Recent content by Kurt M. Weber

The Kingdom of God is Within You

God these worthless refs...how much did Philly pay them tonight?

You don't need to own the copyright to legitimately modify or redistribute something, if the copyright holder gives you permission to do so. By uploading Sketchup models to 3D warehouse, the copyright holder has given you permission to both modify and redistribute. Of course, while you...

Yes, the original author retains copyright. However, the terms of service that have been mentioned here mean that by the very act of uploading the model we all have permission to do whatever is in 11.1(c); contacting the author for express permission isn't necessary, as permission is given...

La Double vie de Veronique Lawrence of Arabia Andrei Rublev

How Societies Remember, The Wretched of the Earth, The Charterhouse of Parma, and The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere ---------- Post added at 02:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:13 PM ---------- Racist tripe... "There is no way these barbaric, primitive, savage...

Well...most of the problems that I've browsed through so fare are heavily abstracted, or involve made-up bodies whose relevant physical characteristics are nice round numbers to make the arithmetic simpler so it doesn't get in the way of understanding the problem. Religious dissent and popular...

I'm a historian (in training) by profession and passion, but I have a lighter, avocational interest in a number of other fields, among them mathematics, astronomy, and astronautics. To that end, in my free time I like to supplement my (ongoing) formal education with self-study in a number of...

My interest in Orbiter comes and goes in spurts, and I'm feeling a resurgence of interest right now. Out of curiosity, I went to see if there had been anything new released for NASSP since I last updated everything about this time last year. Regrettably, there was not. I went to check the...

I'm running the Apollo 11 VAGC scenario from the latest NASSP beta, and I'm running through the VAGC checklist spreadsheet manually. I get to the step that has me input V16 N65. I press "VERB 1 6 NOUN 6 5 ENTR", and nothing shows up on the display--nothing shows up under the VERB or NOUN...

Would anyone mind giving me an idea of what sort of position (via graphical reference, description, whatever) of what kind of position the MSS needs to be in to deatch it from the crawler-transporter? I can get the mobile launcher into position just fine, but despite several attempts, backing...

I'm coming back to Orbiter after a bit of a hiatus, and I've downloaded the Orbiter 2010-P1 Windows Installer package. However, when I install it, all the pre-installation setup goes fine. But then when I get to the actual installation screen, it comes up with a "The system cannot find the...

Who has said otherwise? We don't know anything now from the so-called "hard sciences." What the natural sciences do is build more-or-less abstract models to help explain observed phenomena. That's useful enough for building cool gadgets, but there's no guarantee that those observed phenomena...

Where did I say they didn't matter? It's not that they "don't matter" or that they're "not important"; it's just that they're not good in and of themselves. What use is a communications device, if you have no ideas to send back and forth across it? And if the only ideas you have to send back...

Who's uneducated? ---------- Post added at 11:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:40 AM ---------- Yes, and the latter is more important than the former.