the word "Conservative" in the US is self-identified with by people with the repugnant viewpoints I just pointed out is a little absurd.
Oh dear. Sounds like you have half the country tied up in a neat box you despise. That must be uncomfortable.
That's a bit like attacking all Catholics because of some piece of dogma you despise. You might say people have a bit more choice in politics, but there are really only two choices if Americans wish to participate. The conservative one, and the even more conservative one. (I'd have vote Bernie:-)
The policies I mentioned are the policies of people who identify as conservatives right now. If they weren't, you'd see conservatives disassociating themselves from Trump in droves.
You might have thought so. But after all that has happened, how can you possibly still believe that? Pussy-grabbing, the Russia connections, the affairs, twitter tirades, sackings,... Clearly, they stick with him no matter what. Just like the Russians support Putin, and China supports Winnie. He is "their guy". He knows it "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.".
You don't get many people who say "I'm a conservative, and I love unions, want tax payer funded healthcare, and believe taxes should be focused on the rich because those who are the people who can afford to pay and who have benefited most from society."
I do, aside from the unions part, though they would agree unions play an important role, they can also do harm. Then again, I don't live in the US.
Likewise show me the conservatives who support the current Republican party, support Trump, but are against the inhuman policies I just mentioned. Crickets?
OK, I really don't get the Republican opposition to healthcare reforms. But given that Romney had some success, and got the party nomination in 2011, there must be some? Those others issues have been controversial, to say the least, across the political spectrum. Where are you getting your news from?
Thanks folks, I was quoting figures for the old model Ariane 5 from ten years ago.
It looks like the Falcon heavy can do 16 tons to GTO while recovering the side-boosters. Recovering the core booster drops that to only 8 tonnes, similar to an expendable Falcon 9.
Note that SpaceX is quoting prices for fully reusable, but capacities for fully expendable. So the $90m lowest price tag for FH comes with a lower capacity than the current Ariane 5. (but half the price)
Hmmm.... don't know enough orbital mechanics to argue but getting heavier sattelites 8 times further away seems like it might take a much larger rocket than the space-X one. So is there much to compare here?
The two rockets are very comparable. In expendable mode, the Falcon-9 has a greater payload capacity (to the same orbit) than the Ariane 5, 8.3 tons vs 7, but with reuse it is less, only 5.5 tons to GTO.
In rocketry, is is not about power, distance or energy, rather it is thrust and delta-V (change in velocity). Higher orbit means higher velocity. You need around 10km/s to get to low-orbit, and another 2-3 for the higher Galileo orbit, similar to geosync transfer orbit. So the "8 times further" is misleading.
Taiwan is nothing like Hong Kong. It is a breakaway republic
It was if you swallow the propaganda. Or you could as easily say the PRC broke away from the RoC. The republic of China was forced to shift their capital from Beijing to Taipei, just as Israel did to Tel Aviv, or Germany to Bonn. The country was split by war, like Korea and so many others.
The problem is that the Kuomintang never declared independence, but absurdly claimed to rightfully rule all of China. This somehow worked for a couple of decades, but in 1971, the UN recognised communists PRC instead. Now that communism is dead in all but name, you'd think a negotiation might be possible, but Taiwan is not keen on going back to authoritarian single party rule. I think we will have a stalemate for a long time to come. But then look what happened to east/west Germany so suddenly and unexpectedly.
Wow, the A.C. just paints a caricature. Sounds exactly like a racist troll talking about how "all blacks" are, excpet substitute "conservatives". Shame on you.
Maybe that attitude is why American politicians have never been able to negotiate a decent health-care system. (except Romney in Massachusetts made a good effort?)
Of course, the material to make a space elevator does not yet exist.
There are far more practical alternatives. A rotating skyhook can be made from existing materials, and drop down to pick up payloads from the ground, or from aircraft.
I want to know if they’re also going after peanut butter
When I was a kid in Western Australia, we had "Peanut Paste". The dairy lobby had successfully lobbied for a ban on the use of "butter" for non-dairy products.
Exactly what do you think is loose about the definition?
I mean it is too broad. It could include million of pebbles in unstable orbits. Or ice cubes slowly "orbiting" each other in the Kuiper belt. There could be countless rocks orbiting earth too. When there was one moon, and then five, we knew what the word meant. Now it is too open and never-ending.
Yep. That's why I said "sorry, Mars". They are only temporary rocks. Phobos will be gone in a few million years, while the seven "real" moons will be there for billions at least.
Antecedent agreement normally applies within a sentence.
The verb "to be" is a special case with two subjects. Use of plural in the next sentence should have removed the ambiguity, but some of us read the "they" as singular. I call this corruption of the language.
I can understand the use of the term "SJW" to identify them as a shorthand when not used in a pejorative sense.
I'm pretty sure it *is* a pejorative. One for the oppressive far-left, whether used by liberals or conservatives makes no difference. Kind of like "fascist" unless used in a literal historic sense.
I think I'd count as a socialist in Texas. Am all for people to dress how they want, and behave outside traditional gender norms. But draw the line well before them telling me how I have to think and speak. I wasn't particularly bothered until they started the assault on free speech on American campuses, and the cancer is now starting to spread here.
Ultimate also means "being the best or most extreme example of its kind" and when CDs were introduced, they definitely were that.
We already have plenty of words for that.
I know language changes, but it's sad how people devalue it by misusing words they heard but did not think enough to understand. The same happened to so many words, e.g. "awesome". Once it had a useful place in the English language, real meaning. Now it is just another synonym for "very good" due to dumb people. Dumb used to have a particular meaning too. I think we already had enough words for stupid.
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the word "Conservative" in the US is self-identified with by people with the repugnant viewpoints I just pointed out is a little absurd.
Oh dear. Sounds like you have half the country tied up in a neat box you despise. That must be uncomfortable.
That's a bit like attacking all Catholics because of some piece of dogma you despise. You might say people have a bit more choice in politics, but there are really only two choices if Americans wish to participate. The conservative one, and the even more conservative one. (I'd have vote Bernie :-)
The policies I mentioned are the policies of people who identify as conservatives right now. If they weren't, you'd see conservatives disassociating themselves from Trump in droves.
You might have thought so. But after all that has happened, how can you possibly still believe that? Pussy-grabbing, the Russia connections, the affairs, twitter tirades, sackings, ... Clearly, they stick with him no matter what. Just like the Russians support Putin, and China supports Winnie. He is "their guy".
He knows it "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.".
You don't get many people who say "I'm a conservative, and I love unions, want tax payer funded healthcare, and believe taxes should be focused on the rich because those who are the people who can afford to pay and who have benefited most from society."
I do, aside from the unions part, though they would agree unions play an important role, they can also do harm. Then again, I don't live in the US.
Likewise show me the conservatives who support the current Republican party, support Trump, but are against the inhuman policies I just mentioned. Crickets?
OK, I really don't get the Republican opposition to healthcare reforms. But given that Romney had some success, and got the party nomination in 2011, there must be some?
Those others issues have been controversial, to say the least, across the political spectrum. Where are you getting your news from?
Thanks folks, I was quoting figures for the old model Ariane 5 from ten years ago.
It looks like the Falcon heavy can do 16 tons to GTO while recovering the side-boosters.
Recovering the core booster drops that to only 8 tonnes, similar to an expendable Falcon 9.
Note that SpaceX is quoting prices for fully reusable, but capacities for fully expendable.
So the $90m lowest price tag for FH comes with a lower capacity than the current Ariane 5. (but half the price)
Hmmm.... don't know enough orbital mechanics to argue but getting heavier sattelites 8 times further away seems like it might take a much larger rocket than the space-X one. So is there much to compare here?
The two rockets are very comparable. In expendable mode, the Falcon-9 has a greater payload capacity (to the same orbit) than the Ariane 5, 8.3 tons vs 7, but with reuse it is less, only 5.5 tons to GTO.
In rocketry, is is not about power, distance or energy, rather it is thrust and delta-V (change in velocity). Higher orbit means higher velocity.
You need around 10km/s to get to low-orbit, and another 2-3 for the higher Galileo orbit, similar to geosync transfer orbit. So the "8 times further" is misleading.
Taiwan is nothing like Hong Kong. It is a breakaway republic
It was if you swallow the propaganda. Or you could as easily say the PRC broke away from the RoC.
The republic of China was forced to shift their capital from Beijing to Taipei, just as Israel did to Tel Aviv, or Germany to Bonn.
The country was split by war, like Korea and so many others.
The problem is that the Kuomintang never declared independence, but absurdly claimed to rightfully rule all of China. This somehow worked for a couple of decades, but in 1971, the UN recognised communists PRC instead.
Now that communism is dead in all but name, you'd think a negotiation might be possible, but Taiwan is not keen on going back to authoritarian single party rule. I think we will have a stalemate for a long time to come. But then look what happened to east/west Germany so suddenly and unexpectedly.
Wow, the A.C. just paints a caricature. Sounds exactly like a racist troll talking about how "all blacks" are, excpet substitute "conservatives". Shame on you.
Maybe that attitude is why American politicians have never been able to negotiate a decent health-care system.
(except Romney in Massachusetts made a good effort?)
Says the A.C. :-)
There are no funny Republican comedians, you included.
Fortunately, there are liberal comedians who are not afraid to mock the far-left politically correct, identity politics, SJW mindset. e.g. Bill Maher.
But yes, I struggle to think of more than a few conservative comedians. Why is that?
Milo Yiannopoulos is hilarious. Possibly not a "comedian", but makes use of humour to make a political point like John Stewart.
Of course, the material to make a space elevator does not yet exist.
There are far more practical alternatives. A rotating skyhook can be made from existing materials, and drop down to pick up payloads from the ground, or from aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We are in the year 2018, why would they use 1960's rocket tech?
It works for the Russians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Though sadly, the 60's tech Proton has recently ceased production, and is being replaced with the Angara.
If it doesn't come from a mammal it isn't milk.
You might want to be more specific. Bull's milk?
I want to know if they’re also going after peanut butter
When I was a kid in Western Australia, we had "Peanut Paste".
The dairy lobby had successfully lobbied for a ban on the use of "butter" for non-dairy products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Exactly what do you think is loose about the definition?
I mean it is too broad. It could include million of pebbles in unstable orbits. Or ice cubes slowly "orbiting" each other in the Kuiper belt.
There could be countless rocks orbiting earth too. When there was one moon, and then five, we knew what the word meant. Now it is too open and never-ending.
at least 13 of Jupiter's moons are larger than either of the moons of Mars.
Yep. That's why I said "sorry, Mars". They are only temporary rocks. Phobos will be gone in a few million years, while the seven "real" moons will be there for billions at least.
Antecedent agreement normally applies within a sentence.
The verb "to be" is a special case with two subjects. Use of plural in the next sentence should have removed the ambiguity, but some of us read the "they" as singular. I call this corruption of the language.
I can understand the use of the term "SJW" to identify them as a shorthand when not used in a pejorative sense.
I'm pretty sure it *is* a pejorative. One for the oppressive far-left, whether used by liberals or conservatives makes no difference. Kind of like "fascist" unless used in a literal historic sense.
I think I'd count as a socialist in Texas. Am all for people to dress how they want, and behave outside traditional gender norms. But draw the line well before them telling me how I have to think and speak. I wasn't particularly bothered until they started the assault on free speech on American campuses, and the cancer is now starting to spread here.
If we can demote planets (Ceres too was once counted as a planet), it is time to tighten up the definition of moon.
Jupiter has four moons, and a bunch of rocks making up a 1/300 of one percent of the total mass in orbit.
And Mars, sorry.
Hasn't Australia learnt.. they always lose against nature ...
Australia vs rabbits
Australia vs Frogs
The rabbit population is down 98% from the peak. Only 200 million left. (from 10 billion)
We're still working on the cane toads.
Doctors would be a plural, and it is their training, not his
This would have been obvious before the SJWs managed to mangle the language even worse than it was before.
Information hates to be anthropomorphised.
people with Ad Blockers get blocked completely
If necessary, ad blockers can be stealthy and download all the ads. Maybe even "render" them, but blanked over.
Yes, spiders are not insects.
That guy really needs to read a book on zoology.
Hello? this is Lenny.
Further, I assume they didn't shit in the water since they had to drink something to stay alive
You have not been to Thailand, have you?
Ultimate also means "being the best or most extreme example of its kind" and when CDs were introduced, they definitely were that.
We already have plenty of words for that.
I know language changes, but it's sad how people devalue it by misusing words they heard but did not think enough to understand.
The same happened to so many words, e.g. "awesome". Once it had a useful place in the English language, real meaning. Now it is just another synonym for "very good" due to dumb people. Dumb used to have a particular meaning too. I think we already had enough words for stupid.
When CDs were introduced, they were hailed as the ultimate audio format
You keep using that word ...
"ultimate" does not mean best. it means final, that nobody will ever create a better one. Stop ruining the language with ignorance.
DRM can be as simple as water-marking, which helps rights-owners pursue pirates without affecting legitimate use.