TiVo viewing habits are aggregate, they do not keep personal viewing information. What you watch is just one 0f 750,000 people, they can't look up what cheeseSource watched last night.
In addition you can opt out and not have your info recorded at all.
Hardly a majority, let alone a significant one. The overwhelming majority are neither right nor left wing idealogues, liberals or conervatives. Fox News succeded becasue there was an untapped market of angry conservatives who like to be pandered to. And when it comes to pandering News Corp is the world wide expert. Look at the ratings many more people are watching Sponge Bob or WWE than are watching O'Reilly etc. On the radio Limabaugh is the number 1 show, the number 2 & 3 shows are NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered...
But the sonic cruiser was a subsonic airplane that would have travelled at half the speed of the Concorde. THe sonic cruiser was designed to fly 15% faster than conventional jets but with similar fuel consumption. It was not going to be a Supersonic transport (SST).
Exactly its not about being "PC" or anythiong like that its about demographics and selling ads. If they get a more diverse group of contestants they think they might get a more diverse (and therefore larger) audience.
As soon as I determine its a telemarketing call I simply say "no thank-you" and hang up. Since I've been on my state's no-call list, the calls have stopped completely.
Which is the more complex and unlikely scenario: the Apollo program occured as "conventional wisdom" says it does, or the whole thing was faked with thousands upon thousnads of people involved, fake unmanned space craft travelling from Earth orbit to lunar orbit replying to radio chatter from Earth, fake moon rocks good enough to fool the best geologists around the world etc. etc.
Given the technology of the day it would be HARDER to fake the landings then to do it for real, not to mention the huge numbers of people involved staying quiet.
True skeptics don't automaticaly beleive everything they are told, but they are also able to logicaly analyze the evidence before them. No skeptic would beleive that the moon landings were faked.
Its easy to make a voting proces that works: print pieces of paper with the candidates names on them. The voter goes into a private area or "booth" and makes a mark by the candidate of their choice. These peices of paper or "ballots" are kept in a secure location until the voting period ends. They are then counted with representitives of the candidates and members of the public present.
This radical system is already in use in such exotic places as The UK, Canada and Australia. This system tends to be more accurate than mechanical devices and less open to fraud. The proces can also be completed in a matter of hours.
The new EA Sports F1 game (F1-2001) has excellent physics, much better than the 2000 edition, byt with modern high downforce 850-900hp cars. Its a blast, but very difficult to drive the cars right on the edge for an entire lap.
Yeah it is plausable that this city was near the shoreline 6,000 years ago, the sea level rose at the end of the last glacial period, submerging the city, and once submerged the now saturated land benath it could give way causing a submarine landslide taking the city with it. In large land movements large segments of the surface can move along with the slide and remain intact, I would have thought that this would be more likely under water than above.
It is shocking ecause he and Renqhuist have been very favorable to the police in search and seizure issues. Renqhuist who is definately a conservative, voted against this one.
I fthey would only have the same attitude toward military spending, they could save enough billions of dollars to send some astronaughts to Mars. But somehow I don't think the new "president" is going to be as fiscaly responsible when it comes to the military as he will be toward science or space exploration.
Doesn't "Bernie Vision" allow viewer selection of camera angles. I know you have to get a dedicated box to see it, but thats about it. I wish it was available in the US!
there are a lot of people out there who aren't intelligent enough to be computer programmers or whatever
Don't worry -- there are alot of computer programmers who aren't intelligent enough to be computer programmers, but it didn't stop them from getting good jobs.
The "traction control" is an interesting comcept. Straight out TC is ilegal as you have noted, but something that the teams would love to have on the start. Im sure, given the starts that Hakkinen has pulled off this season, that McLaren has a similar system.
The teams are alowed to have different engine mappings for different rpms/engine conditions. The mappings must be consistent but not necessarily linear. What they do is measure the air pressure in the intake plenum/air box of the car, this gives them a rough idea of the car's speed (they aren't alowed measure wheel spin directly) with the air pressure and engine rpm known, they can essentialy determine when the conditions match that of the standing start and use the engine mapping to essentialy reduce engine power and therefore wheel spin at the start of the race.
I want to know if I am getting my money's worth (something tells me, picture or not, I am not)...
Unless you are Bill Gates, the amount of your money spent on the ISS is miniscule. NASA gets less than 1% of the Federal Budget. Even if the ISS takes up half of NASA's budget thats 0.5% of the (roughly) 66% of the budget that comes from income tax. So maybe 0.33% of the total amount of what you have paid in Federal Income tax is up there. Most of your money has gone to pay the interest on Reagan's debt and for $90 hammers.
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what is this? some kind of a joke?
TiVo viewing habits are aggregate, they do not keep personal viewing information. What you watch is just one 0f 750,000 people, they can't look up what cheeseSource watched last night.
In addition you can opt out and not have your info recorded at all.
The 2 rovers are going to different landing sites, they are not intended to assist each other.
Wheaton is a real geek. A Geek's geek even.
Hardly a majority, let alone a significant one. The overwhelming majority are neither right nor left wing idealogues, liberals or conervatives. Fox News succeded becasue there was an untapped market of angry conservatives who like to be pandered to. And when it comes to pandering News Corp is the world wide expert. Look at the ratings many more people are watching Sponge Bob or WWE than are watching O'Reilly etc. On the radio Limabaugh is the number 1 show, the number 2 & 3 shows are NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered...
But the sonic cruiser was a subsonic airplane that would have travelled at half the speed of the Concorde. THe sonic cruiser was designed to fly 15% faster than conventional jets but with similar fuel consumption. It was not going to be a Supersonic transport (SST).
"GSM? WHICH GSM? Africa, US or European frequency?"
Are you suggesting cell phones migrate?
Exactly its not about being "PC" or anythiong like that its about demographics and selling ads. If they get a more diverse group of contestants they think they might get a more diverse (and therefore larger) audience.
1. Diversity
2. ???
3. Profit!
As soon as I determine its a telemarketing call I simply say "no thank-you" and hang up. Since I've been on my state's no-call list, the calls have stopped completely.
Conspiracy theorists are NOT skeptics.
Which is the more complex and unlikely scenario: the Apollo program occured as "conventional wisdom" says it does, or the whole thing was faked with thousands upon thousnads of people involved, fake unmanned space craft travelling from Earth orbit to lunar orbit replying to radio chatter from Earth, fake moon rocks good enough to fool the best geologists around the world etc. etc.
Given the technology of the day it would be HARDER to fake the landings then to do it for real, not to mention the huge numbers of people involved staying quiet.
True skeptics don't automaticaly beleive everything they are told, but they are also able to logicaly analyze the evidence before them. No skeptic would beleive that the moon landings were faked.
Its easy to make a voting proces that works: print pieces of paper with the candidates names on them. The voter goes into a private area or "booth" and makes a mark by the candidate of their choice. These peices of paper or "ballots" are kept in a secure location until the voting period ends. They are then counted with representitives of the candidates and members of the public present.
This radical system is already in use in such exotic places as The UK, Canada and Australia. This system tends to be more accurate than mechanical devices and less open to fraud. The proces can also be completed in a matter of hours.
The new EA Sports F1 game (F1-2001) has excellent physics, much better than the 2000 edition, byt with modern high downforce 850-900hp cars. Its a blast, but very difficult to drive the cars right on the edge for an entire lap.
Yeah it is plausable that this city was near the shoreline 6,000 years ago, the sea level rose at the end of the last glacial period, submerging the city, and once submerged the now saturated land benath it could give way causing a submarine landslide taking the city with it. In large land movements large segments of the surface can move along with the slide and remain intact, I would have thought that this would be more likely under water than above.
"need I say more?"
...umm yes because as it stands your post makes no sense and conveys no information at all.
It is shocking ecause he and Renqhuist have been very favorable to the police in search and seizure issues. Renqhuist who is definately a conservative, voted against this one.
Not unless they move the UK half way round the world to the South Pacific Ocean.
I fthey would only have the same attitude toward military spending, they could save enough billions of dollars to send some astronaughts to Mars. But somehow I don't think the new "president" is going to be as fiscaly responsible when it comes to the military as he will be toward science or space exploration.
The Gallileo Jupiter orbiter dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere when it arrived in the Jupiter system a few years back.
Doesn't "Bernie Vision" allow viewer selection of camera angles. I know you have to get a dedicated box to see it, but thats about it. I wish it was available in the US!
there are a lot of people out there who aren't intelligent enough to be computer programmers or whatever
Don't worry -- there are alot of computer programmers who aren't intelligent enough to be computer programmers, but it didn't stop them from getting good jobs.
DoS attacks just aren't cool ever
Good one Taco.
Looks like the link is getting the most effective DOS attack known to man: "The Slashdot Effect"
Hey, I like Bush as much as the next guy
Hey! I am the next guy and I don't like Bush at all.
I'm not voting for Gore, I'm voting against Bush.
The picture on the site is of a recent F1 start.
The "traction control" is an interesting comcept. Straight out TC is ilegal as you have noted, but something that the teams would love to have on the start. Im sure, given the starts that Hakkinen has pulled off this season, that McLaren has a similar system.
The teams are alowed to have different engine mappings for different rpms/engine conditions. The mappings must be consistent but not necessarily linear. What they do is measure the air pressure in the intake plenum/air box of the car, this gives them a rough idea of the car's speed (they aren't alowed measure wheel spin directly) with the air pressure and engine rpm known, they can essentialy determine when the conditions match that of the standing start and use the engine mapping to essentialy reduce engine power and therefore wheel spin at the start of the race.
I want to know if I am getting my money's worth (something tells me, picture or not, I am not)...
Unless you are Bill Gates, the amount of your money spent on the ISS is miniscule. NASA gets less than 1% of the Federal Budget. Even if the ISS takes up half of NASA's budget thats 0.5% of the (roughly) 66% of the budget that comes from income tax. So maybe 0.33% of the total amount of what you have paid in Federal Income tax is up there. Most of your money has gone to pay the interest on Reagan's debt and for $90 hammers.