Should NASA be free to spend its own budget without Congressional oversight? Probably.
But the budget is provided by Congress (well directed to them by Congress), and they allocate it for whatever reasons they have - if NASA looks like they might spend it on something Congress doesn't want them to, then such a restriction seems reasonable.
If the head of NASA said "I read on the internet that the price of gold is "going to the moon", since we also want to go to moon I am going to invest 100% of NASA's budget in gold bullion for the next five years", then adding a "no you are not" provision to the budget seems reasonable (not as reasonable as sacking him them of course...)
They always measure it backwards,since it makes the numbers sound much better...
If the old way caught 95% and a new way catches 99%, the you could say it's 4.2% better (4/95) or 4 percentage points better or you could say it's gone from missing 5% to missing 1% for 80% better (4/5) or say it's 5 times better (1% missed compared with 5%). Guess which most people choose to use?
No, the criteria in what you were replying to was "quickly and en masse", nothing about dollar cost. Being efficient inbythose criteria means killing the most people in the shortest amount of time.
Though I suspect the WWII military wins by that criteria anyway. Hiroshima for example, the bomb took 57 seconds to drop and killed 70,000 people directly in the blast. Of course the bomb run itself took 3 minutes more, and if you count take-off to landing time of the first and last aircraft it's more like 12 hours. Then again you probably aren't counting marching time in the roman legion time frame.
The current military could do the same thing with a nuclear cruise missile in far less time, so at least in theory they're still "winning"...
The F-22 can not 'cruise' at Mach 2. That would be even more buck rogers than the aircraft is already. Exceeding Mach 2 in an F-22 requires afterburners and this, in the parlance of military aircraft, is not 'cruise.' What an F-22 can do is supercruise (exceed Mach 1 without afterburners, thus high fuel efficiencies which means good range and therefore viable in bombing missions) at about Mach 1.7.
A less than 20% error is fine for government work...
Given the recent devaluation of the USD $100 a month isn't going to get you much...
I'm also not sure, but if Europe is anything like Australia with respect to mobile phones incoming calls don't count, so how much of that 700+ minutes is incoming (and hence can be removed from the requirement)?
I don't know German, but that seems like 1000 minutes for 59 euros - but it's one line and no data. An extra line is 10 euros... which pushes it to just over $100 - still no data. But go back a little to before the USD went down the toilet and you could add the data options for under $100. Since european salaries haven't dropped the 15% the exchange has, and US prices haven't had time to adjust to the more expensive imports it's probably fairer to allow the extra... Or drop back to fewer minutes (as I mentioned I think incoming doesn't count, so maybe the 400 plan would do?
Or, why don't we just redefine the second to deal with all of this in the first place?
because a non-constant second would make most of physics a serious pain. Basing such a fundamental unit the ever changing motion of a ball or rock in space seems rather silly too.
The underlying cause isn't that we end up with a fraction of a second left over due to the Earth's rotation time not being an integer multiple of a second, but because the Earth's rotation is slowing down.
A second was defined as 1/86400 of the time of the Earth's rotation in 1/1/1901 (the date was added when the bright sparks noticed the earth's rotation wasn't constant), but the uselessness of that definition became apparent rather quickly so now it's the defined in terms of cesium-133 radiation. But it doesn't matter what you define it as, it there are exactly 86400 seconds in todays day, then there won't be in next years one since the Earth will have slowed some more.
Of course if you do 1, then you don't need the comet. You've already put yourself in the same orbit - might as well do that in an orbit which isn't full of comet debris.
If you do 2, then as you say see Deep Impact for what happens (the NASA mission not the movie, obviously).
Of course it is, no stay at home parent is common in this dual income world and has been for a long time now.
Over 20 years ago when I was at school my sister and I would be home a couple of hours before anyone else. Because "anyone else" was my mother and she worked, being a single working mother and all that... Of course that was when we were old enough to be trusted with that, prior to that we went to after school care of one form or another.
Being a full time mum is going to be great when the kids are tiny, not so hot when the kids spend 7 hours in school each day. Unless she likes video games of course, 7 hours a day of downtime would be great for that particular addiction:)
Filing in small claims yourself would seem better. Seems a pretty clear cut case, though reading whatever the original license was would best done first...
Murder seems like it could be a basic human urge - in some circumstances. Assault certainly. Aggression is as basic a human urge as you get - edged out by reproduction.
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Which is exactly what the parent post said...
Nutters, conspiracy theorists, and idiots putting stuff up on the internet. That's unheard of.
Should NASA be free to spend its own budget without Congressional oversight? Probably.
But the budget is provided by Congress (well directed to them by Congress), and they allocate it for whatever reasons they have - if NASA looks like they might spend it on something Congress doesn't want them to, then such a restriction seems reasonable.
If the head of NASA said "I read on the internet that the price of gold is "going to the moon", since we also want to go to moon I am going to invest 100% of NASA's budget in gold bullion for the next five years", then adding a "no you are not" provision to the budget seems reasonable (not as reasonable as sacking him them of course...)
Of course, not everyone is an idiot. In fact most people aren't.
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=436983
I would expect idiots to ignore them, because the computer voice must be obeyed.
But surely
(cost of digital download of song from itunes|wherever / file size) * upstream bandwidth * time file sharing software was running
is a simple upper bound on the measurement of "damage".
They always measure it backwards,since it makes the numbers sound much better...
If the old way caught 95% and a new way catches 99%, the you could say it's 4.2% better (4/95) or 4 percentage points better or you could say it's gone from missing 5% to missing 1% for 80% better (4/5) or say it's 5 times better (1% missed compared with 5%). Guess which most people choose to use?
And of course if it kills your family gets to sue the drug company, even though you were going to die anyway. Win/win.
No, the criteria in what you were replying to was "quickly and en masse", nothing about dollar cost. Being efficient inbythose criteria means killing the most people in the shortest amount of time.
Though I suspect the WWII military wins by that criteria anyway. Hiroshima for example, the bomb took 57 seconds to drop and killed 70,000 people directly in the blast. Of course the bomb run itself took 3 minutes more, and if you count take-off to landing time of the first and last aircraft it's more like 12 hours. Then again you probably aren't counting marching time in the roman legion time frame.
The current military could do the same thing with a nuclear cruise missile in far less time, so at least in theory they're still "winning"...
The F-22 can not 'cruise' at Mach 2. That would be even more buck rogers than the aircraft is already. Exceeding Mach 2 in an F-22 requires afterburners and this, in the parlance of military aircraft, is not 'cruise.' What an F-22 can do is supercruise (exceed Mach 1 without afterburners, thus high fuel efficiencies which means good range and therefore viable in bombing missions) at about Mach 1.7.
A less than 20% error is fine for government work...
Now that I think for second, not it doesn't since it's using two slots...
For the landline premium, I agree it sucks. But instead of not calling to a mobile, most people just stop calling from a landline.
It goes with the not paying for incoming calls - the operator isn't going to give the airtime away...
The landline premium seems the better system to me - paying for incoming calls seems a lot like double dipping on the mobile->mobile calls.
Given the recent devaluation of the USD $100 a month isn't going to get you much...
I'm also not sure, but if Europe is anything like Australia with respect to mobile phones incoming calls don't count, so how much of that 700+ minutes is incoming (and hence can be removed from the requirement)?
http://www.t-mobile.de/tarife/0,10821,17773-_647,00.html
I don't know German, but that seems like 1000 minutes for 59 euros - but it's one line and no data. An extra line is 10 euros... which pushes it to just over $100 - still no data. But go back a little to before the USD went down the toilet and you could add the data options for under $100. Since european salaries haven't dropped the 15% the exchange has, and US prices haven't had time to adjust to the more expensive imports it's probably fairer to allow the extra... Or drop back to fewer minutes (as I mentioned I think incoming doesn't count, so maybe the 400 plan would do?
So everyone who downloads software to provide them with more security from http://openbsd.org/ or http://www.openssh.com/ or http://www.gnupg.org/ is an idiot?
Or, why don't we just redefine the second to deal with all of this in the first place?
because a non-constant second would make most of physics a serious pain. Basing such a fundamental unit the ever changing motion of a ball or rock in space seems rather silly too.
The underlying cause isn't that we end up with a fraction of a second left over due to the Earth's rotation time not being an integer multiple of a second, but because the Earth's rotation is slowing down.
A second was defined as 1/86400 of the time of the Earth's rotation in 1/1/1901 (the date was added when the bright sparks noticed the earth's rotation wasn't constant), but the uselessness of that definition became apparent rather quickly so now it's the defined in terms of cesium-133 radiation. But it doesn't matter what you define it as, it there are exactly 86400 seconds in todays day, then there won't be in next years one since the Earth will have slowed some more.
And television stations?
There's a reason Murdoch is now an American...
Of course if you do 1, then you don't need the comet. You've already put yourself in the same orbit - might as well do that in an orbit which isn't full of comet debris.
If you do 2, then as you say see Deep Impact for what happens (the NASA mission not the movie, obviously).
Which is exactly the same as what you replied to, so starting with "Not" is strange.
That's right we should spend $0 on everything else.
What!?! Bob bought a TV set, lynch him that money could have gone to cancer research.
What?!? Tina spent time improving the efficiency of solar panels, stone her that time could have gone to cancer research.
What!?! Johnny studied Geology at school, beat him he could have studied medicine and helped with cancer research.
Because both parents enjoy their careers?
Because neither one wants to be out of the workforce for 5 years and hence have trouble getting back in?
Because they would want their child to attend day care once or twice a week anyway (social interaction/etc) and hence there's a sunk cost already?
Because their child is a shit and they'd rather not spend all day dealing with it?
Of course it is, no stay at home parent is common in this dual income world and has been for a long time now.
:)
Over 20 years ago when I was at school my sister and I would be home a couple of hours before anyone else. Because "anyone else" was my mother and she worked, being a single working mother and all that... Of course that was when we were old enough to be trusted with that, prior to that we went to after school care of one form or another.
Being a full time mum is going to be great when the kids are tiny, not so hot when the kids spend 7 hours in school each day. Unless she likes video games of course, 7 hours a day of downtime would be great for that particular addiction
Filing in small claims yourself would seem better. Seems a pretty clear cut case, though reading whatever the original license was would best done first...
California isn't one of those 19 states so you're looking in the wrong place.
Murder seems like it could be a basic human urge - in some circumstances. Assault certainly. Aggression is as basic a human urge as you get - edged out by reproduction.
First you have to melt sand. Not cheese on a pizza, but sand
God damn it! No wonder my attempts have never worked. You have no idea how many different types of cheese I have tried...