At the same time, the states compete with eachother by lowering their tax rates - so they're (almost all) broke.
Which is why states like California (8.8% corporate tax rate, ~10% personal income tax rate for income >$45,000) and New York (6.9% on personal income >$20,000) are fiscally stable, while states like Texas (no personal income tax) and Wyoming (no income tax) are falling apart financially. Oh, wait...
Most 9mm pistol ammunition I've encountered is supersonic (~1200-1400 feet per second). Subsonic ammunition is generally well under 1050 fps, to account for variation in the speed of sound due to temperature; due to lower chamber pressures I've heard people saying that subsonic ammunition won't even reliably cycle their guns.
The issue with high-speed cargo rail transport is that it's more expensive than low-speed cargo rail transport, and the few pennies I can save per ton-mile really add up when I'm moving a hundred tons two thousand miles.
There's also the issue of rail density: tracks just don't go as many interesting places in the US as they do elsewhere. In Germany, there are 115 meters of rail route for every square kilometer of land area. In the US there are 14. If I wanted to come up with, say, a FedEx High-Speed Rail in the US to fit in between FedEx Ground and FedEx Express, I'd end up having to use trucks a bunch anyway to get from rail stations to unconnected cities, whereas in a more densely-populated and densely-railed country, chances are I'd only need to worry about delivery in a radius where delivery drivers could actually operate.
Because Islam beheads infidels.
Abuses underage girls and advertises it
Burns embassies for cartoonists of that nationality running cartoons critical of their religion
Torture people to make them admit they're jews, then execute them.
Yes, but the fact that the US was reading Japanese diplomatic message traffic effectively at will before the Pacific War even began and naval message traffic in early 1942 was certainly helpful. At Midway Nimitz had a date of attack to within one day and a complete order of battle for the opposing force, and the sinking of the Yamato was preceded by the US intercepting and decoding radio messages which pretty much exactly described what Yamato was going to be doing.
are there phone hard keyboards out there that provide key punctuation (pipe, backtick, tilde, square/curly/angle brackets) in no more than two keypresses?
The HTC Dream. It's old, but I'm hanging onto mine until another phone with a keyboard that good comes out.
South Korean charity estimates 3.5 million deaths since 1995. Published in 1999. On top of that, the population of Iraq is ~30 million. The population of North Korea is ~20 million.
Wikipedia: "Beginning in 1997, the U.S. also began shipping food aid to North Korea through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to combat the famine. Shipments peaked in 1999 at nearly 700,000 tons making the U.S. the largest foreign aid donor to the country at the time." Additional sources: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/54102.stm
So yeah. The worst of the famine ended in the early 2000s, which coincides with the end of major US aid. North Korea's killed more of its own people both absolutely and proportionately by famine alone than the US has killed in Iraq (taking your figure as correct, which given the amount of truth in the rest of your post is awful generous of me), and is in the habit of disappearing dissenters. It's a totalitarian police state, whereas Iraq at least is making an effort toward a free government. In conclusion, you're badly misinformed.
"It's better to reign in hell than serve in heaven"
-- John Milton
When you get to heaven, you will wish you're in hell"
-- Marilyn Manson
"There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of 'Heaven' ridiculous by saying they do not want 'to spend eternity playing harps.' The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-up, they should not talk about them."
-- C.S. Lewis
Step 1. Laser rangefinder determines range.
Step 2. Operator determines the offset.
Step 3. Gun tells the bullet where to detonate.
Step 4. Operator pulls trigger. Bullet leaves the barrel, with all the necessary information.
It's 2^95 addresses per person alive in 2010. Wikipedia says that's the same number of addresses per person as the number of carbon atoms in a 1000kg block.
Russia will do you one better. You *are* required to carry your identification papers at all times, and if you lose your exit papers they don't let you leave.
Last year I was living in a house with three other people. Each of us had multiple TV shows we watched via Hulu or Netflix or some more nefarious means, and I usually end up buying a game or two off of Steam or Impulse per month.
We never topped even 150gb. I'm sure I could get by with a 250gb cap.
I work on Android for a living, and one of the things I've been doing of late is the radio interface layer for a device we haven't done Android GSM for before (see www.sdgsystems.com; the device is the Trimble Nomad).
It's not even possible at the modem level to see if it's a premium number or not, or at least not on any of the modems I've worked with.
Here are two examples, just to get you started. "The Congress shall have Power...To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" but yet "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
After explicitly stating the caveat that the Constitution is a higher authority than legislation (to prevent someone from jumping out from behind a bush, pointing a finger and saying "Ah-HA! But what about..."), I'd comment that most systems of rules state that more specific rules have precedence.
Yeah. Those filthy English. And maybe Scots, Irish, Welsh, Canadians, Australians, South Africans...
Sure, it's widely regarded to be a back formation from 'orientation', and the version we American English speakers use is the older one*, but it's not actually incorrect.
* If I were a linguist I think I'd get more enjoyment out of looking at American English vs. British English and seeing how many features from the latter crept into the former after, say, 1800 or so.
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The data is old, but the rate was roughly equal then:
Companies founded in 1992 still active in 1997: 45%
Students entering four-year degree programs in 1997 with a degree within 6 years: 54%
http://smallbiztrends.com/2008/04/startup-failure-rates.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10053859/ns/us_news-education/t/us-college-drop-out-rate-sparks-concern/
Which is why states like California (8.8% corporate tax rate, ~10% personal income tax rate for income >$45,000) and New York (6.9% on personal income >$20,000) are fiscally stable, while states like Texas (no personal income tax) and Wyoming (no income tax) are falling apart financially. Oh, wait...
Most 9mm pistol ammunition I've encountered is supersonic (~1200-1400 feet per second). Subsonic ammunition is generally well under 1050 fps, to account for variation in the speed of sound due to temperature; due to lower chamber pressures I've heard people saying that subsonic ammunition won't even reliably cycle their guns.
G1 running 2.3.3 here. I win. :)
So because someone has a consistent opinion with which you disagree, they're an astroturfer? Interesting.
The issue with high-speed cargo rail transport is that it's more expensive than low-speed cargo rail transport, and the few pennies I can save per ton-mile really add up when I'm moving a hundred tons two thousand miles.
There's also the issue of rail density: tracks just don't go as many interesting places in the US as they do elsewhere. In Germany, there are 115 meters of rail route for every square kilometer of land area. In the US there are 14. If I wanted to come up with, say, a FedEx High-Speed Rail in the US to fit in between FedEx Ground and FedEx Express, I'd end up having to use trucks a bunch anyway to get from rail stations to unconnected cities, whereas in a more densely-populated and densely-railed country, chances are I'd only need to worry about delivery in a radius where delivery drivers could actually operate.
Obviously you're not a speaker of Russian. 'ft' is a tame consonant cluster for it. Try 'fstr' on for size.
Wow! You can make anyone look bad!
Yes, but the fact that the US was reading Japanese diplomatic message traffic effectively at will before the Pacific War even began and naval message traffic in early 1942 was certainly helpful. At Midway Nimitz had a date of attack to within one day and a complete order of battle for the opposing force, and the sinking of the Yamato was preceded by the US intercepting and decoding radio messages which pretty much exactly described what Yamato was going to be doing.
The HTC Dream. It's old, but I'm hanging onto mine until another phone with a keyboard that good comes out.
South Korean charity estimates 3.5 million deaths since 1995. Published in 1999. On top of that, the population of Iraq is ~30 million. The population of North Korea is ~20 million.
Wikipedia: "Beginning in 1997, the U.S. also began shipping food aid to North Korea through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to combat the famine. Shipments peaked in 1999 at nearly 700,000 tons making the U.S. the largest foreign aid donor to the country at the time." Additional sources: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/54102.stm
So yeah. The worst of the famine ended in the early 2000s, which coincides with the end of major US aid. North Korea's killed more of its own people both absolutely and proportionately by famine alone than the US has killed in Iraq (taking your figure as correct, which given the amount of truth in the rest of your post is awful generous of me), and is in the habit of disappearing dissenters. It's a totalitarian police state, whereas Iraq at least is making an effort toward a free government. In conclusion, you're badly misinformed.
"There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of 'Heaven' ridiculous by saying they do not want 'to spend eternity playing harps.' The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-up, they should not talk about them."
-- C.S. Lewis
Step 1. Laser rangefinder determines range.
Step 2. Operator determines the offset.
Step 3. Gun tells the bullet where to detonate.
Step 4. Operator pulls trigger. Bullet leaves the barrel, with all the necessary information.
Where's the long-range communications necessary?
It's certainly possible with an old unlocked/rooted G1 on T-Mobile, but I admit this isn't a very common situation.
Yeah, that's why the conservatives and libertarians are all for these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Work
It's 2^95 addresses per person alive in 2010. Wikipedia says that's the same number of addresses per person as the number of carbon atoms in a 1000kg block.
Russia will do you one better. You *are* required to carry your identification papers at all times, and if you lose your exit papers they don't let you leave.
I guess that last part is a bit counterintuitive.
More like an ATM Teller Machine or a PIN Identification Number.
Last year I was living in a house with three other people. Each of us had multiple TV shows we watched via Hulu or Netflix or some more nefarious means, and I usually end up buying a game or two off of Steam or Impulse per month.
We never topped even 150gb. I'm sure I could get by with a 250gb cap.
You should have said "the setting Sun".
Problem in step 5. a = b; you remove (a-b) = (0) by division and hence divide by zero.
http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/articles-resources/early-term-fees.jsp
It's a lease-to-own. You just pay it off by the end of your contract, or you pay the early termination fee if you want out before you have.
I work on Android for a living, and one of the things I've been doing of late is the radio interface layer for a device we haven't done Android GSM for before (see www.sdgsystems.com; the device is the Trimble Nomad).
It's not even possible at the modem level to see if it's a premium number or not, or at least not on any of the modems I've worked with.
After explicitly stating the caveat that the Constitution is a higher authority than legislation (to prevent someone from jumping out from behind a bush, pointing a finger and saying "Ah-HA! But what about..."), I'd comment that most systems of rules state that more specific rules have precedence.
Yeah. Those filthy English. And maybe Scots, Irish, Welsh, Canadians, Australians, South Africans...
Sure, it's widely regarded to be a back formation from 'orientation', and the version we American English speakers use is the older one*, but it's not actually incorrect.
* If I were a linguist I think I'd get more enjoyment out of looking at American English vs. British English and seeing how many features from the latter crept into the former after, say, 1800 or so.