Sounds to me then it would be both simpler and better to build a custom spaceship for such an operation. Looks like the ISS is going go down in history as a boat anchor.
One thing that I've wondered is why can't the space shuttles be refit for moon missions? I know they are designed only for low orbit. Put extra fuel tanks in the cargo bay as well as several landers. With extra payload capacity of a shuttle and larger crew several places could be explored on the same mission.
Instead of putting it in to standard orbit around ether the Earth or the moon can we put it into a orbit where it orbits both? That way it could be used as a spaceship traveling between the earth and the moon. It could be refueled and resupplied as it pass around earth. It could then carry passengers to a moonbase or whatever is up there.
What do you recommend they do next time, use a crystal ball or ouija board to predict who's going to pull such a stunt?
Naw, those things don't work most of the time. I recommend bone tossing and tarot cards. Besides the last time I tried to use a ouija board to recover a password I kept getting this guy calling himself Houdini. He wanted me to get a message to his wife.
How about the capability to lock my damn task tray and desktop? I really get annoyed with every little program loading some shit in to my task tray or dropping useless icons all over my desktop. It would be nice to have some way to say only these programs can be in task tray or these icons on the desktop only.
Maybe better program control is the answer. I really hate having to go into Program Files and disable the permissions on NMindex and the other shit nero installs and runs as a service with out my permission. Maybe in the task manager have an option to kill a program and add it to a list that will never be allowed to run again.
I can't argue with on that. God, that was awful. Point to you and I concede. Nothing can ruin a good foreign film like shitty dubbing. Hell that is one of the main reasons I started watching my anime with the original sound track and using subs. I once read an interview with some of the voice actors and they where ask if they just made this shit up as they went along. The answer was yes. I have to admit that I think my Japanese as gotten pretty good because of it. I can't speak it but if I listen carefully I can understand most of it.
But I will stand by that if they had have done a real good english dub for Pan's then it would have done much better here in the States. But I will give you that it shouldn't be the first choice on the DVD.
Actually, asshole, I think you are in the minority. Now then, no where did I say adding subtitles to foreign films should be required? I just said in a visual movie like Pan Labyrinth they are distracting because you have to concentrate on them you may miss something important in the movie.
For the record I routinely watch anime with the Japanese sound track and english subs. But I think the distributor and the director where fools for not adding a english sound track to this movie, especially on the dvd. More people would have watched if they had. That is one thing the Anime people do correctly when they add a english track, no matter how they mangle it, and keep the Japanese track too.
And to clarify one more point. Pan's Labyrinth wasn't a kickass foreign film. It was a slightly interesting film at best. Personally I think it sucked but that is just my option. You are free to believe, no matter how incorrectly, in what ever fantasy you wish.
I see nothing really wrong here. Where I live people routinely give non descriptive meaning to words as numbers. I'm learned not to try to figure it out but just accept it. I mean who really knows what the difference is between a ass-load and a shit-load. Or how much is really in a fuck ton.
You didn't miss anything with Pan's Labyrinth. There was no english sound track so if you didn't speak spannish you had to fight the subtitles to understand it. In a movie with visuals like that you can miss important stuff on the screen while reading.
Pretty much the same here. While my phone doesn't ring when the caller is unknown it does light up and the number is still displayed on the caller id. After a few moments the call gets dumped to voice mail where they are free to leave a message. If I know them then I'll add them to my phone book. If they don't leave a message, fuck'em.
Probably was done like that but I refuse to dig out the manual or even attempt to figure out how I did it. I'm classifying this as deep magic and like all magic as soon as I try to figure out how it works I'm going to figure out it can be done. Then it will stop working.
I did something like that a few years back. Some fucking company trying to sell me life insurance kept calling and would leave dozens of messages on my machine. (I really didn't need any life insurance since I don't plan on ever dying.) They even filled up the damn machine one day.
I got the 800 number from the message, rigged up a script that would use the modem to dial back over and over. It went on for about 3 weeks till I lifted up the phone and heard that line has been disconnected message.
The problem with telling them not to call you requires you to send them a letter. An that only works for part of the time. Once the collection agencies get told to piss off on a dead tree they simply sell your debit to an affiliate or another company. Sometimes they just close up shop and reopen under a new name. Then the shit starts all over again.
I've had my current cell for a number of years now. I really can't figure out how I did it but some how I rigged my phone not to ring if your not in my phonebook. I have no clue how I did it but it works. It is the main feature on my phone, nokia 6820, that is why I won't part with it.
One of the monkeys down the phone store tried to talk me into a new palm beast with a 300 price tag. I told him why I kept the old one and he called bullshit until I showed him. He still insists that it is impossible.
My saying is if my phone doesn't know you I don't want to talk to you.
How do you know that they won't change their views back once elected?
They always change their views after the election. They have no choice. Right now O'bama doesn't know shit about what is going on out there. If his ass gets elected, once he gets that all important presidential security clearance, the NSA/CIA/FBI will take him aside and tell him all the shit he didn't know before. Then he'll back flip on so many issues you would think he is playing tiddly winks.
Yeap, them where the good ol' days all right. You didn't spend your time worrying about some religious freak taking your ass out with a car bomb. Our worries ran along the line some computer error taking out the whole damn planet. Nothing like the fear of global Armageddon to keep your mind focused.
I lived in Huntsville at the time which was a major strike area. I had at least 35 megatons pointed in the general direction of my ass for several years. I still have most of my nuclear war party pack. A folding lounge chair, a beach umbrella, sun tan lotion (SPF 45), straw hat, a pair cheap sunglasses, some flip flops, swim trunks, a bottle of tequila (the rest of the margarita fixings are long gone), salt, and a cassette of Jimmy Buffett (Songs You Know By Heart).
Doesn't matter. The Constitution protects the rights of Congresscritters to speak in public too.
That is exactly right. People have forgotten what the First Amendment is for. We have taken to use the freedom of speech to protect ourselves while using such words as "nigger", "cracker", and "honky." We have taken it to mean protection for controversial and even hateful speech. While such speech is protected and should be that is not what the freedom of speech was for.
Freedom of speech was to protect people from punishment while speaking out against the government. This includes congresscritters right to speak out against what the government is doing. This TFA is nothing more than an attempt to get representatives to shut up and tow the party line.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
There that settles that. I can understand the restrictions on public airwaves but blogs and webpages? Seriously, when an elected representative endorses or sponsors a law that is deemed unconstitutional that representative should face some sort of sanctions. Depending on how bad the law is this should range from fines, upto and including barred from public office and prison terms. This would make them more accountable for the BS they are tossing around and make them read and think about the damn bills they are rubber stamping.
No, we worried about our buildings being melted into heaps of slag by having 100 megaton H-bombs
No you didn't. There never was a 100 megaton H-bomb. The USSR designed one, Tzar I think, but it was more of a dick size experiment. The thing was the size of a locomotive. Way to big to be of any practical value. Hell, even they where afraid of the thing. When they tested it, they tested it at half yield, 52 Megatons.
Most US weapons where and remain in the 30-100+ KT range. The US does have some larger warheads in the megaton range but none above 10. Most of them, the B-83 I believe, 1.2 megatons. The Soviets did field more weapons in the megaton range than the US but most of those were under 5 MT.
The reason the US fields such smaller weapons that the USSR is accuracy. It has been said you can place a quarter in Red Square and the US could drop a warhead within 10 feet of it from anywhere in the world. Soviet weapons where not that accurate so the did use larger class warhead.
Once you get above a certain size nuclear weapons don't scale very well. While that 100 megaton weapon may look awesome on paper, truthfully it won't do much more damage than a 5 megaton hit. With that being said it makes more sense to blanket a area with several "small" nukes that hit with one big one. You would hit the target in a staggered overlapping pattern so that if one weapon failed its area would still be in the blast area of several others.
Torture... hoses... Sorry man, the password to my porn collection isn't that important. Its on the d: drive in a container labeled Porn.TC. The password is "tits and ass." Do you want the password to the secret stash of donkey porn?
I suffered for my porn collection but I'm not going to hurt for it.
I wouldn't never call anything impossible, just unlikely. The hidden compartment of TC is a pretty nifty feature but I don't think I would call it perfect. What one person believes impossible more often than not that person is wrong.
Those people may also know that there are other crypto software out there that don't have the hidden volume feature, so if you are voluntarily choosing TrueCrypt, there's a significant chance that you are using the hidden volume feature.
Or the fact that other crypt software costs $$$ and I'm to fucking cheap to shell out for it. TC is free after all.
Then there is that TC source is available and I can check it for backdoors myself.
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All excellent points. Maybe my OP should me modded as Funny because I do believe a lot of people are laughing at it.
Sounds to me then it would be both simpler and better to build a custom spaceship for such an operation. Looks like the ISS is going go down in history as a boat anchor.
One thing that I've wondered is why can't the space shuttles be refit for moon missions? I know they are designed only for low orbit. Put extra fuel tanks in the cargo bay as well as several landers. With extra payload capacity of a shuttle and larger crew several places could be explored on the same mission.
Instead of putting it in to standard orbit around ether the Earth or the moon can we put it into a orbit where it orbits both? That way it could be used as a spaceship traveling between the earth and the moon. It could be refueled and resupplied as it pass around earth. It could then carry passengers to a moonbase or whatever is up there.
What do you recommend they do next time, use a crystal ball or ouija board to predict who's going to pull such a stunt?
Naw, those things don't work most of the time. I recommend bone tossing and tarot cards. Besides the last time I tried to use a ouija board to recover a password I kept getting this guy calling himself Houdini. He wanted me to get a message to his wife.
How about the capability to lock my damn task tray and desktop? I really get annoyed with every little program loading some shit in to my task tray or dropping useless icons all over my desktop. It would be nice to have some way to say only these programs can be in task tray or these icons on the desktop only.
Maybe better program control is the answer. I really hate having to go into Program Files and disable the permissions on NMindex and the other shit nero installs and runs as a service with out my permission. Maybe in the task manager have an option to kill a program and add it to a list that will never be allowed to run again.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?
I can't argue with on that. God, that was awful. Point to you and I concede. Nothing can ruin a good foreign film like shitty dubbing. Hell that is one of the main reasons I started watching my anime with the original sound track and using subs. I once read an interview with some of the voice actors and they where ask if they just made this shit up as they went along. The answer was yes. I have to admit that I think my Japanese as gotten pretty good because of it. I can't speak it but if I listen carefully I can understand most of it.
But I will stand by that if they had have done a real good english dub for Pan's then it would have done much better here in the States. But I will give you that it shouldn't be the first choice on the DVD.
No. Next foolish request.
Actually, asshole, I think you are in the minority. Now then, no where did I say adding subtitles to foreign films should be required? I just said in a visual movie like Pan Labyrinth they are distracting because you have to concentrate on them you may miss something important in the movie.
For the record I routinely watch anime with the Japanese sound track and english subs. But I think the distributor and the director where fools for not adding a english sound track to this movie, especially on the dvd. More people would have watched if they had. That is one thing the Anime people do correctly when they add a english track, no matter how they mangle it, and keep the Japanese track too.
And to clarify one more point. Pan's Labyrinth wasn't a kickass foreign film. It was a slightly interesting film at best. Personally I think it sucked but that is just my option. You are free to believe, no matter how incorrectly, in what ever fantasy you wish.
Chow Baby!
I see nothing really wrong here. Where I live people routinely give non descriptive meaning to words as numbers. I'm learned not to try to figure it out but just accept it. I mean who really knows what the difference is between a ass-load and a shit-load. Or how much is really in a fuck ton.
Just smile and nod, that's what I do.
You didn't miss anything with Pan's Labyrinth. There was no english sound track so if you didn't speak spannish you had to fight the subtitles to understand it. In a movie with visuals like that you can miss important stuff on the screen while reading.
As for the story, it sucked.
Pretty much the same here. While my phone doesn't ring when the caller is unknown it does light up and the number is still displayed on the caller id. After a few moments the call gets dumped to voice mail where they are free to leave a message. If I know them then I'll add them to my phone book. If they don't leave a message, fuck'em.
Probably was done like that but I refuse to dig out the manual or even attempt to figure out how I did it. I'm classifying this as deep magic and like all magic as soon as I try to figure out how it works I'm going to figure out it can be done. Then it will stop working.
My personal favorite is when he responds to them with "EXCUSE ME, but I'm trying to masturbate here!"
I used to answer the phone nude too but for some reason it didn't have the same affect when I answer the door that way.
I did something like that a few years back. Some fucking company trying to sell me life insurance kept calling and would leave dozens of messages on my machine. (I really didn't need any life insurance since I don't plan on ever dying.) They even filled up the damn machine one day.
I got the 800 number from the message, rigged up a script that would use the modem to dial back over and over. It went on for about 3 weeks till I lifted up the phone and heard that line has been disconnected message.
The problem with telling them not to call you requires you to send them a letter. An that only works for part of the time. Once the collection agencies get told to piss off on a dead tree they simply sell your debit to an affiliate or another company. Sometimes they just close up shop and reopen under a new name. Then the shit starts all over again.
I've had my current cell for a number of years now. I really can't figure out how I did it but some how I rigged my phone not to ring if your not in my phonebook. I have no clue how I did it but it works. It is the main feature on my phone, nokia 6820, that is why I won't part with it.
One of the monkeys down the phone store tried to talk me into a new palm beast with a 300 price tag. I told him why I kept the old one and he called bullshit until I showed him. He still insists that it is impossible.
My saying is if my phone doesn't know you I don't want to talk to you.
How do you know that they won't change their views back once elected?
They always change their views after the election. They have no choice. Right now O'bama doesn't know shit about what is going on out there. If his ass gets elected, once he gets that all important presidential security clearance, the NSA/CIA/FBI will take him aside and tell him all the shit he didn't know before. Then he'll back flip on so many issues you would think he is playing tiddly winks.
Yeap, them where the good ol' days all right. You didn't spend your time worrying about some religious freak taking your ass out with a car bomb. Our worries ran along the line some computer error taking out the whole damn planet. Nothing like the fear of global Armageddon to keep your mind focused.
I lived in Huntsville at the time which was a major strike area. I had at least 35 megatons pointed in the general direction of my ass for several years. I still have most of my nuclear war party pack. A folding lounge chair, a beach umbrella, sun tan lotion (SPF 45), straw hat, a pair cheap sunglasses, some flip flops, swim trunks, a bottle of tequila (the rest of the margarita fixings are long gone), salt, and a cassette of Jimmy Buffett (Songs You Know By Heart).
Yeap, I was ready.
Doesn't matter. The Constitution protects the rights of Congresscritters to speak in public too.
That is exactly right. People have forgotten what the First Amendment is for. We have taken to use the freedom of speech to protect ourselves while using such words as "nigger", "cracker", and "honky." We have taken it to mean protection for controversial and even hateful speech. While such speech is protected and should be that is not what the freedom of speech was for.
Freedom of speech was to protect people from punishment while speaking out against the government. This includes congresscritters right to speak out against what the government is doing. This TFA is nothing more than an attempt to get representatives to shut up and tow the party line.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
There that settles that. I can understand the restrictions on public airwaves but blogs and webpages? Seriously, when an elected representative endorses or sponsors a law that is deemed unconstitutional that representative should face some sort of sanctions. Depending on how bad the law is this should range from fines, upto and including barred from public office and prison terms. This would make them more accountable for the BS they are tossing around and make them read and think about the damn bills they are rubber stamping.
No, we worried about our buildings being melted into heaps of slag by having 100 megaton H-bombs
No you didn't. There never was a 100 megaton H-bomb. The USSR designed one, Tzar I think, but it was more of a dick size experiment. The thing was the size of a locomotive. Way to big to be of any practical value. Hell, even they where afraid of the thing. When they tested it, they tested it at half yield, 52 Megatons.
Most US weapons where and remain in the 30-100+ KT range. The US does have some larger warheads in the megaton range but none above 10. Most of them, the B-83 I believe, 1.2 megatons. The Soviets did field more weapons in the megaton range than the US but most of those were under 5 MT.
The reason the US fields such smaller weapons that the USSR is accuracy. It has been said you can place a quarter in Red Square and the US could drop a warhead within 10 feet of it from anywhere in the world. Soviet weapons where not that accurate so the did use larger class warhead.
Once you get above a certain size nuclear weapons don't scale very well. While that 100 megaton weapon may look awesome on paper, truthfully it won't do much more damage than a 5 megaton hit. With that being said it makes more sense to blanket a area with several "small" nukes that hit with one big one. You would hit the target in a staggered overlapping pattern so that if one weapon failed its area would still be in the blast area of several others.
Don't ask me how I know all this.
Torture... hoses... Sorry man, the password to my porn collection isn't that important. Its on the d: drive in a container labeled Porn.TC. The password is "tits and ass." Do you want the password to the secret stash of donkey porn?
I suffered for my porn collection but I'm not going to hurt for it.
I wouldn't never call anything impossible, just unlikely. The hidden compartment of TC is a pretty nifty feature but I don't think I would call it perfect. What one person believes impossible more often than not that person is wrong.
Those people may also know that there are other crypto software out there that don't have the hidden volume feature, so if you are voluntarily choosing TrueCrypt, there's a significant chance that you are using the hidden volume feature.
Or the fact that other crypt software costs $$$ and I'm to fucking cheap to shell out for it. TC is free after all.
Then there is that TC source is available and I can check it for backdoors myself.