That's funny, because Black and Decker claims they developed a cordless drill (and a cordless hedge trimmer) several years before the Apollo missions. So unless you can explain why NASA needed cordless hedge trimmers in space, I'm going to have to say the claim that space exploration "spawned" the development of cordless tools is complete BS.
Two points: 1) Building heigth isn't measured from sea level. 2) The ground around the buldiing isn't flat, so picking 'the' spot to measure from is a subject for debate.
One (Lennon) died before the 35 years was up. Another (Harrison) died after the 35 year window (The Beatles, as most people define them, formed in 1962 George Harrison died in 2001). Even if you only go by who wrote the songs, Harrison (who had a song on Help-1965) still exceeds the 35 year window.
[quote]Assuming the US stick to their promise to keep SA turned off...[/quote] Well, turning on SA would screw airplanes everywhere, and new GPS III satellites aren't going to have SA (this was announced in 2007 so it may have already started), so it is pretty hard to not keep their promise.
Because circuit breakers are for the whole circuit and will often supply more current then the individual outlets (or items plugged into those outlets) can handle. I know I've encountered plenty of 15 amp outlets connected to 20+ amp breakers.
Well "bankonit.se" is pretty fishy, seeing that "bank on it" is meaningless in Sweedish. I suspect that some of your other examples probably break when subjected to the translation.
I eagerly await somebody's explanation of how the Free Market will conjure up a substitute...
As the price of helium goes up it will become worth it tap more expensive supplies of helium, and people will use less of it. This is pretty basic free market economics.
There is more to a blimp then a big gas bag. There are engines, a crew area, weapons, fuel and probably a whole lot of other things. Most of those arn't going to react well to bullets.
As for your claim that blimps were hard to shoot down in WWII: The US was the only major power to use blimps in World War II. These were generally used for non-hazardous and anti-submarine patrols. Given a U-boats tendency to flee from an airborn threat anti-submarine threat wasn't someplace where they would really encounter heavy AA resistance. One was lost to enemy action (K-74) and one had its crew disapear (L-8).
First, it is a better use of space. Why have vertical menus drop down and obscure your work space? The ribbon keeps 'stuff' out of your way and doesn't drop into the work space.
Why would I care if it obscures my workspace? If I'm looking at a menu then by definition my attention is away from the workspace.
Second, it speeds up routine tasks. If you are about to go do some action more than once, instead of having to click to the menu and pull down to what you want multiple times, you just click to the right ribbon tab and the option that you are about to use multiple times is sitting there one click away (versus a click, some movement, and another click with menus).
Again, why should I care? If it's a routine task them I'm going to learn the keyboard shortcut, the menu/ribbon won't factor into things at all.
Third, the ribbon adapts to what you are doing.
I would actually find this useful, although it sounds a lot like what the "menu" key was supposed to do back when it came out.
There are several problems with Grossmans logic: 1) A soldier killed before he can fire his weapon the first time will die with a loaded weapon. The first shot from a muzzleloader is precious, as it can be prepared with great care (loading a smoothbore quickly and loading it properly are two veryy different things). This is an issue in "line of battle" type situations where a unit could take huge numbers of casualties before they fired their first shot. 2) A soldier who fails to notice that his weapon has fired successfuly can reload an already loaded weapon. 3) A battle lasting several hours doesn't consist of hours of soldiers banging away at each other. Most of the time is spent in preperation or aftermath (manuver, retreat, consolidating positions). Pickets Charge at Gettysburg lasted less then an hour, and resulted in about 4000 casualites. The preperations for the battle however were a few hours of artillery bombardment, and a calvary skirmish that caused relitivly few casualties, and the aftermath was several hours of "battle" with almost no actual fighting. The battle of Culp's Hill (The other major engagement on the 3rd) was infrequent assaults spread over seven hours. The battle of Antietam resulted in about 30% of the troops involved becoming casualties. Even in a situation where a fight might last hours, it wouldn't occupy all the troops at once (eg 10 assualts by 10 brigades taking an hour each could represent the "Battle" for the day, but only 10% of the troops would be involved at any one time).
So why is the price of corn going up then? It's backed off its soul-crushing 2008 levels, but it's still about 50% higher then it was for 2000-2006. Given that the USDA was predicting such increases as a result of ethanol production a few years back, I have a hard time believing that the two aren't related.
First: The grand jury clause in the 5th amendment hasn't been incorporated under the 14th, which means that there hasn't been a ruling that makes the states bound by it.
Second: From what I can gather from skimming the SC Penal code the craigslist charges (assuming that minors wern't involved) would be Class C misdemeanors, which don't need indictments.
How is that even remotely relevent? What does SCOTUS have to do with this? The post you are replying to VERY CLEARLY stated "state supreme court". They key word that you just totally disregarded being "state"
Actually, I'd imagine a normal economic person would probably tell you that you are a prime example of the phrase "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". You think you understand what is going on, but it's pretty clear you don't have a clue.
A little more research might have told you that the studio doesn't get anything close to 100% of the gross revenue, and that the general rule is that a movie has to gross 3x it's budget to make money. In particular the 120 million is the PRODUCTION budget. You still have distribution and marketing to deal with. If you had taken a few minutes to think about it you might have realized that guys the theater owners might like to make some money too.
Well, you're both right, and both wrong. Latin Rite Roman Catholics (Who represnt 98% of Roman Catholics) leave that part out of the Lords prayer (which is almost certenly what the GP was refering to), but they do use it as a part of their liturgical rite.
"Cybernetics" was invented/discovered by Norbert Wiener (a mathematician) that deals with the study of control systems (One subset of which might be replacing/enhancing/comparing biological contol systems with mechanical/electrical ones). Your "body part prosthetics" idea sounds like Biomechatronics (the integration of mechanical, electronics, and biological parts). As for a crude example: Cybernetics would be something like "We've developed a replacement heart, now how do we get it to change its pumping rate in response to stress like a real one", whereas biomechatronics would be something like "Let's go develop a pump that can replace a heart".
Because there already is a "17" rating in the MPAA system, it's NC-17 and it means that no one under 17 allowed. R on the other hand means that those under 17 need to be accompanied by a parent/guardian over the age of 21.
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That's funny, because Black and Decker claims they developed a cordless drill (and a cordless hedge trimmer) several years before the Apollo missions. So unless you can explain why NASA needed cordless hedge trimmers in space, I'm going to have to say the claim that space exploration "spawned" the development of cordless tools is complete BS.
Two points:
1) Building heigth isn't measured from sea level.
2) The ground around the buldiing isn't flat, so picking 'the' spot to measure from is a subject for debate.
It's the same as the difference between flammable and inflammable.
One (Lennon) died before the 35 years was up. Another (Harrison) died after the 35 year window (The Beatles, as most people define them, formed in 1962 George Harrison died in 2001). Even if you only go by who wrote the songs, Harrison (who had a song on Help-1965) still exceeds the 35 year window.
The reason the 2000 year old Roman bridges survive is because all the shitty ones were destroyed hundreds of years ago.
[quote]Assuming the US stick to their promise to keep SA turned off...[/quote]
Well, turning on SA would screw airplanes everywhere, and new GPS III satellites aren't going to have SA (this was announced in 2007 so it may have already started), so it is pretty hard to not keep their promise.
Because circuit breakers are for the whole circuit and will often supply more current then the individual outlets (or items plugged into those outlets) can handle. I know I've encountered plenty of 15 amp outlets connected to 20+ amp breakers.
Well "bankonit.se" is pretty fishy, seeing that "bank on it" is meaningless in Sweedish. I suspect that some of your other examples probably break when subjected to the translation.
That's true, but it doesn't apply to the situation. But the salesperson at the game store isn't the publishers sales person.
I eagerly await somebody's explanation of how the Free Market will conjure up a substitute...
As the price of helium goes up it will become worth it tap more expensive supplies of helium, and people will use less of it. This is pretty basic free market economics.
There is more to a blimp then a big gas bag. There are engines, a crew area, weapons, fuel and probably a whole lot of other things. Most of those arn't going to react well to bullets.
As for your claim that blimps were hard to shoot down in WWII:
The US was the only major power to use blimps in World War II. These were generally used for non-hazardous and anti-submarine patrols. Given a U-boats tendency to flee from an airborn threat anti-submarine threat wasn't someplace where they would really encounter heavy AA resistance. One was lost to enemy action (K-74) and one had its crew disapear (L-8).
Why would I care if it obscures my workspace? If I'm looking at a menu then by definition my attention is away from the workspace.
Again, why should I care? If it's a routine task them I'm going to learn the keyboard shortcut, the menu/ribbon won't factor into things at all.
I would actually find this useful, although it sounds a lot like what the "menu" key was supposed to do back when it came out.
If the criminal knows, or suspects that you're armed they know they'd be better off going after a different target.
It is if "that" is something like "stab myself self in the hand with a fork".
There are several problems with Grossmans logic:
1) A soldier killed before he can fire his weapon the first time will die with a loaded weapon. The first shot from a muzzleloader is precious, as it can be prepared with great care (loading a smoothbore quickly and loading it properly are two veryy different things). This is an issue in "line of battle" type situations where a unit could take huge numbers of casualties before they fired their first shot.
2) A soldier who fails to notice that his weapon has fired successfuly can reload an already loaded weapon.
3) A battle lasting several hours doesn't consist of hours of soldiers banging away at each other. Most of the time is spent in preperation or aftermath (manuver, retreat, consolidating positions). Pickets Charge at Gettysburg lasted less then an hour, and resulted in about 4000 casualites. The preperations for the battle however were a few hours of artillery bombardment, and a calvary skirmish that caused relitivly few casualties, and the aftermath was several hours of "battle" with almost no actual fighting. The battle of Culp's Hill (The other major engagement on the 3rd) was infrequent assaults spread over seven hours. The battle of Antietam resulted in about 30% of the troops involved becoming casualties. Even in a situation where a fight might last hours, it wouldn't occupy all the troops at once (eg 10 assualts by 10 brigades taking an hour each could represent the "Battle" for the day, but only 10% of the troops would be involved at any one time).
So why is the price of corn going up then? It's backed off its soul-crushing 2008 levels, but it's still about 50% higher then it was for 2000-2006. Given that the USDA was predicting such increases as a result of ethanol production a few years back, I have a hard time believing that the two aren't related.
Yes, Rly.
First: The grand jury clause in the 5th amendment hasn't been incorporated under the 14th, which means that there hasn't been a ruling that makes the states bound by it.
Second: From what I can gather from skimming the SC Penal code the craigslist charges (assuming that minors wern't involved) would be Class C misdemeanors, which don't need indictments.
How is that even remotely relevent? What does SCOTUS have to do with this? The post you are replying to VERY CLEARLY stated "state supreme court". They key word that you just totally disregarded being "state"
Secondary infections (ie the cause of the majority of deaths durring the 1918 flu pandemic) don't exist where you are? Must be nice.
Actually, I'd imagine a normal economic person would probably tell you that you are a prime example of the phrase "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". You think you understand what is going on, but it's pretty clear you don't have a clue.
A little more research might have told you that the studio doesn't get anything close to 100% of the gross revenue, and that the general rule is that a movie has to gross 3x it's budget to make money. In particular the 120 million is the PRODUCTION budget. You still have distribution and marketing to deal with. If you had taken a few minutes to think about it you might have realized that guys the theater owners might like to make some money too.
Well, you're both right, and both wrong. Latin Rite Roman Catholics (Who represnt 98% of Roman Catholics) leave that part out of the Lords prayer (which is almost certenly what the GP was refering to), but they do use it as a part of their liturgical rite.
"Cybernetics" was invented/discovered by Norbert Wiener (a mathematician) that deals with the study of control systems (One subset of which might be replacing/enhancing/comparing biological contol systems with mechanical/electrical ones). Your "body part prosthetics" idea sounds like Biomechatronics (the integration of mechanical, electronics, and biological parts). As for a crude example: Cybernetics would be something like "We've developed a replacement heart, now how do we get it to change its pumping rate in response to stress like a real one", whereas biomechatronics would be something like "Let's go develop a pump that can replace a heart".
You go to the library and use the copy that they have on reserve.
Because there already is a "17" rating in the MPAA system, it's NC-17 and it means that no one under 17 allowed. R on the other hand means that those under 17 need to be accompanied by a parent/guardian over the age of 21.
if they make so much money from the books and lose on every reader, why does Sony sell their readers for less money?
Because Sony readers have fewer features, and therefor are a lot cheaper to make/sell.