I went to college with her (well, I was undergrad and she was a grad student, but we were in an honor society together).
It's always a bit odd to see an old friend's name in the subject line on Slashdot.
Your objection to the North Pole possibility relies on equivocation. You interpret "Surface of the Earth" to mean soil, but it could easily mean the surface of the planet known as Earth. If you can establish that Musk intends the interpretation you mean, then I'll throw out the North Pole, but I have no reason to assume that.
Your objection to the South Pole-related answers shows that you didn't read what I wrote. I'm not saying start 1 mile from the South Pole. I said find the circle with a 1-mile circumference centered at the South Pole and start any point 1 mile North of that circle.
The obvious answer is the North Pole, but there are others.
First, find the circle around the South Pole with a circumference of one mile, and then select all the points on the circle with a radius one mile larger around the South Pole.
Then, find the circle around the South Pole with a circumference of one half mile, and then select all the points on the circle with a radius one mile larger around the South Pole.
Then, find the circle around the South Pole with a circumference of one third mile, and then select all the points on the circle with a radius one mile larger around the South Pole.
Then, find the circle around the South Pole with a circumference of one quarter mile, and then select all the points on the circle with a radius one mile larger around the South Pole.
Continue ad nauseum.
In 2001, I was on a trip with a friend to Finland, Estonia, and Latvia. We needed to buy a bus ticket to get from Tallinn to Riga, and we needed some of the local currency (the bus company wouldn't take a credit card - another WTF).
So, I tried to take money out of the ATM in the office to buy my ticket. In the middle of my transaction, the application crashed, taking the OS with it (or vice versa). After a couple minutes watching the Windows automated boot process, the machine came back up to the "enter your card" prompt.
But it still had my card!
Fortunately, I didn't need my bank card for the rest of my trip, and my friend was able to get out enough cash separately. However, if I had been traveling alone, I wouldn't have been able to take the bus trip.
And I had to call my bank back home to cancel the card and request a replacement.
Never got that card back. Fortunately, no one ever used it to take my money, either.
No. The law and logic trump her opinion. If you read the link, you see that the law and logic do not agree with her.
Rather, she's misrepresenting the law and what it says.
He obstructed the investigation into whether someone committed a crime by outing a covert agent. Plame was a covert agent. The CIA approved the following statements before the hearing:
During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.
Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958.
At the time of the publication of Robert Novak's column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilsonâ(TM)s CIA employment status was covert.
This was classified information.
However convenient it would be for Libby and Bush if your claim were true, it just isn't.
No, not really. The A350 is currently under development, well behind the development of the 787, which will be released first.
It's true that the A350 will use composites, but to imply that Boeing is trailing Airbus on this ("Nothing new") when Airbus is actually trailing Boeing is just inaccurate.
UMTYMP (University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program) is a great program in Minnesota that lets junior high and high school students get a leg up by studying high school and college math early. I was in the program, and it allowed me to finish all four years of high school math in junior high and take a year-and-a-half of college calculus my 9- and 10th grade years (I had to drop out because of other activities).
It's one of the best programs I've seen in the country for encouraging advanced athematics education.
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I went to college with her (well, I was undergrad and she was a grad student, but we were in an honor society together). It's always a bit odd to see an old friend's name in the subject line on Slashdot.
Your objection to the North Pole possibility relies on equivocation. You interpret "Surface of the Earth" to mean soil, but it could easily mean the surface of the planet known as Earth. If you can establish that Musk intends the interpretation you mean, then I'll throw out the North Pole, but I have no reason to assume that. Your objection to the South Pole-related answers shows that you didn't read what I wrote. I'm not saying start 1 mile from the South Pole. I said find the circle with a 1-mile circumference centered at the South Pole and start any point 1 mile North of that circle.
The obvious answer is the North Pole, but there are others. First, find the circle around the South Pole with a circumference of one mile, and then select all the points on the circle with a radius one mile larger around the South Pole. Then, find the circle around the South Pole with a circumference of one half mile, and then select all the points on the circle with a radius one mile larger around the South Pole. Then, find the circle around the South Pole with a circumference of one third mile, and then select all the points on the circle with a radius one mile larger around the South Pole. Then, find the circle around the South Pole with a circumference of one quarter mile, and then select all the points on the circle with a radius one mile larger around the South Pole. Continue ad nauseum.
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In 2001, I was on a trip with a friend to Finland, Estonia, and Latvia. We needed to buy a bus ticket to get from Tallinn to Riga, and we needed some of the local currency (the bus company wouldn't take a credit card - another WTF).
So, I tried to take money out of the ATM in the office to buy my ticket. In the middle of my transaction, the application crashed, taking the OS with it (or vice versa). After a couple minutes watching the Windows automated boot process, the machine came back up to the "enter your card" prompt.
But it still had my card!
Fortunately, I didn't need my bank card for the rest of my trip, and my friend was able to get out enough cash separately. However, if I had been traveling alone, I wouldn't have been able to take the bus trip.
And I had to call my bank back home to cancel the card and request a replacement.
Never got that card back. Fortunately, no one ever used it to take my money, either.
No. The law and logic trump her opinion. If you read the link, you see that the law and logic do not agree with her. Rather, she's misrepresenting the law and what it says.
Although she's an expert on the law, her interpretation leaves a lot to be desired.
- During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.
- Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958.
- At the time of the publication of Robert Novak's column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilsonâ(TM)s CIA employment status was covert.
- This was classified information.
However convenient it would be for Libby and Bush if your claim were true, it just isn't.- During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.
- Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958.
- At the time of the publication of Robert Novak's column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilsonâ(TM)s CIA employment status was covert.
- This was classified information.
However convenient it would be for Libby and Bush if your claim were true, it just isn't.No, not really. The A350 is currently under development, well behind the development of the 787, which will be released first.
It's true that the A350 will use composites, but to imply that Boeing is trailing Airbus on this ("Nothing new") when Airbus is actually trailing Boeing is just inaccurate.
UMTYMP (University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program) is a great program in Minnesota that lets junior high and high school students get a leg up by studying high school and college math early. I was in the program, and it allowed me to finish all four years of high school math in junior high and take a year-and-a-half of college calculus my 9- and 10th grade years (I had to drop out because of other activities).
It's one of the best programs I've seen in the country for encouraging advanced athematics education.