From my limited chemistry knowledge, I figured as much. Strange that this was on a WHIMS sheet. Even worse, I think it was for much larger format batteries.
I searched for a WHIMS sheet and found a few. They generally say that vapor mists or fumes may cause respiratory irritation. Is there anything more to this? Some of the metal compounds in the LiOn battery are also carcinogenic. Though I'd wager only a factor with long term exposure. Just out of curiosity.
The person in one video mentions using a Class 4 extinguisher on the fire involving laptops (chemical, metal and electrical fire). When not in a laptop, one WHIMS sheet says to use water and another (which I found on a.mil site from Google) says to use CO2. Conflicting, yes. I don't think I run into one of these fires in my lifetime. But these questions don't seem to have come up.
It was a book on either statistics or econometrics. I'm sure it is under either Addison-Wesley or Pearson (which is the same company anyways). There are a *lot* of QC problems with their books. I'm not the only one to complain. I'd avoid them. You need "Coffee Money" to read their books.
The content and technical info is similar to most business stats books (which I ended up using). Most books demonstrate the mathematical concept in a few paragraphs (and leave the reader to do the rest of the work) and spend more time properly explaining the concepts, terms etc. and giving some detail to problem questions.
This book had to to be different. It tried to treat the reader like a complete idiot. If it were to explain how to calc. avg. number of apples in a basket. It would start with "First we want to add the first apple, and then the second.. and then nth apple.... and then divide by.....". With 20 apples it would take a while. Now think of how Kurtosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtosis would be explained. It got worse as it got more complicated. No sample questions. Few details of the answers. No teacher's copy to purchase to find out solutions. Nothing.
In any case, Addison are the same assholes making multiple editions of the same book within one year. Esp. for 1st year texts. This is where I have a problem. These are *introductory* books which get students thinking about their choice of field. They don't need the latest and greatest. They won't remember what they read 3 years ago. Thanks for saving the planet folks. They should get the EPA or GreenPeace on their backs for this practice.
That's funny stuff. I had one prof. for a 2nd year class where we only had to write 4 book reviews - of the prof's books. That was the only testing material - 4 one to two page book reviews. For a second year class! He'd written over 10 at the time. Given his level of authentic experience in the subject, the material was way too simple and most sounded about the same. I bought one book and read through it. Got the idea. Rather than buy the other books, I went on Amazon, read the summary and the reader comments and wrote my summary from what I gathered from the Amazon information. I think I got 3 A+'s on those book reviews and an "A" for the one I actually read the book. Go figure.
Worse, that prof was never at the lectures and TA taught 85% of the classes. Student body of 200+ for the course. He had other "business to attend". Is a tenured prof and full time consultant.
I'll add here too that the OpenCourseWear stuff, which is pretty much the only reason I use iTunes is superb. Video and/or audio lectures of full classes. Great to listen to on public transit or in a car. The better thing is that there are a lot of guest lectures. And a few of the classes offer the reading material list in PDF (usually easily accessible Journal articles) and most of the Math courses have Open Text books. Its 99% math texts at this point.
I don't have all the time in the world to go through the vast amount of lectures and courses. But there's a few that are rather interesting to me.
Absolutely. I had the fortune of studying in health and social sciences. Not much has changed - at least for the first 2 years of study. I found many of the assigned textbooks to be poorly written. I often used the public library or university library (usually others had already checked it out at the university) to get older books that were better written. Coincidentally, they were never writers or publishers that had a history of being the textbook "of choice" for the subject most anywhere.
Are the number of revisions done on purpose to make money (likely). If not, it hardly inspires any confidence in the writer and publisher that they write good textbooks - if the book undergoes 20 revisions in 5 years because of "new material" - and hopefully - not because there are that many typos. The only changes I've ever found are with discussion questions, layout, pictures and page size and the front cover.
I recall that in a rather simple 2nd year class, we had to buy a $250 textbook. We objected. The professor said it was "the only acceptable book on the subject for the class". It turned out that I never opened it and the book was 500+ pages. Nice that they shrink wrap the bloody things in the book stores now. You can't see before you buy. Never happened 10 years ago.
Another book was so poorly written that I went as far as calling the publisher. I complained it was the worst, most confusing piece of crap book I've ever read in my life. In a class of 200 3rd students, we all complained about the book. The publisher didn't seem to agree. I vow never to buy a book of theirs again.
I really don't think Vista is that bad. I tried Server 2008 as a desktop (since there's a free demo to download). Its a major PITA.
But, if you turn off all the services its about as fast. I turned off Indexing.
The problem is MS tries to re-spin the wheel. Win-F "Window Search" is slower and has less features than XP. Windows Explorer has nice features but has a confusing interface. Aero looks nice but doesn't add any new features. The Sidebar was a pain and I turned it right off. Everything that is wrong with XP is still wrong in Vista.
Windows 2003 is a really nice OS. And, with any low standard, the best MS has made. MS should just drop the licensing costs on it and take out all the Server functions. Since it already has all the SP2 crap, they could have saved themselves 5+ years of development.
I was using OS X but since I could afford to upgrade my old hardware iMac G5, I went with a PC. The hardware is nice. The OS just sucks. I'm reconsidering my Apple alternatives.
After reading your submission, since there's no RTFA applicable, I took a look at the files on the FTP server in question. Your book proposal for a "Dummies Guide to Dialing Telephone Numbers " isn't going to be a bestseller let alone worth all the hassles of asking Slashdot for opinions. Sorry!;)
This isn't ground breaking research. I have a degree in the Social Sciences. When I was researching papers and taking a few criminology courses, the professors, texts and journals had said that it wasn't uncommon for law enforcement to use this. Are there more specific ways they use this? Sure. Its no mystery. But there's no reason to be more specific.
Sooner or later, these people are generally caught because they made one mistake. And its impossible to know all the techniques and science used to catch them. I would only hope that other than "DNA evidence", the other methods used in serial killer cases wouldn't be revealed. Its bad enough we are sort of celebrating their existence in movies and TV shows. Its worse that some of them get away for 20 years, have a kid and a wife and they never know about it.
We are already doomed. I think there's enough people playing Counterstrike and text messaging that write and think precisely in the tone and style I've written. To some, that is textbook quality material.
If we use are brains appropriately, we can solve a lot of of conflict before it occurs. Diplomacy helps if its backed by sanctions that work. And, education of the world's poor and underprivileged is a start. If we can divert some children from attending the Madrassas which teach hatred, low self-esteem and self-worth, low literacy and vital knowledge for future advancement (math, science, etc.), then we might be able to avoid war altogether.
Note: I wanted to make the point before being modded as delusional (instead of funny) and losing all my Karma for my last post! I wanted to make a point. Which I've noted above.
Eye Isth sooo smartie pants that ppl will knot want 2 fight me. Eye have already 1 the batle. I have best brain on teh planet blessed by the Gods to unweild unhold amounts of destruction with a single thought. Mental acts of war, I will be winner. I sea all teh battlefields and can win in second. I could take over planet. But I won't.;)
I was infected twice on my EEE PC with this thing. I didn't install AV since its kinda slow anyways so I reformatted twice. First time I've been infected with a virus in 10 years. BTW - first infection was from a link to a PDF which opened reader and launched an EXE. Good idea to turn PDF in-browser off.
Other than AV, is there another software that will protect from this one. Its a major PITA. As you said you think its gone and it ain't. I know my way around windows and I thought I'd get rid of this one fast. Its not easy without the right software.
The power grid in Eastern Canada is also having the same problem with the power grid. If the demand exceeds the capability for generation - if a lot of people go out and buy cars or charge em all day long - some people aren't going to be able to drive.
Picutre LA or New York. Nice, hot summer day. If the same number of cars are on the road at rush hour, how are people supposed to drive out when battery runs low? If battery technology doesn't improve substantially this is a major problem. I'd see that we either change ways of working or commuting.
What if it was Apple was sponsoring the suit? There's already Hackintoshes people are building themselves.They can't stop that. This might be a test of can a PC be sold commerically with OS X pre-installed? Get a small startup. Do your bidding. If Pystar wins, legal battle too expensive closing down.
Either this gets your head spinning. Or you see this as silly. Choose your X-Files episode.
The problem is a cultural and political issue among the IOC members, judges, doctors and athletes. If you do everything to support doping behind the scenes, then this is what's going to happen. There's always new ways of cheating which might not be caught with current technology. I think the threat of keeping for 10 years blood/urine samples and if you're later found to be cheating, stripped of your medal might be motivation not to dope. If not for loss of sponsorship money but for honour, if there's anything left in the athletes.
The Games have long been run by large commercial interests - NBC paying in excess of $300 million for broadcast rights for last 10 years. Having "Official" world-wide sponsors of products that are unhealthy and have absolutely no association with sports - Budweiser (or whoever it is this year), Coca-Cola and McDonalds are examples. I'm sure this is of no surprise.
If the Games are *really* about the best competing against each other, then we have the technological means to get around much of the financial interests. Camcorder + YouTube or BitTorrent. Film each event in an existing venue in a country of choice - fly the athletes over. Might not look as professional for filming purposes. If the statdiums/venues are full of paying people to watch the events in person, then you break even for bandwidth costs.
I'm all for competitive and amateur sports. I was heavily involved in competitive cycling. But the idea that nobody watches cycling until its the "Olympics" shows there's too much mystique created by commercial interests. Its the Super Bowl effect. This ruins the idea of the competition and the athletes. And if you watched the NBC broadcasts over last few years - where they continually cut to show Americans winning - its cheap and in poor taste. Again, ruins the event.
Forget that. There are many rewards points cards (frequentl flyer, grocery stores) etc. that ask for your mother's maiden name. I always fill out a fake one. If my card gets lots, it better to lose the few points I get than to give them right info I remember.
A few posters have noted that there was a fire in the household etc. Regardless, as a kid, I grew up in the "new age" of computers. A Commodore 64 in-hand, I played video games on it and did a bit of programming. I had a huge interest in science. But, like many other kids, were were generally more fortunate than our parents and our toys were more expensive and significantly less educational and a huge was of time: video games and cable TV. No less than straight-A's from grade school to high school.
My father had chemistry sets and Meccano toys when he grew up. I had access to Meccano parts and motors but I grew bored and tired of it. Instead video games and TV.
My father and I are on equal footing in terms of IQ. He's a doctor. I studied in science at university-level but I grew frustrated with Chemistry and Biology simply because it didn't come "naturally". Perhaps that's an excuse. Whatever. Not important to my argument. I think not having chem set was one reason. I don't regret what might have been - I didn't want to be a doctor after all. But, this society is probably turning away a lot of brilliant minds. Banning learning tools - books, chem sets, etc. is a bad, bad move. Maybe I could be an astrophysicist if I'd not had video games and cable TV. If not me, then some other would-be Nobel Prize winner.
So, I think before any governments go banning or raiding people's homes for chemistry sets - whatever the reason - they should consider the effects of this on society and the education system. For parents that *know nothing* about Chemistry, they are not going to buy little Johnny a chemistry set because all the negative attention its getting in the media makes them think he's going to take the house down. See Dihydrogen Monoxide hoax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax.
I think that nless the employee broke the law, I don't see what the problem is. People get contacts when they work for an employer. Lose your job? Call your contacts. It don't know that just because he setup the account a few weeks before leaving really proves anything. I've a few friends who are DJs that have regular employment but don't work for the same person all the time. They go from one club to another. Why? Facebook contacts are one reason.
I'd be more worried about doing business or being employed by that company. And, I think Linked in should not provide the information.
If that is the case, we only have to recall how large of an operation it was to track down the Blackbox (because of its comm equipment) on the Columbia in 2003. How this differs from stealing the comm equipment from an F-16 crashing in a warzone or a comm-soldier in a battle, I'm unsure. I seem to recall footage on CNN of the National Guard being deployed in full force. Its obviously pre-planned if such an event occurs or was a tour-de-force should a similar a more serious event (like spy-satellite crash) occur. I can only imagine how much larger and exhaustive the search would be with a Spy Satellite. Let alone what kind of questioning would occur should it land in your backyard.
Yeah. But if the missile misses you only have to shoot two more up - one for the satellite and one for the missile. Face it, someone in Washington wanted to play "Missile Command" which they miss from playing in the arcades or on their Atari. They didn't want to run a MAME emulator. Meh, what's the difference with the real thing? Last time somebody did that they thought "Global Thermonuclear Warfare" was a fun game to play.
I bet OP is in his 50s and listens to Spice Girls cover songs of Metallica, AC/DC and Eminem songs. Its not just the swear words that are embarrassing, its the music itself.
Or maybe he's listening to mainstream movies with suggestive titles: Die Hard, Dirty Harry, The Italian Job.
So listen to some New Age Mediation music and watch Fried Green Tomatoes.
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From my limited chemistry knowledge, I figured as much. Strange that this was on a WHIMS sheet. Even worse, I think it was for much larger format batteries.
I searched for a WHIMS sheet and found a few. They generally say that vapor mists or fumes may cause respiratory irritation. Is there anything more to this? Some of the metal compounds in the LiOn battery are also carcinogenic. Though I'd wager only a factor with long term exposure. Just out of curiosity.
The person in one video mentions using a Class 4 extinguisher on the fire involving laptops (chemical, metal and electrical fire). When not in a laptop, one WHIMS sheet says to use water and another (which I found on a .mil site from Google) says to use CO2. Conflicting, yes. I don't think I run into one of these fires in my lifetime. But these questions don't seem to have come up.
It was a book on either statistics or econometrics. I'm sure it is under either Addison-Wesley or Pearson (which is the same company anyways). There are a *lot* of QC problems with their books. I'm not the only one to complain. I'd avoid them. You need "Coffee Money" to read their books.
The content and technical info is similar to most business stats books (which I ended up using). Most books demonstrate the mathematical concept in a few paragraphs (and leave the reader to do the rest of the work) and spend more time properly explaining the concepts, terms etc. and giving some detail to problem questions.
This book had to to be different. It tried to treat the reader like a complete idiot. If it were to explain how to calc. avg. number of apples in a basket. It would start with "First we want to add the first apple, and then the second .. and then nth apple .... and then divide by .....". With 20 apples it would take a while. Now think of how Kurtosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtosis would be explained. It got worse as it got more complicated. No sample questions. Few details of the answers. No teacher's copy to purchase to find out solutions. Nothing.
In any case, Addison are the same assholes making multiple editions of the same book within one year. Esp. for 1st year texts. This is where I have a problem. These are *introductory* books which get students thinking about their choice of field. They don't need the latest and greatest. They won't remember what they read 3 years ago. Thanks for saving the planet folks. They should get the EPA or GreenPeace on their backs for this practice.
That's funny stuff. I had one prof. for a 2nd year class where we only had to write 4 book reviews - of the prof's books. That was the only testing material - 4 one to two page book reviews. For a second year class! He'd written over 10 at the time. Given his level of authentic experience in the subject, the material was way too simple and most sounded about the same. I bought one book and read through it. Got the idea. Rather than buy the other books, I went on Amazon, read the summary and the reader comments and wrote my summary from what I gathered from the Amazon information. I think I got 3 A+'s on those book reviews and an "A" for the one I actually read the book. Go figure.
Worse, that prof was never at the lectures and TA taught 85% of the classes. Student body of 200+ for the course. He had other "business to attend". Is a tenured prof and full time consultant.
Yep. See my comment: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=650179&cid=24664737. I called one publisher to complain.
I'll add here too that the OpenCourseWear stuff, which is pretty much the only reason I use iTunes is superb. Video and/or audio lectures of full classes. Great to listen to on public transit or in a car. The better thing is that there are a lot of guest lectures. And a few of the classes offer the reading material list in PDF (usually easily accessible Journal articles) and most of the Math courses have Open Text books. Its 99% math texts at this point.
I don't have all the time in the world to go through the vast amount of lectures and courses. But there's a few that are rather interesting to me.
Absolutely. I had the fortune of studying in health and social sciences. Not much has changed - at least for the first 2 years of study. I found many of the assigned textbooks to be poorly written. I often used the public library or university library (usually others had already checked it out at the university) to get older books that were better written. Coincidentally, they were never writers or publishers that had a history of being the textbook "of choice" for the subject most anywhere.
Are the number of revisions done on purpose to make money (likely). If not, it hardly inspires any confidence in the writer and publisher that they write good textbooks - if the book undergoes 20 revisions in 5 years because of "new material" - and hopefully - not because there are that many typos. The only changes I've ever found are with discussion questions, layout, pictures and page size and the front cover.
I recall that in a rather simple 2nd year class, we had to buy a $250 textbook. We objected. The professor said it was "the only acceptable book on the subject for the class". It turned out that I never opened it and the book was 500+ pages. Nice that they shrink wrap the bloody things in the book stores now. You can't see before you buy. Never happened 10 years ago.
Another book was so poorly written that I went as far as calling the publisher. I complained it was the worst, most confusing piece of crap book I've ever read in my life. In a class of 200 3rd students, we all complained about the book. The publisher didn't seem to agree. I vow never to buy a book of theirs again.
You sound like a MS employee. That or you're applying for a job there. ;)
That's what I meant with "I'm reconsidering my Apple alternatives." ;)
I really don't think Vista is that bad. I tried Server 2008 as a desktop (since there's a free demo to download). Its a major PITA.
But, if you turn off all the services its about as fast. I turned off Indexing.
The problem is MS tries to re-spin the wheel. Win-F "Window Search" is slower and has less features than XP. Windows Explorer has nice features but has a confusing interface. Aero looks nice but doesn't add any new features. The Sidebar was a pain and I turned it right off. Everything that is wrong with XP is still wrong in Vista.
Windows 2003 is a really nice OS. And, with any low standard, the best MS has made. MS should just drop the licensing costs on it and take out all the Server functions. Since it already has all the SP2 crap, they could have saved themselves 5+ years of development.
I was using OS X but since I could afford to upgrade my old hardware iMac G5, I went with a PC. The hardware is nice. The OS just sucks. I'm reconsidering my Apple alternatives.
After reading your submission, since there's no RTFA applicable, I took a look at the files on the FTP server in question. Your book proposal for a "Dummies Guide to Dialing Telephone Numbers " isn't going to be a bestseller let alone worth all the hassles of asking Slashdot for opinions. Sorry! ;)
This isn't ground breaking research. I have a degree in the Social Sciences. When I was researching papers and taking a few criminology courses, the professors, texts and journals had said that it wasn't uncommon for law enforcement to use this. Are there more specific ways they use this? Sure. Its no mystery. But there's no reason to be more specific.
Sooner or later, these people are generally caught because they made one mistake. And its impossible to know all the techniques and science used to catch them. I would only hope that other than "DNA evidence", the other methods used in serial killer cases wouldn't be revealed. Its bad enough we are sort of celebrating their existence in movies and TV shows. Its worse that some of them get away for 20 years, have a kid and a wife and they never know about it.
We are already doomed. I think there's enough people playing Counterstrike and text messaging that write and think precisely in the tone and style I've written. To some, that is textbook quality material.
If we use are brains appropriately, we can solve a lot of of conflict before it occurs. Diplomacy helps if its backed by sanctions that work. And, education of the world's poor and underprivileged is a start. If we can divert some children from attending the Madrassas which teach hatred, low self-esteem and self-worth, low literacy and vital knowledge for future advancement (math, science, etc.), then we might be able to avoid war altogether.
Note: I wanted to make the point before being modded as delusional (instead of funny) and losing all my Karma for my last post! I wanted to make a point. Which I've noted above.
Eye Isth sooo smartie pants that ppl will knot want 2 fight me. Eye have already 1 the batle. I have best brain on teh planet blessed by the Gods to unweild unhold amounts of destruction with a single thought. Mental acts of war, I will be winner. I sea all teh battlefields and can win in second. I could take over planet. But I won't. ;)
I was infected twice on my EEE PC with this thing. I didn't install AV since its kinda slow anyways so I reformatted twice. First time I've been infected with a virus in 10 years. BTW - first infection was from a link to a PDF which opened reader and launched an EXE. Good idea to turn PDF in-browser off.
Other than AV, is there another software that will protect from this one. Its a major PITA. As you said you think its gone and it ain't. I know my way around windows and I thought I'd get rid of this one fast. Its not easy without the right software.
The power grid in Eastern Canada is also having the same problem with the power grid. If the demand exceeds the capability for generation - if a lot of people go out and buy cars or charge em all day long - some people aren't going to be able to drive.
Picutre LA or New York. Nice, hot summer day. If the same number of cars are on the road at rush hour, how are people supposed to drive out when battery runs low? If battery technology doesn't improve substantially this is a major problem. I'd see that we either change ways of working or commuting.
Silly/Conspiracy Theory:
What if it was Apple was sponsoring the suit? There's already Hackintoshes people are building themselves.They can't stop that. This might be a test of can a PC be sold commerically with OS X pre-installed? Get a small startup. Do your bidding. If Pystar wins, legal battle too expensive closing down.
Either this gets your head spinning. Or you see this as silly. Choose your X-Files episode.
Do we have to write disclaimers on our jokes now?
The problem is a cultural and political issue among the IOC members, judges, doctors and athletes. If you do everything to support doping behind the scenes, then this is what's going to happen. There's always new ways of cheating which might not be caught with current technology. I think the threat of keeping for 10 years blood/urine samples and if you're later found to be cheating, stripped of your medal might be motivation not to dope. If not for loss of sponsorship money but for honour, if there's anything left in the athletes.
The Games have long been run by large commercial interests - NBC paying in excess of $300 million for broadcast rights for last 10 years. Having "Official" world-wide sponsors of products that are unhealthy and have absolutely no association with sports - Budweiser (or whoever it is this year), Coca-Cola and McDonalds are examples. I'm sure this is of no surprise.
If the Games are *really* about the best competing against each other, then we have the technological means to get around much of the financial interests. Camcorder + YouTube or BitTorrent. Film each event in an existing venue in a country of choice - fly the athletes over. Might not look as professional for filming purposes. If the statdiums/venues are full of paying people to watch the events in person, then you break even for bandwidth costs.
I'm all for competitive and amateur sports. I was heavily involved in competitive cycling. But the idea that nobody watches cycling until its the "Olympics" shows there's too much mystique created by commercial interests. Its the Super Bowl effect. This ruins the idea of the competition and the athletes. And if you watched the NBC broadcasts over last few years - where they continually cut to show Americans winning - its cheap and in poor taste. Again, ruins the event.
Forget that. There are many rewards points cards (frequentl flyer, grocery stores) etc. that ask for your mother's maiden name. I always fill out a fake one. If my card gets lots, it better to lose the few points I get than to give them right info I remember.
A few posters have noted that there was a fire in the household etc. Regardless, as a kid, I grew up in the "new age" of computers. A Commodore 64 in-hand, I played video games on it and did a bit of programming. I had a huge interest in science. But, like many other kids, were were generally more fortunate than our parents and our toys were more expensive and significantly less educational and a huge was of time: video games and cable TV. No less than straight-A's from grade school to high school.
My father had chemistry sets and Meccano toys when he grew up. I had access to Meccano parts and motors but I grew bored and tired of it. Instead video games and TV.
My father and I are on equal footing in terms of IQ. He's a doctor. I studied in science at university-level but I grew frustrated with Chemistry and Biology simply because it didn't come "naturally". Perhaps that's an excuse. Whatever. Not important to my argument. I think not having chem set was one reason. I don't regret what might have been - I didn't want to be a doctor after all. But, this society is probably turning away a lot of brilliant minds. Banning learning tools - books, chem sets, etc. is a bad, bad move. Maybe I could be an astrophysicist if I'd not had video games and cable TV. If not me, then some other would-be Nobel Prize winner.
So, I think before any governments go banning or raiding people's homes for chemistry sets - whatever the reason - they should consider the effects of this on society and the education system. For parents that *know nothing* about Chemistry, they are not going to buy little Johnny a chemistry set because all the negative attention its getting in the media makes them think he's going to take the house down. See Dihydrogen Monoxide hoax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax.
I think that nless the employee broke the law, I don't see what the problem is. People get contacts when they work for an employer. Lose your job? Call your contacts. It don't know that just because he setup the account a few weeks before leaving really proves anything. I've a few friends who are DJs that have regular employment but don't work for the same person all the time. They go from one club to another. Why? Facebook contacts are one reason.
I'd be more worried about doing business or being employed by that company. And, I think Linked in should not provide the information.
If that is the case, we only have to recall how large of an operation it was to track down the Blackbox (because of its comm equipment) on the Columbia in 2003. How this differs from stealing the comm equipment from an F-16 crashing in a warzone or a comm-soldier in a battle, I'm unsure. I seem to recall footage on CNN of the National Guard being deployed in full force. Its obviously pre-planned if such an event occurs or was a tour-de-force should a similar a more serious event (like spy-satellite crash) occur. I can only imagine how much larger and exhaustive the search would be with a Spy Satellite. Let alone what kind of questioning would occur should it land in your backyard.
Yeah. But if the missile misses you only have to shoot two more up - one for the satellite and one for the missile. Face it, someone in Washington wanted to play "Missile Command" which they miss from playing in the arcades or on their Atari. They didn't want to run a MAME emulator. Meh, what's the difference with the real thing? Last time somebody did that they thought "Global Thermonuclear Warfare" was a fun game to play.
I don't get why I got flaimbait and you get funny. Some people can't really take a joke. Sheesh! I won't write any funny comments on /. anymore.
I bet OP is in his 50s and listens to Spice Girls cover songs of Metallica, AC/DC and Eminem songs. Its not just the swear words that are embarrassing, its the music itself.
Or maybe he's listening to mainstream movies with suggestive titles: Die Hard, Dirty Harry, The Italian Job.
So listen to some New Age Mediation music and watch Fried Green Tomatoes.
Problem solved!