My logic that they had paid for the hardware for all twenty missions in incorrect... because they had already paid for the hardware for all twenty missions? Either your logic, writing, or editing skills are sadly lacking along with your knowledge.
I'll chalk this up to your reading comprehension. Your argument that they had launched 6 subsequent missions because they had already paid for everything was incorrect, based on the fact they cancelled 1/3rd of the missions "ordered" for.
The goals of the individual missions of each Apollo spacecraft were written by NASA to meet the goals required to execute the mission for the Apollo Project as laid down by the Administration and Congress. Mission here is used in two different senses, don't confuse them. (Though I'm not surprised you do.)
Are you making this up as you go along? Where the hell are you pulling this from? Congress didn't write up "The Apollo Project" -- they had absolutely no qualifications to do so. Simply acting like you're the expert on everything doesn't change the smell of bullshit.
The missions were cancelled after we had completed what you call NASA's "ultimate goal" twice. Your arguments that they had already paid for the equipment for the subsequent missions is incorrect, since they had paid for the equipment for all 20 missions (though Apollo 20's hardware was unfinished and scrapped)
Besides, your orginal argument "That Apollo's mission was written by the legislature" is bogus to begin with. In that case, Gemini's ultimate goal was also landing on the moon. It wasn't. Though the legislature had the goal in mind of fulfilling JFK's prediction and beating the Soviets to the moon, they did not write the mission plans. They funded them, but they ultimately had to trust NASA to plan them, set the short-time goals to reach the long-time goals. NASA decided the goals for each mission, just as they decided the names for each mission.
Anyway, that irrelevant nonsense aside, I'm busy working on a high performance V-8 hemi engine powered by babies. I'm having some troubles with the baby pump getting clogged by babies, and also my valve timing equations could use some tweaking. Any automotive engineers want to help me out with some constructive criticism and proprietary engine timings? Thanks!
That's ridiculous. If you're creating it, it's not a hemi!
Space exploration has claimed 10% of its aviators.
Exploration of the New World in the 4 voyages of Columbus lost probably 20% of their sailors (some 500 men) and half of the ships -- and the diseases they brought home killed around 5 million Europeans! Does this mean that white man was never meant to settle the Americas? Of course not. We're here. It means that exploration and colonization is dangerous. Those 500 sailors were killed in a hurricane. "Don't sail your ships into a hurricane." is the lesson there. For Challenger, the lesson was "Don't use sub-par equipment when sending people into space, and beware groupthink." The lesson for the 5 million dead Europeans? "Practice safe sex, especially with civilizations who have unknown diseases."
The moral dilemma lies with "Is it worth it?" -- Was the death of 500 men, the genocide and slavery of the American people, and the suffering and death of 5 million Europeans an acceptible payment so I can own a house in California today? If you want to debate that, you will find many challengers. Whether we were meant for space exploration? Our supernatural drive to do so seems to say "Yes."
Then you'll see that Mercury's main focus was putting a man in space. Apollo's main focus was putting a man on the moon and getting him safely home (There were to be 20 Apollo missions, the goal was achieved in 11, the moon base was an extension of the Apollo mission. The Mars mission would be a different series of missions than Apollo. Apollo's mission objectives can be found on NASA's website but the specifics are usually garnered from other books, like any of those written by the astronauts -- such as Gene Cernan's Last Man on the Moon.
The next time we send manned missions to the Moon (or Mars), let's get serious and do it sustainably.
You don't know much about the Apollo missions if that's your opinion of it. The ultimate mission of Apollo was to build a moon base. Before we could do that, we had to be able to land on the moon, know what it was made of, if it was living or dead, and if the moon tended to shred equipment. We need to know if it was possible to land within 100 miles of a target, and more. NASA was headed to Mars in a few years with only a few billion dollars if their funding was kept up. However, a recession and an unpopular war and many political factors (including people who were shouting "What's the point?" and then not listening for an answer) drained the NASA budget and instead of being able to apply all they were learning on the moon, it just became an entry in the encyclopedia and a memory.
Pretend, for just one second, that I'm not a complete idiot. Pretend that I can stumble through my day without getting hit by a car. Pretend, in that mighty, condescending brain of yours, that I type things on my computer that doesn't make it explode, I don't end up drowning if I'm left alone in a shower, and I can chew food without choking myself to death. Pretend I am capable of the rational thinking. Also, pretend that when an expert says the word "Unknown" they don't mean "unknown to everyone but me, the expert"
For starters, read the definitive report that black holes probably won't destroy the planet that CERN is banking on. I'm sure you already have, however, since it's what you've based your entire ego on. Perhaps the most important is the conclusion: "We conclude that, for the RS scenario and black holes described... the growth of black holes to catastrophic size does not seem possible. Nonetheless, it remains true that the expected decay times are much longer (and possibly > 1 sec) than is typically predicted by other models, as was first shown [in 2001]" When you read the rest of it, you see just how "out of control" this would be if these black hole particles DID manifest and then dissipate.
Discuss the importance of real life vs. computer simulations. I may not be an expert on what happens when we smash billions of protons at energy of 14 trillion volts, but I am well-experienced with Murphy's Law. Computer data and simulations showed NASA that Apollo 14 was landing next to a volcano. All the data agreed. They landed where they were supposed to, but there was no volcano! I know that equipment leaks, breaks, malfunctions, punctures, kinks, lies, and shears. I know that literally, shooting hundreds of thousands of protons, through a leak, around the lab isn't what a neutron bomb does -- but the effect will be similar.
And I know a bullshitter when I see one. You care to criticize, but you offer no plausible counterpoints. If you'll bother to notice, I actually post qualifiers to my claims. You set yourself up to be some future-seeing mighty prince of physics and the damned inventor of the LHC himself. In truth, you've shown yourself incapable of questioning the men in white who admittedly don't know what they're getting themselves into.
After an authoritative-sounding bunch of complete nonsense you say: but not being familiar with quantum physics...
Reading articles on wikipedia, written by college dropouts, doesn't put you at any higher level than he is.
every competent physicist who has rightfully dismissed the... "LHC's gonna make a black hole" crowd
The point of the LHC is to make a black hole. Physicists claim it will dissipate quickly enough from the Hawking radiation vs. whether it will begin snowballing out of control. NOT whether it will create one. You don't even know what you're talking about.
They're attempting to create black holes. There aren't "controlled circumstances" for that outside of "We'll keep it really cold and we'll only make little ones."
The spirit of Stanley Milgram lives on very strongly in the LHC community. Not only are you all worshipping the ignorant as "knowing what they're doing" but you're arrogant about it as well. They're hypotheses include extra dimensions! How much more proof do you need that they aren't operating on "well-tested, documented, and understood physics"?
Like I said, I DON'T think they'll destroy the world. My bet is that they'll see the effects of a neutron bomb inside the LHC -- but I'm not pretending to KNOW what the odds are when I run a physics experiment that's strung up on metaphysical mathematics.
Welcome to the wonderful world of repair shops, used-car dealerships, furniture sales, and lawyers. It's easy and attractive to scammers to set up shop as or within one of these businesses and reap big bucks at the expense of an entire industry's image.
The ignorance about the dangers of particle accelerators is disconcerting.
Said the pot to the kettle.
The purpose of designing the LHC was to see what happens because they don't know what happens, and you are just as ignorant as the person you're chiding. No one is an expert on what happens when the very underlying principle of the experiment is that "no one is sure what will happen". It could make delicious, expensive icecream, for all we know. It could, in theory, destroy the world or a part of it. Given the evidence, I don't THINK it will destroy the world, but giving ridiculous odds against it (like winning the lottery 10 times in a row) is outright lying.
This just gave me an idea for a screen saver. It shows your wow character farming gold. Sometimes, a few horde [alliance] guys jump out and kill your character, and you get to watch it make a spirit run back. Sometimes, some other farmer will train a bunch of mobs onto you. Sometimes you'll miss 32 hits in a row (Warriors only) while poisoned. Sometimes, you will also get guild chat talking about faked moon landings, religion, their current middle school experiences, how much weed/beer they just smoked/drank, and you'll get a pre-pubescent guild leader shouting at everyone over vent. I will charge $60 a year to run it on your computer. It will be everything the real WoW experience gives, except cheaper!
Because he wasn't the one who stole the information in the first place. He's merely offering a service to let you know if you've been the victim of a crime. This is very valuable information, as it could prompt you to cancel credit cards, or change PIN numbers. He had to incur some expenses to acquire this information so why should he give it away for free? The criminals are the ones that stole the information in the first place.
That depends on when he acquired it, and the resources he used. If he acquired it on the job, or using government equipment and/or connections, then it's the government's information and he doesn't have the right to sell it. If this was a "post-retirement" project he's been working on, then it would be legal.
Uber and Super both mean "above", knucklehead. Same proto-indo-european root, in fact.
Today may just be the day that you learn that a word may have more than one definition. In fact, the word you use "root" refers not just to a word's origin, but it can also refer to a very important part of plants. Do not squander this opportunity. It will open an entire new world of linguistics. I have nothing but hope for the grand future that awaits you and your once-tunneled view of the English language.
the fact of the matter is that CorporateSuit, despite all his blusterings, is about as clueless in German as he tries to claim others are.
I suppose that all comes from living in Germany for several years, speaking nothing but German with around 1,000 people a week, face to face. I suppose anyone who had gone through such rigors would end up being "clueless" in German as well. All sarcasm aside, perhaps you are more right than you think. Some Germans don't consider Koelsch or Hessisch (the dialects I ended up speaking) to be real German at all (Although they are more understandable than Bayerisch or Frankfurterisch - which is like Hessisch on crack). "Ich bin am lesen", while correct in some dialects, is unacceptible grammar in others.
And adding to the other ways to say "cheap" would be "Ueberaus Billig", "T.I.P." or "sehr guenstig"
Considering that "Ubermensch" was translatable to "Superman" then "Ubercheap" would be "Supercheap"
It's called a prefix. We use them in the English language. This one has recently been adopted into our language. Pick up the pace or shut up about things you don't know.
German prepositions do not have direct english equivalents. I suppose being an "Ubermensch" would be talking about the HATS that people wear, since that's what's Over the Mensch (person). Stop getting your panties in a twist over things you're wrong about.
Trivial for him, and probably trivial for him to write an ad-based program that will do that for the idiots and make him a few thousand bucks when several million people use his app to migrate from one social network to any number of others.
As others will have already said: use truecrypt. In addition, use two account: yours with a password, and another one (visible from the login shell) without password. Put a script in it that wipes the disk if anybody logs in it.
Then they'll just swap out the disk. If they open the open account, have a program that turns off the cpu fan. In a few hours, the CPU will cook itself and fry the netbook's guts. That way, if you accidently log into the wrong account (or some coworker logs in while you're at lunch) you can log out or log them out within 20 minutes or so without losing all your data -- and a thief (or his buyers) will have nothing but a paperweight.
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Culturally, chicks dig guys with scars, broken noses, and tattoos. These are all asymmetrical or lead to asymmetry.
Illegal search by the government without warrant.
Only if the clubs in BC were run by the government, and the card was not surrendered voluntarily.
My logic that they had paid for the hardware for all twenty missions in incorrect... because they had already paid for the hardware for all twenty missions? Either your logic, writing, or editing skills are sadly lacking along with your knowledge.
I'll chalk this up to your reading comprehension. Your argument that they had launched 6 subsequent missions because they had already paid for everything was incorrect, based on the fact they cancelled 1/3rd of the missions "ordered" for.
The goals of the individual missions of each Apollo spacecraft were written by NASA to meet the goals required to execute the mission for the Apollo Project as laid down by the Administration and Congress. Mission here is used in two different senses, don't confuse them. (Though I'm not surprised you do.)
Are you making this up as you go along? Where the hell are you pulling this from? Congress didn't write up "The Apollo Project" -- they had absolutely no qualifications to do so. Simply acting like you're the expert on everything doesn't change the smell of bullshit.
The missions were cancelled after we had completed what you call NASA's "ultimate goal" twice. Your arguments that they had already paid for the equipment for the subsequent missions is incorrect, since they had paid for the equipment for all 20 missions (though Apollo 20's hardware was unfinished and scrapped)
Besides, your orginal argument "That Apollo's mission was written by the legislature" is bogus to begin with. In that case, Gemini's ultimate goal was also landing on the moon. It wasn't. Though the legislature had the goal in mind of fulfilling JFK's prediction and beating the Soviets to the moon, they did not write the mission plans. They funded them, but they ultimately had to trust NASA to plan them, set the short-time goals to reach the long-time goals. NASA decided the goals for each mission, just as they decided the names for each mission.
If that were true, there would have never been an Apollo 12.
Anyway, that irrelevant nonsense aside, I'm busy working on a high performance V-8 hemi engine powered by babies. I'm having some troubles with the baby pump getting clogged by babies, and also my valve timing equations could use some tweaking. Any automotive engineers want to help me out with some constructive criticism and proprietary engine timings? Thanks!
That's ridiculous. If you're creating it, it's not a hemi!
I meant ultimate as in "Final" not "Most Important" -- Considering the word has 3 terms, I suppose I could have made that more clear.
Space exploration has claimed 10% of its aviators.
Exploration of the New World in the 4 voyages of Columbus lost probably 20% of their sailors (some 500 men) and half of the ships -- and the diseases they brought home killed around 5 million Europeans! Does this mean that white man was never meant to settle the Americas? Of course not. We're here. It means that exploration and colonization is dangerous. Those 500 sailors were killed in a hurricane. "Don't sail your ships into a hurricane." is the lesson there. For Challenger, the lesson was "Don't use sub-par equipment when sending people into space, and beware groupthink." The lesson for the 5 million dead Europeans? "Practice safe sex, especially with civilizations who have unknown diseases."
The moral dilemma lies with "Is it worth it?" -- Was the death of 500 men, the genocide and slavery of the American people, and the suffering and death of 5 million Europeans an acceptible payment so I can own a house in California today? If you want to debate that, you will find many challengers. Whether we were meant for space exploration? Our supernatural drive to do so seems to say "Yes."
Then you'll see that Mercury's main focus was putting a man in space. Apollo's main focus was putting a man on the moon and getting him safely home (There were to be 20 Apollo missions, the goal was achieved in 11, the moon base was an extension of the Apollo mission. The Mars mission would be a different series of missions than Apollo. Apollo's mission objectives can be found on NASA's website but the specifics are usually garnered from other books, like any of those written by the astronauts -- such as Gene Cernan's Last Man on the Moon.
The next time we send manned missions to the Moon (or Mars), let's get serious and do it sustainably.
You don't know much about the Apollo missions if that's your opinion of it. The ultimate mission of Apollo was to build a moon base. Before we could do that, we had to be able to land on the moon, know what it was made of, if it was living or dead, and if the moon tended to shred equipment. We need to know if it was possible to land within 100 miles of a target, and more. NASA was headed to Mars in a few years with only a few billion dollars if their funding was kept up. However, a recession and an unpopular war and many political factors (including people who were shouting "What's the point?" and then not listening for an answer) drained the NASA budget and instead of being able to apply all they were learning on the moon, it just became an entry in the encyclopedia and a memory.
That's because the end of his allegory was an allusion to a work that everyone over the age of 20 is familiar with. Your youthful age is showing.
Pretend, for just one second, that I'm not a complete idiot. Pretend that I can stumble through my day without getting hit by a car. Pretend, in that mighty, condescending brain of yours, that I type things on my computer that doesn't make it explode, I don't end up drowning if I'm left alone in a shower, and I can chew food without choking myself to death. Pretend I am capable of the rational thinking. Also, pretend that when an expert says the word "Unknown" they don't mean "unknown to everyone but me, the expert"
... the growth of black holes to catastrophic size does not seem possible. Nonetheless, it remains true that the expected decay times are much longer (and possibly > 1 sec) than is typically predicted by other models, as was first shown [in 2001]" When you read the rest of it, you see just how "out of control" this would be if these black hole particles DID manifest and then dissipate.
For starters, read the definitive report that black holes probably won't destroy the planet that CERN is banking on. I'm sure you already have, however, since it's what you've based your entire ego on. Perhaps the most important is the conclusion: "We conclude that, for the RS scenario and black holes described
Discuss the importance of real life vs. computer simulations. I may not be an expert on what happens when we smash billions of protons at energy of 14 trillion volts, but I am well-experienced with Murphy's Law. Computer data and simulations showed NASA that Apollo 14 was landing next to a volcano. All the data agreed. They landed where they were supposed to, but there was no volcano! I know that equipment leaks, breaks, malfunctions, punctures, kinks, lies, and shears. I know that literally, shooting hundreds of thousands of protons, through a leak, around the lab isn't what a neutron bomb does -- but the effect will be similar.
And I know a bullshitter when I see one. You care to criticize, but you offer no plausible counterpoints. If you'll bother to notice, I actually post qualifiers to my claims. You set yourself up to be some future-seeing mighty prince of physics and the damned inventor of the LHC himself. In truth, you've shown yourself incapable of questioning the men in white who admittedly don't know what they're getting themselves into.
After an authoritative-sounding bunch of complete nonsense you say: but not being familiar with quantum physics...
Reading articles on wikipedia, written by college dropouts, doesn't put you at any higher level than he is.
every competent physicist who has rightfully dismissed the ... "LHC's gonna make a black hole" crowd
The point of the LHC is to make a black hole. Physicists claim it will dissipate quickly enough from the Hawking radiation vs. whether it will begin snowballing out of control. NOT whether it will create one. You don't even know what you're talking about.
They're attempting to create black holes. There aren't "controlled circumstances" for that outside of "We'll keep it really cold and we'll only make little ones."
The spirit of Stanley Milgram lives on very strongly in the LHC community. Not only are you all worshipping the ignorant as "knowing what they're doing" but you're arrogant about it as well. They're hypotheses include extra dimensions! How much more proof do you need that they aren't operating on "well-tested, documented, and understood physics"?
Like I said, I DON'T think they'll destroy the world. My bet is that they'll see the effects of a neutron bomb inside the LHC -- but I'm not pretending to KNOW what the odds are when I run a physics experiment that's strung up on metaphysical mathematics.
Welcome to the wonderful world of repair shops, used-car dealerships, furniture sales, and lawyers. It's easy and attractive to scammers to set up shop as or within one of these businesses and reap big bucks at the expense of an entire industry's image.
The ignorance about the dangers of particle accelerators is disconcerting.
Said the pot to the kettle.
The purpose of designing the LHC was to see what happens because they don't know what happens, and you are just as ignorant as the person you're chiding. No one is an expert on what happens when the very underlying principle of the experiment is that "no one is sure what will happen". It could make delicious, expensive icecream, for all we know. It could, in theory, destroy the world or a part of it. Given the evidence, I don't THINK it will destroy the world, but giving ridiculous odds against it (like winning the lottery 10 times in a row) is outright lying.
This just gave me an idea for a screen saver. It shows your wow character farming gold. Sometimes, a few horde [alliance] guys jump out and kill your character, and you get to watch it make a spirit run back. Sometimes, some other farmer will train a bunch of mobs onto you. Sometimes you'll miss 32 hits in a row (Warriors only) while poisoned. Sometimes, you will also get guild chat talking about faked moon landings, religion, their current middle school experiences, how much weed/beer they just smoked/drank, and you'll get a pre-pubescent guild leader shouting at everyone over vent. I will charge $60 a year to run it on your computer. It will be everything the real WoW experience gives, except cheaper!
Because he wasn't the one who stole the information in the first place. He's merely offering a service to let you know if you've been the victim of a crime. This is very valuable information, as it could prompt you to cancel credit cards, or change PIN numbers. He had to incur some expenses to acquire this information so why should he give it away for free? The criminals are the ones that stole the information in the first place.
That depends on when he acquired it, and the resources he used. If he acquired it on the job, or using government equipment and/or connections, then it's the government's information and he doesn't have the right to sell it. If this was a "post-retirement" project he's been working on, then it would be legal.
Hello. My name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have some info for me.
Ok Mr. Burns, what's your first name?
I... don't know....
Uber and Super both mean "above", knucklehead. Same proto-indo-european root, in fact.
Today may just be the day that you learn that a word may have more than one definition. In fact, the word you use "root" refers not just to a word's origin, but it can also refer to a very important part of plants. Do not squander this opportunity. It will open an entire new world of linguistics. I have nothing but hope for the grand future that awaits you and your once-tunneled view of the English language.
the fact of the matter is that CorporateSuit, despite all his blusterings, is about as clueless in German as he tries to claim others are.
I suppose that all comes from living in Germany for several years, speaking nothing but German with around 1,000 people a week, face to face. I suppose anyone who had gone through such rigors would end up being "clueless" in German as well. All sarcasm aside, perhaps you are more right than you think. Some Germans don't consider Koelsch or Hessisch (the dialects I ended up speaking) to be real German at all (Although they are more understandable than Bayerisch or Frankfurterisch - which is like Hessisch on crack). "Ich bin am lesen", while correct in some dialects, is unacceptible grammar in others.
And adding to the other ways to say "cheap" would be "Ueberaus Billig", "T.I.P." or "sehr guenstig"
Considering that "Ubermensch" was translatable to "Superman" then "Ubercheap" would be "Supercheap"
It's called a prefix. We use them in the English language. This one has recently been adopted into our language. Pick up the pace or shut up about things you don't know.
German prepositions do not have direct english equivalents. I suppose being an "Ubermensch" would be talking about the HATS that people wear, since that's what's Over the Mensch (person). Stop getting your panties in a twist over things you're wrong about.
Trivial for him, and probably trivial for him to write an ad-based program that will do that for the idiots and make him a few thousand bucks when several million people use his app to migrate from one social network to any number of others.
As others will have already said: use truecrypt. In addition, use two account: yours with a password, and another one (visible from the login shell) without password. Put a script in it that wipes the disk if anybody logs in it.
Then they'll just swap out the disk. If they open the open account, have a program that turns off the cpu fan. In a few hours, the CPU will cook itself and fry the netbook's guts. That way, if you accidently log into the wrong account (or some coworker logs in while you're at lunch) you can log out or log them out within 20 minutes or so without losing all your data -- and a thief (or his buyers) will have nothing but a paperweight.