FOIA arguments aside, NASA has long suffered from a lack of interest in the space program. Now with interest increasing and many of us once again feeling like we're moving in a decent direction they move to stop informing us.
Many of us spend a great deal of time putting together sites and spreading information about the good things that NASA is doing now. Stopping the logs (which are very popular) is a step in a very wrong direction. Now that NASA has become semi-popular again they're feeling the pains of that popularity and IMHO dealing with it in the wrong way.
Anyone have information on how the General Public can complain about this directly?
But this is a corporation we are talking about. Sounds like they are holding on to a piece of their business that is making money and not providing the service....seems like fraud to me. Which is what bothers me about this situation. Am I the only one getting this vibe?
No, You are not. Maybe I'm confused about the process here but perhaps a class action lawsuit is in order. This is assuming that dEarthWeb isn't filing for bankruptcy and has simply decided not to publish the mag. and keep the subscription funds. In any case, here's one more vote for Tim & co to have a go at this one.
It should be noted that I'm not a lawyer and I don't even like playing them on TV.
-T
In simple math, yes it's well worth it. I usually spend between 45 and 50 for most PC games and can finish most of them in under two days. Some longer more involved games may take me 4 or 5 days but you get the idea. When I got my Mindstorms I played with them for 18 hours straight but now I'm down to 4-5 hours/day. If I were to add up all of the time I've spent with the Lego's it would cost me about $700 to get the same amount of "rec time" from games. Since I've gotten them I've worked through all of the "book models" and all of the challenges and then started making my own stuff. The two coolest was one that launched the a vehicles driver from the drivers seat when it ran into an object (moustrap not included) and a rotating mount for my web cam (got that for christmas) that rotates about 10 deg every 20 seconds. It covers about a 120 deg arc and reverses direction at each end.
So the 911 system isn't y2k compliant? What does that mean exactly? Did they tell you? What it means is more than likely that the system will start stamping reports with the wrong dates... not that the entire system will die a screaming death and cause havoc and mayhem in the streets because the police are sitting on thier collective duffs.
My guess from the _real_ y2k problems that I have seen is that less than 1% of non y2k compliant software will actually suffer a cataclysmic failure. The other 99+% will simply start putting the wrong dates on things. So 1% of the software that's not y2k compliant fails... where does that leave us? Most likely cleaning our carpets with y2k compliant steam cleaners the morning after the big party.
Actually, in fact, not one SCUD was shot down by a Patriot missle. The simple fact is the SCUDs were built during World War II and litterally fell apart in the air. This is, in fact, incorrect. We were walking across an open field in Daharan SA the first time I ever heard a patriot missile fire (probably the loudest noise you're ever likely to hear). Being the idiot that I am I stood there and watched the missle as it tracked and then exploded close enough to a scud missle to knock it out of the air. As someone else mentioned it didn't destroy the missile but it did knock it out of the air causing the warhead (probably the second loudest sound you're ever likely to hear) to land in an unpopulated area. In this incident and serveral others that I witnessed later in the war the patriot never actually "hit" the incomming missile but they always caused enough damage to stop them from flying, which I guess is good enough.
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FOIA arguments aside, NASA has long suffered from a lack of interest in the space program. Now with interest increasing and many of us once again feeling like we're moving in a decent direction they move to stop informing us.
Many of us spend a great deal of time putting together sites and spreading information about the good things that NASA is doing now. Stopping the logs (which are very popular) is a step in a very wrong direction. Now that NASA has become semi-popular again they're feeling the pains of that popularity and IMHO dealing with it in the wrong way.
Anyone have information on how the General Public can complain about this directly?
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But this is a corporation we are talking about. Sounds like they are holding on to a piece of their business that is making money and not providing the service....seems like fraud to me. Which is what bothers me about this situation. Am I the only one getting this vibe? No, You are not. Maybe I'm confused about the process here but perhaps a class action lawsuit is in order. This is assuming that dEarthWeb isn't filing for bankruptcy and has simply decided not to publish the mag. and keep the subscription funds. In any case, here's one more vote for Tim & co to have a go at this one. It should be noted that I'm not a lawyer and I don't even like playing them on TV. -T
In simple math, yes it's well worth it. I usually spend between 45 and 50 for most PC games and can finish most of them in under two days. Some longer more involved games may take me 4 or 5 days but you get the idea. When I got my Mindstorms I played with them for 18 hours straight but now I'm down to 4-5 hours/day. If I were to add up all of the time I've spent with the Lego's it would cost me about $700 to get the same amount of "rec time" from games. Since I've gotten them I've worked through all of the "book models" and all of the challenges and then started making my own stuff. The two coolest was one that launched the a vehicles driver from the drivers seat when it ran into an object (moustrap not included) and a rotating mount for my web cam (got that for christmas) that rotates about 10 deg every 20 seconds. It covers about a 120 deg arc and reverses direction at each end.
The Swiss for one are. At least the ones I work for :).... Seriously the Swiss had more stringent deadlines than even the U.S. had!
And just assuming that a terrorist organisation had a hacker which one of us do you think it would be?
So the 911 system isn't y2k compliant? What does that mean exactly? Did they tell you? What it means is more than likely that the system will start stamping reports with the wrong dates... not that the entire system will die a screaming death and cause havoc and mayhem in the streets because the police are sitting on thier collective duffs.
My guess from the _real_ y2k problems that I have seen is that less than 1% of non y2k compliant software will actually suffer a cataclysmic failure. The other 99+% will simply start putting the wrong dates on things. So 1% of the software that's not y2k compliant fails... where does that leave us? Most likely cleaning our carpets with y2k compliant steam cleaners the morning after the big party.
That or, OHMYGOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, in fact, not one SCUD was shot down by a Patriot missle. The simple fact is the SCUDs were built during World War II and litterally
fell apart in the air.
This is, in fact, incorrect. We were walking across an open field in Daharan SA the first time I ever heard a patriot missile fire (probably the loudest noise you're ever likely to hear). Being the idiot that I am I stood there and watched the missle as it tracked and then exploded close enough to a scud missle to knock it out of the air. As someone else mentioned it didn't destroy the missile but it did knock it out of the air causing the warhead (probably the second loudest sound you're ever likely to hear) to land in an unpopulated area. In this incident and serveral others that I witnessed later in the war the patriot never actually "hit" the incomming missile but they always caused enough damage to stop them from flying, which I guess is good enough.