Wow. After that brainless post, I guess Comrade Putin and his KGB are still brainwashing the Russian population.
Our economy is crumbling down? Apparently you already forgot about what's left of the Russian economy, if there ever was one.
Redneck cops tasering people at will? Definitely NOT TRUE. Even if it was true, it's better that the Russian equivalent of being beaten to a bloody pulp and shot, if the mock courts aren't already bad enough. Redneck cops you say? Not true either. And even if it was, being an American redneck cops is still better than a bankrupt, corrupt, drunken Russian cop.
Highest drug use, teen pregnancy, and suicide? Look at the stats, PER CAPITA. What about Russian drug use, teen pregnancy, and suicide, in addition to corruption and alcoholism? I'd rather my neighbor smoke a little pot than sell Kalashnikovs, Semtex, RPGs, old tanks out of his garage. (I truly would prefer NEITHER).
You didn't beat Napoleon: You fled the cities and let the winter do the job for you. Napoleon lost because so many of his men died from exposure to the elements. The only battle he fought was againts the cold in deserted towns.
You didn't beat the Germans alone, either. You had out help. ALOT OF OUR HELP, AND FROM THE BRITS.
Good luck getting Ukraine back on the team, or anyone from Eastern Europe, seeing as how Russia shut down the pipelines and is trying to freeze them into submission.
We don't have a Gulag, but we should. Even regular citizens don't go to Gitmo, even the worst of them. Only suspected terrorists go there, and it is harder than one would think to get sent there.
We don't live in a dictatorship, because we et to throw out presidents we don't like. Our elections are fair (there will ALWAYS be people who are unhappy and complain, so get used to it) compared to every other place in the world. Every election has accusations of fraud, NOT JUST THE U.S. At least we never arrested a chess player on suspicion of high treason.....
Oh, and we do get fair trials, unlike to mock trial/circus/song-and-dance-show that the Russians have.
Funny, I never heard you mention the Russin space shuttle. Ya know, if you guys had just asked for the plans to it, instead of going through a massive effor just to get plans that any gradeschooler could look up at the local library, we would have just given it to you and gladly saved you the trouble.
If you are going to act all "tough guy" in your post, why did you post as Anonymous Coward?
However, I'm going to be fair, and give the Russians the benefit of the doubt that they are not all as stupid and mindless as you are.
Lay off the vodka. You are starting to pickle your brain.
Criminal : "I didn't kill anybody!" SGT. "So, you say you're not the killer eh? We'll see about that. We just got this new test that'll tell us if you murdered him or not." Officer : "Aight Sarget. I got the kit. It says we need parental supervision before handling chemicals." SGT. : "Set timer for five minutes." Officer : "Check." SGT. : "Fill Vial 'A' with 25ml saline solution." Officer : "Check." SGT. : "Warm to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Then add suspect sample to Vial 'A'." Officer : "Check. No wait....Ok. Check." SGT. : "Activate timer. After 2.5 minutes, Add 2ml of liquid from evidence sample in Vial 'B'. Stir with enclosed plastic rod." Officer : "Check." --5 minutes later-- Officer : "Time!" SGT. : "Using enclosed eydropper, place ONE (1) drop onto test strip in marked area. BLUE=MATCH, CLEAR=NO MATCH" Officer : "What if it's pink?" SGT. : "He's pregnant."
I would seriously question the accuracy of these tests, since there a many factors, both environmental and analytical that can affect the outcome of the test. Laboratory tests are meant to be conducted in a LABORATORY, not a Samsonite briefcase. Now, you will be giving every rookie officer who can hold a Q-Tip the same credibility as an educated, trained, and well-experienced forensic technician.
Laboratory setting are ideal for conducting tests and experiments: The are well-equipped, well-engineered, staffed by technicians with years of experience (discounting interns, of course), don't sacrifice accuracy for space, and allow a consistent, managed environment for evidence analysis, storage, and custody control. Treating DNA evidence as if it were a case of bad breath is just wrong. If I were a judge, I would seriously question the integrity of such tests and their results.
This is treating Forensic Science less like science and more like a "Conviction-In-A-Can".
See If This Gets Modded Down.....
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It's Affirmative Action for people who don't know as much!
I think that after the "George W. Bush National Guard Letter", Dan Rather would have learned his lesson in bad journalism and disseminating bad information......And to think Dan Rather thinks that other people are to blame for the damge his reporting caused to his reputation.
Codes for what? Resetting the "Check Engine" light?
1. Pull stick all the way pack. 2. RUDDER RIGHT. 3. Toggle FIRE SELECT to "ON, then "OFF" 4. Release rudder. 5. Roll stick to LEFT for 10 seconds. 6. When "OIL TEMP" indicator light begins to flash, release stick. 7. RUDDER LEFT while simultaneously rolling stick to RIGHT. 8. "OIL TEMP" should then stop flashing, and the "HYD PRESSURE" indicator lamp should start to flash, and the console should beep 15 times. 9. After beeping, toggle "ILS" to ON, while releasing stick and reversing rudder. 10. Beeping will bcome steady tone. Push throttle forward, push stick forward, toggle "FIRE SELECT" to ON. 11. Pull throttle back, toggle "LANDING LIGHTS" to ON. 12. Sounding tone will stop. 13. After tone stops, toggle "LANDING LIGHTS" to OFF, release stick, zero rudder. 14. Three beeps should sound. "HYD PRESSURE" lamp should stop flashing. Toggle "ILS" to OFF. 15. After beeps stop, zero throttle, toggle "FIRE SELECT" to OFF. 16. "CHECK ENGINE" indicator lamp is now reset. 17. See BASE COMMANDER for your cookie.
Why don't the save cut the price by 99% and put a hand crank on the side of it?
As stupid as a crank sounds, its FAR more reasonable than spending $1,300 to lug around a giant panel and converter.
BTW, I wonder just how much time and money was wasted developing such a stupid idea. Don't shareholders notice such grossly wasteful spending like that?
People here in the U.S. need to understand that just because they have certain rights provided by law DOESN'T mean that they should be assholes.
I mean for example, just because I have the right to access public employee information doesn't mean that I have to go around publicly displaying the employee's pay stubs.
Some people might disagree, saying that we should be able to find out what people are being paid (as ALOT of public officials get paid six, sometimes seven, figures just to play golf and ski), which is true, but that doesn't justify the overt publishing of employee's personal information. If you want to find out what public officials are earning, you should just do a simple FIA request yourself. Keep in mind that the claim is to keep an eye on excessive spending of taxpayer dollars. However, what about the wasteful spending of funds by corporations? Corporate executive abuse their funds too, not just governments.
Naysayers should ask themselves if they would publicly post their own information. Think about it: If you are a public official, and someone publishes your personal information, it is ok, while if someone posts your personal information, and you are NOT a public official, it is an invasion of privacy. So what? A job is a job is a job. Period.
My beliefs are this: If you were elected to office through a public election, then your information should be available. If you were hired in the same way that private employees are, then your information should be kept private, with the obvious exceptions for budget analysis and allocation (departmental allocation, travel expenses, office expenses, fees, etc.), but amounts/figures only.
Why should we force the city street sweepers, meter maids, library Reference Desk clerks, or librarians to be publicly scruitinized and have their own personal privacy invaded and compromised in the same way as police chiefs, fire chiefs, city council members, and mayors? (I think that there is less of a chance that a Librarian is corrupt and being overpaid, rather than the mayor or council members.)
Just because you work for the city/state/federal goverment, and not a private business doesn't mean that your personal information should be available for the world to see and become somebody's bitch.
Simple Rule:
Elected Official (Term Jockey) -> Public Information. Hired Employee (Clock Watcher) -> Private Information.
Remember: Just because you have rights doesn't make it right to abuse them by being a dick.
Be polite and respectful of other people's privacy, even if you have the right to abuse and violate it.
What the next Fifty Years in space will bring.....
10) Hyper-inflated budgets: Too little going to useful projects, and too much going to developing pointless, useless, and stupid ideas. 9) Billions wasted inventing pointless crap, like ball-point pens that write upside down in zero gravity and a Space Elevator. 8) NASA opens Astronaut-only orbiting saloon/cyber-cafe called "The Space Bar". Annonces "Doller Shot" special. 7) The worlds first $75,000,000 hammer, and it's companion $20,000 nail. 6) Bungling, over-paid bureaucreats and half-retarded politicians replacing engineers. 5) More Standard/Metric conversion disasters. 4) NASA spends millions designing new "Mile-High Club" Astronaut merit badge. 3) People give up on space exploration and development, as advertisers have clogged it all up with ads and flasing neon signs. 2) Congress spends $10B on bolt, but holds out for a better deal on the nut. 1) Congress gets better deal on the nut, but spent all its cash on the bolt. Asks American Taxpayers if they can Bogart a couple billion. Promises to pay it back.
How much longer until Mom's Freindly Robot Company puts this into a shiny, alcoholic, cigar-smoking, compulsive gambling, egocentric, shoplifting robot.....and where can I get one?
If you don't already know that the information is being stored in binary bytes, and need to change 'terabyte' to 'tebibyte' in order for you to realize and understand that, then you shouldn't be fooling around with hard drives in the first place.
In other countries, they are actually developing USEFUL stuff. Here in the United States, we just pull out Kindergarten science "experiments", give it a technical name, and call it a "...radical new development/innovation/breakthrough".
BTW, I wonder how much money those idiots blew in creating that "new" (their words, not mine) monofin. If wasting money was a skill, we'd be geniuses.
I wonder what the next multi-billion dollar technical "breakthrough" will be..... Lemme guess:
"Innovative Environmentally-Freindly Future Time Distortion Device": A pure, solid titanium paddle with an ultra-elastic string tied to the center of the paddle at one end, and a "super-rubber" ball at the other. Rubber "Comfort Grips" optional. Comes with complimentary set of X-Ray Specs (Not "real" X-Ray, but they give you magic powers that let you fool everyone into thinking they are!)
FaceBook and MySpace already ARE open to everyone. The reson you have to be a member of Facebook to view the profile is because if ANYBODY could post, every idiot would post SPAM, avertisements for peinis pills, and other scams.
People use FaeBook and MySpace because they DON'T want to make their personal site available to everyone, only a select group of people that they choose. MySpace is ALREADY rife with spammers, and Facebook is beginning to head in that direction. People have the freedom to CHOOSE which social networking site they want to use. If I want to use only MySpace, then I will. If I want to use only Facebook, then I will. Why the hell should I let some half-baked "journalist" tell me I should be opening myself up to evey sinbgle social networking site on the Internet so he can get his "Openness Jollies"?
This idiot shouldn't be telling people that they should allow unrestricted access to their personal data to every user on the Net. Why don't we truly open up society and force everybody to leave their doors and cars unlocked? Beter yet, lets require the open-sourceing of PRIVATE THOUGHT!
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Wow. After that brainless post, I guess Comrade Putin and his KGB are still brainwashing the Russian population.
Our economy is crumbling down? Apparently you already forgot about what's left of the Russian economy, if there ever was one.
Redneck cops tasering people at will? Definitely NOT TRUE. Even if it was true, it's better that the Russian equivalent of being beaten to a bloody pulp and shot, if the mock courts aren't already bad enough. Redneck cops you say? Not true either. And even if it was, being an American redneck cops is still better than a bankrupt, corrupt, drunken Russian cop.
Highest drug use, teen pregnancy, and suicide? Look at the stats, PER CAPITA. What about Russian drug use, teen pregnancy, and suicide, in addition to corruption and alcoholism? I'd rather my neighbor smoke a little pot than sell Kalashnikovs, Semtex, RPGs, old tanks out of his garage. (I truly would prefer NEITHER).
You didn't beat Napoleon: You fled the cities and let the winter do the job for you. Napoleon lost because so many of his men died from exposure to the elements. The only battle he fought was againts the cold in deserted towns.
You didn't beat the Germans alone, either. You had out help. ALOT OF OUR HELP, AND FROM THE BRITS.
Good luck getting Ukraine back on the team, or anyone from Eastern Europe, seeing as how Russia shut down the pipelines and is trying to freeze them into submission.
We don't have a Gulag, but we should. Even regular citizens don't go to Gitmo, even the worst of them. Only suspected terrorists go there, and it is harder than one would think to get sent there.
We don't live in a dictatorship, because we et to throw out presidents we don't like. Our elections are fair (there will ALWAYS be people who are unhappy and complain, so get used to it) compared to every other place in the world. Every election has accusations of fraud, NOT JUST THE U.S. At least we never arrested a chess player on suspicion of high treason.....
Oh, and we do get fair trials, unlike to mock trial/circus/song-and-dance-show that the Russians have.
Funny, I never heard you mention the Russin space shuttle. Ya know, if you guys had just asked for the plans to it, instead of going through a massive effor just to get plans that any gradeschooler could look up at the local library, we would have just given it to you and gladly saved you the trouble.
If you are going to act all "tough guy" in your post, why did you post as Anonymous Coward?
However, I'm going to be fair, and give the Russians the benefit of the doubt that they are not all as stupid and mindless as you are.
Lay off the vodka. You are starting to pickle your brain.
I guess that explains the horrible connection speeds at the county cemetary.....
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Criminal : "I didn't kill anybody!"
SGT. "So, you say you're not the killer eh? We'll see about that. We just got this new test that'll tell us if you murdered him or not."
Officer : "Aight Sarget. I got the kit. It says we need parental supervision before handling chemicals."
SGT. : "Set timer for five minutes."
Officer : "Check."
SGT. : "Fill Vial 'A' with 25ml saline solution."
Officer : "Check."
SGT. : "Warm to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Then add suspect sample to Vial 'A'."
Officer : "Check. No wait....Ok. Check."
SGT. : "Activate timer. After 2.5 minutes, Add 2ml of liquid from evidence sample in Vial 'B'. Stir with enclosed plastic rod."
Officer : "Check."
--5 minutes later--
Officer : "Time!"
SGT. : "Using enclosed eydropper, place ONE (1) drop onto test strip in marked area. BLUE=MATCH, CLEAR=NO MATCH"
Officer : "What if it's pink?"
SGT. : "He's pregnant."
I would seriously question the accuracy of these tests, since there a many factors, both environmental and analytical that can affect the outcome of the test. Laboratory tests are meant to be conducted in a LABORATORY, not a Samsonite briefcase. Now, you will be giving every rookie officer who can hold a Q-Tip the same credibility as an educated, trained, and well-experienced forensic technician.
Laboratory setting are ideal for conducting tests and experiments: The are well-equipped, well-engineered, staffed by technicians with years of experience (discounting interns, of course), don't sacrifice accuracy for space, and allow a consistent, managed environment for evidence analysis, storage, and custody control. Treating DNA evidence as if it were a case of bad breath is just wrong. If I were a judge, I would seriously question the integrity of such tests and their results.
This is treating Forensic Science less like science and more like a "Conviction-In-A-Can".
It's Affirmative Action for people who don't know as much!
I think that after the "George W. Bush National Guard Letter", Dan Rather would have learned his lesson in bad journalism and disseminating bad information. .....And to think Dan Rather thinks that other people are to blame for the damge his reporting caused to his reputation.
Dan Rather's only problem is himself.
Codes for what? Resetting the "Check Engine" light?
1. Pull stick all the way pack.
2. RUDDER RIGHT.
3. Toggle FIRE SELECT to "ON, then "OFF"
4. Release rudder.
5. Roll stick to LEFT for 10 seconds.
6. When "OIL TEMP" indicator light begins to flash, release stick.
7. RUDDER LEFT while simultaneously rolling stick to RIGHT.
8. "OIL TEMP" should then stop flashing, and the "HYD PRESSURE" indicator lamp should start to flash, and the console should beep 15 times.
9. After beeping, toggle "ILS" to ON, while releasing stick and reversing rudder.
10. Beeping will bcome steady tone. Push throttle forward, push stick forward, toggle "FIRE SELECT" to ON.
11. Pull throttle back, toggle "LANDING LIGHTS" to ON.
12. Sounding tone will stop.
13. After tone stops, toggle "LANDING LIGHTS" to OFF, release stick, zero rudder.
14. Three beeps should sound. "HYD PRESSURE" lamp should stop flashing. Toggle "ILS" to OFF.
15. After beeps stop, zero throttle, toggle "FIRE SELECT" to OFF.
16. "CHECK ENGINE" indicator lamp is now reset.
17. See BASE COMMANDER for your cookie.
Are you saying that there is something that actually manages Defense contracts?
Oh sure, the DMCA works just fine.
So did the Ford Pinto.
I guess they are using the same approach with IT as they did their nuclear program.
Why don't the save cut the price by 99% and put a hand crank on the side of it?
As stupid as a crank sounds, its FAR more reasonable than spending $1,300 to lug around a giant panel and converter.
BTW, I wonder just how much time and money was wasted developing such a stupid idea. Don't shareholders notice such grossly wasteful spending like that?
GOOD!
I don't want the Common Man to have these.....Considering that the Common Man has enough trouble driving a car to begin with.
People here in the U.S. need to understand that just because they have certain rights provided by law DOESN'T mean that they should be assholes.
I mean for example, just because I have the right to access public employee information doesn't mean that I have to go around publicly displaying the employee's pay stubs.
Some people might disagree, saying that we should be able to find out what people are being paid (as ALOT of public officials get paid six, sometimes seven, figures just to play golf and ski), which is true, but that doesn't justify the overt publishing of employee's personal information. If you want to find out what public officials are earning, you should just do a simple FIA request yourself. Keep in mind that the claim is to keep an eye on excessive spending of taxpayer dollars. However, what about the wasteful spending of funds by corporations? Corporate executive abuse their funds too, not just governments.
Naysayers should ask themselves if they would publicly post their own information. Think about it: If you are a public official, and someone publishes your personal information, it is ok, while if someone posts your personal information, and you are NOT a public official, it is an invasion of privacy. So what? A job is a job is a job. Period.
My beliefs are this: If you were elected to office through a public election, then your information should be available. If you were hired in the same way that private employees are, then your information should be kept private, with the obvious exceptions for budget analysis and allocation (departmental allocation, travel expenses, office expenses, fees, etc.), but amounts/figures only.
Why should we force the city street sweepers, meter maids, library Reference Desk clerks, or librarians to be publicly scruitinized and have their own personal privacy invaded and compromised in the same way as police chiefs, fire chiefs, city council members, and mayors? (I think that there is less of a chance that a Librarian is corrupt and being overpaid, rather than the mayor or council members.)
Just because you work for the city/state/federal goverment, and not a private business doesn't mean that your personal information should be available for the world to see and become somebody's bitch.
Simple Rule:
Elected Official (Term Jockey) -> Public Information.
Hired Employee (Clock Watcher) -> Private Information.
Remember: Just because you have rights doesn't make it right to abuse them by being a dick.
Be polite and respectful of other people's privacy, even if you have the right to abuse and violate it.
.....Why I should give a damn what RMS thinks/says/does?
He should have mailed it to Iraq.
Or put it at the bottom of a 55-gallon drum of catfish bait and rotten meat, and then mailed it to the Police Dept.
What the next Fifty Years in space will bring.....
10) Hyper-inflated budgets: Too little going to useful projects, and too much going to developing pointless, useless, and stupid ideas.
9) Billions wasted inventing pointless crap, like ball-point pens that write upside down in zero gravity and a Space Elevator.
8) NASA opens Astronaut-only orbiting saloon/cyber-cafe called "The Space Bar". Annonces "Doller Shot" special.
7) The worlds first $75,000,000 hammer, and it's companion $20,000 nail.
6) Bungling, over-paid bureaucreats and half-retarded politicians replacing engineers.
5) More Standard/Metric conversion disasters.
4) NASA spends millions designing new "Mile-High Club" Astronaut merit badge.
3) People give up on space exploration and development, as advertisers have clogged it all up with ads and flasing neon signs.
2) Congress spends $10B on bolt, but holds out for a better deal on the nut.
1) Congress gets better deal on the nut, but spent all its cash on the bolt. Asks American Taxpayers if they can Bogart a couple billion. Promises to pay it back.
How much longer until Mom's Freindly Robot Company puts this into a shiny, alcoholic, cigar-smoking, compulsive gambling, egocentric, shoplifting robot.....and where can I get one?
This gives a whole new meaning to "leaking" information.....
If you don't already know that the information is being stored in binary bytes, and need to change 'terabyte' to 'tebibyte' in order for you to realize and understand that, then you shouldn't be fooling around with hard drives in the first place.
Just how dumb is society going to get?!
In other countries, they are actually developing USEFUL stuff. Here in the United States, we just pull out Kindergarten science "experiments", give it a technical name, and call it a "...radical new development/innovation/breakthrough".
BTW, I wonder how much money those idiots blew in creating that "new" (their words, not mine) monofin. If wasting money was a skill, we'd be geniuses.
I wonder what the next multi-billion dollar technical "breakthrough" will be..... Lemme guess:
"Innovative Environmentally-Freindly Future Time Distortion Device": A pure, solid titanium paddle with an ultra-elastic string tied to the center of the paddle at one end, and a "super-rubber" ball at the other. Rubber "Comfort Grips" optional. Comes with complimentary set of X-Ray Specs (Not "real" X-Ray, but they give you magic powers that let you fool everyone into thinking they are!)
If Karl Rove resigns on August 31st, will we have a Special Election to choose an Interim President until the next election in Feb?
Do I smell desperation? .....Nah. It's just booze.
THAT must have been an interesting focus group.....
FaceBook and MySpace already ARE open to everyone. The reson you have to be a member of Facebook to view the profile is because if ANYBODY could post, every idiot would post SPAM, avertisements for peinis pills, and other scams.
People use FaeBook and MySpace because they DON'T want to make their personal site available to everyone, only a select group of people that they choose. MySpace is ALREADY rife with spammers, and Facebook is beginning to head in that direction. People have the freedom to CHOOSE which social networking site they want to use. If I want to use only MySpace, then I will. If I want to use only Facebook, then I will. Why the hell should I let some half-baked "journalist" tell me I should be opening myself up to evey sinbgle social networking site on the Internet so he can get his "Openness Jollies"?
This idiot shouldn't be telling people that they should allow unrestricted access to their personal data to every user on the Net. Why don't we truly open up society and force everybody to leave their doors and cars unlocked? Beter yet, lets require the open-sourceing of PRIVATE THOUGHT!
What goes down, may eventually come up.
They were General Motors' pickups, not Fords, but I'll give partial credit for thinking is was Ford: After all, they DID make the Pinto.....