The money spent on political campaigns doesn't simply vanish. It has to be spent on something. Someone gets paid to make those advertisements. The TV stations get paid to air them. Real people who work for a living get paid to do these things. Would you rather the candidates just hoarded all that money?
I know fuck all about Brazil and its economy, so I could be way off here. But it seems to me that it's very hard to make a purely economic argument against well-funded political campaigns.
As for it always being the same bullshit, you're definitely on the mark.
Radar and satellite imagery aren't interchangeable when it comes to weather. Radar is used to detect precipitation, and suffers from a number of problems based on its use of radio emissions (masking, bending, line-of-sight, false returns, and so on). Satellite imagery is usually used to determine temperature, which in turn can be used to ascertain the presence of clouds and their height.
CorporateTime is awesome. We still use it where I work, although I'm a little worried that it's in Oracle's hands now. In a year we'll have a version of CorporateTime that is impossible to install without logging a TAR, installing fifty bazillion patches, and tweaking twenty kernel parameters.
Another good one: You probably can't get away with this one nowadays, but if you have a window seat, casually mention to your neighbor that you're a pilot. Then, 30 minutes later, look outside and say, "Wow, I've never seen it do that before!"
You must be referring to the iterated prisoner's dilemma competition held between computer programs by Axelrod in 1980. People submitted programs with all kinds of different complex algorithms. The winner was a four-line program named Tit for Tat that cooperated on the first move, and simply replayed its opponent's last move in subsequent rounds.
You aren't entitled to drive on public roads if you don't pay fuel taxes. Where I live, state and federal taxes on gasoline amount to 36.4 cents per gallon -- hardly a ripoff. (Find your state here.) If they were making him pay sales tax, that would be insane, but "fuel tax" is a misnomer. It's really road tax.
Precisely. And by turning it down they wouldn't get any more tickets for noise violations, thereby eliminating the need for the extra revenue generated by the service.
The AC doesn't know what they're talking about. In the States, the father is just as eligible to take leave as the mother under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Yes, I noticed during a brief trip to Ireland a couple weeks ago that cars are not only taken a bit more seriously, but also don't hold quite the same status in society as here in the States. Though mostly I noticed that driving on the left is weird.:-)
I also noticed that nobody, and I mean nobody, flies light planes there. I guess when your country is the size of West Virginia, there isn't much need for airplanes.
Reciprocating engines in light airplanes cruise at 65-75% rated power, and they are definitely not high-performance. My mother's Nissan has more power than a Skyhawk. I can't make definitive claims about turbine engines but my understanding is that they are only run at full power during takeoff, and power is reduced almost immediately for the climb. Generally speaking, pilots baby their engines, if not for safety then because they're expensive.
As you said, there is an intrinsically higher danger in the air than on the ground, and for that reason alone I think the concept of a "flying car" is foolish. It's not a car, it's an aircraft. By calling it a car, it's disassociated from the hazards of aviation in people's minds but not in reality. That is reckless. If a person wants to make puddle-jumps VFR at 1000' AGL, they should get a pilot certificate. Why should a person be exempt from modern safety standards just because their aircraft is called a "car" and not a "plane?"
And it would take a lot longer than 15-20 minutes if you didn't have the reassurances provided by annual inspections, periodic engine overhauls, mandatory logging of all maintenance activity, federal certification of the specific model and all installed equipment, rigorous training and certification of aircraft mechanics (and pilots for that matter), and one of the most safety-conscious subcultures in the world. Simply put, flying cars are not going to happen.
(OT: Is your parachute after-market, or do you fly a Cirrus?)
Actually, modal interfaces are almost always problematic. What if you're distracted while using vi? When you turn your attention back to it, your focus is no longer on your work (where it should be), but instead you're figuring out which mode you're in. More importantly, modes prevent you from using reflexive movement, because the reflex that makes you press "i" (for example) will have different results depending on the current mode.
Not all retracts have squat switches (although I bet the F-16 does). More importantly, the first thing you should learn when transitioning to a complex airplane is to check the gear switch before turning on the master switch, because you can't rely on the squat switch. They break with alarming frequency, and the only way you're going to find out is if you raise the gear on the ground.
What strikes me as mythical about that story is that (a) an F-16 pilot didn't know his airplane's systems, and (b) he was irresponsible enough to try raising the gear on the ground.
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I know fuck all about Brazil and its economy, so I could be way off here. But it seems to me that it's very hard to make a purely economic argument against well-funded political campaigns.
As for it always being the same bullshit, you're definitely on the mark.
Not anymore.
FFX-2 was chock full of new ideas! The trouble is that they all sucked.
Or just start using celsius temperatures until you're comfortable with them in their own right.
Hardly. I've owned a grand total of two plants in my entire life and I know what a rubber plant is.
No you're not.
Sounds like you two are best buds. ;-)
Radar and satellite imagery aren't interchangeable when it comes to weather. Radar is used to detect precipitation, and suffers from a number of problems based on its use of radio emissions (masking, bending, line-of-sight, false returns, and so on). Satellite imagery is usually used to determine temperature, which in turn can be used to ascertain the presence of clouds and their height.
Your "super secret intranet page" has its own security problems if it isn't destroying sessions on the server end.
Only after he zapped his PRAM and rebuilt his desktop.
Why, then, is it permissible for store brands to say on their labels, "Compare to ?"
CorporateTime is awesome. We still use it where I work, although I'm a little worried that it's in Oracle's hands now. In a year we'll have a version of CorporateTime that is impossible to install without logging a TAR, installing fifty bazillion patches, and tweaking twenty kernel parameters.
All I have to say is, if Bush gets re-elected, I better not read one fucking word about repealing the 22nd amendment.
Another good one: You probably can't get away with this one nowadays, but if you have a window seat, casually mention to your neighbor that you're a pilot. Then, 30 minutes later, look outside and say, "Wow, I've never seen it do that before!"
Bluetooth had already been spun off. There's no diversion; they're shutting it down.
You must be referring to the iterated prisoner's dilemma competition held between computer programs by Axelrod in 1980. People submitted programs with all kinds of different complex algorithms. The winner was a four-line program named Tit for Tat that cooperated on the first move, and simply replayed its opponent's last move in subsequent rounds.
You aren't entitled to drive on public roads if you don't pay fuel taxes. Where I live, state and federal taxes on gasoline amount to 36.4 cents per gallon -- hardly a ripoff. (Find your state here.) If they were making him pay sales tax, that would be insane, but "fuel tax" is a misnomer. It's really road tax.
Precisely. And by turning it down they wouldn't get any more tickets for noise violations, thereby eliminating the need for the extra revenue generated by the service.
The AC doesn't know what they're talking about. In the States, the father is just as eligible to take leave as the mother under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
I also noticed that nobody, and I mean nobody, flies light planes there. I guess when your country is the size of West Virginia, there isn't much need for airplanes.
As you said, there is an intrinsically higher danger in the air than on the ground, and for that reason alone I think the concept of a "flying car" is foolish. It's not a car, it's an aircraft. By calling it a car, it's disassociated from the hazards of aviation in people's minds but not in reality. That is reckless. If a person wants to make puddle-jumps VFR at 1000' AGL, they should get a pilot certificate. Why should a person be exempt from modern safety standards just because their aircraft is called a "car" and not a "plane?"
(OT: Is your parachute after-market, or do you fly a Cirrus?)
Actually, modal interfaces are almost always problematic. What if you're distracted while using vi? When you turn your attention back to it, your focus is no longer on your work (where it should be), but instead you're figuring out which mode you're in. More importantly, modes prevent you from using reflexive movement, because the reflex that makes you press "i" (for example) will have different results depending on the current mode.
Maybe Slashdot could include this feature for people who don't use the OL tag to make ordered lists. ;-)
What strikes me as mythical about that story is that (a) an F-16 pilot didn't know his airplane's systems, and (b) he was irresponsible enough to try raising the gear on the ground.