Yeah, he totally missed the Wars on Crime, Poverty, Drugs, and the rest. 'Wars' against nation-states? No, those aren't wars, they're police actions/executive actions/regime changes/etc. Carlin was right, the US government is really big about declaring 'war' on anything that'll grow a new bud of bureaucracy and siphon off a few billion in tax money to finance their buddys' campaign contributions.
personally, I am ok with a backdoor, provided that there are some proper controls around it, such as:
- The government is entirely composed of perfect beings that would only use the backdoor against actual criminals.
Except most governments these days consider all their citizens as prospective criminals. Anybody who can think for themselves and wants other than government-mandated media for their news is a potential criminal.
Just what we need, a database for the RIAA to use to play Whack-A-Mole on upcoming songwriters for 'copyright infringement'. There are only so many chord progressions possible. This will allow the holders of the eternal copyright to sue somebody because the chord progression they wrote mirrors a song their grandparents heard in the womb and thus infringes.
Yet another argument for 7 year copyrights. Too bad we can't convince our Congresscritters of this...
My favorite way was to unplug a CRT monitor while it was still 'hot' and plug it back in. 9 times out of 10, you'd get away with it, but the 10th would cook it nicely. And to think that could have been prevented with a couple bucks' worth of diodes...
Ah, but locking people up willy nilly will provide the manpower for companies working 'behind the wall' in prisons today. Especially since private corporations are getting into the private prison 'industry' and need to make the bottom line. By providing these private prisons with virtual slave labor working minimum wage and charging said labor for room, board, and security, while grabbing a decent fee from the State for each prisoner incarcerated and grabbing a kickback from any business wanting cheap labor, it's no wonder that the private prison 'industry' is booming.
What gets me is, these two morons had to Google up murder methods. After all the violent tv and movies they've undoubtably watched growing up, after watching their friends get beat up on the playground, they have to Google methods of strangling somebody? I think I've been convinced there's something very wrong with the American education system...
Thing is, SpaceX isn't selling vehicles, it's selling launch capability. Boeing and ATX are selling vehicles on a cost-plus basis. And you better believe cost overruns are automatically built into the contracts.
Boeing will get the nod of course. It's Boeing. It's been in the space funded corporate leech business for decades. I hate to say it, but I'm thinking ATX will get the nod as well, with SpaceX the third partially funded guy. ATX is another corporation much beloved by Congress for its bribe money^F^Fcampaign contributions.
A lot of the 'up and coming' PhD's in American traditionally came from the middle class. Destroy the middle class, like what's been happening here in the States for the last 40-some odd years, and the sources dry up. Sure, there's government funding for 'underprivileged' students, but there's not a lot of it, and most of those students get shuffled off to a state university. Also, the funding cuts off as soon as they get a 'salable' degree, like an associates or bachelors. In most fields, an associates won't even get you to the door.let alone in the door.
The limiting factor is money. They can fund only so many seats in the classroom. Those seats attract asses, it's a natural law, of course. By getting a higher proportion of foreign students, they make more money to fill those chairs rather than lose it to scholarships. And foreign students don't just whip out their checkbooks, their government does. And their government usually wants them to come home after getting their degree.
Let's face it, American higher education is all about the money.
Maybe in 20 or 30 years when the free speech situation has improved. But not right now.
I seriously doubt in 20 or 30 years the free speech situation will improve. Going by recent history, I'd say it's a full tilt sucker bet that the situation will get worse.
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Yeah, he totally missed the Wars on Crime, Poverty, Drugs, and the rest. 'Wars' against nation-states? No, those aren't wars, they're police actions/executive actions/regime changes/etc. Carlin was right, the US government is really big about declaring 'war' on anything that'll grow a new bud of bureaucracy and siphon off a few billion in tax money to finance their buddys' campaign contributions.
Except most governments these days consider all their citizens as prospective criminals. Anybody who can think for themselves and wants other than government-mandated media for their news is a potential criminal.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397511/
According to this documentary, mashups are not legal per US copyrights.
Just what we need, a database for the RIAA to use to play Whack-A-Mole on upcoming songwriters for 'copyright infringement'. There are only so many chord progressions possible. This will allow the holders of the eternal copyright to sue somebody because the chord progression they wrote mirrors a song their grandparents heard in the womb and thus infringes.
Yet another argument for 7 year copyrights. Too bad we can't convince our Congresscritters of this...
Couldn't this be written off as just another case of cloning around?
I've done it myself.
My favorite way was to unplug a CRT monitor while it was still 'hot' and plug it back in. 9 times out of 10, you'd get away with it, but the 10th would cook it nicely. And to think that could have been prevented with a couple bucks' worth of diodes...
On top of my head, covered in fur. Thanks for asking.
1000 kg is 1,000,000 grams. AKA a 'megagram'.
Welcome to the USSA. Land of the fee, home of the slave. Papers, please.
Ah, but locking people up willy nilly will provide the manpower for companies working 'behind the wall' in prisons today. Especially since private corporations are getting into the private prison 'industry' and need to make the bottom line. By providing these private prisons with virtual slave labor working minimum wage and charging said labor for room, board, and security, while grabbing a decent fee from the State for each prisoner incarcerated and grabbing a kickback from any business wanting cheap labor, it's no wonder that the private prison 'industry' is booming.
What gets me is, these two morons had to Google up murder methods. After all the violent tv and movies they've undoubtably watched growing up, after watching their friends get beat up on the playground, they have to Google methods of strangling somebody? I think I've been convinced there's something very wrong with the American education system...
So it is true that lawyers predate humans. I thought that was just a myth...
Thing is, SpaceX isn't selling vehicles, it's selling launch capability. Boeing and ATX are selling vehicles on a cost-plus basis. And you better believe cost overruns are automatically built into the contracts.
They don't have to outlobby Boeing. All they gotta do is outlobby the rest.
Boeing will get the nod of course. It's Boeing. It's been in the space funded corporate leech business for decades. I hate to say it, but I'm thinking ATX will get the nod as well, with SpaceX the third partially funded guy. ATX is another corporation much beloved by Congress for its bribe money^F^Fcampaign contributions.
A lot of the 'up and coming' PhD's in American traditionally came from the middle class. Destroy the middle class, like what's been happening here in the States for the last 40-some odd years, and the sources dry up. Sure, there's government funding for 'underprivileged' students, but there's not a lot of it, and most of those students get shuffled off to a state university. Also, the funding cuts off as soon as they get a 'salable' degree, like an associates or bachelors. In most fields, an associates won't even get you to the door.let alone in the door.
The limiting factor is money. They can fund only so many seats in the classroom. Those seats attract asses, it's a natural law, of course. By getting a higher proportion of foreign students, they make more money to fill those chairs rather than lose it to scholarships. And foreign students don't just whip out their checkbooks, their government does. And their government usually wants them to come home after getting their degree.
Let's face it, American higher education is all about the money.
You're going to need plenty of high technology to live on the ocean floor. The environment there is just as dangerous as space.
Hey, if it was easy and low tech, we'd be doing it already!
I cordially invite you to read the works of one Gerald K. O'Neill, particularly 'Colonies In Space'.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O'Neill
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gerald+k+o'neill
Truly a sobering thought.
I'm not taking it personally. I'm not awake enough for that.
I'm actually surprised this story got posted at all. I've submitted like 6 stories over the last 5 years, & this is the first one accepted.
Something tells me he was getting too much blood in his caffiene stream.
Next time, I'll get my posts close captioned for the sarcasm-impaired.
WHOOSH!!!!!
Dude, no way I could go through that sober.
I seriously doubt in 20 or 30 years the free speech situation will improve. Going by recent history, I'd say it's a full tilt sucker bet that the situation will get worse.