Silver is a consumable commodity. By some estimates, nearly half the silver ever mined since ancient times is gone. When silver supplies start running low, prices will go up substantially. But not anytime soon.
A Venus flyby was used for Mariner 10 to Mercury (1974), Vega 2 to Halley's Comet (1986), Galileo to Jupiter (1990), Cassini to Saturn (1998 and 1999), and Messenger to Mercury (2006 and 2007).
I come in with teams that kick out the off-shore units, clean house and usually within a year the problem we have is our backlog doesn't have enough work. We're just too efficient.
I've done that for I.T. support work. The previous help desk company got caught generating unnecessary tickets to increase billing. The Fortune 500 company kicked them out and brought in the company I worked for. We were given 90 days to clean up a 900+ ticket queue, and got it done in 30 days. A year later the Great Recession kicked in. We were told to do the same level of work for half the cost. I got laid off because I was too efficient. Given the choice of firing three people or firing me, I got the boot because it was easier to lay off one person. Wasn't long before the company got replaced with another company that could do the work for half the cost with fewer people, which would later get replaced for generating unnecessary tickets to increase billing.
I sometimes wonder about that. Most people think of space as being OUTWARD from Earth. Since Mars is in an OUTWARD orbit, our spacecraft most fly OUTWARD when Earth and Mars are at their closet points. I get a lot of negative comments whenever I mention a Venus flyby, which has an INWARD orbit from both Earth and Mars, but can still be used as a slingshot between the two planets.
If a Venus flyby is being considered for a Mars manned mission, why not as an alternative flight path for an unmanned probe?
A hearing by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, scheduled for Feb. 27, aims to explore the feasibility of a flyby of Mars and Venus as a mission concept for the first manned flight of NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, called Exploration Mission-2 or EM-2, in 2021.
Europe as a whole sucks, but the Germans have the strongest economy in the union. They protect their manufacturing base as national policy. They don't have to worry about the Chinese buying out their factories, have their workers train Chinese workers, have their manufacturing equipment shipped overseas, and have unemployed workers with outdated job skills. Talented people don't embrace rape and pillage in the name of free trade.
Relative orbits means having Earth and Mars come together at their closet points every two years to launch a mission. Standard operating procedure for Mars missions. What about the relative orbits of Earth, Venus and Mars for an inward slingshot?
The problem is that nationalism is fine for everyone else except the United States. Germany has a national policy to protect manufacturing. If the president of the United States puts forth a policy to rebuild our manufacturing base, it would be regarded as an obstacle to free trade and undermining the world economy.
I did electronics as a kid and took introductory courses in college, but never got far with it as a career. Most employers were hiring only Filipinos workers for assembly work in Silicon Valley. I eventually went into vide game testing and I.T. support. Thirty years later I'm taking up electronics as a hobby. Now that I have time and money, I'm able to do a lot more than before. Every datasheet is available on the Internet, something that I had hard time finding as a youngster. I can buy parts in 100-count lot for the same price I paid for a package of five at Radio Shack in the day.
An individual is limited to $2,700 per election ($5,400 maximum yearly limit) for each candidate, and $33,400 per year to the national political committee. A corporation can spend millions of dollars on Super PACs that are affiliated with but not controlled by a political candidate to influence federal elections. There is a proposal in Congress to allow corporations to spend millions of dollars on the national political committees. Which vote counts the most?
Democracy is one person, one vote. Corporations spent a substantial amount of money to convince politicians that more money equals free speech. Not only are corporations people too, their unlimited dollars are flooding the elections. A person with a vote is too poor to compete with the corporate fire hydrant.
Using a trust, LLC or other legal entity is a good way to keep your name off the public records and the prying eyes of liability attorneys trying to make a name for themselves. Doesn't prevent the government from tracking you down, if they really wanted to know. With corporations being people these days, you really do need to have your own legal entity.
This is such revisionist bullshit. Take off the rosy glasses.
You do realize that's there is a difference between downloading a web page (text file) and audio (binary file)? If I wanted to download a binary file 20 years ago, I would use an FTP client and schedule it to run overnight. Something I did a lot with those five CD Linux distros on a 56k dial-up that took a week to get.
Lynx is still around. Fire it up if you want to browse the 'web like it's 1995.
I'm converting most of my websites into static websites. Not only do they load faster, they work fine in Lynx.
My roommate has Comcast. He's complains about getting 175Mb inside the Comcast network and 55Mb outside the Comcast network. I pointed out to him if everyone in our 300-unit apartment complex was on Comcast at the same time, everyone would get 50Mb or less.
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That's a legal technicality, not a technical technicality.
What does Uncle Sam have to do with this? This is Washington state, not Washington, D.C.
The Corrections Department is now trying to track down released inmates to make some of them finish their terms.
We can't let criminals get off on a technicality.
Most of my jobs are like that. Only Google kept me busy for 8+ hours a day.
Silver is a consumable commodity. By some estimates, nearly half the silver ever mined since ancient times is gone. When silver supplies start running low, prices will go up substantially. But not anytime soon.
A Venus flyby was used for Mariner 10 to Mercury (1974), Vega 2 to Halley's Comet (1986), Galileo to Jupiter (1990), Cassini to Saturn (1998 and 1999), and Messenger to Mercury (2006 and 2007).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_probes
I come in with teams that kick out the off-shore units, clean house and usually within a year the problem we have is our backlog doesn't have enough work. We're just too efficient.
I've done that for I.T. support work. The previous help desk company got caught generating unnecessary tickets to increase billing. The Fortune 500 company kicked them out and brought in the company I worked for. We were given 90 days to clean up a 900+ ticket queue, and got it done in 30 days. A year later the Great Recession kicked in. We were told to do the same level of work for half the cost. I got laid off because I was too efficient. Given the choice of firing three people or firing me, I got the boot because it was easier to lay off one person. Wasn't long before the company got replaced with another company that could do the work for half the cost with fewer people, which would later get replaced for generating unnecessary tickets to increase billing.
I sometimes wonder about that. Most people think of space as being OUTWARD from Earth. Since Mars is in an OUTWARD orbit, our spacecraft most fly OUTWARD when Earth and Mars are at their closet points. I get a lot of negative comments whenever I mention a Venus flyby, which has an INWARD orbit from both Earth and Mars, but can still be used as a slingshot between the two planets.
If a Venus flyby is being considered for a Mars manned mission, why not as an alternative flight path for an unmanned probe?
A hearing by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, scheduled for Feb. 27, aims to explore the feasibility of a flyby of Mars and Venus as a mission concept for the first manned flight of NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, called Exploration Mission-2 or EM-2, in 2021.
http://www.americaspace.com/?p=54024
Europe as a whole sucks, but the Germans have the strongest economy in the union. They protect their manufacturing base as national policy. They don't have to worry about the Chinese buying out their factories, have their workers train Chinese workers, have their manufacturing equipment shipped overseas, and have unemployed workers with outdated job skills. Talented people don't embrace rape and pillage in the name of free trade.
Relative orbits means having Earth and Mars come together at their closet points every two years to launch a mission. Standard operating procedure for Mars missions. What about the relative orbits of Earth, Venus and Mars for an inward slingshot?
The problem is that nationalism is fine for everyone else except the United States. Germany has a national policy to protect manufacturing. If the president of the United States puts forth a policy to rebuild our manufacturing base, it would be regarded as an obstacle to free trade and undermining the world economy.
Interesting factoid about the American Revolution: 2/3 of Americans didn't care either way who ran the government.
Interesting factoid about the 2014 midterm elections: 1/3 of registered voters decided the election, the lowest turnout in 80 years.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
Great hobby now as tools are widely accessible
I did electronics as a kid and took introductory courses in college, but never got far with it as a career. Most employers were hiring only Filipinos workers for assembly work in Silicon Valley. I eventually went into vide game testing and I.T. support. Thirty years later I'm taking up electronics as a hobby. Now that I have time and money, I'm able to do a lot more than before. Every datasheet is available on the Internet, something that I had hard time finding as a youngster. I can buy parts in 100-count lot for the same price I paid for a package of five at Radio Shack in the day.
An individual is limited to $2,700 per election ($5,400 maximum yearly limit) for each candidate, and $33,400 per year to the national political committee. A corporation can spend millions of dollars on Super PACs that are affiliated with but not controlled by a political candidate to influence federal elections. There is a proposal in Congress to allow corporations to spend millions of dollars on the national political committees. Which vote counts the most?
LLC filings are public records, but not every state requires the listing of members. Some states favor privacy. Wyoming is a good example.
Democracy is one person, one vote. Corporations spent a substantial amount of money to convince politicians that more money equals free speech. Not only are corporations people too, their unlimited dollars are flooding the elections. A person with a vote is too poor to compete with the corporate fire hydrant.
Lobby harder.
My one dollar vote in the boonies is no match for a corporation's $1M dollar vote in Washington.
The only way The Economist can be "interesting" is putting camel sex on their cover.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U1Unbf6HVBw/SCGIVVLtVpI/AAAAAAAABOA/jhBPGg_mvbU/s400/camel-hump.jpg
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics
Another reason not to buy the Hello Kitty microwave oven at Fry's Electronics.
Using a trust, LLC or other legal entity is a good way to keep your name off the public records and the prying eyes of liability attorneys trying to make a name for themselves. Doesn't prevent the government from tracking you down, if they really wanted to know. With corporations being people these days, you really do need to have your own legal entity.
Ten years works great for Sony with the PlayStation. Apps, not so much.
This is such revisionist bullshit. Take off the rosy glasses.
You do realize that's there is a difference between downloading a web page (text file) and audio (binary file)? If I wanted to download a binary file 20 years ago, I would use an FTP client and schedule it to run overnight. Something I did a lot with those five CD Linux distros on a 56k dial-up that took a week to get.
Lynx is still around. Fire it up if you want to browse the 'web like it's 1995.
I'm converting most of my websites into static websites. Not only do they load faster, they work fine in Lynx.
My roommate has Comcast. He's complains about getting 175Mb inside the Comcast network and 55Mb outside the Comcast network. I pointed out to him if everyone in our 300-unit apartment complex was on Comcast at the same time, everyone would get 50Mb or less.