The reason behind cutting Constellation is nothing more than to free up budget. The entitlements I'm talking about are social security, medicare, medicaid.
"White House will direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects." Doesn't the White House know what NOAA does? Hint: it's what they're going to direct NASA to do.
The best part of what you quoted, though: "and on a new technology research and development program that will one day make human exploration of asteroids and the inner solar system possible"... that's what Constellation IS.
The current president wants to focus on more immediate and practical objectives...
Bull.
Total bull.
This is political grandstanding at its purest and finest.
If you want to focus on immediate and practical problems, cull entitlements. Dicking with NASA only gives the illusion of work and the people that get hurt are some of the few passionate ones left in the bureaucracy.
And didn't Powell support Obama last election? Sounds like a real dyed in the wool Republican.
Plus I highly doubt Thomas would've gotten nominated if he wasn't preceeded by Thurgood Marshall, an LBJ nom. No one's stupid enough to oust the only black seat on the high court.
it's far easier and practical politically to scale back space ambitions.
You can't pay off a $10 debt with a nickle, but that's what they're trying to do. Plus, the only people that like NASA are those elitist geeks. Ask the common man what NASA does and you'll likely get "Weren't them the idjits who mixed up inches and them foreign measurements?"
No one ever got voted out of office for cutting NASA's budget. Cut social security, medicare, defense, and you'll be assassinated before the next election.
at least you have to acknowledge that if you're going to cut some science funding, going to the moon is a pretty decent place to start
I wouldn't argue that. In fact, even in these times I'd argue against any cuts for NASA. Using a nickle to pay off a $10 debt doesn't work. The only time I'd argue cuts for NASA is if, somehow, they managed to scrape up $9.95. The BIG problems, all those entitlement and defense programs, the ones that would make the bulk of that $9.95, are political poison pills to mention even offhandedly.
Yeah, looks like someone else has the same User Agent string (1 of 3309 now), and two others have the same HTTP ACCEPT headers (1 of 2206, 'text/html, text/plain, text/sgml, */*;q=0.01 gzip, compress en'), but I'm still unique out of 6618.
Browser Characteristic : User Agent bits of identifying information : 11.09+ one in x browsers have this value : 2183 value : Lynx/2.8.5rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14FM SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7d-dev
(Course, i'm also two minor releases behind...but still, 1 per 2000 is more common than I would've guessed)
I thought the whole point of certs was to help get a foot in the door.
Except people use their certs as an excuse for their idiocy. I've dealt with these people. "I'm an MCSE! I know what I'm doing!" and they clearly don't.
So if you know your job more power to you. You're one of the few.
Evidence is mostly anecdotal, but I bet you could find enough to justify an opinion that certs are worthless on the job; they're only helpful to get the interview.
Thanks to braindumps people can just memorize the questions so you'll have MCSEs wondering why DHCP isn't working and they forgot to authorize the server.
Only certs that mean anything are the ones that give you a practical situation and other people grading you, like the CCIEs.
Cause users are ignorant. They don't know details. They rely on people who know what they're doing to solve problems.
Case in point: at work I've had people call in and say 'internet is not working.' That, however, could include ISP down, NIC down, DNS broken or IE not opening.
Or a personal example and car example, I had a godawful grinding and squeaking in my front left wheel well. I'm ignorant to what it could be, so I had my mechanic look at it.
So we have to take the complaint and address it as necessary.
Whenever this has happened to me (when the person in charge of the bill forgot to pay it on time), the redirect page includes a phone number which is the only way to continue making progress with the issue.
If you're the sort who clicks on the fake warnings, eventually (with this method) the ISP will give you the real redirect page that fails to include any links.
And if copyright was infinite, would The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have existed? The play Les Mis? Kurosawa's Throne of Blood or Ran? West Side Story?
The only reason works like the priors can even exist is because the public has a vested interest in the characters and the stories. If no one gave a whit about Holmes, this article would never exist.
From the public works are created, to the public they must return.
The devil you don't know is less dangerous than the devil you know? Fact is, the guy says he's got holes from Real from two years ago that haven't been patched. Two years isn't enough time, now you want two years and three months?
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You are my hero for today sir, best thing I've read all day.
I guess I should clarify... Powell's Republicanism is in conflict with what the party line says a Republican should be.
There needs to be more Powells and less teabaggers...
The reason behind cutting Constellation is nothing more than to free up budget. The entitlements I'm talking about are social security, medicare, medicaid.
"White House will direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects." Doesn't the White House know what NOAA does? Hint: it's what they're going to direct NASA to do.
The best part of what you quoted, though: "and on a new technology research and development program that will one day make human exploration of asteroids and the inner solar system possible"... that's what Constellation IS.
The current president wants to focus on more immediate and practical objectives...
Bull.
Total bull.
This is political grandstanding at its purest and finest.
If you want to focus on immediate and practical problems, cull entitlements. Dicking with NASA only gives the illusion of work and the people that get hurt are some of the few passionate ones left in the bureaucracy.
And didn't Powell support Obama last election? Sounds like a real dyed in the wool Republican.
Plus I highly doubt Thomas would've gotten nominated if he wasn't preceeded by Thurgood Marshall, an LBJ nom. No one's stupid enough to oust the only black seat on the high court.
My FF3.6 at home is 1 of 262.
it's far easier and practical politically to scale back space ambitions.
You can't pay off a $10 debt with a nickle, but that's what they're trying to do. Plus, the only people that like NASA are those elitist geeks. Ask the common man what NASA does and you'll likely get "Weren't them the idjits who mixed up inches and them foreign measurements?"
No one ever got voted out of office for cutting NASA's budget.
Cut social security, medicare, defense, and you'll be assassinated before the next election.
Yeah...worst part of the 'From the Earth to the Moon' miniseries...getting hit with that bizzare line every intro.
at least you have to acknowledge that if you're going to cut some science funding, going to the moon is a pretty decent place to start
I wouldn't argue that. In fact, even in these times I'd argue against any cuts for NASA. Using a nickle to pay off a $10 debt doesn't work. The only time I'd argue cuts for NASA is if, somehow, they managed to scrape up $9.95. The BIG problems, all those entitlement and defense programs, the ones that would make the bulk of that $9.95, are political poison pills to mention even offhandedly.
Using NASA's nickel to pay off a $10 debt isn't going to do jack though.
Yeah, looks like someone else has the same User Agent string (1 of 3309 now), and two others have the same HTTP ACCEPT headers (1 of 2206, 'text/html, text/plain, text/sgml, */*;q=0.01 gzip, compress en'), but I'm still unique out of 6618.
Hrm...apparently I missed part of the page when I saw that. It's likely that there were only 2183 browsers cataloged at the time.
Oops. Mea culpa.
I got that too when I used Lynx.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 4,655 tested so far.
Browser Characteristic : User Agent
bits of identifying information : 11.09+
one in x browsers have this value : 2183
value : Lynx/2.8.5rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14FM SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7d-dev
(Course, i'm also two minor releases behind...but still, 1 per 2000 is more common than I would've guessed)
I thought the whole point of certs was to help get a foot in the door.
Except people use their certs as an excuse for their idiocy. I've dealt with these people. "I'm an MCSE! I know what I'm doing!" and they clearly don't.
So if you know your job more power to you. You're one of the few.
Evidence is mostly anecdotal, but I bet you could find enough to justify an opinion that certs are worthless on the job; they're only helpful to get the interview.
Thanks to braindumps people can just memorize the questions so you'll have MCSEs wondering why DHCP isn't working and they forgot to authorize the server.
Only certs that mean anything are the ones that give you a practical situation and other people grading you, like the CCIEs.
Cause users are ignorant. They don't know details. They rely on people who know what they're doing to solve problems.
Case in point: at work I've had people call in and say 'internet is not working.' That, however, could include ISP down, NIC down, DNS broken or IE not opening.
Or a personal example and car example, I had a godawful grinding and squeaking in my front left wheel well. I'm ignorant to what it could be, so I had my mechanic look at it.
So we have to take the complaint and address it as necessary.
Whenever this has happened to me (when the person in charge of the bill forgot to pay it on time), the redirect page includes a phone number which is the only way to continue making progress with the issue.
If you're the sort who clicks on the fake warnings, eventually (with this method) the ISP will give you the real redirect page that fails to include any links.
They don't discover that by listening in to content though. They do it after there have been complaints.
And you don't think ISPs have been getting complaints about spam?
For now... heh
Err...the US gov't already has that data, so I'm not sure what your point is.
The difference is the US gov't can't be arsed to put the data together for us in the first place.
Yeah...which is why this is such a mess. Most of Holmes' original stories ARE public domain. (The last book isn't.)
So we've got a bizzare limbo where the character is still under copyright but (most of) the stories aren't.
And if copyright was infinite, would The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have existed? The play Les Mis? Kurosawa's Throne of Blood or Ran? West Side Story?
The only reason works like the priors can even exist is because the public has a vested interest in the characters and the stories. If no one gave a whit about Holmes, this article would never exist.
From the public works are created, to the public they must return.
... go into them kicking and screaming.
Tron was denied a chance at the Best Effects oscar because AMPAS thought computers equated to cheating.
Now find a movie that gets that award that *doesn't* use CGI.
New tech makes old achievements irrelivant. Get used to it.
The devil you don't know is less dangerous than the devil you know? Fact is, the guy says he's got holes from Real from two years ago that haven't been patched. Two years isn't enough time, now you want two years and three months?