1)Airlines have had the snot squeezed out of them financially since they've been forced to compete due to deregulation.
2)The price of fuel has short through the roof.
So, the airlines have turned to technology to squeeze every bit of energy possible out of those big engines. Watch a airplane takeoff in a cut sequence from any 70's TV show, and note the large black trail of unburned hydrocarbons, and compare that to anything you'll see from the mid-90's onward. Todays engines are much more efficient, and are operated much leaner (ie, they use more air for each measure of fuel).
The contrails come from water vapor in the exhaust being frozen. A few decades ago, that exhaust would still be hot and energized with lots of unburned hydrocarbons that would soften the cloud. Now, all you get out the back end is C02, and water vapor and the exhaust will be much cooler.
Your analogy doesn't hold up. Driving kills, so we introduce air bags. There is a problem, so we introduce a solution.
You claim there is a prevalence of Honors classes, existing in conjunction with anti-intellectualism? Are you claiming that the kids clamoring to get into the Honors classes are actually closet anti-intellectuals? Or that the Honors class was a problem, so we created an anti-intellectual culture to defeat it?
Here's a counter claim for you. In a month, this treatment will turn people into night-raging ZOMBIES!! The next thing you know, Will Smith will have to watch his wife blow up in a helicopter, and then embark on a lonely, multiple-year quest for a cure while hunting deer in Manhattan. Stop the insanity I say!!
In this case, yes. The planet would be tidal locked, due to its proximity to the sun. Less volatile components would be the first to boil off into a gaseous state. There would be a "wind" that carries the gaseous components around to the shadowed side of the planet, where it would cool and fall. Repeat for a few million years, and you'd have a nice stratisfication based on volatililty (or lack thereof).
There is the prevalence of kids wearing jackets (taking Honors classes), while at the same time there is the problem of the heat wave (anti-intellectualism).
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? (Hint: try using your brain.)
I would expect that the elements/molecules with higher melting points would migrate to the sunward side, while more volatile stuff would end up in the shadows. Would you have something like a "shield" of aluminum oxide guarding an ocean of iron?
Now how you instill that kind of work ethic into someone I have absolutely no idea, but I'm positive that anyone that isn't mentally handicapped is capable of it--it's a matter of will and perseverance.
You install that work ethic by first removing wealth and privilege, and then adding hope and desire.
He was an A&P. He saw that hard work could pay off. He didn't have a lot of wealth, but he could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Then, he didn't just want to take classes. He wanted to take classes so that he could design airplanes. He had desire.
He had a desire, and saw a way it could be fulfilled. That is the driving force that propels a society forward.
Just as a counterpoint, the greatest lesson from high school that has driven my success did not come from a classroom. It came from a wrestling mat. There I learned that if I took a shot and got hit with a particularly fierce counter, whining was NOT the appropriate response. The only appropriate response was to drive through it, or change tactics.
As an adult, things have not always gone particularly well for me. I know few people for which things are always rosy. My response to the typical trials of life has been what I learned from a sport, and it has put me far ahead of those in my peer group, who otherwise had the same classroom instruction but that did not learn what the wrestling mat had to teach.
You have a ship that blends in with the background and flies at 20,000 feet. That is somewhere around 7 miles. Being mostly fabric of some sort, it's radar signature is probably nearly non-existent. It's infra-red signature would be absorbed into the background noise. It is silent to those on the ground. It is colored to blend in the background (and will be 7 miles away from the the closest observer). It can be un-manned.
Considering the alternatives, I would think it makes sense to put several of these up and not worry to much about what sort of artillery Al Queda might have. If they used artillery wiht that sort of range against this low value (in a monetary sense) target, then they just gave away the position of something that we should really be targetting.
This harkens back to the early years of a previous decade, when a much younger Microsoft used this same tactic to scare people off of a nascent competitor, DR DOS.
These young bumpkins that have taken over the company must have been reading up on their predecessors.
I think the point you both want to get at is that you shouldn't judge other people by your standards of ethics and morals. As long as they conform to their own standards of ethics or morals, it wouldn't be right to call them unethical, no matter the differences between your standards and their standards.
So, if another culture finds it acceptable to force pre-teen girls into prostition rings, it wouldn't be right to call it unethical? How about if their culture allowed for the slaying of a girl that "embarrassed" the family? What about a culture that abandons their old or sick?
I'm sorry you've been overcome by so much political correctness, but moral relativism is bullshit. I have a moral compass, and I'm not ashamed of it. I choose not to deal with people or companies that purposely lie, cheat and steal. I will not make excuses like "things are done differently where they come from." If they do things like that there, then they are liers, cheaters and thieves. If it is a cultural thing, then it is a nation of liers, cheaters and thieves.
Yet, you hear all these people complaining about the public option, and the healthcare reform, but offer no alternative. If you're not willing to be a part of the solution and come out of your little private self-interest corner and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT FOR EVERYONE, then you have no right or reason to complain!
I complain about the public option, and I always offer an alternative.
Pay for it your damn self. That's right. Pay for it yourself. Everyone complains about the high cost of health insurance, but what they're really complaining about is the cost of a health maintenance plan while at the same time not bothering to ask what the cost are for procedures their about to receive.
It's economics 101, dude. Costs are high, because there is no incentive to drive costs down. If the insurance companies attempt to drive costs down, whiners start complaining how their 95 year old grandfather doesn't have access to Viagra.
Excuse me, but I rant. The whole health care debate isn't about health care. It is about health care distribution. The "public option" is just the liberal's way of seizing control and distributing it as they see fit. The "insurance" option is the more conservative's way of trying to maintain control without owning up to the fact that they have to pay for it.
You want REAL healthcare reform? Establish some free clinics delivering a 3rd world level of care, and then abolish the tax deduction on employer provided health care. It is income like any other. Now, let people decide if they need and a MRI and shot of antibiotics every time they get a sniffle.
I worked as a security guard while in school. The job description was to "observe and report". I worked with a man that was diagnosed as "legally blind". He had manipulated the system by seeking out a friendly doctor, because it offered government benefits.
If a large, bureaucratic or organization shows compassion and tries to do the right thing, the leeches will show up in droves. The usual response is a drastic, unrealistic, heavy handed response.
It didn't use to be that way. I'm trying to put my finger on when this happened
It started with the inception of CNN.
The 24/7 cable news has to find something to fill the air. And it has to be something spectacular to bring viewers. Informing us of "the next big threat that is going to kill us all" has become the standard.
The Mexican Swine Flu, ie H1N1, is a mild flu that brings you down for a few days. I just got over it. Big whoop. But to hear the talking heads, we're all going to be dropping like flies.
Only the good lord knows how we survived as a race without bicycle helmets and elbow pads, but the 'press' whipped people up and the politicians had to do something to "save the children". Now it is a law for a child to ride a bicycle without them.
Maybe because when you add the armour plating, the HumVees are less controllable?
The whole "armour on HumVees" was stupid. You have armoured troup carriers for the purpose of carrying troups into dangerous places. The debate should have been about why was the wrong tool being used, not why aren't we bastardizing a known good tool.
And you come across as an overly sheltered whiner who is afraid of the real world due to a complete lack of understanding.
Physics is an unforgiving BITCH to deal with. Bad things happen. Plans go astray. Sometimes there are things we don't know that we don't know.
We can explore these unknown areas in the minefield of life or we can stand, frozen in fear. Spending all our money, which is just another way of saying "expending resources", to ensure that there is absolutely no way possible that anything bad can ever happen to us is a recipe for ensuring that we never move. We lose any pretense of having a goal. Life becomes bland, and then the biggest controversy we can see is whether it is Kate or John's fault.
Your squeamishness about putting a monetary value to a life for the purpose of proceeding with the business of life does not make me a sociopath. It's called being a realist.
The hardest position to maintain in a competitive foot race is first place. The tendency is to relax and lighten the effort. America doesn't have any competition right now, so everyone wants to lighten the effort.
What our space program needs is more reports of how well the Chinese/Japanese/whoever is doing, followed by some scary stories of how they are going to overtake us, own the moon, and then deny us access.
The problem with Ubuntu, or any other Linux for that matter, is that the lack of a stable ABI and certification process for hardware makes it damned near impossible to sell at retail. Which wifi sticks work out of the box at Walmart? Which of the half dozen all in ones that are on sale this week at Staples work, and which are paperweights? Will this laptop at Best Buy work out of the box, INCLUDING wifi, and will it continue to function after the next update without jumping through CLI hoops from hell?
Which one of these devices will continue to work after the next Windows upgrade?
I tend not to throw out perfectly working equipment just because Microsoft decided to gratuitously change their device driver model. I find that 5yr old video and sound cards work just fine in recent releases of Linux, but aren't worth the manufacturers time to create new device drivers in order to operate under the latest versions of Windows. How much hardware was thrown out in order to update to Vista?
You keep buying your cheap crappy hardware at the Staples clearance sales. I'll buy decent equipment that is built to last longer than 6 months, and use an OS that doesn't obsolete it.
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Not necessarily.
It took me 16yrs to graduate.
What else has changed in the past 30years?
1)Airlines have had the snot squeezed out of them financially since they've been forced to compete due to deregulation.
2)The price of fuel has short through the roof.
So, the airlines have turned to technology to squeeze every bit of energy possible out of those big engines. Watch a airplane takeoff in a cut sequence from any 70's TV show, and note the large black trail of unburned hydrocarbons, and compare that to anything you'll see from the mid-90's onward. Todays engines are much more efficient, and are operated much leaner (ie, they use more air for each measure of fuel).
The contrails come from water vapor in the exhaust being frozen. A few decades ago, that exhaust would still be hot and energized with lots of unburned hydrocarbons that would soften the cloud. Now, all you get out the back end is C02, and water vapor and the exhaust will be much cooler.
Your analogy doesn't hold up. Driving kills, so we introduce air bags. There is a problem, so we introduce a solution.
You claim there is a prevalence of Honors classes, existing in conjunction with anti-intellectualism? Are you claiming that the kids clamoring to get into the Honors classes are actually closet anti-intellectuals? Or that the Honors class was a problem, so we created an anti-intellectual culture to defeat it?
Counter claim?
Here's a counter claim for you. In a month, this treatment will turn people into night-raging ZOMBIES!! The next thing you know, Will Smith will have to watch his wife blow up in a helicopter, and then embark on a lonely, multiple-year quest for a cure while hunting deer in Manhattan. Stop the insanity I say!!
In this case, yes. The planet would be tidal locked, due to its proximity to the sun. Less volatile components would be the first to boil off into a gaseous state. There would be a "wind" that carries the gaseous components around to the shadowed side of the planet, where it would cool and fall. Repeat for a few million years, and you'd have a nice stratisfication based on volatililty (or lack thereof).
There is the prevalence of kids wearing jackets (taking Honors classes), while at the same time there is the problem of the heat wave (anti-intellectualism).
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? (Hint: try using your brain.)
You first.
I would expect that the elements/molecules with higher melting points would migrate to the sunward side, while more volatile stuff would end up in the shadows. Would you have something like a "shield" of aluminum oxide guarding an ocean of iron?
That doesn't explain the prevalence of Honors classes, AP classes, etc....There's the problem of anti-intellectualism in American society.
Could you reconcile those statements for us, please?
Now how you instill that kind of work ethic into someone I have absolutely no idea, but I'm positive that anyone that isn't mentally handicapped is capable of it--it's a matter of will and perseverance.
You install that work ethic by first removing wealth and privilege, and then adding hope and desire.
He was an A&P. He saw that hard work could pay off. He didn't have a lot of wealth, but he could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Then, he didn't just want to take classes. He wanted to take classes so that he could design airplanes. He had desire.
He had a desire, and saw a way it could be fulfilled. That is the driving force that propels a society forward.
...ummm... There are TV shows that depict people working?
What station do you look at?
Just as a counterpoint, the greatest lesson from high school that has driven my success did not come from a classroom. It came from a wrestling mat. There I learned that if I took a shot and got hit with a particularly fierce counter, whining was NOT the appropriate response. The only appropriate response was to drive through it, or change tactics.
As an adult, things have not always gone particularly well for me. I know few people for which things are always rosy. My response to the typical trials of life has been what I learned from a sport, and it has put me far ahead of those in my peer group, who otherwise had the same classroom instruction but that did not learn what the wrestling mat had to teach.
You have a ship that blends in with the background and flies at 20,000 feet. That is somewhere around 7 miles. Being mostly fabric of some sort, it's radar signature is probably nearly non-existent. It's infra-red signature would be absorbed into the background noise. It is silent to those on the ground. It is colored to blend in the background (and will be 7 miles away from the the closest observer). It can be un-manned.
Considering the alternatives, I would think it makes sense to put several of these up and not worry to much about what sort of artillery Al Queda might have. If they used artillery wiht that sort of range against this low value (in a monetary sense) target, then they just gave away the position of something that we should really be targetting.
This harkens back to the early years of a previous decade, when a much younger Microsoft used this same tactic to scare people off of a nascent competitor, DR DOS.
These young bumpkins that have taken over the company must have been reading up on their predecessors.
North Carolina implemented a "temporary" sales tax on everything including food many years ago. It has since increased to 7%.
Bastards.
Anti-tamper tape has been available for a LONG time, and it is really cheap.
I think the point you both want to get at is that you shouldn't judge other people by your standards of ethics and morals. As long as they conform to their own standards of ethics or morals, it wouldn't be right to call them unethical, no matter the differences between your standards and their standards.
So, if another culture finds it acceptable to force pre-teen girls into prostition rings, it wouldn't be right to call it unethical? How about if their culture allowed for the slaying of a girl that "embarrassed" the family? What about a culture that abandons their old or sick?
I'm sorry you've been overcome by so much political correctness, but moral relativism is bullshit. I have a moral compass, and I'm not ashamed of it. I choose not to deal with people or companies that purposely lie, cheat and steal. I will not make excuses like "things are done differently where they come from." If they do things like that there, then they are liers, cheaters and thieves. If it is a cultural thing, then it is a nation of liers, cheaters and thieves.
Yet, you hear all these people complaining about the public option, and the healthcare reform, but offer no alternative. If you're not willing to be a part of the solution and come out of your little private self-interest corner and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT FOR EVERYONE, then you have no right or reason to complain!
I complain about the public option, and I always offer an alternative.
Pay for it your damn self. That's right. Pay for it yourself. Everyone complains about the high cost of health insurance, but what they're really complaining about is the cost of a health maintenance plan while at the same time not bothering to ask what the cost are for procedures their about to receive.
It's economics 101, dude. Costs are high, because there is no incentive to drive costs down. If the insurance companies attempt to drive costs down, whiners start complaining how their 95 year old grandfather doesn't have access to Viagra.
Excuse me, but I rant. The whole health care debate isn't about health care. It is about health care distribution. The "public option" is just the liberal's way of seizing control and distributing it as they see fit. The "insurance" option is the more conservative's way of trying to maintain control without owning up to the fact that they have to pay for it.
You want REAL healthcare reform? Establish some free clinics delivering a 3rd world level of care, and then abolish the tax deduction on employer provided health care. It is income like any other. Now, let people decide if they need and a MRI and shot of antibiotics every time they get a sniffle.
I worked as a security guard while in school. The job description was to "observe and report". I worked with a man that was diagnosed as "legally blind". He had manipulated the system by seeking out a friendly doctor, because it offered government benefits.
If a large, bureaucratic or organization shows compassion and tries to do the right thing, the leeches will show up in droves. The usual response is a drastic, unrealistic, heavy handed response.
Are you poo-pooing the idea of a crash indicator light?
We could if people would quit voting them into office.
It didn't use to be that way. I'm trying to put my finger on when this happened
It started with the inception of CNN.
The 24/7 cable news has to find something to fill the air. And it has to be something spectacular to bring viewers. Informing us of "the next big threat that is going to kill us all" has become the standard.
The Mexican Swine Flu, ie H1N1, is a mild flu that brings you down for a few days. I just got over it. Big whoop. But to hear the talking heads, we're all going to be dropping like flies.
Only the good lord knows how we survived as a race without bicycle helmets and elbow pads, but the 'press' whipped people up and the politicians had to do something to "save the children". Now it is a law for a child to ride a bicycle without them.
Maybe because when you add the armour plating, the HumVees are less controllable?
The whole "armour on HumVees" was stupid. You have armoured troup carriers for the purpose of carrying troups into dangerous places. The debate should have been about why was the wrong tool being used, not why aren't we bastardizing a known good tool.
Whatever it is, you come across as a sociopath.
And you come across as an overly sheltered whiner who is afraid of the real world due to a complete lack of understanding.
Physics is an unforgiving BITCH to deal with. Bad things happen. Plans go astray. Sometimes there are things we don't know that we don't know.
We can explore these unknown areas in the minefield of life or we can stand, frozen in fear. Spending all our money, which is just another way of saying "expending resources", to ensure that there is absolutely no way possible that anything bad can ever happen to us is a recipe for ensuring that we never move. We lose any pretense of having a goal. Life becomes bland, and then the biggest controversy we can see is whether it is Kate or John's fault.
Your squeamishness about putting a monetary value to a life for the purpose of proceeding with the business of life does not make me a sociopath. It's called being a realist.
they'll reap the rewards until they pass us.
The hardest position to maintain in a competitive foot race is first place. The tendency is to relax and lighten the effort. America doesn't have any competition right now, so everyone wants to lighten the effort.
What our space program needs is more reports of how well the Chinese/Japanese/whoever is doing, followed by some scary stories of how they are going to overtake us, own the moon, and then deny us access.
The problem with Ubuntu, or any other Linux for that matter, is that the lack of a stable ABI and certification process for hardware makes it damned near impossible to sell at retail. Which wifi sticks work out of the box at Walmart? Which of the half dozen all in ones that are on sale this week at Staples work, and which are paperweights? Will this laptop at Best Buy work out of the box, INCLUDING wifi, and will it continue to function after the next update without jumping through CLI hoops from hell?
Which one of these devices will continue to work after the next Windows upgrade?
I tend not to throw out perfectly working equipment just because Microsoft decided to gratuitously change their device driver model. I find that 5yr old video and sound cards work just fine in recent releases of Linux, but aren't worth the manufacturers time to create new device drivers in order to operate under the latest versions of Windows. How much hardware was thrown out in order to update to Vista?
You keep buying your cheap crappy hardware at the Staples clearance sales. I'll buy decent equipment that is built to last longer than 6 months, and use an OS that doesn't obsolete it.