Sounds fair. I use PSP for similar reasons. It doesn't have some of the higher end functionality, but I don't really use that anyway. PSP is fine for web work, and the $100 price is fair.
Untrue, sometimes a competitor can learn from it's predecessor's mistakes and improve. That said, the Gimp still isn't up to photoshop's level, but it's good enough for many uses (and I will remain a PaintShop Pro man).
No, I respect ANYONE who has fought unfair treatment. My respect for human rights doesn't diminish because the affected percentage is small, or unlike me.
If there is no difference, then WHY is a distinction made? Marriage in the legal sense is a civil contract, no one is going to force a church to perform unions that it doesn't want to.
"Alternative" is a clever term often used by folks who don't want to sound critical, when in fact they are. Homosexuality appears to be biological. Discrimination on biological grounds is held to be illegal. Pretend that it is a choice (Many folks make this argument). Faith is also a choice, and also an illegal ground for discrimination.
What then is the valid argument? That it offends christian morals? Fine, let the church condem gays, but the State is not allowed to discriminate.
It comes down to a question of being treated as second class citizens. Of course gay folks don't want this. They don't particularly want approval, just acceptance of the right to LIVE AS THEY WILL.
For the record, I'm neither gay nor married. However, I am sick of gay people being bashed for their audacity to love who they will...
And yeah, wildly off topic. Hopefully the country does the right thing on this one, and grow up a bit.
Electrons weigh a zillionth of a bazillionth of an ounce (give or take a zillionth) and you're going to be able to send enough to deflect a killer space rock? Not very likely on kinetic grounds. If this worked, why aren't asteroids blown out of the system by solar flares, coronal mass ejections, etc?
A whole lot of us don't buy into the whole moralistic claptrap around gnu. Is there a lot of good software? Yep. Is it verging on religious fervor and silliness? You're damned skippy.
Depends on what the object's properties are, the local geology, etc. In many cases, most of the energy from an impact will "splash" back upwards, with relatively little lateral damage. An air burst spreads the carnage much more widely.
As an example, many military weapons, including the original 2 atom bombs, detonate shortly before impact.
The current best missle defense, the AirBorne Laser (think 747 with a bad attitude) carries a massive chemical laser that takes a couple of seconds to destroy missles. It's mostly designed for theatre of war (intracontinental) missles, and is still in the testing phases.
How would an electron gun produce any significant kinetic change in the rock? Alternately, you could boil off part of the asteroid and "jet" is to the side, but the energy this would require, if it's only a few days out, would be enormous. you'd need to hit it years out to have any hope of significantly changing it's trajectory.
Even IF we had a point defense mechanism... unless we vaporize the rock, or reduce it to very small (inches) pieces, we'll have just created an intergalactic shotgun...
true. Composition matters a lot too. For a given size, a "stony" or primarily rock asteroid will burn quite a bit more than it's "iron", or mostly metal counterpart.
Also, stony asteroids tend to explode if/when they reach the lower atmosphere. Comets, which are primarily ice and stone, are very unlikely (but not impossible - see tunguska) to survive entry.
Any of these are much stronger than an ICBM, of course.
Most all missle defense proposals depend on punching a hole in an ICBM by heating it. For all their destructive potential, ICBMs are 90% thin skinned gas tank. You could take one out with a grenade, if you could somehow get it there.
The power required to destroy any rock big enough to survive atmospheric entry would be orders of magnitude greater.
I found it funny at the time that the newly rebuilt section was hit. Aside from all the deaths and destruction, you know that somewhere there is a contractor going "Man! I just finished building that! damnit..."
"R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental wellbeing and not being more than say five minutes late. It is therefore clearly an almost infinitely variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed taken as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers and even death.
R17 is not a fixed velocity, but it is clearly far too fast."
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Sounds fair. I use PSP for similar reasons. It doesn't have some of the higher end functionality, but I don't really use that anyway. PSP is fine for web work, and the $100 price is fair.
Untrue, sometimes a competitor can learn from it's predecessor's mistakes and improve. That said, the Gimp still isn't up to photoshop's level, but it's good enough for many uses (and I will remain a PaintShop Pro man).
Redefine, actually. It's because of us "liberal types" that we're not all doing the texan goose step. Balance is important.
Fair enough. Thank you for the information.
Er, yes, actually. Why is that? I'm assuming that it's either a matter of speed or permissions/access needed to do the job.
Enlightenment would be good.
flamebait my ass, it's a valid question. Now, THIS is flamebait, dumbass.
Isn't it a really bad idea to have the primary defense mechanism INTEGRATED WITH THE OPERATING SYSTEM? What the hell?
OK, my knowledge of quantum mechanics can be politely termed "inadequate". Going with the laser analogy... how does this transfer kinetic energy?
No, I respect ANYONE who has fought unfair treatment. My respect for human rights doesn't diminish because the affected percentage is small, or unlike me.
If there is no difference, then WHY is a distinction made? Marriage in the legal sense is a civil contract, no one is going to force a church to perform unions that it doesn't want to.
"Alternative" is a clever term often used by folks who don't want to sound critical, when in fact they are. Homosexuality appears to be biological. Discrimination on biological grounds is held to be illegal. Pretend that it is a choice (Many folks make this argument). Faith is also a choice, and also an illegal ground for discrimination.
What then is the valid argument? That it offends christian morals? Fine, let the church condem gays, but the State is not allowed to discriminate.
It comes down to a question of being treated as second class citizens. Of course gay folks don't want this. They don't particularly want approval, just acceptance of the right to LIVE AS THEY WILL.
For the record, I'm neither gay nor married. However, I am sick of gay people being bashed for their audacity to love who they will...
And yeah, wildly off topic. Hopefully the country does the right thing on this one, and grow up a bit.
Electrons weigh a zillionth of a bazillionth of an ounce (give or take a zillionth) and you're going to be able to send enough to deflect a killer space rock? Not very likely on kinetic grounds. If this worked, why aren't asteroids blown out of the system by solar flares, coronal mass ejections, etc?
Not in general. In this case the fellow is standing up for a widely abused group of people who just want their fair, equal, rights.
Careful on that slippery slope there... you might fall and hurt your argument.
Subtle?
Is that it was a totally original song (from 8-Mile), so there's nothing ironic at all...
Yeah, I think it was only a couple of miles up when it did so. That's what I meant, sorry for the imprecision.
A whole lot of us don't buy into the whole moralistic claptrap around gnu. Is there a lot of good software? Yep. Is it verging on religious fervor and silliness? You're damned skippy.
Thank you for reading at -1 !
Depends on what the object's properties are, the local geology, etc. In many cases, most of the energy from an impact will "splash" back upwards, with relatively little lateral damage. An air burst spreads the carnage much more widely.
As an example, many military weapons, including the original 2 atom bombs, detonate shortly before impact.
The current best missle defense, the AirBorne Laser (think 747 with a bad attitude) carries a massive chemical laser that takes a couple of seconds to destroy missles. It's mostly designed for theatre of war (intracontinental) missles, and is still in the testing phases.
How would an electron gun produce any significant kinetic change in the rock? Alternately, you could boil off part of the asteroid and "jet" is to the side, but the energy this would require, if it's only a few days out, would be enormous. you'd need to hit it years out to have any hope of significantly changing it's trajectory.
Even IF we had a point defense mechanism... unless we vaporize the rock, or reduce it to very small (inches) pieces, we'll have just created an intergalactic shotgun...
true. Composition matters a lot too. For a given size, a "stony" or primarily rock asteroid will burn quite a bit more than it's "iron", or mostly metal counterpart.
Also, stony asteroids tend to explode if/when they reach the lower atmosphere. Comets, which are primarily ice and stone, are very unlikely (but not impossible - see tunguska) to survive entry.
Any of these are much stronger than an ICBM, of course.
Most all missle defense proposals depend on punching a hole in an ICBM by heating it. For all their destructive potential, ICBMs are 90% thin skinned gas tank. You could take one out with a grenade, if you could somehow get it there.
The power required to destroy any rock big enough to survive atmospheric entry would be orders of magnitude greater.
Bah. Real men keep their rigs on their desk (mainframes, servers and back up machines are exempted)
Sitting in front of an electron gun in a building full of wires... we're never exposed to magnetic fields...
I found it funny at the time that the newly rebuilt section was hit. Aside from all the deaths and destruction, you know that somewhere there is a contractor going "Man! I just finished building that! damnit..."
EVERYONE plays dirty, that it, to win. There's no such thing as "fair" in war. You kill your enemy before he can kill you.
Remember, in war, truth is determined not by who's right, but who is left...
Quoth the master:
"R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental wellbeing and not being more than say five minutes late. It is therefore clearly an almost infinitely variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed taken as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers and even death.
R17 is not a fixed velocity, but it is clearly far too fast."