IIRC, the problem was something like "my ship might end up in a zone where only a 386 would work", so software archeology was one way to write code for archaic systems that would be poorly understood by someone used to computers thousands of years advanced from that. This is NOT only science fiction. Imagine trying to get a room full of Apple IIs, Ataris, 286s, C-64s, and Amigas all up and running. Anyone remember all the custom autoexec.bat and config.sys files needed to get certain games to run under DOS? BTW, One of the coolest things in Vinge's book was the galaxy-wide network of Usenet servers:)
My point with Clinton was many people think Clinton = everyone liked us and Bush = everyone hates us. In real life it is more like Clinton = everyone hates us and Bush = everyone REALLY hates us.
As for fraud, the minute a large number of Americans think that they can't actually elect their government we will either drift into facism or turn into one of those loser countries that seem to have a revolt of some kind every time the population gets annoyed. I bet Nixon wouldn't have been so hot to do all those Watergate schemes if he hadn't seen what happens to honest politicians.
So fraud is OK as long the person you like wins?
Gee, I wonder if all the Bush partisans feel the same way - fraud is cool as long as Gore lost.
Either way, YOU are a loser.
BTW, 9-11 was already mostly set up when Bush was elected, so someone hated us enough in the Clinton years to kill large numbers of Americans.
You are wrong about the revenue stream going to Autocad. When the kid and all his friends use the free Autocad they will get good at it and get used to it. Then when they get IT jobs and the boss says "buy me a CAD program" they run right out and buy Autocad. Thus Autocad MAKES money from piracy. This also explains things like Photoshop Elements that is just Photoshop with some pro features removed for a fraction of the price.
It is more of a performance bond. The women is giving up her virginity, and thus lowering her value on the marriage market. The ring is supposed to insure the man goes through with his end of the deal. Obviously today virginity isn't that big a deal in the 1st World, but showing off to your girlfriends still is!
BTW, my wife wears a nice emerald from safe and conflict-free Columbia. wait a minute.....
Isn't this true many places? I have got lost in the UK and ended up in places I didn't think I would last 5 minutes if I got out of the car.
BTW, you are right about Baltimore. If you have the cash to live in the "good part" it is very nice. If you don't, might as well move someplace safe like Iraq.
Chernobyl is/was a graphite reactor with a positive void coefficient not in a containment building. This is like comparing the safety of riding in a Volvo to riding a unicycle carrying nitroglycerin while drunk. Also it is ILLEGAL to build a reactor like this in the USA.
Re blacks and slavery = improved genetics: Is this acutally proven or a guess? It does seem correct at least in that the "weaker" people wouldn't even have survived the trip over here, let alone the brutal life of a slave. I did read that Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb survivors are healthier than the averge at this point. The reason for this is supposed to be the less healthy ones died out quickly.
In general genetics is WAY too complicated for the result proposed in the article. For one example, a long time ago Russians tried to breed friendly foxes that could be raised by humans. They did succeed, but it turns out the same genetics that make foxes act nice also make their fur odd colors that are useless commercially. Who would have thought "enjoys biting people and peeing on stuff = nice fur" in the DNA?
I used to drive an MG. I never killed anyone with it. If I was to go around running people over I would use a big truck with a chrome skull on the hood.
Re Iraq: The real crime here is gross incompetence by Rummy and Shrub.
If you promise to let Rumsfeld plan it I'm sure we won't have much to worry about.
OTOH, if you unleash Celine Dion then I think the USA would give up pretty quick!
Well actually I am aware of Canadian contributions in WW II and Afghanistan. Good on you for both.
The reason we don't you all building airplanes or other military hardware is we MAKE MONEY selling you our stuff. This is just basic military-industrial complex cynical commercial politics at work, not an evil plot to "keep the hosers down".
Now on to invasions. Lucky for you we are friendly neighbors. Lucky for us too, but it benefits you more. If you had to budget to maintain an army to keep us out your country would be a far different place than it is today. Look at the history of Poland or any of the old Warsaw Pact to see how much fun it is to live next to a big well armed neighbor who is NOT friendly. Generally military plans are based on ability, not intentions, but in the case of USA v. Canada the idea of warfare between us has been beyond ridiculous since the mid 1800s (49-40 or fight was the last real disagreement IIRC).
While you may think yourself original for going on about "cretins in America", I bet I am older than you and also I have spent a lot of time in Europe. I bet I have been hearing people that owe their freedom to the USA go on about stupid, ignorant, violent, fat, religious-maniac cowboy Americans longer than you have been alive.
Ignorant of what?
FACT: Canada spends more on social programs and less on defense than the USA proportianally.
FACT: The USA, through treaty obligations, is obligated to defend Canada.
Therefore listening to Canadians go on about their superiority annoys us. Here is a deal: YOU ALL assume the burden of doing what we do and we will sit by laughing at you while we spend the money saved on ourselves. I know plenty of Canadians too. They are all HERE IN THE USA because the tax and business structure in Canada did not allow them to follow their dreams as they can here.
BTW I think it sucks being the WORLD POLICE. I have a brother headed to Iraq right now. I wish we would get the fvck out of that country and let them settle their own issues. But NO ONE ELSE is willing to step up anywhere. Did the useless Europeans bother to drive a couple hours to sort out Kosovo and Bosnia? NO - we had to to it. How would you like to be a Darfor (sp?) refugee camp resident. Is the UN making you feel all safe yet? Easy to be a critic, hard to actually get out here and do it.
I went to Montreal for vacation. I was impressed. It was a nice safe city and the people were friendly. They even put up with my shitty French when I felt like practicing. I was also amazed at how they seemed to pay NO attention to anything happening outside of Montreal. The paper was like Page 1 - Long wait at clinic becuase doctors moved to Florida, Page 2 - Drunks fighting in city after bars close are annoying, Page 55 - Nuclear war destroyes rest of planet.
You all get to live in your happy happy socialist dreamworld because WE have been protecting you all these years. I never noticed Canada doing anything like putting up a sign saying "We hearby renounce any aid from the USA for any reason". I don't blame you for taking advantage of the situation. I would too. Just don't go acting all smug like you pay your own way or anything.
* as for invading Canada, the point isn't that any sane person would want to, but we could and there is NOTHING you could do to stop us.
November is when we get to start.
(For non USAians these are mid-term elections. We can't throw Bush out, but we can put some balls back into the Congress to put a stop to this bullshit)
That original was exagerated.
If you live in a major city on either coast you have the crap commercial stations, a college station or two, NPR, and maybe another "alternative station". NPR is actually quite good and at least where I live sometimes carries BBC content. It is only when you get away from the major population centers that the radio becomes an utter wasteleand. Thus XM or Sirus are godsends when driving cross country. For example: Washington DC to Maine: Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis-Philly-NY-Boston all have "interesting" radio. Otherwise it SUCKS. NPR is fairly widespread, but they rarely play music.
MOD THIS UP!
Many rights were "suspended for the duration". Most people were OK with this because one of two things was going to happen. Either we would win and got our rights back, or we would lose and then the rights issue would become the least of our problems.
This war will NEVER be over because "terror" is no more likely to sign a surrender document than "drugs" or "poverty" is.
US Customs used to use (and may still) tethered balloons for radar observation. The locations were clearly marked on air navigation charts. It wasn't that big a deal to fly around the circle on the chart.
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There are quite a few marine and aircraft frequences pretty close to 6.4 MHz. I think this might be a *real* bad idea.
Bet your life? Bet your friends lives too?
IIRC, the problem was something like "my ship might end up in a zone where only a 386 would work", so software archeology was one way to write code for archaic systems that would be poorly understood by someone used to computers thousands of years advanced from that. This is NOT only science fiction. Imagine trying to get a room full of Apple IIs, Ataris, 286s, C-64s, and Amigas all up and running. Anyone remember all the custom autoexec.bat and config.sys files needed to get certain games to run under DOS? BTW, One of the coolest things in Vinge's book was the galaxy-wide network of Usenet servers :)
My point with Clinton was many people think Clinton = everyone liked us and Bush = everyone hates us. In real life it is more like Clinton = everyone hates us and Bush = everyone REALLY hates us. As for fraud, the minute a large number of Americans think that they can't actually elect their government we will either drift into facism or turn into one of those loser countries that seem to have a revolt of some kind every time the population gets annoyed. I bet Nixon wouldn't have been so hot to do all those Watergate schemes if he hadn't seen what happens to honest politicians.
So fraud is OK as long the person you like wins? Gee, I wonder if all the Bush partisans feel the same way - fraud is cool as long as Gore lost. Either way, YOU are a loser. BTW, 9-11 was already mostly set up when Bush was elected, so someone hated us enough in the Clinton years to kill large numbers of Americans.
You are wrong about the revenue stream going to Autocad. When the kid and all his friends use the free Autocad they will get good at it and get used to it. Then when they get IT jobs and the boss says "buy me a CAD program" they run right out and buy Autocad. Thus Autocad MAKES money from piracy. This also explains things like Photoshop Elements that is just Photoshop with some pro features removed for a fraction of the price.
It is more of a performance bond. The women is giving up her virginity, and thus lowering her value on the marriage market. The ring is supposed to insure the man goes through with his end of the deal. Obviously today virginity isn't that big a deal in the 1st World, but showing off to your girlfriends still is! BTW, my wife wears a nice emerald from safe and conflict-free Columbia. wait a minute.....
Isn't this true many places? I have got lost in the UK and ended up in places I didn't think I would last 5 minutes if I got out of the car. BTW, you are right about Baltimore. If you have the cash to live in the "good part" it is very nice. If you don't, might as well move someplace safe like Iraq.
Chernobyl is/was a graphite reactor with a positive void coefficient not in a containment building. This is like comparing the safety of riding in a Volvo to riding a unicycle carrying nitroglycerin while drunk. Also it is ILLEGAL to build a reactor like this in the USA.
Re blacks and slavery = improved genetics: Is this acutally proven or a guess? It does seem correct at least in that the "weaker" people wouldn't even have survived the trip over here, let alone the brutal life of a slave. I did read that Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb survivors are healthier than the averge at this point. The reason for this is supposed to be the less healthy ones died out quickly. In general genetics is WAY too complicated for the result proposed in the article. For one example, a long time ago Russians tried to breed friendly foxes that could be raised by humans. They did succeed, but it turns out the same genetics that make foxes act nice also make their fur odd colors that are useless commercially. Who would have thought "enjoys biting people and peeing on stuff = nice fur" in the DNA?
I mean after all those people died in the first TMI accident I don't blame you. I hear the corspes were just piled up in the streets.
50 cal vs. watermelons is all three!
People killed by cars - about 40,000 + or - People killed by model rockets - about 0, + or - Hmmm, which one should be illegal?
http://www.circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/1 09/25/3106
I used to drive an MG. I never killed anyone with it. If I was to go around running people over I would use a big truck with a chrome skull on the hood. Re Iraq: The real crime here is gross incompetence by Rummy and Shrub.
If you promise to let Rumsfeld plan it I'm sure we won't have much to worry about. OTOH, if you unleash Celine Dion then I think the USA would give up pretty quick!
Damn - I think I just gave away Seattle :(
Well actually I am aware of Canadian contributions in WW II and Afghanistan. Good on you for both. The reason we don't you all building airplanes or other military hardware is we MAKE MONEY selling you our stuff. This is just basic military-industrial complex cynical commercial politics at work, not an evil plot to "keep the hosers down". Now on to invasions. Lucky for you we are friendly neighbors. Lucky for us too, but it benefits you more. If you had to budget to maintain an army to keep us out your country would be a far different place than it is today. Look at the history of Poland or any of the old Warsaw Pact to see how much fun it is to live next to a big well armed neighbor who is NOT friendly. Generally military plans are based on ability, not intentions, but in the case of USA v. Canada the idea of warfare between us has been beyond ridiculous since the mid 1800s (49-40 or fight was the last real disagreement IIRC). While you may think yourself original for going on about "cretins in America", I bet I am older than you and also I have spent a lot of time in Europe. I bet I have been hearing people that owe their freedom to the USA go on about stupid, ignorant, violent, fat, religious-maniac cowboy Americans longer than you have been alive.
Ignorant of what? FACT: Canada spends more on social programs and less on defense than the USA proportianally. FACT: The USA, through treaty obligations, is obligated to defend Canada. Therefore listening to Canadians go on about their superiority annoys us. Here is a deal: YOU ALL assume the burden of doing what we do and we will sit by laughing at you while we spend the money saved on ourselves. I know plenty of Canadians too. They are all HERE IN THE USA because the tax and business structure in Canada did not allow them to follow their dreams as they can here. BTW I think it sucks being the WORLD POLICE. I have a brother headed to Iraq right now. I wish we would get the fvck out of that country and let them settle their own issues. But NO ONE ELSE is willing to step up anywhere. Did the useless Europeans bother to drive a couple hours to sort out Kosovo and Bosnia? NO - we had to to it. How would you like to be a Darfor (sp?) refugee camp resident. Is the UN making you feel all safe yet? Easy to be a critic, hard to actually get out here and do it.
I went to Montreal for vacation. I was impressed. It was a nice safe city and the people were friendly. They even put up with my shitty French when I felt like practicing. I was also amazed at how they seemed to pay NO attention to anything happening outside of Montreal. The paper was like Page 1 - Long wait at clinic becuase doctors moved to Florida, Page 2 - Drunks fighting in city after bars close are annoying, Page 55 - Nuclear war destroyes rest of planet. You all get to live in your happy happy socialist dreamworld because WE have been protecting you all these years. I never noticed Canada doing anything like putting up a sign saying "We hearby renounce any aid from the USA for any reason". I don't blame you for taking advantage of the situation. I would too. Just don't go acting all smug like you pay your own way or anything. * as for invading Canada, the point isn't that any sane person would want to, but we could and there is NOTHING you could do to stop us.
November is when we get to start. (For non USAians these are mid-term elections. We can't throw Bush out, but we can put some balls back into the Congress to put a stop to this bullshit)
That original was exagerated. If you live in a major city on either coast you have the crap commercial stations, a college station or two, NPR, and maybe another "alternative station". NPR is actually quite good and at least where I live sometimes carries BBC content. It is only when you get away from the major population centers that the radio becomes an utter wasteleand. Thus XM or Sirus are godsends when driving cross country. For example: Washington DC to Maine: Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis-Philly-NY-Boston all have "interesting" radio. Otherwise it SUCKS. NPR is fairly widespread, but they rarely play music.
MOD THIS UP! Many rights were "suspended for the duration". Most people were OK with this because one of two things was going to happen. Either we would win and got our rights back, or we would lose and then the rights issue would become the least of our problems. This war will NEVER be over because "terror" is no more likely to sign a surrender document than "drugs" or "poverty" is.
Didn't the Californidiots JUST FINISH DOING THIS with electricity? Enron issues aside, you can't MAKE companies not pass costs along to the consumers.
US Customs used to use (and may still) tethered balloons for radar observation. The locations were clearly marked on air navigation charts. It wasn't that big a deal to fly around the circle on the chart.