Blah. People who believe FDR intentionally let pearl harbor be bombed are either a.) wackos or b.) sadly misinformed. I hate countering this line of thought but here we go.
FDR had no reason to let pearl harbor be bombed. Remember by doing so it would garauntee that large portions of the US fleet would be destroyed, specifically the core of the US pacific fleet the battleship. At that time everybody thought the battleship would be the dominant warship not the aircraft carrier. Nobody thought the aircraft carrier (besides the japanese) would be the dominant fleet ship. For FDR to let pearl harbor be bombed he would be consenting to the destruction of the US fleet and, realistically, the possibility of losing control of the pacific.
Furthermore, assuming FDR had preknowledge of the Japanese attack would it not be A.) Entirely more likely and B.) The Smarter thing to do to suprise attack the japanese fleet? Remember with 9 battleships and 3-4 carriers or so a suprise US attack could deciminate the japanese fleet(s) since they where not mutually supportive and where under strict radio silence so an attack on one would not necassarily mean the others would be informed and even if they where informed where too far apart from each other to realistically offer any support. So if he *did* have forknowledge of the attack a preemptive strike against the japanese fleet would have been the far better thing to do as it would have, possibly, destroyed a large portion of the fleet and given America an early strategic leg up in the war in the pacific instead of the insane idea proposed by you that he would let the american fleet be deciminated @ pearl harbor.
At any rate, read your history and stop being clueless and misinformed. FDR had no knowledge of the pearl harbor attack.
"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded.I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed.I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war." President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
You are comparing apples to oranges. The Soyuz series of spacecraft are great little craft with only 2 failures out of about 200 some launches. they are also about 1/10 the weight, cannot carry or do 1/10 of what the shuttle can. They can only hold 3 people, maintain in orbit for *maybe* a week, and carry only a few hundred pounds worth of useful supplies/equipment.
They are totally unable to
1.) Retrieve something from orbit (like a satellite). 2.) Repair something in orbit (like Hubble). 3.) Construct something like the ISS 4.) Carry a satelite into orbit 5.) Carry as many as 10 crewmembers into orbit. 6.) Stay in orbit for as long as 28 days. 7.) They are not reusable. 8.) Use something like spacelab and return it.
No shit. I imagine the encounter went something like this...
CowboyNeal: Sweet, it's like a interview by like some famous guy. Something about Unix. Don't we do Unix? *BONG HIT* CmdrTaco: Dude, I am so stoned right now I have no idea what's happening. *BONG HIT* CmdrTaco: You look kindof purdy in the right neal baby. *girlish giggle* *BONG HIT* CowboyNeal: Wow. My screens all pretty *giggle*. What where we doing again? *BONG HIT* CmdrTaco: You where like.. *giggle*.. posting a story or something. On some website or something *long drawn out laughter* *BONG HIT* CowboyNeal: Hehehehehhe. I clicked submit. You know like submit.
Yes, we have a open license agreement now. Actually a campus-wide license agreement that pays for Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Office 2000 and Office Xp. We pay 100$ per every new computer we get plus 1$ millionish a year for this. It is very nice since windows XP doesn't need to be activated and we don't have to worry about a unique license for each machine.
The university did get sued, for about 1000 machines out of compliance. Shrug. I might be wrong about the amount they got sued for but they did get sued by the BSA.
Yeah they do care. They want each machine to have a unique license otherwise they bust your ass, it is a violation of the license agreement to have 1 copy installed on 500 machines even if you have 500 licenses. Thank god for the new enterprise agreement. I would HATE to have to fuck around with 500 computers and activate each copy of winxp seperately.
I cannot find the link (it was 7-8 years ago) but my University was sued, big time, for 10's of millions of dollars. The BSA did a software audit found thousand of machines 'not properly licesned'.we HAD all the damm liscenes but we just ghosted all our machines with one image one we got them, figuring a long as we had enough certificates it would be OK. Wrong. They got out of it by paying a million or so and signing a Microsoft Campus Wide license agreement. So now we don't have to worry about the BSA...
Wow. Just read that article. 23 years ago and we have this:
"When Columbia's tiles started popping off in a stiff breeze, it occurred to engineers that ice chunks from the (external) tank would crash into the tiles during the sonic chaos of launch: Goodbye, Columbia. "
Absolute gem of a thread. Thanks for explaining how scramjets work and the inherent difficulties involved in them. While I had kindof understood (theoratically) how they worked none of the papers ever really mentioned the downsides... funny that. Heh.
Interesting that the thing that really, really got peoples interest back into space for a time was the pathfinder robot. The idea of a remote controlled robot exploring Mars captivated the public like nothing since the Apollo moon landings.
ISS hasn't captured the imagine and I doubt it will. They aren't *Exploring* anything.
Scram and Ramjets would get you to space at 1/10 the cost of the shuttle - and that is being conservative. NERVA or Orion would get you to space at 1/1000 the cost of the shuttle.
NASA gets 14.5$ billion a year from the federal budget of 1.2 TRILLION dollars. less than a percent.
I'm not going to go into a debate about whether to finance NASA or finance AIDS development. All I will say is this - humans have exceeded the maximum carrying capacity of the enviroment (see table below). We need space, without space and cheap energy we are doomed one way or another.
Table 1.
Calories Gained to Spent. How much each culture spends to gain a calorie over how much they spend to get said calorie.
Source: Professor of Anthropology R. Hames, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Calories Gained/Spent Foragers 9.6/1 Dry Horticulturists 11.2/1 Tropical Horticulurists 18.0/1 Agriculture 53.5/1 Modern Agriculture 6000.0/1 Modern Agriculture (2).125/1
That last modern agriculture figure takes into account the *total* cost of modern agricutural. The cost to Build, manufacture, fuel the combines/tractors/etc. The cost to build, manufacutre, fuel the transporation. The research costs for the seeds, etc, etc. nearly all of that energy comes from petroleum which we are slowly running out of. Without a new form of energy we will eventually be... starving to death. Space my friend.. fusion, solar power, colonization, whatever is possible to reduce the strain on Mother Earth.
Sorry about the table being unformatted, the lameness filter was being fucking retarded.
.... and nobody would do anything you suggest because it is not practical or affordable without.. DADA a new launch vehicle.
Real quick. it costs $10,000/lb to put something in orbit. You weight 100 pounds? It's going to cost $1,000,000. $200 mil? Puh-lease. The shuttle costs darn near close to 450$ mil to launch. NOTHING IS PROFITABLE AT 10,000$/lb shipping COSTS!
You need to lower shipping costs. You need something like a RAM or SCRAMjet that reduces that cost from 10,000/lb to 1,000/lb. Only then would it be practical or affordable to MAYBE do a tenth of what you suggest.
While I might agree with you (and the quote) a less rapid, and more likely to be heard and not ignored, opposition to the ID card would be something along of the lines of:
1.) How can we be sure the sytem is completely failsafe against the actions of criminals/hackers/terrorists?
2.) How can we be sure the system is failsafe from simple mistakes?
3.) How can we be sure the system will actually *help* us?
4.) How can we be sure the information will not be stolen by terrorists and used against us?
5.) If the systems fails us what recourse will we have?
Nice, fairly rational things that will get people to listen to you.
There are a couple of reasons why I haven't yet ripped my DVD's.
For one it takes along time. I used to not think I would need a new computer but with my pIII 850 it takes a *long* time (like 8-9 hours) to rip and encode a single DVD, and my roommates p4 2.53ghz it still takes 3 hours to rip/encode a single DVD.
Also, I have yet to really decide what to rip them to. I could rip em bit for bit but that takes up too much space. Encoding them in any codec just means I will probably have to re-encode them in a few years once that becomes obsolete. Also, even though Divx is pretty good you can still tell a major difference in picture quality (especially if the DVD is like 720p originally).
I don't know. I imagine if/when I get a DVD burner I might just burn backup copies, that is probably the way to go.
I hearby cast my vote for the "Official First Annual Slashdot Nekkid Women Shooting Random Shit Event." I mean based on how "fast" slashdot seems to be recently they have to be saving up for something right... and why not spend it on this!
1.) Set up geek "news site"
2.) Turn "news site" into Geek pr0n gateway
3.) Profit!!!!!
MY dad runs a as/400 shop and recently attended a ibm conference. One of the cool new things you can do with the latest release of os/400 is run virtual instances of Linux (SuSe, Red Hat, and one other are supported). Much like VMware or a jailed BSD partition. Specify X amount of CPU time X amount of ram/disk space, etc. It is very, very cool.
Also, oh ye of special talents you will note that another other validator has no problem with www.slashdot.org or just slashdot.org while the w3c's keeps returning forbidden. Funny that don't ya think?
Which would obviously explain why a prominent Republican such as John Mccain would seek to support such a bill?
Oh well. Twas a good troll while it lasted. Also, a return to the fairness doctrine would be political suicide for the democrats or republicans. The media companies contribute millions to their campaigns. Finally, the supreme court quite strongly worded their decision against it, no possible change could be made to make it constitutional - much like the CDA.
Yeah another guy had mentioned that among large, presitigous universities the numbers tend to be much higher. Among public universities they are much lower, closer to what I mentioned. And when you consider that the vast majority of people go to public rather than private schools... shrug.
Interesting that Yale's retention rate is so high though. That shows either that the student body is extremely smart or that the school is doing everything they can to prevent students from graduating.
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Blah. People who believe FDR intentionally let pearl harbor be bombed are either a.) wackos or b.) sadly misinformed. I hate countering this line of thought but here we go.
FDR had no reason to let pearl harbor be bombed. Remember by doing so it would garauntee that large portions of the US fleet would be destroyed, specifically the core of the US pacific fleet the battleship. At that time everybody thought the battleship would be the dominant warship not the aircraft carrier. Nobody thought the aircraft carrier (besides the japanese) would be the dominant fleet ship. For FDR to let pearl harbor be bombed he would be consenting to the destruction of the US fleet and, realistically, the possibility of losing control of the pacific.
Furthermore, assuming FDR had preknowledge of the Japanese attack would it not be A.) Entirely more likely and B.) The Smarter thing to do to suprise attack the japanese fleet? Remember with 9 battleships and 3-4 carriers or so a suprise US attack could deciminate the japanese fleet(s) since they where not mutually supportive and where under strict radio silence so an attack on one would not necassarily mean the others would be informed and even if they where informed where too far apart from each other to realistically offer any support. So if he *did* have forknowledge of the attack a preemptive strike against the japanese fleet would have been the far better thing to do as it would have, possibly, destroyed a large portion of the fleet and given America an early strategic leg up in the war in the pacific instead of the insane idea proposed by you that he would let the american fleet be deciminated @ pearl harbor.
At any rate, read your history and stop being clueless and misinformed. FDR had no knowledge of the pearl harbor attack.
Yeah. No shit.
"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded.I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed.I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war." President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
You are comparing apples to oranges. The Soyuz series of spacecraft are great little craft with only 2 failures out of about 200 some launches. they are also about 1/10 the weight, cannot carry or do 1/10 of what the shuttle can. They can only hold 3 people, maintain in orbit for *maybe* a week, and carry only a few hundred pounds worth of useful supplies/equipment.
They are totally unable to
1.) Retrieve something from orbit (like a satellite).
2.) Repair something in orbit (like Hubble).
3.) Construct something like the ISS
4.) Carry a satelite into orbit
5.) Carry as many as 10 crewmembers into orbit.
6.) Stay in orbit for as long as 28 days.
7.) They are not reusable.
8.) Use something like spacelab and return it.
No shit. I imagine the encounter went something like this...
CowboyNeal: Sweet, it's like a interview by like some famous guy. Something about Unix. Don't we do Unix?
*BONG HIT*
CmdrTaco: Dude, I am so stoned right now I have no idea what's happening.
*BONG HIT*
CmdrTaco: You look kindof purdy in the right neal baby. *girlish giggle*
*BONG HIT*
CowboyNeal: Wow. My screens all pretty *giggle*. What where we doing again?
*BONG HIT*
CmdrTaco: You where like.. *giggle*.. posting a story or something. On some website or something *long drawn out laughter*
*BONG HIT*
CowboyNeal: Hehehehehhe. I clicked submit. You know like submit.
-1 Offtopic. Yeah maybe but I had fun writing it.
or right click , frame -> validate source. This is, among other things, what makes opera awesome for web developers.
Yes, we have a open license agreement now. Actually a campus-wide license agreement that pays for Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Office 2000 and Office Xp. We pay 100$ per every new computer we get plus 1$ millionish a year for this. It is very nice since windows XP doesn't need to be activated and we don't have to worry about a unique license for each machine.
The university did get sued, for about 1000 machines out of compliance. Shrug. I might be wrong about the amount they got sued for but they did get sued by the BSA.
No, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I'm sure the story has been repeated hundreds of times across the country though.
Yeah they do care. They want each machine to have a unique license otherwise they bust your ass, it is a violation of the license agreement to have 1 copy installed on 500 machines even if you have 500 licenses. Thank god for the new enterprise agreement. I would HATE to have to fuck around with 500 computers and activate each copy of winxp seperately.
I cannot find the link (it was 7-8 years ago) but my University was sued, big time, for 10's of millions of dollars. The BSA did a software audit found thousand of machines 'not properly licesned'.we HAD all the damm liscenes but we just ghosted all our machines with one image one we got them, figuring a long as we had enough certificates it would be OK. Wrong. They got out of it by paying a million or so and signing a Microsoft Campus Wide license agreement. So now we don't have to worry about the BSA...
Wow. Just read that article. 23 years ago and we have this:
"When Columbia's tiles started popping off in a stiff breeze, it occurred to engineers that ice chunks from the (external) tank would crash into the tiles during the sonic chaos of launch: Goodbye, Columbia. "
Freakin' prophetic.
Absolute gem of a thread. Thanks for explaining how scramjets work and the inherent difficulties involved in them. While I had kindof understood (theoratically) how they worked none of the papers ever really mentioned the downsides... funny that. Heh.
Interesting that the thing that really, really got peoples interest back into space for a time was the pathfinder robot. The idea of a remote controlled robot exploring Mars captivated the public like nothing since the Apollo moon landings.
ISS hasn't captured the imagine and I doubt it will. They aren't *Exploring* anything.
Scram and Ramjets would get you to space at 1/10 the cost of the shuttle - and that is being conservative. NERVA or Orion would get you to space at 1/1000 the cost of the shuttle.
.125/1
NASA gets 14.5$ billion a year from the federal budget of 1.2 TRILLION dollars. less than a percent.
I'm not going to go into a debate about whether to finance NASA or finance AIDS development. All I will say is this - humans have exceeded the maximum carrying capacity of the enviroment (see table below). We need space, without space and cheap energy we are doomed one way or another.
Table 1.
Calories Gained to Spent. How much each culture spends to gain a calorie over how much they spend to get said calorie.
Source: Professor of Anthropology R. Hames, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Calories Gained/Spent
Foragers 9.6/1
Dry Horticulturists 11.2/1
Tropical Horticulurists 18.0/1
Agriculture 53.5/1
Modern Agriculture 6000.0/1
Modern Agriculture (2)
That last modern agriculture figure takes into account the *total* cost of modern agricutural. The cost to Build, manufacture, fuel the combines/tractors/etc. The cost to build, manufacutre, fuel the transporation. The research costs for the seeds, etc, etc. nearly all of that energy comes from petroleum which we are slowly running out of. Without a new form of energy we will eventually be... starving to death. Space my friend.. fusion, solar power, colonization, whatever is possible to reduce the strain on Mother Earth.
Sorry about the table being unformatted, the lameness filter was being fucking retarded.
.... and nobody would do anything you suggest because it is not practical or affordable without.. DADA a new launch vehicle.
Real quick. it costs $10,000/lb to put something in orbit. You weight 100 pounds? It's going to cost $1,000,000. $200 mil? Puh-lease. The shuttle costs darn near close to 450$ mil to launch. NOTHING IS PROFITABLE AT 10,000$/lb shipping COSTS!
You need to lower shipping costs. You need something like a RAM or SCRAMjet that reduces that cost from 10,000/lb to 1,000/lb. Only then would it be practical or affordable to MAYBE do a tenth of what you suggest.
While I might agree with you (and the quote) a less rapid, and more likely to be heard and not ignored, opposition to the ID card would be something along of the lines of:
1.) How can we be sure the sytem is completely failsafe against the actions of criminals/hackers/terrorists?
2.) How can we be sure the system is failsafe from simple mistakes?
3.) How can we be sure the system will actually *help* us?
4.) How can we be sure the information will not be stolen by terrorists and used against us?
5.) If the systems fails us what recourse will we have?
Nice, fairly rational things that will get people to listen to you.
There are a couple of reasons why I haven't yet ripped my DVD's.
For one it takes along time. I used to not think I would need a new computer but with my pIII 850 it takes a *long* time (like 8-9 hours) to rip and encode a single DVD, and my roommates p4 2.53ghz it still takes 3 hours to rip/encode a single DVD.
Also, I have yet to really decide what to rip them to. I could rip em bit for bit but that takes up too much space. Encoding them in any codec just means I will probably have to re-encode them in a few years once that becomes obsolete.
Also, even though Divx is pretty good you can still tell a major difference in picture quality (especially if the DVD is like 720p originally).
I don't know. I imagine if/when I get a DVD burner I might just burn backup copies, that is probably the way to go.
I've heard she existed but never believed until now...
I hearby cast my vote for the "Official First Annual Slashdot Nekkid Women Shooting Random Shit Event." I mean based on how "fast" slashdot seems to be recently they have to be saving up for something right... and why not spend it on this!
1.) Set up geek "news site"
2.) Turn "news site" into Geek pr0n gateway
3.) Profit!!!!!
It all makes sense now.
MY dad runs a as/400 shop and recently attended a ibm conference. One of the cool new things you can do with the latest release of os/400 is run virtual instances of Linux (SuSe, Red Hat, and one other are supported). Much like VMware or a jailed BSD partition. Specify X amount of CPU time X amount of ram/disk space, etc. It is very, very cool.
Also, oh ye of special talents you will note that another other validator has no problem with www.slashdot.org or just slashdot.org while the w3c's keeps returning forbidden. Funny that don't ya think?
and validation of http://slashdot.org returns the same result. Hooray!
Which would obviously explain why a prominent Republican such as John Mccain would seek to support such a bill?
Oh well. Twas a good troll while it lasted. Also, a return to the fairness doctrine would be political suicide for the democrats or republicans. The media companies contribute millions to their campaigns. Finally, the supreme court quite strongly worded their decision against it, no possible change could be made to make it constitutional - much like the CDA.
Yeah another guy had mentioned that among large, presitigous universities the numbers tend to be much higher. Among public universities they are much lower, closer to what I mentioned. And when you consider that the vast majority of people go to public rather than private schools... shrug.
Interesting that Yale's retention rate is so high though. That shows either that the student body is extremely smart or that the school is doing everything they can to prevent students from graduating.
Odd. Still why are they blocking the requests for www?
It had to be said....
1.) Start a company.
2.) Sue the living bejesus out of everyone
3.) PROFIT!!!!!!!!!
The sad thing is that apparently works...