I don't think this involves Enterprise. From what I remember, this is supposed to take place during Kirk's academy days.
Hmmmmm, Scotty, Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Uhuru, Sulu and Checkov all at the academy at the same time despite the differences in age. Yeah, this is gonna' suck.
Besides, I think Sci-Fi has had it in the movies for a while. It's comic book time. Let's all wear spandex.
He cannot rewrite or retract. He plagiarized The Turner Diaries, a not very good Right-Wing version of 1984 filled with much violence, hatred and penis envy.
People can still read stuff from when papyrus was all the rage. The great thing about papyrus and paper is that it that it can be rolled up and doesn't break like those clay tablets.
"Extremely long" being about 4 hours for first count, and a few days for final results.
NOT if you are trying to read someone else's writing for a national office, several State and county offices, and a good selection of State and county measures.
And I haven't even talked about vote order. For instance most people will put their Presidential choice at the top of the ticket followed by State then County officers. But who knows what order people might choose to put State and county measures!
I think this would take a LOT longer than you suppose.
Every machine has a paper tape that records all votes. Next to the main screen, there is a little window that the tape scrolls past. Part of the vote process includes "Look at the paper in the window next to the screen. Does the candidate shown match your selection? Press 'Yes' or 'No' to continue." Once they confirm their vote, the paper scrolls on and is saved in case of recount.
WOW! I like your idea.
I'm running for office in a few years so I think I will have one of my friends work this idea into a business we can sell to the county. Then I will have my friend program some selection of machines to vote for me when someone votes for me and to take one-third of my opponents votes. My friend will rig his machine to show the voter the correct name, but my name will be recorded in the memory of the machine. Voters will be reassured that the system is secure because they will see the name of the person they voted for and will NOT raise the alarm. In fact, because I'm not greedy, no one will raise the alarm.
What is wrong with just giving out pieces of paper with the elections you are voting on and make people write in the candidate they want?
Nice idea in theory, but, ummmmm, have you ever looked at people's writing?
Oh, yeah, it won't work in places where people are voting on candidates and state and county measures.
Oh, yeah, one more thing. If you have more than a few thousand people voting it can take an extememly long time to count the ballots. The Electoral College must meet and vote in early December. If we tried your process we might not have a count by then.
Remember that from the Sixties and Seventies? Do you see any sign of it today? No? Why not?
Well, maybe because paper is light-weight, foldable, and will last beyond your lifespan with minimal care.
Let's try an experiment. I solved the secrets of the Universe and wrote them on ordinary paper with an ordinary ball-point pen back in the 1970s. I also wrote those same secrets on an Apple ][. The paper was shoved into my copy of Encyclopaedia Brittanica and put back on the shelf. The Apple ][ copy was manually copied onto an IBM PC circa 1982, using a 3.5" floppy where it sits to this day. Which copy of the SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE! would you like: paper or electronic?
Oh, just for fun, let's say I copied the floppy onto a CD back in 1997. Then I copied that onto a USB stick in 2002. OH, almost forgot to mention that the file format is the same Apple ][ format from the 1970s.:)
DVD Shrink is nice for it's simplicity, but when you really want to rip a DVD without losing quality you must use DVD DeCrypter and IFO-Edit. They work great without any loss of quality.
Good luck finding them, though. It's been a few years since I last saw them hosted in Finland (I think). If you didn't grab them a few years back I think you are SOL.
1)Because "Peak Oil" has come and gone! In other words, it would be a waste.
2)Abdulrahman Al-Zamil, former Governor of Electricity, Saudi-Arabia
From the documentary "Energy War"
(Speaking about the failed Saudi solar energy project of the 1980s.)
We were not convinced that solar energy could be a major source of energy.
Now, we spent the money. It never supplied more than probably five hundred, six hundred kilowatts. And the maintenance of that is tremendously troublesome. Running the project is highly costly. So, time has proven that we were correct in our pessimism, and that all the vision that the West have been trying to promote were dreams.
First of all, the world's needs of energy is tremendous. You talk about, in terms of power-plants, we need 10,000 mega-watts, 20,000 mega-watts every two, three years. I mean you have to have a whole desert to produce two mega-watts.
Second, Saudi-Arabia spent billions of dollars to develop it's own (unintelligible - may be an Arabic word) supply to the world. We just promised the world that we will supply them in the next - with trillion barrel (pause) in the next twenty-five years, with a commitment of spending twenty-five billion dollars.
Now we need governments, major corporations to have that kind of commitment if they want to develop an alternative energy.
It's not a joke. It's not a hobby. It is not a university research. It is not a - uhhhh - politicians talk big, but they deliver less. That is the story of solar energy in the last fifty years.
***END QUOTE***
In other words, nuclear looks pretty promising at this point in time.
You are correct. Model rocketry is all but dead since 9/11.
You don't even need GPS. If your target is a building all you need is knowledge of a clear path from your launch point to your target. A small computer such as the Basic Stamp should be sufficient to guide your crude/cruise missle.
The only real problem is finding a substance with sufficient explosive capacity that a model plane can lift it and manuever with it.
Of course if you are willing to have line of sight to your target you can sit on a hill next to your favorite freeway during commute hours and target a gasoline tanker sitting in traffic. Pilot your little missle next to it and set it off. Instant headlines, unless the tanker is empty at the time.
If you make a lot of comments, you probably are very opinionated and would take one side in an argument.
If you don't make a lot of comments, you probably have not shot your mouth off about a given topic (remember the duplicates and the topics that are similar). If you have not already committed yourself in writing then you are more likely to moderate on the substance of the discussion rather than your own feelings.
It was not just the United States; it was the Allies. Don't forget that the Japanese did not decide to attack the Soviet Union. This enabled the Soviets to build shit-loads of tanks and hold troops near their Eastern Coast just in case Nippon decided to attack them (the Russians and the Japanese have a long history of mutual animosity).
When Stalin finally decided he had less to fear from the East then what he was facing from Deutschland he had shit-loads of tanks and troops to push the Nazi's back into Berlin.
Thank you, but I don't think I will publish work that is more than ten years old on the web, or anywhere else. My work has grown in that time. Besides, the people that I have shown my work provide me with enough ego strokes to satisfy me.:)
I am currently working on a long form web-comic. I won't publish it now because I tried to publish as I created a few years back and discovered that between my real job, family, and other interests I just could not keep up with as much as three pages per week and maintain a satisfying level of quality. Anything less than that on a long form story is just frustrating for a reader. Or at least that's how I feel when I try to read other long form works that post infrequently.
The story I am working on now will be posted once I finish writing, drawing, lettering, inking, and coloring. In other words, it will be a while.:)
The important thing to me is that I am having fun doing this while I continue to make a living and support my family with a traditional job.
I was going to travel outside of the country in November 2005. I applied for my passport in September 2005.
No problem, right?
Wrong! I was born in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
Katrina, for those that need the memory jog.
I had never needed my birth certificate before this. I had gone through school, joined and served in the military with only my California Drivers License prior to this. The Postal Service balked at first but eventually just caved in and granted me a Passport that is valid until 2010.
Now, let's say I'm Timothy McVeigh or your hypothetical Muhammed. I just need to wait for another disaster to strike some region of the U. S. and then declare that I was born there. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and other fun stuff from Mother Nature is just what I want when I need a false ID or two.
This is an interesting challenge. Thank you for bringing it up. This should be done from time to time.
Now here's my perspective:
I have not created anything that I have been paid for, but that is not for lack of trying. I have wanted to create comic books since the 1970s.
To get the @$$-holes out of the way, let's just agree to say that my work sucks and is not worth publishing. There, now we can probably discuss this as adults.:)
Here is the situation after a few decades:
I was NOT willing to travel to New York to work for slave wages in the offices of Marvel or DC; therefore, I stayed in sunny California, got a real job that paid my bills and allowed me time to work on my "hobby".
After several decades I have a decent retirement account built up, I have had paid vacations, sick-time (that I have periodically abused), a real career, regular decent pay checks that have enabled me to buy a very large house in the not-cheap San Francisco Bay Area. I still work on my "hobby". I hope to one day publish my work.
On the flip side, I hear horror stories of some of the comic creators whose work I enjoyed as a child not having basic medical care in the older years. Some live in poverty!
True, a few have made out like bandits, notably the Image comics guys (they were all guys, weren't they?). By and large though, I seem to be better off NOT having "succeeded". I get a chill trying to imagine my life if I had gone to work for Marvel of DC in the seventies or eighties.
Copyright law did not protect the creators of my youth! In fact, the "Work For Hire" provisions FUCKED OVER people I admire and respect!
I do NOT want to eliminate copyright, I just want FUCKING POLITICIANS to remember that copyright is a benefit We the People grant to creators for a temporary time, not for FUCKIN' ETERNITY!
Vectors! Insect became disease carrying vectors about the time of the cretaceous.
They were not claiming that these diseases did not exist until this time. They are saying that the diseases adapted to insects and used the insects as carrying agents at far back as the cretaceous period, maybe longer.
Slashdot Mirror
Urinary Tract Infection!
Hmmmmm, Scotty, Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Uhuru, Sulu and Checkov all at the academy at the same time despite the differences in age. Yeah, this is gonna' suck.
Besides, I think Sci-Fi has had it in the movies for a while. It's comic book time. Let's all wear spandex.
After all, they are still in Beta. :)
He cannot rewrite or retract. He plagiarized The Turner Diaries, a not very good Right-Wing version of 1984 filled with much violence, hatred and penis envy.
That's what the CIA, NSA, DIA, USIA, and NASA (Frances Gary Powers), are for.
I agree. That's why ink on paper is best!
People can still read stuff from when papyrus was all the rage. The great thing about papyrus and paper is that it that it can be rolled up and doesn't break like those clay tablets.
NOT if you are trying to read someone else's writing for a national office, several State and county offices, and a good selection of State and county measures.
And I haven't even talked about vote order. For instance most people will put their Presidential choice at the top of the ticket followed by State then County officers. But who knows what order people might choose to put State and county measures!
I think this would take a LOT longer than you suppose.
WOW! I like your idea.
I'm running for office in a few years so I think I will have one of my friends work this idea into a business we can sell to the county. Then I will have my friend program some selection of machines to vote for me when someone votes for me and to take one-third of my opponents votes. My friend will rig his machine to show the voter the correct name, but my name will be recorded in the memory of the machine. Voters will be reassured that the system is secure because they will see the name of the person they voted for and will NOT raise the alarm. In fact, because I'm not greedy, no one will raise the alarm.
Thank you for the marvelous idea.
Nice idea in theory, but, ummmmm, have you ever looked at people's writing?
Oh, yeah, it won't work in places where people are voting on candidates and state and county measures.
Oh, yeah, one more thing. If you have more than a few thousand people voting it can take an extememly long time to count the ballots. The Electoral College must meet and vote in early December. If we tried your process we might not have a count by then.
Remember that from the Sixties and Seventies? Do you see any sign of it today? No? Why not?
Well, maybe because paper is light-weight, foldable, and will last beyond your lifespan with minimal care.
Let's try an experiment. I solved the secrets of the Universe and wrote them on ordinary paper with an ordinary ball-point pen back in the 1970s. I also wrote those same secrets on an Apple ][. The paper was shoved into my copy of Encyclopaedia Brittanica and put back on the shelf. The Apple ][ copy was manually copied onto an IBM PC circa 1982, using a 3.5" floppy where it sits to this day. Which copy of the SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE! would you like: paper or electronic?
Oh, just for fun, let's say I copied the floppy onto a CD back in 1997. Then I copied that onto a USB stick in 2002. OH, almost forgot to mention that the file format is the same Apple ][ format from the 1970s. :)
This list is incomplete. I would provide a proof but this comment box is too small to hold it.
Or another train!
Good luck finding them, though. It's been a few years since I last saw them hosted in Finland (I think). If you didn't grab them a few years back I think you are SOL.
2)Abdulrahman Al-Zamil, former Governor of Electricity, Saudi-Arabia
From the documentary "Energy War"
(Speaking about the failed Saudi solar energy project of the 1980s.) We were not convinced that solar energy could be a major source of energy.
Now, we spent the money. It never supplied more than probably five hundred, six hundred kilowatts. And the maintenance of that is tremendously troublesome. Running the project is highly costly. So, time has proven that we were correct in our pessimism, and that all the vision that the West have been trying to promote were dreams.
First of all, the world's needs of energy is tremendous. You talk about, in terms of power-plants, we need 10,000 mega-watts, 20,000 mega-watts every two, three years. I mean you have to have a whole desert to produce two mega-watts.
Second, Saudi-Arabia spent billions of dollars to develop it's own (unintelligible - may be an Arabic word) supply to the world. We just promised the world that we will supply them in the next - with trillion barrel (pause) in the next twenty-five years, with a commitment of spending twenty-five billion dollars.
Now we need governments, major corporations to have that kind of commitment if they want to develop an alternative energy.
It's not a joke. It's not a hobby. It is not a university research. It is not a - uhhhh - politicians talk big, but they deliver less. That is the story of solar energy in the last fifty years.
***END QUOTE***
In other words, nuclear looks pretty promising at this point in time.
Guess you never made it to one of their parties back in the eighties. >8^D
You don't even need GPS. If your target is a building all you need is knowledge of a clear path from your launch point to your target. A small computer such as the Basic Stamp should be sufficient to guide your crude/cruise missle.
The only real problem is finding a substance with sufficient explosive capacity that a model plane can lift it and manuever with it.
Of course if you are willing to have line of sight to your target you can sit on a hill next to your favorite freeway during commute hours and target a gasoline tanker sitting in traffic. Pilot your little missle next to it and set it off. Instant headlines, unless the tanker is empty at the time.
...then I have no problem with her claim.
If you make a lot of comments, you probably are very opinionated and would take one side in an argument.
If you don't make a lot of comments, you probably have not shot your mouth off about a given topic (remember the duplicates and the topics that are similar). If you have not already committed yourself in writing then you are more likely to moderate on the substance of the discussion rather than your own feelings.
It was not just the United States; it was the Allies. Don't forget that the Japanese did not decide to attack the Soviet Union. This enabled the Soviets to build shit-loads of tanks and hold troops near their Eastern Coast just in case Nippon decided to attack them (the Russians and the Japanese have a long history of mutual animosity).
When Stalin finally decided he had less to fear from the East then what he was facing from Deutschland he had shit-loads of tanks and troops to push the Nazi's back into Berlin.
I am currently working on a long form web-comic. I won't publish it now because I tried to publish as I created a few years back and discovered that between my real job, family, and other interests I just could not keep up with as much as three pages per week and maintain a satisfying level of quality. Anything less than that on a long form story is just frustrating for a reader. Or at least that's how I feel when I try to read other long form works that post infrequently.
The story I am working on now will be posted once I finish writing, drawing, lettering, inking, and coloring. In other words, it will be a while. :)
The important thing to me is that I am having fun doing this while I continue to make a living and support my family with a traditional job.
Case in point:
I was going to travel outside of the country in November 2005. I applied for my passport in September 2005.
No problem, right?
Wrong! I was born in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
Katrina, for those that need the memory jog.
I had never needed my birth certificate before this. I had gone through school, joined and served in the military with only my California Drivers License prior to this. The Postal Service balked at first but eventually just caved in and granted me a Passport that is valid until 2010.
Now, let's say I'm Timothy McVeigh or your hypothetical Muhammed. I just need to wait for another disaster to strike some region of the U. S. and then declare that I was born there. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and other fun stuff from Mother Nature is just what I want when I need a false ID or two.
Please note that this would not have stopped Timothy McVeigh.
Someone else had legitimate ID. Now who was that...?
Oh, yes, Timothy McVeigh.
Now here's my perspective:
I have not created anything that I have been paid for, but that is not for lack of trying. I have wanted to create comic books since the 1970s.
To get the @$$-holes out of the way, let's just agree to say that my work sucks and is not worth publishing. There, now we can probably discuss this as adults. :)
Here is the situation after a few decades:
I was NOT willing to travel to New York to work for slave wages in the offices of Marvel or DC; therefore, I stayed in sunny California, got a real job that paid my bills and allowed me time to work on my "hobby".
After several decades I have a decent retirement account built up, I have had paid vacations, sick-time (that I have periodically abused), a real career, regular decent pay checks that have enabled me to buy a very large house in the not-cheap San Francisco Bay Area. I still work on my "hobby". I hope to one day publish my work.
On the flip side, I hear horror stories of some of the comic creators whose work I enjoyed as a child not having basic medical care in the older years. Some live in poverty!
True, a few have made out like bandits, notably the Image comics guys (they were all guys, weren't they?). By and large though, I seem to be better off NOT having "succeeded". I get a chill trying to imagine my life if I had gone to work for Marvel of DC in the seventies or eighties.
Copyright law did not protect the creators of my youth! In fact, the "Work For Hire" provisions FUCKED OVER people I admire and respect!
I do NOT want to eliminate copyright, I just want FUCKING POLITICIANS to remember that copyright is a benefit We the People grant to creators for a temporary time, not for FUCKIN' ETERNITY!
They were not claiming that these diseases did not exist until this time. They are saying that the diseases adapted to insects and used the insects as carrying agents at far back as the cretaceous period, maybe longer.