Right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect It seems counter-intuitive, but doing a burn as close as possible to the sun (probably getting there using a bi-elliptic transfer) will give a huge boost to velocity, as compared to just flying in a straight line away from the sun, given a high enough delta-V budget.

Maybe, but you had plenty of people who had no idea that the maps on the iPhone were using Google's data. When my girlfriend updated to iOS 6 and saw the maps change, I told her about how Apple was making their own maps now, and her response was "Oh, what were they before, then?".

Organic food is not sprayed with synthetic pesticides. They may or may not have pesticide residues, and the synthetic stuff is generally safer.

First past the post guarantees that third parties can never succeed on a national scale. It's not a matter of "not believing hard enough", it's Duverger's Law. Voting for a third party in a national election is just giving a pass to the (slightly) worse of the two candidates that actually have a chance of winning.

Of course sometimes you can just set the X-Forwarded-For attribute in your browser to an IP address inside the country. A fair amount of web servers are set up to blindly trust it. A lot cheaper than a proxy when it works.

That's funny because there were only 3 Apollo missions between 1 and 10.

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That's very acute of you to pick up on.

Yep! Most hotels have either a single T1, or a bonded T (bringing it up to a massive 3 Mbps). The technology is slow to move, but they're gradually bringing in fiber lines, or load balancing equipment and some consumer lines (DSL/Cable).

I just averaged together the data for a few thousand DSL circuits, and it seems that the average response time is in the area of 65 ms. Anything above 150ms is out of the ordinary. There are even a few CenturyLink circuits in there (reseller), and the average response time for those is a little higher, around 70 ms. Usually slow response times are because of an over-utilized circuit, but if that's not an issue here, then you should probably check the signal and margins on your modem or have CenturyLink send a tech to do so.

Yeah, all these people just need to work 9 to 5 like you and your wife, and everything would be a lot easier. It's a little more complicated when a couple has four part-time jobs between them, at all hours of the day/night, and have small children which require supervision. If only they were as "smart as you and could take their 9-5 jobs for granted."

Your shining white armor is showing.

I took a free bus ride on New Years in Chicago.

No need to say things that are patently false.

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