Europe wants galileo because at any moment the US is free to pull the plug on GPS. Europe therefore cannot run its affairs on a satellite system that may go down, and should therefore build their own system that they have more control over.
Maybe it is me but that sounds like "the sky is falling" by chicken little. If the US pulled the plug on GPS, there would be a lot of very upset people over here. I know pilots that rely on it more than the traditional nav aids (which is a very bad thing when the battery dies). Whoever did it would have to have an extreamly good reason for doing so, even then would risk being tarred and feathered. Maybe your right, perhaps Europe doesn't know how to trust other people. Even a country that has demonstrated a willingness to help Europe so many times in the past, even at great cost in lives and money. Indeed if I had a choice I think I would rely on GPS rather than Galileo. I think GPS would be more likely to stay up, Europeans like to fight back and forth (shoot in foot disease).
Interesting you think the internet is not an entity. Entity refers to a separate existance, if the Internet doesn't exist then what are we all using? It does exist, as a bunch of interconnected wires, routers, computers and so on. Back before the internet was allowed to go public, clearly the US Government owned it. You would go to a US jail for misusing it and a few did. They regulated every aspect of it. Today I understand they have the legal right to regulate most of it, however they choose not to. Again, it would really not be in their interest to do that. They know if it is screwed up, then the internet will splinter, maybe into a million pieces. It may never recover. Nobody wants that.
You are thinking of your father's UN. THEY did the things you are talking about and they did a great job for the most part. Today the UN is infested with a bunch of leftists and criminals - or people that do a great impression of leftists and criminals. They are out of control and they are incompetent. We would be rid of polio if they didn't fumble in Africa a few years ago. Too busy with their oil for food kickbacks I guess.
If you are in the EU, you had better watch out. Even though countries have already voted against the EU Constitution, they are trying to force it on you anyway. Soon your country will be subjected to whatever Brussels demands. The British Parliament for example would be a rubber stamp. Someone will rule Europe by paper instead of yet another war. Soon resistance will be futile.
Also, the UN is the United Nations. You're probably thinking of the EU, the European Union. The difference is the US actually owns the GPS system, whereas nobody owns the internet, as it's an international cooperation project. Besides, the rest of the world is developing Galileo, a GPS-like system.
No, he was right. The US does own the Internet, always have. George H.W. Bush (41) signed a bill in 1992 that allowed the internet to go public. Up until that point it was for Government purposes only. Even in Europe (they had to have a contract of some sort with the US to hook up to it). That is why the U.S. Department of Commerce still holds the reigns to it today. They also didn't want to screw it up so they got international cooperation - the much criticized ICANN. What they really did was assure that everyone is a bit upset at things. Even here in the US.
I never did understand why Europe wants Galileo. So they can pretend they invented GPS maybe? I doubt they could improve it much, if any (especially for the cost, more accuracy, more money). Why not use what is already there and already a standard for over 10 years? Spend the money on something that we don't already have. Again, we don't mind if the rest of the world uses our GPS just as with our Internet. Think of it as your own, something you don't have to pay for and it just works.
Netscape didn't die because of Microsoft, Netscape died because of their own arrogance and they believed their own marketing.
Yea, adding IE to windows installations and blackmailing all the manufacturers to keep it on the desktop and lying about it being part of the OS had nothing to do with it. Neither did intentionally generating funky HTML code from frontpage and word (look at table generation and tell me that would generate a valid table... fat chance!).
IE is such a turd that is why it is loosing market share even today, even though it was once 100% of the traffic at a lot of large sites. No, IE unseating Netscape had everything to do with Microsoft and their clear monopoly. This is not just my opinion either, this was proven in court. I suspect that Intel took this from Microsoft and put it into the C compiler - as advertised on/. recently. Run slow code if it isn't a genuine Intel processor.
I thought of that, however I considered that part of the polical part. Politics is a lot about hype. One bad thing about the media is that they often take a press release or a study and say what they want to say instead of reading the study or the press release. Often times reporters are really not that smart. I know at the college I attended, journalism was the dumping ground of all the other majors. Total washup? Be a journalist. This is not to say that they are all dumb, however many to most of them are.
1) Political purposes. Some studies have an agenda. Some politicians know there is no way they could get something through so they go the scientific route. Try to dazzle them with bullshit. Quickly pass legislation. Blaming Freon for ozone depletion is an example of this (i.e. blame man). Another one that I think will turn out this way is "Global Warming" as being caused by man rather than mother nature. There are already indications GW is natural. Indeed there have been some very heated debates on/. on that already. I can remember in the 1970s they were telling us that we were on the edge of an ice age. I doubted that as well and turned out to be right (there was a big todo about that, particles in the atmosphere and so on, all from Man). Kinsey would fit here too, the real story of Kinsey that is. Not the story of Kinsey Hollywood wants us to believe.
2) Career. Some studies are done to further a career or make a career. Screw up - make another study! No really, this does happen. I have seen it when I was in college. Congress has funded a number of people's careers that way. Some career studies have to do with "civil rights." Don't like the result, have another study! Listen for "this study is right" sometime. Uh huh.
3) Incompetentcy. Some studies are done by people who have no clue about what they are doing. A famous "consumer" advocate fits into this category that I'm sure we have all heard of. Since he is very litigous I won't name him by name, however he has been a US Presidential candidate. Often times this category should probably go into category 1) Political.
One has to wonder if more studies are wrong than just 1/3.
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The "base" of today's GOP is motivated by two things: tax breaks and Jesus.
Off topic and you are out to lunch as well if you think this, there is a lot more to them than this. Besides it isn't about the GOP, it is about the DNC and just how pissed off they can get their own voter base. What is the DNC about today besides "abortion rights" (as if it is a "right")? They have a raving lunatic now as the chairman (screaming Howard Dean, even he admits he looks like a lunatic after watching a video of himself)! This is definately not the Democratic party I know from the past. They are way far left from anything I remember. This is very difficult to explain here, however I hope you look into it. What was Jimmy Carter for? How about JFK (Tax brakes, amoung many other things)? No surprise that the Dem's have had only one president in the past 25 years. Unless guys like you wake up I don't see a change in this trend for the GOP.
Why did you mention the KKK? Whose party has a very well known KKK member, complete with skeletons in his closet? It is Senator Byrd from West Virginia, a life long Democrat. Someone the KKK put into Congress because he is so influential. If he were a Republican I bet the press would have him for lunch, the NAACP would be on him like a cheap suit. He has even broken the Senate rule on Filibusters - the so called "nuclear" option. They should call it the Byrd option.
Well, at least you knew that we live in a Republic. Did you know that 8 out of the 9 Supreme court Justices were appointed by Republicans? One was appointed by Bill Clinton - know which one?
Someone who can stick a price on human life, or argument for improving the economy by killing people deserves no respect...
You could send him an e-mail. He asks for suggestions at the end of his column. You seem to have a reality problem. Every day a price is put on human lives. Is it worth $40 a car to fix a possible defect that we know about that if it isn't corrected we think will result in 10 lives lost a year? Can an insurance company afford to spend big bucks on exotic drugs to keep old people alive forever? How about in the case of an airliner crash where everyone was killed. The only way the airline can compensate for the lost life is by money, they can't bring them back. May sound cold and harsh but that is the reality.
He brings up a very valid point. The kid got off way to lightly, in fact it would seem he was rewarded. People need to be responsible for their actions. The law should be resonable, however. I wouldn't suggest death for John, in this case at least. I think 5 years would be totally reasonable (some I know who got hammered by his virus I'm sure would say 5 years hard labor, make him make gravel). Suppose he intentionally hacked into a chemical plant and he willingly allowed HCN (Hydrogen Cyanate, really bad crap, killed thousands in India in 1984) to escape and kill perhaps millions? He would be a mass murderer. If he didn't do it specifically - power plant looses power as a side effect and a few people died, etc - no death penalty. If he is genuinely a criminal that likes to kill then I don't see why the death penalty shouldn't be considered. Of course I would want to make sure he really is guilty and so on.
It is sort of like a mouse. Very cute, didn't do anything to you but they must be killed, unfortunately. Otherwise you put yourself and everyone else around at risk. Same thing with some criminals. If you allow them to live, they are still a threat to everyone else. They manage to get information in and orders out of the jail. If they are dead, they also can't be let out of jail early (there is an article on when life isn't life).
Don't worry, the death penalty debate will continue on for a quite a while. We may even see some countries re-institute it.
But these laptops will belong to the school. And what is to stop the schools from monitoring what the students do. Keyloggers are cheap, can they be stuck inside the laptops?....
I don't think this is an issue. It is a lot like e-mail. Someone asked me if I could read all of the e-mail at a Government agency one time. I told them that I could if I really wanted to (since I ran it at the time), however that is impractical. I would also have to care enough to do it. I'm sure a teacher could do it, they may even have automated programs to do it and we may even hear a horror case about it - "student expelled for Columbine style plot, only on steroids." Just tell the students when they get the machines that they are the property of the School system and the school systems, employees or their represenatives have the right to inspect, log key strokes and monitor their activity in any way they see fit. Every month remind them of this fact. If they get caught with teacher porn, well that is their problem. Someone in Romania may be monitoring your activity right now.
I totally agree with you that when kids are not at school or on a school activity, that is their time and the school is not to get involved in matters after hours. In fact as a taxpayer I would demand it if they did that in my district. Otherwise they could be involved in all kinds of crazy crap. Leave that up to the police. The only exception I can think of was when I was in HS, we had something called "open lunch". We could go to local resturants or home to eat lunch, we could also eat at school (at least nobody died from it that I know of). I understand they did away with it years later because something happened. Something to do with an individual that loved to play the race card a lot. Easily solved - yoink!
I would have felt better if one of the state troopers had lent me his Glock for the trip.
Better yet, you should be able to travel with a handgun of your own provided you are legally able to own one in the first place. If you have the displeasure of living in Massachusetts, my sympathies as they are very draconian with their "gun control" laws. They still seem to think that the gun commits the crime, not the guy with the gun. Studies prove -- more guns == less crime.
I could see it if you were flying to Paris. If you had a gun, you could get France to surrender! If you are French or a decendent - "Bonjour, Ne prenez aucune offense, je suis juste en vous donnant un moment difficile. Au Revoir"
What a "Firewall" does in the computer industry today is a misnomer. A true firewall is designed to stop a fire and it is a very simple device. You don't drill holes into a firewall either. I think the term "firewall" is a sales gimick.
What they call a firewall is in reality at best a network filter and networks off of it are not a "dmz", that is a total misnomer as well. Firewall protected zone (fpz) would fit far better. Dmz is just plain idiotic. Could call it what it really is - Filter protected zone.
Getting rid of the network filters out there with windows around is just plain crazy. I bet they get hacked soon. What will be the first question - Did you have a firewall in front of your machines? No? - your an idiot, no your a fool, no your a foolish idiot! I hope his resume is up to date. I also hope his company doesn't have any of our personal data on their machines. If they do and he gets hacked, he would make a great example. Let's start boiling the tar, get the feathers ready.
You seem to be a bit confused. What you should have said is "You cannot bring about peace with terrorism." Peace by definition comes about after war. The US has a great track record of that as well. The US doesn't take over the countries after conquoring them. The US turns them back over to better leaders. France (twice), Germany (twice), Japan, Italy, Granada, and recently Afghanistan and Iraq to mention a few. Some have turned out bad - Cuba for example. Terrorism brings more death and destruction. Give in and they will terrorize you into submission. Fight for your freedom Europe.
I think now is a good time to remind people that the war on terrorism could not have prevented this.
Your opinion. Maybe, maybe not. The war on terrorism in the US clearly has worked. Who would have bet any amount (even 1 cent) the day after 9/11/01 that there would not be an another attack in the US for even a year? Here we are nearly 4 years later and the measures put in place (the heavily criticized patriot act) prevented it from happening. They have arrested plenty of people and stopped many attacks. We still have (loud - Howard Dean's scream) critics of the government and apparently not one single case of abuse of power. If you think you know of one, lets here it. Nothing from bob's blog or other BS sites (lets see an AP or UPI article). I want a real verifiable case, not imagined ones. Be sure of what you are saying, most cases of "abuse" turn out to not be abuses, they are standard procedures that have happened for decades and have nothing to do with the patriot act. Good luck since the best legal minds couldn't come up with a single case for Congress recently.
Anyone noted the irony that we don't actually use the euro in England?
Yes, I think most people in Europe and a fair number in the US, Canada and Australia (amoung other places) realize that. Smart actually, at least until 1 Euro == 1 Pound. Then it may make sense to switch, if the Euro is still around by then. Don't worry, they notice. I bet PM Blair gets asked about it every chance by the others.
Wow. This has to be one of the finer examples of constructing a complicated argument just to prove someone wrong.
Complicated argument? Seemed direct to me. The EU consists of many member countries/states. Every one of them with their own ways of doing things (money, government, etc) for centuries and most of them with different languages. When you bind many into one as in a union, it makes sense to look at diplomatic solutions and indeed this seems the simplist way to resolve this question. Deferring to English, you could get into a convoluted argument over what is proper or not and even regional issues. For example in America you would say "20 Dollars", yet in some places in America you would hear "20 Dollar". For that matter, I would "ask you a question" and in some places they "axe you a question".
Anyhow, that is why I chose the way I did. I also left him a way out, maybe they really would say 20 euro in France or maybe he has a valid point. Of course I know they don't say 20 Euro in France, my son having spent Euros recently there (i.e. for the past week). He had many transactions and not one of them said euro, always euros.
Let it also be noted that you are wrong. The plural is euro.
You did read the FAQ you pointed to, didn't you? The spelling seems to depend on where you are. For France, it is Euros (100 Euros it says, Les Euros). Since French is the Universal language of Diplomats, it would seem that you are the one that is wrong. At the very least, I wouldn't say he is wrong because it depends. Of course this may all be academic soon if they dump the Euro as many countries seem to want to do.
They tell us that we are closer to the sun in the winter time (US). That would mean that your winter - right now we are much further away. So right now you should be able to go out and sunbathe to your hearts content.
I always wondered if they told you guys down under that you guys are actually closer to the sun during the winter as well.
<start a myth> BTW put tin foil on the underside of the hat, helps reflect more dangerous rays away. Also helps to stop the US spy satelite from reading your mind.
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Philo T. Farnsworth came up with the Television to begin with. He was also if not the first, one of the very first critics of TV. It is an idiot tube. Wastes a lot of time. They are far better off not watching Oprah anyhow. Maybe you didn't realize you were shilling for big business (Oprah cashes in bigtime on it)? That is what over the air TV is all about. Making money, lots of it. Even the news is more about entertainment and preaching to what they think is the choir. Yea, sure they have like one or two channels that may be "public", however even they have an axe to grind most of the time.
Just look at the over the air tv closely next time. See how you are subjected to spam over the air all the time. Are you still hooked on Band-Aid brand bandages? Hot? have a Coke or maybe you are part of the "pepsi generation."
You are also advocating keeping a large part of the electromagnetic spectrum tied up for no good reason. The old signals are very inefficient and they really should be re-used. The poor can still keep their TVs and get a convertor box for the new free signals. One time purchase. You did realize that there will still be free TV didn't you?
MS is to big to become "irrelevent." Many people said the same thing about IBM, and they haven't.
IBM isn't irrelevent eh? Work for IBM maybe? How many of your friends have an IBM pc? How many people do you even know that still work on an IBM mainframe? How about IBM equipment of any kind? Sure they are out there but just a short shadow of what they could have been. They could have owned the PC market and even the server market. I have exactly one rack from IBM in my datacenter. Very well built and we may put more of them in, however I have row after row after row of HP and SUN racks. We are dumping the SUN equipment. IBM for years was irrelevent but they may be making a comeback. For years I was told by customer after customer that they wouldn't even consider IBM. Wouldn't even discuss them. I don't sell any of this stuff, I just recommend hardware and software.
Maybe it all depends on your definition of irrelevent. Used to be that nobody got fired for choosing IBM. Then (for a very short time) it was nobody got fired for choosing Microsoft. Today people can be and are fired for choosing IBM or Microsoft. Sounds irrelevent to me. Here we are years later and there are almost daily security issues for Windows. Longhorn will be like going back 5 years - all new code they say. That means chock full of bugs, especially in their haste to make it to market (get people to pay tribute to them). The river denial is running dry, Linux and Unix are ruling the day. Some government agencies have dumped Microsoft for Linux. Business will no doubt follow their success.
I know with myself the honor was earned over a number of years. I used to give them money, no more. I'd take back every penny I gave them if I could. The final straw was when I attended a meeting of theirs and quickly got out of there. I was told it was a represenative meeting and they had not a clue. They are almost as clueless as PETA is. Some of them were arrested recently for animal cruelty as a matter of fact.
If you are associated with GP, be sure you know what you are doing. Know what they are doing in your name. If you can live with that then OK. If not, bail fast. IMHO a number of them are just like pirates. They need to be keel-hauled.
BTW it isn't fantasies, it is imagination, some inspiration and a lot of persperation. Fantasies lead you down a bad road, one that won't pan anything out because it is BS. That is why it is a fantasy. Reel yourself back in a bit, into reality. Make the world a better place for your having been here.
I should better review my knowledge for correctness before posting, so I don't have to write apologies like this.
Don't worry about it. It happens to all of us (even some very famous newspapers like the NY Times, they have issued a lot of them the past few years). It is just that some of us are better at admitting they are wrong. Some people (most politicians) never want to admit they were wrong. Nobody got hurt, nothing bad happened.
You may be right about the place but for a different reason. Since it is so far North, maybe they thought they could take advantage of the magnetic field somehow. The rocket scientists I have talked to since are all at a loss. They thought it was stupid too.
What I meant by balls of steel is that it would take real guts to wear that thing because it is so ugly!:)
OH! Nevermind. I bet it doesn't bother him a bit. He probably wears stuff just as bad normally. Some people have no fasion sense. It seems clear he has nothing better to do but to grind clamps/boots off.... Better that then stealing our identities I suppose or being upset at a woman wearing fur. Who knows, maybe the costume improves his looks.
It is good that you are thinking some. I have some comments:
They may have been looking for a particular point on Earth to launch from so they could inject into a particular orbit easily, as well as use the Earth's rotation to their best advantage.
Remember, the closer to the equator you get, the faster you are moving.
Yea, I did in fact "remember". Know your geography before answering or at least look it up first. The Barents sea is about as far north as you can get. It is north of Canada if you drew a line around. See here It is that part at the top, north of Russia and where it says Finland to the left.
And they may wanna launch so that if there is a failure, the debris will scatter over a relatively harmless ares....
Florida was chosen as the ideal spot because of where it is and the US was just getting into the rocket biz. They had some spectacular explosions back in the early 1960's and a famous one in 1985. Given that it seems they had their choice of where to launch, that would be close to the last place in the world I would choose.
By the way, a bit of trivia. Florida is not the southernmost land mass of the USA. Hawaii is as far as states go and Guam is even more southern but it is a territory. Hawaii also has some tall moutains BTW, indeed my point.
Know your geography before answering. The Barents sea is almost as far North as you can get. See here.
Look at the top of the map, it is there. North of Russia.
Reason 2: It's an already-built launch system. Remember the Cold War? These things were built to lob nukes at U.S. targets.
This is like using a model T ford to drive to work in. Already built and that is what it is for. I wouldn't recommend it, however. I am very familiar with that sub BTW. Again, I have to ask why? My point about Kazhakstan - they use it all the time now and that is exactly what they do there. They are very good at it. They are the guys that handle the International Space Station stuff right now. They could have used this as a practice shot for new guys and never known the difference.
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Maybe it is me but that sounds like "the sky is falling" by chicken little. If the US pulled the plug on GPS, there would be a lot of very upset people over here. I know pilots that rely on it more than the traditional nav aids (which is a very bad thing when the battery dies). Whoever did it would have to have an extreamly good reason for doing so, even then would risk being tarred and feathered. Maybe your right, perhaps Europe doesn't know how to trust other people. Even a country that has demonstrated a willingness to help Europe so many times in the past, even at great cost in lives and money. Indeed if I had a choice I think I would rely on GPS rather than Galileo. I think GPS would be more likely to stay up, Europeans like to fight back and forth (shoot in foot disease).
Interesting you think the internet is not an entity. Entity refers to a separate existance, if the Internet doesn't exist then what are we all using? It does exist, as a bunch of interconnected wires, routers, computers and so on. Back before the internet was allowed to go public, clearly the US Government owned it. You would go to a US jail for misusing it and a few did. They regulated every aspect of it. Today I understand they have the legal right to regulate most of it, however they choose not to. Again, it would really not be in their interest to do that. They know if it is screwed up, then the internet will splinter, maybe into a million pieces. It may never recover. Nobody wants that.
You are thinking of your father's UN. THEY did the things you are talking about and they did a great job for the most part. Today the UN is infested with a bunch of leftists and criminals - or people that do a great impression of leftists and criminals. They are out of control and they are incompetent. We would be rid of polio if they didn't fumble in Africa a few years ago. Too busy with their oil for food kickbacks I guess.
If you are in the EU, you had better watch out. Even though countries have already voted against the EU Constitution, they are trying to force it on you anyway. Soon your country will be subjected to whatever Brussels demands. The British Parliament for example would be a rubber stamp. Someone will rule Europe by paper instead of yet another war. Soon resistance will be futile.
No, he was right. The US does own the Internet, always have. George H.W. Bush (41) signed a bill in 1992 that allowed the internet to go public. Up until that point it was for Government purposes only. Even in Europe (they had to have a contract of some sort with the US to hook up to it). That is why the U.S. Department of Commerce still holds the reigns to it today. They also didn't want to screw it up so they got international cooperation - the much criticized ICANN. What they really did was assure that everyone is a bit upset at things. Even here in the US.
I never did understand why Europe wants Galileo. So they can pretend they invented GPS maybe? I doubt they could improve it much, if any (especially for the cost, more accuracy, more money). Why not use what is already there and already a standard for over 10 years? Spend the money on something that we don't already have. Again, we don't mind if the rest of the world uses our GPS just as with our Internet. Think of it as your own, something you don't have to pay for and it just works.
Yea, adding IE to windows installations and blackmailing all the manufacturers to keep it on the desktop and lying about it being part of the OS had nothing to do with it. Neither did intentionally generating funky HTML code from frontpage and word (look at table generation and tell me that would generate a valid table... fat chance!).
IE is such a turd that is why it is loosing market share even today, even though it was once 100% of the traffic at a lot of large sites. No, IE unseating Netscape had everything to do with Microsoft and their clear monopoly. This is not just my opinion either, this was proven in court. I suspect that Intel took this from Microsoft and put it into the C compiler - as advertised on /. recently. Run slow code if it isn't a genuine Intel processor.
I thought of that, however I considered that part of the polical part. Politics is a lot about hype. One bad thing about the media is that they often take a press release or a study and say what they want to say instead of reading the study or the press release. Often times reporters are really not that smart. I know at the college I attended, journalism was the dumping ground of all the other majors. Total washup? Be a journalist. This is not to say that they are all dumb, however many to most of them are.
2) Career. Some studies are done to further a career or make a career. Screw up - make another study! No really, this does happen. I have seen it when I was in college. Congress has funded a number of people's careers that way. Some career studies have to do with "civil rights." Don't like the result, have another study! Listen for "this study is right" sometime. Uh huh.
3) Incompetentcy. Some studies are done by people who have no clue about what they are doing. A famous "consumer" advocate fits into this category that I'm sure we have all heard of. Since he is very litigous I won't name him by name, however he has been a US Presidential candidate. Often times this category should probably go into category 1) Political.
One has to wonder if more studies are wrong than just 1/3.
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Off topic and you are out to lunch as well if you think this, there is a lot more to them than this. Besides it isn't about the GOP, it is about the DNC and just how pissed off they can get their own voter base. What is the DNC about today besides "abortion rights" (as if it is a "right")? They have a raving lunatic now as the chairman (screaming Howard Dean, even he admits he looks like a lunatic after watching a video of himself)! This is definately not the Democratic party I know from the past. They are way far left from anything I remember. This is very difficult to explain here, however I hope you look into it. What was Jimmy Carter for? How about JFK (Tax brakes, amoung many other things)? No surprise that the Dem's have had only one president in the past 25 years. Unless guys like you wake up I don't see a change in this trend for the GOP.
Why did you mention the KKK? Whose party has a very well known KKK member, complete with skeletons in his closet? It is Senator Byrd from West Virginia, a life long Democrat. Someone the KKK put into Congress because he is so influential. If he were a Republican I bet the press would have him for lunch, the NAACP would be on him like a cheap suit. He has even broken the Senate rule on Filibusters - the so called "nuclear" option. They should call it the Byrd option.
Well, at least you knew that we live in a Republic. Did you know that 8 out of the 9 Supreme court Justices were appointed by Republicans? One was appointed by Bill Clinton - know which one?
You could send him an e-mail. He asks for suggestions at the end of his column. You seem to have a reality problem. Every day a price is put on human lives. Is it worth $40 a car to fix a possible defect that we know about that if it isn't corrected we think will result in 10 lives lost a year? Can an insurance company afford to spend big bucks on exotic drugs to keep old people alive forever? How about in the case of an airliner crash where everyone was killed. The only way the airline can compensate for the lost life is by money, they can't bring them back. May sound cold and harsh but that is the reality.
He brings up a very valid point. The kid got off way to lightly, in fact it would seem he was rewarded. People need to be responsible for their actions. The law should be resonable, however. I wouldn't suggest death for John, in this case at least. I think 5 years would be totally reasonable (some I know who got hammered by his virus I'm sure would say 5 years hard labor, make him make gravel). Suppose he intentionally hacked into a chemical plant and he willingly allowed HCN (Hydrogen Cyanate, really bad crap, killed thousands in India in 1984) to escape and kill perhaps millions? He would be a mass murderer. If he didn't do it specifically - power plant looses power as a side effect and a few people died, etc - no death penalty. If he is genuinely a criminal that likes to kill then I don't see why the death penalty shouldn't be considered. Of course I would want to make sure he really is guilty and so on.
It is sort of like a mouse. Very cute, didn't do anything to you but they must be killed, unfortunately. Otherwise you put yourself and everyone else around at risk. Same thing with some criminals. If you allow them to live, they are still a threat to everyone else. They manage to get information in and orders out of the jail. If they are dead, they also can't be let out of jail early (there is an article on when life isn't life).
Don't worry, the death penalty debate will continue on for a quite a while. We may even see some countries re-institute it.
I don't think this is an issue. It is a lot like e-mail. Someone asked me if I could read all of the e-mail at a Government agency one time. I told them that I could if I really wanted to (since I ran it at the time), however that is impractical. I would also have to care enough to do it. I'm sure a teacher could do it, they may even have automated programs to do it and we may even hear a horror case about it - "student expelled for Columbine style plot, only on steroids." Just tell the students when they get the machines that they are the property of the School system and the school systems, employees or their represenatives have the right to inspect, log key strokes and monitor their activity in any way they see fit. Every month remind them of this fact. If they get caught with teacher porn, well that is their problem. Someone in Romania may be monitoring your activity right now.
I totally agree with you that when kids are not at school or on a school activity, that is their time and the school is not to get involved in matters after hours. In fact as a taxpayer I would demand it if they did that in my district. Otherwise they could be involved in all kinds of crazy crap. Leave that up to the police. The only exception I can think of was when I was in HS, we had something called "open lunch". We could go to local resturants or home to eat lunch, we could also eat at school (at least nobody died from it that I know of). I understand they did away with it years later because something happened. Something to do with an individual that loved to play the race card a lot. Easily solved - yoink!
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Better yet, you should be able to travel with a handgun of your own provided you are legally able to own one in the first place. If you have the displeasure of living in Massachusetts, my sympathies as they are very draconian with their "gun control" laws. They still seem to think that the gun commits the crime, not the guy with the gun. Studies prove -- more guns == less crime.
I could see it if you were flying to Paris. If you had a gun, you could get France to surrender! If you are French or a decendent - "Bonjour, Ne prenez aucune offense, je suis juste en vous donnant un moment difficile. Au Revoir"
What they call a firewall is in reality at best a network filter and networks off of it are not a "dmz", that is a total misnomer as well. Firewall protected zone (fpz) would fit far better. Dmz is just plain idiotic. Could call it what it really is - Filter protected zone.
Getting rid of the network filters out there with windows around is just plain crazy. I bet they get hacked soon. What will be the first question - Did you have a firewall in front of your machines? No? - your an idiot, no your a fool, no your a foolish idiot! I hope his resume is up to date. I also hope his company doesn't have any of our personal data on their machines. If they do and he gets hacked, he would make a great example. Let's start boiling the tar, get the feathers ready.
You seem to be a bit confused. What you should have said is "You cannot bring about peace with terrorism." Peace by definition comes about after war. The US has a great track record of that as well. The US doesn't take over the countries after conquoring them. The US turns them back over to better leaders. France (twice), Germany (twice), Japan, Italy, Granada, and recently Afghanistan and Iraq to mention a few. Some have turned out bad - Cuba for example. Terrorism brings more death and destruction. Give in and they will terrorize you into submission. Fight for your freedom Europe.
I think now is a good time to remind people that the war on terrorism could not have prevented this.
Your opinion. Maybe, maybe not. The war on terrorism in the US clearly has worked. Who would have bet any amount (even 1 cent) the day after 9/11/01 that there would not be an another attack in the US for even a year? Here we are nearly 4 years later and the measures put in place (the heavily criticized patriot act) prevented it from happening. They have arrested plenty of people and stopped many attacks. We still have (loud - Howard Dean's scream) critics of the government and apparently not one single case of abuse of power. If you think you know of one, lets here it. Nothing from bob's blog or other BS sites (lets see an AP or UPI article). I want a real verifiable case, not imagined ones. Be sure of what you are saying, most cases of "abuse" turn out to not be abuses, they are standard procedures that have happened for decades and have nothing to do with the patriot act. Good luck since the best legal minds couldn't come up with a single case for Congress recently.
Yes, I think most people in Europe and a fair number in the US, Canada and Australia (amoung other places) realize that. Smart actually, at least until 1 Euro == 1 Pound. Then it may make sense to switch, if the Euro is still around by then. Don't worry, they notice. I bet PM Blair gets asked about it every chance by the others.
Complicated argument? Seemed direct to me. The EU consists of many member countries/states. Every one of them with their own ways of doing things (money, government, etc) for centuries and most of them with different languages. When you bind many into one as in a union, it makes sense to look at diplomatic solutions and indeed this seems the simplist way to resolve this question. Deferring to English, you could get into a convoluted argument over what is proper or not and even regional issues. For example in America you would say "20 Dollars", yet in some places in America you would hear "20 Dollar". For that matter, I would "ask you a question" and in some places they "axe you a question".
Anyhow, that is why I chose the way I did. I also left him a way out, maybe they really would say 20 euro in France or maybe he has a valid point. Of course I know they don't say 20 Euro in France, my son having spent Euros recently there (i.e. for the past week). He had many transactions and not one of them said euro, always euros.
You did read the FAQ you pointed to, didn't you? The spelling seems to depend on where you are. For France, it is Euros (100 Euros it says, Les Euros). Since French is the Universal language of Diplomats, it would seem that you are the one that is wrong. At the very least, I wouldn't say he is wrong because it depends. Of course this may all be academic soon if they dump the Euro as many countries seem to want to do.
I always wondered if they told you guys down under that you guys are actually closer to the sun during the winter as well.
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BTW put tin foil on the underside of the hat, helps reflect more dangerous rays away. Also helps to stop the US spy satelite from reading your mind.
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Just look at the over the air tv closely next time. See how you are subjected to spam over the air all the time. Are you still hooked on Band-Aid brand bandages? Hot? have a Coke or maybe you are part of the "pepsi generation."
You are also advocating keeping a large part of the electromagnetic spectrum tied up for no good reason. The old signals are very inefficient and they really should be re-used. The poor can still keep their TVs and get a convertor box for the new free signals. One time purchase. You did realize that there will still be free TV didn't you?
Get over it. This is not a big deal.
IBM isn't irrelevent eh? Work for IBM maybe? How many of your friends have an IBM pc? How many people do you even know that still work on an IBM mainframe? How about IBM equipment of any kind? Sure they are out there but just a short shadow of what they could have been. They could have owned the PC market and even the server market. I have exactly one rack from IBM in my datacenter. Very well built and we may put more of them in, however I have row after row after row of HP and SUN racks. We are dumping the SUN equipment. IBM for years was irrelevent but they may be making a comeback. For years I was told by customer after customer that they wouldn't even consider IBM. Wouldn't even discuss them. I don't sell any of this stuff, I just recommend hardware and software.
Maybe it all depends on your definition of irrelevent. Used to be that nobody got fired for choosing IBM. Then (for a very short time) it was nobody got fired for choosing Microsoft. Today people can be and are fired for choosing IBM or Microsoft. Sounds irrelevent to me. Here we are years later and there are almost daily security issues for Windows. Longhorn will be like going back 5 years - all new code they say. That means chock full of bugs, especially in their haste to make it to market (get people to pay tribute to them). The river denial is running dry, Linux and Unix are ruling the day. Some government agencies have dumped Microsoft for Linux. Business will no doubt follow their success.
I know with myself the honor was earned over a number of years. I used to give them money, no more. I'd take back every penny I gave them if I could. The final straw was when I attended a meeting of theirs and quickly got out of there. I was told it was a represenative meeting and they had not a clue. They are almost as clueless as PETA is. Some of them were arrested recently for animal cruelty as a matter of fact.
If you are associated with GP, be sure you know what you are doing. Know what they are doing in your name. If you can live with that then OK. If not, bail fast. IMHO a number of them are just like pirates. They need to be keel-hauled.
BTW it isn't fantasies, it is imagination, some inspiration and a lot of persperation. Fantasies lead you down a bad road, one that won't pan anything out because it is BS. That is why it is a fantasy. Reel yourself back in a bit, into reality. Make the world a better place for your having been here.
Don't worry about it. It happens to all of us (even some very famous newspapers like the NY Times, they have issued a lot of them the past few years). It is just that some of us are better at admitting they are wrong. Some people (most politicians) never want to admit they were wrong. Nobody got hurt, nothing bad happened.
You may be right about the place but for a different reason. Since it is so far North, maybe they thought they could take advantage of the magnetic field somehow. The rocket scientists I have talked to since are all at a loss. They thought it was stupid too.
OH! Nevermind. I bet it doesn't bother him a bit. He probably wears stuff just as bad normally. Some people have no fasion sense. It seems clear he has nothing better to do but to grind clamps/boots off.... Better that then stealing our identities I suppose or being upset at a woman wearing fur. Who knows, maybe the costume improves his looks.
They may have been looking for a particular point on Earth to launch from so they could inject into a particular orbit easily, as well as use the Earth's rotation to their best advantage.
Remember, the closer to the equator you get, the faster you are moving.
Yea, I did in fact "remember". Know your geography before answering or at least look it up first. The Barents sea is about as far north as you can get. It is north of Canada if you drew a line around. See here It is that part at the top, north of Russia and where it says Finland to the left.
And they may wanna launch so that if there is a failure, the debris will scatter over a relatively harmless ares....
Florida was chosen as the ideal spot because of where it is and the US was just getting into the rocket biz. They had some spectacular explosions back in the early 1960's and a famous one in 1985. Given that it seems they had their choice of where to launch, that would be close to the last place in the world I would choose.
By the way, a bit of trivia. Florida is not the southernmost land mass of the USA. Hawaii is as far as states go and Guam is even more southern but it is a territory. Hawaii also has some tall moutains BTW, indeed my point.
Know your geography before answering. The Barents sea is almost as far North as you can get. See here.
Look at the top of the map, it is there. North of Russia. Reason 2: It's an already-built launch system. Remember the Cold War? These things were built to lob nukes at U.S. targets.
This is like using a model T ford to drive to work in. Already built and that is what it is for. I wouldn't recommend it, however. I am very familiar with that sub BTW. Again, I have to ask why? My point about Kazhakstan - they use it all the time now and that is exactly what they do there. They are very good at it. They are the guys that handle the International Space Station stuff right now. They could have used this as a practice shot for new guys and never known the difference.