If you spend a lot on your administration, to win over voters or do whatever it is you want, then when the Democrat gets into office, he or she will be forced to cut spending so as to create a surplus while keeping the Republican's low taxes, lest they get "tax hike" backlash. At the same time, whenever "starve the beast" fails, deficits don't matter, or deficits are the grease that keeps the gears of the economy going.
Republican politicians like McCain say we're supposed to reduce spending, (in order to reduce national debt, though this step on the flowchart may be skipped depending on the audience), and we also should reduce taxes further, but then how will we get rid of the national debt?
Furthermore, if the Republicans are to perpetually starve the beast and fail, clearly their strategy needs to change. They need to raise deficits so much that the interest itself is as burdensome as the current deficit levels by themselves. That, and if the Republicans are perpetually starving the beast, maybe they should at least be doing so with programs like national healthc----oh, wait.
The preferred method of starving the beast is through increases in the national defense budget, it would seem. John McCain has expressed need for a spending freeze in all areas but that, which would cut off funding for new NASA projects (which aren't entitlements, including Orion, which was approved in a separate bill), while his close colleague Lindsey Graham wants to cut the budget by 5% in all areas but national defense.
[17:03] http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/05/201205 [17:03] What say you, Wikipedia? [17:04] I say you're a nutjob conspiracy theorist on the order of moon landing disbelievers and catholics. [17:05] I also say that it would be fucking awesome for wikipedia to be able to destroy the economy.
and so soon after the old version, only to leave a pit in the gut of anyone that just upgraded. Why shouldn't people just skip generations to wait for the next thing? That way, for instance, if you bought this thing after skipping over the DS you wouldn't have to worry about lack of games, because of backward compatibility.
I wonder if the older games are going to be treated like black and white movies, in that some people won't play the classic ones with worse graphics because they're "black and white."
Currently the Minerals Management Services in the Department of the Interior has companies pay between 12.5% and 18.75% royalties to use United States public land, depending on the mineral being harvested. Senator, do you believe that the amount of royalties they pay should also vary depending on environmental sensitivity, such as when drilling offshore?
This is not a question as to whether we should, and it is addressed to both candidates.
The difference there is that that line was thought of by Neil Armstrong himself beforehand. It wasn't spontaneous, but I would have been thinking all the time of what I would say when I set foot, too.
That's different because they're political speeches written beforehand. General Dwight Eisenhower did the same thing in case the Invasion of Normandy did not work. This is detailed information about conversations between astronauts.
They said it would be open, honest, and transparent so as to let everyone get a glimpse into this historic achievement as a gesture of kindness toward the world. I actually thought about watching it for a few seconds, because there is only so much I thought they could think they could get away with. I guess I needed another reminder.
Sorry, I was just wondering if natural curvature could have an effect like that of a large concentration of mass, or if the universe is entirely convex.
I had heard from LiveScience that someone had been speculating our universe was shaped like a higher dimensional torus. Isn't there a type of hyperdimensional torus with a very small hole that kind of looks like a cushion (the middle one)? Maybe that could cause material to flow to a central point while the torus expands.
Also, if a 3D universe is projected as a surface of a 3D figure, be it sphere, cylinder, torus, or the friendly dodecahedron, would there be any places that could lead to the core?
Throughout the book, they added random chapters from War and Peace, the Bible, the Harry Potter books, and John McCain's medical records. Afterward, they intertwined them with the actual guidebook by referring to the passages in the text.
"To find customer support, tap the number of times Hermione knocked on Hagrid's door before he answered, in the chapter we copied into this guidebook fifteen pages ago, then the first two digits in the square root in the number of members in the Fellowship of the Ring, then the first name of the narrator in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde translated into ROT13 and then from letters into numbers."
If the Earth were as big as your arm, the Moon would be twenty feet away. Unfortunately, there isn't enough room for that much space on your computer screen.
There was a countdown of animals that had the most extreme survival conditions, and they outperformed cockroaches by quite a bit. They used computer software to show what the equivalent for a human would be under those circumstances, and visualized the radiation with drums of nuclear waste and bombs or something. Not only can they survive no pressure in the vacuum of space, but they can survive under thousands of pounds of water pressure in the ocean.
One scientist had left a tardigrade in a miniature desert for 20 years, and it popped right back up when they just added water. They also can survive extreme heat, salt, and acid. The most amazing thing is that they can probably be found in your own backyard.
For comparison, when the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter took photos of the Martian moon Phobos, it did so at a 6.8m=1 pixel scale, which came out to a 3,374 by 3,300 pixel image for one side. If a scale of 20.2m=1 pixel on average is assumed on average for these, then a picture of the whole thing like would be about 22,074 by 22,074 pixels, or 487 megapixels. That's assuming they didn't even do the same locations twice from different angles or something.
Does this mean I'll be able to switch from Phobos to Enceladus as my desktop background soon?
It's a SpongeBob SquarePants reference to when he's trying to procrastinate writing his essay by asking a mailman about other mailmen delivering things to other mailmen.
I am going to guess that all the viruses infecting us were just turned evil by virophages like the end result of humanity in a zombiepocalypse, but somewhere some brave polio virus is out there trying to make a difference, in a world where salmonella and E. coli reign...
Actually, the plan where the residents of Earth left through the Axiom while WALL-E robots cleaned up garbage on the surface took place in 2110, almost exactly 700 years before the year where the main movie plot takes place
There are about thirty English language university campuses in Second Life. Most of them seem to be used as advertisements to get you to attend, with information about the buildings that they reproduced. There was one by the geology department of an Indiana university, I think. I didn't notice the ones I visited using them for class learning, though a few did have virtual classrooms that looked abandoned.
I noticed that Cisco helped make a virtual model of the planned Palomar Hospital, so that local residents could log into Second Life, go there, and offer criticism. NASA and NOAA, a U.S. government agency that studies the oceans and atmosphere, have virtual land in an area called the "SciLands," near the University of Denver Biology Department. An International Spaceflight Museum built by Second Life residents has scale models of rockets and missile technology like the Proton rockets. There's an attempt to simulate Google Earth in 3D going on, and a Mars terrain-based region there, too.
Second Life may have a lot of furries, flying penises, and the less renowned screaming goatse-textured cube mountains, but they tend to concentrate in the Welcome Areas, in clubs, and in areas where security functions aren't enabled. The people I meet in Second Life also use less Internet chat speak than the ones I see on IRC. I think that's because when you're in even a virtual simulation of face-to-face talk, using slang and emoticons feels awkward.
Potentially, Second Life could be good for learning other languages. Did you know that the English speaking countries make up less than half of Second Life's active user base? Reuters says 31% are American, 13% are French, 11% are German, 8% are British, 7% are Dutch.
It was discovered around Easter. 2003 EL61 is codenamed Santa and its moons are codenamed Rudolph and Blitzen. It was discovered three days after Christmas. Maybe an object discovered in late October would be named "Grim" after the Reaper, but Halloween doesn't have any standard commercial holiday mascot like the others do.
Maybe you're frustrated because of Mars rover operators naming minor landforms around their landing probes things like "lollipop," but these are just placeholder names until they think up better ones.
Sorry I didn't include this in the submission, but Michael E. Brown, the leader of the discovery teams of Makemake and Eris, wrote a blog entry about his experience picking a name for the object. It's supposed to be pronounced "maki-maki," Hawaiian-style as he calls it. He likes to name objects discovered around the time his wife was pregnant after fertility gods and goddesses. You might remember "lila," his child's name, being in the URL of the Eris discovery announcement web page.
If general relativity says that a clock ticks faster the deeper it is in a gravity well, and at the beginning of the universe all that matter was closer together, maybe time just flew faster for star formation. Was the value of "year" used in the article, to put a new spin on an old phrase, adjusted for inflation?
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If you spend a lot on your administration, to win over voters or do whatever it is you want, then when the Democrat gets into office, he or she will be forced to cut spending so as to create a surplus while keeping the Republican's low taxes, lest they get "tax hike" backlash. At the same time, whenever "starve the beast" fails, deficits don't matter, or deficits are the grease that keeps the gears of the economy going.
Republican politicians like McCain say we're supposed to reduce spending, (in order to reduce national debt, though this step on the flowchart may be skipped depending on the audience), and we also should reduce taxes further, but then how will we get rid of the national debt?
Furthermore, if the Republicans are to perpetually starve the beast and fail, clearly their strategy needs to change. They need to raise deficits so much that the interest itself is as burdensome as the current deficit levels by themselves. That, and if the Republicans are perpetually starving the beast, maybe they should at least be doing so with programs like national healthc----oh, wait.
The preferred method of starving the beast is through increases in the national defense budget, it would seem. John McCain has expressed need for a spending freeze in all areas but that, which would cut off funding for new NASA projects (which aren't entitlements, including Orion, which was approved in a separate bill), while his close colleague Lindsey Graham wants to cut the budget by 5% in all areas but national defense.
[17:03] http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/05/201205
[17:03] What say you, Wikipedia?
[17:04] I say you're a nutjob conspiracy theorist on the order of moon landing disbelievers and catholics.
[17:05] I also say that it would be fucking awesome for wikipedia to be able to destroy the economy.
so there you go
and so soon after the old version, only to leave a pit in the gut of anyone that just upgraded. Why shouldn't people just skip generations to wait for the next thing? That way, for instance, if you bought this thing after skipping over the DS you wouldn't have to worry about lack of games, because of backward compatibility.
I wonder if the older games are going to be treated like black and white movies, in that some people won't play the classic ones with worse graphics because they're "black and white."
Sorry, I had meant to reference that I didn't want either to answer with their positions on offshore oil drilling.
Currently the Minerals Management Services in the Department of the Interior has companies pay between 12.5% and 18.75% royalties to use United States public land, depending on the mineral being harvested. Senator, do you believe that the amount of royalties they pay should also vary depending on environmental sensitivity, such as when drilling offshore?
This is not a question as to whether we should, and it is addressed to both candidates.
The difference there is that that line was thought of by Neil Armstrong himself beforehand. It wasn't spontaneous, but I would have been thinking all the time of what I would say when I set foot, too.
That's different because they're political speeches written beforehand. General Dwight Eisenhower did the same thing in case the Invasion of Normandy did not work. This is detailed information about conversations between astronauts.
They said it would be open, honest, and transparent so as to let everyone get a glimpse into this historic achievement as a gesture of kindness toward the world. I actually thought about watching it for a few seconds, because there is only so much I thought they could think they could get away with. I guess I needed another reminder.
Sorry, I was just wondering if natural curvature could have an effect like that of a large concentration of mass, or if the universe is entirely convex.
I had heard from LiveScience that someone had been speculating our universe was shaped like a higher dimensional torus. Isn't there a type of hyperdimensional torus with a very small hole that kind of looks like a cushion (the middle one)? Maybe that could cause material to flow to a central point while the torus expands.
Also, if a 3D universe is projected as a surface of a 3D figure, be it sphere, cylinder, torus, or the friendly dodecahedron, would there be any places that could lead to the core?
Sarcasm on the Internet? DO-HO-HO-HO-HO!
Throughout the book, they added random chapters from War and Peace, the Bible, the Harry Potter books, and John McCain's medical records. Afterward, they intertwined them with the actual guidebook by referring to the passages in the text.
"To find customer support, tap the number of times Hermione knocked on Hagrid's door before he answered, in the chapter we copied into this guidebook fifteen pages ago, then the first two digits in the square root in the number of members in the Fellowship of the Ring, then the first name of the narrator in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde translated into ROT13 and then from letters into numbers."
If the Earth were as big as your arm, the Moon would be twenty feet away. Unfortunately, there isn't enough room for that much space on your computer screen.
There was a countdown of animals that had the most extreme survival conditions, and they outperformed cockroaches by quite a bit. They used computer software to show what the equivalent for a human would be under those circumstances, and visualized the radiation with drums of nuclear waste and bombs or something. Not only can they survive no pressure in the vacuum of space, but they can survive under thousands of pounds of water pressure in the ocean.
One scientist had left a tardigrade in a miniature desert for 20 years, and it popped right back up when they just added water. They also can survive extreme heat, salt, and acid. The most amazing thing is that they can probably be found in your own backyard.
I would guess for the same reason the people at the use probability for theirs. Interestingly, there's one object on there that meets the "more probable than 1 in 10,000" threshold for Earth (two decades after Apophis and with half the explosive energy, though).
Russian news avoids mentioning the Russian satellite and just refers to the ISS dodging a "cluster of garbage."
Mod parent -1 troll. Didn't even read own links. "Introduced in the United States Senate as S. 2590 by Tom Coburn and Barack Obama on April 6, 2006"
For comparison, when the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter took photos of the Martian moon Phobos, it did so at a 6.8m=1 pixel scale, which came out to a 3,374 by 3,300 pixel image for one side. If a scale of 20.2m=1 pixel on average is assumed on average for these, then a picture of the whole thing like would be about 22,074 by 22,074 pixels, or 487 megapixels. That's assuming they didn't even do the same locations twice from different angles or something.
Does this mean I'll be able to switch from Phobos to Enceladus as my desktop background soon?
It's a SpongeBob SquarePants reference to when he's trying to procrastinate writing his essay by asking a mailman about other mailmen delivering things to other mailmen. I am going to guess that all the viruses infecting us were just turned evil by virophages like the end result of humanity in a zombiepocalypse, but somewhere some brave polio virus is out there trying to make a difference, in a world where salmonella and E. coli reign...
Actually, the plan where the residents of Earth left through the Axiom while WALL-E robots cleaned up garbage on the surface took place in 2110, almost exactly 700 years before the year where the main movie plot takes place
I concurred.
There are about thirty English language university campuses in Second Life. Most of them seem to be used as advertisements to get you to attend, with information about the buildings that they reproduced. There was one by the geology department of an Indiana university, I think. I didn't notice the ones I visited using them for class learning, though a few did have virtual classrooms that looked abandoned.
I noticed that Cisco helped make a virtual model of the planned Palomar Hospital, so that local residents could log into Second Life, go there, and offer criticism. NASA and NOAA, a U.S. government agency that studies the oceans and atmosphere, have virtual land in an area called the "SciLands," near the University of Denver Biology Department. An International Spaceflight Museum built by Second Life residents has scale models of rockets and missile technology like the Proton rockets. There's an attempt to simulate Google Earth in 3D going on, and a Mars terrain-based region there, too.
Second Life may have a lot of furries, flying penises, and the less renowned screaming goatse-textured cube mountains, but they tend to concentrate in the Welcome Areas, in clubs, and in areas where security functions aren't enabled. The people I meet in Second Life also use less Internet chat speak than the ones I see on IRC. I think that's because when you're in even a virtual simulation of face-to-face talk, using slang and emoticons feels awkward.
Potentially, Second Life could be good for learning other languages. Did you know that the English speaking countries make up less than half of Second Life's active user base? Reuters says 31% are American, 13% are French, 11% are German, 8% are British, 7% are Dutch.
Maybe you're frustrated because of Mars rover operators naming minor landforms around their landing probes things like "lollipop," but these are just placeholder names until they think up better ones.
Sorry I didn't include this in the submission, but Michael E. Brown, the leader of the discovery teams of Makemake and Eris, wrote a blog entry about his experience picking a name for the object. It's supposed to be pronounced "maki-maki," Hawaiian-style as he calls it. He likes to name objects discovered around the time his wife was pregnant after fertility gods and goddesses. You might remember "lila," his child's name, being in the URL of the Eris discovery announcement web page.
If general relativity says that a clock ticks faster the deeper it is in a gravity well, and at the beginning of the universe all that matter was closer together, maybe time just flew faster for star formation. Was the value of "year" used in the article, to put a new spin on an old phrase, adjusted for inflation?