They have to be more risk-averse these days because the shuttle hardware is way more fragile and complicated than Apollo-program-era hardware.
particularly due to the fact that the Apollo stuff was single-use-only the ablative heatshield was designed to work for one re-entry then get turfed, whereas the tiles in the shuttle need to withstand more re-entries, and is apparently difficult to tell when they need to be replaced.
this is likely the reason why NASA is opting for replaceable one-time-use heatshields on their next-gen CEV.
the whole monarchy thing is little more than a technicality, retained mostly for the reason that it would be a waste of time/money to change it and nothing would actually be changed.
we have almost exactly the same system here with our Governor-General (i'll abbreviate to GG for the rest of this) (really the representative of the Queen (or King, whichever there is at the time)). technically, she is in charge of the country, as she is the head of state (well, the Queen (she is the queen of both Canada and the UK (and whichever other countries refer to as such)) is the actual head of state, but the GG is her representative in the country, so the GG is the de facto head of state) but in actuality, the role she holds is almost entirely ceremonial. i don't recall anytime this century that the GG refused to grant royal assent to a bill. closest i know of was the King-Byng affair back in 1926. (look it up if you like)
occasionally, the queen herself will give royal assent to a bill that is particularly important, such as the 1982 Canada act, though royal assent is usually on given by the GG or more commonly, by a deputy GG.
in my experience, our system makes almost no sense to anyone who doesn't live here or in another country with a similar government system, but it does work.
it doesn't. it just prevents it from completely screwing things up. rather than having to re-image/reinstall the box, just reboot.
the obvious disadvantage of it is that it makes performing software updates a minor PITA, as you have to disable defrost, update, then refreeze. it seems that whoever is in charge of the machines there doesn't do that.
what they did with the computers at my old high school was that they rigged the anti-virus to update everytime the computer rebooted, and every so often (about every other month) they defrosted the machines and updated them, then refroze them so that the time it took to update wouldn't get unreasonable.
they used to have the exact same thing at my old high school!
the solution i used was to merely not reboot the computer and keep a copy of anything i installed to my network space, then if by chance the computer got rebooted for some reason, jut copy the stuff back where it was. works great if said programs don't store anything important in the registry.
though said password can usually be discovered by basic means (shoulder-surfing) when something "goes wrong" (or is made to go wrong) with the computer.
i'm pretty sure that practically every adult site already does something very similar with the META tags (an adult content tag or something. i'm not sure at the moment). it's one of the things that net-sitting software checks, along with other measures like whitelists and blacklists.
the similarity would really land on the fact that both are rather open to interpretation (one interpreted by the judical system, the other by the leaders of religious faction X) and the actual meaning depends on that interpretation.
look at how many organizations are pushing things "supported" by the constitution, usually with completely differing goals/views, both supported by the same text.
now compare to the number of differant flavours of Christianity, all of which are based on the same book, more-or-less, yet can differ rather widely.
i hate replying to myself, but i hit the button too soon (preview and submit should be further apart) and didn't add that the 2nd one (preventing prayer) would be unconstitutional if it is a public school, AFAIK, but would again be completely legal to ban prayer in a private school. again, to the best of my knowledge.
Well, that takes care of separation of church and Congress. So why is it unconstitutional for a school to force all students to say a Christian prayer - or to keep students from saying one if they want to? The principal isn't Congress.
Congress is the government (part of it, anyway) and the (public) school system is run by a part of the government, thus the constiution applies.
if this is a private school, the constitution has nothing to do with anything and they can legally enforce such things, to the best of my knowledge anyway.
not really. i don't watch much TV, though my favorite shows are Canadian-made (Andromedia (made in toronto) and Corner gas (made in Rolleu(SP? i usually mispell it, even though it's only a couple hundred miles from here),SK and also in Regina, SK)
listening to American music
somewhat guity, though mostly indenpendant label artists and my favorite band is british
surfing American websites
guilty. most of the sites i visit are based in the US, or the servers are anyway.
eating at American fast-food restaurants
not really. i'm trying to lose weight here. i tend to frequent family-run resteraunts when i do go out to eat. not to say i don't goto McDonalds every-so-often, but it's pretty rare.
but the files would not be completely identical, as they would be encoded slightly differantly by slightly differant programs or recorded in a slightly differant way or any of a lot of things that would introduce very slight, imperceptable to humans, differances that would nonetheless completely ruin any attempt to use such a simple method for removing duplicates.
YouTube is very likely to be judged guilty of vicarious infringement if they do not find a way to keep copyrighted material from appearing in the first place.
and such a solution would be messy and/or complex and/or expensive (at least 2 of those) in order to have a reasonably low error rate, assuming that it is even possible.
Celery containing negative calories is a common misconception. You cannot create a deficit, the human digestive system will extract as much as it can from that stick.
no one is saying that celery truly has negative calories, but it has an effectively negative amount of calories, as you use more energy eating and digesting it than you get out of it, thus negitive ammount of calories gained.
but the thing is, you don't need to be completely invisible. you just need to be invisible enough to not be noticed. traditional camouflage works in the exact same manner, in that they can see you, but they don't notice you.
combine that with this and you've got even better camouflage and they'll notice you even less often.
I'll tell you about the best, simplest, most untamperable voting machine. it's a pen, a paper ballot, a cardboard box, and a bunch of people to count the votes.
I may be a techie, but I do not understand the obsession with making absolutely everything computerized. some things shouldn't be, for various reasons, and voting is one of those things, again, for various reasons, including security (the big one), reliability (every computer screws up at some point, usually the most critical point), and usability, among others.
I'm curious to know what a 'fundamentalist secularist' looks like.
completely opposed to religion in any way, shape, or form. one of the basic idea is that belief in any form of religion is a sign of mental illness requiring treatment.
to Americans. I don't think the US constitution says anything about the right of non-citizens. I could be wrong, of course.
Where exactly do you see the word "citizen" in the bill of rights? A quick crtl+f seach through the Wikisource version of it (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_ of_Rights) doesn't find the word "citizen". I do see many instances of the words "person" and "persons" though.
this reminds me of a short article in Popular Science a few months back regarding a startup venture on cloned beef cattle. they had developed a method of using the tissue of recently deceased (within 48 hours) animals for cloning purposes, so basically the idea was if the meat inspector finds that a certain steer produced really, really good meat, they go and clone a bunch of identical ones, each of which would have equally good meat, assuming they are raised and fed in the same manner (reasonably easy to control within a reasonable margin of variation).
the typical longevity issues with recent cloning (the whole thing with Dolly) would not be an issue, as they're likely going to be slaughtered long before any of those problems manifest themselves.
Luggage tracking on airports is pretty sophisticated, luggage tag numbers are linked to a ticket record, luggage can be immediately linked to an individual with a wireless barcode scanner.
they're working on that (ROHS, Reduction Of Hazardous Substances or something), but it takes time. lead-based solder is being phased out, mercury is still necessary for some things, such as fluorescent tubes (which are used in most LCDs), though those are being replaced by other technologies (LED back-lights, OLED displays, etc.)
well, the war has largely reached a cease-fire this year, due to the last part. it's basically an unofficial policy of the technology dept. to ignore the IT dept. on such matters.
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Just get some minor to click it.
technically, the minor would be acting as your agent in it with your authorization, so it would be the same as if you clicked it yourself.
You are not allowed to make more than 6 withdrawals a month from a savings account without paying a fee.
and this is at what bank? i get 30 transactions (withdrawls, interact, etc.) monthly on my savings account at RBC.
They have to be more risk-averse these days because the shuttle hardware is way more fragile and complicated than Apollo-program-era hardware.
particularly due to the fact that the Apollo stuff was single-use-only the ablative heatshield was designed to work for one re-entry then get turfed, whereas the tiles in the shuttle need to withstand more re-entries, and is apparently difficult to tell when they need to be replaced.
this is likely the reason why NASA is opting for replaceable one-time-use heatshields on their next-gen CEV.
the whole monarchy thing is little more than a technicality, retained mostly for the reason that it would be a waste of time/money to change it and nothing would actually be changed.
we have almost exactly the same system here with our Governor-General (i'll abbreviate to GG for the rest of this) (really the representative of the Queen (or King, whichever there is at the time)). technically, she is in charge of the country, as she is the head of state (well, the Queen (she is the queen of both Canada and the UK (and whichever other countries refer to as such)) is the actual head of state, but the GG is her representative in the country, so the GG is the de facto head of state) but in actuality, the role she holds is almost entirely ceremonial. i don't recall anytime this century that the GG refused to grant royal assent to a bill. closest i know of was the King-Byng affair back in 1926. (look it up if you like)
occasionally, the queen herself will give royal assent to a bill that is particularly important, such as the 1982 Canada act, though royal assent is usually on given by the GG or more commonly, by a deputy GG.
in my experience, our system makes almost no sense to anyone who doesn't live here or in another country with a similar government system, but it does work.
well, i agree the wi-fi ban is stupid, but a ban on electronic voting isn't.
i have yet to see an electronic voting system (open-source or otherwise) that is better than paper ballots.
remember, if/when electronic voting actually works like it should, this ban could easily (relatively speaking) be undone.
it doesn't. it just prevents it from completely screwing things up. rather than having to re-image/reinstall the box, just reboot.
the obvious disadvantage of it is that it makes performing software updates a minor PITA, as you have to disable defrost, update, then refreeze. it seems that whoever is in charge of the machines there doesn't do that.
what they did with the computers at my old high school was that they rigged the anti-virus to update everytime the computer rebooted, and every so often (about every other month) they defrosted the machines and updated them, then refroze them so that the time it took to update wouldn't get unreasonable.
they used to have the exact same thing at my old high school!
the solution i used was to merely not reboot the computer and keep a copy of anything i installed to my network space, then if by chance the computer got rebooted for some reason, jut copy the stuff back where it was. works great if said programs don't store anything important in the registry.
though said password can usually be discovered by basic means (shoulder-surfing) when something "goes wrong" (or is made to go wrong) with the computer.
i'm pretty sure that practically every adult site already does something very similar with the META tags (an adult content tag or something. i'm not sure at the moment). it's one of the things that net-sitting software checks, along with other measures like whitelists and blacklists.
interesting idea.
the similarity would really land on the fact that both are rather open to interpretation (one interpreted by the judical system, the other by the leaders of religious faction X) and the actual meaning depends on that interpretation.
look at how many organizations are pushing things "supported" by the constitution, usually with completely differing goals/views, both supported by the same text.
now compare to the number of differant flavours of Christianity, all of which are based on the same book, more-or-less, yet can differ rather widely.
i hate replying to myself, but i hit the button too soon (preview and submit should be further apart) and didn't add that the 2nd one (preventing prayer) would be unconstitutional if it is a public school, AFAIK, but would again be completely legal to ban prayer in a private school. again, to the best of my knowledge.
Well, that takes care of separation of church and Congress. So why is it unconstitutional for a school to force all students to say a Christian prayer - or to keep students from saying one if they want to? The principal isn't Congress.
Congress is the government (part of it, anyway) and the (public) school system is run by a part of the government, thus the constiution applies.
if this is a private school, the constitution has nothing to do with anything and they can legally enforce such things, to the best of my knowledge anyway.
watching American TV programs
not really. i don't watch much TV, though my favorite shows are Canadian-made (Andromedia (made in toronto) and Corner gas (made in Rolleu(SP? i usually mispell it, even though it's only a couple hundred miles from here),SK and also in Regina, SK)
listening to American music
somewhat guity, though mostly indenpendant label artists and my favorite band is british
surfing American websites
guilty. most of the sites i visit are based in the US, or the servers are anyway.
eating at American fast-food restaurants
not really. i'm trying to lose weight here. i tend to frequent family-run resteraunts when i do go out to eat. not to say i don't goto McDonalds every-so-often, but it's pretty rare.
but the files would not be completely identical, as they would be encoded slightly differantly by slightly differant programs or recorded in a slightly differant way or any of a lot of things that would introduce very slight, imperceptable to humans, differances that would nonetheless completely ruin any attempt to use such a simple method for removing duplicates.
YouTube is very likely to be judged guilty of vicarious infringement if they do not find a way to keep copyrighted material from appearing in the first place.
and such a solution would be messy and/or complex and/or expensive (at least 2 of those) in order to have a reasonably low error rate, assuming that it is even possible.
Celery containing negative calories is a common misconception. You cannot create a deficit, the human digestive system will extract as much as it can from that stick.
no one is saying that celery truly has negative calories, but it has an effectively negative amount of calories, as you use more energy eating and digesting it than you get out of it, thus negitive ammount of calories gained.
but the thing is, you don't need to be completely invisible. you just need to be invisible enough to not be noticed. traditional camouflage works in the exact same manner, in that they can see you, but they don't notice you.
combine that with this and you've got even better camouflage and they'll notice you even less often.
I'll tell you about the best, simplest, most untamperable voting machine. it's a pen, a paper ballot, a cardboard box, and a bunch of people to count the votes.
I may be a techie, but I do not understand the obsession with making absolutely everything computerized. some things shouldn't be, for various reasons, and voting is one of those things, again, for various reasons, including security (the big one), reliability (every computer screws up at some point, usually the most critical point), and usability, among others.
to supplement the parent, poll workers are paid volunteers. AFAIK, no one is required to work as a poll worker.
I'm curious to know what a 'fundamentalist secularist' looks like.
completely opposed to religion in any way, shape, or form. one of the basic idea is that belief in any form of religion is a sign of mental illness requiring treatment.
to Americans. I don't think the US constitution says anything about the right of non-citizens. I could be wrong, of course.
_ of_Rights) doesn't find the word "citizen". I do see many instances of the words "person" and "persons" though.
Where exactly do you see the word "citizen" in the bill of rights? A quick crtl+f seach through the Wikisource version of it (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Bill
nuclear pollution is long lived (up to about 10,000 years, IIRC) but that is nowhere near "permanent".
this reminds me of a short article in Popular Science a few months back regarding a startup venture on cloned beef cattle. they had developed a method of using the tissue of recently deceased (within 48 hours) animals for cloning purposes, so basically the idea was if the meat inspector finds that a certain steer produced really, really good meat, they go and clone a bunch of identical ones, each of which would have equally good meat, assuming they are raised and fed in the same manner (reasonably easy to control within a reasonable margin of variation).
the typical longevity issues with recent cloning (the whole thing with Dolly) would not be an issue, as they're likely going to be slaughtered long before any of those problems manifest themselves.
Luggage tracking on airports is pretty sophisticated, luggage tag numbers are linked to a ticket record, luggage can be immediately linked to an individual with a wireless barcode scanner.
and yet they still manage to lose mine...
they're working on that (ROHS, Reduction Of Hazardous Substances or something), but it takes time. lead-based solder is being phased out, mercury is still necessary for some things, such as fluorescent tubes (which are used in most LCDs), though those are being replaced by other technologies (LED back-lights, OLED displays, etc.)
nothing is instant.
well, the war has largely reached a cease-fire this year, due to the last part. it's basically an unofficial policy of the technology dept. to ignore the IT dept. on such matters.