Come on, that's a bit lurid, don't you think? Compare, for instance, the loss of human life per dollar of profit realized between space flight in the 20th century, and trans-oceanic trade in the 18th century.
Analyzed that way, a few more "man shaped shadowns" (whatever that means) really AREN'T terribly significant, in the sense that people throughout history have taken much larger risks for much smaller payoffs.
I hope you don't misconstrue me either. I've built Guillows balsa kits with my granddad, and designed a large remote control airplane from the wheels up for a design competition. I really like building model airplanes.
But it's silly to assert that, just because RTF is the most visible (and most popular) form of model aviation, that's somehow detrimental to scratch building.
Heck, with the Internet, I'd wager that you're seeing a major renaissance in scratch-built modeling. It may or may not be growing in terms of marketshare, but who cares about marketshare? All you need is desire and an Internet connection, and you can build anything you want.
Right, because broadening the appeal of a hobby makes it a "lost art". Much better if you have to take a test before you're allowed to do a hobby. That will keep the "art" from being "lost".
More like, unless and until there aren't accounts of injustice, the police need to be held to a higher standard, and prove their trustworthiness on a daily basis.
Uh huh. And most users wouldn't replace their own hard drive, regardless of how mechanically simple it is.
Upgrading computers is something >90% of computer users simply don't care about.
I don't care if I'm the fringe or not...I just don't understand why people get so exercised about the fact that Apple computers sometimes require disassembly to service. Anybody who has the slightest desire to do so can. Anybody who doesn't, doesn't likely care.
It cracks me up how many people who read a "news for nerds" web site are confounded by a laptop that requires a screwdriver and some simple instructions to disassemble.
Yeah, a disappointingly conventional twin-fuselage all carbon fiber aircraft with a 140 foot long graphite spar. It should look WEIRDER!
Come on. Rutan makes things shaped the way they need to be, and he's never been shy about using non-conventional layouts. It's shaped the way it is for a reason.
"If you want more liberty, then you want more Constitutional originalists. They will dissolve great portions of Federal power over time, and make it easier for you to push your local gov't toward something that you would like to see."
I agree with the first part, and see the impossibility of the second part.
There is nobody I can vote for that thinks liberty is useful. People in government are there because they want power over me.
..assuming that the person you want to communicate with also has an IM client in their pocket, yes. Since that's not always a good assumption, no.
I never understood texting until I got a phone with a full keyboard. Now, I use it as a less-intrusive-than-a-phonecall but more-immediate-than-an-email option. It's obscene how much it costs, but for me it's awful convenient.
There is no theory of Intelligent Design. Fundies like to say that evolution is "just a theory", but ID isn't even a THEORY. It's people saying "I don't think that complicated things happen without some entity orchestrating them". At the very best, it's a philosophical construct. It bears no resemblance whatsoever to a scientific theory. Theories are testable.
and if you consider Christianity as literally the Bible,
I don't...
then by definition ID isn't of Christianity.
No, I said it is written and promoted with the explicit agenda of advancing fundamentalist Christianity. It is a PR campaign. I don't know what "of Christianity" means, but it's certainly by fundamentalist Christians for the advancement of their agenda.
"United States, in some situations are more important then the constitution which is why they allow searches at the border and so on."
The Constitution is the only moral authority for the Government to do ANYTHING. When the government does things that the Constitution was clearly written to prevent, the government is in the wrong.
"It is clear when the final arbitrators on the subject have already told you how it works."
No, the people who have been entrusted with interpreting the Constitution have instead been perverting it. That does not make it OK.
yes, as a matter of fact, it is. It's a made-up PR campaign generated by the Discovery Institute. It doesn't even have the dubious distinction of being supported by Scripture.
Intelligent Design is a specific bit of pseudo-scientific hokum, and it's clearly engineered as a lead-in to fundamentalist Christianity.
It might shock you to learn that many Christians (and, I would guess, many Muslims) aren't too hung up on "correct" belief either. Unfortunately, those of us in that bucket don't make a lot of noise, and are rarely featured in the news.
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As if there were any competition to be unfair to...
Sloppy thinking, however, compromises one's understanding of science.
sudo make me a sandwich!
Come on, that's a bit lurid, don't you think? Compare, for instance, the loss of human life per dollar of profit realized between space flight in the 20th century, and trans-oceanic trade in the 18th century.
Analyzed that way, a few more "man shaped shadowns" (whatever that means) really AREN'T terribly significant, in the sense that people throughout history have taken much larger risks for much smaller payoffs.
I hope you don't misconstrue me either. I've built Guillows balsa kits with my granddad, and designed a large remote control airplane from the wheels up for a design competition. I really like building model airplanes.
But it's silly to assert that, just because RTF is the most visible (and most popular) form of model aviation, that's somehow detrimental to scratch building.
Heck, with the Internet, I'd wager that you're seeing a major renaissance in scratch-built modeling. It may or may not be growing in terms of marketshare, but who cares about marketshare? All you need is desire and an Internet connection, and you can build anything you want.
By "prove their trustworthiness", I meant "do their job and do not break the law and/or violate the Constitution just because it's easier".
Right, because broadening the appeal of a hobby makes it a "lost art". Much better if you have to take a test before you're allowed to do a hobby. That will keep the "art" from being "lost".
More like, unless and until there aren't accounts of injustice, the police need to be held to a higher standard, and prove their trustworthiness on a daily basis.
Uh huh. And most users wouldn't replace their own hard drive, regardless of how mechanically simple it is.
Upgrading computers is something >90% of computer users simply don't care about.
I don't care if I'm the fringe or not...I just don't understand why people get so exercised about the fact that Apple computers sometimes require disassembly to service. Anybody who has the slightest desire to do so can. Anybody who doesn't, doesn't likely care.
It cracks me up how many people who read a "news for nerds" web site are confounded by a laptop that requires a screwdriver and some simple instructions to disassemble.
Gosh, it's so HARD! There's SCREWS!
Yeah, a disappointingly conventional twin-fuselage all carbon fiber aircraft with a 140 foot long graphite spar. It should look WEIRDER!
Come on. Rutan makes things shaped the way they need to be, and he's never been shy about using non-conventional layouts. It's shaped the way it is for a reason.
Check out his personal aircraft, and tell me that his designs are too conventional: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Boomerang
200 people at $200k/head is $40 million.
That is a non-trivial budget.
Get back to me when he has an orbit-capable vehicle.
I'm not saying he won't, but he surely doesn't have one now.
"If you want more liberty, then you want more Constitutional originalists. They will dissolve great portions of Federal power over time, and make it easier for you to push your local gov't toward something that you would like to see."
I agree with the first part, and see the impossibility of the second part.
There is nobody I can vote for that thinks liberty is useful. People in government are there because they want power over me.
..assuming that the person you want to communicate with also has an IM client in their pocket, yes. Since that's not always a good assumption, no.
I never understood texting until I got a phone with a full keyboard. Now, I use it as a less-intrusive-than-a-phonecall but more-immediate-than-an-email option. It's obscene how much it costs, but for me it's awful convenient.
YMMV.
I suspect that's because it was included free in the original iPhone plan. They were trying to compare apples to apples.
At the end of the day, the cost delta isn't huge, and if the iPhone tweaks your motor it's still a good deal.
Bend over and I'll show ya. : )
Text plan. Was included, now isn't. Yes, it's highway robbery, but that's the way they're doing it these days.
Your sig is like grammar nazi kryptonite. Reading it felt like getting hit in the face with a fish four times.
I hope you mean for it to be funny, because if not...wow.
There is no theory of Intelligent Design. Fundies like to say that evolution is "just a theory", but ID isn't even a THEORY. It's people saying "I don't think that complicated things happen without some entity orchestrating them". At the very best, it's a philosophical construct. It bears no resemblance whatsoever to a scientific theory. Theories are testable.
If it's not in Scripture
it's not...
and if you consider Christianity as literally the Bible,
I don't...
then by definition ID isn't of Christianity.
No, I said it is written and promoted with the explicit agenda of advancing fundamentalist Christianity. It is a PR campaign. I don't know what "of Christianity" means, but it's certainly by fundamentalist Christians for the advancement of their agenda.
"United States, in some situations are more important then the constitution which is why they allow searches at the border and so on."
The Constitution is the only moral authority for the Government to do ANYTHING. When the government does things that the Constitution was clearly written to prevent, the government is in the wrong.
"It is clear when the final arbitrators on the subject have already told you how it works."
No, the people who have been entrusted with interpreting the Constitution have instead been perverting it. That does not make it OK.
"how do you interpret genesis?"
As an allegory written to teach illiterate nomads about cosmology.
yes, as a matter of fact, it is. It's a made-up PR campaign generated by the Discovery Institute. It doesn't even have the dubious distinction of being supported by Scripture.
Intelligent Design is a specific bit of pseudo-scientific hokum, and it's clearly engineered as a lead-in to fundamentalist Christianity.
It might shock you to learn that many Christians (and, I would guess, many Muslims) aren't too hung up on "correct" belief either. Unfortunately, those of us in that bucket don't make a lot of noise, and are rarely featured in the news.