I've seen lots of posts along the lines of 'just shove it out the airlock and let gravity do the rest'. The station and anything jetisonned from it orbit at a speed of 27,300 kph. Depending on which way and how hard you toss this stuff out of the airlock is is not likely to deorbit and burn up in the atmosphere. More likely it's going to drift in a slightly different orbit and perhaps someday it will intersect with the IIS again.. If you do the math of two objects traveling at 27,300kph even with a small intercept angle the speeds and energies involved in the two objects would be catostrophic to both apon impact. This is why you can't just 'toss trash out the airlock' while in orbit.
Kerry is on the senate inteligence committee, and gets the same briefings as the president on the intelegence in Iraq. And he voted for the use of force in Iraq.
So you can vote for the guy who wanted to invade Iraq under false pretenses, or you can vote for the guy who wanted to invade Iraq under false pretenses. The choice is yours.
most people and soccer mums don't need inneficient gas guzzlers
So YOU decide if I really need the 300ZX I drive? I have no choice in the matter? You can take my Z when you pry it from my cold dead hands you effing commie. Because that whole to each his need from each his ability crap died about 15 years ago in case you didn't get the memo.
As for not buying in Walmart or your freedom of speech, frankly you can not be serious.
Laws promoting and favoring 1. Locally owned small businesses, which are more accessible to community concerns.
2. Local production and consumption where possible. in other words favoratism against non-local business such as WalMart, forcing competition on an un-level playing field.
m. Language is often used as a weapon... Freedom of speech is vital to democracy. However, we believe that this freedom should not be used to perpetuate oppression and abuse.
How can simple words create oppression and abuse? They can't; but that won't stop the greens from banning speech that is distasteful in their opionion.
Well at least the greens don't flip-flop. Pretty much opposed to all technology (do you know how many toxic byproducts are created when they produced the computer you are sitting in front of?) and opposed to any source of energy; if the greens had their way we'd all be living in trees eating acorns.
The big question I have for the greens is how can they claim to be for freedom when their policies would strip so much of it away.. i.e. property freedoms (can't buy cars certain, can't shop at walmart), freedom of speech (can't voice your opinion if it's a currently unpopular one that may be found offensive by one group or another), freedoms of whom to associate with (you can no longer form an association to pool resources for a project larger than one person, commonly called a corporation), freedoms of due process, the list goes on...
Is this a troll? WTF? Why should I pay for your lifestyle choices (having childeren)?
Are you going to pay for my sportscar habit? I think you should send me checks every month so I can race sportscars all day instead of work.
I am sick of you marginalizing and denying me my sportscar rights!!! sportscar entitlements now!!!!!!!!
If canada is so friggin great why don't you go there. I hope you like hockey, and being part of the largest un-noteworthy country in the world. Who'd wanna live in a country where the tracks are iced in 10 months a year anyway.
How do you reconcile the american belief in freedom with your party's platform when so many of your policies use governmental force to restrict personal choices, such as the choice of what someone can drive, what someone can own, how much electricity someone can use, who and how someone can employ another person, the choice of who to associate with, and where someone can conduct business?
Microsoft may be many things, but dumb is not one of them.. They learn from their mistakes and their competetor's victories.
They pretty much minded their own business government-wise until their enemies wined and dined the folks in the beltway and got the feds to go after microsoft for antitrust. So now Sun and Netscape have taught Microsoft that if you spread the wealth around washington you can get things via governmental force that you couldn't normally get in a an open market economy.
It's stark irony that an open source project such as mozilla could suffer thanks to a lesson about lobbying that Microsoft learned from Netscape.
Each state chose or changed to an all-or-nothing electorial college system to increase the power of the state as compared to other states. If the difference for a canidate between getting 51% and 49% of the popular vote in a state is vast, the difference between one additional electorial vote, or ALL the electorial votes in a given state, then the canidate is more likely to focus more attention in that state and support policies more beneficial to that state.
Really! I paid less for a ticket to the last concert I attended, which was a per profit enterprise and everyone who worked it got paid. Most events I've attended where they've had to park cars it was a more reasonable $4-8 per car to pay for parking attendants. I attended the last launch and parking was _free_. I do think they should attempt to cover their costs for crowd control on the launch but I think $35 is outragous and then to have the nards to ask for volunteer labor? Hah!
I'd like to type out how bad I think this internationalization stuff is for the US economy as I sit here in a cafe sipping columbian coffee made in an italian coffee maker poured into a chinese mug, while typing on a japanese laptop connected to a tiwanese access point. Oh, I just forgot, I left my norwegian cellphone in my german car in the parking lot. Be right back!
Congratulations! You found an army training range. This facility is nothing more than an area for war games, as evidenced by the shoddy signs in a foreign language and the 5.56mm (M16 rifle) blanks.
You'd think somebody in the 'Missisipi State Militia' would have identified the facility as such, but I guess none of them have spent a lick of time in the real military.. Is their membership bored rednecks tired of cowtipping and wanting something more exciting to shoot at then racoons?
When that happens I'll form a company that doesn't have that provision, because I'll attract all the smart innovative people, and I'll be competing against companies full of dumb self-defeating sheep.
Well if your job feels like charity on the part of the employer perhaps you don't deserve it. Not to be cold-hearted, but them is the breaks.
The obvious question that's non-PC to ask, WTF are you doing having a family when you haven't made the investment of time in obtaining a marketable skill or trade? Personal responsibility anyone? Hullo!
It should be pointed out it's always easy to have principles when things are cushy and easy, 'character' is maintaining those principles through times of hardship and strife.
So you have the oportunity to avoid this when you sign up for employment with a new company that 'owns your thoughts' (or doesn't want you walking away from the company with an idea you derived as part of your job duties at the company). Whenever they have that clause it's common for them to have you identify your past inventions. Anything you think you may productize or is a work in your brain you should list here. If your item is on this list and your contract is like most your employer cannot lay claim to these 'previous inventions'.
And folks, FOLKS, don't sign anything you haven't read and don't understand. And if you don't like provisions in it, cross them out and initial it then sign it. There's nothing that says you have to accept their employment contract verbatim. Most HR folks won't bother to chase you down or make a big fuss if it's just 'fluff' wording anyway. Read your contract, sign it, and then accept the terms you have agreed to in writing.
We don't need more 'laws' to protect the 'poor workers' from their 'corporate enslavers', folks need to just not be f**kn p*****s when they accept a job somewhere. If the terms of employment are acceptable then take it, if not ask for different terms or look for a different employer. A job aint a handout, it's an arrangement with mutual benefit to BOTH employer and employee.
It's all networked, that's great! Any thirteen year old jihaddist with an AK47 and a $20 RF detector can see our guys coming miles away. Sometimes too smart is a little dumb. If they can figure out how to take down blackhawks with RPG's then they can figure out when the RF detector starts beeping that trouble is coming. Heck, they could probably key mines (aka roadside bombs) to it.
Like the improvements to the body armor, question how it affects mobility though.
As I recall everything was going to be fission powered, until the fearmongers and FUDers came along. So while you are sitting in traffic wondering why you aren't cruzing home in your very own aircar blame the guy ahead of you with the air-fowling VW minibus and the greenpeace sticker.
Using windows as compared to open source is like buying a car where the manufacturer sealed the hood shut; how rediculous would that be? Oh, nevermind....
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You are more likely to die in traffic on your way to the launch site.
-- Greg
I've seen lots of posts along the lines of 'just shove it out the airlock and let gravity do the rest'. The station and anything jetisonned from it orbit at a speed of 27,300 kph. Depending on which way and how hard you toss this stuff out of the airlock is is not likely to deorbit and burn up in the atmosphere. More likely it's going to drift in a slightly different orbit and perhaps someday it will intersect with the IIS again.. If you do the math of two objects traveling at 27,300kph even with a small intercept angle the speeds and energies involved in the two objects would be catostrophic to both apon impact. This is why you can't just 'toss trash out the airlock' while in orbit.
-- Greg
Kerry is on the senate inteligence committee, and gets the same briefings as the president on the intelegence in Iraq. And he voted for the use of force in Iraq.
So you can vote for the guy who wanted to invade Iraq under false pretenses, or you can vote for the guy who wanted to invade Iraq under false pretenses. The choice is yours.
Oh, yeah, this is news for nerds how??
-- Greg
most people and soccer mums don't need inneficient gas guzzlers
... Freedom of speech is vital to democracy. However, we believe that this freedom should not be used to perpetuate oppression and abuse.
So YOU decide if I really need the 300ZX I drive? I have no choice in the matter? You can take my Z when you pry it from my cold dead hands you effing commie. Because that whole to each his need from each his ability crap died about 15 years ago in case you didn't get the memo.
As for not buying in Walmart or your freedom of speech, frankly you can not be serious.
From the green platform:
Laws promoting and favoring
1. Locally owned small businesses, which are more accessible to community concerns.
2. Local production and consumption where possible.
in other words favoratism against non-local business such as WalMart, forcing competition on an un-level playing field.
m. Language is often used as a weapon
How can simple words create oppression and abuse? They can't; but that won't stop the greens from banning speech that is distasteful in their opionion.
Looks like those documents are gone now!
Guess Diebold should have just posted to slashdot to get the documents removed from the internet.
Perhaps slashdot should consider a [cache] link for each link since this is such a regular occurence.
-- Greg
Well at least the greens don't flip-flop. Pretty much opposed to all technology (do you know how many toxic byproducts are created when they produced the computer you are sitting in front of?) and opposed to any source of energy; if the greens had their way we'd all be living in trees eating acorns.
The big question I have for the greens is how can they claim to be for freedom when their policies would strip so much of it away.. i.e. property freedoms (can't buy cars certain, can't shop at walmart), freedom of speech (can't voice your opinion if it's a currently unpopular one that may be found offensive by one group or another), freedoms of whom to associate with (you can no longer form an association to pool resources for a project larger than one person, commonly called a corporation), freedoms of due process, the list goes on...
-- Greg
Is this a troll? WTF? Why should I pay for your lifestyle choices (having childeren)?
Are you going to pay for my sportscar habit? I think you should send me checks every month so I can race sportscars all day instead of work.
I am sick of you marginalizing and denying me my sportscar rights!!! sportscar entitlements now!!!!!!!!
If canada is so friggin great why don't you go there. I hope you like hockey, and being part of the largest un-noteworthy country in the world.
Who'd wanna live in a country where the tracks are iced in 10 months a year anyway.
-- Greg
If we make you president will you show up to work?
Most folks with that sort of absenteeism would be in the unemployment line instead of seeking a promotion.
-- Greg
How do you reconcile the american belief in freedom with your party's platform when so many of your policies use governmental force to restrict personal choices, such as the choice of what someone can drive, what someone can own, how much electricity someone can use, who and how someone can employ another person, the choice of who to associate with, and where someone can conduct business?
-- Greg
Google only hires PHD's; The difference between PHD and PHB is only two bits.
-- Greg
Microsoft may be many things, but dumb is not one of them.. They learn from their mistakes and their competetor's victories.
They pretty much minded their own business government-wise until their enemies wined and dined the folks in the beltway and got the feds to go after microsoft for antitrust. So now Sun and Netscape have taught Microsoft that if you spread the wealth around washington you can get things via governmental force that you couldn't normally get in a an open market economy.
It's stark irony that an open source project such as mozilla could suffer thanks to a lesson about lobbying that Microsoft learned from Netscape.
-- Greg
Each state chose or changed to an all-or-nothing electorial college system to increase the power of the state as compared to other states. If the difference for a canidate between getting 51% and 49% of the popular vote in a state is vast, the difference between one additional electorial vote, or ALL the electorial votes in a given state, then the canidate is more likely to focus more attention in that state and support policies more beneficial to that state.
-- Greg
Really! I paid less for a ticket to the last concert I attended, which was a per profit enterprise and everyone who worked it got paid. Most events I've attended where they've had to park cars it was a more reasonable $4-8 per car to pay for parking attendants. I attended the last launch and parking was _free_. I do think they should attempt to cover their costs for crowd control on the launch but I think $35 is outragous and then to have the nards to ask for volunteer labor? Hah!
-- Greg
I'd like to type out how bad I think this internationalization stuff is for the US economy as I sit here in a cafe sipping columbian coffee made in an italian coffee maker poured into a chinese mug, while typing on a japanese laptop connected to a tiwanese access point. Oh, I just forgot, I left my norwegian cellphone in my german car in the parking lot. Be right back!
-- Greg
Just out of curiosity, has there ever been a slashdot article on outsourcing that's not negative?
Congratulations! You found an army training range. This facility is nothing more than an area for war games, as evidenced by the shoddy signs in a foreign language and the 5.56mm (M16 rifle) blanks.
You'd think somebody in the 'Missisipi State Militia' would have identified the facility as such, but I guess none of them have spent a lick of time in the real military.. Is their membership bored rednecks tired of cowtipping and wanting something more exciting to shoot at then racoons?
-- Greg
Since they've done very little testing. This is all hype. They are trying to get a little publicity before Rutan sweeps it in a few months..
-- Greg
When that happens I'll form a company that doesn't have that provision, because I'll attract all the smart innovative people, and I'll be competing against companies full of dumb self-defeating sheep.
-- Greg
Well if your job feels like charity on the part of the employer perhaps you don't deserve it. Not to be cold-hearted, but them is the breaks.
The obvious question that's non-PC to ask, WTF are you doing having a family when you haven't made the investment of time in obtaining a marketable skill or trade? Personal responsibility anyone? Hullo!
It should be pointed out it's always easy to have principles when things are cushy and easy, 'character' is maintaining those principles through times of hardship and strife.
-- Greg
So you have the oportunity to avoid this when you sign up for employment with a new company that 'owns your thoughts' (or doesn't want you walking away from the company with an idea you derived as part of your job duties at the company). Whenever they have that clause it's common for them to have you identify your past inventions. Anything you think you may productize or is a work in your brain you should list here. If your item is on this list and your contract is like most your employer cannot lay claim to these 'previous inventions'.
And folks, FOLKS, don't sign anything you haven't read and don't understand. And if you don't like provisions in it, cross them out and initial it then sign it. There's nothing that says you have to accept their employment contract verbatim. Most HR folks won't bother to chase you down or make a big fuss if it's just 'fluff' wording anyway. Read your contract, sign it, and then accept the terms you have agreed to in writing.
We don't need more 'laws' to protect the 'poor workers' from their 'corporate enslavers', folks need to just not be f**kn p*****s when they accept a job somewhere. If the terms of employment are acceptable then take it, if not ask for different terms or look for a different employer. A job aint a handout, it's an arrangement with mutual benefit to BOTH employer and employee.
-- Greg
It's all networked, that's great! Any thirteen year old jihaddist with an AK47 and a $20 RF detector can see our guys coming miles away. Sometimes too smart is a little dumb. If they can figure out how to take down blackhawks with RPG's then they can figure out when the RF detector starts beeping that trouble is coming. Heck, they could probably key mines (aka roadside bombs) to it.
Like the improvements to the body armor, question how it affects mobility though.
-- Greg
As I recall everything was going to be fission powered, until the fearmongers and FUDers came along. So while you are sitting in traffic wondering why you aren't cruzing home in your very own aircar blame the guy ahead of you with the air-fowling VW minibus and the greenpeace sticker.
-- Greg
Using windows as compared to open source is like buying a car where the manufacturer sealed the hood shut; how rediculous would that be? Oh, nevermind....
-- Greg
but I've yet to see a song or a movie by a total independent get somewhere by internet word of mouth
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