I've read something about this, the elevator would likely have a constant air squadron flying about it, not sure about the space junk, though. Live Action Asteroids, eh?
--Dante
It doesn't have to be safe, but it helps for it to be profitable. The USA is a Capitalistic Country, Capitalism means Profit. If it's bad for business, it probably won't happen. Now, in order to make Space Travel profitable, we need it to be safe.
As for the explorers, look at those who first traveled to North America. Was the safety of their ships in question? Did they often have unexplained ships that broke apart, as they returned to port? We need to take the risk before we start making it profitable. If you want to pursue space travel in the United States, you'll have to make it profitable.
A Manned Flight to one of Saturn's Moons right now, Isn't overtly feasible. All of the technologies for advanced space travel are thoroughly untested, let's figure out how to use the one we've got first, eh? Now, look at the Apollo Missions. We got to the Moon. Sure, not a big achievement, but go stand by a Saturn V rocket. It'll make you feel small. With the current technology, to get to Saturn's Moons, we'd need a substantially larger Rocket. Personally, I would like to see more efforts out of other countries. China, France, Russia, they all have space programs, I'd love to see them go to the moon, or support some private business.
--Dante
His sig looks to be incomplete.. "if and on" -ly if.. Hm.
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Insight Communications, Columbus Ohio.
I'm on a cable modem and this is my company, they have a service called In-Demand. You can order movies and you can play them, rewind them, play them again, whatever you want, the thing is you get to order it (Around $5.00) and it's yours whenever for a couple days. Obviously it can be done.
Btw, I only get 200 or so Channels.:-(
Re:Time for a new Continental Congress
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I agree absolutely. The Declaration of Independence states that the people have the right to overthrow an oppressive government:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
It seems the time will soon come that the people of the United States of America will be tired of the government crossing boundaries that were never meant to be crossed by a government.
Re:Are some people complaining a bit too much?
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Resonable is subjective of course, however, I hardly believe that a search can be reasonable with such a high rate of failure - basically 10% is much to high. After failing a test like this you would be forced to give in to more searches - of all your luggage, of all your carry-ons, of your clothing and person. That threshold, 10%, is marvelously high - so high that it is easy to construe it as "wholesale" - which has been clearly defined as breaking the 4th amendment. On a flight of 320 people thats of course around 32 people.
Imagine the manpower required to check that many people? If 10% of all the people passing through an airport were stopped, the airport would require a much larger security department than most have. More people will be required to administer the thermal tests, more delays to flights; more people will be required to check the bags and search all of the luggage. There would also probably be more money lost in the way of airline refunds, what happens when the airline company tears up your ticket for a false suspicion and refuse to refund it, do you sue the airline? Is this a right all airlines reserve?
The number of personnel and delays this sort of security implies makes me feel as though this would be a highly unreasonable form of detection.
Maybe Religious Fanatics believe so firmly that what they say is the truth, they don't register as lies?
Would a Lunatic pass a Polygraph if he really believed what he said?
Re:Once more, for all the slow JBT's.
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Best Lie-detector test I've ever seen is when they put a piece of paper that said "Liar" on it into a photocopy machine and made a copy everytime their person said something they thought wrong; he confessed soon after.
You can overcome a Polygraph, but what about a Copy Machine?
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Tried my Cell and my Home. And 555-5555. For the latter, I get 5555617.5.
Try again? ^_^
While we're at it.. Plumb could be a color, too! Mmm. Lead.
Hunh. Day after my birthday. Imagine that.. (No, I'm not 6,000+ years old.)
Saturn, Posiedon
Pluto, Hades
Uranus, I think, is actually Greek.. Yep. The Greek God of the Sky.
The bullets aren't what hurt. I'd say it's the flogging and the pistolwhipping.. the cows are none too nice, either.
WarCraft 2 had 4.. Starcraft had 6.. haven't played Warcraft 3. Don't forget, Expansions!
Then use a different example. Cancer.
That's... kind of the point. Most people misquote it and say "I could care less". They *fail* to negate the could. Jokes on you, eh?
I've read something about this, the elevator would likely have a constant air squadron flying about it, not sure about the space junk, though. Live Action Asteroids, eh?
--Dante
It doesn't have to be safe, but it helps for it to be profitable. The USA is a Capitalistic Country, Capitalism means Profit. If it's bad for business, it probably won't happen. Now, in order to make Space Travel profitable, we need it to be safe.
As for the explorers, look at those who first traveled to North America. Was the safety of their ships in question? Did they often have unexplained ships that broke apart, as they returned to port? We need to take the risk before we start making it profitable. If you want to pursue space travel in the United States, you'll have to make it profitable.
A Manned Flight to one of Saturn's Moons right now, Isn't overtly feasible. All of the technologies for advanced space travel are thoroughly untested, let's figure out how to use the one we've got first, eh? Now, look at the Apollo Missions. We got to the Moon. Sure, not a big achievement, but go stand by a Saturn V rocket. It'll make you feel small. With the current technology, to get to Saturn's Moons, we'd need a substantially larger Rocket. Personally, I would like to see more efforts out of other countries. China, France, Russia, they all have space programs, I'd love to see them go to the moon, or support some private business.
--Dante
His sig looks to be incomplete.. "if and on" -ly if.. Hm.
Insight Communications, Columbus Ohio.
:-(
I'm on a cable modem and this is my company, they have a service called In-Demand. You can order movies and you can play them, rewind them, play them again, whatever you want, the thing is you get to order it (Around $5.00) and it's yours whenever for a couple days. Obviously it can be done.
Btw, I only get 200 or so Channels.
That excerpt is from The Declaration of Independence
It seems the time will soon come that the people of the United States of America will be tired of the government crossing boundaries that were never meant to be crossed by a government.
Resonable is subjective of course, however, I hardly believe that a search can be reasonable with such a high rate of failure - basically 10% is much to high. After failing a test like this you would be forced to give in to more searches - of all your luggage, of all your carry-ons, of your clothing and person. That threshold, 10%, is marvelously high - so high that it is easy to construe it as "wholesale" - which has been clearly defined as breaking the 4th amendment. On a flight of 320 people thats of course around 32 people.
Imagine the manpower required to check that many people? If 10% of all the people passing through an airport were stopped, the airport would require a much larger security department than most have. More people will be required to administer the thermal tests, more delays to flights; more people will be required to check the bags and search all of the luggage. There would also probably be more money lost in the way of airline refunds, what happens when the airline company tears up your ticket for a false suspicion and refuse to refund it, do you sue the airline? Is this a right all airlines reserve?
The number of personnel and delays this sort of security implies makes me feel as though this would be a highly unreasonable form of detection.
Maybe Religious Fanatics believe so firmly that what they say is the truth, they don't register as lies?
Would a Lunatic pass a Polygraph if he really believed what he said?
Best Lie-detector test I've ever seen is when they put a piece of paper that said "Liar" on it into a photocopy machine and made a copy everytime their person said something they thought wrong; he confessed soon after. You can overcome a Polygraph, but what about a Copy Machine?