Because they are fake little worlds, seperated from reality, filled with a bunch of people who have no experience of living life outside of a university. Then to top it off they get a lot of government funding.
Change "university" to "military" and you have a perfect description of most lifetime career military folks.
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Oops meant to say "Army" not "Air Force". Teaches me to post before my first morning coffee.
"Better than MARS" FAQ
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MARS stands for Military Auxiliary Amateur Radio System. It's a long standing ham radio network designed to assist military personnel with contacting the folks back home (among other things military-like).
I believe that the notion of a domestic police force is an invention of the early 19th century. Prior to about 1845, there were no officially constituted armed forces charged with enforcing domestic laws. This would mesh very well with your argument. The US Constitution predates an armed, uniformed police force by several decades, so could not possibly have addressed concerns over its power an authority.
See the following:
Starting around 1835, a series of industrial and race riots began sweeping across America, mostly involving Irish and Native Americans. Cities responded by assigning their police forces the riot control function, but they soon discovered that a volunteer, night-oriented watch system was inadequate. Day watches were likewise ineffective. Full-time, salaried police officers were needed. 1845 in New York City is the generally accepted date and place for the start of paid, professional policing in America.
And a lot of European Jews who were killed in the 1930s and 1940s have only themselves to blame too?
What a grand philosphy - I can steal and kill to my hearts content and as long as I don't get caught my targets have only themselves to blame for being in the wrong place at the wrong time
You realize you have just made an excellent argument that China and/or India will be capable of defeating the US military given another 10 or 20 years.
What's keeping the US afloat right now is the fact that US military strength is greater than all major competitors combined. When nations that already have larger populations than the US become premier R&D sites AND have the manufacturing capability to deliver the technology, the US will go down the tubes fast.
You will soon live in a world where oil contracts are denominated in rupees.
Government pays directly for certifying open source products
Private companies "use" the open source product in their own commercial (very expensive) offerings, pay for the certification, then sell the (largely open source) products at a substantial markup to the government
You save a few pennies in the first option by no longer having the government pay for certification, but you lose many times over in the markup
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You could set something up with a one-time password system like S/Key. The FCC's concern is that ham frequencies would be used for unauthorized purposes if crypto were in regular use to obscure the meaning of transmissions. I think (not totally sure) that using encryption to provide secure authentication alone is OK.
They don't want commercial interests taking over a hobbyist-based system and obscuring their intent by encrypting all transmissions.
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was used for the doping material.
"the total mixture might well serve as a respectable rocket propellant"
The direction and color of the flame supports this theory. Hydrogen burns with a colorless flame and would burn upwards (being lighter than air). The actual flame burned downwards and looked like a "fireworks display".
...soldiers can easily find a safe route between two locations without being seen or shot from an enemy in another location. this package can easily be adapted to civilian applications
Knowing the general neighborhood of USC, I suspect the ISI developers tested this application by finding a safe route to their own work. A sucessful test meant no bullet holes in their car upon arrival.
Saying "transgenic organisms are one of the primary means of constructing bioterror organisms" is a bit like saying "chemistry is one of the primary means of creating explosives," or "machining is one of the primary means of creating automatic weapons."
You might expect chemistry equipment and machine tools to result in a similar investigation in the future. After all "normal" citizens have no need for these items, chemical equipment could be used to make meth as well as terror agents, etc.
I believe that possessing chemical equipment (including lab glassware) without a permit is already illegal in Texas for just this reason. Need to find a good cite for this.
Instead of outlawing crime, we are fast moving to a society where anything that might be connected with a possible crime is illegal.
Free, available, flexible, and it is easy to write simple programs. In terms of ease of use I'd say it ranks with the old versions of Basic, but has the advantage of being more powerful
The secular dictators in the middle east are the sworn enemies of Islamic fundamentalists. Saddam Hussein (and Assad of Syria) are know to murder these folks.
How true. Both are something that the average/. poster has only passing famliarity with, yet they both hold a profound fascination. Additionally, the average/. reader is as likely to carry a firearm as they are to get a date, both being in the realm of fantasy.
But in the UK both "mean" dogs and firearms are restricted.
Learn shotokan . Even if it is not useful for self defense it will keep you in shape and teach you physical self confidence and awareness of your surroundings.
Ensure you have foodstuffs representing the following categories on hand:
Fresh veggies - broccoli is best, keeps well. Also consider carrots, tomatoes, greens (spinach, etc.). At a pinch, frozen veggies will do
Some sort of quick prepare starch - potatoes, rice, pasta, couscous
Protein - fish, chicken, tofu, frozen shrimp. If needed, cook in advance for the week.
Sauces - salsa, curry, soy, etc, Spicy is good
start cooking the starch (steam or boil as case may be). 10 minutes before done, add the veggies. 5 minutes before done add protein. Vary times depending on starhc's cooking times (20 min for rice, 15 for pasta, may 10 for potatoes, etc.). Add in sauce. Eat from cooking appliance.
Vary by choosing a different combination of veggies, starch, protein and sauce. E.g. rice-spinach-shrimp-soy sauce one day, potatoes-chicken-carrots-curry the next.
Exclude the starch item if you are on Atkins.
By buying basic fresh ingredients, you save a ton of money, get healthy food, can control the salt/fat/sugar content yourself, and it really isn't any more work than a frozen meal.
Think of this as an open source DIY meal, as opposed to a closed source frozen dinner, where you get whatever mysterious ingredients the vendor decides.
Just curious, was your roomate a retriever or a terrier?
Kyler might have had certain breed-specific obsessions. Stalking is always bad manners, and generally well-trained canines do not indulge in this behavior.
I'm glad your roomate managed to get him restrained. Hopefully it was a harness and not just a collar.
Aboriginal culture was supressed by force and fraud. It did not collapse because of the force of logic and reason behind western culture, but because aboriginal people were massacred, enslaved, and forced off their land.
Opening up cultures to different views via the Internet is not the same as slaughtering the people making up that culture. Had the Europeans treated the aboriginal people as humans deserved to be treated, their culture would have survived in a much more vital form.
It is proper for the government of Saudi Arabia to protect the country against foreign military invasions. It is not proper to block "un-Islamic" ideas.
So if your average less-agressive slashdot denizen can figure out a way to get all the agressive males to eat lethal meat (mad cow barbecue?), it means the females would then have no choice but to bond with and mate with the surviving less-agressive slashdot-reading males?
I'm sure somewhere out there is a horny slashdot reader already dreaming up an empirical test of your "unfounded opinion"
This is for reals!
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The Cold War may be done for, but there are still guns in space, and all of them are Russian. The survival kit in the Soyuz spacecraft which ferries cosmonauts to and from the Mir space station is said to contain, among other things, a pistol and ammunition. This is not so much to put down the occasional space mutiny, but as a precaution in case of an off-course landing in a region with dangerous wildlife. In March 1965, due to failure of the prime retro-rocket system, the crew of Voskhod 2 landed in a remote region in the Ural Mountains and rescue crews could not reach them until the next day. They were forced to retreat to their re-entry capsule to escape wolves in the forest where they landed.
Vostok 2 finally landed near Perm in the Ural mountains in heavy forest at 59:34 N 55:28 E on March 19, 1965 9:02 GMT. The crew spent the night in the woods, surrounded by wolves, before being located. Recovery crew had to chop down trees to clear a landing zone for helicopter recovery of the crew, who had to ski to the clearing from the spacecraft. Only some days later could the capsule itself be removed.
Hope they include an axe and cross-country skis, as well.
Maybe the whole point of this is to reduce contact between US and non-US citizens. Maybe too much interaction between the US and the rest of the word is thought to be threatening. We have already managed to stifle international cultural programs. Non-US journalists have been detained and deported fo failing to obtain a special little-known journalist visa (which by the way can take weeks to get, preventing foreign journalists from covering breaking US news).
If you think I'm being paranoid, consider that the 20th century's worst dictator's unleashed their fury against "cosmopolitan" elements in their societies. Both Stalin and Hitler considered "foreign" elements a threat to their rule and crushed them without mercy. Part of keeping your own population docile in ensuring they never have the opportunity to see how citizens of other countries live.
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Change "university" to "military" and you have a perfect description of most lifetime career military folks.
Oops meant to say "Army" not "Air Force". Teaches me to post before my first morning coffee.
FAQ is at http://public.afca.af.mil/LIBRARY/MARS1.HTM . Another article explaining the Air Force MARS is http://www.asc.army.mil/mars/history.htm
See the following:
From http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/205/205lect04.htI have almost forgiven Joe Strummer for appearing in that turkey. Almost...
Only movie I've ever walked out of.
What a grand philosphy - I can steal and kill to my hearts content and as long as I don't get caught my targets have only themselves to blame for being in the wrong place at the wrong time
What's keeping the US afloat right now is the fact that US military strength is greater than all major competitors combined. When nations that already have larger populations than the US become premier R&D sites AND have the manufacturing capability to deliver the technology, the US will go down the tubes fast.
You will soon live in a world where oil contracts are denominated in rupees.
- Government pays directly for certifying open source products
- Private companies "use" the open source product in their own commercial (very expensive) offerings, pay for the certification, then sell the (largely open source) products at a substantial markup to the government
You save a few pennies in the first option by no longer having the government pay for certification, but you lose many times over in the markupThey don't want commercial interests taking over a hobbyist-based system and obscuring their intent by encrypting all transmissions.
"the total mixture might well serve as a respectable rocket propellant"
The direction and color of the flame supports this theory. Hydrogen burns with a colorless flame and would burn upwards (being lighter than air). The actual flame burned downwards and looked like a "fireworks display".
See: http://engineer.ea.ucla.edu/releases/blimp.htm
Knowing the general neighborhood of USC, I suspect the ISI developers tested this application by finding a safe route to their own work. A sucessful test meant no bullet holes in their car upon arrival.
You might expect chemistry equipment and machine tools to result in a similar investigation in the future. After all "normal" citizens have no need for these items, chemical equipment could be used to make meth as well as terror agents, etc.
I believe that possessing chemical equipment (including lab glassware) without a permit is already illegal in Texas for just this reason. Need to find a good cite for this.
Instead of outlawing crime, we are fast moving to a society where anything that might be connected with a possible crime is illegal.
I'm a dog. I lie awake at night wondering if my owner is really a dyslexic agnostic.
Free, available, flexible, and it is easy to write simple programs. In terms of ease of use I'd say it ranks with the old versions of Basic, but has the advantage of being more powerful
The secular dictators in the middle east are the sworn enemies of Islamic fundamentalists. Saddam Hussein (and Assad of Syria) are know to murder these folks.
How true. Both are something that the average /. poster has only passing famliarity with, yet they both hold a profound fascination. Additionally, the average /. reader is as likely to carry a firearm as they are to get a date, both being in the realm of fantasy.
Most of us live in the USA. That might explain it. Haven't lived in a "civilised" society yet.
Learn shotokan . Even if it is not useful for self defense it will keep you in shape and teach you physical self confidence and awareness of your surroundings.
Ensure you have foodstuffs representing the following categories on hand:
- Fresh veggies - broccoli is best, keeps well. Also consider carrots, tomatoes, greens (spinach, etc.). At a pinch, frozen veggies will do
- Some sort of quick prepare starch - potatoes, rice, pasta, couscous
- Protein - fish, chicken, tofu, frozen shrimp. If needed, cook in advance for the week.
- Sauces - salsa, curry, soy, etc, Spicy is good
start cooking the starch (steam or boil as case may be). 10 minutes before done, add the veggies. 5 minutes before done add protein. Vary times depending on starhc's cooking times (20 min for rice, 15 for pasta, may 10 for potatoes, etc.). Add in sauce. Eat from cooking appliance.Vary by choosing a different combination of veggies, starch, protein and sauce. E.g. rice-spinach-shrimp-soy sauce one day, potatoes-chicken-carrots-curry the next.
Exclude the starch item if you are on Atkins.
By buying basic fresh ingredients, you save a ton of money, get healthy food, can control the salt/fat/sugar content yourself, and it really isn't any more work than a frozen meal.
Think of this as an open source DIY meal, as opposed to a closed source frozen dinner, where you get whatever mysterious ingredients the vendor decides.
Kyler might have had certain breed-specific obsessions. Stalking is always bad manners, and generally well-trained canines do not indulge in this behavior.
I'm glad your roomate managed to get him restrained. Hopefully it was a harness and not just a collar.
Opening up cultures to different views via the Internet is not the same as slaughtering the people making up that culture. Had the Europeans treated the aboriginal people as humans deserved to be treated, their culture would have survived in a much more vital form.
It is proper for the government of Saudi Arabia to protect the country against foreign military invasions. It is not proper to block "un-Islamic" ideas.
I'm sure somewhere out there is a horny slashdot reader already dreaming up an empirical test of your "unfounded opinion"
If you think I'm being paranoid, consider that the 20th century's worst dictator's unleashed their fury against "cosmopolitan" elements in their societies. Both Stalin and Hitler considered "foreign" elements a threat to their rule and crushed them without mercy. Part of keeping your own population docile in ensuring they never have the opportunity to see how citizens of other countries live.