So... if I understand correctly, what's actually happening here is that a Utah company claims that NASA cannot meet the legal requirements by using the competition's designs, and the various Utah congressmen are joining in the chorus to support that Utah company.
Company discredits competitors, congressmen support their state's industry. Surprising? Hardly.
The law itself is very fishy. Quoting TFA:
The law states that NASA “shall, to the extent practicable, extend or modify existing vehicle development and associated contracts including contracts for ground testing of solid rocket motors, if necessary, to ensure their availability for development of the Space Launch System.”
To me, the intent there is "don't change it unless reasonable on safety or other grounds". But why the enforcement of staying with current contracts? It stinks of the lobbying parent describes. More from TFA:
Phrases like “to the extent practicable”, “if necessary”, and “as appropriate” give NASA leeway to go in different directions if they determine something as specific as outlined in the legislation’s report language is not practicable, necessary, and/or appropriate.
Or dangerous, as the summary suggests.
I don't like the idea of wirelessly controlled nerves.
Remote code injection - scary.
Merely a marketing issue - "Make your enemies dance like Michael Flatley!"
Apparently, despite it being frowned upon by senior management, iPhone use is rampant among the Redmond rank and file.
Need to practice ducking airborne chairs? There's an app for that!
Apple declined to comment about its support for IndexedDB.
However, if IE, Mozilla, and Chrome support Indexed DB, and it becomes a W3C standard, it's likely Apple won't have much choice, because programmers will begin to use it.
Happily for Apple, Google has detailed its approach in a Chrome design document and has begun checking Indexed DB code into WebKit, the open-source project that underlies both Safari and Chrome. That means Apple will be able to adopt a tested version of the technology relatively quickly.
Browser OS/webapps isn't really their market.
Personally, I reckon they are trying to work out who to sue.
"Never replace hardware with software"
That's what she said
heck the solution is add some grease
That's what I said
i found red lint in my navel. BUT MY SWEATER IS BLUE!?!??!?!! WHY?????
Perhaps you have a binary star system in your navel, and the Doppler effect is inducing velocity variations in the spectral lines in the light between the lint and your eyes.
Is the lint changing colour every 5.4 minutes? Is your head 16,000 light years away from your head?
I think we should send in the University of Warwick to investigate.
It scares the hell out of me,' says Malcolm Day, head of AdultShop.com, adding that if adult websites weren't allowed to have '.com' domains and could only register under the '.xxx' address, then 'many governments (across the world) would try to block them.'"
They better not try that here, we have the Human Rights Act
(I don't care what anyone else says, fapping is a human right..)
I have the weight of the legal world behind me! (most of them are wankers
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