If calling the House Unintelligence Committee would have done jack. Then those pinpricks would be doing something now.
Now, Fienstein should be removed in the next election. Hell, I think there is more of a case to be made for treason and hanging on the part of Feinstein.
They once thought these animals couldn't even raise their tales.
The length was too long. They were too big.
Yet look at giant Anacondas. Neither slow nor weak and with a vascular system running blood up and down its length. The truth is, nearly every under-assumption of these creatures has been proven wrong.
Look at our large land animals: elephant, rhino, moose, giraffe, polar bear....NONE OF WHICH ARE SLOW
Now, they're never fast as pinnacle predators cats, wolves, etc. But they're never slow. Rather, it is not speed they tend to lack, but agility. They often can charge forward at a brisk pace, but most are not very good at high speed turns.
I'll still wager $5 they're completely mis-analyzing due to mis-conceived models. A penguin fails at a flight model. But it would be pretty darn stupid to then conclude that a penguin's top speed is a mere 2-3mph. Simply because you never thought to consider an aquatic model.
"UhObama was never a Congressman. He did serve as a Senator."
Do you want to put any weight into an article written by such an ignorant man?
"The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate."
Okay, what this article is really saying is that President Obama took office after the largest emergency budget expenditure in U.S. history. One that pushed the deficit up from President Bush's average of $305 billion to over $1.4 trillion. Largely due to a 1 time $1 trillion dollar bailout of the U.S. and global banking system.
Then he lauds President Obama for only having an average of $1.2 trillion dollar deficit. Exclaiming, see...see... President Obama lowered the deficit from $1.4. Reducing the deficit by almost 15%.
What Mr. Ungar fails to point out, is that President Obama kept spending at emergency levels. Take out that one time emergency expenditure and compare the average deficits.
What you see is President Bush's $305 billion versus President Obama's $1,225 billion a year deficit.
So how much did President Obama increase the deficit spending? 400%
Even factoring the 2009 fiscal year with the bank bailout. President Bush's average deficit was $443 billion vs $1,163 billion (and that's assuming the 2013 ends with the smaller estimated $0.9 trillion deficit - have my doubts).
Even then, it equates to a 2.5x increase in deficit spending over President Bush.
And, remember that half a trillion of that 2009 budget was the emergency stimulus bill that President Obama passed.
President Obama has spent SIGNIFICANTLY MORE than ANY OTHER PRESIDENT.
You're comparing apples to oranges. President Obama had significantly lower "increase" in spending from the prior year before. Largely, because he came in afte the super-massive emergency trillion $+ banking bailout. That was a) a huge expenditure b) an emergency expenditure. What President Obama did was continue at the spending level every year since.
In other words, imagine your household expenditure is $50K. But you had a major illness requiring a $50,000 hospital surgery. So that year, your expenditure was $100K. The next year you spend $98K and exclaim you've reduced spending. But what you're not admitting is that you're factoring an emergency expenditure into the regular budget. Then later spending that same amount without an emergency expenditure.
Bush Term 1 $8.9 Expenditure $1.2 Deficit
Bush Term 2 $11.8 Expenditure $2.2 Deficit
Obama Term 1 $11.9 Expenditure $2.3 Deficit
Here is the key, ALL the deficits under President Bush were below $500 billion until 2009. 1/2 were around the $150-$300 billion. Three were around the $400-$450 billion. Then in 2009 we get a $1.4 trillion deficit thanks to the bank bailouts.
The deficits for every year of President Obama's 1st term exceed $1 trillion. While none were as high as the $1.4 during the banking crisis. Two were $1.3 trillion, and two were $1 trillion.
In other words, President Obama took an emergency situation that equated to an additional $1 trillion in deficit spending and made it standard. So yes, President Obama has "increased" spending less. But he has maintained "emergency" spending levels for every year of office.
I am always amazed at how much under-estimation of dinosaurs there is. Remember when we thought Tyranosaurus Rex was slow? Now, we estimate that it runs at what? up to 35 mph?
Now, I wonder what their model would predict the top speed of an Elephant to be? If you look at an Elephant and it's gait you'd think it slow. But it can reach top speeds of 25 mph. Guess what, if you compare an elephant to most other animals in a simulation. You would not conclude that they could hit 25mph. Why? Because elephants don't really run as other animals. They always have one foot on the ground. Their movement doesn't match. So if you said, take an elephant and model it to see if it can run. It would return back that it was incapable of running. When in fact, elephants have a modified gait that they use for higher speeds.
I'd wager the movement is akin to pogo'ing affect. If you've ever run with your knees locked, you'll understand what I mean. It's clearly not as fast as "running" but it can be faster than walking. But whatever, however, you want to describe it. An elephant exceeds the speeds a typical model would show it capable of.
Now, if you take these premises, and create a model. Your conclusions are going to be "fail". Why? Because you have limited knowledge. Take a large saurapod and model it after a running gait. It will show negative results. So you say, hey, let's see how it does with a more elephant like gait. Cause elephants don't really run, but they can charge at up to 25mph. Results fail. You now conclude that said giant beastie is only capable of 5mph walk.
YOU ARE WRONG!!!! Because you've predicted based on a model without understanding other forms of movement. Would 5mph be sustainable for the achievement of accessing food? avoiding predators? etc. In other words, can a 5mph speed sustain a giant saurapod's lifestyle?
Consider for a moment that many lizards when they run seem to not just use their legs, but rather bend their elongated bodies left and right creating a wiggle affect. Rather similar to what a snake does. It is not just the reach of the legs, but the shortening of the torso that affects the speed and movement of some lizards.
And it may very well be likely that a similar body function would allow greater speed. Most extremely slow moving creatures such as turtles, have a tendency to be armored and protected.
My gutt feels like they're missing an unknown aspect of mechanics. And that such creatures could probably reach at least 8-12mph
Remember, if you're in a car and its accelerating, breaks aren't working....
1. STAY CALM
2. SHIFT THE VEHICLE INTO NEUTRAL
3. BRAKE or COAST VEHICLE TO A STOP
****
Seriously when you hear the 911 calls about these sort of things, you wonder why every 911 operator is not trained to simply say "Please shift your vehicle into NEUTRAL"
You're a stupid asshole....sorry, the far likelier is NOT people hitting the wrong pedal, floor mats or that BS.
I have a first generation Prius, which is not even included in such cases. But I had an unintended acceleration. It happened when I lifted my foot OFF the pedal. And you know what, it felt exactly likely when the cruise control kicks in to accelerate up a hill. And I do believe that was what was involved.
But shit for brains folks like you who just simply assume humor error. At like the fucking morons who wrote up the crash report blaming the F-22 crash on pilot error for not keeping his plane in the air when it ran out of oxygen.
YES, a few people likely did something dumb like that. But hey, let's look at statistics. That would happen with any car, and many many cars have much closer together pedals. No, something technical was going on here.
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"They eventually "fixed" the problem by moving the brake and accelerator pedals further apart, and putting in a brake-gearshift interlock"
And let me point out, that it was also a significant change, and therefore would have had a different firmware for the electronics control module as well. All your statement proved is that they added some extra measures on the next version. But that the next version was modified, and thus the issue eliminated. There is no proof which resulted in the fix, the pedal change vs the electronics update.
Because its like going to a movie theater with a bunch of friends. Except you only pay $20-$30 for a dozen folks to watch the movie. And then you pay like $5-$10 for a dozen people to have popcorn and soda. Versus $300 to do the same at a cinema.
Actually there is some ability to shift. I am sorry you get a headache from 3D. I find it actually adds to my visual clarity. Perhaps your brain is simply inferior and unable to process the extra visual input without overheating.
Perhaps consider upgrading your brain with a spatial 3D co-processing unit.
My LG TV allows two people to play Halo simultaneously using polarized glasses.
I've also found that the 2D-3D conversion is fairly decent with games. Star Wars for Kinect was far better in 2D->3D conversion than its native 3D mode to be honest. Also its fun to watch Futurama in 3D
Movies like Prometheus and TRON are very natural in 3D. Nature films are outrageously cool in 3D. (Something about fish swimming out of your screen is just AMAZING). 1/2 the films I've bought in 3D are nature. The rest tend to be kids or SciFi.
One of the big pushes of the Tea Party was to focus on two core issues. Debt and Liberty. And not waste time on moral issues like homosexuality, birth control, etc.
I really do. It wasn'tmuch added cost. And yes, the problem is content.Movie makes should do the year of 3D. And actually sell the 3D at the same price. People would buy more 3DTVs.
I've had the daisy wheel. The dot matrix. The inkjets. (HP 722C was an awesome workhorse but darn that parallel port.) I had Alps that printed metallic inks. And various others. My absolute worst experience was with a Dell color laser. HORRIBLE. Print quality always had defects. Never really worked right. Would refuse to print based on hitting an estimated 2000 pages (regardless of print quality and ink availability).
I replaced that with an HP CM1415 FNW wireless multi-function color laser. It was one of the first to be able to print from your iPhone. The quality is decent. Has a touch screen control. Ink is expensive, but I've printed hundreds and hundreds of copies long long after the ink is low warning with next to no difference in print quality. And loading of new toner cartridges is a breeze. Pull out a drawer, remove the color you need to replace, drop in the new one.
For a $299 printer, this was one of the best buys I've made.
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America is NOT supposed to be China.
We have laws that declared doing these actions are illegal.
If calling the House Unintelligence Committee would have done jack. Then those pinpricks would be doing something now.
Now, Fienstein should be removed in the next election. Hell, I think there is more of a case to be made for treason and hanging on the part of Feinstein.
Can run iOS7, but lose many many features. Like Siri, maps navigation, etc.
They once thought these animals couldn't even raise their tales.
The length was too long. They were too big.
Yet look at giant Anacondas. Neither slow nor weak and with a vascular system running blood up and down its length. The truth is, nearly every under-assumption of these creatures has been proven wrong.
Look at our large land animals: elephant, rhino, moose, giraffe, polar bear....NONE OF WHICH ARE SLOW
Now, they're never fast as pinnacle predators cats, wolves, etc. But they're never slow. Rather, it is not speed they tend to lack, but agility. They often can charge forward at a brisk pace, but most are not very good at high speed turns.
I'll still wager $5 they're completely mis-analyzing due to mis-conceived models. A penguin fails at a flight model. But it would be pretty darn stupid to then conclude that a penguin's top speed is a mere 2-3mph. Simply because you never thought to consider an aquatic model.
I like my steaks medium rare... blackened with pepper and well salted.
=_
Rick Ungar = STUPID
"UhObama was never a Congressman. He did serve as a Senator."
Do you want to put any weight into an article written by such an ignorant man?
"The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate."
- Wikipedia
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/
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Okay, what this article is really saying is that President Obama took office after the largest emergency budget expenditure in U.S. history. One that pushed the deficit up from President Bush's average of $305 billion to over $1.4 trillion. Largely due to a 1 time $1 trillion dollar bailout of the U.S. and global banking system.
Then he lauds President Obama for only having an average of $1.2 trillion dollar deficit. Exclaiming, see...see... President Obama lowered the deficit from $1.4. Reducing the deficit by almost 15%.
What Mr. Ungar fails to point out, is that President Obama kept spending at emergency levels. Take out that one time emergency expenditure and compare the average deficits.
What you see is President Bush's $305 billion versus President Obama's $1,225 billion a year deficit.
So how much did President Obama increase the deficit spending? 400%
Even factoring the 2009 fiscal year with the bank bailout. President Bush's average deficit was $443 billion vs $1,163 billion (and that's assuming the 2013 ends with the smaller estimated $0.9 trillion deficit - have my doubts).
Even then, it equates to a 2.5x increase in deficit spending over President Bush.
And, remember that half a trillion of that 2009 budget was the emergency stimulus bill that President Obama passed.
President Obama has spent SIGNIFICANTLY MORE than ANY OTHER PRESIDENT.
You're comparing apples to oranges. President Obama had significantly lower "increase" in spending from the prior year before. Largely, because he came in afte the super-massive emergency trillion $+ banking bailout. That was a) a huge expenditure b) an emergency expenditure. What President Obama did was continue at the spending level every year since.
In other words, imagine your household expenditure is $50K. But you had a major illness requiring a $50,000 hospital surgery. So that year, your expenditure was $100K. The next year you spend $98K and exclaim you've reduced spending. But what you're not admitting is that you're factoring an emergency expenditure into the regular budget. Then later spending that same amount without an emergency expenditure.
Bush Term 1
$8.9 Expenditure
$1.2 Deficit
Bush Term 2
$11.8 Expenditure
$2.2 Deficit
Obama Term 1
$11.9 Expenditure
$2.3 Deficit
Here is the key, ALL the deficits under President Bush were below $500 billion until 2009. 1/2 were around the $150-$300 billion. Three were around the $400-$450 billion. Then in 2009 we get a $1.4 trillion deficit thanks to the bank bailouts.
The deficits for every year of President Obama's 1st term exceed $1 trillion. While none were as high as the $1.4 during the banking crisis. Two were $1.3 trillion, and two were $1 trillion.
In other words, President Obama took an emergency situation that equated to an additional $1 trillion in deficit spending and made it standard. So yes, President Obama has "increased" spending less. But he has maintained "emergency" spending levels for every year of office.
I am always amazed at how much under-estimation of dinosaurs there is. Remember when we thought Tyranosaurus Rex was slow? Now, we estimate that it runs at what? up to 35 mph?
Now, I wonder what their model would predict the top speed of an Elephant to be? If you look at an Elephant and it's gait you'd think it slow. But it can reach top speeds of 25 mph. Guess what, if you compare an elephant to most other animals in a simulation. You would not conclude that they could hit 25mph. Why? Because elephants don't really run as other animals. They always have one foot on the ground. Their movement doesn't match. So if you said, take an elephant and model it to see if it can run. It would return back that it was incapable of running. When in fact, elephants have a modified gait that they use for higher speeds.
I'd wager the movement is akin to pogo'ing affect. If you've ever run with your knees locked, you'll understand what I mean. It's clearly not as fast as "running" but it can be faster than walking. But whatever, however, you want to describe it. An elephant exceeds the speeds a typical model would show it capable of.
Now, if you take these premises, and create a model. Your conclusions are going to be "fail". Why? Because you have limited knowledge. Take a large saurapod and model it after a running gait. It will show negative results. So you say, hey, let's see how it does with a more elephant like gait. Cause elephants don't really run, but they can charge at up to 25mph. Results fail. You now conclude that said giant beastie is only capable of 5mph walk.
YOU ARE WRONG!!!! Because you've predicted based on a model without understanding other forms of movement. Would 5mph be sustainable for the achievement of accessing food? avoiding predators? etc. In other words, can a 5mph speed sustain a giant saurapod's lifestyle?
Consider for a moment that many lizards when they run seem to not just use their legs, but rather bend their elongated bodies left and right creating a wiggle affect. Rather similar to what a snake does. It is not just the reach of the legs, but the shortening of the torso that affects the speed and movement of some lizards.
And it may very well be likely that a similar body function would allow greater speed. Most extremely slow moving creatures such as turtles, have a tendency to be armored and protected.
My gutt feels like they're missing an unknown aspect of mechanics. And that such creatures could probably reach at least 8-12mph
Crap...now we're stuck with Edward for centuries to come.
Remember, if you're in a car and its accelerating, breaks aren't working....
1. STAY CALM
2. SHIFT THE VEHICLE INTO NEUTRAL
3. BRAKE or COAST VEHICLE TO A STOP
****
Seriously when you hear the 911 calls about these sort of things, you wonder why every 911 operator is not trained to simply say "Please shift your vehicle into NEUTRAL"
I remember to, and I called BS. Because I had an acceleration issue occur when I "lifted" my foot off my pedal.
You're a stupid asshole....sorry, the far likelier is NOT people hitting the wrong pedal, floor mats or that BS.
I have a first generation Prius, which is not even included in such cases. But I had an unintended acceleration. It happened when I lifted my foot OFF the pedal. And you know what, it felt exactly likely when the cruise control kicks in to accelerate up a hill. And I do believe that was what was involved.
But shit for brains folks like you who just simply assume humor error. At like the fucking morons who wrote up the crash report blaming the F-22 crash on pilot error for not keeping his plane in the air when it ran out of oxygen.
YES, a few people likely did something dumb like that. But hey, let's look at statistics. That would happen with any car, and many many cars have much closer together pedals. No, something technical was going on here.
***
"They eventually "fixed" the problem by moving the brake and accelerator pedals further apart, and putting in a brake-gearshift interlock"
And let me point out, that it was also a significant change, and therefore would have had a different firmware for the electronics control module as well. All your statement proved is that they added some extra measures on the next version. But that the next version was modified, and thus the issue eliminated. There is no proof which resulted in the fix, the pedal change vs the electronics update.
Why go to the movies anything but alone?
Because its like going to a movie theater with a bunch of friends. Except you only pay $20-$30 for a dozen folks to watch the movie. And then you pay like $5-$10 for a dozen people to have popcorn and soda. Versus $300 to do the same at a cinema.
Glasses are dirt cheap. I have a passive LG TV. I've bought several pair. But also just keep my glasses from the theater. So I have like 20+ pair.
Actually there is some ability to shift. I am sorry you get a headache from 3D. I find it actually adds to my visual clarity. Perhaps your brain is simply inferior and unable to process the extra visual input without overheating.
Perhaps consider upgrading your brain with a spatial 3D co-processing unit.
My LG TV allows two people to play Halo simultaneously using polarized glasses.
I've also found that the 2D-3D conversion is fairly decent with games. Star Wars for Kinect was far better in 2D->3D conversion than its native 3D mode to be honest. Also its fun to watch Futurama in 3D
Movies like Prometheus and TRON are very natural in 3D. Nature films are outrageously cool in 3D. (Something about fish swimming out of your screen is just AMAZING). 1/2 the films I've bought in 3D are nature. The rest tend to be kids or SciFi.
Inkjets are probably fine. But the lasers suck.
The Tea Party gets to participate in the Republican primary.
The Libertarian Party expends too much effort on hemp.
You mean the ones who got them today?
Actually, you can count about 1/2 of the Republican appointees as that.
One of the big pushes of the Tea Party was to focus on two core issues. Debt and Liberty. And not waste time on moral issues like homosexuality, birth control, etc.
The push was for a much more inclusive group.
I really do. It wasn'tmuch added cost. And yes, the problem is content.Movie makes should do the year of 3D. And actually sell the 3D at the same price. People would buy more 3DTVs.
AVOID DELL COLOR PRINTERS LIKE THE PLAGUE
Mine was so frustrating. I literally punched the thing. It was a nightmare. Never again. Love my Dell laptops but man I hated that printer.
I've had the daisy wheel. The dot matrix. The inkjets. (HP 722C was an awesome workhorse but darn that parallel port.) I had Alps that printed metallic inks. And various others. My absolute worst experience was with a Dell color laser. HORRIBLE. Print quality always had defects. Never really worked right. Would refuse to print based on hitting an estimated 2000 pages (regardless of print quality and ink availability).
I replaced that with an HP CM1415 FNW wireless multi-function color laser. It was one of the first to be able to print from your iPhone. The quality is decent. Has a touch screen control. Ink is expensive, but I've printed hundreds and hundreds of copies long long after the ink is low warning with next to no difference in print quality. And loading of new toner cartridges is a breeze. Pull out a drawer, remove the color you need to replace, drop in the new one.
For a $299 printer, this was one of the best buys I've made.
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF10a/18972-18972-3328064-12004-3328083-4089171.html
We didn't hand over anything. .gov already has access to it all courtesy of NSA.