it's difficult to imagine in what way commerce between disparate parts of the US could be "increased" by building more rail links.
Well, apart from improved passenger rail leading to improved commuter services, there is the obvious state that the relative sizes of US cities changes over time (compare Detroit and Phoenix) so clearly there is a need to vary the amount of freight going to those cities over time. Plus, there are still building major new freight terminals today - for example, Elwood Illinois, currently most famous for inspiring the names of the Blues Brothers, has recently opened a 621 acre rail port - the idea is that basing it around transport infrastructure (expressways, airports, etc) rather than the city itself improves efficiency.
Fastest winged vessel the US has ever produced? 28,000km/h!
Well, that was the orbiting velocity of the Space Shuttle. That's over Mach 20. It's rather easier to go fast in space - there isn't all that air you have to shove out of the way.
The fastest combat jet is the MiG-25, which has been radar tracked at 3,395km/h.
Well, you're dead. Just as you are if that really huge truck on the opposite carriageway has a major blowout and suddenly veers right across you and you have an articulated trailer hit you in the face at over 100mph while you were on your way to the airport.
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Robot technology of the time wasn't exactly up to much, though...
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Remember, fusion power is only 20 years away.
I don't have an exact cite for that, but hey, it's always been 20 years away...
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You're forgetting one thing - the people who bought cars did so with their own money. If people want to spend their own money going into space, fine. But when you're talking about spending people's tax dollars, then their view has to be taken into account.
In the United Kingdom, the "F word" is censored even at 10 PM
That depends on which channel, and what programme. A film on ITV1 or BBC1 that might get a lot of kids staying up to watch it may well be censored (especially ITV - watching people gun each other down while screaming 'forget you' is just silly). But if it isn't going to have a large amount of kids staying up to watch it, then they won't censor.
not to mention that the clone thing should happen alot sooner then 25 yrs..
Oh yes, and we'll have fusion power by then as well. It's set 25-30 years from now. So we're talking about as far from now as the '70s. You know, when they had men on the moon and faster than sound commercial travel. Plus, perhaps the writers actually have an idea that cloning isn't easy - you're not going to get people cloning humans until the success rate is massively higher than it is with mammals now, and we've worked out how to make clones that aren't going to prematurely age - remember, Dolly the Sheep is dead. Will it take 25 years? Wouldn't surprise me.
That's why I said 'viewed'. And the Transparency International rankings are derived from the following...
Global Competitiveness Report (World Economic Forum), World Competitiveness Yearbook (Institute for Management Development), Survey of Middle Eastern Businesspeople (Information International), World Business Environment Survey (World Bank), Country Risk Service and Country Forecast (Economist Intelligence Unit), Nations in Transit (Freedom House), Risk Ratings (World Markets Research Centre), State Capacity Survey (Columbia University), Asian Intelligence Issue (Political and Economic Risk Consultancy), Opacity Index (Price WaterhouseCoopers), Survey (unnamed multilateral development bank), Corruption Survey (Gallop International on behalf of Transparency International), and Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (World Bank and the EBRD).
So that's the international community.
Oh, and in terms of press freedom, yes Hong Kong's press (ranked 56th) isn't as free as that in the US (31st), but it's in a hell of a lot better state than China (165 of 166).
Personally, the biggest error was not supporting a mod community early on in B&W.
Really? I thought the biggest error was releasing the game when it was full of bugs it could walk across the floor on its own. The biggest challenge in finishing the game was getting to the end without it crashing.
AND when you are done with it someone else pays you MORE for the shelter. (Assuming the value went up and you didnt trash it and so on.) Sometimes it's a LOT more.
That's an if. What if the neighborhood changes? Or you bought beachfront property and the doomsayers on global warming were right? Or if house prices are just overpriced anyway, and combined with the increase in personal debt means sufficient numbers will have their houses repossessed to cause a collapse in value if interest rates double? Then you're better of renting until the crash comes.
*sigh*. No, I'm saying it is perfectly possible to have a set up where you pay people to do work and they just release it publically. It works in science, and is a benefit to society as a whole. Why not do the same with software?
Oh, and don't tell me companies won't go along with it. Most of my publications are from collaborations with industry, and I'm not unique.
So, you can't make any money by giving away your knowledge for free? News to all the academics who have been publishing their research rather than hiding it from the world and only revealing it when they file a patent (although some of us might get more money if we did)
Do Americans really still buy that log cabin myth? The Lincoln family owned two farms, livestock, and more land in Elizabethtown, Ky while Lincoln was growing up.
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You didn't specify getting them there intact...
Well, that was the orbiting velocity of the Space Shuttle. That's over Mach 20. It's rather easier to go fast in space - there isn't all that air you have to shove out of the way.
The fastest combat jet is the MiG-25, which has been radar tracked at 3,395km/h.
Well, you're dead. Just as you are if that really huge truck on the opposite carriageway has a major blowout and suddenly veers right across you and you have an articulated trailer hit you in the face at over 100mph while you were on your way to the airport.
Robot technology of the time wasn't exactly up to much, though...
I don't have an exact cite for that, but hey, it's always been 20 years away...
You're forgetting one thing - the people who bought cars did so with their own money. If people want to spend their own money going into space, fine. But when you're talking about spending people's tax dollars, then their view has to be taken into account.
They weren't developed at the request of NASA.
Hmm. Somehow I can't see Little Britain translating to the US...
So it's like Muslim countries liking the taste of Cola but not wanting to buy Pepsi or Coke.
Oh yes, and we'll have fusion power by then as well. It's set 25-30 years from now. So we're talking about as far from now as the '70s. You know, when they had men on the moon and faster than sound commercial travel. Plus, perhaps the writers actually have an idea that cloning isn't easy - you're not going to get people cloning humans until the success rate is massively higher than it is with mammals now, and we've worked out how to make clones that aren't going to prematurely age - remember, Dolly the Sheep is dead. Will it take 25 years? Wouldn't surprise me.
China was ranked 161st in press freedom by Reporters Sans Frontieres.
Global Competitiveness Report (World Economic Forum), World Competitiveness Yearbook (Institute for Management Development), Survey of Middle Eastern Businesspeople (Information International), World Business Environment Survey (World Bank), Country Risk Service and Country Forecast (Economist Intelligence Unit), Nations in Transit (Freedom House), Risk Ratings (World Markets Research Centre), State Capacity Survey (Columbia University), Asian Intelligence Issue (Political and Economic Risk Consultancy), Opacity Index (Price WaterhouseCoopers), Survey (unnamed multilateral development bank), Corruption Survey (Gallop International on behalf of Transparency International), and Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (World Bank and the EBRD).
So that's the international community.
Oh, and in terms of press freedom, yes Hong Kong's press (ranked 56th) isn't as free as that in the US (31st), but it's in a hell of a lot better state than China (165 of 166).
Really? I thought the biggest error was releasing the game when it was full of bugs it could walk across the floor on its own. The biggest challenge in finishing the game was getting to the end without it crashing.
4 cups or less is good for you? But I don't even feel alive until my fifth...
That might apply to the third world and the US, but not to a number of western European countries.
That's an if. What if the neighborhood changes? Or you bought beachfront property and the doomsayers on global warming were right? Or if house prices are just overpriced anyway, and combined with the increase in personal debt means sufficient numbers will have their houses repossessed to cause a collapse in value if interest rates double? Then you're better of renting until the crash comes.
Not as much as alcohol does...
Oh, and don't tell me companies won't go along with it. Most of my publications are from collaborations with industry, and I'm not unique.
So, you can't make any money by giving away your knowledge for free? News to all the academics who have been publishing their research rather than hiding it from the world and only revealing it when they file a patent (although some of us might get more money if we did)
Anything from 1904? Well, Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is still staged today. Mahler's fifth symphony was first staged in 1904 as well.
Do Americans really still buy that log cabin myth? The Lincoln family owned two farms, livestock, and more land in Elizabethtown, Ky while Lincoln was growing up.