No, the quote you might have been looking for goes more like, "How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove that splinter from your eye,' while the wooden beam is in your eye?"
But I think the more relevant quote starts off with, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's..."
That's exactly the kind of market efficiency that should get "quickly" lapped up by savvy investors and long-term thinking board members. Such a company should easily out-compete short-term thinking in most markets, so there should be plenty of counter-examples to your claim.
I believe the problem with NERVA was that the material at the interface between the reactor and the propulsion mass becomes radioactive, and this material tended to ablate.
Yeah, but one reason that the ground crews are so extensive is that conventionally fueled rockets must use razor thin safety factors: they are over 90% fuel mass, after all. If you can get it down to 50% fuel mass (like an airplane) or 5% fuel mass (like cars) you can afford to have much higher safety factors on not just the structure, but also the mission planning.
If your car was made of paper and 90% of it's mass fuel and used that up just going to the grocery store and back (and all of that was on the to trip; the trip back is downhill, but you gotta time it just right) you'd probably want a ground crew for it as well.
With robustness comes smaller ground crews. How large is the ground crew for autos and airplanes? In both cases, it's less than one operator per vehicle. In both cases, infrastructure improvements are projected to eventually obviate the physical drivers as well. The shuttle needs so many more because it's experimental and only just barely makes it to its destination both in terms of fuel and structure.
It's just too bad that NERVA and ORION put out big clouds of radioactive materials. They'd really be quite useful for getting out of the atmosphere, being both high thrust AND high Isp. Usually you have to pick one or the other.
He claims that it will get roughly 15 mpg using regular unleaded fuel.. at the cruising altitude of 20,000 ft and a speed of 290 mph.
Even assuming he can achieve this, it would still get much worse mileage on a short hop where it never goes above 1000 ft. Why would the oil companies be opposed to this?
If you write software that is essentially a wrapper for a GPL app, and distribute both (but without modifying the GPL application, are you supposed to include the source for your software as well? It doesn't seem to me that something like a closed K3b sort-of clone would necessarily violate the GPL, as long as the open software is properly distributed.
I think my understanding of the concept of "derivative work" may be lacking.
Interesting, but then you no longer have an FCC* type-accepted device, non? So you need to apply for a license, or find rules that allow you to use experimental devices without license at the power level you've specified.
*or whatever regulatory agency operates in your country.
Yet you'll probably claim to believe in evolution when the topic inevitably comes up again.
He's already paid society for that support. In fact, money is the token with which society expresses its debt for all that he's done. But he's also paid through his taxes and he may have also made charitable contributions or volunteered his time. The money should be his to dispense as he sees fit, including passing it to the person of his choosing after his death. The child has no claim other than the deceased's wishes.
I certainly have no claim, what makes you think you do?
Surely we got this out of our systems with the last alliterative 'H'-based release. Come to think of it, why are we getting another H, anyway? They surely haven't gone through all of the letters which begin both animal names and adjectives.
Either that or it I'm not sure I want to know what a Whedgehog is...
If your goal is to break up familial fortunes, You'd probably be more effective if you disallow birth control. Nothing destroys a fortune like a dozen contentious heirs for a few generations.
The goal behind the death tax may be noble (depending on how you view things): to prevent dynasties from accumulating all of the wealth. Under the premise that everyone starting as close to the same (nothing) as possible results in the greatest chance of prosperity for all.
But what claim does the government have to your accumulated wealth, even the very wealthy? They've already billed you for the services used to create that wealth, in the form of the various taxes you paid up to that point. The only one I can see is the right of might: they're stronger than you, so be grateful for what they let you keep.
The "death tax" falls squarely in the category of socialism; Improving society by taking from the most productive. Whether you agree with it is up to you to decide.
Well what's the expensive part? Is it the mile of fiber or the mile of fiber?
'if it's the miles that are expensive, there's quite a bit that can be done at the municipal level to alleviate that and even encourage competition. Quite a bit that can be done. But won't.
Shouldn't this be kind of like the GPL? i.e. they should be required to satisfy the laws of both nations, and where they cannot, they should not do business?
In the quantities we were able to manufacture using the shuttle, one-off automatic satellites designed with re-entry in mind would be much less expensive. And as it turns out, for at least a subset of that group, diamagnetic levitation allows creation on the earth's surface, and will likely be quite a bit less expensive.
The letter of the problem does not specify an intact egg. Which is what makes destroying the egg a potential solution.
But it's a lawyer's solution. People break the spirit of laws all the time without actually violating the letter of them. This isn't particularly noble at all. It's actually a fundamental problem for any justice system, one which we've addressed in the modern age by writing verbose and specific laws to cover as many loopholes as possible. Creating the additional problem of having to prosecute people who have violated the letter of complicated laws without actually infringing upon whatever the law was actually supposed to protect.
I did think of smashing the egg (the first time I heard it. It's been a while.) I rejected that option as being scummy and tried to think of a more creative option.
Actually, I thought lentils & chickpeas sounded at like an at least somewhat interesting take, and your specific use of the word "burger" was for lack of a better term. Though I would've called 'em garbonzos, 'cause it's more fun to say. Also, they're like the blandest beans & legumes I can think of so I hope you spiced it up a bit.
It just bugs me all the fashion vegans out there who try to foist their vegetarian substitutes upon us like we can't tell the difference. I'm talking to you, "veggie burger" and you, "Silk" and especially you, "<insert item> made of Tofu." It's quite similar to the way diet soft drinks taste almost nothing like their conventionally sweetened counterparts yet people will insist they can't tell the difference.
There are no documented cases of Fox news forging documents in an attempt to characterize a sitting republican president as a draft dodger. "Fake, but Accurate" also is not a phrase common in the Fox news room. Therefore, they are extreme right wing radicals bent on establishing a new Reich and ignoring the fact that the last group famous for that were vegetarian, anti-smoking Nazis.
That solution is silly, and only a good illustration of "thinking outside the box" a la the Gordian knot. But they are not particularly clever. In fact, the whole point of solutions like that is to show that the clever solution is not always necessary. Sometimes you can get away with twisting the letter of the instructions to suit your ham-fisted attempt. If the instructions had been more specific, ("Untie the knot", or "stand the whole egg") your trite solution would not have even been considered.
In the case of the boiled egg, it won't even work. You have to smoosh the egg to the point that it's really more of an omlette with shells in it. Just a little flat spot on the bottom is insufficient unless it happened to boil straight up as well: there is a void that unbalances the egg.
If I ask you the solution to y'' + 4y' + y = 0 and you tell me that y=0 is the solution, you're not doing anything clever. y=0 is called the trivial solution precisely because it's uninteresting.
What? no, most of the time it kills you. You only get Hulkinization if the test subject is particularly moody and bottles up their emotions. These seemingly contradictory requirements are necessary conditions, though they may not be sufficient.
Why do so many vegetarians seem to eat simulated meat-products? Aren't they creative enough to come up with their own dishes? Are they trying to make their meat-eating friends more comfortable? If the latter is the case, there's some bad logic going on. Veggie-burgers do not taste anything like hamburgers, and the whole exercise seems silly to us. It would seem a lot more natural to us if you'd just eat a dish that happened to be vegetarian, rather than a meat-dish that had vegetarianism foisted upon it.
Of course, if you like the distinctive (and IMO, a tad bitter) taste of veggie-burgers, the go right ahead and enjoy. But the people who try and pretend it tastes "just like meat" should really think hard about why they're vegetarians at all.
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Wait.. you choose as your evidence a poorly written, even more poorly researched comedy about four extremely selfish buckaroo bonzai clones?
I mean, geez, "You just have to get halfway to the moon, then the moon's gravity takes over."
No, the quote you might have been looking for goes more like, "How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove that splinter from your eye,' while the wooden beam is in your eye?"
But I think the more relevant quote starts off with, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's..."
That's exactly the kind of market efficiency that should get "quickly" lapped up by savvy investors and long-term thinking board members. Such a company should easily out-compete short-term thinking in most markets, so there should be plenty of counter-examples to your claim.
I believe the problem with NERVA was that the material at the interface between the reactor and the propulsion mass becomes radioactive, and this material tended to ablate.
What? yes it is. An anecdote is a datum, and "data" is the plural of "datum." I think you are confusing data with information.
Yeah, but one reason that the ground crews are so extensive is that conventionally fueled rockets must use razor thin safety factors: they are over 90% fuel mass, after all. If you can get it down to 50% fuel mass (like an airplane) or 5% fuel mass (like cars) you can afford to have much higher safety factors on not just the structure, but also the mission planning.
If your car was made of paper and 90% of it's mass fuel and used that up just going to the grocery store and back (and all of that was on the to trip; the trip back is downhill, but you gotta time it just right) you'd probably want a ground crew for it as well.
With robustness comes smaller ground crews. How large is the ground crew for autos and airplanes? In both cases, it's less than one operator per vehicle. In both cases, infrastructure improvements are projected to eventually obviate the physical drivers as well. The shuttle needs so many more because it's experimental and only just barely makes it to its destination both in terms of fuel and structure.
It's just too bad that NERVA and ORION put out big clouds of radioactive materials. They'd really be quite useful for getting out of the atmosphere, being both high thrust AND high Isp. Usually you have to pick one or the other.
He claims that it will get roughly 15 mpg using regular unleaded fuel.. at the cruising altitude of 20,000 ft and a speed of 290 mph.
Even assuming he can achieve this, it would still get much worse mileage on a short hop where it never goes above 1000 ft. Why would the oil companies be opposed to this?
To hide the fact that they're really pirates moonlighting as ninjas?
If you write software that is essentially a wrapper for a GPL app, and distribute both (but without modifying the GPL application, are you supposed to include the source for your software as well? It doesn't seem to me that something like a closed K3b sort-of clone would necessarily violate the GPL, as long as the open software is properly distributed.
I think my understanding of the concept of "derivative work" may be lacking.
Interesting, but then you no longer have an FCC* type-accepted device, non? So you need to apply for a license, or find rules that allow you to use experimental devices without license at the power level you've specified.
*or whatever regulatory agency operates in your country.
Yet you'll probably claim to believe in evolution when the topic inevitably comes up again.
He's already paid society for that support. In fact, money is the token with which society expresses its debt for all that he's done. But he's also paid through his taxes and he may have also made charitable contributions or volunteered his time. The money should be his to dispense as he sees fit, including passing it to the person of his choosing after his death. The child has no claim other than the deceased's wishes.
I certainly have no claim, what makes you think you do?
Surely we got this out of our systems with the last alliterative 'H'-based release. Come to think of it, why are we getting another H, anyway? They surely haven't gone through all of the letters which begin both animal names and adjectives.
Either that or it I'm not sure I want to know what a Whedgehog is...
There have been a number of patches since SP2 came out, and SP2 is a 1-reboot patch anyway, so why would you bother?
If your goal is to break up familial fortunes, You'd probably be more effective if you disallow birth control. Nothing destroys a fortune like a dozen contentious heirs for a few generations.
The goal behind the death tax may be noble (depending on how you view things): to prevent dynasties from accumulating all of the wealth. Under the premise that everyone starting as close to the same (nothing) as possible results in the greatest chance of prosperity for all.
But what claim does the government have to your accumulated wealth, even the very wealthy? They've already billed you for the services used to create that wealth, in the form of the various taxes you paid up to that point. The only one I can see is the right of might: they're stronger than you, so be grateful for what they let you keep.
The "death tax" falls squarely in the category of socialism; Improving society by taking from the most productive. Whether you agree with it is up to you to decide.
Well what's the expensive part? Is it the mile of fiber or the mile of fiber?
'if it's the miles that are expensive, there's quite a bit that can be done at the municipal level to alleviate that and even encourage competition. Quite a bit that can be done. But won't.
Shouldn't this be kind of like the GPL? i.e. they should be required to satisfy the laws of both nations, and where they cannot, they should not do business?
Just curious, Since there are no adverts, what do you fill the 18 missing minutes with?
In the quantities we were able to manufacture using the shuttle, one-off automatic satellites designed with re-entry in mind would be much less expensive. And as it turns out, for at least a subset of that group, diamagnetic levitation allows creation on the earth's surface, and will likely be quite a bit less expensive.
The letter of the problem does not specify an intact egg. Which is what makes destroying the egg a potential solution.
But it's a lawyer's solution. People break the spirit of laws all the time without actually violating the letter of them. This isn't particularly noble at all. It's actually a fundamental problem for any justice system, one which we've addressed in the modern age by writing verbose and specific laws to cover as many loopholes as possible. Creating the additional problem of having to prosecute people who have violated the letter of complicated laws without actually infringing upon whatever the law was actually supposed to protect.
I did think of smashing the egg (the first time I heard it. It's been a while.) I rejected that option as being scummy and tried to think of a more creative option.
You're going to put up thousands of miles of DC and at a high voltage? The power loss sounds high, but more importantly, what about the corrosion?
Actually, I thought lentils & chickpeas sounded at like an at least somewhat interesting take, and your specific use of the word "burger" was for lack of a better term. Though I would've called 'em garbonzos, 'cause it's more fun to say. Also, they're like the blandest beans & legumes I can think of so I hope you spiced it up a bit.
It just bugs me all the fashion vegans out there who try to foist their vegetarian substitutes upon us like we can't tell the difference. I'm talking to you, "veggie burger" and you, "Silk" and especially you, "<insert item> made of Tofu." It's quite similar to the way diet soft drinks taste almost nothing like their conventionally sweetened counterparts yet people will insist they can't tell the difference.
There are no documented cases of Fox news forging documents in an attempt to characterize a sitting republican president as a draft dodger. "Fake, but Accurate" also is not a phrase common in the Fox news room. Therefore, they are extreme right wing radicals bent on establishing a new Reich and ignoring the fact that the last group famous for that were vegetarian, anti-smoking Nazis.
That solution is silly, and only a good illustration of "thinking outside the box" a la the Gordian knot. But they are not particularly clever. In fact, the whole point of solutions like that is to show that the clever solution is not always necessary. Sometimes you can get away with twisting the letter of the instructions to suit your ham-fisted attempt. If the instructions had been more specific, ("Untie the knot", or "stand the whole egg") your trite solution would not have even been considered.
In the case of the boiled egg, it won't even work. You have to smoosh the egg to the point that it's really more of an omlette with shells in it. Just a little flat spot on the bottom is insufficient unless it happened to boil straight up as well: there is a void that unbalances the egg.
If I ask you the solution to y'' + 4y' + y = 0 and you tell me that y=0 is the solution, you're not doing anything clever. y=0 is called the trivial solution precisely because it's uninteresting.
What? no, most of the time it kills you. You only get Hulkinization if the test subject is particularly moody and bottles up their emotions. These seemingly contradictory requirements are necessary conditions, though they may not be sufficient.
Why do so many vegetarians seem to eat simulated meat-products? Aren't they creative enough to come up with their own dishes? Are they trying to make their meat-eating friends more comfortable? If the latter is the case, there's some bad logic going on. Veggie-burgers do not taste anything like hamburgers, and the whole exercise seems silly to us. It would seem a lot more natural to us if you'd just eat a dish that happened to be vegetarian, rather than a meat-dish that had vegetarianism foisted upon it.
Of course, if you like the distinctive (and IMO, a tad bitter) taste of veggie-burgers, the go right ahead and enjoy. But the people who try and pretend it tastes "just like meat" should really think hard about why they're vegetarians at all.