My take on the solution, feel free to critique it. Its my current plan.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4056347&cid=44485435

Hubble size was limited because the Prime Contractor (Lockheed) already had some engineering and hardware to support the 2.4m size. They had developed it for another project looking down, not up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennan#Design

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Fsck come on now, the Federal Budget is going ever higher. Arguing over Federal Employees vs government contractors wholly responsible to Federal Employees is pedantic. They are spending more money they are in control of more people. End of story.

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Horrible car analogy. 1000 HP and 50 MPG are engineering extremes (current tech, gas, etc.).

What he's asking for is for his Federal politicians in the US to actually uphold the 2nd Amendment and the 10th Amendment. Or any of the other ones. Or have a party whose platform doesn't consist of the opposite of the other party's platform.

Parent, all we can do is vote third party (pick one, doesn't matter). Until any third party has a viable chance no reasonable candidates will run, no politicians will heed the will of the people.

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AFAIK, in California firing you immediately after you give two weeks notice means you are entitled to two weeks pay plus qualifies you for unemployment until you get another job or it runs out (just like being laid off would). This is important for those times where you dont have another job lined up or are starting your own business.

I wish my previous employer had done this, would have been worth almost six figures to me, at the time....

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What do you pay for international? US plans are for the whole country; that's like UK to Eastern Europe, Scandanavia to the Med.... I can fly 2500 miles across the continent, drive a 2000 mile loop once I'm there, and everything just works. Over 300 million people. Unlimited voice text and data (500 GB at 4G/HSPA+). All for $50 USD/month. Is there a plan that matches that?

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Are you kidding me? Why in hell would you even say something like this....

Linus wouldn't fill out the 17 forms required to get a check from the feds, much less submit the monthly progress reports or sign the forms, in triplicate, each month to receive the paper check to be deposited. Goddamn 7 digits, no understanding of the system at all...

Much less participate in a system he would find grossly inefficient and horribly flawed. The man respects greatness, not whatever this is.

You are an idiot. If this was a joke its not funny, even once.

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Americans like me just have to:

1. Vote "None of the Above" if possible in all elections until candidates that agree with your political position run.

2. Vote any third party candidate possible. If enough of the vote is third party, a third party that represents us will appear.

3. Do not vote for any candidate other than these.

Eight years later we will start getting better candidates and the parties will start to crumble. The two parties are our problem, they have staked out nonsensical platforms by playing the opposite game. We spend trillions of dollars a year for this useless crap. Spying, prisoning, drug war, fill in the fscking blank.

If you identify as a Republican or a Democrat you are the reason this stuff keeps happening.

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priceless!

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I always thought the opposite. I hate being passed by rigs at 80mph, only to have to pass them once the road climbs, traffic slows, there's a funny looking bird on the tree, or whatever else slows traffic momentarily. Ad nauseum. Slower trucks means they dont feel the need to pass anyone, since seeing that would be an instant speed ticket, so they stay over in the right lane(s) where they belong. The right lane(s) in CA becomes the lane for merging, old people, and trucks. Trucks moving with traffic means they are all over the place and clog traffic continuously. Also, nothing like a truck tailgating you because he can move with traffic and drive like the rest of the death wishers. Keeping them slow takes most of the bad truck driver behavior away; I am always suprised by bad truck driver behavior in other states....

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Better hope that in his entire life they never goes anywhere vaccination isn't routinely practiced. Given the folks who are anti-vaccination, its going to be rare for them to get out of your rotorwash; but it really sucks rocks to get a childhood disease (in my case chickenpox) as an adult. From (I believe) a non-english speaking checkout dude at Target (he was showing bumps, coulda been acne, started a few days later tho, I worked from home so little interaction with the greater unwashed...).

You really are exposed to more of the uncontrolled world than you think, and will be more so in the future. The game theory that says avoiding the vaccination risk in an otherwise totally vaccinated population is a win fails to account for the risk of being unvaccinated in a population of marginally vaccinated. Then your risk skyrockets.

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Scary that this would have elicited tinfoil hat jokes just six months ago. Now its probably true or on its way to being true. Except for the editorializing. UK was complicit in all of this, bugged everyone they had access to. Its global man, stop looking for scapegoats.

You shouldn't bother with AC anymore, if they want to know who you are they can find out.

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Engineering internships are usually different; companies use them as well paid extended interviews to find people they want to hire. Both of mine wanted me to quit school and stay. I was doing real work after about a week. They are awesome if you are a poor college student and need the money to keep going to school.

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Crazy. You could come to the US, they are scrambling for entry level engineering talent at every company I have friends at.... Especially if you're not bound to a particular area.

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Engineers gain value from experience; if you are still doing the same thing in the same time then yes, but with experience comes order of magnitude speed up and cost avoidance; this should come with more money. Not below cost-of-living increases in perpetuity....

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