Ideas:
Join your local Chamber of Commerce and attend whatever events they sponsor. I do this, and always feel less alone.
Find a local "business center" - you know the kind with small offices, and a common mailroom/receptionist. Perhaps rent a mailbox and voicemail there (could serve as a classy place to meet up with clients) so you have a place to go every now and then. Get to you know your fellow tenants, perhaps it could help develop business contacts.
"Master and Commander" narrowly escapes being banned under this provision, as well, thanks to a large generous cash donation by Russell Crowe to the Democratic Party.
I've noticed Presidents usually keep a lot of their predecessors' policies intact. Don't count on any Democratic successor to Bush to make a serious attempt to repeal any of this Patriot Act crap.
IIRC, wasn't the "clipper chip" an idea initiated under the Clinton regime?
Democrats may be "liberal" but they're just as quick to trade our privacy and freedoms for so-called security if they think it'll score points with voters.
Hmmm... not sure I agree with that one.
I didn't feel I was watching anything special, and in fact it felt rather dull.
I think the first sci-fi series to incorporate frontier motifs was Galaxy Rangers, which rocked the cartoon world hard for the two or so seasons it ran.
I loved that show, and I thought it was great that there was some real violence in it.
Most people seem to think the story isn't real...
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Perhaps Stephen Glass has returned to journalism?
On a more serious note, the most disturbing part of that Wired story is how the guy downplays how dangerous these guys are. If there is any threat, real or perceived, to their business, they will eliminate that threat - quickly and with no hesitation.
1. Solotrek is no longer developing their Solotrek XFV. They auctioned off the existing prototype(s) after burning through their capital. At this point they're just a shell company making money licensing their vehicle for movie use. Mr. Boyle mentions the licensing, but not the near defunct status of SoloTrek.
2. The Breakthrough Physics Project always had tenuous status budgetarily, and it was finally killed off. Mr. Boyle doesn't mention the defunct status of this either. It's a shame the bean counters killed it, since it was mostly "thought experiments" performed by some of NASA's brightest and most forward-thinking scientists.
The information I mentioned above is right off the websites of Solotrek and the BPP, repectively.
Of all the natural catastrophes that could afflict Earth, an impending asteroid ain't so bad.
How about these gems:
A dark rougue planet or moon - too massive to have any hope of blasting or moving even if detected early.
A chunk of a brown dwarf - dense matter that would shatter us with gravity.
Cosmic ray blast - unlike particles from a solar storm, this would hit us at the speed of light, and would be undetectable. We wouldn't know it happened until we started dying at more or less the same time of radiation poisoning.
Closer to home, if a huge fissure opens up admitting seawater into the earth's lower crust, the sudden burst of steam could create a massive explosion that would blast apart the planet.
They aren't always that dramatic.
Fate can turn on some pretty small things.
I was in a contemplative mood recently,
and I traced back my career path, and the
two jobs I'm currently doing are directly
attributable to small things that I did or
experienced years back.
Now, I'm not an important person in the
scheme of the world, but I can recognize
the small things that had a big impact on my
life.
I remember reading a story on Chinese piracy in a business publication some years back.
It talked about how some of this piracy has tacit government support.
One official was asked about pirated software, and when the subject of the holographic authenticity logos came up he deadpanned, "that's what our Reflective Materials Institute is for.
Something like it happened in 1984. Excellent made for TV movie called Special Bulletin.
Made up to look like a realtime broadcast of a nuclear terrorist incident. I remember people were alarmed when they saw it, despite the disclaimers and the fact that it took place in the fictional studios of the "RBS" network.
Occasionally hokey, it was well written and acted, with a humdinger of an ending.
What you're saying implies something scary and menacing.
Hey, they wouldn't be building subs if there didn't exist an incredible demand for illicit narcotics in this country.
"For only 9 cents a child, you can reach America's youth and tell them the truth about video Piracy and how it hurts the movie industry, the American economy, and leads to severe tooth decay."
Should be to focus away from "spying on women" as the ads imply, toward home and business security applications. Perhaps selling an inexpensive home security DVR that talks IP so it can be checked remotely.
Maybe they'll listen to this post and we'll see scantily-clad burglars in the pop-ups?
Sports? Vacuous comedies? Insipid crime shows? Reality TV? Network news that's not even "long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting."
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Ideas: Join your local Chamber of Commerce and attend whatever events they sponsor. I do this, and always feel less alone. Find a local "business center" - you know the kind with small offices, and a common mailroom/receptionist. Perhaps rent a mailbox and voicemail there (could serve as a classy place to meet up with clients) so you have a place to go every now and then. Get to you know your fellow tenants, perhaps it could help develop business contacts.
Do you have the mendacity or the perspicacity to deal with the toxicity? Or the capacity?
"Master and Commander" narrowly escapes being banned under this provision, as well, thanks to a large generous cash donation by Russell Crowe to the Democratic Party.
I agree that it would be a good first step, but what I'm saying is, let's not get too optimistic about it if it happens.
I've noticed Presidents usually keep a lot of their predecessors' policies intact. Don't count on any Democratic successor to Bush to make a serious attempt to repeal any of this Patriot Act crap. IIRC, wasn't the "clipper chip" an idea initiated under the Clinton regime? Democrats may be "liberal" but they're just as quick to trade our privacy and freedoms for so-called security if they think it'll score points with voters.
Hmmm... not sure I agree with that one. I didn't feel I was watching anything special, and in fact it felt rather dull. I think the first sci-fi series to incorporate frontier motifs was Galaxy Rangers, which rocked the cartoon world hard for the two or so seasons it ran. I loved that show, and I thought it was great that there was some real violence in it.
Perhaps Stephen Glass has returned to journalism? On a more serious note, the most disturbing part of that Wired story is how the guy downplays how dangerous these guys are. If there is any threat, real or perceived, to their business, they will eliminate that threat - quickly and with no hesitation.
He should be reassigned to one of these reactors.. pronto!
Paging Mr. Burns...
Please don't do this, China.
Focus on your emerging space program instead...
1. Solotrek is no longer developing their Solotrek XFV. They auctioned off the existing prototype(s) after burning through their capital. At this point they're just a shell company making money licensing their vehicle for movie use. Mr. Boyle mentions the licensing, but not the near defunct status of SoloTrek.
2. The Breakthrough Physics Project always had tenuous status budgetarily, and it was finally killed off. Mr. Boyle doesn't mention the defunct status of this either. It's a shame the bean counters killed it, since it was mostly "thought experiments" performed by some of NASA's brightest and most forward-thinking scientists.
The information I mentioned above is right off the websites of Solotrek and the BPP, repectively.
Of all the natural catastrophes that could afflict Earth, an impending asteroid ain't so bad. How about these gems: A dark rougue planet or moon - too massive to have any hope of blasting or moving even if detected early. A chunk of a brown dwarf - dense matter that would shatter us with gravity. Cosmic ray blast - unlike particles from a solar storm, this would hit us at the speed of light, and would be undetectable. We wouldn't know it happened until we started dying at more or less the same time of radiation poisoning. Closer to home, if a huge fissure opens up admitting seawater into the earth's lower crust, the sudden burst of steam could create a massive explosion that would blast apart the planet.
Ash and Bishop from Alien and Aliens...
It comes with a special controller that goes from the PC or gaming console straight to "any part of your skin"
They aren't always that dramatic. Fate can turn on some pretty small things. I was in a contemplative mood recently, and I traced back my career path, and the two jobs I'm currently doing are directly attributable to small things that I did or experienced years back. Now, I'm not an important person in the scheme of the world, but I can recognize the small things that had a big impact on my life.
Check out the rec.guns newsgroup - this was brought up a while before this story broke by a poster on that group.
I remember reading a story on Chinese piracy in a business publication some years back. It talked about how some of this piracy has tacit government support. One official was asked about pirated software, and when the subject of the holographic authenticity logos came up he deadpanned, "that's what our Reflective Materials Institute is for.
Something like it happened in 1984. Excellent made for TV movie called Special Bulletin. Made up to look like a realtime broadcast of a nuclear terrorist incident. I remember people were alarmed when they saw it, despite the disclaimers and the fact that it took place in the fictional studios of the "RBS" network. Occasionally hokey, it was well written and acted, with a humdinger of an ending.
That if we use our nonrenewables wisely, we'll have an abundance of them to use, right?
What you're saying implies something scary and menacing.
Hey, they wouldn't be building subs if there didn't exist an incredible demand for illicit narcotics in this country.
Frederick Pohl covered the idea of altering humans for hostile environments really well with Man Plus.
Ah, nice TMBG reference!
"For only 9 cents a child, you can reach America's youth and tell them the truth about video Piracy and how it hurts the movie industry, the American economy, and leads to severe tooth decay."
Should be to focus away from "spying on women" as the ads imply, toward home and business security applications. Perhaps selling an inexpensive home security DVR that talks IP so it can be checked remotely. Maybe they'll listen to this post and we'll see scantily-clad burglars in the pop-ups?
Sports? Vacuous comedies? Insipid crime shows? Reality TV? Network news that's not even "long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting."
A lot of those robots aren't even that good at what they do!