You forgot this sentence which followed:
Copernicus finally agreed to give De revolutionibus to his close friend, Tiedemann Giese, bishop of Chemno (Kulm), to be delivered to Rheticus for printing by the German printer Johannes Petreius at Nuremberg (Nürnberg)
True, but he was practically on his death bed by the time he did that. I only learned about this about a week ago from watching a Neil deGrassse Tyson presentation which is available on Netflix.
Copernicus wasn't the first to discover Heliocentrism. He was the first with the balls to publicly advocate for it.
. That's not really true at all. From wikipedia:
Some time before 1514 Copernicus made available to friends his "Commentariolus" ("Little Commentary"), a forty-page manuscript describing his ideas about the heliocentric hypothesis.[e] It contained seven basic assumptions (detailed below).[60] Thereafter he continued gathering data for a more detailed work. About 1532 Copernicus had basically completed his work on the manuscript of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium; but despite urging by his closest friends, he resisted openly publishing his views, not wishing—as he confessed—to risk the scorn "to which he would expose himself on account of the novelty and incomprehensibility of his theses.
In light of MH 370, all aircraft are required to stream their black box and GPS data into the cloud. It's amazing how in this day and technological age that this can actually happen.
It exists, and is not terribly expensive. The company I work for uses SkyTrac to track our small fleet of planes and helicopters. It would be more expensive for the larger airlines, since they could have hundreds of aircraft to track.
They're only breaking the spirit of the law, not the letter.
True. They are 'getting around' the law against exporting crude, by not exporting crude. It seems the law needs to be amended to define better what is considered exportable if they want to stop this.
Perhaps they should get rid of the ban altogether? Seriously, with the trade deficit spiraling out of control, it makes no sense at all to ban exports. Rather than question BP for 'getting around' the law, we should question why we have such bad law in the first place.
Agreed. That's why I said 'if they want to stop this'.
They're only breaking the spirit of the law, not the letter.
True. They are 'getting around' the law against exporting crude, by not exporting crude. It seems the law needs to be amended to define better what is considered exportable if they want to stop this.
Ok, Mr. Roboto.
Domo arigato
You're all the old man yelling at the kid to "get offa my yard"
The TSA already has half the world paranoid as to their intentions, and now they've taken away people's ability to put on a trusty tinfoil hat? This is the step too far.
Don't worry, they'll just give you more on the plane anyway. Last time I flew the meal was served covered with foil and I got a soda in an aluminum can.
The police are not permitted
False. What we are finding is that a badge and gun are all the permit needed.
Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!
I was really disappointed by the comparative performance of the AMD 290x 4GB vs my nVidia 650 Ti Boost 2GB.
The nVidia let's me run games like Borderlands 2 and Skyrim at max settings on my old Core 2 Duo smoothly, yet the 290X hitches and drags, almost as if it were streaming the gameplay from the hard drive. I expected a card with 2000+ shaders to be faster than that.
If my processor isn't bottlenecking the 650s performance too badly, at least the 290X should be able to cap out at something reasonable.
That doesn't make any sense, as I've got a 7850 that runs Skyrim at max settings with no problem, but I do have an i7 processor.
It means nothing. Recommended reading here: http://www.1010tires.com/store...
Yes, all of that is true, but all season tires are passable in the snow. If fact, for Canada, only about 50% of the people put on snow tires in the winter, yet we all get around fine. I have snow tires on my current car, but left all season tires on my previous one, so I've done both. Snow has never stopped me from getting to work.
I find vigorous sex at bedtime really helps me to fall asleep quickly. Unfortunately, I've been wearing a cast on my hand for the last two weeks and my quality of sleep has really suffered.
Remind me of one of David Letterman's Top Ten Lists from a long time ago:
Surprises from a recent sex survey:
For teenage boys, the most frequeny fantasy during sex is
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
