That's an interesting take on the matter. I'll look into it in my 2nd Amendment Primer. However, the Constitution still says that that right shall not be infringed... whether or not it is used for a regulated militia. Anti-gun sentiment is not enough... it still requires that the Constitution be amended. But amending it is too official for the anti-gun crowd; better overall to pretend that the 2nd Amendment doesn't even exist. {shakes head}
Iran has no need for electricity? Furthermore, given the actual threat here is an Imperial military stomping through the Middle East, it would only be sensible for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons to resist invasion.
There was no rationale for invading Iraq except the bullying that goes along with being an Empire. The "team" I'm on is the non-Imperial one, Ace. As a perspective, I grew up expecting to be the citizen of a Republic, not the subject of an Empire.
If you'd take a survey of the tax payments being made by individuals and corporations, you'd come to understand that a revolt has already started, and in fact is well underway. The government has yet to fully react to the tax revolt, so we'll see what they do next. After the reaction, it's likely we'll see the actual, physical aspects of revolution, like overt and covert violence. Be patient.
I can see it now: In the split second before a collision, you swerve and brake. The blackbox notices, transmits to the company. BOOM! -- you impact. While you are standing by your car and shaking your head, waiting for the officer to complete the accident report, your insurance company drops your insurance. BOOM! -- you are uninsured. Maybe being insured at the time of the accident means something, maybe it doesn't... but by the time you call your insurance company, as far as they're concerned, you're no longer a customer.
"Twenty years of flying the Shuttle has given the US unique experience in building durable, reusable rocket motors"
It's even worse than you think. America has always been in the position to exploit her industry to develop space propulsion systems. The motors used for LTVs won't match the ones we use now, simply because those use too much Hydrogen. Motors will have to be built that exploit all that Oxygen and Aluminum laying around in the Lunar regolith.
But this won't be done. Those fine Shuttle main engines are the peak of American propulsion development. From here, it's all downhill since the mindset of research-invest-exploit is simply gone. Now we must look to the civilized world -- primarily Europe -- for the tech to get the job done.
"If we lose our infrastructure for a manned space program, we may lose the space program all together! While I know of several people who would be happy about that, I wouldn't. Cutting off manned travel is short-sighted."
Your beloved NASA has cut the legs off any manned program for years. As far as manned missions go, NASA stands for the National Aerospace and Shuttle Administration. Sending Humans into space and making in infrastructure to keep them there, long ago fell from the old NA(Space)A vision. The new NA(Shuttle)A wants robots, and cheap missions overall. From here on, it's little rovers kicking over rocks on other worlds, Ace.
I'm one of the naysayers for NASA. I just want the dirt thrown in the grave that NASA, the Congress, and overall the war-happy American people dug. NASA is really one of your foes, if you were perfectly honest about it.
Quick, America, threaten to bomb China for daring to indulge in using nuclear material! Quick, quick, do it before they make some of it into bombs! OOOPS... wait, wait, China can kick America's ass. Never mind. Back to threatening Iran.
Labor has all the power it has the grip to wield. It can only stand to reason that if you don't fight, you are guaranteed to lose.
As for restrictions... good god, man, who exactly is restricting whom when a cert is demanded? If they want to shrink the pool of workers "qualified" to work for them, then that's their cross to bear.
But overall, you are quite correct about "you didn't want to be an employee of theirs anyway". Employers and employees must match or there is strife. And there still are places in America where experience is valued over some goofball sporting a cert he paid for. I have taken the stand of not obeying, hence I can only be fired at some future point, and then I'll be perfectly "opportunized" to seek employment elsewhere. I'm already doing the job and am receiving praise and good evals for it; if they want to wipe their asses with all that, then they've made the critical choice here, not me.
All those damned paper MCSEs out there spelled doom for a lot of us.
I'm going through that now. 19 years of computer work all over the map, and {WHAM} I get outsourced once I sought stability, and now they're telling me I have to get certified. Certified? To do the job I've done perfectly well so far?
I've decided not to comply. They'll have to fire me out of this job. A newbie came by yesterday and I got the chance to find out more about the company that we were outsourced to. As he said it, all they cared about during his interview was that he was A+ certified... they didn't care at all for his experience.
I'm not going to let "them" discredit experience. After all, if 19 years experience with computers is worth nothing, then anything can be discredited. Certifications, degrees... everything can be made into garbage. If we techies save our money and stand up to this bullshit, we can preserve some dignity in our job base.
Around here (Toledo OH) Diebold is undercutting NCR's pricing for ATM supply and maintenance; hence, NCR is losing market share to... Diebold. With the outrageous cost-cutting that is rampant in banks today, you'll have to get used to Diebold.
Let's say I was O'Dell. My company makes voting machines. Some RNC official calls me up to speak for the Republican cause. What do I say?
OLD ERA MORALITY: "What? No, sorry Sir, I cannot compromise myself in such a fashion. Really, Sir, I run a company that makes machines that handle votes. Who would trust my machines if they see me take such a stand? Sorry, I must refuse. Please send the RNC my regards. Goodbye."
NEW ERA MORALITY: "How much will I get paid? Sure."
O'Dell has utterly compromised his company by being so political. His statement of delivering Ohio to Bush is so boldly unwise that I can only sputter in reply. Moral men know that a conflict of interest is not just in the action, but by implied action or association. This is why judges MUST recuse themselves when they discover they have a personal connection to the case at hand (which the bastard Supremes seem to routinely ignore).
Roger that. If I had a dollar for every time some Dem or Lib squawked about Gore winning the popular vote, or how Bush was "selected" and not "elected", I wouldn't have my current financial worries.
But... how many petitions have I heard of or seen for amending the US Constitution to remove the provisions for the Electoral College? That's right, none whatsoever.
Of course, we could well be confusing complacency with cowardice on this issue.
I don't understand how physical destruction of the media (CD, DVD, book, tape, record) is covered by fair use. Fair use simply allows you to copy the content for your use, among other things not related to preservation of content. I'm talking about why people believe to some degree that the industry directly owes them another copy when the original(s) is destroyed by mishap or wear.
The nonpopularity of DivX and other expiring media is a market choice, not a legal one.
The fact that people have guns means other people need guns to be protected, which gives weight to the anti-gun argument, and not the pro-gun.
Do you actually read what you write before you click Submit, or not?
The right of a citizen to use a weapon to resist assault, is exactly what gives some of the valid weight to the pro-gun argument. Unless you actually believe that outlawing guns will make them vanish from the hands of all non-police... but given the entirely apt example of drugs, that is farcical. Guns will always exist, and will fall into the hands of people with intent to assault. Disarming the law-abiding people in the face of that is simply homicidal.
Regulation is the actual answer, as the 2nd Amendment clearly implies.
At any rate, if you live in the US, the Constitution clearly says that the rights to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. If you don't like that, then petition the US Congress to amend the document to remove the 2nd Amendment. The document's been amended almost 30 times, so it's hardly impossible. Then each State would be free to illegalize weapons as they see fit. Of course, many States formed their own Constitutions after the national one, so some more amending will be in order.
Valenti wears a suit. Just as the old quote goes ("his mouth was open, which was how we knew he was lying"), this makes Valenti a justification monkey and class warrior. In 1982, it was his job to use every piece of fear and fraud he could come up with, to ditch the people's right to copy content (tape copying). By 2002, he was doing the same thing, with a different target (computer copying).
That he has a TiVo is just par for the course. I have no doubt whatsoever that he has downloaded and listened to an MP3 for his own private enjoyment. The Human in Valenti will do the actions that most people do; the Suit on Valenti will fight all those actions.
Your "intermission" prediction has the foul aroma of truth about it, mixed in with the sweet vapors of no friggin' way. People watch movies for the action sequences, and interrupting that is a big no-no. But the despicable truth here is: the motion picture industry will try it anyway. What may occur is sticking an intermission in for "long" films. That could lead to movies that are filmed with these intermissions in mind... kind of like pacing the movie into 2 or 3 chapters.
Digital content (music, movies, software) is very copy-able. Hence, why is it difficult to understand that the DVD manufacturer has sold you the physical media and the legal license for that ONE COPY of content? If you scratch the media, you destroy the digital content for that one copy. If you want the same content again after the destruction, you'd have to go get another copy (IAW the media+license format).
No one to my knowledge has put forth this view of things, not even the xxAA.
Sure it exists. I took the guy's implied suggestion, started gluing keytops to magnets, and after 30 minutes or so I started to see the octopus. OMG! IT'S REAL!!
No one should mod you down; instead, we need to call your bullshit.
Anyone can program a computer given enough books to read.
That sentence alone shows that you have no appreciation for professions. Engineering, legal, medical... all these are "read some books" and then "do some stuff". Wow, it's so simple! It must be some sort of conspiracy keeping everyone from becoming technical.
May the market find your skillset and force you to bid it down to Third World levels since, hey, all anyone could do is read some books and do your job, right?
That seems to be the case in Toledo OH (no, no, stop laughing, I'm serious). However, the "home ownership" thing is weaker. And then there's the fallacy itself of modern home ownership, since too many people won't survive the 30+ years paying on a mortgage while they face decades of cyclic employment.
I left Boston in 1997 to come to Toledo (again, I'm serious, please stop laughing) and I must move away soon. In the current environment, I can either lose my job or be thrown into the equivalent of "do you want fries with that" IT work (with corresponding pay). In essence, I must move again, soon. And so I've considered moving back to Boston.
But Boston worries me. I did thrive there from 1991 to 1997, but in retrospect it was due to undercutting the high wages there. One boss told me in 1994 that he could have obtained a professional software tester for $50/hr, but he preferred to get 2 younger testers for $25/hr each, hence doubling the test base for the same money. At $25/hr, I was doing well... but that $50/hr guy really lost out.
But my Boston experience was my life's best era, and I want to return to that prosperity. My internal question is, can I recreate that same Boston re-entry as I did in the early 1990s? What do you think? Is that what you're aiming for too?
Yeah, you said it. This is what Western medical science is good at, and as far as I'm concerned, it should stick to it.
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Although mass is important in resisting disturbances like high winds through sustained and impulsive bursts, it is also important to have a strong structure that resists fracture.
Also, somewhat resignedly, once a home does get shattered, it would be a little better to have shards that are light than those that are heavy, to avoid the shrapnel effect from these cyclonic storms.
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In addition, the aerodynamic shape allows airflow to pass over the structure instead of bearing the full brunt of the force.
This is yet another reason why landscaping is important. Surrounding your home with strategic bushes can help shape the entire homestead's aerodynamics (or should I say, "aerostatics"?). With some stepping with bushes and trees, the home could "look" more like a hill to high winds.
Corporatism is slowly taking over the USA. I just hope we still have time to stop its onslaught.
Considering how consumerism has fueled it, and that the credit binge bottomed out, then I'd have to say the onslaught is really over. All that remains now is the brutality of finger pointing, liquidating of assets, bankruptcies, and overall re-adjustment to a lower standard of living.
It's a good time to be armed in America. Yes, indeedy.
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That's an interesting take on the matter. I'll look into it in my 2nd Amendment Primer. However, the Constitution still says that that right shall not be infringed ... whether or not it is used for a regulated militia. Anti-gun sentiment is not enough ... it still requires that the Constitution be amended. But amending it is too official for the anti-gun crowd; better overall to pretend that the 2nd Amendment doesn't even exist. {shakes head}
Iran has no need for electricity? Furthermore, given the actual threat here is an Imperial military stomping through the Middle East, it would only be sensible for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons to resist invasion.
There was no rationale for invading Iraq except the bullying that goes along with being an Empire. The "team" I'm on is the non-Imperial one, Ace. As a perspective, I grew up expecting to be the citizen of a Republic, not the subject of an Empire.
If you'd take a survey of the tax payments being made by individuals and corporations, you'd come to understand that a revolt has already started, and in fact is well underway. The government has yet to fully react to the tax revolt, so we'll see what they do next. After the reaction, it's likely we'll see the actual, physical aspects of revolution, like overt and covert violence. Be patient.
I can see it now: In the split second before a collision, you swerve and brake. The blackbox notices, transmits to the company. BOOM! -- you impact. While you are standing by your car and shaking your head, waiting for the officer to complete the accident report, your insurance company drops your insurance. BOOM! -- you are uninsured. Maybe being insured at the time of the accident means something, maybe it doesn't ... but by the time you call your insurance company, as far as they're concerned, you're no longer a customer.
"Twenty years of flying the Shuttle has given the US unique experience in building durable, reusable rocket motors"
It's even worse than you think. America has always been in the position to exploit her industry to develop space propulsion systems. The motors used for LTVs won't match the ones we use now, simply because those use too much Hydrogen. Motors will have to be built that exploit all that Oxygen and Aluminum laying around in the Lunar regolith.
But this won't be done. Those fine Shuttle main engines are the peak of American propulsion development. From here, it's all downhill since the mindset of research-invest-exploit is simply gone. Now we must look to the civilized world -- primarily Europe -- for the tech to get the job done.
"If we lose our infrastructure for a manned space program, we may lose the space program all together! While I know of several people who would be happy about that, I wouldn't. Cutting off manned travel is short-sighted."
Your beloved NASA has cut the legs off any manned program for years. As far as manned missions go, NASA stands for the National Aerospace and Shuttle Administration. Sending Humans into space and making in infrastructure to keep them there, long ago fell from the old NA(Space)A vision. The new NA(Shuttle)A wants robots, and cheap missions overall. From here on, it's little rovers kicking over rocks on other worlds, Ace.
I'm one of the naysayers for NASA. I just want the dirt thrown in the grave that NASA, the Congress, and overall the war-happy American people dug. NASA is really one of your foes, if you were perfectly honest about it.
Quick, America, threaten to bomb China for daring to indulge in using nuclear material! Quick, quick, do it before they make some of it into bombs! OOOPS ... wait, wait, China can kick America's ass. Never mind. Back to threatening Iran.
I'd already lived through a gas shutoff, thanks.
... good god, man, who exactly is restricting whom when a cert is demanded? If they want to shrink the pool of workers "qualified" to work for them, then that's their cross to bear.
Labor has all the power it has the grip to wield. It can only stand to reason that if you don't fight, you are guaranteed to lose.
As for restrictions
But overall, you are quite correct about "you didn't want to be an employee of theirs anyway". Employers and employees must match or there is strife. And there still are places in America where experience is valued over some goofball sporting a cert he paid for. I have taken the stand of not obeying, hence I can only be fired at some future point, and then I'll be perfectly "opportunized" to seek employment elsewhere. I'm already doing the job and am receiving praise and good evals for it; if they want to wipe their asses with all that, then they've made the critical choice here, not me.
All those damned paper MCSEs out there spelled doom for a lot of us.
... they didn't care at all for his experience.
... everything can be made into garbage. If we techies save our money and stand up to this bullshit, we can preserve some dignity in our job base.
I'm going through that now. 19 years of computer work all over the map, and {WHAM} I get outsourced once I sought stability, and now they're telling me I have to get certified. Certified? To do the job I've done perfectly well so far?
I've decided not to comply. They'll have to fire me out of this job. A newbie came by yesterday and I got the chance to find out more about the company that we were outsourced to. As he said it, all they cared about during his interview was that he was A+ certified
I'm not going to let "them" discredit experience. After all, if 19 years experience with computers is worth nothing, then anything can be discredited. Certifications, degrees
Around here (Toledo OH) Diebold is undercutting NCR's pricing for ATM supply and maintenance; hence, NCR is losing market share to ... Diebold. With the outrageous cost-cutting that is rampant in banks today, you'll have to get used to Diebold.
Let's say I was O'Dell. My company makes voting machines. Some RNC official calls me up to speak for the Republican cause. What do I say?
OLD ERA MORALITY: "What? No, sorry Sir, I cannot compromise myself in such a fashion. Really, Sir, I run a company that makes machines that handle votes. Who would trust my machines if they see me take such a stand? Sorry, I must refuse. Please send the RNC my regards. Goodbye."
NEW ERA MORALITY: "How much will I get paid? Sure."
O'Dell has utterly compromised his company by being so political. His statement of delivering Ohio to Bush is so boldly unwise that I can only sputter in reply. Moral men know that a conflict of interest is not just in the action, but by implied action or association. This is why judges MUST recuse themselves when they discover they have a personal connection to the case at hand (which the bastard Supremes seem to routinely ignore).
level of complacency after the 2000 fiasco
... how many petitions have I heard of or seen for amending the US Constitution to remove the provisions for the Electoral College? That's right, none whatsoever.
Roger that. If I had a dollar for every time some Dem or Lib squawked about Gore winning the popular vote, or how Bush was "selected" and not "elected", I wouldn't have my current financial worries.
But
Of course, we could well be confusing complacency with cowardice on this issue.
I don't understand how physical destruction of the media (CD, DVD, book, tape, record) is covered by fair use. Fair use simply allows you to copy the content for your use, among other things not related to preservation of content. I'm talking about why people believe to some degree that the industry directly owes them another copy when the original(s) is destroyed by mishap or wear.
The nonpopularity of DivX and other expiring media is a market choice, not a legal one.
The fact that people have guns means other people need guns to be protected, which gives weight to the anti-gun argument, and not the pro-gun.
... but given the entirely apt example of drugs, that is farcical. Guns will always exist, and will fall into the hands of people with intent to assault. Disarming the law-abiding people in the face of that is simply homicidal.
Do you actually read what you write before you click Submit, or not?
The right of a citizen to use a weapon to resist assault, is exactly what gives some of the valid weight to the pro-gun argument. Unless you actually believe that outlawing guns will make them vanish from the hands of all non-police
Regulation is the actual answer, as the 2nd Amendment clearly implies.
At any rate, if you live in the US, the Constitution clearly says that the rights to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. If you don't like that, then petition the US Congress to amend the document to remove the 2nd Amendment. The document's been amended almost 30 times, so it's hardly impossible. Then each State would be free to illegalize weapons as they see fit. Of course, many States formed their own Constitutions after the national one, so some more amending will be in order.
Valenti wears a suit. Just as the old quote goes ("his mouth was open, which was how we knew he was lying"), this makes Valenti a justification monkey and class warrior. In 1982, it was his job to use every piece of fear and fraud he could come up with, to ditch the people's right to copy content (tape copying). By 2002, he was doing the same thing, with a different target (computer copying).
That he has a TiVo is just par for the course. I have no doubt whatsoever that he has downloaded and listened to an MP3 for his own private enjoyment. The Human in Valenti will do the actions that most people do; the Suit on Valenti will fight all those actions.
Your "intermission" prediction has the foul aroma of truth about it, mixed in with the sweet vapors of no friggin' way. People watch movies for the action sequences, and interrupting that is a big no-no. But the despicable truth here is: the motion picture industry will try it anyway. What may occur is sticking an intermission in for "long" films. That could lead to movies that are filmed with these intermissions in mind ... kind of like pacing the movie into 2 or 3 chapters.
Just thinking out loud ....
Digital content (music, movies, software) is very copy-able. Hence, why is it difficult to understand that the DVD manufacturer has sold you the physical media and the legal license for that ONE COPY of content? If you scratch the media, you destroy the digital content for that one copy. If you want the same content again after the destruction, you'd have to go get another copy (IAW the media+license format).
No one to my knowledge has put forth this view of things, not even the xxAA.
Sure it exists. I took the guy's implied suggestion, started gluing keytops to magnets, and after 30 minutes or so I started to see the octopus. OMG! IT'S REAL!!
No one should mod you down; instead, we need to call your bullshit.
... all these are "read some books" and then "do some stuff". Wow, it's so simple! It must be some sort of conspiracy keeping everyone from becoming technical.
... you fucker.
Anyone can program a computer given enough books to read.
That sentence alone shows that you have no appreciation for professions. Engineering, legal, medical
May the market find your skillset and force you to bid it down to Third World levels since, hey, all anyone could do is read some books and do your job, right?
That seems to be the case in Toledo OH (no, no, stop laughing, I'm serious). However, the "home ownership" thing is weaker. And then there's the fallacy itself of modern home ownership, since too many people won't survive the 30+ years paying on a mortgage while they face decades of cyclic employment.
... but that $50/hr guy really lost out.
I left Boston in 1997 to come to Toledo (again, I'm serious, please stop laughing) and I must move away soon. In the current environment, I can either lose my job or be thrown into the equivalent of "do you want fries with that" IT work (with corresponding pay). In essence, I must move again, soon. And so I've considered moving back to Boston.
But Boston worries me. I did thrive there from 1991 to 1997, but in retrospect it was due to undercutting the high wages there. One boss told me in 1994 that he could have obtained a professional software tester for $50/hr, but he preferred to get 2 younger testers for $25/hr each, hence doubling the test base for the same money. At $25/hr, I was doing well
But my Boston experience was my life's best era, and I want to return to that prosperity. My internal question is, can I recreate that same Boston re-entry as I did in the early 1990s? What do you think? Is that what you're aiming for too?
I've always wanted 20 or 30 more vertebrae.
That'd make you the first Human Giraffe.
Wow.
Yeah, you said it. This is what Western medical science is good at, and as far as I'm concerned, it should stick to it.
Although mass is important in resisting disturbances like high winds through sustained and impulsive bursts, it is also important to have a strong structure that resists fracture.
Also, somewhat resignedly, once a home does get shattered, it would be a little better to have shards that are light than those that are heavy, to avoid the shrapnel effect from these cyclonic storms.
In addition, the aerodynamic shape allows airflow to pass over the structure instead of bearing the full brunt of the force.
This is yet another reason why landscaping is important. Surrounding your home with strategic bushes can help shape the entire homestead's aerodynamics (or should I say, "aerostatics"?). With some stepping with bushes and trees, the home could "look" more like a hill to high winds.
Corporatism is slowly taking over the USA. I just hope we still have time to stop its onslaught.
Considering how consumerism has fueled it, and that the credit binge bottomed out, then I'd have to say the onslaught is really over. All that remains now is the brutality of finger pointing, liquidating of assets, bankruptcies, and overall re-adjustment to a lower standard of living.
It's a good time to be armed in America. Yes, indeedy.