"The Abu Ghraib story broke in April 2004 (and officially became a non-story on November 2, 2004)"
With White House counsel Alberto Gonzales--a figure central to the internal discussion of 'when is it not torture' at the White House--on a very short list of Supreme Court nominees, this issue may very well flare up again sooner rather than later.
You say, "at a place I once worked," but fail to say when that was or what the circumstances were. In my experience, Macs rend to get short shrift re.: tech support. Usually this took the form of "It's a Mac, we don't understand them, and we need to appease those who want to use them, so there are the two Macs--Enjoy!"
I don't see how, especially with OSX, you would get many support requests. You must have worked in a true Wintel house where people hated/were scared of Macs!
The method of accreting a reef-like shell to a conductive superstructure was mentioned in a book I read several years ago, called The Millenial Project. Much of it was kind of kooky, but there was one section which talked about using this method in order to build large sea colonies in 'dead' zones. Then, by exploiting temperature differences in the sea water below it, the colony could create electricity for use in extracting hydrogen from the sea water, thus supplying a hydrogen economy.
Robert Ballard recently talked about a research vessel which would create energy in much the same way. So now I am just waiting for someone to accrete a floating sea colony and kick-start the future. Woo hoo!
In response to this, and other posts, complaining about the stranglehold lawyers seem to have on public office, I say this:
If you don't like it, don't elect lawyers.
If you don't like your choices at the voting booth, RUN FOR OFFICE YOURSELF.
If you feel you cannot or will not run for office, campaign for someone you prefer over a lawyer-politician.
That we have full-time legislatures stacked full of lawyers writing new laws 24/7/52/365 isn't someone else's fault or responsibility: IT IS OURS. I, for one, feel that there is too much time writing needless laws and justifying the existence of these full-time bodies. But instead of bitching about lawyers, I take the time to explain to others why it is so, how and why it can be changed, and convincing them to become more engaged in civic life.
That said, as the owner of Saturn, I hereby request that NASA cease and desist in firing probes through my planet's delicate and whispy ring structures. I also demand that my planet's name stop being used to sell cars, and that Saturn and GM begin sending me royalty checks immediately.
When I got my PS2, I kind of had PS compatability in mind. Of course, I have a friend with tons of PS games, and I liked being able to borrow them, as I have on numerous occasions.
As for Xbox, if you can't play Halo or Crimson Skies on the 'next generation xbox,' then Microshaft can go hang.
Give me backwards compatability or give me... er... Well, something worthwhile!
A Space Shuttle can go to ~300km (plus a huge amount of horizontal speed.. depends on cargo weight probably). Based on what I've heard, the ISS is a bit farther out than this... there is only 1 shuttle that can reach it)
Actually, all the remaining shuttles can reach ISS orbit. Columbia was too heavy, as I recall, and also didn't have the appropriate space in the cargo bay for a docking unit.
YES! I agree! Open up the code, and let voting machine makers MAKE THE MACHINES that run it. As an analogy, auto manufacturers don't determine the design and construction of roadways, only the cars that use them. A person should be able to read the code themselves. In fact, such open code could be used for free by a multitude of organizations across the spectrum of society in order to run their own elections, be it for city council, scout troop leader, union president, etc.
Of course, I am still a fan of analog balloting, but truly open sourced voting apps could ease my anxiety a good bit.
The operator who employs this device wil actually NEED it, as the normal strength of a human is insufficient re.: independently carrying that huge backpack that seems to power the damnable thing.
I like to chime in at times like this with a relavent link to my favorite spacegeek site, astronautix.com. In this case, I am linking to their page regarding crew bailout and rescue, which has some interesting concepts and projects documented:
http://astronautix.com/craftfam/rescue.htm
(I would have really linked it, but my boss chimed in at the time and I needed to send this really soon thereafter!)
The priceless bit about this is that each and every time M$ mentions Linux, they effectively clue newbies in to it's very existence. AND, since it is 'free' there is nothing stopping readers of the ad campaign to d/l a copy and play with it, probobly becoming enamoured of Tux before long.
Actually, the word is 'acceptance,' but that is beside the point.
My own introduction to the Internet was on my old Macintosh LCII, nearly ten years ago. MS and IBM had little to do with that computer, as I recall. The first browser I used was Mosaic (well, the first graphical one--previously I fiddled with Lynx on my local BBS--to which I connected via telnet on my LCII).
As mentioned previously, MS was blindsided by the Internet and WWW. If any ONE entity was responsible for bringing it to the masses, my vote would go to American Academia, and more specifically, the chaps at Berkeley, who gave us BSD and, consequently, the variants thereof (on which ran and run a multitude of BBS's--I have yet to encounter one running on a MS platform, and if I did, I wouldn't linger there long). Students and researchers used the Internet and email, and of course these things slopped over from academic life to 'real' life.
If anything, MS has been a bane to the Internet, given their insecure OS, which opened the masses up to virus distribution, DDOS attacks, RPC thrillrides, etc., etc., etc.
Sometimes I wish they'd have just stuck with MS Bob...
IS anyone else concerned that Diebold is a big player in the voting machine business, as well? Man, this nation is going to the dogs: all homeland, no security. Smoke and mirrors. Ack.
I am readig the report, and it doesn't say anything that I haven't been saying myself for the last three or four years. If @Stake is uncomfortable with his extracurricular activities (though I wouldn't have trumpted my connection to them in the paper), then they are probobly, as my investigations indicate, tied to M$ by an umbilical cord, and he would probobly find himeself very unhappy there heading into the future--especially given his social-consciousness.
I certainly hope he finds a job that keeps him in the business, so he can continue to be one of the voices in the dark.
Oh, and @Stake can blow me, those namby-pamby M$ whores. What weasels.
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"The Abu Ghraib story broke in April 2004 (and officially became a non-story on November 2, 2004)"
With White House counsel Alberto Gonzales--a figure central to the internal discussion of 'when is it not torture' at the White House--on a very short list of Supreme Court nominees, this issue may very well flare up again sooner rather than later.
Denny Crane!
And in a related item, Microsoft has now "acquired" Transitive...
Oh, I'm kidding of course (but would it shock anyone?)...
You say, "at a place I once worked," but fail to say when that was or what the circumstances were. In my experience, Macs rend to get short shrift re.: tech support. Usually this took the form of "It's a Mac, we don't understand them, and we need to appease those who want to use them, so there are the two Macs--Enjoy!"
I don't see how, especially with OSX, you would get many support requests. You must have worked in a true Wintel house where people hated/were scared of Macs!
The method of accreting a reef-like shell to a conductive superstructure was mentioned in a book I read several years ago, called The Millenial Project. Much of it was kind of kooky, but there was one section which talked about using this method in order to build large sea colonies in 'dead' zones. Then, by exploiting temperature differences in the sea water below it, the colony could create electricity for use in extracting hydrogen from the sea water, thus supplying a hydrogen economy.
Robert Ballard recently talked about a research vessel which would create energy in much the same way. So now I am just waiting for someone to accrete a floating sea colony and kick-start the future. Woo hoo!
Of course, at any given time, it seems like 1/3 of them are out of service.
This could also mean that, at any time, 3/3 of the tech staff are inept, and just let those iMacs sit until they absolutely MUST fix them.
Screen shots?
Har har har....
Ok.. Now, back to Cubeland...
In response to this, and other posts, complaining about the stranglehold lawyers seem to have on public office, I say this:
If you don't like it, don't elect lawyers.
If you don't like your choices at the voting booth, RUN FOR OFFICE YOURSELF.
If you feel you cannot or will not run for office, campaign for someone you prefer over a lawyer-politician.
That we have full-time legislatures stacked full of lawyers writing new laws 24/7/52/365 isn't someone else's fault or responsibility: IT IS OURS. I, for one, feel that there is too much time writing needless laws and justifying the existence of these full-time bodies. But instead of bitching about lawyers, I take the time to explain to others why it is so, how and why it can be changed, and convincing them to become more engaged in civic life.
That said, as the owner of Saturn, I hereby request that NASA cease and desist in firing probes through my planet's delicate and whispy ring structures. I also demand that my planet's name stop being used to sell cars, and that Saturn and GM begin sending me royalty checks immediately.
When I got my PS2, I kind of had PS compatability in mind. Of course, I have a friend with tons of PS games, and I liked being able to borrow them, as I have on numerous occasions.
As for Xbox, if you can't play Halo or Crimson Skies on the 'next generation xbox,' then Microshaft can go hang.
Give me backwards compatability or give me... er... Well, something worthwhile!
A Space Shuttle can go to ~300km (plus a huge amount of horizontal speed.. depends on cargo weight probably). Based on what I've heard, the ISS is a bit farther out than this... there is only 1 shuttle that can reach it)
Actually, all the remaining shuttles can reach ISS orbit. Columbia was too heavy, as I recall, and also didn't have the appropriate space in the cargo bay for a docking unit.
Earth doesn't own the solar system.
No, but so far, we seem to be the only ones asserting eminent domain...
Why the fuck post a link AND an end-of-article tease line, when the article requires a paid subscription?
:)
KNOBJOB!
That said, can someone violate copyright and post the text?
YES! I agree! Open up the code, and let voting machine makers MAKE THE MACHINES that run it. As an analogy, auto manufacturers don't determine the design and construction of roadways, only the cars that use them. A person should be able to read the code themselves. In fact, such open code could be used for free by a multitude of organizations across the spectrum of society in order to run their own elections, be it for city council, scout troop leader, union president, etc.
Of course, I am still a fan of analog balloting, but truly open sourced voting apps could ease my anxiety a good bit.
Do urologists play first-person shooter games? Only asking...
Ann Arbor here, how do I get a swell job like yours, and get out of this mortgage bank temp-slave hell? ;-)
How does this relate to any increase in compromised Windows machines out there? ;-)
The operator who employs this device wil actually NEED it, as the normal strength of a human is insufficient re.: independently carrying that huge backpack that seems to power the damnable thing.
I like to chime in at times like this with a relavent link to my favorite spacegeek site, astronautix.com. In this case, I am linking to their page regarding crew bailout and rescue, which has some interesting concepts and projects documented:
http://astronautix.com/craftfam/rescue.htm
(I would have really linked it, but my boss chimed in at the time and I needed to send this really soon thereafter!)
...and M$ missed it.
The priceless bit about this is that each and every time M$ mentions Linux, they effectively clue newbies in to it's very existence. AND, since it is 'free' there is nothing stopping readers of the ad campaign to d/l a copy and play with it, probobly becoming enamoured of Tux before long.
Hey, Microsoft, thanks for advertising Linux!
Actually, the word is 'acceptance,' but that is beside the point.
My own introduction to the Internet was on my old Macintosh LCII, nearly ten years ago. MS and IBM had little to do with that computer, as I recall. The first browser I used was Mosaic (well, the first graphical one--previously I fiddled with Lynx on my local BBS--to which I connected via telnet on my LCII).
As mentioned previously, MS was blindsided by the Internet and WWW. If any ONE entity was responsible for bringing it to the masses, my vote would go to American Academia, and more specifically, the chaps at Berkeley, who gave us BSD and, consequently, the variants thereof (on which ran and run a multitude of BBS's--I have yet to encounter one running on a MS platform, and if I did, I wouldn't linger there long). Students and researchers used the Internet and email, and of course these things slopped over from academic life to 'real' life.
If anything, MS has been a bane to the Internet, given their insecure OS, which opened the masses up to virus distribution, DDOS attacks, RPC thrillrides, etc., etc., etc.
Sometimes I wish they'd have just stuck with MS Bob...
IS anyone else concerned that Diebold is a big player in the voting machine business, as well? Man, this nation is going to the dogs: all homeland, no security. Smoke and mirrors. Ack.
Heh heh... That post made me really laugh! Oh, how I wish I had some mod points for ya!
Maybe I'll start saving the cash now so I can get myself a PlayBoy "handheld"!
"Does Dean have a cool uniform?"
Well, yes, as a matter of fact, he does:
a white lab coat, as he was a medical doctor prior to entering politics.
For those of you who wondered...
Here are some ideas that have already been turned over and rejected (and might have to be revisited!):
There are variations of the Apollo
Rescue plans/variations
The original Alpha lifeboat
And Alpha lifeboat's replacement
And, of course, the Saturn V variants
Happy surfing!
I am readig the report, and it doesn't say anything that I haven't been saying myself for the last three or four years. If @Stake is uncomfortable with his extracurricular activities (though I wouldn't have trumpted my connection to them in the paper), then they are probobly, as my investigations indicate, tied to M$ by an umbilical cord, and he would probobly find himeself very unhappy there heading into the future--especially given his social-consciousness.
I certainly hope he finds a job that keeps him in the business, so he can continue to be one of the voices in the dark.
Oh, and @Stake can blow me, those namby-pamby M$ whores. What weasels.