From Bubba:
He told us during a Q&A segment that one of the hardest parts of his 8 years was not being able to find bin Laden although his administration looked desperately for him.
Like when he turned down the Sudanese when they offered him up on a platter?
I think that Bill Clinton looked about as hard for bin Laden as OJ did for the real killers.
Read the whole thing–there’s disgustingly more.
I can’t figure out from this space.com article on the new commercial ISS procurements why it’s characterized as NASA ‘subsidizing” commercial space development. Why is it a subsidy to provide money for services, but not to issue a cost-plus contract?
[Update a few minutes later]
Clark Lindsey asks the same question:
So when the Air Force contracts with airlines to deliver people and cargo to foreign miltary bases, is it “subsidizing” the airline companies? More likely it is doing so because outsourcing the deliveries is a lot cheaper and quicker than using its own vehicles to do the job.
One of my partners in blogging crime has announced a new space-related venture.
Dwayne Day debunks sensationalistic misreporting about the Chinese space program.
Despite Western media
I missed Pete Worden’s talk on the use of lunar resources to alleviate global warming, on the first day of the Space Frontier Conference, because I was splitting time between it and work in El Segundo. But it was quite interesting, and Jeff Foust has a report on it in today’s The Space Review.
It has this curious exchange, though:
…someone asked Worden after his speech, if this system is privately developed, what
“The body is falling!”
Little kids who went to see the new release “Chicken Little” in a New York City theatre instead saw a movie of a young boy hanging himself.
He must have believed Chicken Little.
Steven Plaut says that France should offer “land for peace.”
First, until this plan is implemented in full, we must insist that the French government acknowledge that there is no military or police solution to the problems of violence in its suburbs, and only through recognizing the legitimacy of the demands of the murderers and rioters outside Paris can the problems be resolved.
Heh.
And not just to the rioters:
…we all agree that territory must not be annexed by force. Therefore, we can also agree that Germany has a moral right to demand the return of Alsace-Lorraine, for the French aggression in 1945 and its consequent occupation must not be rewarded. ”A full withdrawal for full peace” should operate here. Further, France must agree to the return and rehabilitation of all ethnic Germans expelled from Alsace-Lorraine after World Wars I and II, as well as all those they define as their descendents.
Is there a WPA expert in the house?
I can’t get my (new) Hawking PCI network adaptor to work with it. I’m using WPA-PSK, and I want to use a robust pass phrase, and I do in my D-Link DI-524 router (34 characters), but when I enter it into the client, it lops off everything after the first eight characters. And even when I shorten the phrase to eight characters on the router to get it to match, it still doesn’t work. The options that I have on the PCI adaptor are WPA2 and “Any WPA,” and I have the same problem with both of them. I’d really like to get a wireless network going here, but I don’t trust WEP. (Note, it works fine unencrypted.)
Does anyone have any thoughts?
Mark Steyn says that the Eurabian war has started ahead of schedule, and that Charles Martel’s long-ago victory at Poitiers is in danger of being reversed:
”There’s a civil war under way in Clichy-sous-Bois at the moment,” said Michel Thooris of the gendarmes’ trade union Action Police CFTC. ”We can no longer withstand this situation on our own. My colleagues neither have the equipment nor the practical or theoretical training for street fighting.”
Blue Origin is moving and expanding its facilities in Seattle:
Blue Origin’s mission, according to a brief description on the company’s Web site, is developing reusable launch vehicles and technologies “that, over time, will help enable an enduring human presence in space…”
…During an interview that lasted a little over a half-hour, Bezos discussed his plans to develop reusable suborbital launch vehicles that could carry passengers nearly into space, the couple said.
Simpson said Bezos hoped to be able to begin offering commercial passenger flights within three to five years of the initial test launches, with the ultimate goal of helping humankind achieve space colonization “in his lifetime.”
Well, I’m glad to see that someone is working on this, since NASA obviously isn’t.