There doesn't seem to be much in the way of aiming assistance from the graphic. If there's enough force to shoot the payload 150M then I'd prefer it land a few meters near to me but not on my head if I were in need of its help. Aiming as shown could put the thing 100M away.
This is a side note, but muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder. I know a lot of people call that kind of thing a 'disease' but that term implies a virus, bacteria, or other etc external agent (even the government spraying Agent Orange) came along and caused it. That doesn't happen with MD. He was just made that way so his condition should be labeled accordingly: a disorder. As in, not ordered correctly.
because they seem to be wholly serious on their usage of the term "permanent"... which would imply to me that it should be lasting a heckuva lot longer than until he's forty.
He has a form of muscular dystrophy. They can't replace all his other muscles too and he'll eventually succumb to other problems related to MD. When you're one foot inside Death's doorway at 15, a solution that keeps you alive until ~40 is pretty darn permanent.
If my dog gets sick I need a vet to get antibiotics, I can't just go buy them OTC can I?
Yes, in north america and europe but I was in China a few years ago and they sold pretty strong antibiotics OTC. They just recently stopped doing that somewhat; now the person behind the counter has to listen to you list your symptoms first and write a prescription on the spot. Everyone there keeps plenty of antibiotics in stock at home and will take it for a day or two when they have a fever. They're creating superbugs pretty fast there, too.
Can anyone recommend a good science kit with all kinds of things about to be banned? I have a 5 1/2 year old who and we could have a good time with a decent kit. Preferably one with plenty of toxic and/or explosive chemicals and of course some sharp objects, etc.
Premature birth is not a genetic condition so thers is no eugenics risk to saving premature babies: http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/14332_1157.asp#head2 There is only some additional costs at time of birth and risk of some health problems later in life that are also non-genetic.
How does burning cash destroy wealth? Whatever work was done to earn that cash is still done
Imagine this sequence of events:
1. You buy raw materials for $10 2. You make a Something 3. I pay you $20 for the Something (the raw materials plus your labor) 4. You have converted your labor into $10 of wealth 5. You burn the $20 (or even just the $10 labor portion)
How do you still have your wealth created from your labor? When I buy a Something from you, I already have my wealth and I just change its form, from cash to a Something. You are the one who created some wealth by converting your labor. If you burn the cash, that conversion is now lost. The Something in and of itself does not represent creation of wealth to me because I already had $20. The $10 profit you made by converting your labor is the new wealth that you then destroyed. The last person to convert labor into payment is what I was referring to when I said burning up cash destroys wealth.
Do you test it against the enemy and risk an actual nuclear war?
You only run that risk if the enemy can trace it back to you. Unless there's a "USAF" label on the thing then the source is hard to locate if you can't track its flight.
Burn the money. Then it increases the value of the dollar and helps everyone
Federal Reserve Notes are created so the Federal Reserve can pay for Treasury Notes the federal government forces on it. Burning or otherwise destroying cash just means there is less in circulation to be taxed to buy back the T-Notes. And since work had to be done somewhere along the line to earn the cash, destroying it when its in the private sector erases the wealth created by doing work and that hurts everyone.
the sin of Adam and Eve eating the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge
What if way back when the original aliens naughtily ate the Froob of the Gorblebump? Could modern aliens be absolved by a human version baptism or do they require the alien version?
I thought it was unpredictable winds around a mountain
While the problem is related to air, it is not the movement of air but rather the lack of it. Pike's Peak tops out over 14,000 feet and the thin air makes a helicopter's responses much slower than at lower levels. If the pilot is having to track the moving car on the ground then his attention was divided, making the situation even more dangerous, so it's easy to understand how a crash could occur.
is 60,000 feet high enough to avoid commercial airliner traffic?
60k and above is what is called class E airspace and the rules are very simple for class E: It's up to you not to run into anyone else. Except for the occasional SR71 and U2, nothing regularly flies at this altitude (some fighter aircraft can go this high if they have to but they don't just cruise around for the heck of it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace_class_(United_States)#Class_E
PS - most commercial airliners aren't rated for even 40K, nevermind 60. At 60, you can see the curvature of the earth out the window so it would be really cool to actually get to take a flight that could handle it.
Why is he going through carrier level security to get on his own aircraft?
First, as others already pointed out, the local general aviation airport at that city (somewhere in Japan) may not have customs and
Second, what kind of hugeass private jet does Steve "whopping piles of cash from Apple stock" Jobs rides around in. For example, a BBJ needs to pull up to a jetway if you don't get the internal stair option to save the weight (and increase the range). Most general aviation airports can't accommodate them and one MUST pull into a commercial airport.
Due to misinterpretation of the fourteenth amendment, specifically "subject to the jurisdiction", Torvalds' children are NOT United States citizens
Since the family is here legally then they ARE subject to the jurisdiction of the USA. What part of that argument against the 14th is so hard to understand even if you don't agree with it? Dolt.
Don't know about the situation in Japan, but I know that in the US there are some smaller General Aviation airports
And that's the problem; he was going through the security in the main public airport. There's no control preventing an item that comes through security with a passenger headed for private plane A being handed over to a passenger headed for commercial plane B. Duh.
I always think of the recollections in Levy's "Hackers" when the early days' programmers at Berkeley and MIT would insist security was only for fascists and even balked at passwords for accounts. Computer security will probably never catch up because it was never a focus at the start. What's always among the first things now when making a new software package but how to segment permissions, etc, but that's always on a system whose underlying base has security issues. Sigh, dang hippies!
Because highways with speed limits are safe and you should feel free to talk, phone, text, eat, put on make-up, etc?
You completely missed the important part: because there's always another car going much faster or much slower. That's the problem. Speed doesn't kill - delta in speed kills. And yes, to take your counter argument to the extreme, if all the cars were going exactly the same speed then as long as everyone manages to stay on the road it would be perfectly safe to do all the things you've listed AT THE SAME TIME.
The problem isn't that there aren't enough dowsing rods for telling good borrowers from bad ones
Sure there are, that's why there used to be this expression, "safe as houses". It meant there was no safer way to invest money than in mortgage loans and real estate. Unfortunately the politicians got into the act and started messing with the system. The banks DON'T want to repo houses! They want every borrower to make every payment on time for the life of the loan. The banks' risk exposure would be nothing and profit would be assured which is what they naturally strive for.
I assume this means a would-be digital Ansel Adams will need to drag around a camera the size of a bread machine? I'm not too confident the market size is large enough for anything other than highly specialized scientific equipment. I don't see large format digital cameras even for professional photographers because of what it will probably cost to produce.
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There doesn't seem to be much in the way of aiming assistance from the graphic. If there's enough force to shoot the payload 150M then I'd prefer it land a few meters near to me but not on my head if I were in need of its help. Aiming as shown could put the thing 100M away.
Jay Leno complaining about car manuals, seeing as he's a massive car nut
Any car he would collect is too old to be full of warning labels. Those are for modern people who can't look after themselves.
the disease he has
This is a side note, but muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder. I know a lot of people call that kind of thing a 'disease' but that term implies a virus, bacteria, or other etc external agent (even the government spraying Agent Orange) came along and caused it. That doesn't happen with MD. He was just made that way so his condition should be labeled accordingly: a disorder. As in, not ordered correctly.
because they seem to be wholly serious on their usage of the term "permanent"... which would imply to me that it should be lasting a heckuva lot longer than until he's forty.
He has a form of muscular dystrophy. They can't replace all his other muscles too and he'll eventually succumb to other problems related to MD. When you're one foot inside Death's doorway at 15, a solution that keeps you alive until ~40 is pretty darn permanent.
If my dog gets sick I need a vet to get antibiotics, I can't just go buy them OTC can I?
Yes, in north america and europe but I was in China a few years ago and they sold pretty strong antibiotics OTC. They just recently stopped doing that somewhat; now the person behind the counter has to listen to you list your symptoms first and write a prescription on the spot. Everyone there keeps plenty of antibiotics in stock at home and will take it for a day or two when they have a fever. They're creating superbugs pretty fast there, too.
As a vegetarian....
You did notice the article is about vegetarians used as a food source?
Can anyone recommend a good science kit with all kinds of things about to be banned? I have a 5 1/2 year old who and we could have a good time with a decent kit. Preferably one with plenty of toxic and/or explosive chemicals and of course some sharp objects, etc.
Defending against monkeys using other monkeys is not security
Dude, rtfa... the deputy mayor was assassinated by a monkey gang not long ago. If that doesn't call for security, nothing does!
Premature birth is not a genetic condition so thers is no eugenics risk to saving premature babies:
http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/14332_1157.asp#head2
There is only some additional costs at time of birth and risk of some health problems later in life that are also non-genetic.
How does burning cash destroy wealth? Whatever work was done to earn that cash is still done
Imagine this sequence of events:
1. You buy raw materials for $10
2. You make a Something
3. I pay you $20 for the Something (the raw materials plus your labor)
4. You have converted your labor into $10 of wealth
5. You burn the $20 (or even just the $10 labor portion)
How do you still have your wealth created from your labor? When I buy a Something from you, I already have my wealth and I just change its form, from cash to a Something. You are the one who created some wealth by converting your labor. If you burn the cash, that conversion is now lost. The Something in and of itself does not represent creation of wealth to me because I already had $20. The $10 profit you made by converting your labor is the new wealth that you then destroyed. The last person to convert labor into payment is what I was referring to when I said burning up cash destroys wealth.
Do you test it against the enemy and risk an actual nuclear war?
You only run that risk if the enemy can trace it back to you. Unless there's a "USAF" label on the thing then the source is hard to locate if you can't track its flight.
Burn the money. Then it increases the value of the dollar and helps everyone
Federal Reserve Notes are created so the Federal Reserve can pay for Treasury Notes the federal government forces on it. Burning or otherwise destroying cash just means there is less in circulation to be taxed to buy back the T-Notes. And since work had to be done somewhere along the line to earn the cash, destroying it when its in the private sector erases the wealth created by doing work and that hurts everyone.
Don't take a ride in a Bell H13 then.
the sin of Adam and Eve eating the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge
What if way back when the original aliens naughtily ate the Froob of the Gorblebump? Could modern aliens be absolved by a human version baptism or do they require the alien version?
I thought it was unpredictable winds around a mountain
While the problem is related to air, it is not the movement of air but rather the lack of it. Pike's Peak tops out over 14,000 feet and the thin air makes a helicopter's responses much slower than at lower levels. If the pilot is having to track the moving car on the ground then his attention was divided, making the situation even more dangerous, so it's easy to understand how a crash could occur.
is 60,000 feet high enough to avoid commercial airliner traffic?
60k and above is what is called class E airspace and the rules are very simple for class E: It's up to you not to run into anyone else. Except for the occasional SR71 and U2, nothing regularly flies at this altitude (some fighter aircraft can go this high if they have to but they don't just cruise around for the heck of it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace_class_(United_States)#Class_E
PS - most commercial airliners aren't rated for even 40K, nevermind 60. At 60, you can see the curvature of the earth out the window so it would be really cool to actually get to take a flight that could handle it.
Why is he going through carrier level security to get on his own aircraft?
First, as others already pointed out, the local general aviation airport at that city (somewhere in Japan) may not have customs and
Second, what kind of hugeass private jet does Steve "whopping piles of cash from Apple stock" Jobs rides around in. For example, a BBJ needs to pull up to a jetway if you don't get the internal stair option to save the weight (and increase the range). Most general aviation airports can't accommodate them and one MUST pull into a commercial airport.
Due to misinterpretation of the fourteenth amendment, specifically "subject to the jurisdiction", Torvalds' children are NOT United States citizens
Since the family is here legally then they ARE subject to the jurisdiction of the USA. What part of that argument against the 14th is so hard to understand even if you don't agree with it? Dolt.
Don't know about the situation in Japan, but I know that in the US there are some smaller General Aviation airports
And that's the problem; he was going through the security in the main public airport. There's no control preventing an item that comes through security with a passenger headed for private plane A being handed over to a passenger headed for commercial plane B. Duh.
I always think of the recollections in Levy's "Hackers" when the early days' programmers at Berkeley and MIT would insist security was only for fascists and even balked at passwords for accounts. Computer security will probably never catch up because it was never a focus at the start. What's always among the first things now when making a new software package but how to segment permissions, etc, but that's always on a system whose underlying base has security issues. Sigh, dang hippies!
It's not something which should be given to people by the government
Where have you been for the past 75 years of welfare state feature creep?
Because highways with speed limits are safe and you should feel free to talk, phone, text, eat, put on make-up, etc?
You completely missed the important part: because there's always another car going much faster or much slower. That's the problem. Speed doesn't kill - delta in speed kills. And yes, to take your counter argument to the extreme, if all the cars were going exactly the same speed then as long as everyone manages to stay on the road it would be perfectly safe to do all the things you've listed AT THE SAME TIME.
The problem isn't that there aren't enough dowsing rods for telling good borrowers from bad ones
Sure there are, that's why there used to be this expression, "safe as houses". It meant there was no safer way to invest money than in mortgage loans and real estate. Unfortunately the politicians got into the act and started messing with the system. The banks DON'T want to repo houses! They want every borrower to make every payment on time for the life of the loan. The banks' risk exposure would be nothing and profit would be assured which is what they naturally strive for.
it's be great if it were something lame like 6 megapixel
.8 mp and it takes amazing pictures because the sensor is huge. Like this thing.
Why is 6 mp lame? Do you know the Hubble is something like
I assume this means a would-be digital Ansel Adams will need to drag around a camera the size of a bread machine? I'm not too confident the market size is large enough for anything other than highly specialized scientific equipment. I don't see large format digital cameras even for professional photographers because of what it will probably cost to produce.