Actually, the orbits are 4-dimensional trajectories of various structures. In orthonormal basis, the spatial dimensions are usually referred as x, y and z, and the t is known as 'time'.
The GP's point was that satellite orbits are elliptical and thus can be specified with less than four dimensions.
Real political change is brought about by lobbies. If someone wants to do something about the state of things, he either founds a lobby or supports an existing lobby that champions his cause (and by "supports" I mean "gives cold hard cash to.").
There is no evidence for that. In fact, it's pretty clear that the primary concern of politicians is pleasing their voters. Politicians listen to lobbies only in areas where voters don't care.
The problem is that most voters simply don't know what to care about. Voters worry about irrelevant issues like abortion, gay marriage, inequality, and racism, while not worrying enough about the stuff that matters, like banking regulation, tax policy, nepotism, and crony capitalism.
No.
Lobbies buy ads that tell YOU what you should care about. You then vote for the politician that they put money into.
Most people do their political research by watching TV ads, so this approach works well.
What would it take to produce a seamless, idiot-proof, and completely secure and encrypted Tor for every layperson to pick up and use?
A lot, given that most people don't even encrypt or password protect their smartphones.
Government oversight would likely be required to enforce its usage!
When I have an issue with my CurrentC bill, should I expect fair service on a payment dispute from a corporation owned by the company that is screwing me over?
How about in the case of stolen CurrentC credentials?
I think Windows 7 is going to be the last Microsoft OS I'm going to buy. Linux is free. Hell, even OSX is free. Yet MS wants to keep gouging customers $100+. Uhm, no thanks.
Especially since you can use the Safe Boot > Repair Computer > and this batch file to have "unlimited" time to "register"
D:
reg load HKLM\MY_SYSTEM "D:\Windows\System32\config\system"
reg delete HKLM\MY_SYSTEM\WPA/f
reg unload HKLM\MY_SYSTEM
exit
Oh, you pay for the Linux and OS X, just not directly.
OS X is free on Apple hardware only, so you pay the Apple hardware tax.
Linux is free because it is open source, but that can have its own associated restrictions (associated with the time input required to it to a certain level of functionality, depending on your Linux expertise.)
So Windows is the only OS that directly charges you.
I don't know why the OP thinks that the "legal framework" is an issue? The government has been ignoring legalities for over a decade now.
The lobbyists will decide when driverless cars will be legal.
My guess is that it will all be sorted out right after the mainstream US automakers (Ford, GM, and Chrysler) have their self-driving cars ready to go.
IMHO, either Ebola is easier to transmit than we are being told _OR_ these Ebola doctors who get the disease are FSKING IDIOTS
if it is so damn hard to get, how the hell do Doctors who should be the best at following procedure can get?
i think people are just morons, no matter what degrees they have
The only people telling you that Ebola is hard to transmit are the ones that want you to stay calm so that you are easier to control.
Most viruses (even HIV) have low transmission rates (below 30%) when the virus is exposed into the body. Relative to other viruses, Ebola seems to have an exceptionally high transmission efficiency. So if you perform any protocol wrong, you will likely contract it.
If the CDC had descended on the hospital like a ton of bricks and the first inkling of Ebola they might have prevented most of that from happening then people would be complaining about Federal overreach.
Really?
If the CDC had clamped down on that hospital, the only people complaining would have been the hospital staff.
Instead, the CDC has lost most of the public's trust.
Ebola is a deadly virus. With deadly things, you are expected to be proactive, not reactive. Once you react, people are already dead.
Second, the boosters cannot be shut off. That's the big safety drawback of solid rockets - you light them, and they aren't going out until they're out of fuel.
*sigh* This is one of the biggest pieces of misinformation about solid rockets floating about out there, spread and repeated by shuttle detractors in a cargo cult like fashion until it's now regarded as a law of nature. What most people (including engineers who should know better) don't realize is that you don't need to shut them down in the first place- you just need them to produce net zero thrust. This is done via blowout panels in the front dome, and sometimes by blowing off the nozzle as well. And it's not like this is a new fangled technique either...
Actually, you can do even better!
It has been known for many decades that you can quench a burning propellant by subjecting it to a rapid pressure decrease. (The conductive flame structure cannot rapidly adapt the the decrease pressure and goes out.) Thus, blowout panels could actually be designed to quench the solid boosters. And this knowledge existed when the shuttle was designed.
But there is a finite price on human life and, like the ejection seats or parachutes on the shuttle or passenger airplanes, losing a few dozen astronauts is cheaper than accommodating safety systems.
We make it seem like it would be impossible to have these safety systems, but it isn't impossible. It would just be less efficient for the company or government... who only really cares how much your death costs them.
Do small men also burn more calories than small women?
I was surprised to not see that point considered in an article attempting to be credible.
"It is difficult to keep a straight face and state that OSX is stable. Xcode crashes all the time, Qt software crashes all the time, visualization software works much better on Linux."
I play with the same tools - and I experience no instability like this on OS X. Xeon and Core Ix series hardware.
Agreed. Same here.
If you are having serious instability issues, you have something wrong locally with your machine.
Especially if it is crashing with that "classical" software.
Had NASA in the late 1950s had a huge pool of qualified female test pilots and no qualified males, they would have gone with women and added men later.
NASA most definitely would not have done that! You are totally taking history out of context.
The US was a high discriminatory society in the 1950's. Women had only been allowed to vote 30 years earlier and the Jim Crow laws were still in effect until 1965.
There is no way that anything other than a white male would have been approved by NASA at a time when the majority opinion was that a woman's place was in the kitchen and a black's place was in the back of the bus.
However, most of us in the Northern Hemisphere will not be able to see the comet at all, experts say, no matter how big a telescope we've got.
What if my telescope is both bigger and more curved than most?
Will I then be able to see the comet around Mars?
And so is Apple.
Apple products are expensive, but generally have good design and performance.
Bose and Beats have good design, but have always been deemed to have poor performance by people who actually review them for their sound qualities.
I'm not hating... check the reviews.
As a normal person I never had use of large bills like that. Even 100 is an annoyance as you have to get it accepted for change somewhere. So in essence nothing of value would be lost. Then the claim that it would be effective at curbing illegal business is not very strong either.
Do you not understand that after they eliminate the "large bills," the "criminals" will then start using the smaller bills?
The government will then eliminate those to improve your security, so that you are only left with electronically tracked options.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
