Greenpeace needs to take a page out of the Ralph Nader playbook and sell Apple short ahead of making these accusations. Then they won't need to have high school kids begging for money.
Yeah, I mean it's not like there's any way to vote that doesn't involve physical presence. It would really open the door to anarchy if there was some portable way to vote. Hmm, maybe if I sold somebody a ballot that they could use to impersonate me. Perhaps in such a system the ballots would be collected by an existing infrastructure. I think the postal service might be able to handle the load.
As long as we're not allowing citizens to vote by mail, we're safe.
What about the masters that were stored Over The Hills and Far Away? Actually, I heard that some of the masters had been Trampled Under Food And then there was something about their lawyer being a Fool In The Rain
NHTSA doesn't have anything to do with emissions -- that's the EPA. The NHTSA investigates serious traffic accidents, performs studies on why it's important to wear your seatbelt, and the like.
LA's pollution is the result of geography and climate, not some conspiracy between the NHTSA and GM to circumvent the "strick [sic] emissions laws". LA is in a "bowl" which keeps polluted air from escaping to the surrounding areas. There is a gap in the bowl, but on high pollution days there is usually a low pressure system in LA which prevents the polluted air from escaping out over the ocean. There's a very similar situation in Phoenix, Arizona and Mexico City, Mexico.
In summary, my advice to you is to remove the tinfoil headgear and read up on the mission of federal agencies before posting to/.
There are certain classes of vehicles that are exempt from CAFE (8000+ lbs IIRC) but most trucks/SUVs don't fall into that weight class. For CAFE purposes there are 3 classes of vehicle: Cars, small SUVs, and SUVs/light trucks. I don't remember the weight break for small SUVs but ISTR it's pretty small. Vehicles in the first two classes need to meet "standard car" fuel economy specs, the latter class needs to fall into the "light truck" specs.
Like any system with predictable rules, CAFE is pretty easy to game. If you build a minivan on a car chassis, you can class it as an SUV and count that in your truck fleet with V10 behemoths. If the rear seats fold down and double the amount of cargo space, you can class it as an SUV. Chrysler did this with the PT Cruiser -- for CAFE purposes it's actually an SUV.
No, only ballistic missiles are ballistic in nature. An ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) uses all it's thrust at the beginning of it's flight. After that it has only small thrusters for course correction. A cruise missile develops thrust over the entirety of it's flight.
Back to the nP post. While the naval railgun is advertised as having the "punch" of a BGM-109 cruise missile, it's range is only 200mi, a far cry from the 600mi range of the BGM-109.
Maximum speed for the railgun projectile is M7.5. Assuming my math is correct, that's 1.5mi/sec. Absolute best time-to-target (i.e. assuming you could get a direct non-ballistic course) is two minutes. That's more than enough time for wind to have an effect on the projectile as well as more than enough time for a mobile target to move out of range. You were saying?
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Rail guns are absolutely not a replacement for cruise missiles. A rail gun projectile in ballistic in nature -- if the wind is blowing the wrong way at the target you're SOL. Yes, you can use lasers for terminal guidance but that requires something to paint the target (hard to do when the target is in hostile territory. Being ballistic, it's also vulnerable to the laser defense systems being discussed here.
The launch profile for a rail gun also limits the guidance package you can fit. A cruise missile has a very gentle launch profile -- a rail gun that has to accelerate to maximum velocity in under 50 ft. is much more difficult to deal with.
Pools and pickle buckets kill more toddlers than toddlers finding loaded weapons. Maybe, just maybe, if we would leave the second amendment alone the NRA could go back to doing what they're good at (gun safety training) and we could actually have the NRA teach gun safety in school.
It depends on what your definition of "is" is;)
You listed the DNC -- opensecrets also aggregates all-time donor profiles here: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.asp?order=A
#1 on that list is the union representing government employees...
Civilian radar can do "skin paints" but you're right that in general it depends on aircraft to self-report.
As an example, in 1996 an Aeroperu 757 took off with tape over the static ports. This resulted in the crew being confused as to their airspeed and altitude. When they asked ATC for information on their airspeed and altitude, ATC echoed the data from the transponder (i.e. what the crew was seeing on their displays). The crew assumed that data came from radar returns and reduced their altitude and well, jet engines don't work too well when they ingest sea water instead of air...
It's not just the reporting requirements. My employer has been advised by our SOX auditors that every system needs to enforce separation of duties. I can have privileged access to either prod or dev, but not both. So rather than granting access to prod and dev on the condition of being responsible, my boss has to grant me access to one or the other. Which means even though I have time to support both prod and dev, I cannot. 2x the employees for 1x the work doesn't make for very good financials.
IANAL, but I believe that this is related to the requirements to sue in particular venues. If I want to sue a number of geographically disparate individuals I believe I'm required to file in federal court. However, if it's a bunch of people in one state suing one guy in another state you're required to use state courts.
Under the authority granted me as director of weapons research and development, I commissioned last year a study of this project by the Bland corporation. Based on the findings of the report, my conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent, for reasons which, at this moment, must be all too obvious
The problem isn't that the albums aren't concept albums, it's that most writers can't write lyrics.
This isn't a problem for country musicians. George Strait, for example, writes very few of his own songs but still
manages to make all the songs from disparate writers "his own".
The leading cause of "collisions with nasty things like the ground" is the flight crew doing one or more things they shouldn't have done in the first place. It's so common it's even got a fancy name: "Controlled flight into terrain" or CFIT.
Examples: AA965 (aka Cali), KAL801 and the Jackson Hole C-130 crash.
If physical performance tracks pretty well with the model and you've met or exceeded the testing requirements for certification then what's the point of bending the wings until they fail? I'd imagine that there's the possibility of damage to the test structure if they test to failure. There's also the possibility that there would be some further analysis they'd like to do on the wing structure. If they break this one they'll have to build another one.
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Greenpeace needs to take a page out of the Ralph Nader playbook and sell Apple short ahead of making these accusations. Then they
won't need to have high school kids begging for money.
Yeah, I mean it's not like there's any way to vote that doesn't involve physical presence. It would
really open the door to anarchy if there was some portable way to vote. Hmm, maybe if I sold somebody
a ballot that they could use to impersonate me. Perhaps in such a system the ballots would be collected
by an existing infrastructure. I think the postal service might be able to handle the load.
As long as we're not allowing citizens to vote by mail, we're safe.
What about the masters that were stored Over The Hills and Far Away?
Actually, I heard that some of the masters had been Trampled Under Food
And then there was something about their lawyer being a Fool In The Rain
You should have linked to the SNL short on Youtube for more effect.
Maybe Google can call it the Digital Information Center Kernel...
NHTSA doesn't have anything to do with emissions -- that's the EPA. The NHTSA investigates serious traffic accidents, performs studies on why it's important
/.
to wear your seatbelt, and the like.
LA's pollution is the result of geography and climate, not some conspiracy between the NHTSA and GM to circumvent the "strick [sic] emissions laws". LA is in a "bowl" which keeps polluted air from escaping to the surrounding areas. There is a gap in the bowl, but on high pollution days there is usually a low pressure system in LA which prevents the polluted air from escaping out over the ocean. There's a very similar situation in Phoenix, Arizona and Mexico City, Mexico.
In summary, my advice to you is to remove the tinfoil headgear and read up on the mission of federal agencies before posting to
There are certain classes of vehicles that are exempt from CAFE (8000+ lbs IIRC) but most trucks/SUVs don't fall into that weight class.
For CAFE purposes there are 3 classes of vehicle: Cars, small SUVs, and SUVs/light trucks. I don't remember the weight break for small SUVs
but ISTR it's pretty small. Vehicles in the first two classes need to meet "standard car" fuel economy specs, the latter class needs to fall into
the "light truck" specs.
Like any system with predictable rules, CAFE is pretty easy to game. If you build a minivan on a car chassis, you can class it as an SUV and count
that in your truck fleet with V10 behemoths. If the rear seats fold down and double the amount of cargo space, you can class it as an SUV. Chrysler did
this with the PT Cruiser -- for CAFE purposes it's actually an SUV.
No, only ballistic missiles are ballistic in nature. An ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) uses all it's thrust at the beginning of it's flight. After that it has only
small thrusters for course correction. A cruise missile develops thrust over the entirety of it's flight.
Back to the nP post. While the naval railgun is advertised as having the "punch" of a BGM-109 cruise missile, it's range is only 200mi, a far cry from the 600mi range of the BGM-109.
Maximum speed for the railgun projectile is M7.5. Assuming my math is correct, that's 1.5mi/sec. Absolute best time-to-target (i.e. assuming you could get a direct non-ballistic course) is two minutes.
That's more than enough time for wind to have an effect on the projectile as well as more than enough time for a mobile target to move out of range. You were saying?
Rail guns are absolutely not a replacement for cruise missiles. A rail gun projectile in ballistic in nature -- if the wind is blowing the wrong way at the target you're SOL. Yes, you can use lasers for terminal guidance but that requires something to paint the target (hard to do when the target is in hostile territory. Being ballistic, it's also vulnerable to the laser defense systems being discussed here. The launch profile for a rail gun also limits the guidance package you can fit. A cruise missile has a very gentle launch profile -- a rail gun that has to accelerate to maximum velocity in under 50 ft. is much more difficult to deal with.
Pools and pickle buckets kill more toddlers than toddlers finding loaded weapons. Maybe, just maybe, if we would leave the second amendment alone the NRA could go back to doing what they're good at (gun safety training) and we could actually have the NRA teach gun safety in school.
It depends on what your definition of "is" is ;)
You listed the DNC -- opensecrets also aggregates all-time donor profiles here: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.asp?order=A
#1 on that list is the union representing government employees...
That sounds like a great idea!
Civilian radar can do "skin paints" but you're right that in general it depends on aircraft to self-report.
As an example, in 1996 an Aeroperu 757 took off with tape over the static ports. This resulted in the crew being confused as to their
airspeed and altitude. When they asked ATC for information on their airspeed and altitude, ATC echoed the data from the transponder (i.e. what
the crew was seeing on their displays). The crew assumed that data came from radar returns and reduced their altitude and well, jet engines don't work too
well when they ingest sea water instead of air...
It's not just the reporting requirements. My employer has been advised by our SOX auditors that every system needs to enforce separation of duties. I can have privileged
access to either prod or dev, but not both. So rather than granting access to prod and dev on the condition of being responsible, my boss has to grant me access to one or the other.
Which means even though I have time to support both prod and dev, I cannot. 2x the employees for 1x the work doesn't make for very good financials.
Intel makes money selling CPUs and flash memory -- of course they're going to choose Mozilla over Opera.
IANAL, but I believe that this is related to the requirements to sue in particular venues. If I want to sue a number of geographically disparate
individuals I believe I'm required to file in federal court. However, if it's a bunch of people in one state suing one guy in another state you're
required to use state courts.
I consume eight cans of Dr Pepper a day Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ that's a lot of soda!
I drive by there every day and I still haven't gone in. Perhaps I'll have to do it on Monday...
No torrents but Justin Timberlake might have something in a box for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmVU08zVpA
The problem isn't that the albums aren't concept albums, it's that most writers can't write lyrics. This isn't a problem for country musicians. George Strait, for example, writes very few of his own songs but still manages to make all the songs from disparate writers "his own".
Still doesn't beat out tool, thought ;)
;)
How can it when each track on a Tool album is 45 minutes long?
Clearly you did not get the HHGTTG reference. Of course, I'm now clearly feeding a troll...
The leading cause of "collisions with nasty things like the ground" is the flight crew doing one or more things they shouldn't have done in the first place. It's so common it's even got a fancy name: "Controlled flight into terrain" or CFIT. Examples: AA965 (aka Cali), KAL801 and the Jackson Hole C-130 crash.
It's not like this is Airbus we're talking about -- Boeing doesn't design their planes to crash on purpose ;)
If physical performance tracks pretty well with the model and you've met or exceeded the testing requirements for certification then what's the point of bending the wings until they fail? I'd imagine that there's the possibility of damage to the test structure if they test to failure. There's also the possibility that there would be some further analysis they'd like to do on the wing structure. If they break this one they'll have to build another one.