Firstly, 4%. At it's peak during Apollo NASA's entire budget was 4% of the total, and that included more than just the Apollo program.
Secondly, piss off. this is exactly the kind of big dream stuff a federal space agency should be thinking about and soliciting research on.
Thirdly, most partisan battle ever seen in history? My how quickly we forget the Federalist/anti-Federalist fights, the slavery/abolitionist era that lasted close to 50 years, and the era most like our present-day, the trust/antitrust era of Teddy Roosevelt.
So bugger off, eh? Your cynical rant/FUD has no place here and no relevance.
Not to forget the common Bean. Know why you soak them overnight, then toss that water, before cooking them in a new pot of water? The lectin in beans (forget the specific name of this one) is toxic to people. Know why beans make you fart and have that reputation? The same lectin, the traces left after preparation to leech it out and deactivate the remainder, causes gas. Raw beans cause can extreme discomfort, vomits, nausea and diarhea. Fun stuff. Kidney beans ahve the most of the stuff, further adding to chili's reputation as a toot maker.
A minor thing, and not nearly as labor intensive or threatening as cassava root. But another example.
There are quite a few small budget yet quite capable movies out there. And every so often a small budget movie may pull of a LOTR level movie. Just like occasionally a small game studio can pull of a big game (more common years ago, but less so as the industry matures and companies grow)...
but that is the exception, not the rule. by and large, the LOTR level movies require LOTR level studios.
Quite teh opposite. the big studios wont go away because they provide the one service that big films need: organization. they have the financing apparatus, they have the distrubution network, they have the legal team to defend the film, the editors, the post processors, the experts-in-every-little-detail; they have everything all in one place.
Combine with the fact few directors are willing to put in the time and effort that cameron put into Avatar to use it as more than a mere "gotcha" gimmick. That's one reason Avatar worked so well as 3D, is because it wasnt overused, it wasnt a gotcha with things being flung artifically at the audience as a gimmick...it was "just there", making the scenes more immersive. and in his case, him planning out every scene so meticulously so that the 3D wouldnt overpower the scene or ruin its perspective; so it would add to each scene instead of being distracting. Few directors and cinematogrtaphers (and by extension studios) are willing or able to put that much effort and research into a single film.
animals "tiredness" is a measure of recent exertion, not fuel. sprint a donkey and walk a donkey, and see which goes further. a robot doesnt care. that is the point.
but if you want to bring up fuel, sure lets. which is better, food for a horse, or the more compact fuel for a bot? the fuel obviously. and dont say forage, forage on a battlefield is uncertain and one of the many tactical considerations that technology has removed from consideration, and a large reason animal use has fallen by the wayside.
"animals can be trained to be not scared". costs both time and effort. the robot needs neither, and the animal cannot be trained to it absolutely no matter what you may think. set off a mortar near a trained animal and it will still run. give it a concussion from the blast or a wound from shrapnel and it will still run.
i could do this all day. you know little of animals apparently.
bullshit. please never become a diplomat, you'll get us all killed.
If i destroy mine first I am now at a disadvantage. What incentive do you have for destroying yours too? the answer is none. You now instead have incentive to lord your power over me as you're now the stronger of the two of us.
in theory, the civilians, not necessarily knowing what or how to run a war, simply tell the military "we're at war with X...go get them!", and the military does so. sometimes they micromanage and screw things up. sometimes they dont have enough oversight and screw things up.
Guns dont cause violence. If they did, I should be able to put a gun in a room and have violence happen. But wait...someone has to actually use the gun to do violence? So the gun is useless without a user, isnt it? if youll pardon the Tron reference.
So wouldnt that logically mean that its the user that is responsible, not the gun? So If we extapolate your logic, then it was the CAR that was responsible for the injured people in the mall, not the crazy lady driving it.
stop this/. myth that "there is no left". just stop it. this is semantic game, and a very droll one at that. no one when talking about this country and saying right or left cares about comparisons to other countries outside our own border unless they specifically say and make a comparison to said other country.
any time a poster starts talking about right and left in the US, you'd have to be an idiot to not make the immediate conclusion that the terms are references to relavtive political positions within just this country. republicans are generally to the right and dems to the left on the right/left spectrum used within our country.
this "there is no left" crap is idiotic and only makes you look like a fool
yes lets put the gun on trial and punish it. the man using it isnt responsible at all..... lets put the knife on trial too. after all, if he didnt have knife no one would have been cut... and that lady who drove her call thru a crowded mall injuring several people...lets put the car on trial.
no more personal responsibility for anyone! we dont need to punish people! its the inaminate tools that need punished!......
a tool has no morality and no value beyond that imposed on it by the user. the gun is not hte problem. the person using it is. you're still an idiot.
1927. Bath school massacre, the single largest loss of life in a school killing. Weapon used: home made bomb.
If someone had had a gun (or any weapon really) in the china incident, the attacker wouldnt ahve been able to attack anyone beyond the first one or two. China is very similar to this country in sense that people tend to expect others to come to their rescue, rather than taking the protection of self into their own hands.
You cannot increase your security by removing the means of self-defense. The bad guys arent going to care about your rules restricting weapons.
If no one is armed, they have to pray the cops show up fast enough, or they are at the mercy of the criminals who dont care about the rules (criminals who do care end up on TruTV's Dumbest Criminals). If everyone is armed, criminals tend to have a very bad day. And as a side effect, everyone tends to be fairly polite.
Essentially this boils down to trust. And people dont trust each other anymore. They want to legislate into place a state of being where they dont ahve to worry about trusting their fellow citizens. That doesnt work in a free society. Trust and eternal vigilence are two requirements of maintaining liberty. You either have freedom and liberty, and thereby have to trust your neighbor to a degree to not to abuse it. or you dont trust them and remove any and all burden of having to do so by removing all freedom and liberty. freedom and liberty then become privilidges granted by the government, able to be taken away at anytime.
and thusly we prove you dont know squat about firearms. and you think that people people in another country do X, we should do X too, while ignoring the vast differences in culture, society, and demographics. ya you're staying the Ignored For Stupidty List.
he's making a commentary on the state of the legal system. where criminals who have been merely wounded in teh act of breaking in, rather than killed, have turned around and sued the home/gun owner...and won. this leads to the "advice" to make sure he's dead, so he cant sue you.
Its that complexity is bad. Its that you have to have some substantive gain to justify the added complexity. Its an engineering question: what do i gain?
When the complexity is likely to lower reliability, or at least gains nothing in return, then there is no reason to justify it. Complexity for complexity sake does nothing.
Treating every weapon as if it were loaded is a safety rule. That's rather different than a chamber indicator, which serves a QOL function for the operator. The indicator isnt meant to replace the safety rule, and it shouldnt. But the PPK style indicator is a classic ease of use function that makes the user's life a little easier, say in the case of a mis-feed or jam when the round doesnt load.
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Firstly, 4%. At it's peak during Apollo NASA's entire budget was 4% of the total, and that included more than just the Apollo program.
Secondly, piss off. this is exactly the kind of big dream stuff a federal space agency should be thinking about and soliciting research on.
Thirdly, most partisan battle ever seen in history? My how quickly we forget the Federalist/anti-Federalist fights, the slavery/abolitionist era that lasted close to 50 years, and the era most like our present-day, the trust/antitrust era of Teddy Roosevelt.
So bugger off, eh? Your cynical rant/FUD has no place here and no relevance.
So dont tie down to the big rock when igniting the motors to leave.
Problem. Solved.
Not to forget the common Bean. Know why you soak them overnight, then toss that water, before cooking them in a new pot of water? The lectin in beans (forget the specific name of this one) is toxic to people. Know why beans make you fart and have that reputation? The same lectin, the traces left after preparation to leech it out and deactivate the remainder, causes gas. Raw beans cause can extreme discomfort, vomits, nausea and diarhea. Fun stuff. Kidney beans ahve the most of the stuff, further adding to chili's reputation as a toot maker.
A minor thing, and not nearly as labor intensive or threatening as cassava root. But another example.
In other words: Design a system so it doesnt break.
Can't be done.
There are quite a few small budget yet quite capable movies out there.
And every so often a small budget movie may pull of a LOTR level movie.
Just like occasionally a small game studio can pull of a big game (more common years ago, but less so as the industry matures and companies grow)...
but that is the exception, not the rule. by and large, the LOTR level movies require LOTR level studios.
Quite teh opposite. the big studios wont go away because they provide the one service that big films need: organization. they have the financing apparatus, they have the distrubution network, they have the legal team to defend the film, the editors, the post processors, the experts-in-every-little-detail; they have everything all in one place.
Combine with the fact few directors are willing to put in the time and effort that cameron put into Avatar to use it as more than a mere "gotcha" gimmick. That's one reason Avatar worked so well as 3D, is because it wasnt overused, it wasnt a gotcha with things being flung artifically at the audience as a gimmick...it was "just there", making the scenes more immersive. and in his case, him planning out every scene so meticulously so that the 3D wouldnt overpower the scene or ruin its perspective; so it would add to each scene instead of being distracting. Few directors and cinematogrtaphers (and by extension studios) are willing or able to put that much effort and research into a single film.
Ditto Head? I hate Limbaugh. And I vote democrat more than I do repbulican. So bugger off.
yaaaaa....no.
animals "tiredness" is a measure of recent exertion, not fuel. sprint a donkey and walk a donkey, and see which goes further. a robot doesnt care. that is the point.
but if you want to bring up fuel, sure lets. which is better, food for a horse, or the more compact fuel for a bot? the fuel obviously. and dont say forage, forage on a battlefield is uncertain and one of the many tactical considerations that technology has removed from consideration, and a large reason animal use has fallen by the wayside.
"animals can be trained to be not scared". costs both time and effort. the robot needs neither, and the animal cannot be trained to it absolutely no matter what you may think. set off a mortar near a trained animal and it will still run. give it a concussion from the blast or a wound from shrapnel and it will still run.
i could do this all day. you know little of animals apparently.
bullshit. please never become a diplomat, you'll get us all killed.
If i destroy mine first I am now at a disadvantage. What incentive do you have for destroying yours too? the answer is none. You now instead have incentive to lord your power over me as you're now the stronger of the two of us.
I would welcome your solution if we could be certain everyone else would also dispose of their rings too. which leaves us at a bit of an impasse.
the word you want is "oversight".
in theory, the civilians, not necessarily knowing what or how to run a war, simply tell the military "we're at war with X...go get them!", and the military does so.
sometimes they micromanage and screw things up. sometimes they dont have enough oversight and screw things up.
Guns dont cause violence. If they did, I should be able to put a gun in a room and have violence happen.
But wait...someone has to actually use the gun to do violence? So the gun is useless without a user, isnt it? if youll pardon the Tron reference.
So wouldnt that logically mean that its the user that is responsible, not the gun?
So If we extapolate your logic, then it was the CAR that was responsible for the injured people in the mall, not the crazy lady driving it.
not true. germany china australia and france, and others, tend to ban or require edits to many games.
stop this /. myth that "there is no left".
just stop it.
this is semantic game, and a very droll one at that. no one when talking about this country and saying right or left cares about comparisons to other countries outside our own border unless they specifically say and make a comparison to said other country.
any time a poster starts talking about right and left in the US, you'd have to be an idiot to not make the immediate conclusion that the terms are references to relavtive political positions within just this country. republicans are generally to the right and dems to the left on the right/left spectrum used within our country.
this "there is no left" crap is idiotic and only makes you look like a fool
yes lets put the gun on trial and punish it. the man using it isnt responsible at all.....
lets put the knife on trial too. after all, if he didnt have knife no one would have been cut...
and that lady who drove her call thru a crowded mall injuring several people...lets put the car on trial.
no more personal responsibility for anyone! we dont need to punish people! its the inaminate tools that need punished! ... ...
a tool has no morality and no value beyond that imposed on it by the user.
the gun is not hte problem. the person using it is.
you're still an idiot.
1927. Bath school massacre, the single largest loss of life in a school killing. Weapon used: home made bomb.
If someone had had a gun (or any weapon really) in the china incident, the attacker wouldnt ahve been able to attack anyone beyond the first one or two. China is very similar to this country in sense that people tend to expect others to come to their rescue, rather than taking the protection of self into their own hands.
You cannot increase your security by removing the means of self-defense. The bad guys arent going to care about your rules restricting weapons.
If no one is armed, they have to pray the cops show up fast enough, or they are at the mercy of the criminals who dont care about the rules (criminals who do care end up on TruTV's Dumbest Criminals). If everyone is armed, criminals tend to have a very bad day. And as a side effect, everyone tends to be fairly polite.
Essentially this boils down to trust. And people dont trust each other anymore. They want to legislate into place a state of being where they dont ahve to worry about trusting their fellow citizens. That doesnt work in a free society. Trust and eternal vigilence are two requirements of maintaining liberty. You either have freedom and liberty, and thereby have to trust your neighbor to a degree to not to abuse it. or you dont trust them and remove any and all burden of having to do so by removing all freedom and liberty. freedom and liberty then become privilidges granted by the government, able to be taken away at anytime.
and thusly we prove you dont know squat about firearms.
and you think that people people in another country do X, we should do X too, while ignoring the vast differences in culture, society, and demographics.
ya you're staying the Ignored For Stupidty List.
he's making a commentary on the state of the legal system. where criminals who have been merely wounded in teh act of breaking in, rather than killed, have turned around and sued the home/gun owner...and won. this leads to the "advice" to make sure he's dead, so he cant sue you.
he needs a better lawyer
removing personal responsibilty from the equation only increases the chances of misuse and disincentives responsible use.
No, but its really hard to clean the chamber and bore with a bullet in the chamber ready to fire. :P
Its that complexity is bad. Its that you have to have some substantive gain to justify the added complexity.
Its an engineering question: what do i gain?
When the complexity is likely to lower reliability, or at least gains nothing in return, then there is no reason to justify it. Complexity for complexity sake does nothing.
Treating every weapon as if it were loaded is a safety rule. That's rather different than a chamber indicator, which serves a QOL function for the operator. The indicator isnt meant to replace the safety rule, and it shouldnt. But the PPK style indicator is a classic ease of use function that makes the user's life a little easier, say in the case of a mis-feed or jam when the round doesnt load.
You of course realize that means there would be no Patriot Act right now?
What are you, some sore of terrorist?
Let's see those papers citizen!