This is just bullshit. All that has happened is a primary unit had failed, after close to 20 years of flight (not to mention the grossly excessive "shelf life" resulting from the Challenger launch delay). They have a backup, that's what it is there for. And this is hardly a high failure rate, we have already gotten more than it was designed for.
This appeared in messages from an MTC1230 when used for military satellite tracking. It appeared in marching rows once per second when the computer received no telemetry data. Normally, it meant that you simply weren't looking in the right place in the sky. But if it appeared immediately after you send a command to the spacecraft, it was almost always very very bad.
For example, someone once sent the command to fire the AKM (apogee kick motor, a large, usually solid-propellant rocket engine buried inside the satellite) and started getting "None 0". That was very very bad, a cloud of debris was later tracked in the same orbit as the former spacecraft.
Another time, someone intended to send a pretty benign command called S-0702 that caused a change in the telemetry readout of a particular parameter. Very routine, do it 4 times a day. However, they got the digits transposed and instead send S-7002. This command turned off all the communications to Europe, and also caused the data link from the tracking station to the operations facility to go down. "NONE 0".
While it may be publicly available, Limewire or people doing Google searches don't typically use the results to support criminal prosecutions and lawsuits. They'd have a better argument that private investigators shouldn't require licenses than that they are acting as private investigators.
While I can't speak to your situation, overall, I have found over-the-air DTV to be a vast improvement over analog. This is in the San Jose area. The existing analog broadcasts are hopeless due to massive multipath problems (same with FM radio). DTV, including HD, is pretty bulletproof. You have to turn the antenna for a few stations but that's no different than what was going on with analog. Once you get it, it's perfect.
In your particular case, it doesn't seem to work very well, but I don't think that has a lot to do with digital vs. analog per se. Your local stations have had 60 years to get the analog stuff right, and 6 months to get digital right.
Actually Seinfeld was somewhat unique in *intentionally* creating characters that really didn't have any particular endearing qualities. Most sitcoms have people that are supposed to have some sort of engaging characterstics. The fact that they don't is an accident.
It's deeper than that. The original show was about characters with no redeeming value and that didn't care about anyone but themselves. That appears to be tailor-made for a Vista ad.
I am aware of these points, given that I *do this for a living*. Without getting into a big argument, I said that you could revive a Saturn V easier than an Energia, which is what you appear to have been referring to as a heavy lift vehicle being "revived". Can't be a Soyuz since it doesn't need to be revived. The Soyuz *is* a popgun compared to other, US-made alternatives like the Delta 4 and Atlas 5 as far as lifting goes. Yes, it is cheap, which is not surprising since it has been mass-produced in various forms since it was the R-7 ICBM for 50 years. It's cheap because it is extremely inefficient. About the same poop as the Titan/Titan Transtage, and not as strong as a Titan III or any of it's derivatives.
A far simpler alternative is to just put a bigger fairing on an *existing booster* and just use that.
Uh, what are you talking about? Soyuz is still in use, and it's quite small (comparable to Gemini). You might be thinking about Energia, but while it was big, it was far from simple, and only had one flight. You could probably revive the Saturn V as quickly as Energia with similar capabilities. Same with Titan 4. But why bother - what you need is a way to mount large payloads on a Delta 4 Heavy, which exists *now* and is still in production.
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>We ban child porn and bomb making instructions, >they ban bad music that criticizes the >government. If anything they should be consistent >and just ban bad music. How is it our place to >criticize them? A country should be able to make >decisions about what ideas it tolerates within >its borders. Not all countries will make the same >decision. Not everyone agrees with us >enlightened, progressive, "free" Westerners. Get >over it and get over yourselves.
This is the sort of idiotic "moral relativism" argument that allows murdering thugs to continue with their actions. The "all opinions are equally valid" crapola that is destroying western society. There are such things as "right" and "wrong". Adults having sex with children (and adults taking pictures of it) is *wrong* by ANY civilized standards. Murdering monks in the streets or shipping people off to "re-education camps" for protesting is *wrong*. Why should we be afraid of confronting it or speaking out about it?
>But if the media is so liberal, why would they have to? >I think you are trying to have your cake and eat it too. >And I'm not sure if you consider Fox a "major network", >but I am having a hard time figuring out who the "fawning >sychophants"(sic) are on that network. Any help? Besides, >everybody knows that the conservatives practically OWN >talk radio. Doesn't that count for something? >It is a form of media.
Of course, your examples are the very reason that the Democrat party wants the fairness doctrine back. They can brook no opposition, and if they can shut down Rush Limbaugh/Hannity, Fox News, and (now if it applies to the internet) Drudge, they will have accomplished their goal.
This is as blatant a suppression of free speech as McCain-Feingold.
Republican Politicians != Republicans. And of course Democrats want to bring back the fairness doctrine and apply it to the internet. They are unable to compete in the marketplace of ideas because their concepts and values are grossly out of the interests in mainstream America. It's not enough to have willing shills in every other form of media - fawning sychophants in TV (all major networks), newspapers (NYT, etc). They can't tolerate even the slightest opposition.
The CIA is murdering people for leaving Islam? Cites, please....
Why is it that we are so willing to jump down the throats of Christians in power (or essentially any other religion), even though they are largely benign, but so willing to excuse any level of butchery, depravity, or despotism when it comes to fudamentalist Islam?
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>BTW No I am not a Microsoft fanboy, I
>use whatever tool is appropiate and
>frankly MSWord and Excel are brilliant
>pieces of software.
Word is a "brilliant" piece of software? It's a buggy unstable POS.
Brett
You can't tell from TFA. 440 newtons (actually probably the 103 lbs IHI biprop) is the thrust, not the total impulse.
Brett
Creating a federal CIO/CTO will *ensure* - absolutely and positively - a Windows monoculture.
Brett
This is just bullshit. All that has happened is a primary unit had failed, after close to 20 years of flight (not to mention the grossly excessive "shelf life" resulting from the Challenger launch delay). They have a backup, that's what it is there for. And this is hardly a high failure rate, we have already gotten more than it was designed for.
Brett
"NONE 0" ...
"NONE 0"
"NONE 0"
"NONE 0"
"NONE 0"
"NONE 0"
"NONE 0"
This appeared in messages from an MTC1230 when used for military satellite tracking. It appeared in marching rows once per second when the computer received no telemetry data. Normally, it meant that you simply weren't looking in the right place in the sky. But if it appeared immediately after you send a command to the spacecraft, it was almost always very very bad.
For example, someone once sent the command to fire the AKM (apogee kick motor, a large, usually solid-propellant rocket engine buried inside the satellite) and started getting "None 0". That was very very bad, a cloud of debris was later tracked in the same orbit as the former spacecraft.
Another time, someone intended to send a pretty benign command called S-0702 that caused a change in the telemetry readout of a particular parameter. Very routine, do it 4 times a day. However, they got the digits transposed and instead send S-7002. This command turned off all the communications to Europe, and also caused the data link from the tracking station to the operations facility to go down. "NONE 0".
Brett
"False Pretense"? How do we know that? Maybe they sincerely believe it. Not everything you don't agree with is fraudulent.
Brett
"Videoaping this crime spree was the best idea we ever had!"
Parliment is rushing back to London to vote on dropping their accreditation!
Brett
While it may be publicly available, Limewire or people doing Google searches don't typically use the results to support criminal prosecutions and lawsuits. They'd have a better argument that private investigators shouldn't require licenses than that they are acting as private investigators.
Brett
While I can't speak to your situation, overall, I have found over-the-air DTV to be a vast improvement over analog. This is in the San Jose area. The existing analog broadcasts are hopeless due to massive multipath problems (same with FM radio). DTV, including HD, is pretty bulletproof. You have to turn the antenna for a few stations but that's no different than what was going on with analog. Once you get it, it's perfect.
In your particular case, it doesn't seem to work very well, but I don't think that has a lot to do with digital vs. analog per se. Your local stations have had 60 years to get the analog stuff right, and 6 months to get digital right.
Brett
Riiight - and the list of books supposedly banned includes books that *hadn't been published* at the time of the alleged incident (1996).
That allegation is simply a *fabrication*. It started on Daily Kos - and it's utter nonsense.
Brett
Exactly!
Actually Seinfeld was somewhat unique in *intentionally* creating characters that really didn't have any particular endearing qualities. Most sitcoms have people that are supposed to have some sort of engaging characterstics. The fact that they don't is an accident.
Brett
It's deeper than that. The original show was about characters with no redeeming value and that didn't care about anyone but themselves. That appears to be tailor-made for a Vista ad.
Brett
It's an "Ad about Nothing"!
I had an onion on my belt, which was the the style at the time.
Brett
I am aware of these points, given that I *do this for a living*. Without getting into a big argument, I said that you could revive a Saturn V easier than an Energia, which is what you appear to have been referring to as a heavy lift vehicle being "revived". Can't be a Soyuz since it doesn't need to be revived. The Soyuz *is* a popgun compared to other, US-made alternatives like the Delta 4 and Atlas 5 as far as lifting goes. Yes, it is cheap, which is not surprising since it has been mass-produced in various forms since it was the R-7 ICBM for 50 years. It's cheap because it is extremely inefficient. About the same poop as the Titan/Titan Transtage, and not as strong as a Titan III or any of it's derivatives.
A far simpler alternative is to just put a bigger fairing on an *existing booster* and just use that.
Brett
Uh, what are you talking about? Soyuz is still in use, and it's quite small (comparable to Gemini). You might be thinking about Energia, but while it was big, it was far from simple, and only had one flight. You could probably revive the Saturn V as quickly as Energia with similar capabilities. Same with Titan 4. But why bother - what you need is a way to mount large payloads on a Delta 4 Heavy, which exists *now* and is still in production.
Brett
There's a mistake on page 1471.
Brett
>We ban child porn and bomb making instructions,
>they ban bad music that criticizes the
>government. If anything they should be consistent
>and just ban bad music. How is it our place to
>criticize them? A country should be able to make
>decisions about what ideas it tolerates within
>its borders. Not all countries will make the same
>decision. Not everyone agrees with us
>enlightened, progressive, "free" Westerners. Get
>over it and get over yourselves.
This is the sort of idiotic "moral relativism" argument that allows murdering thugs to continue with their actions. The "all opinions are equally valid" crapola that is destroying western society. There are such things as "right" and "wrong". Adults having sex with children (and adults taking pictures of it) is *wrong* by ANY civilized standards. Murdering monks in the streets or shipping people off to "re-education camps" for protesting is *wrong*. Why should we be afraid of confronting it or speaking out about it?
Brett
When was that, nineteen dickety two?
>But if the media is so liberal, why would they have to?
>I think you are trying to have your cake and eat it too.
>And I'm not sure if you consider Fox a "major network",
>but I am having a hard time figuring out who the "fawning
>sychophants"(sic) are on that network. Any help? Besides,
>everybody knows that the conservatives practically OWN
>talk radio. Doesn't that count for something?
>It is a form of media.
Of course, your examples are the very reason that the Democrat party wants the fairness doctrine back. They can brook no opposition, and if they can shut down Rush Limbaugh/Hannity, Fox News, and (now if it applies to the internet) Drudge, they will have accomplished their goal.
This is as blatant a suppression of free speech as McCain-Feingold.
Brett
Republican Politicians != Republicans. And of course Democrats want to bring back the fairness doctrine and apply it to the internet. They are unable to compete in the marketplace of ideas because their concepts and values are grossly out of the interests in mainstream America. It's not enough to have willing shills in every other form of media - fawning sychophants in TV (all major networks), newspapers (NYT, etc). They can't tolerate even the slightest opposition.
Brett
Olsen Twins!? That's alarming...
The CIA is murdering people for leaving Islam? Cites, please....
Why is it that we are so willing to jump down the throats of Christians in power (or essentially any other religion), even though they are largely benign, but so willing to excuse any level of butchery, depravity, or despotism when it comes to fudamentalist Islam?
Brett