The "Supremacy Clause" of the U.S. Constitution is contained in Article VI:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Many in the Senate are still stinging from the voter rebuke that just occurred, and the rest are not in a mood to pick a fight with the voters.
The entire thing should simply be rejected due to the excessive secrecy with which it was negotiated. Even if this treaty gave a gold brick to every citizen, capped punishment at one dollar and 50 cents, and baked you pies every Wednesday, the mere fact that they had to build a world wide conspiracy of silence to try to get this one over means it should be Dead On Arrival in the Senate.
But I suspect it might never go to the Senate. Obama will simply try to impose it by edict as a "trade agreement" without treaty status.
Treaties modify the US Constitution. People have to realize that.
HTML and CSS can not accomplish what the ADA is demanding.
Think about screen reader technology for the blind. Today even the best of these can not even handle a mildly complex page. I've tried them out at a friends house. They are crap.
But it doesn't stop at your content. You are also responsible for all the advertising on your site, even when you don't create that advertising. Why should you serve a page without advertising to the blind? If that's how you make money for your site, you need to serve the ads to everyone.
How do you serve music to the deaf? Hmmm mmmm dum de dumm ta ta de da mmmm de mmmm?
And how do you serve online game content to the guy typing with his one hand, or his feet.
If you think this is easy, why don't you try it. The tools don't yet exist to do this in any economical way. If enforced to the letter, this serves only to drive most product advertising and support services off the web, shut down thousands of hobby sites, and shutter eCommerce.
Read some of the article found by Google. Most of them written by professionals in the field. They seem to disagree with your assessment.
I'm sure you've heard about balloon flights around the world. Steve Fossett RIP.
Do the math. Less gravity compensates for less atmospheric density on mars to the degree that you would only need a balloon twice as big for the same payload as on earth.
Balloons work off of the differential between the inside air pressure and the outside air pressure. If the outside air pressure is low, then even if you manage to generate a vacuum inside the balloon, the differential is still small and therefore so is the lift.
Balloons work on a difference in WEIGHT of the gases inside the balloon compared to the outside air that is displaced.
It has nothing to do with pressure. Hot air balloons are not sealed, they are open at the bottom. Essentially zero pressure differential.
See, those days you skipped out of science in the 7th grade to smoke weed in the park come back to bite you.
The killer for balloons is a completely different problem, the overall vehicle needs to be less dense than the atmosphere it displaces. Which is just barely possible to do on earth. Not going to work on Mars.
They had to spend months with only what drinkable water they could carry, which was at that time as daunting as it is now to carry the fuel(energy) needed to get to Mars
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The "Supremacy Clause" of the U.S. Constitution is contained in Article VI:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
So your own citation proves you wrong.
READ the thread before jumping on it.
This subthread is not about friendships, its about that kid you went to the 5th grade with and never had any further contact with.
The house has nothing to do with ratifying Treaties.
Not if you get on them HARD right now.
Many in the Senate are still stinging from the voter rebuke that just occurred, and the rest are not in a mood to pick a fight with the voters.
The entire thing should simply be rejected due to the excessive secrecy with which it was negotiated. Even if this treaty gave a gold brick to every citizen, capped punishment at one dollar and 50 cents, and baked you pies every Wednesday, the mere fact that they had to build a world wide conspiracy of silence to try to get this one over means it should be Dead On Arrival in the Senate.
But I suspect it might never go to the Senate. Obama will simply try to impose it by edict as a "trade agreement" without treaty status.
Treaties modify the US Constitution. People have to realize that.
Dell 9400. (16inch diagonal).
Its actually easier to read on my desktop which has the same resolution display but the displays are larger. (24inch)
Very odd. Posted as an AC, extolling the virtue of rekindling long dead relationships via automated computer tasks.
Telling.
So computer maintained relationships have some meaning in your shallow world?
There is a time to let go. Your fear of loneliness and irrelevancy will not be helped by this any more than your picture in your 6th grade yearbook.
Not to mention screen resolution.
But yes, pixel spacing is key, and it is not legible on this laptop (1920x1200 native resolution).
Even with magnifying glass (8x) large parts of it are un-readable.
From the story:
The thumbnail-sized camera will be affixed to his head through a piercing-like attachment.
So not surgery, unless your local tattooed, stud-faced, pointy haired piercing parlor worker qualifies as a surgeon.
So you are fine with totally redesigning the net under government edict.
I'm not.
HTML and CSS can not accomplish what the ADA is demanding.
Think about screen reader technology for the blind. Today even the best of these can not even handle a mildly complex page. I've tried them out at a friends house. They are crap.
But it doesn't stop at your content. You are also responsible for all the advertising on your site, even when you don't create that advertising. Why should you serve a page without advertising to the blind? If that's how you make money for your site, you need to serve the ads to everyone.
How do you serve music to the deaf? Hmmm mmmm dum de dumm ta ta de da mmmm de mmmm?
And how do you serve online game content to the guy typing with his one hand, or his feet.
If you think this is easy, why don't you try it. The tools don't yet exist to do this in any economical way. If enforced to the letter, this serves only to drive most product advertising and support services off the web, shut down thousands of hobby sites, and shutter eCommerce.
Read some of the article found by Google. Most of them written by professionals in the field. They seem to disagree with your assessment.
I'm sure you've heard about balloon flights around the world. Steve Fossett RIP.
Do the math. Less gravity compensates for less atmospheric density on mars to the degree that you would only need a balloon twice as big for the same payload as on earth.
Doable.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ballons+mars+exploration
Balloons work off of the differential between the inside air pressure and the outside air pressure. If the outside air pressure is low, then even if you manage to generate a vacuum inside the balloon, the differential is still small and therefore so is the lift.
Balloons work on a difference in WEIGHT of the gases inside the balloon compared to the outside air that is displaced.
It has nothing to do with pressure. Hot air balloons are not sealed, they are open at the bottom. Essentially zero pressure differential.
See, those days you skipped out of science in the 7th grade to smoke weed in the park come back to bite you.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ballons+mars+exploration
The killer for balloons is a completely different problem, the overall vehicle needs to be less dense than the atmosphere it displaces. Which is just barely possible to do on earth. Not going to work on Mars.
Let me google that for you:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ballons+mars+exploration
Yeah AMEE worked out great did't it.
One wonders what AMEE was supposed to evade?
I'm no expert, but since the atmospheric pressure on Mars is so low propellers/balloons etc probably won't work very well.
This guy, Dr. Alexey Pankine, a project scientist at the Global Aerospace Corporation, disagrees. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-balloon-04a.html
You mean "Look what happened to poor Spirit" FIVE AND A HALF YEARS beyond its expected 90 day life span?
I'll take that ROI anytime.
My thinking exactly.
Put the payload on a smallish blimp like thing which you inflate after landing, and can control with solar powered motors.
Include enough helium you could make several significant altitude changes over the course of months instead of minutes.
Winds aloft would somewhat determine your course but that might be something you would want to document anyway.
Let the people who built Spirit and Opportunity build the thing. Those guys build it right.
They had to spend months with only what drinkable water they could carry, which was at that time as daunting as it is now to carry the fuel(energy) needed to get to Mars
It rains at sea.
Not so on Mars.
See the difference?
LibreOffice is stable. It was a fork of a stable OOo, and I've seen no problems at all.
I cut over to it from OO and everything I need it for (documents and spreadsheets) work just fine. Even those that are sent to me from Word users.
Why fret about the Beta designation when it is just a stable as the version it was forked from?
Consider checking airplane passengers against a no-fly terrorist ear list: ~900,000,000 passengers/year x 0.4 error rate = ~36,000,000 false positives/year. Totally useless
You could have stopped at "Totally useless".
No fly lists are a joke.
If a passenger passes all the screening and has no weapons, and there are no more than one of them on the flight then let them fly.
Its not a warranty issue to remove a removable add in storage.
Lets call a spade an f'ing shovel and recognize that this is simply DRM under another name.
Still, I'd like to slap it into my Linux box and see what kind of FS they built on it. I doubt its too exotic, this is, after all, Microsoft.
Well the summary did fail to mention The browser hole has been closed in Android 2.2.
Hey, pass some of the popcorn over here, I't trade you for this here cold brewsky.