Nope, it's not "deregulation" or even capitalism. It's a bunch of bought-and-paid-for city councilmen deliberately interfering with markets on Comcast's behalf.
Actually, since federal law prohibits local communities from giving exclusive franchises, now competing cable companies that would otherwise be prohibited for entering your area by marketshare limits can come in and compete for your cable dollar.
Not only is that not true (I have a choice of Comcast or Americast as my cable TV provider), but it is currently a violation of U.S. federal law for any U.S. community to grant a cable TV monopoly. Has been for eight years now.
Also, what was the "Philosophy" behind using an XUL custom themeable GUI instead of native Win/Gtk/Mac widgets?
XML/CSS required that browsers be able to render a set of widgets for XML/CSS documents to use. So the choice was either writing such widgets that could be rendered by Gecko, or developing code to invoke and position the native widgets within the browser window for every platform. The logical answer was writing Gecko-renderable widgets.
So, why not use those same Gecko-renderable widgets that already have to be written for a single XP front end, saving time over developing different FEs using different sets of native widgets for each platform?
The skinning was just serendipity; if you have widgets and their layout specified in a XML-based format, it's very easy to edit and thus very easy to skin.
That is, an XP skinnable UI was easier and faster to implement than separate Win/Gtk/Mac native widget versions.
These programs were supposed to bring faster, cheaper, and safer space transport? What happened?
Very simple. The Clinton-Gore administration defunded the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and turned over the DC-X to NASA. NASA then managed the follow-on X-33 program with the same incompetence they've so stunningly displayed in every manned space effort since Skylab.
Do you happen to know how the X-33 project got started?
The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization financed a SSTO prototype called the DC-X, which worked. The project was killed when Clinton-Gore ended space-based missile defense.
So then NASA took up the ball, and ordered a follow-on vehicle for the X-33 project. And proceded to utterly botch the project.
So if Bush wants to end the X-33 and restart SDI research, that's fine with me. We might actually get a working SSTO out of the deal, which we apparently can't get from NASA.
Okay. How about the dozens of single-owner tool-and-die shops in Detroit with five million dollars worth of machine tools, where the proprietor makes about as much in a years as an autoworker?
How about the "Two Men and a Truck" moving company, with several million dollars in trucks and low marginal profits?
The farm analogy is merely a proxy for all the small-buisness-sole-proprietorships where family buisnesses must be sold to pay a 55% tax rate on the physical assets of the buisness.
Move the exemption on estates from $600,000 to $20 million, and you save these fairly small companies. But you also eliminate 98% of the federal returns from the tax, so why bother leaving the tax around at all?
The Geneva convention that applies to things like bullet size and type has not been ratified by the United States, although we generally conform to it.
Were nukes ever mentioned? A nerve gas warhead missile is far cheaper and easier to make.
No, the expensive part is building missiles and/or developing a MIRV bus, which remains the same whether you launch real warheads or fake warheads.
Your criticisms further assume a Clinton-style defense system where the first line of defense is a small-scale ground-based system that targets warheads, not a large-scale space-based defense that targets missiles. Clinton was building an inherently useless system for political cover; Bush believes in missile defense.
There is no NDF treaty (at least past a draft stage), although there is a Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund.
The ABM treaty is subject to withdrawal at any time with six months' notice, and whether it is still legally in force since the fall of the USSR is itself debatable.
I think US should spend more money on space research and less on military. (US has the largest 'defence' budget in the world, and four others in world's six largest military budgets are those of US allies, so what's the point?) With the Bush administration, this is not a realistic option.
Why not? Although we're going to pay the personnel more, the Bush plan calls for fewer overseas interventions, eliminating an entire generation of weapons-development programs, and unilaterally downsizing our nuclear forces.
It's amazing how ignorant the left seems to be of what Bush has been saying for the last eighteen months.
Did you miss the part where Bush called for unilateral reduction in our nuclear forces? Or the part where he wants to kill funding for an entire generation of new weapons?
Actually, Gore sponsored a contest in 1993, with three NASA design teams proposing different designs. The M.I.T. panel of judges chose the plant that had us build the station on Earth, put it on a Shuttle stack minus the orbiter (but with the main engines), and launch the whole thing into space.
Rather than acceept this simple and relatively inexpensive approach, which additionally would have given the U.S. a working heavy-lift launcher design using in-production parts, Vice President Gore and the House Space Subcommittee chairman George Brown (D-CA) ordered NASA to ignore the technically superior solution in favor of the current (losing) plan instead.
Okay, you're 99% likely to be a troll, but people without solid grounding in computers have been appearing more and more often on/. since I opened my first account many moons ago, so...
IP address means Internet Protocol address. It is the Internet's rough equivalent of mailing addresses in a postal system or phone numbers in a telephone systems. The are necessary for any Internet connection to work.
Endor is a former moon of a gas giant; the RotJ novel clearly states that the planet around which the moon orbitied was lost. This fact is mentioned, btw, in the Dark Apprentice section of the Endor Holocaust website.
Accordingly, there is no gas giant-Endor L2 point for the Death Star to be in. Perhaps one should read the entirety of a web page before trying to nitpick it?
Claiming that the repulsion field would have to bear the full weight of the DS-II rests on assumptions of the physics of repulsors.
Finally, the mere elimination of the repulsors would not be sufficient to destroy the Death Star II. The Death Star II is clearly said to be "fully operational", and since it cannot be fully operational unless it is able to move into target systems, the Death Star II before destruction obviously would be able to move away from Endor at hyperlight speeds, far faster than the gravity could pull it down.
(So why didn't the Emperor order the Death Star to flee when the shields fell? He was preoccupied with a battle in his throne room, of course.)
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Nope, it's not "deregulation" or even capitalism. It's a bunch of bought-and-paid-for city councilmen deliberately interfering with markets on Comcast's behalf.
Actually, since federal law prohibits local communities from giving exclusive franchises, now competing cable companies that would otherwise be prohibited for entering your area by marketshare limits can come in and compete for your cable dollar.
Now, if your state or city has laws preventing other cable companies from moving into your area, there's something for you to protest.
In federal court. U.S. law has prohibited exclusive cable franchises for the last eight years.
All areas are served by one cable company
You, sir, are an ignorant ass.
Not only is that not true (I have a choice of Comcast or Americast as my cable TV provider), but it is currently a violation of U.S. federal law for any U.S. community to grant a cable TV monopoly. Has been for eight years now.
Also, what was the "Philosophy" behind using an XUL custom themeable GUI instead of native Win/Gtk/Mac widgets?
XML/CSS required that browsers be able to render a set of widgets for XML/CSS documents to use. So the choice was either writing such widgets that could be rendered by Gecko, or developing code to invoke and position the native widgets within the browser window for every platform. The logical answer was writing Gecko-renderable widgets.
So, why not use those same Gecko-renderable widgets that already have to be written for a single XP front end, saving time over developing different FEs using different sets of native widgets for each platform?
The skinning was just serendipity; if you have widgets and their layout specified in a XML-based format, it's very easy to edit and thus very easy to skin.
That is, an XP skinnable UI was easier and faster to implement than separate Win/Gtk/Mac native widget versions.
On Windows 98se on my machine, 0.8 is faster than Netscape 4.7 or IE (except for startup time). On Linux, however, 0.8 is much slower than 4.7.
These programs were supposed to bring faster, cheaper, and safer space transport? What happened?
Very simple. The Clinton-Gore administration defunded the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and turned over the DC-X to NASA. NASA then managed the follow-on X-33 program with the same incompetence they've so stunningly displayed in every manned space effort since Skylab.
Do you happen to know how the X-33 project got started?
The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization financed a SSTO prototype called the DC-X, which worked. The project was killed when Clinton-Gore ended space-based missile defense.
So then NASA took up the ball, and ordered a follow-on vehicle for the X-33 project. And proceded to utterly botch the project.
So if Bush wants to end the X-33 and restart SDI research, that's fine with me. We might actually get a working SSTO out of the deal, which we apparently can't get from NASA.
Okay. How about the dozens of single-owner tool-and-die shops in Detroit with five million dollars worth of machine tools, where the proprietor makes about as much in a years as an autoworker?
How about the "Two Men and a Truck" moving company, with several million dollars in trucks and low marginal profits?
The farm analogy is merely a proxy for all the small-buisness-sole-proprietorships where family buisnesses must be sold to pay a 55% tax rate on the physical assets of the buisness.
Move the exemption on estates from $600,000 to $20 million, and you save these fairly small companies. But you also eliminate 98% of the federal returns from the tax, so why bother leaving the tax around at all?
The Geneva convention that applies to things like bullet size and type has not been ratified by the United States, although we generally conform to it.
Were nukes ever mentioned? A nerve gas warhead missile is far cheaper and easier to make.
No, the expensive part is building missiles and/or developing a MIRV bus, which remains the same whether you launch real warheads or fake warheads.
Your criticisms further assume a Clinton-style defense system where the first line of defense is a small-scale ground-based system that targets warheads, not a large-scale space-based defense that targets missiles. Clinton was building an inherently useless system for political cover; Bush believes in missile defense.
There is no NDF treaty (at least past a draft stage), although there is a Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund.
The ABM treaty is subject to withdrawal at any time with six months' notice, and whether it is still legally in force since the fall of the USSR is itself debatable.
I think US should spend more money on space research and less on military. (US has the largest 'defence' budget in the world, and four others in world's six largest military budgets are those of US allies, so what's the point?) With the Bush administration, this is not a realistic option.
Why not? Although we're going to pay the personnel more, the Bush plan calls for fewer overseas interventions, eliminating an entire generation of weapons-development programs, and unilaterally downsizing our nuclear forces.
It's amazing how ignorant the left seems to be of what Bush has been saying for the last eighteen months.
Given that Bush is moving a significant part of the Houston crew to Washington, D.C., I'd argue that this is entirely unfounded.
Did you miss the part where Bush called for unilateral reduction in our nuclear forces? Or the part where he wants to kill funding for an entire generation of new weapons?
We're still spending more inflation-adjusted dollars on the space progam per year than we did during the '60s.
Actually, Bush before the election and in his current budget is calling for elimination of funding for an entire generation of weapons projects.
And he's called for a doubling of NIH funding, not a cut.
Actually, Gore sponsored a contest in 1993, with three NASA design teams proposing different designs. The M.I.T. panel of judges chose the plant that had us build the station on Earth, put it on a Shuttle stack minus the orbiter (but with the main engines), and launch the whole thing into space.
Rather than acceept this simple and relatively inexpensive approach, which additionally would have given the U.S. a working heavy-lift launcher design using in-production parts, Vice President Gore and the House Space Subcommittee chairman George Brown (D-CA) ordered NASA to ignore the technically superior solution in favor of the current (losing) plan instead.
And Gore was supposedly the smart one?
France, or the EU as a unit. The Ariane is a tested rocket with a long record comparable to the Titan.
The International Astronomical Union name for the planet is "Mars".
.ma already is used for Morocco
The web site you point to mentions that English is the international language for professional astronomy.
And
Okay, you're 99% likely to be a troll, but people without solid grounding in computers have been appearing more and more often on /. since I opened my first account many moons ago, so...
IP address means Internet Protocol address. It is the Internet's rough equivalent of mailing addresses in a postal system or phone numbers in a telephone systems. The are necessary for any Internet connection to work.
Hey! Murdoch's an AMERICAN now!
Endor is a former moon of a gas giant; the RotJ novel clearly states that the planet around which the moon orbitied was lost. This fact is mentioned, btw, in the Dark Apprentice section of the Endor Holocaust website.
Accordingly, there is no gas giant-Endor L2 point for the Death Star to be in. Perhaps one should read the entirety of a web page before trying to nitpick it?
Claiming that the repulsion field would have to bear the full weight of the DS-II rests on assumptions of the physics of repulsors.
Finally, the mere elimination of the repulsors would not be sufficient to destroy the Death Star II. The Death Star II is clearly said to be "fully operational", and since it cannot be fully operational unless it is able to move into target systems, the Death Star II before destruction obviously would be able to move away from Endor at hyperlight speeds, far faster than the gravity could pull it down.
(So why didn't the Emperor order the Death Star to flee when the shields fell? He was preoccupied with a battle in his throne room, of course.)
It may have been once upon a time; however, my @home CD turns off all sharing by default.
8/9. Your forgot to include the Rankine scale, where 0 is absolute zero and the measurement interval is equal to the degree Farenheit.
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