But Coolio had no standing to sue. Coolio "ripped" off Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise. When I say ripped, he used the chorus (slightly altered) and the melody. He added his own lyrics. I'm sure that Mr. Wonder was paid, so it really isn't infringement. Weird Al could have just dealt with Stevie Wonder I'm sure, because one could argue that his parody could have been based on Pastime Paradise. After all, Weird Al added his own lyrics and used the same slightly altered chorus. Coolio has no standing in this case. But I'm no lawyer.
For shits and giggles, I have done the same. check prices for coach, and then for first class. You'd think they would have more than a curtain seperating the two. And champagne, and hookers. They certainly have nicer seats.
Quit flying coach. You need first class.
Just kidding about the cheap bastard part. Like I can afford coach even. Hey, maybe on the new A380 first class will be cheaper, since it is more efficient and all, yeah, right. like the airlines will make first class cheaper...
Do they not recoup and produce more energy than was used to make them? Over the lifetime of the panel? We should also look at vegetable oil as an enegy source. Of course, a lot of people say that you need petrochemicals to grow them in the first place (like plants didn't grow before petrochemicals) There is a lot of fallow land in the US. Ethenol is an energy loss, hydro electric is established, nuclear, well I'm open to it. Cities are both simultaneously wasteful (the way we implement them) and have economies of scale going for them. Windpower needs wide open spaces, and wind of course. There are no easy answers.
Yes, and I live in Alabama. In can be over 90 and 99% humidity for over 100 days. I have summered here many years without A/C. But I'm young. I think that climate control as implemented in the US is very wasteful. Central heating and air, while nice, heats and cools a lot of empty rooms in the peoples' McMansions. And large office buildings are empty half the time (or more) yet are heated and cooled as if someone were there all the time. We need to think of better ways to live and work. I just don't think it was a fair comment that some of the alternate energy sources are "rickety". There are numerous examples of self sufficient homes. It costs alot, as much as some of the SUV's and cars that people drive, but unlike them, it would pay for itself. Large cities, are a whole different problem. Granted, I heat with natural gas, and sometimes I've been known to use a window unit A/C. But I have to wear a sweater at work (in a very cool office) in the summer. I think people have grown soft, but I guess it is only a sign that we are a prosperious nation. That gets cheap oil overseas. Things are the way they are because it has been the path of least resistance, I suppose. To do otherwise takes foresight and thought. I ride my bike as transportation as much as possible. We need (and in my opinion, should want) mass transit and more bike lanes. Fewer automobiles. We could simultaneously tackle obesity as well. But I'll have trouble getting the rednecks to give up their big ass trucks (the ones that need them are good ole boys BTW).
What power densities are needed? You mean to maintain the status quo? How much longer can we afford to climate control those skyscrapers? Will people still work (and live) in them without A/C? We just need to quit wasting so much. That is why the third leg is conservation. I don't have any big beefs with nuclear, but do you suggest that the asteroids come to us or that we go get them? If it is go get them, then that is way in the future. If they are coming to us, then how many need to rain down to supply us with uranium? And as far as oil is concerned, do we really know how is is produced? I'm not going to disagree with your explaination. All I know is that we are emptying the [oil] resevoirs faster than they are filling up. There are plenty of things that are abundant in the Solar System. How does that help us here on Earth? Do you realize the energy it takes to get off this planet?
You may have heard about the embargo? Long gas lines? Why, would the embargo hurt, if the US oil production didn't decline after the '70's? Answer: US domestic oil production has been in decline since the 1970's. Wake up, there will be plenty of oil, but no more cheap oil as global production is peaking. Can Saudi still provide swing capacity? Why is solar, wind and conservation a "rickety tripod" ? Does hydroelectric count as solar? (think hard here, what drives the water back to the resevoir?) Asteroids for uranium source? Can I get what you are smoking? I can't speak to U ore supplies, but oil has peaked in the US. This is a fact. What makes you think it won't peak in the other oil producing counties?
See also: Toxic Sludge is Good for You
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Full title: Toxic Sludge Is Good For You!: Lies Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
This book will open your eyes to more dirty tricks by big business and the PR industy.
This is a complex issue. The Kurs system was developed and manufactured in Ukraine. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was free to charge whatever they wanted for the system. Toru was designed (in Russia) as a manual backup system. KURS being primary and automatic. Ukraine inherited the intellectual property of the Kurs system and Russia could not just copy it, they had to license it or buy it from Ukraine. To put this in context, the former Soviet Union was going thru an economic meltdown. So they have little money to develop a new system or license the old Kurs system, or even buy them from Ukraine, which is having its own economic problems, and probably couldn't produce them on a timely basis as well. There is no simple answer for this, and it wasn't because the russians were cheap, they just had no money. Computers are made up of a lot of components, and if your suppliers are unable to supply parts, you cannot make the computers. The broken Soviet Union was an economic mess. Think of what would happen if the US broke up in to 50 independent states. What a clusterfuck that could be (or maybe will be).
This link for more on the crash: http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/ihh/spatial/pape rs/pdfs_se/Ellis_2000_collision_in_space.html/
I know it would be prohibitively expensive, but you can live off the grid. Go solar, or wind maybe (or maybe you live in an apt. complex, in which case you can move). Sure you might have to give up A/C and some other things, but you do have a choice these days. The co-op can price itself out of the market.
Check out http://www.homepower.com/
I believe that the gist of your statement is correct, but you do have alternitives, i.e. the government isn't preventing you from not using the Co-op.
Yeah, and who is responsible for the powerlines and telephone line going to your house (assumption, maybe you are off the grid). In my part of the country (southeast,in case you're wondering) we wouldn't have phone lines or powerlines had FDR not initiated the REA and the Feds mandating that the phone companies provide rural access (thanks to Fed. subsidies). These things provided for the common good, so now big industrial giants can come down here and employ redne^H^H^H^H hard working southerners in their factories. I'm finally shaking the BellSouth monopoly thanks to VoIP and my cable internet. The phone companies got their monopoly status because the Feds subsidized them. Same with the railroads. No it isn't a right, but don't you think that electrical service is a necessity these days? Sure, you could live without it, but who would want to? I just don't want conglomerates coming in and proventing non-profit broadband. Or reasonably priced broadband.
Oh, wait, that is internet copyright infringment.
Right, research. I had to download that Britney Spears album. For research. I needed to test my latest P2P app...
The "record" companies just need to go out of business. Believe me, music will survive. I just went to a great house show last friday. Worth every bit of the $5 I spent at the door. The record companies need to be overtaken. Something much better will sprout up.
Yes, I agree. 9 years in prision is too much. Did he commit fraud? The article says junk products and pornography. But there are plenty of junk products peddled by regular junk mail. I've spent a total of 36hrs. in jail myself. Trust me, 9 years for this sounds like bullshit. He isn't a violent person (at least his crime didn't involve violence). Prision should be reserved for people who are violent to the general population. Not for non-violent crimes. Hell, He grossed over $750,000/month. Fine the shit out of him and put him on probation. Add community service too. But prison? come on.
Open ended question. But really, on what basis should NASA exist? Don't get me wrong, I'm not hostile to NASA. It has employed my family for 3 generations, grandfather, father, my brother. It is responsible, indirectly for my well being. What should be the role of government? Basic science research is nothing without a goal in mind. Did good science come out of the Apollo progam? Does management count as a science? Or does everyone just consider that (the Apollo progam) engineering and applied science? We (mankind) have gotten good returns from voyager. more than anticipated (longevity of the spacecraft). I feel as though we are stealing from our future selves with this war on terrorism. NASA was never outlined in the Constitution (not that they could have forseen it). Unlike the Army or the Post Office. National defense is one defined role of government. I don't think the war in Iraq was necessary to national defense, but it was "sold" that way. I've almost stopped trying to understand these decisions at the goverment level as well. I guess that is an inherent problem with democracy. Everyone has their own idea of the role of government. I'm beginning to feel that NASA was established primarly to give the same defense contractors more employment, so they won't atrophy. And engineers as well. Can science support itself? Actually, isn't "science" a method of understanding and explaination? A methodology if you will?
There is a $10 fee on top of my ~$30 cable broadband service to get it without cable TV. does anyone else get this? My service is thru Charter.
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So please, where is this data that suggests that the shuttles are more robust? Using brand new flight hardware for every flight seems safer than reusing flight hardware coupled with one hell of an inspection process. Possibly cheaper too, in the long run. Sure, there were failures on the Saturn V, but they were overcome with redunandcies. The Apollo 1 pad fire was not due to problems with the Saturn V booster. And the Saturn V was one hell of a booster compared to the Shuttles. Why is it we need the shuttles? Oh, yeah, we were supposted to be able to fly 12+ missions a year.
Do we have control outside the "green zone" yet? As Rumsfeld said, we are spending billions, while they (terrorists) are spending millions. Read up on 4th generation warfare. Then tell me we are revolutionizing warfare. At least from a cost to performance ratio. "Machines don't fight wars, people do, and they use their minds." -Col John R. Boyd
Without NSF or DARPA grant money, there is no money for PhD students. Without PhD students, there is no research.
Yes, and corporations don't do any research?
I work with PhD's. And PhD students. Smart people, most of them. But they are not the only people who do research.
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But Coolio had no standing to sue. Coolio "ripped" off Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise. When I say ripped, he used the chorus (slightly altered) and the melody. He added his own lyrics. I'm sure that Mr. Wonder was paid, so it really isn't infringement. Weird Al could have just dealt with Stevie Wonder I'm sure, because one could argue that his parody could have been based on Pastime Paradise. After all, Weird Al added his own lyrics and used the same slightly altered chorus. Coolio has no standing in this case. But I'm no lawyer.
Is a rework of Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise. Who is taking from whom here? Of course, I'm sure Stevie was duly compensated.
For shits and giggles, I have done the same. check prices for coach, and then for first class. You'd think they would have more than a curtain seperating the two. And champagne, and hookers. They certainly have nicer seats.
Quit flying coach. You need first class. Just kidding about the cheap bastard part. Like I can afford coach even. Hey, maybe on the new A380 first class will be cheaper, since it is more efficient and all, yeah, right. like the airlines will make first class cheaper...
Do they not recoup and produce more energy than was used to make them? Over the lifetime of the panel? We should also look at vegetable oil as an enegy source. Of course, a lot of people say that you need petrochemicals to grow them in the first place (like plants didn't grow before petrochemicals) There is a lot of fallow land in the US. Ethenol is an energy loss, hydro electric is established, nuclear, well I'm open to it. Cities are both simultaneously wasteful (the way we implement them) and have economies of scale going for them. Windpower needs wide open spaces, and wind of course. There are no easy answers.
Yes, and I live in Alabama. In can be over 90 and 99% humidity for over 100 days. I have summered here many years without A/C. But I'm young. I think that climate control as implemented in the US is very wasteful. Central heating and air, while nice, heats and cools a lot of empty rooms in the peoples' McMansions. And large office buildings are empty half the time (or more) yet are heated and cooled as if someone were there all the time. We need to think of better ways to live and work. I just don't think it was a fair comment that some of the alternate energy sources are "rickety". There are numerous examples of self sufficient homes. It costs alot, as much as some of the SUV's and cars that people drive, but unlike them, it would pay for itself. Large cities, are a whole different problem. Granted, I heat with natural gas, and sometimes I've been known to use a window unit A/C. But I have to wear a sweater at work (in a very cool office) in the summer. I think people have grown soft, but I guess it is only a sign that we are a prosperious nation. That gets cheap oil overseas. Things are the way they are because it has been the path of least resistance, I suppose. To do otherwise takes foresight and thought. I ride my bike as transportation as much as possible. We need (and in my opinion, should want) mass transit and more bike lanes. Fewer automobiles. We could simultaneously tackle obesity as well. But I'll have trouble getting the rednecks to give up their big ass trucks (the ones that need them are good ole boys BTW).
What power densities are needed? You mean to maintain the status quo? How much longer can we afford to climate control those skyscrapers? Will people still work (and live) in them without A/C? We just need to quit wasting so much. That is why the third leg is conservation. I don't have any big beefs with nuclear, but do you suggest that the asteroids come to us or that we go get them? If it is go get them, then that is way in the future. If they are coming to us, then how many need to rain down to supply us with uranium? And as far as oil is concerned, do we really know how is is produced? I'm not going to disagree with your explaination. All I know is that we are emptying the [oil] resevoirs faster than they are filling up. There are plenty of things that are abundant in the Solar System. How does that help us here on Earth? Do you realize the energy it takes to get off this planet?
You may have heard about the embargo? Long gas lines? Why, would the embargo hurt, if the US oil production didn't decline after the '70's? Answer: US domestic oil production has been in decline since the 1970's. Wake up, there will be plenty of oil, but no more cheap oil as global production is peaking. Can Saudi still provide swing capacity? Why is solar, wind and conservation a "rickety tripod" ? Does hydroelectric count as solar? (think hard here, what drives the water back to the resevoir?) Asteroids for uranium source? Can I get what you are smoking? I can't speak to U ore supplies, but oil has peaked in the US. This is a fact. What makes you think it won't peak in the other oil producing counties?
Full title: Toxic Sludge Is Good For You!: Lies Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry This book will open your eyes to more dirty tricks by big business and the PR industy.
for some reason, I cannot link directly. Search the site for "mir crash" (no quotes) and it is the first link.
This is a complex issue. The Kurs system was developed and manufactured in Ukraine. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was free to charge whatever they wanted for the system. Toru was designed (in Russia) as a manual backup system. KURS being primary and automatic. Ukraine inherited the intellectual property of the Kurs system and Russia could not just copy it, they had to license it or buy it from Ukraine. To put this in context, the former Soviet Union was going thru an economic meltdown. So they have little money to develop a new system or license the old Kurs system, or even buy them from Ukraine, which is having its own economic problems, and probably couldn't produce them on a timely basis as well. There is no simple answer for this, and it wasn't because the russians were cheap, they just had no money. Computers are made up of a lot of components, and if your suppliers are unable to supply parts, you cannot make the computers. The broken Soviet Union was an economic mess. Think of what would happen if the US broke up in to 50 independent states. What a clusterfuck that could be (or maybe will be). This link for more on the crash: http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/ihh/spatial/pape rs/pdfs_se/Ellis_2000_collision_in_space.html/
Yep, the names change, but the parties are the same as ever.
I know it would be prohibitively expensive, but you can live off the grid. Go solar, or wind maybe (or maybe you live in an apt. complex, in which case you can move). Sure you might have to give up A/C and some other things, but you do have a choice these days. The co-op can price itself out of the market. Check out http://www.homepower.com/ I believe that the gist of your statement is correct, but you do have alternitives, i.e. the government isn't preventing you from not using the Co-op.
Yeah, and who is responsible for the powerlines and telephone line going to your house (assumption, maybe you are off the grid). In my part of the country (southeast,in case you're wondering) we wouldn't have phone lines or powerlines had FDR not initiated the REA and the Feds mandating that the phone companies provide rural access (thanks to Fed. subsidies). These things provided for the common good, so now big industrial giants can come down here and employ redne^H^H^H^H hard working southerners in their factories. I'm finally shaking the BellSouth monopoly thanks to VoIP and my cable internet. The phone companies got their monopoly status because the Feds subsidized them. Same with the railroads. No it isn't a right, but don't you think that electrical service is a necessity these days? Sure, you could live without it, but who would want to? I just don't want conglomerates coming in and proventing non-profit broadband. Or reasonably priced broadband.
Oh, wait, that is internet copyright infringment. Right, research. I had to download that Britney Spears album. For research. I needed to test my latest P2P app...
Automatically provents you from playing infringing notes. Want to play Voodoo Chile (slight return)? please key in your credit card #.
The "record" companies just need to go out of business. Believe me, music will survive. I just went to a great house show last friday. Worth every bit of the $5 I spent at the door. The record companies need to be overtaken. Something much better will sprout up.
Yes, I agree. 9 years in prision is too much. Did he commit fraud? The article says junk products and pornography. But there are plenty of junk products peddled by regular junk mail. I've spent a total of 36hrs. in jail myself. Trust me, 9 years for this sounds like bullshit. He isn't a violent person (at least his crime didn't involve violence). Prision should be reserved for people who are violent to the general population. Not for non-violent crimes. Hell, He grossed over $750,000/month. Fine the shit out of him and put him on probation. Add community service too. But prison? come on.
Can I stay there?
Open ended question. But really, on what basis should NASA exist? Don't get me wrong, I'm not hostile to NASA. It has employed my family for 3 generations, grandfather, father, my brother. It is responsible, indirectly for my well being. What should be the role of government? Basic science research is nothing without a goal in mind. Did good science come out of the Apollo progam? Does management count as a science? Or does everyone just consider that (the Apollo progam) engineering and applied science? We (mankind) have gotten good returns from voyager. more than anticipated (longevity of the spacecraft). I feel as though we are stealing from our future selves with this war on terrorism. NASA was never outlined in the Constitution (not that they could have forseen it). Unlike the Army or the Post Office. National defense is one defined role of government. I don't think the war in Iraq was necessary to national defense, but it was "sold" that way. I've almost stopped trying to understand these decisions at the goverment level as well. I guess that is an inherent problem with democracy. Everyone has their own idea of the role of government. I'm beginning to feel that NASA was established primarly to give the same defense contractors more employment, so they won't atrophy. And engineers as well. Can science support itself? Actually, isn't "science" a method of understanding and explaination? A methodology if you will?
There is a $10 fee on top of my ~$30 cable broadband service to get it without cable TV. does anyone else get this? My service is thru Charter.
So please, where is this data that suggests that the shuttles are more robust? Using brand new flight hardware for every flight seems safer than reusing flight hardware coupled with one hell of an inspection process. Possibly cheaper too, in the long run. Sure, there were failures on the Saturn V, but they were overcome with redunandcies. The Apollo 1 pad fire was not due to problems with the Saturn V booster. And the Saturn V was one hell of a booster compared to the Shuttles. Why is it we need the shuttles? Oh, yeah, we were supposted to be able to fly 12+ missions a year.
Do we have control outside the "green zone" yet? As Rumsfeld said, we are spending billions, while they (terrorists) are spending millions. Read up on 4th generation warfare. Then tell me we are revolutionizing warfare. At least from a cost to performance ratio. "Machines don't fight wars, people do, and they use their minds." -Col John R. Boyd