By May 15th, this particular law will be shot down. The reason is how do you tell the difference between a legal citizen vs. a legal immigrant vs. an illegal alien? If you can not tell the difference, then it will not hold.
OTH, I am guessing that Az will work towards a new and fairer law. Basically, change this law to:
allow checks on traffic stops or altercations where you are not victim or witness.
allow checks on all those seeking medical services without insurance or co-pay.
allow checks on all those seeking gov. services.
Personally, I hope that they will change that to exclude all those under 18 (i.e. schools, medical care for children).
Ideally, they would also allow exceptions for children that were brought there by parents (easily proven by school records) and are now adults. But, I doubt it.
I am not wild about regs, but the problem is that companies really do not care. Worse, when the have real issues in which they lose your data, they do NOTHING about it. Take the example of Toyota. They would have had a recall that cost them a 100 million had they done it correctly the first time. Did they recall? Nope. But what was the Fed's response? 16 million. Just like MS, Toyota, Chinese companies, and all the rest of these companies taking shortcuts PROVE that CRIME DOES PAY. Hopefully, Mass. hits one company hard in the next year and then all companies will change their tunes. Until then, we will see loads of horrible systems.
Look, taxes are collected on these companies in EU. Here, we leave companies in limbo and then have the brick/morters at an unfair disadvantage. It is also hurting gov. entities and making it difficult to balance budgets. It is far better to change the US law and require that online taxex be collected by all businesses. BUT, it should be a FIXED amount, which includes a FIXED fed, state, county and city rate. To be honest, I think that at this time, a singular fixed tax should be applied on all transactions across the net, the business collects it, and then sends to a singlar location per country. WIll it be confusing? Sure. That is why businesses will prop up that will handle that for small players, and just tack on their own amount.
And for the argument that this will hurt the 'development' of the net, give me a break. The net is VERY developed compared to what we had in the 80's.
They lost life support long ago. They have had computers crash and re-boot. They have had multiple failures. BUT, the core remains intact. I still want to see NASA buy a sundancer and send it up to the ISS, followed by a BA-330. That would get BA's production line started now. Ideally, NASA would even buy the first space station and have it put in space. Yeah, that would probably be a billion dollars for it all, BUT, it would also mean that once private space has human rated, then there is a place to go to, and have BA already building. That basically jump-starts the economic feasibility of private space.
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These are two men that have shown that they have motivation. In addition, they have shown that they have money from past ventures. Finally, Bigelow has not only hotel (ability to make money from tourism and business ppl), but also has a very large construction company. The man KNOWS how, but more importantly who to make these things work.
The stupid Bruce Willis Movie Armageddon had one thing right (and just about the ONLY thing): if you are going to do something different in space, then you work with those on the ground who are experts. Musk has surrounded himself by ppl that are rocket experts. Bigelow already had the hotel and construction, then he hired nearly all the ones that were experts on the Transhab (as well as the rights to transhab). Finally, BEZO has been hiring ppl and building a lander capable of lunar surface to lunar orbit.
America IS going to the moon by 2020, if NASA helps Bigelow and the commercial launchers NOW. Hopefully, others will join in, such as the entire west(EU, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea), as well as Russia, India, South Korea, and maybe Brazil.
The reaon is that NASA is going to get private space off the ground. As long as we adhere to this and get BIGELOW AEROSPACE off the ground, then we will hit the moon around 2020. Bigelow and Musk have BOTH said that they want on the moon around that timeframe.
The reason is because we had cheap energy and pushed automation. Then we quit pushing for cheaper energy (such as geo-thermal and other forms of nukes), allowed illegal aliens to replace automation, as well as shipping overseas to get rid of the risk.
It is one thing for the gov to say that we need to get our efficiencies up, for national interest. I have ZERO issues with that. The problem is that generally some lobbyists has gotten in there and made it now point to THEIR solution. Sadly, just about every one of those 'solutions' in any gov. response, will cost more and hurt us in the long run.
See before my posting. Apparently, Armstrong has a strong vested interest in Morton-thiokol. I did not know that. Kind of sad if so. I had actually hoped to have SOMEBODY speak up that did not have a vested interest in all this.
He is about the ONLY astronaut that is speaking up that does not have a vested interest via their job. Up until now, all of the other astronauts critizing Obama's cancellation of Constellation had jobs with the companies that were at the core of it. To the best of my knowledge, Armstrong is not working for any of these companies.
And to be honest, I understand what he is saying, yet find some of it suspect. Ares I was not going to be man ready until around 2017. And that was with increased funding. OTH, if we put in far less money, we will have a number of human rated space crafts. And their argument that the private ones timelines are suspect is the exact same argument against constellation. But the private companies are already further ahead with development.
Put up a sat that allows a beam from earth, to the sat, and then back to earth. The reason is that the DOD will buy LOADS of this right now. In addition, disaster areas can make use of this. Since it is likely that a large receiver for the space based power is needed, then one approach is to place it on a plane (think AWAC), and then have multiple smaller beams from underneath. Obviously, something like that in a war zone will need to be WAY up there (60K feet), but a 20K feet over a disaster area would be real useful. The difference with this approach is that it requires MINIMAL amounts of putting cargo into space. That means that it is fast and easy to get things started.
Both Boeing and L-Mart make a great case about a strong need for multiple private end-points. That is, commercial space NEEDS Bigelow out there. The problem is that both will soon have to compete against SpaceX and China. ESA and the EU govs. backing ESA are already carping about CHina. China is dumping and subsidizing on the market, but then again, SO IS ESA/EU. Ariane was developed with EU money, not Eads. Of course, the same is true of Boeing's Delta, and L-Mart's Atlas. So, where is the big disconnection amongst all of this?
That Bigelow is working with Boeing and SpaceX. The reason is simple. SpaceX is close to being rated good enough for Bigelow, and Obama will likely dole out the funding to make it work on April 15th. Likewise, Boeing's Delta can be human rated relatively cheap. In addition, they have all of the parts from America. OTH, L-MART is a totally different critter. They took shortcuts and used Russia's RD-180. It will be difficult to human rate, but even worse for L-mart is that Russia will ALWAYS have cheaper rocket prices because of L-Mart having used it. Basically, Russia sells it expensively to L-Mart.
Bigelow is going to create winners from SpaceX and Boeing/ULA. Likewise, if EADS/ESA/EU will jump on it, then Ariane will join the human launches as well. Japan could, but will not likely spend the money for it. And L-Mart/ULA will lose their Atlas V within a decade. The reason is that they will remain a very expensive cargo only launcher and will slowly wither.
And for the EXACT SAME REASON. That is also why ppl like Ben Franklin invented his stove and then left it in public domain. So that an industry could be started from it. In addition, Walt Disney himself made heavy use of works that had gone into public domain. He likely would not have gotten off the ground except for that.
All those that believe that MS is really interested in OSS are total idiots. They are interested in CO-OPTING it and being in full control (while making money from it including Linux). This is simply another part of their plan.
And yet, that is exactly what the re-start of the hypersonic crafts are all about. That was research that was killed, but was restarted back in the 90's. With some more work, we will be able to get mach 12 or more from a jet. That is perfect for putting us into leo (with some finally boosters).
And yet, we did that in 2003-2005. Did you carp about it then? Look, W/Congress SHOULD have funded Ares. Sadly, or thankfully, they did not. Had it been further along, it would not be killed now. NOW, we are going to get MULTIPLE ways with multiple arch with different companies to get to LEO space. That will mean that we will NEVER again have to stop access to space. This solves multiple issues. We have lost our access to space 5 times to space:
Apollo 1
Challenger
Columbia
Apollo to shuttle transition was underfunded by Nixon which led to the early lose of SpaceLab.
Constellation being underfunded by W/Neo-con regime.
Thankfully, because of Russia, we did not lose the ISS this time. BUT, what should have become obvious is that we lose our space capabilities for two reasons: Dumb Politics and accidents. NASA's 1995 plan is what called for getting around this, by creating multiple arch. via private space. That was part of the reason why Bigelow Aerospace happened. BA is to create multiple space stations that increase the human launch capabilities for private space. THAT is what will lower the costs, increase quality, and most importantly, allow us to expand to the moon and mars.
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OTH, I am guessing that Az will work towards a new and fairer law. Basically, change this law to:
Personally, I hope that they will change that to exclude all those under 18 (i.e. schools, medical care for children). Ideally, they would also allow exceptions for children that were brought there by parents (easily proven by school records) and are now adults. But, I doubt it.
You know, it would be nice to have a reflector on mars. I wonder if it is possible to go that distance.
2 weeks ago. I do it ALL THE TIME. And I NOTIFY the company of such.
I am not wild about regs, but the problem is that companies really do not care. Worse, when the have real issues in which they lose your data, they do NOTHING about it. Take the example of Toyota. They would have had a recall that cost them a 100 million had they done it correctly the first time. Did they recall? Nope. But what was the Fed's response? 16 million. Just like MS, Toyota, Chinese companies, and all the rest of these companies taking shortcuts PROVE that CRIME DOES PAY. Hopefully, Mass. hits one company hard in the next year and then all companies will change their tunes. Until then, we will see loads of horrible systems.
Look, taxes are collected on these companies in EU. Here, we leave companies in limbo and then have the brick/morters at an unfair disadvantage. It is also hurting gov. entities and making it difficult to balance budgets. It is far better to change the US law and require that online taxex be collected by all businesses. BUT, it should be a FIXED amount, which includes a FIXED fed, state, county and city rate. To be honest, I think that at this time, a singular fixed tax should be applied on all transactions across the net, the business collects it, and then sends to a singlar location per country. WIll it be confusing? Sure. That is why businesses will prop up that will handle that for small players, and just tack on their own amount.
And for the argument that this will hurt the 'development' of the net, give me a break. The net is VERY developed compared to what we had in the 80's.
They lost life support long ago. They have had computers crash and re-boot. They have had multiple failures. BUT, the core remains intact. I still want to see NASA buy a sundancer and send it up to the ISS, followed by a BA-330. That would get BA's production line started now. Ideally, NASA would even buy the first space station and have it put in space. Yeah, that would probably be a billion dollars for it all, BUT, it would also mean that once private space has human rated, then there is a place to go to, and have BA already building. That basically jump-starts the economic feasibility of private space.
here
and
here
Quant
These are two men that have shown that they have motivation. In addition, they have shown that they have money from past ventures. Finally, Bigelow has not only hotel (ability to make money from tourism and business ppl), but also has a very large construction company. The man KNOWS how, but more importantly who to make these things work.
The stupid Bruce Willis Movie Armageddon had one thing right (and just about the ONLY thing): if you are going to do something different in space, then you work with those on the ground who are experts. Musk has surrounded himself by ppl that are rocket experts. Bigelow already had the hotel and construction, then he hired nearly all the ones that were experts on the Transhab (as well as the rights to transhab). Finally, BEZO has been hiring ppl and building a lander capable of lunar surface to lunar orbit.
America IS going to the moon by 2020, if NASA helps Bigelow and the commercial launchers NOW. Hopefully, others will join in, such as the entire west(EU, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea), as well as Russia, India, South Korea, and maybe Brazil.
The reaon is that NASA is going to get private space off the ground. As long as we adhere to this and get BIGELOW AEROSPACE off the ground, then we will hit the moon around 2020. Bigelow and Musk have BOTH said that they want on the moon around that timeframe.
The reason is because we had cheap energy and pushed automation. Then we quit pushing for cheaper energy (such as geo-thermal and other forms of nukes), allowed illegal aliens to replace automation, as well as shipping overseas to get rid of the risk.
It is one thing for the gov to say that we need to get our efficiencies up, for national interest. I have ZERO issues with that. The problem is that generally some lobbyists has gotten in there and made it now point to THEIR solution. Sadly, just about every one of those 'solutions' in any gov. response, will cost more and hurt us in the long run.
I saw that post after I posted.
I think that you meant A Shit Head. I wonder how the astronauts are going to feel.
See before my posting. Apparently, Armstrong has a strong vested interest in Morton-thiokol. I did not know that. Kind of sad if so. I had actually hoped to have SOMEBODY speak up that did not have a vested interest in all this.
He is about the ONLY astronaut that is speaking up that does not have a vested interest via their job. Up until now, all of the other astronauts critizing Obama's cancellation of Constellation had jobs with the companies that were at the core of it. To the best of my knowledge, Armstrong is not working for any of these companies.
And to be honest, I understand what he is saying, yet find some of it suspect. Ares I was not going to be man ready until around 2017. And that was with increased funding. OTH, if we put in far less money, we will have a number of human rated space crafts. And their argument that the private ones timelines are suspect is the exact same argument against constellation. But the private companies are already further ahead with development.
Put up a sat that allows a beam from earth, to the sat, and then back to earth. The reason is that the DOD will buy LOADS of this right now. In addition, disaster areas can make use of this. Since it is likely that a large receiver for the space based power is needed, then one approach is to place it on a plane (think AWAC), and then have multiple smaller beams from underneath. Obviously, something like that in a war zone will need to be WAY up there (60K feet), but a 20K feet over a disaster area would be real useful. The difference with this approach is that it requires MINIMAL amounts of putting cargo into space. That means that it is fast and easy to get things started.
Both Boeing and L-Mart make a great case about a strong need for multiple private end-points. That is, commercial space NEEDS Bigelow out there. The problem is that both will soon have to compete against SpaceX and China. ESA and the EU govs. backing ESA are already carping about CHina. China is dumping and subsidizing on the market, but then again, SO IS ESA/EU. Ariane was developed with EU money, not Eads. Of course, the same is true of Boeing's Delta, and L-Mart's Atlas. So, where is the big disconnection amongst all of this?
That Bigelow is working with Boeing and SpaceX. The reason is simple. SpaceX is close to being rated good enough for Bigelow, and Obama will likely dole out the funding to make it work on April 15th. Likewise, Boeing's Delta can be human rated relatively cheap. In addition, they have all of the parts from America. OTH, L-MART is a totally different critter. They took shortcuts and used Russia's RD-180. It will be difficult to human rate, but even worse for L-mart is that Russia will ALWAYS have cheaper rocket prices because of L-Mart having used it. Basically, Russia sells it expensively to L-Mart.
Bigelow is going to create winners from SpaceX and Boeing/ULA. Likewise, if EADS/ESA/EU will jump on it, then Ariane will join the human launches as well. Japan could, but will not likely spend the money for it. And L-Mart/ULA will lose their Atlas V within a decade. The reason is that they will remain a very expensive cargo only launcher and will slowly wither.
All of the ones for Linux.
Yeah, but buried in the report is the winning ticket of the next large lotto. Go ahead and get it.
And for the EXACT SAME REASON. That is also why ppl like Ben Franklin invented his stove and then left it in public domain. So that an industry could be started from it. In addition, Walt Disney himself made heavy use of works that had gone into public domain. He likely would not have gotten off the ground except for that.
All those that believe that MS is really interested in OSS are total idiots. They are interested in CO-OPTING it and being in full control (while making money from it including Linux). This is simply another part of their plan.
And yet, that is exactly what the re-start of the hypersonic crafts are all about. That was research that was killed, but was restarted back in the 90's. With some more work, we will be able to get mach 12 or more from a jet. That is perfect for putting us into leo (with some finally boosters).
Thankfully, because of Russia, we did not lose the ISS this time. BUT, what should have become obvious is that we lose our space capabilities for two reasons: Dumb Politics and accidents. NASA's 1995 plan is what called for getting around this, by creating multiple arch. via private space. That was part of the reason why Bigelow Aerospace happened. BA is to create multiple space stations that increase the human launch capabilities for private space. THAT is what will lower the costs, increase quality, and most importantly, allow us to expand to the moon and mars.
Then the count is at 12,000,004.
And more importantly, Allies, not Axis.
Yeah, getting that sodium and sulfur is going to be SO expensive.