No, it is not. Terrorist acts are criminal offenses and need to be dealt with as criminal offenses. This has worked very well in the past, and in 2001 there was no reason to believe that it would not have worked with the people who planned and financed the September 11 skyjackings.
It is not the typos (although misspelling the same word the same way more than once suggest that it was not simply a typo), it is the fact that the poster did not even bother to proofread his/her/its post.
> Lots of people can remember things that were written in fancy script, > like parts of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution*.
However, they do not learn it by reading the versions of the US constitution that are written in fancy script. They usually learn it by reading a it in a textbook that is set in a fairly standard font.
I do not understand? How can there possibly be anything outside of America? Yes, there are rumours of some igloos to the north, and cheese somewhere to the east across some big river or ocean or something, but that is just crazy talk.
There was a fatality shortly after the Skytrain started operating in 1986 that would probably have been avoided if there had been a driver in the train. Some moron climbed onto the track and was hit by a train. A driver would probably have seen the twit and perhaps been able to stop the train in time. As it was the automated train slammed right into him. Still, in 24 years that is the only fatality that I know of that perhaps was due to having an automated system.
Any vehicle that can get to 10 m of altitude can in theory get to Mars if it had enough fuel. Give me enough fuel and I can get a tin of pork and beans to Mars.
No. That is not correct. The 100 km line is just a convenient round number. Physically the atmosphere at 100 km is not significantly different from the atmosphere at 90 km, or at 110 km. There have been many aircraft flying at 100 km that have had speeds much less than orbital velocity.
This is essentially a bureaurcratic definition. 100 km serves as a convenient line for dividing air travelers from astronauts, but there is no physical change in the atmosphere at that point. It is just an arbitrary line in the sky.
Which is the situation that the US is in thanks to decades of financial mismanagement. At some point this country needs to have a grown-up discussion of taxation and how the public intends to pay for the lifestyle that it enjoys. Sooner or later taxes are going to have to go up or our standard of living is going to go down.
If you are making more than $70,000 year in the US you are making well above the median income. The median individual income in the US is a bout $26,000 (http://pubdb3.census.gov/macro/032006/perinc/new02_001.htm).
No, public employees should be held to the same standard of transparency as any other employee. Remember, paying taxes does not confer any employer status over public sector employees, just as buying a jar of peanut butter does not confer employer status over the peanut butter employees.
Anyone with just a passing familiarity with the US space programme is unlikely to know about the nuclear Project Orion of yesteryear. Anyone who is familiar with the US space programme is not going to confuse the two.
In both the US and Canada most university research faculty are funded through federal research grants. These grants are competitive and administered by various research councils that are, in theory at least, apolitical. The real political influence comes in determining how much money these research councils get, not in how they distribute it.
Plato was right. Humans in literate societies do (on average) have worse memories than humans in societies that do not have written languages. However, the ability to record information outside of our brains has led to develop many abilities and skills that our hunter-gatherer ancestors did not have. Personally, I think that humans are better off with the new skill sets and mental abilities. My ability to memorize my family tree may not be as good as my iron age ancestors' was, but no-one in my family tree has died in childbirth in the past few generations. I doubt that Mr Iron Age Squid0 could have said that.
The paper does not do a great job of addressing potential systematic errors. What concerns me is that the dipole that they claim to find aligns with the direction of the Great Attractor. This makes me think that there may be a subtle systematic effect in the radial velocity measurements.
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No, it is not. Terrorist acts are criminal offenses and need to be dealt with as criminal offenses. This has worked very well in the past, and in 2001 there was no reason to believe that it would not have worked with the people who planned and financed the September 11 skyjackings.
It is not the typos (although misspelling the same word the same way more than once suggest that it was not simply a typo), it is the fact that the poster did not even bother to proofread his/her/its post.
> Lots of people can remember things that were written in fancy script,
> like parts of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution*.
However, they do not learn it by reading the versions of the US constitution that are written in fancy script. They usually learn it by reading a it in a textbook that is set in a fairly standard font.
I do not understand? How can there possibly be anything outside of America? Yes, there are rumours of some igloos to the north, and cheese somewhere to the east across some big river or ocean or something, but that is just crazy talk.
There was a fatality shortly after the Skytrain started operating in 1986 that would probably have been avoided if there had been a driver in the train. Some moron climbed onto the track and was hit by a train. A driver would probably have seen the twit and perhaps been able to stop the train in time. As it was the automated train slammed right into him. Still, in 24 years that is the only fatality that I know of that perhaps was due to having an automated system.
There are many plans to build oil pipelines in Afghanistan, so yes, oil is a significant factor in the current conflict in Afghanistan.
Any vehicle that can get to 10 m of altitude can in theory get to Mars if it had enough fuel. Give me enough fuel and I can get a tin of pork and beans to Mars.
No. That is not correct. The 100 km line is just a convenient round number. Physically the atmosphere at 100 km is not significantly different from the atmosphere at 90 km, or at 110 km. There have been many aircraft flying at 100 km that have had speeds much less than orbital velocity.
This is essentially a bureaurcratic definition. 100 km serves as a convenient line for dividing air travelers from astronauts, but there is no physical change in the atmosphere at that point. It is just an arbitrary line in the sky.
The British Isles are about 55 times larger than Rhode Island.
Which is the situation that the US is in thanks to decades of financial mismanagement. At some point this country needs to have a grown-up discussion of taxation and how the public intends to pay for the lifestyle that it enjoys. Sooner or later taxes are going to have to go up or our standard of living is going to go down.
If you are making more than $70,000 year in the US you are making well above the median income. The median individual income in the US is a bout $26,000 (http://pubdb3.census.gov/macro/032006/perinc/new02_001.htm).
Actually, the tax changes for most people will be rather small.
That is what the US public seems to want.
No, public employees should be held to the same standard of transparency as any other employee. Remember, paying taxes does not confer any employer status over public sector employees, just as buying a jar of peanut butter does not confer employer status over the peanut butter employees.
That is utter nonsense. A public employee has the same right to privacy at work as a private-sector employee does.
Anyone with just a passing familiarity with the US space programme is unlikely to know about the nuclear Project Orion of yesteryear. Anyone who is familiar with the US space programme is not going to confuse the two.
In both the US and Canada most university research faculty are funded through federal research grants. These grants are competitive and administered by various research councils that are, in theory at least, apolitical. The real political influence comes in determining how much money these research councils get, not in how they distribute it.
I guess that the lesson here is that one should never assume that a reader is capable of getting the joke.
Yes, it is, although you omitted the part of what I said that puts it into context. I wonder what my children will consider life unbearable without.
If you are my age or younger then life without wi-fi is not worth living. If you are much older than I am then life without tv is not worth living.
Plato was right. Humans in literate societies do (on average) have worse memories than humans in societies that do not have written languages. However, the ability to record information outside of our brains has led to develop many abilities and skills that our hunter-gatherer ancestors did not have. Personally, I think that humans are better off with the new skill sets and mental abilities. My ability to memorize my family tree may not be as good as my iron age ancestors' was, but no-one in my family tree has died in childbirth in the past few generations. I doubt that Mr Iron Age Squid0 could have said that.
The paper does not do a great job of addressing potential systematic errors. What concerns me is that the dipole that they claim to find aligns with the direction of the Great Attractor. This makes me think that there may be a subtle systematic effect in the radial velocity measurements.
> Firefox will have it fixed within hours.
> Chrome will have it fixed within days.
> Microsoft will issue a patch with in months.
Apple will ignore it.
No, and even if there was such a place, WISE does not have the fuel to go anywhere (except down).