I don't think the Pentagon actually sucks up that much of the budget, they're only about half. Of course most of the interest that we pay wouldn't have been necessary to borrow in the first place if it weren't for the military spending, so maybe you're closer than I think.
You don't seem to understand the concept of 'overfishing'. It's a short-term solution to feeding people, not a long term survival strategy. Overfish a species badly enough and the fishery collapses and doesn't recover, like the Peruvian anchovy fishery. Almost no one eats Humbolt Current anchovies now, because there aren't enough to be worth catching and there probably won't be again for decades. It's not like this was unprecedented, the same thing happened in California just a couple decades earlier. It's pretty much inevitable when you allow capitalism to run an resource industry unrestricted.
Mostly it's because colder water tends to be water brought up from the depths, which carries nutrients leached out of the ocean bottom. The Humbolt Current off the west coast of South America is a good example. There are several oceanic 'deserts' where very little grows because all the nutrients have been used up by the time currents carry the water there. They're in warm water areas of course, since the water has had time to warm up during its contact with the surface on the way there.
My dad had a customer who had been a paratrooper in Normandy. My brother made that dumb 'no atheists in foxhole' comment, and Dick snarled at him that "No fucking god worth worshiping would let anything like that take place." He felt that more atheists were MADE in foxholes than anywhere else.
Odd bit of trivia; when tomatoes were first brought to Europe people believed them to be poisonous. Tomato growers started the rumor that they were aphrodisiacs to promote sales. That's why the French word for tomato is 'pomme de amor' (sp?), which translates to 'apples of love'.
You do need to be more adaptable, which cops notoriously are NOT. I can hear right now the complaint of every (L)user getting a new Linux desktop, "It doesn't look right. The icons are in the wrong place. I can't use this. Give me my Windows machine back." The secretarial staff will probably not have any issue at all, but every actual officer will hate it for the first three months.
What they found was pollen, of a type normally found later in the fossil record. That they found a variety of different forms of pollen suggests that angiosperms had been around long enough to have diversified already, so this is probably not the last that we'll hear about this.
Sure you can! You just accumulate the methane it produces, purify it, compress it, and burn it in a natural gas generator. No problem, it would only take one wave of the magic wand to get all that working . . .
Most things are. Fortunately most very smart, very motivated individuals tend not to be amoral sociopaths. That's probably the reason why we haven't been overrun by manufactured plagues and the electrical grid doesn't crash every week.
No, solar power won't even work at Jupiter, much less Saturn. The amount of solar panel necessary to eliminate the RTG on Galileo would have made the spacecraft so enormous that it wouldn't have been stable enough for photography in Jupiter's gravity field. Saturn is even further out, receiving even less sunlight. At that distance you're stuck with nuclear power or some other more exotic energy source. Since both Jupiter and Saturn are surrounded by powerful energy fields perhaps there would be some way to tap that with a tether or something. Solar won't do it.
This is a really big difference between Microsoft and Apple; Microsoft has been creating enterprise operating systems and the software to manage them for over a decade and a half, while Apple has concentrated on the unmanaged consumer market. They've slapped some band-aides on their software and declared it to be enterprise-ready.
Apple's strongest point for the last two decades has been a marketing staff second to none in the world. They've managed to convince millions of people that their proprietary GUI was somehow the best "user experience" possible on all platforms and that their hardware was somehow superior to any other premium brand, while at the same time proclaiming that limiting customers' choices to only those that would make the company money was exactly what consumers wanted. If Edward Bernays were still alive he would work for Apple.
The biggest mistake the NSA has made in their current debacle is not hiring the Apple marketing staff. People would be begging the agency to spy on them.
Should be rabbit season now, since that generally opens about a month after they drop their last summer litters. Duck season doesn't generally start until the migration begins. Not sure when Elmer season starts, though . . .
I make fun of rednecks because I grew up with them. My co-worker makes fun of 'ghetto niggers' because he grew up with them. Is either one of those 'racism'? I suppose it depends on what definition you use.
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I don't think the Pentagon actually sucks up that much of the budget, they're only about half. Of course most of the interest that we pay wouldn't have been necessary to borrow in the first place if it weren't for the military spending, so maybe you're closer than I think.
There have been TWO congressional elections since, and support for the ACA has been clearly down in the house in both of them.
So what? They haven't repealed the law, so it still has to go into effect.
The military will get paid. Congress is quite aware that they will not be allowed to piss off the military.
And then say, "You mean people really DID go to the moon? Which mining company sponsored that?"
You don't seem to understand the concept of 'overfishing'. It's a short-term solution to feeding people, not a long term survival strategy. Overfish a species badly enough and the fishery collapses and doesn't recover, like the Peruvian anchovy fishery. Almost no one eats Humbolt Current anchovies now, because there aren't enough to be worth catching and there probably won't be again for decades. It's not like this was unprecedented, the same thing happened in California just a couple decades earlier. It's pretty much inevitable when you allow capitalism to run an resource industry unrestricted.
Mostly it's because colder water tends to be water brought up from the depths, which carries nutrients leached out of the ocean bottom. The Humbolt Current off the west coast of South America is a good example. There are several oceanic 'deserts' where very little grows because all the nutrients have been used up by the time currents carry the water there. They're in warm water areas of course, since the water has had time to warm up during its contact with the surface on the way there.
In space no one can hear you WOOSH . . .
made to Democratic party allies FTFY
I didn't know there was enough crack in Redmond to make the Win8 GUI look like a good idea. Ballmer should have been fired for that alone.
My dad had a customer who had been a paratrooper in Normandy. My brother made that dumb 'no atheists in foxhole' comment, and Dick snarled at him that "No fucking god worth worshiping would let anything like that take place." He felt that more atheists were MADE in foxholes than anywhere else.
Never underestimate the stupidity of rednecks. - FTFY
Odd bit of trivia; when tomatoes were first brought to Europe people believed them to be poisonous. Tomato growers started the rumor that they were aphrodisiacs to promote sales. That's why the French word for tomato is 'pomme de amor' (sp?), which translates to 'apples of love'.
You do need to be more adaptable, which cops notoriously are NOT. I can hear right now the complaint of every (L)user getting a new Linux desktop, "It doesn't look right. The icons are in the wrong place. I can't use this. Give me my Windows machine back." The secretarial staff will probably not have any issue at all, but every actual officer will hate it for the first three months.
Better than if they had used 'football fields', I suppose.
What they found was pollen, of a type normally found later in the fossil record. That they found a variety of different forms of pollen suggests that angiosperms had been around long enough to have diversified already, so this is probably not the last that we'll hear about this.
Sure you can! You just accumulate the methane it produces, purify it, compress it, and burn it in a natural gas generator. No problem, it would only take one wave of the magic wand to get all that working . . .
Most things are. Fortunately most very smart, very motivated individuals tend not to be amoral sociopaths. That's probably the reason why we haven't been overrun by manufactured plagues and the electrical grid doesn't crash every week.
No, solar power won't even work at Jupiter, much less Saturn. The amount of solar panel necessary to eliminate the RTG on Galileo would have made the spacecraft so enormous that it wouldn't have been stable enough for photography in Jupiter's gravity field. Saturn is even further out, receiving even less sunlight. At that distance you're stuck with nuclear power or some other more exotic energy source. Since both Jupiter and Saturn are surrounded by powerful energy fields perhaps there would be some way to tap that with a tether or something. Solar won't do it.
what did they think was going to happen.
Apparently not learn to spell or use punctuation.
This is a really big difference between Microsoft and Apple; Microsoft has been creating enterprise operating systems and the software to manage them for over a decade and a half, while Apple has concentrated on the unmanaged consumer market. They've slapped some band-aides on their software and declared it to be enterprise-ready.
Maybe a perpetual motion machine might help?
They can program in anticipated herd activity, which is the emotional response for most stock professionals.
Apple's strongest point for the last two decades has been a marketing staff second to none in the world. They've managed to convince millions of people that their proprietary GUI was somehow the best "user experience" possible on all platforms and that their hardware was somehow superior to any other premium brand, while at the same time proclaiming that limiting customers' choices to only those that would make the company money was exactly what consumers wanted. If Edward Bernays were still alive he would work for Apple.
The biggest mistake the NSA has made in their current debacle is not hiring the Apple marketing staff. People would be begging the agency to spy on them.
Should be rabbit season now, since that generally opens about a month after they drop their last summer litters. Duck season doesn't generally start until the migration begins. Not sure when Elmer season starts, though . . .
I make fun of rednecks because I grew up with them. My co-worker makes fun of 'ghetto niggers' because he grew up with them. Is either one of those 'racism'? I suppose it depends on what definition you use.