I'm pretty sure that their old system with parachutes and retro rockets that sometimes didn't work and gave a pretty rough landing would be far lighter than a bunch of huge retro rockets.
I don't think this idea will fly even in Russia.
Capsules have parachutes on them. Plain and simple and proven. I guess you could put ceramic tiles on the whole damn thing and reuse it.
Throw away, at least for rocket science, seems to be the cheapest way to go. The only reason Nixon approved the shuttle wasn't because of cost (they just told us that). It was because someone from NASA told him that we could bring stuff back with it like Russian spy satellites.
I don't make sense and if the glove don't fit ya gotta acquit.
I don't know about Mingo County WV. I also live in Southwest Virginia and the rules are a little stricter here but mining is mining. We have both strip mining and underground mining are gonna cause damage.
One of the main problems with underground mining is that it destroys the water table in the local vicinity. The residents sue every year and every year they get paperwork that says the mines are not responsible for their bad water.
Before you put us down, guess who owns the mineral rights in coal country? Mostly people from up north that more or less waged a little civil war with the government on their side to take what they wanted by force if necessary. That was a long time ago, but these rights are perpetual.
Oh and the severance taxes that the state levies from them to make things better for us, guess where that goes? To build shit up in the Northern Virginia DC area because there is more people that vote up there than there are here.
But... saying all of that is giving the world a distorted picture of Appalachian Culture. And coal mines aren't everywhere because coal ain't.
Now, this is a pretty cool place to live if you can make any money at all the cost of living is low and there is plenty to do.
We have real nice parks pretty damn close to those mines. A mine is a mine. You wouldn't have half of the comforts that you have if it were not for someone doing this dirty work.
And at least here your description mine reclamation is complete bullshit. These days you would get put out of business completely if you did that. Of course there are areas like that from the 70's and before that that look like that. Putting top soil back and almost everything else like it was is a requirement here in Virginia.
I have been to WV too. Some of it is nice as hell.
Also where I live, where the limestone is on the other side of the mountains where the coal is, there are probably more unexplored caves and undiscovered biology in those caves than anywhere in the US. Some you have to repel 50' just to enter them. There is also whitewater rafting. If your into four wheeling, those old abandoned strip jobs are fun for that. In Eastern Kentucky it is still legal to ride four wheeler during certain hours of the day and there are 3 or 4 for every household. They have everything you have and more except clean water. They have trash pickup. They have real good broadband.
I'm not sure what "grass seed in mutant green nitrogen fertilizer shit" is? It is called hydro seeding and some uses recycled newspaper. That stuff has a lot of different seeds besides grass in it. It's probably on just about every median in the US by now. Strip mining is just like building roads you know, except they don't get paved. They have to have their erosion and sediment output strictly enforced in VA. I think it's a federal thing now with the EPA.
What is grandfathered back that stuff doesn't apply to. There is an underground mine nearby that caught fire in the early 70's and is still slowly burning till this day. They buried it filled it in but a little smoke still comes off of the top of the mountain.
I wish I could say more but we are not all a bunch of dumb morons like Jed Clampett. Most of the stuff you depend upon to survive came from a mine somewhere. You don't treat people from Butte Montana like that. They have way more environmental problems than we do. Where did the copper in your PC come from or the steel in your car?
I just hope whomever goes down to Bolivia doesn't steal
But still I've noticed most things that become standard in some places are arrived at quickly. Sometimes this is better than by committee.
Take a look at some CAD software sometime. There will still be stuff in there from 20 years ago that someone hacked together when the program was first being born but even though it might be a bad solution it has to stay because some of their customer base might a have a script that has to have that function.
So homemade vs. handmade cable might not make a noticeable difference.
You can save time, do it right, and have a standard for years and years if you were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time with the right stuff.
I think you need to really study your history to really know where most of your rights came from. Didn't the Brits abolish slavery first. You can say what you will about colonialism but are the people of Africa better off now that the US polices the world or were they a little better off under Queen Victoria and the UK doing the policing. I'm fro the US and as far as I am concerned you guys can have the world policing job back.
--' The debate over whether the state or 'private' enterprise should run things is completely irrelevant because, in the UK at least, the business and political elite are in collusion, and in many cases are the exact same people.--
Same in US. Haven't caught up to your level of spy cameras but are gaining quite rapidly. I assume the brits have figured ways around these schemes. I see a lot of destroyed video camera pictures from the UK here in the US on the net. I think there are site just dedicated to that.
We have millions of X10 cameras everywhere that are wireless, no encryption, cheap junk to watch the watchers with I guess if you can buy them there.
--Or when developing web applications, somebody implements that "quick function" that does X, intended only for internal stuff. Another feature comes along, and pretty soon we're using that temporary function as the core of a new system... and sometimes it even gets embedded into the core of the system. But remember, it was only temporary.--
A lot of that stuff went to the moon. Some of the best fixes ever were made under duress.
We used to make our own everything and then we had a fire that was so bad it destroyed all my tools (circa 2000). I haven't made a patch cable since. All of the long stuff we had run by a third party to get up and on the go quick as possible. This stuff still works. I don't know how but it still does?
But to run them cables just takes a punch down tool. Plugs are not a requirement in this case. When they are I just get them that way in whatever length I want.
We also have a pretty good wireless setup if I'm feeling really lazy.
Just because you can make your own stuff doesn't necessarily mean you should.
Personally I don't think the boss cares which way we do it since the cost figures so close to the same either way. If he did I would just do it the way they wanted it done and choose a better battle to fight.
I might help a small company like that or maybe I might help a person that is having the same trouble that I had and are dealing with a company that just will not help them. It's hard for me not to give an answer someone seeks, if I know it, but 20 hours a week for Verizon, NO WAY.
Goddamn, I really hate Verizon now for even wasting their time and money studying such a thing when they should provide better customer support in the first place.
When are companies going to figure out that customers are their only asset that is really worth anything and yet they bean count the numbers of what one asshole costs them and treat ALL their customers like trash. Verizon is a little monopoly that seems to be trying to get away with this every chance they get.
We'll that's another story depending upon how big your lap is.
Most of the stuff here doesn't travel, so I guess I have a unique situation. Just telling what I did last time not what I might or might not do next time.
You put your money into a phone booth sized device. It scans you, reassembles a copy of you on the other side with the data traveling along the existing internet. The device then does a checksum to make sure that there is an exact copy at the destination. If there are no errors then the original copy of you is hit over the head with a big automated hammer and resold as "green" fertilizer to make the process carbon neutral.
I haven't come up with a name yet to market it. I was thinking about just calling it the re-spawn gadget.
The only down side is the Plutonium requirement, but I'm workin on that too;0
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Yeah that was my point, anything could be in human hair. One person gets modded as funny for being politically correct. I get modded off topic.
I wonder how much they pay for your hair. Maybe I could get free haircut out of the deal or something. (joke ha ha)
But at least someone here got it. Thanks for the reply.
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I'm pretty sure that their old system with parachutes and retro rockets that sometimes didn't work and gave a pretty rough landing would be far lighter than a bunch of huge retro rockets.
I don't think this idea will fly even in Russia.
Capsules have parachutes on them. Plain and simple and proven. I guess you could put ceramic tiles on the whole damn thing and reuse it.
Throw away, at least for rocket science, seems to be the cheapest way to go. The only reason Nixon approved the shuttle wasn't because of cost (they just told us that). It was because someone from NASA told him that we could bring stuff back with it like Russian spy satellites.
I don't make sense and if the glove don't fit ya gotta acquit.
I don't know about Mingo County WV. I also live in Southwest Virginia and the rules are a little stricter here but mining is mining. We have both strip mining and underground mining are gonna cause damage.
One of the main problems with underground mining is that it destroys the water table in the local vicinity. The residents sue every year and every year they get paperwork that says the mines are not responsible for their bad water.
Before you put us down, guess who owns the mineral rights in coal country? Mostly people from up north that more or less waged a little civil war with the government on their side to take what they wanted by force if necessary. That was a long time ago, but these rights are perpetual.
Oh and the severance taxes that the state levies from them to make things better for us, guess where that goes? To build shit up in the Northern Virginia DC area because there is more people that vote up there than there are here.
But... saying all of that is giving the world a distorted picture of Appalachian Culture. And coal mines aren't everywhere because coal ain't.
Now, this is a pretty cool place to live if you can make any money at all the cost of living is low and there is plenty to do.
We have real nice parks pretty damn close to those mines. A mine is a mine. You wouldn't have half of the comforts that you have if it were not for someone doing this dirty work.
And at least here your description mine reclamation is complete bullshit. These days you would get put out of business completely if you did that. Of course there are areas like that from the 70's and before that that look like that.
Putting top soil back and almost everything else like it was is a requirement here in Virginia.
I have been to WV too. Some of it is nice as hell.
http://www.nps.gov/cuga/
http://www.breakspark.com/
http://www.kingdomcome.org/kcsp/
It ain't like this any more. Read the book too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t9V227meio
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL2216184M/Bloody-Harlan
Also where I live, where the limestone is on the other side of the mountains where the coal is, there are probably more unexplored caves and undiscovered biology in those caves than anywhere in the US. Some you have to repel 50' just to enter them. There is also whitewater rafting. If your into four wheeling, those old abandoned strip jobs are fun for that. In Eastern Kentucky it is still legal to ride four wheeler during certain hours of the day and there are 3 or 4 for every household. They have everything you have and more except clean water. They have trash pickup. They have real good broadband.
I'm not sure what "grass seed in mutant green nitrogen fertilizer shit" is? It is called hydro seeding and some uses recycled newspaper. That stuff has a lot of different seeds besides grass in it. It's probably on just about every median in the US by now. Strip mining is just like building roads you know, except they don't get paved. They have to have their erosion and sediment output strictly enforced in VA. I think it's a federal thing now with the EPA.
What is grandfathered back that stuff doesn't apply to. There is an underground mine nearby that caught fire in the early 70's and is still slowly burning till this day. They buried it filled it in but a little smoke still comes off of the top of the mountain.
I wish I could say more but we are not all a bunch of dumb morons like Jed Clampett. Most of the stuff you depend upon to survive came from a mine somewhere. You don't treat people from Butte Montana like that. They have way more environmental problems than we do. Where did the copper in your PC come from or the steel in your car?
I just hope whomever goes down to Bolivia doesn't steal
Just making new capsules without the rockets may be just as cost effective. That is all that you are saving from the trip.
But still I've noticed most things that become standard in some places are arrived at quickly. Sometimes this is better than by committee.
Take a look at some CAD software sometime. There will still be stuff in there from 20 years ago that someone hacked together when the program was first being born but even though it might be a bad solution it has to stay because some of their customer base might a have a script that has to have that function.
So homemade vs. handmade cable might not make a noticeable difference.
You can save time, do it right, and have a standard for years and years if you were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time with the right stuff.
I think you need to really study your history to really know where most of your rights came from. Didn't the Brits abolish slavery first. You can say what you will about colonialism but are the people of Africa better off now that the US polices the world or were they a little better off under Queen Victoria and the UK doing the policing. I'm fro the US and as far as I am concerned you guys can have the world policing job back.
--' The debate over whether the state or 'private' enterprise should run things is completely irrelevant because, in the UK at least, the business and political elite are in collusion, and in many cases are the exact same people.--
Same in US. Haven't caught up to your level of spy cameras but are gaining quite rapidly. I assume the brits have figured ways around these schemes. I see a lot of destroyed video camera pictures from the UK here in the US on the net. I think there are site just dedicated to that.
We have millions of X10 cameras everywhere that are wireless, no encryption, cheap junk to watch the watchers with I guess if you can buy them there.
http://www.x10.com/
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Exactly.
--The result is a cleaner solution IMHO. I guess it depends on the scale and mindset of the company....
Right, it's negligible either way. I'm thinking more about wireless issues now than cables.
--Does your boss have any proof that hand-made cables are inferior?--
That depends upon who makes the cables. Do what the boss wants. Throw away 1 out of 10 if need be.
--Or when developing web applications, somebody implements that "quick function" that does X, intended only for internal stuff. Another feature comes along, and pretty soon we're using that temporary function as the core of a new system... and sometimes it even gets embedded into the core of the system. But remember, it was only temporary.--
A lot of that stuff went to the moon. Some of the best fixes ever were made under duress.
Yes, if you go that route, make sure you get good cables, not ones made in Mudperckistan for 1$ a 1000.
Dell PowerEdge is not expensive. Cisco, now that's expensive.
We used to make our own everything and then we had a fire that was so bad it destroyed all my tools (circa 2000). I haven't made a patch cable since. All of the long stuff we had run by a third party to get up and on the go quick as possible. This stuff still works. I don't know how but it still does?
But to run them cables just takes a punch down tool. Plugs are not a requirement in this case. When they are I just get them that way in whatever length I want.
We also have a pretty good wireless setup if I'm feeling really lazy.
Just because you can make your own stuff doesn't necessarily mean you should.
Personally I don't think the boss cares which way we do it since the cost figures so close to the same either way. If he did I would just do it the way they wanted it done and choose a better battle to fight.
I might help a small company like that or maybe I might help a person that is having the same trouble that I had and are dealing with a company that just will not help them. It's hard for me not to give an answer someone seeks, if I know it, but 20 hours a week for Verizon, NO WAY.
Goddamn, I really hate Verizon now for even wasting their time and money studying such a thing when they should provide better customer support in the first place.
When are companies going to figure out that customers are their only asset that is really worth anything and yet they bean count the numbers of what one asshole costs them and treat ALL their customers like trash. Verizon is a little monopoly that seems to be trying to get away with this every chance they get.
No you gotta remember, it's not like tubes but like a spider web all of which leads back to the female spider. Take that out and the rest is history.
Just Hitler. Stalin & Mussolini' I believe, liked their trains to run on time.
Those tubes tend to pass gas. That's what happens when you feed it beans. Pft...!
We'll that's another story depending upon how big your lap is.
Most of the stuff here doesn't travel, so I guess I have a unique situation. Just telling what I did last time not what I might or might not do next time.
Dictators always like trains. Not saying Obadiah is dictator but....Anyhow we now have some change. I guess that gets spent too?
I'm workin real hard in my basement on beaming.
The idea is this:
You put your money into a phone booth sized device. It scans you, reassembles a copy of you on the other side with the data traveling along the existing internet. The device then does a checksum to make sure that there is an exact copy at the destination. If there are no errors then the original copy of you is hit over the head with a big automated hammer and resold as "green" fertilizer to make the process carbon neutral.
I haven't come up with a name yet to market it. I was thinking about just calling it the re-spawn gadget.
The only down side is the Plutonium requirement, but I'm workin on that too ;0
--It is nice that governments don't start commercially driven wars and that if they do, they end up in jail.--
They do if they are on the loosing side, and well if accused of war crimes, then you know what happens....
--I think the reason is that the court isn't familiar enough with these new developments and might be lacking the ability to comprehend them.--
This sounds more and more like the US court system. They are not really corrupt but stupid (which is worse IMO).
Damn straight, the parent should be banned for talking about it.