SlowOnTheUptake

A concise weather forecast tool for general aviation pilots.

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What do you mean by term "sub-optimal"?

I'm no lens expert but I'd imagine that the differences in lighting and motion in landscapes and portraiture between takes might obscure the subtle differences between the lenses themselves. The static subjects probably give a more fair comparison.

30 minutes?

I don't know which is more surprising: that they can calculate inflation since 1968 with such astonishing precision (median income was $32,844) or that buying a car from a defunct automaker (Pontiac) is an act of patriotism.

If the trackee removed this from his own car and attached it to some other car, would he be violating some law?

Mr. Speaker, where does Representative Jackson think that the Chinese spend the dollars that they make from producing iPads? And which American jobs does he propose to eliminate in order to secure those manufacturing jobs here in the US?

Thou shalt not rely on spelling correctors.

Also, for those of us who think in terms of horsepower, 1200 watts is about 1.6 hp. A blender might be a more useful kitchen appliance comparison than a toaster to grasp the amount of mechanical power that this car produces.

An infinite wing would not have induced drag but it would have infinite parasitic drag. There are two kinds of drag at play. As one is reduced the other becomes more dominant.

FTA: "menus made entirely from image maps"

I wonder if the 90° orientation really does make people feel more secure as the narrator claimed. Did they conduct some kind of research or just declare it to be so?

Personally, I'd think it would make me more aware that I'm being watched by a line of impatient people waiting to use the ATM.

If Donahoe was speaking, rather than writing, how do we know that he didn't make a slip of the tongue and use the possessive form "its" when he really meant to say: "it's." Maybe the quote is accurate.

Very disturbing. I'd like to hook those sons of bitches up to their own milking machines.

Wouldn't it be better if people debated these topics rationally rather than, you know, worrying about what meaningless rhetoric other might people hear?

Last night I heard an interview with Craig Venter where the interviewer used the term "playing god", or something similar several times to to characterize the arguments she assumed that some others might be making against this research. Venter actually corrected her at one point when she misquoted one of the commenters -- in this case a representative of the Vatican. It sounded to me as though the "playing god" expression was being used more by the proponents of this kind of research rather than the ones raising objections or concerns themselves. I think that the expression was being attributed to people who weren't raising that specious issue in the first place.

Still, I don't know why the expression,"playing god", whatever it might mean,is "dangerous" unless you're concerned that the uneducated masses might be stirred to some undesirable action as a result of hearing it.

I agree that the term doesn't carry much meaning, but what is "dangerous" about it?

Why do you take vitamin supplements?

I don't take them and would only do so if I had some reason to think I was deficient in them and then only the the particular vitamins in which I was deficient.

I think you speak for all of us.

It looks extremely dangerous. According to the specifications it would stall at 70MPH with the flaps extended and the wings look like they're only inches from the ground. In a cross wind, you'd have to touch down wings level and yawed into the wind... at > 70MPH.

He also died just 5 years later.

The US Air Force was established in 1947.

Evidently it worked for the author. He got you to buy his book.

Suppose that there was a world where the "Many Worlds Law" was true and another world where it wasn't.

At the beginning of the clip, they mention that this farm is situated on 350 acres of land but I didn't hear how many people they expected to sustain with that. Will it all be self contained? Also, how many people outside of this pre-industrial society are required to supply solar panels, wind generators, tools and other materials necessary to keep this kind of facility going and where would they live?

It looks like inflation was around 8 - 10% during '07 through '08 per http://www.latin-focus.com/latinfocus/countries/argentina/ar....

BTW, what is a "gringo apartment" and how does it differ from an apartment that a local would live in?

If the sperm are to be activated by the higher temperature inside the female body then they would have to be cooler initially. They evolved to be triggered into action by the normal internal body temperature.

What isn't clear to me is, do safer cars translate into fewer traffic injuries and deaths?

I recall reading an economics paper that indicated that safer cars encouraged more reckless driving and the two competing factors canceled each other out; as cars got safer, the number of accidents increased until the number of deaths and injuries returned to their prior levels.

I wonder if we all still drove 1959 cars would we be using cell phones while driving?

No apologies necessary. After all of Ireland's contributions of culture, music, brewing and -- in my opinion at least -- some of the prettiest girls in the world, you are entitled to the occasional lapse.