Really, I have a ton of respect for all astronauts and consider them true heros, but please don't resort to making sensationalist statements like (FTFA):
"A lead, however earnestly and expensively won, once lost, is nearly impossible to regain,"
That doesn't even make sense, how is it nearly impossible to regain a "lead"? The only reason he said that was to scare people. Remember at one point the Soviet Union was winning the space race, but the US eventually overtook them by landing on the moon. Now he is claiming that we are at risk of losing our leading position in space to the Russians. It seems that based on his previously quoted statement that should be nearly impossible.
Additionally, Eugene Cernan had this to say (FTFA):
"Get the shuttle out of the garage down there at Kennedy (Space Center), crank up the motors and put it back in service,"
I think all these men understand pretty well that that's not how it works. The shuttles are getting old, are a huge money pit, and they have already been in service longer than planned.
I think NASA's place in space exploration should start to move into an advisory one rather than an active participant, at least for manned exploration anyways. With the advances that the private sector and other space agencies are making, it won't be long before the only reason for NASA to do manned space flights is for the sake of American pride.
That's all well and good, but there is a problem with your statement... I don't own an iphone.. Obviously this discredits the rest of your post, could you please also make what you said android compatible?
Ugh, I can't believe I'm actually going to do this but...
*nerd_voice* I think the way a warp drive works is it folds space/time around the ship rather than actually propelling the ship faster than light. So the ship is never actually traveling faster than light, but it does wind up covering more distance than light does in the same amount of time. */nerd_voice*
No, NASA has never been about just "sending people to space". They accomplished their original goal of winning the space race and now their official mision statement is "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research".
I'd say that this is exactly the kind of stuff NASA should be doing, they are saving time and money by not doing all this research themselves and at the same time (hopefully) promoting collaboration between scientists and space enthusiasts all over the world.
Do you really think that 'tax the poor', or 'cut granny benefits for Social Security' is somehow a winning strategy for the GOP. Anything to avoid taxing the rich marginally more, wow.
Guess you didn't read the part where I said the rich could be taxed more. You just jumped into some pre-prepared rant, attacking a group I'm not even a part of. You most likely only read far enough to see that I didn't 100% agree with you and barfed that reply out as quickly as possible.
You are probably completely right about the top 10% accounting for at least 70% of the income, in fact I bet it's more than 70%. I want to reiterate that I think the rich should be taxed more, but that won't suddenly fix all our problems.
My point was that it doesn't matter how much more money the government brings in from taxes, they are still going to spend it like it grows on trees.
Tax the rich marginally more and all our dept problems go away.
The thing is though, simply taxing the rich more won't make all the problems magically go away. The top 10% already account for about 70% of all income tax paid (source). The real problem is with how badly the government mismanages it's money. Give the government more money and they'll just find more contractors to overpay. I agree that the rich could probably pay a bit more in taxes, but the problem is with how the government is spending the money, not how much money it has.
A cop says it's a tool to use if other things don't work.
What he is saying is if referrals, detentions, and suspensions don't prevent a kid from being disruptive(say, constantly getting into fights), then it would most likely be appropriate to call the police.
This is a police state to you? What do you suggest instead?
Look, buddy. I don't know who you think you are to question the validity of this man's title. I've spent decades blogging about expert qualifications and rest assured, this man is an expert.
The Y dwarfs are in our sun's neighborhood, from approximately nine to 40 light-years away. The Y dwarf approximately nine light-years away, WISE 1541-2250, may become the seventh closest star system, bumping Ross 154 back to eighth. By comparison, the star closest to our solar system, Proxima Centauri, is about four light-years away.
Nah, I'll just do what every other floridian does when there is a hurricane.
10 Oh wow, there is a hurricane out in the Atlantic? Meh, it'll just skirt the east coast, nothing to worry about.
20 Oh, now it definitely is going to hit us? Well at least it'll be a nice change of pace, I'm getting tired of the sun beating down on me and 90% humidity.
30 Oh boy, the hurricane is almost here, I guess I'll get the candles and board games out, just in case we lose power. This we'll be a fun little stay-in night.
40 OH MY GOD THE CARNAGE!! IT'S HATCHING TORNADOS EVERYWHERE!! THERE ARE A BUNCH OF NEWS ANCHORS AND CAMERA CREWS ALL BLOWING AROUND THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE!!! WHAT'S WITH ALL THE ICE CHUNKS FALLING FROM THE SKY, WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE THAT DOWN HERE!!!!
I agree that schools having their own police forces is a terrible thing. What I take issue with is you associating "a cop being called to a school" with waterboarding.
They are NOT similar at all. You are leveraging peoples negative views of one situation in order to get them to have negative views of another completely different situation. This type of sensationalism disgusts me, you can't provide any original insight into this specific topic so you just try to link it to a sparate, universally hated, topic in order to gain support for your uneducated views.
You might as well have done:
Even a cop says it's a tool to use if other things don't work.
so are nuclear weapons
Again, this isn't about me disagreeing with your stance on this topic, I just don't appreciate the way you chose to defend it.
Maybe you should do some reading about Russell's Teapot in order to understand that the person asserting a claim is the person who carries the burden of proof. The analogy was originally directed at religion but it helps describe the basic concept of "burden of proof".
Since you're the one who is being lazy, you will probably not bother to read that article, so I'll quote the important part for you.
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense.
So you don't think I'm entitled to proof of what you claim and that I should just believe what you say without any evidence to back it up? If that's the "entitlement bullshit" you are wanting me to drop, then I think I'll have to politely decline. I like making well informed opinions rather than just taking things at face value.
I'll assume you were making your sources up anyways though, since if you actually had them you would have readily provided them.
Yeah, same goes for KOTOR. I played through that game many times, and that was a pretty long game if you did all the side missions.
The reason why a lot of people never finish most newer games is because they are (mostly)all garbage. It's not about game length, it's about game quality.
Less shit is still shit, we'll just be paying more money per unit of shit.
And that is where you are wrong, as the cop is nothing more than an ordinary citizen given more power.
Did you even read what you wrote? Or at this point are you just blurting out things you think are clever sounding? A citizen given more power is no longer an ordinary citizen.
Here are your sources - YOU do the reading...
Those are not sources for what you are claiming, half of the links don't even have anything to do with accessory charges. You need some specifically about police officers being charged in a similar situation to do some comparisons with. Since you are the one claiming there are specific cases to back your statements, it is your job to provide the proof.
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obligatory Bill Burr? It's all funny, but you gotta go to 2:10 to get the part related to self checkouts.
Really, I have a ton of respect for all astronauts and consider them true heros, but please don't resort to making sensationalist statements like (FTFA):
"A lead, however earnestly and expensively won, once lost, is nearly impossible to regain,"
That doesn't even make sense, how is it nearly impossible to regain a "lead"? The only reason he said that was to scare people. Remember at one point the Soviet Union was winning the space race, but the US eventually overtook them by landing on the moon. Now he is claiming that we are at risk of losing our leading position in space to the Russians. It seems that based on his previously quoted statement that should be nearly impossible.
Additionally, Eugene Cernan had this to say (FTFA):
"Get the shuttle out of the garage down there at Kennedy (Space Center), crank up the motors and put it back in service,"
I think all these men understand pretty well that that's not how it works. The shuttles are getting old, are a huge money pit, and they have already been in service longer than planned.
I think NASA's place in space exploration should start to move into an advisory one rather than an active participant, at least for manned exploration anyways. With the advances that the private sector and other space agencies are making, it won't be long before the only reason for NASA to do manned space flights is for the sake of American pride.
That's all well and good, but there is a problem with your statement... I don't own an iphone.. Obviously this discredits the rest of your post, could you please also make what you said android compatible?
Ugh, I can't believe I'm actually going to do this but...
*nerd_voice*
I think the way a warp drive works is it folds space/time around the ship rather than actually propelling the ship faster than light. So the ship is never actually traveling faster than light, but it does wind up covering more distance than light does in the same amount of time.
*/nerd_voice*
you're only supposed to throw virgins into the volcano[...]how do you check the males for that trait?
Check their browser history and see how often the visit slashdot.
How long until they try to sell overpriced souvenir photos to the family?
No, NASA has never been about just "sending people to space". They accomplished their original goal of winning the space race and now their official mision statement is "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research".
I'd say that this is exactly the kind of stuff NASA should be doing, they are saving time and money by not doing all this research themselves and at the same time (hopefully) promoting collaboration between scientists and space enthusiasts all over the world.
Kudos NASA
*WHOOSH*
Do you really think that 'tax the poor', or 'cut granny benefits for Social Security' is somehow a winning strategy for the GOP. Anything to avoid taxing the rich marginally more, wow.
Guess you didn't read the part where I said the rich could be taxed more. You just jumped into some pre-prepared rant, attacking a group I'm not even a part of. You most likely only read far enough to see that I didn't 100% agree with you and barfed that reply out as quickly as possible.
You are probably completely right about the top 10% accounting for at least 70% of the income, in fact I bet it's more than 70%. I want to reiterate that I think the rich should be taxed more, but that won't suddenly fix all our problems.
My point was that it doesn't matter how much more money the government brings in from taxes, they are still going to spend it like it grows on trees.
Tax the rich marginally more and all our dept problems go away.
The thing is though, simply taxing the rich more won't make all the problems magically go away. The top 10% already account for about 70% of all income tax paid (source). The real problem is with how badly the government mismanages it's money. Give the government more money and they'll just find more contractors to overpay. I agree that the rich could probably pay a bit more in taxes, but the problem is with how the government is spending the money, not how much money it has.
Isis aims to get ahead of its rivals by relying on its ... customer relationships.
Yup, because most people have a great relationship with their mobile providers right?
Additionally I'm not so sure I want these people responsible for my "virtual wallet".
A cop says it's a tool to use if other things don't work.
What he is saying is if referrals, detentions, and suspensions don't prevent a kid from being disruptive(say, constantly getting into fights), then it would most likely be appropriate to call the police.
This is a police state to you? What do you suggest instead?
Depends on what kind of animal is chasing you...
And if you are Abe Lincoln, just don't friend anyone named John Wilkes Booth.
Look, buddy. I don't know who you think you are to question the validity of this man's title. I've spent decades blogging about expert qualifications and rest assured, this man is an expert.
signed:
Expert expert - itchythebear
Nope, no typo.
FTFA:
The Y dwarfs are in our sun's neighborhood, from approximately nine to 40 light-years away. The Y dwarf approximately nine light-years away, WISE 1541-2250, may become the seventh closest star system, bumping Ross 154 back to eighth. By comparison, the star closest to our solar system, Proxima Centauri, is about four light-years away.
additional info
Yet another reason for the bartenders and waitresses to turn hockey off in favor of something else :'(
At least this will be more entertaining than basketball, I hear starcraft players actually incorporate defense into their game plan.
*ducks*
Nah, I'll just do what every other floridian does when there is a hurricane.
No tremors here, I just wanted to be cool and report something too...
I agree that schools having their own police forces is a terrible thing. What I take issue with is you associating "a cop being called to a school" with waterboarding.
They are NOT similar at all. You are leveraging peoples negative views of one situation in order to get them to have negative views of another completely different situation. This type of sensationalism disgusts me, you can't provide any original insight into this specific topic so you just try to link it to a sparate, universally hated, topic in order to gain support for your uneducated views.
You might as well have done:
Even a cop says it's a tool to use if other things don't work.
so are nuclear weapons
Again, this isn't about me disagreeing with your stance on this topic, I just don't appreciate the way you chose to defend it.
Even a cop says it's a tool to use if other things don't work.
so is waterboarding
What's your point?
Nope, the opposite side of "the dark side" is "the darker side".
Maybe you should do some reading about Russell's Teapot in order to understand that the person asserting a claim is the person who carries the burden of proof. The analogy was originally directed at religion but it helps describe the basic concept of "burden of proof".
Since you're the one who is being lazy, you will probably not bother to read that article, so I'll quote the important part for you.
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense.
So you don't think I'm entitled to proof of what you claim and that I should just believe what you say without any evidence to back it up? If that's the "entitlement bullshit" you are wanting me to drop, then I think I'll have to politely decline. I like making well informed opinions rather than just taking things at face value.
I'll assume you were making your sources up anyways though, since if you actually had them you would have readily provided them.
Twitter may have finally found a way to make a profit!
Yeah, same goes for KOTOR. I played through that game many times, and that was a pretty long game if you did all the side missions.
The reason why a lot of people never finish most newer games is because they are (mostly)all garbage. It's not about game length, it's about game quality.
Less shit is still shit, we'll just be paying more money per unit of shit.
And that is where you are wrong, as the cop is nothing more than an ordinary citizen given more power.
Did you even read what you wrote? Or at this point are you just blurting out things you think are clever sounding? A citizen given more power is no longer an ordinary citizen.
Here are your sources - YOU do the reading...
Those are not sources for what you are claiming, half of the links don't even have anything to do with accessory charges. You need some specifically about police officers being charged in a similar situation to do some comparisons with. Since you are the one claiming there are specific cases to back your statements, it is your job to provide the proof.