One could design a vehicle that didn't need to power down, but you would have to have to build it stronger. Stronger in this case means more massive. That extra mass takes away from the payload that can be delivered to orbit. The math works out that powering down a little so the vehicle goes slower when the air still matters lets you put more total mass on orbit.

here you go
From Curiosity's landing.

Dig Once doesn't require fiber installation, but "ready-made buried conduit" for future installs which may be fiber.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbroadband.gov%2Fpl...

(accidentally modded "offtopic" so posting to undo that)

Did the same thing at a company picnic years ago.... My wad of paper went further than any plane and people cried foul. I didn't fight the semantics, didn't really care that I was DQ'd, I knew my "airplane" went further than anyone's and that was good enough.

Likewise, but I also sync calendar using Lightning for Thunderbird with "Google Contacts" add-on and sync contacts (with gmai set up for this purpose) using "Provider for Google Calendar" add-on. On the Blackberry, like you, it is Google sync which syncs both the calendar and contacts.

Works well and glad I could finally ditch Outlook at work. We don't use Exchange.

Add-on links:
Provider for Google calendar: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Fthunderbird%2Faddon%2F4631
Google Contacts: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Fthunderbird%2Faddon%2F7307

We used VSS for a long time but switched to SVN after reading numerous accounts that that VSS would eventually croak, and because we needed multiple developers working on the same source. After all the developers (~16 very active users, 20+ projects) were over the learning curve of SVN, there's not one that would go back to VSS. I can honestly say there is nothing I know of that we need that SVN doesn't do for us. We use TortioseSVN for the Windows guys, and the server-side guys (Linux/Unix) use command-line SVN. We have no need to branch local copies. We very rarely have to manually resolve conflicts. I fail to see what GIT would do for us.

Perhaps SVN sucks for kernel-guys. But for what we do, SVN fits the bill perfectly... Central repository, easy to get up-to-date, easy to commit, easy to update, easy to review changes, easy to review history....

SVN for us is the right tool for the job.

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Without getting into an electorial college/popular vote debate, the citizens of the U.S. voted GWB into the presidency. His Christianity is as part of him as him being caucasian. He makes his decisions based on that and he makes it public. He is who he is and we voted for Him. His authority as a president comes from the vote of the people, not because he is one religon or another. To ask a person to make choices contrary to his Christian believe doesn't make sense if you understand Christianity. We are coming up on another election, decide for yourself. Just because GWB is a Christian is a far cry from this country becoming a theocracy.

further more, I am a Christian and I think GWB has been a total idiot in many many ways. Also, I would vote for a non Christian if I felt as though he would do a better job as president as Bush would. So I am not a 'follow in line' Christian.

So instead of saying that we have a government that is moving to a theocracy, I think it would be more accrurate saying that we happen to have a Christian president right now.

Nuttles
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