Crap Throwing Monkey

There is a difference, between protesting and blocking access and harrassing patients, however.

They're fakes. By Halliburton. Commissioned by Karl Rove.

Actually, every call alters the outcome of a game, good or bad. It's just impossible to say HOW a given call alters the outcome. Could be that, if the Sehawks are given that early TD, the Steelers have to pass downfield more to compensate for the deeper hole...and Rothlesberger and Ward both have better days in a more vertical passing game against poor safety play, en route to a 31-10 victory...

Of course, then they'd need two stations, since a polar station couldn't hit equatorial orbiting satellites...whereas one IN China could hit damn near everything China would be concerned about. Or they could launch killer satellites into orbit, like the old Soviet plan. Either way is faster, cheaper, more effective, and gives them more flexibility...and doesn't put strategic assets half a world away where they can't protect them. And it keeps getting back to the question of: if it's such a good idea, why hasn't EVERYONE done it yet? Probably because it makes no sense. Scientifically and strategicly stupid.

Early warning satellites are not in polar orbits, they're in geosynchronous orbits (which are NOT polar, by definition), for the simple reason that you need them to look down at one spot all the time. You CAN put a satellite in polar orbit at any altitude...but there's usually no particular reason to. Seriously, are you just pulling this sh-- out of your ass? Making it up as you go along? Because I know not many people know much about orbital mechanics...but you're the first person I've ever known who knows nothing about orbital mechanics yet thinks he does.

Uh...yeah, I do. They're low earth orbits, because 1) it permits better resolution in imaging, 2) permits better global coverage, as the sattelite orbits quickly as the earth turns under it, and 3) the weight of the sattelites, power of the boosters that orbit them, and power required to launch anything into a polar orbit prohibit getting them higher than about 1000km. Most of the orbits have a 1000km apogee and 300km perigee. By about a fiftieth of a percent. Round for all practical purposes...save the purpose of someone trying to bull sh-- their way out of a set of statements that demonstrate their complete ignorance. As does any point on the planet. The reason you put sattelites into polar orbit is because, as the sattelite orbits north-south while the earth rotates west to east, every point on the surface of the earth passes within the line of sight of the sattelite...usually within 24-48 hours, since polar orbits are roughly 90-minute orbits. Maybe YOU can't...but that's because you know precisely nothing about orbital mechanics or physics or even geometry for that matter. The rest of us would have no problem watching polar sattelites from our back yards. So even though you don't know the first thing about orbital mechanics...the pole's still ideal because it's "quiet". That must be why most every industrialized country on the planet has established spy stations on the South Pole...because they don't realize that when you point an antenna/mirror up, you're pointing it away from terrestrial interference. But it's really funny, watching you try to pretend you know what you're talking about.

Yes...but it's a crying shame that's a qualification for championship. I still like my idea...instead of music acts who are either members of AARP or barely out of middle school, the Superbowl halftime show should feature the public execution of the dumbest !@#$ing NFL ref from the previous year. We'd see officiating shape up REAL quick, I'd bet...

Hey...he said you can. He never said anything about himself or his ilk.

The problem with that statement being that no other drug covered by those laws has ever led to so much controversy. Which would lead one to believe it's not the laws causing it...

Carter also challenged the legislation he signed within a month of signing it, establishing the "exclusive executive authority" argument for warrantless wiretaps that has been quoted by every single administration since. But it's so much easier to be a mindless partisan who bitches and moans that a president you don't like did something you don't like because he's a bad, bad man, without even attempting to research how the situation developed over the past 30 years.

Yeah...there's all that, too... But while it's a perfectly valid counter-argument to "the refs cost Seattle the game", it should in no way be considered to contradict the simple fact that the officiating was about on par with what Stevie Wonder could have managed...

Yeah...that's why they called a legal tackle an illegal block.

Get what stuff done? Like the five minutes I spent over lunch talking about sh------- officiating today drastically affected my productivity...

You think that's impressive? The Jets went from 125-1 to 100-1 in...what, a couple of weeks? A 25% improvement? At that rate, the Jets will be the odds-on favorite before training camp. And by the way...if you total up the odds, it comes to 213%. So Vegas predicts a slight chance of three teams winning Superbowl XLI?

And last night, on Letterman, Rothlesberger himself said he didn't get in the end zone. But the officiating was perfect. Sure...

Well...I wouldn't say the officiating "cost" the Seahawks the game...if only because one changed call can impact the game later drastically and unpredictably (for example...if Rothlesberger is called down instead of scoring the TD, the Steelers go for it on 4th and goal...either they score and kickoff, or turn it over on downs, and Seattle's play-calling is drastically different either way, either for being backed up in their end zone or for having a minute less in the half.) But the officiating indisputably sucked to Seattle's detriment. Calling an illegal block on a tackle...

You forgot the one poster to make a totally gratuitious comment about #89's rack. Oh...and one to complain that somebody threw a lightbulb at Ron Artest, and if it takes you less than an hour to change a light bulb you're not doing it right.

Probably because he's a !@#$ing idiot.

Didn't Rothlesberger scramble for a drive-sustaining 1st down because of an incredibly obvious holding call as well? I distinctly recall a Seattle CB or safety in position to stop Rothlesberger about two yards short of the 1st down getting wrapped up and taken down from behind by a receiver on one play...

Excellent point. Knowing how my doctor is already pestered and pushed by salesmen from drug companies to prescribe their products...imagine how bad that would get if doctors sold the drug companies' products as well.

Get a piece of paper and a pencil - or for you, I suppose, crayon. Draw a circle about six inches across. Make a dot about a quarter-inch outside the circle. Draw two lines from the dot so that they just touch the circle without going inside it. Draw another line from the point where one line touches the circle to the point where the other line touches the circle (note: this line should go through the circle. If it doesn't, draw a straight line). Inside that triangle formed by the three lines, you will see a piece of the circle. Note that that piece of the circle is substantially less that 360 degrees. Then take your drawing and run to mother shouting "Look mommy, I drawed an ice cream cone!"

Plus...if they use sonar, they'll get surveillence results even quicker, since sound travels faster than light in space. Christ, I couldn't be this dumb if I tried. 360-degree coverage...to the horizon, just like every single other point on the earth. What, they've invented surveillance technology that beams through the core of the planet?

On what? Satellites? There's easier and cheaper ways of taking pictures of satellites that don't involve shipping a megawatt laser to the most desolate spot in the world a hemisphere away. Go sell this BS somewhere else.

Uhhhh...yeah. Sure. Except for one thing: you clearly have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. 1) "No extraneous heat"? First, there is. Second...who the !@#$ cares? "Extraneous heat"? That must be why the biggest collection of infrared observatories in the world is in Hawaii. 2) "No extraneous light...and electromagnetic radiation". Yeah...there's no signals of any kind. In other words...there's nothing to spy on! What are they going to do, watch penguins year-round?

Hi T-Bone. Still spending weekends with mommy because she's the only woman who'll willingly share a zip code with you?