Perhaps you don't understand the concept of a community property state, and the legal implications of this in divorce, it does render splitting of the wealth equally - 50/50, nothing more or less. If a house is involved it must be sold and the proceeds divided if the couple is not wealthy enough, or if the couple did have sufficient assets, the party that does not keep the house must be awarded assets of equal value, for example a stock portfolio.
I'm not pretending anything; nor am I denying anything: I related my observations, which are not inconsistent with other people who live where I do - in
fact a buddy has the opposite - he got the house. However if a rational person is to have a well-grounded opinion on this subject he would need hard data, across geographic and economic spectrums, over time and over the variations in local laws. I suspect that in non-community property locales awards may be made inconsistently, leading to these resentments, which are understandable.
I have seen this angry reaction in quite a few men. It suggests that family law inconsistencies are causing more problems than they are solving.
What an uninformed comment. The deal is that both sexes are capable of behaving badly.
My experience was the guy cheated on me, more than once. Community property state meant each party took away exactly 50% of the shared wealth. Ex earns over $100K per year, and pays no alimony, only a small amount of child support - upwards of half of this goes to childcare costs that he uses when the kids spend time with him. The other half is only enough to buy some, but not all required groceries for two explosively growing kids. No car, no clothes, no vacation, nada.
My game of choice? Colorcode by geekboy. Damn thing won't let me enter my score though, even when I've broken top 10. No matter, it's killer addicting.
Methinks this is a real-time psyops test, who better to float this to than the slashdot crowd? Just think, they're analyzing and binning the responses and assigning threat points accordingly.
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mathematicians may do it smoothly and continuously, but it's always best to be discrete
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Both of my level whatever boys have gained from participation in their respective gifted programs. One displayed the hubris mentioned earlier, and became quite lazy due to never being challenged. It was a good awakening for him to interact with other talented kids doing more difficult problems. The other spent all of second grade being mostly playfully teased that he was the smartest kid in the class; now that he spends some time with kids who are even smarter than himself, he's feeling much more at home in his own skin. Plus, his MO occasionally includes some off-nominal behaviors and lots and lots of intense energy. Prior to his entrance into the gifted program, the early teachers just wanted to get him into special ed and drug him up. Now he is accepted and is loving school.
Benefit to society? Probably not, just happier, more engaged kids.
Just a note of random empirical evidence from recent teaching experience. The course was for undergrads learning functional programming, after 1 to 3 courses of C++ or Java. There were definitely some top notch female students that had no problem whatsoever wrapping their brains around recursion. These were not library types - way cute and way smart - and often topped most of the males in the class. There was little observable difference between the top female and male students.
So what are the contributing factors to possible catastrophic failure? We've already seen two: failure of the SRBs, and compromise of the heat shield. Most likely the intense scrutiny of the relevant subsystems following these very public and tragic failures have rendered further failures in either area highly unlikely.
The largest potential source of catatrophe is loss of a main engine. Depending on where this occurs within ascent the vehicle must abort, a late failure might only result in a lower than designed orbit, a midcourse failure is TAL - transatlantic landing to one the sites in Spain or Africa, a earlycourse failure is RTLS - return to launch site where the shuttle must pitch around, fly backward against it's thrust and finally pitch down and drop the tank at low altitude, praying that no recontact happens with the tank once this scenario plays out.
The SSMEs are an engineering marvel, truly, and although it is not a non-zero chance that one would fail, it is surely not at the 100% level you are suggesting, and given that the degree of disaster due to this failure depends on where it happens, it is not a simple task to come up with realistic odds.
The astronauts aren't stupid. They're most likely trying very, very hard to support NASA and stand behind the technology that has seen both high profile successes and failures. My guess is that they are the driving force behind any rescue initiatives. And, what other vehicle, could be used for a rescue? Not a Delta, nor anything from ESA or the Russian program. They're probably just trying to come up with the best back up plan they can think of.
HWVR as you point out, the tech is old, 1970s old, and should have been replaced. The few follow-on designs have never been funded - what bullshit politics were behind this? NASP was an interesting idea, just to name one.
It's great to stoke the flames of nostalgia and reminisce of our original geek awakening moments, mine was filling out those FORTRAN grids and then typing my ten liners onto cards by hand. Unix was the coolest damn thing ever and I was way stoked to get a hold of a user's guide in highschool. Whoa! I was maybe a bit cooler than those other kids! (yeah, well, maybe not!)
But reality check here. The world is way different. Computing is everywhere and kids are saturated with it. One progeny has had required computer classes at the local elementary since the first grade. Are they teaching programming? No! It seems the fundamentals of powerpoint presentations are far more important to the generally computer illiterate teachers. The Intel gifts of donated windows boxes to schools reminds me of the handing out of free cigarettes to WWII GIs. Gotta dig those tiny mice though.
Kids care about games, music, email. And they already understand that Dad's computer is way better than the semiretired machine sitting on their desk. They see computers as media delivery machines, not something that can be tinkered with.
The fundamentals of discrete math would be a place to start, followed by scheme or squeak, or both. Logic needs to be in place as soon as possible.
Deep Impact will be launching a copper projectile onto the surface of Comet Tempel 1 and the flyby spacecraft will film the creation of a large crater. All data will be visual only and unfortunately the launch has been delayed.
The animation of comet rendevous shows expected time to reach it is another 10+ years, the mission ends in December 2015. The launch took place successfully in March of this year.
The purpose of both missions is to discern chemical composition of these very old objects.
I can't comment on the design attributes of the Delta series.
For the shuttle, throttling allows the reduction of the SSME's down to 2/3 of their normal thrust during the region of high Q - i.e. when you're still in enough air to create high loads on the vehicle - presumably this might be part of the Delta 4 design.
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Perhaps you don't understand the concept of a community property state, and the legal implications of this in divorce, it does render splitting of the wealth equally - 50/50, nothing more or less. If a house is involved it must be sold and the proceeds divided if the couple is not wealthy enough, or if the couple did have sufficient assets, the party that does not keep the house must be awarded assets of equal value, for example a stock portfolio.
I'm not pretending anything; nor am I denying anything: I related my observations, which are not inconsistent with other people who live where I do - in fact a buddy has the opposite - he got the house. However if a rational person is to have a well-grounded opinion on this subject he would need hard data, across geographic and economic spectrums, over time and over the variations in local laws. I suspect that in non-community property locales awards may be made inconsistently, leading to these resentments, which are understandable.
I have seen this angry reaction in quite a few men. It suggests that family law inconsistencies are causing more problems than they are solving.
What an uninformed comment. The deal is that both sexes are capable of behaving badly.
My experience was the guy cheated on me, more than once. Community property state meant each party took away exactly 50% of the shared wealth. Ex earns over $100K per year, and pays no alimony, only a small amount of child support - upwards of half of this goes to childcare costs that he uses when the kids spend time with him. The other half is only enough to buy some, but not all required groceries for two explosively growing kids. No car, no clothes, no vacation, nada.
My game of choice? Colorcode by geekboy. Damn thing won't let me enter my score though, even when I've broken top 10. No matter, it's killer addicting.
Methinks this is a real-time psyops test, who better to float this to than the slashdot crowd? Just think, they're analyzing and binning the responses and assigning threat points accordingly.
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mathematicians may do it smoothly and continuously, but it's always best to be discrete
Both of my level whatever boys have gained from participation in their respective gifted programs. One displayed the hubris mentioned earlier, and became quite lazy due to never being challenged. It was a good awakening for him to interact with other talented kids doing more difficult problems. The other spent all of second grade being mostly playfully teased that he was the smartest kid in the class; now that he spends some time with kids who are even smarter than himself, he's feeling much more at home in his own skin. Plus, his MO occasionally includes some off-nominal behaviors and lots and lots of intense energy. Prior to his entrance into the gifted program, the early teachers just wanted to get him into special ed and drug him up. Now he is accepted and is loving school. Benefit to society? Probably not, just happier, more engaged kids.
Just a note of random empirical evidence from recent teaching experience. The course was for undergrads learning functional programming, after 1 to 3 courses of C++ or Java. There were definitely some top notch female students that had no problem whatsoever wrapping their brains around recursion. These were not library types - way cute and way smart - and often topped most of the males in the class. There was little observable difference between the top female and male students.
That is simplistic, inaccurate reasoning.
So what are the contributing factors to possible catastrophic failure? We've already seen two: failure of the SRBs, and compromise of the heat shield. Most likely the intense scrutiny of the relevant subsystems following these very public and tragic failures have rendered further failures in either area highly unlikely.
The largest potential source of catatrophe is loss of a main engine. Depending on where this occurs within ascent the vehicle must abort, a late failure might only result in a lower than designed orbit, a midcourse failure is TAL - transatlantic landing to one the sites in Spain or Africa, a earlycourse failure is RTLS - return to launch site where the shuttle must pitch around, fly backward against it's thrust and finally pitch down and drop the tank at low altitude, praying that no recontact happens with the tank once this scenario plays out.
The SSMEs are an engineering marvel, truly, and although it is not a non-zero chance that one would fail, it is surely not at the 100% level you are suggesting, and given that the degree of disaster due to this failure depends on where it happens, it is not a simple task to come up with realistic odds.
The astronauts aren't stupid. They're most likely trying very, very hard to support NASA and stand behind the technology that has seen both high profile successes and failures. My guess is that they are the driving force behind any rescue initiatives. And, what other vehicle, could be used for a rescue? Not a Delta, nor anything from ESA or the Russian program. They're probably just trying to come up with the best back up plan they can think of.
HWVR as you point out, the tech is old, 1970s old, and should have been replaced. The few follow-on designs have never been funded - what bullshit politics were behind this? NASP was an interesting idea, just to name one.
It's great to stoke the flames of nostalgia and reminisce of our original geek awakening moments, mine was filling out those FORTRAN grids and then typing my ten liners onto cards by hand. Unix was the coolest damn thing ever and I was way stoked to get a hold of a user's guide in highschool. Whoa! I was maybe a bit cooler than those other kids! (yeah, well, maybe not!)
But reality check here. The world is way different. Computing is everywhere and kids are saturated with it. One progeny has had required computer classes at the local elementary since the first grade. Are they teaching programming? No! It seems the fundamentals of powerpoint presentations are far more important to the generally computer illiterate teachers. The Intel gifts of donated windows boxes to schools reminds me of the handing out of free cigarettes to WWII GIs. Gotta dig those tiny mice though.
Kids care about games, music, email. And they already understand that Dad's computer is way better than the semiretired machine sitting on their desk. They see computers as media delivery machines, not something that can be tinkered with.
The fundamentals of discrete math would be a place to start, followed by scheme or squeak, or both. Logic needs to be in place as soon as possible.
I agree.
This is why editors are valuable.
Deep Impact will be launching a copper projectile onto the surface of Comet Tempel 1 and the flyby spacecraft will film the creation of a large crater. All data will be visual only and unfortunately the launch has been delayed.
In contrast the ESA Rosetta Mission is going to orbit Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and attempt to lower a small lander onto it.
The animation of comet rendevous shows expected time to reach it is another 10+ years, the mission ends in December 2015. The launch took place successfully in March of this year.
The purpose of both missions is to discern chemical composition of these very old objects.
I can't comment on the design attributes of the Delta series. For the shuttle, throttling allows the reduction of the SSME's down to 2/3 of their normal thrust during the region of high Q - i.e. when you're still in enough air to create high loads on the vehicle - presumably this might be part of the Delta 4 design.