Aside from using it for inspiration on how to build an ICBM, what else can you do with it?Terrorists on the moon would be fine by me, as long as they don't take out a bunch of satellites on their way up there.
It's also possible that our ways of doing the accounting are naive (e.g., ignoring quantum gravity), or that some kind of cancellation is going on (e.g. bosons cancelling out fermions in supersymmetry).
What fermions and bosons? I though we were talking about empty space..
It can be done cheaper and without debris staying in orbit. What you use is old satellites that have some thruster fuel left and use these to bump the enemy sat out of orbit..us is already capable of performing such a trick.
See the 2000 plus times they fired at our aircraft who were enforcing U.N. no-fly zones. Attacking us is provocation, clearly against the agreement signed after Desert Storm.
All these years the no-fly zones were not authorised by the UN nor were they sanctioned by any Security Council resolution.
A passport is more then just an ID card. It is also a booklet for stamps and a request by the issueing authority to let you pass and give you assistance in other countries. The USA has a body to issue passports. Why not give them a mandate to issue ID-only cards in a creditcard format using the same security standards as for passports, let people get one if they want and give them for free when issueing a passport. That way you can take someones passport if he is free on bail but still allow him to use a federaly issued ID of high standard. Foreigners of course don't get a US passport, but if you give them an ID card doubleing as VISA manufactured with the same standards as a passport the US should be fine without much double work. Tourists should be just fine with their national passport. One allready existing body to issue ID cards and documents for nationals and foreigners, one standard for manufacturing will prevent a lot of reinventing the wheel and a redundant federal body.
We're getting really frickin' paranoid about all this ID shit, and according to my bank my federally issued passport no longer, in their interpretation of the law, qualifies for photo ID according to the PATRIOT Act.
Under the PATRIOT act your passport "may" be sufficient to verify identity like any other unexpired government-issued identification document evidencing nationality or residence and bearing a photograph or similar safeguard (like a finger print). Your identity alone is not enough to open an account, so they might ask for more documentary proof, but to establish your identity a passport can be sufficient. Your bank should take a moment to reinterpret the act.
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Try swallowing a full USENET feed nowadays. 65TB gives you a measly two weeks retention..
There is nothing exceptional about being at the center of the observable Universe..
#I prever Norse G-ds, over 100 in one go! .|\
lynx -dump -nolist http://thenorsegods.com/|\
grep '\*.*-'|\
awk '{print $2}'|\
tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'|\
grep -n
sed -e's/^/10.0.1./'|\
tr ':' '\t' >>/etc/hosts
Article I
GENERAL OBLIGATIONS
[snip]
5. Each State Party undertakes not to use riot control agents as a method of warfare.
Researcher rediscovers USENET.
Aside from using it for inspiration on how to build an ICBM, what else can you do with it?Terrorists on the moon would be fine by me, as long as they don't take out a bunch of satellites on their way up there.
Looks like there are some gaping holes in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention..
Can't a defamation suit put an end to these shenanigans?
Do investigators try to lift prints from forms visitors had to handle for entry?
It's also possible that our ways of doing the accounting are naive (e.g., ignoring quantum gravity), or that some kind of cancellation is going on (e.g. bosons cancelling out fermions in supersymmetry).
What fermions and bosons? I though we were talking about empty space..
Death of Usenet, film at 11...
It can be done cheaper and without debris staying in orbit. What you use is old satellites that have some thruster fuel left and use these to bump the enemy sat out of orbit. .us is already capable of performing such a trick.
The .mil figured out decades ago how to push enemy sats out of orbit using decomissioned sats that have some thruster fuel left.
Most providers don't even manage to have a week on retention of binary newsgroups. Count me in favor for mandatory data retention laws.
Osama Bin Laden has already been tried in absentia.
Next thing will be mandatory email portability.
See the 2000 plus times they fired at our aircraft who were enforcing U.N. no-fly zones. Attacking us is provocation, clearly against the agreement signed after Desert Storm.
All these years the no-fly zones were not authorised by the UN nor were they sanctioned by any Security Council resolution.
Just do a slashdot poll on John Kerry and George Bush and get it over with.
A passport is more then just an ID card. It is also a booklet for stamps and a request by the issueing authority to let you pass and give you assistance in other countries. The USA has a body to issue passports. Why not give them a mandate to issue ID-only cards in a creditcard format using the same security standards as for passports, let people get one if they want and give them for free when issueing a passport. That way you can take someones passport if he is free on bail but still allow him to use a federaly issued ID of high standard. Foreigners of course don't get a US passport, but if you give them an ID card doubleing as VISA manufactured with the same standards as a passport the US should be fine without much double work. Tourists should be just fine with their national passport. One allready existing body to issue ID cards and documents for nationals and foreigners, one standard for manufacturing will prevent a lot of reinventing the wheel and a redundant federal body.
We're getting really frickin' paranoid about all this ID shit, and according to my bank my federally issued passport no longer, in their interpretation of the law, qualifies for photo ID according to the PATRIOT Act.
Under the PATRIOT act your passport "may" be sufficient to verify identity like any other unexpired government-issued identification document evidencing nationality or residence and bearing a photograph or similar safeguard (like a finger print). Your identity alone is not enough to open an account, so they might ask for more documentary proof, but to establish your identity a passport can be sufficient. Your bank should take a moment to reinterpret the act.