Why do we care whether its from background or not? The only thing that matters is whether it will cause significant harm to anyone. If you can't tell the difference, it's probably entirely irrelevant in terms of health effects.

          Brett

I.e. Clinton is just another politician, and we all know that politicians are scum. What comes to the top of society is the scum.

      She is not from the "top of society", she was an activist and real estate speculator from Arkansas who hitched her wagon to an even more egregious scumbag and held on for dear life.

    Her problem is that she is a liberal and a social climbing parasite, with stupid 60's hippie notions imprinted on her brain.

        Brett

Features (or lack thereof) are not the problem. It's the incessant bugs, some of which have remained untouched since word 97.

I bought a car online, and I am not a broker. No big problem.

Smilin' Joe Fission isn't smiling any more!

Then I guess whatever country you are from is going to stop asking for handouts from Uncle Sugar, right?

Sorry to break the groupthink but the real reason the original movies were "great" and the later movies were great is really simple - you saw the first batch when you were 12, and the second batch where you were 35. Nothing could have matched your original 12-year-old's assessment of the movies.

        The original movies were amazingly unsophisticated and simplistic *special effects movies*. There had be absolutely nothing like them before, ever. The opening sequence of "A New Hope" sold you on the entire series, it was an absolutely stunning special effects masterpiece and there wasn't a person who saw it who wasn't amazed. At the same time, the acting was dismal, the story was simplistic, formulaic, and utterly predictable, aside from the effects. That doesn't matter to a 12-year old. The other movies, prequels included, were better in a plot/script/acting sense. The prequels followed the same formula with a better plot and acting, aimed at the same kids who were 12 in 1977 and 34 in 1999. Of course, by then, the special effects were not stunning any more, the expectations build up over decades couldn't possibly be met even if it was Citizen Kane in Space.

      I have an advantage over most of the rest of you - I was 17-18 when the first movie came out, and possibly more objective. It was a great movie because it had 2001-quality special effects used for a action-packed story. It wasn't great cinema, Lucas was no more skilled in 77 than he way in 99, and the later movies aren't significantly worse.

Nice stereotyping, you're likely a overblown typist (i.e. software engineer) and you are lecturing me?

      For your information I haven't watched Fox News in about 5 years. I have watched untold billions of dollars going into worthless educational initiatives and NEA kickback, while we crank out generation upon generation of illiterates, and introduce social experiments disguised as education initiatives.

"Scarce dollars"? There has been literally trillions of dollars poured into public education over the past 50 years, An absolutely insane amount of money is still being spent - but the quality continues to decline. Anyone who cares about education needs to get this through their head - *money does not solve this problem*. The issue is lack of standards, lack of quality teachers, and endless ivory-tower meddling in the educational process. None of those are solved by money.

If the bullet points the author laid out are actually useful to anyone for moving up in a company, then that company is not worth working for. Sure, I used to use the phone a lot more than I do now. That doesn't mean I want to continue relying it, especially when the information could more easily be sent by email or chat, or the most horrible of acts, talking face-to-face.

      Acting like a dick never works, and insisting that people with 5x your experience do things "your way" is about as dicky as you get.

        Brett

Given that he has clearly and proudly violated the National Security Act, he is already liable for the death sentence.

Well, it doesn't seem fair that you have to pay extra to have something better. What about those people who can't afford any more, shouldn't they have the best things too?

Thanks to the WPA dams that the federal government gave us and the Californians that are incapable of producing enough electricity to cover their needs.

        Incapable, no. Unwilling.

No you can't. To have 3-axis control you must have at least 3 reaction wheels with none of them colinear. With two you can only apply torque in two dimensions, specifically, the plane containing the two wheel spin axes. You cannot apply torque out of that plane.

It is not the gyroscope. The problem was with reaction wheels. Any gyroscopic effect they have is an unwanted side effect in most cases.

      Brett