All of the exciting footage showed lots of bright yellow flame from... the burning of the envelope.
All that exciting footage also did one other thing....started the trend that killed the airship industry, as it was branded as horribly unsafe. Eventually, when the technology was perfected...we switched to airplanes...which were and are actually less safe.
We have an entire Midwest full of Great Plains which are very well suited to growing grains which could produce alcohol.
Problem with your plan right there....the Midwest is already kind of busy, it isn't just empty wasteland that hasn't been put to use....it's already been put to use growing large quantities of food.
I'm really getting sick of the greenie environmentalists. A few decades ago they were crying about how we'd have no food to feed the overpopulated earth (Malthusians). Then they were crying about how the world will freeze from global cooling. Then they were concerned that Florida was be flooded by global warming. Then we would die from mega-viruses created out of medical research. Now we're dying from genetically modified foods that are feeding millions of starving people (who happen to be starving because of the socialist government they live under, not because of lack of opportunities).
Damn stright. Knee jerk reactionists have always been a problem in the biosciences. When they first started experimenting to make insulin by gene splicing bacteria...governments demended they use old biowarfare facilities "just in case" and there were mass protests out of fears that a "Frankenstein's monster" was being created. Today there are countries where people are starving to death, food distribution centers sit filled with grain....and their governments won't let the food get distributed, because it's genetically modified "Frankenfood" and they have "health concerns." And it's not just biotech that is turned into a villain today....just the word chemical has been turned into something to hate in our modern society.
"researchers found 812 flaws in the Windows operating system, 2,328 problems in various versions of the Unix/Linux operating systems (Mac included). "
If we listened to just the media you would have thought Windows has thousands and the others only had a few dozen. I promise I'm not trolling, but do those numbers stop and make anyone on the site re-think stances? We all saw the numbers that put Firefox with more holes then IE earlier this year too. Could MS be doing a better job, but just getting hammered in the press (who are mostly Apple users by the way)? MS holes get lots of press while other operating systems get a free pass.
The situation is, as usual, more complicated. As typical, they are lumping together pretty much every flaw in pretty much every little piece of software that actually runs on Linux/Unix/Mac and is typically included in Linux/Unix distributions and/or Apple's software....vs the flaws found in Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft software... Gee, is it any surprise they are finding more flaws outside the Windows camp? Several different operating systems and all their software vs one. Furthermore, it does not address which flaws were critical and which weren't, which were fixed and which weren't, how quickly they were fixed....and which side does better in those regards. Also it doesn't address the fact that it's easier to find bugs to fix in an open source environment than it is in a closed source one.
No, the EU and the UN wanted regulatory control of the whole damn thing. That's entirely different from what's happened here. What's happened here is pretty much what's always happened with the internet. Parts of the internet within particular countries, obey those countries' laws.
I say...Hell no. Not on the main system. That's just asking for way too many security problems. These kinds of things are done for a damn good reason. Now...their own desktops, laptops, some isolated and limited test computer, whatever...that's much less of a problem. But letting users have root access, even limited, to the main system is just asking for trouble.
XP-64 is a failure? How so, because it's not on every desktop?
It's a failure because Microsoft attempted to innovate a market that was already innovated, and everyone already knew it. Microsoft kept telling people that the future would be 64-bit....when anyone who wanted 64-bit pretty much already was getting it...running Linux on it. And then when Microsoft finally came up with a "working" 64-bit implimentation....it was a pathetic joke. It still is a pathetic joke. And anyone who has the least brains at all who's using AMD 64-bit with an actual 64-bit OS....is using Linux. Which has drivers, and loads of software (even games), and isn't buggy as all fucking hell.
If the future is 64-bit....it's not Microsoft that's taking you there.
What the hell are you talking about?! How many people has Microsoft (or Bill Gates) killed? Does he own a freakin' whorehouse or a casino? The only thing he has done is conduct a business the way every business is conducted - to maximize profit.
Oh yes, every businessman is a convicted monopolist. And every businessman builds his buisness through tactics that can be called nothing less than extortion, fraud, and IP theft. Sure, every business in the US conducts it's business via illegal and immoral means.
Gates is a gangster. He may be using a different racket, but it's the same old game.
You don't seem to understand this....they are still getting charged a Windows license for that machine, whether they sell it with Windows installed on it or not. They pass that cost on to you. So even if you by a machine with nothing installed, or with Linux installed, you're still paying money into the pockets of Microsoft. That is the "Microsoft Tax."
He may be dull, but at least he isn't trying to go all Palpatine on us with "emergency powers." Give me a moron who won't actually do anything any day. I'd rather have an ineffectual President, in place of one who does too much!
Everyone picks on Bill Gates for being evil, yet he makes the cover of Time for his generosity.
Have you ever noticed, that when Gates and Microsoft are getting a beating in the media...suddenly Gates starts making huge donations? Or whenever a government is acting like it's about to curb stomp Microsoft....he has a nice huge donation ready for that country? I certainly have.
Around the area I live, back in the 20s, there was a famous group of gangsters known as The Shelton Gang. One of the big bosses of the Shelton Gang, was a gangster by the name of Charlie Birger (along with the Shelton brothers). This man was a pimp, a smuggler, a murderer, and runner of many fine illegal gambling operations throughout this part of my home State. He was a slick one, always dressing in the finest clothes, driving a fancy car, having many homes....
...Charlie Birger was also a "generous" man. Very charitable, giving money to the needy, paying off people's mortages, giving money to school children, giving people money to start up their businesses...no strings attached, he gave heavily to the local church. Why, the people absolutely loved Charlie Birger. He was a very beloved man for his charitable works....which is exactly what he wanted. It didn't make him any less of a gangster.
Same with Gates. He's no less of a gangster, because of his charitable works.
Call me crazy, but this sounds even worse than the whole nanomachine "grey goo" problem. "Grey goo" scenarios mostly revolved around incompetence (ie, we know how to design a perfect nanobot but someone skips "step number 54", or keys in an extra zero.)
Actually, "grey goo" would have to be designed. A self replicating nanomachine that can survive in shirtsleeve environmental conditions, scrounge all the resources it needs to replicate itself from the surrounding environment and process them all into the desired forms, with the programming to carry all this out? You think something like that could happen because of a coding error?
I'd say he's become an enemy of the United States all on his own through his actions. And the NSA monitoring isn't all of what he's been up to, there have been physical searches without warrant as well.
Oh hey, he's a thought, maybe we can get him declared an "enemy combatant" and sent to gitmo... And I do think if we impeach him, we should impeach the VP too, we don't want...well, the one guy worse than Bush in office...and he's as guilty as Bush is. We should bump the Speaker of the House up to President.
Pfft, everyone knows the very idea of tinfoil hats was planted in our brains by the Alien-Government co-conspiracy to allow them to amplify their mind control rays to enable them to completely take over your body! You have to use plastic wrap! Only it's unique molecular structure can disrupt their mental control technology!
How about you take your head out of your ass for a bit and see what your country is doing to itself.
How about you take your head out of your ass and post as something other than an anonymous troll Mr. Coward? At any rate, you're just jealous.
The greed.
You mean the financial sucess? Yes, our country is financially successful. A great thing, not a bad thing.
The lawsuits.
Better than living in countries where there is no recourse for the people who have been screwed over.
The copyright bullshit
Copyright is great. It's the assholes (including RIAA) who are trying to violate it that are the problem. Could have happened anywhere.
The border bullshit
What "border bullshit" are you speaking of? You mean the construction of a fence to keep illegals out? Something has to be done...we're getting flooded by people who are crossing our borders illegally, and staying and working in our country illegally taking resources including governmental ones, and paying nothing back in the form of taxation...plus there's a security concern. Should we not secure our own borders? We aren't trying to stop everyone who wants to come to this country, just those who want to enter illegally. People are welcome so long as they enter in a legal fashion.
By the way, doesn't the fact that the US has such an insane illegal immigration rate, and high legal immigration rate too for that matter...show just how great the country actually is? If this country were so horrible...wouldn't people want out instead of in?
Your health care problems.
Oh yes, we don't subscribe to socialist nonsense like much of the world so we have "health care problems."
Oh, and what the hell do any of these "problems" of yours...err...ours, have to do with the cultural diversity in America? Come on, let's hear your racist viewpoint...
Perhaps if the Marshals hadn't served said warrant in a manner which was moronic, they wouldn't have gotten shot. Just because they are law enforcement, doesn't mean they have a right to be idiots.
No American I know has any doubt about being an American, or what it means to be an American. We do have an identity, born out of our multiculturalism and the common struggles of our great nation. When all else fails, we are all Americans, and we stick together when the fecal matter hits the rotating oscillator. That's our identity.
The only people pissed off are the Ney York Times and the Democratic Underground and it's little trolls.
Funny, I didn't know that Libertarians (such as myself) who left-wing fuckwits often mistakenly confuse for being right-wingers are considered part of the Democratic Underground. So when I get pissed off at the President's administration wiretapping without a warrant, and conducting physical searches of people's property...without a warrant...and claiming that he can do it because he's the President and fuck the Constitution....I'm a left-wing loon? Fuck you and the jackboots you rode in on.
And there are no problems in the US stemming from this, either......
For the most part...no. And what minor problems have cropped up, we have gained much greater benefits that far outweigh any such problems. Being a diverse, multicultural society has benefited us greatly. And hell, I wouldn't exist if we weren't. By anscestry I'm a mix of German, Jewish, assorted Native American, English, and Black...and that's just as far as I have been able to trace. I'm proud of all those roots, they give me character, and great family and cultural history. Most native-born Americans are a similar mix of peoples (particular peoples may vary).
The "melting pot" has been good to us. It's how we rose from second-rate bunch of barely organized group of colonists, to the single most powerful nation on the planet. Might be good to take a lesson or two.
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Isn't that how the Reavers got started...
No, the EU and the UN wanted regulatory control of the whole damn thing. That's entirely different from what's happened here. What's happened here is pretty much what's always happened with the internet. Parts of the internet within particular countries, obey those countries' laws.
I say...Hell no. Not on the main system. That's just asking for way too many security problems. These kinds of things are done for a damn good reason. Now...their own desktops, laptops, some isolated and limited test computer, whatever...that's much less of a problem. But letting users have root access, even limited, to the main system is just asking for trouble.
It's a failure because Microsoft attempted to innovate a market that was already innovated, and everyone already knew it. Microsoft kept telling people that the future would be 64-bit....when anyone who wanted 64-bit pretty much already was getting it...running Linux on it. And then when Microsoft finally came up with a "working" 64-bit implimentation....it was a pathetic joke. It still is a pathetic joke. And anyone who has the least brains at all who's using AMD 64-bit with an actual 64-bit OS....is using Linux. Which has drivers, and loads of software (even games), and isn't buggy as all fucking hell.
If the future is 64-bit....it's not Microsoft that's taking you there.
Nah, they'll become us. Or I should say....we'll become them.
Oh yes, every businessman is a convicted monopolist. And every businessman builds his buisness through tactics that can be called nothing less than extortion, fraud, and IP theft. Sure, every business in the US conducts it's business via illegal and immoral means.
Gates is a gangster. He may be using a different racket, but it's the same old game.
You don't seem to understand this....they are still getting charged a Windows license for that machine, whether they sell it with Windows installed on it or not. They pass that cost on to you. So even if you by a machine with nothing installed, or with Linux installed, you're still paying money into the pockets of Microsoft. That is the "Microsoft Tax."
He may be dull, but at least he isn't trying to go all Palpatine on us with "emergency powers." Give me a moron who won't actually do anything any day. I'd rather have an ineffectual President, in place of one who does too much!
Have you ever noticed, that when Gates and Microsoft are getting a beating in the media...suddenly Gates starts making huge donations? Or whenever a government is acting like it's about to curb stomp Microsoft....he has a nice huge donation ready for that country? I certainly have.
Around the area I live, back in the 20s, there was a famous group of gangsters known as The Shelton Gang. One of the big bosses of the Shelton Gang, was a gangster by the name of Charlie Birger (along with the Shelton brothers). This man was a pimp, a smuggler, a murderer, and runner of many fine illegal gambling operations throughout this part of my home State. He was a slick one, always dressing in the finest clothes, driving a fancy car, having many homes....
...Charlie Birger was also a "generous" man. Very charitable, giving money to the needy, paying off people's mortages, giving money to school children, giving people money to start up their businesses...no strings attached, he gave heavily to the local church. Why, the people absolutely loved Charlie Birger. He was a very beloved man for his charitable works....which is exactly what he wanted. It didn't make him any less of a gangster.
Same with Gates. He's no less of a gangster, because of his charitable works.
I'd say he's become an enemy of the United States all on his own through his actions. And the NSA monitoring isn't all of what he's been up to, there have been physical searches without warrant as well.
Oh hey, he's a thought, maybe we can get him declared an "enemy combatant" and sent to gitmo... And I do think if we impeach him, we should impeach the VP too, we don't want...well, the one guy worse than Bush in office...and he's as guilty as Bush is. We should bump the Speaker of the House up to President.
Try asking President Bush.
Pfft, everyone knows the very idea of tinfoil hats was planted in our brains by the Alien-Government co-conspiracy to allow them to amplify their mind control rays to enable them to completely take over your body! You have to use plastic wrap! Only it's unique molecular structure can disrupt their mental control technology!
What "border bullshit" are you speaking of? You mean the construction of a fence to keep illegals out? Something has to be done...we're getting flooded by people who are crossing our borders illegally, and staying and working in our country illegally taking resources including governmental ones, and paying nothing back in the form of taxation...plus there's a security concern. Should we not secure our own borders? We aren't trying to stop everyone who wants to come to this country, just those who want to enter illegally. People are welcome so long as they enter in a legal fashion.
By the way, doesn't the fact that the US has such an insane illegal immigration rate, and high legal immigration rate too for that matter...show just how great the country actually is? If this country were so horrible...wouldn't people want out instead of in?
Oh yes, we don't subscribe to socialist nonsense like much of the world so we have "health care problems."
Oh, and what the hell do any of these "problems" of yours...err...ours, have to do with the cultural diversity in America? Come on, let's hear your racist viewpoint...
Perhaps if the Marshals hadn't served said warrant in a manner which was moronic, they wouldn't have gotten shot. Just because they are law enforcement, doesn't mean they have a right to be idiots.
The survivors (you know there were survivors right?) were aquitted of all charges. You know that right?
For the most part...no. And what minor problems have cropped up, we have gained much greater benefits that far outweigh any such problems. Being a diverse, multicultural society has benefited us greatly. And hell, I wouldn't exist if we weren't. By anscestry I'm a mix of German, Jewish, assorted Native American, English, and Black...and that's just as far as I have been able to trace. I'm proud of all those roots, they give me character, and great family and cultural history. Most native-born Americans are a similar mix of peoples (particular peoples may vary).
The "melting pot" has been good to us. It's how we rose from second-rate bunch of barely organized group of colonists, to the single most powerful nation on the planet. Might be good to take a lesson or two.