Are you trying to excite snowraver1 (1052510)? Did you read his/her:
"Things like my xbox 360, CPLDs, diodes, LEDs... I should stop there... I'm turning myself on... Oh baby... TTL chips, CMOS... Good 'ol CMOS never say no when you call her late at night."?
"Microsoft's strategy of building bigger versions of windows, which require bigger versions of PCs is flattening out on the curve, with Vista adoption quite slow."
I suspect he was killed by some conventional means, but then in the process of resisting, he was made to suffer cracked ribs, and such, but also during the process, maybe his assailant used some electrical wire or conductive pipe as a weapon. Somehow, the phone was caused to thermally discharge or unite with the/a conductive pole or live wires.
Where did this many REALLY work? Was he a plant/mole and somebody took him out because he came back early from a toilet visit or break? Did someone fire a dart or low-caliber metal-jacketed bullet and just happened to hit his phone? (I don't do failure analysis and didn't look at the picture for phone/bullet ballistics, but a powerful bullet that didn't break up but somehow violently discharged his phone might penetrate and ricochet to break ribs, etc. But, unless reports of a bullet emerge....)
Was this guy a courier en route and was intercepted, or did some ganger bangers just point-blank fire a BB gun at him and HAPPENED to hit his phone and short it out?
Or, was he screwing around with something electrical (touching or crawling on) and got zapped and then writhed so hard in a confined space that he fractured and broke bones? (Again, unless any report of him snooping or doing something in a bad area emerge....)
"An LG official confirmed its product was involved in the accident but said the company would not comment directly on the accident because the cause was not confirmed."
Hell, of COURSE LG won't respond. "LG" means "Life's Good", and certainly not the case for the decedent.
Actually, I wonder what would happen TO a vacuum cleaner powered up and turned on in space. I wonder if it would suck to death. How long before the bag fills up?
And would a Hepa Bag or unit collect much of value?
How long would dust mites survive in space (say, not too hot, not too cold, but just in vacuum... they survive cold-water laundering...)
""The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 1955) last month, by a vote of 404 to 6, that says the Internet is a terrorist tool and that Congress needs to develop and implement methods to combat it.""
At first glance, my mind read that "CONGRESS WAS GOING TO COMBAT THE INTERNET"...
That reminds me of what one of the nuns taught us about sentence structure, using the sentence:
"We have bicycles for boys with adjustable seats."
Here question to us: "Adjustable seats? WHO or WHAT has them, the boys or the bicycles?" Obviously, boys don't have adjustable seats, or so SHE said.
I ALWAYS see another side. Boys DO have "adjustable seats"... if a sabre or machete is taken to them...
An aside: I often became bored with English and grammar lessons, so I became "creative" and expanded my sentences from simple SOV shit like:
"The dog ran across the street."
"The 3-legged dog with green hair skipped across the street."
After a few days of that, the nun had a chat with my mom, who chewed my ass out and told me to "be normal" so I don't stand out in bad way..." or some such admonishment.
"Do a little research and you'll find that Chinese goals are to become a regional hegemony in order to balance US world hegemony (if you don't believe me say so and I'll dig out an old paper and find some citations to Chinese national policy plans which state this publically)."
Is it so wrong for ANY substantively large country (particularly one invaded by NON-Asians) to hold a grudge for being invaded, polluted with drugs, and such? Is it so wrong for the Chinese, radical Koreans, anarchist Japanese, rebellious Filipinos to try to stanch or stave off Western imperialism or hegemony? I'm NOT saying "Down with the US through violence", but I damn well have NO problem with an educated population keeping its history, culture, self-direction, and flexible, non-shackled defense policies and suppliers.
Besides, many US allies have military, economic, political, and entertainment vendors from numerous sources other than the US. It's called spreading eggs around (not keeping all in one basket) and having plausible deniability to safely distance oneself from some royal US dickups (politicians as well as expeditionary actions/"direct action").
And, I KNOW China's government is no SAINT. The US, too, would have China's issues if the US population grew by 100,000 million a year over the next 10 years. It would HAVE to obtain strategic (geographically local and distant) suppliers -- especially from South America and African continents -- for resources (metals, raw goods, ores, etc...) and it would be FORCED to disperse those in the swelling population to move farther inland, necessitating the creation of new cities (spreading more genes around for future archaeologists?).
But, current cabal US mayors probably don't WANT their power and state standing diminished (don't want competition from 10 more state mayors). Just look at the not-so-long-ago merger battle of LA and some nearby cities...
But, it might do the US some good. Would force nuclear energy to the fore, maybe even more UULEV cars and MagLev trains. Sometimes I WISH gas/oil would dry up or start costing $125 to $300/bbl JUST to put a cap in the ass of regular, fuel-inefficient POVs. We're squandering away TOO much useful, held-back technology.
Besides, Calif could benefit from resurgence if efficient autos research could afford to move here. But, they'll likely keep their genetics-driven tech base in Ohio, Tennessee, Shanghai (or nearby, less-expensive cities/provinces)....
"1. America is named for Amerigo Vespucci, and its earliest use to refer to the continent is in a German map from the very early 1500's. It's pretty certain it's not of Chinese origin."
China's 1420's maps and charts (land and ocean) PREDATED Germany's. China's were BEFORE Columbus DREAMT of sailing without losing crew. China's fleets knew how to prevent scurvy. Did the Europeans of the day?
Mwo? Through gunfire? Through prayers to a god for deliverance of expurgation upon savages? By deceit and wholesale decimation of a population? (I'm talking the 1400's China, not today's economic China.)
And, who is it who in 30 years decimated the Spice Trades routes (Silk Road), etc. that took some 1,000 years or more to be erected and stabilized?
China's just trying to get back what was hers, one way or another. Global stature was one, and tho she looked inward and closed up for a long time (after the lightning bolt and other economic woes and revolutions/uprisings and such), but I don't recall China going geographically outside her borders (never mind the current Yakuza/gang/cocaine/meth/heroine/Korea/money-laundering, secrets-sleuthing operations of today) to plant population-slumping drugs, take islands, and ensnare governments in heinous multi-hundred-year land leases.
A LOT of people here need to do a LOT of reading, too, not just me. It never fails that when I say something bordering or outright anti-US/anti-thug-any-government comment I get modded as a troll. If I stay strong-USA on military stuff, I'm suddenly knowledgeable and modded 4 or 5. A lot of dumbshits on this site....
Have any of you considered that the Mossad has plants working AT Google, and that (like other countries with plants working in key or security-critical employers-- civil or private) that plant's duty was to monitor, collect, report on, sanitize, and enable the use of it for government purposes, whether to bring charges against someone or to slander someone?
Most of the comments so far (among the 1st 15) make it seem like Google is slipping into the hells. It very well could be that MOD/Israel contacted Google USA out of cursory moves, but already planned to use the IP collected whether or NOT GUSA assented, and probably had plans to SAY GUSA cooperated.
Of course, the US State Department and other agencies might WELCOME this, as another ruse/means of getting 'merkuns to RELAX their expectations of privacy over security.
Any more informed or better opinions to follow those prior to my own (slanted) assumptions here?
Columbus' poor-navigating landed him here (with the aid of dubiously-obtained (hint: stolen/misappropriated) maps originating FROM/IN China), and proclaiming he'd found Indians (he WAS trying to get to India...)
Also, relatively recent evidence (in the 70's/80's) a junk (Chinese in origin) was found buried in silt in the SF Bay Area (Sacramento River?) when someone investigated glass beads they sucked up into a tube. Found out the beads originated from China. Samples of the hull wood indicated non-English/Portuguese/other European vessel. Various tombstones and observatories and obelisks also of Chinese origin, along with numerous "Native Americans" having Chinese clothing, tribal, cooking and artistic attributes known to have Chinese characteristics, further indicated 1420's era Chinese landed here, not by ACCIDENT, but by DESIGN.
Yes, like Europeans, Chinese sailors inadvertently passed/carried diseases, which in the case of Chinese, wiped out 10,000s of Natives. However, the difference is the Chinese didn't come here to STAY, invade, expurgate, demolish, or hijack an existing, thriving human ecosystem (competitive and warring, true), nor to subject the Natives.
That alone speaks VOLUMES about wisdom, humility, and more.
Sorry, but history in the US is so full of shit, and it's tragic that this is NOT being taught to inspire respect, humility, and more in modern US citizens who will have to deal with the morass we and our so-called leaders have gotten this country into time after time.
Returning to the book:
Sadly, too, it seems Australia at the behest of the US and UK/Britain, erected a shield of environmental or national preservation laws to stymie Gavin Menzies and the world's researchers from diving or going close to reefs and wrecks that would likely further the evidence that Chinese even were all over what became called Australia.
Something I read in this AM's news:
However, I suppose to its credit, Australia's government is going to formally apologize to the Aborigines. Hopefully, Australia's new government will demolish the pugnacious stymie law and the body of information allowed to continue additions to 1421's story.
She is too kind. I think the matter is that "sco" JUMPED up at the top of the stairs, aiming on PURPOSED for the bottom. But, they jumped so hard, it broke mandibles, fractured the nose, shattered the eye socket, and snagged balls along the baluster and then had not enough breath to say, "Help, I've fallen (after JUMPING) down the stairs, and my legs are twisted. But, that's OK, because I think I have shagged myself. OK, I can feel my anus dripping, but maybe that's my teeth just passing through... Oh, wait, Why didn't we file in Texas, where we could WIN for sure... Damn, we should have reincorporated there BEFORE suing..."
So, in the aim to protect the country, I imagine a LOT of students working internationally could inadvertently be caught up in ITAR, as this research could entail defeating or reducing effectiveness of military apparatuses. I mention this because someone mentioned a contractor could use a $10,000,000 windoze-based computer vs Linux and bill the government for it and profit. Since Linux and Open Source seem to have disdain or political or bureaucratic borders, "home defence" could just end up hurting a LOT of people...
I somehow doubt that the people will mind if this money is WASTED when the nuke-CARRYING ship just fires the damned nuke from a container picked up in transit, unmasked when at some optimal firing range, and then launched before entering the port supporting the background scanner.
No, these scanners will make a BUNDLE of money for SOMEbodies. Why? They irrationality of port-of-entry scanners being land-locked will come to the fore and some enterprising person or company will propose mounting the scanners along the shipping lanes, corralling the ships down a path (I'm thinking WWII GIUK/choke points as well as the STTOS Maps of Federation Shipping and Warp Travel routes...I'm a graphical thinker, okay?) instead of letting them arrive and then blow up when close enough to dirty the beach.
-- Make the scanners ship-mounted (as if they aren't already on USCG or other nations' CG units)
-- Scan the inbound ships (even naval ships) for nukes (this will upset the USN especially if Open Source detectors (assuming the critical components are not military or munitions list items) because now Japanese and Korean protesters can TRULY find out which USN/Other ships have nukes...)
-- Scan outbound ships, too
For that matter, put the scanners in tethered balloons along commercial aircraft glide slopes and require all aircraft inbound to dogleg thru the area when about 125 miles out. (I'm thinking Longbow Apache game's training boxes in the air.... It was a bitch keeping that helo IN the guide boxes... Damn that my CDs got scratched...)
Hell, we attribute some things to "Mother Nature" and live with it. We don't call Her a "bitch", or "asshole", or such. Why not see Terrorists as reactionary cells (cancerous, whatever....) to other cells (white, whatever...)? When the cell count in the body goes out of the norm (being set by evolution, environment, local exposure...), white cells attack the "undesired" or rogue (rogue until THEY take over...) cells and attempt to snuff them out.
We all have brains, and MOST of us KNOW how to PREVENT problems, but alas, greed and selfishness, arrogance and pride, vengeance and indifference just keep entropy in play....
We wouldn't NEED these neutron devices if some minority of strings pullers would stop alienating minority, but dangerous opposition. (Minority could apply to the Terrorists OR to the masses-to-industrialists number...)
If they want to go on an easter egg hunt, let THEM pay for it. Companies need to respond to those EULAs by first COMMENCING paying for whatever fees they pay when activating, then telling the agent:
-- Now, we won't send the check until you exempt us from a raid. We will bring in our OWN auditor of choice from a listed authority, OTHER THAN THE BSA, and if you don't amend the terms of the sales and licensing agreement, we won't buy licenses of your software.
T9 just pisses me OFF. I can't stand how my phone's got a knack for defaulting to (and STAYING with) that shitty T9 that can't predict a DAMN about what *I* have to type. It just ends up with jibberish, and I *WISH* I could remove the shit once and for all from the interface. Anyone here from Sprint have anything to do with firmware/software upgrades? Please, remove the shit, or give us an option to remove it. It's so irritating that it makes me want to got bitch-slap whomever signed off on it. For someone with multi-thousands of words or word combinations in vocabulary, T9 is a worthless piece of shit. I tend to use whole words often, but lately have begun to just abbreviate if it is non-confusing. That is how fast some brains can work. (I chickened out of the Spelling Bee when I was in the 4th grad, did very well in vocabulary, spelling, grammar... and don't need nor care for any word/text predictors...)
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Are you trying to excite snowraver1 (1052510)? Did you read his/her:
"Things like my xbox 360, CPLDs, diodes, LEDs... I should stop there... I'm turning myself on... Oh baby... TTL chips, CMOS... Good 'ol CMOS never say no when you call her late at night."?
And, what colors would we get if we (could) make:
Gallium Nitride and Boron Arsenide?
Gallant, galloping nitrogenous, bored asses color spectrum?
"Microsoft's strategy of building bigger versions of windows, which require bigger versions of PCs is flattening out on the curve, with Vista adoption quite slow."
To that, I'll add:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Windows&defid=1581637
""New Type of Fatigue (CastroEderItis) RE-Discovered in Castro District"?"
Meant:
"New Type of Fatigue (CastroEndTenderItis) RE-Discovered in Castro District"?
I was thinking "New Type of Fatigue Discovered in Silicon VALLEY".
But, now that you're thinking (alluding to breasts/mothers' milk; or rampantly-chewing boys or men on females) "siliCONE", why not think these?:
"New Type of Fatigue in Silicon ALLEY, or"
"New Type of Fatigue (CastroEderItis) RE-Discovered in Castro District"?
"New Type of Parking Discovered in Rear" (More Parking in Rear)...
Such a lovely day...for gags... ummm chokes... umm JOKES...
light blain...
Yeh, there be parrallellism there....
(2 Ls up there, 2 Ls down here; 2R, 2L, 2L... get it?)
See my:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=373233&cid=21509595
I suspect he was killed by some conventional means, but then in the process of resisting, he was made to suffer cracked ribs, and such, but also during the process, maybe his assailant used some electrical wire or conductive pipe as a weapon. Somehow, the phone was caused to thermally discharge or unite with the/a conductive pole or live wires.
Where did this many REALLY work? Was he a plant/mole and somebody took him out because he came back early from a toilet visit or break? Did someone fire a dart or low-caliber metal-jacketed bullet and just happened to hit his phone? (I don't do failure analysis and didn't look at the picture for phone/bullet ballistics, but a powerful bullet that didn't break up but somehow violently discharged his phone might penetrate and ricochet to break ribs, etc. But, unless reports of a bullet emerge....)
Was this guy a courier en route and was intercepted, or did some ganger bangers just point-blank fire a BB gun at him and HAPPENED to hit his phone and short it out?
Or, was he screwing around with something electrical (touching or crawling on) and got zapped and then writhed so hard in a confined space that he fractured and broke bones? (Again, unless any report of him snooping or doing something in a bad area emerge....)
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye?
You in a cocktail skirt, me in a suit
well that just isn't me.
You're used to wearing less
And now your house is a mess
And of for me, I fear...
(Marc Almond, Soft Cell)
----
Yoboseyo? Choesong hajiman Suh sonsaengnim chuseyo.
Chamkkan kidariseyo.
Ne, malssum haseyo...
Ah, Oh-day Suh-sonsaengni-seyo? A-Bye-bye...
-----
More from the Oldboys school?
------
"An LG official confirmed its product was involved in the accident but said the company would not comment directly on the accident because the cause was not confirmed."
Hell, of COURSE LG won't respond. "LG" means "Life's Good", and certainly not the case for the decedent.
Hoover Speed
Bissel Speed
Oreck Speed
Haier Speed
No, wait...
Gemini Universal Speed....?
Actually, I wonder what would happen TO a vacuum cleaner powered up and turned on in space. I wonder if it would suck to death. How long before the bag fills up?
And would a Hepa Bag or unit collect much of value?
How long would dust mites survive in space (say, not too hot, not too cold, but just in vacuum... they survive cold-water laundering...)
""The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 1955) last month, by a vote of 404 to 6, that says the Internet is a terrorist tool and that Congress needs to develop and implement methods to combat it.""
At first glance, my mind read that "CONGRESS WAS GOING TO COMBAT THE INTERNET"...
That reminds me of what one of the nuns taught us about sentence structure, using the sentence:
"We have bicycles for boys with adjustable seats."
Here question to us: "Adjustable seats? WHO or WHAT has them, the boys or the bicycles?" Obviously, boys don't have adjustable seats, or so SHE said.
I ALWAYS see another side. Boys DO have "adjustable seats"... if a sabre or machete is taken to them...
An aside: I often became bored with English and grammar lessons, so I became "creative" and expanded my sentences from simple SOV shit like:
"The dog ran across the street."
"The 3-legged dog with green hair skipped across the street."
After a few days of that, the nun had a chat with my mom, who chewed my ass out and told me to "be normal" so I don't stand out in bad way..." or some such admonishment.
"Do a little research and you'll find that Chinese goals are to become a regional hegemony in order to balance US world hegemony (if you don't believe me say so and I'll dig out an old paper and find some citations to Chinese national policy plans which state this publically)."
Is it so wrong for ANY substantively large country (particularly one invaded by NON-Asians) to hold a grudge for being invaded, polluted with drugs, and such? Is it so wrong for the Chinese, radical Koreans, anarchist Japanese, rebellious Filipinos to try to stanch or stave off Western imperialism or hegemony? I'm NOT saying "Down with the US through violence", but I damn well have NO problem with an educated population keeping its history, culture, self-direction, and flexible, non-shackled defense policies and suppliers.
Besides, many US allies have military, economic, political, and entertainment vendors from numerous sources other than the US. It's called spreading eggs around (not keeping all in one basket) and having plausible deniability to safely distance oneself from some royal US dickups (politicians as well as expeditionary actions/"direct action").
And, I KNOW China's government is no SAINT. The US, too, would have China's issues if the US population grew by 100,000 million a year over the next 10 years. It would HAVE to obtain strategic (geographically local and distant) suppliers -- especially from South America and African continents -- for resources (metals, raw goods, ores, etc...) and it would be FORCED to disperse those in the swelling population to move farther inland, necessitating the creation of new cities (spreading more genes around for future archaeologists?).
But, current cabal US mayors probably don't WANT their power and state standing diminished (don't want competition from 10 more state mayors). Just look at the not-so-long-ago merger battle of LA and some nearby cities...
But, it might do the US some good. Would force nuclear energy to the fore, maybe even more UULEV cars and MagLev trains. Sometimes I WISH gas/oil would dry up or start costing $125 to $300/bbl JUST to put a cap in the ass of regular, fuel-inefficient POVs. We're squandering away TOO much useful, held-back technology.
Besides, Calif could benefit from resurgence if efficient autos research could afford to move here. But, they'll likely keep their genetics-driven tech base in Ohio, Tennessee, Shanghai (or nearby, less-expensive cities/provinces)....
"...that Kleiner's board members include both Colin Powell and Al Gore. (Weird mix there.)"
Weird Al, Yankovic....
Knighthood... They way the company runs all over smaller ones, how could anyone NOT be forgiven thinking of the "knight" as a "hood"(lum), ehhehehehe
(In voice of Ruk, Dr. Corby's robotic assistant)
THAT is the missing equation... The OLD ONES.... This explains General Tso Chicken, Mandarin Orange Chicken and other delicious menu items.
Thanks!
"1. America is named for Amerigo Vespucci, and its earliest use to refer to the continent is in a German map from the very early 1500's. It's pretty certain it's not of Chinese origin."
China's 1420's maps and charts (land and ocean) PREDATED Germany's. China's were BEFORE Columbus DREAMT of sailing without losing crew. China's fleets knew how to prevent scurvy. Did the Europeans of the day?
Mwo? Through gunfire? Through prayers to a god for deliverance of expurgation upon savages? By deceit and wholesale decimation of a population? (I'm talking the 1400's China, not today's economic China.)
And, who is it who in 30 years decimated the Spice Trades routes (Silk Road), etc. that took some 1,000 years or more to be erected and stabilized?
China's just trying to get back what was hers, one way or another. Global stature was one, and tho she looked inward and closed up for a long time (after the lightning bolt and other economic woes and revolutions/uprisings and such), but I don't recall China going geographically outside her borders (never mind the current Yakuza/gang/cocaine/meth/heroine/Korea/money-laundering, secrets-sleuthing operations of today) to plant population-slumping drugs, take islands, and ensnare governments in heinous multi-hundred-year land leases.
A LOT of people here need to do a LOT of reading, too, not just me. It never fails that when I say something bordering or outright anti-US/anti-thug-any-government comment I get modded as a troll. If I stay strong-USA on military stuff, I'm suddenly knowledgeable and modded 4 or 5. A lot of dumbshits on this site....
Have any of you considered that the Mossad has plants working AT Google, and that (like other countries with plants working in key or security-critical employers-- civil or private) that plant's duty was to monitor, collect, report on, sanitize, and enable the use of it for government purposes, whether to bring charges against someone or to slander someone?
Most of the comments so far (among the 1st 15) make it seem like Google is slipping into the hells. It very well could be that MOD/Israel contacted Google USA out of cursory moves, but already planned to use the IP collected whether or NOT GUSA assented, and probably had plans to SAY GUSA cooperated.
Of course, the US State Department and other agencies might WELCOME this, as another ruse/means of getting 'merkuns to RELAX their expectations of privacy over security.
Any more informed or better opinions to follow those prior to my own (slanted) assumptions here?
Probably I'll get modded troll or off-topic by some of the short-sighted with accounts here.
Time for me to re-read "1421: The Year China Discovered America".
From the book, the word "America" is based on a Chinese word "Americ" (I have to surf or reread for it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=word+america+origins+in+chinese&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
)
My own commentary below...
Columbus' poor-navigating landed him here (with the aid of dubiously-obtained (hint: stolen/misappropriated) maps originating FROM/IN China), and proclaiming he'd found Indians (he WAS trying to get to India...)
Also, relatively recent evidence (in the 70's/80's) a junk (Chinese in origin) was found buried in silt in the SF Bay Area (Sacramento River?) when someone investigated glass beads they sucked up into a tube. Found out the beads originated from China. Samples of the hull wood indicated non-English/Portuguese/other European vessel. Various tombstones and observatories and obelisks also of Chinese origin, along with numerous "Native Americans" having Chinese clothing, tribal, cooking and artistic attributes known to have Chinese characteristics, further indicated 1420's era Chinese landed here, not by ACCIDENT, but by DESIGN.
Yes, like Europeans, Chinese sailors inadvertently passed/carried diseases, which in the case of Chinese, wiped out 10,000s of Natives. However, the difference is the Chinese didn't come here to STAY, invade, expurgate, demolish, or hijack an existing, thriving human ecosystem (competitive and warring, true), nor to subject the Natives.
That alone speaks VOLUMES about wisdom, humility, and more.
Sorry, but history in the US is so full of shit, and it's tragic that this is NOT being taught to inspire respect, humility, and more in modern US citizens who will have to deal with the morass we and our so-called leaders have gotten this country into time after time.
Returning to the book:
Sadly, too, it seems Australia at the behest of the US and UK/Britain, erected a shield of environmental or national preservation laws to stymie Gavin Menzies and the world's researchers from diving or going close to reefs and wrecks that would likely further the evidence that Chinese even were all over what became called Australia.
Something I read in this AM's news:
However, I suppose to its credit, Australia's government is going to formally apologize to the Aborigines. Hopefully, Australia's new government will demolish the pugnacious stymie law and the body of information allowed to continue additions to 1421's story.
She is too kind. I think the matter is that "sco" JUMPED up at the top of the stairs, aiming on PURPOSED for the bottom. But, they jumped so hard, it broke mandibles, fractured the nose, shattered the eye socket, and snagged balls along the baluster and then had not enough breath to say, "Help, I've fallen (after JUMPING) down the stairs, and my legs are twisted. But, that's OK, because I think I have shagged myself. OK, I can feel my anus dripping, but maybe that's my teeth just passing through... Oh, wait, Why didn't we file in Texas, where we could WIN for sure... Damn, we should have reincorporated there BEFORE suing..."
Similar thinking?
Maybe not. It's so obvious, and not many people caught on so far as I've been reading...
Sort of off topic, here's interesting stuff:
http://www.ntc.doe.gov/cita/CI_Awareness_Guide/Treason/Caught.htm#How%20Spies%20Are%20Caught
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fas.org%2Fspp%2Fstarwars%2Foffdocs%2Fitar%2Fp121.htm&ei=CHBLR_HPLofkggTg2tzyCA&usg=AFQjCNFXF9DJcUP6LmR7kpM-fY7jdRktaQ&sig2=QNpZKrtN_wSYJABnPPkuNw
So, in the aim to protect the country, I imagine a LOT of students working internationally could inadvertently be caught up in ITAR, as this research could entail defeating or reducing effectiveness of military apparatuses. I mention this because someone mentioned a contractor could use a $10,000,000 windoze-based computer vs Linux and bill the government for it and profit. Since Linux and Open Source seem to have disdain or political or bureaucratic borders, "home defence" could just end up hurting a LOT of people...
I somehow doubt that the people will mind if this money is WASTED when the nuke-CARRYING ship just fires the damned nuke from a container picked up in transit, unmasked when at some optimal firing range, and then launched before entering the port supporting the background scanner.
No, these scanners will make a BUNDLE of money for SOMEbodies. Why? They irrationality of port-of-entry scanners being land-locked will come to the fore and some enterprising person or company will propose mounting the scanners along the shipping lanes, corralling the ships down a path (I'm thinking WWII GIUK/choke points as well as the STTOS Maps of Federation Shipping and Warp Travel routes...I'm a graphical thinker, okay?) instead of letting them arrive and then blow up when close enough to dirty the beach.
-- Make the scanners ship-mounted (as if they aren't already on USCG or other nations' CG units)
-- Scan the inbound ships (even naval ships) for nukes (this will upset the USN especially if Open Source detectors (assuming the critical components are not military or munitions list items) because now Japanese and Korean protesters can TRULY find out which USN/Other ships have nukes...)
-- Scan outbound ships, too
For that matter, put the scanners in tethered balloons along commercial aircraft glide slopes and require all aircraft inbound to dogleg thru the area when about 125 miles out. (I'm thinking Longbow Apache game's training boxes in the air.... It was a bitch keeping that helo IN the guide boxes... Damn that my CDs got scratched...)
Why was the immediate parent marked 0, Troll?
Hell, we attribute some things to "Mother Nature" and live with it. We don't call Her a "bitch", or "asshole", or such. Why not see Terrorists as reactionary cells (cancerous, whatever....) to other cells (white, whatever...)? When the cell count in the body goes out of the norm (being set by evolution, environment, local exposure...), white cells attack the "undesired" or rogue (rogue until THEY take over...) cells and attempt to snuff them out.
We all have brains, and MOST of us KNOW how to PREVENT problems, but alas, greed and selfishness, arrogance and pride, vengeance and indifference just keep entropy in play....
We wouldn't NEED these neutron devices if some minority of strings pullers would stop alienating minority, but dangerous opposition. (Minority could apply to the Terrorists OR to the masses-to-industrialists number...)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=370419&cid=21481241
If they want to go on an easter egg hunt, let THEM pay for it. Companies need to respond to those EULAs by first COMMENCING paying for whatever fees they pay when activating, then telling the agent:
-- Now, we won't send the check until you exempt us from a raid. We will bring in our OWN auditor of choice from a listed authority, OTHER THAN THE BSA, and if you don't amend the terms of the sales and licensing agreement, we won't buy licenses of your software.
Two words:
"Yankee Capitalist"?
Three words:
Greed begets greed.
Four words:
If the complain... TOUGH!
Five words:
A Sucker Born Every Minute!
I doubt it was a billing problem. They were just too damn cheap, lazy or not-competed-with-enough to bother billing for sender-side action.
T9 just pisses me OFF. I can't stand how my phone's got a knack for defaulting to (and STAYING with) that shitty T9 that can't predict a DAMN about what *I* have to type. It just ends up with jibberish, and I *WISH* I could remove the shit once and for all from the interface. Anyone here from Sprint have anything to do with firmware/software upgrades? Please, remove the shit, or give us an option to remove it. It's so irritating that it makes me want to got bitch-slap whomever signed off on it. For someone with multi-thousands of words or word combinations in vocabulary, T9 is a worthless piece of shit. I tend to use whole words often, but lately have begun to just abbreviate if it is non-confusing. That is how fast some brains can work. (I chickened out of the Spelling Bee when I was in the 4th grad, did very well in vocabulary, spelling, grammar... and don't need nor care for any word/text predictors...)