While it is good to get lasers going, I think of far more value will be rail-guns. These not only shot further, but do a great deal more damage with less energy. The only downfall is that it requires ammunition, but they are small.
Regardless, the DOD should be looking at adding laser and railguns to their M1A1 or perhaps even a modified Styker.
At the same time, we need to get energy beaming going a distance. With that, it would allow a ship to help another ship, or a back-field carrier to help a forward laser/rail-gun.
That is pretty normal for burglers to come back. They like backdoors as well. If you do not want a commercial system, pick up some IP cams and add zoneminder. We use the LTS infrared camera. We got it from Newegg for about 100. You can pick up the y-cam, but it is the SAME PHYSICAL CAMERA for 200 (and nothing extra; just a private label). We use one of ours for watching the front yard and another in the baby room. It is awesome in the dark.
That is IBM. They can not be trusted (I know; I worked for them at Watson several decades ago). The fact is, that much of the hiring is smaller companies. And they will likely keep things going.
However, I will say, as an Air force and then Airline brat, I learned to use the Airline loads as a VERY reliable indicator of how business is doing. However, since 9/11, that has not been reliable. Likewise, business connections are a poor choice. So far, I THINK that the best indicator is asking small nice restaurants how they are doing, esp. on lunches. These are places that ppl go when they are feeling more confident. What I have heard around the Denver, Co. area from about 20 different restaurants, is that business has picked up over the last 6 months. That jives with what we are seeing in unemployment.
The other one to look at is the unemployment figure. Specifically, Alabama's. They passed an anti illegal bill that basically enforces e-verify on all businesses there. In June last year, they were at 10% unemployment. Since this bill took effect in August, they have dropped from 10 to 7.6%. Now, to be fair, that is mostly blue collar illegals that are leaving. HOWEVER, this has had a positive impact on the state's white collar as well. The reason is that not only are businesses hiring before unemployment is dropping, but tax collection was up, and state costs have PLUMMETED. In fact, they WERE hemorraging. Not any more. They are almost back to neutral. Now, the states around them are looking to pass the sections of the law that Alabama kept and ENFORCED.
Why do I bring that up? Because just as increasing unemployment causes companies to shrink their staffs ahead of prediction, decreasing unemployment will cause companies to jump on the band wagon and hire.
As to IBM, they are worthless. They are basically moving operations out of America, but want to keep soaking the nation for money. Hopefully, the feds will simply use other decent companies.
Well, the economy is better than what it was 3.5 years ago and headed in the right direction. Now, if we can get CONgress to start putting the nation ahead of their parties, kill the deficits, we will be on the right course.
But no doubt about it, things ARE better than what they were since the end of 2006.
How funny. I am a Libertarian (though increasingly leaning towards goldwater republican). I have for nearly 2 decades been a registered as such. So, I have to deal with the tribalism that I see from you two groups (republicans and democratics). And over the years, I have been called a hard core liberal (by neo-cons), and a hard core neo-con (by liberals), amongst other things. But with my pointing out facts, this is the first time, that I have been accused of tribalism.
It is a nice thought, however, it would not work. I have already been trying to work with Dems on Company Creation and have found that they are not interested. Sad. The fact is, that the dem leaders are not much different than the neo-con leaders.
Not quite, but pretty close. That is why I did not list him in that. Like FDR and Lincoln, he inherited a nightmare. I kept my mouth closed on his first 2 years, but I was not wild about his spending. The problem was, that the neo-cons had put us on the edge of another GD. I think that Obama/UK pulled us out of that one.
But this spending last year has me PISSED. I do not like it. Like W/neo-cons, this spending allows China to sell us goods and then buy our debt, rather than our goods. We are fools to allow this. Instead, we need to get the Federal Deficit below 250B to force China to buy our goods. Otherwise, they will have much more than the 25-50% inflation that they have currently (and much of that was caused by Bernake).
For several decades, I have been a Libertarian. I am still a registered Libertarian. However, my philosophy is changing as I see what evil our nation has subjected itself to during the 80s and now during the 00's. I am probably leaning more towards the goldwater republican who believes in strong fiscal conservative and social moderate. Sadly, the republican party is not social conservative (or even nut jobs), and fiscal insanity.
If I had a penny for every neo-cons that loves to disavow responsibility, I could pay off much of our national debt. reagan, Poppa Bush and W GOT the budgets that they wanted. In fact, very little was added to those budgets by dems. So did Clinton in all 8 years.
And yet, it was reagans budget that got passed. IOW, yes, PART of reagain's congress was dem, but they gave him everything that he wanted.
As to Clinton, he had dem congress for 2 years and dropped the deficit then as well.
And W had the same neo-con controlled congress that Clinton had and it ran up monster deficits.
IOW, it is normally irrelevant about what congress you have (I will say that this current CONgress defies what I just said; the current CONgress does not care about America or our issues. They are only concerned about gaining total control. again).
It is about the president deciding how to handle thing.
W policies were a FULL repeat of reagan's. Both ran up monster deficits. Both used the military everywhere they could. Both screamed about everything EXCEPT themselves. Nearly all of W's ppl were many of the same corrupt ppl from reagan's admin. And even W stated that he would rather follow reagan than W.
Hmmm. Roads, bridges, saving lives, putting us in space and on the moon, putting us at the bottom of the ocean, etc. Science is simply the pursuit of knowledge about our world. Our problems come about when ppl esp. politicians mis-use this information
That's false. I am a fiscal conservative. It simply means that we want ppl to handle a checkbook responsibly. Sadly, the neo-cons scream fiscal conservative, but they account for most of the debt. In addition, other than FDR handling GD and WWII and O handling the current mess, dems have shown far more fiscal conservationism than has the republicans ever since the neo-cons took over the republican party.
but the neo-conseravatives. There are many conservatives that do not subscribe to the following of reagan and W. Basically, it is these 2 and their followers that fight against science, logic and facts. You will find that nearly all support the concept of creationism, fight against the idea that Global Climate Change is cause by man. They will argue that Russia is enemy #1 and claim support for private enterprise, but then push for the Space Launch System (in which CONgress, mostly neo-cons designate WHICH companies will provide WHICH parts for a shuttle derivative and costing us 60 billion), push for us to be reliant on Russia for another decade of rocket launches and works to destroy private space.
Likewise, they will argue that Corporations should be ONLY for making profits and have absolutely no conscience, but then want them to be able to lobby, influence congress, and some have said that they want to give them a vote. Yet, at the same time, they scream that society is broken morally.
This lack of logic continues over and over and over. It has become a broken record with the no-cons.
OTOH, many conservatives and real republicans fully support science, logic, etc. and what can be learned from it. Sadly, they are now a minority of the republican party. Many of them are driven out with the neo-cons screaming that those ppl are RINOs and are actually liberals. Sad that America has sunk this low.
It is amazing how low America has sunk over the last 10 years. You would think that a president that was a history major would know better than to have gutted our manufacturing capability. Now, we need to bring this back.
Thats funny. I have been screaming that America needs to do the same here. And there is a MUCH simpler way to solve this. Quit trying to look at what the parts are. Instead, simply charge all items based on the CO2 (or other pollutants) that are produced from said area. The reason is that companies and nations will go to great lengths to avoid documenting these. So, for carbon, the best way is to use a satellite that views the CO2(out over the border) and subtract CO2(in over the border). For items like Mercury, simply assume that it is the highest content unless the nation allows air monitoring on borders.
Bear in mind that none of this solves the issues with fake military parts. That is a totally different issue.
And yet, Offshore companies say that the taxes and regulations are NOT issues here. In fact, as is regularly pointed out, taxes are higher in Germany, and regulations are much tougher through most of the west. In fact, they like not having to bribe or not being sued later for obeying the regs. Even the unions are a non-issue. So, that tired argument just does not make it.
We have 2 issues. The first is that our LEGAL system is now a nightmare. We sue on a dime. We stop new factories for just about anything.
Then our own companies do not manufacture here because in general, the CEO's own large amounts of stock and want to run it up in price, sell it, and get out of the job. We can thank reagan for that one.
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Salt water and dust on a mirror is pretty much guaranteeing that the laser is going to punch quickly through those mirrors.
While it is good to get lasers going, I think of far more value will be rail-guns. These not only shot further, but do a great deal more damage with less energy. The only downfall is that it requires ammunition, but they are small.
Regardless, the DOD should be looking at adding laser and railguns to their M1A1 or perhaps even a modified Styker.
At the same time, we need to get energy beaming going a distance. With that, it would allow a ship to help another ship, or a back-field carrier to help a forward laser/rail-gun.
I am far more interested in World IPv6 day. We need to get moving over to that.
That is pretty normal for burglers to come back. They like backdoors as well. If you do not want a commercial system, pick up some IP cams and add zoneminder. We use the LTS infrared camera. We got it from Newegg for about 100. You can pick up the y-cam, but it is the SAME PHYSICAL CAMERA for 200 (and nothing extra; just a private label). We use one of ours for watching the front yard and another in the baby room. It is awesome in the dark.
That is IBM. They can not be trusted (I know; I worked for them at Watson several decades ago). The fact is, that much of the hiring is smaller companies. And they will likely keep things going.
However, I will say, as an Air force and then Airline brat, I learned to use the Airline loads as a VERY reliable indicator of how business is doing. However, since 9/11, that has not been reliable. Likewise, business connections are a poor choice. So far, I THINK that the best indicator is asking small nice restaurants how they are doing, esp. on lunches. These are places that ppl go when they are feeling more confident. What I have heard around the Denver, Co. area from about 20 different restaurants, is that business has picked up over the last 6 months. That jives with what we are seeing in unemployment.
The other one to look at is the unemployment figure. Specifically, Alabama's. They passed an anti illegal bill that basically enforces e-verify on all businesses there. In June last year, they were at 10% unemployment. Since this bill took effect in August, they have dropped from 10 to 7.6%. Now, to be fair, that is mostly blue collar illegals that are leaving. HOWEVER, this has had a positive impact on the state's white collar as well. The reason is that not only are businesses hiring before unemployment is dropping, but tax collection was up, and state costs have PLUMMETED. In fact, they WERE hemorraging. Not any more. They are almost back to neutral. Now, the states around them are looking to pass the sections of the law that Alabama kept and ENFORCED.
Why do I bring that up? Because just as increasing unemployment causes companies to shrink their staffs ahead of prediction, decreasing unemployment will cause companies to jump on the band wagon and hire.
As to IBM, they are worthless. They are basically moving operations out of America, but want to keep soaking the nation for money. Hopefully, the feds will simply use other decent companies.
Well, the economy is better than what it was 3.5 years ago and headed in the right direction. Now, if we can get CONgress to start putting the nation ahead of their parties, kill the deficits, we will be on the right course.
But no doubt about it, things ARE better than what they were since the end of 2006.
How funny. I am a Libertarian (though increasingly leaning towards goldwater republican). I have for nearly 2 decades been a registered as such. So, I have to deal with the tribalism that I see from you two groups (republicans and democratics). And over the years, I have been called a hard core liberal (by neo-cons), and a hard core neo-con (by liberals), amongst other things. But with my pointing out facts, this is the first time, that I have been accused of tribalism.
I had never seen that quote. He was right on the money. We saw it under reagan and again under W.
It is a nice thought, however, it would not work. I have already been trying to work with Dems on Company Creation and have found that they are not interested. Sad. The fact is, that the dem leaders are not much different than the neo-con leaders.
Sadly, the republican party is not social conservative (or even nut jobs), and fiscal insanity.
Oops. Meant to say:
Sadly, the republican party is now social conservative (or even nut jobs), and fiscal insanity.
Not quite, but pretty close. That is why I did not list him in that. Like FDR and Lincoln, he inherited a nightmare. I kept my mouth closed on his first 2 years, but I was not wild about his spending. The problem was, that the neo-cons had put us on the edge of another GD. I think that Obama/UK pulled us out of that one.
But this spending last year has me PISSED. I do not like it. Like W/neo-cons, this spending allows China to sell us goods and then buy our debt, rather than our goods. We are fools to allow this. Instead, we need to get the Federal Deficit below 250B to force China to buy our goods. Otherwise, they will have much more than the 25-50% inflation that they have currently (and much of that was caused by Bernake).
For several decades, I have been a Libertarian. I am still a registered Libertarian. However, my philosophy is changing as I see what evil our nation has subjected itself to during the 80s and now during the 00's. I am probably leaning more towards the goldwater republican who believes in strong fiscal conservative and social moderate. Sadly, the republican party is not social conservative (or even nut jobs), and fiscal insanity.
If I had a penny for every neo-cons that loves to disavow responsibility, I could pay off much of our national debt. reagan, Poppa Bush and W GOT the budgets that they wanted. In fact, very little was added to those budgets by dems. So did Clinton in all 8 years.
Once again, you neo-cons ignore facts, and logic. So sad. Our nation is being destroyed by you neo-cons.
And yet, it was reagans budget that got passed. IOW, yes, PART of reagain's congress was dem, but they gave him everything that he wanted.
As to Clinton, he had dem congress for 2 years and dropped the deficit then as well.
And W had the same neo-con controlled congress that Clinton had and it ran up monster deficits.
IOW, it is normally irrelevant about what congress you have (I will say that this current CONgress defies what I just said; the current CONgress does not care about America or our issues. They are only concerned about gaining total control. again).
It is about the president deciding how to handle thing.
W policies were a FULL repeat of reagan's. Both ran up monster deficits. Both used the military everywhere they could. Both screamed about everything EXCEPT themselves. Nearly all of W's ppl were many of the same corrupt ppl from reagan's admin. And even W stated that he would rather follow reagan than W.
"fiscally conservative social liberals" is an oxymoron.
Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton ALL come to mind. Every one of them decreased our debt relative to GDP. And all but Carter decreased the total debt .
It was under ALL 8 years of reagan, 3 years of Poppa Bush, and 7.5 years of W that massive increases in deficits/debt came about.
Yeah, but my point is, do you have pix or other evidence of this? I have wondered if this kind of stuff goes on.
Hmmm. Roads, bridges, saving lives, putting us in space and on the moon, putting us at the bottom of the ocean, etc. Science is simply the pursuit of knowledge about our world. Our problems come about when ppl esp. politicians mis-use this information
That's false. I am a fiscal conservative. It simply means that we want ppl to handle a checkbook responsibly. Sadly, the neo-cons scream fiscal conservative, but they account for most of the debt. In addition, other than FDR handling GD and WWII and O handling the current mess, dems have shown far more fiscal conservationism than has the republicans ever since the neo-cons took over the republican party.
but the neo-conseravatives. There are many conservatives that do not subscribe to the following of reagan and W. Basically, it is these 2 and their followers that fight against science, logic and facts. You will find that nearly all support the concept of creationism, fight against the idea that Global Climate Change is cause by man.
They will argue that Russia is enemy #1 and claim support for private enterprise, but then push for the Space Launch System (in which CONgress, mostly neo-cons designate WHICH companies will provide WHICH parts for a shuttle derivative and costing us 60 billion), push for us to be reliant on Russia for another decade of rocket launches and works to destroy private space.
Likewise, they will argue that Corporations should be ONLY for making profits and have absolutely no conscience, but then want them to be able to lobby, influence congress, and some have said that they want to give them a vote. Yet, at the same time, they scream that society is broken morally.
This lack of logic continues over and over and over. It has become a broken record with the no-cons.
OTOH, many conservatives and real republicans fully support science, logic, etc. and what can be learned from it. Sadly, they are now a minority of the republican party. Many of them are driven out with the neo-cons screaming that those ppl are RINOs and are actually liberals. Sad that America has sunk this low.
It is amazing how low America has sunk over the last 10 years. You would think that a president that was a history major would know better than to have gutted our manufacturing capability. Now, we need to bring this back.
Thats funny. I have been screaming that America needs to do the same here. And there is a MUCH simpler way to solve this. Quit trying to look at what the parts are. Instead, simply charge all items based on the CO2 (or other pollutants) that are produced from said area. The reason is that companies and nations will go to great lengths to avoid documenting these. So, for carbon, the best way is to use a satellite that views the CO2(out over the border) and subtract CO2(in over the border). For items like Mercury, simply assume that it is the highest content unless the nation allows air monitoring on borders.
Bear in mind that none of this solves the issues with fake military parts. That is a totally different issue.
And yet, Offshore companies say that the taxes and regulations are NOT issues here. In fact, as is regularly pointed out, taxes are higher in Germany, and regulations are much tougher through most of the west. In fact, they like not having to bribe or not being sued later for obeying the regs. Even the unions are a non-issue. So, that tired argument just does not make it.
We have 2 issues. The first is that our LEGAL system is now a nightmare. We sue on a dime. We stop new factories for just about anything.
Then our own companies do not manufacture here because in general, the CEO's own large amounts of stock and want to run it up in price, sell it, and get out of the job. We can thank reagan for that one.
Do you have proof of that? That is illegal to do. In addition, how would management explain that to employees?