Play devil's advocate for a moment - what if someone does something like this, and does load the plane with a bunch of explosives and kills someone?
Except that these planes can't carry more than a few OUNCES of payload. Basically a pack or two of firecrackers, and that's about it. They simply don't have the lifting capability or range to do any serious damage.
For cripes sake, most of them are made of FOAM. (Usually EPO or EPP. Not EPS) Trappy's primary plane is a flying wing plane not even 4 feet from wingtip to wingtip. They primarily use electric motors powered by Lithium Polymer batteries with running times rating in minutes, not hours. It's not like we are talking predator drones here.
To get enough explosives onboard to actually cause harm, let alone kill, you would need a VERY large plane. A very large, wood frame, gas operated, LOUD, EXPENSIVE plane. At that point you might as well just crash the plane right into your target and forgo the explosive.
It's cheaper to just brainwash some dumb mooslime kid into strapping some simtex blocks and a trigger onto himself. And less noticeable, until the boom, that is.
What is a corporation BUT a group of people working cooperatively and corporately towards a common goal?
Are those people not to be served by our government? Are they somehow LESS deserving of equal protection because they act corporately?
This is the lie of Socialism and anti-capitalism. That a group of people deserve less protection than another because they belong to that group.
The US Constitution is supposed to guarantee Equal Protection under the Law. This means corporations, being made up of Citizens, also get that same protection.
If you don't like it, there are plenty of places on earth that don't have equal protection. I suggest you go live there.
If you already live there, then STFU about my country and worry about your own.
I've always felt that as nice as Net Neutrality is, it works better as a set of Principles than as a set of Laws or Regulations.
The big problem in the ISP industry is not too little regulation, it's too MUCH. A huge part of the barrier to entry is the established legal monopolies and right-of-way laws. If we can get those removed and just allow anyone with the wherewithal to run some fiber, then the pricing and competition issues will go away.
Not overnight, mind you, but in a much more stable and consumer-oriented manner than some bureaucracy ruling from on high would be able to.
A competent worker knows his limitations. He/She knows that there is information that he/she doesn't have about the company's finances and general operation that management DOES have.
This information and knowledge (along with education and/or training on what to do with it.) is why management occasionally makes decision that don't make sense to the average worker.
Not to say that you can't have bad management, or bad decisions. Those happen every day. But to think that a competent worker will automatically know more than management does on how to run the company is both the height of hubris and incredibly naive.
This was a rocket fuel plant. Sodium Perchlorate. Nasty stuff, but technically a "low yield" explosive. I don't honestly know how it compares to PETN, but I wouldn't want to risk it myself.
Yes. In my opinion they were responsible for burglary, but not murder.
And here lies the problem. You are considering your uninformed OPINION as equal to the considered law in Florida. The two are not equal.
I have been attempting to explain the existing law in Florida in a manner that you will understand, but apparently you aren't going to understand it because you consider your uninformed opinion so highly.
To Wit: You are simply WRONG. Your attempt to conflate "The Butterfly Effect" with Florida law is at best, a stretch, and at worst, insultingly inane. Using your logic one might as well say that NO law is worth following because one could somehow manage to take it to some ridiculous extreme. This is moronic and wrong. There is such a thing as "direct cause" in legal thought, and it factors in this circumstance.
Now, if you wanted to argue that a different charge would perhaps be more appropriate, or more likely to produce a conviction then I think we could have a solid discussion on that. but to simply say that the Murder charge is "daft" and leave it at just shows your ignorance of local law.
Well, Considering that none of them would have been shot had they decided to obey the law and NOT rob a home, then yes, it's fair.
Still seems unfair and ridiculous to me.
That's like saying they committed murder if they cross the street after the burglary and a car knocks down one of them and kills him. Or a tree in the garden falls on him.
Sure someone died. That doesn't mean the rest murdered him - they certainly never intended to.
Pin something else on them if they insist, but not murder.
It's not unfair at all. One of them would not have died if all of them had not decided to commit a crime.
The point is, Once you decide to involve yourself in criminal activity, you are fully responsible for anything that happens in relation to that. The one kid died SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE the group of them decided to burglarize the home of an armed citizen.
Now, perhaps "Involuntary Manslaughter" might be a more appropriate charge in the semantic sense as they obviously had no intention of one of them dying. However That doesn't make the Murder charge entirely inappropriate as, again, they were the ones that set out to commit a crime. They are wholly responsible for the results therein.
It's about responsibility, and ensuring that criminals and criminals alone are held liable for the crimes they commit and any fallout from those crimes. Whether it was an armed citizen, or your hypothetical falling tree or traffic accident, had they not been there attempting to commit a crime, one of them would not have died. THEY are responsible, nobody else.
Well, Considering that none of them would have been shot had they decided to obey the law and NOT rob a home, then yes, it's fair.
Please note that in Florida (as in many other states in the US) a homeowner cannot be charged for using lethal force to defend himself, his family, and his property against unlawful intruders.
Thus, by willfully choosing to commit a crime, they placed themselves into harms way and are each fully responsible for any outcome.
What seems daft to me is charging a VICTIM with a crime when all they are doing is defending themselves. This is the situation in far too many places around the world.
And before you bring up the argument that "It's the job of the Police to protect you, not yours!" I would remind you that it is NOT the job of the Police to prevent crime, it is the job of the Police to find the perp after the crime has occurred and bring them to justice. That doesn't really help you if the crime against you was murder.
Like the wise man said: "When Seconds count, the Police are only Minutes away."
The thing is, nontechnical users don't WANT "neutral" verbiage. Part of the problem with many computer dialogs is not that they don't make sense, it's that they don't help you assess the VALUE of the warning they are giving.
Since most computer users don't have a frame of reference or knowledge from which to assess the value of warnings they receive, we have to supply that for them in the dialog message.
I think that we can all agree that installing something, ANYTHING, into our browsers without explicit user permission is BAD. Thus, the warning should reflect that. An overly neutral warning will just produce, at best, confusion and at worst, blind "yes" clicks.
Something along the lines of: "Alert. The following add-on [name of add-on] was recently installed without your explicit permission by [program] Do you wish to approve or deny this plugin access to Firefox? [approve] [deny]"
Is far more useful to the average user than your "neutral" message.
Or we will be treated to pages of: "So, how DID you blow up the World trade Center?" and "You lied, People Died!" and "What's it like to be like HITLER you babykiller!?!?!?"
Profiling doesn't really involve spying though. It's a behavioral analysis done through observation of how you answer a set of probing questions.
If your answers and behavior while answering fit the profile of a person who is nervous or agitated, then you are pulled aside for a more thorough analysis and search.
There's more to it than that, of course, but none of it involves spying on American citizens or the massive 4th Amendment violations that the TSA is currently up to it's blue-gloved wrists in.
Please keep in mind that El Al has been employing this type of profiling for DECADES and has had not a single terrorist attack yet, despite easily being the single biggest global target for Islamic terrorism.
Israeli style profiling is demonstrably effective, and is generally regarded among those in the global security community as the gold standard to model after. Yet we are doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what they are doing.
Why?
Well, since the former head of DHS is now a highly paid consultant to the ONLY company that makes these machines, and many politicians and govt. functionaries have either power or financial gain involved in reducing the freedoms of the American people and turning us all into obedient sheeple, perchance payoffs and corruption have something to do with it?
Considering that a large part of the NRA's activities are education initiatives oriented around familiarizing people with not only proper firearm use but also the Constitution and the Founding Principles as they related to firearm ownership, I'm thinking that this is a GREAT idea.
Also, It'd REALLY cut down on inner-city crime. Can you imagine a gang trying to terrorize a street full of armed, trained and educated free citizens? It'd end badly. For the gang.
There is something in her hand. And the object in her hand is...
An early model Siemens hearing aid. While they gave a great boost in hearing quality, they tended to have feedback whine issues. You may notice that the person's mouth doesn't move until right at the end. Likely she is reacting to a feedback, possibly caused by someone yelling at her to "GET OUT OF THE SHOT YOU OLD BAG!"
So despite all the hullaballo, it's just an ugly old lady with a hearing aid. Yeah, they had them then too.
Aaand I just realized I made an error above. I was thinking "Roku" when I was reading "Revo". My apologies. Obviously, a Revo is a PC, not an appliance.
I don't know if you are aware, but Revo IS an appliance. At least, it's as much an appliance as an Xbox is.
The difference is that people understand the concept of a "game console" since we've had those since the late 1970's. The idea of an HTPC or similar device is still foreign to non-geek people. They don't realize that when it comes to the basic technological makeup of these devices, Apple TV = Revo = Xbox = PS3 = Laptop. They still view them as coming from completely different worlds, and don't understand that they are all basically just computers.
Thus any kind of "HTCP" setup is viewed as "geeky" whereas game consoles and DVD players are not.
As I noted to matija below, You are an Alpha geek. you are a tiny percentage of the total smartphone market. I wasn't speaking to you.
However, let us compare; I have 3 relatives with smartphones. One is a Librarian (my wife), one a Business Owner(my father), and one a Salesman(my brother). None have any technical background whatsoever. They represent the vast majority of users of the smartphone market. None of them are on AT&T and none of them want to be. So the iPhone is not an available option as they have already ruled it out.
Tell me, why in the world would they get an Android phone? All of the hacks you so flippantly describe as "easy" are far beyond their knowledge and skill set. They simply cannot do what you can do and it is inappropriate to expect them to take the time to learn. They have other priorities.
Thus they are left with the default install, which anyone who has used an Android device will tell you generally sucks. It's not horrific by any stretch, but it is remarkably inadequate generally speaking.
They all followed my lead and got Palm Pres. I spent about 15 minutes with each of them and taught them how to "hack" the Pre. This consists of keying in the "Konami code" thus unlocking developer mode, and using a simple java program called "WebOS Quick Install" to load up an app called "PreWare". Done.
All of them were amazed at how easy it was to do this, and every one of them is overclocking and modding their Pres using the patches available in PreWare. They are ordinary, non-technical users who have discovered the joy of device modding because WebOS makes it EASY TO DO.
Couple that with the far superior multitasking that WebOS has, and the light years better UI, and about the only thing Android has going for it are slightly newer devices, and the slavering, slavish devotion of Alpha Geeks.
Oh, and I've never owned an Android Device. Investigated them fully, used them multiple times through several OS iterations and keep up on them, but I am a Web OS user.
Based on what I've seen of the competition, I intend to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
Congratulations. You are the "Alpha Geek" I was talking about. You and your brethren comprise roughly 1% of 1% of the total smartphone market. Meantime the vast majority of Android users who listened to you and bought an Android are getting BONED by the carriers. Nicely done.
What about those of us geeks that LIKE WebOS? I mean, I can do everything that an Android user can do and MORE with WebOS, and WebOS makes it easier to do.
Tell me you Android users, can you patch your Android device with a kernel that allows for multiple types of adaptive overclocking? No? funny, I can with my Gen1 Sprint Pre using WebOS 1.4.5. In fact, I've been doing it for at least 3 point releases of WebOS.
Wait. Your Android device isn't getting an OTA update from your carrier? You can't even GET an OTA update because your only 6 month old device isn't compatible with Froyo? And you have to be even MORE of a carrier bitch and pay out more money just to get Froyo, but you can only get a gimped version with features missing?
REALLY?
I just don't see how you people think Android is "open" when it looks like only the CARRIERS have any real access to the phone without a complex hack that is only really possible for Alpha Geeks and is as lkely to BRICK your phone or cause the carrier to drop your contract as it is to unlock it.
Other than having a metric crapload of apps (about 99% garbage apps too.) you Android users appear to be getting LESS for your money than us WebOS users. Yeah, I have a device that's over a year old. At least my software is up to date, and uniform across all carriers and devices. Having a brand new Android device that's completely locked down and using a gimped old version of Android is like owning a Ferrari that has a Yugo engine and needs champagne as fuel. Flashy, expensive to use crap.
Peak oil is due a dwindling amount of oil that can be economically extracted.
The thing is, "economically extracted" is subjective term that changes as technology advances and we discover new cheap ways for extracting previously inaccessible oil. This is a process that has been going on for decades and will continue for decades more to come. Particularly since we haven't even yet exhausted all the sources of EASY to access oil yet. Most of the USA's oil is locked up in federal lands that the Eco-morons won't let us get at. Hopefully that will change over the next couple years, we shall see.
Complex hydrocarbons are one of the most abundant resources in the universe. Switching away from them now, before we even have a viable replacement would be foolish. Especially if we do it as a response to hysteria and FUD.
Well, The fuel they use has radiation levels only just above background, so there isn't much radiation to start with. Then there is the fact that they are shielded enough to prevent even that minimal amount of radiation out.
Lastly, you would have to have some kind of Star Trek level technology to be able to detect radiation at a distance using a handheld device under battlefield conditions. Current hand-held radiometric equipment requires the detector to be fairly close to the radiation source.
So no, you are wrong, radiation from a TWR isn't an issue.
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Play devil's advocate for a moment - what if someone does something like this, and does load the plane with a bunch of explosives and kills someone?
Except that these planes can't carry more than a few OUNCES of payload. Basically a pack or two of firecrackers, and that's about it. They simply don't have the lifting capability or range to do any serious damage.
For cripes sake, most of them are made of FOAM. (Usually EPO or EPP. Not EPS) Trappy's primary plane is a flying wing plane not even 4 feet from wingtip to wingtip. They primarily use electric motors powered by Lithium Polymer batteries with running times rating in minutes, not hours. It's not like we are talking predator drones here.
To get enough explosives onboard to actually cause harm, let alone kill, you would need a VERY large plane. A very large, wood frame, gas operated, LOUD, EXPENSIVE plane. At that point you might as well just crash the plane right into your target and forgo the explosive.
It's cheaper to just brainwash some dumb mooslime kid into strapping some simtex blocks and a trigger onto himself. And less noticeable, until the boom, that is.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Maybe not the way I would have put it, but yeah. What he said.
Why?
What is a corporation BUT a group of people working cooperatively and corporately towards a common goal?
Are those people not to be served by our government? Are they somehow LESS deserving of equal protection because they act corporately?
This is the lie of Socialism and anti-capitalism. That a group of people deserve less protection than another because they belong to that group.
The US Constitution is supposed to guarantee Equal Protection under the Law. This means corporations, being made up of Citizens, also get that same protection.
If you don't like it, there are plenty of places on earth that don't have equal protection. I suggest you go live there.
If you already live there, then STFU about my country and worry about your own.
Agreed.
I've always felt that as nice as Net Neutrality is, it works better as a set of Principles than as a set of Laws or Regulations.
The big problem in the ISP industry is not too little regulation, it's too MUCH. A huge part of the barrier to entry is the established legal monopolies and right-of-way laws. If we can get those removed and just allow anyone with the wherewithal to run some fiber, then the pricing and competition issues will go away.
Not overnight, mind you, but in a much more stable and consumer-oriented manner than some bureaucracy ruling from on high would be able to.
Any incompetent worker has this attitude.
FIFY.
A competent worker knows his limitations. He/She knows that there is information that he/she doesn't have about the company's finances and general operation that management DOES have.
This information and knowledge (along with education and/or training on what to do with it.) is why management occasionally makes decision that don't make sense to the average worker.
Not to say that you can't have bad management, or bad decisions. Those happen every day. But to think that a competent worker will automatically know more than management does on how to run the company is both the height of hubris and incredibly naive.
Here is an even better video of the same explosion.
This was a rocket fuel plant. Sodium Perchlorate. Nasty stuff, but technically a "low yield" explosive. I don't honestly know how it compares to PETN, but I wouldn't want to risk it myself.
Yes, because low power explosives in a burning building never cause massive destruction.
Not saying that the situations are the same, just that you are making some pretty risky assumptions.
Yes. In my opinion they were responsible for burglary, but not murder.
And here lies the problem. You are considering your uninformed OPINION as equal to the considered law in Florida. The two are not equal.
I have been attempting to explain the existing law in Florida in a manner that you will understand, but apparently you aren't going to understand it because you consider your uninformed opinion so highly.
To Wit: You are simply WRONG. Your attempt to conflate "The Butterfly Effect" with Florida law is at best, a stretch, and at worst, insultingly inane. Using your logic one might as well say that NO law is worth following because one could somehow manage to take it to some ridiculous extreme. This is moronic and wrong. There is such a thing as "direct cause" in legal thought, and it factors in this circumstance.
Now, if you wanted to argue that a different charge would perhaps be more appropriate, or more likely to produce a conviction then I think we could have a solid discussion on that. but to simply say that the Murder charge is "daft" and leave it at just shows your ignorance of local law.
Well, Considering that none of them would have been shot had they decided to obey the law and NOT rob a home, then yes, it's fair.
Still seems unfair and ridiculous to me.
That's like saying they committed murder if they cross the street after the burglary and a car knocks down one of them and kills him. Or a tree in the garden falls on him.
Sure someone died. That doesn't mean the rest murdered him - they certainly never intended to.
Pin something else on them if they insist, but not murder.
It's not unfair at all. One of them would not have died if all of them had not decided to commit a crime.
The point is, Once you decide to involve yourself in criminal activity, you are fully responsible for anything that happens in relation to that. The one kid died SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE the group of them decided to burglarize the home of an armed citizen.
Now, perhaps "Involuntary Manslaughter" might be a more appropriate charge in the semantic sense as they obviously had no intention of one of them dying. However That doesn't make the Murder charge entirely inappropriate as, again, they were the ones that set out to commit a crime. They are wholly responsible for the results therein.
It's about responsibility, and ensuring that criminals and criminals alone are held liable for the crimes they commit and any fallout from those crimes. Whether it was an armed citizen, or your hypothetical falling tree or traffic accident, had they not been there attempting to commit a crime, one of them would not have died. THEY are responsible, nobody else.
Well, Considering that none of them would have been shot had they decided to obey the law and NOT rob a home, then yes, it's fair.
Please note that in Florida (as in many other states in the US) a homeowner cannot be charged for using lethal force to defend himself, his family, and his property against unlawful intruders.
Thus, by willfully choosing to commit a crime, they placed themselves into harms way and are each fully responsible for any outcome.
What seems daft to me is charging a VICTIM with a crime when all they are doing is defending themselves. This is the situation in far too many places around the world.
And before you bring up the argument that "It's the job of the Police to protect you, not yours!" I would remind you that it is NOT the job of the Police to prevent crime, it is the job of the Police to find the perp after the crime has occurred and bring them to justice. That doesn't really help you if the crime against you was murder.
Like the wise man said: "When Seconds count, the Police are only Minutes away."
Lock and load.
The thing is, nontechnical users don't WANT "neutral" verbiage. Part of the problem with many computer dialogs is not that they don't make sense, it's that they don't help you assess the VALUE of the warning they are giving.
Since most computer users don't have a frame of reference or knowledge from which to assess the value of warnings they receive, we have to supply that for them in the dialog message.
I think that we can all agree that installing something, ANYTHING, into our browsers without explicit user permission is BAD. Thus, the warning should reflect that. An overly neutral warning will just produce, at best, confusion and at worst, blind "yes" clicks.
Something along the lines of: "Alert. The following add-on [name of add-on] was recently installed without your explicit permission by [program] Do you wish to approve or deny this plugin access to Firefox? [approve] [deny]"
Is far more useful to the average user than your "neutral" message.
Or we will be treated to pages of:
"So, how DID you blow up the World trade Center?" and "You lied, People Died!" and "What's it like to be like HITLER you babykiller!?!?!?"
Nothing like W. to bring out the loony left.
Profiling doesn't really involve spying though. It's a behavioral analysis done through observation of how you answer a set of probing questions.
If your answers and behavior while answering fit the profile of a person who is nervous or agitated, then you are pulled aside for a more thorough analysis and search.
There's more to it than that, of course, but none of it involves spying on American citizens or the massive 4th Amendment violations that the TSA is currently up to it's blue-gloved wrists in.
Please keep in mind that El Al has been employing this type of profiling for DECADES and has had not a single terrorist attack yet, despite easily being the single biggest global target for Islamic terrorism.
Israeli style profiling is demonstrably effective, and is generally regarded among those in the global security community as the gold standard to model after. Yet we are doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what they are doing.
Why?
Well, since the former head of DHS is now a highly paid consultant to the ONLY company that makes these machines, and many politicians and govt. functionaries have either power or financial gain involved in reducing the freedoms of the American people and turning us all into obedient sheeple, perchance payoffs and corruption have something to do with it?
It's called "Security Theater" for a reason.
I should note that I think the NRA going in and doing this voluntarily is a good thing, as is removing most gun restriction laws in the inner cities.
I do disagree with the subsidizing bit though. Once we get Government involved it'll get hosed up.
Considering that a large part of the NRA's activities are education initiatives oriented around familiarizing people with not only proper firearm use but also the Constitution and the Founding Principles as they related to firearm ownership, I'm thinking that this is a GREAT idea.
Also, It'd REALLY cut down on inner-city crime. Can you imagine a gang trying to terrorize a street full of armed, trained and educated free citizens? It'd end badly. For the gang.
There is something in her hand. And the object in her hand is...
An early model Siemens hearing aid. While they gave a great boost in hearing quality, they tended to have feedback whine issues. You may notice that the person's mouth doesn't move until right at the end. Likely she is reacting to a feedback, possibly caused by someone yelling at her to "GET OUT OF THE SHOT YOU OLD BAG!"
So despite all the hullaballo, it's just an ugly old lady with a hearing aid. Yeah, they had them then too.
Aaand I just realized I made an error above. I was thinking "Roku" when I was reading "Revo". My apologies. Obviously, a Revo is a PC, not an appliance.
Nevertheless, the rest of my post stands.
Um... Maybe because an Xbox can play Xbobx GAMES?
I don't know if you are aware, but Revo IS an appliance. At least, it's as much an appliance as an Xbox is.
The difference is that people understand the concept of a "game console" since we've had those since the late 1970's. The idea of an HTPC or similar device is still foreign to non-geek people. They don't realize that when it comes to the basic technological makeup of these devices, Apple TV = Revo = Xbox = PS3 = Laptop. They still view them as coming from completely different worlds, and don't understand that they are all basically just computers.
Thus any kind of "HTCP" setup is viewed as "geeky" whereas game consoles and DVD players are not.
As I noted to matija below, You are an Alpha geek. you are a tiny percentage of the total smartphone market. I wasn't speaking to you.
However, let us compare; I have 3 relatives with smartphones. One is a Librarian (my wife), one a Business Owner(my father), and one a Salesman(my brother). None have any technical background whatsoever. They represent the vast majority of users of the smartphone market. None of them are on AT&T and none of them want to be. So the iPhone is not an available option as they have already ruled it out.
Tell me, why in the world would they get an Android phone? All of the hacks you so flippantly describe as "easy" are far beyond their knowledge and skill set. They simply cannot do what you can do and it is inappropriate to expect them to take the time to learn. They have other priorities.
Thus they are left with the default install, which anyone who has used an Android device will tell you generally sucks. It's not horrific by any stretch, but it is remarkably inadequate generally speaking.
They all followed my lead and got Palm Pres. I spent about 15 minutes with each of them and taught them how to "hack" the Pre. This consists of keying in the "Konami code" thus unlocking developer mode, and using a simple java program called "WebOS Quick Install" to load up an app called "PreWare". Done.
All of them were amazed at how easy it was to do this, and every one of them is overclocking and modding their Pres using the patches available in PreWare. They are ordinary, non-technical users who have discovered the joy of device modding because WebOS makes it EASY TO DO.
Couple that with the far superior multitasking that WebOS has, and the light years better UI, and about the only thing Android has going for it are slightly newer devices, and the slavering, slavish devotion of Alpha Geeks.
Oh, and I've never owned an Android Device. Investigated them fully, used them multiple times through several OS iterations and keep up on them, but I am a Web OS user.
Based on what I've seen of the competition, I intend to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
Congratulations. You are the "Alpha Geek" I was talking about. You and your brethren comprise roughly 1% of 1% of the total smartphone market. Meantime the vast majority of Android users who listened to you and bought an Android are getting BONED by the carriers. Nicely done.
What about those of us geeks that LIKE WebOS? I mean, I can do everything that an Android user can do and MORE with WebOS, and WebOS makes it easier to do.
Tell me you Android users, can you patch your Android device with a kernel that allows for multiple types of adaptive overclocking? No? funny, I can with my Gen1 Sprint Pre using WebOS 1.4.5. In fact, I've been doing it for at least 3 point releases of WebOS.
Wait. Your Android device isn't getting an OTA update from your carrier? You can't even GET an OTA update because your only 6 month old device isn't compatible with Froyo? And you have to be even MORE of a carrier bitch and pay out more money just to get Froyo, but you can only get a gimped version with features missing?
REALLY?
I just don't see how you people think Android is "open" when it looks like only the CARRIERS have any real access to the phone without a complex hack that is only really possible for Alpha Geeks and is as lkely to BRICK your phone or cause the carrier to drop your contract as it is to unlock it.
Other than having a metric crapload of apps (about 99% garbage apps too.) you Android users appear to be getting LESS for your money than us WebOS users. Yeah, I have a device that's over a year old. At least my software is up to date, and uniform across all carriers and devices. Having a brand new Android device that's completely locked down and using a gimped old version of Android is like owning a Ferrari that has a Yugo engine and needs champagne as fuel. Flashy, expensive to use crap.
No thanks, I'll stick with WebOS.
The thing is, "economically extracted" is subjective term that changes as technology advances and we discover new cheap ways for extracting previously inaccessible oil. This is a process that has been going on for decades and will continue for decades more to come. Particularly since we haven't even yet exhausted all the sources of EASY to access oil yet. Most of the USA's oil is locked up in federal lands that the Eco-morons won't let us get at. Hopefully that will change over the next couple years, we shall see.
Complex hydrocarbons are one of the most abundant resources in the universe. Switching away from them now, before we even have a viable replacement would be foolish. Especially if we do it as a response to hysteria and FUD.
Exactly right.
Which is why I want to be plastinated after I die. My family can keep me in a glass coffin and use me as a coffee table! Or just stand me up in the corner. If nothing else, I'll make a great hat and coat rack!
;)
Well, The fuel they use has radiation levels only just above background, so there isn't much radiation to start with. Then there is the fact that they are shielded enough to prevent even that minimal amount of radiation out.
Lastly, you would have to have some kind of Star Trek level technology to be able to detect radiation at a distance using a handheld device under battlefield conditions. Current hand-held radiometric equipment requires the detector to be fairly close to the radiation source.
So no, you are wrong, radiation from a TWR isn't an issue.