They have hundreds of engines in depot from the aircraft that were sent to Davis-Monthan. Now if they want to run these birds past 2040, it might get a little problematic, but I don't see the AF spending $10 billion to re-engine a bird that already is long in the tooth when they're dreaming of things like the Next Generation Bomber...
Raise your hand if you know nothing about the term "collateral damage." Thought so.
The days of carpet bombing Iraqi divisions is long gone. Even during GW1, it wasn't common. And in Afghanistan, PGMs are the most likely weapon to be used so we can avoid having Al Jazeera rage about us wiping out a wedding party. Hell, we didn't even use carpet bombing in Tora Bora when OBL was holed up in the hills.
Sure, carpet bombing has a great psychological effect on its target, but today's civilian authorities won't use it.
There have been proposals throughout the last few decades to re-engine the youngest B-52s, but they've never gotten off the ground. It's not really clear that the fuel savings would pay off when you consider all the costs involved. Part of me thinks that the AF would rather keep buying shiny new fighters.
Plus the CFM-56 is a straightforward one for one re-engining on the 707 series planes like the KC-135. Re-engining the B-52 would involve dramatically modifying the fuel delivery system as well as modifying the engine pod mounting points.
Not accurate. The B-52 carries about 16 JDAMs, which are the bomb of choice in Afghanistan. The B-1B caries 24.
The only benefit the B52 offers is a longer loiter time. Despite this, the B1B has dropped 70% of the JDAMs in Afghanistan, while only flying 5% of the sorties.
Show me a report that shows a correlation between per student funding and performance. Despite what "seems" to be a common sense idea, it's not founded in reality. Same with classroom size. I'm not talking about how a classroom "feels" but how effective size is on determining student success. If size was important, then you wouldn't have mega sized Freshman Intro to Calculus at so many schools.
If Special Education is so expensive, then it needs to be improved. There's simply no way for a school district to be able to afford to pay $250K/year in your extreme example for each kid with special needs. At that rate, you could hire a full-time nurse, a special ed coordinator, a speech pathologist, and a couple of interns from the community college looking for job experience FOR EACH KID. Of course, schools don't operate this stupidly, they spread the cost over numerous schools and SE students. That overhead is going to remain, even if a lot of students use the voucher system. So unless you can point to some concrete figures, your example seems a bit bogus.
Here's the deal that public school fans really have a hard time coping with: the fact that people want to take their kids out of such shining, well-functioning establishments.
Bzzt! Thanks for failing fiduciary accounting 101. When a publicly traded company says it SOLD something, that's legally defined. Try again when the lights turn back on in your mother's basement.
As I posted elsewhere, Apple is on selling roughly 45 million iPads this year. If their market share is down to 62%, who is selling the remaining 14 million? That's the best kept secret in the entire investment community. Your link points to an IDC report that confuses shipments with sales. I don't give a rats ass if Samsung, Acer, Asus, and your mother ship 1 billion tablets, all I care about is SALES. That's all anyone cares about. 'Cept those trying to confuse the issue.
And your guesstimate would be off by almost 99%. Apple has been extremely clear that the iTunes Store operates at a break even clip. Go do some more research and you'll find that you're completely, entirely wrong.
Clever has nothing to do with it. It's just propaganda from the fools who still believe Google and Android are open source. A bit hard to admit you got snookered, eh?
Worked at B&N back in the late 90's. The computer books were expensive (costing B&N a lot of their credit line with the distributors), stolen quite frequently, and people would buy the books, read them for a couple of weeks, then return them for full cash or credit. Some stores have a great selection, others, depending on their demographics and sales patterns don't have much anymore. Can't blame them a bit for shrinking that section; it never generated much $$. And now that there's better, more accurate content online, all that will survive is the simplest computer books for novices.
Doubtful. The Exocet was one of the most effective weapons deployed by the Argentinians. They weren't hampered by any "deactivation" codes (sounds like something out of a bad Bond film), but instead they only had a few in their inventory. Trust me, anti-ship missiles don't listen for "deactivation" codes once they're launched.
Displaced? What is this displaced you speak of? At my company, we still run Netware, and just recently (3 months ago) retired OS2. Freaking OS2. And we're a large, large company. Thank God I'm a *nix admin.
Well, I think it's easy to make such a judgement from the cheap seats. Hopefully you'll never be in the situation I found myself in; it's not quite as easy to just "find a quick way to end it once the pain starts getting out of control and the quality of life is gone." And my two daughters are happy I'm around 4 years later to celebrate Father's Day. I'm a diehard conservative, but I think that how a nation treats the ill and infirm says a lot about the character of its people.
By your logic, you wouldn't be carrying auto insurance, renter/homeowner's insurance either? As I originally responded, you're gravely confusing the true role of insurance. It's not to make one whole in a crisis, it's to ameliorate some of the worst case scenarios. Since you seem to be fond of investing, think of it as an option or derivative to offload some of your risk.
And you seriously quoted Malthus? Why don't you dig up Paul Ehrlich as well? That entire ZPG train of inquiry has long since been disproved.
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They have hundreds of engines in depot from the aircraft that were sent to Davis-Monthan. Now if they want to run these birds past 2040, it might get a little problematic, but I don't see the AF spending $10 billion to re-engine a bird that already is long in the tooth when they're dreaming of things like the Next Generation Bomber...
Raise your hand if you know nothing about the term "collateral damage." Thought so.
The days of carpet bombing Iraqi divisions is long gone. Even during GW1, it wasn't common. And in Afghanistan, PGMs are the most likely weapon to be used so we can avoid having Al Jazeera rage about us wiping out a wedding party. Hell, we didn't even use carpet bombing in Tora Bora when OBL was holed up in the hills.
Sure, carpet bombing has a great psychological effect on its target, but today's civilian authorities won't use it.
There have been proposals throughout the last few decades to re-engine the youngest B-52s, but they've never gotten off the ground. It's not really clear that the fuel savings would pay off when you consider all the costs involved. Part of me thinks that the AF would rather keep buying shiny new fighters.
Plus the CFM-56 is a straightforward one for one re-engining on the 707 series planes like the KC-135. Re-engining the B-52 would involve dramatically modifying the fuel delivery system as well as modifying the engine pod mounting points.
What a load of horseshit. WTF are people modding up fools like you?
The B52 sure as shit is a FBW aircraft, it's engines are old as shit, and as far as "why it can still be built for $70M" you're just smoking crack.
What a troll.
Wow. Mach 2 eh? And people modded this up.
The B-52 has always and will always be a subsonic aircraft.
Not accurate. The B-52 carries about 16 JDAMs, which are the bomb of choice in Afghanistan. The B-1B caries 24.
The only benefit the B52 offers is a longer loiter time. Despite this, the B1B has dropped 70% of the JDAMs in Afghanistan, while only flying 5% of the sorties.
Spain was "neutral" though tilted towards the Axis powers throughout the war.
Digitimes Digitimes Digitimes
Such an accurate source.
""Retina" phone displays haven't exactly taken off."
Yeah, Apple only sold 37 million of them last quarter...
Or,
A's hire A's
B's hire B's
C's hire C's.
Most teachers are Cs. There is a reason for the quip about those who can do, and those who can't teach...
Show me a report that shows a correlation between per student funding and performance. Despite what "seems" to be a common sense idea, it's not founded in reality. Same with classroom size. I'm not talking about how a classroom "feels" but how effective size is on determining student success. If size was important, then you wouldn't have mega sized Freshman Intro to Calculus at so many schools.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/03/california-school-distric_n_870921.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Adam-Smith-Institute-Blog/2010/0428/No-correlation-between-education-funding-and-student-performance
Funny, I don't see anyone elses evaluations being made public. I guess teachers don't have the same rights as the rest of us.
I think that all public employee evaluations should be made public...
If Special Education is so expensive, then it needs to be improved. There's simply no way for a school district to be able to afford to pay $250K/year in your extreme example for each kid with special needs. At that rate, you could hire a full-time nurse, a special ed coordinator, a speech pathologist, and a couple of interns from the community college looking for job experience FOR EACH KID. Of course, schools don't operate this stupidly, they spread the cost over numerous schools and SE students. That overhead is going to remain, even if a lot of students use the voucher system. So unless you can point to some concrete figures, your example seems a bit bogus.
Here's the deal that public school fans really have a hard time coping with: the fact that people want to take their kids out of such shining, well-functioning establishments.
Yeah, you're a AC jackass. Goodbye useless AC.
Dude, you don't "consume" content. Words have meaning, and a dictionary is your friend.
Bzzt! Thanks for failing fiduciary accounting 101. When a publicly traded company says it SOLD something, that's legally defined. Try again when the lights turn back on in your mother's basement.
As I posted elsewhere, Apple is on selling roughly 45 million iPads this year. If their market share is down to 62%, who is selling the remaining 14 million? That's the best kept secret in the entire investment community. Your link points to an IDC report that confuses shipments with sales. I don't give a rats ass if Samsung, Acer, Asus, and your mother ship 1 billion tablets, all I care about is SALES. That's all anyone cares about. 'Cept those trying to confuse the issue.
And your guesstimate would be off by almost 99%. Apple has been extremely clear that the iTunes Store operates at a break even clip. Go do some more research and you'll find that you're completely, entirely wrong.
Clever has nothing to do with it. It's just propaganda from the fools who still believe Google and Android are open source. A bit hard to admit you got snookered, eh?
Love your sig. Does that work on Honeycomb? Thought not.
Worked at B&N back in the late 90's. The computer books were expensive (costing B&N a lot of their credit line with the distributors), stolen quite frequently, and people would buy the books, read them for a couple of weeks, then return them for full cash or credit. Some stores have a great selection, others, depending on their demographics and sales patterns don't have much anymore. Can't blame them a bit for shrinking that section; it never generated much $$. And now that there's better, more accurate content online, all that will survive is the simplest computer books for novices.
Doubtful. The Exocet was one of the most effective weapons deployed by the Argentinians. They weren't hampered by any "deactivation" codes (sounds like something out of a bad Bond film), but instead they only had a few in their inventory. Trust me, anti-ship missiles don't listen for "deactivation" codes once they're launched.
Yeah, he never goofs off like that bastard GW Bush did:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7607947/Barack-Obama-plays-golf-eight-more-times-than-George-W-Bush.html
Displaced? What is this displaced you speak of? At my company, we still run Netware, and just recently (3 months ago) retired OS2. Freaking OS2. And we're a large, large company. Thank God I'm a *nix admin.
Well, I think it's easy to make such a judgement from the cheap seats. Hopefully you'll never be in the situation I found myself in; it's not quite as easy to just "find a quick way to end it once the pain starts getting out of control and the quality of life is gone." And my two daughters are happy I'm around 4 years later to celebrate Father's Day. I'm a diehard conservative, but I think that how a nation treats the ill and infirm says a lot about the character of its people.
By your logic, you wouldn't be carrying auto insurance, renter/homeowner's insurance either? As I originally responded, you're gravely confusing the true role of insurance. It's not to make one whole in a crisis, it's to ameliorate some of the worst case scenarios. Since you seem to be fond of investing, think of it as an option or derivative to offload some of your risk.
And you seriously quoted Malthus? Why don't you dig up Paul Ehrlich as well? That entire ZPG train of inquiry has long since been disproved.