I wonder if they put the Hubble in that orbit to give another reason for the shuttle to exist. Rather than servicing the Mirror they should have just launched another HST into a descent orbit with a nice cheap disposable rocket. I don't understand why they didn't make a fleet of about ten or twele HSTs anyway. Most of the cost of such things is in R&D so they could have a whole fleet of them up there for not much more money. There'd be way more telescope time to go around too.
A special web page where the user can choose whether or not to recieve cookies. What a good idea! All a web site needs to do is save the 'don't give me cookies' preference in a cookie and... wait.... Um.....
I want a spacewar simulator where you have limited fuel/or plenty of fuel but limited thrust and have to plot slingshot orbits etc to get to Jupiter to fight the rebel mining colonists of IO. I want solar wind redirected by planetary magnetic fields to interfere with communications and irradiate crew. I want to hide behind planets and launch nukes at my enemies. I want to force them to run from the explosions and get too close to Jupiter and run out of fuel too deep in the planet's gravity well to ever escape and taunt them about running out of air. I want to hunt Al-Queda training camps in the asteroid belt. I want to be a privateer that hijacks water transports to sell on the black market. I want everything to be done to scale. I want to lead a naval fleet against a heavily defended planet but I don't want to be able to maneuver ala Star Trek. I want to be coasting through space with very limited fuel and unable to change course much to avoid damage and still get home.
I want to have to plan a strategy that lets my fleet get there, and get back using stealth and cleverness.
I always thought the reason flight sims sucked was that you both a yoke and *rudder pedals* to really get the feeling of flying an airplane. Also flight sims will never simulate the inertia you feel from really moving. Maybe those smooth simulated touchdowns would have felt like a monkey was flying the plane if they had been real.
That's why they'll use remote control airplane technology and spycams to build a radio controlled cruise missiles to assasinate people. 30 of them with machine guns will take over the Hoover Damn and blow it up with TNT sending a flood down the river to kill thousands. There's tons of crap they could do.
Did you ever watch 'Gangs of New York'? They had an all out bloodbath of a brawl at the start of the movie. If there were no guns, criminals would carry other weapons. Axes, crossbows, bombs ( you can make a bomb out of almost anything they will never be able to outlaw the capacity for making bombs. ) If there were a law agains guns/ammo then only criminals would have guns. And criminals who didn't have guns would still be tend to arm themselves better than the general public and be able to wreak just as much havoc. ( remember the guy on Jackass that danced in a thong in front of the Japanese police officer, all he could do was bashfully ask him to please stop brandishing his 'weapon' )
The photo driver's license is nothing but an underhanded ploy to make everyone in the US carry 'their papers' to move about. They would have a devil of a time making such a regulation outright, but since 'driving is a privelege and not a right' the normal protections about freedom of movement in the constitution fail to provide protection. Unless you live in a major city equipped with decent mass transit, a car, and license to drive is a necessity. You can not have a job or get to the store to buy groceries without one.
The other side of the 'papers please' pincher are ordinances that allow you to be picked up by the police for 'vagrancy' which is 'not having any visible means of supporting yourself'. This, in practice, means that if you do not have a driver's license or other ID, which you are required by law to give to a police officer if they should ask for it, you can be taken to jail then and there. Usually, if you look to be under 18, they will not take you in, but then you might be subject to cerfews. I look young for my age and still get ID'ed for smokes and of course for beer, though I'm pushing 30. This means I need to have my drivers license to walk my dog after 10 pm in my town. A cop would have probable cause to ID me for 'breaking curfew' and if I don't have my ID, they could take me in for 'vagrancy'. Of course a license and 99 cents will get you a cup of coffee, but I doubt it would 'support you'.
The only license most people have is the driver's license. There is no photo on liquor licenses, or on export licenses, or on fishing licenses. The photo ID on driver's licenses together with the road/automobile based infrastructure that we live with makes everyone in the US subject to 'papers please'.
So go ahead an mod me down for replying - i deserve it.
You can't neccesarily say that a weapon the was eventually sold/given/whatever to a minor was bought with the intent to provid it to a minor. Thy guy may have bought it years ago, but needed the money for beer.
Also, if the weapons were your run of the mill hunting rifles then it is legal for someone over the age of 16 to own them if their parents give them as a gift or something. Lots of kids have their own gun for hunting. You could have an AK-47 or SKS at 16. A used SKS makes a good cheap hunting rifle if it hasn't been used with steel jacket ammo so the rifling is screwed up. You have to be over 18 to buy rifles or ammo at WAL*MART
Pistols, however are limited to the over 21 crowd. Even ammo that is primarily used on pistols can not be sold to a under 21 year old. This is dumb because there are many 'plinker-type' pistols that use 22-long rifle ammo. 22s are the best for plinking because the ammo is dirt cheap. There are probably rifles that take pistol ammo too. This is the same kind of dumb law as the one that says you can sell matches to under 18 year olds but not lighters. An under 18 year old might want to buy a lighter to start a wood fire in his parent's stove after school so the place isn't frigid when their parents get home. And of course ciggarettes can be lit with matches as easily as with a lighter and also with a toaster. Radio shack would sell a butane soldering torch to anyone complete with flint sparker.
Kids have hobbies. Some kids like guns. This is an appropriate hobby for a 16-17-18 year old. Hell, when I was 13, my parents let me play with explosives/homemade fireworks. Sure fireworks were illegal in my state but they encouraged my interests. I wanted to make fireworks for a living at that age. The difference between me and the columbine ppl was that I had no interest in hurting anyone - especially myself.
The actions of any individual are their own responsibility. Attacking parents supportive of their children's interests when it is the children that go nuts and kill people - not the parents is stupid. If someone knows their parents would not let them do something they would still do it, they would just be careful to hide it. I could, and would have still made home made firecrackers and mortars if my parents had forbidden me from buying chemicals. By giving sanction to my actions my parents gained the ability to monitor my safety practices. ( I still have all my apendages and all my original skin )
If your kid is a gun freak, they will own guns. You will limit your liability if they go nuts and kill people if you make them hide them, but they will still have them. Better to know where your kids guns are unless all you are thinking about is covering your own ass.
That's probably all they did with em anyway, they prolly had folders for the same list of issues you see in the drop down list and all the 'readers' did was read enough to mark em for or against. Really just a poll of people who feel strongly enough to write an email. If your subject was not on the list, then you prolly just got filed under Other with the Viagara ads and the Penis Enlarger Solicitations.
Even if you wrote the library, once you release it under a license like the GPL, you can't really put the genie back in the bottle can you? If you release Version 1 under GPL, then Version 2 must also be released under the GPL since it stems from the code of Version 1. Screwing up legally regarding Java kind of sucks since it's permanent.
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Well, I dunno, I don't think DNA likes to work in cells unless at least chromasome-wise it is fairly intact. There's tons of machinery designed to make protiens from DNA and to help it split that expects DNA to be coiled up in a certain way - namely in a chromasome.
-- If grocery store strawberries are so big because they are quadraploid, then imagine how big my balls would be if I was quadraploid...
Caspian Tigers ( driven extinct by the romans ) or Tasmaninan Tigers driven extinct recently might be an easier thing to clone, or Barbary Lions. Something with a bit fresher meat.
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I wonder if they put the Hubble in that orbit to give another reason for the shuttle to exist. Rather than servicing the Mirror they should have just launched another HST into a descent orbit with a nice cheap disposable rocket. I don't understand why they didn't make a fleet of about ten or twele HSTs anyway. Most of the cost of such things is in R&D so they could have a whole fleet of them up there for not much more money. There'd be way more telescope time to go around too.
"I'm going to play Nintendo, Mom's gonna be pissed when she finds out you're spying on the neighbors with a space telescope."
"Have it your way bro, I'll be sure to snap some pictures so you can look later if you change your mind."
A special web page where the user can choose whether or not to recieve cookies. What a good idea! All a web site needs to do is save the 'don't give me cookies' preference in a cookie and... wait.... Um.....
I want a spacewar simulator where you have limited fuel/or plenty of fuel but limited thrust and have to plot slingshot orbits etc to get to Jupiter to fight the rebel mining colonists of IO. I want solar wind redirected by planetary magnetic fields to interfere with communications and irradiate crew. I want to hide behind planets and launch nukes at my enemies. I want to force them to run from the explosions and get too close to Jupiter and run out of fuel too deep in the planet's gravity well to ever escape and taunt them about running out of air. I want to hunt Al-Queda training camps in the asteroid belt. I want to be a privateer that hijacks water transports to sell on the black market. I want everything to be done to scale. I want to lead a naval fleet against a heavily defended planet but I don't want to be able to maneuver ala Star Trek. I want to be coasting through space with very limited fuel and unable to change course much to avoid damage and still get home. I want to have to plan a strategy that lets my fleet get there, and get back using stealth and cleverness.
I always thought the reason flight sims sucked was that you both a yoke and *rudder pedals* to really get the feeling of flying an airplane. Also flight sims will never simulate the inertia you feel from really moving. Maybe those smooth simulated touchdowns would have felt like a monkey was flying the plane if they had been real.
A genetic algorithm orinthopter designing program.
That's why they'll use remote control airplane technology and spycams to build a radio controlled cruise missiles to assasinate people. 30 of them with machine guns will take over the Hoover Damn and blow it up with TNT sending a flood down the river to kill thousands. There's tons of crap they could do.
Their passwords crack 4096 times as fast as anyone elses! Windows is screamin' FAST!!!</sarcasm>
Definition: Parts of space that have not discoverd ritalin yet
Do ham handed laws like 'let's ban free email so the police can track people down' usually pass, or get shot down in Australia?
Did you ever watch 'Gangs of New York'? They had an all out bloodbath of a brawl at the start of the movie. If there were no guns, criminals would carry other weapons. Axes, crossbows, bombs ( you can make a bomb out of almost anything they will never be able to outlaw the capacity for making bombs. ) If there were a law agains guns/ammo then only criminals would have guns. And criminals who didn't have guns would still be tend to arm themselves better than the general public and be able to wreak just as much havoc. ( remember the guy on Jackass that danced in a thong in front of the Japanese police officer, all he could do was bashfully ask him to please stop brandishing his 'weapon' )
The other side of the 'papers please' pincher are ordinances that allow you to be picked up by the police for 'vagrancy' which is 'not having any visible means of supporting yourself'. This, in practice, means that if you do not have a driver's license or other ID, which you are required by law to give to a police officer if they should ask for it, you can be taken to jail then and there. Usually, if you look to be under 18, they will not take you in, but then you might be subject to cerfews. I look young for my age and still get ID'ed for smokes and of course for beer, though I'm pushing 30. This means I need to have my drivers license to walk my dog after 10 pm in my town. A cop would have probable cause to ID me for 'breaking curfew' and if I don't have my ID, they could take me in for 'vagrancy'. Of course a license and 99 cents will get you a cup of coffee, but I doubt it would 'support you'.
The only license most people have is the driver's license. There is no photo on liquor licenses, or on export licenses, or on fishing licenses. The photo ID on driver's licenses together with the road/automobile based infrastructure that we live with makes everyone in the US subject to 'papers please'.
You can't neccesarily say that a weapon the was eventually sold/given/whatever to a minor was bought with the intent to provid it to a minor. Thy guy may have bought it years ago, but needed the money for beer.
Also, if the weapons were your run of the mill hunting rifles then it is legal for someone over the age of 16 to own them if their parents give them as a gift or something. Lots of kids have their own gun for hunting. You could have an AK-47 or SKS at 16. A used SKS makes a good cheap hunting rifle if it hasn't been used with steel jacket ammo so the rifling is screwed up. You have to be over 18 to buy rifles or ammo at WAL*MART
Pistols, however are limited to the over 21 crowd. Even ammo that is primarily used on pistols can not be sold to a under 21 year old. This is dumb because there are many 'plinker-type' pistols that use 22-long rifle ammo. 22s are the best for plinking because the ammo is dirt cheap. There are probably rifles that take pistol ammo too. This is the same kind of dumb law as the one that says you can sell matches to under 18 year olds but not lighters. An under 18 year old might want to buy a lighter to start a wood fire in his parent's stove after school so the place isn't frigid when their parents get home. And of course ciggarettes can be lit with matches as easily as with a lighter and also with a toaster. Radio shack would sell a butane soldering torch to anyone complete with flint sparker.
Kids have hobbies. Some kids like guns. This is an appropriate hobby for a 16-17-18 year old. Hell, when I was 13, my parents let me play with explosives/homemade fireworks. Sure fireworks were illegal in my state but they encouraged my interests. I wanted to make fireworks for a living at that age. The difference between me and the columbine ppl was that I had no interest in hurting anyone - especially myself.
The actions of any individual are their own responsibility. Attacking parents supportive of their children's interests when it is the children that go nuts and kill people - not the parents is stupid. If someone knows their parents would not let them do something they would still do it, they would just be careful to hide it. I could, and would have still made home made firecrackers and mortars if my parents had forbidden me from buying chemicals. By giving sanction to my actions my parents gained the ability to monitor my safety practices. ( I still have all my apendages and all my original skin )
If your kid is a gun freak, they will own guns. You will limit your liability if they go nuts and kill people if you make them hide them, but they will still have them. Better to know where your kids guns are unless all you are thinking about is covering your own ass.
I am not installing anything from Yahoo anymore..
Would prolly send the mail to president@whitehouse.com anyways...
Repeal the law against sending Fax SPAM. ... and get $2.00 off any Large 1 topping Pisa Pizza!
Hail to the ^new chief!
That's probably all they did with em anyway, they prolly had folders for the same list of issues you see in the drop down list and all the 'readers' did was read enough to mark em for or against. Really just a poll of people who feel strongly enough to write an email. If your subject was not on the list, then you prolly just got filed under Other with the Viagara ads and the Penis Enlarger Solicitations.
That's what he should have done....
Also, has anyone ever sent email to president@whitehouse.COM? I wonder if you get porn spam in reply....
Yeah, but there'd probably be other people's code in there too, so you would have to strip all that out unless you wrote the whole thing yourself...
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Dark matter map seems to show that neutrinos are not the 'dark matter' people talk about.
DarkWing Duck! Let's get dangerous.
I'm not retarded, I'm just special...
Even if you wrote the library, once you release it under a license like the GPL, you can't really put the genie back in the bottle can you? If you release Version 1 under GPL, then Version 2 must also be released under the GPL since it stems from the code of Version 1. Screwing up legally regarding Java kind of sucks since it's permanent.
Well, I dunno, I don't think DNA likes to work in cells unless at least chromasome-wise it is fairly intact. There's tons of machinery designed to make protiens from DNA and to help it split that expects DNA to be coiled up in a certain way - namely in a chromasome. --
If grocery store strawberries are so big because they are quadraploid, then imagine how big my balls would be if I was quadraploid...
Caspian Tigers ( driven extinct by the romans ) or Tasmaninan Tigers driven extinct recently might be an easier thing to clone, or Barbary Lions. Something with a bit fresher meat.