Somebody has never seen how much shelf space is needed for a set of US/state/county/city tax tables. Find the sales and payroll taxes for a random city in Ohio or Pennsylvania.
Are they a member of the American Association Against Acronym Abuse Alliance?
I don't approve of their methods, so I am a member of the Anti American Association Against Acronym Abuse Alliance Activists (not to be confused with the Anti-American Association Against Acronym Abuse Alliance Activists, some group of Albanians).
That museum is still a nice overview of science and industry. It's not a reference library, but if you're not working it's a relaxing sampling of many fields. Nobody knows all science in detail, and there are things which will be new to someone. I'd hatched chicks before, but walking through a submarine in which a whole crew had been crowded is different than looking at engineering drawings. The Rube Goldberg-like contraption on one of the lower levels is a different type of engineering stimulation than the massive forces involved in the railroad or mining equipment at even lower levels. The various aircraft show different design styles, scales, and purposes -- and the Apollo capsule looks tiny although its flight was part of a significant cultural change.
But every science museum is likely to have something of interest. The Chicago museum doesn't have the delightful musical staircase which is in the St. Paul museum. It's particularly delightful because I think the signs are purposefully subtle, so standing on the landing one can watch people's reactions when they realize they are the cause of the sounds. (Each stair step has a light beam across it which causes a foot to trigger a chime; the doors reduce outside sounds so the chattering chimes become quickly apparent to anyone with some awareness of their surroundings; the staircase is an obvious route for moving between two exhibit areas but it looks like only a passageway, yet is not such a major route that it is crowded with routine traffic which would disguise the patterns caused by movement)
Don't forget that Metro ride, the Pentagon City Overlook, Mall exercise center, Arlington stonework exhibit, monument posing route, Flag Bingo, and the Capitol rest home.
Yes, some people in Europe don't realize that the "country" of the USA has a different scale than their countries. The EU has a closer scale, with member states being relatively similar to USA states. But lines-on-a-map are less significant than cultural differences. USA states have interesting variations, although fewer differences than EU states. But if you're not familiar with subtleties of foreign countries, merely traveling to any part of various countries offers the "difference from the usual" which is often associated with vacations.
I suppose all this is due to people having enough free time and money to consider travel. Just sitting at home or visiting attractions in town can also serve as a vacation if that's what you want to do.
"Hard hat tour" reminded me that I once travelled on a passenger freight ship. It wasn't a cruise ship, although with only a few dozen cabins the ship design still included passenger facilities such as a pool. There was a tour of the working and engineering parts of the ship which was interesting if not impressive. No hard hats, but advised to not wear loose clothing due to being near powerful moving parts. It being a working freight ship, we also got to see how a dock services a non-container ship by merely looking over the railings.
There also is a retired ore ship at a Duluth dock for touring. Check the schedule -- I don't know if they operate in the winter.
Also in Duluth is a small marine museum near the Lift Bridge, and the Railroad Museum is full of rail vehicles (also daily trips along the lakefront -- if you take the short 90 minute trip and they stop to grab a pizza from a delivery guy standing by the tracks it's for the crew; if you want pizza, take the Pizza Train).
Travel to some of your tech sites by railroad. Experience a different pace of life, notice how far you travel in a day when you're moving most of 24 hours (remember how impressive such distance was when roads were not paved and a day's travel was 15 miles on foot or however far one could get by car at about 30MPH when not changing a flat tire -- once cars appeared and the Pony Express was less impressive), and of course travel on some impressive engineering. Choose your routes based on whether you consider "impressive engineering" to be speed, bridges, tunnels, or traversing mountains.
I took the Empire Builder last year to and from Seattle. North Dakota's farmland was interesting mostly because it showed how large Lake Agassiz was -- although sunflower fields in the fall are nice to see, as long as they're not the Ringworld type. Montana had eroded hints of hills in the distance, with scattered oil wells in sight, and the Rockies leaping up to surround us with the extreme Glacier Park region after traversing one steel spider web which from the train was most impressive if you looked down. The Rockies to go by quickly due to most travel being at night when sleep telescopes the time, although the Washington tunnel traversals might be during daylight depending upon the time of year.
In Seattle, the obvious tech landmarks are the Space Needle and Monorail. A glance at a tourist guide shows that there also is a significant science museum also there at the World's Fair site, and the nearby food court offers the usual shopping-mall style of varied family dining (more extreme foods are nearby and as usual you get to decide how important and how to find particular food preferences in an unfamiliar city). We chose to stay in a hotel a couple of blocks from that site, using the Monorail for daily trips to downtown. Note that at the southern stop, go down to the lower level of that shopping mall and you find another interesting engineering project -- a bus tunnel around most of downtown with free rides most of the time. Techies might note that near the southern end of the tunnel (near the Amtrak station) is the area marked on tourist maps as "International", which is mostly Japanese/Chinese shops -- I wasn't shopping for electronics and no tech products caught my eye, although animation/manga was easily found as well as a "toy" store featuring related plastic products and models. Seattle voters want the Monorail expanded, so in coming years that construction might also be something to note. For that matter, one could include use of the numerous Seattle transit methods as a project in itself -- the geography of Seattle forces use of many modes of transport. Oh, GameWorks is also in northest downtown -- something that is not yet in most cities.
The Chicago location of the first artificial nuclear reactor is not the "site of the Manhattan Project", it was just a test lab.
(Good, you knew it was the first "artificial" reactor. The oldest known reactor on Earth is several million years old and in Africa. Within Earth, a lot of the Earth's internal heat is probably from radioactive heavy metals. And, of course, the Solar System's largest and probably oldest mass-energy converter is the fusion reactions in the Sun -- we don't know how many fissionable materials might be meeting each other in the Sun but it doesn't matter.)
The reader shall note that the "kitten" and "more alive" states are mutually exclusive. Either smaller or more alive but not both. Obviously, as well as not any of the others when a result is known.
You forgot the part about "peer review is how that paper is confirmed as reporting all the proper procedures so it gets published in a recognized journal, rather than being published at the corner copy shop". The "peers" are people familiar with that field who know how things should be done and what the usual mistakes are.
Uh... Look again at the article linked to. At the top, he talks about the spammer.
At the bottom, he points to FedEx tracking of Santa. Someone sent a letter to Santa via FedEx so could track where they sent it to.
A quick Google shows that they sent it to a location where it is known that Santa will arrive on the day after the fortnight before Christmas. So the letter got there early in case it had to wait for him to arrive -- but he apparently is ready and waiting.
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these eyes are not necessarilly experienced in security issues.
Yes, that is true in the general case. In the case of Linux, we do know that at least one person with some security experience in the NSA has looked at Linux. I don't know the experience of eyes which looked at other OSes -- other than that Multics did get looked at a lot.
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Write your reps in Congress.
Request flat taxes. Chop the tax code down from a library to one page.
Somebody has never seen how much shelf space is needed for a set of US/state/county/city tax tables. Find the sales and payroll taxes for a random city in Ohio or Pennsylvania.
Even without chapter and verse, you know that there is something wrong when it is necessary to say "AOL client".
Are they a member of the American Association Against Acronym Abuse Alliance?
I don't approve of their methods, so I am a member of the Anti American Association Against Acronym Abuse Alliance Activists (not to be confused with the Anti-American Association Against Acronym Abuse Alliance Activists, some group of Albanians).
But every science museum is likely to have something of interest. The Chicago museum doesn't have the delightful musical staircase which is in the St. Paul museum. It's particularly delightful because I think the signs are purposefully subtle, so standing on the landing one can watch people's reactions when they realize they are the cause of the sounds. (Each stair step has a light beam across it which causes a foot to trigger a chime; the doors reduce outside sounds so the chattering chimes become quickly apparent to anyone with some awareness of their surroundings; the staircase is an obvious route for moving between two exhibit areas but it looks like only a passageway, yet is not such a major route that it is crowded with routine traffic which would disguise the patterns caused by movement)
Don't forget that Metro ride, the Pentagon City Overlook, Mall exercise center, Arlington stonework exhibit, monument posing route, Flag Bingo, and the Capitol rest home.
I suppose all this is due to people having enough free time and money to consider travel. Just sitting at home or visiting attractions in town can also serve as a vacation if that's what you want to do.
I do wish Parliament had more explanations and more hands-on exhibits.
There also is a retired ore ship at a Duluth dock for touring. Check the schedule -- I don't know if they operate in the winter.
Also in Duluth is a small marine museum near the Lift Bridge, and the Railroad Museum is full of rail vehicles (also daily trips along the lakefront -- if you take the short 90 minute trip and they stop to grab a pizza from a delivery guy standing by the tracks it's for the crew; if you want pizza, take the Pizza Train).
I took the Empire Builder last year to and from Seattle. North Dakota's farmland was interesting mostly because it showed how large Lake Agassiz was -- although sunflower fields in the fall are nice to see, as long as they're not the Ringworld type. Montana had eroded hints of hills in the distance, with scattered oil wells in sight, and the Rockies leaping up to surround us with the extreme Glacier Park region after traversing one steel spider web which from the train was most impressive if you looked down. The Rockies to go by quickly due to most travel being at night when sleep telescopes the time, although the Washington tunnel traversals might be during daylight depending upon the time of year.
In Seattle, the obvious tech landmarks are the Space Needle and Monorail. A glance at a tourist guide shows that there also is a significant science museum also there at the World's Fair site, and the nearby food court offers the usual shopping-mall style of varied family dining (more extreme foods are nearby and as usual you get to decide how important and how to find particular food preferences in an unfamiliar city). We chose to stay in a hotel a couple of blocks from that site, using the Monorail for daily trips to downtown. Note that at the southern stop, go down to the lower level of that shopping mall and you find another interesting engineering project -- a bus tunnel around most of downtown with free rides most of the time. Techies might note that near the southern end of the tunnel (near the Amtrak station) is the area marked on tourist maps as "International", which is mostly Japanese/Chinese shops -- I wasn't shopping for electronics and no tech products caught my eye, although animation/manga was easily found as well as a "toy" store featuring related plastic products and models. Seattle voters want the Monorail expanded, so in coming years that construction might also be something to note. For that matter, one could include use of the numerous Seattle transit methods as a project in itself -- the geography of Seattle forces use of many modes of transport. Oh, GameWorks is also in northest downtown -- something that is not yet in most cities.
(Good, you knew it was the first "artificial" reactor. The oldest known reactor on Earth is several million years old and in Africa. Within Earth, a lot of the Earth's internal heat is probably from radioactive heavy metals. And, of course, the Solar System's largest and probably oldest mass-energy converter is the fusion reactions in the Sun -- we don't know how many fissionable materials might be meeting each other in the Sun but it doesn't matter.)
What is really amazing about the leaning tower is that it isn't broken. Still standing, although not quite usable.
I don't mind a plain site, as long as the content is good and easy to find. How were the cops marking web sites, anyway?
Yup, now the states are simultaneously:
The reader shall note that the "kitten" and "more alive" states are mutually exclusive. Either smaller or more alive but not both. Obviously, as well as not any of the others when a result is known.
You forgot the part about "peer review is how that paper is confirmed as reporting all the proper procedures so it gets published in a recognized journal, rather than being published at the corner copy shop". The "peers" are people familiar with that field who know how things should be done and what the usual mistakes are.
At the bottom, he points to FedEx tracking of Santa. Someone sent a letter to Santa via FedEx so could track where they sent it to.
A quick Google shows that they sent it to a location where it is known that Santa will arrive on the day after the fortnight before Christmas. So the letter got there early in case it had to wait for him to arrive -- but he apparently is ready and waiting.
Sure you do belong on this planet, whitefood.
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Yes, that is true in the general case. In the case of Linux, we do know that at least one person with some security experience in the NSA has looked at Linux. I don't know the experience of eyes which looked at other OSes -- other than that Multics did get looked at a lot.
You spelled "Pak" wrong.
The usual term is "rich organic soup".
Maybe it needs more salt and simmering.
El Caminos has a primitive, uncovered, unpadded, and very large bucket back seat. Evolution eventually developed a more refined seat.
Depends whether God plays billiards.