Conversely, how many astronauts do you think there would be if it weren't for the desire to compete with the Soviets? Remember that NASA *began* as the U.S.'s response to Sputnik.
If it wasn't for the fact the Sputnik could have just as easily been an atomic bomb, there never would have been a space race at all. The science was all fine and dandy, but it got funded due to the need to drop a nuke on Moscow.
If women are empowered culturally, and have expectations of building their own lives and careers, their preferences regarding children change.
It's also substantially more difficult to procreate after devoting earlier years to education and career. A couple starting out in their mid thirties aren't going to have seven kids. One or two if they're lucky.
I bought into a non-HOA neighborhood. Now the builder who owns the empty lot next to mine is building a new house... sideways. There wasn't enough room to build the big hideous McMansion facing the street like everyone else, so he's putting it on the lot sideways. He just flushed the value of my house down the toilet.
I'd rather have black asphalt shingles and a soffit/ridge venting system that I can control, so I vent the heat in the summer or trap it in the winter.
You were trespassing. Just because a school is state property doesn't make it open to the public. That was very nice of the police to leave you be after checking on you.
I've been arrested for that before, but we weren't exactly star gazing.
Or U.S.A.? I live 30 minutes from Washington D.C. in a neighborhood without public utilities. Fresh water comes out of a hole in the ground and waste water goes into another hole in the ground. With too many houses in the region, that fresh water source is becoming contaminated.
The reality of locking down the screen background is too much of an insult to the end user to explain it any other way.
Oh, you can change the background by copying a new.bmp over the existing one, but Windows Update will detect the change in checksum and brick the computer. F*ck Microsoft and everything about them.
Just out of curiosity, is NASA hanging onto any of the shuttles just in case?
And what exactly do they expect to do when Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones need to get into orbit to save the earth from a disabled soviet nuclear satellite? They'd better leave a battery charger on at least one of those things or we're in big trouble.
I've rarely seen code reviews find anything useful. They mostly turn into nit-pick sessions about naming conventions while real bugs slip right through. And they're always done at the last minute, so finding out that a developer isn't following design standards doesn't matter because it's too late to do anything about it.
Effective code review would take a huge amount of hours and the customer just isn't going to pay for it. It ends up just a show so we can check off that box on the CMMI audit.
An intersection that detects cars from a distance could preemptively switch the lights when there is no cross traffic.
In my area, lights switch after a certain period of no cars. What that really means is they turn yellow just before the surge from the previous light reaches them. So we all creep along in a huge clog of cars from one yellow light to the next to the next to the next.
Yeah. Half my email ends up in a SPAM bucket. Thanks, you bastard. If I want someone to actually receive a message I have to send it through Facebook or SMS.
You have health care and the complaints you have about it will be much worse after the government has taken over the insurance industry. And it will cost more. Whether the money comes from your checking account, your payroll taxes, the value of your savings, or debt passed onto your children, it's going to cost more than it does today. Especially for you, since you sound like a member of the middle class who will bear most of the burden.
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Conversely, how many astronauts do you think there would be if it weren't for the desire to compete with the Soviets? Remember that NASA *began* as the U.S.'s response to Sputnik.
If it wasn't for the fact the Sputnik could have just as easily been an atomic bomb, there never would have been a space race at all. The science was all fine and dandy, but it got funded due to the need to drop a nuke on Moscow.
The strategy is this: Send girls to school.
If women are empowered culturally, and have expectations of building their own lives and careers, their preferences regarding children change.
It's also substantially more difficult to procreate after devoting earlier years to education and career. A couple starting out in their mid thirties aren't going to have seven kids. One or two if they're lucky.
I bought into a non-HOA neighborhood. Now the builder who owns the empty lot next to mine is building a new house... sideways. There wasn't enough room to build the big hideous McMansion facing the street like everyone else, so he's putting it on the lot sideways. He just flushed the value of my house down the toilet.
So there are good reasons for HOAs.
Asphalt shingles come in any color you like.
I'd rather have black asphalt shingles and a soffit/ridge venting system that I can control, so I vent the heat in the summer or trap it in the winter.
You were trespassing. Just because a school is state property doesn't make it open to the public. That was very nice of the police to leave you be after checking on you.
I've been arrested for that before, but we weren't exactly star gazing.
Out of general curiosity, can those tasks be performed over dialup internet?
(Yes, they have phone lines and dial up ISPs in Montana. My grandparents in Livingston did have share party line until the mid 80's, though.)
Even if the data is completely true, it's not like a liberal group would ever publish it. I'm surprised to even see this as a Slashdot article.
Or U.S.A.? I live 30 minutes from Washington D.C. in a neighborhood without public utilities. Fresh water comes out of a hole in the ground and waste water goes into another hole in the ground. With too many houses in the region, that fresh water source is becoming contaminated.
Candy Apple for Android gives a good dose of nostalgia on the run.
I still have my old Apple II+ but I doubt any of the old disks will read. I so wanted a IIc when they came out.
Windows 8 will run on my PC over my dead body!
That's probably somewhere in the EULA.
The reality of locking down the screen background is too much of an insult to the end user to explain it any other way.
.bmp over the existing one, but Windows Update will detect the change in checksum and brick the computer. F*ck Microsoft and everything about them.
Oh, you can change the background by copying a new
... made from the hooves of a unicorn.
One way or the other, it's theft, and should have charges at the state or local level.
Whether he gets his job back after serving time is another question.
Just out of curiosity, is NASA hanging onto any of the shuttles just in case?
And what exactly do they expect to do when Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones need to get into orbit to save the earth from a disabled soviet nuclear satellite? They'd better leave a battery charger on at least one of those things or we're in big trouble.
I've rarely seen code reviews find anything useful. They mostly turn into nit-pick sessions about naming conventions while real bugs slip right through. And they're always done at the last minute, so finding out that a developer isn't following design standards doesn't matter because it's too late to do anything about it.
Effective code review would take a huge amount of hours and the customer just isn't going to pay for it. It ends up just a show so we can check off that box on the CMMI audit.
In what? Choosing a fake name?
Kruphnehdahpheweundikaniswalyniaphorganopop.
Substitute "a small inventor in his garage" though...
The small inventor in his garage can't afford to defend his patent. A major corporation can violate it all they want and never pay a dime.
Driving is safe from groping and the nude-o-scope. For now.
But driving can still result in a mandatory blood test.
When did we stop nation building again?
When we became too P.C. to finish a war. If we're nation building now, it's somebody else's nation and financed by our national debt.
So, no, the first roundabout did NOT appear in the US in 1990. Bullshit.
Richmond VA has a number of cobblestone roundabouts that predate the automobile.
An intersection that detects cars from a distance could preemptively switch the lights when there is no cross traffic.
In my area, lights switch after a certain period of no cars. What that really means is they turn yellow just before the surge from the previous light reaches them. So we all creep along in a huge clog of cars from one yellow light to the next to the next to the next.
Yeah. Half my email ends up in a SPAM bucket. Thanks, you bastard. If I want someone to actually receive a message I have to send it through Facebook or SMS.
You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?
Throw enough CMMI at the hammer or toilet seat, and yes I do think it cost that much.
Jocks end up in marketing and cheerleaders in HR. Eventually they get promoted to run the engineering department. There is no escape.
You have health care and the complaints you have about it will be much worse after the government has taken over the insurance industry. And it will cost more. Whether the money comes from your checking account, your payroll taxes, the value of your savings, or debt passed onto your children, it's going to cost more than it does today. Especially for you, since you sound like a member of the middle class who will bear most of the burden.