"required to have airbags, crumple zones and seat belts, and a whole slew of safety features"
Actually, it does have "airbags, crumple zones, seat belts", and more safety features than most cars. Read about it before you post, or use your mod points....
I think this analysis is missing a very important bit of data. What about the Republican take over of both houses of Congress? This happened in 1996 if I am not incorrect. That is the same year that the NASA budget started to decline during Clinton's years. The budget is not determined exclusively by the office of the president. In a very large sense the congress has the purse strings. So if you want to blame one source (which is not possible) for an outcome, it had better be the Republican congress.
What was this guy thinking? I know the ideas of freedom and public accountability are all knoble and good, but what world does this guy live in. After having a Los Angeles police officer put his heel on the back of my neck and put his revolver to my head, the first thing that I always say to a cop is "how can I help you officer." I know that it is a cliched line but power comes out of the barrel of a gun. I am not condoning the abuse of power, but don't play with fire or you might get burned.
Witness the French. As most of their electricity is nuclear generated they are not hostage to oil and dont need to get sucked into the middle-east
What? Oh yeah, in my last trip to France I was amazed at the nuclear powered peugeots and renaults driving around. It was practically like to Jetsons (not). And the french fertilize their fields with nuclear waste not petroleum fertilizers.
The French are arguable one of the countries most economically integrated to the middle east. Don't you remember that brouhaha in the United Nations security council over Iraq? That is because the phone system in Iraq and many of their plants were French run and the French did not want to lose their investments. And the French are heavily invested in Iran as well. This is a globalized, integrated world. All of the industrialized world is pretty much held captive to the middle east for oil and petrodollars, including France.
There are several scenes in this movie that were shot in the San Francisco Bay Area's subway system: BART. The bleak, drab, emotionless world that Lucas created in this movie is a reality. I ride on it every day. Some 60s era psychologists chose to use 'pacifying' colors in the cars and stations. A side note: The idea for the imperial walkers came from the shipping cranes that are right past the West Oakland station.
There was a poll taken this last year of United States college kids' understanding on foreign affairs (sorry no link). A majority of people thought that "Al Jazzerra" was Ben Laden's" brother....
I believe that Greece dropped their opposition to Macedonia as the name of their country when it was preceded by The Former Yugoslav Republic of. This is kind of like Columbians complaining that Canada has a state called British Columbia. This has already been worked out.
"Second, the Bush administration does not constitute the "ringleaders of the right wing." Bush is just like most presidential candidates: too moderate for the hardliners of his own party, too far to the other side for the tastes of the opposition party, but very electable to the moderate masses who are inconsistent in support of one party or the other."
You seem to forget that Bush was "elected" with a minority of the popular vote. This was only the second president who has done this. The only reason he was elected was because of the electoral college votes. I hate to bring up Florida again, but the election was highly flawed. If this is a fair election, even with Bush's big money, he will lose. His numbers a looking really bad.
The oil industry are the single largest and most influential business lobby international. I'm not that much into crackpottery but you have to admit that the oil industry does have an effect on R & D research allocation and tax subsidies in this country and internationally. This has the effect of making oil the cheapest form of energy. This is not the same as saying that, *naturally*, oil would be cheaper. Correlation does not equal causation.
IANAL but, not only is this immoral it is also illegal. There are a long series of Geneva conventions that most countries have signed and ratified. In the United States when international law is ratified it holds the same legal standing as the Constitution. This kind of stuff is very illegal in domestic as well as international law. There are some of the newer Geneva conventions that the U.S. has not signed or ratified though. I don't think that they are signatories to the prohibitions on torture, but this is still covered in treaties as far back as the 1907 or 1949 (?) Geneva conventions. This is a big issue right now with the treatment of prisoners of war in Iraq. This body of law is called Ius ad bellum (rules in war).
The Geneva conventions also confer protection to journalists in war zones. I read an article today (I think it was on Salon) about an Al Jazerra reporter, who happened to be an Iraqi national, who was kept for months and tortured. This is highly illegal behavior and sets a terrible custom that I hope our own soldiers, civilians, and journalists don't have to live through.
I am a student at SFSU. We have a wonderful network that covers about half of the campus. There are also many wonderful cafes around time with free (as in beer) access. Props out to Perl's on West Portal, my favorite cafe in this part of time.
Worries about grey-goo scenarios and DNA plagues shouldn't stop us from researching nanotech -- if only for the reason that solutions to these problems can only be found through nanotechnological means.
This sounds like circular logic to me. Should we continue making deadly biowarfare agents because solutions to biowarfare agents can only be found through biowarfare means? This is the exact logic that has been used in the past. What were the results? It could be argued that the results from the research and development of war technologies was the cold war, as well as the proxy wars around the world, vietnam, Afghanistan 1..... Don't be fooled into thinking that the research and development of this will not come primarily from military research first.
The point that I would like to raise is that we really do need to have a clear debate of the normitive issues involved in a new technology, then develop ethical standards, and an enforcement mechanism before development.
This would still not address transfer of technology issues and the ensuing misappropriation. A good model to look at would be the non-proliferation regimes to see how well they have worked. We could likely have some free riders like North Korea with a dangerous new technology. Some thought should be given before hacking this stuff. This is not just code.
After spending years searching the radio frequencies on earth for intelligent life, the closest I have found are Dr. Laura, Howard Stern, and Rush Limbaugh;-) Maybe there is intelligent life on other planets?
Slashdot Mirror
"recently launched video channel"
I can see it now. 24 hours of John Travolta, Kristy Allie, and Tom Cruise movies....
Sounds like a winner!
What else smells like rotting eggs? So for these mice, this leads to the unfortunate question "who cut the cheese"? ... I'm here all week....
There is no coincidene that the best beer making country in the world is Belgium. Afterall, their language is Belch right? ...Ducks
"required to have airbags, crumple zones and seat belts, and a whole slew of safety features"
Actually, it does have "airbags, crumple zones, seat belts", and more safety features than most cars. Read about it before you post, or use your mod points....
"and why isn't Chicago or London ever destroyed?"
Well I can't speak for Chicago, but London is clearly routinely saved by Doctor Who....
I think this analysis is missing a very important bit of data. What about the Republican take over of both houses of Congress? This happened in 1996 if I am not incorrect. That is the same year that the NASA budget started to decline during Clinton's years. The budget is not determined exclusively by the office of the president. In a very large sense the congress has the purse strings. So if you want to blame one source (which is not possible) for an outcome, it had better be the Republican congress.
What was this guy thinking? I know the ideas of freedom and public accountability are all knoble and good, but what world does this guy live in. After having a Los Angeles police officer put his heel on the back of my neck and put his revolver to my head, the first thing that I always say to a cop is "how can I help you officer." I know that it is a cliched line but power comes out of the barrel of a gun. I am not condoning the abuse of power, but don't play with fire or you might get burned.
Are we talking 300 or 400 pounds? The article did not say.
Ducks...
Seriously, I have worked with some really large hackers. Greasy food and all of that desk time can really put the pounds on.
Witness the French. As most of their electricity is nuclear generated they are not hostage to oil and dont need to get sucked into the middle-east
What? Oh yeah, in my last trip to France I was amazed at the nuclear powered peugeots and renaults driving around. It was practically like to Jetsons (not). And the french fertilize their fields with nuclear waste not petroleum fertilizers.
The French are arguable one of the countries most economically integrated to the middle east. Don't you remember that brouhaha in the United Nations security council over Iraq? That is because the phone system in Iraq and many of their plants were French run and the French did not want to lose their investments. And the French are heavily invested in Iran as well. This is a globalized, integrated world. All of the industrialized world is pretty much held captive to the middle east for oil and petrodollars, including France.
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie....
wait for it....
That a more
There are several scenes in this movie that were shot in the San Francisco Bay Area's subway system: BART. The bleak, drab, emotionless world that Lucas created in this movie is a reality. I ride on it every day. Some 60s era psychologists chose to use 'pacifying' colors in the cars and stations.
A side note: The idea for the imperial walkers came from the shipping cranes that are right past the West Oakland station.
There was a poll taken this last year of United States college kids' understanding on foreign affairs (sorry no link). A majority of people thought that "Al Jazzerra" was Ben Laden's" brother....
;->
Just trying to do my part to educate.
I believe that Greece dropped their opposition to Macedonia as the name of their country when it was preceded by The Former Yugoslav Republic of. This is kind of like Columbians complaining that Canada has a state called British Columbia. This has already been worked out.
Africa is not a country. It is a continent.
such as Africa, Nigeria, Macedonia, Colombia, etc..
For a second I thought this about someone's IUD. I know that this is slashdot and that anything goes, but that is just too personal if you ask me.
Buy an apple laptop.
"Second, the Bush administration does not constitute the "ringleaders of the right wing." Bush is just like most presidential candidates: too moderate for the hardliners of his own party, too far to the other side for the tastes of the opposition party, but very electable to the moderate masses who are inconsistent in support of one party or the other."
You seem to forget that Bush was "elected" with a minority of the popular vote. This was only the second president who has done this. The only reason he was elected was because of the electoral college votes. I hate to bring up Florida again, but the election was highly flawed. If this is a fair election, even with Bush's big money, he will lose. His numbers a looking really bad.
The oil industry are the single largest and most influential business lobby international. I'm not that much into crackpottery but you have to admit that the oil industry does have an effect on R & D research allocation and tax subsidies in this country and internationally. This has the effect of making oil the cheapest form of energy. This is not the same as saying that, *naturally*, oil would be cheaper. Correlation does not equal causation.
IANAL but, not only is this immoral it is also illegal. There are a long series of Geneva conventions that most countries have signed and ratified. In the United States when international law is ratified it holds the same legal standing as the Constitution. This kind of stuff is very illegal in domestic as well as international law. There are some of the newer Geneva conventions that the U.S. has not signed or ratified though. I don't think that they are signatories to the prohibitions on torture, but this is still covered in treaties as far back as the 1907 or 1949 (?) Geneva conventions. This is a big issue right now with the treatment of prisoners of war in Iraq. This body of law is called Ius ad bellum (rules in war).
grin and bear it?
The Geneva conventions also confer protection to journalists in war zones. I read an article today (I think it was on Salon) about an Al Jazerra reporter, who happened to be an Iraqi national, who was kept for months and tortured. This is highly illegal behavior and sets a terrible custom that I hope our own soldiers, civilians, and journalists don't have to live through.
I mean town, not time.
I am a student at SFSU. We have a wonderful network that covers about half of the campus. There are also many wonderful cafes around time with free (as in beer) access. Props out to Perl's on West Portal, my favorite cafe in this part of time.
Tolkien wrote his works for a narrow literate audience, wrote it alone based on his personal experiences
These books are largely an allegory of World War 1. I think that he wrote to a pretty broad audience.
Worries about grey-goo scenarios and DNA plagues shouldn't stop us from researching nanotech -- if only for the reason that solutions to these problems can only be found through nanotechnological means.
This sounds like circular logic to me. Should we continue making deadly biowarfare agents because solutions to biowarfare agents can only be found through biowarfare means? This is the exact logic that has been used in the past. What were the results? It could be argued that the results from the research and development of war technologies was the cold war, as well as the proxy wars around the world, vietnam, Afghanistan 1..... Don't be fooled into thinking that the research and development of this will not come primarily from military research first.
The point that I would like to raise is that we really do need to have a clear debate of the normitive issues involved in a new technology, then develop ethical standards, and an enforcement mechanism before development.
This would still not address transfer of technology issues and the ensuing misappropriation. A good model to look at would be the non-proliferation regimes to see how well they have worked. We could likely have some free riders like North Korea with a dangerous new technology. Some thought should be given before hacking this stuff. This is not just code.
After spending years searching the radio frequencies on earth for intelligent life, the closest I have found are Dr. Laura, Howard Stern, and Rush Limbaugh ;-) Maybe there is intelligent life on other planets?