"Not a single solid rocket booster was ever lost on the space shuttle (they are all re-used) and the design for the ARES is almost identical."
I'll say it in one word...Challenger.
From what I recall the loss of the orbiter was caused by the failure of the solid rocket booster. Subsequent to the explosion of the shuttle both solid boosters were ordered to self-destruct. By my count that is two that were lost during flight.
Now being really nit-picky, if we count any flight related damage that results in a SRB segment being unusable before it's rated lifetime expires as a partial loss, I am sure the numbers will start to add up. During the course of the Rodgers Commission investigation information indicating that other shuttle flights had SRB joints that experienced burn through of the O-rings. On one flight the burn through was about 33% the radius of the O-ring. These segments were sent back to Morton-Thiokol for refurbishing. But that does not mean they actually flew again, they could have been too damaged to refurbish. We do not know. I doubt anyone at NASA really knows. To me, that would be the loss of a segment. If you add up the SRB segments that could not be refurbished, for whatever reason, I am sure you would get the equivalent of several more SRBs that were lost due to flight activities.
While you make several good points, simple errors like this ruin your credibility.
You hit the nail on the head when you said you have "options" from which you select. Here there really are no options or tiers of service to select. We have the "Home" option, which is advertised as unlimited, at what ever price they want to gouge customers for, and then we have the "Business" option, with no better service at 3 or 5 times the price just because the ISPs know businesses are able write off their internet connection as a cost of doing business. Those are the options with which the US high speed customer are stuck. In the US you basically are seeing a fight between customers and major ISPs to provide the services they promise. If we had options...and IF the damn telecomms would deliver what they promise, and abide by the laws that apply to them, things would be different. Until they do...you are gonna see things like this all the time.
Why the hell is a customs agent able to rummage around someone's laptop at a border crossing? To examine the files on a laptop seems a bit over the top even if the guy is acting suspiciously. I could see turning it on to make sure it is functional like they do at airport security. That would ensure the laptop is not being used to hide explosives or drugs. But examining files? I can not imagine anything that would give a customs agent probable cause to snoop through laptop files. That is, not counting stupid pedo tricks...like having nekkid kids as his background picture.
The point is the government has no business prying into the personal affairs of its citizens. The reason for the the 4th and 5th Amendments to the Constitution and the requiring of warrants to perform a search is to prevent government intrusion by over zealous government officials. Unfortunately, today more and more people believe that security is more important than liberty. Too many have forgotten, or perhaps never really been taught by our 'government schools', why our forefathers fought the American Revolution. Taxation without representation was a minor difficulty, compared to the injustices that were perpetrated by the English troops and King's Representatives that were stationed in the Colonies. Searches and seizures that were illegal by English law occurred daily. Imprisonment without trial, sometimes for years, was common. Basic rights that were afforded to all the Kings subjects in England by the Magna Carta and all subsequent English law were not afforded citizens of the American Colonies simply because they did not live in England.
Unfortunately this situation is becoming more and more common in the practice of law today. For example, imprisoning someone for "contempt" is unjust. Where is the accused's right to a trial? There is none. What about appeals? There are none, you are in jail until you grovel enough to satisfy judge. No evidence...no trial...just the judge's opinion. God forbid you ever have to stand in front of a judge who decides to grind his ax on your ass.
Back about 40-50 years ago, law enforcement and prosecutors could be held liable for misconduct. Then came the so called "shield" laws, which gave immunity to prosecutors and law enforcement in the event of misconduct. We are finally seeing the result of these 'fine' laws; Convictions being overturned because of fabricated evidence, withheld evidence, and tampering of witnesses by officers of the court. Peoples lives are being ruined because some court officers feel it is more important to get a conviction at all costs, instead of by the weight of the evidence. These 'shield' laws protect the wrong doer from any kind of repercussion. Nifong, of the Duke rape case infamy, is an exception to this, mostly because he was so vocal about the case, calling national attention to the case. However, while his career is in shambles, he has yet to pay any restitution to the boys he so vehemently accused, or face perjury charges for the false claims he made in court.
All in all, there are a lot of reasons to keep government out of the personal affairs of it people.
I think they already have laws covering that. The way most dating sites are set up, each user sets up a profile, which is basically an ADVERTISEMENT for themselves. So each user is literally trying to 'sell' themselves to whomever is browsing the ads (profiles). Now I do believe that every state in the country has truth in advertising laws...particularly concerning the old 'bait and switch' tactic. Are there any creative lawyers willing to try to push the issue?
It seems to be in simple English to me...but let me try to explain.
"If you've been on one of her escorts and had to be plane guard for an aircraft carrier, you know her for a fickle wench out chasing a breeze." Sea breezes constantly change direction. A carrier will try to steam into the wind whenever launching or landing aircraft. As a result the carrier changes directions quite frequently. This forces the surrounding escorts to change direction. I may be wrong but it is my understanding is that passive detection methods are hindered during these changes of direction.
"Trading paint with 84,000 tons of US diplomacy underway going full-tilt-boogy is not going to be a career enhancer." Being in command of a submarine when it gets run over by a U.S carrier running at top speed will not make you a top candidate for the next Admiral slot that opens up.
"Not that this wipes the egg off the face of whoever was in charge of the escort screen [...]" The escorts screwed up bu not properly anticipating the carrier's movements. The escorts should have changed their direction in a way that would have minimized any reduction in the effectiveness of the task forces passive sonars.
That is one of many reasons I do not have credit cards. I don't even have one of those stupid store discount cards. I believe that what/where/when/how I purchase an item is no ones business but my own and the stockboys. I use cash for everything. If I have to send a check I'll get a money order to keep account information out of the hands of my creditors. Remember, there are no laws on the books requiring creditors to NOT keep their customers banking information. If you miss a payment there is NOTHING preventing a creditor from emptying your bank account. Once a company has your account information is so easy to forge authorization for a funds transfer it is not even funny. I am a huge supporter of the Fair Tax plan, because it would go miles to enhance privacy rights. There would be no need to report income to any government agency, the IRS would be a totally different animal from what it is now. Therefore the government would not know how much I make nor what I am worth. Plus the added benefit that any tax increase would be visible to everyone in the country, not like now where taxes are hidden from view. Also there are no checks on guns bought through private sales, so that prevents Treasurys tracking what I own. There are ways to keep things private, if you feel strongly enough about it, and don't mind a little inconvenience.
I don't think most cops are responsible enough to carry guns.
Shiiiiiiiiiiitttt. Most cops are not responsible enough to BE cops. Hell, once they get that badge it is just one massive "I am gonna fuck with everyone I don't like" power trip.
No, its not R. Lee Ermey. I think the parent post was talking about Richard 'Mack' Machowicz who hosts 'FutureWeapons' which airs on both The Discovery Channel and the Military Channel.
If you go here you can find a link to a clip featuring the Active Denial System.
If you put another thruster at the other end of the ship, then you have to spend the rest of the trip unbolting all the tables and chairs from the new ceiling and rebolting them to the new floor. And taking all the sheets off the new bottoms of the mattresses and putting them on the new tops. And reworking all the plumbing so the water comes out of the old drains and somehow runs into the old faucets.
Nah...thats way to much work. Put an engine on each end of the ship. Then build the living quarters on a gimbal ring. Put all the ships stores, food, water, waste tanks, equipment storage, luggage, etc, on the 'lower' decks. At turn around gradually reduce power to the accelerating engine, then gradually increase the power to the deceleration engine. All the mass in the 'lower' decks will then to fall toward the direction of the force vector, thereby causing the entire crew quarters to flip automatically, and at a rate that will not cause any damage. If done right, the change over should not take more than 5 to 10 minutes of which only a few seconds of real weightlessness would be experienced. So there might not even be any puke to mop up
The crazy shit won't stick in court? Where the hell do you live? I have lived in Jersey, Georgia, Tennessee and a bunch of other places while in college and in the Air Force and law enforcement officers at all levels are the same; they are a bunch of sleazy lying bastards. They will charge you with all sorts of crazy shit because they know that a judge will side with them on at least half the charges no matter how crazy of a story they make up or how good of an attorney you get to represent you.
In the US justice system today the average Joe Blow on the street is fucked before the case even gets to the court. If a cop pulls you over, pray he got laid that morning so that he'll be in a better mood...then you MAY have a chance to get away with only a ticket for a minor infraction instead of having to prepare for a serious ass fucking by some guy named Bubba who wants to make you his "wife". If the feds are investigating you...well you're just plain fucked, those bastards know how to play the courts like a fine Stradivarius violin so you might as well buy a case of KY to take with you to prison. And that shit about a jury of your "peers"??? Ya, right...In your dreams!!! I'll never understand how a bunch of housewives, gardeners, mechanics and other blue collar workers could ever be considered "peers" in cases involving white collar "crime" or highly technical issues. Think about it...we have morons who can barely balance a checkbook sitting in judgment of corporate accountants. We have fools who can barely run their own lives sitting in judgment of CEOs. We have idiots who have no idea what the sine or cosine of an angle means, but you will find them sitting on juries deciding cases involving engineering failures. The eyes of these juries glaze over 10 seconds into expert testimony, and yet they are "peers" of the accused? If the prosecutor tells them 2 + 2 = 5, they'll just take his word for it and convict. Thats justice by a "jury of your peers." Peers my ass!
Justice in the US courts? That is a myth. Why should there be any justice when just about every penalty includes an opportunity for the government to seize money, property, or labor, i.e. community service, from the so-called "guilty" party? Hell some "crimes" permit seizure of property on just a suspicion, with no charges needing to be filed and with little or no recourse to get the seized property returned. After all who has tens of thousands of dollars to spend to go through the process to get seized property returned. No one I know.
Fucked...just plain fucked. That what you are once the "justice" system gets a hold of you.
If so, a monopoly controller of online advertising could fsck you
Well it could if I bought ads...
Being a business owner and merely buying ads from a monopoly controller of online advertising can NOT fsck you...relying upon that monopoly controller of online advertising as your business' SOLE advertising outlet can. I do not know of too many businesses that rely upon online advertising as their ONLY/PRIMARY way to get the word out. Online advertising could be a part of any ad campaign, but it should never be the "whole enchilada."
The mass of the fuel increases, but the energy contained in its chemical bonds does not.
That makes sense. Basically the specific impulse of a fuel/oxidizer mix remains constant. Since the mass of the fuel/oxidizer rises as speed is increased and the energy available to accelerate the reaction by-products out of the engine is constant, it is obvious that the engine's efficiency decreases as the speed of light is approached. In fact, it would seem apparent that at some point the engines would cease functioning catastrophically due to fuel/oxidizer being introduced into the engine faster than the engine can exhaust the post-reaction by-products. Any kind of reaction based engine, such as nuclear or electrical, would suffer from this problem.
My wife and I are in the early stages of designing an off grid home that will be built on a mountain top in NE Tenneessee. We picked out the 47 acre location keeping the options for power generation in mind.
I believe planning for power generation will be much easier if the amount of power required to run the new home is calculated first, considering all options for heating, cooling, lighting, and your various household toys and then determine what power generation set up would be appropriate and or available. Start by looking at your current electric bill. Take the total kWhrs and divide by the days in the billing period, That will give you an idea how many kilowatts you use per day. If you currently have electric heat and you will be getting your heat a different way, then use a bill from like April or May, or October would be a fairly realistic estimate. If you use as many commonly available energy efficient devices as possible, there is less to worry about when an efficient device can not be easily found.
My wife and I are planning on building a semi subterranean home which will use a combination of wind and PV for electric generation, solar collectors for hot water, and a centrally located masonry furnace (wood) for heat in the winter. The goal is to utilize as many different renewable energy sources and as many energy conserving devices (Energy Star)as possible, while having enough energy available to use for those not so efficient devices that make modern life bearable, like the washing machine, dryer, and the dishwasher.
Planning in this way will probably result in having more capacity that=n is immediately needed, but that is better than not having enough capacity, which to me is an indicator of improper planning. Trying to find the most efficient computer system will be a waste of energy(yours). Its better to get an energy star monitor, and maybe a high efficiency power supply, than to worry about the efficiencies of all the individual components. Its even easier to adjust the overall energy capacity of your system upwards. While that "extra" capacity may seem expensive, it will be there long after that computer has gone to the dump, available for what ever new toys may come along.
Maybe I should rephrase that slightly. It is illegal to carry a handheld scanner in your car to monitor police activity. The general understanding of the federal rule you mention requires that the mobile scanner be part of the amatuer's mobile station and that the station be/have a permanent mounting in the vehicle. I maybe wrong, but from what I have been able to determine, handheld amatuer radios do not qualify under the federal rule as they can not be permanently mounted.
Yea good luck with that when you get pulled over with that kind of thing in your car.
Ahh what kinda thing are you talking about???
Reality calling here, the guy with the gun makes the rules. I mean this in the immediate sense. Yes we have constitutional rights, but for myself, I'm not willing to be a martyr just to see what I can "get away with".
Again what are you talking about???
Doing stupid shit for the sake of pissing "the man" off has no purpose or benefit to anyone. It's just an narcessistic "LOOK AT ME!!!" move on your part. Get over yourself.
What stupid shit??? Doing what I am permitted to do under federal law? It is idiots like you that allow the erosion of rights and freedoms. You do not believe in standing up for anything, and want to silence those who do. Do you think cops are infallible? Do you really think cops are out to "protect" us? You need to wake up to reality. You must be a card carrying liberal bed-wetting pansy ass that would rather roll over and pretend nothing is wrong rather tha fight for what is right and just. Why dont you get a grip on reality and get your head out of your ass. Just because a cop says it does not mean it is true.
And even if the law agrees with you, the police, judge and jury may not. `Honest officer, this bong, er, water pipe is only for tobacco!'
The case has to be beyond a reasonable doubt. To make such a case, the residues would need to be tested. If those test come up negative for illegal substances, they do not have a case. There is a difference between "smoking paraphernalia" and "drug paraphernalia." Laws against simple posession are tenous at best. Even a soda can can potentially be used as "drug paraphernalia". Typically, "drug paraphernalia" charges are pressed only when drugs are found relatively close by, or if drug residues are suspected on the device. Burnt pot, or crack smells far different tha burnt tobacco. Besides, water pipes do make a cool collectables, since they can be so different in their design.
The amatuer radio service is not the primary user of the 2.4 GHz band. As such, any amatuer radio operator must take additional precautions that there is no interference with those who have primary allocation of the band. Unlicensed users are even further down the "chain of respect."
And being polite to the man with the badge does not always work...I got worked over by a cop at a traffic stop for no apparent reason. Fortunately my girlfriend was with me, and later it came out that he pulled me over because I honked my horn at his wife, who was illegally causing a "rolling roadblock" ( in GA blocking the highway by driving in the fast lane and NOT passing the vehicle to your right is illegal )...well I got a good lawyer...and got that fuckwad cop fired.
I have never met a cop that was not full of himself, acting like he was fucking king of that little section of the world and everyone around had to kiss his ass. In general...cops need to be taken down a couple of notches.
Like I said let a fuckwad cop tell me I have an illegal antenna. I'll open a can of worms on him that he will not believe. I will stand up for my rights, and I know exactly who to contact to bring maximum pressure to bear.
Oh really? I guess you've never heard of charges like `posession of drug paraphernalia' or anything like that? Similar things often apply to lock picks, crowbars and wire cutters as well. I agree that these laws are stupid (as there's already laws against having drugs and committing burglarly) but the are the law.
In order to be charged with `posession of drug paraphernalia' it must be provable that the object in question has been used in conjunction with illegal drugs. I am within my rights to have as many water pipes, aka bongs, as I wish as long as I dont smoke reefer in them, or they dont have deposits that are identifiable as reefer residues.
BTW in topics like this it rocks to be an amatuer radio operator. I can amplify that signal AND feed it into a high gain antenna, provided I do not cause interference to anyone else. Let some fuckwad cop tell me I have an "illegal" antenna!
"Unfortunately that is not the way it works in the here United States. We have things called cities which have laws, countys which have laws, states which have laws and federal laws."
True up to a point. When it comes to the allocation and usage of the airwaves federal law and regulations are supreme. Only the federal government has the right to enforce licenses and broadcast regulations. No ifs, ands or buts. My amatuer radio license permits me to operate any amatuer radio station in any location provided I remain within my authorized bands and power levels. The only entity that can revoke my license is the FCC, a federal agency. No city, county or state can, of its own authority, revoke my license. Neither can they sieze my equipment or order me to cease and desist my amatuer radio activites. If any non-federal law enforcement officer ever attempts to take it upon themselves to interfere with the operation of any amatuer radio station whether or not it is being operated with the operator's rights and priveleges, will be in such deep kimchee he/she will not know what hit them.
Receiving police, fire, and ambulance communication is illegal in most localities by state law. This goes back to the days before encreptated radios where listening to the police ban was once invoge.
You are seriously misinformed. Reception of police, fire and ambulance communications is NOT illegal. In fact most, if not all, radio recievers sold in this country for shortwave/amatuer use permits the reception of such transmissions. What is illegal, is using information gained from such transmission for illegal activities. It is illegal to carry a portable scanner in your car to monitor police activity. However, it is perfectly legal to monitor those same police broadcasts while using an amatuer band transceiver that is permanently mounted in the vehicle.
BTW, the next time you go to an event like a parade or a county fair, or hear of a state of emergency being declared, you will find a lot of amatuer radio operators using their equipment to assist and facilitate communications amongst the various agencies involved, including police, fire and rescue operations. This would not be possible if reception of government transmissions were not legal.
How do they know it does not contain any stars? After all...would not a star made of "dark matter" be radiating the so called "dark energy?" Why does stars made of dark matter have to radiate visible energy?
You are the one that is deluded. Your rants against any type of thought that is different than yours tell how small your mind really is. According to you, anyone who believes differently than you is a fool. How pathetic you are. I pity you. Nuf said.
Your whole response just shows how misguided you are. Lots put downs but no substance. Not even recognition of what goes on in the world around them.
Or maybe, just maybe it's because kids have parents who don't raise them right. Maybe, just maybe we should point the cold finger of blame upon those who have the most influence in their upbringing, those who tell their kids, implicitly or explicitly, that some people don't deserve equal freedoms.
It is obvious that you do not have kids, or you are one of those who are not raising them right. I know from experience that the liberal controlled public school system is doing their best to indoctrinate children into their (liberal) way of thinking. For example, gun control is high on the liberal agenda. Today liberally controlled government schools are teaching our children that the Second amendment does not appply to individuals. They are being taught that the right to bear arms belongs to the government. They are being taught only government should possess weapons. That intrepretation goes against the flow of the entire Bill of Rights, since all other admendments in the Bill of Right concerns rights of citizens which the government can not usurp. Our forefathers recognized the peoples right to over throw a tyrannical government, and wanted to ensure that the government they were putting into place could be overthrown should the need arise. Tyranny flourishes with an unarmed population.
Furthermore citizens property rights are being threatened by seizure laws pushed through by Congress sessions controlled liberals. This has resulted in a 21st century USofA that posesses conditions existing in England before the Magna Carta, when rulers almost automatically seized all the property of any person convicted of a felony. Such seizures spurred English barons to force King John to limit his powers in 1215. Except in the US today, one does not need to be convicted, one does not even need to be charged. All you need is to cross paths with a police officer having a bad day.
The enemy you think exists doesn't. You are being lied to.
Actually the enemy I see does exist. The enemy I see is the out of control government. This problem was caused by both liberals and conservatives. Government at all levels must be reduced, and severely. The forceful seizing of assets, also known as the Federal Income Tax needs desparately to be abolished. As it stands now the average US citizen has no idea how much he/she paying in taxes. You ask someone how much they get paid, and they will tell you how much them net after taxes, not what they gross before taxes are taken out. Now that tax season is upon us, if you ask someone how much they paid in taxes, you will probably be told what they owed or they got a refund, but I doubt they will know how much they paid in total. Taxing me for national defense is one thing, taxing me to subsudize some politician's constituants is another. Taxing me to support scientific research is one thing, taxing me so an "artist" can frame a US flag and splatter it with excrement is another. I would much rather keep the money that the governement siezes in the form of taxes, after all I did earn that money by the sweat of my brow and the labor of my back. After all, who knows better how to spend money I earned than myself? I am not being greedy, I am just saying the government does not know what is best for me and my family.
By the way, I am not conservative, I am libertarian. Government is meant to serve the people, not the other way around. Both liberals and conservatives have forgotten this important fact. I find it pissingly funny that you assumed I was conservative from a few words in reply. Maybe you like to take a little test. The results might surprise you. Then again if you believe that government is the answer to all of life's problems, maybe not.
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"Not a single solid rocket booster was ever lost on the space shuttle (they are all re-used) and the design for the ARES is almost identical."
I'll say it in one word...Challenger.
From what I recall the loss of the orbiter was caused by the failure of the solid rocket booster. Subsequent to the explosion of the shuttle both solid boosters were ordered to self-destruct. By my count that is two that were lost during flight.
Now being really nit-picky, if we count any flight related damage that results in a SRB segment being unusable before it's rated lifetime expires as a partial loss, I am sure the numbers will start to add up. During the course of the Rodgers Commission investigation information indicating that other shuttle flights had SRB joints that experienced burn through of the O-rings. On one flight the burn through was about 33% the radius of the O-ring. These segments were sent back to Morton-Thiokol for refurbishing. But that does not mean they actually flew again, they could have been too damaged to refurbish. We do not know. I doubt anyone at NASA really knows. To me, that would be the loss of a segment. If you add up the SRB segments that could not be refurbished, for whatever reason, I am sure you would get the equivalent of several more SRBs that were lost due to flight activities.
While you make several good points, simple errors like this ruin your credibility.
Us 4 digit types gotta stick together...after all there are only like 9000 of us.
You hit the nail on the head when you said you have "options" from which you select. Here there really are no options or tiers of service to select. We have the "Home" option, which is advertised as unlimited, at what ever price they want to gouge customers for, and then we have the "Business" option, with no better service at 3 or 5 times the price just because the ISPs know businesses are able write off their internet connection as a cost of doing business. Those are the options with which the US high speed customer are stuck. In the US you basically are seeing a fight between customers and major ISPs to provide the services they promise. If we had options...and IF the damn telecomms would deliver what they promise, and abide by the laws that apply to them, things would be different. Until they do...you are gonna see things like this all the time.
Why the hell is a customs agent able to rummage around someone's laptop at a border crossing? To examine the files on a laptop seems a bit over the top even if the guy is acting suspiciously. I could see turning it on to make sure it is functional like they do at airport security. That would ensure the laptop is not being used to hide explosives or drugs. But examining files? I can not imagine anything that would give a customs agent probable cause to snoop through laptop files. That is, not counting stupid pedo tricks...like having nekkid kids as his background picture.
The point is the government has no business prying into the personal affairs of its citizens. The reason for the the 4th and 5th Amendments to the Constitution and the requiring of warrants to perform a search is to prevent government intrusion by over zealous government officials. Unfortunately, today more and more people believe that security is more important than liberty. Too many have forgotten, or perhaps never really been taught by our 'government schools', why our forefathers fought the American Revolution. Taxation without representation was a minor difficulty, compared to the injustices that were perpetrated by the English troops and King's Representatives that were stationed in the Colonies. Searches and seizures that were illegal by English law occurred daily. Imprisonment without trial, sometimes for years, was common. Basic rights that were afforded to all the Kings subjects in England by the Magna Carta and all subsequent English law were not afforded citizens of the American Colonies simply because they did not live in England.
Unfortunately this situation is becoming more and more common in the practice of law today. For example, imprisoning someone for "contempt" is unjust. Where is the accused's right to a trial? There is none. What about appeals? There are none, you are in jail until you grovel enough to satisfy judge. No evidence...no trial...just the judge's opinion. God forbid you ever have to stand in front of a judge who decides to grind his ax on your ass.
Back about 40-50 years ago, law enforcement and prosecutors could be held liable for misconduct. Then came the so called "shield" laws, which gave immunity to prosecutors and law enforcement in the event of misconduct. We are finally seeing the result of these 'fine' laws; Convictions being overturned because of fabricated evidence, withheld evidence, and tampering of witnesses by officers of the court. Peoples lives are being ruined because some court officers feel it is more important to get a conviction at all costs, instead of by the weight of the evidence. These 'shield' laws protect the wrong doer from any kind of repercussion. Nifong, of the Duke rape case infamy, is an exception to this, mostly because he was so vocal about the case, calling national attention to the case. However, while his career is in shambles, he has yet to pay any restitution to the boys he so vehemently accused, or face perjury charges for the false claims he made in court.
All in all, there are a lot of reasons to keep government out of the personal affairs of it people.
Since most of the unwashed hippies from the sixties are todays liberals..tell me...what the f*ck is the difference?
I think they already have laws covering that. The way most dating sites are set up, each user sets up a profile, which is basically an ADVERTISEMENT for themselves. So each user is literally trying to 'sell' themselves to whomever is browsing the ads (profiles). Now I do believe that every state in the country has truth in advertising laws...particularly concerning the old 'bait and switch' tactic. Are there any creative lawyers willing to try to push the issue?
It seems to be in simple English to me...but let me try to explain.
"If you've been on one of her escorts and had to be plane guard for an aircraft carrier, you know her for a fickle wench out chasing a breeze." Sea breezes constantly change direction. A carrier will try to steam into the wind whenever launching or landing aircraft. As a result the carrier changes directions quite frequently. This forces the surrounding escorts to change direction. I may be wrong but it is my understanding is that passive detection methods are hindered during these changes of direction.
"Trading paint with 84,000 tons of US diplomacy underway going full-tilt-boogy is not going to be a career enhancer." Being in command of a submarine when it gets run over by a U.S carrier running at top speed will not make you a top candidate for the next Admiral slot that opens up.
"Not that this wipes the egg off the face of whoever was in charge of the escort screen [...]" The escorts screwed up bu not properly anticipating the carrier's movements. The escorts should have changed their direction in a way that would have minimized any reduction in the effectiveness of the task forces passive sonars.
That is one of many reasons I do not have credit cards. I don't even have one of those stupid store discount cards. I believe that what/where/when/how I purchase an item is no ones business but my own and the stockboys. I use cash for everything. If I have to send a check I'll get a money order to keep account information out of the hands of my creditors. Remember, there are no laws on the books requiring creditors to NOT keep their customers banking information. If you miss a payment there is NOTHING preventing a creditor from emptying your bank account. Once a company has your account information is so easy to forge authorization for a funds transfer it is not even funny. I am a huge supporter of the Fair Tax plan, because it would go miles to enhance privacy rights. There would be no need to report income to any government agency, the IRS would be a totally different animal from what it is now. Therefore the government would not know how much I make nor what I am worth. Plus the added benefit that any tax increase would be visible to everyone in the country, not like now where taxes are hidden from view. Also there are no checks on guns bought through private sales, so that prevents Treasurys tracking what I own. There are ways to keep things private, if you feel strongly enough about it, and don't mind a little inconvenience.
I don't think most cops are responsible enough to carry guns.
Shiiiiiiiiiiitttt. Most cops are not responsible enough to BE cops. Hell, once they get that badge it is just one massive "I am gonna fuck with everyone I don't like" power trip.
No, its not R. Lee Ermey. I think the parent post was talking about Richard 'Mack' Machowicz who hosts 'FutureWeapons' which airs on both The Discovery Channel and the Military Channel. If you go here you can find a link to a clip featuring the Active Denial System.
If you put another thruster at the other end of the ship, then you have to spend the rest of the trip unbolting all the tables and chairs from the new ceiling and rebolting them to the new floor. And taking all the sheets off the new bottoms of the mattresses and putting them on the new tops. And reworking all the plumbing so the water comes out of the old drains and somehow runs into the old faucets.
Nah...thats way to much work. Put an engine on each end of the ship. Then build the living quarters on a gimbal ring. Put all the ships stores, food, water, waste tanks, equipment storage, luggage, etc, on the 'lower' decks. At turn around gradually reduce power to the accelerating engine, then gradually increase the power to the deceleration engine. All the mass in the 'lower' decks will then to fall toward the direction of the force vector, thereby causing the entire crew quarters to flip automatically, and at a rate that will not cause any damage. If done right, the change over should not take more than 5 to 10 minutes of which only a few seconds of real weightlessness would be experienced. So there might not even be any puke to mop up
The crazy shit won't stick in court? Where the hell do you live? I have lived in Jersey, Georgia, Tennessee and a bunch of other places while in college and in the Air Force and law enforcement officers at all levels are the same; they are a bunch of sleazy lying bastards. They will charge you with all sorts of crazy shit because they know that a judge will side with them on at least half the charges no matter how crazy of a story they make up or how good of an attorney you get to represent you.
In the US justice system today the average Joe Blow on the street is fucked before the case even gets to the court. If a cop pulls you over, pray he got laid that morning so that he'll be in a better mood...then you MAY have a chance to get away with only a ticket for a minor infraction instead of having to prepare for a serious ass fucking by some guy named Bubba who wants to make you his "wife". If the feds are investigating you...well you're just plain fucked, those bastards know how to play the courts like a fine Stradivarius violin so you might as well buy a case of KY to take with you to prison. And that shit about a jury of your "peers"??? Ya, right...In your dreams!!! I'll never understand how a bunch of housewives, gardeners, mechanics and other blue collar workers could ever be considered "peers" in cases involving white collar "crime" or highly technical issues. Think about it...we have morons who can barely balance a checkbook sitting in judgment of corporate accountants. We have fools who can barely run their own lives sitting in judgment of CEOs. We have idiots who have no idea what the sine or cosine of an angle means, but you will find them sitting on juries deciding cases involving engineering failures. The eyes of these juries glaze over 10 seconds into expert testimony, and yet they are "peers" of the accused? If the prosecutor tells them 2 + 2 = 5, they'll just take his word for it and convict. Thats justice by a "jury of your peers." Peers my ass!
Justice in the US courts? That is a myth. Why should there be any justice when just about every penalty includes an opportunity for the government to seize money, property, or labor, i.e. community service, from the so-called "guilty" party? Hell some "crimes" permit seizure of property on just a suspicion, with no charges needing to be filed and with little or no recourse to get the seized property returned. After all who has tens of thousands of dollars to spend to go through the process to get seized property returned. No one I know.
Fucked...just plain fucked. That what you are once the "justice" system gets a hold of you.
Being a business owner and merely buying ads from a monopoly controller of online advertising can NOT fsck you...relying upon that monopoly controller of online advertising as your business' SOLE advertising outlet can. I do not know of too many businesses that rely upon online advertising as their ONLY/PRIMARY way to get the word out. Online advertising could be a part of any ad campaign, but it should never be the "whole enchilada."
more like wanking off in a corner thinking about the new receptionist.
The mass of the fuel increases, but the energy contained in its chemical bonds does not.
That makes sense. Basically the specific impulse of a fuel/oxidizer mix remains constant. Since the mass of the fuel/oxidizer rises as speed is increased and the energy available to accelerate the reaction by-products out of the engine is constant, it is obvious that the engine's efficiency decreases as the speed of light is approached. In fact, it would seem apparent that at some point the engines would cease functioning catastrophically due to fuel/oxidizer being introduced into the engine faster than the engine can exhaust the post-reaction by-products. Any kind of reaction based engine, such as nuclear or electrical, would suffer from this problem.
Bring on the Warp engines.
My wife and I are in the early stages of designing an off grid home that will be built on a mountain top in NE Tenneessee. We picked out the 47 acre location keeping the options for power generation in mind.
I believe planning for power generation will be much easier if the amount of power required to run the new home is calculated first, considering all options for heating, cooling, lighting, and your various household toys and then determine what power generation set up would be appropriate and or available. Start by looking at your current electric bill. Take the total kWhrs and divide by the days in the billing period, That will give you an idea how many kilowatts you use per day. If you currently have electric heat and you will be getting your heat a different way, then use a bill from like April or May, or October would be a fairly realistic estimate. If you use as many commonly available energy efficient devices as possible, there is less to worry about when an efficient device can not be easily found.
My wife and I are planning on building a semi subterranean home which will use a combination of wind and PV for electric generation, solar collectors for hot water, and a centrally located masonry furnace (wood) for heat in the winter. The goal is to utilize as many different renewable energy sources and as many energy conserving devices (Energy Star)as possible, while having enough energy available to use for those not so efficient devices that make modern life bearable, like the washing machine, dryer, and the dishwasher.
Planning in this way will probably result in having more capacity that=n is immediately needed, but that is better than not having enough capacity, which to me is an indicator of improper planning. Trying to find the most efficient computer system will be a waste of energy(yours). Its better to get an energy star monitor, and maybe a high efficiency power supply, than to worry about the efficiencies of all the individual components. Its even easier to adjust the overall energy capacity of your system upwards. While that "extra" capacity may seem expensive, it will be there long after that computer has gone to the dump, available for what ever new toys may come along.
Maybe I should rephrase that slightly. It is illegal to carry a handheld scanner in your car to monitor police activity. The general understanding of the federal rule you mention requires that the mobile scanner be part of the amatuer's mobile station and that the station be/have a permanent mounting in the vehicle. I maybe wrong, but from what I have been able to determine, handheld amatuer radios do not qualify under the federal rule as they can not be permanently mounted.
Yea good luck with that when you get pulled over with that kind of thing in your car.
Ahh what kinda thing are you talking about???
Reality calling here, the guy with the gun makes the rules. I mean this in the immediate sense. Yes we have constitutional rights, but for myself, I'm not willing to be a martyr just to see what I can "get away with".
Again what are you talking about???
Doing stupid shit for the sake of pissing "the man" off has no purpose or benefit to anyone. It's just an narcessistic "LOOK AT ME!!!" move on your part. Get over yourself.
What stupid shit??? Doing what I am permitted to do under federal law? It is idiots like you that allow the erosion of rights and freedoms. You do not believe in standing up for anything, and want to silence those who do. Do you think cops are infallible? Do you really think cops are out to "protect" us? You need to wake up to reality. You must be a card carrying liberal bed-wetting pansy ass that would rather roll over and pretend nothing is wrong rather tha fight for what is right and just. Why dont you get a grip on reality and get your head out of your ass. Just because a cop says it does not mean it is true.
And even if the law agrees with you, the police, judge and jury may not. `Honest officer, this bong, er, water pipe is only for tobacco!'
The case has to be beyond a reasonable doubt. To make such a case, the residues would need to be tested. If those test come up negative for illegal substances, they do not have a case. There is a difference between "smoking paraphernalia" and "drug paraphernalia." Laws against simple posession are tenous at best. Even a soda can can potentially be used as "drug paraphernalia". Typically, "drug paraphernalia" charges are pressed only when drugs are found relatively close by, or if drug residues are suspected on the device. Burnt pot, or crack smells far different tha burnt tobacco. Besides, water pipes do make a cool collectables, since they can be so different in their design.
The amatuer radio service is not the primary user of the 2.4 GHz band. As such, any amatuer radio operator must take additional precautions that there is no interference with those who have primary allocation of the band. Unlicensed users are even further down the "chain of respect."
And being polite to the man with the badge does not always work...I got worked over by a cop at a traffic stop for no apparent reason. Fortunately my girlfriend was with me, and later it came out that he pulled me over because I honked my horn at his wife, who was illegally causing a "rolling roadblock" ( in GA blocking the highway by driving in the fast lane and NOT passing the vehicle to your right is illegal )...well I got a good lawyer...and got that fuckwad cop fired.
I have never met a cop that was not full of himself, acting like he was fucking king of that little section of the world and everyone around had to kiss his ass. In general...cops need to be taken down a couple of notches.
Like I said let a fuckwad cop tell me I have an illegal antenna. I'll open a can of worms on him that he will not believe. I will stand up for my rights, and I know exactly who to contact to bring maximum pressure to bear.
Oh really? I guess you've never heard of charges like `posession of drug paraphernalia' or anything like that? Similar things often apply to lock picks, crowbars and wire cutters as well. I agree that these laws are stupid (as there's already laws against having drugs and committing burglarly) but the are the law.
In order to be charged with `posession of drug paraphernalia' it must be provable that the object in question has been used in conjunction with illegal drugs. I am within my rights to have as many water pipes, aka bongs, as I wish as long as I dont smoke reefer in them, or they dont have deposits that are identifiable as reefer residues.
BTW in topics like this it rocks to be an amatuer radio operator. I can amplify that signal AND feed it into a high gain antenna, provided I do not cause interference to anyone else. Let some fuckwad cop tell me I have an "illegal" antenna!
"Unfortunately that is not the way it works in the here United States. We have things called cities which have laws, countys which have laws, states which have laws and federal laws."
True up to a point. When it comes to the allocation and usage of the airwaves federal law and regulations are supreme. Only the federal government has the right to enforce licenses and broadcast regulations. No ifs, ands or buts. My amatuer radio license permits me to operate any amatuer radio station in any location provided I remain within my authorized bands and power levels. The only entity that can revoke my license is the FCC, a federal agency. No city, county or state can, of its own authority, revoke my license. Neither can they sieze my equipment or order me to cease and desist my amatuer radio activites. If any non-federal law enforcement officer ever attempts to take it upon themselves to interfere with the operation of any amatuer radio station whether or not it is being operated with the operator's rights and priveleges, will be in such deep kimchee he/she will not know what hit them.
Receiving police, fire, and ambulance communication is illegal in most localities by state law. This goes back to the days before encreptated radios where listening to the police ban was once invoge.
You are seriously misinformed. Reception of police, fire and ambulance communications is NOT illegal. In fact most, if not all, radio recievers sold in this country for shortwave/amatuer use permits the reception of such transmissions. What is illegal, is using information gained from such transmission for illegal activities. It is illegal to carry a portable scanner in your car to monitor police activity. However, it is perfectly legal to monitor those same police broadcasts while using an amatuer band transceiver that is permanently mounted in the vehicle.
BTW, the next time you go to an event like a parade or a county fair, or hear of a state of emergency being declared, you will find a lot of amatuer radio operators using their equipment to assist and facilitate communications amongst the various agencies involved, including police, fire and rescue operations. This would not be possible if reception of government transmissions were not legal.
How do they know it does not contain any stars? After all...would not a star made of "dark matter" be radiating the so called "dark energy?" Why does stars made of dark matter have to radiate visible energy?
You are the one that is deluded. Your rants against any type of thought that is different than yours tell how small your mind really is. According to you, anyone who believes differently than you is a fool. How pathetic you are. I pity you. Nuf said.
Your whole response just shows how misguided you are. Lots put downs but no substance. Not even recognition of what goes on in the world around them.
Or maybe, just maybe it's because kids have parents who don't raise them right. Maybe, just maybe we should point the cold finger of blame upon those who have the most influence in their upbringing, those who tell their kids, implicitly or explicitly, that some people don't deserve equal freedoms.
It is obvious that you do not have kids, or you are one of those who are not raising them right. I know from experience that the liberal controlled public school system is doing their best to indoctrinate children into their (liberal) way of thinking. For example, gun control is high on the liberal agenda. Today liberally controlled government schools are teaching our children that the Second amendment does not appply to individuals. They are being taught that the right to bear arms belongs to the government. They are being taught only government should possess weapons. That intrepretation goes against the flow of the entire Bill of Rights, since all other admendments in the Bill of Right concerns rights of citizens which the government can not usurp. Our forefathers recognized the peoples right to over throw a tyrannical government, and wanted to ensure that the government they were putting into place could be overthrown should the need arise. Tyranny flourishes with an unarmed population.
Furthermore citizens property rights are being threatened by seizure laws pushed through by Congress sessions controlled liberals. This has resulted in a 21st century USofA that posesses conditions existing in England before the Magna Carta, when rulers almost automatically seized all the property of any person convicted of a felony. Such seizures spurred English barons to force King John to limit his powers in 1215. Except in the US today, one does not need to be convicted, one does not even need to be charged. All you need is to cross paths with a police officer having a bad day.
The enemy you think exists doesn't. You are being lied to.
Actually the enemy I see does exist. The enemy I see is the out of control government. This problem was caused by both liberals and conservatives. Government at all levels must be reduced, and severely. The forceful seizing of assets, also known as the Federal Income Tax needs desparately to be abolished. As it stands now the average US citizen has no idea how much he/she paying in taxes. You ask someone how much they get paid, and they will tell you how much them net after taxes, not what they gross before taxes are taken out. Now that tax season is upon us, if you ask someone how much they paid in taxes, you will probably be told what they owed or they got a refund, but I doubt they will know how much they paid in total. Taxing me for national defense is one thing, taxing me to subsudize some politician's constituants is another. Taxing me to support scientific research is one thing, taxing me so an "artist" can frame a US flag and splatter it with excrement is another. I would much rather keep the money that the governement siezes in the form of taxes, after all I did earn that money by the sweat of my brow and the labor of my back. After all, who knows better how to spend money I earned than myself? I am not being greedy, I am just saying the government does not know what is best for me and my family.
By the way, I am not conservative, I am libertarian. Government is meant to serve the people, not the other way around. Both liberals and conservatives have forgotten this important fact. I find it pissingly funny that you assumed I was conservative from a few words in reply. Maybe you like to take a little test. The results might surprise you. Then again if you believe that government is the answer to all of life's problems, maybe not.