What the heck is the point of that much freaking paper. A million pages? Come on... How the heck is a judge or jury even supposed to remember what's in a million pages in order to make a decision?
How about:
1) Cite the law. 2) Cite instances where the law was broken (or your rights were infringed upon based on the law). 3) Argue for how much you deserve to win using some calculations, whatever.
End of case. Should be like 100 pages max.
Freaking lawyers. Bury people in paperwork for bullshit.
"The cockpit consists of a push-button ignition, an accelerator lever between the seats which controls vertical thrust, a joystick that provides balance and bearing.
A small screen on the dashboard connects to a camera underneath the helicopter for ground vision, a set of six buttons adjusts the screen's brightness while a small transmitter is used for communication."
Favoritism is always a problem, but you can mitigate it to some extent. Have a combination of standardized testing and board reviews. The standardized testing will test whether the kids are absorbing at least some of the material. While the board reviews can judge other things like how the kids are being exposed to the real world. Things like field trips can be very effective on a kid's mind, but it's difficult to judge that. On the other hand, taking a field trip to see the movie Pearl Harbor for its historical significance is an obvious waste of time and should be reviewed as negative.
For right now, I don't think we need a performance review system that effectively ranks the 99, 98, and 97 percentile teachers against each other. For right now, we need a performance review system that effectively ranks the 80 percentile teachers against the 40 percentile teachers. Even doing just that in a rudimentary fashion would be a huge step forward.
"I'm not sure how they'll handle "service missions" with these things (launch a space telescope and hope the gyros don't fail?)."
We won't be launching space telescopes into orbit anymore. We'll be installing them on the dark side of the Moon. So servicing will be much easier on the Moon.
You're being attacked by mortars, and you have time to say
"oh, calling card is running out, gotta go!:)" or "the guy says I don't have any more time."
WTF? I'd drop the keyboard and get my ass out of there. If I'm dead, someone will tell them anyhow. If I'm alive, I can talk to them later. Heaven forbid you get blown up because you took an extra 15 seconds to tell them you have to leave.
And how is that different from most mechanics that will charge you $80 an hour anyhow?
I hate having to use services that I don't know much about, because it's like some sort of voodoo crap shoot where the person I am paying to fix the problem has me hanging by the balls. As a result, I pick up skills in areas that I am lacking, little by little. For car repair, I started out with the basics... windshield wipers, etc. Then moved on to oil changes and other fluid refills. Then moved on to changing belts. Then on to changing brake pads and rotors (haven't done drums and shoes yet). Now, I'm swapping out fuel injectors, replacing manifolds, etc. Next up is an EGR valve I need to swap out. I've since stopped doing oil changes though, because it's a bit of a hassle to do yourself, and it's not that expensive in the first place ($20 to $30 usually).
The funny thing is, once you get in there and do this stuff, the whole voodoo crap shoot thing fades away. Now, if I run into something I don't know how to diagnose, I'll take it into a shop. BUT, this time around I'll be better suited to know if they are just jerking me around and talking out of their arse when they give me their diagnosis.
Case in point? NASA's Genesis mission. Yes, NASA's name is on it, but Lockheed Martin built the probe. When returning samples from space back to Earth, the thing came hurtling down and crashed into the ground without ever trying to stop. It was supposed to release parachutes to slow it down to a gentle drop on the ground. The problem? The sensors (accelerometers I believe) that triggered the release of the parachute were installed upside-down. Oops. Fortunately they were still able to recover much of the scientific data so that the mission was not a loss.
You are missing the point here: It's not that it's the Democrats calling for an investigation, it's that it's the other party calling for an investigation. The Democrats are not some liberty-preserving pro-citizen party, they are simply the other party and will do whatever it takes to smear the Republicans. Switch the situation around: Democratic White House, Democratic congress, wire taps. Who would be calling for an investigation? The Republicans obviously. And the Democrats would be trying to sweep it under the rug.
Note: I'm not pro-Republican or pro-Democrat, I'm a conservative and I am often disturbed by the absurdity of the entire system.
But is fiber to the level that it's cheap enough to wire buildings or your own house with it? I just did a quick look for bulk fiber, and it still looks damn expensive. Copper wiring is dirt cheap in comparison. I would love to wire my house with fiber and have nice gigabit+ speeds to every room. Talk about content on demand from the central server.
I wonder if mining landfills will be a lucrative business in the future. Say, after a couple hundred years when all the easily-decayable materials have decayed and all you have left are the persistant materials - metals, glass, plastics. Landfills could be goldmines in the making - swoop in, tear them down, filter out the good stuff, and move on to the next one.
Just use the energy from the nuclear power plants to perform electrolysis on water. You get 2 moles of hydrogen (H2) and 1 mole of oxygen (O2) for every mole of water (H2O). So let's see:
And if you do any serious amount of work on your desk, lots of IKEA stuff feels like a wobbly piece of shit. Nothing is worse than trying to scribble aggresively when you get a really good idea, and having the table wobble all over the place. I say, if you can't jump up and down on the desk without it wobbling... then it's not worth my time. I've got a thick pine desk (much cheaper than oak), and it's quite stable. And the legs can detach from the desk surface so it's easy to move, even by myself.
However much you may despise the RIAA, they do have a point. But the point doesn't just apply to music and movies. We have to protect our intellectual property across all industries - nano, bio, chem, manufacturing, weapons, etc. That IP is what gives us our edge nowadays. And it's that IP that is worth more than the RIAA's $12B or GM's $193B... because it is involved in every aspect of our economy. You could probably value it in the trillions of dollars. We're no longer a manufacturing country. We are a technology country. And if we don't protect that edge, we may continue slipping all together. I think the RIAA is on the right track, however I would not trust the RIAA to do the IP work with Russia for all of us. Obviously their only interest will be ensuring they receive royalties for music and movies from Russia, not ensuring that Russia takes an IP enforcement stance on all varieties of IP. And I'm not talking stuff like Amazon's 1-click BS. I'm talking about things like new molecules, new manufacturing techniques, mechanical designs, etc... truly innovative and patentable ideas.
Having said that, I don't think we should be able to gridlock every technology we develop. Just like any company within the United States needs to be a good national citizen, we need to be good global citizens and release technology into the world after we reap the benefits for a while. In the end, hopefully the world will just become one huge global economy that works identically in every nook and cranny in the world. So companies no longer go to China to produce circuit boards because of lackluster ecological and labor laws. A company just starts wherever they start, and they only move because of additional opportunity, not to escape restrictions like IP law, eco law, or labor law.
Without even reading the article, think about this logically. What is most of the land mass in the world covered with? Trees, shrubs, plants, etc. There are a few extremely arid places that don't grow trees, but they probably did at one point in time. And at higher elevations, the growth can't survive, but that is a small percentage by area. But even in the very dry southwestern USA, plants grow all over the place. So, if the idea of this article is to caution everyone's eco-planning policies so that they don't go planting trees carelessly, then I call B.S. Now if someone was arguing for terraforming the Sahara or is trying to analyze large swaths of plankton or algae on the surface of the ocean, this might be useful. But your average tree-hugger doesn't need to be worried with this. We've cut down many more acres of trees for farms, plantations, subdivisions, and buildings in the last 100 or so years than we have planted.
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I'll drop a few bucks in her kitty, if ya know what I mean. ;) meow.
"What about hormones which possibly cause early puberty in girls?"
I know plenty of immature girls in their early 20s. I don't see a problem with this.
What the heck is the point of that much freaking paper. A million pages? Come on ... How the heck is a judge or jury even supposed to remember what's in a million pages in order to make a decision?
How about:
1) Cite the law.
2) Cite instances where the law was broken (or your rights were infringed upon based on the law).
3) Argue for how much you deserve to win using some calculations, whatever.
End of case. Should be like 100 pages max.
Freaking lawyers. Bury people in paperwork for bullshit.
Atlantic hurricanes don't travel west to east very well.
Wow, first time I've heard someone refer to the Shuttle as a "death trap".
Funny.
Anyone else do a double-take-wtf at this?
...
"The cockpit consists of a push-button ignition, an accelerator lever between the seats which controls vertical thrust, a joystick that provides balance and bearing.
A small screen on the dashboard connects to a camera underneath the helicopter for ground vision, a set of six buttons adjusts the screen's brightness while a small transmitter is used for communication."
Let's see
Button 1: Brighter
Button 2: Darker
Buttons 3 through 6: ???
If sperm banks gave out free hand jobs, imagine how good business would be. I know I'd go down there every couple of days.
My memory of Jon Katz consists primarily of "In this post-9/11 world ..."
Favoritism is always a problem, but you can mitigate it to some extent. Have a combination of standardized testing and board reviews. The standardized testing will test whether the kids are absorbing at least some of the material. While the board reviews can judge other things like how the kids are being exposed to the real world. Things like field trips can be very effective on a kid's mind, but it's difficult to judge that. On the other hand, taking a field trip to see the movie Pearl Harbor for its historical significance is an obvious waste of time and should be reviewed as negative.
For right now, I don't think we need a performance review system that effectively ranks the 99, 98, and 97 percentile teachers against each other. For right now, we need a performance review system that effectively ranks the 80 percentile teachers against the 40 percentile teachers. Even doing just that in a rudimentary fashion would be a huge step forward.
"I'm not sure how they'll handle "service missions" with these things (launch a space telescope and hope the gyros don't fail?)."
We won't be launching space telescopes into orbit anymore. We'll be installing them on the dark side of the Moon. So servicing will be much easier on the Moon.
You're being attacked by mortars, and you have time to say
:)" or "the guy says I don't have any more time."
"oh, calling card is running out, gotta go!
WTF? I'd drop the keyboard and get my ass out of there. If I'm dead, someone will tell them anyhow. If I'm alive, I can talk to them later. Heaven forbid you get blown up because you took an extra 15 seconds to tell them you have to leave.
And how is that different from most mechanics that will charge you $80 an hour anyhow?
... windshield wipers, etc. Then moved on to oil changes and other fluid refills. Then moved on to changing belts. Then on to changing brake pads and rotors (haven't done drums and shoes yet). Now, I'm swapping out fuel injectors, replacing manifolds, etc. Next up is an EGR valve I need to swap out. I've since stopped doing oil changes though, because it's a bit of a hassle to do yourself, and it's not that expensive in the first place ($20 to $30 usually).
I hate having to use services that I don't know much about, because it's like some sort of voodoo crap shoot where the person I am paying to fix the problem has me hanging by the balls. As a result, I pick up skills in areas that I am lacking, little by little. For car repair, I started out with the basics
The funny thing is, once you get in there and do this stuff, the whole voodoo crap shoot thing fades away. Now, if I run into something I don't know how to diagnose, I'll take it into a shop. BUT, this time around I'll be better suited to know if they are just jerking me around and talking out of their arse when they give me their diagnosis.
The fake cameras are also effective for practicing your Sam Fisher moves at home as well.
Case in point? NASA's Genesis mission. Yes, NASA's name is on it, but Lockheed Martin built the probe. When returning samples from space back to Earth, the thing came hurtling down and crashed into the ground without ever trying to stop. It was supposed to release parachutes to slow it down to a gentle drop on the ground. The problem? The sensors (accelerometers I believe) that triggered the release of the parachute were installed upside-down. Oops. Fortunately they were still able to recover much of the scientific data so that the mission was not a loss.
Maybe it should have been a silent movie?
Sorry, that should have been a "minimum" of a year or two. I was basically trying to say "less than 2 hours = flight, greater than one year = orbit".
You are missing the point here: It's not that it's the Democrats calling for an investigation, it's that it's the other party calling for an investigation. The Democrats are not some liberty-preserving pro-citizen party, they are simply the other party and will do whatever it takes to smear the Republicans. Switch the situation around: Democratic White House, Democratic congress, wire taps. Who would be calling for an investigation? The Republicans obviously. And the Democrats would be trying to sweep it under the rug.
Note: I'm not pro-Republican or pro-Democrat, I'm a conservative and I am often disturbed by the absurdity of the entire system.
Flight: if you stop thrusting, you crash and burn within an hour or two.
Orbit: if you stop thrusting, you crash and burn after a year or two.
Whoops, sorry about that.
But is fiber to the level that it's cheap enough to wire buildings or your own house with it? I just did a quick look for bulk fiber, and it still looks damn expensive. Copper wiring is dirt cheap in comparison. I would love to wire my house with fiber and have nice gigabit+ speeds to every room. Talk about content on demand from the central server.
I wonder if mining landfills will be a lucrative business in the future. Say, after a couple hundred years when all the easily-decayable materials have decayed and all you have left are the persistant materials - metals, glass, plastics. Landfills could be goldmines in the making - swoop in, tear them down, filter out the good stuff, and move on to the next one.
Just use the energy from the nuclear power plants to perform electrolysis on water. You get 2 moles of hydrogen (H2) and 1 mole of oxygen (O2) for every mole of water (H2O). So let's see:
1) Nuclear power: good!
2) Water: good!
3) Oxygen: good!
4) Hydrogen: good!
Seems like a win-win-win-win to me.
And if you do any serious amount of work on your desk, lots of IKEA stuff feels like a wobbly piece of shit. Nothing is worse than trying to scribble aggresively when you get a really good idea, and having the table wobble all over the place. I say, if you can't jump up and down on the desk without it wobbling ... then it's not worth my time. I've got a thick pine desk (much cheaper than oak), and it's quite stable. And the legs can detach from the desk surface so it's easy to move, even by myself.
However much you may despise the RIAA, they do have a point. But the point doesn't just apply to music and movies. We have to protect our intellectual property across all industries - nano, bio, chem, manufacturing, weapons, etc. That IP is what gives us our edge nowadays. And it's that IP that is worth more than the RIAA's $12B or GM's $193B ... because it is involved in every aspect of our economy. You could probably value it in the trillions of dollars. We're no longer a manufacturing country. We are a technology country. And if we don't protect that edge, we may continue slipping all together. I think the RIAA is on the right track, however I would not trust the RIAA to do the IP work with Russia for all of us. Obviously their only interest will be ensuring they receive royalties for music and movies from Russia, not ensuring that Russia takes an IP enforcement stance on all varieties of IP. And I'm not talking stuff like Amazon's 1-click BS. I'm talking about things like new molecules, new manufacturing techniques, mechanical designs, etc ... truly innovative and patentable ideas.
Having said that, I don't think we should be able to gridlock every technology we develop. Just like any company within the United States needs to be a good national citizen, we need to be good global citizens and release technology into the world after we reap the benefits for a while. In the end, hopefully the world will just become one huge global economy that works identically in every nook and cranny in the world. So companies no longer go to China to produce circuit boards because of lackluster ecological and labor laws. A company just starts wherever they start, and they only move because of additional opportunity, not to escape restrictions like IP law, eco law, or labor law.
Without even reading the article, think about this logically. What is most of the land mass in the world covered with? Trees, shrubs, plants, etc. There are a few extremely arid places that don't grow trees, but they probably did at one point in time. And at higher elevations, the growth can't survive, but that is a small percentage by area. But even in the very dry southwestern USA, plants grow all over the place. So, if the idea of this article is to caution everyone's eco-planning policies so that they don't go planting trees carelessly, then I call B.S. Now if someone was arguing for terraforming the Sahara or is trying to analyze large swaths of plankton or algae on the surface of the ocean, this might be useful. But your average tree-hugger doesn't need to be worried with this. We've cut down many more acres of trees for farms, plantations, subdivisions, and buildings in the last 100 or so years than we have planted.