I would hope we would have protocols in place that would ensure we never lose track of any nuclear weapon. If a nuclear weapon were detonated in a U.S. city how could we verify it wasn't our bomb if we can't keep track of where our weapons are?
No way the US government would admit it was a home-grown nuke even if it was. It'd be much more politically effective to blame it on the nearest Muslim, even though Osama couldn't buy a nuke even back in the day cause his checks have been bouncing for decades...
Relatively few people will refer to a B-52 as a "cargo bird" except in certain rather niche circles.
Interesting thing is, the B-52 was designed to carry a nuclear payload. Just, not as cruise missiles, and the B-52 upgrades were mostly conversions to carry conventional payloads after the Titan missiles were developed.
Considering what an ex-Chair Force buddy tells me about life at 'Mindrot', I'm surprised this hasn't happened before...
Pot grown inside has little chance of being discovered; the only way to be found out is by letting someone know it's being grown there.
Actually, what do you think those late night helicopter flights are for? Grow houses kick off a lotta infrared unless you insulate the hell outta your attic. And your electric bill will go through the roof if you're growing under lights. Police have gotten warrants based on electric bills:
Remember when Muhammad Ali decided he's ok with beating people up but he doesn't really enjoy killing them and the US thought he's a hypocrit? Makes sense, he was beating up others for his own fun and profit, but the country would've liked it rather if he killed them for their fun and profit.
Thing is, he was a prizefighter who fought other prizefighters, men who had had similar training and experience in their profession. He didn't beat up J Random Citizen on a random street corner. The chance of someone dying in the ring was always present, but small. The object is not to kill the other guy, just beat him into submission. What Mohammed Ali objected to was to be placed in a situation where he would be required to kill, and thus refused being drafted. What part of this is difficult to understand?
ep how sickening is that. Not shocking though, just about everyone I know who still at this point in the game supports Bush is so jaded they would say that. Bush has gone out of his way to make his followers believe that actually participating in Democracy is anti-American.
Well, as a Bush supporter, I see it as the opposite. Democrats, or more accurately, the left wing, have convinced their followers that opposing America is somehow patriotic. They say America was formed through descent. That is not true. America was founded on revolution, not protests.
Well, as a some-time student of American history, it seems to me that actively questioning the government's policies and actions is even more American than apple pie. As an American citizen who trusts the government about as far as I can throw it, I've seen both sides of the aisle claim that if you don't blindly follow their Party line then you are un-American. And as a former soldier from back in the day when we sent troops to the jungle rather than the sandbox, I say that you, sir, still need to get over it. At least you didn't get spit on in airports when you came home wearing your uniform, and you never got portrayed as 'the bad guy' in just about every Hollyweird movie & tv program of the era.
Don't kid yourself, 'America's Army' is a propagandising tool disguised as a video game.
And is not revolution just the extreme case of dissent?
Maybe you're not trying hard enough. You'd be amazed how quick you can get a little Bronco II going with the right know-how and a little bit of rocket fuel.
Makes you wonder about that '35 mph chase down the freeway' when they chased OJ, though, doesn't it?
Seriously, though, if the software isn't really all that accurate, then I'd say, the guy has a case in court. Too bad the judge and jury aren't likely to be technologically inclined...
What retard moded you up? Millions of Americans own shares in MSFT. Investments include retirement funds, college savings, etc. Gates is a minority shareholder in the company, not even close to being the majority owner.
So they nicked MS for what, half a day's pay? The shareholders won't notice the mebbe 5 cents off their divident check.
First some history, there have always been times throughout history where violence tries to rob people of their rights and their humanity. It's even not the first time someone has tried to blow up a financial building in NYC. Here's one from 1920: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing Here's a different bombing not in NYC from 1927http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disas ter. I believe Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament in 1606. Machiavelli enumerates all sorts of underhanded ways that people try to seize power in "The Prince". I'm fairly certain that many of the Founding Fathers had read "The Prince". They knew about Guy Fawkes. They knew about the tactics of the Caribbean pirates, like when Henry Morgan burned Panama City to the ground in 1670. So no, the world is not so different today. The Founding Fathers were quite aware that there are wackos who will do horrible things to advance their cause.
Our problem is, we elected our whackos. It's gonna be difficult to get rid of them. Historically, it's always been a balance of the survival of the State and the liberty of its citizens. The more power the State gets, the less freedom of the citizens. Crunch time comes when the citizens demand their rights back and the State doesn't budge. Can't vote the bastards out when they control who counts the ballots...
It's surprising how similar this administration is to Reagan's.
I don't find it surprising at all, Dubya is a direct legacy of Reagan administration. I think this sort of ever growing control and privilege is a product of having a legacy. Why would we expect Dubya to have respect for the Constitution or rights of the common man, when he has been surrounded by power and privilege all of his life? He and Jeb were practically bred for the purpose of expanding power and control. All of the big decisions in his life point towards growing his power, and those decisions where without a doubt heavily influenced by his father, who was in tight with Nixon. This administration is just a continuation of a decades long, generation spanning grab for power.
What legacy? A good many of the top levels of the current administration got into government under Regean, like Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld. They were the people behind the theory of the 'Evil Empire', and the guys who ran 'Team B' that gave us Star Wars. They glommed the credit for 'destroying the Evil Empire', then went looking for another 'Axis of Evil' to put us up against. Took 'em awhile, but they finally decided on picking on the Muslims.
Historically, you could point towards someone like Joseph de Maistre as an 'intellectual authoritarian conservative,' but it's a pretty sparse field these days... the "godfather" of modern neoconservativism is usually said to be Irving Kristol, who is well-spoken and reasonably well-known (although not like Chomsky), but I don't think that Fox's brand of conservative ideology and Kristol's neoconservativism are exactly the same thing. But I guess he probably would have been a better choice to name-check than a blowhard like Coulter.
Irving Kristol was just one of the leaders of the NeoCon movement. It gets its 'spiritual' base from Leo Strauss, the political science professor at the University of Chicago. Strauss was a big believer in created myths, and the political uses of them. Among other things, he believed that Americans had too much freedom, and it was bad for the country...
Yeah now if only they could build a car as durable as these things
We certainly got our moneys' worth out of these rovers, that's for sure.
Yeah, it'd be nice for us the consumer if we could get cars that would last a similar amount of time. But that would be seriously bad for the auto manufacturers, the auto making unions, and a few zillion other people as well. Don't expect to see it happen in our lifetimes...
I think it would be pretty cool to get a trojen written by the government, that sends data back to the government and is read by computers in the most secret government areas... imagine what terrorists could do if they find a bug in it?
Like feed the government false info? Install back doors into government databases? Hit the servers that skim the data with DDOS attacks?
Seems to me to be a good way to turn a law abiding citizen into an 'enemy combatant' in an instant, especially if they discover the trojan and have their 12 year old kid hack it to feed the government bogus info...
or not. Assuming the trojan only works on Windows machines (fairly easy call, since 95%+ of all desktop computers run some form of Windows), all the German government needs to do to make sure they can infect any computer in their jurisdiction is to outlaw the use of alternate operating systems on any desktop computer in use in Germany. Needless to say, this ought to help out Microsoft's bottom line in Germany. We're talking a legal state-sponsored monopoly here. Ain't capitalism grand?
What I'm wondering is, how the German government intends to limit its spying to only German citizens. Seems to me that if they blanket email everybody on their list, that people will be added to that list 'just in case'. What kind of screwup will allow computers in the United States to be targetted?
Come to think of it, what would stop Homeland Security from turning over email addresses of 'suspected terrorists' to the German government for infection and data skimming? How would you prove that they did?
Problem with that is that you know these clowns will surface again, buy some formerly well reputed company with a shaky claim against some cash-rich company, and try the same basic shakedown.
I thought Darl & his buddies were just scammin up all the bonuses they could sink their claws into just to not have to actually go to work again.
It'd be funny if all their bonuses were in SCOX stock with a contract to not sell before the legal system was through chewing them up & spitting them out...
The problem is... where does it stop? Do I get sued for giving a friend of mine a copy of a CD that he was never going to buy, anyway?
Two conditions.
1. All available money has been funneled into *IAA to cover 'lost sales' of shit we were never gonna buy, but were sued into paying for anyways.
2. There are no places on Earth where *IAA whims do not hold force of law.
Keep in mind that cars on the road are fairly stable. Flying cars (aka light aircraft) tend to get blown around, requiring *much* greater separation between vehicles. And at crowded destinations, you'll still need to brave traffic to land. Also, flying in rough weather, autopilot or no, won't be much fun or terribly safe without training. Not saying that flying cars don't have their uses, but I find it hard to believe that they'll even come close to replacing land vehicles.
A dual-mode car would be the hot ticket, soon as they figure out the power to weight ratios and come up with better propulsion. Fly it in between towns, then land outside of your destination and drive in on the ground. That way you don't get the massive air congestion. Biggest problem I see is, carrying 2 powerplants, air & ground. It's bound to take a performance hit to make it more versatile
For what cars are going for these days ($35K+), I could see a market for this 'Skycar' at 90K. It's still cheaper than a Cessna.
Flying Spaghetti Monster! The Spaghetti stands for its code structure liberally sprinkled with tons of GOTO statements. But the bacteria and viruses use an even more archaic and more difficult to debug construct, the COME FROM statements.
This program reads itself in from stdin(claytablet), compiles a compiler, then writes itself back out to stddout(claytablet). User is required to ensure resulting program is properly baked to prevent data loss.
As opposed to politicians who are half-baked at best?
Personally, I'm waiting for the Sumerian to English version of this turkey so we can read their political speeches & see we really haven't made that much progress after all...
Actually, though this may come as a surprise, the space shuttle is not fueled by money, it's fueled by rocket fuel. The $9,000/kilo figure is just an average based on how much it costs to launch the shuttle and how heavy the shuttle is. Adding a.5kg lightsaber doesn't change how expensive the launch will be, at all.
Actually, the Mercury astronauts hit it on the head in one when they said, "No bucks, no Buck Rogers." Gotta buy the rocket fuel...
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No way the US government would admit it was a home-grown nuke even if it was. It'd be much more politically effective to blame it on the nearest Muslim, even though Osama couldn't buy a nuke even back in the day cause his checks have been bouncing for decades...
Interesting thing is, the B-52 was designed to carry a nuclear payload. Just, not as cruise missiles, and the B-52 upgrades were mostly conversions to carry conventional payloads after the Titan missiles were developed.
Considering what an ex-Chair Force buddy tells me about life at 'Mindrot', I'm surprised this hasn't happened before...
Actually, what do you think those late night helicopter flights are for? Grow houses kick off a lotta infrared unless you insulate the hell outta your attic. And your electric bill will go through the roof if you're growing under lights. Police have gotten warrants based on electric bills:
http://www.shakopeenews.com/node/722
http://www.savagepacer.com/node/273
http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=11 412
Thing is, he was a prizefighter who fought other prizefighters, men who had had similar training and experience in their profession. He didn't beat up J Random Citizen on a random street corner. The chance of someone dying in the ring was always present, but small. The object is not to kill the other guy, just beat him into submission. What Mohammed Ali objected to was to be placed in a situation where he would be required to kill, and thus refused being drafted. What part of this is difficult to understand?
Well, as a some-time student of American history, it seems to me that actively questioning the government's policies and actions is even more American than apple pie. As an American citizen who trusts the government about as far as I can throw it, I've seen both sides of the aisle claim that if you don't blindly follow their Party line then you are un-American. And as a former soldier from back in the day when we sent troops to the jungle rather than the sandbox, I say that you, sir, still need to get over it. At least you didn't get spit on in airports when you came home wearing your uniform, and you never got portrayed as 'the bad guy' in just about every Hollyweird movie & tv program of the era.
Don't kid yourself, 'America's Army' is a propagandising tool disguised as a video game.
And is not revolution just the extreme case of dissent?
Makes you wonder about that '35 mph chase down the freeway' when they chased OJ, though, doesn't it?
Seriously, though, if the software isn't really all that accurate, then I'd say, the guy has a case in court. Too bad the judge and jury aren't likely to be technologically inclined...
Hell, I wanna join that church!!!!!!!!!!!
So they nicked MS for what, half a day's pay? The shareholders won't notice the mebbe 5 cents off their divident check.
Actually, that dust was born in the center of a star someplace that died to spread the elements it had created in its heart.
So, how's it feel to be nuclear waste?
Our problem is, we elected our whackos. It's gonna be difficult to get rid of them. Historically, it's always been a balance of the survival of the State and the liberty of its citizens. The more power the State gets, the less freedom of the citizens. Crunch time comes when the citizens demand their rights back and the State doesn't budge. Can't vote the bastards out when they control who counts the ballots...
I don't find it surprising at all, Dubya is a direct legacy of Reagan administration. I think this sort of ever growing control and privilege is a product of having a legacy. Why would we expect Dubya to have respect for the Constitution or rights of the common man, when he has been surrounded by power and privilege all of his life? He and Jeb were practically bred for the purpose of expanding power and control. All of the big decisions in his life point towards growing his power, and those decisions where without a doubt heavily influenced by his father, who was in tight with Nixon. This administration is just a continuation of a decades long, generation spanning grab for power.
What legacy? A good many of the top levels of the current administration got into government under Regean, like Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld. They were the people behind the theory of the 'Evil Empire', and the guys who ran 'Team B' that gave us Star Wars. They glommed the credit for 'destroying the Evil Empire', then went looking for another 'Axis of Evil' to put us up against. Took 'em awhile, but they finally decided on picking on the Muslims.
Irving Kristol was just one of the leaders of the NeoCon movement. It gets its 'spiritual' base from Leo Strauss, the political science professor at the University of Chicago. Strauss was a big believer in created myths, and the political uses of them. Among other things, he believed that Americans had too much freedom, and it was bad for the country...
We certainly got our moneys' worth out of these rovers, that's for sure.
Yeah, it'd be nice for us the consumer if we could get cars that would last a similar amount of time. But that would be seriously bad for the auto manufacturers, the auto making unions, and a few zillion other people as well. Don't expect to see it happen in our lifetimes...
Like feed the government false info? Install back doors into government databases? Hit the servers that skim the data with DDOS attacks?
Seems to me to be a good way to turn a law abiding citizen into an 'enemy combatant' in an instant, especially if they discover the trojan and have their 12 year old kid hack it to feed the government bogus info...
or not. Assuming the trojan only works on Windows machines (fairly easy call, since 95%+ of all desktop computers run some form of Windows), all the German government needs to do to make sure they can infect any computer in their jurisdiction is to outlaw the use of alternate operating systems on any desktop computer in use in Germany. Needless to say, this ought to help out Microsoft's bottom line in Germany. We're talking a legal state-sponsored monopoly here. Ain't capitalism grand?
What I'm wondering is, how the German government intends to limit its spying to only German citizens. Seems to me that if they blanket email everybody on their list, that people will be added to that list 'just in case'. What kind of screwup will allow computers in the United States to be targetted?
Come to think of it, what would stop Homeland Security from turning over email addresses of 'suspected terrorists' to the German government for infection and data skimming? How would you prove that they did?
I thought Darl & his buddies were just scammin up all the bonuses they could sink their claws into just to not have to actually go to work again.
It'd be funny if all their bonuses were in SCOX stock with a contract to not sell before the legal system was through chewing them up & spitting them out...
Easy access to buggy whips close at hand. Ever try to find a buggy whip at Walmart???
Two conditions.
1. All available money has been funneled into *IAA to cover 'lost sales' of shit we were never gonna buy, but were sued into paying for anyways.
2. There are no places on Earth where *IAA whims do not hold force of law.
A dual-mode car would be the hot ticket, soon as they figure out the power to weight ratios and come up with better propulsion. Fly it in between towns, then land outside of your destination and drive in on the ground. That way you don't get the massive air congestion. Biggest problem I see is, carrying 2 powerplants, air & ground. It's bound to take a performance hit to make it more versatile
For what cars are going for these days ($35K+), I could see a market for this 'Skycar' at 90K. It's still cheaper than a Cessna.
They use COBOL????????????
My ex-wife's a Wraith? That certainly explains a lot...
Depends on if the retrovirus filed first or if the bacteria could show prior art.
Personally, my money's on the retrovirus.
Anyhoo, this should show how it's possible for mutant DNA can get into a genome. Any bets on what this does to ID?
As opposed to politicians who are half-baked at best?
Personally, I'm waiting for the Sumerian to English version of this turkey so we can read their political speeches & see we really haven't made that much progress after all...
'All your ziggurats are belong to us'?
Actually, the Mercury astronauts hit it on the head in one when they said, "No bucks, no Buck Rogers." Gotta buy the rocket fuel...