No it's more than that. With the old system, someone on the ground had to monitor the flight path of the rocket and press the self-destruct if it went far enough off course. This meant you needed to be able to track the entire flight of the rocket with radar ground stations (which they can't for this kind of launch), and you had to hope the self-destruct signal from the ground got through to the rocket.
This new system eliminates both problems, because the rocket tracks itself (using onboard GPS sensors and a predefined safe flight path) and autonomously triggers its own self-destruct if it exits the safe flight path.
If SpaceX can get permission to use encrypted military GPS signals (an off-the-shelf civilian GPS is programmed not to output data beyond 1200mph or 60,000ft anyway) they can also be safe from any GPS spoofing attempts. Otherwise a terrorist group could launch some high-altitude balloons above the flight path carrying GPS spoofing devices to cause a false positive leading to detonation, possibly raining debris on inhabited areas. Or it could be a way for one of the few eco-terrorist groups out there to make a statement.
In the modern parlance, "hate" simply means one group criticizing another.
Deplorable hatemonger nonsense. "Hate" (short for hate speech, in the informal context used by online platforms) is one group criticizing another based on their immutable characteristics.
Firm control? No, but an essential part of control, certainly. Trump or not, the Republicans can't afford to lose the support of the religious right. They need every vote they can get, on top of the electoral college advantage and gerrymandering, to retain power with a minority of voters supporting them. Politically, the Republicans are living on reclaimed land and a break in any part of any dam will let in a tidal wave of leftism. They've been very lucky that the religious right has been able to look past the fact that the candidate they were given to vote for is a human avatar of sinful behavior compared to the typical politician, and they'd be wise not to strain their support further.
Look at the VP pick, why pick an ultra-homophobic pious theocrat if not to please the religious right?
True. That's because before then, people were overhunting them. So we're not killing them as badly with global warming as we were with bullets. Their populations are still expected to fall to 2/3rds of today's levels by 2050 at the current rate of course. But since we've switched to murdering them with gases instead of solids, I'm sure they'll be fine!
Free market principles have only made an elite handful of mankind ridiculously wealthy. The rest, it has actually been making poorer for the last 40 years or so. And the vast majority of mankind, globally, is still extremely poor.
Voluntary trade means that both sides have profited only in the most technical sense. Offering a man in the desert a bottle of water for a gold bar would be a "voluntary" trade. Similarly, offering a poor 3rd-world worker a dollar for a day of hard physical labor would also be a "voluntary" trade. One party is clearly getting a bad deal on both trades however, while the other receives a ridiculously oversized profit.
google is able to pay higher salaries because they dodge taxes.
How does stashing cash offshore help them pay higher salaries? How are things stil magically paid for (even though the spoils of tax-dodging remain untaxed) when the US federal government is running huge budget deficits? No point paying them because they're broke and messed up because you don't pay them. A self-fulfilling prophecy.
Your implication is that our society couldn't organize those benefits without a violently imposed monopoly called "government". Well, that's disputable.
Theoretically, perhaps, but history has no examples in your favor. At least not on a scale of 4-digit populations.
it's better to keep the power to make decisions for society's resources in the hands of the people who have actually and objectively proven themselves good at making profitable allocations of society's resources.
Disagree, there's nothing inherently good or helpful to society about making a profit. The EITC made profits. Gilded age companies made profits. Microsoft in the 90s made huge profits. Google's profit helps nobody except those at Google.
I'll blame Holland, Bermuda and Ireland for being selfish and irresponsible, but I'll blame the USA for being dumb. That's where the companies using these avoidance schemes are headquartered, and where the loopholes exploited by those other countries could be closed.
And yet you decline to escape this theft by moving to the ungoverned regions of Somalia. How curious. Could it be that you enjoy the comforts of civilization, but are simply too selfish to contribute to their upkeep?
Clinton's emails on her illegal server were discovered in 2015. So someone commenting that the Russians had thousands of Clinton's emails was NOT news in 2016.
That's like saying that your house was known to be left unlocked in 2015, so me commenting that my buddy had a copy of your tax returns was not news in 2016...even if they were only posted online a month later. If he said that the Russians had emails just because it was public knowledge that Clinton's server was vulnerable, that's speculation. Not the sort of statement that leads to a guilty plea.
Remember, the hack you are trying to refer to was a hack of the DNC/John Podesta, NOT Hillary Clinton. It couldn't have been the source for "thousands of emails" from Clinton.
Yes, and as such you are undermining your previous argument - how is Hillary's server relevant? The fact is that Papadopolous seemed to know that Russia had this material before the general public did. The three possible reasons he might have said that are lying, speculation, or insider knowledge. Only one of those reasons might compel someone to plead guilty.
You might follow up your news stories with the retractions. The "before the hacks went public" turned out to be a wrong date (they were AFTER they went public).
I'm aware there were some erroneous stories earlier in the year about Trump's campaign having info before the public leaks, but I'm talking about this story from the last 48 hours:
In 2018 I expect the Republican majority in the House will be massively flipped and the Senate will be weakened. If enough Senate Republicans are willing to turn on Trump, which they very well might be after witnessing the ruinous political backlash he'll cause (especially now that their tax "reform" has passed), there will be no political impediments to his impeachment.
The modern usage of "virtue signalling" is less than 2 years old. It is a feature of neoreactionary politics that arose alongside Trumpism.
Here's something to blow your mind. Why can't complaints about "virtue signalling" be labelled as a form of virtue signalling? If you complain about someone "virtue signalling" in favor of X, you're just broadcasting an anti-X virtue signal. It's seen as a virtue to a different group, but is fundamentally no different.
Boom, just killed your dumbass concept with a simple logic trick. Now let it rot in the dustbin of history.
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Example: "Diversity is our strength" is a nearly universal corporate value today.
Fact: All scientific evidence contradicts the preceding statement.
And that was an example of a lie. A clear and easily verifiable falsehood presented as a fact:
https://www.scientificamerican...
No it's more than that. With the old system, someone on the ground had to monitor the flight path of the rocket and press the self-destruct if it went far enough off course. This meant you needed to be able to track the entire flight of the rocket with radar ground stations (which they can't for this kind of launch), and you had to hope the self-destruct signal from the ground got through to the rocket.
This new system eliminates both problems, because the rocket tracks itself (using onboard GPS sensors and a predefined safe flight path) and autonomously triggers its own self-destruct if it exits the safe flight path.
If SpaceX can get permission to use encrypted military GPS signals (an off-the-shelf civilian GPS is programmed not to output data beyond 1200mph or 60,000ft anyway) they can also be safe from any GPS spoofing attempts. Otherwise a terrorist group could launch some high-altitude balloons above the flight path carrying GPS spoofing devices to cause a false positive leading to detonation, possibly raining debris on inhabited areas. Or it could be a way for one of the few eco-terrorist groups out there to make a statement.
It's OK, those Latinos are communists, and anyone who would say communist lives matter must be a dirty commie!
In the modern parlance, "hate" simply means one group criticizing another.
Deplorable hatemonger nonsense. "Hate" (short for hate speech, in the informal context used by online platforms) is one group criticizing another based on their immutable characteristics.
"News" is like "Religion" .. everyone has their spin on things, and the other guy's is "fake" in their minds.
Putrid post-truth nonsense. We live in an objective reality built around facts, and news which lies about the facts is fake.
Firm control? No, but an essential part of control, certainly. Trump or not, the Republicans can't afford to lose the support of the religious right. They need every vote they can get, on top of the electoral college advantage and gerrymandering, to retain power with a minority of voters supporting them. Politically, the Republicans are living on reclaimed land and a break in any part of any dam will let in a tidal wave of leftism. They've been very lucky that the religious right has been able to look past the fact that the candidate they were given to vote for is a human avatar of sinful behavior compared to the typical politician, and they'd be wise not to strain their support further.
Look at the VP pick, why pick an ultra-homophobic pious theocrat if not to please the religious right?
The point of civilization is to do better than nature's savagery, and it has seen success in many other areas, even trade issues.
Literally all? Most of the first world is certainly not better off, unless you subscribe to the "hidden value in technology" theory.
It's a helluva lot closer to civilization than a lack of government! Hence why you haven't left the shelter of one.
True. That's because before then, people were overhunting them. So we're not killing them as badly with global warming as we were with bullets. Their populations are still expected to fall to 2/3rds of today's levels by 2050 at the current rate of course. But since we've switched to murdering them with gases instead of solids, I'm sure they'll be fine!
The sharks would disagree. So would polar bears, Syrians, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Barbudans, Houstonians, etc etc...
Free market principles have only made an elite handful of mankind ridiculously wealthy. The rest, it has actually been making poorer for the last 40 years or so. And the vast majority of mankind, globally, is still extremely poor.
Voluntary trade means that both sides have profited only in the most technical sense. Offering a man in the desert a bottle of water for a gold bar would be a "voluntary" trade. Similarly, offering a poor 3rd-world worker a dollar for a day of hard physical labor would also be a "voluntary" trade. One party is clearly getting a bad deal on both trades however, while the other receives a ridiculously oversized profit.
google is able to pay higher salaries because they dodge taxes.
How does stashing cash offshore help them pay higher salaries? How are things stil magically paid for (even though the spoils of tax-dodging remain untaxed) when the US federal government is running huge budget deficits? No point paying them because they're broke and messed up because you don't pay them. A self-fulfilling prophecy.
It could very well be the case that this IS global warming (AKA "climate change" for those who don't understand averages). A hotter climate can power more extreme weather on both ends of the temperature scale. So those sharks might appreciate *less* global warming.
Your implication is that our society couldn't organize those benefits without a violently imposed monopoly called "government". Well, that's disputable.
Theoretically, perhaps, but history has no examples in your favor. At least not on a scale of 4-digit populations.
it's better to keep the power to make decisions for society's resources in the hands of the people who have actually and objectively proven themselves good at making profitable allocations of society's resources.
Disagree, there's nothing inherently good or helpful to society about making a profit. The EITC made profits. Gilded age companies made profits. Microsoft in the 90s made huge profits. Google's profit helps nobody except those at Google.
I'll blame Holland, Bermuda and Ireland for being selfish and irresponsible, but I'll blame the USA for being dumb. That's where the companies using these avoidance schemes are headquartered, and where the loopholes exploited by those other countries could be closed.
And yet you decline to escape this theft by moving to the ungoverned regions of Somalia. How curious. Could it be that you enjoy the comforts of civilization, but are simply too selfish to contribute to their upkeep?
The government spends money on wars, prisons, corporate welfare, and subsidies for a bloated and wasteful healthcare system.
Also infrastructure, education, public safety, human welfare, law enforcement, and unprofitable scientific research, but who needs that stuff right?
Google really needs that money, after all. CEOs' megayachts have to fly now.
Clinton's emails on her illegal server were discovered in 2015. So someone commenting that the Russians had thousands of Clinton's emails was NOT news in 2016.
That's like saying that your house was known to be left unlocked in 2015, so me commenting that my buddy had a copy of your tax returns was not news in 2016...even if they were only posted online a month later. If he said that the Russians had emails just because it was public knowledge that Clinton's server was vulnerable, that's speculation. Not the sort of statement that leads to a guilty plea.
Remember, the hack you are trying to refer to was a hack of the DNC/John Podesta, NOT Hillary Clinton. It couldn't have been the source for "thousands of emails" from Clinton.
Yes, and as such you are undermining your previous argument - how is Hillary's server relevant? The fact is that Papadopolous seemed to know that Russia had this material before the general public did. The three possible reasons he might have said that are lying, speculation, or insider knowledge. Only one of those reasons might compel someone to plead guilty.
That's...a frighteningly good argument.
You might follow up your news stories with the retractions. The "before the hacks went public" turned out to be a wrong date (they were AFTER they went public).
I'm aware there were some erroneous stories earlier in the year about Trump's campaign having info before the public leaks, but I'm talking about this story from the last 48 hours:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...
Good luck with the false equivalence defense though.
In 2018 I expect the Republican majority in the House will be massively flipped and the Senate will be weakened. If enough Senate Republicans are willing to turn on Trump, which they very well might be after witnessing the ruinous political backlash he'll cause (especially now that their tax "reform" has passed), there will be no political impediments to his impeachment.
The modern usage of "virtue signalling" is less than 2 years old. It is a feature of neoreactionary politics that arose alongside Trumpism.
Here's something to blow your mind. Why can't complaints about "virtue signalling" be labelled as a form of virtue signalling? If you complain about someone "virtue signalling" in favor of X, you're just broadcasting an anti-X virtue signal. It's seen as a virtue to a different group, but is fundamentally no different.
Boom, just killed your dumbass concept with a simple logic trick. Now let it rot in the dustbin of history.
If you think anyone actually meant 'you', personally, rather than the general 'you' of TDS sufferers,
Stopped reading here.
Engine elections? Ellis Juan for Powerplant! :-P