Yep, If they just want a giant / spacious chopper for the president then they should just have ordered a pretty-painted Chinook:) Proven, developed (far cheaper) and reliable.
The 747 was the "Queen of the Skies" for almost 40 years. It has a very recognizable profile. Every flight I have ever been on has always announced the make and model of aircraft we were on.
Some of the less produced or obscure aircraft may not be known, but the 747 is definitely an exception to that.
Poor form to not use preview: By "see a 'toxic' environment'" I obviously meant "seeing an exoplanet that is clearly supporting life with such strange atmospheric conditions (= toxic oxygen)"
I appreciate what you are saying, and I really keep up on this stuff. Most of that is star crossings and measuring the star / planet variations. What I was really referring to was a 'proper' telescope that could collect light directly from planets that do not have a orbit is in the same plane as planet Earth. We have the tech to detect many more planets just by their emitted light, but we seem to either kill those projects or not have the will to carry them through. I for one would love to live long enough to see a 'toxic' environment:)
Well, in a way we can leave the Solar System. A sufficiently large telescope should be able to collect light spectrum from an extra-solar planet. This spectra should be able to difinitively indicate whether there is life on that planet (stable oxygen atmosphere for example). Not that we will be able to examine it directly, but we would still have that knowledge.
This is something that is do-able in our lifetimes, and something I would love to see done.
OK, thanks for the good info. All I can say is that my landlord also followed the common belief as well, and put up with it. I think that the utilities shutoff in winter still holds (it is a CO-OP in northern Wisconsin)
In Wisconsin you are not allowed to evict a tenant between November and March (IIRC). The idea is that people can freeze to death without a home.
The same applies to electricity and gas service, this applies to home-owners as well.
Come April 1st you will be back out on the street, and good luck finding another apartment to rent (most ask for references / some want credit checks too). Also you will most likely get a judgment against you on your record / credit report.
I am not sure what the rules are when a property is sold.
Also, inflation takes its toll. If my hypothetical rich person invests his extra $100,000 and only spends it ten years from now, inflation will have reduced the value of that money.
If you invested $100,000 and did not get any return on your investment over 10 years to combat inflation (the entire purpose of investing) you have invested badly.
If you purchased an automobile in a sales-tax free state (in this case Oregon) and wish to register your new car in another state (in this case Washington), you must pay the tax you would have otherwise had to pay anyway.
I know yachts are not cars, but if you want a US registry for your yacht then you pay out the difference. I don't like complicated laws, but that does not seem that complicated to be honest. Your example was just really stupid law-making.
I assume what you mean is that you mean your wife is being a "co-pilot". I used to do that with the maps & unfamiliar country went fishing / camping and looking for new spots. (It's real easy to end up crashing in the ditch out on country roads). Good common sense. The problem is greatly compounded on busy city highways.
I try to look at a map before I leave if I don't have a "co-pilot" and get a good image in my mind. The new Google "street view" will also give pictures of what you are going to see at each intersection and that works really well.
The mission to gather observable planetary spectrum from other star systems was eliminated a few years back.
That is a crying shame.
If we could observe some spectra that indicated very high probability for life forms on another planet it would be a very exciting thing. It would even offer us a possibility to have a potential target for a such a mission that you suggest.
I'd like to see at least that much in my lifetime.
Wisconsin mostly had well placed 'Speed Zone Ahead' signs that are pretty clear indicator that you need to let off the gas. About as reasonable as one could expect.
Washington state has one of those along their Lewis and Clark highway along the Columbia river. It is a curvy road where you get used to going slow / fast, followed by a long straight steep hill with a small over-pass, where there is usually a cop.
I've never been caught by it, but I can see how it could be very easy to get a ticket there.
They should put in some rumble strips if it were really about safety vs. income.
I'm curious, why would those count as 'piracy'? I have Steam, but can only play if I pay. I am using the demo of World of Goo right now, and have no problem giving them the 20.00 for the full version when I get there (I program for a living myself).
I don't see how those would be measured as Piracy (since they presumably get paid), but also if there is no "Phone Home" system embedded in the game, how in the world to they actually measure piracy in the first place?
The Opera browser tried this strategy, was out long before Firefox and was (arguably) better (certainly better than IE). People stayed away in droves, and these were just private individuals, not businesses which I would think would object even more.
I read your post as being in 1 app, and so it sounded positively psychotic. I've never worked in a huge shop, so SQL works very well, especially when you can leverage stored procedures and indexes. I did not see much in LINQ that was that over-whelmingly compelling that has not been done for years. I guess for me SQL and stored procedures are the standard.
Not to flame, but it seems rather strange to do a data look-up/manipulation against such a wild array of differing data stores. It sounds like too many fingers in the pie, bad management, or someone is padding their resume. Either way, it sounds like LINQ is patching a fundamentally flawed design.
Sorry if you took my comment as a flame, that is not my intention. I have only lived in states that have optical scanning. It is a great way to have anonymous voting (essential) as well as fast digital results (e-voting), while also providing a mechanism for hand counting. It really is the best of both worlds.
The comment about disingenious was only referring to the dumb Florida punch card stuff that you mentioned in response to the OP. Optical scanning is the only method I am familiar with, and the multiple states I have used it in have not been so embarrassed with looking like fools.
Ohio did not have much of a recount since they were using Diebold machines in many districts. When asked for a recount it was more or less a matter of seeing counties pull out empty pockets and saying "it is what it is".
The way you phrased your post it is difficult to determine if you are for or against paper. You are using an example of why paper ballots are good to argue against them the way I read it. Hybrid systems are great since you get 2 methods of verification instead of one.
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Yep, If they just want a giant / spacious chopper for the president then they should just have ordered a pretty-painted Chinook :) Proven, developed (far cheaper) and reliable.
Some of the less produced or obscure aircraft may not be known, but the 747 is definitely an exception to that.
Mods may now beat me into oblivion :(
I appreciate what you are saying, and I really keep up on this stuff. Most of that is star crossings and measuring the star / planet variations. What I was really referring to was a 'proper' telescope that could collect light directly from planets that do not have a orbit is in the same plane as planet Earth. We have the tech to detect many more planets just by their emitted light, but we seem to either kill those projects or not have the will to carry them through. I for one would love to live long enough to see a 'toxic' environment :)
This is something that is do-able in our lifetimes, and something I would love to see done.
OK, thanks for the good info. All I can say is that my landlord also followed the common belief as well, and put up with it. I think that the utilities shutoff in winter still holds (it is a CO-OP in northern Wisconsin)
The same applies to electricity and gas service, this applies to home-owners as well.
Come April 1st you will be back out on the street, and good luck finding another apartment to rent (most ask for references / some want credit checks too). Also you will most likely get a judgment against you on your record / credit report.
I am not sure what the rules are when a property is sold.
Your H1B search(rant) would then be a self-fulfilling prophesy.
I'm employed and doing well, but there is definitely a flaw in your logic.
and of course wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Starship/
If you invested $100,000 and did not get any return on your investment over 10 years to combat inflation (the entire purpose of investing) you have invested badly.
If you purchased an automobile in a sales-tax free state (in this case Oregon) and wish to register your new car in another state (in this case Washington), you must pay the tax you would have otherwise had to pay anyway.
I know yachts are not cars, but if you want a US registry for your yacht then you pay out the difference. I don't like complicated laws, but that does not seem that complicated to be honest. Your example was just really stupid law-making.
Oppression is definitely nothing new to the world, it has been going on for most of human history.
I try to look at a map before I leave if I don't have a "co-pilot" and get a good image in my mind. The new Google "street view" will also give pictures of what you are going to see at each intersection and that works really well.
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ouch.
That is a crying shame.
If we could observe some spectra that indicated very high probability for life forms on another planet it would be a very exciting thing. It would even offer us a possibility to have a potential target for a such a mission that you suggest.
I'd like to see at least that much in my lifetime.
Wisconsin mostly had well placed 'Speed Zone Ahead' signs that are pretty clear indicator that you need to let off the gas. About as reasonable as one could expect.
I've never been caught by it, but I can see how it could be very easy to get a ticket there.
They should put in some rumble strips if it were really about safety vs. income.
I don't see how those would be measured as Piracy (since they presumably get paid), but also if there is no "Phone Home" system embedded in the game, how in the world to they actually measure piracy in the first place?
The Opera browser tried this strategy, was out long before Firefox and was (arguably) better (certainly better than IE). People stayed away in droves, and these were just private individuals, not businesses which I would think would object even more.
I read your post as being in 1 app, and so it sounded positively psychotic. I've never worked in a huge shop, so SQL works very well, especially when you can leverage stored procedures and indexes. I did not see much in LINQ that was that over-whelmingly compelling that has not been done for years. I guess for me SQL and stored procedures are the standard.
If you lightly press on the center of the retainer while lifting the disk they come out very easily. (some will pop off on their own)
Not to flame, but it seems rather strange to do a data look-up/manipulation against such a wild array of differing data stores. It sounds like too many fingers in the pie, bad management, or someone is padding their resume. Either way, it sounds like LINQ is patching a fundamentally flawed design.
The comment about disingenious was only referring to the dumb Florida punch card stuff that you mentioned in response to the OP. Optical scanning is the only method I am familiar with, and the multiple states I have used it in have not been so embarrassed with looking like fools.
The way you phrased your post it is difficult to determine if you are for or against paper. You are using an example of why paper ballots are good to argue against them the way I read it. Hybrid systems are great since you get 2 methods of verification instead of one.
You are intentionally confusing optical scanning (the main topic in this thread) with punch voting. That is fairly disingenuous of you.