Because updating the Saturn series to todays' technology would be just as or more expensive than Ares. You have to redesign all the hardware because recreating vacum tube manufacturing capability would be much more expensive than using current integrated circuit technology. That means re-designing all the software that runs on the now completely different architecture computers. We also have to re-do the physical design since weight is the biggest problem for space flight and there have been major changes in materials technology. Updating a 40+ year old design to current technology means a complete redesign, aka Ares.
Just a nit pick, the F-35 may replace the A-10 but it will not replace the capability of the A-10. This is one of the problems with the US Air Force, they do not value or understand close air support.
One thing to keep in mind: No matter how much you develop the mind, if you don't maintain the capacity and the will to fight off those few primitive violent people who are left then your society will die.
Most people who rent don't understand that. That is also why they tend to vote for "rent control" laws without understanding that it reduces to overall availability of apartments and they end up paying much more for "rent controlled" apartments on the secondary sublet market. See New York City for this example.
Ha, your cold freezing rain. Back in my day we had to wade across a freezing river before standing on a windy hill top during hail storms, and we had to beat the voters with sticks. None of these fancy firearms.
All the things you mention are voluntary. The only people you might have any actual obligation to is the DMV, but as long as you pay your tickets they don't care.
There is no national election. There are 50 state elections. Each state has a vote equivalent to its total representation in both houses of Congress. Each state decides how it will allocate those votes (proportionally, winner take all, or some compromise between the two). Whoever wins the votes of the electoral college becomes president.
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Lucky for them, most of the people that destitute don't have jobs. They can get the ID on the way back from the welfare office.
The 900 spectrum is in use all over the world and nobody who previously allocated it is taking it away from cell providers. The only GSM phones made without 900 capability are for the North American market only. AC, you don't know what your talking about.
Why does everyone assume that any system will be used exclusively? No one is going to drop a bomb on someone because there was a hit on this system. This is one tool of many. If every tool has an 80-90% accuracy rate, the combination of all the tools is used. Your example of an airport proves why this is a good idea. The authorities would get more positives from any single system than they could possibly do anything effectively with. When you get facial + gait + stress + profiles(One way ticket paid in cash) you get a very good indicator. There would be hits on one or two tools all the time, hits on three or more would be useful for targeting extra searches.
You might want to correct that to "only the "fittest" men get to have wives. If the best off(physically and/or economically) men get multiple wives then the worst off men don't get any.
The primary impediment to drilling in currently leased land is lawsuits from environmentalists. In fact, 8 of the 10 years that are estimated to bring oil from new drilling online is due to lawsuits and stalling from environmentalists. Another year of that is due to bureaucracy in Federal Land management. The actual time it takes for new production is anywhere from 12 to 18 months of actual work depending on local factors.
About those oil companies being under taxed, they currently pay about three times their profit in taxes. Those recent big 20 something billion in profits for Exxon are after they paid over 60 billion in taxes.
Just want to point out, every country to include all of Europe can and will examine and/or confiscate your laptop and/or anything else you are carrying with you when you enter their country. The US is the only country where these types of customs inspections are controversial at all.
I've found the RossettaStone program to be very useful. Nothing is as good as having a native speaker teacher, be this is about as good as the computer programs come.
The following link covers all my assertions except the one dealing with military aid. I consider the exclusion of military provided assistance to be common knowledge. Sources with links for all numbers in that article are at the bottom of the article.
http://www.heritage.org/research/tradeandforeignaid/wm630.cfm
Your right if you don't count military aid, which excludes those ships who made clean water in the Philippines, and only count government foreign aid. When private donations are counted the US is more generous than anyone else in the first world.
From what I've seen, many time the governments specifications are much too detailed. Instead of describing what they want done, many times the government specifies how they want it done. This leaves companies in a quandary, do you send a proposal that describes the best, and many times the cheapest, way to accomplish a task or does your proposal fulfill the specifications despite their bad implementation?
The US provides more aid during disasters than everyone else combined. Nobody else has the logistical capability to get there. Those UN people, fly in on US transport; the water they hand out, purified by US ships; The help from other nations that gets there eventually, between a quarter and a third of that bill is also paid by the US. The US also accepts more legal immigrants than anybody else in the world. World education, again the US provides more than anybody else.
Not to nitpick, but the members of the Senate and House are not part of the executive, and thus not part of the administration. They legislate but have no executive or administrative authority.
You seem to be forgetting an important point. New competitors will only enter a market if the possible profit is worth the risk. Current competitors will only stay in a market if the profit is worth the risk. What is a subsistence-level profit margin varies largely based on the risk in the market. Barring artificial barriers to entry, normally regulations, any overly profitable business will attract competitors.
The whole point of a uniform is that it identifies you as a part of and organized military that belongs to a specific country. The fighters for the taliban have never worn anything close to a uniform. They have always worn clothing with the specific intention of blending in with the civilian population. There is no way any of them have come close to qualifying as a POW under the Geneva Convention.
As far as the spirit of the Geneva Convention goes, it was intended to produce incentives for reciprocal treatment. If the US extends rights to people who don't qualify for them, then there is no incentive for any future opponents to bother treating US soldiers according the to Convention since it won't affect the treatment of their soldiers one way or the other.
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Your state, county, and/or municipal government are in charge of morgues and burial regulations.
Because updating the Saturn series to todays' technology would be just as or more expensive than Ares. You have to redesign all the hardware because recreating vacum tube manufacturing capability would be much more expensive than using current integrated circuit technology. That means re-designing all the software that runs on the now completely different architecture computers. We also have to re-do the physical design since weight is the biggest problem for space flight and there have been major changes in materials technology. Updating a 40+ year old design to current technology means a complete redesign, aka Ares.
Just a nit pick, the F-35 may replace the A-10 but it will not replace the capability of the A-10. This is one of the problems with the US Air Force, they do not value or understand close air support.
One thing to keep in mind: No matter how much you develop the mind, if you don't maintain the capacity and the will to fight off those few primitive violent people who are left then your society will die.
Most people who rent don't understand that. That is also why they tend to vote for "rent control" laws without understanding that it reduces to overall availability of apartments and they end up paying much more for "rent controlled" apartments on the secondary sublet market. See New York City for this example.
If you choose not to have a career, how do you plan to pay your bills?
Ha, your cold freezing rain. Back in my day we had to wade across a freezing river before standing on a windy hill top during hail storms, and we had to beat the voters with sticks. None of these fancy firearms.
All the things you mention are voluntary. The only people you might have any actual obligation to is the DMV, but as long as you pay your tickets they don't care.
There is no national election. There are 50 state elections. Each state has a vote equivalent to its total representation in both houses of Congress. Each state decides how it will allocate those votes (proportionally, winner take all, or some compromise between the two). Whoever wins the votes of the electoral college becomes president.
Lucky for them, most of the people that destitute don't have jobs. They can get the ID on the way back from the welfare office.
The 900 spectrum is in use all over the world and nobody who previously allocated it is taking it away from cell providers. The only GSM phones made without 900 capability are for the North American market only. AC, you don't know what your talking about.
Why does everyone assume that any system will be used exclusively? No one is going to drop a bomb on someone because there was a hit on this system. This is one tool of many. If every tool has an 80-90% accuracy rate, the combination of all the tools is used. Your example of an airport proves why this is a good idea. The authorities would get more positives from any single system than they could possibly do anything effectively with. When you get facial + gait + stress + profiles(One way ticket paid in cash) you get a very good indicator. There would be hits on one or two tools all the time, hits on three or more would be useful for targeting extra searches.
You might want to correct that to "only the "fittest" men get to have wives. If the best off(physically and/or economically) men get multiple wives then the worst off men don't get any.
The primary impediment to drilling in currently leased land is lawsuits from environmentalists. In fact, 8 of the 10 years that are estimated to bring oil from new drilling online is due to lawsuits and stalling from environmentalists. Another year of that is due to bureaucracy in Federal Land management. The actual time it takes for new production is anywhere from 12 to 18 months of actual work depending on local factors.
About those oil companies being under taxed, they currently pay about three times their profit in taxes. Those recent big 20 something billion in profits for Exxon are after they paid over 60 billion in taxes.
Just want to point out, every country to include all of Europe can and will examine and/or confiscate your laptop and/or anything else you are carrying with you when you enter their country. The US is the only country where these types of customs inspections are controversial at all.
I've found the RossettaStone program to be very useful. Nothing is as good as having a native speaker teacher, be this is about as good as the computer programs come.
The following link covers all my assertions except the one dealing with military aid. I consider the exclusion of military provided assistance to be common knowledge. Sources with links for all numbers in that article are at the bottom of the article. http://www.heritage.org/research/tradeandforeignaid/wm630.cfm
Your right if you don't count military aid, which excludes those ships who made clean water in the Philippines, and only count government foreign aid. When private donations are counted the US is more generous than anyone else in the first world.
From what I've seen, many time the governments specifications are much too detailed. Instead of describing what they want done, many times the government specifies how they want it done. This leaves companies in a quandary, do you send a proposal that describes the best, and many times the cheapest, way to accomplish a task or does your proposal fulfill the specifications despite their bad implementation?
The US provides more aid during disasters than everyone else combined. Nobody else has the logistical capability to get there. Those UN people, fly in on US transport; the water they hand out, purified by US ships; The help from other nations that gets there eventually, between a quarter and a third of that bill is also paid by the US. The US also accepts more legal immigrants than anybody else in the world. World education, again the US provides more than anybody else.
Not to nitpick, but the members of the Senate and House are not part of the executive, and thus not part of the administration. They legislate but have no executive or administrative authority.
Just about anybody, including all the guys, who have been in the army have become quite appreciative of scentless moist wipes.
You seem to be forgetting an important point. New competitors will only enter a market if the possible profit is worth the risk. Current competitors will only stay in a market if the profit is worth the risk. What is a subsistence-level profit margin varies largely based on the risk in the market. Barring artificial barriers to entry, normally regulations, any overly profitable business will attract competitors.
The whole point of a uniform is that it identifies you as a part of and organized military that belongs to a specific country. The fighters for the taliban have never worn anything close to a uniform. They have always worn clothing with the specific intention of blending in with the civilian population. There is no way any of them have come close to qualifying as a POW under the Geneva Convention. As far as the spirit of the Geneva Convention goes, it was intended to produce incentives for reciprocal treatment. If the US extends rights to people who don't qualify for them, then there is no incentive for any future opponents to bother treating US soldiers according the to Convention since it won't affect the treatment of their soldiers one way or the other.