of course the concern may be that future enemies start buying Xboxes to start planning counters to the tactics used in such games. Especially if it matches or is similar to the tactics what the Army actually uses. It's probably pretty close.
That's probably to his advantage. I watched one or two of the later shows he's been on, and his opponents were not very good. His run has been built on being knowledgeable, being good with the button, having a good strategy (pressing the button with his good timing even when he does not yet remember the answer) and substandard opponents when he had bad days. Tony Kornheiser from 'Pardon the Interruption' talks about his attempt to get on Jeopardy-he did fairly well on the tests, but those chose people who did poorly to go on instead of him. I think that Jeopardy didn't cheat or give him any answers--given previous scandals they wouldn't want that. However, I think they gave him the means to continue winning. Now given that, even if they were putting good competitors out there he could still win, however the competitions would be closer and in doubt during Final Jeopardy...IMHO.
Ciruit City price match advertisement's within 30 days of purchase, at least ours does (or did) I bought an item there and 2 weeks later it was on sale at that very same store. The customer service flunky wasn't sure if their price match included their own store, but gave it to me anyways when I pointed to the sign 5 feet away that said we price match.
My bank sends the information over the range of dates I request. Money then imports the data, and does recognize duplicates. Since I enter my paycheck information (to get taxes and other deductions included), Money does recognize (it guesses and it is sometimes wrong) the duplicate entry as well as other duplicates from personal entry and then gives you the opportunity to 'accept' the bank's information (single value) or keep yours (detailed).
So yes, I agree with your assessment of 'brittle', definitely not a perfect system, but still better than typing it in yourself. 6-12 months seems to be the common duration of downloads.
I do this many times with an automatic. Unfortunately the people in the next lane like to ruin the space by moving into it. Slowing me down as I increase the space again. But then I live in Florida which has three types of drivers: tourists, who don't know their way around (think sudden turns and multiple lane changes to reach exits), Snowbirds (think retirees, mostly during winter months, slow drivers) and natives (At least 15 mph over the speed limit, and switching lanes constantly to get around snowbirds) In general, I hate Florida driving.
All you said, plus no credit card is going to be able to categorize a Super WalMart charge that includes food, automotive, clothing and several other categories all on the same bill. Likewise a corner convenience store that lists the charge as a gasoline bill when you bought a slurpee. For those who want to store details, you have to do it yourself, and therefore use Quicken or Money. They're also useful if you have 2 or more charge cards, bank accounts, etc. One location to review instead of many online accounts.
Fortunately both my credit card and bank support both Quicken and Money. I suspect more banks and credit cards will begin to offer them and then save money by no longer sending statements by mail (unless required by law)
It's still really bad for business to have a bad day even for a test flight, especially one built for passengers and one with a pilot, who was as far as anyone is concerned, a passenger. The fact that it was a test flight, designed for only a short duration meant that they limited the CONSEQUENCES. It's all a part of risk management and risk avoidance. The good news is that Rutan and company are doing a pretty good job of both. In this business it only takes one big failure to ruin any chances profit.
Compared with the rest of the world, the US has been successful. However, they have not been 'excessively successful'. Individual programs have succeeded beyond expectations, but there have been quite a few failures. The US has in some degree been lucky to have relatively few deaths associated with space flight. There have been some near misses, including the Columbia accident. An accident a long time ago at Vandenberg brought debris into a home. The Delta II accident in 1997 rained burning debris on the inhabited blockhouse near the pad.
Yes that is very true. But if they want paying passengers, attitude control is one of the worst things to have go on the fritz when you are going very fast. Titan IV rocket back in 1998 had a little attitude control reset around 40 seconds into flight. It pitched over and before it got too far (seconds at most) it fell apart from the forces. Range safety then sent command destruct to try to make big pieces into little pieces. Fortunately the pieces were landing in the ocean. SpaceShipOne probably more forgiving, but it is still a very big concern. Since it came back in one piece, they have the chance to fix the problem. They have to fix it.
You know when people ask what purpose does it serve to find these things, always remember how many people are involved in finding out what J-Lo and the like are up to on a daily basis. I bet you'll find that many more people are involved with the J-Lo questions, but that the total IQ is probably similar.
You forget that the assumption stated at the beginning was that the set of primes was finite. Given that, the number created IS prime, which invalidates the initial assumption that the set of prime numbers is finite, and therefore the set of prime numbers is infinite (the count of elements of the set). The original poster was correct with all he said. He only failed to finish the proof with what I stated above.
Another poster mentioned the sqrt (1/-1) => sqrt (1)/sqrt(-1)
Of course there is also the last step. sqrt(-1)^2 = sqrt(1)^2 leads to |-1| = |1| (absolute value/magnitude) which of course is true.
You are absolutely right. And I recommend that if American soldiers can't treat prisoners better, then they should either beat the information out of them on the street and then let them go, or for enemy combatants/terrorists kill them on the battlefield. Then a spammer dropping the soap in prison will be funny AND guilt-free again.
Rocket launches are dangerous. And as someone else mentioned, hydrogen is used as the fuel in the Shuttle. Hydrogen is one of the more benign of rocket fuels. Most are Toxic with a capital T. For some of the payloads, even hydrogen and a chance of an explosion might be less dangerous than a rocket. The best of rockets fail 1-2% of the time. The rocket failure rate worldwide is between 3-8% for most rockets. if the cost is much reduced with respect to rocket launches, a 10% failure rate would easily be acceptable.
I have an open mind and I'm a big geek. However, when I was growing up, my uncle was the pothead. I'd see him and his friends smoking the stuff every now and then. That pretty much ruined any thought of pot as good for me for life because he, and his friends, were complete losers (none were geeks though).
Perhaps, but you can remove tax breaks. Any large company in the US receives numerous, large tax breaks. And many of the tax breaks are very specific, so can be easily removed on a case by case basis (of course these companies place large amounts of money into 'reelection campaigns' or into lobbyists/outright bribes). So convincing legislators to do this may be difficult because it hits them right in the pocket. Otherwise, that'll work for US Companies outsourcing. Tariffs on imports from foreign companies is a completely different subject.
Well it'd also be nice if people could live without having to buy car insurance, home insurance, etc. And let's face it, the insurance is just as much to protect from rampaging lawyers as it is to protect from loss.
1000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean--a good start. Microsoft execs, Monsanto execs, (other) execs, Congress, at the bottom of the ocean--utopia. However, ocean dwellers would object to the extreme pollution.
I agree. I would go after them every year. Require them to certify it Monsanto-free prior to your planting. Then if their stuff did appear, charge them to clean it up and reimburse for lost revenue. In fact, it would be even better if the farmers who have used the Monsanto stuff wised up and did this. Monsanto could not ensure that there were none of there products in the soil without removing the entire soil, thus ending the farmer's livelihood.
Pretty sure that you are right that the ship/platform country of registry would be considered the country of launch in the absence of a definitive country. (Sea Launch is a consortium of a Norway? ship, a Russian? rocket and Boeing.--I wonder what country would be at fault if one of those landed in Brazil.)
Due to the international law and treaties, Liberia would probably not agree to allow the licenses. Unless you got enough insurance, at which point you might as well launch from your home country.
There are laws--international laws. One link: Space Laws and Treaties do a google search for others. So no matter where a vehicle is launched, an entire nation is liable. Though to date, most launch accidents have killed citizens of the launching nation only. Shuttle Columbia was I believe the first time this was not true, but the Israeli was a willing passenger who knew the risks.
Within the US, commercial launchers require licensing from the FAA. To launch from a government range, the launcher must also follow all sorts of government oversight and requirements...which is why they launch overseas when they can.
Insurance is expensive. The insurance is required because of the dangers at liftoff through orbit insertion. Not only that, but there are also the end of lifetime dangers of the satellite/rocket.
Russia was sweating bullets when Mir came back in. Fortunately they had a good plan, and the thrusters functioned well enough (a definite question mark) to get it on the trajectory they wanted. While small satellites will likely burn up on the way in, parts of MIR survived to impact.
True FAA ATC may no longers apply, but isn't it still the FAA(?).
The FAA space launch office is getting more involved with commercial space launch now as well. They are also getting aware of DOD and civil (NASA, NOAA, etc.) launches as well so that what applies to the government launches won't bite them in the ass with respect to commercial launch licensing.
For safety purposes, Cape Canaveral defines reaches orbit as when the perigee is greater than 70 miles. At that point, you're pretty sure it's not coming right back down if the engines fail. It is a highly arbitrary number, but with some reasoning behind it.
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of course the concern may be that future enemies start buying Xboxes to start planning counters to the tactics used in such games. Especially if it matches or is similar to the tactics what the Army actually uses. It's probably pretty close.
Better yet, there was an episode where Moe got to be the one who said the children line (Mrs. Lovejoy had just finished saying something else)
That's probably to his advantage. I watched one or two of the later shows he's been on, and his opponents were not very good. His run has been built on being knowledgeable, being good with the button, having a good strategy (pressing the button with his good timing even when he does not yet remember the answer) and substandard opponents when he had bad days. Tony Kornheiser from 'Pardon the Interruption' talks about his attempt to get on Jeopardy-he did fairly well on the tests, but those chose people who did poorly to go on instead of him. I think that Jeopardy didn't cheat or give him any answers--given previous scandals they wouldn't want that. However, I think they gave him the means to continue winning. Now given that, even if they were putting good competitors out there he could still win, however the competitions would be closer and in doubt during Final Jeopardy...IMHO.
Ciruit City price match advertisement's within 30 days of purchase, at least ours does (or did) I bought an item there and 2 weeks later it was on sale at that very same store. The customer service flunky wasn't sure if their price match included their own store, but gave it to me anyways when I pointed to the sign 5 feet away that said we price match.
My bank sends the information over the range of dates I request. Money then imports the data, and does recognize duplicates. Since I enter my paycheck information (to get taxes and other deductions included), Money does recognize (it guesses and it is sometimes wrong) the duplicate entry as well as other duplicates from personal entry and then gives you the opportunity to 'accept' the bank's information (single value) or keep yours (detailed).
So yes, I agree with your assessment of 'brittle', definitely not a perfect system, but still better than typing it in yourself. 6-12 months seems to be the common duration of downloads.
I do this many times with an automatic. Unfortunately the people in the next lane like to ruin the space by moving into it. Slowing me down as I increase the space again. But then I live in Florida which has three types of drivers: tourists, who don't know their way around (think sudden turns and multiple lane changes to reach exits), Snowbirds (think retirees, mostly during winter months, slow drivers) and natives (At least 15 mph over the speed limit, and switching lanes constantly to get around snowbirds) In general, I hate Florida driving.
All you said, plus no credit card is going to be able to categorize a Super WalMart charge that includes food, automotive, clothing and several other categories all on the same bill. Likewise a corner convenience store that lists the charge as a gasoline bill when you bought a slurpee. For those who want to store details, you have to do it yourself, and therefore use Quicken or Money. They're also useful if you have 2 or more charge cards, bank accounts, etc. One location to review instead of many online accounts.
Fortunately both my credit card and bank support both Quicken and Money. I suspect more banks and credit cards will begin to offer them and then save money by no longer sending statements by mail (unless required by law)
It's still really bad for business to have a bad day even for a test flight, especially one built for passengers and one with a pilot, who was as far as anyone is concerned, a passenger. The fact that it was a test flight, designed for only a short duration meant that they limited the CONSEQUENCES. It's all a part of risk management and risk avoidance. The good news is that Rutan and company are doing a pretty good job of both. In this business it only takes one big failure to ruin any chances profit.
Compared with the rest of the world, the US has been successful. However, they have not been 'excessively successful'. Individual programs have succeeded beyond expectations, but there have been quite a few failures. The US has in some degree been lucky to have relatively few deaths associated with space flight. There have been some near misses, including the Columbia accident. An accident a long time ago at Vandenberg brought debris into a home. The Delta II accident in 1997 rained burning debris on the inhabited blockhouse near the pad.
Yes that is very true. But if they want paying passengers, attitude control is one of the worst things to have go on the fritz when you are going very fast. Titan IV rocket back in 1998 had a little attitude control reset around 40 seconds into flight. It pitched over and before it got too far (seconds at most) it fell apart from the forces. Range safety then sent command destruct to try to make big pieces into little pieces. Fortunately the pieces were landing in the ocean. SpaceShipOne probably more forgiving, but it is still a very big concern. Since it came back in one piece, they have the chance to fix the problem. They have to fix it.
You know when people ask what purpose does it serve to find these things, always remember how many people are involved in finding out what J-Lo and the like are up to on a daily basis. I bet you'll find that many more people are involved with the J-Lo questions, but that the total IQ is probably similar.
You forget that the assumption stated at the beginning was that the set of primes was finite. Given that, the number created IS prime, which invalidates the initial assumption that the set of prime numbers is finite, and therefore the set of prime numbers is infinite (the count of elements of the set). The original poster was correct with all he said. He only failed to finish the proof with what I stated above.
Another poster mentioned the sqrt (1/-1) => sqrt (1)/sqrt(-1) Of course there is also the last step. sqrt(-1)^2 = sqrt(1)^2 leads to |-1| = |1| (absolute value/magnitude) which of course is true.
You are absolutely right. And I recommend that if American soldiers can't treat prisoners better, then they should either beat the information out of them on the street and then let them go, or for enemy combatants/terrorists kill them on the battlefield. Then a spammer dropping the soap in prison will be funny AND guilt-free again.
At higher altitudes, if the engines provided more force than the drag at orbital velocities, the blimp could actually go higher than bouyancy.
9 up, and then they pop the blimp and issue parachutes. Survivors get their next trip free.
Rocket launches are dangerous. And as someone else mentioned, hydrogen is used as the fuel in the Shuttle. Hydrogen is one of the more benign of rocket fuels. Most are Toxic with a capital T. For some of the payloads, even hydrogen and a chance of an explosion might be less dangerous than a rocket. The best of rockets fail 1-2% of the time. The rocket failure rate worldwide is between 3-8% for most rockets. if the cost is much reduced with respect to rocket launches, a 10% failure rate would easily be acceptable.
I have an open mind and I'm a big geek. However, when I was growing up, my uncle was the pothead. I'd see him and his friends smoking the stuff every now and then. That pretty much ruined any thought of pot as good for me for life because he, and his friends, were complete losers (none were geeks though).
Perhaps, but you can remove tax breaks. Any large company in the US receives numerous, large tax breaks. And many of the tax breaks are very specific, so can be easily removed on a case by case basis (of course these companies place large amounts of money into 'reelection campaigns' or into lobbyists/outright bribes). So convincing legislators to do this may be difficult because it hits them right in the pocket. Otherwise, that'll work for US Companies outsourcing. Tariffs on imports from foreign companies is a completely different subject.
1000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean--a good start. Microsoft execs, Monsanto execs, (other) execs, Congress, at the bottom of the ocean--utopia. However, ocean dwellers would object to the extreme pollution.
I agree. I would go after them every year. Require them to certify it Monsanto-free prior to your planting. Then if their stuff did appear, charge them to clean it up and reimburse for lost revenue. In fact, it would be even better if the farmers who have used the Monsanto stuff wised up and did this. Monsanto could not ensure that there were none of there products in the soil without removing the entire soil, thus ending the farmer's livelihood.
Pretty sure that you are right that the ship/platform country of registry would be considered the country of launch in the absence of a definitive country. (Sea Launch is a consortium of a Norway? ship, a Russian? rocket and Boeing.--I wonder what country would be at fault if one of those landed in Brazil.)
Due to the international law and treaties, Liberia would probably not agree to allow the licenses. Unless you got enough insurance, at which point you might as well launch from your home country.
There are laws--international laws. One link: Space Laws and Treaties do a google search for others. So no matter where a vehicle is launched, an entire nation is liable. Though to date, most launch accidents have killed citizens of the launching nation only. Shuttle Columbia was I believe the first time this was not true, but the Israeli was a willing passenger who knew the risks.
Within the US, commercial launchers require licensing from the FAA. To launch from a government range, the launcher must also follow all sorts of government oversight and requirements...which is why they launch overseas when they can.
Insurance is expensive. The insurance is required because of the dangers at liftoff through orbit insertion. Not only that, but there are also the end of lifetime dangers of the satellite/rocket.
Russia was sweating bullets when Mir came back in. Fortunately they had a good plan, and the thrusters functioned well enough (a definite question mark) to get it on the trajectory they wanted. While small satellites will likely burn up on the way in, parts of MIR survived to impact.
True FAA ATC may no longers apply, but isn't it still the FAA(?).
The FAA space launch office is getting more involved with commercial space launch now as well. They are also getting aware of DOD and civil (NASA, NOAA, etc.) launches as well so that what applies to the government launches won't bite them in the ass with respect to commercial launch licensing.
For safety purposes, Cape Canaveral defines reaches orbit as when the perigee is greater than 70 miles. At that point, you're pretty sure it's not coming right back down if the engines fail. It is a highly arbitrary number, but with some reasoning behind it.