3. Abortions are not "easy" -- I've had relationships with women who've had them, and it's almost always been a harrowing experience. But, it was always the right choice for them, and they would do it all over again.
This is not true at all, it's expensive, and most importantly, the woman *NEVER* recovers from it emotionally. Neither will you. You can hide it, but it's always there in the back of your mind. Imagine hitting someone with your car late one night, killing them, and never telling anybody about it.
I've been hit by that irregular schedule, I quickly dropped that credit card. About a year had passed and I got a notice for a class action suit.
They all do it though, just gotta pay your bills on time and you're safe. Once you learn the tricks you can get by on free interest and that, I have $4500 I have been juggling around those 12 months no interest balance transfer cards. I get an offer for one every day it seems. You know they're still making a killing by charging 3% to the merchants.
http://www.bcsalliance.com/x_creditcardtricks2.htm l
How many times have I heard this from a liberal? "I used to be hardline conservative but now I'm gay and loving it." Heh.
I think its funny that the liberals all label fox news as a conservative news outlet, even though there are plenty of liberal views on fox news. I watch the today show most mornings, and I always have to watch Katie Couric send some subliminal message to America. It's a morning show, not a liberal rally. Greta Van Sustren is a liberal, so is Alan Colmes, and whos that guy with the mustache? Heraldo. He's definately a liberal. And they're respectable liberals. They have respectable viewpoints, not like PETA liberals. I feel sorry for the PETA liberals now. They are losing all of their democratic party support.
I actually had a 4th grade school teacher that told the class on numerous occasions that being gay is normal and a bunch of other leftist type stuff, but the thing that really got to me is when she would make me sit in the hall and tear up my pictures when she caught me drawing guns and tanks in my free time!!! On halloween she made me take off my army helmet with the ace of spade taped to it, but she let the dude dressed as an old woman wear his purple hat!!!
Typically one issue comes along that you will defend. For me, its a lot of issues. Take abortion. I think abortion is an atrocity. We on the left can get our point across with this lacy petersen bill that John Kerry went out of his way to vote against. Does John Kerry think its a bad thing to charge someone like Scott Petersen for a double murder? Probably not, but this is one step closer to banning abortion for the conservatives. On the other side there is embryonic stem cell research. If we as conservatives give in to that, they are one step closer to their ideal of unrestricted abortion. I still do feel that there are other approaches to stem cell research than harvesting human embryos, but others may not have drawn the line that life begins at conception, and they don't realize what they are giving in to by going along with embryonic stem cell research. The same goes for democrats who think the lacy petersen bill is a good thing.
So you have two parties. What I find peculiar is how both parties are becoming more and more the same. Maybe it is just a sign of the times, but I never would have imagined the kind of democratic national convention / war rally we saw a few weeks ago.
Well, my other points aside, you're right about the triggers and check constraints (I thought check constraints were in there already though.... oh well).
MySQL is not an old design. Its a new and modular design, ISAM has all but been replaced by InnoDB. I'm not talking about the transaction engine.
You're right though, I've noticed progress slowing, you'd think it would pick up. Seems like all the MySQL progress of years past has just spurred the Postgres team on.
Still, postgress has a clunky native interface, which is the biggest factor for me.
Have you ever sat in #linuxhelp on efnet for about three hours? I tried to help a guy get his wireless ethernet driver working last night and he was so stupid, he couldn't grasp the simplest of concepts. There is nothing so perfect as windows for people like that...
And you'll notice that is the direction linux desktops are going. Simple to set up, easy to use.
In my experience, PG doesn't have as good of a native interface than MySQL, MySQL is much faster for a free database, and the features are getting in there. Problem with PG is that it is an old design that has been worked with for quite a while. I remember looking into replication with postgress and decided to just convert everything to MySQL for replication, had to keep PG around for the GIS datatypes, but now that feature is being finalized in MySQL. I will have to look into firebird now that someone's mentioned that it has better replication support...
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But will they allow your wrinkly carcass to fly to the moon when you're in your 80's?
I want to try wearing a ceramic/compressed nitrogen suit and jumping into re-entry... with a parachute, of course.
I consider that a far-out proposal, maybe possible in 15 years if everything goes perfectly in the meantime.
The biosphere would only be necessary for a saturn trip. People live on the space station fine for the time it would take to reach mars, and the thing about using an iceburg in space is it doesn't need any sort of shielding, it would even shield any meteor impact, or if it were behind and to the side of the spacecraft, it would shield solar radiation. I'm envisioning 90% of it would be used for fuel for a landing craft, which could land multiple times. It would speed up the electric propulsion with a good kick start. Ice is the most stable form for the most powerful conventional fuel. The inflatable greenhouses would be most useful on the surface of mars if a permanant base is to be established. I think we should develop genetically modified plant life that is sustainable in mars atmosphere to unleash on that barren planet. That idea would be sure to garner protests!
The main thing is that a proposal like this, which is not impossible (maybe far out), would get people excited, it would get NASA excited, which is what was going on in the 60s. I think people at NASA could be 2-3 times as effective working on a project they were passionate about. I'm sure everybody at NASA who worked on the apollo missions thought we'd have a moon base by now, but once the soviets fell, we were done. Sad. Good by space station freedom, hah.
I do agree that it's pretty silly to subject voting to stricter security than we do money. One person stealing your bank account can ruin your life- but someone steals your vote? You'll probably never notice.
I think paper ballots are more insecure. In fact I think the whole goal of a "recount" as in Florida, was to give people the opportunity to change the votes. Recounts aught not be necessary at all. The real problem IMO is that nobody votes, or they vote for whoever's name they recognize. You could spend all day reviewing the candidates on your cell phone before casting your vote. That's not in the politicians best interests though.
Ok. You realize that in order to fly a sample return mission to mars in one term the spacecraft would have to be built in about 2 years?
Sounds like a good plan to me other than the impossible promise of launching a returning a mars sample in 4 years. How about this:
Fly the space shuttle to the hubble space telescope without pilots, equip the robot arm on the space shuttle with a toolkit for one last upgrade (better make it count). Continue with plans for the NGST.
Park both shuttles in museums, forever.
Make a deal with Russia that we supply the cargo shipments to the ISS using Delta rockets and they fly the astronauts.
continuing with new development efforts...
Combine 3 or 4 Delta rockets into one giant launcher
Build a "space cruiser" with a nuclear reactor, electric propulsion, built to last 20-30 years in space without ever landing, containing a tiny robotic "maintenance" craft, a 2 person "landing craft", inflatable greenhouses... capable of collecting mass quantities of rocks. Send an iceburg along with the craft as a source of fuel for the landing craft, and sustenance for the humans.
Once the cruiser is tried and tested, send a "brick kit" to the moon/mars and build a brick fortress, and brick furnaces to manufacture glass and iron for primitive construction of living habitats on Mars/Moon. Continue moving necessary supplies such as Uranium to Mars/moon until they are reasonably self sufficient. Use the lower gravity to launch larger spacecraft (or large stockpiles of food/fuel if spacecraft is built on earth).
Begin planning habitation of Saturns moons or asteroid belt. (approx. 2030-2040)
Build death star (2050)
There you have it, the fate of humankind.
If there were a space exploration party, I would vote for them, as it stands I vote libertarian, because I feel it makes my vote count more here in the most conservative state in the United States, Utah. I'm not complaining.
Speaking of novel ideas, everyone in the United States aught to be issued private encryption keys, tied to their thumbprint (and optional pass-phrase), which they combine using their cellular phone, in order to vote. That would make the vote count, eh? It's sure to garner complaints from the old paper ballot advocates (as if paper is tamper proof).
By the way, sorry for calling you a crazie. You're not a crazie.
China is 40 years behind us. They are not in the position to be proposing a lunar base. That is a joke. Probably some communist who wants a space ship. They first launched someone into space what, last year?
You sound like you are a "space enthusiast" who pays attention to politics, so I'm curious, who are you voting for and why?
They're not radical or new.
They are in political terms. Maybe not in science fiction literature.
No he hasn't. Bush doesn't even have the power to set budgets. The NASA's budgets throughout his term have been increased in total dollars, but at less than the rate of inflation, so they were really minor cutbacks.
Ok. You're right on this one. When you compute the cost of inflation with his last three proposals (omitting his most recent one) it comes out about even. He hasn't cut the budget like his predecessor have. Both Bush's came out spending more on NASA, but less in percent of the total budget, which has been consistent, which is a shame. I'd like to see that number go up. (Fat chance with all these left wing proposals like public health care). As for not having the power to set budgets, see my first message. He does what he can.
Flipping out? You're the one using all the extra punctuation. All I said is that Bush hasn't done anything, and is not going to do anything. Both of those things are trivially true, because his proposed Mars plan won't really start up until 2009 at the earliest, when he'll be long gone. At that point the fact that there's simply no funding available (without huge tax increases, which Bush claims to hate) will become undeniably clear.
Well, nice to know where you stand. I wasn't referring to your punctuation, I was referring to you not letting any praise for Dubya go un-punished. Just the fact that you spoke up with anything but optimism.
Aside from proposing two radical new ideas, the moon base and manned mars exploration, he has consistently incrased NASA's budget, and is now threatening to veto congress's NASA budget cut proposal. Isn't that about all he can do? The man obviously shares the same vision of humankind that I have. Have you even read the article I was referring to???????
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spacetravel-04zp. ht ml
Sheesh, I so much as mention the name Bush and crazies like you start to flip out. LOL.
The rail idea sounds good (the cannon is redundant after mentioning this, by theway), but the problem is you probably can't keep your electronics intact after a gigantic magnetic discharge. Best for fuel/food and that.
I tend to think that rockets are the way to go, the trick is to make them cheaper. Magnetic rail is going to require expensive high strength materials, you aught to be able to build a really cheap rocket, and fuel it with energy gathered from under-sea thermal vents, electrolosys fuel generating facilities deep under the ocean.
And forget single stage to orbit. Just make the age old design cheaper! Space ship one is the first step.
The international space station aught to be converted into an inter-planetary cruiser. Just add some more shielding and a nuclear reactor. I don't see why it should be confined to earth orbit!
An inter-planetary cruiser would be nice. We could put it in a continual earth/mars transit.
I heard a prediction today that cell phone service will be so cheap one day that it will be free, and all you'll pay for is your high tech phone.
Think about it a minute and it makes sense. Everything does seem to get cheaper and better.
Same goes for space travel. Eventually sending a 5000 ton battleship into space will not be such an impossible task.
I say we aught to get this show on the road. There won't be any progress if we're sending nano-satellites everywhere to study the makeup of the upper atmosphere of titan. Lets build an ore refinery on the moon! If you put it in perspective 50 billion dollars is not a lot of dough, and that would build quite a few rockets.
This is right on. I'm tired of the privacy rants too. If only I could walk into my bank naked and be identified by the wrinkles on my genitals. heh heh.
I don't know about the disposable used up world, maybe they watched too much captain planet when they were younger. I think its good for kids to envision mankind living on other planets. It is a good dream for a kid, and a good goal for humankind. It would give the inhabitants of earth a new perspective if there were *americans* on mars. If I could blast off this god forsaken planet, I would. Not that I'm afraid of everybody blowing each other up... which is most certainly our biggest threat. Just that I've always been more of a transformers fan.
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He was mocking Spider Man 2, Cletus.
3. Abortions are not "easy" -- I've had relationships with women who've had them, and it's almost always been a harrowing experience. But, it was always the right choice for them, and they would do it all over again.
This is not true at all, it's expensive, and most importantly, the woman *NEVER* recovers from it emotionally. Neither will you. You can hide it, but it's always there in the back of your mind. Imagine hitting someone with your car late one night, killing them, and never telling anybody about it.
I've been hit by that irregular schedule, I quickly dropped that credit card. About a year had passed and I got a notice for a class action suit. They all do it though, just gotta pay your bills on time and you're safe. Once you learn the tricks you can get by on free interest and that, I have $4500 I have been juggling around those 12 months no interest balance transfer cards. I get an offer for one every day it seems. You know they're still making a killing by charging 3% to the merchants. http://www.bcsalliance.com/x_creditcardtricks2.htm l
How many times have I heard this from a liberal? "I used to be hardline conservative but now I'm gay and loving it." Heh.
I think its funny that the liberals all label fox news as a conservative news outlet, even though there are plenty of liberal views on fox news. I watch the today show most mornings, and I always have to watch Katie Couric send some subliminal message to America. It's a morning show, not a liberal rally. Greta Van Sustren is a liberal, so is Alan Colmes, and whos that guy with the mustache? Heraldo. He's definately a liberal. And they're respectable liberals. They have respectable viewpoints, not like PETA liberals. I feel sorry for the PETA liberals now. They are losing all of their democratic party support.
I actually had a 4th grade school teacher that told the class on numerous occasions that being gay is normal and a bunch of other leftist type stuff, but the thing that really got to me is when she would make me sit in the hall and tear up my pictures when she caught me drawing guns and tanks in my free time!!! On halloween she made me take off my army helmet with the ace of spade taped to it, but she let the dude dressed as an old woman wear his purple hat!!!
Typically one issue comes along that you will defend. For me, its a lot of issues. Take abortion. I think abortion is an atrocity. We on the left can get our point across with this lacy petersen bill that John Kerry went out of his way to vote against. Does John Kerry think its a bad thing to charge someone like Scott Petersen for a double murder? Probably not, but this is one step closer to banning abortion for the conservatives. On the other side there is embryonic stem cell research. If we as conservatives give in to that, they are one step closer to their ideal of unrestricted abortion. I still do feel that there are other approaches to stem cell research than harvesting human embryos, but others may not have drawn the line that life begins at conception, and they don't realize what they are giving in to by going along with embryonic stem cell research. The same goes for democrats who think the lacy petersen bill is a good thing.
So you have two parties. What I find peculiar is how both parties are becoming more and more the same. Maybe it is just a sign of the times, but I never would have imagined the kind of democratic national convention / war rally we saw a few weeks ago.
Well, my other points aside, you're right about the triggers and check constraints (I thought check constraints were in there already though.... oh well).
MySQL is not an old design. Its a new and modular design, ISAM has all but been replaced by InnoDB. I'm not talking about the transaction engine.
You're right though, I've noticed progress slowing, you'd think it would pick up. Seems like all the MySQL progress of years past has just spurred the Postgres team on.
Still, postgress has a clunky native interface, which is the biggest factor for me.
Have you ever sat in #linuxhelp on efnet for about three hours? I tried to help a guy get his wireless ethernet driver working last night and he was so stupid, he couldn't grasp the simplest of concepts. There is nothing so perfect as windows for people like that... And you'll notice that is the direction linux desktops are going. Simple to set up, easy to use.
In my experience, PG doesn't have as good of a native interface than MySQL, MySQL is much faster for a free database, and the features are getting in there. Problem with PG is that it is an old design that has been worked with for quite a while. I remember looking into replication with postgress and decided to just convert everything to MySQL for replication, had to keep PG around for the GIS datatypes, but now that feature is being finalized in MySQL. I will have to look into firebird now that someone's mentioned that it has better replication support...
But will they allow your wrinkly carcass to fly to the moon when you're in your 80's? I want to try wearing a ceramic/compressed nitrogen suit and jumping into re-entry... with a parachute, of course.
The biosphere would only be necessary for a saturn trip. People live on the space station fine for the time it would take to reach mars, and the thing about using an iceburg in space is it doesn't need any sort of shielding, it would even shield any meteor impact, or if it were behind and to the side of the spacecraft, it would shield solar radiation. I'm envisioning 90% of it would be used for fuel for a landing craft, which could land multiple times. It would speed up the electric propulsion with a good kick start. Ice is the most stable form for the most powerful conventional fuel. The inflatable greenhouses would be most useful on the surface of mars if a permanant base is to be established. I think we should develop genetically modified plant life that is sustainable in mars atmosphere to unleash on that barren planet. That idea would be sure to garner protests!
The main thing is that a proposal like this, which is not impossible (maybe far out), would get people excited, it would get NASA excited, which is what was going on in the 60s. I think people at NASA could be 2-3 times as effective working on a project they were passionate about. I'm sure everybody at NASA who worked on the apollo missions thought we'd have a moon base by now, but once the soviets fell, we were done. Sad. Good by space station freedom, hah.
I do agree that it's pretty silly to subject voting to stricter security than we do money. One person stealing your bank account can ruin your life- but someone steals your vote? You'll probably never notice.I think paper ballots are more insecure. In fact I think the whole goal of a "recount" as in Florida, was to give people the opportunity to change the votes. Recounts aught not be necessary at all. The real problem IMO is that nobody votes, or they vote for whoever's name they recognize. You could spend all day reviewing the candidates on your cell phone before casting your vote. That's not in the politicians best interests though.
Ok. You realize that in order to fly a sample return mission to mars in one term the spacecraft would have to be built in about 2 years?
Sounds like a good plan to me other than the impossible promise of launching a returning a mars sample in 4 years. How about this:
continuing with new development efforts...
There you have it, the fate of humankind.
If there were a space exploration party, I would vote for them, as it stands I vote libertarian, because I feel it makes my vote count more here in the most conservative state in the United States, Utah. I'm not complaining.
Speaking of novel ideas, everyone in the United States aught to be issued private encryption keys, tied to their thumbprint (and optional pass-phrase), which they combine using their cellular phone, in order to vote. That would make the vote count, eh? It's sure to garner complaints from the old paper ballot advocates (as if paper is tamper proof).
By the way, sorry for calling you a crazie. You're not a crazie.
China is 40 years behind us. They are not in the position to be proposing a lunar base. That is a joke. Probably some communist who wants a space ship. They first launched someone into space what, last year?
You sound like you are a "space enthusiast" who pays attention to politics, so I'm curious, who are you voting for and why?
They're not radical or new.
They are in political terms. Maybe not in science fiction literature.
No he hasn't. Bush doesn't even have the power to set budgets. The NASA's budgets throughout his term have been increased in total dollars, but at less than the rate of inflation, so they were really minor cutbacks.
Ok. You're right on this one. When you compute the cost of inflation with his last three proposals (omitting his most recent one) it comes out about even. He hasn't cut the budget like his predecessor have. Both Bush's came out spending more on NASA, but less in percent of the total budget, which has been consistent, which is a shame. I'd like to see that number go up. (Fat chance with all these left wing proposals like public health care). As for not having the power to set budgets, see my first message. He does what he can.
Flipping out? You're the one using all the extra punctuation. All I said is that Bush hasn't done anything, and is not going to do anything. Both of those things are trivially true, because his proposed Mars plan won't really start up until 2009 at the earliest, when he'll be long gone. At that point the fact that there's simply no funding available (without huge tax increases, which Bush claims to hate) will become undeniably clear.
Well, nice to know where you stand. I wasn't referring to your punctuation, I was referring to you not letting any praise for Dubya go un-punished. Just the fact that you spoke up with anything but optimism.
Aside from proposing two radical new ideas, the moon base and manned mars exploration, he has consistently incrased NASA's budget, and is now threatening to veto congress's NASA budget cut proposal. Isn't that about all he can do? The man obviously shares the same vision of humankind that I have. Have you even read the article I was referring to???????
. ht ml
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spacetravel-04zp
Sheesh, I so much as mention the name Bush and crazies like you start to flip out. LOL.
The rail idea sounds good (the cannon is redundant after mentioning this, by theway), but the problem is you probably can't keep your electronics intact after a gigantic magnetic discharge. Best for fuel/food and that. I tend to think that rockets are the way to go, the trick is to make them cheaper. Magnetic rail is going to require expensive high strength materials, you aught to be able to build a really cheap rocket, and fuel it with energy gathered from under-sea thermal vents, electrolosys fuel generating facilities deep under the ocean. And forget single stage to orbit. Just make the age old design cheaper! Space ship one is the first step. The international space station aught to be converted into an inter-planetary cruiser. Just add some more shielding and a nuclear reactor. I don't see why it should be confined to earth orbit! An inter-planetary cruiser would be nice. We could put it in a continual earth/mars transit.
By the way, seeing the effort Bush is putting into this at spacedaily.com has given me a new respect for the man.
I heard a prediction today that cell phone service will be so cheap one day that it will be free, and all you'll pay for is your high tech phone. Think about it a minute and it makes sense. Everything does seem to get cheaper and better. Same goes for space travel. Eventually sending a 5000 ton battleship into space will not be such an impossible task. I say we aught to get this show on the road. There won't be any progress if we're sending nano-satellites everywhere to study the makeup of the upper atmosphere of titan. Lets build an ore refinery on the moon! If you put it in perspective 50 billion dollars is not a lot of dough, and that would build quite a few rockets.
This is right on. I'm tired of the privacy rants too. If only I could walk into my bank naked and be identified by the wrinkles on my genitals. heh heh.
I don't know about the disposable used up world, maybe they watched too much captain planet when they were younger. I think its good for kids to envision mankind living on other planets. It is a good dream for a kid, and a good goal for humankind. It would give the inhabitants of earth a new perspective if there were *americans* on mars. If I could blast off this god forsaken planet, I would. Not that I'm afraid of everybody blowing each other up... which is most certainly our biggest threat. Just that I've always been more of a transformers fan.