I don't think ANY money should be able to be given to politicians. Every candidate running for a particular office should be allotted an equal amount of money that would be gathered from the public, most likely via taxes.
Again, that would benefit the rich. How would you or I go up against an Edwards, Bush, Kerry for a Senate/House seat? They have millions in personal money to spend us into the ground.
Is it any wonder this was promoted by republicans?
And if it had been introduced by a Democrat, you'd be singing it's praises from the rooftops. "All hail the Democrats! The see the true power of free speech!"
Oh wait. It was introduced by a Democrat in the Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. D-Nevada
The bill introduced by Hensarling is a companion bill in the House. Bipartisanship in action.
Setting up a moon base probably doesn't make sense as a launch point for a one time Mars mission. But a permanent lunar base makes perfect sense as a launch point for a series of Mars missions.
Set up a virtual assembly line. Greater freedom in craft design (far less gravity and no atmosphere to deal with on launch) Mine the moon for some of the materials Get experience in low-g/airless operations. Why not!?
Just as only a small percentage can write effectively, an even smaller percentage can present video effectively. Writing requires storytelling skills. Video requires storytelling, as well as camera skills.
"Home movies" have been around for decades. Have you ever watched someone elses without cringing? I don't care what you call it...videoblogging, PhoneCamVideo, MyVideoLife...its still a home movie, and almost always crap. Unless there is a lot of taut skin involved. Or something very, very humorous (and probably degrading to the subject)
Heh. I have about 25gb, 99.0% legit. Maybe 10% from CD rips, the rest split between emusic.com (before they went crappy) downloads and vinyl rips. The rest of my vinyl and CD rips should easily bring it to 40-50 gb.
Various military runways around the world are designated as emergency landing strips for shuttle flights. Some in pretty remote areas. Moron, Spain, Diego Garcia, probably somewhere in Australia.
My question is, why shove everyone into the ISS? Why not just dock with it, and share the life support supplies between the two systems, instead of cramming everyone into the station?
The ISS can only dock one shuttle at a time. Discovery would stay there, and be remotely undocked prior to Atlantis getting there.
Seems someone else has thought of this: "If Discovery were damaged during launch or in orbit, Mission Control would determine whether the shuttle is capable of safely bringing the crew home. If not, the astronauts would be forced to take refuge aboard the space station and wait five weeks for Atlantis and its crew of four to come get them.
The damaged shuttle would have to be jettisoned before a rescue vehicle could arrive, because the station cannot accommodate two shuttles. Mission Control would command Discovery to unlock from the station and fire its steering jets, which would send the vehicle plunging down into the atmosphere. If all went as planned, the remnants would splash into the Pacific Ocean far from any land."
Yes. The FAA and NORAD, with their decades of aviation experience, never actually thought of just radioing the pilot.
I'm sure they will thank you for this insight, and implement it immediately. Of course, if the radio is inop, they'll have to come up with some other idea to warn the pilot.
Yeah, it is difficult when, for whatever reason, the radio does not work.
USA Today "The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, has been researching the use of alternating red and green lasers as a way to communicate with pilots flying too near the Capitol or the White House when they can't be reached by radio."
If I take a Maxtor 300GB portable usb drive, plugs it into my pc, loads up with movies, and ships of to a friend? Huge capcity, overnight, or in a few days at least. And besides, ??AA has no real chance of uncovering such transfers.
Essentially no different from duping a tape (or 100) for your friend. Below their radar. The question comes in when you are 'sharing' with potentially everyone online.
Well, realistically. What about VPN? Having hard encryption easily obtainable, it should be trivial to share files with friends. If a key is signed by a large enough number of friends, trust it.
Potentially a good idea, and there are those 'secret' networks out there...;)
But just like I've told my kids. "I trust you, I mostly trust your friends, I don't necessarily trust all of your friends' friends. Only because I don't know them, and they have little or no accountability to me. At some point, there will be a connection between your inside circle, and the outer world. A FOAF will dick it up. And then the **AA will pounce.
Riiiight. And why so? Perhaps because they think Americans are inherently more trustworthy? That's what the GP said.
No, I'm not saying that. But like it or not, some people do have a distrust of companies in certain areas, and with certain bits of personal data. Even here...how many times, when the subject of allofmp3.com comes up, do people say they wouldn't trust their credit card data with them, simply because it is in Russia.
Would you send your personal data to some unknown company in Bangladesh, Romania, or Pakistan? No, you wouldn't. But western companies are doing that for you. You may never know if and when they did. And you have little recourse when things go tits up.
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Again, that would benefit the rich. How would you or I go up against an Edwards, Bush, Kerry for a Senate/House seat? They have millions in personal money to spend us into the ground.
Big benefits to big money, little benefit for thee and me.
(and if people think the Repubs are the only big money party, look around a little)
And if it had been introduced by a Democrat, you'd be singing it's praises from the rooftops.
"All hail the Democrats! The see the true power of free speech!"
Oh wait. It was introduced by a Democrat in the Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. D-Nevada
The bill introduced by Hensarling is a companion bill in the House. Bipartisanship in action.
Set up a virtual assembly line.
Greater freedom in craft design (far less gravity and no atmosphere to deal with on launch)
Mine the moon for some of the materials
Get experience in low-g/airless operations.
Why not!?
Build it in parts here, assemble on the moon. Easier to launch a bigger ship from there.
Write one yourself.
However...put a fuel tank on it as well, and you have this jet powered Vision recumbent bicycle. Videos available as well.
"Home movies" have been around for decades. Have you ever watched someone elses without cringing? I don't care what you call it...videoblogging, PhoneCamVideo, MyVideoLife...its still a home movie, and almost always crap. Unless there is a lot of taut skin involved. Or something very, very humorous (and probably degrading to the subject)
Heh. I have about 25gb, 99.0% legit. Maybe 10% from CD rips, the rest split between emusic.com (before they went crappy) downloads and vinyl rips. The rest of my vinyl and CD rips should easily bring it to 40-50 gb.
You are not the target audience.
I suppose for top 40 teenie boppers, that's okay. Not for me
Now you're starting to get it.
I barely tolerate the fact that my ipod is white. It's bad enough that Bono is pushing the player I own.
Ahh....you already drank the koolaid. The marketing dept's job is done.
But yeah, your guess is probably right.
Dell Brazil currently sells the same 3000 for BRL 1700 ($660). Is this BRL1700 before or after the 60% inport tax?
And if it structurally sound enough to land, why not land with the crew?
Like this one or this one? It's not that much of a stretch to get a cheap box, even with the disgustingly expensive Windows on it.
Currently, if they ignore/can't respond to a radio warning, scramble the fighters.
The laser warning would add a visual warning step before scramble. If they ignore the radio AND ignore the laser, scramble the fighters.
Scrambling fighters just because some fool in his Cessna is offcourse with a broken radio is not too wise.
This guy was the F-15E pilot.
The ISS can only dock one shuttle at a time. Discovery would stay there, and be remotely undocked prior to Atlantis getting there.
Seems someone else has thought of this:
"If Discovery were damaged during launch or in orbit, Mission Control would determine whether the shuttle is capable of safely bringing the crew home. If not, the astronauts would be forced to take refuge aboard the space station and wait five weeks for Atlantis and its crew of four to come get them.
The damaged shuttle would have to be jettisoned before a rescue vehicle could arrive, because the station cannot accommodate two shuttles. Mission Control would command Discovery to unlock from the station and fire its steering jets, which would send the vehicle plunging down into the atmosphere. If all went as planned, the remnants would splash into the Pacific Ocean far from any land."
Hope you liked having that pilot's license.
This would be those new anti-gravity bombs, that go up, instead of down?
I'm sure they will thank you for this insight, and implement it immediately. Of course, if the radio is inop, they'll have to come up with some other idea to warn the pilot.
Maybe just shoot it down.
USA Today
"The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, has been researching the use of alternating red and green lasers as a way to communicate with pilots flying too near the Capitol or the White House when they can't be reached by radio."
It's amazing how the pilots can look out the window and see the ground. Wonder how that works?
Essentially no different from duping a tape (or 100) for your friend. Below their radar. The question comes in when you are 'sharing' with potentially everyone online.
Well, realistically. What about VPN? Having hard encryption easily obtainable, it should be trivial to share files with friends. If a key is signed by a large enough number of friends, trust it.
Potentially a good idea, and there are those 'secret' networks out there...;)
But just like I've told my kids. "I trust you, I mostly trust your friends, I don't necessarily trust all of your friends' friends. Only because I don't know them, and they have little or no accountability to me.
At some point, there will be a connection between your inside circle, and the outer world. A FOAF will dick it up. And then the **AA will pounce.
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No, I'm not saying that. But like it or not, some people do have a distrust of companies in certain areas, and with certain bits of personal data. Even here...how many times, when the subject of allofmp3.com comes up, do people say they wouldn't trust their credit card data with them, simply because it is in Russia.
Would you send your personal data to some unknown company in Bangladesh, Romania, or Pakistan? No, you wouldn't. But western companies are doing that for you. You may never know if and when they did. And you have little recourse when things go tits up.