Ar-vee-duhs You-skah-vitch-ee-us. Why not try a hard name like Alison Palin's son?
The name is Lithuanian; Because the first and last name's endings match each other, almost definitely Arvydas was Lithuanian born. Also, that c should be a che, a c with a little carrot over it.
If you want something that is really hard to say, try saying six geese with six goslings: sheshyos zhasheese su sheshiyays zhashy-yukiaise
The "tail" right now seems to be pointing towards the sun near perigee, and more in the direction of travel as time passes. Is that just debris, or a shock wave, or what? Or are those two ion jet engines, accelerating the vehicle out of here as quickly as possible "mission aborted!!! these folks are just too messed up.
Some say the comet will end in fire; some say ice.
I have a thought... I wonder if the comet #did disintegrate# in the Sun, but the shock wave re-coalesced the comet back into a plum-pudding lump of water, rock, and gas.
In line with that, I also wonder has the comet's CN composition changed significantly?
So, why don't you measure the position of the incoming trajectory points and the outgoingetrajectory points, and then scale according to the known incoming orbit variables, and finally determine whether the outgoing orbit trajectory is parabolic or hyperbolic?
The universe only appears to be perfect to macroscopic viewers, because the time dimensions are held comparatively constant due to between small particles.
In other words, and electron -- which may well "see" 1 spatial dimension and three time dimensions, appears to behave statistically, not predictably. Therefore, quantum mechanics behaves like an imperfect science, as you call it.
That said, psychology, economics, and sociology attempt to make their science more perfect, often, by binding large numbers of subjects together, to eliminate uncontrollable variables and discover the elementary laws. Yes, they are behind natural philosophy and alchemy in that, but only because it takes much more energy and time to study large numbers of people.
For anyone who tortures or orders torture -- GWB/ the King of Terror a la nostradamas included--, the reason to not torture is NOT morality. And such definitely do not care whether others on their own side get tortured: consider Valerie Plame.
No, for such as they, the reason not to torture is to not be caught and punished.
Yes, and waterboarding a personeto death has been declared to be not torture.
The reason to not torture is to not be subject to war crimes trials, as per the Geneva convention. Of course, if you are working for the world's leading superpower, youemay consider that those laws have no force.
And they don't, until your country gets into one too many wars, and loses a war on its own soil.
At that point, all those laws become applicable. Generally speaking, the really bigwigs will be hung. The upper eschelon below them will escape to other criminal run nations. The lower war-criminal grunts will be left holding the bag, and also will be hung. Occasionally, the lower grunts catch the escaping upper escelon, and kill them, themselves. It's kindof a game of rats on a sinking ship.
Let me be more explicit. When you are hiding in a secret room, suddenly things like justice, mercy, and loyalty matter; money, shtuff, and public praise don't.
Neoliberal capitalists mouth the former, but understand nothing but the latter.
So are these the principles of which you speak, when you ask, is it principled to useforce to take from one and give to another? All those things that the CEO, having broken the law left and right, can use to damage -- and therefore blackmail the company?
Neoliberal capitalists are all about using force and fraud to take from some and --well, forget about giving, they put it in their back pockets.
There's another principal, but you'll find out about it when you. Are hiding in a secret room.
Couple of points here: 1) in your haste to let mr. CEO loot the company, you forgot to pay the worker who was doing the work of three. That worker was NOT doing the work of three before, because the previous loote^H^H^H^HCEO had been hamstringing him. However, the dissatisfaction of seeing the next CEO loot everything is also likely to hamstring him.
2) You forgot to grouse about how the stupid workers never seem to want to better themselves. Don't forget to do that to workers who are not paid enough to live, make a fraction of what you do, are far better educated.
Funny, that's what the employers seem to be telling their employees: because the pay I've gotten no matter how many millions I made for my company, has always been zero profit, zero savings, zero retirement. Most recently, I was prject mgr for a bridge building company, took it over way behind schedule, and raised the rate to something where we never delayed our customers a single day, never got chargebacks. We made a large profit; I made nothing. As a matter of fact, I live in a trailer park three miles away, and had to lose my car because Iecouldn't afford it.
Contract law is not the be-all, end all of right and wrong.
Yes, I was joking, but there's always an element of truth. The element of truth here is that I think that professional licensing is also collossally idiotic.
Now, if you wanted to have TWO classes of cabbie, certified-licensed, and uncertified.... I could go for that. The difference is freedom vs. entitlement.
Yes, I remember seeing the Bath county hydroelectric project, much like what you describe.
For the engineering challenges regarding flywheel storage, you can go one of two ways: carbon composite flywheels that go incredibly fast, or giant-radius heavy flywheels that go at moderate speeds.I was thinking of the latter.Admittedly, the latter is more useful for wind, where the large mass of the wheel and housing can also hold the windmill in place.
I don't say none at all. Suppose you need the cosine of 36.87Â? yes, some people will recognize that as a 3-4-5 triangle, but what if it's the one thing you won't recognize?
Yes, it's better to have a simple scientific calculator there, if allowed. For the last 15 years, my father would buy cheap $8 scientific calculators, and sell them at cost to physics students who needed them. Nowadays, you'll probably get the same thing at Walmart.
The key here is: reliable, readable, and that you get it a month or so before your test and use it exclusively for that month, so that you don't waste thought trying to find the minus key.
As for vector calculus, I'd think you should know that well enough to use it. Last time I used it was for an rfi on a bridge misdesign, to show that two surfaces were not perpendicular to each other. The designing engineers--one of whom was a PE, and another of whom is now a PE, teased me about it, but it was the shortest, simplest way to prove the point to an engineer, and they did respect it. Key here, same as with the calculator, is that you don't use stuff you're not extremely familiar with, and that means lots of practice.
That's well and good, but that isn't always what's going on. Back in 1993, I was aware that there was a Federal law that power companies had to pay the prevailing rates to anyone who cared to provide renewable energy.
Since there wasn't much employment in aerospace that year, I called Vepco (now Dominion power, same co, diff name) about how this would work. They put me through to the appropriate person, who said that Vepco would requre a provider to lease equipment to tie in to their grid, and would charge more for rent on the equipment than the amount they had to pay for power.
The whole point was to keep competitors off the grid, it seems.
And it had nothing to do with your charts. It was all about monopoly. Good ol' Virginia.
Nonsense, this is bleeding edge. In a few weeks, they'll realize that they can use lead, with three charges. Then if they apply that liquid bath, say with a true chemical reaction.......hmm, I wonder if sulfuric acid could do the trick.... then they'll have a real, working battery that can compete with Lithium!!!
Ummm.... big issue here. I have to pick my -- now significantly but not greatly more expensive -- company health plan for the next year.
I need to know, NOW, what my alternatives are. My company gave us the plan, and 10 days (week and a half) to figure out what to do.
When I go to healthcare.gov, I am directed to fill out an application online. I therefore have to create an account.
THE CREATE ACCOUNT BUTTON DOES NOTHING!!! .
The online chat has them saying, "well please be patient, or print out and mail in an application form..."
Nothing that will help me decide in 10 days.
I am likely going to cancel all healthcare insurance, pay the $265 / year max family tax, and take my leisure about picking a plan.
But yes, it is really lousy. You don't just jerk on a leash around someone's neck, and mess with what works. But our government does that all the time.
And no, I'm not going to blame liberals, or Democrats. Republicans are as bad about it. And this entire mess is due, in the first place, to socialized medicine that raised the price of medical care 15% per year since the 1970s. That's where the massive damage was done.
AMA, you are the poster child for the Iron Law of Beaurocracy. Your leaders are the antithesis of the Hippocratic Oath, and your members have thus violated their oaths enormously.
I had a minivan that burned a year after I sold it. My brother bought it, and his roommate wanted it--my brother advised against, but eventually sold it. His roommate was taking a church group to a ski resort, and the vehicle leaked oil and caught fire. They put it out, but it reignited. The ski lodge called the fire department and used up several of their fire extinguisher-- after each one, it reignited. The fire truck used up its fire extincuishers-- and it reignited, then burned.
My brother ran into such a fire on the interstatee; a young woman was near the car. He didn't have a fire extinguisher, but he did have a soda cup and there was a muddy puddle near by. So he started scooping water on the fire--it reignited repeatedly, but each time, the mud baked on and sealed the oil leak more. In the end, the car was saved.
Don't let the trolls fool you. We in the US have had socialized medicine since the 20's , and as a result, unavailability of actual service is a common problem.
Because our socialism was more right-wing in nature, limiting who and how many could practice medicine, often -- as by the law passed under Clinton-- solely to increase doctor's alseady sky-high salaries.
As a result of our brand of socialized medicine, prices for medical care have risen fifteen percent per year sinc 1970. That is, prices are about 400 times what they had been, while other things--gasoline, for example, are only 5-10 times the price. So the healthcare sector has seized --mostly from the poor--40 times its rightful share of the wealth of the market.
You can't do that without causing massive destruction. Thus, the AMA is likely going to be THE LEADING CAUSE OF UNTIMELY DEATH in the US in the 21st century. So much for the hypocritic oath.
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Ar-vee-duhs You-skah-vitch-ee-us. Why not try a hard name like Alison Palin's son?
The name is Lithuanian; Because the first and last name's endings match each other, almost definitely Arvydas was Lithuanian born. Also, that c should be a che, a c with a little carrot over it.
If you want something that is really hard to say, try saying six geese with six goslings: sheshyos zhasheese su sheshiyays zhashy-yukiaise
The "tail" right now seems to be pointing towards the sun near perigee, and more in the direction of travel as time passes. Is that just debris, or a shock wave, or what? Or are those two ion jet engines, accelerating the vehicle out of here as quickly as possible "mission aborted!!! these folks are just too messed up.
Some say the comet will end in fire; some say ice.
I have a thought... I wonder if the comet #did disintegrate# in the Sun, but the shock wave re-coalesced the comet back into a plum-pudding lump of water, rock, and gas.
In line with that, I also wonder has the comet's CN composition changed significantly?
So, why don't you measure the position of the incoming trajectory points and the outgoingetrajectory points, and then scale according to the known incoming orbit variables, and finally determine whether the outgoing orbit trajectory is parabolic or hyperbolic?
The universe only appears to be perfect to macroscopic viewers, because the time dimensions are held comparatively constant due to between small particles.
In other words, and electron -- which may well "see" 1 spatial dimension and three time dimensions, appears to behave statistically, not predictably. Therefore, quantum mechanics behaves like an imperfect science, as you call it.
That said, psychology, economics, and sociology attempt to make their science more perfect, often, by binding large numbers of subjects together, to eliminate uncontrollable variables and discover the elementary laws. Yes, they are behind natural philosophy and alchemy in that, but only because it takes much more energy and time to study large numbers of people.
For anyone who tortures or orders torture -- GWB/ the King of Terror a la nostradamas included--, the reason to not torture is NOT morality. And such definitely do not care whether others on their own side get tortured: consider Valerie Plame.
No, for such as they, the reason not to torture is to not be caught and punished.
Yes, and waterboarding a personeto death has been declared to be not torture.
The reason to not torture is to not be subject to war crimes trials, as per the Geneva convention. Of course, if you are working for the world's leading superpower, youemay consider that those laws have no force.
And they don't, until your country gets into one too many wars, and loses a war on its own soil.
At that point, all those laws become applicable. Generally speaking, the really bigwigs will be hung. The upper eschelon below them will escape to other criminal run nations. The lower war-criminal grunts will be left holding the bag, and also will be hung. Occasionally, the lower grunts catch the escaping upper escelon, and kill them, themselves. It's kindof a game of rats on a sinking ship.
Gad Czudner, small criminals among us.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0882821806/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1385329133&sr=8-3&pi=SY200
It helped somewhat.
Let me be more explicit. When you are hiding in a secret room, suddenly things like justice, mercy, and loyalty matter; money, shtuff, and public praise don't.
Neoliberal capitalists mouth the former, but understand nothing but the latter.
So are these the principles of which you speak, when you ask, is it principled to useforce to take from one and give to another? All those things that the CEO, having broken the law left and right, can use to damage -- and therefore blackmail the company?
Neoliberal capitalists are all about using force and fraud to take from some and --well, forget about giving, they put it in their back pockets.
There's another principal, but you'll find out about it when you. Are hiding in a secret room.
Couple of points here: 1) in your haste to let mr. CEO loot the company, you forgot to pay the worker who was doing the work of three. That worker was NOT doing the work of three before, because the previous loote^H^H^H^HCEO had been hamstringing him. However, the dissatisfaction of seeing the next CEO loot everything is also likely to hamstring him.
2) You forgot to grouse about how the stupid workers never seem to want to better themselves. Don't forget to do that to workers who are not paid enough to live, make a fraction of what you do, are far better educated.
2)
Funny, that's what the employers seem to be telling their employees: because the pay I've gotten no matter how many millions I made for my company, has always been zero profit, zero savings, zero retirement. Most recently, I was prject mgr for a bridge building company, took it over way behind schedule, and raised the rate to something where we never delayed our customers a single day, never got chargebacks. We made a large profit; I made nothing. As a matter of fact, I live in a trailer park three miles away, and had to lose my car because Iecouldn't afford it.
Contract law is not the be-all, end all of right and wrong.
Yes, I was joking, but there's always an element of truth. The element of truth here is that I think that professional licensing is also collossally idiotic.
Now, if you wanted to have TWO classes of cabbie, certified-licensed, and uncertified.... I could go for that. The difference is freedom vs. entitlement.
If a cabbie can do it, so can a cyclist. We just have to start testing and licensing cyclists before they're allowed to ride there.
Yes, I remember seeing the Bath county hydroelectric project, much like what you describe.
For the engineering challenges regarding flywheel storage, you can go one of two ways: carbon composite flywheels that go incredibly fast, or giant-radius heavy flywheels that go at moderate speeds.I was thinking of the latter.Admittedly, the latter is more useful for wind, where the large mass of the wheel and housing can also hold the windmill in place.
I don't say none at all. Suppose you need the cosine of 36.87Â? yes, some people will recognize that as a 3-4-5 triangle, but what if it's the one thing you won't recognize?
Yes, it's better to have a simple scientific calculator there, if allowed. For the last 15 years, my father would buy cheap $8 scientific calculators, and sell them at cost to physics students who needed them. Nowadays, you'll probably get the same thing at Walmart.
The key here is: reliable, readable, and that you get it a month or so before your test and use it exclusively for that month, so that you don't waste thought trying to find the minus key.
As for vector calculus, I'd think you should know that well enough to use it. Last time I used it was for an rfi on a bridge misdesign, to show that two surfaces were not perpendicular to each other. The designing engineers--one of whom was a PE, and another of whom is now a PE, teased me about it, but it was the shortest, simplest way to prove the point to an engineer, and they did respect it. Key here, same as with the calculator, is that you don't use stuff you're not extremely familiar with, and that means lots of practice.
Why not a giant concrete flywheel in the ground?
That's well and good, but that isn't always what's going on. Back in 1993, I was aware that there was a Federal law that power companies had to pay the prevailing rates to anyone who cared to provide renewable energy.
Since there wasn't much employment in aerospace that year, I called Vepco (now Dominion power, same co, diff name) about how this would work. They put me through to the appropriate person, who said that Vepco would requre a provider to lease equipment to tie in to their grid, and would charge more for rent on the equipment than the amount they had to pay for power.
The whole point was to keep competitors off the grid, it seems.
And it had nothing to do with your charts. It was all about monopoly. Good ol' Virginia.
Nonsense, this is bleeding edge. In a few weeks, they'll realize that they can use lead, with three charges. Then if they apply that liquid bath, say with a true chemical reaction.... ...hmm, I wonder if sulfuric acid could do the trick....
then they'll have a real, working battery that can compete with Lithium!!!
And you thought this was last year's news?!?
The NSA spying on the US may be why the TSA results are slightly better than average, instead of abysmally worse than average.
Ummm.... big issue here. I have to pick my -- now significantly but not greatly more expensive -- company health plan for the next year.
I need to know, NOW, what my alternatives are. My company gave us the plan, and 10 days (week and a half) to figure out what to do.
When I go to healthcare.gov, I am directed to fill out an application online. I therefore have to create an account.
THE CREATE ACCOUNT BUTTON DOES NOTHING!!! .
The online chat has them saying, "well please be patient, or print out and mail in an application form..."
Nothing that will help me decide in 10 days.
I am likely going to cancel all healthcare insurance, pay the $265 / year max family tax, and take my leisure about picking a plan.
But yes, it is really lousy. You don't just jerk on a leash around someone's neck, and mess with what works. But our government does that all the time.
And no, I'm not going to blame liberals, or Democrats. Republicans are as bad about it. And this entire mess is due, in the first place, to socialized medicine that raised the price of medical care 15% per year since the 1970s. That's where the massive damage was done.
AMA, you are the poster child for the Iron Law of Beaurocracy. Your leaders are the antithesis of the Hippocratic Oath, and your members have thus violated their oaths enormously.
I was thinking about using elbonia as the launch site....
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-11-18/
I had a minivan that burned a year after I sold it. My brother bought it, and his roommate wanted it--my brother advised against, but eventually sold it. His roommate was taking a church group to a ski resort, and the vehicle leaked oil and caught fire. They put it out, but it reignited. The ski lodge called the fire department and used up several of their fire extinguisher-- after each one, it reignited. The fire truck used up its fire extincuishers-- and it reignited, then burned.
My brother ran into such a fire on the interstatee; a young woman was near the car. He didn't have a fire extinguisher, but he did have a soda cup and there was a muddy puddle near by. So he started scooping water on the fire--it reignited repeatedly, but each time, the mud baked on and sealed the oil leak more. In the end, the car was saved.
There's a lesson there.
Don't let the trolls fool you. We in the US have had socialized medicine since the 20's , and as a result, unavailability of actual service is a common problem.
Because our socialism was more right-wing in nature, limiting who and how many could practice medicine, often -- as by the law passed under Clinton-- solely to increase doctor's alseady sky-high salaries.
As a result of our brand of socialized medicine, prices for medical care have risen fifteen percent per year sinc 1970. That is, prices are about 400 times what they had been, while other things--gasoline, for example, are only 5-10 times the price. So the healthcare sector has seized --mostly from the poor--40 times its rightful share of the wealth of the market.
You can't do that without causing massive destruction. Thus, the AMA is likely going to be THE LEADING CAUSE OF UNTIMELY DEATH in the US in the 21st century. So much for the hypocritic oath.