It is no such thing. Phishers, among others, do it all the time. You can't hustle an honest man, because hustling is stealing from somebody by making him think he's the one doing the stealing.
If I were you, I'd be disappointed in my post office...my Netflix rental history shows 52 DVDs in the last 90 days.
If I drop a disk in the mail on Monday, it goes into "Returned" status on Tuesday, or if I use a box at the post office before about 10 AM, it goes to Returned the same day, thanks to their special handling contract with the USPS. The next disk arrives within two days of that, often the next day. Weekends are the exception: they apparently do processing only Monday-Friday.
In the last couple of years I've received no more than two unplayable disks, not counting one that arrived broken.
The Air Force has finally come out of denial on that point, and is creating a "UAV operator" career path that does not require rated pilots. Among other things, it will open the field up to a lot of people who have the technical chops but can't pass a pilot physical.
It's possible in theory, but next to impossible in practice. You would have to stay in the part of the wingtip vortex that's moving upward, and have enough maneuvering power to deal with a frightful amount of curl (in the mathematical sense of "del cross V") at jet speeds.
Migrating ducks and geese do it. Each bird rides one of the tip vortices from the guy in front of him -- that's why they fly in a V formation. It reduces their induced drag by about ten percent, and the strongest flyers take turns flying lead.
Want to be a general, in charge of a major combat command? Sit out a war in a safe Stateside assignment and that train has left the station. Work hard, and you'll retire a colonel.
Want to serve a few years, get out and be an airline pilot or haul CEOs around in a Gulfstream? Put jet hours in your logbook, and the remote ones don't count.
"Sport" is often defined in terms of ritualized combat. Hockey fits that definition: while it's dangerous and rough, you can win without hurting anybody and don't get any points if you do...in fact, you're more likely to get penalties.
Know what you call a boxer who inflicts brain damage on his opponent? "The winner". I'd call that combat, period.
The 7th Guest pissed me off no end. You couldn't backtrack without wading -- and waiting -- through all the cutesy-poo animation sequences over again. The tenth time that maze made me listen to "Feeling a little...LOOONELY?" I punched out of it.
Steve Jobs has the right to keep his medical records private for as long as he wants. Like FDR. Like JFK.
Who says they had any such right, especially FDR who knew perfectly well he was dying? They simply DID it, with collusion from the press...and if FDR's brain had blown out twelve weeks earlier, there would have been no Cold War. The Russians wouldn't have needed one.
Hope she had a fast-track program to make it work. I skipped third grade in 1949 and just went from an ordinary second grade class to an ordinary fourth...it raised a lot more problems than it solved: last pick on PE teams, bullying from the dimbulbs and so forth. I had a high-school classmate who skipped two grades, and it was even worse for him.
Surface gravity is proportional to the cube root of the mass if you assume similar composition, because it's proportional to the planet's mass and inversely proportional to the distance from the center of mass to the surface (i.e. the planet's radius). The radius will be 5^(1/3) = 1.71x. The gravity will then be 5/(1.71^2) = 1.71x.
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It is no such thing. Phishers, among others, do it all the time. You can't hustle an honest man, because hustling is stealing from somebody by making him think he's the one doing the stealing.
rj
If I drop a disk in the mail on Monday, it goes into "Returned" status on Tuesday, or if I use a box at the post office before about 10 AM, it goes to Returned the same day, thanks to their special handling contract with the USPS. The next disk arrives within two days of that, often the next day. Weekends are the exception: they apparently do processing only Monday-Friday.
In the last couple of years I've received no more than two unplayable disks, not counting one that arrived broken.
rj
They've promised to credit user accounts for the interruption in service.
rj
Armor went away fairly quickly, but cavalry persisted for half a millennium after the invention of firearms.
rj
The Air Force has finally come out of denial on that point, and is creating a "UAV operator" career path that does not require rated pilots. Among other things, it will open the field up to a lot of people who have the technical chops but can't pass a pilot physical.
rj
It's possible in theory, but next to impossible in practice. You would have to stay in the part of the wingtip vortex that's moving upward, and have enough maneuvering power to deal with a frightful amount of curl (in the mathematical sense of "del cross V") at jet speeds.
Migrating ducks and geese do it. Each bird rides one of the tip vortices from the guy in front of him -- that's why they fly in a V formation. It reduces their induced drag by about ten percent, and the strongest flyers take turns flying lead.
rj
...out of how many?
Perhaps it's grant renewal time...
rj
Depends on what you want to get out of it.
Want to be a general, in charge of a major combat command? Sit out a war in a safe Stateside assignment and that train has left the station. Work hard, and you'll retire a colonel.
Want to serve a few years, get out and be an airline pilot or haul CEOs around in a Gulfstream? Put jet hours in your logbook, and the remote ones don't count.
rj
"Sport" is often defined in terms of ritualized combat. Hockey fits that definition: while it's dangerous and rough, you can win without hurting anybody and don't get any points if you do...in fact, you're more likely to get penalties.
Know what you call a boxer who inflicts brain damage on his opponent? "The winner". I'd call that combat, period.
rj
How about one level of accountability?
rj
One of Scott Adams's newsletters reported this exchange between a headhunter and an applicant a while back:
"Why do you want to leave your present job?"
"My boss wants me to become a COBOL programmer."
"So, you don't like to learn new things?"
rj
Yeah, in fact you can watch that picture and see the change happen.
rj
That faint flapping sound you hear is a badly overworked whoosh-bird trying to remain airborne.
rj
I'm guessing you never typed "What is a grue?" in a Zork game.
rj
Worse, almost every one had a point where you had to stop playing the game and plow your way through a lame-ass arcade sequence.
rj
Myst was marvelous, but just like the Riverworld novels, the series went steadily downhill...
The 7th Guest pissed me off no end. You couldn't backtrack without wading -- and waiting -- through all the cutesy-poo animation sequences over again. The tenth time that maze made me listen to "Feeling a little...LOOONELY?" I punched out of it.
rj
What is a grue?
rj
Who says they had any such right, especially FDR who knew perfectly well he was dying? They simply DID it, with collusion from the press...and if FDR's brain had blown out twelve weeks earlier, there would have been no Cold War. The Russians wouldn't have needed one.
rj
They don't always...but then the government does it for them.
rj
She skipped the 3rd grade
Hope she had a fast-track program to make it work. I skipped third grade in 1949 and just went from an ordinary second grade class to an ordinary fourth...it raised a lot more problems than it solved: last pick on PE teams, bullying from the dimbulbs and so forth. I had a high-school classmate who skipped two grades, and it was even worse for him.
rj
Well, here's a scenario:
1. Spammer goes to jail for 21 months and doesn't like it.
2. He arranges with a confederate to be waiting at an airport with an airplane and his money stash the day he busts out.
3. He busts out, makes his way to the airport, and finds the friend and money left without him.
4. Now all he has is a free ticket to a real pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
5. He now has a good reason to off himself. And he suspects his wife of complicity, so he offs her too.
rj
Ummm, no. More like 1.7x.
Surface gravity is proportional to the cube root of the mass if you assume similar composition, because it's proportional to the planet's mass and inversely proportional to the distance from the center of mass to the surface (i.e. the planet's radius). The radius will be 5^(1/3) = 1.71x. The gravity will then be 5/(1.71^2) = 1.71x.
rj
rj