A sad, but probably true essay on the mistake that the enemy makes, and will probably continue to make:
The day the man with the wide-brimmed hat nods over one of our cities, the day our people start to die in numbers comparable to the flu of 1918, the day a dirty bomb goes off in downtown Manhattan, is the day the world gets reminded that this fat, happy country of ours, this cheerfully hedonistic civilization, is also the most terrible engine of slaughter the world has ever seen.
As a world-class procrastinator, I found this essay on the subject very interesting. At least, once I actually took the time to read it.
It has a lot of insights that seem obvious once you read them, but are brilliant nonetheless. Kind of like James Welles’ thesis on stupidity.
Anyone who watched the video of the Zenit explosion will be surprised to see how little damage was actually done to the SeaLaunch platform.
Al Gore’s inconvenient truth.
Alan Boyle has encountered a cyborg. She’s not as scary as popular media would depict. In fact, any one who doesn’t like her has to be a little inhuman themselves…
Not me this time, but it looks like an interesting lineup this week:
1.Monday, Feb. 26, 2007, 7-8:30 PM Pacific: Dr. Lee Valentine returns to discuss the upcoming Planetary Space Conference, commercial space investments and much more.
2. Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007, 7-8:30 PM Pacific. Stephen Metschan, President & CEO of TeamVision Corporation comes on board to discuss the comprehensive TeamVision plan for returning to the Moon and going to Mars.
3. Wednesday, Feb. 28, 9:30-11AM Pacific: Dallas Bienhoff, an engineer with Boeing, joins us to discuss on orbit fuel depots and much more.
I worked with Dallas on the CE&R studies a couple years ago, in which we fleshed out a lot of the features and advantages of propellant depots, in LEO and elsewhere. NASA continues to prefer a return to Apollo.
And vice versa. He thinks that “the surge” is a bad idea:
Az-Zaman reports that Muqtada al-Sadr made a statement from
You’re getting Linux on Dell:
“The second-order implications are even more interesting, because I think there’s no way that Michael Dell didn’t see this coming,” Raymond wrote. “His company has been quietly selling Linux machines to business customers for several years — which means he’s got more than enough real-world market data to see where the trends are going. Mr. Dell had to have a pretty strong suspicion that Linux preinstalls were going to show up as a top user demand before the fact — and yet, he let IdeaStorm happen anyway. This tells me he isn’t nearly as nervous about angering Microsoft as he used to be. Something in the balance of power between the world’s largest PC vendor and the crew in Redmond has shifted, and not in Redmond’s favor. You can bet money on that.”
Running Linux on Dell laptops could have another lure, Raymond wrote. “I think one significant problem Dell and Microsoft are facing is just that Vista is too resource-hungry and bloated to run well on sub-$500 machines, which are the highest-volume market segment now. Dell may be arranging itself some maneuvering room to preinstall an [operating system] that won’t make its low-end hardware look like crap.”
Senator Lieberman explains it to his fellow Democrats. One wonder how much longer he’ll remain a Democrat, if they continue to ignore him.
Senator Lieberman explains it to his fellow Democrats. One wonder how much longer he’ll remain a Democrat, if they continue to ignore him.