you can have the altitude and still not be orbital. Orbital means you have the lateral velocity to never fall back down. the ISS is moving around the earth at 7.66mm/s which makes it fall around the earth in an orbit. This craft's velocity was close (7.5 km/s) but the flight profile was designed to be non orbital, while achieving speeds close enough to orbital to accurately test the re-entry procedures. its all about how fast you are going, and in what direction.
I wrote this a few years back for no real reason, and it happens to be exactly the anecdotal evidence you where looking for, so here goes:
Homeschooling.
Hi, My name might be Jarik, and I was homeschooled.
Wow, sounds like we're at homeschoolers anonymous. But that is sort of how it is. There is a sort of stigmata (and a lot of misinformation) about home schooling, and I'm here to tell you about it.
1. They are a bunch of Religious nuts.
We've all meet them, the guy that says he was homeschooled because Moses appeared to his parents in a stain on the mattress, and now he's enrolled online to become an ordained minister of the church of the blind chihuahua. The truth is, he's just nuts. A lot of people are home schooled, and for a lot of reasons. Personally, me and my sister where homeschooled because where we lived for the first fifteen years of my life was nineteen miles from the nearest school bus stop, over roads that where not much different from a goat path, and after the first snow, the county would get around to plowing them sometime around June. It was just not practical to try and send two kids to school, and so we learned at home. We followed a schedule, did our work every morning, and usually where done and out to play by 2pm. That is not to say that every homeschooling situation is the same as mine, in fact, they vary quite a bit, but the point is, a lot of people resort to homeschooling because its the only reasonable choice available. On the other hand, some of them are religious nuts.
When I was 16, My Mom (Who was the teacher in my family) Decided we needed some socialization or something, and started taking us to a local homeschool group writing class, taught by the mother of another family. Lots of homeschool kids from around the area came to learn to write better, and this is where I met my first 'homeschool weirdo'.
At first, I attributed it to southern culture. (we had recently transplanted ourselves into Texas, from Montana) But after we got to know them more, we realized they where simply not like other people. They talked like they where from the 1800's dressed like they where from the 1920's and maintained eye contact for to long. Or something. It all finally made sense, when the teacher was talking to us about swearing. I have no idea how we went from prepositions and adverbs to that topic, but she finally made the statement that saying "Gee!" and "Gosh!" where the same thing as saying "JESUS CHRIST!" or "GOD DAMN IT." Now, I'm from what most people would call pretty conservative family, but that statement seemed a bit over the top, even to me. Fortunately, It was around that time that I had earned enough personal autonomy to decide not to go to that class anymore. Also, my mom thought that ladies idea was nuts.
2. They are all a bunch of Weirdos.
So you've probably been there, in some party, and there is that one guy that just plain weird. Socially inept, tells creepy jokes, stands funny, something is just off about the guy. While your at the punch bowl, spiking it from your hip flask, you ask the host, "hey, whats up with Josephus? whats his deal?" The host looks at you, wondering who you are and how you got into his apartment, then shakes it off and replies; "Oh yeah, don''t you know? he was homeschooled."
More or less. What i'm trying to say is, there is a peculiar brand of weirdo that homeschooling seems to spawn sometimes. Sometimes. One of my co-workers was also homeschooled, and we joke about this. Personally, it feels like cult culture to me. If you've ever watched a documentary about any cult where they interview members, you'll know what I mean. They have this peculiar attitude that what they have learned from their cult is the only things a person can need to know.
I attribute that to a lack of outside ideas, and the same thing can happen in homeschooling. If you only ever learn things from one source, and are taught that source is infallible, your outlook on life gets skewed pretty fast. I had the
I've taken to answering those calls in my best 'official' voice, and use a line like "Thank you for calling the FBI criminal self incarceration hotline. To schedule your surrender, press 1. por español prensa número dos."
I sort of half realized this was a thing a few years back, when I was out and about and one of those Harley Davidson edition F150's drove past me, and I realized that it actually sounded a fair bit like a Harley, while a normal F150 does not. It does not surprise me one bit to find out that engine noise now is all a matter of special pipes and custom sound engineering to make it sound 'the way we expect.'
Honestly, most modern cars these days are already so silent, the only sound you hear from them is the cooling fan and the tire noise. It is only the 'muscle' type cars, that make noise, and like the article says, its just because people expect them to. Hell, the 'Harley Davidson' edition Ford F150 magically sounds like a motorcycle, because they can make it sound any damn way they want now. I agree, the idea of mandating 'fake engine noise' is preposterous, because its pretending this is a new problem, when cars have already been nearly dead silent at parking lot speeds for years now.
Sid Meier is just re-making spore as 3 games, and skipping the weird creature creation stage. Seriously, at this stage we have a 'conquer the world' game, a 'conquer nearby star system' game, and now we have a 'conquer you local galactic arm' game? sounds like spore, only without the insane promises.
I had to read the summery several times to figure out what the fuck the headline was supposed to mean. But then, there's not really much of a Yiddish population where I live.
I''ve been around, used and owned guns pretty much my whole life, so I'm about as far from anti-gun as you can be, and I'm calling it now: There is zero reason for this to exist, and it is a "Bad Idea".
Wait a minute. First your post claims that a belief in higher power has helped previous generations persevere through terrible trial and adversity, thus preserving society and human kind. Furthermore, this has had an impact on our genetic pool, leaving us with a population that (theoretically) carries a gene that makes them prone to persevere through difficult times, while holding onto a belief in a higher power.
The you advocate eliminating this 'survivor gene.' simply because it allows someone to survive by applying flawed logic?
I'd like to borrow your scrying bowl and chicken blood, so I to can see this marvelous future, where the human race is never again presented with difficult times, where basic survival is never tenuous at best, and even the most flaccid of individuals may survive and prosper.
Your pretty much spot on there. We use the hand pump 'Pallet Jacks', which I assume you know what are based on your experience, and all our pallets are the large CHEP pallets, the large iGPS, or similarly sized plastic pallets. A good portion of our Pallets are either to heavy to stack, or to fragile, so its generally a single layer, I didn't consider most other situations, where the trailer would be loaded 2 cubes high.
Like I said, it would be much quicker if we had a better floor layout, and maybe quicker with a forklift, but for our operation, we have the manpower on hand for further tasks, so we use what we got, and its unlikely to change, especially in Texas, land of the 'no unions'.
You can put about 30 Pallets of goods into a standard semi trailer. I know, because I unload at least 3 of them a week, and it takes 5 guys about 20 minutes, and thats only because our arrangement is a bit retarded, with a better floor plan, it could be done in 15 minutes or less. Like other responders have noted however, a standard boxcar is much larger.
I actually don't mind Adobe going subscription. Adobe being subscription opens up their software to a much larger user base. As a student, my school had Photoshop on a few machines, and I got to learn to use it. However, the 700$+ (at the time) price tag prevented me from having a recent copy of Photoshop on my own machine, so i was stuck with a ancient copy of Photoshop 7 that came with a scanner I got as a gift.
At no point have I been able to afford shelling out the huge one time payment for a full version of Photoshop. With the subscription, I am able to use the most recent version all the time.
Now, I understand that eventually, paying 20$ a month for a Photoshop subscription eventually will ad up to the old full price of the software, but it will take nearly 3 years to reach that point. If we where still in the 'single payment for single version' model, they would have released a new version by then, and there's another giant payment, or fall behind in versions and skills.
I am sure there are plenty of students out there who are in the same situation, where 30$ a month they can come up with, where 700-1000$ all at once would be a problem. Sure, you could use GIMP, or other open source software, but there is something to be said for learning the workflow of the industry standard software.
Well, presumably Abraham Lincoln is still human, with his grasp of language, law of his time, etc, meaning that existing things could be explained to him, and he would be capable of comprehending that explanation. (sort of like explaining an iPod to my Grandmother). Whereas, no matter how many times I explain it, my dog will never understand an iPod.
Thats exactly what we do, its an 'at will' watering system, meaning the animals have 24hr access. the system is faced primarily south, is on a float activated switch, and maintains the water level in the supply. The point is, more animals use the system during the hot part of the day, meaning the system has to run more to maintain the level. Obviously, this means facing the panels to deal with the mid day load, aka, South.
Or say, you are using it to supply power for a pump that provides water for livestock, in which case, you need the power during the middle part of the day, when it is hottest, and the animals use more water. Solar Cell aiming is a case by case basis.
There are two kinds of people in the world. One of those kinds constantly looses its phone, wallet, keys, iPad, etc. The other kind never does, because it knows better than to put valuable items down in random places.
Seriously, its the old 'spectacles testicles wallet and watch' only now its more like, 'keys, phone, wallet and X' where X is whatever else you carry. They go back in the same pocket every time, they go back on the same place on the desk when you get home, and you never wonder where they are.
Would you take 300$ out of your pocket, set it down in a restaurant, and just wander off, and later wonder where the hell your money is? Then why would yo do that with your phone, or your wallet full of credit cards, or anything else of value? People boggle my mind.
Texas covers snow safety precisely "not enough." let me explain to you how snow works in Texas. They flipped a sand truck (for sanding the roads in bad weather) in my county once, with about 1/4th an inch of snow on the ground. If it snows, everyone freaks out, and then goes out and drives around and gets in wrecks.
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you can have the altitude and still not be orbital. Orbital means you have the lateral velocity to never fall back down. the ISS is moving around the earth at 7.66mm/s which makes it fall around the earth in an orbit. This craft's velocity was close (7.5 km/s) but the flight profile was designed to be non orbital, while achieving speeds close enough to orbital to accurately test the re-entry procedures. its all about how fast you are going, and in what direction.
I wrote this a few years back for no real reason, and it happens to be exactly the anecdotal evidence you where looking for, so here goes:
Homeschooling.
Hi, My name might be Jarik, and I was homeschooled.
Wow, sounds like we're at homeschoolers anonymous. But that is sort of how it is. There is a sort of stigmata (and a lot of misinformation) about home schooling, and I'm here to tell you about it.
1. They are a bunch of Religious nuts.
We've all meet them, the guy that says he was homeschooled because Moses appeared to his parents in a stain on the mattress, and now he's enrolled online to become an ordained minister of the church of the blind chihuahua. The truth is, he's just nuts. A lot of people are home schooled, and for a lot of reasons. Personally, me and my sister where homeschooled because where we lived for the first fifteen years of my life was nineteen miles from the nearest school bus stop, over roads that where not much different from a goat path, and after the first snow, the county would get around to plowing them sometime around June. It was just not practical to try and send two kids to school, and so we learned at home. We followed a schedule, did our work every morning, and usually where done and out to play by 2pm. That is not to say that every homeschooling situation is the same as mine, in fact, they vary quite a bit, but the point is, a lot of people resort to homeschooling because its the only reasonable choice available. On the other hand, some of them are religious nuts.
When I was 16, My Mom (Who was the teacher in my family) Decided we needed some socialization or something, and started taking us to a local homeschool group writing class, taught by the mother of another family. Lots of homeschool kids from around the area came to learn to write better, and this is where I met my first 'homeschool weirdo'.
At first, I attributed it to southern culture. (we had recently transplanted ourselves into Texas, from Montana) But after we got to know them more, we realized they where simply not like other people. They talked like they where from the 1800's dressed like they where from the 1920's and maintained eye contact for to long. Or something. It all finally made sense, when the teacher was talking to us about swearing. I have no idea how we went from prepositions and adverbs to that topic, but she finally made the statement that saying "Gee!" and "Gosh!" where the same thing as saying "JESUS CHRIST!" or "GOD DAMN IT." Now, I'm from what most people would call pretty conservative family, but that statement seemed a bit over the top, even to me. Fortunately, It was around that time that I had earned enough personal autonomy to decide not to go to that class anymore. Also, my mom thought that ladies idea was nuts.
2. They are all a bunch of Weirdos.
So you've probably been there, in some party, and there is that one guy that just plain weird. Socially inept, tells creepy jokes, stands funny, something is just off about the guy. While your at the punch bowl, spiking it from your hip flask, you ask the host, "hey, whats up with Josephus? whats his deal?" The host looks at you, wondering who you are and how you got into his apartment, then shakes it off and replies; "Oh yeah, don''t you know? he was homeschooled." More or less. What i'm trying to say is, there is a peculiar brand of weirdo that homeschooling seems to spawn sometimes. Sometimes. One of my co-workers was also homeschooled, and we joke about this. Personally, it feels like cult culture to me. If you've ever watched a documentary about any cult where they interview members, you'll know what I mean. They have this peculiar attitude that what they have learned from their cult is the only things a person can need to know. I attribute that to a lack of outside ideas, and the same thing can happen in homeschooling. If you only ever learn things from one source, and are taught that source is infallible, your outlook on life gets skewed pretty fast. I had the
Ive searched Ebay, and cant find the brand of camera your talking about. Are you sure that is the brand and not the seller name?
The ' obligatory ' XKCD http://xkcd.com/763/
I've taken to answering those calls in my best 'official' voice, and use a line like "Thank you for calling the FBI criminal self incarceration hotline. To schedule your surrender, press 1. por español prensa número dos."
I sort of half realized this was a thing a few years back, when I was out and about and one of those Harley Davidson edition F150's drove past me, and I realized that it actually sounded a fair bit like a Harley, while a normal F150 does not. It does not surprise me one bit to find out that engine noise now is all a matter of special pipes and custom sound engineering to make it sound 'the way we expect.'
Honestly, most modern cars these days are already so silent, the only sound you hear from them is the cooling fan and the tire noise. It is only the 'muscle' type cars, that make noise, and like the article says, its just because people expect them to. Hell, the 'Harley Davidson' edition Ford F150 magically sounds like a motorcycle, because they can make it sound any damn way they want now. I agree, the idea of mandating 'fake engine noise' is preposterous, because its pretending this is a new problem, when cars have already been nearly dead silent at parking lot speeds for years now.
Well aware. Clearly, based on your response and several others, I left the joking tone out of my post.
Sid Meier is just re-making spore as 3 games, and skipping the weird creature creation stage. Seriously, at this stage we have a 'conquer the world' game, a 'conquer nearby star system' game, and now we have a 'conquer you local galactic arm' game? sounds like spore, only without the insane promises.
I had to read the summery several times to figure out what the fuck the headline was supposed to mean. But then, there's not really much of a Yiddish population where I live.
Exactly. Physical access to the machine and all bets are off when it comes to security.
I''ve been around, used and owned guns pretty much my whole life, so I'm about as far from anti-gun as you can be, and I'm calling it now: There is zero reason for this to exist, and it is a "Bad Idea".
Wait a minute. First your post claims that a belief in higher power has helped previous generations persevere through terrible trial and adversity, thus preserving society and human kind. Furthermore, this has had an impact on our genetic pool, leaving us with a population that (theoretically) carries a gene that makes them prone to persevere through difficult times, while holding onto a belief in a higher power.
The you advocate eliminating this 'survivor gene.' simply because it allows someone to survive by applying flawed logic?
I'd like to borrow your scrying bowl and chicken blood, so I to can see this marvelous future, where the human race is never again presented with difficult times, where basic survival is never tenuous at best, and even the most flaccid of individuals may survive and prosper.
Nailed It. "If you'd just figure out how to do it right, you could do it right!"
Your pretty much spot on there. We use the hand pump 'Pallet Jacks', which I assume you know what are based on your experience, and all our pallets are the large CHEP pallets, the large iGPS, or similarly sized plastic pallets. A good portion of our Pallets are either to heavy to stack, or to fragile, so its generally a single layer, I didn't consider most other situations, where the trailer would be loaded 2 cubes high.
Like I said, it would be much quicker if we had a better floor layout, and maybe quicker with a forklift, but for our operation, we have the manpower on hand for further tasks, so we use what we got, and its unlikely to change, especially in Texas, land of the 'no unions'.
You can put about 30 Pallets of goods into a standard semi trailer. I know, because I unload at least 3 of them a week, and it takes 5 guys about 20 minutes, and thats only because our arrangement is a bit retarded, with a better floor plan, it could be done in 15 minutes or less. Like other responders have noted however, a standard boxcar is much larger.
That'd be fun also!
I actually don't mind Adobe going subscription. Adobe being subscription opens up their software to a much larger user base. As a student, my school had Photoshop on a few machines, and I got to learn to use it. However, the 700$+ (at the time) price tag prevented me from having a recent copy of Photoshop on my own machine, so i was stuck with a ancient copy of Photoshop 7 that came with a scanner I got as a gift.
At no point have I been able to afford shelling out the huge one time payment for a full version of Photoshop. With the subscription, I am able to use the most recent version all the time.
Now, I understand that eventually, paying 20$ a month for a Photoshop subscription eventually will ad up to the old full price of the software, but it will take nearly 3 years to reach that point. If we where still in the 'single payment for single version' model, they would have released a new version by then, and there's another giant payment, or fall behind in versions and skills.
I am sure there are plenty of students out there who are in the same situation, where 30$ a month they can come up with, where 700-1000$ all at once would be a problem. Sure, you could use GIMP, or other open source software, but there is something to be said for learning the workflow of the industry standard software.
I have the feeling this is going to be one of those "Top 10 viral stories that where complete BS" on cracked.com in about a week.
Well, presumably Abraham Lincoln is still human, with his grasp of language, law of his time, etc, meaning that existing things could be explained to him, and he would be capable of comprehending that explanation. (sort of like explaining an iPod to my Grandmother). Whereas, no matter how many times I explain it, my dog will never understand an iPod.
Thats exactly what we do, its an 'at will' watering system, meaning the animals have 24hr access. the system is faced primarily south, is on a float activated switch, and maintains the water level in the supply. The point is, more animals use the system during the hot part of the day, meaning the system has to run more to maintain the level. Obviously, this means facing the panels to deal with the mid day load, aka, South.
Or say, you are using it to supply power for a pump that provides water for livestock, in which case, you need the power during the middle part of the day, when it is hottest, and the animals use more water. Solar Cell aiming is a case by case basis.
There are two kinds of people in the world. One of those kinds constantly looses its phone, wallet, keys, iPad, etc. The other kind never does, because it knows better than to put valuable items down in random places.
Seriously, its the old 'spectacles testicles wallet and watch' only now its more like, 'keys, phone, wallet and X' where X is whatever else you carry. They go back in the same pocket every time, they go back on the same place on the desk when you get home, and you never wonder where they are.
Would you take 300$ out of your pocket, set it down in a restaurant, and just wander off, and later wonder where the hell your money is? Then why would yo do that with your phone, or your wallet full of credit cards, or anything else of value? People boggle my mind.
Texas covers snow safety precisely "not enough." let me explain to you how snow works in Texas. They flipped a sand truck (for sanding the roads in bad weather) in my county once, with about 1/4th an inch of snow on the ground. If it snows, everyone freaks out, and then goes out and drives around and gets in wrecks.
Also known as "Car undercarriage obliterators."