It's in his first book, Yeager. In it, he traces his experiences as a pilot in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. He expressed some admiration for the MiG-15, though he still preferred the F-86, and suggested that it was a lack of adequate training for North Korean pilots that allowed the F-86 to maintain air superiority.
I don't recall whether the following information was in the book or not, but I have read in other places that most of the real air combat aces on the North's side were actually Soviet pilots who were forbidden from flying too close to the front lines, for fear that clear proof of Soviet involvement could widen the war outside of the Korean peninsula.
No, he knew the dangers logically, but the beauty of the sight sight was overwhelming. It was someone with the experience required to burn through the beauty of the moment that pulled him aside.
And yes, I would support one in my backyard, even though my backyard is the apartment complex parking lot. At the very least, I'd get iodine tablets to show off to out-of-town visitors.
Lawsuits boost financial costs, so safety becomes an enormous factor. Less safety makes for more lawsuits.
In addition, government agencies like the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission have strict guidelines and oversight. Westinghouse managed to get their AP600 design for a 600MW reactor approved, but because the estimated cost per kilowatt-hour was too high, they scaled it up to a 1000MW design -- which had to be resubmitted for approval. Even shortened (the NRC accepted that some of it didn't need to be as thoroughly reviewed since the prior design had already been approved), the process was expected to take up to three years.
So are the efficiency rates. I'm looking forward to seeing the results of the solar tower project in Australia, but I still don't think it's going to beat nuclear energy.
For the year 1982, assuming coal contains uranium and thorium concentrations of 1.3 ppm and 3.2 ppm, respectively, each typical plant released 5.2 tons of uranium (containing 74 pounds of uranium-235) and 12.8 tons of thorium that year. Total U.S. releases in 1982 (from 154 typical plants) amounted to 801 tons of uranium (containing 11,371 pounds of uranium-235) and 1971 tons of thorium. These figures account for only 74% of releases from combustion of coal from all sources. Releases in 1982 from worldwide combustion of 2800 million tons of coal totaled 3640 tons of uranium (containing 51,700 pounds of uranium-235) and 8960 tons of thorium.
That's 12,600 tons of radioactive material in 1982 alone. Yeah, I'd say that's a lot more than has ever been released in all of the nuclear incidents in human history.
OTOH, Yeager piloted the first MiG-15 delivered to the US by a defecting North Korean pilot and outflew a fellow pilot in an F-86. They weren't bad planes, just not as good as the Sabres. However, they did very well against the prop planes and early jets that the Allies fielded at the beginning in Korea until the Sabres could start arriving.
Kershner kept rejecting scripts and script edits, and kept being professional and caring about his own ideas of the movie, rather than being a suck-up yes-man to Lucas. For RotJ, Lucas surrounded himself with yes-men, and barely managed to get a decent movie made.
That said maybe Lucas plans on re-releasing the original trilogy again in a few years time with new footage so that he can sell the original trilogy again!
Think more abstractly: science is closer and closer to showing that we are more a series of complex chemical interactions than we are soulful beings with free will. We already know that people that tend to be more artistic tend to use the right half of the brain, and those that tend to be more logical use the left half. Not long ago, there was an interesting article on how certain highly religious people from multiple faiths showed more activity in a certain frontal region of the brain. This article suggests that there is a link in the brain functions (and hence chemistry) of people of certain general political persuasions.
Note that this doesn't mean that if it's ever proven, society will degrade to anarchy, as the same chemical reactions that lead our lives now will lead our lives then. Chemical reactions tend to want to continue while they can (in as much as a chemical reaction can be anthropomorphized).
On second check, it's worth less than 25 points, because a standard Scrabble set comes with only two Y tiles, meaning a blank must be used for the third, decreasing the possible score to a mere 21 points.
It's all three, and then some. (The plane overhead is pulling on it, too, as are the Megellanic clouds, the Andromeda galaxy, and quasar RX J105225.9+571905 [yeah, I googled it] all are, but their effects are pretty insignificant in these terms) The point is that the combined effects of the gravitational fields (including the mass of the air in the vicinity of the pendulum) are possibly affecting the results.
This is kind of fun timing for these kinds of stories, since I just started reading Watership Down. For those of you not familiar with this, it's the tale of a group of rabbits that decides to leave their burrow in search of a better place to live. One of the more interesting concepts is their counting: they have words for one, two, three, and four, and anything more than four is 'hrair.' (They have a vague concept of much larger numbers, but this generally refers to enemies that eat rabbits.) At one point, when asked how many rabbits there are in the group that leaves (there are, IIRC, about eight at this point), the rabbit asked responds, "Hrair." It struck me both as reasonable and unreasonable -- reasonable in that they have little need for large numbers for the most part, and unreasonable in that there's a huge difference between, say, five rabbits and fifty rabbits.
I'm not much of a fan of fantasy in general, but this is quite the fascinating book because of how simple and complex the lives of the rabbits are in much the same way as we often find the lives of hidden tribes fascinating for how their culture has evolved.
It doesn't seem to require -- it does require. It's one of those oddities where illicit income is still income, and thus taxable. You can be hit with tax evasion charges on illicit income, which you're still required to pay even when the ill-gotten fruits of your labor have been seized by the government.
I would. They both like to spout off on things with only their particular niche view of things that likes to avoid anything resembling a fact that would suggest that they are wrong. Rush adds in token criticism of Bush's economic policies with regard to spending, but that's about all I ever catch.
Unfortunately, for those that show that such things are not true, there is much derision from the peanut-gallery environmentalists who read headlines and run with the perceived "facts."
He called for peaceful revolution to start, and violent overthrow if it became necessary, somewhat like the men that tried in the latter half of the 1700s to negotiate with Britain and finally took up arms when it was clear that Britain wasn't going to accede to enough demands. I've never seen anywhere that attributed to him (in context) anything about shipping off people that don't agree with the state, disappearing those that don't keep their mouths shut, or torturing those that would like something different.
Karl Marx, to my knowledge, never called for the imprisonment, execution, and/or disappearance of millions who chose not to toe the line. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and others chose those policies.
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It's in his first book, Yeager. In it, he traces his experiences as a pilot in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. He expressed some admiration for the MiG-15, though he still preferred the F-86, and suggested that it was a lack of adequate training for North Korean pilots that allowed the F-86 to maintain air superiority.
I don't recall whether the following information was in the book or not, but I have read in other places that most of the real air combat aces on the North's side were actually Soviet pilots who were forbidden from flying too close to the front lines, for fear that clear proof of Soviet involvement could widen the war outside of the Korean peninsula.
No, he knew the dangers logically, but the beauty of the sight sight was overwhelming. It was someone with the experience required to burn through the beauty of the moment that pulled him aside.
And yes, I would support one in my backyard, even though my backyard is the apartment complex parking lot. At the very least, I'd get iodine tablets to show off to out-of-town visitors.
Lawsuits boost financial costs, so safety becomes an enormous factor. Less safety makes for more lawsuits.
In addition, government agencies like the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission have strict guidelines and oversight. Westinghouse managed to get their AP600 design for a 600MW reactor approved, but because the estimated cost per kilowatt-hour was too high, they scaled it up to a 1000MW design -- which had to be resubmitted for approval. Even shortened (the NRC accepted that some of it didn't need to be as thoroughly reviewed since the prior design had already been approved), the process was expected to take up to three years.
So are the efficiency rates. I'm looking forward to seeing the results of the solar tower project in Australia, but I still don't think it's going to beat nuclear energy.
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/ colmain.html
For the year 1982, assuming coal contains uranium and thorium concentrations of 1.3 ppm and 3.2 ppm, respectively, each typical plant released 5.2 tons of uranium (containing 74 pounds of uranium-235) and 12.8 tons of thorium that year. Total U.S. releases in 1982 (from 154 typical plants) amounted to 801 tons of uranium (containing 11,371 pounds of uranium-235) and 1971 tons of thorium. These figures account for only 74% of releases from combustion of coal from all sources. Releases in 1982 from worldwide combustion of 2800 million tons of coal totaled 3640 tons of uranium (containing 51,700 pounds of uranium-235) and 8960 tons of thorium.
That's 12,600 tons of radioactive material in 1982 alone. Yeah, I'd say that's a lot more than has ever been released in all of the nuclear incidents in human history.
OTOH, Yeager piloted the first MiG-15 delivered to the US by a defecting North Korean pilot and outflew a fellow pilot in an F-86. They weren't bad planes, just not as good as the Sabres. However, they did very well against the prop planes and early jets that the Allies fielded at the beginning in Korea until the Sabres could start arriving.
Kershner kept rejecting scripts and script edits, and kept being professional and caring about his own ideas of the movie, rather than being a suck-up yes-man to Lucas. For RotJ, Lucas surrounded himself with yes-men, and barely managed to get a decent movie made.
That said maybe Lucas plans on re-releasing the original trilogy again in a few years time with new footage so that he can sell the original trilogy again!
Will the new scenes include a plotline?
Especially when it goes through the chemical factory. Then the orphanage. Then the retirement home. Then the convalescent unit...
Think more abstractly: science is closer and closer to showing that we are more a series of complex chemical interactions than we are soulful beings with free will. We already know that people that tend to be more artistic tend to use the right half of the brain, and those that tend to be more logical use the left half. Not long ago, there was an interesting article on how certain highly religious people from multiple faiths showed more activity in a certain frontal region of the brain. This article suggests that there is a link in the brain functions (and hence chemistry) of people of certain general political persuasions.
Note that this doesn't mean that if it's ever proven, society will degrade to anarchy, as the same chemical reactions that lead our lives now will lead our lives then. Chemical reactions tend to want to continue while they can (in as much as a chemical reaction can be anthropomorphized).
Well, they did say that it might work with other oxides.
On second check, it's worth less than 25 points, because a standard Scrabble set comes with only two Y tiles, meaning a blank must be used for the third, decreasing the possible score to a mere 21 points.
It's all three, and then some. (The plane overhead is pulling on it, too, as are the Megellanic clouds, the Andromeda galaxy, and quasar RX J105225.9+571905 [yeah, I googled it] all are, but their effects are pretty insignificant in these terms) The point is that the combined effects of the gravitational fields (including the mass of the air in the vicinity of the pendulum) are possibly affecting the results.
25 points, as I see it:
s = 1
y = 4
z = 10
y = 4
g = 2
y = 4
I had to figure this out by hand. That sucked. I need to write a script to calculate this stuff.
This is kind of fun timing for these kinds of stories, since I just started reading Watership Down. For those of you not familiar with this, it's the tale of a group of rabbits that decides to leave their burrow in search of a better place to live. One of the more interesting concepts is their counting: they have words for one, two, three, and four, and anything more than four is 'hrair.' (They have a vague concept of much larger numbers, but this generally refers to enemies that eat rabbits.) At one point, when asked how many rabbits there are in the group that leaves (there are, IIRC, about eight at this point), the rabbit asked responds, "Hrair." It struck me both as reasonable and unreasonable -- reasonable in that they have little need for large numbers for the most part, and unreasonable in that there's a huge difference between, say, five rabbits and fifty rabbits.
I'm not much of a fan of fantasy in general, but this is quite the fascinating book because of how simple and complex the lives of the rabbits are in much the same way as we often find the lives of hidden tribes fascinating for how their culture has evolved.
It doesn't seem to require -- it does require. It's one of those oddities where illicit income is still income, and thus taxable. You can be hit with tax evasion charges on illicit income, which you're still required to pay even when the ill-gotten fruits of your labor have been seized by the government.
Plenty of Slashdotters use English as their primary language, but you wouldn't know it from their words here.
Probably about the same time it gets "-1, Complaining About Complaining About Mod System."
I would. They both like to spout off on things with only their particular niche view of things that likes to avoid anything resembling a fact that would suggest that they are wrong. Rush adds in token criticism of Bush's economic policies with regard to spending, but that's about all I ever catch.
I don't care if he's making fun of Hannity or Al Franken. It was still pointless.
This is why I spend my mod points on Offtopics all over the place for PPSes.
Unfortunately, for those that show that such things are not true, there is much derision from the peanut-gallery environmentalists who read headlines and run with the perceived "facts."
When is Slashdot going to get "-1, Pointless Political Statement"?
He called for peaceful revolution to start, and violent overthrow if it became necessary, somewhat like the men that tried in the latter half of the 1700s to negotiate with Britain and finally took up arms when it was clear that Britain wasn't going to accede to enough demands. I've never seen anywhere that attributed to him (in context) anything about shipping off people that don't agree with the state, disappearing those that don't keep their mouths shut, or torturing those that would like something different.
Karl Marx, to my knowledge, never called for the imprisonment, execution, and/or disappearance of millions who chose not to toe the line. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and others chose those policies.
I wonder what the cost savings would be factoring in both this glass and the glass mentioned the other day?