In accordance with Montana Constitution, Article II, Section 9, I understand I have the right to review information obtained through the reference
check process; however, by signing below, I realize the City of Bozeman will NOT release the information provided to them to any person, including
myself.
Elsewhere in the document does it claim that you relinquish your rights under the 13th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution?
An example, a candidate named Hans Richtenfliegen interviews with Wienerhoffman schnitzel factory. The interviewer foolishly asks Hans, who happens to be German, if he still has any relatives back in the old country. Hans, after being turned down for the job, files a complaint with his local labor board alleging he was turned down based on his national origin. After some preliminary investigations, it turns out that 50% of upper management is of Germanic dissent, and the candidate who got the job, Jorg Waldenschwimmen, was also of German dissent.
Actually, I'm pretty sure those typos eviscerated your argument.:smile:
"I never learned drafting, the core of engineering then. The archived records would presumably let skilled engineers recreate the project, but we don't have the same skills."
Please turn in your engineer card. If an engineer can't read drawings he is a liability to clients and a danger to the public.
He's not an engineer, he just plays one on teh intertubes.
They have two at Beale AFB in Marysville, CA. According to people I know who work on base, one is kept in a constant state of operational readiness. That's expensive, so you wouldn't do this unless you were using the damned thing. You'd never notice a launch, because they're launching aircraft of all sizes out of there night and day with constant training flights and U2 overflight.
Aside from the fact that all of the SR-71s and A-12s are accounted for... You're not to familiar with the area, I take it. Beale is about 30mi North of Downtown Sacramento. You know, the California state capitol. I remember the last time they lost a U-2 there at Beale. It wound up in the parking lot of the Oroville Mercury-Register on AUGUST 7, 1996 at 2:17 P.M when the pilot had an emergency and crashed on approach. It'd be kinda hard to hide Blackbird operations within a large suburbia like that.
I've been dreaming about a remote sub mission under the ice. Probably the best shot in the solar system for complex life. Screw poking around for microbes!
The problem is the ice. There's kilometers of it to get through not meters. You're going to need some serious power and probably a revolution in remote drilling technology.
But yeah, a sub on(in) Europa would be supercool. No pun intended.
How about we all stop thinking that we have better ideas than the guys who built these incredible pieces of machinery?
Yes, lets stop all this thinking and just worship our JPL overlords as we are meant to do.
Remember that bit about a week into things, Spirit went dumb because they filled up the flash memory? Remember how surprised(pleasantly so) they were when the solar panels were scrubbed the first time?
If you've done any bit of reading on these guys' blogs you would know that they are not the omniscient beings that you give them credit for being. There have been many head-slappers and OMG-we-almost-lost-the-rover moments on the way. These rovers didn't just go up to Mars and deterministically last over five years. New ideas got them there.
Furthermore, I'm not sure if it was you that ridiculed it, but the idea that an air cannon would be ruled out by Mars' low atmospheric pressure.... Laughable. In fact, that would favor the approach. Less stuff in the way of the relief tube of the particle accelerator that way. The adiabatically generated heat might even be useful as a side bene.
Toll roads are more of a congestion tax than a usage tax for maintenance. The effect of a
toll on a road is to push traffic onto parallel arteries. Even the simplest handheld GPS
recievers or cellphones that do turn by turn routing have a setting to avoid toll roads.
With the Garmin Nuvis it's on by default. There is obviously a demand and it is external to
the ownership of a GPS receiver. The effect of the existence of toll roads is that non-toll
roads get more traffic than if the toll roads were "free". This means that non-toll roads
have higher maintenance costs if they are viable, legal routes. The extreme example is
London's congestion fee where all roads are effectively toll roads and "non-toll roads"
translate to alternative transportation modes such as public transit and bikes of engine-
and human-powered persuasions.
The damage a vehicle does to a road is (broadly) proportional to the fourth power of its
axle load for each of its axles. For a more complete discussion
click here. That's not a factor of four, that's exponential. Double the weight on the
axles and you do sixteen times the damage to the road. That means that a average loaded
semi(articulated lorry for the UKers) or a bus does over 1100 times the damage that a
ridiculously overloaded (8000lb) Hummer H1 does per trip. A 2500lb Prius is better by about a factor of
105 than the Hummer.
Fuel taxes in the U.S. do not exclusively go to road-maintenance and administrative
overhead, some goes to various transportation research and safety research and other things.
However, 80% of the federal tax revenue does go to road and bridge construction. 90% of the
Interstate Highway System's budget is Federal money. The average gasoline tax is $0.47/gal
with a range of 62.8(CA) to 26.4(AK) cents. Diesel is 53.6 average with a range of 70.6(HI)
to 24.4(AK). Apparently, Alaska doesn't themselves tax diesel. Obligatory wiki
link. Toll roads also get some of this money. While gasoline taxes are slightly lower
than diesel taxes (18.4 vs. 24.4, federal) the primary users of diesel are heavies, like
semis and buses. This means that automotive users are effectively subsidizing the roads for
the heavies, especially as the heavies tend to be more efficient per ton/mile than autos in
moving their cargo and tend to stick to the interstates more. The payback is, of course,
lower shipping costs for consumer goods. However, and there is always a however, it could
also be argued that shifting the cost through an indirect path increases the chance of(read
virtually guarantees) additional cost in arbitrage(middle-man suck or, for Civilization
players, corruption).
Tolls for commercial vehicles tend to be higher than for automobiles, but not in proportion
to their weight, cargo weight, or especially the damage they do to the infrastructure. (See
above) The tolls are a tiny percentage of the cost of shipping, especially in time saved
which is usually a prime cost factor. The cost of the tolls will simply be rolled into the
shipping costs anyways. Lower income drivers will be incentivised to choose alternate
routes shifting congestion elsewhere or perhaps abandoning their plans for travel
altogether. Even drivers that don't feel the cost as anything but a nuisance may be
disincented on principle. Toll roads thus tend to become an infrastructure biased for the
wealthy and commercial interests although not strictly to the exclusion of the poor. And
everyone pays for them. Just like NFL franchises and operas.
While Eisenhower was impressed by the autobahns that the Nazis built and the speed with
which military transport could be carried out on them and sold the Interstate highway system
on national security grounds, a knock-on effect was the change it had on society. Suddenly
people could have freinds and not just pen pals in other regions. "Those people
There's something unnerving, to me, about a group of people SO solidified in their belief that this is not just the best thing to do, but the RIGHT thing to do
What did that for you? The last Eight years? Extra-legal renditions. Tacit approval of torture? "Find me a way to argue that this is legal" rather than obeying the golden rule?
Well, to be fair, he also invoked Superman:
"...we are Americans, united not by race, or religion, or blood, but to our commitment to freedom, and justice for all."
That is the closer to last phrase of the Pledge of Allegiance. One word is different, "Liberty" is swapped for "Freedom". You didn't pay much attention in grammar school or you're not a US citizen.
As the AC says, Superman's line is "...Truth, Justice, and the American way".
Nice fantastically long nay-saying comment. One problem. The current ideas for lunar bases reside at the poles where constant sunlight and constant shadow coexist.
I presume you're talking about the bureau number. The two digit dash four to six digit number? The two digits are the year that the money was allocated by Congress, not necessarily the year it was built. The six digits are a generally sequential serial for the service in question(USAF, Navy/Marines, Army, Coast Guard). There are exceptions for the serial portion usually dealing with inter-branch transfers and if significant modifications are done the craft could wind up with a whole new number. The two F-5s that became X-37s went from 63-8372 to 82-0003 and 65-10573 changed to 82-0049. Also they became Grummans
Despite what scientists originally thought, these holes allow 20 times the normal amount of solar particles through when they are facing away from the sun. This being opposite from what the scientists had originally speculated.
Apparently submitted by the department of redundancy department apparently, the problem is that's not what the article actually says.
Scientists once believed that the particles entered when the sun's magnetic field was aligned opposite to that of the Earth's. But findings presented at the meeting show that 20 times more solar particles enter the Earth's magnetic field when it is aligned in the same direction as the sun's magnetic field.
It the alignment of the fields North-to-South being discussed and nightside effects are not explicitly discussed.
Some clarification by a physicist would seem in order.
Forget the isopropyl. Fill it with ethanol and acetone. That way when she goes out she can be the center of conversation as people gossip behind her back about what a lush she's become.
And after reading a paper about how most arthropods may actually hybrids between two or more original animals, I completely gave up on that idea. Some people think that an insect and its larvae were originally two separate animals. So on which branch of the tree do you place the hybrid ?
Are you sure you parsed that correctly? "Some people originally believed that an insect and its larvae were two separate animals" and "some people think that an insect and its larvae were originally two separate animals" are two non-equivalent statements. I do know that there have been some species where the adults were so morphologically distinct and so divergent in lifestyle and habitat from the larvae that the connection had never been made between the two until recently. What exactly would be the mechanism for two species to glom together such that one becomes the progenitor for the other?
Secret ballots are not constitutionally provided. It was, in fact, considered unmanly to vote without your fellows knowing how you were voting. The.Aussies gave us the modern secret ballot.
Real military REFORM involves sorting the "pork from the chaff"
That has to be one of the more ludicrous statements that is present in this discussion.
The 'pork' and the 'chaff' are both waste products to be discarded. They're from separate metaphors that you've globbed together.
The saying goes 'sort the wheat from the chaff' although you probably don't understand it.
Both the pork, and the chaff, need to be sorted out and discarded.
On the contrary, separating the pork and the chaff is vital.
Chaff is useful as compost. "Globbing" the two together is indeed a mistake. As anyone who does backyard composting can attest, meat products in your compost attracts scavengers. In addition, in the future, if our biochemists are successful, that chaff might be biofuel. At the very least, that chaff would be useful as bedding for our hamster brethren that power our web servers.
And pork? Can you say sausage? Mmmm, porky goodness. Protein and fats. Food fuel for our soldiers.
No, sir. Discarding the chaff and pork is a real waste.
Or maybe the cops would just pull over the other 93.5678% of the speeding population that doesn't own an iPhone.
Why would they give up the revenue from that 6.4322% of the population that has so visibly demonstrated a willingness to be parted with their money?;~)
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Elsewhere in the document does it claim that you relinquish your rights under the 13th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution?
Actually, I'm pretty sure those typos eviscerated your argument. :smile:
It's April 1st in Moscow already?
He's not an engineer, he just plays one on teh intertubes.
Aside from the fact that all of the SR-71s and A-12s are accounted for... You're not to familiar with the area, I take it. Beale is about 30mi North of Downtown Sacramento. You know, the California state capitol. I remember the last time they lost a U-2 there at Beale. It wound up in the parking lot of the Oroville Mercury-Register on AUGUST 7, 1996 at 2:17 P.M when the pilot had an emergency and crashed on approach. It'd be kinda hard to hide Blackbird operations within a large suburbia like that.
I still think they missed the boat on Jumping Jehosaphat.
The problem is the ice. There's kilometers of it to get through not meters. You're going to need some serious power and probably a revolution in remote drilling technology.
But yeah, a sub on(in) Europa would be supercool. No pun intended.
Yes, lets stop all this thinking and just worship our JPL overlords as we are meant to do.
Remember that bit about a week into things, Spirit went dumb because they filled up the flash memory? Remember how surprised(pleasantly so) they were when the solar panels were scrubbed the first time?
If you've done any bit of reading on these guys' blogs you would know that they are not the omniscient beings that you give them credit for being. There have been many head-slappers and OMG-we-almost-lost-the-rover moments on the way. These rovers didn't just go up to Mars and deterministically last over five years. New ideas got them there.
Furthermore, I'm not sure if it was you that ridiculed it, but the idea that an air cannon would be ruled out by Mars' low atmospheric pressure.... Laughable. In fact, that would favor the approach. Less stuff in the way of the relief tube of the particle accelerator that way. The adiabatically generated heat might even be useful as a side bene.
The damage a vehicle does to a road is (broadly) proportional to the fourth power of its axle load for each of its axles. For a more complete discussion click here. That's not a factor of four, that's exponential. Double the weight on the axles and you do sixteen times the damage to the road. That means that a average loaded semi(articulated lorry for the UKers) or a bus does over 1100 times the damage that a ridiculously overloaded (8000lb) Hummer H1 does per trip. A 2500lb Prius is better by about a factor of 105 than the Hummer.
Fuel taxes in the U.S. do not exclusively go to road-maintenance and administrative overhead, some goes to various transportation research and safety research and other things. However, 80% of the federal tax revenue does go to road and bridge construction. 90% of the Interstate Highway System's budget is Federal money. The average gasoline tax is $0.47/gal with a range of 62.8(CA) to 26.4(AK) cents. Diesel is 53.6 average with a range of 70.6(HI) to 24.4(AK). Apparently, Alaska doesn't themselves tax diesel. Obligatory wiki link. Toll roads also get some of this money. While gasoline taxes are slightly lower than diesel taxes (18.4 vs. 24.4, federal) the primary users of diesel are heavies, like semis and buses. This means that automotive users are effectively subsidizing the roads for the heavies, especially as the heavies tend to be more efficient per ton/mile than autos in moving their cargo and tend to stick to the interstates more. The payback is, of course, lower shipping costs for consumer goods. However, and there is always a however, it could also be argued that shifting the cost through an indirect path increases the chance of(read virtually guarantees) additional cost in arbitrage(middle-man suck or, for Civilization players, corruption).
Tolls for commercial vehicles tend to be higher than for automobiles, but not in proportion to their weight, cargo weight, or especially the damage they do to the infrastructure. (See above) The tolls are a tiny percentage of the cost of shipping, especially in time saved which is usually a prime cost factor. The cost of the tolls will simply be rolled into the shipping costs anyways. Lower income drivers will be incentivised to choose alternate routes shifting congestion elsewhere or perhaps abandoning their plans for travel altogether. Even drivers that don't feel the cost as anything but a nuisance may be disincented on principle. Toll roads thus tend to become an infrastructure biased for the wealthy and commercial interests although not strictly to the exclusion of the poor. And everyone pays for them. Just like NFL franchises and operas.
While Eisenhower was impressed by the autobahns that the Nazis built and the speed with which military transport could be carried out on them and sold the Interstate highway system on national security grounds, a knock-on effect was the change it had on society. Suddenly people could have freinds and not just pen pals in other regions. "Those people
Nah. The FBI just used their standard extrapolation, like they do in drug busts. So $9,000,000 is the STREET VALUE of the money stolen...oh, wait.
What did that for you? The last Eight years? Extra-legal renditions. Tacit approval of torture? "Find me a way to argue that this is legal" rather than obeying the golden rule?
That is the closer to last phrase of the Pledge of Allegiance. One word is different, "Liberty" is swapped for "Freedom". You didn't pay much attention in grammar school or you're not a US citizen. As the AC says, Superman's line is "...Truth, Justice, and the American way".
Nice fantastically long nay-saying comment. One problem. The current ideas for lunar bases reside at the poles where constant sunlight and constant shadow coexist.
Actually, it does. That's where the spinning faster bit comes in.
I presume you're talking about the bureau number. The two digit dash four to six digit number? The two digits are the year that the money was allocated by Congress, not necessarily the year it was built. The six digits are a generally sequential serial for the service in question(USAF, Navy/Marines, Army, Coast Guard). There are exceptions for the serial portion usually dealing with inter-branch transfers and if significant modifications are done the craft could wind up with a whole new number. The two F-5s that became X-37s went from 63-8372 to 82-0003 and 65-10573 changed to 82-0049. Also they became Grummans
Apparently submitted by the department of redundancy department apparently, the problem is that's not what the article actually says.
It the alignment of the fields North-to-South being discussed and nightside effects are not explicitly discussed. Some clarification by a physicist would seem in order.
Forget the isopropyl. Fill it with ethanol and acetone. That way when she goes out she can be the center of conversation as people gossip behind her back about what a lush she's become.
Are you sure you parsed that correctly? "Some people originally believed that an insect and its larvae were two separate animals" and "some people think that an insect and its larvae were originally two separate animals" are two non-equivalent statements. I do know that there have been some species where the adults were so morphologically distinct and so divergent in lifestyle and habitat from the larvae that the connection had never been made between the two until recently. What exactly would be the mechanism for two species to glom together such that one becomes the progenitor for the other?
Or really, really well...
Secret ballots are not constitutionally provided. It was, in fact, considered unmanly to vote without your fellows knowing how you were voting. The .Aussies gave us the modern secret ballot.
The fact is, no one like(d/s) the impacts of a launch success. Do your own search for the reality.
On the contrary, separating the pork and the chaff is vital. Chaff is useful as compost. "Globbing" the two together is indeed a mistake. As anyone who does backyard composting can attest, meat products in your compost attracts scavengers. In addition, in the future, if our biochemists are successful, that chaff might be biofuel. At the very least, that chaff would be useful as bedding for our hamster brethren that power our web servers.
And pork? Can you say sausage? Mmmm, porky goodness. Protein and fats. Food fuel for our soldiers.
No, sir. Discarding the chaff and pork is a real waste.
some poor registrar somewhere is going to cry. Fixed that for you. Congratulations, we've just invented a new type of ransomware.
Why would they give up the revenue from that 6.4322% of the population that has so visibly demonstrated a willingness to be parted with their money? ;~)