The word is Deterance, and North Korea is building nuclear weapons to defend their soverenty against Bush and his fanatically aggressive millitary campaigns.
Actually, North Korea started their nuke buildup in the 1990's. They signed agreement with the US essentially not to do so in exchanges for food,energy equipment, and other stuff. Then they took their program underground. It has only now come out, now that they may have 2 nuclear devices. Now they are threatning overtly to use them against The US or Japan. Unspoken, is that North Korea would be willing to sell them to anyone. They already sell missile and other military tech to anybody.
It is pretty funny that you would suggest Bush is a fanatic and not suggest that of the North Korean dictator.
Do you really want to know why Canada didn't join your war against Iraq? We all agree that Sadam is bad and should have been removed. There is no argument about that. We didn't join in because we do not want to be a TARGET. That's right, a TARGET. Just think about this in a logical fashion. Look at the possible chain of events.
The above is a pretty good example of the appeasement mindset. Unfortunately, on the international stage, this is what Canada has become.
Representatives from upper and lower Canada including Ontario were originally part of the continental congress during the American revolution but backed off when the declaration of independance was signed.
Not true.
It was then when loyalist for England moved north into Canada while freedom loving rebels stayed in the states or moved south from Canada.
About 1/3 of the colonist were loyalist. I am not sure what % moved to canda, england, or elsewhere.
How is it that today Canada is more free then the US?
That is not really true. It is not true that they are less free. It helps that Canada seems to be going for a free ride (WTO, US Defense of the West and North America). Creeping socialism in Canada is starting to have a negative effect.
Americans love freedom and credit the revolution but support the president and look at anyone non conformist as unpatrotic.
This is a very simplistic statement. It is simply not true.
Guess what? Bush is the one who is unpatrotic.
In what sense is he un-patriotic?
Many Americans are becoming wary of not only his economic record but his horrendous foreign policy.
The poll number they show on National Security issues on the news do not back this up.
...many are upset and look at Bush as reckless and a threat to global stability more then anyone else.
The anti-American left and the supporter of militant Islamic dictators feel this way. To them stability means, dictators stay in power, and terrorism against the West continues. To them stability also means the US does nothing .
He really could overreact and create a nuclear war if he is not careful.
In what sense has overreacted? What scenario are you considering here? China Russia? North Korea?
I think Powell definitely acted inappropriately in Syria yesterday.
In what sense? If anything, the US is taking a soft line to Syria. Are you upset that they were asked to expel Iraqi leaders they may have given sanctuary too? Are you upset that Syria was asked to stop supporting multiple terrorist groups?
Multi-episode, big plot storylines ala Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
I want the rock-n-roll (or the "damn the torpedos, full speed ahead") attitude of Kirk from the original Star Trek, in the Enterprise Captain (Archer or his replacement).
Drop the John Williams-like orchesteral soundtrack, and get something more interesting. I loved the background music from the orginak Star Trek. The need something that memorable and that different
Fuck with the Star Trek established continuity. The future timeline doesn't need to be what we think it is. There is a temporal war going on, don't be afraid to be unconventional about this.
Get some contemporary science fiction writers to script an episode, story line, character arc, or story arc. Reach outside of the normal Star Trek writers to get some new blood and new ideas. I would also consider offering the Farscape guys a 2 or 3 episode story arc.
Better dialouge (faster/more interesting/memoriable). See for reference: Sports Night, West Wing, Gilmore Girls, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. None of these are Sceince Fiction shows. Enterprise should cherry pick some stylistic ideas (or writers) from them.
Visually make the show more interesting. Show more of the ship. Use different camera angles and editing styles. Try occasional non-linear/multi-persdpective story lines (ala Boomtown). Do episodes completley from a re-occuring or guest stars point of view.
If this is going to be a 1,2 or three person effort...
Just do it from home. Don't get any permits or anything. Don't put up a sign. Don't blab to the neihgbors.
Get a mail drop at Mailboxes Etc or something similiar (that is not a chain). There are plenty of these. They can act as your official mailing address. If any mail shows up, they can call you and let you know it is there.
Get a service like onebox.com for an integrated 1800/fax/voice-mail/email.
If you need to have a meeting with others in person, do it at their place, a coffee shop, or rent for a couple of hours one of those shared hoteling places. Don't hold the meeting at your house (unless the biz person is also a buddy who already is in the know). You do not want to have noticable (annoying to youir neighbors) business traffic to your residence.
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The idea was the Neutron bomb could take out concentrated tank formations. Thus, it would force Soviet battle planners to adopt a more dispersed order of battle for armor. Since the Soviets had a big lopsided numerical advantage in armor that was a good thing for the US and NATO. For the most part, the Soviets propaganda machine was able to enlist the Left in the Western world to oppose neutron weapons, spinning it as neutron weapons were to kill inhabitants of cities. In the only bit of good the French did for NATO, they developed or claimed to develop neutron bombs. So, the Soviets would still have to plan for them, even after the US said they would not build them anymore.
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Actually, WW3 was the cold war.
WW4 is the current War (Netwar and 4GW) between the Anglo/American West on one side, and Political Islam with Authoritarian/Buerocractic Elites and Leftist on the other.
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The USA went to war against the little known country (at the time), Korea in 1950
Nope. There was no country of Korea. There was North Korea and a South Korea. North Korea.invaded the South Korea.
was the first appliction of containment
Nope. That would a little earlier when the Commies tried to take over Greece. The US aided in a counter-insurgency war.
USA came out of isolationism..."
Nope. That happened in 12/7/1941. The Roosevelt and Truman administrations were not isloationist.
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Actually, the went in first. The UN support after. The Soviets were boycotting the Security Council at the time. They never did that again.
Personal Finance for Dummies by Eric Tyson
(don't be put off by the title, Eric Tyson is really good. His personal finance related books are easy to read and thorough.)
The only Investment guide you will ever need by Andrew Tobias
(Covers more then just the investing stuff. Gets you in the right frame of mind).
Die Broke and Live Rich by Stephan Pollan and Mark Levine
(An interesting whole life approach.)
Common Sense on Mutual Funds by John Bogle
(Founder of Vanguard and big-time advocate, of no-load, low expense mutual funds)
Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
(the economic case in plain English for investing in broad index mutual funds over managed mutual funds and individual stocks).
I recommend for the actually money/investing part:
Checking Account
money market
low expense, no-load broad indexed mutual funds from Vanguard or Tiaa-Cref.
Remember Personal Finance involves more then investing.
A Simple Personal Finance & Investing Scheme:
1) Reduce your expenses. You are spending more then you need to. Look at every category you buy from (track your expenses for 3 months). Reduce your expenditures on everything. Find cheaper sources, buy less, use the internet to cut cost, buy used, and find cheaper replacements, whatever. Buy used cars (not new). You don't have to keep a budget forever, just think of this as a periodic audit.
2) Have a will made. Make sure you have the proper (not too much and not too little) insurance (auto, renters/homeowners, life, medical, disability). Shop around for good prices) and remember insurance salesmen are trickier then car salesmen.
3) Set goals down on paper ("I want to go on a nice vacation every year", "I want to retire in 20 years", "I want to buy a house in 3 years", I am getting married in a year", I want to buy a new computer in 6 months", "I will spend $300 on Christmas gift this year", etc. Put down a time frame and guesstimate money cost.
4) Have a pile of money for the next two or three months of expenses (rent, food, beer, entertainment, etc). Just have this in a checking account. Get you checked directly deposited into this.
5) Have a pile of money to cover minimal living expenses for six months to a year (think of this as your "oh shit I have been fired" emergency fund). This money should be liquid and safe. Think Money Market, CD's, Savings Account, maybe US Savings Bonds. If you can have some of your paycheck automatically deposited into a money market, go for it.
6) Have a pile of money for short-term expenses and capital expenses for within the next few years (think next used car, house, vacation, etc). This money should be liquid and safe, but don't intermingle it with your oh-shit contingency pile. Try to automate the deposits into this.
7) Have a pile of money for the long term and retirement. If you have a 401k type plan at work, max you pre-tax contributions into it. If you are self-employed, maximize your SEP-IRA. Open a Roth IRA at Vanguard or Tiaa-Cref. Put the $3k maximum in each year. Also put long-term money in a non-IRA or non-Roth-IRA account. Depending upon you age till retirement, your mix between bonds and stocks assets (this is called asset allocation) will vary. My suggestion is to look at the Vanguard Lifestyle Funds. These funds blend broad bond index funds, and broad stock index funds into one fund. They do not have a load (a fee as percentage of investment) to get in or out of the fund, and their expenses (the amount of money the operators consume for running the fund) are the lowest. Tiaa-Cref has similar stuff. Again, try to get the deposits into this automated, so you don't have to actively do it. Lastly, don't count on a company pension or Social Security for retirement. If you get that stuff, think of it as gravy, but don't depend upon it.
8) Stick to your plan, but to not obsesses about it. Don't worry how other people are doing relative to you. All that matters is meeting your plan's goals. Don't spend all of you time counting change or reading investing books.
An alternative to going public would be to set up an ESOP trust. The Founders could keep keep X% of the company. An ESOP trust is created. The ESOP trust borrows money from an insurance company or pension fund, etc. The ESOP trust uses this money to buy 100-X% of the stock from the founders. Employees get units of the trust. They can only sell units to and from the trust, etc. There is more to it then this. But it is a way for folks to cash in on there options, yet the company doesn't get lost.
Good idea. There is no good reason for the US to support and aid the only democratic nation in the Mideast. We certainly don't want to upset all of the Arab/Islamic totalitarian nations.Besides, those jews have it coming to them, right?
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I am for one, ok with the lack of flying cars. Drivers seem to have enough problems in 2D.
Actually, North Korea started their nuke buildup in the 1990's. They signed agreement with the US essentially not to do so in exchanges for food,energy equipment, and other stuff. Then they took their program underground. It has only now come out, now that they may have 2 nuclear devices. Now they are threatning overtly to use them against The US or Japan. Unspoken, is that North Korea would be willing to sell them to anyone. They already sell missile and other military tech to anybody.
It is pretty funny that you would suggest Bush is a fanatic and not suggest that of the North Korean dictator.
That would be "South Korea", not "Korea".
The above is a pretty good example of the appeasement mindset. Unfortunately, on the international stage, this is what Canada has become.
The current candian military is a pale shadow of the force that fought so well in WW2.
Not true.
It was then when loyalist for England moved north into Canada while freedom loving rebels stayed in the states or moved south from Canada.
About 1/3 of the colonist were loyalist. I am not sure what % moved to canda, england, or elsewhere.
How is it that today Canada is more free then the US?
That is not really true. It is not true that they are less free. It helps that Canada seems to be going for a free ride (WTO, US Defense of the West and North America). Creeping socialism in Canada is starting to have a negative effect.
Americans love freedom and credit the revolution but support the president and look at anyone non conformist as unpatrotic.
This is a very simplistic statement. It is simply not true.
Guess what? Bush is the one who is unpatrotic.
In what sense is he un-patriotic?
Many Americans are becoming wary of not only his economic record but his horrendous foreign policy.
The poll number they show on National Security issues on the news do not back this up.
The anti-American left and the supporter of militant Islamic dictators feel this way. To them stability means, dictators stay in power, and terrorism against the West continues. To them stability also means the US does nothing .
He really could overreact and create a nuclear war if he is not careful.
In what sense has overreacted? What scenario are you considering here? China Russia? North Korea?
I think Powell definitely acted inappropriately in Syria yesterday.
In what sense? If anything, the US is taking a soft line to Syria. Are you upset that they were asked to expel Iraqi leaders they may have given sanctuary too? Are you upset that Syria was asked to stop supporting multiple terrorist groups?
There was no rule of law in the USSR. The constitution was not the real law of the land.
The Soviet state was Totalitarian Dictatorship from the beginning. It did not emerge over time. The dictatorship preceded the Soviet constitution.
Congress passed a use of force resolution.
Balance of Power
Civilization
Multi-episode, big plot storylines ala Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
I want the rock-n-roll (or the "damn the torpedos, full speed ahead") attitude of Kirk from the original Star Trek, in the Enterprise Captain (Archer or his replacement).
Drop the John Williams-like orchesteral soundtrack, and get something more interesting. I loved the background music from the orginak Star Trek. The need something that memorable and that different
Fuck with the Star Trek established continuity. The future timeline doesn't need to be what we think it is. There is a temporal war going on, don't be afraid to be unconventional about this.
Get some contemporary science fiction writers to script an episode, story line, character arc, or story arc. Reach outside of the normal Star Trek writers to get some new blood and new ideas. I would also consider offering the Farscape guys a 2 or 3 episode story arc.
Better dialouge (faster/more interesting/memoriable). See for reference: Sports Night, West Wing, Gilmore Girls, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. None of these are Sceince Fiction shows. Enterprise should cherry pick some stylistic ideas (or writers) from them.
Visually make the show more interesting. Show more of the ship. Use different camera angles and editing styles. Try occasional non-linear/multi-persdpective story lines (ala Boomtown). Do episodes completley from a re-occuring or guest stars point of view.
Estimate the cost of the risk (potential impact X probability of occurence).
Compare this risk cost to the incremental cost of the security countermeasure or technique to see if it is really worth it.
Just do it from home. Don't get any permits or anything. Don't put up a sign. Don't blab to the neihgbors.
Get a mail drop at Mailboxes Etc or something similiar (that is not a chain). There are plenty of these. They can act as your official mailing address. If any mail shows up, they can call you and let you know it is there.
Get a service like onebox.com for an integrated 1800/fax/voice-mail/email.
If you need to have a meeting with others in person, do it at their place, a coffee shop, or rent for a couple of hours one of those shared hoteling places. Don't hold the meeting at your house (unless the biz person is also a buddy who already is in the know). You do not want to have noticable (annoying to youir neighbors) business traffic to your residence.
The idea was the Neutron bomb could take out concentrated tank formations. Thus, it would force Soviet battle planners to adopt a more dispersed order of battle for armor. Since the Soviets had a big lopsided numerical advantage in armor that was a good thing for the US and NATO. For the most part, the Soviets propaganda machine was able to enlist the Left in the Western world to oppose neutron weapons, spinning it as neutron weapons were to kill inhabitants of cities. In the only bit of good the French did for NATO, they developed or claimed to develop neutron bombs. So, the Soviets would still have to plan for them, even after the US said they would not build them anymore.
WW4 is the current War (Netwar and 4GW) between the Anglo/American West on one side, and Political Islam with Authoritarian/Buerocractic Elites and Leftist on the other.
Nope. There was no country of Korea. There was North Korea and a South Korea. North Korea.invaded the South Korea.
was the first appliction of containment
Nope. That would a little earlier when the Commies tried to take over Greece. The US aided in a counter-insurgency war.
USA came out of isolationism..."
Nope. That happened in 12/7/1941. The Roosevelt and Truman administrations were not isloationist.
Actually, the went in first. The UN support after. The Soviets were boycotting the Security Council at the time. They never did that again.
The only Investment guide you will ever need by Andrew Tobias (Covers more then just the investing stuff. Gets you in the right frame of mind).
Die Broke and Live Rich by Stephan Pollan and Mark Levine (An interesting whole life approach.)
Common Sense on Mutual Funds by John Bogle (Founder of Vanguard and big-time advocate, of no-load, low expense mutual funds)
Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel (the economic case in plain English for investing in broad index mutual funds over managed mutual funds and individual stocks).
I recommend for the actually money/investing part:
Checking Account
money market
low expense, no-load broad indexed mutual funds from Vanguard or Tiaa-Cref.
Remember Personal Finance involves more then investing.
A Simple Personal Finance & Investing Scheme:
1) Reduce your expenses. You are spending more then you need to. Look at every category you buy from (track your expenses for 3 months). Reduce your expenditures on everything. Find cheaper sources, buy less, use the internet to cut cost, buy used, and find cheaper replacements, whatever. Buy used cars (not new). You don't have to keep a budget forever, just think of this as a periodic audit.
2) Have a will made. Make sure you have the proper (not too much and not too little) insurance (auto, renters/homeowners, life, medical, disability). Shop around for good prices) and remember insurance salesmen are trickier then car salesmen.
3) Set goals down on paper ("I want to go on a nice vacation every year", "I want to retire in 20 years", "I want to buy a house in 3 years", I am getting married in a year", I want to buy a new computer in 6 months", "I will spend $300 on Christmas gift this year", etc. Put down a time frame and guesstimate money cost.
4) Have a pile of money for the next two or three months of expenses (rent, food, beer, entertainment, etc). Just have this in a checking account. Get you checked directly deposited into this.
5) Have a pile of money to cover minimal living expenses for six months to a year (think of this as your "oh shit I have been fired" emergency fund). This money should be liquid and safe. Think Money Market, CD's, Savings Account, maybe US Savings Bonds. If you can have some of your paycheck automatically deposited into a money market, go for it.
6) Have a pile of money for short-term expenses and capital expenses for within the next few years (think next used car, house, vacation, etc). This money should be liquid and safe, but don't intermingle it with your oh-shit contingency pile. Try to automate the deposits into this.
7) Have a pile of money for the long term and retirement. If you have a 401k type plan at work, max you pre-tax contributions into it. If you are self-employed, maximize your SEP-IRA. Open a Roth IRA at Vanguard or Tiaa-Cref. Put the $3k maximum in each year. Also put long-term money in a non-IRA or non-Roth-IRA account. Depending upon you age till retirement, your mix between bonds and stocks assets (this is called asset allocation) will vary. My suggestion is to look at the Vanguard Lifestyle Funds. These funds blend broad bond index funds, and broad stock index funds into one fund. They do not have a load (a fee as percentage of investment) to get in or out of the fund, and their expenses (the amount of money the operators consume for running the fund) are the lowest. Tiaa-Cref has similar stuff. Again, try to get the deposits into this automated, so you don't have to actively do it. Lastly, don't count on a company pension or Social Security for retirement. If you get that stuff, think of it as gravy, but don't depend upon it.
8) Stick to your plan, but to not obsesses about it. Don't worry how other people are doing relative to you. All that matters is meeting your plan's goals. Don't spend all of you time counting change or reading investing books.
generating sufficient artificial gravity for the trip (centrifugal force?)
having a true closed loop biosphere (reusing almost everything).
Any research on this be done on the space station or elsewhere?
I imagine gradcstudents of some sort could be forced to.
An alternative to going public would be to set up an ESOP trust. The Founders could keep keep X% of the company. An ESOP trust is created. The ESOP trust borrows money from an insurance company or pension fund, etc. The ESOP trust uses this money to buy 100-X% of the stock from the founders. Employees get units of the trust. They can only sell units to and from the trust, etc. There is more to it then this. But it is a way for folks to cash in on there options, yet the company doesn't get lost.
Well, here is the online version of the Book were the Shock and Awe concept came from:
http://www.dodccrp.org/shockIndex.html
It does talk somewhat about tech.
An alternative idea: 2 flight crews (rotating), extra fuel capacity, air-to-air tanker refuelings.
How about just naming a few?
Good idea. There is no good reason for the US to support and aid the only democratic nation in the Mideast. We certainly don't want to upset all of the Arab/Islamic totalitarian nations.Besides, those jews have it coming to them, right?
The book won the Pulitzer. The Nobel Proze is generally given for a body of lifetime work.
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http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2001/fiction/works