If you think that the Chinese need to be told where satellites are, then you must think they are also too dumb to launch something into space in the first place.
They know WHERE every satellite is, anyone with access to the tracking systems that are necessary in order to be able to get a satellite into space can see them. The trick is knowing which one is which. Pictures of the satellites would help them in that, so they won't show the pics, true. So that's no big deal as far as I'm concerned.
Of course, should anything ever get to such a violent point between the countries, China could just simply shoot down every US satellite... Except the ones they actually own, anyway.
If you check through some of his other posts, he basically just trolls anything that might be construed as 'liberal'. You won't be able to sway him with a logical argument.
I was afraid that the US would be losing out on the fundamentals of actually deploying such alternative energy setups. While I don't suspect wind power will be the answer to anything much more than maybe 5% of the world's power needs, we WILL need the engineering and technical know-how. Either we can get in on this stuff early and have our people (And by our people I am well aware some may be from other countries, bust most will stay in the US) gain the expertise and be home-grown, and thus, ultimately contribute to our society, culture or economy, or we would have to rely on experts from other countries almost exclusively, and end up being at the mercy of foreign nationals.
This would be an ideal opportunity to track the total cost of installation and management vs. the total cost for an equivalent 'traditional' power plant.
I'm pretty certain that many people with a 'coder's background' will be all too familiar with some of that terminology, after they've been in the workforce a year or two.
Who is supporting him? No one is saying he did a good thing, they are just saying 38 years is pretty insane for changing some grades. You can get less time for killing someone. Or maybe even two someones.
...(Of all places) there was a pretty good segment this morning regarding email encryption, even including a short interview with Phil Zimmerman. Why the 'of all places' comment? I've actually heard several good and tech-savvy news pieces on NPR.
I wouldn't be so quick with the assumptions there, bub. I, and several people I know, have Ipods yet cannot stand Quicktime or Itunes. We only use it when forced to to change out stuff on the Ipods. Otherwise it's all VLC or WinAmp. I, for one, would not be proud to have Itunes on my resume, buggy piece of crap that it is.
I don't know that that would work very well. The thing is, genetic testing isn't quick, it takes a while. You can't exactly get the results while you wait, as I recall. So they'd need a confidential way of giving you the results. It's hard to do that without knowing who you are. Also, I believe pretty much every medical facility is required by HIPAA to keep records on everyone they 'treat'. Can't do that if they don't identify themselves.
Fair enough, but that sort of goes beyond the scope of this discussion. Of course, this wouldn't be/. if it didn't, so...
I do, however, agree. The insurance situation in this country is beyond FUBARed. Of course, it's like that in a lot of countries. The biggest problem is health insurance in particular. Frankly I'm not sure how we could make it better. Japan, for instance, has pretty much all private practices, and health care is cheap as dirt, but that's because all treatments are strictly price-controlled by the govt. Doctors there tend not to be very well-paid. Still, there seems to be enough of them.
Because without the ability to read it we lack the ability to use it to discriminate.
Say, for instance, your employer were able to collect you DNA. How is immaterial at the moment. Your company does this, and gets you profiled. Uh-oh, high risk for cancer. So they fire you so their insurance premiums won't go up. Also, can you imagine how much that information is worth to your insurance company?
Yes, there are already some laws on the books against genetic discrimination, but a lot of places don't have to tell you why they fired you, and if you didn't know they got the DNA...
Besides, it's just plain a privacy issue. My DNA is my business. Not yours. However, with the mail-in DNA testing, if you were to get some of my DNA, you could find out what's in my DNA. Why do you think you should have that right?
As I understand it, you don't actually have to be present at their offices to provide the DNA Sample.
What kind of crap is this? So, basically, I could collect the saliva (Don't ask how) of various people I know, send it in, and have ready access to their genetic information? HIPAA should be all over this like white on rice. With no actual strong safeguards on this stuff anyone could theoretically easily gain access to your genetic profile.
A better solution is to be able to do it freely, you actually have to show up at the lab and be able to certify you are who you say you are. Perfect? No, but better than how it was being done.
First off, I don't see a lot of movies. I'm not elitist or anything, I just generally have more interesting things to do. Most movies are kind of boring, anyway.
However, the movie landscape *IS* changing, and I think a lot of the points the last question-giver, Marsala, made are very insightful. On the other hand, we're starting to get inundated with crappy movies that guys with no experience or budget made in their mom's basements, and you have to keep in mind the signal-to-noise ratio is actually getting much worse. Lots of movie snobs will go on and on about how much crap 'mainstream' movies are, and how the internet, combines with digital effects and post processing techniques available to the masses will herald some sort of new age of movie making, and it might, but for every good movie made by someone who would never get a chance with the studios there will be a couple of thousand morons with video cameras who all THINK they are genius producer/directors.
Well, I believe the problem is it doesn't just 'fall into place naturally'. It is pretty unnatural, after all. The real issue is positioning. Yes, if it gets in the prefect position, then it will have no issue staying up there by itself (at least for a little while..), however, you need to be able to maneuver it into the correct spot, so you have to have a way for it to position itself. It also has to be able to keep it's orbit from decaying for at least 9 revolutions, but I'm guessing if you are in the correct spot that isn't a big deal. Anyway, the point is you need the engine on the satellite to hit that sweet spot that the rocket won't be able to perfectly plant you at.
Launching it for a couple of grand? Maybe. I'm being serious, really, I can conceive it.
However, a satellite weighing less than three quarters of an ounce yet able to be detected on the earth would most likely need an aluminum-foil dish or something, which would most likely take all the weight, and then you'd need some sort of support structure (Even if it's just wires or even tubes of air) and some sort of engine on it to make sure it made it around the earth a few times...I just think the weight requirements are the real killer here.
Get some folding card tables, throw yer servers on there, then get yerself a extension cord and a couple of power strips to give ya enough outlets offa those two plugs in th' wall, and get yerself one of them fans from Walmart ta blow over 'em if yer feelin fancy. Voila. Them college kids think they're so smart, that wasn't hard at all. You can even get a bucket of water in case anything catches fire!
More often than not, it seems it's the tolerant, freedom loving liberal activists that vandalize and destroy other people's property. More often than not? What a load of crap. When I worked at the state, the guy who dared to put pro-evolution bumper stickers on his car had his vehicle vandalized several times while at work. So I guess that means that most of the time conservatives are only law-loving bible-thumping zealots of morality when it comes to their own and never when it comes to their own property? I mean I have one example right?
..Has this Administration NOT had 'Substantial Independent Authority'?? Haven't Bush & Co. been arguing that they have since the beginning?
Not that the White house has ever given a damn what any judge has said anyway. If any backups of those emails had been made, they would have disappeared long ago.
This administration sickens me when I think about it, so I'll stop.
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If you think that the Chinese need to be told where satellites are, then you must think they are also too dumb to launch something into space in the first place.
They know WHERE every satellite is, anyone with access to the tracking systems that are necessary in order to be able to get a satellite into space can see them. The trick is knowing which one is which. Pictures of the satellites would help them in that, so they won't show the pics, true. So that's no big deal as far as I'm concerned.
Of course, should anything ever get to such a violent point between the countries, China could just simply shoot down every US satellite... Except the ones they actually own, anyway.
But I may have to.
If you check through some of his other posts, he basically just trolls anything that might be construed as 'liberal'. You won't be able to sway him with a logical argument.
I was afraid that the US would be losing out on the fundamentals of actually deploying such alternative energy setups. While I don't suspect wind power will be the answer to anything much more than maybe 5% of the world's power needs, we WILL need the engineering and technical know-how. Either we can get in on this stuff early and have our people (And by our people I am well aware some may be from other countries, bust most will stay in the US) gain the expertise and be home-grown, and thus, ultimately contribute to our society, culture or economy, or we would have to rely on experts from other countries almost exclusively, and end up being at the mercy of foreign nationals.
This would be an ideal opportunity to track the total cost of installation and management vs. the total cost for an equivalent 'traditional' power plant.
There's a big swinger's convention in New Orleans in November. Also the fall tends to be the time of year when such parties and whatnot get underway.
Hey, you asked. And now you know more about me than you ever wanted to.
I'm pretty certain that many people with a 'coder's background' will be all too familiar with some of that terminology, after they've been in the workforce a year or two.
Who is supporting him? No one is saying he did a good thing, they are just saying 38 years is pretty insane for changing some grades. You can get less time for killing someone. Or maybe even two someones.
...(Of all places) there was a pretty good segment this morning regarding email encryption, even including a short interview with Phil Zimmerman. Why the 'of all places' comment? I've actually heard several good and tech-savvy news pieces on NPR.I wouldn't be so quick with the assumptions there, bub. I, and several people I know, have Ipods yet cannot stand Quicktime or Itunes. We only use it when forced to to change out stuff on the Ipods. Otherwise it's all VLC or WinAmp. I, for one, would not be proud to have Itunes on my resume, buggy piece of crap that it is.
I don't know that that would work very well. The thing is, genetic testing isn't quick, it takes a while. You can't exactly get the results while you wait, as I recall. So they'd need a confidential way of giving you the results. It's hard to do that without knowing who you are. Also, I believe pretty much every medical facility is required by HIPAA to keep records on everyone they 'treat'. Can't do that if they don't identify themselves.
Fair enough, but that sort of goes beyond the scope of this discussion. Of course, this wouldn't be /. if it didn't, so...
I do, however, agree. The insurance situation in this country is beyond FUBARed. Of course, it's like that in a lot of countries. The biggest problem is health insurance in particular. Frankly I'm not sure how we could make it better. Japan, for instance, has pretty much all private practices, and health care is cheap as dirt, but that's because all treatments are strictly price-controlled by the govt. Doctors there tend not to be very well-paid. Still, there seems to be enough of them.
Because without the ability to read it we lack the ability to use it to discriminate.
Say, for instance, your employer were able to collect you DNA. How is immaterial at the moment. Your company does this, and gets you profiled. Uh-oh, high risk for cancer. So they fire you so their insurance premiums won't go up. Also, can you imagine how much that information is worth to your insurance company?
Yes, there are already some laws on the books against genetic discrimination, but a lot of places don't have to tell you why they fired you, and if you didn't know they got the DNA...
Besides, it's just plain a privacy issue. My DNA is my business. Not yours. However, with the mail-in DNA testing, if you were to get some of my DNA, you could find out what's in my DNA. Why do you think you should have that right?
As I understand it, you don't actually have to be present at their offices to provide the DNA Sample.
What kind of crap is this? So, basically, I could collect the saliva (Don't ask how) of various people I know, send it in, and have ready access to their genetic information? HIPAA should be all over this like white on rice. With no actual strong safeguards on this stuff anyone could theoretically easily gain access to your genetic profile.
A better solution is to be able to do it freely, you actually have to show up at the lab and be able to certify you are who you say you are. Perfect? No, but better than how it was being done.
You are correct. Some are great, of course. It's just that many movies I've seen, afterwards I'd wished I'd spent the time doing something else.
Not sure why the GP thread was modded flame bait though, nothing in it was inflammatory, but whatever.
That's true, but it had a precisely guided, computer-aided rocket to help it along. For two grand I'm thinking they probably won't be able to do that.
A second and third stage might be one way to do it, though.
First off, I don't see a lot of movies. I'm not elitist or anything, I just generally have more interesting things to do. Most movies are kind of boring, anyway.
However, the movie landscape *IS* changing, and I think a lot of the points the last question-giver, Marsala, made are very insightful. On the other hand, we're starting to get inundated with crappy movies that guys with no experience or budget made in their mom's basements, and you have to keep in mind the signal-to-noise ratio is actually getting much worse. Lots of movie snobs will go on and on about how much crap 'mainstream' movies are, and how the internet, combines with digital effects and post processing techniques available to the masses will herald some sort of new age of movie making, and it might, but for every good movie made by someone who would never get a chance with the studios there will be a couple of thousand morons with video cameras who all THINK they are genius producer/directors.
Well, I believe the problem is it doesn't just 'fall into place naturally'. It is pretty unnatural, after all. The real issue is positioning. Yes, if it gets in the prefect position, then it will have no issue staying up there by itself (at least for a little while..), however, you need to be able to maneuver it into the correct spot, so you have to have a way for it to position itself. It also has to be able to keep it's orbit from decaying for at least 9 revolutions, but I'm guessing if you are in the correct spot that isn't a big deal. Anyway, the point is you need the engine on the satellite to hit that sweet spot that the rocket won't be able to perfectly plant you at.
I'd meant never when it comes to other people's property. d'oh.
Launching it for a couple of grand? Maybe. I'm being serious, really, I can conceive it.
However, a satellite weighing less than three quarters of an ounce yet able to be detected on the earth would most likely need an aluminum-foil dish or something, which would most likely take all the weight, and then you'd need some sort of support structure (Even if it's just wires or even tubes of air) and some sort of engine on it to make sure it made it around the earth a few times...I just think the weight requirements are the real killer here.
This guy just have a fetish for the number 9 or something?
At least it's a new one, can't find a term for it anywhere.
Get some folding card tables, throw yer servers on there, then get yerself a extension cord and a couple of power strips to give ya enough outlets offa those two plugs in th' wall, and get yerself one of them fans from Walmart ta blow over 'em if yer feelin fancy. Voila. Them college kids think they're so smart, that wasn't hard at all. You can even get a bucket of water in case anything catches fire!
Idiot.
So, do you have a lot of bumper stickers, rims, car seat covers, and other such affects on/in your car?
Fair enough, I failed to comprehend.
..Has this Administration NOT had 'Substantial Independent Authority'?? Haven't Bush & Co. been arguing that they have since the beginning?
Not that the White house has ever given a damn what any judge has said anyway. If any backups of those emails had been made, they would have disappeared long ago.
This administration sickens me when I think about it, so I'll stop.