Over the years I have had 3 on-line merchants ask me to disable or uninstall my network security software to access their site. I immediately stopped shopping at each of them. They were not selling anything worth the risk of being connected to the Internet with no protection, and I doubt that you are selling anything worth that risk either...
Clinton did launch a cruise missle attack against a terrorist training camp in Afganistan. I forget which terrorist attack this was in response to - our embassies in Africa or the first attack on the World Trade Center (or maybe both). He also ordered an attack against a drug manufacturer in Sudan (suspected of making WMDs) and another missle attack that was against the Iraqi intelligence HQ in Bagdad (Clinton said this one was in retaliation for an Iraqi plot to assassinate former President Bush Sr).
All these missle attacks were reported by the Clinton Whitehouse staff in televised press conferences; I don't know how you could have missed hearing about them...
I bought my copy of DDO early this morning (2 AM EST) and they e-mailed the headstart key to me within minutes. I was actually surpirsed they were still issuing them the day before the retail launch...
I did RTFA, but didn't see any mention of being able to limit the search by license type. If you're working on a project that you intend to distribute under the GPL, you probably don't want your search results cluttered with code that has more restrictive terms.
I also think that licensing terms might be a useful addition to self-documenting commenting schemes such as Javadoc...
If the EFF truly thought it was illegal, they'd be suing the US government directly. That would stop the NSA from asking ANY company to assist them, not just AT&T. Instead, they apparently have decided they can't prove that the NSA is breaking any laws, so they are hoping to use the threat of legal costs and bad publicity to force AT&T to stop fulfilling lawful requests from the US government...
Yeah, but there were other episodes which contradict that (continuity was not absolute), such as the episode where he woke up alone in the Village, then sailed home to England. His old agency helped secure an aircraft to try to locate his place of exile, but it was a trick and he was ejected back into the Village.
In another episode one of the out-going Number 2's makes a reference to returning to "the Motherland", which is certainly not the way that a Brit refers to England.
I share your concerns. Today's writers (at least the ones who can find work in the mainstream industry) seem to have lost the ability to tell a story without figuratively hitting the audience over the head with a club. The original sometimes hinted his own government was against him, but other episodes implied it wasn't. All you knew for sure was that "they" were against him and were watching, always and everywhere...
Today's writers will pick a stereotype "bad guy" (probably the U.S.) and make it very obvious who it is.
And how is this different than regular web google showing portions of the website (which tends to be copyright) on the search results page? Authors must opt-out of this (via robots.txt) yet no one has been screeching about that at all.
But the publishers already opted-out when printed the copyright notice on the title page of the books! Why should the publishers be responsible for locating eveyone who wants to copy their work and contact them directly to "opt-out", when the copyright notice is printed on every book?
So, you're suggesting that we don't study the sample we found under controled conditions, and instead hope that no other flu-victim bodies up in the permafrost ever thaw and release the virus back into the environment? And that's assuming that the 1918 flu *only* exists today frozen in the permafrost; it's possible it is actually present (and mutating) in some non-human species today, and may jump-sepcies back to us at some point...
Just out of curiousity, can you name one fact revealed by anonymous sources that was not also revealed by the swrn testimony during the open hearings in Congress? The movie version of Watergate kind of ignores those nationally televised hearings in favor of a shadowy figure in a parking garage, but most of the information came out of the hearings...
I agree. The signal-to-noise ratio on Slashdot is getting so bad that I only visit half as often as I used to. Any know of a good tech/geek news/discussion site?
Th other extrasolar planets that have been discovered so far have much greater masses (as measured by the wobble they induce in their parent stars). However, although the articles I have read so far described these planets as gas giants, I have never seen any explanation by the astronomers as to why they are are certain these planets are gaseous, and not rocky.
Is there some physical reason why massive rocky planets cannot form, or are we assuming that massive planets in other solar systems must resemble massive planets in our solar system?
MBAs learned long ago that in many businesses you can make more money selling both high-end and low-end products in the same market than you would by selling just high-end. Disabling 4 of the pipelines allows them to do this with one main production line and one product development effort.
I saw one episode where Marlin Perkins actually got out of a canoe to help with one big snake on what they thought was a sand bar. It turned out to be mud with the consistancy of quicksand. By the time they had the snake subdued and wrestled in a canoe, the camera boat crew had joined in to help, and Marlin was up to his chest in the mud. Never saw him in the field again after that; guess his insurance wouldn't cover it...;)
Although I was one of the first to welcome our Asteroid Overlords, I can now reveal that my supposed collaboration was a clever plot to win their trust, then defeat them from the "inside". Yeah, that's the ticket!
I can see someone thinking the New York Times is unbiased -- though I'd disagree -- but Fox News?
In my viewing, if you avoid the commentary (like O'Rielly) and "debate" shows, and instead stick with the straight news broadcasts, then Fox is more balanced than, say, Dan Rather's broadcasts. I agree that the Fox News Network as a whole is biased to the right, but the straight news portions are pretty good.
Actually the first "enhanced radiation devices" were developed for the short-lived American ABM system. The short-range, last ditch intercept missiles were to be detonated in the high atmosphere over American cities. The neutron radiation would degrade the incoming warhead (which would be less than a mile of the exploding interceptor) to the point that it could no longer achieve nuclear detonation, while the city itself would be several miles below. Since the neutron blast falls off rapidly with distance (the old inverse square law in action), the city would take realtively little damage from the radiation; the fallout and blast were reduced by design, so (hopefully) civilian casualties would be reduced.
The later planned usage in Europe was *not* to kill people without destroying property (that was propaganda from those opposed to NATO, but not Soviet, nuclear weapons). Instead, the intention was to use them against invading Warsaw Pact troop concentrations while reducing damage to nearby West German towns and cities (due to the reduced fallout and blast - the radiation blast as noted above falls off quickly away from ground zero).
The only U.S. politicians that I've seen advocating reinstating the draft are Democrats, who then turn around and claim that Bush must be defeated to avoid to the draft. The mainstream media usually ignores the bills the Dems sponsor to reinstate the draft, but gives front-page coverage to their claims that Bush wants the draft. Is that double-standard in coverage what you mean by "censorship"?
*If* Scorpius has been honest about wanting to do anything to fight the Scarons(sp?), then his motivations in helping them now makes sense, as does their halfway trusting him. Of course, Scorpius is such a good liar that he could have completely different motivations.
Never fully trust someone who can tell when you're lying, but can lie to you without fear...
...I was flying from San Fran to D.C., with a transfer in Dallas Fort Worth. They checked my ID three times going thru security, and when I got home there was a tag in my bag saying it had been searched. I'm an overweigth, pale-skinned, gray-haired white geek with glasses. Oh, and I'm a registered Republican.
I'm guessing I was a random target for extra security, but who knows?
As for seraching the elderly and children, smugglers have used such people before, and the successful terrorist groups look for loopholes in security before striking. For example, if knives and metal toy guns get caught too often in "dry runs", then they use box cutters instead once they know that they can get them past security.
As I understand it, the small stuff I used to play with (A-D engines) is still operating under the same rules as always. It's the bigger, heavier rockets that have extra restrictions.
No reason to try to prevent it. Ramping a new energy technology up to mass production would take a lot of capital investment for factories, etc. The existing energy companies can just invest in promising alternates. If it fails, they can write it off as a loss on their taxes; if it succeeds, then they get in on the ground floor of the new industry.
Even if you assume that oil execs are evil, they know more about remaining untapped reserves than you you or me. You can be sure that they are looking for the "next big thing" to invest in for continued profits when their wells run low, and not as an enemy to spend money killing.
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Over the years I have had 3 on-line merchants ask me to disable or uninstall my network security software to access their site. I immediately stopped shopping at each of them. They were not selling anything worth the risk of being connected to the Internet with no protection, and I doubt that you are selling anything worth that risk either...
All these missle attacks were reported by the Clinton Whitehouse staff in televised press conferences; I don't know how you could have missed hearing about them...
I bought my copy of DDO early this morning (2 AM EST) and they e-mailed the headstart key to me within minutes. I was actually surpirsed they were still issuing them the day before the retail launch...
I also think that licensing terms might be a useful addition to self-documenting commenting schemes such as Javadoc...
If the EFF truly thought it was illegal, they'd be suing the US government directly. That would stop the NSA from asking ANY company to assist them, not just AT&T. Instead, they apparently have decided they can't prove that the NSA is breaking any laws, so they are hoping to use the threat of legal costs and bad publicity to force AT&T to stop fulfilling lawful requests from the US government...
In another episode one of the out-going Number 2's makes a reference to returning to "the Motherland", which is certainly not the way that a Brit refers to England.
Today's writers will pick a stereotype "bad guy" (probably the U.S.) and make it very obvious who it is.
So, you're suggesting that we don't study the sample we found under controled conditions, and instead hope that no other flu-victim bodies up in the permafrost ever thaw and release the virus back into the environment? And that's assuming that the 1918 flu *only* exists today frozen in the permafrost; it's possible it is actually present (and mutating) in some non-human species today, and may jump-sepcies back to us at some point...
Too bad my last set of Mod Points just expired - you echo my thoughts exactly...
Just out of curiousity, can you name one fact revealed by anonymous sources that was not also revealed by the swrn testimony during the open hearings in Congress? The movie version of Watergate kind of ignores those nationally televised hearings in favor of a shadowy figure in a parking garage, but most of the information came out of the hearings...
I agree. The signal-to-noise ratio on Slashdot is getting so bad that I only visit half as often as I used to. Any know of a good tech/geek news/discussion site?
Is there some physical reason why massive rocky planets cannot form, or are we assuming that massive planets in other solar systems must resemble massive planets in our solar system?
MBAs learned long ago that in many businesses you can make more money selling both high-end and low-end products in the same market than you would by selling just high-end. Disabling 4 of the pipelines allows them to do this with one main production line and one product development effort.
I saw one episode where Marlin Perkins actually got out of a canoe to help with one big snake on what they thought was a sand bar. It turned out to be mud with the consistancy of quicksand. By the time they had the snake subdued and wrestled in a canoe, the camera boat crew had joined in to help, and Marlin was up to his chest in the mud. Never saw him in the field again after that; guess his insurance wouldn't cover it... ;)
The other night upon the stair,
I saw a star that wasn't there.
It wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish it'd go away...
Although I was one of the first to welcome our Asteroid Overlords, I can now reveal that my supposed collaboration was a clever plot to win their trust, then defeat them from the "inside". Yeah, that's the ticket!
In my viewing, if you avoid the commentary (like O'Rielly) and "debate" shows, and instead stick with the straight news broadcasts, then Fox is more balanced than, say, Dan Rather's broadcasts. I agree that the Fox News Network as a whole is biased to the right, but the straight news portions are pretty good.
The later planned usage in Europe was *not* to kill people without destroying property (that was propaganda from those opposed to NATO, but not Soviet, nuclear weapons). Instead, the intention was to use them against invading Warsaw Pact troop concentrations while reducing damage to nearby West German towns and cities (due to the reduced fallout and blast - the radiation blast as noted above falls off quickly away from ground zero).
The only U.S. politicians that I've seen advocating reinstating the draft are Democrats, who then turn around and claim that Bush must be defeated to avoid to the draft. The mainstream media usually ignores the bills the Dems sponsor to reinstate the draft, but gives front-page coverage to their claims that Bush wants the draft. Is that double-standard in coverage what you mean by "censorship"?
Never fully trust someone who can tell when you're lying, but can lie to you without fear...
I'm guessing I was a random target for extra security, but who knows?
As for seraching the elderly and children, smugglers have used such people before, and the successful terrorist groups look for loopholes in security before striking. For example, if knives and metal toy guns get caught too often in "dry runs", then they use box cutters instead once they know that they can get them past security.
As I understand it, the small stuff I used to play with (A-D engines) is still operating under the same rules as always. It's the bigger, heavier rockets that have extra restrictions.
Even if you assume that oil execs are evil, they know more about remaining untapped reserves than you you or me. You can be sure that they are looking for the "next big thing" to invest in for continued profits when their wells run low, and not as an enemy to spend money killing.