Yeah this seems like Slashdotted-spam to me. I've known about GUBA for years, and it's not exactly revolutionary. Nor is it remotely Google-esque. Especially given it's increasingly higher priced subscription access. The only way I'd expect this to be in any way newsworthy for Slashdot would be if they went free...which they haven't, and won't.
Men don't need an institute because they already have one: all of western society.
Find me a job that a man can't have because he's a man.
What a completely sexist statement! Oh wait...it's against men...so it's ok. As for jobs men can't have because they are men...there are plenty of jobs where women dominate or control the field, getting more money, jobs, benefits, and respect.
Tennis pros (sure there are men who are pro tennis players...but the big money goes to women).
When is the last time you heard of a male supermodel? There aren't really any. There are male models (obviously, have to be)...but they are paid much less than female models, for the same work.
Male nurses get no personal or professional respect, and are often paid less than women nurses.
But you know what? In the US right now....I can't think of any job that a woman, provided she is fully qualified, couldn't have in some way. But I can think of such jobs for men. And where you can think of jobs where women are paid less and get no respect, I can think of many where men are paid less and get no respect.
Furthermore....it's politically correct to abuse and degrade men. Domestic violence against men is the butt of jokes, and rarely prosecuted when when charges are brought....and when they are it's always a slap on the wrist. Men get years for beating wifes, women get months (or maybe just a fine and community service) for beating husbands....if they get punished at all. Oh, and studies are showing that domestic violence against men is nearly as commonplace as against women. And then...there's sexual harrassment...women can joke all they want in public about how guys are good for only one thing, or joke about the size of men's equipment...or whether it functions at all. It's perfectly fine to refer to men as pieces of meat...I've certainly heard women, in public, talking about men this way. But horror of horror if a man talks about a woman in any way that they might feel sexually degraded by.
Don't forget that we (the US) also had major foreign allies lie to us concerning key pieces of intelligence...mainly, the validity of sources. And we had those lies from our foreign allies repeated by our news agencies...which I'm sure they counted on. It could even be argued that these bits of phoney intelligence helped convince the President to act immidiately, rather than later... So who's the real manipulator here? I'd say the American people and government were duped into the war as much as anyone....and set up to be the perfect patsy after it was all over.
We already know everything at Microsoft's hosed. Oh...HOSTED! That's very a different story. So basically, what they are saying is...they want to move to a model where they screw you over and over, and you pay each time you're screwed. No surprise they are moving to that business model really...Microsoft has always acted like a two bit whore.
I went to a private Church run school, mixed, not single gender....the girls were much more sex crazy than in the public schools. Hell, one time, one older girl I knew who just about screwed me right in the hall. Didn't even ask, just came up to me and...well... The girls there were...just absolute succubi. I don't know what it is...but it's pretty true what they say about a lot of private school girls.
The Constitution doesn't say what people (or private groups of people) may and may not do, only what the government may and may not do. Still...these kin ds of restrictions are downright idiotic, it's regulating kid's activity outside of school...without regard for the opinions of the parents of said kids. It's not the Church's job to protect these kids outside of their school...it's their parent's job.
That doctrine does not apply outside of school hours, outside of school. Furthermore, actual parents rights come before the rights of the school to act like parents.
Today, in a globalized world in which the Internet has become a global resource for freedom of expression and for economic exchange
The biggest concern for the USA, is that turning things over to the UN would restrict that freedom of expression far more than it has so far. In fact, the UN has expressed interest in monitoring and controlling content.
Couple of minor points - A) Rather dangerous to anyone
or anything who accidentaly gets under the beam or if the beam shifts
due to faults on the satellite
There's been studies going back decades about this. The beam would maybe raise your body temp a bit if you strayed into the beam, and the beam would be being sent to a specially designed ground station which would likely be fenced in. We aren't talking about highly concentrated beams here, nor sending them around everywhere. They would also be designed so that if if the beam did shift away from the ground station it would lose focus.
Hell, the big ABM radars are more dangerous than these beams.
B) you can generate the power on the ground anyway , so why bother?
It's more readily avaliable in space, in the long term it's cheaper, it's more ecologically friendly to do it in space...why not?
We all know that a bunch of kids at MIT, and the morons at Mythbusters (who have been repeatedly shown to routinely fuck up their experiments) are just the people to prove that the guy who was most likely the single most brilliant human being in history (given his engineering ability, the materials he had to work with, and the fact that he wasn't "standing on the shoulders of giants") was wrong. Why, next week, maybe Mythbusters and some elementary school kids will disprove Einstein's Theories of Relativity!
Well...hunger would be a lot easier to address if people in Africa were allowed to eat our genetically altered foods. However, the biggest issues with hunger actually have less to do with food, and more to do with politics. There is plenty of food in the world, more than enough to feed everyone. The problems partly lie with petty tyrants, warlords, and other unsavory types who simply keep food from the people, one way or another. Other problems lie with economics, and the best way to help there is to help nations to develop economically (which tends to eventually improve the political situation as well...trade being a major historical motivator of social and political change and all that). I'd say on those fronts, we do a hell of a lot.
When I was a kid...my mom and I lived entirely out of a car for quite a while. For another period of time, a cheap, run down motel room was "home." Another time it was a run down house that was little more than a shack (and I've seen places far worse), sleeping on the floor with nothing but a blanket...with a room full of other people doing the same thing. America isn't this great paradise where everyone has money, and if you lose it...the government just says, "oh sorry, here's a bunch more to make up for your big loss."
I have seen, personally, grimy run down streets with vermin infested homes that are little more than falling down shacks, and in some cases actually are falling down shacks. And yes, plenty of old, broken junk lying around. Usually with people trying to get said junk to work, or finding another use for it...but sometimes it's just there.
Want police corruption? My brother was previously beaten in county by sherriff's deputies after being picked up on something minor that turned out to be somewhat of a minsunderstanding, they then turned around and had him charged with "assaulting a police officer." He went to prison for several years on that bullshit charge. He's been out, only to be set up on another charge now...this one so obviously phoney it's insane...and paperwork regarding him "mysteriously" disappearing or being delivered just barely late enough to make sure that he gets screwed over on one detail or another... In a seperate incident of police stupidity cousin of mine, who moved here to live for a while...ended up harrassed by local law enforcement, and told to "get out of town" because he "wasn't from around here."
Yeah, America is just absolute paradise. A land of unlimited wealth, lollipops, and movie stars!
Even taking private assistance into account America falls far short of it international commitments. Have you taken into account that every other country in the world also gives a substantial amount of private charity.
Our commitments you say? What commitments would these be? As far as I know anything we do to help anyone outside our own borders is pure charity, not commitment. As far as the rest of the world and private charity...I have no coment, I merely said that in the US that we prefer private charity over government.
More than 60% of funding for 'Active Assistance' is ear-marked directly or indirectly for American companies to carry out contracts in the developing world. It never leaves the bank accounts in the US.
Does the work get done or not? Why should the money go anywhere? We're not sending the money. We're sending help. We're sending people who actually do things. For example, back after the big Tsunami, when everyone was throwing money at governments that couldn't do jack with it, or just used it to line the pockets of the rich...we sent aircraft carriers (which we already pay for anyway, so no big new expense out of pocket) with their big desalination plants to provide people with fresh water, and used the medical and other resources of those ships to help out as well. Directly. Which provided more help? Throwing money into the hands of the already wealthy? Or giving people who'd lost everything food, water, and medical care?
No, it's more complicated than that. The original gate was beamed aboard Thor's ship so SG-1 could escape when it was infested with replicators. The ship was destroyed, but the gate survived and was recovered by the Russians. The Antarctic Gate was used in Cheyenne mountain until Anubis used an Ancient weapon designed to use one Stargate to destroy another to blow it up. Then the original gate was leased back from the Russians in exchange for a bunch of money, technology, and their own SG-team.
Yup, much hyped....and nothing to it but hype. And everyone has been saying so since well before the actual release. Basically....nobody gives a flock.
Get this through your head. America does not deserve praise for what pathetic little it gives, especially when all that giving goes to US corporations, arms merchants and countries that don't need it but wield a lot of political clout.
Have you taken either of the following into account?
A) Americans prefer acts of private charity over government aid.
B) Americans prefer providing active assistance, over monetary gifts.
One could say exactly the same things about why ICANN wants control over it.
Except for the fact that ICANN has never shown one bit of interest in the internet's actual content and has never done anything but it's job...the issuing of domain names to pretty much anyone, while the U.N. has actually stated that they plan on censoring content and controlling who can and cannot get a domain? Yeah, of course one can say the same things about ICANN's trustworthiness as one does about the U.N. (if you can't tell...that's sarcasm...).
If the UN (or any group of nations in the UN, using UN policy) takes full control over the DNS root servers, they could take a domain down as well. They don't agree that your site should exist? Fine, www.yoursitehere.com doesn't exist any more. That's a pretty damn easy way to censor those you don't agree with.
Then why does the US conduct trade negotiations etc. with them? You can't recognise a government when it benefits you and then say they're illegitimate when they want something you don't like.
Trade is one of the greatest motivators of change. The opening up of societies, a way of showing the people of those countries that other ways and ideas exist. And those places improve themselves too, and with better economies, eventually comes social and political change amongst the leadership. We've seen it many times. Hell, you can look back all through history and see that. Trade is one of the great motivators for social improvement. True, it benefits us directly, nothing wrong with that now is there, we want cool stuff. Everyone wants cool stuff.
And answerable to (iirc it's the FTC), that's part of the US government. The US government has control over the DNS system, they may have to pass orders on through a couple of layers of organisations, but that's not really relevant from another country's perspective.
Perhaps in theory (and it would be a political pain in the ass), but when has it ever actually been? AFAIK the only real control over the DNS system is ICANN, which is an international organisation.
Worse things are likely to happen by leaving a single country in charge of DNS than by putting it in the hands of an international organisation.
There is only one reason the U.N. wants control over DNS. And that is to censor content on the internet by controling who does, and doesn't have a domain. As it stands, the internet is already under the control of ICANN, an international organisation. I trust it with the DNS far more than I trust the United Nations, a group that put Libya in charge of Human Rights, tried to turn half of the U.S. into untouchable wilderness, and keeps demanding that the U.S. government disarm it's civilians even though we have these pesky things called "rights."
And FDR was committing treason by declaring war on Germany in 1941.
I somehow doubt that's what you really meant.
I surely doubt it, since Germany declared war on us after we declared war on Japan for bombing us at Pearl harbor, and then we declared war on Germany. It would be quite in our national interests to declare war on someone who had declared war on us...
You mean the people who're in the situation they are right now because European imperialists raped their nations and enslaved their people for centuries? Those people?
You think Imperialism in Africa is over? Hell no. Look at the French! They still maintain a fairly tight economic and political leash on their "former" colonies.
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Nah,this is simply outsourcing. It's cheaper to build it in Canada. Just like it's cheaper to film American television shows in Canada.
Institute, not company.
Yeah this seems like Slashdotted-spam to me. I've known about GUBA for years, and it's not exactly revolutionary. Nor is it remotely Google-esque. Especially given it's increasingly higher priced subscription access. The only way I'd expect this to be in any way newsworthy for Slashdot would be if they went free...which they haven't, and won't.
What a completely sexist statement! Oh wait...it's against men...so it's ok. As for jobs men can't have because they are men...there are plenty of jobs where women dominate or control the field, getting more money, jobs, benefits, and respect.
Tennis pros (sure there are men who are pro tennis players...but the big money goes to women).
When is the last time you heard of a male supermodel? There aren't really any. There are male models (obviously, have to be)...but they are paid much less than female models, for the same work.
Male nurses get no personal or professional respect, and are often paid less than women nurses.
But you know what? In the US right now....I can't think of any job that a woman, provided she is fully qualified, couldn't have in some way. But I can think of such jobs for men. And where you can think of jobs where women are paid less and get no respect, I can think of many where men are paid less and get no respect.
Furthermore....it's politically correct to abuse and degrade men. Domestic violence against men is the butt of jokes, and rarely prosecuted when when charges are brought....and when they are it's always a slap on the wrist. Men get years for beating wifes, women get months (or maybe just a fine and community service) for beating husbands....if they get punished at all. Oh, and studies are showing that domestic violence against men is nearly as commonplace as against women. And then...there's sexual harrassment...women can joke all they want in public about how guys are good for only one thing, or joke about the size of men's equipment...or whether it functions at all. It's perfectly fine to refer to men as pieces of meat...I've certainly heard women, in public, talking about men this way. But horror of horror if a man talks about a woman in any way that they might feel sexually degraded by.
Don't forget that we (the US) also had major foreign allies lie to us concerning key pieces of intelligence...mainly, the validity of sources. And we had those lies from our foreign allies repeated by our news agencies...which I'm sure they counted on. It could even be argued that these bits of phoney intelligence helped convince the President to act immidiately, rather than later... So who's the real manipulator here? I'd say the American people and government were duped into the war as much as anyone....and set up to be the perfect patsy after it was all over.
We already know everything at Microsoft's hosed. Oh...HOSTED! That's very a different story. So basically, what they are saying is...they want to move to a model where they screw you over and over, and you pay each time you're screwed. No surprise they are moving to that business model really...Microsoft has always acted like a two bit whore.
I went to a private Church run school, mixed, not single gender....the girls were much more sex crazy than in the public schools. Hell, one time, one older girl I knew who just about screwed me right in the hall. Didn't even ask, just came up to me and...well... The girls there were...just absolute succubi. I don't know what it is...but it's pretty true what they say about a lot of private school girls.
The Constitution doesn't say what people (or private groups of people) may and may not do, only what the government may and may not do. Still...these kin ds of restrictions are downright idiotic, it's regulating kid's activity outside of school...without regard for the opinions of the parents of said kids. It's not the Church's job to protect these kids outside of their school...it's their parent's job.
That doctrine does not apply outside of school hours, outside of school. Furthermore, actual parents rights come before the rights of the school to act like parents.
There's been studies going back decades about this. The beam would maybe raise your body temp a bit if you strayed into the beam, and the beam would be being sent to a specially designed ground station which would likely be fenced in. We aren't talking about highly concentrated beams here, nor sending them around everywhere. They would also be designed so that if if the beam did shift away from the ground station it would lose focus.
Hell, the big ABM radars are more dangerous than these beams.
It's more readily avaliable in space, in the long term it's cheaper, it's more ecologically friendly to do it in space...why not?We all know that a bunch of kids at MIT, and the morons at Mythbusters (who have been repeatedly shown to routinely fuck up their experiments) are just the people to prove that the guy who was most likely the single most brilliant human being in history (given his engineering ability, the materials he had to work with, and the fact that he wasn't "standing on the shoulders of giants") was wrong. Why, next week, maybe Mythbusters and some elementary school kids will disprove Einstein's Theories of Relativity!
Well...hunger would be a lot easier to address if people in Africa were allowed to eat our genetically altered foods. However, the biggest issues with hunger actually have less to do with food, and more to do with politics. There is plenty of food in the world, more than enough to feed everyone. The problems partly lie with petty tyrants, warlords, and other unsavory types who simply keep food from the people, one way or another. Other problems lie with economics, and the best way to help there is to help nations to develop economically (which tends to eventually improve the political situation as well...trade being a major historical motivator of social and political change and all that). I'd say on those fronts, we do a hell of a lot.
When I was a kid...my mom and I lived entirely out of a car for quite a while. For another period of time, a cheap, run down motel room was "home." Another time it was a run down house that was little more than a shack (and I've seen places far worse), sleeping on the floor with nothing but a blanket...with a room full of other people doing the same thing. America isn't this great paradise where everyone has money, and if you lose it...the government just says, "oh sorry, here's a bunch more to make up for your big loss."
I have seen, personally, grimy run down streets with vermin infested homes that are little more than falling down shacks, and in some cases actually are falling down shacks. And yes, plenty of old, broken junk lying around. Usually with people trying to get said junk to work, or finding another use for it...but sometimes it's just there.
Want police corruption? My brother was previously beaten in county by sherriff's deputies after being picked up on something minor that turned out to be somewhat of a minsunderstanding, they then turned around and had him charged with "assaulting a police officer." He went to prison for several years on that bullshit charge. He's been out, only to be set up on another charge now...this one so obviously phoney it's insane...and paperwork regarding him "mysteriously" disappearing or being delivered just barely late enough to make sure that he gets screwed over on one detail or another... In a seperate incident of police stupidity cousin of mine, who moved here to live for a while...ended up harrassed by local law enforcement, and told to "get out of town" because he "wasn't from around here."
Yeah, America is just absolute paradise. A land of unlimited wealth, lollipops, and movie stars!
No, it's more complicated than that. The original gate was beamed aboard Thor's ship so SG-1 could escape when it was infested with replicators. The ship was destroyed, but the gate survived and was recovered by the Russians. The Antarctic Gate was used in Cheyenne mountain until Anubis used an Ancient weapon designed to use one Stargate to destroy another to blow it up. Then the original gate was leased back from the Russians in exchange for a bunch of money, technology, and their own SG-team.
And the numbskulls say Linux doesn't have gaves, or doesn't get new games.
Even funnier...I've seen TV shows, and movies on TV, where for "God Damnit!" they bleep out "God", but leave the "Damnit."
Have you taken either of the following into account?
A) Americans prefer acts of private charity over government aid.
B) Americans prefer providing active assistance, over monetary gifts.
I'm guessing no.
If the UN (or any group of nations in the UN, using UN policy) takes full control over the DNS root servers, they could take a domain down as well. They don't agree that your site should exist? Fine, www.yoursitehere.com doesn't exist any more. That's a pretty damn easy way to censor those you don't agree with.