"may have originated in Russia" is not the same as "originated with the Russian government," of course.
My guess, the attacks are an attempt to turn the vast power of military computer systems into one giant spam-bot.
And, also, just think of all the new Nigerian scam letters that they could pull off with military connections... the "your son was wounded in Iraq and is being airlifted to a hospital in Germany, please send $10,000 to pay for a private room for him" scam will be much more powerful if it issues from a military computer (and, for that matter, much more convincing if the scammer knows the actual name, rank, and next-of-kin of the 'son').
TFA says he flew over a deep deep gorge. Why did you go to all the trouble of finding that in wikipedia when you could have RTFA much more quickly?
Most of the flights he makes are not over deep gorges. So clearly this is not part of his normal equipment. Since every other flight he makes would kill him if the equipment fails, and he makes far more flights not over gorges than over gorges, what is the sense for him to add a parachute for only this one fight.
Can't a parachute be strapped on the front or something?
Wikipedia sez:
*(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_pack )
A consequence of the short flight time of any peroxide-based pack is that the entire flight is below the minimum parachute altitude. Accordingly, any loss of control or failure of the pack is most likely fatal.
Eric's a fine stunt specialist with a lot of experience and his jetpack work goes way beyond regular stunt work. But there is a stuntman who rightfully earned and uses the name "Rocketman", and it's not Eric Scott.
No, "Rocket Man" is a song by Elton John.
(also a short story by Ray Bradbury)
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And circles; Since PI seems to ahve changed from exactly 3 to 3.14.
Yeah. That's completely irrational.
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Understanding this article does require, of course, that you understand that the word "evolve" simply means "change over time."
The one that the ID-ists object to is Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection-- that is, the theory of the mechanism of that change in living beings.
(and, of course, the hardline creationist object to the fact that living beings change over time, since God created them all exactly as they are now. Except for the snakes, which were originally created with legs-- that's a special case. I don't think that they have any particular problem with the idea of rock types changing, though.)
"and they can be made invulnerable to... "scenario fulfillment," which causes people to absorb new information more easily if it agrees with their pre-existing ideas."
Bullsh!t.
For a robotic soldier, ignoring information that conflicts with the worldview would most likely be built right into the system.
I know Apple is based in the USA, with notoriously weak data protection laws, but over on this side of the pond distributing personally-identifiable information to a third party without explicit consent is a criminal offence.
As I understand it, it sends a hash, not personally identifiable information.
Doesn't make much sense to me. Why would God tell us something lasted a day if it lasted several years.
Bad translation, maybe?
After all, the text in Hebrew is nominally the original text, but we can't say for sure that it's not a translation of a much earlier original in a different language. God presumably actually spoke his own language-- Goddish?-- and had to translate it for the human listeners anyway.
Except people do still starve to death, only it is the socially ignored old man who sleeps in the park because he is too proud to go to a shelter. This demographic often freezes to death.
Pick one or the other, AC, but not both: if they freeze to death, they can't have starved to death.
Serously, despite wide and inexpensive availability of contraception, individual humans have very little control or foresight when it comes to controlling the number of offspring they have.
To the contrary. As people get wealthier, birth rate drops significantly. This is known as the "demographic transition". Birth rate also decreases directly with education level, and with access to birth control techniques.
(That latter would be, you'd think, duh no surprise, but nevertheless it was a surprise to sociologists).
So if you want to control population, make everybody rich, educated, and have access to birth control.
You should also add that air launch is inherently reusable, that its cost is dramatically lower, that the carrier vehicle does not degrade in operation and could be ready for the next launch immediately, that in the event of post-detach launch failure the carrier provides observer and pursuit capability without extra air deployments, and possibly most important, that most of the dense atmospheric stresses are bypassed so everything can be lighter.
None of these things are proven, and most of them depend on the details of the system chosen.
Air launch does have some significant advantages, though; most notably in the way of range safety: you don't light the rocket until you're in a clear space, well away from ground assets.
However, note that it's launched on a Vega. That's the new small European vehicle. The thing is tiny.
It's a test article, that's all.
Overall, it looks a lot like a revised and updated version of the cancelled Hermes spaceplane. The Hermes wings are deleted, and a parachute substituted for the final descent.
just because you heard it on fox news doesn't mean it's incorrect.
That's true. What it means is that you shouldn't believe it until you hear it confirmed from a reliable source.
I'm still waiting for Fox to apologize for their "we never landed on the moon! It's all a hoax" TV show, and their "Here's a film of how the Army autopsied a dead space alien in Roswell NM" show.
When they apologize for those, I'll think about paying attention to them.
Let me be the first to point out (as an Obama supporter) that John McCain decided to take what may well be his final bow on the national political stage with class, decency, and style. That he would get up there and say "I wish godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president" suggests that he might well have listened to the better angels of his own heart.
Yes, I thought it was a very gracious concession speech.
It reminded me of the old McCain, the one before he abandoned his dignity in order to get the nomination.
Most of the research concerning space-based radiation shielding was done under the umbrella of the now defunct Nasa Institute for Advanced Concepts....
Actually, when I wrote a review article back in 1991-- quite a while before NIAC even was conceived-- it was already by no means anything like a new concept.
As I posted on another thread, that is something I REALLY can't understand on your electoral process. Why the heck voting isn't mandatory?
Because that would be a stupid idea.
You don't want votes from people who don't want to vote.
If people aren't even interested in spending an hour to vote, they sure aren't going to spend any time or effort to get educated on the candidates and issues, and you really don't want their votes to clog up the system. At best, you'd get more votes for the candidate with the best sound-bite slogan, but more likely you'd just get more votes for the candidate with more name recognition.
If I had to make on comment on the presidency and eduction, it would be that education has to be reformed from the bottom up, not from the top down. It's the parents, and the teachers, that are important here-- not the president.
The federal government really isn't the appropriate place to deal with any kind of primary educational policy.
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"may have originated in Russia" is not the same as "originated with the Russian government," of course.
My guess, the attacks are an attempt to turn the vast power of military computer systems into one giant spam-bot.
And, also, just think of all the new Nigerian scam letters that they could pull off with military connections... the "your son was wounded in Iraq and is being airlifted to a hospital in Germany, please send $10,000 to pay for a private room for him" scam will be much more powerful if it issues from a military computer (and, for that matter, much more convincing if the scammer knows the actual name, rank, and next-of-kin of the 'son').
TFA says he flew over a deep deep gorge. Why did you go to all the trouble of finding that in wikipedia when you could have RTFA much more quickly?
Most of the flights he makes are not over deep gorges. So clearly this is not part of his normal equipment. Since every other flight he makes would kill him if the equipment fails, and he makes far more flights not over gorges than over gorges, what is the sense for him to add a parachute for only this one fight.
Can't a parachute be strapped on the front or something?
Wikipedia sez: *(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_pack )
A consequence of the short flight time of any peroxide-based pack is that the entire flight is below the minimum parachute altitude. Accordingly, any loss of control or failure of the pack is most likely fatal.
Eric's a fine stunt specialist with a lot of experience and his jetpack work goes way beyond regular stunt work. But there is a stuntman who rightfully earned and uses the name "Rocketman", and it's not Eric Scott.
No, "Rocket Man" is a song by Elton John.
(also a short story by Ray Bradbury)
And circles; Since PI seems to ahve changed from exactly 3 to 3.14.
Yeah. That's completely irrational.
The one that the ID-ists object to is Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection-- that is, the theory of the mechanism of that change in living beings.
(and, of course, the hardline creationist object to the fact that living beings change over time, since God created them all exactly as they are now. Except for the snakes, which were originally created with legs-- that's a special case. I don't think that they have any particular problem with the idea of rock types changing, though.)
"and they can be made invulnerable to... "scenario fulfillment," which causes people to absorb new information more easily if it agrees with their pre-existing ideas."
Bullsh!t.
For a robotic soldier, ignoring information that conflicts with the worldview would most likely be built right into the system.
I know Apple is based in the USA, with notoriously weak data protection laws, but over on this side of the pond distributing personally-identifiable information to a third party without explicit consent is a criminal offence.
As I understand it, it sends a hash, not personally identifiable information.
Really ? The people who illegaly obtained access to "Joe the plumber"'s records, and went on to check all sorts of things on him
["all sorts of things" means, specifically, his driver's record, and whether or not he owed child support]
are still perfectly gainfully employed by the government
And so are these people. Didn't you even read the summary??? Verizon says the people involved have all been put on leave with pay.
"leave with pay" == "still employed." Sounds like a bonus, not a punishment!
I guess it all depends what side you're on.
Apparently not.
Doesn't make much sense to me. Why would God tell us something lasted a day if it lasted several years.
Bad translation, maybe?
After all, the text in Hebrew is nominally the original text, but we can't say for sure that it's not a translation of a much earlier original in a different language. God presumably actually spoke his own language-- Goddish?-- and had to translate it for the human listeners anyway.
What? Oh-- that was a rhetorical question?
However, replication of results is the essence of science.
I'll be really interested to see if this result can be replicated.
Logic R us.
Except people do still starve to death, only it is the socially ignored old man who sleeps in the park because he is too proud to go to a shelter. This demographic often freezes to death.
Pick one or the other, AC, but not both: if they freeze to death, they can't have starved to death.
Serously, despite wide and inexpensive availability of contraception, individual humans have very little control or foresight when it comes to controlling the number of offspring they have.
To the contrary. As people get wealthier, birth rate drops significantly. This is known as the "demographic transition". Birth rate also decreases directly with education level, and with access to birth control techniques. (That latter would be, you'd think, duh no surprise, but nevertheless it was a surprise to sociologists).
So if you want to control population, make everybody rich, educated, and have access to birth control.
You should also add that air launch is inherently reusable, that its cost is dramatically lower, that the carrier vehicle does not degrade in operation and could be ready for the next launch immediately, that in the event of post-detach launch failure the carrier provides observer and pursuit capability without extra air deployments, and possibly most important, that most of the dense atmospheric stresses are bypassed so everything can be lighter.
None of these things are proven, and most of them depend on the details of the system chosen.
Air launch does have some significant advantages, though; most notably in the way of range safety: you don't light the rocket until you're in a clear space, well away from ground assets.
Cute! It's really a nice looking experiment.
However, note that it's launched on a Vega. That's the new small European vehicle. The thing is tiny.
It's a test article, that's all.
Overall, it looks a lot like a revised and updated version of the cancelled Hermes spaceplane. The Hermes wings are deleted, and a parachute substituted for the final descent.
A wise man once said: "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
In fact, the original quote was that "Usenet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," although the saying is widely misquoted.
(Note how incredibly useful the uncensored usenet has become.)
just because you heard it on fox news doesn't mean it's incorrect.
That's true. What it means is that you shouldn't believe it until you hear it confirmed from a reliable source.
I'm still waiting for Fox to apologize for their "we never landed on the moon! It's all a hoax" TV show, and their "Here's a film of how the Army autopsied a dead space alien in Roswell NM" show.
When they apologize for those, I'll think about paying attention to them.
Let me be the first to point out (as an Obama supporter) that John McCain decided to take what may well be his final bow on the national political stage with class, decency, and style. That he would get up there and say "I wish godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president" suggests that he might well have listened to the better angels of his own heart.
Yes, I thought it was a very gracious concession speech.
It reminded me of the old McCain, the one before he abandoned his dignity in order to get the nomination.
Most of the research concerning space-based radiation shielding was done under the umbrella of the now defunct Nasa Institute for Advanced Concepts. ...
Actually, when I wrote a review article back in 1991-- quite a while before NIAC even was conceived-- it was already by no means anything like a new concept.
Uneducated parents are hard to persuade of the value of education. Indoctrinated parents are even harder.
And the federal government is expected to be able to solve this problem how, exactly?
I'm not sure why this got moderated funny-- it's old, and wasn't funny the first time.
As I posted on another thread, that is something I REALLY can't understand on your electoral process. Why the heck voting isn't mandatory?
Because that would be a stupid idea.
You don't want votes from people who don't want to vote.
If people aren't even interested in spending an hour to vote, they sure aren't going to spend any time or effort to get educated on the candidates and issues, and you really don't want their votes to clog up the system. At best, you'd get more votes for the candidate with the best sound-bite slogan, but more likely you'd just get more votes for the candidate with more name recognition.
Basically mandatory voting is a bad thing.
The federal government really isn't the appropriate place to deal with any kind of primary educational policy.