Scaled Composites has chosen a test flight area that's already been used countless times.
Yes, permit consideration should center around safety first, but when a test area is long-established as safe (as I understand that part of the Mojave is), taking a long time to approve a launch is just a bunch of bureaucratic BS.
I have to wonder if the launch permit will be held up until NASA's shuttle flights resume?
I also suspect that the launch permitting process will actually become more cumbersome and lengthy as these private space ventures start to succeed?
Why? Because I don't think the government wants to be "shown up" by scrappy space entrepreneurs.
How about if everyone generates their own power (Internal combustion units, fuel calls, wind, solar, or some combo thereof) and the big power plants' job is to back those units up when they run out of fuel or break down.
A distributed power network like this is the way to go to avoid blackouts. It also makes power disruptions by terrorists pretty much a non-issue.
It's obviously been years since I've checked T1 pricing. I recall a figure of $1500/month, but it seems to have gone down from what all of you are saying.
I never subscribed to a T1, I was just curious one day five years ago.
I buy Realtek cards from Ebay vendors for $5 - $8 each, and sell them for $20-$25 each.
I also buy various cables, such as USB for super low prices and mark them up to near retail.
In addition, I charge $5 for just about any length Ethernet cable I make. The kit I bought was on special - 1000' of Cat5E, with a crimper and some RJ-45 heads - total cost - $60.
Ethernet and USB cables are so bloody expensive at retail - buy them from Ebay vendors, guys!
RE: Uptime - yes, critical to most companies - but to most home users? My clients with Optonline report only about 1-2 outages a year.
Verizon DSL seems to be more reliable than Optonline, only going out as often (in my area) as the dialtone itself, which is close to never.
With the right pricing plan, it's only 1.5 mbps for $30.00/month.
My only point is to see a silver lining here, that these "low" speeds are still outstanding compared to dialup, and far cheaper than a T1 which was your only highspeed choice even five years ago in most areas.
Yes, and please don't export your gun-grabbiness to the States. We do have it, but we really don't want it - only our politicians do so they can "fight crime" without going after the reasons crime exists.
Should be repealing that ridiculous gun ban of theirs.
Many Australians live far, far away from any law enforcement personnel and have only themselves to rely on.
The violent crime rate spiked up in Australia right after the ban, because gun laws disarm the law-abiding, not criminals.
Let's hope good sense is starting to prevail Down Under.
I remember hearing 15 years ago about the links between work patterns and climate, although it was a bit more focused on the effect holidays had on factories being closed, with a net result of diminished cloud cover and rainfall (less particulates for clouds to form aronud.)
Also, anyone here familiar with "chemtrails" and their close cousin the contrail-induced cloud cover? Not new either - I saw in a 1979 issue of Omni that scientists were looking into jet contrails as the cause of high altitude cloud formation.
So just output them through an analog source and captur. A bit more work, but it's as much a matter of principle now as it is of practicality.
Why is the intellectual property we buy suddenly not our own to do with as we wish?
Is the prosecution of the innocent.
This isn't nearly as bad as when cops barge into the wrong house, shoot first and then realize they've injured or killed a completely innocent person.
I'm still convinced that we're headed toward having these things in all of cars.
We'll probably have our speeds monitored (and our insurance companies notified or even worse, our bank accounts debited) in real time.
Nothing we can do about it. The roads will still have posted speed limits of 55, even though the practical speed of traffic flow is closer to 70. Care to complain? Hey - you were speeding, we have the black box to prove it. Great source of revenue for the states and insurance companies for whom state legislatures have been creating traffic penalties to enrich them.
I remember being told by more than one HR professional that faking timesheets is serious because they serve as a legal statement of one's whereabouts.
It's a minor reason for punching in and out, but a real one.
Because the usual "we trust you to work 40 hours, you'r salaried" gets distorted both ways - "favored" employees seem to get away with stealing an hour or two here and there, and the rest get pushed to work more than that.
Documenting comings and going protects both the employee and the employer.
Punching in and out also creates a stronger alibi in the rare case of being accused of a crime during work hours.
Regardless of Astrological Sign, your job will be outsourced to another country.
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Yeah, they're really doing a lot of good by making Knoppix inaccessible, really hurting the bad guys and promoting Open Source. I also heard that hungerstrikes and peace rallies work wonders, too.
With the Internet, I've:
- Gotten movie listings in a flash
- Obtained accurate driving directions
- Connected with women quickly and efficiently
- Found new clients for my business
- Avoided bad products and found great ones
by reading online reviews written by hoi polloi
- Purchased computer parts for a fraction of
their retail price
- Sold crap I didn't need to raise a bit of cash
- Looked up symptoms I've felt to see which
illnesses they mapped to
- Chatted with a locksmith who talked me through
swapping out the doorknobs in my apartment
- Tracked down and ordered countless hard to find
books and movies I would have searched for
countless additional years for.
Oh yeah, like it's really a tool in search of a job.
These critters are destroying docks and wharves down in the bayou country.
They're big, nasty and... tasty!
Interesting that Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books feature a certain "Professor Coypu."
These days translates to, "we're updating to limit your freedom of functionality."
This is reminiscent of how "closed for renovation" really means "we shut our doors and declared bankruptcy so we could screw our ex-employees and our suppliers"
If that's where our tech support and software development jobs are going, then their wages will go up, and an increasing number of them will be able to afford the simputer, right?
As for those knee-jerkers who say, "let's provide food, water, etc. first" please remember that this is being marketed and sold by a private company that has no obligation to address those sorts of social problems. If anything, increasing a country's tech literacy helps increase the general prosperity
I was almost killed last night by some a-hole driving a Mustang at 45 mph in a convenience store parking lot.
Rich and famous people seem to get off easy in their fast machines, even when they hurt or kill someone.
Or that the principle at work here is called (I think) "closure."
Is it dangerous to our language to promulgate this sort of thing?
By reassuring writers that their scrambled verbiage can in many cases be readable, we may be heading to a slippery slope of increasing incomprehensibility.
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Scaled Composites has chosen a test flight area that's already been used countless times. Yes, permit consideration should center around safety first, but when a test area is long-established as safe (as I understand that part of the Mojave is), taking a long time to approve a launch is just a bunch of bureaucratic BS.
Sorry about those extra question marks in that post of mine. Not sure why I put them in there.
I have to wonder if the launch permit will be held up until NASA's shuttle flights resume? I also suspect that the launch permitting process will actually become more cumbersome and lengthy as these private space ventures start to succeed? Why? Because I don't think the government wants to be "shown up" by scrappy space entrepreneurs.
How about if everyone generates their own power (Internal combustion units, fuel calls, wind, solar, or some combo thereof) and the big power plants' job is to back those units up when they run out of fuel or break down. A distributed power network like this is the way to go to avoid blackouts. It also makes power disruptions by terrorists pretty much a non-issue.
It's obviously been years since I've checked T1 pricing. I recall a figure of $1500/month, but it seems to have gone down from what all of you are saying. I never subscribed to a T1, I was just curious one day five years ago.
I buy Realtek cards from Ebay vendors for $5 - $8 each, and sell them for $20-$25 each. I also buy various cables, such as USB for super low prices and mark them up to near retail. In addition, I charge $5 for just about any length Ethernet cable I make. The kit I bought was on special - 1000' of Cat5E, with a crimper and some RJ-45 heads - total cost - $60. Ethernet and USB cables are so bloody expensive at retail - buy them from Ebay vendors, guys!
RE: Uptime - yes, critical to most companies - but to most home users? My clients with Optonline report only about 1-2 outages a year.
Verizon DSL seems to be more reliable than Optonline, only going out as often (in my area) as the dialtone itself, which is close to never.
With the right pricing plan, it's only 1.5 mbps for $30.00/month.
My only point is to see a silver lining here, that these "low" speeds are still outstanding compared to dialup, and far cheaper than a T1 which was your only highspeed choice even five years ago in most areas.
Than $1500/month for a 1.5 mbps T1.
Yes, and please don't export your gun-grabbiness to the States. We do have it, but we really don't want it - only our politicians do so they can "fight crime" without going after the reasons crime exists.
Should be repealing that ridiculous gun ban of theirs. Many Australians live far, far away from any law enforcement personnel and have only themselves to rely on. The violent crime rate spiked up in Australia right after the ban, because gun laws disarm the law-abiding, not criminals. Let's hope good sense is starting to prevail Down Under.
I remember hearing 15 years ago about the links between work patterns and climate, although it was a bit more focused on the effect holidays had on factories being closed, with a net result of diminished cloud cover and rainfall (less particulates for clouds to form aronud.) Also, anyone here familiar with "chemtrails" and their close cousin the contrail-induced cloud cover? Not new either - I saw in a 1979 issue of Omni that scientists were looking into jet contrails as the cause of high altitude cloud formation.
So just output them through an analog source and captur. A bit more work, but it's as much a matter of principle now as it is of practicality. Why is the intellectual property we buy suddenly not our own to do with as we wish?
Is the prosecution of the innocent. This isn't nearly as bad as when cops barge into the wrong house, shoot first and then realize they've injured or killed a completely innocent person.
I'm still convinced that we're headed toward having these things in all of cars.
We'll probably have our speeds monitored (and our insurance companies notified or even worse, our bank accounts debited) in real time.
Nothing we can do about it. The roads will still have posted speed limits of 55, even though the practical speed of traffic flow is closer to 70. Care to complain? Hey - you were speeding, we have the black box to prove it. Great source of revenue for the states and insurance companies for whom state legislatures have been creating traffic penalties to enrich them.
I remember being told by more than one HR professional that faking timesheets is serious because they serve as a legal statement of one's whereabouts. It's a minor reason for punching in and out, but a real one.
Because the usual "we trust you to work 40 hours, you'r salaried" gets distorted both ways - "favored" employees seem to get away with stealing an hour or two here and there, and the rest get pushed to work more than that. Documenting comings and going protects both the employee and the employer. Punching in and out also creates a stronger alibi in the rare case of being accused of a crime during work hours.
Regardless of Astrological Sign, your job will be outsourced to another country.
Yeah, they're really doing a lot of good by making Knoppix inaccessible, really hurting the bad guys and promoting Open Source. I also heard that hungerstrikes and peace rallies work wonders, too.
With the Internet, I've:
- Gotten movie listings in a flash
- Obtained accurate driving directions
- Connected with women quickly and efficiently
- Found new clients for my business
- Avoided bad products and found great ones
by reading online reviews written by hoi polloi
- Purchased computer parts for a fraction of
their retail price
- Sold crap I didn't need to raise a bit of cash
- Looked up symptoms I've felt to see which
illnesses they mapped to
- Chatted with a locksmith who talked me through
swapping out the doorknobs in my apartment
- Tracked down and ordered countless hard to find
books and movies I would have searched for
countless additional years for.
Oh yeah, like it's really a tool in search of a job.
These critters are destroying docks and wharves down in the bayou country. They're big, nasty and... tasty! Interesting that Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books feature a certain "Professor Coypu."
Or watch a helluv a lot of DVDs between charges!
These days translates to, "we're updating to limit your freedom of functionality." This is reminiscent of how "closed for renovation" really means "we shut our doors and declared bankruptcy so we could screw our ex-employees and our suppliers"
If that's where our tech support and software development jobs are going, then their wages will go up, and an increasing number of them will be able to afford the simputer, right? As for those knee-jerkers who say, "let's provide food, water, etc. first" please remember that this is being marketed and sold by a private company that has no obligation to address those sorts of social problems. If anything, increasing a country's tech literacy helps increase the general prosperity
I was almost killed last night by some a-hole driving a Mustang at 45 mph in a convenience store parking lot. Rich and famous people seem to get off easy in their fast machines, even when they hurt or kill someone.
Or that the principle at work here is called (I think) "closure."
Is it dangerous to our language to promulgate this sort of thing?
By reassuring writers that their scrambled verbiage can in many cases be readable, we may be heading to a slippery slope of increasing incomprehensibility.