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On February 10, 2010, CME purchased of 90% of Dow Jones Indexes including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, News Corp owns the other 10% through ownership of Dow Jones & Company.
If you were to read the link, somehow he pulls over $150 billion in pension and health plans in as "defense", and a huge chunk of Intelligence, which doesn't report to the Department of Defense and thus are not defense spending.
I am surprised he didn't lump Department of Education in there (the soldiers learned to read somewhere!) and Department of Agriculture (the soldiers eat food grown in the United States!). Or Department of Transportation (the soldiers often drive to work on highways funded by the United States Government!)
A bloodsport involves violence against animals, so by it's very definition as an automobile race, the Indy 500 isn't a bloodsport.
If 56 spectators have died at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway which over the last 102 years has about 25-26,000,000 total spectators, that means the chance of dying at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is much, much lower than say, taking a bath, or crossing the street.
0.2 per 100,000 spectators die at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in 2009 there are 11.01 fatalities from auto accidents per 100,000 people. So being in the stands is much, much safer than being in a car.
I know saying "a significant fraction of Mach" sounds really cool, but 220 mph isn't that fast compared to the speed of sound at the altitude of Indy. 220 miles per hour is going to be less than 30% of the speed of sound. (at 30 C the speed of sound at the raceway is going to be roughly 780 mph)
As for comparing a marathon to a automobile race, you are the one who is arguing that racing against other individuals is too dangerous. That danger extends to marathons too. In the 2009 Detroit Marathon there were 19,326 runners, with 3 dead that is a death rate of 15.5 per 100,000, much, much more dangerous than spectating at an auto race.
If you'd looked at a map of Anchorage you'd see that to the north is Knik Arm (which the Knik Bridge would cross to Point MacKenzie), to the east are mountains, to the south is Turnagain Arm and to the west is water.
But they are creating slow cultural suicide with declining birth rates and an aging population without enough young workers to support the welfare system for the older generation.
As for being more civilized, the acts committed by Imperial Japan across eastern Asia and the Pacific Rim really call that civilization into question.
Please tell me how German civilization is superior to all other European cultures.
Well since Manning's stem cell therapy didn't help and he still had to have the surgery he was trying to avoid, I think this has something to do with less rigid medical regulation.
But the clinic got over $100,000 in medical fees, so someone came out ahead.
Three people died in the 2009 Detroit Marathon, so should road races be run by individuals? Or hell, it's a "gladiatorial combat" and should be banned?
Now to your point about Indianapolis, only 17 drivers have died there during races, not 56. 33 died in single driver testing or qualifications, the very model you advocate.
You don't understand the concept of a "race" do you?
A race has multiple competitors on the field. A time trial or technical event is a timed event were competitors go one at a time to try and establish the best time for the course.
As for auto racing, (you can't just single out NASCAR), they do time trials in the qualification part of a race week to establish starting position.
"If the mirror and heat-shield concepts can be perfected, NGST promises a quantum leap in knowledge. Yet its cost, estimated at $500 million, is roughly as much as a single shuttle mission. "It's a real bargain," says Mather, especially if it fulfills its promise to deliver dazzling new views of the early universe."
Who the hell do you think builds space telescope and space shuttles?
Wealthy corporations.
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is the principal optical subcontractor for the JWST program, led by prime contractor Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, with industrial partner Lockheed-Martin for other sensors.
"Veterans' program overpayments cost $800 million annually."
Yet the James Webb space telescope is 1700% over budget and 11 years late, and that is right now, with the James Webb's program history, it'll likely be 3400% overbudget and 22 years late before it's completed.
That's worse cost inflation than the F-35 program, which is notorious in aerospace circles as a ballooning budget running late.
Anyone who knows anything about paleogeology and ore body formation knows that the submitter's article summary is wrong.
Ore bodies formed in a number of different ways and not all of the heavy elements "were sucked into Earth's molten iron core soon after our planet formed."
While some metals found on the surface probably came from asteroids (Platinum group), that isn't true for the bulk of heavy elements and ore bodies.
Of course all the heavier elements came from the star that was around here before our Sun and solar system formed, but that doesn't mean what we find on the surface all came from meteorites and asteroids after the planet's formation.
At my work if I miss a deadline, I don't get shot for being counter-revolutionary.
At my work if I make a crack about a supervisor or the boss, I won't get sent out to a prison in coldest Alaska to mine lead.*
So can you see the diferences between Lenin and Stalinist Communism and the modern western workplace?
* - Red Dog, the largest zinc body and one of the largest lead bodies on the planet is actually a good place to work, high pay, 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off, free transportation to the site. Wish I could get a job out there.
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The Wall Street Journal is published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation.
On February 10, 2010, CME purchased of 90% of Dow Jones Indexes including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, News Corp owns the other 10% through ownership of Dow Jones & Company.
If you were to read the link, somehow he pulls over $150 billion in pension and health plans in as "defense", and a huge chunk of Intelligence, which doesn't report to the Department of Defense and thus are not defense spending.
I am surprised he didn't lump Department of Education in there (the soldiers learned to read somewhere!) and Department of Agriculture (the soldiers eat food grown in the United States!). Or Department of Transportation (the soldiers often drive to work on highways funded by the United States Government!)
A bloodsport involves violence against animals, so by it's very definition as an automobile race, the Indy 500 isn't a bloodsport.
If 56 spectators have died at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway which over the last 102 years has about 25-26,000,000 total spectators, that means the chance of dying at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is much, much lower than say, taking a bath, or crossing the street.
0.2 per 100,000 spectators die at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in 2009 there are 11.01 fatalities from auto accidents per 100,000 people. So being in the stands is much, much safer than being in a car.
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
I know saying "a significant fraction of Mach" sounds really cool, but 220 mph isn't that fast compared to the speed of sound at the altitude of Indy. 220 miles per hour is going to be less than 30% of the speed of sound. (at 30 C the speed of sound at the raceway is going to be roughly 780 mph)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound#Tables
As for comparing a marathon to a automobile race, you are the one who is arguing that racing against other individuals is too dangerous. That danger extends to marathons too. In the 2009 Detroit Marathon there were 19,326 runners, with 3 dead that is a death rate of 15.5 per 100,000, much, much more dangerous than spectating at an auto race.
That would be fracking awesome.
Like Robot Nixon.
Bridge to Nowhere wasn't near Anchorage, it was Ketchikan to Gravina Island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
If you'd looked at a map of Anchorage you'd see that to the north is Knik Arm (which the Knik Bridge would cross to Point MacKenzie), to the east are mountains, to the south is Turnagain Arm and to the west is water.
Bridges are infrastructure projects everywhere.
But they are creating slow cultural suicide with declining birth rates and an aging population without enough young workers to support the welfare system for the older generation.
As for being more civilized, the acts committed by Imperial Japan across eastern Asia and the Pacific Rim really call that civilization into question.
Please tell me how German civilization is superior to all other European cultures.
Well since Manning's stem cell therapy didn't help and he still had to have the surgery he was trying to avoid, I think this has something to do with less rigid medical regulation.
But the clinic got over $100,000 in medical fees, so someone came out ahead.
Three people died in the 2009 Detroit Marathon, so should road races be run by individuals? Or hell, it's a "gladiatorial combat" and should be banned?
Now to your point about Indianapolis, only 17 drivers have died there during races, not 56. 33 died in single driver testing or qualifications, the very model you advocate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indianapolis_500_fatal_accidents
This aircraft was not a stock WW2 Mustang, it was a heavily modified racing plane. It could have had an ejection seat.
SKS-94s have been marketed since the mid-90s for propeller driven racers like this one was.
You don't understand the concept of a "race" do you?
A race has multiple competitors on the field. A time trial or technical event is a timed event were competitors go one at a time to try and establish the best time for the course.
As for auto racing, (you can't just single out NASCAR), they do time trials in the qualification part of a race week to establish starting position.
Being in peak physical condition at 74 doesn't mean his vascular or neurological systems were in peak condition.
Humans age, systems start working less efficiently, there is no way to avoid that.
Sorry, original budget estimate was $500 million.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n39_v13/ai_19964936/
"If the mirror and heat-shield concepts can be perfected, NGST promises a quantum leap in knowledge. Yet its cost, estimated at $500 million, is roughly as much as a single shuttle mission. "It's a real bargain," says Mather, especially if it fulfills its promise to deliver dazzling new views of the early universe."
Who the hell do you think builds space telescope and space shuttles?
Wealthy corporations.
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is the principal optical subcontractor for the JWST program, led by prime contractor Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, with industrial partner Lockheed-Martin for other sensors.
Hell the Libyan War is cheaper than NASA.
"Veterans' program overpayments cost $800 million annually."
Yet the James Webb space telescope is 1700% over budget and 11 years late, and that is right now, with the James Webb's program history, it'll likely be 3400% overbudget and 22 years late before it's completed.
That's worse cost inflation than the F-35 program, which is notorious in aerospace circles as a ballooning budget running late.
Because it's "completely mental" to cancel something that is 1700% over budget and 11 years late.
When it was proposed, it was going to cost $.5 billion and launch in 2007. Now it is going to cost $8.7 billion and launch in 2018.
How is that sort of program management "fucking awesome"?
Since he got arrested at 3am local time, I don't think he's going to have a job much longer.
Not all cancer comes from cigarette exposure. So tags 1 and 2 still don't apply.
I had cancer, which of your two tags covers that?
Why are you against nuclear power plants but for nuclear power plants?
A Thorium cycle reactor is still a nuclear fission power plant which produces radioactive nuclear waste.
Anyone who knows anything about paleogeology and ore body formation knows that the submitter's article summary is wrong.
Ore bodies formed in a number of different ways and not all of the heavy elements "were sucked into Earth's molten iron core soon after our planet formed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore#Ore_deposits
While some metals found on the surface probably came from asteroids (Platinum group), that isn't true for the bulk of heavy elements and ore bodies.
Of course all the heavier elements came from the star that was around here before our Sun and solar system formed, but that doesn't mean what we find on the surface all came from meteorites and asteroids after the planet's formation.
Thanks, I'll go poke at the beast sometime this week and email you.
At my work if I miss a deadline, I don't get shot for being counter-revolutionary.
At my work if I make a crack about a supervisor or the boss, I won't get sent out to a prison in coldest Alaska to mine lead.*
So can you see the diferences between Lenin and Stalinist Communism and the modern western workplace?
* - Red Dog, the largest zinc body and one of the largest lead bodies on the planet is actually a good place to work, high pay, 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off, free transportation to the site. Wish I could get a job out there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dog_Mine,_Alaska
Can you get the document to email feature on my office C35 to work for more than 3 months at a time?
We got a C35 in August of 2010 and we've had 7 service calls on it.