More then that, if the landing gear were to be deployed too early during descent, the shuttle would be lost. Think much bigger opening then that which caused the loss of Columbia. I read somewhere that the astronauts requested in the beginning of the program that the landing gear be deployed manually for that very reason.
Having worked in an industrial setting where dust levels are EXTREMELY high (steel industry), I can say that one thing you should not do is buy a mac, especially the latest eMacs (those white all-in-one units). We have had exactly 100% of those machines we have purchased in the last 18 months, all of them have had some sort of hardware failure, mostly the motherboard, from dust and soot contamination. The other thing is that these machines are much more difficult to service yourself, just try taking one apart and remembering where all the screws went. Your best bet is building a white box pc, use filters on the intake fans, and expect hard ware failures (ie always keep backups)
A similar service called Hyperlinkomatic is available. I have been using it for a while and although it hasn't been updated since the summer, it has been very useful for me, and whenever my friends are bored, I can send them to my personal page chocked full of url goodness.
I am going to go ahead and guess that DVRs and tivo-like devices are going to increase the number of channels we currently have. Currently, at even a hundered channels, it is difficult to digest everything that is on and actually find something to watch. Tivo removes the whole experince of trying to surf all of the channels that are available with most cable packages. You no longer have to know when something is on to watch it, all you need is the name of the program. What will the effect of this be? I predict that more people will want more channels and more content. Without a device like tivo you can easily suffer from information overload trying to find something to watch. With tivo, it is simple and easy to watch exactly what you want, when you want. It is trivial to navigate and digest all avilable channels. Because of the simplicity involved, people will be able to handle, and demand, more content and more channels. Q.E.D. right?
This can be found on Moore's website. I recomend taking a look at a few of the other words he has to say about the film on the page.
WHAT THE FILM SAYS:
Sen. Byron Dorgan: We had some airplanes authorized at the highest levels of our government to fly to pick up Osama Bin Laden's family members and others from Saudi Arabia and transport them out of this country.
Narration: It turns out that the White House approved planes to pick up the bin Ladens and numerous other Saudis. At least six private jets and nearly two dozen commercial planes carried the Saudis and the Bin ladens out of the U.S. after September 13th. In all, 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country.
Additionally, in an interview with author Craig Unger, the film makes reference to the fact that these individuals were briefly interviewed before they were allowed to leave.
WHY WE SAY IT:
1. THE FLIGHTS - WHO GOT OUT WHEN
The facts stated in Fahrenheit 9/11 are well documented and are based entirely on the findings contained in the 9/11 commission draft report, which states, "After the airspace reopened, six chartered flights with 142 people, mostly Saudi Arabian nationals, departed from the United States between September 14 and 24. One flight, the so-called Bin Ladin flight, departed the United States on September 20 with 26 passengers, most of them relatives of Usama Bin Ladin." National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Threats and Responses in 2001, Staff Statement No. 10, The Saudi Flights, p. 12
Unfortunately, some news organizations have misinterpreted what the film says. Some have said Fahrenheit 9/11 alleges that these flights out of the country took place when commercial airplanes were still grounded. The film does not say this. The film states clearly that these flights left after September 13 (the day the FAA began to slowly lift the ban on air traffic).
2. WHO APPROVED THESE FLIGHTS AND WHY
We really do not know why it was so necessary for the White House to allow the quick exodus of these Saudi and bin Ladens out of the country, and "the White House still refuses to document fully how the flights were arranged," according to a June 20, 2004, article by Phil Shenon in the New York Times.
We do know who asked for help in getting Saudis out of the country - the Saudi government. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Threats and Responses in 2001, Staff Statement No. 10, The Saudi Flights, p. 12 The film also includes a television interview with Saudi Prince Bandar, confirming this as well.
Former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke has testified that he approved these flights, stating that "it was a conscious decision with complete review at the highest levels of the State Department and the FBI and the White House." Testimony of Richard Clarke, Former Counterterrorism Chief, National Security Council, before The Senate Judiciary Committee, September 3, 2003.
3. DID THESE INDIVIDUALS GET SPECIAL TREATMENT BY LAW ENFOCEMENT?
Yes, according to Jack Cloonan, a former senior agent on the joint FBI-CIA Al-Qaeda task force, who is interviewed in Fahrenheit 9/11. Cloonan raises questions about the type of investigation to which these individuals were subjected, finding it highly unusual that in light of the seriousness of the attack on 9/11, bin Laden family members were allowed to leave the country and escape without anyone getting their statements on record in any kind of formal proceeding, and with little more than a brief interview.
Most Saudis who left were not interviewed at all by the FBI. In fact, of the 142 Saudis on these flights, only 30 were interviewed. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Threats and Responses in 2001, Staff Statement No. 10, The Saudi Flights, p. 12
The film puts this in perspective. Imagine President Clinton f
I recently created a directory of about 700 vCards for my boss, who then wanted it in his quickmail contact book. Low and behold, quickmail of course doesn't import vcards, only ldif and outlook express files. Anybody have a good way to convert one to the other?
If someone stabs someone else to death with a knife, you don't go after the knife maker (P2P software) you go after the murderer (copyright violator).
Remember the lawsuits against the tobacco industry? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that tobacco is bad for you, yet they still lost. So perhaps there is a precedent that says you are liable if your product hurts someone.
It's not surprising to see Apple try to make their products look so wonderful. If I had a company I would want to make my products look wonderful too, especially compared to the competitor's. Now, the ethics of doing such is questionable of course, but not really shocking. Shouldn't we all have learned to take marketing with a grain of salt so to say?
Somebody mentioned above that spammers would be a problem. This would seem to be a problem, not just spammers, but any trouble making hooligans, how do they go about making sure their users play fair on the net and don't end up causing a ruckus by doing foolish harmful things? Should they be concerned at all?
Just curious, how does FLAC compare to the SHN format it is replacing? Better compression? Are there any more factors that make one lossless compression format "better" then another? Also, kudos to phish for being inovative and embracing technology, rather then running screaming and kicking and yelling bloddy murder to the RIAA.
Is it possible for apple to bring some sort of DMCA related charges to this project? Not that I think this would happen, but is it possible since they mention that the iPod's architecture is closed sourced?
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More then that, if the landing gear were to be deployed too early during descent, the shuttle would be lost. Think much bigger opening then that which caused the loss of Columbia. I read somewhere that the astronauts requested in the beginning of the program that the landing gear be deployed manually for that very reason.
Having worked in an industrial setting where dust levels are EXTREMELY high (steel industry), I can say that one thing you should not do is buy a mac, especially the latest eMacs (those white all-in-one units). We have had exactly 100% of those machines we have purchased in the last 18 months, all of them have had some sort of hardware failure, mostly the motherboard, from dust and soot contamination. The other thing is that these machines are much more difficult to service yourself, just try taking one apart and remembering where all the screws went. Your best bet is building a white box pc, use filters on the intake fans, and expect hard ware failures (ie always keep backups)
A similar service called Hyperlinkomatic is available. I have been using it for a while and although it hasn't been updated since the summer, it has been very useful for me, and whenever my friends are bored, I can send them to my personal page chocked full of url goodness.
su rm -r /usr/lib
yell --profanity
I am going to go ahead and guess that DVRs and tivo-like devices are going to increase the number of channels we currently have. Currently, at even a hundered channels, it is difficult to digest everything that is on and actually find something to watch. Tivo removes the whole experince of trying to surf all of the channels that are available with most cable packages. You no longer have to know when something is on to watch it, all you need is the name of the program. What will the effect of this be? I predict that more people will want more channels and more content. Without a device like tivo you can easily suffer from information overload trying to find something to watch. With tivo, it is simple and easy to watch exactly what you want, when you want. It is trivial to navigate and digest all avilable channels. Because of the simplicity involved, people will be able to handle, and demand, more content and more channels. Q.E.D. right?
and then it's just fun!
1. iPod controls BMW! 2. ??? 3. Profit! I love /.
Yup, at chuck e. cheese. Pretty much a whole robot show.
I recently created a directory of about 700 vCards for my boss, who then wanted it in his quickmail contact book. Low and behold, quickmail of course doesn't import vcards, only ldif and outlook express files. Anybody have a good way to convert one to the other?
5) Profit!
Yaaaaa, but did you file your TPS report yet? Didn't you get the memo?
p=mv aka momentum = mass * velocity
If photons have no mass, how do they have momentum? Is there another definition of momentum?
crashes after 15 minutes
Wow, linux has finally acheived the stability levels of Windows!
If someone stabs someone else to death with a knife, you don't go after the knife maker (P2P software) you go after the murderer (copyright violator). Remember the lawsuits against the tobacco industry? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that tobacco is bad for you, yet they still lost. So perhaps there is a precedent that says you are liable if your product hurts someone.
I think he meant filthy as in dirty, as in the hippy sterotype of somebody who never showers. Not saying I agree either, but there is a distinction.
It's not surprising to see Apple try to make their products look so wonderful. If I had a company I would want to make my products look wonderful too, especially compared to the competitor's. Now, the ethics of doing such is questionable of course, but not really shocking. Shouldn't we all have learned to take marketing with a grain of salt so to say?
Somebody mentioned above that spammers would be a problem. This would seem to be a problem, not just spammers, but any trouble making hooligans, how do they go about making sure their users play fair on the net and don't end up causing a ruckus by doing foolish harmful things? Should they be concerned at all?
Just curious, how does FLAC compare to the SHN format it is replacing? Better compression? Are there any more factors that make one lossless compression format "better" then another?
Also, kudos to phish for being inovative and embracing technology, rather then running screaming and kicking and yelling bloddy murder to the RIAA.
Linux crunchies. Is that a cerial?
Is it possible for apple to bring some sort of DMCA related charges to this project? Not that I think this would happen, but is it possible since they mention that the iPod's architecture is closed sourced?