Idiots. I live within 50 miles of the Walmart HQ, the Walton family gave me $50,000 for college. Donated $130M to my university. They spread their money around, but they do it in small chunks, not just one large thing
O c'mon - George isn't nutty, he just sits there and lets teh nuts talk:) There's a big difference. I would LOVE to meet George Noory and Art Bell - I bet they REALLY have some stories to tell.
OK, so now we can theoretically READ from the brain. Just wait until we can WRITE! Tad William's Otherworld series has some great background on this, even if the plot makes little sense:)
Imagine being able to transfer your consciousness into a different body, even if it is a virtual body. You could play a MMORPG that is truly immersive. You could find out what it feels like to die. To skydive. To jump into the heart of the Sun. To experience a female orgasm...
Any idiot can kill someone - it takes brains and dedication to talk someone over. Well, that's just the problem. The people we are fighting have neither the brains nor the determination.
Thank you Clinton. GPS no logner has a 20m error built-in. This is due to the capability to induce a "localized error". Not like they have TIME to do it. AND..... If you made a REAL guided missile, you'd online need GPS for the first few seconds of flight, after that inertial would be great, since you have a fairly exact fix on the first portion, the rest will be somewhat accurate as well.
I think the grandparent meant that it would invalidate the GPL on linux... Since if a judge says SCO owns copyright to linux - god i hope not - linux could no tbe livesned under the GPL, because the people who put it there would have no right to have done so.
"So at the end of the day, there's the question of what you think is reasonable to pay. Is it reasonable to pay $2,000 for a DVD-ROM? Probably not... but it was in 1998, if you *really* wanted one and could afford it. Nowadays, people would laugh at that price. But what if everyone who makes them had decided never to lower the prices, regardless of how costs changed? People would have no reason to believe that was an "unreasonable" price, just that they might not be able to pay it"
This is an unreasonable example, and i suspect you know it. If the manufactureres REALLY did that, DVD-ROM would never have hit mainstream. We'd all be using blue-laser CDs, or faslh or SOMETHING - that doesn't cost 2 grand.
Wireless telephones operate at a higher frequency, with more power. Remotes as a general rule operate via IR. Neither would be affected by a low-power scrambler.
The article said that the people up at Nellis were gearing up for a "Red Flag" operation next week. If memory serves, Red Flag is a mock warfare exercise, and i'm thinking they had an electronic warfare aircraft of one kind was on the way in, and flikked on the the switch marked "jam" instead of the button to turn on the surround sound in the cockpit:)
Not true. Sell the CAPS idiots:) I sold about 4,000 caps on eBay during the first Pepsi "Stuff" promo. It was veyr easy, as only Pepsi vendors were allowed at my school, and i was working the recycling program.... Therefore, i got paid $7/hour to twist off bottle caps to sell on ebay:) BTW - 4k caps = $350. Each cap was at least 100 points, and CDs were like 20k points - the people who bought my auction had at LEAST 400,000 points. Considering the Harrier jet they advertised as a joke - and got sued over - was like 36M points, that was enough to buy a full wardrobe of KoRn shirts and baggy pants, and all their CDs to boot:)
I assume this is sarcastic? It may actually work, i'm not sure.... I have a sony digicam that i modded to be X-Ray, maybe it can see thru soda:) i wonder how store employees would reat to my taking pictures of every soda bottle in the store....
I'm privy to most of the inner workings of FedEx. I assure you, it is a VERY efficient business model. Furthermore, FedEx does not market to the same demographic as the USPS, and offer many, MANY more services, such as freight (Less-Than-Truckload), and Express Delvery that can be pinpointed down to the exact hour of delivery - on freight packages.
You're right - social programs in the US amke up fro 69% of the budget... And the whoel point was that the argument was UNSUPPORTED - i.e. i pulled it out of my ass. Which is what 98% of th eposts here do - i was making a point, thanks for helping.
We aren't defending ourselves against the enemies you see now - we're keeping the infrastructure there for the enemies that will pop up LATER. Who knows what the world will look like in 20, 30 or 50 years? If we cut our military now, the competition will get a jump on us, leaving the richest nation in the world with a second-class defense force.
Now, as I see it, if anythign should be cut, it should be foreign aid and troop placements. We should keep our rigths to maintain a base in places like Germany and Saudi Arabia, but we should move the majority of our troops out. Why do we need squandrons of fighters and bombers in Germany? We don't. Those planes could be jsut as easily based here in the US, with a small - Very small - contigent of troops to maintain the offshore base. The same goes for the Saudi bases - the Bin Ladens of the world would have a lot less to bitch about if our presence was less obtrusive.
Its about time we did an audit of our foreign aid budget. If the country doesn't NEED it, keep it. If its a country where we don't support the form of gov't, keep the money. If the money is goign to the pockets of "El Presidente", keep it for us. America is a peacekeeper for the time being, because we are the only power out there capable of doing it. That doesn't mean we have to support the economies of all these 3rd world countries. Export them technology and eduacation instead. Don't send a country that is undergoin famine a shipment of food, send agricultural systems, train them to use and repair them, and give them only enough food to last until they grow their own.
I have mroe to say, but i just realized i have class in 5 minutes:( Reply to follow perhaps...
Fix Hubble, and keep it up. This is one piece of equipment that is upgradable beyond belief. Although it will be "replaced" by the James Watt Space Telescope - http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/ - in 2011, I think we should keep this one around.
Shuttle missions to the HST have already been cancelled, but NASA is simply goign to have to get that changed. The reasoning is that the Shuttle is too unsafe to assume an orbit radically different from the ISS. To put it simply, this is stupid. The shuttle has had only two failures in its history - Challenger and Columbia. Both of these accidents could have been prevented if only the engineers who knew what was goign on had been listened to. Implement a system where any engineer can halt the mission and/or return, and you have a winner - at least until the new vehicle is developed.
"If the current US administration wasn't hell-bent on dropping bombs on muslims for dubious reasons they could easily have freed up several NASA budgets"
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Unlike the previous administration, who was hell-bent on throwing money at the corrupt welfare system...
Your supposition on homosexuality being a response to overpopulation is thought-provoking, but entirely unsupported.
The Church DOES make a distinction between homosexuality and engaging in homosexual acts. The feelings that go along with it are considered to be a challenge presented to the person by God. I'm paraphrasing, of course, but the original text is in the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" Any questions about Catholicism should be refered to this book, as it is endorsed by the Papacy. I don't have my copy handy atm, its at my parent's house, but I have read it thuroughly, and disagree with about 20% of it.
As for the Bible being the word of God - prove it. God never mentions "The Bible", even IN the Bible... It is simply a collection of scriptures, as flawed as any other work of man. This, of course, is not the position of the Church - only my personal belief.
And on the note of personal belief - Homosexuality is cultural. It was not shunned in Ancient Rome, and was practiced avidly. Modern society has deemed it immoral, along with the Bible. I find the homosexual act disgusting in itself, but that does not mean that i am a homophobe. I know gays and lesbians, it doesn't really bother me. Sometimes it makes things awkward in social situations, but what can one expect?
Myself, i'm no longer practicing Catholicism because there are some things about the Church that frankly give me the creeps. Then again, as i grow older, i'm finding organized religion itself to be more and more unnecessary.
G/f wants teh computer - i'm out.
The Church dictates that women may not be priests for the same reason priests cannot be married. A women's duty is to care for the family. This does NOT mean they are second class, only that men and women have roles they were mean to fill. As a man, i am expected to provide for my family, and to protect them. The priest is the father, and is named such, as his parish is his family. He doesn't have time for another.
I am honestly offended by this ignorant and mal-formed comment. Well, at least at first i was, until i read it again and realized how inferior one must feel to author such a horrendous collection of false generalizations. I especially like "They rape little boys". And i suppose that because a filipino man rapes and murders a woman, you would immediatly conclude that ALL Filipinos are rapists and murderers.
As for the wrong that Catholic Church has done, the Church has undergone two major reforms since then. In the Middle Ages, the time of the Inquistions and the Crusades, the Church was primarily a political body, uniting Europe under the subtext of religion. Today, the Church still has influence, but the individual parishes are quite autonomous.
As for the birth control issue, what baout the other things that the Church teaches? I mean, if you follow that so strictly, i doubt you are goign to be having extra-marital sex anyhow. If you are that devout, you are going to have a strong, loving family, and what's wrong with bringing children into the world in a place where they will be well cared for? "Be Fruitful and multiply" - are those just words in a book to you?
Now, as a disclaimer, I am a non-practicing Catholic. I was raised in the Church, but in college, i don't feel like i have a need for the religion. I know what i believe, and i don't need to go to church on Sunday to reinforce that. When i'm married wiht children, it will be a different story - the Church is a wonderful addition to the family, as it gives you an outlet that is independant of it. Think of the priest as a free therapist that only takes donations:)
Please, respond to this, if you have the gall, i'd love to argue religion with you. I'm not some crazed fringe lunatic, i'm fairly well read, and see the Church more as a organization than the earthly representation of God. Try me...
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Idiots. I live within 50 miles of the Walmart HQ, the Walton family gave me $50,000 for college. Donated $130M to my university. They spread their money around, but they do it in small chunks, not just one large thing
O c'mon - George isn't nutty, he just sits there and lets teh nuts talk :) There's a big difference. I would LOVE to meet George Noory and Art Bell - I bet they REALLY have some stories to tell.
OK, so now we can theoretically READ from the brain. Just wait until we can WRITE! Tad William's Otherworld series has some great background on this, even if the plot makes little sense :)
Imagine being able to transfer your consciousness into a different body, even if it is a virtual body. You could play a MMORPG that is truly immersive. You could find out what it feels like to die. To skydive. To jump into the heart of the Sun. To experience a female orgasm...
Addictions to VR.... isn't that EverQuest?
Obviously, they do not, as they don't "talk it out" with us. Thank you. You just refuted your own argument.
Ha!!! This is pretty funny :) Mine's a Human Ranger chick... and i weigh 270 :)
Hmmm.... Lets see..
Any idiot can kill someone - it takes brains and dedication to talk someone over.
Well, that's just the problem. The people we are fighting have neither the brains nor the determination.
Thank you Clinton. GPS no logner has a 20m error built-in. This is due to the capability to induce a "localized error". Not like they have TIME to do it. AND..... If you made a REAL guided missile, you'd online need GPS for the first few seconds of flight, after that inertial would be great, since you have a fairly exact fix on the first portion, the rest will be somewhat accurate as well.
I think the grandparent meant that it would invalidate the GPL on linux... Since if a judge says SCO owns copyright to linux - god i hope not - linux could no tbe livesned under the GPL, because the people who put it there would have no right to have done so.
How could Linus get sued? I will probably have my geek license removed for not knowing, but doesn't Linus like outside the US?
I swear, win one war 200 years ago, and hear about it forever - at least we knew enough to DUCK when bullets came flying at us...
"So at the end of the day, there's the question of what you think is reasonable to pay. Is it reasonable to pay $2,000 for a DVD-ROM? Probably not... but it was in 1998, if you *really* wanted one and could afford it. Nowadays, people would laugh at that price. But what if everyone who makes them had decided never to lower the prices, regardless of how costs changed? People would have no reason to believe that was an "unreasonable" price, just that they might not be able to pay it"
This is an unreasonable example, and i suspect you know it. If the manufactureres REALLY did that, DVD-ROM would never have hit mainstream. We'd all be using blue-laser CDs, or faslh or SOMETHING - that doesn't cost 2 grand.
Wireless telephones operate at a higher frequency, with more power. Remotes as a general rule operate via IR. Neither would be affected by a low-power scrambler.
The article said that the people up at Nellis were gearing up for a "Red Flag" operation next week. If memory serves, Red Flag is a mock warfare exercise, and i'm thinking they had an electronic warfare aircraft of one kind was on the way in, and flikked on the the switch marked "jam" instead of the button to turn on the surround sound in the cockpit :)
Not true. Sell the CAPS idiots :) I sold about 4,000 caps on eBay during the first Pepsi "Stuff" promo. It was veyr easy, as only Pepsi vendors were allowed at my school, and i was working the recycling program.... Therefore, i got paid $7/hour to twist off bottle caps to sell on ebay :) BTW - 4k caps = $350. Each cap was at least 100 points, and CDs were like 20k points - the people who bought my auction had at LEAST 400,000 points. Considering the Harrier jet they advertised as a joke - and got sued over - was like 36M points, that was enough to buy a full wardrobe of KoRn shirts and baggy pants, and all their CDs to boot :)
I assume this is sarcastic? It may actually work, i'm not sure.... I have a sony digicam that i modded to be X-Ray, maybe it can see thru soda :) i wonder how store employees would reat to my taking pictures of every soda bottle in the store....
I'm privy to most of the inner workings of FedEx. I assure you, it is a VERY efficient business model. Furthermore, FedEx does not market to the same demographic as the USPS, and offer many, MANY more services, such as freight (Less-Than-Truckload), and Express Delvery that can be pinpointed down to the exact hour of delivery - on freight packages.
Yeah.... That's why the USPS rarely turns a profit, but UPS and FedEx are strong companies. Because USPS is more efficient...
*scratches head and walks away*
You're right - social programs in the US amke up fro 69% of the budget... And the whoel point was that the argument was UNSUPPORTED - i.e. i pulled it out of my ass. Which is what 98% of th eposts here do - i was making a point, thanks for helping.
We aren't defending ourselves against the enemies you see now - we're keeping the infrastructure there for the enemies that will pop up LATER. Who knows what the world will look like in 20, 30 or 50 years? If we cut our military now, the competition will get a jump on us, leaving the richest nation in the world with a second-class defense force.
:( Reply to follow perhaps...
Now, as I see it, if anythign should be cut, it should be foreign aid and troop placements. We should keep our rigths to maintain a base in places like Germany and Saudi Arabia, but we should move the majority of our troops out. Why do we need squandrons of fighters and bombers in Germany? We don't. Those planes could be jsut as easily based here in the US, with a small - Very small - contigent of troops to maintain the offshore base. The same goes for the Saudi bases - the Bin Ladens of the world would have a lot less to bitch about if our presence was less obtrusive.
Its about time we did an audit of our foreign aid budget. If the country doesn't NEED it, keep it. If its a country where we don't support the form of gov't, keep the money. If the money is goign to the pockets of "El Presidente", keep it for us. America is a peacekeeper for the time being, because we are the only power out there capable of doing it. That doesn't mean we have to support the economies of all these 3rd world countries. Export them technology and eduacation instead. Don't send a country that is undergoin famine a shipment of food, send agricultural systems, train them to use and repair them, and give them only enough food to last until they grow their own.
I have mroe to say, but i just realized i have class in 5 minutes
Fix Hubble, and keep it up. This is one piece of equipment that is upgradable beyond belief. Although it will be "replaced" by the James Watt Space Telescope - http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/ - in 2011, I think we should keep this one around.
Shuttle missions to the HST have already been cancelled, but NASA is simply goign to have to get that changed. The reasoning is that the Shuttle is too unsafe to assume an orbit radically different from the ISS. To put it simply, this is stupid. The shuttle has had only two failures in its history - Challenger and Columbia. Both of these accidents could have been prevented if only the engineers who knew what was goign on had been listened to. Implement a system where any engineer can halt the mission and/or return, and you have a winner - at least until the new vehicle is developed.
"If the current US administration wasn't hell-bent on dropping bombs on muslims for dubious reasons they could easily have freed up several NASA budgets"
{unsupported rant ON}
Unlike the previous administration, who was hell-bent on throwing money at the corrupt welfare system...
{unsupported rant OFF}
How do YOU like it!?
Your supposition on homosexuality being a response to overpopulation is thought-provoking, but entirely unsupported. The Church DOES make a distinction between homosexuality and engaging in homosexual acts. The feelings that go along with it are considered to be a challenge presented to the person by God. I'm paraphrasing, of course, but the original text is in the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" Any questions about Catholicism should be refered to this book, as it is endorsed by the Papacy. I don't have my copy handy atm, its at my parent's house, but I have read it thuroughly, and disagree with about 20% of it. As for the Bible being the word of God - prove it. God never mentions "The Bible", even IN the Bible... It is simply a collection of scriptures, as flawed as any other work of man. This, of course, is not the position of the Church - only my personal belief. And on the note of personal belief - Homosexuality is cultural. It was not shunned in Ancient Rome, and was practiced avidly. Modern society has deemed it immoral, along with the Bible. I find the homosexual act disgusting in itself, but that does not mean that i am a homophobe. I know gays and lesbians, it doesn't really bother me. Sometimes it makes things awkward in social situations, but what can one expect? Myself, i'm no longer practicing Catholicism because there are some things about the Church that frankly give me the creeps. Then again, as i grow older, i'm finding organized religion itself to be more and more unnecessary. G/f wants teh computer - i'm out.
The Church dictates that women may not be priests for the same reason priests cannot be married. A women's duty is to care for the family. This does NOT mean they are second class, only that men and women have roles they were mean to fill. As a man, i am expected to provide for my family, and to protect them. The priest is the father, and is named such, as his parish is his family. He doesn't have time for another.
I am honestly offended by this ignorant and mal-formed comment. Well, at least at first i was, until i read it again and realized how inferior one must feel to author such a horrendous collection of false generalizations. I especially like "They rape little boys". And i suppose that because a filipino man rapes and murders a woman, you would immediatly conclude that ALL Filipinos are rapists and murderers.
:)
As for the wrong that Catholic Church has done, the Church has undergone two major reforms since then. In the Middle Ages, the time of the Inquistions and the Crusades, the Church was primarily a political body, uniting Europe under the subtext of religion. Today, the Church still has influence, but the individual parishes are quite autonomous.
As for the birth control issue, what baout the other things that the Church teaches? I mean, if you follow that so strictly, i doubt you are goign to be having extra-marital sex anyhow. If you are that devout, you are going to have a strong, loving family, and what's wrong with bringing children into the world in a place where they will be well cared for? "Be Fruitful and multiply" - are those just words in a book to you?
Now, as a disclaimer, I am a non-practicing Catholic. I was raised in the Church, but in college, i don't feel like i have a need for the religion. I know what i believe, and i don't need to go to church on Sunday to reinforce that. When i'm married wiht children, it will be a different story - the Church is a wonderful addition to the family, as it gives you an outlet that is independant of it. Think of the priest as a free therapist that only takes donations
Please, respond to this, if you have the gall, i'd love to argue religion with you. I'm not some crazed fringe lunatic, i'm fairly well read, and see the Church more as a organization than the earthly representation of God. Try me...