The hurdles are high, but there's a lot of raw materials and energy out there if we surmount them. Solar energy alone goes from a unreliable power source that's only available for half the day to a steady, ultra-reliable power source of great utility.
They did some of that (so it is inaccurate to say NASA did all the hard work). They successfully created a suborbital rocket that didn't need to deliver its payload to a soft landing. That was a necessary intermediate step. Getting a man to the moon required quite a bit of additional work, however.
Frankly, engineering is what we need right now. Science is great, and should be funded, but space *needs* right now is a great big lump of engineering.
I can understand attacking a plant in the US, but Europeans sell anything to anyone with the cash (and then bitch at us for being hypocrites).
No, they don't. There are currently EU trade sanctions in place against a whole lot of countries: see here. Restriction of goods seems to be mostly arms, but the list on North Korea is pretty extensive, although it apparently still doesn't include raw steel.
CSIRO has been responsible for a number of important technological advancements. Heard of Wi-Fi? They invented that. But don't worry, the Australian government is hard at work dismantling this subversive organization.
The source could be electrical, which means they are technically x-rays but at a higher energy then thought possible.
What? The difference between x-rays and gamma rays is not how they're produced but solely their wavelength (or photon energy, which is just another way of stating the same thing). If the wavelength is below 10 picometers (photon energy above 100 keV), it's a gamma ray, regardless of how it's been created.
But a big part of politics is not just persuading people to vote for you, but getting those people to actually go to the polls. Obama may have just improved the voter turnout of straight Republic ticket voting Cuban exiles by a good chunk.
"Just as expected" refers to the tower being useless. They knew it would be useless because the project it had been made for was cancelled *four years earlier*.
Most of the blame goes to the congressman, yes. But if NASA had promptly shut the thing down when it was evident it had no use, the congressman wouldn't have had an opening to insist that construction continue.
That'd be great--if there was somewhere to walk. Or bike, or rollerblade. In a lot of LA, you're looking at a 4 mile commute where you would have to walk in the middle of traffic if you wanted to walk it.
Googles stance, of "it's my ball and I'm leaving the game" might be a legit Right in the USA, but in the EU it might not be.
In the end, it's not a right but a simple fact. It *is* Google's ball and they can take it and go home if they want to. The EU can enact levies and bans to punish Google but in the end they can't make Google do business if they don't want to.
Yes, because every 300lb+ 6ft+ guy resisting arrest should be given candy? The guy was resisting arrest, he was put in a chokehold which is considered a valid police measure, and released as soon as he said he couldn't breathe.
False, and false. The chokehold is *not* a valid police measure and is in fact specifically prohibited by his department's regulations. He was *not* released as soon as he said he couldn't breathe, and in fact said he couldn't breathe several times.
So the mayor, city council, police department policies, courts, and federal government are all telling police officers to stop doing this. Yet it continues to happen, and in a rather violent matter. What can people do to curb this problem?
Actually *punish* police for doing this, instead of just shaking a finger and saying, "Bad boy! Don't do that again!"?
Lawsuits don't mean anything if the officers aren't going to be paying the settlement....
Why have the number at all? What's wrong with when you need to be identified to provide identification documents of value?
Without the number, who, exactly, are you being identified as? You can't uniquely ID by name--which of the 42 "John Smith"s in your city are you? In order to be identified, you need some representation of identity that is uniquely yours, and no one else's. The easiest way to do that is to give you a unique ID number.
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No we don't. We don't anywhere on Earth where a solar panel can collect half the energy a solar panel in space can.
The hurdles are high, but there's a lot of raw materials and energy out there if we surmount them. Solar energy alone goes from a unreliable power source that's only available for half the day to a steady, ultra-reliable power source of great utility.
They did some of that (so it is inaccurate to say NASA did all the hard work). They successfully created a suborbital rocket that didn't need to deliver its payload to a soft landing. That was a necessary intermediate step. Getting a man to the moon required quite a bit of additional work, however.
That's "ugly bag of mostly water."
Frankly, engineering is what we need right now. Science is great, and should be funded, but space *needs* right now is a great big lump of engineering.
No, they don't. There are currently EU trade sanctions in place against a whole lot of countries: see here. Restriction of goods seems to be mostly arms, but the list on North Korea is pretty extensive, although it apparently still doesn't include raw steel.
CSIRO has been responsible for a number of important technological advancements. Heard of Wi-Fi? They invented that. But don't worry, the Australian government is hard at work dismantling this subversive organization.
What? The difference between x-rays and gamma rays is not how they're produced but solely their wavelength (or photon energy, which is just another way of stating the same thing). If the wavelength is below 10 picometers (photon energy above 100 keV), it's a gamma ray, regardless of how it's been created.
But a big part of politics is not just persuading people to vote for you, but getting those people to actually go to the polls. Obama may have just improved the voter turnout of straight Republic ticket voting Cuban exiles by a good chunk.
I know the Army's getting tired of losing to Navy every year, but launching a spy blimp on the Naval Academy is just getting ridiculous...
"Just as expected" refers to the tower being useless. They knew it would be useless because the project it had been made for was cancelled *four years earlier*.
Most of the blame goes to the congressman, yes. But if NASA had promptly shut the thing down when it was evident it had no use, the congressman wouldn't have had an opening to insist that construction continue.
That'd be great--if there was somewhere to walk. Or bike, or rollerblade. In a lot of LA, you're looking at a 4 mile commute where you would have to walk in the middle of traffic if you wanted to walk it.
In the end, it's not a right but a simple fact. It *is* Google's ball and they can take it and go home if they want to. The EU can enact levies and bans to punish Google but in the end they can't make Google do business if they don't want to.
You weren't supposed to stop routing customers to us, you were supposed to give us money!
I don't know why you need an SDK, though. A decent box cutter does just fine if you to do something with it.
False, and false. The chokehold is *not* a valid police measure and is in fact specifically prohibited by his department's regulations. He was *not* released as soon as he said he couldn't breathe, and in fact said he couldn't breathe several times.
Actually *punish* police for doing this, instead of just shaking a finger and saying, "Bad boy! Don't do that again!"?
Lawsuits don't mean anything if the officers aren't going to be paying the settlement....
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Or is that racist?
Ironically, now Flash is still alive while Steve Jobs is dead.
It's like doing an in-depth critique of the Yugo. It's a crappy car, but it doesn't mean all cars are crappy.
We've got flying cyborg undead fungus!
Ted Nugent, as a matter of fact.
He must have also committed felonies or he wouldn't be a felon...
Without the number, who, exactly, are you being identified as? You can't uniquely ID by name--which of the 42 "John Smith"s in your city are you? In order to be identified, you need some representation of identity that is uniquely yours, and no one else's. The easiest way to do that is to give you a unique ID number.