Spending more on defense per capita has nothing to do with being a military state. North Korea's militaty expenditures as percent of GDP are way higher that the US statistic.
Hell, I bought a handgun once during a year I had practically no income. By your definition, I was a military state in 1986.
The United States of America was the first country formed by the European immigrants in the New World. Consequently we got called "Americans". In those days, most "Americans" actually identified themselves by which state they lived in (e.g. Virginians, Pennsylvanians), much more so than they do today. Everyone else just called us Americans and it has stuck to this day.
You may get out of that lawsuit, but you are still clearly in violation of my patent "Decanting a glass, plastic, or other receptacle containing an egg/oil emulsion for food flavoring or other purposes."
Unfortunately, the best intelligence and technology in defense does not protect us from the poor intelligences serving in positions of leadership in our government.
Well, actually, they are intercepted on their way to an orbit closer to the sun. To actually get to the sun from a planetary orbit requires quite a bit of delta-v.
Interestingly, it actually takes more delta-v to get to the Sun from Earth (31.8 km/sec) that it does just to break away from the Earth (11.2 km/sec).
In fairness, in the 40s, 50s and 60s the United States was about the only country left with a sizable industrial base left. Almost everybody else had either not developed one yet, or had theirs bombed to little tiny pieces during the Second World War. The US economy could do nothing else but expand, given the global demand for our products.
The correlation is actually weak to nonexistant between income tax percentages and economic health over the lifetime of the country, and even if it were not, correlation is not proof of causation.
This is the fallacy of the centrally planned economy, and why Ludwig von Mises predicted that the Soviet Union would ultimately fail long before the Cold War. Central planners have no way to tell if an economic plan is sensible or ruinous without the price signals that free trade (really free trade, not the so-called free trade of NAFTA and GATT) provides.
Free markets, it also seems, is the last best hope for peace, since engaging in commerce with people means you're a lot less likely to want to kill them.
So yes, their proposed solution is feasible, because right now, there are Country codes assigned to countries which will most likely not export vehicles to the US in the near future. But the comparison with Y2K is off because of the fact that this problem is local to the US.
It's also interesting that they think this dwarfs Y2K. Do they really think that VIN is used more than dates?
I would like to reassure the Society of Automotive Engineers that after a careful and exhaustive audit, the database that I manage containing data pertaining to Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey is ready for any VIN changes they might need to make.
They've had to seek larger facilities; in fact, this year, as a result of this expansion, they're holding it in San Jose rather than Las Vegas.
Yes, because we all know that Las Vegas just doesn't have the convention facilities that an international tourism and convention mecca like San Jose has.
Really, you don't think that Las Vegas can't provide a mere 30,000 ft^2 of convention space? They probably just couldn't afford the larger conference centers in Las Vegas. Mandalay Bay has a single ballroom that is more than three times that size. There may be many reasons to not hold a convention in Las Vegas, but outgrowing Las Vegas is not one of them.
That's exactly what I've said with respect to filesharing for music. The penalties will soon be higher for swapping mp3s than just going into a record store and shoplifting. Which is easier to get away with is an exercise left to the perpetrator.
Home schooling is no better either. What you get there are socially inept children who are coddled and shielded from the real world.
Hello. Overgeneralize much?
Here's my view on the so-called social skills one gets from public school. There's no reason kids can't get social interaction from something not school, especially given your suggestion that one parent should stay home with the kids (which I do agree with in general, so don't feel like I'm disagreeing with you there).
What if a doctor were to go watch a movie and one of his patients started dying and he needed to be contacted? What if a loved one were in an accident and people were trying to get ahold of you so you could possibly see them before they died?
GASP! Then it would be like.... living in the dark ages of the late 1980s! You might have to call the on-call doctor at your doctor's practice and not get your personal family physician in a life or death emergency! You might actually have to live your life and not be constantly at the beck and call with everyone with your number.
Cheese and rice, people, society functioned fairly well for many years before cell phones. I don't deny they're useful, but if someone wants to block cell phone reception in their place of business, I say let them, though common courtesy (all things being equal, "common courtesy" just isn't that common anymore) would suggest a business would annouce that. Don't like it? Don't go to that establishment.
what the dominant audio format is when I'm encoding things for my own personal use? More to the point, why do you care what I use? Oh, it's too much trouble to leech files from me, and all those codecs... it's just so confusing.
Damn, it's attitudes like this that make me almost glad the RIAA is cracking down on file traders. Anybody who gets something for nothing from somebody and then whinges about the format is one ungrateful SOB.
I personally wondered if it had anything to do with the particular ads in the rotation, and maybe somebody's ad server somewhere is writing the wonky HTML. I can reload the page and it's fine, suggesting it's not the usual slashdot data causing it, but something more transient.
The nearest Mars gets to the Earth is closer to 3 light minutes, not 9. I was thinking about how far away Mars was when the rovers landed, not at opposition. Sorry for the brain fart.
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But, if P == 0, and 0 represents false, the problem is therefore no longer polynomial at all!
Plus 0/0 is undefined, so you can't really say anything about N. I guess that makes N non-deterministic.
I'm not so sure. Is it a spherical Titanian giraffe with uniform density?
That's easy! Tell me how the hell you got NWN to work on Linux. I still haven't figured that shit out.
Spending more on defense per capita has nothing to do with being a military state. North Korea's militaty expenditures as percent of GDP are way higher that the US statistic.
Hell, I bought a handgun once during a year I had practically no income. By your definition, I was a military state in 1986.
The United States of America was the first country formed by the European immigrants in the New World. Consequently we got called "Americans". In those days, most "Americans" actually identified themselves by which state they lived in (e.g. Virginians, Pennsylvanians), much more so than they do today. Everyone else just called us Americans and it has stuck to this day.
Deal with it.
Signed,
A proud Arizonan.
You may get out of that lawsuit, but you are still clearly in violation of my patent "Decanting a glass, plastic, or other receptacle containing an egg/oil emulsion for food flavoring or other purposes."
Unfortunately, the best intelligence and technology in defense does not protect us from the poor intelligences serving in positions of leadership in our government.
Or about the same as assuming that anyone who doesn't speak American English is stupid.
I used to do this until I forgot where I put my cell phone detector.
I can't wait for these kids to put out a cell-phone detector-detector.
Geological is to Earth as Areological is to Mars
Geo from the Greek for earth, so Areo from Ares, which is the Greek god of war (as any Xena fan can tell you) and refers to Mars.
Well, actually, they are intercepted on their way to an orbit closer to the sun. To actually get to the sun from a planetary orbit requires quite a bit of delta-v.
Interestingly, it actually takes more delta-v to get to the Sun from Earth (31.8 km/sec) that it does just to break away from the Earth (11.2 km/sec).
In fairness, in the 40s, 50s and 60s the United States was about the only country left with a sizable industrial base left. Almost everybody else had either not developed one yet, or had theirs bombed to little tiny pieces during the Second World War. The US economy could do nothing else but expand, given the global demand for our products.
The correlation is actually weak to nonexistant between income tax percentages and economic health over the lifetime of the country, and even if it were not, correlation is not proof of causation.
Well mine gets 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene, so there!
This is the fallacy of the centrally planned economy, and why Ludwig von Mises predicted that the Soviet Union would ultimately fail long before the Cold War. Central planners have no way to tell if an economic plan is sensible or ruinous without the price signals that free trade (really free trade, not the so-called free trade of NAFTA and GATT) provides.
Free markets, it also seems, is the last best hope for peace, since engaging in commerce with people means you're a lot less likely to want to kill them.
Don't mess with them thar 4 digit users, son, or you'll be in a whole heap o' trouble. ;-)
It's also interesting that they think this dwarfs Y2K. Do they really think that VIN is used more than dates?
I would like to reassure the Society of Automotive Engineers that after a careful and exhaustive audit, the database that I manage containing data pertaining to Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey is ready for any VIN changes they might need to make.
Yes, because we all know that Las Vegas just doesn't have the convention facilities that an international tourism and convention mecca like San Jose has.
Really, you don't think that Las Vegas can't provide a mere 30,000 ft^2 of convention space? They probably just couldn't afford the larger conference centers in Las Vegas. Mandalay Bay has a single ballroom that is more than three times that size. There may be many reasons to not hold a convention in Las Vegas, but outgrowing Las Vegas is not one of them.
That's exactly what I've said with respect to filesharing for music. The penalties will soon be higher for swapping mp3s than just going into a record store and shoplifting. Which is easier to get away with is an exercise left to the perpetrator.
Hello. Overgeneralize much?
Here's my view on the so-called social skills one gets from public school. There's no reason kids can't get social interaction from something not school, especially given your suggestion that one parent should stay home with the kids (which I do agree with in general, so don't feel like I'm disagreeing with you there).
GASP! Then it would be like.... living in the dark ages of the late 1980s! You might have to call the on-call doctor at your doctor's practice and not get your personal family physician in a life or death emergency! You might actually have to live your life and not be constantly at the beck and call with everyone with your number.
Cheese and rice, people, society functioned fairly well for many years before cell phones. I don't deny they're useful, but if someone wants to block cell phone reception in their place of business, I say let them, though common courtesy (all things being equal, "common courtesy" just isn't that common anymore) would suggest a business would annouce that. Don't like it? Don't go to that establishment.
what the dominant audio format is when I'm encoding things for my own personal use? More to the point, why do you care what I use? Oh, it's too much trouble to leech files from me, and all those codecs... it's just so confusing.
Damn, it's attitudes like this that make me almost glad the RIAA is cracking down on file traders. Anybody who gets something for nothing from somebody and then whinges about the format is one ungrateful SOB.
I personally wondered if it had anything to do with the particular ads in the rotation, and maybe somebody's ad server somewhere is writing the wonky HTML. I can reload the page and it's fine, suggesting it's not the usual slashdot data causing it, but something more transient.
The nearest Mars gets to the Earth is closer to 3 light minutes, not 9. I was thinking about how far away Mars was when the rovers landed, not at opposition. Sorry for the brain fart.
Actually, as of the time I am writing this (0112 UTC on 10 Jun), Mars is 20 light minutes 9 light seconds away.
9 lm is about Mars' closest approach to the Earth, which as you may recall was nearly a year ago.
Yeah, everybody knows that execlp is where it's at. No manual path searching for me, no sir! Oh wait...