Why is this even funny? I mean, it matches the acronym, so I guess it's kinda clever, but it's not like they actually need to find seven more astronauts. If it was something like "NASA Nuked Another Seven Astronauts" that would be a little more coherent. You really need a "n" synonym of "kill" or something like that. And I guess that wouldn't have worked after Challenger. Still, there ought to be something better than "need" that somebody could come up with. I guess when you're making light of tragedy you just don't get much in the way of quality workmanship.
We just too cool to use the real names for shit, yo. Besides, Bug be mad hotter than Beatle anyway. Like, it rhymes with thug and shit, yeah.
Where does Bug come from though, really? I guess it's shorter than Beatle, but does the extra syllable really annoy people that much? Maybe Paul McCartney sued somebody.
Sure I do. At least they spend more time reporting than they do insulting their competitors.
On the other hand, I wouldn't consider a man that gets upset over people seeing him get his hair combed a good source of leadership. Christ, it's not like he was pantsless or choking on a pretzel or something. What, is he trying to make people think he just wakes up with fancy hair or something? Sounds like my ex-girlfriend.
He only won if you consider the incompetence of Gore's legal staff to be part of our electoral system. Lawyers hired by either Gore or Bush should not have been involved in the process at all. Once they're on the ballot, the presidency belongs to the people. It's not a pissing contest between two sheltered princes, it's an election for fuck's sake. It was the American people who were getting fucked around, not the incompetent candidates.
Bush came out on top, Gore asked for a recount, the state of Florida granted his request, Bush went to the Supreme Court, Gore recognized their jurisdiction, the Supreme Court took the oppourtunity to rework the Constition to give the federal government jurisdiction over the electoral process.
Bush probably would have won, but we never really got that far.
This gets me wondering about the sexual implications of Heinlein's work.
Stay with me here. Now, Heinlein gets me horny as hell --as if I want to vicariously relive what must be a staggering level of sexual frustration on his part. Now, if you can find some women with a fine enough eye to differentiate between the standard male's level of frustration and Heinlein's, you could go from zero to partying like it's 1999 and raining purple hair dye in a pair of cheap paperbacks.
Arrriba!
And the sad thing is, even after writing that, I can still consider myself less pathetically desperate than his corpse. And if that last sentence put an image of an erect Zombie-Heinlein in your head, you're at least as screwed up as I am.
Is ABC the US ABC? They definately had the best coverage early on. I was surprised how long it took the cable guys to pick up on how Abu-Dahbi had way better cameras than them.
Definately not a troll. You traumatize grown men with this kind of shit. There are going to be some seriously fucked-up kids running around that city in a few weeks.
Freenet is not the Web. It doesn't execute, it doesn't have dynamic content. You can insert a Wiki, but it'll be much more static. It doesn't do chat rooms. It's essentially a library. Once you publish your file, it goes on the shelf, and it stays there until people stop checking it out and then it goes in the trash. If you want to change something, you have to publish a new file.
Everything starts getting pushed past it's predicted lifetime once the industry starts to stagnate. For planes, that was the end of WWII. The B-52 was designed with a time scale of months in mind. That has nothing to do with their engineering or reliability. You can make anything last 50 years if you put the work into it. It's just they were expecting to have something to replace them with realsoonnow.
Easterbrook's basically just bitching that technology doesn't follow the expected pace. Yes, I'm sure we wouldn't be using the shuttle if we had something better. No, Soyuz is not better. If we finish the ISS so that we can actually do some science on it, then switching to Soyuz is reasonable. It's not reasonable to ditch a platform before you have a replacement just because it's the Frankenstien's monster of the space program.
That's how technology works. Lemmie guess, did you boycott VHS for it's inferior engineering and sit around playing backgammon while you waited for DVD? Same thing. Space travel just happens to be a higher-risk field than home theater.
P.S. - I think we need to ban the word boondoggle. It just instantly drains whatever credibility your argument might have had. It's not a waste, it's a BOOOOOOOOONDOGGLE! From rational to drunken hobo in 3 syllables.
Well, people need those things. All mankind needs is to keep those people from keeling over long enough for them to make more people. So the real question is, why aren't you fucking right now?
A lot of that just isn't possible. Repair work is good to have available, but there's a limited range of situations where that could be a possibility. Tile replacement is really the only repair that they can't do now that will ever be practical. You can't try and weld wings back on in orbit. And they're probably better off just moving to a shuttle without those tiles anyway.
You can't really film the launches better than they do either. There's just too much air (and hot, convecty exhaust) in the way, and unless you want to take the risk of sending a chase plane into the launch area, you can't really improve it.
The cable news guys really just need to let go of all these fantasies they keep having about being real reporters. They're press release propogation engines. They need to understand that and accept their role. Reading public documents and then flapping around acting like they're Woodward and fucking Bernstien doesn't help anybody. I bet I could find TOP-SECRET-and-yet-released-to-the-public memos analyzing what would happen if the shuttle hit Superman if I wanted to.
It's like Bill O'Riley trying to change French foreign policy with an online poll. HINT: If an online poll can't effect a second-rate cable network's lineup, Bill, I don't think you'll have much luck. Especially when you have less support than they did.
Really? That's pretty damn good. Like, on a runway? They can't even get airliners to do that now. I'm guessing that means some kind remote control system, and not actual autopilot. Computer reentry is fine, but trying to plant something on a runway without GPS is pretty damn impossible. Maybe they just pointed it at all that tundra and used radar or something. That might've worked.
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Why is this even funny? I mean, it matches the acronym, so I guess it's kinda clever, but it's not like they actually need to find seven more astronauts. If it was something like "NASA Nuked Another Seven Astronauts" that would be a little more coherent. You really need a "n" synonym of "kill" or something like that. And I guess that wouldn't have worked after Challenger. Still, there ought to be something better than "need" that somebody could come up with. I guess when you're making light of tragedy you just don't get much in the way of quality workmanship.
We just too cool to use the real names for shit, yo. Besides, Bug be mad hotter than Beatle anyway. Like, it rhymes with thug and shit, yeah.
Where does Bug come from though, really? I guess it's shorter than Beatle, but does the extra syllable really annoy people that much? Maybe Paul McCartney sued somebody.
Come on now, what kind of congressman would he be if he put these "priorities" ahead of what his campaign contributor tells him to do?
Mmmmmm... 80stastic! Even if it is Disney, that was a fucking awesome movie. Sarah Jessica Parker should have neon-pink hair more often.
Sure I do. At least they spend more time reporting than they do insulting their competitors.
On the other hand, I wouldn't consider a man that gets upset over people seeing him get his hair combed a good source of leadership. Christ, it's not like he was pantsless or choking on a pretzel or something. What, is he trying to make people think he just wakes up with fancy hair or something? Sounds like my ex-girlfriend.
Great movie. Great play too.
"Hmmm..."
"Yes?"
"What?"
"I thought you..."
"No."
"Ah."
He only won if you consider the incompetence of Gore's legal staff to be part of our electoral system. Lawyers hired by either Gore or Bush should not have been involved in the process at all. Once they're on the ballot, the presidency belongs to the people. It's not a pissing contest between two sheltered princes, it's an election for fuck's sake. It was the American people who were getting fucked around, not the incompetent candidates.
Bush came out on top, Gore asked for a recount, the state of Florida granted his request, Bush went to the Supreme Court, Gore recognized their jurisdiction, the Supreme Court took the oppourtunity to rework the Constition to give the federal government jurisdiction over the electoral process.
Bush probably would have won, but we never really got that far.
This gets me wondering about the sexual implications of Heinlein's work.
Stay with me here. Now, Heinlein gets me horny as hell --as if I want to vicariously relive what must be a staggering level of sexual frustration on his part. Now, if you can find some women with a fine enough eye to differentiate between the standard male's level of frustration and Heinlein's, you could go from zero to partying like it's 1999 and raining purple hair dye in a pair of cheap paperbacks.
Arrriba!
And the sad thing is, even after writing that, I can still consider myself less pathetically desperate than his corpse. And if that last sentence put an image of an erect Zombie-Heinlein in your head, you're at least as screwed up as I am.
Is ABC the US ABC? They definately had the best coverage early on. I was surprised how long it took the cable guys to pick up on how Abu-Dahbi had way better cameras than them.
The use of "scintilla" is what really sells this one.
Hell yes. I hate that little bastard. Keeps crashing his goddamn bike into my hedge.
Rummy. How much you want to bet that at least half of Russia's opposition to this war stems from Bush calling their President "Pootie-poot"?
Iraqi TV got hit, not al-J. Al-Jazeera's in Quatar, where Centcom is.
Caltech's got my vote for strained acronym of the night. Left out words and nested acronyms. Take that MOAB!
And what does that sound like, exactly?
I'm imagining a ping sort of sound, but then I'm not a doctor.
Does anyone actually have a license drawn up for this? I guess O'Reilly's using CC's thing, but that's not open to everyone.
Definately not a troll. You traumatize grown men with this kind of shit. There are going to be some seriously fucked-up kids running around that city in a few weeks.
Pure brilliance.
Freenet is not the Web. It doesn't execute, it doesn't have dynamic content. You can insert a Wiki, but it'll be much more static. It doesn't do chat rooms. It's essentially a library. Once you publish your file, it goes on the shelf, and it stays there until people stop checking it out and then it goes in the trash. If you want to change something, you have to publish a new file.
Everything starts getting pushed past it's predicted lifetime once the industry starts to stagnate. For planes, that was the end of WWII. The B-52 was designed with a time scale of months in mind. That has nothing to do with their engineering or reliability. You can make anything last 50 years if you put the work into it. It's just they were expecting to have something to replace them with realsoonnow.
Easterbrook's basically just bitching that technology doesn't follow the expected pace. Yes, I'm sure we wouldn't be using the shuttle if we had something better. No, Soyuz is not better. If we finish the ISS so that we can actually do some science on it, then switching to Soyuz is reasonable. It's not reasonable to ditch a platform before you have a replacement just because it's the Frankenstien's monster of the space program.
That's how technology works. Lemmie guess, did you boycott VHS for it's inferior engineering and sit around playing backgammon while you waited for DVD? Same thing. Space travel just happens to be a higher-risk field than home theater.
P.S. - I think we need to ban the word boondoggle. It just instantly drains whatever credibility your argument might have had. It's not a waste, it's a BOOOOOOOOONDOGGLE! From rational to drunken hobo in 3 syllables.
Well, people need those things. All mankind needs is to keep those people from keeling over long enough for them to make more people. So the real question is, why aren't you fucking right now?
I think "lost nuts" probably isn't one of your top ten concerns in in-flight space shuttle repair.
And that's a joke setup if I've ever heard one.
A lot of that just isn't possible. Repair work is good to have available, but there's a limited range of situations where that could be a possibility. Tile replacement is really the only repair that they can't do now that will ever be practical. You can't try and weld wings back on in orbit. And they're probably better off just moving to a shuttle without those tiles anyway.
You can't really film the launches better than they do either. There's just too much air (and hot, convecty exhaust) in the way, and unless you want to take the risk of sending a chase plane into the launch area, you can't really improve it.
The cable news guys really just need to let go of all these fantasies they keep having about being real reporters. They're press release propogation engines. They need to understand that and accept their role. Reading public documents and then flapping around acting like they're Woodward and fucking Bernstien doesn't help anybody. I bet I could find TOP-SECRET-and-yet-released-to-the-public memos analyzing what would happen if the shuttle hit Superman if I wanted to.
It's like Bill O'Riley trying to change French foreign policy with an online poll. HINT: If an online poll can't effect a second-rate cable network's lineup, Bill, I don't think you'll have much luck. Especially when you have less support than they did.
Really? That's pretty damn good. Like, on a runway? They can't even get airliners to do that now. I'm guessing that means some kind remote control system, and not actual autopilot. Computer reentry is fine, but trying to plant something on a runway without GPS is pretty damn impossible. Maybe they just pointed it at all that tundra and used radar or something. That might've worked.