Erm... The AH-1Z was just approved last year. The basic Cobra design itself may be a bit old (1970?), but the Cobra-Z certainly is actually newer than the Apache Longbow.
These guys say that there are 213 in active use (A-10 and OA-10), 52 in the Reserves, and 102 in the ANG.
I love the A-10, too, but it is planned to be replaced by the F-35 eventually. Not sure that will happen, though; I recall reading back around 1990 that the A-10 was to be replaced by the F-16. However, it proved its worth in the Gulf War, and remained in front-line duty.
I've found Craigslist borderline useless in SoCal. Dice has always gotten the best response for me, though their job search engine sucks. Yahoo's (HotJobs) job search engine is the best (allows such things as saving interesting jobs during search for later review and applications), but has almost as low a response rate as Monster for me.
Maybe it's the impacted market, or maybe it's the ease with which people can apply online with generic form letters and overstated resumes, but I suspect that a lot of employers aren't nearly as interested in the online sites as they once were.
I think the point was that "Union of Concerned Scientists" suggests that they see something wrong and want to point it out, instead of, say, a "Union of Professional Scientists" which might be more inclined to review things for sake of review without seeing anything right or wrong.
Judging by Table 5 here, it would appear that at least in 2000, the top 5% (the floor for which was $128,336 in adjusted gross income) collected about 35% of the income but paid 56% of the income taxes, which amounts to 56% of the total income tax take. I'm not sure how you define "middle class," but I think it's traditionally well below the $128,000 mark.
Not only are the modern giant SUV's horrible for the environment, they are way more dangerous than cars.
Then Darwin wins out in the end.
I didn't buy a truck for my current vehicle. I bought a Camaro. Do I need the power? No. Do I need the look? No. Do I like what I bought? Hell, yes, even when faced with rising gasoline prices that push a 14-gallon fill-up towards the $40 mark because I use premium in my 20mpg car and live in California. I knew I would face such issues when I bought it.
Because you are watching news paid for by corporations who are paid by ignorant people with vast inferiority complexes who feel the need to compensate for this by buying the biggest most expensive trendy vehicle they can find. Makes them feel more manly and powerful. But they still have small penises.
And you were actually on a bit of a roll with real arguments (sans any links to evidence, of course) until you had to get personal about things. Tsk, tsk.
No - Breastmilk doesn't naturally have ENOUGH Iron. The mother has to take supplements.
It may be that it's a good idea to take supplements, but since supplements have only been around for a short period of human existence, I think that perhaps doing things like increasing the intake of iron-rich foods (meats, seeds, nuts, beens, many fruits) is a more natural and probably better way of getting the needed nutrient.
Is ADD really more common? Or is there just an increased willingness in the US to have it diagnosed as such by impatient parents who like quiet children?
So far as I recall, polyester is a string of carbons, oxygens, and hydrogens. Throw in the "discarded" part of your description, and you get some more hydrogen and oxygen (in the form of water), and various trace elements in the form of shed skin, oils from sweat and so forth.
However, what you don't get is enough hydrogen (let alone helium) to justify the results of spectrographic analyses of stars, particularly young stars. Even for older stars, the amounts of carbon, oxygen, iron, and so forth which are seen in the analyses are not even remotely similar to the ratios found in discarded polyester socks.
Aside from some obviously boastful statements, bin Laden generally tells the straight truth as he sees it, if nothing else out of religious obligation. There may have been some cross-over higher up the chain, such as CIA officials arranging for arms purchases by Arab sponsors, but I think it's generally safe to say that bin Laden has not knowingly taken direct support from Washington. If he had, he'd be boasting about how he played Langley for funds and weapons that would eventually be turned against them.
No, it was to help to prevent the Soviet Union's expansion. Afghanistan would have provided an additional buffer between the world and Moscow (always important in the minds of the senior Party officials), and more importantly, a strategically strong point against Iran, forcing two fronts on which Iran would have to fight if it came to blows over oil rights or supply. It would also have provided a major victory in converting a Muslim country to communism, something which nearly happened in Iran, but which was thwarted with American (and I think British) help.
You have a point about the history (it was a slightly snapshot reaction due to me being up so early on a new work schedule). I wonder if the reason that the military vote was so strongly Democrat before had anything to do with that being the best way to funnel money to constituents before welfare, Social Security, MediCare, etc.
"Personally neither I nor my brothers saw evidence of American help." -- Osama bin Laden
When he brought his 9,000 Arab fighters to support the Afghans in their conflict against the Soviet occupation army, hacking out the mountain trails with his construction equipment, building hospitals and arms dumps, he became a war hero.... He and his comrades never saw "evidence of American help" in Afghanistan, he told me, but he must have been aware of the CIA's presence. -- Robert Fisk
And, at risk of alienating those who automatically assume Fox News to lie about everything...
Osama bin Laden was not part of the CIA-backed Afghan mujahideen. He was part of the Arab component that was brought in to assist the Afghans, but he has hated the United States for a long time. He has never accepted backing from the US, and there have been several reports by journalists of the time that they had to remain hidden and not speak while in areas of Afghanistan under bin Laden's nominal control during the Soviet invasion.
He had no need for money or training from the US. He could get that with his own money.
Iron comes in six principal isotopes -- 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, and 50. Fe-55 has a half-life of 2.7 years, Fe-60 has a half-life of 1.5 million years, and the rest are stable. Plutonium is far more radioactive than that. It's not nearly as dangerous as most people think, but it's far from being as safe as iron or even mercury.
Putting an amount of plutonium in your fillings equivalent to the amount of mercury often used is going to subject the inside of your mouth to a fair amount of radiation, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if a tongue cancer emerged. However, inhalation is the primary means of common intake which would cause problems (injection would be worse, but requires a more deliberate act). Depending on the amount inhaled, there's a fair (though not certain) chance of something developing.
The smaller, irrigation- and local-electricity-based dams are not such a problem as the massive dams like Three Gorges and the Hoover Dam. When I learned what Hoover did both upstream and downstream, I began to realize what one dam could do to a region. There used to be vast freshwater clam beds in the southern Colorado River. Not there anymore. The Gulf of California has also been growing saltier as a result of a lack of fresh water flowing into it. This is but a minor example of how it has affected things.
I favor strict regulation of nuclear power, but let it be handled by private companies. They've run them pretty well this far along, save for TMI which still managed to not release significant radiation. Streamline the process, get the reactor designs certified or sent back for corrections, and get them built. Saying that someone can be bribed into cutting corners because they're not the government ignores that government officials can still be bribed.
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Erm... The AH-1Z was just approved last year. The basic Cobra design itself may be a bit old (1970?), but the Cobra-Z certainly is actually newer than the Apache Longbow.
These guys say that there are 213 in active use (A-10 and OA-10), 52 in the Reserves, and 102 in the ANG.
I love the A-10, too, but it is planned to be replaced by the F-35 eventually. Not sure that will happen, though; I recall reading back around 1990 that the A-10 was to be replaced by the F-16. However, it proved its worth in the Gulf War, and remained in front-line duty.
How many people go to India for burgers...?
Not many, I would imagine, considering the sacred position of cows there.
I've found Craigslist borderline useless in SoCal. Dice has always gotten the best response for me, though their job search engine sucks. Yahoo's (HotJobs) job search engine is the best (allows such things as saving interesting jobs during search for later review and applications), but has almost as low a response rate as Monster for me.
Maybe it's the impacted market, or maybe it's the ease with which people can apply online with generic form letters and overstated resumes, but I suspect that a lot of employers aren't nearly as interested in the online sites as they once were.
I think the point was that "Union of Concerned Scientists" suggests that they see something wrong and want to point it out, instead of, say, a "Union of Professional Scientists" which might be more inclined to review things for sake of review without seeing anything right or wrong.
Judging by Table 5 here, it would appear that at least in 2000, the top 5% (the floor for which was $128,336 in adjusted gross income) collected about 35% of the income but paid 56% of the income taxes, which amounts to 56% of the total income tax take. I'm not sure how you define "middle class," but I think it's traditionally well below the $128,000 mark.
Not only are the modern giant SUV's horrible for the environment, they are way more dangerous than cars.
Then Darwin wins out in the end.
I didn't buy a truck for my current vehicle. I bought a Camaro. Do I need the power? No. Do I need the look? No. Do I like what I bought? Hell, yes, even when faced with rising gasoline prices that push a 14-gallon fill-up towards the $40 mark because I use premium in my 20mpg car and live in California. I knew I would face such issues when I bought it.
Because you are watching news paid for by corporations who are paid by ignorant people with vast inferiority complexes who feel the need to compensate for this by buying the biggest most expensive trendy vehicle they can find. Makes them feel more manly and powerful. But they still have small penises.
And you were actually on a bit of a roll with real arguments (sans any links to evidence, of course) until you had to get personal about things. Tsk, tsk.
...which is not a release package.
You also get a different picture than what Dean News wants you to have.
As with all things political, the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle.
No - Breastmilk doesn't naturally have ENOUGH Iron. The mother has to take supplements.
It may be that it's a good idea to take supplements, but since supplements have only been around for a short period of human existence, I think that perhaps doing things like increasing the intake of iron-rich foods (meats, seeds, nuts, beens, many fruits) is a more natural and probably better way of getting the needed nutrient.
Smog Alerts in the Los Angeles area:
1975: 118
1980: 102
1985: 83
1990: 42
1995: 14
2000: 0
Stage 1 Smog Alerts start at ozone concentrations of 0.20ppm measured over the course of one hour.
(Source)
Is ADD really more common? Or is there just an increased willingness in the US to have it diagnosed as such by impatient parents who like quiet children?
Even some bottled water has failed inspections.
A lot of bottled water is tap water.
These cases have the same response from me as a spoiler on a Ford Escort:
Someone is trying too hard and spending too much money to look cool, and failing miserably.
So far as I recall, polyester is a string of carbons, oxygens, and hydrogens. Throw in the "discarded" part of your description, and you get some more hydrogen and oxygen (in the form of water), and various trace elements in the form of shed skin, oils from sweat and so forth.
However, what you don't get is enough hydrogen (let alone helium) to justify the results of spectrographic analyses of stars, particularly young stars. Even for older stars, the amounts of carbon, oxygen, iron, and so forth which are seen in the analyses are not even remotely similar to the ratios found in discarded polyester socks.
Aside from some obviously boastful statements, bin Laden generally tells the straight truth as he sees it, if nothing else out of religious obligation. There may have been some cross-over higher up the chain, such as CIA officials arranging for arms purchases by Arab sponsors, but I think it's generally safe to say that bin Laden has not knowingly taken direct support from Washington. If he had, he'd be boasting about how he played Langley for funds and weapons that would eventually be turned against them.
No, it was to help to prevent the Soviet Union's expansion. Afghanistan would have provided an additional buffer between the world and Moscow (always important in the minds of the senior Party officials), and more importantly, a strategically strong point against Iran, forcing two fronts on which Iran would have to fight if it came to blows over oil rights or supply. It would also have provided a major victory in converting a Muslim country to communism, something which nearly happened in Iran, but which was thwarted with American (and I think British) help.
You have a point about the history (it was a slightly snapshot reaction due to me being up so early on a new work schedule). I wonder if the reason that the military vote was so strongly Democrat before had anything to do with that being the best way to funnel money to constituents before welfare, Social Security, MediCare, etc.
"Personally neither I nor my brothers saw evidence of American help." -- Osama bin Laden
... He and his comrades never saw "evidence of American help" in Afghanistan, he told me, but he must have been aware of the CIA's presence. -- Robert Fisk
When he brought his 9,000 Arab fighters to support the Afghans in their conflict against the Soviet occupation army, hacking out the mountain trails with his construction equipment, building hospitals and arms dumps, he became a war hero.
And, at risk of alienating those who automatically assume Fox News to lie about everything...
Dispelling the CIA-Bin Laden Myth
As opposed to the peaceful Democrats that got involved in World War II (FDR), Korea (Truman), Vietnam (Kennedy/Johnson), and Yugoslavia (Clinton)?
Osama bin Laden was not part of the CIA-backed Afghan mujahideen. He was part of the Arab component that was brought in to assist the Afghans, but he has hated the United States for a long time. He has never accepted backing from the US, and there have been several reports by journalists of the time that they had to remain hidden and not speak while in areas of Afghanistan under bin Laden's nominal control during the Soviet invasion.
He had no need for money or training from the US. He could get that with his own money.
still in my top 10 list of most plausable things read on slashdot ever
:)
And about as accurate as the other nine.
There may not have been at the time of submission. I've submitted stories to Slashdot and not gotten a response back until almost two days later.
Iron comes in six principal isotopes -- 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, and 50. Fe-55 has a half-life of 2.7 years, Fe-60 has a half-life of 1.5 million years, and the rest are stable. Plutonium is far more radioactive than that. It's not nearly as dangerous as most people think, but it's far from being as safe as iron or even mercury.
Putting an amount of plutonium in your fillings equivalent to the amount of mercury often used is going to subject the inside of your mouth to a fair amount of radiation, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if a tongue cancer emerged. However, inhalation is the primary means of common intake which would cause problems (injection would be worse, but requires a more deliberate act). Depending on the amount inhaled, there's a fair (though not certain) chance of something developing.
The smaller, irrigation- and local-electricity-based dams are not such a problem as the massive dams like Three Gorges and the Hoover Dam. When I learned what Hoover did both upstream and downstream, I began to realize what one dam could do to a region. There used to be vast freshwater clam beds in the southern Colorado River. Not there anymore. The Gulf of California has also been growing saltier as a result of a lack of fresh water flowing into it. This is but a minor example of how it has affected things.
I favor strict regulation of nuclear power, but let it be handled by private companies. They've run them pretty well this far along, save for TMI which still managed to not release significant radiation. Streamline the process, get the reactor designs certified or sent back for corrections, and get them built. Saying that someone can be bribed into cutting corners because they're not the government ignores that government officials can still be bribed.