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Ukraine isn't a part of NATO and thus not a US vassal state.

... and therefore open to be invaded and annexed by Russia. Sucks to be them, right?

Crimea had a free and fair vote to join Russia - the same kind of vote a lot of people would like to have in California to see if they want to join Mexico.

Do you hear yourself? Free and fair? and Californians want to secede to Mexico? You got a cite for that? Your credibility has dropped to zero with that one.

The biggest threat to world peace is American imperialism and NATO is merely their tool.

What imperialism? What country is the U.S. attempting to annex, militarily or otherwise? Imperialism suggests that "vassals" pay to the emperor state. If NATO is paying so much, where's the fucking money?!?!?!? why the FUCK is the U.S. in DEFICIT if its world-wide "empire" is paying "tribute" to the emperorship?

Hey, Germany! Make me a new Mercedes and send it to me damn quick, you little "vassal" you, your Emperor commands it!

Oh, fucking shee-itt! Imperialism! Fuck!

(collect myself, now) As NATO is concerned, if any member wanted out, they're free to go. On the contrary, former Russian "vassal states" joined NATO at they're earliest opportunity. Flaming shit-sticks I can't believe I go on with this

Russia a long time ago lost its place as a superpower. Now it's a regional power with nukes.

You're not fooling anyone, you know. Read that last statement. Read it again, particularly the last two words. Note that they have not one, not three, but seven-fucking-thousand nukes that-we-know-of, and have exploded the largest nuclear explosion in human history, as well as time-tested ICBM technology to deliver them nukes any fucking where in the fucking world.

That means, when they fuck around with a neighboring country, annexing the best part for itself, their adversaries have to think twice about what kind of response to make, lest some armed conflict escalates out of hand, and a trigger-happy missile guy feels threatened and presses a button that dusts the entire northern hemisphere. With that much nuclear death and inter-continental reach, your power is not "local," nor would Putin permit it to be.

Russia may be no China in terms of productivity and growth (and imperialism), but they're damn proud and a small fraction of them are unimaginably wealthy. The country with the largest land-mass in the world will never settle as a "regional power". For one, that's why they fuck around in Syria: to maintain a strategic foothold in the Mediterranean. A "regional power" would have no interest in propping up a shit-kicker dictator like Bashar al-Assad with weapons and planes and troops on the ground... but a super-power intent on expanding its sea-power presence sure fucking would.

Drop a lid and open your eyes. This is planet Earth, and shit is what it is. If anything, under Trump, American influence in the world is receding, at least if you pay too much attention to his don't-wanna-pay-for-anything Tweets, while China and India expand their reach and Russia stumbles forward in its cold-war daze. All the playaz iz playin, making their moves every fucking day. Free yo

It doesn't fix the value of a dollar, but if I owe you a cow, and I offer you the current market value of a cow (delivered) in dollars, you MUST accept it and consider the debt paid.

If you owe me the value of a cow because I sold you a cow, then ... you got me. If you - via accident or misapporiation(?) - acquire my prized cow, "Norman" (it's really a bull), then you can be ordered to return Norman, not the value you or an independent appraiser might assign to Norman.

Now ... if I sold Norman for 100 generic chickens, I might have to accept the dollar value of 100 chickens (in lieu of 100 chickens). If it was 100 specific chickens ... I'm less sure.

Another potential wrinkle is that I may not have to accept it. I may lack civil recourse but there is nothing that makes me accept it, AFAIK (there could be debt-reporting agencies agreements, slander/defamation laws, etc).

And yet here is another perspective:

Denis Barker
Denis Barker, LLB Law, Osgoode Hall Law School (1992)
Answered Sep 13

The language printed on currency and the language used in the Coinage Act is there for the protection and benefit of the debtor, not a mandate for the creditor to accept the currency tendered in satisfaction of a debt. The statement means that debts paid using national currency will be legally paid and the debt discharged. It also means that debts paid in pesos, shekels or rubles may still be regarded as outstanding. A creditor can always decline payment to his or her own detriment, even if the payment is tendered in legal currency.

https://www.quora.com/On-every...

The Orville is a true to form Star Trek show disguised as generic sci-fi.
Discovery is generic sci-fi disguised as Star Trek.

Uh...no. Well, not yet, anyway.

Right now, Orville is not Trek; it is not even Trek-like. "Orville" has a satirical element that riffs on Trekish memes to score SJW points. And given its overt imitation of characters from Trek, it also could be called a parody of Trek. But neither of these characterizations put it into the Trek universe. Trek was *never* a satire or a parody. Let's get that straight.

Right now, after seven episodes, "Orville" is in the same spectrum of spoofs that has Quark on one end and Red Dwarf at the other. "Quark" was a spoof of 70's era sci-fi created by a guy who was well known for spoofing other genres. "Red Dwarf" was a parody of 80's era British sitcoms (in space!) that lampooned the whole "annoying people having vaguely interesting things to say" schematic that every British sitcom has followed to this day.

If Macfarlane can resist mining cultural memes from his adolescence for quick humor (e.g. see any episode of "Family Guy" when Macfarlane was directly involved with the writing) "Orville" can become something more.

There are hints of a different path Macfarlane could be contemplating for the series. For example, In S1E4, the government sanctioned murder of a dissident by a violent mob of intolerant alt-right standins was a good sign that Macfarlane can read the zeitgeist. Subtlety is not Macfarlane's strong suit, so the fact that he didn't give the despotic leader of the government a bad comb-over to drive the point home is an indication that Macfarlane might be considering a different approach.

There are other hints of it, especially in the evolving arc of Bortus' "son," and the potential arc involving the rescued Krill children darkly hinted at in S1E6.

McFarlane has created a spoof, but to what end? Trek was not about satire. If anything, it was about social commentary. Stephen Colbert's widely successful "The Colbert Report," a textbook perfect example of satire that deconstructed right-wing bloviators like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh is something I hope Macfarlane is shooting for. Satire is one method of social commentary, but it is not the only one. Handled well, the way Colbert handled his conservative alter ego, it can be devastating. But it is too targeted. A culture as sick as ours needs a broad spectrum cure, and social commentary in a popular TV series *can* reach far more people.

Granted, much of the hype surrounding ST:Discovery was about the stated intention of the creative team to use the show as a vehicle for social commentary a la ST:TOS. Macfarlane made no such announcement, but it seems that he is leaving himself some room to go that route.

Linking the bad guys with the alt-right wackos emboldened by the dumpster fire president we elected is probably not going to end well for either series. "Remain Klingon" and "Make America Great Again" are too similar in meaning to be a coincidence, and as soon as the alt right realize that they are ST:Discovery's Klingons, and Macfarlane's Krill in "Orville," it is going to get ugly, fast.

Because ads earn about $0.001/impression. (link https://www.quora.com/How-much...)

so three impressions per a minutes (scrolling down a loud website) = $0.003/minute, this is across all devices, including relatively low power ones such as phones. (random estimation, not sure if the link is page view or ad view)

I pay .17/kWh (total electric bill divided by total usage, $.145 may be more accurate as it's the cumulative variable part).

We'll use 30 watts/minute for usage spike of a computer with any real power.

30 watt minutes = .5 watt hours = .0005 kWh = $0.000085 of electricity available to make up that $0.003 of ad view.

Sure these numbers include assumptions, but are 2 orders of magnitude too low. The only site where this makes any bit of sense is one that can't get traditional advertising.

Anyway, thanks for making be double check my gut assumptions, because I was just guessing until now.

suggest that "second hint" is mostly wrong:

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-body-burn-fat-before-it-burns-muscle-for-energy

---- From the referenced article on Quora:
Liang-Hai Sie, Retired general internist, former intensive care physician.

Answered 72w ago

We prefer not to burn our muscle proteins, since this we need to function well, so mostly fat first, although we all know that when losing weight we also lose muscle mass, which can be partially prevented by exercising see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2650077/

and having more protein 25 - 30 gram three times a day ( 1 - 1.2 gram/kg/day) instead of the normal RDA of 0.8 gram/kg/day - if possible within 30 minutes after resistance training - see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276215/. we think because this prevents muscle breakdown to acquire the needed essential amino acids instead of acquiring that from breaking down you own muscles.
----End of Quora quote

Next they're going to say Russia mind controlled Hillary and made her call half the country deplorable.

Actual quote: "...you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables."

• 60.2% of eligible voters cast a vote in the 2016 presidential election.
• Trump received 45.9% of the votes cast.
• 27.6% of the eligible voting population voted for Trump.
• 27.6% / 2 = 13.8%.

(Source: Dylan Cutler's answer to What percentage of eligible voters voted for Trump?)

So I wanted to know if this dog eats his food and searched for Tim Cook's programming skills. The unanimous answer seems to be that Tim Cook has probably had some coding experience as an engineer, but he is not a programmer.

Programming should be left to programmers, there's enough horrible code already. Human input always needs to be heavily sanitized, but if the input is in the form of instructions to a universal machine, sanitization is necessarily deficient. So it's better to let the input for most tasks be in English and make machines smart enough to handle that safely. And I'm saying "in English", not "in natlang", because for computers to learn hundreds of human languages is much harder than for most humans to learn English, which they do anyway.

So I wanted to know if this dog eats his food and searched for Tim Cook's programming skills. The unanimous answer seems to be that Tim Cook has probably had some coding experience as an engineer, but he is not a programmer.

Programming should be left to programmers, there's enough horrible code already. Human input always needs to be heavily sanitized, but if the input is in the form of instructions to a universal machine, sanitization is necessarily deficient. So it's better to let the input for most tasks be in English and make machines smart enough to handle that safely. And I'm saying "in English", not "in natlang", because for computers to learn hundreds of human languages is much harder than for most humans to learn English, which they do anyway.

IEA is known for persistently underestimating the rollout of renewable energi. Here's the latest analysis I know of.

Basically, they project a linear growth, even though they've themselves increased their estimates with several percents on each revision of their estimates, i.e. exponentially...

In other words, any discussion based on their forecasts is most likely going to be way off.

This is great because you've furnished nothing to support your claim. But hey, I'll spend time out of my life actually making a real life coherent point (you're welcome).

https://www.quora.com/Are-Indi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  and honestly, what on earth does India get from alliances with Russia or Iran that would benefit it? Literally nothing aside from Iran playing a small counterweight to Pakistan. What on earth does modern Russia have to offer India? What does India have to gain from not helping the US in preventing China from becoming the dominant force in Asia? Simple casual logic dictates how wrong you are, let alone modern history.

Brilliant!

Here is some background:
https://www.nature.com/news/20...
http://www.mosquitoreviews.com...
https://www.quora.com/What-is-...

The real mystery is how they lifted these blocks up the structure. The descendant of the caste of temple builders in South India says they build a helical wall that spirals around the structure. The wall is filled with sand. Stones are rolled up the helical ramp and moved into place. Once the structure is complete, the scaffolding wall is broken, sand spills out, and the structure is reveled. How they build the Big Temple at Thanjavur

It is possible the Egyptians also used inclined planes, possibly even the same helical inclined plane. BTW the helical inclined plane is used day in day out by us, we call them the threads in nuts and bolts.

Yes but people are frequently ludicrous and entitled.

Generally WordPress consultants and people working with WordPress charge way less than people with equivalent jobs with other focus areas. This has historical reasons and is quite frankly a huge problem. It also brings the market value down and makes it unfair. When you look at WordPress projects vs. non-WordPress projects side by side you'll notice that WordPress projects generally get quoted in the low to mid $10,000 while other similar projects on other platforms get quoted $30,000 and above. This is not because WordPress is cheaper but because the community as a whole bids itself down. Rather than asking what do people charge, ask yourself what your time is worth. Do a competitive analysis based on your skills and expertise and charge for your time. This also requires that you charge for the actual time you spend working, not the time you think you should have spent. Bill by the hour and bill what you're worth. Not the easiest answer, but that's the hard truth.

Source.

This guy is saying that non-Wordpress projects get $CASHBANK and that Wordpress projects get $SHITMONEY and that it's a huge problem and you should just charge a lot because you're entitled to it.

Mind you, I'm pushing strong for universal Social Security, which in the 2016 model would have paid every American adult $8,751/year or $729.25/month in semi-monthly payments. That's a poverty-reduction system. The economy doesn't give everyone a fair shot; it provides jobs where there is purchasing demand, and drops people to unemployment when progress is made. We owe people a safety net and a basis of support--and, as of somewhere around 2013, we can support that without high tax burdens.

That's a bit different than walking in, looking around, and declaring that you should be paid more because you think you deserve it. You'll get paid more when few people can do your job and someone really wants to keep you. Some ludicrous shit happens (like high salaries in the west of the continent and people living the same standard-of-living on half as much money in the east), but that's not my business to come in and bust up. It's also not my business to try to legislate something about people not trying for salaries way above the market rate--you'll learn fast enough on your own.

So yeah, there's some sentiment on the supply side (developers) that their wages should be $HIGHER, and some sentiment on the demand side (employers) that the wages should be $LOWER. You're seeing the spread. Low-bid companies can't attract or retain the best talent; high-bid job seekers have few job opportunities.

You are an idiot.

Apple doesn't "buy a monopoly on a production-run.

Ok, track down this Quora user and tell them they're wrong then:
https://www.quora.com/What-wou...

There is no "perception of performance" that affects benchmarks

Benchmarks are full of shit. Perception is everything.

glassy-smooth tracking and animation

See, even you fucking agree.

Wow! You Haters

I don't hate Apple. I hate cockwombles that are so fucking blinkered that they can't stand any criticism of Apple.

HOW long ago was that Jailbreak-Exploit thing?

See, you can't defend this one so you try and deflect away from it. You could have admitted that yes, earlier versions of iOS were wide fucking open.

And your excuse about "constrained this, and constrained that" sounds JUST like the Windows fanbois trying to explain-away bad Security on that platform, too!

Wait? I'm arguing with someone that uses the term 'fanbois'? I'd get more erudite responses from a used tampon.

However, since you made that comment: Even Microsoft fans can be right from time to time.

Wrong.

Really? You do realise you're your very own counter-example? I highlight some evident truths and you go onto some ranting bollocks that makes a fuckload of assumptions, including my views on Apple and their latest iPhones.

a nearly unbelievable lack of insight

Your inability to miss the insights I'm offering doesn't meant that they're not there.

But to just REFLEXIVELY disregard an entire company and all of its software and hardware products, especially one with such insanely-high customer-satisfaction ratings and insanely-high sales, year after year, shows

..that I don't like their business practices, their business model, the locked down environment they demand people accept, the ludicrous profit margin they make on their devices or the marketing they use to dupe consumers into thinking they're cool.

Then again, I don't disregard them. I just don't buy them and instead mock people like you that think they're a gift from god. Fucking expensive gift.

Here is a rough estimate as of 2015 from Quora:

For long haul, my rule-of-thumb (based on 35k miles of "thumb" over the last 20 years) is about $175k/mile for two conduit and 144 fiber. Note: this is good for optical ground wire on long-haul electrical transmission lines, as well as buried.

So $50 million buys .285714285714 of a mile, or 1508.57142857 feet or 459.8126 meters.

Thank god we're saved!!

Costs $175k/mile, and $50 million gets a little over a quarter mile? Sign me up for that contract! That's a nice profit margin.

Here is a rough estimate as of 2015 from Quora:

For long haul, my rule-of-thumb (based on 35k miles of "thumb" over the last 20 years) is about $175k/mile for two conduit and 144 fiber. Note: this is good for optical ground wire on long-haul electrical transmission lines, as well as buried.

So $50 million buys .285714285714 of a mile, or 1508.57142857 feet or 459.8126 meters.

Thank god we're saved!!

Incorrect.

For long haul, my rule-of-thumb (based on 35k miles of "thumb" over the last 20 years) is about $175k/mile for two conduit and 144 fiber. Note: this is good for optical ground wire on long-haul electrical transmission lines, as well as buried.

So $50 million buys .285714285714 of a mile, or 1508.57142857 feet or 459.8126 meters.

Thank god we're saved!!

You left out the part where Sen. Manchin, her father, is a Democrat. Funny that. It's almost like that's an inconvenient truth and we'd like to keep the Dems clear of any whiff of scandal.

Fun fact: 77.67% of criminals (convicted of felonies and sentenced to prison sentences) working in the United States elected offices are Left Wing officials while 22.33% are Right Wing.

The shadows through the leaves are pretty damn cool.

Had to look this up - here's a quora with the image of crescent shadows:

https://www.quora.com/What-cau...

And the answer is the same reason why NASA doesn't use them - while mobility in them is superb, they're significantly heavier.

This is the reason that people like the National Space Society want to establish manufacturing facilities on the moon and in orbit. Once you already have the item in space, the weight is much less meaningful.

It is still expensive to do orbital plane changes, but now weight just becomes a trade for time. It will just take you longer to get where you want the heavier you are.

Right now we have to deal with launch costs and planetary thinking. So lightweight suits it is.

"The accuracy of the GPS signal is identical for both the civilian GPS service (SPS) and the military GPS service (PPS). Civilian SPS broadcasts on only one frequency 1575.42 MHz, while military PPS uses two 1575.42 MHz and 1227.60 MHz."

"Once upon a time, the unencrypted signal included a random error factor that would make the civilian GPS randomly wrong in a different direction each day. I believe it started with errors up to 400 meters, which was still plenty accurate for general ocean navigation. The policy / feature was called “Selective Availability” and was killed in 2000."

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-difference-between-military-GPS-data-and-civilians-in-terms-of-accuracy

Jet Airliners and Jet Fighters...Neither of them take off or land by themselves.

Actually, then do:

Jet Airliners:
Every major Jet Airliner must have an automatic land feature.

Jet fighters:
The F/A-18 Hornet and the EA-6 Prowler have it. Looks like it is used for carrier landings since they are so difficult. Ooh, so does the F-35. The experimented with it on the F-16

Jet Airliners and Jet Fighters...Neither of them take off or land by themselves.

Actually, then do:

Jet Airliners:
Every major Jet Airliner must have an automatic land feature.

Jet fighters:
The F/A-18 Hornet and the EA-6 Prowler have it. Looks like it is used for carrier landings since they are so difficult. Ooh, so does the F-35. The experimented with it on the F-16

But plenty of people have access to cars of family members and friends. More than 75% of the homicide victims know their perps. Stranger on stranger murder rate is less than 25%.

So one could sabotage a car of a family member in a manner very difficult to detect using a device plugged into the network, targets the brake system once the car speed is above 75 mph. An average dumb criminal, (all criminals are dumb) would lack the technical knowledge to do it. But now a days I see kits being sold on Amazon for USB sticks that will fry the mother board if plugged in. So it wouldn't be long before such devices make it to the market. Yes, eventually the police will catch one and then it would become standard protocol to look for this. But till then ...

On the contrary, it makes me think that every time something is working fine, somebody comes along to change it. Typewriter apostrophe has been around, well, since typewriters!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

MS-WORD doesn't even use the same quotation marks for English and French because of those printing inspired people that say that a symbol looks nicer than another depending on the language, establish trends etc. when the used symbol adds no value at all and everybody understands what the symbol means anyway.

MS-Word had problems implementing that functionality first and many people still have problems, it goes from language analyzer to syntax validation software. Here are a few examples after a very quick search:

https://tedclancy.wordpress.co...

http://www.fileformat.info/inf...

https://www.quora.com/Punctuat...

http://snowball.tartarus.org/t...

1: Forcing their beliefs on others is inherent to Islam. Only a complete idiot could think their very presence is not a threat to Western civilization.

Waitaminite. I think it's important to listen to how Muslims themselves feel about that.

2: The real question is, does the presence of trans people hinder the cohesion and combat efficiency of the troops in any way? If so, they don't belong there.

And the answer to that question ... is no.

Because thats how you get people to ignore global warming.

Meanwhile we had a 1.5C increase in the last 250 years: http://berkeleyearth.org/data/ (I like those guys because of Richard Muller who is not afraid to change sides if the data contradicts his theory)

This here only talks about the recent findings:
http://berkeleyearth.org/berke... (2014-2015ish)

They estimate that there could be another 1.5C increase within the next 50 years, so 7.8 is completely ridiculous as that would mean almost double that.

source on the 1.5C/50years: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-...

Alarmist news like those may be well intentioned in trying to wake people up to the real dangers of CC, but in the end they will just dull the senses of the public to the doom and gloom of it all. Worst, people tend to realize that occasionally they are being lied to or fed exaggerations and may even come to reject CC completely because of that.

Nope. Men still have a copy of an X chromosome.

Nevertheless, men and women do differ by a whole chromosome, since women don't have a Y chromosome. (True, the Y chromosome is a relatively small chromosome, but it is still a large genetic difference between the sexes.)

Also, if you want to try to measure the difference via counting genes, there are more differences between unrelated men than there are between all men and all women.

Citation needed. Other sources claim that men and women are more different than humans and chimps. I can't ind the link atm, but I also remember seeing a Ted Talk by a medical researcher who pointed out that recent research had actually shown that the expression of the Y chromosome goes far beyond only modifying hormones, but actually affects most cells of the body directly, which was one reason why they wanted to move towards separate medication trials for men and women. (According to that researcher, the assumption that "men and women are equal except sex hormones" was widespread in the medical community, but had been disproven by more recent research.)

So how are the Amazon affiliate links providing you with that? Is someone threatening you with a lawsuit? Are you threatening someone with a lawsuit? You make no sense as usual.

"The most common definition that I've read "

Citation, please. You've "read" it, so feel free to provide a link.

http://www.urbandictionary.com...
https://www.quora.com/What-is-...
https://kopywritingkourse.com/...

The only place where your made-up definition applies is on your mother ship, as usual.

No, the proper term is "sofa change". As usual, you completely misunderstand a simple idiom and misapply it.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-...

Jesus christ dude, you're probably gonna be dead in no time from atherosclerosis.

I'm assuming you're talking about the saturated fat content. It's a myth that saturated fat clogs arteries.
From here:

The epidemiology of saturated fats and atherosclerosis doesn't look good for the old theory that one is caused by the other. Mostly it's been confounded by the fact that intake of preserved meat (which is high in saturated fat) correlates with atherosclerosis. But it's a proxy because intake of fresh meat and dairy and tropical oils, all does NOT correlate with it.

No, it should be moderated as rhetorical bullshit.

The American healthcare system is the worst in the developed world, the most expensive and the worst outcomes.

https://www.quora.com/topic/Un...

People's attention spans have fallen to that of a gnat due to the constant need to check their social media updates.

This is deeply offensive. According to this well-respected source, gnats have the deliberate-continuity advantage at 3.4 seconds. So, take your comment back, bzzzzzzz!

Having worked with many degreed "engineers" from Asia and India, there is a huge variation in competence. Typically those that went through grad school in the US are solid engineers, however, those still in their home country are usually sub par for the field.

The article contains the problem. Engineering is very popular in India, thus, there are a lot of people getting the degree who have no business being engineers (this happens with any popular/trendy profession). However, engineering requires a certain mindset and a certain inherent intelligence. https://www.quora.com/How-do-t... If you don't have an IQ of at least 120 or higher, you will likely not do well as an engineer (your best hope is to get rapidly promoted to management, I have seen it happen numerous times). Since the median IQ is theoretically 100, and engineering is popular, you wind up with a sizable fraction who were able to cram their way through school, but who don't have the inherent capacity to do the job.

Hopefully with internships this will become more apparent to the affected students, allowing them to shift into other valuable but less intelligence intensive fields before they spend all 4 years on a field that they won't be successful in.

Anyone with substantial amounts of wealth has rapid access to cash via extremely low interest rate loans.
Sources:
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2012/0717/Zuckerberg-s-1-percent-mortgage-Why-does-a-billionaire-need-a-loan
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-rich-people-can-borrow-money-at-very-low-rates-of-interest-nearly-free-Regular-savers-must-borrow-at-much-higher-rates-of-interest

It seems I believed an article about this which people knowledgeable about Japan generally think is untrue. There's discussion on the topic here: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-tr...

(Just don't try to click through to the original article, because it has become a spam page.)

While apparently a true statement (I'm not Muslim), it is grossly misleading:

Until I actually googled this, I was ignorant on what jihad actually meant; "striving and working hard for something."

http://www.islamportal.net/for...

https://www.quora.com/Is-jihad...

Lasers create cohesive beams.

Lasers may create *coherent* beams and most of them do not even do that because only specialized applications like holography and Interferometry need coherence. Lasers not specifically designed to produce a coherent beam have a typical coherence length of millimeters to centimeters as I discovered when trying to build an Interferometer.

With even consumer grade optics, distance by itself has no effect on power.

Ordinary observation of a consumer or lab grade laser over moderate distances will show that the beam does obey the square law rule past a relatively short distance from the aperture. I have done it myself.

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-l...

re 'The energy of the "shot" delivered should drop with the square of the distance from the target.'

It's a laser! The energy of the shot will not follow an inverse square law - it will dissipate slowly due to slight incoherence and absorption.

It certainly does follow the inverse square law and you can observe this yourself with any common laser.

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-l...

Edward Markey is a member of the democratic party, so at this point he has no power whatsoever in congress. It's great that he feels this way but unless he can convince enough other people to care, then he's just pissing in the wind (ie, pandering to his base).

Note that the Democratic party held both houses and the presidency from 2009 to 2011, and nothing useful got done.

Pandering to your base is easy when you're the minority party, or when the other house is controlled by the opposite party.

Then you can pander all you want, placing blame on the other party for preventing you from doing what's right and just for the people!

During 2009 to 2011 the Democrats held majorities in both houses, but not supermajorities! If only the Democrats had just a few more votes, just *think* of all the good things they could have done!

The situation is a bit more interesting right now because many civilian outlets are saying "fix health care or we'll vote you out at the mid-terms". That's about 1.5 years from now, and campaigning starts in about 6 months.

Republicans are between a rock and a hard place with that one, but let's see what happens.

Most likely, congress will flip from R to D, and it still won't matter.

Wrong!

And 8 ton elephant can do 40km/h (25mph) (http://www.speedofanimals.com/animals/elephant), and they can travel far distances at a relatively fast pace (compared to humans), so yes, I think a 4 ton predator could maintain a high enough pace to overtake a human without having a heart attack (elephants sure can: https://www.quora.com/Can-an-e...)

T.rex may not have been able to "run", but it could walk at about 12mph (according to this study). While the fastest man alive can sprint at just over 25mph, he won't be maintaining that speed for very long, and T.rex can cover some serious distance with those huge strides. It's also silly to reference Usain Bolt... T.rex would only need to catch slow to average speed people (if we had even been around then), and my money would still be on T.rex to win those races.

Perhaps it might help to watch this movie. The lyric is about an adult forcing their policies and worldview on the children...you have to eat the "main course" first before you get the desert. Most children in the UK in the 50's couldn't afford to just go buy pudding. This explains it a bit too.

Um.... its LIDAR (light radar) [...] light that is being sprayed around.

O RLY?

Both short-range and long-range automotive-grade RADARs are used (mostly in the narrow-band i.e. 27â"77 GHz) for AD applications.

Modern self-driving prototypes rely on radar and lidar to âoecross validateâ what theyâ(TM)re seeing and to predict motion.

The US is either in first or second place in terms of genorosity and charitable giving. The top European country is the UK, in 8th. The US is actually quite generous, even going so far as to sacrifice thousands of soldier's lives to protect the oil supplies for Japan, China, India, and Europe by fighting wars in the Middle East.

> However that was done by marketing, not by innovation.

That's not entirely true. The Apple's 381th Patent for inertial scrolling was a game changer. Adding physics to UI was absolutely brilliant.

Inertial scrolling was invented by Bas Ording. He has worked at Apple since 1998 as an User Interface Designer.

Reference:

* The Apple patent Steve Jobs fought hard to protect
* Who invented inertial scrolling on iOS

LOL Just for you. The first link I came across:

Link.

I kinda am an authority on the subject of highways - though this is tangential knowledge. I did a lot of field work - and modeled traffic. It was my graduate work that helped bring the art of traffic modeling to the computer age. ;-)

I spent as much time out collecting data as I could. It was much more enjoyable.

If you're talking a 50-story building of grade A office space, you're not going to have just one elevator shaft. You'll have banks of elevators, potentially as many as 30, simply because you're limited to one car per shaft. Using your math, 30 elevators would mean 180,000 sqft of floor space (i.e. $180,000,000 at $1000/sqft).

With this new technology, the limit of one car per shaft is broken.

Suddenly, you can replace those 30 shafts with just four: one to go up, one to go down, one for entry and exit, and one for reloading (i.e. replacing cars in use so that each floor always has a car ready to be used). You'd only need one elevator door per floor, since the car could switch to the up or down track after you boarded. And because there'd always be an elevator waiting for you, you wouldn't need a waiting area at all.

Removing the 10' waiting area reduces the footprint of each shaft from 120 sqft per floor to just 40 sqft per floor, and when you couple that with reducing the number of shafts from 30 to 4, we see the total footprint shrink from 3,600 sqft per floor to just 160 sqft per floor. Across 50 floors, that'd mean going from 180,000 sqft to just 8,000 sqft, or going from $180,000,000 of floor space to just $8,000,000, saving you $172,000,000 of floor space.

All of which is to say, while sideways movement does open up novel possibilities, such quickly traveling between adjacent skyscrapers, the most valuable use for sideways movement will likely be having cars simply move between adjacent tracks. Doing so lets you break all sorts of assumptions that hold back traditional elevators.

Apple does not allow browsers on that platform that do anything other than wrap Webview.

Marx would loath UBI, it's essentially bribing the masses to put off the revolution. The capitalists would still control everything after all.

Here's one of many more thorough explenations as to why UBI is not socialism (I just clicked on the first link after asking the question through google)
https://www.quora.com/Is-basic...

Maybe dust off your own dictionary

As for the urgency, while I realize the unemployment rate is not a perfect metric the fact that it's low right now does a pretty good job of contradicting your point that things are super urgent.