Comment Re:I thought that's what payphones were for (Score 1) 329
At max power, a GSM tower can cover a 50 km radius, so not so odd to have service out there.
At max power, a GSM tower can cover a 50 km radius, so not so odd to have service out there.
I don't have individual city maps, but I have found that the visitor centers off the major highways tend to have maps for free, I have almost the entire east coast that I keep in my truck's glove box just in case. I can't say I have used one in years however...the last time I used one was when I took an exit in CT that was supposed to be in Mass and needed to figure out where I went wrong. I however always use my smartphone now, set the navigation before starting and follow it the whole way, it even updates for traffic.
FYI, Cricket uses Verizon's network, at least in my area. However, their "unlimited" plan is limited to 2GB, then it drops to unusable speed.
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1507959-What-network-does-Cricket-piggy-back-on
Apparently, they have roaming agreements with all the CDMA providers.
There was, but as Japan runs on both 50 cycles and 60 cycles power, the generator was the wrong type. As the entire area was damaged, they were unable to source the correct type of generator.
Um, my perspective on what he said was he was referring to how men (and often women) gain weight when they get married, not just to getting pregnant. Pear shape would imply expanding out in all directions, not just the front.
Reading that excerpt, I am left with the impression that he just didn't have time for meaningful relationships, he devoted himself to his work instead. Nowhere does it actually say that he is gay, though you can read that into what he says. There is a section that says:
And those who are cut off from it by their own desires, by those twists and bends that turn them in another way-like you, Bean, so determined are you that no more children will be born with your defect, and that there will be no children orphaned by your death- those who are cut off because they think they want to be cut off, they are still hungry for it, hungrier than ever, especially if they deny it. It makes them angry, bitter, sad, and they don't know why, or if they know, they can't bear to face the knowledge.
He is specifically coming out and saying that Bean's desires are twisted into not having children, not that Bean is gay or that Anton is gay. Anton threw himself into his work rather than trying to find someone to marry, there are many people who do that.
Frankly, it is a book of its time. Shadow puppets was published in 2002, they gay marriage debate wasn't really an issue back then, most homosexual people were just looking for acceptance of them as they are at that point in time.
Looking up more information, it looks like Rackham was in the first war as well, but unclear how we beat them. The novels which go over the first formic war are Earth Unaware, Earth Afire, and an unpublished book Earth Awakens.
Ignore the AC, you are right, in the books they go over the first invasion happening on Earth, wide swaths of land was destroyed in the initial attack. Mazer was from the second invasion I believe, I don't know if they ever went over how we drove them off in the first invasion, as we would have been severely outmatched in that fight.
This is a good time to make it because the drone warfare that will characterize any hypothetical interplanetary conflict is finally believable to the general public. Most scifi still has the 60's nostalgia of in person human fighter pilots. Otherwise it is not fair.
You do realize the fighters and carriers in Ender's Game had real people flying them right? When the fight was over they turned into the first colonists, well except for the last group, they were all destroyed.
Ender's team was only giving orders/occasionally taking over individual fighters, the reason he thought it was a game was that no one would conceive of faster than light communication since it was kept such a good secret (the ansible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible#In_Card.27s_work which quantum tunneling sounds very much like)
We are talking about a country where one of the politicians requested a ($30k - $2m) bribe from him shortly before the murder charge. This is out in the stories too...so it is up to you who you believe.
From all appearances, I don't think Kim knows that...
I don't know about missiles, but I have seen the VFW displays indicated.
Here's another one, not at a VFW though as far as I know:
There are many cases in the US where people have been released from prison due to new evidence (usually DNA) proving that they didn't commit the crime. Those people then go on to sue for wrongful imprisonment and generally get pretty good payouts. Use your Google-fu if you need examples, they do happen.
Did you mean to put Democrats there? For everything you said about Nietzsche would fall more under their agenda than the Republicans...
So you know where marriage came from? The best info I can come up with was that it was before recorded history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage#History_of_marriage
Marriage is a long tradition in the various religions. In Catholicism (only religion I can speak from) they will refuse to marry two people if there is no intention of having children. It doesn't matter if homosexual, heterosexual, anything, no children, no marriage. Since homosexuals would find it rather hard to have natural children, they are excluded from the sacrament.
Catholicism predates every major government, and many governments took their civil marriage from Christianity, so perhaps you should rethink where marriage came from.
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