If they're not making enough to keep things going then they should do like any other business and manage their costs and set prices appropriately.
The Post Office is not "like any other business". They can't just raise their prices. Their prices are set through a convoluted legal process, and the Post Office depends on forces and governmental entities outside of it's control in setting it's prices.
He said: Freedom. And defined that as, and I quote: "Meaning that, they do not have security of property ownership (including natural resources), freedom to enter into mutually beneficial contracts, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, etc., etc."
Good luck enforcing a contract in Somalia. Likewise moving from A to B, establishing a free press.
Oh, what a swell idea. Allow the Bond villiains (I'm thinking Gates and Zuckerberg) the means to achieve if not world domination, at least the ability to wreak havoc on an international scale. Marvelous.
The aircraft already has the critical information needed in it's Flight Management System ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_management_system ) which includes position locating systems (through GPS and/or radio triangulation) and a database of airports, runways, radio frequencies, waypoints, and much other information. As long as the FMS works, the charts are simply backup.
Most pilots will take a look at the approach plates in the charts, just because they are so nicely done and are more visually understandable, but they are not really necessary any more.
No kidding. These threads are just one post after another of people pulling stuff out of their ass that they have a hunch is correct, and stating it as fact.
> In what world does Beethoven's 9th have a set length? I could happily conduct it to make it last for 85 minutes, or to make it last for 65.
Well, that's swell. But maybe Ohga wanted one of Toscanini's version of the 9th (which are the times above), and not Anonymous Coward's sped up and slowed down version.
> There aren't set lengths for orchestral music, you know.
I know. That's why I said the times are "From one version"
There is no way to put these movements on a two sided cassette without having about 17 minutes of unused space, unless the 3rd movement was split between sides.
So what many (if not most) versions on cassette would do to conserve tape is put the 1st, 2nd, and PART of the 3rd movement on side A of the cassette, and the remaining part of the 3rd movement and the 4th movement on side B. It was kind of jarring to have the tape fade out in the middle of the 3rd movement to switch to the other side.
Modem card with "voice modem" capabilities, you can get software which will read the caller id info, and do what you want with the incoming call. Hang up on them, play a special audio, voice mail... the possibilities are many.
Palin having a dissenting voice is one thing. Calling for the assassination of another human being who has not been convicted of any crime is quite another.
And if you can give me one good reason why that shouldn't be, without invoking your imaginary friend up on a fluffy cloud whose opinion doesn't really mean that much to me (unless my friend Harvey's opinion starts meaning anything to you), I'd like to hear it.
Would you like it if both your parents were male, and incubated in a surrogate womb for hire?
Would you like it if all your friends knew that? Because by the time they are teenagers, that kind of information will be freely available by doing the equivalent of a "Google".
In the future, Julian Assange style data dumps will not be limited to banks and governments, and will be orders of magnitude more common than today. And at the top of the list will be documents regarding people's true lineage.
Forever available to anyone with an internet connection.
One vote never has, and never will, make a difference in a race larger than perhaps a state congress, and even that has never happened and probably never will.
If you are deciding who to vote for because you think your one vote is going to change the election, you are delusional.
I vote because it's what Americans do, not because I am under some kind of delusion that my vote is going to make a difference.
Why not just pay the frickin' $75? What kind of jackass does not pay $75 for fire service?
That fire department should just tell people, "OK, if it makes you happy, PRETEND that this $75 is a tax. See, it's not a FEE, it's a TAX. There, are you happy now?"
> I do it, but I think I've only seen others do it a couple times. I'm not sure the people going the other way even understand what I'm "saying" to them.
Exactly. I'll do it for professional drivers (truckers, commercial vehicles, etc.) because they are more likely to understand what it means.
> I really don't see the point in these machines. In the UK votes are counted by volunteers, with quite basic fundamental (i.e. strong) overlapping controls. I fail to imagine an approach that could be any more secure, cheaper or better suited to audit.
Most of the push to move to electronic voting machines is to comply with the "Help America Vote Act" which requires that handicapped voters (including blind people) be able to vote without assistance.
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The Post Office is not "like any other business". They can't just raise their prices. Their prices are set through a convoluted legal process, and the Post Office depends on forces and governmental entities outside of it's control in setting it's prices.
Somalia? Really?
He said: Freedom. And defined that as, and I quote: "Meaning that, they do not have security of property ownership (including natural resources), freedom to enter into mutually beneficial contracts, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, etc., etc."
Good luck enforcing a contract in Somalia. Likewise moving from A to B, establishing a free press.
Freedom != anarchy in other words.
Oh, what a swell idea. Allow the Bond villiains (I'm thinking Gates and Zuckerberg) the means to achieve if not world domination, at least the ability to wreak havoc on an international scale. Marvelous.
OK, so the post you responded to ended in a cheap, ignorant shot. So what do you do? End in a cheap, ignorant shot at Ayn Rand. Hypocrite.
That's because Drudge does not link to some guy running a web server on vintage Timex Sinclair and such.
The charts ARE a backup system. Navigation these days is done using the Flight Management System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_management_system
The aircraft already has the critical information needed in it's Flight Management System ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_management_system ) which includes position locating systems (through GPS and/or radio triangulation) and a database of airports, runways, radio frequencies, waypoints, and much other information. As long as the FMS works, the charts are simply backup.
Most pilots will take a look at the approach plates in the charts, just because they are so nicely done and are more visually understandable, but they are not really necessary any more.
No kidding. These threads are just one post after another of people pulling stuff out of their ass that they have a hunch is correct, and stating it as fact.
Place has gone downhill in a big way.
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." P. J. O'Rourke
> In what world does Beethoven's 9th have a set length? I could happily conduct it to make it last for 85 minutes, or to make it last for 65.
Well, that's swell. But maybe Ohga wanted one of Toscanini's version of the 9th (which are the times above), and not Anonymous Coward's sped up and slowed down version.
> There aren't set lengths for orchestral music, you know.
I know. That's why I said the times are "From one version"
Back in the day, the problem with Beethoven's ninth, and cassettes in particular, was the times of the movements. From one version:
1st Movement: 13'32"
2nd Movement: 13'09"
3rd Movement: 14'21"
4th Movement: 23'22"
There is no way to put these movements on a two sided cassette without having about 17 minutes of unused space, unless the 3rd movement was split between sides.
So what many (if not most) versions on cassette would do to conserve tape is put the 1st, 2nd, and PART of the 3rd movement on side A of the cassette, and the remaining part of the 3rd movement and the 4th movement on side B. It was kind of jarring to have the tape fade out in the middle of the 3rd movement to switch to the other side.
Modem card with "voice modem" capabilities, you can get software which will read the caller id info, and do what you want with the incoming call. Hang up on them, play a special audio, voice mail... the possibilities are many.
Oh, you mean like our illustrious leader?
Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen
That's what they said about the publishing of images of Mohammad not so long ago.
But all the cool kids hate Palin, so that makes it OK.
> I think it's ridiculous that just possessing an image is illegal.
I agree. However, the article is about people distributing, not just possessing.
Would you like it if both your parents were male, and incubated in a surrogate womb for hire?
Would you like it if all your friends knew that? Because by the time they are teenagers, that kind of information will be freely available by doing the equivalent of a "Google".
In the future, Julian Assange style data dumps will not be limited to banks and governments, and will be orders of magnitude more common than today. And at the top of the list will be documents regarding people's true lineage.
Forever available to anyone with an internet connection.
No hijacked flights out of the USA there, since 9/11, are there?
Sure, out of the Sudan, or Mexico, but out of the US? None.
That's telling.
> Isn't that redundant? When have there been "old" children?
Ever since one of the definitions of "child" included "a son or daughter of human parents".
One vote never has, and never will, make a difference in a race larger than perhaps a state congress, and even that has never happened and probably never will.
If you are deciding who to vote for because you think your one vote is going to change the election, you are delusional.
I vote because it's what Americans do, not because I am under some kind of delusion that my vote is going to make a difference.
I think it was that Shakespeare dude who said, "The best laid schemes of mice and men. Go oft awry"
Or, as the philosopher Simpson said, "D'oh!"
Showing yet again that morality is dynamic, has no "one size fits all" aspect, and is dependent on place and time.
> Why not raise the taxes?
Why not just pay the frickin' $75? What kind of jackass does not pay $75 for fire service?
That fire department should just tell people, "OK, if it makes you happy, PRETEND that this $75 is a tax. See, it's not a FEE, it's a TAX. There, are you happy now?"
OK. That's fine. But when the zombies start marching down your street, don't bother knocking on my door.
> I do it, but I think I've only seen others do it a couple times. I'm not sure the people going the other way even understand what I'm "saying" to them.
Exactly. I'll do it for professional drivers (truckers, commercial vehicles, etc.) because they are more likely to understand what it means.
> I really don't see the point in these machines. In the UK votes are counted by volunteers, with quite basic fundamental (i.e. strong) overlapping controls. I fail to imagine an approach that could be any more secure, cheaper or better suited to audit.
Most of the push to move to electronic voting machines is to comply with the "Help America Vote Act" which requires that handicapped voters (including blind people) be able to vote without assistance.