As long as the development of said supergun is in the US, you are doing it right.
Problem starts when mass production starts ordering equipment overseas - development and production of military equipment = jobs which help the economy, where ever it takes place, trick is to make sure you build it in your own garden.
Really, is that the depth of your economic thinking, whoever has the biggest guns rules? I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union never outsourced the production of its weapons either.
If you don't mind killing thy neighbor than the plan works fine for at least some period of time.
Especially ships with big steam turbines. Electricity is easy to produce and use. You could use this technology to launch anything, including airplanes and missles without big steam equipment that become corrodid and leaky over time.
Say it isn't so Batman. This would bee terrible news for the Green Hornet. Of course he could become invincable to the Green Lantern if he adopted the yellow alias. He might even consider switching sides.
Girls/Women buy stuff, sometimes without proper cause or consideration of effect. Therefore advertisers target them. Why would a company that markets games be any different?
I have always maintained that the best projects (in terms of funcionality and accepance after rollout) were the ones that included at least one Tech Writer. As a PM, I required testers to be provided by the customer. Testers were also required to physically sign off on their testing. Apply those two principles and things will turn out much better. This stuff works even better if everyone involved in the project has a title and every title has a job description.
My 6th grade teacher held me out of honors math because I did this. I still hold that against her. I dod not like her as a teacher. I was also being a brat and defying her on principle.
We stay away from accessories for the most part. No vehicles, buildings or weapons. We do get generic clothes and props for the stuffed animals. My 10yo son will play for hours developing elaborate scenarios of rescue and infiltration. My twin 7yo girls can play all day with a dozen plushies. They even read books to them.
If it works well enough, why fix it? Virus and malware were not doing their job well enough, so someone wrote the better code. It is all quite simple actually.
He could sell off a canal or he could stare at others who are working. It is not always good for the boss to be standing around barking orders. Let him be.
...a dwindling amount of oil that can be economically extracted.
Define economically
People grumbled at $4/gallon, but the collapse of Western society did not occur. A dwindling supply of easily extracted crude will lead to higher prices and eventually the cost of shail oil and sand oil extraction will be reached and then that glut of resources will stat to be consumed.
We are not about to run out of oil, we are just running out of the cheapest sources of it.
I feel the goal of an education should be two-fold.
First is to teach the students how to learn.
Second is to show them how to push the bounderies of current accumulated knowledge along.
In the case of math and science I think it is mostly about learning the tools and methodologies of a trade.
Social and artistic endeavours are a bit more dificult to define, but also include learnig the tools and methodologies of a trade.
Learning how to learn and learning how to use the tools and methodologies of a trade will take you a long way towards becoming a productive and valued member of the society that helped educate you.
If education and the standards by which it measures itself are defined by a society, than I think that societies best interests are the best goal.
If this means we use technology to learn about technology then great. If the goal is to use technology is to ease the tasks of teaching (and measurin) then good. If the use of technology is primarily focused on simply pawning off chores, then boo.
I think too many people worry about what is taught not how students learn. Most, if not all, children will find an interest or a comfortable area of learning and move forward on their own self motivation. Failure to provide a focus does not stop learning, but it does have the potential for a societally undesireable result. Again, I contend that education is a societies tool for enhancing itself.
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DerekLyons please go find a different pot to piss in. NASA is better money than most government programs!
...when's the last time you saw government deliver a good, cheap, quality product on time?...
Hoover Dam? Maybe we should call it the Dam Government.
Really, is that the depth of your economic thinking, whoever has the biggest guns rules? I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union never outsourced the production of its weapons either.
If you don't mind killing thy neighbor than the plan works fine for at least some period of time.
Especially ships with big steam turbines. Electricity is easy to produce and use. You could use this technology to launch anything, including airplanes and missles without big steam equipment that become corrodid and leaky over time.
And they shot down the idea of capping Income tax at 10% because it was preposterous that it could ever get that high.
Say it isn't so Batman. This would bee terrible news for the Green Hornet. Of course he could become invincable to the Green Lantern if he adopted the yellow alias. He might even consider switching sides.
but I thought acid rain was going to be the end of life on Earth.
Girls/Women buy stuff, sometimes without proper cause or consideration of effect. Therefore advertisers target them. Why would a company that markets games be any different?
I have always maintained that the best projects (in terms of funcionality and accepance after rollout) were the ones that included at least one Tech Writer. As a PM, I required testers to be provided by the customer. Testers were also required to physically sign off on their testing. Apply those two principles and things will turn out much better. This stuff works even better if everyone involved in the project has a title and every title has a job description.
Thank You! Now I don't have to write this.
I miss Brak, but I miss Dad more.
...due to Gates' underhanded business practices.
You mean successful business practices, right?
hard to hide a rocket launch! You can see them easily from little tiny spy devices called eyeballs.
My 6th grade teacher held me out of honors math because I did this. I still hold that against her. I dod not like her as a teacher. I was also being a brat and defying her on principle.
We stay away from accessories for the most part. No vehicles, buildings or weapons. We do get generic clothes and props for the stuffed animals. My 10yo son will play for hours developing elaborate scenarios of rescue and infiltration. My twin 7yo girls can play all day with a dozen plushies. They even read books to them.
but we can ship the mining and nanotizing overseas where they can keep the polution for us.
If it works well enough, why fix it? Virus and malware were not doing their job well enough, so someone wrote the better code. It is all quite simple actually.
This is quite possibly the most pointless report ever compiled.
I am sure a majority of federal and state government reports would compete favorably for that prize.
Hopefully you don't have any cats that you like.
He could sell off a canal or he could stare at others who are working. It is not always good for the boss to be standing around barking orders. Let him be.
He's using the standard definition of "peak oil", ...
As defind by which standards organization?
...a dwindling amount of oil that can be economically extracted.
Define economically
People grumbled at $4/gallon, but the collapse of Western society did not occur. A dwindling supply of easily extracted crude will lead to higher prices and eventually the cost of shail oil and sand oil extraction will be reached and then that glut of resources will stat to be consumed.
We are not about to run out of oil, we are just running out of the cheapest sources of it.
I feel the goal of an education should be two-fold.
First is to teach the students how to learn. Second is to show them how to push the bounderies of current accumulated knowledge along.
In the case of math and science I think it is mostly about learning the tools and methodologies of a trade. Social and artistic endeavours are a bit more dificult to define, but also include learnig the tools and methodologies of a trade.
Learning how to learn and learning how to use the tools and methodologies of a trade will take you a long way towards becoming a productive and valued member of the society that helped educate you.
If education and the standards by which it measures itself are defined by a society, than I think that societies best interests are the best goal.
If this means we use technology to learn about technology then great. If the goal is to use technology is to ease the tasks of teaching (and measurin) then good. If the use of technology is primarily focused on simply pawning off chores, then boo.
I think too many people worry about what is taught not how students learn. Most, if not all, children will find an interest or a comfortable area of learning and move forward on their own self motivation. Failure to provide a focus does not stop learning, but it does have the potential for a societally undesireable result. Again, I contend that education is a societies tool for enhancing itself.
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AMC Gremlin?