...all you need is a little $30-40K Piper Cherokee or Cessna 172 and go fly yerself practically anywhere in the USA you damn well please. Instead of driving a brand new car every year and living in some yuppie condo/townhouse, I drive an 10 year old car, live in an older house and bought my own small plane and became a private pilot instead.
Or you could do what an uncle of mine did, he built his own plane. I want to do the same, actually I'd like to build two planes, one I can fly across country if I want and an ultralight.
If you think will affect "important" (ie: not really but they think they are) people your silly. I'm sure they'll come up with a special pass that politicans get cause they "need" to travel a moments notice.
Perhaps you didn't hear it but Senator Kennedy was denied boarding not once not twice but a few tymes.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Captain Ramius: I suppose.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?
Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.
You have to start somewhere, name's as good as anything and better than most. Would you rather they require a full headshot to make a reservation? Or perhaps a blood and stool sample?
Yea, there's a starting point. In the USA it's called the Constitution of the USA, and nowhere in it does it give the government any power to require people hand over their id, for any reason!
If you read the actual PDF, the requirement is 30 minutes before the flight for the TSA to clear. They just want the airline to send what they have 72 hours before, and require a full name (and only a full name) to make a reservation.
Hardly the ball-buster everyone is making it out to be.
BS! I don't live in the Soviet Union, I live in supposedly the Land of the Free. All that should be needed to travel by plane, or any other way, is the ability to pay.
But, as a society, we have often failed miserably in managing the single incident - the defining moment - that erodes confidence in the government and other social institutions, is marked by massive loss of life, property damage, economic losses that ripple through the entire economy - the WTC and Katrina continue to cast a very long shadow.
You may place your government on a pedestal of worship but I have never ever trusted my government. Neither did Thomas Jefferson, my fav Founding Father. The US is turning into just the sort place he hated. You may want to give up a little liberty for safety but as Benjamin Franklin said, "Anyone who will give up a little liberty for safety will neither get nor deserve either."
Remember the days when Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility?
Before the Republican party was the party of fiscal responsibility the Democrat Party was the fiscally responsible party. The Democrat Party is the party faction that still exists from Thomas Jefferson's and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party. The party, like TJ and JM believed in liberty and small government.
The whole idea is to give themselves enough time to review the passenger manifest and flag persons of interest well in advance of takeoff to avoid awkward mid-air diversions.
I was, or thought I was, born in the land of the free. Heck I was even born in a US Airforce hospital. This country is getting more and more like a dictatorship.
Three days? That'll never fly. MAYBE three HOURS, but not three days.
Forget that. Three minutes is 3 minutes too much. If I want to I should be able to to drive to the airport, pick a flight going where I want and buy a ticket with cash then and there without any "Papers please"!
I'd suggest that certain people be allowed to willingly give up privacy in return for fast track at the airport through the TSA.
If you don't want to live in the land of the free but instead want to live in a dictatorship MOVE!!! Don't turn the nation whose military I served in into one.
SGI bankruptcy is mentioned in the second paragraph of the entry on wikipedia
Yea, I see. No wonder I hadn't heard of it, wiki says it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 8 May 2006. Other than a few months ago when I read how they had sold some high performance and supercomputer, I hadn't heard about them since oh the late '90s. The past few years I haven't been following the industry much, basically just Macs.
Because of the problems I've had with Windows PCs and MS wants to treat it's users as criminals I've switched. Both to Linux and to Macs. A bit over a year ago I got a PC with Linux preinstalled which when I get to it I'll setup as a server. And 2 months ago I got a Macbook Pro, which I'm typing this on.
They are a sad shell of the mighty graphics workstation company they once were.
Years ago I loved SGI's graphics. I had planned on getting a MIPS based PC from SGI 'til Gateway bought the Amiga. While I didn't get one I did get another RISC based PC at the same tyme, I got a DEC Alpha based PC from Microway. I got it as a dualboot PC, with Redhat and Windows NT4.0 installed. NT4.0 is the only MS Windows OS I have not had trouble with. I even had XP freeze on me the first tyme I booted up a PC with it. Knowing what I now know, if I could go back to 1997 and start over I'd get Macs instead.
Yeah, and the Amiga is still alive too, holding the torch of the Commodore generation.
The Amiga was my fav computer/OS. Commodore did almost nothing to market it unfortunately. And the thing is is the Amiga not only ran Workbench, the Amiga OS, but also was able to run both MS DOS and Windows 3.x as well as MacOS. Watching a then current Amiga and Mac running side by side years ago the Amiga ran Mac OS faster than the Mac did. I bought my first new PC right after Gateway bought the Amiga resources from Escom. Because of this and that I had heard Gateways were good I ordered one of their laptops, and I had specifically asked that the store pass up my comment that reason I bought the Gateway because they did buy the Amiga and that I would buy a new one when Gateway released the new Amiga. I was disappointed in both cases. Gateway did nothing with the Amiga, and the laptop I got was bad. About 1/2 year after I got it Gateway had to replace the hdd because it died, then a few days short of having it a year the motherboard had to be replaced.
I don't strictly blame Gateway for this as the same thing happened to the HP PC I got the replace it.
if Microsoft falls to the level of SGI, faces delisting from NASDAQ, and files for chapter 11 bankruptcy like SGI did
Uhm, I don't recall hearing SGI declared bankruptcy. I guess that's why they're focusing on supercomputers.
I read an article some time ago which outlined a very low-tech way to help purify water in countries with high incidences of Malaria, Dysentery, etc. By painting the surface of huts/housing flat black and placing clear plastic water bottles on them for a few hours. The sun & UV help to kill off most parasites and biological pathogens quite effectively and at a price much cheaper than other filtration solutions. Nice low-tech solution which is cheap, effective, and requires no special equipment.
Several years ago I read an article online about how some group was purifying water will ceramic, clay, pots. Water would be put into the pots then it would slowly seep through, when it did contaminants were removed. I just did a quick Google of purify water ceramic OR clay pots to see if I could find TFA and the first result was Oxfam on the border: Where the crisis in Darfur meets Chad and Central Africa with a paragraph on how pots with sand in them are used to purify water. Those making the pots are able to create an income in making them.
It shouldn't. It's not something that is made by primitive techniques from low-tech materials. Clay pots are just that, condoms aren't. Unless, of course, you consider polyurithane a low-tech material.
Ah but as with many other things made today condoms used to be made by "primitive" materials. At one tyme condoms were made from rubber, which spawned their nickname, "rubbers". And originally rubber, like plastics, were made from plants. Rubber is the sap of trees, and plastic was made from plant cellulose. Kodak, the photography business, did some research on making plastics from trees. After all film was made from plastic.
The Monroe Doctrine and the whole "spheres of influence" thing is dead. The US criticized other countries for imposing travel bans on their citizens, all the while doing the same
The whole blockade of Cuba is stupid. At the same tyme the US trades, and traded, with the Soviet Union and Communist China the US refuses to trade with Cuba. This is because of a very vocal minority of Cubans, many in Miami. If instead of blockading Cuba Kennedy had kept up trade with Cuba the US may of been able to moderate Castro. But of course the US supported the tyrant Fulgencio Batista.
Seriously though, patent prosecution laches only became viable fairly recently, in Symbol v. Lemelson, and it was a pretty extreme case.
I guess you're right, searching Findlaw I only found two results for "doctrine of latches". I've never had so few results searching Findlaw. "Laches, Doctrine Of" resulted in no results. Ah, I see, searching "Doctrine Of Laches" I got 15 results. Adding "patent" to it though and I only get one result. And that deals with contract law. If it has been used widely I'd think there were more results, at least one for each case.
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I suspect that most of the Founders would be thoroughly disgusted by what we've done to ourselves.
Many would be calling for another revolution.
On the other hand, they knew this was coming: Jefferson himself pointed out that governments rarely improve with age.
TJ said the blood of tyrants and patriots may need to be spilled. He even said something to the effect that there should be one every 20 years or so.
FalconNot according to Emperor Bush. He can arrest, lockup, and throw away the key to prison cell anyone he wants.
Be afraid, be very afraid of the government!
FalconYou have more of a chance of dying in a car crash than dying in a plane
Sorry but reason doesn't work. Only FEAR works.
Stop being afraid
NO! Be afraid, of GOVERNMENT!
Falcon...all you need is a little $30-40K Piper Cherokee or Cessna 172 and go fly yerself practically anywhere in the USA you damn well please. Instead of driving a brand new car every year and living in some yuppie condo/townhouse, I drive an 10 year old car, live in an older house and bought my own small plane and became a private pilot instead.
Or you could do what an uncle of mine did, he built his own plane. I want to do the same, actually I'd like to build two planes, one I can fly across country if I want and an ultralight.
Falcon"you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave"
What, you think this is Hotel California?
It might as well be.
FalconIf you think will affect "important" (ie: not really but they think they are) people your silly. I'm sure they'll come up with a special pass that politicans get cause they "need" to travel a moments notice.
Perhaps you didn't hear it but Senator Kennedy was denied boarding not once not twice but a few tymes.
FalconHear about that Spam King in Russia? He sent spam to the wrong mob boss and is now dead. Darn:
'Spammer Murder' Is a Hoax
FalconCapt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Captain Ramius: I suppose.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?
Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.
Love it, just don't smoke those cigarettes.
FalconYou have to start somewhere, name's as good as anything and better than most. Would you rather they require a full headshot to make a reservation? Or perhaps a blood and stool sample?
Yea, there's a starting point. In the USA it's called the Constitution of the USA, and nowhere in it does it give the government any power to require people hand over their id, for any reason!
FalconAgain, all they are asking is for airlines to send what they can three days before, and then send updates - hardly onerous!
Any and ALL mandates or restrictions are ONEROUS! And an abridgement of my freedom!
FalconIf you read the actual PDF, the requirement is 30 minutes before the flight for the TSA to clear. They just want the airline to send what they have 72 hours before, and require a full name (and only a full name) to make a reservation.
Hardly the ball-buster everyone is making it out to be.
BS! I don't live in the Soviet Union, I live in supposedly the Land of the Free. All that should be needed to travel by plane, or any other way, is the ability to pay.
FalconBut, as a society, we have often failed miserably in managing the single incident - the defining moment - that erodes confidence in the government and other social institutions, is marked by massive loss of life, property damage, economic losses that ripple through the entire economy - the WTC and Katrina continue to cast a very long shadow.
You may place your government on a pedestal of worship but I have never ever trusted my government. Neither did Thomas Jefferson, my fav Founding Father. The US is turning into just the sort place he hated. You may want to give up a little liberty for safety but as Benjamin Franklin said, "Anyone who will give up a little liberty for safety will neither get nor deserve either."
FalconRemember the days when Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility?
Before the Republican party was the party of fiscal responsibility the Democrat Party was the fiscally responsible party. The Democrat Party is the party faction that still exists from Thomas Jefferson's and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party. The party, like TJ and JM believed in liberty and small government.
FalconGreen chips day, yippy.
FalconThe whole idea is to give themselves enough time to review the passenger manifest and flag persons of interest well in advance of takeoff to avoid awkward mid-air diversions.
I was, or thought I was, born in the land of the free. Heck I was even born in a US Airforce hospital. This country is getting more and more like a dictatorship.
FalconThree days? That'll never fly. MAYBE three HOURS, but not three days.
Forget that. Three minutes is 3 minutes too much. If I want to I should be able to to drive to the airport, pick a flight going where I want and buy a ticket with cash then and there without any "Papers please"!
FalconI'd suggest that certain people be allowed to willingly give up privacy in return for fast track at the airport through the TSA.
If you don't want to live in the land of the free but instead want to live in a dictatorship MOVE!!! Don't turn the nation whose military I served in into one.
Falcon712 hours early
The Emperor strikes again.
FalconSGI bankruptcy is mentioned in the second paragraph of the entry on wikipedia
Yea, I see. No wonder I hadn't heard of it, wiki says it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 8 May 2006. Other than a few months ago when I read how they had sold some high performance and supercomputer, I hadn't heard about them since oh the late '90s. The past few years I haven't been following the industry much, basically just Macs.
Because of the problems I've had with Windows PCs and MS wants to treat it's users as criminals I've switched. Both to Linux and to Macs. A bit over a year ago I got a PC with Linux preinstalled which when I get to it I'll setup as a server. And 2 months ago I got a Macbook Pro, which I'm typing this on.
They are a sad shell of the mighty graphics workstation company they once were.
Years ago I loved SGI's graphics. I had planned on getting a MIPS based PC from SGI 'til Gateway bought the Amiga. While I didn't get one I did get another RISC based PC at the same tyme, I got a DEC Alpha based PC from Microway. I got it as a dualboot PC, with Redhat and Windows NT4.0 installed. NT4.0 is the only MS Windows OS I have not had trouble with. I even had XP freeze on me the first tyme I booted up a PC with it. Knowing what I now know, if I could go back to 1997 and start over I'd get Macs instead.
FalconYeah, and the Amiga is still alive too, holding the torch of the Commodore generation.
The Amiga was my fav computer/OS. Commodore did almost nothing to market it unfortunately. And the thing is is the Amiga not only ran Workbench, the Amiga OS, but also was able to run both MS DOS and Windows 3.x as well as MacOS. Watching a then current Amiga and Mac running side by side years ago the Amiga ran Mac OS faster than the Mac did. I bought my first new PC right after Gateway bought the Amiga resources from Escom. Because of this and that I had heard Gateways were good I ordered one of their laptops, and I had specifically asked that the store pass up my comment that reason I bought the Gateway because they did buy the Amiga and that I would buy a new one when Gateway released the new Amiga. I was disappointed in both cases. Gateway did nothing with the Amiga, and the laptop I got was bad. About 1/2 year after I got it Gateway had to replace the hdd because it died, then a few days short of having it a year the motherboard had to be replaced.
I don't strictly blame Gateway for this as the same thing happened to the HP PC I got the replace it.
if Microsoft falls to the level of SGI, faces delisting from NASDAQ, and files for chapter 11 bankruptcy like SGI did
Uhm, I don't recall hearing SGI declared bankruptcy. I guess that's why they're focusing on supercomputers.
FalconI read an article some time ago which outlined a very low-tech way to help purify water in countries with high incidences of Malaria, Dysentery, etc. By painting the surface of huts/housing flat black and placing clear plastic water bottles on them for a few hours. The sun & UV help to kill off most parasites and biological pathogens quite effectively and at a price much cheaper than other filtration solutions. Nice low-tech solution which is cheap, effective, and requires no special equipment.
Several years ago I read an article online about how some group was purifying water will ceramic, clay, pots. Water would be put into the pots then it would slowly seep through, when it did contaminants were removed. I just did a quick Google of purify water ceramic OR clay pots to see if I could find TFA and the first result was Oxfam on the border: Where the crisis in Darfur meets Chad and Central Africa with a paragraph on how pots with sand in them are used to purify water. Those making the pots are able to create an income in making them.
FalconIt shouldn't. It's not something that is made by primitive techniques from low-tech materials. Clay pots are just that, condoms aren't. Unless, of course, you consider polyurithane a low-tech material.
Ah but as with many other things made today condoms used to be made by "primitive" materials. At one tyme condoms were made from rubber, which spawned their nickname, "rubbers". And originally rubber, like plastics, were made from plants. Rubber is the sap of trees, and plastic was made from plant cellulose. Kodak, the photography business, did some research on making plastics from trees. After all film was made from plastic.
FalconThe list of countries where the US supported oppresive regimes, and the ultimate economic cost involved, would be interesting reading.
It would be sad reading. A small number may gain but many don't.
FalconThe Monroe Doctrine and the whole "spheres of influence" thing is dead. The US criticized other countries for imposing travel bans on their citizens, all the while doing the same
The whole blockade of Cuba is stupid. At the same tyme the US trades, and traded, with the Soviet Union and Communist China the US refuses to trade with Cuba. This is because of a very vocal minority of Cubans, many in Miami. If instead of blockading Cuba Kennedy had kept up trade with Cuba the US may of been able to moderate Castro. But of course the US supported the tyrant Fulgencio Batista.
FalconSeriously though, patent prosecution laches only became viable fairly recently, in Symbol v. Lemelson, and it was a pretty extreme case.
I guess you're right, searching Findlaw I only found two results for "doctrine of latches". I've never had so few results searching Findlaw. "Laches, Doctrine Of" resulted in no results. Ah, I see, searching "Doctrine Of Laches" I got 15 results. Adding "patent" to it though and I only get one result. And that deals with contract law. If it has been used widely I'd think there were more results, at least one for each case.
Falcon