I went thru the whole site and all I could find was 1 badly doctored photo of the car flying thru a city and 1 actual photo of the wheels coming off the ground, just barely, on a beach somewhere.
It's a cool idea, but if they actually got it to work, how come there are no actual pictures.
That is exactly the question I want answered. Black holes form galaxies which are made of stars which sometimes collapse to form black holes. After the big bang, the universe is supposed to be super hot, homogeneous plasma, which doesn't really provide the raw source material for black holes.
Either black holes formed first from something besides collapsed stars or they didn't. Since we have a theory of black hole formation from collapsed star and don't have an alternative source, Occam's razor would suggest that they didn't.
The key step is to learn to 'live' in space. If we can do that, we can take our time getting anywhere we want. There's water in between us and the next star and lots of it. Plus enough other stuff to make every human richer then Genghis Khan. We just mine it on the way to somewhere or nowhere. If we can live in space we can pretty much do anything we want.
If we ever do find any other intelligent life, they'll surely be impressed when we land in solid gold and platinum ships, with diamond portholes and some major bling-bling.
(Off topic, but I'll bite)...or maybe there are a lot of voters that realize that the man has not done anything of substance except run for successively higher offices. Now that he is President, everyone is waiting breathlessly to see if the man can actually do anything besides 'speak well'. Personally, I hope he does something amazing that transforms American society for the better. I'm just not holding my breath until he does.
I don't run Vista, but I would be astonished if you couldn't configure it to run just like XP. Turn off the eye candy, turn off the UAC if it bothers you, turn off the indexing service and you will probably be very close to XP.
It's probably easier for most people to stick with XP, but paying extra for XP seems silly. My wife's little brothers got an early Vista machine and they just turned off all the cruft.
I don't know the exact numbers and I can't say that it is true for every base in the world.
I know for a fact that the Japanese pay for maintenance on many of the bases located in Japan. They also build surrounding infrastructure and provide free leases. Part of the agreement with Japan was that the Yakuska naval base had to be kept open as long as the Midway was based there. That was one of the reasons that the Midway was kept in service for so long.
It's usually part of the the SoFA (Status of Forces Agreement) that we have with a country. IIRC, we left the Philipines because they wouldn't agree to a new SoFA that shared the costs. Pinatubo exploding didn't help, but I think we were long gone by then.
We should also test the Mac OS equivalent of the same time frame, as well as the Linux equivalent. It wouldn't really be a fair test as the Mac OS probably wouldn't boot on the same hardware and the Linux box would be awesomely fast running on neural circuits in the mind of Linus Torvalds.
It looks like Cisco was, at some point, distributing the binaries for GCC and other things necessary to build their firmware. From the standpoint of their users, this was a nice thing to do. However, they didn't provide the source for GCC or the other things, which immediately and automatically removes their rights to distribute GCC and the other things.
According to the complaint, "On May 12, 2006, Plaintiff notified Defendant of Defendant's unlawful conduct based upon its failure to comply with the Licenses for GCC and Binutils, with it distributed in object code form on its website." (That's the first contact that the FSF acknowledges, which is 2 1/2 years, not the 5 that everyone keeps repeating.)
It should be noted that their products did not require GCC or the other things to be distributed with them, it was only provided so that their customers could build the firmware. WTF, isn't that the whole purpose of the f'ing GPL? To empower the end user.
From there, it appears that other products also had firmware that needed GCC and other stuff, which sounds basically like saying there were multiple links on their website for each. The rest of the complaint is small things like missing build scripts and outdated source.
It should be an interesting trial. I just hope that Cisco chooses trial by jury, that will make it even more interesting.
Dijkstra's Cruelty is the nickname UT cs students gave to the course his wife taught. It was a required course when I was there and it was 2 semesters long. I think it was called "Software Development" but should have been called "Fantasyland Development". Total waste of time and energy. I never saw him on campus, except maybe at graduation.
The best classes were given by people who either were working in the real world or had some experience in the real world and were trying to get their masters or doctorate. The 'professors' going for or having tenure were the worst.
Unless this has changed recently, the US saves money by having troops and bases in Japan, Germany and Korea as those governments defray some of the costs.
However, we shouldn't let facts get in the way of doing something symbolic.
"Eventually, kicking and screaming, I expect we will get Open Source Law, and so-called lawyers will no longer be able to charge excessively for basic legal advice in simple cases. But specialist lawyers and the Supreme Court will still be needed, because there will still be hard cases."
This will never happen. The people that control government and the writing of laws are for the most part all lawyers. They have a conflict of interest and you only need to look at the crazy laws and decisions coming out to confirm this.
Same argument applies to the IRS, only swap out lawyers for accountants.
1.RNA then DNA, same place 2.DNA then RNA, same place 3.1 but different place 4.2 but different place 5.Same time, different place 6.Same time, same place
RNA has been found in nature and both have been artificially created. It appears that 3 is the most likely candidate. Lots of RNA pooled or gelled or what ever form it would collect into, sitting around waiting for some DNA, any DNA. A cosmic version of you got my peanut butter in your chocolate.
God: "Bender, being God isn't easy. If you do too much, people get dependent on you. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket."
Bender: "Or a guy who burns down a bar for the insurance money!"
God: "Yes, if you make it look like an electrical thing. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
"The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States."
From the rules of the US Senate...
"every question of order shall be decided by the President [of the Senate], without debate; but if there be a doubt in his mind, he may call for a sense of the Senate."
I follow the courts a little, but I couldn't come up with a decision that I disagreed with on the spot. I finally remembered the decision that allows any taxing authority to seize personal property, but it took a lot of thought to come up with that one.
HER JOB is Governor of Alaska, not watchdog of the Supreme Court. Just admit that you disagree with her on a political level and stop trying to label her stoopid. The stoopid label has been applied to every Republican since Reagan and it's just childish.
It's also true that markets tank between the time Democrats get elected and they take office. People see the writing on the wall (and the words coming out of the Dems mouth) and naturally want to minimize their tax footprint. Bill Clinton at 15% includes pets.com at $50 a share.
Obama's plan to give 95% of 'working' families a 'tax cut 'is Orwellian. For most people, taxes are monies you pay to the government, but for Obama, taxes also includes monies the government pays out. He would be lying if he said he was going to give 95% of 'tax-paying' families a 'tax cut'. Working is only necessary to cloud the issue.
He does the same thing with 'clean' coal and 'safe' nuclear. I kept hoping someone would ask him if he can support existing coal and nuclear technologies.
Obama is an honest man. It's just that people are idiots. When he says he's going to lower taxes for 95% of working families, he means it. The key word in that sentence is working. Every family works, they may not pay any taxes, but they certainly do something all day long, right. Crack don't smoke itself.
The other key word is taxes, which for most people means money that you give the government because you make money. For Obama, taxes also includes money the government gives you because you don't make money. So he's telling the truth as far as he's concerned.
Unfortunately, I'm in that 5% that is going to have to support everyone else. So, welcome to America. Thanks for coming. Don't mind me, I just work here.
The insight is that Joe gaffes everyday and no one mentions it. Attaching more labels to Sarah Palin after the mud she has been dragged thru by the Daily KOS and Huffington Post and now YOU, is hardly insightful.
She was asked to name a Supreme Court decision she DISAGREED with and I've heard that reported, on this site and others, as "She's so stoopid she couldn't name a single supreme court decision." And so it goes...
I'd like to say that I'm looking forward to the sitcoms based on an Obama presidency like 'Little Barack' and 'That's my Obama'. I'm also looking forward to the sequel to 'Death of a President' and Oliver Stone should find lots of great material for his next movie 'O', I wonder who will play Ayers and Wright. Somehow I doubt we will see crap like that during an Obama administration.
I wonder how his supporters will react when the new Commander in Chief is compared to a Monkey and routinely called stupid by the press, as if that would ever happen.
Bush never had a shot and the liberals in this country never missed a cheap shot. The only good that will come of an Obama presidency is that the Democrats will not have any excuses when their policies completely fail.
If you are undecided, consider this quote from the same article... "Democrats in Congress have pledged to push legislation to preserve a patient's right to sue under state law."
The North Koreans invaded the South Koreans. The South Koreans asked for help from the world community. The U.N. sent in peace keepers, which amongst other nations included the US. At some point, a cease fire was issued, which included the U.S. as a signatory nation. Either side can abrogate the cease fire and resume hostilities. That's why it's called a cease fire and not a peace treaty.
The allies and friends you speak of are selfish bastards in their own rights and history proves this again and again. I could not care less about them because they could not care less about us. I've lived in Europe and Asia so go sell your hokum about the world not loving us anymore to someone else, cause I know the quickest way to be treated rudely and with disdain is to tell a non-American that your are American.
I used to take my wife's little brothers to a free clinic for vaccinations and stuff when they weren't covered by my health insurance. It was always full of junkies waiting for methadone. It's not much fun to spend hours waiting for a simple shot in a waiting room with a bunch of addicts jonesing for their fix. I took my daughter to an emergency room in Orlando and waited for 8 hours. There was an entire family (6 or 7 people) sitting in the same waiting room for 1 sick child. Sick people were standing in the halls while this family passed around a bucket of, I kid you not, Kentucky Fried Chicken. They also had the remote for the tv. We left without even seeing a doctor. The next morning I took my daughter to a doc-in-a-box and was seen in about 10 minutes. You're a fool if you think Government run health care will not be abused at every level.
The biggest problem in the US which nobody has even mentioned is the cost of malpractice insurance and the abuse of the legal system for the benefit of a few. Ask John Edwards, he made all his money on malpractice suits, channeling the dead to amaze the juries. The US Government is run by Lawyers, so this is unlikely to be brought up for discussion by the powers that be.
People don't riot when they have been busting rocks every day. They are just happy to get their fish head, bowl of rice and a chance to be sitting down.
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I went thru the whole site and all I could find was 1 badly doctored photo of the car flying thru a city and 1 actual photo of the wheels coming off the ground, just barely, on a beach somewhere.
It's a cool idea, but if they actually got it to work, how come there are no actual pictures.
That is exactly the question I want answered. Black holes form galaxies which are made of stars which sometimes collapse to form black holes. After the big bang, the universe is supposed to be super hot, homogeneous plasma, which doesn't really provide the raw source material for black holes.
Either black holes formed first from something besides collapsed stars or they didn't. Since we have a theory of black hole formation from collapsed star and don't have an alternative source, Occam's razor would suggest that they didn't.
The key step is to learn to 'live' in space. If we can do that, we can take our time getting anywhere we want. There's water in between us and the next star and lots of it. Plus enough other stuff to make every human richer then Genghis Khan. We just mine it on the way to somewhere or nowhere. If we can live in space we can pretty much do anything we want.
If we ever do find any other intelligent life, they'll surely be impressed when we land in solid gold and platinum ships, with diamond portholes and some major bling-bling.
(Off topic, but I'll bite) ...or maybe there are a lot of voters that realize that the man has not done anything of substance except run for successively higher offices. Now that he is President, everyone is waiting breathlessly to see if the man can actually do anything besides 'speak well'. Personally, I hope he does something amazing that transforms American society for the better. I'm just not holding my breath until he does.
I don't run Vista, but I would be astonished if you couldn't configure it to run just like XP. Turn off the eye candy, turn off the UAC if it bothers you, turn off the indexing service and you will probably be very close to XP.
It's probably easier for most people to stick with XP, but paying extra for XP seems silly. My wife's little brothers got an early Vista machine and they just turned off all the cruft.
I don't know the exact numbers and I can't say that it is true for every base in the world.
I know for a fact that the Japanese pay for maintenance on many of the bases located in Japan. They also build surrounding infrastructure and provide free leases. Part of the agreement with Japan was that the Yakuska naval base had to be kept open as long as the Midway was based there. That was one of the reasons that the Midway was kept in service for so long.
It's usually part of the the SoFA (Status of Forces Agreement) that we have with a country. IIRC, we left the Philipines because they wouldn't agree to a new SoFA that shared the costs. Pinatubo exploding didn't help, but I think we were long gone by then.
I always prefered Win 3.11 but I digress.
We should also test the Mac OS equivalent of the same time frame, as well as the Linux equivalent. It wouldn't really be a fair test as the Mac OS probably wouldn't boot on the same hardware and the Linux box would be awesomely fast running on neural circuits in the mind of Linus Torvalds.
It looks like Cisco was, at some point, distributing the binaries for GCC and other things necessary to build their firmware. From the standpoint of their users, this was a nice thing to do. However, they didn't provide the source for GCC or the other things, which immediately and automatically removes their rights to distribute GCC and the other things.
According to the complaint, "On May 12, 2006, Plaintiff notified Defendant of Defendant's unlawful conduct based upon its failure to comply with the Licenses for GCC and Binutils, with it distributed in object code form on its website." (That's the first contact that the FSF acknowledges, which is 2 1/2 years, not the 5 that everyone keeps repeating.)
It should be noted that their products did not require GCC or the other things to be distributed with them, it was only provided so that their customers could build the firmware. WTF, isn't that the whole purpose of the f'ing GPL? To empower the end user.
From there, it appears that other products also had firmware that needed GCC and other stuff, which sounds basically like saying there were multiple links on their website for each. The rest of the complaint is small things like missing build scripts and outdated source.
It should be an interesting trial. I just hope that Cisco chooses trial by jury, that will make it even more interesting.
Dijkstra's Cruelty is the nickname UT cs students gave to the course his wife taught. It was a required course when I was there and it was 2 semesters long. I think it was called "Software Development" but should have been called "Fantasyland Development". Total waste of time and energy. I never saw him on campus, except maybe at graduation.
The best classes were given by people who either were working in the real world or had some experience in the real world and were trying to get their masters or doctorate. The 'professors' going for or having tenure were the worst.
Unless this has changed recently, the US saves money by having troops and bases in Japan, Germany and Korea as those governments defray some of the costs.
However, we shouldn't let facts get in the way of doing something symbolic.
"Eventually, kicking and screaming, I expect we will get Open Source Law, and so-called lawyers will no longer be able to charge excessively for basic legal advice in simple cases. But specialist lawyers and the Supreme Court will still be needed, because there will still be hard cases."
This will never happen. The people that control government and the writing of laws are for the most part all lawyers. They have a conflict of interest and you only need to look at the crazy laws and decisions coming out to confirm this.
Same argument applies to the IRS, only swap out lawyers for accountants.
There's only a few possibilities:
1.RNA then DNA, same place
2.DNA then RNA, same place
3.1 but different place
4.2 but different place
5.Same time, different place
6.Same time, same place
RNA has been found in nature and both have been artificially created. It appears that 3 is the most likely candidate. Lots of RNA pooled or gelled or what ever form it would collect into, sitting around waiting for some DNA, any DNA. A cosmic version of you got my peanut butter in your chocolate.
God: "Bender, being God isn't easy. If you do too much, people get dependent on you. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket."
Bender: "Or a guy who burns down a bar for the insurance money!"
God: "Yes, if you make it look like an electrical thing. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
The constitution takes precedent over senate rules. Senate rules, as you yourself admit, are changeable.
From the US constitution...
"The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States."
From the rules of the US Senate...
"every question of order shall be decided by the President [of the Senate], without debate; but if there be a doubt in his mind, he may call for a sense of the Senate."
Words have meanings...
I follow the courts a little, but I couldn't come up with a decision that I disagreed with on the spot. I finally remembered the decision that allows any taxing authority to seize personal property, but it took a lot of thought to come up with that one.
HER JOB is Governor of Alaska, not watchdog of the Supreme Court. Just admit that you disagree with her on a political level and stop trying to label her stoopid. The stoopid label has been applied to every Republican since Reagan and it's just childish.
It's also true that markets tank between the time Democrats get elected and they take office. People see the writing on the wall (and the words coming out of the Dems mouth) and naturally want to minimize their tax footprint. Bill Clinton at 15% includes pets.com at $50 a share.
Obama's plan to give 95% of 'working' families a 'tax cut 'is Orwellian. For most people, taxes are monies you pay to the government, but for Obama, taxes also includes monies the government pays out. He would be lying if he said he was going to give 95% of 'tax-paying' families a 'tax cut'. Working is only necessary to cloud the issue.
He does the same thing with 'clean' coal and 'safe' nuclear. I kept hoping someone would ask him if he can support existing coal and nuclear technologies.
Obama is an honest man. It's just that people are idiots. When he says he's going to lower taxes for 95% of working families, he means it. The key word in that sentence is working. Every family works, they may not pay any taxes, but they certainly do something all day long, right. Crack don't smoke itself.
The other key word is taxes, which for most people means money that you give the government because you make money. For Obama, taxes also includes money the government gives you because you don't make money. So he's telling the truth as far as he's concerned.
Unfortunately, I'm in that 5% that is going to have to support everyone else. So, welcome to America. Thanks for coming. Don't mind me, I just work here.
The insight is that Joe gaffes everyday and no one mentions it. Attaching more labels to Sarah Palin after the mud she has been dragged thru by the Daily KOS and Huffington Post and now YOU, is hardly insightful.
She was asked to name a Supreme Court decision she DISAGREED with and I've heard that reported, on this site and others, as "She's so stoopid she couldn't name a single supreme court decision." And so it goes...
I would take Sarah Palin over "Crazy" Joe Biden any day of the week.
I'd like to say that I'm looking forward to the sitcoms based on an Obama presidency like 'Little Barack' and 'That's my Obama'. I'm also looking forward to the sequel to 'Death of a President' and Oliver Stone should find lots of great material for his next movie 'O', I wonder who will play Ayers and Wright. Somehow I doubt we will see crap like that during an Obama administration.
I wonder how his supporters will react when the new Commander in Chief is compared to a Monkey and routinely called stupid by the press, as if that would ever happen.
Bush never had a shot and the liberals in this country never missed a cheap shot. The only good that will come of an Obama presidency is that the Democrats will not have any excuses when their policies completely fail.
Read this article from today for the main reason health care costs so much in the United States...
http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USN3033460820081031
If you are undecided, consider this quote from the same article...
"Democrats in Congress have pledged to push legislation to preserve a patient's right to sue under state law."
A little history for you....
The North Koreans invaded the South Koreans. The South Koreans asked for help from the world community. The U.N. sent in peace keepers, which amongst other nations included the US. At some point, a cease fire was issued, which included the U.S. as a signatory nation. Either side can abrogate the cease fire and resume hostilities. That's why it's called a cease fire and not a peace treaty.
The allies and friends you speak of are selfish bastards in their own rights and history proves this again and again. I could not care less about them because they could not care less about us. I've lived in Europe and Asia so go sell your hokum about the world not loving us anymore to someone else, cause I know the quickest way to be treated rudely and with disdain is to tell a non-American that your are American.
I used to take my wife's little brothers to a free clinic for vaccinations and stuff when they weren't covered by my health insurance. It was always full of junkies waiting for methadone. It's not much fun to spend hours waiting for a simple shot in a waiting room with a bunch of addicts jonesing for their fix. I took my daughter to an emergency room in Orlando and waited for 8 hours. There was an entire family (6 or 7 people) sitting in the same waiting room for 1 sick child. Sick people were standing in the halls while this family passed around a bucket of, I kid you not, Kentucky Fried Chicken. They also had the remote for the tv. We left without even seeing a doctor. The next morning I took my daughter to a doc-in-a-box and was seen in about 10 minutes. You're a fool if you think Government run health care will not be abused at every level.
The biggest problem in the US which nobody has even mentioned is the cost of malpractice insurance and the abuse of the legal system for the benefit of a few. Ask John Edwards, he made all his money on malpractice suits, channeling the dead to amaze the juries. The US Government is run by Lawyers, so this is unlikely to be brought up for discussion by the powers that be.
People don't riot when they have been busting rocks every day. They are just happy to get their fish head, bowl of rice and a chance to be sitting down.