Not any more. The progressives are bringing up initiatives in several states to where a person can legally vote even if they are here legally. It's pure insanity, but that's the progressive agenda, pure insanity.
The Help America Vote (sic) Act of 2002 is designed to prevent US residents from voting unless they can present a valid photo ID, so since federal law trumps local law, your suggestion is absurd.
Received a stolen motorcycle, probably suggests the receiving was arranged on the internet.
The court documents state that he only knew the seller as Skye (note the odd spelling, something you wouldn't know unless communication was in writing).
The only documents you casually read were the Appeal, not the original court documents.
The kid has a record as long as your arm.
Probably in the the Receive stolen goods section of Craigslist.
If you can prove that a business is ruining the environment and economy through sound scientific methods, OF COURSE big businesses will try to stifle research, innovation and facts in order to continue their relentless pursuit of money. Unabashed greed and facts do not mix well.
The worst-case scenario is never knowing the truth about anything because businesses have completely obscured reality in order to continue their pursuit of massive profits.
I've never heard of a business ruining the environment and economy through sound scientific methods.
But OO has never fully supported basic things like tables in rtf. You can create a document in OO, save it in rtf and can't even read it back in. Word isn't involved.
Except that NASA is paid for by taxpayers, and answers to the taxpayers via their elected representatives.
If the head of NASA wants to quit and work elsewhere that is his right. If every employee of NASA decides to emigrate to China, that is their right as well (though they are still bound to maintain confidentiality).
However, for the head of NASA to spend tax dollars on something that the elected leadership has instructed them not to do is insubordination.
If you had been awake in your Civics class you would know that NASA is under the executive branch. Congress does not lead NASA, its role is to raise money and pass laws. Telling NASA what to do is overstepping its bounds.
"thousand meter cable, and 5,000 mile sail" Meters and miles. Isn't this use of mixed units the error that doomed a mars satellite?
That's ok, the energy unit that they use is the kilohome:
According to the team's calculations, 300 meters (984 feet) of copper wire, attached to a two-meter-wide (6.6-foot-wide) receiver and a 10-meter (32.8-foot) sail, would generate enough power for 1,000 homes.
You can convert that to English units using Home's Law.
Dems run around throwing money at Wind (meh) and Solar PV (a waste of money).
Wind is a proven technology, although all these horizontal-axis wind turbines are stupid. Solar PV could pay back the energy cost of its production in 7 years in the 1970s, and can safely be assumed to be much better today. There really are things more important than money. Unfortunately, those in charge do not agree.
Those "in charge" are the people investing in the technology and hoping for a payback on their investment. Government funding of the energy infrastructure is small in the US. Investment money will not go into a technology with a 7-year payback when there is plenty of opportunity for supplying energy with a shorter payback.
Yet, the simple answer here is to not just support geothermal, but do it in a smart way.
Oh, so you mean, only do it on a small scale with heat pipes?
Most dry wells are ran down to about 10'K feet. Yet most heat is in the 10-20'K feet arena.
Most of the time, if you dig down to where it's really hot, you're going to be making a steam vent. And then you're going to bring up radioactives. We don't need a copy of The Geysers anywhere in the world, it's an ecological disaster.
With this approach, drilling companies bear the first half of the risk while gov. then helps in the second half.
Why should government help at all? All they need to do is stop hindering. Government is against green power anyway; otherwise we'd have not just strip mining on BLM land, but also solar plants and the like; numerous entities would like to build them there but are being stymied while clear cutting is A-OK.
Geothermal is not the answer. Solar would be far more useful, as it produces power when we need it most, and we have control over the pollution inherent to the process... which we do NOT have over geothermal.
The best sites for large scale solar are not necessarily on old strip mines. Nevada has lots of sun and old copper mines but I'm not sure how much is BLM. Here's a map of all the renewable projects the Nevada BLM knows about.
What this suggests is that there should be a middle ground between dumping stuff in a landfill and recycling it. We should be segregating material that we don't currently recycle or doesn't make economic sense to recycle, but might become scarce in the future. That will make it easier to recycle when we need it.
That's an interesting observation. US astronauts are disproportionally Eagle Scouts, but nobody tries to claim that there's causation. It's because the type of person who achieves the top rank in scouting will be the type of person selected as an astronaut.
There must be some element of that with college also. However, I think that college prepares successful people by teaching them how to learn and them how to think. The specific things that you learn and do in school aren't important, and the knowledge may be obsolete or useless to you by the time you're working. But the patterns and techniques for solving problems, how to read critically, how to analyze, and how to write, are all things that you could learn on your own, but probably wouldn't. You need the pressure of assignments, competition and deadlines to goad you into doing it.
Actually, as either, you -can- make hundreds of dollars per hour. Most don't, though. Discussing what you can make is pointless. Find some statistics about how much the average person makes and that's a lot more meaningful.
it makes a lot of sense to look at the statistics. Like College Degree Nearly Doubles Annual Earnings Deciding something based on a few anecdotes is stupid. I know a couple of people who are very successful in spite of dropping out, but they did so because they saw an opportunity, not because they thought college was a mistake.
This must be a new meaning of the word "settlement". In the past, I thought it meant settling with the victims of an act, not with some third party. It doesn't seem like a settlement if there is nothing in it for the victims other than a promise not do it (openly, at least) for the next five years. I would just call this an "agreement". In particular, is the DOJ releasing the information they collected, so that potential victims could use it to file suit?
Why bring up something related to the article at this late date? You're just interrupting the flow of... erm, ideas... above.
Anyway, Hawking's statement: "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing" seems to be missing a few intermediate steps to me. Maybe it is explained better in the book.
But let's suppose he's looking backwards and saying that the existing laws and observations require the Big Bang to have occurred. I still don't think there is much that can be said about whether anything, even space or time, existed "before" the Big Bang. "Came into existence" implies a before, but if the Big Bang was the beginning of existence then there is no paradox. The existing universe has these laws and these laws require this starting point.
Also, it's a wonderful way for the government to show the poverty-stricken people (I realize that term doesn't apply to everyone) how "awesome" western culture is, and why they should start the "culturization" process we've been famed for in the past couple centuries!
Care to bet how long before Brazil has to start cleaning up their pollution clouds?
Hate to break this to you, but Brazil is "Western"
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Not any more. The progressives are bringing up initiatives in several states to where a person can legally vote even if they are here legally. It's pure insanity, but that's the progressive agenda, pure insanity.
The Help America Vote (sic) Act of 2002 is designed to prevent US residents from voting unless they can present a valid photo ID, so since federal law trumps local law, your suggestion is absurd.
Received a stolen motorcycle, probably suggests the receiving was arranged on the internet.
The court documents state that he only knew the seller as Skye (note the odd spelling, something you wouldn't know unless communication was in writing).
The only documents you casually read were the Appeal, not the original court documents.
The kid has a record as long as your arm.
Probably in the the Receive stolen goods section of Craigslist.
transistor speed is roughly proportional to gate area, so for practical purposes the two are equivalent.
Yes, everyone knows you need python for that.
If you can prove that a business is ruining the environment and economy through sound scientific methods, OF COURSE big businesses will try to stifle research, innovation and facts in order to continue their relentless pursuit of money. Unabashed greed and facts do not mix well.
The worst-case scenario is never knowing the truth about anything because businesses have completely obscured reality in order to continue their pursuit of massive profits.
I've never heard of a business ruining the environment and economy through sound scientific methods.
> The current Canadian government is widely regarded as 'anti-science,'
Just saying ... This statement is total shit.
Do you have any evidence to back up that statement?
By going with Newegg and building it myself over a weekend, the price was cut in a little more than half.
Whats your chargeout rate for weekend work?
Also factor in returning and replacing parts that don't work, test and burn-in, loading software, and managing licenses.
But OO has never fully supported basic things like tables in rtf. You can create a document in OO, save it in rtf and can't even read it back in. Word isn't involved.
Everything is about trade.
The agreement for non-discriminating trade with all WTO members and our direct agreement on NTR with China would be two:
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/dailybriefing/2002_02_01/Bush_grants_permanent_NTR.html
They could. But it would violate our treaties and not be signed by the President.
"death throws" is that some kind of wrestling move?
Except that NASA is paid for by taxpayers, and answers to the taxpayers via their elected representatives.
If the head of NASA wants to quit and work elsewhere that is his right. If every employee of NASA decides to emigrate to China, that is their right as well (though they are still bound to maintain confidentiality).
However, for the head of NASA to spend tax dollars on something that the elected leadership has instructed them not to do is insubordination.
If you had been awake in your Civics class you would know that NASA is under the executive branch. Congress does not lead NASA, its role is to raise money and pass laws. Telling NASA what to do is overstepping its bounds.
"thousand meter cable, and 5,000 mile sail" Meters and miles. Isn't this use of mixed units the error that doomed a mars satellite?
That's ok, the energy unit that they use is the kilohome:
According to the team's calculations, 300 meters (984 feet) of copper wire, attached to a two-meter-wide (6.6-foot-wide) receiver and a 10-meter (32.8-foot) sail, would generate enough power for 1,000 homes.
You can convert that to English units using Home's Law.
Dems run around throwing money at Wind (meh) and Solar PV (a waste of money).
Wind is a proven technology, although all these horizontal-axis wind turbines are stupid. Solar PV could pay back the energy cost of its production in 7 years in the 1970s, and can safely be assumed to be much better today. There really are things more important than money. Unfortunately, those in charge do not agree.
Those "in charge" are the people investing in the technology and hoping for a payback on their investment. Government funding of the energy infrastructure is small in the US. Investment money will not go into a technology with a 7-year payback when there is plenty of opportunity for supplying energy with a shorter payback.
Yet, the simple answer here is to not just support geothermal, but do it in a smart way.
Oh, so you mean, only do it on a small scale with heat pipes?
Most dry wells are ran down to about 10'K feet. Yet most heat is in the 10-20'K feet arena.
Most of the time, if you dig down to where it's really hot, you're going to be making a steam vent. And then you're going to bring up radioactives. We don't need a copy of The Geysers anywhere in the world, it's an ecological disaster.
With this approach, drilling companies bear the first half of the risk while gov. then helps in the second half.
Why should government help at all? All they need to do is stop hindering. Government is against green power anyway; otherwise we'd have not just strip mining on BLM land, but also solar plants and the like; numerous entities would like to build them there but are being stymied while clear cutting is A-OK.
Geothermal is not the answer. Solar would be far more useful, as it produces power when we need it most, and we have control over the pollution inherent to the process... which we do NOT have over geothermal.
The best sites for large scale solar are not necessarily on old strip mines. Nevada has lots of sun and old copper mines but I'm not sure how much is BLM. Here's a map of all the renewable projects the Nevada BLM knows about.
What this suggests is that there should be a middle ground between dumping stuff in a landfill and recycling it. We should be segregating material that we don't currently recycle or doesn't make economic sense to recycle, but might become scarce in the future. That will make it easier to recycle when we need it.
That's an interesting observation. US astronauts are disproportionally Eagle Scouts, but nobody tries to claim that there's causation. It's because the type of person who achieves the top rank in scouting will be the type of person selected as an astronaut.
There must be some element of that with college also. However, I think that college prepares successful people by teaching them how to learn and them how to think. The specific things that you learn and do in school aren't important, and the knowledge may be obsolete or useless to you by the time you're working. But the patterns and techniques for solving problems, how to read critically, how to analyze, and how to write, are all things that you could learn on your own, but probably wouldn't. You need the pressure of assignments, competition and deadlines to goad you into doing it.
Actually, as either, you -can- make hundreds of dollars per hour. Most don't, though. Discussing what you can make is pointless. Find some statistics about how much the average person makes and that's a lot more meaningful.
it makes a lot of sense to look at the statistics. Like College Degree Nearly Doubles Annual Earnings Deciding something based on a few anecdotes is stupid. I know a couple of people who are very successful in spite of dropping out, but they did so because they saw an opportunity, not because they thought college was a mistake.
This must be a new meaning of the word "settlement". In the past, I thought it meant settling with the victims of an act, not with some third party. It doesn't seem like a settlement if there is nothing in it for the victims other than a promise not do it (openly, at least) for the next five years. I would just call this an "agreement". In particular, is the DOJ releasing the information they collected, so that potential victims could use it to file suit?
"Mobile phone users only receive text messages from EZ Texting’s customers upon request."
You text a request and it sends you a response, that's how EZ Text works. But don't read the article or anything.
Why bring up something related to the article at this late date? You're just interrupting the flow of ... erm, ideas ... above.
Anyway, Hawking's statement: "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing" seems to be missing a few intermediate steps to me. Maybe it is explained better in the book.
But let's suppose he's looking backwards and saying that the existing laws and observations require the Big Bang to have occurred. I still don't think there is much that can be said about whether anything, even space or time, existed "before" the Big Bang. "Came into existence" implies a before, but if the Big Bang was the beginning of existence then there is no paradox. The existing universe has these laws and these laws require this starting point.
Also, it's a wonderful way for the government to show the poverty-stricken people (I realize that term doesn't apply to everyone) how "awesome" western culture is, and why they should start the "culturization" process we've been famed for in the past couple centuries!
Care to bet how long before Brazil has to start cleaning up their pollution clouds?
Hate to break this to you, but Brazil is "Western"
"The GPS data is cross-referenced with satellite images to ensure that responses are correctly geotagged"
but the US didn't check that all of the followup forms weren't filled out in the corner bar by the temp workers.
"Must accept a venue ID and base GPS coordinates as command line input."
$ARGV[0] is the venue ID
Not knowing something is just lack of knowledge, not stupidity.
Stupidity is deliberately confusing not knowing something and being stupid.