Wow. You are so misguided, there's hardly space here to correct you, not that I would expect you to be swayed by reality, anyways.
To call the Constellation program "mostly-completed" is purest fantasy -- the paper designs are years behind schedule, simple matters of, say, building and testing the boosters, engines, capsules and control systems are left as an exercise for the reader. The fact that the concepts and designs are simply a rehash of Apollo makes the lack of performance on Constellation just that much sadder. Fact is, buying Soyuz rides to the ISS for years and years was already part of the plan, even if Constellation had stayed on schedule.
Second, the notion that ANY Administration would base the entire national space policy on who holds a single Congressional district is just delusional. Fiddling the budget between Ames, JPL, JSC, KSC, etc. sure, but axing a cornucopia of aerospace contracts like Constellation actually shows the political will to piss off a LOT of people in a lot of districts. I actually have to give the Administration points for recognizing that the project was way over-budget, way behind schedule, not very well thought out and giving it the axe. Then they turned around and increased NASA's budget for things that actually might prove to be useful (or at least more interesting than the "Hummerrrricaa!! FUCK YEAH!!" that putting men in LEO provides).
Calling someone else a "total scumbag" in a sentence where you've already mentioned Tom DeLay is grammatically incorrect. It's like saying "Sure, Stalin was bad, but Dave in Accounting is evil".
Just to clarify, I like it that way. I don't look forward to the day when any old site can peg my CPU and I can't prevent it. God knows, some people's JavaScript is bad enough.
Heh. Prepare to be downmodded by the overly sensitive. He's a good egg. I saw him on NASA TV doing one of their endless lame daily interviews with schoolkids, and he answered the inevitable "What do you miss most?" question with "A hot shower and cold beer". Ya gotta love an honest answer instead of the usual astronaut-speak.
The Doctor Who monsters from that era were priceless. My favorite was Alpha_Centauri from the Jon Pertwee "Peladon" episodes; a painted beach-ball head, a shower curtain for a costume, and six arms, the lower two sets hanging from strings below the actor's real arms. Cheesy defined!
That's from "City of Death", one of the greatest episodes ever made. Also, that script was heavily rewritten by Douglas Adams. He undoubtedly wrote the snippet in question.
Thanks for explaining it. I was just going to give him a "whoosh". Even the page name itself is pretty funny, right up there with "WhyJavaSux.jsp" or
"IHateFlash.swf".
Nonsense. Bob and Clippy and that annoying little dog are derided because they're so irritatingly, cloyingly, adorably cute. It's bad enough having your intelligence insulted by an obtrusive "wizard" that isn't, but the OMG PONIEZ!! aspect is just the last straw.
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Even on Slashdot, few people appreciate how much NASA does for "Aeronautics". People hear "NASA" and they only think "Space".
Wow. You are so misguided, there's hardly space here to correct you, not that I would expect you to be swayed by reality, anyways.
To call the Constellation program "mostly-completed" is purest fantasy -- the paper designs are years behind schedule, simple matters of, say, building and testing the boosters, engines, capsules and control systems are left as an exercise for the reader. The fact that the concepts and designs are simply a rehash of Apollo makes the lack of performance on Constellation just that much sadder. Fact is, buying Soyuz rides to the ISS for years and years was already part of the plan, even if Constellation had stayed on schedule.
Second, the notion that ANY Administration would base the entire national space policy on who holds a single Congressional district is just delusional. Fiddling the budget between Ames, JPL, JSC, KSC, etc. sure, but axing a cornucopia of aerospace contracts like Constellation actually shows the political will to piss off a LOT of people in a lot of districts. I actually have to give the Administration points for recognizing that the project was way over-budget, way behind schedule, not very well thought out and giving it the axe. Then they turned around and increased NASA's budget for things that actually might prove to be useful (or at least more interesting than the "Hummerrrricaa!! FUCK YEAH!!" that putting men in LEO provides).
Calling someone else a "total scumbag" in a sentence where you've already mentioned Tom DeLay is grammatically incorrect. It's like saying "Sure, Stalin was bad, but Dave in Accounting is evil".
Just to clarify, I like it that way. I don't look forward to the day when any old site can peg my CPU and I can't prevent it. God knows, some people's JavaScript is bad enough.
Or rather, can't view TF video - FlashBlock prevented it.
Perhaps if he had his way, you and your ilk would be able to troll in complete, comprehensible sentences.
Blasphemy!! Heretic!! Burn the witch! Burn blasphemer!! Burn!!!!
No, that's Ashton Kutcher. Or Britney Spears.
So near and yet so far.
They could have used WhatsAppDoc.
A "twitpic" is a picture of Tom Cruise.
Heh. Prepare to be downmodded by the overly sensitive. He's a good egg. I saw him on NASA TV doing one of their endless lame daily interviews with schoolkids, and he answered the inevitable "What do you miss most?" question with "A hot shower and cold beer". Ya gotta love an honest answer instead of the usual astronaut-speak.
The Doctor Who monsters from that era were priceless. My favorite was Alpha_Centauri from the Jon Pertwee "Peladon" episodes; a painted beach-ball head, a shower curtain for a costume, and six arms, the lower two sets hanging from strings below the actor's real arms. Cheesy defined!
"The Girl in the Fireplace", which was also his, was so good, it was almost too good to be a Doctor Who episode.
That's from "City of Death", one of the greatest episodes ever made. Also, that script was heavily rewritten by Douglas Adams. He undoubtedly wrote the snippet in question.
I don't see how this would be useful - an Apple search engine would only return ONE result.
Thanks for explaining it. I was just going to give him a "whoosh". Even the page name itself is pretty funny, right up there with "WhyJavaSux.jsp" or "IHateFlash.swf".
Doesn't anybody appreciate the delicious irony of TFA's URL: "www.adjb.net/post/Microsoft-Fails-the-Standards-Test.aspx"?
It's beyond me how the summary didn't mention the "Original Star Trek cast member attempts to make pop music" preset.
So you're saying Gnome 2.30 was your idea?
Of course! We just have to make politicians live in the real world! I wonder why no one's thought of that before?
We canna doit, we don hae anough power!
Nonsense. Bob and Clippy and that annoying little dog are derided because they're so irritatingly, cloyingly, adorably cute. It's bad enough having your intelligence insulted by an obtrusive "wizard" that isn't, but the OMG PONIEZ!! aspect is just the last straw.
Actually, it was Noah Webster who couldn't spell organisation.
It's today's "and nothing of value was lost" entry.
It's soooooo nice to see a fresh new article that hasn't yet been visited by the [citation needed] fairies.
Although the "outer space is up" claim probably will require a cite.
You had me up until that bit.