Very true, but another thing that should be noticed is that wings are useless in space. If we can do without them, all the better. We can do without them, by designing a space capsule without wings.
I'd cut both the Space Shuttle and the Space Station. Completely. They are a waste of money at this point.
Instead, I'd increase NASA's budget, tell them to switch to some robotic planetary missions, a small amount of space elevator research, and a somewhat larger effort to develop a two-stage to orbit booster consisting of a reusable flyback booster and a reusable space capsule. The damn thing will be stacked like a real rocket not in the dangerous side-by-side configuration that has killed two shuttles so far.
OK, I understand what you are saying now. Offtopic, but it's interesting anyway. The date that Social Security is projected to run out of money is still very far off. So far off that I won't be around to see it, and I'm only 35! The articles that say SS will be bankrupt by 2029 are wrong. If you read closely, they are actually saying that SS will start to pay out more money than it takes in in 2029. The time for it to run out of money completely is much further off. And, even if we reach that point, everything can be brought back into balance again by paying out 75% benefits, or raising the retirement age.
This is not a problem that we are foisting off on our kids. It's chicken little type scare-mongering by people who want to see social security go away. They say that the system is bankrupt, as if it was bankrupt right now. They say 2029 is the dooms day, when 2029 is just the day that the very large trust begins to be tapped. They say the system cannot be fixed, as if today's situation is somehow holy, given to us by God, and cannot be altered to fit the situation.
Hogwash! A couple minutes of thinking about the situation should raise a lot of questions in people's minds about why some would be so dead-set against a program that works really well, and will continue to work well into the future.
I know what he's saying, but I'm offering another way to look at it. Every time someone asks us to cough up some money to clean up the environment, we have to ask ourselves who polluted it in the first place. We had a clean environment, and it was polluted because someone decided that the future could suffer so that a profit could be made today. This is a crime, and now to say that it's the natural order of things that we have to pay money to clean our environment is putting things backwards.
It's extortion. I'll stop polluting your environment and/or beating you up if you pay me some money. We shouldn't have to take it. You know who should have to pay for pollution? The capitalists. If they want to pollute, they should have to pay for it, not us.
1) making the cable the same length of both sides OR 2) tying off a large rock above 22,300 miles OR 3) whatever (other options)
Option #2 is the one you are talking about, where a large rock is used as a counterweight to put the center of mass at the right spot without having an equal length of cable above geosynchronous orbit.
You're damn right that's capitalism. We all started out living on a nice clean planet. Then the capitalists got ahold of it and polluted parts of it up. And now, if we want to live on a clean planet, here's a capitalist right on schedule, promising to sell us one. And you know he's right, because the commies were terrible polluters. So what's wrong with this picture?
Oh for crissakes people, we're geeks supposedly, right?
geosynchronous orbit is at 22,300 miles. The reason that the cable needs to extend out past geosynchronous orbit is that the center of gravity has to be at 22,300 miles so the cable doesn't fall. That means making the cable the same length on both sides, tying off a large rock above 22,300 miles, or whatever. The point is that the cable has to have its center of gravity at 22,300 miles.
In the movie American Pie there's a point at which a young lady who is always relating stupid stories that start with the phrase "This one time, at band camp...", breathlessly tells the hero of the movie "This one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy!"
It didn't avoid the question at all. I'm a programmer, so let me translate it:
A customer dude says "YO IBM! Can you hook me up with some of that Linux shizzle fo my nizzle?"
Sam Palmizano says "affirmative, my dear sir. I can supply you with as much Linux software, hardware, and associated services as you like."
Customer dude says "Right on, brotha!"
And if IBM runs into any problems doing what the customer wants, they've got almost 200,000 people who might know the answer. They've got Linux distributions, hardware hackers, software hackers, kernel hackers. They can supply the customer anything they need, and they don't have to go outside the company to do it, which makes it cheaper.
IBM is a hardware company, sure, but it's really a services company now. IBM Global Services is the largest full-service professional services provider in the world, by far.
IBM makes money off Linux because it's customers demand Linux. Global Services can easily tap IBM's Linux resources to satisfy the customer's requirements. It's as simple as that.
The analogy completely fails. SPAM is a canned meat product, mostly pork. A Big Mac is a frozen meat product, mostly beef. See? The analogy is terrible.
I've been running Linux at work since 1999. I've been running my Lotus Notes and other Windows things with VMWare since 1999 as well. In that amount of time, I've earned roughly $400,000 in salary. I've upgraded VMWare three times as well ($300 for version 1, $70 version 2, $99 version 3, $99 version 4). At least that's what I think I spent for all those. Still cheap.
As long as you leave in the part where Kosh tells Captain Sheridan "JUMP! JUMP! NOW!" and the part where Commander Ivanova is yelling "Boom Shakalala Boom" while she is 'fucking' that alien ambassador dude, I'm with you.
I'm just shocked at the use of virii as well. The plural is spelled 'virae', but the word can make use of the special character where the 'a' and 'e' are connected together.
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Same with the CPU info. Makes it much less useful.
Very true, but another thing that should be noticed is that wings are useless in space. If we can do without them, all the better. We can do without them, by designing a space capsule without wings.
I'd cut both the Space Shuttle and the Space Station. Completely. They are a waste of money at this point.
Instead, I'd increase NASA's budget, tell them to switch to some robotic planetary missions, a small amount of space elevator research, and a somewhat larger effort to develop a two-stage to orbit booster consisting of a reusable flyback booster and a reusable space capsule. The damn thing will be stacked like a real rocket not in the dangerous side-by-side configuration that has killed two shuttles so far.
OK, I understand what you are saying now. Offtopic, but it's interesting anyway. The date that Social Security is projected to run out of money is still very far off. So far off that I won't be around to see it, and I'm only 35! The articles that say SS will be bankrupt by 2029 are wrong. If you read closely, they are actually saying that SS will start to pay out more money than it takes in in 2029. The time for it to run out of money completely is much further off. And, even if we reach that point, everything can be brought back into balance again by paying out 75% benefits, or raising the retirement age.
This is not a problem that we are foisting off on our kids. It's chicken little type scare-mongering by people who want to see social security go away. They say that the system is bankrupt, as if it was bankrupt right now. They say 2029 is the dooms day, when 2029 is just the day that the very large trust begins to be tapped. They say the system cannot be fixed, as if today's situation is somehow holy, given to us by God, and cannot be altered to fit the situation.
Hogwash! A couple minutes of thinking about the situation should raise a lot of questions in people's minds about why some would be so dead-set against a program that works really well, and will continue to work well into the future.
I'm not sure what you mean by the social security thing, but the national debt is caused by similar attitudes.
I know what he's saying, but I'm offering another way to look at it. Every time someone asks us to cough up some money to clean up the environment, we have to ask ourselves who polluted it in the first place. We had a clean environment, and it was polluted because someone decided that the future could suffer so that a profit could be made today. This is a crime, and now to say that it's the natural order of things that we have to pay money to clean our environment is putting things backwards.
It's extortion. I'll stop polluting your environment and/or beating you up if you pay me some money. We shouldn't have to take it. You know who should have to pay for pollution? The capitalists. If they want to pollute, they should have to pay for it, not us.
That's why there are three options listed there:
1) making the cable the same length of both sides
OR
2) tying off a large rock above 22,300 miles
OR
3) whatever (other options)
Option #2 is the one you are talking about, where a large rock is used as a counterweight to put the center of mass at the right spot without having an equal length of cable above geosynchronous orbit.
You're damn right that's capitalism. We all started out living on a nice clean planet. Then the capitalists got ahold of it and polluted parts of it up. And now, if we want to live on a clean planet, here's a capitalist right on schedule, promising to sell us one. And you know he's right, because the commies were terrible polluters. So what's wrong with this picture?
Oh for crissakes people, we're geeks supposedly, right?
geosynchronous orbit is at 22,300 miles. The reason that the cable needs to extend out past geosynchronous orbit is that the center of gravity has to be at 22,300 miles so the cable doesn't fall. That means making the cable the same length on both sides, tying off a large rock above 22,300 miles, or whatever. The point is that the cable has to have its center of gravity at 22,300 miles.
I heard they considered Microsoft Menis and Microsoft Magina too.
These switches are excellent, and will last for years
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I wasn't going to buy the game before, and now that I hear this I have decided not to buy the game, yet one more time.
Don't people watch movies anymore?
In the movie American Pie there's a point at which a young lady who is always relating stupid stories that start with the phrase "This one time, at band camp...", breathlessly tells the hero of the movie "This one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy!"
Jeez man, that was NBC's Dateline, not CBS or 60 minutes.
I innovated a partnership paradigm with a flute!
If my lung doctor told me he was practicing, I think I'd try to find a more experienced lung doctor.
Bet you never heard that one before.
It didn't avoid the question at all. I'm a programmer, so let me translate it:
A customer dude says "YO IBM! Can you hook me up with some of that Linux shizzle fo my nizzle?"
Sam Palmizano says "affirmative, my dear sir. I can supply you with as much Linux software, hardware, and associated services as you like."
Customer dude says "Right on, brotha!"
And if IBM runs into any problems doing what the customer wants, they've got almost 200,000 people who might know the answer. They've got Linux distributions, hardware hackers, software hackers, kernel hackers. They can supply the customer anything they need, and they don't have to go outside the company to do it, which makes it cheaper.
IBM is a hardware company, sure, but it's really a services company now. IBM Global Services is the largest full-service professional services provider in the world, by far.
IBM makes money off Linux because it's customers demand Linux. Global Services can easily tap IBM's Linux resources to satisfy the customer's requirements. It's as simple as that.
The analogy completely fails. SPAM is a canned meat product, mostly pork. A Big Mac is a frozen meat product, mostly beef. See? The analogy is terrible.
Are you sure it's not viria? Or is it virai?
All I know is that it's definitely not virii. I mean, who ever heard of such a thing!
I've been running Linux at work since 1999. I've been running my Lotus Notes and other Windows things with VMWare since 1999 as well. In that amount of time, I've earned roughly $400,000 in salary. I've upgraded VMWare three times as well ($300 for version 1, $70 version 2, $99 version 3, $99 version 4). At least that's what I think I spent for all those. Still cheap.
Good God, what will we hear next? That Martha Stewart is a fantastic businesswoman AND can bake a damn good cake?
Oh wait, that's true too.
Dipthong! That's it. That's the letter on the end of the plural of virus. Viræ. Thanks.
As long as you leave in the part where Kosh tells Captain Sheridan "JUMP! JUMP! NOW!" and the part where Commander Ivanova is yelling "Boom Shakalala Boom" while she is 'fucking' that alien ambassador dude, I'm with you.
I'm just shocked at the use of virii as well. The plural is spelled 'virae', but the word can make use of the special character where the 'a' and 'e' are connected together.
Folks, it's 'virae'.