According to the article I read yesterday, equipment was looted and the teams of 300 people who worked round the clock are now about 30.
The loss of equipment means that the voids that are eroded in the "rock" below the dam can no longer be filled with grout.
Also, one of the two sluice gates is jammed and because they need to be used as a pair (to avoid erosion) the water level cannot be reduced as the spring melt starts.
Finally, while the dam isn't under ISIS control, Mosul and post of the surrounding area is, so it probably exacerbates the problems.
That's because BO had the luxury of being able to hover as desired, pick the landing spot and descend. The first landing had it skating all over the place.
The Falcon 9's single merlin engine produces too much thrust to hover, so it has to burn to hit 0m/s at 0ft. This is due to it needing the engines to lift an actual payload into orbit, as opposed to simply going up and down.
BO also had the luxury of choosing their launch time and location without commercial constraints. The F9 launch had a 30 second window, so to delay because of the fog (which Musk alluded to causing the ice buildup) wasn't an option.
I never used to use any advert blockers, but some of the news websites are so stuffed with adverts that it was grinding my i7 with 16GB of RAM to a halt (independent.co.uk in looking at you). Looking at the Chrome's developer console shows that it was making requests to a 404'd resource in a tight loop.
I don't block adverts because I don't want to see them, I block them because they've made websites literally unusable. I started off with a tamper monkey script, but gave up when I was doing it more and more.
Citation please. I've heard it mentioned that he was held in an Israeli airport, but not that he was convicted. Or is that all that is needed nowadays?
The 26-year-old bar manager wrote a message to a friend on the micro-blogging service, saying: "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America."
I started reading the Graun to counterbalance the Torygraph. However the guardian has gone so batshit insane that I often feel I should now be ready the Mail to counterbalance it. The Independent isn't much better either.
Smaller cars have got heavier because they've gotten a bigger, but they've become less dense. It's happened to every small car out there, Fiesta, KA, Golf, Polo, Ibiza. Models get bigger, and they keep on coming up with a new small model to fill the gap. One explanation is that people tend to stick with what they know, but as they get older, they want and can afford a bigger car.
For example: Golf mk2 : 3,985 mm x 1,665 mm - 910kg Golf mk7: 4,255 mm x 1799mm - 1250kg
I can't think of any large cars that have gotten smaller. The current Range Rover is a monster (the Range Rover Sport is more similar to the original). A current 3-series is bigger than a 7-series from the 80s. Have you seen an 1993 E-class, beside a current one? In my opinion, car (or at least model) sizes are going one direction - up.
In the UK, Mitsubishi wanted to say that they've sold 10,000 Outlander PHEVs, but they'd only sold 9,000. The solution was to pre-register 1,000 and then stick them in a field and sell them insanely cheaply. This means that Mitsubishi dealers are not allowed to advertise a used Outlander PHEV (if they do, they will get a call telling them to take the advert down).
The end result is that if somebody tries part exchanging their Outlander, they'll be given a shit price as nobody wants the things because they're nigh on impossible to sell, so they'll tell people "they're a great car*, but they lose their value insanely quickly".
* I know several people with Outlander PHEVs, and they all love them.
Sigh. Like I said "it's making it harder than it could be", ie. Monitoring these accounts may have made everything easier, so if they lose that avenue their job goes back to what it was like in the past.
I don't disagree that a huge amount of this is security theatre - I find the UK's new security bill obscene, and increasing the size of the haystack when trying to find a needle is stupid. But if you've found an individual of interest, you'd be fool to ignore every avenue of investigation.
The fact that the police managed to track so many people down so quickly implies that the Paris terrorists were lax with the comms, so once the police identified them, it was easy to track others down. Or, the police knew about them, but whilst waiting to see who else they were lead to, the attacks to place.
Neither explanation is good for the authorities. The former shows that wholescale monitoring doesn't work. The latter shows that they monumentally fucked up.
It's not that they "can't do their job", it's that it's making it harder than it could be. I'm completely against mass monitoring of populations, but if the security services have gone to a judge to get a warrant to monitor an individual then I have to accept that they've jumped through the legal hoops, so they should be allowed to get on with their job.
By Anonymous outing people (that can't go wrong can it), and shutting down accounts, then the security services access (legal or otherwise) to social media databases is completely useless.
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I'm beginning to view any suggestion of splashing down reusable [non-SRB] stages with parachutes to be a troll nowadays.
Please tell me you're being sarcastic.
According to the article I read yesterday, equipment was looted and the teams of 300 people who worked round the clock are now about 30.
The loss of equipment means that the voids that are eroded in the "rock" below the dam can no longer be filled with grout.
Also, one of the two sluice gates is jammed and because they need to be used as a pair (to avoid erosion) the water level cannot be reduced as the spring melt starts.
Finally, while the dam isn't under ISIS control, Mosul and post of the surrounding area is, so it probably exacerbates the problems.
I'm intrigued, is that something you actually believe, or is it simple to get a rise out of people. Either way I'd love to know what the rationale is.
Even more unfortunately - he's playing with the Kerbal Construction Time mod.
So, how did you recreate my bank's EV certificate with a CA that is in my trusted root certificates?
In the UK they get handed out in airports - no ID is required. Spain is very different (as far as I know) since the Madrid train bombings.
It's probably just a random number generator. Do you even have 100GB of programs?
That's because BO had the luxury of being able to hover as desired, pick the landing spot and descend. The first landing had it skating all over the place.
The Falcon 9's single merlin engine produces too much thrust to hover, so it has to burn to hit 0m/s at 0ft. This is due to it needing the engines to lift an actual payload into orbit, as opposed to simply going up and down.
BO also had the luxury of choosing their launch time and location without commercial constraints. The F9 launch had a 30 second window, so to delay because of the fog (which Musk alluded to causing the ice buildup) wasn't an option.
I never used to use any advert blockers, but some of the news websites are so stuffed with adverts that it was grinding my i7 with 16GB of RAM to a halt (independent.co.uk in looking at you). Looking at the Chrome's developer console shows that it was making requests to a 404'd resource in a tight loop.
I don't block adverts because I don't want to see them, I block them because they've made websites literally unusable. I started off with a tamper monkey script, but gave up when I was doing it more and more.
What's the difference between prison and jail. Where I'm from the two are synonymous.
Citation please. I've heard it mentioned that he was held in an Israeli airport, but not that he was convicted. Or is that all that is needed nowadays?
What did you do, insist paying the hotel with a credit card so they'd have to pay tax on it?
No, that's the thing that would happen at check in.
The 26-year-old bar manager wrote a message to a friend on the micro-blogging service, saying: "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America."
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
Fucking stupid, but context is everything, except to bureaucrats.
I started reading the Graun to counterbalance the Torygraph. However the guardian has gone so batshit insane that I often feel I should now be ready the Mail to counterbalance it. The Independent isn't much better either.
Which is? If I look it up myself then my confirmation bias - as an atheist - will probably find the exact opposite.
Smaller cars have got heavier because they've gotten a bigger, but they've become less dense. It's happened to every small car out there, Fiesta, KA, Golf, Polo, Ibiza. Models get bigger, and they keep on coming up with a new small model to fill the gap. One explanation is that people tend to stick with what they know, but as they get older, they want and can afford a bigger car.
For example:
Golf mk2 : 3,985 mm x 1,665 mm - 910kg
Golf mk7: 4,255 mm x 1799mm - 1250kg
I can't think of any large cars that have gotten smaller. The current Range Rover is a monster (the Range Rover Sport is more similar to the original). A current 3-series is bigger than a 7-series from the 80s. Have you seen an 1993 E-class, beside a current one? In my opinion, car (or at least model) sizes are going one direction - up.
The website that makes you click through an abbey even though it knows the final destination doesn't even exist.
Sorry, I'm a little fuzzy on the reasoning behind your second paragraph. Can you expand on the concept please.
When was the last passenger ship sunk by torpedo, or sunk by an ice berg, or sunk by a storm (where human negligence wasn't a key cause)?
If you want to know how dumb manufacturers are...
In the UK, Mitsubishi wanted to say that they've sold 10,000 Outlander PHEVs, but they'd only sold 9,000. The solution was to pre-register 1,000 and then stick them in a field and sell them insanely cheaply. This means that Mitsubishi dealers are not allowed to advertise a used Outlander PHEV (if they do, they will get a call telling them to take the advert down).
The end result is that if somebody tries part exchanging their Outlander, they'll be given a shit price as nobody wants the things because they're nigh on impossible to sell, so they'll tell people "they're a great car*, but they lose their value insanely quickly".
* I know several people with Outlander PHEVs, and they all love them.
Ah, the "it's the turtles all the way down" defence. Nicely done.
Sigh. Like I said "it's making it harder than it could be", ie. Monitoring these accounts may have made everything easier, so if they lose that avenue their job goes back to what it was like in the past.
I don't disagree that a huge amount of this is security theatre - I find the UK's new security bill obscene, and increasing the size of the haystack when trying to find a needle is stupid. But if you've found an individual of interest, you'd be fool to ignore every avenue of investigation.
The fact that the police managed to track so many people down so quickly implies that the Paris terrorists were lax with the comms, so once the police identified them, it was easy to track others down. Or, the police knew about them, but whilst waiting to see who else they were lead to, the attacks to place.
Neither explanation is good for the authorities. The former shows that wholescale monitoring doesn't work. The latter shows that they monumentally fucked up.
It's not that they "can't do their job", it's that it's making it harder than it could be. I'm completely against mass monitoring of populations, but if the security services have gone to a judge to get a warrant to monitor an individual then I have to accept that they've jumped through the legal hoops, so they should be allowed to get on with their job.
By Anonymous outing people (that can't go wrong can it), and shutting down accounts, then the security services access (legal or otherwise) to social media databases is completely useless.