Re:In a capitalist society...
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There will be accidental science from every person who goes up. For once these people are not astronauts, they're not The Best of The Best, they're just us. Geeks who did well for themselves.
Is it so bad to get more info about the way different people are affected by space travel? Can't it possibly help in ways we might not think of until we have the data?
I say if someone pays their way, and something extra, why not let them be a walking expirament?
If you have such a problem with the US start inventing stuff we didn't already. If you want to vote become a citizen.
What are you gonna do about? Be the fat kid who takes his ball and goes home, it's your loss.
It's not that cut and dried, of course. There are some hotheadded nutcases - and splinter nutgroups - in every culture. But when it comes to quantity of violence, or institutionalization of violence, against political opponents, nothing else is in the same ballpark as the left wing.
The Klan, the OKC Bombing, abortion clinic bombings, etc have nothing to do with the Right Wing, by your logic then?
Next you'll tell me your shit smells like roses, right?
If your house is still wired for phone service you can always dial 911, even if the service is disconnected. Just keep a phone plugged in for 911 reasons, if you don't have a cell phone you could use for 911 calls.
As more and more P90's get "recycled" to these poorer countries, that will change rapidly.
Yes, they'll have a shitty old computer, but is that really such a bad thing? Linux beats the hell out of WinXP on a shitty old PC.
All that proves is 18.2% of all teachers are morons. Although, another study showed up to 63.1% of teachers are stupid, so they seem to contradict each other.
Do you know how much copy & paste homework slips by teachers also?
In the 80's are when speeding increased... You mean the decade that airbags, seat belt laws, and safety design started improving significantly?
You mean the decade that America started cracking down on drunk drivers too? The deaths/highway mile driven have lowered for almost 50 consecutive years since vehicles get safer and safer, and are able to handle higher speeds safely.
My 2000 Honda definitely handles 85 mph better than my 1987 Ford ever could handle 70 mph. Engineering has improved, roadways are built better, and people want to drive at a speed that feels safe for the car and road - not the speed a state legislature wrote into law.
Bingo!
From the article: "In an effort to find out, he plotted major innovations and scientific advances over time compared to world population, using the 7200 key innovations listed in a recently published book, The History of Science and Technology (Houghton Mifflin, 2004). The results surprised him."
I took a sociology class that pointed out that any historical text will always have a skewed view of the present, based on the fact it's too recent to see how it effects history's long term.
Isn't it possible the 7200 key innovations listed are older inventions which have already lived out their useful lifespan, only to be replaced in the near future by more recent inventions nobody's taken a look at yet?
It took decades for the automobile to become popular, and same with the airplane. In 1908 did people realize how historic the flight at Kitty Hawk was? Did they realize that every major city would have an airport capable of flying thousands or millions of people a year through it?
Does that list of 7200 instances only list major discoveries, or would it list a turbine jet engine separately from The Airplane? Would it bother counting massive improvements on an existing product? Or just the initial item that happened to get off the ground with a motor attached?
It seems the study was based upon a useless source, thus making the entire study quite pointless.
Get a good steering wheel. I just spent about $50 on a solid steering wheel that would at least take an extra few minutes to cut through. (Not for this reason though, I just needed a new wheel.)
If you're already spending money on an alarm and a club, just spend a few dollars more and get a wheel that, while it could still be cut, won't be cut very easily or at all quickly.
Dave
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So who can I sue now?
Is it so bad to get more info about the way different people are affected by space travel? Can't it possibly help in ways we might not think of until we have the data?
I say if someone pays their way, and something extra, why not let them be a walking expirament?
If you have such a problem with the US start inventing stuff we didn't already. If you want to vote become a citizen. What are you gonna do about? Be the fat kid who takes his ball and goes home, it's your loss.
It's not that cut and dried, of course. There are some hotheadded nutcases - and splinter nutgroups - in every culture. But when it comes to quantity of violence, or institutionalization of violence, against political opponents, nothing else is in the same ballpark as the left wing. The Klan, the OKC Bombing, abortion clinic bombings, etc have nothing to do with the Right Wing, by your logic then? Next you'll tell me your shit smells like roses, right?
If your house is still wired for phone service you can always dial 911, even if the service is disconnected. Just keep a phone plugged in for 911 reasons, if you don't have a cell phone you could use for 911 calls.
As more and more P90's get "recycled" to these poorer countries, that will change rapidly. Yes, they'll have a shitty old computer, but is that really such a bad thing? Linux beats the hell out of WinXP on a shitty old PC.
This PC is probably about the final minimum specs of what Windows Vista will require.
All that proves is 18.2% of all teachers are morons. Although, another study showed up to 63.1% of teachers are stupid, so they seem to contradict each other. Do you know how much copy & paste homework slips by teachers also?
How are they competing with something in another time slot, on the same network as them?
In the 80's are when speeding increased... You mean the decade that airbags, seat belt laws, and safety design started improving significantly? You mean the decade that America started cracking down on drunk drivers too? The deaths/highway mile driven have lowered for almost 50 consecutive years since vehicles get safer and safer, and are able to handle higher speeds safely. My 2000 Honda definitely handles 85 mph better than my 1987 Ford ever could handle 70 mph. Engineering has improved, roadways are built better, and people want to drive at a speed that feels safe for the car and road - not the speed a state legislature wrote into law.
Bingo! From the article: "In an effort to find out, he plotted major innovations and scientific advances over time compared to world population, using the 7200 key innovations listed in a recently published book, The History of Science and Technology (Houghton Mifflin, 2004). The results surprised him." I took a sociology class that pointed out that any historical text will always have a skewed view of the present, based on the fact it's too recent to see how it effects history's long term. Isn't it possible the 7200 key innovations listed are older inventions which have already lived out their useful lifespan, only to be replaced in the near future by more recent inventions nobody's taken a look at yet? It took decades for the automobile to become popular, and same with the airplane. In 1908 did people realize how historic the flight at Kitty Hawk was? Did they realize that every major city would have an airport capable of flying thousands or millions of people a year through it? Does that list of 7200 instances only list major discoveries, or would it list a turbine jet engine separately from The Airplane? Would it bother counting massive improvements on an existing product? Or just the initial item that happened to get off the ground with a motor attached? It seems the study was based upon a useless source, thus making the entire study quite pointless.
I think there's enough penetration on the Internet already, do we really need that much more?
Get a good steering wheel. I just spent about $50 on a solid steering wheel that would at least take an extra few minutes to cut through. (Not for this reason though, I just needed a new wheel.) If you're already spending money on an alarm and a club, just spend a few dollars more and get a wheel that, while it could still be cut, won't be cut very easily or at all quickly. Dave