Actually there is some debate on that one. While it could refer to the weather it is just as likely due to the politicians (all the hot air). I will refer you to wikipedia.
I had an Arrow class iceboat and regularly got over 70 mph. These speeds are pedestrian for iceboats. The DN class and Arrow class really don't take aerodynamics very far having completely open cockpits. Now the Skeeter class takes aerodynamics quite seriously having an almost enclosed cockpit and many other aerodynamic features. Its drag is quite low.
Actually, an iceboat was clocked at 143 mph and this was many years ago. The potential for impressive speeds on ice is pretty big.
I think that multitasking often gets in the way of quality work. Fundamentally, human beings don't really multitask very well. For small things like talking ans walking at the same time, we can do it but for big things that require our full attention, we fail miserably. For things that require concentration, multitasking gets in the way of doing quality work. For those times, turn off the pager and the cell phone. The problem is that the boss often will not let us and bothers us with trivia.
I don't know if antagonistic agencies is a good idea or a bad idea. On the plus side you have separate agencies looking at each other. In theory, no agency gets too powerful. On the negative side there are gaping holes where the responsibilities of the agencies meet.
History has another example where it arguably did not work so well. Hitler organized the Nazi party and the German government in this way. There was a lot of turf wars in the Third Reich. Hitlers personal security was an example of this. There were many attempts on his life and it was only Hitlers luck that many of them failed. His security forces completely missed many attempts.
It doesn't matter if they were democrats, republicans or little green men. It was election fraud and that is all that matters. If there was a paper trail the election fraud would be much harder to do.
By the was, a slip of paper that you take home saying how you voted is a very bad idea. We need a paper trail but all election materials should stay at the polling place.
The point YOU might be missing is that we might not have air superiority against a suitably advanced adversary. Iraq was a second rate opponent. Also air superiority isn't always absolute. It only takes a small period of time when our fighters are preoccupied that leaves these things vulnerable. You sound like a cheering squad for the Pentagon with statements like this.
With the history of overpriced stuff the military buys (the 900 dollar toilet seat comes to mind) one of those blimps will will likely have a cost of $20,ooo,ooo.
Even though some of the items in your list were voted on by a majority of the people, these voter initiatives might be unconstitutional. The USA is not a democracy but a republic. In a pure democracy, what the people want becomes the law of the land. That becomes the "Tyranny of the majority". I'll give an example. Let's say the majority decides to kill all of a particular minority. In a pure democracy, that would be legal. In the USA (and most other nations), the majority should not trample the rights of the minority.
While I agree with your sentiment about the need to rework the treaty ratification process, you are wrong about the process of amending the constitution. I suggest that you read up on the amending process.
There are two ways to change the constitution. First (and the only method that has been used) is by adopting an amendment to the constitution. It's an involved process where BOTH parts of the US senate must vote (possibly by a 2/3 vote, but I am not sure) to PROPOSE an amendment. Then the legislatures of 3/4 the states must approve the proposed amendment. Only when both steps are fulfilled can the amendment be added to the US constitution.
The second method is to form a second constitutional convention. The new constitution would have to be approved by 3/4 of the state legislatures. The second option probably will never be used because it allows wholesale changes.
Also note that the president of the US or the supreme court have no role to play. For practical purposes, changing the constitution is unlikely to happen. Also note that it is very hard to change the constitution because that is what the founding fathers intended. I think your real gripe is about the secrecy. This can easily be changed by a simple law that tightens what can be classified as a national security issue.
I don't really know if it is possible to identify them but it might be a good starting point for a FBI sting operation. With time, a FBI plant might be able to worm his way into the operation.
They might have mass but I think you miss the point. Debris in orbit presents a hazard to spacecraft. A small paint chip left a small crater in the windshield of the space shuttle. Debris can be as small as a paint chip but its mass is enormous compared to subatomic particles. The mass of subatomic particles is just not big enough to present a collision hazard to spacecraft. Enough of them might cause additional drag which might cause their orbits to degrade prematurely. Note: I am not talking about the solar wind or cosmic radiation.
There are several reasons why you shouldn't always hibernate. Hibernate preserves the state of memory. If there is something wrong with the state of the memory such as a program has a bad memory leak, that problem persists. Also for computers with a large amount of memory, hibernation might not be the best alternative. The hibernation file must be at least as large as the RAM. If your computer has a large amount of RAM then it will take longer to backup/restore the state of the memory.
At the very least, occasionally do a full shutdown to get a "clean slate".
"My relatives don't call me so much anymore for that sort of thing. I don't know why, exactly... I have a very potent anti-virus tool. It's called "FORMAT C:". Works every time."
Funny that you mention this! I have a similar policy, After the first time, I make it clear that I will be reinstalling the OS and will make no effort to save any data. This was my nieces first time. If there is another time she will have to backup any data herself. It's amazing how the news gets around. All of a sudden, my relatives use safe computing techniques and don't bother me a second time.
Having just gone through the misery of removing the viruses from a relatives computer it is quite likely that he wasn't getting Symantec. Its quite possible that the computer was being redirected to a phony site. I've seen the list of sites that were being redirected and Symantec yas on the list. (For the curious, the list is in the registry.) Now don't get me wrong, Symantec doesn't make very good products and their support isn't very good as well.
You just have to phrase the prohibition so that there is no way around it. As for as setting a precedent, that is a not argument. As far as I know, settlements do not create a judicial precedent.
A word to the wise... Never underestimate what a lawyer can argue. I'm not a lawyer and you probably are not either. A skilled lawyer might find a loophole.
I'm tired of settlements where one or both parties agree not to talk about the case. I'm especially tired where only one side is prevented from speaking out after the case is over. What usually happens is that the side that can still speak out then spins a story about the case to the public and the other side is prevented from replying. At the very least, since all court documents are presumably public records, the judge should not be allowed to seal the court documents. I'm not talking about criminal cases where there might be a good reason to do so. Just ban gag orders in civil cases. The public has a right to know what is going on in their courts and settlements should not be allowed to restrict that right. If you don't want to the particulars of a case to be public, then don't sue.
I can see this kind of actions running foul of the ADA. How are blind people going to have access to this technology?
Also in the works are actions against capchas not conforming to the ADA. Example, Microsoft has an audio capcha that people with hearing difficulties can't solve. I know because I am far from deaf and was trying to download a hotfix. They have an audio capcha which I have difficulty solving. To make matters worse, they failed to offer alternatives. Of course this also applies to people with visual problems but many sites do not offer an alternative to visual capchas.
You fail to mention the advantage of having fewer sizes of shot gives logistically. You don't have to worry about having the proper size of cannon ball when most of the cannons have the same size bore. Imagine the consternation that would result if a quartermaster supplied a ship with cannon balls that were slightly too large.
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Actually there is some debate on that one. While it could refer to the weather it is just as likely due to the politicians (all the hot air). I will refer you to wikipedia.
"Struck me as the way to go for places like Chicago (not called the windy city for no reason)"
Actually, Chicago got the moniker "the windy city" not for the weather. It was to describe its politics.
I had an Arrow class iceboat and regularly got over 70 mph. These speeds are pedestrian for iceboats. The DN class and Arrow class really don't take aerodynamics very far having completely open cockpits. Now the Skeeter class takes aerodynamics quite seriously having an almost enclosed cockpit and many other aerodynamic features. Its drag is quite low.
Actually, an iceboat was clocked at 143 mph and this was many years ago. The potential for impressive speeds on ice is pretty big.
For more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_boat
I'll bet that robots could do that easier than most people. People don't multitask very well while robots seem to have no problems with it.
Wait do you mean that the ability to multitask would mean it is a robot and not a human?
I think that multitasking often gets in the way of quality work. Fundamentally, human beings don't really multitask very well. For small things like talking ans walking at the same time, we can do it but for big things that require our full attention, we fail miserably. For things that require concentration, multitasking gets in the way of doing quality work. For those times, turn off the pager and the cell phone. The problem is that the boss often will not let us and bothers us with trivia.
I don't know if antagonistic agencies is a good idea or a bad idea. On the plus side you have separate agencies looking at each other. In theory, no agency gets too powerful. On the negative side there are gaping holes where the responsibilities of the agencies meet.
History has another example where it arguably did not work so well. Hitler organized the Nazi party and the German government in this way. There was a lot of turf wars in the Third Reich. Hitlers personal security was an example of this. There were many attempts on his life and it was only Hitlers luck that many of them failed. His security forces completely missed many attempts.
It doesn't matter if they were democrats, republicans or little green men. It was election fraud and that is all that matters. If there was a paper trail the election fraud would be much harder to do.
By the was, a slip of paper that you take home saying how you voted is a very bad idea. We need a paper trail but all election materials should stay at the polling place.
I think the saying is "as far as I can throw a baby grand piano".
This brings to mind a saying I heard.
"When on a safari, never fire your native guide until you get his maps of the area."
To let anyone lead you somewhere, (or do something for you) and allow him to be the only one who can get you out of trouble is foolish.
The point YOU might be missing is that we might not have air superiority against a suitably advanced adversary. Iraq was a second rate opponent. Also air superiority isn't always absolute. It only takes a small period of time when our fighters are preoccupied that leaves these things vulnerable. You sound like a cheering squad for the Pentagon with statements like this.
With the history of overpriced stuff the military buys (the 900 dollar toilet seat comes to mind) one of those blimps will will likely have a cost of $20,ooo,ooo.
Even though some of the items in your list were voted on by a majority of the people, these voter initiatives might be unconstitutional. The USA is not a democracy but a republic. In a pure democracy, what the people want becomes the law of the land. That becomes the "Tyranny of the majority". I'll give an example. Let's say the majority decides to kill all of a particular minority. In a pure democracy, that would be legal. In the USA (and most other nations), the majority should not trample the rights of the minority.
While I agree with your sentiment about the need to rework the treaty ratification process, you are wrong about the process of amending the constitution. I suggest that you read up on the amending process.
There are two ways to change the constitution. First (and the only method that has been used) is by adopting an amendment to the constitution. It's an involved process where BOTH parts of the US senate must vote (possibly by a 2/3 vote, but I am not sure) to PROPOSE an amendment. Then the legislatures of 3/4 the states must approve the proposed amendment. Only when both steps are fulfilled can the amendment be added to the US constitution.
The second method is to form a second constitutional convention. The new constitution would have to be approved by 3/4 of the state legislatures. The second option probably will never be used because it allows wholesale changes.
Also note that the president of the US or the supreme court have no role to play. For practical purposes, changing the constitution is unlikely to happen. Also note that it is very hard to change the constitution because that is what the founding fathers intended. I think your real gripe is about the secrecy. This can easily be changed by a simple law that tightens what can be classified as a national security issue.
I don't really know if it is possible to identify them but it might be a good starting point for a FBI sting operation. With time, a FBI plant might be able to worm his way into the operation.
They might have mass but I think you miss the point. Debris in orbit presents a hazard to spacecraft. A small paint chip left a small crater in the windshield of the space shuttle. Debris can be as small as a paint chip but its mass is enormous compared to subatomic particles. The mass of subatomic particles is just not big enough to present a collision hazard to spacecraft. Enough of them might cause additional drag which might cause their orbits to degrade prematurely. Note: I am not talking about the solar wind or cosmic radiation.
If the older generation actually preferred the sound of records then why did they rapidly adopt CD technology? Records would still be king!
There are several reasons why you shouldn't always hibernate. Hibernate preserves the state of memory. If there is something wrong with the state of the memory such as a program has a bad memory leak, that problem persists. Also for computers with a large amount of memory, hibernation might not be the best alternative. The hibernation file must be at least as large as the RAM. If your computer has a large amount of RAM then it will take longer to backup/restore the state of the memory.
At the very least, occasionally do a full shutdown to get a "clean slate".
"My relatives don't call me so much anymore for that sort of thing. I don't know why, exactly ... I have a very potent anti-virus tool. It's called "FORMAT C:". Works every time."
Funny that you mention this! I have a similar policy, After the first time, I make it clear that I will be reinstalling the OS and will make no effort to save any data. This was my nieces first time. If there is another time she will have to backup any data herself. It's amazing how the news gets around. All of a sudden, my relatives use safe computing techniques and don't bother me a second time.
Obviously you haven't heard of Dantes version of Hell. In his version, Hell IS frozen over!
Having just gone through the misery of removing the viruses from a relatives computer it is quite likely that he wasn't getting Symantec. Its quite possible that the computer was being redirected to a phony site. I've seen the list of sites that were being redirected and Symantec yas on the list. (For the curious, the list is in the registry.) Now don't get me wrong, Symantec doesn't make very good products and their support isn't very good as well.
You just have to phrase the prohibition so that there is no way around it. As for as setting a precedent, that is a not argument. As far as I know, settlements do not create a judicial precedent.
A word to the wise... Never underestimate what a lawyer can argue. I'm not a lawyer and you probably are not either. A skilled lawyer might find a loophole.
I'm tired of settlements where one or both parties agree not to talk about the case. I'm especially tired where only one side is prevented from speaking out after the case is over. What usually happens is that the side that can still speak out then spins a story about the case to the public and the other side is prevented from replying. At the very least, since all court documents are presumably public records, the judge should not be allowed to seal the court documents. I'm not talking about criminal cases where there might be a good reason to do so. Just ban gag orders in civil cases. The public has a right to know what is going on in their courts and settlements should not be allowed to restrict that right. If you don't want to the particulars of a case to be public, then don't sue.
I can see this kind of actions running foul of the ADA. How are blind people going to have access to this technology?
Also in the works are actions against capchas not conforming to the ADA. Example, Microsoft has an audio capcha that people with hearing difficulties
can't solve. I know because I am far from deaf and was trying to download a hotfix. They have an audio capcha which I have difficulty solving. To make matters worse, they failed to offer alternatives. Of course this also applies to people with visual problems but many sites do not offer an alternative to visual capchas.
You fail to mention the advantage of having fewer sizes of shot gives logistically. You don't have to worry about having the proper size of cannon ball when most of the cannons have the same size bore. Imagine the consternation that would result if a quartermaster supplied a ship with cannon balls that were slightly too large.