Never read the Express, don't know their reputation. But even before scrapping current ships, you have issues.
You're about 75% of India and dropping. I know India is super-militant with lots of overseas commitments </sarcasm>, but how small were you planning on letting your navy get?
The problem with manned space flight, that is, getting somewhere else isn't putting people in a tube and blasting off. Its propulsion. If we are wasting money moving people around pointlessly, you aren't using that money to develop propulsion systems.
Think of it as a long term project that has bottlenecks. The big bottleneck isn't people, its getting something, anything to a meaningful destination. If you can't move 1kg of computer to Alpha Centari, you can't move 80kg of human + the several tons of support systems s/he will need to stay alive.
So, do the logical, and develop a system that can move 1kg before you stack 2 tons on your spaceship.
And, of course, try to be respectful of people that you disagree with.
Ah, thanks. I'm taken aback. In Carson City, my options are Walmart, Savemart, Raley's, Smiths, Scolaris, Trader Joes. I think the drive for those is, on average, more though. I really would have expected a much greater variety.
What do you consider a long drive? In NV, I have 3 grocery stores that are about 2miles out of the way on the way home from work, or 3 or 4 others within 5 miles from home. (12miles from home to work, curious store distribution). I would have expected a city to offer mad choice.
Grocery checker was indeed an honorable profession. But, it is going away. While being a butler is also honorable, very few need or can afford them. If you can do your own checkout faster (and I can) that is perfectly honorable too.
Just because a job existed at one time doesn't mean it should exist forever. No more firemen or brakemen on trains - we've automated that. And checkout has been automated now, so we should expect the job of checker to fade away as well.
The problem is NASA's obsession with manned spaceflight. The best work is done unmanned, and it's way less expensive. Toss the astronaut suits and use the whole budget for unmanned missions.
Manned spaceflight only makes sense with a huge breakthrough in propulsion. Otherwise, there is no where to go where a human being would be useful enough to make it worthwhile. As it stands, manned flight serves only to fulfill fanboy Star Trek fantasies.
Until then, I will be a techie steadfastly against more NASA spending. Its not just the general public you need to convince, its at least some of the STEM people too.
What is "truly in appropriate"? My mom and I would have different opinions. That is the crux of the argument. Estonia's solution is that the offended person gets to decide, which is pretty inappropriate.
I recommend wargaming. If you need to take it over, first step is finding it. Next thing you know, you know where everything is. Or your bad at taking over the world.
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the three goobers swallowed by first the CCCP, and then N.A.Z.I Germany, and then the CCCP again. Sucked to be them for a long time.
In a combined cycle plant, steam is the mechanism, like gears or levers. The original fuel is natural gas. Burn that in a gas turbine, spin a generator for electricity. Use the exhaust heat to create steam - run the steam through a steam turbine to spin another generator to make even more electricity. This results in very cool steam (barely steam at all), run this through a cooling system to get water which is cycled back into the exhaust stream to be converted to steam, etc etc.
Steam is just a convenient fluid for moving energy around in the process of turning natural gas into electricity.
The Monitor is actually a pretty good news source, for the most part. They typically run a single CS article per issue, and are otherwise pretty non-religious. You should take a look before being too critical. IANACS
I just got to tour a power plant - very interesting! The running units were all combined cycle (close to 60% thermal efficiency), and the volume difference on steam in/steam out is really tremendous! The steam was vacuumed out of the LP turbine. And they were complaining about their cooling/condensing system not being efficient enough in the summer to run the plant at full power. Interesting too that the vast majority of the plant was about steam generation/handling/reheating/processing. The turbines and generators are a tiny, albeit critical, piece of the plant.
Also interesting is the sheer quantity of backup and emergency systems. And the generators being cooled with hydrogen and therefore hydrogen lines running all over the plant.
Haha, you've never worked for the government! My experience was exactly that - no one EVER stayed 10 minutes extra to finish the job, or did jobs not explicitly covered, etc, etc. That may be a union tactic for private industry negotiations, but it is standard work procedure for a lot of government jobs.
It does take away some leverage, in that you have less to threaten with. But I guess you can always slow down a bit more.
Handwaving and alarm is unwarranted at this time. If your favorite site switches to a system you don't like, that doesn't mean a national crisis.
And yeah, anonymity killed USENET. It isn't an unmitigated good. There is only so long you can swim in filth before you get out of the pool, or the pool gets drained and it's metaphoric value recycled into cars and Hitler.
I expect that would get you a contempt of court citation. You are there to answer the questions presented to you, not make polemic statements. No one else in the court room wants to hear about your hurt feelings, or how you don't want to betray OJ.
Out and out lying can get you a perjury citation, so don't do that either.
Courts didn't spring into existence yesterday, and neither did people like you. They can and have been dealing with this for a while.
Facts not in evidence. You should have shared your evidence with the prosecutor, she could certainly have used it. The jury commented that it sounded like the dispatcher had egged Zimmerman on - they attributed some fault there. Should probably not rely on biased news sources and go directly to the facts introduced at trial.
The conflict had gone on for a couple minutes already, with no intervention, and apparently getting progressively worse for Zimmerman. How long do you wait?
The "stalking" charge was addressed best by tftp (111690) above. They were both in their own neighborhood, which had been victimized by a wave of burglaries. Zimmerman (and the rest of the neighborhood) were well justified to keep an eye on what was going on in the neighborhood.
Zimmerman would have been within the law in England at least - per Wikipedia, England requires two occasions of the behavior (and that would be assuming that the behavior itself was a "stalking" behavior. Wikipedia doesn't say much about how to judge that).
The problem with the "blame the victim" charge for drunk rape victims is that this has been used against alleged perpetrators when there was no rape.
Drunken rape really has two scenarios, that some advocates unfairly treat as equal: 1) woman goes out, gets drunk, says no, is forced -- actual rape 2) woman goes out, gets drunk, goes home with guy, regrets it in the morning when sober, cries rape -- not actual rape
confusing things worse is case 3 3) woman goes out, gets drunk, hooks up with equally drunk guy, neither remembers exactly what happened, other than there was some sex, woman cries rape -- who know what the hell happened, maybe we should ban alcohol, or stupidity or something, can you people behave???
At some point, the principle of "innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" needs to kick in. Case 3 certainly has doubt. Differentiating between 1 and 2 is definitely a problem, but I don't think the solution is "always believe the woman".
Probably best for men and women to avoid getting that inebriated. Your putting your fate in the hands of an RNG.
If Trayvon were a woman, straddling a man and beating the crap out of the man, the man would be justified in shooting her, regardless of race.
It comes down to that - Martin was straddling Zimmerman, Zimmerman was out of other options. In England, he'd just have had to die or be badly beaten, but here, he got to live with minor damage.
You don't get to beat people for following you. The only possible case Martin would have is if Zimmerman started the fight - facts not in evidence. The evidence had hints that Martin started the fight (the phone conversation with the girlfriend). Even if Zimmerman started the fight, Martin would still be at fault for removing his ability to retreat - stand your ground would defend Martin from having to leave, but doesn't defend him from preventing Zimmerman from leaving (by straddling and beating him). The straddling is a major escalation.
Both guys were on their side of town. Trayvon's dad (whom he lived with occassionally) lived there, and George Zimmerman lived there. It was "turf" of both, if you believe people have exclusive rights to some property they don't own.
Not quite. I've actually read about the Google vehicle, and there are continual references to the human driver taking over. The Google self-driving car experienced a crash shortly after being first publicized. Not noted by most of the media was that a human being was controlling the car at the time. Most people assumed that it was the computer, and I would bet if you asked people now, they would cite the incident (if they remembered it) as an example of the car being unreliable.
I've further read the law in NV (my state, first law) for automated cars. So, while I'm making some assumptions, I have a pretty good basis for the assumptions.
The idea that a human can opt to control the car (the topic of this discussion) is not an assumption, it is the way the car actually works, from the documentation provided thus far, and the way the car is required to work, from the laws written so far.
Your NSA paranoia is your own, I don't share that at all and I will vote accordingly.
Take the kids to practice, school, wherever, come home. or wait for them to finish Drop you off at work, then drive to the shop to get the tires replaced (or whatever) Take you to your minor medical procedure that the hospital insists you have "a ride" for. Picking you up/dropping off at the airport Taking your motorcycle to the shop (drives to the shop, you ride/drive home in the car) Deal with the boring interstate-through-Kansas part of you road trip.
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Never read the Express, don't know their reputation. But even before scrapping current ships, you have issues.
You're about 75% of India and dropping. I know India is super-militant with lots of overseas commitments </sarcasm>, but how small were you planning on letting your navy get?
The problem with manned space flight, that is, getting somewhere else isn't putting people in a tube and blasting off. Its propulsion. If we are wasting money moving people around pointlessly, you aren't using that money to develop propulsion systems.
Think of it as a long term project that has bottlenecks. The big bottleneck isn't people, its getting something, anything to a meaningful destination. If you can't move 1kg of computer to Alpha Centari, you can't move 80kg of human + the several tons of support systems s/he will need to stay alive.
So, do the logical, and develop a system that can move 1kg before you stack 2 tons on your spaceship.
And, of course, try to be respectful of people that you disagree with.
Ah, thanks. I'm taken aback. In Carson City, my options are Walmart, Savemart, Raley's, Smiths, Scolaris, Trader Joes. I think the drive for those is, on average, more though. I really would have expected a much greater variety.
What do you consider a long drive? In NV, I have 3 grocery stores that are about 2miles out of the way on the way home from work, or 3 or 4 others within 5 miles from home. (12miles from home to work, curious store distribution). I would have expected a city to offer mad choice.
Self-righteous people won't buy shirts that accurately describe them.
Grocery checker was indeed an honorable profession. But, it is going away. While being a butler is also honorable, very few need or can afford them. If you can do your own checkout faster (and I can) that is perfectly honorable too.
Just because a job existed at one time doesn't mean it should exist forever. No more firemen or brakemen on trains - we've automated that. And checkout has been automated now, so we should expect the job of checker to fade away as well.
The problem is NASA's obsession with manned spaceflight. The best work is done unmanned, and it's way less expensive. Toss the astronaut suits and use the whole budget for unmanned missions.
Manned spaceflight only makes sense with a huge breakthrough in propulsion. Otherwise, there is no where to go where a human being would be useful enough to make it worthwhile. As it stands, manned flight serves only to fulfill fanboy Star Trek fantasies.
Until then, I will be a techie steadfastly against more NASA spending. Its not just the general public you need to convince, its at least some of the STEM people too.
What is "truly in appropriate"? My mom and I would have different opinions. That is the crux of the argument. Estonia's solution is that the offended person gets to decide, which is pretty inappropriate.
I recommend wargaming. If you need to take it over, first step is finding it. Next thing you know, you know where everything is. Or your bad at taking over the world.
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the three goobers swallowed by first the CCCP, and then N.A.Z.I Germany, and then the CCCP again. Sucked to be them for a long time.
Estonia is also the home of Piotr Skut!
critical difference - the burden of proof is very heavy for nebulous stuff like "knew" and "harm to reputation".
In a combined cycle plant, steam is the mechanism, like gears or levers. The original fuel is natural gas. Burn that in a gas turbine, spin a generator for electricity. Use the exhaust heat to create steam - run the steam through a steam turbine to spin another generator to make even more electricity. This results in very cool steam (barely steam at all), run this through a cooling system to get water which is cycled back into the exhaust stream to be converted to steam, etc etc.
Steam is just a convenient fluid for moving energy around in the process of turning natural gas into electricity.
The Monitor is actually a pretty good news source, for the most part. They typically run a single CS article per issue, and are otherwise pretty non-religious. You should take a look before being too critical. IANACS
I just got to tour a power plant - very interesting! The running units were all combined cycle (close to 60% thermal efficiency), and the volume difference on steam in/steam out is really tremendous! The steam was vacuumed out of the LP turbine. And they were complaining about their cooling/condensing system not being efficient enough in the summer to run the plant at full power. Interesting too that the vast majority of the plant was about steam generation/handling/reheating/processing. The turbines and generators are a tiny, albeit critical, piece of the plant.
Also interesting is the sheer quantity of backup and emergency systems. And the generators being cooled with hydrogen and therefore hydrogen lines running all over the plant.
Haha, you've never worked for the government! My experience was exactly that - no one EVER stayed 10 minutes extra to finish the job, or did jobs not explicitly covered, etc, etc. That may be a union tactic for private industry negotiations, but it is standard work procedure for a lot of government jobs.
It does take away some leverage, in that you have less to threaten with. But I guess you can always slow down a bit more.
Handwaving and alarm is unwarranted at this time. If your favorite site switches to a system you don't like, that doesn't mean a national crisis.
And yeah, anonymity killed USENET. It isn't an unmitigated good. There is only so long you can swim in filth before you get out of the pool, or the pool gets drained and it's metaphoric value recycled into cars and Hitler.
I expect that would get you a contempt of court citation. You are there to answer the questions presented to you, not make polemic statements. No one else in the court room wants to hear about your hurt feelings, or how you don't want to betray OJ.
Out and out lying can get you a perjury citation, so don't do that either.
Courts didn't spring into existence yesterday, and neither did people like you. They can and have been dealing with this for a while.
Maybe he should at least spell Trayvon's name right.
Facts not in evidence. You should have shared your evidence with the prosecutor, she could certainly have used it. The jury commented that it sounded like the dispatcher had egged Zimmerman on - they attributed some fault there. Should probably not rely on biased news sources and go directly to the facts introduced at trial.
The conflict had gone on for a couple minutes already, with no intervention, and apparently getting progressively worse for Zimmerman. How long do you wait?
The "stalking" charge was addressed best by tftp (111690) above. They were both in their own neighborhood, which had been victimized by a wave of burglaries. Zimmerman (and the rest of the neighborhood) were well justified to keep an eye on what was going on in the neighborhood.
Zimmerman would have been within the law in England at least - per Wikipedia, England requires two occasions of the behavior (and that would be assuming that the behavior itself was a "stalking" behavior. Wikipedia doesn't say much about how to judge that).
The problem with the "blame the victim" charge for drunk rape victims is that this has been used against alleged perpetrators when there was no rape.
Drunken rape really has two scenarios, that some advocates unfairly treat as equal:
1) woman goes out, gets drunk, says no, is forced -- actual rape
2) woman goes out, gets drunk, goes home with guy, regrets it in the morning when sober, cries rape -- not actual rape
confusing things worse is case 3
3) woman goes out, gets drunk, hooks up with equally drunk guy, neither remembers exactly what happened, other than there was some sex, woman cries rape -- who know what the hell happened, maybe we should ban alcohol, or stupidity or something, can you people behave???
At some point, the principle of "innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" needs to kick in. Case 3 certainly has doubt. Differentiating between 1 and 2 is definitely a problem, but I don't think the solution is "always believe the woman".
Probably best for men and women to avoid getting that inebriated. Your putting your fate in the hands of an RNG.
If Trayvon were a woman, straddling a man and beating the crap out of the man, the man would be justified in shooting her, regardless of race.
It comes down to that - Martin was straddling Zimmerman, Zimmerman was out of other options. In England, he'd just have had to die or be badly beaten, but here, he got to live with minor damage.
You don't get to beat people for following you. The only possible case Martin would have is if Zimmerman started the fight - facts not in evidence. The evidence had hints that Martin started the fight (the phone conversation with the girlfriend). Even if Zimmerman started the fight, Martin would still be at fault for removing his ability to retreat - stand your ground would defend Martin from having to leave, but doesn't defend him from preventing Zimmerman from leaving (by straddling and beating him). The straddling is a major escalation.
Both guys were on their side of town. Trayvon's dad (whom he lived with occassionally) lived there, and George Zimmerman lived there. It was "turf" of both, if you believe people have exclusive rights to some property they don't own.
Where is Google getting the virgins, geeky or otherwise??
Not quite. I've actually read about the Google vehicle, and there are continual references to the human driver taking over. The Google self-driving car experienced a crash shortly after being first publicized. Not noted by most of the media was that a human being was controlling the car at the time. Most people assumed that it was the computer, and I would bet if you asked people now, they would cite the incident (if they remembered it) as an example of the car being unreliable.
I've further read the law in NV (my state, first law) for automated cars. So, while I'm making some assumptions, I have a pretty good basis for the assumptions.
The idea that a human can opt to control the car (the topic of this discussion) is not an assumption, it is the way the car actually works, from the documentation provided thus far, and the way the car is required to work, from the laws written so far.
Your NSA paranoia is your own, I don't share that at all and I will vote accordingly.
Take the kids to practice, school, wherever, come home. or wait for them to finish
Drop you off at work, then drive to the shop to get the tires replaced (or whatever)
Take you to your minor medical procedure that the hospital insists you have "a ride" for.
Picking you up/dropping off at the airport
Taking your motorcycle to the shop (drives to the shop, you ride/drive home in the car)
Deal with the boring interstate-through-Kansas part of you road trip.