When I was a 13, the state government installed cameras on the nearby interstate. One camera was near our land, so I shot it out with my rifle. They replaced the camera and I shot that one too.
Other people were doing the same thing, so the state scrapped the program (after lots of squawking about "public safety"). The point is, that an armed population serves to balance the power of the government. That's why it's a right worth fighting for.
Health insurance definitely is not a right, any more than having a house is a right. Yes, they make life better, but it's our own responsibility to make our lives better. Anything else is socialism, and socialism kills motivation, decreases the overall quality of life and kills the human spirit. See USSR, N. Korea, Cuba, China, Laos, Vietnam, etc. for some fine examples of that.
That's not to say that the health insurance circus we have in this country is any good however. If the government does anything, they should control the outrageous prices charged by health insurance companies and the obscene prices charged by hospitals and doctors. $18 for an aspirin? Someone needs killing for that.
But I digress. I agree with you on all your points except gun control. That's because if we have to fight for our rights, we need something to fight with. You're spot on with your statement about people trading their rights for "glass beads". Those glass beads are usually a sense of safety, security, and "doing it for the children". Unfortunately, the sheep who do this become less safe and secure, and the children are worse off because these minivan driving bufoons are lining up to hand our rights and freedom to some government power.
Maybe we can ship our spare rifles & shotguns to British children and let them take care of the problem.
I've always included on my resignation letter a list of tasks I need to complete before leaving. That tells them that you haven't lost your work ethic, you're just moving, and it shows them that they still need you.
I resigned from a job last year, and my boss honored my two week notice because he could see he still needed me to finish up my projects. This is a guy with a reputation for showing people the door.
Of course it's also important to communicate a positive reason that you are leaving. For instance, I left my job in California because I couldn't afford a house in that state. Yeah I had some beefs, but I didn't mention them. I made them clearly understand I was not leaving out of dislike for the job. It's to your advantage to do this even if you actually do dislike your job.
It turns out that the company I'm with now has entered a partnership with my old company and I find myself working with my old boss as a peer. Leaving on a good note has allowed us to get along pretty well. You never know how the leaf is going to turn so be careful what you say.
I think the school did the correct thing. Yeah, you have the right to run your mouth like a jackass (or in this case, type your fingers off), but the people you attack have rights too, and people can get their feelings hurt.
For example, it's your right to stand outside a convenience store and insult the customers. However, you can expect someone to pop you in the face at some point and you would richly deserve it.
It's their school, and if he thinks so badly of them, it's THEIR right to throw him out on his ass and tell him to never come back.
I'm sick of little weenies who try to use the first amendment as cover for acting like assholes.
I'm not surprised with his reaction. His thinking processes aren't like those of normal people because of the confusion bred by trying to live like a woman. People nowadays suppress and ignore the fact that being gay is a mental disorder and then react with wonder when gays act strangely. Hopefully he'll come around because of societal pressure, but right now he probably has a strong impulse only to indulge his wants. I've been around a lot of gays, and this is something that I've had to come to understand in order to function with them. Their lifestyle is characterized by sexual indulgence, and that trait bleeds over into the other aspects of their lives. Kind of a "to hell with everyone else, I'm satisfying myself and I won't think about who it hurts" attitude.
Ultimately though, it's this guy's right to do as he pleases, and....well....what can we do? Nothing is what. Too bad too. I've lost some family members and friends to AIDS, and while I'd prefer that people stop giving it to themselves and to their kids, I'd like to have the means to stop it after they do. Especially for the kids. What did they do wrong?
Anyone from the continent of Africa is African. The term "African" is misused by uneducated people to only denote black people. Kind of like "Asian" is applied only to Orientals, many of whom (like Filipinos. Japanese and Indonesians) live on islands in the Pacific rather than on the continent of Asia. Oh, and thanks for insulting Americans. It's really constructive.
Whiners. Don't they log off? Don't these IT "experts" know how to secure their workstations. I find it difficult to believe that network security is compromised because some little pussy doesn't get a persoal office.
Ummmmm.....I'm guessing because your CUSTOMERS are paying you for the use of those pipes? What's his next step? To charge website owners each time we download content from them?
Well, I don't believe that there is no crime where you live. Maybe there's less...I'll take your word for it because I just don't know.
But I'm also not describing events that happen every Saturday. I don't live around that level of violence either. In fact I don't even have to lock my doors. One reasons it's so peaceful is that I live out in the country, and all the neighbors are decent hard-working folks who are also armed to the teeth and would blow holes through any criminal they see sneaking around. For that reason, no criminals come sneaking around. However, all it takes to lose someone forever is to have them killed once. So my personal insurance policy is made up of various guns stashed here and there. The situation I described probably will never happen where I live, but if it does, I'm ready for it. It's my responsibility to my family, and that takes priority over all political arguments.
Yes you're naive.
Here's just one situation (I can name different ones all day).
You're in your basement. You hear a scream upstairs. You walk up and see two large men holding your wife down and pulling her clothes off. Both are carrying weapons although one has put his down in order to pull out his dick.
You walk back down, grab the pistol off the workbench and shoot and kill the bastards. You've just saved your wife's life and spared her from being gang-raped.
Let me point out some very real conditions that require you to take these actions.
1. Unless you live next door to the police station, your wife will be raped twice and be killed before the cops are able to drive to your house. If you do live next door to the cops she will be raped at least once.
2. These guys won't sit down and "talk out" their problems.
3. If you take them on without a gun, you'll be killed, and your wife will still be raped and killed.
4. You have a moral responsibility to take care of your family. You have no choice but to fight for them. It is no one else's job.
It certainly is a culture difference, but it is more a difference in our political systems and how they came to be. I don't believe Australians should be exactly like us, and I hope you Aussies have reciprocal feelings.
It's our second amendment to the constitution gives us the right to have our guns. It's not for the purpose of sport. It's not for the purpose of hunting, and it's not so that people who think guns are cool can have them. Our country was born of a revolution. The people stood up and fought against the existing government in order to form a new one. If you forget that or underestimate the significance of it, you'll never understand us.
The 2nd amendment exists so that we have the ability to fight against the other branches government. The way it plays out is that we don't have to fight; just knowing we have the ability to do so keeps the other powers in check. A deterrent force if you will. Likewise, a few of us can't just pick up our weapons and do whatever we want because the other divisions of power will wipe the floor with us.
It was intentionally designed that way so that the general population is one of the divisions of power within this country. The president, the senate, the congress, the courts, the people....not necessarily in that order. If any one of those divisions of power does something stupid, one of the other ones can set them straight. I keep at least a couple thousand rounds of ammo around, not for killing deer, but because it's my duty to do so. I hope to God I never have to use it, but if I have to, I'm willing to. Almost all of the anti-gun folks seem to forget that they have these responsibilities. It's part of the socialist ethic that ultimately someone else is responsible for their welfare.
Oh Waaaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
I'll have to eat prime rib instead of porterhouse. I'll have to drive around in a one year old Land Rover instead of a 2006 Lexus. Waaaaaahhhhh! Boo Hoooo Hooooooooo!!!!!!
Puhleeze.
For every one of us whining about how our salaries aren't increasing at the rates that please us, there are thousands more with our skill levels or more who go to bed on a stomach full of rice or air.
These same people share 400 square foot rooms with their entire families and when their kids catch colds and die, they cry, bury them, and go work some more to feed the remainder of the family.
Too many people in this country (the U.S.), can't grasp the concept that we have it pretty damned easy. It's deservedly so (thanks to God and a stable government), but that doesn't mean we shouldn't appreciate it.
If you're able to pay your bills and put good food on the table, stop bitching. If you find that difficult to do, use your frequent flier miles and paid vacation to go to the Philippines, Bangladesh, Mexico, etc., so that you can witness real hardship being suffered by people every bit as (or more) intelligent than you who were simply born into a cultural or political system inferior to ours. I bet when you come back, your job will seem pretty damned comfy, and your pay level will suit you a little better, and a drive on a crowded L.A. freeway will feel like a drive through the country (the voice of experience talking). ...and think about this (and be honest)....do you really deserve more?
I'm not really sure how much I can say without getting in trouble. The project was classified at the time, and I'm not sure of its status now.
I hope you don't take me as an ass for that, but I do have to cover the ass I have.
The point of my post was only to state my opinion that there are better ways to track targets than by blasting sound waves all over the place.
That's really pretty stupid of you. Sonar is audible. It is not VHF or UHF. It is an audible frequency that you can hear with your ears if you dunk your head in the water. Are you thinking of radar perhaps?
Low frequency sonar is just that...low frequency. If you know basic physics, you'll know that low frequencies travel for thousands of miles in water not 5. For example, in my work, I've sat off the coast of California and listened to low frequencies being emitted by research ships near Japan.
Maybe you should read up on the subject before you try to argue with with someone who actually has thought about this stuff for a living.
I've been a part of these sonar experiments, and let me tell you, there is a big misunderstanding of the physics of sound going on here. So that the animals have time to flee????
Flee where? The next ocean?
These are exremely low frequency transmissions. The only thing literally preventing the sound from traveling around the world is the placement of the continents. Once when these transmissions were being transmitted from Alaska, I was in a submarine just south of Hawaii and I was being woken up in my rack. It was very damned loud. When sound penetrates the hull of a sub it's notable for being either very close or very powerful.
I question the need for this technology because we have better means of tracking enemy ships and subs. We have MAD (magnetic anomaly detection), SOSUS, etc.
We don't have to be killing wildlife. And it does kill them....I've seen the reports.
Maybe if the U.S. was as tiny as the countries used as examples we'd have better broadband rankings. The fact is, someone out in the middle of Wyoming doesn't have broadband because it's not cost-effective to run 100 miles of cable out to them just so 1 or 2 people can use it. If every American man cut their nuts off and moved their families to the cities we'd rank much better.
Canada is mentioned as having "better" access than the U.S. but that's an outright lie because they're bigger than we are. Go to the Yukon, or the middle of Alberta and ask for DSL. The wolves will just look at you funny. Then they'll eat you.
2-1/2 South Koreas would fit in Wyoming. France (212394 sq. miles) is smaller than the state of Texas (261914 sq. miles). My county is 404 square miles larger than Hong Kong, and this county is considered small.
Broadband availability is concentrated around population centers no matter what country you're in, and all of the population centers in the U.S. have excellent broadband coverage.
The amount of broadband coverage and its price is proportional to the population density of the area being served.
You did a good thing.
People are often more motivated by praise than they are by money. At least normal people are. Thanks for posting the phone number. The FBI needs to know that we're supportive of them doing this kind of work. If it motivates them to work harder that's great. If it doesn't...well at least the world is a warmer fuzzier place.
Bob
was a happy-go-lucky guy. He was built rather large, but
had a boyish charm that all the girls loved. Bob had his own farm which
was on
the opposite side of a lake from the farms of his brothers, Pierre and
Wolfgang.
Pierre
and Wolfgang were older than Bob and a bit less
work-oriented. While Bob was out plowing his fields, Pierre
would nap. While Bob was harvesting
his crop, Wolfgang was either drinking beer or racing his Mercedes down
the
highway trying to pick up girls. Because of their bad habits, their
crops often
withered in the fields, but if they came up short of cash or food, Bob
would
row across the lake and bring his brothers whatever they needed.
Sometimes
Pierre and Wolfgang would get into terrible fights
and Bob would row across the lake, split them apart, force them to make
up, and
then dutifully clean up the mess the fight had made. Then
he’d make sure they
were comfortable and fed, and row back to his farm on his side of the
lake.
One
day after plowing, Bob invented the internet. It helped him run his
farm
better and was mighty entertaining in the evenings. Bob organized his
internet
so things were nice and manageable, and all of his addresses and
servers worked properly.
Bob
wanted to share his new invention with his brothers, so
he strung cables across the lake to his brothers’ houses, and
told them what to
do to get on his system. He added more servers to his basement just to
handle
the expected load and paid the electricity bills all by himself.
Pierre
and Wolfgang started happily using Bob’s internet and
even added their own websites after Bob showed them how to do it.
During
this time, Wolfgang and Pierre started getting along
a little better and would even visit each other in the evenings and
have a
glass of wine together. However, the animosity they had harbored all
their
lives was just below the surface and sometimes after drinking together
they
would start to direct that animosity towards Bob, since he
wasn’t there and
fighting among themselves wasn’t fun anymore.
They
had come to resent the fact that Bob did so much for
them. It made them feel stupid and lazy and less like men. They began
to
criticize the way Bob dressed, walked, talked, etc., and after all
“mama always
did love him more than us”.
Because
of all the ill feelings they were building up inside
them themselves, they began to fear that Bob would get wind of it. At
most times, their drunken tirades against
him were drowned out by the wind, but sometimes on a clear cold night
their
voices would carry across the lake and they were sure Bob had heard
some of the
bitter things they had said.
In
the meantime, Pierre and Wolfgang had become very fond of
their time on the internet. They became afraid that Bob would grow
angry with
them and cut them off or restrict their access.
Neither
older brother had the time or money to invent their
own internet, so they sat one night by the fire and came up with a plan
to
steal Bob’s internet. “How do we get his servers
out of the basement?” asked Pierre.
“We don’t”
replied Wolfgang. “Those servers are too heavy and they use
too much
electricity”. “We have to figure out a way to leave
them there so that we
control them and he still pays for the upkeep”.
“I
have an idea” said Pierre.
“Father always liked us the best and he lives next door to
Bob. If he tells Bob
to give him the servers, Bob will have to do it because he will not be
able to
disobey Father”.
“Yes”
replied Wolfgang “and Father can order him to sign over
his basement to us, so that we may come and go as we please”.
“ I bet Bob won’t
be so happy-go-lucky now. And if he refuses to dress like
us, and think like us, and talk like us.......well...... we can cut
off his internet access until he does!”.
“That’ll bring the big oa
Really? I've never heard NPR do that. The two sides they usually represent are the gays vs. straights who promote them, or Bush-haters vs. Bush-dislikers.
They're almost as liberally-biased as the BBC. I like to listen to NPR just to get a laugh out of how loopy some folks are.
They do have good classical music programming though. I enjoy that.
I don't surf the web so that I can read ads and spend money. I surf to read news, tech tips, jokes, etc. I buy what I need when I need it, and when I need it I go to the store to get it, then get the hell out of the store. I'm a man, and shopping doesn't thrill me. No kind of ad will never be able to change that.
I don't view internet ads any differently from magazine ads or TV ads. Basically, ads don't make me go buy things and I find them annoying. With magazines, the first thing I do is hold it over the trash can and shake the hell out of it to get rid of the multiple subscription sign-up inserts. Then I just ignore the ads as I read. Some magazines are almost nothing but ads (EE Times comes to mind), so I don't bother with them at all. If it's too much hassle to differentiate the ads from the content they can kiss my ass. I occasionally read newspaper ads, but only because I'm looking for something specific. For instance, this weekend I bought a nice compound bow I saw advertised in the paper. It's not because the ad attracted me, it's because I was looking for ads with compound bows in them. If deer season (for bows)didn't start this month I wouldn't be looking.
I ignore TV ads as well. Commercial breaks are for visits to the toilet, channel surfing, refilling my drink, or just a good opportunity to turn off the TV. Marketeers stupidly think that they can sell anything if their ads are slick enough, but the fact is, if I'm not actively looking for a particular item I ignore or block their ads.
Has anyone considered that if a bug like this got loose it could actually save the human race?
Overpopulation is a major problem. Since we have no natural predators, our only population control is through disease and war.
There are absolutely too many people, and that ugly fact is shown through the increased levels of pollution and habitational squalor throughout the world.
The moral of my story? Don't get your panties in a wad because people might die. After all, we don't really die anyway. We just change forms and go to a (hopefully) nicer place. Less of us walking around in this form would do the planet some good.
India didn't invent the internet. The U.S. did. It is not the U.S.'s responsibility to give control of it to India or the U.N. just because they like it a lot.
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When I was a 13, the state government installed cameras on the nearby interstate. One camera was near our land, so I shot it out with my rifle. They replaced the camera and I shot that one too.
Other people were doing the same thing, so the state scrapped the program (after lots of squawking about "public safety"). The point is, that an armed population serves to balance the power of the government. That's why it's a right worth fighting for.
Health insurance definitely is not a right, any more than having a house is a right. Yes, they make life better, but it's our own responsibility to make our lives better. Anything else is socialism, and socialism kills motivation, decreases the overall quality of life and kills the human spirit. See USSR, N. Korea, Cuba, China, Laos, Vietnam, etc. for some fine examples of that.
That's not to say that the health insurance circus we have in this country is any good however. If the government does anything, they should control the outrageous prices charged by health insurance companies and the obscene prices charged by hospitals and doctors. $18 for an aspirin? Someone needs killing for that.
But I digress. I agree with you on all your points except gun control. That's because if we have to fight for our rights, we need something to fight with. You're spot on with your statement about people trading their rights for "glass beads". Those glass beads are usually a sense of safety, security, and "doing it for the children". Unfortunately, the sheep who do this become less safe and secure, and the children are worse off because these minivan driving bufoons are lining up to hand our rights and freedom to some government power.
Maybe we can ship our spare rifles & shotguns to British children and let them take care of the problem.
Well put Rebecca. You made me think.
I've always included on my resignation letter a list of tasks I need to complete before leaving. That tells them that you haven't lost your work ethic, you're just moving, and it shows them that they still need you.
I resigned from a job last year, and my boss honored my two week notice because he could see he still needed me to finish up my projects. This is a guy with a reputation for showing people the door.
Of course it's also important to communicate a positive reason that you are leaving. For instance, I left my job in California because I couldn't afford a house in that state. Yeah I had some beefs, but I didn't mention them. I made them clearly understand I was not leaving out of dislike for the job. It's to your advantage to do this even if you actually do dislike your job.
It turns out that the company I'm with now has entered a partnership with my old company and I find myself working with my old boss as a peer. Leaving on a good note has allowed us to get along pretty well. You never know how the leaf is going to turn so be careful what you say.
I think the school did the correct thing. Yeah, you have the right to run your mouth like a jackass (or in this case, type your fingers off), but the people you attack have rights too, and people can get their feelings hurt.
For example, it's your right to stand outside a convenience store and insult the customers. However, you can expect someone to pop you in the face at some point and you would richly deserve it.
It's their school, and if he thinks so badly of them, it's THEIR right to throw him out on his ass and tell him to never come back.
I'm sick of little weenies who try to use the first amendment as cover for acting like assholes.
Nothing quite so satisfying as taking a dump while reading the Sunday paper. Online news will never be able to duplicate that kind of happiness.
I'm not surprised with his reaction. His thinking processes aren't like those of normal people because of the confusion bred by trying to live like a woman. People nowadays suppress and ignore the fact that being gay is a mental disorder and then react with wonder when gays act strangely.
Hopefully he'll come around because of societal pressure, but right now he probably has a strong impulse only to indulge his wants. I've been around a lot of gays, and this is something that I've had to come to understand in order to function with them. Their lifestyle is characterized by sexual indulgence, and that trait bleeds over into the other aspects of their lives. Kind of a "to hell with everyone else, I'm satisfying myself and I won't think about who it hurts" attitude.
Ultimately though, it's this guy's right to do as he pleases, and....well....what can we do? Nothing is what. Too bad too. I've lost some family members and friends to AIDS, and while I'd prefer that people stop giving it to themselves and to their kids, I'd like to have the means to stop it after they do.
Especially for the kids. What did they do wrong?
Anyone from the continent of Africa is African. The term "African" is misused by uneducated people to only denote black people. Kind of like "Asian" is applied only to Orientals, many of whom (like Filipinos. Japanese and Indonesians) live on islands in the Pacific rather than on the continent of Asia.
Oh, and thanks for insulting Americans. It's really constructive.
Whiners. Don't they log off? Don't these IT "experts" know how to secure their workstations. I find it difficult to believe that network security is compromised because some little pussy doesn't get a persoal office.
Ummmmm.....I'm guessing because your CUSTOMERS are paying you for the use of those pipes?
What's his next step? To charge website owners each time we download content from them?
Well, I don't believe that there is no crime where you live. Maybe there's less...I'll take your word for it because I just don't know.
But I'm also not describing events that happen every Saturday. I don't live around that level of violence either. In fact I don't even have to lock my doors. One reasons it's so peaceful is that I live out in the country, and all the neighbors are decent hard-working folks who are also armed to the teeth and would blow holes through any criminal they see sneaking around. For that reason, no criminals come sneaking around.
However, all it takes to lose someone forever is to have them killed once. So my personal insurance policy is made up of various guns stashed here and there. The situation I described probably will never happen where I live, but if it does, I'm ready for it. It's my responsibility to my family, and that takes priority over all political arguments.
My regards...
Yes you're naive. Here's just one situation (I can name different ones all day).
You're in your basement. You hear a scream upstairs. You walk up and see two large men holding your wife down and pulling her clothes off. Both are carrying weapons although one has put his down in order to pull out his dick.
You walk back down, grab the pistol off the workbench and shoot and kill the bastards. You've just saved your wife's life and spared her from being gang-raped.
Let me point out some very real conditions that require you to take these actions.
1. Unless you live next door to the police station, your wife will be raped twice and be killed before the cops are able to drive to your house. If you do live next door to the cops she will be raped at least once.
2. These guys won't sit down and "talk out" their problems.
3. If you take them on without a gun, you'll be killed, and your wife will still be raped and killed.
4. You have a moral responsibility to take care of your family. You have no choice but to fight for them. It is no one else's job.
It certainly is a culture difference, but it is more a difference in our political systems and how they came to be. I don't believe Australians should be exactly like us, and I hope you Aussies have reciprocal feelings.
It's our second amendment to the constitution gives us the right to have our guns. It's not for the purpose of sport. It's not for the purpose of hunting, and it's not so that people who think guns are cool can have them. Our country was born of a revolution. The people stood up and fought against the existing government in order to form a new one. If you forget that or underestimate the significance of it, you'll never understand us.
The 2nd amendment exists so that we have the ability to fight against the other branches government. The way it plays out is that we don't have to fight; just knowing we have the ability to do so keeps the other powers in check. A deterrent force if you will. Likewise, a few of us can't just pick up our weapons and do whatever we want because the other divisions of power will wipe the floor with us.
It was intentionally designed that way so that the general population is one of the divisions of power within this country. The president, the senate, the congress, the courts, the people....not necessarily in that order. If any one of those divisions of power does something stupid, one of the other ones can set them straight. I keep at least a couple thousand rounds of ammo around, not for killing deer, but because it's my duty to do so. I hope to God I never have to use it, but if I have to, I'm willing to.
Almost all of the anti-gun folks seem to forget that they have these responsibilities. It's part of the socialist ethic that ultimately someone else is responsible for their welfare.
Oh Waaaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!! I'll have to eat prime rib instead of porterhouse. I'll have to drive around in a one year old Land Rover instead of a 2006 Lexus. Waaaaaahhhhh! Boo Hoooo Hooooooooo!!!!!!
Puhleeze.
For every one of us whining about how our salaries aren't increasing at the rates that please us, there are thousands more with our skill levels or more who go to bed on a stomach full of rice or air.
These same people share 400 square foot rooms with their entire families and when their kids catch colds and die, they cry, bury them, and go work some more to feed the remainder of the family.
Too many people in this country (the U.S.), can't grasp the concept that we have it pretty damned easy. It's deservedly so (thanks to God and a stable government), but that doesn't mean we shouldn't appreciate it.
If you're able to pay your bills and put good food on the table, stop bitching. If you find that difficult to do, use your frequent flier miles and paid vacation to go to the Philippines, Bangladesh, Mexico, etc., so that you can witness real hardship being suffered by people every bit as (or more) intelligent than you who were simply born into a cultural or political system inferior to ours.
I bet when you come back, your job will seem pretty damned comfy, and your pay level will suit you a little better, and a drive on a crowded L.A. freeway will feel like a drive through the country (the voice of experience talking).
...and think about this (and be honest)....do you really deserve more?
I'm not really sure how much I can say without getting in trouble. The project was classified at the time, and I'm not sure of its status now. I hope you don't take me as an ass for that, but I do have to cover the ass I have.
The point of my post was only to state my opinion that there are better ways to track targets than by blasting sound waves all over the place.
That's really pretty stupid of you. Sonar is audible. It is not VHF or UHF. It is an audible frequency that you can hear with your ears if you dunk your head in the water. Are you thinking of radar perhaps?
Low frequency sonar is just that...low frequency. If you know basic physics, you'll know that low frequencies travel for thousands of miles in water not 5. For example, in my work, I've sat off the coast of California and listened to low frequencies being emitted by research ships near Japan.
Maybe you should read up on the subject before you try to argue with with someone who actually has thought about this stuff for a living.
I've been a part of these sonar experiments, and let me tell you, there is a big misunderstanding of the physics of sound going on here.
So that the animals have time to flee????
Flee where? The next ocean? These are exremely low frequency transmissions. The only thing literally preventing the sound from traveling around the world is the placement of the continents. Once when these transmissions were being transmitted from Alaska, I was in a submarine just south of Hawaii and I was being woken up in my rack. It was very damned loud. When sound penetrates the hull of a sub it's notable for being either very close or very powerful.
I question the need for this technology because we have better means of tracking enemy ships and subs. We have MAD (magnetic anomaly detection), SOSUS, etc.
We don't have to be killing wildlife. And it does kill them....I've seen the reports.
Maybe if the U.S. was as tiny as the countries used as examples we'd have better broadband rankings. The fact is, someone out in the middle of Wyoming doesn't have broadband because it's not cost-effective to run 100 miles of cable out to them just so 1 or 2 people can use it. If every American man cut their nuts off and moved their families to the cities we'd rank much better.
Canada is mentioned as having "better" access than the U.S. but that's an outright lie because they're bigger than we are. Go to the Yukon, or the middle of Alberta and ask for DSL. The wolves will just look at you funny. Then they'll eat you.
2-1/2 South Koreas would fit in Wyoming. France (212394 sq. miles) is smaller than the state of Texas (261914 sq. miles). My county is 404 square miles larger than Hong Kong, and this county is considered small.
Broadband availability is concentrated around population centers no matter what country you're in, and all of the population centers in the U.S. have excellent broadband coverage.
The amount of broadband coverage and its price is proportional to the population density of the area being served.
You did a good thing.
People are often more motivated by praise than they are by money. At least normal people are. Thanks for posting the phone number. The FBI needs to know that we're supportive of them doing this kind of work. If it motivates them to work harder that's great. If it doesn't...well at least the world is a warmer fuzzier place.
A Tale of Three Brothers
Bob was a happy-go-lucky guy. He was built rather large, but had a boyish charm that all the girls loved. Bob had his own farm which was on the opposite side of a lake from the farms of his brothers, Pierre and Wolfgang.
Pierre and Wolfgang were older than Bob and a bit less work-oriented. While Bob was out plowing his fields, Pierre would nap. While Bob was harvesting his crop, Wolfgang was either drinking beer or racing his Mercedes down the highway trying to pick up girls. Because of their bad habits, their crops often withered in the fields, but if they came up short of cash or food, Bob would row across the lake and bring his brothers whatever they needed.
Sometimes Pierre and Wolfgang would get into terrible fights and Bob would row across the lake, split them apart, force them to make up, and then dutifully clean up the mess the fight had made. Then he’d make sure they were comfortable and fed, and row back to his farm on his side of the lake.
One day after plowing, Bob invented the internet. It helped him run his farm better and was mighty entertaining in the evenings. Bob organized his internet so things were nice and manageable, and all of his addresses and servers worked properly.
Bob wanted to share his new invention with his brothers, so he strung cables across the lake to his brothers’ houses, and told them what to do to get on his system. He added more servers to his basement just to handle the expected load and paid the electricity bills all by himself.
Pierre and Wolfgang started happily using Bob’s internet and even added their own websites after Bob showed them how to do it.
During this time, Wolfgang and Pierre started getting along a little better and would even visit each other in the evenings and have a glass of wine together. However, the animosity they had harbored all their lives was just below the surface and sometimes after drinking together they would start to direct that animosity towards Bob, since he wasn’t there and fighting among themselves wasn’t fun anymore.
They had come to resent the fact that Bob did so much for them. It made them feel stupid and lazy and less like men. They began to criticize the way Bob dressed, walked, talked, etc., and after all “mama always did love him more than us”.
Because of all the ill feelings they were building up inside them themselves, they began to fear that Bob would get wind of it. At most times, their drunken tirades against him were drowned out by the wind, but sometimes on a clear cold night their voices would carry across the lake and they were sure Bob had heard some of the bitter things they had said.
In the meantime, Pierre and Wolfgang had become very fond of their time on the internet. They became afraid that Bob would grow angry with them and cut them off or restrict their access.
Neither older brother had the time or money to invent their own internet, so they sat one night by the fire and came up with a plan to steal Bob’s internet. “How do we get his servers out of the basement?” asked Pierre. “We don’t” replied Wolfgang. “Those servers are too heavy and they use too much electricity”. “We have to figure out a way to leave them there so that we control them and he still pays for the upkeep”.
“I have an idea” said Pierre. “Father always liked us the best and he lives next door to Bob. If he tells Bob to give him the servers, Bob will have to do it because he will not be able to disobey Father”.
“Yes” replied Wolfgang “and Father can order him to sign over his basement to us, so that we may come and go as we please”. “ I bet Bob won’t be so happy-go-lucky now. And if he refuses to dress like us, and think like us, and talk like us.......well...... we can cut off his internet access until he does!”. “That’ll bring the big oa
Really? I've never heard NPR do that. The two sides they usually represent are the gays vs. straights who promote them, or Bush-haters vs. Bush-dislikers.
They're almost as liberally-biased as the BBC. I like to listen to NPR just to get a laugh out of how loopy some folks are.
They do have good classical music programming though. I enjoy that.
It's right on the front page in the "Only on Fox" section. I see it fine.
I don't surf the web so that I can read ads and spend money. I surf to read news, tech tips, jokes, etc. I buy what I need when I need it, and when I need it I go to the store to get it, then get the hell out of the store. I'm a man, and shopping doesn't thrill me. No kind of ad will never be able to change that.
I don't view internet ads any differently from magazine ads or TV ads. Basically, ads don't make me go buy things and I find them annoying. With magazines, the first thing I do is hold it over the trash can and shake the hell out of it to get rid of the multiple subscription sign-up inserts. Then I just ignore the ads as I read. Some magazines are almost nothing but ads (EE Times comes to mind), so I don't bother with them at all. If it's too much hassle to differentiate the ads from the content they can kiss my ass. I occasionally read newspaper ads, but only because I'm looking for something specific. For instance, this weekend I bought a nice compound bow I saw advertised in the paper. It's not because the ad attracted me, it's because I was looking for ads with compound bows in them. If deer season (for bows)didn't start this month I wouldn't be looking.
I ignore TV ads as well. Commercial breaks are for visits to the toilet, channel surfing, refilling my drink, or just a good opportunity to turn off the TV. Marketeers stupidly think that they can sell anything if their ads are slick enough, but the fact is, if I'm not actively looking for a particular item I ignore or block their ads.
Ok, off to eat a bullet. Thanks for the advice and all. See you later...ummm...wait...I guess you won't be there.
Has anyone considered that if a bug like this got loose it could actually save the human race?
Overpopulation is a major problem. Since we have no natural predators, our only population control is through disease and war.
There are absolutely too many people, and that ugly fact is shown through the increased levels of pollution and habitational squalor throughout the world.
The moral of my story? Don't get your panties in a wad because people might die. After all, we don't really die anyway. We just change forms and go to a (hopefully) nicer place. Less of us walking around in this form would do the planet some good.
India didn't invent the internet. The U.S. did.
It is not the U.S.'s responsibility to give control of it to India or the U.N. just because they like it a lot.