Geosychronous orbit occurs wear the speed necessary to maintain that orbit (determined by acceleration towards earth due to gravity) matches the rate at which the planet turns.
Apply more force than gravity (using, say, a carbon nano-tube cable attached to earth) and you can make the cable longer, as the extra force from the cable tension will allow you to accelerate more than gravity alone, and thus allow your object to orbit fast enough at the higher orbits to keep geosynchronous without flying off into space.
People I know who score higher on ETS tests tend to be smarter than people I know who score lower on ETS tests.
Or they cheat better.
Or they have money to spend on preparation classes.
Or they're white.
Either way, the ETS tests can very actively tell admissions counselors which students are the the wealthiest white cheaters who are not totally stupid.
If you wanted to use smeone's gun, you'd have to now in advance both that you would need to use their gun, and what their fingerprint looked like.
for most cases where you'd have access and desire to use a firearm that was not yours, you most likely would nothave had the chance to prepare a jello mold of the owner's fingerprint in advance.
And I agree with most of what you want (except that there will always be taxes, although we could cut back on a lot of spending)..
BUT....
Republicans are not conservatives, and Kerry is not a liberal. George and Co want you to BELIEVE that they are conservatives, but they are not. A conservative doesn't pass every single pork spending bill his political party can come up with, or run a huge deficit, for example.
Kerry doesn't fit your definition of Liberal, and Bush doesn't fit your definition of Conservative. I'm going to assume you voted for Bush... why?
Do you also believe that the government should encourage religious values? Do you think the government should ban gay marraige?
You're also only a conservative when it's convenient to you - you don't want to help people, unless it's your father-in-law and grandfather-in-law, in which case you think they're entitled to keep the same job despite changing business conditions. Next you'll be telling us they deserve unemployment or something.
But, back to the original post, I know plenty of people who are "conservative" because they don't like black people, are convinced "liberals" are going to take away their guns, and are terrified that gay people might live happy lives together.
"Conservatives" are just as guilty of trying to run people's lives as liberals, they just try and run different parts.
It's not the exit polls that they're using. Both candidates need less than 20 electoral votes to win. Ohio has 20. Bush is going to win Ohio, it's a near mathmatical certainty based on the COUNTED BALLOTS. Bush wins the election.
Additionally, Bush has a SIGNIFICANT edge in the popular vote.
Democracy doesn't mean the best man wins, it just means the majority is responsible for who they pick.
Bush has about a 136k lead in Ohio. Even if there are 200,000 provisional ballots, and you assume they are all counted, Kerry would have to win by about 168k to 32k in order to win Ohio. That also assumes that there are no absentee ballots left, which there are, and as most of those are from the military, they're more likely to be republican votes.
It's over. Kerry, like Gore, ran a crappy campaign and got beat. Another case of Too Little, Too Late.
Maybe next time Democrats will figure out that you gotta take a stand and piss a few people off if you want to be taken seriously.
- Calculate your share of the National Deficit - Take up assault weapon collecting as a hobby - Figure out how to best invest your $300 annual Bush tax savings to cover the social security benefits you'll never get - Become rich, then get all your income from mostly untaxed dividends and capital gains income - Join the guard and train for a one year tour of duty in Iraq - Move so that the selective service can't find you - Take some gay people and a girlfriend (work with me here) to Vegas. Taunt them by getting married and divorced inside of 12 hours. - Make a sign saying "The Government should stay out of our lives!" and go protest in front of an abortion clinic. - Pick up bow and arrow making to capitalize on the new corporate tax incentives - Do something illegal, get arrested, and excercise your right to trial before 4 years of Bush-appointed, Republican confirmed Supreme Court appointees uphold the Patriot Act's elimination of right to trial.
Ohio law, for example, does not permit anyone other than voters, election officials, election "challengers", and police in polling places. Outside observers are thus not allowed to be there.
But maybe that's exactly what you should do - get a bunch of your buddies and vote 10 times each, but for Nader or someone who isn't going to win.
At the end of the day, they'll know they have more votes than they have people who checked in to vote, won't know which votes are "extra", and will be forced to overhaul the system for next time.
It just blows my mind that people designing systems like this can be so fundamentally stupid.
The government can now hold you indefinitely without trial. Rich people are richer, the deficit is skyrocketing, we've invaded Iraq and killed 100,000 Iraqis...
Except it's not more clear. You're matching closing braces to opening braces, and then looking at what started the opening brace. Needless extra step.
It's better to just match the closing brace to the matching if/for/while, which is easy, as it's the first thing you see if you go straight up from the closing brace. This is better because while { is relatively meaningless punctuation ("matching } ends a block"), if/for/while is a meaningful verb ("Matching } ends a branch/iterative loop/conditional loop")
Anyway, the if starts at the *IF*, so why match to the { instead of the if?
Stop trying to match braces and start trying to enclose control structures and you'll have a much easier time doing it the right way, and a much easier time understanding what you're doing.
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The reds already beat us to it, because IN SOVIET RUSSIA... ...buildings climb space elevators.
Geosychronous orbit occurs wear the speed necessary to maintain that orbit (determined by acceleration towards earth due to gravity) matches the rate at which the planet turns.
Apply more force than gravity (using, say, a carbon nano-tube cable attached to earth) and you can make the cable longer, as the extra force from the cable tension will allow you to accelerate more than gravity alone, and thus allow your object to orbit fast enough at the higher orbits to keep geosynchronous without flying off into space.
I'm going to do my best to avoid letting my son see any Disney-only Toy Story movie, lest the first two be ruined for him.
Well, I guess Star Wars III is right out then.
Or if you're in a suitable age range...
Just take a struggling (hot) artist out to dinner.
"why should those with high speed access find a loophole out of local telephony costs?"
Because they are not using local telephony?
Next you'll be telling us that people who read the newspaper are finding a loophole out of cable television costs.
People I know who score higher on ETS tests tend to be smarter than people I know who score lower on ETS tests.
Or they cheat better.
Or they have money to spend on preparation classes.
Or they're white.
Either way, the ETS tests can very actively tell admissions counselors which students are the the wealthiest white cheaters who are not totally stupid.
If you wanted to use smeone's gun, you'd have to now in advance both that you would need to use their gun, and what their fingerprint looked like.
for most cases where you'd have access and desire to use a firearm that was not yours, you most likely would nothave had the chance to prepare a jello mold of the owner's fingerprint in advance.
Most people's student loans are worse than that.
And I agree with most of what you want (except that there will always be taxes, although we could cut back on a lot of spending)..
BUT....
Republicans are not conservatives, and Kerry is not a liberal. George and Co want you to BELIEVE that they are conservatives, but they are not. A conservative doesn't pass every single pork spending bill his political party can come up with, or run a huge deficit, for example.
Kerry doesn't fit your definition of Liberal, and Bush doesn't fit your definition of Conservative. I'm going to assume you voted for Bush... why?
Do you also believe that the government should encourage religious values? Do you think the government should ban gay marraige?
You're also only a conservative when it's convenient to you - you don't want to help people, unless it's your father-in-law and grandfather-in-law, in which case you think they're entitled to keep the same job despite changing business conditions. Next you'll be telling us they deserve unemployment or something.
But, back to the original post, I know plenty of people who are "conservative" because they don't like black people, are convinced "liberals" are going to take away their guns, and are terrified that gay people might live happy lives together.
"Conservatives" are just as guilty of trying to run people's lives as liberals, they just try and run different parts.
It's not the exit polls that they're using. Both candidates need less than 20 electoral votes to win. Ohio has 20. Bush is going to win Ohio, it's a near mathmatical certainty based on the COUNTED BALLOTS. Bush wins the election.
Additionally, Bush has a SIGNIFICANT edge in the popular vote.
Democracy doesn't mean the best man wins, it just means the majority is responsible for who they pick.
Bush has about a 136k lead in Ohio. Even if there are 200,000 provisional ballots, and you assume they are all counted, Kerry would have to win by about 168k to 32k in order to win Ohio. That also assumes that there are no absentee ballots left, which there are, and as most of those are from the military, they're more likely to be republican votes.
It's over. Kerry, like Gore, ran a crappy campaign and got beat. Another case of Too Little, Too Late.
Maybe next time Democrats will figure out that you gotta take a stand and piss a few people off if you want to be taken seriously.
Vote Barak Obama.
Or maybe McCain will make it another 4 years...
- Calculate your share of the National Deficit
- Take up assault weapon collecting as a hobby
- Figure out how to best invest your $300 annual Bush tax savings to cover the social security benefits you'll never get
- Become rich, then get all your income from mostly untaxed dividends and capital gains income
- Join the guard and train for a one year tour of duty in Iraq
- Move so that the selective service can't find you
- Take some gay people and a girlfriend (work with me here) to Vegas. Taunt them by getting married and divorced inside of 12 hours.
- Make a sign saying "The Government should stay out of our lives!" and go protest in front of an abortion clinic.
- Pick up bow and arrow making to capitalize on the new corporate tax incentives
- Do something illegal, get arrested, and excercise your right to trial before 4 years of Bush-appointed, Republican confirmed Supreme Court appointees uphold the Patriot Act's elimination of right to trial.
The 49% who voted for Kerry, and the 51% who are morons.
I guess I better learn the rest of that.
Ohio law, for example, does not permit anyone other than voters, election officials, election "challengers", and police in polling places. Outside observers are thus not allowed to be there.
1. He's not Bush.
Voting for evil is still evil.
And voting for Badnarik is still insane.
Besides, voting for less evil is still less evil.
Why should I vote for Badnarik again? His platform doesn't appeal to me any more than Kerry's does, and Bush's platform scares me.
Voting for the result that will benefit you the most is completely rational, even if that result isn't what you'd like it to be.
One group of people get to vote to take money away from another group.
Sounds like Congress.
But maybe that's exactly what you should do - get a bunch of your buddies and vote 10 times each, but for Nader or someone who isn't going to win.
At the end of the day, they'll know they have more votes than they have people who checked in to vote, won't know which votes are "extra", and will be forced to overhaul the system for next time.
It just blows my mind that people designing systems like this can be so fundamentally stupid.
But I decided I didn't want to vote for a moron.
That's why I'm voting for Nader again.
The government can now hold you indefinitely without trial. Rich people are richer, the deficit is skyrocketing, we've invaded Iraq and killed 100,000 Iraqis...
Or did you mean POSITIVE, meaningful change?
I'm voting Kerry. I like his lies better.
if you have a correct assignment, and will get full marks, why would you risk your own mark sharing it with some loser who can't do the assignment?
Because you are the best coder in the class, and she is the hottest/only girl in the class?
Have to get women to talk to you somehow.
Except it's not more clear. You're matching closing braces to opening braces, and then looking at what started the opening brace. Needless extra step.
It's better to just match the closing brace to the matching if/for/while, which is easy, as it's the first thing you see if you go straight up from the closing brace. This is better because while { is relatively meaningless punctuation ("matching } ends a block"), if/for/while is a meaningful verb ("Matching } ends a branch/iterative loop/conditional loop")
Anyway, the if starts at the *IF*, so why match to the { instead of the if?
Stop trying to match braces and start trying to enclose control structures and you'll have a much easier time doing it the right way, and a much easier time understanding what you're doing.