You forgot "If you are with NYPD and would like to discuss thousands of dollars of unpaid parking tickets or hit and run homicides involving drunken drivers with diplomatic immunity, press 6 now. If you would like to nominate North Korea or Cuba to lead the Human Rights Commission, press 7 now".
A long time ago in the magazine "Omni", G Gordon Liddy wrote an article about some of the things a few dedicated people could do to really mess things up. Shoot the insulators and transformers on the big high voltage lines; they're expensive, long lead time to make, and not a lot of spares. One natural gas line coming from Texas feeds most of the Northeast. One bridge carries most of the rail traffic that goes up and down the East coast.
Roughly, it's a Hohmann transfer orbit, where the perogee (closest point to the center of mass you're orbiting around, in this case the sun) is Earth and the apogee (furthest point) is Mars.
All orbits are ellipses; Earth and Mars are pretty circular. A spaceship in a circular orbit around Earth, if it wants to move to a higher orbit, will do two burns, one to accellerate it into an elliptical orbit with an apogee of the altitude they want to go (the perogee would be the altitude of their present orbit). Once they're at the apogee, they accellerate again to circularize their orbit. If they don't accellerate again, they'll "fall" back to perogee. Do pretty much do the same thing when you go to Mars. You have to start at the right time, though, or Mars won't be there when you get there.
If you're really good, you use the atmosphere at the end to change your velocity.
He may be talking about rural families in developing countries. Children growing up in rural areas in the US know just as much about birth control as in urban areas.
Using laser launch vehicles (or microwave) would cut costs and increase reliability dramatically without the huge risk or initial cost of a space elevator. *And* they could be used for ballistic commercial flights (assuming they could be based near population centers). Anywhere in the world in 45 minutes.
Maybe because the British are operating in predominantly Shia areas where there's not a lot of insurgent activity, so they don't have a lot of the "pressure cooker" thing going on?
So, to refute his claim that the recession started during the Clinton administration, you show unemployment statistics? You do know what a recession is, right? Two consecutive quarters of decreasing GDP? Increasing unemployment comes afterward. The recession started well before the presidential debates even started. In one of the debates, I distinctly remember Bush saying we were in a recession and Gore denying it; the economic indicators made it obvious Gore was lying (I'm assuming he was paying attention to that info, what with being a heartbeat away from the presidency). How bad would the recession have been if Clinton and Gore hadn't tried so hard to keep the bubble from bursting before the election? Remember them jumping all over Greenspan's ass whenever he'd make cautionary statements about the economy?
BTW, I voted for Clinton. Both times. I didn't vote for Gore because they screwed up the economy so badly, and *that* was obvious well before the election.
If you look at a globe you'll see that half the planet is the Pacific ocean. So unless half your power plants are floating in the Pacific, you're going to need an awful lot of batteries.
Use wires. Whoop it up to high voltage to lower transmission losses. Keep in mind you lose energy making H2, and more if you want to convert it back to electricity. And H2 is tricky to transport in a pipeline; you aren't going to be able to use natural gas pipelines.
I'd hesitate to call "doing business with Hitler instead of fighting him" a pretty good thing. But then again I'm American and we did the same thing until Germany declared war on us.
Maybe one of these days Europeans will realize that sometimes war is necessary. If France and Britain had come down on Germany a few years earlier when they started violating the terms of the Armistice, WWII in Europe may have been avoided.
Then why did he try to wrap his argument with the trappings of logic? Faith is faith. You either believe or you don't. Why couldn't he at least be honest about it instead of pretending to present a rational argument?
Personally, I don't care. If the US becomes a theocracy, there's plenty of other countries for my investment money to go to, countries that will kick our ass in the global marketplace. I'll hire an evangelical christian to mow my lawn in twenty years and I'll fly to Korea to get rejuved by the godless heathens.
The golden rule: Who has the gold, makes the rules. If the housing market goes south, *somebody* is going to pay, and it ain't gonna be the rich. You're either going to be stuck upside down taking it up the ass or your tax dollars are going to go to bailing the banks out. No way in hell is somebody is going to lend you >100,000 bucks at 5% unless they rig it so there's no way they can lose.
I don't really care, though. I live in Texas. The sooner the housing market crashes, the better as far as I'm concerned. Fuckers on the coasts are deducting all sorts of money off their interest, and I'm tired of subsidizing them. I'm stuck with a $400 a month payment on a 2000 square foot house with a pool and a hot tub. I don't get *anything* for a deduction:).
Yeah, we didn't need to drop the bomb. We could burn their cities to the ground quite nicely without nukes. And we didn't need to invade. Their food distribution system was completely destroyed, their harvest was about to rot in the fields, and millions were going to starve. There wasn't any need for us to use those horrible, horrible bombs.
The nukes allowed the Japanese to surrender with a "minumum loss of face". They've been playing the victim card ever since. Ask a Chinese, Korean, or a Fillipino how much sympathy they have.
We'd broken their codes. We knew how seriously they were considering surrender. They weren't. Three days after Hiroshima they were still scrambling to get troops and supplies to the south where they expected the invasion to happen.
We were using the bombs as they were built. The third one had just been delivered, and Truman gave the orders to prepare to nuke Tokyo hours before he was told of the surrender.
The Japanese military leaders and the emperor believed they could make war so bloody for the Americans that they'd sue for peace. They only surrendered because they finally realized the US could just keep bombing them until their own people rose up against them. *That* is what broke them. So, yeah, it had *everything* to do with the "opinion" of the average Japanese citizen.
Not just the railheads were destroyed, but the coastal shipping too. And a hundred thousand Japanese starved in the winter of 1945 even with massive food aid from the US. Yeah, Downfall is a good book.
And you don't even want to *think* about what would have happened if the Soviets had been able to have more than a week to advance. If the war had gone on another week, there wouldn't *be* a South Korea.
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You forgot "If you are with NYPD and would like to discuss thousands of dollars of unpaid parking tickets or hit and run homicides involving drunken drivers with diplomatic immunity, press 6 now. If you would like to nominate North Korea or Cuba to lead the Human Rights Commission, press 7 now".
A long time ago in the magazine "Omni", G Gordon Liddy wrote an article about some of the things a few dedicated people could do to really mess things up. Shoot the insulators and transformers on the big high voltage lines; they're expensive, long lead time to make, and not a lot of spares. One natural gas line coming from Texas feeds most of the Northeast. One bridge carries most of the rail traffic that goes up and down the East coast.
Huh, I wonder what Buckaroo Banzai says...
Roughly, it's a Hohmann transfer orbit, where the perogee (closest point to the center of mass you're orbiting around, in this case the sun) is Earth and the apogee (furthest point) is Mars.
All orbits are ellipses; Earth and Mars are pretty circular. A spaceship in a circular orbit around Earth, if it wants to move to a higher orbit, will do two burns, one to accellerate it into an elliptical orbit with an apogee of the altitude they want to go (the perogee would be the altitude of their present orbit). Once they're at the apogee, they accellerate again to circularize their orbit. If they don't accellerate again, they'll "fall" back to perogee. Do pretty much do the same thing when you go to Mars. You have to start at the right time, though, or Mars won't be there when you get there.
If you're really good, you use the atmosphere at the end to change your velocity.
He may be talking about rural families in developing countries. Children growing up in rural areas in the US know just as much about birth control as in urban areas.
Using laser launch vehicles (or microwave) would cut costs and increase reliability dramatically without the huge risk or initial cost of a space elevator. *And* they could be used for ballistic commercial flights (assuming they could be based near population centers). Anywhere in the world in 45 minutes.
My guess is about as much as a couple of good forest fires.
Now all the butts laying around, they're an eyesore.
Well, when *I* was a kid (1970ish) we'd get free candy cigarettes. At school.
Don't think they can do that anymore, though.
Wolfowitz drive a hybrid. So do the other *real* neo-cons. They do it more for national security issues, though.
Maybe because the British are operating in predominantly Shia areas where there's not a lot of insurgent activity, so they don't have a lot of the "pressure cooker" thing going on?
So, to refute his claim that the recession started during the Clinton administration, you show unemployment statistics? You do know what a recession is, right? Two consecutive quarters of decreasing GDP? Increasing unemployment comes afterward. The recession started well before the presidential debates even started. In one of the debates, I distinctly remember Bush saying we were in a recession and Gore denying it; the economic indicators made it obvious Gore was lying (I'm assuming he was paying attention to that info, what with being a heartbeat away from the presidency). How bad would the recession have been if Clinton and Gore hadn't tried so hard to keep the bubble from bursting before the election? Remember them jumping all over Greenspan's ass whenever he'd make cautionary statements about the economy?
BTW, I voted for Clinton. Both times. I didn't vote for Gore because they screwed up the economy so badly, and *that* was obvious well before the election.
What, you don't have (or know anybody that has) a child? Or just have a neighbor do it.
I bet you drawer full of CDs smells...interesting.
If you look at a globe you'll see that half the planet is the Pacific ocean. So unless half your power plants are floating in the Pacific, you're going to need an awful lot of batteries.
Use wires. Whoop it up to high voltage to lower transmission losses. Keep in mind you lose energy making H2, and more if you want to convert it back to electricity. And H2 is tricky to transport in a pipeline; you aren't going to be able to use natural gas pipelines.
I'd hesitate to call "doing business with Hitler instead of fighting him" a pretty good thing. But then again I'm American and we did the same thing until Germany declared war on us.
Maybe one of these days Europeans will realize that sometimes war is necessary. If France and Britain had come down on Germany a few years earlier when they started violating the terms of the Armistice, WWII in Europe may have been avoided.
and the CD is "Nuclear Days". Excellent album, BTW.
Sounds like the few girlfriends I've had...
That would explain why we still have mohair subsidies. You know, vital for the WWI war effort.
Read somewhere that a year or so before the Civil war the US government had about 50,000 employees. 30,000 of them worked for the Post Office.
I think he meant that *he* would never buy something like this, so it would never run on *his* hardware, but only on *your* hardware.
Then why did he try to wrap his argument with the trappings of logic? Faith is faith. You either believe or you don't. Why couldn't he at least be honest about it instead of pretending to present a rational argument?
Personally, I don't care. If the US becomes a theocracy, there's plenty of other countries for my investment money to go to, countries that will kick our ass in the global marketplace. I'll hire an evangelical christian to mow my lawn in twenty years and I'll fly to Korea to get rejuved by the godless heathens.
The golden rule: Who has the gold, makes the rules. If the housing market goes south, *somebody* is going to pay, and it ain't gonna be the rich. You're either going to be stuck upside down taking it up the ass or your tax dollars are going to go to bailing the banks out. No way in hell is somebody is going to lend you >100,000 bucks at 5% unless they rig it so there's no way they can lose.
:).
I don't really care, though. I live in Texas. The sooner the housing market crashes, the better as far as I'm concerned. Fuckers on the coasts are deducting all sorts of money off their interest, and I'm tired of subsidizing them. I'm stuck with a $400 a month payment on a 2000 square foot house with a pool and a hot tub. I don't get *anything* for a deduction
Yeah, we didn't need to drop the bomb. We could burn their cities to the ground quite nicely without nukes. And we didn't need to invade. Their food distribution system was completely destroyed, their harvest was about to rot in the fields, and millions were going to starve. There wasn't any need for us to use those horrible, horrible bombs.
The nukes allowed the Japanese to surrender with a "minumum loss of face". They've been playing the victim card ever since. Ask a Chinese, Korean, or a Fillipino how much sympathy they have.
We'd broken their codes. We knew how seriously they were considering surrender. They weren't. Three days after Hiroshima they were still scrambling to get troops and supplies to the south where they expected the invasion to happen.
We were using the bombs as they were built. The third one had just been delivered, and Truman gave the orders to prepare to nuke Tokyo hours before he was told of the surrender.
The Japanese military leaders and the emperor believed they could make war so bloody for the Americans that they'd sue for peace. They only surrendered because they finally realized the US could just keep bombing them until their own people rose up against them. *That* is what broke them. So, yeah, it had *everything* to do with the "opinion" of the average Japanese citizen.
Not just the railheads were destroyed, but the coastal shipping too. And a hundred thousand Japanese starved in the winter of 1945 even with massive food aid from the US. Yeah, Downfall is a good book.
And you don't even want to *think* about what would have happened if the Soviets had been able to have more than a week to advance. If the war had gone on another week, there wouldn't *be* a South Korea.