There's a pretty strong case for it, although you could call it coincidence. President is up for re-election and he's allegedly against it. House is up for re-election and they're shelving it. Senate has 67% not up for re-election and that's the only place it's still moving.
Let's see if it gets re-opened in 2013 when the presidency is secure for almost half a decade and the house and senate have two years before they need to worry about being voted out. Voters tend to have an extremely short memory - especially on issues that might not fully understand - and politicians take advantage of that.
Thank you for including that dollar sign in place of S every time you abbreviate Microsoft. Not only did I not realize they were a for-profit company, I also did not realize the depth of your creativity. You have truly opened my eyes. Now let's see if we can change the characters used to spell Open Source to hint at Stallman. Maybe give it a beard and surround it with flies?
10 fingers is still 10 more than the number of passwords most people can remember. If course, you'd need all ten fingers registered or else the users that be would constantly forget which finger they used.
I was always told that it looked bad if you didn't use all of your vacation. People that never go on vacation usually have something to hide (a mistake they don't want others finding out about). The only reason I don't use all of my vacation is that I'd rather cash in as much of it as possible to pay off those pesky student loans.
I paid $160 for my LG Optimus Slider from Virgin Mobile. For my use, the only thing that works poorly on it compared to an iPhone is NetFlix, which tends to have choppy video. However, it has a physical keyboard, which more than makes up for not being able to watch tiny movies in my opinion. I also find the Android interface to be somewhat more intuitive than IOS (at least in most cases). Also, everything I can't do on my Android phone, I can do on my $180 Nook Color. So for $340, I can do everything I would want with an iPhone and a whole lot more. Having it split between two devices is actually more convenient for me as I take the phone with me everywhere but I rarely use the Nook (mostly for Netflix and books) outside of home.
True, but you get too close to anything that big giving up even a fraction of our sun's heat and you're going to have a huge a/c bill. I don't know about these particular planets, but I believe we've found a lot of exoplanets orbiting much closer to their suns than Mercury does to ours.
Well, I've used history, math and the vast majority of science in day-to-day life. Even a (small) portion of the art classes have come in useful, as has phys-ed, health and most other classes I took in school. I know very few people who don't interact with computers or basic shop tools either at home or at work once in a while. However, I have never once needed French, Spanish, Chinese or Latin for anything. That's where I draw the line... stuff that will actually be used vs stuff that the majority of people won't use - and the few that do would have learned it on their own anyway. I don't think I should have to learn languages other than English because I don't use languages other than English - not because it's somehow superior.
I live in the northeastern US where English is king (unlike the south and southwest where Spanish is fairly widespread). Generally, the only foreign speakers around here are from Quebec and they're usually chased out of the state as soon as we see them.
I'd consider social studies to be far more important when studying the rest of the world as 1) it offers useful insights and 2) it covers more than one culture. I have no problem with foreign languages being offered as optional or even making a half year or year mandatory to expose students to another language, but four years of a foreign language that a tiny percentile of the graduating class will ever use seems a bit useless at best.
I learned French in 6th and 7th grade, Latin in 8th grade, French in 9th and 10th (Latin teacher retired) and then got my third year of French waived because I went to BOCES for PC networking. I also spent one drunken night in college learning Esperanto. I still have no use for French, Latin, Esperanto or any other language.
Way back in 6th grade, we did "programming" with LogoWriter as a topic of our overall computer class (along with the basics like word processing, basic file management, Oregon Trail and of course typing). It was a nice introduction to programming that was suitable to that level of schooling. We were also given enough leeway to play around with variables and try new things that it piqued the interest of almost everybody. However, and entire class on just programming may be a bit much. Maybe offer programming as an alternative to having to take a foreign language (why is that mandatory anyway?).
Wasn't thinking the pilot would control the drones - I would expect them to still be controlled remotely, but would share info with the manned aircraft. if the remote link got cut, then the drones should stick with the manned craft via radio beacon, visual recognition, etc.
I think the next step might by hybrid squadrons of one or two manned fighters escorted by a dozen drones specialized for various roles from recon/surveillance to ground attack or even missile interception. You'd get the benefits of non-manned craft (cheaper, more expendable) along with the benefits of manned craft (judgment, ability to function without comms). if the drones lost GPS or control link they could be programmed to fly formation around the manned craft until link is re-established or they return home. Interesting possibilities in the gray area between a manned airforce and a completely robotic airforce.
I loved the first two Diablo games and spent endless hours playing them. However, there's a lot of questions that they never answer or keep changing their answer to. Will it be pay-to-play like their WoW model or will B.Net be free like previous games in the series? Will there be a single-player mode? Will you be able to play on private servers or will you be stuck with B.net?
If at least two of those three are not favorable then I probably won't be getting it.
I'd say it's only a legitimate comparison if drones and manned aircraft were used in comparable roles. Can a single drone take the place of a single manned plane for a given mission? In some cases yes, in other cases you may need 3 drones to take the place of a single fighter jet - especially in combat conditions.
Sort of like with Legos... how many Lego tires would you need to replace a single Goodyear on a car? Adjust for that and you get a more useful comparison.
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There's a pretty strong case for it, although you could call it coincidence. President is up for re-election and he's allegedly against it. House is up for re-election and they're shelving it. Senate has 67% not up for re-election and that's the only place it's still moving.
Let's see if it gets re-opened in 2013 when the presidency is secure for almost half a decade and the house and senate have two years before they need to worry about being voted out. Voters tend to have an extremely short memory - especially on issues that might not fully understand - and politicians take advantage of that.
The presidency, a third of the Senate and the entire House are all up for election this year... may have something to do with it.
Now Homeland Security can spy on all of the creatures within our borders, not just multicellular lifeforms! Surely this will stop the terrorists.
personally, I bet bacteria sounds squishy.
Thank you for including that dollar sign in place of S every time you abbreviate Microsoft. Not only did I not realize they were a for-profit company, I also did not realize the depth of your creativity. You have truly opened my eyes. Now let's see if we can change the characters used to spell Open Source to hint at Stallman. Maybe give it a beard and surround it with flies?
Worse. They're insecure MS resellers with nothing better to do.
10 fingers is still 10 more than the number of passwords most people can remember. If course, you'd need all ten fingers registered or else the users that be would constantly forget which finger they used.
I was always told that it looked bad if you didn't use all of your vacation. People that never go on vacation usually have something to hide (a mistake they don't want others finding out about). The only reason I don't use all of my vacation is that I'd rather cash in as much of it as possible to pay off those pesky student loans.
It solved a theoretical problem. They never solved a real problem. But in theory, it was a problem and they solved it.
I paid $160 for my LG Optimus Slider from Virgin Mobile. For my use, the only thing that works poorly on it compared to an iPhone is NetFlix, which tends to have choppy video. However, it has a physical keyboard, which more than makes up for not being able to watch tiny movies in my opinion. I also find the Android interface to be somewhat more intuitive than IOS (at least in most cases). Also, everything I can't do on my Android phone, I can do on my $180 Nook Color. So for $340, I can do everything I would want with an iPhone and a whole lot more. Having it split between two devices is actually more convenient for me as I take the phone with me everywhere but I rarely use the Nook (mostly for Netflix and books) outside of home.
True, but you get too close to anything that big giving up even a fraction of our sun's heat and you're going to have a huge a/c bill. I don't know about these particular planets, but I believe we've found a lot of exoplanets orbiting much closer to their suns than Mercury does to ours.
Well, I've used history, math and the vast majority of science in day-to-day life. Even a (small) portion of the art classes have come in useful, as has phys-ed, health and most other classes I took in school. I know very few people who don't interact with computers or basic shop tools either at home or at work once in a while. However, I have never once needed French, Spanish, Chinese or Latin for anything. That's where I draw the line... stuff that will actually be used vs stuff that the majority of people won't use - and the few that do would have learned it on their own anyway. I don't think I should have to learn languages other than English because I don't use languages other than English - not because it's somehow superior.
Or the kids shows with "Ok, kids, repeat after me. TV, dial 1-9-0-0-S-E-X-Y-V-I-X-E-N-S"
Speaking French is what would be totally useless when the only time you encounter it is a dumbass trying to be a smartass.
We already know the guys who produced the oxygen (or at least we have a good idea), we're interested in the ones who used it.
I live in the northeastern US where English is king (unlike the south and southwest where Spanish is fairly widespread). Generally, the only foreign speakers around here are from Quebec and they're usually chased out of the state as soon as we see them.
I'd consider social studies to be far more important when studying the rest of the world as 1) it offers useful insights and 2) it covers more than one culture. I have no problem with foreign languages being offered as optional or even making a half year or year mandatory to expose students to another language, but four years of a foreign language that a tiny percentile of the graduating class will ever use seems a bit useless at best.
I learned French in 6th and 7th grade, Latin in 8th grade, French in 9th and 10th (Latin teacher retired) and then got my third year of French waived because I went to BOCES for PC networking. I also spent one drunken night in college learning Esperanto. I still have no use for French, Latin, Esperanto or any other language.
Way back in 6th grade, we did "programming" with LogoWriter as a topic of our overall computer class (along with the basics like word processing, basic file management, Oregon Trail and of course typing). It was a nice introduction to programming that was suitable to that level of schooling. We were also given enough leeway to play around with variables and try new things that it piqued the interest of almost everybody. However, and entire class on just programming may be a bit much. Maybe offer programming as an alternative to having to take a foreign language (why is that mandatory anyway?).
Sounds to me like a good way to get in the Friend Zone quick. Unless it's strip D&D
Wasn't thinking the pilot would control the drones - I would expect them to still be controlled remotely, but would share info with the manned aircraft. if the remote link got cut, then the drones should stick with the manned craft via radio beacon, visual recognition, etc.
I think the next step might by hybrid squadrons of one or two manned fighters escorted by a dozen drones specialized for various roles from recon/surveillance to ground attack or even missile interception. You'd get the benefits of non-manned craft (cheaper, more expendable) along with the benefits of manned craft (judgment, ability to function without comms). if the drones lost GPS or control link they could be programmed to fly formation around the manned craft until link is re-established or they return home. Interesting possibilities in the gray area between a manned airforce and a completely robotic airforce.
I loved the first two Diablo games and spent endless hours playing them. However, there's a lot of questions that they never answer or keep changing their answer to. Will it be pay-to-play like their WoW model or will B.Net be free like previous games in the series? Will there be a single-player mode? Will you be able to play on private servers or will you be stuck with B.net?
If at least two of those three are not favorable then I probably won't be getting it.
I'd say it's only a legitimate comparison if drones and manned aircraft were used in comparable roles. Can a single drone take the place of a single manned plane for a given mission? In some cases yes, in other cases you may need 3 drones to take the place of a single fighter jet - especially in combat conditions.
Sort of like with Legos... how many Lego tires would you need to replace a single Goodyear on a car? Adjust for that and you get a more useful comparison.
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I can write a book about women, doesn't mean I understand them.
And being the cool dad has turned your kids into nerds :-p