Ship do not dodge that easily so missiles lack of easy turning is fine.
You'd be surprised at how well a ship can dodge if the conditions are right. I remember a case during one of the carrier battles of WW II (Not sure which one, but it may be the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.) where an American carrier was being attacked by a number of Betty bombers (much faster than it was) with torpedoes, and it managed to dodge all of them. It took a lot of luck and skill, but it can be done.
private facilities provide you with far better care than what you currently receive
Ha, ha, it is to laugh. The VA, as a whole, provides excellent care with a reasonable copay, and for people like me who are on a limited income (I'm retired; my main income is Social Security.) there is no copay. And, how many private systems would give me access to a GP, an audiologist (My hearing issues are service-connected, BTW.) an ophthalmologist, a hematologist, a neurologist and an endocrinologist all in-house, without unreasonable waits, either for appointments or to see any of the various specialists? (Yes, I actually do need that many specialists to monitor my various conditions.) The horror stories you read about bad conditions at a small number of VA hospitals make the news because, and only because they're so rare.
or actually deciding that it was a good idea, if you're idea of a good time is to have the government see ALL of your medical issues on one screen.
I get all of my medical care done at the VA. Last year, I needed to visit a neurologist. When I did, there was no need for me to fill out a ream of forms including my medical history and a list of medications I'm taking because all of their records are already computerized. As part of my treatment, I received yet another prescription and the doctor told me that before she'd decided which of several possibilities to select, she'd checked to see what I was already taking to make sure there weren't any interactions to be concerned about. Yes, I do think it's a good idea for the government to be able to see all of your medical issues on one screen, at least if you're going to a government-run facility for your care, as I am. YMMV, and probably does.
I can just see an obese person chowing down on fish and chips, looking at a text message about eating more vegetables and commenting, "Potatoes are vegetables, aren't they?"
Years ago I worked at a job where my workspace was two flights up. Unlike most of my co-workers (who were mostly half my age, at best) I parked well out in the lot and always used the stairs, not the elevator. I knew that I wasn't getting as much exercise as I should, so this was my way of getting a little more, twice every work day.
If it is going to be required that owners of private property charge the same price to all-comers, then it is going to be more difficult for small businesses to compete with large businesses, no?
No. You have it backwards. Right now, there's nothing to stop an ISP from making a deal with a company with a big web presence to give them a "volume discount" on bandwidth, so that they pay less per megabyte than other customers. New businesses won't have either the clout or the funding to buy enough bandwidth to qualify for the discount so they'll end up paying more per unit than the established firm, making it harder to compete. Net Neutrality would, if I understand things correctly, prevent such arrangements, making it easier for smaller, newer businesses to carve out their own niche and become profitable.
What I really dislike about Gnome3 is the fact that the devs clearly don't care what mere users think or want. If none of the devs are using a feature (e.g., a screensaver that does more than blank the screen and lock it) they remove it, even if a large percentage of the people using Gnome like it. From what I've been able to gather (I migrated from Gnome to Xfce when I read the descriptions of what Gnome3 was going to be like.) their attitude is, "If you're not contributing code your opinions aren't worth listening to."
Especially when you consider that most of your neighbors (if not all) belong to a religion that forbids them from making peace with anybody who doesn't share their religion. At best, you can get a long-term truce, but never peace. Who knows? Maybe flying to the Moon will help persuade the more reasonable factions in the Middle East that a very, very long-term truce with Israel is a Good Idea.
After a year or two with ribbons Word users would feel sufficiently unfamiliar with Writer to make the retraining not worth the time.
If you have an office full of people who used MS Word before ribbons were introduced, they should already know how OO Writer works. Retraining shouldn't take more than telling them, "You know how Word used to work? Well, that's how Writer works; just go back to doing things the way you used to." Your trainers won't like it, because that takes money away from them, but really, that's all that the average user needs to know.
There's quite a bit of information out there. If you're interested, Wikipedia has fine articles on both, and I'm sure that a little googlemancy will give you more sources than you need. Also, if you look around, you'll find a large number of books, including history books, that cover the two periods, including at least some mention of the climate. One important thing to read up on is the Norse colony on Greenland, because without the Medieval Warm it probably would have been impossible, and the last colonists were frozen out either at the beginning of the Little Ice Age, or shortly before, depending on who's opinion of when it started you're using.
If you think you know so much about the issue, then why do you pick and choose your sources of information?
Of course, that's nothing more than a straw-man argument, and can be ignored. I do my best to stay informed on the subject, but I don't like (among other things) the way that the AGW people have done everything they possibly could to deny that the Medieval Warm or the Little Ice Age happened or that they were anything except "local phenomena." I also have a friend who requested the raw data from the CRU back when Climategate was raging and had his request refused because "he didn't know enough about statistics to understand it." What they didn't know, and my friend was too much of a gentleman (and probably too disgusted) to mention was that he has, among other things, a Masters degree in Statistical Inference, and probably knew more about statistics than whoever refused his request. There's been too much cherry-picking, too much using peer review to suppress contrarian papers and too much playing around with funding to make sure that nobody who doesn't agree with AGW can get the money they need for me to believe that there isn't something funny going on. However, if you think it's been proven, go right ahead and don't let my viewpoint stop you.
consider CO2 and the acidifying oceans because of it.
Indeed. And, as I've written here before, you don't have to buy into AGW, or whatever they're calling it today, to think that pouring endless amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere to see what happens is a bad idea. I grew up in Los Angeles, and I can remember what the air there was like before we started putting in all of the pollution controls. I'd like to see some of the other developed/developing nations start doing something about their air quality (Mexico City and Beijing are good examples here.) because in the long run, I think it's in their own best interests, and I'd like to see the US start building nuclear power plants again so that we can stop being so dependent on fossil fuels.
Which valley? There's more than one, you know, and which one is simply called "the Valley" depends on where you are. Out here, The Valley generally refers to the San Fernando Valley.
Scientific concern about climate change isn't, of course, a religion. However, there are an awful lot of True Believers who act as though it were. And no, I'm not a member of the Heartland Institute, I'm just a skeptic who accepts the fact that the climate is changing (It's always changing, sometimes getting warmer, sometimes cooler.) but doubts that the main driving force at the presence is anthropogenic because I don't, personally, find the evidence sufficiently persuasive and prefer to think for myself.
JP-4 was probably even more effective, but they don't like having that around on aircraft carriers.
Understandable. However, I didn't serve on a bird-farm, I was on a tin can. The USS Ouellet, to be exact, known as a destroyer escort when I served, later "re-labeled" as a fast frigate.
There's another reason that hot-weather peaks max out when they do: Normally, the temperature reaches its daily max somewhere around 3 PM, several hours after solar noon.
Back when I was in the Navy in '72, we often used small quantities of jet fuel, known as "JP5," as a paint thinner. (I'm talking about 1 cup or less, mostly used to clean brushes.) I was told at the time that it was basically kerosene. Now, however, I'm wondering if it had some special additives to help it work jet engines, especially in the jet turbines that helicopters use.
One of the biggest problems with understanding the Bible is the fact that most people who read it in English use the King James Version. Now, there are good reasons for that, mostly because it's a very poetic, beautiful version. However, the English language has changed since it was written and most biblical literalists don't take that into account. As an example, many pacifists base their beliefs on the Sixth Commandment: "Thou shall not kill." However, if you look, you'll see that David didn't kill Goliath, he slew him. That's because back in the time of King James, the word "kill" was used where we now would use "murder," making a more accurate (by today's standards) translation be "Thou shall not murder." This is one reason why there have been many translations across the centuries: as the meanings of the words change, we need new versions that reflect those changes if we're going to be able to understand things correctly.
Two words: "camo sludge." I was on a dungeon crawl once, running a rather eccentric female cleric named Simple Aimee McPherson, who was chaotic neutral and buy-sexual. (If it was sexual, she'd buy it.) At one point, in a cave, we ran across some brown mold. Nobody was sure how to deal with it, but we knew it fed on heat. Then, Aimee had a "bright" idea: she pulled out a vial of green slime that she just happened to have and poured it on the mold. This sent the DM into a trance for about a minute as he worked out what would happen. (Kids, don't try this one at home!) The slime started to eat the mold, generating heat, which caused the mold to grow making more food for the slime. It was touch and go, and we ended up having a Rod of Lordly Might fall into the goop, ruining it, but we eventually managed to get out of their alive. We had enough sense left to go back to town and report on what we'd done before there was enough gunk to get out of the cave and start digesting the whole world. The town's elders finally used a wish to make sure that the people they sent to deal with the situation would have enough of the right equipment to do the job properly.
I got into a game one night with a DM who told us that "things don't always work the way you expect." It took me less than twenty minutes to learn that this meant that anything you tried to do other than what she expected Just Didn't Work, and we weren't going to be allowed to do anything that wasn't in her script. At that point, I closed my books and left, telling the DM exactly why I was leaving. The weird thing is that nobody else followed my example, because most of us were pretty free-wheeling and liked to think outside the box whenever we could.
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Ship do not dodge that easily so missiles lack of easy turning is fine.
You'd be surprised at how well a ship can dodge if the conditions are right. I remember a case during one of the carrier battles of WW II (Not sure which one, but it may be the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.) where an American carrier was being attacked by a number of Betty bombers (much faster than it was) with torpedoes, and it managed to dodge all of them. It took a lot of luck and skill, but it can be done.
private facilities provide you with far better care than what you currently receive
Ha, ha, it is to laugh. The VA, as a whole, provides excellent care with a reasonable copay, and for people like me who are on a limited income (I'm retired; my main income is Social Security.) there is no copay. And, how many private systems would give me access to a GP, an audiologist (My hearing issues are service-connected, BTW.) an ophthalmologist, a hematologist, a neurologist and an endocrinologist all in-house, without unreasonable waits, either for appointments or to see any of the various specialists? (Yes, I actually do need that many specialists to monitor my various conditions.) The horror stories you read about bad conditions at a small number of VA hospitals make the news because, and only because they're so rare.
or actually deciding that it was a good idea, if you're idea of a good time is to have the government see ALL of your medical issues on one screen.
I get all of my medical care done at the VA. Last year, I needed to visit a neurologist. When I did, there was no need for me to fill out a ream of forms including my medical history and a list of medications I'm taking because all of their records are already computerized. As part of my treatment, I received yet another prescription and the doctor told me that before she'd decided which of several possibilities to select, she'd checked to see what I was already taking to make sure there weren't any interactions to be concerned about. Yes, I do think it's a good idea for the government to be able to see all of your medical issues on one screen, at least if you're going to a government-run facility for your care, as I am. YMMV, and probably does.
I can just see an obese person chowing down on fish and chips, looking at a text message about eating more vegetables and commenting, "Potatoes are vegetables, aren't they?"
Years ago I worked at a job where my workspace was two flights up. Unlike most of my co-workers (who were mostly half my age, at best) I parked well out in the lot and always used the stairs, not the elevator. I knew that I wasn't getting as much exercise as I should, so this was my way of getting a little more, twice every work day.
If it is going to be required that owners of private property charge the same price to all-comers, then it is going to be more difficult for small businesses to compete with large businesses, no?
No. You have it backwards. Right now, there's nothing to stop an ISP from making a deal with a company with a big web presence to give them a "volume discount" on bandwidth, so that they pay less per megabyte than other customers. New businesses won't have either the clout or the funding to buy enough bandwidth to qualify for the discount so they'll end up paying more per unit than the established firm, making it harder to compete. Net Neutrality would, if I understand things correctly, prevent such arrangements, making it easier for smaller, newer businesses to carve out their own niche and become profitable.
And, in the song as written, it's "You're a pal and a confidant." In this context, the word "cosmonaut" makes absolutely no sense.
What I really dislike about Gnome3 is the fact that the devs clearly don't care what mere users think or want. If none of the devs are using a feature (e.g., a screensaver that does more than blank the screen and lock it) they remove it, even if a large percentage of the people using Gnome like it. From what I've been able to gather (I migrated from Gnome to Xfce when I read the descriptions of what Gnome3 was going to be like.) their attitude is, "If you're not contributing code your opinions aren't worth listening to."
Especially when you consider that most of your neighbors (if not all) belong to a religion that forbids them from making peace with anybody who doesn't share their religion. At best, you can get a long-term truce, but never peace. Who knows? Maybe flying to the Moon will help persuade the more reasonable factions in the Middle East that a very, very long-term truce with Israel is a Good Idea.
Not quite. As I've pointed out before, Southern California really does have four seasons: fire, flood, earthquake and riot.
After a year or two with ribbons Word users would feel sufficiently unfamiliar with Writer to make the retraining not worth the time.
If you have an office full of people who used MS Word before ribbons were introduced, they should already know how OO Writer works. Retraining shouldn't take more than telling them, "You know how Word used to work? Well, that's how Writer works; just go back to doing things the way you used to." Your trainers won't like it, because that takes money away from them, but really, that's all that the average user needs to know.
How can it possibly be weasel words to point out that some of the AGW advocates are acting like religious fanatics?
There's quite a bit of information out there. If you're interested, Wikipedia has fine articles on both, and I'm sure that a little googlemancy will give you more sources than you need. Also, if you look around, you'll find a large number of books, including history books, that cover the two periods, including at least some mention of the climate. One important thing to read up on is the Norse colony on Greenland, because without the Medieval Warm it probably would have been impossible, and the last colonists were frozen out either at the beginning of the Little Ice Age, or shortly before, depending on who's opinion of when it started you're using.
If you think you know so much about the issue, then why do you pick and choose your sources of information?
Of course, that's nothing more than a straw-man argument, and can be ignored. I do my best to stay informed on the subject, but I don't like (among other things) the way that the AGW people have done everything they possibly could to deny that the Medieval Warm or the Little Ice Age happened or that they were anything except "local phenomena." I also have a friend who requested the raw data from the CRU back when Climategate was raging and had his request refused because "he didn't know enough about statistics to understand it." What they didn't know, and my friend was too much of a gentleman (and probably too disgusted) to mention was that he has, among other things, a Masters degree in Statistical Inference, and probably knew more about statistics than whoever refused his request. There's been too much cherry-picking, too much using peer review to suppress contrarian papers and too much playing around with funding to make sure that nobody who doesn't agree with AGW can get the money they need for me to believe that there isn't something funny going on. However, if you think it's been proven, go right ahead and don't let my viewpoint stop you.
consider CO2 and the acidifying oceans because of it.
Indeed. And, as I've written here before, you don't have to buy into AGW, or whatever they're calling it today, to think that pouring endless amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere to see what happens is a bad idea. I grew up in Los Angeles, and I can remember what the air there was like before we started putting in all of the pollution controls. I'd like to see some of the other developed/developing nations start doing something about their air quality (Mexico City and Beijing are good examples here.) because in the long run, I think it's in their own best interests, and I'd like to see the US start building nuclear power plants again so that we can stop being so dependent on fossil fuels.
I've lived in both the Valley and Kentucky.
Which valley? There's more than one, you know, and which one is simply called "the Valley" depends on where you are. Out here, The Valley generally refers to the San Fernando Valley.
Scientific concern about climate change isn't, of course, a religion. However, there are an awful lot of True Believers who act as though it were. And no, I'm not a member of the Heartland Institute, I'm just a skeptic who accepts the fact that the climate is changing (It's always changing, sometimes getting warmer, sometimes cooler.) but doubts that the main driving force at the presence is anthropogenic because I don't, personally, find the evidence sufficiently persuasive and prefer to think for myself.
JP-4 was probably even more effective, but they don't like having that around on aircraft carriers.
Understandable. However, I didn't serve on a bird-farm, I was on a tin can. The USS Ouellet, to be exact, known as a destroyer escort when I served, later "re-labeled" as a fast frigate.
Remember that the USA was the last of the western nations to ban slavery, only finally banning it in 1867
As a matter of fact, no. Slavery in Brazil didn't end until the Lei Ãurea went into effect on May 13, 1888.
There's another reason that hot-weather peaks max out when they do: Normally, the temperature reaches its daily max somewhere around 3 PM, several hours after solar noon.
Back when I was in the Navy in '72, we often used small quantities of jet fuel, known as "JP5," as a paint thinner. (I'm talking about 1 cup or less, mostly used to clean brushes.) I was told at the time that it was basically kerosene. Now, however, I'm wondering if it had some special additives to help it work jet engines, especially in the jet turbines that helicopters use.
So what exactly is the problem with Kentucky?
That's a good question. After all, not only does the best Bourbon Whiskey come from there, they produce a wonderful jelly.
One of the biggest problems with understanding the Bible is the fact that most people who read it in English use the King James Version. Now, there are good reasons for that, mostly because it's a very poetic, beautiful version. However, the English language has changed since it was written and most biblical literalists don't take that into account. As an example, many pacifists base their beliefs on the Sixth Commandment: "Thou shall not kill." However, if you look, you'll see that David didn't kill Goliath, he slew him. That's because back in the time of King James, the word "kill" was used where we now would use "murder," making a more accurate (by today's standards) translation be "Thou shall not murder." This is one reason why there have been many translations across the centuries: as the meanings of the words change, we need new versions that reflect those changes if we're going to be able to understand things correctly.
Two words: "camo sludge." I was on a dungeon crawl once, running a rather eccentric female cleric named Simple Aimee McPherson, who was chaotic neutral and buy-sexual. (If it was sexual, she'd buy it.) At one point, in a cave, we ran across some brown mold. Nobody was sure how to deal with it, but we knew it fed on heat. Then, Aimee had a "bright" idea: she pulled out a vial of green slime that she just happened to have and poured it on the mold. This sent the DM into a trance for about a minute as he worked out what would happen. (Kids, don't try this one at home!) The slime started to eat the mold, generating heat, which caused the mold to grow making more food for the slime. It was touch and go, and we ended up having a Rod of Lordly Might fall into the goop, ruining it, but we eventually managed to get out of their alive. We had enough sense left to go back to town and report on what we'd done before there was enough gunk to get out of the cave and start digesting the whole world. The town's elders finally used a wish to make sure that the people they sent to deal with the situation would have enough of the right equipment to do the job properly.
I got into a game one night with a DM who told us that "things don't always work the way you expect." It took me less than twenty minutes to learn that this meant that anything you tried to do other than what she expected Just Didn't Work, and we weren't going to be allowed to do anything that wasn't in her script. At that point, I closed my books and left, telling the DM exactly why I was leaving. The weird thing is that nobody else followed my example, because most of us were pretty free-wheeling and liked to think outside the box whenever we could.