This fairness thing is crap. Anytime I hear someone talk about it, and over the pst 15 years it has been mostly conservatives, at least with respect to monetary issues, I want to ask them, like, what are you, 10?
When I hear it, it's usually a liberal trying to rationalize punitive tax rates to fund social engineering projects like welfare.
The "they" that are complaining about google not paying their "fare share" aren't the same "they" that sell google their bandwidth. The "they" that are complaining actually want google to pay for the pipe to the backbone and again for the pipe down to the actual consumer of the content; the problem is I all ready pay for the pipe from the backbone to my computer. I don't mind a company making a fair profit in a competitive market but what they want is to double-dip after already getting billions in tax incentives and favorable legislation and regulations.
That is not that far fetched, an atmospheric nuclear explosion would be not just a threat to our security, but anyone's in the hemisphere; Fallout does respect political borders.
That would be the M880 it was a pig performance wise and a serious gas hog and not worth a shit tactically, it was replaced by the HMMWV M-998, a capable diesel hog.
I'd imagine that the air convections caused by any storm within a 100 miles would easily cause static potentials in the 10-50Kv range on the cable. Also there was an experiment with the space shuttle designed to determine how much electricity would be generated by dragging a tethered satellite which ended when the tether cable burned out. while a space-elevator cable wouldn't be vulnerable to the same currents, all it would take is one good CME and its bye bye cable.
If the dummy ICBM failed to deploy counter-measures in a very planned exercise, then it is also likely that a real attacking ICBM might also fail in a "production environment", this doesn't necessarily invalidates the test, it just leaves questions unanswered. If memory serves me correctly 20% of our ICBMs are assumed to fail for various reasons. By this math each expected kill by the MKV requires the opposing forces to deploy an addition 1.25 attacking warhead to maintain the status quo. A country like the Soviet Union could play this game until they went bankrupt, but an Iran or N. Korea doesn't even have the ante to get into the game.
Well it's certainly impressive to me for a sub-orbital space vehicle to be able to lift itself off the ground under one gee and to hover and maneuver in 3 dimensions as well as translate in yaw and angle of attack.
By golly your right, all we have to do is treat every psychopathic tyrant willing to sacrifice his nation's entire population to satisfy his narcissistic rages with a little respect and sing Kumbya and all will be right with the world!
Oh they wouldn't use those old crusty slide-rules, they'd need modern slide-rules made out of carbon-fiber reinforced composite materials, with laser etched makings and a sapphire crystal slider; oh yeah don't forget one version in metric and one in English measure and an instruction Manual in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese and Russian!
Somehow the idea of dragging a near super-conducting space elevator cable through a tropical thunder storm or hurricane seems like on with a low probability of success.
MPGe is also attractive because it applies if a vehicle is powered by more than one fuel, such as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which typically use electricity plus a liquid fuel (often, but not necessarily, gasoline). Hereâ(TM)s how to compute MPGe for this important case:
MPGe = EG / (g*EF + e*EW)
where
m = miles per gallon of liquid fuel used (MPG)
g = 1/m = gallons of liquid fuel used per mile (GPM)
e = plug-to-wheels electrical energy used per mile (Wh/mi)
EF = BTU per gallon of liquid fuel used (not necessarily gasoline)
EG = BTU per gallon of gasoline = 116,090
EW = BTU per Watt-hour (Wh) of electricity = 3.412
In reality the numbers are a bit fuzzy but they exsist and are useful for comparison rather than for exactness it's a YMMV situation.
I have a hard time imagining a situation where not make dividends paid to US tax payers a deduction would do anything other than increasing taxes collected; personal tax rates are higher than corporate so corporate taxes are the ultimate corporate welfare! If anyone can show me different, with real numbers feel free to chime in.
dry ice sinks in water, so does liquid CO2 you could just pore it down a hose, after a couple hundred meters of depth it should stay liquid because of the water pressure.
What you want to do is freeze a hollow piece of ice shaped like a torpedo, fill it with compressed CO2, release the pressure so that the CO2 solidifies and cap it with water ice, then just drop it overboard. By the time the water-ice melts, it should be stuck into the ocean bottom and the CO2 pools into a liquid until the sediments react with it. I haven't a clue about environmental impact of doing this, the subduction zone tend to be pretty wild environments as they are and that's where you would want to do it anyways.
Bring German Cars up to a reasonable levels of environmental friendliness was probably possible because of American GI wanting to import vehicles bought on the local economy back into the US.
A video of a 2006 interview with now-Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for president-elect Barack Obama reveals plans for mandatory induction for all young adults into a civilian "force."
"If you're worried about, are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks, the answer is yes," Emanuel told the interviewer, a reporter who was podcasting for the New York Daily News at the time.
WND reported last weekend when the official website for Obama, Change.gov, announced he would "require" all middle school through college students to participate in community service programs.
However, after a flurry of blogs protested children being drafted into Obama's proposed youth corps, officials softened the website's wording.
Originally, under the tab "America Serves," Change.gov read, "President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in under served schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps.
"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year," the site announced.
WND previously reported on a video of a marching squad of Obama youth and Obama's "civilian national security force," which he said in July would be just as powerful and well-funded as the U.S. military.
"Somewhere between the age of 18 to 25 you will do three months of training. You can do it at some point in your college time," he said. "There can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint, similar experience of what we call civil defense training or civil service." Emanuel volunteers Americans to do 'a lot' 'If you're worried about having to do 50 jumping jacks the answer is yes'
"will do" sounds pretty much like political-speak for required to me
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This fairness thing is crap. Anytime I hear someone talk about it, and over the pst 15 years it has been mostly conservatives, at least with respect to monetary issues, I want to ask them, like, what are you, 10?
When I hear it, it's usually a liberal trying to rationalize punitive tax rates to fund social engineering projects like welfare.
The "they" that are complaining about google not paying their "fare share" aren't the same "they" that sell google their bandwidth. The "they" that are complaining actually want google to pay for the pipe to the backbone and again for the pipe down to the actual consumer of the content; the problem is I all ready pay for the pipe from the backbone to my computer. I don't mind a company making a fair profit in a competitive market but what they want is to double-dip after already getting billions in tax incentives and favorable legislation and regulations.
The Canadian Trash haulers have to steam clean their trailers once a week to get them through through radiation monitors at our border crossing.
That is not that far fetched, an atmospheric nuclear explosion would be not just a threat to our security, but anyone's in the hemisphere; Fallout does respect political borders.
That would be the M880 it was a pig performance wise and a serious gas hog and not worth a shit tactically, it was replaced by the HMMWV M-998, a capable diesel hog.
Doing those simple things that save millions of lives for almost no monetary cost would make a lot of the world's leaders look incredibly bad
I'd imagine that the air convections caused by any storm within a 100 miles would easily cause static potentials in the 10-50Kv range on the cable. Also there was an experiment with the space shuttle designed to determine how much electricity would be generated by dragging a tethered satellite which ended when the tether cable burned out. while a space-elevator cable wouldn't be vulnerable to the same currents, all it would take is one good CME and its bye bye cable.
If the dummy ICBM failed to deploy counter-measures in a very planned exercise, then it is also likely that a real attacking ICBM might also fail in a "production environment", this doesn't necessarily invalidates the test, it just leaves questions unanswered. If memory serves me correctly 20% of our ICBMs are assumed to fail for various reasons. By this math each expected kill by the MKV requires the opposing forces to deploy an addition 1.25 attacking warhead to maintain the status quo. A country like the Soviet Union could play this game until they went bankrupt, but an Iran or N. Korea doesn't even have the ante to get into the game.
Well it's certainly impressive to me for a sub-orbital space vehicle to be able to lift itself off the ground under one gee and to hover and maneuver in 3 dimensions as well as translate in yaw and angle of attack.
By golly your right, all we have to do is treat every psychopathic tyrant willing to sacrifice his nation's entire population to satisfy his narcissistic rages with a little respect and sing Kumbya and all will be right with the world!
Oh they wouldn't use those old crusty slide-rules, they'd need modern slide-rules made out of carbon-fiber reinforced composite materials, with laser etched makings and a sapphire crystal slider; oh yeah don't forget one version in metric and one in English measure and an instruction Manual in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese and Russian!
Somehow the idea of dragging a near super-conducting space elevator cable through a tropical thunder storm or hurricane seems like on with a low probability of success.
"You cannot help the poor, by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak, by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity, by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up, by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man, by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage, by taking away men's initiative and
independence.
You cannot help men permanently, by doing for them what they could and should,
do for themselves. "
Abraham Lincoln
Aptera is easily 100MPH+ and is in the $30,00K range, that's a little pricey and the interior is a little spartan but not outrageous.
In reality the numbers are a bit fuzzy but they exsist and are useful for comparison rather than for exactness it's a YMMV situation.
Big three, would that be GM, Ford, Chrysler and Toyota?
Fascism is when socialists use corporations as a sock-puppet for the government rather than using the government directly.
I have a hard time imagining a situation where not make dividends paid to US tax payers a deduction would do anything other than increasing taxes collected; personal tax rates are higher than corporate so corporate taxes are the ultimate corporate welfare! If anyone can show me different, with real numbers feel free to chime in.
Then checkout original sources, hear and see it coming out of the horses' mouths
dry ice sinks in water, so does liquid CO2 you could just pore it down a hose, after a couple hundred meters of depth it should stay liquid because of the water pressure.
What you want to do is freeze a hollow piece of ice shaped like a torpedo, fill it with compressed CO2, release the pressure so that the CO2 solidifies and cap it with water ice, then just drop it overboard. By the time the water-ice melts, it should be stuck into the ocean bottom and the CO2 pools into a liquid until the sediments react with it. I haven't a clue about environmental impact of doing this, the subduction zone tend to be pretty wild environments as they are and that's where you would want to do it anyways.
Bring German Cars up to a reasonable levels of environmental friendliness was probably possible because of American GI wanting to import vehicles bought on the local economy back into the US.
Arg, wrong website. According to Toyota, they still don't sell them in the US.
try Tacoma
Doah, of course I was wrong, I was confusing him with an other president while researching the natural born allegation.
"will do" sounds pretty much like political-speak for required to me