The US needs to separate their manned space activities from cargo delivery. Sure, we can use the current design for a while more, but it would make more economic sense to stop driving an 18-wheeler to the supermarket. What we need is a toyota.
What I mean is that we need a smaller, manned spaceplane and a larger, heavy-lift system which can carry the spaceplane as an addition to a medium-size payload.
What I propose is to have a system where 8 SRBs launch two shuttle main tank assemblies. One filled with fuel, with a rocket motor on the ass end. The other can be filled with cargo. Some of the things we need to launch are not so much HEAVY as they are bulky. A good example would be an inflatable habitation module for lunar or ISS use. Not particularly heavy, but it's bulky.
The shuttle spaceplane should be much smaller and lighter. For operations requiring extravehicular manipulation of cargo, the shuttle and heavy lift system could simply dock in orbit. An added benefit could be that we build a spaceplane that can dock with a fuel tank in orbit and head off to the moon. We really should be building there instead of in low earth orbit. There are building materials on the moon, and none in the vacuum of space. The moon doesn't need energy to maintain orbit, and we can safely park a nuclear reactor there without worrying about reentry. That power can be used for excavation. This way we don't have to bring our entire living quarters with us. We can make cement structures on the moon instead. It seems very reasonable to do this instead of all this mars crap.
I use a 4-button USB mouse. Never had any problems with it. During advanced install it calibrates the mouse. I can't see why so many people have had problems with these mice. Do you use advanced install or standard install?
1. Embrace the evil. Good behavior isn't actually rewarded in this society, no matter how hard adults try and make you believe it.
2. Help someone else when they need help, and you can hang it over their heads forever, manipulating them to do your bidding. That's a joke.
3. Never date a woman with a tattoo of a dagger.
4. If 10% of the people you interact with do not hate or fear you, you are not standing up for yourself enough. those 10% are assholes, and shouldn't like you.
5. Ignore what other people say, unless those people are succesful at something you're failing at. And then only listen if it's constructive.
6. Be nicer to Celeste. You'll know who and when.
7. Tell your mom to fuck off when she calls you stupid. By 30 you won't call or interact with her except on Christmas. You have nothing to lose.
8. Take the meds. It's good for your personality.
9. Do not join the military just because you can't pay the rent this month. Eventually it will get better and if you're in the military, you will be convicted of adultery and discharged. Remember #3 also.
10. There will be a cheerleader named Robin when you're in 11th grade. She has the hots for you, but if you don't listen to me, you won't find out until she is moving away. She sits next to you in Algebra. She's a really nice chick.
11. Never lose your temper. Ever. Remain in control of your every action. It really is easier to make friends when you are in control of your actions.
Don't worry about the compressor guy. I heard he was a diver and someone accidentally dropped the TDU while he was inspecting the hull. got him right in the head.
Yeah, I was wondering where I can get some 7000lb air at 1200 feet. You see, I have turned on my compressor and now it's getting a little hard to breathe in here- could someone assist me in filling my air tanks underwater? Having difficulty unless I'm at snorkeling depth. Can't figure out why. geetttinnng dddroowsssssy.
Actually in 688-class and EVERY OTHER SUB I HAVE EVER SEEN, The water is simply allowed in by letting air out through a valve on the topside of the ballast tank. there is an open hole on the bottom side to allow the water in while you bubble the air out. That is also why subs don't do well inverted. If you invert a sub (difficult with ballast and batteries on the bottom), it will never surface again. Can't get the air to stay in ballast that way.
I've never heard of your system. Oh, and you can't just dump your screw- that would leave an 18-inch hole in the hull where the propshaft bearing is situated. It just so happens one or more subs sank while in reverse thrust. a retainer of some sort failed and the prop pulled itself out of the boat. Bad.
What is your experience with submarines?
Microsoft is suggesting doing a Good Thing®. Look, I hate most of their tactics as much as any GNU/Linux user must, but geez, if you even read the articles Microsoft is not suggesting that they recieve money for emails sent, but that some form of verifier is sent confirming that the sender of the email was a human being, and/or that a certain number of CPU cycles was used in the creation of an individual message.
What they're trying to fight here is SPAM. They're trying to create some system of eliminating its primary benefit for marketers- it's insanely inexpensive implementation. MS wants to create a system by which REAL correspondance can be detected and OTHER correspondance eliminated.
I filed my taxes with Turbotax this year. I let them know in an email that, barring a total reversal of their company's coding philosophies, I will be joining with their competitor.
OK the INSTALL of Mandrake and Redhat IS easier. The configuration of Nvidia accelerated drivers is more difficult in Linux than Windows. Getting any wierd hardware to work in Linux is difficult for beginners, and sound support has no standard point of contact for software- some games can't have sound under KDE with the sound server turned on. It's silly.
It was very uncomfortable to see your appearance at the wedding and know that your talking scenes were cut. I was wierded out, having known the situation beforehand from slashdot. You ruined my moviegoing experience! (Oh, well it was a trite film anyway). With storywriting like this, maybe if they ever bring you in on another TNG project, you'll turn out to be a clone of the original Wesley who was killed and replaced while at starfleet. Then after that plot twist is revealed, they'll cut to some boobies.
Yeah, but would YOU be interested in doing any spinoff of the TNG plotlines? I mean, as a mature and wiser Wesley? TNG had Wesley at the Academy, and could concievably follow up, so would you do it? (Assuming good pay and reasonably faithful plotlines- no gay Wesley, no Wesley's really a romulan hybrid)
Simple. No Wesley Crusher. That is all. And the #2 reason it tanked was that it didn't "feel" like a proper Star Trek plotline. The overall theme of the movie was not similar to previous Treks. Also Data dies, and that sucks. They failed to use or killed off my two favorite characters. Other than that, it just wasn't up to snuff.
So, for People With Nothing to Hide (TM), Your rights against unreasonable search and siezure are unnecessary, and hereby, revoked. After all, only criminals resist searches or require such niceties as warrants. Please leave the front door unlocked and your personal documents properly indexed and cross-referenced in a box on the coffee table. We'll get to you shortly. THE FBI
"Much more important than those Africans dying of malnutrition."
What's really odd is that those Africans are dying because rich guilty white liberals, in typical white crusader fashion, rode into Africa on their snow-white horses and, in their divine wisdom, decreed that the forests must be saved by moving all of the people out of them. That's right, boys and girls, we took the only productive and useful land they had and we paid their governments to keep them out of it. For the elephant and white rhino. We pay millions every year to these morally bankrupt regimes so that they'll starve their own people. For elephants. There is some somewhat decent land they farm, but it has no stability. It has wet and dry periods that the forest areas don't experience in such severity. I for one am sick of the tendency of the activist mindset to ride off and show the rest of the world the "proper" way to live. Lets face it- If your choice was starvation on the plains or life as a poacher, what would you choose? Watch three children in a row of your own blood slowly die of malaria because we banned DDT "for their own good"? How about amoebic dysentery? Fun stuff. It's a damn good thing they can't control the mosquito and tsetse fly with (suspectedly) harmful pesticides! Stop feeling guilty about all the money we DON'T spend in developing nations. Worry about how we spend the money we DO spend. It's worse maybe to help them than to leave them the hell alone and stop managing them from afar. Did we apologize to Sudan for blowing up their antimalarial medicine factory on the day of the Lewinski deposition? No? Even after our inspectors took soil samples and found only tylenol and antimalarials? Wow.
If Bush signs it it's because he's evil. If Clinton signs it, it's because the evil capitalists FOOLED him into doing it! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
Mac users are known to be homosexual pacifists. No market for FPS games in macland. They all live in Berkeley, CA. They're vegetarians and drink organic coffee instead of Mountain Dew. All Mac users also drive Volkswagens and wear Berkenstock sandals. They like Chai tea and they wear berets. They all save Christmas (OOPS I mean "the holidays") with their powerbooks and a "cord". They're all currently saving their money for solar powered cars and hate nukes. They're all named Reggie or Sam. Boys and girls, doesn't matter. Reggie or Sam. Regina or Reginald, Samuel or Samantha. Same thing.
All Macheads wear pants made of natural hemp and they spent their formative years 100 feet off the ground chained to a sequoia. Their favorite words are 'Fascist' and 'Corporate Interests'. They hate George W. Bush and want Hillary to run for president. They lust after the Segway HT. Mac-heads brag about what Mac they first owned. Incessantly. They use AOL where possible. Starbucks is the source of their sustenance, and their first job. Are you pissed off at me yet? Anyway, Macintosh users like widgets and hate products made from petroleum. They don't mind dropping 3k on a system. They need macs. Sexually. Like in the 'insert tab A into slot B kinda way.
Mod this one offtopic flamebait funny OK?
Except a real patriot does so in a military fashion- in other words, we don't stroll into pizza parlors and blow the place up with a TNT vest. If I was to fight back against a force I felt was threatening my way of life, I would target the aparratus that feeds it. I would NOT involve every-day citizens. That tactic leads to failure and international condemnation. The Palestinians are facing this because of their tactics. The IRA found no international sympathy because of this as well. Instead of proclaming these motherfuckers as heroes and martyrs, look at them through the lens of the rest of the world. Their tactics are repugnant, so it doesn't matter WHAT their cause is or who they're fighting. The fact is they fight in direct contradiction to standard models of honor. Terrorism is different from warfare. In warfare, you wear a uniform that identifies you as a combatant. You do not put on civilian attire for combatant roles. Scout, surveillance and intelligence gathering, sure. To fail to identify yourself as a combatant in warfare is dishonorable. It is also dishonorable to deliberately attack civilians where military targets exist. If the Al-Queda organisation had declared war on the US and then blew up the pentagon and other military targets it would be an act of war, and legitimate. Instead, they targeted civilians AND the pentagon. I really think the WTC was the primary objective. This is why the "racial stereotype" exists. In most middle east conflicts, collateral (civilian) damage is huge, and deliberate. Saddam didn't just gas the Kurds because they were massing against him. He gassed one village to subdue all the others with TERROR. That's why it's called terrorism. It's the attempt to force the actions of your enemy by holding his population hostage. I am a veteran. I understand the concepts of warfare. This is different.
And we all know the real problem is the Amish. The terrorists are Arabs, it's not "the Arabs are terrorists". As anyone in the US knows, many of our Arab "friends" has government news headlines full of blatant lies about Israelis eating human blood in their pastries and other such nonsense. I'm not a racist, but I know where our real friends are. Kuwait, Turkey, South Korea, etc. Get the silly chip off your shoulder and realize that the world isn't against the Arabs. It's just that for some Arabs, it's them against the world. It's a pathology that causes destructive behavior. Just because you're not willfully inviting people to blow up stuff in your country doesn't mean that you hate the race those people happen to be born to. Look to the world's conflicts right now, and how many involve muslims. The simple fact is that Islam is being hijacked by militants in some areas. It happened to Christianity too. It will continue until peaceful muslims publicly reject terrorism. I haven't seen that happen in large numbers quite yet. BTW- if the US goes to war in the next decade, most likely it will be with an islamic nation. Want to know why? Most of the states in the middle east are run by rather unscrupulous people. Like the house of Saud. Totally unreasonable people. It's not their race, it's the culture that causes the problem.
I have a Geforce2TI. I run accelerated with NVIDIA's mandrake 9.0 tar.gz's. no kernel recompile. It took three minutes. Plus, I get a cool splash screen with the NVIDIA logo when X starts. Did I miss some "guff"? Am I not getting the most from my configs?
Jeebus Hates them crop-circles. Hate dem BAD. They Of da DEBIL! OOOh, he hate circle-demons! Dem demons gots nothing to do but messs up the corn! Corn is God's and Jeebus' crops! Holy it is! Grows in Iowa! Demons try to take Jeebus' Corn! Roll it up and ssmoke it! Preciouss stop them, make them stand the cropsses back up again! Makess them pay. no more ssilly circlesses.
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I guess he didn't spot the sarcasm.
The US needs to separate their manned space activities from cargo delivery. Sure, we can use the current design for a while more, but it would make more economic sense to stop driving an 18-wheeler to the supermarket. What we need is a toyota.
What I mean is that we need a smaller, manned spaceplane and a larger, heavy-lift system which can carry the spaceplane as an addition to a medium-size payload.
What I propose is to have a system where 8 SRBs launch two shuttle main tank assemblies. One filled with fuel, with a rocket motor on the ass end. The other can be filled with cargo. Some of the things we need to launch are not so much HEAVY as they are bulky. A good example would be an inflatable habitation module for lunar or ISS use. Not particularly heavy, but it's bulky.
The shuttle spaceplane should be much smaller and lighter. For operations requiring extravehicular manipulation of cargo, the shuttle and heavy lift system could simply dock in orbit. An added benefit could be that we build a spaceplane that can dock with a fuel tank in orbit and head off to the moon. We really should be building there instead of in low earth orbit. There are building materials on the moon, and none in the vacuum of space. The moon doesn't need energy to maintain orbit, and we can safely park a nuclear reactor there without worrying about reentry. That power can be used for excavation. This way we don't have to bring our entire living quarters with us. We can make cement structures on the moon instead. It seems very reasonable to do this instead of all this mars crap.
I use a 4-button USB mouse. Never had any problems with it. During advanced install it calibrates the mouse. I can't see why so many people have had problems with these mice. Do you use advanced install or standard install?
1. Embrace the evil. Good behavior isn't actually rewarded in this society, no matter how hard adults try and make you believe it.
2. Help someone else when they need help, and you can hang it over their heads forever, manipulating them to do your bidding. That's a joke.
3. Never date a woman with a tattoo of a dagger.
4. If 10% of the people you interact with do not hate or fear you, you are not standing up for yourself enough. those 10% are assholes, and shouldn't like you.
5. Ignore what other people say, unless those people are succesful at something you're failing at. And then only listen if it's constructive.
6. Be nicer to Celeste. You'll know who and when.
7. Tell your mom to fuck off when she calls you stupid. By 30 you won't call or interact with her except on Christmas. You have nothing to lose.
8. Take the meds. It's good for your personality.
9. Do not join the military just because you can't pay the rent this month. Eventually it will get better and if you're in the military, you will be convicted of adultery and discharged. Remember #3 also. 10. There will be a cheerleader named Robin when you're in 11th grade. She has the hots for you, but if you don't listen to me, you won't find out until she is moving away. She sits next to you in Algebra. She's a really nice chick.
11. Never lose your temper. Ever. Remain in control of your every action. It really is easier to make friends when you are in control of your actions.
I bought one of these, too. Only a /.er would even WANT one. I like Yar's Revenge, personally. The others, well, are atari games.
what's worse than a spelling nazi? An illiterate spelling nazi!
Don't worry about the compressor guy. I heard he was a diver and someone accidentally dropped the TDU while he was inspecting the hull. got him right in the head.
Yeah, I was wondering where I can get some 7000lb air at 1200 feet. You see, I have turned on my compressor and now it's getting a little hard to breathe in here- could someone assist me in filling my air tanks underwater? Having difficulty unless I'm at snorkeling depth. Can't figure out why. geetttinnng dddroowsssssy.
Actually in 688-class and EVERY OTHER SUB I HAVE EVER SEEN, The water is simply allowed in by letting air out through a valve on the topside of the ballast tank. there is an open hole on the bottom side to allow the water in while you bubble the air out. That is also why subs don't do well inverted. If you invert a sub (difficult with ballast and batteries on the bottom), it will never surface again. Can't get the air to stay in ballast that way. I've never heard of your system. Oh, and you can't just dump your screw- that would leave an 18-inch hole in the hull where the propshaft bearing is situated. It just so happens one or more subs sank while in reverse thrust. a retainer of some sort failed and the prop pulled itself out of the boat. Bad. What is your experience with submarines?
Microsoft is suggesting doing a Good Thing®. Look, I hate most of their tactics as much as any GNU/Linux user must, but geez, if you even read the articles Microsoft is not suggesting that they recieve money for emails sent, but that some form of verifier is sent confirming that the sender of the email was a human being, and/or that a certain number of CPU cycles was used in the creation of an individual message.
What they're trying to fight here is SPAM. They're trying to create some system of eliminating its primary benefit for marketers- it's insanely inexpensive implementation. MS wants to create a system by which REAL correspondance can be detected and OTHER correspondance eliminated.
I filed my taxes with Turbotax this year. I let them know in an email that, barring a total reversal of their company's coding philosophies, I will be joining with their competitor.
OK the INSTALL of Mandrake and Redhat IS easier. The configuration of Nvidia accelerated drivers is more difficult in Linux than Windows. Getting any wierd hardware to work in Linux is difficult for beginners, and sound support has no standard point of contact for software- some games can't have sound under KDE with the sound server turned on. It's silly.
Is that why BZFlag doesn't have sound in KDE on my Mandrake box but ICEWM has sound? In KDE and Gnome, sound shows as unavailable.
It was very uncomfortable to see your appearance at the wedding and know that your talking scenes were cut. I was wierded out, having known the situation beforehand from slashdot. You ruined my moviegoing experience! (Oh, well it was a trite film anyway). With storywriting like this, maybe if they ever bring you in on another TNG project, you'll turn out to be a clone of the original Wesley who was killed and replaced while at starfleet. Then after that plot twist is revealed, they'll cut to some boobies.
Yeah, but would YOU be interested in doing any spinoff of the TNG plotlines? I mean, as a mature and wiser Wesley? TNG had Wesley at the Academy, and could concievably follow up, so would you do it? (Assuming good pay and reasonably faithful plotlines- no gay Wesley, no Wesley's really a romulan hybrid)
Simple. No Wesley Crusher. That is all. And the #2 reason it tanked was that it didn't "feel" like a proper Star Trek plotline. The overall theme of the movie was not similar to previous Treks. Also Data dies, and that sucks. They failed to use or killed off my two favorite characters. Other than that, it just wasn't up to snuff.
So, for People With Nothing to Hide (TM), Your rights against unreasonable search and siezure are unnecessary, and hereby, revoked. After all, only criminals resist searches or require such niceties as warrants. Please leave the front door unlocked and your personal documents properly indexed and cross-referenced in a box on the coffee table. We'll get to you shortly.
THE FBI
"Much more important than those Africans dying of malnutrition."
What's really odd is that those Africans are dying because rich guilty white liberals, in typical white crusader fashion, rode into Africa on their snow-white horses and, in their divine wisdom, decreed that the forests must be saved by moving all of the people out of them. That's right, boys and girls, we took the only productive and useful land they had and we paid their governments to keep them out of it. For the elephant and white rhino. We pay millions every year to these morally bankrupt regimes so that they'll starve their own people. For elephants. There is some somewhat decent land they farm, but it has no stability. It has wet and dry periods that the forest areas don't experience in such severity. I for one am sick of the tendency of the activist mindset to ride off and show the rest of the world the "proper" way to live. Lets face it- If your choice was starvation on the plains or life as a poacher, what would you choose? Watch three children in a row of your own blood slowly die of malaria because we banned DDT "for their own good"? How about amoebic dysentery? Fun stuff. It's a damn good thing they can't control the mosquito and tsetse fly with (suspectedly) harmful pesticides! Stop feeling guilty about all the money we DON'T spend in developing nations. Worry about how we spend the money we DO spend. It's worse maybe to help them than to leave them the hell alone and stop managing them from afar. Did we apologize to Sudan for blowing up their antimalarial medicine factory on the day of the Lewinski deposition? No? Even after our inspectors took soil samples and found only tylenol and antimalarials? Wow.
If Bush signs it it's because he's evil. If Clinton signs it, it's because the evil capitalists FOOLED him into doing it! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
Mac users are known to be homosexual pacifists. No market for FPS games in macland. They all live in Berkeley, CA. They're vegetarians and drink organic coffee instead of Mountain Dew. All Mac users also drive Volkswagens and wear Berkenstock sandals. They like Chai tea and they wear berets. They all save Christmas (OOPS I mean "the holidays") with their powerbooks and a "cord". They're all currently saving their money for solar powered cars and hate nukes. They're all named Reggie or Sam. Boys and girls, doesn't matter. Reggie or Sam. Regina or Reginald, Samuel or Samantha. Same thing. All Macheads wear pants made of natural hemp and they spent their formative years 100 feet off the ground chained to a sequoia. Their favorite words are 'Fascist' and 'Corporate Interests'. They hate George W. Bush and want Hillary to run for president. They lust after the Segway HT. Mac-heads brag about what Mac they first owned. Incessantly. They use AOL where possible. Starbucks is the source of their sustenance, and their first job. Are you pissed off at me yet? Anyway, Macintosh users like widgets and hate products made from petroleum. They don't mind dropping 3k on a system. They need macs. Sexually. Like in the 'insert tab A into slot B kinda way.
Mod this one offtopic flamebait funny OK?
Except a real patriot does so in a military fashion- in other words, we don't stroll into pizza parlors and blow the place up with a TNT vest. If I was to fight back against a force I felt was threatening my way of life, I would target the aparratus that feeds it. I would NOT involve every-day citizens. That tactic leads to failure and international condemnation. The Palestinians are facing this because of their tactics. The IRA found no international sympathy because of this as well. Instead of proclaming these motherfuckers as heroes and martyrs, look at them through the lens of the rest of the world. Their tactics are repugnant, so it doesn't matter WHAT their cause is or who they're fighting. The fact is they fight in direct contradiction to standard models of honor. Terrorism is different from warfare. In warfare, you wear a uniform that identifies you as a combatant. You do not put on civilian attire for combatant roles. Scout, surveillance and intelligence gathering, sure. To fail to identify yourself as a combatant in warfare is dishonorable. It is also dishonorable to deliberately attack civilians where military targets exist. If the Al-Queda organisation had declared war on the US and then blew up the pentagon and other military targets it would be an act of war, and legitimate. Instead, they targeted civilians AND the pentagon. I really think the WTC was the primary objective. This is why the "racial stereotype" exists. In most middle east conflicts, collateral (civilian) damage is huge, and deliberate. Saddam didn't just gas the Kurds because they were massing against him. He gassed one village to subdue all the others with TERROR. That's why it's called terrorism. It's the attempt to force the actions of your enemy by holding his population hostage. I am a veteran. I understand the concepts of warfare. This is different.
And we all know the real problem is the Amish. The terrorists are Arabs, it's not "the Arabs are terrorists". As anyone in the US knows, many of our Arab "friends" has government news headlines full of blatant lies about Israelis eating human blood in their pastries and other such nonsense. I'm not a racist, but I know where our real friends are. Kuwait, Turkey, South Korea, etc. Get the silly chip off your shoulder and realize that the world isn't against the Arabs. It's just that for some Arabs, it's them against the world. It's a pathology that causes destructive behavior. Just because you're not willfully inviting people to blow up stuff in your country doesn't mean that you hate the race those people happen to be born to. Look to the world's conflicts right now, and how many involve muslims. The simple fact is that Islam is being hijacked by militants in some areas. It happened to Christianity too. It will continue until peaceful muslims publicly reject terrorism. I haven't seen that happen in large numbers quite yet. BTW- if the US goes to war in the next decade, most likely it will be with an islamic nation. Want to know why? Most of the states in the middle east are run by rather unscrupulous people. Like the house of Saud. Totally unreasonable people. It's not their race, it's the culture that causes the problem.
I have a Geforce2TI. I run accelerated with NVIDIA's mandrake 9.0 tar.gz's. no kernel recompile. It took three minutes. Plus, I get a cool splash screen with the NVIDIA logo when X starts. Did I miss some "guff"? Am I not getting the most from my configs?
When I open my eyes, I see them. They're on Crossing Over with John Edwards.
Jeebus Hates them crop-circles. Hate dem BAD. They Of da DEBIL! OOOh, he hate circle-demons! Dem demons gots nothing to do but messs up the corn! Corn is God's and Jeebus' crops! Holy it is! Grows in Iowa! Demons try to take Jeebus' Corn! Roll it up and ssmoke it! Preciouss stop them, make them stand the cropsses back up again! Makess them pay. no more ssilly circlesses.