Dresden is questionable. But hundreds of thousands were killed every month in the Prosperity Sphere by the Japanese. And of course people in Japan were burning to death in spades due to the firebombing. The use of nuclear weapons was the only way to minimize the potential deaths.
Stress kills your immune system. I know for a fact that I get sick more under stress. Most recently, a member of my family was having some dire problems. The stress from all of that caused me to get a horrible, horrible gastrointestinal bug that stuck with me for 5 days. It was the first time I had been sick for a year.
The government doesn't create money by printing it. It is created in the banking system by double entry bookkeeping. And the availibility of credit, and thus the money supply, is manipulated by the Federal Reserve.
Fiat money is money backed only by the force and goodwill of government. It is generally acknowledged as superior to the gold standard and the like, as it allows manipulation of the money supply. With our fiat money system, the Fed can alter the money supply by changing the Federal Funds Rate, and by buying and selling bonds with their open market operations. This can help prevent deflation in a growing economy, and also control inflation. And of course keep the economy chugging along at a resonable growth rate.
Anglia is in England. But it takes its name after a German tribe. Anglo-Saxons were groups of Germanic invaders in the early middle ages. Tribes such as the Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes invaded Romano-Celtic England.
My personal feeling is that the xbox is all around the best console. It has a combination of good graphics and a wide availability of good games. Something that the Gamecube (good games, but very few) and the PS2(Piss poor graphics) cannot claim. However, while the xbox has many very good titles, most of them are also out on PC. And guess which platform is usually better?
For a non-pc gamer, the xbox is a good console to get. Myself, I've been thinking of picking up a GC. Kind of want to give Zelda:Wind Waker a try.
The argument of xbox not having any good games is trite and untrue. Due to the fact that the platform is easy to develop for, there have been many excellent games ported to the system. It is now rivalling PS2 in its extent of quality games.
We've got Ninja Gaiden, Morrowind, Splinter Cell:PT, Panzer Dragoon, Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, Rainbow Six, Prince of Persia:ST, Project Gotham Racing, and unnumerable other big games. The days of XBOX only having Halo and Mechassault to its name are long gone. Now any big title released on the PS2 is usually released on the xbox, but often with much improved graphics. Likewise, many PC titles make it to the xbox, at the exclusion of other consoles.
If breeder reactors were not banned by Carter, we could produce the vast majority of our reactor fuel in the reactors themselves and reduce uranium mining to virtually nil.
In regular reactors, U-235 is used for fuel. This isotope comprises on.7% of the uranium found in nature. Reactor fuel is uranium refined to several percent U-235.
Since breeder reactors use this otherwise useless U-235 as a precurser to plutonium, you have to mine much less, and high level waste is reduced.
Also lots of the protests at sea are in international waters where they have every right to be, these type of actions really the only way they have of getting the message across and are perfectly legal.
Boarding ships in international waters is considered piracy. The activists can legally be shot.
I do read Playboy for the articles, seriously. They're quite good. In the age of the internet, the pictures are too tame to be of much interest to me, if you see what I am saying.
Nonsense. I have both an Apex TV and a DVD player. Both are quite high quality. The TV has an excellent picture. The DVD player can play MP3, SVCD, VCD, straight MPEG, just about anything. Chinese products are not universally shitty.
Those police charities are invariably scams. I would report them, if I were you.
Anyway, I am kind of saddened that they included so many loopholes. An individual should have the option of blocking campaign calls and charities. If they do not want to recieve the call, they probably won't give to a telemarketing charity, anyway.
Things moving faster than escape velocity are still very much affected by gravity. It simply means that the object is going fast enough that it can escape the gravitational field. Even light, moving at 300,000 kilometers per second, follows a curve around gravitational fields.
The circumference of the Earth is (roughly) 25,000 miles, which means (if my trig is correct) that a railgun mounted at ground level fired 250 miles (3.6 degrees) away could not hit anything less than ((1 - cos 3.6) * 4000 miles), or roughly 8 miles high.
Yeah, don't you hate it how projectiles aren't affected by gravity? Really limits things with guns.
Railguns and light gas guns have fired projectiles at far faster than what is possible with an explosive charge. And we sure as hell have explosive-powered projectiles that travel a whole hell of a lot faster than cannonballs did 500 years ago. The sonic boom cannot cause a hugely noticeable performance drop.
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Dresden is questionable. But hundreds of thousands were killed every month in the Prosperity Sphere by the Japanese. And of course people in Japan were burning to death in spades due to the firebombing. The use of nuclear weapons was the only way to minimize the potential deaths.
Stress kills your immune system. I know for a fact that I get sick more under stress. Most recently, a member of my family was having some dire problems. The stress from all of that caused me to get a horrible, horrible gastrointestinal bug that stuck with me for 5 days. It was the first time I had been sick for a year.
The government doesn't make more money by printing it.
The government doesn't create money by printing it. It is created in the banking system by double entry bookkeeping. And the availibility of credit, and thus the money supply, is manipulated by the Federal Reserve.
Fiat money is money backed only by the force and goodwill of government. It is generally acknowledged as superior to the gold standard and the like, as it allows manipulation of the money supply. With our fiat money system, the Fed can alter the money supply by changing the Federal Funds Rate, and by buying and selling bonds with their open market operations. This can help prevent deflation in a growing economy, and also control inflation. And of course keep the economy chugging along at a resonable growth rate.
Really? I always thought it was based on an Arthur C. Clark book by the name of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Anglia is in England. But it takes its name after a German tribe. Anglo-Saxons were groups of Germanic invaders in the early middle ages. Tribes such as the Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes invaded Romano-Celtic England.
They have had sattelite broadband for a long time. I don't understand why everyone is excited about this. It is nothing new.
My personal feeling is that the xbox is all around the best console. It has a combination of good graphics and a wide availability of good games. Something that the Gamecube (good games, but very few) and the PS2(Piss poor graphics) cannot claim. However, while the xbox has many very good titles, most of them are also out on PC. And guess which platform is usually better?
For a non-pc gamer, the xbox is a good console to get. Myself, I've been thinking of picking up a GC. Kind of want to give Zelda:Wind Waker a try.
The argument of xbox not having any good games is trite and untrue. Due to the fact that the platform is easy to develop for, there have been many excellent games ported to the system. It is now rivalling PS2 in its extent of quality games.
We've got Ninja Gaiden, Morrowind, Splinter Cell:PT, Panzer Dragoon, Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, Rainbow Six, Prince of Persia:ST, Project Gotham Racing, and unnumerable other big games. The days of XBOX only having Halo and Mechassault to its name are long gone. Now any big title released on the PS2 is usually released on the xbox, but often with much improved graphics. Likewise, many PC titles make it to the xbox, at the exclusion of other consoles.
If breeder reactors were not banned by Carter, we could produce the vast majority of our reactor fuel in the reactors themselves and reduce uranium mining to virtually nil.
.7% of the uranium found in nature. Reactor fuel is uranium refined to several percent U-235.
In regular reactors, U-235 is used for fuel. This isotope comprises on
Since breeder reactors use this otherwise useless U-235 as a precurser to plutonium, you have to mine much less, and high level waste is reduced.
Also lots of the protests at sea are in international waters where they have every right to be, these type of actions really the only way they have of getting the message across and are perfectly legal.
Boarding ships in international waters is considered piracy. The activists can legally be shot.
I do read Playboy for the articles, seriously. They're quite good. In the age of the internet, the pictures are too tame to be of much interest to me, if you see what I am saying.
Nonsense. I have both an Apex TV and a DVD player. Both are quite high quality. The TV has an excellent picture. The DVD player can play MP3, SVCD, VCD, straight MPEG, just about anything. Chinese products are not universally shitty.
Do whatever you can to try to report these people to the FCC. It has always been highly illegal to call after 9 P.M.
Those police charities are invariably scams. I would report them, if I were you.
Anyway, I am kind of saddened that they included so many loopholes. An individual should have the option of blocking campaign calls and charities. If they do not want to recieve the call, they probably won't give to a telemarketing charity, anyway.
I assume it would be fired in a parabolic trajectory. It doesn't have to be fired completely straight. Kind of like a ballistic missile.
Things moving faster than escape velocity are still very much affected by gravity. It simply means that the object is going fast enough that it can escape the gravitational field. Even light, moving at 300,000 kilometers per second, follows a curve around gravitational fields.
The circumference of the Earth is (roughly) 25,000 miles, which means (if my trig is correct) that a railgun mounted at ground level fired 250 miles (3.6 degrees) away could not hit anything less than ((1 - cos 3.6) * 4000 miles), or roughly 8 miles high.
Yeah, don't you hate it how projectiles aren't affected by gravity? Really limits things with guns.
Railguns and light gas guns have fired projectiles at far faster than what is possible with an explosive charge. And we sure as hell have explosive-powered projectiles that travel a whole hell of a lot faster than cannonballs did 500 years ago. The sonic boom cannot cause a hugely noticeable performance drop.
NTSC is 29.97Hz. It is 60 fields per second, but it only draws the complete picture at 30Hz, due to the interlacing.
Deuterium is not radioactive. Heavy water isn't either, because it is composed of deuterium and oxygen.
Tritium, however, is radioactive.
I am a Berliner.
Either that or the "fucking idiocy of foreigners."