An article in Business Day on Monday about Nintendo's video game consoles which misspelled the surname of the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America as Reggie Fils-Amie, not Fils-Aimee, the correction of which was later given the correct spelling as Reggie Fils-Aime, not Fils-Amie or Fils-Aimee, was actually published on Tuesday.
Correction: Jan 5, 2008
An article in Business Day on Monday, which was later corrected to Tuesday, about Nintendo's video game consoles which misspelled the surname of the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America as Reggie Fils-Amie, not Fils-Aimee, the correction of which was later given the correct spelling as Reggie Fils-Aime, not Fils-Amie or Fils-Aimee, was actually published in Business Weekly.
Correction: Jan 6, 2008
An article in Business Day, which was later corrected to Business Weekly, on Monday, which was later corrected to Tuesday, about Nintendo's video game consoles which misspelled the surname of the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America as Reggie Fils-Amie, not Fils-Aimee, the correction of which was later given the correct spelling as Reggie Fils-Aime, not Fils-Amie or Fils-Aimee, does not actually exist.
I agree that they're not completely done for, but I think the real "blow" is the bad press and the loss of a very well known and important investor. Not only does this highlight yet another failure on OLPC's part, but a lot of the work that Intel has put in to the project will go away with Intel. It's more than just a loss of funds. The backlash for recovering all that work is going to come at cost as well.
And I assume that Negroponte can function perfectly well with AMD
I dunno, he didn't seem to handle Intel too diplomatically. What if AMD tries to enter the low-cost laptop market as well? Is he going to start making demands again?
Bender agreed, noting that the OLPC hasn't locked itself into any one partner's technology. "We're looking as broadly as possible, these solutions don't exist just within one company or one architecture," he said.
He then concluded the interview by downing a beer, lighting a cigar, and exclaiming, "Bite my shiny metal ass!"
This is not really all that shocking. "Most expensive" does not necessarily mean "top of the line". There have been tons of benchmarks showing how "slower" and cheaper CPUs synchronize with the bus more efficiantly than some of the overpriced high-clockers do and perform way better.
These two cards don't even sound like they're all that different. From the sounds of it, the GTS is the same card as the GT with some fancy fans on it which are less efficient, make more noise, and don't improve performance at all... kinda like when people put a big tailpipe and a spoiler on a Civic.
I come from a nerdy IT college that was almost exclusively Linux. However I've worked on setting up labs with a friend of mine at another college down the road, and they insisted on being exclusively Windows. Their argument was that Windows was more "user friendly".
I think the problem is that most schools don't realize that running Linux doesn't mean you have to learn how to write bash scripts, develop C code, and use vi to edit documents (even though regex editing pwns).
I think Linux vendors just need to do a better job of marketing themselves as a user-friendly and low cost professional solution that can be intuitive to an inexperienced user.
These post are getting ridiculous. Too many people are saying "why don't they just disconnect it from the network?" and getting modded as "insightful".
It's NOT that simple! If they are connected to the network, there is probably a very good reason for it, and not just cause some engineer wants to check his email and download pr0n while listening to the generators hum.
These generators more than likely are controlled by self-optimizing systems based on a variety of data that is collected. If they're providing power to various remote sites, they need the internet for gathering data from those sites.
The internet is more than just a public free-for-all, it is the communication medium for many business/mission-critical systems (see LehiNephi's response above). They really just need to have the right security in place to keep it safe.
While I agree with you for the most part, the solution isn't quite that simple. The problem is that the current patent laws don't make it so clear.
I'll use your example of an Award chip that violates a patent (lets say from Pheonix). The issue is that Dell would probably have a patent out for their computer which clearly lists the use of the violating Award BIOS chip. Because of this, the Dell patent is a violation as well. Sure Pheonix can sue Award, but that doesn't mean that Dell's patent is now valid.
I agree that this shouldn't mean law suit for Dell. This should mean that they should have a chance to re-work/recall their patent. However, either way it still ends up costing them a lot of money.
This reminds me of a hilarious story a friend of mine told me about his Everquest days...
Apparently a group of players decided they're gonna have two of their friends get married in the game, complete with ceremony. I mean they were really serious about this! They apparently sent out invitations and got all worked up over it like it was real.
Unfortunately, upon hearing this, my friend built up an army of warriors to pay a visit to this little event. As the bride and groom exchanged vows, they charged in like Lancelot and began their slaughter. A paralyze spell was used on the bride who was then carried off onto a boat. The groom was hacked to bits and the rest of the wedding party was killed off as the bride and her captor sailed off into the sunset.
Now I have to ask myself this: Do those people have a right to be upset that their "wedding" was so rudely interrupted? Or did this serve as a healthy eye-opener to the ludicracy of the situation and a much needed return to reality for all persons involved?
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that while I believe these online relationships may indeed be very strong, there comes a point where you're just going taking this "fantasy" too far. There comes a point where you have to face reality, not escape it. Otherwise we will lose our ability to deal with problems in the real world.
Caller: "When his pet hamster died he yelled, 'Mommy, mommy, where's the reset button?' Lazlo, life does not have a reset button."
Lazlo: "But this radio show does! -click- I love that button..."
Jack Thompson is just another idiot on Murdock's payroll who talks out of the part of his body that most people poop from. If he wants to start blaming video games, then he needs to be blaming the media (i.e. himself) as well.
While I do think that violent games desensitize us to some extent, I don't think they are at all the cause of the problem. Seung Hui Cho was just another angry kid, as were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. They felt cast aside, rejected, and victimized because they didn't fit in with their peers. So took their anger out on the world around them...
Honestly, I'd think being involved in an online gaming community, no matter how violent the game, would've probably helped. Many people (likely the Jim Thompson type) percieve those addicted online games as being anti-social. Yet from what I've seen, most gamers seem have an elaborate network of online friends. This could've given Cho, Harris, and others a sense of community and a place to "fit in" or at the very least, escape from the world around them.
What I do think is a very real and disturbing issue is that they decided to carry out their anger with automatic weapons and how easily they could obtain them. The reasons behind this have very little to do with video games...
You've got to hand it to Microsoft, this is brilliant stuff. It's just as much of a lock-in as the old binary data ever was but they've got ISO voting to make it a new standard. It's amazing what a few free lunches can buy.
Definitely, and what really kills me (and you should add this to the checklist) is that the proposition includes workarounds for potential issues that Microsoft has forseen.
For example, there is some issue with the way the old M$ date format would port over to OOXML. So the proposed "standard" is an altered OOXML date format that makes it work for M$, but doesn't allow for dates before Jan 3, 1900 or something like that...
It's insane. It's not anything close to an "international standard" (the I and the S in ISO), but a standard that is written by and works better for Microsoft. So everyone else just has to deal with it's setbacks as such...
We have been informing our business partners about the process at SIS. What is going on, what the time plan is and that Microsoft thinks it is good if OOXML becomes a standard.
Alright people, you heard The Man, put on your blindfolds and get in line...
In a letter from Microsoft, our business partners were informed that they were "expected" to participate in the SIS meeting and vote yes. As a compensation they would get "market benefits" and extra support in terms of Microsoft resources.
And don't forget to tip your valet... wouldn't want anything to happen to your car, ya know...
This was a mistake and the letter was sent by a single employee on his own initiative without sanctions from Microsoft. He also quickly realised his mistake and tried to recall the letter.
Way to go, Scooter. Now let's pretend we never met.
I can understand the critique about coup-like voting. But I claim the voters knew the issue well and had their own interest in OOXML becoming an ISO standard.
They sure did... "In a letter from Microsoft, our business partners were informed that they were "expected" to participate in the SIS meeting and vote yes. As a compensation they would get "market benefits" and extra support in terms of Microsoft resources."
Time will tell. But almost all customers we have been talking to thinks it would be good if OOXML became an ISO standard.
We're ignoring the small companies with little stake in the matter. like these "IBM" people, and "OpenOffice".
Yeah, I know, nothing new here. Just needed to vent:o).
I don't think "censorship" is the right term here. The site was brought down to protect the end user's information from being given to the MPAA, not to block information that the user can reach. While you might say, "same difference", it probably changes the strategy of the legal recoil that is about to take place. This actually becomes a battle of privacy protection vs. copyright enforcement. This means TorrentSpy could potentially get a lot of support from privacy advocates.
But yes, the way the ruling played out worries me too... especially that this shows how the justice system blatently favors MPAA.
The company I work for is involved with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in England just outside of Abingdon. They also have a synchotron facility and gave us a demonstration on how they accelerate particles within a beam by bending it with magnets to form a giant ring (I think the one in RAL is about 3 miles in circumference). They use very complex sensors to study the "scattering" of particles colliding with various materials to determine various characteristics and properties.
It was a very neat and interesting presentation... Unfortunately, having some of the finer details explained by scientists who live and breath the stuff put it just ever so slightly above my level of understanding (I was lost in the first 30 seconds)... At one point, I could've sworn they just broke out some random Star Trek technobabble just to get a laugh out of me later =P.
I agree with the author, the article is indeed a very interesting read. And yes, while Tevatron is shutting down, US still leads the world in similar facilities, including one not too far from Fermilab at Argonne.
Yeah, we like to test our products on Australians to make sure they're not harmful to Americans =P.
Seriously though, America always is behind in technology because there's a lot more red tape, restrictions, and beurocracy involved in American patents. I'm guessing 85% of it is so American lawyers and businessmen can get richer... the other 15% may indeed be for liability.
But if you really wanna see just how behind on the times we are, check out the cell phone technology in Japan or Singapore. I guess they don't have the Verizonopoly over there... They've had a wider range of way cooler phones for as long as I can remember. You usually don't see any of their newest features hit the American markets until at least 6 months later...
I guess that's also the case with computer processors.
Here's how some of the specs and prices (Intels from Pricewatch) compare:
E6750:
2.66Ghz
1.30V
4MB L2
1.33Ghz FSB
~$225
E6850:
3.00Ghz
1.35V
4MB L2
1.33Ghz FSB
~$300
6400+:
3.20Ghz
1.35V
2MB L2
2.00Ghz HT
~$240
From what I've read, the E6750 actually outperforms the E6850 since it ran cooler and with less power. So it doesn't look like AMD has a whole lot to offer given the price. Not to mention it doesn't come with a heatsink and fan, something you'd probably have to dish out another $20-50 for.
First of all, my issue with spam is not that the "costs to society are greater than the benefits". My issue is that it is being sent to me without any consent in my part. The only reason I get half of it is because someone's spamming script realized that exe121@ and exe123@ returned the mail as 'undelivered', but mine worked just fine. Sure I can open the email with it's viral attachments and click the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom, but I never wanted it in the first place.
As far as the issue of spamming proxy sites... I think the author is misinterpreting "benefit to society". I don't think this is a factor that should be interpreted by the spammer. Just because some pothead thinks spamming me with ads for internet homegrown is benefitting me doesn't mean that I agree. And just because our "uncensored" (/restrain_political_opinions) country thinks that censorship is bad and yadda yadda yadda doesn't mean we can justify it as a benefit to Chinese society. China's governement and a majority of their citizens apparently think censoring information is a benefit to their society. Just because we disagree with them doesn't necessarily give us the justification to circumvent their law just to make a few bucks on an ad-ridden proxy site.
I know this is making me sound like a blind sheep within the herd, so don't get me wrong, I totally disagree with censorship as well. Yet the point I'm trying to make is that I've argued with enough republicans to realize that just because I think something is good/bad doesn't mean everyone else will.
However, if you are actually trying to start some kind of eye-opening social revolution with China, I wish you the best of luck. I just wish you wouldn't fill up my inbox in the process.
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Capitalism: when it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called facism.
NASA haven't panicked and issued all kinds of worrying proclamations when it wasn't worried in the past: why start now?
Because they weren't all that worried about Columbia either. Seven astronauts died because of that.
Don't get me wrong, I see what you're saying. The damage may indeed be comparable to previous missions that went off without a hitch. And it is true, all of the lab tests show no cause for concern. But as another poster mentioned below, all the lab tests in the world can't make up for a real world scenario. The real world always has another trick up it's sleeve.
And you also need to realize that NASA needs to be extra cautious. A repeat of the Columbia disaster would raise some serious concerns about their credibility and may be detrimental to the future of space exploration in general.
-- Capitalism: When it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called facism.
Their worry was not that Endeavor might be destroyed and its seven astronauts killed in a replay of the Columbia disaster -- the gouge is too small to be catastrophic. They were concerned that the heat of re-entry could weaken the shuttle's aluminum frame at the damaged spot and result in lengthy post-flight repairs
And I'm sure thats the only thing the astronauts were worried about as well... the precious shuttle.
It reminds me of a while back when a friend of mine called his mother to tell her he had a few drinks and was gonna stay the night at a friend's house. Her response was, "Yeah, I wouldn't want anything to happen to the car."
Regardless, I admire their fortitude given the history of the Columbia and all that has happened. I hope everything goes well and they get home safely.
-- Captialism: When it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called facism.
I found this article to be nothing more than a poorly written rant of an opinion piece. Especially ridiculous were the Karl Rove tactics in which the author tried to "clarify" quotes by adding some text in parenthesis to reinforce his point. Example:
I personally consider anything a "derived work" that needs special hooks in the kernel to function with Linux (i.e., it is not acceptable to make a small piece of GPL-code as a hook for the larger piece), as that obviously implies that the bigger module needs "help" from the main kernel. ~Linus Torvalds 19 Oct 2001
Well let's ignore the "i.e." that I don't think Torvalds actually spelled out and read what this really is saying...
I personally consider anything a "derived work" that needs special hooks in the kernel to function with Linux, as that obviously implies that the bigger module needs "help" from the main kernel.
Well that's nice and all, but we need to keep in mind is that the kernel in question, Linux 2.4, was released in 2002. That means it fall under Version 2 of the GPL which, as far as I can tell, says that software is "derived" only if it includes GPL source code or it is linked with a GPL library. As far as I can tell, there is nothing in there that matches LT's "opinion" stated above.
I think Christopher Hellwig put it best:
I unfortunately don't have enough copyrights on that particular version to sue them.
Exactly. Linux would've pushed legal action by now if they thought it would get them anywhere. The defense rests, end of story. So what is the point of this article? To whine about how unfair this is? Ok, maybe. But such is life.
-- Capitalism: When it uses the carrot, it's called Democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called fascism.
Slashdot Mirror
The same day Roland Piquepaille became a valid source...
You are getting your news feeds through Slashdot, ya know =P
you still need to crank the volume all the way up to get your iPod FM transmitter to work...
Little late in the game, don't ya think?
Correction: Jan 4, 2008
An article in Business Day on Monday about Nintendo's video game consoles which misspelled the surname of the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America as Reggie Fils-Amie, not Fils-Aimee, the correction of which was later given the correct spelling as Reggie Fils-Aime, not Fils-Amie or Fils-Aimee, was actually published on Tuesday.
Correction: Jan 5, 2008
An article in Business Day on Monday, which was later corrected to Tuesday, about Nintendo's video game consoles which misspelled the surname of the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America as Reggie Fils-Amie, not Fils-Aimee, the correction of which was later given the correct spelling as Reggie Fils-Aime, not Fils-Amie or Fils-Aimee, was actually published in Business Weekly.
Correction: Jan 6, 2008
An article in Business Day, which was later corrected to Business Weekly, on Monday, which was later corrected to Tuesday, about Nintendo's video game consoles which misspelled the surname of the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America as Reggie Fils-Amie, not Fils-Aimee, the correction of which was later given the correct spelling as Reggie Fils-Aime, not Fils-Amie or Fils-Aimee, does not actually exist.
"Bite my not-so-shiny fiberglass-on-cardboard-and-quilt-insulation-over-a-wood-frame ass."
Kudos on a truly awesome job! Looks great =)
This is not really all that shocking. "Most expensive" does not necessarily mean "top of the line". There have been tons of benchmarks showing how "slower" and cheaper CPUs synchronize with the bus more efficiantly than some of the overpriced high-clockers do and perform way better. These two cards don't even sound like they're all that different. From the sounds of it, the GTS is the same card as the GT with some fancy fans on it which are less efficient, make more noise, and don't improve performance at all... kinda like when people put a big tailpipe and a spoiler on a Civic.
I come from a nerdy IT college that was almost exclusively Linux. However I've worked on setting up labs with a friend of mine at another college down the road, and they insisted on being exclusively Windows. Their argument was that Windows was more "user friendly".
I think the problem is that most schools don't realize that running Linux doesn't mean you have to learn how to write bash scripts, develop C code, and use vi to edit documents (even though regex editing pwns).
I think Linux vendors just need to do a better job of marketing themselves as a user-friendly and low cost professional solution that can be intuitive to an inexperienced user.
These post are getting ridiculous. Too many people are saying "why don't they just disconnect it from the network?" and getting modded as "insightful".
It's NOT that simple! If they are connected to the network, there is probably a very good reason for it, and not just cause some engineer wants to check his email and download pr0n while listening to the generators hum.
These generators more than likely are controlled by self-optimizing systems based on a variety of data that is collected. If they're providing power to various remote sites, they need the internet for gathering data from those sites.
The internet is more than just a public free-for-all, it is the communication medium for many business/mission-critical systems (see LehiNephi's response above). They really just need to have the right security in place to keep it safe.
While I agree with you for the most part, the solution isn't quite that simple. The problem is that the current patent laws don't make it so clear. I'll use your example of an Award chip that violates a patent (lets say from Pheonix). The issue is that Dell would probably have a patent out for their computer which clearly lists the use of the violating Award BIOS chip. Because of this, the Dell patent is a violation as well. Sure Pheonix can sue Award, but that doesn't mean that Dell's patent is now valid. I agree that this shouldn't mean law suit for Dell. This should mean that they should have a chance to re-work/recall their patent. However, either way it still ends up costing them a lot of money.
This reminds me of a hilarious story a friend of mine told me about his Everquest days...
Apparently a group of players decided they're gonna have two of their friends get married in the game, complete with ceremony. I mean they were really serious about this! They apparently sent out invitations and got all worked up over it like it was real.
Unfortunately, upon hearing this, my friend built up an army of warriors to pay a visit to this little event. As the bride and groom exchanged vows, they charged in like Lancelot and began their slaughter. A paralyze spell was used on the bride who was then carried off onto a boat. The groom was hacked to bits and the rest of the wedding party was killed off as the bride and her captor sailed off into the sunset.
Now I have to ask myself this: Do those people have a right to be upset that their "wedding" was so rudely interrupted? Or did this serve as a healthy eye-opener to the ludicracy of the situation and a much needed return to reality for all persons involved?
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that while I believe these online relationships may indeed be very strong, there comes a point where you're just going taking this "fantasy" too far. There comes a point where you have to face reality, not escape it. Otherwise we will lose our ability to deal with problems in the real world.
Caller: "When his pet hamster died he yelled, 'Mommy, mommy, where's the reset button?' Lazlo, life does not have a reset button." Lazlo: "But this radio show does! -click- I love that button..."
Maybe if he had played violent videogames, maybe he wouldn't have shot students. Perhaps he would've rather gone after terrorists, demons, or evil mind-controlling aliens.
Jack Thompson is just another idiot on Murdock's payroll who talks out of the part of his body that most people poop from. If he wants to start blaming video games, then he needs to be blaming the media (i.e. himself) as well.
While I do think that violent games desensitize us to some extent, I don't think they are at all the cause of the problem. Seung Hui Cho was just another angry kid, as were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. They felt cast aside, rejected, and victimized because they didn't fit in with their peers. So took their anger out on the world around them...
Honestly, I'd think being involved in an online gaming community, no matter how violent the game, would've probably helped. Many people (likely the Jim Thompson type) percieve those addicted online games as being anti-social. Yet from what I've seen, most gamers seem have an elaborate network of online friends. This could've given Cho, Harris, and others a sense of community and a place to "fit in" or at the very least, escape from the world around them.
What I do think is a very real and disturbing issue is that they decided to carry out their anger with automatic weapons and how easily they could obtain them. The reasons behind this have very little to do with video games...
For example, there is some issue with the way the old M$ date format would port over to OOXML. So the proposed "standard" is an altered OOXML date format that makes it work for M$, but doesn't allow for dates before Jan 3, 1900 or something like that...
It's insane. It's not anything close to an "international standard" (the I and the S in ISO), but a standard that is written by and works better for Microsoft. So everyone else just has to deal with it's setbacks as such...
Yeah, I know, nothing new here. Just needed to vent
I don't think "censorship" is the right term here. The site was brought down to protect the end user's information from being given to the MPAA, not to block information that the user can reach. While you might say, "same difference", it probably changes the strategy of the legal recoil that is about to take place. This actually becomes a battle of privacy protection vs. copyright enforcement. This means TorrentSpy could potentially get a lot of support from privacy advocates.
But yes, the way the ruling played out worries me too... especially that this shows how the justice system blatently favors MPAA.
The company I work for is involved with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in England just outside of Abingdon. They also have a synchotron facility and gave us a demonstration on how they accelerate particles within a beam by bending it with magnets to form a giant ring (I think the one in RAL is about 3 miles in circumference). They use very complex sensors to study the "scattering" of particles colliding with various materials to determine various characteristics and properties.
It was a very neat and interesting presentation... Unfortunately, having some of the finer details explained by scientists who live and breath the stuff put it just ever so slightly above my level of understanding (I was lost in the first 30 seconds)... At one point, I could've sworn they just broke out some random Star Trek technobabble just to get a laugh out of me later =P.
I agree with the author, the article is indeed a very interesting read. And yes, while Tevatron is shutting down, US still leads the world in similar facilities, including one not too far from Fermilab at Argonne.
Yeah, we like to test our products on Australians to make sure they're not harmful to Americans =P.
Seriously though, America always is behind in technology because there's a lot more red tape, restrictions, and beurocracy involved in American patents. I'm guessing 85% of it is so American lawyers and businessmen can get richer... the other 15% may indeed be for liability.
But if you really wanna see just how behind on the times we are, check out the cell phone technology in Japan or Singapore. I guess they don't have the Verizonopoly over there... They've had a wider range of way cooler phones for as long as I can remember. You usually don't see any of their newest features hit the American markets until at least 6 months later...
I guess that's also the case with computer processors.
Here's how some of the specs and prices (Intels from Pricewatch) compare:
E6750:
2.66Ghz
1.30V 4MB L2
1.33Ghz FSB
~$225
E6850:
3.00Ghz
1.35V 4MB L2
1.33Ghz FSB
~$300
6400+:
3.20Ghz
1.35V 2MB L2
2.00Ghz HT
~$240
From what I've read, the E6750 actually outperforms the E6850 since it ran cooler and with less power. So it doesn't look like AMD has a whole lot to offer given the price. Not to mention it doesn't come with a heatsink and fan, something you'd probably have to dish out another $20-50 for.
First of all, my issue with spam is not that the "costs to society are greater than the benefits". My issue is that it is being sent to me without any consent in my part. The only reason I get half of it is because someone's spamming script realized that exe121@ and exe123@ returned the mail as 'undelivered', but mine worked just fine. Sure I can open the email with it's viral attachments and click the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom, but I never wanted it in the first place.
As far as the issue of spamming proxy sites... I think the author is misinterpreting "benefit to society". I don't think this is a factor that should be interpreted by the spammer. Just because some pothead thinks spamming me with ads for internet homegrown is benefitting me doesn't mean that I agree. And just because our "uncensored" (/restrain_political_opinions) country thinks that censorship is bad and yadda yadda yadda doesn't mean we can justify it as a benefit to Chinese society. China's governement and a majority of their citizens apparently think censoring information is a benefit to their society. Just because we disagree with them doesn't necessarily give us the justification to circumvent their law just to make a few bucks on an ad-ridden proxy site.
I know this is making me sound like a blind sheep within the herd, so don't get me wrong, I totally disagree with censorship as well. Yet the point I'm trying to make is that I've argued with enough republicans to realize that just because I think something is good/bad doesn't mean everyone else will.
However, if you are actually trying to start some kind of eye-opening social revolution with China, I wish you the best of luck. I just wish you wouldn't fill up my inbox in the process.
--
Capitalism: when it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called facism.
Proof that the internet really is just a bunch of shit being pushed through series of tubes...
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Captialism: When it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called facism.
Don't get me wrong, I see what you're saying. The damage may indeed be comparable to previous missions that went off without a hitch. And it is true, all of the lab tests show no cause for concern. But as another poster mentioned below, all the lab tests in the world can't make up for a real world scenario. The real world always has another trick up it's sleeve.
And you also need to realize that NASA needs to be extra cautious. A repeat of the Columbia disaster would raise some serious concerns about their credibility and may be detrimental to the future of space exploration in general.
--
Capitalism: When it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called facism.
It reminds me of a while back when a friend of mine called his mother to tell her he had a few drinks and was gonna stay the night at a friend's house. Her response was, "Yeah, I wouldn't want anything to happen to the car."
Regardless, I admire their fortitude given the history of the Columbia and all that has happened. I hope everything goes well and they get home safely.
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Captialism: When it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called facism.
I bet those are pictures of Roland's bathroom floor.
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Capitalism: When it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, its called facism.
I think Christopher Hellwig put it best: Exactly. Linux would've pushed legal action by now if they thought it would get them anywhere. The defense rests, end of story. So what is the point of this article? To whine about how unfair this is? Ok, maybe. But such is life.
--
Capitalism: When it uses the carrot, it's called Democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called fascism.