Freedom of speech is at least as sacred to me as the prophet is to a muslim person
Exactly.
I saw a photo on the reuters feed of a banner some of the rioters were carrying, that said "our religion does not allow freedom of speech", and the first thought that sprung to mind was "well, maybe that's why your civilization degenerated from a beacon of enlightenment to a collection of squalid little dictatorships and monarchies."
So what does a rocket do when it's launching? Other than "go up".
Flight? Nope, not bouyant, no aerodynamic lift.
Orbit? Nope, it's not ballistic, and if you turned off the engine to make it ballistic it'd intersect the Earth, loudly.
Flight and orbit are not the only options for describing something that's not on the ground. I would describe a rocket in its boost phase as neither flying nor orbiting.
Would it have killed you to paste in proper dictionary definitions?
Why bother? I knew some pedantic asshole would save me the trouble.
Well, I'm involved in a start-up now, but I spent the last three and a half years at Apple computer. Besides Apple, I've worked at several Wall Street firms, and I was a manager at KPMG Peat Marwick for a while. The only places I've been that had major Dilbert-world situations were both telcos, and I bailed out of each of those pretty quick.
Hey, I agree with you that American public schools are a disgrace, moreso in poor areas than rich ones. You are however, jumping to a conclusion about me which I find rather offensive.
"Get as outraged about that as you are about 'institutional racism aagaisnt whites"
As it happens, I hold racial discrimination to be an evil practice, no matter whose ox is being gored. Justice can not be served collectively, no matter how well-intentioned the discrimination may be.
If you care about the quality of education, then work to end the NEA cartel. The US already spends more per capita on elementary and high school students than Germany or Japan, but we're not getting the results they are. Look, for example, at the Netherlands: although schooling is still tax-funded, schools are not government-operated and have to compete for their students.
Orbit: if you stop thrusting, you crash and burn after a year or two.
For fairly low orbits.. Satellites out in Geosync aren't likely to come down in just a couple of years, without some retro-orbital thrust.
-jcr
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How do they differentiate between "flight", and "orbit"?
"Flight" is when you travel through the atmosphere, relying on aerodynamic lift or bouyancy to keep you off the ground. "orbit" is when you're on a ballistic trajectory that doesn't intersect the earth.
Seems to me I first heard of titanium-catalyst coatings something like five or six years ago. Any organic material on a tile coated with this compound, would oxidize and break up its polymers, leaving you with gaseous CO2, water vapor and nitrogen. Really fast in the presence of sunlight, and not quite so fast under artificial light.
If you believe the meter running on the above web page, it ran through 1000 songs in 112 seconds.
That's about right.
BTW, I spoke with the programmer who implemented that counter. It phones home to adjust its tick rate, so it's pretty close to the actual running count, barring massive network latency.
If their goal is to cool the ocean's surface, they can't exactly use the ocean to cool the engine, compressor, and compressed air, can they?
The goal is to make ice. The amount of energy used by the pumps is very small compared to the heat transfer from the water to the air, when you spray water into the air. See what I wrote above about increasing the surface area.
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Freedom of speech is at least as sacred to me as the prophet is to a muslim person
Exactly.
I saw a photo on the reuters feed of a banner some of the rioters were carrying, that said "our religion does not allow freedom of speech", and the first thought that sprung to mind was "well, maybe that's why your civilization degenerated from a beacon of enlightenment to a collection of squalid little dictatorships and monarchies."
-jcr
Death threats, burn down buildings, deface websites, protests, and the list goes on.
Not just buildings. Embassies. Which makes it an act of war, BTW.
So yes, it's an overreaction. I would also contend that the rioters have done far more to disgrace their religion than any critic ever could.
-jcr
There was the computed GOTO, which also appeared in several versions of BASIC. It was more like:
GOTO X OF (100, 200, 300, 400)
where X was a value between 1 and 4, inclusive.
-jcr
Once you are scared of the beast you learn to treat it with respect!
Or better still, leave it alone.
-jcr
What in the world are you doing in Germany, Fidel? Didn't you hear that the DDR is kaput?
-jcr
So what does a rocket do when it's launching? Other than "go up".
Flight? Nope, not bouyant, no aerodynamic lift.
Orbit? Nope, it's not ballistic, and if you turned off the engine to make it ballistic it'd intersect the Earth, loudly.
Flight and orbit are not the only options for describing something that's not on the ground. I would describe a rocket in its boost phase as neither flying nor orbiting.
Would it have killed you to paste in proper dictionary definitions?
Why bother? I knew some pedantic asshole would save me the trouble.
-jcr
Well, I'm involved in a start-up now, but I spent the last three and a half years at Apple computer. Besides Apple, I've worked at several Wall Street firms, and I was a manager at KPMG Peat Marwick for a while. The only places I've been that had major Dilbert-world situations were both telcos, and I bailed out of each of those pretty quick.
-jcr
Hey, I agree with you that American public schools are a disgrace, moreso in poor areas than rich ones. You are however, jumping to a conclusion about me which I find rather offensive.
"Get as outraged about that as you are about 'institutional racism aagaisnt whites"
As it happens, I hold racial discrimination to be an evil practice, no matter whose ox is being gored. Justice can not be served collectively, no matter how well-intentioned the discrimination may be.
If you care about the quality of education, then work to end the NEA cartel. The US already spends more per capita on elementary and high school students than Germany or Japan, but we're not getting the results they are. Look, for example, at the Netherlands: although schooling is still tax-funded, schools are not government-operated and have to compete for their students.
-jcr
Orbit: if you stop thrusting, you crash and burn after a year or two.
For fairly low orbits.. Satellites out in Geosync aren't likely to come down in just a couple of years, without some retro-orbital thrust.
-jcr
How do they differentiate between "flight", and "orbit"?
"Flight" is when you travel through the atmosphere, relying on aerodynamic lift or bouyancy to keep you off the ground. "orbit" is when you're on a ballistic trajectory that doesn't intersect the earth.
HTH,
-jcr
I doubt any corporation is still a "fine place to work".
My experience says otherwise.
-jcr
it's not going to remove pubes
Actually, it probably would, but they'd take longer. Only part that's in contact with the catalyst would react.
-jcr
I think "germs" and my cells aren't all that different in their ability to resist being killed.
You don't have living cells on the surface of your skin.
Maybe the right solution isn't to kill every thing but learn to live with bacterias, etc.
Maybe the right solution is to just freeze in the dark, too!
-jcr
Or, you can hire a maid yourself. You don't have to wait for your wife to hire one.
-jcr
Seems to me I first heard of titanium-catalyst coatings something like five or six years ago. Any organic material on a tile coated with this compound, would oxidize and break up its polymers, leaving you with gaseous CO2, water vapor and nitrogen. Really fast in the presence of sunlight, and not quite so fast under artificial light.
Isn't this the same stuff?
-jcr
I left the web page open (in a tab) for a while,
It probably doesn't phone home when the applet isn't visible.
-jcr
They can buy shares like anyone else.
-jcr
/. needs a couple more mod categories..
-jcr
If you believe the meter running on the above web page, it ran through 1000 songs in 112 seconds.
That's about right.
BTW, I spoke with the programmer who implemented that counter. It phones home to adjust its tick rate, so it's pretty close to the actual running count, barring massive network latency.
-jcr
What would one person want with ten 60 gig iPods?
Some people have ten friends or relatives they could give them to.
-jcr
Das echte Bannkontrollier sagt: "Bannkontrolleur" sieht Französisch aus.
Telcos have never been noted for having good business sense.
-jcr
Their credibility would be ruined if they did that.
It wasn't ruined any of the previous times they switched CPUs.
-jcr
If their goal is to cool the ocean's surface, they can't exactly use the ocean to cool the engine, compressor, and compressed air, can they?
The goal is to make ice. The amount of energy used by the pumps is very small compared to the heat transfer from the water to the air, when you spray water into the air. See what I wrote above about increasing the surface area.
-jcr
Spelling Nazi says "Grammar".
-jcr