If this was not the U.S., but just a hodgepodge of 50 or so countries?
You know... you're surprisingly close, the US is a Republic of 50 hodgepodge states, each with it's own government that looks out for its own best interest.
Why can I see this happening?
Somewhere, on some planet or continent even more boneheaded than ours, this has, or will happen...
Or even worse... what about those people that go to bed Americans, and wake up one day Canadian, eh? AARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH
Look at the strict words of what the Greenpeace guy says, and not place your own interpretation on it.
Ok... let's take your interpretation of it...
What he's saying is that we have a major imbalence in power and resource use.
I'll take the resource use imbalence first... with any production there needs to be some resource used. If there is NO resource use, then there is NO production. Now, let's say the free market of the world supports 2 widget factories, and both are in the United States, what would happen if Burundi decided to get into the widget business? One of the factories will either merge with another, or go bankrupt.
Now, this brings me to the power side... who would decide what goes where? As a sovereign nation, who has the authority to tell it what to do? The United Nations? They would take weeks to determine who would change the light bulbs in the hallway.
As far as land use is concerned... we stole this land fair and square.
In just the same way that the power imbalence between the British and the American colonies created a violent revolution when it got too large
Hmmmm... I thought that the Revolutionary War was fought over tea. Oh yeah... and taxes. When the American colonies actually started to produce, the British king decided that it was his. And the people thought otherwise.
If Burundi decides to start producing things, I doubt that there would be any revolution since is already classified as a sovereign nation. Unlike the American colonies many years ago.
Either concessions need to be made, or there will be conflict. How those concessions should be made is not stated, but the alternative to making concessions is likely to be worse for everyone.
Huh? Who needs to concede anything? Is the US going to start bombing aspirin factories if they try to compete with us?
Ok... IF we need concede something then fine... so be it... but we would need to know it.
It's the greediness of the lazy. Instead of working to build something, they foul their own nests and whine piteously for handouts from the people who actually work to do something.
Absolutely not. The "third world" countries are NOT whining about getting money from the "first world" countries.
What it is, is an attempt to go "back in time" to the "good old days" before the industrial revolution. In other words, NOBODY should be prosperous.
What would happen, if Burundi was brought up to "first world" status, and was a major global player?
These same people who currently admire (possibly worship) the way these people live on such "frugal" means would instantly condemn them for wasting precious natural resources.
BTW, my predictions were correct, and the parent is getting modded all over the place... job done.
the "news" is presented this way... and this statement sums it up pretty good:
Matthew Spencer, a spokesman for Greenpeace, said: 'There will have to be concessions from the richer nations to the poorer ones or there will be fireworks.'
AHHHHH... I see now. It's Greenpeace's way of redistributing the wealth of the United States.
Instead of helping the "third world" countries with infrastructure, stable government, and ways NOT to pollute, they want to take the "first world" countries and take wealth away from them and give it to the poorer countries (of course, they'll help do the redistribution... one for you, one for me)
Go ahead and mod me down for this, because it is a different angle on this type of story.
Re:Why is there not a campaign against this yet?
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While I agree that we should organize some intellegent information WHY this is bad for you (so Joe Consumer could understand it), it may be too early to do that...
The reason is simple... if we let Microsoft develop this for a few years... they spend resources and yes, marketing that this is good for you. BUT, they have committed to something and are more pressured (by the shareholders) into following through.
Now... if we re-spin this information now, while it's sketchy at best, then we give Microsoft information to change the most attacked position, and develop a better product.
As Sun Tzu has taught: "Test them to find out where they are sufficient and where they are lacking". I think that Microsoft is currently doing just this.
Both waxes are coated with a patent ceramic shell slurry containing some graphite.
Damn... now does anyone have an Open-Source ceramic shell slurry mixture?
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In a contest, you try to contact as many other hams as possible, and you get points (multipliers to your score) for every distinct geographical region you contact.
One thing that you forgot to mention, was that Field Day is supposed to help prepare for emergency communications.
So... while the point system is still used, you don't get extra points for the regions you contact, you get extra points for running on batteries, low wattage, and because this also helps with the image of amateur radio, extra points are awarded if you get press coverage.
Re:Radio Interference anyone?
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lack of adequate radio inteference shielding in the current electronic devices
This is a major 'public-relations' problem that most Hams have... primarily front-end overload interference on TVs. What front-end overload is, is too much RF being pulled in from a transmission source. The result is interference of all channels on a TV.
The reason that this is a PR problem, is that according to FCC rules and laws, its the owner of the TVs problem to fix, not the Hams' problem... and this leads to ill-will between the general public and Hams.
This gets back to the posters point... inadequate RF shielding. BTW, plastic computer cases are a "Bad Thing" if they don't have any metal shielding plates...
"Amateur Radio is central to the whole flight," said Eric Knight, KB1EHE, of Unionville, Connecticut--one of the hams involved. He explained that the rocket's Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS), amateur TV and packet telemetry gear will enable the team to document its success.
Also... it appears to be done fairly reasonably... only $100,000... not too shabby... and well within reach of us "normal" people...:)
ABC Australia reports that a team of scientists from the Australian National University have successfully teleported a laser beam.
And with this... nobody knows where the laser beam went to.
It is surmised that it is currently in time-space next to the time-machine that was invented several years ago, switched on... and summarily disappeared.
Now that Warner Home Video has woken up and smelt the coffee... will it be able to convince others (hollywood) to do the same?
If this "test" is successful, how long before the RIAA sues Warner for not following lock-step with the rest of the entertainment-industry against pirates?
It's also kinda cool that the DVD was also not protected, not just the video.
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1) Walk around performing wireless security audits ...
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2) Send bills to the companies
3) ???
4) Profit!
Hmmmm ... hopefully 3 isn't defending yourself from hordes of lawyers ...
Hmmmm ... I'm not a physics major ... but wouldn't it be more like "hit or hit"???
Or will the bus get distracted from its intent on hitting the ground and accidently miss ... therefore start flying?
However, it leaves the local businesses out in the cold.
One thing that annoys me is advertising for a company that has no local representation. Hello ... not everyone has a Lowes, Boston Market, or Wal-Mart.
Quite frankly, I don't care about advertisements that I can't shop at. I want to see what Big Bob's Steakhouse is having for their specials.
Yes, fixing six vulnerabilities is good ... but the real question is ... How many more did they add?
God-zilla is an American Eenglish bastardization. They should at least after the right fucking phoneme.
Just Great ... you mean they have to change the name (of the browser) to MOJIRA?? ... we have a tough enough time with Mozilla ...
You know ... you're surprisingly close, the US is a Republic of 50 hodgepodge states, each with it's own government that looks out for its own best interest.
Why can I see this happening? Somewhere, on some planet or continent even more boneheaded than ours, this has, or will happen...
Or even worse ... what about those people that go to bed Americans, and wake up one day Canadian, eh? AARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH
You're darn tootin' ... they ACTUALLY had to press the "Send/Submit" button as well.
Well ... time to quit reading /. and start programming ...
Heh ... they even have a Fake Senator.
Oh great ... now I'll have >100 U.S. Government CDs laying around ...
Will they pack them in tins?
FTHI (for the humor impaired): This is a spoof of AOL, this is only a spoof. Move along there is nothing else here.
You mean that there are Girls at Lawrence Berkley? GIRLS?
Time for a road trip ...
Ok ... let's take your interpretation of it ...
What he's saying is that we have a major imbalence in power and resource use.
I'll take the resource use imbalence first ... with any production there needs to be some resource used. If there is NO resource use, then there is NO production. Now, let's say the free market of the world supports 2 widget factories, and both are in the United States, what would happen if Burundi decided to get into the widget business? One of the factories will either merge with another, or go bankrupt.
Now, this brings me to the power side ... who would decide what goes where? As a sovereign nation, who has the authority to tell it what to do? The United Nations? They would take weeks to determine who would change the light bulbs in the hallway.
As far as land use is concerned ... we stole this land fair and square.
In just the same way that the power imbalence between the British and the American colonies created a violent revolution when it got too large
Hmmmm ... I thought that the Revolutionary War was fought over tea. Oh yeah ... and taxes. When the American colonies actually started to produce, the British king decided that it was his. And the people thought otherwise.
If Burundi decides to start producing things, I doubt that there would be any revolution since is already classified as a sovereign nation. Unlike the American colonies many years ago.
Either concessions need to be made, or there will be conflict. How those concessions should be made is not stated, but the alternative to making concessions is likely to be worse for everyone.
Huh? Who needs to concede anything? Is the US going to start bombing aspirin factories if they try to compete with us?
Ok ... IF we need concede something then fine ... so be it ... but we would need to know it.
BTW, I'm all for moving Microsoft to Burundi.
Absolutely not. The "third world" countries are NOT whining about getting money from the "first world" countries.
What it is, is an attempt to go "back in time" to the "good old days" before the industrial revolution. In other words, NOBODY should be prosperous.
What would happen, if Burundi was brought up to "first world" status, and was a major global player?
These same people who currently admire (possibly worship) the way these people live on such "frugal" means would instantly condemn them for wasting precious natural resources.
BTW, my predictions were correct, and the parent is getting modded all over the place ... job done.
Instead of helping the "third world" countries with infrastructure, stable government, and ways NOT to pollute, they want to take the "first world" countries and take wealth away from them and give it to the poorer countries (of course, they'll help do the redistribution ... one for you, one for me)
Go ahead and mod me down for this, because it is a different angle on this type of story.
The reason is simple ... if we let Microsoft develop this for a few years ... they spend resources and yes, marketing that this is good for you. BUT, they have committed to something and are more pressured (by the shareholders) into following through.
Now ... if we re-spin this information now, while it's sketchy at best, then we give Microsoft information to change the most attacked position, and develop a better product.
As Sun Tzu has taught: "Test them to find out where they are sufficient and where they are lacking". I think that Microsoft is currently doing just this.
Damn ... now does anyone have an Open-Source ceramic shell slurry mixture?
One thing that you forgot to mention, was that Field Day is supposed to help prepare for emergency communications.
So ... while the point system is still used, you don't get extra points for the regions you contact, you get extra points for running on batteries, low wattage, and because this also helps with the image of amateur radio, extra points are awarded if you get press coverage.
This is a major 'public-relations' problem that most Hams have ... primarily front-end overload interference on TVs. What front-end overload is, is too much RF being pulled in from a transmission source. The result is interference of all channels on a TV.
The reason that this is a PR problem, is that according to FCC rules and laws, its the owner of the TVs problem to fix, not the Hams' problem ... and this leads to ill-will between the general public and Hams.
This gets back to the posters point ... inadequate RF shielding. BTW, plastic computer cases are a "Bad Thing" if they don't have any metal shielding plates ...
From that article ...
AlsoSorry, there is no "pong" slated for release in 2002.
And with this ... nobody knows where the laser beam went to.
It is surmised that it is currently in time-space next to the time-machine that was invented several years ago, switched on ... and summarily disappeared.
If this "test" is successful, how long before the RIAA sues Warner for not following lock-step with the rest of the entertainment-industry against pirates?
It's also kinda cool that the DVD was also not protected, not just the video.
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Maybe it's just me but ...
They are now looking at ways of using the laser to power its direction by, for instance, blasting off parts of the wings.
I really don't know if I'd want to fly on one of these ... chunks of planes with blasted off parts just doesn't seem right ...
You haven't bought a new computer lately ... have you? WinXP is ALREADY LOADED ... sheesh ...
Time required to load Red Hat on a P3 workstation - 5 minutes...
Now THAT's better ... but did the P3 workstation already have WinXP loaded ... or was it an illegal "naked PC?"
It's much yummier to fight fires with marshmallows ...
Where do we donate to erect a statute of him in Montana?
BTW, I've noticed a disturbing trend of really smart people != me ...