It's now Obama that is putting the RIAA in charge of the justice department.
In what possible way can that matter? The ONLY thing that will matter is IFF Obama puts RIAA ppl in Judgeships. IFF that occurs, Then we have a LOT to be worried about. Until then, it does not matter. Lawyers from DOJ or from RIAA will continue to ENFORCE laws on the books. As to Clinton signing the DMCA, that was with a neo-con controlled congress. It passed with LOADS of neo-cons support. Without that, it NEVER would have occurred. In fact, it was authored and introduced by pubs.
I replied back to retchdog who blames all this on lack of manufacturing base. It would not matter if we had a base or not. DMCA still would have happened because it was pushed by big business and big politics.
Speaking abstractly, it's not a bad national strategy in a way. We're fucked economically, and have no manufacturing base to speak of. There's not much we can do except enforce "intellectual property" overseas. The downside is the implicit effect that this will have on domestic freedom and true innovation. I suspect we (as knowledge workers) will be learning some hard lessons in the next few years. I would not be surprised if the FSF and EFF (among others) are forcibly nationalized and destroyed/reorganized within four years. Give me a fucking break. W and the neo-cons are no longer in control. As such, we are less likely to see constitutional violations. In addition, we are far more likely to see our manufacturing lines come back as oil prices rise. The simple fact is that getting our cheap housewares from China is becoming expensive. Oil will rise it as well.
Such trash talk of nationalization always cracks me up.
If you do not, then cracks will appear and bits will start to drip from it. Soon, that drip will become bigger and you will have bytes dropping out. Cheaper to replace them now, then to lose all those bytes. I can be over there next week to replace them all for a low low price.
>>I suspect that Oracle is going to allow Solaris to be EQUALLY supported
When you're customers are choosing Solaris over Linux, you don't allow Solaris to be supported, it's not your choice. If you want to stay in business and make money, you do what your customers want.
HEHEHEHE.
Sun is selling out BECAUSE they are not making the sales that they use to. In addition, as somebody who finished coding on Solaris, I can tell you that when we were talking to the Sun rep earlier and mentioned Linux on their hardware, they SHOT IT DOWN, FAST. It is NOT about what the customer wants. It is about what Sun can push. Right now, Linux is growing fast, while Solaris is headed downwards. That is why I think that Oracle will switch the sun reps to REQUIRING them to push Oracle AND (either linux OR Solaris, AS CUSTOMER WANTS).
>>They believe that Linux is the way to break MS's monopoly since it has such traction.
And that's the wrong way to do it and it's been failing.
First, Linux didn't have traction. Unix had traction but MS has been eating into that market.
Linux went after the low hanging fruit, the Unix market since it was more compatible with Unix than MS.
Meanwhile MS has been eating into the server market.
The right way to do it would have been to use Linux as a way to stabilize or grow the Unix share in the marketplace against MS and carve out a bigger piece for itself in that space. Instead, they decided to attack the Unix space and spread the same type of FUD that MS does.
So in the end, Linux is gaining share against Unix, but it's growing share in a constantly shrinking slice of the pie.
Ms has been BUYING their way into the market. I just checked the netcraft and I noticed that Windows is dropping again while *nix is growing. Linux went into the server space because it was the easiest. Now, they target embedded systems because it is ALSO easy. That is biting into Windows there as well. Finally, step outside of America and you see Linux growing on the desktop quickly. Unixes failure is NOT because of Linux. It was because of bad choices by ppl that wanted 30% profit margins on software. Linux has had MUCH lower margins, but they have the growth. The model is right; give away the software and sell support. So, who else does that model? MS. Where MS does not have a monopoly, they sell it for cheap, or even give it away for free. Then they sell support. Basically, Linux has solid software that is free to do, while you pay for what ever help you need.
As I said earlier, Oracle will likely push Oracle DB and will likely continue to push Linux.
Funny that you deride the Linux COmmunity. Oracle has been busy supporting Linux (redhat) for some time. In addition, they have been porting heavily to it. They believe that Linux is the way to break MS's monopoly since it has such traction.
I suspect that Oracle is going to allow Solaris to be EQUALLY supported, and it will wither away (think SGI,SCO, or any other number of *nixs that slowly disappeared). Oracle will likely continue with the Linux push simply due to traction. Then MS/Solaris Fanbois like yourself will gripe that Oracle let a good thing get away while they and the linux world slowly grows against MS. That of course, is the reason why MS does not know what to think of this.
switch to some other encrypted form of com on new sats and then allow these sats to stay up there in the same context as darpanet creating the internet. What would happen is that new sats would go up with a new way to make money by others.
Thanx. THAT is interesting stuff. There are times when it frustrates me that our code does not come up to require such things. As to air penetration, that is why when we built our home back in the 70's, we encased it in plastic film (on the outside). Total killed that issue. I think that the better built homes in Colorado still use that, though I watched some 4 seasons from Richmond go up and that looked like something from China; Cheap and dangerous.
JTEC. Use this, drop the alternator as well as the serpentine belt and move towards an all electric system. This would allow them to move a GAS car to an electric powered steering (or perhaps a motor driving hydraulic pump), a heatpump that would also go into an electric car. This would allow a car company to more easily move towards electric cars.
You did notice that the DOD might be interested in this, yes? A hurricane sent into a number of countries could help us out. And not be easily detectable.
Yes; Germany use a lot of Concrete. Stones and most concrete are HORRIBLE insulators. In fact, they are used to STORE heat. The link from above yours has the NEWEST specs on german homes (obviously in german), and if you read it, you will find that the new specs are SUGGESTING to use special concrete to lower the heat transmission below wood. In addition, they move the concrete inside to allow it to serve as passive heat. BTW, the house that we built had R-30 in the walls, and R-40 in the ceiling, and that was in mid 70's. SO yes, insulation DOES matter. I did notice that Germany's NEW EXPENSIVE passive house are running 60/70, but then again, so are the nice homes in America.
BTW, Are you even American? Nearly all states have required double pane windows for AGES. In fact, when I was in my 20's (in the late 70's/early 80), I was framing tract homes in CO. At that time, all of those required double pane windows. Now that may have been local code, but ALL OF THEM were double pane. Do have to say that I was not impressed by the insulation on those homes, but then again, the standards that I originally learned were different.
A couple of things.
First, there is nothing to be insulted about. Many "Stick" homes are as well built as concrete or brick. For example, the home that my family built in mid 70's and I lived in for 8 years was 700 sq meters and during the winter when temps were at -40C, we could heat the whole house with one Oak log. Likewise, we did not run AC when outside temps was below 38C. Once it got above that, THEN we would turn it on. BUT that was because the inside temp had risen to 28C or so.
We had double pane glass throughout (which was becoming the norm back then). In addition, we did have the house well sealed. In addition to running 11 cm of insulation (just like your specs), we also put a thin Styrofoam shell covered with a poly film all under redwood siding. Basically, it was sealed tight. Our total energy bill for that house was far less than the tax bill on it.
Next, while my German is EXTREMELY minimal and rusty (partially from childhood since I am German heritage and partially from working with company in Germany), that would appear to be NEW specs. In fact, they were published in 2008. These are NOT the spec of the homes that I saw in 2006. So what you are doing is trying to compare BRAND NEW SPECS to homes that can be 10-50-100 or even 200 years old.
Basically, you have still not answered the question. While I have little doubt that our older as well as new cheap homes ARE inefficient, I suspect that even the house that I currently live in has equal capability to a EU house. It has 5x15 cm studs in the wall, filled with fiberglass insulation. Likewise, we have over 40 cm of insulation in attic. For the last few days, we (colorado) have have had a nice snow storm. While the outside temps have been at 0C with 45 CM of snow dropping, our furnace never kicked in, though I will say that when we came in from sledding, we did turn on the fireplace.
Brick; Wonderful CONDUCTOR of heat. Heck, it is used to STORE HEAT IN. From what I saw of windows there, it appeared that with the brick in place that you had less than 3 inches of insulation behind the brick. That means that you have less insulation than does an American home. Most of the windows had double pane glass, but I was told that Germany went to double pane glass in early 70's, JUST like America (though several new business buildings did have triple pane; as well as the grass roof; nice). So my question still stands. How much energy does a typical European home use compared to American. Of course, keep in mind that you folks have MUCH nicer climates. For example, when I lived in Northern Ill/Southern Wisc., we saw temps of -40F (which is also -40C) that went up to 106F (41C). Germany did not strike me as having that same extreme.
Brick is a CONDUCTOR of heat, not an insulator. The question is how much insulation is added. Here in America, we have 2x4 or 2x6 studs being used. The homes have either Fiberglass batons or blown in Fiberglass wool. DOuble Pane glass has been the norm for America since the first gas crisis (1972). The homes that I saw in Germany looked like they had less insulation than did American homes. THough I will say that I saw a couple of new businesses with TRIPLE pane glass. Also loved the louvers being OUT of the house. Absolutely thought that was cool.
Gut feeling is that German houses conduct about as much heat away as our older American homes.
When I spent time in Germany, I noticed that their homes really are quite similar to ours. The real issue was that EU has MUCH nicer climate throughout.
With that said, I would like to see a comparison of electrical/Gas usage of a HOME, as opposed to a region. The reason is that most places try to compare regional uses which adds in manufacturing as well as travel.
Not really. The world would have had it MUCH sooner had we been doing what we had been doing in the 50's, 60's, and 70's.
Do not get me wrong. I am not opposed to other nations doing this. I am opposed to our having killed our RD work, while running up debt in much higher numbers.
Back in the 50's, 60's and 70's, the USA would fund such things because we were a rich nation. We, that is society, felt that by funding regular research that we would improve everybody's lot in life, as well our nation. Fortunately, reagan and the republican party saw how much money that fundamental and applied research was costing America and had it stopped before it bankrupted America. Combine that with W's tax cuts for moving research and jobs offshore and we have now accelerated the growth of that research.
On a side note, you have forgotten the recent camera implant for the eye socket. Right now, it does not solve much, but with some research by the govs in China, India, Brazil, and even Iran, it will happen.
Possibly my twin brother. Or perhaps somebody else (1 in what, 36 billion chance). Keep in mind that the DNA evidence is done view fingerprinting (2d electrophoretic gels), and not IDENTICAL matches. But, leaving DNA at a crime scenes is not the issue. It is having it taken from you wrongly.
How do you know that China is secretly building nuclear subs BTW? Countries have ways of verifying through espionage. And that is why China is paranoid about the outside world with our aircrafts and boats. We are working hard to spy and to know EXACTLY what their count is, while China is doing their utmost to keep it hidden. 1935 Germany was the same way. In fact, all countries that are gearing up for a war will be that way. Back in the 50's and 60's, America and USSR KNEW that each other were spying on the other and looked the other way. Why? Because we wanted each other to NOT attack. We did not want a war between us.
If there's a space weapons ban, there's practically no way to test without the whole world coming down on you. Your analogies aren't the same as there aren't similar bans in place on nuclear power or nuclear subs.
You are kidding me, right? The space attack will not be via shooting out sats from earth. It will be by Lasers (which is why we need ABL) as well as kinetic weapons. Kinetic weapons are trivial to point and shoot if you have something like say a number of space stations. Just shoot a wide pattern of BBs at the sat's path.
The Chinese demo of shooting out their own weather sat was to show their Politicians that they are getting there. In addition, it was to get us to think that is where they are at. Look, remember the wonderful FBI "spy" tool (carnivore) that everybody on/. carped about for sorting through email or even the opening of the cell phone lines? Now, that more proof is out, ppl should be realizing that the FBI had FAR more advanced tools that they were working with. They just like to put out fake trails. China is the same way.
Which is why bigelow's BA-330 is interesting. About a foot of material as well as sealing that ABSORBS the item, rather than trying to reflect it. For distance travel, do the smart thing and put that in a metal can.
Any ban that is worth their salts would have a description wanted, a means to verify, and a means to punish those that break that. BUT, that is impossible to do. Take the case of North Korea. Clinton got NK to agree to not do Nukes. It was absolutely prohibited from doing so. Ok. BUT W came into office and started calling NK names. Instantly, it is found that NK has been doing all the steps that are useful for civilian as well as military while pure civilian steps are missing. IOW, they met the letter of the law, and then looked for an out. W then got an agreement out of NK to shutdown their reactor and give up their pursuit of bombs. Ok, no problem other than the fact that NK has prevented inspectors to go where we KNOW that military work WAS going on. AND again NK pursues OTHER banned pursuits, namely a delivery system. Suddenly, NK is announcing that they will re-pursue the bomb since we want to inspect an obvious missile system.
Now, how does this relate to China? Well, Clinton gave MFN to China back in mid 90's. In return, China was to free their money against the dollar as well as drop their trade barriers in early 2002. Did they? Nope. W did nothing to push, while China racked up monster theft of businesses. Now, we are extremely weak. China refuses to do these things even though EU is now insisting on it. Remains to be seen what will happen there.
How does that relate to China's military pursuit? China pushed this banned and trying to get America as well as NATO to lower our military, all the while spying on production of weapons. They are building up 2-4 new nuclear subs a year (1-2 boomers and 1-2 attacks). Of course, they just moved that production into a "hidden underground base" and are trying to prevent the west from seeing the subs from leaving. That was the recent harassment against a US intel ship that was JUST beyond the 200 mile marker. They have been quietly pursuing a quasi-civilian space agency that is ran by the military. No problem, though it is not that open. They have on the board a space station that will be similar to ISS. BUT recently they announced a NEW space station(s) that will be pure military ran. No advantage to it for monitering. None what so ever. The reason is that recon Sats will do a much better job since they can be moved rather quickly compared to manned space station. So what purpose could it have? Ease of adding space weapons.
Space ban is worthless because the one that pushes it has no intention to doing it. And we have no easy way to verify it. More so when said country is still in obvious military cold war.
Slashdot Mirror
It's now Obama that is putting the RIAA in charge of the justice department.
In what possible way can that matter? The ONLY thing that will matter is IFF Obama puts RIAA ppl in Judgeships. IFF that occurs, Then we have a LOT to be worried about. Until then, it does not matter. Lawyers from DOJ or from RIAA will continue to ENFORCE laws on the books. As to Clinton signing the DMCA, that was with a neo-con controlled congress. It passed with LOADS of neo-cons support. Without that, it NEVER would have occurred. In fact, it was authored and introduced by pubs.
I replied back to retchdog who blames all this on lack of manufacturing base. It would not matter if we had a base or not. DMCA still would have happened because it was pushed by big business and big politics.
Speaking abstractly, it's not a bad national strategy in a way. We're fucked economically, and have no manufacturing base to speak of. There's not much we can do except enforce "intellectual property" overseas. The downside is the implicit effect that this will have on domestic freedom and true innovation. I suspect we (as knowledge workers) will be learning some hard lessons in the next few years. I would not be surprised if the FSF and EFF (among others) are forcibly nationalized and destroyed/reorganized within four years.
Give me a fucking break. W and the neo-cons are no longer in control. As such, we are less likely to see constitutional violations. In addition, we are far more likely to see our manufacturing lines come back as oil prices rise. The simple fact is that getting our cheap housewares from China is becoming expensive. Oil will rise it as well.
Such trash talk of nationalization always cracks me up.
If you do not, then cracks will appear and bits will start to drip from it. Soon, that drip will become bigger and you will have bytes dropping out. Cheaper to replace them now, then to lose all those bytes. I can be over there next week to replace them all for a low low price.
>>I suspect that Oracle is going to allow Solaris to be EQUALLY supported
When you're customers are choosing Solaris over Linux, you don't allow Solaris to be supported, it's not your choice. If you want to stay in business and make money, you do what your customers want.
HEHEHEHE.
Sun is selling out BECAUSE they are not making the sales that they use to. In addition, as somebody who finished coding on Solaris, I can tell you that when we were talking to the Sun rep earlier and mentioned Linux on their hardware, they SHOT IT DOWN, FAST. It is NOT about what the customer wants. It is about what Sun can push. Right now, Linux is growing fast, while Solaris is headed downwards. That is why I think that Oracle will switch the sun reps to REQUIRING them to push Oracle AND (either linux OR Solaris, AS CUSTOMER WANTS).
>>They believe that Linux is the way to break MS's monopoly since it has such traction.
And that's the wrong way to do it and it's been failing. First, Linux didn't have traction. Unix had traction but MS has been eating into that market. Linux went after the low hanging fruit, the Unix market since it was more compatible with Unix than MS.
Meanwhile MS has been eating into the server market. The right way to do it would have been to use Linux as a way to stabilize or grow the Unix share in the marketplace against MS and carve out a bigger piece for itself in that space. Instead, they decided to attack the Unix space and spread the same type of FUD that MS does. So in the end, Linux is gaining share against Unix, but it's growing share in a constantly shrinking slice of the pie.
Ms has been BUYING their way into the market. I just checked the netcraft and I noticed that Windows is dropping again while *nix is growing. Linux went into the server space because it was the easiest. Now, they target embedded systems because it is ALSO easy. That is biting into Windows there as well. Finally, step outside of America and you see Linux growing on the desktop quickly. Unixes failure is NOT because of Linux. It was because of bad choices by ppl that wanted 30% profit margins on software. Linux has had MUCH lower margins, but they have the growth. The model is right; give away the software and sell support. So, who else does that model? MS. Where MS does not have a monopoly, they sell it for cheap, or even give it away for free. Then they sell support. Basically, Linux has solid software that is free to do, while you pay for what ever help you need.
As I said earlier, Oracle will likely push Oracle DB and will likely continue to push Linux.
Funny that you deride the Linux COmmunity. Oracle has been busy supporting Linux (redhat) for some time. In addition, they have been porting heavily to it. They believe that Linux is the way to break MS's monopoly since it has such traction.
I suspect that Oracle is going to allow Solaris to be EQUALLY supported, and it will wither away (think SGI,SCO, or any other number of *nixs that slowly disappeared). Oracle will likely continue with the Linux push simply due to traction. Then MS/Solaris Fanbois like yourself will gripe that Oracle let a good thing get away while they and the linux world slowly grows against MS. That of course, is the reason why MS does not know what to think of this.
switch to some other encrypted form of com on new sats and then allow these sats to stay up there in the same context as darpanet creating the internet. What would happen is that new sats would go up with a new way to make money by others.
Thanx. THAT is interesting stuff. There are times when it frustrates me that our code does not come up to require such things. As to air penetration, that is why when we built our home back in the 70's, we encased it in plastic film (on the outside). Total killed that issue. I think that the better built homes in Colorado still use that, though I watched some 4 seasons from Richmond go up and that looked like something from China; Cheap and dangerous.
JTEC. Use this, drop the alternator as well as the serpentine belt and move towards an all electric system. This would allow them to move a GAS car to an electric powered steering (or perhaps a motor driving hydraulic pump), a heatpump that would also go into an electric car. This would allow a car company to more easily move towards electric cars.
You did notice that the DOD might be interested in this, yes? A hurricane sent into a number of countries could help us out. And not be easily detectable.
Yes; Germany use a lot of Concrete. Stones and most concrete are HORRIBLE insulators. In fact, they are used to STORE heat. The link from above yours has the NEWEST specs on german homes (obviously in german), and if you read it, you will find that the new specs are SUGGESTING to use special concrete to lower the heat transmission below wood. In addition, they move the concrete inside to allow it to serve as passive heat. BTW, the house that we built had R-30 in the walls, and R-40 in the ceiling, and that was in mid 70's. SO yes, insulation DOES matter. I did notice that Germany's NEW EXPENSIVE passive house are running 60/70, but then again, so are the nice homes in America.
BTW, Are you even American? Nearly all states have required double pane windows for AGES. In fact, when I was in my 20's (in the late 70's/early 80), I was framing tract homes in CO. At that time, all of those required double pane windows. Now that may have been local code, but ALL OF THEM were double pane. Do have to say that I was not impressed by the insulation on those homes, but then again, the standards that I originally learned were different.
A couple of things.
First, there is nothing to be insulted about. Many "Stick" homes are as well built as concrete or brick. For example, the home that my family built in mid 70's and I lived in for 8 years was 700 sq meters and during the winter when temps were at -40C, we could heat the whole house with one Oak log. Likewise, we did not run AC when outside temps was below 38C. Once it got above that, THEN we would turn it on. BUT that was because the inside temp had risen to 28C or so. We had double pane glass throughout (which was becoming the norm back then). In addition, we did have the house well sealed. In addition to running 11 cm of insulation (just like your specs), we also put a thin Styrofoam shell covered with a poly film all under redwood siding. Basically, it was sealed tight. Our total energy bill for that house was far less than the tax bill on it.
Next, while my German is EXTREMELY minimal and rusty (partially from childhood since I am German heritage and partially from working with company in Germany), that would appear to be NEW specs. In fact, they were published in 2008. These are NOT the spec of the homes that I saw in 2006. So what you are doing is trying to compare BRAND NEW SPECS to homes that can be 10-50-100 or even 200 years old.
Basically, you have still not answered the question. While I have little doubt that our older as well as new cheap homes ARE inefficient, I suspect that even the house that I currently live in has equal capability to a EU house. It has 5x15 cm studs in the wall, filled with fiberglass insulation. Likewise, we have over 40 cm of insulation in attic. For the last few days, we (colorado) have have had a nice snow storm. While the outside temps have been at 0C with 45 CM of snow dropping, our furnace never kicked in, though I will say that when we came in from sledding, we did turn on the fireplace.
Only if you bought them in China and then sold them in America or EU. Otherwise, you will lose money.
Brick; Wonderful CONDUCTOR of heat. Heck, it is used to STORE HEAT IN. From what I saw of windows there, it appeared that with the brick in place that you had less than 3 inches of insulation behind the brick. That means that you have less insulation than does an American home. Most of the windows had double pane glass, but I was told that Germany went to double pane glass in early 70's, JUST like America (though several new business buildings did have triple pane; as well as the grass roof; nice). So my question still stands. How much energy does a typical European home use compared to American. Of course, keep in mind that you folks have MUCH nicer climates. For example, when I lived in Northern Ill/Southern Wisc., we saw temps of -40F (which is also -40C) that went up to 106F (41C). Germany did not strike me as having that same extreme.
Brick is a CONDUCTOR of heat, not an insulator. The question is how much insulation is added. Here in America, we have 2x4 or 2x6 studs being used. The homes have either Fiberglass batons or blown in Fiberglass wool. DOuble Pane glass has been the norm for America since the first gas crisis (1972). The homes that I saw in Germany looked like they had less insulation than did American homes. THough I will say that I saw a couple of new businesses with TRIPLE pane glass. Also loved the louvers being OUT of the house. Absolutely thought that was cool.
Gut feeling is that German houses conduct about as much heat away as our older American homes.
When I spent time in Germany, I noticed that their homes really are quite similar to ours. The real issue was that EU has MUCH nicer climate throughout. With that said, I would like to see a comparison of electrical/Gas usage of a HOME, as opposed to a region. The reason is that most places try to compare regional uses which adds in manufacturing as well as travel.
Not really. The world would have had it MUCH sooner had we been doing what we had been doing in the 50's, 60's, and 70's.
Do not get me wrong. I am not opposed to other nations doing this. I am opposed to our having killed our RD work, while running up debt in much higher numbers.
Back in the 50's, 60's and 70's, the USA would fund such things because we were a rich nation. We, that is society, felt that by funding regular research that we would improve everybody's lot in life, as well our nation. Fortunately, reagan and the republican party saw how much money that fundamental and applied research was costing America and had it stopped before it bankrupted America. Combine that with W's tax cuts for moving research and jobs offshore and we have now accelerated the growth of that research.
On a side note, you have forgotten the recent camera implant for the eye socket. Right now, it does not solve much, but with some research by the govs in China, India, Brazil, and even Iran, it will happen.
Social engineering to improve society. That may be a first.
Possibly my twin brother. Or perhaps somebody else (1 in what, 36 billion chance). Keep in mind that the DNA evidence is done view fingerprinting (2d electrophoretic gels), and not IDENTICAL matches. But, leaving DNA at a crime scenes is not the issue. It is having it taken from you wrongly.
Lets start taking DNA from all illegal's before sending back. If they cross over a second time, then a year in prison.
How do you know that China is secretly building nuclear subs BTW? Countries have ways of verifying through espionage.
/. carped about for sorting through email or even the opening of the cell phone lines? Now, that more proof is out, ppl should be realizing that the FBI had FAR more advanced tools that they were working with. They just like to put out fake trails. China is the same way.
And that is why China is paranoid about the outside world with our aircrafts and boats. We are working hard to spy and to know EXACTLY what their count is, while China is doing their utmost to keep it hidden. 1935 Germany was the same way. In fact, all countries that are gearing up for a war will be that way. Back in the 50's and 60's, America and USSR KNEW that each other were spying on the other and looked the other way. Why? Because we wanted each other to NOT attack. We did not want a war between us.
If there's a space weapons ban, there's practically no way to test without the whole world coming down on you. Your analogies aren't the same as there aren't similar bans in place on nuclear power or nuclear subs.
You are kidding me, right? The space attack will not be via shooting out sats from earth. It will be by Lasers (which is why we need ABL) as well as kinetic weapons. Kinetic weapons are trivial to point and shoot if you have something like say a number of space stations. Just shoot a wide pattern of BBs at the sat's path.
The Chinese demo of shooting out their own weather sat was to show their Politicians that they are getting there. In addition, it was to get us to think that is where they are at. Look, remember the wonderful FBI "spy" tool (carnivore) that everybody on
Which is why bigelow's BA-330 is interesting. About a foot of material as well as sealing that ABSORBS the item, rather than trying to reflect it. For distance travel, do the smart thing and put that in a metal can.
Does a mag work on aluminum, Fuels, Insulation, Paint Flecs, and Titanium?
Any ban that is worth their salts would have a description wanted, a means to verify, and a means to punish those that break that. BUT, that is impossible to do. Take the case of North Korea. Clinton got NK to agree to not do Nukes. It was absolutely prohibited from doing so. Ok. BUT W came into office and started calling NK names. Instantly, it is found that NK has been doing all the steps that are useful for civilian as well as military while pure civilian steps are missing. IOW, they met the letter of the law, and then looked for an out. W then got an agreement out of NK to shutdown their reactor and give up their pursuit of bombs. Ok, no problem other than the fact that NK has prevented inspectors to go where we KNOW that military work WAS going on. AND again NK pursues OTHER banned pursuits, namely a delivery system. Suddenly, NK is announcing that they will re-pursue the bomb since we want to inspect an obvious missile system.
Now, how does this relate to China? Well, Clinton gave MFN to China back in mid 90's. In return, China was to free their money against the dollar as well as drop their trade barriers in early 2002. Did they? Nope. W did nothing to push, while China racked up monster theft of businesses. Now, we are extremely weak. China refuses to do these things even though EU is now insisting on it. Remains to be seen what will happen there.
How does that relate to China's military pursuit? China pushed this banned and trying to get America as well as NATO to lower our military, all the while spying on production of weapons. They are building up 2-4 new nuclear subs a year (1-2 boomers and 1-2 attacks). Of course, they just moved that production into a "hidden underground base" and are trying to prevent the west from seeing the subs from leaving. That was the recent harassment against a US intel ship that was JUST beyond the 200 mile marker. They have been quietly pursuing a quasi-civilian space agency that is ran by the military. No problem, though it is not that open. They have on the board a space station that will be similar to ISS. BUT recently they announced a NEW space station(s) that will be pure military ran. No advantage to it for monitering. None what so ever. The reason is that recon Sats will do a much better job since they can be moved rather quickly compared to manned space station. So what purpose could it have? Ease of adding space weapons.
Space ban is worthless because the one that pushes it has no intention to doing it. And we have no easy way to verify it. More so when said country is still in obvious military cold war.