Look, who in America has NOT heard of Westboro? Few. Damn Few.
As such, the amount of press on this is minimal, BUT, pointing fingers at these ppl will certainly make them edgy.
Personally, I am disgusted by that church's actions, and am thankful for what Anonymous is doing to them.
The reason is that they are NOT looking for press, but are looking to be attacked by opposition. Then they sue those that attacked them.
However, other than the leaders, few of them have been IDed. Now, that they all have the press on them, I would not be surprised to see a number of them quit.
Got a chance to play with the Dell Streak 7 for about an hour. It was a POS. Poor resolution. Poor speed. The list continues on and on and on. Since Dell has moved their manufacturing out of the nation, they have produced nothing but junk. And switching the OS to windows 8 will NOT help that trash heap. In fact, from what I have seen of win 8, things will be even slower.
I guess that you and I will continue to disagree on most of this.:)
However, I agree with your last paragraph. I suspect that requirements will be strengthened (and I will not object to that). What will be interesting will be to see how many of the NRA fight this, and push their neo-cons to support their position. My guess is that many that supports the NRA will be gone in 2 years.
God god. You have been far too long on the Faux News Corp.
FF was a political ploy?
And for the record, I fucking LIVE in Colorado, and had a family friend that died at the theater. So, I suspect that I have followed it much closer than you have.
You conspiracy types really need to pull your heads out of asses and simply wake up.
And if we want to speak of an overall lower cost to society, there are better ways. For example, as I spoke of, simple medicals to assure that ppl are of sane state. Likewise, since the vast majority of gun deaths are by children pulling the trigger accidentally, the best and easiest solution would be to require locks on ALL GUNS, 24x7, unless it is in the hands of a licensed person. That would pretty much mean a ring lock for all new guns. That single action would save more lives each year and cost a fraction of what you say, without hurting our rights.
Do note that it would not stop this shooting (or the one at Columbine, or the one in the aurora theater, where I knew one of the victims), BUT with a required medical check-up, similar to an FAA one, but less intensive (BTW, they also checks mental stability), likely would have stopped the aurora theater (and saved John). And it will be awhile before we know what really happened here.
Bruce, hunting comes quickly to mind. With us being the top predator in the lower 49, if we stopped hunting, we would quickly be overran by deer, elk, etc. In addition, you would see many starve to death. Likewise, here in the west, we are loaded with Coyotes. A rifle allows us to either scare them off, or kill one. And yes, Coyotes DO kill humans, esp Kids and even our pets. For other parts of the west, we have wolverines, badgers, black bear, cougars, and wolves. All of these are capable of killing us. When you go up to Alaska, add Polar bear and Grizz to that list. What is interesting about those 2, is that they hunt us (in fact, I like the bow hunters who take them on; ever couple of years a guy disappears. I.e. he lost).
Now, those hunters pay for licenses. That money goes into game management and even helping endangered wildlife. From the licenses, we brought make moose and bobcats to Colorado.
Then you have the target practice. Now, I will no longer hunt, but I still like shoot target and skeet. It is fun and requires a lot of skill.
The fact that YOU see no value to it or our constitution, does not mean that the rest of us feel the same way. After all, imagine if cracking tools of ANY KIND were prohibited to be in our hands. Keep in mind that the average person out there sees no difference between a white, gray, or black hat. They would love to take away cracking tools, or any tool that can be used to crack or write virus. So, do you use NC? NMAP? Wonderful tools. Esp. for Crackers or SKs. And most of us on this site, also know the value of having these so that we can lock down our own sites and block the crackers. IOW, these tools help protect us against them.
Allow guns to go, and it will only be a matter of time before some congress idiot losses millions from their bank and then demands that cracking tools go the same way as guns.
Our country makes it too easy for nutcases to have guns. I, for one, would give up the right to bear arms for everyone, and not miss it.
I am sorry, but I think that you have it wrong. While we need stronger gun laws, the last thing that I want is to give up our rights (plenty of pols continue to nibble at them).
The real issue is that we make it too easy for ANYBODY to own a gun. What is needed is better education for access to hunting and target guns, combined with psych tests for access to automated weapons. We have medicals administered to Pilots for even a PRIVATE license. Yet, giving something far more dangerous as an automated weapon and we have little requirements for it.
What I find interesting is that you even acknowledge that we make it far too easy for nutcases, but want to deny it to all. Far better to do medicals and scan against the nutcases.
Not any more. This is not going to blow over.
It is a near certainty that if the republicans (actually the neo-cons within the republican party) fight against tightening the gun laws, then they will be out come the next election.
There is a simple and smart -way to start this.
Require all new buildings below 4 stories to have enough on-site Alternative Energy to match 98% of their HVAC (and require both heat and AC).
Start it in 2 years with 50% HVAC and then increase it by 25% the next year, followed by the 23% the following. With such an approach, MOST new buildings will simply insulate better, put in smaller number of well-insulated windows, and put on a small amount of solar panels. The smarter homes will even install geo-thermal heat pump so that a very small amount of Solar Panels are required.
Then in 5 years time, require that any building below 4 stories upon selling, must have enough on-site AE to handle 50% of the HVAC. Then again, bump it up.
The above approach will allow new homes to be designed quickly to drop their energy usage, while in 5 years time, the buildings that are sold will simply require new owners to deal with it.
Well, those were subsidized by telephone companies here in America. ALL of those phones were to have accounts (ATT and Verizon). This woman signed multiple contracts claiming that she would pay those when in fact, she had ZERO intentions of doing so. As such, what she was doing WAS illegal. In addition, she understands and speaks english well enough. IOW, she KNEW that she was being arrested and was fighting it.
China DOES send parts and help via the land border with North Korea. The problem is the other nations. Those are accessed via boats from NK. And when an inbound boat from NK to Burma was going to be boarded, they turned around. Quickly.
Now, it is via planes from NK, China, AND IRAN.
allows astronomers to better understand what the Universe was like back
And the hubble allows this? I seriously doubt it. All that we have, is an area to look at with our next next gen scope. But little today will see that far back.
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The American way to handle this would be to throw the corrupt guy out, and let the new corrupt guy in. The Russian way to handle it is to try to be friends with the current corrupt guy.
Sadly, I agree with you. That is why I am part of RootStrikers.org. I think that replacing one neo-con with a dem does not really change that much. And as long as the 2 major parties block 3rd parties, nothing will change. As such, we need the citizens to block CONgress from being so corrupt.
It is great that the industry is finally doing something. To be honest, I am amazed that FEMA did little about that in the past. However, that is not the real issue.
We are working with reactors that actually expired long ago. These should be taken down AND REPLACED. Not with coal, or Nat Gas, etc. but with a SAFE reactor that can burn up most of the current spent fuel.
GE's PRISMs could do this, but even better would be thorium reactors. It would be in the West's as well as America's and the nuke industry to spend some money helping local companies get their thorium reactor designs tested and passed. These have ZERO chance of a meltdown (unless you can avoid the laws of physics or the NRC allows piss-poor designs). Likewise, these can be factory built which will make them a great deal safer AND CHEAPER than the build-on-site monsters. Note that by using the 'waste' that is on-site, it would be possible to lower the amount of real waste. And with much smaller amounts that need to be discarded 100 years out, well, this becomes today's issue that solves itself down the road.
This will not slow down the snakes. Instead, they need some reason for hunters to continue going after them. The state would be wise to approach several tanneries within the state and offering to buy various products made with the python. These should be products that can and will be sold on the open market. The idea is to stimulate the tanneries to create sellable products with these and then allowing free enterprise to go after them.
The nice side effect of this, is that they are creating a number of jobs: tannery, local hunting, etc. as opposed to simply sending money to hunters who will then sell the hide to China.
These ppl are more connected than are the Space Adventures ever were. What is interesting is where the GS ppl are connected. With the very ppl that have been working hard to gut private space. Now, they are pushing this forward and will no doubt be lobbying USA's neo-cons to stop their insanity (at least WRT space). That will likely happen upon the FH making it to orbit. But, I would expect that GS has money invested into it from those very neo-cons.
BTW, you will note that Eric Anderson who founded SA, is actually from this area (Colorado). He is cut from the same fabric as the GS ppl are, however, he was never as well connected. As such, I would say that GS has as good of a chance as does any other system. They will be pushing for NASA to get the tug program going, along with the Fuel depot, all of which they hope they will have access to. Now, I wonder if they will be able to push NASA for a lander.
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Look, who in America has NOT heard of Westboro? Few. Damn Few.
As such, the amount of press on this is minimal, BUT, pointing fingers at these ppl will certainly make them edgy.
Personally, I am disgusted by that church's actions, and am thankful for what Anonymous is doing to them.
The reason is that they are NOT looking for press, but are looking to be attacked by opposition. Then they sue those that attacked them.
However, other than the leaders, few of them have been IDed. Now, that they all have the press on them, I would not be surprised to see a number of them quit.
Got a chance to play with the Dell Streak 7 for about an hour. It was a POS. Poor resolution. Poor speed. The list continues on and on and on. Since Dell has moved their manufacturing out of the nation, they have produced nothing but junk. And switching the OS to windows 8 will NOT help that trash heap. In fact, from what I have seen of win 8, things will be even slower.
What does that have to do with stopping the likes of Holmes?
I guess that you and I will continue to disagree on most of this. :)
However, I agree with your last paragraph. I suspect that requirements will be strengthened (and I will not object to that). What will be interesting will be to see how many of the NRA fight this, and push their neo-cons to support their position. My guess is that many that supports the NRA will be gone in 2 years.
God god. You have been far too long on the Faux News Corp.
FF was a political ploy?
And for the record, I fucking LIVE in Colorado, and had a family friend that died at the theater. So, I suspect that I have followed it much closer than you have.
You conspiracy types really need to pull your heads out of asses and simply wake up.
Sigh.
So, you think that if we have zero access to guns, or simply have similar laws as say Europe, that it would stop these? Serious?
Perhaps you think that Canada's tight gun control will save all of the kids.
Heck, Mexico has tight gun control laws. Just about every day you can read about ppl, including kids, being shot to death. By whom? Drug lords that have them illegally.
And if we want to speak of an overall lower cost to society, there are better ways. For example, as I spoke of, simple medicals to assure that ppl are of sane state. Likewise, since the vast majority of gun deaths are by children pulling the trigger accidentally, the best and easiest solution would be to require locks on ALL GUNS, 24x7, unless it is in the hands of a licensed person. That would pretty much mean a ring lock for all new guns. That single action would save more lives each year and cost a fraction of what you say, without hurting our rights.
Do note that it would not stop this shooting (or the one at Columbine, or the one in the aurora theater, where I knew one of the victims), BUT with a required medical check-up, similar to an FAA one, but less intensive (BTW, they also checks mental stability), likely would have stopped the aurora theater (and saved John). And it will be awhile before we know what really happened here.
Read what Bruce says after that. Basically, he claims that therre is ZERO value to society for having them. So no, he wants firearms gone.
I have a great deal of respect for Bruce, but sometime, he is just wrong.
Bruce, hunting comes quickly to mind. With us being the top predator in the lower 49, if we stopped hunting, we would quickly be overran by deer, elk, etc. In addition, you would see many starve to death. Likewise, here in the west, we are loaded with Coyotes. A rifle allows us to either scare them off, or kill one. And yes, Coyotes DO kill humans, esp Kids and even our pets. For other parts of the west, we have wolverines, badgers, black bear, cougars, and wolves. All of these are capable of killing us. When you go up to Alaska, add Polar bear and Grizz to that list. What is interesting about those 2, is that they hunt us (in fact, I like the bow hunters who take them on; ever couple of years a guy disappears. I.e. he lost).
Now, those hunters pay for licenses. That money goes into game management and even helping endangered wildlife. From the licenses, we brought make moose and bobcats to Colorado.
Then you have the target practice. Now, I will no longer hunt, but I still like shoot target and skeet. It is fun and requires a lot of skill.
The fact that YOU see no value to it or our constitution, does not mean that the rest of us feel the same way. After all, imagine if cracking tools of ANY KIND were prohibited to be in our hands. Keep in mind that the average person out there sees no difference between a white, gray, or black hat. They would love to take away cracking tools, or any tool that can be used to crack or write virus. So, do you use NC? NMAP? Wonderful tools. Esp. for Crackers or SKs. And most of us on this site, also know the value of having these so that we can lock down our own sites and block the crackers. IOW, these tools help protect us against them.
Allow guns to go, and it will only be a matter of time before some congress idiot losses millions from their bank and then demands that cracking tools go the same way as guns.
Our country makes it too easy for nutcases to have guns. I, for one, would give up the right to bear arms for everyone, and not miss it.
I am sorry, but I think that you have it wrong. While we need stronger gun laws, the last thing that I want is to give up our rights (plenty of pols continue to nibble at them).
The real issue is that we make it too easy for ANYBODY to own a gun. What is needed is better education for access to hunting and target guns, combined with psych tests for access to automated weapons. We have medicals administered to Pilots for even a PRIVATE license. Yet, giving something far more dangerous as an automated weapon and we have little requirements for it.
What I find interesting is that you even acknowledge that we make it far too easy for nutcases, but want to deny it to all. Far better to do medicals and scan against the nutcases.
Not any more. This is not going to blow over.
It is a near certainty that if the republicans (actually the neo-cons within the republican party) fight against tightening the gun laws, then they will be out come the next election.
There is a simple and smart -way to start this.
Require all new buildings below 4 stories to have enough on-site Alternative Energy to match 98% of their HVAC (and require both heat and AC).
Start it in 2 years with 50% HVAC and then increase it by 25% the next year, followed by the 23% the following. With such an approach, MOST new buildings will simply insulate better, put in smaller number of well-insulated windows, and put on a small amount of solar panels. The smarter homes will even install geo-thermal heat pump so that a very small amount of Solar Panels are required.
Then in 5 years time, require that any building below 4 stories upon selling, must have enough on-site AE to handle 50% of the HVAC. Then again, bump it up.
The above approach will allow new homes to be designed quickly to drop their energy usage, while in 5 years time, the buildings that are sold will simply require new owners to deal with it.
Well, those were subsidized by telephone companies here in America. ALL of those phones were to have accounts (ATT and Verizon). This woman signed multiple contracts claiming that she would pay those when in fact, she had ZERO intentions of doing so. As such, what she was doing WAS illegal. In addition, she understands and speaks english well enough. IOW, she KNEW that she was being arrested and was fighting it.
So, yes. God forbid.
China DOES send parts and help via the land border with North Korea. The problem is the other nations. Those are accessed via boats from NK. And when an inbound boat from NK to Burma was going to be boarded, they turned around. Quickly. Now, it is via planes from NK, China, AND IRAN.
allows astronomers to better understand what the Universe was like back
And the hubble allows this? I seriously doubt it. All that we have, is an area to look at with our next next gen scope. But little today will see that far back.
So, you think that Iraq, which was loaded with Russia's most advanced weapons and had the 2rd largest military (after China), was weak? Seriously?
SpaceX is much further along and will be launching ppl in another 2 years. Issue solved.
Chinese leadership back North Korea and the other nations (iran, Burma, Pakistan, etc), that are building nuke bombs. Heck, China is covertly trying to provide the equipment that those nations need to make this happen. Realize that all of those launchers were NOT stolen from China. They were bought, or possibly given, with Chinese gov. knowledge.
Make no mistake. China is building up their own NATO quietly. Sadly, our gov and DOD are also quiet about it.
Seriously, if the groups are getting this greedy, then it is time to kill the tax.
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The American way to handle this would be to throw the corrupt guy out, and let the new corrupt guy in. The Russian way to handle it is to try to be friends with the current corrupt guy.
Sadly, I agree with you. That is why I am part of RootStrikers.org. I think that replacing one neo-con with a dem does not really change that much. And as long as the 2 major parties block 3rd parties, nothing will change. As such, we need the citizens to block CONgress from being so corrupt.
Have MS pay them to do this. As it is, they are paying other app builders to move to Windows. So they can do this as well.
Why would it not be in their best interest? The whole issue of AGW is that we are spewing massive amounts of CO2, and this would help solve it.
So, please explain how your comment relates.
then why was putin voted back in?
It is great that the industry is finally doing something. To be honest, I am amazed that FEMA did little about that in the past. However, that is not the real issue.
We are working with reactors that actually expired long ago. These should be taken down AND REPLACED. Not with coal, or Nat Gas, etc. but with a SAFE reactor that can burn up most of the current spent fuel.
GE's PRISMs could do this, but even better would be thorium reactors. It would be in the West's as well as America's and the nuke industry to spend some money helping local companies get their thorium reactor designs tested and passed. These have ZERO chance of a meltdown (unless you can avoid the laws of physics or the NRC allows piss-poor designs). Likewise, these can be factory built which will make them a great deal safer AND CHEAPER than the build-on-site monsters. Note that by using the 'waste' that is on-site, it would be possible to lower the amount of real waste. And with much smaller amounts that need to be discarded 100 years out, well, this becomes today's issue that solves itself down the road.
This will not slow down the snakes. Instead, they need some reason for hunters to continue going after them. The state would be wise to approach several tanneries within the state and offering to buy various products made with the python. These should be products that can and will be sold on the open market. The idea is to stimulate the tanneries to create sellable products with these and then allowing free enterprise to go after them.
The nice side effect of this, is that they are creating a number of jobs: tannery, local hunting, etc. as opposed to simply sending money to hunters who will then sell the hide to China.
These ppl are more connected than are the Space Adventures ever were. What is interesting is where the GS ppl are connected. With the very ppl that have been working hard to gut private space. Now, they are pushing this forward and will no doubt be lobbying USA's neo-cons to stop their insanity (at least WRT space). That will likely happen upon the FH making it to orbit. But, I would expect that GS has money invested into it from those very neo-cons.
BTW, you will note that Eric Anderson who founded SA, is actually from this area (Colorado). He is cut from the same fabric as the GS ppl are, however, he was never as well connected. As such, I would say that GS has as good of a chance as does any other system. They will be pushing for NASA to get the tug program going, along with the Fuel depot, all of which they hope they will have access to. Now, I wonder if they will be able to push NASA for a lander.