At the time of Apollo, the program was consuming half the IC manufacturing capacity of the entire world. The ships were essentially all one-off constructions built by hand. Go read How Apollo Flew to the Moon. Yes, the physics of it were understood. Yes, as experience showed, we had all the technological pieces to make it happen, in much the same way that we almost certainly could conduct a manned mission to Mars if we really wanted to. But doing so required an enormous amount of blood and treasure.
Why is this a surprise? Someone who can't properly use a language they've used daily since birth is unlikely to do much better with one they had to learn later on.
Yeah, kind of inherent in this sort of thing is that it might be a little funny if you're a straight-A student who's known for being uptight, but if you're actually a former drug dealer, it's not funny at all.
You are making an awfully bold assumption about what my representative chose. (Actually, my representative is an idiot, but the alternative was even dumber.)
The managers stay late and clean up at the same time the janitors usually do: after hours. Of course, if you have no way out of your janitorial contract, then obviously you'll have to find some other menial task that managers will have to stay late to do. Not building maintenance, of course: that's one reason the feds usually rent their office space like any other company.
Do you own a straw man company? If you were a manager in charge of a whole department in a company, and your boss told you to cut your budget 1%, is cutting the hours of the people who do one of the primary jobs of your department going to be the first way you try to save money?
Nonsense; they'd just live on as poorer places. OTOH your vaunted blue areas would be paying a lot more for energy and food without the efficient transport network connecting the farms and the mines with the cities. Hinterlands can exist without cities, but cities cannot exist without hinterlands.
Please cite a source for this risible bit of adhomenim.
Ad hominem, but OK.
There has been a regular ongoing MASSIVE case of the vapors over the former Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi) having used a US AirForce asset to travel between DC and SFO semi regularly.
Which is to say, a Congresswoman flying military, not commercial.
Unless you're a Tor user, that's enough. You think they don't log your IP?
If you have something you want to keep private, go to the library and look it up in the stacks. Otherwise, don't bother. I don't discuss anything that I would be embarrassed to see in the newspaper on email, text, or chat. Voice only. (Not that the FBI/CIA don't monitor that, but there won't be recordings.)
Gen X may have accidentally given birth to hipsters with our habits of ironic commentary (sorry about that one, guys), but the standard insult against us is that everyone was a Slacker. Entitled? We figured we'd all be annihilated by nukes.
The cities would produce nothing without hinterland, because they would have nothing to trade. Read Cronon's Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West for a very thorough exploration of this topic beginning with the thoughts of Johann Heinrich von Thünen, who described the way that cities were organized. Cities exist to take advantage of the productivity of their hinterlands. Larger hinterlands make larger, and more productive, cities. And despite the early predominance of Philadelphia in American history, it was New York that rose to the top. Why? Because the Erie Canal (and, later, the railroads that paralleled it) gave New York access to the enormous and enormously productive American Great Lakes. In the context of this view, Chicago is the center of Midwestern trade, but because of old, established trade networks, its productivity flows through New York en route to the world (even though today it could use the St. Lawrence Seaway).
After all, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky are the stereotypical Takers, but without the cheap coal they pump out, how would the Northeast power itself? Saying that cities are the engine of the economy is a very apt analogy: they are fueled by raw materials and exhaust products, but they have to have those raw materials in order to produce anything.
As for the West Coast's Senate representation, it's your own damned fault. Read How the State Got Their Shapes (yes, it was a book first) for an explanation of how the early Californians wanted as much territory as possible to capture all the gold that might be on the eastern slope of the Sierras.
The problem is that what you are describing is really really expensive, and commercial flight is cheap. I live in a modest-sized city. We have flights to several major hubs. I've repeatedly boarded international itineraries while arriving less than 30 minutes before departure. You also are forgetting that there are special lines for first class and serious frequent fliers. It helps - I walked into LAX two days before Christmas and the lines for coach were out the doors, but first class had ten people in line. Add in dedicated security lines, where they exist, and TSA Trusted Traveler programs like Global Entry, and you can almost be treated like a human being. If you can swing it, I strongly encourage you to try flying international business class or better. Yes, it's hideously expensive, although to my surprise AmEx Platinum's companion-flies-free fare (which is essentially one expensive ticket and you just pay taxes on the second one, plus it's fully refundable) has been the cheapest option traveling across the pond - that alone has already paid for the membership fee several times over. But it's a completely different experience: you get on and off the plane first (especially useful at immigration and customs!), they greet you by name, there are comfortable seats, you have lounge access in the airport, and you can spend 24 hours in transit and feel like a human being when you arrive.
Air taxi is a successful business but really depends on people who need to be somewhere obscure right away.
Congressmen don't fly commercial, they fly military. Probably be a damned sight cheaper for them to fly commercial first class, but then they'd have to mingle with their constituents (my experience, first class is mostly salesmen and contractors who fly several times a week on business getting free upgrades or professionals on vacation paying for the convenience).
Except you don't work for a business, you work for a government paid for by your fellow citizens. You have absolutely no moral right to sit by while the IRS takes a cut of everyone's check under threat of force and then pretend that you can be as capricious in your cuts as a private business that has to fight daily to exist. Cut your janitorial staff (they're almost certainly contractors, anyway) and make people take out their own trash. Management can vacuum up. We're talking about a 1% budget cut, not 20%.
I'm a part-time government employee in addition to a full-time private-sector one. Every time I'm at my government job I'm looking for a way to do more with less, because that's good stewardship of the money I'm being paid (and paying).
Poorly armed, poorly trained militiamen may die, but at least they have the option to die free men. Those who don't have guns just do what they're told by the ones who have them.
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At the time of Apollo, the program was consuming half the IC manufacturing capacity of the entire world. The ships were essentially all one-off constructions built by hand. Go read How Apollo Flew to the Moon. Yes, the physics of it were understood. Yes, as experience showed, we had all the technological pieces to make it happen, in much the same way that we almost certainly could conduct a manned mission to Mars if we really wanted to. But doing so required an enormous amount of blood and treasure.
If you're not dealing with native speakers of English, this may change. Isn't that obvious?
clear, intelligent, structured English
Why is this a surprise? Someone who can't properly use a language they've used daily since birth is unlikely to do much better with one they had to learn later on.
Yeah, kind of inherent in this sort of thing is that it might be a little funny if you're a straight-A student who's known for being uptight, but if you're actually a former drug dealer, it's not funny at all.
YOUR representative CHOSE (through inaction)
You are making an awfully bold assumption about what my representative chose. (Actually, my representative is an idiot, but the alternative was even dumber.)
The managers stay late and clean up at the same time the janitors usually do: after hours. Of course, if you have no way out of your janitorial contract, then obviously you'll have to find some other menial task that managers will have to stay late to do. Not building maintenance, of course: that's one reason the feds usually rent their office space like any other company.
Do you own a straw man company? If you were a manager in charge of a whole department in a company, and your boss told you to cut your budget 1%, is cutting the hours of the people who do one of the primary jobs of your department going to be the first way you try to save money?
Managers are salaried. They don't get overtime. What's with the idiot hour on this?
Managers. Managers who are salaried. Salaried managers who do not get overtime.
Nonsense; they'd just live on as poorer places. OTOH your vaunted blue areas would be paying a lot more for energy and food without the efficient transport network connecting the farms and the mines with the cities. Hinterlands can exist without cities, but cities cannot exist without hinterlands.
You're right about the general long term effect, but it will matter to all the people whose flights weren't delayed.
Please cite a source for this risible bit of adhomenim.
Ad hominem, but OK.
There has been a regular ongoing MASSIVE case of the vapors over the former Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi) having used a US AirForce asset to travel between DC and SFO semi regularly.
Which is to say, a Congresswoman flying military, not commercial.
I said management. Managers are salaried or "exempt". They do not get overtime. That's the whole point.
I mean, we're talking about basic employment law here.
Denying taxpayers of the most valuable of the services they paid for - when you don't have to - is wrong. Being more efficient isn't.
Managers are salaried. They work overtime for free.
Unless you're a Tor user, that's enough. You think they don't log your IP?
If you have something you want to keep private, go to the library and look it up in the stacks. Otherwise, don't bother. I don't discuss anything that I would be embarrassed to see in the newspaper on email, text, or chat. Voice only. (Not that the FBI/CIA don't monitor that, but there won't be recordings.)
Gen X may have accidentally given birth to hipsters with our habits of ironic commentary (sorry about that one, guys), but the standard insult against us is that everyone was a Slacker. Entitled? We figured we'd all be annihilated by nukes.
Well, that's bullshit.
The cities would produce nothing without hinterland, because they would have nothing to trade. Read Cronon's Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West for a very thorough exploration of this topic beginning with the thoughts of Johann Heinrich von Thünen, who described the way that cities were organized. Cities exist to take advantage of the productivity of their hinterlands. Larger hinterlands make larger, and more productive, cities. And despite the early predominance of Philadelphia in American history, it was New York that rose to the top. Why? Because the Erie Canal (and, later, the railroads that paralleled it) gave New York access to the enormous and enormously productive American Great Lakes. In the context of this view, Chicago is the center of Midwestern trade, but because of old, established trade networks, its productivity flows through New York en route to the world (even though today it could use the St. Lawrence Seaway).
After all, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky are the stereotypical Takers, but without the cheap coal they pump out, how would the Northeast power itself? Saying that cities are the engine of the economy is a very apt analogy: they are fueled by raw materials and exhaust products, but they have to have those raw materials in order to produce anything.
As for the West Coast's Senate representation, it's your own damned fault. Read How the State Got Their Shapes (yes, it was a book first) for an explanation of how the early Californians wanted as much territory as possible to capture all the gold that might be on the eastern slope of the Sierras.
Don't you coastal blue types ever read?
The problem is that what you are describing is really really expensive, and commercial flight is cheap. I live in a modest-sized city. We have flights to several major hubs. I've repeatedly boarded international itineraries while arriving less than 30 minutes before departure. You also are forgetting that there are special lines for first class and serious frequent fliers. It helps - I walked into LAX two days before Christmas and the lines for coach were out the doors, but first class had ten people in line. Add in dedicated security lines, where they exist, and TSA Trusted Traveler programs like Global Entry, and you can almost be treated like a human being. If you can swing it, I strongly encourage you to try flying international business class or better. Yes, it's hideously expensive, although to my surprise AmEx Platinum's companion-flies-free fare (which is essentially one expensive ticket and you just pay taxes on the second one, plus it's fully refundable) has been the cheapest option traveling across the pond - that alone has already paid for the membership fee several times over. But it's a completely different experience: you get on and off the plane first (especially useful at immigration and customs!), they greet you by name, there are comfortable seats, you have lounge access in the airport, and you can spend 24 hours in transit and feel like a human being when you arrive.
Air taxi is a successful business but really depends on people who need to be somewhere obscure right away.
... as long as someone will loan you money.
Congressmen don't fly commercial, they fly military. Probably be a damned sight cheaper for them to fly commercial first class, but then they'd have to mingle with their constituents (my experience, first class is mostly salesmen and contractors who fly several times a week on business getting free upgrades or professionals on vacation paying for the convenience).
Except you don't work for a business, you work for a government paid for by your fellow citizens. You have absolutely no moral right to sit by while the IRS takes a cut of everyone's check under threat of force and then pretend that you can be as capricious in your cuts as a private business that has to fight daily to exist. Cut your janitorial staff (they're almost certainly contractors, anyway) and make people take out their own trash. Management can vacuum up. We're talking about a 1% budget cut, not 20%.
I'm a part-time government employee in addition to a full-time private-sector one. Every time I'm at my government job I'm looking for a way to do more with less, because that's good stewardship of the money I'm being paid (and paying).
That's when you drive with your knee.
Poorly armed, poorly trained militiamen may die, but at least they have the option to die free men. Those who don't have guns just do what they're told by the ones who have them.
A gun is the difference between a citizen and a subject. I categorically reject any attempt to turn the former into the latter.