Yes, "several" (maybe 2) demonstrations by different respondants of upmass significantly less than the shuttle's capability. The $500M also doesn't cover the entire cost as NASA is hoping that respondants will also have other sources of funding.
As a non-IT person, I find it amazing the IT types seems to have an amazing fetish regarding everything Google. I mean, this is obviously a flash in the pan company to anyone even slightly familiar with what it takes to be successful in any industry. Really -- I'm just asking -- why? Search -- big deal! Are the hiring options in IT that bad?
I think it's pretty weak to say that just because an edit tagged as being performed by "Merck" that it had anything to do with the company. Perhaps there is other evidence, but the tag alone is easy -- intentionally or accidentally -- to fake/get wrong.
I think you way overestimate the contribution porn has made to technological advancement. At best it has provided an acceleration of demand for stuff no one really needs. Frankly, I'd rather live in a world with a little less porn and a less capable internet. How exactly do I explain double penetration to my 10 year old daughter when she sees it on a magazine walking through a European train station? "It's ok honey, she's helping us get our email faster."
I'm not judging your career choice, I'm just saying it sounds like you are a very capable person. It's too bad your not using your talents to solve the enormous number of huge problems our world faces. Instead, you are facilitating people's sexual release. Sure, there's value in that I guess.
As far as the porn vs. rape thing, I'm mystified. I cannot imagine what would drive a person to commit such a crime. If we have to use something to vent that urge I would rather use a bullet.
Finally, send your girlfriend over here -- I'll show her a home free of a porn collection.
I respectfully ask you to consider your impact on the world. Yes, it is a job. Yes, you don't actually touch the porn. But you make it happen. You allow it to happen. Are you making a positive impact on the world? Does the world need more porn? Do you have a wife, a daughter, or a sister?
And you can cry me a river when you can't find someone to design, build, or operate... Oh wait, there's plenty of nerds itching to do this, and do it better, for free -- or at least for dirt cheap...
So what is your solution? Increase taxes to provide everyone an MRI on demand? Increasing the taxes leads to more layoffs -- lather, rinse, repeat....
Sure, the US system isn't perfect -- but neither is the Canadian system, and from where I'm sitting, the US system is better. In fact, anyone that is employed or has a spouse that is employed is doing just fine.
I guess you missed the fact that their is a huge question mark after the words "innocent man" in the title of that article. The Houston Chronicle also reported that the Space Shuttle Columbia was shot down -- not the best example of journalism.
I think the poster was trying to limit his bad examples to post-9/11. As you point out, even if we expand our timeframe to pre-9/11 and look overseas, terrorism was worse prior to the current administration -- by any reasonable measure.
The fact that we've had no further foreign attacks in the States for 4 years is not, however, a good point to make.
I disagree. You may not agree that lack of terrorism is the right litmus test for the Administration, but it is a litmus test that can be performed -- and one that I and many mainstream Americans think is important. And despite the failed attempts of many here to provide otherwise, American soil has been safe since 9/11 in a time of, frankly, global chaos. We can debate the responsibility the current Administration has for this, but I dare say it is significant.
I think many posters on slashleft don't like this because a) they are not American and the Administration's policies are not designed primarily for non-American safety, b) they trade off wholly fictitious threats (privacy conspiracy theories) against tangible threats (shrapnel from Ali's bomb belt), and c) they simply don't like a unipolar world with American leadership.
That's all fine, but I'm American, I vote, and I believe the current Administration has been successful at fighting terrorism -- and important (not the only) issue for me. If you would like to be safe too your country should look at American foreign policy as an example.
By your definition, a domestic quarrel in Nashville that results in a murder is terrorism. I think any reasonable person would look at your list and see possibly one post-9/11 terrorist act -- the Anthrax attack. And as another poster pointed out -- it's been pretty much solved.
Face it -- no one has flown a plane into a building, hijacked a plane, or strapped on a bomb belt in the US since 9/11. The Bush Administration has done its job on this account. You might have valid gripes elsewhere -- but it isn't here.
One of the primary reasons I voted for Bush was his actions to keep terrorism off American shores. Job well done.
Your post-9/11 list is, well, mostly not post-9/11. Of the six events you listed, two were 9/11 itself. Of the remaining four, one was stopped. The remaining three were simply domestic crime.
Face it, your position has some ground to stand on -- but it can't be justified by increased danger. The facts don't support it. American soil is safer than ever. And whenever a terrorist travels to Iraq and gets swiss cheesed by one of our boys, it is even safer.
Exactly. Since it didn't happen on American soil I can write it off as someone else's policy concern. It's time for the world to get a backbone and stand up on their own occasionally.
And please tell me where you are at where your government does more for the good of the world -- Anonymous Coward.
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So what you are saying is that France surrenders all intellectual property rights to the author?
So does Congress.
Why?
It hasn't been removed -- it's just not delivered via a P2P app.
Important isn't really the point. Popups do pay the bill and probably pay for the content on the site you opted to visit. So, yes.
Is that you Pope Julius? How's the Pax doing?
Yes, those Salvation Army folks are terrible people. All they think of is themselves.
Yes, "several" (maybe 2) demonstrations by different respondants of upmass significantly less than the shuttle's capability. The $500M also doesn't cover the entire cost as NASA is hoping that respondants will also have other sources of funding.
NASA isn't putting people in space? NASA had one flight and put more people in space than any other entity. Check your facts.
The $500M is only for a single demonstration(s) by a private company(ies). Nothing close to replacing the shuttle's capability.
As a non-IT person, I find it amazing the IT types seems to have an amazing fetish regarding everything Google. I mean, this is obviously a flash in the pan company to anyone even slightly familiar with what it takes to be successful in any industry. Really -- I'm just asking -- why? Search -- big deal! Are the hiring options in IT that bad?
I think it's pretty weak to say that just because an edit tagged as being performed by "Merck" that it had anything to do with the company. Perhaps there is other evidence, but the tag alone is easy -- intentionally or accidentally -- to fake/get wrong.
http://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/COTS/default.asp
I think you way overestimate the contribution porn has made to technological advancement. At best it has provided an acceleration of demand for stuff no one really needs. Frankly, I'd rather live in a world with a little less porn and a less capable internet. How exactly do I explain double penetration to my 10 year old daughter when she sees it on a magazine walking through a European train station? "It's ok honey, she's helping us get our email faster."
I'm not judging your career choice, I'm just saying it sounds like you are a very capable person. It's too bad your not using your talents to solve the enormous number of huge problems our world faces. Instead, you are facilitating people's sexual release. Sure, there's value in that I guess.
As far as the porn vs. rape thing, I'm mystified. I cannot imagine what would drive a person to commit such a crime. If we have to use something to vent that urge I would rather use a bullet.
Finally, send your girlfriend over here -- I'll show her a home free of a porn collection.
I respectfully ask you to consider your impact on the world. Yes, it is a job. Yes, you don't actually touch the porn. But you make it happen. You allow it to happen. Are you making a positive impact on the world? Does the world need more porn? Do you have a wife, a daughter, or a sister?
And no sir, I am not a viewer.
And gosh, I'd feel terrible if we messed up a pornographer's business.
And you can cry me a river when you can't find someone to design, build, or operate... Oh wait, there's plenty of nerds itching to do this, and do it better, for free -- or at least for dirt cheap...
Point taken -- but what do you suggest as a solution? I pay for my health care insurance -- should I pay for yours just because you can't afford it?
So what is your solution? Increase taxes to provide everyone an MRI on demand? Increasing the taxes leads to more layoffs -- lather, rinse, repeat....
Sure, the US system isn't perfect -- but neither is the Canadian system, and from where I'm sitting, the US system is better. In fact, anyone that is employed or has a spouse that is employed is doing just fine.
Bottom line: get a job.
I guess you missed the fact that their is a huge question mark after the words "innocent man" in the title of that article. The Houston Chronicle also reported that the Space Shuttle Columbia was shot down -- not the best example of journalism.
I think the poster was trying to limit his bad examples to post-9/11. As you point out, even if we expand our timeframe to pre-9/11 and look overseas, terrorism was worse prior to the current administration -- by any reasonable measure.
The fact that we've had no further foreign attacks in the States for 4 years is not, however, a good point to make.
I disagree. You may not agree that lack of terrorism is the right litmus test for the Administration, but it is a litmus test that can be performed -- and one that I and many mainstream Americans think is important. And despite the failed attempts of many here to provide otherwise, American soil has been safe since 9/11 in a time of, frankly, global chaos. We can debate the responsibility the current Administration has for this, but I dare say it is significant.
I think many posters on slashleft don't like this because a) they are not American and the Administration's policies are not designed primarily for non-American safety, b) they trade off wholly fictitious threats (privacy conspiracy theories) against tangible threats (shrapnel from Ali's bomb belt), and c) they simply don't like a unipolar world with American leadership.
That's all fine, but I'm American, I vote, and I believe the current Administration has been successful at fighting terrorism -- and important (not the only) issue for me. If you would like to be safe too your country should look at American foreign policy as an example.
Roe vs. Wade does pretty much legalize murder, so one could make an argument that.... oh, nevermind, this is slashleft....
By your definition, a domestic quarrel in Nashville that results in a murder is terrorism. I think any reasonable person would look at your list and see possibly one post-9/11 terrorist act -- the Anthrax attack. And as another poster pointed out -- it's been pretty much solved.
Face it -- no one has flown a plane into a building, hijacked a plane, or strapped on a bomb belt in the US since 9/11. The Bush Administration has done its job on this account. You might have valid gripes elsewhere -- but it isn't here.
One of the primary reasons I voted for Bush was his actions to keep terrorism off American shores. Job well done.
Your post-9/11 list is, well, mostly not post-9/11. Of the six events you listed, two were 9/11 itself. Of the remaining four, one was stopped. The remaining three were simply domestic crime.
Face it, your position has some ground to stand on -- but it can't be justified by increased danger. The facts don't support it. American soil is safer than ever. And whenever a terrorist travels to Iraq and gets swiss cheesed by one of our boys, it is even safer.
Exactly. Since it didn't happen on American soil I can write it off as someone else's policy concern. It's time for the world to get a backbone and stand up on their own occasionally.
And please tell me where you are at where your government does more for the good of the world -- Anonymous Coward.