Wait, you mean we only target military and government targets? Well that's not terrorism, that's just plain war.
But the U.S. killed Iraqi civilians in large numbers anyway. I doubt the grieving families care whether the victims were "targeted" or not.
There's really very little difference between war and terrorism; whether a miliary action is one or the other depends strictly on your point of view: one man's terrorism is another man's war. The English undoubtedly would have called George Washington a terrorist if the term had been in use back then, because he definitely employed some of the tactics (sniping, hit&run, etc.) of asymmetrical warfare.
I mean, clearly the Bush Administration is in the pocket of Corporations, and would never allow this to happen to big business.
You're right, Bush wouldn't let it happen -- except when a business even bigger than Infineon or Micron starts complaining. Then Bush sides with the bigger one (Dell).
What you are missing is the fact that there is nothing in a free market left unregulated that would prevent buyers from forming cartels as well.
Yep, it happened before against the cartels of Great Britain, in particular the East India Company. The revolt against the cartels was called the American Revolution.
Why do you suppose the giant cartels of your libertarian paradise would be any less reluctant to shoot people than the East India Company was? Do you really want death squads to reappear in the U.S.?
Seriously when I hear/heard about the crap going on there it made me want to cut Florida off and send it to Cuba.
Heh. Except that Cuba doesn't want any part of the state.
Most of the Cubans in Florida are the descendents of the supporters of the Batista regime. The dictator Fulgencio Batista was a typical American puppet: cruel, genocidal, and corrupt. (In fact, he was very much like Saddam Hussein, another former American puppet.)
When Fidel Castro and the people of Cuba finally had their successful revolution, Batista and his supporters fled to Florida, where they have remained ever since. As you would expect of the members of a corrupt and vicious regime, these were not angels. This is why Florida today is more like a banana republic than a true democracy.
It's a form of poetic justic, I suppose. The U.S. is probably deeply regretting ever allowing the sugar corporations to con the country into creating and supporting the Batista regime.
Why on earth would you rent an ebook, when you can own the paper version? What possible benefit can be obtained from an ebook over paper?
Hypertext.
Embedded small movies. Some works of art (sculpture, architecture) can only be appreciated by viewing them from multiple angles. A calculus text would benefit enormously from animated illustrations, because differentials, etc. are dynamic things. Imagine a cookbook with a video clip for every recipe.
Interactive tutorials. Again, great for textbooks.
Of course, I wouldn't invest in an e-book reader unless there were literally millions of books I could download into it. I would also need some reasonable assurance that any e-books I bought would last at least as long as their dead tree versions (some of my father's books are over 60 years old). Unfortunately, neither of my requirements is likely to be met if DRM is imposed.
Are you sure there was a genocide? The claim that 1.2 million Tibetans died is not credible, not when the entire population of Tibet was only about 1.0 million.
The 1.2 million figure comes from Tibetan exiles. As Machiavelli noted centuries ago, exiles will say or do anything -- lie, cheat, steal -- to take revenge on the government that expelled them.
Modern examples: the WMD claims made by Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi; and the "baby incubator" story from Kuwaiti exiles that suckered the U.S. into Gulf War I.
I suggest you take that 1.2 million figure with a ton of salt.
Another factor is the simple fact that given the USA's obsession with intelligence gathering nobody trusts this American OS vendor not to cave into the pressure to spike its product with backdoors
Heck, who needs backdoors when so many viruses come in through the Windows front door.
A PDF file is usually formatted a for specific page size, like 8"x11", 8x14, etc. The Sony device is probably too small to show an entire page and still display characters large enough to read comfortably. You may have to wait until full-sized E-Ink devices become available.
You would have to discover the bands in the first place, and then you would have to find their websites. Very few people are willing to exert so much effort.
A central website linking to all the bands is possible, but if this site ever became popular it would inevitably gain power over the artists. All the corruption we associate today with the radio industry would repeat itself in cyberspace: payola for listing a band, more payola for promoting certain bands, et cetera, et cetera. It would be the RIAA all over again. No thanks.
A decentralized solution would be best. An evolved version of P2P that properly compensated the good artists would probably be ideal.
But he did impose the tariffs. Steel, lumber, and agriculture were just some of the innumerable ways in which the U.S. protected its internal market, even as it used a crowbar to wrench open the markets in other countries.
The U.S. is the largest donater of farming equipment and food to third world countries.
The peasants of India have no need of tractors -- they can't even afford the fuel to run the tractors. They just need the U.S. to stop dumping food into the Indian market at prices that are incredibly low because of the enormous subsidies that U.S. agribusinesses receive. Many ruined farmers in India have committed suicide.
(By the way, this obscene situation was the main reason for the failure of the Cancun round of trade negotiations last year.)
China is notorious for not playing fair and giving local companies huge advantages over foreign competition.
Advantages like Bush's tariff on steel imports, and the incredible subsidies that agribusinesses receive every year from Congress, which they use to undercut the farmers in many countries in the third-world, leading to frequent suicide by said farmers?
Imagine if everyone on earth was able to combine their resources and technology with no political, religious, or cultural boundries. I reel at the idea of what we could accomplish if everyone was united to one idea.
Global military spending (warning: PDF file) was about $800 billion in 2002. With the enormous ramp-up in 2003, the total is probably over $1 trillion now.
A trillion dollars down the drain, every year. Imagine what we could accomplish if we used that amount productively instead.
Well, what is a company's motivation to hire you when they can hire cheaper workers in other places that are just as qualified as you are?
None, of course, if the company is short-sighted.
In the longer term, consider this. If going through university would saddle you with a huge student debt and only earn you a minimum wage anyway, just like the janitor, who would bother getting a degree? If as a consequence the U.S. lost its middle class and ran out of scientists and engineers, it would no longer be a superpower. A technologically backward country of wealthy masters and starving, ill-educated peasants is a third world country.
Then that particular booth is closed temporarily, and the voter moves to another booth. As some other poster mentioned, McDonalds perfected this procedure long ago.
I considered that you were asking about the rotating wing's angle of attack. But when you threw in that bit about the ceiling fans, I went with Occam's Razor and decided that you wanted something simpler.:)
As for your real question, I think you have basically answered it: the Dragonfly's wing is probably not tilted. You can still get lift from a symmetrical airfoil; this is inefficient compared to a tilted rotor, but the Dragonfly's chopper mode is used so briefly that the waste of fuel in that mode is pretty irrelevant.
the wing doesn't rotate when it's not in plane mode, i don't think.
I think what you want to say is that the wing does not rotate when it is in "plane mode". Which is both true and a nonsequitur. Your original message was about the Dragonfly's chopper mode.
The momentum of the rotating wing is precisely cancelled by the gasses exhausted from the wingtips. The net momentum is zero, thus no accidental barrel rolls.
Your ceiling fan example, in contrast, needs a pair of counterrotating blades to balance the momentum of the first pair of blades.
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But the U.S. killed Iraqi civilians in large numbers anyway. I doubt the grieving families care whether the victims were "targeted" or not.
There's really very little difference between war and terrorism; whether a miliary action is one or the other depends strictly on your point of view: one man's terrorism is another man's war. The English undoubtedly would have called George Washington a terrorist if the term had been in use back then, because he definitely employed some of the tactics (sniping, hit&run, etc.) of asymmetrical warfare.
On Linux, try dia. Not finished yet, but already very useful. It does the "sticky lines" thing just like Visio.
Watch how fast this changes when the U.S. government threatens to switch to Open Office and/or Linux.
You're right, Bush wouldn't let it happen -- except when a business even bigger than Infineon or Micron starts complaining. Then Bush sides with the bigger one (Dell).
Yep, it happened before against the cartels of Great Britain, in particular the East India Company. The revolt against the cartels was called the American Revolution.
Why do you suppose the giant cartels of your libertarian paradise would be any less reluctant to shoot people than the East India Company was? Do you really want death squads to reappear in the U.S.?
The moveable-type printing press was also invented in China during the Song Dynasty (1040 AD). That's more than 400 years before Gutenberg.
As far as I know, moveable metal type was used first in Korea, about a hundred years before Gutenberg.
Heh. Except that Cuba doesn't want any part of the state.
Most of the Cubans in Florida are the descendents of the supporters of the Batista regime. The dictator Fulgencio Batista was a typical American puppet: cruel, genocidal, and corrupt. (In fact, he was very much like Saddam Hussein, another former American puppet.)
When Fidel Castro and the people of Cuba finally had their successful revolution, Batista and his supporters fled to Florida, where they have remained ever since. As you would expect of the members of a corrupt and vicious regime, these were not angels. This is why Florida today is more like a banana republic than a true democracy.
It's a form of poetic justic, I suppose. The U.S. is probably deeply regretting ever allowing the sugar corporations to con the country into creating and supporting the Batista regime.
Hypertext.
Embedded small movies. Some works of art (sculpture, architecture) can only be appreciated by viewing them from multiple angles. A calculus text would benefit enormously from animated illustrations, because differentials, etc. are dynamic things. Imagine a cookbook with a video clip for every recipe.
Interactive tutorials. Again, great for textbooks.
Of course, I wouldn't invest in an e-book reader unless there were literally millions of books I could download into it. I would also need some reasonable assurance that any e-books I bought would last at least as long as their dead tree versions (some of my father's books are over 60 years old). Unfortunately, neither of my requirements is likely to be met if DRM is imposed.
The 1.2 million figure comes from Tibetan exiles. As Machiavelli noted centuries ago, exiles will say or do anything -- lie, cheat, steal -- to take revenge on the government that expelled them.
Modern examples: the WMD claims made by Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi; and the "baby incubator" story from Kuwaiti exiles that suckered the U.S. into Gulf War I.
I suggest you take that 1.2 million figure with a ton of salt.
Heck, who needs backdoors when so many viruses come in through the Windows front door.
A PDF file is usually formatted a for specific page size, like 8"x11", 8x14, etc. The Sony device is probably too small to show an entire page and still display characters large enough to read comfortably. You may have to wait until full-sized E-Ink devices become available.
A central website linking to all the bands is possible, but if this site ever became popular it would inevitably gain power over the artists. All the corruption we associate today with the radio industry would repeat itself in cyberspace: payola for listing a band, more payola for promoting certain bands, et cetera, et cetera. It would be the RIAA all over again. No thanks.
A decentralized solution would be best. An evolved version of P2P that properly compensated the good artists would probably be ideal.
But he did impose the tariffs. Steel, lumber, and agriculture were just some of the innumerable ways in which the U.S. protected its internal market, even as it used a crowbar to wrench open the markets in other countries.
The U.S. is the largest donater of farming equipment and food to third world countries.
The peasants of India have no need of tractors -- they can't even afford the fuel to run the tractors. They just need the U.S. to stop dumping food into the Indian market at prices that are incredibly low because of the enormous subsidies that U.S. agribusinesses receive. Many ruined farmers in India have committed suicide.
(By the way, this obscene situation was the main reason for the failure of the Cancun round of trade negotiations last year.)
Pot... kettle....
The Chinese written language has been standardized all over the country for thousands of years. The CCP merely "simplified" a few characters.
Advantages like Bush's tariff on steel imports, and the incredible subsidies that agribusinesses receive every year from Congress, which they use to undercut the farmers in many countries in the third-world, leading to frequent suicide by said farmers?
Pot...kettle....
And as someone else has already mentioned, 2.3 is a development kernel; I doubt very much that Autozone was putting it into production.
For these two reasons, I have to wonder if you were making things up.
Global military spending (warning: PDF file) was about $800 billion in 2002. With the enormous ramp-up in 2003, the total is probably over $1 trillion now.
A trillion dollars down the drain, every year. Imagine what we could accomplish if we used that amount productively instead.
Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe. Calling it a science fiction novel might be stretching the term a bit though.
A Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin. Already mentioned by a previous poster.
The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man, both by Alfred Bester.
Marooned in Real Time by Vernor Vinge.
Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon.
A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn.
A Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein.
A Fire in the Deep by Vernor Vinge.
Startide Rising by David Brin.
Dune by Frank Herbert.
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks.
That works until you change your mind: a month after you have everything compiled without X, you decide you want X after all. Oops.
None, of course, if the company is short-sighted.
In the longer term, consider this. If going through university would saddle you with a huge student debt and only earn you a minimum wage anyway, just like the janitor, who would bother getting a degree? If as a consequence the U.S. lost its middle class and ran out of scientists and engineers, it would no longer be a superpower. A technologically backward country of wealthy masters and starving, ill-educated peasants is a third world country.
Then that particular booth is closed temporarily, and the voter moves to another booth. As some other poster mentioned, McDonalds perfected this procedure long ago.
As for your real question, I think you have basically answered it: the Dragonfly's wing is probably not tilted. You can still get lift from a symmetrical airfoil; this is inefficient compared to a tilted rotor, but the Dragonfly's chopper mode is used so briefly that the waste of fuel in that mode is pretty irrelevant.
I think what you want to say is that the wing does not rotate when it is in "plane mode". Which is both true and a nonsequitur. Your original message was about the Dragonfly's chopper mode.
Your ceiling fan example, in contrast, needs a pair of counterrotating blades to balance the momentum of the first pair of blades.