Federal judges are appointed for life, not elected.
What comes after the ballot box if that doesn't work? The Ammo box? Sounds like life is not going to be a problem either. Not in East Texas.
Fundraising organizations that help schools, churches, etc raise money for projects are equally as bad as MLM.
They are essentially getting FREE labor, and not paying into Social Security, Medicare, providing benefits or anything. Many times the schools have to pay up front for a certain amount of product, and if they don't sell it they are stuck with it. There is almost no risk for the fundraising organization while the school or Church or whatever shoulders most of the risk or shares the risk with the parents of the underage labor pool. Meanwhile, the corporate campuses of some of these outfits are just insanely lavish and huge. Their only real cost of business is sending people out to beat the drums at the schools and churches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)
The wikipedia article references statistics from a book by Joseph Fried, a noted CPA and MBA who compiled statistics to study differences in lifestyles, quality of life and numerous other statistics between democrats and republicans.
That most highly educated men and women of science and reason are liberals.
No, actually Republicans as a whole tend to have more educational background than democrats. What this study shows is either that scientists are a statistical anomaly or that the study is flawed or biased.
Just because a banana fits into a human hand nicely, doesn't mean there was some magical creator.
Does someone actually use that argument? That is pretty crazy because until we started cultivating bananas, the largest bananas in the world were only 3 or 4 inches long. There are over 500 varieties of bananas and most of them are much smaller than the ones we are used to eating.
Honestly, how expensive can it be to put the video on the dash instead of throwing it on some 3rd-party mount, or in the already-cramped control console?
I put a GPS with a 6" diagonal screen in the center console of my Lexus ES300. It replaces the stock AM/FM/Multidisc CD Controller, while also maintaining all of those functions, plus it also has an internal single disc CD. This is even better than a handheld GPS because it also receives velocity information from the vehicle computer and contains gyros so that if you go into a tunnel, it will continue to track fairly accurately. I'm sure this comes in handy in big cities with tall buildings, and/or streets under elevated tracks, or lower levels like Lower Wacker in Chicago.
You don't pay insane per-minute charges. Most phones, including the iPhone have a *real* GPS unit in them -- i.e. it picks up radio signals from satellites, it doesn't triangulate your position from cell phone towers.
So, will it continue to work and display maps even if you cancel your cell phone service?
Carbon fiber is actually stronger than steel.
A buddy of mine got cracked fork on his high-end bicycle the other day while riding on a paved bike path. No buddies of mine have ever gotten a cracked fork in their steel frame bicycles. I know, anecdotal evidence and all.
Gases are compressible.
Exactly. I was wondering how long it would be before we found the obvious fallacy in the 1300 mpg claim. Rather than do making a more efficient engine, they can simply find a way to compress the fuel more. To be completely fair to gasoline which is not particularly compressable, they need to compare miles per mole of molecules or something of that nature.
I live in Oklahoma, where we have pretty piss poor snow removal, for the obvious reason that we don't get much of it. But no worries, because when it does snow, you are usually okay as long as you can keep your car centered between the two rows of four wheel drives and SUVs lining the ditches.
My understanding is that European drinks actually taste good, so you wouldn't want to get drunk because you'd be too drunk to experience the great taste. Whereas in America, the beer tastes like crap, so the only point in drinking it is to get drunk. This is mere observation, having observed drinking in Europe and in America. I don't drink myself, because the only stuff I have tasted is American beer, and it was really awful and really expensive.
At the cost of electricity in California, that is about $22.50 worth of electricity. Depending on the size of your tank, a typical fillup for a midsize sedan is about $40 and will get you about 25% further. So in reality we are looking at about $30 for a gas car to go the same distance. Still a pretty good savings, until everyone has one of these and the cost of electricity doubles. Too bad the greens don't want us building any more power plants.
What is your basis for this? AFAIK the flight recorder hasn't been found.
The flight recorder has not been found to my knowledge either. This was initial speculation by investigators and of all the speculation thus far, seems the most likely to me. And the pilots would have be able to slow the plane down (airbus has a full manual mode) unless the control system had failed as well. But even if could slow it down, what then? The plane stalls as it can't maintain lift at that pressure, and drops straight into a bad-ass storm. My guess is that they only wanted to slow it down from the computer induced overspeed condition to normal cruise. And even if they slowed it down further than that, it is not like the plane is going to stall even at that altitude at even half of the cruise speed. If it did start to stall, the pilots could increase throttle.
Except, if the pitot tubes have frozen over, the pilots have no more idea of the airspeed than the computer does.
It's not like a car, where you can get a reasonable estimate of your speed by eye and ear.
Part of training in an aircraft is what to do when various gauges stop working. Pilots are taught to recognize a pitot tube failure and how to handle the situation. When your airspeed is dropping off rapidly according to the gauges but nothing otherwise unusual appears to be happening, then you recognize that the pitot tube has failed. And there is wind noise which tells you that you are still moving at a good rate of speed as well as a GPS which won't tell you the airspeed, but will tell you the groundspeed which is probably within 100 knots of the airspeed. Furthermore, you are taught to recognize the onset of a stall prior to it actually occurring, so you can be sure that your airspeed is above stall speed. All this is for naught if the computer doesn't recognize the situation and won't let you fly the airplane.
It was fly by wire. In effect there's a computer between the controls and the rudder, ailerons & elevators.
If that computer fails, all the airmanship in the world is no good. It's like all the cables/pipes have all been cut.
In most fly by wire systems, the "computer" in question is not really much more than the airplane equivalent of a power steering or brake booster pump. Also, they still have redundant systems. What has been happening more, particularly with Airbus is that the computer takes all inputs, analyzes them and decides whether the pilot is about to do something that will land them in a world of hurt. This is the sort of over-analyzation that causes crashes like this one and the demonstration flight crash of another Air France Airbus, this time an A320. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-Yk-Hy83k2Nk/crash_airbus_a320_vol_296_air_france/. The plane thought it was landing and wouldn't allow the pilots to do a go around.
Well, the plane won't just fall out of the sky if they slow down a little - they should have erred on the side of slowing down and losing some alititude.
One of the early possibilities on this crash was that the pitot tubes had frozen over. This leads to indicated airspeeds dropping. Which apparently made the computer try to speed up the airplane to compensate. The pilots tried to override the computer to slow the plane down but were unable to.
I am a programmer myself and I know that I can program to handle situations that i can imagine, but when a situation occurs that you did not imagine, there needs to be a way to tell the computer to bugger off and let me handle it.
The fact of what it's based off of is irrelevant, everything comes down to the metric system being consistent in staying in base 10, and the imperial system is not.
Which is all well and good when the thing you are trying to measure is something you may be interested in dividing by 10, but what if you are trying to divide by something other than 10? You can divide a yard by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 16, 18, 24, 32, 36, 48, 64, 72, 96, 144, 192, 288, and 576 equal segments in SI units. Try that with a meter.
Clearly the most optimal system is one where each successive level up is equally divisible by another whole number, so the system would have a root at 1, 1*2=2, 1*2*3 = 6, 1*2*3*4 = 24, 1*2*3*4*5 = 120, etc.
It is no ones business what websites I have up, or what forums I participate in...
Well, they are looking for an excuse to not hire you and are obviously too lazy to do the footwork themselves, so they are asking you to incriminate yourself in violation of your fifth amendment rights.
About three paragraphs of my resume were listed word for word in a job posting in Chicago one time. They were looking for a person who "Designed and implemented Sybase Replication and incremental update scheme to reduce Datawarehouse nightly batch load time by 75%. Whereas previously ad hoc queries needed to wait until afternoon, now they could be run at any time during the business day.
Implemented a datamart in Australia. Queries could now be run locally instead of over the network to the United States. Decreased network traffic significantly, as well as decreased query time by more than 90%.
Led the Data Warehouse Team on projects to upgrade Sybase, Smartstream Financials, migrate from HP-UX to Solaris and merger with New Holland.
Lead a team to prove Year 2000 compliance for the Datawarehouse. The project was successful in that there were no issues due to the Year 2000."
I figured that I fit the bill more than most. So I applied. I even mentioned that the posting seemed to have been copied from my resume, so I was clearly the man for the job. I did not even receive a call back on the opportunity.
I somehow doubt that only 10-30% of americans ever leave the country, that is likely to be a yearly statistic meaning that over the course of ten years that number is likely to be significantly higher.
30% is kind of believeable. Who knows if they even count going to Mexico, since nobody records that information, but other than that, if you're talking about getting your butt on a plane and flying to some international destination, yeah, I would guess it is probably 30% or less even over a lifetime. I mean, who can afford to just hop on a plane and travel to Europe? Maybe the top 10% of earners?
Me, I've been to France twice, but it was at a time when I was probably in the top 10% of earners, the roundtrip ticket was less than $400 at the time and besides I didn't pay for it as it was on business
However, I have also been to Honduras twice, which didn't cost much at all. I think it was like $400.
These days I can't afford to even fly within the United States. We drove down to Florida for a family vacation to Disney world, and I've decided that Disney World is now a destination only for the fabulously wealthy. The only way I was able to afford it was due to Marriott Points and a $500 travel voucher that I won. I wonder how Walt would feel if he knew that 90% of Americans couldn't afford to enter his theme parks.
The article is sketchy on details. Are these going to be air supported, or is their some sort of substructure? Because if the thing is 230 meters in diameter and needs to support 800,000 tonnes, I get something a little over 1 million kilograms per square meter, which is something like 60,000 PSI. That's a lot of pressure.
Most (but not all) other countries have similar standards for maintenance. Many countries with lower standards are countries into which flights come from other countries with more exacting standards. On the whole, the commercial airline industry is pretty safe worldwide. Even from airline to airline, your research is better spent on age and experience of pilots and their duty schedules than on maintenance procedures.
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Federal judges are appointed for life, not elected.
What comes after the ballot box if that doesn't work? The Ammo box? Sounds like life is not going to be a problem either. Not in East Texas.
Fundraising organizations that help schools, churches, etc raise money for projects are equally as bad as MLM. They are essentially getting FREE labor, and not paying into Social Security, Medicare, providing benefits or anything. Many times the schools have to pay up front for a certain amount of product, and if they don't sell it they are stuck with it. There is almost no risk for the fundraising organization while the school or Church or whatever shoulders most of the risk or shares the risk with the parents of the underage labor pool. Meanwhile, the corporate campuses of some of these outfits are just insanely lavish and huge. Their only real cost of business is sending people out to beat the drums at the schools and churches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)
The wikipedia article references statistics from a book by Joseph Fried, a noted CPA and MBA who compiled statistics to study differences in lifestyles, quality of life and numerous other statistics between democrats and republicans.
That most highly educated men and women of science and reason are liberals.
No, actually Republicans as a whole tend to have more educational background than democrats. What this study shows is either that scientists are a statistical anomaly or that the study is flawed or biased.
Just because a banana fits into a human hand nicely, doesn't mean there was some magical creator.
Does someone actually use that argument? That is pretty crazy because until we started cultivating bananas, the largest bananas in the world were only 3 or 4 inches long. There are over 500 varieties of bananas and most of them are much smaller than the ones we are used to eating.
Honestly, how expensive can it be to put the video on the dash instead of throwing it on some 3rd-party mount, or in the already-cramped control console?
I put a GPS with a 6" diagonal screen in the center console of my Lexus ES300. It replaces the stock AM/FM/Multidisc CD Controller, while also maintaining all of those functions, plus it also has an internal single disc CD. This is even better than a handheld GPS because it also receives velocity information from the vehicle computer and contains gyros so that if you go into a tunnel, it will continue to track fairly accurately. I'm sure this comes in handy in big cities with tall buildings, and/or streets under elevated tracks, or lower levels like Lower Wacker in Chicago.
You don't pay insane per-minute charges. Most phones, including the iPhone have a *real* GPS unit in them -- i.e. it picks up radio signals from satellites, it doesn't triangulate your position from cell phone towers.
So, will it continue to work and display maps even if you cancel your cell phone service?
Carbon fiber is actually stronger than steel.
A buddy of mine got cracked fork on his high-end bicycle the other day while riding on a paved bike path. No buddies of mine have ever gotten a cracked fork in their steel frame bicycles. I know, anecdotal evidence and all.
Gases are compressible.
Exactly. I was wondering how long it would be before we found the obvious fallacy in the 1300 mpg claim. Rather than do making a more efficient engine, they can simply find a way to compress the fuel more. To be completely fair to gasoline which is not particularly compressable, they need to compare miles per mole of molecules or something of that nature.
That's why europe's got the undersized "Hummer H2", which you can see everywhere..
H2 and H3 is all I ever see here in the U.S. as well.
I live in Oklahoma, where we have pretty piss poor snow removal, for the obvious reason that we don't get much of it. But no worries, because when it does snow, you are usually okay as long as you can keep your car centered between the two rows of four wheel drives and SUVs lining the ditches.
My understanding is that European drinks actually taste good, so you wouldn't want to get drunk because you'd be too drunk to experience the great taste. Whereas in America, the beer tastes like crap, so the only point in drinking it is to get drunk. This is mere observation, having observed drinking in Europe and in America. I don't drink myself, because the only stuff I have tasted is American beer, and it was really awful and really expensive.
At the cost of electricity in California, that is about $22.50 worth of electricity. Depending on the size of your tank, a typical fillup for a midsize sedan is about $40 and will get you about 25% further. So in reality we are looking at about $30 for a gas car to go the same distance. Still a pretty good savings, until everyone has one of these and the cost of electricity doubles. Too bad the greens don't want us building any more power plants.
What is your basis for this? AFAIK the flight recorder hasn't been found.
The flight recorder has not been found to my knowledge either. This was initial speculation by investigators and of all the speculation thus far, seems the most likely to me.
And the pilots would have be able to slow the plane down (airbus has a full manual mode) unless the control system had failed as well. But even if could slow it down, what then? The plane stalls as it can't maintain lift at that pressure, and drops straight into a bad-ass storm.
My guess is that they only wanted to slow it down from the computer induced overspeed condition to normal cruise. And even if they slowed it down further than that, it is not like the plane is going to stall even at that altitude at even half of the cruise speed. If it did start to stall, the pilots could increase throttle.
Except, if the pitot tubes have frozen over, the pilots have no more idea of the airspeed than the computer does. It's not like a car, where you can get a reasonable estimate of your speed by eye and ear.
Part of training in an aircraft is what to do when various gauges stop working. Pilots are taught to recognize a pitot tube failure and how to handle the situation. When your airspeed is dropping off rapidly according to the gauges but nothing otherwise unusual appears to be happening, then you recognize that the pitot tube has failed. And there is wind noise which tells you that you are still moving at a good rate of speed as well as a GPS which won't tell you the airspeed, but will tell you the groundspeed which is probably within 100 knots of the airspeed. Furthermore, you are taught to recognize the onset of a stall prior to it actually occurring, so you can be sure that your airspeed is above stall speed. All this is for naught if the computer doesn't recognize the situation and won't let you fly the airplane.
It was fly by wire. In effect there's a computer between the controls and the rudder, ailerons & elevators.
If that computer fails, all the airmanship in the world is no good. It's like all the cables/pipes have all been cut.
In most fly by wire systems, the "computer" in question is not really much more than the airplane equivalent of a power steering or brake booster pump. Also, they still have redundant systems. What has been happening more, particularly with Airbus is that the computer takes all inputs, analyzes them and decides whether the pilot is about to do something that will land them in a world of hurt. This is the sort of over-analyzation that causes crashes like this one and the demonstration flight crash of another Air France Airbus, this time an A320. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-Yk-Hy83k2Nk/crash_airbus_a320_vol_296_air_france/. The plane thought it was landing and wouldn't allow the pilots to do a go around.
Well, the plane won't just fall out of the sky if they slow down a little - they should have erred on the side of slowing down and losing some alititude.
One of the early possibilities on this crash was that the pitot tubes had frozen over. This leads to indicated airspeeds dropping. Which apparently made the computer try to speed up the airplane to compensate. The pilots tried to override the computer to slow the plane down but were unable to.
I am a programmer myself and I know that I can program to handle situations that i can imagine, but when a situation occurs that you did not imagine, there needs to be a way to tell the computer to bugger off and let me handle it.
The fact of what it's based off of is irrelevant, everything comes down to the metric system being consistent in staying in base 10, and the imperial system is not.
Which is all well and good when the thing you are trying to measure is something you may be interested in dividing by 10, but what if you are trying to divide by something other than 10? You can divide a yard by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 16, 18, 24, 32, 36, 48, 64, 72, 96, 144, 192, 288, and 576 equal segments in SI units. Try that with a meter.
Clearly the most optimal system is one where each successive level up is equally divisible by another whole number, so the system would have a root at 1, 1*2=2, 1*2*3 = 6, 1*2*3*4 = 24, 1*2*3*4*5 = 120, etc.
It is no ones business what websites I have up, or what forums I participate in...
Well, they are looking for an excuse to not hire you and are obviously too lazy to do the footwork themselves, so they are asking you to incriminate yourself in violation of your fifth amendment rights.
A link to the family's photo is now prominently displayed on slashdot's front page.
About three paragraphs of my resume were listed word for word in a job posting in Chicago one time. They were looking for a person who "Designed and implemented Sybase Replication and incremental update scheme to reduce Datawarehouse nightly batch load time by 75%. Whereas previously ad hoc queries needed to wait until afternoon, now they could be run at any time during the business day. Implemented a datamart in Australia. Queries could now be run locally instead of over the network to the United States. Decreased network traffic significantly, as well as decreased query time by more than 90%. Led the Data Warehouse Team on projects to upgrade Sybase, Smartstream Financials, migrate from HP-UX to Solaris and merger with New Holland. Lead a team to prove Year 2000 compliance for the Datawarehouse. The project was successful in that there were no issues due to the Year 2000."
I figured that I fit the bill more than most. So I applied. I even mentioned that the posting seemed to have been copied from my resume, so I was clearly the man for the job. I did not even receive a call back on the opportunity.
I somehow doubt that only 10-30% of americans ever leave the country, that is likely to be a yearly statistic meaning that over the course of ten years that number is likely to be significantly higher.
30% is kind of believeable. Who knows if they even count going to Mexico, since nobody records that information, but other than that, if you're talking about getting your butt on a plane and flying to some international destination, yeah, I would guess it is probably 30% or less even over a lifetime. I mean, who can afford to just hop on a plane and travel to Europe? Maybe the top 10% of earners? Me, I've been to France twice, but it was at a time when I was probably in the top 10% of earners, the roundtrip ticket was less than $400 at the time and besides I didn't pay for it as it was on business
However, I have also been to Honduras twice, which didn't cost much at all. I think it was like $400.
These days I can't afford to even fly within the United States. We drove down to Florida for a family vacation to Disney world, and I've decided that Disney World is now a destination only for the fabulously wealthy. The only way I was able to afford it was due to Marriott Points and a $500 travel voucher that I won. I wonder how Walt would feel if he knew that 90% of Americans couldn't afford to enter his theme parks.
The article is sketchy on details. Are these going to be air supported, or is their some sort of substructure? Because if the thing is 230 meters in diameter and needs to support 800,000 tonnes, I get something a little over 1 million kilograms per square meter, which is something like 60,000 PSI. That's a lot of pressure.
Most (but not all) other countries have similar standards for maintenance. Many countries with lower standards are countries into which flights come from other countries with more exacting standards. On the whole, the commercial airline industry is pretty safe worldwide. Even from airline to airline, your research is better spent on age and experience of pilots and their duty schedules than on maintenance procedures.