Hanguns ARE NOT just for Killing.
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They are also for DEFENSE. They are standoff weapons, the same way a main gauche/dagger would be used in a sword fight.
This anti-constitutional crap about keeping arms out of the hands of honest citizens is nothing short of authoritarian bullshit. The first step in America's descent would be the attempted banning of firearms.
Read a little history, and the US constitution. Read what the Founding Fathers wrote in regard to both free speech and our right to defend ourselves.
People that claim that there will never be an authoritarian threat on our own soil need to very carefully look at history. As a number of people have pointed out, Hitler was elected to office, but then SIEZED power. WE MUST NOT LET THAT HAPPEN HERE. The first defense against that is our First Amendment, the right of free speech and assembly. The way that we assure we have that right is by the Second Amendment, which gives us the right to defend ourselves, as citizens, against potential tyrrany.
On top of that, as has been pointed out, illegal possesion of firearms, explosives, and even chemical and biological agents, will continue. There is nothing that can be done, legislatively, about people who willfully break the law. Punishment after the fact is enough of a deterent for most people, but not those who have decided that it is worth dying for, so we, as ordinary citizens have both a right and a responsibility to protect ourselves.
Yes, the rash of school shootings suck, but banning guns is not the solution, it will lead to much greater problems.
Anyway, in Canada and the UK, the materials for building pipebombs are most definitely available.
There are a number of other planetary systems that are likely, and one that has been known but not exactly.
The known system is 55 Cancri, it has two large planets.
The other "likelies" are Lalande 21185 and a bunch of pulsars. Lal 21185 has at least two likely companions that are detectable, but they are long period orbits (est. 5.8 and 30 year orbits) so they will take longer to confirm.
The only reason this is getting news is that both the SFSU and AFOE teams concur on the system. I'm not dissing on either team, they have both done insanely cool work that is shattering and rebuilding our understanding of planetary sciences. The SFSU team, headed by Marcy and Butler, have discovered or confirmed the majority of the extrasolar planets that are known, and continue to release new results every couple of months.
My mom and stepfather farm. I wasn't big on it in high school, though I'm taking over the gardening starting this year. It's a mostly-organic subsitence farm that has raised pigs cows and chickens (yuck) in the past.
Farms/rural areas are good places to grow up. You learn discipline at an early age, and living in the quiet helps thinking!
Any one know of any big names going to implament this....I can imagine it now.. NASA's currently #1...=P
I'm not sure what your getting at, but NASA bailed on any SETI research in 1992, or early 93. Basically, they had a program called "HRMS", the High Resolution Microwave Survey. Congress got wind of it, and in a flurry of budget cutting and snide comments about a "little green men", they canned the program.
Luckily, the fledgling SETI Institute was able to get NASA to donate the hardware that had been built and used it for the first runs of Project Phoenix. Except for that initial burst of govt. hardware, Phoenix has been completely privately funded.
I'm actually really happy that NASA won't touch SETI. It leaves the entire field open to enterprising scientists, instead of it being run by the rather fickle adminstration in NASA and Congress.
Some individuals inside NASA might run the screensaver, but it won't be an agency-wide project, that's for sure.
Too bad much of it is at the expense of the rest of the world. I always love computer geeks who have grown up in suburbia, with middle class families, never known poverty, got a decent education, and have a lot of job prospects generalizing about how good Capitalism is. Isn't it easy to see things in a vacuum?
I didn't grow up in suburbia, nor am I from the middle class, I've known poverty both as a child and an adult. I dragged my ass, kicking and screaming through an education, and have fought tooth and nail for every freakin' scrap I own. On top of that, our 1/2 socialist govt takes 43% of EVERYTHING I earn.
The "slave labor" practices in South American and PacRim nations is abhorent. However, those are the same conditions that most of our ancestors, in the U.S., went through to get where we are. My greatgrandparents all worked in factories (in Maine and New Jersey), in terrible conditions, to make lives for themselves and their families. The people, and especially children, in those nasty factories now, will grow up with better access to capital than their parents, and eventually, will be able to pay for educations for themselves and their children. Now, point taken on the factories that actually impliment slave labor: boycott the companies that support that sort of economics. Don't buy Nike or Reebok (they use the same factories). Part of the beauty of capitalism, is that YOU have a CHOICE as to what you buy, and that choice equals a "vote" that hits companies right where they feel it - their income. Use that power if you don't like the conditions those companies allow.
The U.S. influences in other countries, esp in South America, are so far from what capitalism is supposed to be as to be indistinguishable from totalitarian solcialism. Just because our experiment in capitalism is failing, fast, doesn't mean that capitalism is a bad thing. Capitalism is the most fair economic system possible: if you work, you benefit; if you don't, you suffer. Charity can easily handle (esp. with lower/no tax burden) the few in any society that simply can't work.
The list goes on... So you see, I can understand why a lot of people love Capitalism, because they don't take the time to consider why their country has so much relative to their neighbors to the south. Or maybe they do, and just don't care (even scarier).
I do take that into consideration, in my purchases and my thinking. I try not to buy from companies that use bad labor practices, both in and out of the States. I don't own a car (BIKE!), for a number of reasons. I don't support the American meat habit, for health and global economic reasons. However, I am a capitalist. I like earning money for my labors, and like supporting others with that money. I don't like other people telling me what I can and cannot do with my earnings, esp. with the implied violence of our current tax system.
Last thought on socialism: What would you do when the Worker's Generosity Party tells you that you cannot be a programmer anymore, that you have to go and work in the fields, harvesting grain, for the "good of the people"?
Triana is a joke. Having another Sun-synchronous satellite would be sweet, but not just for pretty pictures. For the cost of a webmaster, this site has done exactly what Triana is supposed to do, but does it today. Warning, requires some real bandwidth: http://farside.gsfc.nasa.gov/ISTO/dro/global/page1 .html
The original announcement, in 1996, sparked almost violent arguments among planetary scientists. Recent press on it has declared the subject as "dead". I guess this reopens the debate.
Personally, I think that the evidence is strong, despite some inconsistencies in the original work. I'm waiting for the sample-return mission in 2005 to really have a conclusion, though. Even then, we'll never be able to prove that there isn't/wasn't life on Mars, only that we can't find the remains of it.
This camera system took years to think up, and hundreds of hours of work to build and get working. Would you deny a patent for a new video camera? After all, it's pretty obvious that if you put a CCD behind a lense and add a video deck in the loop that it is a camera. There's a lot of little details that had to be worked out, like keeping the exposed film sealed and coordinating that many shutters, that this camera is, IMNSHO, worthy of a patent. J05H
IBVA, It's better and been around for years
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Type with your Mind
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Greets! This is cool and all, but the British sure are years behind us. There's a company down in Connecticut called IBVA that makes a set of 'trodes that let you push around a cursor with your brain. Also, I've seen similar tech on a Scientific American Frontiers show. It featured a guy sailing his boat and a prototype cockpit for fighter aircraft, all piloted by brain waves. IBVA has a site at www.ibva.com The basic headset is around $1200, which is a little steep, but it's got years of development behind it. J05H
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They are also for DEFENSE. They are standoff
weapons, the same way a main gauche/dagger
would be used in a sword fight.
This anti-constitutional crap about keeping
arms out of the hands of honest citizens is
nothing short of authoritarian bullshit. The
first step in America's descent would be the
attempted banning of firearms.
Read a little history, and the US constitution.
Read what the Founding Fathers wrote in regard
to both free speech and our right to defend
ourselves.
People that claim that there will never be an
authoritarian threat on our own soil need to
very carefully look at history. As a number of
people have pointed out, Hitler was elected to
office, but then SIEZED power. WE MUST NOT LET
THAT HAPPEN HERE. The first defense against that
is our First Amendment, the right of free speech
and assembly. The way that we assure we have that
right is by the Second Amendment, which gives us
the right to defend ourselves, as citizens, against
potential tyrrany.
On top of that, as has been pointed out, illegal
possesion of firearms, explosives, and even chemical
and biological agents, will continue. There is
nothing that can be done, legislatively, about
people who willfully break the law. Punishment
after the fact is enough of a deterent for most
people, but not those who have decided that it is
worth dying for, so we, as ordinary citizens have
both a right and a responsibility to protect ourselves.
Yes, the rash of school shootings suck, but banning
guns is not the solution, it will lead to much
greater problems.
Anyway, in Canada and the UK, the materials for
building pipebombs are most definitely available.
There are a number of other planetary systems
n cycl.html
that are likely, and one that has been known
but not exactly.
The known system is 55 Cancri, it has two large
planets.
The other "likelies" are Lalande 21185 and a bunch
of pulsars. Lal 21185 has at least two likely
companions that are detectable, but they are long
period orbits (est. 5.8 and 30 year orbits) so
they will take longer to confirm.
The only reason this is getting news is that both
the SFSU and AFOE teams concur on the system. I'm
not dissing on either team, they have both done
insanely cool work that is shattering and
rebuilding our understanding of planetary
sciences. The SFSU team, headed by Marcy and
Butler, have discovered or confirmed the majority
of the extrasolar planets that are known, and
continue to release new results every couple of
months.
For a great resource, check out the Extrasolar
Planets Encyclopedia at: http://www.obspm.fr:80/departement/darc/planets/e
My mom and stepfather farm. I wasn't big on it in
high school, though I'm taking over the gardening
starting this year. It's a mostly-organic subsitence
farm that has raised pigs cows and chickens (yuck)
in the past.
Farms/rural areas are good places to grow up.
You learn discipline at an early age, and
living in the quiet helps thinking!
NO!! Keep Mars (and all of outer space) away
from the lawyers and other sycophants!!
If we HAVE to have lawyers and stupid people
in space, they should be on the other side
of an airlock door, screaming in terror. 8)
Any one know of any big names going to implament this....I can imagine it now.. NASA's currently #1...=P
I'm not sure what your getting at, but NASA bailed on any SETI research in 1992, or early 93. Basically, they had a program called "HRMS", the High Resolution Microwave Survey. Congress got wind of it, and in a flurry of budget cutting and snide comments about a "little green men", they canned the program.
Luckily, the fledgling SETI Institute was able to get NASA to donate the hardware that had been built and used it for the first runs of Project Phoenix. Except for that initial burst of govt. hardware, Phoenix has been completely privately funded.
I'm actually really happy that NASA won't touch SETI. It leaves the entire field open to enterprising scientists, instead of it being run by the rather fickle adminstration in NASA and Congress.
Some individuals inside NASA might run the screensaver, but it won't be an agency-wide project, that's for sure.
Too bad much of it is at the expense of the rest of the world. I always love computer geeks who have grown
up in suburbia, with middle class families, never known poverty, got a decent education, and have a lot of job
prospects generalizing about how good Capitalism is. Isn't it easy to see things in a vacuum?
I didn't grow up in suburbia, nor am I from the middle class, I've known poverty both as a child and an adult. I dragged my ass, kicking and screaming through an education, and have fought tooth and nail for every freakin' scrap I own. On top of that, our 1/2 socialist govt takes 43% of EVERYTHING I earn.
The "slave labor" practices in South American and PacRim nations is abhorent. However, those are the same conditions that most of our ancestors, in the U.S., went through to get where we are. My greatgrandparents all worked in factories (in Maine and New Jersey), in terrible conditions, to make lives for themselves and their families.
The people, and especially children, in those nasty factories now, will grow up with better access to capital than their parents, and eventually, will be able to pay for educations for themselves and their children. Now, point taken on the factories that actually impliment slave labor: boycott the companies that support that sort of economics. Don't buy Nike or Reebok (they use the same factories). Part of the beauty of capitalism, is that YOU have a CHOICE as to what you buy, and that choice equals a "vote" that hits companies right where they feel it - their income. Use that power if you don't like the conditions those companies allow.
The U.S. influences in other countries, esp in South America, are so far from what capitalism is supposed to be as to be indistinguishable from totalitarian solcialism. Just because our experiment in capitalism is failing, fast, doesn't mean that capitalism is a bad thing. Capitalism is the most fair economic system possible: if you work, you benefit; if you don't, you suffer. Charity can easily handle (esp. with lower/no tax burden) the few in any society that simply can't work.
The list goes on... So you see, I can understand why a lot of people love Capitalism, because they don't take the
time to consider why their country has so much relative to their neighbors to the south. Or maybe they do, and
just don't care (even scarier).
I do take that into consideration, in my purchases and my thinking. I try not to buy from companies that use bad labor practices, both in and out of the States. I don't own a car (BIKE!), for a number of reasons. I don't support the American meat habit, for health and global economic reasons.
However, I am a capitalist. I like earning money for my labors, and like supporting others with that money. I don't like other people telling me what I can and cannot do with my earnings, esp. with the implied violence of our current tax system.
Last thought on socialism: What would you do when the Worker's Generosity Party tells you that you cannot be a programmer anymore, that you have to go and work in the fields, harvesting grain, for the "good of the people"?
Can you post a link for FSN? I hadn't realized
that that was a real GUI. Coolness.
Triana is a joke.1 .html
Having another Sun-synchronous satellite would be sweet, but not just for pretty pictures.
For the cost of a webmaster, this site has done exactly what Triana is supposed to do, but does it today. Warning, requires some real bandwidth:
http://farside.gsfc.nasa.gov/ISTO/dro/global/page
Let the war rage again! 8)
The original announcement, in 1996, sparked
almost violent arguments among planetary
scientists. Recent press on it has declared
the subject as "dead". I guess this reopens the
debate.
Personally, I think that the evidence is strong,
despite some inconsistencies in the original work.
I'm waiting for the sample-return mission in 2005
to really have a conclusion, though.
Even then, we'll never be able to prove that there isn't/wasn't
life on Mars, only that we can't find the remains of it.
Check panspermia.org for more info.
This camera system took years to think up, and
hundreds of hours of work to build and get working.
Would you deny a patent for a new video camera?
After all, it's pretty obvious that if you put a
CCD behind a lense and add a video deck in the loop that it is a camera.
There's a lot of little details that had to be
worked out, like keeping the exposed film sealed
and coordinating that many shutters, that this
camera is, IMNSHO, worthy of a patent.
J05H
Greets!
This is cool and all, but the British sure are
years behind us. There's a company down in
Connecticut called IBVA that makes a set of 'trodes
that let you push around a cursor with your brain.
Also, I've seen similar tech on a Scientific American
Frontiers show. It featured a guy sailing his boat
and a prototype cockpit for fighter aircraft, all
piloted by brain waves. IBVA has a site at www.ibva.com
The basic headset is around $1200, which is a little
steep, but it's got years of development behind it.
J05H