Actually the Presidents name is almost, in Hebrew "Lightning from above" which is how Lucifer is described in the Bible; so the real hard-core right-wing whack-jobs are calling him the Antichrist not the messiah.
It's worse than you'd imagine, there is this guy in my neighborhood, he's a freekin Police Officer! You could just walk up to him and start talking to him without even knowing. You would think that they would make these guys register on a web-site or get a tatoo on their forehead so you'd know; otherwise you can't tell because they are just like normal people.
"It would be easy for Obama to end the war at the cost of his presidency, " What presidency, He's treated like a lame-duck president before the mid-term elections of his first term. Actually calling him a lame duck is being generous, He's more like a turtle on a post, You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he's elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb asses put him up there to begin with.
What happens to a person's ear drums when going through the sound barrier with very little protection on? - I mean what's he going to be wearing - a helmet and maybe some ear plugs?
Todd said Baumgartner would reach Mach1 somewhere between 100,000 and 90,000 feet. But it wouldn't have been overly uncomfortable, due to the thin air. At that altitude, Todd said, "It will feel like putting your hand out the window of a car going 35 mph."
I was really looking forward to Baumgartner's jump too, I say if this promoter's suit proves frivolous, we which a class action on him for delaying gratification; that'll teach these bums to not bring worthless law suits.
Yes but eventually a sane and rational man realizes that the cost of hiring someone to pop a cap in your ass is less than the cost of litigating the frivolous ass shit you keep filing, maybe I should get a business method patent for assassinating litigious patent trolls. I'm not saying people should actually pop any of these pimples on the ass of humanity, but if they do get popped shouldn't I get a licensing fee for having the original idea?
Actually you have to remove the CO2 and water before you liquefy the air because it'll clog the machinery. There are probably better ways to remove CO2 from air than physically, most likely removing the CO2 from limestone and letting the resulting lime reabsorb CO2 from the air would work better than direct removal from the air.
That's not so much a problem now that the Iranian Nuclear Scientists are all living in government supplied "housing" with Armed Guards to protect them from being kidnapped by the CIA.
Damn skippy dude, you can't let a bunch of expat Quebecers wrestling cultural leadership of the francophone world from from it's true source! The Spanish spy on Mexico too!
I hope you realize that Stika Ak is on the Pacific North West coast where water just falls out of the sky, a lot, like about 100 inches of it a year and algae, moss and mold grows on everything because it's just so wet all of the time. Their biggest water problem up there is getting rid of it.
Sure what could go wrong with a few nuclear powered desalination plants scattered trough the Persian Orient, the Middle East, the Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa?
If your worried about a little oily taste in your water, then you don't really understand thirsty in the same way that people who are really thirsty and really poor do. The Rich people who are thirsty will just run it through a britta, if the poor people haven't already hijack the transport trucks.
Your missing the atmosphere of the events, Everybody smoked pot and most at least claimed to use LSD on the student/flowerchild side of the fence, we were coming out of the summer of love and had just had our first Earth Day!. Domestic terrorism was a cottage industry ala Black Panthers, SDS and Weatherman, and they had all been infiltrated and sponsored by the KGB. J. Edgar Hoover was the director of the FBI and COINTELPRO was du rigor and the CIA had carte blanche both domestically and overseas. Nixon, our President was a sociopathic narcissist and slipping into paranoia. Now add in Norman who probably was told or thought he was some kind of private contractor for the FBI and may well have been. Hell he may have thought he was "coming in from the cold" when he ran up to the cops. It's very likely that some of the professional protesters or a KGB observer recognized him as an FBI agent or informer and fingered him. It's very conceivable that he was in danger of great bodily injury or losing his life and used the 38 in self-defense; even now he's just sort of disappeared without a trace.
I would think that lead would be ideal for a component in balloon manufacture, a lead coating evaporated on to a mylar substrate would should greatly reduce diffusion loses and hydrogen embrittlement issues, both helium and hydrogen are small molecules and very able to pass through seemingly solid surfaces.
well 33 L of air masses at 28.8 grams, 33L of He masses at 4 grams so 33L lifts 24.8 grams; 150 tons is 136,200,000 gm / 24.8 gm = 5,491,935.5 gm of He which occupies * 33l = 18,123,3871.5 of space at STP. Hydrogen would take 1/4 as much.
No, the supplies don;t expire unused because they aren't ordered.
War stocks, pre-positioned supplies cached as contingency for hostilities, have to be maintained and supplies frequently have expiration dates. How much is in war stocks varies depending on what hostilities are planned for and how long it is estimated that it will take to establish the logistics chain for operations.
Equipment doesn't have to be replaced because it doesn't have bullet holes in it.
Equipment is replaced by a formula that considers the estimated lifetime verses the cost of repairs when unserviceable and at end-of-life otherwise. I actually have a model trimmer that was purchased in a surplus lot that was condemmed because it's estimated service-life didn't justify the repair expense, commercially we expect a lifetime of use out a $545.00 trimmer, the surplus unit required a new switch that cost $1.49. Much equipment is damaged in training, possibly as much as in modern combat.
There's no expenses paying for the logistics of transporting 100,000+ personnel and equipment to the other side of the world.
True but you still have to be able to do it just in case and that involves training, maintenance, equipment and a minimum amount of airtime for flight crews.
Ammunition doesn't need to be bought because it's not being used at such a high rate (especially when you're lobbing million dollar cruise missiles around).
You've never seen a "mad-minute" to use up ammo that was near end of shelf-life or would cost more to turn-in than to replace. On those cruise missile, it's not like GI-Joe repairs those things, it's a civilian contractor's maintenance contract and eventually it's cheaper to buy a new-one than to keep it on contract; I'd love to see a "mad-minute" with those birds.
Fuel and spare parts don't have to be bought because it's not being used 24/7.
To say that the expenses of not having war vs. having a war are just shifting cost centers is total bullshit.
I'm not saying that at all, I am saying that much more of it is shifting centers than most would imagine, and adding in factors like fiscal multipliers, unemployment effects from a downsizing the forces, unemployment compensation and cost of retraining programs verses the nebulous costs of fixing the federal IT infrastructure, it's just not the accounting slam-dunk these CEO's think it will be. Beside when has the US Government ever gotten smaller or even reduced it's rate of growth for an extended period?
You have to realize that the cost of a war isn't the same as the savings achieved by not having one. For example salary expenses don't change tremendously because those soldiers sailors and marines probably stay on the payroll, just less the combat pay. Significant amounts of supplies used in war would simply expire unused, It's a lot of shifting expenses to different cost accounts. On the other side of the coin, that big of an IT project is about the same as fighting a war which is why the two amounts are about equal.
My understanding was the first 1023 port were Well Known Ports and a computer would initially connect to port 80 for a http transaction negotiation, but the web server would spawn a process on a higher numbered, unprivileged process for the actual traffic transfer. All of these port translation wierding ways like LSN are applied to consumers of an ISP not the servers of content located at a hosting ISP. Hosting ISPs offer what called shared hosting where several websites are sharing a single IP address and webserver which sorts out which pages to serve to which requests, this process is called virtual hosting.
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Actually the Presidents name is almost, in Hebrew "Lightning from above" which is how Lucifer is described in the Bible; so the real hard-core right-wing whack-jobs are calling him the Antichrist not the messiah.
It's worse than you'd imagine, there is this guy in my neighborhood, he's a freekin Police Officer! You could just walk up to him and start talking to him without even knowing. You would think that they would make these guys register on a web-site or get a tatoo on their forehead so you'd know; otherwise you can't tell because they are just like normal people.
If the NSA is worried about the lost grey kitty that wandered lost into my farmville farm, we're fucked anyways.
"It would be easy for Obama to end the war at the cost of his presidency, "
What presidency, He's treated like a lame-duck president before the mid-term elections of his first term. Actually calling him a lame duck is being generous, He's more like a turtle on a post,
You know he didn't get up there by himself,
he doesn't belong up there,
he doesn't know what to do while he's up there,
he's elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb asses put him up there to begin with.
What happens to a person's ear drums when going through the sound barrier with very little protection on? - I mean what's he going to be wearing - a helmet and maybe some ear plugs?
Magic eight-ball say not much
I was really looking forward to Baumgartner's jump too, I say if this promoter's suit proves frivolous, we which a class action on him for delaying gratification; that'll teach these bums to not bring worthless law suits.
Yes but eventually a sane and rational man realizes that the cost of hiring someone to pop a cap in your ass is less than the cost of litigating the frivolous ass shit you keep filing, maybe I should get a business method patent for assassinating litigious patent trolls. I'm not saying people should actually pop any of these pimples on the ass of humanity, but if they do get popped shouldn't I get a licensing fee for having the original idea?
Actually you have to remove the CO2 and water before you liquefy the air because it'll clog the machinery. There are probably better ways to remove CO2 from air than physically, most likely removing the CO2 from limestone and letting the resulting lime reabsorb CO2 from the air would work better than direct removal from the air.
That's not so much a problem now that the Iranian Nuclear Scientists are all living in government supplied "housing" with Armed Guards to protect them from being kidnapped by the CIA.
Damn skippy dude, you can't let a bunch of expat Quebecers wrestling cultural leadership of the francophone world from from it's true source! The Spanish spy on Mexico too!
Maybe if you show us you can behave yourselves for a while, you'll be allowed to eat at the grown-up table.
I hope you realize that Stika Ak is on the Pacific North West coast where water just falls out of the sky, a lot, like about 100 inches of it a year and algae, moss and mold grows on everything because it's just so wet all of the time. Their biggest water problem up there is getting rid of it.
The Lake Erie mean outflow was 194,600 ft3/s (5510 m3/s), that's 1,455,709.090 gal a second! We got plenty so if you really want some good ol' Great Lakes water feel free to go down to the store and buy yourself a bottle of Vernors.
Sure what could go wrong with a few nuclear powered desalination plants scattered trough the Persian Orient, the Middle East, the Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa?
If your worried about a little oily taste in your water, then you don't really understand thirsty in the same way that people who are really thirsty and really poor do. The Rich people who are thirsty will just run it through a britta, if the poor people haven't already hijack the transport trucks.
Your missing the atmosphere of the events, Everybody smoked pot and most at least claimed to use LSD on the student/flowerchild side of the fence, we were coming out of the summer of love and had just had our first Earth Day!. Domestic terrorism was a cottage industry ala Black Panthers, SDS and Weatherman, and they had all been infiltrated and sponsored by the KGB. J. Edgar Hoover was the director of the FBI and COINTELPRO was du rigor and the CIA had carte blanche both domestically and overseas. Nixon, our President was a sociopathic narcissist and slipping into paranoia. Now add in Norman who probably was told or thought he was some kind of private contractor for the FBI and may well have been. Hell he may have thought he was "coming in from the cold" when he ran up to the cops. It's very likely that some of the professional protesters or a KGB observer recognized him as an FBI agent or informer and fingered him. It's very conceivable that he was in danger of great bodily injury or losing his life and used the 38 in self-defense; even now he's just sort of disappeared without a trace.
I would think that lead would be ideal for a component in balloon manufacture, a lead coating evaporated on to a mylar substrate would should greatly reduce diffusion loses and hydrogen embrittlement issues, both helium and hydrogen are small molecules and very able to pass through seemingly solid surfaces.
well 33 L of air masses at 28.8 grams, 33L of He masses at 4 grams so 33L lifts 24.8 grams;
150 tons is 136,200,000 gm / 24.8 gm = 5,491,935.5 gm of He which occupies * 33l = 18,123,3871.5 of space at STP.
Hydrogen would take 1/4 as much.
Not to mention that somebody has tried this every 5 years since we were promised flying cars! I think we need a few of these, just like we need a few AN-22, but remember In August 2006 a single Antonov An-22 aircraft remains in airline service with Antonov Airlines.
I followed your link and I think my eyeballs are bleeding.
No, the supplies don;t expire unused because they aren't ordered.
War stocks, pre-positioned supplies cached as contingency for hostilities, have to be maintained and supplies frequently have expiration dates. How much is in war stocks varies depending on what hostilities are planned for and how long it is estimated that it will take to establish the logistics chain for operations.
Equipment doesn't have to be replaced because it doesn't have bullet holes in it.
Equipment is replaced by a formula that considers the estimated lifetime verses the cost of repairs when unserviceable and at end-of-life otherwise. I actually have a model trimmer that was purchased in a surplus lot that was condemmed because it's estimated service-life didn't justify the repair expense, commercially we expect a lifetime of use out a $545.00 trimmer, the surplus unit required a new switch that cost $1.49. Much equipment is damaged in training, possibly as much as in modern combat.
There's no expenses paying for the logistics of transporting 100,000+ personnel and equipment to the other side of the world.
True but you still have to be able to do it just in case and that involves training, maintenance, equipment and a minimum amount of airtime for flight crews.
Ammunition doesn't need to be bought because it's not being used at such a high rate (especially when you're lobbing million dollar cruise missiles around).
You've never seen a "mad-minute" to use up ammo that was near end of shelf-life or would cost more to turn-in than to replace. On those cruise missile, it's not like GI-Joe repairs those things, it's a civilian contractor's maintenance contract and eventually it's cheaper to buy a new-one than to keep it on contract; I'd love to see a "mad-minute" with those birds.
Fuel and spare parts don't have to be bought because it's not being used 24/7.
To say that the expenses of not having war vs. having a war are just shifting cost centers is total bullshit.
I'm not saying that at all, I am saying that much more of it is shifting centers than most would imagine, and adding in factors like fiscal multipliers, unemployment effects from a downsizing the forces, unemployment compensation and cost of retraining programs verses the nebulous costs of fixing the federal IT infrastructure, it's just not the accounting slam-dunk these CEO's think it will be.
Beside when has the US Government ever gotten smaller or even reduced it's rate of growth for an extended period?
That might be an interesting comment string inside a jpeg.
You have to realize that the cost of a war isn't the same as the savings achieved by not having one. For example salary expenses don't change tremendously because those soldiers sailors and marines probably stay on the payroll, just less the combat pay. Significant amounts of supplies used in war would simply expire unused, It's a lot of shifting expenses to different cost accounts. On the other side of the coin, that big of an IT project is about the same as fighting a war which is why the two amounts are about equal.
20 years is usually 19 years, 6 months, and a day; and I'm guessing that half salary + benefits after 20 is more typical with full salary after 40.
My understanding was the first 1023 port were Well Known Ports and a computer would initially connect to port 80 for a http transaction negotiation, but the web server would spawn a process on a higher numbered, unprivileged process for the actual traffic transfer. All of these port translation wierding ways like LSN are applied to consumers of an ISP not the servers of content located at a hosting ISP. Hosting ISPs offer what called shared hosting where several websites are sharing a single IP address and webserver which sorts out which pages to serve to which requests, this process is called virtual hosting.