And if those corporate executives push faulty designs or pressure bad descisions? Mansluaghter charges are being saught in connection with the Power Fasteners company after it was found they knowingly ignored issues with epoxy based fasteners that later led to a woman's death in the Boston Harbor tunnel. Other companies involved in this and massive cost overruns and poor design descisions (major leakage in tunnel), such as Bechtel and Modern Continental Construction, have seemingly gotten off the hook.
Stop trying to promote your own, albeit slightly different, totalitarian agenda by mixing it up with our anti-totalitarian agenda.
WOW, you REALLY missed my point. I don't know how you came to that bizarre conclusion. Did you read a different comment by any chance? I was (sarcastically) pointing out that these laws get passed either on the sly (quietly voted into law) or by putting the fear of God into the public (get them to accept cameras, etc). My reference to taxes was just to point out that the same methods are used for different things. For instance, in the US the estate tax was repealed by claiming it would kill family farms but in reality the vast majority affected were the economic elite. It was reframed in a way to win sympathy from the public which in reality would eat a bigger tax burden in the end. The same thing is done to promote things like the Patriot Act. If you think I support spy cameras or higher taxes (for the average Joe) then you are badly mistaken.
Without the massive taxation powers that the government now has, it couldn't afford to build a police state because police states are very very expensive.
You don't need a lot of money to have a police state. Many poor countries are oppressive such as Zimbabwe. Haiti was poor and extremely oppressive, now it is just poor and crime riddled.
The 2008 Olympics are going down in history like 1936, a zenith of the fake and evil.
Is it just a coincidence that they are being held in that bastion of freedom, China? I hope they didn't miss any bullet marks when patching up Tiananmen Square.
Americans, you need to uphold your constitution. Never trust your law makers. Stop these cameras now while you can.
Unfortunately the political process in the US generally works like this:
1. Economic elite decide they want something (i.e. a tax that mainly affects them repealed, access to a natural resource for their company that is in some other country)
2. They start funding politicians (and offer them high paying jobs for when they leave politics)
3. Politicians either:
a. Push bill silently into law hoping no one will notice
b. Have to sell it to the people
In the event of "b"...
4. Hire PR firms to push news stories hyping the evil that will occur if this bill isn't passed "These poor farmers can't pass on their farms if the estate tax isn't repealed!", "Criminals will be free to molest your little ones!", "Terrorists will bomb your local 7-11!". Set up phony grassroots organizations (i.e. Swift Boat Vets).
5. Activists looking for attention and hysterial citizens demand the bill be passed ("But what about the children?", "I don't want a-rabs comin' in and bomb'n the Quicky Mart!")
6. Profit!
Note: Politicians may initiate actions on their own during election periods as long as they don't interfere with step #1.
Seeing as they have figured out how to attach the braces without compromising the heat shields I would guess engineers could figure out a way to do it without eliminating the cargo bay.
Or moving the tank up past the tail fin and protecting only vital areas such as the cabin. The windshield is already heavily reinforced to protect against small orbital debris. You have to think of unconventional alternatives sometimes.
They must keep hitting the cable they use to carry my DSL signal because it was useless most of Monday and seems to choke regularly at approx 10pm. I assume they send out a night crew to drill into cables around then.
Is it possible to find a way to launch the shuttle with the belly facing AWAY from the main tank? That way any impacts from ice or foam would strike surfaces not critical for reentry.
I wouldn't mind if it mutated to break down plastics like polyethylene. Preferably under special conditions, like exposure to UV light or salt water so plastics in storage didn't break down. The millions of water bottles cluttering our land and water alone will be with us for thousands of years.
This would be a good way of using atmospheric carbon instead of fossil carbon that has been sequestered for hundreds of millions of years.
Ocean farming is an interesting idea. If the bacteria could be in some form where their remains sank to the ocean floor when they died it would also provide a carbon sink mechanism for removing excess CO2.
Large-scale surveillance in China is more threatening than surveillance in Britain, they said when told of Shenzhen's plans. "I don't think they are remotely comparable, and even in Britain it's quite controversial," said Dinah PoKempner, the general counsel of Human Rights Watch in New York. China has fewer limits on police power, fewer restrictions on how government agencies use the information they gather and fewer legal protections for those suspected of crime, she noted.
And in related news, UK government officials admitted they were green with envy over China's plans. "We are falling behind the police state curve!" cried out the Minister of Justice.
As long as China keep producing our cheap plastic crap and adulterated products I'm all for it! If I save $5 shopping at the Mega Mart then I don't have a problem with the Chinese population being put under a microscope. It even brought jobs to the US.
"If they do not get the permanent card, they cannot live here, they cannot get government benefits, and that is a way for the government to control the population in the future," said Michael Lin, the vice president for investor relations at China Public Security Technology, the company providing the technology. Incorporated in Florida, China Public Security has raised much of the money to develop its technology from two investment funds in Plano, Tex., Pinnacle Fund and Pinnacle China Fund. Three investment banks--Roth Capital Partners in Newport Beach, Calif.; Oppenheimer & Company in New York; and First Asia Finance Group of Hong Kong--helped raise the money.
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And if those corporate executives push faulty designs or pressure bad descisions? Mansluaghter charges are being saught in connection with the Power Fasteners company after it was found they knowingly ignored issues with epoxy based fasteners that later led to a woman's death in the Boston Harbor tunnel. Other companies involved in this and massive cost overruns and poor design descisions (major leakage in tunnel), such as Bechtel and Modern Continental Construction, have seemingly gotten off the hook.
WOW, you REALLY missed my point. I don't know how you came to that bizarre conclusion. Did you read a different comment by any chance? I was (sarcastically) pointing out that these laws get passed either on the sly (quietly voted into law) or by putting the fear of God into the public (get them to accept cameras, etc). My reference to taxes was just to point out that the same methods are used for different things. For instance, in the US the estate tax was repealed by claiming it would kill family farms but in reality the vast majority affected were the economic elite. It was reframed in a way to win sympathy from the public which in reality would eat a bigger tax burden in the end. The same thing is done to promote things like the Patriot Act. If you think I support spy cameras or higher taxes (for the average Joe) then you are badly mistaken.
Without the massive taxation powers that the government now has, it couldn't afford to build a police state because police states are very very expensive.You don't need a lot of money to have a police state. Many poor countries are oppressive such as Zimbabwe. Haiti was poor and extremely oppressive, now it is just poor and crime riddled.
Spackle
Is it just a coincidence that they are being held in that bastion of freedom, China? I hope they didn't miss any bullet marks when patching up Tiananmen Square.
Unfortunately the political process in the US generally works like this:
1. Economic elite decide they want something (i.e. a tax that mainly affects them repealed, access to a natural resource for their company that is in some other country)
2. They start funding politicians (and offer them high paying jobs for when they leave politics)
3. Politicians either:
a. Push bill silently into law hoping no one will notice
b. Have to sell it to the people
In the event of "b"...
4. Hire PR firms to push news stories hyping the evil that will occur if this bill isn't passed "These poor farmers can't pass on their farms if the estate tax isn't repealed!", "Criminals will be free to molest your little ones!", "Terrorists will bomb your local 7-11!". Set up phony grassroots organizations (i.e. Swift Boat Vets).
5. Activists looking for attention and hysterial citizens demand the bill be passed ("But what about the children?", "I don't want a-rabs comin' in and bomb'n the Quicky Mart!")
6. Profit!
Note: Politicians may initiate actions on their own during election periods as long as they don't interfere with step #1.
As you say, not worth the effort. Especially since the vehicle as a whole is so old that redesigning it would bring it forward many decades.
Seeing as they have figured out how to attach the braces without compromising the heat shields I would guess engineers could figure out a way to do it without eliminating the cargo bay.
Or moving the tank up past the tail fin and protecting only vital areas such as the cabin. The windshield is already heavily reinforced to protect against small orbital debris. You have to think of unconventional alternatives sometimes.
Next /. article: Verizon employee fails to put the right cover sheet on their TPS report.
They must keep hitting the cable they use to carry my DSL signal because it was useless most of Monday and seems to choke regularly at approx 10pm. I assume they send out a night crew to drill into cables around then.
Is it possible to find a way to launch the shuttle with the belly facing AWAY from the main tank? That way any impacts from ice or foam would strike surfaces not critical for reentry.
Not unless you cool your CPU with an Ionic Breeze!
Even CIA agents need hugs!
I'd say the CIA is using song lyrics to embed coded messages to overseas agents.
I know, I was playing off of the parent comment "3) Urinating gasoline"
Not sure I'd want to poop fireballs either though.
Sorry, I forgot to add the sarcasm flag to my comment.
I wouldn't mind if it mutated to break down plastics like polyethylene. Preferably under special conditions, like exposure to UV light or salt water so plastics in storage didn't break down. The millions of water bottles cluttering our land and water alone will be with us for thousands of years.
Hundreds of frat brothers discover the party entertainment potential of lighting their urine streams on fire.
This would be a good way of using atmospheric carbon instead of fossil carbon that has been sequestered for hundreds of millions of years.
Ocean farming is an interesting idea. If the bacteria could be in some form where their remains sank to the ocean floor when they died it would also provide a carbon sink mechanism for removing excess CO2.
It would still be cheaper than milk.
George Costanza already solved this problem.
I skipped that meeting when I saw it was void. Can't get anything out of those things.
Too bad they can't enforce it in their old enemy, Russia.
And in related news, UK government officials admitted they were green with envy over China's plans. "We are falling behind the police state curve!" cried out the Minister of Justice.