I never read that book, but as a kid I remember Apollo 11. As I was growing up, I used to dream about the days that we'd be bopping around the moon for a vacation. And for a while, while I was still really young I used to belive that it'd happen in my lifetime.
Of course the reality of the space program and my own maturity have taken those dreams away. Yet I'm still sad when I think about how little we've progressed in regard to space exploration.
My daughter loves my space pictures, her favorite is the one of Buzz Aldrin standing before the US flag (the one where you can see his head through his facemeask), and she says that she wants to walk on the moon too. She's only 3 but she's starting to enjoy looking at stars and she looks for the moon every night. So she's into it, and I'm trying to teach her as much as she can understand.
I don't know if people HER age will go up there in their lifetimes.
I get the sense that NASA won't be the entity to make it happen. Maybe these X-Prize guys will get it going. I hope someone does. If she can go, that's good enough for me.
Perhaps in the grand scheme of things that one rocket's purpose is to remind us of what we've accomplished before, and to inspire us to further greatness.
>>We've certianly come a long way in ~30 years from grainy washed out Pioneer photopolarimeter images to super high resolution ultrasharp CCD images from Cassini.
Hey, there's no stars in those pictures. They must have been taken in a studio out in the Nevada desert. It's a government coverup, I tell ya...
>>After all would you like to face an enemy that apears to be able to pick off just one person in a hotub out of five from 200 miles away with a cruise missle?
I wish I had mod points today bro. That's the best laugh I've had in about a week.:)
Pops is going to wake up and scratch himself before he gets out of bed.
Then he's off to the john to squeeze one out.
Then it's down to the kitchen to smack mom on the ass.
Then he'll sit down with a cup of coffee, light up an unfiltered Camel and wonder about why he's got that nagging cough.
Then he'll head off off to work. When he gets there he'll think it's not so bad showing up at 9:00. Lunchtime is at 12:00 and it's only 3 hours away and there's 2 smoke breaks in between.
At 9:45 his boss will yell at him for taking a smoke break.
at 11:15 his boss will yell at him for taking a smoke break.
At lunch, his buddy will share some of the rum he has stashed in the back of his pickup. They'll proceed to get loaded.
At 1:45 pop's boss will go out looking for him, as he's 45 minutes late from lunch.
The boss will find him standing behind the building smoking his 3rd unfiltered camel in 15 minutes and reeking of alcohol.
At 1:51 the boss will tell him to take the rest of the day off.
At 1:57, pops will get behind the wheel and head off for an early coctail hour at the local dive named Jane's Tail.
At Jane's Tail, the bartender Frank will serve Pops a total of 1 sixpack of Joe's Brew before Pops decides it's time to head home.
At 4:47 pops will be back on the road, he will blow 2 stopsigns and run over a cat named misty.
At 5:15 he will pull crookedly in the driveway, and pulverize Mom's petunias.
At 5:16 mom's will screaming her head off about how pops is a useless drunk, and how he's pissing away his life.
At 5:19 pops, screaming himself, will storm away and head to the john to take a leak. To drunk to piss standing up, he will choose to sit down like a girl.
At 5:22 pops will fall asleep on the throne. He will start snoring at 5:31.
At 5:33 moms will peek in, see the pathetic mess ane decide that it's better to leave him there.
At 7:43 pops will awaken. He'll rise and pull uup his shorts. Not noticing the fresh pee he left all over himself and the floor at 6:07 and 7:01.
At 8:01, after yelling at moms some more, pops will settle down for a night of prime time reality TV, and more beer. At 8:03 he'll ask for his f*n sandwich. At 8:05 he'll ask for his f*n cigarettes and an goddamned ashtray.
After 3 1/2 beers, pops will crash on the couch at 9:32. The last half beer will spill on the rug.
One of pop's last thoughts before blacking out will be about how shitty his life is, and how he wishes he could figure out some winning lottery numbers, or get a hold of one of them there IPO's in the market....
At 10:30 Moms, after cleaning all of pop's messes, will log into AOL and join the '40 something and looking' chatroom. Moms has learned how to cyber.
At 11:45 pops will dream that he's taking a leak in the bathroom at Jane's Tail. What he's really doing is soaking the couch.
>>Bully? No, just using resources at your disposal. On the other hand it can work against you. While on active duty in the military I used to make a hobby out of beating the snot out of guys over 6' (the bigger, the better).
Difference between me and you I think is that I would only use physical means to deal with appropriate threats, or to teach a lesson(don't hurt my baby, or any other kid again a**hole). I don't have a need to beat the crap out of people for sport or self gratification, or to prove that I'm 'better'.
Be careful when boasting about your height and strength around here.
Once after posting about how I beat the crap out of a punk who knocked over my daughter while yapping on his cell phone, there was no end to the nasty comments about my being a bully and a criminal. I'm 6'1, BTW.
>> If you want a real problem to tackle, how about North Korea? Oh, wait, they don't have oil, do they?
Nope. But they have nukes. Why the F*k doesn't anyone in DC care? Could it be...and I hate to have to ask this...could it be that they're afraid that NK will try to take out Tokyo or San Fransisco if we start to rough up Kim Jong a bit?
Kim/Daffy is a madman with his finger on the trigger and nothing to lose. As opposed to Saddam who was a madman with a suitcase full of cash, looking to purchase what Kim already has.
Dunno if we're making a mistake in Iraq or not, but I hope Condi and Colin know what the hell they're doing with the wacko in NK. That guy could seriously screw things up for a lot of people.
>>You cannot defeat an enemy who is willing to fight a Huey with a bow and arrow". Sure you can.
Shoot him. -------------------- Methinks this statement is about the opponents spirit. He may have inferior firepower, he knows it, but he still refuses to yield.
So he dies, but yet in a way he hasn't lost.
Trying hard to find the words for this. Maybe it's that if you have honor yourself, you realize how brave the guy was, even as you mow him down. That's a victory for the underequipped guy right?
>>Oh no. America would never abandon teaching the basics in favor of letting high tech gadgetry handle it all. No, never. You, uh, do know how to do long division in your head, right?
I don't know anyone in the military who isn't aware that it they lose the computers, GPS, and night vision goggles, and other tech, the battlefield levels out. They know it, and train for it.
My buddy who's a Lt. Commander in the Naval Reserve can navigate with a compass and a sextant. Though he tells me that he's not the only one.
>>Unless you can't afford more than one machine, why would you want to dual boot?
For some it's a matter of making do with what you have. Here's my situation:
My newish machine(Earthshine) is an XP-Pro box. This is where I do most of my work (word processing, and remote development on one of the LINUX machines). I also have my company's VPN software on here...only runs on Windows.
The second oldest machine(Dreamline) is a dual boot 98 and Redhat box. It boots into RH by default and I use this primarily as a LINUX desktop machine. I have 98 on there as a backup to the Earthshine box. If it goes down, I can still do prod support over the corporate VPN.
Animate and Limelight are recycled machines and they now function as pure LINUX servers. Animate is a database and application server(and serves mp3's to my Slimpy). Limelight is a development box and Websphere 5 server.
So I can (and others can as well) afford more than 1 box, but to be honest I don't have the space, nor the amperage for more than 4 machines. I wish I could expand out and play with the Sparc my brother in law gave me, or get another box and play with BSD... but circumstances being what they are, I've gotta do what I've gotta do. It's a stinking garage Jim, not a data center.
OK, it's been a few hours. Here's how I fill in the blanks:
It seems that |cheeney| wishes us to bomb the hell out of iraq. He's |not convinced| that saddam wanted to |give up all wmd's|. also there's the |belief in the cabinet that| the |american people will fall for the wmd story and never look back|, and |will even go for a cooked up al queda link as well|. god forbid |the UN security council| thinks that |our phony iraq facts| are the |crap that they are| |or else we're going to have to go in there even though we're going to piss off every enemy and friend we have| |lose all integrity as a nation| |and give the whacko terrorists even more popular support in the arab world and more of a reason to set off bombs inside the continental united states|.
Why do they have to release the original documents with original sections blocked out?
Why not just release retyped docs with placeholders for blocked out sections.
For instance:
Original: It seems that the president wishes us to bomb the hell out of iraq. He's pissed off that saddam wanted to kill his daddy. also there's the issues of controlling the oil flow, and protecting israel. god forbid anyone thinks that the israilies are the biggest part of the problem out there.
Released with blocks: It seems that XXXXXXXXXXXXX wishes us to bomb the hell out of iraq. He's XXXXXXXXXX that saddam wanted to XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. also there's the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX the XXXXXXXX, and XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. god forbid XXXXXX thinks that XXXXXXXXXXXXX are the XXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.
My proposal: It seems that |CLASSIFIED| wishes us to bomb the hell out of iraq. He's |CLASSIFIED| that saddam wanted to |CLASSIFIED|. also there's the |CLASSIFIED| the |CLASSIFIED|, and |CLASSIFIED|. god forbid |CLASSIFIED| thinks that |CLASSIFIED| are the |CLASSIFIED| |CLASSIFIED| |CLASSIFIED| |CLASSIFIED|.
I think this simple step would go a long way towards soving the problem. The process could probably even be automated somewhat by using some type of OCR software on the original blocked out documents.
Is there some law against this? Like that TPTB have to release the original doc?
A technology jobs in the finance sector always seemed to be the way to go for me.
So I get the benefit of being close the business in a big bank or broker, share (partially) in the financial rewards. And I still get to build systems and engineer stuff.
And with seniority, I get to make more and more critical decisions.
So maybe I don't make as much as a good broker, or the SVP who heads up the business I work for. But my pay is on par with his managers.
I know what they know about the finance side, but IMO my job is way more intersting and fun.
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But the senators, or at least their staffs, would hear about the packages. That's what really matters. The message, not the actual delievery.
wbs.
>>It's been all downhill from sed if you ask me.
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For me, it's been all downhill after ed
Damned bloaded stream editors....
wbs.
I never read that book, but as a kid I remember Apollo 11. As I was growing up, I used to dream about the days that we'd be bopping around the moon for a vacation. And for a while, while I was still really young I used to belive that it'd happen in my lifetime.
Of course the reality of the space program and my own maturity have taken those dreams away. Yet I'm still sad when I think about how little we've progressed in regard to space exploration.
My daughter loves my space pictures, her favorite is the one of Buzz Aldrin standing before the US flag (the one where you can see his head through his facemeask), and she says that she wants to walk on the moon too. She's only 3 but she's starting to enjoy looking at stars and she looks for the moon every night. So she's into it, and I'm trying to teach her as much as she can understand.
I don't know if people HER age will go up there in their lifetimes.
I get the sense that NASA won't be the entity to make it happen. Maybe these X-Prize guys will get it going. I hope someone does. If she can go, that's good enough for me.
wbs.
Perhaps in the grand scheme of things that one rocket's purpose is to remind us of what we've accomplished before, and to inspire us to further greatness.
wbs.
I wonder how long it's going to take the treehuggers to catch wind of this and start complaining about how we're putting birds out of their homes.
wbs.
Don't forget about the councelor with the large nacelles, and the borg with the large implants.
wbs.
>>We've certianly come a long way in ~30 years from grainy washed out Pioneer photopolarimeter images to super high resolution ultrasharp CCD images from Cassini.
Hey, there's no stars in those pictures. They must have been taken in a studio out in the Nevada desert. It's a government coverup, I tell ya...
wbs.
>>After all would you like to face an enemy that apears to be able to pick off just one person in a hotub out of five from 200 miles away with a cruise missle?
:)
I wish I had mod points today bro. That's the best laugh I've had in about a week.
Peace.
wbs.
Take away a man's right to say Fuck, and you've taken away his right to say Fuck the government.
I think Lenny Bruce said that.
wbs.
...during a Howard Stern rally in 1987:
F*K the FCC!!! F*K the FCC!!! F*K em'!
wbs.
TOMORROW:
Pops is going to wake up and scratch himself before he gets out of bed.
Then he's off to the john to squeeze one out.
Then it's down to the kitchen to smack mom on the ass.
Then he'll sit down with a cup of coffee, light up an unfiltered Camel and wonder about why he's got that nagging cough.
Then he'll head off off to work. When he gets there he'll think it's not so bad showing up at 9:00. Lunchtime is at 12:00 and it's only 3 hours away and there's 2 smoke breaks in between.
At 9:45 his boss will yell at him for taking a smoke break.
at 11:15 his boss will yell at him for taking a smoke break.
At lunch, his buddy will share some of the rum he has stashed in the back of his pickup. They'll proceed to get loaded.
At 1:45 pop's boss will go out looking for him, as he's 45 minutes late from lunch.
The boss will find him standing behind the building smoking his 3rd unfiltered camel in 15 minutes and reeking of alcohol.
At 1:51 the boss will tell him to take the rest of the day off.
At 1:57, pops will get behind the wheel and head off for an early coctail hour at the local dive named Jane's Tail.
At Jane's Tail, the bartender Frank will serve Pops a total of 1 sixpack of Joe's Brew before Pops decides it's time to head home.
At 4:47 pops will be back on the road, he will blow 2 stopsigns and run over a cat named misty.
At 5:15 he will pull crookedly in the driveway, and pulverize Mom's petunias.
At 5:16 mom's will screaming her head off about how pops is a useless drunk, and how he's pissing away his life.
At 5:19 pops, screaming himself, will storm away and head to the john to take a leak. To drunk to piss standing up, he will choose to sit down like a girl.
At 5:22 pops will fall asleep on the throne. He will start snoring at 5:31.
At 5:33 moms will peek in, see the pathetic mess ane decide that it's better to leave him there.
At 7:43 pops will awaken. He'll rise and pull uup his shorts. Not noticing the fresh pee he left all over himself and the floor at 6:07 and 7:01.
At 8:01, after yelling at moms some more, pops will settle down for a night of prime time reality TV, and more beer. At 8:03 he'll ask for his f*n sandwich. At 8:05 he'll ask for his f*n cigarettes and an goddamned ashtray.
After 3 1/2 beers, pops will crash on the couch at 9:32. The last half beer will spill on the rug.
One of pop's last thoughts before blacking out will be about how shitty his life is, and how he wishes he could figure out some winning lottery numbers, or get a hold of one of them there IPO's in the market....
At 10:30 Moms, after cleaning all of pop's messes, will log into AOL and join the '40 something and looking' chatroom. Moms has learned how to cyber.
At 11:45 pops will dream that he's taking a leak in the bathroom at Jane's Tail. What he's really doing is soaking the couch.
See what I mean? Check out the child posts. LOL.
There seems to be more support for the a**kicking this time around though.
wbs.
>>Bully? No, just using resources at your disposal. On the other hand it can work against you. While on active duty in the military I used to make a hobby out of beating the snot out of guys over 6' (the bigger, the better).
Difference between me and you I think is that I would only use physical means to deal with appropriate threats, or to teach a lesson(don't hurt my baby, or any other kid again a**hole). I don't have a need to beat the crap out of people for sport or self gratification, or to prove that I'm 'better'.
wbs.
Be careful when boasting about your height and strength around here.
Once after posting about how I beat the crap out of a punk who knocked over my daughter while yapping on his cell phone, there was no end to the nasty comments about my being a bully and a criminal. I'm 6'1, BTW.
wbs.
>> If you want a real problem to tackle, how about North Korea? Oh, wait, they don't have oil, do they?
Nope. But they have nukes. Why the F*k doesn't anyone in DC care? Could it be...and I hate to have to ask this...could it be that they're afraid that NK will try to take out Tokyo or San Fransisco if we start to rough up Kim Jong a bit?
Kim/Daffy is a madman with his finger on the trigger and nothing to lose. As opposed to Saddam who was a madman with a suitcase full of cash, looking to purchase what Kim already has.
Dunno if we're making a mistake in Iraq or not, but I hope Condi and Colin know what the hell they're doing with the wacko in NK. That guy could seriously screw things up for a lot of people.
wbs.
I hear that the upgrade is supposed to fix a bunch of problems like bloated data structures, and general slowness.
In other news MSFT is asking their developers to work on fixing security problems.
Sure they are....
wbs.
>>You cannot defeat an enemy who is willing to fight a Huey with a bow and arrow".
Sure you can.
Shoot him.
--------------------
Methinks this statement is about the opponents spirit. He may have inferior firepower, he knows it, but he still refuses to yield.
So he dies, but yet in a way he hasn't lost.
Trying hard to find the words for this. Maybe it's that if you have honor yourself, you realize how brave the guy was, even as you mow him down. That's a victory for the underequipped guy right?
wbs.
>>Oh no. America would never abandon teaching the basics in favor of letting high tech gadgetry handle it all. No, never. You, uh, do know how to do long division in your head, right?
I don't know anyone in the military who isn't aware that it they lose the computers, GPS, and night vision goggles, and other tech, the battlefield levels out. They know it, and train for it.
My buddy who's a Lt. Commander in the Naval Reserve can navigate with a compass and a sextant. Though he tells me that he's not the only one.
wbs.
>>Unless you can't afford more than one machine, why would you want to dual boot?
For some it's a matter of making do with what you have. Here's my situation:
My newish machine(Earthshine) is an XP-Pro box. This is where I do most of my work (word processing, and remote development on one of the LINUX machines). I also have my company's VPN software on here...only runs on Windows.
The second oldest machine(Dreamline) is a dual boot 98 and Redhat box. It boots into RH by default and I use this primarily as a LINUX desktop machine. I have 98 on there as a backup to the Earthshine box. If it goes down, I can still do prod support over the corporate VPN.
Animate and Limelight are recycled machines and they now function as pure LINUX servers. Animate is a database and application server(and serves mp3's to my Slimpy). Limelight is a development box and Websphere 5 server.
So I can (and others can as well) afford more than 1 box, but to be honest I don't have the space, nor the amperage for more than 4 machines. I wish I could expand out and play with the Sparc my brother in law gave me, or get another box and play with BSD... but circumstances being what they are, I've gotta do what I've gotta do. It's a stinking garage Jim, not a data center.
wbs.
If I were single, I wouldn't mind taking her out for dinner and a show. She's definitely a cutie.
wbs.
OK, it's been a few hours. Here's how I fill in the blanks:
It seems that |cheeney| wishes us to bomb the hell out of iraq. He's |not convinced| that saddam wanted to |give up all wmd's|. also there's the |belief in the cabinet that| the |american people will fall for the wmd story and never look back|, and |will even go for a cooked up al queda link as well|. god forbid |the UN security council| thinks that |our phony iraq facts| are the |crap that they are| |or else we're going to have to go in there even though we're going to piss off every enemy and friend we have| |lose all integrity as a nation| |and give the whacko terrorists even more popular support in the arab world and more of a reason to set off bombs inside the continental united states|.
wbs.
The dude's 2000+ years old. That's pretty stale if you ask me.
It's like asking for a fresh batch of Ramses the second. Fresh isn't so fresh.
wbs.
Testesmints.
That's what Monsignor Gaffney offers to his young altar boys right?
wbs.
Why do they have to release the original documents with original sections blocked out?
Why not just release retyped docs with placeholders for blocked out sections.
For instance:
Original:
It seems that the president wishes us to bomb the hell out of iraq. He's pissed off that saddam wanted to kill his daddy. also there's the issues of controlling the oil flow, and protecting israel. god forbid anyone thinks that the israilies are the biggest part of the problem out there.
Released with blocks:
It seems that XXXXXXXXXXXXX wishes us to bomb the hell out of iraq. He's XXXXXXXXXX that saddam wanted to XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. also there's the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX the XXXXXXXX, and XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. god forbid XXXXXX thinks that XXXXXXXXXXXXX are the XXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.
My proposal:
It seems that |CLASSIFIED| wishes us to bomb the hell out of iraq. He's |CLASSIFIED| that saddam wanted to |CLASSIFIED|. also there's the |CLASSIFIED| the |CLASSIFIED|, and |CLASSIFIED|. god forbid |CLASSIFIED| thinks that |CLASSIFIED| are the |CLASSIFIED| |CLASSIFIED| |CLASSIFIED| |CLASSIFIED|.
I think this simple step would go a long way towards soving the problem. The process could probably even be automated somewhat by using some type of OCR software on the original blocked out documents.
Is there some law against this? Like that TPTB have to release the original doc?
wbs.
A technology jobs in the finance sector always seemed to be the way to go for me.
:)
So I get the benefit of being close the business in a big bank or broker, share (partially) in the financial rewards. And I still get to build systems and engineer stuff.
And with seniority, I get to make more and more critical decisions.
So maybe I don't make as much as a good broker, or the SVP who heads up the business I work for. But my pay is on par with his managers.
I know what they know about the finance side, but IMO my job is way more intersting and fun.
The best of both worlds.
wbs.