We are moving towards an electric battlefield. It will use rail guns as well as lasers. The reason is that carrying bullets is expensive and difficult. But lasers and rails guns are a lot easier EXCEPT for power. All of our new systems will provide LOADS of power just for these. The naval DDX and the F-22 are geared just for these. The M1A1 is being studied for a mobile rail gun. Well, the DOD is now studying to solve that issue via SPS. It will also mean that a team on the ground can START with power right from the gitgo. In addition, it will mean logistics is no longer expensive and hard.
Finally, the DOD likes to think in terms of multi uses for their items (for example, they now have relatively little cargo aircraft; airlines were given money to guarantee that DOD would have access to cargo flights). As such, they are thinking that SPS will be used by FEMA to provide power in disaster areas. Imagine the difference if china could have gotten power into the earthquake area RIGHT after. How many lives could have been saved? I would guess quite a few. We have the same issue with hurricanes, wild fires, tornadoes, and of course earthquakes.
In fact, at the poles, there are crater EDGES that have near constant sun, but the craters themselves, get zero. And for a solar collector, just run it up on a tower. That would enable 100% collecting.
I had not thought about it before, but I wonder if that is not a better idea than PV?
The reason is that they are easy to hide. A mass driver can be seen launching. Somebody would KNOW where and when and simply move their sats a few inches. Anything that would hit earth would have to be BIG and that means a REALLY big rail. But a laser is not seen shooting until AFTER it hits the target. Nothing can get out of the way. That means it can not be defended against easily esp. if it has staying power AND power. In fact, it is almost certain when a mass driver pointed at earth appears, than you can safely assume that powerful lasers are already there.
Look, get past all the W. rhetoric. Living on the moon just became relatively cheap. For us to live there is going to sending loads O2, or providing lots of power to mine it. We are currently looking at solar power, but that really is not going to provide enough. In particular, solar will not do the job away from the poles. It would require beaming it combined with storage. That is until recently. Japan has found lots of uranium there. Not earth level, but it appears to be more than we could ship easily. Japan also has a nuclear reactor designed for the moon (the toshiba 4S). That will open up the moon to be relatively cheap.
But more important than that, is that from that uranium, we can breed plutonium that we can use to power ships as well a sats elsewhere and perhaps a base on mars. In addition, with that kind of power, we can build a rail launcher on the moon. Even more important than the He3, is the simple fact that it opens up the solar system for us. That uranium being there will do that for us.
Sad to say it to the submitter, but for many people "Republican" and "E-Voting" instantly casts suspicions of tampering for a wide variety of reasons, including but not limited to significant monetary connections between Diebold (now PES) and the Republican party and a claim from someone from Diebold that they would "deliver the election" or something like that.
While it is true that nearly all (or is it all) of the e-vote systems are controlled by republican CEO's, I am more inclined to believe that these ppl will take a bribe from highest bidder rather than worry too much about politics.
The system is set-up to PREVENT voters from fraud. Even on the electronics, it is set-up. Any issue will almost certainly be out of your control.
The real problem with the electronics is that the COMPANY who built and service it can commit fraud. And it is next to impossible to detect. All a politician has to do is pay off somebody up high and then the company will do things like last minute software updates in warehouses, that were post inspection. Sadly, it is easy to do.
First, you are only responsible for the first 50 dollars if CC (well, here in the states; I would think that in CA you would not be held responsible for any lose).
Second, if you do NOT sign it, and somebody else signs it with THEIR signature, then the 2 to blame are you and the other person. You, because you did not do what you were suppose to. At the least, put CID on their, but I suggest, CID/sig.
How many in congress or the senate? Multiple; Muslims, Hindu, Jews, Buddhist, many Christian religions (protestant, catholic, Anglican/Episcopalian (American version of CoE), seven day adventist, Morman, etc), Agnostictics, etc have been congress(wo)?men. Muslim is fairly recent, but still there.
Since the beginning of America, Religion has really never been a big thing for us UNTIL reagan. Eisenhower brought it in a bit because he was 7 day and we had the big red scare. In addition, Kennedy was a bit of an issue, but he put it to bed with his "My religion is just that; Mine; I do not answer to the pope". But until reagan, it was for the most part a none issue. When reagan came about, he used the far religious right wingnuts and brought to the forefront such notables as Jerry falwell, Pat Roberts, James Dobson, and David Duke (both KKK and relgious, but was accepted and even pushed by most pubs of that time). Poppa Bush and Clinton kept them fairly separate. But even now, McCain has promised religious right wing nuts to load the SCOTUS with anti-choice judges as well as force schools to allow teaching of creationism as science. Hopefully, we will go back to keeping religion and politics separate.
I can say that to really win, you need to win the votes from both parties, not just your own.
Actually, either major party AND the indies will be more than 50%. But picking up ppl from another party will help. The interesting thing is that BOTH candidates are going to pick up ppl from the opposing party. No doubt there will be more dems that will vote McCain, just due to skin color. Of course, there will be pubs that vote Obama looking for a change.
Offhand, I say watch the VP very carefully. McCain has a good chance of dying in office (old age) and sadly, I suspect that same is true of Obama (some kkk nazi pub type).
To be pres/vice-pres, yes, you must be born here. All else is open. In fact, I am guessing that Schwarzenegger may chose to be a senator once he is done with Gov.
Yes, it did not matter so much in england that Tony blair waited until AFTER leaving office before converting from Church of England to Roman Catholic. That is, he waited until he was done politically. I am guessing that the simple fact is, that nearly all politicians in England are either agnostic OR church of England. After all, how many lords are muslims or hindus?
Kivio is NOT capable of reading/writing visio file format? In fact, none of the "visio clones" can do that. If OOA was smart, this is the one place that they would expand some effort. It is SORELY lacking. In fact, any of the companies that are pushing OOA, would do well to decode the format, and then write a GPL (or berkley) library for interacting with said format. The clones would incorporate that quickly, and Sun would most likely jump on creating a clone as well.
trading stock of Yahoo for stock of MS? I think that I would rather have Yahoo. Yahoo is much more likely to expand into new areas and expand. MS already had as much as they could get and are headed for a massive shrinkage. Yahoo, by working with Google, will come out ahead. Look at what Gates did for Apple by helping them back when keeping them around helped the monopoly issue that MS has.
Look at how the yuan is tied to the dollar. It is designed to drain us. China's top people are in a war with us. But Bush's admin is the LAST person I want to see taking them on. Obama or Clinton would be superior in everyway. I suspect that both will try to negotiate this first, before escalating slowly.
W. has screwed us so bad, that we keep North Korea and Cuba on the terrorists list, of which NEITHER have been involved with anything since the 80's and have new leadership, while we have loads of proof that Venezuela is all over the war in Columbia. Yet, we do not put Venezuela on the list because we import too much oil from them. Had W. kept Clinton's battery research going, we would be on electrical cars. Of course, BC killed off Poppa Bush's IFR which was just about as stupid.
UV lights (i.e. time outside) will clear it up almost better than the drugs do.
the rate of rise is MUCH higher than a genetic disease would allow. The fact that it hits ppl who have never had it in either family is ignored.
This is the next ulcer. And while HIV does have a lot more basic research going on, it is obvious that the majority of the research is devoted to solving the symptom issues and not the issue of the bug itself.
I have tried for 8 years to get Colorado Govs. to offer up X-Prizes to create small businesses from it.
Just 6 years ago, I was suggesting to then Go. Owens(R) that we focus on computerized educational material (moving it to the computer in anticipation of XO and others). I also suggested that doing one for creating a tax handling system. Currently nearly all govs build their own. When I suggested financing it by moving off of MS Office to Open Office (and ultimately Windows to Linux), the howl came out and they said not a chance. The amazing thing was that is was Owen's finance guy who said that. Not sure, but I believe him to be re-elect Owen's Finance.
To our current Colo Gov Ritter(D), I suggested that we solve our pine beetle issue AND a seeking for green energy by offering up 1 M x prizes. The pine beetle will almost certainly have a cheap bio answer out there. All that is needed is for a person to notice that some of the pines are not attacked or have survived the attack. It could mean something is feeding on the beetle (a virus, a bacteria, another bug), or it could mean that a sub-species is resistant to it. As to the green energy, lots of ideas out there. The answer: We can not get it past our congress and we will contact you. So, what did Ritter do? Throw LOADS of money at getting companies like vestas to move a BRANCH here. If the company ever has economic issues, they will simply shut down that branch. IOW, Ritter did EXACTLY what Owens did earlier that caused us to suffer pretty big from 2003-2005. Politicians NEVER learn and never think.
If you can develop the tech to actually block something deemed obscene, then you will have the tech to block movies, music, art, etc. The reason is that obscenity definition changes almost as movies do. Who ever comes up with this, will almost certainly be expected to censor on the general internet.
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We are moving towards an electric battlefield. It will use rail guns as well as lasers. The reason is that carrying bullets is expensive and difficult. But lasers and rails guns are a lot easier EXCEPT for power. All of our new systems will provide LOADS of power just for these. The naval DDX and the F-22 are geared just for these. The M1A1 is being studied for a mobile rail gun. Well, the DOD is now studying to solve that issue via SPS. It will also mean that a team on the ground can START with power right from the gitgo. In addition, it will mean logistics is no longer expensive and hard.
Finally, the DOD likes to think in terms of multi uses for their items (for example, they now have relatively little cargo aircraft; airlines were given money to guarantee that DOD would have access to cargo flights). As such, they are thinking that SPS will be used by FEMA to provide power in disaster areas. Imagine the difference if china could have gotten power into the earthquake area RIGHT after. How many lives could have been saved? I would guess quite a few. We have the same issue with hurricanes, wild fires, tornadoes, and of course earthquakes.
In fact, at the poles, there are crater EDGES that have near constant sun, but the craters themselves, get zero. And for a solar collector, just run it up on a tower. That would enable 100% collecting.
I had not thought about it before, but I wonder if that is not a better idea than PV?
The reason is that they are easy to hide. A mass driver can be seen launching. Somebody would KNOW where and when and simply move their sats a few inches. Anything that would hit earth would have to be BIG and that means a REALLY big rail. But a laser is not seen shooting until AFTER it hits the target. Nothing can get out of the way. That means it can not be defended against easily esp. if it has staying power AND power. In fact, it is almost certain when a mass driver pointed at earth appears, than you can safely assume that powerful lasers are already there.
Look, get past all the W. rhetoric. Living on the moon just became relatively cheap. For us to live there is going to sending loads O2, or providing lots of power to mine it. We are currently looking at solar power, but that really is not going to provide enough. In particular, solar will not do the job away from the poles. It would require beaming it combined with storage. That is until recently. Japan has found lots of uranium there. Not earth level, but it appears to be more than we could ship easily. Japan also has a nuclear reactor designed for the moon (the toshiba 4S). That will open up the moon to be relatively cheap.
But more important than that, is that from that uranium, we can breed plutonium that we can use to power ships as well a sats elsewhere and perhaps a base on mars. In addition, with that kind of power, we can build a rail launcher on the moon. Even more important than the He3, is the simple fact that it opens up the solar system for us. That uranium being there will do that for us.
Thanx for the tip. BTW, do photocopy the whole thing, or just the info page and the one with current stamp?
Sad to say it to the submitter, but for many people "Republican" and "E-Voting" instantly casts suspicions of tampering for a wide variety of reasons, including but not limited to significant monetary connections between Diebold (now PES) and the Republican party and a claim from someone from Diebold that they would "deliver the election" or something like that.
While it is true that nearly all (or is it all) of the e-vote systems are controlled by republican CEO's, I am more inclined to believe that these ppl will take a bribe from highest bidder rather than worry too much about politics.
At one of the western embassy's, yes. To a local cop, nope.
The system is set-up to PREVENT voters from fraud. Even on the electronics, it is set-up. Any issue will almost certainly be out of your control. The real problem with the electronics is that the COMPANY who built and service it can commit fraud. And it is next to impossible to detect. All a politician has to do is pay off somebody up high and then the company will do things like last minute software updates in warehouses, that were post inspection. Sadly, it is easy to do.
First, you are only responsible for the first 50 dollars if CC (well, here in the states; I would think that in CA you would not be held responsible for any lose). Second, if you do NOT sign it, and somebody else signs it with THEIR signature, then the 2 to blame are you and the other person. You, because you did not do what you were suppose to. At the least, put CID on their, but I suggest, CID/sig.
How many in congress or the senate?
Multiple; Muslims, Hindu, Jews, Buddhist, many Christian religions (protestant, catholic, Anglican/Episcopalian (American version of CoE), seven day adventist, Morman, etc), Agnostictics, etc have been congress(wo)?men. Muslim is fairly recent, but still there.
Since the beginning of America, Religion has really never been a big thing for us UNTIL reagan. Eisenhower brought it in a bit because he was 7 day and we had the big red scare. In addition, Kennedy was a bit of an issue, but he put it to bed with his "My religion is just that; Mine; I do not answer to the pope". But until reagan, it was for the most part a none issue. When reagan came about, he used the far religious right wingnuts and brought to the forefront such notables as Jerry falwell, Pat Roberts, James Dobson, and David Duke (both KKK and relgious, but was accepted and even pushed by most pubs of that time). Poppa Bush and Clinton kept them fairly separate. But even now, McCain has promised religious right wing nuts to load the SCOTUS with anti-choice judges as well as force schools to allow teaching of creationism as science. Hopefully, we will go back to keeping religion and politics separate.
I can say that to really win, you need to win the votes from both parties, not just your own. Actually, either major party AND the indies will be more than 50%. But picking up ppl from another party will help. The interesting thing is that BOTH candidates are going to pick up ppl from the opposing party. No doubt there will be more dems that will vote McCain, just due to skin color. Of course, there will be pubs that vote Obama looking for a change.
Offhand, I say watch the VP very carefully. McCain has a good chance of dying in office (old age) and sadly, I suspect that same is true of Obama (some kkk nazi pub type).
To be pres/vice-pres, yes, you must be born here. All else is open. In fact, I am guessing that Schwarzenegger may chose to be a senator once he is done with Gov.
Yes, it did not matter so much in england that Tony blair waited until AFTER leaving office before converting from Church of England to Roman Catholic. That is, he waited until he was done politically. I am guessing that the simple fact is, that nearly all politicians in England are either agnostic OR church of England. After all, how many lords are muslims or hindus?
Kivio is NOT capable of reading/writing visio file format? In fact, none of the "visio clones" can do that. If OOA was smart, this is the one place that they would expand some effort. It is SORELY lacking. In fact, any of the companies that are pushing OOA, would do well to decode the format, and then write a GPL (or berkley) library for interacting with said format. The clones would incorporate that quickly, and Sun would most likely jump on creating a clone as well.
trading stock of Yahoo for stock of MS? I think that I would rather have Yahoo. Yahoo is much more likely to expand into new areas and expand. MS already had as much as they could get and are headed for a massive shrinkage. Yahoo, by working with Google, will come out ahead. Look at what Gates did for Apple by helping them back when keeping them around helped the monopoly issue that MS has.
I find it amazing that CC companies want customer sigs on the back of the card. I add CID and SIGN it. About half of the ppl will now check for my ID.
Hmmmm. this will work better.
Look at how the yuan is tied to the dollar. It is designed to drain us. China's top people are in a war with us. But Bush's admin is the LAST person I want to see taking them on. Obama or Clinton would be superior in everyway. I suspect that both will try to negotiate this first, before escalating slowly.
W. has screwed us so bad, that we keep North Korea and Cuba on the terrorists list, of which NEITHER have been involved with anything since the 80's and have new leadership, while we have loads of proof that Venezuela is all over the war in Columbia. Yet, we do not put Venezuela on the list because we import too much oil from them. Had W. kept Clinton's battery research going, we would be on electrical cars. Of course, BC killed off Poppa Bush's IFR which was just about as stupid.
It was from Gartner. They are a bunch of idiots, so why pay attention to those kinds of lists. In fact, I was actually surprised that it made /.
I would much rather than a cheap 80 or 120G CF drive that I can pick up for $100. As it is, I bought a 32G for 140.
Now, we have a NEW genetic disease up and rising: Psoriasis. Evey drug company is screaming that it is genetic. And they have all sorts of new drugs that treat the symptoms. But everybody seems to ignore several little things about:
This is the next ulcer. And while HIV does have a lot more basic research going on, it is obvious that the majority of the research is devoted to solving the symptom issues and not the issue of the bug itself.
I have tried for 8 years to get Colorado Govs. to offer up X-Prizes to create small businesses from it.
Just 6 years ago, I was suggesting to then Go. Owens(R) that we focus on computerized educational material (moving it to the computer in anticipation of XO and others). I also suggested that doing one for creating a tax handling system. Currently nearly all govs build their own. When I suggested financing it by moving off of MS Office to Open Office (and ultimately Windows to Linux), the howl came out and they said not a chance. The amazing thing was that is was Owen's finance guy who said that. Not sure, but I believe him to be re-elect Owen's Finance.
To our current Colo Gov Ritter(D), I suggested that we solve our pine beetle issue AND a seeking for green energy by offering up 1 M x prizes. The pine beetle will almost certainly have a cheap bio answer out there. All that is needed is for a person to notice that some of the pines are not attacked or have survived the attack. It could mean something is feeding on the beetle (a virus, a bacteria, another bug), or it could mean that a sub-species is resistant to it. As to the green energy, lots of ideas out there. The answer: We can not get it past our congress and we will contact you. So, what did Ritter do? Throw LOADS of money at getting companies like vestas to move a BRANCH here. If the company ever has economic issues, they will simply shut down that branch. IOW, Ritter did EXACTLY what Owens did earlier that caused us to suffer pretty big from 2003-2005. Politicians NEVER learn and never think.
The 20 million is a simple way to focus ppl. In addition, it makes it sound like the feds are doing something. Afterall, payment for results only.
the L prize gives nothing out UNTIL something is found. So the truth is, that the L-prize really costs nothing except for real results.
If you can develop the tech to actually block something deemed obscene, then you will have the tech to block movies, music, art, etc. The reason is that obscenity definition changes almost as movies do. Who ever comes up with this, will almost certainly be expected to censor on the general internet.