But that one is not designed to keep ppl in. Anybody can illegally cross over into Mexico with little hassle, just a little walk in the desert. And you will NOT be stopped by American police. OTH, if you are picked up by Mexican police, you wish that you were in American prisons instead.
First, we are still better than most nations, but we are certainly heading towards more of a police state similar what other nations have.
As to illegals, I have a sister-in-law who was once illegal. She was able to come and go pretty much at will, even though she was illegal. fake IDs (including passports) made all that TRIVIAL.
I read about this. Each countries are saying that their laws apply in their own section of the ISS. So TECHNICALLY, they could use VLC in the russian side. Of course, NASA will shoot that down quickly.
I was writing Unix Medical billing systems in the mid 80's on Unix (and using regex), when you gov ppl were still on mainframes. So, I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT. And I doubt that I wrote the first regex for an SSN. Back then, the ssn WAS a single ID for everybody.
Oddly, I learned that same stuff from my dad and even now, am already teaching my 5 and 2 y.o about tools. But I have noticed that most of my friends are not capable of simple things (how to hang a ceiling fan or a garage door opener is beyond most, let alone running a simple welder). The more that I think about it, perhaps we should consider pushing more practical classes into 12th grade.
K-12 is reserved for learning the CORE curriculum and should be for all students. Skip the shop. Or at the least, allow it only in the last year. Personally, I think that shop should be done in Community colleges. Have a person continue for another 1-2 years and make the curriculum work for young AND old adults.
Ms. Garver has been hyper critical of the Ares project (both I and V) and has tended to push Direct. In light of the current status of Ares I, I will be curious to see where this goes. I have to wonder if Garver was appointed by Obama or by Bolden.
I know that a VASMIR of sufficient size and power to reboost the station is about 1000x larger than any ion propulsion system built to date.
Actually, I do know that it is bigger. So what? Is that not what they are developing right now? According to NASA, it should be able to re-boost the ISS just fine. So what is the issues in your mind?
Why? Do you think that the ppl that mod do not have a clue about the space program? There are many here who have or currently do work for the space program. I worked on Mars Global Surveyor. There are at least 3 ppl that I know that are working on Orion (Though to be fair, if they had mod points would either not touch me to be polite, or would mod me down because they hate SpaceX; They view them as us or them, where I view them as complementary and their means to moving off the fed teat and into many launch private). Yeah, I could have done some links in there, but, most ppl here know what each of these are.
Isn't that odd? And you need it even less for surveillance. And yet, China is gearing up to build a number of these for their military (along with just one for their civilian side under military control). Hmmmm. Nice cave to hide things in.
Certainly parts will wear out. They will need to be replaced. Ideally, that was accounted for. As it is, we will have several booms on the station, which should make replace these parts much easier. In addition, we need this station for some time. I maintain that the best science that we could (and should) have done was on the CAM. We need to know more about effects of different G's on life. Right now, we have 1G and pretty much zero G. What will happen with life on the moon or mars? Would mars be acceptable to our body, while the moon would not? Hopefully somebody has enough brains to realize that it really needs to go on the station.
As to the drag, have you forgotten VASMIR? It is coming in 2 years. Of course, we will have to think about the electricity for it. Solar cells, or perhaps a small nuke.
Which is why you want the bigelow started. We need more done, but they have to be factory type operations. If we help Bigelow get started, then private enterprise takes hold.
Ppl are wanting good wood, but the rainforest holds INEXPENSIVE wood, some good, and some bad. But at this time, that is mostly China that is doing that. In 2000, America was starting to switch to our PRIVATE forests which are loaded with lots of good hardwood. Obviously, these will go for a top price. Sadly, neo-cons opened up many of our forests to clear cutting to allow companies to grab other hardwoods much cheaper. What is needed is for us to stop that slowly and for the west to quit buying any furniture made from none-farmed rainforest woods. In this economy, I give that little chance of occuring. BUT once the economy returns, the west CAN and SHOULD take actions on that.
Whoops; Better pieces have Mortise/Tenon or dado. In addition, the cheap chinese is loaded with Veneer over cheap wood, while other countries use solid wood. Our dining room table was made in one of the break-away USSR republics (forget which one), but excellent workmanship. Cost us 1K for the table (and that was heavily discounted due to scratches, which we got out). The new chinese tables from same place were 800, but total junk. I give them 10-15 years lifetime. This table will be around for 50 or more. But of course, it will be treated like a piece of work, rather than worked like a piece.
While I agree that there is a bias built-in, the simple fact is that things WERE better built 50 years ago. The reason is simple; Steel vs. plastics. Today, the items are likely to be made out of plastics which do not last as long. The reason is costs. The items that survived from long ago WERE EXPENSIVE. But look at today's goods. If you buy something from Target, Walmart, heck even American Furniture, it was likely made in China, was made out of the bare bones minimal wood, screwed together (maybe), and costs a great deal less. OTH, if you buy an ethan-allan piece, it is heavy, much better wood, better construction (rabit groves, etc), glued AND screwed, 10 or more coats of fine laquer, etc, etc, etc. And what does it cost? 10x more. Which is going to last for another century?
More likely than not, America is going to allow Bigelow to attach a few units on there and they will ultimately replace the cans. They will be cheap and 100% appreciated by the occupants since they are MUCH BIGGER and QUIETER. In fact, if Obama and Bolden (our very likely next NASA head) were smart, they would continue COTS-D AND buy a Sundancer to attach to the ISS. Since NASA will not likely want to trust the Sundancer, it can be used for storage and the door kept closed in normal use. It will cost us 200M (assuming a falcon 9 launcher), which is chump change. By getting Bigelow started, it will lead to cheap new space stations for NASA, private space station, and perhaps military (important in light of China's new announcement of their multiple military). Finally, the Sundancer and the metal noodes can be replaced by BA-330's increasing the size of the ISS appreciably.
I would like RIAA, AND THE LABELS THAT BACKED THEM, be made to pay all the money back along with a fine of 150000:1 on the money paid. I think that they have established the rate of what is wrong is worth. So, if somebody paid 100, they should get 15,000,000 (from the labels).
because whites are, by definition, racist.
Hey asshole. First, Pot, meet kettle.
Second, why would you consider whites to be racists BY WHAT DEFINITION? Yours?
There have been PLENTY of experienced lawyers out there working against RIAA with mixed reviews. At this time, I agree with her; Take the best and brightest and pray that he figures out a different and interesting way out of all this. In the end, we need more cases to be won against RIAA so that this stops.
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But that one is not designed to keep ppl in. Anybody can illegally cross over into Mexico with little hassle, just a little walk in the desert. And you will NOT be stopped by American police. OTH, if you are picked up by Mexican police, you wish that you were in American prisons instead.
First, we are still better than most nations, but we are certainly heading towards more of a police state similar what other nations have.
As to illegals, I have a sister-in-law who was once illegal. She was able to come and go pretty much at will, even though she was illegal. fake IDs (including passports) made all that TRIVIAL.
So, what nation do you live in that allows ppl, including criminals, to come and go freely?
I read about this. Each countries are saying that their laws apply in their own section of the ISS. So TECHNICALLY, they could use VLC in the russian side. Of course, NASA will shoot that down quickly.
Yeah, the guy who came up with the original design and owns the patent/copyright really is just a sponger.
Hmmm. Either contracted out for MS, or it really was a MS job. I mean EVERYBODY uses Google Analytics, even MS.
You read directions for shitting?????
If EESTOR was for real AND has produced prototypes, now would be the ideal time to bring it out for use. Put it in a decent car and see what happens.
I was writing Unix Medical billing systems in the mid 80's on Unix (and using regex), when you gov ppl were still on mainframes. So, I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT. And I doubt that I wrote the first regex for an SSN. Back then, the ssn WAS a single ID for everybody.
Oddly, I learned that same stuff from my dad and even now, am already teaching my 5 and 2 y.o about tools. But I have noticed that most of my friends are not capable of simple things (how to hang a ceiling fan or a garage door opener is beyond most, let alone running a simple welder). The more that I think about it, perhaps we should consider pushing more practical classes into 12th grade.
K-12 is reserved for learning the CORE curriculum and should be for all students. Skip the shop. Or at the least, allow it only in the last year. Personally, I think that shop should be done in Community colleges. Have a person continue for another 1-2 years and make the curriculum work for young AND old adults.
Ms. Garver has been hyper critical of the Ares project (both I and V) and has tended to push Direct. In light of the current status of Ares I, I will be curious to see where this goes. I have to wonder if Garver was appointed by Obama or by Bolden.
I know that a VASMIR of sufficient size and power to reboost the station is about 1000x larger than any ion propulsion system built to date. Actually, I do know that it is bigger. So what? Is that not what they are developing right now? According to NASA, it should be able to re-boost the ISS just fine. So what is the issues in your mind?
Why? Do you think that the ppl that mod do not have a clue about the space program? There are many here who have or currently do work for the space program. I worked on Mars Global Surveyor. There are at least 3 ppl that I know that are working on Orion (Though to be fair, if they had mod points would either not touch me to be polite, or would mod me down because they hate SpaceX; They view them as us or them, where I view them as complementary and their means to moving off the fed teat and into many launch private). Yeah, I could have done some links in there, but, most ppl here know what each of these are.
Isn't that odd? And you need it even less for surveillance. And yet, China is gearing up to build a number of these for their military (along with just one for their civilian side under military control). Hmmmm. Nice cave to hide things in.
Certainly parts will wear out. They will need to be replaced. Ideally, that was accounted for. As it is, we will have several booms on the station, which should make replace these parts much easier. In addition, we need this station for some time. I maintain that the best science that we could (and should) have done was on the CAM. We need to know more about effects of different G's on life. Right now, we have 1G and pretty much zero G. What will happen with life on the moon or mars? Would mars be acceptable to our body, while the moon would not? Hopefully somebody has enough brains to realize that it really needs to go on the station.
As to the drag, have you forgotten VASMIR? It is coming in 2 years. Of course, we will have to think about the electricity for it. Solar cells, or perhaps a small nuke.
Which is why you want the bigelow started. We need more done, but they have to be factory type operations. If we help Bigelow get started, then private enterprise takes hold.
Ppl are wanting good wood, but the rainforest holds INEXPENSIVE wood, some good, and some bad. But at this time, that is mostly China that is doing that. In 2000, America was starting to switch to our PRIVATE forests which are loaded with lots of good hardwood. Obviously, these will go for a top price. Sadly, neo-cons opened up many of our forests to clear cutting to allow companies to grab other hardwoods much cheaper. What is needed is for us to stop that slowly and for the west to quit buying any furniture made from none-farmed rainforest woods. In this economy, I give that little chance of occuring. BUT once the economy returns, the west CAN and SHOULD take actions on that.
Brilliant Pebbles, anyone? The simple fact is, that it would work. NICELY. In fact, it very good way to take out missiles.
Whoops; Better pieces have Mortise/Tenon or dado. In addition, the cheap chinese is loaded with Veneer over cheap wood, while other countries use solid wood. Our dining room table was made in one of the break-away USSR republics (forget which one), but excellent workmanship. Cost us 1K for the table (and that was heavily discounted due to scratches, which we got out). The new chinese tables from same place were 800, but total junk. I give them 10-15 years lifetime. This table will be around for 50 or more. But of course, it will be treated like a piece of work, rather than worked like a piece.
While I agree that there is a bias built-in, the simple fact is that things WERE better built 50 years ago. The reason is simple; Steel vs. plastics. Today, the items are likely to be made out of plastics which do not last as long. The reason is costs. The items that survived from long ago WERE EXPENSIVE. But look at today's goods. If you buy something from Target, Walmart, heck even American Furniture, it was likely made in China, was made out of the bare bones minimal wood, screwed together (maybe), and costs a great deal less. OTH, if you buy an ethan-allan piece, it is heavy, much better wood, better construction (rabit groves, etc), glued AND screwed, 10 or more coats of fine laquer, etc, etc, etc. And what does it cost? 10x more. Which is going to last for another century?
More likely than not, America is going to allow Bigelow to attach a few units on there and they will ultimately replace the cans. They will be cheap and 100% appreciated by the occupants since they are MUCH BIGGER and QUIETER. In fact, if Obama and Bolden (our very likely next NASA head) were smart, they would continue COTS-D AND buy a Sundancer to attach to the ISS. Since NASA will not likely want to trust the Sundancer, it can be used for storage and the door kept closed in normal use. It will cost us 200M (assuming a falcon 9 launcher), which is chump change. By getting Bigelow started, it will lead to cheap new space stations for NASA, private space station, and perhaps military (important in light of China's new announcement of their multiple military). Finally, the Sundancer and the metal noodes can be replaced by BA-330's increasing the size of the ISS appreciably.
I would like RIAA, AND THE LABELS THAT BACKED THEM, be made to pay all the money back along with a fine of 150000:1 on the money paid. I think that they have established the rate of what is wrong is worth. So, if somebody paid 100, they should get 15,000,000 (from the labels).
because whites are, by definition, racist.
Hey asshole. First, Pot, meet kettle.
Second, why would you consider whites to be racists BY WHAT DEFINITION? Yours?
There have been PLENTY of experienced lawyers out there working against RIAA with mixed reviews. At this time, I agree with her; Take the best and brightest and pray that he figures out a different and interesting way out of all this. In the end, we need more cases to be won against RIAA so that this stops.