ChasingBlueSky

What gets me is the technology for better, more fuel efficient yuppie vehicles (aka oversized minivans) exist. We could start by putting that into production NOW! Instead we have loopholes that has all the money makers in no rush to implement changes. This time next year we should be at $3/gallon for 87 octane. Who here is ready to pay that? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

You honsetly think this administration would do anything to make it enviro friendly? The same one that rolled back changes and made huge cuts at the EPA? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Bush made this speech yesterday, March 9th 2005. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

eh, we already have the Patriot Act. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Gun found in locker of girl, 12 Aurora 6th grader faces felony charges By Amy Fischer Roth Special to the Chicago Tribune Published March 10, 2005 A 12-year-old Aurora girl was charged with three felonies Wednesday after a handgun and loaded clip were found in her locker in Still Middle School, police said. The 6th grader is charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful possession of a weapon. She also was charged with not having a firearm owner's identification card, a misdemeanor. The girl was to be transferred to the DuPage County Juvenile Justice Center in Wheaton Wednesday evening and will appear for a detention hearing Thursday afternoon, police said. Investigators said the pupil "apparently found the gun in some bushes near a bus stop in the area of Frontenac Road and Ravinia Circle before school" on Wednesday. The middle school is in the 700 block of Meadowridge Drive on Aurora's far east side in DuPage County. The girl is alleged to have taken the gun to school and showed it to several pupils. Aurora police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said a preliminary investigation indicates the girl "apparently made no threats to anyone and did not appear to be a harm to herself. "We get very few reports of firearms at any of the schools in Aurora," Ferrelli said. "This case in particular seems to be an isolated case." He would not give specifics about why a girl of her age was charged with three felonies. "I'm not going there," Ferrelli said. "We conferred with the DuPage state's attorney and charged the student according to the specifics of the case and Illinois statutes." A pupil who had heard about the weapon, a 32-caliber handgun, alerted a teacher at about 11:30 a.m. The teacher then spoke with administrators and the police resource officer at the school. Authorities said they found the gun and a loaded clip that was detached from the weapon in the pupil's purse inside her locker. Principal Jay Strang said the student indicated she hadn't intended to hurt anyone. A 7th grader who was in gym class when the gun was found said the teacher sent pupils to the locker rooms. "We had a lockdown," she said. "We had to stay there until about 12:20 while the school was being searched." After the all-clear was given, pupils were instructed to go to their 7th-period classes. Strang came to the girl's classroom, she said, and explained what had happened and said no one had been hurt. "Everybody felt unsafe and kind of scared because someone brought a gun to school, so we were kind of freaked out," the pupil said. "We all thought it would be an 8th grader, but it turned out to be a 6th grader, so we were surprised." She said she had never been frightened before in class because "it's always been a safe little school." Ferrelli said authorities reacted swiftly to keep it that way. "It's obviously very serious and had there been different circumstances, it could have been tragic. It's very dangerous and that's one thing the Police Department tries to educate the community in--that it's incredibly important to teach youngsters if they come across a firearm or what they think is a firearm, not to touch it but to tell a trusted adult so that adult can alert the authorities. "We need to underscore the fact that whoever told the teacher about the gun did absolutely the right thing," he said. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Bush: Oil drilling plan vital to national security Source: Reuters By Patricia Wilson COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 9 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday America's dependence on foreign oil posed a national security problem and urged the U.S. Congress to open an Alaskan refuge to drilling "for the sake of our country." With oil prices hovering around $55 a barrel and the United States more dependent than ever on foreign supplies to meet its energy needs, Bush called on lawmakers to allow oil and natural gas exploration in "a small corner" of Alaska's environmentally sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR. "Congress needs to look at the science and look at the facts and send me a bill that includes exploration in ANWR for the sake of our country," he said in a speech on energy policy. Environmentalists oppose drilling in ANWR, saying it would destroy the habitat of the area's polar bears, caribou and other wildlife. Democrats and some moderate Republicans in the U.S. Senate also oppose such drilling and say more emphasis ought to be placed on energy conservation and exploration of new technology to help quench America's thirst for oil. Bush rejected the idea that ANWR exploration and environmental protection were incompatible, calling it a "false choice." He said drilling would be carried out on a parcel of land in the 19-million-acre Arctic refuge "the size of the Columbus airport" with almost no impact on land or local wildlife. "We need to work together in Washington," he said. "We have had four years of debate ... now is the time to get the job done." The United States imports more than half its oil from abroad. According to the Energy Department, that amounted to 11.8 million barrels of crude oil a day last year, with 2.4 million barrels a day coming from the Persian Gulf. "Think about that," Bush said. "More than half of the oil that we consume in order to maintain our lifestyles comes from overseas or abroad and our dependence is growing." "I believe that creates a national security issue and an economic security issue for the United States and that's why its important for us to utilize the resources we have here at home." Giving oil companies access to ANWR's potential 16 billion barrels of crude is a key part of Bush's overall energy plan but the Senate has rejected multiple attempts to open it to drilling. With 55 Republican senators -- four more than in the last Congress -- some lawmakers are hopeful about getting it through. In a show of confidence that it will win the battle, the White House included in its 2006 budget $2.4 billion in fees it expects the Interior Department to collect from leasing land in the refuge for oil drilling. Bush sent Congress a national energy plan four years ago he said would increase domestic crude oil and natural gas supplies, modernize the electric grid, build more nuclear power plants, develop alterative energy sources and promote conservation. The federal government has predicted retail gasoline prices this spring will hit a record high -- reaching a national monthly average of $2.15 a gallon -- on the heels of soaring crude oil prices. Bush called the extra cost to consumers "a drag on the economy." "Higher prices at the gas pump and rising home heating bills and the possibility of blackout are legitimate concerns for all Americans," he said. "It's hard to plan with confidence if you're not sure the lights are going to stay on." (Additional reporting by Tom Doggett in Washington) _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

32 as of yesterday. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

And I laughed! good one beezy _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Thanks Tim! Keeping fingers crossed here. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Thanks guys! My only free hour here at work today - have to get some paperwork together for the next six hours of meetings and interviews. fun stuff! _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Yup, but that doesn't matter anymore. PCIx will be used for the video card and that can leave up to 5 PCI slots open for you. With the wave of Nforce clones out there you can get the NIC and a 5.1 sound card built on the mobo now. Same with SATA raid, USB2.0, Firewire, and even wireless. That leaves you plenty of room to upgrade. I agree with Ivan - if there is only one game that will use it, I won't get it. If it will help any game that already exists, it will be on the top of my upgrade list. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Unreal 3 looks to be the killer game. Have you read up on it or seen the screenshots? Remember how much of an impact the first Unreal had and how the graphics were a benchmark for years? It looks like Unreal 3 will be the same thing. I agree. The marketing aspect will be tough, but I think with the launch of PS3 and Xbox 2 that gamers will be used to hearing why the details matter more now than they did in the past when it comes to purchasing. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Forget going SLI to be the king geek on the block....this is what I want in my system! From ign.com PhysX Hardware Physics Accelerator Unveiled Exponentially more stuff to blow to bits? Sign us up. March 08, 2005 - AGEIA Technologies announced today at the Game Developer's Conference that it's doing to physics what hardware manufacturers did to 3D graphics back in the mid-90s: providing hardware acceleration for an exponential increase in the amount and complexity of physics objects in games. Just as GPUs (graphic processing units) do with polygons, vertices and textures, the PhysX PPU (physics processing unit) will do for realtime phsyics. Instead of handling 50 or even 100 physics objects per scene like some games do now, games and applications that make use of the PhysX PPU will be able to handle many, many multiples of that. AGEIA is saying something around 30,000 to 40,000 physics objects per scene would be something that its PPU could handle. If you like buzz-phrases, here are a few things that the PhysX processor is tauted to handle: universal collision detection, rigid body dynamics, soft body dynamics, fluid dynamics, smart particle systems, clothing simulation, soft-body deformation with tearing, and brittle fracturing for destruction of objects in gaming environments. AGEIA's NovodeX physics API will be supported by its PhysX processor. Many developers, including Epic via its in-progress UnrealEngine3 gaming engine, are already implementing it so AGEIA expects that many PhysX-supported games will already be available by the time the processor is launched, which is scheduled to be released by Christmas 2005. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Net job loss is one of those ways? Not doing much to pursue alternative fuel sources? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Hey does that mean I can use that Vengeance you outbid me on??? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Why don't you make a post about it to find out? It's a shame people let things like this go by without letting the public know. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Let's see...one of the main reasons I left the seminary and choose not to be a priest was to have my own family instead of taking care of everyone else. Now I could care less either way and I am favoring being alone and single. Too much drama and BS, even if you do everything right. As it turns out life is much easier alone. Ironic, no? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

In my college days I did 26 shots of Jaeger and 4 Goldschlager. I passed out while walking up a flight of marble stairs. I slept for three days after that _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Hey Vinny.... (from your favorite news source as well ) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149708,00.html Man Dies After Winning Tequila Shot Contest SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — One person is dead and three are gravely ill following a tequila drinking competition (search) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The winner of the contest died. Officials say Ricardo Ivan Garcia — who was 21 — drank more than 50 shots of tequila Sunday night at a disco. The prize was ten-thousand pesos — about 330 dollars. A prosecutor says the man died of apparent heart failure brought on by alcohol poisoning. Three other contestants remain in serious condition in the hospital. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Wow, we are one year and one day apart! Happy Bday Marc _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

duh? I'm sure she watches the news or picks up the paper every so often. How could anything about that make her happy? If the idea of your first moments at BIAP make you nervous, how do you think she feels? Skydiving is a walk in the park compared to that. Don't expect her to be happy about it. Ever. Just ask her to accept it because it's what you want. I have to admit as a friend I'm not thrilled to see you head over there but it's cool to hear you excited about what you are going to do. You've made the choice for your own reasons, and only you know what's the right path for your life. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

???!! aw f*ck I had no idea. I stayed out of incidents this weekend and just caught all the bad news as I was headed to bed. Damn. Blue ones _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Do you actually believe that? Does that conspiracy come with the green or grey aliens? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Hard to do that without admitting that they did it in the first place, deniablity is the point of a clandestine operation... One aspect I find sad about this is that the CIA can't cover their tracks better... J Hey! They could just kill the innocent person they illegally ganked from their home! That should cover up tracks and it would all be in the name of national security! Hell, but the CIA never makes mistakes and has intel so so reliable you could start a war with it . How could they pick up the wrong person??? Cover their tracks? They dump an innocent person off after months of abuse, lack of food, mind games, threats or some other bullshit and you expect them to stay quiet? But it's war, right? It doesn't matter how many new enemies we make along the way that may kill us later, we have the false sense of security that we are doing something good for our country. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I spent some time talking this subject over with a few people last night. I don't support the death penalty on any level, but there was something about this case that kept bugging me. During that conversation I was able to finally voice it - and it was the same thing that bugged you. I doubt I could say it as well as you did, or add anything else....but I do agree with you. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....