So, all this junk is piling up on the station. Isn't that adding excess mass to the overall structure? Granted I'm don't know how much crap is actually up there, but in sufficient amounts, it has to be impact the orbital dynamics of the station. Maybe half a second more thrust to keep it in the right orbit, that sort of thing...
Hey, somebody send up some cheap nailgun co2 cylinders to knock all the excess crap down into orbit. Or is that too low-tech to work?
Funny, we've already managed to do that with conventional weapons in under 6 months. That, and we here at Pax Americana LLC want to take those supplies intact. Now your country on the otherhand...
So in other words, you're saying this is nothing but political grand-standing on the NYT part, dragging out a story that's been known for a year or more already.
Well done. You just regulated this story back into the spin catagory faster than I ever could have.
It's call playing the odds. Which is more believeable--
Government Storm Troopers successfully supressed an ever increasing number of people/officals across a number of fields for two solid years before the story just happened to break less than 60 days before the Elections -or- They were simply wrong like everybody else and this story is being blown way out of porportion.
...All combined with key information from anonymous sources. Kinda like Dan's 'authentic' Bush Guard records.? Or is that political stormer troopering too? I'll give you the fact that the truth may lie somewhere in between, but nowhere close to how it's being portrayed by this report.
Reading is fundemental, Dude. I didn't post them as evidence that Iraq had WMDs, nor did I ever make any statments to that fact. I did post them to highlight the total inaccuracy of the already suspect NYT article which states: "that investigators there have found no evidence of hidden centrifuges or a revived nuclear weapons program". THIS LINK clearly shows that is false. And I quote: "Parts of a gas centrifuge system for enriching uranium were dug up in Baghdad."...Leaving aside the rest on how they could be used to make enriched weapons grade naquada. The remaining links were simply to underscore the idiocy of trying to single out this administeration on the WMD conspiracy. Everybody has fucked that horse, so feel free to stop any time.
"...according to four officials at the Central Intelligence Agency and two senior administration officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity."
Oh yeah, there's credibility just oozing from this story. We're talking two years after the fact and these anonymous sources are only now growing a spine? On conditions of anominity??? Oh, and it just happens to be election year! What a coincidence!
And while we're on the subject of amazing coincidences, where was this scandal coverage in 2002? I mean, you supposively had top CIA officals who knew, you had the Department of Energy who knew, America's leading nuclear scientists who knew as well as any number of intelligence experts and Martha Stewart who knew. No doubt the current administration put the screws to all of them to supress this damning story and loosened them just in time for the Primaries. I mean, what better time is there to shoot yourself in the foot by letting key sources blather away about political secrets that you'd managed to keep anybody from knowing for the last two years?
Well, there is that. I was hoping for some unique coding ID to each transmitter (and hopefull some manner of filtering) Of course, I could just see object recognition hardware simply melting down in the same senario:p
3 Cameras? how about just imbedding a small transmitter into the sign itself and a simple reciever in the car? The reciever gets within 300ft of a sign and picks up a coded transmission, basically indicating "stopsignahead". I guess you would have to rig a constant power source for the sign, but it can't be anymore complicated/expensive then 2 cameras tied into a PC dedicated soley to object recognition while one tracks where you're looking. This just has over-engineered written all over it, frankly.
I guess you can look at this two ways... One, a good ol' boy playing a friendly prank on his old town, or the one I'm favoring at the moment; Galaxy Quest primadonna trying to make it off the dying embers of his career. I mean, why his town? Why not some other middle America? I'm thinking because that's where his name was the strongest and would be least likely questioned. In otherwords, the easiest marks they could find. Yeah, so they gave em' a $112,000... BFD. That's called a bribe in order not to litigate Shatner's ass for being played the fool, like every other "you're a fool and we secretly know it" show out there. Besides, only $112,000 to the entire town? They're obviously hoping to make $$$ off it's syndication, which means $100,000 divided by 903 people is fucking peanuts.
I know they could portray them as decent folk as Rev. Rich Adam hopes, but these shows don't get viewership off folks being good and decent. They get it by putting people in tight spots and making em look like fools. Oh hey, Guess who didn't attend James Doohan's (suffering from Parkinson's disease, diabetes, lung fibrosis and Alzheimer's disease) annointement to the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Probably too busy getting a great hotel rate.
Perhapse I should have been more concise for those looking for an excuse to argue just to argue. Remove the words "in one campaign and" from the statement you quoted and you'll get the general idea. That, and you're a freakin retard to actually compare nuclear testing with using a weapon in anger against real people. Come the fuck on now. Only a fool is going to put them in the same context.
Well, when you claim to be good yet position your IPO to rape buyers of as much cash as possible while attempting to emulate every other web utility ala MS does software, fickleness tends to happen.
According to some of these people, you'd think we set off nukes every other week in small neighboring countries just to excercise our imperial domain over the rest of the world. I mean come on. In over 50 years of deployment, we've only used nuclear weapons in one campaign and against an enemy that had initiated hostilities and had been at war with for 4 years. Not only that, we had them for over a decade before anybody else, including the Soviet Union, without excercising anything close to Pax Americana. I know we're all enamored with the current mindless propaganda, but the record speaks for itself-- We will develope big fucking sticks and we will make sure you know we have them, but we never use those big fucking sticks unless you absolutely deserve it....Depite the whining, bitching and moaning otherewise. To entrust your security to the word of potential advesaries is simply assnine. Clinton trust N.Korea and see where that got him. The best way to prevent them from even thinking about shit is to make sure they they see the massive hammer looming over their heads. Such a massive hammer was the only thing that kept the other half of Europe from speaking Russian.
Besides, compared to keeping a fleet of nuclear rockets, it's got to be tons cheaper to simply drop steel 'I' beams from orbit. You can have one inplace in less than an hour. And less permanent environmental damage. I'm not saying there won't be, just minus the long term radiation hazard.
Really now. If the US was going to wack you, you'd have been the 52nd state by now.
It can also be argued- quite successfully, infact -that businsess really don't pay taxes to begin with. Any Tax applied to a business is ultimately passed on to the consumer in order to defray the increased cost of existance. In some ways, states like Nevada are helping you, the lowly sysadmin, by not forcing companies to pass their tax overhead on to you.
I think it's time to point out Super Obvious Tax Fact #1-- 99% of tax loopholes AREN'T. They are specifically written into law in order to promote free enterprise health, the backbone of this country lest everybody have a lobotomy at the mention of Microsoft. I find it amazing how the submitter portrays this story as MS being above the law and commiting tax evasion when they are doing no such thing. Infact, the submitter (and half yas out there) should be looking at Nevada, who specifically wrote their tax code to encourage companies to set up shop in their state. Companies like -gasp- Mircrosoft. I'm sure you'll be seeing huge crocodile tears shed by the Nevada state government for having to host one of the richest companies in the world.
Looks like those 'loopholes' worked out pretty well for them.
"a court has now ruled that Diebold wrongfully abused the DMCA by issuing these takedown notices about materials that they knew were not covered by their copyright."
Ah, more evidence that the judicial system just doesn't work here in America.... Next thing you know we'll all be rounded up under the homeland securi-- Oh wait...
"In a victory today for the ACLU, (and many Slashdotters I presume) the section of the Patriot Act which gives power to the FBI to demand confidential financial records from companies as part of terrorist investigations has been ruled unconstitutional by a U.S. District Judge. Victor Marreo, the District Judge who made this ruling, states that the provision of the Patriot Act in question 'effectively bars or substantially deters any judicial challenge.'"
Now half you people actually shouldn't be posting in this thread, given how you've been incessantly bitching on how this is the Patriot Act was the beginning of Imperial America, how the system is broken beyond repair, etc, etc, etc. I know it's hard to swallow, but here's a lesson made painfully obvious by this story: THE SYSTEM WORKS. Here's another fact for you-- The founding fathers were obviously more itelligent than you give them credit for. The specifically designed a government around the concept of paranoia, a thought that is ofter lost among the blithering on how their ideas are too antiquated for our time when the first hint of turbulent weather blows our way. Because they were wiser than most of you, extremes such as these always manage to even out; see McCarthyism, Japanese camps in WW2, and any number of other "the sky is falling!" events that this country has somehow survived.
If I could reach past my last 25 posts, you'd be in for a nice, ripe "I told you so."
"He noted that incidents of lasers being directed at commercial airliners during takeoff and landings have raised fears that "this in fact may be a new form of terrorism. Lasers are easily obtainable and can be self-manufactured weapons in the terrorist arsenal, which essentially can effect a soft-kill solution and leave virtually no detectable evidence," he said."
Whoa there, Tex, slow down. Easy on the terrorist hot button. As good as the terrorist ploy is, blinding lasers don't exactly have the terror element a potential madman is looking for, nor do they have guaranteed catastrophic results. We're talking maybe blinding someone. That's assuming you have a powerful enough laser that won't diffuse over distance, considering you're a terrorist and don't want to be anywhere you can easily be blown to snot. It's also an easily countered threat. First hint you have being lased, don the goggles temporarily, pinpoint the moron's position and let the military take it from there.
Yeah, somebody has an overactive imagination on this call.
"Hosted by Neil de Grasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City... the show that's been four years in the making."
And for all that, there's still quite a bit of guess work thrown in there to fill in some very large blanks, regardless of how much they want to portray it as fact. Ah well. At least it's a step up from the nature channels wild specualtion style of programming. Not a huge one, but a step nonetheless.
"It looks like Nintendo is preparing a wireless peer-to-peer network of Nintendo DS ' to allow a new way of playing games online. Each Nintendo DS could includes a repeater hub to extend and share an 802.11 signal."
I'm figuring that this will either be an underutilized feature on incapable budget hardware or the DS is gonna fall way above the impulse buy range everybody is counting on. After all, if the hardware can do half of what they're claiming... Nah. This screams "Pay attention to meeeeeeee!"
"The Independent Games Festival has just announced its list of entrants for 2005, the seventh annual contest."
And after this I don't want to hear ANYBODY bitch, whine or moan about how how there is no room for the little guy and how gaming will be swallowed by a few monolithic corporations with no originality. The death of gaming is a falicy. Thank you. Good night.
Slashdot Mirror
"Furthermore, the only way they can dispose of trash and human waste is by loading these items in Russian cargo ships that burn up in the atmosphere."
And I suppose they're launching those Russian cargo ships just to see the pretty lights....
So, all this junk is piling up on the station. Isn't that adding excess mass to the overall structure? Granted I'm don't know how much crap is actually up there, but in sufficient amounts, it has to be impact the orbital dynamics of the station. Maybe half a second more thrust to keep it in the right orbit, that sort of thing...
Hey, somebody send up some cheap nailgun co2 cylinders to knock all the excess crap down into orbit. Or is that too low-tech to work?
Funny, we've already managed to do that with conventional weapons in under 6 months. That, and we here at Pax Americana LLC want to take those supplies intact. Now your country on the otherhand...
Actually, I was thinking the energy produced with this technology would require a greater unit of measurment, such as the Metric Ass-Ton©. Ass-Tons of energy would surely be a more effcient unit of measurments than their smaller shitload counterpart concerning anti-matter.
So in other words, you're saying this is nothing but political grand-standing on the NYT part, dragging out a story that's been known for a year or more already.
Well done. You just regulated this story back into the spin catagory faster than I ever could have.
Government Storm Troopers successfully supressed an ever increasing number of people/officals across a number of fields for two solid years before the story just happened to break less than 60 days before the Elections -or- They were simply wrong like everybody else and this story is being blown way out of porportion.
Reading is fundemental, Dude. I didn't post them as evidence that Iraq had WMDs, nor did I ever make any statments to that fact. I did post them to highlight the total inaccuracy of the already suspect NYT article which states: "that investigators there have found no evidence of hidden centrifuges or a revived nuclear weapons program". THIS LINK clearly shows that is false. And I quote: "Parts of a gas centrifuge system for enriching uranium were dug up in Baghdad." ...Leaving aside the rest on how they could be used to make enriched weapons grade naquada. The remaining links were simply to underscore the idiocy of trying to single out this administeration on the WMD conspiracy. Everybody has fucked that horse, so feel free to stop any time.
"...according to four officials at the Central Intelligence Agency and two senior administration officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity."
Oh yeah, there's credibility just oozing from this story. We're talking two years after the fact and these anonymous sources are only now growing a spine? On conditions of anominity??? Oh, and it just happens to be election year! What a coincidence!
And while we're on the subject of amazing coincidences, where was this scandal coverage in 2002? I mean, you supposively had top CIA officals who knew, you had the Department of Energy who knew, America's leading nuclear scientists who knew as well as any number of intelligence experts and Martha Stewart who knew. No doubt the current administration put the screws to all of them to supress this damning story and loosened them just in time for the Primaries. I mean, what better time is there to shoot yourself in the foot by letting key sources blather away about political secrets that you'd managed to keep anybody from knowing for the last two years?
Are we stretching the bounds of credibility yet? No? Then it's a good thing for the NYT that investigators there have found no evidence of hidden centrifuges or a revived nuclear weapons program. I mean, you'd almost think this administration acted without cause...
Well, there is that. I was hoping for some unique coding ID to each transmitter (and hopefull some manner of filtering) Of course, I could just see object recognition hardware simply melting down in the same senario :p
3 Cameras? how about just imbedding a small transmitter into the sign itself and a simple reciever in the car? The reciever gets within 300ft of a sign and picks up a coded transmission, basically indicating "stopsignahead". I guess you would have to rig a constant power source for the sign, but it can't be anymore complicated/expensive then 2 cameras tied into a PC dedicated soley to object recognition while one tracks where you're looking. This just has over-engineered written all over it, frankly.
I guess you can look at this two ways... One, a good ol' boy playing a friendly prank on his old town, or the one I'm favoring at the moment; Galaxy Quest primadonna trying to make it off the dying embers of his career. I mean, why his town? Why not some other middle America? I'm thinking because that's where his name was the strongest and would be least likely questioned. In otherwords, the easiest marks they could find. Yeah, so they gave em' a $112,000... BFD. That's called a bribe in order not to litigate Shatner's ass for being played the fool, like every other "you're a fool and we secretly know it" show out there. Besides, only $112,000 to the entire town? They're obviously hoping to make $$$ off it's syndication, which means $100,000 divided by 903 people is fucking peanuts.
I know they could portray them as decent folk as Rev. Rich Adam hopes, but these shows don't get viewership off folks being good and decent. They get it by putting people in tight spots and making em look like fools. Oh hey, Guess who didn't attend James Doohan's (suffering from Parkinson's disease, diabetes, lung fibrosis and Alzheimer's disease) annointement to the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Probably too busy getting a great hotel rate.
Perhapse I should have been more concise for those looking for an excuse to argue just to argue. Remove the words "in one campaign and" from the statement you quoted and you'll get the general idea. That, and you're a freakin retard to actually compare nuclear testing with using a weapon in anger against real people. Come the fuck on now. Only a fool is going to put them in the same context.
Well, when you claim to be good yet position your IPO to rape buyers of as much cash as possible while attempting to emulate every other web utility ala MS does software, fickleness tends to happen.
EXACTLY.
...Depite the whining, bitching and moaning otherewise. To entrust your security to the word of potential advesaries is simply assnine. Clinton trust N.Korea and see where that got him. The best way to prevent them from even thinking about shit is to make sure they they see the massive hammer looming over their heads. Such a massive hammer was the only thing that kept the other half of Europe from speaking Russian.
According to some of these people, you'd think we set off nukes every other week in small neighboring countries just to excercise our imperial domain over the rest of the world. I mean come on. In over 50 years of deployment, we've only used nuclear weapons in one campaign and against an enemy that had initiated hostilities and had been at war with for 4 years. Not only that, we had them for over a decade before anybody else, including the Soviet Union, without excercising anything close to Pax Americana. I know we're all enamored with the current mindless propaganda, but the record speaks for itself-- We will develope big fucking sticks and we will make sure you know we have them, but we never use those big fucking sticks unless you absolutely deserve it.
Besides, compared to keeping a fleet of nuclear rockets, it's got to be tons cheaper to simply drop steel 'I' beams from orbit. You can have one inplace in less than an hour. And less permanent environmental damage. I'm not saying there won't be, just minus the long term radiation hazard.
Really now. If the US was going to wack you, you'd have been the 52nd state by now.
It can also be argued- quite successfully, infact -that businsess really don't pay taxes to begin with. Any Tax applied to a business is ultimately passed on to the consumer in order to defray the increased cost of existance. In some ways, states like Nevada are helping you, the lowly sysadmin, by not forcing companies to pass their tax overhead on to you.
I think it's time to point out Super Obvious Tax Fact #1-- 99% of tax loopholes AREN'T. They are specifically written into law in order to promote free enterprise health, the backbone of this country lest everybody have a lobotomy at the mention of Microsoft. I find it amazing how the submitter portrays this story as MS being above the law and commiting tax evasion when they are doing no such thing. Infact, the submitter (and half yas out there) should be looking at Nevada, who specifically wrote their tax code to encourage companies to set up shop in their state. Companies like -gasp- Mircrosoft. I'm sure you'll be seeing huge crocodile tears shed by the Nevada state government for having to host one of the richest companies in the world.
Looks like those 'loopholes' worked out pretty well for them.
Your sex is very very sad then Al Bundy.
"a court has now ruled that Diebold wrongfully abused the DMCA by issuing these takedown notices about materials that they knew were not covered by their copyright."
Ah, more evidence that the judicial system just doesn't work here in America.... Next thing you know we'll all be rounded up under the homeland securi-- Oh wait...
"In a victory today for the ACLU, (and many Slashdotters I presume) the section of the Patriot Act which gives power to the FBI to demand confidential financial records from companies as part of terrorist investigations has been ruled unconstitutional by a U.S. District Judge. Victor Marreo, the District Judge who made this ruling, states that the provision of the Patriot Act in question 'effectively bars or substantially deters any judicial challenge.'"
Now half you people actually shouldn't be posting in this thread, given how you've been incessantly bitching on how this is the Patriot Act was the beginning of Imperial America, how the system is broken beyond repair, etc, etc, etc. I know it's hard to swallow, but here's a lesson made painfully obvious by this story: THE SYSTEM WORKS. Here's another fact for you-- The founding fathers were obviously more itelligent than you give them credit for. The specifically designed a government around the concept of paranoia, a thought that is ofter lost among the blithering on how their ideas are too antiquated for our time when the first hint of turbulent weather blows our way. Because they were wiser than most of you, extremes such as these always manage to even out; see McCarthyism, Japanese camps in WW2, and any number of other "the sky is falling!" events that this country has somehow survived.
If I could reach past my last 25 posts, you'd be in for a nice, ripe "I told you so."
"Apparently, it's because Google hasn't been able to figure out how to make money off of it.
;)
At $135 per share, I'm thinking somebody has fgured out how to make money off of it
"He noted that incidents of lasers being directed at commercial airliners during takeoff and landings have raised fears that "this in fact may be a new form of terrorism. Lasers are easily obtainable and can be self-manufactured weapons in the terrorist arsenal, which essentially can effect a soft-kill solution and leave virtually no detectable evidence," he said."
Whoa there, Tex, slow down. Easy on the terrorist hot button. As good as the terrorist ploy is, blinding lasers don't exactly have the terror element a potential madman is looking for, nor do they have guaranteed catastrophic results. We're talking maybe blinding someone. That's assuming you have a powerful enough laser that won't diffuse over distance, considering you're a terrorist and don't want to be anywhere you can easily be blown to snot. It's also an easily countered threat. First hint you have being lased, don the goggles temporarily, pinpoint the moron's position and let the military take it from there.
Yeah, somebody has an overactive imagination on this call.
"Hosted by Neil de Grasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City... the show that's been four years in the making."
And for all that, there's still quite a bit of guess work thrown in there to fill in some very large blanks, regardless of how much they want to portray it as fact. Ah well. At least it's a step up from the nature channels wild specualtion style of programming. Not a huge one, but a step nonetheless.
"It looks like Nintendo is preparing a wireless peer-to-peer network of Nintendo DS ' to allow a new way of playing games online. Each Nintendo DS could includes a repeater hub to extend and share an 802.11 signal."
I'm figuring that this will either be an underutilized feature on incapable budget hardware or the DS is gonna fall way above the impulse buy range everybody is counting on. After all, if the hardware can do half of what they're claiming... Nah. This screams "Pay attention to meeeeeeee!"
"Engadget has glimpse in to the future, a future where your dog has a cell phone, webcam and electronic tag, and maybe even talks to you. Maybe."
And with that extra stick of DDR RAM, you can teach an old dog new tricks...
"The Independent Games Festival has just announced its list of entrants for 2005, the seventh annual contest."
And after this I don't want to hear ANYBODY bitch, whine or moan about how how there is no room for the little guy and how gaming will be swallowed by a few monolithic corporations with no originality. The death of gaming is a falicy. Thank you. Good night.