The Merriam Webster's Collegiate Edition entry for mudslinger reads as follows: "one that uses offensive epithets and invective esp. against a political opponent." Mudslinging does not imply making false claims, but representing the truth in a manner that is intended to shock.
How about you read and understand the definition before posting it to your defense? Let's examine: "One that uses offensive epithets..." Ok so by this definition one that USES the offensive phrase is the mudslinger. In the case of the video, the only person using offensive phrasing is the subjet of the video. The video is OF him. Now if the video was of someone saying "I heard So and So say this and that", then that would be mudslinging. This is of the guy himself saying it. So, yea, if there is any mudslinging going on here, then it's by Allen himself to himself. This is reporting. At best it's a documentary with commentary.
Thought Businessweek would have smarter journalists than this clown.
You are over-estimating the number of people who vote, watch YouTube, and watch political videos. The key limiter being the 3rd portion of that "and".
Hey, you maybe right. Man, it's too bad there are no examples of of prior circumstance to support my theory. I just wish there was a video on YouTube affecting poll numbers that I could show you to support this crackpot theory of mine.
This is really the first election where online material might have significantly moved a vote. You can bet it will be much worse in 2008.
Given that YouTube is unregulated, I bet we start seeing fake videos hit the networks. Some anonymous user posts a video of Joe Schmo canidate talking about some random topic. A bit of audio editing (think voice boards) later, some grainy artifacts in the right place, and some clever timing and suddenly Joe Schmo just got caught saying something bad. Will it matter if the politician refutes the video? Even if they prove it to be fake, the damage will probably already be done. No real account to tie the slandering back to. No one to sue, and all YouTube can do is take down the video and ban the account. Damage already done, and no real risk.
In the 50's we had the red scare. In the next election there migth be a YouTube scare.
You have not been ripped off by PayPal. Not once, not twice. Unless you are trying to tell us that PayPal robbed you, then you are very mistaken. PayPal does not rip you off. The person you are buying/selling in a transaction rips you off. PayPal might provide them with a means to do so, but that's like saying the guy pulling the trigger isn't responsible for murder. PayPal is a means to and end.
Look, I don't agree with a lot of PayPal's policies either, and I try to avoid the service when other options are available. But PayPal is just that, a freaking service. It's a convienent way to transfer funds over the internet. If you don't like em, you're welcome to deal with the hassles of other services or snailmail money orders.
I do understand what would drive them to do this. Individuals are powerless against PayPal, so its no suprise they will lash out any way they can
It's a service! If you want to lash out at someone, lash out at the person on the other end of the service. You choose to use it.
I'm really sick of people thinking conviences and services are "rights".
You make a compelling point, but you are missing the big picture. A democratic government shouldn't have to tell the people what they are up to. Instead they should be open enough that people, namely the press, can report on what they are up to with complete accuracy. In other words, in an ideal situation numerous press organizations should all report the same facts about the same story on the same day. They could contain editorial differences, but that's about it.
This type of program, "certified truth", is dangerous. It seems harmless and all about free speech now, but look further down the road. It sets up a probable scenario where any information coming out of the pentagon is regarded as fact. Therefore any information that disagrees with a Pentagon statement is false and therefore being used as a weapon in the war on terror. More over, in the immediate future, no major news outlet will dare disagree with the "facts" coming out of the Pentagon. Why would they? Why should they? A better question is, why won't they?
People, we are in a major information war here. Act accordingly.
Headline should read: Voters with poor grasp of technology elect politicians with no grasp of technology.
Seriously, if we want someone to blame, let's blame the masses. It's people who don't have a grasp of technology, or much else for that matter. And why is that? Because our voting population is so low. Our country is filled with smart people, average people, and dumb people. Wow, just like a normal distribution! Yet for some strange reason, the majority people who vote fall on the right side of the curve, and the people on the left side of the curve votes are pointless. Like a sprinkler in a rain storm.
If we complain about it, then it becomes our responsibility to educate our fellow voters. It is OUR responsibility to vote the right people in, NOT the politicians. This is not how democracy works. We either vote right or run.
So Slashdot... our collective spawns some great discussions every now and then. Our collective eyes can bring down web servers with the best of them. We know a lot about technology and politics. So ask yourself... what have you done to remedy this problem lately? What can we all do together?
The answer? Sadly, nothing! That is until the voter distribution curve looks like the intelligence curve. Do your part! Vote and educate your fellow voters.
In the age of search engines like google, what good do top level domain names really do? If you want to know about hell, you don't type in hell.com you go to google and type in hell. If you want to buy diamonds, you don't go to diamond.com, you search for local dealers, prices,and quality buying guides.
Why pay 1 million dollars for hell.com when you could spend a fraction of that researching proper google indexing or hiring someone to do it for you.
Sure there is a share of goth kids who sit around and rue their surroundings who get on the internet and type hell.com and killme.com and ihatemybrother.com but whatever... who cares about emo?
I don't like how America has been headed for the past 6-7 years either. I don't like this government and I don't like our media. I don't like most of the TV watching drone population and I don't like our rampant consumer whorism.
That said, if you pussies want to give up on this country then fuck you very much and get the fuck out.
If your city is full of bible thumping conservatives and you want to go live among your own kind TRY A NEW CITY! You'd be suprised at how different cities in this country are. The majority of people in this country live and die less than 40 miles away from their birthplace. Yea, that's really getting the full American experience.
Move around. Here is a suggestion: Austin, TX: My current home town. Very liberal and wacky. Lots of intelligent folks. Very active and health conscience town. Fair share of hippies and potheads (if that's your kind of thing). Lots of good disc golf. The night life (my favorite part) is fair. I DJ electronica so I'm kind of annoyed by Austin's overall music scene (people like to just sit down and play guitar badly) but that's my problem. I actually prefer going to Dallas for nightlife, but that's just me. The cost of living here is fan-freaking-tastic. Your dollar goes a long way here. Austin is a lot like San Fran only much cheaper, less stuck up, but way hotter in the summer. The Weather here rocks during the fall and winter and some of the spring. It absolutely sucks balls during the summer unless you love heat.
Don't give up on this country just yet. Move around, find a better place to live, and help change this country back into something good.
Thats the entire point of the space elevator. There is a counterweight in geo stationary Earth orbit at the top of the cable. The cable isn't going to be very flexible, despite being called a cable. It will be very taught. As the payload goes UP the cable, lateral forces will be applied to the payload. The Earth's rotation and the counterweight in geo stationary orbit take care of this automatically.
Once the payload is released from the cable, it will need additional thrusters to move it away from the elavator, adjust it's orbital height, orbital plane, and LAN.
In the case of this study, and in the WoW addiction story the other day, it was only a small population of the people who are addicted. If more people are not addicted than are addicted, then the activity is not addicting, the people are just addicts.
If you take 100 people and give them herion every day for a week, 100 people will be addicted. If you take 100 people and make them smoke a pack a day for a week, they will be addicted. Chemically addicted.
This is NOT the case with the internet and WoW. Not everyone is addicted. Only a small portion of the overall population. So there you have it. The internet is not addicting, the people who overuse it are addicts.
I'm getting pretty sick of all the "Addicted to [insert something here]" articles on Slashdot. As far as I'm concerned they are all dupes of some type or another.
NEWSFLASH TO STORY SUBMITTERS AND EDITORS:
There is no such thing as addicted to the internet, or a video game, or anything except for a chemically addictive substance. There are only addicts. These people have an addictive personality and will be addicted to anything to pass the time. There are no addictions, just addicts. Unless it has something to do with a chemically addictive substance, please stop posting these inane flame bait articles.
I have an idea for a Slashdot post: Slashdot Submitters & Editors Addicted to Posting Pseudo Addiction Stories
Err, damn my daughter has a soccer game this weekend. Next week then?
Yea, next week. Wait, what's next week? Shoot, gotta run, the football game is on in 5 minutes!
The non-sarcastic answer is: They have bigger, better, and more guns than we do. They also have weapons of mass communication that keeps most of the population complacent. There's no overthrowing a government like this without massive citizen support. We can't even get 15% of our population to vote let alone fight. And fighting wouldn't even be the answer. Those in power, not just the government but also the major corperations and media (which cooperate with the government), worksvery hard to keep ensure ignorance and naivety of the average citizen. A citizen upheavel in this country would result in nothing but lost lives and increased "security" from the government to protect the remaining sheep from such "terrorists" and "dissidents". The exact second a "militia" tries to fight a government entity, the government will declare martial law and illegally use the United States military to put them down.
This is not free advertising for them. Quite the opposite. Their target demographic are people looking for used machinery. The people going to the site on accident are looking for a video of some guy getting hit in the family jewels with used machinery.
It'd be like a 5000 people going into a Taco Bell at lunch time to get a hamburger. Taco Bell wouldn't exactly profit off that, and the people they would profit off of, the people who wanted a "taco" (made from used machinery) would not be buying "tacos" at their normal rate.
Possibly. But I doubt any of the big OEMs are footing 100% of the bill. If Sony ever expects to do business with them again, you know they are shouldering quite a bit of the cost, if not all of the actual part costs.
Everyone ripped on Dell when they first announced the recall. Sony's PR said this was a Dell issue, and not a Sony one. There were even some pretty hilarious jokes about Dell Laptops and [insert exploding situation here].
So why were they so bad for recalling the batteries months before everyone else again?
Or I guess a better, and more on-topic, question would be: Why is it taking everyone else so long to innitiate a recall?
What is your point exactly? And people our age have no concept of:
The significance of World War 2.
Life before automobiles.
Life before running water.
Life before TV.
Life before Radio.
A time before Apollo, in your case.
A time before motion pictures, in general.
People our age (you are a decent amount older than me) should not assume that all people younger than us take those things for granted. Yes, they have not had life without those things. And while most people take them for granted, that was the entire point of inventing them. A lot more kids and young people realize how many shoulders they stand on.
Repeat after me: Older is not a synonym for wiser or better (though they often are grouped together).
I can't access that article at work for some reason, but I'm sure it's some subjective anecdotal study where people couldn't tell the difference. Yawn.
The problem with blind tests is that they are done with music people aren't familar with. Take a group of audiophiles and their favorite track and then perform the test, and they'll get it every time.
So does vinyl sound better? Well, better, worse, whatever, are opinions. But here is a fact: A well mastered vinyl pressing will ALWAYS have MORE of the original audio signal than any CD will. A CD samples the original analog signal, where as a record will contain nearly all of it (actually more, with artifacts and what not, but I'd rather have more than less, even if they are "flaws".)
When a track is mastered to a CD, it is sampled. This sampling process uses an algorithm to decide what frequencies are being played simotaenously and then decides which one the human ear has a harder time hearing. The frequency with the least chance of being heard (such as a high hat played over a strong bass line) will be squared out. In cases of extreme compression (low quality mp3), it's all but removed and all you get to hear is that annoying tinny sound you may be familar with when listening to 64k mp3s.
Yes, it's true that the human ear can not hear all frequencies at once well. But these sounds are put together not because we can hear them perfectly, but because they shape and compliment eachother. A mathmatical computer algorithm does not know or care about this and just removes what has a statistical probability to not be noticed. Well it is noticable.
Are you missing out on much by listening to a cd instead of vinyl? No, not really, it's not a huge loss and CDs sound pretty damn good to this audiophile. But vinyl will always have more of the original analog signal. So whether or not they sound better to X person, they still contain more "information than" CDs, Super Audio CDs, or any format on the horizon.
Can everyone tell the difference? No. Does everyone who can tell the difference care? No. Is vinyl convienent? Not compared to CDs or digital audio. Does convience have anything to do with sound quality? No, they are seperate attributes and should be argued seperately.
Vinyl will not out live CDs, it will co-exist with CDs. I'm a part time DJ and love vinyl (I have over 2000 Hardstyle, UK Hardcore, Freeform, HappyHardcore and Some Gabba records.) But when I want to listen to new tracks in the car or at work to get to know them it's not exactly convienent to have turn tables at work, and damn near impossible/impractical to have them in my car. So I rip them to a digital format, and listen either on my digitial audio or burned to a CD.
Vinyl has it's place as the best audio medium. But it's not for everything. You wouldn't drive Ferrari F50 every day to work. You'd take the Maz and save the F50 for the weekends.
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Getting an object to space altitude and getting into orbit are very different things. This project uses the atmosphere's properties (the gases used being lighter than the atmosphere) to lift something to a great height. While it is no easy task, it is hardly putting something into orbit.
To put something into a stable orbit, you must not only achieve height, but tangential velocity. A rocket that is capable of achieving the neccessary velocity (around 7000 m/s depending on how heavy the object is) will probably not be lifted by a baloon any time soon.
In addition to that, 32km is not high enough to put something into orbit. You need to be around 180km to make several stable orbits. And if you want something up there for years, you need to be 250+ to avoid drag from the outer atmosphere.
This is just height. This is not orbit. There is not nearly enough energy here to make orbit.
Still, quite an amazing feat for the costs invovled. My hat is off to them.
They say the bill is only to be used for the war on terror. The describe the war on terror as having no boundries, and They call it "indefinite". They excercise powers that are illegal in secret and when We call them out on it, They make it legal without our consent. We won't know when they abuse the bill. They won't tell us. We call foul, and They say "If You have nothing to hide, then You have nothing to fear. But it isn't that We have something to hide. It is that They have something to hide. We don't know what it is, because while We are allowed to ask Them about it, and They are under legal obligation to tell Us, They do not. They hide under a few sentences that grant Them more power than We agreed to give Them. It doesn't matter than We say that They can not have this power. They have it already. And We can't take it back, because once it is theirs, it is no longer Ours.
And it is with that power, They become Them, and seperate from Us. The opening of the constitution should instead read:
"We the Power of the United States, in order to run a more powerful union, establish Our justice, insure domestic compliance and complacency, provide for our defense, promote our welfare, and secure the our liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do wrought and establish this Constitution for the People Who Run America."
Uhm, one moemnt please, let me check with our voting population.
Ok, the two geysers in the back said no.
The young hipster who listens to NPR said "Leave me alone you facist, I'm trying to protest a highway here".
The under educated rural American could not be reached for reply. Allthough one of her 7 kids did throw a rock at my car.
The middle class family I spoke with said, and I quote, "what are you talking about, this is America you left wing commie pinko terrorist supporting liberal". Well, at least the Father did, between commercials of Fox and Friends. The mother had no idea who her senator was, and the kids were trying to talk to me about government responsibility and all kinds of neat stuff, but who cares what they think, they were only 11 and 13. Not old enough to have purchasing power, or vote, so they don't exist.
Well that's about your voting population. All 15% of em.
One suspects that they scrutinized their contract well, after the book debacle... but I hope they read the fine print.
There is the concern about the entire Penny Arcade license, but focusing on just the game I hope they have full creative control. If they don't it's possible they won't like they game one iota and not want it to hit the shelves. If they don't have full veto powers, then the publisher will tell PA they have invested money, won't invest anymore and it's time to risk a return and then promptly tell them [PA] "You know those holes you put pie in? Shut em'."
I dunno... the pressure is on the developer to make a bad ass game. And if it turns out to be lame... there probably won't be a lot Gabe and Tycho can do about it.
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How about you read and understand the definition before posting it to your defense? Let's examine: "One that uses offensive epithets..." Ok so by this definition one that USES the offensive phrase is the mudslinger. In the case of the video, the only person using offensive phrasing is the subjet of the video. The video is OF him. Now if the video was of someone saying "I heard So and So say this and that", then that would be mudslinging. This is of the guy himself saying it. So, yea, if there is any mudslinging going on here, then it's by Allen himself to himself. This is reporting. At best it's a documentary with commentary.
Thought Businessweek would have smarter journalists than this clown.
Hey, you maybe right. Man, it's too bad there are no examples of of prior circumstance to support my theory. I just wish there was a video on YouTube affecting poll numbers that I could show you to support this crackpot theory of mine.
Given that YouTube is unregulated, I bet we start seeing fake videos hit the networks. Some anonymous user posts a video of Joe Schmo canidate talking about some random topic. A bit of audio editing (think voice boards) later, some grainy artifacts in the right place, and some clever timing and suddenly Joe Schmo just got caught saying something bad. Will it matter if the politician refutes the video? Even if they prove it to be fake, the damage will probably already be done. No real account to tie the slandering back to. No one to sue, and all YouTube can do is take down the video and ban the account. Damage already done, and no real risk.
In the 50's we had the red scare. In the next election there migth be a YouTube scare.
Look, I don't agree with a lot of PayPal's policies either, and I try to avoid the service when other options are available. But PayPal is just that, a freaking service. It's a convienent way to transfer funds over the internet. If you don't like em, you're welcome to deal with the hassles of other services or snailmail money orders.
I do understand what would drive them to do this. Individuals are powerless against PayPal, so its no suprise they will lash out any way they can
It's a service! If you want to lash out at someone, lash out at the person on the other end of the service. You choose to use it.
I'm really sick of people thinking conviences and services are "rights".
This type of program, "certified truth", is dangerous. It seems harmless and all about free speech now, but look further down the road. It sets up a probable scenario where any information coming out of the pentagon is regarded as fact. Therefore any information that disagrees with a Pentagon statement is false and therefore being used as a weapon in the war on terror. More over, in the immediate future, no major news outlet will dare disagree with the "facts" coming out of the Pentagon. Why would they? Why should they? A better question is, why won't they?
People, we are in a major information war here. Act accordingly.
Seriously, if we want someone to blame, let's blame the masses. It's people who don't have a grasp of technology, or much else for that matter. And why is that? Because our voting population is so low. Our country is filled with smart people, average people, and dumb people. Wow, just like a normal distribution! Yet for some strange reason, the majority people who vote fall on the right side of the curve, and the people on the left side of the curve votes are pointless. Like a sprinkler in a rain storm.
If we complain about it, then it becomes our responsibility to educate our fellow voters. It is OUR responsibility to vote the right people in, NOT the politicians. This is not how democracy works. We either vote right or run.
So Slashdot... our collective spawns some great discussions every now and then. Our collective eyes can bring down web servers with the best of them. We know a lot about technology and politics. So ask yourself... what have you done to remedy this problem lately? What can we all do together?
The answer? Sadly, nothing! That is until the voter distribution curve looks like the intelligence curve. Do your part! Vote and educate your fellow voters.
Why pay 1 million dollars for hell.com when you could spend a fraction of that researching proper google indexing or hiring someone to do it for you.
Sure there is a share of goth kids who sit around and rue their surroundings who get on the internet and type hell.com and killme.com and ihatemybrother.com but whatever... who cares about emo?
I don't like how America has been headed for the past 6-7 years either. I don't like this government and I don't like our media. I don't like most of the TV watching drone population and I don't like our rampant consumer whorism.
That said, if you pussies want to give up on this country then fuck you very much and get the fuck out.
If your city is full of bible thumping conservatives and you want to go live among your own kind TRY A NEW CITY! You'd be suprised at how different cities in this country are. The majority of people in this country live and die less than 40 miles away from their birthplace. Yea, that's really getting the full American experience.
Move around. Here is a suggestion: Austin, TX: My current home town. Very liberal and wacky. Lots of intelligent folks. Very active and health conscience town. Fair share of hippies and potheads (if that's your kind of thing). Lots of good disc golf. The night life (my favorite part) is fair. I DJ electronica so I'm kind of annoyed by Austin's overall music scene (people like to just sit down and play guitar badly) but that's my problem. I actually prefer going to Dallas for nightlife, but that's just me. The cost of living here is fan-freaking-tastic. Your dollar goes a long way here. Austin is a lot like San Fran only much cheaper, less stuck up, but way hotter in the summer. The Weather here rocks during the fall and winter and some of the spring. It absolutely sucks balls during the summer unless you love heat.
Don't give up on this country just yet. Move around, find a better place to live, and help change this country back into something good.
Once the payload is released from the cable, it will need additional thrusters to move it away from the elavator, adjust it's orbital height, orbital plane, and LAN.
In the case of this study, and in the WoW addiction story the other day, it was only a small population of the people who are addicted. If more people are not addicted than are addicted, then the activity is not addicting, the people are just addicts.
If you take 100 people and give them herion every day for a week, 100 people will be addicted. If you take 100 people and make them smoke a pack a day for a week, they will be addicted. Chemically addicted.
This is NOT the case with the internet and WoW. Not everyone is addicted. Only a small portion of the overall population. So there you have it. The internet is not addicting, the people who overuse it are addicts.
NEWSFLASH TO STORY SUBMITTERS AND EDITORS:
There is no such thing as addicted to the internet, or a video game, or anything except for a chemically addictive substance. There are only addicts. These people have an addictive personality and will be addicted to anything to pass the time. There are no addictions, just addicts. Unless it has something to do with a chemically addictive substance, please stop posting these inane flame bait articles.
I have an idea for a Slashdot post: Slashdot Submitters & Editors Addicted to Posting Pseudo Addiction Stories
Tomorrow!
No wait, right after the new episode of Lost.
Err, damn my daughter has a soccer game this weekend. Next week then?
Yea, next week. Wait, what's next week? Shoot, gotta run, the football game is on in 5 minutes!
The non-sarcastic answer is: They have bigger, better, and more guns than we do. They also have weapons of mass communication that keeps most of the population complacent. There's no overthrowing a government like this without massive citizen support. We can't even get 15% of our population to vote let alone fight. And fighting wouldn't even be the answer. Those in power, not just the government but also the major corperations and media (which cooperate with the government), worksvery hard to keep ensure ignorance and naivety of the average citizen. A citizen upheavel in this country would result in nothing but lost lives and increased "security" from the government to protect the remaining sheep from such "terrorists" and "dissidents". The exact second a "militia" tries to fight a government entity, the government will declare martial law and illegally use the United States military to put them down.
It'd be like a 5000 people going into a Taco Bell at lunch time to get a hamburger. Taco Bell wouldn't exactly profit off that, and the people they would profit off of, the people who wanted a "taco" (made from used machinery) would not be buying "tacos" at their normal rate.
Possibly. But I doubt any of the big OEMs are footing 100% of the bill. If Sony ever expects to do business with them again, you know they are shouldering quite a bit of the cost, if not all of the actual part costs.
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So why were they so bad for recalling the batteries months before everyone else again?
Or I guess a better, and more on-topic, question would be: Why is it taking everyone else so long to innitiate a recall?
The significance of World War 2.
Life before automobiles.
Life before running water.
Life before TV.
Life before Radio.
A time before Apollo, in your case.
A time before motion pictures, in general.
People our age (you are a decent amount older than me) should not assume that all people younger than us take those things for granted. Yes, they have not had life without those things. And while most people take them for granted, that was the entire point of inventing them. A lot more kids and young people realize how many shoulders they stand on.
Repeat after me: Older is not a synonym for wiser or better (though they often are grouped together).
The problem with blind tests is that they are done with music people aren't familar with. Take a group of audiophiles and their favorite track and then perform the test, and they'll get it every time.
So does vinyl sound better? Well, better, worse, whatever, are opinions. But here is a fact: A well mastered vinyl pressing will ALWAYS have MORE of the original audio signal than any CD will. A CD samples the original analog signal, where as a record will contain nearly all of it (actually more, with artifacts and what not, but I'd rather have more than less, even if they are "flaws".)
When a track is mastered to a CD, it is sampled. This sampling process uses an algorithm to decide what frequencies are being played simotaenously and then decides which one the human ear has a harder time hearing. The frequency with the least chance of being heard (such as a high hat played over a strong bass line) will be squared out. In cases of extreme compression (low quality mp3), it's all but removed and all you get to hear is that annoying tinny sound you may be familar with when listening to 64k mp3s.
Yes, it's true that the human ear can not hear all frequencies at once well. But these sounds are put together not because we can hear them perfectly, but because they shape and compliment eachother. A mathmatical computer algorithm does not know or care about this and just removes what has a statistical probability to not be noticed. Well it is noticable.
Are you missing out on much by listening to a cd instead of vinyl? No, not really, it's not a huge loss and CDs sound pretty damn good to this audiophile. But vinyl will always have more of the original analog signal. So whether or not they sound better to X person, they still contain more "information than" CDs, Super Audio CDs, or any format on the horizon.
Can everyone tell the difference? No. Does everyone who can tell the difference care? No. Is vinyl convienent? Not compared to CDs or digital audio. Does convience have anything to do with sound quality? No, they are seperate attributes and should be argued seperately.
Vinyl has it's place as the best audio medium. But it's not for everything. You wouldn't drive Ferrari F50 every day to work. You'd take the Maz and save the F50 for the weekends.
To put something into a stable orbit, you must not only achieve height, but tangential velocity. A rocket that is capable of achieving the neccessary velocity (around 7000 m/s depending on how heavy the object is) will probably not be lifted by a baloon any time soon.
In addition to that, 32km is not high enough to put something into orbit. You need to be around 180km to make several stable orbits. And if you want something up there for years, you need to be 250+ to avoid drag from the outer atmosphere.
This is just height. This is not orbit. There is not nearly enough energy here to make orbit.
Still, quite an amazing feat for the costs invovled. My hat is off to them.
They say the bill is only to be used for the war on terror. The describe the war on terror as having no boundries, and They call it "indefinite". They excercise powers that are illegal in secret and when We call them out on it, They make it legal without our consent. We won't know when they abuse the bill. They won't tell us. We call foul, and They say "If You have nothing to hide, then You have nothing to fear. But it isn't that We have something to hide. It is that They have something to hide. We don't know what it is, because while We are allowed to ask Them about it, and They are under legal obligation to tell Us, They do not. They hide under a few sentences that grant Them more power than We agreed to give Them. It doesn't matter than We say that They can not have this power. They have it already. And We can't take it back, because once it is theirs, it is no longer Ours.
And it is with that power, They become Them, and seperate from Us. The opening of the constitution should instead read:
Ok, the two geysers in the back said no.
The young hipster who listens to NPR said "Leave me alone you facist, I'm trying to protest a highway here".
The under educated rural American could not be reached for reply. Allthough one of her 7 kids did throw a rock at my car.
The middle class family I spoke with said, and I quote, "what are you talking about, this is America you left wing commie pinko terrorist supporting liberal". Well, at least the Father did, between commercials of Fox and Friends. The mother had no idea who her senator was, and the kids were trying to talk to me about government responsibility and all kinds of neat stuff, but who cares what they think, they were only 11 and 13. Not old enough to have purchasing power, or vote, so they don't exist.
Well that's about your voting population. All 15% of em.
Yea, so your answer is... no.
There is the concern about the entire Penny Arcade license, but focusing on just the game I hope they have full creative control. If they don't it's possible they won't like they game one iota and not want it to hit the shelves. If they don't have full veto powers, then the publisher will tell PA they have invested money, won't invest anymore and it's time to risk a return and then promptly tell them [PA] "You know those holes you put pie in? Shut em'."
I dunno... the pressure is on the developer to make a bad ass game. And if it turns out to be lame... there probably won't be a lot Gabe and Tycho can do about it.
Seriously though. What programs are out there that wipe drives that these "disk" experts couldn't use as evidence against you? Or indirect evidence?
Yea, that's why Sony is reimbursing both Dell and Apple for each recalled unit. Nice logic there, but no cigar.