Hmm... do you not believe your eyes? Is some of the compelling visual evidence an eco-conspiracy that also involves camera manufacturers, Kodak, photoprocessors, NASA and satellite manufacturers?
OK, some of the statistics are inherently mind-blowing, nature of that beast.
But pictures of huge ice masses breaking up in Antarctica and the Arctic, receding glaciers, shrinking summertime snowpack on Mt Kilimanjaro, etc. are pretty freaking hard to ignore or wave off.
consensus means they might have to change their lifestyle?
No, how about Mother Fuckin' Nature will make them change their lifestyles.
OK, I can maybe sort of see some wiggle room with regards to the "human caused" part, but it is really hard to not come to that judgement, either. It isn't koala bear farts that are contributing...
But, glaciers and snow packs are shrinking, have been shrinking, for the last 50-100 years. Hard to argue that this isn't the case.
Oh yes, we built the bridge but there are a few hundred unnecessary iron girders that we forgot to remove... Well, look at bridges built in the 1800's compared to the ones today. Would we build a modern bridge today using wrought iron links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Suspension_Bridge? Each building made in a certain period in a way represents a degree of refinement compared to its predecessors. Better materials, better methods. Buildings in general cannot be "cleaned up" the way code can, where "cruft" today was yesterday's conservative design.
Read a book about the differences in the construction of the World Trade Centers versus the Empire State Building, for example (the WTC has sibling buildings still around using the same techniques, such as the Aon [nee Amoco] Building in Chicago)...
Hmm... you must go to some obscure places in Wyoming (ok, that might be redundant...). My VZWL phone works fine, but that's mostly on I-80 corridor, Rawlins to Casper, Casper to Lusk, I-25 corridor. No roaming, or at least none that I notice. Even signal on most of US-30 between I-80 and I-15. But it does lose it north of Lusk once the terrain gets a bit rougher, but that's a terrain restriction. If I'm up high enough, it'll pick up a signal...
4. Private citizens are not (generally) supposed to engage in surveillance of other private citizens under any conditions. You obviously don't live in a housing development with CCRs (deed restrictions on what you can do with "your" house) or a HOA (home owners association, like with a condominium or housing development), that is monitored by a bunch of really angry busy bodies, or anywhere else where some of your neighbors have nothing better to do than concern themselves with the business of everyone else. Or a neighborhood bully. Or get on the wrong side of the neighborhood watch committee for a flippant comment questioning their authoritah.
but it's not easy to guarantee that the animal you bought actually went into the animal bits you have in the packages you got back for the most part. Most animals, once the hide/skin/feathers have been removed, look amazingly like all the other animals of that type in the same condition. Not too many slaughterers will guarantee that, either.
Funny thing, that. If I had a bunch of lottery winnings money, I'd give good money to someone who could identify by taste (in a good, double-blind test) whether the beef they were actually eating was from "Angus", "Hereford", "Charolais", or whatever cows...
Those marketing folks are pretty good at what they do. And we (the collective "we") sure are good at buying into their bullshit.
So, the suicide bombers die with more "honor" too? They are the kamikaze of our day. Instead of "divine wind", it's "72 virgins".
Me thinks anymore that "honor", at least bestowed upon others by our societies, is just another mindfuck to get others to do one's dirty work for them, in the name of the society. At least in most parts of the world, a bereaved, embittered person, objectively having been fucked over by the system or someone else, who goes on a killing rage and then shoots himself or is killed by the cops, most of us will not see that as honorable, no matter how sympathetic we may feel about the person's cause.
Yet, in some circles, if we were compelled to strap a bomb to our chest, and take ourselves into a crowded space full of our "enemies", and detonate said bomb, killing ourselves in the process, that is "honorable"?
How is it honorable to brainwash someone to do this, having either a sniper watching them or someone else to detonate the bomb, just in case?
Hmm... some of us learned what one needs to do for a job, while getting our piece of paper that says we're educated, by...get this... having a job while we were in college. The job could have been part of financial aid (aka work-study), a silly student job on campus, working at UPS, McDonald's, Burger King, the local pizza joint, whatever, and/or paid or unpaid internships. At least, we learned the "show up on time, more or less prepared to do the work on hand" aspect of it. College isn't supposed to educate you in that, and you shouldn't need to go to college to figure that out, either.
If that's what you went for, well, you got sold a bill of goods. Sorry...
...but will it come to be like how it was presented in "Minority Report", if you were looking carefully enough? Imagine advertisers also getting some lulz from law enforcement by aiding and abetting their tracking efforts as well...
Imagine, though, the episode on "COPS: 2012" where some criminal mastermind gets a text from "Macy's" that there is a flash sale on Brut 33 products (put there by the cops who are interested in him for...oh...driving through a school zone at 3am at 40 mph...), but only if he can get there in the next half hour, and... he falls for it.
Russia and the US have an official agreement now in fact to allow over flights.
Yes, by treaty: Open Skies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Skies_Treaty). But this is separate than the usually unadvertised spy flights (dick wagging) by the US, Russia, etc. against each other that cause fighters to scramble to escort the spy aircraft away...
But while we have the logistics trail to possibly support it, it is fucking long and expensive to maintain, as the last 10+ years have shown.
While Iran might be boxed in, we kind of are, too, and we keep letting our "pride" and ego get us into trouble. Iran is playing Brer Bear, we're continuously playing Brer Rabbit (or Wily E. Coyote, or maybe even a really malevolent Elmer Fudd with a Yosemite Sam personality complex), and we're too stupid to stop and change it.
mountain top mining is a big deal only in Appalachia, not in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, etc. (US 30 near Kemmerer, WY, goes next to a coal-powered power plant where they do just that to get the nearby coal from the surrounding mountains. I-80, near Red Desert, WY, has had a drag line working next to the highway for a coal mine, too, the last couple of years...). There's a power plant in Gillette, WY, on one side of I-90, and on the other, is the pit where they're taking the coal out of... funny looking in there, as there are some rather large pieces of equipment in there that just look small down there on the bottom...
Biggest difference? Wyoming generally doesn't have picturesque little towns in the picturesque valleys near these picturesque mountains. Most of it is pretty god-forsaken high desert rangeland (owned by the US or state government...) If the coal being mined in Appalacia wasn't mostly anthracite coal, the mountain-top removal coal mining would not be happening. Thin seams of anthracite coal are worth doing this for, but not thin seams of bituminous coal (in Wyoming...you can see these thin seams in road cuts all over the state...). Plus, "normal" underground mining doesn't work for places like the Powder River Basin coal (where the coal seams are several 10's of feet thick...).
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Hmm... do you not believe your eyes? Is some of the compelling visual evidence an eco-conspiracy that also involves camera manufacturers, Kodak, photoprocessors, NASA and satellite manufacturers?
OK, some of the statistics are inherently mind-blowing, nature of that beast.
But pictures of huge ice masses breaking up in Antarctica and the Arctic, receding glaciers, shrinking summertime snowpack on Mt Kilimanjaro, etc. are pretty freaking hard to ignore or wave off.
consensus means they might have to change their lifestyle?
No, how about Mother Fuckin' Nature will make them change their lifestyles.
OK, I can maybe sort of see some wiggle room with regards to the "human caused" part, but it is really hard to not come to that judgement, either. It isn't koala bear farts that are contributing...
But, glaciers and snow packs are shrinking, have been shrinking, for the last 50-100 years. Hard to argue that this isn't the case.
what did they invent, fucking glass now?
Well, there's probably an app for that, too...
Oh yes, we built the bridge but there are a few hundred unnecessary iron girders that we forgot to remove...
Well, look at bridges built in the 1800's compared to the ones today. Would we build a modern bridge today using wrought iron links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Suspension_Bridge? Each building made in a certain period in a way represents a degree of refinement compared to its predecessors. Better materials, better methods. Buildings in general cannot be "cleaned up" the way code can, where "cruft" today was yesterday's conservative design.
Read a book about the differences in the construction of the World Trade Centers versus the Empire State Building, for example (the WTC has sibling buildings still around using the same techniques, such as the Aon [nee Amoco] Building in Chicago)...
I'll go with the Trans-Siberian Railroad instead.
Historically you sometimes get a military backed figurehead.
And Kim Jong Ill was different?
Hmm... you must go to some obscure places in Wyoming (ok, that might be redundant...). My VZWL phone works fine, but that's mostly on I-80 corridor, Rawlins to Casper, Casper to Lusk, I-25 corridor. No roaming, or at least none that I notice. Even signal on most of US-30 between I-80 and I-15. But it does lose it north of Lusk once the terrain gets a bit rougher, but that's a terrain restriction. If I'm up high enough, it'll pick up a signal...
4. Private citizens are not (generally) supposed to engage in surveillance of other private citizens under any conditions.
You obviously don't live in a housing development with CCRs (deed restrictions on what you can do with "your" house) or a HOA (home owners association, like with a condominium or housing development), that is monitored by a bunch of really angry busy bodies, or anywhere else where some of your neighbors have nothing better to do than concern themselves with the business of everyone else. Or a neighborhood bully. Or get on the wrong side of the neighborhood watch committee for a flippant comment questioning their authoritah.
...but it could become the thing to do at the Farmer's Markets...
The cute picture of the critter out in the pasture, or the reality of it hanging on the hooks?
but it's not easy to guarantee that the animal you bought actually went into the animal bits you have in the packages you got back for the most part. Most animals, once the hide/skin/feathers have been removed, look amazingly like all the other animals of that type in the same condition. Not too many slaughterers will guarantee that, either.
Funny thing, that. If I had a bunch of lottery winnings money, I'd give good money to someone who could identify by taste (in a good, double-blind test) whether the beef they were actually eating was from "Angus", "Hereford", "Charolais", or whatever cows...
Those marketing folks are pretty good at what they do. And we (the collective "we") sure are good at buying into their bullshit.
and the rest of my Macbook Air fund...or buying your tickets to Disneyland.
So, the suicide bombers die with more "honor" too? They are the kamikaze of our day. Instead of "divine wind", it's "72 virgins".
Me thinks anymore that "honor", at least bestowed upon others by our societies, is just another mindfuck to get others to do one's dirty work for them, in the name of the society. At least in most parts of the world, a bereaved, embittered person, objectively having been fucked over by the system or someone else, who goes on a killing rage and then shoots himself or is killed by the cops, most of us will not see that as honorable, no matter how sympathetic we may feel about the person's cause.
Yet, in some circles, if we were compelled to strap a bomb to our chest, and take ourselves into a crowded space full of our "enemies", and detonate said bomb, killing ourselves in the process, that is "honorable"?
How is it honorable to brainwash someone to do this, having either a sniper watching them or someone else to detonate the bomb, just in case?
That group meta-paranoia goes waaay back. Just do a little scratchin' around about the old tent revival evangelists and their sermons...
Fair Use. In other words, if UMG bought the copyright to "Happy Birthday", how many vids from YouTube would suddenly be taken down?
'cept a .22 cal air-powered pellet gun that shoots pellets at 1100 fps might as well be a firearm.
But HMS Sheffield, Coventry, Ardent, Antelope and MV Atlantic Conveyer didn't fare all that well...
US T-bills?
As are the C-2 and EC-2. Logistics, guys...don't forget about logistics.
Hmm... some of us learned what one needs to do for a job, while getting our piece of paper that says we're educated, by...get this... having a job while we were in college. The job could have been part of financial aid (aka work-study), a silly student job on campus, working at UPS, McDonald's, Burger King, the local pizza joint, whatever, and/or paid or unpaid internships. At least, we learned the "show up on time, more or less prepared to do the work on hand" aspect of it. College isn't supposed to educate you in that, and you shouldn't need to go to college to figure that out, either.
If that's what you went for, well, you got sold a bill of goods. Sorry...
...but will it come to be like how it was presented in "Minority Report", if you were looking carefully enough? Imagine advertisers also getting some lulz from law enforcement by aiding and abetting their tracking efforts as well...
Imagine, though, the episode on "COPS: 2012" where some criminal mastermind gets a text from "Macy's" that there is a flash sale on Brut 33 products (put there by the cops who are interested in him for...oh...driving through a school zone at 3am at 40 mph...), but only if he can get there in the next half hour, and... he falls for it.
Russia and the US have an official agreement now in fact to allow over flights.
Yes, by treaty: Open Skies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Skies_Treaty). But this is separate than the usually unadvertised spy flights (dick wagging) by the US, Russia, etc. against each other that cause fighters to scramble to escort the spy aircraft away...
But while we have the logistics trail to possibly support it, it is fucking long and expensive to maintain, as the last 10+ years have shown.
While Iran might be boxed in, we kind of are, too, and we keep letting our "pride" and ego get us into trouble. Iran is playing Brer Bear, we're continuously playing Brer Rabbit (or Wily E. Coyote, or maybe even a really malevolent Elmer Fudd with a Yosemite Sam personality complex), and we're too stupid to stop and change it.
mountain top mining is a big deal only in Appalachia, not in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, etc. (US 30 near Kemmerer, WY, goes next to a coal-powered power plant where they do just that to get the nearby coal from the surrounding mountains. I-80, near Red Desert, WY, has had a drag line working next to the highway for a coal mine, too, the last couple of years...). There's a power plant in Gillette, WY, on one side of I-90, and on the other, is the pit where they're taking the coal out of... funny looking in there, as there are some rather large pieces of equipment in there that just look small down there on the bottom...
Biggest difference? Wyoming generally doesn't have picturesque little towns in the picturesque valleys near these picturesque mountains. Most of it is pretty god-forsaken high desert rangeland (owned by the US or state government...) If the coal being mined in Appalacia wasn't mostly anthracite coal, the mountain-top removal coal mining would not be happening. Thin seams of anthracite coal are worth doing this for, but not thin seams of bituminous coal (in Wyoming...you can see these thin seams in road cuts all over the state...). Plus, "normal" underground mining doesn't work for places like the Powder River Basin coal (where the coal seams are several 10's of feet thick...).
Orbital Systems would seem to have lots of prior art w.r.t. the Pegasus rocket...