r they could just hire programmers directly. The gov't doesn't have to just hand out juicy contracts, it can employe people directly.
Ever looked at Civil Service payscales?
If so, and if you want that sort of salary, then the government is willing to hire you. My wife works for a company that does work for the Feds, and was offered the chance to come to work directly for the feds.
Had to turn it down, since it included a substantial paycut....
If Florida seceded from the American union, would the Russians give two kopecks?
Bad analogy. What's happening in Ukraine is more like the USA supporting Canadian and/or Mexican rebels with an eye to picking up a province or two up north or a state or two down south"....
Will be interesting to see if we ever draw a line somewhere and then what we do when he crosses it...
We already showed him what'll happen in that case, when we drew lines in the sand in Syria. Assad stepped across them we backed up and drew another line...lather, rinse, repeat.
So we stopped drawing lines.
Which is what'll happen with Ukraine - Putin will take as much of the country as he wants, we'll let him.
And then Putin will start looking around for more real estate he likes. I hear there are a lot of ethnic Russians in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia....
I mean, the game Lunar Lander is how old? The idea of using retro-rockets to slow your descent onto where you're landing is literally decades old, and was probably shown in early sci-fi shows.
The game "Lunar Lander" is, interestingly, about ten years younger than the ACTUAL lunar lander (game - 1979, Apollo 11 - 1969).
And yes, it was shown in early scifi films. Not sure if early Flash Gordon serials showed it, but it was certainly in use in scifi by the '50s.
and now you believe it is your 53rd state of the union
I'm curious - what do we believe are the 51st and 52nd States?
As to the Germans not knowing about the USA when those laws were written, at the time you think you're talking about, the USA was a "continent spanning nation, and to us, all the domains of the Hapsburgs are but a small thing"....
For American readers: gas means a gaseous hydrocarbon, and not a liquid one.
You mean something like the "gas" we get from the gas company to power our water heaters (and frequently provide heating in the winter - it makes less than good sense to burn gas to make electricity, then use the electricity to make heat, when you could just burn the gas to make heat directly), I take it?
Yes, we use "gas" too, and not just the kind you call "petrol"....
Nuclear ships have a very simple way around this: They run at full power most of the time, and dump the excess energy when not needed to run the engines.
Umm, no.
Former Naval Nuke guy here...we didn't run the plant at full power most of the time. We seldom ran it at half power.
Yeah, the nuke plant on a sub or surface ship is engineered differently than a power reactor ashore. Among other things, the fraction of the maximum output dedicated to making electricity is generally quite small, since we need steam more than we need electricity.
Even so, we didn't operate near max electrical output all that often either, much less maximum steam output.
I know you mean the US, but the difference is that the US has left the 8th century.
Actually, the US was never in the 8th century.
Pre-Colombian America (the part the US sits on now) was definitely pre-8th century (pre-8th century BC, even).
Then we jumped straight into the 17th century (or arguably 16th - depends on how you want to count those earliest Spaniards who may or may not have actually reached CONUS), and proceeded from there.
...Facebook's Ukrainian office is located in Russia...
Whose brilliant idea was that?
I imagine Facebook management, on the grounds that their people would be much less likely to be killed. Ukraine is a very dangerous place at the moment - cities are being bombarded by heavy artillery and fired on with medium rockets, people whose faces don't fit are being burned alive.
Facebook decided several years ago that Ukraine would be a dangerous place in late 2014, so they avoided putting offices in Ukraine?
Wow, I would never have thought of that. Guess that's why I'm not a billionaire.
Oh, and citation on that "are being burned alive" thing? I've not been paying too much attention to the situation, but I'm pretty sure I'd have remembered hearing about that....
No matter how bad environmental problem become, earth will still be better than anything which we could plan to reach. Fixing the problems here woll have a fraction of the cost whcih fixin them by flying away would have.
So, what's the plan for dealing with the Sun's inevitable transition to a red giant?
Space is where we need to be for the long term. And when I say "long term", I don't mean "three or more Congressional election cycles"....
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Ever looked at Civil Service payscales?
If so, and if you want that sort of salary, then the government is willing to hire you. My wife works for a company that does work for the Feds, and was offered the chance to come to work directly for the feds.
Had to turn it down, since it included a substantial paycut....
I'm coming up blank on the relation between a prenatal multivitamin and nuclear waste.
So I'm wondering if you meant "premises", even though it doesn't fit all that well into your sentence either....
Bad analogy. What's happening in Ukraine is more like the USA supporting Canadian and/or Mexican rebels with an eye to picking up a province or two up north or a state or two down south"....
Per se.
Do try not to write things you've only heard spoken.
He was reminding Obama and NATO that the price for interfering in Ukraine might be higher than they're willing to pay....
He's 5'7" (170cm for the rest of you). Hardly "practically a midget".
At least we don't have to worry about oracular slugs....
They used FLOWERS???
Or did you mean germanium?
Luckily, our Constitution has a provision for amending it. Article V, in fact.
When the government decides to go through that process, what they're doing will become Constitutional.
Alas, just passing a law doesn't meet the requirements of Article V.
No, because field commanders know how to threaten people....
We already showed him what'll happen in that case, when we drew lines in the sand in Syria. Assad stepped across them we backed up and drew another line...lather, rinse, repeat.
So we stopped drawing lines.
Which is what'll happen with Ukraine - Putin will take as much of the country as he wants, we'll let him.
And then Putin will start looking around for more real estate he likes. I hear there are a lot of ethnic Russians in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia....
The game "Lunar Lander" is, interestingly, about ten years younger than the ACTUAL lunar lander (game - 1979, Apollo 11 - 1969).
And yes, it was shown in early scifi films. Not sure if early Flash Gordon serials showed it, but it was certainly in use in scifi by the '50s.
I'm curious - what do we believe are the 51st and 52nd States?
As to the Germans not knowing about the USA when those laws were written, at the time you think you're talking about, the USA was a "continent spanning nation, and to us, all the domains of the Hapsburgs are but a small thing"....
From what we called "hotel load" to full power? Pretty sure that's classified.
That said, we're talking in the timezone of "how long does it take you to finish that cup of coffee?", not hours....
You mean something like the "gas" we get from the gas company to power our water heaters (and frequently provide heating in the winter - it makes less than good sense to burn gas to make electricity, then use the electricity to make heat, when you could just burn the gas to make heat directly), I take it?
Yes, we use "gas" too, and not just the kind you call "petrol"....
Umm, no.
Former Naval Nuke guy here...we didn't run the plant at full power most of the time. We seldom ran it at half power.
Yeah, the nuke plant on a sub or surface ship is engineered differently than a power reactor ashore. Among other things, the fraction of the maximum output dedicated to making electricity is generally quite small, since we need steam more than we need electricity.
Even so, we didn't operate near max electrical output all that often either, much less maximum steam output.
hmm...
Assuming all of the radioactivity is due to Cs-137, that 600 Bq/kg limit translates to 0.0000003 micrograms of Cs-137 in any given kg of wild pork.
Okay, I can buy the argument that that "safe" limit errs on the side of caution a bit much....
They don't even have to be better than the best drivers. If they're better than the average driver, that's fine.
Just curious - were there 330,000,000 humans living alongside the passenger pigeons before European settlers arrived?
Didn't think so....
Actually, the US was never in the 8th century.
Pre-Colombian America (the part the US sits on now) was definitely pre-8th century (pre-8th century BC, even).
Then we jumped straight into the 17th century (or arguably 16th - depends on how you want to count those earliest Spaniards who may or may not have actually reached CONUS), and proceeded from there.
Facebook decided several years ago that Ukraine would be a dangerous place in late 2014, so they avoided putting offices in Ukraine?
Wow, I would never have thought of that. Guess that's why I'm not a billionaire.
Oh, and citation on that "are being burned alive" thing? I've not been paying too much attention to the situation, but I'm pretty sure I'd have remembered hearing about that....
Actually, the anti-nuke types tend to be left wing nutjobs.
They should have been adding a new habitable module to the thing every year, or every other year.
Or more often.
So, what's the plan for dealing with the Sun's inevitable transition to a red giant?
Space is where we need to be for the long term. And when I say "long term", I don't mean "three or more Congressional election cycles"....
Old technology I'm still using?
I'm pretty much still dependent on electric lighting, indoor plumbing, refrigeration & air conditioning, internal combustion engines, plastics, etc.
Or does it only count as "technology" if it requires a computer to use?