Because she isn't supposed to be using her official government account to send family photos and discuss politics not related to her job as governor... which is apparently exactly what was in her non-official, personal email account. How dare she follow the law like that!
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Wait a second.. it depends on what the "negative issues" were. If these were issues relevant to Alaskan politics and she was discussing them with her aides, then maybe this could be problematic for her. But if this was about the PR handling of issues related to her VP campaign then she would be wrong to use her official account and by all means she should be using a personal (or republican party) account. You can't use state resources (i.e. email accounts, office time, phone charges) to advance your political career.
No...you've only proven my point that increased funding for instruction results in better student performance. My only mistake was thinking it was obvious that instruction meant paying for teachers and increased classroom time.
Show me proof that increased school funding actually improves the quality of education. Here is a study (admittedly conservative but feel free to show where their analysis is wrong... at least they provide some data). In particular look at this chart. It seems that the districts that spend the most per student have the poorest graduation rates. Interesting. Leave the budgets and taxes the same. Trim the waste. Shift the dollars within the education budget to actual classroom instruction. For the love of god stop wasting money on IT in schools.
Oh...you voted for the guy that supports the teachers unions. I won't knock teachers, but teachers unions exist to get teachers the highest salaries possible while doing the least amount of work. And at that they are tremendously successful.
Really you don't need to know calculus to figure basic concepts like force (F=ma) or that gravity causes the Earth to orbit the Sun.
Uh...yes you do.
It is obvious to you because you have been raised to understand that gravity is the cause of the planets' orbits. This was not intuitive until the 17th and 18th centuries. Kepler laid the groundwork showing that the orbits of all the planets were ellipses with the Sun at one focus. He (and many others) postulated that the planets moved due to a force originating in the sun (Kepler thought it was a straight inverse relationship). It wasn't until Newton (using calculus) that someone showed that this force was actually an inverse-square law and that it (gravity) explained all observed orbit types.
To fully describe why Mercury has a peculiar orbit does require calculus knowledge.
If by "peculiar" you mean "eccentric" then yes (see above). If you are referring to the perihelion advance of mercury then that takes tensor calculus applied to general relativity.
Woh! Step down from your high horse. There is plenty to learn about basic physics that doesn't involve calculus. You must simply make the correct assumptions. All the calculus is doing is explaining why the algebra works under some assumptions and not others. Even in four years of engineering school, I rarely used calculus.
I hope you are the train-driving type of engineer because I use calculus every day...
While it looks suspicious, and certainly goes along with the current wave of anti-Russian sentiment, I have to agree with the GP - let's wait for more information instead of jumping to conclusions.
Right... because this is about Russia. If it were about the US... go ahead and jump to conclusions... but this only Russia.
I hope everyone here understands that this wasn't a failure of the parachute system actually to be used by the spacecraft. The parachutes that failed were those that were supposed to get the spacecraft to the correct initial conditions after the mock-up was deployed (free-fall) from a cargo aircraft. Because these set-up chutes failed (which again, would not even be present in the actual system) the actual drogues, pilots and mains were exposed to loads WAY out of limits for any entry that would be attempted on a real mission.
I agree with your points. The summary is misleading - the problem was NOT a timing problem. The problem was not properly characterizing the first stage performance at cut-off. A SOLUTION is to adjust the timing of the separation event. I too noticed the roll oscillations,... it certainly was not a simple harmonic oscillator but I didn't think about the torque due to the regen plumming. Wouldn't that cause a nutation/coning motion since it isn't about the cg? Looked to me like the control system was bang-bang'ing in response to an external input (or bad sensor).
All true about the republicans spending increases... but can you name for me one area where Democrats proposed spending less money than Republicans? (Hint: it wasn't homeland defense, defense spending, education spending, medicare, social security, or even the defense budget...)
The environmentalists are theorizing what could happen to the polar bear population. Unfortunately the empirical data doesn't support that hypothesis. linky
From wikipedia: The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is a standing committee of the United States Senate in charge of all senate matters related to the following subjects:
Coast Guard
Coastal zone management
Communications
Highway safety
Inland waterways, except construction
Interstate commerce
Marine and ocean navigation, safety, and transportation
Marine fisheries
Merchant marine and navigation
Nonmilitary aeronautical and space sciences
Oceans, weather, and atmospheric activities
Panama Canal and other interoceanic canals
Regulation of consumer products and services, including testing related to toxic substances, other than pesticides, and except for credit, financial services, and housing
Regulation of interstate common carriers, including railroads, buses, trucks, vessels, pipelines, and civil aviation,
Science, engineering, and technology research and development and policy,
Sports,
Standards and measurement,
Transportation,
Transportation and commerce aspects of Continental Shelf lands.
It also studies and reviews matters relating to science and technology, oceans policy, transportation, communications, and consumer affairs, and reports on those findings.
Yeah... he probably knows nothing about science and technology....
If everyone who is unhappy with Bush voted democrat(not just refused to vote) and you end up with an overwhelming democratic victory, that sends a very powerful message, namely cross that line and we don't tolerate. Something BOTH parties would remember for a long time.
Wow? Are you serious? I followed electoral-vote.com every day (multiple times a day) last election and came to the exact opposite opinion. I'll agree that his methodology is non-biased and he has a great site with a wealth of well-presented information, but have you ever read his "news from the vote-master"? It is extremely biased (and I'm giving him a pass on the fact that he outed himself as a Democrat and I could be wrong but didn't he *endorse* Kerry last time? By definition how is that non-biased?). At least he is cleaning up his links section a bit. I'd say the section of "Dump Bush" links might be a little biased. Or the link to the smirkingchimp.com? Nice. Or the political humor section of his site. Or this page of links...
Of course, he is free to do whatever he wants and I'm not going to bitch about it until he starts referring to himself as a "journalist" or others start calling him un-biased.
There is nothing wrong with being biased... it is only wrong to be biased and to try to present yourself as unbiased.
Number of houses lost to predatory lenders - this is what deregulation is all about
How do you lose something you never owned? The banks too risks on people who either don't understand math or made an investment decision based on speculated home value increases. Blaming the lenders for letting people do stupid stuff with lent money is classic. You make it sound like lenders were holding guns to homebuyers heads and saying "you *must* sign this ridiculous contract."
I and millions of americans had the opportunity to take a risky mortgage that would have reduced my monthly mortgage bills or let my buy a larger house in a more affluent community. We chose instead to buy a house we could afford with a reasonable fixed rate loan. Our representatives look to be seriously considering bailing out these gamblers which means that I get to not only pay for my mortgage but the portion of theirs that they couldn't afford. Can I have a "do-over" and go back in time and buy that larger house I couldn't afford so that all of you will bail me out?
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Because she isn't supposed to be using her official government account to send family photos and discuss politics not related to her job as governor... which is apparently exactly what was in her non-official, personal email account. How dare she follow the law like that!
Wait a second.. it depends on what the "negative issues" were. If these were issues relevant to Alaskan politics and she was discussing them with her aides, then maybe this could be problematic for her. But if this was about the PR handling of issues related to her VP campaign then she would be wrong to use her official account and by all means she should be using a personal (or republican party) account. You can't use state resources (i.e. email accounts, office time, phone charges) to advance your political career.
No...you've only proven my point that increased funding for instruction results in better student performance. My only mistake was thinking it was obvious that instruction meant paying for teachers and increased classroom time.
Oh...you voted for the guy that supports the teachers unions. I won't knock teachers, but teachers unions exist to get teachers the highest salaries possible while doing the least amount of work. And at that they are tremendously successful.
Uh...yes you do. It is obvious to you because you have been raised to understand that gravity is the cause of the planets' orbits. This was not intuitive until the 17th and 18th centuries. Kepler laid the groundwork showing that the orbits of all the planets were ellipses with the Sun at one focus. He (and many others) postulated that the planets moved due to a force originating in the sun (Kepler thought it was a straight inverse relationship). It wasn't until Newton (using calculus) that someone showed that this force was actually an inverse-square law and that it (gravity) explained all observed orbit types.
To fully describe why Mercury has a peculiar orbit does require calculus knowledge.
If by "peculiar" you mean "eccentric" then yes (see above). If you are referring to the perihelion advance of mercury then that takes tensor calculus applied to general relativity.
I hope you are the train-driving type of engineer because I use calculus every day...
close.... but with a layer of encryption.
Masterful...well done!
Right... because this is about Russia. If it were about the US... go ahead and jump to conclusions... but this only Russia.
I hope everyone here understands that this wasn't a failure of the parachute system actually to be used by the spacecraft. The parachutes that failed were those that were supposed to get the spacecraft to the correct initial conditions after the mock-up was deployed (free-fall) from a cargo aircraft. Because these set-up chutes failed (which again, would not even be present in the actual system) the actual drogues, pilots and mains were exposed to loads WAY out of limits for any entry that would be attempted on a real mission.
I agree with your points. The summary is misleading - the problem was NOT a timing problem. The problem was not properly characterizing the first stage performance at cut-off. A SOLUTION is to adjust the timing of the separation event. I too noticed the roll oscillations,... it certainly was not a simple harmonic oscillator but I didn't think about the torque due to the regen plumming. Wouldn't that cause a nutation/coning motion since it isn't about the cg? Looked to me like the control system was bang-bang'ing in response to an external input (or bad sensor).
Anyone else notice the roll oscillations before the video went out? I couldn't tell if it was divergent or not...
oh drat... I wasted a FP opportunity on that?
You can pry my FIOS from my cold...dead fingers...
I love it when liberals notice a (conservatively) biased article ... when, in general, they claim that the media as a whole is above bias.
You seem to be implu
The environmentalists are theorizing what could happen to the polar bear population. Unfortunately the empirical data doesn't support that hypothesis. linky
very nearly... I thought you were going to go for the "if they put their versions in a vault it would be the first secure version..." route.
nice post.
He is the former chairman (and standing member of) the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for 7 years.
From wikipedia: The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is a standing committee of the United States Senate in charge of all senate matters related to the following subjects:
- Coast Guard
- Coastal zone management
- Communications
- Highway safety
- Inland waterways, except construction
- Interstate commerce
- Marine and ocean navigation, safety, and transportation
- Marine fisheries
- Merchant marine and navigation
- Nonmilitary aeronautical and space sciences
- Oceans, weather, and atmospheric activities
- Panama Canal and other interoceanic canals
- Regulation of consumer products and services, including testing related to toxic substances, other than pesticides, and except for credit, financial services, and housing
- Regulation of interstate common carriers, including railroads, buses, trucks, vessels, pipelines, and civil aviation,
- Science, engineering, and technology research and development and policy,
- Sports,
- Standards and measurement,
- Transportation,
Transportation and commerce aspects of Continental Shelf lands.
It also studies and reviews matters relating to science and technology, oceans policy, transportation, communications, and consumer affairs, and reports on those findings.Yeah... he probably knows nothing about science and technology....
Isn't that what happened in the 2006 mid-terms?
woops, here is that last page of links
Of course, he is free to do whatever he wants and I'm not going to bitch about it until he starts referring to himself as a "journalist" or others start calling him un-biased.
There is nothing wrong with being biased... it is only wrong to be biased and to try to present yourself as unbiased.
How do you lose something you never owned? The banks too risks on people who either don't understand math or made an investment decision based on speculated home value increases. Blaming the lenders for letting people do stupid stuff with lent money is classic. You make it sound like lenders were holding guns to homebuyers heads and saying "you *must* sign this ridiculous contract."
I and millions of americans had the opportunity to take a risky mortgage that would have reduced my monthly mortgage bills or let my buy a larger house in a more affluent community. We chose instead to buy a house we could afford with a reasonable fixed rate loan. Our representatives look to be seriously considering bailing out these gamblers which means that I get to not only pay for my mortgage but the portion of theirs that they couldn't afford. Can I have a "do-over" and go back in time and buy that larger house I couldn't afford so that all of you will bail me out?
For those not getting the reference, or seeing it because it has been modded into oblivion the parent is referring to this.