These things? Controlled by someone miles away, just pushing a button?
We've had that capability for a couple of decades now. Cruise missiles.
Or even current fighter jets. You can hit a target dozens of miles away, without ever actually seeing it.
Someone who knows they're never going to be held accountable for obeying the order?
And why wouldn't they be held accountable? Not like these Reapers launch, arm, and fire all by themselves. Still a human controlling it. A human that can be identified and taken to task.
The F15 is still piloted by a person who is most likely still human.
So is this aircraft. It is not a robot, in the traditional sense. It is a remotely controlled aircraft. It happens to be the first such dedicated to, and capable of carrying out, ground attacks.
...because we won't go to Mars.
"The president says we're going there". Sure he is. He's also saying lots of other things.
He is not, however, financing NASA for this. Yes, they're cutting all kinds of other projects to scrape the money together. But it won't work, simply because they need true support From Above to do so instead of just some babbling.
Bush is gone in 18 months. Will you be as quick to blame the next president when he or she also doesn't fund it enough? Or even chops the concept altogether?
Although the leap to Bush is a bit tedious to make this many times in one day... he does have a point.
How do we prepare our youth for their adult lives...
How did your parents prepare you? This started long, long before Bush and Co.
"I did not have sex with that woman..."
"I looked on a lot of women with lust.."
"I am not a criminal..."
GP is full of shit. A $200,000 house must be in rural Iowa or somewhere.
Oh bullshit. Remove NYC, CT, most of California...a couple of other places...and a $200k house is just about right.
As I sit here in my $200,000 4bdrm shack, 15 mins from the beach, 30 mins from a major beach resort, looking out over my kids playing in the pool...
You're lucky to get a bare-Earth quarter acre for $400,000 in many places.
Yes, you're right. Depending on your definition of 'many'. But in most places, $400,000 is more than enough to buy two. One to live in, and one for rental income.
If you are one of these 5.000 people with access to this service...
I didn't think I was. Got no notice or anything. Went to http://login.live.com/ and signed up. Already had a MS Passsport logon from long ago. It let me sign up. Checking again this morning, my account is still active.
That, and other privacy issues...are things I'd like to see clearly addressed and spelled out in their EULA.
It doesn't sound that far removed from Google's.
I am also interested in how this all fits in with their current DRM schemes and related practices. Will they DRM any music I upload?
Apparently, no. I just uploaded, via XP+FireFox, a DRM free mp3, from an eMusic file I own. Then accessed and downloaded that same file via Ubuntu+FireFox box. Plays just like any other mp3.
And where are they going to launch these craft? Not in the USA.... Bob Bigelow [wikipedia.org] had to take his launch to Russia.
Bigelow was/is launching modules, not the full rocket.
From your link:
"Bigelow Aerospace planned to launch the initial Genesis I module in November 2005 on the maiden launch of the SpaceX Falcon 5 rocket. This launch was delayed to Q4 2006 and subsequently to Q1 2008. In the meantime, the initial Genesis I flight was switched to the Kosmotras Dnepr rocket."
Not a case of 'not in the USA', but rather his initial choice of launch vehicle didn't pan out.
Think about it - you are stopped by the police for going through a yellow light. No ticket issued, just a warning.
Worse than that...if you are seen talking to the police for any reason.
You are a witness at a traffic accident. One of your helpful neighbors is filming the scene, with you face to face with the cop. The video shows up the next day. Depending on how it was shot and edited, it could look quite bad.
When the cost to get payload to the surface of Mars is on the order of several to many tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram, and the cost to get it back all the higher, you're not looking at "the future of humanity". You're looking at a boondoggle that's ripping off actual science programs -- not to mention, money that could instead be put into research to reduce launch costs.
Columbus, Magellan, and the Mayflower voyage were very expensive trips as well. Today, not so much.
There is no reason decent high speed net access shouldn't be available to everyone bar those living in the sticks and mountains.
When were these buildings constructed? Long before the intarweb, or cable, or any thought of highspeed net acccess. Yes, it can be done, but it is much more expensive to rewire an old building rather than to design in facilities in a new building for highspeed. Who pays for that rewire? The landlord? Why? The cable/DSL company? Maybe. The NYC govt? Higher taxes to pay for it.
Redoing NYC, or Chicago, or Detroit, or Baltimore is not a small proposal.
We should be expecting at least 100/100mbps services for the same prices we pay for our crappy cablemodems and DSL in our denser cities.
And a lot of people are purposely not paying for 'broadband' over dialup, because they don't need/want it. Rather they think they don't need it. There have been a LOT of people that have gone back to cheaper dialup from broadband, simply because they don't need it, and don't want to pay the extra.
The guy was evading taxes (even if he didn't realize it), and must pay the price. End of story.
Nonsense. If I built a car that runs on pure sunshine, am I evading the tax? No. Their system is broken, because it assumes ALL cars can use only 2 types of fuel, gas or diesel, and they tax the consumption of those to pay for and maintain the road infrastructure (yeah, right). One of my vehicles is powered by pizza and beer. Am I also guilty for avoiding paying a fuel tax?
The average school in the US spends about 6K per student some of the schools you might consider poor (lets look at DC) spend upwards of twice that. 12K per kid per year that more than double what many elite private schools charge usually only 70% of that (not the kind with ponies and security teams where diplomats send their kids those are in a league of their own).
So when someone says our schools cant afford this or that I have to wonder when a class of 20 kids brings in a quarter million dollars (so a school of 2000 kids has a budget of 24 million dollars why the hell cant they afford it! and why can the private schools who charge 50 to 75% of your budget do what you can not?
Obviously, the schools you went to did not spend nearly enough in the English department.
Rolladens. Shutters, built into the wall. Raise and lower either with a cord or electric/remote. Excellent protection for storms, and lockable for security. I had these in Germany, and they were excellent.
Just because someone might of had a gun during that whole ordeal doesn't mean that they would of gotten the chance to use it OR even had the experience to use it in a positive manner.
Being a 'gun-free' zone, the students and faculty at Virginia Tech had zero chance. I'll take 'maybe a chance' over 'zero chance' anytime.
including now you have two (or more) people in a building under extreme amounts of duress with the means to kill other people.
The spammer is not a danger to society, just a pain in the arse so an appropriate punishment is a small prison sentence, coupled with a phenomenal fine - e.g. 10 million dollars.
So if you're a rich, successful criminal, you should get off very lightly? $10 million may be a lot to thee and me, but is it to him? And if he doesn't have $10 million, well, you can't get blood from a stone.
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These things? Controlled by someone miles away, just pushing a button?
We've had that capability for a couple of decades now. Cruise missiles.
Or even current fighter jets. You can hit a target dozens of miles away, without ever actually seeing it.
Someone who knows they're never going to be held accountable for obeying the order?
And why wouldn't they be held accountable? Not like these Reapers launch, arm, and fire all by themselves. Still a human controlling it. A human that can be identified and taken to task.
The F15 is still piloted by a person who is most likely still human.
So is this aircraft. It is not a robot, in the traditional sense. It is a remotely controlled aircraft. It happens to be the first such dedicated to, and capable of carrying out, ground attacks.
Netflix + software + TiVo = a few hundred GB of movies online, ready to watch.
Waterwheels need the water moving fast enough to torque the wheel. That seems to be a contradiction.
Gears. If you have a large mass of water moving, it doesn't need to be moving fast.
...because we won't go to Mars.
"The president says we're going there". Sure he is. He's also saying lots of other things.
He is not, however, financing NASA for this. Yes, they're cutting all kinds of other projects to scrape the money together. But it won't work, simply because they need true support From Above to do so instead of just some babbling.
Bush is gone in 18 months. Will you be as quick to blame the next president when he or she also doesn't fund it enough? Or even chops the concept altogether?
Look, it's for damn sure that I'd rather have Bubba back in the White House than Dubya, any day of the week, twice on Sunday.
Luckily, neither of them can run again. Let's try something different this time.
Although the leap to Bush is a bit tedious to make this many times in one day... he does have a point.
How do we prepare our youth for their adult lives...
How did your parents prepare you? This started long, long before Bush and Co.
"I did not have sex with that woman..."
"I looked on a lot of women with lust.."
"I am not a criminal..."
1 extra pound in a car is nothing. Weight is important, but you can make it up elsewhere. 1 extra pound in a laptop is death.
GP is full of shit. A $200,000 house must be in rural Iowa or somewhere.
Oh bullshit. Remove NYC, CT, most of California...a couple of other places...and a $200k house is just about right.
As I sit here in my $200,000 4bdrm shack, 15 mins from the beach, 30 mins from a major beach resort, looking out over my kids playing in the pool...
You're lucky to get a bare-Earth quarter acre for $400,000 in many places.
Yes, you're right. Depending on your definition of 'many'. But in most places, $400,000 is more than enough to buy two. One to live in, and one for rental income.
If you are one of these 5.000 people with access to this service...
I didn't think I was. Got no notice or anything. Went to http://login.live.com/ and signed up. Already had a MS Passsport logon from long ago. It let me sign up. Checking again this morning, my account is still active.
I was under the impression that carbon fiber was actually renowned for being inflexible and tending to shatter, rather than deform
All depends on how it is laid up. Sprint Feet prosthetics.
How long before flight control surfaces that function by deforming or bending specific areas of the wing
About 20 years ago
The most relevant information to this whole thing (to me) is the EULA MS is foisting on people.
...are things I'd like to see clearly addressed and spelled out in their EULA.
Read it for yourself.
That, and other privacy issues
It doesn't sound that far removed from Google's.
I am also interested in how this all fits in with their current DRM schemes and related practices. Will they DRM any music I upload?
Apparently, no. I just uploaded, via XP+FireFox, a DRM free mp3, from an eMusic file I own. Then accessed and downloaded that same file via Ubuntu+FireFox box. Plays just like any other mp3.
And where are they going to launch these craft? Not in the USA.... Bob Bigelow [wikipedia.org] had to take his launch to Russia.
Bigelow was/is launching modules, not the full rocket.
From your link:
"Bigelow Aerospace planned to launch the initial Genesis I module in November 2005 on the maiden launch of the SpaceX Falcon 5 rocket. This launch was delayed to Q4 2006 and subsequently to Q1 2008. In the meantime, the initial Genesis I flight was switched to the Kosmotras Dnepr rocket."
Not a case of 'not in the USA', but rather his initial choice of launch vehicle didn't pan out.
Think about it - you are stopped by the police for going through a yellow light. No ticket issued, just a warning.
Worse than that...if you are seen talking to the police for any reason.
You are a witness at a traffic accident. One of your helpful neighbors is filming the scene, with you face to face with the cop. The video shows up the next day. Depending on how it was shot and edited, it could look quite bad.
When the cost to get payload to the surface of Mars is on the order of several to many tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram, and the cost to get it back all the higher, you're not looking at "the future of humanity". You're looking at a boondoggle that's ripping off actual science programs -- not to mention, money that could instead be put into research to reduce launch costs.
Columbus, Magellan, and the Mayflower voyage were very expensive trips as well. Today, not so much.
Gucci? Check. Hugo Boss? Check. Every other high end fashion retailer? Check.
Rather, every high end fashion counterfeiter.
Ok, not ALL of it is counterfeit. But way, way more than you'll find anywhere else.
There is no reason decent high speed net access shouldn't be available to everyone bar those living in the sticks and mountains.
When were these buildings constructed? Long before the intarweb, or cable, or any thought of highspeed net acccess. Yes, it can be done, but it is much more expensive to rewire an old building rather than to design in facilities in a new building for highspeed. Who pays for that rewire? The landlord? Why? The cable/DSL company? Maybe. The NYC govt? Higher taxes to pay for it.
Redoing NYC, or Chicago, or Detroit, or Baltimore is not a small proposal.
We should be expecting at least 100/100mbps services for the same prices we pay for our crappy cablemodems and DSL in our denser cities.
And a lot of people are purposely not paying for 'broadband' over dialup, because they don't need/want it. Rather they think they don't need it. There have been a LOT of people that have gone back to cheaper dialup from broadband, simply because they don't need it, and don't want to pay the extra.
The guy was evading taxes (even if he didn't realize it), and must pay the price. End of story.
Nonsense. If I built a car that runs on pure sunshine, am I evading the tax? No. Their system is broken, because it assumes ALL cars can use only 2 types of fuel, gas or diesel, and they tax the consumption of those to pay for and maintain the road infrastructure (yeah, right).
One of my vehicles is powered by pizza and beer. Am I also guilty for avoiding paying a fuel tax?
The average school in the US spends about 6K per student some of the schools you might consider poor (lets look at DC) spend upwards of twice that. 12K per kid per year that more than double what many elite private schools charge usually only 70% of that (not the kind with ponies and security teams where diplomats send their kids those are in a league of their own).
So when someone says our schools cant afford this or that I have to wonder when a class of 20 kids brings in a quarter million dollars (so a school of 2000 kids has a budget of 24 million dollars why the hell cant they afford it! and why can the private schools who charge 50 to 75% of your budget do what you can not?
Obviously, the schools you went to did not spend nearly enough in the English department.
Rolladens. Shutters, built into the wall. Raise and lower either with a cord or electric/remote. Excellent protection for storms, and lockable for security. I had these in Germany, and they were excellent.
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$54,000-$67,465 $121.465 total. Not a large amount of money. Especially to each individual. Wonder what they actually got for that.
It seems like there'd be more important security implications with disgruntled fired IT guys still having unbridled access to the company network.
Not all are fired/disgruntled. Some leave on good terms.
Just because someone might of had a gun during that whole ordeal doesn't mean that they would of gotten the chance to use it OR even had the experience to use it in a positive manner.
Being a 'gun-free' zone, the students and faculty at Virginia Tech had zero chance. I'll take 'maybe a chance' over 'zero chance' anytime.
including now you have two (or more) people in a building under extreme amounts of duress with the means to kill other people.
But only one with the intent to do so.
The spammer is not a danger to society, just a pain in the arse so an appropriate punishment is a small prison sentence, coupled with a phenomenal fine - e.g. 10 million dollars.
So if you're a rich, successful criminal, you should get off very lightly? $10 million may be a lot to thee and me, but is it to him?
And if he doesn't have $10 million, well, you can't get blood from a stone.