Imagine if you could get from A to B without going through the space in between. That does not mean time travel. you seriously misinterpret the rules. Going faster than light yes. But you never go faster than light. Theoretically the same artificial path you used light could also travel. So you never went faster than it.
It's possible to create (or observe rather) and travel light paths in our own real world right now. And some of those paths, from the same source, to the same destination, are shorter than others. That doesn't mean that the shorter path involved time travel in any way, shape, or form.
Only if you exceed the speed of light, if you actually have a actual velocity greater than light in the SAME REFERENCE FRAME AS YOURSELF are you correct. Just because you're comparing it to light that traveled a different path (different reference frame) doesn't mean it involves time travel.
buying a home on credit, or using it as equity to get credit, is an investment, a gamble that its value wont change significantly other than to maybe go up. like other investments, its subject to market changes. you assume that risk willingly by buying the house. really everything is essentially an investment, it's just the degree to which other people also want said item. and some people dont use their homes for credit, and dont intend to sell, content to stay so for them its less of an investment (gamble).
but if its value goes down cause you neglected it, should we fix you then? if its value goes down cause the neighborhood goes to pot, should we fix you then? so why is this any different? you assumed the risk when you bought it. no it probably didnt seem like a big risk. but every so often the long shots come in.
(for the record I didnt support the bailouts either, though they did turn a bit of profit for the taxpayer in the end)
Translation: don't settle for a low income low skill job, and rely on it to pay the bills your whole life. Unless it makes you happy of course. But if it doesn't strive for better.
it's probably not "bog standard". its very likely thrust vector capable. And the F22 doesnt have "stealth" exhausts either. It has vector nozzles too. It has a funny shape cause the designers opted to focus the vectoring capability in only one axis, achieving a higher dynamic effect in that axis, than having 360deg vectoring with a much smaller effect in any given direction. they then gave teh trailing edge a broken angle to reduce return on radar signal. but the warm exhaust itself is still there, not much you can do to a jet exhaust (without killing the power of the engine), but then IR has a much shorter detection range than Radar.
but point is: just giving the exhausts a funny shape doesnt make it "stealth". the russian design already featrues a 360d nozzle that looks just like the typical normal nozzle.
Plus consider the effect of diminishing returns on investment. our planes are probably the most stealthy ever anywhere in the world, call it 99% stealthy for modern tech. and they cost a LOT to get there. but if you could produce a plane that's 75% as stealthy fr 50% of the cost, or 50% as stealthy for 30% of the cost....you still have an advantage over basically everyone, other than the US, and for a lot lower cost. and with that lower cost you could build even more of them.
its like the Light Fighter proposal that resulted in the F16 to supplement the F15. (speaking in terms of first gen versions) The F15? The perfect air dominance fighter. Cost: A Lot. The F16? Not as perfect. Cost: Less than the F15, enough less to warrant purchasing a larger fleet of 16's than 15's.
The economics of getting the absolute bestest sometimes get lost on folks. Ya, it's good to have some bestests just so you have the capability. But it's also handy to have some not-so-bestest as your backbone cause they're easier on the wallet.
usually, in the good systems (natch!), you just keep hitting 0, or saying "Representative" or else something that it can't decipher and it'll take you right to an operator, after only about 15 seconds.
I do too. "Please say or key in your PIN/Account/Social Security/Member Number"... ya I want to say my very important number out loud... luckily USAA lets you key in the stuff too. I've come across some that dont, and I frankly refuse to use them.
But when I saw this article, my first thought was, what do I say to trigger a money dump into my account?
Perspective: To them the video is akin to you coming home and finding your best friend wrist deep in your daughter, and by the way, she's not 18 yet. Won't even cover consensual or not, just think about how angry that would make you.
The adults are already set in their ways. you can say "grow a thicker skin" but you are judging them by your values, without understanding that theirs are totally different. Im not excusing them, I'm just reminding you to keep perspective, and to remember the phrase about walking a mile in a man's shoes before judging him.
I'll direct you the conquest of Jericho and other cities by the people of the Exodus after leaving Egypt. Remind you that owning slaves was common in the ancient world, even among Jews and early Christians, and is shown in the Bible. One man's King is anothers Dictator. And of course there's the whole bit where their values back then are not our values today, hell it's even true of 100 years ago. The whole concept of "18 is magically an adult" is a product of the last 30-40 years, cause in the late 1800s you still found girls being married off at age 12.
Terry Jones is a fool. A dangerous fool. to my mind a murderer cause his quran burning led directly to the deaths of some of my brothers in the military a few years ago. he's sick in the head like the guy in charge of the Westboro Baptists sect (I wont call them a church). they're akin to the handful of bad lawyers from the jokes who give the rest a bad name. The rest of the "faith community" should denounce them for what they are.
Unfortunately people don't, because 9/11 (and beyond) left a really bad taste in peoples' mouths, and the percieved lack of denouncement from "the other side" only helped fuel the sentiment that "all muslims everywhere are bad". so anything anti-muslim gets leniency beyond what other works would get, leniency it doesn't deserve. people tolerate beyond what they normally would, til it becomes "normal". its a vicious escalation cycle. it saddens me.
Most christian faiths still believe the same as Catholicism teaches, and that teaching is that Jesus is "both the Son of Man and the Son of God". one of those faith paradoxes (and remember, paradox doesn't mean untree, just "seemingly contradictory"). the lay translation being "100% human and 100% divine. completely both at the same time". the "son of Man" part simply isnt stressed, though its seen in sections where he gets angry, feels doubt, etc. its also important to remember, as a Christian, because an divine being "dying" for a cause has little meaning, but a human dying for that same cause has tremendous meaning.
Many phone users are new to this "upgrade" mentality, and so doing the same thing we used to do a few years ago: upgrade to a new shiny whenever possible. we'ev since learned we dont really need the new shiny anymore cause we're no longer seeing giant leaps and bounds like we used to. the difference between this years graphics card and last years is only a small blip on the radar compared to the jump from Voodoo to Voodoo2 to Voodoo3 way back when.
the same thing will eventually happen in the other market too.
You mean all those russian spam in a can propoganda "firsts" that never meant a thing? The "cosmonauts" that could have been brain dead coma victims and been just as successful?
So wheres the multitude of inventions that came from Russian developement of technology? Oh that's right they came from our tech.
Well then what about whole new industries springing up to use that tech? No wait, that happened over here too.
Well then where was the massive boost to the economy that lasted for several decades from creating such tech and industries and is only just now starting to slow down? Damn, sorry, that was us again.
They may have had a lot of propaganda "firsts", but their astronauts were nothing but spam in a can. they could have stuffed an elephant in there for all they wanted, it didnt matter, the whole thing was run from the ground.
we were the ones to actually do shit. that's why we "won".
I see no hand wringing, no sobbing, no despair. Just a guy trying to leave the world slightly better off than it was when he got here. You're an idiot, or a troll, or both.
thank you. that's what i try to tell people. the phrase i use is religion is a metaphysical (cannot always be seen and touched) explanation, science is a physical (can be seen and touched).
he didn't say anything about testing faith. he simply said "discover". the "faith testers" are essentially "deniers". they deny dinosaurs actually lived and breathed etc, we all know the story there. but there is a 2nd school of thought out there, meant to runs counter to the "deniers", that explains the same things as not being intruments meant to test faith but rather as instruments meant to foster Man's curiosity, to push him to use this gift of intellect he's been given. it's obviously not a fundamentalist school of thought, and given his wording, don't be too quick to push him into a set category. (this is where caution against painting with too broad a brush come in).
Compasses make a very handy quick substitute requiring no other input beyond the earth's magnetic field.
moreover, compasses have long been used for surveying to get the proper degrees and orientation when doing a "turn". only recently has widespread cheap gps started to replace that. many smaller surveyors still use the compass cause it's much cheaper than the gps kits, which still easily run between 10k and 30k (thinking of the TopCon models my old company sold), and the magnetic declination for any given location is rather easy to determine (and yes I know it moves, that's charted too). that sort of math is Surveying 101 stuff.
no, strength is correct. more precisely, the parameter you want is "tensile strength", ie, resistance to being pulled apart, such as by expanding gases in the chamber of a gun. ceramics are very hard, very tough. like most other "rock-type" materials they are very good in compression, but not so good in bending or tension. for a gun, tensile strength to resist the expansion of gases at the chamber is what matters.
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Imagine if you could get from A to B without going through the space in between. That does not mean time travel. you seriously misinterpret the rules. Going faster than light yes. But you never go faster than light. Theoretically the same artificial path you used light could also travel. So you never went faster than it.
It's possible to create (or observe rather) and travel light paths in our own real world right now. And some of those paths, from the same source, to the same destination, are shorter than others. That doesn't mean that the shorter path involved time travel in any way, shape, or form.
Only if you exceed the speed of light, if you actually have a actual velocity greater than light in the SAME REFERENCE FRAME AS YOURSELF are you correct.
Just because you're comparing it to light that traveled a different path (different reference frame) doesn't mean it involves time travel.
buying a home on credit, or using it as equity to get credit, is an investment, a gamble that its value wont change significantly other than to maybe go up. like other investments, its subject to market changes. you assume that risk willingly by buying the house. really everything is essentially an investment, it's just the degree to which other people also want said item. and some people dont use their homes for credit, and dont intend to sell, content to stay so for them its less of an investment (gamble).
but if its value goes down cause you neglected it, should we fix you then? if its value goes down cause the neighborhood goes to pot, should we fix you then? so why is this any different? you assumed the risk when you bought it. no it probably didnt seem like a big risk. but every so often the long shots come in.
(for the record I didnt support the bailouts either, though they did turn a bit of profit for the taxpayer in the end)
Translation: don't settle for a low income low skill job, and rely on it to pay the bills your whole life. Unless it makes you happy of course. But if it doesn't strive for better.
it's probably not "bog standard". its very likely thrust vector capable. And the F22 doesnt have "stealth" exhausts either. It has vector nozzles too. It has a funny shape cause the designers opted to focus the vectoring capability in only one axis, achieving a higher dynamic effect in that axis, than having 360deg vectoring with a much smaller effect in any given direction. they then gave teh trailing edge a broken angle to reduce return on radar signal. but the warm exhaust itself is still there, not much you can do to a jet exhaust (without killing the power of the engine), but then IR has a much shorter detection range than Radar.
but point is: just giving the exhausts a funny shape doesnt make it "stealth". the russian design already featrues a 360d nozzle that looks just like the typical normal nozzle.
Plus consider the effect of diminishing returns on investment. our planes are probably the most stealthy ever anywhere in the world, call it 99% stealthy for modern tech. and they cost a LOT to get there. but if you could produce a plane that's 75% as stealthy fr 50% of the cost, or 50% as stealthy for 30% of the cost....you still have an advantage over basically everyone, other than the US, and for a lot lower cost. and with that lower cost you could build even more of them.
its like the Light Fighter proposal that resulted in the F16 to supplement the F15. (speaking in terms of first gen versions) The F15? The perfect air dominance fighter. Cost: A Lot. The F16? Not as perfect. Cost: Less than the F15, enough less to warrant purchasing a larger fleet of 16's than 15's.
The economics of getting the absolute bestest sometimes get lost on folks. Ya, it's good to have some bestests just so you have the capability. But it's also handy to have some not-so-bestest as your backbone cause they're easier on the wallet.
usually, in the good systems (natch!), you just keep hitting 0, or saying "Representative" or else something that it can't decipher and it'll take you right to an operator, after only about 15 seconds.
I do too. "Please say or key in your PIN/Account/Social Security/Member Number" ... ya I want to say my very important number out loud...
luckily USAA lets you key in the stuff too. I've come across some that dont, and I frankly refuse to use them.
But when I saw this article, my first thought was, what do I say to trigger a money dump into my account?
Perspective: To them the video is akin to you coming home and finding your best friend wrist deep in your daughter, and by the way, she's not 18 yet. Won't even cover consensual or not, just think about how angry that would make you.
The adults are already set in their ways. you can say "grow a thicker skin" but you are judging them by your values, without understanding that theirs are totally different. Im not excusing them, I'm just reminding you to keep perspective, and to remember the phrase about walking a mile in a man's shoes before judging him.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_Muhammad_a_pedophile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Muhammad#Muhammad.27s_marriages
I'll direct you the conquest of Jericho and other cities by the people of the Exodus after leaving Egypt. Remind you that owning slaves was common in the ancient world, even among Jews and early Christians, and is shown in the Bible. One man's King is anothers Dictator. And of course there's the whole bit where their values back then are not our values today, hell it's even true of 100 years ago. The whole concept of "18 is magically an adult" is a product of the last 30-40 years, cause in the late 1800s you still found girls being married off at age 12.
Just to keep things in perspective.
Terry Jones is a fool. A dangerous fool. to my mind a murderer cause his quran burning led directly to the deaths of some of my brothers in the military a few years ago. he's sick in the head like the guy in charge of the Westboro Baptists sect (I wont call them a church). they're akin to the handful of bad lawyers from the jokes who give the rest a bad name. The rest of the "faith community" should denounce them for what they are.
Unfortunately people don't, because 9/11 (and beyond) left a really bad taste in peoples' mouths, and the percieved lack of denouncement from "the other side" only helped fuel the sentiment that "all muslims everywhere are bad". so anything anti-muslim gets leniency beyond what other works would get, leniency it doesn't deserve. people tolerate beyond what they normally would, til it becomes "normal". its a vicious escalation cycle. it saddens me.
Most christian faiths still believe the same as Catholicism teaches, and that teaching is that Jesus is "both the Son of Man and the Son of God". one of those faith paradoxes (and remember, paradox doesn't mean untree, just "seemingly contradictory"). the lay translation being "100% human and 100% divine. completely both at the same time". the "son of Man" part simply isnt stressed, though its seen in sections where he gets angry, feels doubt, etc. its also important to remember, as a Christian, because an divine being "dying" for a cause has little meaning, but a human dying for that same cause has tremendous meaning.
You can't see the forest through the trees can you....
in other words, don't nitpick over the part that isnt even his point.
Many phone users are new to this "upgrade" mentality, and so doing the same thing we used to do a few years ago: upgrade to a new shiny whenever possible. we'ev since learned we dont really need the new shiny anymore cause we're no longer seeing giant leaps and bounds like we used to. the difference between this years graphics card and last years is only a small blip on the radar compared to the jump from Voodoo to Voodoo2 to Voodoo3 way back when.
the same thing will eventually happen in the other market too.
who said it's either or?
we did both.
one worked.
Plus our economy (that vile evil captialism) was also actually able to take advantage of such things, whereas theirs was not.
You mean all those russian spam in a can propoganda "firsts" that never meant a thing? The "cosmonauts" that could have been brain dead coma victims and been just as successful?
Really? The Russians won it?
So wheres the multitude of inventions that came from Russian developement of technology?
Oh that's right they came from our tech.
Well then what about whole new industries springing up to use that tech?
No wait, that happened over here too.
Well then where was the massive boost to the economy that lasted for several decades from creating such tech and industries and is only just now starting to slow down?
Damn, sorry, that was us again.
They may have had a lot of propaganda "firsts", but their astronauts were nothing but spam in a can. they could have stuffed an elephant in there for all they wanted, it didnt matter, the whole thing was run from the ground.
we were the ones to actually do shit.
that's why we "won".
I see no hand wringing, no sobbing, no despair. Just a guy trying to leave the world slightly better off than it was when he got here.
You're an idiot, or a troll, or both.
because some of us care beyond our person.
because it gives meaning to life beyond animalistic mere existence (eat, f*ck, die).
Not yet.
And not if the old pace of work was kept up (with nasa scuttling private ventures).
Now with private companies really giving a go and the pace picking up, it's on its way.
your life must be so boring.
thank you. that's what i try to tell people. the phrase i use is religion is a metaphysical (cannot always be seen and touched) explanation, science is a physical (can be seen and touched).
he didn't say anything about testing faith. he simply said "discover". the "faith testers" are essentially "deniers". they deny dinosaurs actually lived and breathed etc, we all know the story there. but there is a 2nd school of thought out there, meant to runs counter to the "deniers", that explains the same things as not being intruments meant to test faith but rather as instruments meant to foster Man's curiosity, to push him to use this gift of intellect he's been given. it's obviously not a fundamentalist school of thought, and given his wording, don't be too quick to push him into a set category. (this is where caution against painting with too broad a brush come in).
Compasses make a very handy quick substitute requiring no other input beyond the earth's magnetic field.
moreover, compasses have long been used for surveying to get the proper degrees and orientation when doing a "turn". only recently has widespread cheap gps started to replace that. many smaller surveyors still use the compass cause it's much cheaper than the gps kits, which still easily run between 10k and 30k (thinking of the TopCon models my old company sold), and the magnetic declination for any given location is rather easy to determine (and yes I know it moves, that's charted too). that sort of math is Surveying 101 stuff.
no, strength is correct. more precisely, the parameter you want is "tensile strength", ie, resistance to being pulled apart, such as by expanding gases in the chamber of a gun. ceramics are very hard, very tough. like most other "rock-type" materials they are very good in compression, but not so good in bending or tension. for a gun, tensile strength to resist the expansion of gases at the chamber is what matters.