Put them through the same security checkpoints and FAA regulations that we have to go through to fly and I think they won't bother much anymore. No sane creature would put up with that more than a couple times a year.
If the mesh is too fine it will restrict airflow too much, and if its too coarse it will just shred the birds. They do have the giant fan blade that acts as a blender. If the minced bird is too much for the engine to handle then maybe the actual engine intake could be momentarily blocked so the former bird just gets routed around with the air that cools the engine. A sensor on the fan blade should be able to pick up any worrisome impacts to get the timing right.
I would be more concerned about the exposed wings and cockpit, since those don't have bird blenders to guard them. The cockpit window gets the turkey test, but I am not familiar with how the wings (especially the flaps) hold up. Perhaps I'm wrong and the engines are the whole problem, but in that case I don't know what those engineers are doing.
Considering how the media companies love to just liscense their products to consumers, artists should work together to force the contracts to change so their work is merely liscensed to the labels.
"They argue that removing Internet access is equivalent to hindering a person's freedom of speech"
I would much appreciate if US Congress took this to heart and forced ISPs to stop the anticompetitive behavior. Sure, if these corporations really want to charge exorbitant amounts for their top-tier services, that's their right as a business. But there is little reason to have such price gouging and consumer-abusive practices and horrible, out of date service. Yes, we have disadvantages like large rural expanses and suburban sprawl, but I would like to finally see some legal teeth put in place to get this country to where it should be.
We would all like to see the RIAA lose on all points brought up here, but how strong are these arguments, and are there known ways the RIAA could dodge them?
I'd say pollution is simply putting something somewhere where it doesn't belong. Most of the time all those neighborhood street lights aren't being used, or that distant glow from the nearby city does nothing for you. Artificial light belongs where people are using it to see, otherwise it is pollution.
Support a continued ban on nuclear plants. Once we run low on fossil fuels electricity will be too expensive and everyone will turn of the lights. If it happens soon enough wind/solar won't be enough to make up the difference.
I saw a video of the night sky where you could see the center of the Milky Way move across - if you showed me that eight years ago I wouldn't believe it was real. Due to living near Chicago most of my life, for the longest time I typically only saw a few dozen stars, and thought only a few hundred were visible with the naked eye.
Maybe you just want an example to list, but its diffucult to tell which people actually believe the WMD scare was a government-brewed hoax. Multiple countries believed Saddam had them, Saddam was known to have them in the past, and he acted every bit like he still had them. Based on the evidence the government hoax idea has the support of any other conspiracy theory.
Sorry to make it two replies, but your last paragraph can largely apply to zero copyright too (except for more access to past works and fewer court cases). Your problems seem to have more to do with abusive expansion of copyright law, which I think anyone here has problems with. No one here is arguing to keep the status quo, just whether or not basic copyright is beneficial.
No copyright leads to a freeloader-filled market. To solve this, you want media to rely on people commissioning the work ahead of time. In other words, the rich will control the media. Bach and Michalangelo have come up as examples, and I believe they were all commissioned by rich people. Yes, there is now a middle class, but I don't get the impression that you'll have many songs/movies/etc. commissioned mostly with $20 contributions. Copyright solves this problem as it allows media to be funded by the masses. Commissioned work can still be done today, so if you are so convinced it will work better than copyright, shouldn't copyright fade out on its own? Commissioned works create a positive externality, and copyright accounts for this, so in theory copyright better approximates the optimal market solution.
I also wanted to point out you could use better analogies - if a friend gets his hair cut, he can't just give me the haircut too, I have to go to the barber and pay for my own copy of his services. Perhaps I could learn to cut my own hair, but if we change it from haircuts to surgery that it out of the question. There is also the point that you don't keep your haircut forever and have to go back to get another - sounds like a DRM scheme to me.
2. This same issue exists with any other service, and it's a non-issue. You don't know what the quality of your auto repair, landscaping, or surgery will be until it's been performed either, yet people pay for these services all the time. They agree on the service to be performed beforehand, and if the result is unacceptable, they take their dispute to one of the well-established venues (complaints, bad reviews, chargebacks, small claims court, etc.).
It isn't so hard to prove that a surgery caused more pain or didn't fix the problem. Good luck trying to prove your commissioned song wasn't of the right quality.
If it uses buoyancy much of that pressure is distributed on the air below the sections of the tower. In this case you can't just count the footprint once. I am assuming they don't mean the bottom of the structure to provide much, if any, support for the tower above it.
So they didn't do well at these tests, and now they do. We know they can learn the test, so now we change the test for the better and see if they keep up.
He probably just went to the college closest to home. I know a kid who triple majored at a nearby 4-year libral arts college at the age of 16. He easily could have gone to a top university instead, but he kept busy close to home. Now he's doing graduate studies at University of Chicago. If you go to graduate school it doesn't really matter what you did for undergrad, so a cheap and close to home community college is a perfect way to start.
As far as I've heard, the sentiment in China is that democracy is too weak and leads to civil unrest, so the authoritarian rule is accepted as a needed form of government. I completely agree with you that the average Chinese person is content without democracy or what we see as basic rights. I am afraid, though, that the comparison in their mind is a choice of a stable authoritarian rule, or an unstable democracy. I would be curious what the general opinion would be if they were guaranteed equal stability with either form of government.
We need a search engine to be on-par with Google in terms of marketshare that uses a significantly different algorithm. Sites can't game the system as well if there are two models to conform to simultaneously (I hope).
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You never mention problems on aircraft carriers. Maybe we should study what makes the difference and have our airports copy the carriers.
Put them through the same security checkpoints and FAA regulations that we have to go through to fly and I think they won't bother much anymore. No sane creature would put up with that more than a couple times a year.
Now, instead of a ten pound bird going into the intake, you have ten pounds of bird parts going into the engine.
What do you think happens to birds that hit the fan blades?
If the mesh is too fine it will restrict airflow too much, and if its too coarse it will just shred the birds. They do have the giant fan blade that acts as a blender. If the minced bird is too much for the engine to handle then maybe the actual engine intake could be momentarily blocked so the former bird just gets routed around with the air that cools the engine. A sensor on the fan blade should be able to pick up any worrisome impacts to get the timing right.
I would be more concerned about the exposed wings and cockpit, since those don't have bird blenders to guard them. The cockpit window gets the turkey test, but I am not familiar with how the wings (especially the flaps) hold up. Perhaps I'm wrong and the engines are the whole problem, but in that case I don't know what those engineers are doing.
Canada goose. A Canadian goose simply happens to come from Canada. A Canada goose is of a specific species.
That line isn't exactly new
And you were modded redundant. The mods have a sense of irony today.
Maybe we should add a warning signal for the birds. Like a really loud noise.
Considering how the media companies love to just liscense their products to consumers, artists should work together to force the contracts to change so their work is merely liscensed to the labels.
"They argue that removing Internet access is equivalent to hindering a person's freedom of speech"
I would much appreciate if US Congress took this to heart and forced ISPs to stop the anticompetitive behavior. Sure, if these corporations really want to charge exorbitant amounts for their top-tier services, that's their right as a business. But there is little reason to have such price gouging and consumer-abusive practices and horrible, out of date service. Yes, we have disadvantages like large rural expanses and suburban sprawl, but I would like to finally see some legal teeth put in place to get this country to where it should be.
In the meantime you can do what I do. When an overly loud car pulls up next to you, blast the news at them.
We would all like to see the RIAA lose on all points brought up here, but how strong are these arguments, and are there known ways the RIAA could dodge them?
Once the Square Kilometer Array is completed
The name sounds impressive, but how big will it be?
I'd say pollution is simply putting something somewhere where it doesn't belong. Most of the time all those neighborhood street lights aren't being used, or that distant glow from the nearby city does nothing for you. Artificial light belongs where people are using it to see, otherwise it is pollution.
I don't really know how it can be solved
Support a continued ban on nuclear plants. Once we run low on fossil fuels electricity will be too expensive and everyone will turn of the lights. If it happens soon enough wind/solar won't be enough to make up the difference.
I saw a video of the night sky where you could see the center of the Milky Way move across - if you showed me that eight years ago I wouldn't believe it was real. Due to living near Chicago most of my life, for the longest time I typically only saw a few dozen stars, and thought only a few hundred were visible with the naked eye.
Maybe you just want an example to list, but its diffucult to tell which people actually believe the WMD scare was a government-brewed hoax. Multiple countries believed Saddam had them, Saddam was known to have them in the past, and he acted every bit like he still had them. Based on the evidence the government hoax idea has the support of any other conspiracy theory.
Sorry to make it two replies, but your last paragraph can largely apply to zero copyright too (except for more access to past works and fewer court cases). Your problems seem to have more to do with abusive expansion of copyright law, which I think anyone here has problems with. No one here is arguing to keep the status quo, just whether or not basic copyright is beneficial.
No copyright leads to a freeloader-filled market. To solve this, you want media to rely on people commissioning the work ahead of time. In other words, the rich will control the media. Bach and Michalangelo have come up as examples, and I believe they were all commissioned by rich people. Yes, there is now a middle class, but I don't get the impression that you'll have many songs/movies/etc. commissioned mostly with $20 contributions. Copyright solves this problem as it allows media to be funded by the masses. Commissioned work can still be done today, so if you are so convinced it will work better than copyright, shouldn't copyright fade out on its own? Commissioned works create a positive externality, and copyright accounts for this, so in theory copyright better approximates the optimal market solution.
I also wanted to point out you could use better analogies - if a friend gets his hair cut, he can't just give me the haircut too, I have to go to the barber and pay for my own copy of his services. Perhaps I could learn to cut my own hair, but if we change it from haircuts to surgery that it out of the question. There is also the point that you don't keep your haircut forever and have to go back to get another - sounds like a DRM scheme to me.
2. This same issue exists with any other service, and it's a non-issue. You don't know what the quality of your auto repair, landscaping, or surgery will be until it's been performed either, yet people pay for these services all the time. They agree on the service to be performed beforehand, and if the result is unacceptable, they take their dispute to one of the well-established venues (complaints, bad reviews, chargebacks, small claims court, etc.).
It isn't so hard to prove that a surgery caused more pain or didn't fix the problem. Good luck trying to prove your commissioned song wasn't of the right quality.
If it uses buoyancy much of that pressure is distributed on the air below the sections of the tower. In this case you can't just count the footprint once. I am assuming they don't mean the bottom of the structure to provide much, if any, support for the tower above it.
So they didn't do well at these tests, and now they do. We know they can learn the test, so now we change the test for the better and see if they keep up.
He probably just went to the college closest to home. I know a kid who triple majored at a nearby 4-year libral arts college at the age of 16. He easily could have gone to a top university instead, but he kept busy close to home. Now he's doing graduate studies at University of Chicago. If you go to graduate school it doesn't really matter what you did for undergrad, so a cheap and close to home community college is a perfect way to start.
As far as I've heard, the sentiment in China is that democracy is too weak and leads to civil unrest, so the authoritarian rule is accepted as a needed form of government. I completely agree with you that the average Chinese person is content without democracy or what we see as basic rights. I am afraid, though, that the comparison in their mind is a choice of a stable authoritarian rule, or an unstable democracy. I would be curious what the general opinion would be if they were guaranteed equal stability with either form of government.
We need a search engine to be on-par with Google in terms of marketshare that uses a significantly different algorithm. Sites can't game the system as well if there are two models to conform to simultaneously (I hope).
If you don't know what Bing is, you should just Google it.