Space itself is cold, yes (high vacuum means there are very few particles to vibrate, so low temperature). HOWEVER, the solar radiation heats objects up rather nicely. If solar radiation didn't heat things, we'd be frozen here on earth too. To keep this instrument cold by exposing it to space would require a giant sun shield.
I have to say, I've never understood this argument. I would regard the loss of my freedom as being as bad as the loss of my life. Are you really going to tell me that the state can repay someone who spent 30 years behind bars for a crime they didn't commit?
(Some) states think exactly that, and will pay wrongly incarcerated people for the time they spent behind bars. I've only heard of this for wrongful murder convictions. I assume that the money comes with a contract signing away the right to sue the state.
The races were reverse-seeded by world ranking. In other words, the best skaters were last, so it was expected that the people who skated after the break placed higher.
That being said, there may or may not have been an effect from the ice, but this isn't the evidence you're looking for.
Apple does not support 10.6 for G3s. The last version to support G3s is 10.4. In addition, 10.5 only supports G4s that run at 867 MHz or faster. I believe that there are workarounds to these restrictions, but I've never looked into them.
For an Intel processor, the official Apple answer to upgrade from 10.4 to 10.6 is to buy a copy of the Mac Box Set, which is $169, and includes 10.6, iWork, and iLife. That being said, the 10.6 upgrade DVD will directly upgrade 10.4 to 10.6, saving $140 if you're not interested in iWork or iLife.
I guess we were paying $99 for the QC sticker they put on it before they sent it off through the supply system.
In the case of electronics for use in a nuclear reactor, the cost premium is for the testing and the paperwork documenting the tests. Using your example of a resistor, the test for each resistor include: burn-in (100 to 10,000 hours), thermal shock, short-term overload, dielectric withstand voltage, DC resistance, x-ray inspection, and visual inspection. Furthermore, each lot is sample tested for solderability (destructive), and a physical destructive analysis. The costs for performing all these tests, documenting it, and storing the data (2 years minimum, 7 years is commonly required on government procurements) all has to be included in the price!
So yes, you can get a resistor that rolled off the same exact line for a significantly lower price, but for the higher price you get a product guaranteed and verified to work - not to mention one known not to be a counterfeit.
SMTP works like real mail. Anyone can walk up to your mailbox and leave an envelope addressed to you from "Bill Gates". Unless you know how to look for signs that it was properly handled by the post service, you have no idea if it's real or not. We've known this since around 2400BC (because wikipedia says so).
Technically, putting anything into a mailbox (not for them to pick up, but as a delivery), is illegal, with a fine of up to $300 per item plus postage. It seems this is only illegal if you don't put postage on the letter though.
Crimes and Criminal Procedure - 18 USC Section 1725
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18 USC Section 1725
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Sec. 1725. Postage unpaid on deposited mail matter
Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits any mailable matter such as statements of accounts, circulars, sale bills, or other like matter, on which no postage has been paid, in any letter box established, approved, or accepted by the Postal Service for the receipt or delivery of mail matter on any mail route with intent to avoid payment of lawful postage thereon, shall for each such offense be fined under this title. AMENDMENTS 1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $300". 1970 - Pub. L. 91-375 substituted "Postal Service" for "Postmaster General". EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1970 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 91-375 effective within 1 year after Aug. 12, 1970, on date established therefor by Board of Governors of United States Postal Service and published by it in Federal Register, see section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91-375, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 101 of Title 39, Postal Service.
Okay, humor aside...Save tens of billions? Kali has a budget shortfall. Currently, the entirety of the American people are helping to prop up this '8th largest economy'.
Considering that California gets 78 cents of federal spending for every dollar in federal taxes paid (43rd lowest return rate), and California sent the federal government $250 billion in taxes, I wouldn't say that the entirety of the American people are helping prop up California's economy. Quite the opposite, in fact, I'd say California is helping prop up quite a number of other states.
I'd just advocate returning to California the excess $55 billion that the feds distribute to other states, rather than seceding like the GP suggests. $55 billion would more than compensate for our $20 billion deficit.
What would we have achieved if we'd given the same amount of tax payer's money to private companies instead of a creaking bureaucracy?
Isn't that effectively what we did for the shuttle? Lockheed Martin makes the external tank, ATK makes the solid rocket boosters. Rockwell Collins built the orbiters themselves, at a cool $1.7 billion a piece. United Space Alliance, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, pockets about 90% of the $450 million cost of each flight. United Space Alliance is responsible for mission design and planning; software development and integration; astronaut and flight controller training; system integration; flight operations; vehicle processing, launch and recovery; vehicle sustaining engineering; flight crew equipment processing; and Space Shuttle and International Space Station-related support to the Constellation Program. (Sorry, I can't find a link on the amount of each launch that's passed directly to contractors. I'll have to cite my experience working at one of the contractors that takes such a large cut of that money.
All of these, at least originally, were on cost-plus contracts. Government contractors on cost-plus contracts make the government look like the model of efficiency.
Now maybe if we had given out the same amount of money as a firm fixed price contract.... But when the original request for proposal went out, I doubt anyone would have bid on it under those circumstances.
P.S. NASA and the DoD deserve their fair share of the blame for the exorbitant costs of the shuttles. Defining requirements that are never used (DoD wanted to use the shuttle to launch and service satellites in polar orbits, launching from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California) is a great way to increase the cost of a project.
Except that H1-Bs are supposed to be for skills that are not available in the US. Even with the dearth of Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) graduates in the US, are bachelor- and masters-level skills with no work experience truly unavailable?
These same shops charge Customers $90-$120.00 an hour for IT work, and then pay the IT guy $19.00 an hour POCKETING The huge profits.
Except they don't pocket the difference between billing rate and employee pay rate as profit. To work with round numbers, say that the company pays the IT guy $20 an hour and bills at $100 an hour. Employer-side payroll taxes, health insurance premiums, and the like, usually end up being about 50% of the rate paid to the employee, so that's $10. The company also has to pay other people who don't get to bill clients directly, such as HR, janitorial, or other overhead-type employees. 15% of employees working overhead is normal number, so call that another 15$ of the billable rate. Oh, and the company has to pay for electricity and other utilities. I'm wildly guesstimating that to be about 15% of the overall budget, call it $15. There's office supplies, maintenance on the building, and all the other stuff the company has to buy. I'm not a finance guy, I don't know how much that costs.
But even so, out of the $100 per hour billable, we're down to $40 still in the company's hands, and I know that there's other expenses that I haven't covered. I don't know where the other expenses go, but I do know that when you account for those, the profit ends up being around 8% for most industries.
That being said, I agree that the working conditions in a lot of IT shops are poor. At the very least, overtime should be paid if you're consistently asking people to work over 40 hours in a week.
And how do you propose accounting for the 2/3 of Earth that is water? %landmass + %coastline? The tsunamis from an ocean landing are likely to cause more devastation than a dirt landing - and are more likely to occur.
Scaling the shuttle missions back doesn't save much money. The fixed costs to keep the program going are about $1.3 billion per year, while the marginal cost of each launch is about $60 million. Slowing down doesn't save much money at all. In fact, the slow rated is why each launch is so expensive; if the original plan of 1 launch per week per shuttle had been met, the shuttle would be much more affordable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program#Costs
If the politicians don't get to use the "think of children" excuse to justify increased surveillance, shredding the Constitution, and guilty-until-proven-innocent, then we don't get to use it as an explanation for our security decisions.
Let's not have a double standard here; one standard will do just fine.
This is the type of post that make me wish it was possible to mod above +5.
The way I see it, (a mechanical designer with a background in QA and manufacturing of mechanical components), the people with QA or manufacturing experience make MUCH better designers. Those people know what works, what doesn't, what's expensive, what's cheap, and especially which of those expensive difficult things are necessary.
That being said, most mechanical designers (and I get the impression it's the same way in gaming) do NOT see this as a valid skillset. From my understanding, it's difficult to impossible to work one's way up from QA/test to design, triply so if one doesn't have a degree, but even the experience in the field doesn't count.
It's a sad, but true statement.
Note that they don't have to be convicted of anything to be pardoned. Nixon was never convicted, in fact, never even indicted, but Ford pardoned him all the same.
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Space itself is cold, yes (high vacuum means there are very few particles to vibrate, so low temperature). HOWEVER, the solar radiation heats objects up rather nicely. If solar radiation didn't heat things, we'd be frozen here on earth too. To keep this instrument cold by exposing it to space would require a giant sun shield.
I have to say, I've never understood this argument. I would regard the loss of my freedom as being as bad as the loss of my life. Are you really going to tell me that the state can repay someone who spent 30 years behind bars for a crime they didn't commit?
(Some) states think exactly that, and will pay wrongly incarcerated people for the time they spent behind bars. I've only heard of this for wrongful murder convictions. I assume that the money comes with a contract signing away the right to sue the state.
The races were reverse-seeded by world ranking. In other words, the best skaters were last, so it was expected that the people who skated after the break placed higher.
That being said, there may or may not have been an effect from the ice, but this isn't the evidence you're looking for.
Apple does not support 10.6 for G3s. The last version to support G3s is 10.4. In addition, 10.5 only supports G4s that run at 867 MHz or faster. I believe that there are workarounds to these restrictions, but I've never looked into them.
For an Intel processor, the official Apple answer to upgrade from 10.4 to 10.6 is to buy a copy of the Mac Box Set, which is $169, and includes 10.6, iWork, and iLife. That being said, the 10.6 upgrade DVD will directly upgrade 10.4 to 10.6, saving $140 if you're not interested in iWork or iLife.
From the same declaration, Article 26: ... Elementary education shall be compulsory. ...
Home-schooling satisfies this requirement.
I guess we were paying $99 for the QC sticker they put on it before they sent it off through the supply system.
In the case of electronics for use in a nuclear reactor, the cost premium is for the testing and the paperwork documenting the tests. Using your example of a resistor, the test for each resistor include: burn-in (100 to 10,000 hours), thermal shock, short-term overload, dielectric withstand voltage, DC resistance, x-ray inspection, and visual inspection. Furthermore, each lot is sample tested for solderability (destructive), and a physical destructive analysis. The costs for performing all these tests, documenting it, and storing the data (2 years minimum, 7 years is commonly required on government procurements) all has to be included in the price!
So yes, you can get a resistor that rolled off the same exact line for a significantly lower price, but for the higher price you get a product guaranteed and verified to work - not to mention one known not to be a counterfeit.
SMTP works like real mail. Anyone can walk up to your mailbox and leave an envelope addressed to you from "Bill Gates". Unless you know how to look for signs that it was properly handled by the post service, you have no idea if it's real or not. We've known this since around 2400BC (because wikipedia says so).
Technically, putting anything into a mailbox (not for them to pick up, but as a delivery), is illegal, with a fine of up to $300 per item plus postage. It seems this is only illegal if you don't put postage on the letter though.
Crimes and Criminal Procedure - 18 USC Section 1725
Legal Research Home > US Lawyer > Crimes and Criminal Procedure > Crimes and Criminal Procedure -
18 USC Section 1725
01/19/04
Sec. 1725. Postage unpaid on deposited mail matter
Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits any mailable matter such as statements of accounts, circulars, sale bills, or other like matter, on which no postage has been paid, in any letter box established, approved, or accepted by the Postal Service for the receipt or delivery of mail matter on any mail route with intent to avoid payment of lawful postage thereon, shall for each such offense be fined under this title. AMENDMENTS 1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $300". 1970 - Pub. L. 91-375 substituted "Postal Service" for "Postmaster General". EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1970 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 91-375 effective within 1 year after Aug. 12, 1970, on date established therefor by Board of Governors of United States Postal Service and published by it in Federal Register, see section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91-375, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 101 of Title 39, Postal Service.
Okay, humor aside...Save tens of billions? Kali has a budget shortfall. Currently, the entirety of the American people are helping to prop up this '8th largest economy'.
Considering that California gets 78 cents of federal spending for every dollar in federal taxes paid (43rd lowest return rate), and California sent the federal government $250 billion in taxes, I wouldn't say that the entirety of the American people are helping prop up California's economy. Quite the opposite, in fact, I'd say California is helping prop up quite a number of other states.
I'd just advocate returning to California the excess $55 billion that the feds distribute to other states, rather than seceding like the GP suggests. $55 billion would more than compensate for our $20 billion deficit.
2009 - 1789 = 220, last I checked. Still, in this country, 220 years of precedents means something is pretty firmly entrenched in law.
What would we have achieved if we'd given the same amount of tax payer's money to private companies instead of a creaking bureaucracy?
Isn't that effectively what we did for the shuttle? Lockheed Martin makes the external tank, ATK makes the solid rocket boosters. Rockwell Collins built the orbiters themselves, at a cool $1.7 billion a piece. United Space Alliance, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, pockets about 90% of the $450 million cost of each flight. United Space Alliance is responsible for mission design and planning; software development and integration; astronaut and flight controller training; system integration; flight operations; vehicle processing, launch and recovery; vehicle sustaining engineering; flight crew equipment processing; and Space Shuttle and International Space Station-related support to the Constellation Program. (Sorry, I can't find a link on the amount of each launch that's passed directly to contractors. I'll have to cite my experience working at one of the contractors that takes such a large cut of that money.
All of these, at least originally, were on cost-plus contracts. Government contractors on cost-plus contracts make the government look like the model of efficiency.
Now maybe if we had given out the same amount of money as a firm fixed price contract.... But when the original request for proposal went out, I doubt anyone would have bid on it under those circumstances.
P.S. NASA and the DoD deserve their fair share of the blame for the exorbitant costs of the shuttles. Defining requirements that are never used (DoD wanted to use the shuttle to launch and service satellites in polar orbits, launching from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California) is a great way to increase the cost of a project.
And then I could give you a election observer that has a backdoor in him/her.
Kinky.
Except that H1-Bs are supposed to be for skills that are not available in the US. Even with the dearth of Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) graduates in the US, are bachelor- and masters-level skills with no work experience truly unavailable?
These same shops charge Customers $90-$120.00 an hour for IT work, and then pay the IT guy $19.00 an hour POCKETING The huge profits.
Except they don't pocket the difference between billing rate and employee pay rate as profit. To work with round numbers, say that the company pays the IT guy $20 an hour and bills at $100 an hour. Employer-side payroll taxes, health insurance premiums, and the like, usually end up being about 50% of the rate paid to the employee, so that's $10. The company also has to pay other people who don't get to bill clients directly, such as HR, janitorial, or other overhead-type employees. 15% of employees working overhead is normal number, so call that another 15$ of the billable rate. Oh, and the company has to pay for electricity and other utilities. I'm wildly guesstimating that to be about 15% of the overall budget, call it $15. There's office supplies, maintenance on the building, and all the other stuff the company has to buy. I'm not a finance guy, I don't know how much that costs.
But even so, out of the $100 per hour billable, we're down to $40 still in the company's hands, and I know that there's other expenses that I haven't covered. I don't know where the other expenses go, but I do know that when you account for those, the profit ends up being around 8% for most industries.
That being said, I agree that the working conditions in a lot of IT shops are poor. At the very least, overtime should be paid if you're consistently asking people to work over 40 hours in a week.
And how do you propose accounting for the 2/3 of Earth that is water? %landmass + %coastline? The tsunamis from an ocean landing are likely to cause more devastation than a dirt landing - and are more likely to occur.
He poked a badger with a spoon... Does that count?
Sorry, that sin's no longer original either. So far poking a badger with a titanium spork is still orignal, however.
Scaling the shuttle missions back doesn't save much money. The fixed costs to keep the program going are about $1.3 billion per year, while the marginal cost of each launch is about $60 million. Slowing down doesn't save much money at all. In fact, the slow rated is why each launch is so expensive; if the original plan of 1 launch per week per shuttle had been met, the shuttle would be much more affordable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program#Costs
If the politicians don't get to use the "think of children" excuse to justify increased surveillance, shredding the Constitution, and guilty-until-proven-innocent, then we don't get to use it as an explanation for our security decisions. Let's not have a double standard here; one standard will do just fine.
This is the type of post that make me wish it was possible to mod above +5.
The way I see it, (a mechanical designer with a background in QA and manufacturing of mechanical components), the people with QA or manufacturing experience make MUCH better designers. Those people know what works, what doesn't, what's expensive, what's cheap, and especially which of those expensive difficult things are necessary. That being said, most mechanical designers (and I get the impression it's the same way in gaming) do NOT see this as a valid skillset. From my understanding, it's difficult to impossible to work one's way up from QA/test to design, triply so if one doesn't have a degree, but even the experience in the field doesn't count. It's a sad, but true statement.
Note that they don't have to be convicted of anything to be pardoned. Nixon was never convicted, in fact, never even indicted, but Ford pardoned him all the same.