I have a friend who works there. Apparently it doesn't matter at all how good the passengers are with complying with all these idiotic restrictions. The metal detectors can be set to "beep" manually, if they want to pull someone aside and frisk them down or wave the wand at them.
At various times of the day, the screeners are told to have a minimum number of these passenger checks.
So even if everyone on your flight has put all their metal in hand luggage, you'll still find something like one in ten getting beeped through the metal detector and causing delays. Completely unneeded. Completely at the behest of those who think they know better.
Could it have something to do with the fact that comedy shows don't really influence voters as much as a weeping Glen Beck might, or a rabid Bill O'Reilly? Because that would be my guess.
Not necessarily - the delorean seems to move just in time. So they are accelerating in that direction. Spatially, they just let the inertia keep them relatively still.
Since you asked... in my case, aside from the driver issues which really messed up all of my DVD playing/ripping software, the biggest headache was with Windows Explorer.
I hit START+E and explorer launches, no problem. Except, the address bar at the top of the screen starts filling in from left to right, and I realise that it's scanning my disk. Again. And I can't really do anything until it's finished counting the seven folders I have in the root of my drive.
If I'm moving files from one directory to another on the same drive, (something which takes less than a second in XP) god help me. Even the move command acts like a copy to a separate device. Moving 2000 photos, for example, and Windows explorer took 10 minutes JUST TO GIVE ME AN ESTIMATE that it would take 6 hours to move them. It was quicker to restart, boot into XP, move, reboot and log back into Vista.
That's just some examples of how terrible Explorer was in Vista. Don't even get me started on the frakking thumbnails.
But I solved most of these headaches by replacing explorer with Xplorer2, a replacement windows filemanager. It comes with a free lite version, but I paid for the full version. It solved most of the headaches, and at least made Vista semi-usable for me.
From the article : "So,why would it have killed the film? Well, at the start of Back To The Future Part III, we see the 1955 Doc, who is the younger version of the character. The Doc who got sent back to 1885 is the older one. Thus, at the point the younger Doc discovered the information, the older Doc, by logic, would instantly know it."
Er, no! If the rules worked like that in these movies, then Marty would have INSTANTLY disappeared when he threw George out of the way of the car.
There was clearly a delay as the changed timeline propagates up and down the original timeline, wiping out/replacing what had gone before.
There are other flaws in his article, but maybe I'll wait 20 years and write a retrospective on it.
Yeah, but since the path of the Earth is described as motion in 4 dimensions of Space time, I wonder if there couldn't be an argument for some sort of 'chronological inertia'?
You are still picturing space as static and the galaxies as in motion. That is where you are going wrong.
Space itself is expanding. So the relative distance between us and them increases, but that doesn't mean that the other galaxy is *moving* at close to the speed to light.
"Does this kind of narrow down the timeframe of when that happened?"
No, observing this galaxy has nothing really to do with Inflation.
"If this galaxy was moving ftl, "
It wasn't. It isn't. The relative distance between them and us may be increasing faster than c. But that doesn't mean that that galaxy is moving faster than c.
Most of your other questions are similarly based on misunderstandings.
True, but i think the original poster uses the "glow of the big bang" to mean the CMB, which is, as you say, the radiation from after the photon decoupling.
Since the Big Bang happened at all points in space simultaneously (because they were all the same point, back then) there will never be a time when we can't see the glow because we've moved too far (in terms of distance).
Whatever point in space you pick, that point contains the glow of the big bang. And it always will.
Indeed. I have often thought (when drunk out of my mind) that temperature has an inverse effect on human intelligence. Start at Canada, work your way down through the Blue states, the Red states, then to Mexico.
Similar to Europe, where Sweden has 100% literacy rates, and by the time you've moved south enough to hit Turkey, you're surrounded by holocaust deniers.
As global warming continues, the latitude of idiocy will move further north.
Serious answer, which will probably sound partisan...
The political will to spend that sort of money on this sort of mission, isn't there.
Republicans, especially classic Republicans who tend to favour small government, would see such a program as a needless waste of money. It's not like the 60's, when the Space Race could be linked in the mindset to defence, security, and anti-communism, three things that will invariably be supported by Republicans.
While the Democrats tend to have less problem funding big expansive programs, they are currently cloaking themselves in the flag of "deficits matter" and freaking out about the Debt. They're unlikely to be interested in funding any major new initiative.
And yes, Bush junior did announce his trip to the Moon and then Mars thing, but I think every sane viewer knew that was meaningless rhetoric. I mean, the guy announced the intention to reduce dependence on oil in the State of the Union once (2007), only to have his handlers issue a retraction the following day. Pretty much nothing he said about future plans should be taken seriously. (Though his concern about human animal hybrids was hilarious.)
Whether you want to accept it or not, religion and conservatism are key factors in why America is falling behind in science and math. (And statistically, I think 30% of Americans would be offended by this idea)
Europe had The Enlightenment over two centuries ago. America has yet to come to grips with evolution and the metric system.
Put your myths in a box, and stop holding on to the past with a death grip.
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in the bat-sh*t crazy Glen Becks of the world?
That's got to be deserving of enough research to find a cure. (As best we can tell, about 25% of American people are afflicted.)
I have a friend who works there. Apparently it doesn't matter at all how good the passengers are with complying with all these idiotic restrictions. The metal detectors can be set to "beep" manually, if they want to pull someone aside and frisk them down or wave the wand at them.
At various times of the day, the screeners are told to have a minimum number of these passenger checks.
So even if everyone on your flight has put all their metal in hand luggage, you'll still find something like one in ten getting beeped through the metal detector and causing delays. Completely unneeded. Completely at the behest of those who think they know better.
Could it have something to do with the fact that comedy shows don't really influence voters as much as a weeping Glen Beck might, or a rabid Bill O'Reilly? Because that would be my guess.
and English profiency is required for Citizenship.
Wrong. And you should thank your lucky stars that knowledge of the actual Citizenship requirements isn't a requirement.
They don't test these machines for usability. You can't have the lowest bid, if you include things like proper QA and testing.
Not necessarily - the delorean seems to move just in time. So they are accelerating in that direction. Spatially, they just let the inertia keep them relatively still.
Since you asked... in my case, aside from the driver issues which really messed up all of my DVD playing/ripping software, the biggest headache was with Windows Explorer.
I hit START+E and explorer launches, no problem. Except, the address bar at the top of the screen starts filling in from left to right, and I realise that it's scanning my disk. Again. And I can't really do anything until it's finished counting the seven folders I have in the root of my drive.
If I'm moving files from one directory to another on the same drive, (something which takes less than a second in XP) god help me. Even the move command acts like a copy to a separate device. Moving 2000 photos, for example, and Windows explorer took 10 minutes JUST TO GIVE ME AN ESTIMATE that it would take 6 hours to move them. It was quicker to restart, boot into XP, move, reboot and log back into Vista.
That's just some examples of how terrible Explorer was in Vista. Don't even get me started on the frakking thumbnails.
But I solved most of these headaches by replacing explorer with Xplorer2, a replacement windows filemanager. It comes with a free lite version, but I paid for the full version. It solved most of the headaches, and at least made Vista semi-usable for me.
From the article :
"So,why would it have killed the film? Well, at the start of Back To The Future Part III, we see the 1955 Doc, who is the younger version of the character. The Doc who got sent back to 1885 is the older one. Thus, at the point the younger Doc discovered the information, the older Doc, by logic, would instantly know it."
Er, no! If the rules worked like that in these movies, then Marty would have INSTANTLY disappeared when he threw George out of the way of the car.
There was clearly a delay as the changed timeline propagates up and down the original timeline, wiping out/replacing what had gone before.
There are other flaws in his article, but maybe I'll wait 20 years and write a retrospective on it.
Yeah, but since the path of the Earth is described as motion in 4 dimensions of Space time, I wonder if there couldn't be an argument for some sort of 'chronological inertia'?
Take a look at the Firehose, and you can mod the articles using the + and - buttons on the headline.
Ultimately, the scariest thing is that we won't know what we're missing because nobody will be there to dig it up.
That's the case now, actually.
You are still picturing space as static and the galaxies as in motion. That is where you are going wrong.
Space itself is expanding. So the relative distance between us and them increases, but that doesn't mean that the other galaxy is *moving* at close to the speed to light.
"Does this kind of narrow down the timeframe of when that happened?"
No, observing this galaxy has nothing really to do with Inflation.
"If this galaxy was moving ftl, "
It wasn't. It isn't. The relative distance between them and us may be increasing faster than c. But that doesn't mean that that galaxy is moving faster than c.
Most of your other questions are similarly based on misunderstandings.
True, but i think the original poster uses the "glow of the big bang" to mean the CMB, which is, as you say, the radiation from after the photon decoupling.
You're wrong.
Since the Big Bang happened at all points in space simultaneously (because they were all the same point, back then) there will never be a time when we can't see the glow because we've moved too far (in terms of distance).
Whatever point in space you pick, that point contains the glow of the big bang. And it always will.
How will you let us know? I'll be dead after 12 billion years.
Indeed. I have often thought (when drunk out of my mind) that temperature has an inverse effect on human intelligence. Start at Canada, work your way down through the Blue states, the Red states, then to Mexico.
Similar to Europe, where Sweden has 100% literacy rates, and by the time you've moved south enough to hit Turkey, you're surrounded by holocaust deniers.
As global warming continues, the latitude of idiocy will move further north.
"while we think we live in three dimensions, we're really only living in two."
Simpsons did it.
Serious answer, which will probably sound partisan...
The political will to spend that sort of money on this sort of mission, isn't there.
Republicans, especially classic Republicans who tend to favour small government, would see such a program as a needless waste of money. It's not like the 60's, when the Space Race could be linked in the mindset to defence, security, and anti-communism, three things that will invariably be supported by Republicans.
While the Democrats tend to have less problem funding big expansive programs, they are currently cloaking themselves in the flag of "deficits matter" and freaking out about the Debt. They're unlikely to be interested in funding any major new initiative.
And yes, Bush junior did announce his trip to the Moon and then Mars thing, but I think every sane viewer knew that was meaningless rhetoric. I mean, the guy announced the intention to reduce dependence on oil in the State of the Union once (2007), only to have his handlers issue a retraction the following day. Pretty much nothing he said about future plans should be taken seriously. (Though his concern about human animal hybrids was hilarious.)
Geez, someone remind me again why it wouldn't be simpler to just ... two bullets to the head with these guys... god damn the justice system sucks.
One, 10 years of data and no backups? The Professor is an idiot.
Second, if I were the theif, I think I might have made some subtle changes to the Professors data, before sending it back. Just for a laugh.
You need to pay more attention to this part :
"The leakage in pipes is very high and is often counted as consumption."
Thats 300 liters. Maybe enough for ten people if you are careful.
You think a person needs to use 30 litres of water per day?
Holy shit. We could solve our water problems by teaching people like you.
Whether you want to accept it or not, religion and conservatism are key factors in why America is falling behind in science and math. (And statistically, I think 30% of Americans would be offended by this idea)
Europe had The Enlightenment over two centuries ago. America has yet to come to grips with evolution and the metric system.
Put your myths in a box, and stop holding on to the past with a death grip.
In the UK, their National Health Service supports (as in, will pay for) Homeopathic treatments.