Repeal the 17th amendment? Considering that the 16th was never properly.. ratified... the 17th is prohibition, which then wasn't repealed (the 21st mentions the 18th by number, so it is really repealing women's vote in my renumbering). So you want to repeal prohibition (I agree). But we should really repeal the 16th as well! OK, keep your signature, I gave myself a headache.
I am going to be pedantic and point out that the speed you give is at sea level, looking this up in wikipedia I read that the speed of sound in air is not heavily dependent on air pressure but more on temperature (it is slower as you go up since it gets colder).
Man, I thought the same thing. It took me a long time to understand why anyone would want windows when you had XTree gold. It was a beautiful application. Capable of reading all kinds of files (even autocad dwg!), searching was powerful. You could tag a bunch of files based on name, grep those files for some text, untagging the ones that didn't match as it went and reducing your search.
Pure Beauty, I haven't used it in many, many years, but I bet my fingers would remember the keys in 5 minutes of using it again.
I also remember the things that finally killed it for me. Lack (or late) support for long filenames, and the terrible windows port... man, those people should *have* written windows!
Put your stamps accross the envelope's seal, when the stamps get canceled (with the date) you'll have proof that you sealed it before mailing it. I once did this, but actually had to do it twice because the first time the cancellation stamp didn't go through the stamps (they put it in the traditional place).
And with what money shall the US consume if it does not manufacture anything to sell for profit? Technology was the last real growth manufacturing field. Without turning one thing into another, to sell for profit, there is no more real consumption as rather than generating money, you are just recycling money. And then, when you buy foreign made goods, that recycled money leaves the country, leaving you with less to purchase with. It is an entropic cycle, and will eventually fail.
When that money leaves the country it leaves in Dollars, other countries may trade that currency, but eventually they are still U.S. dollars and have to come back into the U.S. The majority of these end up buying treasury bonds. China is now the biggest holder of treasury bonds. They own our asses... and our children's.
The solution (or at least part of the solution) is a very libertarian one: stop the growth of government, stop the congressional borrow and spend cycle, stop printing money and bonds. Bonds are a tax on the future.
Our trading partners buy bonds because they have dollars they've gotten from the stuff we've bought from them. They are a fairly safe investment and gives them a good return. If bonds were not so easily available they'd HAVE to spend that money in real investments in the U.S. The money that is now going to fund the growth of government would instead go to fund investment and economic growth
Trade imbalances aren't bad on their own, it all depends on what you do with the imbalance, if you use it to fuel Government they are terrible (look at the Latin American Economies of the 80's and what they did with the inflow of foreign currency in the form of loans, same effect). Use them to fund growth and trade imbalances are not a problem.
Though this is a great story (and it is used to connect the chariot rots to the size of the external tanks of the space shuttle) it is unfortunately an urban legend. Sorry.
Though I respect home schoolers there are other options for those who don't have the option or inclination. I've got my kids in a co-op type school (RCP) and we love it.
Ha! You are both wrong. The deal is at a different table, they have colluded to "trade" the seat every 8 years or so so that you think there's a difference.
They have perfected the concept of party dictatorship by having two parties, with tiny differences in philosophy but no discernible difference in reality. Past totalitarians are spinning clockwise in their graves hoping that they had thought of it.
A friend of mine has a Sparrow, it is an extremely "cute" thing, but alas, it doesn't run. It's battery also lasts only about 20 miles. I hear the company that took over Sparrow production from Corbin has fixed many of the problems that the Sparrow had (Myers Motors)
No, the casino is a business, run by people, with the same rights and responsibilities as other people. They are selling entertainment of a specific kind, and you know full well (or at least should know) what your odds are when you enter and decide to play. Casinos (for the most part) are not swindling anyone. And even if what they do IS immoral, two wrongs don't make a right.
Pompous? perhaps, but not pious, I do not draw my morality from religion (I'm an atheist) or from legality (I'm a Libertarian), as for my post being ridiculous... well, it's on-topic, non-absurd, and I don't think it invites ridicule and makes sense (reading the Definition of ridiculous) so no, you can't call it ridiculous.
I'll be able to read my post ten years from now and still be proud of it, would you (or the guy who is stealing from the gas station) be able to say the same? Be able to proudly show it to his children?
I am totally flabbergasted by all of the people here. The number of you who seem to think that it is perfectly ok to bilk the Casino as long you're not caught is mind numbing. Would you steal from an old lady if you knew you wouldn't get caught or if the state didn't consider it "against the law"? Would you rape? Torture? It is moments like this that I understand how depraved situations like Nazi Germany happened: people so used to doing what their government tells them it is ok and lawful.
The fact that the Casino is trying to take advantage of people and that they may not be run by the most moral of humans is no excuse either, these people were patronizing their establishments and threw themselves with the owners at that point.
I really thought the majority of geeks around here would be slightly more moral than the average... I might be wrong.
The question for me is... how can you live with what you are doing? You are doing something that is obviously (at least obvious to me) immoral, whether it is legal or not is (again, to me) totally irrelevant. For the most part I live my life attempting to do what's right according to my moral values, I might be a bit discouraged to do things that are merely illegal but not immoral, but I strive to not do things that are immoral even if perfectly legal.
Heck, I DON'T keep the wrong change if I catch the mistake, and if I catch it past the point when I can do something about it (or the quantity is minimal) I feel shitty for the rest of the day... I really don't see how you can do it again and again.
Right, but from the article... it seems like the problem is not so much fuel as slowing down the reentry, if the whole load is too heavy then the sparse atmosphere makes it hard to slow down, and air bags become unpractical. Smaller pods may be easier to slow. The resources used for slowing can be best used to slow the meatware while the machines and supplies can take the higher G's of rapid deceleration.
Funny, not Starship troopers, in fact I just now thought of that, but it may have been on the back of my mind as I'm rereading my favorite Heinleins to celebrate his 100th anniversary.
While you guys are at it... sometimes I'm searching for words within the page, since the word is there (but in a collapsed entry) the browser goes to it, but then doesn't highlight it.
If the problem is that you can't land the whole crew at once because of weight... why don't you land each member separately, in tiny containers and then a big load with the unmanned portion of the mission? Another advantage of something like this is that if one of the landings fails and you lose a team member your mission is still safe.
I'm not sure if you're joking. A pacemaker does not power the heart, what it does is replace the natural pacemaker a healthy heart has, in simple terms, the heart has a bunch of cells in charge of making sure all of the other muscle cells in the heart beat in unison, various causes may make these cells stop working (or working effectively, or their signals breaking down). An artificial pacemaker replaces or enhances the function of these cells. A heart powered pacemaker would work very well indeed, absent a pacemaker heart cells fall out of synch (or pacemaker cells in other parts of the heart take over, again, throwing things out of wack), but they keep on beating, so I imagine vibrations still exist to power this kind of device.
I heard the same thing from the 48 lecture course on Egyptology from "The Teaching Company", they never wrote a loosing battle, we sometimes infer that they lost because in the context of a war they keep on wining battles closer to home.
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Repeal the 17th amendment? Considering that the 16th was never properly.. ratified... the 17th is prohibition, which then wasn't repealed (the 21st mentions the 18th by number, so it is really repealing women's vote in my renumbering). So you want to repeal prohibition (I agree). But we should really repeal the 16th as well! OK, keep your signature, I gave myself a headache.
Speed of sound = 1225 km/h.
I am going to be pedantic and point out that the speed you give is at sea level, looking this up in wikipedia I read that the speed of sound in air is not heavily dependent on air pressure but more on temperature (it is slower as you go up since it gets colder).
At 29,000 the speed of sound is merely 1083 km/h.
Man, I thought the same thing. It took me a long time to understand why anyone would want windows when you had XTree gold. It was a beautiful application. Capable of reading all kinds of files (even autocad dwg!), searching was powerful. You could tag a bunch of files based on name, grep those files for some text, untagging the ones that didn't match as it went and reducing your search.
Pure Beauty, I haven't used it in many, many years, but I bet my fingers would remember the keys in 5 minutes of using it again.
I also remember the things that finally killed it for me. Lack (or late) support for long filenames, and the terrible windows port... man, those people should *have* written windows!
Is there a linux port?
Put your stamps accross the envelope's seal, when the stamps get canceled (with the date) you'll have proof that you sealed it before mailing it. I once did this, but actually had to do it twice because the first time the cancellation stamp didn't go through the stamps (they put it in the traditional place).
And with what money shall the US consume if it does not manufacture anything to sell for profit? Technology was the last real growth manufacturing field. Without turning one thing into another, to sell for profit, there is no more real consumption as rather than generating money, you are just recycling money. And then, when you buy foreign made goods, that recycled money leaves the country, leaving you with less to purchase with. It is an entropic cycle, and will eventually fail.
When that money leaves the country it leaves in Dollars, other countries may trade that currency, but eventually they are still U.S. dollars and have to come back into the U.S. The majority of these end up buying treasury bonds. China is now the biggest holder of treasury bonds. They own our asses... and our children's.
The solution (or at least part of the solution) is a very libertarian one: stop the growth of government, stop the congressional borrow and spend cycle, stop printing money and bonds. Bonds are a tax on the future.
Our trading partners buy bonds because they have dollars they've gotten from the stuff we've bought from them. They are a fairly safe investment and gives them a good return. If bonds were not so easily available they'd HAVE to spend that money in real investments in the U.S. The money that is now going to fund the growth of government would instead go to fund investment and economic growth
Trade imbalances aren't bad on their own, it all depends on what you do with the imbalance, if you use it to fuel Government they are terrible (look at the Latin American Economies of the 80's and what they did with the inflow of foreign currency in the form of loans, same effect). Use them to fund growth and trade imbalances are not a problem.
Basic Macroeconomics, cxu ne?
Though this is a great story (and it is used to connect the chariot rots to the size of the external tanks of the space shuttle) it is unfortunately an urban legend. Sorry.
Though I respect home schoolers there are other options for those who don't have the option or inclination. I've got my kids in a co-op type school (RCP) and we love it.
Well, I'll be damned sure to load your blind comparisons with bat-human hybrids!
Don't tell anyone
Ha! You are both wrong. The deal is at a different table, they have colluded to "trade" the seat every 8 years or so so that you think there's a difference.
They have perfected the concept of party dictatorship by having two parties, with tiny differences in philosophy but no discernible difference in reality. Past totalitarians are spinning clockwise in their graves hoping that they had thought of it.
Baseball is the slowest form of life on earth (ok, maybe Golf beats it, but only by a tiny bit).
A friend of mine has a Sparrow, it is an extremely "cute" thing, but alas, it doesn't run. It's battery also lasts only about 20 miles. I hear the company that took over Sparrow production from Corbin has fixed many of the problems that the Sparrow had (Myers Motors)
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, then startx usually does the trick.
/etc/init.d/gdm restart (or kdm if you're using kubuntu)
Or better yet, instead of startx (in ubuntu):
i just attach the cables to my nipples and decode the packets manually.
Yeah, but can you generate outbound traffic?
No, the casino is a business, run by people, with the same rights and responsibilities as other people. They are selling entertainment of a specific kind, and you know full well (or at least should know) what your odds are when you enter and decide to play. Casinos (for the most part) are not swindling anyone. And even if what they do IS immoral, two wrongs don't make a right.
Pompous? perhaps, but not pious, I do not draw my morality from religion (I'm an atheist) or from legality (I'm a Libertarian), as for my post being ridiculous... well, it's on-topic, non-absurd, and I don't think it invites ridicule and makes sense (reading the Definition of ridiculous) so no, you can't call it ridiculous.
I'll be able to read my post ten years from now and still be proud of it, would you (or the guy who is stealing from the gas station) be able to say the same? Be able to proudly show it to his children?
I am totally flabbergasted by all of the people here. The number of you who seem to think that it is perfectly ok to bilk the Casino as long you're not caught is mind numbing. Would you steal from an old lady if you knew you wouldn't get caught or if the state didn't consider it "against the law"? Would you rape? Torture? It is moments like this that I understand how depraved situations like Nazi Germany happened: people so used to doing what their government tells them it is ok and lawful.
The fact that the Casino is trying to take advantage of people and that they may not be run by the most moral of humans is no excuse either, these people were patronizing their establishments and threw themselves with the owners at that point.
I really thought the majority of geeks around here would be slightly more moral than the average... I might be wrong.
The question for me is... how can you live with what you are doing? You are doing something that is obviously (at least obvious to me) immoral, whether it is legal or not is (again, to me) totally irrelevant. For the most part I live my life attempting to do what's right according to my moral values, I might be a bit discouraged to do things that are merely illegal but not immoral, but I strive to not do things that are immoral even if perfectly legal.
Heck, I DON'T keep the wrong change if I catch the mistake, and if I catch it past the point when I can do something about it (or the quantity is minimal) I feel shitty for the rest of the day... I really don't see how you can do it again and again.
Right, but from the article... it seems like the problem is not so much fuel as slowing down the reentry, if the whole load is too heavy then the sparse atmosphere makes it hard to slow down, and air bags become unpractical. Smaller pods may be easier to slow. The resources used for slowing can be best used to slow the meatware while the machines and supplies can take the higher G's of rapid deceleration.
Funny, not Starship troopers, in fact I just now thought of that, but it may have been on the back of my mind as I'm rereading my favorite Heinleins to celebrate his 100th anniversary.
While you guys are at it... sometimes I'm searching for words within the page, since the word is there (but in a collapsed entry) the browser goes to it, but then doesn't highlight it.
If the problem is that you can't land the whole crew at once because of weight... why don't you land each member separately, in tiny containers and then a big load with the unmanned portion of the mission? Another advantage of something like this is that if one of the landings fails and you lose a team member your mission is still safe.
You've just stated an absolute ("Only Sith's deal in absolutes") therefore sir... you are a Sith.
You little Maxwell Daemon you.
I'm not sure if you're joking. A pacemaker does not power the heart, what it does is replace the natural pacemaker a healthy heart has, in simple terms, the heart has a bunch of cells in charge of making sure all of the other muscle cells in the heart beat in unison, various causes may make these cells stop working (or working effectively, or their signals breaking down). An artificial pacemaker replaces or enhances the function of these cells. A heart powered pacemaker would work very well indeed, absent a pacemaker heart cells fall out of synch (or pacemaker cells in other parts of the heart take over, again, throwing things out of wack), but they keep on beating, so I imagine vibrations still exist to power this kind of device.
The one from the teaching company? Funny, I just finished it yesterday!
I heard the same thing from the 48 lecture course on Egyptology from "The Teaching Company", they never wrote a loosing battle, we sometimes infer that they lost because in the context of a war they keep on wining battles closer to home.