Snowden is a traitor and does not care about ANYBODY except himself.
He has proven that he will go to great lengths to get what HE wants, regardless of whom it damages.
Go look at the Powerball PRIOR to the new group bring awarded managing it.
You will see that over and over, the winners were on the east coast. Keep in mind that CA was one of the largest states to be part of Powerball, and had one of the most buyers of tickets, and yet, states on the east coast overwhelmingly won more than CA, esp. on the big ones.
Technically, it is possible. Statistically, it was theft that was going on.
Had I not replied elsewhere, I would have modded you up. NSA getting this tech is NOT about taking our citizen's rights. However, the more that they push to have open access to ENCRYPTED DATA, the more that America will see destruction of our real strength; economic.
Do note that China already said that all businesses must give access to encrypted data. Russia has always insisted on it. And France is saying that they want access to encrypted data (they, like ALL GOVs., access public comm). Shortly, all of the western govs. will be insisting on access to ENCRYPTED data.
terrorists? Spies? Foreign gov. interventions? Yes, that is what the NSA and the intel world is concerned with.
Child Molesters? Nope. NSA does not do civilian issues.
However, there are ppl that want to kill the NSA, and turn over this kind of technology to FBI.
THAT IS WHAT YOU SHOULD FEAR. If the FBI, or groups like DEA, WHO HAVE REAL POWER, should get this kind of power, then you should fear.
And what is needed with this, is to not allow congress to ever again remove the oversight, like the GOP did in 2005.
Yes, on lead acid batteries and no doubt on any batteries that do not have safety gear, while in the precense of gas/diesel. BUT, LI-ION battery all by themselves with safety gear? Nope.
Hmmm. I worked on USA PAT act in 2005-6. I was born in 1959, and had neighbors that had numbers tattooed on their arms. I heard stories from 1 family, while the other would never talk about: his eyes just got a dead look on them when I asked.
The fact is, that there is a difference between spying on your own citizens in general, vs. spying on terrorists and traitors. It is a hard fine line to walk.
No, the idiots are the ones that do not realize that this has been going on since the 1800s, or that it will stop.
What is needed is not to stop the spying on the digital comm, but to make sure that it is not abused.
The NSA has GENERALLY, not abused things. However, when I worked on the PAT act back in 2005-6, and I saw the CONgress GOP stop the oversight, I KNEW that issues were going to come.
The NSA has NO power. As such, they are not capable of abusing things.
The real problem comes in when I hear fools say that NSA should be killed off, or that govs should not have the right to spy on digital comm. Nothing could be more foolish and is typically spoken by those that do not have a grasp of what is going on.
They are NOT considering it. They are considering putting it on the books. There is a difference there. French gov already spies on everything that they can.
They should be investing into the new nuclear reactors, (thorium, etc) along with stationary batteries for large corps and utilities . This is where the west is NOT investing into.
All nation's gov are monitoring the net. So many idiots scream about America, but the fact is, that all of Europe, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, India, etc have been caught monitoring data and lines. There are LOADS of enemies out there, and every nation's gov wants to know what is going on.
If these host providers move anywhere on ANY LAND, they will be monitored. The ONLY way to avoid it, is to put your own sat network up there and beam down to others.
F1 ALMOST killed SpaceX. Musk has talked about how SpaceX and Tesla almost died in the same timeframes.
And as I said, what will happen IFF he has a failure AT THIS MOMENT? Look, in a year's time, if he has a major failure, I think that SpaceX will be OK. However, at this moment, if one of the F9's blow, then I think that it could set back their work quite a bit.
I will say that with their design, I do not think that they will lose an F9. They have it loaded with sensors and we have already seen that losing an engine was not a killer. Still, nothing is perfect.
is that the same can be said of alcohol. If the students are not able to get drunk or high, they will likely study more and do better.
BUT, the real issue is, can society stop drugs? The answer is no. As such, it is better for all if the drugs are legalized, only allowed to be manufactured locally (with tight regulations), and then sold locally only. By removing the real money from it, it will make students focus on going after their degrees.
They are required to get the landing at sea done first, prior to being allowed to land back at kennedy.
Most likely, NASA will require at least several sea landings.
In addition, the FH will likely land at sea with most of their center core. That one will be pretty far out there.
Here is a guy that says that he wants to attack America, and then goes on to plan it, including buying the goods and then finally down to the wire.
And yet, you say that he was entrapped. Seriously?
IF the FBI surrounded him with ppl that told him what to do and how to do it, and encouraged him, THAT IS ENTRAPMENT.
But, it remains to be seen as to whether that was the case. And to be fair, I suspect that the FBI KNOWS the difference between entrapment and simply following what a home-grown terrorists is up to.
who said that he was an internet tough guy?
If he was pushing for attacks on America/the west, then he was a terrorists, which he has proven just that.
I am guessing that you are calling Dragon Apollo, and not comparing F9/FH to Saturn.
So, when did Apollo Capsule ever land on land without parachutes?
When did Apollo Capsule every land on the moon or mars?
Dragon V2 will be doing all 3 within another 7 years.
Actually, they do.
Until Bruno came along, ULA was ran like a normal DOD-funded company. Top heavy, with loads of profits going up the ladder.
And yes, corners WERE cut. That is why both Boeing and L-Mart had real partial failures on Delta, and Atlas.
In fact, Musk has said numerous times that it is not worth going after the second stage, at least at this time.
He is focused on F9R/Grasshopper, FH, Dragon V2, MCT, along with the new satellite system.
I have to wonder what would happen if a launch fails at this moment. I suspect that with so many pokers in the fire, he would have a difficult time recovering.
OTOH, if SpaceX can get up to 12 launches this year, and get FH, along with F9R successful, I suspect that it is all blue sky from here on in.
Note that the software to make F9R work will be the same software, with a little bit different parms, for the Dragon V2.
Basically, the V2's testings for landing will happen quickly and I would guess smoothly after F9R.
Actually, it costs 125 million JUST FOR EACH SRB.
The last just launch costs of the shuttle was over.5B, which did not include the checks and re-work that was needed after each flight (which was NOT minor), nor the fixed costs. With fixed costs, along with the prep works, each shuttle was over 1.5B.
Derek, it is NOT unknown as to what it will cost them to refurbish. As it is, SpaceX has been re-flying first stage for a long time already. It is called the grasshopper. The reason why it took so long between flights is that they were looking at various parts, disassembling, etc.
Note that when Musk talked about landing with parachutes he had not tested anything. With this, he has tested ALL OF IT, except for the fact that he has not gone to 60 miles on each of the grasshoppers. With SpacePort America, he is allowed to go a great ways up there.
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Snowden is a traitor and does not care about ANYBODY except himself.
He has proven that he will go to great lengths to get what HE wants, regardless of whom it damages.
Go look at the Powerball PRIOR to the new group bring awarded managing it.
You will see that over and over, the winners were on the east coast. Keep in mind that CA was one of the largest states to be part of Powerball, and had one of the most buyers of tickets, and yet, states on the east coast overwhelmingly won more than CA, esp. on the big ones.
Technically, it is possible. Statistically, it was theft that was going on.
Had I not replied elsewhere, I would have modded you up. NSA getting this tech is NOT about taking our citizen's rights. However, the more that they push to have open access to ENCRYPTED DATA, the more that America will see destruction of our real strength; economic.
Do note that China already said that all businesses must give access to encrypted data. Russia has always insisted on it. And France is saying that they want access to encrypted data (they, like ALL GOVs., access public comm). Shortly, all of the western govs. will be insisting on access to ENCRYPTED data.
Idiots like you are everywhere.
You think that America is the ONLY one that has loads of backdoors? You are a REAL idiot, or work for the Chinese gov.
terrorists? Spies? Foreign gov. interventions? Yes, that is what the NSA and the intel world is concerned with.
Child Molesters? Nope. NSA does not do civilian issues.
However, there are ppl that want to kill the NSA, and turn over this kind of technology to FBI.
THAT IS WHAT YOU SHOULD FEAR. If the FBI, or groups like DEA, WHO HAVE REAL POWER, should get this kind of power, then you should fear.
And what is needed with this, is to not allow congress to ever again remove the oversight, like the GOP did in 2005.
Yes, on lead acid batteries and no doubt on any batteries that do not have safety gear, while in the precense of gas/diesel. BUT, LI-ION battery all by themselves with safety gear? Nope.
Hmmm. I worked on USA PAT act in 2005-6. I was born in 1959, and had neighbors that had numbers tattooed on their arms. I heard stories from 1 family, while the other would never talk about: his eyes just got a dead look on them when I asked.
The fact is, that there is a difference between spying on your own citizens in general, vs. spying on terrorists and traitors. It is a hard fine line to walk.
And who in the west, considers their own citizens to be enemies?
No, the idiots are the ones that do not realize that this has been going on since the 1800s, or that it will stop.
What is needed is not to stop the spying on the digital comm, but to make sure that it is not abused.
The NSA has GENERALLY, not abused things. However, when I worked on the PAT act back in 2005-6, and I saw the CONgress GOP stop the oversight, I KNEW that issues were going to come.
The NSA has NO power. As such, they are not capable of abusing things.
The real problem comes in when I hear fools say that NSA should be killed off, or that govs should not have the right to spy on digital comm. Nothing could be more foolish and is typically spoken by those that do not have a grasp of what is going on.
They are NOT considering it. They are considering putting it on the books. There is a difference there. French gov already spies on everything that they can.
because batteries do not blow up. They can catch fire, but not the same thing. Gas and diesel CAN AND DO blow up like TNT.
They should be investing into the new nuclear reactors, (thorium, etc) along with stationary batteries for large corps and utilities . This is where the west is NOT investing into.
run WHERE? To Russia? Or China? Yeah, no monitoring going on there.
All nation's gov are monitoring the net. So many idiots scream about America, but the fact is, that all of Europe, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, India, etc have been caught monitoring data and lines. There are LOADS of enemies out there, and every nation's gov wants to know what is going on.
If these host providers move anywhere on ANY LAND, they will be monitored. The ONLY way to avoid it, is to put your own sat network up there and beam down to others.
F1 ALMOST killed SpaceX. Musk has talked about how SpaceX and Tesla almost died in the same timeframes.
And as I said, what will happen IFF he has a failure AT THIS MOMENT? Look, in a year's time, if he has a major failure, I think that SpaceX will be OK. However, at this moment, if one of the F9's blow, then I think that it could set back their work quite a bit.
I will say that with their design, I do not think that they will lose an F9. They have it loaded with sensors and we have already seen that losing an engine was not a killer. Still, nothing is perfect.
good luck getting FAA to approve that on a continual basis.
is that the same can be said of alcohol. If the students are not able to get drunk or high, they will likely study more and do better.
BUT, the real issue is, can society stop drugs? The answer is no. As such, it is better for all if the drugs are legalized, only allowed to be manufactured locally (with tight regulations), and then sold locally only. By removing the real money from it, it will make students focus on going after their degrees.
They are required to get the landing at sea done first, prior to being allowed to land back at kennedy.
Most likely, NASA will require at least several sea landings.
In addition, the FH will likely land at sea with most of their center core. That one will be pretty far out there.
Here is a guy that says that he wants to attack America, and then goes on to plan it, including buying the goods and then finally down to the wire.
And yet, you say that he was entrapped. Seriously?
IF the FBI surrounded him with ppl that told him what to do and how to do it, and encouraged him, THAT IS ENTRAPMENT.
But, it remains to be seen as to whether that was the case. And to be fair, I suspect that the FBI KNOWS the difference between entrapment and simply following what a home-grown terrorists is up to.
who said that he was an internet tough guy?
If he was pushing for attacks on America/the west, then he was a terrorists, which he has proven just that.
I am guessing that you are calling Dragon Apollo, and not comparing F9/FH to Saturn.
So, when did Apollo Capsule ever land on land without parachutes?
When did Apollo Capsule every land on the moon or mars?
Dragon V2 will be doing all 3 within another 7 years.
Actually, they do.
Until Bruno came along, ULA was ran like a normal DOD-funded company. Top heavy, with loads of profits going up the ladder.
And yes, corners WERE cut. That is why both Boeing and L-Mart had real partial failures on Delta, and Atlas.
In fact, Musk has said numerous times that it is not worth going after the second stage, at least at this time.
He is focused on F9R/Grasshopper, FH, Dragon V2, MCT, along with the new satellite system.
I have to wonder what would happen if a launch fails at this moment. I suspect that with so many pokers in the fire, he would have a difficult time recovering.
OTOH, if SpaceX can get up to 12 launches this year, and get FH, along with F9R successful, I suspect that it is all blue sky from here on in.
Note that the software to make F9R work will be the same software, with a little bit different parms, for the Dragon V2.
Basically, the V2's testings for landing will happen quickly and I would guess smoothly after F9R.
Actually, it costs 125 million JUST FOR EACH SRB. .5B, which did not include the checks and re-work that was needed after each flight (which was NOT minor), nor the fixed costs. With fixed costs, along with the prep works, each shuttle was over 1.5B.
The last just launch costs of the shuttle was over
Derek, it is NOT unknown as to what it will cost them to refurbish. As it is, SpaceX has been re-flying first stage for a long time already. It is called the grasshopper. The reason why it took so long between flights is that they were looking at various parts, disassembling, etc.
Note that when Musk talked about landing with parachutes he had not tested anything. With this, he has tested ALL OF IT, except for the fact that he has not gone to 60 miles on each of the grasshoppers. With SpacePort America, he is allowed to go a great ways up there.