Only since Columbia, and only because we've grown so weak that we as a nation have become afraid of our own shadows that we only accept a 0% risk in any endeavor now. That's why China, Russia, and India will beat us back to the moon and beat us to Mars by decades.
We just threw away our only viable spacecraft, and now pay Russia to haul personnel to the ISS.What is the point in participating in ISS any more, if we're cutting NASA's budget to the bone? We just eliminated the only (publicly-acknowledged) viable solution for servicing satellites or for safely returning large loads from ISS. No one else has/had that tech before, and now nobody does. What a waste.
Plus one more thing I'll mention: gutting the shuttles is tremendously stupid. Think of future generations who would love to look at the engine, avionics, and other systems decades or centuries in the future; it would be like purposely burning books, leaving only the covers intact for future generations to see. Why bother putting the fuselage on display at all? It's a damned shame. There are only three shuttles in exsistence - they should keep them intact. Tear them down and decontaminate them to remove all traces of Hydrazine if you must mothball them, but for goodness sake keep them intact for future historians and archeologists!
Scan it in, and add in the text in a white box "This is a copy. Not worth the same as the original, is it?"
Distributing a copy of money, even if the size is different to make it clear it is fake is sometimes considered counterfeit by the secret service, particularly if someone is already gunning for you. If you include a very clear disclaimer on the bill, any case should be thrown out by the courts because it will be obvious there is no intent to pass off your copy as the real deal.
So much for Obama's promise of government transparency.
Romney will be no better either. Too bad it isn't practical to pull a Monty Brewster and check "None of the above." I want to write in Ron Paul, but he hasn't a chance of getting elected. He just isn't marketable enough for the drooling masses.:-(
The much-hated VB offers much of what you're looking for. Like it or hate it, it is really good for prototyping and for rapid development. The only drawbacks is that it encourages bad code and marries you to Windows.
'March 11 exposed the true nature of Japan's postwar system, that it is led by bureaucrats who stand on the side of industry, not the people,' says Shigeaki Koga, a former director of industrial policy at the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry.
It's not even on the side of the industry; it's on the side of the quick buck.
Were they on the industry's side, they would have had the long-term health of the nuclear power industry in mind, and be striving to make the public perception of nuclear power match the reality of properly-maintained systems. Instead, the few major nuclear accidents which have occurred taints the perception of ALL nuclear installations across the board, pushing us back toward fossil fuels when instead we should be expanding the use of the latest-generation nuclear reactors, be investing in development of single-home and neighborhood-capacity dorm fridge-sized reactors, and also investing in large-scale thorium reactors. Instead, anything involving the word "nuclear" is now very unpopular politically, and wind power and solar power which are woefully inefficient in the real world are receiving political backing and government subsidies.
They are on the side of only their own personal wallets and get rich quick schemes, not on the side of the industry at all.
Maybe it's time to apply science and logic. Does it really make sense to disallow carrying on of hair gel, shaving cream, bottled water, juice, soft drinks, etc. and search American citizens with no radical islamic ties boarding domestic flights (especially juvenile and elderly citizens) and subject everyone to virtual strip searches or sexual assault, when profiling, a scientific principle, actually works? Moonbats might complain and feign offense, but really, it doesn't make sense to add hours to departure time (making flights of just happens to be a little darker than caucasians. Profiling actually works, is cheaper than spending trillions on security theater, and saves time for practically everyone. Why is it so offensive to liberal wackos? (no offense to reasonable liberals here - I'm referring to the drooling zombies who lack functioning neurons)
We really ought to implement Israeli-style security; observe behavior and actually talk to people who display suspicious behavior as they go through security, and stop the pomp and circumstance. that the woefully ineffective yet extremely expensive mess that TSA has become. Even boxcutters or pocket knives aren't much of a risk any more, because prior to 9/11 the situation was a hijacked plane would land in Cuba or another non-US-friendly destination and everything would turn out okay; vacations would just be extended a bit. Now, people fight back and subdue morons who make it through our horribly ineffective yet expensive security measures and try to start trouble.
On the rare occasions I do fly, I always bring something that can be turned into a defensive weapon (be creative; almost anything can be used as a weapon if you're of average intelligence or better and possess the slightest bit of creativity) and a towel (can be used to effectively defend against boxcutters and pocket knives), and if someone were to attempt to hijack a plane I am on, I would be one of those passengers fighting back - and I would not stop at restraining the would-be hijacker,. I would be administering pain and doing everything I can to permanently disfigure and/or maim the fucker.
But, my choice is to drive, if the drive will be less than 16 hours. Even if it's longer, I'd consider driving instead, just so I don't have to submit to the government-sponsored pornographic photo shoot and/or sexual assault.
And even people who did know were still using gopher because unless you knew the URL to a web site, and ran an OS that had a sockets API, you couldn't do anything. No search engines, no "directory" sites, and no images in the browser - and if you ran DOS/Windows, you were SOL anyhow, so telnet was your option. People with Windows really couldn't get on the web until 1993-1994 when Trumpet Winsock, Mosaic 2.0 and commercial ISPs offering SLIP and PPP connections came along.
One time I was at the post office I paid for pacel post using my AmEx. I wrote on the back "ASK FOR ID" and they refused to accept it unless I signed the back of the credit card. WTF? How does signing in front of them amount to any sort of security? I would think that the photo ID would be far better security than a signature which is far more easily forgecv d.
I had to demand to speak with the post master to get the idiot to accept my card.
I like my personal AmEx better - it has my photo on it, and no signature box anywhere on the card, That is MUCH better security than my corporate card offers.
We are currently orbiting the galactic core at 220 km/s and around the sun at 30 km/s and yet you can catch a baseball tossed to you, unless you're a total klutz, right? If you are riding in a bus, walking toward the back, and a passenger in the back throws a cellphone to you, you can catch it, right? Even though if the bus is traveling at 65mph relative to the street, and the cellphone 35mph relative to the bus floor (or 100mph relative to the street)
Motion is relative. Speed is relative.
The satellite will not be motionless relative to the junk.
By that argument, music could be sold differently depending on the bitrate.
It's been done (by MP3.com if I recall correctly) for tiered pricing. and you know. it's actually a great model. Cheapskates can buy their inferior distortion-riddled music, and audiophiles can buy fairly good quality MP3s.
Unfortunately the vendors who did this are not around any more - it seems they failed to negotiate distribution rights and were engaging in copyright infringement (or in the case of MP3.com, the MAFIAA hired goons in Russia to crack down even though it wasn't illegal there). You know, actual "piracy" or "theft." It wasn't a matter of you or I making a mix CD/tape/track for a friend, it was a matter of willfully infringing upon others' distribution rights (either by legal or ethical or moral standards) and profiting from it. Current vendors (Amazon, Sprawl*Mart, Apple, etc) offer what they offer, and that's it. No bitrate choices or anything like that.
It would still be a great model. I have a kickass audio system at home, and yet, there are some pop tunes I'd buy if they weren't $.99, at a lower bitrate. For progressive rock, classical, and the like? I want lossless formats (preferably physical, as in CD or DVD or Blu-ray), but I'd settle for nothing less than 320kbps if mp3 format. For highly-compressed mainstream pop, I'd take 128kbps or even lower bitrates, if I could buy it at an appropriate discounted price. Since it's not offered, I'll look on Rhapsody for streaming instead, or simply not bother at all.
No big loss. After all, its inhabitants concern themselves entirely too much about the movement of green paper, and still think that digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
They're not "exactly the same" when you consider higher resolution or greater color depth that dual link DVI allows thanks to the additional TDMS lines.
Don't forget that in the past SCOTUS has ruled that The united States of America is a Christian nation - which is a serious infringement of the First Amendment.
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Only since Columbia, and only because we've grown so weak that we as a nation have become afraid of our own shadows that we only accept a 0% risk in any endeavor now. That's why China, Russia, and India will beat us back to the moon and beat us to Mars by decades.
We just threw away our only viable spacecraft, and now pay Russia to haul personnel to the ISS.What is the point in participating in ISS any more, if we're cutting NASA's budget to the bone? We just eliminated the only (publicly-acknowledged) viable solution for servicing satellites or for safely returning large loads from ISS. No one else has/had that tech before, and now nobody does. What a waste.
Plus one more thing I'll mention: gutting the shuttles is tremendously stupid. Think of future generations who would love to look at the engine, avionics, and other systems decades or centuries in the future; it would be like purposely burning books, leaving only the covers intact for future generations to see. Why bother putting the fuselage on display at all? It's a damned shame. There are only three shuttles in exsistence - they should keep them intact. Tear them down and decontaminate them to remove all traces of Hydrazine if you must mothball them, but for goodness sake keep them intact for future historians and archeologists!
I also have no volcanoes in my back yard. That proves my purchase of volcano insurance was a wise decision here in Taxachusetts!
That won't work.
Scan it in, and add in the text in a white box "This is a copy. Not worth the same as the original, is it?"
Distributing a copy of money, even if the size is different to make it clear it is fake is sometimes considered counterfeit by the secret service, particularly if someone is already gunning for you. If you include a very clear disclaimer on the bill, any case should be thrown out by the courts because it will be obvious there is no intent to pass off your copy as the real deal.
So much for Obama's promise of government transparency.
Romney will be no better either. Too bad it isn't practical to pull a Monty Brewster and check "None of the above." I want to write in Ron Paul, but he hasn't a chance of getting elected. He just isn't marketable enough for the drooling masses. :-(
Source: God/FSM/Mother Nature
There isn't always enough wind, and there are cloudy days, and then that pesky nighttime.
The much-hated VB offers much of what you're looking for. Like it or hate it, it is really good for prototyping and for rapid development. The only drawbacks is that it encourages bad code and marries you to Windows.
It's not even on the side of the industry; it's on the side of the quick buck.
Were they on the industry's side, they would have had the long-term health of the nuclear power industry in mind, and be striving to make the public perception of nuclear power match the reality of properly-maintained systems. Instead, the few major nuclear accidents which have occurred taints the perception of ALL nuclear installations across the board, pushing us back toward fossil fuels when instead we should be expanding the use of the latest-generation nuclear reactors, be investing in development of single-home and neighborhood-capacity dorm fridge-sized reactors, and also investing in large-scale thorium reactors. Instead, anything involving the word "nuclear" is now very unpopular politically, and wind power and solar power which are woefully inefficient in the real world are receiving political backing and government subsidies.
They are on the side of only their own personal wallets and get rich quick schemes, not on the side of the industry at all.
Sure! If your name is George Lucas, you get a few billion in the bank. :-)
Maybe it's time to apply science and logic. Does it really make sense to disallow carrying on of hair gel, shaving cream, bottled water, juice, soft drinks, etc. and search American citizens with no radical islamic ties boarding domestic flights (especially juvenile and elderly citizens) and subject everyone to virtual strip searches or sexual assault, when profiling, a scientific principle, actually works? Moonbats might complain and feign offense, but really, it doesn't make sense to add hours to departure time (making flights of just happens to be a little darker than caucasians. Profiling actually works, is cheaper than spending trillions on security theater, and saves time for practically everyone. Why is it so offensive to liberal wackos? (no offense to reasonable liberals here - I'm referring to the drooling zombies who lack functioning neurons)
We really ought to implement Israeli-style security; observe behavior and actually talk to people who display suspicious behavior as they go through security, and stop the pomp and circumstance. that the woefully ineffective yet extremely expensive mess that TSA has become. Even boxcutters or pocket knives aren't much of a risk any more, because prior to 9/11 the situation was a hijacked plane would land in Cuba or another non-US-friendly destination and everything would turn out okay; vacations would just be extended a bit. Now, people fight back and subdue morons who make it through our horribly ineffective yet expensive security measures and try to start trouble.
On the rare occasions I do fly, I always bring something that can be turned into a defensive weapon (be creative; almost anything can be used as a weapon if you're of average intelligence or better and possess the slightest bit of creativity) and a towel (can be used to effectively defend against boxcutters and pocket knives), and if someone were to attempt to hijack a plane I am on, I would be one of those passengers fighting back - and I would not stop at restraining the would-be hijacker,. I would be administering pain and doing everything I can to permanently disfigure and/or maim the fucker.
But, my choice is to drive, if the drive will be less than 16 hours. Even if it's longer, I'd consider driving instead, just so I don't have to submit to the government-sponsored pornographic photo shoot and/or sexual assault.
It's his half sister, birthed by his aunt. Interestingly, his cousin is also his wife. They like to keep it in the family, you see.
And even people who did know were still using gopher because unless you knew the URL to a web site, and ran an OS that had a sockets API, you couldn't do anything. No search engines, no "directory" sites, and no images in the browser - and if you ran DOS/Windows, you were SOL anyhow, so telnet was your option. People with Windows really couldn't get on the web until 1993-1994 when Trumpet Winsock, Mosaic 2.0 and commercial ISPs offering SLIP and PPP connections came along.
Updating it to include DHS as well as TSA. :-)
Well! This is a refreshing story!
Yes, which will prompt you for your PIN number of course.
. . . or if you get caught in a mild hail storm, or park under an oak tree during autumn. . .
that is: "Mopar don't go far" since it has proven to be true for many years. :)
I've got one that is equally stupid:
One time I was at the post office I paid for pacel post using my AmEx. I wrote on the back "ASK FOR ID" and they refused to accept it unless I signed the back of the credit card. WTF? How does signing in front of them amount to any sort of security? I would think that the photo ID would be far better security than a signature which is far more easily forgecv d.
I had to demand to speak with the post master to get the idiot to accept my card.
I like my personal AmEx better - it has my photo on it, and no signature box anywhere on the card, That is MUCH better security than my corporate card offers.
We are currently orbiting the galactic core at 220 km/s and around the sun at 30 km/s and yet you can catch a baseball tossed to you, unless you're a total klutz, right? If you are riding in a bus, walking toward the back, and a passenger in the back throws a cellphone to you, you can catch it, right? Even though if the bus is traveling at 65mph relative to the street, and the cellphone 35mph relative to the bus floor (or 100mph relative to the street)
Motion is relative. Speed is relative.
The satellite will not be motionless relative to the junk.
Think about it.
Oh, the one time I wish slashdot had a facebook-style "Like" button!!!!
"the stuff that stars and planets and people are made of"
I think we have a word for it: "matter."
With Mandriva dying, they will probably take Scalix down with them.
It's been done (by MP3.com if I recall correctly) for tiered pricing. and you know. it's actually a great model. Cheapskates can buy their inferior distortion-riddled music, and audiophiles can buy fairly good quality MP3s.
Unfortunately the vendors who did this are not around any more - it seems they failed to negotiate distribution rights and were engaging in copyright infringement (or in the case of MP3.com, the MAFIAA hired goons in Russia to crack down even though it wasn't illegal there). You know, actual "piracy" or "theft." It wasn't a matter of you or I making a mix CD/tape/track for a friend, it was a matter of willfully infringing upon others' distribution rights (either by legal or ethical or moral standards) and profiting from it. Current vendors (Amazon, Sprawl*Mart, Apple, etc) offer what they offer, and that's it. No bitrate choices or anything like that.
It would still be a great model. I have a kickass audio system at home, and yet, there are some pop tunes I'd buy if they weren't $.99, at a lower bitrate. For progressive rock, classical, and the like? I want lossless formats (preferably physical, as in CD or DVD or Blu-ray), but I'd settle for nothing less than 320kbps if mp3 format. For highly-compressed mainstream pop, I'd take 128kbps or even lower bitrates, if I could buy it at an appropriate discounted price. Since it's not offered, I'll look on Rhapsody for streaming instead, or simply not bother at all.
No big loss. After all, its inhabitants concern themselves entirely too much about the movement of green paper, and still think that digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
They're not "exactly the same" when you consider higher resolution or greater color depth that dual link DVI allows thanks to the additional TDMS lines.
Don't forget that in the past SCOTUS has ruled that The united States of America is a Christian nation - which is a serious infringement of the First Amendment.
Sometimes SCOTUS gets things wrong.