One is arguing on logic while the other is arguing on faith. Neither will ever be able to see the other as universally correct since they are basically standing on different planets. It's like one of them is speaking Farsi and the other is speaking Spanish.
Bill Nye is falling right into this guy's trap. At the end all he has to do is say "well my faith is unshaken, I know the real truth" and everyone who agrees with him will smile victoriously. This will be quite the exercise in futility.
I thought this was common knowledge. IQ tests pretty much only measure your ability to do simple math and recognize patterns. It says nothing about how creative you are, whether you can critically analyze a painting or Goethe play, or if you can recognize historical catalysts. It was always just a forced number that seemed to correlate well with intelligent people.
Barrels, springs and working parts are the only thing that needs to be made out of metal.
also 5.7x28 is a terrible calibre. Its pistol ammo, that at best has the knockdown and kick of 9mm, and at worst is an expensive non-standard cartridge. Its far overhyped, and far overrated.
It should be noted that Glocks' slides are not made of polymer either. Additionally, 5.7x28 is terrible if you're looking for a large bullet. It has large capacity and is also armor-piercing, so it fills a niche that standard 9mm doesn't really satisfy.
I do agree with you that it's overhyped and expensive, though.
No, it's not. It's not even close to that. It's a plastic lower receiver with the rest of the gun being not plastic.
As far as the ATF is concerned, an AR-15 lower receiver is a gun because it is the part of the gun that is serialized. Of course, your statement is true if you're arguing above the legal authority of the ATF, an organization that considers shoelaces to be machine guns.
I agree that there is extra attention paid to these, but the fact is that the ultra-absolute and ultra-safe atmosphere people would like to believe about KSC simply doesn't exist. My father was part of the crew that re-tiled the exterior of the shuttle for 25 years and he said the corners cut out there were absolutely disgusting. The phrase "good enough for government work" is a joke to a lot of the blue-collar types working on the orbiters. There seems to be a minority of people who really appreciate the fact that there are human lives depending on the work they're doing.
I spent the first 20 years of my life on the space coast. I'd just like to say that I don't believe these delays are accidental at all. From the stories I've heard about people who work for NASA, United Space Alliance, EG&G, etc., I don't doubt for a second that the people working at KSC are extending these launches as much as possible.
I was raised in Titusville, a town that HEAVILY depends on the space program and the tourism it brings. When a launch happens, the population instantly goes up from 40,000 to probably 400,000+. When a scrub happens, half of those people don't just say "oh well" and go home. They hang out for a long time. I was working at the KSC Visitor's Center when one of the launches got scrubbed in 2009. This British guy asked me how long it would be delayed and I sadly told him almost two weeks. He wasn't even phased, just immediately asked me if I knew a good extended stay hotel in the area. Now, for places like Titusville, those launch-campers pump millions of dollars into the economy every launch day, and having them hang out for two weeks is just icing.
The guy sounds pretty casual about the whole thing. I hope he knows that Apple is not going to be happy about this. He should probably start getting rid of his hard drives.
I'm a history major and I've kept all of my books for my junior- and senior-level courses. Granted, they're not traditional "textbooks", but mostly histories, novels,and memoirs, but I plan to keep them in my classroom when I start teaching.
Nothing is going to happen. People are going to happily continue tweeting. They might notice the ads, say "Oh, look at that", and continue on their merry way. If facebook's privacy problems don't discourage users, this definitely won't.
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One is arguing on logic while the other is arguing on faith. Neither will ever be able to see the other as universally correct since they are basically standing on different planets. It's like one of them is speaking Farsi and the other is speaking Spanish. Bill Nye is falling right into this guy's trap. At the end all he has to do is say "well my faith is unshaken, I know the real truth" and everyone who agrees with him will smile victoriously. This will be quite the exercise in futility.
So this is how the population explodes, eh? Well it was going to happen somehow.
I thought this was common knowledge. IQ tests pretty much only measure your ability to do simple math and recognize patterns. It says nothing about how creative you are, whether you can critically analyze a painting or Goethe play, or if you can recognize historical catalysts. It was always just a forced number that seemed to correlate well with intelligent people.
Barrels, springs and working parts are the only thing that needs to be made out of metal. also 5.7x28 is a terrible calibre. Its pistol ammo, that at best has the knockdown and kick of 9mm, and at worst is an expensive non-standard cartridge. Its far overhyped, and far overrated.
It should be noted that Glocks' slides are not made of polymer either. Additionally, 5.7x28 is terrible if you're looking for a large bullet. It has large capacity and is also armor-piercing, so it fills a niche that standard 9mm doesn't really satisfy. I do agree with you that it's overhyped and expensive, though.
And hey, it's a plastic gun.
No, it's not. It's not even close to that. It's a plastic lower receiver with the rest of the gun being not plastic.
As far as the ATF is concerned, an AR-15 lower receiver is a gun because it is the part of the gun that is serialized. Of course, your statement is true if you're arguing above the legal authority of the ATF, an organization that considers shoelaces to be machine guns.
I agree that there is extra attention paid to these, but the fact is that the ultra-absolute and ultra-safe atmosphere people would like to believe about KSC simply doesn't exist. My father was part of the crew that re-tiled the exterior of the shuttle for 25 years and he said the corners cut out there were absolutely disgusting. The phrase "good enough for government work" is a joke to a lot of the blue-collar types working on the orbiters. There seems to be a minority of people who really appreciate the fact that there are human lives depending on the work they're doing.
I spent the first 20 years of my life on the space coast. I'd just like to say that I don't believe these delays are accidental at all. From the stories I've heard about people who work for NASA, United Space Alliance, EG&G, etc., I don't doubt for a second that the people working at KSC are extending these launches as much as possible. I was raised in Titusville, a town that HEAVILY depends on the space program and the tourism it brings. When a launch happens, the population instantly goes up from 40,000 to probably 400,000+. When a scrub happens, half of those people don't just say "oh well" and go home. They hang out for a long time. I was working at the KSC Visitor's Center when one of the launches got scrubbed in 2009. This British guy asked me how long it would be delayed and I sadly told him almost two weeks. He wasn't even phased, just immediately asked me if I knew a good extended stay hotel in the area. Now, for places like Titusville, those launch-campers pump millions of dollars into the economy every launch day, and having them hang out for two weeks is just icing.
The guy sounds pretty casual about the whole thing. I hope he knows that Apple is not going to be happy about this. He should probably start getting rid of his hard drives.
Aaaannnnnd you lost me.
Werner von Braun.
I don't know about you, but when I was in third grade I didn't have any heroes that knowingly used Jewish slave labor.
In other news, the Exhibitionists Society of America has filed a counter-claim...
The "Immaculate Conception" referred to the "fact" that Mary was without original sin, not that she asexually reproduced. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception
The "Immaculate Conception" referred to the fact that Mary was without original sin, not that she was a virgin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception
You mean someone like...HITLER?!
China is cutting corners? This is capitalist propoganda. Try harder, you bourgeois swine.
I'm a history major and I've kept all of my books for my junior- and senior-level courses. Granted, they're not traditional "textbooks", but mostly histories, novels,and memoirs, but I plan to keep them in my classroom when I start teaching.
This would be fantastic. I'll just start renting my textbooks. And by "start renting" I mean "keep torrenting".
This is unbelievably depressing. also, I love how there is a button at the bottom of your post that says "parent".
So now airport security officers can see my genitals from hundreds of feet away?
...that Vin Diesel was this popular.
I wonder if a gamma ray burst cut the umbilical cord.
"German Publishers Want Monopoly On Sentences" I'm posting this now before /. can sue me for it.
I'm typing this on a Lenovo Ideapad Y550P that I bought around November of last year, and it came with veriface preloaded.
Nothing is going to happen. People are going to happily continue tweeting. They might notice the ads, say "Oh, look at that", and continue on their merry way. If facebook's privacy problems don't discourage users, this definitely won't.
Did they purchase "gargantuan+fuck+up" too?