I wouldn't say HW Bush, Clinton (first term) or GW Bush were showmen.
Clinton went that way in his second term at times, but in the end, following the Impeachment, tried to settle down and establish a legacy, by attacking Serbia and then trying to get Israel-Palestine hammered out.
HW Bush should have been a little showman and he would have won reelection in '92 and W never had the public speaking skill down to be a showman.
20MT in the sea? No it really won't do much in the way of tsunamis.
FTA - "An object a bit smaller than that carved out Meteor Crater in Arizona." So less than 1.5km wide, that'd make a smallish hole in the ocean, but nothing like that feared landslide from the Azores.
The Ural motorcycle is derived from BMW hardware the Nazis gave the Soviets right before Operation Barbarossa kicked off, kind of a payment for invading Poland.
I oversimplified the origins of the Soviet auto industry, they had alot of help. Ford came in and set factories up in the late 20s and early 30s, but then left, leaving hardware and knowledge behind.
The FIAT derived cars were later, the craptastic Lada export from AvtoVAZ was a Fiat 124-based VAZ-2101
There was alot of British and American technology shares during WW2 that helped Soviet car tech along, then there was another push of European and American sharing in the 1970s and even today that continues with former-Soviet car makers licensing technology, importing parts and licensing models.
I don't think, from a quick look, they are as far along with having design centers like China, Brazil or the Republic of Korea are, but they are farther along than India is.
Amorphous silica fibers with a backing that's some sort of fiber to adhere it to the craft Nomex or the Soviet version I think. Theres a location number on it as well.
On Shuttle that tile area is covered in - High-temperature reusable surface insulation (HRSI) tiles, used on the orbiter underside. Made of coated LI-900 Silica ceramics. Used where reentry temperature is below 1260 C.
The black coating on the tiles is Reaction Cured Glass (RCG) of which tetrasilicide and borosilicate glass are some of several ingredients.
Well a replacement tile, they made about 3.5 million extra tiles and in the late 90s I was able to get one for about $45. Its black and would have gone on the right front section.
Side note, the An-225 was up here in Anchorage in late June and I happened to drive by it at Ted Stevens International Airport. Big goddamned plane, dwarfed all the 747-400s it was parked near and made the MD-11s look miniature.
I'm in education tech, but supporting disability and all I see in that sector is expensive applications being updated from Win9x/XP to Vista and iOS.
Our agency is buying iPads for distance and disability ed like mad, I think our 20 person agency has 14 of them now with 7 more on the way.
We load them with accessibility stuff and send them out to rural schools.
Last time in one of these Android/iOS things I posted that I don't see disability or accessibility stuff coming for Android and got flamed and modded troll for my efforts, so I won't make predications.
Are there any OCR apps out there for either platform? If someone came up with an app that OCR and read outloud the text on an image or.PDF they'd make alot of people out there happy.
We had a farm and two of the farm hands were big Twins fans, no FM out there and AM would cut out at night, so I'd give the score updates to them over the fixed frequency simplex base station the farm had (we had a 50 foot tower so about 30 mile range)
I didn't go through all the special forces out there, but yea, I'd expect Alpha, SAS, Delta, Sayeret Matkal, Egoz Reconnaissance Unit, SBS, FBI HRT, DAOS, a host of other units from "first tier" militaries and even units like the Mexican Fuerzas Especiales to be similarly awesome and scary.
I always base my time and effort estimates on how long it takes me and how long it takes her.
Not scientific all I realize.
Thanks for the reply, different perspective than I have and it's enlightening.
As for the long drive, that was a one time deal, kind of a commit thing, it was only six hours because there was a blizzard going on (it was the December 2008 Pacific Northwest Winter storm) and an hour of it was getting out of the Portland Metro area. It was our third date to boot.
Since I started to meet people online (MU*, MMO, Match/etc) I feel like it's really cut into the amount of courting time and money involved. I met my fiancée on a geek dating site and I think it was six weeks before our first date.
Truman did it. CIA was founded on September 18, 1947.
Now CIA doing stuff like this, that's legal as of 2004 when National Clandestine Service was started, which is a descendant of Directorate of Plans and Directorate of Operations.
CIA Special Operations Group and Special Activities Division are supposedly as good as Delta and SEAL Team Six
I'm disfigured though, I have a 6 inch scar on my neck from a tumor removal that developed a wonderful keloidal scar.
But, yea, I take what I have and live with it. And I've been told I do alright in bed, but mainly if you have some social skills, wit and intelligence a man can do just fine.
My fiancee is gorgeous, plays WoW and encourages me to play Xbox with my friends, it's awesome.
"Since when has the Republican party since the 1980s ever done anything to shrink the government on the whole?"
When the military draw down began in 1990 under Bush, which continued in organized phases through Desert Shield/Storm (many units and weapon systems had their last use in that conflict) through the first Clinton Administration and even today the US Navy grows smaller as ships are retired and not replaced.
BRAC continued in the Bush Administration to close and consolidate bases, a system that is continuing now.
My fiancee takes the stance that it's easier for men since we don't have to go through as much effort. Jewelry, shoes, bras, lingerie, worrying about safety and a host of other variables make it "easier" for men to date and catch a partner.
When we started dating, I threw a bag in my truck and drove six hours to her house on a whim on her invite, if it hadn't worked out I'd have bailed to my buddy's house. Not that simple for a woman in her view.
As a guy who is geeky and not that good looking, I've always experienced it as the other way around.
It's a target rich environment out there if you have some social skills and put on clean clothes. Most of the women I dated or lived with have been way better looking and desirably than I am, but I've never had trouble landing a woman.
I've said no to more women than have said no to me.
Louisiana is a red state so Texas could ship it over there if Texas ports aren't up to snuff. Texas has four of the ten biggest ports in the US.
Port of Houston - 202,047,327 short tons Port of Beaumont, Texas - 91,697,948 Port of Corpus Christi, Texas - 78,924,757 Port of Texas City, Texas - 68,282,902
Except in the US the rural states are the ones the East and South keep poor by controlling large percentages of land through the BLM, National Forest Service, National Park Service and DoD.
Oh and we get the American Indian Reservations, you know the people the Blue States of the East and South kicked out 180 years ago, but the Red States feed, provide fuel and natural resources.
They have the bulk of the military bases, Indian Reservations/Alaska Natives, food production and energy.
The Blue States are powered by the Red States, were the US to splinter along those lines, the Red States are in better strategic shape to remain a country. California, Oregon-Washington would be fine, but the North East is boned.
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I wouldn't say HW Bush, Clinton (first term) or GW Bush were showmen.
Clinton went that way in his second term at times, but in the end, following the Impeachment, tried to settle down and establish a legacy, by attacking Serbia and then trying to get Israel-Palestine hammered out.
HW Bush should have been a little showman and he would have won reelection in '92 and W never had the public speaking skill down to be a showman.
20MT in the sea? No it really won't do much in the way of tsunamis.
FTA - "An object a bit smaller than that carved out Meteor Crater in Arizona." So less than 1.5km wide, that'd make a smallish hole in the ocean, but nothing like that feared landslide from the Azores.
3% of the Earth's surface is urban area, so chances are it won't hit a heavily populated area.
We've had one. Ronald Reagan.
And the discussion is about an Asteroid, Limbaugh will be dead by 2098 so who cares?
The Ural motorcycle is derived from BMW hardware the Nazis gave the Soviets right before Operation Barbarossa kicked off, kind of a payment for invading Poland.
I oversimplified the origins of the Soviet auto industry, they had alot of help. Ford came in and set factories up in the late 20s and early 30s, but then left, leaving hardware and knowledge behind.
The FIAT derived cars were later, the craptastic Lada export from AvtoVAZ was a Fiat 124-based VAZ-2101
There was alot of British and American technology shares during WW2 that helped Soviet car tech along, then there was another push of European and American sharing in the 1970s and even today that continues with former-Soviet car makers licensing technology, importing parts and licensing models.
I don't think, from a quick look, they are as far along with having design centers like China, Brazil or the Republic of Korea are, but they are farther along than India is.
Amorphous silica fibers with a backing that's some sort of fiber to adhere it to the craft Nomex or the Soviet version I think. Theres a location number on it as well.
On Shuttle that tile area is covered in - High-temperature reusable surface insulation (HRSI) tiles, used on the orbiter underside. Made of coated LI-900 Silica ceramics. Used where reentry temperature is below 1260 C.
The black coating on the tiles is Reaction Cured Glass (RCG) of which tetrasilicide and borosilicate glass are some of several ingredients.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_thermal_protection_system#High-temperature_reusable_surface_insulation_.28HRSI.29
Crappy Russian cars were copies of BMW and Fiats.
Well a replacement tile, they made about 3.5 million extra tiles and in the late 90s I was able to get one for about $45. Its black and would have gone on the right front section.
Side note, the An-225 was up here in Anchorage in late June and I happened to drive by it at Ted Stevens International Airport. Big goddamned plane, dwarfed all the 747-400s it was parked near and made the MD-11s look miniature.
No way, if theres a group that the police won't fark with, it'd the judges.
I'm in education tech, but supporting disability and all I see in that sector is expensive applications being updated from Win9x/XP to Vista and iOS.
Our agency is buying iPads for distance and disability ed like mad, I think our 20 person agency has 14 of them now with 7 more on the way.
We load them with accessibility stuff and send them out to rural schools.
Last time in one of these Android/iOS things I posted that I don't see disability or accessibility stuff coming for Android and got flamed and modded troll for my efforts, so I won't make predications.
Are there any OCR apps out there for either platform? If someone came up with an app that OCR and read outloud the text on an image or .PDF they'd make alot of people out there happy.
They weren't paid alot of money back then, and of all the sports, the statistics involved in Baseball make it the geekiest.
I liked '87 4-3 Twins, home team won every game.
We had a farm and two of the farm hands were big Twins fans, no FM out there and AM would cut out at night, so I'd give the score updates to them over the fixed frequency simplex base station the farm had (we had a 50 foot tower so about 30 mile range)
I was going to school in Minnesota for that series, it was insane on campus.
I didn't go through all the special forces out there, but yea, I'd expect Alpha, SAS, Delta, Sayeret Matkal, Egoz Reconnaissance Unit, SBS, FBI HRT, DAOS, a host of other units from "first tier" militaries and even units like the Mexican Fuerzas Especiales to be similarly awesome and scary.
I always base my time and effort estimates on how long it takes me and how long it takes her.
Not scientific all I realize.
Thanks for the reply, different perspective than I have and it's enlightening.
As for the long drive, that was a one time deal, kind of a commit thing, it was only six hours because there was a blizzard going on (it was the December 2008 Pacific Northwest Winter storm) and an hour of it was getting out of the Portland Metro area. It was our third date to boot.
Since I started to meet people online (MU*, MMO, Match/etc) I feel like it's really cut into the amount of courting time and money involved. I met my fiancée on a geek dating site and I think it was six weeks before our first date.
Truman did it. CIA was founded on September 18, 1947.
Now CIA doing stuff like this, that's legal as of 2004 when National Clandestine Service was started, which is a descendant of Directorate of Plans and Directorate of Operations.
CIA Special Operations Group and Special Activities Division are supposedly as good as Delta and SEAL Team Six
I'm disfigured though, I have a 6 inch scar on my neck from a tumor removal that developed a wonderful keloidal scar.
But, yea, I take what I have and live with it. And I've been told I do alright in bed, but mainly if you have some social skills, wit and intelligence a man can do just fine.
My fiancee is gorgeous, plays WoW and encourages me to play Xbox with my friends, it's awesome.
"Since when has the Republican party since the 1980s ever done anything to shrink the government on the whole?"
When the military draw down began in 1990 under Bush, which continued in organized phases through Desert Shield/Storm (many units and weapon systems had their last use in that conflict) through the first Clinton Administration and even today the US Navy grows smaller as ships are retired and not replaced.
BRAC continued in the Bush Administration to close and consolidate bases, a system that is continuing now.
My fiancee takes the stance that it's easier for men since we don't have to go through as much effort. Jewelry, shoes, bras, lingerie, worrying about safety and a host of other variables make it "easier" for men to date and catch a partner.
When we started dating, I threw a bag in my truck and drove six hours to her house on a whim on her invite, if it hadn't worked out I'd have bailed to my buddy's house. Not that simple for a woman in her view.
As a guy who is geeky and not that good looking, I've always experienced it as the other way around.
It's a target rich environment out there if you have some social skills and put on clean clothes. Most of the women I dated or lived with have been way better looking and desirably than I am, but I've never had trouble landing a woman.
I've said no to more women than have said no to me.
Do they refuse to live life because there is religion in it?
Not playing a game because it models religion is ridiculous. How about Chess or Risk, they bad because they model warfare?
I spaced Pennsylvania, the price of posting from work.
Louisiana is a red state so Texas could ship it over there if Texas ports aren't up to snuff. Texas has four of the ten biggest ports in the US.
Port of Houston - 202,047,327 short tons
Port of Beaumont, Texas - 91,697,948
Port of Corpus Christi, Texas - 78,924,757
Port of Texas City, Texas - 68,282,902
Except in the US the rural states are the ones the East and South keep poor by controlling large percentages of land through the BLM, National Forest Service, National Park Service and DoD.
Oh and we get the American Indian Reservations, you know the people the Blue States of the East and South kicked out 180 years ago, but the Red States feed, provide fuel and natural resources.
Look at Presidential Red States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Red_state,_blue_state.svg
They have the bulk of the military bases, Indian Reservations/Alaska Natives, food production and energy.
The Blue States are powered by the Red States, were the US to splinter along those lines, the Red States are in better strategic shape to remain a country. California, Oregon-Washington would be fine, but the North East is boned.
But what about Kingdom Come, Guns and Roses and Michael Shanker Group?
Don't discount them!