What kind of person are you, that you rarely side with the poor?
The kind of person who realizes that, at least in America, a significant fraction of the poor people are people who would not be poor if they did not buy into No Money Down, Layaway, Payday Loans, Rent To Own, $75 Xbox 360 schemes.
Paying over time on a luxury item like an Xbox is a bad idea.I rarely side with the poor, but this is just stealing from the poor and feeding on their bad spending habits. Instead of getting on this monthly plan, they should just put the money away. After only 4 or 5 months, they will have enough to buy the system outright. That is not a significant time to wait to buy an Xbox. I've waited longer for stuff I want. We must destroy the "got to have it now" mentality before it destroys the country.
Sexual orientation is genetic, dumbass. Nice try, though.
That's debatable. Certainly there may be some predispositions that are genetic. But of the entire populace, there are certainly a percentage of people who have chosen to be homosexual, just as there are some who had predispositions for being homosexual, but have chosen to be heterosexual. There is no black or white. It's all a sliding scale. There is no magic gene that, if present, means you are 100% going to be homosexual.
Do people choose to be Mexican or black? No. So thanks for proving the GP's point.
Okay, let's add homosexual to the mix, or fat, or anorexic, or whatever.
Do people choose to be Mexican or black? No. So thanks for proving the GP's point.
If evolutionary theory is to be believed, then you don't have any choice as to whether you will be religious or not, either.
There you go, down-modded in retribution fueled by christian loveBR>
No, downmodded because the GP decided to insult a group of people by comparing them to animals. Do you not suppose that GP would have gotten downmodded if he has made the same remark about black people? Or Mexicans? Or any other group of people?
Then you'll have to go with USB stick.
Assuming, of course, that your BIOS has drivers for USB. I assume most modern BIOSes support USB, but we sure did go an awfully long time with USB not being accessible during boot.
So how do you install software now? Are we going back to floppies? Downloads, of course. Every piece of software I've installed in recent memory has either been from the internet or steam.
You can't download until you have networking software installed. I guess I'm behind the times because I still install major software from media. I do install browsers, service packs and antivirus software over the internet, but I wouldn't do a full install of a major piece of software over the internet. And if I did, I would want to have the media as a backup in case whoever is hosting the download goes casters up.
Every sperm is sacred.
I find it a pretty far leap from that to saying that contraception is bad. It's kind of like how "Remember the Sabbath to keep it Holy" somehow got changed to "Don't work on Sunday". What line of work are you in that makes the Sabbath not Holy if you work on Sunday? And I am skipping over the point that the Sabbath is not Sunday.
The headline is trying to incite a backlash, but this is a reflection of the decline of optical drives and the rise of tablets.
So how do you install software now? Are we going back to floppies?
Rejcting a claim that has zero evidence and defies logic is not only scientific, it's common-sense.
And yet, we spend billions of dollars on supercolliders looking for particles that we suspect exist but have not been able to observe, and billions of dollars on listening for extraterrestrial life that we suspect exist but haven't been able to observe.
I for one would be interested in seeing whether atheists also disbelieve in the Higgs Boson particle (I happen to think it probably does exist) or extraterrestrial life (I happen to think that ET probably does not exist, at least not in the form that we are looking for).
That's odd. I am a Christian and was not aware that contraception was a bad thing. It certainly hasn't been labeled as a bad thing in any of the 40 or 50 Churches that I have attended or visited. After reading your link, I guess when you say 'almost all christians come from a "no contraception" branch', you in fact not the Christians themselves, but the branch itself was a no contraception branch 100+ years ago.
You are correct, and the summary itself is flamebait, but apparently almost everybody here has not read the fine summary which says that they have more security threats "per infected site" than porn sites. That is a mostly meaningless measurement. For all we know, only one religious site was infected, but it had 3 viruses, whereas every single porn site in the world is infected, but only averaged two viruses.
Maybe the article itself gives some more meaningful information, but the summary is either purposely or or perhaps not purposely, poorly written, and whether it is from malice or idiocy, does not lend itself to making me want to read the article.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you haven't been in a Church in awhile. If anything, there is too much technology in Church. They're trying to appeal to the MTV generation, so there is audio, video, computer controlled lighting, etc.
They don't have a precedent. They just made a ruling. One which can be challenged. Only if it is not challenged will it become a precedent. So, all you Brits, time to step up. You paid for access to the internet. If they are not giving you the access you paid for, demand your money back. Sue the ISPs. Sue parliament.
Obviously teachers can't be trusted around students. Forget banning "friending" them. We should just not allow teachers and students to interact at all.
Pushers are quieter, that's for sure. The prop noise is behind you and you are traveling away from it. Also, there is no prop wash over the cabin. Of course, pushers have their disadvantages as well. The main one being the same disadvantage as jets. With a puller, propwash flows over the wings and aids in lift, allowing both slower takeoff and landing speeds, and also near instance response to changes in power. In a jet, or a pusher prop, the control surfaces are completely dependent upon lift generated by speed alone, which takes longer to build up. This is also why you rarely see T tails in small planes. They look sexy, but being above most of the propwash, the control surfaces don't become effective until the airplane has a good amount of speed.
Really? You wouldn't pay $5 for it? It'll probably worth more than that after the IPO.
Yeah, I'm sure I could ride the pump and dump if I paid attention, but it isn't worth my time to pay attention.
Struggling to find where the grandparent mentioned race. Now, some stereotypes were mentioned that are typically associated with a race, but anyone that jumps from those stereotypes and immediately thinks of a race is a racist.
With an electric motor and pusher prop, it probably cruises in silence.
Most of the noise of a propeller driven airplane is prop noise. Making it electric may drop it a few decibels, but it would hardly be silent.
"Cost constraints"? On a $500,000 four-seater?
I know a half million seems high to the likes of most of us here, but a half million dollar brand new small aircraft is probably the equivalent of a $35,000 new car. Yes, it is higher than average, but it is not even BMW 7 series level. This is why the new aircraft market produces such a small number of aircraft every year. Most people opt for less than $100,000 for an aircraft which is older, but almost always very nearly as capable, or perhaps moreso. Just like older cars that got better gas mileage, many older airplanes are able to fly farther, carry more weight and fly faster than newer aircraft. Regulations, safety improvements, mandatory equipment and whatnot tend to make newer models heavier and less capable than older ones. Plus, you can still put many of the latest gadgets into an older aircraft for far less than the price of a new aircraft with the same gadgets. And there are other legal modifications you can do to many older aircraft which can squeeze more performance, weight or economy out of the aircraft.
The vast majority of the small aircraft fleet is 60s and 70s models. In 2000, the average age of the General Aviation fleet was 30 years. By 202, the estimate it will be 50 years. This means that the median model year was 1970 in 2000, and they expect it to still be so in 2020.
The fact that they still uses leaded gas surprised me.
This is not your father's leaded gas. It is 100 Octane Low Lead gas. It is pretty expensive because it is in relatively low demand and so many refineries just do a batch once in a while, and it keeps getting more expensive because more and more refineries consider it not worth the effort.
There are some aircraft engines that have a supplementary type certificate which permits them to run on automotive gas. Lately, there are some newer planes that are running on diesel powerplants.
Small aircraft engines are decades behind automotive engines in terms of technology. Fuel injection and particularly computer controlled fuel injection are relatively new in small aircraft engines. Some of this is to blame on the immense cost of certification. If you have an engine that works and it will cost 45 million to certify a new engine with new technology and you are going to take X years to make up the cost, then it may not be worth the money and time.
Many advances in aircraft engines come from promising young upstarts that get far down the road on investment dollars , go belly up and then are bought up for pennies on the dollar by another company, Kind of like how the telephone and cell system got going.
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What kind of person are you, that you rarely side with the poor?
The kind of person who realizes that, at least in America, a significant fraction of the poor people are people who would not be poor if they did not buy into No Money Down, Layaway, Payday Loans, Rent To Own, $75 Xbox 360 schemes.
Paying over time on a luxury item like an Xbox is a bad idea.I rarely side with the poor, but this is just stealing from the poor and feeding on their bad spending habits. Instead of getting on this monthly plan, they should just put the money away. After only 4 or 5 months, they will have enough to buy the system outright. That is not a significant time to wait to buy an Xbox. I've waited longer for stuff I want. We must destroy the "got to have it now" mentality before it destroys the country.
Sexual orientation is genetic, dumbass. Nice try, though.
That's debatable. Certainly there may be some predispositions that are genetic. But of the entire populace, there are certainly a percentage of people who have chosen to be homosexual, just as there are some who had predispositions for being homosexual, but have chosen to be heterosexual. There is no black or white. It's all a sliding scale. There is no magic gene that, if present, means you are 100% going to be homosexual.
Do people choose to be Mexican or black? No. So thanks for proving the GP's point. Okay, let's add homosexual to the mix, or fat, or anorexic, or whatever.
Do people choose to be Mexican or black? No. So thanks for proving the GP's point.
If evolutionary theory is to be believed, then you don't have any choice as to whether you will be religious or not, either.
That is to say, when men deliberately splice genomes, say in corn for example, to improve a life form, that is not a mistake.
That remains to be seen.
There you go, down-modded in retribution fueled by christian loveBR> No, downmodded because the GP decided to insult a group of people by comparing them to animals. Do you not suppose that GP would have gotten downmodded if he has made the same remark about black people? Or Mexicans? Or any other group of people?
Then you'll have to go with USB stick.
Assuming, of course, that your BIOS has drivers for USB. I assume most modern BIOSes support USB, but we sure did go an awfully long time with USB not being accessible during boot.
So how do you install software now? Are we going back to floppies?
Downloads, of course. Every piece of software I've installed in recent memory has either been from the internet or steam.
You can't download until you have networking software installed. I guess I'm behind the times because I still install major software from media. I do install browsers, service packs and antivirus software over the internet, but I wouldn't do a full install of a major piece of software over the internet. And if I did, I would want to have the media as a backup in case whoever is hosting the download goes casters up.
Every sperm is sacred.
I find it a pretty far leap from that to saying that contraception is bad. It's kind of like how "Remember the Sabbath to keep it Holy" somehow got changed to "Don't work on Sunday". What line of work are you in that makes the Sabbath not Holy if you work on Sunday? And I am skipping over the point that the Sabbath is not Sunday.
The headline is trying to incite a backlash, but this is a reflection of the decline of optical drives and the rise of tablets.
So how do you install software now? Are we going back to floppies?
Rejcting a claim that has zero evidence and defies logic is not only scientific, it's common-sense.
And yet, we spend billions of dollars on supercolliders looking for particles that we suspect exist but have not been able to observe, and billions of dollars on listening for extraterrestrial life that we suspect exist but haven't been able to observe.
I for one would be interested in seeing whether atheists also disbelieve in the Higgs Boson particle (I happen to think it probably does exist) or extraterrestrial life (I happen to think that ET probably does not exist, at least not in the form that we are looking for).
That's odd. I am a Christian and was not aware that contraception was a bad thing. It certainly hasn't been labeled as a bad thing in any of the 40 or 50 Churches that I have attended or visited. After reading your link, I guess when you say 'almost all christians come from a "no contraception" branch', you in fact not the Christians themselves, but the branch itself was a no contraception branch 100+ years ago.
You are correct, and the summary itself is flamebait, but apparently almost everybody here has not read the fine summary which says that they have more security threats "per infected site" than porn sites. That is a mostly meaningless measurement. For all we know, only one religious site was infected, but it had 3 viruses, whereas every single porn site in the world is infected, but only averaged two viruses.
Maybe the article itself gives some more meaningful information, but the summary is either purposely or or perhaps not purposely, poorly written, and whether it is from malice or idiocy, does not lend itself to making me want to read the article.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you haven't been in a Church in awhile. If anything, there is too much technology in Church. They're trying to appeal to the MTV generation, so there is audio, video, computer controlled lighting, etc.
They don't have a precedent. They just made a ruling. One which can be challenged. Only if it is not challenged will it become a precedent. So, all you Brits, time to step up. You paid for access to the internet. If they are not giving you the access you paid for, demand your money back. Sue the ISPs. Sue parliament.
Obviously teachers can't be trusted around students. Forget banning "friending" them. We should just not allow teachers and students to interact at all.
Pushers are quieter, that's for sure. The prop noise is behind you and you are traveling away from it. Also, there is no prop wash over the cabin. Of course, pushers have their disadvantages as well. The main one being the same disadvantage as jets. With a puller, propwash flows over the wings and aids in lift, allowing both slower takeoff and landing speeds, and also near instance response to changes in power. In a jet, or a pusher prop, the control surfaces are completely dependent upon lift generated by speed alone, which takes longer to build up. This is also why you rarely see T tails in small planes. They look sexy, but being above most of the propwash, the control surfaces don't become effective until the airplane has a good amount of speed.
Really? You wouldn't pay $5 for it? It'll probably worth more than that after the IPO.
Yeah, I'm sure I could ride the pump and dump if I paid attention, but it isn't worth my time to pay attention.
I'll give the company $1 for the whole thing. Matter of fact, I consider it a liability. They would need to pay me to take it off their hands.
Struggling to find where the grandparent mentioned race. Now, some stereotypes were mentioned that are typically associated with a race, but anyone that jumps from those stereotypes and immediately thinks of a race is a racist.
With an electric motor and pusher prop, it probably cruises in silence.
Most of the noise of a propeller driven airplane is prop noise. Making it electric may drop it a few decibels, but it would hardly be silent.
"Cost constraints"? On a $500,000 four-seater?
I know a half million seems high to the likes of most of us here, but a half million dollar brand new small aircraft is probably the equivalent of a $35,000 new car. Yes, it is higher than average, but it is not even BMW 7 series level. This is why the new aircraft market produces such a small number of aircraft every year. Most people opt for less than $100,000 for an aircraft which is older, but almost always very nearly as capable, or perhaps moreso. Just like older cars that got better gas mileage, many older airplanes are able to fly farther, carry more weight and fly faster than newer aircraft. Regulations, safety improvements, mandatory equipment and whatnot tend to make newer models heavier and less capable than older ones. Plus, you can still put many of the latest gadgets into an older aircraft for far less than the price of a new aircraft with the same gadgets. And there are other legal modifications you can do to many older aircraft which can squeeze more performance, weight or economy out of the aircraft.
The vast majority of the small aircraft fleet is 60s and 70s models. In 2000, the average age of the General Aviation fleet was 30 years. By 202, the estimate it will be 50 years. This means that the median model year was 1970 in 2000, and they expect it to still be so in 2020.
The fact that they still uses leaded gas surprised me.
This is not your father's leaded gas. It is 100 Octane Low Lead gas. It is pretty expensive because it is in relatively low demand and so many refineries just do a batch once in a while, and it keeps getting more expensive because more and more refineries consider it not worth the effort.
There are some aircraft engines that have a supplementary type certificate which permits them to run on automotive gas. Lately, there are some newer planes that are running on diesel powerplants.
Small aircraft engines are decades behind automotive engines in terms of technology. Fuel injection and particularly computer controlled fuel injection are relatively new in small aircraft engines. Some of this is to blame on the immense cost of certification. If you have an engine that works and it will cost 45 million to certify a new engine with new technology and you are going to take X years to make up the cost, then it may not be worth the money and time.
Many advances in aircraft engines come from promising young upstarts that get far down the road on investment dollars , go belly up and then are bought up for pennies on the dollar by another company, Kind of like how the telephone and cell system got going.