I stuck it out on Jalopnik until a couple months ago. Left because half the stories were cross posted from IO9 or Gizmodo, if I wanted to read about sci-fi vehicles I'd be on IO9, or hell a website that knows what the hell they are talking about.
Gawker Media's editorial standards went to hell over the last year or so.
Funny, the day that the WoW 4.0 patch went live Kotaku had a post about this big 4.0 patch that was coming soon, early next month probably! And it's going to be so cool! I wrote the guy and said "way to be late, it came out today, servers are up already", he called me an asshole.
Time Magazine is an American magazine published with offices in New York, while it has other editions published regionally, it remains an American magazine.
During Time's publication history every President except Ford was a Man/Person of the Year.
In the last 15 years I see David Ho, a Taiwanese scientist, Andrew Grove, a Hungarian, Bono and Putin.
I'm sorry but you are wrong on a number of points.
First, the translation of Armee de L'Air is "Army of the Air", second for the United States Air Force, the force in question, is not an army and it's members are not called "soldiers".
That is true, however the United States Air Force is not an army, every definition of "soldier" has a soldier being the member of the ground force of a nation's army.
I found someone on a free one, a geek dating site.
We are getting married at the end of the month after dating and living together for two years. She's a board and role play gamer who was looking for a gamer guy and geek. She's a biologist while I've a masters in history and a tech geek, so it worked out pretty well.
Aluminium through the use of recycling and it's abundance in the crust is something we don't ever have to worry about running out of.
Based on our current mining of bauxite at 2008 levels we can mine mine mine without further exploration for 185-190 years.
Aluminum is 100% recyclable, so it is for all intents infinite.
As long as materials can be recycled and are not destroyed, they can be reused. Silver, gold and the platinum group are truly finite because many of their uses keep them from being recycled. I for one have platinum in my body that won't come up for recycling for decades to come.
Really the only materials on Earth that are truly finite are some of the metals, silver, gold, the platinum group, and those are found in abundance up in the asteroids.
Asteroid 16 Psyche, 200 km in diameter, is estimated to have two million years worth of metals at 2004 usage.
And closer to home, giant mine projects like Pebble Mine in Alaska aren't being mined because the value of fisheries is more important than one of the largest ore bodies on the planet.
Bio fuels can power a 747, synthetic fuels can power a 747, natural gas diesel can fuel a 747, just because cheap and easy rock oil has all the infrastructure right now don't think for a second there are tons of other fuels out there that can power the world's machines.
Plus there are billions and billions of tons of rock oil bound up in shales, the price of oil gets high enough and stays there then it will be economical to get that shale oil out.
It was important in 1810. Babies mean future hunters, gatherers, farm labor for the tribe or family.
While being a screaming poop factory for a couple years, by age 4 a child could be tasked with simple gathering, clean up and food/tool preparation. By age 6-7 a child could be killing vermin, small animal hunting and other near adult, gender specific chores.
By age 10 a male child would be supporting hunting, fishing and farming and by 12 actively taking part in hunts, farming or by the mid 1800s industrial work.
Loss of a child on the American Frontier, the sub-arctic or in tribal societies was a huge loss of food, energy and future growth.
I couldn't get private insurance because I had a pre-exisiting condition.
At the time, the state program in Oregon was full and only accepting pregnant women, COBRA was 845 dollars a month and private insurers turned me down for pre-exsisting conditions.
The pre-exsisting condition listed as the cause for denial was that I had a prescription for a generic anti-siezure I needed for migraines.
I don't agree with the Obamacare plan is the best approach, the Swiss model and Japanese are much better, but the United States needs to join the rest of the industrialized world and fix it's healthcare system and close the gap on the uninsured.
Well that's exactly what the argument against nationalism health care has become in the United States.
"If I have a job or the means to afford private insurance, fark people that can't or have pre-existing conditions or prescriptions who can't get insurance."
To "promote the general Welfare" is in the Preamble right behind " provide for the common defence", so explain how a national defense is Constitutional and health care being a promotion of the general welfare is unconstitutional.
To provide for the common defense says nothing about police, as you may or may not know the United States historically has not had a national police force and for the most part it still doesn't.
For the common defense means a national force that protects it, historically that was the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, which we pay for through Federal Taxes and tariffs.
As for the road and property line, now thats splitting hairs, the United States Federal Government spent alot of money running roads into the middle of white supremacist hotbeds like northern Idaho, were I-90 to avoid the Coeur d'Alene area we'd all be better off.
And I don't want to pay for roads leading up to the home of redneck racists who fly Confederate Flags, nor provide for their common defense.
However I live in the goddamned United States of America and the preamble to the Constitution says...
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
What part of "common" and "general" don't you understand?
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I stuck it out on Jalopnik until a couple months ago. Left because half the stories were cross posted from IO9 or Gizmodo, if I wanted to read about sci-fi vehicles I'd be on IO9, or hell a website that knows what the hell they are talking about.
Gawker Media's editorial standards went to hell over the last year or so.
Funny, the day that the WoW 4.0 patch went live Kotaku had a post about this big 4.0 patch that was coming soon, early next month probably! And it's going to be so cool!
I wrote the guy and said "way to be late, it came out today, servers are up already", he called me an asshole.
I really liked yesterday where IO9 was making fun of their users for using scf-fi names for passwords.
You know from the data that was leaked from farking IO9 because their masters blew the security.
Violating his oath and breaking his security clearance because he was crappy soldier who was getting bounced from the Army is not patriotic.
Time Magazine is an American magazine published with offices in New York, while it has other editions published regionally, it remains an American magazine.
During Time's publication history every President except Ford was a Man/Person of the Year.
In the last 15 years I see David Ho, a Taiwanese scientist, Andrew Grove, a Hungarian, Bono and Putin.
Nope, and never heard of that joint.
I'm sorry but you are wrong on a number of points.
First, the translation of Armee de L'Air is "Army of the Air", second for the United States Air Force, the force in question, is not an army and it's members are not called "soldiers".
That is true, however the United States Air Force is not an army, every definition of "soldier" has a soldier being the member of the ground force of a nation's army.
http://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/library/airforcepersonnelstatistics.asp
Average age of enlisted Airmen is 29, officers are 35
Average age of the United States military is 28, Army and those would be your soldiers is 29 and the Marines are younger, 25.
No soldiers are being kept in the dark.
The definition of a soldier is one who serves in a land army
The United States Air Force is the one blocking per the title of the story, they would be called airmen or aircrew.
I found someone on a free one, a geek dating site.
We are getting married at the end of the month after dating and living together for two years. She's a board and role play gamer who was looking for a gamer guy and geek. She's a biologist while I've a masters in history and a tech geek, so it worked out pretty well.
Aluminium through the use of recycling and it's abundance in the crust is something we don't ever have to worry about running out of.
Based on our current mining of bauxite at 2008 levels we can mine mine mine without further exploration for 185-190 years.
Aluminum is 100% recyclable, so it is for all intents infinite.
As long as materials can be recycled and are not destroyed, they can be reused. Silver, gold and the platinum group are truly finite because many of their uses keep them from being recycled. I for one have platinum in my body that won't come up for recycling for decades to come.
I liked the grinding horses for power idea though.
Cambodia I'd bet
Really the only materials on Earth that are truly finite are some of the metals, silver, gold, the platinum group, and those are found in abundance up in the asteroids.
Asteroid 16 Psyche, 200 km in diameter, is estimated to have two million years worth of metals at 2004 usage.
And closer to home, giant mine projects like Pebble Mine in Alaska aren't being mined because the value of fisheries is more important than one of the largest ore bodies on the planet.
Burning coal or sail?
Surely you've heard about nuclear fission right? And there are ships right now sailing powered by nuclear fission, dozens of them right now.
And if we don't want to use Uranium, well then Thorium makes more fuel when it's been used in fission.
Bio fuels can power a 747, synthetic fuels can power a 747, natural gas diesel can fuel a 747, just because cheap and easy rock oil has all the infrastructure right now don't think for a second there are tons of other fuels out there that can power the world's machines.
Plus there are billions and billions of tons of rock oil bound up in shales, the price of oil gets high enough and stays there then it will be economical to get that shale oil out.
It was important in 1810. Babies mean future hunters, gatherers, farm labor for the tribe or family.
While being a screaming poop factory for a couple years, by age 4 a child could be tasked with simple gathering, clean up and food/tool preparation. By age 6-7 a child could be killing vermin, small animal hunting and other near adult, gender specific chores.
By age 10 a male child would be supporting hunting, fishing and farming and by 12 actively taking part in hunts, farming or by the mid 1800s industrial work.
Loss of a child on the American Frontier, the sub-arctic or in tribal societies was a huge loss of food, energy and future growth.
I couldn't get private insurance because I had a pre-exisiting condition.
At the time, the state program in Oregon was full and only accepting pregnant women, COBRA was 845 dollars a month and private insurers turned me down for pre-exsisting conditions.
The pre-exsisting condition listed as the cause for denial was that I had a prescription for a generic anti-siezure I needed for migraines.
I don't agree with the Obamacare plan is the best approach, the Swiss model and Japanese are much better, but the United States needs to join the rest of the industrialized world and fix it's healthcare system and close the gap on the uninsured.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92106731
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090601630.html
Then get a SPOT Satellite Messenger, you are the type of user they were developed for.
http://www.findmespot.com/en/
Iridium satellites are at 475 miles, not geo sync
Like the NSA doesn't have an archive of or at least keyword search every call we make on cell phones.
Well that's exactly what the argument against nationalism health care has become in the United States.
"If I have a job or the means to afford private insurance, fark people that can't or have pre-existing conditions or prescriptions who can't get insurance."
To "promote the general Welfare" is in the Preamble right behind " provide for the common defence", so explain how a national defense is Constitutional and health care being a promotion of the general welfare is unconstitutional.
To provide for the common defense says nothing about police, as you may or may not know the United States historically has not had a national police force and for the most part it still doesn't.
For the common defense means a national force that protects it, historically that was the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, which we pay for through Federal Taxes and tariffs.
As for the road and property line, now thats splitting hairs, the United States Federal Government spent alot of money running roads into the middle of white supremacist hotbeds like northern Idaho, were I-90 to avoid the Coeur d'Alene area we'd all be better off.
Constitution says stuff about promoting the general welfare, so maybe that includes health care?
And I don't want to pay for roads leading up to the home of redneck racists who fly Confederate Flags, nor provide for their common defense.
However I live in the goddamned United States of America and the preamble to the Constitution says...
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
What part of "common" and "general" don't you understand?