Yes, your little, puny drones are no match for our US Defense Contractor drones that have a staff of thousands and bases all over the world.
I cheated and read the article. They WERE US Defense Contractor drones that FEMA shut down.
That were replaced by manned aircraft that couldn't fly low enough to be as useful. So to summarize,: FEMA came in and replaced something that was probably cheaper, more effective, and safer with something that was more expensive, considerably more dangerous, and useless.
And we wonder why the government can't pass a budget, let alone one that lowers spending.
Bush pardoned 179 people vs. Clinton at 456. I was a little shocked to see that FDR pardoned almost 3400. Usually pardons are granted when a president is leaving office. Since FDR died in office during his 4th term, I was surprised it was so many.
I also see a lot of people bitching that Bush pardoned Scooter Libby, which isn't true. He commuted his sentence, which means he's still a felon and is supposed to pay a $250K fine.
As a carrier they have a financial duty to not piss off their share holders
FTFY
and contribute to the collapse of western economic systems which in turn will destroy all their assets and their property.
Unless we somehow end up in the dark ages, why would they care. Hell, some kind of dystopian Mad Max world would be great for them. That way they can just go out an burn down your house if you go over your bandwidth cap too many times. Now they have to issue warnings and pay lawyers and worry about those pesky laws and such.
As a monopoly they have a right to run their business how we tell them to and make a small profit. Should be run as an NPO with extreme oversight (albiet you will never have an NPO that size without a little corruption). I.e. monopolies can't be for profit ever. But its no better then socialism.
I'm a fairly big believer in capitalism, to a point. But some things just need to be socialized. We currently have a hybrid system, and the sooner we embrace that the better. Social Security is socialized. If congress wouldn't have raided the trust fund so often over the years, it'd have been in a lot better shape for longer than it was(but that's a different discussion). Healthcare should be socialized too. If people would get over this myth that the US is a strictly capitalist society, then we wouldn't have the abortion that is the affordable care act. If we're lucky, it will be bad enough that the country will figure out that socialism isn't always a bad thing and we can move on to something better. It's painfully obvious that what we have in the telecommunications industry is heading towards a train wreck. Maybe we can also stop privatizing profits and socializing losses while were at it too.
I think I hear the ghost of a junior senator knocking on my door.
I don't know why the summary gives the impression that all this technology leads to a top speed of 202 mph.
Clearly the Side Slip Angle Control and a lot of the other technology mentioned is intended to improve performance while cornering. Improving downforce and handling through the corner doesn't help top speed at all, but it does get you around a twisty track a lot faster.
You are absolutely correct. But it will improve your times and possibly top speed on any track. If you can come out of the corner before a straightaway 10 or 20 mph faster, then you likely can hit a higher speed before decelerating for the turn at the end of it.
I wonder if any street-safe ferrari could make you pass out from the G forces in the future.
No, not likely. Few cars can do 1 G laterally. And those that can are just over 1G. You won't black out until at least 4, if not more.
Even if it could, you'd be a damn fool to try it outside of a controlled track. Even pushing the limit at 1 G can get you killed when you have cracks, a little bit of dirt or even gravel on the road surface.
Lasers not in the company of sharks appear to be OK.
Well duh. Sharks need more than 3 ounces of water. And if there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that more than 3 ounces of water is dangerous and only a terrorist would try to bring that though an airport checkpoint.
The difference between a couple of thousand proto humans chasing herbivores off cliffs a couple of thousand years ago and 7 billion of the annoying creatures burning anything they can get their paws on is ecologically profound.
These weren't proto-humans. If you want to talk about that far back, then we need to look at the past 6 million years as opposed to more relevant graph for the last seven-hundred-fifty-thousand. It's estimated (as I previously stated) that homo sapiens has been on this planet for the last 200K years. We were certainly still here 110K years ago when it was even hotter. If you look at that last graph you'll also notice that there was a serious decrease in the human population during a colder period around the time of the Toba super-eruption. At that time the human race was reduced to somewhere between 3K to 10K. The population was significantly more than that during the last warm period.
The point is, is that 110K years ago, humans were not the cause of the warming, and yet is was even more significant that what is occurring now. So it is not unprecedented.
The planet will be here long after we're gone. But at the rate we're going it's likely that the entire human experience will be a narrow band of sediment trapped inside an alien archeologist's core sample.
No doubt. and the ancestors of the cockroach will probably be burning our remains the same way we are the dinosaurs.
I'm not disputing that we need to mitigate the damage we are causing. Because we certainly should have started some time ago. I'm simply saying we need to dial back the BS. It's not helping. In fact, I think it's having the opposite effect. I remember the oil crisis in the 70's. Doomsayers were screaming that we were going to run out of oil in 10 or 20 years. Cars became better and more efficient. But then when 20 years past and oil production steadily increased and more oil than was even though existed was found, the general public lost interest. Then Americans started driving around in Hummers and all kinds of aircraft carrier sized vehicles. They basically got numb to the fear of oil running out. At least until the price of gas rose sharply a few years back. People become complacent when you bombard them with apocalyptic predictions that don't come true repeatedly. I fear that we are seeing more of this as time passes.
Or you know, the scientific method was used that refines theories, based on new evidence.
Maybe we should be like you, where we know that there's no human-induced climate change because we ignore the unprecedented rate of change in temperature over the past 2 centuries, and keep all our understanding exactly the same as when we were born.
Or we can be like you and keep perpetuating memes about "unprecedented rates of change" and pretend there has never been any change in the climate before the evil humans and their "machinez" came along.
It's estimated that Homo Sapiens has been on this planet for around 200K years. This graph shows temperatures for the last 3/4 of a million years. Notice that it was warmer 110K years ago than it is now? So this isn't even "unprecedented" during our time on this planet, let alone before our ancestors climbed down from the trees.
Seriously, we all need to do (a lot) more to avoid poisoning ourselves. Yes the planet is warming. Yes we are contributing to it. Yes we need to work toward ways to mitigate this. The planet has been here for 4.5 billion years. I find it a little disingenuous to look at the temperatures from the last 1500 years and claim the sky is falling.
How do you suggest the control room communicate with all the various power stations and electricity consumers across the country then?
Perhaps, I don't know, they could piggyback a communication network onto the physical power network they own, airgapped from the internet?
Yes, that would be perfect. No one would be able to connect in RJ45 to that network. Excuse me while I plug in my laptop to charge it so I can look up what type of connector would be needed...;-)
Actually, I don't even understand what the point of the new meta moderation system is. It seemed more like "additional" moderation the last time I bothered. But it's been so long since I did it that all I remember, was that it made no sense to me.
Liar! It's clearly 97.433% You're both wrong and are obviously "communist economy-killing christian luddite denier capitalist atheist sympathizers!" TM;-)
To be fair, some of those who started politicizing AGW early on didn't help. Nor did the over simplification of calling it global warming (even though that is what it is).
People should not have picked results, out of context, that were convenient at the time. For example, when the ice caps start melting, it was pointed out that it was due to global warming. But when someone finds evidence that more ice is being formed somewhere else it looks suspect, even when it's part of a climate model. It looks suspect to not point that part out in the first place. Same thing with temperatures rising consistently in an area. As soon as they drop for a year, or two, before continuing to climb again, it's easy to confuse the discussion. Some of the loudest proponents of AWG, have done the most damage to the cause. After trying to simplify the situation for the greater population and then having the over simplification shown to be questionable a couple of times; laymen have a heard time knowing what to think.
To make matters worse, people start calling each other names and ridiculing each other. When you start labeling non-believers: deniers, Luddites, planet-killers, etc. what do you think is going to happen. Hell, how would most people react?
When I was younger, my father used to paraphrase Socrates by saying, "The older I get, the dumber I get". I finally understand how he felt. We have people on two different sides of this issue. Neither of them want to destroy the planet. But instead of taking a deep breath and discussing it like rational people, it's devolved into name calling. But that seems to be the way of things in the US anymore. I'm pretty sure that both parties in congress want what's best for the country. But instead of compromising, they both are throwing tantrums because they can't have their way 100%. It's truly sad.
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I cheated and read the article. They WERE US Defense Contractor drones that FEMA shut down.
That were replaced by manned aircraft that couldn't fly low enough to be as useful. So to summarize,: FEMA came in and replaced something that was probably cheaper, more effective, and safer with something that was more expensive, considerably more dangerous, and useless.
And we wonder why the government can't pass a budget, let alone one that lowers spending.
that giggled at the phrase "cork taint"? Please don't tell me I'm the only one.
Nope. I was wondering why anyone would pay $20+ to drink something that smelled like taint.
If you go buy 4 random bottles of $8 wine and 4 random bottles of $20 wine,...
...I'd guess that 1/2 of $20 bottles of wine are enjoyable as opposed to about 1/5 of $8 bottles.
I'd say you've already drank too much if you enjoy 1/5 of four bottles of wine. ;-)
It was Colorado. Wasn't there a town that was talking about selling drone hunting licenses. The last thing they need are people shooting into the air.
even if most people don't understand what 64-bit means or why it's advantageous.
Sure they do. 64-bit is twice as much as 32-bit. Twice the bits has to be "more better". ;-)
.Expecting the unexpected would be carrying space suits just in case the ship would fly.
Not if you're in a hospital.
Sorry. Wrong link. Damn copy and paste on a phone.
This should be correct: http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/presidential-pardons-1789-present.html
Bush pardoned 179 people vs. Clinton at 456. I was a little shocked to see that FDR pardoned almost 3400. Usually pardons are granted when a president is leaving office. Since FDR died in office during his 4th term, I was surprised it was so many.
I also see a lot of people bitching that Bush pardoned Scooter Libby, which isn't true. He commuted his sentence, which means he's still a felon and is supposed to pay a $250K fine.
Charge him and if the court finds him guilty then pardon him. It has been done before, just look to George W. Bush for guidance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_George_W._Bush
which was less than half of what his predecessor did Presidental pardons have been a long standing tradition. Please don't act like W. Invented them.
As a carrier they have a financial duty to not piss off their share holders
FTFY
and contribute to the collapse of western economic systems which in turn will destroy all their assets and their property.
Unless we somehow end up in the dark ages, why would they care. Hell, some kind of dystopian Mad Max world would be great for them. That way they can just go out an burn down your house if you go over your bandwidth cap too many times. Now they have to issue warnings and pay lawyers and worry about those pesky laws and such.
As a monopoly they have a right to run their business how we tell them to and make a small profit. Should be run as an NPO with extreme oversight (albiet you will never have an NPO that size without a little corruption). I.e. monopolies can't be for profit ever. But its no better then socialism.
I'm a fairly big believer in capitalism, to a point. But some things just need to be socialized. We currently have a hybrid system, and the sooner we embrace that the better. Social Security is socialized. If congress wouldn't have raided the trust fund so often over the years, it'd have been in a lot better shape for longer than it was(but that's a different discussion). Healthcare should be socialized too. If people would get over this myth that the US is a strictly capitalist society, then we wouldn't have the abortion that is the affordable care act. If we're lucky, it will be bad enough that the country will figure out that socialism isn't always a bad thing and we can move on to something better. It's painfully obvious that what we have in the telecommunications industry is heading towards a train wreck. Maybe we can also stop privatizing profits and socializing losses while were at it too.
I think I hear the ghost of a junior senator knocking on my door.
I don't know why the summary gives the impression that all this technology leads to a top speed of 202 mph. Clearly the Side Slip Angle Control and a lot of the other technology mentioned is intended to improve performance while cornering. Improving downforce and handling through the corner doesn't help top speed at all, but it does get you around a twisty track a lot faster.
You are absolutely correct. But it will improve your times and possibly top speed on any track. If you can come out of the corner before a straightaway 10 or 20 mph faster, then you likely can hit a higher speed before decelerating for the turn at the end of it.
I wonder if any street-safe ferrari could make you pass out from the G forces in the future.
No, not likely. Few cars can do 1 G laterally. And those that can are just over 1G. You won't black out until at least 4, if not more.
Even if it could, you'd be a damn fool to try it outside of a controlled track. Even pushing the limit at 1 G can get you killed when you have cracks, a little bit of dirt or even gravel on the road surface.
Ahhh but water, much like the atom, will completely lose power when split.
That 6 oz. water container is hazardous and must be banned, but if split into 2 3oz bottles, the danger is gone.
Yeah, but the last time I checked, you cant cut a shark in half and expect it to live. Pus they don't do to well in 6 oz of water either. ;-)
Lasers not in the company of sharks appear to be OK.
Well duh. Sharks need more than 3 ounces of water. And if there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that more than 3 ounces of water is dangerous and only a terrorist would try to bring that though an airport checkpoint.
The difference between a couple of thousand proto humans chasing herbivores off cliffs a couple of thousand years ago and 7 billion of the annoying creatures burning anything they can get their paws on is ecologically profound.
These weren't proto-humans. If you want to talk about that far back, then we need to look at the past 6 million years as opposed to more relevant graph for the last seven-hundred-fifty-thousand. It's estimated (as I previously stated) that homo sapiens has been on this planet for the last 200K years. We were certainly still here 110K years ago when it was even hotter. If you look at that last graph you'll also notice that there was a serious decrease in the human population during a colder period around the time of the Toba super-eruption. At that time the human race was reduced to somewhere between 3K to 10K. The population was significantly more than that during the last warm period.
The point is, is that 110K years ago, humans were not the cause of the warming, and yet is was even more significant that what is occurring now. So it is not unprecedented.
The planet will be here long after we're gone. But at the rate we're going it's likely that the entire human experience will be a narrow band of sediment trapped inside an alien archeologist's core sample.
No doubt. and the ancestors of the cockroach will probably be burning our remains the same way we are the dinosaurs.
I'm not disputing that we need to mitigate the damage we are causing. Because we certainly should have started some time ago. I'm simply saying we need to dial back the BS. It's not helping. In fact, I think it's having the opposite effect. I remember the oil crisis in the 70's. Doomsayers were screaming that we were going to run out of oil in 10 or 20 years. Cars became better and more efficient. But then when 20 years past and oil production steadily increased and more oil than was even though existed was found, the general public lost interest. Then Americans started driving around in Hummers and all kinds of aircraft carrier sized vehicles. They basically got numb to the fear of oil running out. At least until the price of gas rose sharply a few years back. People become complacent when you bombard them with apocalyptic predictions that don't come true repeatedly. I fear that we are seeing more of this as time passes.
Or you know, the scientific method was used that refines theories, based on new evidence.
Maybe we should be like you, where we know that there's no human-induced climate change because we ignore the unprecedented rate of change in temperature over the past 2 centuries, and keep all our understanding exactly the same as when we were born.
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/noaa_gisp2_icecore_anim_hi-def3.gif
Or we can be like you and keep perpetuating memes about "unprecedented rates of change" and pretend there has never been any change in the climate before the evil humans and their "machinez" came along.
It's estimated that Homo Sapiens has been on this planet for around 200K years. This graph shows temperatures for the last 3/4 of a million years. Notice that it was warmer 110K years ago than it is now? So this isn't even "unprecedented" during our time on this planet, let alone before our ancestors climbed down from the trees.
Seriously, we all need to do (a lot) more to avoid poisoning ourselves. Yes the planet is warming. Yes we are contributing to it. Yes we need to work toward ways to mitigate this. The planet has been here for 4.5 billion years. I find it a little disingenuous to look at the temperatures from the last 1500 years and claim the sky is falling.
We all know they died in Noah's Flood.
I'm pretty sure it was Noah's ark and God's flood.
I wonder if the mammoths had a water bottle in their carry-on, so the TSA wouldn't let them board.
Citation? Last time I checked, the largest WD disk available is "only" 3 Tb.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236599
How do you suggest the control room communicate with all the various power stations and electricity consumers across the country then?
Perhaps, I don't know, they could piggyback a communication network onto the physical power network they own, airgapped from the internet?
Yes, that would be perfect. No one would be able to connect in RJ45 to that network. Excuse me while I plug in my laptop to charge it so I can look up what type of connector would be needed... ;-)
I wonder what Assad will get in return. I suppose more tanks is better than continued nerve gas attacks.
Actually, I don't even understand what the point of the new meta moderation system is. It seemed more like "additional" moderation the last time I bothered. But it's been so long since I did it that all I remember, was that it made no sense to me.
6.5cm by 10.5cm by what?
...Nothing. It only exists in 2 dimensions. They did say it was thinner, didn't they? ;-)
But this isn't just an end user format! The idea is to set this music free so that it can be used in other projects, remixed, remastered, anything.
Here come the Chopin Dubstep remixes....
I guess you never heard the Apotheosis remix of Carl Orff's O'Fortuna.
But instead of taking a deep breath and discussing it like rational people, it's devolved into name calling.
Concern trolling.
More concern trolling.
Tone trolling
Denialists and concern trolls
Yes, thank you very much for proving my point. I'm not even disagreeing with you and you want to call me names.
Liar! It's clearly 97.433% You're both wrong and are obviously "communist economy-killing christian luddite denier capitalist atheist sympathizers!" TM ;-)
To be fair, some of those who started politicizing AGW early on didn't help. Nor did the over simplification of calling it global warming (even though that is what it is).
People should not have picked results, out of context, that were convenient at the time. For example, when the ice caps start melting, it was pointed out that it was due to global warming. But when someone finds evidence that more ice is being formed somewhere else it looks suspect, even when it's part of a climate model. It looks suspect to not point that part out in the first place. Same thing with temperatures rising consistently in an area. As soon as they drop for a year, or two, before continuing to climb again, it's easy to confuse the discussion. Some of the loudest proponents of AWG, have done the most damage to the cause. After trying to simplify the situation for the greater population and then having the over simplification shown to be questionable a couple of times; laymen have a heard time knowing what to think.
To make matters worse, people start calling each other names and ridiculing each other. When you start labeling non-believers: deniers, Luddites, planet-killers, etc. what do you think is going to happen. Hell, how would most people react?
When I was younger, my father used to paraphrase Socrates by saying, "The older I get, the dumber I get". I finally understand how he felt. We have people on two different sides of this issue. Neither of them want to destroy the planet. But instead of taking a deep breath and discussing it like rational people, it's devolved into name calling. But that seems to be the way of things in the US anymore. I'm pretty sure that both parties in congress want what's best for the country. But instead of compromising, they both are throwing tantrums because they can't have their way 100%. It's truly sad.