I have wondered about that in light of what the neo-cons have done to NASA. Do you have any links of that? I have always thougth that it was because of the anti-nuke attitude that so enviros have pushed.
The normal solid-fuel missiles were 'borrowed' from China. Ancient China.
The liquid rocket tech was developed in America. Ever hear of goddard? Germany 'borrowed' it. The jet engine was borrowed from many other sources.
What Germany had going was the mass production and R&D on variants of the above.
Cracking and Virus writing has NEVER been about the number of systems like the MS fanbois love to claim. It has always been about what is easier to attack. At this time, all of the other systems need to focus on security as well. Regardless, this reminds me of the bear joke:
bear coming in the back of a tent, and one guy putting on shoes. Other screaming that they have to outrun the bear, and asks first guy why putting on shoes. He says that he does NOT have to outrun the bear. He simply has to outrun the other guy.
GPS and sat comm are easily knocked out. In fact, it was the overriding of our GPS that appears to have enabled Iran to take down our drone. Interesting that they knew what to do. I would guess that China had loads of intel that the many spies that we have here gave them.
Nice thing about using Thorium is that it can be made safe. Issue solved. And anything that would cause it to blast would have destroyed the tank outright.
While China is stealing western tech for stealth, we are moving towards automated drones to take on enemy aircraft. In fact, it is likely that the F-22 and F-35 will be the end of American fighters.
Other than drones, we really need to focus on better defenses, and better protection for communications.
That means lasers as well as rail guns. In addition, the DOD really needs to spend money on thorium reactors. They will need to provide tanks with high electrical output to do either a laser or a rail gun.
Odd. I see Apple begging Google to help them catch up. Apple's mapping sux. They only recently caught up to voice control by buying seri, but are going to lose out again. Android Catching up to IOS? Nope. In this case, it is a case of one upsmanship between the two. The difference is that Apple continues to do this over and over by themselves like Beta, while Google acts more like VHS.
While I fully agree with with you wrote this time, the real issue is that in your initial post and most of the others, you appear to be blaming Google for responding back to Apple's insane attitude.
Plenty of REE mining going on. Right now, MolyCorp has a new process that is VERY environmentally clean (and this time, they do not care if another fucking neo-con president asks them to share it with China, they are NOT going to do it; GD reagan was as short-sighted as W).
Wind mills might kill birder. BUT Wind generators do not kill so many. That is why they are going up.
We currently have 7 of our electricity from Hydro and it is RISING (due to NEW small and micro hydro generators going up on new dams).
Nuclear is about to make a real come back. The reason is that it is MUCH cheaper AND safer to burn the 'waste' that we have then to bury it. That will leave us with about 5% of our waste and safe withing 200 years. And with a Thorium reactor, we can have safe, cheap, and clean.
Direct burning of coal is DYING. Thank God. It is INSANE to try and grab the pollution post burning. Instead, once Natural Gas rises to its normal price (above $5/MMBTU), then we will see Coal converted to methane at a total cost of $4.5/MMBTU. Right now, Electricity from Coal is at 36% in USA. Over the next 5 years, it will DROP to below 25% based on the plants that are scheduled to be closed.
Oil Imports are trivial to kill off. We need to get Commercial vehicles and large passenger vehicles moved to Natural Gas. The dems put forward a bill designed to push Natural Gas usage for Commercial vehicle. Sadly, the republicans killed it because the large oil companies make a lot more money importing oil than they will with NG. But, the cool thing is that Colorado's gov. hickenlooper got together with other govs. and are now telling the car companies that they will ONLY buy NG vehicles. Now, if the feds would do the same, then it would force all of the manufacturers to provide plenty of NG vehicles as well. And apparently, if O makes president, he is looking to do just that.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. You think that it is OK for Apple to go on the offense and use a number of BS patents to try and stop competitors, BUT, when the competitors then sue Apple for their THEFT of HONEST patents, you think that it is wrong? Seriously?
Google is being defensive about this, not offensive. If they were offensive, they would go after MS as well.
LOL. While I am pro-android (have code in Linux and other OSS), I have always like OSX. And I used to tell older ppl, as well as total idiots, to use IOS (though I no longer do because they are having problems seeing those small screens).
BUT, it was Apple that started this patent battle. They have dragged all sorts of garbage in the courts and are looking to lose many of the patents that they do not deserve (which is a good thing) that they used to make their points. Now, Motorola has a NUMBER of patents that pretty much block Apple. Yet, apple does not want to X-patent. That is fine. But then you have to be ready to pay the price. Apple is simply object to a STANDARD amount of money. In addition, they do not want to pay for their past theft.
At this time, I would love to see Moto sue to have ALL apple phones and tablets blocked from the US. They set the precedence for this, and it makes sense for it to be applied back to them.
This is NOT for missiles. It will almost certainly be used in them, BUT NASA does not do that line of work. There are loads of places for aircrafts and spacecrafts where gyros are needed (artificial horizon comes to mind). In fact, if this can be produced cheaper than today's gyros, then you have a good deal.
Require that she and all of the workers from those companies list their numbers and address on the net. Then we will not have any more of this nonsense.
The biggest one will be a population explosion combined with inability to feed/water all of these ppl. In fact, if we solve this in the next 2 years, then it will take about 5-10 years to get this around the world. Right in time for food/clean water to hit due to AGW.
We may trade disease as a major killer to a major war.
flu is in general one of the larger killers in the WORLD. Now, if you take out one of the top killers, what will happen? EVERYBODY lives longer. we are looking at a population explosion. a big one. unless we have food/water issues in better shape, we could be trading one killer (disease) for another (war).
It would be nice to see ppl like gates quit focusing on health issues and focus instead on creating new tech such as a thorium nuke generator. Likewise, high speed train that can replace many roads would be smart. why? Because it would help the world over.
Of course, we are not bombing pakistan. We are bombing the taliban/AQ. Even Pakistan military does not control this region. More importantly, I suspect that the number of civilians that we kill is a FRACTION of what is reported by taliban.
But W did not fund it. Therefore it was WORTHLESS. And the plan was a disaster.
O's real plan is to get private space to take over Commercial Launches, AND have them do the space stations as well. Basically, he is trying to back CONgress, esp. you neo-cons, into a corner. You ppl will have no choice but to either kill off NASA (not fucking likely), OR to finally allow NASA to do what it wants to do, which is go BEO with both ppl and robotics.
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I have wondered about that in light of what the neo-cons have done to NASA. Do you have any links of that? I have always thougth that it was because of the anti-nuke attitude that so enviros have pushed.
The normal solid-fuel missiles were 'borrowed' from China. Ancient China.
The liquid rocket tech was developed in America. Ever hear of goddard? Germany 'borrowed' it.
The jet engine was borrowed from many other sources.
What Germany had going was the mass production and R&D on variants of the above.
Cracking and Virus writing has NEVER been about the number of systems like the MS fanbois love to claim. It has always been about what is easier to attack. At this time, all of the other systems need to focus on security as well. Regardless, this reminds me of the bear joke:
bear coming in the back of a tent, and one guy putting on shoes. Other screaming that they have to outrun the bear, and asks first guy why putting on shoes. He says that he does NOT have to outrun the bear. He simply has to outrun the other guy.
GPS and sat comm are easily knocked out. In fact, it was the overriding of our GPS that appears to have enabled Iran to take down our drone. Interesting that they knew what to do. I would guess that China had loads of intel that the many spies that we have here gave them.
In addition, drones can be made to have the ability to pull 20Gs and above. Humans can not.
You worry too much. You simply dump the thimble of thorium to dump below. Issue solved.
Nice thing about using Thorium is that it can be made safe. Issue solved. And anything that would cause it to blast would have destroyed the tank outright.
While China is stealing western tech for stealth, we are moving towards automated drones to take on enemy aircraft. In fact, it is likely that the F-22 and F-35 will be the end of American fighters.
Other than drones, we really need to focus on better defenses, and better protection for communications.
That means lasers as well as rail guns. In addition, the DOD really needs to spend money on thorium reactors. They will need to provide tanks with high electrical output to do either a laser or a rail gun.
Why would wiki's stat counter be the only one that matters and not the massive number of android phones that have been sold?
Odd. I see Apple begging Google to help them catch up. Apple's mapping sux. They only recently caught up to voice control by buying seri, but are going to lose out again. Android Catching up to IOS? Nope. In this case, it is a case of one upsmanship between the two. The difference is that Apple continues to do this over and over by themselves like Beta, while Google acts more like VHS.
While I fully agree with with you wrote this time, the real issue is that in your initial post and most of the others, you appear to be blaming Google for responding back to Apple's insane attitude.
Just because their is a fire to cars from a company that is having LOADS of fiscal issues, does NOT mean that it was the batteries.
Plenty of REE mining going on. Right now, MolyCorp has a new process that is VERY environmentally clean (and this time, they do not care if another fucking neo-con president asks them to share it with China, they are NOT going to do it; GD reagan was as short-sighted as W).
Wind mills might kill birder. BUT Wind generators do not kill so many. That is why they are going up.
We currently have 7 of our electricity from Hydro and it is RISING (due to NEW small and micro hydro generators going up on new dams).
Nuclear is about to make a real come back. The reason is that it is MUCH cheaper AND safer to burn the 'waste' that we have then to bury it. That will leave us with about 5% of our waste and safe withing 200 years. And with a Thorium reactor, we can have safe, cheap, and clean.
Direct burning of coal is DYING. Thank God. It is INSANE to try and grab the pollution post burning. Instead, once Natural Gas rises to its normal price (above $5/MMBTU), then we will see Coal converted to methane at a total cost of $4.5/MMBTU. Right now, Electricity from Coal is at 36% in USA. Over the next 5 years, it will DROP to below 25% based on the plants that are scheduled to be closed.
Oil Imports are trivial to kill off. We need to get Commercial vehicles and large passenger vehicles moved to Natural Gas. The dems put forward a bill designed to push Natural Gas usage for Commercial vehicle. Sadly, the republicans killed it because the large oil companies make a lot more money importing oil than they will with NG. But, the cool thing is that Colorado's gov. hickenlooper got together with other govs. and are now telling the car companies that they will ONLY buy NG vehicles. Now, if the feds would do the same, then it would force all of the manufacturers to provide plenty of NG vehicles as well. And apparently, if O makes president, he is looking to do just that.
So, all of your arguments are pretty well dead.
And yet, Android was actually started BEFORE iphone. Just amazing.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. You think that it is OK for Apple to go on the offense and use a number of BS patents to try and stop competitors, BUT, when the competitors then sue Apple for their THEFT of HONEST patents, you think that it is wrong? Seriously?
Google is being defensive about this, not offensive. If they were offensive, they would go after MS as well.
LOL. While I am pro-android (have code in Linux and other OSS), I have always like OSX. And I used to tell older ppl, as well as total idiots, to use IOS (though I no longer do because they are having problems seeing those small screens).
BUT, it was Apple that started this patent battle. They have dragged all sorts of garbage in the courts and are looking to lose many of the patents that they do not deserve (which is a good thing) that they used to make their points. Now, Motorola has a NUMBER of patents that pretty much block Apple. Yet, apple does not want to X-patent. That is fine. But then you have to be ready to pay the price. Apple is simply object to a STANDARD amount of money. In addition, they do not want to pay for their past theft.
At this time, I would love to see Moto sue to have ALL apple phones and tablets blocked from the US. They set the precedence for this, and it makes sense for it to be applied back to them.
Most likely all the other companies did cross-patenting to solve that.
Do you have any proof that they are paying 10x what others are paying for those same patents?
They also drink the blood of their young and then sacrifice to satan. I know this is fact because I was told that by Balmer and Gates.
Sigh.
This is NOT for missiles. It will almost certainly be used in them, BUT NASA does not do that line of work. There are loads of places for aircrafts and spacecrafts where gyros are needed (artificial horizon comes to mind). In fact, if this can be produced cheaper than today's gyros, then you have a good deal.
Require that she and all of the workers from those companies list their numbers and address on the net. Then we will not have any more of this nonsense.
The biggest one will be a population explosion combined with inability to feed/water all of these ppl. In fact, if we solve this in the next 2 years, then it will take about 5-10 years to get this around the world. Right in time for food/clean water to hit due to AGW.
We may trade disease as a major killer to a major war.
flu is in general one of the larger killers in the WORLD. Now, if you take out one of the top killers, what will happen? EVERYBODY lives longer. we are looking at a population explosion. a big one. unless we have food/water issues in better shape, we could be trading one killer (disease) for another (war).
It would be nice to see ppl like gates quit focusing on health issues and focus instead on creating new tech such as a thorium nuke generator. Likewise, high speed train that can replace many roads would be smart. why? Because it would help the world over.
Of course, we are not bombing pakistan. We are bombing the taliban/AQ. Even Pakistan military does not control this region. More importantly, I suspect that the number of civilians that we kill is a FRACTION of what is reported by taliban.
But W did not fund it. Therefore it was WORTHLESS. And the plan was a disaster.
O's real plan is to get private space to take over Commercial Launches, AND have them do the space stations as well. Basically, he is trying to back CONgress, esp. you neo-cons, into a corner. You ppl will have no choice but to either kill off NASA (not fucking likely), OR to finally allow NASA to do what it wants to do, which is go BEO with both ppl and robotics.