If somebody wanted to put an "ad" up that slammed freerepublic, and freerepublic asked Google not to, then Google would give them the same consideration.
No offense but are you sure this was third grade? You could type in 3rd grade? Somehow I doubt that. Maybe today kids could... but if you had a TI-99 at home and school then this is probably 1982 or so. Today keyboards are all around kids - in the early 80's most homes didn't even have a type-write let alone a computer. Most kids are learning multiplication tables in 3rd grade - programming might be a stretch. I could be wrong and good-on-ya if I am...
Getting from LEO to the Moon is easy compared to getting from the ground to LEO, so I would expect more than a few years for that.
Way... WAY... off the mark. I think what you mean here is that the delta-V difference between going to LEO and going to the moon on a Hohman transfer is not too far apart... that much is true. But assuming you don't want to just "fly-by" the moon you need a heck of a lot of prop for the LOI burn, descent burn, ascent burn, and TEI burn. And that's just the prop difference. ECS, thermal, rad hardening and shielding, navigation, etc make this *way* more complex than going to LEO.
Put another way,... if it was so easy, how come only one country has landed people there and only a few have even gotten probes there? How many countries have launched their own payloads to LEO? Compare those numbers.
On the first point, I think you are confusing two issues here - I wasn't aware of anyone disputing Canada's claims to their arctic archipelago... what has been in the news of late are the rights to the seafloor under the arctic.
Well, the part the US has issues with regards seabed rights - not the sections governing passage rights.
Most of the passage indisputably passes between islands all internationally recognized as Canadian. Territorial waters is defined as 12 nautical miles (22 km) from the land, and a quick check using Google Earth shows most of these islands are less than 44 km apart at their closest points. Once you're in the Beaufort Sea, then yeah you're in international waters.
All of which is completely irrelevant under the law of the sea. If there is a way to connect to transit between international waters via territorial waters then any nation is completely within their right to make the passage under the concept of innocent passage. Ships all over the world execute this right daily in places such as the Bosporus, Straight of Hormuz, Straight of Gibraltar, Straight of Magellan, Straight of Mallacca.
Don't listen to this guy... I on the other hand recently proved a closed form time-domain solution to your problem. I think I wrote it in a margin of a book somewhere. I'll get back to it sometime and publish it...
That's funny... my Russian textbooks say it's true. Well, technically the words themselves are different but they are derived from the same root "kras-" What "evidence" do *you* have to the contrary? Oh nevermind... let me just embarrass you.
It's also still really easy to get infected on windows..... I don't bother running antivirus.
That's your experience. Like I said, I run from a limited user account exclusively and I *do* use Norton AV. Something I forgot to mention... my 5 year old son has had a limited user account since before he was 2 and has been surfing on his own since then and hasn't accidentally infected me with anything yet. Of course, I have him set up with firefox and he doesn't stray to far from Nick Jr, PBS, Lego.com, etc which probably helps.
As for the games - yours must be extremely old games. For the first 2-3 years of XP there were 2-3 games that I had to run as admin although there were several toddler and kid titles that required admin. Of these, two were quite old and one required admin because it used punk buster. For the last few years there was only one game that I needed admin right for and PB just updated their software so even that one doesn't require admin anymore. When *I* wanted to run one of these games (in the past) I simply right-clicked on it and chose "run as:" and selected my admin account and entered my password (i.e. like "su"). That really wasn't too hard. For games that need write/modify access to my programs (again, older games) I simply used the calcs command (at command prompt) to grant the limited user full access to the games directory. I couldn't even remember the name of that command since I haven't had to use it in so long.
I must be a liar too... I've been using XP for 5 years and have only performed one reinstall and that was only because I wanted to upgrade my master hard drive. In 5 years my computer has crashed a whopping 2 times (once was right after I installed an unsigned driver and the second was more likely a power surge but I'm being liberal). No spyware, no viruses, no trojans (my virus scanner occasionally catches and quarantines one in email. The secret: limited user accounts and router. You haven't had to reinstall to refresh the OS for years. You're really dating yourself.
I did a napkin calculation a year or so ago and at that time, you could give 100k houses free 1.5mw solar power (with inverters, trackers, and batteries) each year for the cost of the Iraq war.
Wow...those must be small houses... (or very energy efficient...)
apparently, the thought never crossed his mind to cast the whole thing and then simply modify the duplicate. Hell, he could have quit his job, made them one after another and spawned them on ebay... you know what they say... "a fool and his replica of carbonite of Han Solo are soon parted..."
I can vaguely feel the disturbance of his reading this post, as if his of voices suddenly cried out in terror and was suddenly silenced.
I have a hard time seeing this guy as a legit Star Wars fan, but then I am a traditional type fan.
right... a real fan would have done something logical like convert their parents' basement into the scene from Jabba's palace and place Han's carbonite form on display in the corner. Bonus points for making Gamorrean guard costumes for the dogs, buying a sphynx and naming it salacious crumb, and for converting the basement half-bath into a sarlac pit.
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You sir have a fundamentally flawed idea of what trademarks are for and how they apply to this case. Read up here.
wrong.
If somebody wanted to put an "ad" up that slammed freerepublic, and freerepublic asked Google not to, then Google would give them the same consideration.
And they'd be wrong then too.
well-put.
I'm sorry - but by definition wouldn't everything in the original series be "canon"?
Who wants to bet this is a Kdawson sock puppet post?
I could see why code monkey would be popular but please... his version of "Baby got Back" is a masterpiece.
Related follow-up/Put another way: If you could go back and do one thing differently what would you do?
No offense but are you sure this was third grade? You could type in 3rd grade? Somehow I doubt that. Maybe today kids could... but if you had a TI-99 at home and school then this is probably 1982 or so. Today keyboards are all around kids - in the early 80's most homes didn't even have a type-write let alone a computer. Most kids are learning multiplication tables in 3rd grade - programming might be a stretch. I could be wrong and good-on-ya if I am...
You must be new here...
which base?
Way... WAY... off the mark. I think what you mean here is that the delta-V difference between going to LEO and going to the moon on a Hohman transfer is not too far apart... that much is true. But assuming you don't want to just "fly-by" the moon you need a heck of a lot of prop for the LOI burn, descent burn, ascent burn, and TEI burn. And that's just the prop difference. ECS, thermal, rad hardening and shielding, navigation, etc make this *way* more complex than going to LEO.
Put another way, ... if it was so easy, how come only one country has landed people there and only a few have even gotten probes there? How many countries have launched their own payloads to LEO? Compare those numbers.
Stinkin? That you?
Well, the part the US has issues with regards seabed rights - not the sections governing passage rights.
doh! It was late! Good catch... I'm embarrassed...
All of which is completely irrelevant under the law of the sea. If there is a way to connect to transit between international waters via territorial waters then any nation is completely within their right to make the passage under the concept of innocent passage. Ships all over the world execute this right daily in places such as the Bosporus, Straight of Hormuz, Straight of Gibraltar, Straight of Magellan, Straight of Mallacca.
Don't listen to this guy... I on the other hand recently proved a closed form time-domain solution to your problem. I think I wrote it in a margin of a book somewhere. I'll get back to it sometime and publish it...
That's funny... my Russian textbooks say it's true. Well, technically the words themselves are different but they are derived from the same root "kras-" What "evidence" do *you* have to the contrary? Oh nevermind... let me just embarrass you.
I should have been more clear - XP Home does not allow any gui control of folder/file permissions - Hence my use of calcs.
That's your experience. Like I said, I run from a limited user account exclusively and I *do* use Norton AV. Something I forgot to mention... my 5 year old son has had a limited user account since before he was 2 and has been surfing on his own since then and hasn't accidentally infected me with anything yet. Of course, I have him set up with firefox and he doesn't stray to far from Nick Jr, PBS, Lego.com, etc which probably helps.
As for the games - yours must be extremely old games. For the first 2-3 years of XP there were 2-3 games that I had to run as admin although there were several toddler and kid titles that required admin. Of these, two were quite old and one required admin because it used punk buster. For the last few years there was only one game that I needed admin right for and PB just updated their software so even that one doesn't require admin anymore. When *I* wanted to run one of these games (in the past) I simply right-clicked on it and chose "run as:" and selected my admin account and entered my password (i.e. like "su"). That really wasn't too hard. For games that need write/modify access to my programs (again, older games) I simply used the calcs command (at command prompt) to grant the limited user full access to the games directory. I couldn't even remember the name of that command since I haven't had to use it in so long.
I must be a liar too... I've been using XP for 5 years and have only performed one reinstall and that was only because I wanted to upgrade my master hard drive. In 5 years my computer has crashed a whopping 2 times (once was right after I installed an unsigned driver and the second was more likely a power surge but I'm being liberal). No spyware, no viruses, no trojans (my virus scanner occasionally catches and quarantines one in email. The secret: limited user accounts and router. You haven't had to reinstall to refresh the OS for years. You're really dating yourself.
Wow...those must be small houses... (or very energy efficient...)
I can't believe I am saying this but for once I agree with you... well put.
I can vaguely feel the disturbance of his reading this post, as if his of voices suddenly cried out in terror and was suddenly silenced.
I can't think of a better new mod category than "fool"
right... a real fan would have done something logical like convert their parents' basement into the scene from Jabba's palace and place Han's carbonite form on display in the corner. Bonus points for making Gamorrean guard costumes for the dogs, buying a sphynx and naming it salacious crumb, and for converting the basement half-bath into a sarlac pit.