1. Install auto navigation unit into prison barge. 2. Set GPS coordinates to 51 26 11.58 N, 179 10 47.14 E (WGS) 3. Put convicts on prison barge. 4. Remove convicts when the barge gets there.
If you shoot someone in the head with a pistol round, the bullet doesn't make it all the way through ever.
There are some very potent pistol rounds (.44 magnum,.45 ACP,.50 AE,.454 Casull, et al.) Usually, there's a much bigger hole going out than going in, regardless of fragment size.
This could be a test for MythBusters.
Top gear (actually we all laugh at US cars over here so that probably wouldn't go down well)
Top Gear is very popular in the US; the series and the magazine are well regarded. Your over-generalizing and "fashionable" anti-Americanism is what doesn't go down well.
There is an argument that the continued existence of a healthy ecosystem of independent local bookstores and multiple publishers is a benefit to the members of the society that outweighs the increased costs.
What about academic publishing? Textbooks are now ridiculously expensive, and I don't see any benefits to society from this particular healthy ecosystem of independent local bookstores. On the contrary, these excessive costs are making education more difficult to obtain, which is a detriment to society.
The plethora of small academic book stores (such as the local College or University bookstore) with no resulting bargaining power against the largest (or any other) academic publishers is a contributing factor to this problem.
I'm old enough to remember the days of air travel before deregulation. It was very expensive and you had to dress well, but you were treated with respect. There were even SST sticker books for the kids.
It would be interesting to see an airline with only business class and first class. How long would it stay in business?
Your post is very well documented and has very good supporting arguments, so I'm reconsidering my original statements. I ran the search and your results are consistent with mine.
There's one important thing to be considered though, and that is the total number of hours worked per week. It is rare that a GS would work more than the standard 40 hour work week while the private sector employee usually works in excess of 50 hours normally and work weeks of 60 or more hours probably is not uncommon.
As for the "worldwide deployments", I spent a year in Iraq and saw hundreds of military personnel, hundreds of contractors, and maybe a handful of DoD Civilians.
Your post is well thought out and researched, so you're probably closer to the truth than I am.
Government paychecks are capped at a maximum that is significantly less than commercial starting pay for cyber-security experts...
No, they aren't. The Information Assurance and other Information Technology positions in the Federal Government are usually grade GS-13. A GS-13 Step 1 in the Metro DC Area makes $70,615, Step 10 makes $91,801. This is competitive with most commercial salaries. Factor in the generous benefits (retirement, commute cost compensation, flextime, etc.) and the Civil Service positions are lucrative.
All right, but apart from Velcro, Tang, the Hubble telescope, disposable diapers, smoke detectors, cordless electric drills, shavers, and pens that write upside down, what has manned space flight ever done for us?
I don't mean to take anything away from the great work you guys are doing, but wouldn't it make sense to color code these things in a way that the warmer areas were red? It would jive better with our existing preconceptions.
After you change the color code, you can re-write the Herschel Observatory's web site in Eubonics, Chav, or some other form of degraded English.
Although I agree with most of your post, this statement is wrong.
"People who die remove critical knowledge and skills from the economy that makes a society function."
Some (very few) people yes, but everyone? Of course not. The vast majority of the populace, myself included, have skills that are neither unique nor critical. Everyone is replaceable.
If there is any nation willing to do this, it certainly won't be the US. We can't even let terminal patients die without wasting vast sums to slightly prolong their misery.
Hey, it's their money. I'd probably go on a drug and sex filled romp around the world until I dropped dead, but with the value of the dollar, that would probably be a bus ride to Tijuana and a guest appearance in a donkey show.
Anyone know where I can rent a donkey costume?
Nuclear weapons would be far more entertaining; kind of a near-Earth fireworks display ("ooooh, aahhhh"). Besides, one more used up there is one less that may be used down here.
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1. Install auto navigation unit into prison barge.
2. Set GPS coordinates to 51 26 11.58 N, 179 10 47.14 E (WGS)
3. Put convicts on prison barge.
4. Remove convicts when the barge gets there.
There are some very potent pistol rounds (.44 magnum,.45 ACP, .50 AE, .454 Casull, et al.) Usually, there's a much bigger hole going out than going in, regardless of fragment size.
This could be a test for MythBusters.
Aren't the most confident usually the most wrong? I never trust in bravado.
Top Gear is very popular in the US; the series and the magazine are well regarded. Your over-generalizing and "fashionable" anti-Americanism is what doesn't go down well.
So, do all of you laugh at the SSC Ultimate Aero? It is currently the world's fastest production automobile. That's nothing to laugh at.
What about academic publishing? Textbooks are now ridiculously expensive, and I don't see any benefits to society from this particular healthy ecosystem of independent local bookstores. On the contrary, these excessive costs are making education more difficult to obtain, which is a detriment to society.
The plethora of small academic book stores (such as the local College or University bookstore) with no resulting bargaining power against the largest (or any other) academic publishers is a contributing factor to this problem.
"We can't use that laptop here, this is bat country!"
I was thinking something different -
4. Pay per view!
or maybe -
4. UMFC (Ultimate Mouse Fighting Championship)
I'm old enough to remember the days of air travel before deregulation. It was very expensive and you had to dress well, but you were treated with respect. There were even SST sticker books for the kids.
It would be interesting to see an airline with only business class and first class. How long would it stay in business?
A friend of mine once described Las Vegas as "Grotesquely American".
You've just described about 90% of all jobs.
I was going to say, "You must be new here", but I recognized your nomme de slashdot. You must just be optimistic.
You're bitching about the post-Industrial era on an Internet message board?
Hilarious.
Your post is very well documented and has very good supporting arguments, so I'm reconsidering my original statements. I ran the search and your results are consistent with mine.
There's one important thing to be considered though, and that is the total number of hours worked per week. It is rare that a GS would work more than the standard 40 hour work week while the private sector employee usually works in excess of 50 hours normally and work weeks of 60 or more hours probably is not uncommon.
As for the "worldwide deployments", I spent a year in Iraq and saw hundreds of military personnel, hundreds of contractors, and maybe a handful of DoD Civilians.
Your post is well thought out and researched, so you're probably closer to the truth than I am.
No, I'm not off base. I get a weekly e-mail from USA Jobs that lists these positions, and the lowest I've seen is a GS-11.
Yes, he is. The burden of proof is on the accuser.
No, they aren't. The Information Assurance and other Information Technology positions in the Federal Government are usually grade GS-13. A GS-13 Step 1 in the Metro DC Area makes $70,615, Step 10 makes $91,801. This is competitive with most commercial salaries. Factor in the generous benefits (retirement, commute cost compensation, flextime, etc.) and the Civil Service positions are lucrative.
All right, but apart from Velcro, Tang, the Hubble telescope, disposable diapers, smoke detectors, cordless electric drills, shavers, and pens that write upside down, what has manned space flight ever done for us?
There is that. Besides Velcro, Tang, and the Hubble telescope what has manned space flight ever done for us?
After you change the color code, you can re-write the Herschel Observatory's web site in Eubonics, Chav, or some other form of degraded English.
Although I agree with most of your post, this statement is wrong.
"People who die remove critical knowledge and skills from the economy that makes a society function."
Some (very few) people yes, but everyone? Of course not. The vast majority of the populace, myself included, have skills that are neither unique nor critical. Everyone is replaceable.
Both are being children; a perfect government and a perfect market are both idealized abstractions.
Hey, it's their money. I'd probably go on a drug and sex filled romp around the world until I dropped dead, but with the value of the dollar, that would probably be a bus ride to Tijuana and a guest appearance in a donkey show.
Anyone know where I can rent a donkey costume?
I know of a Cosmologist at Arizona State University.
Nuclear weapons would be far more entertaining; kind of a near-Earth fireworks display ("ooooh, aahhhh"). Besides, one more used up there is one less that may be used down here.
Sorry, I couldn't help it.