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by erbo 11y ago
Unlikely. There would have had to have been a Soyuz almost ready to go that could be used for the purpose, and there wasn't. I'm also not sure that a Soyuz could have been launched from Baikonur into the orbital plane that Colum
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by erbo 11y ago
Which is point #3 that Correia predicted would be used to attack Cole: "This is all a publicity stunt to sell more books." Correia is not necessarily condemning that, of course, but he did also warn Cole that, as a result, he i
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by erbo 11y ago
Correia has also made a good deal of money off his books (unsurprising, since "GET PAID" is part of his core mission statement as a writer). Apparently, he's such a poor writer that people are attempting to drown him in do
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by erbo 11y ago
There is a de facto conspiring oligopoly preventing publication of certain political views, which Correia knows about and mentioned in his post because he's experienced it firsthand. It's not a direct conspiracy, to be sure
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by erbo 11y ago
Larry Correia says [1] that "ban" would not be the right word here, but what they were doing was effectively censoring his work. And the reason they did so, in the instant case, was because of politics. Period. [1] http:&#x2
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by erbo 11y ago
From the AT article: "Atlantis was already undergoing preparation for flight as STS-114, scheduled for launch on March 1. As Columbia thundered into orbit, the younger shuttle was staged in Orbital Processing Facility 1 (OPF-1) at
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by erbo 11y ago
There was a story published about that potential rescue mission recently [1]. Briefly stated, the complexity involved in getting Atlantis up there in time to rescue the Columbia crew members makes the rescue plans depicted in the book&#
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by erbo 11y ago
The downside of that strategy, of course, is that if you incur losses after the buyback, those losses, on a per-share basis, are magnified to the same degree as your earnings were. The sword cuts both ways.
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by erbo 11y ago
The more correct way to say "fully grok" would be "grok in fullness," anyhow. It is possible to grok but not in fullness; Valentine Michael Smith said this once in the book ("I grok but not in fullness"). I&#x2
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by erbo 11y ago
What saddens me about all this is that the trend away from cars also represents a trend away from freedom. If you have a car that you can drive, you can travel pretty much as you please, subject to the availability of time and economic re
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by erbo 11y ago
Another good scene between the two: (Jason is fighting the rock monster) Jason: Alexander, you're supposed to be my adviser, advise me! Alexander: Well, you're just going to have to figure out what it wants. What is its
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by erbo 11y ago
Similar to this is The Daily Adventures of Mixerman, [1] by Eric "Mixerman" Sarafin, which is largely a chronology of his experiences as recording engineer for a bidding-war band with a major-label contract. But he throws in a lo
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by erbo 11y ago
More like #21stcenturyproblems...
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by erbo 11y ago
Certainly, they can change any laws they like, subject to the normal legislative process, including a Presidential veto. Of course, they could try to ram that through before Obama leaves office, to avoid such a veto. However, I can think of
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by erbo 11y ago
The President has the authority to suspend entry of any class of aliens for any length of time, for any reason. [1] Jimmy Carter did exactly that in 1980, disallowing Iranians entry into the country, and for similar reasons. [2] That's
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by erbo 11y ago
The biggest thing that would help rein in costs would be the elimination of all the "free money," i.e. loans, that students can get to pay those costs. If students can't pay those costs, they won't. Universities wi
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by erbo 11y ago
Damn. You took the words right out of my mouth.
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by erbo 11y ago
Apparently, the biggest holdup in Colorado is the backlog required to get the state to issue the actual card. But, since recreational use has also been legalized, you can still get cannabis, you're just paying higher taxes on it witho
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by erbo 11y ago
And on the commercial real estate market. In central Denver, 1 out of every 11 industrial buildings is now being used for growing marijuana. It's gotten to the point that the owner of Mile High Comics is selling its headquarters buil
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New Campaign to Help Surveillance Agents Quit NSA or GCHQ(wired.com)
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by erbo 11y ago
It would have been fun if they'd used the original Mac "San Francisco" font instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(1984_typeface)
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by erbo 11y ago
Far and away, one of the great trolls of all time!
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by erbo 11y ago
Indeed, cursing is considered a fine art among Klingons. One of their aphorisms, translated idiomatically as "Curse well!", literally translates as "Shoot curses forcefully!" They consider curses as weapons which must b
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by erbo 11y ago
Gene Kranz, in his book Failure Is Not An Option, describes one of the simulator runs for Apollo 11 in which the Simsup (simulation supervisor) threw a 1201 alarm at the Mission Control team. The controller receiving the alarm panicked a
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by erbo 11y ago
Something like this shows up in Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth. In that book, the interstellar starship Magellan can reach a large fraction of lightspeed, thanks to its "quantum drive," but, at those speeds
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by erbo 11y ago
I don't care how "successful" Netflix becomes: I will not do business with spammers, and if you do business with Netflix, you are supporting a company that engages in spam. References: https://groups.google.com&#
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by erbo 11y ago
Neither of which were stopped by the TSA.
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by erbo 11y ago
I don't know that it would matter whether it could have actually been demonstrated, in court, that the airlines were liable for the losses. With 3,000 grieving families looking for someone to blame, and any number of lawyers looking
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by erbo 11y ago
The TSA was created for one purpose and one purpose only: To remove liability from the airlines if someone tries to blow up a plane or bring a weapon onto one for evil purposes. (At the same time as it was created, the airlines had liabili
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by erbo 11y ago
The problem is not just with cancer drugs, it's with drugs of all types. There's a scorpion antivenom that routinely costs $12,000 or more per vial in the United States. That same antivenom, with the same level of purity, is

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