What I'm really upset about is car use tax. If I pay a use tax in Mass, and then move to Florida, I'm paying the tax again when I go to register. How is that fair?
Yup, and that issue will cease to be a problem once the states get together and build "statesalestax.com" that has a simple interface where you plug in the zip code of the buyer, and it spits back the taxrate and the location of the office to remit payment to.
I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet...
Compliance is a hard thing to manage, but enough high-profile cases like bashing Amazon and other online vendors might make it easier...
My biggest problem with Star Trek, and something that Farscape and Firefly dealt with, in slightly different ways, is that every alien race is either plant-like and stupid, made of solid rock or silicon, or humanoid. It gets old after a while. Farscape at least made a cursory effort to avoid the "humans everywhere" syndrome of sci-fi. Firefly avoids it entirely, as does Galactica...
And the greatest thing about Firefly, having just seen the series for the first time this week, is that it never devolved into technobabble like Star Trek did.
Darwin's Radio was my introduction to Greg Bear, and while I personally found the conclusion a little too convenient, I definitely loved the premise. It really opened my eyes into what puncuated evolution could really entail.
The biggest problem with the X-Files, I think, is other than one or two episodes, I never really believed that Mulder was looking for his sister. He was content to blunder through life. Scully's insistent reliance upon the scientific grew old. After 10 or 12 episodes of the X-Files, I'd be seeing phantoms everywhere... I'd be more inclined to believe the impossible, even while striving to find a scientific explanation. Scully never got there.:-/
Not so with works for hire. In such cases, it's generally found that the person writing the check usually ends up with the copyright unless prior agreements have been reached.
Israel is 100% of Iran and Iraq's excuse for acquiring nuclear weapons.
Kim Jong Il wants a nuclear weapon to strongarm money, food and energy out of 1st world economies. I'd liken him to the fools who take hostages during bank robberies.
You make deals with terrorists, it'll come back to bite you. Make no mistake, Kim's a terrorist. His past exploits have proven so.
No one's bitching about Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons falling into terrorist hands, and those are far more likely to do so. Why? Because they built nukes because they have a mutual enemy to use them on. Guess what, things have gotten better over there on the Indian subcontinent.
North Korea, if they're not used against South Korea or American targets, or successfully used in economic terrorism, will end up being sold to the highest bidder.
I believe there's several reasons for doing what he did, and I agree with many of them.
WMD was a smokescreen. Plain and simple. In two years of occupation, they haven't turned up a single small cache of usable chemical weapons. You can't keep a secret that big that long, especially once Saddam was captured.
Iraq was turning into another Korean peninsula. If we're going to have to sit on a piece of land flying fighters and providing the navy to shore up an embargo while being shoved out of our host countries (Saudia Arabia), we might as well carve ourselves out an AFB in the middle of the country we're keeping tabs on.
Now we can host an entire division in the Middle East, and keep most of the local governments placated. The infidels aren't in Mecca anymore, after all.
Removing an evil dictator.
Giving lucrative contracts to buddies was just the icing on the cake.
The simpletons bitching about what we could and should have done regarding North Korea are insane. You *DO* realize that a war right now with North Korea means a war with China, right? Right?
Now tell me it's a smart idea to drop nukes or smartbombs on Kim Jong Il?
Pagers always work, even in the longest of tunnels and ironest of buildings here in Boston. Not so for Cellphones. If it's emergency coverage you want, pagers are where it's at.
nuclear fuel, can for the most part, be recycled. It's the other low and high-level waste, uniforms, tools, containers, etc. that pose the biggest volume risk. There is by volume more waste material that isn't fuel than fuel itself, and the fuel is reusable in the event an administration gets into power that sees it as a viable policy.
OMFG. Does anyone else besides myself not believe for a minute there's not some manual mechanical valve/level/switch that can be toggled to scram the reactors even in the event of complete computer takeover?
Why isn't Bauer going, "Send down the axeman to cut the rope?"
I don't understand this? It sounds to me like double-speak. If you have a material that contains a mixture of Plutonium and U238 and U235, you can extract the individual elements through certain processes.
Those processes may not be used at certain facilities/reactors, but doesn't prevent the material from being stolen and reprocessed elsewhere.
What happens when you get 90% cloud cover like happens in certain areas of the world, like the UK, Seattle and others?
Let's face it, small 10-15kw fuel cells powered by hydrogen manufactured by 5000MW water-cracking nuclear reactors is how we improve our local power requirements as well as power our cars.
Why don't we do it ourselves? Because some dumb-ass politician decided it would be better to give money to keep Russian rocket scientists employed in Russia working on peaceful projects than freelancing to power mongers like Kim Jong Il and Saddam Hussein.
Discovery blowing up? Short term memory problems? Columbia.
We don't have a simple cheap vehicle like that because GWB killed the X38 CRV project almost as soon as he came into office.
And no crew member would have died. There is an emergency escape vehicle for just that reason attached to the ISS. It would have been the X38 production vehicle around 2008 if Bush hadn't axed the project, but currently it's the Soyuz.
You'd figure if there was a problem with the 5500 people who work and live on the U.S.S. Enterprise and it's eight (8) nuclear reactors, that we'd certainly know about it?
OMFG. If someone's firing anti-tank rounds at containers that have been fired into concrete blocks at speeds of many multiples of 100 mph, we have bigger problems than simple radiological release.
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What I'm really upset about is car use tax. If I pay a use tax in Mass, and then move to Florida, I'm paying the tax again when I go to register. How is that fair?
Use taxes are bullshit.
Yup, and that issue will cease to be a problem once the states get together and build "statesalestax.com" that has a simple interface where you plug in the zip code of the buyer, and it spits back the taxrate and the location of the office to remit payment to.
I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet...
Compliance is a hard thing to manage, but enough high-profile cases like bashing Amazon and other online vendors might make it easier...
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My biggest problem with Star Trek, and something that Farscape and Firefly dealt with, in slightly different ways, is that every alien race is either plant-like and stupid, made of solid rock or silicon, or humanoid. It gets old after a while. Farscape at least made a cursory effort to avoid the "humans everywhere" syndrome of sci-fi. Firefly avoids it entirely, as does Galactica...
And the greatest thing about Firefly, having just seen the series for the first time this week, is that it never devolved into technobabble like Star Trek did.
I'd like to go on record, as having just finished the Firefly DVD boxed set, that I'm pissed there's no more... :(
Boo Hoo!!!
Darwin's Radio was my introduction to Greg Bear, and while I personally found the conclusion a little too convenient, I definitely loved the premise. It really opened my eyes into what puncuated evolution could really entail.
The biggest problem with the X-Files, I think, is other than one or two episodes, I never really believed that Mulder was looking for his sister. He was content to blunder through life. Scully's insistent reliance upon the scientific grew old. After 10 or 12 episodes of the X-Files, I'd be seeing phantoms everywhere... I'd be more inclined to believe the impossible, even while striving to find a scientific explanation. Scully never got there. :-/
Eh, just my opinions...
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Not so with works for hire. In such cases, it's generally found that the person writing the check usually ends up with the copyright unless prior agreements have been reached.
Israel is 100% of Iran and Iraq's excuse for acquiring nuclear weapons.
Kim Jong Il wants a nuclear weapon to strongarm money, food and energy out of 1st world economies. I'd liken him to the fools who take hostages during bank robberies.
You make deals with terrorists, it'll come back to bite you. Make no mistake, Kim's a terrorist. His past exploits have proven so.
No one's bitching about Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons falling into terrorist hands, and those are far more likely to do so. Why? Because they built nukes because they have a mutual enemy to use them on. Guess what, things have gotten better over there on the Indian subcontinent.
North Korea, if they're not used against South Korea or American targets, or successfully used in economic terrorism, will end up being sold to the highest bidder.
I believe there's several reasons for doing what he did, and I agree with many of them.
WMD was a smokescreen. Plain and simple. In two years of occupation, they haven't turned up a single small cache of usable chemical weapons. You can't keep a secret that big that long, especially once Saddam was captured.
Iraq was turning into another Korean peninsula. If we're going to have to sit on a piece of land flying fighters and providing the navy to shore up an embargo while being shoved out of our host countries (Saudia Arabia), we might as well carve ourselves out an AFB in the middle of the country we're keeping tabs on.
Now we can host an entire division in the Middle East, and keep most of the local governments placated. The infidels aren't in Mecca anymore, after all.
Removing an evil dictator.
Giving lucrative contracts to buddies was just the icing on the cake.
The simpletons bitching about what we could and should have done regarding North Korea are insane. You *DO* realize that a war right now with North Korea means a war with China, right? Right?
Now tell me it's a smart idea to drop nukes or smartbombs on Kim Jong Il?
Except taking out Stalin was a lose-lose proposition... :-/
Pagers always work, even in the longest of tunnels and ironest of buildings here in Boston. Not so for Cellphones. If it's emergency coverage you want, pagers are where it's at.
Makes me wonder why no one is planning orbiting radio satellites to increase this sort of radio reception resolution?
For a process that's already expensive and difficult... I smell double-speak.
And I'm pro-nuke, go figure.
nuclear fuel, can for the most part, be recycled. It's the other low and high-level waste, uniforms, tools, containers, etc. that pose the biggest volume risk. There is by volume more waste material that isn't fuel than fuel itself, and the fuel is reusable in the event an administration gets into power that sees it as a viable policy.
OMFG. Does anyone else besides myself not believe for a minute there's not some manual mechanical valve/level/switch that can be toggled to scram the reactors even in the event of complete computer takeover?
Why isn't Bauer going, "Send down the axeman to cut the rope?"
I don't understand this? It sounds to me like double-speak. If you have a material that contains a mixture of Plutonium and U238 and U235, you can extract the individual elements through certain processes.
Those processes may not be used at certain facilities/reactors, but doesn't prevent the material from being stolen and reprocessed elsewhere.
You could always put wheels on it and have camels pull it. Then it would fulfill both of your requirements.
What happens when you get 90% cloud cover like happens in certain areas of the world, like the UK, Seattle and others?
Let's face it, small 10-15kw fuel cells powered by hydrogen manufactured by 5000MW water-cracking nuclear reactors is how we improve our local power requirements as well as power our cars.
Why don't we do it ourselves? Because some dumb-ass politician decided it would be better to give money to keep Russian rocket scientists employed in Russia working on peaceful projects than freelancing to power mongers like Kim Jong Il and Saddam Hussein.
Discovery blowing up? Short term memory problems? Columbia.
We don't have a simple cheap vehicle like that because GWB killed the X38 CRV project almost as soon as he came into office.
And no crew member would have died. There is an emergency escape vehicle for just that reason attached to the ISS. It would have been the X38 production vehicle around 2008 if Bush hadn't axed the project, but currently it's the Soyuz.
You'd figure if there was a problem with the 5500 people who work and live on the U.S.S. Enterprise and it's eight (8) nuclear reactors, that we'd certainly know about it?
OMFG. If someone's firing anti-tank rounds at containers that have been fired into concrete blocks at speeds of many multiples of 100 mph, we have bigger problems than simple radiological release.