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Comment Re:Why I no longer fly (Score 1) 45

I'm right there with you. Unless it is an overseas trip, I will not set foot in an airport. If the TSA had been doing their job on 9/11 all this airplane crap would have never happened. If TSA had done their job when a person with no luggage, no passport, paid for ticket with cash, etc., was allowed to board a flight, there would have been no Christmas bomber.

This is all a very sick, sad joke.

Comment Re:Oh God, not the bourbon. (Score 4, Insightful) 766

So true about the corporatists. The corporation can do no wrong. Look at the suicide gene which has been developed in many food crops developed by Monsanto and other seed giants. "...Through natural pollination, their crop may now become partially pollinated by Monsanto's GM corn through no fault of their own. Now they are selling GM food without their knowledge. Furthermore, the crop seed that they may be holding bad to plant for next years crop may be completely sterile, which would have a devastating effect on the following years crop for that small farmer...." ahref=http://thegldc.com/blog/tag/monsanto/rel=url2html-26299http://thegldc.com/blog/tag/monsanto/>
Corporations like Monsanto are suing small farmers all over: "The odds are clearly stacked against the farmer: Monsanto has an annual budget of $10 million dollars and a staff of 75 devoted solely to investigating and prosecuting farmers. The largest recorded judgment made thus far in favor of Monsanto as a result of a farmer lawsuit is $3,052,800.00. Total recorded judgments granted to Monsanto for lawsuits amount to $15,253,602.82. Farmers have paid a mean of $412,259.54 for cases with recorded judgments". ahref=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Goliath_and_David:_Monsanto's_Legal_Battles_against_Farmersrel=url2html-26299http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Goliath_and_David:_Monsanto's_Legal_Battles_against_Farmers>
Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag and GMO has crossed over into non-gmo strains.

Comment Man Trap (Score 1) 361

People can go through door 1 into small enclosed hallway with door 2 at other end. If someone enters through door 1 without proper approval, door 1 automatically locks, door 2 remains locked, klaxons and bright red flashing lights go off, a trap door in the floor opens, and the perpetrator drops into a tank of hungry piranhas and there is no more problem.... Well, maybe no trap door with piranhas, but security violator securely detained until proper security arrives to take the perp into custody, oh and they guard that didn't stop the perp in the first place is immediately fired or arrested for endangering mothers, god, and country. Really though, in 2008, there were 13,000+ deaths directly related to or caused by drunk driving. Why is this not a national priority???

Comment Re:Another reason not to go Verizon! (Score 1) 510

Naw - had a cell phone for years - never have liked Verizon. They are probably one of the most expensive around. I sell Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile and more. We have lots of people coming in dumping Verizon. Around here the main complaint is coverage and dropped calls. Believe it or not, T-Mobile has some of the best coverage in the area.

Comment major fail (Score 1) 626

I was working for a small aerospace startup. We had a project to test molecular beam epitaxy on a project to fly on the shuttle. I built most of their PC,s, ran the network, provided support, etc. Our platform, at the time, was the 486 processor. This new-fangled processor the 586, came out, and the lil PhD that did the orbital dynamics of the project just had to have one. Having been the victim of several arrows in the back, I had a rather adamant aversion to using version 1.0 of anything. I argued, and won, we would not use the 586 yet.

Welllllll, they snuck one past me as a piece of "test" equipment.

The project was placed on the shuttle, and when it came time to fly, it was lifted from the payload bay by the arm, and activated. It could not lock guidance. It would only wobble. Long story short, after several attempts, re-uploading flight software, and a second flight on the shuttle. The project was scrapped.

Several weeks after the second flight, I made sure that the articles about the Intel 586 floating point error were in everyones' in-box. About two years later, the company went under. Doubt it was because of the problem with the 586.... it was more because the company was a threat to the traditional way NASA does business.

Comment Re:How is that sustainable? (Score 1) 453

I have read several reliable sources that when T-Bone sought leases to place his wind turbines, buried in the agreement was a clause that granted him all surface and subsurface water rights and all mineral rights which weren't already under contract. He's now facing a pretty good sized class action suit against him. This is one of the reasons he dumped all of the turbines he was going to put up.

Oh yea, also the lack of any planning for an infrastructure to distribute the power generated by the wind farm.

I think all this talk is just that - talk. We could make the turbines here with $20.00+ labor, or in China with $2.50/day labor. Hell, even Harley Davidson, the stalwart of "Built in 'Merica", is moving it's manufacturing to China.

We ain't gonna win. We're owned by the WTO and don't even know it.

Comment Re:a new analogy for you (Score 1) 356

it is the willful disregard of the risk and dangers to the minor's psychological well-being you are engaging in that is the problem.

The risk of maternal death during childbirth also significantly higher for young women. While some people may think that the availability of contraceptives and abortion make this irrelevant, it does refute the idea that a 13 year old is automatically physically ready for sex just because she has her period and grown some breasts.

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Android Modder Tries To Outmaneuver Google 152

itwbennett writes "Google recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Steve Kondik, the creator of Cyanogen, a popular souped-up version of Android, asking him to stop distributing applications such as Gmail with his modified software. 'We make some of these apps available to users of any Android-powered device via Android Market, and others are pre-installed on some phones through business deals,' wrote Dan Morrill on the Android developer blog. 'Either way, these apps aren't open source, and that's why they aren't included in the Android source code repository.' Now, Kondik thinks he's found a workaround. He plans to release a 'bare bones' version of Cyanogen without the applications, leaving it to modders to make a backup copy of the Google applications that shipped with their phone for later reinstallation before hacking away at the Android software. 'The idea is that you'll be able to Google-ify your CyanogenMod installation with the applications and files that shipped on your device already,' Kondik wrote."

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