Maybe if he were attempting an official land speed record according to FIA rules, yes. But he wasn't, so rules for cars don't apply, obviously. Plus "free fall" and skydiving usually only happen in one general direction. Find another technicality.
When you simulate something, anything, you have to make some arbitrary decisions about what is allowable and how you will conduct and evaluate the simulation. The speed of light and the apparent age and size of the universe may factor into this.
I tried both. The red pills had me bouncing off of walls all evening, and the blue ones gave me wicked boners. Didn't learn nearly as much about the universe from them as I did when I ate the blotter paper or when I ate a bunch of a particular fungus.
Yep, you can't have all the answers until you know the questions. Components of the lift vehicle may have failed, but the failsafes performed as designed and the mission was completed successfully and on schedule. The redundancies and backups are built in as a function of the design, and may not even be called into action most of the time. All in all, this is proof that the system works, and I can not wait to see more launches. This was a perfect result and demonstrates a functional system that is good and will get even better.
If you took a team with an average age of 23 to the World Series or World Cup finals, you wouldn't complain if they only won 3-2.
Sounds like the time I was elected to the municipal school board and then tried to abolish the local public schools because they were worthless and did not provide anything recognizable as an education. That didn't go over so well for me, and nor should this for him either. The difference: I had a point, and he is a crackpot pushing an extremist agenda.
BTW, since SimpleMobile is a prepaid service (like Smart Talk, Virgin and some others, none of which I'm trying to promote), the price is the price, unlike with the traditional carriers (including TM), with whom the stated price does not include taxes or any fees that they choose to pass on to the customer. So while T-Mobile has some new pricing options if you bring your own phone I think there are still cheaper viable alternatives.
I was a US T-Mobile customer for 3+ years, ending today. Of course the nice operator asked why, and here's what I told her:
1. Better deal. $40/month unlimited everything with SimpleMobile, compared to ~$75. I bought a new, mid-range Samsung smartphone for dirt cheap, and can use my old-ass T-Mobile G1 as an emergency backup. Ol' Saint Nick will probably help me upgrade again.
2. Spotty coverage. T-Mobile works fine for me at home, but has presented coverage problems when travelling. (SimpleMobile doesn't necessarily fix this, due to their reliance on TM's network)
3. No 4G LTE now, and not coming any time soon to my area. (No, I won't have that either, but at least I also won't be paying for it)
4. Flexibility. I am now month-to-month, and will be as long as I stick with my new company. Something better comes along? Something bad happens? Get a serious hankering for the new whatever that just came out Easy switch.
5. Device selection is substandard. STILL no iPhone, and not getting it (which is okay with me), but fewer available phones and smallish user base means less choice for used phones, if I need to go that route again.
6. Customer support has gone from top-notch when I signed up to long wait times, multiple transfers for simple issues, and a voice response system that is great at helping you pay your bill and little else. The US-based folks are still very friendly and eager to help, but it seems their hands are tied, once you can get ahold of them.
7. I don't like the looks of the MetroPCS merger. Both companies are struggling, and this mini consolidation doesn't look like the answer.
8. Rebates and incentives on new devices sometimes favor new customers above loyal customers, even once old contracts have already expired. They couldn't explain to me why the price of a new, shiny model is more for me, over a year after my contract expired, than for new customers. But they confirmed that it is true.
So it's time to cut bait and move on.... sort of.
Interesting, but if you are really in a serious food crisis, energy and cost will also become a concern, as well as protecting your crops. If the shit hits the fan, it will be very difficult to grow substance levels of food in a garage. With ample electricity, nutrients, water, heat in the cold months, money, and supply chains for those needs in tact, I can grow whatever you want indoors (in terms of small plants anyway, not trees), but if everyone in my city were really scrounging for food, you can bet there would be disruptions that would threaten my ability to grow. In times of severe crisis growing hydroponically indoors may be doable in some areas, but you'd rather be in a warm, wet climate with some dirt. In much of the US, most of Canada and Europe, and many other places, it would only take an energy source disruption of a day or two to kill your entire crop of many types of plants, in the winter. In Florida or Hawaii, this would be doable, provided your neighbors don't raid your garage, and you can get nutrients and usually plenty have electricity.
That the contemporary "Zombie" as portrayed in movies, at the receiving end of a chainsaw or shotgun, looks and acts very much like a hungry person would?
Well, of course zombies look like hungry people! While it is debatable whether you should call them people, they most certainly are hungry. They are so hungry that they are willing to battle chainsaws and shotguns to try to eat human brains! It must be pretty hard to rely on a staple that is so elusive and fights back so forcefully.
"Experts" have been incorrectly predicting that vast swaths of humanity would startve to death at least since Malthus. How can claims like this still be taken seriously?
How? Well, we have this world population that continues to soar, millions starving in a few areas of Africa and Asia, and we've seen some pretty widespread waves of civil and political unrest already (Arab Spring). Clearly we're not there yet, but this is something to take seriously, at least.
Then we must be getting close to widespread civil unrest in the US, since very few Americans eat balanced meals these days. Or maybe our dependence on fast food and junk food makes us less sensitive to shortages in particular segments and more adaptable to whatever will continue to be available? We're still very wealthy, relatively, and we can sure process the hell out of crap to make it somewhat palatable.
Will I be able to make Gnome 3.6 function as I see fit, as was the case with Gnome 2? Can I do things as simple and mundane as easily autohide the annoying top panel? At least they put it on top, where it belongs, but jeez... Gnome 3 is a major debacle, whether the Gnome team admit it or not, so hopefully 3.6 regresses in the name of progress, er, at least in the name of shit that works. And hopefully if it is back to business as usual 3.6 comes before I get too used to KDE (still not really digging it, XFCE is ugly, and Cinnamon and MATE are not yet ready for prime time), since I dropped Gnome like a rotten potato when they killed the 2.x line.
Lots of alternatives that work, but I want an updated, evolving Gnome 2, while 3 is at the bottom of the list.
Yep, it seems that some of the crappier low-flow designs have not yet been weeded out and have given the whole idea a bad reputation. I just replaced a not-so-great older model that requires its own lake with a high efficiency model that smokes the old one, performance wise. I'm thrifty, but it seems to make sense to go with a name brand here and not just buy the $80 combo kit from Home Depot.
Or: my boss. Last week, BEFORE taking a week of vacation, she worked about 18 hours. It is not uncommon for her to work 3 and 4-day weeks, and I can't recall the last time she worked more than 35 hours in a week. Now THAT is a comfortable position to be in!
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One balloon full!
Maybe if he were attempting an official land speed record according to FIA rules, yes. But he wasn't, so rules for cars don't apply, obviously. Plus "free fall" and skydiving usually only happen in one general direction. Find another technicality.
When you simulate something, anything, you have to make some arbitrary decisions about what is allowable and how you will conduct and evaluate the simulation. The speed of light and the apparent age and size of the universe may factor into this.
I tried both. The red pills had me bouncing off of walls all evening, and the blue ones gave me wicked boners. Didn't learn nearly as much about the universe from them as I did when I ate the blotter paper or when I ate a bunch of a particular fungus.
Deer SIr,
Please include your zip code so we may send your metal thingie to you.
Sincerely,
NASA
My first language of course, Georgian, you insensitive clod.
"There are only 19% females in Tolkien's works and the life expectancy of a Hobbit is 96.24 years."
These stats are wrong, since the women are all hiding in the kitchen where they belong, and the old people are out of the way in old folks' homes.
Yep, you can't have all the answers until you know the questions. Components of the lift vehicle may have failed, but the failsafes performed as designed and the mission was completed successfully and on schedule. The redundancies and backups are built in as a function of the design, and may not even be called into action most of the time. All in all, this is proof that the system works, and I can not wait to see more launches. This was a perfect result and demonstrates a functional system that is good and will get even better.
If you took a team with an average age of 23 to the World Series or World Cup finals, you wouldn't complain if they only won 3-2.
Sounds like the time I was elected to the municipal school board and then tried to abolish the local public schools because they were worthless and did not provide anything recognizable as an education. That didn't go over so well for me, and nor should this for him either. The difference: I had a point, and he is a crackpot pushing an extremist agenda.
BTW, since SimpleMobile is a prepaid service (like Smart Talk, Virgin and some others, none of which I'm trying to promote), the price is the price, unlike with the traditional carriers (including TM), with whom the stated price does not include taxes or any fees that they choose to pass on to the customer. So while T-Mobile has some new pricing options if you bring your own phone I think there are still cheaper viable alternatives.
I was a US T-Mobile customer for 3+ years, ending today. Of course the nice operator asked why, and here's what I told her:
1. Better deal. $40/month unlimited everything with SimpleMobile, compared to ~$75. I bought a new, mid-range Samsung smartphone for dirt cheap, and can use my old-ass T-Mobile G1 as an emergency backup. Ol' Saint Nick will probably help me upgrade again.
2. Spotty coverage. T-Mobile works fine for me at home, but has presented coverage problems when travelling. (SimpleMobile doesn't necessarily fix this, due to their reliance on TM's network)
3. No 4G LTE now, and not coming any time soon to my area. (No, I won't have that either, but at least I also won't be paying for it)
4. Flexibility. I am now month-to-month, and will be as long as I stick with my new company. Something better comes along? Something bad happens? Get a serious hankering for the new whatever that just came out Easy switch.
5. Device selection is substandard. STILL no iPhone, and not getting it (which is okay with me), but fewer available phones and smallish user base means less choice for used phones, if I need to go that route again.
6. Customer support has gone from top-notch when I signed up to long wait times, multiple transfers for simple issues, and a voice response system that is great at helping you pay your bill and little else. The US-based folks are still very friendly and eager to help, but it seems their hands are tied, once you can get ahold of them.
7. I don't like the looks of the MetroPCS merger. Both companies are struggling, and this mini consolidation doesn't look like the answer.
8. Rebates and incentives on new devices sometimes favor new customers above loyal customers, even once old contracts have already expired. They couldn't explain to me why the price of a new, shiny model is more for me, over a year after my contract expired, than for new customers. But they confirmed that it is true.
So it's time to cut bait and move on.... sort of.
Interesting, but if you are really in a serious food crisis, energy and cost will also become a concern, as well as protecting your crops. If the shit hits the fan, it will be very difficult to grow substance levels of food in a garage. With ample electricity, nutrients, water, heat in the cold months, money, and supply chains for those needs in tact, I can grow whatever you want indoors (in terms of small plants anyway, not trees), but if everyone in my city were really scrounging for food, you can bet there would be disruptions that would threaten my ability to grow. In times of severe crisis growing hydroponically indoors may be doable in some areas, but you'd rather be in a warm, wet climate with some dirt. In much of the US, most of Canada and Europe, and many other places, it would only take an energy source disruption of a day or two to kill your entire crop of many types of plants, in the winter. In Florida or Hawaii, this would be doable, provided your neighbors don't raid your garage, and you can get nutrients and usually plenty have electricity.
That the contemporary "Zombie" as portrayed in movies, at the receiving end of a chainsaw or shotgun, looks and acts very much like a hungry person would?
Well, of course zombies look like hungry people! While it is debatable whether you should call them people, they most certainly are hungry. They are so hungry that they are willing to battle chainsaws and shotguns to try to eat human brains! It must be pretty hard to rely on a staple that is so elusive and fights back so forcefully.
"Experts" have been incorrectly predicting that vast swaths of humanity would startve to death at least since Malthus. How can claims like this still be taken seriously?
How? Well, we have this world population that continues to soar, millions starving in a few areas of Africa and Asia, and we've seen some pretty widespread waves of civil and political unrest already (Arab Spring). Clearly we're not there yet, but this is something to take seriously, at least.
Then we must be getting close to widespread civil unrest in the US, since very few Americans eat balanced meals these days. Or maybe our dependence on fast food and junk food makes us less sensitive to shortages in particular segments and more adaptable to whatever will continue to be available? We're still very wealthy, relatively, and we can sure process the hell out of crap to make it somewhat palatable.
Will I be able to make Gnome 3.6 function as I see fit, as was the case with Gnome 2? Can I do things as simple and mundane as easily autohide the annoying top panel? At least they put it on top, where it belongs, but jeez... Gnome 3 is a major debacle, whether the Gnome team admit it or not, so hopefully 3.6 regresses in the name of progress, er, at least in the name of shit that works. And hopefully if it is back to business as usual 3.6 comes before I get too used to KDE (still not really digging it, XFCE is ugly, and Cinnamon and MATE are not yet ready for prime time), since I dropped Gnome like a rotten potato when they killed the 2.x line. Lots of alternatives that work, but I want an updated, evolving Gnome 2, while 3 is at the bottom of the list.
But I bet your grandparents burned wood like it was going out of style, arguably increasing my need for air conditioning.
And... Windows sucks.
Yep, it seems that some of the crappier low-flow designs have not yet been weeded out and have given the whole idea a bad reputation. I just replaced a not-so-great older model that requires its own lake with a high efficiency model that smokes the old one, performance wise. I'm thrifty, but it seems to make sense to go with a name brand here and not just buy the $80 combo kit from Home Depot.
Or just wait a little bit longer and buy one from Samsung that lets you sit however you like on it.
/sarcasm
I think in this case they have gone with "suck it," but I understand your confusion.
But this is about not updating a database once data has been entered once. NOT updating is so easy I do it constantly.
Or: my boss. Last week, BEFORE taking a week of vacation, she worked about 18 hours. It is not uncommon for her to work 3 and 4-day weeks, and I can't recall the last time she worked more than 35 hours in a week. Now THAT is a comfortable position to be in!
Um, please tell me how to make said screen show pictures, plz.