The fact that you think there is any link between Nazis and Guevara shows that you're way out of your league here. Go study some history.
My studies of history (and experiencing the more recent parts of it) lead to a strong conviction, that the Red Star/Hammser-and-Sickle are no less abhorrent a symbol, than the Nazi swastika.
Both symbolize popularly appealing, yet corrupt ideologies, that -- as a side effect -- lead to mass-murder of millions.
But time and time again, China demonstrates, that it still remains evil, embracing parts and aspects of Western capitalist democracy only as a more efficient way of doing things, rather than out of genuine desire to promote freedom...
How do they manage to escape the scrutiny of the same freedom-minded people, who can not talk about Bush without foam forming on their mouthes?
The same people, who insult politicians by painting swastikas on their portraits, but proudly wear Che Guevara T-shirts (with red star on top)?..
Besides being a perfectly valid targets in their own, Iraq from one side and Afghanistan from the other are both good places to squeeze Iran, an aspiring (and lying) nuclear power.
True, North Korea should've been crushed or simply allowed to collapse 10 years ago, but South Korea -- our ally over there -- prefers its "sunshine" (a.k.a. "give peace a chance") policy...
In the last 100 years we lost, what, a dozen of cosmonauts, but tenths of thousands military, police, and firefighters. All I'm saying, is that we are inconsistent here.
Yes, we had much fewer cosmonauts to begin with, but my point is, their systems are costly by design -- design intended for a much higher survivability, than in a tank.
Money isn't worth very much when you're dead.
You, clearly, aren't aware of the size and vitality of the life-insurance market.
Money does matter to the kin and to the dying, who care about their families.
Oops, sorry. Make that $200 mln. Sizable, but not major. Especially, considering, that the true cost of shuttle-replacement is (or should be) much lower than $10 bln.
That's easy. Once the probability is known, the "mathematical expectation" of the cost is simply a product of the loss and the probability (for the "simple" case of total loss). If the shuttle costs, say $10 bln (all the R&D is there already) and the probability of loss is 2% (as per an anonymous post below), than the cost of each launch is "only" an extra $20 mln.
Compared with the rest of the expenses, this very little.
If we allow for a 0.5% probability of the loss of austronauts, the costs would drop dramatically. For example, they don't want to send the mission without another shuttle on "stand-by", because, if something is wrong, this mission will not be able to repair itself (unlike those, that are sent to ISS).
If lives can be and are lost for a good cause in Afghanistan, Iraq, in fighting domestic crime, and in firefighting, I say, we are overly protective of the space crews.
Hugo Chavez -- the Communist-sounding (sorry to click Godwin's Law), populist closed the gathering, which lavished him with all sorts of wonderful complements.
If certain open-source programmers made laud objections to the use of their offerings by America's military, I wonder why everyone is quiet about their software used at a forum, where Cuba and Venezuela (Cuba's and FARC's best friend) were the stars.
I intend to amend my license to ban the use of my work by anyone with a Che Guevara T-shirt.
Creating chimeras, she said, by mixing human and animal gametes (sperms and eggs) or transferring reproductive cells, diminishes human dignity.
Dying from a predictable, slowly onsetting, and yet uncurable decease is a lot more diminishing to human dignity. Both to the dying and to the rest of humanity.
If these experiments have a chance to help create new therapies -- WELCOME THEM!
Although substantial US force is sitting nearby (including, like, two carrier groups and 50K Marines in Japan), I'm afraid, US may chicken out at the end.
I can just imagine the "No Blood for Chips" marches on Washington and "Give Peace a Chance" sit-ins, while Taiwanese defenses are dismembered.
Japan will need to amend its Constitution (again) to do anything.
I too hope, the Taiwanese will prevail, but it is not certain -- and we (rightly) promised to help them.
Why would a woman waste her time with a man who can only bring home the bacon on rare occasions, when another man who learns to gather fruits and vegetables (doing some REAL work) is available - and clearly more useful?
Oh, just look around in todays life:-) Or open a female magazine. Or watch "Sex and the City" for 30 minutes.
In the past, those few men, who did get the meat were able to get more than one female. Those few, who were better at it (on average) got more action -- on average.
In addition to hunting, there was also fighting -- inter- and intratribal... Again, the winner got to mate more (often the main purpose of the fighting in the first place).
(which, not surprisingly, mimic the morals of folks who happen to like women in the subservient role and would dearly love to use the argument "it's always been this way" to justify their position).
Well, there, there. We are going into gender politics. I have equal reasons to suspect, you are objecting to my hypothesis not so much on its merit, but to defend the contemporary women from these dreadful folks.
For 99% of human history there were no "household chores", since there were no households. Humans lived in small nomadic groups.
The small nomadic groups had the same chores -- from firewood-gathering (once they got fire) to food preparation (if any) to child-rearing.
As for hunting, 80-90% of all nutrition came from fruits and vegetables, depending on location. Only 10-20% came from meat. Humans were, by and large, terrible hunters.
May be, but they still tried -- hard and often. And those men, who were better at it, had better chance of procreating.
Guess who did most of the gathering of the fruits and vegetables? Women, that's who. So women were the primary 'hunters' of these societies, not men.
Well, that's a novel idea of "hunting":-)
Gathering is multi-tasking -- lots of reliable root, fruits, and veggies instead of hunting for a few occasional chunks of meat. Right here, you seem to agree with my hypothesis.
Brains are different. A "rocket scientist", able to concentrate on and solve one big problem, is usually unable to keep track of many small tasks.
This is what secretaries are usually for. They take care of LOTS of small things, the sheer number of which would've swamped the other kind of brain with their boring mundaneness...
But the single-task brains tend to be found in males, while the multi-tasking breadth is usually found in females. An evolutionary thing, I guess -- hunting and fighting vs. household chores and child-rearing.
I don't think, a modern government agency (nor even a private corporation) can afford the implications of hiring different sexes to different positions...
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My studies of history (and experiencing the more recent parts of it) lead to a strong conviction, that the Red Star/Hammser-and-Sickle are no less abhorrent a symbol, than the Nazi swastika.
Both symbolize popularly appealing, yet corrupt ideologies, that -- as a side effect -- lead to mass-murder of millions.
But time and time again, China demonstrates, that it still remains evil, embracing parts and aspects of Western capitalist democracy only as a more efficient way of doing things, rather than out of genuine desire to promote freedom...
How do they manage to escape the scrutiny of the same freedom-minded people, who can not talk about Bush without foam forming on their mouthes?
The same people, who insult politicians by painting swastikas on their portraits, but proudly wear Che Guevara T-shirts (with red star on top)?..
It was foolish, in my opinion, to keep this in the release. I wonder, how many points the OS lost in the benchmarks because of it...
True, North Korea should've been crushed or simply allowed to collapse 10 years ago, but South Korea -- our ally over there -- prefers its "sunshine" (a.k.a. "give peace a chance") policy...
The sooner the better.
Being a "write-once only" follows from write-only. Because if you can't read, what's written, you can't modify it.
My quote is more general. It not only accuses Perl (programs) of being unmodifiable, but also of being unreadable.
A "write-only language"...
In the last 100 years we lost, what, a dozen of cosmonauts, but tenths of thousands military, police, and firefighters. All I'm saying, is that we are inconsistent here.
Yes, we had much fewer cosmonauts to begin with, but my point is, their systems are costly by design -- design intended for a much higher survivability, than in a tank.
You, clearly, aren't aware of the size and vitality of the life-insurance market.
Money does matter to the kin and to the dying, who care about their families.
Oops, sorry. Make that $200 mln. Sizable, but not major. Especially, considering, that the true cost of shuttle-replacement is (or should be) much lower than $10 bln.
Compared with the rest of the expenses, this very little.
If we allow for a 0.5% probability of the loss of austronauts, the costs would drop dramatically. For example, they don't want to send the mission without another shuttle on "stand-by", because, if something is wrong, this mission will not be able to repair itself (unlike those, that are sent to ISS).
If lives can be and are lost for a good cause in Afghanistan, Iraq, in fighting domestic crime, and in firefighting, I say, we are overly protective of the space crews.
You could've tried Google yourself, but here it is for you anyway.
As Commies are no better than Fascists, I hereby put you on the official list of assholes.
If certain open-source programmers made laud objections to the use of their offerings by America's military, I wonder why everyone is quiet about their software used at a forum, where Cuba and Venezuela (Cuba's and FARC's best friend) were the stars.
I intend to amend my license to ban the use of my work by anyone with a Che Guevara T-shirt.
At best those were 8" floppies...
How many scientists were scared away from the fate of Jordano Bruno?
Ethics evolve too...
I can just imagine the "No Blood for Chips" marches on Washington and "Give Peace a Chance" sit-ins, while Taiwanese defenses are dismembered.
Japan will need to amend its Constitution (again) to do anything.
I too hope, the Taiwanese will prevail, but it is not certain -- and we (rightly) promised to help them.
Your fear-mongering is so absurd, it is funny. Long live, Ukraine!
And we may soon find ourselves in a shooting war with China -- over Taiwan...
In the past, those few men, who did get the meat were able to get more than one female. Those few, who were better at it (on average) got more action -- on average.
In addition to hunting, there was also fighting -- inter- and intratribal... Again, the winner got to mate more (often the main purpose of the fighting in the first place).
Well, there, there. We are going into gender politics. I have equal reasons to suspect, you are objecting to my hypothesis not so much on its merit, but to defend the contemporary women from these dreadful folks.May be, but they still tried -- hard and often. And those men, who were better at it, had better chance of procreating.
Well, that's a novel idea of "hunting" :-)
Gathering is multi-tasking -- lots of reliable root, fruits, and veggies instead of hunting for a few occasional chunks of meat. Right here, you seem to agree with my hypothesis.
There must've been some other "evil multinationals" back then. May be, those dinosaurs had a more advanced civilization, than thought?
This is what secretaries are usually for. They take care of LOTS of small things, the sheer number of which would've swamped the other kind of brain with their boring mundaneness...
But the single-task brains tend to be found in males, while the multi-tasking breadth is usually found in females. An evolutionary thing, I guess -- hunting and fighting vs. household chores and child-rearing.
I don't think, a modern government agency (nor even a private corporation) can afford the implications of hiring different sexes to different positions...
This ICBM was of Soviet, not of Russian making. Dnepr is the main river in Ukraine, actually.