too backward to reason about anything, what do you call the firing of tank shells into crowds of civillians? A demonstration of Salomonian wisdom? What do you call the outright theft of Palestinian land via the security wall and the wholesale destruction of Palestinian livelihood by destroying their orange groves and olive tree plantations? Divine thinking?
With all respect and honor - Shalom - to the memory of those lost in the holocaustIsn't it just a little too cheap to bring up the holocaust when trying to evoke sympathy for Israel?
I couldn't even really be bothered to go into a detailed rebuttal of your post. Israel is a brilliant nation that has survived a huge amount of travesty, but, sadly, along the way it started behaving towards those it conquered similarly to those that has conquered it. A huge historical irony that the Palestinians live in ghettos very similar to those that Jews lived in in Nazi occupied Poland and Russia.
Ice hockey sticks vs. cans of Tuborg
Much of the EU really is socialist with Germany coming to mind in particular, featuring strong central government planning of the economy and extensive social safety nets, workers' unions with real power truly representing their membership, and so on.
Uhm, what central planning of the economy???????. Your assumption is more or less what I meant, I think. There is no centrally planned economy in the EU. In fact it's one of the rules of the EU to have free markets. If you're talking about the agricultural subsidies, then I would point out The US' farm subsidies in response. It has nothing to do with centrally planned economies.
Shit, and there I hoped to make a point.
While you're certainly right that Soviet politics caused a lot of harm to the Soviet space programme (The N1 Lunar rocket is a good example as well), the Soviets generally overengineered everything they designed, possibly because they were used to such low quality engineering and workmanship. The results became obvious later with the Soyuz boosters performing remarkably well with no serious problems even in the chaos of post Soviet Russia.
And if you take a look at the Energia booster (the most powerful booster ever, I believe), the thing just looks extremely robust, even if it only flew twice. Once to launch a military payload, and once to launch Buran.
But you're dead right about Buran. It's laughable to judge on the basis of one single flight.
I'd like to start this off by saying that this isn't the first article to stir up fears of an ascendant Asia vs. a descendant America. Slashdot is full of them. Just take a look at any single article noting a technical achievement anywhere, and I mean anywhere outside the US, be it Europe, China, Brazil or India.
And what is the typical slashdotter's reaction? One of blatant chauvinism, racism and derogatory remarks about backward Chinese spacecraft supposedly copied from the Russians, supposedly socialist Europe supporting a dying dream of having the wrong vision of passenger aircraft future or not even knowing that Brazil has had a working ethanol based gasoline system for more than two decades.
That is the typical reaction. If you ask me, the problem of the US is perhaps one of arrogance based on ignorance. Ignorance on what happens beyond the US' borders. I suppose it comes from 60 years of superpower status and genuine leadership in many areas. It's gone on for so long that people in the US possibly take it for granted.
It's also not the first economic scare the US has had. The Japanese frightened many in the 70's and 80's. And now the outsourcing of jobs to China and India is frightening many more.
So where is the problem? Is it education as so many slashdotters like to believe? Is it the US media that is almost exclusively US centric to the extent that your average slashdotter knows neither the difference between Sweden and Switzerland or between Austria and Australia, and has vague and unsettling notions about the EU being socialist or even communist, let alone about place that have cultures even more remotely removed from the US such as China and India?
I think it's probably a bit of all of that, but that the real problem is that the US population is simply not interested in the rest of the world. It's US consumers that drive the US media. It's US parents that drive the education system. It's the US population that votes in a President who is only semi-literate. It's the US population that votes to supplant science with dogmatic religion and yet rail against another equally dogmatic religion, that being ironically, one of the few foreign affairs that genuinely, even if only out of fear, interests the average US person.
Taking an active interest in our world is step one to rejuvinating the US. IMO.
I'm not a windows user but I think Ms is perfectly within its rights here, and they're not being overly draconian about it. They're simply disallowing updates, but are allowing security patches, if the copy is pirated. No draconian system shutdown etc.
Of course, without Linux and OSX around and no anti-trust suit, I seriously doubt MS would have been so benign.
Also, this doesn point out one advantage of one manufacturer making both the hardware and the software as Apple does: Apple doesn't check for serials because when you buy a Mac you already paid for at least one copy of the software.
The thing is thta the US gov would have had to have kept all the UFO stuff secret for over 50 years. Do you really think they would have been capable of that?
And if they did have anti-grav craft, why on earth would hey even bother with the shuttle?
It was Apple that popularised it. I can imagine that Apple will be one of the first to EFI as well, since the others have major legacy problems to contend with.
I listened to the interview and found the guy fascinating in his openess. He even stated quite plainly how he found out that there were others on the computer where he had gotten in by doing a netstat. That begs the question as to what the others got from their searches.
His comment about Non-Terrestrial officers and retouched photos to hide anti-grav technology sound a bit on the far side, though. While there have been numerous claims about anti-gravity using ihgh powered electro magnetic fields, given the way that the US seems unable to keep any secrets very well, I can't imagine that stuff would not have come out in the mean time.