The United States Congress is consists of two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate. You are correct that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has passed several budgets and the Democrat-controlled Senate has failed to approve a budget.
Ps, the National Debt math is flawed, and the deficit is shrinking.
The national debt continues to grow, and will continue to grow. I'm not sure if the deficit is growing or not - Congress hasn't passed a budget in 5 years or so -- so that math is a little fuzzy. However, the deficit can shrink and the debt will continue to grow.
Let's say you make $50,000 a year. Last year you spent $70,000 and you currently have $100,000 in debt. If you make $55,000 next year and your spending remains steady at $70,000, your deficit will shrink but your debt will grow to $115,000 (plus interest)
Does anyone know whether or not there was a range safety officer monitoring this launch? From the video, it's pretty clear early on that this booster is in trouble, and since it's unmanned it seems like it would be better to detonate the Proton before it impacts the earth.
Without knowing the procedures and capabilities it's hard to know why the flight was not terminated sooner. Any Slashdotters with knowledge of Russian launch safety protocols?
Very funny. Often people who hold absolutist positions on gun control also support old men for whom it is biologically impossible to get pregnant and bear a child write draconian anti-abortion laws. Freedom! it is for people with guns, not for people with uterus.
It is likewise biologically impossible for young men to get pregnant and bear a child.
How about interpreting it this way. "Case A wasn't prosecuted, Case B was. At first glance, Case B appears to be less deserving of prosecution than Case A, but Case B took place on school property. In Case B there was clearly intent to create an explosion and given recent high-visibility events involving 1) kids being murdered at a school, and 2) innocent bystanders being killed/maimed by an explosion it is predictable that any explosion at a school will be highly scrutinized. Furthermore, in Case B, the so-called experiment appears to have been done without supervision, permission or any safeguards making the "experiment" excuse seem unlikely. Additionally, schools have published weapons policies and zero-tolerance policies, with mandatory consequences for violation. Had Case B taken place away from school property and/or under controlled conditions, it is extremely unlikely that Case B would have been prosecuted."
Note the complete absence of Attribute R. Also note that there was no judgment on the merits of the school's policies. As the parent of a student that was suspended for a zero-tolerance policy violation that even the principal thought was ridiculous, I have strong feelings about zero-thought policies, but that's a rant for another day.
C02 kills civilizations, so the emphasis is pretty much spot-on.
I thought that was chlorofluorocarbons.
Maybe it was ozone?
No...it's methane. Wait...
Sulfur dioxide you say? No, that one used to be bad because of acid rain but now I'm reading that it helped cool the planet and by reducing atmospheric levels of sulfur dioxide we've actually made global warming worse.
Then again, I remember not too long ago that diesel exhaust was horrible and we needed to get rid of diesel engines, but now I read that they're much better than gasoline engines.
So today CO2 is a civilization killer, but I'm sure there'll be a new environmental pollutant to worry about soon.
I could just as easily say that JFK would be considered a conservative by today's democrats. It's not about "modern conservatism" or "modern liberalism", it's about an increasingly polarized society. Both sides are so concerned with being right and making the other guy look bad that neither one is willing to make the hard decisions that are in the best interest of "We the People".
We've got plenty of politicians, it's statesmen that we need.
Musk just tweeted that the solar arrays have been deployed. I assume that means that they have at least two thruster pods working and are able to maintain attitude control of the Dragon.
It will be interesting to learn the cause of the anomaly.
I believe the solar panels on Dragon were supposed to deploy but did not. There was a lot of chatter I did not understand and then a generic "the vehicle is orbital but experienced an anomaly, than you for joining us" message.
Although I'm also curious to know exactly what went wrong, I think it's wise of SpaceX to cut the feed until they have a solid understanding of what happened and what they can do to get the mission back on track.
Holland is a region that is part of the Netherlands. You may also want to learn how to use a search engine so that you can acquire knowledge by yourself.
Let's see - condescending and apparently completely lacking a sense of humor. I'm going to guess you're French.
Of course, they speak Spanish or Portuguese. Americano, which means American, refers to people from South America. Surely you can see the problem. Estadounidense means Usian, Norteamericano means North-american.
I'm fluent in Spanish (so much for that stereotype of only Americans only being able to speak one language) so I'm perfectly aware of the meaning of the words. Estadounidense means "from the United States" or "of the United States", not "Usian". Also, in addition to Spanish and Portuguese, I met many people that speak Italian, English, German, Guarani, Korean, Chinese, Hebrew and a few other languages that I have since forgotten. As I mentioned earlier, not one of these people used the non-word "Usian".
In any case I'm not interested in pursuing this fruitless debate any more than this.
It's only fruitless because you believe that you have the moral high ground and fail to recognize how ridiculous your non-word sounds.
OK, I'll play along. What other non-made-up word would you have us call ourselves? Statesmen? That has a nice ring to it, but frankly there are far too few statesmen in the world these days. Plus, I'm guessing you would no doubt find this offensive to women and children.
How about Uniters? Sadly, this one is an inaccurate description of our nation these days, plus it just sounds funny. Also, we wouldn't want to "stigmatize" our neighbors from the United Mexican States.
Maybe we could go with something completely different. My friends from The Netherlands (or Holland, nobody seems to be 100% sure) prefer to be called the Dutch. When I was a kid, being in Dutch was something to be avoided, so I'm not sure why they prefer that title.
The one thing that everyone seems to understand is that the citizens of the United States of America are known as Americans.
By the way, I lived in South America for a couple of years and never once heard this ridiculous term. I was frequently called a Norteamericano or Estadounidense. The much less endearing term "Yanqui" was also used, but never in polite conversation.
I don't think playing a sport is cool. I haven't, however, been exposed to the crazy usian high school system where, if TV series are to be believed, sport players seem to hold some kind of important social status.
I don't know what kind of crazy word usian is supposed to be. We're Americans and for the most part don't mind being called such.
I went to high school in the "Commodore 64 / Apple II" era. I played three sports in high school, played an instrument and I also wrote code. Turns out I didn't click with the Jock/Cheerleader clique, the band clique or the computer nerd clique. In fact, my school was small enough that I basically was the computer nerd clique.
There's nothing inherently cool about playing a sport, nor is there anything inherently uncool about coding. Winning sports championships is a lot of fun, and usually requires a lot of hard work and dedication. I also find it fun to find and fix the bug that nobody else seems to be able to find in the code, but I expect that far fewer people will show up to cheer when I'm coding.
For what it's worth, TV series in general have almost nothing to do with reality.
I for one blame the video games that are available these days. Things like Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942, Halo, etc encourage violent behavior and blur the distinction between real life and fantasy. We should hold these game companies responsible and sue them so hard that their children's children are still in so much debt they can never repay it. If I were a judge I would require the CEO of the software company to personally meet with the family of each and every child killed this morning to discuss today's violent video games, the realism, and the possibility that they have an effect on the behavior of some people that play them. There is blood on your hands assholes.
I'm not surprised that this is currently modded as Flamebait, particularly in this forum. And perhaps the AC parent went too far -- I certainly would not have said it in quite this way. However, I think there is much in the media today that glorifies violence. Movies, TV and video games depict and glorify violence in increasingly graphic ways. Ditto for some music.
Whether intentional or not,the cumulative effect of these games, movies and TV shows is a desensitized society. Think of how graphic Psycho was considered in its day and compare that to any of the video games mentioned by the parent. And in case you doubt that video games can be used to that end, Google military training video games.
I'll likely get modded down for this as well, but hey, do I get to keep my geek card if I mention that violent video games were one of the training techniques in Ender's Game?
How about we just cut the budget 10% across the board for starters? With $16.3 Trillion in debt (and growing), we need to stop wasting money.
The whole "take from this and give to that" doesn't work long term. Back in 1972 when Project Apollo was canceled, the excuse was that we were "spending too much money in space". (Think about that for a minute -- I'm pretty sure all the money was actually spent on this planet.) Ultimately, the "why spend money in space when we have hungry people on Earth" crowd won out. Well, it's been 40 years Apollo XVII splashed down and we still have hungry people. We still have poverty, we currently have upwards of 45 Million people on some sort of federal food assistance.
Saturn V rockets that should have flown are now museum pieces. Apollo hardware was discarded like trash. The Space Shuttles are museum pieces. And we're hitching rides to the ISS with the Russians.
So much for sound governance and fiscal responsibility. And yes, both parties are guilty.
Although personally, I think it'd be about the best thing in the world if the USA were to split apart into North half/South half or something, since OBVIOUSLY this country has some severe agreement issues, and always has ever since the first days of the USA.
We could call the countries North America and South America. Then we'd have a North America in North America and a South America in North America, but neither a North America nor a South America in South America.
And I thought the whole Washington/Washington DC thing was unnecessarily confusing.
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The United States Congress is consists of two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate. You are correct that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has passed several budgets and the Democrat-controlled Senate has failed to approve a budget.
Ps, the National Debt math is flawed, and the deficit is shrinking.
The national debt continues to grow, and will continue to grow. I'm not sure if the deficit is growing or not - Congress hasn't passed a budget in 5 years or so -- so that math is a little fuzzy. However, the deficit can shrink and the debt will continue to grow.
Let's say you make $50,000 a year. Last year you spent $70,000 and you currently have $100,000 in debt.
If you make $55,000 next year and your spending remains steady at $70,000, your deficit will shrink but your debt will grow to $115,000 (plus interest)
Astatine will be changing it's name to Ocho-Cinconium.
Then after a few mediocre years it will just be known as Chad Johnson.
RUN away! RUN away!
Does anyone know whether or not there was a range safety officer monitoring this launch? From the video, it's pretty clear early on that this booster is in trouble, and since it's unmanned it seems like it would be better to detonate the Proton before it impacts the earth.
Without knowing the procedures and capabilities it's hard to know why the flight was not terminated sooner. Any Slashdotters with knowledge of Russian launch safety protocols?
You must be a lot of fun at parties. So certain of things you are completely wrong about, yet willing to speak for the entire group.
over 250 people are born every minute (only about 100 die). I'd say they are all suckers - either the teat or the bottle.
Actually all of them die...eventually.
Very funny. Often people who hold absolutist positions on gun control also support old men for whom it is biologically impossible to get pregnant and bear a child write draconian anti-abortion laws. Freedom! it is for people with guns, not for people with uterus.
It is likewise biologically impossible for young men to get pregnant and bear a child.
at least they weren't dropping turkeys...
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
How about interpreting it this way. "Case A wasn't prosecuted, Case B was. At first glance, Case B appears to be less deserving of prosecution than Case A, but Case B took place on school property. In Case B there was clearly intent to create an explosion and given recent high-visibility events involving 1) kids being murdered at a school, and 2) innocent bystanders being killed/maimed by an explosion it is predictable that any explosion at a school will be highly scrutinized. Furthermore, in Case B, the so-called experiment appears to have been done without supervision, permission or any safeguards making the "experiment" excuse seem unlikely. Additionally, schools have published weapons policies and zero-tolerance policies, with mandatory consequences for violation. Had Case B taken place away from school property and/or under controlled conditions, it is extremely unlikely that Case B would have been prosecuted."
Note the complete absence of Attribute R. Also note that there was no judgment on the merits of the school's policies. As the parent of a student that was suspended for a zero-tolerance policy violation that even the principal thought was ridiculous, I have strong feelings about zero-thought policies, but that's a rant for another day.
C02 kills civilizations, so the emphasis is pretty much spot-on.
I thought that was chlorofluorocarbons.
Maybe it was ozone?
No...it's methane. Wait...
Sulfur dioxide you say? No, that one used to be bad because of acid rain but now I'm reading that it helped cool the planet and by reducing atmospheric levels of sulfur dioxide we've actually made global warming worse.
Then again, I remember not too long ago that diesel exhaust was horrible and we needed to get rid of diesel engines, but now I read that they're much better than gasoline engines.
So today CO2 is a civilization killer, but I'm sure there'll be a new environmental pollutant to worry about soon.
+1 Informative. Sorry, no mod points today so this will have to do.
1999 - 1967 = 32 years
Unless the AC was referring to the album by The Police, which was released in 1981.
I could just as easily say that JFK would be considered a conservative by today's democrats. It's not about "modern conservatism" or "modern liberalism", it's about an increasingly polarized society. Both sides are so concerned with being right and making the other guy look bad that neither one is willing to make the hard decisions that are in the best interest of "We the People".
We've got plenty of politicians, it's statesmen that we need.
Musk just tweeted that the solar arrays have been deployed. I assume that means that they have at least two thruster pods working and are able to maintain attitude control of the Dragon.
It will be interesting to learn the cause of the anomaly.
I believe the solar panels on Dragon were supposed to deploy but did not. There was a lot of chatter I did not understand and then a generic "the vehicle is orbital but experienced an anomaly, than you for joining us" message.
Although I'm also curious to know exactly what went wrong, I think it's wise of SpaceX to cut the feed until they have a solid understanding of what happened and what they can do to get the mission back on track.
Holland is a region that is part of the Netherlands.
You may also want to learn how to use a search engine so that you can acquire knowledge by yourself.
Let's see - condescending and apparently completely lacking a sense of humor. I'm going to guess you're French.
Of course, they speak Spanish or Portuguese.
Americano, which means American, refers to people from South America. Surely you can see the problem. Estadounidense means Usian, Norteamericano means North-american.
I'm fluent in Spanish (so much for that stereotype of only Americans only being able to speak one language) so I'm perfectly aware of the meaning of the words. Estadounidense means "from the United States" or "of the United States", not "Usian". Also, in addition to Spanish and Portuguese, I met many people that speak Italian, English, German, Guarani, Korean, Chinese, Hebrew and a few other languages that I have since forgotten. As I mentioned earlier, not one of these people used the non-word "Usian".
In any case I'm not interested in pursuing this fruitless debate any more than this.
It's only fruitless because you believe that you have the moral high ground and fail to recognize how ridiculous your non-word sounds.
OK, I'll play along. What other non-made-up word would you have us call ourselves? Statesmen? That has a nice ring to it, but frankly there are far too few statesmen in the world these days. Plus, I'm guessing you would no doubt find this offensive to women and children.
How about Uniters? Sadly, this one is an inaccurate description of our nation these days, plus it just sounds funny. Also, we wouldn't want to "stigmatize" our neighbors from the United Mexican States.
Maybe we could go with something completely different. My friends from The Netherlands (or Holland, nobody seems to be 100% sure) prefer to be called the Dutch. When I was a kid, being in Dutch was something to be avoided, so I'm not sure why they prefer that title.
The one thing that everyone seems to understand is that the citizens of the United States of America are known as Americans.
By the way, I lived in South America for a couple of years and never once heard this ridiculous term. I was frequently called a Norteamericano or Estadounidense. The much less endearing term "Yanqui" was also used, but never in polite conversation.
Bravo SolitaryMan - I love the subtle humor.
I don't think playing a sport is cool.
I haven't, however, been exposed to the crazy usian high school system where, if TV series are to be believed, sport players seem to hold some kind of important social status.
I don't know what kind of crazy word usian is supposed to be. We're Americans and for the most part don't mind being called such.
I went to high school in the "Commodore 64 / Apple II" era. I played three sports in high school, played an instrument and I also wrote code. Turns out I didn't click with the Jock/Cheerleader clique, the band clique or the computer nerd clique. In fact, my school was small enough that I basically was the computer nerd clique.
There's nothing inherently cool about playing a sport, nor is there anything inherently uncool about coding. Winning sports championships is a lot of fun, and usually requires a lot of hard work and dedication. I also find it fun to find and fix the bug that nobody else seems to be able to find in the code, but I expect that far fewer people will show up to cheer when I'm coding.
For what it's worth, TV series in general have almost nothing to do with reality.
I for one blame the video games that are available these days. Things like Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942, Halo, etc encourage violent behavior and blur the distinction between real life and fantasy. We should hold these game companies responsible and sue them so hard that their children's children are still in so much debt they can never repay it. If I were a judge I would require the CEO of the software company to personally meet with the family of each and every child killed this morning to discuss today's violent video games, the realism, and the possibility that they have an effect on the behavior of some people that play them. There is blood on your hands assholes.
I'm not surprised that this is currently modded as Flamebait, particularly in this forum. And perhaps the AC parent went too far -- I certainly would not have said it in quite this way. However, I think there is much in the media today that glorifies violence. Movies, TV and video games depict and glorify violence in increasingly graphic ways. Ditto for some music.
Whether intentional or not,the cumulative effect of these games, movies and TV shows is a desensitized society. Think of how graphic Psycho was considered in its day and compare that to any of the video games mentioned by the parent. And in case you doubt that video games can be used to that end, Google military training video games.
I'll likely get modded down for this as well, but hey, do I get to keep my geek card if I mention that violent video games were one of the training techniques in Ender's Game?
Clearly we need to ban schools. Maybe schoolchildren as well.
How about we just cut the budget 10% across the board for starters? With $16.3 Trillion in debt (and growing), we need to stop wasting money.
The whole "take from this and give to that" doesn't work long term. Back in 1972 when Project Apollo was canceled, the excuse was that we were "spending too much money in space". (Think about that for a minute -- I'm pretty sure all the money was actually spent on this planet.) Ultimately, the "why spend money in space when we have hungry people on Earth" crowd won out. Well, it's been 40 years Apollo XVII splashed down and we still have hungry people. We still have poverty, we currently have upwards of 45 Million people on some sort of federal food assistance.
Saturn V rockets that should have flown are now museum pieces. Apollo hardware was discarded like trash. The Space Shuttles are museum pieces. And we're hitching rides to the ISS with the Russians.
So much for sound governance and fiscal responsibility. And yes, both parties are guilty.
Although personally, I think it'd be about the best thing in the world if the USA were to split apart into North half/South half or something, since OBVIOUSLY this country has some severe agreement issues, and always has ever since the first days of the USA.
We could call the countries North America and South America. Then we'd have a North America in North America and a South America in North America, but neither a North America nor a South America in South America.
And I thought the whole Washington/Washington DC thing was unnecessarily confusing.
Reality has a liberal bias. Deal with it.
You must be a lot of fun at parties. Do you ever get invited back anywhere?