Why would all my roughly 1 mile apart main streets now be stuck at 2.4ish km?
Well, they wouldn't, actually. A mile is 1.6km, not 2.4km.
Note that the real reason for not switching is that it doesn't really matter very much to most people. 2 liter coke. check. 12 oz cokes, check. kilo of cocaine, check. Pound of plain ground round, check....
While sea sheppards were definitely harassing the whaling vessel with Ady Gil, it is hard to watch the footage and not see it as that the Ady Gil was rammed by the whalers.
Anyone ever explain Rules of the Road for ships to you?
Hint: LEAST maneuverable vessel has Right of Way. More manueverable vessel is responsible for getting the hell out of the way.
Hence, high-powered speedboat is required to make way for the clumsy whaler.
Take the money out of politics, and you'd be surprised how quickly things turn around.
There are ~3.6 trillion reasons why this will not work.
Hint: as long as there are 532 people divvying up $3.6 trillion, there are going to be people willing to spend millions (or billions) to "influence" those 532 people for a piece of that $3.6 trillion pie.
Face it, spending a BILLION dollars to buy a couple percent of the Federal Budget is a bargain. And realistically, it doesn't cost anywhere near that much to buy Congresscritters.
Generally, when someone speaks of the "acceptable" forms of cheating, they mean "the forms of cheating I use"....
And I'm pleased to see that someone managed to start justifying cheating within a handful of posts. When I read online gaming forums discussing cheating, it generally takes not more than six comments to find someone justifying cheating....
The world would still try and hold the original inhabitants accountable some how I think. Why wouldn't they?
It should be noted that, bad as the deficit spending in the USA is, it's not really any worse than any other Western democracy - they're all predicated on spending more than they make, and hoping that prosperity will grow their economies fast enough for them to be dead of old age before it all comes apart.
Right now, it looks like they're mostly losing out - it's not going to wait till the current guys are dead to come home to roost....
These taxes are deducible from gross income, but you don't get the taxes themselves back on April 15th. And it was these taxes that the current tax cut is about.
It should be noted that we have something called an "Earned Income Credit" that allows a partial (if not complete) refund of your payroll taxes, if your income is low enough.
So, yes, many people do get this back on April 15th...
In europe a big deal of food is grown "organic". In some areas it is up to 80% or more. So, how can this be "science ignorant"?
You're aware that it's possible to do something 80% of the time without there being any scientific basis for the action, right?
"Organic" in food pretty much means "premium, made by yuppies, for yuppies". It doesn't actually mean "tastes better" (what I grow in my garden tastes better than what I buy in stores, but it's not organic, it's just FRESH)....
You're no doubt aware that heirloom stuff isn't actually the "natural" food we were "designed" to eat, right?
In fact, heirloom breeds are the product of thousands of generations (plant and animal generations, not human ones) of genetic tinkering in the form of selective breeding.
The main difference between heirloom breeds and the more common stuff grown on most farms today is that the heirloom breeds are those where we stopped the tinkering more than 100 years ago (after thousands of generations), rather than continuing the tinkering till the present (after thousands of generations, plus a hundred or so more)....
The fact that apple succeeded in getting the patent is an indicator that yet again slashdot is making a patent issue out to be something it isn't, and that the patent doesn't cover anywhere near as much as the headline claims it does.
The fact that Apple hasn't gotten the patent, but merely applied for it, in an indicator that yet again slashdot readers aren't bothering to RTFA before commenting on it.
Soyuz was flying when Apollo was, and hasn't managed as many manned launches as Shuttle did in its career.
Shuttle has flown more times than ALL other manned systems combined (American, Russian, and Chinese). In considerably less time than Soyuz spent racking up the number two total of manned flights....
No one embarks on a 300 mile roadtrip with the gas gauge blinking red.
Last time I headed home, I did exactly that - forgot to fill up the day before, noticed I was running on empty when I hit the highway, got off at the next exit, gassed up, was back on the highway in five minutes.
If I'd been driving an electric, I'd have had to go home and put the trip off by a day....
Additionally, 8-10 years is the typical expected life span of regular gas burning cars today. While you *might* get by with extending a gas burning car's lifetime by rebuilding the engine for less than the cost of a replacement battery pack in a tesla car, it really is probably going to be a wash once you include the other maint costs.
My newest car is more than ten years old.
None of my cars have required an engine rebuild yet.
I think you are badly underestimating the lifespan of a modern gasoline car.
I'm pretty sure no reactor design requires weapon grade material, unless you purposely made one just so you can pretend it's for a reactor. Regular nuclear fuel contains a small bit of weapons grade material, like the fuel for an incineration facility has to have some degree of flammable material - when people started sorting their junk too well, they had to add some small part of paper back into the mix. But weapons grade material is more like napalm, yes it will burn but it's way, way overkill if you just want it to burn, the only practical reason to do it is because you're making a weapon.
All true. Except the part that implies that "enriching uranium" is only for making weapons-grade uranium.
Note that what reactors use is also "enriched", just not up to "weapons-grade". And that anyone who wants to make power reactors has to "enrich" uranium, or buy uranium that someone else has "enriched"....
This is why the Microsoft eBook Reader app failed. No publisher wants to put their content on a PC, they will only put it on a closed device.
And yet I have a program that allows me to read my eBooks on my desktop.
And my eBook format of choice (the one I use basically 100% of the time), ePub, can be read by any eBook reader I've tried (note that I've not bothered to check the Kindle itself)....
So, it's possible to do so, but you can't actually do that right now. I wonder why.
That's what monopoly abuse looks like.
By your definition, any new invention, in any field, is monopoly abuse. After all, when it first appears, there is no alternative, therefore it's a monopoly that's being abused.
Now, if Google were to make it technically impossible to do so (which they haven't), or legally forbid others from doing so (which they haven't), then it would be monopoly abuse.
-The money is divided among the 100 smallest (radius) candidates (promoting resolution) with the smallest candidate getting 100 parts of the money, the next smallest 99 parts, and the last 1 part. (5050 parts in all, the smallest one gets almost $2 million per month).
But the relative velocity of the rocket, relative to Earth, is zero at liftoff, so our velocity relative the solar system's plane is not a factor that affects the rocket.
On the other hand, the velocity of the rocket, relative to the Sun, is high at liftoff. And velocity relative to the Sun is the primary factor in determining the orbit, relative to the Sun, that a deep-space probe takes.
To provide some numbers, starting from LEO, a deltaV of around 6300 m/s would be about enough to get us to Jupiter using an orbit in the plane of the ecliptic.
A solar-polar orbit to Jupiter would require about 40900 m/s deltaV....
Note that both numbers are approximations, assuming (for instance) that Jupiter and Earth have orbits in the same plane (they don't, but the difference is lost when considering a solar-polar orbit)....
Maybe you didn't hear about the Vietnam war. We lost that, and we outgunned the enemy. What about the insurgents in Iraq? Saying ordinary citizens can't fight the military has been proven false empirically.
Of course, we pretty much annihilated the Viet Cong (who had support from North Vietnam and the USSR), then let our own peace movement get us out of Vietnam.
Followed by an invasion of South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese Army (a bigger, and better requirepped, Army than invaded France in 1940, by the by).
Doesn't the Shuttle have a horrible track record? 2 out of 135 flights blew up? Who would roll those dice anyway?
Almost as bad as Soyuz...which had 2 out of 117 flights fail in ways that killed their crews. Plus more than did things like crash into Mir and suchlike....
And then outlaw the spending of money on political advertising,
So, we're going to let the people in power define "media", then let only the "media" provide information about the pols running for office?
Remember, First Amendment gives the lads running newspapers/magazines/TV/movies/etc an inordinate amount of power to pick and choose the news the present and the way they present it.
Which means that in any system where political advertising is outlawed, the only source is the "media", which must be defined by the people making political advertising illegal.
Consider: it is of infinite benefit to die and go to heaven. Children who die with faith are guaranteed to go to heaven. Children who do not die have a non-zero chance of growing up and becoming godless atheists, which means that they will not go to heaven - which is, relatively, of zero benefit.
Of course, if you're Catholic, you know perfectly well that children all go to heaven. It's only after they've chosen the Faith as adults (Confirmation) that this problem exists.
Now that we've decided that the maximum radiation dosage for a Japanese child is the same as an American nuclear worker, it's only a matter of time before they play in the shadow of Fukushima again!
Last I checked, US nuclear workers had lower safe limits than US children do, so that's not as much problem as you might think.
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Actually, the Hanke-Henry thing is the McLenon Reformed Weekly Calendar, which is one of the nine mentioned in your link.
Note question 11 on the second link provided in the summary....
Well, they wouldn't, actually. A mile is 1.6km, not 2.4km.
Note that the real reason for not switching is that it doesn't really matter very much to most people. 2 liter coke. check. 12 oz cokes, check. kilo of cocaine, check. Pound of plain ground round, check....
Anyone ever explain Rules of the Road for ships to you?
Hint: LEAST maneuverable vessel has Right of Way. More manueverable vessel is responsible for getting the hell out of the way.
Hence, high-powered speedboat is required to make way for the clumsy whaler.
There are ~3.6 trillion reasons why this will not work.
Hint: as long as there are 532 people divvying up $3.6 trillion, there are going to be people willing to spend millions (or billions) to "influence" those 532 people for a piece of that $3.6 trillion pie.
Face it, spending a BILLION dollars to buy a couple percent of the Federal Budget is a bargain. And realistically, it doesn't cost anywhere near that much to buy Congresscritters.
Generally, when someone speaks of the "acceptable" forms of cheating, they mean "the forms of cheating I use"....
And I'm pleased to see that someone managed to start justifying cheating within a handful of posts. When I read online gaming forums discussing cheating, it generally takes not more than six comments to find someone justifying cheating....
It should be noted that, bad as the deficit spending in the USA is, it's not really any worse than any other Western democracy - they're all predicated on spending more than they make, and hoping that prosperity will grow their economies fast enough for them to be dead of old age before it all comes apart.
Right now, it looks like they're mostly losing out - it's not going to wait till the current guys are dead to come home to roost....
It should be noted that we have something called an "Earned Income Credit" that allows a partial (if not complete) refund of your payroll taxes, if your income is low enough.
So, yes, many people do get this back on April 15th...
You're aware that it's possible to do something 80% of the time without there being any scientific basis for the action, right?
"Organic" in food pretty much means "premium, made by yuppies, for yuppies". It doesn't actually mean "tastes better" (what I grow in my garden tastes better than what I buy in stores, but it's not organic, it's just FRESH)....
You're no doubt aware that heirloom stuff isn't actually the "natural" food we were "designed" to eat, right?
In fact, heirloom breeds are the product of thousands of generations (plant and animal generations, not human ones) of genetic tinkering in the form of selective breeding.
The main difference between heirloom breeds and the more common stuff grown on most farms today is that the heirloom breeds are those where we stopped the tinkering more than 100 years ago (after thousands of generations), rather than continuing the tinkering till the present (after thousands of generations, plus a hundred or so more)....
The fact that Apple hasn't gotten the patent, but merely applied for it, in an indicator that yet again slashdot readers aren't bothering to RTFA before commenting on it.
Soyuz was flying when Apollo was, and hasn't managed as many manned launches as Shuttle did in its career.
Shuttle has flown more times than ALL other manned systems combined (American, Russian, and Chinese). In considerably less time than Soyuz spent racking up the number two total of manned flights....
You're counting the unmanned launches, which I was ignoring. Just as I ignored the non-lethal failures of Soyuz, which are numerous.
Last time I headed home, I did exactly that - forgot to fill up the day before, noticed I was running on empty when I hit the highway, got off at the next exit, gassed up, was back on the highway in five minutes.
If I'd been driving an electric, I'd have had to go home and put the trip off by a day....
My newest car is more than ten years old.
None of my cars have required an engine rebuild yet.
I think you are badly underestimating the lifespan of a modern gasoline car.
All true. Except the part that implies that "enriching uranium" is only for making weapons-grade uranium.
Note that what reactors use is also "enriched", just not up to "weapons-grade". And that anyone who wants to make power reactors has to "enrich" uranium, or buy uranium that someone else has "enriched"....
And yet I have a program that allows me to read my eBooks on my desktop.
And my eBook format of choice (the one I use basically 100% of the time), ePub, can be read by any eBook reader I've tried (note that I've not bothered to check the Kindle itself)....
By your definition, any new invention, in any field, is monopoly abuse. After all, when it first appears, there is no alternative, therefore it's a monopoly that's being abused.
Now, if Google were to make it technically impossible to do so (which they haven't), or legally forbid others from doing so (which they haven't), then it would be monopoly abuse.
Or not.
The LARGEST one gets almost $2 million per month.
The smallest only gets $20 thousand per month.
On the other hand, the velocity of the rocket, relative to the Sun, is high at liftoff. And velocity relative to the Sun is the primary factor in determining the orbit, relative to the Sun, that a deep-space probe takes.
To provide some numbers, starting from LEO, a deltaV of around 6300 m/s would be about enough to get us to Jupiter using an orbit in the plane of the ecliptic.
A solar-polar orbit to Jupiter would require about 40900 m/s deltaV....
Note that both numbers are approximations, assuming (for instance) that Jupiter and Earth have orbits in the same plane (they don't, but the difference is lost when considering a solar-polar orbit)....
Of course, we pretty much annihilated the Viet Cong (who had support from North Vietnam and the USSR), then let our own peace movement get us out of Vietnam.
Followed by an invasion of South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese Army (a bigger, and better requirepped, Army than invaded France in 1940, by the by).
Almost as bad as Soyuz...which had 2 out of 117 flights fail in ways that killed their crews. Plus more than did things like crash into Mir and suchlike....
So, we're going to let the people in power define "media", then let only the "media" provide information about the pols running for office?
Remember, First Amendment gives the lads running newspapers/magazines/TV/movies/etc an inordinate amount of power to pick and choose the news the present and the way they present it.
Which means that in any system where political advertising is outlawed, the only source is the "media", which must be defined by the people making political advertising illegal.
Good luck with that....
Of course, if you're Catholic, you know perfectly well that children all go to heaven. It's only after they've chosen the Faith as adults (Confirmation) that this problem exists.
Last I checked, US nuclear workers had lower safe limits than US children do, so that's not as much problem as you might think.
Yes, right on the schedule agreed to by President Bush and the Iraqi government back in 2008. Amazing, isn't it?