Don't understand all the throwaway freighters, it's like throwing away your semi-truck after every shipment.
Truckers would readily throw away their trucks on every voyage if it were insanely expensive and difficult to bring them back in any kind of functional condition.
Difference is there's no "cliff" from which to throw the poop, they have to accelerate the poop until it gets into an orbit where it interacts with the atmosphere.
If you give a bag of shite a nudge down towards earth, why doesn't the bag keep moving (Newton's First Law) towards the Earth and then burn up in the atmosphere?
significant number of people who have more or less given up on television.
Amazon is our family friend. Once a month we'll buy a DVD set of some season or another of one of a variety of shows. Anything from Perry Mason to 60s sitcoms, Mork and Mindy (1st season only!), Psych, NCIS, etc. Movies, too, from current blockbusters to b/w romance and horror flicks.
YouTube is also very important, since I like documentaries. Programs like youtube-dl are great for downloading 18-part series on Soviet Aviation or 24-part series Yale courses on Ancient Greece.
I think every FireFox user should try it without Flash. There just are not crashes. It's inspiring.
I keep FF open constantly with many windows and huge numbers of tabs. It hasn't crashed since I moved to 64 bits. (The crashes were all Linux 32-bit "exceeded process address space" deaths.)
Wow. The extrapolation is that a black person who is driving around in a predominantely white neighborhood should be pulled over, and has to give valid reasons for his presence?
No, that's not the logical extrapolation.
but being harassed purely for skin color isn't something I support my tax dollars being used for.
Agreed. However, your and my definitions of harassment are radically different.
I'm sure, though, that we both agree that cops acting like power-crazed thugs is a Bad Thing which does nothing but harm the nation.
There are some (many?) who feel that being stopped and questioned is a form of harassment.
I think those people have read the Daily Kos (or Ayn Rand, depending) one too many times and their judgment took a long vacation.
They might argue that being of a certain race in a certain area should not be considered "probable cause",
They didn't arrest me, they didn't frisk me, or anything like that. Maybe because I was in Dockers and looked them in the eyes and used "Yes Sir" and "No Sir" a *lot*.
and the authorities should not be interfering in any way with anyone without sufficient reason.
IMNSHO, being in the "wrong" neighborhood at the "wrong" time is sufficient reason for the cops to speak to you. Not be jackbooted jackasses, but just *speak* and use their experience.
We all know how really bad they can be, but remember: all day every day they deal with liars, wife beaters, drug dealers, thieves, etc, etc. Thus, I expect them to be suspicious of me and not instantly believe me when I say I'm just walking through. And that's a Good Thing IMNSHO.
But they didn't harass me. I think that it was good and reasonable that they stop and question people who appear to not belong.
Being spotted by cops would mean getting pulled over, being questioned, and my car searched with a fine toothed comb while waiting with hands on hood.
Did they do it because they were power-crazed bastards, or because they know from long experience that white people go into that neighborhood to buy drugs and then bald-faced lie about it?
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If it's so insanely expensive and difficult, then why is SpaceX working on just that, a reusable rocket?
Because it's a worthwhile goal, which IMNSHO SpaceX is working on in the proper method: incrementally from simple, known-working parts.
That was the idea behind the shuttle. Didn't work out so well, but that was the idea.
Many at NASA in the 1970s should be flogged for over-promising and under-budgeting a single-stage-to-orbit "truck".
Don't understand all the throwaway freighters, it's like throwing away your semi-truck after every shipment.
Truckers would readily throw away their trucks on every voyage if it were insanely expensive and difficult to bring them back in any kind of functional condition.
And that's exactly why we use single-use rockets.
If you shoot a marble
How elliptical? If highly so, then shouldn't it intersect with the atmosphere (thus burning up) in it's first orbit?
You have to throw the garbage bags behind you so that they no longer have the velocity to be in the same orbit as you.
That (actually, down/back at a 45Â angle) was my second thought.
Difference is there's no "cliff" from which to throw the poop, they have to accelerate the poop until it gets into an orbit where it interacts with the atmosphere.
If you give a bag of shite a nudge down towards earth, why doesn't the bag keep moving (Newton's First Law) towards the Earth and then burn up in the atmosphere?
Why don't they toss their garbage bags down towards earth? Wouldn't it enter the atmosphere within a few weeks and burn up?
significant number of people who have more or less given up on television.
Amazon is our family friend. Once a month we'll buy a DVD set of some season or another of one of a variety of shows. Anything from Perry Mason to 60s sitcoms, Mork and Mindy (1st season only!), Psych, NCIS, etc. Movies, too, from current blockbusters to b/w romance and horror flicks.
YouTube is also very important, since I like documentaries. Programs like youtube-dl are great for downloading 18-part series on Soviet Aviation or 24-part series Yale courses on Ancient Greece.
I went to a catholic boarding school.
Neither is a boarding school, and there aren't enough priests and nuns left to staff schools anymore.
I think you also underestimate your own ability to influence your children's education and development.
I realized that when they were in second grade... :)
Sure there is still risk in secular schools but there isn't the institutional support and cover-up issues that there are with the church.
Here, there is manifest educational failure and incompetence. So, it's a slight risk of Catholic perversion or a guarantee of a bad education.
sending their children to catholic schools
They've got us over a barrel, though, when the only semi-affordable quality education in the region is via parochial schools.
voluntary constituency which also funds it's operations voluntarily through their own contributions.
Then you don't know much about the history of the Church.
+1, Insightful.
That's a guaranteed recipe for fragmentation and Balkanization.
used for more than just data mining
You can hammer a nail with a knife, but hammers do a better job. Likewise, use the proper database design for the task at hand.
Thus spake the Great And Mighty DBA!
That would be the operations database. Data warehouses are for analysts to mine hidden trends, patterns, relations.
Unless "marketeers" have redefined yet another meaningful tech phrase...
Just for shits and giggles: why does an accountant need a data warehouse?
bash uses "then" and it's a great language.
Those AltaVista and DejaNews links are *awesome*, dude!
Ride a bike 70 miles each day round trip to work?
When did Anonymous Coward turn into Anonymous Stupid?
+1, Insightful.
I think every FireFox user should try it without Flash. There just are not crashes. It's inspiring.
I keep FF open constantly with many windows and huge numbers of tabs. It hasn't crashed since I moved to 64 bits. (The crashes were all Linux 32-bit "exceeded process address space" deaths.)
One thing that might be saving me is Flashblock.
don't have Bluetooth-enabled smart phones?
So you think institutional racism is reasonable?
Prudence is not racism.
Wow. The extrapolation is that a black person who is driving around in a predominantely white neighborhood should be pulled over, and has to give valid reasons for his presence?
No, that's not the logical extrapolation.
but being harassed purely for skin color isn't something I support my tax dollars being used for.
Agreed. However, your and my definitions of harassment are radically different.
I'm sure, though, that we both agree that cops acting like power-crazed thugs is a Bad Thing which does nothing but harm the nation.
There are some (many?) who feel that being stopped and questioned is a form of harassment.
I think those people have read the Daily Kos (or Ayn Rand, depending) one too many times and their judgment took a long vacation.
They might argue that being of a certain race in a certain area should not be considered "probable cause",
They didn't arrest me, they didn't frisk me, or anything like that. Maybe because I was in Dockers and looked them in the eyes and used "Yes Sir" and "No Sir" a *lot*.
and the authorities should not be interfering in any way with anyone without sufficient reason.
IMNSHO, being in the "wrong" neighborhood at the "wrong" time is sufficient reason for the cops to speak to you. Not be jackbooted jackasses, but just *speak* and use their experience.
We all know how really bad they can be, but remember: all day every day they deal with liars, wife beaters, drug dealers, thieves, etc, etc. Thus, I expect them to be suspicious of me and not instantly believe me when I say I'm just walking through. And that's a Good Thing IMNSHO.
You might get less glad in a hurry if being stopped like that became a weekly or daily occurrence
This is when the "cop on the beat" becomes useful...
But they didn't harass me. I think that it was good and reasonable that they stop and question people who appear to not belong.
Being spotted by cops would mean getting pulled over, being questioned, and my car searched with a fine toothed comb while waiting with hands on hood.
Did they do it because they were power-crazed bastards, or because they know from long experience that white people go into that neighborhood to buy drugs and then bald-faced lie about it?