Hmmm, diamonds ARE a racket, and women know it. It is the single best opportunity for most women to get a piece of real quality jewelry. Remember that Lady Diana got a large sapphire, surrounded by small diamonds for her engagement ring. Some other stones, if of excellent quality, can be more expensive than a diamond. Think Emeralds and Rubies for that. All in all, I think she might be happy with a non-diamond ring, if it's an impressive enough ring. The trouble you run into then is the wedding band, and how to wear them both when they aren't meant to worn together. Perhaps a wedding band with a number of diamonds, commonly referred to as anniversary rings?
When I was switched from MediaOne to Comcast last December, I was also put behind a proxy server. One with a 30 or 40 second lag for every page request sent. One that didn't do reverse ARP so I was always misidentified to web sites. I called and complained. When that didn't work, I switched ISPs to a slower DSL connection. I can't download as rapidly, but I sure surf a lot faster. Comcast was very unhappy; I think they have been getting a lot of that lately.
I beg to differ; the wings don't stretch in flight. They do flex up and down, however, in or out of the air. 12 feet at the wingtip, to be precise, which is enough to let the tips touch the ground while taxiing or towing on the ground. That's the reason for the tip gear.They flex upward in flight (lift, duh!) so it's a ground/takeoff/landing problem.
The wings actually FLAP before the plane lifts off...and it lifts off ass end first. It typically flies with the ass end higher than the front, too. It might fly level fully loaded.
It can hold 1 1/2 times more fuel in pounds than it's own not inconsiderable weight. I don't want to think about how much it weighs with weapons loaded, but the dude who said it can't take off with full fuel and weapons was right on. It must meet that tanker and refuel before it flies the mission.It carries a LOT of conventional bombs, like half the weight of the aircraft again. It needs a long runway, 2 1/2 miles, to take off loaded, and then it might use part of the overrun.
God, I love the old B-52s. I worked on them. I think you are recalling the well-distributed photo of a B-52 with one BIG engine on a pod. That was done as a testing environment for the fanjet engine used on the C-5. It would have ripped the wing off the B-52 if taken to military/MRT. It was never considered to replace the old engine pairs with single fans. The JP57-43WP Pratt and Whitney used on the G models (1956-1957) is a regular jet, generates about 11,600 pounds of thrust each, 13,000 with the water injection.IIRC the H models do use pairs of small fanjets, but I don't know the specs as I never worked on the newer (1962!) models.
I'm in the market for a new cellphone and provider, too. I was pleased with GetConnected.com. It does good comparisons of USA carriers and phones, with all the gory details on dual mode phones, when peak time applies, etc.
I have the fortune to be not only a geek, but a nurse. I've worked in hospitals. The only truly "critical" systems are patient records, (which are infrequently computerized) the laboratory software, pharmacy medication software, and drug control systems. Not even the billing/patient registration system is truly critical; this information can be entered the next day. Email? For whom, an administrator working late, maybe? We're not talking about someone's ventilator not working, that'll be an embedded system and not handled by the IT department.
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Hmmm, diamonds ARE a racket, and women know it. It is the single best opportunity for most women to get a piece of real quality jewelry. Remember that Lady Diana got a large sapphire, surrounded by small diamonds for her engagement ring. Some other stones, if of excellent quality, can be more expensive than a diamond. Think Emeralds and Rubies for that. All in all, I think she might be happy with a non-diamond ring, if it's an impressive enough ring. The trouble you run into then is the wedding band, and how to wear them both when they aren't meant to worn together. Perhaps a wedding band with a number of diamonds, commonly referred to as anniversary rings?
Kurt Cobain was great, but wasn't that line from a Neil Young song, Hey, hey, my, my, Rock and roll can never die...?
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When I was switched from MediaOne to Comcast last December, I was also put behind a proxy server. One with a 30 or 40 second lag for every page request sent. One that didn't do reverse ARP so I was always misidentified to web sites. I called and complained. When that didn't work, I switched ISPs to a slower DSL connection. I can't download as rapidly, but I sure surf a lot faster. Comcast was very unhappy; I think they have been getting a lot of that lately.
I beg to differ; the wings don't stretch in flight. They do flex up and down, however, in or out of the air. 12 feet at the wingtip, to be precise, which is enough to let the tips touch the ground while taxiing or towing on the ground. That's the reason for the tip gear.They flex upward in flight (lift, duh!) so it's a ground/takeoff/landing problem.
The wings actually FLAP before the plane lifts off...and it lifts off ass end first. It typically flies with the ass end higher than the front, too. It might fly level fully loaded.
It can hold 1 1/2 times more fuel in pounds than it's own not inconsiderable weight. I don't want to think about how much it weighs with weapons loaded, but the dude who said it can't take off with full fuel and weapons was right on. It must meet that tanker and refuel before it flies the mission.It carries a LOT of conventional bombs, like half the weight of the aircraft again. It needs a long runway, 2 1/2 miles, to take off loaded, and then it might use part of the overrun.
God, I love the old B-52s. I worked on them. I think you are recalling the well-distributed photo of a B-52 with one BIG engine on a pod. That was done as a testing environment for the fanjet engine used on the C-5. It would have ripped the wing off the B-52 if taken to military/MRT. It was never considered to replace the old engine pairs with single fans. The JP57-43WP Pratt and Whitney used on the G models (1956-1957) is a regular jet, generates about 11,600 pounds of thrust each, 13,000 with the water injection.IIRC the H models do use pairs of small fanjets, but I don't know the specs as I never worked on the newer (1962!) models.
I'm in the market for a new cellphone and provider, too. I was pleased with GetConnected.com. It does good comparisons of USA carriers and phones, with all the gory details on dual mode phones, when peak time applies, etc.
I have the fortune to be not only a geek, but a nurse. I've worked in hospitals. The only truly "critical" systems are patient records, (which are infrequently computerized) the laboratory software, pharmacy medication software, and drug control systems. Not even the billing/patient registration system is truly critical; this information can be entered the next day. Email? For whom, an administrator working late, maybe? We're not talking about someone's ventilator not working, that'll be an embedded system and not handled by the IT department.