Ever heard of the RICO act? The gov. can charge *your property* with a crime. If you can't prove that your property was not gained from committing an act of racketeering, you don't get it back. It's frequently used as a revenue-generating tool; i.e., siezing cash from suspicious looking characters during traffic stops, in airports, etc. It is also used to deprive persons of effective counsel by seizing bank accounts that would otherwise be used to pay for lawyers.
So, in short, yes, the Eff-Fucking Bee Eye can seize your property without ever charging you with a crime, and it's damn hard (read *impossible*) to get it back if they don't want you to have it.
Like hell it isn't illegal for the fed. to spy on its citizens. Please see the 4th ammendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. The operative word there is "searches".
Oh, and we aren't supposed to be the fucking fed's "citizens" -- actually they're supposed to be *our* government.
Yah, it's pretty rare to check for a sig. This page has a nice writeup from a guy who decided to see how far he could go in goofing around with the signature.
The increase alone was enough to offset 25%. As the quote stated, taking into account the forestation that already existed, the US is a net carbon sink, meaning in total we do not contribute to the world's carbon emission.
$100?
We've been looking into code-signing lately, and my impression was that Verisign had the market locked at $400 a pop. Is it cheaper for individuals, or did you get the cert from somewhere else???
Liberal translation alert! "Right-wing nutjob" = poster has no coherent argument to parent's comment and has resorted to the standard left-wing namecalling playbook.
You're right...although I knew approximately what the facts were, I was just lazy and googled freon+shuttle+damage, etc. and grabbed the first nice-looking link. Not very good research, but this *is*/.
Sorry for the flamebait mod, I don't think you deserve it.
You're confusing facts. I know Columbia was using the older foam, and nowhere in my post did I imply that the CFC-11 was responsible for Columbia's loss. Read the damn post before acusing me of mixing things up.
Now, as for backing my damage assertion up: how's this: (for the math challenged, 308/40=approx. 8 times the damage). That's just during the initial imspection.
Parent is actually correct. Damage to the shuttle due to foam coming off increased by a factor of 11 (!) after changing to the new enviro-wacko friendly formulation. See for example this.
Yah. Gotta love all that automatically-generated API crap that VS dumps into your source:
// {AFX_DATA_MAP(BHatchBoundaryTab)
etc. It gives you something to read while you're looking for your code.
God help you if you accidentally delete one of those comments.
Delphi (for example) keeps your source code as you wrote it. Like every freakin other IDE in the universe.
Oh, and how many versions of msvcr71.dll are there? (Seriously, I'm asking...MSDN's dll help database claims the file doesn't exist.)
By the way, does Visual Studio ship with the source to the runtime libraries so's you can step the debugger through them? No? (Delphi does.)
VS isn't exactly bug-free either...Googling visual studio bug results in 760,000 hits; searching MSDN for PRB and Visual Studio results in *many* results (I got tired of clicking on "next", but it's a lot).
Oh, and VS's help...sucks. For example, with VB 6 (no, I *do not* develop in VB), asking for help on, e.g., Val() results in about 20 freaking pages of help to choose from. What idiot decided to integrate the entire MSDN knowledgebase into VS's help?
The slightest tile chip damage is news because the media perception is that the thing is very fragile and NASA's hasn't bothered to dispel that perception (fer craps sake, a little cover fell off a window pre-launch and forced a standown while NASA checked for damage).
Also, I think a lot of people inside and outside NASA are very ambivalent about the shuttle. It's hideously expensive, both on a cost-per-kilogram launched and lives lost basis. I wouldn't be suprised if most NASA people have lost heart in the whole project. (Plus, can you imagine what would become of NASA's grand moon-to-mars budget if another shuttle came apart in their hands? Who's going to trust them with a couple of $trillion if they can't even get from the earth to orbit without blowing up?)
OK, if you're truely ignorant, yes, falling pieces of foam have always been a problem. However, the problem was exacerbated when envro-freak wackos used the EPA to force NASA to stop using freon to spray the foam. Basically, the new spray doesn't stick the foam as well.
I wonder if the publicity (and slashdotting) forced the Google ad. over it's daily limit? (For those who don't know, when you buy a Google ad. you specify how much you want to pay for clicks per day -- go over that limit and your ad. doesn't appear.)
Hmmm...now to "research" the vaginainstute.com ad...
Common leftist comeback fitting attitudes of most of them
You said it brother! When a leftie runs out of (their admittedly short list of) arguments, they always resort to namecalling. Saves actually thinking through stuff (after all, "feelings" will only get you so far in a debate).
The right's always "spewing hate" while the left is just coming up with "common-sense solutions". Al Franken says "rush limbaugh is a big fat idiot"? (Hmmm...how many idiots have $200 million contracts?) Bush is a moron? (With a Yale MBA that is.) Clarence Thomas is a "dangerous sexual predator" (and an Uncle Tom) but Bill Clinton's private life was the business of no one but him. (Don't get me started on the kind of name-calling leftist mush-heads dribble about Ayn Rand.)
For starters, it includes:
MSBuild (so long NAnt!)
Unit Testing (so long NUnit)
Build Automation (so long CruiseControl)
Refactoring (so long Resharper )
And Bugs! (so long release schedule)
@#$! Preview button!!!
If you didn't have your head buried in Marxist bullshit all your life you'd recognize that an educated lower-class works to become the middle class -- they *don't* just sit around whining about being oppressed.
But nooo...the mush you absorbed by your non-teaching "teachers" compels you to believe that once lower class, always lower class, and that the middle class actively surpresses the lower class.
Anyways, Comrade, don't you have a new issue of the Daily Worker to read?
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If you didn't have your head buried in Marxist bullshit all your life you'd recognize that an educated lower-class works to become the middle class -- they just sit around whining about being oppressed.
But nooo...the mush you absorbed by your non-teaching "teachers" compels you to believe that once lower class, always lower class, and that the middle class actively surpresses the lower class.
Anyways, Comrade, don't you have a new issue of the Daily Worker to read?
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Ever heard of the RICO act? The gov. can charge *your property* with a crime. If you can't prove that your property was not gained from committing an act of racketeering, you don't get it back. It's frequently used as a revenue-generating tool; i.e., siezing cash from suspicious looking characters during traffic stops, in airports, etc. It is also used to deprive persons of effective counsel by seizing bank accounts that would otherwise be used to pay for lawyers.
So, in short, yes, the Eff-Fucking Bee Eye can seize your property without ever charging you with a crime, and it's damn hard (read *impossible*) to get it back if they don't want you to have it.
How do you abuse a "right"???
Typical Euro-snob. Guess you are completely unaware the EU's proposed data retention rules?
If monitoring communications isn't search, why do wiretaps require a warrant?
Scalia's just barely south of Stalin by the way.
Like hell it isn't illegal for the fed. to spy on its citizens. Please see the 4th ammendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. The operative word there is "searches".
Oh, and we aren't supposed to be the fucking fed's "citizens" -- actually they're supposed to be *our* government.
Yah, it's pretty rare to check for a sig. This page has a nice writeup from a guy who decided to see how far he could go in goofing around with the signature.
Guess this description of life at MS is true...
The fact is that, while the North American continent emits about 1.6 billion metric tons of carbon every year, North American carbon sinks actually absorb 1.7 billion tons of atmospheric carbon every year. North America is therefore a net consumer of carbon dioxide. The same is not true of the European nations, who essentially see their emissions cleaned up by North American or other carbon sinks. They were not keen to see carbon sinks counted in the equation when they had none to count themselves, despite the fact that the European targets under Kyoto were less stringent than those imposed on other industrialized nations.
What the hell do you suppose all those trees that were already there are doing??? Trees *actively* convert CO2 into O2+sequestered carbon. !!!!!!!!!
???!
The increase alone was enough to offset 25%. As the quote stated, taking into account the forestation that already existed, the US is a net carbon sink, meaning in total we do not contribute to the world's carbon emission.
Hey idiot!
The US has had a *negative* output of carbon since 1952. Yes, that's right: because of forestation, the US *consumes* more carbon than it emits.
The regrowth of U.S. forests has had important impacts on net U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. Overall, U.S. forests have been a net carbon sink since 1952. According to Birdsey and Heath, between 1952 and 1992, carbon stored on U.S. forest land increased by a net of 11.3 billion metric tons, an average net increase of 281 million metric tons per year, and an amount that offset approximately 25 percent of U.S. emissions of carbon for the period." See that? The *increase* in trees alone was enough to offset 25% of the total carbon emissions.
$100? We've been looking into code-signing lately, and my impression was that Verisign had the market locked at $400 a pop. Is it cheaper for individuals, or did you get the cert from somewhere else???
Liberal translation alert! "Right-wing nutjob" = poster has no coherent argument to parent's comment and has resorted to the standard left-wing namecalling playbook.
You're right...although I knew approximately what the facts were, I was just lazy and googled freon+shuttle+damage, etc. and grabbed the first nice-looking link. Not very good research, but this *is* /.
Sorry for the flamebait mod, I don't think you deserve it.
You're confusing facts. I know Columbia was using the older foam, and nowhere in my post did I imply that the CFC-11 was responsible for Columbia's loss. Read the damn post before acusing me of mixing things up.
Now, as for backing my damage assertion up: how's this: (for the math challenged, 308/40=approx. 8 times the damage). That's just during the initial imspection.
Who's wrong now enviro-boy?
Parent is actually correct. Damage to the shuttle due to foam coming off increased by a factor of 11 (!) after changing to the new enviro-wacko friendly formulation. See for example this.
Yah. Gotta love all that automatically-generated API crap that VS dumps into your source:
// {AFX_DATA_MAP(BHatchBoundaryTab)
etc. It gives you something to read while you're looking for your code.
God help you if you accidentally delete one of those comments.
Delphi (for example) keeps your source code as you wrote it. Like every freakin other IDE in the universe.
Oh, and how many versions of msvcr71.dll are there? (Seriously, I'm asking...MSDN's dll help database claims the file doesn't exist.)
By the way, does Visual Studio ship with the source to the runtime libraries so's you can step the debugger through them? No? (Delphi does.)
VS isn't exactly bug-free either...Googling visual studio bug results in 760,000 hits; searching MSDN for PRB and Visual Studio results in *many* results (I got tired of clicking on "next", but it's a lot).
Oh, and VS's help...sucks. For example, with VB 6 (no, I *do not* develop in VB), asking for help on, e.g., Val() results in about 20 freaking pages of help to choose from. What idiot decided to integrate the entire MSDN knowledgebase into VS's help?
VS bites.
The slightest tile chip damage is news because the media perception is that the thing is very fragile and NASA's hasn't bothered to dispel that perception (fer craps sake, a little cover fell off a window pre-launch and forced a standown while NASA checked for damage).
Also, I think a lot of people inside and outside NASA are very ambivalent about the shuttle. It's hideously expensive, both on a cost-per-kilogram launched and lives lost basis. I wouldn't be suprised if most NASA people have lost heart in the whole project. (Plus, can you imagine what would become of NASA's grand moon-to-mars budget if another shuttle came apart in their hands? Who's going to trust them with a couple of $trillion if they can't even get from the earth to orbit without blowing up?)
HTH...
Sigh...replying to a troll.
OK, if you're truely ignorant, yes, falling pieces of foam have always been a problem. However, the problem was exacerbated when envro-freak wackos used the EPA to force NASA to stop using freon to spray the foam. Basically, the new spray doesn't stick the foam as well.
I wonder if the publicity (and slashdotting) forced the Google ad. over it's daily limit? (For those who don't know, when you buy a Google ad. you specify how much you want to pay for clicks per day -- go over that limit and your ad. doesn't appear.)
Hmmm...now to "research" the vaginainstute.com ad...
All 5 voting for that piece of nonsense are liberals, regardless of who appointed them.
Common leftist comeback fitting attitudes of most of them
You said it brother! When a leftie runs out of (their admittedly short list of) arguments, they always resort to namecalling. Saves actually thinking through stuff (after all, "feelings" will only get you so far in a debate).
The right's always "spewing hate" while the left is just coming up with "common-sense solutions". Al Franken says "rush limbaugh is a big fat idiot"? (Hmmm...how many idiots have $200 million contracts?) Bush is a moron? (With a Yale MBA that is.) Clarence Thomas is a "dangerous sexual predator" (and an Uncle Tom) but Bill Clinton's private life was the business of no one but him. (Don't get me started on the kind of name-calling leftist mush-heads dribble about Ayn Rand.)
For starters, it includes:
MSBuild (so long NAnt!)
Unit Testing (so long NUnit)
Build Automation (so long CruiseControl)
Refactoring (so long Resharper )
And Bugs! (so long release schedule)
@#$! Preview button!!! If you didn't have your head buried in Marxist bullshit all your life you'd recognize that an educated lower-class works to become the middle class -- they *don't* just sit around whining about being oppressed. But nooo...the mush you absorbed by your non-teaching "teachers" compels you to believe that once lower class, always lower class, and that the middle class actively surpresses the lower class. Anyways, Comrade, don't you have a new issue of the Daily Worker to read? [ Reply to This | Parent ]
If you didn't have your head buried in Marxist bullshit all your life you'd recognize that an educated lower-class works to become the middle class -- they just sit around whining about being oppressed.
But nooo...the mush you absorbed by your non-teaching "teachers" compels you to believe that once lower class, always lower class, and that the middle class actively surpresses the lower class.
Anyways, Comrade, don't you have a new issue of the Daily Worker to read?