The people who allegedly did the 9-11 attacks had brown skin and are rather indistinguishable from the brown-skinned people south of the U.S border.
Are you really suggesting that you can't tell the difference between someone from Central America and someone from the Middle East?
I know that you are trying to be fescisious, but I work with a guy that has a very strong middle eastern accent and looks like he is from Egypt. When I asked him where he was from he told me Canada... he was serious. His whole family has lived there for at least three generations. So, you can't always tell.
Well, the power cut-off could disable all the breaks as well as the steering, transforming a speeding car into a one-ton ballistic projectile on wheels in the name of road safety.
Oh, sorry, you were being sarcastic.:P
I guess it could work as a drastically effective and extremely terminal driver education program.
Except the device won't respond by "killing the engine" -- it will reduce power, and you can push the button to override it. So it won't cause a "massive pileup".
So aside from the lack of consequences as you imagine them, you're absolutely right.
That's just it... if some of the drivers push the button and some don't, now you have a bunch of people going different speeds... This has disaster written all over it.
3.1 No unified configuration system for computer settings, devices and system services. E.g. distro A sets up networking using these utilities, outputting certain settings residing in certain file system locations, distro B sets up everything differently. This drives most users mad.
I got as far as this and stopped reading. Besides the fact that I haven't seen any of the problems he mentioned before this one, He completely misses what 'most users' are going to be doing. Yes, there are a few geeks who will be trying out different distros, and it might drive them mad that there is no unified configuration. But most 'users' are going to use only one distro. Users just want a computer to work. They are not going to care that distro X is different than the one they are using.
Linux has been ready for the main stream for years now. It easily passes the grandma test for usability.
Now if you want to talk about lack of intuitiveness, look at Vista. I still have trouble trying to figure out how to do a search for a file... Lets see, click on edit... no, wait... what now... Ok, lets look for the binoculars... nope... bangs head against wall.
Lots of poor kids sit in jail for years (and get convicted of inflated, harsher crimes) for something a good lawyer makes "probation" for somebody with even a little bit of money.
Think of the children...
Bah... If they do the crime, they do the time. "fair" sentencing is a farce.
Sure, lets let the criminals back into society where they can rape, pillage, and murder again. ~
Capitalism is not laissez faire [aka Anarcho-Capitalism]
You mean the capitalism from the books i presume, and not the o,ne practised in the real world ? Real Capitalism is IMPOSSIBLE. it needs : perfect information to all players.
You are absolutely correct that Real Capitalism is impossible... however so is real Socialism. I had the wonderful experience to travel from Hamburg Germany to Berlin via train back in 1988 (before the fall of the wall). I noticed back then that the east German's didn't have what I would call self respect for there environment. All of the buildings looked shoddy and grime encrusted with soot. There was trash in the streets and nothing in the general public sector had any upkeep. When I finally made it to the "west controled" portion of Berlin, it was like night and day. All of a sudden buildings were clean and bright, no trash in the streets and the parks and other public places were in good condition. That is the difference between a socialistic society and a capitalistic one.
We already have a government agency designed to keep the environment in good condition. Its called the EPA. If they are not doing their job, then maybe we need to hold them accountable instead of just creating another government agency.
I believe that this works out to over $ 200 billion per year. I suspect we spend almost this much already; the trouble is it is mostly for the military, which doesn't always do much for the rest of us.
Lets see... DARPA invented the internet, made huge contributions to medicine, GPS and much, much more. Yes, DARPA is designed to keep America safe by finding new technologies for the military, but that doesn't mean that it isn't used to help the civilian sector as well.
How about we stop runnaway spending and reduce the national debt. All five of the last presidents have had this idea that we can just spend to our hearts content. We are dangerously close to the point that the rest of the world will say enough is enough and stop buying our debt. When this happens, we as Americans will be in a world of Sh!t. I know that people are going to say this is one of Obama's greatest plans, however, we allready spend billions on R&D through DARPA. That technology does make it to the civilian sector, so we don't need this extra 3% tax on America.
I predict that I will be laughing at all the folks who voted for this administration. All in hoping for a change of there leadership being towed by big business.
For example, This year, California began taking DNA upon arrest and expects to nearly double the growth rate of its database, to 390,000 profiles a year, up from 200,000. Until now, the federal government genetically tracked only convicts, however law enforcement officials are expanding their collection of DNA to include millions of people who have only been arrested or detained, but not yet convicted.
Err... They have been collecting DNA from the Military for a while now...
No, the reason we don't need nukes to the same degree any more is because the Soviet machine broke down.
If you think that the threat of nuclear war went away when the soviet empire collapsed, then you are naive. Not only do the Russians still have all the the nukes, but we also have to deal with China, Pakistan, N. Korea, and possibly Iran. We still have to maintain our nuclear arsenal to deter a nuclear war. Lets just hope the insane nut-jobs in the latter two countries respect that concept.
So we'll be having parades of unmanned planes on trailers going down streets on Veterans Day? Salute our brave button pushers.
As a 20 year veteran of the USAF, let me be the first to say that to win a war you have to have grunts on the ground. The Air Force is good a softening an enemy, but you still have to bust down a few doors to win. Now having said that, I will salute the UAV button pusher just as much as the grunt. They both understand the importance of protecting the country that they love.
The F-22 and the F35 have fundamentally different roles. The F-22 is primarily an air superiority fighter, but has multiple capabilities that include ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence roles. While the F-35 is meant for close air support, tactical bombing, and air defense missions. We need both.
The reason we want to cancel the F-22 is that we can't get anyone in the world to fly against our F-15's. We just don't need the F-22, and can probably skip it entirely in favor of cheaper solutions like these UAV's. We need manned aircraft right now, and the F-15 is not only good enough, it's far far more than good enough.
Wow, you really are naive. You do know that the US just sold the entire fleet of F-16E/F variant (aka Block 60) to the United Arab Emirates. While they are not exactly our enemies, they are not really allies either. Who is to say that they won't use them against us in the future. No, my friend, we need to stay ahead of the technology that the rest of the world owns. That means we need the F-22's. At least until the UAV's are proven against all aerial threats.
I see a lot of people who tout the lack of guns on the F4 as a defense for keeping them around. The main problem with this idea is the missiles of the Vietnam era were not real good at beyond line of site lock. Today's missiles are a different story. We can easily engage a target well outside of human visual ability. Notice I said 'human visual ability', I know that there may be times when we need visual confirmation before the release of a weapon. Cameras are capable of seeing well beyond what the average human can see. Heck, the ball camera on the Predator is capable of picking targets many miles away.
Also, while the lack of guns on the F4 got the most attention, one of the real reasons for the high death rate of pilots during Vietnam was that they didn't trust there missile jamming technology and would simply shut it off. But fighter jocks never make mistakes, so you don't hear about that in the mainstream media.
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The people who allegedly did the 9-11 attacks had brown skin and are rather indistinguishable from the brown-skinned people south of the U.S border.
Are you really suggesting that you can't tell the difference between someone from Central America and someone from the Middle East?
I know that you are trying to be fescisious, but I work with a guy that has a very strong middle eastern accent and looks like he is from Egypt. When I asked him where he was from he told me Canada... he was serious. His whole family has lived there for at least three generations. So, you can't always tell.
You are on the wrong forum... this is nerds, not playas
Well, the power cut-off could disable all the breaks as well as the steering, transforming a speeding car into a one-ton ballistic projectile on wheels in the name of road safety.
Oh, sorry, you were being sarcastic. :P
I guess it could work as a drastically effective and extremely terminal driver education program.
You know... you may be on to something here.
Except the device won't respond by "killing the engine" -- it will reduce power, and you can push the button to override it. So it won't cause a "massive pileup".
So aside from the lack of consequences as you imagine them, you're absolutely right.
That's just it... if some of the drivers push the button and some don't, now you have a bunch of people going different speeds... This has disaster written all over it.
From TFA...
3.1 No unified configuration system for computer settings, devices and system services. E.g. distro A sets up networking using these utilities, outputting certain settings residing in certain file system locations, distro B sets up everything differently. This drives most users mad.
I got as far as this and stopped reading. Besides the fact that I haven't seen any of the problems he mentioned before this one, He completely misses what 'most users' are going to be doing. Yes, there are a few geeks who will be trying out different distros, and it might drive them mad that there is no unified configuration. But most 'users' are going to use only one distro. Users just want a computer to work. They are not going to care that distro X is different than the one they are using.
Linux has been ready for the main stream for years now. It easily passes the grandma test for usability.
Now if you want to talk about lack of intuitiveness, look at Vista. I still have trouble trying to figure out how to do a search for a file... Lets see, click on edit... no, wait... what now... Ok, lets look for the binoculars... nope... bangs head against wall.
Lots of poor kids sit in jail for years (and get convicted of inflated, harsher crimes) for something a good lawyer makes "probation" for somebody with even a little bit of money.
Think of the children...
Bah... If they do the crime, they do the time. "fair" sentencing is a farce.
Sure, lets let the criminals back into society where they can rape, pillage, and murder again. ~
The real question is... How will they vote, once its discovered that the vaccine starts killing off half the population?
;-)
(don't read this part. it's only here because slashdot doesn't understand smiley-only posts)
Don't you know that the filter is there to prevent the dreaded three caricature virus?
I use my prime digit to pick my nose...
is it mentioned anywhere? I can't find it.
I was wondering the same thing. If it is just the standard MS open development model, then it is not really news. GPL on the otherhand...
Capitalism is not laissez faire [aka Anarcho-Capitalism]
You mean the capitalism from the books i presume, and not the o,ne practised in the real world ?
Real Capitalism is IMPOSSIBLE. it needs : perfect information to all players.
You are absolutely correct that Real Capitalism is impossible... however so is real Socialism. I had the wonderful experience to travel from Hamburg Germany to Berlin via train back in 1988 (before the fall of the wall). I noticed back then that the east German's didn't have what I would call self respect for there environment. All of the buildings looked shoddy and grime encrusted with soot. There was trash in the streets and nothing in the general public sector had any upkeep. When I finally made it to the "west controled" portion of Berlin, it was like night and day. All of a sudden buildings were clean and bright, no trash in the streets and the parks and other public places were in good condition. That is the difference between a socialistic society and a capitalistic one.
We already have a government agency designed to keep the environment in good condition. Its called the EPA. If they are not doing their job, then maybe we need to hold them accountable instead of just creating another government agency.
Que obligitory Goatse.cx joke in 3... 2... 1...
cosmonauts will become cosmo-nots
I prefer cosmo-blots.
Through a little dirt over the top and you then have cosmo-plots.
I believe that this works out to over $ 200 billion per year. I suspect we spend almost this much already; the trouble is it is mostly for the military, which doesn't always do much for the rest of us.
Lets see... DARPA invented the internet, made huge contributions to medicine, GPS and much, much more. Yes, DARPA is designed to keep America safe by finding new technologies for the military, but that doesn't mean that it isn't used to help the civilian sector as well.
Let me be the first to say... WTF?
How about we stop runnaway spending and reduce the national debt. All five of the last presidents have had this idea that we can just spend to our hearts content. We are dangerously close to the point that the rest of the world will say enough is enough and stop buying our debt. When this happens, we as Americans will be in a world of Sh!t. I know that people are going to say this is one of Obama's greatest plans, however, we allready spend billions on R&D through DARPA. That technology does make it to the civilian sector, so we don't need this extra 3% tax on America.
Uninstalled it and went back to Windows ME.
You sir, are a masochist!
I predict that I will be laughing at all the folks who voted for this administration. All in hoping for a change of there leadership being towed by big business.
Ha! Ha! ...Sorry, I can't help myself...
Now that was funny.
For example, This year, California began taking DNA upon arrest and expects to nearly double the growth rate of its database, to 390,000 profiles a year, up from 200,000. Until now, the federal government genetically tracked only convicts, however law enforcement officials are expanding their collection of DNA to include millions of people who have only been arrested or detained, but not yet convicted.
Err... They have been collecting DNA from the Military for a while now...
Just sayin
Germany and Japan. OK we didn't invade Japan, but we did use air strikes.
Actually, we did invade Japan
No, the reason we don't need nukes to the same degree any more is because the Soviet machine broke down.
If you think that the threat of nuclear war went away when the soviet empire collapsed, then you are naive. Not only do the Russians still have all the the nukes, but we also have to deal with China, Pakistan, N. Korea, and possibly Iran. We still have to maintain our nuclear arsenal to deter a nuclear war. Lets just hope the insane nut-jobs in the latter two countries respect that concept.
So we'll be having parades of unmanned planes on trailers going down streets on Veterans Day? Salute our brave button pushers.
As a 20 year veteran of the USAF, let me be the first to say that to win a war you have to have grunts on the ground. The Air Force is good a softening an enemy, but you still have to bust down a few doors to win. Now having said that, I will salute the UAV button pusher just as much as the grunt. They both understand the importance of protecting the country that they love.
The F-22 and the F35 have fundamentally different roles. The F-22 is primarily an air superiority fighter, but has multiple capabilities that include ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence roles. While the F-35 is meant for close air support, tactical bombing, and air defense missions. We need both.
The reason we want to cancel the F-22 is that we can't get anyone in the world to fly against our F-15's. We just don't need the F-22, and can probably skip it entirely in favor of cheaper solutions like these UAV's. We need manned aircraft right now, and the F-15 is not only good enough, it's far far more than good enough.
Wow, you really are naive. You do know that the US just sold the entire fleet of F-16E/F variant (aka Block 60) to the United Arab Emirates. While they are not exactly our enemies, they are not really allies either. Who is to say that they won't use them against us in the future. No, my friend, we need to stay ahead of the technology that the rest of the world owns. That means we need the F-22's. At least until the UAV's are proven against all aerial threats.
I see a lot of people who tout the lack of guns on the F4 as a defense for keeping them around. The main problem with this idea is the missiles of the Vietnam era were not real good at beyond line of site lock. Today's missiles are a different story. We can easily engage a target well outside of human visual ability. Notice I said 'human visual ability', I know that there may be times when we need visual confirmation before the release of a weapon. Cameras are capable of seeing well beyond what the average human can see. Heck, the ball camera on the Predator is capable of picking targets many miles away.
Also, while the lack of guns on the F4 got the most attention, one of the real reasons for the high death rate of pilots during Vietnam was that they didn't trust there missile jamming technology and would simply shut it off. But fighter jocks never make mistakes, so you don't hear about that in the mainstream media.