...have been doing this in the US for forever. I worked at a resturaunt in college 15 years ago and we had CD's playing. They sent someone arownd to every business in town and said to play CD's you had to pay their fee's. We switched to radio, which is legal.
A couple of years later I ran a bar that had live music and we played CD's. We had to pay ASCAP and BMI nearly $3000 a year to cover CD's and the bands playing cover songs.
Is it really so hard to get a truck filled with water bottles or something to troops?
Yes, in fact it is really hard to get food & water ( & fuel & ammo) to troops. An army is only as fast as it's supply lines. As was evident and highly reported in the push to Bagdad last year, the troops moved much faster than the supply lines and ran short on food and water. Logistics is a Huge part of any military.
I know it doesn't really make a difference, but the more I think about it I would just rather piss in a filter and make water. Then have drinking water and water to add to food. That just has a kind of cool factor. It just seems different then sticking the wanker in an MRE and letting loose.
This is news for nerds, I'd rather read an article on just how maglev works(BTW, I do know a bit about it) rather than a 4 mile stretch of 30+ year old car on top of cement rail tech that's only purpose is to get people to Casino's a bit quicker.
The only thing mildly cool about this is it is driverless. But even that doesn't excite me much when you have grad students creating Volvo's that park themselves.
Whooaaa. A little over zealous on this old technology aren't we? I got excited the first time I saw this thing at Disney World in the early 70's. Since then, ho-hum.
And with things like this:
The highest-profile problem to date was a Jan. 5 accident in which a drive shaft fell from one of the monorail cars. No one was hurt, but the accident shut down testing for three days.
I'll wait a bit before I try it out.
Also, they should Open Source this POS:
Most of the problems have involved computer software that controls the driverless trains along the 4.4-mile route between Sahara and Tropicana avenues, just east of Las Vegas Boulevard South.
Now if this was Maglev or something else as cool, I might get excited as the poster as seeing a 1970's tech Disney artifact that floats on, um Tires?
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I searched google for pictures and saw that one before I posted. That looks about like Atlanta, A few skyscapers and tons of urban sprawl. Spidey can swing for miles and miles through 40 story buldings and taller in NY, NY.
Never seen it. But, from what I know and have seen from pictures(I haven't been there in over 30 years), I think Tokyo could work.
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Spiderman's a character built on the premise of New York. Nothing against India, his character wouldn't work well in my home city of Atlanta either. They just don't have the rows and rows and rows of skyscrapers for him to climb up, scale over and swing through. He would kinda lose that advantage.
And what's with the bottoms? American spiderman doesn't ware suit pants. Is this to make him look more Indian or would there be a cultural backlash against tights?
These things are not going to kill a lot of people, but given their size and range there are numerous ways they could be used to terrorize people and allow the attackers to quickly get away.
Fire one of these from a mile away over a packed stadium or large crowd and have it explode with a cloud of chemical agent.
You wouldn't even need a chemical, flour would probably cause such a panic that several people would die in the ensuing stampede.
I live in the flight pattern of Atlanta's aiport. If I fired one of these at a plane(even if I didn't hit it), it would shut down the whole airport and maybe the entire US.
If it gets really high, eg 50 or so (your average AOL user) automatically turn on the Windows Firewall, and include a flag on every outgoing packet indicating that the user cannot be trusted to operate their computer in a safe fashion. Webmasters can then block traffic from these PC's at their discretion - Problem solved.
How would having Webmasters looking for a 'trusted' flag solve anything? Users don't infect websites. Webmasters from 'bad sites'(porn, warez, etc) would also have a flag telling them that they have a prime target currently browsing their site. Grab the ip and launch other more nefarious processes against the sitting ducks thus furthering the mayhem.
(jargon)
1. Originally, a quick job that produces what is
needed, but not well.
2. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece
of work that produces exactly what is needed.
So it seems that there are multiple interpretations of the word.
But I stand by def. 1. for the reasons I stated. I do not see this scaling. I just do not see this technology(piggybacking on airplanes then launching) leading to huge commercial payloads and space tourism.
I wonder how much this design will scale considering it has to piggyback on an airplane before it takes off. Sure getting to space will be a nice feat, but how far along really does this propel the goal of commercial access to space. Will this thing be able to carry large payloads in the future? Dozens of people?
I'm more interested in the teams that are going from the ground up utilizing new technologies and more innovative ideas.
SpaceShipOne just seems like a bit of a hack to me.
Additionally, I have not been impressed by RSS in general. It seems like most of the feeds are small blurbs with links to more content on the website.
I've tried several of the clients and have tried to add as many news feeds as I could, but it all seems the same. Little content and just a link to a webpage. I could just go visit the webpage and see the same summaries.
I was expecting something like an AP newswire, with interesting stories from all over the world that I could not find on a standard website. If there's something I'm really missing here, then please let me know.
I used to buy surplus SCSI drives a couple of years ago during the dot.bomb heyday, but with the price of drives these days, there's no way I'd want a second hand IDE drive from eBay.
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A couple of years later I ran a bar that had live music and we played CD's. We had to pay ASCAP and BMI nearly $3000 a year to cover CD's and the bands playing cover songs.
Yes, in fact it is really hard to get food & water ( & fuel & ammo) to troops. An army is only as fast as it's supply lines. As was evident and highly reported in the push to Bagdad last year, the troops moved much faster than the supply lines and ran short on food and water. Logistics is a Huge part of any military.
I know it doesn't really make a difference, but the more I think about it I would just rather piss in a filter and make water. Then have drinking water and water to add to food. That just has a kind of cool factor. It just seems different then sticking the wanker in an MRE and letting loose.
I'm not letting someone else hydrate my food.
How can you read Braille with all that hair on your palms?
Exactly, he'll fit right in :P
I bet the tin foil hat sales on Titan are through the roof right now.
This is news for nerds, I'd rather read an article on just how maglev works(BTW, I do know a bit about it) rather than a 4 mile stretch of 30+ year old car on top of cement rail tech that's only purpose is to get people to Casino's a bit quicker.
The only thing mildly cool about this is it is driverless. But even that doesn't excite me much when you have grad students creating Volvo's that park themselves.
This is a solution for getting people to and from Casino's to lose more money as quick as possible.
And with things like this:
I'll wait a bit before I try it out.
Also, they should Open Source this POS:
Now if this was Maglev or something else as cool, I might get excited as the poster as seeing a 1970's tech Disney artifact that floats on, um Tires?
Also, the TomatoMeter is currently at 96 compared 89 for #1. This is always a very good indicator for me. I'm sure this movie will be great.
Their FAQ says it would be a week long trip. Guess it would be traveling at about 369 mph.
Yep 62000, it's all explained in their FAQ
I searched google for pictures and saw that one before I posted. That looks about like Atlanta, A few skyscapers and tons of urban sprawl. Spidey can swing for miles and miles through 40 story buldings and taller in NY, NY.
Never seen it. But, from what I know and have seen from pictures(I haven't been there in over 30 years), I think Tokyo could work.
And what's with the bottoms? American spiderman doesn't ware suit pants. Is this to make him look more Indian or would there be a cultural backlash against tights?
Fire one of these from a mile away over a packed stadium or large crowd and have it explode with a cloud of chemical agent.
You wouldn't even need a chemical, flour would probably cause such a panic that several people would die in the ensuing stampede.
I live in the flight pattern of Atlanta's aiport. If I fired one of these at a plane(even if I didn't hit it), it would shut down the whole airport and maybe the entire US.
There's a link on the bottom of the page "Homeland Security & Model Rocketry". Basically anything they sell is still legal.
It's just motors with greater than .9 lbs of fuel. That's Huge and could very well be used as a weapon.
Why on earth would this disappoint you? Seems like using their latest and greatest engine for Q4 would be the only obvious choice.
How would having Webmasters looking for a 'trusted' flag solve anything? Users don't infect websites. Webmasters from 'bad sites'(porn, warez, etc) would also have a flag telling them that they have a prime target currently browsing their site. Grab the ip and launch other more nefarious processes against the sitting ducks thus furthering the mayhem.
So it seems that there are multiple interpretations of the word.
But I stand by def. 1. for the reasons I stated. I do not see this scaling. I just do not see this technology(piggybacking on airplanes then launching) leading to huge commercial payloads and space tourism.
I wonder how much this design will scale considering it has to piggyback on an airplane before it takes off. Sure getting to space will be a nice feat, but how far along really does this propel the goal of commercial access to space. Will this thing be able to carry large payloads in the future? Dozens of people?
I'm more interested in the teams that are going from the ground up utilizing new technologies and more innovative ideas.
SpaceShipOne just seems like a bit of a hack to me.
Slashdot?
The site does seem kinda slow from the Whiney Blogger effect.
I've tried several of the clients and have tried to add as many news feeds as I could, but it all seems the same. Little content and just a link to a webpage. I could just go visit the webpage and see the same summaries.
I was expecting something like an AP newswire, with interesting stories from all over the world that I could not find on a standard website. If there's something I'm really missing here, then please let me know.
I used to buy surplus SCSI drives a couple of years ago during the dot.bomb heyday, but with the price of drives these days, there's no way I'd want a second hand IDE drive from eBay.