Exactly. The sequester is better than nothing at all, but it is frustrating to me that these cuts are across the board. Maybe that's the only way to do it given the current political situation, but not all government is bad - there are a lot of effective government programs that live right alongside the bloated, wasteful ones. Ideally we would cut heavily in the latter and not so much (or even expand) the former. But of course, then someone must determine which category everything falls into...
Fair enough. I'm sure that people have done the math from every angle. Still, even with the high capital costs, seems like there would be some people out there sensing a business opportunity. For instance, this or this.
I've always thought it strange they don't use a gas turbine or something similar to generate electricity, either to help power the drill site or to feed back into the power grid.
90% of people wouldn't want to screw around with that. When they spend all that money on a TV, they expect it to do cool stuff, out of the box. If you tell them they need to buy something else, they're going to think you're trying to screw them over. Now that $80 HDMI cable, though, that they'd probably buy.
I think the case is ridiculous, but courts are famously lacking in common sense sometimes. If the defendant loses, I wonder if one of the unintended consequences would be to spur more sales of products 'Made In The USA'.
When my phone is as powerful as a PS3 and can connect to my HDTV over HDMI and can connect to my bluetooth wireless controllers, can I unlock it and play games on it?
We've been closing down refineries for many, many years in the US due to low profit margins. Basically, it's a lot more lucrative to get the crude out of the ground and sell it as a raw product than it is to turn it into something useful. Now we're left with no spare refining capacity and as soon as something happens, the laws of supply and demand send the price skyrocketing. And there's almost always something happening somewhere. That's why even when we have a surplus of crude (and we often do), gas prices don't really reflect it. And why opening the SPR would do very little to bring down gasoline prices unless there was a true break in the crude supply chain, not just refinery problems.
You use this constant and multiply it by the distance of an object to obtain the speed that it is receding from us. So, for instance, if a particular point in space is 1 megaparsec away from us, it is receding at 1 megaparsec * 74.3 (km/s)/megaparsec... the megaparsecs cancel and you get 74.3 km/s. Which doesn't tell you how fast the expansion is accelerating, but does tell you how fast it's happening at this moment in time. An point 100 megaparsecs away would be receding 100 times faster or 7430 km/s. Kind of an awkward combination of units but then again it's just a factor that let's you estimate relative speed from distance.
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I laugh every time I watch it.
Exactly. The sequester is better than nothing at all, but it is frustrating to me that these cuts are across the board. Maybe that's the only way to do it given the current political situation, but not all government is bad - there are a lot of effective government programs that live right alongside the bloated, wasteful ones. Ideally we would cut heavily in the latter and not so much (or even expand) the former. But of course, then someone must determine which category everything falls into ...
Fair enough. I'm sure that people have done the math from every angle. Still, even with the high capital costs, seems like there would be some people out there sensing a business opportunity. For instance, this or this.
I've always thought it strange they don't use a gas turbine or something similar to generate electricity, either to help power the drill site or to feed back into the power grid.
Just read an interesting article today about using boron as a possible graphene alternative.
I guess you should be able to sext^H^H^H^Hfilm something in that length of time.
They're also saying that Apophis will pass within 36,000 km of Earth in 2029. Now that's not missing us by much.
So anytime I don't want people to film me in public, I should just have a violent mental health breakdown. Got it.
90% of people wouldn't want to screw around with that. When they spend all that money on a TV, they expect it to do cool stuff, out of the box. If you tell them they need to buy something else, they're going to think you're trying to screw them over. Now that $80 HDMI cable, though, that they'd probably buy.
Better hope not. Cue MPAA lawsuit against NASA ... hilarity ensues.
Don't hate the playas, hate the game.
Betteridge.
Maybe we should just call in something like this.
If it's Verizon 4G LTE, it should be 700 MHz. They use 850 MHz and 1900 MHz for their 3G stuff.
Yeah, that and Twinkies.
Sounds like a great use for something like this. But, have fun getting insurance to cover it...
I think such an attitude makes you depraved, and possibly dangerous/psychotic.
Well, maybe it's time the organization brought in The Bobs to find out exactly what everyone's role is, and trim the fat a little.
I think the case is ridiculous, but courts are famously lacking in common sense sometimes. If the defendant loses, I wonder if one of the unintended consequences would be to spur more sales of products 'Made In The USA'.
When my phone is as powerful as a PS3 and can connect to my HDTV over HDMI and can connect to my bluetooth wireless controllers, can I unlock it and play games on it?
I've seen some internet videos that seem to suggest an efficient and funny way to deal with it is to just flare it off.
After I spent an hour of my life watching him open Al Capone's empty vault.
No, the government would never do something like that.
We've been closing down refineries for many, many years in the US due to low profit margins. Basically, it's a lot more lucrative to get the crude out of the ground and sell it as a raw product than it is to turn it into something useful. Now we're left with no spare refining capacity and as soon as something happens, the laws of supply and demand send the price skyrocketing. And there's almost always something happening somewhere. That's why even when we have a surplus of crude (and we often do), gas prices don't really reflect it. And why opening the SPR would do very little to bring down gasoline prices unless there was a true break in the crude supply chain, not just refinery problems.
You use this constant and multiply it by the distance of an object to obtain the speed that it is receding from us. So, for instance, if a particular point in space is 1 megaparsec away from us, it is receding at 1 megaparsec * 74.3 (km/s)/megaparsec ... the megaparsecs cancel and you get 74.3 km/s. Which doesn't tell you how fast the expansion is accelerating, but does tell you how fast it's happening at this moment in time. An point 100 megaparsecs away would be receding 100 times faster or 7430 km/s. Kind of an awkward combination of units but then again it's just a factor that let's you estimate relative speed from distance.