Now also add that cigarette hanging precipitously out of his mouth with the really long ash ala Jurassic Park, and we got one really bad-azz Jedi here.
The gun control crowd IS getting exactly what it wants. Less guns, more crime, means hiring more cops. Cops are public workers. More cops means more taxes must be raised. More taxes bigger city.country/state budgets. All at the expense of a few citizens lives. Cops would be unwilling to vote against their mealticket.
Also consider, if very few people have guns, how are you going to protest. Free speech is backed up by force of arms, otherwise the local cops WITH guns will come, round you up and put you in jail (or worse).
I mean really, the la-la land some of you people live in defies concept. Think basic strategy, and look beyond the first tier effects.
And the parent: A 'smaller' military is exactly where we are going. The kill efficiency is getting so large that fewer soldiers/sailors and pilots will be needed. This is BAD. As the force gets smaller, the 'disconnect' from the general populace gets worse. Its a heck of a lot easier to get 1000 soldiers on board with your program than 100,000. Some might protest killing civilians. Think BrownShirts.
But also consider, if they NUKE us, I'm pretty sure I won't be paying any taxes. Politicians aren't (too) dumb, they remember what happened to King Louis XVI. Thats what they really fear, armed revolt.
You sound a lot like the mormon bastards who ran us out of the rocket business in Huntsville, Alabama. Like I want to move to Utah.
Solid Rocket Motors is a SCIENCE they said, its a mature industry they said. Sadly, only Huntsville was making SRBs on time and on budget. Utah was(is) not.
Rocket motors, solids or liquids and the F1 in particular is more ART than SCIENCE. Think: More Unknowns than Equations...and you'd be right on the money.
I know guys who were around working on the F1. They say the same thing. So throw you Ti-92 at the problem. Won't matter, you don't have enough equations to describe the problem.
NASA is useless, they are blowing all you good folks hard earned tax dollars on stupid paper studies. They REFUSE to buy Russian kerosene engines because of NIH syndrome.
I cant believe with all the conspiracy/monopoly nuts we have around here that they missed out on the chance to BASH Hasbro Inc.
Hasbro spent the 80s and 90s buying up everything. They were even smart enough to buy The Avalon Hill Game Company. AH held the copyrights to a huge stack of games. I mean hundreds and hundreds of games. AH had in the early 80s bought the rights to all the old SPI games. James Dunnigan had created and edited hundreds of games and simulations for SPI.
Yet Hasbro has not rereleased ANY of these games in their original forms. And apparently plans not to.
You can buy it direct from www.sjgames.com.
They are very prompt, I got mine in like 5 days.
They added a new expansion and a counter/map pack that can be used as replacements/expansion.
"On a side note, my hedge fund does not have the resources of taking over a company, but following Eddie Lambert's role with KMart/Sears it would not surprise me if an independent company would make a requisition bid for SCO."
So you've ruled out that another Canopy Grp 'front company' would absorb SCO assets (and conveniently Chapter 11 the debts)???
Darl: "I got MY million $ !!"
I have this pen with me right NOW! How cool is that?
The Fischer company developed the pen with their own money. NASA just used it. Same with Tang. Tang was a little known product until NASA 'discovered' it.
The Space Pen is cool, but not the best pen I have ever used.
Thats BS! I have HAD to do this. We got 1 free, the other 2 we had to pay for anyway.
The only reason there isn't a wicked ass law on this, is that the consumers are paying for it. Please do not delude yourselves by saying the corps(e) are footing the bill.
I say lets gets the vulture lawyers on this, file a class action against the the company to provide free subscriptions to all listed.
" The company I work for has a password policy like this:
1. Must contain at least 8 characters 2. Must contain at least 2 lowercase letters 3. Must contain at least 2 capital letters 4. Must contain at least 2 numbers"
HA! The place I work has this beat in spades.
5. Each subsystem must have a password So at boot I have to enter pw to login on the machine, +1 for netware, +1 for groupwise, +1 for netcache, +1 for PVCS
6. The user MUST reenter these passwords every 5 frakk'n minutes (well at least the webcache, pvcs and groupwise ones).
Crap! And here I thought NASA was just gonna burn a mega-stack of $100 bills to warm the place up.
Remember folks, this is the NASA that 'studied' about space stations for 30years. Meanwhile the Russians lofted what 10-12 of the things and got REAL experience.
NASA - where using a pencil is just way too obvious a solution.
True words. But you failed to mention the reason shipping is so high on ebay...ebay doesn't count it as part of the 'sell' price. So the sellers (including me) markup the shipping price to pad out the (usually) low sale price. So ebay only get 4% of a low sale, I get to keep the extra shipping.
Re:Higher Ebay Costs = Higher Ebay Fees
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Thats correct.
First ebay send out a e-mail saying that ALL the fees were going up on Feb 19. Not just up, but DOUBLE the current rates.
So I think about this for a few minutes, thinking crap, I'll just close the stupid account. But I put it off til later.
Second, after a day or two, is this second email clarifying that the double fees ONLY apply to ebay 'stores'.
Then the next day, is this email from the President, about sevice and other crap.
That says to me that the fee hike isn't flying, and this presidents message is there to assage the feelings of the storefront owners. I beleive the idea is to reduce the listing(fixed) cost while doubling the sell percentage from 4% to 8% of the final sell price. This would rake in 2x as much money as before. Gee, I was hardly making any money before.
Wonder how the shareholders will feel when traffic takes a hit?
Nope, I have actual proof that that is NOT how it works. If the companies ripped off DID have to pay, you'd see legislation with real teeth to scare these SOBs off or put them in jail quickly.
My proof is Sprint, who once we found out someone had an account under our name, all they did was try to get us to tranfer the account to our REAL snail mail address, so WE could pay it.
Fortunately we just turned around, called them back as the imposter (ourselves) and cancelled the account first!
Oh, and all those FREE credit reports you're supposed to get if you suspect fraud...NOPE, not free.
Too many people making money off this chain for anyone to get punished. And it just got worse with this automatic check clearing thing.
Proof that Canadians are dumb. You could have sukled at the USGov teat for 50 years!
Its not SUPPOSED to work. If it worked, then it would go into production, THEN all the bozos in Stategic Defense Command would have to get ANOTHER job.
This is the only 'research' program boondoggle that has go on longer than the ISS. It started in the late 1940s and here it still is.
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Thank you I love that quote.
Now also add that cigarette hanging precipitously out of his mouth with the really long ash ala Jurassic Park, and we got one really bad-azz Jedi here.
weefle: "What did you say when he told you he'd only pay half?"
me: "I said: Fine, which half of your daughter do you want back?"
Replying to the parent and grandparent.
The gun control crowd IS getting exactly what it wants. Less guns, more crime, means hiring more cops. Cops are public workers. More cops means more taxes must be raised. More taxes bigger city.country/state budgets. All at the expense of a few citizens lives. Cops would be unwilling to vote against their mealticket.
Also consider, if very few people have guns, how are you going to protest. Free speech is backed up by force of arms, otherwise the local cops WITH guns will come, round you up and put you in jail (or worse).
I mean really, the la-la land some of you people live in defies concept. Think basic strategy, and look beyond the first tier effects.
And the parent: A 'smaller' military is exactly where we are going. The kill efficiency is getting so large that fewer soldiers/sailors and pilots will be needed. This is BAD. As the force gets smaller, the 'disconnect' from the general populace gets worse. Its a heck of a lot easier to get 1000 soldiers on board with your program than 100,000. Some might protest killing civilians. Think BrownShirts.
But also consider, if they NUKE us, I'm pretty sure I won't be paying any taxes. Politicians aren't (too) dumb, they remember what happened to King Louis XVI. Thats what they really fear, armed revolt.
You sound a lot like the mormon bastards who ran us out of the rocket business in Huntsville, Alabama. Like I want to move to Utah.
Solid Rocket Motors is a SCIENCE they said, its a mature industry they said. Sadly, only Huntsville was making SRBs on time and on budget. Utah was(is) not.
Rocket motors, solids or liquids and the F1 in particular is more ART than SCIENCE. Think: More Unknowns than Equations...and you'd be right on the money.
I know guys who were around working on the F1. They say the same thing. So throw you Ti-92 at the problem. Won't matter, you don't have enough equations to describe the problem.
NASA is useless, they are blowing all you good folks hard earned tax dollars on stupid paper studies. They REFUSE to buy Russian kerosene engines because of NIH syndrome.
NIH=Not Invented Here
I cant believe with all the conspiracy/monopoly nuts we have around here that they missed out on the chance to BASH Hasbro Inc.
Hasbro spent the 80s and 90s buying up everything. They were even smart enough to buy The Avalon Hill Game Company. AH held the copyrights to a huge stack of games. I mean hundreds and hundreds of games. AH had in the early 80s bought the rights to all the old SPI games. James Dunnigan had created and edited hundreds of games and simulations for SPI.
Yet Hasbro has not rereleased ANY of these games in their original forms. And apparently plans not to.
You can buy it direct from www.sjgames.com. They are very prompt, I got mine in like 5 days. They added a new expansion and a counter/map pack that can be used as replacements/expansion.
"On a side note, my hedge fund does not have the resources of taking over a company, but following Eddie Lambert's role with KMart/Sears it would not surprise me if an independent company would make a requisition bid for SCO." So you've ruled out that another Canopy Grp 'front company' would absorb SCO assets (and conveniently Chapter 11 the debts)??? Darl: "I got MY million $ !!"
Bwaaahahahahahhaha
ROTFLMAO!
I have this pen with me right NOW! How cool is that?
The Fischer company developed the pen with their own money. NASA just used it. Same with Tang. Tang was a little known product until NASA 'discovered' it.
The Space Pen is cool, but not the best pen I have ever used.
Thats BS! I have HAD to do this. We got 1 free, the other 2 we had to pay for anyway.
The only reason there isn't a wicked ass law on this, is that the consumers are paying for it. Please do not delude yourselves by saying the corps(e) are footing the bill.
I say lets gets the vulture lawyers on this, file a class action against the the company to provide free subscriptions to all listed.
" The company I work for has a password policy like this:
1. Must contain at least 8 characters
2. Must contain at least 2 lowercase letters
3. Must contain at least 2 capital letters
4. Must contain at least 2 numbers"
HA!
The place I work has this beat in spades.
5. Each subsystem must have a password
So at boot I have to enter pw to login on the machine, +1 for netware, +1 for groupwise, +1 for netcache, +1 for PVCS
6. The user MUST reenter these passwords every 5 frakk'n minutes (well at least the webcache, pvcs and groupwise ones).
oh yeah, PVCS suks!
According to the author, ONLY MACs use the grahpics processor to actually *gasp* process graphics.
This author is a dork, and has very little concept of why systems appear slower than past ones.
Me
Crap! And here I thought NASA was just gonna burn a mega-stack of $100 bills to warm the place up.
Remember folks, this is the NASA that 'studied' about space stations for 30years. Meanwhile the Russians lofted what 10-12 of the things and got REAL experience.
NASA - where using a pencil is just way too obvious a solution.
True words. But you failed to mention the reason shipping is so high on ebay...ebay doesn't count it as part of the 'sell' price. So the sellers (including me) markup the shipping price to pad out the (usually) low sale price. So ebay only get 4% of a low sale, I get to keep the extra shipping.
Thats correct.
First ebay send out a e-mail saying that ALL the fees were going up on Feb 19. Not just up, but DOUBLE the current rates.
So I think about this for a few minutes, thinking crap, I'll just close the stupid account. But I put it off til later.
Second, after a day or two, is this second email clarifying that the double fees ONLY apply to ebay 'stores'.
Then the next day, is this email from the President, about sevice and other crap.
That says to me that the fee hike isn't flying, and this presidents message is there to assage the feelings of the storefront owners. I beleive the idea is to reduce the listing(fixed) cost while doubling the sell percentage from 4% to 8% of the final sell price. This would rake in 2x as much money as before. Gee, I was hardly making any money before.
Wonder how the shareholders will feel when traffic takes a hit?
Yup, and they are suing the only company to successfully beat the U.S. Federal Government at this game.
SCOs toast, but the real catch will be Canopy, since SCO is just a front company.
Remember, Joe Smith was a 'Profit'.
Still pretty dammed vulnerable.
.NET only obscures some of this.
Some of the most damaging worms use the RPC framework of Win2k and XP.
Remember until improved security is PROVEN, I'd refrain from depending on M$ products.
oh yeah, PVCS SUKS ROKS!
Well, I hear the writers union would want $1 US per disk. You know for copyright infringement and such.
You know, in the mid-1970s they predicted we were supposed to be buried by Glaciers by now. I think it was Leonard Nimoys' In Search Of series.
Junk then, junk now. Amazingly their prediction falls in that magic 5 to 10 years predictor range.
Less than 5 and people know whether your full of it or not, Greater than 10 and people don't care a bit.
See here for a toaster sized box running Linux,. html
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS5621664618
$160.
geez. whiz.
Nope, I have actual proof that that is NOT how it works. If the companies ripped off DID have to pay, you'd see legislation with real teeth to scare these SOBs off or put them in jail quickly.
My proof is Sprint, who once we found out someone had an account under our name, all they did was try to get us to tranfer the account to our REAL snail mail address, so WE could pay it.
Fortunately we just turned around, called them back as the imposter (ourselves) and cancelled the account first!
Oh, and all those FREE credit reports you're supposed to get if you suspect fraud...NOPE, not free.
Too many people making money off this chain for anyone to get punished. And it just got worse with this automatic check clearing thing.
JoeR
Proof that Canadians are dumb. You could have sukled at the USGov teat for 50 years!
Its not SUPPOSED to work. If it worked, then it would go into production, THEN all the bozos in Stategic Defense Command would have to get ANOTHER job.
This is the only 'research' program boondoggle that has go on longer than the ISS. It started in the late 1940s and here it still is.
At the company I am at now, we get emails for way up the chain.
The email contains an important message from a VP.
Attached is a Word doc.
Inside the Word doc is an html link to the 'memo' on the corporate web server
That link is a PDF file.
I think M$ figured out the perfect way to drive linux users insane.
Nice to see you, Chief Running-of-the-Premises !
Somebody has got to expose this one.
In Alabama, I am told, Spanish speaking children CANNOT be failed if they do not understand english (i.e. the teachers instructions).
The teachers are being sent out to learn Spanish.
[I told my friend, fine, they can't flunk you if you don't understand the teacher (spanish) right???]
An expose' of Mr. Paul Hubbard (der Educashion Minister) would be quite interesting on this topic.