Britian has several airports from where it is possible to book [one way] flights to countries where these students might find their surroundings more in harmony with their delusions.
So basically what you're saying is "Britain - love it or leave it"?
And you're resorting to an ad-hominem attack to begin your argument. Excellent <rolls eyes>.
Why don't you take a look at this map of Europe in 1920, after WWI and tell me what nations they "invaded" by the time WWII came around. The answer, simply, is none
I was talking about the expansion of the USSR after WWII began in Europe. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was the deal made between Germany and the USSR to divide Eastern Europe. After signing this treaty, the USSR invaded Poland, Finland, Romania, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.
So, why don't you take a look at this map of Europe in 1940, you will see that the USSR did indeed invade all of these countries during WWII.
In other words, the world-domination plans you speak of were, well, non-existent.
Do you know how many people the USSR lost? 27 million. By the time we invaded Normandy, Germany was already collapsing. Do you know why we waited as long as we did? Tit-for-tat revenge: Lenin pulled the newly formed Soviet Union out of WWI as soon as he took power in 1917, leaving us and our allies high and dry. We didn't need to wait as long as we did; Stalin was begging us for reinforcements, and we could have invaded at any time, but we stood our ground, as a kind of "fuck you" to the Russians, who were hemorrhaging soldiers.
I think you forgot to mention one teensy-weensy little fact about WWII - that Stalin and the USSR entered WWII on the side of the Germans! The two countries signed a pact to split up Eastern Europe between the two, and the USSR went ahead and invaded several Eastern European countries. The USSR was originally allied with the Axis powers, not the Allied powers.
So later in the war, Germany decides to double-cross the USSR and invades Russia. You've already heard rhetoric from Stalin that the USSR has its own global-domination plans, and they've already invaded several Eastern European countries. Now, would you be so quick to come to Stalin's aid, or would you rather allow the two evil countries to duke it out and weaken each other for a while first, so that the victor doesn't have the military might to come after you next?
The difference between SUV drivers and the other various trucks that you mentioned, is that these drivers are trained to drive these vehicles.
Oh, they're trained, you say? Well then, that makes ALL the difference in the world, doesn't it? I mean, someone who is trained would never go over the speed limit, or act like an asshole, or have any other accidents, right?
when you've got a couple HUNDRED tons bashing into you at 60+MPH no amount of hunky SUV steel will save your ass
So Mr. Anonymous Coward likes to pull random, incorrect numbers out of his ass and throw them around like he knows what he's talking about. The maximum weight for semi-trailers is about 35 tons. I'm sure a 3-ton truck has better survivability in a wreck with one of these than would a 1-ton shoebox.
Rather than driving such a large vehicle, you should try not driving like such a jackass and maybe you'd avoid an accident rather than having to survive one.
LOL! Wow, you certainly made a bunch of ASSumptions with that statement. How do you know that I don't drive 55mph in the right lane on the highway all the time in my 29mpg vehicle?
And while doing so at 5am, with very little traffic around, about 10 times a year I'll have some asshole in a semi come up behind me quickly in the right lane, flash their lights at me, and then honk their horns when they get into the left lane to pass me. And it's not even like there's any other traffic stopping them from getting in the left lane to pass me. As long as we have to deal with people like that driving large vehicles, I want to be allowed to trade in my current car for a hummer (if I can ever afford one). Because driving safely doesn't prevent the jackasses from running into you.
Point 1: Is it okay to demolish the other, smaller car and give those passengers a zero percent chance of survival because you like your bumper 4 ft off the ground and backed by 4 tons of steel?
Point 1a: is it ok to require that everyone drive small cars when you will be sharing the road with buses, semis, dump trucks, and other work trucks of immense size & weight?
As long as I'm sharing the road with these behemoths, I want to be able to drive a larger vehicle. If you want to take your chances in a smaller car, be my guest.
If only that solution had worked for me. KnoppMyth is so out of date that the install disk won't even boot if your optical drive is SATA instead of IDE. And my USB keyboard wouldn't work either when it gave up on the auto install and dropped me into a shell. This was just a standard Dell Dimension E520, with standard components. The KnoppMyth distribution needs to get updated just to support common, modern hardware.
I tried installing MythDora on a Dell XPS 410. Didn't work. Knoppmyth wouldn't install either.
The problem is that my desktop has no legacy interfaces. In particular, the DVD drive is SATA, and the keyboard is USB. Knoppmyth and Mythdora cannot currently handle installing from a SATA optical drive. Knoppmyth kindly popped me out to a shell when it couldn't find the installation source directory, but the drivers for the USB keyboard apparently hadn't been loaded, so I couldn't type anything anyhow.
I'm currently installing Myth 0.20 over Fedora Core 6 with the help of the MythTV on Fedora HOWTO by Jarod Wilson. It's been very helpful, but I still find myself spending a lot of time tweaking things to get everything working correctly. MythTV installation is just plain hard.
Because if someone patents something, you can't make a free version of it yourself.
Sure you can... IF the patent-holder allows you to do so. That is OSDL's goal.
Stallman's issue isn't with copyright
Oh yes it is. In particular, his issue is that copyrights were meant as a concession to artists & inventors to further the public good. The public gives up its freedom to use certain arts, ideas, and inventions for a short period of time in exchange for making those things public knowledge. But nowadays, copyright is being used to benefit the businesses that employ artists & inventors, with time periods so long (& being periodically extended) that the public will never be able to make use of the ideas & inventions.
I think the other companies have too much to looossee* for them to let such an invention be supressed.
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* I have given up trying to oppose the increasingly popular misuse of "loose" as "lose" so now I will join with them.. but of course I am way behind on having the proper number of extra letters by the new contemporary spelling of loooose so I'll be putting in even more extra o's to catch up.
It appears that you've offset the extra o's with missing p's.
Why do we have to start with humans in space, isn't it a much better idea to start making colonies with animals?
I've always thought we should start even lower - preferably with plants. If we can find some sort of plant that can manage to survive on Mars, that would go a long way toward creating a supply of oxygen for other lifeforms later. And who cares if several million plants end up dying in the process of elimination?
This means that fully 64.7% of Slashdot readers are so eager to rant on (not having read TFA) that they don't even mind making themselves look like utter fools, proudly displaying their complete ignorance of the matter under discussion, their inability to understand the facts before formulating an opinion, and their general desperate need for upwards moderation, which is the only kind of "social" approbation they can ever hope for.
As long as you have a physical connection from point A to point B, it is vulnerable to the most brute-force of DOS attacks: cut the connection and it's lost. A wireless link between the pilot and the control surfaces, on the other hand, can't be cut by a fire in the cargo hold, or even by a shoulder-fired missle (as long as it missed the kablooie stuff).
This ignores the fact that you still need lines to supply power to move control surfaces. So you still have hydrolic lines and/or electrical power lines that can be cut, rendering your still-intact wireless connection useless.
I suppose you could have small batteries at every control surface, but that would increase weight and add to maintenance costs.
Well, I have read thousands of stories of pathetic helpdesk services years before dell outsourced its helpdesk to India. The fact that you had to pick ONLY Indian helpdesk to do some karma whoring definitely makes you a racist, and nothing else.
LOL! Yeah, why didn't he pick some other nationality to post in a story about INDIA AND NASA???
You probably think that this is racist too. Oh my god! They just called an Indian woman a "curry & rice girl"! How racist of them!
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Sorry, but the facts dispute your assertion.So, why don't you take a look at this map of Europe in 1940, you will see that the USSR did indeed invade all of these countries during WWII.
So later in the war, Germany decides to double-cross the USSR and invades Russia. You've already heard rhetoric from Stalin that the USSR has its own global-domination plans, and they've already invaded several Eastern European countries. Now, would you be so quick to come to Stalin's aid, or would you rather allow the two evil countries to duke it out and weaken each other for a while first, so that the victor doesn't have the military might to come after you next?
Would two be enough?
And while doing so at 5am, with very little traffic around, about 10 times a year I'll have some asshole in a semi come up behind me quickly in the right lane, flash their lights at me, and then honk their horns when they get into the left lane to pass me. And it's not even like there's any other traffic stopping them from getting in the left lane to pass me. As long as we have to deal with people like that driving large vehicles, I want to be allowed to trade in my current car for a hummer (if I can ever afford one). Because driving safely doesn't prevent the jackasses from running into you.
As long as I'm sharing the road with these behemoths, I want to be able to drive a larger vehicle. If you want to take your chances in a smaller car, be my guest.
If only that solution had worked for me. KnoppMyth is so out of date that the install disk won't even boot if your optical drive is SATA instead of IDE. And my USB keyboard wouldn't work either when it gave up on the auto install and dropped me into a shell. This was just a standard Dell Dimension E520, with standard components. The KnoppMyth distribution needs to get updated just to support common, modern hardware.
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I think the only car companies still making cars in America are the Japanese. :-D
The problem is that my desktop has no legacy interfaces. In particular, the DVD drive is SATA, and the keyboard is USB. Knoppmyth and Mythdora cannot currently handle installing from a SATA optical drive. Knoppmyth kindly popped me out to a shell when it couldn't find the installation source directory, but the drivers for the USB keyboard apparently hadn't been loaded, so I couldn't type anything anyhow.
I'm currently installing Myth 0.20 over Fedora Core 6 with the help of the MythTV on Fedora HOWTO by Jarod Wilson. It's been very helpful, but I still find myself spending a lot of time tweaking things to get everything working correctly. MythTV installation is just plain hard.
I suppose you could have small batteries at every control surface, but that would increase weight and add to maintenance costs.
Seriously, I would be worried about defending against intentional interference.
You probably think that this is racist too. Oh my god! They just called an Indian woman a "curry & rice girl"! How racist of them!
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