That's funny, I'm a libertarian too. Voted proudly for Banarik. As a libertarian, I don't need a state senator who's pockets are lined with telco PAC funds telling me who I can / can't get services from.
Because the vast majority of CO, like most Western states, is rural. There is no cable, no DSL, and no cell phones. There's no plan whatsoever from "private corporations" to move into such unprofitable areas. The only option is to form co-ops or muni access. SB 152 as originally written, would have made these options impossible and even made existing co-op/munis illegal, like this: http://www.freepress.net/news/7060
SB 152 was a POS legislation from the get-go, and many of us Coloradoans have been actively lobbying against it. State senator Jennifer Viega threw this gem together to pay back the telcos that financed her campaign. While the revised bill passed is better than the original, it's still bad news for municipal services.
Fire the facilities manager who actually know how the co-lo runs and bring in a clueless dolt. Presto. You're a faulty breaker and a couple of bypass lever pulls from going dark. Qwest has used this recipe for darkness several times in their co-los. My team spent 36 hours bringing up 200 servers and numerous database clusters (and lost 100% of bonus that year from the SLA violation) - I feel these guys pain...
Local newsrag wanted $60 for a 2 line, 1 week listing for my motorcycle. I put a full ad w/ pics on Craigslist and it sold in a whopping 4 hours. Only thing the papers are good for is local editorials and opinions, and frankly, the indies (like http://westword.com/ here in Denver) do a better job on those.
Frankly, I agree with Van Allen. For the costly overhead of sending fragile, Ugly Bags of Mostly Water into space, we can do a hell of a lot more real science with robotic missions, which is where all our recent success has been anyway.
There's no point in suiting up until we're fully prepared to colonize the cosmos.
This article was head and shoulders above ANY other that's been done on high power rocketry as of late, and the FUD is nearly nil IMO.
NAR is holding membership because it's focus is model rocketry and competition, not HPR. Tripoli is withering away. The local Tripoli prefecture is down from a high of 120 members to less than a dozen, and I'm one of the ones who's out of the hobby.
I used to spend $200 - $400 / month on motors & supplies, and had a storage LEUP. But when the Homeland Security Act was signed and the ATF showed up at my house with pictures of Osama and his cronies and asked if I'd seen any of them (I'm NOT kidding about this), I knew it was time to get out.
CP Technologies IS an interesting data point in that their sales are down 50% and their PSAN motor technology isn't even ATF regulated! People are fed up. It shouldn't be this hard to have a hobby throwing cardboard rockets into the air.
JKarp.
NAR #80737
TRA #5515 L2
Cable companies have little say on how channels are bundled. The Viacoms, HBOs, etc. of the world determine the packages. This was no small part of the recent Viacom / Dish battle - Viacom insisted Dish carry a new POS cartoon channel in its basic package in order to get the rights to CBS. Cable companies would LOVE to sell you a-la-carte - they'd make a ton more money that way.
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That's funny, I'm a libertarian too. Voted proudly for Banarik. As a libertarian, I don't need a state senator who's pockets are lined with telco PAC funds telling me who I can / can't get services from.
Oh, and if you don't think "they" don't already know the IP address of your commode, you're living in a world of illusion.
Because the vast majority of CO, like most Western states, is rural. There is no cable, no DSL, and no cell phones. There's no plan whatsoever from "private corporations" to move into such unprofitable areas. The only option is to form co-ops or muni access. SB 152 as originally written, would have made these options impossible and even made existing co-op/munis illegal, like this: http://www.freepress.net/news/7060
http://www.freepress.net/communityinternet/=CO
SB 152 was a POS legislation from the get-go, and many of us Coloradoans have been actively lobbying against it. State senator Jennifer Viega threw this gem together to pay back the telcos that financed her campaign. While the revised bill passed is better than the original, it's still bad news for municipal services.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/arti cle/0,1299,DRMN_38_3545616,00.html
Fire the facilities manager who actually know how the co-lo runs and bring in a clueless dolt. Presto. You're a faulty breaker and a couple of bypass lever pulls from going dark. Qwest has used this recipe for darkness several times in their co-los. My team spent 36 hours bringing up 200 servers and numerous database clusters (and lost 100% of bonus that year from the SLA violation) - I feel these guys pain...
Local newsrag wanted $60 for a 2 line, 1 week listing for my motorcycle. I put a full ad w/ pics on Craigslist and it sold in a whopping 4 hours. Only thing the papers are good for is local editorials and opinions, and frankly, the indies (like http://westword.com/ here in Denver) do a better job on those.
There's no point in suiting up until we're fully prepared to colonize the cosmos.
I don't have the time to bait 419ers, so I do the next best thing - subscribe their reply-to addresses to several choice opt-in spam registries!
Sweet. Lusers were getting wise to our PEBCAK and solar radiation excuses anyways.
This article was head and shoulders above ANY other that's been done on high power rocketry as of late, and the FUD is nearly nil IMO. NAR is holding membership because it's focus is model rocketry and competition, not HPR. Tripoli is withering away. The local Tripoli prefecture is down from a high of 120 members to less than a dozen, and I'm one of the ones who's out of the hobby. I used to spend $200 - $400 / month on motors & supplies, and had a storage LEUP. But when the Homeland Security Act was signed and the ATF showed up at my house with pictures of Osama and his cronies and asked if I'd seen any of them (I'm NOT kidding about this), I knew it was time to get out. CP Technologies IS an interesting data point in that their sales are down 50% and their PSAN motor technology isn't even ATF regulated! People are fed up. It shouldn't be this hard to have a hobby throwing cardboard rockets into the air. JKarp. NAR #80737 TRA #5515 L2
Cable companies have little say on how channels are bundled. The Viacoms, HBOs, etc. of the world determine the packages. This was no small part of the recent Viacom / Dish battle - Viacom insisted Dish carry a new POS cartoon channel in its basic package in order to get the rights to CBS. Cable companies would LOVE to sell you a-la-carte - they'd make a ton more money that way.