10% seems reasonable until you consider the constitutionally mandated federal activities. Provide for common defense is the number first goal mentioned in the preamble and is one of the few actives proscribed in the rest of the document. One could argue that defense should be the number 1 expendature of the federal government, at over 50% of the budget, followed by the justice department and a few others.
Of course, 10% of the CURRENT budget seems reasonable. that just means the budget's too big.
Ok It's not anti-gun. It's anti-american. literally anti-american. with gun-violence as the vehicle. It's a movie-length rant starting out as anti-gun, but evolving into general complaints about american culture and perhaps blacks specificly. Can't quite tell the last one though, all he does there is conspicuously not comment on an extremely racist statement about the different rates of violence in detroit and uh.. windsor, canada? If it's a documentary, it's not about US it's about Moore. I suppose that would make it unique in the documentary world - a documentary that's actually about the director - if i didn't think that most documentaries are really about vanity.
I don't know where you got your 16% figure from, but i've been in the mountains where PPO2 was as low as.12 atmospheres and I was fine. (ok a little winded, but i made sure to take things slow) Since I followed trails there and there was a restaurant, I can only assume that I am not special.
It was called oil-for-food. If the proceeds had been spent on food the civillians wouldn't have starved. It's not the sanctions' fault that they were both followed and violated in such a way as to have maximum deleterious effect on the local population. I blame France.
but Trump's already been completely broke AND declared bankruptcy. It doesn't seem to have hurt him much.
I am disappointed with how much of a coward he's turned out to be lately though. According to his showvertisment, he never does anything "small" yet he criticizes designs for world's largest buildings as being terrorist targets and even scaled down his own mega-skyscraper to avoid being such a target. Was I the only one hoping for an impressive giant skyscraper to rise from the ashes of the WTC, dwarfing all around it and taking not one but ALL of the titles for world's tallest building?
something like.. say.. the "Mile high skyscraper" obviously, the club on the top floor will have rather exclusive membership...
I thought Dark Energy/matter was like UFOs. A self limiting field: as soon as you know what something is, it's not unidentified any more. For instance, you can't be abducted by a UFO, because then you'd know what it is and it wouldn't be a UFO anymore.
Plants need oxygen too. On earth, they produce more oxygen than they consume, but they still need to be submerged in a sea of oxygen to function. If all the oxygen they produced was sucked away by osmotic pressure, the plants would die pretty quickly. Or did you think plants made glucose for you.
hmm.. You say you can't hang up.. but do you have to actually copy the call? I mean, you must take breaks sometime right? so can you just refuse to copy the call and hand off to someone else? if all the grunts did that eventually management would have to take the calls or petition for new policy to be made.
Semantic: define unreasonable search and seizure. Also explain why a blanket warrant cannot be issued for a "special case" Do it without resorting to the "slippery slope" argument.
You can actually get quite high with the right balloons. Keep in mind that as long as the balloon is capable of expanding such that internal pressure is balanced with external pressure without venting, it will have the same lift. With highly expandable materials (such as underinflated weather balloons) significant altitude can be achieved.
I don't know if they can actually succeed (even if their concept is sound I don't think they have the resources to see it through), but the people at JP Aerospace have a plan for creating a balloon supported near-space station and a balloon-to-orbit vehicle using a very high specific impulse ion drive to reach orbital velocity once above enough of the atmosphere for drag to matter very little. (you don't need super high-thrust chemical rockets if your vessel is supported in other ways)
The big problem I see with balloon to orbit systems is peak helium. Helium is a pretty rare find (it's a trace gas in natural gas extraction afaik) and though the US has significant helium reserves, We will likely reach a point where helium cannot be easily found and this point is likely to occur long before we run out of fossil fuels. So very much helium is required for these big balloon projects that is ultimately wasted. Helium has other uses than just lifting latex. Deep divers for instance use it in small quantities as diluent gas. Its usefulness in that application is due to its low atomic mass: it is easier to breath at the higher densities. Hydrogen might be a substitute there as well, but divers would then have to worry about keeping the partial pressures of their hydrox mix below the flash point. It would be very inconvenient to take a breath, swim down a little and then have your lungs explode. Similar arguments can be made for liquid helium cooling. all of the low-volume helium application are put at risk by high-volume industrial use of helium.
and horribly inefficient too. distilled water will electrolyze much slower than water with electrolyte. (say some kind of ionic compound that dissolves in water for instance..)
The same thing that happens when the terrorists instead kidnap the pilot's children and sell them into slavery and kill the pilot's wife.
On the other hand, without the pilots, why would we need 300-400+ passenger planes? Computers could safely fly the planes much closer together and provide consumers the benefit of more direct and frequent flights as well as limit the effect a terrorist can have on..say..large buildings. a learjet would not have destroyed the trade towers. Since the payoff would be lower for the terrorists, so would the risk.
The problem with neon is that it glows orange. The solution has been to use mercury vapor which emits ultraviolet and coat the inside of the tubes with a florescent material to bring it down to visible (and mostly white) light. I'd say the real achievement here is getting a mostly white glow-in-the-dark phosphor. You don't really appreciate white light until you have to deal with odd colors a lot. I pity those who work in "dance"clubs.
The vast majority of airline accidents are caused by pilots and air traffic controllers. (not the ones in charge of the air-space, the ones in charge of the taxiing around)
Since automated flight is simpler than automated driving and the vehicles are big enough to have supercomputers hidden away in a compartment somewhere, the question is, "Why do we have pilots in the loop on airplanes?"
The argument that the pilot can think of a new way out of a situation is a red herring. Plenty of accidents involving pilots occor which are very similar or exactly the same as accidents caused by other pilots. further, ultimately, the pilot is just another processor with a separate power supply from the main system whose weight could be spent on an actual separate processor if redundancy is the reason for the pilot. The overwhelming advantage a computer can have in "unique" emergency situations is a huge database of situations. essencially, every accident that occurs whose cause can be determined is the last accident of that type.
So yes, I'm all in favor of the classic "pilot and dog" cockpit. where the pilot's job is to not touch anything and the dog's job is to bite the pilot if he tries to.
- Computers that help people avoid falling down if they, for whatever reason, have lousy balance or slow reaction. Perhaps it could help older folks for whom falling down can be a serious risk.
Better yet, now we can finally design those 60' tall mechanical robot-tanks without the pesky requirement to put the operator pretty much exactly at the center of mass. or even in the robot any more. This has exciting possibilities in the field of robots made of lions.
Well you could disperse the spent fuel into the atmosphere and still be under the amount of radioactive material ejected from coal plants. For some reason nobody wants to do this when a) the waste is already conveniently concentrated in a "small" solid chunk and b) the "waste" is particularly useful for reprocessing into weapons.
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10% seems reasonable until you consider the constitutionally mandated federal activities. Provide for common defense is the number first goal mentioned in the preamble and is one of the few actives proscribed in the rest of the document. One could argue that defense should be the number 1 expendature of the federal government, at over 50% of the budget, followed by the justice department and a few others.
Of course, 10% of the CURRENT budget seems reasonable. that just means the budget's too big.
Ok It's not anti-gun. It's anti-american. literally anti-american. with gun-violence as the vehicle. It's a movie-length rant starting out as anti-gun, but evolving into general complaints about american culture and perhaps blacks specificly. Can't quite tell the last one though, all he does there is conspicuously not comment on an extremely racist statement about the different rates of violence in detroit and uh.. windsor, canada?
If it's a documentary, it's not about US it's about Moore. I suppose that would make it unique in the documentary world - a documentary that's actually about the director - if i didn't think that most documentaries are really about vanity.
I don't know where you got your 16% figure from, but i've been in the mountains where PPO2 was as low as .12 atmospheres and I was fine. (ok a little winded, but i made sure to take things slow) Since I followed trails there and there was a restaurant, I can only assume that I am not special.
Will that be anything like disccussing the tactical importance of Jessica Linden's uterus to national security?
(curse you theOnion for taking your archives offline)
Ah, but if you use the fabled rocket+grenade jump you can get on top of the level and railgun people from midair.
It was called oil-for-food. If the proceeds had been spent on food the civillians wouldn't have starved. It's not the sanctions' fault that they were both followed and violated in such a way as to have maximum deleterious effect on the local population. I blame France.
but Trump's already been completely broke AND declared bankruptcy. It doesn't seem to have hurt him much.
I am disappointed with how much of a coward he's turned out to be lately though. According to his showvertisment, he never does anything "small" yet he criticizes designs for world's largest buildings as being terrorist targets and even scaled down his own mega-skyscraper to avoid being such a target. Was I the only one hoping for an impressive giant skyscraper to rise from the ashes of the WTC, dwarfing all around it and taking not one but ALL of the titles for world's tallest building?
something like.. say.. the "Mile high skyscraper" obviously, the club on the top floor will have rather exclusive membership...
I thought Dark Energy/matter was like UFOs. A self limiting field: as soon as you know what something is, it's not unidentified any more. For instance, you can't be abducted by a UFO, because then you'd know what it is and it wouldn't be a UFO anymore.
Plants need oxygen too. On earth, they produce more oxygen than they consume, but they still need to be submerged in a sea of oxygen to function. If all the oxygen they produced was sucked away by osmotic pressure, the plants would die pretty quickly. Or did you think plants made glucose for you.
Maybe he's so hardcore that what we call death metal, he calls hip hop.
hmm.. You say you can't hang up.. but do you have to actually copy the call? I mean, you must take breaks sometime right? so can you just refuse to copy the call and hand off to someone else? if all the grunts did that eventually management would have to take the calls or petition for new policy to be made.
Semantic: define unreasonable search and seizure. Also explain why a blanket warrant cannot be issued for a "special case" Do it without resorting to the "slippery slope" argument.
You can actually get quite high with the right balloons. Keep in mind that as long as the balloon is capable of expanding such that internal pressure is balanced with external pressure without venting, it will have the same lift. With highly expandable materials (such as underinflated weather balloons) significant altitude can be achieved.
I don't know if they can actually succeed (even if their concept is sound I don't think they have the resources to see it through), but the people at JP Aerospace have a plan for creating a balloon supported near-space station and a balloon-to-orbit vehicle using a very high specific impulse ion drive to reach orbital velocity once above enough of the atmosphere for drag to matter very little. (you don't need super high-thrust chemical rockets if your vessel is supported in other ways)
The big problem I see with balloon to orbit systems is peak helium. Helium is a pretty rare find (it's a trace gas in natural gas extraction afaik) and though the US has significant helium reserves, We will likely reach a point where helium cannot be easily found and this point is likely to occur long before we run out of fossil fuels. So very much helium is required for these big balloon projects that is ultimately wasted. Helium has other uses than just lifting latex. Deep divers for instance use it in small quantities as diluent gas. Its usefulness in that application is due to its low atomic mass: it is easier to breath at the higher densities. Hydrogen might be a substitute there as well, but divers would then have to worry about keeping the partial pressures of their hydrox mix below the flash point. It would be very inconvenient to take a breath, swim down a little and then have your lungs explode. Similar arguments can be made for liquid helium cooling. all of the low-volume helium application are put at risk by high-volume industrial use of helium.
and horribly inefficient too. distilled water will electrolyze much slower than water with electrolyte. (say some kind of ionic compound that dissolves in water for instance..)
how do we know that the removal tools don't actually install more spyware. or simply hide the existing spyware better?
The same thing that happens when the terrorists instead kidnap the pilot's children and sell them into slavery and kill the pilot's wife.
On the other hand, without the pilots, why would we need 300-400+ passenger planes? Computers could safely fly the planes much closer together and provide consumers the benefit of more direct and frequent flights as well as limit the effect a terrorist can have on..say..large buildings. a learjet would not have destroyed the trade towers. Since the payoff would be lower for the terrorists, so would the risk.
The problem with neon is that it glows orange. The solution has been to use mercury vapor which emits ultraviolet and coat the inside of the tubes with a florescent material to bring it down to visible (and mostly white) light. I'd say the real achievement here is getting a mostly white glow-in-the-dark phosphor. You don't really appreciate white light until you have to deal with odd colors a lot. I pity those who work in "dance"clubs.
It all goes into the same landfill. Even takes the same truck. Just like the post office.
Aren't the "new shuttle patch" materials in fact actually the old apollo heat shield patch materials?
The vast majority of airline accidents are caused by pilots and air traffic controllers. (not the ones in charge of the air-space, the ones in charge of the taxiing around)
Since automated flight is simpler than automated driving and the vehicles are big enough to have supercomputers hidden away in a compartment somewhere, the question is, "Why do we have pilots in the loop on airplanes?"
The argument that the pilot can think of a new way out of a situation is a red herring. Plenty of accidents involving pilots occor which are very similar or exactly the same as accidents caused by other pilots. further, ultimately, the pilot is just another processor with a separate power supply from the main system whose weight could be spent on an actual separate processor if redundancy is the reason for the pilot. The overwhelming advantage a computer can have in "unique" emergency situations is a huge database of situations. essencially, every accident that occurs whose cause can be determined is the last accident of that type.
So yes, I'm all in favor of the classic "pilot and dog" cockpit. where the pilot's job is to not touch anything and the dog's job is to bite the pilot if he tries to.
- Computers that help people avoid falling down if they, for whatever reason, have lousy balance or slow reaction. Perhaps it could help older folks for whom falling down can be a serious risk.
Better yet, now we can finally design those 60' tall mechanical robot-tanks without the pesky requirement to put the operator pretty much exactly at the center of mass. or even in the robot any more. This has exciting possibilities in the field of robots made of lions.
Tree burning is carbon neutral.
I wanna be the king of europe. Just like Jacques Chirac. (Now why do i keep wanting to put a jean in front of his name?)
Well you could disperse the spent fuel into the atmosphere and still be under the amount of radioactive material ejected from coal plants. For some reason nobody wants to do this when a) the waste is already conveniently concentrated in a "small" solid chunk and b) the "waste" is particularly useful for reprocessing into weapons.
neither is a gas range. which this basically is.