Right now, we are seeing an artificial elevation in Cancer and other diseases. More importantly, these are tied to sharing of blood. We all carry viruses, and this sharing of blood is preferable to dying right then, BUT, a slow death is not much better.
BOTH, Brazil and India have laws in place, but companies in both countries ignore those laws unless they are large or foreign companies. Then, and only then, does the gov. watch the company (esp. the foreign companies). For medium to small ones, it is anything goes. Apparently, there are few officials who give a crap. While I have never been to either country (yet), Yes, I have talked to ppl from both. My in-laws are Indian, and a number of old friends are from various parts of South America, including Brazil.
It is certain that Wiki will continue to receive money and donations for years to come. What I find interesting is that MS is slowing killing off what was considered for decades its core programs. Flight Sim is gone. Now Encartia. At one time, those WERE big players for MS.
Yeah, I have always been amazed that Unions are NOT pushing it everywhere. They take the attitude that 3rd world countries can not compete and are unimportant. Yet, it is EXACTLY where they SHOULD be. The west is overall OK (not great, but OK). But workers in China, India, Brazil, etc are treated horribly and subjected to horrible environmental conditions. If the unions would even push a LOW MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE, it would make a difference to the world.
Yeah; I know the feeling. VW rabbit. That is pretty funny. One of my many wild nights I owned a Rabbit and drove it off a cliff at Horsetooth reservoir in Ft. Collins Col.. Fortunately, I did not kill it, but that was amazing in its own right.
I suspect TomTom will not be the first to be threatened for using Linux in an embedded fashion such as this. You win. THey were not the first to be threatened. Of course, the real issue that they are not likely to be the last.
Coffee. Wonderful stimulant for either early AM or late noon.
Hmmmm. That might explain why the father at my old Catholic High School (Marian Central) bought a new Trans Am 455HO. Of course, back then, I just thought that he wanted to have a good time.
How about a USB based set of balls that hang like those stupid ones on trucks? Will that make it manly?
Heck, could make the balls useful by either contracting when it is cold, hanging further when hot, or, as the system is up longer, it pushes artificial hair out to indicate age of time up? Of course, for some ppl, they will want a scratch and sniff on it.
Take it step further; Sell these to dykes. Then they can say that they have a pair to show.
Actually, Russia has done a great job of trying to get their companies (note: not their ppl) to be paid what American companies are paid. I am fine with that. SpaceX, Scaled, etc are what will bring down the obscene profits by American space companies. Russia is not the enemy on this. Instead, it is the fact that the prices that we pay for our space systems is keeping us from developing real space bases (i.e. mars, moon,etc). Russia pushing their prices up is the best thing that happened to us. If they charged 10M/seat for Americans, it would make THEIR program bloom. NOW, it is our commercial systems that will grow. Assuming that SpaceX is successful with Falcon 9/Dragon/Falcon 9 Heavy, THAT will force Boeing/LMart to re-do their approach. Heck, those 2 are fighting against orbital for ISS -resupply, with a craft that will be a fraction of the costs of shuttle. If we are lucky, those two will push for money from cots-d and get a system into space. Once we have several private companies in LEO, AND Bigelow, we will see an explosion in space systems akin to what opening the internet did.
Yeah, I have to agree with some of what you are saying. The liking and hatred towards obama based on his skin color is incredible. Personally, I view him as another president and HOPEFULLY, he will be a good one. Of course, I voted out the neo-cons because I hated their running up 16 years of massive debt (reagan and W), and now the liberals and obama seem to want to do the same. Time will tell.
Actually, the tourists are paying 25M (though Simonyi paid 30M). The American gov will be paying 50M/seat for the same thing. And I SAID that it is what the market will bear, so I like what Russia is doing. Their actions will encourage congress to not be dependant on them. Of course, Congress/NASA now have to think ahead. Many inside of Congress/NASA are opposed to getting SpaceX to the point of doing crewed dragons, which is a major mistake. Space travel WILL progress regardless if America leads or not. It would actually be in America's best interest to pay to get SpaceX, Bigelow and even boeing/l-mart's new venture into space.
Doc, normally, I would agree with you, but not now. You are SO FAR OUT THERE.
There is no doubt that Russia has made a nice sum of money on tourism. In fact, they have been charging 25M/seat and are raising it to 50M/seat for US to buy them. I think that they are trying to rip us off on that. BUT, the tourism has started a GREAT thing. Now, it makes Bigelow/spacex/etc look great. As to the price that Russia is charging, it is what the market will bear. I say AWESOME. That price should cause CHOKING by our congressmen. Musk has it right. He can send up 7 ppl for about 2/3 of the price of 2 Americans via Russia. Basically, Russia is doing America, in fact, the west, a favor. Otherwise, if they were below Spacex prices, it would make arguing for SpaceX COTS-D difficult. It is no different than when OPEC ran up the price of oil. I LOVED IT. We were moving forward with AE.
I would not mind seeing us offer up a SMALL taxcut to get some folks thinking about. In fact, I would like to see us offer a small cut for anybody going up on American equipment.
This is hailed as the end of the tourism. I am guessing that there will be at MOST 3 year delay, and I am starting to think not even that much. The shuttle sounds like it will be extended for 1-2 years due to the ares I delay. In fact, I am guessing that the dems will extend the shuttle UNTIL SpaceX is on-line with crew capability.
The shuttle will be used to rotate crews until 2012, and most likely we will plant a dragon on the ISS as a 7 person lifeboat, which will solve the issue of requiring 2 soyuz.
We are about to have plenty of up cargo capability (Progress, ATV, HTV, and within another year or two, spaceX and Orbital). SpaceX will be the only down cargo. The important issue is crew. If SpaceX has a number of launches by mid-2011 (when they are suppose to have their human rated capsule ready), then I could see the shuttle being stopped and dragon taking over the western crew.
In addition, Bigelow will almost certainly run their system up once falcon 9 flies.
Tourism is about to make it BIG. It will all be for the bloody rich, but, those same ppl are not impacted on something like this.
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Odd thing is that if our age of living ever reaches 100 or more, I would guess that age of consent will be raised to 20-25. Below that, it will be if ppl are within 5-10 years of each other, it will be judged ok. The age of consent/adulthood has more to do with our length of life, than it does with ability to judge. Heck, if based on ability, then it would be age 30 for men and 25 for women.
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a nine year old is incapable of giving informed consent to sex by virtue of his or her age
Back in that time, once a girl started menstruation, she was considered an adult. For all you know, she did menstruate. With that said, 9 y.o.s also owned homes, etc back then. Why? Because ppl were living to 40-50 y.o., not 70-100. Heck, look in parts of Africa today, and you will see the same thing happening all over again. Why? Because so many are dying from HIV, so better to start them early.
amazing what a number of new neutron bombs on new nuclear subs (2-4 EACH YEAR for the last 4 years; and more are being built) can do if launched from the gulf of mexico. Oddly, W and the neo-cons moved many of our nuclear assets to TEXAS! That would leave us with 1-2 minutes to figure out what the f*** to do.
China not only has their money fixed against the dollar, but they also have trade barriers against imports. Now, they are fighting to continue to pollute at will, while the west is cracked down. It seems to me that if the west is smart, they will skip the cap/trade and instead do a VAT on ALL GOODS (local made for local sell and imported for local sell ) BASED ON POLLUTION esp CO2.
Botnets infect ANY old windows computer. Infecting 1200 highly targeted systems is impressive. It means that they know who and what they are looking for. Otherwise, if they infected 12000 computers, somebody probably would catch on quickly.
that India (like China) has fixed their rupees against the dollar to make Exports cheap. It is almost certain that the West is going to say enough is enough and stop that to all countries that fix their money. When that happens AND they are forced to clean up their power emissions, then I think that the cheap car will be anything BUT.
How are you certain of that? Some plants grow upside down just fine, while others fail. More likely than not, when this was first tried, I would bet that most ppl thought that ALL plants would fail, or succeed, not just some of them. Simply put, we do not know UNTIL it is tried. I am guessing that some plants will do just fine, and others will fail miserably.
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Right now, we are seeing an artificial elevation in Cancer and other diseases. More importantly, these are tied to sharing of blood. We all carry viruses, and this sharing of blood is preferable to dying right then, BUT, a slow death is not much better.
BOTH, Brazil and India have laws in place, but companies in both countries ignore those laws unless they are large or foreign companies. Then, and only then, does the gov. watch the company (esp. the foreign companies). For medium to small ones, it is anything goes. Apparently, there are few officials who give a crap. While I have never been to either country (yet), Yes, I have talked to ppl from both. My in-laws are Indian, and a number of old friends are from various parts of South America, including Brazil.
It is certain that Wiki will continue to receive money and donations for years to come. What I find interesting is that MS is slowing killing off what was considered for decades its core programs. Flight Sim is gone. Now Encartia. At one time, those WERE big players for MS.
Yeah, I have always been amazed that Unions are NOT pushing it everywhere. They take the attitude that 3rd world countries can not compete and are unimportant. Yet, it is EXACTLY where they SHOULD be. The west is overall OK (not great, but OK). But workers in China, India, Brazil, etc are treated horribly and subjected to horrible environmental conditions. If the unions would even push a LOW MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE, it would make a difference to the world.
Yeah; I know the feeling. VW rabbit. That is pretty funny. One of my many wild nights I owned a Rabbit and drove it off a cliff at Horsetooth reservoir in Ft. Collins Col.. Fortunately, I did not kill it, but that was amazing in its own right.
Well, certainly like to race. I honestly hope that is all it ever was. He really was an awesome priest and individual.
I suspect TomTom will not be the first to be threatened for using Linux in an embedded fashion such as this.
You win. THey were not the first to be threatened. Of course, the real issue that they are not likely to be the last.
Coffee. Wonderful stimulant for either early AM or late noon.
a bob woodward comes from it. After that, news media are in MAJOR trouble.
Hmmmm. That might explain why the father at my old Catholic High School (Marian Central) bought a new Trans Am 455HO. Of course, back then, I just thought that he wanted to have a good time.
Did not work for you. Huh?
How about a USB based set of balls that hang like those stupid ones on trucks? Will that make it manly?
Heck, could make the balls useful by either contracting when it is cold, hanging further when hot, or, as the system is up longer, it pushes artificial hair out to indicate age of time up? Of course, for some ppl, they will want a scratch and sniff on it.
Take it step further; Sell these to dykes. Then they can say that they have a pair to show.
Why? You do not not allows your wife out without her's?
Of course, the real question should be, have you quit beating your wife?
Actually, Russia has done a great job of trying to get their companies (note: not their ppl) to be paid what American companies are paid. I am fine with that. SpaceX, Scaled, etc are what will bring down the obscene profits by American space companies. Russia is not the enemy on this. Instead, it is the fact that the prices that we pay for our space systems is keeping us from developing real space bases (i.e. mars, moon,etc). Russia pushing their prices up is the best thing that happened to us. If they charged 10M/seat for Americans, it would make THEIR program bloom. NOW, it is our commercial systems that will grow. Assuming that SpaceX is successful with Falcon 9/Dragon/Falcon 9 Heavy, THAT will force Boeing/LMart to re-do their approach. Heck, those 2 are fighting against orbital for ISS -resupply, with a craft that will be a fraction of the costs of shuttle. If we are lucky, those two will push for money from cots-d and get a system into space. Once we have several private companies in LEO, AND Bigelow, we will see an explosion in space systems akin to what opening the internet did.
Yeah, I have to agree with some of what you are saying. The liking and hatred towards obama based on his skin color is incredible. Personally, I view him as another president and HOPEFULLY, he will be a good one. Of course, I voted out the neo-cons because I hated their running up 16 years of massive debt (reagan and W), and now the liberals and obama seem to want to do the same. Time will tell.
Actually, the tourists are paying 25M (though Simonyi paid 30M). The American gov will be paying 50M/seat for the same thing. And I SAID that it is what the market will bear, so I like what Russia is doing. Their actions will encourage congress to not be dependant on them. Of course, Congress/NASA now have to think ahead. Many inside of Congress/NASA are opposed to getting SpaceX to the point of doing crewed dragons, which is a major mistake. Space travel WILL progress regardless if America leads or not. It would actually be in America's best interest to pay to get SpaceX, Bigelow and even boeing/l-mart's new venture into space.
Doc, normally, I would agree with you, but not now. You are SO FAR OUT THERE.
There is no doubt that Russia has made a nice sum of money on tourism. In fact, they have been charging 25M/seat and are raising it to 50M/seat for US to buy them. I think that they are trying to rip us off on that. BUT, the tourism has started a GREAT thing. Now, it makes Bigelow/spacex/etc look great. As to the price that Russia is charging, it is what the market will bear. I say AWESOME. That price should cause CHOKING by our congressmen. Musk has it right. He can send up 7 ppl for about 2/3 of the price of 2 Americans via Russia. Basically, Russia is doing America, in fact, the west, a favor. Otherwise, if they were below Spacex prices, it would make arguing for SpaceX COTS-D difficult. It is no different than when OPEC ran up the price of oil. I LOVED IT. We were moving forward with AE.
I would not mind seeing us offer up a SMALL taxcut to get some folks thinking about. In fact, I would like to see us offer a small cut for anybody going up on American equipment.
This is hailed as the end of the tourism. I am guessing that there will be at MOST 3 year delay, and I am starting to think not even that much. The shuttle sounds like it will be extended for 1-2 years due to the ares I delay. In fact, I am guessing that the dems will extend the shuttle UNTIL SpaceX is on-line with crew capability. The shuttle will be used to rotate crews until 2012, and most likely we will plant a dragon on the ISS as a 7 person lifeboat, which will solve the issue of requiring 2 soyuz. We are about to have plenty of up cargo capability (Progress, ATV, HTV, and within another year or two, spaceX and Orbital). SpaceX will be the only down cargo. The important issue is crew. If SpaceX has a number of launches by mid-2011 (when they are suppose to have their human rated capsule ready), then I could see the shuttle being stopped and dragon taking over the western crew.
In addition, Bigelow will almost certainly run their system up once falcon 9 flies.
Tourism is about to make it BIG. It will all be for the bloody rich, but, those same ppl are not impacted on something like this.
Odd thing is that if our age of living ever reaches 100 or more, I would guess that age of consent will be raised to 20-25. Below that, it will be if ppl are within 5-10 years of each other, it will be judged ok. The age of consent/adulthood has more to do with our length of life, than it does with ability to judge. Heck, if based on ability, then it would be age 30 for men and 25 for women.
a nine year old is incapable of giving informed consent to sex by virtue of his or her age
Back in that time, once a girl started menstruation, she was considered an adult. For all you know, she did menstruate. With that said, 9 y.o.s also owned homes, etc back then. Why? Because ppl were living to 40-50 y.o., not 70-100. Heck, look in parts of Africa today, and you will see the same thing happening all over again. Why? Because so many are dying from HIV, so better to start them early.
amazing what a number of new neutron bombs on new nuclear subs (2-4 EACH YEAR for the last 4 years; and more are being built) can do if launched from the gulf of mexico. Oddly, W and the neo-cons moved many of our nuclear assets to TEXAS! That would leave us with 1-2 minutes to figure out what the f*** to do.
China not only has their money fixed against the dollar, but they also have trade barriers against imports. Now, they are fighting to continue to pollute at will, while the west is cracked down. It seems to me that if the west is smart, they will skip the cap/trade and instead do a VAT on ALL GOODS (local made for local sell and imported for local sell ) BASED ON POLLUTION esp CO2.
Botnets infect ANY old windows computer. Infecting 1200 highly targeted systems is impressive. It means that they know who and what they are looking for. Otherwise, if they infected 12000 computers, somebody probably would catch on quickly.
that India (like China) has fixed their rupees against the dollar to make Exports cheap. It is almost certain that the West is going to say enough is enough and stop that to all countries that fix their money. When that happens AND they are forced to clean up their power emissions, then I think that the cheap car will be anything BUT.
How are you certain of that? Some plants grow upside down just fine, while others fail. More likely than not, when this was first tried, I would bet that most ppl thought that ALL plants would fail, or succeed, not just some of them. Simply put, we do not know UNTIL it is tried. I am guessing that some plants will do just fine, and others will fail miserably.