That is understandable as mine where US based. I doubt gunshot victims would have that much of an effect for the US number but something like heart disease, or diabetes both of which run rampant here because was a the home of the land whale would have a much greater effect. Insurance and actuarial tables are really quite dark and some what fascinating. I always like seeing the tables for AD&D (accidental death and dismemberment) where they put various prices on various body parts.
Maybe I should take him out to some of the areas that I hunt at in Minnesota. It doesn't matter who your carrier is, T-mobile, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, etc. None of them get any signal until you get back to the main US highway. Granted there may be just enough signal that you might receive a text message if the atmosphere is cooperating and there aren't may leaves left on the trees, but you won't ever receive a call. These aren't even that remote, it's not like I am taking them up to points past Ely as I am mostly up around Atkin (north side of Lake Mille Lacs)
Man you priorities are off I would definitely worry more about Hello Kitty than terrorists. Like you I do worry about computer security, but then that is part of my job.
I think Google would rater waste money on things other than this lawsuit. If they didn't then Oracle would end up with a default judgment and Google would have to pay them what ever retarded value they made up.
The answer to that is of course on the order of seconds, since validating input is something every programmer has done thousands of times.
If only that were true. Yes it is trivial to implement but I have see so much code that doesn't even do the most basic input checking, as in do I even have a fucking value, that I just assume that programmers are really lazy.
True. My grandfather really like games of all sorts, especially card games. He was the one who taught me how to count cards as well as how to gamble right. He read a phenomenal amount as well as remained physically active until he ended up in the hospital. After the long stay in the hospital it was all down hill for him.
I would agree. Having seen what happens to an elderly person when they go from an active lifestyle to a sedentary one with my grandfather it shouldn't be all that surprising. My grandfather played golf every day he could (we live in Minnesota so 6 months of the year you can't) and every morning did the RCMP exercise routine (stretching, pushups, vigorous walking, and other relatively light exercises). He cough pneumonia, ended up in the hospital where he got some even more awful infection and was confined to a bed for 3 months. He was never the same after that yet kept on for another 3 years and died at 81. My great aunt who died last winter made it to 98 and bowled every day almost up to her last day, she also died of pneumonia in the hospital. Now on my mothers side one of my uncles died last year at 63, his hobby was watching TV and he worked driving electric carts around the Denver air port. Yes I know the are antidotes but the night and day difference as well as some of the stuides I have seen around this would indicate that there is something to remaining active in your later years.
I think it depends on the person, especially if they are still active or not. On my mother's side of the family they are all fairly sedentary and even though they seem to have good genes for living long they are basically 1 foot in the grave for 20 years. My father's side of the family is quite different, they probably have average to slightly above average genes for longevity but they stay active. I had a great aunt who made it 98 and was bowling almost up until the day she died, it was pneumonia that got her and she ended up in the hospital last winter. My grandfather mad it to 91 and was in great shape until he got pneumonia ended up in the hospital, got some awful infection that kept him there for another 3 months confined to a bed and after that he still made it another 3 years but was never the same. My grandmother is turning 90 later this week and is still very active. She has given up driving as she no longer has the reaction time or as good of eyesight that she use to, but then most of the family lives fairly close (I am the farthest at ~40 minutes). She still gardens, volunteers at the local nature center and library, cooks and reads.
The figures I had seen (a long time ago and I don't remember where) on that put the average somewhere between 600-1000 years. Again there was still a large amount of variation.
Hell I easily have all the necessary components to built a bomb. If you reload ammo you have everything necessary to build a bomb already.
Gun powder: check
Primers: check
steel pipe: check (makes a great breaker bar)
The guys at the big threshing show here seem to be big into making those 1/10 (best guess) models and they are quite impressive. One guy has miniature hand built 1/10 or so scale Minneapolis steam tractor (sames as the big one pictured in my previous post) and some small hand built trailers that he gives kids rides on, and that one he is running at about 150 PSI. Of course these are built and designed by guys in their spare time out on their farms. I can see the cylinder liners needing to be made from something other than cast iron or mild steel but I would have thought that there would be a suitable modern replacement material that wouldn't get super expensive, or is it mostly because of the size?
If you work with any narrow gauge stuff you might want to check out these guys. They have some rather impressive stuff the largest of which is the Chicago Burlington & Quincy No. 5629 even though it is standard gauge instead of narrow gauge. They also have some of the engines that ran on the cog railway up Pike's Peak, and those are some mean looking little engines yet still a bit goofy looking.
Having been around a number of steam engines and people who own them I doubt the problem would be with materials. There are people who, as their hobby, restore old steam engines either the locomotive ones or tractors. The technology is basically the same and the large steam tractors are basically just steam locomotive with different running gear. It doesn't appear that Wikipedia or Wikimedia has very good pictures of them so I think I may need to get some pictures next year at the threshing shows. For things like boilers they were typically made from cast iron, or a very mild steel. The forged parts were typically in things like the running gear, like pistons, shafts, axles, etc. Even today there are people who create small 1/10 or so scale fully functional models from off the shelf materials. They will run run them at similar pressures (150-200 psi) as the full size brethren and will actually forge their own parts as these people seem to have the right background knowledge. As far a forging large parts we still do that but as the need for large forged parts has declined (really how many 400 ton trucks or other comparable sized equipment is needed each year) so has capacity to forge the parts.
Also be wary of KLM or Delta flights from Europe (especially from Pairs or Amsterdam) as it was the main Northwest hub until they were bought by Delta.
Since this my home town airport will they finally find the crap that I accidentally bring through security like:
Pocket knives forgotten in my pocket
Straight edge razors in the carry on suitcase
Shotgun shells forgotten in my coat pocket
Rifle round forgotten in my coat pocket
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For those who would like to read the actual 68 page ruling from Judge Katherine Forrest.
What most people don't know or understand is that his signing statement or an executive order means nothing if the law says something else.
That is understandable as mine where US based. I doubt gunshot victims would have that much of an effect for the US number but something like heart disease, or diabetes both of which run rampant here because was a the home of the land whale would have a much greater effect. Insurance and actuarial tables are really quite dark and some what fascinating. I always like seeing the tables for AD&D (accidental death and dismemberment) where they put various prices on various body parts.
Maybe I should take him out to some of the areas that I hunt at in Minnesota. It doesn't matter who your carrier is, T-mobile, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, etc. None of them get any signal until you get back to the main US highway. Granted there may be just enough signal that you might receive a text message if the atmosphere is cooperating and there aren't may leaves left on the trees, but you won't ever receive a call. These aren't even that remote, it's not like I am taking them up to points past Ely as I am mostly up around Atkin (north side of Lake Mille Lacs)
Man you priorities are off I would definitely worry more about Hello Kitty than terrorists. Like you I do worry about computer security, but then that is part of my job.
And where is the +1 sad but true mod.
And now we reach the turtles level.
Maybe we are just some physics experiment that has gone horribly wrong in their god's universe.
I offer to you virtual particles and the casimir effect which is explained by things just popping in and out of existence from no where.
I think Google would rater waste money on things other than this lawsuit. If they didn't then Oracle would end up with a default judgment and Google would have to pay them what ever retarded value they made up.
The answer to that is of course on the order of seconds, since validating input is something every programmer has done thousands of times.
If only that were true. Yes it is trivial to implement but I have see so much code that doesn't even do the most basic input checking, as in do I even have a fucking value, that I just assume that programmers are really lazy.
In the US court system yes. Actually knowing anything is probably a conflict of interest.
True. My grandfather really like games of all sorts, especially card games. He was the one who taught me how to count cards as well as how to gamble right. He read a phenomenal amount as well as remained physically active until he ended up in the hospital. After the long stay in the hospital it was all down hill for him.
I would agree. Having seen what happens to an elderly person when they go from an active lifestyle to a sedentary one with my grandfather it shouldn't be all that surprising. My grandfather played golf every day he could (we live in Minnesota so 6 months of the year you can't) and every morning did the RCMP exercise routine (stretching, pushups, vigorous walking, and other relatively light exercises). He cough pneumonia, ended up in the hospital where he got some even more awful infection and was confined to a bed for 3 months. He was never the same after that yet kept on for another 3 years and died at 81. My great aunt who died last winter made it to 98 and bowled every day almost up to her last day, she also died of pneumonia in the hospital. Now on my mothers side one of my uncles died last year at 63, his hobby was watching TV and he worked driving electric carts around the Denver air port. Yes I know the are antidotes but the night and day difference as well as some of the stuides I have seen around this would indicate that there is something to remaining active in your later years.
I think it depends on the person, especially if they are still active or not. On my mother's side of the family they are all fairly sedentary and even though they seem to have good genes for living long they are basically 1 foot in the grave for 20 years. My father's side of the family is quite different, they probably have average to slightly above average genes for longevity but they stay active. I had a great aunt who made it 98 and was bowling almost up until the day she died, it was pneumonia that got her and she ended up in the hospital last winter. My grandfather mad it to 91 and was in great shape until he got pneumonia ended up in the hospital, got some awful infection that kept him there for another 3 months confined to a bed and after that he still made it another 3 years but was never the same. My grandmother is turning 90 later this week and is still very active. She has given up driving as she no longer has the reaction time or as good of eyesight that she use to, but then most of the family lives fairly close (I am the farthest at ~40 minutes). She still gardens, volunteers at the local nature center and library, cooks and reads.
The figures I had seen (a long time ago and I don't remember where) on that put the average somewhere between 600-1000 years. Again there was still a large amount of variation.
Hell I easily have all the necessary components to built a bomb. If you reload ammo you have everything necessary to build a bomb already.
Gun powder: check
Primers: check
steel pipe: check (makes a great breaker bar)
The guys at the big threshing show here seem to be big into making those 1/10 (best guess) models and they are quite impressive. One guy has miniature hand built 1/10 or so scale Minneapolis steam tractor (sames as the big one pictured in my previous post) and some small hand built trailers that he gives kids rides on, and that one he is running at about 150 PSI. Of course these are built and designed by guys in their spare time out on their farms. I can see the cylinder liners needing to be made from something other than cast iron or mild steel but I would have thought that there would be a suitable modern replacement material that wouldn't get super expensive, or is it mostly because of the size?
If you work with any narrow gauge stuff you might want to check out these guys. They have some rather impressive stuff the largest of which is the Chicago Burlington & Quincy No. 5629 even though it is standard gauge instead of narrow gauge. They also have some of the engines that ran on the cog railway up Pike's Peak, and those are some mean looking little engines yet still a bit goofy looking.
I don't know where either of you are getting your numbers but these may help:
2010 US federal budget breakdown chart
US Military budget (uses 2010 number)
US Federal Budget (uses 2011 number)
Maybe this impressive chart from the New York Times on the 2011 budget
Then there is the XKCD Money poster that also has a federal budget breakdown Simple fact is that we spend more money on social programs than we do on military (hell I'll even toss in the veterans affairs stuff too if that makes you feel better). Yes we could probably cut massive amounts out of the budget but don't pretend that the majority of our federal spending is on the military granted it is a large portion but still not any where near the majority.
Having been around a number of steam engines and people who own them I doubt the problem would be with materials. There are people who, as their hobby, restore old steam engines either the locomotive ones or tractors. The technology is basically the same and the large steam tractors are basically just steam locomotive with different running gear. It doesn't appear that Wikipedia or Wikimedia has very good pictures of them so I think I may need to get some pictures next year at the threshing shows. For things like boilers they were typically made from cast iron, or a very mild steel. The forged parts were typically in things like the running gear, like pistons, shafts, axles, etc. Even today there are people who create small 1/10 or so scale fully functional models from off the shelf materials. They will run run them at similar pressures (150-200 psi) as the full size brethren and will actually forge their own parts as these people seem to have the right background knowledge. As far a forging large parts we still do that but as the need for large forged parts has declined (really how many 400 ton trucks or other comparable sized equipment is needed each year) so has capacity to forge the parts.
Hell we can't even manage to get cameras in the US Supreme Court and people would watch that.
Also be wary of KLM or Delta flights from Europe (especially from Pairs or Amsterdam) as it was the main Northwest hub until they were bought by Delta.
Since this my home town airport will they finally find the crap that I accidentally bring through security like:
Pocket knives forgotten in my pocket
Straight edge razors in the carry on suitcase
Shotgun shells forgotten in my coat pocket
Rifle round forgotten in my coat pocket
With the right fast growing crops used for paper you probably could print your way out of CO2 emissions.
They are too poor to achieve any real political change as I doubt any of them are billionaires.