We need to take down these terrorists, and if that means ignoring the Bill of Rights and throwing Americans into concentration camps, like we did in WW2, then so be it.
That's a great idea, and I know just where to start! There's a guy who organized the illegal killing of several Americans in Yemen with a large explosion. He currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC. He has many of accomplices working elsewhere in Washington as well as nearby Arlington, VA.
Don't forget their running buddies over in Langley. And don't forget that the former resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is just as guilty. Grab him and his running buddies too.
And replace him with what....Romney? Gingrich?! Santorum??!!
Let's face it. Whomever wins the next presidential election, the citizens will lose.
That's been the problem for the last several election cycles. I haven't seen a real candidate since, well, hell, I don't think I've ever seen a real candidate, and I'm pushing 60!
I'm sure they have loopholes to allow them to keep the data on anyone that they think is "interesting".
Yeah, it's called an FBI file...
That we occasionally get a released FBI file on a long-dead political activist, or on an entertainer, or on a politician, or on a civil rights leader... draw your own conclusions.
Don't get your knickers in a twist. They've had an FBI file on me since the 70's. It was part of my background check for security clearance in the military. AFAIK, they still have it, though I don't know offhand when it was last updated.
OK, keep in mind the serious geekness of professing a love for LotR. Add to that an IP conflict in that this woman was ignored for years and now is gettin hammered on by the IP cops.
99.9% of military documents are not important, security-wise.
Doesn't stop them from classifying said documents, even something as no-brainer as the menu down at the mess hall for the 'Lower 4's' and who's tending bar at the O-Club. Especially if it's the bartender schedule at the O-Club.
Granted, it won't be classified much, but once you get in the habit...
Nonono. Zombie-attacking rattlesnakes, which are eaten by radioactive mongooses, which are hunted by the carnivorous gorrillas which freeze to death when winter comes. Except in Florida. Oh, and where void by law...
Turn it around, though. Big Pharma would love to get a cancer vaccine or 30, considering that each tissue type seems to have its own cancer variant. The cure gets loose, they just test for its presence in every blood test, and charge the patient for the vaccine...
The fact is, the US has had down turns in the past. Historically, this type of entertain has done well because its far less expensive than other forms of entertainment. Likewise, booze typically sees a surge. This time around, however, only booze saw a surge. So we can safely throw out your entire theory. The fact its been moderated, "insightful" is laughable.
Yes, the US has had economic downturns in the past. The difference this time is, there's no infrastructure left to work with when 'the times turn around'. After the Great Depression in the 30's, all those idle factories were put to use at full capacity and more factories were built. Today, idle factories are torn down and the property is 'developed' as fast as the local city council can sign the paperwork. What factories are being built tend to be highly automated, needing a couple hundred workers where 5,000 workers were needed a couple decades ago. Robots don't form unions, take sick days, strike for better working conditions (yet...). And those new factories are granted tax breaks to attract them to an area because those couple hundred jobs create a thousand jobs in 'support' areas.
Problem is, outside of Toledo, nobody's building new factories in the US anymore.
The orignal 21 Jump Street was pretty damned good. It was heavy drama, and the actors looked like they could pass for high school seniors at the beginning of the show. Not so much at the end, of course. The two idiots they have in the current comedy version of Jump Street look like they're mid 30's. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, put them in edgy clothes, they'll fit right in on any high school campus. They look older than the teachers FFS.
I watched the original Battlestar back in the day, as well as the abortion commonly known as Battlestar 1980. Trust me, the reboot is WAY better. Bay is drinking way too much of his own koolaide these days. Give 'em plenty of explosions to keep the 8-12 year olds happy, and who gives a fuck about a plot?
You wanna see some goddamned good Hollywood movies? Watch Casablanca. Silent Running. 2001: A Space Odessey. 2010. Outland. North By Northwest. These movies didn't need 87 minutes of every 90 in a car chase or an explosion, they had a story, plot, and actually didn't insult the intelligence of the people who watched them.
Well, thing about the original Star Trek from back in the Stone Age was, it at least tried to be somewhat reasonably scientifically accurate. 'Red matter'?? WTF is 'red matter'? Somebody show me in General Relativity, Special Relativity, hell, HAWKING FFS about 'red matter'. Stellar explosions? There's a cube law relationship there. A supernova a few dozen light years away isn't going to break your planet up, but it will cook it nicely with cosmic radiation. Yeah, it would probably be an extinction level event no matter how tough your planet's magnetic field is. And get this. The shock wave moves at light speed not warp speed. The 'red matter' bit was a bit much like the TNG/Voyager 'Hell, just recalibrate the deflector dish into cranking out an antifuckiton wave' and problem solved. News flash, making the supernova a black hole after the fact wouldn't have stopped the shock wave.
Some reboots haven't been that bad (Battlestar Galactica, Ocean's Eleven). A couple have improved on the original (Battlestar Galactica). Some have been downright awful (Land of the Lost, 21 Jump Street). And some the jury is still out on (Star Trek).
Naw, too much money in TV. There's a few million in electronic games. There's a few hundred BILLION in TV. It's all a matter of scale. The little guy gets stomped, the big guy snaps up what's left and makes more with that than the little guy ever dreamed of. It's the American Way, 21st Century style.
These two bozos are Congressmen, which means they stand for election this year just like every other Congressman. But instead of standing up for a real issue, they're playing it safe and grandstanding for the voters. Do they really believe this bullshit? Probably not. Do they really care? Not about this, they don't. If it goes through, they get to stand up and say 'Hey, I DID something on The Hill besides taking campaign contributions from *AA! I made a DIFFERENCE!' If this bill tanks, they get to stand up and say 'Hey, I TRIED, but those damned politicians voted me down. Vote for me again this year so I can go back to The Hill and try again. Think of the children! Think of my paycheck!! I don't wanna get a real job!!'
If you're one of the 1 in 100,000 who ever gets beyond these two concepts? You already know where to go and what to do.
What I miss from my misspent youth is electronic component stores. Radio Shack hardly carries any parts these days unless you wanna go catalog, and to get a couple parts (tunable coils, for instance), you have to buy a cheap 'Flavor Radio' and parts it out. As far as consumer grade computer electronics, there's still Tiger Direct and New Egg. But that's about it.
You talk about not being able to fly supersonicly over land... And then you give one of the few routes that doesn't require flying over land?
As has been pointed out, Concorde had a 4800 mile range. LA to Melbourne is quite a bit further than 4800 miles. However, the 'Concorde II' might have been designed with longer range, perhaps enough to make the flight nonstop.
One of the problems with the Concorde was, they weren't allowed to fly at supersonic speeds across the US because of the booms. So, supersonic London to LA was flat out of the question. From what I understand, a lot of other countries followed suit, outlawing supersonic flights in their airspaces. Without the speed advantage, the Concorde was a low passenger fuel hog that turned into a hanger queen and eventually got grounded and decommissioned. Fix the sonic boom problem, get fuel economy as a bonus, and we just might see the Concorde II in our lifetimes. LA to Melbourne in under 14 hours? COOL!!!
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... we now have a case of the fox and a platoon of his buddies guarding the henhouse?
Don't forget their running buddies over in Langley. And don't forget that the former resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is just as guilty. Grab him and his running buddies too.
That's been the problem for the last several election cycles. I haven't seen a real candidate since, well, hell, I don't think I've ever seen a real candidate, and I'm pushing 60!
Don't get your knickers in a twist. They've had an FBI file on me since the 70's. It was part of my background check for security clearance in the military. AFAIK, they still have it, though I don't know offhand when it was last updated.
OK, keep in mind the serious geekness of professing a love for LotR. Add to that an IP conflict in that this woman was ignored for years and now is gettin hammered on by the IP cops.
I could go on, but you get the general drift...
Doesn't stop them from classifying said documents, even something as no-brainer as the menu down at the mess hall for the 'Lower 4's' and who's tending bar at the O-Club. Especially if it's the bartender schedule at the O-Club.
Granted, it won't be classified much, but once you get in the habit...
Nonono. Zombie-attacking rattlesnakes, which are eaten by radioactive mongooses, which are hunted by the carnivorous gorrillas which freeze to death when winter comes. Except in Florida. Oh, and where void by law...
Turn it around, though. Big Pharma would love to get a cancer vaccine or 30, considering that each tissue type seems to have its own cancer variant. The cure gets loose, they just test for its presence in every blood test, and charge the patient for the vaccine...
Good point.
Immature Radioactive Samauri-like Slugs? Naw, been done before...
Yes, the US has had economic downturns in the past. The difference this time is, there's no infrastructure left to work with when 'the times turn around'. After the Great Depression in the 30's, all those idle factories were put to use at full capacity and more factories were built. Today, idle factories are torn down and the property is 'developed' as fast as the local city council can sign the paperwork. What factories are being built tend to be highly automated, needing a couple hundred workers where 5,000 workers were needed a couple decades ago. Robots don't form unions, take sick days, strike for better working conditions (yet...). And those new factories are granted tax breaks to attract them to an area because those couple hundred jobs create a thousand jobs in 'support' areas.
Problem is, outside of Toledo, nobody's building new factories in the US anymore.
RIAA considers 'sampling' even a single note to be piracy. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397511/
The orignal 21 Jump Street was pretty damned good. It was heavy drama, and the actors looked like they could pass for high school seniors at the beginning of the show. Not so much at the end, of course. The two idiots they have in the current comedy version of Jump Street look like they're mid 30's. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, put them in edgy clothes, they'll fit right in on any high school campus. They look older than the teachers FFS.
I watched the original Battlestar back in the day, as well as the abortion commonly known as Battlestar 1980. Trust me, the reboot is WAY better. Bay is drinking way too much of his own koolaide these days. Give 'em plenty of explosions to keep the 8-12 year olds happy, and who gives a fuck about a plot?
You wanna see some goddamned good Hollywood movies? Watch Casablanca. Silent Running. 2001: A Space Odessey. 2010. Outland. North By Northwest. These movies didn't need 87 minutes of every 90 in a car chase or an explosion, they had a story, plot, and actually didn't insult the intelligence of the people who watched them.
Well, thing about the original Star Trek from back in the Stone Age was, it at least tried to be somewhat reasonably scientifically accurate. 'Red matter'?? WTF is 'red matter'? Somebody show me in General Relativity, Special Relativity, hell, HAWKING FFS about 'red matter'. Stellar explosions? There's a cube law relationship there. A supernova a few dozen light years away isn't going to break your planet up, but it will cook it nicely with cosmic radiation. Yeah, it would probably be an extinction level event no matter how tough your planet's magnetic field is. And get this. The shock wave moves at light speed not warp speed. The 'red matter' bit was a bit much like the TNG/Voyager 'Hell, just recalibrate the deflector dish into cranking out an antifuckiton wave' and problem solved. News flash, making the supernova a black hole after the fact wouldn't have stopped the shock wave.
Except they're not mutants, ninjas, OR turtles.
Somehow 'Teenage Alien Martial-Arts Turtleoid Lifeforms' just doesn't have that snap to it.
Some reboots haven't been that bad (Battlestar Galactica, Ocean's Eleven). A couple have improved on the original (Battlestar Galactica). Some have been downright awful (Land of the Lost, 21 Jump Street). And some the jury is still out on (Star Trek).
Naw, too much money in TV. There's a few million in electronic games. There's a few hundred BILLION in TV. It's all a matter of scale. The little guy gets stomped, the big guy snaps up what's left and makes more with that than the little guy ever dreamed of. It's the American Way, 21st Century style.
These two bozos are Congressmen, which means they stand for election this year just like every other Congressman. But instead of standing up for a real issue, they're playing it safe and grandstanding for the voters. Do they really believe this bullshit? Probably not. Do they really care? Not about this, they don't. If it goes through, they get to stand up and say 'Hey, I DID something on The Hill besides taking campaign contributions from *AA! I made a DIFFERENCE!' If this bill tanks, they get to stand up and say 'Hey, I TRIED, but those damned politicians voted me down. Vote for me again this year so I can go back to The Hill and try again. Think of the children! Think of my paycheck!! I don't wanna get a real job!!'
FTFY.
What I miss from my misspent youth is electronic component stores. Radio Shack hardly carries any parts these days unless you wanna go catalog, and to get a couple parts (tunable coils, for instance), you have to buy a cheap 'Flavor Radio' and parts it out. As far as consumer grade computer electronics, there's still Tiger Direct and New Egg. But that's about it.
Kinda sucks, being at the end of an era...
As has been pointed out, Concorde had a 4800 mile range. LA to Melbourne is quite a bit further than 4800 miles. However, the 'Concorde II' might have been designed with longer range, perhaps enough to make the flight nonstop.
At those speeds, you'd spend more time getting through security & customs than you would in flying out.
Who knew Warbirds had to do sonic boom-less flight?
Of course, considering they're supposed to be heavy on the stealth, it shoulda been obvious...
One of the problems with the Concorde was, they weren't allowed to fly at supersonic speeds across the US because of the booms. So, supersonic London to LA was flat out of the question. From what I understand, a lot of other countries followed suit, outlawing supersonic flights in their airspaces. Without the speed advantage, the Concorde was a low passenger fuel hog that turned into a hanger queen and eventually got grounded and decommissioned. Fix the sonic boom problem, get fuel economy as a bonus, and we just might see the Concorde II in our lifetimes. LA to Melbourne in under 14 hours? COOL!!!
... they refile the 'proper' warrant, get a judge to sign off on it, and take his stuff again. So the cops screwed up. This is news?
Because most jobs in America want a degree as an entrance. Even a AA or AS will get you in the door. It's a way of screening out the 'riffraff'.