As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kittens
Kits, cats, sacks, and wifes,
How many were going to St. Ives?
If a train is going 0.6c relative to a ring going 0.6c relative to me, I'm not going to see the train going faster than light. Velocities don't add like that in Special Relativity. Similarly, you can't do anything to see anything coming at you faster than the speed of light. If those 50mph cars were actually doing 0.5c, they wouldn't be doing the speed of light approaching each other.
Special Relativity isn't that hard once you realize that "simultaneous" and "when" and "where" aren't defined by anything except frame of reference.
We don't actually know that FTL is absolutely impossible. It's just as possible as time travel backwards, and not everyone's convinced that's impossible.
Personally, if I see an attractive woman significantly less than half my age, I tend to fantasize hooking her up with my son. I may be atypical in this.
Fortunately, I had the financial acumen to be the right age to buy a house before the real estate market went kablooie, and to go to college when it was still pretty inexpensive. Millennials are wastrels who feel the have to go to school while it's expensive, instead of forty years ago, and who don't plan to buy houses around 2000.
In employment law, people between 40 and 65 are a protected class, while younger people aren't. How good an idea this is (I think the protected class should extend to Social Security full retirement age, personally, and that's 66 for me) is left as an exercise for the flame wars.
Fixed at what point? Besides, the elderly who are well off can try making more income off their investments. Or getting some sort of part-time job (obviously, this doesn't work for everyone, but I'm planning to retire while still healthy).
geo-thermal can already be cheaper than BOTH wind/solar with/without storage. That is a fact.
Sure it can be. It can also be a lot more expensive. Depends on where you are. Iceland is a great place for geothermal, Minnesota a lot less so.
NASA is pushing for us to put in geo-thermal with injection all around yellowstone to keep it from blowing again.
There's no way we can bleed off enough energy to make a difference, and if we had the ability to do that we'd have to be real careful not to make things unstable and start an eruption.
That depended on a lot of things like your skin color (although you could be accused of "passing" if you looked a little nonwhite), or your sexual preferences, or how much you liked rigid gender roles.
And the people were a lot better.
Better in what way? They sure weren't better to people who didn't resemble them.
And those people are the ones that made the social changes happen.
It's hard to make social changes happen when you're on the bottom.
If you think Obama wasn't trying to make America as great as possible, you missed something. We're not peddling helpless despair, we're looking into places to improve. It's you idiots that keep insisting that everything is fine with you (as long as you're healthy, white, heterosexual, not suspected of a major crime), so you view things like racial discrimination with tacit approval.
Your contractor could do the exact same thing without a business. He takes in $120K/year, has $20K/year in expenses, and he and his wife get $100K income. (The combined income is what's important for tax purposes, not which spouse gets what.) In a regular 1040 filing, it would come out pretty much the same.
There are advantages to forming a small corporation for contracting, though. If you have a corporation and someone sues you, you can let the corp go bankrupt instead of you.
It's a matter of presenting possible contingencies to people while they can still maybe do something about it. Letting people know what their elected representatives are up to is vital to democracy.
It's more a matter of incentives, not fortitude, in many cases. The government can finance research that's not going to benefit any individual company but will eventually benefit all of us.
Technically, the US is first in prison population, both in raw numbers and relative to population (last I looked, anyway), so the US is first in some things.
There is research that is good for everyone in general and nobody in particular, and that needs to be funded by the government. This includes basic research, which, after a lot of things happen, make it possible for you to be a neo-Luddite.
Private companies fund research that benefits themselves. Government funds research that benefits everybody. Benefiting everybody does not give anyone a competitive advantage.
A "Blue Wave" could easily turn the House over to Democrats. With more difficulty, it could give the Ds a majority in the Senate (the class of Senators up for re-election is already heavily Democratic). With a Democrat majority in the House, Trump could be impeached. However, if every single Senate seat goes D in 2018, there won't be enough non-Republican Senators to convict, and so it would be an ineffectual political gesture.
The one multi-platform exercise I'm aware of is the Windows and Macintosh versions of MS Office, which means they've had to be readable at times on M680x0 and PowerPC systems. (A friend removed SaveA5World from MS Office once. It's done absolutely nothing since Apple moved from the original Motorola line.)
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Or, to be traditional:
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kittens
Kits, cats, sacks, and wifes,
How many were going to St. Ives?
Easier to write 2 .LE. a .LT. 3. Fortunately, everyone understands FORTRAN.
If a train is going 0.6c relative to a ring going 0.6c relative to me, I'm not going to see the train going faster than light. Velocities don't add like that in Special Relativity. Similarly, you can't do anything to see anything coming at you faster than the speed of light. If those 50mph cars were actually doing 0.5c, they wouldn't be doing the speed of light approaching each other.
Special Relativity isn't that hard once you realize that "simultaneous" and "when" and "where" aren't defined by anything except frame of reference.
We don't actually know that FTL is absolutely impossible. It's just as possible as time travel backwards, and not everyone's convinced that's impossible.
Personally, if I see an attractive woman significantly less than half my age, I tend to fantasize hooking her up with my son. I may be atypical in this.
Fortunately, I had the financial acumen to be the right age to buy a house before the real estate market went kablooie, and to go to college when it was still pretty inexpensive. Millennials are wastrels who feel the have to go to school while it's expensive, instead of forty years ago, and who don't plan to buy houses around 2000.
In employment law, people between 40 and 65 are a protected class, while younger people aren't. How good an idea this is (I think the protected class should extend to Social Security full retirement age, personally, and that's 66 for me) is left as an exercise for the flame wars.
Fixed at what point? Besides, the elderly who are well off can try making more income off their investments. Or getting some sort of part-time job (obviously, this doesn't work for everyone, but I'm planning to retire while still healthy).
More immediately, natural gas is taking over from coal. It's cheaper, and it's a lot less likely to be hit with heavy regulation on January 21, 2021.
Nobody's going to make a new coal plant because one administration goes rogue and removes regulations.
Looks more like Big Coal, or maybe the political support of all those coal miners that Trump is going to leave twisting slowly in the wind.
Sure it can be. It can also be a lot more expensive. Depends on where you are. Iceland is a great place for geothermal, Minnesota a lot less so.
There's no way we can bleed off enough energy to make a difference, and if we had the ability to do that we'd have to be real careful not to make things unstable and start an eruption.
That depended on a lot of things like your skin color (although you could be accused of "passing" if you looked a little nonwhite), or your sexual preferences, or how much you liked rigid gender roles.
Better in what way? They sure weren't better to people who didn't resemble them.
It's hard to make social changes happen when you're on the bottom.
If you think Obama wasn't trying to make America as great as possible, you missed something. We're not peddling helpless despair, we're looking into places to improve. It's you idiots that keep insisting that everything is fine with you (as long as you're healthy, white, heterosexual, not suspected of a major crime), so you view things like racial discrimination with tacit approval.
Your contractor could do the exact same thing without a business. He takes in $120K/year, has $20K/year in expenses, and he and his wife get $100K income. (The combined income is what's important for tax purposes, not which spouse gets what.) In a regular 1040 filing, it would come out pretty much the same.
There are advantages to forming a small corporation for contracting, though. If you have a corporation and someone sues you, you can let the corp go bankrupt instead of you.
It's a matter of presenting possible contingencies to people while they can still maybe do something about it. Letting people know what their elected representatives are up to is vital to democracy.
It's more a matter of incentives, not fortitude, in many cases. The government can finance research that's not going to benefit any individual company but will eventually benefit all of us.
Technically, the US is first in prison population, both in raw numbers and relative to population (last I looked, anyway), so the US is first in some things.
There is research that is good for everyone in general and nobody in particular, and that needs to be funded by the government. This includes basic research, which, after a lot of things happen, make it possible for you to be a neo-Luddite.
I don't think Obama meant to gut the EPA, for example. You need to either get out more or be a little more cautious with your statements.
Microsoft actually sponsors a lot of research.
Private companies fund research that benefits themselves. Government funds research that benefits everybody. Benefiting everybody does not give anyone a competitive advantage.
The White House was at least rumored to have SAMS at one time. Would a heat-seeker lock on a Delorean with a Mr. Fusion mounted on it?
A "Blue Wave" could easily turn the House over to Democrats. With more difficulty, it could give the Ds a majority in the Senate (the class of Senators up for re-election is already heavily Democratic). With a Democrat majority in the House, Trump could be impeached. However, if every single Senate seat goes D in 2018, there won't be enough non-Republican Senators to convict, and so it would be an ineffectual political gesture.
The one multi-platform exercise I'm aware of is the Windows and Macintosh versions of MS Office, which means they've had to be readable at times on M680x0 and PowerPC systems. (A friend removed SaveA5World from MS Office once. It's done absolutely nothing since Apple moved from the original Motorola line.)
Also, it seems like some of the meds I'm on aren't compatible with grapefruit juice. Sort of like grapefruit doesn't work with all bodies.
There are things LibreOffice can do that I can't do easily in vim.