Please give me one example of an attempt to create a communist state that didn't end up as a totalitarian dictatorship.
It's all checks and balances, man. Not only between branches of govt, but between govt and the people. In communism, there is no checks and balances. The state owns everything, the printing presses *and* the guns. How could it *not* become a totalitarian dictatorship?
For a communist govt to work, it would require that people have hearts of gold. What a load of crap. Democracy and capitalism work well because people are selfish bastards.
When I was interviewing out of college (1984), I interviewed with Sperry Flight Systems; they were starting a project where they were putting fly-by-wire capability on the Harrier for its vertical landing.
When a Harrier lands, if it's not level (one wing elevated higher than the other), the downwash will go down and reflect back up at an angle, hitting the elevated wing with more force than the lower wing, causing a positive feedback loop that can flip the plane over. The system they were working on would prevent this, at the time it was entirely manual. You'd think it'd be a bitch trying to land if that were the case, especially over uneven ground.
It would be interesting to see how many Harriers have this capability now, and when they got it, and see what kind of effect it has on their crash rate.
Well, with toll tags, it'd be pretty to have nothing but toll roads. I use toll tags on the toll roads around Dallas and you don't even need to slow down. A lot of the tolls are cheaper with the toll tag; it saves them money when you use them.
With nothing but toll roads, you could eventually buy cars with navigation systems that tell you the cheapest way to get to where you want to go.
Of course, it'd probably get horribly fscked up just like electricity deregulation.
Your "free market" leaders are rebuilding 300,000 dollar bridges for 50 million dollars because the people implementing the collective will of the people are corrupt, incompetent dolts.
Companies exist to make money. Govt exists to preserve the general welfare of the people. Who exactly isn't doing their job here?
With Columbia, they wouldn't have had to worry about foam falling from the external tank if the external tank were beneath them.
With Challenger, having the orbiter on top wouldn't have saved them. The SRBs would have almost certainly destroyed the orbiter, since they couldn't be shut off. They'd have been able to survive if there were no SRBs.
If it was an Apollo style capsule, it would have a parachute in it anyway for re-entry.
The Apollos were highly survivable. With the escape tower and no SRBs, there wasn't any point in the launch they couldn't have the capsule seperated and moving away from any booster explosion.
One of the phone companies needs to come up with a service where if you get an unwanted call, you can press *38 (star-F-U) and the caller gets billed a dollar. They'd make a fortune.
The jobs are going there anyway. This way, though, I can waste their time and rack up their phone bill by describing in great detail the tasty hamburger I'm currently eating. With *two* all-beef patties.
Well, the main difference is the NHL is funded with private money, paid by both Canadians and Americans, while the Do Not Call registry's paid for by American taxpayers.
Feel free to apply to be states 51 thru 61, though (we don't want Quebec).
Or maybe he thinks that they should have done what the Soviets did with Buran; make it capable of flying unmanned. The first test flight of the shuttle was manned. You don't think *that* was dangerous?
And don't even get me started on using SRBs on a manned craft. Nobody's been stupid enough to do that except NASA.
The real advances in aerospace have come from programs that did build and test, build and test.
Hope they're careful with their pet armadillo; they're one of the few species in the world other than humans that carry leprosy, and I've read that about half of all armadillos have the disease. Texas has one of the higher leprosy rates in the US, and quite a bit of it is due to people messing around with armadillos.
OTOH, of the dozen or so people who download from her, most will share with others, and so on, and so on. Whoever first puts a pre-release copy of a new CD on Kazaa will disseminate plenty of copies of their rip, even if only a handful of people actually get it from his machine.
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The money is inflation adjusted, chief.
Obviously you don't know many poor people. They'll pay $70 a month for cable and $0 for health insurance.
Please give me one example of an attempt to create a communist state that didn't end up as a totalitarian dictatorship.
It's all checks and balances, man. Not only between branches of govt, but between govt and the people. In communism, there is no checks and balances. The state owns everything, the printing presses *and* the guns. How could it *not* become a totalitarian dictatorship?
For a communist govt to work, it would require that people have hearts of gold. What a load of crap. Democracy and capitalism work well because people are selfish bastards.
Stalin and Lenin had a good name for the intelligentsia who helped lead the revolution.
"Useful fools".
It's about the only concept they got right.
So, in addition to the income tax refund I'm going to get, I get a SS refund too? Sweet. Well, it would be, if it were true.
Personally, I think that if they're going to cut taxes, they should just raise the standard exemption.
Wasn't Apollo 1 only named after (and because of) the accident?
When I was interviewing out of college (1984), I interviewed with Sperry Flight Systems; they were starting a project where they were putting fly-by-wire capability on the Harrier for its vertical landing.
When a Harrier lands, if it's not level (one wing elevated higher than the other), the downwash will go down and reflect back up at an angle, hitting the elevated wing with more force than the lower wing, causing a positive feedback loop that can flip the plane over. The system they were working on would prevent this, at the time it was entirely manual. You'd think it'd be a bitch trying to land if that were the case, especially over uneven ground.
It would be interesting to see how many Harriers have this capability now, and when they got it, and see what kind of effect it has on their crash rate.
With current launch costs and technologies, you're right. Eventually, though, it'll be economical.
Sorry, didn't mean "it'd be pretty to have nothing but toll roads", meant "it'd be pretty easy to have nothing but toll roads".
Well, with toll tags, it'd be pretty to have nothing but toll roads. I use toll tags on the toll roads around Dallas and you don't even need to slow down. A lot of the tolls are cheaper with the toll tag; it saves them money when you use them.
With nothing but toll roads, you could eventually buy cars with navigation systems that tell you the cheapest way to get to where you want to go.
Of course, it'd probably get horribly fscked up just like electricity deregulation.
Your "free market" leaders are rebuilding 300,000 dollar bridges for 50 million dollars because the people implementing the collective will of the people are corrupt, incompetent dolts.
Companies exist to make money. Govt exists to preserve the general welfare of the people. Who exactly isn't doing their job here?
With Columbia, they wouldn't have had to worry about foam falling from the external tank if the external tank were beneath them.
With Challenger, having the orbiter on top wouldn't have saved them. The SRBs would have almost certainly destroyed the orbiter, since they couldn't be shut off. They'd have been able to survive if there were no SRBs.
If it was an Apollo style capsule, it would have a parachute in it anyway for re-entry.
The Apollos were highly survivable. With the escape tower and no SRBs, there wasn't any point in the launch they couldn't have the capsule seperated and moving away from any booster explosion.
It's a lot easier than having people hiking around east Texas picking them up.
You know, if you take your sarcasm detector into the shop, they might be able to fix it.
Well, when the last three blow up the American manned space program will stop anyway.
A Saturn V could put 120 tons into LEO. That's as much as a year's worth of shuttle launches. They'd be cheaper *and* safer.
Of course, this would require NASA and Congress not turning the shuttle replacement into pork for the aerospace companies, so it ain't gonna happen.
Yeah, well, that part's been superseded by the "render unto Ceaser" bit. Deal with it.
One of the phone companies needs to come up with a service where if you get an unwanted call, you can press *38 (star-F-U) and the caller gets billed a dollar. They'd make a fortune.
The jobs are going there anyway. This way, though, I can waste their time and rack up their phone bill by describing in great detail the tasty hamburger I'm currently eating. With *two* all-beef patties.
Wire the doorbell up to 115 VAC. Tell your friends and relatives to knock (or don't, Pavlov's theory works on them).
Well, the main difference is the NHL is funded with private money, paid by both Canadians and Americans, while the Do Not Call registry's paid for by American taxpayers.
Feel free to apply to be states 51 thru 61, though (we don't want Quebec).
Or maybe he thinks that they should have done what the Soviets did with Buran; make it capable of flying unmanned. The first test flight of the shuttle was manned. You don't think *that* was dangerous?
And don't even get me started on using SRBs on a manned craft. Nobody's been stupid enough to do that except NASA.
The real advances in aerospace have come from programs that did build and test, build and test.
Maybe if you're going to Mars or into a specific orbit. For a suborbital hop they'll be ready to launch when, uh, they're ready to launch.
Hope they're careful with their pet armadillo; they're one of the few species in the world other than humans that carry leprosy, and I've read that about half of all armadillos have the disease. Texas has one of the higher leprosy rates in the US, and quite a bit of it is due to people messing around with armadillos.
And by letting him live, he could have drastically increased the possibility of McVeigh killing an imprisoned pedophile priest.
OTOH, of the dozen or so people who download from her, most will share with others, and so on, and so on. Whoever first puts a pre-release copy of a new CD on Kazaa will disseminate plenty of copies of their rip, even if only a handful of people actually get it from his machine.