OTOH, Conservatives/Libertarians would most likely pass on giving up their DNA, in lock step. I know, I know, the very idea of them being at Berkeley is laughable, but still.
It's those engineers and support personnel who are about to be out of a job in those states are the ones that need Ares funded. Although I do support the commercialization of space and getting NASA out of the manned LEO rides, I can sympathize with those who are about to be unemployed because of the budget reversal. My memories goes back to the mid 1970s when my father and his friends lost their jobs when Apollo 17 completed it's mission.
Can I blame those GOP Senators for pushing for funding to keep jobs in their state? Nope, sure can't. Do I think it should be funded, nope, sure don't.
With their combine number of people watching either, who cares? Evidently not the American public with what ratings they are generating. Maybe Soros will come and buy both networks so he has his propaganda machine in tact.
First rule of thumb, if NASA can botch something, they will. SST was a disaster from what was promised (what was it, 30 day turn around @ vehicle? Weekly launches and I forget what the cost @ pound they were initially spouting, damn crooks), the years worth of delays and the lack of employment of those who were layed off after Apollo 17 (that would include my late father) mission. Challenger disaster that was needless, the botched search for the crew cabin (which was found within a square mile of where Patrick AFB told them to look in the first place, but NASA went else where first), the disgraceful recovery and transportation of the crew's remains once they did find the crew cabin. Then the Columbia disaster just underscored NASA management's lack of caring or understanding how delicate these old vehicles are even after Challenger's review.
I guess one should have expected this type of dismal failure when the US Government think it can run an space agency like a airline. Basically that would have been the fate of commercial air transportation if the US military would have had a strangle hold on it and not allowed the first airlines to form and fly cargo and passengers. I seldom agree with Obama on anything, but getting NASA out of the man space transportation loop is painful, but it needs to be done to allow people like Rutan to step up to the plate for a try. Next time your at the airport for a flight, try to imagine as a civilian having the choice of train, bus, or car if USAF wouldn't secure you a seat to fly on the only operational air transportation system, theirs. That's if they are going to the nearest military base where you need to go.
Personal electronics ban is trying to regulate stupidity. Won't help, it will only hurt those of us who don't fly large aircraft which have working toys. I think Congress needs to do a bit of flying during the summer in singles or light twins while dodging thunderstorms with no onboard wx RADAR and see if that smartphone (or netbook) is worth it's weight in gold for near live RADAR updates.
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This is what Obama claims as the first phase of health care reform. There are more phases to come including government run health insurance which will kill off the 13,000 health insurance companies. As a former Federal employee (and I do miss my benefits), the idea of the Feds controlling health care from womb to tomb has me very scared.
Let me put it to you this way, if your employer had a choice of paying 8% tax to cover your health care to Medicaid or paying more to pay for your current health care insurance, what do you think they are going to decide on? That will be their choice in the coming years under Obamacare. Worse yet, more GPs are looking to exit the health care field if this goes through because they will not be making the money they are use to. Is it a bluff or are they telling us the truth of what will happen?
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AMA only represents ~18% of the total number of doctors, and most of those still with AMA are administrators. AMA got a sweet deal for billing codes which Drs have to buy from AMA. AMA is a business and clearly does not represent Drs in the USA.
In aviation, it's a well document phrase of, "I'm hear from the FAA, I'm hear to help" that send shivers down A&Ps and pilots spines alike. Tax and spend is not just a phrase in Washington, it's a way to grow one's empire.
Government isn't supposed to be in control of my life from the womb to my tomb either. With drawl from the ISS, cancel the STS and get NASA out of the low earth manned space program all together and let industry do it's work.
Screw NASA on manned exploration, we do not need them. We need the FAA and the US Congress to make industry's pathway for manned exploration as painless and profitable as possible. Continuing to allow NASA to be all for manned exploration makes as much sense as having the military in complete charge of all air transportation.
I'll probably stay on my crackberry with Verizon, but I'd never go back to AT&T (was Cingular). Coverage for voice is superior with Verizon and that is far more critical on how fast I get weather.com site pulled up. iPhone is tempting, but only if I stay away from AT&T.
Some how the idea of great safety for man space exploration doesn't seem to come to my mind when it comes to subcontractors being selected by lowest bid wins. How about we just deorbit the ISS on time plus defund future man space exploration from NASA's budget. We either subcontact out to the Russians or let private industry build up on their own for commercial man space flight. NASA has failed to lead in manned space exploration (STS and ISS), let someone else do it. It would save us a few billion in the mean time and keep NASA out of industry's way of doing it right. If industry blows it, it's their white elephant and not the tax payer's.
$160M over 10 years was just the *updates* being done, that's not the operational budget for USCG operational budget. USCG spends $36M @ year for LORAN. Viewing how large of a job USCG has to do, I think I rather see the man power and $36M put to use for better port security then deal with some old fart in his $3000 boat whining about having to pay for a $99 pocket GPS unit that he will seldom use. LORAN was originally be stopped back in the 1990s, pity it wasn't.
I am pretty sure I would strongly disagree with whatever goes through the minds of the implementers of MLMs. I have dealt with more than a couple in my time and they always leave a bad taste in my mouth so to speak.
It really depends on the owners/executives of the MLM and the compensation plan. There are some really awful ones out there that are pure scams. There are ones out there that management is OK, just the compensation plan are awful. Trick is finding a MLM that has owners/management that have integrity that treat the distributors fairly for their work with a workable business plan to use.
Then you have people who think it's easy money (it's not, it requires real work) and fail to follow the business plan set up by people who are alot smarter then they are then cry about not being successful. Or they want to be babied by their sponsors and can not work without constant supervision. Like all sales, it's matter of falling through with commitment and dedication through the awful time of learning a new job. Those with fire in the belly will succeed if they are with the right product/management/compensation plan/business plan. It's hard work but it can be a whole lot of fun too.
For me, it allowed me to work from home to take care of family. I would never return carrying mail for USPS, I do not want someone else controlling me like that ever again.
Unless they loss the entire navigation capablities, they knew new what their ground speed was. Question comes to my low time mind is if they knew that and they know what their IAS should have been at a given EPR readings, why wouldn't they know they were going beyond Va regardless of the what the IAS is being shown? Unless they were attempting to power their way out of a microburst and didn't have time to think. I have a gut feeling pilot training needs a review.
We don't call GM Government Motors for nothing! I expect to see large Government matching funds on down payments for Volts to counter the 50% increase we are going to see on the Cap and Trade scam. Guess the Cap and Trade is the secret weapon for the Volt, the national power grid couldn't handle that type of additional load of Volts being plugged in unless the demand for power dropped by equal amount because people can't their power bills.
The only reason why the pro-abortionist are whining about lack of funding for embryonic stem cell funding is the fact industry isn't touching it. Industry isn't touching it because it's a bad investment, not because of ethical questions. Industry knows where the real benefits are for their R&D monies, adult stem cell research. They have to have a ROI on their investment, adult stem cell is most promising. Go look at where the billions they are spending are going to, that tells the tale.
I'm awfully amused of the misuse of the term, "Ditto-Head" in a Darwinism piece to bash non-compliant thought. The term came from Rush Limbaugh Show that shorted air time of people saying how much they loved the show and it had nothing to do with following in lock step, mind numbed robots, like the faithful followers of Darwinism do today. Now if this overview of the article has a fatally flawed description, what is a good Darwinist to do?
Sounds like perfect timing to get some more pork^H^H^H budget increase request in with the new administration. Each US household owes what as apart of the US National Debt, $500K? What's an extra billion for more bad modelling? It'll be made up by the horrific carbon taxes that won't make a damn bit of difference.
As a former USPS slave^H^Hemployee it sure doesn't surprise me. I've seen the internal network go down way too often leaving Customer Service Supervisors high and dry. Then again, they didn't care about USPS management, management doesn't care about workers in the crafts. Works don't care if you get your mail. Boy, I can't wait till the Feds are in charge of my health care!
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We are currently over do for the de Vries (Suess) 205-210 year cycle. Hopefully it will just be a Dalton Minimum...
OTOH, Conservatives/Libertarians would most likely pass on giving up their DNA, in lock step. I know, I know, the very idea of them being at Berkeley is laughable, but still.
It's those engineers and support personnel who are about to be out of a job in those states are the ones that need Ares funded. Although I do support the commercialization of space and getting NASA out of the manned LEO rides, I can sympathize with those who are about to be unemployed because of the budget reversal. My memories goes back to the mid 1970s when my father and his friends lost their jobs when Apollo 17 completed it's mission.
Can I blame those GOP Senators for pushing for funding to keep jobs in their state? Nope, sure can't. Do I think it should be funded, nope, sure don't.
With their combine number of people watching either, who cares? Evidently not the American public with what ratings they are generating. Maybe Soros will come and buy both networks so he has his propaganda machine in tact.
First rule of thumb, if NASA can botch something, they will. SST was a disaster from what was promised (what was it, 30 day turn around @ vehicle? Weekly launches and I forget what the cost @ pound they were initially spouting, damn crooks), the years worth of delays and the lack of employment of those who were layed off after Apollo 17 (that would include my late father) mission. Challenger disaster that was needless, the botched search for the crew cabin (which was found within a square mile of where Patrick AFB told them to look in the first place, but NASA went else where first), the disgraceful recovery and transportation of the crew's remains once they did find the crew cabin. Then the Columbia disaster just underscored NASA management's lack of caring or understanding how delicate these old vehicles are even after Challenger's review.
I guess one should have expected this type of dismal failure when the US Government think it can run an space agency like a airline. Basically that would have been the fate of commercial air transportation if the US military would have had a strangle hold on it and not allowed the first airlines to form and fly cargo and passengers. I seldom agree with Obama on anything, but getting NASA out of the man space transportation loop is painful, but it needs to be done to allow people like Rutan to step up to the plate for a try. Next time your at the airport for a flight, try to imagine as a civilian having the choice of train, bus, or car if USAF wouldn't secure you a seat to fly on the only operational air transportation system, theirs. That's if they are going to the nearest military base where you need to go.
Personal electronics ban is trying to regulate stupidity. Won't help, it will only hurt those of us who don't fly large aircraft which have working toys. I think Congress needs to do a bit of flying during the summer in singles or light twins while dodging thunderstorms with no onboard wx RADAR and see if that smartphone (or netbook) is worth it's weight in gold for near live RADAR updates.
This is what Obama claims as the first phase of health care reform. There are more phases to come including government run health insurance which will kill off the 13,000 health insurance companies. As a former Federal employee (and I do miss my benefits), the idea of the Feds controlling health care from womb to tomb has me very scared.
Let me put it to you this way, if your employer had a choice of paying 8% tax to cover your health care to Medicaid or paying more to pay for your current health care insurance, what do you think they are going to decide on? That will be their choice in the coming years under Obamacare. Worse yet, more GPs are looking to exit the health care field if this goes through because they will not be making the money they are use to. Is it a bluff or are they telling us the truth of what will happen?
AMA only represents ~18% of the total number of doctors, and most of those still with AMA are administrators. AMA got a sweet deal for billing codes which Drs have to buy from AMA. AMA is a business and clearly does not represent Drs in the USA.
In aviation, it's a well document phrase of, "I'm hear from the FAA, I'm hear to help" that send shivers down A&Ps and pilots spines alike. Tax and spend is not just a phrase in Washington, it's a way to grow one's empire.
Government isn't supposed to be in control of my life from the womb to my tomb either. With drawl from the ISS, cancel the STS and get NASA out of the low earth manned space program all together and let industry do it's work.
Screw NASA on manned exploration, we do not need them. We need the FAA and the US Congress to make industry's pathway for manned exploration as painless and profitable as possible. Continuing to allow NASA to be all for manned exploration makes as much sense as having the military in complete charge of all air transportation.
I'll probably stay on my crackberry with Verizon, but I'd never go back to AT&T (was Cingular). Coverage for voice is superior with Verizon and that is far more critical on how fast I get weather.com site pulled up. iPhone is tempting, but only if I stay away from AT&T.
Some how the idea of great safety for man space exploration doesn't seem to come to my mind when it comes to subcontractors being selected by lowest bid wins. How about we just deorbit the ISS on time plus defund future man space exploration from NASA's budget. We either subcontact out to the Russians or let private industry build up on their own for commercial man space flight. NASA has failed to lead in manned space exploration (STS and ISS), let someone else do it. It would save us a few billion in the mean time and keep NASA out of industry's way of doing it right. If industry blows it, it's their white elephant and not the tax payer's.
$160M over 10 years was just the *updates* being done, that's not the operational budget for USCG operational budget. USCG spends $36M @ year for LORAN. Viewing how large of a job USCG has to do, I think I rather see the man power and $36M put to use for better port security then deal with some old fart in his $3000 boat whining about having to pay for a $99 pocket GPS unit that he will seldom use. LORAN was originally be stopped back in the 1990s, pity it wasn't.
EFIKA-MX Dev is currently out at $249 http://www.genesi-usa.com/products/efika
There is already a open source version of Amiga OS called AROS which is x86, x86_64, PPC and shortly ARM. http://www.aros.org/
I am pretty sure I would strongly disagree with whatever goes through the minds of the implementers of MLMs. I have dealt with more than a couple in my time and they always leave a bad taste in my mouth so to speak.
It really depends on the owners/executives of the MLM and the compensation plan. There are some really awful ones out there that are pure scams. There are ones out there that management is OK, just the compensation plan are awful. Trick is finding a MLM that has owners/management that have integrity that treat the distributors fairly for their work with a workable business plan to use.
Then you have people who think it's easy money (it's not, it requires real work) and fail to follow the business plan set up by people who are alot smarter then they are then cry about not being successful. Or they want to be babied by their sponsors and can not work without constant supervision. Like all sales, it's matter of falling through with commitment and dedication through the awful time of learning a new job. Those with fire in the belly will succeed if they are with the right product/management/compensation plan/business plan. It's hard work but it can be a whole lot of fun too.
For me, it allowed me to work from home to take care of family. I would never return carrying mail for USPS, I do not want someone else controlling me like that ever again.
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Unless they loss the entire navigation capablities, they knew new what their ground speed was. Question comes to my low time mind is if they knew that and they know what their IAS should have been at a given EPR readings, why wouldn't they know they were going beyond Va regardless of the what the IAS is being shown? Unless they were attempting to power their way out of a microburst and didn't have time to think. I have a gut feeling pilot training needs a review.
We don't call GM Government Motors for nothing! I expect to see large Government matching funds on down payments for Volts to counter the 50% increase we are going to see on the Cap and Trade scam. Guess the Cap and Trade is the secret weapon for the Volt, the national power grid couldn't handle that type of additional load of Volts being plugged in unless the demand for power dropped by equal amount because people can't their power bills.
Because chopping down telephone poles won't get you 72 virgins in paradise.
The only reason why the pro-abortionist are whining about lack of funding for embryonic stem cell funding is the fact industry isn't touching it. Industry isn't touching it because it's a bad investment, not because of ethical questions. Industry knows where the real benefits are for their R&D monies, adult stem cell research. They have to have a ROI on their investment, adult stem cell is most promising. Go look at where the billions they are spending are going to, that tells the tale.
I'm awfully amused of the misuse of the term, "Ditto-Head" in a Darwinism piece to bash non-compliant thought. The term came from Rush Limbaugh Show that shorted air time of people saying how much they loved the show and it had nothing to do with following in lock step, mind numbed robots, like the faithful followers of Darwinism do today. Now if this overview of the article has a fatally flawed description, what is a good Darwinist to do?
Sounds like perfect timing to get some more pork^H^H^H budget increase request in with the new administration. Each US household owes what as apart of the US National Debt, $500K? What's an extra billion for more bad modelling? It'll be made up by the horrific carbon taxes that won't make a damn bit of difference.
Funny that Cosmic Rays and Earth's heating and cooling can be demonstrated experimentally, see: http://junkscience.com/Greenhouse/Cosmic_rays_and_climate.html
As a former USPS slave^H^Hemployee it sure doesn't surprise me. I've seen the internal network go down way too often leaving Customer Service Supervisors high and dry. Then again, they didn't care about USPS management, management doesn't care about workers in the crafts. Works don't care if you get your mail. Boy, I can't wait till the Feds are in charge of my health care!
Dammy