Actually, you can still fly. But you've got to have a buddy with a plane, or your own plane and a license, or you can rent the plane.
Come to think of it, I think you're fine as long as you don't use metropolitan airport terminal.
Which is why I'm wondering why in the post-9/11 environment we don't see more "luxury semi-private-charter" type thingies showing up with smaller planes, where they drive you out to the flight line from your home. No time-wasting trip through airport security. No "arrive at least 3hrs before your flight." In fact, if you're 5 minutes late they'd.. just wait for you.
It's really the only civilized way to fly which is why it's good enough for Nancy Pelosi and Dick Cheney alike!
Bugs. They tend to like warm, humid areas. Keeping the temperature down lowers both of those values. It's probably not a conscious decision to avoid bugs, but rather a general feeling of greater comfort when they're not around.
Personal temperature. Everyone does not enjoy the same temperature, so you have to pick a temperature that's good for as many people as possible. The preferred temperature depends on many things. For instance, your restaurant contains you, a person who is sitting down, relaxing, and generally not very active as well as the server, a person who is active carrying things around, and must travel between the dining room and the possibly quite hot kitchen. They're going to prefer lower temperatures than their customers.
Fast food "restaurants" don't actually want you to stick around, so they'll make it just a little bit uncomfortable to stay after you're done eating.
There are also physical reasons for the temperature: the cooling system may have a thermostat located in an inappropriate location, it may be inappropriately sized, it may have a poor temperature control model which varies wildly.
And the most important factor in choosing a temperature for a location in which a lot of people of disparate heating (Personally, I'm most comfortable at 69-71F unless I'm really sedentary, in which case I'll go as high as 74-76F):
There is no physical limit to the number of sweaters you can put on. You cannot take off more clothes than all of them. In some social situations, you can't even take off as much as that.
Better question: can you have different avatars in the game world, one for you and one for people looking at you? In a MMORPG, it sure feels like lying or something to pick an avatar of a different sex, but I really don't want to stare at my hot-pants sporting avatar's ugly man-ass for the first 15 levels before I can finally upgrade to regular pants. or the remaining 45 levels where "pants" is really just fancy-colored tights.
I suppose it wouldn't be so bad if the default camera position didn't make said arse occupy like the center fifth of the screen.
In the US, meat pies and pot pies are very different things, though both usually contain meat. Not to be confused with mincemeat pies, which don't contain meat at all, minced or otherwise.
Do you really mean to imply that meat pies are in your country similar to pot pies in the US, or are you just trying to make an "Americans are stupid" joke? If so, ha ha, you got me. You're pretty clever, you sly fox. Not to mention erudite, cosmopolitan, and brave.
BTW, in the US, we call them "gas stations," "service stations," "rest stops" and "filling stations" depending on the circumstances, though generally "service station" is reserved garages which may or may not have pumps.
Finding patterns in the noise is precisely the nature of what people believe his job was.
Clinton was fond of saying, "It's the Economy, Stupid." He meant that the economy has significant effect determining the president. Whoever controls the economy controls the presidency, and Greenspan is the only figure during the two Bush and Clinton Presidencies who's been said to have that power. He didn't exactly make decisions favorable to the elder Bush administration, either.
If he made unfavorable decisions because of conspiracy, the person who benefits is Hillary Clinton. Especially, but not solely if Gore had been elected in 2000. The thing that changed everything was 9/11, which shifted everyone's focus from "the Business of America is Business" to "National Security" (although each party developed different approaches to it) and gave Bush a bit of a boost just for being there.
If he made unfavorable decisions because of incomplete knowledge (as is far more likely) then he's either incompetent for failing to see the trends, or just an ordinary guy who didn't see things that really couldn't be seen.
Hindsight tells us only that the trends existed, not that they could've been predicted. But the assumption that they were predictable raises some interesting questions about the guy whose job it was to make the predictions and adjust policy to affect them. Interestingly, there was one guy at the time claiming to have made just such a prediction. I've already mentioned his name and what he was doing at the time, and what people thought of it.
The star trek franchise does not depict "America in Space." It depicts "Idealized Former USSR in Space." And glosses over some pretty bleak notions about the value of human life. The bad guys are also metaphorically Soviet, so it's pretty confusing to say the least.
The rest of your screed is also nonsensical. Energy-to-weight ratios and the lack of star trek physics pretty much dictates that if flying cars are in the near future, they'll be "petrol" powered and rare. Or at least hydrocarbon powered, regardless of whether the hydrocarbons are from convenient underground puddles or Arizonan algal vats.
If you stomp HARD on a car equipped with ABS brakes, the brakes will still lock. ABS only works if you apply constant, even pressure to the brake pedal. This is one of the difficulties that "experienced" drivers have with ABS brakes: pumping can actually lock them. I don't know that this is considered a feature but you probably would based on your post.
Everyone seems to think Greenspan is this really smart dude, but he's not, and if he is, he is the most Machiavellian bastard ever to chair a quasi-governmental agency.
Let's look at the evidence.
In the months leading up to the 2000 election (roughly 18ish), the Fed continued to raise rates despite low inflation numbers. Indeed despite candidate Bush being lambasted for "talking down the economy" for warning of the very recession he would be blamed for in the coming months. There was much discussion about what it was, exactly, that Greenspan feared. Especially in light of the dot-com collapse which occurred at roughly the same time and lead in part to the recession of late 2000, early 2001.
Greenspan was making anti-exuberance moves at a time when the market was already cooling off.
Either Greenspan was unaware of the impending slowdown or he was actively trying to enhance a recession which would take place in Clinton's successor's presidency. The only reason I can think of to do that on purpose would be to set up the successor (who everyone expected to be Gore) for failure, leading to nostalgia for the Clinton presidency and therefore support for a Senator Clinton 2004 presidential run. Such nostalgia would be necessary to overcome an incumbent Gore's near-automatic party nomination.
It's especially brilliant since Gore would have been unwilling to take potentially revenue reducing steps like capital gains tax and income tax reductions during a recession, a position which would only exacerbate the situation.
I'm not convinced that he actually had this as a plan, though. Its flaws are glaringly obvious to anyone capable of conceiving it. I think it's far more likely that Greenspan is a moderately effective bureaucrat who's had disproportionate superstar status painted on him by virtue of his high post.
It's a symptom of the same problem which propagates the idea of the "Corporate Savior" CEO, allowing an artificially small pool of mostly competent, but not astoundingly so, individuals to command enormous salaries. He was kept on by virtue of a desire not to "rock the boat" in financial circles, which ironically would probably have had more effect on the economy than any of his actual decisions.
I thought it was because of the "table-top PC" style user interface. But I haven't bought one, so the only capabilities I'm aware of are the ones in the television ad...Phone! MP3-player! something else I forget!... phone! MP3-player!...
You can neither reason nor argue mit people like that...they'll let you know that "it is impossible to argue with you"....
So..they're glue and you're rubber?
This is the problem with zealotry: we all think we're reasonable and open minded. And that the other person is too much of a zealot to realize their arguments are stupid and come around to our way of thinking.
There is a "Big-Band" sound that is impossible to produce without sufficient funding. Many here claim not to enjoy it because it's too plebeian for their sophisticated taste. But if there are people who do enjoy it, then yes, we want mega-bands.
maybe if our cops didnt flash their lights just so they didnt have to stop at a red light,
Frankly, I'd be pretty happy if they started doing this again. As opposed to what seems like the current practice (at least in my area) of driving like drunken rice-boys.
What with the tailgating (don't think I don't know they're trying to nudge you into absent mindedly speeding), excessive speed, and unquestionably dangerous unannounced activities in intersections, I'm surprised the leading cause of accidents isn't the traffic patrol, itself.
The seats are transferable, depending on the class of ticket you purchase. Although I did mention the "name on the ticket" thing. DHS= Department of Homeland Security.
The thing that keeps people from scalping tickets is that they're sold at the market price.
Maybe in your country. In my country (USA) "credit union" means "scam bank, also not 'insured' by FDIC" I have been member of a couple, and in all cases the fees were higher than banks I've been an account holder in, which usually didn't even have fees for most things, and didn't even care if you had an account to cash a check or make change.
I think it would be better if they used airline-style pricing, but maybe also tied to the rate of ticket sales, so if they start off selling very rapidly, the price goes up super high too, but drops over time so latecomers can still get reasonably priced tickets. I mean, you don't see people scalping airline tickets (though the DHS may be partially responsible for that). It maximizes profit and never really sells out. Of course you'd also need a music analog to adding another plane to the route in response to high demand.
Why is it that such a large section of the planet seemingly churns out nothing but garbage?
Because it only takes 2% of the population to produce all the food, and the rest of us need to find a way to justify our claim to the fruits (pun intended) of their labor.
But.. he was wrong. QM is the refutation: all the "hidden-variable" variations have been eliminated leaving only the truly random. We don't live in a clockwork universe.*
*although it's certainly possible that brains are constructed such that QM variations averaged out to very little relevance.
I think if you had a million wet Sunday afternoons to think about it, you could come up with a pretty good answer. I've resigned myself to circa 80 years, just like everyone else who secretly longs for more, and try to make the best of it, but fail miserably every time I post to slashdot...
Glossy paper is little more than hydrocarbon steeped cellulose fibers, I fail to see how "chest high flames" would've been stopped by glossy paper. Also why they would apparently fail to burn anything but a little bit of the inside of his pocket. I mean, they'd have to go through his pants to reach chest-high, wouldn't they?
It's far more likely that it was a slow burn, which the paper did slightly insulate him from, but which when he finally noticed was hot enough to slightly char the inside of his pocket and the paper. The "chest high flame" could be attributed to misremembering the event due to shock. I know I've poorly recalled a minor accident I was in, once. (Poorly recalled right after. After I had time to think about it, I'm pretty sure I remember correctly, but at the time it seemed much worse than it was)
Well that's the problem with democracy: Politician's jobs are to win elections. Actually running the government doesn't affect their pay in any way. Occasional attempts to "reform" the elections seem to be designed to reduce the effect performance at running the government has on elections outcomes.
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Actually, you can still fly. But you've got to have a buddy with a plane, or your own plane and a license, or you can rent the plane.
Come to think of it, I think you're fine as long as you don't use metropolitan airport terminal.
Which is why I'm wondering why in the post-9/11 environment we don't see more "luxury semi-private-charter" type thingies showing up with smaller planes, where they drive you out to the flight line from your home. No time-wasting trip through airport security. No "arrive at least 3hrs before your flight." In fact, if you're 5 minutes late they'd.. just wait for you.
It's really the only civilized way to fly which is why it's good enough for Nancy Pelosi and Dick Cheney alike!
Well, there are probably a few reasons.
Bugs. They tend to like warm, humid areas. Keeping the temperature down lowers both of those values. It's probably not a conscious decision to avoid bugs, but rather a general feeling of greater comfort when they're not around.
Personal temperature. Everyone does not enjoy the same temperature, so you have to pick a temperature that's good for as many people as possible. The preferred temperature depends on many things. For instance, your restaurant contains you, a person who is sitting down, relaxing, and generally not very active as well as the server, a person who is active carrying things around, and must travel between the dining room and the possibly quite hot kitchen. They're going to prefer lower temperatures than their customers.
Fast food "restaurants" don't actually want you to stick around, so they'll make it just a little bit uncomfortable to stay after you're done eating.
There are also physical reasons for the temperature: the cooling system may have a thermostat located in an inappropriate location, it may be inappropriately sized, it may have a poor temperature control model which varies wildly.
And the most important factor in choosing a temperature for a location in which a lot of people of disparate heating (Personally, I'm most comfortable at 69-71F unless I'm really sedentary, in which case I'll go as high as 74-76F):
There is no physical limit to the number of sweaters you can put on. You cannot take off more clothes than all of them. In some social situations, you can't even take off as much as that.
Why does a computer need a steering wheel?
But.. Spock was wrong. His incomplete understanding was the basis for two additional films.
The needs of the one sometimes outweigh the needs of the many. Otherwise you end up with everyone just being a drone in an ant colony.
So it's impossible that one of the protesters, or just a kid nearby, was just playing with one of these
Better question: can you have different avatars in the game world, one for you and one for people looking at you? In a MMORPG, it sure feels like lying or something to pick an avatar of a different sex, but I really don't want to stare at my hot-pants sporting avatar's ugly man-ass for the first 15 levels before I can finally upgrade to regular pants. or the remaining 45 levels where "pants" is really just fancy-colored tights.
I suppose it wouldn't be so bad if the default camera position didn't make said arse occupy like the center fifth of the screen.
In the US, meat pies and pot pies are very different things, though both usually contain meat. Not to be confused with mincemeat pies, which don't contain meat at all, minced or otherwise.
Do you really mean to imply that meat pies are in your country similar to pot pies in the US, or are you just trying to make an "Americans are stupid" joke? If so, ha ha, you got me. You're pretty clever, you sly fox. Not to mention erudite, cosmopolitan, and brave.
BTW, in the US, we call them "gas stations," "service stations," "rest stops" and "filling stations" depending on the circumstances, though generally "service station" is reserved garages which may or may not have pumps.
Pure number of game states does not equate to richness of experience.
Would you say that "Diplomacy" is more or less tactical than "Axis and Allies?"
Finding patterns in the noise is precisely the nature of what people believe his job was.
Clinton was fond of saying, "It's the Economy, Stupid." He meant that the economy has significant effect determining the president. Whoever controls the economy controls the presidency, and Greenspan is the only figure during the two Bush and Clinton Presidencies who's been said to have that power. He didn't exactly make decisions favorable to the elder Bush administration, either.
If he made unfavorable decisions because of conspiracy, the person who benefits is Hillary Clinton. Especially, but not solely if Gore had been elected in 2000. The thing that changed everything was 9/11, which shifted everyone's focus from "the Business of America is Business" to "National Security" (although each party developed different approaches to it) and gave Bush a bit of a boost just for being there.
If he made unfavorable decisions because of incomplete knowledge (as is far more likely) then he's either incompetent for failing to see the trends, or just an ordinary guy who didn't see things that really couldn't be seen.
Hindsight tells us only that the trends existed, not that they could've been predicted. But the assumption that they were predictable raises some interesting questions about the guy whose job it was to make the predictions and adjust policy to affect them. Interestingly, there was one guy at the time claiming to have made just such a prediction. I've already mentioned his name and what he was doing at the time, and what people thought of it.
The star trek franchise does not depict "America in Space." It depicts "Idealized Former USSR in Space." And glosses over some pretty bleak notions about the value of human life. The bad guys are also metaphorically Soviet, so it's pretty confusing to say the least.
The rest of your screed is also nonsensical. Energy-to-weight ratios and the lack of star trek physics pretty much dictates that if flying cars are in the near future, they'll be "petrol" powered and rare. Or at least hydrocarbon powered, regardless of whether the hydrocarbons are from convenient underground puddles or Arizonan algal vats.
If you stomp HARD on a car equipped with ABS brakes, the brakes will still lock. ABS only works if you apply constant, even pressure to the brake pedal. This is one of the difficulties that "experienced" drivers have with ABS brakes: pumping can actually lock them. I don't know that this is considered a feature but you probably would based on your post.
Everyone seems to think Greenspan is this really smart dude, but he's not, and if he is, he is the most Machiavellian bastard ever to chair a quasi-governmental agency.
Let's look at the evidence.
In the months leading up to the 2000 election (roughly 18ish), the Fed continued to raise rates despite low inflation numbers. Indeed despite candidate Bush being lambasted for "talking down the economy" for warning of the very recession he would be blamed for in the coming months. There was much discussion about what it was, exactly, that Greenspan feared. Especially in light of the dot-com collapse which occurred at roughly the same time and lead in part to the recession of late 2000, early 2001.
Greenspan was making anti-exuberance moves at a time when the market was already cooling off.
Either Greenspan was unaware of the impending slowdown or he was actively trying to enhance a recession which would take place in Clinton's successor's presidency. The only reason I can think of to do that on purpose would be to set up the successor (who everyone expected to be Gore) for failure, leading to nostalgia for the Clinton presidency and therefore support for a Senator Clinton 2004 presidential run. Such nostalgia would be necessary to overcome an incumbent Gore's near-automatic party nomination.
It's especially brilliant since Gore would have been unwilling to take potentially revenue reducing steps like capital gains tax and income tax reductions during a recession, a position which would only exacerbate the situation.
I'm not convinced that he actually had this as a plan, though. Its flaws are glaringly obvious to anyone capable of conceiving it. I think it's far more likely that Greenspan is a moderately effective bureaucrat who's had disproportionate superstar status painted on him by virtue of his high post.
It's a symptom of the same problem which propagates the idea of the "Corporate Savior" CEO, allowing an artificially small pool of mostly competent, but not astoundingly so, individuals to command enormous salaries. He was kept on by virtue of a desire not to "rock the boat" in financial circles, which ironically would probably have had more effect on the economy than any of his actual decisions.
I thought it was because of the "table-top PC" style user interface. But I haven't bought one, so the only capabilities I'm aware of are the ones in the television ad...Phone! MP3-player! something else I forget! ... phone! MP3-player! ...
So..they're glue and you're rubber?
This is the problem with zealotry: we all think we're reasonable and open minded. And that the other person is too much of a zealot to realize their arguments are stupid and come around to our way of thinking.
There is a "Big-Band" sound that is impossible to produce without sufficient funding. Many here claim not to enjoy it because it's too plebeian for their sophisticated taste. But if there are people who do enjoy it, then yes, we want mega-bands.
What with the tailgating (don't think I don't know they're trying to nudge you into absent mindedly speeding), excessive speed, and unquestionably dangerous unannounced activities in intersections, I'm surprised the leading cause of accidents isn't the traffic patrol, itself.
The seats are transferable, depending on the class of ticket you purchase. Although I did mention the "name on the ticket" thing. DHS= Department of Homeland Security.
The thing that keeps people from scalping tickets is that they're sold at the market price.
Maybe in your country. In my country (USA) "credit union" means "scam bank, also not 'insured' by FDIC" I have been member of a couple, and in all cases the fees were higher than banks I've been an account holder in, which usually didn't even have fees for most things, and didn't even care if you had an account to cash a check or make change.
I think it would be better if they used airline-style pricing, but maybe also tied to the rate of ticket sales, so if they start off selling very rapidly, the price goes up super high too, but drops over time so latecomers can still get reasonably priced tickets. I mean, you don't see people scalping airline tickets (though the DHS may be partially responsible for that). It maximizes profit and never really sells out. Of course you'd also need a music analog to adding another plane to the route in response to high demand.
But.. he was wrong. QM is the refutation: all the "hidden-variable" variations have been eliminated leaving only the truly random. We don't live in a clockwork universe.*
*although it's certainly possible that brains are constructed such that QM variations averaged out to very little relevance.
I think if you had a million wet Sunday afternoons to think about it, you could come up with a pretty good answer. I've resigned myself to circa 80 years, just like everyone else who secretly longs for more, and try to make the best of it, but fail miserably every time I post to slashdot...
Why do you think 80 is enough?
Indeed. Glossy paper protected him?
Glossy paper is little more than hydrocarbon steeped cellulose fibers, I fail to see how "chest high flames" would've been stopped by glossy paper. Also why they would apparently fail to burn anything but a little bit of the inside of his pocket. I mean, they'd have to go through his pants to reach chest-high, wouldn't they?
It's far more likely that it was a slow burn, which the paper did slightly insulate him from, but which when he finally noticed was hot enough to slightly char the inside of his pocket and the paper. The "chest high flame" could be attributed to misremembering the event due to shock. I know I've poorly recalled a minor accident I was in, once. (Poorly recalled right after. After I had time to think about it, I'm pretty sure I remember correctly, but at the time it seemed much worse than it was)
Well that's the problem with democracy: Politician's jobs are to win elections. Actually running the government doesn't affect their pay in any way. Occasional attempts to "reform" the elections seem to be designed to reduce the effect performance at running the government has on elections outcomes.