Probably 7. #8 will be aborted or experience critical problems in flight which will lead to the cancellation of 9 & 10. Remember that there were originally Apollos 18-20 too. Fact is they can barely keep it running now. And lets not make too much of Ares. Now there's a 4 year gap. Expect that to creep to double that. And with an 8 year window you and I both know they will chuck the whole thing. Eventually we will be going to orbit on Russian and Chinese platforms. Hell the ESA wants to be able to put people in space. And don't forget India and Japan.
Bottomline, manned spaceflight performed by the US will end in 2009-2010 never to return again. It's over.
And let me add that after a week and a half, one failed attempt to replace one board which wasn't defective, a trip back to the shop WITH the TV this time and now a report that the second board they're 'really sure' it is this time, it's of course, back ordered with NO ETA. Even if I had a warranty it wouldn't change that.
I'm coming to the conclusion that consumer electronics at ANY price is non repairable. Which and of itself is fine, but then knock the price down from $2,600 if it's only going to last 2 years. That's more than $100/month for a TV.
Leave your luggage on the platform you are merely being relocated to the east. It will catch up with you. Next stop the picturesque village of Sobibor.
You know, I am so totally done with listening to ninny nanners like you tell me why something that's broken is a good thing. Like I said, we kind of figured out how to reset passwords elsewhere in the world, oh I dunno, 30 years ago? Yeah so you keep scolding, that's a good plan.
I don't want to create another blog. There's 295 long postings in the original I need to keep. Mostly I don't want to listen to untrainable technophobe family members who can't and won't deal with this.
I guess my basic objection is that the durability of consumer electronics is now INVERSELY related to the price. Seems like you're screwed either way. Get a cheap off brand TV and it breaks and no one can fix it. Get a name brand and they rape you on the repairs until it really makes no sense to bother at all.
We've been hearing about wondrous super concept cars since the 1960's. And always, ALWAYS the promised land is about 2 years in the future at which time everyone's forgotten or 'market forces' have changed. It's all bullshit. We haven't gotten any further with George Jetson technology of the future in the last 45 years.
A two seat microcar that gets 235 mpg is only about 2.35x the mileage that I could get out of my Bajaj Chetak scooter with a sidecar attached to it. And they each have approximately the same room. But I get to save about $40,000 for no rain protection.
I am having a Franz Kafka problem with Google. My wife (the worlds worst technophobe) lost the password to her blog. Today I discovered that the alternate email address for the account is not only an deliverable address it's an invalid domain altogether.
Google does not have a provision to fix this. The reset password either goes to the address for which I need the password, or, it goes to an undeliverable address. And every 'form' they have for every single problem on Blogger goes to the same submission form.
But here's the good part. To protect my privacy - Google's official response is to say in effect "We don't believe you, we think you're lying and so we won't and can't help you."
And there appears to be no recourse. No place to send an email no place to explain even in one sentence what this problem is.
So fuck Google and the Chinese Death Squads that use them. Fuck them all.
I have a 20 month old Samsung 46" LCD TV. It now needs over $700 in repairs because of one of two blown video boards. So if had paid for the extended warranty I would already paid in that $700 - so it's a wash either way. If I paid $700 for the TV (e.g a smaller one), with or without any warranty at all, it's actually cheaper to throw the TV off the fucking roof and get a new one.
There is a Swiss company that makes a CD you can put in your PC and you have to periodically type a security code else the CD actually bursts into flames a-la Mission Impossible.
For years ISP's have been delivering content to me while ratting me out to the authorities and while I pay them to do that. Now THEY have some skin in the game. Sue me, sue them, sue everyone.
And I work for a company that has a nearly 10 billion dollar IT budget. I'm sure we have a CIO but god only knows who that person is, where they are located or even what their actual responsibilities are. I would have to guess that most of that person's job consists of stepping on the heads of the people who report to them, putting their picture on monthly epistles to strategize the new paradigm and to exhort us to work harder for less money lest we all wind up unemployed or in Bangalore.
I just spent 5 hrs and $6700 in the emergency room and I never met or spoke with any MD at all. They tell me there's a supervising MD there for all the PA's and RN's but I have to take that on faith.
So, yeah, I just had all sorts of expensive, potentially dangerous and invasive procedures, a few IV's and drugs administered without, as far as I know any 'licensed medical doctor' present.
My eldest son is in his final year of sports science/exercise rehabilitation. Books including lab books tally more than $1100/semester. That's almost a quarter of the tuition load. It's insane.
Why should I be on the hook for the content that the ISP brings me and then rats me out to the xxAA about while they get off scott-free? Look, when the motion picture and movie industries go after AT&T, Time Warner, etc then we'll see the fur fly. Sure let the recording companies sue their fans and let Vinnie the poor stuntman insert a trailer in the movie that lectures you about piracy. But fuck with the phone company? Just try.
Let's face reality, spacenerds. Ares V will NEVER be used to hoist anything to the moon. In fact there will be NO manned missions to the moon. Instead, Ares V will be used to hoist ever larger weapons into orbit. With the end of the Shuttle program, the DoD needs a reliable domestic tool to loft Shuttle sized (and larger) 'packages' into orbit around the earth.
This has the effect of turning us all into renters. Which is fine, I don't want the title, I don't want to carry insurance, I don't want to maintain the vehicle and so on. As long as I don't have the rights of ownership, I don't want to pay for ownership. And when it's time to get rid of said asset just bring it back to the dealer and let them deal with it. I am fine with being treated like a criminal under those conditions.
MS has to get away from code as product altogether. No one cares what's open and what's not in the business market world. Look to MS to buy Amazon or eBay.
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Tap my phone read my email go ahead. Fuck you. Fuck this country and all the people in it.
For them thar computer thangs to git working agin.
Fuck em. That works for me. Let 99% of all computers in Texass be broken until a squarebadge rentacop can fix it.
Probably 7. #8 will be aborted or experience critical problems in flight which will lead to the cancellation of 9 & 10. Remember that there were originally Apollos 18-20 too. Fact is they can barely keep it running now. And lets not make too much of Ares. Now there's a 4 year gap. Expect that to creep to double that. And with an 8 year window you and I both know they will chuck the whole thing. Eventually we will be going to orbit on Russian and Chinese platforms. Hell the ESA wants to be able to put people in space. And don't forget India and Japan.
Bottomline, manned spaceflight performed by the US will end in 2009-2010 never to return again. It's over.
What are they going to do? Build a nation of new fuel stations in their largest market to handle Mercedes-Benz only fuel?
And let me add that after a week and a half, one failed attempt to replace one board which wasn't defective, a trip back to the shop WITH the TV this time and now a report that the second board they're 'really sure' it is this time, it's of course, back ordered with NO ETA. Even if I had a warranty it wouldn't change that.
I'm coming to the conclusion that consumer electronics at ANY price is non repairable. Which and of itself is fine, but then knock the price down from $2,600 if it's only going to last 2 years. That's more than $100/month for a TV.
Leave your luggage on the platform you are merely being relocated to the east. It will catch up with you. Next stop the picturesque village of Sobibor.
No that's really my real name. Really.
You know, I am so totally done with listening to ninny nanners like you tell me why something that's broken is a good thing. Like I said, we kind of figured out how to reset passwords elsewhere in the world, oh I dunno, 30 years ago? Yeah so you keep scolding, that's a good plan.
I don't want to create another blog. There's 295 long postings in the original I need to keep. Mostly I don't want to listen to untrainable technophobe family members who can't and won't deal with this.
I guess my basic objection is that the durability of consumer electronics is now INVERSELY related to the price. Seems like you're screwed either way. Get a cheap off brand TV and it breaks and no one can fix it. Get a name brand and they rape you on the repairs until it really makes no sense to bother at all.
With their "Slider" you have to buy a $100 'everything plan. So you get the phone for $130 and then you fork out $1200/year for the service.
We've been hearing about wondrous super concept cars since the 1960's. And always, ALWAYS the promised land is about 2 years in the future at which time everyone's forgotten or 'market forces' have changed. It's all bullshit. We haven't gotten any further with George Jetson technology of the future in the last 45 years.
A two seat microcar that gets 235 mpg is only about 2.35x the mileage that I could get out of my Bajaj Chetak scooter with a sidecar attached to it. And they each have approximately the same room. But I get to save about $40,000 for no rain protection.
I am having a Franz Kafka problem with Google. My wife (the worlds worst technophobe) lost the password to her blog. Today I discovered that the alternate email address for the account is not only an deliverable address it's an invalid domain altogether.
Google does not have a provision to fix this. The reset password either goes to the address for which I need the password, or, it goes to an undeliverable address. And every 'form' they have for every single problem on Blogger goes to the same submission form.
But here's the good part. To protect my privacy - Google's official response is to say in effect "We don't believe you, we think you're lying and so we won't and can't help you."
And there appears to be no recourse. No place to send an email no place to explain even in one sentence what this problem is.
So fuck Google and the Chinese Death Squads that use them. Fuck them all.
I have a 20 month old Samsung 46" LCD TV. It now needs over $700 in repairs because of one of two blown video boards. So if had paid for the extended warranty I would already paid in that $700 - so it's a wash either way. If I paid $700 for the TV (e.g a smaller one), with or without any warranty at all, it's actually cheaper to throw the TV off the fucking roof and get a new one.
There is a Swiss company that makes a CD you can put in your PC and you have to periodically type a security code else the CD actually bursts into flames a-la Mission Impossible.
For years ISP's have been delivering content to me while ratting me out to the authorities and while I pay them to do that. Now THEY have some skin in the game. Sue me, sue them, sue everyone.
And I work for a company that has a nearly 10 billion dollar IT budget. I'm sure we have a CIO but god only knows who that person is, where they are located or even what their actual responsibilities are. I would have to guess that most of that person's job consists of stepping on the heads of the people who report to them, putting their picture on monthly epistles to strategize the new paradigm and to exhort us to work harder for less money lest we all wind up unemployed or in Bangalore.
I just spent 5 hrs and $6700 in the emergency room and I never met or spoke with any MD at all. They tell me there's a supervising MD there for all the PA's and RN's but I have to take that on faith.
So, yeah, I just had all sorts of expensive, potentially dangerous and invasive procedures, a few IV's and drugs administered without, as far as I know any 'licensed medical doctor' present.
I am positive they worked a Best Buy, big box retail store exclusion. To say nothing of those huge Dell service depots that pepper the state.
My eldest son is in his final year of sports science/exercise rehabilitation. Books including lab books tally more than $1100/semester. That's almost a quarter of the tuition load. It's insane.
Why should I be on the hook for the content that the ISP brings me and then rats me out to the xxAA about while they get off scott-free? Look, when the motion picture and movie industries go after AT&T, Time Warner, etc then we'll see the fur fly. Sure let the recording companies sue their fans and let Vinnie the poor stuntman insert a trailer in the movie that lectures you about piracy. But fuck with the phone company? Just try.
So I guess we haven't gone that far.
Let's face reality, spacenerds. Ares V will NEVER be used to hoist anything to the moon. In fact there will be NO manned missions to the moon. Instead, Ares V will be used to hoist ever larger weapons into orbit. With the end of the Shuttle program, the DoD needs a reliable domestic tool to loft Shuttle sized (and larger) 'packages' into orbit around the earth.
This has the effect of turning us all into renters. Which is fine, I don't want the title, I don't want to carry insurance, I don't want to maintain the vehicle and so on. As long as I don't have the rights of ownership, I don't want to pay for ownership. And when it's time to get rid of said asset just bring it back to the dealer and let them deal with it. I am fine with being treated like a criminal under those conditions.
MS has to get away from code as product altogether. No one cares what's open and what's not in the business market world. Look to MS to buy Amazon or eBay.