Because they don't need them to reenlist. In December they stopped the scheduled discharges and arbitrarily extended terms of service for many servicemen.
The Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide has been around a long time. There's even a song about it to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic (aka John Brown's Body).
The DHMO song can also be found at the author's page here, but Google is probably more resistant to the Slashdot effect.
every US President since FDR has done this. Truman (D) and Ike (R) did it in Korea, JFK (D), LBJ (D) and Nixon (R) did it in Vietnam, Reagan (R) did it with Libya, Bush Sr. (R) did it with Iraq, Clinton (D) did it with Yugoslavia (not counting the little air strikes on Iraq, the Sudan and Afghanistan either) and Bush Jr. (R) did it with Afghanistan and Iraq.
You're forgetting Carter. The only military action I recall under Carter was the failed rescue mission for the hostages.
Radiation shields are used to block high energy radiation (gamma rays, x-rays, high energy ultraviolet, high energy particles). This is sometimes referred to as ionizing radiation because the particles can knock electrons or positrons out of atoms either directly or indirectly through particle cascades.
For most satellites, especially in any case where they are using gold foil, heat shields are used to block (or more accurately, reflect) thermal radiation. This is lower energy radiation (low ultraviolet, visible light, infrared) that will not ionize material but can still increase its temperature.
Considering that gold is a bad insulator, heavy element, and has a pretty low melting temperature, I'd say that they made a poor choice in heat shield materials.
Bad insulator? In a vacuum you are not concerned with conduction or convection with respect to the surroundings. The only heat transfer across a vacuum is radiation. The best resistance against radiant heat transfer is high reflectivity. Gold has high reflectivity
Heavy element? Gold is one of the most ductile metals. You can form it into incredibly thin foil. It's also inert. You don't need to add any coatings to keep it from corroding while the satellite is being built or being readied for launch. A given area of reflective gold foil can probably be made much thinner (and somewhat lighter) than a similar area of any other metal.
Low melting temperature? It's still higher than most satellites will see unless they're going to reenter Earth's atmosphere, at which point you want the satellite to vaporize or burn in most cases.
I downloaded it about 15 minutes after the speech. The installer downloaded at a respectable 400k/second. I imported and am listening to Wayne Lytle's Animusic on iTunes right now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:World_Trade_Cent er
The role of asbestos in the contruction of the towers and collapse has been discussed by [1]. Basically, asbestos was used as a fire-retardant agent and insulation in the first 60 floors, but not for the entire building. This is thought to have contributed to the collapse because the structural material was not as impervious to heat without the asbestos coating. Cleanup of the wreckage has been hindered by asbestos content as well.
and
http://csf.colorado.edu/envtecsoc/2001/msg00509.ht ml
The WTT skeleton insulation was not complete. It was designed to have asbestos insulation. Partway through construction asbestos was outlawed in new construction and they stopped installing it. Only the first 40 floors of one of the towers had it.
The design called for insulation, but they never installed a replacement for the asbestos for the rest of the structure.
I just wish that you could get the $1 coins. My bank had the Sacajawea coins when they first came out, but they don't stock them anymore. Neither does any other bank in my town.
Unix/Linux users have symbolic links. Mac users have aliases. Aliases work the same as symbolic links with the added advantage that if you move the original file (within the same volume), the alias doesn't lose it. The filesystem automatically updates any aliases that point to a file when that file is moved.
Or have they heard something about Apple using OpenOffice code to come up with their own office suite? After all, Safari was built on top of Konqueror code.
An NDA might keep them from talking about it directly, but it might not keep them from changing their public schedule.
For now, I'll continue using OpenOffice in Mac OS X with X11.
Hormel doesn't have to prevail. They just have to put up an effort. Unlike copyrights, trademarks can lapse if the trademark holder does not actively defend the trademark.
Spider Robinson, "Melancholy Elephants", is the story you are thinking of I think. It was published in the anthologies Melancholy Elephants, By Any Other Name, and in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact magazine back in the 80's.
There is also an application called TypeIt4Me that lets you define all the character macros you want. Basically it works with OS X by copying your default keyboard file and then adding to it as you add macros. See http://www.typeit4me.com for more information.
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Because they don't need them to reenlist. In December they stopped the scheduled discharges and arbitrarily extended terms of service for many servicemen.
The Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide has been around a long time. There's even a song about it to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic (aka John Brown's Body).
The DHMO song can also be found at the author's page here, but Google is probably more resistant to the Slashdot effect.
And the solution test.
A drop of water dissolved in sewage results in sewage.
A drop of sewage dissolved in water results in sewage.
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Hmm, a block of Microsoft code embedded in...
Lilo & Stitch
Lilo & Stitch was the best non-Pixar thing they've made in years.
Radiation shields are used to block high energy radiation (gamma rays, x-rays, high energy ultraviolet, high energy particles). This is sometimes referred to as ionizing radiation because the particles can knock electrons or positrons out of atoms either directly or indirectly through particle cascades.
For most satellites, especially in any case where they are using gold foil, heat shields are used to block (or more accurately, reflect) thermal radiation. This is lower energy radiation (low ultraviolet, visible light, infrared) that will not ionize material but can still increase its temperature.
Worth it and appreciated. I'm glad you do the work you do.
Bad insulator? In a vacuum you are not concerned with conduction or convection with respect to the surroundings. The only heat transfer across a vacuum is radiation. The best resistance against radiant heat transfer is high reflectivity. Gold has high reflectivity
Heavy element? Gold is one of the most ductile metals. You can form it into incredibly thin foil. It's also inert. You don't need to add any coatings to keep it from corroding while the satellite is being built or being readied for launch. A given area of reflective gold foil can probably be made much thinner (and somewhat lighter) than a similar area of any other metal.
Low melting temperature? It's still higher than most satellites will see unless they're going to reenter Earth's atmosphere, at which point you want the satellite to vaporize or burn in most cases.
Remember, Bill Gates owns a large part of Corbis. One of the largest photo licensing firms out there.
Gregor Mendel lived in the 1800s. (Born 1822, Died 1884)
I downloaded it about 15 minutes after the speech. The installer downloaded at a respectable 400k/second. I imported and am listening to Wayne Lytle's Animusic on iTunes right now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:World_Trade_Cent er
and
http://csf.colorado.edu/envtecsoc/2001/msg00509.ht ml
The WTT skeleton insulation was not complete. It was designed to have asbestos insulation. Partway through construction asbestos was outlawed in new construction and they stopped installing it. Only the first 40 floors of one of the towers had it.
The design called for insulation, but they never installed a replacement for the asbestos for the rest of the structure.
I just wish that you could get the $1 coins. My bank had the Sacajawea coins when they first came out, but they don't stock them anymore. Neither does any other bank in my town.
Don't go for the proprietary Quicken. I used it for 7 years and lost significant amounts of data twice due to file corruption issues.
GnuCash works much better, for my needs at least.
Unix/Linux users have symbolic links. Mac users have aliases. Aliases work the same as symbolic links with the added advantage that if you move the original file (within the same volume), the alias doesn't lose it. The filesystem automatically updates any aliases that point to a file when that file is moved.
Or have they heard something about Apple using OpenOffice code to come up with their own office suite? After all, Safari was built on top of Konqueror code.
An NDA might keep them from talking about it directly, but it might not keep them from changing their public schedule.
For now, I'll continue using OpenOffice in Mac OS X with X11.
Woz has invented the Spidey's spider tracer!
Hormel doesn't have to prevail. They just have to put up an effort. Unlike copyrights, trademarks can lapse if the trademark holder does not actively defend the trademark.
Spider Robinson, "Melancholy Elephants", is the story you are thinking of I think. It was published in the anthologies Melancholy Elephants, By Any Other Name, and in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact magazine back in the 80's.
Native Aqua, better font support...
While there were a few rumors of an Apple browser before Safari came out, few people expected it to be based on open source Konqueror.
I'm wondering how big a surprise a behind the scenes port of Open Office to the Mac would be.
Unless they do to the labels what the labels do to the artists.
Here's your 65 cents for the song. Now you owe us for marketing, bandwidth, processing charges, storage fees, AAC processing...
There is also an application called TypeIt4Me that lets you define all the character macros you want. Basically it works with OS X by copying your default keyboard file and then adding to it as you add macros. See http://www.typeit4me.com for more information.