A few years back. Make loans to people that have no way to pay it back, package & sell the paper to "investors" and on and on
til the chickens come home to roost, then POP! goes the balloon.
Has changed me from a Conservative (not to be confused with Republican) to more and more each day to a Constitutional Libertarian.
I've gotten to the point in my life (mid 50's) that I see myself more as a libertarian, than anything else. I do not trust government.
I believe governments sole purpose, as written in the constitution, is to provide for the defense of our nation, promote general welfare.
THAT'S IT! The rest, should be left to each state. Government now, wants to be our mommy & daddy for flipping everything, taking
more and more responsibility for our lives, along with more and more of our money. It's about to the point where I should just have my
paycheck direct deposited at the Treasury department, and hope they send ME back enough money to survive, along with a thank you
card to them for being so nice.
Remember before they changed their name a few years ago
how they had "better" quality videos?
Now you gotta go to bestgore or similar to see what use to
be on Ogrish(sp)
Yep, looks like just after it hit the sound barrier, something let go, because you can clearly see the first stage running through the video. Will be interesting to see what the data shows what happened.
I've been an amateur radio operator since 1990. To get a license to operate, I had to pass a test.
I also fly RC airplanes. I did a lot of reading, basics of flight, and had a person at an RC club "teach" me to fly,
how to operate it properly and safely.
These people buying these quadcopters, usually have NO IDEA what they are doing. Simply take it out of the
box, charge the battery, turn it on and PRESTO! I'm a pilot! BUZZZZZZZZZZZ it doesn't work that way Einstein.
These clowns have no idea that most consumer grade quadcopters can seriously injure or KILL YOU. Those blade
are like a saw blade!
They don't know the first thing about the difference in controlling one flying away from you, versus towards you, have
no idea what wind speed can do to an airfoil, crosswind adjustments that need to be made to keep your bird trim,
flying in a headwind versus a tail wind, not to mention where to and not to fly!
Perhaps an "amateur quad RC" license might be needed.
These idiots are going to spoil the RC hobby, because they don't have brain one when it comes to operating these
potentially dangerous RC flying quadcopters.
I'm sure this happens in a lot of "university towns". Near campus here, the "slumlords" that would rent 4-5 or more 3-4 bedroom houses, near campus, let them run down to the point they go to the city council, cry about it being a blighted area, ask for permission to tear them all down, request a tax waiver for 10-20 years to build "luxury" student housing. Well, the city goes along with it, and now we have so many student housing condo/apartments or whatever you call them within a few blocks of the campus, it's just mind blowing. And they are outfitted with gyms, pools, saunas, movie theaters, free tv/internet. The apartments are fully furnished, huge flatscreen TV's etc. They rent by the bed, 500,600, or more PER BED. This is in a smaller city, 150,000 population, 20k students.
Of course with all these that popped up within the last 5 years, the city isn't really getting any tax money on the property, because of the abatement waivers.
So they suck up the resources, electricity, water, (yeah, figured into the rent), infrastructure wear and tear, but the city isn't getting any money, so what does the city do? Beg and beg for sales or property tax increases. The builder got their money, sold it to a property management company most likely not local, so the money paid by the kids parents doesn't stay in the city. When the waivers run out, they will probably try to offload them onto a local developer. They got their piece of pie.
It just amazes me that parents are willing to spend that amount of money on their kids to live in a place like that, when they can live in a dorm for a heck of a lot less.
More free crap thanks to our over generous welfare system.
Free food, free health care (not), free cell phones, free cable, free housing.
Instead of making lazy ass people get up off their asses and work, we just let
them sit on their butts, playing video games, smoking/selling drugs, having more
babies so they can get even more money. Time to cut off the freeloaders and make
them work for some of this free crap. If you aren't physically, medically, or mentally
handicapped, there should be some kind of work that you should be required to do,
to get the "free" stuff. Taxpayers are tired of funding your lazy asses.
Another in a long list of reasons I don't fly. TSA, invasion of privacy, strip searches, terrible service, loaded on like a heard of cattle, no leg room, charges for everything under the sun, delays...it's just easier to drive. I have no reason to travel overseas, would never leave America. If I want to see something overseas, I just look it up. I'd rather travel in the USA. Don't have to deal with the language problem, social problem, anti-American problem.
Better not let them get anywhere near Buzz....He decked a guy some years ago that had hounded him trying to get him to
say that it was all a fake.
They are just pissed that 40+ years have gone by and they were still THE LOSERS!
Things tasted better anyway. This whole anti-fat, anti everything else is a bunch of garbage, if the public wouldn't
buy a 12oz bag of chips, and eat the entire bag in one sitting.
It's not my fault, I'm not paying it, let someone else pay for it.
Hey idiot...you and your parent(s) signed on the dotted line. You want to screw your credit history, financial life up?
That's YOUR business, because you are IRRESPONSIBLE. You are one of these idiots that think you are OWED
something. Hundreds of thousands of people, have gone to college without loans, but, thanks to "big college" you have
to give your life over to the devil to pay for an education. How come we say screw big oil, big farm, big pharma, but we
never have a conversation about "big college"? Some college presidents, sports coaches & professors are making 6 & 7
figure salaries, but that's ok? Some people are just not cut out for college in the first place. Take a 2 year trade school
and you'll be better off. How many people coming out of a 4 year school with underwater basketweaving, ancient religion languages
do we need in this world?
I went to a 2 year electronics school, got an associates degree almost 40 years ago. Never once have I been unemployed in
my chosen field.
What will probably happen, and what government probably wants to happen is enough idiot irresponsible kids default on their loans
the government will screw investors, bankers and pretty much everyone that has a bank account and just say oh well, so sorry,
just suck on it!
I drive a Mustang. Why would I want a computer driving it? That's 3/4 of the fun of having one.
On a 3-4 hour drive on an interstate, that's one thing, but otherwise forget it.
Too late...you gave that up when you hooked into the internet, "friended" 3,495 people
on facebook, twitter, instagram, said yes to every EULA, turned on tracking for your
phone etc...you think government, corporations are just going to give that up?
Don't get me wrong, if Hastert did something that violates the law, then he should be appropriately punished.
The thing that bothers me is it should not be ANYONE's business how much money I put into, or out of my
personal bank account! Period!
The other thing is, selective prosecution. How come some of the shady dealings that Bill & Hillary, are not
treated with the same level of prosecution, that someone with an (R) by there name receives.
When I was in high school, small town...4,000 population, middle of the country.
If you saw a pickup truck in the school parking lot, including teachers, 99% of the time, there would be
1 or two guns in a gun rack, on the rear window. One being a shotgun the other being a rifle. Also,
if it was hot outside, the windows would be down, if it was raining, the doors wouldn't be locked. Guys
ran around with a skoal can in the hip pocket & a buck knife on their belt. Not one incident of "gun related
crimes" EVER happened in schools. You had a beef with someone, you took it across the street AFTER
school, duked it out for a while, declared someone the winner, someone the loser. Few days later you'd be
hanging out in town having a beer with the same guy.
Try that now, they'd toss you in jail and throw away the key.
So, that begs the question...WHAT has changed? Perhaps single parent families, everyone living in a
sub division with privacy fences, who have no idea who their neighbors are, schools/federal government removing
any mention of God from every day life, the increase of violent video games, children growing up with a lack of
respect for their elders, or anyone else. SOMETHING has changed since the days I attended high school in the 70's,
and NOT for the better.
During the age of the "CB" radio craze, I made an antenna out of a fiberglass whip flag that was on my bicycle, mounted the radio on a bracket on the handlebars, used a magnetic mount for the microphone. Rigged up a generator out of one of those bicycle light thingys, to kind of trickle charge the 2 6 volt lantern batteries mounted where the water bottle went. Worked pretty good. Use to get truckers going back & forth across the state on U.S. highway 50 would call me on the radio wanting to see it if I was on the air. What the heck...wasn't much to do in a small town, if you were 14, in the mid 70's.
NOT to be so naive!
21 years old, fresh out of electronics school. Moved to Houston Tx. Believed everything the recruiter said.
Got there, found out it wasn't what I thought it was. Stuck it out a year, just for the work experience.
Came back to my home state, found another career in electronics and have been with it for 3 different
companies for 33 years. Current one, 17 years. Take everything a recruiter tells you about a "major"
corporation with a grain of salt. 18 months after I left the one in Houston, they laid everyone off and closed
up shop, moved it to Dallas. Couple computer companies had that building for a while, northwest Cyprus, Tx
area. Don't know who has it now.
Just call Obama, McConnell or any other moron in DC, they will probably just GIVE it to you for free.
After all, it wouldn't be fair that someone have something and someone else did not ya know.
Had the USA not had a power grid, but, each home had its own independent "power plant", the USA would have been on DC long ago. But, back then, it was decided, that it was better to have power generation done from a central location, and have it "piped" to the homes. Of course it became a business, & I seriously doubt the powers that be, will NOT allow home owners to have their own source of power, without some sort of BS tax. They will throw a ton of money at politicians, which do their bidding, and not the people.
For probably 75-80% of your TYPICAL smart phone user, the mid tier devices will be all they would ever need, but, most consumers fall for the slick marketing, hype and got to keep up with the Jones' attitude and will go on the hook (even under an overpriced contract) for a flagship device. I did the numbers when I bought my last phone almost a year ago. I had been off contract for over a year with straight talk, with zero issue or coverage problems.
At the time the S5 had been out and the OnePlus was just out (late May '14). I went ahead and bought a $299.00 Huawei Mate2. It's a mid tier device, 6" screen, 720p, snapdragon 400. It was the BATTERY size that sold me, 4,000mAH.
I ran the numbers between it and the S5, and in a 24 month period (typical USA contract), I save over 84 dollars per month buying outright, than on a contract.
The problem with the device manufacturers now, is lack of INNOVATION. They release a new device every 6-9 months with marginal speed increases or tighter pixel densities, or (shudder) higher megapixel cameras. And with them come HIGHER prices. But, if you run the same apps on my snapdragon 400 device, with these snapdragon 80x devices (general apps, not high intensity games), you will find both devices run them adequately for everyday use. Then why are people willing to shell out year after year for overpriced devices, that the apps can't really benefit from? Because in my opinion, they are suckers. Also, it's in the best interest of both the carriers & manufacturers to NOT offer software updates to the devices, when, they can push them into a new device
every 12 months, and, simply extend the contract. You keep them locked in for life.
I hope these "sell for cost" or mid tier devices flood the markets. It will require the "big boys" to change their market ideas to compete. They will have to drop the price on their devices, or lose market share. More competition is good for the consumer. When the manufacturing cost of a smartphone, with marketing, research, advertising is less than 200 dollars, but yet they will retail them for 700, 800 or more, consumers are being ripped off.
That's why I will stick with a good quality mid tier device. It's your money...do what you want, but I'd prefer value, over bright shiny new flashy things.
I'm not up behind the science, but in SOME cases, can't lasers be deflected with mirrors?
Now, the power level of the military lasers is HUGE, so perhaps the mirror idea wouldn't work?
Slashdot Mirror
A few years back. Make loans to people that have no way to pay it back, package & sell the paper to "investors" and on and on til the chickens come home to roost, then POP! goes the balloon.
Has changed me from a Conservative (not to be confused with Republican) to more and more each day to a Constitutional Libertarian. I've gotten to the point in my life (mid 50's) that I see myself more as a libertarian, than anything else. I do not trust government. I believe governments sole purpose, as written in the constitution, is to provide for the defense of our nation, promote general welfare. THAT'S IT! The rest, should be left to each state. Government now, wants to be our mommy & daddy for flipping everything, taking more and more responsibility for our lives, along with more and more of our money. It's about to the point where I should just have my paycheck direct deposited at the Treasury department, and hope they send ME back enough money to survive, along with a thank you card to them for being so nice.
Remember before they changed their name a few years ago how they had "better" quality videos? Now you gotta go to bestgore or similar to see what use to be on Ogrish(sp)
Yep, looks like just after it hit the sound barrier, something let go, because you can clearly see the first stage running through the video. Will be interesting to see what the data shows what happened.
Nope, news posted because slash dot is controlled by someone else and was told to post this crap. Who cares.
I've been an amateur radio operator since 1990. To get a license to operate, I had to pass a test. I also fly RC airplanes. I did a lot of reading, basics of flight, and had a person at an RC club "teach" me to fly, how to operate it properly and safely. These people buying these quadcopters, usually have NO IDEA what they are doing. Simply take it out of the box, charge the battery, turn it on and PRESTO! I'm a pilot! BUZZZZZZZZZZZ it doesn't work that way Einstein. These clowns have no idea that most consumer grade quadcopters can seriously injure or KILL YOU. Those blade are like a saw blade! They don't know the first thing about the difference in controlling one flying away from you, versus towards you, have no idea what wind speed can do to an airfoil, crosswind adjustments that need to be made to keep your bird trim, flying in a headwind versus a tail wind, not to mention where to and not to fly! Perhaps an "amateur quad RC" license might be needed. These idiots are going to spoil the RC hobby, because they don't have brain one when it comes to operating these potentially dangerous RC flying quadcopters.
I'm sure this happens in a lot of "university towns". Near campus here, the "slumlords" that would rent 4-5 or more 3-4 bedroom houses, near campus, let them run down to the point they go to the city council, cry about it being a blighted area, ask for permission to tear them all down, request a tax waiver for 10-20 years to build "luxury" student housing. Well, the city goes along with it, and now we have so many student housing condo/apartments or whatever you call them within a few blocks of the campus, it's just mind blowing. And they are outfitted with gyms, pools, saunas, movie theaters, free tv/internet. The apartments are fully furnished, huge flatscreen TV's etc. They rent by the bed, 500,600, or more PER BED. This is in a smaller city, 150,000 population, 20k students. Of course with all these that popped up within the last 5 years, the city isn't really getting any tax money on the property, because of the abatement waivers. So they suck up the resources, electricity, water, (yeah, figured into the rent), infrastructure wear and tear, but the city isn't getting any money, so what does the city do? Beg and beg for sales or property tax increases. The builder got their money, sold it to a property management company most likely not local, so the money paid by the kids parents doesn't stay in the city. When the waivers run out, they will probably try to offload them onto a local developer. They got their piece of pie. It just amazes me that parents are willing to spend that amount of money on their kids to live in a place like that, when they can live in a dorm for a heck of a lot less.
More free crap thanks to our over generous welfare system. Free food, free health care (not), free cell phones, free cable, free housing. Instead of making lazy ass people get up off their asses and work, we just let them sit on their butts, playing video games, smoking/selling drugs, having more babies so they can get even more money. Time to cut off the freeloaders and make them work for some of this free crap. If you aren't physically, medically, or mentally handicapped, there should be some kind of work that you should be required to do, to get the "free" stuff. Taxpayers are tired of funding your lazy asses.
Another in a long list of reasons I don't fly. TSA, invasion of privacy, strip searches, terrible service, loaded on like a heard of cattle, no leg room, charges for everything under the sun, delays...it's just easier to drive. I have no reason to travel overseas, would never leave America. If I want to see something overseas, I just look it up. I'd rather travel in the USA. Don't have to deal with the language problem, social problem, anti-American problem.
Better not let them get anywhere near Buzz....He decked a guy some years ago that had hounded him trying to get him to say that it was all a fake. They are just pissed that 40+ years have gone by and they were still THE LOSERS!
Things tasted better anyway. This whole anti-fat, anti everything else is a bunch of garbage, if the public wouldn't buy a 12oz bag of chips, and eat the entire bag in one sitting.
I only want to help you. Six words that should strike fear in anyone.
It's not my fault, I'm not paying it, let someone else pay for it. Hey idiot...you and your parent(s) signed on the dotted line. You want to screw your credit history, financial life up? That's YOUR business, because you are IRRESPONSIBLE. You are one of these idiots that think you are OWED something. Hundreds of thousands of people, have gone to college without loans, but, thanks to "big college" you have to give your life over to the devil to pay for an education. How come we say screw big oil, big farm, big pharma, but we never have a conversation about "big college"? Some college presidents, sports coaches & professors are making 6 & 7 figure salaries, but that's ok? Some people are just not cut out for college in the first place. Take a 2 year trade school and you'll be better off. How many people coming out of a 4 year school with underwater basketweaving, ancient religion languages do we need in this world? I went to a 2 year electronics school, got an associates degree almost 40 years ago. Never once have I been unemployed in my chosen field. What will probably happen, and what government probably wants to happen is enough idiot irresponsible kids default on their loans the government will screw investors, bankers and pretty much everyone that has a bank account and just say oh well, so sorry, just suck on it!
I drive a Mustang. Why would I want a computer driving it? That's 3/4 of the fun of having one. On a 3-4 hour drive on an interstate, that's one thing, but otherwise forget it.
Too late...you gave that up when you hooked into the internet, "friended" 3,495 people on facebook, twitter, instagram, said yes to every EULA, turned on tracking for your phone etc...you think government, corporations are just going to give that up?
Don't get me wrong, if Hastert did something that violates the law, then he should be appropriately punished. The thing that bothers me is it should not be ANYONE's business how much money I put into, or out of my personal bank account! Period! The other thing is, selective prosecution. How come some of the shady dealings that Bill & Hillary, are not treated with the same level of prosecution, that someone with an (R) by there name receives.
When I was in high school, small town...4,000 population, middle of the country. If you saw a pickup truck in the school parking lot, including teachers, 99% of the time, there would be 1 or two guns in a gun rack, on the rear window. One being a shotgun the other being a rifle. Also, if it was hot outside, the windows would be down, if it was raining, the doors wouldn't be locked. Guys ran around with a skoal can in the hip pocket & a buck knife on their belt. Not one incident of "gun related crimes" EVER happened in schools. You had a beef with someone, you took it across the street AFTER school, duked it out for a while, declared someone the winner, someone the loser. Few days later you'd be hanging out in town having a beer with the same guy. Try that now, they'd toss you in jail and throw away the key. So, that begs the question...WHAT has changed? Perhaps single parent families, everyone living in a sub division with privacy fences, who have no idea who their neighbors are, schools/federal government removing any mention of God from every day life, the increase of violent video games, children growing up with a lack of respect for their elders, or anyone else. SOMETHING has changed since the days I attended high school in the 70's, and NOT for the better.
Are the only ones that use the built in software. I haven't used windows media player since VLC came around.
During the age of the "CB" radio craze, I made an antenna out of a fiberglass whip flag that was on my bicycle, mounted the radio on a bracket on the handlebars, used a magnetic mount for the microphone. Rigged up a generator out of one of those bicycle light thingys, to kind of trickle charge the 2 6 volt lantern batteries mounted where the water bottle went. Worked pretty good. Use to get truckers going back & forth across the state on U.S. highway 50 would call me on the radio wanting to see it if I was on the air. What the heck...wasn't much to do in a small town, if you were 14, in the mid 70's.
NOT to be so naive! 21 years old, fresh out of electronics school. Moved to Houston Tx. Believed everything the recruiter said. Got there, found out it wasn't what I thought it was. Stuck it out a year, just for the work experience. Came back to my home state, found another career in electronics and have been with it for 3 different companies for 33 years. Current one, 17 years. Take everything a recruiter tells you about a "major" corporation with a grain of salt. 18 months after I left the one in Houston, they laid everyone off and closed up shop, moved it to Dallas. Couple computer companies had that building for a while, northwest Cyprus, Tx area. Don't know who has it now.
Just call Obama, McConnell or any other moron in DC, they will probably just GIVE it to you for free. After all, it wouldn't be fair that someone have something and someone else did not ya know.
Had the USA not had a power grid, but, each home had its own independent "power plant", the USA would have been on DC long ago. But, back then, it was decided, that it was better to have power generation done from a central location, and have it "piped" to the homes. Of course it became a business, & I seriously doubt the powers that be, will NOT allow home owners to have their own source of power, without some sort of BS tax. They will throw a ton of money at politicians, which do their bidding, and not the people.
For probably 75-80% of your TYPICAL smart phone user, the mid tier devices will be all they would ever need, but, most consumers fall for the slick marketing, hype and got to keep up with the Jones' attitude and will go on the hook (even under an overpriced contract) for a flagship device. I did the numbers when I bought my last phone almost a year ago. I had been off contract for over a year with straight talk, with zero issue or coverage problems. At the time the S5 had been out and the OnePlus was just out (late May '14). I went ahead and bought a $299.00 Huawei Mate2. It's a mid tier device, 6" screen, 720p, snapdragon 400. It was the BATTERY size that sold me, 4,000mAH. I ran the numbers between it and the S5, and in a 24 month period (typical USA contract), I save over 84 dollars per month buying outright, than on a contract. The problem with the device manufacturers now, is lack of INNOVATION. They release a new device every 6-9 months with marginal speed increases or tighter pixel densities, or (shudder) higher megapixel cameras. And with them come HIGHER prices. But, if you run the same apps on my snapdragon 400 device, with these snapdragon 80x devices (general apps, not high intensity games), you will find both devices run them adequately for everyday use. Then why are people willing to shell out year after year for overpriced devices, that the apps can't really benefit from? Because in my opinion, they are suckers. Also, it's in the best interest of both the carriers & manufacturers to NOT offer software updates to the devices, when, they can push them into a new device every 12 months, and, simply extend the contract. You keep them locked in for life. I hope these "sell for cost" or mid tier devices flood the markets. It will require the "big boys" to change their market ideas to compete. They will have to drop the price on their devices, or lose market share. More competition is good for the consumer. When the manufacturing cost of a smartphone, with marketing, research, advertising is less than 200 dollars, but yet they will retail them for 700, 800 or more, consumers are being ripped off. That's why I will stick with a good quality mid tier device. It's your money...do what you want, but I'd prefer value, over bright shiny new flashy things.
I'm not up behind the science, but in SOME cases, can't lasers be deflected with mirrors? Now, the power level of the military lasers is HUGE, so perhaps the mirror idea wouldn't work?
For not having their own "capsule" system, they shelved in the 70's. Should have NEVER stopped upgrading Apollo.