Of course, it doesn't help that CA has some remarkably stupid driving laws that make it impossible to predict traffic. For example if you're turning onto a multi-lane road, you don't have to pull into the nearest lane
Wrong, this only applies to left turns. When making a right turn, you are required to turn into the farthest right lane as possible allowed by the size of your car.
They've been using drug X to treat alcoholism successfully for over a hundred years. Successful in that the patient no longer craves alcohol. The side effect is, he now craves drug X (one of the more popular ones being cocaine)
he made a MOVIE about Titanic. He didn't find it. The guy who did was Robert Ballard.
Cameron's just a guy who makes movies. Some of them good (Terminator 2), some of them shit (Avatar). He ain't King of the World, no matter what he thinks.
yes, it's a classic example of entitlement. Some asshole always thinks he's entitled to yak away loudly on his cellphone whenever I'm in a movie theater. Even worse is while playing golf. Some asshat's cellphone will always go off during my backswing. Usually with the default Verizon ringtone set at max volume.
When Kennedy said let's land a man on the moon in this decade, we had lots of money. The economy was booming (helped along in part by Kennedy's sound economic policy), government was running a surplus, and LBJ hadn't started his Great Society spending spree yet.
People remember Kennedy as a Democrat and a progressive, but when it came to fiscal policy he was a pragmatist. He knew that you have to have a strong economy before you can do anything else -- send men into space or help the poor and whatnot -- and to do that, he cut taxes.
"This administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes... Next year's tax bill should reduce personal as well as corporate income taxes, for those in the lower brackets, who are certain to spend their additional take-home pay, and for those in the middle and upper brackets, who can thereby be encouraged to undertake additional efforts and enabled to invest more capital... I am confident that the enactment of the right bill next year will in due course increase our gross national product by several times the amount of taxes actually cut." -JFK, 1962
don't rely on it too much... these are the same folks who sold captured German Enigma machines to foreign governments in the 50s saying they're unbreakable.
the tightfisted German owner (Deutsche Telekom) who was too cheap invest in 4G infrastructure or put down the money for the iPhone. As a result their market share kept dwindling.
Now that they have some money and that new pink dress wearing spokesperson (C.Zeta-Jones was getting too old) maybe they will do better.
Actually, according to Rob Zubrin of Mars Society, he is one. The technology itself isn't a crank, it's real, but his claims (going to Mars in 39 days) and the big bucks he's soliciting are quite cranky.
To do what he's claiming, you would need to hook up the VASIMIR to a huge nuclear reactor. How do you get that reactor into orbit? You can't, not without a Nova type rocket bigger than a Saturn V. But if you had such a rocket, you could just blast off to Mars the old-fashioned way.
His other proposal is coupling a fusion reactor (which should be lighter than an equivalent fission one) to the VASIMIR. Well as we all know, fusion is always 20 years in the future.
Given our current technology and potential near-future technology
There wouldn't be any capital ships, cruisers, fighters or bombers. You'd just see some Apollo or Soyuz-like capsules and they'd fire a missile which guides itself to the target. Except, the missile wouldn't look as cool as the air-to-air missile footage you see in Top Gun. You wouldn't even see a fireball when it hits the target, it would just be a kinetic kill vehicle.
Now if you say "500 years in the future" instead of "current technology and near-future", things could get different. Shields and anti-gravity drives make capital ships possible.
Japanese can eat whale meat all they want without giving Greenpeace fits... and Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese can eat dog meat without offending PETA, Jews/Muslims can eat pork without offending their clergy... what's not to love?
He didn't say it in so many words, but yeah according to his logic Obama is also a coward.
But I think he's right! I think the world would be a better place if the person starting a war (i.e. head of state) had to personally lead the army into battle and actually fight. Like the emperors of old.
Can you imagine W. or Obama riding in a Humvee, firing M-4s at insurgents and rallying the troops like Caesar? Neither can I. These cowards would be pacifists for life.
if they really wanted to help employees be more effective at their jobs, they should take away those damn color PCs and tablets and put back the VT terminals.
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it's Google Play now. Get with it.
this one sounded just like my last tech support call...
Of course, it doesn't help that CA has some remarkably stupid driving laws that make it impossible to predict traffic. For example if you're turning onto a multi-lane road, you don't have to pull into the nearest lane
Wrong, this only applies to left turns. When making a right turn, you are required to turn into the farthest right lane as possible allowed by the size of your car.
They've been using drug X to treat alcoholism successfully for over a hundred years. Successful in that the patient no longer craves alcohol. The side effect is, he now craves drug X (one of the more popular ones being cocaine)
he made a MOVIE about Titanic. He didn't find it. The guy who did was Robert Ballard.
Cameron's just a guy who makes movies. Some of them good (Terminator 2), some of them shit (Avatar). He ain't King of the World, no matter what he thinks.
I've found that people with an IQ of over 100 generally think Avatar sucked, while those with an IQ less than 100 (or age of less than 14) liked it.
My powers have doubled since the last time we met, DuQu!
he's probably just auto-posting anti-MS fud and pro-Android/Google to build karma. Watch his comment become insightful soon.
Royal Navy rejects, back in the day
yes, it's a classic example of entitlement. Some asshole always thinks he's entitled to yak away loudly on his cellphone whenever I'm in a movie theater. Even worse is while playing golf. Some asshat's cellphone will always go off during my backswing. Usually with the default Verizon ringtone set at max volume.
well maybe VIA or Harris will step up and give Intel some competition...
We don't have money to do exciting stuff anymore.
When Kennedy said let's land a man on the moon in this decade, we had lots of money. The economy was booming (helped along in part by Kennedy's sound economic policy), government was running a surplus, and LBJ hadn't started his Great Society spending spree yet.
People remember Kennedy as a Democrat and a progressive, but when it came to fiscal policy he was a pragmatist. He knew that you have to have a strong economy before you can do anything else -- send men into space or help the poor and whatnot -- and to do that, he cut taxes.
"This administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes... Next year's tax bill should reduce personal as well as corporate income taxes, for those in the lower brackets, who are certain to spend their additional take-home pay, and for those in the middle and upper brackets, who can thereby be encouraged to undertake additional efforts and enabled to invest more capital... I am confident that the enactment of the right bill next year will in due course increase our gross national product by several times the amount of taxes actually cut." -JFK, 1962
(more JFK tax quotes)
don't rely on it too much... these are the same folks who sold captured German Enigma machines to foreign governments in the 50s saying they're unbreakable.
to attack the U.S. with their new arsenal.. consisting of some Pentium 4's and a Android phone
AS someone who is not literal-minded, and can parse context and hyperbole, I call you a dumbass.
the tightfisted German owner (Deutsche Telekom) who was too cheap invest in 4G infrastructure or put down the money for the iPhone. As a result their market share kept dwindling.
Now that they have some money and that new pink dress wearing spokesperson (C.Zeta-Jones was getting too old) maybe they will do better.
I guess what I'm saying is he isn't a crank.
Actually, according to Rob Zubrin of Mars Society, he is one. The technology itself isn't a crank, it's real, but his claims (going to Mars in 39 days) and the big bucks he's soliciting are quite cranky.
To do what he's claiming, you would need to hook up the VASIMIR to a huge nuclear reactor. How do you get that reactor into orbit? You can't, not without a Nova type rocket bigger than a Saturn V. But if you had such a rocket, you could just blast off to Mars the old-fashioned way.
His other proposal is coupling a fusion reactor (which should be lighter than an equivalent fission one) to the VASIMIR. Well as we all know, fusion is always 20 years in the future.
You're right, calling those lowly aerospace guys "rocket scientists" is an affront to real scientists everywhere.
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Java, C#, Ruby project leader
Given our current technology and potential near-future technology
There wouldn't be any capital ships, cruisers, fighters or bombers. You'd just see some Apollo or Soyuz-like capsules and they'd fire a missile which guides itself to the target. Except, the missile wouldn't look as cool as the air-to-air missile footage you see in Top Gun. You wouldn't even see a fireball when it hits the target, it would just be a kinetic kill vehicle.
Now if you say "500 years in the future" instead of "current technology and near-future", things could get different. Shields and anti-gravity drives make capital ships possible.
telling us that Charles Manson does bad things...
and nobody will care about splash screens anymore
Japanese can eat whale meat all they want without giving Greenpeace fits... and Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese can eat dog meat without offending PETA, Jews/Muslims can eat pork without offending their clergy... what's not to love?
He didn't say it in so many words, but yeah according to his logic Obama is also a coward.
But I think he's right! I think the world would be a better place if the person starting a war (i.e. head of state) had to personally lead the army into battle and actually fight. Like the emperors of old.
Can you imagine W. or Obama riding in a Humvee, firing M-4s at insurgents and rallying the troops like Caesar? Neither can I. These cowards would be pacifists for life.
if they really wanted to help employees be more effective at their jobs, they should take away those damn color PCs and tablets and put back the VT terminals.