The whole thing was an overengineered government boondoggle. It didn't make sense then, and doesn't make sense now, while looking at it logically.
The motivations of the various parties are clear enough.
-NASA was politicking, they didn't want to have a situation like Apollo where the last few flights were eliminated because of changing conditions and or national boredom. A reusable craft almost demands use. They also wanted to create a consistent work environment rather than running a constant R&D shop. Government employees are not good at R&D, in general. Most R&D establishments in the military, for instance, morph into bureaucratic wastes of money over time due to the fact that government oversight doesn't lend itself to dynamic activity. If the unique, dynamic overseers of the project, those exceptional people who have drive and ambition within government, leave their posts - the project stagnates. NASA is no exception.
-The pilots wanted something aircraft-like to fly, damn the fact that it's not a useful shape for a spacecraft. That was the design spec, and safety was compromised to meet it.
-The politicians were throwing a bone to NASA and appropriated the funds based on the successful lunar missions. Oversight on this was near-nil, except for the dollar figure which was chopped in half, exacerbating the problem.
So they seized on an Air Force requirement regarding the capability to return payload from orbit, which ultimately has been used very infrequently, and used that as a justification to achieve all their other disparate goals.
They promised all kinds of capabilities such as quick turnaround which are bogus in reality. They promised cheaper per-flight costs. They promised greater safety. A lot was promised that never materialized.
Note that none of the real justifications for a reusable, aircraft shaped spacecraft had anything to do with science, advancing human exploration, or efficiency. Pretty much tells the whole story, no?
The Shroud was damaged by a fire. The container it was in was composed partially of silver. The container melted, dropping molten silver through the linen, and creating circular patterns on the Shroud, since it was folded at the time.
The presence of residue of the silver was confirmed by the 1978 team when they examined the shroud. The patches are clearly visible and were not tested by that team. Aside from the patches, the Shroud is whole.
This article and the posters are pretty uniformly uninformed about the science involved here, and the conditions. Seems like a huge waste.
Actually the Molotov cocktail was a Finnish invention. It was an improvised antitank device used in the 1939-40 Soviet attack on Finland. Molotov was the Soviet foreign minister at the time.
Perhaps one of Linus Torvalds' family used one. The defense of Finland in that case was a costly affair, and ultimately they were forced to concede to the Soviets.
"fecal gardening club" sounds like a good match. Has an explanation (it's fertilizer!) and assures that no one would ever want to join it. Well, except a fecophiliac, and in that case you've usefully identified a freak.
I suppose that this is what motivates coin and currency collectors, ultimately. Well, some are in it for the bullion value, but most, like my father, were into it because the coins were pretty.
His trick was, in the 1950s and 1960s, to pull rolls of 90% silver US coinage and cherry-pick them, then return them to the bank. It was very effective then, and got a wide swath of coinage all the way from Barber dimes and quarters (pre-1916) to 1964. He also picked out almost complete sets of good-quality nickels and cents - many Indian cents, Liberty nickels, that kind of thing. Then the US removed the silver from coins.
Everything old suddenly disappeared. Worse, when silver topped $40 an ounce around 1979-80 timeframe, much of the old coinage was melted for scrap. The government had done things like that in the past as well, mass meltings, which explains the scarcity of certain coins today.
Strangely enough, if you want to find a 90% (or 40%) silver coin still in circulation, get a few rolls of US half dollars. Generally, even today you'll find 90% and 40% coins in those rolls. People don't realize a 1964 Kennedy half is a 90% silver coin, and that the 1965-1970 coins were 40% silver.
Take 5.0.12 out of the box and is it compliant? Is the webmail compliant?
I don't think that's misleading. Government sites are going off of Domino rapidly due to the failure to validate Section 508 compliance. I am aware of several large sites which are working off a waiver because it just can't be fixed without tossing the majority of the code. Sure, the developers were stupid about it, but the fact is that it wasn't designed for same.
The Domino web interface is ungainly and not standard. Furthermore, it's not Section 508 compliant which means US Government sites using it are being converted to other technologies rapidly.
You wouldn't tolerate it on your own web site, I suspect, and users never have liked it.
I can honestly say that a lot would have to be done with their own internal applications to bring them to Linux. Domino client won't run. Neither is a Sametime client available. Both were in heavy use in IBM Global Services, at least.
I don't understand the unwillingness to port these two desktop pieces (both being on Linux would be handy where I am now), but between that and the web apps, they have a lot of work ahead if they want to fulfill a Linux desktop.
There are alternatives - Wine as depicted in the article. Crossover Office supports the Domino client. Meanwhile, the extension for Gaim, works okay as a Sametime integrator. Still, none of those solutions would lend themselves to correcting the internal issues at IBM. They have control of the apps - porting them natively is logical.
Being good at operations and infrastructure tasks requires precision and repetition of tasks according to best practices. If you can't use the language, you're not going to be able to follow directions and do things right, first time and every time. In short, i'll be firing you soon.
I'm not going to attack your pov, I already stated that (pretty much) I don't believe anything I wrote there anymore. There's no reason to belabor it - you'll get to where you are going to go all by yourself without me throwing angst your way. You wake up one day and question things you treated as gospel for years.
In terms of the illegal marijuana usage, I plead the fifth. I didn't inhale!
In terms of wiseass potential - if you are a smartass then what is Cyrano?:-b
I do my girlfriend (ha ha) because she's right here and I can control her system with my own firewall (Shorewall is nice...).
I keep my sister and her husband taken care of, because they do _exactly_ what I say and do not mess with the configuration.
I do the next door neighbor because her and her husband are dumbasses and won't fuck around with it. He wants to surf porn, she wants to do the online banking. So I make both of them happy.
I refuse to do anyone else because I don't go there often enough to check the situation, and my stepfather likes to play and get other guys in to mess with his system - I don't want any responsibility for that shit.
That should be your cue. My daughter is great at them, but she's 10. She's lived her whole life with a GUI there, and learned them before she was 3.
Asking older people to rewire their neurons to handle the spatial requirements of scrolling windows is not simple. I'm glad the change happened when I was 20 rather than 40, in other words.
Maybe old DOS applications would be more useful for the older set.
Nothing, that's what. The whole premise has holes you could drive a truck through. If statistics are so good at measuring voter sentiment, then why do we bother having elections?
Hint: Because they aren't effective!. They don't capture voter sentiment and they don't explain why people voted as they did. They're just old numbers rehashed.
It's a bunch of partisan bullshit from one of the most left-wing schools in the country. They can't figure out why less people in Florida voted for Kerry than voted for Al Gore. Could it have something to do with his attitude? Naah. It's not like it's a Southern state or anything.
I hope they like being marginalized, because that is what is about to happen.
It's not like the lameass attempt to delegitimatize the President is not clearly seen. This isn't 2000. Dig your hole again if you wish...i'll be happy to win another election or three on the back of this idiocy.
In summary, the same shit I used to. I'll try to be fair.
As a general principle, there is no good reason for life to be unfair.
It is the government's responsibility to correct unfair life situations to the maximum extent possible, utilizing public funds for the purpose without consideration for economic effect. In other words, if there is an itch, the government should scratch it - with cash.
Authority in general exists to oppress us.
There's no reason for gross income disparity.
The rich are enemies of the working class with disparate goals.
The money that the rich receive is a net loss to the common worker.
Progressive taxation is good because the government can do better things with the money than rich people will.
Corporations are even more evil than the rich.
War is bad, in general. If someone isn't shooting at us in the immediate CONUS sense, we shouldn't be fighting.
It's our inalienable right to weaken our government through whatever peaceful means possible in time of war because we don't like the basis thereof, including backing foreigners.
If it feels good, it's ok.
There should be no government mandated metrics on how we live our lives, or attempts to mandate morality.
People should have the right to do whatever they want with their bodies. (summation of abortion, euthanasia, drugs, tattoos, piercings, home amputation or whatever else you want to lump in here)
Capital punishment sucks. Your reason could vary - general mercy or fear of killing the wrong person get high marks here.
Prison sentences are too long, are a waste generally and should be commuted to the maximum extent possible.
Europe is cool because they mostly do this stuff already.
I'm having flashbacks of big weed stogies smoked in the woods when I was 16 thinking this way. I'm sure there's more though.
Space exploration is one of the few things that many countries are working on together. This helps bring peace.
Bullshit, you are mixing cause and effect. Peace enables cooperation. It only takes one party to make a war. Your choices then are to lie down and be exterminated or fight back.
This naive cluelessness is something Communism exploits directly through its support of 'peace' organizations. This is the same tactic that spawned the famous Lenin quote about 'useful idiots'.
There's a big difference between disagreeing and actively working against someone. France has been actively working against the US internationally for years now. The stuff about the Oil for Food program is just coming out now. We know quite a bit of modern French weaponry was found in Iraq. Mind you, this is stuff shipped while US and Brit warplanes were patrolling the no-fly zones, including SAMs.
The American anger towards France isn't unprovoked.
-A dash of conspiracy theory -Anti-American leftism -Contempt for a majority of the voting public -Outdated, disproven socialist ideas
I sense a winning ticket there - for Republicans.
An entire generation has been raised to understand that socialist thinking sucks, whether we refer to unions, entitlement handouts or other forms of government interference in the function of the economy. That same generation also thinks affirmative action sucks, and gay marriage isn't well thought of either.
Beside that, who wants to think of their country in a negative light? That's right, no one except the rabid opposition (this means you). Propagandizing people via the network news worked in Vietnam because people were still trusting of mass media. That trust ran out years ago.
I don't care if everyone that votes Republican has 80 IQs and marries their sister. As long as I can escape my lifespan without being part of some Stalinist 'utopia' that the Democratic party appears aimed for, i'm happy.
Ignoring politics was normal for our parents, but it's certainly not going to afflict me, since ignorance results in turd burglars like Kerry and Gore getting into office. Onward!
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The whole thing was an overengineered government boondoggle. It didn't make sense then, and doesn't make sense now, while looking at it logically.
The motivations of the various parties are clear enough.
-NASA was politicking, they didn't want to have a situation like Apollo where the last few flights were eliminated because of changing conditions and or national boredom. A reusable craft almost demands use. They also wanted to create a consistent work environment rather than running a constant R&D shop. Government employees are not good at R&D, in general. Most R&D establishments in the military, for instance, morph into bureaucratic wastes of money over time due to the fact that government oversight doesn't lend itself to dynamic activity. If the unique, dynamic overseers of the project, those exceptional people who have drive and ambition within government, leave their posts - the project stagnates. NASA is no exception.
-The pilots wanted something aircraft-like to fly, damn the fact that it's not a useful shape for a spacecraft. That was the design spec, and safety was compromised to meet it.
-The politicians were throwing a bone to NASA and appropriated the funds based on the successful lunar missions. Oversight on this was near-nil, except for the dollar figure which was chopped in half, exacerbating the problem.
So they seized on an Air Force requirement regarding the capability to return payload from orbit, which ultimately has been used very infrequently, and used that as a justification to achieve all their other disparate goals.
They promised all kinds of capabilities such as quick turnaround which are bogus in reality. They promised cheaper per-flight costs. They promised greater safety. A lot was promised that never materialized.
Note that none of the real justifications for a reusable, aircraft shaped spacecraft had anything to do with science, advancing human exploration, or efficiency. Pretty much tells the whole story, no?
The Shroud was damaged by a fire. The container it was in was composed partially of silver. The container melted, dropping molten silver through the linen, and creating circular patterns on the Shroud, since it was folded at the time.
The presence of residue of the silver was confirmed by the 1978 team when they examined the shroud. The patches are clearly visible and were not tested by that team. Aside from the patches, the Shroud is whole.
This article and the posters are pretty uniformly uninformed about the science involved here, and the conditions. Seems like a huge waste.
Actually the Molotov cocktail was a Finnish invention. It was an improvised antitank device used in the 1939-40 Soviet attack on Finland. Molotov was the Soviet foreign minister at the time.
Perhaps one of Linus Torvalds' family used one. The defense of Finland in that case was a costly affair, and ultimately they were forced to concede to the Soviets.
"fecal gardening club" sounds like a good match. Has an explanation (it's fertilizer!) and assures that no one would ever want to join it. Well, except a fecophiliac, and in that case you've usefully identified a freak.
I suppose that this is what motivates coin and currency collectors, ultimately. Well, some are in it for the bullion value, but most, like my father, were into it because the coins were pretty.
His trick was, in the 1950s and 1960s, to pull rolls of 90% silver US coinage and cherry-pick them, then return them to the bank. It was very effective then, and got a wide swath of coinage all the way from Barber dimes and quarters (pre-1916) to 1964. He also picked out almost complete sets of good-quality nickels and cents - many Indian cents, Liberty nickels, that kind of thing. Then the US removed the silver from coins.
Everything old suddenly disappeared. Worse, when silver topped $40 an ounce around 1979-80 timeframe, much of the old coinage was melted for scrap. The government had done things like that in the past as well, mass meltings, which explains the scarcity of certain coins today.
Strangely enough, if you want to find a 90% (or 40%) silver coin still in circulation, get a few rolls of US half dollars. Generally, even today you'll find 90% and 40% coins in those rolls. People don't realize a 1964 Kennedy half is a 90% silver coin, and that the 1965-1970 coins were 40% silver.
a town named "Beaverton" would have a lot of houses of ill repute.
Too bad.
Take 5.0.12 out of the box and is it compliant? Is the webmail compliant?
I don't think that's misleading. Government sites are going off of Domino rapidly due to the failure to validate Section 508 compliance. I am aware of several large sites which are working off a waiver because it just can't be fixed without tossing the majority of the code. Sure, the developers were stupid about it, but the fact is that it wasn't designed for same.
The Domino web interface is ungainly and not standard. Furthermore, it's not Section 508 compliant which means US Government sites using it are being converted to other technologies rapidly.
You wouldn't tolerate it on your own web site, I suspect, and users never have liked it.
I can honestly say that a lot would have to be done with their own internal applications to bring them to Linux. Domino client won't run. Neither is a Sametime client available. Both were in heavy use in IBM Global Services, at least.
I don't understand the unwillingness to port these two desktop pieces (both being on Linux would be handy where I am now), but between that and the web apps, they have a lot of work ahead if they want to fulfill a Linux desktop.
There are alternatives - Wine as depicted in the article. Crossover Office supports the Domino client. Meanwhile, the extension for Gaim, works okay as a Sametime integrator. Still, none of those solutions would lend themselves to correcting the internal issues at IBM. They have control of the apps - porting them natively is logical.
Being good at operations and infrastructure tasks requires precision and repetition of tasks according to best practices. If you can't use the language, you're not going to be able to follow directions and do things right, first time and every time. In short, i'll be firing you soon.
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The feckless crowd here - how many will appreciate the wisdom of your words before it is too late?
That's the 'fair' they should be striving for. If everyone is ambitious and responsible, the world is fair.
Well, almost. I think my parents would have been shocked if i'd told them what I believed. I got better!
You're somewhere inbetween marxist me and now.
:-b
I'm not going to attack your pov, I already stated that (pretty much) I don't believe anything I wrote there anymore. There's no reason to belabor it - you'll get to where you are going to go all by yourself without me throwing angst your way. You wake up one day and question things you treated as gospel for years.
In terms of the illegal marijuana usage, I plead the fifth. I didn't inhale!
In terms of wiseass potential - if you are a smartass then what is Cyrano?
I do not fit into people neat little boxes
We haven't had the right kind of knife till now!
Perhaps a poster child for my moral decline as I wouldn't kick her out of bed.
I do my girlfriend (ha ha) because she's right here and I can control her system with my own firewall (Shorewall is nice...).
I keep my sister and her husband taken care of, because they do _exactly_ what I say and do not mess with the configuration.
I do the next door neighbor because her and her husband are dumbasses and won't fuck around with it. He wants to surf porn, she wants to do the online banking. So I make both of them happy.
I refuse to do anyone else because I don't go there often enough to check the situation, and my stepfather likes to play and get other guys in to mess with his system - I don't want any responsibility for that shit.
That should be your cue. My daughter is great at them, but she's 10. She's lived her whole life with a GUI there, and learned them before she was 3.
Asking older people to rewire their neurons to handle the spatial requirements of scrolling windows is not simple. I'm glad the change happened when I was 20 rather than 40, in other words.
Maybe old DOS applications would be more useful for the older set.
But you knew that already.
More bias...
Nothing, that's what. The whole premise has holes you could drive a truck through. If statistics are so good at measuring voter sentiment, then why do we bother having elections?
Hint: Because they aren't effective!. They don't capture voter sentiment and they don't explain why people voted as they did. They're just old numbers rehashed.
It's a bunch of partisan bullshit from one of the most left-wing schools in the country. They can't figure out why less people in Florida voted for Kerry than voted for Al Gore. Could it have something to do with his attitude? Naah. It's not like it's a Southern state or anything.
I hope they like being marginalized, because that is what is about to happen.
It's not like the lameass attempt to delegitimatize the President is not clearly seen. This isn't 2000. Dig your hole again if you wish...i'll be happy to win another election or three on the back of this idiocy.
In summary, the same shit I used to. I'll try to be fair.
As long as you are a leftist you're going to continue thinking that. Then when you grow out of it you'll realize you're as much of a dick as I am.
Space exploration is one of the few things that many countries are working on together. This helps bring peace.
Bullshit, you are mixing cause and effect. Peace enables cooperation. It only takes one party to make a war. Your choices then are to lie down and be exterminated or fight back.
This naive cluelessness is something Communism exploits directly through its support of 'peace' organizations. This is the same tactic that spawned the famous Lenin quote about 'useful idiots'.
There's a big difference between disagreeing and actively working against someone. France has been actively working against the US internationally for years now. The stuff about the Oil for Food program is just coming out now. We know quite a bit of modern French weaponry was found in Iraq. Mind you, this is stuff shipped while US and Brit warplanes were patrolling the no-fly zones, including SAMs.
The American anger towards France isn't unprovoked.
Hmm -
-A dash of conspiracy theory
-Anti-American leftism
-Contempt for a majority of the voting public
-Outdated, disproven socialist ideas
I sense a winning ticket there - for Republicans.
An entire generation has been raised to understand that socialist thinking sucks, whether we refer to unions, entitlement handouts or other forms of government interference in the function of the economy. That same generation also thinks affirmative action sucks, and gay marriage isn't well thought of either.
Beside that, who wants to think of their country in a negative light? That's right, no one except the rabid opposition (this means you). Propagandizing people via the network news worked in Vietnam because people were still trusting of mass media. That trust ran out years ago.
I don't care if everyone that votes Republican has 80 IQs and marries their sister. As long as I can escape my lifespan without being part of some Stalinist 'utopia' that the Democratic party appears aimed for, i'm happy.
Ignoring politics was normal for our parents, but it's certainly not going to afflict me, since ignorance results in turd burglars like Kerry and Gore getting into office. Onward!