I've flipped on that, too. The racial makeup of who was on death row, DNA evidence showing how many were clearly innocent, combined with experience with the legal (as opposed to justice) system was just to much evidence to me that screamed innocent people would probably being killed. Before, I had a romanticized view of only easily identifiable perpetrators like the Loffner(sp?) guy who shot the Congresswoman in broad daylight being on death row. The truth is that it boils down to how much can you afford for a lawyer, and does he/she give a shit.
Sorry, but our legal system doesn't give a damn about justice, and should not have the power over life and death.
Sorry, but the judges sitting in courtrooms disagree with you. They have decided that policemen have the right to rip your car apart if a dog talks to them and tells them that you have drugs.
You can't even make snyde remarks to the groper...or at least that is what they were claiming over the intercom when I was passing through the Houston, TX airport back in August..
Ask to see their comments before they start on their code. I find that if I will write out what I want to do, prepend a comment character to the start of each line, and then start coding, that I stay focused and proceed much faster.
But...but...the media also said that a small minority (the TEA party) held the whole Congress HOSTAGE!! That can't be untrue...they were such a small MINORITY after all.
Another point is that we have effectively defaulted on large sums of debt. "Quantitative easing", double talk with flooding the market with currency, has devalued the dollar. This hurts creditors. The US borrowed a dollar from China, and gets to pay it back with 75 cents.
So the EPA decides one day that your house in on a wetlands, much like the current case before the Supreme Court. You decide that it isn't, and tell them to go do unmentionable things to themselves.
1) How long will it be before they show up with the sheriff to remove you from the property?
2) Will the sheriff have a pistol on his hip or a shotgun in his hand?
As opposed to the current system we have where you have to have a dozen years of schooling to prescribe someone an aspirin and a potentially life-saving drug can be held up by bureaucrats demanding sheaves of paperwork.
I definitely disagree with the naive European view that the two parties are identical. Just because both lean to the right of the European center does not make them identical. There are distinct and obvious differences.
And those differences are mostly centered around which of our liberties they will take away first.
I call bullshit. Clear and simple. You try to rename it whenever possible. We recently had a brouhaha over "bussing for socio-economic diversity", which is just another way of saying racial busing. It was only the Democrats supporting the busing instead of sending kids to the school closest to their home.
You can diffuse the power. It isn't the power itself that is the problem, as it is that, like explosives, all the power is concentrated into one place.
Your definition of "works" and my definition of "works" are not necessarily the same, and when you say something "works" it may be something that I didn't want to "work" in the first place.
You're think more of a high-flying AWACs ship controlling drones below. The workload on a pilot trying to control a high performance jet and all the drones would just be to high. There is a reason that the nose mounted, forward firing gun was a major innovation of military aviation in WW1. It allowed the pilot to fire and fly at the same time.
Beside, the physical limitations of the pilot physiology would limit what the drones could do.
Fighter jets aren't really fighter jets anymore, and haven't been for over a decade. They are more aptly described as a "weapons platform". The days of yanking and banking with a bogie on your six are as long gone as the shoot-out with six-shooters at high noon. The modern fighter has a fire-and-forget, over-the-horizon. The Air Force already has friggin' acronyms for the terms, they are so common. The pilot picks a target from the radar screen, assigns a missile to it, launches, and picks the next target.
There is no reason that function can't be performed by a remote pilot firing a missile carried by a drone.
They also won't kill their crew by pulling to many Gs (an all to common occurance in fighters). They also allow the designer more leeway, because they don't have to design around a 6', 190lb meat bag and all the stuff it needs to stay alive at altitude.
Trees grow at such a slow rate, and are difficult to harvest, requiring heavy equipment to do so.
Plant grasses and leafy plants. Much easier to process in an industrial way, with cheaper equipment, and can generate multiple harvests per year. The yield can be spread out to dry and charcoal much quicker.
Pre solder two pads diagonally opposite. Sit the component and align it. The legs on the pre-soldered pads will be sprung up. Touch those two lets with the iron. It will flow the solder and the legs will spring back down into place.
I'm building a Dyke Delta. Only six or so are flying right now, so it is hard to get flight time in one. With X-plane, I get to practice the plane's flying qualities and the ergonomics of the controls as I've configured them.
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did you turn to her and say, "Here's your sign."?
I've flipped on that, too. The racial makeup of who was on death row, DNA evidence showing how many were clearly innocent, combined with experience with the legal (as opposed to justice) system was just to much evidence to me that screamed innocent people would probably being killed. Before, I had a romanticized view of only easily identifiable perpetrators like the Loffner(sp?) guy who shot the Congresswoman in broad daylight being on death row. The truth is that it boils down to how much can you afford for a lawyer, and does he/she give a shit.
Sorry, but our legal system doesn't give a damn about justice, and should not have the power over life and death.
Sorry, but the judges sitting in courtrooms disagree with you. They have decided that policemen have the right to rip your car apart if a dog talks to them and tells them that you have drugs.
You can't even make snyde remarks to the groper...or at least that is what they were claiming over the intercom when I was passing through the Houston, TX airport back in August..
Ask to see their comments before they start on their code.
I find that if I will write out what I want to do, prepend a comment character to the start of each line, and then start coding, that I stay focused and proceed much faster.
But...but...the media also said that a small minority (the TEA party) held the whole Congress HOSTAGE!! That can't be untrue...they were such a small MINORITY after all.
Another point is that we have effectively defaulted on large sums of debt. "Quantitative easing", double talk with flooding the market with currency, has devalued the dollar. This hurts creditors. The US borrowed a dollar from China, and gets to pay it back with 75 cents.
Really? The police don't carry guns where you come from?
So the EPA decides one day that your house in on a wetlands, much like the current case before the Supreme Court. You decide that it isn't, and tell them to go do unmentionable things to themselves.
1) How long will it be before they show up with the sheriff to remove you from the property?
2) Will the sheriff have a pistol on his hip or a shotgun in his hand?
As opposed to the current system we have where you have to have a dozen years of schooling to prescribe someone an aspirin and a potentially life-saving drug can be held up by bureaucrats demanding sheaves of paperwork.
It ain't Eden anywhere.
I definitely disagree with the naive European view that the two parties are identical. Just because both lean to the right of the European center does not make them identical. There are distinct and obvious differences.
And those differences are mostly centered around which of our liberties they will take away first.
I call bullshit. Clear and simple. You try to rename it whenever possible. We recently had a brouhaha over "bussing for socio-economic diversity", which is just another way of saying racial busing. It was only the Democrats supporting the busing instead of sending kids to the school closest to their home.
You can diffuse the power. It isn't the power itself that is the problem, as it is that, like explosives, all the power is concentrated into one place.
Your definition of "works" and my definition of "works" are not necessarily the same, and when you say something "works" it may be something that I didn't want to "work" in the first place.
You're think more of a high-flying AWACs ship controlling drones below. The workload on a pilot trying to control a high performance jet and all the drones would just be to high. There is a reason that the nose mounted, forward firing gun was a major innovation of military aviation in WW1. It allowed the pilot to fire and fly at the same time.
Beside, the physical limitations of the pilot physiology would limit what the drones could do.
Fighter jets aren't really fighter jets anymore, and haven't been for over a decade. They are more aptly described as a "weapons platform". The days of yanking and banking with a bogie on your six are as long gone as the shoot-out with six-shooters at high noon. The modern fighter has a fire-and-forget, over-the-horizon. The Air Force already has friggin' acronyms for the terms, they are so common. The pilot picks a target from the radar screen, assigns a missile to it, launches, and picks the next target.
There is no reason that function can't be performed by a remote pilot firing a missile carried by a drone.
They also won't kill their crew by pulling to many Gs (an all to common occurance in fighters).
They also allow the designer more leeway, because they don't have to design around a 6', 190lb meat bag and all the stuff it needs to stay alive at altitude.
Not so much.
Trees grow at such a slow rate, and are difficult to harvest, requiring heavy equipment to do so.
Plant grasses and leafy plants. Much easier to process in an industrial way, with cheaper equipment, and can generate multiple harvests per year. The yield can be spread out to dry and charcoal much quicker.
Citation needed.
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If you turned it into charcoal, wouldn't it be easier to just use it in the coal plant instead of mining the coal?
You think that is tiring. You should try living with my wife when she has control of the thermostat. Yeeesh!
And me with no mod points to make this informative. I was wandering how that happened in the video.
Not only that, but it was configured with the attached weight to fall flat, increasing its drag and lowering it's terminal velocity.
Pre solder two pads diagonally opposite. Sit the component and align it. The legs on the pre-soldered pads will be sprung up. Touch those two lets with the iron. It will flow the solder and the legs will spring back down into place.
There is an Xplane add on that will pull scenery from google maps and make it usable in Xplane.
I'm building a Dyke Delta. Only six or so are flying right now, so it is hard to get flight time in one. With X-plane, I get to practice the plane's flying qualities and the ergonomics of the controls as I've configured them.