NZ's bigger advantage would be, if they launch from the NE corner, that they could launch on a wide range of azimuths without overflying any land.
It also illustrates a perception reinforced by many maps, which cut off far southern latitudes more than northern. NZ is roughly as far south as the US is north. In the same vein, over 1/3 of Australia is tropical.
The Bible clearly documents Jesus giving his Church the power of binding and loosing sins in John 20:22-23.
You are mistaken both about what the Church teaches and about what this app was meant to do. It was never meant to replace confession to a priest.
You're knocking down some classic strawmen here. One of the reasons we have Protestants is that people don't like what they _think_ the Catholic Church teaches and don't take the time to learn what they do.
So, the digest version of Catholic beliefs on the things above:
Yes, it is God that forgives. Yesterday, today and always. But in John 20:22-23 Jesus gives his Church the power of binding and loosing sins.
No, we cannot earn our way into Heaven. Claiming to be Christian but not showing any fruit is a dead faith, but salvation is a free gift.
If you believe people's ways are in error and you're going to try to illuminate them, you should understand what the religion they practice teaches.
Its purpose was always clear by reading the text of the articles--that it is a guide for preparation for the sacrament. The sensational headlines in the press are a problem, just as they are in this one too.
for a roadtrip, try The Rolling Stones. For one, it's a traveling tale. It'll introduce them to Heinlein, and it'll get them started with something that doesn't seem daunting at first. While some pre-teens can doubtless handle the Foundation Trilogy, or enjoy LOTR, they may feel like too much work/too much like school at first.
Of course, it's obvious that Indiana is not equivalent to the United States in general, but in particular when considering whether DST costs the US more, one should consider that Indiana is not your average state. It sits on the far western edge of the Eastern Time Zone. Additionally, the whole western edge of the time zone is pushed about 5 degrees west of where it "should" be according to solar time (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/images/time1pr.gif); the combined effect is that even on standard time there's plenty of daylight in the evening and less in the morning. Changing to DST results in more daylight than people really use (IIRC from visiting it's still twilight until nearly 10 pm) and there's insufficient light in the morning, leading to increased energy usage.
So the western edge of the time zone has been spending more money all along, and Indiana was previously saving it. I don't understand why the change has to be mandatory, and you can insert your favorite theory about interests there, but the fact remains that Indiana's geography is significantly different from most of the country (though I would note though that the western edge of the Mountain Time Zone is also pushed west, which might explain Arizona's case), so that it is far from proven that DST costs more across the US as a whole.
Most of the regular satellite imagery in Google Earth is resampled to look like it's from straight up. In areas with buildings, you can sometimes see the buildings "lean" because the original shot was actually at an angle and so saw the sides. And Ikonos and Quickbird imagery is usually in color. But panchromatic imagery has higher resolution, so I'm guessing that's what this is.
Orbital Express is a DARPA program. DARPA's job is to think outside the box and fail a lot of the time, knowing that the lessons from daring failure can be more useful than incremental success (e.g., the first DARPA Challenge). Maybe it works out like Lt Col Kennedy said, and this really does change the requirements for satellites. Maybe it doesn't, but the technology is still useful. Either way, they've tried something new. And Lt Col Kennedy's pay is the same one way or the other.
I use Rayovac's nickel metal hydrides. I started out with Rayovac's alkalines, which were one of the first on the market, and just stuck with them since I don't want to buy new chargers. If I were just buying today, I'd go with Energizer over Rayovac because not everyone stocks the Rayovacs, but the Rayovacs do work pretty well. I don't have any actual experience with Energizer. I don't have a speed charger, so it does take a few hours to recharge them if they're pretty deeply drawn down. I haven't seen any alkaline rechargeable in a long time, but even if you do, definitely go NiMH. The alkalines don't have a very high peak power, and if you ever drain them completely, they can't be recharged.
The difference is that the domain squatters don't break the DNS specification. The "search engine" site is still a valid site even though it's useless. Everyone, the free world over, who queried a DNS server for the squatter site would get the same answer, and the method for getting that answer doesn't violate the specification or assumptions that a user's software is built on.
Earthlink's new "feature" is different- it violates the assumptions and specifications that app writers depend on to work. Read the blog to see some of the real problems users have had. Some are somewhat easy though needlessly annoying to work around, such as no longer being able to use the address bar to go to search. But, others are much more critical, this change has broken several users' VPN connections to work intranets. To work correctly, the VPN user assumes that any external DNSs will error when queried with an intranet DNS, while the one on the VPN will respond correctly. Given only one response, the correct site will be loaded. Now, it's a race between the DNSs to see who wins, sometimes breaking the ability to access a site through the VPN. In short, it breaks the way the internet is specified to work, and thus breaks third party apps.
Yes, people could change to third party DNS servers, but should they have to? Although some users want an "experience", users fundamentally pay Earthlink for _access to the internet_, which they have now broken. Many people on the blog observe that they are loyal Earthlink customers (many since Mindspring days) because Earthlink has always provided a sound no-frills access for those who want it, never requiring any "experience-enhancing software" or anything of the sort. (And, I used to be one of them- I went to EL when I got fed up with an ISP that provided unreliable service, and left only because I jumped to Cox for HSI. I won't be going back if they continue this.)
But population and energy usage are anti-correlated. Europe is shrinking in population, and the US is growing largely through immigration, with immigrants traditionally having larger families. Anecdotally (living in Fairfax County, VA), I find that people with larger families are more frugal- they tend to drive large vans or perhaps SUVs, which tend to be more harmful to the environment, but they also tend to be less able to afford luxuries, and thus driving to those luxuries, so that on the whole I would opine that they are far better for the environment per capita than DINKs or small families. And I point the last finger of blame partly on myself, as I have only one child, drive a gasoline car with a turbo, and often choose to drive considerable distances to leisure activities.
Very good point on the transportability. Beyond that, the "energy deficit" argument is flawed in that we could generate more energy for free that could offset or completely account for the energy cost of producing ethanol. Corn and wind are two things the midwest has in abundance.
But beyond that, here's what the Iowa Farm Bureau says: http://www.iowafarmbureau.com/programs/commodity/i nformation/pdf/Trade%20Matters%20column%20050714%2 0Brazilian%20ethanol.pdf
(for those not familiar with the geography of the USA, Iowa is famous as a huge corn-producing state, and, according to the link here, produces one quarter of the ethanol produced in the US). They don't specifically advocate repealing the tariff, but they also acknowledge that competition is good and that we use more ethanol than we produce, so we must turn to outside sources.
I've never actually been in the situation of working in one state while living in another, but I have paid part-year taxes in several states, so I've read over the forms and instructions in each. Every state I've had experience with (OK, NM, NY and VA) has a provision to take credit in one state for taxes paid to another state. Perhaps this isn't true in every case, but at least for those states, you're not paying double- you're taxed on your earned income in the state that you earned it in, and you then take credit for that tax in the state in which you live.
Like they did with OS/2 for Windows way back? Win 3.11 didn't update much if anything in functionality, but it kept OS/2-Win from installing. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
This is a great discussion of widescreen vs. normal, and how widescreen is achieved, but I think you've all missed the point about what the suit is claiming:
"The gravamen of Plaintiffs' Complaint is that certain representations on the LABEL and PACKAGE
insert of MGM's widescreen DVDs are false and misleading because MGM's widescreen DVDs for films shot in the 1.85 to 1 aspect ratio have the same IMAGE WIDTH as MGM's standard screen format DVDs." (caps mine)
If you look at the package for one of the DVDs, there is a little rectangle in a 4:3 aspect ratio that says "Standard" and "Modified to fit your screen." Below it there is a 16:9 Widescreen rectangle that says "Theatrical release format. Enhanced for widescreen TV." Now, this 16:9 rectangle is the same height as the 4:3 rectangle, but it's wider.
Now consider the image width if you put one of these WS DVDs in, versus that for a pan-and-scan. They're the same- the width of my TV. The difference in presentation is the top-to-bottom distance. As I read it, what the suit is really claiming is that the box suggests that a WS DVD should give me a picture that is the same height as a normal image but WIDER (that is, wider than my TV).
I guess they think MGM should have made the widescreen box the same width but shorter, but then they never would have been able to convey that widescreen has more information in it (at least for those movies that are really supposed to be widescreen). Or maybe MGM should have made their 4:3 movies with black space on all four sides, with a tiny little image in the middle. Then the wide screen version really would be wider.
So, good discussion on how widescreen is done, and some good points are made about how some widescreen versions are botched, but that's not what the suit is about, and even if MGM settles there's nothing there about getting a fixed version. They're just claiming that this little diagram is not only misleading but fraudulent. You be the judge on whether I've read this right, but if I have, no one should send their DVDs back as this suit borders on frivolous.
They may not have been midgets, but a lot of them where short, at least by today's standards. And Pete Conrad, commander of 12, was probably the shortest of them. His first words on the moon were, "That may have been a short one for Neil, but it sure was a long one for me!"
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Those are my two favorites too, but reversed. Dave Foley is great, and Paul Crane is an awesome Conrad. (If you watched ER when he was on, there was a Saturn V in Romano's office. It seems kind of out of character for the doctor, but makes perfect sense when you see FTETTM.) It would have been cool if he had played Conrad in the earlier episode, but it's only a small part anyway.
Here's to James Doohan, both for the man he was, seeing combat action on D-Day (where he lost a finger) and for the unforgettable character he gave us. A double toast of the finest Canadian and Scotch whiskeys for him and Scotty!
This probably refers to Plant 42. It's an Air Force-owned industrial complex in the Mojave desert, in the Palmdale-Lancaster area north of LA and 30-ish miles from Edwards AFB.
http://www.edwards.af.mil/partners/docs_html/afpla nt42.html
Does anyone know the number to the MSN search engine help desk? I know that Microsoft always only has our best interests at heart (if you don't believe me, just look back on Windows 3.11. Even though you might not have noticed the difference, I know in my heart that the good people of Microsoft wouldn't have released it just to break OS/2 for Windows. They *must* have had a good reason).
Anyway, I'm concerned that they're not protecting us adequately. Seems to me that "XBox" is probably a lot more likely to return adult results than "XFree86". I just want to give them a call to make sure they know about this possible breach. I'm sure they'll listen and get right on it, right?
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NZ's bigger advantage would be, if they launch from the NE corner, that they could launch on a wide range of azimuths without overflying any land. It also illustrates a perception reinforced by many maps, which cut off far southern latitudes more than northern. NZ is roughly as far south as the US is north. In the same vein, over 1/3 of Australia is tropical.
The Bible clearly documents Jesus giving his Church the power of binding and loosing sins in John 20:22-23. You are mistaken both about what the Church teaches and about what this app was meant to do. It was never meant to replace confession to a priest.
You're knocking down some classic strawmen here. One of the reasons we have Protestants is that people don't like what they _think_ the Catholic Church teaches and don't take the time to learn what they do. So, the digest version of Catholic beliefs on the things above: Yes, it is God that forgives. Yesterday, today and always. But in John 20:22-23 Jesus gives his Church the power of binding and loosing sins. No, we cannot earn our way into Heaven. Claiming to be Christian but not showing any fruit is a dead faith, but salvation is a free gift. If you believe people's ways are in error and you're going to try to illuminate them, you should understand what the religion they practice teaches.
Its purpose was always clear by reading the text of the articles--that it is a guide for preparation for the sacrament. The sensational headlines in the press are a problem, just as they are in this one too.
Next step: protocol droids to understand the binary language of moisture vaporators!
for a roadtrip, try The Rolling Stones. For one, it's a traveling tale. It'll introduce them to Heinlein, and it'll get them started with something that doesn't seem daunting at first. While some pre-teens can doubtless handle the Foundation Trilogy, or enjoy LOTR, they may feel like too much work/too much like school at first.
I wasn't aware that historians typically commented on human events. On wikipedia, a comment like that would get a [citations needed] tag.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who picked a user name based on Hitchhiker's.
Of course, it's obvious that Indiana is not equivalent to the United States in general, but in particular when considering whether DST costs the US more, one should consider that Indiana is not your average state. It sits on the far western edge of the Eastern Time Zone. Additionally, the whole western edge of the time zone is pushed about 5 degrees west of where it "should" be according to solar time (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/images/time1pr.gif); the combined effect is that even on standard time there's plenty of daylight in the evening and less in the morning. Changing to DST results in more daylight than people really use (IIRC from visiting it's still twilight until nearly 10 pm) and there's insufficient light in the morning, leading to increased energy usage. So the western edge of the time zone has been spending more money all along, and Indiana was previously saving it. I don't understand why the change has to be mandatory, and you can insert your favorite theory about interests there, but the fact remains that Indiana's geography is significantly different from most of the country (though I would note though that the western edge of the Mountain Time Zone is also pushed west, which might explain Arizona's case), so that it is far from proven that DST costs more across the US as a whole.
Most of the regular satellite imagery in Google Earth is resampled to look like it's from straight up. In areas with buildings, you can sometimes see the buildings "lean" because the original shot was actually at an angle and so saw the sides. And Ikonos and Quickbird imagery is usually in color. But panchromatic imagery has higher resolution, so I'm guessing that's what this is.
Orbital Express is a DARPA program. DARPA's job is to think outside the box and fail a lot of the time, knowing that the lessons from daring failure can be more useful than incremental success (e.g., the first DARPA Challenge). Maybe it works out like Lt Col Kennedy said, and this really does change the requirements for satellites. Maybe it doesn't, but the technology is still useful. Either way, they've tried something new. And Lt Col Kennedy's pay is the same one way or the other.
I use Rayovac's nickel metal hydrides. I started out with Rayovac's alkalines, which were one of the first on the market, and just stuck with them since I don't want to buy new chargers. If I were just buying today, I'd go with Energizer over Rayovac because not everyone stocks the Rayovacs, but the Rayovacs do work pretty well. I don't have any actual experience with Energizer. I don't have a speed charger, so it does take a few hours to recharge them if they're pretty deeply drawn down. I haven't seen any alkaline rechargeable in a long time, but even if you do, definitely go NiMH. The alkalines don't have a very high peak power, and if you ever drain them completely, they can't be recharged.
Earthlink's new "feature" is different- it violates the assumptions and specifications that app writers depend on to work. Read the blog to see some of the real problems users have had. Some are somewhat easy though needlessly annoying to work around, such as no longer being able to use the address bar to go to search. But, others are much more critical, this change has broken several users' VPN connections to work intranets. To work correctly, the VPN user assumes that any external DNSs will error when queried with an intranet DNS, while the one on the VPN will respond correctly. Given only one response, the correct site will be loaded. Now, it's a race between the DNSs to see who wins, sometimes breaking the ability to access a site through the VPN. In short, it breaks the way the internet is specified to work, and thus breaks third party apps.
Yes, people could change to third party DNS servers, but should they have to? Although some users want an "experience", users fundamentally pay Earthlink for _access to the internet_, which they have now broken. Many people on the blog observe that they are loyal Earthlink customers (many since Mindspring days) because Earthlink has always provided a sound no-frills access for those who want it, never requiring any "experience-enhancing software" or anything of the sort. (And, I used to be one of them- I went to EL when I got fed up with an ISP that provided unreliable service, and left only because I jumped to Cox for HSI. I won't be going back if they continue this.)
But population and energy usage are anti-correlated. Europe is shrinking in population, and the US is growing largely through immigration, with immigrants traditionally having larger families. Anecdotally (living in Fairfax County, VA), I find that people with larger families are more frugal- they tend to drive large vans or perhaps SUVs, which tend to be more harmful to the environment, but they also tend to be less able to afford luxuries, and thus driving to those luxuries, so that on the whole I would opine that they are far better for the environment per capita than DINKs or small families. And I point the last finger of blame partly on myself, as I have only one child, drive a gasoline car with a turbo, and often choose to drive considerable distances to leisure activities.
Very good point on the transportability. Beyond that, the "energy deficit" argument is flawed in that we could generate more energy for free that could offset or completely account for the energy cost of producing ethanol. Corn and wind are two things the midwest has in abundance. But beyond that, here's what the Iowa Farm Bureau says: http://www.iowafarmbureau.com/programs/commodity/i nformation/pdf/Trade%20Matters%20column%20050714%2 0Brazilian%20ethanol.pdf
(for those not familiar with the geography of the USA, Iowa is famous as a huge corn-producing state, and, according to the link here, produces one quarter of the ethanol produced in the US). They don't specifically advocate repealing the tariff, but they also acknowledge that competition is good and that we use more ethanol than we produce, so we must turn to outside sources.
For a sneak peek at what happens next, see the classic Thunderbirds episode "Lord Parker's 'Oliday" :)
http://www.fanderson.org.uk/epguides/tbirds2eg.htm l#Episode%20Four
I've never actually been in the situation of working in one state while living in another, but I have paid part-year taxes in several states, so I've read over the forms and instructions in each. Every state I've had experience with (OK, NM, NY and VA) has a provision to take credit in one state for taxes paid to another state. Perhaps this isn't true in every case, but at least for those states, you're not paying double- you're taxed on your earned income in the state that you earned it in, and you then take credit for that tax in the state in which you live.
Like they did with OS/2 for Windows way back? Win 3.11 didn't update much if anything in functionality, but it kept OS/2-Win from installing. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
This is a great discussion of widescreen vs. normal, and how widescreen is achieved, but I think you've all missed the point about what the suit is claiming: "The gravamen of Plaintiffs' Complaint is that certain representations on the LABEL and PACKAGE insert of MGM's widescreen DVDs are false and misleading because MGM's widescreen DVDs for films shot in the 1.85 to 1 aspect ratio have the same IMAGE WIDTH as MGM's standard screen format DVDs." (caps mine) If you look at the package for one of the DVDs, there is a little rectangle in a 4:3 aspect ratio that says "Standard" and "Modified to fit your screen." Below it there is a 16:9 Widescreen rectangle that says "Theatrical release format. Enhanced for widescreen TV." Now, this 16:9 rectangle is the same height as the 4:3 rectangle, but it's wider. Now consider the image width if you put one of these WS DVDs in, versus that for a pan-and-scan. They're the same- the width of my TV. The difference in presentation is the top-to-bottom distance. As I read it, what the suit is really claiming is that the box suggests that a WS DVD should give me a picture that is the same height as a normal image but WIDER (that is, wider than my TV). I guess they think MGM should have made the widescreen box the same width but shorter, but then they never would have been able to convey that widescreen has more information in it (at least for those movies that are really supposed to be widescreen). Or maybe MGM should have made their 4:3 movies with black space on all four sides, with a tiny little image in the middle. Then the wide screen version really would be wider. So, good discussion on how widescreen is done, and some good points are made about how some widescreen versions are botched, but that's not what the suit is about, and even if MGM settles there's nothing there about getting a fixed version. They're just claiming that this little diagram is not only misleading but fraudulent. You be the judge on whether I've read this right, but if I have, no one should send their DVDs back as this suit borders on frivolous.
They may not have been midgets, but a lot of them where short, at least by today's standards. And Pete Conrad, commander of 12, was probably the shortest of them. His first words on the moon were, "That may have been a short one for Neil, but it sure was a long one for me!"
Those are my two favorites too, but reversed. Dave Foley is great, and Paul Crane is an awesome Conrad. (If you watched ER when he was on, there was a Saturn V in Romano's office. It seems kind of out of character for the doctor, but makes perfect sense when you see FTETTM.) It would have been cool if he had played Conrad in the earlier episode, but it's only a small part anyway.
Here's to James Doohan, both for the man he was, seeing combat action on D-Day (where he lost a finger) and for the unforgettable character he gave us. A double toast of the finest Canadian and Scotch whiskeys for him and Scotty!
This probably refers to Plant 42. It's an Air Force-owned industrial complex in the Mojave desert, in the Palmdale-Lancaster area north of LA and 30-ish miles from Edwards AFB. http://www.edwards.af.mil/partners/docs_html/afpla nt42.html
Does anyone know the number to the MSN search engine help desk? I know that Microsoft always only has our best interests at heart (if you don't believe me, just look back on Windows 3.11. Even though you might not have noticed the difference, I know in my heart that the good people of Microsoft wouldn't have released it just to break OS/2 for Windows. They *must* have had a good reason). Anyway, I'm concerned that they're not protecting us adequately. Seems to me that "XBox" is probably a lot more likely to return adult results than "XFree86". I just want to give them a call to make sure they know about this possible breach. I'm sure they'll listen and get right on it, right?