I count only three non-American Mars landing missions, too: Russian M-71 and M-73, and Europe's Beagle 2 on Mars Express. But perhaps he was referring to the numerous international Mars orbit and flyby missions which have also failed.
You hit the nail on the head: "self-selection." Most people are attracted to working with others of a similar background, even just by the simple expedient of friends helping each other find a job. It's not surprising at all.
Could be worse. My mother doesn't have any real savings to speak of, and still owes a lot on her home. So I get to look forward to taking care of her when she can no longer work.
True, but to really make an investment of undeveloped land, you need to buy it with cash. If you buy it with a loan, you're only making the difference between its appreciation rate and the loan rate, minus the fees, etc associated with the loan.
I would think the obvious recommendation for this person would be a FDIC insured money market account, and if he's got a little extra, perhaps some short term CDs.
That said, most advisors would tell you to pay off your loans first, as that is equivalent to a guaranteed return of wahtever your loan rate is, vice the the certainly paltry return of a money market. HOWEVER, you still want ready savings for emergencies, and an "investment" in paying off your loan cannot be taken back out.
So, I'd figure what you need for an emergency fund, put it in an insured money market, and pay off the loans with the rest.
It's a natural result of economic realities. Because gas and cars are cheap, people can afford to live farther away, shop farther away, etc. (By cars=cheap, I mean, relatively... you can get a decent A-to-B car for $5,000.) If the cost of transportation rose, you could expect people to start living closer to work. Actually, you are already seeing this in many cities... downtown residential areas are re-gentrifying, although this is likely due to the direct transportation cost of time instead of money.
Question? How do your dogs handle the brittle bones?
My mom makes a great carcass stew, too. But she always warned us about giving turkey (or chicken) bones to our cats, because the bones may splinter. I call bullshit on that, cats lick their bones clean, don't chew on them. But dogs... obviously, you've been doing it, though. No problems?
Ditto on getting hooked on Lost. We'll see how it stands up over the whole season. Recognizing that the DVDs are not only much higher quality and include extras, for the same price, I'm telling myself to wait and pick it up in the store. But it's really hard not to download just one more.
As well as immediacy, iTunes also provides a way to get into a series that is currently out but not yet on DVD. Sure, I can just TiVo this week's show off cable. But not the show two weeks ago. I'd have to wait months for the DVD set.
And of course, there are other options, bittorrent, etc. Around the time I started making decent money, I figured I could no longer justify stealing ip. It's one thing if you're a hard-up college student. It's another to be middle-class, fully employed, with no kids. Seperate debate, I know, but suffice it to say that, since I can, I prefer to give my little donation to those people who make things I enjoy.
Jobs is on record as not expecting much from the video download business. He may be proved wrong. Of course, you can't expect much bigger files because of bandwidth limitations.
This is more intersting as an experiment into what may be good a business model once the pipelines get a lot bigger. Perhaps HBO will offer some of its acclaimed series online as well.
A scientist from JPL who halped run the recent rover program commented on Talk of the Nation that there were several things the rovers did which took days to plan and execute that a human could do in minutes. Robots are getting more capable, but they have a long, long way to go before they could replace the abilities of a human in terms of quantity, quality, and versatility of work.
First, you are dead wrong about Cuban missiles only being "another kick" in the fight. See the wikipedia article. Cuba-based missiles allowed a strike with only 20 minutes flight time, and from an area not as well covered by US warning systems. That is a huge advantage, as it could strike not only cities, but bomber and missile launch facilities before all missiles and bombers could be released. The ICBMs of that era, Atlas, had to be rasied from their silos and fueled before launch. The Minuteman missiles were only just being phased in.
Second, the issue at hand is developing the anti-satellite technology, not launching them into space. It would be wise of us to at least be prepared for the inevitable eventuallity of space war, than hope that our adversaries (peaceful as our relations with them now may be) will not do the same. Yes, launching an anti-satellite system would be provocative. Launching an anti-satellite test might be less so. Merely developing the technology, while it may invite some hemming and hawing, is just good sense.
You may have a case about maintaining the moral high ground. How much are we willing to sacrifice principles for pragmatism?
A pragmatic argument could be made that a space-race is not in the immediate future, so development of space-based weapons should take a back-burner compared to say, urban warfare
The key to your statement is, they were illegally fishing. That is why Canada was able to seize them. The US does the same thing to Russian (and other nations') fishing vessels off Alaska. (There, of course, the EEZ does not go out to 200 nm near the Bearing Strait, but is established by treaty.) This does not always happen peacefully. A buddy of mine was on watch of a Coast Guard cutter during a standoff between the cutter and several Russian fishing vessels. (I've long forgotten the details or conclusion to the story, sorry.)
I don't doubt it. My point is that because it would consitute an act of war, it's not likely it would be done lightly as you suggest.
You seem to be drawing a parallel between placing nukes close to another's shore, and placing an anti-satellite in space, but then, in your own words, it would be the shooting down of the satellite, not the presence of an anti-satellite that would be the casus belli.
If that's true, then we have nothing to fear by prepositioning them in space. It may anger some nations, but would not be an act of war.
Where do you get your information?
Three miles is the limit of a state's control. 12 nm is the limit of any nations control, by UN treaty, and 200 miles is the Exclusive Economic Zone (over which a nation can limit economic activity, but not passage). These are recognized zones for ALL nations. Read wikipedia here and here.
Try to inform yourself first next time.
Yes, and a perfectly legitimate one at that. Kind of why the Germans started sinking our ships in WWI and WWII.
Of course, doing so would balanced by the poltical ramifications of taking such an act on the EU, so I wouldn't assume we'd go knocking out their satllites without a lot of deliberation and blustering first.
While the option of reusable first stages already exists in the form of the SRBs, and powering options such as jets or ramjets could be examined, I fail to see the need for it being manned. Manning an aircraft adds enourmous weight and complexity. Since the first stage would only fly one profile, it does not need the flexibility or adaptability of a human pilot, and with advances in UAV technology, could more efficiently be remote or computer controlled. What needs to be examined are recovery options other than parachuting to a splash-down. The addition of wings, undercarriage, and an airframe capable of vertical and lateral loading may eliminate the benefit of a winged recovery. Perhaps the roton design would work well as a first stage recovery.
Yeah, bet they said the same thing about SCUBA. Everything has lots of failure modes, and that's why engineers either over-design, add safeties or provide back-ups. In this case, a small bottle of spare-air, like divers already routinely carry, would provide back-up for ascent. No "fool" is going to be "relying on this gear" soley until its been well-engineered. For crying out loud, it's not even a prototype yet! Give it a decade or so before being so pesimistic.
Patches come out for OS X on a regular basis, too, and OS X incorporates a firewall. I'm not familiar with it, but since it's a mac, I assume it's a little easier to manage.
As for viruses, well, macs can get them, but it's so rare that most don't bother with an anti-virus program. That's not to say they shouldn't. Ditto for spyware.
As for problems, its anecdotal, but back in college we were all issues mac laptops. I loved mine, it ran great, I miss it. My classmates, however, managed to install enough extensions and other BS that they were always coming to me to help figure out why the damn thing crashed or ran like a pig. Lesson: stupid users can crash or cludge any platform.
Wish I could say I was familiar with OS X, but I can only afford one machine, and I use it primarily for gaming... one of these days....
I agree with you on your latter point... my first reaction to this, before thinking it through, was that "journalists" should not be limited ot traditional media... in fact, any person should have the same rights as a journalist... what makes them so special?
That said, would you place any limits on what jouralists are able to withhold?
Using a progressive argument:
If a person has knowledge that someone (a third party) was witness to a murder, should it be possible to subpoena them for the name of the witness?
What if the person with the knowledge is a "journalist," in a traditional or non-traditional sense?
What if the journalist actually spoke with someone who confessed to the murder, should it be possible to subpoena their name?
Unfortunately, I am not a laywer, so I don't know what the legal limits on subpoena are. My point is that there might be limits withholding information.
The web sites aren't being sued, and didn't break the law. They're being subpoenaed for the names of the employees who leaked the information. Same as you could be subpoenaed if you had information about a crime.
Due care? You mean, say, asking their employees to sign a non-disclosure agreement and not release information about upcoming releases until they have been officially debuted? Possibly making that a legal document so that it has the weight of civil law?
Tell that to Johnson. Seems he thought his chances were so slim he didn't even bother.
Being a war-time president is no guarantee, esp. in a war such as this which does not enjoy the support of an overwhelming majority of the people.
People "feel like not to going to work" all the time, (esp. on Mondays and Fridays). Given a building with several thousand employees, I'm sure at least a few act on this feeling every day, and think nothing of it.
That on this one day the few people who acted on this emotion had it validated by a tragic event does not prove or even suppose the existence of a clairvoyant sense, unless you can show that more people chose not to go into work on 9/11 than usually do any other day of the year.
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I count only three non-American Mars landing missions, too: Russian M-71 and M-73, and Europe's Beagle 2 on Mars Express. But perhaps he was referring to the numerous international Mars orbit and flyby missions which have also failed.
See Astronautix.com for details.
You hit the nail on the head: "self-selection." Most people are attracted to working with others of a similar background, even just by the simple expedient of friends helping each other find a job. It's not surprising at all.
You must be looking in the wrong places, friend. I recently looked into buying some CDs, and the minimum was only $1000.
Could be worse. My mother doesn't have any real savings to speak of, and still owes a lot on her home. So I get to look forward to taking care of her when she can no longer work.
True, but to really make an investment of undeveloped land, you need to buy it with cash. If you buy it with a loan, you're only making the difference between its appreciation rate and the loan rate, minus the fees, etc associated with the loan.
I would think the obvious recommendation for this person would be a FDIC insured money market account, and if he's got a little extra, perhaps some short term CDs.
That said, most advisors would tell you to pay off your loans first, as that is equivalent to a guaranteed return of wahtever your loan rate is, vice the the certainly paltry return of a money market. HOWEVER, you still want ready savings for emergencies, and an "investment" in paying off your loan cannot be taken back out.
So, I'd figure what you need for an emergency fund, put it in an insured money market, and pay off the loans with the rest.
It's a natural result of economic realities. Because gas and cars are cheap, people can afford to live farther away, shop farther away, etc. (By cars=cheap, I mean, relatively... you can get a decent A-to-B car for $5,000.) If the cost of transportation rose, you could expect people to start living closer to work. Actually, you are already seeing this in many cities... downtown residential areas are re-gentrifying, although this is likely due to the direct transportation cost of time instead of money.
Question? How do your dogs handle the brittle bones?
My mom makes a great carcass stew, too. But she always warned us about giving turkey (or chicken) bones to our cats, because the bones may splinter. I call bullshit on that, cats lick their bones clean, don't chew on them. But dogs... obviously, you've been doing it, though. No problems?
Ditto on getting hooked on Lost. We'll see how it stands up over the whole season. Recognizing that the DVDs are not only much higher quality and include extras, for the same price, I'm telling myself to wait and pick it up in the store. But it's really hard not to download just one more.
As well as immediacy, iTunes also provides a way to get into a series that is currently out but not yet on DVD. Sure, I can just TiVo this week's show off cable. But not the show two weeks ago. I'd have to wait months for the DVD set.
And of course, there are other options, bittorrent, etc. Around the time I started making decent money, I figured I could no longer justify stealing ip. It's one thing if you're a hard-up college student. It's another to be middle-class, fully employed, with no kids. Seperate debate, I know, but suffice it to say that, since I can, I prefer to give my little donation to those people who make things I enjoy.
Jobs is on record as not expecting much from the video download business. He may be proved wrong. Of course, you can't expect much bigger files because of bandwidth limitations.
This is more intersting as an experiment into what may be good a business model once the pipelines get a lot bigger. Perhaps HBO will offer some of its acclaimed series online as well.
A scientist from JPL who halped run the recent rover program commented on Talk of the Nation that there were several things the rovers did which took days to plan and execute that a human could do in minutes. Robots are getting more capable, but they have a long, long way to go before they could replace the abilities of a human in terms of quantity, quality, and versatility of work.
First, you are dead wrong about Cuban missiles only being "another kick" in the fight. See the wikipedia article. Cuba-based missiles allowed a strike with only 20 minutes flight time, and from an area not as well covered by US warning systems. That is a huge advantage, as it could strike not only cities, but bomber and missile launch facilities before all missiles and bombers could be released. The ICBMs of that era, Atlas, had to be rasied from their silos and fueled before launch. The Minuteman missiles were only just being phased in.
Second, the issue at hand is developing the anti-satellite technology, not launching them into space. It would be wise of us to at least be prepared for the inevitable eventuallity of space war, than hope that our adversaries (peaceful as our relations with them now may be) will not do the same. Yes, launching an anti-satellite system would be provocative. Launching an anti-satellite test might be less so. Merely developing the technology, while it may invite some hemming and hawing, is just good sense.
You may have a case about maintaining the moral high ground. How much are we willing to sacrifice principles for pragmatism?
A pragmatic argument could be made that a space-race is not in the immediate future, so development of space-based weapons should take a back-burner compared to say, urban warfare
The key to your statement is, they were illegally fishing. That is why Canada was able to seize them. The US does the same thing to Russian (and other nations') fishing vessels off Alaska. (There, of course, the EEZ does not go out to 200 nm near the Bearing Strait, but is established by treaty.) This does not always happen peacefully. A buddy of mine was on watch of a Coast Guard cutter during a standoff between the cutter and several Russian fishing vessels. (I've long forgotten the details or conclusion to the story, sorry.)
I don't doubt it. My point is that because it would consitute an act of war, it's not likely it would be done lightly as you suggest.
You seem to be drawing a parallel between placing nukes close to another's shore, and placing an anti-satellite in space, but then, in your own words, it would be the shooting down of the satellite, not the presence of an anti-satellite that would be the casus belli.
If that's true, then we have nothing to fear by prepositioning them in space. It may anger some nations, but would not be an act of war.
Where do you get your information? Three miles is the limit of a state's control. 12 nm is the limit of any nations control, by UN treaty, and 200 miles is the Exclusive Economic Zone (over which a nation can limit economic activity, but not passage). These are recognized zones for ALL nations. Read wikipedia here and here. Try to inform yourself first next time.
And really, who would know? Not like shooting down a plane or sinking a ship. There are no witnesses save those in the business.
Yes, and a perfectly legitimate one at that. Kind of why the Germans started sinking our ships in WWI and WWII.
Of course, doing so would balanced by the poltical ramifications of taking such an act on the EU, so I wouldn't assume we'd go knocking out their satllites without a lot of deliberation and blustering first.
While the option of reusable first stages already exists in the form of the SRBs, and powering options such as jets or ramjets could be examined, I fail to see the need for it being manned. Manning an aircraft adds enourmous weight and complexity. Since the first stage would only fly one profile, it does not need the flexibility or adaptability of a human pilot, and with advances in UAV technology, could more efficiently be remote or computer controlled. What needs to be examined are recovery options other than parachuting to a splash-down. The addition of wings, undercarriage, and an airframe capable of vertical and lateral loading may eliminate the benefit of a winged recovery. Perhaps the roton design would work well as a first stage recovery.
Yeah, bet they said the same thing about SCUBA. Everything has lots of failure modes, and that's why engineers either over-design, add safeties or provide back-ups. In this case, a small bottle of spare-air, like divers already routinely carry, would provide back-up for ascent. No "fool" is going to be "relying on this gear" soley until its been well-engineered. For crying out loud, it's not even a prototype yet! Give it a decade or so before being so pesimistic.
Patches come out for OS X on a regular basis, too, and OS X incorporates a firewall. I'm not familiar with it, but since it's a mac, I assume it's a little easier to manage.
As for viruses, well, macs can get them, but it's so rare that most don't bother with an anti-virus program. That's not to say they shouldn't. Ditto for spyware.
As for problems, its anecdotal, but back in college we were all issues mac laptops. I loved mine, it ran great, I miss it. My classmates, however, managed to install enough extensions and other BS that they were always coming to me to help figure out why the damn thing crashed or ran like a pig. Lesson: stupid users can crash or cludge any platform.
Wish I could say I was familiar with OS X, but I can only afford one machine, and I use it primarily for gaming... one of these days....
All the best English slang comes from black people and Brits... the rest of us just take the hand-me-downs when they're done using them.
I agree with you on your latter point... my first reaction to this, before thinking it through, was that "journalists" should not be limited ot traditional media... in fact, any person should have the same rights as a journalist... what makes them so special? That said, would you place any limits on what jouralists are able to withhold? Using a progressive argument: If a person has knowledge that someone (a third party) was witness to a murder, should it be possible to subpoena them for the name of the witness? What if the person with the knowledge is a "journalist," in a traditional or non-traditional sense? What if the journalist actually spoke with someone who confessed to the murder, should it be possible to subpoena their name? Unfortunately, I am not a laywer, so I don't know what the legal limits on subpoena are. My point is that there might be limits withholding information.
The web sites aren't being sued, and didn't break the law. They're being subpoenaed for the names of the employees who leaked the information. Same as you could be subpoenaed if you had information about a crime.
Due care? You mean, say, asking their employees to sign a non-disclosure agreement and not release information about upcoming releases until they have been officially debuted? Possibly making that a legal document so that it has the weight of civil law?
Due care indeed. That requires enforcement.
I'm pretty sure he's referring to the new Pirates!
Tell that to Johnson. Seems he thought his chances were so slim he didn't even bother. Being a war-time president is no guarantee, esp. in a war such as this which does not enjoy the support of an overwhelming majority of the people.
People "feel like not to going to work" all the time, (esp. on Mondays and Fridays). Given a building with several thousand employees, I'm sure at least a few act on this feeling every day, and think nothing of it.
That on this one day the few people who acted on this emotion had it validated by a tragic event does not prove or even suppose the existence of a clairvoyant sense, unless you can show that more people chose not to go into work on 9/11 than usually do any other day of the year.