It's not so much the Justice Dept as it is the Decider, really. The Decider wants the telcos to be able to make $lots, and so he gives the politicals running Justice their marching orders.
The Air Force decided not to upgrade the B-52's engines because the projected $ savings in fuel over the plane's lifetime wouldn't quite break even with the cost for engine replacement.
I suppose the extra range a B-52 would get was considered unimportant because of the tanker fleet.
Sigh. It's practically obligatory when you're talking about science (at least in the States, how about other countries?) to dumb it down. At least they didn't say how many ping-pong balls the rovers could carry if they were hollow.
And at least we aren't to the point of saying how many angels can dance on a rover's solar panel, or somesuch. Yet.
I still think the party's point (when it was a going concern) was to be moderate, rather than divisive. Considering who we've ended up with running the country (the Great Polarizer)...
What really shits me is that we/had/ a viable centrist third party, Reform. It had Ross Perot get it started, and he was the premier candidate in '92 and '96. I think the party had won some state elections.
Then that miserable cur Pat Buchanan came in in 2000 and hijacked the party. He'd/always/ run as Republican before. My personal theory is that he ran as a spoiler because Reform was seen as a threat to the Republican Party. So Reform split into far-right (Buchanan) and loonies (Hagelin), and we lost a damn good hope for moderates to get power back from the far-left[1] and the far-right.
ITYM "Citabria" (airbatic backwards). You can use them for just buzzing around; they're about the same speed as a Piper Cub and people do make (short) trips in those.
His biggest mistake: not filing that flight plan. Huge *huge* fuckup.
Quoted for truth. Private pilots, for the love of your friends and relatives, PLEASE file a flight plan whenever and wherever you fly. It's fucking hard to find a crash site if you don't know where to look and have to guess based on the aircraft's range. It's also a major waste of rescue time and resources, and you have an excellent chance of dying from exposure or injuries before you're found.
IOW, just crash the damn airplane into a cornfield somewhere if you want to commit suicide. Leave a note first.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless the Bellanca needs to be hand-propped to start it, it will have a battery and alternator aboard for the electric starter. If you've got that, you might as well have the alternator power radios and instruments.
I'd be surprised if any Bellanca's old or big enough to have a windmill generator aboard.
Sure, the exhaust may not be radioactive, but there will be radioactive fallout if the rocket explodes during launch or has to be destroyed.
On a pure tech perspective, I'd love to have advanced rockets, but not until we can be damn sure they won't go kablooey and kill people downrange/downwind.
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Discordianism. Quakerism. The Sufis? I think also the Amish.
Someone else can come up with other examples, I'm sure.
And eye-bleedingly ugly, at least until you change the default color scheme (can you?).
Heh. Is ISO ISO9001 compliant?
Where's Pac-Man when you need him?
I knew there was a car analogy in there somewhere.
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That's what the *criminal* court system is for.
Jesus Christ.
Why, so the lawyers can make millions and the people defrauded can get another $19 rebate?
It's not so much the Justice Dept as it is the Decider, really. The Decider wants the telcos to be able to make $lots, and so he gives the politicals running Justice their marching orders.
The Justice Department, sure. But this is the Spock's-beard-universe Justice Department, run by political hacks.
Has OpenGL branched into sound, network, and input drivers, then? DirectX is more than Direct3D.
The Air Force decided not to upgrade the B-52's engines because the projected $ savings in fuel over the plane's lifetime wouldn't quite break even with the cost for engine replacement.
I suppose the extra range a B-52 would get was considered unimportant because of the tanker fleet.
Sigh. It's practically obligatory when you're talking about science (at least in the States, how about other countries?) to dumb it down. At least they didn't say how many ping-pong balls the rovers could carry if they were hollow.
And at least we aren't to the point of saying how many angels can dance on a rover's solar panel, or somesuch. Yet.
Didn't bother reading the link?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Party_of_the_
I still think the party's point (when it was a going concern) was to be moderate, rather than divisive. Considering who we've ended up with running the country (the Great Polarizer)...
What really shits me is that we /had/ a viable centrist third party, Reform. It had Ross Perot get it started, and he was the premier candidate in '92 and '96. I think the party had won some state elections.
/always/ run as Republican before. My personal theory is that he ran as a spoiler because Reform was seen as a threat to the Republican Party. So Reform split into far-right (Buchanan) and loonies (Hagelin), and we lost a damn good hope for moderates to get power back from the far-left[1] and the far-right.
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Then that miserable cur Pat Buchanan came in in 2000 and hijacked the party. He'd
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Party_of_the_
[1] Relatively speaking, this *is* the USA.
We only have to do that because there aren't enough sheep here in the States.
You can't out-cynical reality.
Your supposition wouldn't surprise me in the least.
The paparazzi and Homintern?
Point that out to a fundie, and you'll get all sorts of mental gymnastics to "prove" that those aren't related to Christianity.
I've even had one or two who did that and claimed the US is a Christian nation.
Um, GWB? It's too bad that his father didn't get his nuts crushed when he bailed out of that Avenger.
Do you want to work for Slashdot?
ITYM "Citabria" (airbatic backwards). You can use them for just buzzing around; they're about the same speed as a Piper Cub and people do make (short) trips in those.
Quoted for truth. Private pilots, for the love of your friends and relatives, PLEASE file a flight plan whenever and wherever you fly. It's fucking hard to find a crash site if you don't know where to look and have to guess based on the aircraft's range. It's also a major waste of rescue time and resources, and you have an excellent chance of dying from exposure or injuries before you're found.
IOW, just crash the damn airplane into a cornfield somewhere if you want to commit suicide. Leave a note first.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless the Bellanca needs to be hand-propped to start it, it will have a battery and alternator aboard for the electric starter. If you've got that, you might as well have the alternator power radios and instruments.
I'd be surprised if any Bellanca's old or big enough to have a windmill generator aboard.
You'd think that he'd have an emergency transmitter aboard with its own battery.
Assuming that he checked the battery recently.
Sure, the exhaust may not be radioactive, but there will be radioactive fallout if the rocket explodes during launch or has to be destroyed.
On a pure tech perspective, I'd love to have advanced rockets, but not until we can be damn sure they won't go kablooey and kill people downrange/downwind.