Perhaps you misunderstood me. I didn't say I was in favor of it, just reporting what they are saying they are going to do, which is, dominate space and keep other people *out* of space.
When it comers to weapons I would support a world wide planetary ban on anything not man portable. that won't happen of course, but that's the level I think humans are at socially, technologically we are far more advanced of course, but realisitcally, we are just medievals with better technology. For all practical purposes humans haven't changed for thousands of years. Advanced weapons will be our undoing as a species I'm afraid, because it's where the BIG money and big efforts go. It sucks, but there ya go.
The reason why they (US 'space command') are doing this is because we are rapidly losing any sort of conventional superiority. In particular china will overtake the US within one decade. And that's the CIAs analysis too, they will be the worlds largest economy and have the largest conventional forces. they are leapfrogging multiple years of what we in the west consider "normal" advancements in single years. They are advancing several years to our one, and a buck goes ten times further there in getting hardware on the ground. We simply do not build things in quantity any more, and military stuff is just stuff, it has to be built, not just designed and have committees about it. Crap like Iraq is not a real war, and even that took huge amounts of our forces to accompliosh, plus bribing off the top generals in advance with suitcases of benjamins, euros, and bars of gold. It wouldn't have been the same outcome fighting a much larger force with closer to ours technology. the only advantage we have is to try and stay so far advanced that no one dares attack (or resists being attacked). It has to be quality now, not quantity, we simply can't do it that way any longer. And,tactically speaking, the high ground is that, the high ground, that's been the same since we fought with thrown rocks. High ground keeps you safer, and makes it easier to rain destruction on your enemies. Gravity works. Joe pentagon has ALWAYS worked towards owning the high ground.
... the obvious question..which phones DON'T break? What make/models of phones do you sell that never or hardly never get returned? That's the phone to buy then it would seem. Next question, which of those have decent batteries? That's always been my major complaint, the $%^*) batteries,finally they just won't hold a charge, then when you need a new battery they cost as much as a new phone.
And with all that said, I'd like a phone that doubles(with some sort of switch I guess) to a FRS channeled walkie talkie, then maybe just was a regular multiband receiver, so you can listen to your fav shows/music whatever. I like that sort of action more than a portable bad quality computer with a dinky screen and a keyboard you need a magnifying glass to use.. A lot of times I actually use them things working outside all the time, pain in the tush to carry 3 seperate devices, and there's no need to involve some telco network deal just to talk to your friend working closeby. Wonder if they make such a critter?
I'm sure they are now. It didn't used to be all that way, now it is. Sorry 'bout that, not my call, I most definetly don't support either of the two dominant gangs running the show..
The deal is, no other of the large nations are any better, they all are predatory in some fashion or another. I think it just happens eventually to all organized societies, the power-mad tend to get to the top, because it's what they want, and they have the drive and ruthlessness to get there.
My main point though to go along with the thread, china and india may have an *ambitious* space effort being planned, but I'd bet a silver dollar (real money) they suffer a lot of "unfortunate accidents" once they start to have any large scale successes.
Another point, it was revealed that the Pentagon "lost" around a trillion bucks even. Wellllll, you just don't "lose" that kinda money, and black budgets exist, and NASA ain't the only game in town, nor has it been since..forever, manned flight. The US has more space presence than they let on would be my best guess. A LOT more. I'd also say they probably already have pure military space flight on at least a limited scale. I am just NOT believing that the sr-71 was "it", that they just "gave up" after that.
... or a real weapon? If you mean a real weapon, you just use your normal stereoscopic eyeballs. Works great, I've been shooting..well.. a really long time, and to get reasonable good is not that hard. To get great..yes, that's hard, most people can't get great, but good enough you can get. Get some various firearms and practice. Ballistics is fun. And if you start with.22 rimfire it's surprisingly inexpensive. And geez, do it now before this bumfug government makes everything illegal and forces you to sneak around.
Now a toy? Not sure what you are wanting.. an electronic can't miss device? Or what? Lasers they got. Maybe what you mean is something like F.A.T.S., should be on the net, successful company last I was over there playing with their stuff. Neato toyz. Real weapons modified to use lasers directly down the barrels. Used for training with interactive life sized projectors and screens and computer jazz stuff (-techno speek). Pretty cool.
OK, made me look, yes on the net, here ya go...
http://www.fatsinc.com/
man I had fun with this stuff. too many innocent civvies got in the way! HAHAHAHA1
.. read or understand their own history. Like I'm sure in the pioneer days when neighbor helped neighbor build a fence or raise a barn, that they would have thought it a negative or "wrong" to share with each other and help each other. But see, that's "communism" of some kind, so therefore must be "wrong".
Hey, if SCO CEO gets in a car wreck, and is laying there all smashed and bleeding, perhaps the EMT people should wait until he wakes up, signs a contract with them and their lawyers, then hires them to use their "IP" to take care of him. If they just do it, that's right off the bat sharing and communism, I mean, they haven't been paid, or even asked permission yet, have they? Just business, right?
Some people, no matter how old they get, never get past that love of money~greed thing. And calling love of money-worship of money over all things-is not even capitalism, it's just a sick warped mind at work. Capitalism can at least be honorable.
Besides that, it's kinda sorta funy, the dual protests. I feel sorry for the poor low level schmoos working there, that's it. I feel sorrier for open source and linux more though, there was no absolute need to do this.
Thinking on it, ya, a few tons of old grade b steel ball bearings all spread out in the good orbit areas would certainly balls things up pretty quickly.
And thanks for not flaming me because of my post, I was serious and follow these sorts of things as way more of a hobby than IT minutiae, And because of that I write what I do, that's my best and simplest and shortest analysis of the entire subject. So here's an url for you on this subject of china and india and the us in space, fairly fresh:
http://www.sundayherald.com/34768
the first few paragraphs on this:
As part of a plan to ensure its total military supremacy, the US is preparing to complete the domination of space -- by any means necessary. Neil Mackay explains the terrifying new face of global warfare
IT SOUNDS like the stuff of the darkest sci-fi fantasies, but it's not. The Air Force Space Command Strategic Master Plan is a clear statement of the US's intention to dominate the world by turning space into the crucial battlefield of the 21st century.
The document details how the US Air Force Space Command is developing exotic new weapons, nuclear warheads and spacecraft to allow the US to hit any target on earth within seconds. It also unashamedly states that the US will not allow any other power to get a foothold in space. ---their words, not mine, but I believe them
The article is good and google will find you a lot more.
... in the last few weeks the US has anounced that it will be militarizing space "officially" and it won't be allowing other nations to take the high ground. There will be wars over it, cooperation is over for now. They will play act at it, that's about it.
And it goes back to planetary population and natural resources, namely oil and freshwater. Anyone may run the numbers for themselves, projected growth rates, current planetary useage,proven reserves, yada yada, then make some assumptions. There's enough oil for around 1.5 billion people tops to be middle class the way it is now, for around 20 more years. There isn't enough for 4 to 8 billion people.
Everyone wants to be at least middle class now, ie, have a car, heating and cooling, electric outlets that work in the wall, running water, etc.
This is the century of the great culling and the resource wars. We are in the good old days right now. I give humans way under 50% odds of making it to the next century. All the WMD jennis are out of the bottle, and by some accounts directed energy weapons are here at least in good prototype stages, and weather warfare is on the horizon. All of those techniques will be used,so my best guess is primarily the combo of nukes and biologicals will wipe out humans.
I used to replace the stock oil cooler (joke) with a radiator styled externally mounted (out from inside the shroud) oil cooler on all my old "air cooled" VWs. It was (still is really) one of the most common mods to those engines. It made the engine run much cooler.
in the vast majority of apple apps, all you had to do is to slow click (what I always called it anyway) to bring up the full sub menus. It's right there then, the same stuff you get (more or less) with a two button mouse. I don't recall having much trouble with it, works the same as a regular windows type mouse, just with one button. You can do the key/mouse button combos, but really, not all that necessary.
I am wondering though, no matter how new to the web or whatever browser or OS people use, how many folks have never tried google or use it most of the time? I'm sure some have never, but still, google has entered the language as a noun and a verb now it's so universal. That's going to be a hard nut to crack for microsoft unless they can produce good quality results consistently. And once people get hip to advanced searching, and google news, really, hard to beat.
in this country we think it's rather annoying as well, either from some brigand, or some royal or royal wannabe brigand who claims authority, but in reality are just more sophisticated thieves and scoundrels.
That's the difference, we are smart enough to know there's *both kinds* not just the one. aww gee, it doesn't even take much smarts,just medium smarts, all you have to do is look around.
You won't find honest gun owners in the US pointing guns at you, you will find badguys if thart happens, and last I heard, you have them as well,in fact, those numbers seem to be rising and rising every year don't they? And your royals and bewigged ones declare that you may not, that you do not have their "permission" to defend yourself. Of course, those people all have armed guards, don't they? Admit it, they do, don't they? Admit it, cuz ya knows it's 8true facts* and stuff. You can't, but they do. You probably are "allowed" to use strong language against them, and that's about it, isn't it? In fact, you must "retreat" and take all the indignities, don't you? See anything weird with that? You think if someone broke into the "royal" house or someones house who wore a wig to work,or any of the really fattest of cats who drink with those previous two sets of gents, do you really think that A-they really don't have guns in there, or b, they wouldn't use them if they needed to, and c, absolutely nothing zero zilch nada would happen to them "legally", but if YOU had a gun and defended yourself at home, with the same exact scenario, same badguys trying the same bad stuff, you'll be going to jail, won't you? Admit it, it's the truth, isn't it? right to jail, you'll be a criminal too, such joy! A half dozen bad guys could break into your house, beat you up, steal all your stuff, rape the dog and wife and kids, and if you shot one one of those little rascals,those lil tykes, those just mischievious little scamps, YOU are going to the pokey, aren't you?
We find that more annoying than anything else. That stuff don't go down around here too much. We gladly put up with the other so we don't have to put up with that ultimate annoyance to our persons. We even fought this lil ole war over it, and golly gee, we sorta won that one.
It's a joke son, lighten up. Keep your wigs and royals and keep believing you have no lawful right to self defense unless you are a royal or bewigged one, we think it's hilarious. We'll keep our nascar and wrestling, they are all equally silly. We can laugh at each others silliness. Hey, we almost speak the same language! If we can't get along, who can?
... yes but merrie and royale olde englande is ruled by dudes who still wear wigs and by funny royal like people, plus they disarmed their peasants, because they don't trust their peasants, so everything else they do sort of revolves around that methinkeths. Of course they want the peasants who fund the dudes in wigs and the royals to buy expensive software from their club drinking buddies.
See, what would work is for everyone there to go to wherever those royal and wiggy guys hang out and like put heads on the battlements or whatever that is called. Every nation needs that at least once every couple of hundred years or so, keeps em honest and stuff. Then there's no rip off nonsense for a spell, then it gradually goes bad again. rinse lather repeat.
I mean, really, calling people "lords"? Say whut? "Curtseying"? "Knights"? We are supposed to take them serious?/me checks calendar... hmm, 2003....
I'm sure most of the people over there are just fine folks, they just suffer from the same thing we do, out to lunch government and these people who are already rich as snot so they think they deserve to be richer and have more power and to tell the peasants "what's good for them". I bet they even have people who supposedly "represent them" in the rich as snot royal or semi royal good ole boys government/business club, too.
Yes, it appears to do that. I have 6 of the smaller 20 lb tanks (in small tanks the propane is sold by the pound, larger tanks by the gallon, by the pound is a rip off anyway). 2 of mine are from chinamart, refill there only. I got them thinking they were the same, oh well. I used those the first winter we got our RV, then we got two hundrd lb tanks which if you whine the bulk truck will fill up. After we move I'll probably rent or buy a really large tank, then buy propane in the summer when it's cheaper. We buy our gasoline and diesel bulk, too, comes in *real handy* sometimes and it's a nice stash in case we experience an emergency with associated "market irregularities". I try to have a minimum of one to two years of at least basic everything on hand all the time, food, fuel, etc. We could use wood but it's a pain in the tushie for an RV to do it, so I just use propane now. That's cooking, and to run the furnace on cold weather, etc. For electric we have our solar panels, they don't provide a lot, but it's paid off juice for at least two to three decades estimated, that part I really like. I'll probably get more of them this year..
--that's where produced wealth comes from "resources". You can either grow them, or mine them, then you make things out of the other two products, and that's about it. That is really it, there's no other way to create wealth. Try to pick out any product that isn't based eventually down the line to something that isn't mined or grown. Even computer data-written software, programs- all dependent on mined products then turned into manufactured goods.
There's no way around it, any successful nation will manufacture and have agriculture as a business, once it stops those two things it's economy starts to slide downhill. They can exist for awhile trading around other nations manufactured and grown and mined products, but eventually those people will cut you-the middleman-out. They won't need you. And once you don't have any of your own products, then even your fiat money ceases to be valuable, exactly what is happening to the US dollar. The US dollar is known in slang terms under two versions, the world reserve currency and also the petro dollar. It became the reserve currency because of being the petrodollar currency(simplistic, obviously more factors involved, ww2 reconstruction was a large one for example). It was the petrodollar because the cash went to oil producing nations, because that's all we offered in exchange for the oil, and the only reason they took those petro dollars in the first place is because they could turn around and purchase US manufactured or grown products, and part of those products were the oil business machinery, then weapons, which every goombah in the middle east loves. Now that that is no longer necessary, because we short sightedly exported our manufacturing, there is less and less need to even use US dollars. They can continue to devalue the dollar, but it's a vicious circle, because as fast as we destroying manufacturing in the US, that makes the dollar even of less worth to purchase the remaining manufactured goods. So they devalue again, we sell a few things, but then it doesn't matter, they are worth less, so they have to further devalue. On and on, rinse lather repeat.
Canada can delay it longer than the US because it has a much lower per capita ratio to your own still useable natural resources, which allows you to create wealth vertically. The smart thing to do is to keep manufacturing, to refine your grown and mined natural resources into saleable products. Just do it wisely, you'll stay one of the wealthier nations for a much longer time. If you demonize your miners, energy producers and agricultural/timber people like we have in the US, you'll suffer the same fate we are, getting raped by the internationalists, who are only one generation long thinkers and short term profiteers who don't care, they have no social niceties to them.
You have to strike a balance between the extremes, and you have to also remember the first rule of wealth production, back to my first statement, it ALWAYS starts with either grown or mined/pumped out of the ground. Anything else is not wealth production, it's wealth re-arranging, or skimming, it's a net loss compared to creation, and vertical industries work the best for wealth creation-if you want any sort of technological based existence. In Canada in particular you are fabulously well off to keep doing that for hundreds of years, don't blow it is my best recommendation. The US is counting on just being big enough to keep intimidating other nations to do our wealth creation for us, so we can just skim, middleman, trade for stuff. The world doesn't need to do that anymore, there is little of anything the US produces that isn't cheaper anyplace else (some exceptions still but the trend is dropping), so the need to use petrodollars is dropping fast as well. They have obviously shifted to a looter/threat based economy now, basically what imperial rome had to do once they had foreigners doing all the work for them, they had nothing more to offer than taking by force. People here are dancing around it, but strip away wealth creation, lose
X prize consortium really should allow the gravity guys in to the competition. They need a smidgen of lightening up on the subject. Are the guys really trying, are they degreed credible researchers? Fringe but credible? If so, what does it matter, it will either work or not work, they don't get any money unless it works. And reality is, relying on chemical rockets will doom humans to very near space only. They can be very refined, they are robust and work, but after all is said and done, it's still ancient technology. An entirely brand new way of looking at energy in general and travel is needed, clean slate, a white room approach. These X-guys guys sound like they would have told a young Tesla to STFU and go away.
Maybe that's why they call some other advanced breaktrough in other technology a "quantum leap".
--not saying that at all. Absolutely postively not. Obviously if there's stolen "poisoned" code, it would need to be removed immediately. And all the code would have a clear cut audit trail from day one, with a named real human associated with it, line by line someplace. And any accuser would have to show it immediately,say "this is mine, right here, see?", not like what is going on now with SCO where they have been just alluding to it, but not showing it, what everyone asked them to do since day one, which seems most reasonable, unless you think they are within their "rights" to just cast aspersions with no public proof.
I think you missed the boat, missed the ocean, and don't know the difference between a boat and a turnip truck. Your analogy is nothing like I meant, not even close.
I am proposing just a more valid, more clear, more free sort of contributed shared code macro project, that's all, and from day zero on the start. The GPL, although coming closer than most, allows exceptions to the rule (in house not distributed), that's where I think it (starts to)falls apart, and why there's this problem now. You can still have "secret" code but you must keep it your single self, that's it. I would rather see the only exception to be to a single human being, once it's shared with even one other person, then you are required to disclose it openly, and you can never sell it. It's either shared with any one else, or it isn't, and I can't write it any simpler than that. It can't be stolen, if it is, there's an easy formula to fix it, any accusations must say "such and such is stolen", you'd have to identify it, show that you had it first, so it could be removed, and whomever stole it and entered it could then be dealt with by your other normal laws that apply to copyright and other sorts of IP property. You get all your rights, all the time, without having to wait. The honest maintainers and developers and sharers of code get their use, and you as someone elese have immediate and full cooperation if you claim your code got stolen from you. All that would be asked is if you would please detail what was stolen that you claim was yours, and you do it immediately on the accusation. Is that not reasonable? How else are the ones accused of theft and diversion supposed to know, ask the psychic hotline? Isn't that what the entire linux community been asking for months now, and being denied? And conversely, you are asked to not steal what is to be all-shared only. You may not take code and modify it and not share it. You may take it, play with it individually on your own machine, but your multiple person company may not use it for business without sharing all the modifications to anyone who wants it, and you can't sell it per se, but you can use it yourself, but it MUST be shared. Not your personal data, of course not that, but the tools themselves-the code improvements, must be shared once it gets past one human seeing it or using it. That's the trade. You are still free to use any other code on the planet according to whatever that license states.
It's a variant idea on GPL, that's all, just carried further.
...It's almost like there needs to be an even more free license than even the GPL or BSD license. The ideal "free" license would end this nonsense once and for all, ALL code, no matter where developed, once it touches the base kernel, is free, available to anyone to use, you can't keep it hidden if anyone but you personally use it or see it. An individual could play around with it on his own machine, past that, it had to be offered back, and _no_ sales of code. You do your work with the code, sell your other products, but the code is a _shared tool design and implementation_, it is _never the product itself_ no matter what. There needs to be a seperate effort for people who want to share *completely*, and *everyone else*. Seperate. This half way with exceptions and this or that is nuts. One or the other would appear to be ideal. Half way leads to stuff like this.
I have no idea if it could or would happen, but I think it "should" happen because that is the OS and apps I would support. This crap with SCO is going to be tip of the iceberg, there's even more out there and the world is full of lawyers and ceos and whatnot, who if they can't think of anything to do, they'll make sure more laws are written so they can create more busy work for themselves. and now we have differing europaen and US law, which will further bollocks it up. Enough already, if any OS is really free as in all aspects of free except turning it into not free, then it is less likely to lead to controversy, any not free-bent efforts/companies/people wouldn't even mess with it then, it would be a waste of time. It would have to have an exact source trail, with named humans responsible, any inserted poisoned code could be traced back to the poisoner, then it's not the over-all maintainers fault.
And it probably should never be distributed from any US servers, but kept someplace else at some country that understands "totally shared and free" as in "free and shared totally". And you have to completely remove any possibility of money being tied to it, that will eliminate 99% of the nonsense right off the bat.
... just so happens there's an article I saw this morning linked off of world net daily, a study that tends to show that ritalin use when younger could worsen cocaine use later if one were to use cocaine. link
With that said I've known several parents with children who had it, and some adults. They had tried a lot of different treatments to cope obviously, and no clear cut anything good about it, no matter the treatments. I have heard related that a really radical diet shift and television limitation helped some of the kids, but not all of them. Modern diets are usually too much sugar and lack of vital micro nutrients, and it can take a long time to get noticeable effects in trying to reverse damages when switching to more raw foods, better supplements, etc. It's not something you can switch your diet around and within a week see a lot of differences, it takes enough time to both remove accumulated toxins and to re build whole body strength, probably several months to even begin to get minor changes, and probably years to do a good job of it. The human body and brain are a whole and are too complex to be cavalier about it, to just dismiss the point that we really aren't designed to adequaltely deal with all the artificial chemical substances that get forced on us with modern foods and pollution and what are called "medicines" in a lot of cases, etc, there has simply been not enough time for evolution to deal with it except point out the examples of "bad" that start showing up with exposure and lack of real foods. foods now are dismal, they just are, supermarket food even produce is just so different, it's hard to explain, it's bleech, no flavor, probably very little nutrition. One of the main reasons I am a home gardener enthusiast, I merely want the same sorts of foods I grew up with.
It's a weird thing, when I was in grade school, either this problem of ADD and ADHD didn't exist much, or was not known about. There was no prescriptions that I recall for anything like add or adhd. I can't think of a single one of my friends who had anything like what I read about now or hear about. In fact, I think it was so rare that I think there has to be something in our society in general that changed radically between the late 40's and early 50s and current times that is helping to cause this phenomenon. I think any prescribing of "speed" no matter the brand of speed is more likely treating/masking symptoms and is not addressing the cause. Just a guess though, but if that isn't the case, where were the symptoms back then? What is it now in some areas, 1/4th of the children are put on various speed drugs? I sincerely hope that younger people in general don't accept this as normal human necessity or behavior, it's a completely new human phenomenon, so it shouldn't be treated as "normal" and the underlying case dealt with honestly and not exclusively by the pharmcos tame scientists, who are just as likely to...hmm.. "fib" shall we say, as any other industry, you get your truth then you get your normal "lies for profit". That is something that really should be taken into consideration if one were to be honest about it and apply the scientific method. I remember some kids who had a hard time reading, but dyslexia was known, and if that was found out about, it was dealt with normally. Having a normal energy level was just that, it was normal, the work around was more playing, and humans did more physical work then too, including children. The concept of "chores" was more universal. Normal chores, all kids did them, and they were physical. We raked the yard with a hand rake, it wasn't some man showed up with a gas powered leaf blower. We shoveled snow with a hand shovel. We ran-in a lot of cases- non electric carpet sweepers, or took carpets outside and hung them up and beat them. The grass got cut with a mower you pushed that had no engine connected to it, it was "work". Etc etc, not child slave labor in the mines, I'm not talk
Interesting. I have found also that really upping RAM helps a WHOLE lot with older slower chips. On this PP200, linux with 32 megs was nuts, after I added two more sticks, one of 128 and one of 64, it works perfectly fine, at least for what I do.
I forget which book now. Conan is older, he has some young mercenary thief protege. There's some older hot babe queen who is desirous of a little young guy action, and the whole episode and their adventursome quest depended on her getting her lustful wishes. The protege is a little nervous, Conan says something like ---> "Lad, be ye not a fool! This Queen is neither unattractive... nor unwilling.....neither!"
yes it is. It was a lame attempt at humor describing a cartoon image, a big variable with not much frame of reference for comparison. The briefcase looked very small in his hand. I'm also remembering it from like 25 or 30 years ago or something like that.
Interesting. I'm running "full bloated" GUI linux right now on a measly 200PP with 226 ram. It works, but really wouldn't want to be doing it on anything less than that. I was hoping though for something that would run one generation older than that,like pentium 90s and 133s, etc, because those sorts of machines are just so cheap/free for hauling away and would be neat for people on low budgets,kids, older retired folks, etc and are all over to get ahold of. I have a stack of them here just sitting for a long time now, and I don't want to hand a command line only thing to any newbie. I might try it anyway, just to see if it's too sucky or not, maybe it will still work with a little trimming.
That's a thought, hadn't thought of that but it is true, the compiling and etc takes a lot of power, just using the apps probably much less. I would probably need to download it, then strip a lot out, reburn it, then try to load it on the little machines that way. Some (most) of them have smaller under 1 gig drives as well, so anything I can lose from the install would help.
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Perhaps you misunderstood me. I didn't say I was in favor of it, just reporting what they are saying they are going to do, which is, dominate space and keep other people *out* of space.
When it comers to weapons I would support a world wide planetary ban on anything not man portable. that won't happen of course, but that's the level I think humans are at socially, technologically we are far more advanced of course, but realisitcally, we are just medievals with better technology. For all practical purposes humans haven't changed for thousands of years. Advanced weapons will be our undoing as a species I'm afraid, because it's where the BIG money and big efforts go. It sucks, but there ya go.
The reason why they (US 'space command') are doing this is because we are rapidly losing any sort of conventional superiority. In particular china will overtake the US within one decade. And that's the CIAs analysis too, they will be the worlds largest economy and have the largest conventional forces. they are leapfrogging multiple years of what we in the west consider "normal" advancements in single years. They are advancing several years to our one, and a buck goes ten times further there in getting hardware on the ground. We simply do not build things in quantity any more, and military stuff is just stuff, it has to be built, not just designed and have committees about it. Crap like Iraq is not a real war, and even that took huge amounts of our forces to accompliosh, plus bribing off the top generals in advance with suitcases of benjamins, euros, and bars of gold. It wouldn't have been the same outcome fighting a much larger force with closer to ours technology. the only advantage we have is to try and stay so far advanced that no one dares attack (or resists being attacked). It has to be quality now, not quantity, we simply can't do it that way any longer. And,tactically speaking, the high ground is that, the high ground, that's been the same since we fought with thrown rocks. High ground keeps you safer, and makes it easier to rain destruction on your enemies. Gravity works. Joe pentagon has ALWAYS worked towards owning the high ground.
... the obvious question..which phones DON'T break? What make/models of phones do you sell that never or hardly never get returned? That's the phone to buy then it would seem. Next question, which of those have decent batteries? That's always been my major complaint, the $%^*) batteries,finally they just won't hold a charge, then when you need a new battery they cost as much as a new phone.
And with all that said, I'd like a phone that doubles(with some sort of switch I guess) to a FRS channeled walkie talkie, then maybe just was a regular multiband receiver, so you can listen to your fav shows/music whatever. I like that sort of action more than a portable bad quality computer with a dinky screen and a keyboard you need a magnifying glass to use.. A lot of times I actually use them things working outside all the time, pain in the tush to carry 3 seperate devices, and there's no need to involve some telco network deal just to talk to your friend working closeby. Wonder if they make such a critter?
I'm sure they are now. It didn't used to be all that way, now it is. Sorry 'bout that, not my call, I most definetly don't support either of the two dominant gangs running the show..
The deal is, no other of the large nations are any better, they all are predatory in some fashion or another. I think it just happens eventually to all organized societies, the power-mad tend to get to the top, because it's what they want, and they have the drive and ruthlessness to get there.
My main point though to go along with the thread, china and india may have an *ambitious* space effort being planned, but I'd bet a silver dollar (real money) they suffer a lot of "unfortunate accidents" once they start to have any large scale successes.
Another point, it was revealed that the Pentagon "lost" around a trillion bucks even. Wellllll, you just don't "lose" that kinda money, and black budgets exist, and NASA ain't the only game in town, nor has it been since..forever, manned flight. The US has more space presence than they let on would be my best guess. A LOT more. I'd also say they probably already have pure military space flight on at least a limited scale. I am just NOT believing that the sr-71 was "it", that they just "gave up" after that.
... or a real weapon? If you mean a real weapon, you just use your normal stereoscopic eyeballs. Works great, I've been shooting ..well.. a really long time, and to get reasonable good is not that hard. To get great..yes, that's hard, most people can't get great, but good enough you can get. Get some various firearms and practice. Ballistics is fun. And if you start with .22 rimfire it's surprisingly inexpensive. And geez, do it now before this bumfug government makes everything illegal and forces you to sneak around.
Now a toy? Not sure what you are wanting.. an electronic can't miss device? Or what? Lasers they got. Maybe what you mean is something like F.A.T.S., should be on the net, successful company last I was over there playing with their stuff. Neato toyz. Real weapons modified to use lasers directly down the barrels. Used for training with interactive life sized projectors and screens and computer jazz stuff (-techno speek). Pretty cool.
OK, made me look, yes on the net, here ya go...
http://www.fatsinc.com/
man I had fun with this stuff. too many innocent civvies got in the way! HAHAHAHA1
.. read or understand their own history. Like I'm sure in the pioneer days when neighbor helped neighbor build a fence or raise a barn, that they would have thought it a negative or "wrong" to share with each other and help each other. But see, that's "communism" of some kind, so therefore must be "wrong".
Hey, if SCO CEO gets in a car wreck, and is laying there all smashed and bleeding, perhaps the EMT people should wait until he wakes up, signs a contract with them and their lawyers, then hires them to use their "IP" to take care of him. If they just do it, that's right off the bat sharing and communism, I mean, they haven't been paid, or even asked permission yet, have they? Just business, right?
Some people, no matter how old they get, never get past that love of money~greed thing. And calling love of money-worship of money over all things-is not even capitalism, it's just a sick warped mind at work. Capitalism can at least be honorable.
Besides that, it's kinda sorta funy, the dual protests. I feel sorry for the poor low level schmoos working there, that's it. I feel sorrier for open source and linux more though, there was no absolute need to do this.
Thinking on it, ya, a few tons of old grade b steel ball bearings all spread out in the good orbit areas would certainly balls things up pretty quickly.
And thanks for not flaming me because of my post, I was serious and follow these sorts of things as way more of a hobby than IT minutiae, And because of that I write what I do, that's my best and simplest and shortest analysis of the entire subject. So here's an url for you on this subject of china and india and the us in space, fairly fresh:
http://www.sundayherald.com/34768
the first few paragraphs on this:
As part of a plan to ensure its total military supremacy, the US is preparing to complete the domination of space -- by any means necessary. Neil Mackay explains the terrifying new face of global warfare
IT SOUNDS like the stuff of the darkest sci-fi fantasies, but it's not. The Air Force Space Command Strategic Master Plan is a clear statement of the US's intention to dominate the world by turning space into the crucial battlefield of the 21st century.
The document details how the US Air Force Space Command is developing exotic new weapons, nuclear warheads and spacecraft to allow the US to hit any target on earth within seconds. It also unashamedly states that the US will not allow any other power to get a foothold in space. ---their words, not mine, but I believe them
The article is good and google will find you a lot more.
... in the last few weeks the US has anounced that it will be militarizing space "officially" and it won't be allowing other nations to take the high ground. There will be wars over it, cooperation is over for now. They will play act at it, that's about it.
And it goes back to planetary population and natural resources, namely oil and freshwater. Anyone may run the numbers for themselves, projected growth rates, current planetary useage,proven reserves, yada yada, then make some assumptions. There's enough oil for around 1.5 billion people tops to be middle class the way it is now, for around 20 more years. There isn't enough for 4 to 8 billion people.
Everyone wants to be at least middle class now, ie, have a car, heating and cooling, electric outlets that work in the wall, running water, etc.
This is the century of the great culling and the resource wars. We are in the good old days right now. I give humans way under 50% odds of making it to the next century. All the WMD jennis are out of the bottle, and by some accounts directed energy weapons are here at least in good prototype stages, and weather warfare is on the horizon. All of those techniques will be used,so my best guess is primarily the combo of nukes and biologicals will wipe out humans.
I used to replace the stock oil cooler (joke) with a radiator styled externally mounted (out from inside the shroud) oil cooler on all my old "air cooled" VWs. It was (still is really) one of the most common mods to those engines. It made the engine run much cooler.
in the vast majority of apple apps, all you had to do is to slow click (what I always called it anyway) to bring up the full sub menus. It's right there then, the same stuff you get (more or less) with a two button mouse. I don't recall having much trouble with it, works the same as a regular windows type mouse, just with one button. You can do the key/mouse button combos, but really, not all that necessary.
I am wondering though, no matter how new to the web or whatever browser or OS people use, how many folks have never tried google or use it most of the time? I'm sure some have never, but still, google has entered the language as a noun and a verb now it's so universal. That's going to be a hard nut to crack for microsoft unless they can produce good quality results consistently. And once people get hip to advanced searching, and google news, really, hard to beat.
in this country we think it's rather annoying as well, either from some brigand, or some royal or royal wannabe brigand who claims authority, but in reality are just more sophisticated thieves and scoundrels.
That's the difference, we are smart enough to know there's *both kinds* not just the one. aww gee, it doesn't even take much smarts,just medium smarts, all you have to do is look around.
You won't find honest gun owners in the US pointing guns at you, you will find badguys if thart happens, and last I heard, you have them as well,in fact, those numbers seem to be rising and rising every year don't they? And your royals and bewigged ones declare that you may not, that you do not have their "permission" to defend yourself. Of course, those people all have armed guards, don't they? Admit it, they do, don't they? Admit it, cuz ya knows it's 8true facts* and stuff. You can't, but they do. You probably are "allowed" to use strong language against them, and that's about it, isn't it? In fact, you must "retreat" and take all the indignities, don't you? See anything weird with that? You think if someone broke into the "royal" house or someones house who wore a wig to work,or any of the really fattest of cats who drink with those previous two sets of gents, do you really think that A-they really don't have guns in there, or b, they wouldn't use them if they needed to, and c, absolutely nothing zero zilch nada would happen to them "legally", but if YOU had a gun and defended yourself at home, with the same exact scenario, same badguys trying the same bad stuff, you'll be going to jail, won't you? Admit it, it's the truth, isn't it? right to jail, you'll be a criminal too, such joy! A half dozen bad guys could break into your house, beat you up, steal all your stuff, rape the dog and wife and kids, and if you shot one one of those little rascals,those lil tykes, those just mischievious little scamps, YOU are going to the pokey, aren't you?
We find that more annoying than anything else. That stuff don't go down around here too much. We gladly put up with the other so we don't have to put up with that ultimate annoyance to our persons. We even fought this lil ole war over it, and golly gee, we sorta won that one.
It's a joke son, lighten up. Keep your wigs and royals and keep believing you have no lawful right to self defense unless you are a royal or bewigged one, we think it's hilarious. We'll keep our nascar and wrestling, they are all equally silly. We can laugh at each others silliness. Hey, we almost speak the same language! If we can't get along, who can?
... yes but merrie and royale olde englande is ruled by dudes who still wear wigs and by funny royal like people, plus they disarmed their peasants, because they don't trust their peasants, so everything else they do sort of revolves around that methinkeths. Of course they want the peasants who fund the dudes in wigs and the royals to buy expensive software from their club drinking buddies.
/me checks calendar... hmm, 2003....
See, what would work is for everyone there to go to wherever those royal and wiggy guys hang out and like put heads on the battlements or whatever that is called. Every nation needs that at least once every couple of hundred years or so, keeps em honest and stuff. Then there's no rip off nonsense for a spell, then it gradually goes bad again. rinse lather repeat.
I mean, really, calling people "lords"? Say whut? "Curtseying"? "Knights"? We are supposed to take them serious?
I'm sure most of the people over there are just fine folks, they just suffer from the same thing we do, out to lunch government and these people who are already rich as snot so they think they deserve to be richer and have more power and to tell the peasants "what's good for them". I bet they even have people who supposedly "represent them" in the rich as snot royal or semi royal good ole boys government/business club, too.
Yes, it appears to do that. I have 6 of the smaller 20 lb tanks (in small tanks the propane is sold by the pound, larger tanks by the gallon, by the pound is a rip off anyway). 2 of mine are from chinamart, refill there only. I got them thinking they were the same, oh well. I used those the first winter we got our RV, then we got two hundrd lb tanks which if you whine the bulk truck will fill up. After we move I'll probably rent or buy a really large tank, then buy propane in the summer when it's cheaper. We buy our gasoline and diesel bulk, too, comes in *real handy* sometimes and it's a nice stash in case we experience an emergency with associated "market irregularities". I try to have a minimum of one to two years of at least basic everything on hand all the time, food, fuel, etc. We could use wood but it's a pain in the tushie for an RV to do it, so I just use propane now. That's cooking, and to run the furnace on cold weather, etc. For electric we have our solar panels, they don't provide a lot, but it's paid off juice for at least two to three decades estimated, that part I really like. I'll probably get more of them this year..
--that's where produced wealth comes from "resources". You can either grow them, or mine them, then you make things out of the other two products, and that's about it. That is really it, there's no other way to create wealth. Try to pick out any product that isn't based eventually down the line to something that isn't mined or grown. Even computer data-written software, programs- all dependent on mined products then turned into manufactured goods.
There's no way around it, any successful nation will manufacture and have agriculture as a business, once it stops those two things it's economy starts to slide downhill. They can exist for awhile trading around other nations manufactured and grown and mined products, but eventually those people will cut you-the middleman-out. They won't need you. And once you don't have any of your own products, then even your fiat money ceases to be valuable, exactly what is happening to the US dollar. The US dollar is known in slang terms under two versions, the world reserve currency and also the petro dollar. It became the reserve currency because of being the petrodollar currency(simplistic, obviously more factors involved, ww2 reconstruction was a large one for example). It was the petrodollar because the cash went to oil producing nations, because that's all we offered in exchange for the oil, and the only reason they took those petro dollars in the first place is because they could turn around and purchase US manufactured or grown products, and part of those products were the oil business machinery, then weapons, which every goombah in the middle east loves. Now that that is no longer necessary, because we short sightedly exported our manufacturing, there is less and less need to even use US dollars. They can continue to devalue the dollar, but it's a vicious circle, because as fast as we destroying manufacturing in the US, that makes the dollar even of less worth to purchase the remaining manufactured goods. So they devalue again, we sell a few things, but then it doesn't matter, they are worth less, so they have to further devalue. On and on, rinse lather repeat.
Canada can delay it longer than the US because it has a much lower per capita ratio to your own still useable natural resources, which allows you to create wealth vertically. The smart thing to do is to keep manufacturing, to refine your grown and mined natural resources into saleable products. Just do it wisely, you'll stay one of the wealthier nations for a much longer time. If you demonize your miners, energy producers and agricultural/timber people like we have in the US, you'll suffer the same fate we are, getting raped by the internationalists, who are only one generation long thinkers and short term profiteers who don't care, they have no social niceties to them.
You have to strike a balance between the extremes, and you have to also remember the first rule of wealth production, back to my first statement, it ALWAYS starts with either grown or mined/pumped out of the ground. Anything else is not wealth production, it's wealth re-arranging, or skimming, it's a net loss compared to creation, and vertical industries work the best for wealth creation-if you want any sort of technological based existence. In Canada in particular you are fabulously well off to keep doing that for hundreds of years, don't blow it is my best recommendation. The US is counting on just being big enough to keep intimidating other nations to do our wealth creation for us, so we can just skim, middleman, trade for stuff. The world doesn't need to do that anymore, there is little of anything the US produces that isn't cheaper anyplace else (some exceptions still but the trend is dropping), so the need to use petrodollars is dropping fast as well. They have obviously shifted to a looter/threat based economy now, basically what imperial rome had to do once they had foreigners doing all the work for them, they had nothing more to offer than taking by force. People here are dancing around it, but strip away wealth creation, lose
X prize consortium really should allow the gravity guys in to the competition. They need a smidgen of lightening up on the subject. Are the guys really trying, are they degreed credible researchers? Fringe but credible? If so, what does it matter, it will either work or not work, they don't get any money unless it works. And reality is, relying on chemical rockets will doom humans to very near space only. They can be very refined, they are robust and work, but after all is said and done, it's still ancient technology. An entirely brand new way of looking at energy in general and travel is needed, clean slate, a white room approach. These X-guys guys sound like they would have told a young Tesla to STFU and go away.
Maybe that's why they call some other advanced breaktrough in other technology a "quantum leap".
--not saying that at all. Absolutely postively not. Obviously if there's stolen "poisoned" code, it would need to be removed immediately. And all the code would have a clear cut audit trail from day one, with a named real human associated with it, line by line someplace. And any accuser would have to show it immediately,say "this is mine, right here, see?", not like what is going on now with SCO where they have been just alluding to it, but not showing it, what everyone asked them to do since day one, which seems most reasonable, unless you think they are within their "rights" to just cast aspersions with no public proof.
I think you missed the boat, missed the ocean, and don't know the difference between a boat and a turnip truck. Your analogy is nothing like I meant, not even close.
I am proposing just a more valid, more clear, more free sort of contributed shared code macro project, that's all, and from day zero on the start. The GPL, although coming closer than most, allows exceptions to the rule (in house not distributed), that's where I think it (starts to)falls apart, and why there's this problem now. You can still have "secret" code but you must keep it your single self, that's it. I would rather see the only exception to be to a single human being, once it's shared with even one other person, then you are required to disclose it openly, and you can never sell it. It's either shared with any one else, or it isn't, and I can't write it any simpler than that. It can't be stolen, if it is, there's an easy formula to fix it, any accusations must say "such and such is stolen", you'd have to identify it, show that you had it first, so it could be removed, and whomever stole it and entered it could then be dealt with by your other normal laws that apply to copyright and other sorts of IP property. You get all your rights, all the time, without having to wait. The honest maintainers and developers and sharers of code get their use, and you as someone elese have immediate and full cooperation if you claim your code got stolen from you. All that would be asked is if you would please detail what was stolen that you claim was yours, and you do it immediately on the accusation. Is that not reasonable? How else are the ones accused of theft and diversion supposed to know, ask the psychic hotline? Isn't that what the entire linux community been asking for months now, and being denied? And conversely, you are asked to not steal what is to be all-shared only. You may not take code and modify it and not share it. You may take it, play with it individually on your own machine, but your multiple person company may not use it for business without sharing all the modifications to anyone who wants it, and you can't sell it per se, but you can use it yourself, but it MUST be shared. Not your personal data, of course not that, but the tools themselves-the code improvements, must be shared once it gets past one human seeing it or using it. That's the trade. You are still free to use any other code on the planet according to whatever that license states.
It's a variant idea on GPL, that's all, just carried further.
...It's almost like there needs to be an even more free license than even the GPL or BSD license. The ideal "free" license would end this nonsense once and for all, ALL code, no matter where developed, once it touches the base kernel, is free, available to anyone to use, you can't keep it hidden if anyone but you personally use it or see it. An individual could play around with it on his own machine, past that, it had to be offered back, and _no_ sales of code. You do your work with the code, sell your other products, but the code is a _shared tool design and implementation_, it is _never the product itself_ no matter what. There needs to be a seperate effort for people who want to share *completely*, and *everyone else*. Seperate. This half way with exceptions and this or that is nuts. One or the other would appear to be ideal. Half way leads to stuff like this.
I have no idea if it could or would happen, but I think it "should" happen because that is the OS and apps I would support. This crap with SCO is going to be tip of the iceberg, there's even more out there and the world is full of lawyers and ceos and whatnot, who if they can't think of anything to do, they'll make sure more laws are written so they can create more busy work for themselves. and now we have differing europaen and US law, which will further bollocks it up. Enough already, if any OS is really free as in all aspects of free except turning it into not free, then it is less likely to lead to controversy, any not free-bent efforts/companies/people wouldn't even mess with it then, it would be a waste of time. It would have to have an exact source trail, with named humans responsible, any inserted poisoned code could be traced back to the poisoner, then it's not the over-all maintainers fault.
And it probably should never be distributed from any US servers, but kept someplace else at some country that understands "totally shared and free" as in "free and shared totally". And you have to completely remove any possibility of money being tied to it, that will eliminate 99% of the nonsense right off the bat.
... just so happens there's an article I saw this morning linked off of world net daily, a study that tends to show that ritalin use when younger could worsen cocaine use later if one were to use cocaine. link
...hmm.. "fib" shall we say, as any other industry, you get your truth then you get your normal "lies for profit". That is something that really should be taken into consideration if one were to be honest about it and apply the scientific method. I remember some kids who had a hard time reading, but dyslexia was known, and if that was found out about, it was dealt with normally. Having a normal energy level was just that, it was normal, the work around was more playing, and humans did more physical work then too, including children. The concept of "chores" was more universal. Normal chores, all kids did them, and they were physical. We raked the yard with a hand rake, it wasn't some man showed up with a gas powered leaf blower. We shoveled snow with a hand shovel. We ran-in a lot of cases- non electric carpet sweepers, or took carpets outside and hung them up and beat them. The grass got cut with a mower you pushed that had no engine connected to it, it was "work". Etc etc, not child slave labor in the mines, I'm not talk
With that said I've known several parents with children who had it, and some adults. They had tried a lot of different treatments to cope obviously, and no clear cut anything good about it, no matter the treatments. I have heard related that a really radical diet shift and television limitation helped some of the kids, but not all of them. Modern diets are usually too much sugar and lack of vital micro nutrients, and it can take a long time to get noticeable effects in trying to reverse damages when switching to more raw foods, better supplements, etc. It's not something you can switch your diet around and within a week see a lot of differences, it takes enough time to both remove accumulated toxins and to re build whole body strength, probably several months to even begin to get minor changes, and probably years to do a good job of it. The human body and brain are a whole and are too complex to be cavalier about it, to just dismiss the point that we really aren't designed to adequaltely deal with all the artificial chemical substances that get forced on us with modern foods and pollution and what are called "medicines" in a lot of cases, etc, there has simply been not enough time for evolution to deal with it except point out the examples of "bad" that start showing up with exposure and lack of real foods. foods now are dismal, they just are, supermarket food even produce is just so different, it's hard to explain, it's bleech, no flavor, probably very little nutrition. One of the main reasons I am a home gardener enthusiast, I merely want the same sorts of foods I grew up with.
It's a weird thing, when I was in grade school, either this problem of ADD and ADHD didn't exist much, or was not known about. There was no prescriptions that I recall for anything like add or adhd. I can't think of a single one of my friends who had anything like what I read about now or hear about. In fact, I think it was so rare that I think there has to be something in our society in general that changed radically between the late 40's and early 50s and current times that is helping to cause this phenomenon. I think any prescribing of "speed" no matter the brand of speed is more likely treating/masking symptoms and is not addressing the cause. Just a guess though, but if that isn't the case, where were the symptoms back then? What is it now in some areas, 1/4th of the children are put on various speed drugs? I sincerely hope that younger people in general don't accept this as normal human necessity or behavior, it's a completely new human phenomenon, so it shouldn't be treated as "normal" and the underlying case dealt with honestly and not exclusively by the pharmcos tame scientists, who are just as likely to
one is free to become seriously not-free
the other is free to seriously always-be free
that's as close as I grok it
Interesting. I have found also that really upping RAM helps a WHOLE lot with older slower chips. On this PP200, linux with 32 megs was nuts, after I added two more sticks, one of 128 and one of 64, it works perfectly fine, at least for what I do.
hahahaha! Robert Howard had a way with words!
I forget which book now. Conan is older, he has some young mercenary thief protege. There's some older hot babe queen who is desirous of a little young guy action, and the whole episode and their adventursome quest depended on her getting her lustful wishes. The protege is a little nervous, Conan says something like ---> "Lad, be ye not a fool! This Queen is neither unattractive... nor unwilling.....neither!"
yes it is. It was a lame attempt at humor describing a cartoon image, a big variable with not much frame of reference for comparison. The briefcase looked very small in his hand. I'm also remembering it from like 25 or 30 years ago or something like that.
Interesting. I'm running "full bloated" GUI linux right now on a measly 200PP with 226 ram. It works, but really wouldn't want to be doing it on anything less than that. I was hoping though for something that would run one generation older than that,like pentium 90s and 133s, etc, because those sorts of machines are just so cheap/free for hauling away and would be neat for people on low budgets,kids, older retired folks, etc and are all over to get ahold of. I have a stack of them here just sitting for a long time now, and I don't want to hand a command line only thing to any newbie. I might try it anyway, just to see if it's too sucky or not, maybe it will still work with a little trimming.
That's a thought, hadn't thought of that but it is true, the compiling and etc takes a lot of power, just using the apps probably much less. I would probably need to download it, then strip a lot out, reburn it, then try to load it on the little machines that way. Some (most) of them have smaller under 1 gig drives as well, so anything I can lose from the install would help.
Thanks for the info! Too bad it's not GNU though, but still,free hobbyist download,and I am likeing the rock hard aspect of it.