right, soviets went to the 7.62x39 intermediate cartridge right after WW2. Then in Vietnam they noticed Americans using a different kind of intermediate cartridge (5.56mm NATO, tiny bullet, higher velocity) and they decided to abandon their proven 7.62 and make their own version of the NATO (in 5.45mm)... notice how they don't use the AK-47 anymore, they use the AK-74 chambered in 5.45 instead.
Gah, what is with Mozilla following Google's every example, no matter how stupid or not?
They're the Soviet Union to Google's USA.
Every little thing US military did, from the 5.56mm ammo to the Space Shuttle, the Soviets copied... even the boneheaded moves (such as these two). Their rationale was that "Well if the Americans are doing it, it must be good".
There was also a bit of Cover Your Ass mentality, similar to "I can't get fired for buying IBM". If I authorize development of new tech, and it fails, I could be sent to the goulags... but if I just copy American shit, I'm safe.
but as a practical matter, the worms didn't survive a re-entry by themselves. If you threw a handful of worms from orbit down toward the earth, all of them would burn up in the atmosphere and DIE. They survived the Columbia accident because they were encased in some kind of container that didn't get fully vaporized during re-entry.
well I only brought up the college education business because the guy I was replying to insinuated that UFO sightings == rednecks. Of course having gone to college does not preclude anyone from hallucinations (and if you went to a west coast one you are probably more likely to hallucinate on LSD)
However I think in the case of Japan Airlines flight 1628 sighting, in which the entire flight crew including the pilot, copilot and the navigator saw the same thing, and is backed up by ground radar (FAA air traffic controller in Anchorage), you can safely rule out visual hallucination.
Those people saw man-made craft, natural phenomenon or were hallucinating.
And you know this for a fact... how?
Most people have probably seen things in the sky that they couldn't explain, such as meteorites, but the rednecks are the ones who make absurd reports
Pretty much 100% of military pilots and airliner pilots are college educated. I would also say they are THE most reliable and authoritative people, as a profession, to judge what is a man-made flying object, what is a natural aerial phenomena, and what qualifies as neither -- certainly more than any internet geek posting on Slashdot --- because 1) they have the most experience with man-made flying objects than any other profession and know what they are and aren't capable of, 2) they spend more time in the sky and looking at it than anyone else, and 3) they have nothing to gain by reporting UFO's... i mean absolutely nothing... and everything to lose; ranging from ridicule by their peers to outright termination of their flying careers. And yet there are plenty of credible reports by them if you'd care to look it up. Some of them are even backed up by ground radar.
I would just say, don't be so quick to dismiss something as redneck hallucination just because it doesn't fit into your Carl Sagan-inspired worldview.
Funny you should mention that. Back in his great-grandfather's day, when everyone had to pay for healthcare 100% out of their own pocket, healthcare was affordable. It was reasonably priced. Doctors used to make HOUSECALLS for crying out loud. When your children got sick, you'd call the village doctor and he'd come down to your house with his doctor's bag and treat your kid. You did not have to be rich, ordinary families (and even some of the poorer ones) could do this. Try reading a book written in the 19th century sometime.
People living longer today is entirely due to advancement in technology (both medical and agricultural) -- not because they're in a communist/socialist utopia that magically grants long life.
nah, you're just not grasping how "3D" works currently. If you did, you would not be bringing up mono vs. stereo. I will attempt to explain.
With stereo music, you lose nothing versus mono music. Each of the two stereo channels contains full audio information - you are getting 2 complete mono recordings, delivered to you via two completely separate speakers. So you are getting the full audio fidelity of a mono system, plus the stereo effect.
If the 3D movies were all shot in their entirety using two separate cameras (as opposed to having 3D added on during editing), AND if you were to watch the movie on two complete, individual screens that were beamed to your left and right eye separately somehow, then you can start your mono vs. stereo argument. But that's not how 3D movies work. With current "3D" technology, you have to watch the movie on one screen using filtering glasses (which by itself reduces a shitload of the brightness and contrast of the picture). Basically you are splitting the image information contained on the screen by half.
Add to that the fact that most 3D movies are actually shot using one camera and have fake 3D effects pasted on afterwards, plus incidental things like directors being forced to make their panning shots even SLOOOWer, and you have the makings of a craptacular movie experience.
no it won't... all we need to defeat al qaeda air force (AQAF) is a couple of Cessnas and some hand grenades.
However, it WILL help us defeat the Chinese air force, if or when they invade Taiwan and start launching their new ballistic anti-ship missiles at our carriers.
well, we do have a civilization, both there and there. We have things like business agreements and government obligations. So short of something drastic, like an all-out war between US and China or the US gov't declaring bankruptcy, those pieces of paper obligations must be met. And they *will* be met. Which means we owe China a shitload of money, while they send us all the crap we buy in Wal*Mart.
Well, sure. You have the right to walk away anytime. You have the right to walk out of class, out of work; unless you're in prison or the military, you always have the right to walk away.
Man, why didn't I get this memo when I was in high school? *facepalm*
Is there no anti-trust regulation left remaining in the the U.S.? Did they throw 'em all out in the trash bin while no one was looking? I am genuinely puzzled.
Well we're in a deep recession and I guess the job cuts were broad-based, affecting lawyers too. And actually there are so many law school graduates standing outside your office door precisely because lawyers are paid so well in this country and they wanted a piece of it... just look at how much more a typical lawyer with 10 years of litigation experience makes, versus a software engineer with 10 years of coding experience.
Regarding the other big "parasitic" class (financial industry), see this excellence article -> How the servance became a predator. Don't let the HuffPo link turn you off, I originally saw this on CNBC or WSJ (or some other money website) a few years ago but I can't find the link to it.
I see this all the time. The bright kids today are going into law or the financial industry, because that's where all the money is. Why bother working your ass off in school studying hard subjects that involve math, when you can party your way through school, get a law degree or something in financial mumbo-jumbo, and make 3 times as much working for Merril Lynch? Not to mention not worrying about having your job shipped to India or China.
In any sane society this kind of imbalance would be corrected by the rulers. However in our current society the lawyers and the financial industry owns - oops I mean make "campaign contributions" and "lobbies" - the government, so they have all the power.
I can't really see anything good in the future for a society where a parasitic class, which produces nothing of value, is given such an overwhelming priority over the productive classes.
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please don't point out your own puns
if that's the case then global warming is not a science.
Kaczynski was a guinea pig in the MK Ultra program... where people were subjected to "surreptitious administration of drugs and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, and verbal and sexual abuse."
yeah what a fraudulant scheme... i mean, who would want to print photographs on a inkjet when you got dot matrix and laser, right?
right, soviets went to the 7.62x39 intermediate cartridge right after WW2. Then in Vietnam they noticed Americans using a different kind of intermediate cartridge (5.56mm NATO, tiny bullet, higher velocity) and they decided to abandon their proven 7.62 and make their own version of the NATO (in 5.45mm)... notice how they don't use the AK-47 anymore, they use the AK-74 chambered in 5.45 instead.
Gah, what is with Mozilla following Google's every example, no matter how stupid or not?
They're the Soviet Union to Google's USA.
Every little thing US military did, from the 5.56mm ammo to the Space Shuttle, the Soviets copied... even the boneheaded moves (such as these two). Their rationale was that "Well if the Americans are doing it, it must be good".
There was also a bit of Cover Your Ass mentality, similar to "I can't get fired for buying IBM". If I authorize development of new tech, and it fails, I could be sent to the goulags... but if I just copy American shit, I'm safe.
with H-bombs
but as a practical matter, the worms didn't survive a re-entry by themselves. If you threw a handful of worms from orbit down toward the earth, all of them would burn up in the atmosphere and DIE. They survived the Columbia accident because they were encased in some kind of container that didn't get fully vaporized during re-entry.
well I only brought up the college education business because the guy I was replying to insinuated that UFO sightings == rednecks. Of course having gone to college does not preclude anyone from hallucinations (and if you went to a west coast one you are probably more likely to hallucinate on LSD)
However I think in the case of Japan Airlines flight 1628 sighting, in which the entire flight crew including the pilot, copilot and the navigator saw the same thing, and is backed up by ground radar (FAA air traffic controller in Anchorage), you can safely rule out visual hallucination.
Those people saw man-made craft, natural phenomenon or were hallucinating.
And you know this for a fact... how?
Most people have probably seen things in the sky that they couldn't explain, such as meteorites, but the rednecks are the ones who make absurd reports
Pretty much 100% of military pilots and airliner pilots are college educated. I would also say they are THE most reliable and authoritative people, as a profession, to judge what is a man-made flying object, what is a natural aerial phenomena, and what qualifies as neither -- certainly more than any internet geek posting on Slashdot --- because 1) they have the most experience with man-made flying objects than any other profession and know what they are and aren't capable of, 2) they spend more time in the sky and looking at it than anyone else, and 3) they have nothing to gain by reporting UFO's... i mean absolutely nothing... and everything to lose; ranging from ridicule by their peers to outright termination of their flying careers. And yet there are plenty of credible reports by them if you'd care to look it up. Some of them are even backed up by ground radar.
I would just say, don't be so quick to dismiss something as redneck hallucination just because it doesn't fit into your Carl Sagan-inspired worldview.
and for fuck's sakes, don't give them your credit card # kthnxbai
type starwars and see ASCII movie..... lmao
Funny you should mention that. Back in his great-grandfather's day, when everyone had to pay for healthcare 100% out of their own pocket, healthcare was affordable. It was reasonably priced. Doctors used to make HOUSECALLS for crying out loud. When your children got sick, you'd call the village doctor and he'd come down to your house with his doctor's bag and treat your kid. You did not have to be rich, ordinary families (and even some of the poorer ones) could do this. Try reading a book written in the 19th century sometime.
People living longer today is entirely due to advancement in technology (both medical and agricultural) -- not because they're in a communist/socialist utopia that magically grants long life.
so yes they do have water there. However they hate taking baths, which indicates the water could be of poor quality.
you thought wrong. The moon isn't tidally locked with the sun... it's locked with the EARTH.
What is wrong with this country?
We used to have guys like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine as our leaders.
Now we have guys like George W, Donald Rumsfeld, Bill Clinton, Janet Reno and Nancy Pelosi as our leaders. That's what's wrong.
And nothing BHO has done convinces me that he's any better than any of the 2nd group.
they want their Webvan.com back
nah, you're just not grasping how "3D" works currently. If you did, you would not be bringing up mono vs. stereo. I will attempt to explain.
With stereo music, you lose nothing versus mono music. Each of the two stereo channels contains full audio information - you are getting 2 complete mono recordings, delivered to you via two completely separate speakers. So you are getting the full audio fidelity of a mono system, plus the stereo effect.
If the 3D movies were all shot in their entirety using two separate cameras (as opposed to having 3D added on during editing), AND if you were to watch the movie on two complete, individual screens that were beamed to your left and right eye separately somehow, then you can start your mono vs. stereo argument. But that's not how 3D movies work. With current "3D" technology, you have to watch the movie on one screen using filtering glasses (which by itself reduces a shitload of the brightness and contrast of the picture). Basically you are splitting the image information contained on the screen by half.
Add to that the fact that most 3D movies are actually shot using one camera and have fake 3D effects pasted on afterwards, plus incidental things like directors being forced to make their panning shots even SLOOOWer, and you have the makings of a craptacular movie experience.
no it won't... all we need to defeat al qaeda air force (AQAF) is a couple of Cessnas and some hand grenades.
However, it WILL help us defeat the Chinese air force, if or when they invade Taiwan and start launching their new ballistic anti-ship missiles at our carriers.
well, we do have a civilization, both there and there. We have things like business agreements and government obligations. So short of something drastic, like an all-out war between US and China or the US gov't declaring bankruptcy, those pieces of paper obligations must be met. And they *will* be met. Which means we owe China a shitload of money, while they send us all the crap we buy in Wal*Mart.
that's made in China.... is funding this rocket
Well, sure. You have the right to walk away anytime. You have the right to walk out of class, out of work; unless you're in prison or the military, you always have the right to walk away.
Man, why didn't I get this memo when I was in high school? *facepalm*
Is there no anti-trust regulation left remaining in the the U.S.? Did they throw 'em all out in the trash bin while no one was looking? I am genuinely puzzled.
Well we're in a deep recession and I guess the job cuts were broad-based, affecting lawyers too. And actually there are so many law school graduates standing outside your office door precisely because lawyers are paid so well in this country and they wanted a piece of it... just look at how much more a typical lawyer with 10 years of litigation experience makes, versus a software engineer with 10 years of coding experience.
Regarding the other big "parasitic" class (financial industry), see this excellence article -> How the servance became a predator. Don't let the HuffPo link turn you off, I originally saw this on CNBC or WSJ (or some other money website) a few years ago but I can't find the link to it.
I see this all the time. The bright kids today are going into law or the financial industry, because that's where all the money is. Why bother working your ass off in school studying hard subjects that involve math, when you can party your way through school, get a law degree or something in financial mumbo-jumbo, and make 3 times as much working for Merril Lynch? Not to mention not worrying about having your job shipped to India or China.
In any sane society this kind of imbalance would be corrected by the rulers. However in our current society the lawyers and the financial industry owns - oops I mean make "campaign contributions" and "lobbies" - the government, so they have all the power.
I can't really see anything good in the future for a society where a parasitic class, which produces nothing of value, is given such an overwhelming priority over the productive classes.