Don't trust the government? Smart. Don't trust some guy with a website? Troll.
I would fix that for you as:
"Don't trust an organization with $400 billion/year military budget? Smart. Don't trust some guy who's antagonizing the most powerful military organization on earth? Troll."
From my experience, the distro that gives less back to the community is Suse.
I have Suse systems at work and there's always some catch, it never works seamlessly unless you go to a full (paid) Suse solution.
Ubuntu, OTOH, is nearly transparent, you never feel like you are being obstructed by it. In the worst case, if everything else fails all you need to do is to fall back on some Debian solution that will almost always work in Ubuntu.
The problem with your idea is that the mouth of the tube should be open, otherwise how would the spacecraft come out? To be open it should need to be in a vacuum, otherwise air would come rushing in. You would need a tube extending all the way to above the atmosphere, let's say a hundred kilometers up.
to 'catch' the track as you say, the space craft must be going faster than it
No. All they need to do is to be at the same place at the same time.
The spacecraft is at the top of its trajectory, zero vertical speed, zero horizontal speed. Exactly at the same time the front of the track reaches that same location. A magnetic force catches the spacecraft so it won't fall down. The same magnetic force accelerates the spacecraft horizontally along the track so it will have orbital velocity by the time it reaches the other end.
The track is bidirectional. It propels spacecraft launched vertically from earth, but it also catches spacecraft coming down. There's a velocity budget to be maintained, it will drop material from orbit to keep its velocity. Where will this material come from? The moon, perhaps. We will have to import mass to the earth as we send mass up.
Of course, the track must be more massive than the spacecraft it will handle. Version 1.0 will not be able to handle manned spacecraft.
When you simulate a continuous medium by dividing it into small space and time steps, there's a speed "c" that's equal to the space step divided by the time step which cannot be exceeded by anything in the simulation.
Sorry, but 10x roller coaster speeds isn't close to Mach 10.
And even Mach 10 isn't enough, orbital velocity is close to Mach 25. You cannot run at that speed inside the atmosphere, there's no material that could withstand the heat.
I've seen a much better idea proposed. Put that electric accelerator track in orbit. The energy needed to reach orbital altitude is much less than the energy needed to accelerate to orbital speed.
One could launch the spacecraft vertically to an interception with the accelerator track, then it would catch the track and get the needed horizontal speed while already outside the atmosphere.
California state law forbids manufacture, sale, possession or import of any shuiken, star, diamond, trefoil or other edged weapon used for throwing. So it's just as well it was confiscated at the airport.
Let's see:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
So... have looney Creationists actually gained enough hold on the Canadian government to silence scientific knowledge?
TFA mentions something about oil sands and mercury pollution in the Athabasca river, so it's most probably work of the oil industry.
As a bonus, they get silence about floods at the end of the ice age. Any paper about climate is bad for the oil industry, they need ignorance in order to enforce their truth that there is no climate change and if it existed it would not have been caused by CO2 in the atmosphere.
you don't get hybrid tractors, and if you did they mostly wouldn't make sense. Neither would electric ones.
That's what biodiesel is for. You have to find some type of plant that provides enough oil that you can grow that crop plus whatever crop brings you the cash you need.
Earth would have remained a frozen snowball 650 million years ago if not for volcanism busting the surface ice apart. Perhaps not coincidentally, the Cambrian Explosion of multi-celled life forms soon followed.
If it weren't for greenhouse gases, earth would be frozen solid. But there have existed geologic periods when the concentration of greenhouse gases was so high that there was no ice anywhere on earth.
That goes to show how delicate equilibrium we have, a little bit more or less of those gases is enough to cause wide variations of temperature. Better be cautious.
We all know that computers will make illiterate and innumerate Amerikans literate and numerate.
In the Middle Ages, the perfect gentleman was illiterate, but he knew how to read icons, "baton sinistre on azure field", etc. No one had much use for reading and writing because books could only be found in the very few libraries that existed. Literacy was the field of experts only.
When the printing press was invented, books became available to everybody. People became literate. The perfect gentleman was expected to know the intricate details of spelling, calligraphy, grammar, punctuation, syntax, prosody, etc.
In the middle twentieth century programming computers was the field of experts only. No one had much use for programming skills because computers could only be found in the few data centers that existed.
When the personal computer was invented, computers became available to everybody. The perfect gentleman forgot how to read and write and went back to icons. WTF???
this guy could just be a shuck with an ego the size of Sweden.
He has to compensate some way for being named "Ass Anger". If the boys at his school were like those I knew when I was a kid, he must have had a troubled childhood.
The problem is generally you only know an accusation is blatantly false if the woman recants
Which is a blatant injustice. Once she has agreed to something, she has agreed to it.
She cannot buy a car and then say "but I didn't know it had fuzzy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror". If she does not want a car with fuzzy dice, she should state it clearly beforehand in a written contract.
Rape is a serious crime. No one should be convicted of it without proof. Letting the word of the accuser trump the word of the accused inverts all the accepted legal principles.
If the other person says stop in the middle, you stop. That's a sensible law. It doesn't bring humanity down.
I don't think sex works exactly that way. How do you stop in the middle of an orgasm?
The basic premise of sex is that it should only be performed among adults. An adult person would have enough sense to walk out before it becomes an unmanageable situation.
I don't mean "she had it coming" but if she agreed to having sex with a man and it doesn't turn out exactly as she thought it would, she should have absolutely no right to call it "rape" unless he became physically violent.
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I would fix that for you as:
"Don't trust an organization with $400 billion/year military budget? Smart. Don't trust some guy who's antagonizing the most powerful military organization on earth? Troll."
The Rosenberg couple received *death* in prison.
Welcome to the world of engineering.
From my experience, the distro that gives less back to the community is Suse.
I have Suse systems at work and there's always some catch, it never works seamlessly unless you go to a full (paid) Suse solution.
Ubuntu, OTOH, is nearly transparent, you never feel like you are being obstructed by it. In the worst case, if everything else fails all you need to do is to fall back on some Debian solution that will almost always work in Ubuntu.
The problem with your idea is that the mouth of the tube should be open, otherwise how would the spacecraft come out? To be open it should need to be in a vacuum, otherwise air would come rushing in. You would need a tube extending all the way to above the atmosphere, let's say a hundred kilometers up.
An awesome concept, but not simple or cheap.
No. All they need to do is to be at the same place at the same time.
The spacecraft is at the top of its trajectory, zero vertical speed, zero horizontal speed. Exactly at the same time the front of the track reaches that same location. A magnetic force catches the spacecraft so it won't fall down. The same magnetic force accelerates the spacecraft horizontally along the track so it will have orbital velocity by the time it reaches the other end.
The track is bidirectional. It propels spacecraft launched vertically from earth, but it also catches spacecraft coming down. There's a velocity budget to be maintained, it will drop material from orbit to keep its velocity. Where will this material come from? The moon, perhaps. We will have to import mass to the earth as we send mass up.
Of course, the track must be more massive than the spacecraft it will handle. Version 1.0 will not be able to handle manned spacecraft.
Sure, but you would also use the track to decelerate spacecraft from orbital velocity to land on earth, which would cause the track to gain velocity.
Even more significant is that there's an intrinsic speed limitation in a simulation.
When you simulate a continuous medium by dividing it into small space and time steps, there's a speed "c" that's equal to the space step divided by the time step which cannot be exceeded by anything in the simulation.
And even Mach 10 isn't enough, orbital velocity is close to Mach 25. You cannot run at that speed inside the atmosphere, there's no material that could withstand the heat.
I've seen a much better idea proposed. Put that electric accelerator track in orbit. The energy needed to reach orbital altitude is much less than the energy needed to accelerate to orbital speed.
One could launch the spacecraft vertically to an interception with the accelerator track, then it would catch the track and get the needed horizontal speed while already outside the atmosphere.
Let's see:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
I can't find any exception about shuriken there.
Or two GPUs.
If it can run Crysis it can simulate galaxies.
TFA mentions something about oil sands and mercury pollution in the Athabasca river, so it's most probably work of the oil industry.
As a bonus, they get silence about floods at the end of the ice age. Any paper about climate is bad for the oil industry, they need ignorance in order to enforce their truth that there is no climate change and if it existed it would not have been caused by CO2 in the atmosphere.
This is an iris scan.
I don't know why, but this "Family" thing in the name of the service makes me think of censorship.
On-line games will be certified to be non-violent and you will not be allowed to download Heavy Metal music, I suppose.
Because phrases like
"Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless" - Mary Kay Ash
"Invention is one per cent inspiration and ninety nine per cent perspiration" - Thomas Edison
sound better than "first come first served".
That's what biodiesel is for. You have to find some type of plant that provides enough oil that you can grow that crop plus whatever crop brings you the cash you need.
If it weren't for greenhouse gases, earth would be frozen solid. But there have existed geologic periods when the concentration of greenhouse gases was so high that there was no ice anywhere on earth.
That goes to show how delicate equilibrium we have, a little bit more or less of those gases is enough to cause wide variations of temperature. Better be cautious.
In the Middle Ages, the perfect gentleman was illiterate, but he knew how to read icons, "baton sinistre on azure field", etc. No one had much use for reading and writing because books could only be found in the very few libraries that existed. Literacy was the field of experts only.
When the printing press was invented, books became available to everybody. People became literate. The perfect gentleman was expected to know the intricate details of spelling, calligraphy, grammar, punctuation, syntax, prosody, etc.
In the middle twentieth century programming computers was the field of experts only. No one had much use for programming skills because computers could only be found in the few data centers that existed.
When the personal computer was invented, computers became available to everybody. The perfect gentleman forgot how to read and write and went back to icons. WTF???
Let me see, you worked both construction *and* demolition? Seems like a pretty smart way to keep permanently employed.
Pay up where? Which buildings will come down?
Not in the employ of CIA, but she would have a chance to be the next leader of Wikileaks if Assange steps down.
He has to compensate some way for being named "Ass Anger". If the boys at his school were like those I knew when I was a kid, he must have had a troubled childhood.
Which is a blatant injustice. Once she has agreed to something, she has agreed to it.
She cannot buy a car and then say "but I didn't know it had fuzzy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror". If she does not want a car with fuzzy dice, she should state it clearly beforehand in a written contract.
Rape is a serious crime. No one should be convicted of it without proof. Letting the word of the accuser trump the word of the accused inverts all the accepted legal principles.
I don't think sex works exactly that way. How do you stop in the middle of an orgasm?
The basic premise of sex is that it should only be performed among adults. An adult person would have enough sense to walk out before it becomes an unmanageable situation.
I don't mean "she had it coming" but if she agreed to having sex with a man and it doesn't turn out exactly as she thought it would, she should have absolutely no right to call it "rape" unless he became physically violent.
I guess her price is the undisputed leadership of the WikiLeaks organization.