I'm interested in how many such incidents can be reported about the USA and other countries.
I'll bet there isn't a single country/political entity on the planet who hasn't done some of this within the last xx years. Yes, even the Vatican. Ok..maybe Andorra. hmmm no...they probably harbor some Basques. Lichenstein? naaa...too much money & banking there for there NOT to be some scandal. Some South Pacific island? naaa....they're screwing over the neighboring island just like everyone else.
If you can come up with a list of such countries, that would be a VERY short list. Not saying such actions are right, but don't single out the US.
Sure, Kerry is a better debater and public speaker. That doesn't automatically mean "better president". He may or may not be, but debate skills are but a small part of the deal. If Al Sharpton were included in these debates, he'd eat both of them for lunch as far as oratory skills. That doesn't mean dear ol' Al would be a "better president".
More energy expended cycling over walking? I think not. Moving me 3.5 miles to work walking expends more energy than moving me+30lb bike when cycling. The mechanical advantage of the bike gearing overcomes the bikes own weight.
And cycling takes less out of my pocket. $1 each way for the bus (estimate, because I have no actual idea) = the cost of a new bike every year. As my two current bikes are 5 and 23 years old, I think I'm ahead on that aspect. Cycling isn't free (tires, chains, maintenance) but it sure is cheaper than anything but walking. And far faster.
Cycling to work also takes the place of other, necessary exercise. If I weren't cycling, I'd have to be doing something else. Expending those same calories. Cycling allows me to multitask on the way to work...exercise and transport.
Not actually 'free', but subsidised. Either your employer, your bank, the mall, or your town paid for the land, paid to have it paved, pays to have it maintained and striped routinely. Unless vast expanses of asphalt just appear by magic, someone is paying for it. And that someone is almost always us, either directly or indirectly.
Friend of mine was contacted by the CIA just prior to getting his PhD. He would be the lead in some obscure segment of (at the time) of Cold War intel.
His thoughts: "Working for those guys...you can be the absolute best in the world in what you do, but you can never tell anyone about it." The NSA would be the same.
To get to "Space", you have to launch, presumably from this country, and have to fly through airspace, over this country. All easily under the jurisdiction of Congress.
Once you're up there, it's a different story (international rules, perhaps). But get there first.
Of course, many cars of the up into the 1970's didn't have power brakes or steering. And do you know what? They were steerable and stopable at all speeds. Basic steering and braking systems have NOT changed at all since then.
They were designed to allow a normal strength human to steer/stop it. When you design in power assist, the engineers can change the ratios to account for the power assist. A car built with power steering is pretty hard (but not impossible) to drive when it quits. I had an 'interesting' ride in my fathers '75 Ford Torino when the pump quit one night on a twisty downhill road. Very hard to steer more than a couple of degrees.
When you start counting, don't forget some of the X-15 missions qualified under FAI and USAF rules as being 'space flight'. Pilots were accorded astronaut wings.
And you probably can't find the actual number of Soviet cosmonauts. Evidently, a couple(?) went up, but didn't come back down.
The first group of astronauts were at the apex of the pilot pyramid. A VERY competitive field. Test pilots are engineers who happen to fly extremely well.
And it was not quite as simple as you make it seem, because no one had ever done it before. NASA didn't simply build it and dump some random warm body in it. The astronauts were as much a part of the development team as the sliderule carrying geeks. The campaigned (and won) for windows ("Oh, the extra stress factor!"), and a control stick to actually fly the damn thing.
Get off your military bashing, and realize that some people go into the military for other reasons beyond "a bleak future". That is the only place where you can fly fighter jets. If you'd ever flown or ridden in one, or known some of these pilots, you might get the merest inkling of what these guys were all about.
I commute regularly by bike, and I've ridden a couple of commercial elec bikes. The $1000 Giant LaFree, and some $500 thing from Huffy.
My take? The motor+batteries+drivetrain provides enough power to overcome the extra weight of the motor+batteries+drivetrain. And when/if you're out and about, with a low battery....you have a 75lb bike to try to pedal around.
If you live in an apartment, you're in trouble. You can toos a regular bike over your shoulder no problem. A 75lb eBike is something else.
Be sure to beef up the kickstand, and watch the CoG. The Huffy model I tried would not stay upright on the stock kickstand (too much weight in the back).
The White House is the final authority in Iraq today and will be for many years to come.
Short term, yes. Violent regime change is not easy. And this is but an interim government, designed to take Iraq through this transition period. Eventually, they will elect whatever government they want. Hopefully, they will not be bullied by the militant minority with guns (either Westerners OR militant Arabs) into voting something other than what they actually want.
At least now, there exists the possibility. Before, under Saddam, that possibility did not exist.
"Unlimited", just like cable connections. (Unlimited, unless we think you're using too much. No published number, but just what we think on that particular day, depending on who you talk to)
I would propose that actually physically seeing out of the window is less and less neccessary.
But not totally unnecessary. In the event of a systems failure, looking out the window may be the last resort to get the plane on the ground. Take that option away, and you're screwed.
Redundancy and graceful failure modes can help reduce the risk, but I don't think we're there yet to be able to completely do away with cockpit windows.
I still want to know where my kids are and have some notification when they break boundaries or curfew.
Are they obeying those boundraies because you're taught them it's the right thing to do, or because they know dad is tracking them? Big difference. Curfew is a non-issue. Either they're home or they're not.
Or the reverse...a (supposedly) peaceful crowd/person, being repressed/beaten by the cops
Recently, there was a case whereby a black man was being arrested by the cops, a fight ensued, and the guy died in the struggle. Much video on TV, blah, blah.
A couple of frames from that video, taken out of context, would look really bad for the cops. 2 white cops beating a gentle black man to death, just because. Viewing the whole thing, and the medical info to follow, though, shows a different story. A 350 lb crackhead, on PCP, with an enlarged heart, attacking the cops. (Them being called out because he was being irrational in a fast food store)
Report the story, but report the whole story. Not just the parts that fit your personal biases. (Dan Rather, this means you)
If the culprit's one of your housemates, I guess you can just talk it over... I mean, if the recordings were only done for private purposes and only involve adults, kicking the guy out and destroying the evidence sounds like a reasonable punishment.
[perv] "Whew...got off easy on that one. Wonder how tech savvy my next roomates will be?" [/perv]
Destroying the evidence? Not just the camera/radio, but also, all of his webspace, all of his CDROM's, all of his hard drives, etc., etc... Are you sure no other copies exist? 20 years from now, will pics of your drunken, naked ass turn up when you're running for school board? After all...now you've pissed him off by catching him and kicking him out. And he is not wound too tight.
There is a loooong way from the defense systems of a presidential jet to pictures of your neighbourhood.
Sure. Pics of your neighborhood should be FOIA. I used a similar one from Terraserver(?) to draw my backyard, and to design a deck/patio. But, as I said in my original, not all images collected by these guys should be. The hard part is defining what is and isn't.
Detailed overhead pics of your neighborhood? Sure. Detailed overhead pics of a nuclear powerplant? That's a different story.
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I'll bet there isn't a single country/political entity on the planet who hasn't done some of this within the last xx years. Yes, even the Vatican.
Ok..maybe Andorra. hmmm no...they probably harbor some Basques.
Lichenstein? naaa...too much money & banking there for there NOT to be some scandal.
Some South Pacific island? naaa....they're screwing over the neighboring island just like everyone else.
If you can come up with a list of such countries, that would be a VERY short list. Not saying such actions are right, but don't single out the US.
And that, after all, is the ultimate goal.
And cycling takes less out of my pocket. $1 each way for the bus (estimate, because I have no actual idea) = the cost of a new bike every year. As my two current bikes are 5 and 23 years old, I think I'm ahead on that aspect. Cycling isn't free (tires, chains, maintenance) but it sure is cheaper than anything but walking. And far faster.
Cycling to work also takes the place of other, necessary exercise. If I weren't cycling, I'd have to be doing something else. Expending those same calories. Cycling allows me to multitask on the way to work...exercise and transport.
Besides....I like cycling. Period.
Or Kerry. Same school. Same 'sooper sekrit society'.
Not actually 'free', but subsidised. Either your employer, your bank, the mall, or your town paid for the land, paid to have it paved, pays to have it maintained and striped routinely. Unless vast expanses of asphalt just appear by magic, someone is paying for it. And that someone is almost always us, either directly or indirectly.
Money that could go elsewhere.
My bicycle is my second car. Smaller, cheaper, zero emissions, and in town, almost as fast.
And if 0-60 is 20 seconds, 35-60 is pretty slow as well.
His thoughts:
"Working for those guys...you can be the absolute best in the world in what you do, but you can never tell anyone about it."
The NSA would be the same.
He passed.
Once you're up there, it's a different story (international rules, perhaps). But get there first.
Ahhh...what would a spelling flame be without containing an incorrectly spelled word of its own?
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A+, young AC, for carrying on the tradition!
Just like the first auto fataility. And we KNOW how rare travel by car is now.
They were designed to allow a normal strength human to steer/stop it. When you design in power assist, the engineers can change the ratios to account for the power assist. A car built with power steering is pretty hard (but not impossible) to drive when it quits. I had an 'interesting' ride in my fathers '75 Ford Torino when the pump quit one night on a twisty downhill road. Very hard to steer more than a couple of degrees.
And you probably can't find the actual number of Soviet cosmonauts. Evidently, a couple(?) went up, but didn't come back down.
The first group of astronauts were at the apex of the pilot pyramid. A VERY competitive field. Test pilots are engineers who happen to fly extremely well.
And it was not quite as simple as you make it seem, because no one had ever done it before. NASA didn't simply build it and dump some random warm body in it. The astronauts were as much a part of the development team as the sliderule carrying geeks. The campaigned (and won) for windows ("Oh, the extra stress factor!"), and a control stick to actually fly the damn thing.
Get off your military bashing, and realize that some people go into the military for other reasons beyond "a bleak future". That is the only place where you can fly fighter jets. If you'd ever flown or ridden in one, or known some of these pilots, you might get the merest inkling of what these guys were all about.
My take? The motor+batteries+drivetrain provides enough power to overcome the extra weight of the motor+batteries+drivetrain. And when/if you're out and about, with a low battery....you have a 75lb bike to try to pedal around.
If you live in an apartment, you're in trouble. You can toos a regular bike over your shoulder no problem. A 75lb eBike is something else.
Be sure to beef up the kickstand, and watch the CoG. The Huffy model I tried would not stay upright on the stock kickstand (too much weight in the back).
eBikes aren't bicycles anymore, they're baby motorcycles/mopeds.
Short term, yes. Violent regime change is not easy. And this is but an interim government, designed to take Iraq through this transition period.
Eventually, they will elect whatever government they want. Hopefully, they will not be bullied by the militant minority with guns (either Westerners OR militant Arabs) into voting something other than what they actually want.
At least now, there exists the possibility. Before, under Saddam, that possibility did not exist.
And in the years directly following that law, numbers of people cycling decreased.
"Unlimited", just like cable connections.
(Unlimited, unless we think you're using too much. No published number, but just what we think on that particular day, depending on who you talk to)
But not totally unnecessary. In the event of a systems failure, looking out the window may be the last resort to get the plane on the ground. Take that option away, and you're screwed.
Redundancy and graceful failure modes can help reduce the risk, but I don't think we're there yet to be able to completely do away with cockpit windows.
Are they obeying those boundraies because you're taught them it's the right thing to do, or because they know dad is tracking them? Big difference. Curfew is a non-issue. Either they're home or they're not.
And yes, I have teenagers.
I'd rather see more of these things applied to infants.
Let us know how it works out.
maybe even talks to you.
Thet do that normally after a while. Be patient.
Recently, there was a case whereby a black man was being arrested by the cops, a fight ensued, and the guy died in the struggle. Much video on TV, blah, blah.
A couple of frames from that video, taken out of context, would look really bad for the cops. 2 white cops beating a gentle black man to death, just because. Viewing the whole thing, and the medical info to follow, though, shows a different story.
A 350 lb crackhead, on PCP, with an enlarged heart, attacking the cops. (Them being called out because he was being irrational in a fast food store)
Report the story, but report the whole story. Not just the parts that fit your personal biases. (Dan Rather, this means you)
Kick her ass. Equal rights, and all that.
[perv]
"Whew...got off easy on that one. Wonder how tech savvy my next roomates will be?"
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Destroying the evidence? Not just the camera/radio, but also, all of his webspace, all of his CDROM's, all of his hard drives, etc., etc...
Are you sure no other copies exist? 20 years from now, will pics of your drunken, naked ass turn up when you're running for school board? After all...now you've pissed him off by catching him and kicking him out. And he is not wound too tight.
Sure. Pics of your neighborhood should be FOIA. I used a similar one from Terraserver(?) to draw my backyard, and to design a deck/patio. But, as I said in my original, not all images collected by these guys should be. The hard part is defining what is and isn't.
Detailed overhead pics of your neighborhood? Sure. Detailed overhead pics of a nuclear powerplant? That's a different story.