"You can't -propel- yourself towards the Sun using a solar sail. "
If you're starting from earth, you can in effect. You'd use the sail to reduce your orbital velocity, causing you to drop into a lower orbit around the sun. Slow down enough, and you'll fall all the way into the sun if you want.
Nobody ever said the selection was random, except for some pinhead creationists who didn't know what they were talking about. Mutations are random, and selection is the process by which those individuals with advantageous mutations survive while those with disadvantageous mutations do not.
Fuck you, too. I did my research, I read everything I could find on this matter, and I'm satisfied. For the record, I have a thirty+ year habit of telling racists where to go and how to get there, whether they're nazis like the stormfronters or the more subtle racists who promote racial discrimination under the name of "affirmative action."
No, there would be some lift from the body, as long as the path for airflow over the top is longer than the path underneath. The question is how much, and what the effective wing loading would be.
With modern computer control, it should be possible to stabilize a three-fan system like that. What I would wonder though, is how efficient it could be in forward flight, having very little in the way of effective wing area.
RP poses for pictures with anyone who asks for one. That nazi isn't wearing a swastika in that shot, is he? I find it rather unlikely, to say the least, that the guy said "Hi, I'm a nazi, how about a picture?"
Somehow, I find this man rather more credible on the subject of Ron's attitude towards racism than Charles Johnson and everyone in his echo chamber.
Then of course, there is what the man says himself.
Not to mention the fact Ron has published hundreds of essays and speeches, none of which are consistent with the views expressed in some of those newsletters.
Now, the main thing that convinces me that the man isn't a racist, is the fact that he's the only candidate in either of the major parties who has committed to ending the single government policy that does the most damage to minorities in this country. That is, the War on Drugs, which is a very handy tool for any actual racists who want to lock up blacks, hispanics, or anyone else they find offensive.
The FDA approval process takes long enough (currently a minimum of 10 years) that even if a treatment useful for your program is perfected TODAY it won't be available in time to be of use. I
Fortunately, FDA jurisdiction is only over the United States. When you want a new heart, you'll just take a flight to Mexico or India, and have a nice vacation while you're at it.
In my day, if we wanted smooth ice cream, we had to mix in ethylene glycol by hand with a leaden spoon! and we were grateful! You kids get off my lawn!
If you want to fully understand your profession, you'll have to go beyond what you get in the coursework. Look at the assembly code that GCC generates. Optimize some code manually. Write Bresenham's line and circle. Write a knight's tour. Write a threaded interpreter.
If I wanted to go someplace where the facts are ignored
You're already there. Look in the mirror.
Ron Paul won't interfere in Sudan militarily, unless the congress declares war on the Sudan. There's a reason why the war power is reserved to the congress by the constitution; it's not supposed to be easy to go to war. When the USA delclares war, we get the full commitment of the country, and we win. See every war up to WW2 for examples. When we go to war without a declaration, well, do Korea and Vietnam mean anything to you?
As for immigration, unless you can show that he wants to enforce the law separately by race, (eg, only deport illegals from some countries and not others), then you're full of shit trying to use that as a claim of racism. Thirdly, the newsletter that you are flogging is completely inconsistent with everything else Ron Paul has ever said on the subject of race. Show me any racist who says, and I quote, "Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism".
use he's suggesting things that would take America to the Dark Ages.
Nope, the Dark Ages were a period where government power was absolute. He wants to take us back to the Enlightenment.
you're telling me that I'm just imagining things
Not so much "imagining" as "lying through your teeth under cover of anonymity."
Asked and answered, and you already knew that. The content of that issue of his newsletter is not consistent with anything else he's ever said or written.
Your attempt to whitewash Ron Paul's bigotry has failed.
There's nothing to whitewash. The man's not a racist, no matter how much you may want him to be.
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"You can't -propel- yourself towards the Sun using a solar sail. "
If you're starting from earth, you can in effect. You'd use the sail to reduce your orbital velocity, causing you to drop into a lower orbit around the sun. Slow down enough, and you'll fall all the way into the sun if you want.
-jcr
You're right. Putting any kind of control system for critical public utilities on the internet is gross negligence.
-jcr
Nobody ever said the selection was random, except for some pinhead creationists who didn't know what they were talking about. Mutations are random, and selection is the process by which those individuals with advantageous mutations survive while those with disadvantageous mutations do not.
-jcr
Or the tenth?
-jcr
I was serious about the cult mentality comment. It wasn't an arbitrary insult.
The hell it wasn't.
Ask a Scientologist
Oh, now you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Keith Henson is a friend of mine, you slimy motherfucker.
-jcr
I'll just need to scan for a cart that's showing a blue screen, like the advertising display in the elevator I just got out of.
-jcr
cult-like mentality
Fuck you, too. I did my research, I read everything I could find on this matter, and I'm satisfied. For the record, I have a thirty+ year habit of telling racists where to go and how to get there, whether they're nazis like the stormfronters or the more subtle racists who promote racial discrimination under the name of "affirmative action."
-jcr
no lift at all other than the fans.
No, there would be some lift from the body, as long as the path for airflow over the top is longer than the path underneath. The question is how much, and what the effective wing loading would be.
-jcr
You already know, because you have been told repeatedly, that he neither wrote nor edited the statements at issue
He's no racist, and you are a witch-hunter.
-jcr
With modern computer control, it should be possible to stabilize a three-fan system like that. What I would wonder though, is how efficient it could be in forward flight, having very little in the way of effective wing area.
-jcr
Ron Paul is anti-Affirmative Action
That makes him an anti-racist, BTW. "Affirmative Action" is racial discrimination under another name.
-jcr
Ron Paul is clearly a racist and his supporters are having a really hard time with this documented, undeniable fact.
You know, wishing real hard doesn't make something a fact. Ron isn't a racist, no matter how much you want him to be.
-jcr
RP poses for pictures with anyone who asks for one. That nazi isn't wearing a swastika in that shot, is he? I find it rather unlikely, to say the least, that the guy said "Hi, I'm a nazi, how about a picture?"
Somehow, I find this man rather more credible on the subject of Ron's attitude towards racism than Charles Johnson and everyone in his echo chamber.
Then of course, there is what the man says himself.
Not to mention the fact Ron has published hundreds of essays and speeches, none of which are consistent with the views expressed in some of those newsletters.
Now, the main thing that convinces me that the man isn't a racist, is the fact that he's the only candidate in either of the major parties who has committed to ending the single government policy that does the most damage to minorities in this country. That is, the War on Drugs, which is a very handy tool for any actual racists who want to lock up blacks, hispanics, or anyone else they find offensive.
-jcr
hope that a few kind souls with some time on their hands will submit some patches and work out the kinks;
Or just file bug reports. It all helps.
-jcr
The FDA approval process takes long enough (currently a minimum of 10 years) that even if a treatment useful for your program is perfected TODAY it won't be available in time to be of use. I
Fortunately, FDA jurisdiction is only over the United States. When you want a new heart, you'll just take a flight to Mexico or India, and have a nice vacation while you're at it.
-jcr
There are probably some people out there who would buy $100,000 Hollerith keypunches.
-jcr
Certainly, some very well-made pressings can sound outstanding
As long as you only play them in a class-three clean room, and you don't play them more than once (groove wear), etc.
Vinyl records are a brilliant technology for their time, but that time has passed.
-jcr
Hear that whoosing sound?
It's a joke, son. Did you miss the lead spoon part, too?
-jcr
In my day, if we wanted smooth ice cream, we had to mix in ethylene glycol by hand with a leaden spoon! and we were grateful! You kids get off my lawn!
-jcr
Funny you should ask. As it happens, the 9/11 perps weren't travelling under aliases. Their IDs were legit, and they even had credit cards.
Anyone who tells you that the current ID fetish has anything to do with stopping terrorism is either stupid or lying through his teeth.
-jcr
In a related story, an agency of Her Majesty's Government advised against poking a sharp stick into one's eye.
-jcr
If you want to fully understand your profession, you'll have to go beyond what you get in the coursework. Look at the assembly code that GCC generates. Optimize some code manually. Write Bresenham's line and circle. Write a knight's tour. Write a threaded interpreter.
Your degree is the starting line.
-jcr
Printing money non-stop and claiming that it will all just work out somehow is what I would call being "divorced from reality".
-jcr
If I wanted to go someplace where the facts are ignored
You're already there. Look in the mirror.
Ron Paul won't interfere in Sudan militarily, unless the congress declares war on the Sudan. There's a reason why the war power is reserved to the congress by the constitution; it's not supposed to be easy to go to war. When the USA delclares war, we get the full commitment of the country, and we win. See every war up to WW2 for examples. When we go to war without a declaration, well, do Korea and Vietnam mean anything to you?
As for immigration, unless you can show that he wants to enforce the law separately by race, (eg, only deport illegals from some countries and not others), then you're full of shit trying to use that as a claim of racism. Thirdly, the newsletter that you are flogging is completely inconsistent with everything else Ron Paul has ever said on the subject of race. Show me any racist who says, and I quote, "Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism".
use he's suggesting things that would take America to the Dark Ages.
Nope, the Dark Ages were a period where government power was absolute. He wants to take us back to the Enlightenment.
you're telling me that I'm just imagining things
Not so much "imagining" as "lying through your teeth under cover of anonymity."
-jcr
Asked and answered, and you already knew that. The content of that issue of his newsletter is not consistent with anything else he's ever said or written.
Your attempt to whitewash Ron Paul's bigotry has failed.
There's nothing to whitewash. The man's not a racist, no matter how much you may want him to be.
-jcr