"...I imagine a huge thing like that would be a bit tricky to handle in any kind of useful wind, when trying to get it launched..."
Good point.
My best guess is to make the sail inflatable, and fill it with helium. That at least gets it up and in the right shape. Orientation is yet another problem.
"It has always been the poor. Usually rallied by educated youth."
Sorry, but it is not a matter of education or age that makes leaders. It is class and belief that make the difference. In almost all successful revolutions the leaders have been middle class or higher up the social scale, even up to the #2 guy in the country. They are people who have spare time and money.
Once you have those, leading a revolution requires two beliefs: 1) that you have the ability/skills to do the job better than the guy at the top, and 2) that you are likely to lose what you have if you do nothing.
The poor often are the victims of manipulation by both sides, and are usually tricked into doing something that is really not in their own long-term interests.
Educated youth usually just succeed in getting a bunch of people killed.
It only makes sense if you are familiar with the old saying that "...a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged."
It's simultaneously a complaint that one's government may be more dangerous than the local crooks, and a justification for being a libertarian.
"Managers want to make only one major change at a time, and plan that if damage does occur, the crew would be..." uh, yeah, the crew would the people who thought that launching was a good idea.
I agree on the suggestion. ( apologies to all for being offtopic )
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I forget the exact quote - and the author - but someone once said that for every law that is passed there is a new business opportunity created in the black market. Fortunately, I'm close to Mexico. Place your orders here.
You can always have the test redone to show that their dna profile of you is wrong. SCOTUS has already ruled that it is now the right of an accused person to have his dna tested to prove innocence; this should fit under that umbrella.
But there is probably no way to force the govt to comensate you for your lost time and distress.
Let's see... if 37 * 365 = 13505 per year outdoors in traffic, yet only 10 die indoors playing games, then games are 1350.5 times safer, right? A mere 10 is a figure to be celebrated.
Instead of bunghole or other obscenities, try a username of "kill george bush" and a password of "allah akbar". That may generate some unwanted attention.
And, no, I'm not worried about using those words here and now. I assume that/. is monitored already, if for no other reason than amusement.
"Let's just hope that the numbers the FBI released weren't made up too"
I'd bet my last dollar that they are. What possible motive could they have for telling us - or the rest of the world - everything? It's just a smoke screen to cover up the really secret numbers that they will never tell us about.
The worst that I ever saw was when the prof wrote the book, which contained a tear-out sheet of problems, and refused to accept copies of the sheet - only the original. The on-campus bookstore then refused to buy back the book because it was incomplete.
Sorry, but you have it 180 degrees backwards. This is not a 'free market'; it is exactly the opposite. It is a market corrupted by an unsupervised government agency that is granting undeserved monopolies.
A large middle class with significant 'spare time' is a particularly recent, western, first-world phenomenom. In third world countries, most people - except for the aristocracy - just don't have much spare time. Forty hours per week? Until the US became industrialized in the late 1800s, most people worked 10-12 per day 6+ days per week.
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"...I imagine a huge thing like that would be a bit tricky to handle in any kind of useful wind, when trying to get it launched..."
Good point.
My best guess is to make the sail inflatable, and fill it with helium. That at least gets it up and in the right shape. Orientation is yet another problem.
"It has always been the poor. Usually rallied by educated youth."
Sorry, but it is not a matter of education or age that makes leaders. It is class and belief that make the difference. In almost all successful revolutions the leaders have been middle class or higher up the social scale, even up to the #2 guy in the country. They are people who have spare time and money.
Once you have those, leading a revolution requires two beliefs: 1) that you have the ability/skills to do the job better than the guy at the top, and 2) that you are likely to lose what you have if you do nothing.
The poor often are the victims of manipulation by both sides, and are usually tricked into doing something that is really not in their own long-term interests.
Educated youth usually just succeed in getting a bunch of people killed.
It only makes sense if you are familiar with the old saying that "...a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged." It's simultaneously a complaint that one's government may be more dangerous than the local crooks, and a justification for being a libertarian.
True, but why wait for legalization? It would also work if you do it privately and illegally.
"Managers want to make only one major change at a time, and plan that if damage does occur, the crew would be..." uh, yeah, the crew would the people who thought that launching was a good idea.
I think you meant 'faze'. Either that, or you have one hell of a taser.
Actually, it's the iron that comes out molten; the aluminum is tied up as solid aluminum oxide. Nonetheless, it is a good question.
When it comes out the other side, will it be a dupe?
What's the point of a wiretap if we can encrypt? Or will encryption become illegal?
I agree on the suggestion. ( apologies to all for being offtopic )
I forget the exact quote - and the author - but someone once said that for every law that is passed there is a new business opportunity created in the black market. Fortunately, I'm close to Mexico. Place your orders here.
You can always have the test redone to show that their dna profile of you is wrong. SCOTUS has already ruled that it is now the right of an accused person to have his dna tested to prove innocence; this should fit under that umbrella.
But there is probably no way to force the govt to comensate you for your lost time and distress.
...at least the cream cheese story had some substance.
Apple got its position due to a catchy and flexible prefix: 'podcast', 'podslurp', pod-anything.
I already play in the world's biggest consensual out-of-the-home game. Nothing for me here, I'll move along...as soon as the traffic breaks.
Parent says: "..cheap wireless broadband access for the masses is GREAT!"
True, but I rtfa and I don't recall anything about pricing. I suspect that the masses will not benefit anytime soon.
30 miles? Now they don't even need a presence on the ground, unless the antennas are very directional.
Let's see... if 37 * 365 = 13505 per year outdoors in traffic, yet only 10 die indoors playing games, then games are 1350.5 times safer, right? A mere 10 is a figure to be celebrated.
Instead of bunghole or other obscenities, try a username of "kill george bush" and a password of "allah akbar". That may generate some unwanted attention.
/. is monitored already, if for no other reason than amusement.
And, no, I'm not worried about using those words here and now. I assume that
...it is using them in a clever way. Doesn't the writer appreciate that inventing stuff is cool?
"Let's just hope that the numbers the FBI released weren't made up too"
I'd bet my last dollar that they are. What possible motive could they have for telling us - or the rest of the world - everything? It's just a smoke screen to cover up the really secret numbers that they will never tell us about.
The worst that I ever saw was when the prof wrote the book, which contained a tear-out sheet of problems, and refused to accept copies of the sheet - only the original. The on-campus bookstore then refused to buy back the book because it was incomplete.
Sorry, but you have it 180 degrees backwards. This is not a 'free market'; it is exactly the opposite. It is a market corrupted by an unsupervised government agency that is granting undeserved monopolies.
A large middle class with significant 'spare time' is a particularly recent, western, first-world phenomenom. In third world countries, most people - except for the aristocracy - just don't have much spare time.
Forty hours per week? Until the US became industrialized in the late 1800s, most people worked 10-12 per day 6+ days per week.
...because it is irrevocably tied to a bunch of other stuff in a big tangle of cables.