So you won't be able to tell the difference between, say, a person who lived all year in Illinois (with a moderate isotope ratio) and a person who flies back and forth between Montana and Florida (who'd have a mix of "heavy" and "light" water in their system.)
Unless the technicians are clever enough to check multiple sections of the person's hair.
Powdered synthetics (heh) is one thing, but it's a horse of a much more expensive stripe to manufacture miles of perfect corundum sheet that doesn't reflect light off in some odd angle.
but I'm guessing these don't fit in your picture so you'll just ommit them.
If so, I would not have mentioned that the continent is only 47% Muslim. After all, simple math demonstrates that to get from 89 and 55 down to 47, you need some quite lower numbers on "the other side".
However, I did, so I must not ignore inconvenient facts.
Anyway, the 15% and 3% regions of Africa are still pretty (economically, if not politically, or both) unstable.
Not everyone who doesn't agree with you is stupid or uninformed.
Those who (willfully? subconsciously?) morph mostly into only deserve to publicly humiliated.
Africa is a continent and the Middle East isn't part of it.
No shit.
moslim only region you speak of
What magic is it that morphed mostly-Muslim into moslim only?
Or are you just stupid?
but calling Africa mostly muslim is pretty far fetched.
Is it?
According to Wikipedia, North Africa is 89% Muslim, West Africa is 55% Muslim and East Africa is almost 30% Muslim.
Ok, that's "only" 47% Muslim, which isn't a majority. But it's close, and no one in their right mind could argue that the continent is anything but politically unstable.
So again, I am not sure what point you are trying to make...
This point:
technically both Delta and Atlas were developed to be private enterprise vehicles, but they ended up costing enough per launch that nobody beside the USAF, NASA, and a few other US companies wanted to use them.
Private industry that's been snuggled up to NASA and the DoD for decades can't do anything cheaply/efficiently anymore.
However just like every other airframe out there, it has undergone significant change over the years to keep it state of the art. Check out the write up in this months "Air and Space". Evolution of the Space Shuttle.
Just read it. I see nothing in the article, though, which describes a significant technical upgrade or modification.
Private industry performed the dreaded cost-benefit analysis, and with a comparative pittance in government support one private firm has already successfully launched a new heavy booster - something NASA hasn't been able to accomplish in 30 years, after literally spending tens of billions on failed Shuttle replacements.
What about the Delta IV and Atlas V, both of which lift more into LEO?
Is the United Launch Alliance not considered "private enterprise", being too cuddled up with NASA and the USAF?
When private industry does a cost-benefit analysis, and decides that as-safe-as-possible is just too expensive, everyone wails how horrible, and how life is sooooooooo damned important.
Yet, when gov't spends as much as necessary to make flight as-safe-as-possible, everyone wails on how expensive and time-consuming it is.
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he should be asking the coders he manages how to design and/or restructure the database.
Hah!!!
Most (and I mean most) coders are HORRIBLE database designers. H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E.
That's why they're called code monkeys: because all they're good at is banging out mediocre code.
OpenOffice.Org for instance
Which is why it was forked into http://www.go-oo.org./
Some would argue that programming this way is broken to begin with...
That's big in CompSci circles and it's infected a great deal of programmers.
However, COMPUTED GOSUB/GOTO/PERFORM are stunningly useful and are just another term for arrays of function pointers.
Because they write the OS and do not dictate what you can run on your box?
Or do you want your windows apps to only come from Windows Application Store?
That's a crock of camel dung.
The Linux kernel (and presumably Unix/BSD) just does ASLR whether you want it or not, and distro packagers enable the NX bit in some kernels.
So you won't be able to tell the difference between, say, a person who lived all year in Illinois (with a moderate isotope ratio) and a person who flies back and forth between Montana and Florida (who'd have a mix of "heavy" and "light" water in their system.)
Unless the technicians are clever enough to check multiple sections of the person's hair.
considered minerals?
These post-9/11 children are such know-it-all idiots.
Randall Munroe is exactly right, except that traditionally it's referred to as rubber-hose cryptanalysis.
So it may be more to the point that it is easier to get a man to go do the stressful job and for them to do something else.
Bwah hahahahahaha!
Mothers and wives everywhere are laughing disgustedly at you.
Well in the USA the way to do that is immunize the guy and then compel him to testify.
You're confusing television with reality.
Why doesn't Google (or any other foreign firm, for that matter) have a WTO claim against China regarding the need for local partners?
I've seen that movie.
Actually, no. El Cid fought for both Christians and Muslims in the middle of the (original) reconquista.
Turns out it was Charlton Heston.
Great movie, huh? Sophia Loren was an unstoppable beauty.
Powdered synthetics (heh) is one thing, but it's a horse of a much more expensive stripe to manufacture miles of perfect corundum sheet that doesn't reflect light off in some odd angle.
Gee, you looked in Wkikpedia and didn't see that Egypt is part of the middle East? Egypt's in Africa.
Gee, you didn't notice that Egypt is both Middle East and Africa!
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=middle%20east
http://middleeast.about.com/od/middleeast101/f/me080208.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/middleeast.html
but I'm guessing these don't fit in your picture so you'll just ommit them.
If so, I would not have mentioned that the continent is only 47% Muslim. After all, simple math demonstrates that to get from 89 and 55 down to 47, you need some quite lower numbers on "the other side".
However, I did, so I must not ignore inconvenient facts.
Anyway, the 15% and 3% regions of Africa are still pretty (economically, if not politically, or both) unstable.
Not everyone who doesn't agree with you is stupid or uninformed.
Those who (willfully? subconsciously?) morph mostly into only deserve to publicly humiliated.
Try listening with an open mind sometimes
That's why I became an atheist.
10s of thousands of square yards of synthetic ruby, sapphire or diamond?
And bureaucrats, reporters and the idiots who believe everything they read think that this will cost less than ITER?
Africa is a continent and the Middle East isn't part of it.
No shit.
moslim only region you speak of
What magic is it that morphed mostly-Muslim into moslim only?
Or are you just stupid?
but calling Africa mostly muslim is pretty far fetched.
Is it?
According to Wikipedia, North Africa is 89% Muslim, West Africa is 55% Muslim and East Africa is almost 30% Muslim.
Ok, that's "only" 47% Muslim, which isn't a majority. But it's close, and no one in their right mind could argue that the continent is anything but politically unstable.
solar panels
Unless they use solar concentrators, which are "just" parabolic mirrors super-heating mineral oil...
You need to create huge barriers to stop sand storms from engulfing all your stuff.
Heh. There's nothing man-made which could block a sand storm.
And the first one that marches through will scour the delicate equipment into nothingness.
we have messed with the people in that region in a hostile way for a long time: Crusades
Has everyone forgotten that the Muslims invaded Europe through Iberia/Spain 350 years before the First Crusade?
All of Europe would be Muslim if it weren't for a forward thinking (hack, spit, cough) Frenchman 1250 years ago.
How does Africa already have a choke-hold on energy production?
Pay more attention. He didn't say Africa, he said unstable region.
Both Africa and the M.E. are part of one big, contiguous, mostly-Muslim unstable region.
So this power will have to travel through such stable, well-governed countries as Algeria and Libya.
Unless you put the power station in Morocco or Tunisia...
So again, I am not sure what point you are trying to make...
This point:
Private industry that's been snuggled up to NASA and the DoD for decades can't do anything cheaply/efficiently anymore.
However just like every other airframe out there, it has undergone significant change over the years to keep it state of the art.
Check out the write up in this months "Air and Space". Evolution of the Space Shuttle.
Just read it. I see nothing in the article, though, which describes a significant technical upgrade or modification.
Private industry performed the dreaded cost-benefit analysis, and with a comparative pittance in government support one private firm has already successfully launched a new heavy booster - something NASA hasn't been able to accomplish in 30 years, after literally spending tens of billions on failed Shuttle replacements.
What about the Delta IV and Atlas V, both of which lift more into LEO?
Is the United Launch Alliance not considered "private enterprise", being too cuddled up with NASA and the USAF?
Yes, at a tremendous cost in money and lives.
How ironic.
When private industry does a cost-benefit analysis, and decides that as-safe-as-possible is just too expensive, everyone wails how horrible, and how life is sooooooooo damned important.
Yet, when gov't spends as much as necessary to make flight as-safe-as-possible, everyone wails on how expensive and time-consuming it is.
MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MINDS, PEOPLE!!!!!
And NASA is using a 1980's shuttle fleet
I'd say more like 1970s, since that's when they were designed and all the tech was man-rated.