Zero Sum

Sigh.

Except here:
Not really. You'd have parabolic trajectory due to the slightest deviation from the perpendicular angle to the angle of gravity. Everything different from that will obviously be subject to gravity, but will still be able to retain the kinetic energy from the gun.

Sound like you were crying with a baby face when you posted that.

Here's an article you should look through. I'll put up an excerpt. It's a bit long.

Fact: Danno is a rascist.

With maturity comes self-restraint. Impulsive violence is the hallmark of someone who's brain stopped growing at 15.

Any man guilty of any kind of domestic violence may technically be an adult has the emotional maturity of a child.

I love how indignant you criminals get.

What is the point of posting this race baiting article?

Isn't karma a b#####? It used to be the other way around.

He should have done a John Waters mustache.

I know its wacko looking at the source... but there are very true nuggets of honesty here:

kathryn is highly respected by a significant majority of both long term and new members for her fair and even handedness. the numbers of those calling for her ouster are very small - namely, you.
perhaps the problem is you?

Of course they don't. How could they seeing that they've been skinned already? Median income declined since 2000 which means that that bottom 50% already has less than they ever did. Where did all that income growth of the last decade go? You guessed it, to the top 5%. They took the skin of the peasants already and are now complaining that the peasants don't have any skin in the game? Give them back their skin and they might just put some back into the game.

I don't understand how teachers have become the punching bag of the nation and how they're being made responsible for lack of student achievement while being stripped of authority and the tools to teach effectively. They're being forced to teach to stupid tests and then they're blamed for the failure of this stupid strategy. It's insanity.

Just thought I'd add a few numbers to the discussion.
I've worked at three different school districts; all in Texas. I taught a few years at a small rural school where the district paid the state minimum. So, for those interested in teacher salaries, here's an example. The minimum salary for a first year teacher is $27,320. This progresses each year so that after 20 years, the teacher will max out at a salary of $44,270. Never quite made it to the national average of 48K.
I'm currently working at an urban school where I get paid quite a bit more. However, it is a very different environment. After 17 years of teaching experience, I made around $56,000 this year. Of course, the only way I made this much was by teaching night school and by teaching summer school. So, I didn't get the 6.5 hour day, it was more of a 10 hour day, with the same amount of work to take home after the school day. And I didn't have the 3 months of vacation; I had 4 weeks. But of course, those weeks also include any workshops I attend; so it's not necessariy free time.
And by the way, I invite anybody who criticizes teachers to sub at an inner city school for one day. Let me know how it goes; if you're able to finish the day.

My boss asked me if I would work for a teacher's salary.
I told him I would not.

I am sure several states have a nice average salary for the people who have been in the district for a longgggg time. You certainly don't start out with that type of income. In North Carolina teachers start at about $29,000. In some states - $25,000.
They have had a salary freeze on teachers for the past four years that I have been in North Carolina, and some days we worked for free. My salary was $30,600, because I had some experience coming in. You don't just work 6.5 hours per day. You have lots of work to do outside of the school day - grading, preparation, teacher workshops, plus teachers put a lot of their own money into supplies.
You don't have any vacation time left after you use them for the vacations you mentioned and they aren't all paid for - the days up to Christmas are workdays. You have to accumulate that time each month, so you can't be taking days off hither thither. You are penalized for taking too many days off during the school year.
This district doesn't necessarily reimburse you for further education.
We had three high school physical education teachers who had 12 students each in their classes. They were alternating giving their student load to one of the teachers each day, so the other two could go play golf all day. Yet they were being paid. Why? Because extra-curricular activities, which these teachers also get paid for, were too important to this district. So, you bet theeey were making a good salary. By the way, my job was eliminated so that they could keep their comfy situation. This is mismanagement by the administration.
My district laid off all the teachers that were about to obtain tenure. So, they continue to hire first year teachers, to keep the salary at it's lowest. As soon as you are about to receive tenure and thus start working for retirement, they drop you. In the meantime, we have administrators (principals) making 3 1/2 times the teachers, then add on their $20,000 bonus. Superintendents come and feed off the carcass of the district until they get a cushier position and move on.
I really don't like when people generalize about my profession. Until you've experienced it yourself, I don't see how qualified you are to criticize the teaching profession. By the way, I don't think any teachers want pity. We just want fairness, and that is what is missing today.
Teachers are complaining today because they are being blamed for all that is going wrong with education. How about the parents who refuse to teach their children how to behave? The bureaucracy of people who know little about being an educator, yet dictate the rules? The administrators who are only looking out for their own self-interests? Many principals have only been teachers a short time and choose to move out of teaching. How qualified are they really to be dictating what teachers should be doing? My assistant principal was a teacher for one year!! How about the nepotism that goes on, to allow certain people to reach positions of power? How about the lack of reliance on homegrown solutions to problems, rather than national dictates on what a particular district needs to focus on? How about the expectation that teachers are given to shove the information down the child's throat so they pass the test? Do it, or you will be gone!
Perhaps some teachers have a great salary. They are people who have been around a long time. That is not the case in the present day for the new teachers.

That'd be me. But I bet you can't operate a nuclear reactor.

yes.
Paul, the only one coming off as seriously foolish and deluded is you. Take a poll if you don't believe it.

Come on, learn to read and comprehend before responding. I have made no such claim.

PT Barnum would have you read the actual paper again and say what the principal points of the paper were, named by the authors themselves... not being coy with you on this... but you can't present something as proof of your position and then disagree with its central hypothesis and mechanism, and conclusions.

Interesting change of careers, I'd say!
I think the workings of science, as a research scientist until I was recruited by the Dark Side of the Force, need to be considered in direct, simplified concepts in order for more people to comprehend things correctly. I'll take a look at the posts after this one I'm responding to... but I suspect there is some degree of ignorance as to the methodologies and the error that signals power of analysis in statistics in the lay interpretations of the science of GW. I'll try to point those mistakes out to you if I see them.
Yes. Science revises its precepts as observational data becomes more complete and as the relationships controlling observable phenomena become more understood. It is a pity that as the science advances, so does a segment of human ignorance in its mechanisms. Exemplified here from time to time.