Even if they could make the cable how are they going to dampen swings and bounces? In space there's no air to dampen the motion and there's no nowhere for the accumulating energy to go except to make the anchor bounce and sway more and more. The bad part is that the more it swings the higher the gravity will be. Does anyone remember riding the rotating sail-swing ride at the amusement park? It'd be like that but instead of your 150 lb best friend pulling on the cables it'll be ton of potential satellite trying to get up to orbital velocity. The good news is that the period of a 17000 mile pendulum might give you enough time to evacuate.
There is an income tax deduction for charitable contribution. THEY DO NOT GET MONEY BACK FOR GIVING TO CHARITY. THEY GET A TAX REDUCTION THAT IS LESS THAN WHAT THEY GAVE. They are doing a good deed, period. You're the same type of guy who would put down Mother Teresa because she was just trying to get famous.
Do you mean like McDonalds that runs the Ronalds MacDonalds Houses so that the parents of sick children have a place to stay or Eli Lilly that has funded millions of dollars in scholarships? Get a clue.
I'm running a stock Ubuntu install (except Nvidia drivers) and my battery life is great. The sleep mode works, too. The key to running Linux is using compatible hardware and it works very well. Ubuntu really has made the user experience better than Windows. I'm not saying that Linux offers the same breadth of software but on compatible hardware is really is slick. I was at my brothers and wanted to print a file. I plugged the USB cable in and the selected the printer while printing from the application. No downloading drivers, no loading crapware from a CD, just plug in and print.
I know it sucks to port games to a new platform with nothing in common, but I hope that someday the game developers can port some Windows games to Vista. And yes, I've tried Wine but sometimes it has as many problems as Vista.
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Indentured servitude should be OK, too, right? Lefty's believe people can be property but things can't.
What part of recent events represented free markets? BTW, freer markets are recovering and us Keynesians are still bleeding jobs.
I hope you're right. I don't want a space elevator anchor landing on my house because someone forgot about tidal forces.
Even if they could make the cable how are they going to dampen swings and bounces? In space there's no air to dampen the motion and there's no nowhere for the accumulating energy to go except to make the anchor bounce and sway more and more. The bad part is that the more it swings the higher the gravity will be. Does anyone remember riding the rotating sail-swing ride at the amusement park? It'd be like that but instead of your 150 lb best friend pulling on the cables it'll be ton of potential satellite trying to get up to orbital velocity. The good news is that the period of a 17000 mile pendulum might give you enough time to evacuate.
Does this mean I should be cuckoo for CO CO puffs?
This was already picked apart. The authors did not control for the risk faced by the gun owners. People are more likely to be armed if they are likely to be attacked. http://reason.com/blog/2009/10/05/why-skydivers-would-be-better
(I know, you want me at your next party...)
There is an income tax deduction for charitable contribution. THEY DO NOT GET MONEY BACK FOR GIVING TO CHARITY. THEY GET A TAX REDUCTION THAT IS LESS THAN WHAT THEY GAVE. They are doing a good deed, period. You're the same type of guy who would put down Mother Teresa because she was just trying to get famous.
Move to Cuba you horrible piece of shit. We don't need jerks like you attacking productive people who help their neighbors.
It is pretty disheartening to know that most people view a lack of government funding as somehow more restrictive than an actual prohibition.
Do you mean like McDonalds that runs the Ronalds MacDonalds Houses so that the parents of sick children have a place to stay or Eli Lilly that has funded millions of dollars in scholarships? Get a clue.
The religious yahoos are only holding up tax funded embryonic stem cell research...
If it were that promising he could leave the country to have the treatment before the approval.
If it gains you five seconds, you win...
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Ubuntu 9.04 - 64bit with 2.6.28-15 is.
I'm running a stock Ubuntu install (except Nvidia drivers) and my battery life is great. The sleep mode works, too. The key to running Linux is using compatible hardware and it works very well. Ubuntu really has made the user experience better than Windows. I'm not saying that Linux offers the same breadth of software but on compatible hardware is really is slick. I was at my brothers and wanted to print a file. I plugged the USB cable in and the selected the printer while printing from the application. No downloading drivers, no loading crapware from a CD, just plug in and print.
I couldn't find any ribbed for "his" pleasure so I had to turn them inside out and tell her I bought the plain ones.
We know that pulsars conserve energy because they keep turning their lights off!
Even carrying the oxidizer, chemical energy beats the heck out of most batteries. Look at rocket motors.
I know it sucks to port games to a new platform with nothing in common, but I hope that someday the game developers can port some Windows games to Vista. And yes, I've tried Wine but sometimes it has as many problems as Vista.
The mastodons... Shit! Did somebody read it?
Tasty, tasty murder!
That's how it got the incredible mileage. You actually put the fuel into the Hummer.
Is there a 64 bit version that I'm not seeing? Do I have to build it?