The fact that they had the nuclear weapons does not mean they could have used them as nuclear weapons. The weapons have to receive special encrypted signals from NORAD before they will arm the nuclear bombs. Nobody on the plane could do anything to arm them. And it takes more than one trained person working simultaneously on the ground to arm a bomb. Nobody can do it alone.
Even if the missile is accidentally fired, the nuclear bomb can't go off, unless the complex arming sequence is completed. Instead, if any explosion at all happens, the high explosives in the bomb go off in the wrong order, without detonating a nuclear explosion. It just scatters the uranium or plutonium.
This has actually happened in several cases where nuclear bombs were involved in airplane crashes. The most well known are the Spanish coast and Greenland crashes. Nobody was worried about a nuclear detonation, except except panicked layman newsmen.
Soviet devices are a different story. They had no such safeguards.
It has been said that the US president is basically a dictator with a four year term.
That is about as far from the truth as can be.
Congress has the real power, not the President. The only real power the President has is to STOP something from being law, and as the head of the military.
Don't believe all the garbage you read on the Internet. There are hate groups out there spreading lies. They want some special right or entitlement that President Bush vetoed (probably because it would bankrupt the country), so they call him a dictator.
One of the wackiest lies these sites spread was the one that said that, if they impeached President Bush, John Kerry would become President. WRONG! Vice President Cheney would become President if President Bush left office. Kerry is not even on the succession list. Even if George Bush had died or been disqualified after the election, but before becoming President, Cheney would have become President, not Kerry.
I do wish that they hadn't changed one thing about the elections. Under the original rule in the Constitution, the runner-up for President became Vice President. But the parties cheated by running two candidates. They should have banned that instead.
The last thing I want in a government is efficiency.
What we need are limitations on what government is allowed to do:
Government must be absolutely be prohibited from doing any of the following:
- Spending ANY tax money on sports, the arts, entertainment, recreation, parks, land banks, monuments, museums, memorials, venues, advertising, businesses, and anything else which is nice, but not essential..
- Doing anything which violates any religion.
- Forcing people to disobey their religions.
- Taking more than 10 percent of anyone's income in taxation.
- Requiring identification or keeping track of honest people.
- Doing anything that competes with business.
- Placing power in the hands of nonelected people, other than trained professionals needed to implement traffic and safety laws.
- Prohibiting any activity that only annoys someone, but is not a real hazard.
- Trying to control wages or prices.
- Conscription.
- Eminent domain for any purpose other than transportation or water supply impoundment.
- Owning schools or utilities.
- Creating monopolies by requiring franchises to operate certain kinds of businesses in a given jurisdiction.
- Limiting the number of businesses doing business in a given industry in a given area.
- Allowing incumbents to run for office. They should have to work at real jobs before being allowed to run for office again.
The Verizon ads are gone, and most of my control is back.
doubleclick.com has had a long reputation of oversubscribing its service, going back to at least 1999. I know of at least a dozen websites that kicked them off their pages in the span of 2000 to 2002, because they were chronically causing load delays and load failures.
Google does NOT take months to find your site. Mine show up within 24 hours.
How it gets the top 10 location is that more people looked at his page. That magic is that he put the stuff people are looking for in his page, plus maybe a meta tag right after the title tags: <meta name="keywords" content="sony, vio, 350, laptop" />
For some reason, the ads are not moving in Control Panel, or any other page I open while the Task Manager is open. But if the page was already open when I opened the task manager, the CPU usage goes to 100 percent , the no-scroll problem appears, and the cursor disappears, but only when the Verizon ads are on and are moving.
Also, if I drag the task manager, it leaves a trail that takes several seconds to disappear. This does not happen if the ad is not moving.
No other windows are open except the task manager and the browser.
It is now happening at other sites, and is caused by certain ads. The Verizon ad is causing it continuously, and is making the text box cursor disappear.
It also won't let me start the task manager without several repetitions of CTRL-ALT-DEL.
The task manager says the ad is using 100 percent CPU time.
The posting box text cursor is disappearing whenever the Verizon ads are on the screen. I also get the no-scroll error at the same time. These never go away.
I have now tracked the no-scroll error to the ads.
The delayed post error still occurs occasionally. Usually it is late at night. Often it is accompanied with a message that the ad server is not responding.
I have now discovered other websites which do the same thing. The ads repeatedly but momentarily take away cursor control until the animation of the ad finishes downloading. Some take away control in this fashion until the animation stops playing.
So it's the ads, not DaniWeb.
The BBS systems I use which don't exhibit this trouble don't allow moving ads (just .jpg images).
The reloading happened only 4 times in that one burst. I now believe that it was either trouble at my ISP, or trouble due to the DoS attacks.
The 9th and 10th amendments, properly interpreted, make anything government does that is not specifically provided for in the Constitution unconstitutional. Logicians would say they are the "Nothing else allowed" amendments.
The Constitution does not give anyone other than Congress the power to make any laws. Administrative law violates this.
There is nothing wrong with having the IRS to collect taxes. But the IRS should not have the power to make its own rules to force upon taxpayers.
It was able to do half of the job (it had either a speed limit or a number of channels limit). But it again required bit-level programming. And the user interface required DOS to write the programs (they have since fixed this).
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
We need to look at this in the contest of the language that was actually in use in the late 18th century, and at the actual conditions.
- The militia was also the police. The concept of a civilian police force had not yet materialized.
- They had just fought a war to END the use of the militia to repress the colonists.
- The purpose of the Second Amendment was to provide a check and balance, to keep the military (and police) from having too much power.
So, if the original intent is to be preserved, anyone should be able to buy, have, and own any weapon the military has.
The government also abuses the 9th and 10 th amendments, which are intended to prevent government from doing anything unless the Constitution specifically allows it.
The Constitution does not specifically allow administrative law. So the EPA, IRS, FCC, ICC, FTC, and many other administrations are all unconstitutional.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
We need to read this as it was actually intended. We are not allowed to use any language which did not yet exist at the time the Bill of Rights was written.
An "establishment of religion," in the language of the late 18th century, was a church or a religious sect, just as a business was an "establishment of purveyance".
The establishment clause says that Congress shall make no law about a church (or religious sect).
It says nothing about a separation of church and state. That is in the Communist Manifesto.
Bill Gates was riding a small private airplane in a remote region, along with some economists and a wilderness hiker. The hiker marveled that the world's smartest man was riding in the same plane.
All of a sudden, the pilot and copilot ran from the cockpit, grabbed two parachutes from the rack, and jumped out of the plane. Inspection showed the left engine was on fire, and that there were five people left on the plane, and four remaining parachutes.
They were discussing how to decide who got the parachutes, when Bill gates said, "The world needs my genius. He grabbed a pack and jumped out of the plane.
The hiker said, "I'm the least valuable, so the rest of you can go."
One of the economists then said, "That's not necessary. We have enough parachutes now. The world's smartest man just jumped out of the plane wearing your knapsack."
No. But I could read it at any time (unlike Windows). So I read it when the event to start the timing occurred, calculated the proper time to end the interval, and waited for it, and other events, by polling.
And if you needed an accurate timer in Windows you chose not to use one?
- I couldn't start the timer within the 500 microsecond deadline after the moment the event occurred, because I couldn't detect the event until Windows let me do the math (note that detecting the onset event required a calculus first-derivative calculation on the fly from values which were just read).
- If Windows was using its own timeslice when the interval ended, the stimulus selection was delayed until the Windows timeslice ended.
- All of the systems proffered for this kind of experiment used a "time stamp" to record the exact moment of the event from the system clock, and used software to sort it out after the trial. But I can't put a timestamp on the "hardware" of the organism under study, somehow telling it that the stimulus should have really occurred 10 milliseconds earlier.
- The first-derivative calculation was not the kind of event which triggers timer events by itself. The program had to have control at the moment it occurred.
[edit]If hard real time is a constraint, have you considered devices which support this?[/QUOTE]
I did some more investigation, and found out that the only book I have on Java (as opposed to JavaScript) was worth what I paid for it: It was given to me as "surplus materials" at the library fundraiser auction two years ago. Now I know why they got rid of it.
Now that I look at it closer, it seems to be a book on programming tricks using the quirks of one particular interpreter. It's in "cookbook" form. I thought it was a reference book, since the library's reference department had it, and stamped REFERENCE all over it. (Maybe I should have read the preface.)
I am writing an appropriate word across the front cover:
"Void"
It reminds me of an economics book I used to have, which purported to be an econ textbook, but which actually distorted economic theory to advocate socialism.
I think I know what's happening. The ads run in IFRAMEs so that they don't slow down the pages as much. It's very possible the IFRAME windows have your browser's focus instead of the actual webpage.
Try clicking on a blank area of the website to give it focus before scrolling.
I just tried this. It doesn't work - I still can't scroll until the ad stops constructing itself.
I get control once the download bar is gone with the IT Professional Lounge ad. But right now, I am not seeing any other ads. I'll have to try again next thursday (the next time I have some time).
I have one. It changes the font size. But changing it to scroll doesn't solve this.
This is an error in the DaniWeb interface somewhere. I never see it on any other website except one, and it has the same ads. Using the usual scroll controls does not produce scrolling.
I can't scroll at all, except by pushing the scroll arrow button one scroll unit at a time, click click click, during the period an ad has moving content. As soon as the ad stops moving (if it does), or is off the screen, then I have control.
And when the Hostgator ad is on, I never recover full control until I can scroll it completely off the screen.
It seems to be working now. I was getting a different editor I hadn't seen before at times. It had dropdown menus for text color, smileys, and attachments. But instead of visible smileys in the dropdown, I saw the codes for the smileys. And the editor selector was missing
As you can see from the earlier post, I switched the scripting back on.
I still see the code for the smileys in the text, but not in the dripdown menu. And the spellchecker says the smiley is spelled wrong.
I had to start over again on this post, because I got "Database error" when I tried to go advanced to get the stupid smiley. When I hit back from the error message, the text I wrote was gone.
Messy code? Maybe they used the Cuisinart I mentioned in another thread. :icon_mrgreen:
I just got a delayed post. It took two minutes to post this message in the thread "Recent Changes":
It seems to be working now. I was getting a different editor I hadn't seen before at times. It had dropdown menus for text color, smileys, and attachments. And the editor selector was missing
And while I was trying to post the above portion of this post you are reading now, I needed to go back to the menu to find out the name of the thread, so I tried to use the clipboard to hold the text I had already written (I knew it would disappear when I went back). But....
The no-scroll error appeared when I tried to drag to select my entire text in the quick reply window. I had to go advanced to put all of it in the clipboard.
It seems to be working now. I was getting a different editor I hadn't seen before at times. It had dropdown menus for text color, smileys, and attachments. And the editor selector was missing.
