So, no. You don't get to choose, and instead of funding a publicly owned space launch capability, we give Elon Musk and other SpaceX investors a cut off the top.
I guess you thought that Titan, Atlas, Delta, Saturn and STS were designed and built by gov't employees, eh, instead of The Martin Company,Consolidated-Vultee, Douglas Aircraft, Chrysler, Rockwell and Morton-Thiokol, plus dozens of other companies.
The bottom line is that the US has NEVER had a "publicly owned space launch capability".
Do I get to choose whether or not I'm part of the $700,000,000,000 Wall Street bailout? That was private enterprise too.
Which was "encouraged" by Democrats (Janet Reno: if you don't make lots of home loans to poor black people who can't afford it, we'll prosecute you for housing discrimination) who then killed the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, which was designed to regulate the FNMA and FHLMC.
I said "the vast majority of those packets stay within the ISPs private network", because I acknowledge that you can usually access pop servers from outside the private network. (That's how I continued to read my email while evacuated for Katrina.)
but where I serve only snipers and sharpshooters use scopes.
Same in US.
This sounds to me that either the US infantry is reckless (snipers firing without positively IDing their targets)
Unlikely.
or that the term 'friendly fire' was used to gain support from those unfamiliar with military tactics.
More likely.
Even more likely: the reporter got it wrong.
Or it's to be used in assassination attempts from ultra-long range where the target is in a crowd of non-targets or friendlies. But that's just paranoid ranting. Isn't it?
but there are millions of people who use unencrypted POP and whose POP credentials are sent in clear text.
And the vast majority of those packets stay within the ISPs private network. You'd have to be directly sniffing the ISP's network, and who, besides the gov't and that ISP has the wherewithal to accomplish such a task?
Political battles are different than physical battles. Thus, there is different data to analyze.
In politics, one of the things that some of your operatives (should) monitor is what messages the opposition is spreading in each state, and why they think $THIS is successful and $THAT is not.
Likewise, in war, you try to break the enemy's cryptographic codes, send in spies to collect economic/manufacturing data, try to determine the "mood of the people", fly spy planes to determine where you want to bomb, how successful the bombing missions were, etc.
I'm not sure I want to know how he comes up with his conclusions.
That's not very intelligent. Knowing how your enemy processes his data, finding flaws in his analysis should be the first thing an anti-conservative does.
those who prefer an internal moral compass and those who prefer an external moral compass. The former tend to analyse things for themselves, look at all the facts
Or become narcissists and/or psycopaths.
and come up with a decision- is this "right/true/a good idea/etc". [snip] can be often actively disregard the opinions of others in the name of "doing what *they* want". Individualism for the sake of individualism, you might say.
Or, really try to make the best choice, but be ultimately thwarted by a lack of education, ability to reason, or by having been propagandized into being unable to see more than one side of an issue.
What we need is one lone ruler who tells us what to do who has no ulterior motives and hidden agendas beyond making this world the most livable and efficient for as large a fraction of the population as possible.
A Benevolent Dictatorship? That never works in any organization larger than the Python Development Community.
I know any number of people with PhD and Master's degrees whose inability to reason critically is absolutely staggering to the point that I wonder how they manage to function at all.
Since all Republicans only (like Rush Limbaugh) have high skool edjumications, these must be Democrats you are referring to.
1GW was when I realized how completely stupid most reporters are, and how in over their heads they were when dealing with military issues, asking questions like, "so which units are going to attack, and where?".
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Diesel has a greater energy density
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density It all depends on whether you measure by mass or volume.
can be converted into power more efficiently
How so? Higher compression?
The new diesel Volkswagens achieve comparable gas mileage to a gas-powered hybrid
Please don't think I'm slighting diesel. It's why I tied it closely with gasoline.
we're biased toward consensus, flexibility and efficient group dynamics
A couple of quotes by women, about women:
So, no. You don't get to choose, and instead of funding a publicly owned space launch capability, we give Elon Musk and other SpaceX investors a cut off the top.
I guess you thought that Titan, Atlas, Delta, Saturn and STS were designed and built by gov't employees, eh, instead of The Martin Company,Consolidated-Vultee, Douglas Aircraft, Chrysler, Rockwell and Morton-Thiokol, plus dozens of other companies.
The bottom line is that the US has NEVER had a "publicly owned space launch capability".
Do I get to choose whether or not I'm part of the $700,000,000,000 Wall Street bailout? That was private enterprise too.
Which was "encouraged" by Democrats (Janet Reno: if you don't make lots of home loans to poor black people who can't afford it, we'll prosecute you for housing discrimination) who then killed the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, which was designed to regulate the FNMA and FHLMC.
they have a true desire to reduce our society's dependence on oil (particularly foreign oil)
And burn lots more mercury-spewing coal? And lose all that energy to transmission and conversion inefficiencies?
Sadly, gasoline (trailed slightly by diesel) is still the best fuel for powering wheeled vehicles.
as well as promote environmentally friendly technology such as electric vehicles.
Making lithium batteries is a pretty toxic process, and they need to be recycled carefully.
forcing the US to get off its arse in regard to the final frontier...
A country that sends half it's money to foreigners and transfers the other half from Earners to Dead Weight isn't going anywhere.
Why are all posts so anti-chinese?
You must not have seen this, from Thursday:
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/25/2145209
made the original assertion about POP packets
I said "the vast majority of those packets stay within the ISPs private network", because I acknowledge that you can usually access pop servers from outside the private network. (That's how I continued to read my email while evacuated for Katrina.)
but where I serve only snipers and sharpshooters use scopes.
Same in US.
This sounds to me that either the US infantry is reckless (snipers firing without positively IDing their targets)
Unlikely.
or that the term 'friendly fire' was used to gain support from those unfamiliar with military tactics.
More likely.
Even more likely: the reporter got it wrong.
Or it's to be used in assassination attempts from ultra-long range where the target is in a crowd of non-targets or friendlies. But that's just paranoid ranting. Isn't it?
Just go to your local coffee shop with open wireless and sniff the wireless there.
But that's not within the ISP's network.
hmm, given the energy issues going forward, isnt that a very big waste?
On-demand CPU throttling, and Display Power Management mitigate most of those issues. A trailing-edge video card will help, too.
What does allow remote pop logins have to do with (quoting from my original message) "packets stay within the ISPs private network"?
but there are millions of people who use unencrypted POP and whose POP credentials are sent in clear text.
And the vast majority of those packets stay within the ISPs private network. You'd have to be directly sniffing the ISP's network, and who, besides the gov't and that ISP has the wherewithal to accomplish such a task?
manufacturers just choose not to make a gauge for it.
Says who? Our 2005 Dodge minivan displays MPG at the touch of a button.
We didn't defeat Hitler by analyzing his data.
Political battles are different than physical battles. Thus, there is different data to analyze.
In politics, one of the things that some of your operatives (should) monitor is what messages the opposition is spreading in each state, and why they think $THIS is successful and $THAT is not.
Likewise, in war, you try to break the enemy's cryptographic codes, send in spies to collect economic/manufacturing data, try to determine the "mood of the people", fly spy planes to determine where you want to bomb, how successful the bombing missions were, etc.
Although of course reality does have a known liberal bias.
This is marked +4 Insightful?
I'm not sure I want to know how he comes up with his conclusions.
That's not very intelligent. Knowing how your enemy processes his data, finding flaws in his analysis should be the first thing an anti-conservative does.
the reason and propaganda I dont.
People who fail to dissect that, and act upon it without thorough thought, belong in the "external moral compass" camp.
If all you've been fed is ${DIRECTION}-wing propaganda, your ability to reason, disect and thoroughly analyze are compromised.
But then, there's so much available from both sides, that it's hard not to find "the other side" if you really want to.
those who prefer an internal moral compass and those who prefer an external moral compass. The former tend to analyse things for themselves, look at all the facts
Or become narcissists and/or psycopaths.
and come up with a decision- is this "right/true/a good idea/etc".
[snip]
can be often actively disregard the opinions of others in the name of "doing what *they* want". Individualism for the sake of individualism, you might say.
Or, really try to make the best choice, but be ultimately thwarted by a lack of education, ability to reason, or by having been propagandized into being unable to see more than one side of an issue.
What we need is one lone ruler who tells us what to do who has no ulterior motives and hidden agendas beyond making this world the most livable and efficient for as large a fraction of the population as possible.
A Benevolent Dictatorship? That never works in any organization larger than the Python Development Community.
Why is this modded Flamebait?
I know any number of people with PhD and Master's degrees whose inability to reason critically is absolutely staggering to the point that I wonder how they manage to function at all.
Since all Republicans only (like Rush Limbaugh) have high skool edjumications, these must be Democrats you are referring to.
They were kind of dumb
1GW was when I realized how completely stupid most reporters are, and how in over their heads they were when dealing with military issues, asking questions like, "so which units are going to attack, and where?".
How much did she cost you and from which country did you order her?
And have a wife who was either uber-obsequious or saw me as a meal-ticket? No, we're both Euro-Americans who's ancestors arrived long ago.
So... How goes the hunt then, friend?
Hunt's long over. Been married to a wonderful woman for 10 years, and have two great children.