So long as you define "it" as "not what the shuttle does" then sure.
There's no other vehicle with the same capabilities as the shuttle. As a result of this our "full utilization of the space station" will be significantly limited once the shuttle is retired.
Just wait and see, when the old girl is retired you'll be saying "gee, wouldn't it be great if we had a vehicle with high down mass?" and people will say "well, ya know, we used to have this vehicle called the shuttle..."
Ya, like your taxes will go down. It costs you less than $1/year to run the shuttle program, and if they weren't blowing it on that they'd be spending it in Iraq.
You mean other than the fact that Google said they were contacted by the administration? It's on the "apology" page.. which is more like a "no actually, you can't sue us" information page.
I, generally, censor the hell out of my words throughout the day. If I didn't I'm pretty sure I'd have no friends and possibly get my ass kicked at least once or twice a day. Its just a fact of life.
Refusing to listen to someone who is talking is not censorship. Google just stopped broadcasting a soapbox-speech to the world.
How do those two follow exactly?
Yes, refusing to listen to someone who is talking is not censorship... using your power to stop other people from hearing them talking is censorship. That's like, the definition of censorship. But hey, you've managed to sucker me into a pointless semantic argument. Call it whatever you want, it's wrong to use your power, whatever power it may be, to stop someone's message, no matter how much you disagree with it.
I have no idea why people bring up the law in moral conversations. Let me make this clear: anti-hate-speech laws are immoral. They're just as immoral as anti-communist-party-speech laws.
Google have used their power to take an active part in censorship, both in this case and in plenty of cases before. Power is power.. whether you use your executive veto or you use the barrel of a gun, it's all the same.
The SEC doesn't care if it is confidential or not. If you know about an impending IPO and you tell someone, and they act on that information by trading, you're tipping, they'll bust you.
Hey, you've managed to figure out how to use commas. Shit man, that's a massive improvement in the last 10 years, congrats. Now maybe you could figure out how to use full stops and capitalization. Geocities has closed down, ya know.
Wow, you assign him so much credit. Do you think he actually has any technical people in his inner circle who dare tell him he's acting like a buffoon?
No, I expect this will go down the stupid possible way it can. Microsoft will pay to index Murdoch's sites (idiots) and Google will kindly decline and happily deindex the site, as is their policy. What's incredibly funny is that all of Murdoch's sites are full of crap, so the overall quality of Google's news service will immediately go up.
The children are right to mock you AC. Google honors robots.txt, if a news outlet doesn't want their site indexed, all they need to do is put a deny rule in it.
Is it too much to ask that sushi chefs hang out their qualifications at the door? You'd expect all the well trained sushi chefs to do it already, but they don't, so every amateur with a knife thinks they can follow a recipe to make good/safe sushi.
I sometimes order sushi from a shopping mall outlet.. I never expect much.. in fact, I expect the worst sushi I've ever tasted and I'm sometimes surprised. One day a clerk asked me how the sushi was.. and I was actually dumbstruck. I said something like "well I didn't expect it to be good, and this isn't the worst I've ever had, but it's not good." and she was surprised. After a little more conversation I figured out that she never eats sushi, has never tried her own sushi and has no idea where her supplier gets the ingredients from. I told her that I wasn't really surprised by that. I was talking to a friend a few days later and she said I should have said "would you feed your father this?" Apparently that's how Japanese say food is terrible.
On the other end of the scale, I used to often go to a sushi place in Sydney where I'd spend $80 on a meal and still be hungry, but it was fantastic sushi. It took a long time to forget and go back to more affordable sushi.
referring to the CoS as a criminal organization is belittling of the Mafia (Italian, Russian, Serbian, etc), the Yakuza, drug cartels, and all the various other gangs.
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Ya know what? I think you're just terribly ignorant of what the shuttle is used for.
There are proven technologies that do it cheaper.
So long as you define "it" as "not what the shuttle does" then sure.
There's no other vehicle with the same capabilities as the shuttle. As a result of this our "full utilization of the space station" will be significantly limited once the shuttle is retired.
Just wait and see, when the old girl is retired you'll be saying "gee, wouldn't it be great if we had a vehicle with high down mass?" and people will say "well, ya know, we used to have this vehicle called the shuttle..."
Ya, like your taxes will go down. It costs you less than $1/year to run the shuttle program, and if they weren't blowing it on that they'd be spending it in Iraq.
You'll miss the old girl when she's gone.
The two months between STS-128 and STS-129 felt so long after the mere 28 days between STS-127 and STS-128.
Wouldn't using encryption be "circumventing a copyright protection mechanism" .. oh, UK, sorry.
Yeah, I mean, it's not like he killed his wife.
You mean other than the fact that Google said they were contacted by the administration? It's on the "apology" page.. which is more like a "no actually, you can't sue us" information page.
I, generally, censor the hell out of my words throughout the day. If I didn't I'm pretty sure I'd have no friends and possibly get my ass kicked at least once or twice a day. Its just a fact of life.
You wouldn't happen to be a Christian would you?
Refusing to listen to someone who is talking is not censorship.
Google just stopped broadcasting a soapbox-speech to the world.
How do those two follow exactly?
Yes, refusing to listen to someone who is talking is not censorship... using your power to stop other people from hearing them talking is censorship. That's like, the definition of censorship. But hey, you've managed to sucker me into a pointless semantic argument. Call it whatever you want, it's wrong to use your power, whatever power it may be, to stop someone's message, no matter how much you disagree with it.
I have no idea why people bring up the law in moral conversations. Let me make this clear: anti-hate-speech laws are immoral. They're just as immoral as anti-communist-party-speech laws.
Google have used their power to take an active part in censorship, both in this case and in plenty of cases before. Power is power.. whether you use your executive veto or you use the barrel of a gun, it's all the same.
Freedom of speech has limits.
That's the same thing China says.. Google buys that too.
Oh no.. just look at the world media.. everyone loves him, of course, they're required to, if they want to be fashionable.
and frightening.
If you care about freedom of speech you have to be willing (and you should be proud) to let people say stuff you don't agree with.
That includes racist bullshit too. Even if it is directed at the world's favorite US president's wife.
Christ on a stick you guys are fail.
The SEC doesn't care if it is confidential or not. If you know about an impending IPO and you tell someone, and they act on that information by trading, you're tipping, they'll bust you.
Of course, Google *does* have a liberal bias.. being that conservatives are so anti-intellectual.
Ya know that won't stop the SEC from bringing charges against you for tipping.
Whoever modded this up is a retard.
Let this post stand as an example of all that is wrong with the Slashdot moderation system.
Idiots.
Hey, you've managed to figure out how to use commas. Shit man, that's a massive improvement in the last 10 years, congrats. Now maybe you could figure out how to use full stops and capitalization. Geocities has closed down, ya know.
So what you're saying is that fair competition isn't the American way of doing business.
Or you've been living under a rock..
Wow, you assign him so much credit. Do you think he actually has any technical people in his inner circle who dare tell him he's acting like a buffoon?
No, I expect this will go down the stupid possible way it can. Microsoft will pay to index Murdoch's sites (idiots) and Google will kindly decline and happily deindex the site, as is their policy. What's incredibly funny is that all of Murdoch's sites are full of crap, so the overall quality of Google's news service will immediately go up.
The children are right to mock you AC. Google honors robots.txt, if a news outlet doesn't want their site indexed, all they need to do is put a deny rule in it.
Is it too much to ask that sushi chefs hang out their qualifications at the door? You'd expect all the well trained sushi chefs to do it already, but they don't, so every amateur with a knife thinks they can follow a recipe to make good/safe sushi.
I sometimes order sushi from a shopping mall outlet.. I never expect much.. in fact, I expect the worst sushi I've ever tasted and I'm sometimes surprised. One day a clerk asked me how the sushi was.. and I was actually dumbstruck. I said something like "well I didn't expect it to be good, and this isn't the worst I've ever had, but it's not good." and she was surprised. After a little more conversation I figured out that she never eats sushi, has never tried her own sushi and has no idea where her supplier gets the ingredients from. I told her that I wasn't really surprised by that. I was talking to a friend a few days later and she said I should have said "would you feed your father this?" Apparently that's how Japanese say food is terrible.
On the other end of the scale, I used to often go to a sushi place in Sydney where I'd spend $80 on a meal and still be hungry, but it was fantastic sushi. It took a long time to forget and go back to more affordable sushi.
Maybe it's just me but I don't eat the tuna anyway.. if I want tuna I'll go buy some John West.
Salmon on the other hand....
referring to the CoS as a criminal organization is belittling of the Mafia (Italian, Russian, Serbian, etc), the Yakuza, drug cartels, and all the various other gangs.