So where were these people when Tesla built its factory?
In the same place as those gangs of marauding youths a colleague envisaged ripping out cables from charging cars and destroying all the charge points that will have to be installed along all the streets...
Sure, but the police preventing a journalist/photographer from reporting the news is indeed newsworthy. It's not like he's in the news for having an affair, drink driving, etc.
Nope. That is completely wrong. They can ask you to pay, but all you have to do is say "I don't consume any BBC productions". I know people that have done so, and am pondering doing it myself.
Sure, it may tedious, and there's no way it should be a criminal offence, but you do not have to pay a TV license just because you own a TV or computer.
To expand on it. Some UK police (especially London) got wind that they could arrest photographers using Section 44 of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Unsurprisingly, they didn't stop to investigate what powers they actually had. It turns out that you have to already be suspected of terrorism before taking photos - the police can't see you with a camera, think "terrorist", and then apply the powers to arrest you.
It cost some forces a large amount of money settling wrongful arrest cases against photographers.
Their previous conduct means that I tend to assume the police are in the wrong when it comes to photographer stories. I'm far less cynical for most other cases.
Would you feel physically threatened by a bloke with a camera? How do you live a life where you're constantly scared, it's got to be a horrible existence.
Not that I disagree with you, but there's two things to clarify - it wasn't theatres excusing Interstellar's audo, it was Nolan himself: 1. Christopher Nolan went out to theatres and checked the sound himself, and approved of it. Yet there were still complaints (apparently at theatres checked out) 2. Christopher Nolan himself confirmed that the certain parts of the dialog were not meant to be understood.
#1 Can be explained by the fact he wrote the dialog, so even if he couldn't hear it properly his mind filled in the blanks. I had the same when I watched Interstellar with subtitles - I thought the audio got better in the latter half, but it was most likely due to me being able to use the subtitles to augment my hearing.
#2 Can't be excused. Like I said before, he knows the dialog so he knows what is and isn't important. The audience doesn't have that luxury. It wasn't helped that none of his characters had an issue hearing each other over the loudest of noises. If two people are having a chat during a rocket launch and never say "what was that", then it's logical for me to expect to understand what was said.
Is that the same Christopher Nolan who decided to make the actors in Interstellar mumble because "I know that what they're saying at that point isn't important to the plot so it's not necessary for you to understand them".
I'm glad I waited for it on Amazon - after the fifth time rewinding to try making out what was being said I turned on subtitles.
First, he assumes that we know what's being said isn't important, because he knows the script inside out. Instead we're left wondering if we missed an something important because we don't know the plot yet.
Second, if two characters can understand each other as they mumble away with large amounts of background noise, then we should be able to understand them too.
Apparently some IMAX theatres had sign saying "there's nothing wrong with our sound, the film is supposed to sound that way"
It wasn't in orbit, but its apogee reached about 550 km - well above the Karman Line. I'd be interested to know how long it takes sensors to determine the rough impact location based on the launch profile. Course adjustments are possible during boost, coast and re-entry (whether NK has that ability is another unknown*), so it's probably a bad idea to look at the profile and say "Japan's OK".
I'd actually like to see a 3d view of NK missile launches in Google Earth - some of their previous launches reached apogees of 3,725 km, which is far greater than that required normally. It also means their missiles are undergoing far higher re-entry forces than they would operationally.
* For us. NORAD, etc probably have a good idea of the capabilities.
Why? Tesla said they did something, you said they lied about it. You've provided no supporting evidence that they've lied (just your feels).
Tesla on the other hand would lose large amount of credibility if they'd lied to customers about swapping batteries by only fast charging them. Something easily identifiable by somebody poking around their car.
Not sure about regs in the US, but in the EU drivers of LGVs (Large Goods Vehicles - >3.5 tonne) are required to have a 45 minute break every 4.5 hours. So that would give a 45 minute break every 270 miles. Whether a lorry can be recharged within 45 minutes is another matter.
I was on holiday in Ireland and I hard plenty of radio adverts from the RSA (Road Safety Authority) reminding commercial drivers about obeying tacho rules.
Well yes, hackers are people who like playing with things they don't understand in order to understand them. I don't understand why you feel it necessary to denigrate them by likening them to "small children".
Some is us like taking things apart, whether that's with a screwdriver or a disassembler, it makes no difference.
We tried that with our website, and it was a nightmare. Our customers are some of the most technologically illiterate people I've come across (and proudly so), yet they still want to use our website to find trade vehicles to buy.
We had some people who tried clicking the "what is my username link" and then getting confused about what email address to your in (hint, it's probably your work email address). Plus, they then would have had to reset their password too...
In the end we removed usernames and required the email address to log in. It's slightly better, plus we know that a password reset request *should* go to the right place.
The other problem is reading comprehension. They still don't click on the activation link that contains the UUID, instead they scroll down and click on the manual link that specially says "use this only if the link above didn't work". I've gotten several people inside and outside our office to read the emails, and bar some padding to separate the paragraphs nobody has come up with more concise instructions.
Yet almost every one of these people will have a Facebook account, and they can manage that, but with us the first thing they do is call their broker and say "I can't log in, what's my email address and password", and then get grumpy because they have to reset their password because it's encrypted (hashed, but they seem to understand the with encryption).
Funny, I know plenty of ex military guys - army, navy and air force - including two UK special forces and none them talk like that. Are you sure you've had military training, because if you have your trainers did a pretty terrible job.
I wouldn't be too sure about that - the oil industry is a massive investor in R&D in renewable energy. Statoil, for example building Hywind (a floating wind farm), etc.
Of course, I don't know much about the US, so maybe when you say "oil lobby", you mean lobbyists for the people who do the actual drilling.
I don't understand the issue with crossfeed - it works really well with my Rockomax Jumbo-64 Fuel Tanks. That is, when you get the FTX-2 External Fuel Duct the correct way round.
Seeing as the whole (or main) idea of mining is space is that the materials can be used for construction in space (so we don't have to launch materials out of our gravity well) that would make it a bit pointless.
On the other hand, it might be possible to alter the orbit of the materials to lower the perigee to less than 100km (bonus points if you get the perigee to be inside the extents of your national border) and then immediately raise the orbit at the next apogee. That way they've left space and have been "relaunched"
Even including terrorism, I've a much smaller chance of being murdered in the UK than I would in the US. Same goes for the rest of "progressive" Europe.
Everything is relative. We have on of the highest murder rates in Europe, yet the murder rate is quarter of that in the USA. Because of our strict gun controls*, crime involving knives is going to be higher - it's the next best weapon. They're also something really available in households for on-the-spur domestic attacks.
* Gang members actually have to share a single firearm in places because of the cost and lack of availability.
Poor attempt at trolling. Not enough block capitals & spelling mistakes and too much correct punctuation.
I mean, nobody can think that the theory of evolution, while incomplete has been disproved - it's used in the development of modern vaccines. Oh wait...
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So where were these people when Tesla built its factory?
In the same place as those gangs of marauding youths a colleague envisaged ripping out cables from charging cars and destroying all the charge points that will have to be installed along all the streets...
Sure, but the police preventing a journalist/photographer from reporting the news is indeed newsworthy. It's not like he's in the news for having an affair, drink driving, etc.
Nope. That is completely wrong. They can ask you to pay, but all you have to do is say "I don't consume any BBC productions". I know people that have done so, and am pondering doing it myself.
Sure, it may tedious, and there's no way it should be a criminal offence, but you do not have to pay a TV license just because you own a TV or computer.
To expand on it. Some UK police (especially London) got wind that they could arrest photographers using Section 44 of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Unsurprisingly, they didn't stop to investigate what powers they actually had. It turns out that you have to already be suspected of terrorism before taking photos - the police can't see you with a camera, think "terrorist", and then apply the powers to arrest you.
It cost some forces a large amount of money settling wrongful arrest cases against photographers.
Their previous conduct means that I tend to assume the police are in the wrong when it comes to photographer stories. I'm far less cynical for most other cases.
Would you feel physically threatened by a bloke with a camera? How do you live a life where you're constantly scared, it's got to be a horrible existence.
If they're so incompetent that a man with a camera causes them to slip up, then it's definitely in the public interest.
Not that I disagree with you, but there's two things to clarify - it wasn't theatres excusing Interstellar's audo, it was Nolan himself:
1. Christopher Nolan went out to theatres and checked the sound himself, and approved of it. Yet there were still complaints (apparently at theatres checked out)
2. Christopher Nolan himself confirmed that the certain parts of the dialog were not meant to be understood.
#1 Can be explained by the fact he wrote the dialog, so even if he couldn't hear it properly his mind filled in the blanks. I had the same when I watched Interstellar with subtitles - I thought the audio got better in the latter half, but it was most likely due to me being able to use the subtitles to augment my hearing.
#2 Can't be excused. Like I said before, he knows the dialog so he knows what is and isn't important. The audience doesn't have that luxury. It wasn't helped that none of his characters had an issue hearing each other over the loudest of noises. If two people are having a chat during a rocket launch and never say "what was that", then it's logical for me to expect to understand what was said.
Is that the same Christopher Nolan who decided to make the actors in Interstellar mumble because "I know that what they're saying at that point isn't important to the plot so it's not necessary for you to understand them".
I'm glad I waited for it on Amazon - after the fifth time rewinding to try making out what was being said I turned on subtitles.
First, he assumes that we know what's being said isn't important, because he knows the script inside out. Instead we're left wondering if we missed an something important because we don't know the plot yet.
Second, if two characters can understand each other as they mumble away with large amounts of background noise, then we should be able to understand them too.
Apparently some IMAX theatres had sign saying "there's nothing wrong with our sound, the film is supposed to sound that way"
It wasn't in orbit, but its apogee reached about 550 km - well above the Karman Line. I'd be interested to know how long it takes sensors to determine the rough impact location based on the launch profile. Course adjustments are possible during boost, coast and re-entry (whether NK has that ability is another unknown*), so it's probably a bad idea to look at the profile and say "Japan's OK".
I'd actually like to see a 3d view of NK missile launches in Google Earth - some of their previous launches reached apogees of 3,725 km, which is far greater than that required normally. It also means their missiles are undergoing far higher re-entry forces than they would operationally.
* For us. NORAD, etc probably have a good idea of the capabilities.
Celebrity suicide missions
From the producers of "Big Brother Death Match" - the show where the contestants have to kill one household member a week.
I get the gist of what you're trying to say, but you choose some pretty bad examples. All of those last significantly longer than a month, not less.
Why? Tesla said they did something, you said they lied about it. You've provided no supporting evidence that they've lied (just your feels).
Tesla on the other hand would lose large amount of credibility if they'd lied to customers about swapping batteries by only fast charging them. Something easily identifiable by somebody poking around their car.
Not sure about regs in the US, but in the EU drivers of LGVs (Large Goods Vehicles - >3.5 tonne) are required to have a 45 minute break every 4.5 hours. So that would give a 45 minute break every 270 miles. Whether a lorry can be recharged within 45 minutes is another matter.
I was on holiday in Ireland and I hard plenty of radio adverts from the RSA (Road Safety Authority) reminding commercial drivers about obeying tacho rules.
How are the chemtrails today?
Well yes, hackers are people who like playing with things they don't understand in order to understand them. I don't understand why you feel it necessary to denigrate them by likening them to "small children".
Some is us like taking things apart, whether that's with a screwdriver or a disassembler, it makes no difference.
We tried that with our website, and it was a nightmare. Our customers are some of the most technologically illiterate people I've come across (and proudly so), yet they still want to use our website to find trade vehicles to buy.
We had some people who tried clicking the "what is my username link" and then getting confused about what email address to your in (hint, it's probably your work email address). Plus, they then would have had to reset their password too...
In the end we removed usernames and required the email address to log in. It's slightly better, plus we know that a password reset request *should* go to the right place.
The other problem is reading comprehension. They still don't click on the activation link that contains the UUID, instead they scroll down and click on the manual link that specially says "use this only if the link above didn't work". I've gotten several people inside and outside our office to read the emails, and bar some padding to separate the paragraphs nobody has come up with more concise instructions.
Yet almost every one of these people will have a Facebook account, and they can manage that, but with us the first thing they do is call their broker and say "I can't log in, what's my email address and password", and then get grumpy because they have to reset their password because it's encrypted (hashed, but they seem to understand the with encryption).
Funny, I know plenty of ex military guys - army, navy and air force - including two UK special forces and none them talk like that. Are you sure you've had military training, because if you have your trainers did a pretty terrible job.
I wouldn't be too sure about that - the oil industry is a massive investor in R&D in renewable energy. Statoil, for example building Hywind (a floating wind farm), etc.
Of course, I don't know much about the US, so maybe when you say "oil lobby", you mean lobbyists for the people who do the actual drilling.
I don't understand the issue with crossfeed - it works really well with my Rockomax Jumbo-64 Fuel Tanks. That is, when you get the FTX-2 External Fuel Duct the correct way round.
Seeing as the whole (or main) idea of mining is space is that the materials can be used for construction in space (so we don't have to launch materials out of our gravity well) that would make it a bit pointless.
On the other hand, it might be possible to alter the orbit of the materials to lower the perigee to less than 100km (bonus points if you get the perigee to be inside the extents of your national border) and then immediately raise the orbit at the next apogee. That way they've left space and have been "relaunched"
I'd love to know how well hidden they are. Odds are any home invaders will be gifted free loaded firearms.
Even including terrorism, I've a much smaller chance of being murdered in the UK than I would in the US. Same goes for the rest of "progressive" Europe.
Everything is relative. We have on of the highest murder rates in Europe, yet the murder rate is quarter of that in the USA. Because of our strict gun controls*, crime involving knives is going to be higher - it's the next best weapon. They're also something really available in households for on-the-spur domestic attacks.
* Gang members actually have to share a single firearm in places because of the cost and lack of availability.
At what point would that become coercion?
Poor attempt at trolling. Not enough block capitals & spelling mistakes and too much correct punctuation.
I mean, nobody can think that the theory of evolution, while incomplete has been disproved - it's used in the development of modern vaccines. Oh wait...