They don't seem to be stopping after a few PR stunts.
Neither did we. Or do you count the Mars Rovers as "PR stunts"? Note that we put the Mars rovers down on Mars 36 years after our first satellite launch. Which is seven years less time than China took from first satellite to lunar rover.
Not waging proxy wars all over the place does give them the resources to keep going, and going, and...
We spent more on Afghanistan & Iraq in the last ten years than we did on NASA. And we still managed the latest Mars Rover, a Pluto mission (still in transit), an orbiter around Jupiter, plus earth satellites in the same time span.
The planned moon base, alas, was canceled by Obama. Not that I'd believe in a moon base till NASA signed contracts with SpaceX to deliver the pieces to the moon (if we get men to the moon anytime soon, it'll be on SpaceX's hardware, since NASA's new crew capsule is still a LONG way out, and Dragon has some of its man-rating tests scheduled for this year (escape sequence, groundside, this quarter, escape sequence, inflight, later in the year.)
To be honest, I fail to see how invading two countries is internal spending.
Money spent invading two countries: ~$1T over ten years.
Money spent on SSA/Medicare/Medicaid in the same period: ~$16T. At the Federal level. Medicaid is partly funded by the States, so the total would be slightly higher
Does tend to look like our internal spending is considerably greater than the cost of those two wars, doesn't it?
but they have also walked a long distance on their own feet, and they have done this in quite a short time.
Short time? It's taken them 43 years to go from first satellite launched to a lunar lander. Which is about 35 years more than either the US or USSR took to do the same thing. Hell, the US managed a MARS rover in only 36 years, much less a Lunar rover.
I'm not trying to denigrate the Chinese effort. It's making steady progress in a difficult field. But it's NOT making this progress in "quite a short time"....
When God says "I am" and the muslims say "you are not, you're just a prophet", then clearly they aren't the same.
Umm, no. The "you are not, you're just a prophet" is directed at Jesus, not Yahweh. Islam accepts Jesus as a Prophet (like Mohammed), but denies his divinity.
However, the God is Islam is the same as the God of Christianity and Judaism....
The microSD card was found in a rusted pile of what appeared to be the remains of the small rover.
I'd think the amazing thing about such a find would be the "rusted pile of what appeared to be the remains..." since lack of O2 on Luna pretty much makes rust impossible.
Never mind that the rover is made of materials that don't rust even with O2 present.
You're clearly a hunter or know a few, ever know someone to have a few beers at lunch and head back out? Or gawdawful hungover?
Nope, never met one. Course, the hunters I know are the strict "no alcohol Christian" types.
How about baiting? Ever see the old "Warning! Deer eating this corn will be shot!" gag sign?
Nope, never met one. Course, the hunters I know are mostly farmers.
BLOCKQUOTE> And now to the one that bugs me the most: as a target (only) archer, I don't know how many really terrible "archers" I've seen hanging around the shop/range bragging about "yeah, I hit him, but then lost the blood trail after an hour...".Bow hunters injuring and maiming animals is just a dirty little secret of the sport.
Where I come from, those guys are known as "liars". That's what you say when you miss.
BLOCKQUOTE>Of course, rifle/slug hunters always go for the heart/lung shot, because all they care about is the head. If they were hunting for meat, they'd go for the head shot, where you get either a clean kill or a clean miss.
Umm, no. Only an idiot goes for a headshot. And the hunters I know hunt for meat, not for trophies. And still aim for center-of-mass, just like you're taught in any marksmanship course.
I see precious little evidence that the Bible has influenced society much at all
Hmm, Sundays off of work. Christmas & Easter, two of our major holidays. And those are just some of the most superficial ways it influenced our society.
How could it affect them if they were required by law to pay for something requested if nobody ever requests it?
Actually, they're objecting to being required to pay for it even if noone uses it. Yes, every health plan in the country is required to cover contraception now, even if the insured is an unmarried man.
The U.S. Constitution applies to every person in the country, even if they are there illegally, with some obvious exceptions, such as the right to vote.
There are no exceptions in the Constitution.
The right to vote is a right given to citizens, as specified in the Constitution.
It's not just hindsight when you're forewarned. In that case, it's also simple blindness.
It's hindsight to look back and say "Oh! THAT warning was true and correct, and we should have paid attention to it among the several thousand similar warnings that we get every year. After all, it is OBVIOUS that THAT warning was valid, and the others were just noise, right?"
It is not like you can't access the works, unless they are in public domain â" you just have to pay for it.
You can pay for public domain works as well.
Difference is that if the copyright holder doesn't think it's worth the bother of publishing something, then you can't buy it at all. If it were in the public domain, someone else might decide to publish it....
Domestic issues are meant to be handled by the FBI.
MOST domestic issues (yes, including Sandy Hook) are handled at State and Local levels. FBI doesn't get involved unless it has Federal or Interstate ramifications.
The government also requires you to have non-bald tires on your car,
If you own a car, which is NOT mandatory.
car insurance,
If you own a car, which is NOT mandatory.
wear clothing when you're out in public,
Unless you live in a nudist colony. And even if you don't, the government doesn't require you to go out in public.
and a hundred other things that you get from for-profit companies.
Thing is, the ACA is the first time since FDR was King that the Feds have required you to buy something from a private company if you are alive.
Used to be their requirements were a matter of "If you want this option in life, you have to pay this company for the privilege". Now it's "if you're breathing, you have to pay this company for the privilege".
So I guess that means that the US doesn't care about breaking laws in other countries.
Did you know that, in general, it's illegal for foreigners to attack any given country? And yet, wars are being fought now, and have been forever. It's almost like countries don't respect the laws of their neighbors when they invade....
First, I don't have a solar installation, but I'm seriously considering it for 2014.
As to a "connnection fee", we don't have one here, but if we were to put a $5 connection fee in place here (about the size of the AZ one), I'd have no real problem with it. Probably wouldn't notice it, really, what with all the other trivial little fees attached to my electric bill.
Of course, my plans will change if the relevant governments decide to stop making my neighbors pay for the solar installation. But as long as I can get 80% of the cost paid by other people, it's looking like a good investment....
it only had to match patients up with insurance plans
It also had to determine whether you were eligible for subsidies, and if so, how much. Which was a non-trivial exercise, though nowhere near the whole ACA-worth of regulations.
The only similarities is that the look roughly the same and both fire intermediate rounds. The article you link even mentions that mechanically they are very different.
The similarity you missed is that they perform about the same - the StG-44 was the first "assault rifle", the AK was intended to do what the StG did, never mind the differences in how the AK did it compared to the StG.
Really? Was the whole place a slum before it became a popular place for SV techies to live in?
No, but it will be after they drive the people paying the taxes away.
Or do you think they'll stop with the techies? When housing prices don't go down after they've been driven off, they'll look for another scapegoat. And then another....
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Neither did we. Or do you count the Mars Rovers as "PR stunts"? Note that we put the Mars rovers down on Mars 36 years after our first satellite launch. Which is seven years less time than China took from first satellite to lunar rover.
We spent more on Afghanistan & Iraq in the last ten years than we did on NASA. And we still managed the latest Mars Rover, a Pluto mission (still in transit), an orbiter around Jupiter, plus earth satellites in the same time span.
The planned moon base, alas, was canceled by Obama. Not that I'd believe in a moon base till NASA signed contracts with SpaceX to deliver the pieces to the moon (if we get men to the moon anytime soon, it'll be on SpaceX's hardware, since NASA's new crew capsule is still a LONG way out, and Dragon has some of its man-rating tests scheduled for this year (escape sequence, groundside, this quarter, escape sequence, inflight, later in the year.)
Money spent invading two countries: ~$1T over ten years.
Money spent on SSA/Medicare/Medicaid in the same period: ~$16T. At the Federal level. Medicaid is partly funded by the States, so the total would be slightly higher
Does tend to look like our internal spending is considerably greater than the cost of those two wars, doesn't it?
And yet they're taking decades for milestones that both the USA and Russia accomplished in years.
Short time? It's taken them 43 years to go from first satellite launched to a lunar lander. Which is about 35 years more than either the US or USSR took to do the same thing. Hell, the US managed a MARS rover in only 36 years, much less a Lunar rover.
I'm not trying to denigrate the Chinese effort. It's making steady progress in a difficult field. But it's NOT making this progress in "quite a short time"....
Umm, no. The "you are not, you're just a prophet" is directed at Jesus, not Yahweh. Islam accepts Jesus as a Prophet (like Mohammed), but denies his divinity.
However, the God is Islam is the same as the God of Christianity and Judaism....
I'd think the amazing thing about such a find would be the "rusted pile of what appeared to be the remains..." since lack of O2 on Luna pretty much makes rust impossible.
Never mind that the rover is made of materials that don't rust even with O2 present.
Nope, never met one. Course, the hunters I know are the strict "no alcohol Christian" types.
Nope, never met one. Course, the hunters I know are mostly farmers.
BLOCKQUOTE> And now to the one that bugs me the most: as a target (only) archer, I don't know how many really terrible "archers" I've seen hanging around the shop/range bragging about "yeah, I hit him, but then lost the blood trail after an hour...".Bow hunters injuring and maiming animals is just a dirty little secret of the sport.
Where I come from, those guys are known as "liars". That's what you say when you miss.
BLOCKQUOTE>Of course, rifle/slug hunters always go for the heart/lung shot, because all they care about is the head. If they were hunting for meat, they'd go for the head shot, where you get either a clean kill or a clean miss.
Umm, no. Only an idiot goes for a headshot. And the hunters I know hunt for meat, not for trophies. And still aim for center-of-mass, just like you're taught in any marksmanship course.
Hmm, Sundays off of work. Christmas & Easter, two of our major holidays. And those are just some of the most superficial ways it influenced our society.
No, I am NOT clothes. Though I do wear clothes.
Or did you mean "YOUR clothes"? If so, never mind.
Actually, they're objecting to being required to pay for it even if noone uses it. Yes, every health plan in the country is required to cover contraception now, even if the insured is an unmarried man.
There are no exceptions in the Constitution.
The right to vote is a right given to citizens, as specified in the Constitution.
It's hindsight to look back and say "Oh! THAT warning was true and correct, and we should have paid attention to it among the several thousand similar warnings that we get every year. After all, it is OBVIOUS that THAT warning was valid, and the others were just noise, right?"
For Christians, the word of Jesus is important.
Peter, not so much. Unless you're Catholic, of course, then Peter deserves a lot more attention.
Alas, all too many modern Christians (and non-Christians) pay less attention to the words of Jesus and more to the later commentary than they should.
She was a Russian writer. Characters are meant to illustrate IDEAS, not be "real people".
You can pay for public domain works as well.
Difference is that if the copyright holder doesn't think it's worth the bother of publishing something, then you can't buy it at all. If it were in the public domain, someone else might decide to publish it....
MOST domestic issues (yes, including Sandy Hook) are handled at State and Local levels. FBI doesn't get involved unless it has Federal or Interstate ramifications.
If you own a car, which is NOT mandatory.
If you own a car, which is NOT mandatory.
Unless you live in a nudist colony. And even if you don't, the government doesn't require you to go out in public.
Thing is, the ACA is the first time since FDR was King that the Feds have required you to buy something from a private company if you are alive.
Used to be their requirements were a matter of "If you want this option in life, you have to pay this company for the privilege". Now it's "if you're breathing, you have to pay this company for the privilege".
Did you know that, in general, it's illegal for foreigners to attack any given country? And yet, wars are being fought now, and have been forever. It's almost like countries don't respect the laws of their neighbors when they invade....
Pretty sure Lucy Liu was Watson, not Holmes, in Elementary....
You have steps two and three reversed. See the Judge before beginning surveillance.
First, I don't have a solar installation, but I'm seriously considering it for 2014.
As to a "connnection fee", we don't have one here, but if we were to put a $5 connection fee in place here (about the size of the AZ one), I'd have no real problem with it. Probably wouldn't notice it, really, what with all the other trivial little fees attached to my electric bill.
Of course, my plans will change if the relevant governments decide to stop making my neighbors pay for the solar installation. But as long as I can get 80% of the cost paid by other people, it's looking like a good investment....
It also had to determine whether you were eligible for subsidies, and if so, how much. Which was a non-trivial exercise, though nowhere near the whole ACA-worth of regulations.
The similarity you missed is that they perform about the same - the StG-44 was the first "assault rifle", the AK was intended to do what the StG did, never mind the differences in how the AK did it compared to the StG.
So, you're in favor of Texas having EIGHT Senators, and California TWELVE?
And most of the other States ONE?
No, but it will be after they drive the people paying the taxes away.
Or do you think they'll stop with the techies? When housing prices don't go down after they've been driven off, they'll look for another scapegoat. And then another....