It's pretty sad when you're more worried about the party of the Senator who introduced the bill than what they bill covers.
(That being said, it's not a tax break for the wealthy or a kick in the teeth for the not wealthy - of course it was a Democrat. Which means the right wing nutjobs that now inhabit Slashdot will soon be along to mod me down.)
The turnaround time for a plane is far less then for a reusable rocket.
True - but irrelevant, as (despite it's name) the XS-1 is a rocket, not a plane. All the things that make a rocket slower to turnaround (cryogenic systems, rocket engines) are present on the XS-1.
Also, a 4000 square foot bookstore is pretty small. Half Price Books in Dallas has a 55,000 square foot retail space with used books you can't even find on Amazon
Have you ever even been in a modern bookstore? 4000 square foot is on the largish end of the hump the bell curve. 55,000 square feet is way the hell out at the end of tail, a freakish outlier. Of the dozen or so Half Price books I've been in over the years, they all cluster pretty much in 2,000-,3000 square foot range. Not to mention the Half-price you mention is way the hell out in the 'burbs... While Amazon is in Manhattan.
In the same vein, there's plenty of books you can find at Amazon that you won't at Half-Price. There's millions of books out there, and no one source can have them all.
The Tattered Cover in Denver has also been facing-out a lot of books (not all of them) before the news about Amazon's "great idea" ever came along.
Bookstores have been facing out books ever since I've been going to bookstores - that is, at least since the mid 70's.
Consider the ATM. Wouldn't one think at the introduction of these machines that days of bank tellers would have been numbered? Yet as I walk my around my neighborhood, I can find a dozen banks all with a full complement of tellers. There are way MORE teller jobs now decades after ATMs became ubiquitous than there were before the machines.
When I was twenty, a full complement of tellers on payday was ten or more, and at least five on other days. Now that I'm fifty something, a full complement of tellers on payday is two to three. On other days, two to three.
I haven't even seen a bank with more than five teller stations in probably fifteen or twenty years that wasn't an older building.
I am arguing that the music industry 'lied' and used a misleading term 'piracy' to make people think it is unacceptable.
'Piracy' is a perfectly good word for the act of taking the fruits of someone else's labor without paying for it. They're not 'making' people think it's unacceptable, because the act (the theft of someone else's work) was already unacceptable across the civilized world.
Wrong, unlike you I've not been brainwashed into believing that stealing the fruits of someone else's labor is something I'm entitled to do and not theft at all.
Also we need to stop using the word 'pirate' i think we lost the intellectual debate the moment we adopted the term.
"Piracy" if a perfectly good term for the practice, dating back to the 1800's. If you have to lie and use a misleading term to make people think it's acceptable - well, that just shows the true colors doesn't it?
If that's what your son did on his own, it's very understandable why the combine his work with others or tone it down. It's end-to-end derivative and lame.
The reality is that the current baseline for Red Dragon is to use parachutes. The paper you link to is a proposal to not use parachutes. Either way, Red Dragon is a paper spacecraft, not reality.
There's no reason why you couldn't do powered descent from terminal velocity.
Yes there is - Mars's gravity is too high for a totally propulsive descent to be possible.
Not long ago it was estimated that a LEM sized lander would need total parachute area larger than a baseball infield - and they'd have to go from packed to fully inflated in under.1 seconds.
Uh? And why would it need that?
Because a LEM sized lander would run out of fuel long before it reached the surface if it didn't use parachutes to brake. (Though actually it doesn't depend on the size of the lander, the result is always the same - Martian gravity is too high for a propulsive descent.)
Lots of things are actually easier on Mars. The atmosphere removes a large portion of propulsive braking; the Moon requires 100% propulsive braking.
No, landing is actually harder on Mars - the gravity is too high to use propulsive braking, and the atmosphere too thin for aerodynamic braking. Which means mixed mode braking, and freakin' enormous parachutes. Not long ago it was estimated that a LEM sized lander would need total parachute area larger than a baseball infield - and they'd have to go from packed to fully inflated in under.1 seconds. (Meaning that at one point in deployment, the edges of the chute and the shroudlines would be moving faster than the local speed of sound.) It's much harder to land on Mars - which is why the various rovers have had to use such Rube Goldberg methods.
On Mars, return fuel is easily available in substantial regions of the planet
In theory. In practice... well, we don't know. None of the hardware required has moved off the prototype bench and none has been tested with anything resembling the toxic materials that make up Martian soil.
Back in the day, flying was one of the few times the traveling businessman got to him(her)self. No computer to work on, no phone calls to make or receive.
Having seen many a business traveler back in the day working his way through a stack of papers at 30,000 feet... you have no idea what you're talking about.
If you're reading this, whipslash, this is a really bad experience for your users.
Whipslash hasn't posted anything substantive since at least August of last year. (At least that's how far back I was willing to scroll through his mostly trollish (or maybe drunk posting) posts.) Given that pretty much no improvements have been made to/. in the year-and-some he came onboard, one can safely presume that they were nothing but hot air.
So you're whining about two positions, his daughter and son-in-law, that could be questionable out of five million? It's really hard to take you people seriously.
You honestly fail to grasp that the nearer to the top a position is, the more impact it has?
No wonder you can't take them seriously. Honestly, it's amazing you remember to breathe.
When property owners can't get their stuff delivered, they'll make changes to their property, so the trucks have someplace to park that is not in the public right of way.
That assumes the people who can't get their stuff delivered are property owners, as opposed to tenants. And it assumes that property owner will make changes to their property costing anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands (if it's even possible at all) to provide parking for delivery vehicles. Or, in other other words, you're absolutely clueless.
Ask any landlord who has significant experience and you will see they will agree with this position.
I have been a landlord - and I applaud California's decision. Because it won't make it more difficult to rent to people who cause problems. It will make it more difficult for racist assholes, but I view that as good thing myself.
Why Californians tolerate their government escapes me.
Seriously? You can't grasp why people would tolerate a government that makes life difficult for narrow minded intolerant racist assholes like yourself? You can't grasp why people would tolerate a government who upholds the rights of all citizens, regardless of color?
Electronics engineering relates to timing on traffic lights. Who do you think develops the mechanism to set the timing?
Which sounds impressive to the clueless, who fail to grasp the apples-and-oranges difference between knowing how to develop a timer and knowing the effects of varying settings on the timer. (The folks who work with the latter are called traffic engineers and not electronics engineers for a reason.)
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It's pretty sad when you're more worried about the party of the Senator who introduced the bill than what they bill covers.
(That being said, it's not a tax break for the wealthy or a kick in the teeth for the not wealthy - of course it was a Democrat. Which means the right wing nutjobs that now inhabit Slashdot will soon be along to mod me down.)
True - but irrelevant, as (despite it's name) the XS-1 is a rocket, not a plane. All the things that make a rocket slower to turnaround (cryogenic systems, rocket engines) are present on the XS-1.
Have you ever even been in a modern bookstore? 4000 square foot is on the largish end of the hump the bell curve. 55,000 square feet is way the hell out at the end of tail, a freakish outlier. Of the dozen or so Half Price books I've been in over the years, they all cluster pretty much in 2,000-,3000 square foot range. Not to mention the Half-price you mention is way the hell out in the 'burbs... While Amazon is in Manhattan.
In the same vein, there's plenty of books you can find at Amazon that you won't at Half-Price. There's millions of books out there, and no one source can have them all.
Bookstores have been facing out books ever since I've been going to bookstores - that is, at least since the mid 70's.
When I was twenty, a full complement of tellers on payday was ten or more, and at least five on other days. Now that I'm fifty something, a full complement of tellers on payday is two to three. On other days, two to three.
I haven't even seen a bank with more than five teller stations in probably fifteen or twenty years that wasn't an older building.
You have to have your basic needs satisfied before you can produce these things. If you or don't have a job, that suddenly becomes a lot harder.
There isn't really. People don't pay much for creative output.
'Piracy' is a perfectly good word for the act of taking the fruits of someone else's labor without paying for it. They're not 'making' people think it's unacceptable, because the act (the theft of someone else's work) was already unacceptable across the civilized world.
Wrong, unlike you I've not been brainwashed into believing that stealing the fruits of someone else's labor is something I'm entitled to do and not theft at all.
"Piracy" if a perfectly good term for the practice, dating back to the 1800's. If you have to lie and use a misleading term to make people think it's acceptable - well, that just shows the true colors doesn't it?
If that's what your son did on his own, it's very understandable why the combine his work with others or tone it down. It's end-to-end derivative and lame.
Red Dragon's current baseline is to use parachutes along with propulsive braking.
The reality is that the current baseline for Red Dragon is to use parachutes. The paper you link to is a proposal to not use parachutes. Either way, Red Dragon is a paper spacecraft, not reality.
Oh? Then how are the phones charged? Magical pixie dust?
My guess would be "no"... I don't think that without unobtanium a wing can be built that has enough area, is strong enough, and is light enough.
Yes there is - Mars's gravity is too high for a totally propulsive descent to be possible.
Because a LEM sized lander would run out of fuel long before it reached the surface if it didn't use parachutes to brake. (Though actually it doesn't depend on the size of the lander, the result is always the same - Martian gravity is too high for a propulsive descent.)
Did you even read what I wrote?
No, landing is actually harder on Mars - the gravity is too high to use propulsive braking, and the atmosphere too thin for aerodynamic braking. Which means mixed mode braking, and freakin' enormous parachutes. Not long ago it was estimated that a LEM sized lander would need total parachute area larger than a baseball infield - and they'd have to go from packed to fully inflated in under .1 seconds. (Meaning that at one point in deployment, the edges of the chute and the shroudlines would be moving faster than the local speed of sound.) It's much harder to land on Mars - which is why the various rovers have had to use such Rube Goldberg methods.
In theory. In practice... well, we don't know. None of the hardware required has moved off the prototype bench and none has been tested with anything resembling the toxic materials that make up Martian soil.
Having seen many a business traveler back in the day working his way through a stack of papers at 30,000 feet... you have no idea what you're talking about.
Accountants too. It's been happening with many white collar jobs.
Because that requires tremendous amounts of expensive infrastructure and labor. Duh.
Um, that depends on the type of tug - and heavy ocean going tugs are in fact designed around precisely this kind of long haul.
Whipslash hasn't posted anything substantive since at least August of last year. (At least that's how far back I was willing to scroll through his mostly trollish (or maybe drunk posting) posts.) Given that pretty much no improvements have been made to /. in the year-and-some he came onboard, one can safely presume that they were nothing but hot air.
Translation "I didn't understand your answer, because I'm stupid that way, so I'll just repeat myself. I'm stupid that way too."
Seriously, you have absolutely no clue.
You honestly fail to grasp that the nearer to the top a position is, the more impact it has?
No wonder you can't take them seriously. Honestly, it's amazing you remember to breathe.
That assumes the people who can't get their stuff delivered are property owners, as opposed to tenants. And it assumes that property owner will make changes to their property costing anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands (if it's even possible at all) to provide parking for delivery vehicles. Or, in other other words, you're absolutely clueless.
*Ahem*... Drum memory.
I have been a landlord - and I applaud California's decision. Because it won't make it more difficult to rent to people who cause problems. It will make it more difficult for racist assholes, but I view that as good thing myself.
Seriously? You can't grasp why people would tolerate a government that makes life difficult for narrow minded intolerant racist assholes like yourself? You can't grasp why people would tolerate a government who upholds the rights of all citizens, regardless of color?
Which sounds impressive to the clueless, who fail to grasp the apples-and-oranges difference between knowing how to develop a timer and knowing the effects of varying settings on the timer. (The folks who work with the latter are called traffic engineers and not electronics engineers for a reason.)