Most people don't join protests because it is a hassle, doesn't fit in their busy schedules, requires effort, and most people have a lot of things to do anyway. What with families to shop for, shuttling kids to after school activities, friends, and so on, most people simply haven't the time to join a protest, especially when the protest doesn't match their schedule. People are simply way too pragmatic to join in any protest. It has no immediate practical benefit, it is not enjoyable in and of itself, it is not a good family outing.
But remember the Divx DVD fiasco, cost $100 more for less benefit, had to have a phone hookup, could only play in the one DVD player it was first played in, and the one claimed benefit, being able to throw out the rental DVD and not have to take it back to the store, didn't matter because they were going back there, or at least past it, anyway? That died a quick death because it had very practical aspects which interfered with people's lives, cost more, and gave them no added benefit.
I say these tags would be wonderful. People are practical, they would see the tag, maybe ask about it, and steer clear. Even if they themselves have no intention of ever using it in a computer, they are not stupid, and will instinctively know that if it is crippled that way, something is wrong with it, and wont want to waste their time with it. If they don't notice it, or ignore, all it will take is a few horror stories from friends, won't play in the car, or portable, or the computer at work, bingo, they will sit up, pay attention, and skip those CDs.
Bet you dollars to donuts that by the time the little deviants get to college, we'll have some sort of electronic leash just waiting for them.
Furthermore, the kids will be so used to the idea, they will see nothing wrong with it, in fact quite the reverse, they will feel uncomfortable without it.
Anyone who mods this as funny just doesn't get it.
Seems to me much more useful to think of the country someone moves to as how to describe them, that is the kind of person they want to be, or the kind of person they consider themselves. If someone moves FROM Britain TO America, seems like Britain has not offered what they want, that their mind is already American.
I propose Clementine as best showing his talents, where he plays that hoary old song Clementine as if it had been written by various different people, Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, I think 4 or 5 total. Shows his writing and playing and singing talents very well, he's not just sarcastic fluff, he's intelligently done sarcastic fluff.
Like when they designed the last 4 US battleships, somehow two teams got confused on turret size, I believe it was for the 5" turrets, had to do some quick re-engineering to make them fit. No, nothing like that would ever happen in real engineering, noooo, software engineering is soooo special...
You are right about over the air broadcasts owing the public something in exchange for using the public commons. It also does apply to cable systems where governments have granted them a monopoly, as is common in the US. But our so-called representatives have answered that by requiring public access channels, where basically anyone can make up their own announcement or program. AT least that works for cable. For broadcast, I don't know what the exchange is supposed to be.
So it is your birthright not only to watch TV, but to watch good TV, and to watch it without advertising?
Keerist you have your knickers on backwards. What gives you the right to tell TV producers how to spend their money, what to produce? It's their money. In fact, even that's not right, it's money they get from advertisers in return for enticing people to watch said ads. If you don't like that exchange, don't participate, no one put a gun to your head. Or be proactive instead of reactive or merely whiny, produce your own shows and entice viewers away from the inferior crap you complain so much about.
What a laugh: the horrible load of advertising I'm put through, freaking amazing what pampered people expect.
I have always gotten a kick out of brand names and trademarks which don't translate so well... always wondered how many British jokes went out on Sun being the full stop in dot com...
This is meant to fly around a battlefield and shoot down Scuds and similar medium range missiles. It is not meant for strategic defense, because there is presumably no warning on ICBM launches. It is not meant for short range tactical missles, too many of them.
It is a first step, a baby step weapon. You have to take that first step sometime.
I have two halogen torch lamps reflecting off the ceiling to provide area lighting, 300W beasties, and would love to replace them with flourescents. But every time I have bought a flourescent, desk or floor, it comes nowhere near the quoted equivalent wattage. One flourescent torch lamp is pretty disappointing, its maximum, with both tubes on, is less than the half maximum of the halogen.
Have you had this problem, and regardless of that answer, do you have any recommendations for flourescent torch lamps or wide area lamps?
The principle applies to everything. A friend used to complain that the only good movies were foreign movies. I bet people feel the same everywhere. It's because natives see (at least, hear of) all their country's movies, crap and good, and most are crap. Only the good ones are exported, so foreigners think all foreign movies are good, or at least that there is a higher proportion of good movies.
Same for time. Others have said this, the crap doesn't last, so you only see the good, and think they had a much better track record xx years ago.
Look at oldies radio stations (if there are any left). Listen to an oldies station and it amazes you how many hits they had back then and how little crap. That's because they have 20 years of hits to choose from, they can leave out the crap, while the top 40 stations have to choose from stuff selling at that instant, even a few months is too old.
Ahh, I had no idea rockets were nothing but smelted metal. Strap on some orbital control units, yes, of course, why didn't I think of that?
Do you have any idea what is involved in manufacturing anything, let alone orbital control units and rockets? Perhaps you ought to look into the local industrial areas near you, look into all the different facilities, the infrastructure. You don't just dump raw ore into one end and out pops a rocket from the other.
And then there's this:
if you can't smelt the ore on the moon you could probably build a strong container for it
That really shows what few clues you have. Raw ore has a low fraction of useful mineral. You'd be spending a fortune shipping slag to earth. Then there's the container, you'd have more useful mineral in the container and burned up in the heat shield than was shipped back. If you can't smelt the ore to build a rocket, how the heck are you going to build a container?
Or this:
you could just run monthly fuel drops up to the moon
Look at the weights of payload reaching the moon vs initial launch weight. Probably 100:1 at best. You're going to use 100 times the fuel required to ship stuff back. Imagine if the fuel tanker trucks delivering to your local gas station burned 100 times as much fuel as they delivered, or oil tankers burned 100 times the fuel they delivered across oceans. A 400,000 ton tanker delivering 4000 tons of crude... does it become more sensible just because it's from the moon?
You have no idea what you are talking about. This mining idea is ludicrous, not even remotely feasible for several decades.
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Did something happen that requires everything to start in the USA? Gosh, maybe once in a while, something could start somewhere else.
Ya think?
Obviously not.
Most people don't join protests because it is a hassle, doesn't fit in their busy schedules, requires effort, and most people have a lot of things to do anyway. What with families to shop for, shuttling kids to after school activities, friends, and so on, most people simply haven't the time to join a protest, especially when the protest doesn't match their schedule. People are simply way too pragmatic to join in any protest. It has no immediate practical benefit, it is not enjoyable in and of itself, it is not a good family outing.
But remember the Divx DVD fiasco, cost $100 more for less benefit, had to have a phone hookup, could only play in the one DVD player it was first played in, and the one claimed benefit, being able to throw out the rental DVD and not have to take it back to the store, didn't matter because they were going back there, or at least past it, anyway? That died a quick death because it had very practical aspects which interfered with people's lives, cost more, and gave them no added benefit.
I say these tags would be wonderful. People are practical, they would see the tag, maybe ask about it, and steer clear. Even if they themselves have no intention of ever using it in a computer, they are not stupid, and will instinctively know that if it is crippled that way, something is wrong with it, and wont want to waste their time with it. If they don't notice it, or ignore, all it will take is a few horror stories from friends, won't play in the car, or portable, or the computer at work, bingo, they will sit up, pay attention, and skip those CDs.
People are very pragmatic.
I did not know it, but he was born in India. I guess the joke's on both of us :-)
Nope, not 64, my meory is failing :-(, 50 or 52, I see from various other places. Sorry about that!
Bet you dollars to donuts that by the time the little deviants get to college, we'll have some sort of electronic leash just waiting for them.
Furthermore, the kids will be so used to the idea, they will see nothing wrong with it, in fact quite the reverse, they will feel uncomfortable without it.
Anyone who mods this as funny just doesn't get it.
Seems to me much more useful to think of the country someone moves to as how to describe them, that is the kind of person they want to be, or the kind of person they consider themselves. If someone moves FROM Britain TO America, seems like Britain has not offered what they want, that their mind is already American.
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Whatever "American" means
I believe the Osborne I only had a 64 character wide display ....
War has it's place, and Bush knows it.
:-)
Yeh, as far from the war as possible, in daddy's National Guard back home, or rather, playing hooky from it. That's reality for ya
It's called BSOD.
Are we gonna run credit checks on the pilots too?
Patrick Volkerding is like slackware itself -- quiet, competent, gets the job done without need for flash. Rock solid, comforting, a fine old friend.
The last name doesn't sound very Irish, but Saint Patrick to be sure. And you just missed your very own day, tis a shame to be sure.
Funny, I guess the Singapore, Pakistan, Indian, Saudi, Iran, Iraq, Russian, French, Japanese et all links are just fakes, eh?
... it must be the touring test.
I propose Clementine as best showing his talents, where he plays that hoary old song Clementine as if it had been written by various different people, Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, I think 4 or 5 total. Shows his writing and playing and singing talents very well, he's not just sarcastic fluff, he's intelligently done sarcastic fluff.
Like when they designed the last 4 US battleships, somehow two teams got confused on turret size, I believe it was for the 5" turrets, had to do some quick re-engineering to make them fit. No, nothing like that would ever happen in real engineering, noooo, software engineering is soooo special...
You are right about over the air broadcasts owing the public something in exchange for using the public commons. It also does apply to cable systems where governments have granted them a monopoly, as is common in the US. But our so-called representatives have answered that by requiring public access channels, where basically anyone can make up their own announcement or program. AT least that works for cable. For broadcast, I don't know what the exchange is supposed to be.
So it is your birthright not only to watch TV, but to watch good TV, and to watch it without advertising?
Keerist you have your knickers on backwards. What gives you the right to tell TV producers how to spend their money, what to produce? It's their money. In fact, even that's not right, it's money they get from advertisers in return for enticing people to watch said ads. If you don't like that exchange, don't participate, no one put a gun to your head. Or be proactive instead of reactive or merely whiny, produce your own shows and entice viewers away from the inferior crap you complain so much about.
What a laugh: the horrible load of advertising I'm put through, freaking amazing what pampered people expect.
I have always gotten a kick out of brand names and trademarks which don't translate so well ... always wondered how many British jokes went out on Sun being the full stop in dot com...
This is meant to fly around a battlefield and shoot down Scuds and similar medium range missiles. It is not meant for strategic defense, because there is presumably no warning on ICBM launches. It is not meant for short range tactical missles, too many of them.
It is a first step, a baby step weapon. You have to take that first step sometime.
I also wonder if I could do this with steaming audio.
Depends on who is steaming who.
I have two halogen torch lamps reflecting off the ceiling to provide area lighting, 300W beasties, and would love to replace them with flourescents. But every time I have bought a flourescent, desk or floor, it comes nowhere near the quoted equivalent wattage. One flourescent torch lamp is pretty disappointing, its maximum, with both tubes on, is less than the half maximum of the halogen.
Have you had this problem, and regardless of that answer, do you have any recommendations for flourescent torch lamps or wide area lamps?
The principle applies to everything. A friend used to complain that the only good movies were foreign movies. I bet people feel the same everywhere. It's because natives see (at least, hear of) all their country's movies, crap and good, and most are crap. Only the good ones are exported, so foreigners think all foreign movies are good, or at least that there is a higher proportion of good movies.
Same for time. Others have said this, the crap doesn't last, so you only see the good, and think they had a much better track record xx years ago.
Look at oldies radio stations (if there are any left). Listen to an oldies station and it amazes you how many hits they had back then and how little crap. That's because they have 20 years of hits to choose from, they can leave out the crap, while the top 40 stations have to choose from stuff selling at that instant, even a few months is too old.
What about Saturn's rings? Does that count as millions of moons?
Ahh, I had no idea rockets were nothing but smelted metal. Strap on some orbital control units, yes, of course, why didn't I think of that?
... does it become more sensible just because it's from the moon?
Do you have any idea what is involved in manufacturing anything, let alone orbital control units and rockets? Perhaps you ought to look into the local industrial areas near you, look into all the different facilities, the infrastructure. You don't just dump raw ore into one end and out pops a rocket from the other.
And then there's this:
if you can't smelt the ore on the moon you could probably build a strong container for it
That really shows what few clues you have. Raw ore has a low fraction of useful mineral. You'd be spending a fortune shipping slag to earth. Then there's the container, you'd have more useful mineral in the container and burned up in the heat shield than was shipped back. If you can't smelt the ore to build a rocket, how the heck are you going to build a container?
Or this:
you could just run monthly fuel drops up to the moon
Look at the weights of payload reaching the moon vs initial launch weight. Probably 100:1 at best. You're going to use 100 times the fuel required to ship stuff back. Imagine if the fuel tanker trucks delivering to your local gas station burned 100 times as much fuel as they delivered, or oil tankers burned 100 times the fuel they delivered across oceans. A 400,000 ton tanker delivering 4000 tons of crude
You have no idea what you are talking about. This mining idea is ludicrous, not even remotely feasible for several decades.