They still have a US-only version of DAFIF called USFIF. But that is going away in October of 2007. I wonder why -- lobbying from mapping software/paper map companies, maybe?
It's a good thing that governments have never ever researched nuclear weapons, otherwise they would have to post bomb making instructions on the internet.
Actually, the knowledge about how to make a nuke is pretty widespread. (Either fire two U-235 subcritical masses into one another at a high velocity to form a critical mass, or compress a hemisphere of fissile material with explosives.) It's making them small and efficient that's the secret now, but I don't think that terrorists/rogue states care much about that. Even a 'fizzle' yield in the middle of a major city would ruin a lot of people's days.
By placing such restrictions, they are nipping the very root from which such institutions begin.
BTW, Los Alamos began as a secret nuclear weapons lab. The people who worked there weren't even allowed to reveal their true address until the late 1940s -- before that, all mail went to PO Box XYZ Santa Fe, NM. And was censored coming in and out.
If anything, LANL is returning to its roots, not escaping them.
Everyone is so quick to demand privacy, but aren't as quick to allow other entities like businesses, governments, and other organizations the right to the same privacy.
Businesses, I have a certain amount of sympathy for. Governments: if it's paid for with my tax money, the results of the research better be released to the public unless there's a compelling reason not to. (I think that nuclear weapons designs fall under the "compelling reason" umbrella.)
with that pile of nuclear dirt lying open and poisoning the environment around those labs i wont give free access to historic archived information, too...
Mod parent up -- he has a point. The rush to develop nuclear weapons in the 40s, 50s, and 60s was marked by an almost callous disregard for the environment. They really *did* make a mess, especially at Hanford, Rocky Flats, and Oak Ridge. Less so at the national labs themselves, perhaps, but who really knows.
Not to mention that we nuked ourselves -- repeatedly -- in the 50s. There was simply no excuse for the continuation of above-ground testing at the Nevada site until 1963. The history of the nuclear weapons program is sad and disgusting (though I have to say that the Russians were even worse than us).
The US Constitution never mentioned the right to privacy and I'm sure that the founding father's would've found it laughable if someone mentioned it to them.
"Unreasonable search and seizure..." Things like electronic privacy and surveillance weren't an issue at the time, so they weren't written into the Constitution. It doesn't mean that the writers of the Constitution wouldn't have included a right to privacy, had it been a more major issue at the time.
apparently, Windows Live Desktop Mail is supposed to replace OE in XP and Windows Mail is supposed to do the same in Vista. But can it do newsgroups?:) And will the replacement automatically migrate the OE data to the new client, or will people wake up with a new, empty mail client after running Windows Update?
The day before your 21st birthday you're underage.
Oh for fuck's sake, dude. This was ~11:30pm on the day before his 21st bday. And he didn't drink at all before, so he probably didn't know his limitations.
Growing up in rural Maine (not that there's really any other kind of Maine:-P) we were all very friendly with our teachers, they would regularly invite our classes to their houses for cookouts and such, we didn't turn out so bad.
Same with quite a few teachers and coaches in not-so-rural NJ. No that reason teachers shouldn't be able to treat their pupils as humans rather than a mere product of the machine.
It's not all bad, BTW. I've had some great experiences and met some interesting and nice people while at college. But this article brought out some not-so-nice memories of the place.
BTW- Idaho/Utah have Mormons, PA has Quakers. Remember that Quakers invented the "separate" prison system, where convicts sat in their cells 23 hrs. a day and weren't allowed to talk to anyone (they were supposed to repent and get in peace with God). Only problem: it drove a lot of them mad.
WTF, they convicted you for that? Don't tell me you pled.
Actually, there were four charges:
(1) Felony riot
(2) Disregarding an official order (forget the exact phrasing, serious misdemeanor)
(3) Harassment
(4) Disorderly Conduct
The first two were dropped at the arraignment by the judge. Unfortunately, instead of fighting it, the attorney that I hired (recommended by the school, no less) recommended that I plead "no contest" to the last two charges instead of fighting them tooth and nail. So I got a program called ARD which got me 6 days of community service -- aka "county chaingang" -- and a year's probation, in exchange for the record being expunged in a few years, which it in fact was.
However, the newspaper articles remained online, and the felony arrest record also remained until expunged. Also, the State didn't let me take my Fundamentals of Engineering ("EIT") exams until the record was expunged. Ultimately, the joke's on them though, since I'm probably making more money as an independent consultant in NYC than I would ever have as an employee.
Had I been a bit older and smarter, I'd have fought those arseholes tooth and nail. After all, the maximum penalty for either of the offenses that remained was something like a $300 fine and 15 days in jail. I'd have probably also tried to press Federal charges against them for conspiracy to violate constitutional rights.
I know you're joking, but actually, in a few states, you can get your law license via apprenticeship and don't necessarily need to hold a law degree. New York, California, and Virginia come to mind, but I think there are others.
unscrupulous individuals to sell dangerous "Assault CDs" to just anyone without even a minimum of control or oversight and allows these dangerous criminals to avoid the entire registration process.
*grin*. I think I need to make a CD with something like Dropkick Murphy's recorded on it and circular saw blade teeth on the outside edge. Be the perfect thrown weapon.
Not entirely correct. Educational institutions also have rules which dictate what constitutes acceptable behavior. Some are more strict than others, and some universities include in their degrees a reputation for high standards of character and behavior.
I've never heard of an university that considered drinking alcohol by someone *of legal age* to be unacceptable behavior, as long as they weren't rioting/being rowdy, going to class drunk, or driving drunk.
So under "free speech" it's legal for a shopkeeper to give out his customers' credit card numbers to anyone who asks... or for an IT person to release sensitive research information to the public... or for doctors to release patient records? Verizon's argument is crap.
They are saying (I think) that she is going to teach children and she is dressed in a costume that kids like, so they will think it's cool to drink and be a pirate.
Besides, is the university the right organization to police who's appropriate to get an education degree? An education degree signifies that she has successfully completed her course work in education, no more, no less. If the State wants not to grant her a teaching license, that's a different story, but that's probably subject to some legal means of appeal and due process.
(1) Arrested in the hospital for public drunkenness and underage drinking after you are taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning a day before your 21st bday. This actually happened to a friend. I guess that it's far better to let students with alcohol poisoning choke on their own vomit than go to the hospital and risk getting arrested.
(2) Arrested for felony riot for telling a cop who had just hit a fellow student in the face at a Red Cross benefit show that he'd be better off helping clean up NYC after 9/11 than harrassing students who ARE actually trying to help. This actually happened to me a few weeks after 9/11/2001, and fucked with my life for the next few years (difficult to get a job, probation basically required for me to move out of state).
In short; to Hell with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the puritanical prigs who seem to run the government and apparently non-governmental organizations as well.
The only reason I see no need for a National ID type system is that there's no reason we can't efficiently connect the state systems together and keep our unique state images.
Actually, that's what the Real ID Act does. It mandates that licenses include a certain subset of information and that the databases be connected, NOT a single appearance of ID card.
Actually, it doesn't mandate anything, but states lose funding if they don't implement it (but still have their citizens' money stolen in the form of Federal taxes) and their licenses won't be valid for Federal ID purposes.
I was suggesting there be no door, that the control cabin be an isolated portion of the aircraft.
What if both pilots are incapacitated in flight, say due to a release of smoke from an electrical fire? Sometimes, safety dictates that you need to access the cockpit in flight.
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Actually, the knowledge about how to make a nuke is pretty widespread. (Either fire two U-235 subcritical masses into one another at a high velocity to form a critical mass, or compress a hemisphere of fissile material with explosives.) It's making them small and efficient that's the secret now, but I don't think that terrorists/rogue states care much about that. Even a 'fizzle' yield in the middle of a major city would ruin a lot of people's days.
-b.
BTW, Los Alamos began as a secret nuclear weapons lab. The people who worked there weren't even allowed to reveal their true address until the late 1940s -- before that, all mail went to PO Box XYZ Santa Fe, NM. And was censored coming in and out.
If anything, LANL is returning to its roots, not escaping them.
-b.
Businesses, I have a certain amount of sympathy for. Governments: if it's paid for with my tax money, the results of the research better be released to the public unless there's a compelling reason not to. (I think that nuclear weapons designs fall under the "compelling reason" umbrella.)
-b.
Mod parent up -- he has a point. The rush to develop nuclear weapons in the 40s, 50s, and 60s was marked by an almost callous disregard for the environment. They really *did* make a mess, especially at Hanford, Rocky Flats, and Oak Ridge. Less so at the national labs themselves, perhaps, but who really knows.
Not to mention that we nuked ourselves -- repeatedly -- in the 50s. There was simply no excuse for the continuation of above-ground testing at the Nevada site until 1963. The history of the nuclear weapons program is sad and disgusting (though I have to say that the Russians were even worse than us).
-b.
"Unreasonable search and seizure..." Things like electronic privacy and surveillance weren't an issue at the time, so they weren't written into the Constitution. It doesn't mean that the writers of the Constitution wouldn't have included a right to privacy, had it been a more major issue at the time.
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I meant that if the pilots are incapacitated, someone else may need to step in to fly the plane.
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Oh for fuck's sake, dude. This was ~11:30pm on the day before his 21st bday. And he didn't drink at all before, so he probably didn't know his limitations.
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Same with quite a few teachers and coaches in not-so-rural NJ. No that reason teachers shouldn't be able to treat their pupils as humans rather than a mere product of the machine.
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Is a VP immune to prosecution for treason? This sounds like an offense that could be punishable by death since it risks the life of an operative.
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It's not all bad, BTW. I've had some great experiences and met some interesting and nice people while at college. But this article brought out some not-so-nice memories of the place.
BTW- Idaho/Utah have Mormons, PA has Quakers. Remember that Quakers invented the "separate" prison system, where convicts sat in their cells 23 hrs. a day and weren't allowed to talk to anyone (they were supposed to repent and get in peace with God). Only problem: it drove a lot of them mad.
-b.
Actually, there were four charges:
(1) Felony riot
(2) Disregarding an official order (forget the exact phrasing, serious misdemeanor)
(3) Harassment
(4) Disorderly Conduct
The first two were dropped at the arraignment by the judge. Unfortunately, instead of fighting it, the attorney that I hired (recommended by the school, no less) recommended that I plead "no contest" to the last two charges instead of fighting them tooth and nail. So I got a program called ARD which got me 6 days of community service -- aka "county chaingang" -- and a year's probation, in exchange for the record being expunged in a few years, which it in fact was.
However, the newspaper articles remained online, and the felony arrest record also remained until expunged. Also, the State didn't let me take my Fundamentals of Engineering ("EIT") exams until the record was expunged. Ultimately, the joke's on them though, since I'm probably making more money as an independent consultant in NYC than I would ever have as an employee.
Had I been a bit older and smarter, I'd have fought those arseholes tooth and nail. After all, the maximum penalty for either of the offenses that remained was something like a $300 fine and 15 days in jail. I'd have probably also tried to press Federal charges against them for conspiracy to violate constitutional rights.
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With expression: "Your right to swing your fist around ends at the tip of my nose."
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Irrelevant -- I'm saying that their *argumentation* and *reasoning* are simply wrong.
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I know you're joking, but actually, in a few states, you can get your law license via apprenticeship and don't necessarily need to hold a law degree. New York, California, and Virginia come to mind, but I think there are others.
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*grin*. I think I need to make a CD with something like Dropkick Murphy's recorded on it and circular saw blade teeth on the outside edge. Be the perfect thrown weapon.
-b.
I've never heard of an university that considered drinking alcohol by someone *of legal age* to be unacceptable behavior, as long as they weren't rioting/being rowdy, going to class drunk, or driving drunk.
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Besides, is the university the right organization to police who's appropriate to get an education degree? An education degree signifies that she has successfully completed her course work in education, no more, no less. If the State wants not to grant her a teaching license, that's a different story, but that's probably subject to some legal means of appeal and due process.
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(1) Arrested in the hospital for public drunkenness and underage drinking after you are taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning a day before your 21st bday. This actually happened to a friend. I guess that it's far better to let students with alcohol poisoning choke on their own vomit than go to the hospital and risk getting arrested.
(2) Arrested for felony riot for telling a cop who had just hit a fellow student in the face at a Red Cross benefit show that he'd be better off helping clean up NYC after 9/11 than harrassing students who ARE actually trying to help. This actually happened to me a few weeks after 9/11/2001, and fucked with my life for the next few years (difficult to get a job, probation basically required for me to move out of state).
In short; to Hell with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the puritanical prigs who seem to run the government and apparently non-governmental organizations as well.
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You shouldn't need ID to use public transport (planes and Amtrak trains in the USA). Too much like an internal passport.
-b.
Actually, that's what the Real ID Act does. It mandates that licenses include a certain subset of information and that the databases be connected, NOT a single appearance of ID card.
Actually, it doesn't mandate anything, but states lose funding if they don't implement it (but still have their citizens' money stolen in the form of Federal taxes) and their licenses won't be valid for Federal ID purposes.
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He must be Japanese. His country was attacked *by* the country founded by the Fathers using WMD.
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What if both pilots are incapacitated in flight, say due to a release of smoke from an electrical fire? Sometimes, safety dictates that you need to access the cockpit in flight.
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