just because I actually think there should be limits to what is shown on TV.
And therein lies the problem, you just said "I" think there should be limits to what is shown on T.V. and that was my point in the parent post, we as a control cannot fall into the trap of becoming controled by a few "I's" out there, instead there must be a unified "WE". Of course we may disagree on many things at many times, but my point, and the point of this article, was that the media is being fined and controled by just a few who may not share the opinions of the many even though they are more vocal about it. No one is going to write in and say they want to keep T.V. the way it is, becuase it is already the way they like it, so those millions who like it are not being vocal, while a few thousand are being heard becuase they are the only ones with a reason to speak out.
A similar thing happened to me with comcast recently. I moved to a new place and setup cable, comcast was sending the bill to the wrong address. One day my cable was cutoff, when I called they realized they were using the wrong address but were still going to charge me late fee's to reconnect becuase "You should have noticed you weren't paying after 3 months" bullshit, I have other things to think about/worry about than if my cable bill came this month. If it comes I pay it, if not im oblivious.
I am not a member of the PTC, but I support their right to do this.
On the contrary, they have *NO* right to do this. The first amendment protects freedom of speech, it doesn't offer a person the ability to take away someone elses speech becuase they disagree with what is being said. They clearly have a right to complain if they wish, but there is no way that a fringe organization should be allowed to decide what can and cannot be heard/seen over the public airwaves becuase they find it indecent. You see, indecency is in the eye of the beholder, it is subjective and therefore one cannot say something is indecent becuase another may not find that same thing idecent. If they care about what their childern watch on T.V. then they should sit with their children and monitor what they watch, and if the find it innapropriate, TURN IT OFF.
Also a lot of people dislike the BSD license. There are a lot of folks out there who hate to create open source software only to have some company add one or two important features to an established base then close their source and sell it commercially.
They don't "belong" on windows, it just so happens that the best graphics apps live there. I am a linux user (linux on my primary box and server) but I do boot up my windows machine ocassionaly for photoshop. Fortunately I am not involved in any work where I really need those tools, but there is no reason they could not be ported to linux or that tools just as competent could be created. The gimp is quite good an is maturing and gaining features, it is certainly not of photoshop quality but if you are a web designer or editing photos it is nice. Graphics apps is one place were linux is lacking a bit but that does not mean that those apps do not belong on linux, only that they haven't been developed yet.
-kaplanfx
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Yep Yep, its called a devils fireball I believe, and its been known to cause accidental burndowns of school dorms and apartments across the nation. I've only seen it performed once myself, and things seemed to go well, but after seeing a mighty couch fire get out of control and burn down three apartment buildings I tend not to play with uncontained fire as much. Once during a vapor shot evening, a friend droped a lit shot glass on the floor, luckily it was linoleum and didn't catch too fast, we were able to put it out. Personally the worst I have done are some minor heat burns to my hand, nothing a little aloe and a few days doesn't take care of.
-kaplanfx
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Everclear is great becuase it burn easliy which means... VAPOR SHOTS!!! Lite a shotglass of everclear on fire, then turn your palm so it faces the ground and shove the glass up onto your palm. The fire will burn up the oxygen and quickly burn out but the glass will stick to your hand, pretty neat party trick. Then you take the shot, and while the shotglass is still warm stick it back against your plam, wait a few seconds and the remaining alcohol coating the inside of the glass will vaporize, now take the vapor shot, the vapor will go straight to your head and really mess you up good, try it its fun.
yeah but after the first 62 miles, whatever is on the other end is in apparent weightlessness, so after pulling 1958 miles you can take a break for a while.
Actually half of the proposed distance would be well beyond the accepted barrier of space. Problem is half doesn't work becuase in order for the tensions and the orbit to be correct, the theory is that the counter-balance satellite would be somewhere near 60,000 miles from the surface of the Earth. 30,000 miles is well beyond the accepted barrier of space at 62 miles, in fact it is nearly 484 times the height of the accepted barrier of space.
Won't this severly decrease the effective lifetime of the drive. Each right cycle brings it closer to doom, and you are talking about multiple cycles on all free space once a week. I've had drives fail after just a year or two of "regular" use. I guess this is a good compromise if you have data that you want to secure, but if you are just wearing your tin-foil hat, maybe consider doing this at a longer interval.
What about a LIM to get the scramjet up to speed. I don't know enough about LIMS to know if they could propel the ScramJet up to the speeds it needs in order to work but it sounds like a good idea in my head. So the system would go like this LIM->SCRAMJET->CHEMICAL (or better yet NUCLEAR)ROCKET. Sounds good to me, now some rocket scientists need to get working on this to see if it is feasable.
There is no friction in space so inertia will carry they ship at a constant velocity, that is unless its constantly accelerating as is the case with the Ion drive. It would take a long time but you should eventually be able to reach near relativistic speeds seeing as you are accelerating constantly albiet at a very slow pace.
Yep you are missing something. The Ion rocket cannot lift a satelite into orbit, the specific impulse is much to low, you just don't have the thrust to weight ratio to go anywhere in an environment with gravity and friction due to the density of the atmosphere. You need to piggyback on a tradition rocket to get into a frictionless, low or apperent zero gravity environment.
Only in an environment with no or little gravity. The problem is that from the surface of earth there is friction and gravity to deal with. Ion propulsion does not have a high enough specific impulse to get something as massive as this probe (or really anything for that matter) into orbit. If you were to actually read the acrticle you would see that it reached orbit on an Ariane IV (a traditional liquid fueled rocket) launched from French Guiana.
Sorry, I misspoke, the British currently controled the land but it was a UN mandate that allowed for the formation of the state of Israel. In fact, the British abstained from this vote as did 10 other nations. 33 were in favor, and 13 (mostly arab coincidently) abstained.
Irrelevant, the fact of the matter is that weather or not they were righting a wrong, the land where Isreal resides was under British rule and was given to the jewish people of Europe during the Zionist movement. The Hebrew people were there first but even if they were not, they were given the land as a gift and at the time the land fell under no other recognized state.
Genesis 1- 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
1-15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
1-16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Lets see, god creates the Earth first, then creates the sun and moon in the earth sky to rule day and night, then the stars are just an afterthough. Sounds to me like the Earth is the center and most important part of it all.
I think you understanding of cosomology may be slightly flawed. If you agree that time is a dimension, then you are incorrect that as object move further apart time does as well. You see, as any bodies in the universe excelerate further away from eachother they would tend to move more through space dimensions and therefore less through the time dimension, in which case time would actually be slowing down at any point relative to the rest of the universe that is accelerating away from that point
Another huge problem is trying to combine cosmology and the bible. When a scientific theory is formed, it is tested with the best possible method, and if the theory sufficiently agrees with expirimentation we accept that theory until a better theory comes along. If a theory fails any major part of testing, the theory is considered to be an incorrect theory either indefinately or until a new test is developed with results that do agree with the theory. With respect to cosmology the bible makes claims that the earth is the center of the universe and the church agree for most of biblical history. We know have testable theories that show that earth is but a tiny planet in a large solar system in a larger galaxy, in a larger universe. This I believe is sufficient proof that the bible, at least as far as cosmology is concerned, can be written off as accuracte with respect to any claims made that relate to cosmology. Therefore any time the bible discusses creation of heavenly bodies, times of existance of heavenly bodies, and explanations for the why of existance of earth and other heavenly bodies, it can be ignored as completely non factual, and insignificant as it is fasle in a sceintific sense and does not effect the moral value of the biblical stories.
I think at this point its a little beyond the statute of limitations, there is no way that either party can determine who are the decendents of those who took the gold and who are the decendents of those who had gold stolen from them. Also it will be difficult at this point to find concrete eveidence that any gold was actually stolen.
Yes, but I invented the "Information Historic Old Country Road" its not fast, and there ain't much information, but its so durn quaint you gotta love it.
Trust me, you don't want to watch this movie from a crappy cam rip on a computer monitor. Be patient and see it when it comes to a theatre near you, this was one of the first movies in a while that was well worth the 10 bucks I spent to see it.
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I previewed and still made a mistake, 'we as a control' should read 'we as a country', sorry for the confusion.
People in your line of thought never learn.
just because I actually think there should be limits to what is shown on TV.
And therein lies the problem, you just said "I" think there should be limits to what is shown on T.V. and that was my point in the parent post, we as a control cannot fall into the trap of becoming controled by a few "I's" out there, instead there must be a unified "WE". Of course we may disagree on many things at many times, but my point, and the point of this article, was that the media is being fined and controled by just a few who may not share the opinions of the many even though they are more vocal about it. No one is going to write in and say they want to keep T.V. the way it is, becuase it is already the way they like it, so those millions who like it are not being vocal, while a few thousand are being heard becuase they are the only ones with a reason to speak out.
-kaplanfx
A similar thing happened to me with comcast recently. I moved to a new place and setup cable, comcast was sending the bill to the wrong address. One day my cable was cutoff, when I called they realized they were using the wrong address but were still going to charge me late fee's to reconnect becuase "You should have noticed you weren't paying after 3 months" bullshit, I have other things to think about/worry about than if my cable bill came this month. If it comes I pay it, if not im oblivious.
-kaplanfx
I am not a member of the PTC, but I support their right to do this.
On the contrary, they have *NO* right to do this. The first amendment protects freedom of speech, it doesn't offer a person the ability to take away someone elses speech becuase they disagree with what is being said. They clearly have a right to complain if they wish, but there is no way that a fringe organization should be allowed to decide what can and cannot be heard/seen over the public airwaves becuase they find it indecent. You see, indecency is in the eye of the beholder, it is subjective and therefore one cannot say something is indecent becuase another may not find that same thing idecent. If they care about what their childern watch on T.V. then they should sit with their children and monitor what they watch, and if the find it innapropriate, TURN IT OFF.
-kaplanfx
Also a lot of people dislike the BSD license. There are a lot of folks out there who hate to create open source software only to have some company add one or two important features to an established base then close their source and sell it commercially.
-kaplanfx
They don't "belong" on windows, it just so happens that the best graphics apps live there. I am a linux user (linux on my primary box and server) but I do boot up my windows machine ocassionaly for photoshop. Fortunately I am not involved in any work where I really need those tools, but there is no reason they could not be ported to linux or that tools just as competent could be created. The gimp is quite good an is maturing and gaining features, it is certainly not of photoshop quality but if you are a web designer or editing photos it is nice. Graphics apps is one place were linux is lacking a bit but that does not mean that those apps do not belong on linux, only that they haven't been developed yet.
-kaplanfx
Yep Yep, its called a devils fireball I believe, and its been known to cause accidental burndowns of school dorms and apartments across the nation. I've only seen it performed once myself, and things seemed to go well, but after seeing a mighty couch fire get out of control and burn down three apartment buildings I tend not to play with uncontained fire as much. Once during a vapor shot evening, a friend droped a lit shot glass on the floor, luckily it was linoleum and didn't catch too fast, we were able to put it out. Personally the worst I have done are some minor heat burns to my hand, nothing a little aloe and a few days doesn't take care of.
-kaplanfx
Everclear is great becuase it burn easliy which means... VAPOR SHOTS!!! Lite a shotglass of everclear on fire, then turn your palm so it faces the ground and shove the glass up onto your palm. The fire will burn up the oxygen and quickly burn out but the glass will stick to your hand, pretty neat party trick. Then you take the shot, and while the shotglass is still warm stick it back against your plam, wait a few seconds and the remaining alcohol coating the inside of the glass will vaporize, now take the vapor shot, the vapor will go straight to your head and really mess you up good, try it its fun.
-kaplanfx
Actually, I believe Al Gore created the spider, in an attempt to rid the world of flies.
yeah but after the first 62 miles, whatever is on the other end is in apparent weightlessness, so after pulling 1958 miles you can take a break for a while.
-kaplanfx
its only 2 miles short of the space border, and once you are in international space the gambling and debauchary can begin.
-kaplanfx
Actually half of the proposed distance would be well beyond the accepted barrier of space. Problem is half doesn't work becuase in order for the tensions and the orbit to be correct, the theory is that the counter-balance satellite would be somewhere near 60,000 miles from the surface of the Earth. 30,000 miles is well beyond the accepted barrier of space at 62 miles, in fact it is nearly 484 times the height of the accepted barrier of space.
-kaplanfx
Well yes it would, and you can be the one to pull 3 tonnes of supplies into space, that's only how many miles? Go for it man!
:)
Well at that distance maybe we could build a compound pulley system. Three tons force on one end, 190 lbs on the other
-kaplanfx
Won't this severly decrease the effective lifetime of the drive. Each right cycle brings it closer to doom, and you are talking about multiple cycles on all free space once a week. I've had drives fail after just a year or two of "regular" use. I guess this is a good compromise if you have data that you want to secure, but if you are just wearing your tin-foil hat, maybe consider doing this at a longer interval.
-kaplanfx
What about a LIM to get the scramjet up to speed. I don't know enough about LIMS to know if they could propel the ScramJet up to the speeds it needs in order to work but it sounds like a good idea in my head. So the system would go like this LIM->SCRAMJET->CHEMICAL (or better yet NUCLEAR)ROCKET. Sounds good to me, now some rocket scientists need to get working on this to see if it is feasable.
-kaplanfx
There is no friction in space so inertia will carry they ship at a constant velocity, that is unless its constantly accelerating as is the case with the Ion drive. It would take a long time but you should eventually be able to reach near relativistic speeds seeing as you are accelerating constantly albiet at a very slow pace.
-kaplanfx
Yep you are missing something. The Ion rocket cannot lift a satelite into orbit, the specific impulse is much to low, you just don't have the thrust to weight ratio to go anywhere in an environment with gravity and friction due to the density of the atmosphere. You need to piggyback on a tradition rocket to get into a frictionless, low or apperent zero gravity environment.
-kaplanfx
Only in an environment with no or little gravity. The problem is that from the surface of earth there is friction and gravity to deal with. Ion propulsion does not have a high enough specific impulse to get something as massive as this probe (or really anything for that matter) into orbit. If you were to actually read the acrticle you would see that it reached orbit on an Ariane IV (a traditional liquid fueled rocket) launched from French Guiana.
-kaplanfx
Sorry, I misspoke, the British currently controled the land but it was a UN mandate that allowed for the formation of the state of Israel. In fact, the British abstained from this vote as did 10 other nations. 33 were in favor, and 13 (mostly arab coincidently) abstained.
-kaplanfx
Irrelevant, the fact of the matter is that weather or not they were righting a wrong, the land where Isreal resides was under British rule and was given to the jewish people of Europe during the Zionist movement. The Hebrew people were there first but even if they were not, they were given the land as a gift and at the time the land fell under no other recognized state.
-kaplanfx
um isn't it right there in genesis?
Genesis 1-
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
1-15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
1-16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Lets see, god creates the Earth first, then creates the sun and moon in the earth sky to rule day and night, then the stars are just an afterthough. Sounds to me like the Earth is the center and most important part of it all.
-kaplanfx
I think you understanding of cosomology may be slightly flawed. If you agree that time is a dimension, then you are incorrect that as object move further apart time does as well. You see, as any bodies in the universe excelerate further away from eachother they would tend to move more through space dimensions and therefore less through the time dimension, in which case time would actually be slowing down at any point relative to the rest of the universe that is accelerating away from that point
Another huge problem is trying to combine cosmology and the bible. When a scientific theory is formed, it is tested with the best possible method, and if the theory sufficiently agrees with expirimentation we accept that theory until a better theory comes along. If a theory fails any major part of testing, the theory is considered to be an incorrect theory either indefinately or until a new test is developed with results that do agree with the theory. With respect to cosmology the bible makes claims that the earth is the center of the universe and the church agree for most of biblical history. We know have testable theories that show that earth is but a tiny planet in a large solar system in a larger galaxy, in a larger universe. This I believe is sufficient proof that the bible, at least as far as cosmology is concerned, can be written off as accuracte with respect to any claims made that relate to cosmology. Therefore any time the bible discusses creation of heavenly bodies, times of existance of heavenly bodies, and explanations for the why of existance of earth and other heavenly bodies, it can be ignored as completely non factual, and insignificant as it is fasle in a sceintific sense and does not effect the moral value of the biblical stories.
-kaplanfx
I think at this point its a little beyond the statute of limitations, there is no way that either party can determine who are the decendents of those who took the gold and who are the decendents of those who had gold stolen from them. Also it will be difficult at this point to find concrete eveidence that any gold was actually stolen.
-kaplanfx
Yes, but I invented the "Information Historic Old Country Road" its not fast, and there ain't much information, but its so durn quaint you gotta love it.
-kaplanfx
Trust me, you don't want to watch this movie from a crappy cam rip on a computer monitor. Be patient and see it when it comes to a theatre near you, this was one of the first movies in a while that was well worth the 10 bucks I spent to see it.
-kaplanfx