As a person with cable based internet there isn't a time when I'm not at home.
If you're really saying that you never leave the house since you have broadband, I feel very sorry for you. There's a whole world out there, and it's better experienced in person.
Exactly what I was thinking - I like to have the capability to play games while travelling by air - and at my destination, I'd really rather not have to pay the daily rate for the internet connection for the 10 seconds it takes the game to authenticate. Having to carry the CDs is bad enough.
As I recall (see here), his plane was equipped with a beacon, but it likely failed. He also did have a radio, but was far enough away from anything that he probably wouldn't have been able to raise anyone on it (especially given the rugged terrai, which apparently is notorius for preventing long-range communications) - the radios in small planes generally have a fairly limited range, not more than a few hundred miles under the best of circumstances). To put into perspective just how rough and remote that area is, the article mentions that the search teams found eight(!) previously uncharted crash sites - some decades old - in the search area.
I had a similar experience with TVs when I was a kid - oddly enough, though, only black and white - color TVs either did not generate as loud a tone, or it was in a range I couldn't hear.
Some friends and I did tests with a frequency generator back then - I could hear the sound up to about 21KHz, which was just slightly higher than most of my friends. One of them, though, had fillings that resonated at just about 21KHz - he couldn't hear the sound, but it made him really uncomfortable after a few minutes - which made it a pretty good prank for about a week...
You know, since the kids didn't live through the 80's, you can introduce them to those same early 80s text adventures, and they'll still have fun with them. My daughter and I have had some good times playing Zork (download here Infocom). You can also play The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy online (BBC)
Keeping in mind that Frank Herbert also liked the script for the movie 'Dune' - just proves that authors are not always the best judges of adaptations of their work.
The problem with vouchers is that they will ultimately increase the costs for everyone, because good private schools can reject students. Private schools that must accept everyone perform no better (and sometimes worse) than public schools. See Charter-school study sparks debate.
My wife currently works in special education. They have one teacher and two aids for six kids in her classroom. Those are situations that are only provided in public schools - private schools will not touch those kids. Obviously, their education costs more than the other kids that are in classes of twenty-two or twenty-five kids per teacher. So if those kids go to private schools, taking their share (and of course their share is computed based on the average across all the kids), the cost of special ed as a proportion of the total budget goes up, and everyone's tax dollars go up to pay for it.
Given the way that meeting productivity goes down (at least in business meetings) when you get more than 8-10 participants, I'd be willing to bet that a house of representatives with 10,000 people would never even manage to fund the government, let alone get any other business done. Roll call votes would take something 2.5-3 hours (assuming roughly one second to call the representatives name, and them to reply with yay or nay) just to collect the vote. It might be more entertaining to watch, though.
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If you're really saying that you never leave the house since you have broadband, I feel very sorry for you. There's a whole world out there, and it's better experienced in person.
Exactly what I was thinking - I like to have the capability to play games while travelling by air - and at my destination, I'd really rather not have to pay the daily rate for the internet connection for the 10 seconds it takes the game to authenticate. Having to carry the CDs is bad enough.
As I recall (see here), his plane was equipped with a beacon, but it likely failed. He also did have a radio, but was far enough away from anything that he probably wouldn't have been able to raise anyone on it (especially given the rugged terrai, which apparently is notorius for preventing long-range communications) - the radios in small planes generally have a fairly limited range, not more than a few hundred miles under the best of circumstances). To put into perspective just how rough and remote that area is, the article mentions that the search teams found eight(!) previously uncharted crash sites - some decades old - in the search area.
Really? Most people I know just select one for free. Your friends must have more money than mine...
I had a similar experience with TVs when I was a kid - oddly enough, though, only black and white - color TVs either did not generate as loud a tone, or it was in a range I couldn't hear. Some friends and I did tests with a frequency generator back then - I could hear the sound up to about 21KHz, which was just slightly higher than most of my friends. One of them, though, had fillings that resonated at just about 21KHz - he couldn't hear the sound, but it made him really uncomfortable after a few minutes - which made it a pretty good prank for about a week...
Better yet, imagine an evacuated train hitting Union Station in Chicago...
You know, since the kids didn't live through the 80's, you can introduce them to those same early 80s text adventures, and they'll still have fun with them. My daughter and I have had some good times playing Zork (download here Infocom). You can also play The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy online (BBC)
Keeping in mind that Frank Herbert also liked the script for the movie 'Dune' - just proves that authors are not always the best judges of adaptations of their work.
The problem with vouchers is that they will ultimately increase the costs for everyone, because good private schools can reject students. Private schools that must accept everyone perform no better (and sometimes worse) than public schools. See Charter-school study sparks debate. My wife currently works in special education. They have one teacher and two aids for six kids in her classroom. Those are situations that are only provided in public schools - private schools will not touch those kids. Obviously, their education costs more than the other kids that are in classes of twenty-two or twenty-five kids per teacher. So if those kids go to private schools, taking their share (and of course their share is computed based on the average across all the kids), the cost of special ed as a proportion of the total budget goes up, and everyone's tax dollars go up to pay for it.
Given the way that meeting productivity goes down (at least in business meetings) when you get more than 8-10 participants, I'd be willing to bet that a house of representatives with 10,000 people would never even manage to fund the government, let alone get any other business done. Roll call votes would take something 2.5-3 hours (assuming roughly one second to call the representatives name, and them to reply with yay or nay) just to collect the vote. It might be more entertaining to watch, though.
Cool - I live in Texas, and I'm amazed to see they got that one right!
Did you actually read the summary you linked to? Because I've never seen any indication that NASA was a branch of the Illinios state government...