Nokia's "full distro" doesn't break compatibility with standard desktop apps because it doesn't make you use Javascript. Javascript driven GUIs could certianly be part of a so called full distro, provided other types of applications are also possible.
I'm curious as to how much a PITA it's gonna be to compile new apps for this fone.
As much of a fan of NASA as I am (and have been, since the mid-70s), I am seriously beginning to doubt the agency's ability to get back into the business of taking big trips. Even if NASA gets us back to the moon, we're likely to be greeted by the Chinese, or some commercial operation's management (welcome to Bigelow at Tranquility!).
It seems almost silly to be developing a return to space program, when commercial space is doing the same thing, for less money, and is closer to actually ACHIEVING it.
Funny you should mention this. Per this source, American manned space flight is in serious doubt. If true, I'd say even unmanned American space flight is in jeopardy as well. Why buy space toys when you can buy votes?
Next, I have to say, these greedy bastards did it again. Another way to make money. Another way to get money out of those rich folks who can afford it.
More like, getting money out of people's insurance who can afford it, if they have the right spin on things. Just what we need to get health insurance rates to go even higher than they are now...
The problem with that is that stupid people tend to have more kids sooner. Instead of helping the situation, leaving them alone would let them multiply like rabbits:S
What the hell do you expect from people who want to lynch their school boards if the schools want to teach about birth control as part of health? Cut the access to information, make the thought of schools providing condoms for 'those who just can't wait' a morality issue that must be defeated in favor of 'abstinense", you'll get more teen pregnancies. Morality be damned, faith based initiatives just do not work.
The demand for healthier options in low-income areas is low because healthier options are too expensive for them to afford. The highly processed nutrition-poor food is FAR cheaper than the whole-grain fresh-vegetable healthy stuff.
Everything is more expensive in the ghetto because of crime rates, causing higher prices, local shortages, more dispair, fewer options, which feeds more crime, and so on. It's a self-sustaining cycle, heading downwards.
Back in The Day (mid-80's), I did some retail work for an East Coast chain. One store I worked at was out in Deepest Darkest Suburbia. Zero problems there except for the occaisional kid trying to shoplift a 6 pack of beer. The clerks could interact with the customers easily. The other was at the edge of the ghetto in the nearest metro area which had been in serious decline for ages ('Rust Belt'). There, the clerks lived in a cash cage with 3 inch lucite armoring, and made change through a sliding drawer. Where the suburban store haddn't seen a robbery in 10 years at that point, the metro store had the reputation of getting a robbery attempt at least once a month.
There were no charitable organizations or free clinics that he could have gone to? (doubtful) I also doubt that not having health care was the primary concern for this death.
Depends on your income. If you make enough to disqualify you for the free stuff, that doesn't mean you automatically make enough to afford health insurance on your own. Rule of thumb is, if you make minimum wage, you can't get the freebies. And I'd love to see somebody pay 2200/yr for the cheapest medical insurance advertised on tv when they make about 16.5K before taxes.
I think he was referring to the "vacuum" of space. Why not just take the glass off the outside and save some weight?
Because the tube would get contaminated by the pollutants & particles in the atmosphere, and some of that won't outgas as the probe gets into a decent vacuum. Also, the solar wind kicks particles out as well, and some of those could also contaminate the tube, threatening its lifespan and/or performance.
Exactly. Why the hell does the summary go into depth on TWT's? They've been around since WWII, and have been extensively forever.
Cause Joe Sixpack never heard of them? And with the possibility of NASA losing some more budget, it's best to keep talking up all that cool tech that's been around since the Stone Age, makes people think you just found something cool.
What if the terrorists decide to poison all of our sandworms with water of life? We'll run out of spice and be totally fucked. Nothing against using spice, but I think we should develop the navigational computers just in case.
Should be some sandtrout around someplace we can genetically modify a bit to live in oceans...
I can just see one entire $500m launch to the moon just to deliver the 100 metres of 20kW cable between the previous launch of the power plant, and "lunar habitat module 1" (the Luna range of self-assembly lunar habitats from Ikea, one bolt missing).
Don't you mean, the Allen wrench they forgot to pack?
Nuclear power is NEVER a viable solution to ANY problem for the simple reason that the knowledge to create nuclear power is the knowledge to make nuclear weapons. For the simpler people in the crowd, NUCLEAR POWER EQUALS NUCLEAR WEAPONS. There is NO SUCH THING as a "peaceful" nuclear program. All nuclear material can and will be weaponized. For this reason alone nuclear power must be forever abolished and forgotten.
Thorium reactors don't make plutonium. No need for a light water or breeder reactor for it. I'm told that the fission byproducts are an order of magnitude safer as well, but I haven't seen the math for it yet.
If the panel isn't moving around, dust shouldn't be much of a problem on the moon. Although I've never visited, I understand that dust storms there are pretty infrequent.
What about the dust you'll kick up driving a rover past the array?
What could be done is, set up a couple solar power satellites in Lunar orbit and have them beam microwaves down to a reciever at the outpost to power it up. This would give us data on a couple things, like, how to aim a microwave beam for optimum power transfer, what kind of power goes through the rectenna to hit on the ground, what kind of problems we'll have with the orbital powersats, things the ecofreaks want to know but won't let us build powersat recievers here on Earth for.
But with all that He3, fusion should be just fine. Surely we'll have the kinks ironed out if we give ourselves 5-10 years, right? Or at least we can promise that we will so that we can secure funding?
Haven't we been saying for 40 years that fusion power is just around the corner in another 20 years?
Nobody seriously believes that 90% of money has gone through drug trafficker's hands and pockets.
except your local 'law & order' politician looking to score votes in the upcoming election. And here in the States, there's always an upcoming election...
Keep in mind a couple things here. Joe Arpaio's department runs county jails. The 'inhabitants' are people convicted of misdemeanors and people awaiting trial. Get convicted of anything 'serious' in Arizona, like rape, murder, child endangering, felony drunk driving, you get sent to prison not county jail. Misdemeanors are things like shoplifting, too many parking tickets, petty theft, 15-19 mph over the speed limit, that sort of thing. Yeah, total hardened professional criminals here. If the sentence reads 'not less than 3 months or more than 6 months in county jail' and you're in Maricopa County, you will be in Tent City for 6 months. NO early outs for 'good behaviour'. Doesn't happen.
As for those awaiting trial, they're also in Tent City. These people have yet to be convicted of a crime by a jury of their peers. So why are they being held in Tent City? If I rack up a half dozen parking tickets and blow off paying for them (yeah, real criminal activity there), what happens around here when I get pulled over is, I get Yet Another Ticket and my car gets impounded until I show up in court to face the charges for the parking tickets and pay the fines. It's considered too damned much of a hassle to put me in jail for this, they figure impounding my car until my court date is incentive enough to get me to show up. Not in Maricopa County, though. Sheriff Joe puts you behind the wire unless you can make bail so he can get that Federal cash for having you as a prisoner, even if it's only for a couple hours (he gets paid for a day having you behind the wire even if it's only for a partial day!).
The sheriff is investigating the Superior Court, and the servers may have emails on them that he hasn't been able to get access to legally through the appellate courts. So it's not a CYA, it's a fishing expedition.
Sheriff Joe shouldn't be investigating any courts. That's the job of the State Attorney General, or the Federal Attorney General. He's exceeding his authority (not that he recognises any limits on his authority). County AG is investigating him, so this is more like a CYA run than a fishing expedition.
exactly WHY are you so opposed to him? He make jail BE jail and he absolutely PURSUES and sends back illegal aliens (thank god that somebody does) AND he is now chasing down corrupt judges. How is this bad???? Or is there some other issues that you have with him?
Chasing down illegal aliens is the job of INS, not a county sheriff. And why is it that those 'corrupt judges' he's chasing down just happen to be signing warrants for state investigations into the Maricopa County sheriff department? County sheriffs don't investigate 'corrupt judges', either. That's the state Attorney General's job, or the Feds' job if the judge is a state judge rather than county. Joe wants to do everybody else's job rather than that of a county sheriff: serve warrants, secure the peace, investigate street crime in unincorporated areas. He'd rather have his thugs do the flashy arrests where nobody is shooting back at him, like that prostitution sting he ran that got him 80 arrests of people guaranteed NOT to shoot at his deputies.
I know nothing about Joe, but after reading this article I wished I lived in Arizona:
No, you don't EVEN wanna live in Maricopa County. Get too many parking tickets, you'll spend time in Tent City awaiting trial. Get caught tossing a cigarette or styrofoam coffee cup out the window onto a county road, spend some time in Tent City awaiting trial. Be a day late making your insurance payment for your car, the insurance company notifies the DoT computers of the lapse in coverage, the DoT notifies your county sheriff, and a deputy comes out to pull the plates off your car while it's in your driveway, and in Maricopa County, you can go to Tent City to await appearing before a judge.
Why the focus on illegal immigration? That's the crux of the trouble over Sherrif Joe. That's all it is.
What do all the lawsuits against Sheriff Joe for civil rights abuses, deaths while in custody, constitutional rights violations and the like have to do with illegal immigration? There's what, 1500-odd cases against him filed so far in Maricopa County courts at the moment?
While I can't ague with those results, the ends do no justify the means.
What results? The study 'Sheriff Joe' commissioned to show that his methods cut down on repeat offenders didn't show any such thing, and got buried deep.
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I'm curious as to how much a PITA it's gonna be to compile new apps for this fone.
Funny you should mention this. Per this source, American manned space flight is in serious doubt. If true, I'd say even unmanned American space flight is in jeopardy as well. Why buy space toys when you can buy votes?
More like, getting money out of people's insurance who can afford it, if they have the right spin on things. Just what we need to get health insurance rates to go even higher than they are now...
What the hell do you expect from people who want to lynch their school boards if the schools want to teach about birth control as part of health? Cut the access to information, make the thought of schools providing condoms for 'those who just can't wait' a morality issue that must be defeated in favor of 'abstinense", you'll get more teen pregnancies. Morality be damned, faith based initiatives just do not work.
Everything is more expensive in the ghetto because of crime rates, causing higher prices, local shortages, more dispair, fewer options, which feeds more crime, and so on. It's a self-sustaining cycle, heading downwards.
Back in The Day (mid-80's), I did some retail work for an East Coast chain. One store I worked at was out in Deepest Darkest Suburbia. Zero problems there except for the occaisional kid trying to shoplift a 6 pack of beer. The clerks could interact with the customers easily. The other was at the edge of the ghetto in the nearest metro area which had been in serious decline for ages ('Rust Belt'). There, the clerks lived in a cash cage with 3 inch lucite armoring, and made change through a sliding drawer. Where the suburban store haddn't seen a robbery in 10 years at that point, the metro store had the reputation of getting a robbery attempt at least once a month.
Depends on your income. If you make enough to disqualify you for the free stuff, that doesn't mean you automatically make enough to afford health insurance on your own. Rule of thumb is, if you make minimum wage, you can't get the freebies. And I'd love to see somebody pay 2200/yr for the cheapest medical insurance advertised on tv when they make about 16.5K before taxes.
Because the tube would get contaminated by the pollutants & particles in the atmosphere, and some of that won't outgas as the probe gets into a decent vacuum. Also, the solar wind kicks particles out as well, and some of those could also contaminate the tube, threatening its lifespan and/or performance.
Good idea, but it just won't work in practice.
Cause Joe Sixpack never heard of them? And with the possibility of NASA losing some more budget, it's best to keep talking up all that cool tech that's been around since the Stone Age, makes people think you just found something cool.
Takes just as much energy as a solid capsual, actually. Just don't deploy the sail til you get there...
Should be some sandtrout around someplace we can genetically modify a bit to live in oceans...
Thinking of it as evolution in action perchance?
Now, that's a hell of an idea.
My laptop? 'laptop'. Yeah, how original.
My old router box? 'carleton' as in 'the doorman'.
I think he means Space: !999. Please turn in your geek card as you leave the building, and thank you for playing.
Don't you mean, the Allen wrench they forgot to pack?
Thorium reactors don't make plutonium. No need for a light water or breeder reactor for it. I'm told that the fission byproducts are an order of magnitude safer as well, but I haven't seen the math for it yet.
What about the dust you'll kick up driving a rover past the array?
What could be done is, set up a couple solar power satellites in Lunar orbit and have them beam microwaves down to a reciever at the outpost to power it up. This would give us data on a couple things, like, how to aim a microwave beam for optimum power transfer, what kind of power goes through the rectenna to hit on the ground, what kind of problems we'll have with the orbital powersats, things the ecofreaks want to know but won't let us build powersat recievers here on Earth for.
Haven't we been saying for 40 years that fusion power is just around the corner in another 20 years?
except your local 'law & order' politician looking to score votes in the upcoming election. And here in the States, there's always an upcoming election...
Give it a couple more years, you'll find out.
Keep in mind a couple things here.
Joe Arpaio's department runs county jails. The 'inhabitants' are people convicted of misdemeanors and people awaiting trial. Get convicted of anything 'serious' in Arizona, like rape, murder, child endangering, felony drunk driving, you get sent to prison not county jail. Misdemeanors are things like shoplifting, too many parking tickets, petty theft, 15-19 mph over the speed limit, that sort of thing. Yeah, total hardened professional criminals here. If the sentence reads 'not less than 3 months or more than 6 months in county jail' and you're in Maricopa County, you will be in Tent City for 6 months. NO early outs for 'good behaviour'. Doesn't happen.
As for those awaiting trial, they're also in Tent City. These people have yet to be convicted of a crime by a jury of their peers. So why are they being held in Tent City? If I rack up a half dozen parking tickets and blow off paying for them (yeah, real criminal activity there), what happens around here when I get pulled over is, I get Yet Another Ticket and my car gets impounded until I show up in court to face the charges for the parking tickets and pay the fines. It's considered too damned much of a hassle to put me in jail for this, they figure impounding my car until my court date is incentive enough to get me to show up. Not in Maricopa County, though. Sheriff Joe puts you behind the wire unless you can make bail so he can get that Federal cash for having you as a prisoner, even if it's only for a couple hours (he gets paid for a day having you behind the wire even if it's only for a partial day!).
Sheriff Joe shouldn't be investigating any courts. That's the job of the State Attorney General, or the Federal Attorney General. He's exceeding his authority (not that he recognises any limits on his authority). County AG is investigating him, so this is more like a CYA run than a fishing expedition.
Chasing down illegal aliens is the job of INS, not a county sheriff. And why is it that those 'corrupt judges' he's chasing down just happen to be signing warrants for state investigations into the Maricopa County sheriff department? County sheriffs don't investigate 'corrupt judges', either. That's the state Attorney General's job, or the Feds' job if the judge is a state judge rather than county. Joe wants to do everybody else's job rather than that of a county sheriff: serve warrants, secure the peace, investigate street crime in unincorporated areas. He'd rather have his thugs do the flashy arrests where nobody is shooting back at him, like that prostitution sting he ran that got him 80 arrests of people guaranteed NOT to shoot at his deputies.
No, you don't EVEN wanna live in Maricopa County. Get too many parking tickets, you'll spend time in Tent City awaiting trial. Get caught tossing a cigarette or styrofoam coffee cup out the window onto a county road, spend some time in Tent City awaiting trial. Be a day late making your insurance payment for your car, the insurance company notifies the DoT computers of the lapse in coverage, the DoT notifies your county sheriff, and a deputy comes out to pull the plates off your car while it's in your driveway, and in Maricopa County, you can go to Tent City to await appearing before a judge.
What do all the lawsuits against Sheriff Joe for civil rights abuses, deaths while in custody, constitutional rights violations and the like have to do with illegal immigration? There's what, 1500-odd cases against him filed so far in Maricopa County courts at the moment?
What results? The study 'Sheriff Joe' commissioned to show that his methods cut down on repeat offenders didn't show any such thing, and got buried deep.