That is rather a... suggestive... video, isn't it?
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While commonly known as Pac Bell, when the breakup occurred, CA and NV were covered by Pacific Telesis.
Pacific Bell was the CA component of Pacific Telesis, Nevada was the NV component. I think that Pacific Telesis later changed its name to PacBell before SBC bought them.
Side node: SBC owns Prodigy, because PacBell bought Prodigy ages ago.
When you're dealing with robots, the only thing you lose on a failure is time, money and materials
Sometimes, you also lose a literal once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Consider Voyager 2. Had it completely failed, there would be no opportunity for a retry mission, since the Grand Tour configuration would be gone for several hundred years.
I am not an Orbital Mechanic. What is the cycle period for the full gravity-assist Grand Tour that Voyager made?
Yeah. I'm a registered Libertarian, and voted Libertarian in 2000 and 2004.
You wouldn't believe how many times I was told I "wasted" my vote, that I should have voted for Gore or Kerry to stop Bush.
It wasn't wasted. I voted for the candidate I believe most closely represented my beliefs.
I live in California. Since electoral votes are winner-take-all by state, and there's not a snowball's chance in hell that CA would go GOP, this argument is specious.
The problem is that too many people see it as only a 2-party game. Yes it's zero-sum, but it's multi-polar, not bipolar.
They were originally passed as "the state winds up having to pay for them..."
My opinion on seatbelt (and helmet) laws is this: Feel free not to wear a seatbelt of a helmet. If you're not wearing one, and you're injured, you won't get a cent in aid from the state, so your insurance better be paid up.
In his novel Voyage, Stephen Baxter postulated an alternate reality where NASA went to Mars after the Moon. There were no landings post-Apollo 13, and much space science was sacrificed on the altar of Mars. No Voyager, no Pioneer, etc... They didn't even believe that a Venus flyby gravity assist trajectory to Mars would work or even be possible.
The problem with "Run As..." is that it still requires you to give out the Admin (root) password. There is no equivalent to su/sudo/setuid programs, where you can give out privileges on a per-program basis.
Would you give out the root password to your users?
Did you hear about the genetic researcher who sued her facility for sexual harrassment? Apparently the horny director kept trying to get into her genes...
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat If you get too cold I'll tax the heat If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet
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That is rather a... suggestive... video, isn't it?
While commonly known as Pac Bell, when the breakup occurred, CA and NV were covered by Pacific Telesis.
Pacific Bell was the CA component of Pacific Telesis, Nevada was the NV component. I think that Pacific Telesis later changed its name to PacBell before SBC bought them.
Side node: SBC owns Prodigy, because PacBell bought Prodigy ages ago.
When you're dealing with robots, the only thing you lose on a failure is time, money and materials
Sometimes, you also lose a literal once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Consider Voyager 2. Had it completely failed, there would be no opportunity for a retry mission, since the Grand Tour configuration would be gone for several hundred years.
I am not an Orbital Mechanic. What is the cycle period for the full gravity-assist Grand Tour that Voyager made?
You wouldn't believe how many times I was told I "wasted" my vote, that I should have voted for Gore or Kerry to stop Bush.
The problem is that too many people see it as only a 2-party game. Yes it's zero-sum, but it's multi-polar, not bipolar.
Storage Area Network. Usually built on top of FibreChannel.
46000 is also almost twice escape velocity.
They can use lasers,
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And next years models will include some frickin' sharks...
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\i{I have seen suggestions that ~46,000 mph or 13 miles/sec would get you into orbit.}
Orbital velocity for LEO is about 18000 mph, or roughly 5 miles/sec.
Earth Escape Velocity is about 25000mph, or roughly 7 miles/sec.
46000mph is so far beyond what is needed for orbit, it's ridiculous.
Stackable servers? :-P
Any wiretap provisions or any particular wiretap, for that matter, will have to pass muster under the Fourth Amendment.
Two words: PATRIOT Act
Terrorism (and/or Child Porn) is the root password to the Constitution.
Add California to the list of seatbelt laws.
They were originally passed as "the state winds up having to pay for them..."
My opinion on seatbelt (and helmet) laws is this: Feel free not to wear a seatbelt of a helmet. If you're not wearing one, and you're injured, you won't get a cent in aid from the state, so your insurance better be paid up.
He's only "loving" chickens so that Officer Barbrady will learn how to read.
You had lightning rods? We just told the tallest person... "Go stand in that there field!" when a storm came! And we LIKED it that way!
In his novel Voyage, Stephen Baxter postulated an alternate reality where NASA went to Mars after the Moon. There were no landings post-Apollo 13, and much space science was sacrificed on the altar of Mars. No Voyager, no Pioneer, etc... They didn't even believe that a Venus flyby gravity assist trajectory to Mars would work or even be possible.
The problem with "Run As..." is that it still requires you to give out the Admin (root) password. There is no equivalent to su/sudo/setuid programs, where you can give out privileges on a per-program basis.
Would you give out the root password to your users?
Did you hear about the genetic researcher who sued her facility for sexual harrassment?
Apparently the horny director kept trying to get into her genes...
Unisys (previously Sperry and Burroughs) were the owners of the infamous LZW patent, not IBM.
It's from Hebrew University.
Blood test: compare DNA sample to that of a Jewish mother.
If there's a relationship, then the testee has an anxiety disorder.
Disclaimer: I'm Jewish.
I suspect that a 2 year contract would be OK.
Cingular could not *REQUIRE* a 2 year contract, but if you wanted one, they could give it to you.
Wind River is the VxWorks people, and I believe they also do a *BSD distro.
- Incest
- Premarital sex
- Terrorism (see the Ten Plagues)
- Bioterrorism (again, see the 10 plagues)
- Genocide
<IRONY>This book definitely needs to be banned.
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Rationale: The 256MB edition has a hardware switch for write protect. My 1GB version doesn't have that.
Obviously, He reached out and touched the moderators with His noodly appendage.
Isn't stop-n-go better for hybrids because the battery charges off the waste energy from braking?
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet
Disclaimer: This post is obviously a blatant violation of the DMCA