If you think the V-22 shouldn't be flying you have no idea how incredibly hard to control the stealth aircraft are. A v-22 pilot actually flies his aircraft, no F-22, F-35, F-117, or B2 bomber would make it very far past the end of a runway if it wasn't for the computer that ACTUALLY flies the aircraft. The pilot just points the thing in a direction and the computer makes it happen. The V-22 has no where near that sort of fly-by-wire system. The V-22 as it was tested required the pilot to actually be in control of the aircraft, not just pointing it in a direction and letting the computer do the work.
It sounds like you haven't heard anything about the V-22 in a couple decades. The V-22 is extremely high-tech. It has a glass cockpit and triple-redundant fly-by-wire-system and is currently in Operational status and flying all the time. I watched a pair of them doing fast-roping exercises a few days ago.
I researched it so I could laugh at you for falling for the carbon fiber look but quickly discovered it is in fact actual carbon fiber. I did not expect that. That is indeed a very good thing.
Because standards tell you that something will work and the current standard distributes light in a way that is useful in most cases. If you want to deviate from the standard and get some LED bulbs in interesting shapes, go ahead. I'm sure it will look great but hopefully the bulbs you use are somewhat common in case you need to replace them.
I was on a plane flying near NYC when they were having a thunderstorm and we climbed to 41,000 and it was still apparent the cloud tops were even higher. I love how awesome thunderstorms are.
There's nothing reasonable about abolishing copyright and patent law. Without those, there is no reason to create and innovate. All you'd have to do is wait around for some sucker to open their mouth and their ideas become yours. Copyright is not a privilege but a right. Notice how the word "right" is a significant part of "copyright"? I have the exclusive right to sell my works for a period of time so I don't have to worry about someone else selling them and getting all the credit. If that right was abolished, I'd have no reason to create. I bet you're one of those "sovereign" citizens, too.
That is an interesting take on it but who is going to claim adverse possession and get it? Will ownership be split up if multiple people claim it? Land has defined limits and each property only exists in a single place. I think copyright is already the proper tool for this though it has been extended beyond reasonable limits.
Just because something is no longer supported doesn't mean that anybody can come around and claim it as their own. Car analogy: if your car breaks down and you decide not to fix it, it is still your car until you say otherwise. Nobody can come and take your broken car from you without your permission. Microsoft still owns XP whether they choose to fix it or not, Apple still owns iOS 4/OSX 10.5 whether they choose to fix them or not, etc. Just because rejection of ownership usually happens after something is broken doesn't mean it has to happen.
I put a clean install of 7 on my 2003 laptop with a 2.4Ghz P4 and it ran faster than it did with a clean install of XP. Aero didn't work but I never expected it to. Vista, on the other hand, was pretty slow.
The overseas reporter delay shouldn't even really be happening anymore. I routinely make voice and video calls spanning 8 time zones with no noticeable delay.
That and the article on the research reactor were a little confusing but it seems you were acutally correct. However, North Korea is not the only one breaking promises. "After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia continued site selection fieldwork for the Sinpo LWR project. However, the North Koreans refused to pay for the work, and the project was effectively discontinued." Citation
I looked up and it looks even less clear than where I am out in the desert. The sun disappears behind the dust well before it hits the horizon. I can't see any stars less than 45 degrees above the horizon. Just because there are no pollutants doesn't mean the sky will be clear.
It would really help your credibility if you got your facts straight. Russia did help them build a power plant. That's as far as I needed to go after seeing your incredibly apologistic attitude towards NK.
Coast through Law School? The only people I've heard of coasting through Law School never made it all the way through or stopped coasting after the first quarter. You know how some movies show law students running on treadmills with their books in front of them so they can study at the same time? That actually happens in real life all the time.
From what I've read, drugs are expensive because Big Pharma sees that a plant has certain desirable properties, isolates the chemical(s) responsible, tests them, then sells them. That's very expensive. Smoking a blunt may have desirable effects but it also does many things that aren't desirable in many cases. Wouldn't you rather have a drug that eases your arthritis pain without impairing your judgement or giving you cancer? Surely the side effects of such a drug wouldn't be so significant. I've only experienced a side effect once in my life and only for a very brief time. Medicine is very complicated and there is no "one size fits all" solution.
A mythbusters episode would be cool but isn't needed. Just google the videos. It quickly becomes apparent that accuracy isn't really needed. Just keep pointing the laser at the aircraft and you'll eventually hit the cockpit.
It is apparent you aren't a parent. Parents have all sorts of superpowers. As a parent, I've done things I didn't know I could do. Have you ever jumped across a queen-size bed and grabbed your toddler's ankle just after she walked off the edge? I had no idea I could move so fast and accurately.
One theory is that gun deaths are more dramatic. Very few other ways to die or become injured involve loud noises and flying blood and guts. Kids are more likely to drown in the neighbor's pool than get shot by the neighbor's gun but drowning is very often a silent death.
I still remember the first time I learned about aerogel. The picture had a column of Aerogel about the size of a double-height coke can on one side of a balance and 3 M&Ms on the other side that weighed more.
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You didn't even get liberal right. Liberals want (wait for it...) liberal amounts of government.
If you think the V-22 shouldn't be flying you have no idea how incredibly hard to control the stealth aircraft are. A v-22 pilot actually flies his aircraft, no F-22, F-35, F-117, or B2 bomber would make it very far past the end of a runway if it wasn't for the computer that ACTUALLY flies the aircraft. The pilot just points the thing in a direction and the computer makes it happen. The V-22 has no where near that sort of fly-by-wire system. The V-22 as it was tested required the pilot to actually be in control of the aircraft, not just pointing it in a direction and letting the computer do the work.
It sounds like you haven't heard anything about the V-22 in a couple decades. The V-22 is extremely high-tech. It has a glass cockpit and triple-redundant fly-by-wire-system and is currently in Operational status and flying all the time. I watched a pair of them doing fast-roping exercises a few days ago.
I researched it so I could laugh at you for falling for the carbon fiber look but quickly discovered it is in fact actual carbon fiber. I did not expect that. That is indeed a very good thing.
Because standards tell you that something will work and the current standard distributes light in a way that is useful in most cases. If you want to deviate from the standard and get some LED bulbs in interesting shapes, go ahead. I'm sure it will look great but hopefully the bulbs you use are somewhat common in case you need to replace them.
All my fixtures are designed for light bulbs and they will certainly outlive any bulb. That's a pretty good reason for me.
I was on a plane flying near NYC when they were having a thunderstorm and we climbed to 41,000 and it was still apparent the cloud tops were even higher. I love how awesome thunderstorms are.
There's nothing reasonable about abolishing copyright and patent law. Without those, there is no reason to create and innovate. All you'd have to do is wait around for some sucker to open their mouth and their ideas become yours. Copyright is not a privilege but a right. Notice how the word "right" is a significant part of "copyright"? I have the exclusive right to sell my works for a period of time so I don't have to worry about someone else selling them and getting all the credit. If that right was abolished, I'd have no reason to create. I bet you're one of those "sovereign" citizens, too.
So your suggestion for fixing a situation that already has laws governing it is new "reasonable" laws?
There's no point in discussing this. Copyright and patents already have limits, theoretically at least.
That is an interesting take on it but who is going to claim adverse possession and get it? Will ownership be split up if multiple people claim it? Land has defined limits and each property only exists in a single place. I think copyright is already the proper tool for this though it has been extended beyond reasonable limits.
And if Microsoft decides to sell one XP license per year/decade/millenium they get to keep it?
Just because something is no longer supported doesn't mean that anybody can come around and claim it as their own. Car analogy: if your car breaks down and you decide not to fix it, it is still your car until you say otherwise. Nobody can come and take your broken car from you without your permission. Microsoft still owns XP whether they choose to fix it or not, Apple still owns iOS 4/OSX 10.5 whether they choose to fix them or not, etc. Just because rejection of ownership usually happens after something is broken doesn't mean it has to happen.
I put a clean install of 7 on my 2003 laptop with a 2.4Ghz P4 and it ran faster than it did with a clean install of XP. Aero didn't work but I never expected it to. Vista, on the other hand, was pretty slow.
The overseas reporter delay shouldn't even really be happening anymore. I routinely make voice and video calls spanning 8 time zones with no noticeable delay.
That and the article on the research reactor were a little confusing but it seems you were acutally correct. However, North Korea is not the only one breaking promises. "After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia continued site selection fieldwork for the Sinpo LWR project. However, the North Koreans refused to pay for the work, and the project was effectively discontinued." Citation
I looked up and it looks even less clear than where I am out in the desert. The sun disappears behind the dust well before it hits the horizon. I can't see any stars less than 45 degrees above the horizon. Just because there are no pollutants doesn't mean the sky will be clear.
It would really help your credibility if you got your facts straight. Russia did help them build a power plant. That's as far as I needed to go after seeing your incredibly apologistic attitude towards NK.
Coast through Law School? The only people I've heard of coasting through Law School never made it all the way through or stopped coasting after the first quarter. You know how some movies show law students running on treadmills with their books in front of them so they can study at the same time? That actually happens in real life all the time.
From what I've read, drugs are expensive because Big Pharma sees that a plant has certain desirable properties, isolates the chemical(s) responsible, tests them, then sells them. That's very expensive. Smoking a blunt may have desirable effects but it also does many things that aren't desirable in many cases. Wouldn't you rather have a drug that eases your arthritis pain without impairing your judgement or giving you cancer? Surely the side effects of such a drug wouldn't be so significant. I've only experienced a side effect once in my life and only for a very brief time. Medicine is very complicated and there is no "one size fits all" solution.
A mythbusters episode would be cool but isn't needed. Just google the videos. It quickly becomes apparent that accuracy isn't really needed. Just keep pointing the laser at the aircraft and you'll eventually hit the cockpit.
It is apparent you aren't a parent. Parents have all sorts of superpowers. As a parent, I've done things I didn't know I could do. Have you ever jumped across a queen-size bed and grabbed your toddler's ankle just after she walked off the edge? I had no idea I could move so fast and accurately.
If that's what makes you happy, sure, they winked. BTW, this was outside the States in a country where iPhones are a little harder to come by.
iPhones have a strong resale market. I've had several unsolicited offers in the last few weeks to buy my iPhone 4S.
One theory is that gun deaths are more dramatic. Very few other ways to die or become injured involve loud noises and flying blood and guts. Kids are more likely to drown in the neighbor's pool than get shot by the neighbor's gun but drowning is very often a silent death.
I still remember the first time I learned about aerogel. The picture had a column of Aerogel about the size of a double-height coke can on one side of a balance and 3 M&Ms on the other side that weighed more.