The Feds have made serious model rocket enthusiasts suspect. How long before this sort of technology gets regulated as it approaches UAV's capabilities?
Right, so anything we can't predict completely and accurately is to be dismissed as voodoo?
We know (as in fact/truth) by observation of other planets (e.g. Venus) that certain compounds in an atmosphere have an insulating effect that results in higher surface temperatures.
We also know that doing certain things (burning fossil fuels in a 3 ton vehicle to get your kid from school) releases some of these same compounds into the air at an increasing rate that say breathing.
Just because the changes in jetstream, ice cap melting, sub-arctic flora absorbtion rates...are not completely consistent or directly correlated, do we dismiss any concern over the state of our planet as alarmists. I would rather be alarmed and wrong than have the earth become inhospitable. We've only got the one and it is clear to me based on personal observation that it is more fucked up every year.
And of course after that you will be blacklisted so you can change careers because you will never be accepted as a 'real scientist' again, because all 'real scientists' believe in Global Warming about like Christians believe in the Virgin Birth of Jesus.
Unlike Christianity, science is not a religion. The "truth" is based on the basis of observation and data. If someone had compelling data that say North American deforestation was a natural process and not due to the timber and pulp industries cutting of trees and conversion of that land to agriculture, industry, and mini-marts, it would be published. In this case as in the case of global warming there is compelling evidence that there are human factors.
If scientists cannot agree whether mean temperatures will rise by 3 degrees or 5 degrees, it is not particularly fair to dismiss their theories outright.
Sound policy in my opinion would be to immediatly consider at least the easier reductions in our emissions. It certainly won't harm anything. In the decades when some were in denial of the harmful effects of smoking would it have been unhealthy to quit?
With Microsoft's deep pockets, can they effectively send a resounding message to spammers?
Consider the state and federal legistlators standing up to spammers (i.e. grandstanding ineffectively for positive PR). Microsoft is likely doing the same...just they are smart enough to know it is only a stunt. Billy Joe Bob state congressman might think he is doing some good.
If you want REAL deterence, send inmate #7272 (callmate to #7779 with a proclivity for pale and soft men) a lifetime supply of penis enlargement cream and herbal viagra.
Many now famous artists were not appreciated for what they accomplished in their lifetimes.
If I studied Greek history, art, and drama for decades and passed a contemperary "Greek Tragedy" off as an ancient work, that derivative work would provide no NEW insight into Greek culture or history. It would at best provide a view into my interpretation and understanding an art form from that time.
Unions can reflect the personality of the employees they represent. I used to be a member of SPEAA (?sp?) for aerospace engineers and techs. In the actual aero organization the educational split was about 10%PhD,30%MS,40%BS,20%associates degrees. I had favorable impression of the organization and compensation was performance/market based. The Union negotiated the size of the raise pool, medical coverage, retention (yes they acknowledged the cyclic nature of the industry).
If you were unlucky enough to have a conflict with a particular manager or escallated issues you had recourse and representation.
Unions stagnate and die when they take the dues of the many to force a company to keep the worst. A union is a good thing when they keep a company honest and are there to remind them that abuse of the hearts, minds and souls of the company is not a good long term business model.
My point is that you need to do something besides burn out folks.
An event like a mass walkout from one project would have a far greater impact than 10% monthly attrition from 20 projects. Whatever the configuration management environment, if 75-90% of a team packed and left there is NO-WAY they could recover a project schedule.
A union organization effort would tie up their lawyers and put enough of a stink in the area that the 20 somethings might have their eyes open earlier.
Although union power in this country is not what it used to be, if say the Teamsters refused to handle merchandise from EA it could be very disruptive. Republican union busters would be far less likely to jump in on some "it is a matter of national security and this will undermine our entire economy" as might be the case with a general rail, dockworker, AFLCIO labor action might. In other words 2 million pimple faced kids can live without the latest football game.
It would take a dozen or so people with balls and access to good lawyers to pull this off.
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There is always the possibility of a mass revolt. Suppose if at 8:30 pm Friday (all the executives are off having a cigar) someone sent a corporate wide call to action out and they ALL walked. Pagers might go off over the weekend, but you could put the $xxx million project that has to be on the shelves by November 20th in the ditch. What are they going to do? Fire you? So? Organization is protected activity. Call up the Teamsters, see how many of their products make it to store shelves with them on your side.
I wonder if the electrical infrastrucutre and hvac engineering hardware could be effectively reused with modern processors?
I recall studying an early (Nazi Germany era) jet engine. It had all kinds of very sophisticate systems (e.g. liquid cooled turbine blades) to get around metalurgical limitations. Some of the features actually went from nearly 50 years before they were implemented again when materials technologies were a limitation and exotic work-arounds were required.
Yes, history may have passed these CRAY machines by, but the engineering problems once solved may be encountered again and it would be a shame to disregard that research because the "big iron" is "old iron".
This quote is a lot like Bush's "Mission Accomplish" photo op....I likely about as accurate.
The sad thing is that Osama has told us the game he is playing and we play right along. He has no dillusions that he will destroy us. His objective is to induce us to destroy ourselves. In a nutshell if we turn into a police state and spend a crippling amount of our GDP defending against the next "BOOO!!!" (9/11 was serious business and I don't mean to understate the horror of that event, but think of how disruptive every video tape and code magenta alert is).
The Evangelical takeover of the Republican Party happened in the mid-80's. The major parties are run by a very small percentage of the voting public. Each party in general is made up of a diverse group of similarly minded individuals, the Democrats being a more chaotic bunch. Prior to the '80's there was enough diversity that no single block controlled the system. Then the evangilicals figured out that with 10-15 people/precinct they could run the show (no tinfoil hat conspiract stuff...I was there).
At a Republican caucus I attended in 1986 (non-Presidential year) the voting went like this. An elder or pastor from a huge evangelical church in that area sat in the back of the room. At each vote the men looked back and raised their hand if their leader did. The women looked to their husbands and did likewise. Every vote that evening went ~18 for 3 opposed...myself being one of the 3.
Fast forward 18 years...a very small percentage of the population volunteers to run the mechanics of the election process itself. In general they are a diverse group of civic minded individuals. Can a single block game that system as well?
The problem with tasks like painting is that you have to move furniture, put down drop cloths, mask stuff you don't want to paint, take down pictures...and then when you are done...clean equipment fold up drop cloth, pull up tape, rehang pictures. Painting is the easy part.
I assume you're talking about Bush's answer to that loaded question in the second debate?
Actually it is a history dating back to the debates with McCain in 2000. When asked this question John McCains answer was heart felt and honest. Bush punted with some bull shit about Sammy Sosa. That along with the debate were he turned the tables on McCain after standing next to some SOB that as much as called McCain a coward and traitor. It was pathetic. Then when he encountered the same question his "mistakes" were some appointments. In other words those people let him down...he is still batting 1000! He must be the second coming.
Wake me when there's some real evidence.
Kenny Star spent how many millions going after Hillary and Bill for a 2-bit investment deal and ended up with a cum stained dress. Bush couldn't find oil in Texas and gets rich in the bargain. Sign me up for that deal! Cut a special prosecutor loose for 18 months with an unlimited budget and I am sure you would find buckets of sleaze.
The sad thing to me is that Bush wins "the moral" vote while being the poster child for 4 of 7 of the "deadly sins":
Pride/Hubris: A presumption of infallibility and complete denial of ever making a mistake.
Sloth: He has taken more vacations than any man has a right to. How much brush does he have on that ranch anyway and can't he hire someone to clear it for him? Heck, put on boots and jeans and pose in the rose garden with that chainsaw.
Greed: Lots of good old boys are going to cash in for ANOTHER 4 years for elevating a "C's get degrees" party boy to the top.
Anger: Ass kicking, shoot from the hip, drunk cowboy decision making.
It makes we want to spit when a moral bankrupt gang of liars and thieves spread their brand of the gospel.
Remember we a Republic and NOT a DEMOCRACY. Each state has 2 Senators despite 50:1 ratios in population between say Wyoming and California. The electoral college has a similar effect to give states the potential of being important...sadly a Republican in New York or a Democrat in Wyoming is usually a very quite voice on election day.
Without this, some states might be inclined to tell the shove it if they don't like the way things are going. This happened once remember. Several sparsely populated (in terms of then legal voters) states (south) didn't like the idea that their workforce (slaves) for harvesting their primary export crops (cotton and tobacco) would become much more expensive for their operations (fewer mint jullips on the veranda). We still haven't healed from that rift (stars and bars over etc)!
Rumsfeld is a moderate compared to Cheney and Wolfowitz. Anyone that hasn't been all out hawkish has been systematically pushed aside.
In particular Powell was used. He is a true patriot and a soldier, so when they told him to sell Iraq war on the UN he did it. In my opinion they pulled him into their plans so he would be forced to stay on-board. I don't think the stink of doing that will ever clear from his nose and I pity him for it.
My only solace in this election is that our Republic has survived bad presidents before. If the country is a mess in 4 years after stacking the house, senate, courts and executive branch who will the Republicans blame?
A coworker was just moments ago saying that when he goes to India he tells everyone he is from Canada. A cab driver yelled at him all of the way from the airport to his parents home on a previous trip when he said he was coming from US.
I don't know why folks get so down on Europe. They collectively looked at the 100,000,000 folks killed in wars in the 20'th century and decided there had to be a better way. Europe has successfully prosecuted more Al Quida than the US. They just happen to distiguish the murderous thugs from the millions of other folks knuckle draggin' Joe 6-pack wants Bush to "kick some ass" with.
Lets not forget that the Rubics Cube could be used as an enryption device. If red-green-yellow corner is adjacent to blue-orange side blow up the gas station at the corner of 18th and Vine in Topeka.
Watch Oprah on Wednesday and if she says "Girlfriend!" before the 2nd add break abort the mission.
So you clearly see, if your break the secret code, the Homeland boys were just doing their job. A 50' shipping container could contain quite a few bits of toy encoded information!
One CANNOT be too vigilant! Freedom by fascism! Long live King George and Sir Ridge the Duke of the many colors (Alert status MAGENTA - Woop Woop Wooop!)
I remember the Bone-Phone back in the early days of the Sony Walkman it was kind of a collar that conducted sound into your collarbone and neck.
My google came up with zillions of hits for new conductive cellphones using this principle, one reference from the movie "Dazed and Confused", but no pictures of it.
The advantage was that you wouldn't have something over your ears so you could still here a car before stepping into the street. I only tried one once back then.
You stop at Cheney, Bush, Rove, Pearl, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld...
How about Ashcroft? If it were not for all the other messes in the making he has done the most to undermine the framework of liberty in this country more than anyone since the Mcarthy era.
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The Feds have made serious model rocket enthusiasts suspect. How long before this sort of technology gets regulated as it approaches UAV's capabilities?
We know (as in fact/truth) by observation of other planets (e.g. Venus) that certain compounds in an atmosphere have an insulating effect that results in higher surface temperatures.
We also know that doing certain things (burning fossil fuels in a 3 ton vehicle to get your kid from school) releases some of these same compounds into the air at an increasing rate that say breathing.
Just because the changes in jetstream, ice cap melting, sub-arctic flora absorbtion rates...are not completely consistent or directly correlated, do we dismiss any concern over the state of our planet as alarmists. I would rather be alarmed and wrong than have the earth become inhospitable. We've only got the one and it is clear to me based on personal observation that it is more fucked up every year.
Unlike Christianity, science is not a religion. The "truth" is based on the basis of observation and data. If someone had compelling data that say North American deforestation was a natural process and not due to the timber and pulp industries cutting of trees and conversion of that land to agriculture, industry, and mini-marts, it would be published. In this case as in the case of global warming there is compelling evidence that there are human factors.
If scientists cannot agree whether mean temperatures will rise by 3 degrees or 5 degrees, it is not particularly fair to dismiss their theories outright.
Sound policy in my opinion would be to immediatly consider at least the easier reductions in our emissions. It certainly won't harm anything. In the decades when some were in denial of the harmful effects of smoking would it have been unhealthy to quit?
Consider the state and federal legistlators standing up to spammers (i.e. grandstanding ineffectively for positive PR). Microsoft is likely doing the same...just they are smart enough to know it is only a stunt. Billy Joe Bob state congressman might think he is doing some good.
If you want REAL deterence, send inmate #7272 (callmate to #7779 with a proclivity for pale and soft men) a lifetime supply of penis enlargement cream and herbal viagra.
Sure it doesn't use any of my IT skills. But that is the beauty of it.
Many now famous artists were not appreciated for what they accomplished in their lifetimes.
If I studied Greek history, art, and drama for decades and passed a contemperary "Greek Tragedy" off as an ancient work, that derivative work would provide no NEW insight into Greek culture or history. It would at best provide a view into my interpretation and understanding an art form from that time.
If you were unlucky enough to have a conflict with a particular manager or escallated issues you had recourse and representation.
Unions stagnate and die when they take the dues of the many to force a company to keep the worst. A union is a good thing when they keep a company honest and are there to remind them that abuse of the hearts, minds and souls of the company is not a good long term business model.
An event like a mass walkout from one project would have a far greater impact than 10% monthly attrition from 20 projects. Whatever the configuration management environment, if 75-90% of a team packed and left there is NO-WAY they could recover a project schedule.
A union organization effort would tie up their lawyers and put enough of a stink in the area that the 20 somethings might have their eyes open earlier.
Although union power in this country is not what it used to be, if say the Teamsters refused to handle merchandise from EA it could be very disruptive. Republican union busters would be far less likely to jump in on some "it is a matter of national security and this will undermine our entire economy" as might be the case with a general rail, dockworker, AFLCIO labor action might. In other words 2 million pimple faced kids can live without the latest football game.
It would take a dozen or so people with balls and access to good lawyers to pull this off.
There is always the possibility of a mass revolt. Suppose if at 8:30 pm Friday (all the executives are off having a cigar) someone sent a corporate wide call to action out and they ALL walked. Pagers might go off over the weekend, but you could put the $xxx million project that has to be on the shelves by November 20th in the ditch. What are they going to do? Fire you? So? Organization is protected activity. Call up the Teamsters, see how many of their products make it to store shelves with them on your side.
Maybe they had stock in the power company waiting for your meter to spin with 87 zigawatts running the cooling system.
I recall studying an early (Nazi Germany era) jet engine. It had all kinds of very sophisticate systems (e.g. liquid cooled turbine blades) to get around metalurgical limitations. Some of the features actually went from nearly 50 years before they were implemented again when materials technologies were a limitation and exotic work-arounds were required.
Yes, history may have passed these CRAY machines by, but the engineering problems once solved may be encountered again and it would be a shame to disregard that research because the "big iron" is "old iron".
The sad thing is that Osama has told us the game he is playing and we play right along. He has no dillusions that he will destroy us. His objective is to induce us to destroy ourselves. In a nutshell if we turn into a police state and spend a crippling amount of our GDP defending against the next "BOOO!!!" (9/11 was serious business and I don't mean to understate the horror of that event, but think of how disruptive every video tape and code magenta alert is).
At a Republican caucus I attended in 1986 (non-Presidential year) the voting went like this. An elder or pastor from a huge evangelical church in that area sat in the back of the room. At each vote the men looked back and raised their hand if their leader did. The women looked to their husbands and did likewise. Every vote that evening went ~18 for 3 opposed...myself being one of the 3.
Fast forward 18 years...a very small percentage of the population volunteers to run the mechanics of the election process itself. In general they are a diverse group of civic minded individuals. Can a single block game that system as well?
The problem with tasks like painting is that you have to move furniture, put down drop cloths, mask stuff you don't want to paint, take down pictures...and then when you are done...clean equipment fold up drop cloth, pull up tape, rehang pictures. Painting is the easy part.
Actually it is a history dating back to the debates with McCain in 2000. When asked this question John McCains answer was heart felt and honest. Bush punted with some bull shit about Sammy Sosa. That along with the debate were he turned the tables on McCain after standing next to some SOB that as much as called McCain a coward and traitor. It was pathetic. Then when he encountered the same question his "mistakes" were some appointments. In other words those people let him down...he is still batting 1000! He must be the second coming.
Wake me when there's some real evidence.
Kenny Star spent how many millions going after Hillary and Bill for a 2-bit investment deal and ended up with a cum stained dress. Bush couldn't find oil in Texas and gets rich in the bargain. Sign me up for that deal! Cut a special prosecutor loose for 18 months with an unlimited budget and I am sure you would find buckets of sleaze.
Pride/Hubris: A presumption of infallibility and complete denial of ever making a mistake.
Sloth: He has taken more vacations than any man has a right to. How much brush does he have on that ranch anyway and can't he hire someone to clear it for him? Heck, put on boots and jeans and pose in the rose garden with that chainsaw.
Greed: Lots of good old boys are going to cash in for ANOTHER 4 years for elevating a "C's get degrees" party boy to the top.
Anger: Ass kicking, shoot from the hip, drunk cowboy decision making.
It makes we want to spit when a moral bankrupt gang of liars and thieves spread their brand of the gospel.
Without this, some states might be inclined to tell the shove it if they don't like the way things are going. This happened once remember. Several sparsely populated (in terms of then legal voters) states (south) didn't like the idea that their workforce (slaves) for harvesting their primary export crops (cotton and tobacco) would become much more expensive for their operations (fewer mint jullips on the veranda). We still haven't healed from that rift (stars and bars over etc)!
In particular Powell was used. He is a true patriot and a soldier, so when they told him to sell Iraq war on the UN he did it. In my opinion they pulled him into their plans so he would be forced to stay on-board. I don't think the stink of doing that will ever clear from his nose and I pity him for it.
My only solace in this election is that our Republic has survived bad presidents before. If the country is a mess in 4 years after stacking the house, senate, courts and executive branch who will the Republicans blame?
I don't know why folks get so down on Europe. They collectively looked at the 100,000,000 folks killed in wars in the 20'th century and decided there had to be a better way. Europe has successfully prosecuted more Al Quida than the US. They just happen to distiguish the murderous thugs from the millions of other folks knuckle draggin' Joe 6-pack wants Bush to "kick some ass" with.
Making a cogent point without the "word of the day" printed on a big screen behind him is a challenge.
Watch Oprah on Wednesday and if she says "Girlfriend!" before the 2nd add break abort the mission.
So you clearly see, if your break the secret code, the Homeland boys were just doing their job. A 50' shipping container could contain quite a few bits of toy encoded information!
One CANNOT be too vigilant! Freedom by fascism! Long live King George and Sir Ridge the Duke of the many colors (Alert status MAGENTA - Woop Woop Wooop!)
My google came up with zillions of hits for new conductive cellphones using this principle, one reference from the movie "Dazed and Confused", but no pictures of it.
The advantage was that you wouldn't have something over your ears so you could still here a car before stepping into the street. I only tried one once back then.
How about Ashcroft? If it were not for all the other messes in the making he has done the most to undermine the framework of liberty in this country more than anyone since the Mcarthy era.
Well, the usual suspects denied tobacco was harmful...until proven otherwise.
They deny scientific evidence of global warming...until the Alaskan pipeline sinks into the permafrost
Not to say that Bush is evil per se. Just a meglomaniac manipulative weasle frat boy.
Go ahead mod me a troll.