Need to be know what businesses that Trump is actually involved with to those businesses that Trump has no involvement but licensed so those businesses can use "Donald Trump" as part of their business name.
Fewer boys are graduating HS than girls, fewer boys are getting Uni degrees, more boys actually commit suicide than girls. Women live significantly longer than men...here's an idea, rather than waste time, money & effort on a program that has dubious value lets maybe take a look at what we can do to reduce this clear gender gap in favor of girls/women.
uhmm, boys wear 'pink stuff,' carrying a purse, use makeup?
I don't do much programming but I started in BASIC because the computer I had, OSI with a 5.25" floppy with a 6502 processor I think, I was able to start writing something right then. Then go into assembly language. Years later took a C programming course which seemed fairly straight forward. For me it is the compiler that is the biggest obstacle. There's lots of "Hello World" examples but that compiler is always the show-stopper for me (how do I find one, what do I choose? No, don't give me some goofy compiler that generates a 500K executable program when source was only 20 lines). Unless you know what and how to handle compilers, programming will always be mysterious. Yes, if I already knew where to go for compiler info then I would already know of compilers and not have to make this gripe this morning. "Lots of info on the internet, Google is your friend." Yeah right, a bunch of websites written by marketing dweebs trying to sell me something.
Regarding WWII, an article (I'm too lazy to find the link) on "Losing A War" where author said just about everyone knows of WWII as it was the biggest war ever. They may associate places like Pearl Harbor, Berlin, and Hiroshima with that war but other places like Leyte Gulf and Stalingrad are becoming unfamiliar. There is the Normandy invasion or was it Normandy conquest? Did the boats go from France to England or the other way around?
the reason Solyndra collapsed was because of cheaper solar panels from China, which were subsidized heavily by that government.
I'm not sure how get into this gun debate (no matter what of only two positions you take, you will get flamed on the forums) so here I go. If smart guns were to be mandated, does this mean US gun manufacturers will go out of business because cheaper smart guns from China, subsidized heavily by that government?
Anyway, good answer about Solyndra. I also heard their panels were very good working on cloudy days while cheap Chinese panels do not.
An article or discussion in another forum of the Russian space program mentioned in 1990s is when they should have had lot of young people entering the workforce to start careers at Roscosmos, Energia, etc. However, they did not. So now there is an aging workforce including management (yes types are needed for organization and coordination of engineers and technicians) and nobody to replace their positions when they retire (or die). Though not surprising as Jim Oberg wrote an article in 1990s IEEE Spectrum about his visit to Baikoner, he was also free to roam around which was a huge change compared to just a few years before. Oberg described the place with lots of abandoned facilities but many 40 and 50-somethings still working there (and with meager wages) because they felt dedicated to the space program. Not many young people were willing to do that especially considering Baikoner is a bleak area to live [and not much of a nightlife].
Speaking of Putin, he has failed to match what his Soviet predecessors were able to do as we see problems of bringing the new launch complex at Vostochny.
>> It did not help matters that the Russian Space Agency was rife with corruption and mismanagement that seems to prevail across much of Russian society.
That's pretty much par for the course here in America too, comrade. In fact, if it wasn't for corruption, we'd probably not have any space program at all.
"If we don't do something about this, we will have a Corruption Gap!"
people just don't bother with sites like Forbes and Hulu?
So that's why I don't click such links, same way I don't click nytimes links as the ads dominate the content.
All sites going like pinterest and demanding user accounts, blocking mailinator domains?
I hate seeing what looks like some cool pics (usually taken from someplace else) and posted on pinterest but I had to create a stinking account (I used a throwaway account with bogus name and DOB).
a DMCA notice carries more weight than content from people that want to kill you.
Circular chart recorder is clearly visible in the shuttlecraft Galileo. These recorders commonly used for industrial HVAC and process instrumentation recorders, still in use today. It may not be "high tech" digital recorder but if power goes out, then still have hardcopy recording of what happened and be able to quickly look at measurements taken during the past 12 or 24 hours.
Using common objects as props unless really cheesy can go unnoticed if the plot or story is engaging with subject matter and character.
Speaking of common props, I remember watching Battlestar Gallacta in 1970s where they had racks of Tektronix test equipment thinking, "wow, I'd love to have some of those oscopes."
I have a E6B (buried in my junque collection someplace), bought it years ago because it looks cools, have no idea how to use it.
Yes, landing that first stage was something. I remember Apollo flights as well, I don't recall astronaut pajamas. Damned if I can remember Apollo 11 (I can't) but I clearly remembered when Apollo 8 went for TLI. In an instant the world became really small. I'm looking forward to the day when (whoever) will send humans to the Moon (I'm not waiting for Mars as it will always be 20 years away). Just think when they (NASA, Musk, Chinese?) put a spacecraft on TLI, someone should repeat what a flight controller at MSC said when Apollo 8 did the same, "Finally we're going somewhere!"
What about DC-X and Armadillo Aerospace designs then? Both flew and landed using their rockets.
Don't know about Armadillo but the DC-X was more of a technology demonstrator. It significantly lacked payload capacity to act as a first stage for anything useful. If McDonnell-Douglas were to continue on, the DC-X would probably evolved into something quite different. However, McD-D had cash flow problems and were eventually bought by Boeing.
Occasionally I will look up a tail number on FAA site of an aircraft in a movie or TV show. Many from shows decades ago are still flying but some are not. Database will still list previous owner. A 1960s issue of Life Magazine has a Cessna ad and the plane shown is still flying! Actually this can be fun. I saw an episode of The Man from UNCLE has a Bell 47G helicopter, I looked up the tail number and it is currently registered to Classic Rotors in San Diego. I contacted them and the guy sent me back couple photos of this helo in current condition (which is marginal existence of just a frame and cracked bubble), they were beginning restoration but are keeping same tail number. I happen to record this TV episode, made a few video stills and sent them those images. Maybe they can use it for the helicopter's photo book of it when featured on TV in 1960s.
Aren't all federal databases open and online? Airplane registrations are; radio licenses are.
We're getting into an interesting era. Yes, all tail numbers and radio callsigns (except federal agency radio callsigns per NTIA). There are also licenses issued by Dept of Consumer Affairs (state agencies) that have have open databases. But only airplane and radio buffs and people in the business follow this stuff. As many common drones get tail numbers, then many in general public learn of these open and online databases they might get "worrisome." Kind of like all of sudden you have scanner feed websites where people can use their phone and listen in on a police frequency. Though scanner fans have been doing this for decades but "OMG ALL THE CRIMINALS can find out when the police are after them." Result is agencies are encrypting all radio transmissions including the roads dept.
There are no FEMA emergency response teams with equipment, such disaster response teams come from the state OES and similar agencies. FEMA basically provides money and contractors.
Though everyone loves Mars and those rovers are exciting, I was thinking how cool it would be to have a modern lunar rover with the HD cameras. OK, Chinese placed Yutu which I haven't followed its news that much.
While US has spent billions on Mars rovers, why not use that expertise to deploy lunar rovers (oh wait, policy is to avoid talking about the Moon). Imagine a rover to go to those craters where the sun never shines to sample soil for ice? A rover to visit Saturn V third stage impact areas? Or better yet a rover to visit Apollo landing sites and take really good pictures (though quality will be so good many luddites will claim it's proof those landings were done at Area 51). It would be also interesting to see how solar radiation has changed composition of the Apollo hardware (how much of the colors are left on the flags?).
Paul Spudis commented rover visiting Apollo sites will be very interesting, however, US prohibits disturbing Apollo landing sites. But if rover was an international program?
Heh, I was thinking of a Kelly Freas painting, what if they visit an Apollo 15, 16, or 17 site and find the Apollo rover is not there. But its tracks go off into the horizon. So this new rover follows the tracks and then finds the Apollo rover (where it ended when batteries spent) up on blocks with all the good stuff stripped from it.
They can be a huge time pit because browsing through one can find all kinds of interesting publications that never knew existed. And many times I've bought publications which typically takes up space at my home.
I have to agree if backdoors are installed, then these can be used by everyone from the good guys to the bad guys. As Tim Cook pointed out, many people have financial and health information on their phones. Getting back to pushing the lie, only reason I see for govts to store all phone and text messages is to then look at the paper trail after something happens (or use it to trace down communications of your political opponents). Doesn't do much help for prevention, only divert resources and attention.
Reminds me of a photo showing a luxury cabin cruiser with an opening on side for a small boat to enter. Caption of this was, "While the middle class blames the poor, I will park my boat inside my boat."
This is a good commentary about taxes especially mentioning the load put on the facilities. We have increasing numbers of low income people that pay little taxes because they are poor (poor people don't have that much money, that's why they are poor). But they still use the roads, use water, flush down sewage, have kids in school, etc. Meanwhile larger companies are paying less in taxes and paying less wages.
not really, with an "s" behind it is one of those games to take people's money. Another it was short for Crapper, named after the guy who developed the thing collect fectal matter and wash it down with water.
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Need to be know what businesses that Trump is actually involved with to those businesses that Trump has no involvement but licensed so those businesses can use "Donald Trump" as part of their business name.
Fewer boys are graduating HS than girls, fewer boys are getting Uni degrees, more boys actually commit suicide than girls. Women live significantly longer than men...here's an idea, rather than waste time, money & effort on a program that has dubious value lets maybe take a look at what we can do to reduce this clear gender gap in favor of girls/women.
uhmm, boys wear 'pink stuff,' carrying a purse, use makeup?
I don't do much programming but I started in BASIC because the computer I had, OSI with a 5.25" floppy with a 6502 processor I think, I was able to start writing something right then. Then go into assembly language. Years later took a C programming course which seemed fairly straight forward. For me it is the compiler that is the biggest obstacle. There's lots of "Hello World" examples but that compiler is always the show-stopper for me (how do I find one, what do I choose? No, don't give me some goofy compiler that generates a 500K executable program when source was only 20 lines). Unless you know what and how to handle compilers, programming will always be mysterious. Yes, if I already knew where to go for compiler info then I would already know of compilers and not have to make this gripe this morning. "Lots of info on the internet, Google is your friend." Yeah right, a bunch of websites written by marketing dweebs trying to sell me something.
Regarding WWII, an article (I'm too lazy to find the link) on "Losing A War" where author said just about everyone knows of WWII as it was the biggest war ever. They may associate places like Pearl Harbor, Berlin, and Hiroshima with that war but other places like Leyte Gulf and Stalingrad are becoming unfamiliar. There is the Normandy invasion or was it Normandy conquest? Did the boats go from France to England or the other way around?
the reason Solyndra collapsed was because of cheaper solar panels from China, which were subsidized heavily by that government.
I'm not sure how get into this gun debate (no matter what of only two positions you take, you will get flamed on the forums) so here I go. If smart guns were to be mandated, does this mean US gun manufacturers will go out of business because cheaper smart guns from China, subsidized heavily by that government?
Anyway, good answer about Solyndra. I also heard their panels were very good working on cloudy days while cheap Chinese panels do not.
A terabyte, according to RIAA estimates, is about $2.7million which is about 16 years of Cuba's total GNP.
An article or discussion in another forum of the Russian space program mentioned in 1990s is when they should have had lot of young people entering the workforce to start careers at Roscosmos, Energia, etc. However, they did not. So now there is an aging workforce including management (yes types are needed for organization and coordination of engineers and technicians) and nobody to replace their positions when they retire (or die). Though not surprising as Jim Oberg wrote an article in 1990s IEEE Spectrum about his visit to Baikoner, he was also free to roam around which was a huge change compared to just a few years before. Oberg described the place with lots of abandoned facilities but many 40 and 50-somethings still working there (and with meager wages) because they felt dedicated to the space program. Not many young people were willing to do that especially considering Baikoner is a bleak area to live [and not much of a nightlife].
Speaking of Putin, he has failed to match what his Soviet predecessors were able to do as we see problems of bringing the new launch complex at Vostochny.
pick up a copy of whatever Biebers got out this year while you're at it...
Yeah, definitely a war crime...
get the RIAA involved and someone is going to be bankrupted via lawyer fees.
>> It did not help matters that the Russian Space Agency was rife with corruption and mismanagement that seems to prevail across much of Russian society.
That's pretty much par for the course here in America too, comrade. In fact, if it wasn't for corruption, we'd probably not have any space program at all.
"If we don't do something about this, we will have a Corruption Gap!"
people just don't bother with sites like Forbes and Hulu?
So that's why I don't click such links, same way I don't click nytimes links as the ads dominate the content.
All sites going like pinterest and demanding user accounts, blocking mailinator domains?
I hate seeing what looks like some cool pics (usually taken from someplace else) and posted on pinterest but I had to create a stinking account (I used a throwaway account with bogus name and DOB).
a DMCA notice carries more weight than content from people that want to kill you.
Unfortunately legislators don't get this.
Circular chart recorder is clearly visible in the shuttlecraft Galileo. These recorders commonly used for industrial HVAC and process instrumentation recorders, still in use today. It may not be "high tech" digital recorder but if power goes out, then still have hardcopy recording of what happened and be able to quickly look at measurements taken during the past 12 or 24 hours.
Using common objects as props unless really cheesy can go unnoticed if the plot or story is engaging with subject matter and character.
Speaking of common props, I remember watching Battlestar Gallacta in 1970s where they had racks of Tektronix test equipment thinking, "wow, I'd love to have some of those oscopes."
I have a E6B (buried in my junque collection someplace), bought it years ago because it looks cools, have no idea how to use it.
Yes, landing that first stage was something. I remember Apollo flights as well, I don't recall astronaut pajamas. Damned if I can remember Apollo 11 (I can't) but I clearly remembered when Apollo 8 went for TLI. In an instant the world became really small. I'm looking forward to the day when (whoever) will send humans to the Moon (I'm not waiting for Mars as it will always be 20 years away). Just think when they (NASA, Musk, Chinese?) put a spacecraft on TLI, someone should repeat what a flight controller at MSC said when Apollo 8 did the same, "Finally we're going somewhere!"
What about DC-X and Armadillo Aerospace designs then? Both flew and landed using their rockets.
Don't know about Armadillo but the DC-X was more of a technology demonstrator. It significantly lacked payload capacity to act as a first stage for anything useful. If McDonnell-Douglas were to continue on, the DC-X would probably evolved into something quite different. However, McD-D had cash flow problems and were eventually bought by Boeing.
Occasionally I will look up a tail number on FAA site of an aircraft in a movie or TV show. Many from shows decades ago are still flying but some are not. Database will still list previous owner. A 1960s issue of Life Magazine has a Cessna ad and the plane shown is still flying! Actually this can be fun. I saw an episode of The Man from UNCLE has a Bell 47G helicopter, I looked up the tail number and it is currently registered to Classic Rotors in San Diego. I contacted them and the guy sent me back couple photos of this helo in current condition (which is marginal existence of just a frame and cracked bubble), they were beginning restoration but are keeping same tail number. I happen to record this TV episode, made a few video stills and sent them those images. Maybe they can use it for the helicopter's photo book of it when featured on TV in 1960s.
Aren't all federal databases open and online? Airplane registrations are; radio licenses are.
We're getting into an interesting era. Yes, all tail numbers and radio callsigns (except federal agency radio callsigns per NTIA). There are also licenses issued by Dept of Consumer Affairs (state agencies) that have have open databases. But only airplane and radio buffs and people in the business follow this stuff. As many common drones get tail numbers, then many in general public learn of these open and online databases they might get "worrisome." Kind of like all of sudden you have scanner feed websites where people can use their phone and listen in on a police frequency. Though scanner fans have been doing this for decades but "OMG ALL THE CRIMINALS can find out when the police are after them." Result is agencies are encrypting all radio transmissions including the roads dept.
then you can call the police and report it. Then let them figure out who the owner is.
Except many police depts will probably not bother. i.e. San Jose police no longer respond to burglaries and other thefts (they might if in progress).
There are no FEMA emergency response teams with equipment, such disaster response teams come from the state OES and similar agencies. FEMA basically provides money and contractors.
Thanks for the informative post.
Though everyone loves Mars and those rovers are exciting, I was thinking how cool it would be to have a modern lunar rover with the HD cameras. OK, Chinese placed Yutu which I haven't followed its news that much.
While US has spent billions on Mars rovers, why not use that expertise to deploy lunar rovers (oh wait, policy is to avoid talking about the Moon). Imagine a rover to go to those craters where the sun never shines to sample soil for ice? A rover to visit Saturn V third stage impact areas? Or better yet a rover to visit Apollo landing sites and take really good pictures (though quality will be so good many luddites will claim it's proof those landings were done at Area 51). It would be also interesting to see how solar radiation has changed composition of the Apollo hardware (how much of the colors are left on the flags?).
Paul Spudis commented rover visiting Apollo sites will be very interesting, however, US prohibits disturbing Apollo landing sites. But if rover was an international program?
Heh, I was thinking of a Kelly Freas painting, what if they visit an Apollo 15, 16, or 17 site and find the Apollo rover is not there. But its tracks go off into the horizon. So this new rover follows the tracks and then finds the Apollo rover (where it ended when batteries spent) up on blocks with all the good stuff stripped from it.
They can be a huge time pit because browsing through one can find all kinds of interesting publications that never knew existed. And many times I've bought publications which typically takes up space at my home.
They are DRM free.
YES! I can buy a book with cash and ***NOT*** have to setup an account with password, submit my name, SSN, DOB, address, and sign the EULA.
I have to agree if backdoors are installed, then these can be used by everyone from the good guys to the bad guys. As Tim Cook pointed out, many people have financial and health information on their phones. Getting back to pushing the lie, only reason I see for govts to store all phone and text messages is to then look at the paper trail after something happens (or use it to trace down communications of your political opponents). Doesn't do much help for prevention, only divert resources and attention.
Reminds me of a photo showing a luxury cabin cruiser with an opening on side for a small boat to enter. Caption of this was, "While the middle class blames the poor, I will park my boat inside my boat."
This is a good commentary about taxes especially mentioning the load put on the facilities. We have increasing numbers of low income people that pay little taxes because they are poor (poor people don't have that much money, that's why they are poor). But they still use the roads, use water, flush down sewage, have kids in school, etc. Meanwhile larger companies are paying less in taxes and paying less wages.
not really, with an "s" behind it is one of those games to take people's money. Another it was short for Crapper, named after the guy who developed the thing collect fectal matter and wash it down with water.