NASA's problems are that it really does not do it all internally anymore. The rockets are Lockheed or Boeing. Both of those companies want/need MASSIVE layers of ass-covering documentation to go with their stuff, which of course adds layers of supervision, documentation specialists, checkoff specialists, etc.
Throw Congress poking their noses into the mix, and it really all gets fucked up bad.
defending their country against invasion to be innocents...Not if they're shooting back. If they're shooting back, they're fair game.
Combat is not supposed to be fair. If it is a fair fight, then you've screwed up your initial planning and assessment. At the end, the only honor that counts is being able to go back to your bunk to fight another day.
...but it would be this way no matter what other system is used.
Do you think a candidate has the time and energy to drag his campaign tour to Lusk, WY, to listen to the few hundred ranchers in about a 5000 mi^2 area talk vs. going to a big media center?
Thems the breaks.
Do Canadian PM candidates campaign much in Ninuvet, NWT, Yukon Territories, etc.? Nope, it's all in the big cities near the US borders: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City.
Actually, California's diversions from the Colo. River affect Nevada and Arizona the most. Colorado does not get a significant amount of water from the Colorado river. It is not piped across the Rockies to Denver. Denver's water supplies are on the east side of the Continental Divide.
The bigger problem in the western US is how water rights are divvied out. It is not possible for Las Vegas, for example, to use eminent domain to force Nevada ranchers to lose their water rights just becasue Las Vegas "needs" them.
What you end up setting up then is that Las Vegas is a "worthy" use of water, and agricultural irrigation is not. Not a good thing, really.
The US involvement actually started in 1954, and simmered until 1964 when we gave up on the lie that we were sending over "advisors" (i.e., green berets).
Personally, it just looks these days like the real reason we invaded Iraq was to settle an old score from Daddy's presidency, now that Uncle Dick is the VP.
Sure, the world, and the Iraqi peoples, especially, are better w/o Saddam Hussain.
But where is Osama Bin Laden?
Someone posted a good idea earlier. set up a 24-hr refugee time for the contested areas. Let those who want to leave, leave. Then clear out the town.
And, if the Pres needs more $$$ for security, he should have to ask Congress for it, instead of reappropriating $$$ alread granted.
Paying for reconstruction helps build positive American press in Iraq, because then the insurgents are then striking down Iraq. Adding the $$$ only for "security" just paints an even bigger bullseye on foreigners and Americans.
...but that doesn't matter. What matters is that all the propaganda mills in the Islamic countries, as well as all of the anti-American press in Europe, was given HUGE amounts of bad imagery to throw around, to which all the US can say is "oops", as various people in the chains of commands either find various directions to point their fingers, quickly discredit those at the bottom accused of actually doing the deeds, defending the policies that set up the situation in the first place, etc., instead of saying, rather plainly and forcefully (and then saying nothing else):
"A bad thing happened at Abu Ghraib Prison involving the United States. We acknowledge the actions, we reassert that the United States does not stand for this kind of behavior."...and just not waver from this.
Instead, the typical military political ass-covering begins. Those above O-5 and GS-16 are given plenty of time to either find scapegoats, or create an inscrutable web of finger-pointing and blame-laying that nothing can really be resolved.
Instead of finding an honorable O-6 or Brigade General to step up and say, "we failed these prisoners, we failed the soldiers supervising them. It was my responsibility (duely delegated, of course), so the buck stops here."
Nope. Can't have Officers admitting of doing something wrong.
The military, of course, cannot ever seem to grasp that the reason so many whackos spin bad things out of control in the US is because they have such a long history of being ambiguous or lying directly to the press. When truth comes out later, it just adds more fuel to the fires of a cynical press. They dig their own hole.
Just like with "Blackhawk Down" (read the book). Sure, great idea to send in Rangers, Delta Force, et al. But our hubris at sending in the best soldiers for what was intended to be either a quick-and-dirty leadership decapitation just didn't end up that way.
Remember the mission, carry it out in a timely fashion, and get out.
I like this sovereign nation as well. I would just prefer that it act as part of the world community, just so as to perhaps keep China, India, the EU and perhaps Russia from deciding that they don't really need the US for much and impose THEIR will on the US rather arbitrarily, thus rendering such sovereignty null and void, much as we did to Iraq recently.
After all, those countries have nukes, and in the case of France and the UK, the means to deliver more than a few of them to the US (SLBM), if need be (yeah, like the UK would ever do that...).
There is kowtowing to someone else, and there is just plain getting along with everyone else.
There's 300 million Americans. There's almost 2 billion Indians and Chinese. What if they decide that they have some sort of 4000-yr old manifest destiny policy regarding the United States, and that it's time to act on it?
Also Airbus is whupping Boeing's ass with high tech engineering.
Too bad the EU and Airbus just hate it enough how Boeing used to subsidize its commercial aircraft development with its government contracts.
But the EU has all sorts of other sweet deals with Airbus that, if Boeing tried to get from the US, Airbus would be crying stinking Grey Poupon foul in the WTO courts.
Ahh, but there are those who think that seismic events in one location can "knock loose" seismic events in other locations, not just locally. It makes sense, actually.
Now, we're having a Full Moon right now. So where are the links between earthquakes and full moons?
This happened with the Alpha chips as well. As I recall, they had a relatively large amount of on-chip cache (8MB?), and so for most of the SPEC benchmarks, the datasets involved fit within the cache. Well, after a short time, SPEC changed their benchmarks to use much larger datasets, so that the Alpha would also have to thrash memory...
Why? There are too many pilots making too much money in commercial aviation. As automation in the cockpit increases, their $$$ should go down. Hazardous materials truckers probably have as important of a skillset as a commercial pilot, but they don't get paid $150K/yr.
But your analysis screws the employees. I say, screw the outside investors. Let them have their chance, but the employees have their time invested in the company. They do deserve some way to cash that out, even if it is at the expense of outside investors.
The worst an outside investor is out is the purchase price for their stocks (unless they've used it to hedge or as equity...). Everything else is paper losses for them. Boo hoo.
Employee gets outsourced, bad. Has to move. Loses house. Takes lower-paying job. Pays less taxes into the system now. Outside investor? Well, they dump their shares, and buy something else to keep the $$$ rolling in. No long-term harm to them or the economy.
After watching Mark Cuban on "The Howard Stern Show", this is exactly what he did when Yahoo bought out broadcast.com via stock swap, he sold off the Yahoo shares as soon as he could.
Taxed through the roof? In the US? I really don't think so, unless you live in a high-tax state (California, Washington, Illinois, several other states).
Well, since you have only checked one LDC (yours), saying "most LCDs are laggier than CRTs" is still an overly broad statement as well.
Since you're doing this with Linux, it could be something in the "profile" set up for your monitor for X.
Like many others, I have no problems with my LCD monitor. It's hooked up via VGA (no DVI) to my computer, so it does the same VGA-to-digital conversion. (Samsung SyncMaster 171v).
Clinton's policies were there to take the steam out of the Republican congressional agenda. Clinton managed, for the most part, to grasp the politically essential pieces of what the Republicans were harping about, enough so to get Congress to back his spin on what the Republicans were doing. Once past his 2nd year in office (after the Congressional elections...), did we have a seemingly acidic and bitter version of Dick Cheney? No. Can't say we had to deal with Woodie Gore telling Newt Gingrich to fudge off. About the strangest thing that Gore did was claim to invent the Internet, and that whole book thingie. And on and on.
Nope.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Embrace and Extend (and smother). He wasn't called "Slick Willie" for nothing... Tax & Spend? Well, the deficit went DOWN, and taxes did not go up.
But now we have taxes going "down", deficit going up. If I was a major shareholder in a company doing this, I would be concerned more than a little about the long-term business outlook slashing income while expanding expenses and debt load.
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The funny thing about Iraq is that in the span of a few months we seem to be in a position (ironically, France was involved in this, except that in helping them withdraw from the disaster at Dien Bien Phu because they got their asses bitch-slapped, we screwed them out of a bunch of $billion-blood dollar contracts with Saddam Hussain) which took us over 10 years to get in with Iraq (counting 1954, first US involvement, to mid-1960s when the build-ups got serious, but not really, if you count the first Iraq War a part of all this, as well as the no-fly zones, etc., finally peaking with the US invasion of Iraq).
But now we have two local badddd-asses constantly trying to poke red hot pokers into the eyes of Uncle Sam, instead of just one.
GW keeps harping on "vote for me and we'll win this!", when perhaps he should take a cue from Nixon, and be working to let Kerry win, so he's not the 2nd Republican to preside over a US withdrawl (retreat?) from one of its conflicts.
Which sucks. Because if you believe the 90-10 rule, I would bet that 90% of what we're doing in Iraq is good, moral, right, honorable, appreciated, etc., but we just don't hear that, do we. Instead we hear of the 10% bad stuff: the prison fuckups, we continue to hear of Islamists capturing other Islamists and cutting off their heads [do they say a prayer for them first? is getting beheaded a bad thing for a Moslem?], not withstanding all the other people they get their bacon grease-stained hands on, yet the Arab world does not appear to be doing anything at all about it, and every day a few more Americans are killed every day in little terrorist attacks (why not ask for Israel's advice on how to deal with these). Where are the imams declaring in the press that the terrorists killing foreigners are unjust, because they are killing indiscriminately, not for the betterment of Islam, but merely for the advancement of their putrid dreams of power?
A very real change in Iraq policy would need to send some serious messages. It might even require some mass civilian casualties. Drop a BLU-82 or MOAB on Tikrit and Fallujah. Stop interrogating Iraqi detainees, but killing them and letting dogs and pigs eat at their rotting bodies. Let them know that these little kidnappings and chicken-shit roadside bombings will be punished 100-fold, 1000-fold.
And in the diplomatic circles, the US needs to air all the dirty shit hiding in the closets of countries who will, of course, be pissed off by this kind of action. France & Algeria. France & unilateral nuclear testing. France and unilateral terrorist activities. Russia & Chechnya. Recent, modern stuff. And on and on and on. If we're going to act all imperious and such in the world's affairs, better go whole-hog into it.
Post-WWII democracy worked because the countries involved and their citizens had no other choice. We need to create the same kind of situation.
Instead, we appear to be in a continuously reactive mode. We are reacting (by not appearing to really do anything) to terroristic bombings and kidnappings. If it was domestic, the FBI would be all over it, and the perps WOULD be found, and at least where they are at isolated and surrounded with a lot of hot lead projectors. But now, they fade into the dark.
We are reacting to hit-and-run mortar attacks, because so many of our troops are holed up, etc., and the political fear of civilian casualties, for better or worse, sort of creates and abets this situation.
Maybe we *SHOULD* pull out most of the serious hardware, and leave the job to the Greenie-Beanies and SEALs, along with some conventional forces (maybe a Marine flotilla and a carrier or two in the Gulf) to back them up, and a few strategically placed conventional units near by, but out in the open.
We (or Iraq) also needs to somehow "flip" one or two highly influential people against the status quo, to help turn the tide and isolate (what is isolated is more easily removed) those who do not see the light.
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NASA's problems are that it really does not do it all internally anymore. The rockets are Lockheed or Boeing. Both of those companies want/need MASSIVE layers of ass-covering documentation to go with their stuff, which of course adds layers of supervision, documentation specialists, checkoff specialists, etc.
Throw Congress poking their noses into the mix, and it really all gets fucked up bad.
this is an experimental craft in a rush to fly ...and you think the other X-Prize programs are any different?
Civil Affairs is a Reserve Component, and has been for some time.
As for the slam on a career non-comm, the typical non-comm reply to that is, "someone's got to do the work around here."
defending their country against invasion to be innocents ...Not if they're shooting back. If they're shooting back, they're fair game.
Combat is not supposed to be fair. If it is a fair fight, then you've screwed up your initial planning and assessment. At the end, the only honor that counts is being able to go back to your bunk to fight another day.
So which government killed more people in a year, Texas when GWB was governor, or Iraq?
...but it would be this way no matter what other system is used.
Do you think a candidate has the time and energy to drag his campaign tour to Lusk, WY, to listen to the few hundred ranchers in about a 5000 mi^2 area talk vs. going to a big media center?
Thems the breaks.
Do Canadian PM candidates campaign much in Ninuvet, NWT, Yukon Territories, etc.? Nope, it's all in the big cities near the US borders: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City.
Actually, California's diversions from the Colo. River affect Nevada and Arizona the most. Colorado does not get a significant amount of water from the Colorado river. It is not piped across the Rockies to Denver. Denver's water supplies are on the east side of the Continental Divide.
The bigger problem in the western US is how water rights are divvied out. It is not possible for Las Vegas, for example, to use eminent domain to force Nevada ranchers to lose their water rights just becasue Las Vegas "needs" them.
What you end up setting up then is that Las Vegas is a "worthy" use of water, and agricultural irrigation is not. Not a good thing, really.
The US involvement actually started in 1954, and simmered until 1964 when we gave up on the lie that we were sending over "advisors" (i.e., green berets).
Personally, it just looks these days like the real reason we invaded Iraq was to settle an old score from Daddy's presidency, now that Uncle Dick is the VP.
Sure, the world, and the Iraqi peoples, especially, are better w/o Saddam Hussain.
But where is Osama Bin Laden?
Someone posted a good idea earlier. set up a 24-hr refugee time for the contested areas. Let those who want to leave, leave. Then clear out the town.
And, if the Pres needs more $$$ for security, he should have to ask Congress for it, instead of reappropriating $$$ alread granted.
Paying for reconstruction helps build positive American press in Iraq, because then the insurgents are then striking down Iraq. Adding the $$$ only for "security" just paints an even bigger bullseye on foreigners and Americans.
...but that doesn't matter. What matters is that all the propaganda mills in the Islamic countries, as well as all of the anti-American press in Europe, was given HUGE amounts of bad imagery to throw around, to which all the US can say is "oops", as various people in the chains of commands either find various directions to point their fingers, quickly discredit those at the bottom accused of actually doing the deeds, defending the policies that set up the situation in the first place, etc., instead of saying, rather plainly and forcefully (and then saying nothing else):
...and just not waver from this.
"A bad thing happened at Abu Ghraib Prison involving the United States. We acknowledge the actions, we reassert that the United States does not stand for this kind of behavior."
Instead, the typical military political ass-covering begins. Those above O-5 and GS-16 are given plenty of time to either find scapegoats, or create an inscrutable web of finger-pointing and blame-laying that nothing can really be resolved.
Instead of finding an honorable O-6 or Brigade General to step up and say, "we failed these prisoners, we failed the soldiers supervising them. It was my responsibility (duely delegated, of course), so the buck stops here."
Nope. Can't have Officers admitting of doing something wrong.
The military, of course, cannot ever seem to grasp that the reason so many whackos spin bad things out of control in the US is because they have such a long history of being ambiguous or lying directly to the press. When truth comes out later, it just adds more fuel to the fires of a cynical press. They dig their own hole.
Just like with "Blackhawk Down" (read the book). Sure, great idea to send in Rangers, Delta Force, et al. But our hubris at sending in the best soldiers for what was intended to be either a quick-and-dirty leadership decapitation just didn't end up that way.
Remember the mission, carry it out in a timely fashion, and get out.
Oh, what was the mission again?
Well, the Dick Cheney is certainly about as Macchiavellian as they come.
I like this sovereign nation as well. I would just prefer that it act as part of the world community, just so as to perhaps keep China, India, the EU and perhaps Russia from deciding that they don't really need the US for much and impose THEIR will on the US rather arbitrarily, thus rendering such sovereignty null and void, much as we did to Iraq recently.
After all, those countries have nukes, and in the case of France and the UK, the means to deliver more than a few of them to the US (SLBM), if need be (yeah, like the UK would ever do that...).
There is kowtowing to someone else, and there is just plain getting along with everyone else.
There's 300 million Americans. There's almost 2 billion Indians and Chinese. What if they decide that they have some sort of 4000-yr old manifest destiny policy regarding the United States, and that it's time to act on it?
Also Airbus is whupping Boeing's ass with high tech engineering.
Too bad the EU and Airbus just hate it enough how Boeing used to subsidize its commercial aircraft development with its government contracts.
But the EU has all sorts of other sweet deals with Airbus that, if Boeing tried to get from the US, Airbus would be crying stinking Grey Poupon foul in the WTO courts.
Ahh, but there are those who think that seismic events in one location can "knock loose" seismic events in other locations, not just locally. It makes sense, actually.
Now, we're having a Full Moon right now. So where are the links between earthquakes and full moons?
my niece was born in Ellensburg, WA, on May 22, 1980... It was still dark as night 4 days after there.
This happened with the Alpha chips as well. As I recall, they had a relatively large amount of on-chip cache (8MB?), and so for most of the SPEC benchmarks, the datasets involved fit within the cache. Well, after a short time, SPEC changed their benchmarks to use much larger datasets, so that the Alpha would also have to thrash memory...
Those problems are with low-frequency SONAR.
Why? There are too many pilots making too much money in commercial aviation. As automation in the cockpit increases, their $$$ should go down. Hazardous materials truckers probably have as important of a skillset as a commercial pilot, but they don't get paid $150K/yr.
But your analysis screws the employees. I say, screw the outside investors. Let them have their chance, but the employees have their time invested in the company. They do deserve some way to cash that out, even if it is at the expense of outside investors.
The worst an outside investor is out is the purchase price for their stocks (unless they've used it to hedge or as equity...). Everything else is paper losses for them. Boo hoo.
Employee gets outsourced, bad. Has to move. Loses house. Takes lower-paying job. Pays less taxes into the system now. Outside investor? Well, they dump their shares, and buy something else to keep the $$$ rolling in. No long-term harm to them or the economy.
After watching Mark Cuban on "The Howard Stern Show", this is exactly what he did when Yahoo bought out broadcast.com via stock swap, he sold off the Yahoo shares as soon as he could.
Taxed through the roof? In the US? I really don't think so, unless you live in a high-tax state (California, Washington, Illinois, several other states).
Space-ship one is a suborbital vehicle meaning it goes straight up, and falls straight back down
Errrrr if it did it this way, it would be a ballistic vehicle. But it doesn't, so it's not.
Well, since you have only checked one LDC (yours), saying "most LCDs are laggier than CRTs" is still an overly broad statement as well.
Since you're doing this with Linux, it could be something in the "profile" set up for your monitor for X.
Like many others, I have no problems with my LCD monitor. It's hooked up via VGA (no DVI) to my computer, so it does the same VGA-to-digital conversion. (Samsung SyncMaster 171v).
Clinton's policies were there to take the steam out of the Republican congressional agenda. Clinton managed, for the most part, to grasp the politically essential pieces of what the Republicans were harping about, enough so to get Congress to back his spin on what the Republicans were doing. Once past his 2nd year in office (after the Congressional elections...), did we have a seemingly acidic and bitter version of Dick Cheney? No. Can't say we had to deal with Woodie Gore telling Newt Gingrich to fudge off. About the strangest thing that Gore did was claim to invent the Internet, and that whole book thingie. And on and on.
Nope.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Embrace and Extend (and smother). He wasn't called "Slick Willie" for nothing... Tax & Spend? Well, the deficit went DOWN, and taxes did not go up.
But now we have taxes going "down", deficit going up. If I was a major shareholder in a company doing this, I would be concerned more than a little about the long-term business outlook slashing income while expanding expenses and debt load.
The funny thing about Iraq is that in the span of a few months we seem to be in a position (ironically, France was involved in this, except that in helping them withdraw from the disaster at Dien Bien Phu because they got their asses bitch-slapped, we screwed them out of a bunch of $billion-blood dollar contracts with Saddam Hussain) which took us over 10 years to get in with Iraq (counting 1954, first US involvement, to mid-1960s when the build-ups got serious, but not really, if you count the first Iraq War a part of all this, as well as the no-fly zones, etc., finally peaking with the US invasion of Iraq).
But now we have two local badddd-asses constantly trying to poke red hot pokers into the eyes of Uncle Sam, instead of just one.
GW keeps harping on "vote for me and we'll win this!", when perhaps he should take a cue from Nixon, and be working to let Kerry win, so he's not the 2nd Republican to preside over a US withdrawl (retreat?) from one of its conflicts.
Which sucks. Because if you believe the 90-10 rule, I would bet that 90% of what we're doing in Iraq is good, moral, right, honorable, appreciated, etc., but we just don't hear that, do we. Instead we hear of the 10% bad stuff: the prison fuckups, we continue to hear of Islamists capturing other Islamists and cutting off their heads [do they say a prayer for them first? is getting beheaded a bad thing for a Moslem?], not withstanding all the other people they get their bacon grease-stained hands on, yet the Arab world does not appear to be doing anything at all about it, and every day a few more Americans are killed every day in little terrorist attacks (why not ask for Israel's advice on how to deal with these). Where are the imams declaring in the press that the terrorists killing foreigners are unjust, because they are killing indiscriminately, not for the betterment of Islam, but merely for the advancement of their putrid dreams of power?
A very real change in Iraq policy would need to send some serious messages. It might even require some mass civilian casualties. Drop a BLU-82 or MOAB on Tikrit and Fallujah. Stop interrogating Iraqi detainees, but killing them and letting dogs and pigs eat at their rotting bodies. Let them know that these little kidnappings and chicken-shit roadside bombings will be punished 100-fold, 1000-fold.
And in the diplomatic circles, the US needs to air all the dirty shit hiding in the closets of countries who will, of course, be pissed off by this kind of action. France & Algeria. France & unilateral nuclear testing. France and unilateral terrorist activities. Russia & Chechnya. Recent, modern stuff. And on and on and on. If we're going to act all imperious and such in the world's affairs, better go whole-hog into it.
Post-WWII democracy worked because the countries involved and their citizens had no other choice. We need to create the same kind of situation.
Instead, we appear to be in a continuously reactive mode. We are reacting (by not appearing to really do anything) to terroristic bombings and kidnappings. If it was domestic, the FBI would be all over it, and the perps WOULD be found, and at least where they are at isolated and surrounded with a lot of hot lead projectors. But now, they fade into the dark.
We are reacting to hit-and-run mortar attacks, because so many of our troops are holed up, etc., and the political fear of civilian casualties, for better or worse, sort of creates and abets this situation.
Maybe we *SHOULD* pull out most of the serious hardware, and leave the job to the Greenie-Beanies and SEALs, along with some conventional forces (maybe a Marine flotilla and a carrier or two in the Gulf) to back them up, and a few strategically placed conventional units near by, but out in the open.
We (or Iraq) also needs to somehow "flip" one or two highly influential people against the status quo, to help turn the tide and isolate (what is isolated is more easily removed) those who do not see the light.
Of course,
IBM seem very calm about adopting Opteron (only offering a HPC 2-way server),
Gee, could it be because they already have at least 3 high end, profitable platforms? Power/AIX, Power/AS400 and Z-series?