Spacecraft often turn like aircraft because that is the easiest on the human body. A 9G turn is hard when it pushes straight down on you, imagine being pushed against your armrest with that force. Not to mention, you can only handle -2-3G without redding out.
I was visiting my parents the other day and watching tv on the LCD they were borrowing and saw the worst possible thing: CBS was broadcasting a 4:3 aspect ratio with a 16:9 tv show inside it. Not only that, a storm was coming in and the weather overlays were 16:9 squeezed to fit into 4:3. There were black bars everywhere with stuff spilling into the top and bottom ones. If you zoomed the tv to fit the show, you lost part of the weather overlays. It was the most retarded crap I've ever seen.
I asked my Spanish teacher, who at one point also taught French, what language she thought in and she replied,"It is really just a jumble of all 3 at once." I found that to be weird until I saw a nice pair of shoes and thought,"Those are nice zapatos."
I'm calling bullshit. My wife got a really good laptop a couple months ago and it takes well over a minute to boot XP and I know for a fact that Vista takes longer to boot than XP(I have Vista on my laptop that used to have XP). If it takes only 15 seconds to load Vista and Firefox, you have a far better system than "decent".
I found a sticker on a car that gave travel distances on gasoline and alternative fuels. Basically, you could go as far on a tank of gasoline while driving it like a racecar as you could on alternative fuels while trying to get the best mileage possible. For many people, that drastic decrease in range is not worth the slight decrease in cost.
Your subject line is almost spot on, then. You don't understand art, fake or not. I hope you learn to understand it soon. Your life will become much more bright and rich.
You keep dodging the issue. Assume the books are the same titles, claim to be written by Tolkien, and Frodo goes to Mordor to destroy the One ring. Assume that, for the most part, everything that happens in the real books happens in these books. In other words, assume the author is trying to pass off these books as the real deal. Wouldn't you be disappointed to learn this, disappointed that you were tricked into believing you were reading LOTR? Copying an author's story in that author's style is easy and doesn't make you an author in any way. Why would you give any credit at all to the fraudster? The fraudster wasn't the genius behind the story and its eloquence. The fraudster now has your money and you have nothing but a cheap fake.
I understand how you feel about LOTR and I feel the same way but books aren't the same as paintings. Authors write books hoping to sell as many copies as possible and the words themselves are the important part. Imagine if you bought the LOTR books. You read them and enjoy them but then you find out that Tolkien didn't actually write those books but it was someone else writing in the same style with all the same names and places. Yes, you did enjoy it but would you enjoy it again knowing the story was a fake and not quite the real thing?
I know I made fun of you earlier but think about this. When one copies a piece of art, you say it is just as good as the original but you are missing something. The person making the copy isn't inspired, they didn't come up with the painting. They didn't do the hard part. Creating copies of art is easy, creating art is not. That is part of the value of a painting.
Planets and moons are only round because their gravity is strong enough to form them into spheres. Many asteroids aren't spheres because they are too small.
The US had some yellow bomblets that looked an awful lot like the yellow food packages being airdroped. I believe the food packages are now pink to differentiate them from the bombs.
It would be hard to keep the airdrop a secret from the corrupt government? There was a story recently about warlords intercepting the laptops and using them for their own purposes. How do you keep them from searching the villages for the laptops?
Being poor doesn't necessarily make you stupid, or even uneducated. It doesn't make you stupid, but it can keep you from becoming smarter if you start out stupid. Education is hard to come by in poor countries because the teachers often have to stop teaching to take care of sick relatives.
You are right about the military being able to set up advanced communications in a war zone but I doubt those systems are meant to stay for very long. It is a noble goal, but there are goals that should be reached first. The Internet is a luxury, not a basic necessity. Once the basic necessities are taken care of in a place, only then can we consider helping them acquire luxuries.
How do you propose we get Internet access to these people? We can't even get food or water to them. You listed corruption, war, and market failures as reasons for that but then you ignore them when you start talking about the Internet. Food and water don't need much infrastructure for transport, just people. Unfortunately, the Internet doesn't work like that.
Why would you multiply "teeny tiny savings" by "billions of humans"? Billions of humans don't have dragsters or supercomputers. Very few have either one and fewer still have both.
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Spacecraft often turn like aircraft because that is the easiest on the human body. A 9G turn is hard when it pushes straight down on you, imagine being pushed against your armrest with that force. Not to mention, you can only handle -2-3G without redding out.
I was visiting my parents the other day and watching tv on the LCD they were borrowing and saw the worst possible thing: CBS was broadcasting a 4:3 aspect ratio with a 16:9 tv show inside it. Not only that, a storm was coming in and the weather overlays were 16:9 squeezed to fit into 4:3. There were black bars everywhere with stuff spilling into the top and bottom ones. If you zoomed the tv to fit the show, you lost part of the weather overlays. It was the most retarded crap I've ever seen.
I asked my Spanish teacher, who at one point also taught French, what language she thought in and she replied,"It is really just a jumble of all 3 at once." I found that to be weird until I saw a nice pair of shoes and thought,"Those are nice zapatos."
I'm calling bullshit. My wife got a really good laptop a couple months ago and it takes well over a minute to boot XP and I know for a fact that Vista takes longer to boot than XP(I have Vista on my laptop that used to have XP). If it takes only 15 seconds to load Vista and Firefox, you have a far better system than "decent".
I was pretty sure you were going to point out that 1.4 seconds isn't faster than 1.1 seconds but then you went a completely different direction.
I found a sticker on a car that gave travel distances on gasoline and alternative fuels. Basically, you could go as far on a tank of gasoline while driving it like a racecar as you could on alternative fuels while trying to get the best mileage possible. For many people, that drastic decrease in range is not worth the slight decrease in cost.
if you purchase hardware that is well-supported in the first place, you don't have these problems.
Yep, that's true. Except, 5 years ago when I bought my first and only laptop, I didn't even know Linux existed.
You've got to be kidding about that window! My parents' west wall stays 90 degrees for well after an hour after sunset.
Just because you can afford something doesn't mean you want to or should get it.
I saw the same thing on my iPhone. Unfortunately, the close button rarely works on those kind of popups and I had to reload the page.
Your subject line is almost spot on, then. You don't understand art, fake or not. I hope you learn to understand it soon. Your life will become much more bright and rich.
You keep dodging the issue. Assume the books are the same titles, claim to be written by Tolkien, and Frodo goes to Mordor to destroy the One ring. Assume that, for the most part, everything that happens in the real books happens in these books. In other words, assume the author is trying to pass off these books as the real deal. Wouldn't you be disappointed to learn this, disappointed that you were tricked into believing you were reading LOTR? Copying an author's story in that author's style is easy and doesn't make you an author in any way. Why would you give any credit at all to the fraudster? The fraudster wasn't the genius behind the story and its eloquence. The fraudster now has your money and you have nothing but a cheap fake.
I understand how you feel about LOTR and I feel the same way but books aren't the same as paintings. Authors write books hoping to sell as many copies as possible and the words themselves are the important part. Imagine if you bought the LOTR books. You read them and enjoy them but then you find out that Tolkien didn't actually write those books but it was someone else writing in the same style with all the same names and places. Yes, you did enjoy it but would you enjoy it again knowing the story was a fake and not quite the real thing?
I know I made fun of you earlier but think about this. When one copies a piece of art, you say it is just as good as the original but you are missing something. The person making the copy isn't inspired, they didn't come up with the painting. They didn't do the hard part. Creating copies of art is easy, creating art is not. That is part of the value of a painting.
Wow! You really reeled them in! I'd have to say you have done the finest trolling I have ever seen! How do I get so good?
Planets and moons are only round because their gravity is strong enough to form them into spheres. Many asteroids aren't spheres because they are too small.
The billboards for Jobing.com confuse and anger me. Don't we already have a word for jobing that works well?
The US had some yellow bomblets that looked an awful lot like the yellow food packages being airdroped. I believe the food packages are now pink to differentiate them from the bombs.
It would be hard to keep the airdrop a secret from the corrupt government? There was a story recently about warlords intercepting the laptops and using them for their own purposes. How do you keep them from searching the villages for the laptops?
You are right about the military being able to set up advanced communications in a war zone but I doubt those systems are meant to stay for very long. It is a noble goal, but there are goals that should be reached first. The Internet is a luxury, not a basic necessity. Once the basic necessities are taken care of in a place, only then can we consider helping them acquire luxuries.
How do you propose we get Internet access to these people? We can't even get food or water to them. You listed corruption, war, and market failures as reasons for that but then you ignore them when you start talking about the Internet. Food and water don't need much infrastructure for transport, just people. Unfortunately, the Internet doesn't work like that.
Why would you multiply "teeny tiny savings" by "billions of humans"? Billions of humans don't have dragsters or supercomputers. Very few have either one and fewer still have both.
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That was an informative article but I didn't see anything about Facebook. At least there weren't ads and they kept it to one page!