...but if this law passes, it may never happen. That sucks. I have never gone through a full body scanner and never will. Sorry Australia, guess I'll be spending my tourism dollars in a country less hostile to privacy rights.
Oh man, that is absolutely classic. Thank you so much for finding that. I think you just made my day.
The funding for this and the rail gun was recently cut by the Senate Armed Services committe.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8157653/senate_armed_services_votes_to_kill.html
Hopefully this sees the light of day... some day... but I don't think it'll be under the current project. Too bad too. The FEL and rail gun are probably the coolest weapons projects out there.
Wikimedia has a bunch of diagrams of the ISS you could probably use.
Doesn't that assume that everyone on board had souls? I'm sure there were at least a few lawyers and/or politicians on board. Or does that number adjust for the soulless?
In case it hasn't been done already, here's the direct link:
Big donate button at the top.
As much as I hate the idea of Obama spending even more of my money, building up our train infrastructure can only have good long-term effects, in my meaningless opinion. I'd love to take a train instead of fly or drive for a long time... it'd be awesome if I could hop on a train to New Orleans instead of driving for 10 hours, or dealing with an hour or two of security checkpoints and another 2 hours in a plane.
Hell, our national infrastructure is in a mostly-crumbling state... bridges collapsing, highways constantly being "repaired" for 2 years, only to have to be repaired again a few years later due to the lowest-bidder shoddy workmanship.
I'd much rather sink 53 billion into infrastructure than into bailouts.
I chose to be groped rather than be scanned this last weekend on a flight to Colorado. Not flying is not an option... I refuse to have my travel curtailed. So my choices are to be technologically raped or physically groped. I choose the groping. Ultimately, I think the groping was worth the expression of shock and indignation on the part of the TSA goon. My rights were violated either way, but at least I made some sort of stand.
Like into China? Or West as in the Western world? The title, at least, is a bit confusing, and we certainly can't expect everyone to read the article.
I think it's great that Japanese game developers are working with Western publishers (western as in American). Anything to provide cross-pollination of ideas and styles is always a good thing. I'm not a big fan of the art style or the grinding that seems to be in vogue for a lot of the Japanese games, but there's plenty there to love, as well.
The truth will set you free. Or possibly part you from even more money, if the truth happens to include copyrighted material.
Good day for overcoming obstacles. Try a steeplechase.