I wonder why these scum do not realize that congress/FCC/et al have done them a huge favor.
They have just been supplied a list - free of charge - of fifty million people on whom they should not waste their money contacting.
Friends, I have to admit that during my college days I was one of these bottom-feeders for about three days in the service of a nameless portrait company, you know the one (the things we won't do for beer money), and the biggest problem we faced was the endless string of not-interesteds we had to filter through to get to the one grandma who might take the pitch. In fact, we had a system (way back then we used rotary phones and a green-and-white fanfold printout, so it may be better, I don't know) to remove so-called "hostiles" from our list, a process which took about five minutes EACH number.
These clowns shouldn't be suing in court, they should be bowing down to our collective magnamosity.
with index finger clicker is my weapon of choice, although I use Kwrite (What? Not Emacs/VI? Let the flammage ensue but direct your shrapnel away from the top of my head.) for producing a final draft.
While words cannot express the beauty of discovering the frequency of Sol-type stars within 100 light-years of Earth, or Tibetan surnames and their construction without visiting a library, computers (and especially the internet) are a godawful distraction to creativity.
Much as I hate to defend the man, GWB is actually fairly supportive of alternative energy, although as an earlier poster mentioned, the H economy is not the way to go.
IIRC the congressional Hearing on Solar Power from Space estimated construction of a space based, solar powered energy system would run about (places pinky to corner of mouth) $20 billion dollars.
While this is no doubt an extremely conservative estimate, we've currently spend 75 billion on Gulf War II already, and if you add the 87 billion additional funds GWB wants, . . . why that's billions and billions (my apologies to Carl Sagan), certainly enough money to make this feasible.
It will not do anything for preserving military superiority.
I got modded troll the last time I mentioned this AC, but what the hell...
Read The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, filter out the libertarian claptrap, and come to the basic point, which is that the organization/country controlling space not only controls access to it, but also controls the Earth as well.
Now witness the nascent India/China space race, and ask yourself if the United States can afford NOT to have an established, manned presence in orbit and on the Moon. And before you flame, no, I do not believe the US is inherently "better/good" or "worse/evil" than the other two countries I mentioned.
While I must personally agree that scientific and cultural considerations *should* take precence over the paranoid reasoning above, I am not the one who needs convincing (hell, I'd sweep floors and swab latrines on Moon Base Alpha for free...). As in the 1960's, when Joe Americana percieves a threat to his continued existence, that is when Congress and our so-called elected leaders will react, and not before.
The beautiful vision of humanity taking their rightful place blah blah blah will not motivate Washington; fear of foreign domination will.
My Logitech Mouseman II Wheelmouse is six years old and still going strong, a veteran of thousands of hours of QuakeII/III. Ya just gotta clean the schmutz off the rollers every six months or so.
Sorry, that's not true. I've had RPC disabled on my Win2k ProCorp box for nearly a year with no ill effects. It's REMOTE procedure call, after all.
After logging in as administrator, go to control panel/administrative tools/services. Look for RPC on the list of services and choose disable.
RPC is easily restarted simply by the reverse of the above procedure.
Ohhhh... there's a hole in the RPC.
There's a hole in the RPC.
There's a hole, there's a hole.
There's a hole in the RPC.
Ohhhh... there's a worm in the hole in the RPC
There's a worm in the hole in the RPC
There's a worm, there's a worm,
There's a worm in the RPC....and so forth
Politicians don't build bombs, because they don't know how. Scientists with political agendas or, perhaps, no morals whatsoever buuild bombs for politicians.
Tell me, do you think Oppenheimer was a good person? How about Einstein, who famously urged the wartime administration to build a bomb lest the nazis get there first (and note that the bomb wasn't used on Germany)?
On the other hand, governmental development of destructive technology has been a strategic necessity since the age of the seige engine.
Example: if DUHbya continues his ill-advised moratorium on stem-cell research while your boogeyman of choice (China, maybe?) continues such programs, they will smoke Americans in the new bioconomy, or worse, develop weapons which we have zero hope of matching because the knowledge isn't there.
Anyone want a world where mandarins live a thousand years? Millineatocracy?
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I wonder why these scum do not realize that congress/FCC/et al have done them a huge favor.
They have just been supplied a list - free of charge - of fifty million people on whom they should not waste their money contacting.
Friends, I have to admit that during my college days I was one of these bottom-feeders for about three days in the service of a nameless portrait company, you know the one (the things we won't do for beer money), and the biggest problem we faced was the endless string of not-interesteds we had to filter through to get to the one grandma who might take the pitch. In fact, we had a system (way back then we used rotary phones and a green-and-white fanfold printout, so it may be better, I don't know) to remove so-called "hostiles" from our list, a process which took about five minutes EACH number.
These clowns shouldn't be suing in court, they should be bowing down to our collective magnamosity.
Son, put down the game pad already and go git yerself sum schoolin afore itz two late.
with index finger clicker is my weapon of choice, although I use Kwrite (What? Not Emacs/VI? Let the flammage ensue but direct your shrapnel away from the top of my head.) for producing a final draft.
While words cannot express the beauty of discovering the frequency of Sol-type stars within 100 light-years of Earth, or Tibetan surnames and their construction without visiting a library, computers (and especially the internet) are a godawful distraction to creativity.
Like now.
That's how it works in a democratic republic.
"Democracy is the mistaken assumption that the majority of people are always right"
--Lazarus Long
Much as I hate to defend the man, GWB is actually fairly supportive of alternative energy, although as an earlier poster mentioned, the H economy is not the way to go.
IIRC the congressional Hearing on Solar Power from Space estimated construction of a space based, solar powered energy system would run about (places pinky to corner of mouth) $20 billion dollars.
While this is no doubt an extremely conservative estimate, we've currently spend 75 billion on Gulf War II already, and if you add the 87 billion additional funds GWB wants, . . . why that's billions and billions (my apologies to Carl Sagan), certainly enough money to make this feasible.
aww, dammit . . . I see Cap'n Canuck (622106) beat me to it.
By God! That meteor masses ten million old Ford Automobiles!
too obscure for ya, mebbe?
It will not do anything for preserving military superiority.
I got modded troll the last time I mentioned this AC, but what the hell...
Read The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, filter out the libertarian claptrap, and come to the basic point, which is that the organization/country controlling space not only controls access to it, but also controls the Earth as well.
Now witness the nascent India/China space race, and ask yourself if the United States can afford NOT to have an established, manned presence in orbit and on the Moon. And before you flame, no, I do not believe the US is inherently "better/good" or "worse/evil" than the other two countries I mentioned.
While I must personally agree that scientific and cultural considerations *should* take precence over the paranoid reasoning above, I am not the one who needs convincing (hell, I'd sweep floors and swab latrines on Moon Base Alpha for free...). As in the 1960's, when Joe Americana percieves a threat to his continued existence, that is when Congress and our so-called elected leaders will react, and not before.
The beautiful vision of humanity taking their rightful place blah blah blah will not motivate Washington; fear of foreign domination will.
My Logitech Mouseman II Wheelmouse is six years old and still going strong, a veteran of thousands of hours of QuakeII/III. Ya just gotta clean the schmutz off the rollers every six months or so.
Sorry, that's not true. I've had RPC disabled on my Win2k ProCorp box for nearly a year with no ill effects. It's REMOTE procedure call, after all. After logging in as administrator, go to control panel/administrative tools/services. Look for RPC on the list of services and choose disable. RPC is easily restarted simply by the reverse of the above procedure.
Ohhhh ... there's a hole in the RPC.
There's a hole in the RPC.
There's a hole, there's a hole.
There's a hole in the RPC.
Ohhhh ... there's a worm in the hole in the RPC
There's a worm in the hole in the RPC
There's a worm, there's a worm,
There's a worm in the RPC. ...and so forth
Politicians don't build bombs, because they don't know how. Scientists with political agendas or, perhaps, no morals whatsoever buuild bombs for politicians.
Tell me, do you think Oppenheimer was a good person? How about Einstein, who famously urged the wartime administration to build a bomb lest the nazis get there first (and note that the bomb wasn't used on Germany)?
On the other hand, governmental development of destructive technology has been a strategic necessity since the age of the seige engine.
Example: if DUHbya continues his ill-advised moratorium on stem-cell research while your boogeyman of choice (China, maybe?) continues such programs, they will smoke Americans in the new bioconomy, or worse, develop weapons which we have zero hope of matching because the knowledge isn't there.
Anyone want a world where mandarins live a thousand years? Millineatocracy?