The problem with continuing to use the shuttle is that there already exists a safe alternative, called the Soyuz. It's more fault tolerant of launch failures, more passively safe on reentry, and less likely to fail because it uses safer fuels. It's also much cheaper to launch and not subject to wear since they're only used once. The Soyuz has only failed twice in 860 flights, only one of which was manned. It only killed one crew member due to the design. We'd still need the shuttle for its lifting capacity, but we could retrofit it to fly on autopilot and have humans meet it up in space.
US astronauts aren't dying in the name of science, they're dying for nationalism and government pork.
Sure you'll be better off if you collide with a small car (and much more likely to kill whoever you hit). The lack of breaking ability and increased rollover risk makes up for it though.
You're entirely wrong in assuming that the prices of good and services have anything to do with the costs of producing or providing them.
In a "proper market" price is determined by the point where supply meets demand. Goods and services are sold at the point where supply and demand meet because this is the price point which maximizes their profits. Sure, this assumes that competition is possible and that the markets are very liquid.
Water is a horrible analogy since it typically comes from a non-profit run government agency. Water purchased from private entities is typically very expensive, typically more than 1 dollar per gallon.
My #1 biggest complaint in using linux has to do with sound support. It seems like at any given time there is at least one segfault-every-couple-hours bug in taglib, amarok, artsdsp, jackd, libxine, or artsd. I've spent many many hours tracking down critical bugs in these libraries and programs. It seems as if when one bug is fixed, another is introduced. Even when it does work, it's very lagged, but I have yet to experiment with the "low latency" kernel patch. Getting sound to work again after one of these applications segfaults requires shutting down every app which uses sound, restarting an application which uses artsd directly instead of artsdsp, and clicking your heels 3 times. Even after all of that, you can be guaranteed that your sound isn't going to sync up properly with video in xine or vlc. Sure, I could probably use OSS, but then I have to worry about making sure my window manager or web browser doesn't have the sound card open when I open up my MP3 player.
I've had quite a few other major hassles such as copy and paste (even with klipper sometimes i can't copy from firefox to emacs, which both break x specs and use different buffers), bluetooth support (doesn't always work, doesn't appear to be actively maintained), printing (should i really need read manuals on lpd and foomatic and gimpprint and cups and ghostscript just to print my current web page?), among other things.
Despite "common knowledge" that XP is easier to use, I've got an equally long list of bitches about it.
My solution was to buy a Mac. I can have a bash shell and listen to music at the same time. My phone syncs. The fonts are beautiful, and the UI is well thought out and stable.
Does training and arming Al Qaeda, selling chemical weapons to Iraq, or giving guns to Iran count for anything? I also fail to see what Bush has done to "stand up to militant islam". The current Bush administration was on the right path there for a while, until they decided that grabbing some oil was more important than finishing the job in Afghanistan.
No matter what happens to earth, it will still be more hospitable to life than any other planet we know of. Even if a "planet killer" comet strikes us while we're already in the middle of a nuclear winter, we'll still have an easier time surviving than we would elsewhere. It's much easier to build a shelter on earth in a cave to withstand just about anything we can think of for a couple hundred years than it is to build a shelter on another planet which will survive for any period of time. On Earth we've got an atomosphere and water which can be cleaned to a usable state if polluted. We can build a nuclear power station to provide energy for any scenario when the sky is blocked much more easily than we could build solar power collectors on another planet. The only real exception is in the very long term, when our sun starts to dim, but we've got some time to figure that one out.
I'm all for space exploration just to expand human knowledge, but we shouldn't lie to ourselves by saying it's a part of our survival strategy as a species.
I read a different article, which said the factories were bad and the pay was barely enough to survive on. Not enough to eat well, not even enough to allow the factory workers to save up enough money to leave and go elsewhere. These people face starvation if they complain about conditions to the barely existent government regulators. Your situation being "poor" is not comparable to these people, and the fact that you've pulled yourself out of relative poverty through hard work doesn't mean it's possible for everyone. No matter how bad things get for you, there will always be a soup kitchen if you're hungry.
If we actually paid these people enough to feed their families and do relatively well, then it would be a lot easier to accept.
The truth however, is that most of the arguments are just made to help people feel better about the horrible impact on someone's life caused by their choices as a consumer.
The previous human tests on a similar therapy ended up with a number of people in excrutiating pain due to their immune system attacking parts of their brain. While it might suck to have alzheimers, it surely sucks more to have it and be in horrible pain.
The thought that this type of thing is even necessary is based on the flawed assumption that terrorists are trying to be covert in the first place.
Several of the 9/11 terrorists were wanted as suspects and living under their real names for at least 9 months in Los Angeles. One even purchased a car in his own name and was listed in the Los Angeles white pages.
Even if a massive reduction in privacy would help save a couple lives, I'd personally rather not live a life without liberty. We're mocking the sacrifice made by hundreds of thousands of patriots who have died to protect our liberties by giving them up without much of a fight.
"I want to know the truth," the president continued. "Leaks of classified information are bad things."
He added that he did not know of "anybody in my administration who leaked classified information."
George W. Bush, September 30th, 2003
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/09/20 030930-9.html
Perhaps someone else can provide a more reputable source to back this up.
This will only lead to a net decrease in computer security.
Many network administrators like myself use these same tools to detect vulnerabilities. Obviously criminals aren't going to respect any laws relating to disclosure or tool creation, so preventing only law abiding administrators from access to them will only prevent system administrators from knowing about vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
Training does go a long way, but Microsoft and the windows software vendors share a huge portion of the blame for the problems which plague the average user. When 60% of Windows applications fail to work with at least some administrative privileges, how can one operate any version of windows in a safe manner?
You might as well just start sending private keys to your government now, just to be a good citizen. I'm sure the people responsible for bringing this law into effect won't mind forwarding them to the proper authorities, so just email the keys to them for now.
"I don't know of anyone in my administration who has leaked," Mr. Bush told reporters in Chicago. But, he added, "If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing."
Presumably if Bush was the one who leaked the classified information, then he lied about it to the american people. If Bush did not know about it, then it was illegal. Either way, there are serious ethical problems with this administration.
In this country it is illegal to witness a crime and not report it. When an employee sees the government violating the law, even if it is the CIA, they are obligated to report it. If the employee realizes that the proper channels for investigating such crimes are corrupt and illegally ignorning illegal acts by others, then should it still illegal for them to report crimes to reporters who can embarass the government into following the will of the people?
I'm glad Clinton was not allowed to use his executive privilege to prevent him from being put to trial for lying about a relationship. Surely the trial made us look weak and possibly compromised our national security, but it was necessary. Should this administration be allowed to do anything it wants without similar restrictions?
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The problem with continuing to use the shuttle is that there already exists a safe alternative, called the Soyuz. It's more fault tolerant of launch failures, more passively safe on reentry, and less likely to fail because it uses safer fuels. It's also much cheaper to launch and not subject to wear since they're only used once. The Soyuz has only failed twice in 860 flights, only one of which was manned. It only killed one crew member due to the design. We'd still need the shuttle for its lifting capacity, but we could retrofit it to fly on autopilot and have humans meet it up in space. US astronauts aren't dying in the name of science, they're dying for nationalism and government pork.
Sure you'll be better off if you collide with a small car (and much more likely to kill whoever you hit). The lack of breaking ability and increased rollover risk makes up for it though.
GM spent about $1 billion in R&D to develop this. Seems a bit expensive to prove a point.
You're entirely wrong in assuming that the prices of good and services have anything to do with the costs of producing or providing them.
In a "proper market" price is determined by the point where supply meets demand. Goods and services are sold at the point where supply and demand meet because this is the price point which maximizes their profits. Sure, this assumes that competition is possible and that the markets are very liquid.
Water is a horrible analogy since it typically comes from a non-profit run government agency. Water purchased from private entities is typically very expensive, typically more than 1 dollar per gallon.
So is it ok then to use your and you're interchangeably, use an apostrophe for plurality, confuse loose and lose, among other things?
Did someone break the network driver again?
Google's stock is set up so that the publically traded shares don't have enough votes for controlling decisions.
My #1 biggest complaint in using linux has to do with sound support. It seems like at any given time there is at least one segfault-every-couple-hours bug in taglib, amarok, artsdsp, jackd, libxine, or artsd. I've spent many many hours tracking down critical bugs in these libraries and programs. It seems as if when one bug is fixed, another is introduced. Even when it does work, it's very lagged, but I have yet to experiment with the "low latency" kernel patch. Getting sound to work again after one of these applications segfaults requires shutting down every app which uses sound, restarting an application which uses artsd directly instead of artsdsp, and clicking your heels 3 times. Even after all of that, you can be guaranteed that your sound isn't going to sync up properly with video in xine or vlc. Sure, I could probably use OSS, but then I have to worry about making sure my window manager or web browser doesn't have the sound card open when I open up my MP3 player.
I've had quite a few other major hassles such as copy and paste (even with klipper sometimes i can't copy from firefox to emacs, which both break x specs and use different buffers), bluetooth support (doesn't always work, doesn't appear to be actively maintained), printing (should i really need read manuals on lpd and foomatic and gimpprint and cups and ghostscript just to print my current web page?), among other things.
Despite "common knowledge" that XP is easier to use, I've got an equally long list of bitches about it.
My solution was to buy a Mac. I can have a bash shell and listen to music at the same time. My phone syncs. The fonts are beautiful, and the UI is well thought out and stable.
Does training and arming Al Qaeda, selling chemical weapons to Iraq, or giving guns to Iran count for anything? I also fail to see what Bush has done to "stand up to militant islam". The current Bush administration was on the right path there for a while, until they decided that grabbing some oil was more important than finishing the job in Afghanistan.
No matter what happens to earth, it will still be more hospitable to life than any other planet we know of. Even if a "planet killer" comet strikes us while we're already in the middle of a nuclear winter, we'll still have an easier time surviving than we would elsewhere. It's much easier to build a shelter on earth in a cave to withstand just about anything we can think of for a couple hundred years than it is to build a shelter on another planet which will survive for any period of time. On Earth we've got an atomosphere and water which can be cleaned to a usable state if polluted. We can build a nuclear power station to provide energy for any scenario when the sky is blocked much more easily than we could build solar power collectors on another planet. The only real exception is in the very long term, when our sun starts to dim, but we've got some time to figure that one out.
I'm all for space exploration just to expand human knowledge, but we shouldn't lie to ourselves by saying it's a part of our survival strategy as a species.
I read a different article, which said the factories were bad and the pay was barely enough to survive on. Not enough to eat well, not even enough to allow the factory workers to save up enough money to leave and go elsewhere. These people face starvation if they complain about conditions to the barely existent government regulators. Your situation being "poor" is not comparable to these people, and the fact that you've pulled yourself out of relative poverty through hard work doesn't mean it's possible for everyone. No matter how bad things get for you, there will always be a soup kitchen if you're hungry.
If we actually paid these people enough to feed their families and do relatively well, then it would be a lot easier to accept.
The truth however, is that most of the arguments are just made to help people feel better about the horrible impact on someone's life caused by their choices as a consumer.
Forcing them to close up shop is not the only alternative.
The previous human tests on a similar therapy ended up with a number of people in excrutiating pain due to their immune system attacking parts of their brain. While it might suck to have alzheimers, it surely sucks more to have it and be in horrible pain.
I prefer the therapeutic effects of a Twin Ion Engine
Most battery powered electronic devices have a switching dc-dc convertor already because battery voltage is not contsant either.
You hammer your fiberobtic cable through walls?
The thought that this type of thing is even necessary is based on the flawed assumption that terrorists are trying to be covert in the first place.
Several of the 9/11 terrorists were wanted as suspects and living under their real names for at least 9 months in Los Angeles. One even purchased a car in his own name and was listed in the Los Angeles white pages.
Even if a massive reduction in privacy would help save a couple lives, I'd personally rather not live a life without liberty. We're mocking the sacrifice made by hundreds of thousands of patriots who have died to protect our liberties by giving them up without much of a fight.
"I want to know the truth," the president continued. "Leaks of classified information are bad things." He added that he did not know of "anybody in my administration who leaked classified information." George W. Bush, September 30th, 2003 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/09/20 030930-9.html
Perhaps someone else can provide a more reputable source to back this up.
This will only lead to a net decrease in computer security.
Many network administrators like myself use these same tools to detect vulnerabilities. Obviously criminals aren't going to respect any laws relating to disclosure or tool creation, so preventing only law abiding administrators from access to them will only prevent system administrators from knowing about vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
Training does go a long way, but Microsoft and the windows software vendors share a huge portion of the blame for the problems which plague the average user. When 60% of Windows applications fail to work with at least some administrative privileges, how can one operate any version of windows in a safe manner?
Ethanol requires a much larger volume to reach toxicity. For "safety" reasons it could be flavored to taste terrible, perhaps like Mountain Dew.
You might as well just start sending private keys to your government now, just to be a good citizen. I'm sure the people responsible for bringing this law into effect won't mind forwarding them to the proper authorities, so just email the keys to them for now.
"I don't know of anyone in my administration who has leaked," Mr. Bush told reporters in Chicago. But, he added, "If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing."
Presumably if Bush was the one who leaked the classified information, then he lied about it to the american people. If Bush did not know about it, then it was illegal. Either way, there are serious ethical problems with this administration.
In this country it is illegal to witness a crime and not report it. When an employee sees the government violating the law, even if it is the CIA, they are obligated to report it. If the employee realizes that the proper channels for investigating such crimes are corrupt and illegally ignorning illegal acts by others, then should it still illegal for them to report crimes to reporters who can embarass the government into following the will of the people?
I'm glad Clinton was not allowed to use his executive privilege to prevent him from being put to trial for lying about a relationship. Surely the trial made us look weak and possibly compromised our national security, but it was necessary. Should this administration be allowed to do anything it wants without similar restrictions?
Are you seriously maintaining that steel-reinforced concrete structures are more fire-resistant than steel-framed structures?
Why would you believe otherwise?