The SC business puts out huge amounts of toxins as it is. Cranking out PVs the size of your roof will be much worse than making microprocessors the size of your thumbnail.
He's probably talking about Hanford. Considering they were the first reactors ever built, in the middle of a world war, it's understandable that there's been some leaks.
Man, even with a Dyson sphere IPv6 is overkill. You still get over 10^15 (a million billion) IP addresses per square meter.
Now, if you put a Dyson sphere around every sun in the galaxy, then you'll get down to a few thousand IP addresses per square meter. *Then* we need to think about going to IPv8.
I read "Battlefield Earth" before I knew that Scientology even existed. Guess what, it's still one of the lousiest books I've ever read. Years later, realizing the money I paid for that crap went to an ugly cult really pissed me off.
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Got it and the sequel, Gateway 2: Homeworld. Will have to get around to finishing them one of these days:)
Did you get through the old Neuromancer game? Circuit's Edge? Geez, will probably have to install a PC emulator on my PC to play these again.
I think you can all of these off of www.home-underdogs.org
You've got to be kidding. This is the worst book I've ever read in my life, and I've read a lot of books. It's idiotic on multiple levels.
About the only thing I've read that's as bad is the first few volumes in the "Mission To Earth" series, also by Elron. Fortunately, I borrowed them from the library so I only wasted time out of my life on them instead of money.
Then I wised up and realized how books by Elron get on the best seller lists.
A better book would be "Inferno", by Niven and Pournelle. It's a modern-day remake of Dante's Inferno. Elron has a bit part in it:)
Could you give me an example of communism that *didn't* become an "oppressive, totalitarian communist regimes"? Why would you think that it could be possible, given man's fundamental nature? How many millions have suffered and died proving that?
Self-interest is the most powerful human force their is, and is why democracy and capitalism are so successful; they harness that force. Communism makes citizens into slaves.
It doesn't matter how admirable the goal is if it's impossible to reach it with the method you describe.
Before 9/11 the moneygrubbing tyrants of Washington were making plans to ease the sanctions. After 9/11 they decided to give Wolfowitz's ideas a shot. Yes, it would have been better if they'd been honest about the reason for the war, but oil wasn't the reason for the war.
Mexicans risking their lives to come here. Chinese risking their lives to come here. And a lot more Europeans emigrate to the US than go the other way.
And yes, you would have to be a fool to think that terrorists do it because of envy.
Just curious, when in the past has GPS been turned off? Other than the selective availability that degraded performance for all but the US and allied military?
He said the Americans saved Democracy in Europe. He didn't say we saved it from Nazism. We saved it from Communism. Without the western front the USSR would have kept rolling until it got to Spain.
Oh please, get real. The only way the US would invade France again would be if they managed to get their butts kicked by German fascists for a third straight time.
We didn't let the USSR take over eastern europe, Hitler did. We didn't have the military capacity to take them on in 1945, and by 1949 they had nukes so containment was pretty much the only option. Oh, and we *did* try to stop them installing communist governments. Korean War? Vietnam War? Afghanistan? Hello, McFly?
Containment worked with the USSR and it will work with China. When attack isn't an option (i.e. when they have nukes or big armies), pin them down and eventually their people will become disatisfied enough with their government to do something about it. Tyrannies get lazy after a few generations. Too bad it takes decades to get rid of tyranny that way. In twenty, thirty years China will be a democracy.
The main problem with North Korea is that, unlike the USSR or China, the people have no idea what life is like outside their country, so internal revolt isn't likely. We should be dropping crank powered TVs and radios on their country:).
I was working for Texas Instruments when the French intelligence agency got busted spying on TI. You know, breaking into hotel rooms, stealing computers. Hell, it was on "60 Minutes". Or is that "anecdotal evidence"? Maybe it didn't get picked up by the European press for some reason?
As somebody else has pointed out in this thread, the percentage of GDP the US puts into its military isn' much more than what France and Germany do (less than 50% more).
I have no problem with cutting military speding. Cutting US bases in Germany sound like a great place to start.
The US pays people to make weapons. The Europeans pay them to sit on their arse.
Well, since only about three countries on the whole friggin planet recognized the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan before 9/11, and only one recognized them within days of 9/11, it's valid to say that the Northern Alliance was the legitimate govt of Afghanistan. The coalition forces just helped them put down some rebels.
Of course, personally I think that sovereignty is only legitimate in a nation ruled by a democracy, but I can see how that belief could interfere with diplomacy. That doesn't make it not true, though. Tyrnannies are illegitimate states, but we have to pretend they are until they can be changed.
Germany, France, Italy, check, check, check. Japan, check.
Took a few trillion dollars and a few proxy wars (most of which *not* started by us), but the USSR, Eastern Europe became democratic about a decade ago. Attacking them was probably not a wise option. Forget about those, twit?
The leader of China has acknowledged that China will be a democracy in a generation or two. So there's no pressing need to invade. And, in case you haven't been paying attention, the theory the neo-cons have is that creating a democracy in Iraq will encourage other democracies in the middle ease. Whether that'll happen is anyone's bet.
It's taken 60 years to liberate one-third of the world under the brutal oppression of dictators. It'll probably take another 60 years to do the last third.
Now you answer a question: How many dictators have France, Germany, and Russia overthrown?
Gee if he's a college senior, the war happened when he was nine or ten years old. If he's a high school senior, he was five or six. Old enough to vote and join the army, but evidently, not old enough to have a comment on slashdot.
And your argument against his unreasonable perspective on world history is...?
What, the only allowable comment he can make is to disagree with what you said? He can't make the point that the Europeans were using carrots and sticks, too, in order to get other nations to fall in line behind them? What do you have against someone pointing out hypocrisy?
If you ask me, getting locked out of the EU would harm a country much more than losing US foreign aid.
Over here in the real world, social security payments are considered part of the federal budget.
And you might want to take into account that a lot of the government spending that is done at the federal level in Europe, is done at the state, county, and city level in the US.
Comparing percentage of GDP is really the only valid way of doing the comparison.
My share for feeding the US war machine is less than what I spend on DVDs and video games.
I don't know. Ask the Dems what they'd do about the economy: uh, cut taxes, increase spending. Oh, wait...they've been complaining because Bush is cutting taxes and increasing spending.
Ask them if they'd free the prisoners illegally held at Guatanomo. Oookay, that'll go over well.
And, as an idiot, he *did* set the world land speed record for toppling *two* hostile governments. Frankly, I think the Dem that runs against Bush will misunderestimate him.
Well, then, *scrap* the UN. Replace it with something else, where only countries with democracies, or moving towards democracy, get votes. Where an explicit goal of the organization is to see every nation become a democracy.
Well, at least with them paying for Galileo the collapse will come sooner. It'd be even funnier if they try to build up their military to compete.
Hopefully, they won't drag down the emerging democracies in the east. Wonder how easy it is to get *out* of the EU? Well, in any case, it's not like western Europe could *do* anything about them leaving.
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The SC business puts out huge amounts of toxins as it is. Cranking out PVs the size of your roof will be much worse than making microprocessors the size of your thumbnail.
He's probably talking about Hanford. Considering they were the first reactors ever built, in the middle of a world war, it's understandable that there's been some leaks.
Man, even with a Dyson sphere IPv6 is overkill. You still get over 10^15 (a million billion) IP addresses per square meter.
Now, if you put a Dyson sphere around every sun in the galaxy, then you'll get down to a few thousand IP addresses per square meter. *Then* we need to think about going to IPv8.
I read "Battlefield Earth" before I knew that Scientology even existed. Guess what, it's still one of the lousiest books I've ever read. Years later, realizing the money I paid for that crap went to an ugly cult really pissed me off.
Got it and the sequel, Gateway 2: Homeworld. Will have to get around to finishing them one of these days :)
Did you get through the old Neuromancer game? Circuit's Edge? Geez, will probably have to install a PC emulator on my PC to play these again.
I think you can all of these off of www.home-underdogs.org
You've got to be kidding. This is the worst book I've ever read in my life, and I've read a lot of books. It's idiotic on multiple levels.
:)
About the only thing I've read that's as bad is the first few volumes in the "Mission To Earth" series, also by Elron. Fortunately, I borrowed them from the library so I only wasted time out of my life on them instead of money.
Then I wised up and realized how books by Elron get on the best seller lists.
A better book would be "Inferno", by Niven and Pournelle. It's a modern-day remake of Dante's Inferno. Elron has a bit part in it
Could you give me an example of communism that *didn't* become an "oppressive, totalitarian communist regimes"? Why would you think that it could be possible, given man's fundamental nature? How many millions have suffered and died proving that?
Self-interest is the most powerful human force their is, and is why democracy and capitalism are so successful; they harness that force. Communism makes citizens into slaves.
It doesn't matter how admirable the goal is if it's impossible to reach it with the method you describe.
Before 9/11 the moneygrubbing tyrants of Washington were making plans to ease the sanctions. After 9/11 they decided to give Wolfowitz's ideas a shot. Yes, it would have been better if they'd been honest about the reason for the war, but oil wasn't the reason for the war.
What makes him think people envy the US?
Mexicans risking their lives to come here. Chinese risking their lives to come here. And a lot more Europeans emigrate to the US than go the other way.
And yes, you would have to be a fool to think that terrorists do it because of envy.
Doubt if he could have done it without Clinton paying for them with taxpayer dollars . . .
Just curious, when in the past has GPS been turned off? Other than the selective availability that degraded performance for all but the US and allied military?
You're European, but I doubt you're Eastern European.
He said the Americans saved Democracy in Europe. He didn't say we saved it from Nazism. We saved it from Communism. Without the western front the USSR would have kept rolling until it got to Spain.
Oh please, get real. The only way the US would invade France again would be if they managed to get their butts kicked by German fascists for a third straight time.
:).
We didn't let the USSR take over eastern europe, Hitler did. We didn't have the military capacity to take them on in 1945, and by 1949 they had nukes so containment was pretty much the only option. Oh, and we *did* try to stop them installing communist governments. Korean War? Vietnam War? Afghanistan? Hello, McFly?
Containment worked with the USSR and it will work with China. When attack isn't an option (i.e. when they have nukes or big armies), pin them down and eventually their people will become disatisfied enough with their government to do something about it. Tyrannies get lazy after a few generations. Too bad it takes decades to get rid of tyranny that way. In twenty, thirty years China will be a democracy.
The main problem with North Korea is that, unlike the USSR or China, the people have no idea what life is like outside their country, so internal revolt isn't likely. We should be dropping crank powered TVs and radios on their country
I was working for Texas Instruments when the French intelligence agency got busted spying on TI. You know, breaking into hotel rooms, stealing computers. Hell, it was on "60 Minutes". Or is that "anecdotal evidence"? Maybe it didn't get picked up by the European press for some reason?
1) They *do* get caught
2) It *does* happen
As somebody else has pointed out in this thread, the percentage of GDP the US puts into its military isn' much more than what France and Germany do (less than 50% more).
I have no problem with cutting military speding. Cutting US bases in Germany sound like a great place to start.
The US pays people to make weapons. The Europeans pay them to sit on their arse.
Well, since only about three countries on the whole friggin planet recognized the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan before 9/11, and only one recognized them within days of 9/11, it's valid to say that the Northern Alliance was the legitimate govt of Afghanistan. The coalition forces just helped them put down some rebels.
Of course, personally I think that sovereignty is only legitimate in a nation ruled by a democracy, but I can see how that belief could interfere with diplomacy. That doesn't make it not true, though. Tyrnannies are illegitimate states, but we have to pretend they are until they can be changed.
Let's see . ..
Germany, France, Italy, check, check, check. Japan, check.
Took a few trillion dollars and a few proxy wars (most of which *not* started by us), but the USSR, Eastern Europe became democratic about a decade ago. Attacking them was probably not a wise option. Forget about those, twit?
The leader of China has acknowledged that China will be a democracy in a generation or two. So there's no pressing need to invade. And, in case you haven't been paying attention, the theory the neo-cons have is that creating a democracy in Iraq will encourage other democracies in the middle ease. Whether that'll happen is anyone's bet.
It's taken 60 years to liberate one-third of the world under the brutal oppression of dictators. It'll probably take another 60 years to do the last third.
Now you answer a question: How many dictators have France, Germany, and Russia overthrown?
Gee if he's a college senior, the war happened when he was nine or ten years old. If he's a high school senior, he was five or six. Old enough to vote and join the army, but evidently, not old enough to have a comment on slashdot.
...?
And your argument against his unreasonable perspective on world history is
What, the only allowable comment he can make is to disagree with what you said? He can't make the point that the Europeans were using carrots and sticks, too, in order to get other nations to fall in line behind them? What do you have against someone pointing out hypocrisy?
If you ask me, getting locked out of the EU would harm a country much more than losing US foreign aid.
Over here in the real world, social security payments are considered part of the federal budget.
And you might want to take into account that a lot of the government spending that is done at the federal level in Europe, is done at the state, county, and city level in the US.
Comparing percentage of GDP is really the only valid way of doing the comparison.
My share for feeding the US war machine is less than what I spend on DVDs and video games.
I don't know. Ask the Dems what they'd do about the economy: uh, cut taxes, increase spending. Oh, wait...they've been complaining because Bush is cutting taxes and increasing spending.
Ask them if they'd free the prisoners illegally held at Guatanomo. Oookay, that'll go over well.
And, as an idiot, he *did* set the world land speed record for toppling *two* hostile governments. Frankly, I think the Dem that runs against Bush will misunderestimate him.
Well, then, *scrap* the UN. Replace it with something else, where only countries with democracies, or moving towards democracy, get votes. Where an explicit goal of the organization is to see every nation become a democracy.
Well, at least with them paying for Galileo the collapse will come sooner. It'd be even funnier if they try to build up their military to compete.
Hopefully, they won't drag down the emerging democracies in the east. Wonder how easy it is to get *out* of the EU? Well, in any case, it's not like western Europe could *do* anything about them leaving.
Don't worry. Your children will be teleoperating the robots doing the fighting. :)