so you're going to have to make allowances for electronic devices like dictionaries if you ban electronics from testing sites.
I heard they have a totally newfangled dictionary now, that works entirely without electronics. It consists of lots of sheets of paper, with the words printed on it. Like as if you made a big printout of a site-rip of m-w.com.
I absolutely agree with the notion that you agree to the laws of the land by claiming citizenship.
I absolutely disagree with it. If you want to live in my country, you better agree to live by the laws of my country no matter what citizenship you may hold. I don't care what the citizen of Pakistan think are valid offenses for stoning someone, if you want to live next door to me you better get comfortable with the way we handle the law in this country.
Conversely, you better not imagine you can do whatever you want in Shanghai just because you have American citizenship.
Fortunately, the police and the judicial branch of most countries agree with me (and disagree with you).
Uh - come again? "scientificintegrityinstitute.org"? A monomaniac website by one guy trying to peddle his own papers? This raises so many red flags at the same time, that I am hereby blankly assuming that anything found there is probably false and has been either debunked or withdrawn.
Huh? I don't know about longevity in Utah, but they're certainly boozing it up pretty well over there. The very first thing I noticed about Salt Lake City was the fact that I could buy wine at a gas station there. Real, red wine with real alcohol in it. Not even bad stuff. And certainly not something I'd get in most places in the US at a gas station. As a matter of fact, my average wine consumption was probably higher there than most of the year - the stuff is available, decent and not terribly expensive.
(the second thing I noticed in SLC was the large number of drunk hobos, conked out right by the roadside at 9:30am. Where I'm from, this kind of public drunkeness would not be tolerated, but apparently is considered entirely normal in SLC.)
Quarter 'em and sauté 'em in butter, and Brussel Sprouts taste fucking amazing.
That doesn't really say much, now. Sauteed in butter, pretty much anything tastes great. As a mattr of fact that's my standard recipe for fridays: sautee some onions in butter, when they start getting glazy, throw in whatever's left over from the week. It'll taste great.
I'm of the opinion that we have either been designed or have evolved to require alcohol - at least in so much as we require meat, milk, fruit, or a specific grain. Just like some people cut a certain food out of their diet and lose a lot of weight as a result, some people are lactose intolerant, and so on, I think certain genetics predispose us to being overall "healthier" if we consume alcohol.
Until extremely recently, most humans did not generally have access to clean water. What water was there was generally of a questionable quality. Which is why every human culture developed something like a "beer" of some type: because alcohol kills germs. At least up to a degree. And that means that pretty much all human cultures evolved for thousands of years in a chemical environment in which alcohol (in form of fermented fruit, at least) was something to be sought out.
This didn't really change until the British found out that Tea has similar effects (not because of the alcohol, but because boiling the water kills the germs too - but it is not necessary for the users to understand the process to recognize and cultivate it).
I get more done when I'm drinking lightly; I'm generally less grumpier and easier to get along with, as well as much more sociable. I don't even really drink that much - just a shot or two of whatever's in the house three or four times a week or maybe a beer.
This is a statement more about yourself than anything else. I know I play billards better after a beer ot two - simply because I'm more relaxed, allow myself more intuitive gameplay, resist overthinking every shot too much. If a slight alcohol level helps you function, you may want to scale back on the tightness somewhat - you are obviously erring on the side of being too uptight. You mention twice that you're conservative, for example. Maybe allowing yourself to let things go a little more would make your life better even without alcohol.
The scenario has occurred, but didn't result in fires that time.
Except that this statement is false. There's newspaper reports from all over he US from the latter parts of 1859 of wildfires happening all over the place. Because the US had just covered itself in this really neat continent-sized antenna (the telegraph network) which was throwing sparks all over the place (feel free to peruse the references in this paper).
Every tool has three price points (hammers, cameras, AV equipment...)
The lowest is for the layman. The layman doesn't know the differences between the various hammers, ti the layman all hammers look the same. So why spend $20 or $100 if you can buy one for $5?
The highest is for the amateurs: the amateur understands that there are differences in quality and how they manifest and the amateur understands that the cheapest device doesn't exactly tend to be the best quality. That's why amateurs buy $100 hammers and $2000 cameras and $500 AV cables.
The middle price point is for the professional. The pro understands that he doesn't want the cheap crappy hammer that'll ruin his carpals in a day of framing, but he also understands that the laser guide and designer handle on the $100 hammer are just crap to bilk the amateur DYIer. So he buys the $20 hammer that does the job, is well balanced and skips on the frills. Because he's a pro and confident in his ability to pick a *good* $20 hammer.
Which means that everyone else that submits work has essentially done so for free. No one would want to work like that
Except that you're wrong. Apparently there are people who WOULD work like that. Otherwise the whole pont would be moot in the first place.
I keep wondering how any of this is different from the X-prize. One team won the $10M, dozens of other teams had invested a cumulative hundreds of millions of dollars into all kinds of stages of hardware development without "getting paid". So?
The summary is BS because it is a direct quote of the article that is also BS which has no bearing whatsoever on the quality of the work done at NASA.
Just because some retarded journalist at networkworld doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground doesn't mean that people or institutions he's writing about are somehow to blame for his incompetence.
Uh - Juno is scheduled to be launched in in 2011. August of 2011. More than a year from now.
How far in advance would you like all your press kits prepared? Should we have blueprints publicly available before we've even designed the device? Admittedly, Juno is quite a bit past the design stage right now -- but that exactly means that right now folks are busy building the thing, not making web-pages. That's stuff that we can think about when we've gotten the hardware under control.
What I can't find, and might be somewhat useful for a debate on the matter, is a table of the various isotopes of the elements and the decay heat of each.
You may have heard of that newfangled thingee called "google". When I send the words "table of nuclides" into it and hit the button "I feel lucky", it ports me to http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/ , which appears to have all the data you're asking for.
I doubt it is hype. There's technologies deployed right this moment in Afghanistan that people could only dream about as little as five years ago. The sheer flood of data generated by any attempt to map an entire country's mineral deposits would have been impossible to even just store (much less process) when people were unaccustomed to using the term "TB". It is not in the least surprising that we're now finding things like this that were there all along right under our nose. If only we had the capability to store a kilobyte of spectral data per square meter of a whole country.
I also doubt that this will make Afghanistan any better off. In terms of mineral wealth, Africa is the richest continent on earth. Most of the interesting metals (from uranium to gold) and most of the expensive non-metal materials (from diamonds to sapphires) are found in Africa. And all that wealth has bough it... what exactly?
(And I am not in the least suggesting that the Pentagon has been mapping Afghanistan in a humanitarian effort to chart its wealth. The same spectroscopic technologies that tell you "this mountain is full of Chromium" will also tell you that it is "full of opium", "full of dynamite" or even "full of people").
I mean - someone who just wanted the shuttle for sending little military spy satellites up can do so with the X37 - so it replaces that one function of the Shuttle.
Other than that, I haven't seen anybody claim hat this is a replacement for the Shuttle.
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It's a lot more common to find a fundamentalist engineer than it is to find a fundamentalist research scientist.
It's called "engineer's syndrome" and has been around for a long time. Here's a decent summary: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/7abe81aa6f756ef8/27c1bf6b4e32563?hl=en&q=#027c1bf6b4e32563 These days it appears to be more the CS guys rather than the EE folks, but the pattern is obvious to even the most casual observer.
Tony Stark could do it without a crowbar. In a cave.
I would have thought "Mr. Fusion".
That's Monsieur Fusion to you ...
so you're going to have to make allowances for electronic devices like dictionaries if you ban electronics from testing sites.
I heard they have a totally newfangled dictionary now, that works entirely without electronics. It consists of lots of sheets of paper, with the words printed on it. Like as if you made a big printout of a site-rip of m-w.com.
I don't think it's hard to leave your US nationality behind - though getting somebody else to accept you, YMMV.
I'd be curious to hear how you imagine that would happen.
Losing your citizenship (even intentionally) is anything but a trivial matter. It is certainly NOT as easy as filing a form 27b/6 at the ministry.
I absolutely agree with the notion that you agree to the laws of the land by claiming citizenship.
I absolutely disagree with it. If you want to live in my country, you better agree to live by the laws of my country no matter what citizenship you may hold. I don't care what the citizen of Pakistan think are valid offenses for stoning someone, if you want to live next door to me you better get comfortable with the way we handle the law in this country.
Conversely, you better not imagine you can do whatever you want in Shanghai just because you have American citizenship.
Fortunately, the police and the judicial branch of most countries agree with me (and disagree with you).
Uh - come again? "scientificintegrityinstitute.org"? A monomaniac website by one guy trying to peddle his own papers? This raises so many red flags at the same time, that I am hereby blankly assuming that anything found there is probably false and has been either debunked or withdrawn.
Huh? I don't know about longevity in Utah, but they're certainly boozing it up pretty well over there. The very first thing I noticed about Salt Lake City was the fact that I could buy wine at a gas station there. Real, red wine with real alcohol in it. Not even bad stuff. And certainly not something I'd get in most places in the US at a gas station. As a matter of fact, my average wine consumption was probably higher there than most of the year - the stuff is available, decent and not terribly expensive.
(the second thing I noticed in SLC was the large number of drunk hobos, conked out right by the roadside at 9:30am. Where I'm from, this kind of public drunkeness would not be tolerated, but apparently is considered entirely normal in SLC.)
Quarter 'em and sauté 'em in butter, and Brussel Sprouts taste fucking amazing.
That doesn't really say much, now. Sauteed in butter, pretty much anything tastes great. As a mattr of fact that's my standard recipe for fridays: sautee some onions in butter, when they start getting glazy, throw in whatever's left over from the week. It'll taste great.
I'm of the opinion that we have either been designed or have evolved to require alcohol - at least in so much as we require meat, milk, fruit, or a specific grain. Just like some people cut a certain food out of their diet and lose a lot of weight as a result, some people are lactose intolerant, and so on, I think certain genetics predispose us to being overall "healthier" if we consume alcohol.
Until extremely recently, most humans did not generally have access to clean water. What water was there was generally of a questionable quality. Which is why every human culture developed something like a "beer" of some type: because alcohol kills germs. At least up to a degree. And that means that pretty much all human cultures evolved for thousands of years in a chemical environment in which alcohol (in form of fermented fruit, at least) was something to be sought out.
This didn't really change until the British found out that Tea has similar effects (not because of the alcohol, but because boiling the water kills the germs too - but it is not necessary for the users to understand the process to recognize and cultivate it).
I get more done when I'm drinking lightly; I'm generally less grumpier and easier to get along with, as well as much more sociable. I don't even really drink that much - just a shot or two of whatever's in the house three or four times a week or maybe a beer.
This is a statement more about yourself than anything else. I know I play billards better after a beer ot two - simply because I'm more relaxed, allow myself more intuitive gameplay, resist overthinking every shot too much. If a slight alcohol level helps you function, you may want to scale back on the tightness somewhat - you are obviously erring on the side of being too uptight. You mention twice that you're conservative, for example. Maybe allowing yourself to let things go a little more would make your life better even without alcohol.
Anyone who has tried nearly any alcohol should know that it tastes like shit.
It’s something of an acquired taste,
Wait - the alcohol or the shit? Now I'm confused ...
Seriously, how many different versions will the fanbois pay money for?
Other way 'round: as long as fanbois keep buying yet-another-version after the other, I sure can't fault Lucas for milking them.
http://io9.com/5496171/george-lucas-wants-to-make-jedi-babies-kids-series
The scenario has occurred, but didn't result in fires that time.
Except that this statement is false. There's newspaper reports from all over he US from the latter parts of 1859 of wildfires happening all over the place. Because the US had just covered itself in this really neat continent-sized antenna (the telegraph network) which was throwing sparks all over the place (feel free to peruse the references in this paper).
I still don't have a single HDMI device
You think you got it bad?
I have exactly one. A monitor. What am I supposed to do with that?
Every tool has three price points (hammers, cameras, AV equipment...)
The lowest is for the layman. The layman doesn't know the differences between the various hammers, ti the layman all hammers look the same. So why spend $20 or $100 if you can buy one for $5?
The highest is for the amateurs: the amateur understands that there are differences in quality and how they manifest and the amateur understands that the cheapest device doesn't exactly tend to be the best quality. That's why amateurs buy $100 hammers and $2000 cameras and $500 AV cables.
The middle price point is for the professional. The pro understands that he doesn't want the cheap crappy hammer that'll ruin his carpals in a day of framing, but he also understands that the laser guide and designer handle on the $100 hammer are just crap to bilk the amateur DYIer. So he buys the $20 hammer that does the job, is well balanced and skips on the frills. Because he's a pro and confident in his ability to pick a *good* $20 hammer.
Which means that everyone else that submits work has essentially done so for free. No one would want to work like that
Except that you're wrong. Apparently there are people who WOULD work like that. Otherwise the whole pont would be moot in the first place.
I keep wondering how any of this is different from the X-prize. One team won the $10M, dozens of other teams had invested a cumulative hundreds of millions of dollars into all kinds of stages of hardware development without "getting paid". So?
The summary is BS because it is a direct quote of the article that is also BS which has no bearing whatsoever on the quality of the work done at NASA.
Just because some retarded journalist at networkworld doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground doesn't mean that people or institutions he's writing about are somehow to blame for his incompetence.
Uh - Juno is scheduled to be launched in in 2011. August of 2011. More than a year from now.
How far in advance would you like all your press kits prepared? Should we have blueprints publicly available before we've even designed the device? Admittedly, Juno is quite a bit past the design stage right now -- but that exactly means that right now folks are busy building the thing, not making web-pages. That's stuff that we can think about when we've gotten the hardware under control.
What I can't find, and might be somewhat useful for a debate on the matter, is a table of the various isotopes of the elements and the decay heat of each.
You may have heard of that newfangled thingee called "google". When I send the words "table of nuclides" into it and hit the button "I feel lucky", it ports me to http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/ , which appears to have all the data you're asking for.
Astronomers confirm: Still planets in space!
Further studies needed to monitor Planet situation.
It is all three.
I doubt it is hype. There's technologies deployed right this moment in Afghanistan that people could only dream about as little as five years ago. The sheer flood of data generated by any attempt to map an entire country's mineral deposits would have been impossible to even just store (much less process) when people were unaccustomed to using the term "TB". It is not in the least surprising that we're now finding things like this that were there all along right under our nose. If only we had the capability to store a kilobyte of spectral data per square meter of a whole country.
I also doubt that this will make Afghanistan any better off. In terms of mineral wealth, Africa is the richest continent on earth. Most of the interesting metals (from uranium to gold) and most of the expensive non-metal materials (from diamonds to sapphires) are found in Africa. And all that wealth has bough it ... what exactly?
(And I am not in the least suggesting that the Pentagon has been mapping Afghanistan in a humanitarian effort to chart its wealth. The same spectroscopic technologies that tell you "this mountain is full of Chromium" will also tell you that it is "full of opium", "full of dynamite" or even "full of people").
There's as much concrete evidence the Aurora exists as there is evidence Bigfoot exists.
Well - form an energy POV mach 6 at 60 kft is about 6% of what you need to get to Low-earth orbit.
According to my sources, the government has actually sent people INTO orbit.
But they've really tried to keep that secret.
Wait - who is calling this a shuttle replacement?
I mean - someone who just wanted the shuttle for sending little military spy satellites up can do so with the X37 - so it replaces that one function of the Shuttle.
Other than that, I haven't seen anybody claim hat this is a replacement for the Shuttle.