He wasn’t speaker during the Clinton impeachment. You’re thinking of either Newt Gingrich (speaker) or Henry Hyde (another GOP congressman from Illinois at the time who was a driving force in the impeachment).
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I thought Henry Hyde, another prominent Illinois Republican of the era, was the big one pushing to get Clinton impeached. Hastert the Speaker was more of a Bush era thing.
Honestly, a full modular phone is probably not going to happen. Even modularity in laptops is less than it used to be. However, partially modular phones have some value, just as partially modular laptops do. It’s not so much about upgrading so much as changing the device to suit your needs of the moment. I very much…
How do you know that? Trek also has time travel...
I’d argue forgotten knowledge never sets civilization back by any significant amount. If the knowledge is useful, it would never have been forgotten in the first place. When the invention is needed again, it doesn’t take long to rediscover the technique or find a new one.
Ehh...materials technology hadn’t been the limiting factor in warfare for a LONNG time. It only became an issue again in WW2 because nothing worked really well in jet engines.
*Shrug* What’s your point? I have no problem with adding in PMI. Here you go: If $250/mo breaks you, you shouldn’t be buying a home. $250, even added up over a year ($3,000) is far less than many repairs a home might require.
Both civilizations build large spaceships in orbit. While the Federation can produce starbases which are large cities, the Empire makes Star Destroyers and was able to produce two Death Stars (one in secret). It seems that Empire construction methods are superior.
The difference in affordability is linear with the down payment. With $40K down, you can ‘afford’ about $30K more than if you put $10K down. Houses on the same street can vary more than that.
That is not old-school. Never EVER play the market with borrowed money. Don’t take out a loan. Don’t buy on margin. That is how you lose everything.
Ehh...there’s always FHA loans (3% minimum down) or PMI (5% down for conventional 30 year). Both options will cost you money (for the life of the FHA loan and until you have 20% equity for PMI), but given how insane rent can be, you still might end up ahead.
If neither of you “cracked 50K” but the two of you combined to make ~$90K, then yeah, a $350,000 house is not out of the question.
Lytro is kind of a gimmick so far. It trades 15 years of noise, color and resolution advancements for the proprietary DoF trick. Does that mean we’ll have a Lytro-like camera as good as current cameras in 2030? Maybe, but probably not. The more mature a technology gets, the harder it is to get tangible increases in…
DoF != blur filter. They’re fundamentally different things and you can never really match it in post because DoF comes from the 3 dimensional space (depth!) that’s lost when converted to a 2D image.
Snoots, even if you have no strong opinion on the f-stop or bokeh snobs, there’s even snobbier neckbeards looking down on those people (google “photography equivalence” if you like technical-but-pointless dissertations on shit that doesn’t really matter) because they have a camera that costs $5000 and they need to…
Step 3: if you think there’s that much of a difference between the display and the viewfinder, you’re using an obsolete-ass DSLR. Probably time to retire, or get hit by a meteor like the rest of the dinosaurs.
USAF dramatically changed the space shuttle. They wanted to be able to launch into polar orbit, deploy a 20,000lb satellite, and land in a single orbit. That required more than twice the payload capacity (traditional orbits get an assist from the earth’s rotation, polar doesn’t) and much larger wings (because the…
That’s all well and good, but it should be noted that the whole reason United Launch Alliance exists is because the USAF didn’t launch enough satellites to support two heavy lift vendors and the DoD didn’t want Boeing to shutter Delta IV or (less likely) Lockheed to end the Atlas V in case either rocket had a…
When was the last time Micheal Bay made a movie only 90 minutes long?