1. I own copies of thousands of ebooks for my Sony PRS-505, and I do control them. I didn't buy DRMed crap.
If I do pay for DRMed music or video, copy protected software, anything covered with a license agreement, etc...that was not advertised and marked as such...then I pursue it as I would any fraud case. I file criminal complaints, sue, picket, dispute the charges.
I may not have killed any stock holders yet over an undisclosed EULA, but it's only a matter of time. LOCK & LOAD!!!
So...who is a good company for domain name registration or web hosting?
I have never found a name registrar that will not take down a site w/o warning. (I do run contreversial sites, and they do tick off powerful people.)
DirectNic is as bad as GoDaddy. I considered Yahoo, but their TOS says they will take down and "offensive" site. (e.g., if you mention women voting, that is offensive to some.)
1. Everyone has the right to say anything they want to. No information is illegal to distribute. 1.A. Everyone has the obligation to sign their name to everything they sign.
2. Everyone has the right to read anything they want to. No information is illegal to obtain, possess, or use. 2.A. Everyone has the obligation not to impersonate another person.
3. Everyone has the right to filter-free Internet. If a person decides they want filtered access, the contract must specify exactly what is filtered, in technical and non-technical detail. It will be easy for the person receiving filtered access to turn off the filtering to see what is being filtered out.
4. Everyone has the right not to have their machine accessed against their will. 4.A Anyone accessing a machine without the owner's permission will be executed...slowly.
5. Everyone has the right to understand the laws. Every law will be published, and will be understandable by the average 8th grader.
6. Whereas Ex-Post-Facto laws are illegal under the bill of rights, and whereas US IP laws have been changed Ex-Post-Facto 11 times since 1959, the following are necessary to the survival of a free state: (1) All persons who served in the Us Congress who voted for Ex-Post-Facto laws will be executed...slowly. (2) All IP which was the subject of Ex-Post-Facto changes to US IP Laws is now in the Public Domain. (3) All current and former employees and owners of member companies of the BSA, RIAA, and MPAA will be executed...slowly.
7. Any person who discovers, invents, or authors something truly new, unique, and non-obvious will be able to record their discovery on a government web site. If this discovery is found to be truly new, unique, and non-obvious, that person will be granted a royalty of 10% of the selling price of any product that employs that thing for a period of 10 years after the date of registration. If the discoverer, inventor, or author used another's machines to develop the thing, then the owner of the machines will receive a 5% royalty, and the discoverer, inventor, or author will receive a 5% royalty.
8. Any person found to be making a deliberately false IP claim will be executed...slowly. 8.A Any person who takes negative action against another due to claims made about that person shall provide the victim of the negative action with copies of the claims.
9. (right against poor faith, and the right to a speedy trial.) In all civil cases, the plaintiff shall show proof to the defendant and to the court in a single document. If the defendant refuses to agree to damages in 30 days, the case shall be tried in the 7 days immediately after the 30 days. If the plaintiff only presents his/her document at trial, and the case is decided for the plaintiff the actual damages will be tripled.
10. Any recording of a permanent place must be registered on a government web site. The longitude/latitude coordinates of the recording (to an accuracy of 10 meters or better,) and example frames of the recording shall be uploaded to the govt web site, where they will enter the public domain. The must be kept for 1 year by the govt. After this has been in effect for 10 years, all recordings of public places must be echoed live to the govt web site, and kept for 10 years. The govt is prohibited from recording any public place unless the govt meets the requirement set for private citizens above.
11. Whereas the DMCA is the worst law since Hitler's "Final Solution" all persons who enforced the DMCA, or made claims under it shall be executed...slowly.
They had it on their web sites in the late '90s. They lobbied extensively for zero tolerance for all forms of syringes and other injection aids in schools. They said that anyone who took a needle into a school should be arrested, no matter what.
When asked about diabetics, they said that no diabetic really needed insulin, and that everyone should control their diabetes through diet and exercise.
Of course, Type I diabetics can not do that.
When a moron who can not read gets a "good cause" stuck up their butt, we've got 2 options: kill them or be killed.
> even when propagated by well-meaning members of benevolent organizations.
Can't you tell they're up to no good, when they're spreading lies?
This is why I tell off ever DARE, MADD, etc group I see. They are fascists. They start by making up some huge problem that does not exist, and then they demand money, and finally, the demand unconstitutional powers to solve it.
DARE and MADD, for example, demand that all insulin dependent diabetics not be allowed to inject insulin. That would kill all insulin dependent diabetics, btu what's a little genocide among fascists?
Am I the only one who recalls the unethical crap we all had to put up with from Wolfram publishing?
1. I buy their software, and pay for overnight S/H. I get it, and it needs to be activated - not by web, but by a human on the phone - before it can be used. This takes 2 weeks due to some overseas holiday I've never heard of.
2. I set up a web site complaining, and they send phony DMCA take-down notices, saying that I'm distributing pirated versions of their software.
3. Wolfram has been proven to have sent many, many phony DMCA take-down notices against anyone who criticized their favorite senator, Orin Hatch. This is the same Orin Hatch that wants a chip (fuse) in your PC that Wolfram can blow to permanently ruin it if they don't like you. No due process would apply.
If you do business with Wolfram, you are no better than IBM doing business with NAZI Germany.
If only the federal government would puclish the Code of Federal Regulations and United States Code.
Of course, they would have to live by them, instead of making shit up when they put someone on trial, which is why the federal laws will never be published.
They claim the laws are online at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ but a search will show that 80% of the CFR and USC are actually missing. This way, a poor schlub is accused of breaking a non-existent law by a para-military storm trooper who is too ignorant to know what the Constitution says. The poor schlub protests his innocence, and is knocked to the floor by the bailiff. A few kicks later, he still protests his innocence. If he's lucky enough to be liked by the gestapo, he'll get a trial. (90% of us who ask for a trial are falsely entered as guilt pleas.) During the show trial, he's refused his right to know what he's accused of. All the defense evidence is suppressed, while the prosecutor grand-stands. (Remember, the prosecutor's office is paying the public defenders. Guess what happens to the ones that actually defend someone.) 90% of jurys convict at this point, but the ones that don't (who will never be called for jury duty again) ask for the law. The prosecutor and judge spend a few days whipping up bullshit to sound like a law, and present it to the jury.
At least this was my experience with the courts in the earl 1990's.
So you see, the CFR & USC will NEVER be published by the federal government.
This is the same thing that eBay has been doing since they killed my auctions in 1998.
You see, Microsoft wanted to engage in illegal price fixing, and killed my auctions reselling copies of Microsoft software that I had won as door prizes.
I had never agreed to a license agreement, so I was not bound by it, but eBay still allowed Microsoft to kill my auctions.
It was only after I won my small-claims lawsuit against eBay for breech of contract, and another small claims court suit against Microsoft for slander that I got another eBay account. That's why my account says "since 1999."
Anyway, great job hopping on this story 9 years later,/.
> It's always been a first-come-first-serve system. > I agree that trademarks shouldn't be used to "steal" domain names, > but domain names bearing trademarks shouldn't confuse consumers either.
> While it's nice to have some form of "absolute ownership", no registrar > is foolish enough to do that over a mere $7-$10 a year contract, much > more assume the inherent legal risks for you. Various registrars generally > won't "steal" domain names, but that's probably dependent on how one > defines that word in quotation marks.
> Some people actually want the US government to get involved, which might > or might not improve things the way they are. Currently the domain name > registration system is "independent".
I'm going to assume you are running for office. You used many words to say exactly nothing.
The anti-cyber-squatting act of 1996 allows domains to be stolen. If I wanted your domain, I'd register a trademark on the bit before the dot-com, then steal the domain from you. THAT FORM OF THEFT IS WRONG.
When a person pays for a domain name, they pay for it. A registrar disabling it is a breech of contract, and should be a capital crime. I've had my domains disabled for ticking off powerful career criminals (e.g., Orin Hatch)
The internet is the most censored arena I can think of, and it's a damn shame.
I've supported the BS domain registration system until now. I no longer support these crooks.
We need a first-come-first-serve system. No trademarks should be used to steal domain names.
We need an absolute guarantee of ownership. We must not let registrars steal domains, and we must not let bribes influence registrars they way that Wolfram Publishing bribed DirectNic.
We must make this independent of the insane losers in the US Govt who are about to cause the total collapse of the US Dollar.
An e-ink based ebook reader (e.g., Hanlin Jinke, Sony PRS-505, Irex Illiad, Cybook Gen3) will let you read for days on a battery charge that's the equivalent of a cell phone battery. (Add in a USB charger.)
Drop the laptop in favor of a UMPC. 2lbs with 12 hours of battery life with one of the 6, 8, or 9 cell extended life batteries. Kohjinsha makes some incredible packages under 2 lbs. with DVD burners. Samsung's Q1 is available under $600, but has less power & storage. Add in a universal charger, or two, or three for it.
For virtually unlimited storage, add in 2.5" 500GB HDDs, if customs doesn't object to your personal library of files. Rechargable Li-Ion or Li-Poly batteries are available to cut the drain on your UMPC for $35 each. They plug in in-line between the USB port and the HDD.
Given that you have limited yourself to the candidates discussed by the FCC-censored media (either one of which could have authored "Mein Kampf") it's a toss-up.
Let me explain: Given the option, I'd toss them both out the 6th floor window of the old Book Depository building.
I'm certain that according to news accounts, engineers and other technical people are over-represented in every terrorist group. The question is: Why?
Technical people tend to find that answers are right or wrong based on empirical evidence, not based on public opinion, so they are more likely to gravitate towards extreme positions that are supported by facts. Q: How many of the violent opponents of Hitler's Final Solution were math geeks? A: Most.
Technical people are likely to be cited by the (liberal-arts biased) media as members of terrorist groups. These same pseudo-reporters don't' mention a former history major who shoots people - that's too close to them. They feel embarrassed to report on the former history major.
Many rich families in 3rd world countries wants to send their kids to a US University. When they get here, a technical major is easier, given their limited English proficiency. It's also seen as more useful. You don't spend $100,000.00 to teach your son east African dance, when he could be learning civil engineering to build dams, run electrical grids, and build roads. Kids with rich families will do better as terrorists... they get a good lawyer once, have some funding from mom, have a few connections in the embassy, etc. Osama bin Laden is a perfect example of this. When the future radical is sent to an American University, he studies a technical subject. Walk around an engineering department some time. 90% of the students are not native English speakers.
A technical background will be useful to any militant. Can you say "sappers"? Now, can you say "demolitions?" Frankly, a degree in east African dance or in pre-colonial-South-American-history is less useful than one in chemistry when you are trying to build a bomb.
I'm fairly certain the former liberal arts majors would be over represented in organizations where they can use their degrees - look into political parties, for example. Try looking at a state department party, where 90% of the invitees have committed genocide, and I expect you'll find more than your share of former liberal arts majors.
I've got to get back to archiving explosives formulas from Archive.org Bye!
We all stood by when the 1998 DMCA repealed the first amendment. We all stood around and complained (but not loudly enough to gt us in trouble at work) as law after law made it illegal to speak.
SHUT UP!!! IT'S OVER!!!
We're just waiting for the chance to shoot the bastards at this point.
I'm not associated with the project, but I do have common sense.
For those who think this is a high-risk project, risk is the chance of failure multiplied by the cost. The cost of throwing a paper plane from the ISS is low compared to other experiments, and we will learn quite a bit, not matter what happens.
For those who think this is a waste of money, I understand. You would have never funded the research into better clocks that eventually led to better navigation, which led to Columbus' voyages. The idea of opening a new frontier does not excite you. You would have us turn inward like the Chinese did at one point, burn your own ships, and never venture out again. You will accept a stagnant society. Based on my understanding of you, I offer one suggestion: Please commit suicide. We're better off without you.
This is brilliant! The use is obvious. We need cheaper reentry vehicles. These vehicles would not be designed to bring back passengers, but there are times when you have 50 (harmless) samples and would like to get one of them to a lab earth-side.
First, for those who say they've never seen a paper airplane break 100MPH, that's at 1 atmosphere. Mach 7 is definitely not at 1 atmosphere.
Second, for those who say it would flip, try writing a stability proof sometime. do you know how to apply inverse kinematics? can you write an equation for the Jacobian of a human elbow joint?
Third, the first step is to try one small paper plane. It'll probably not work, and we'll have to try again. Eventually, we might get a working 8" plane. Some day, we might even have a meter long plane that can bring 3 ounces back to earth.
Imagine an astronaut who is sick, and we need to get some lab tests run. Sending a shuttle or Soyouz down is incredibly wasteful. OTOH, a paper airplane could be equipped with a tracking device (think 1-2oz GPS & transmitter) and a small sample case. We drop the plane, and it's got a 1-in-3 chance of getting the sample into the right hands, in a usable condition. So we drop 5 or 10 and hope for the best.
Think of the potential when we start building larger stations & craft in space. A line of bolts could shear off, and we might not have the ability to analyze it in space. We drop one on each of 5 paper planes, and get a good idea from 2 that we recover of what happened. Were the bolts defective? Was it a fatigue issue? Were they improperly installed?
Imagine a very low cost mission to a near Earth crossing object. Half a dozen paper planes could let us get a few ounces of samples on the cheap.
Slashdot Mirror
I recall that spammers actually violated the law when they forged IP addresses. Such conduct is illegal under US Federal Law.
Why isn't Comcast being prosecuted?
Andy Out!
3 cheers for Creative!
When my GA-965P-S3 motherboard's Azalea sound chips refused to work in XP 64, a $7.99 Creative PCI card from Fry's fixed it.
When this guy started hacking around with drivers, Creative let him post on their forums.
When Creative screwed up and shut him down (and it very well could be someone else's IP) they fixed it!
Thanks, Creative!
Andy Out!
WTF?!?!?
Are you kidding?!?!?
This is the government that runs the FCC - the F**king Censorship Comission?!?!?
so, you are telling me that you are shocked they would hire someone to lie for them?!?!?!
Andy Out!
1. I own copies of thousands of ebooks for my Sony PRS-505, and I do control them. I didn't buy DRMed crap.
If I do pay for DRMed music or video, copy protected software, anything covered with a license agreement, etc...that was not advertised and marked as such...then I pursue it as I would any fraud case. I file criminal complaints, sue, picket, dispute the charges.
I may not have killed any stock holders yet over an undisclosed EULA, but it's only a matter of time. LOCK & LOAD!!!
Andy
So...who is a good company for domain name registration or web hosting?
I have never found a name registrar that will not take down a site w/o warning. (I do run contreversial sites, and they do tick off powerful people.)
DirectNic is as bad as GoDaddy. I considered Yahoo, but their TOS says they will take down and "offensive" site. (e.g., if you mention women voting, that is offensive to some.)
Who can I turn to? (other than Tim McVeigh?)
Andy
1. Everyone has the right to say anything they want to. No information is illegal to distribute.
1.A. Everyone has the obligation to sign their name to everything they sign.
2. Everyone has the right to read anything they want to. No information is illegal to obtain, possess, or use.
2.A. Everyone has the obligation not to impersonate another person.
3. Everyone has the right to filter-free Internet. If a person decides they want filtered access, the contract must specify exactly what is filtered, in technical and non-technical detail. It will be easy for the person receiving filtered access to turn off the filtering to see what is being filtered out.
4. Everyone has the right not to have their machine accessed against their will.
4.A Anyone accessing a machine without the owner's permission will be executed...slowly.
5. Everyone has the right to understand the laws. Every law will be published, and will be understandable by the average 8th grader.
6. Whereas Ex-Post-Facto laws are illegal under the bill of rights, and whereas US IP laws have been changed Ex-Post-Facto 11 times since 1959, the following are necessary to the survival of a free state: (1) All persons who served in the Us Congress who voted for Ex-Post-Facto laws will be executed...slowly. (2) All IP which was the subject of Ex-Post-Facto changes to US IP Laws is now in the Public Domain. (3) All current and former employees and owners of member companies of the BSA, RIAA, and MPAA will be executed...slowly.
7. Any person who discovers, invents, or authors something truly new, unique, and non-obvious will be able to record their discovery on a government web site. If this discovery is found to be truly new, unique, and non-obvious, that person will be granted a royalty of 10% of the selling price of any product that employs that thing for a period of 10 years after the date of registration. If the discoverer, inventor, or author used another's machines to develop the thing, then the owner of the machines will receive a 5% royalty, and the discoverer, inventor, or author will receive a 5% royalty.
8. Any person found to be making a deliberately false IP claim will be executed...slowly.
8.A Any person who takes negative action against another due to claims made about that person shall provide the victim of the negative action with copies of the claims.
9. (right against poor faith, and the right to a speedy trial.) In all civil cases, the plaintiff shall show proof to the defendant and to the court in a single document. If the defendant refuses to agree to damages in 30 days, the case shall be tried in the 7 days immediately after the 30 days. If the plaintiff only presents his/her document at trial, and the case is decided for the plaintiff the actual damages will be tripled.
10. Any recording of a permanent place must be registered on a government web site. The longitude/latitude coordinates of the recording (to an accuracy of 10 meters or better,) and example frames of the recording shall be uploaded to the govt web site, where they will enter the public domain. The must be kept for 1 year by the govt. After this has been in effect for 10 years, all recordings of public places must be echoed live to the govt web site, and kept for 10 years.
The govt is prohibited from recording any public place unless the govt meets the requirement set for private citizens above.
11. Whereas the DMCA is the worst law since Hitler's "Final Solution" all persons who enforced the DMCA, or made claims under it shall be executed...slowly.
Andy Out!
> That sounds like bullshit to me.
I regret that you are ignorant.
They had it on their web sites in the late '90s. They lobbied extensively for zero tolerance for all forms of syringes and other injection aids in schools. They said that anyone who took a needle into a school should be arrested, no matter what.
When asked about diabetics, they said that no diabetic really needed insulin, and that everyone should control their diabetes through diet and exercise.
Of course, Type I diabetics can not do that.
When a moron who can not read gets a "good cause" stuck up their butt, we've got 2 options: kill them or be killed.
Andy Out!
> Bullshit needs to be exposed and countered,
True.
> even when propagated by well-meaning members of benevolent organizations.
Can't you tell they're up to no good, when they're spreading lies?
This is why I tell off ever DARE, MADD, etc group I see. They are fascists. They start by making up some huge problem that does not exist, and then they demand money, and finally, the demand unconstitutional powers to solve it.
DARE and MADD, for example, demand that all insulin dependent diabetics not be allowed to inject insulin. That would kill all insulin dependent diabetics, btu what's a little genocide among fascists?
Andy Out!
I love the LOC, and being locked out by MICRO$OFT'S CRAP sucks. I mean it really sucks.
SHIT!
Andy
Am I the only one who recalls the unethical crap we all had to put up with from Wolfram publishing?
1. I buy their software, and pay for overnight S/H. I get it, and it needs to be activated - not by web, but by a human on the phone - before it can be used. This takes 2 weeks due to some overseas holiday I've never heard of.
2. I set up a web site complaining, and they send phony DMCA take-down notices, saying that I'm distributing pirated versions of their software.
3. Wolfram has been proven to have sent many, many phony DMCA take-down notices against anyone who criticized their favorite senator, Orin Hatch. This is the same Orin Hatch that wants a chip (fuse) in your PC that Wolfram can blow to permanently ruin it if they don't like you. No due process would apply.
If you do business with Wolfram, you are no better than IBM doing business with NAZI Germany.
Andy
If only the federal government would puclish the Code of Federal Regulations and United States Code.
Of course, they would have to live by them, instead of making shit up when they put someone on trial, which is why the federal laws will never be published.
They claim the laws are online at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ but a search will show that 80% of the CFR and USC are actually missing. This way, a poor schlub is accused of breaking a non-existent law by a para-military storm trooper who is too ignorant to know what the Constitution says. The poor schlub protests his innocence, and is knocked to the floor by the bailiff. A few kicks later, he still protests his innocence. If he's lucky enough to be liked by the gestapo, he'll get a trial. (90% of us who ask for a trial are falsely entered as guilt pleas.) During the show trial, he's refused his right to know what he's accused of. All the defense evidence is suppressed, while the prosecutor grand-stands. (Remember, the prosecutor's office is paying the public defenders. Guess what happens to the ones that actually defend someone.) 90% of jurys convict at this point, but the ones that don't (who will never be called for jury duty again) ask for the law. The prosecutor and judge spend a few days whipping up bullshit to sound like a law, and present it to the jury.
At least this was my experience with the courts in the earl 1990's.
So you see, the CFR & USC will NEVER be published by the federal government.
Andy
This is the same thing that eBay has been doing since they killed my auctions in 1998.
/.
You see, Microsoft wanted to engage in illegal price fixing, and killed my auctions reselling copies of Microsoft software that I had won as door prizes.
I had never agreed to a license agreement, so I was not bound by it, but eBay still allowed Microsoft to kill my auctions.
It was only after I won my small-claims lawsuit against eBay for breech of contract, and another small claims court suit against Microsoft for slander that I got another eBay account. That's why my account says "since 1999."
Anyway, great job hopping on this story 9 years later,
Andy
> It's always been a first-come-first-serve system.
> I agree that trademarks shouldn't be used to "steal" domain names,
> but domain names bearing trademarks shouldn't confuse consumers either.
> While it's nice to have some form of "absolute ownership", no registrar
> is foolish enough to do that over a mere $7-$10 a year contract, much
> more assume the inherent legal risks for you. Various registrars generally
> won't "steal" domain names, but that's probably dependent on how one
> defines that word in quotation marks.
> Some people actually want the US government to get involved, which might
> or might not improve things the way they are. Currently the domain name
> registration system is "independent".
I'm going to assume you are running for office. You used many words to
say exactly nothing.
The anti-cyber-squatting act of 1996 allows domains to be stolen. If I
wanted your domain, I'd register a trademark on the bit before the dot-com,
then steal the domain from you. THAT FORM OF THEFT IS WRONG.
When a person pays for a domain name, they pay for it. A registrar
disabling it is a breech of contract, and should be a capital crime. I've
had my domains disabled for ticking off powerful career criminals (e.g.,
Orin Hatch)
The internet is the most censored arena I can think of, and it's a damn
shame.
Andy
I've supported the BS domain registration system until now. I no longer support these crooks.
We need a first-come-first-serve system. No trademarks should be used to steal domain names.
We need an absolute guarantee of ownership. We must not let registrars steal domains, and we must not let bribes influence registrars they way that Wolfram Publishing bribed DirectNic.
We must make this independent of the insane losers in the US Govt who are about to cause the total collapse of the US Dollar.
Andy (a Texan)
The comments section on the TSA blog is moderated (CENSORED.)
Let's just say that Ron Paul supporters are not welcome to quote the Bill or Rights!
Andy
An e-ink based ebook reader (e.g., Hanlin Jinke, Sony PRS-505, Irex Illiad, Cybook Gen3) will let you read for days on a battery charge that's the equivalent of a cell phone battery. (Add in a USB charger.)
Drop the laptop in favor of a UMPC. 2lbs with 12 hours of battery life with one of the 6, 8, or 9 cell extended life batteries. Kohjinsha makes some incredible packages under 2 lbs. with DVD burners. Samsung's Q1 is available under $600, but has less power & storage. Add in a universal charger, or two, or three for it.
For virtually unlimited storage, add in 2.5" 500GB HDDs, if customs doesn't object to your personal library of files. Rechargable Li-Ion or Li-Poly batteries are available to cut the drain on your UMPC for $35 each. They plug in in-line between the USB port and the HDD.
Andy
Given that you have limited yourself to the candidates discussed by the FCC-censored media (either one of which could have authored "Mein Kampf") it's a toss-up.
Let me explain: Given the option, I'd toss them both out the 6th floor window of the old Book Depository building.
Andy
So, the NFL is targeting Christian Churches...kinda like Al-Quaeda?
The elections are rigged. It's all a scam, at least here in the USA.
Andy Out!
I'm certain that according to news accounts, engineers and other technical people are over-represented in every terrorist group. The question is: Why?
... they get a good lawyer once, have some funding from mom, have a few connections in the embassy, etc. Osama bin Laden is a perfect example of this. When the future radical is sent to an American University, he studies a technical subject. Walk around an engineering department some time. 90% of the students are not native English speakers.
Technical people tend to find that answers are right or wrong based on empirical evidence, not based on public opinion, so they are more likely to gravitate towards extreme positions that are supported by facts. Q: How many of the violent opponents of Hitler's Final Solution were math geeks? A: Most.
Technical people are likely to be cited by the (liberal-arts biased) media as members of terrorist groups. These same pseudo-reporters don't' mention a former history major who shoots people - that's too close to them. They feel embarrassed to report on the former history major.
Many rich families in 3rd world countries wants to send their kids to a US University. When they get here, a technical major is easier, given their limited English proficiency. It's also seen as more useful. You don't spend $100,000.00 to teach your son east African dance, when he could be learning civil engineering to build dams, run electrical grids, and build roads. Kids with rich families will do better as terrorists
A technical background will be useful to any militant. Can you say "sappers"? Now, can you say "demolitions?" Frankly, a degree in east African dance or in pre-colonial-South-American-history is less useful than one in chemistry when you are trying to build a bomb.
I'm fairly certain the former liberal arts majors would be over represented in organizations where they can use their degrees - look into political parties, for example. Try looking at a state department party, where 90% of the invitees have committed genocide, and I expect you'll find more than your share of former liberal arts majors.
I've got to get back to archiving explosives formulas from Archive.org Bye!
Andy Out!
We all stood by when the 1998 DMCA repealed the first amendment. We all stood around and complained (but not loudly enough to gt us in trouble at work) as law after law made it illegal to speak.
SHUT UP!!! IT'S OVER!!!
We're just waiting for the chance to shoot the bastards at this point.
Andy Out!
I'm not associated with the project, but I do have common sense.
For those who think this is a high-risk project, risk is the chance of failure multiplied by the cost. The cost of throwing a paper plane from the ISS is low compared to other experiments, and we will learn quite a bit, not matter what happens.
For those who think this is a waste of money, I understand. You would have never funded the research into better clocks that eventually led to better navigation, which led to Columbus' voyages. The idea of opening a new frontier does not excite you. You would have us turn inward like the Chinese did at one point, burn your own ships, and never venture out again. You will accept a stagnant society. Based on my understanding of you, I offer one suggestion: Please commit suicide. We're better off without you.
Andy
This is brilliant! The use is obvious. We need cheaper reentry vehicles. These vehicles would not be designed to bring back passengers, but there are times when you have 50 (harmless) samples and would like to get one of them to a lab earth-side.
First, for those who say they've never seen a paper airplane break 100MPH, that's at 1 atmosphere. Mach 7 is definitely not at 1 atmosphere.
Second, for those who say it would flip, try writing a stability proof sometime. do you know how to apply inverse kinematics? can you write an equation for the Jacobian of a human elbow joint?
Third, the first step is to try one small paper plane. It'll probably not work, and we'll have to try again. Eventually, we might get a working 8" plane. Some day, we might even have a meter long plane that can bring 3 ounces back to earth.
Imagine an astronaut who is sick, and we need to get some lab tests run. Sending a shuttle or Soyouz down is incredibly wasteful. OTOH, a paper airplane could be equipped with a tracking device (think 1-2oz GPS & transmitter) and a small sample case. We drop the plane, and it's got a 1-in-3 chance of getting the sample into the right hands, in a usable condition. So we drop 5 or 10 and hope for the best.
Think of the potential when we start building larger stations & craft in space. A line of bolts could shear off, and we might not have the ability to analyze it in space. We drop one on each of 5 paper planes, and get a good idea from 2 that we recover of what happened. Were the bolts defective? Was it a fatigue issue? Were they improperly installed?
Imagine a very low cost mission to a near Earth crossing object. Half a dozen paper planes could let us get a few ounces of samples on the cheap.
Andy
The real story is that if you dislike the security thugs, you will be labeled a terrorist.
Same old tactics to keep TPTB in power, and to screw us little guys.
Andy Out!
This is cyber-squatting, and a violation of the US Federal Anti-Cyber-Squatting Act.
Andy