"You've obviously never heard the Voice of Russia shortwave broadcasts of cold war days."
You mean Radio Moscow! Broadcasting on the 49, 31, 25, and 19 meter bands to North America. 7.125 MHz was what we used to call the "international tuneup frequency," because we'd test our rig on that frequency.
Random capitalization of nouns is common among technical people who have been exposed to Microsoft documentation. The names of objects and properties are capitalized but not offset with special text (the Document object, the Input textbox, and so forth). People tend to follow the examples that they have been given, even if they have training in English grammar and spelling.
I read the article and some related material. The purpose of the pill is not to wipe memories; the purpose of the pill is to lessen the impact of the traumatic memory, which for many reasons seems to be stored more strongly in human memory than ordinary kind. A rape victim would remember being raped or a soldier would remember combat, but the pill would make the memory less traumatic, less crippling, and lessen the effects of PTSD and affective disorders.
Combat attrition. The Rebellion, like the Japanese and Germans in World War II, had to keep their best fighters in combat. This caused a toll on experienced leaders.
To continue the World War II analogy (after all, the attack scene in Ep. 4 was loosely based on "The Dam Busters" and other WW2 flicks), there would tend to be 4 to 8 percent losses in each sortie for a squadron. Ten sorties could mean as much as an 80% turnover. The Red and Gold squadron leaders could have been mediocre pilots who were made squadron leader on the basis of surviving.
Having a child with dysgraphia, I understand your problem. However, you still need to communicate effectively to express your thoughts. There are not only the words you say, but also the way in which you present words that is important.
To run a spellchecker is a trivial effort and prevents people not noticing your thoughts through the "noise" of poor grammar, spelling, and syntax.
I am fortunate enough to have a facility with English that I do not have with math--I am battering my head over linear equations, and I have not yet mastered calculus--but the facility comes from exposure to good writing and practice.
This has much to do with education. Many young people protest over memorization. However, memorizing the fundamentals in a subject matter means you can work even deeper in your field without having to recheck facts.
Since a Jedi or a Sith are the only ones who use light sabers on a regular basis, and all but two of the Jedi are dead at the end of three, I suspect that the other ones ended up as souvenirs in Stormtrooper houses... they use them to toast bagels... or they stopped working and ended up on junk heaps. Remember there are 18 years or so between Episodes 3 and 4.
When Lucas came out with Star Wars, it was in part a tribute to Buck Rogers and other Saturday-afternoon two-reel series. Thus, he began with Episode IV as a tribute. However, it went out of control.
Amitabh Bachan is Darth Vader. Hritik Roshan is Luke, Aswari Rai is Leia, Om Puri is Palpatine, Salman Khan is Han Solo, and special appearances by Jaya Bachan and Kajol!
They stop the fight on the Death Star for a musical number.
10 cm errors are still significant enough to cause an aircraft to be damaged landing, or to cause damage landing. It sounds like the news article is actually a press release/prospectus in disguise.
I keep hearing this argument, but I won't believe it unless people put up figures to show it. Yes, there is a energy cost to produce solar/wind/wave power devices; however, if the devices are durable enough, they recoup their energy cost.
And why hemp? What about alcohol from corn? Yes, it has lower energy costs per unit than oil/diesel, but it's renewable.
Space is declared open because no one had a practical way of occupying it. To use an example from the days of sail, the limit of coastal waters used to be three nautical miles because three nautical miles was as far as the biggest shore cannon could shoot. In the same way, assuming they get the kinks out of ballistic missile defense, then a nation could defend its space up to the limits of the atmosphere.
The folks on the Rapture Ready bulletin board [[http:\\www.rr-bb.com]] are also very aware of the issue, and have many of the same concerns. Many of the users don't want a central government ID registry, because it is a precursor for a universal system that could be used to enforce the Mark of the Beast. The other side of this is the introduction of subdermal RFID chips.
For those of you who do not know exactly what this means, in the Book of Revelations, during the Tribulation, the Antichrist's system will impose a compulsory registration and sign of loyalty to the Antichrist, signified by a distinguishing mark or tattoo. Those who do not have the mark cannot buy or sell. However, those who do choose the mark will be alienated from God forever; it is the ultimate act of defiance to God in a period when the choices are stark.
Now, the board members don't assume that the national ID system is the Mark; what they are concerned about is that they don't want the system in place, ready to run, ready to deceive millions into eternal damnation.
Don't assume RR members are dumb; I've seen many well-thought-out posts on Rapture Ready, as well as a few loonies. They are mostly Christian (with a few atheists/agnostics who engage in intelligent debate).
"And during the invasion of Iraq the US was subject to international law (yes there is a law higher than the US)."
Ah, and here is the interesting question: is there a law beyond the sovereign state? I contend there is not; even treaties are agreements by sovereign state to behave in such and such a wey. If a state refuses to go along, there is no way to compel it to do so, save by military, economic, or diplomatic force.
The U.S. is sovereign. Iraq is sovereign. Monaco is sovereign. But is the European Union sovereign?
Look, Berman had some good ideas, and he had more than his share of bad ideas; but at least he tried to move the show. I agree. It's time to rest the franchise for a decade or so, then revive it. Or time to let it rest, period.
I'm an old first-gen Trekker, and I have loved the show, but I fear it and Star Wars killed science fiction as a written genre by choking the number of alternate choices. Personally, I would love to see a TV series set in H. Beam Piper's universe, were it not for the fact it would focus on Fuzzies too much. How about Methuselah's Children or Revolt in 2100 as mini-series?
Let's consider that when we spend money on space, we're not putting several million dollars in a capsule and shooting it into orbit. We are paying for people... scientists, technicians, programmers, tech writers, program managers, accountants... the money is recirculated in the economy, and we learn something each time.
I would have to disagree with you about the significance of Lasix surgery. It might be abused, but for those of us with poor vision, it is a possible godsend. My opthamologist tells me that with this surgery, I will not need trifocals, and would only need reading glasses. Were it not for my daughter's braces taking first priority, I would have had it already.
Curing people of myopia is as innovative as creating glasses in the first place.
If I recall correctly from my biology, mitochondria manufacture ATP from ADP, which powers our cells. They are remnants of prokaryotic cells which entered into a symbiosis with their eukaryotic hosts. Mitochondria have their own RNA, which is passed from female to child in sexually-reproducing prokaryotes (and, despite the childish comments, includes Slashdotters).
I hope this clarifies why a mitochondrion is important.
As long as the cost of the energy obtained is higher than the cost of the chemicals, go for it. Besides, the Australian system looks as if it is more reflectors.
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"You've obviously never heard the Voice of Russia shortwave broadcasts of cold war days."
You mean Radio Moscow! Broadcasting on the 49, 31, 25, and 19 meter bands to North America. 7.125 MHz was what we used to call the "international tuneup frequency," because we'd test our rig on that frequency.
Random capitalization of nouns is common among technical people who have been exposed to Microsoft documentation. The names of objects and properties are capitalized but not offset with special text (the Document object, the Input textbox, and so forth). People tend to follow the examples that they have been given, even if they have training in English grammar and spelling.
I read the article and some related material. The purpose of the pill is not to wipe memories; the purpose of the pill is to lessen the impact of the traumatic memory, which for many reasons seems to be stored more strongly in human memory than ordinary kind. A rape victim would remember being raped or a soldier would remember combat, but the pill would make the memory less traumatic, less crippling, and lessen the effects of PTSD and affective disorders.
The French Revolutionary government tried to introduce a 10-hour clock, with noon at 5 p.m. I can get the Revolutionary time fiddling with Excel.
Ironically, May 1 commemorates the Haymarket labor deaths in Chicago.
No, because you can be in a terrestrial escape velocity but not in the Solar escape velocity, which means you orbit the Sun independently.
Combat attrition. The Rebellion, like the Japanese and Germans in World War II, had to keep their best fighters in combat. This caused a toll on experienced leaders.
To continue the World War II analogy (after all, the attack scene in Ep. 4 was loosely based on "The Dam Busters" and other WW2 flicks), there would tend to be 4 to 8 percent losses in each sortie for a squadron. Ten sorties could mean as much as an 80% turnover. The Red and Gold squadron leaders could have been mediocre pilots who were made squadron leader on the basis of surviving.
Having a child with dysgraphia, I understand your problem. However, you still need to communicate effectively to express your thoughts. There are not only the words you say, but also the way in which you present words that is important.
To run a spellchecker is a trivial effort and prevents people not noticing your thoughts through the "noise" of poor grammar, spelling, and syntax.
I am fortunate enough to have a facility with English that I do not have with math--I am battering my head over linear equations, and I have not yet mastered calculus--but the facility comes from exposure to good writing and practice.
This has much to do with education. Many young people protest over memorization. However, memorizing the fundamentals in a subject matter means you can work even deeper in your field without having to recheck facts.
Since a Jedi or a Sith are the only ones who use light sabers on a regular basis, and all but two of the Jedi are dead at the end of three, I suspect that the other ones ended up as souvenirs in Stormtrooper houses... they use them to toast bagels... or they stopped working and ended up on junk heaps. Remember there are 18 years or so between Episodes 3 and 4.
When Lucas came out with Star Wars, it was in part a tribute to Buck Rogers and other Saturday-afternoon two-reel series. Thus, he began with Episode IV as a tribute. However, it went out of control.
Wrong remake:
Amitabh Bachan is Darth Vader. Hritik Roshan is Luke, Aswari Rai is Leia, Om Puri is Palpatine, Salman Khan is Han Solo, and special appearances by Jaya Bachan and Kajol!
They stop the fight on the Death Star for a musical number.
10 cm errors are still significant enough to cause an aircraft to be damaged landing, or to cause damage landing. It sounds like the news article is actually a press release/prospectus in disguise.
I keep hearing this argument, but I won't believe it unless people put up figures to show it. Yes, there is a energy cost to produce solar/wind/wave power devices; however, if the devices are durable enough, they recoup their energy cost.
And why hemp? What about alcohol from corn? Yes, it has lower energy costs per unit than oil/diesel, but it's renewable.
Space is declared open because no one had a practical way of occupying it. To use an example from the days of sail, the limit of coastal waters used to be three nautical miles because three nautical miles was as far as the biggest shore cannon could shoot. In the same way, assuming they get the kinks out of ballistic missile defense, then a nation could defend its space up to the limits of the atmosphere.
The folks on the Rapture Ready bulletin board [[http:\\www.rr-bb.com]] are also very aware of the issue, and have many of the same concerns. Many of the users don't want a central government ID registry, because it is a precursor for a universal system that could be used to enforce the Mark of the Beast. The other side of this is the introduction of subdermal RFID chips.
For those of you who do not know exactly what this means, in the Book of Revelations, during the Tribulation, the Antichrist's system will impose a compulsory registration and sign of loyalty to the Antichrist, signified by a distinguishing mark or tattoo. Those who do not have the mark cannot buy or sell. However, those who do choose the mark will be alienated from God forever; it is the ultimate act of defiance to God in a period when the choices are stark.
Now, the board members don't assume that the national ID system is the Mark; what they are concerned about is that they don't want the system in place, ready to run, ready to deceive millions into eternal damnation.
Don't assume RR members are dumb; I've seen many well-thought-out posts on Rapture Ready, as well as a few loonies. They are mostly Christian (with a few atheists/agnostics who engage in intelligent debate).
Why can't we do both? It's not an either/or situation.
In war, the civil law is silent. If the United States determines no military law was broken, what is Italy going to do about it?
"And during the invasion of Iraq the US was subject to international law (yes there is a law higher than the US)."
Ah, and here is the interesting question: is there a law beyond the sovereign state? I contend there is not; even treaties are agreements by sovereign state to behave in such and such a wey. If a state refuses to go along, there is no way to compel it to do so, save by military, economic, or diplomatic force.
The U.S. is sovereign. Iraq is sovereign. Monaco is sovereign. But is the European Union sovereign?
Look, Berman had some good ideas, and he had more than his share of bad ideas; but at least he tried to move the show. I agree. It's time to rest the franchise for a decade or so, then revive it. Or time to let it rest, period.
I'm an old first-gen Trekker, and I have loved the show, but I fear it and Star Wars killed science fiction as a written genre by choking the number of alternate choices. Personally, I would love to see a TV series set in H. Beam Piper's universe, were it not for the fact it would focus on Fuzzies too much. How about Methuselah's Children or Revolt in 2100 as mini-series?
Let's consider that when we spend money on space, we're not putting several million dollars in a capsule and shooting it into orbit. We are paying for people... scientists, technicians, programmers, tech writers, program managers, accountants... the money is recirculated in the economy, and we learn something each time.
I would have to disagree with you about the significance of Lasix surgery. It might be abused, but for those of us with poor vision, it is a possible godsend. My opthamologist tells me that with this surgery, I will not need trifocals, and would only need reading glasses. Were it not for my daughter's braces taking first priority, I would have had it already.
Curing people of myopia is as innovative as creating glasses in the first place.
If I recall correctly from my biology, mitochondria manufacture ATP from ADP, which powers our cells. They are remnants of prokaryotic cells which entered into a symbiosis with their eukaryotic hosts. Mitochondria have their own RNA, which is passed from female to child in sexually-reproducing prokaryotes (and, despite the childish comments, includes Slashdotters).
I hope this clarifies why a mitochondrion is important.
"There are currently wars and so many conflicts here on earth why would we even want to bother to get involved with aliens?"
To get arms and military advisors, of course, so we can wipe out the other humans!
American, Canadian, or European?
As long as the cost of the energy obtained is higher than the cost of the chemicals, go for it. Besides, the Australian system looks as if it is more reflectors.