You must be a business person. The odds are that he did NOT cheat. Several reasons;
After Richardson and Geither were caught with pant's down, Obama's ppl started hard core vetting EVERYONE. The other 2 were suggested before either Richardson or Geither debacles.
The man moved here when he was 11. He IS an American by upbringing. And watching my wife (a first generation American of Indian descent) it is obvious that they try hard to assimilate here while at home being a bit more Indian.
Did you setup the "MOM" account FIRST, before installing software as admin?
Eh???? Why would you have to install software second? At some point, you will want to add other users. Will they not be able to access the software?
Our missions to the moon before can be compared to what others did in moving from Europe to Americas. Basically, exploratory at first, followed by settlement later. We probably have spent far too long on the ISS, but many lessons have been learned. Probably one of the most important is the cost of doing this is expensive and needs to come down. Part of that is by recycling. That is what is happening NOW with the last few trips and the next few. Once we recycle air and water with little loss RELIABLY, then we will see costs drop. While mars will be about cheap none solar energy, the moon will be all about reliable recycling systems. The energy will not be cheap, but much more so than mars. The moon will use solar on the poles with nukes to follow. But to be honest, I have been wondering if thermal would be a better idea. JTEC strikes me that it can use temp differences just in the soil at the poles. For example, storing heat on one side of berm of over 100C, while on the other side of the crater would be -200C. That is a pretty good differential.
The only companies out there that are doing anything are the ones that are just looking to send people up in a parabolic arc without even reaching orbit for $200k a pop, and those looking to shoot dead people's ashes into space. None of these are particularly thrilling endeavors in my opinion.
Yeah, it would be so COOL if instead a company was working on developing giant ballon space ship that could serve as a section of a space station, a travel section to the moon/mars, and perhaps be put on the surface of these. In addition, a private company that could launch such a private venture into at least leo for cheaper prices than all others would be needed. And to take it a step futher, said company should also be thinking of competing as well as partnering with above company. IOW, the launch company should want to get us to the moon and mars ASAP.
But of course, there would never be any private companies that would want to do any of these things.
Which is really why we need DIVERSIFIED energy sources. Right now, Wind is doing good on its own. Solar PV is getting funding, but that has to be the biggest mistake going. Though to be fair, in another 10 years, it probably will not be. What is needed is development work on solar thermal as well as geo-thermal power and HVAC.
If we do all that, combined with more nukes, we would be better off (lower costs of energy).
It's a real shame that companies presently developing private space vehicles are more concerned with just getting people far up enough to enjoy freefall (for dumb prices) instead of really looking towards space.
Yeah, it is a real shame that a product is developed for a REAL market. And the amazing thing is that nobody would really think to convert one of those launchers to holding a much smaller launcher than can take up small sats into LEO. Yup. Horrible thought that Scaled will almost certainly develop a cargo version of their SS2 that allows a small rocket and sat to be launched all on short notice and for a FRACTION of the costs that Orbital will do it at(35 million), or probably even spaceX with their original falcon I (7 million). I suspect that scaled (or more likely the companies that buy the equipment such as virgin) would charge around 2-3 million to launch said small sats.
But of course, it will not come to be.
A decade ago, when the economy was awesome, we could expect several 100 response on this. Maybe more. Now, it is less than 100, while discussions about the global economy as well who is at fault garner 500-1000 responses.
Mozilla vs MSIE. Mozilla was superior to MSIE in just about everyway and it was free for download. MSIE won because it was included. Superior products do not win unless on a neutral playing field. And Windows is not neutral when it is against MS.
Combine this with the ability to put water IN THE AIR. Then allow it to be taken out in Utah and Colorado. That would fill up the reservoirs, which is needed for Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nv, and Southern Cal via the Colorado River Basin. Then we can skip the need to develop pipes or even in ground water.
I am guessing that you have not been paying attention to Russel Tice or the ongoing case about W's admin spying on all American's communication. And if they are spying on us, what make you think that they are not spying on the majority of the world?
And you think that a little bitty notice on an obvious DOD site is scary?
Well, that is where we developed the word "holy". I guess it was a mistranslation and it was suppose to be "hole". Apparently, the bible is NOT perfect.
Getting rid of our nuclear "waste" (which disregards the potential to use it for something useful, like an IFR)? Of course, I wonder if you feed it, will it grow and stay around? And suppose you do feed it, how does it collapse on itself and what happens to the matter that was feed it? Personally, I think this would be a REALLY cool experiment to do in about 50 years outside of the solar system.
That this would be the end of the world that neo-cons hope and pray for. Now, they will not have to see a black president in for long, nor take responsibility for their actions.
Screw the production. If we figure out storage, then production will come all over. You can bet on it that nukes AND AE will be built as fast as possible. That is why I would love to see us use SMALL solar thermal COMBINED with salt storage as storage in cities. You figure that in the nighttime, it can take excess power and store it as heat. When the storage is getting hot, then skip using solar. By doing this on say 1 mile grids, it would allow us to decouple homes from the power. In fact, if done correctly, the small storage/grid approach could lead to new small business.
We need to implement IFRs. All the waste is wasted energy. We barely tap what is there. If we moved to electric cars/trucks, built all our power plants as IFR's, and used nothing but the waste, it would power America for 100 years. The problem is that we are worried about nuclear proliferation, when at the same time, you have neo-cons selling our nuclear bomb know how to Turkey and Pakistan (and it is not known how much further those guys went). In the end, an IFR is the right answer. I am hopeful that Obama will do what W did not; restart Poppa Bush's program.
Well, I started on slashdot back in 98, but did not register until much later (I preferred AC due to security issues; I never give my info to new sites, and VERY rarely to those that run Windows (have not, will not use monster.com, though I use newegg) ). More importantly, This guy has been registered since at least 2000.
First, my condolences. Parents should never have to outlive their children.
Second, the tech has changed drastically. They now have the ability to change a regular cell into a stem cell. Due to the issues concerning the use of regular stem cells, I am sure that within 4 more years, this is be normal and easy to do. To be honest, my wife and I thought about it 2 years ago, but decided against it for the reason above.
At first, I agreed with you, but changed my mind. First, look at his #. He has had it a long time. You really can not expect him to change it. Secondly, while it is a bit of a shock, it is also a bit of remembrance.
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LOL; Best line that I have seen in ages to describe this. However, while it is easy to hit the man on his tech, have to admire his marketing.
Vivek Kundra does things that look good on a resume, but dont really make sense in his role. His staff of 600 has been mandated to run more opensource software, and while OpenOffice looks good on paper it has created a nightmare for systems integrators who struggle to convert systems that are deployed across the nation on Microsoft products, and have to be hacked to work with the Open Source competitors. Vivek Kundra, CTO of the District of Columbia, says he found two compelling reasons to switch the D.C. government over to Gmail and Google Apps: ...
I would say that he is open source friendly. More importantly, he has taken punches and knows to keep going.
The man moved here when he was 11. He IS an American by upbringing. And watching my wife (a first generation American of Indian descent) it is obvious that they try hard to assimilate here while at home being a bit more Indian.
Absolutely NONE. You can bet on it that after Geither showed up with issues that ALL APPOINTMENTS after that were VETTED HARD.
Not anymore. Both KDE and GNOME have basic. Since we now have that, it would appear that rpg, algol, SNOBOL and .bat are on their way. :)
Did you setup the "MOM" account FIRST, before installing software as admin?
Eh???? Why would you have to install software second? At some point, you will want to add other users. Will they not be able to access the software?
NASA wanted to re-do it in the 80's as well as 90s. Remember the x-33?
Our missions to the moon before can be compared to what others did in moving from Europe to Americas. Basically, exploratory at first, followed by settlement later. We probably have spent far too long on the ISS, but many lessons have been learned. Probably one of the most important is the cost of doing this is expensive and needs to come down. Part of that is by recycling. That is what is happening NOW with the last few trips and the next few. Once we recycle air and water with little loss RELIABLY, then we will see costs drop. While mars will be about cheap none solar energy, the moon will be all about reliable recycling systems. The energy will not be cheap, but much more so than mars. The moon will use solar on the poles with nukes to follow. But to be honest, I have been wondering if thermal would be a better idea. JTEC strikes me that it can use temp differences just in the soil at the poles. For example, storing heat on one side of berm of over 100C, while on the other side of the crater would be -200C. That is a pretty good differential.
The only companies out there that are doing anything are the ones that are just looking to send people up in a parabolic arc without even reaching orbit for $200k a pop, and those looking to shoot dead people's ashes into space. None of these are particularly thrilling endeavors in my opinion.
Yeah, it would be so COOL if instead a company was working on developing giant ballon space ship that could serve as a section of a space station, a travel section to the moon/mars, and perhaps be put on the surface of these. In addition, a private company that could launch such a private venture into at least leo for cheaper prices than all others would be needed. And to take it a step futher, said company should also be thinking of competing as well as partnering with above company. IOW, the launch company should want to get us to the moon and mars ASAP.
But of course, there would never be any private companies that would want to do any of these things.
Which is really why we need DIVERSIFIED energy sources. Right now, Wind is doing good on its own. Solar PV is getting funding, but that has to be the biggest mistake going. Though to be fair, in another 10 years, it probably will not be. What is needed is development work on solar thermal as well as geo-thermal power and HVAC.
If we do all that, combined with more nukes, we would be better off (lower costs of energy).
It's a real shame that companies presently developing private space vehicles are more concerned with just getting people far up enough to enjoy freefall (for dumb prices) instead of really looking towards space.
Yeah, it is a real shame that a product is developed for a REAL market. And the amazing thing is that nobody would really think to convert one of those launchers to holding a much smaller launcher than can take up small sats into LEO. Yup. Horrible thought that Scaled will almost certainly develop a cargo version of their SS2 that allows a small rocket and sat to be launched all on short notice and for a FRACTION of the costs that Orbital will do it at(35 million), or probably even spaceX with their original falcon I (7 million). I suspect that scaled (or more likely the companies that buy the equipment such as virgin) would charge around 2-3 million to launch said small sats.
But of course, it will not come to be.
A decade ago, when the economy was awesome, we could expect several 100 response on this. Maybe more. Now, it is less than 100, while discussions about the global economy as well who is at fault garner 500-1000 responses.
Mozilla vs MSIE. Mozilla was superior to MSIE in just about everyway and it was free for download. MSIE won because it was included. Superior products do not win unless on a neutral playing field. And Windows is not neutral when it is against MS.
Not sure that I would want to be located downstream from a chinese built dam.
Combine this with the ability to put water IN THE AIR. Then allow it to be taken out in Utah and Colorado. That would fill up the reservoirs, which is needed for Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nv, and Southern Cal via the Colorado River Basin. Then we can skip the need to develop pipes or even in ground water.
I am guessing that you have not been paying attention to Russel Tice or the ongoing case about W's admin spying on all American's communication. And if they are spying on us, what make you think that they are not spying on the majority of the world?
And you think that a little bitty notice on an obvious DOD site is scary?
Well, that is where we developed the word "holy". I guess it was a mistranslation and it was suppose to be "hole". Apparently, the bible is NOT perfect.
Getting rid of our nuclear "waste" (which disregards the potential to use it for something useful, like an IFR)? Of course, I wonder if you feed it, will it grow and stay around? And suppose you do feed it, how does it collapse on itself and what happens to the matter that was feed it? Personally, I think this would be a REALLY cool experiment to do in about 50 years outside of the solar system.
That this would be the end of the world that neo-cons hope and pray for. Now, they will not have to see a black president in for long, nor take responsibility for their actions.
Screw the production. If we figure out storage, then production will come all over. You can bet on it that nukes AND AE will be built as fast as possible. That is why I would love to see us use SMALL solar thermal COMBINED with salt storage as storage in cities. You figure that in the nighttime, it can take excess power and store it as heat. When the storage is getting hot, then skip using solar. By doing this on say 1 mile grids, it would allow us to decouple homes from the power. In fact, if done correctly, the small storage/grid approach could lead to new small business.
We need to implement IFRs. All the waste is wasted energy. We barely tap what is there. If we moved to electric cars/trucks, built all our power plants as IFR's, and used nothing but the waste, it would power America for 100 years. The problem is that we are worried about nuclear proliferation, when at the same time, you have neo-cons selling our nuclear bomb know how to Turkey and Pakistan (and it is not known how much further those guys went). In the end, an IFR is the right answer. I am hopeful that Obama will do what W did not; restart Poppa Bush's program.
Well, I started on slashdot back in 98, but did not register until much later (I preferred AC due to security issues; I never give my info to new sites, and VERY rarely to those that run Windows (have not, will not use monster.com, though I use newegg) ). More importantly, This guy has been registered since at least 2000.
First, my condolences. Parents should never have to outlive their children.
Second, the tech has changed drastically. They now have the ability to change a regular cell into a stem cell. Due to the issues concerning the use of regular stem cells, I am sure that within 4 more years, this is be normal and easy to do. To be honest, my wife and I thought about it 2 years ago, but decided against it for the reason above.
At first, I agreed with you, but changed my mind. First, look at his #. He has had it a long time. You really can not expect him to change it.
Secondly, while it is a bit of a shock, it is also a bit of remembrance.