In the case law argument that point, the Supremes stated that the Soverign's right to control borders and national security allows reasonable searches and seizures.
I have a great respect for the Chinese people, and one of the reasons for which is their seeming innate ability to find happiness under the harshest of conditions.
But let's be objective. The Chinese government, when compared to the rights and protections offered by western governments, just plain sucks from left to right in every area you care to name, with the possible exception of logistics and management. After all, even counting 1.5b people is a large challenge.
True national pride comes from having a moral superiority; the kind that the U.S. ceded to corporate interests and seems to have little interest in regaining. Start offering democracy and civil rights in more than mere name and I'll really be impressed.
There are those who say that governing a country the size of China requires a "firm hand". While this might seem a logical premise, it's a rationalization, pure and simple.
Thanks for an informative post. It opens a can of worms I've often wondered about, and that's the Shuttle's external center tank. I've never understood why they don't engineer it so they can remove the internal tanks or find some way to make use of all that volume. If they strung a dozen or so of them together into a circle they could even do centrifigal gravity.
While I agree with your premise, IMO you aren't allowing enough for the major differences which I believe will cause them to make an exception to this policy.
First, this is an excercise in building national pride. Logic goes out the window.
Second, this is space, and the paradigm shifts enough so that there is a different level of strategic thinking. Earthbound rules don't necessarily apply.
If they invaded the US with the claim we had WMDs, and proceeded to directly or indirectly cause the deaths of tens of thousands of US citizens, many of those that condemn the insurgents would be insurgents.
It would be a lie to claim the US military deliberately targets civilians, but civilians are dying nonetheless, for a war that didn't have to happen.
We could have carpeted Nevada with solar panels for what this war has cost us and told the entire middle east to fuck off.
The owner was talking to the fire chief, who was advising the danger of continuing to fight the fires, and by "pull it" he meant discontinue risking more lives for the sake of a building that would've had to be demolished anyway. I love the way conspiracy theorists can take the most innocuous turn of phrase and turn it into a smoking gun.
I get the math, honestly I do, and I agree that it's rare that a green solution can match the economic value of a non-green solution.
But how do you attach a dollar value to the environment? Which solution is morally superior? All things being equal between two cars, one hybrid with a premium price and one not, I don't have a problem paying that premium when I think of my kids.
card is just the generic name for the laser retina inserted bio-electronic sata solid state Wifi connecting organ we get. Later models have HUD 1m x 1m
1mx1m?? You mean you haven't heard of the new infinately variable aperature model HUD displays? THEY ROCK!! As soon as they work out the exploding battery problem I am SO buying a pair.
Forgive me if this sounds offensive or trollish; I'm just reminded of a joke I heard in my non-PC days... "If women didn't have pussies, they'd have been hunted to extinction long ago".
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First, I have no axe to grind; I use all the major browsers... IE, FF, Opera, Sarafi, now Chrome.
I say this because you appear to be the defensive one; otherwise why bother to post? Do you honestly thing M$ is creating Firefox damage control posts? Is that some sort of reflex? Blame the big bad boogyman from Redmond?
As the parent said, it's just a browser. I feel about the same emotional attachment to any of 'em that I do to the fingernails I just clipped.
It's an insightful post. I agree that we can't directly attribute the effect to the cause. There may well be another cause to global warming; it may well be a completely natural occurrence. If that's the case, we're screwed.
But that really isn't the point. In SCUBA diving, we have a saying: "take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but bubbles". Would it be so terrible to apply this same attitude to our planet? Even if GW is an entirely natural phenomenon, why we shit all over our planet instead of treating it like our one and only home will never make sense to me.
There's another saying: A dog don't shit in it's own den. It would appear that we have something to learn from them.
Wonderfully sound logic. If it were to be applied to a man, I'd recommend it to my friends.
Women, however, are creations of emotion, not logic. They WILL interpret your non-response as not WANTING to respond, and then will immediately ask themselves WHY you don't want to respond, and come to the conclusion that you don't want to respond because you actually think they are fat/ugly/etc, and then she will open the gates of hell and shed her wrath upon you.
The correct response to "Does this make me look fat?" is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, "NO", or better yet, be on your toes and hit her with a pre-emptive "Have you lost weight? No? That outfit wears well on you then" when she walks out of the bedroom.
Hey, we should form some sort of organizational structure to pool our resources!
Hmmm... it sounds interesting, but I'm not sure I'm convinced. Maybe we form groups of people, who each decide amongst themselves to send someone to represent their interests in this "organization", and then that "organization" might decide to spent some money to do things that benefit the group?
That sound is the whoosh of missing a joke. If you want to cast aspersions, how about the Republican tendency to exploit each and every opportunity to belittle and diminish those who disagree with them? If Chicken little were a Republican, people would have believed the sky really was falling because she've ridiculed and ruined anyone who dared to look up and see for themselves.
I've never heard a joke being cast as intellectual laziness before, but then, this is/., and anything's possible.
The Hubble was designed for the Shuttle. Without the Shuttle it would have been built differently. It can't be linked to the Shuttle in any organic way.
Mir and the ISS are, marginally, a different matter, but I confess to skepticism about them as well.
Space is for exploring, not for chillaxing in.
So that's your impression of what the ISS crew does all day? Chill? I mean, I'm as eager to get with the planetary exploration as the next geek, but don't you think that learning to say, survive, might be worth a few years of actual surviving there? We haven't learned to grow food or have any semblance of a full closed-loop ecosystem for nearly the time it would take to go anywhere.
Especially when you have journalists and lawyers tied up in the whole mess.
I really, really hope that this time those self proclaimed autocrats will pay for it. Fuck it's more than just time to put down the foot and say enough. Actually, it was enough quite a while ago.
I do too. I really do. I felt the same way after the same shit was pulled in New York. I was sure that those responsible would pay. They should be disgraced, arrested. I was so positive justice would prevail I held my breath, and am now a lovely shade of blue.
I, for one, do NOT welcome our new jack-booted overlords.
I, for one, agree with you... and won't bother to post anon. Behavior less egregious than this started our revolution. I'm not advocating violence, ever, but I can understand those who have less self-control. There are way too many disaffected people, with stages of anger starting at merely mad and going through to spitting apoplectic.
A lottery worked for them, in which everything from generalship to waterworks was chosen at random from the citizenship.
While I think the concept has some merit, I don't know that I'd want a former plumber to suddenly be my commanding general on the eve of war. Wait... I do know. Fuck that!
But to expound on the general idea, I think that electing politicians by lottery has some merit, if you establish basic criteria (perhaps a high school or college graduate, no felonies, etc.). Each "winner" serves exactly one term, and then can no longer serve public office. The lucky ones might win dog catcher... the unlucky ones: President.
...But of course you're just idly speculating on a clever way of working around all those pesky firewalls and system passwords. Of course you don't actually think that the NSA might have teamed up with Cisco or Linksys, or better yet, just bought a house for one or two of their top devs on the sly. Why tell management at all? After all, they are just one more mouth to feed, one more mouth that can speak secrets, and how many managers actually look at the code, much less give it more than the most cursory of reviews?
Of course, while we're just idly speculating, why not also send that same Realtor to see the guys who program the microcode of the various chip sets that go into said routers. Think of all the interesting things you could do, not to mention the redundancy that would come from various combinations of that sort.
As a red-blooded American programmer, I kind of like the idea. I'd sure like a house... if they ever need a web site with backdoors, I'm their man =)
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In the case law argument that point, the Supremes stated that the Soverign's right to control borders and national security allows reasonable searches and seizures.
I'm too lazy to look up the case though.
IMO you need to be less defensive.
I have a great respect for the Chinese people, and one of the reasons for which is their seeming innate ability to find happiness under the harshest of conditions.
But let's be objective. The Chinese government, when compared to the rights and protections offered by western governments, just plain sucks from left to right in every area you care to name, with the possible exception of logistics and management. After all, even counting 1.5b people is a large challenge.
True national pride comes from having a moral superiority; the kind that the U.S. ceded to corporate interests and seems to have little interest in regaining. Start offering democracy and civil rights in more than mere name and I'll really be impressed.
There are those who say that governing a country the size of China requires a "firm hand". While this might seem a logical premise, it's a rationalization, pure and simple.
Thanks for an informative post. It opens a can of worms I've often wondered about, and that's the Shuttle's external center tank. I've never understood why they don't engineer it so they can remove the internal tanks or find some way to make use of all that volume. If they strung a dozen or so of them together into a circle they could even do centrifigal gravity.
While I agree with your premise, IMO you aren't allowing enough for the major differences which I believe will cause them to make an exception to this policy.
First, this is an excercise in building national pride. Logic goes out the window.
Second, this is space, and the paradigm shifts enough so that there is a different level of strategic thinking. Earthbound rules don't necessarily apply.
Um, hello? Tibet? Korea by proxy? Or do you get your news from Chinese State Television?
Not unless you want it to go off the moment it's connected to him
Holy crap! Throw in a coupon more dimensions and we'll make String Theory obsolete and replace it with Browser Dimensionality Matrix Bonding .
If they invaded the US with the claim we had WMDs, and proceeded to directly or indirectly cause the deaths of tens of thousands of US citizens, many of those that condemn the insurgents would be insurgents.
It would be a lie to claim the US military deliberately targets civilians, but civilians are dying nonetheless, for a war that didn't have to happen.
We could have carpeted Nevada with solar panels for what this war has cost us and told the entire middle east to fuck off.
The owner was talking to the fire chief, who was advising the danger of continuing to fight the fires, and by "pull it" he meant discontinue risking more lives for the sake of a building that would've had to be demolished anyway. I love the way conspiracy theorists can take the most innocuous turn of phrase and turn it into a smoking gun.
It never fails to amaze me how effective empathy is at getting to the bottom of right and wrong.
One simple question: What would you be saying if AT&T sent you a bill for $20 grand?
I get the math, honestly I do, and I agree that it's rare that a green solution can match the economic value of a non-green solution.
But how do you attach a dollar value to the environment? Which solution is morally superior? All things being equal between two cars, one hybrid with a premium price and one not, I don't have a problem paying that premium when I think of my kids.
card is just the generic name for the laser retina inserted bio-electronic sata solid state Wifi connecting organ we get. Later models have HUD 1m x 1m
1mx1m?? You mean you haven't heard of the new infinately variable aperature model HUD displays? THEY ROCK!! As soon as they work out the exploding battery problem I am SO buying a pair.
Forgive me if this sounds offensive or trollish; I'm just reminded of a joke I heard in my non-PC days... "If women didn't have pussies, they'd have been hunted to extinction long ago".
First, I have no axe to grind; I use all the major browsers... IE, FF, Opera, Sarafi, now Chrome.
I say this because you appear to be the defensive one; otherwise why bother to post? Do you honestly thing M$ is creating Firefox damage control posts? Is that some sort of reflex? Blame the big bad boogyman from Redmond?
As the parent said, it's just a browser. I feel about the same emotional attachment to any of 'em that I do to the fingernails I just clipped.
It's an insightful post. I agree that we can't directly attribute the effect to the cause. There may well be another cause to global warming; it may well be a completely natural occurrence. If that's the case, we're screwed.
But that really isn't the point. In SCUBA diving, we have a saying: "take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but bubbles". Would it be so terrible to apply this same attitude to our planet? Even if GW is an entirely natural phenomenon, why we shit all over our planet instead of treating it like our one and only home will never make sense to me.
There's another saying: A dog don't shit in it's own den. It would appear that we have something to learn from them.
Wonderfully sound logic. If it were to be applied to a man, I'd recommend it to my friends.
Women, however, are creations of emotion, not logic. They WILL interpret your non-response as not WANTING to respond, and then will immediately ask themselves WHY you don't want to respond, and come to the conclusion that you don't want to respond because you actually think they are fat/ugly/etc, and then she will open the gates of hell and shed her wrath upon you.
The correct response to "Does this make me look fat?" is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, "NO", or better yet, be on your toes and hit her with a pre-emptive "Have you lost weight? No? That outfit wears well on you then" when she walks out of the bedroom.
Hey, we should form some sort of organizational structure to pool our resources!
Hmmm... it sounds interesting, but I'm not sure I'm convinced. Maybe we form groups of people, who each decide amongst themselves to send someone to represent their interests in this "organization", and then that "organization" might decide to spent some money to do things that benefit the group?
Nahhh.... it would never work.
That sound is the whoosh of missing a joke. If you want to cast aspersions, how about the Republican tendency to exploit each and every opportunity to belittle and diminish those who disagree with them? If Chicken little were a Republican, people would have believed the sky really was falling because she've ridiculed and ruined anyone who dared to look up and see for themselves.
I've never heard a joke being cast as intellectual laziness before, but then, this is /., and anything's possible.
This is a mod point of the +1 variety.
The Hubble was designed for the Shuttle. Without the Shuttle it would have been built differently. It can't be linked to the Shuttle in any organic way.
Mir and the ISS are, marginally, a different matter, but I confess to skepticism about them as well.
Space is for exploring, not for chillaxing in.
So that's your impression of what the ISS crew does all day? Chill? I mean, I'm as eager to get with the planetary exploration as the next geek, but don't you think that learning to say, survive, might be worth a few years of actual surviving there? We haven't learned to grow food or have any semblance of a full closed-loop ecosystem for nearly the time it would take to go anywhere.
Especially when you have journalists and lawyers tied up in the whole mess.
I really, really hope that this time those self proclaimed autocrats will pay for it. Fuck it's more than just time to put down the foot and say enough. Actually, it was enough quite a while ago.
I do too. I really do. I felt the same way after the same shit was pulled in New York. I was sure that those responsible would pay. They should be disgraced, arrested. I was so positive justice would prevail I held my breath, and am now a lovely shade of blue.
I, for one, do NOT welcome our new jack-booted overlords.
I, for one, agree with you... and won't bother to post anon. Behavior less egregious than this started our revolution. I'm not advocating violence, ever, but I can understand those who have less self-control. There are way too many disaffected people, with stages of anger starting at merely mad and going through to spitting apoplectic.
A lottery worked for them, in which everything from generalship to waterworks was chosen at random from the citizenship.
While I think the concept has some merit, I don't know that I'd want a former plumber to suddenly be my commanding general on the eve of war. Wait... I do know. Fuck that!
But to expound on the general idea, I think that electing politicians by lottery has some merit, if you establish basic criteria (perhaps a high school or college graduate, no felonies, etc.). Each "winner" serves exactly one term, and then can no longer serve public office. The lucky ones might win dog catcher... the unlucky ones: President.
mmmmmmmmmmmm.... tomatoes =)
...But of course you're just idly speculating on a clever way of working around all those pesky firewalls and system passwords. Of course you don't actually think that the NSA might have teamed up with Cisco or Linksys, or better yet, just bought a house for one or two of their top devs on the sly. Why tell management at all? After all, they are just one more mouth to feed, one more mouth that can speak secrets, and how many managers actually look at the code, much less give it more than the most cursory of reviews?
Of course, while we're just idly speculating, why not also send that same Realtor to see the guys who program the microcode of the various chip sets that go into said routers. Think of all the interesting things you could do, not to mention the redundancy that would come from various combinations of that sort.
As a red-blooded American programmer, I kind of like the idea. I'd sure like a house... if they ever need a web site with backdoors, I'm their man =)