I don't know much about Gabon, but I would not be surprised if their small economy needs American support. Either for receiving donations, IMF loans (and the interest level connected to that), or just imports/exports.
Compared to the threat of reduced economic stability, suspending one domain name is peanuts. I bet they were bullied into this suspension of the domain name.
In a very safe country, where the large majority of people die from diseases (mostly at old age), the appearance of safety is as important as the real safety.
We have never really grown up. Instead of monsters under the bed, there is terrorism and rogue states. All we need is someone to tell us that things have improved. Reality is irrelevant.
Obviously, it really helps that the media first gave us the feeling of insecurity in the first place.
If I were the military, then I would argue that the drones are able to avoid any aircraft, and therefore do not need to carry a transponder themselves.
Not sure, but I guess that the reason is that you have a special chapter in your lawbooks regarding mobile phones, and a separate one regarding the internet? Even though the mobile apps are essentially just a piece of software, it needs to be put into the right lawbook to have an effect in the right way. Bureaucracy, you know.
There was a time when it was easy to distinguish between a phone and a computer, and completely different laws applied. That has changed now, but the lawbooks may still lag behind a little.
All you have to do to understand the true capitalist way you can deal with garbage is go to Napoli in Southern Italy, where the mafia own the garbage business.
From an energetic point of view, this is utterly pointless. They use electricity which was produced at 40% efficiency from fossil sources, to turn the same CO2 which came from those fossil fuels back into a fuel at much lower than 100% efficiency.
To go from coal to a fuel, there are processes such a the Fischer tropsch process, as used in South Africa on industrial scale, which are far more efficient.
If you want to use sustainable electricity to produce a fuel, for heaven's sake, just make hydrogen, and be done. Or better still, use the electricity directly - by the time we have excess sustainable electricity, electric cars will be a reality too.
What is a robocall? We just don't have them where I live (Western Europe). Also, since we don't have robocalls, and have never had them, how difficult can it be?
This desire to create more space on my screen by removing my taskbar or menus is ridiculous, and only driven by some hardcore laptop users. I sit behind a 24" screen, and I really don't care whether there are taskbars and menus around my screen. In fact, I find it very practical that they are there - visible.
My main issue with Unity is that it slowed down my computer (which isn't the newest anymore). Too much fancy stuff, too much tweaking until it worked (and therefore too much chance to break it).
To be fair, they are all part of Europe. Europe as a whole has enough muscle to defend itself. The countries in Europe just decided to work together, rather than wait for the next one to try to take over the world. We've learned our lessons by now.
I think the smaller countries of Africa are a much better example - because you do have a good point.
What stupid user interface does a blackberry have to enable that in the first place? I cannot imagine any message that I would ever want to send to everyone I know.
Also, if he would have started the text with the name of his girlfriend, I'm sure he would have been in far less trouble. Also, stupid Brits. It was a mistake.
I'll summarize the defense of these searches. Btw, I disagree with all of them... but I thought we can just get this over with quickly.
Choose: - What if it was your child? - Don't you want to catch terrorists? - Prevention is better than cure. - I have nothing to hide. - I trust my government. - (I probably forgot some...)
They're either logical fallacies, or just besides the point. Or both.
And the sad thing is that it's probably not even a giant conspiracy against freedom and liberty. This is the result of your own democratic process, and a sensationalist media.
To the US military and government, security and health are important, and freedom and liberty are sacrificed.
Applications are: 1. Track other spy satellites, of the Russians, Indians, Chinese. In the future, I guess that these countries will have hundreds of those - many quite small.
2. Avoid collisions of their own satellites. The US also has hundreds of satellites in orbit.
3. Avoid collisions of other (commercial?) satellites, thereby protecting US economic interests.
In this particular case, I don't care whether they share. Even if they don't share, I am not particularly worried. What flies overhead shouldn't be hidden anyway. Anyone who feels like monitoring that can go ahead. Would be nice if they share the data, but I understand if they don't.
You can dump an empty tank as easily as any other rocket does. Disconnect it. All rockets have stages. They all dump their empty tanks. Tanks can either have their own engine, like the booster rockets, or no engine, like the big fuel tank of the Space shuttle. Still, all get discarded without a problem.
I'm sorry if I am attacking you a little hard, but your argument makes no sense. You have to regard every mission from the place where stuff is launched (which is Earth, also if your intermediate location is L2).
If all the fuel comes from earth, you save nothing by going to L2 first. The only reason to assemble your Mars craft in space is that you can use multiple launch vehicles to get a larger total mass into space. But the logical assembly place is LEO, or some other orbit around Earth (geosynchronous if you like it higher up), not some far away L2 which has no direct contact with earth because it's blocked by the moon.
And if your craft isn't big enough yet, you just add another stage (either just another fuel tank, or a rocket) to your Mars rocket to get out of LEO.
Why not put it in LEO (low earth orbit)? It's a hell of a lot easier to send supplies and astronauts. We have decades of experience with that. Also, why not use the ISS? It has all you need, I think: astronaut habitat, power, docking ports. Add a few modules, and you're done.
All this talk about either the moon or L1, L2... unless there is a source of fuel (i.e. water, as well as a source of power like sunlight or nuclear), it's utterly pointless to drop yourself into another gravity well, not matter how tiny, if you're gonna have to carry all the fuel there yourself from earth. If the fuel comes from earth, your space station is nothing but an assembly point, and that might just as well be in low earth orbit.
The only reasonable alternative is one of those craters on the moon where they have found some water... but only if a station there can get sufficient power to convert that water to hydrogen and oxygen at conditions (temperature, pressure) that are necessary to be put into a large rocket.
Good job, Brazil: If they don't listen to the law, give them a fine high enough that it's relevant, and arrest the responsible people.
I'm not choosing sides whether this is good or bad censorship. I'm just delighted that they have the balls to stand up to large companies. Not every country does that... and in almost every case the responsible management get away with it without any punishment. Most punishments are fines, which will just slightly reduce profit. Arresting the management might get their attention.
A lack of bacon, a broken internet connection or a traffic jam at a bad time are human tragedies that are - at a personal level - far worse than climate change.
And that's why the climate, and the environment, are issues that should be dealt with by governments, not by the general public.
That was true of the Roadster, but the Model-S is much cheaper.
Don't bother. Some people will just keep screaming that electric will never work. They will always find something else.
Range already increased so much that you need to take a break before you're empty anyway. The time loss while charging went to an acceptable amount of time. Prices have steadily gone down. Battery life increased. And now charging stations are appearing everywhere... so the skeptics complain about money.
This. Many people just don't seem to care. It's either too difficult to understand, or they think they can find technological workarounds.
Those who do understand the implications and who don't think workarounds are the solution should make as much noise as possible. I have nothing to hide, but that doesn't mean I want my government to listen to me all the time. It's none of their business.
In June 2010, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said $557 billion was spent to subsidize fossil fuels globally in 2008, compared to $43 billion in support of renewable energy.
Well, some other folks are building storage facilities to store the electricity. It seems that the people running the infrastructure really believe in this wind energy... and they expect it to be big, together with solar energy.
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I don't know much about Gabon, but I would not be surprised if their small economy needs American support. Either for receiving donations, IMF loans (and the interest level connected to that), or just imports/exports.
Compared to the threat of reduced economic stability, suspending one domain name is peanuts. I bet they were bullied into this suspension of the domain name.
In a very safe country, where the large majority of people die from diseases (mostly at old age), the appearance of safety is as important as the real safety.
We have never really grown up. Instead of monsters under the bed, there is terrorism and rogue states. All we need is someone to tell us that things have improved. Reality is irrelevant.
Obviously, it really helps that the media first gave us the feeling of insecurity in the first place.
If I were the military, then I would argue that the drones are able to avoid any aircraft, and therefore do not need to carry a transponder themselves.
Not sure, but I guess that the reason is that you have a special chapter in your lawbooks regarding mobile phones, and a separate one regarding the internet?
Even though the mobile apps are essentially just a piece of software, it needs to be put into the right lawbook to have an effect in the right way. Bureaucracy, you know.
There was a time when it was easy to distinguish between a phone and a computer, and completely different laws applied. That has changed now, but the lawbooks may still lag behind a little.
Just guessing. I'm not from California.
All you have to do to understand the true capitalist way you can deal with garbage is go to Napoli in Southern Italy, where the mafia own the garbage business.
From an energetic point of view, this is utterly pointless. They use electricity which was produced at 40% efficiency from fossil sources, to turn the same CO2 which came from those fossil fuels back into a fuel at much lower than 100% efficiency.
To go from coal to a fuel, there are processes such a the Fischer tropsch process, as used in South Africa on industrial scale, which are far more efficient.
If you want to use sustainable electricity to produce a fuel, for heaven's sake, just make hydrogen, and be done. Or better still, use the electricity directly - by the time we have excess sustainable electricity, electric cars will be a reality too.
What is a robocall? We just don't have them where I live (Western Europe).
Also, since we don't have robocalls, and have never had them, how difficult can it be?
Exactly.
This desire to create more space on my screen by removing my taskbar or menus is ridiculous, and only driven by some hardcore laptop users.
I sit behind a 24" screen, and I really don't care whether there are taskbars and menus around my screen. In fact, I find it very practical that they are there - visible.
My main issue with Unity is that it slowed down my computer (which isn't the newest anymore). Too much fancy stuff, too much tweaking until it worked (and therefore too much chance to break it).
I also switched to Mint.
To be fair, they are all part of Europe. Europe as a whole has enough muscle to defend itself. The countries in Europe just decided to work together, rather than wait for the next one to try to take over the world. We've learned our lessons by now.
I think the smaller countries of Africa are a much better example - because you do have a good point.
What stupid user interface does a blackberry have to enable that in the first place? I cannot imagine any message that I would ever want to send to everyone I know.
Also, if he would have started the text with the name of his girlfriend, I'm sure he would have been in far less trouble.
Also, stupid Brits. It was a mistake.
I'll summarize the defense of these searches. Btw, I disagree with all of them... but I thought we can just get this over with quickly.
Choose:
- What if it was your child?
- Don't you want to catch terrorists?
- Prevention is better than cure.
- I have nothing to hide.
- I trust my government.
- (I probably forgot some...)
They're either logical fallacies, or just besides the point. Or both.
And the sad thing is that it's probably not even a giant conspiracy against freedom and liberty. This is the result of your own democratic process, and a sensationalist media.
To the US military and government, security and health are important, and freedom and liberty are sacrificed.
Applications are:
1. Track other spy satellites, of the Russians, Indians, Chinese. In the future, I guess that these countries will have hundreds of those - many quite small.
2. Avoid collisions of their own satellites. The US also has hundreds of satellites in orbit.
3. Avoid collisions of other (commercial?) satellites, thereby protecting US economic interests.
In this particular case, I don't care whether they share. Even if they don't share, I am not particularly worried. What flies overhead shouldn't be hidden anyway. Anyone who feels like monitoring that can go ahead. Would be nice if they share the data, but I understand if they don't.
You can dump an empty tank as easily as any other rocket does. Disconnect it. All rockets have stages. They all dump their empty tanks. Tanks can either have their own engine, like the booster rockets, or no engine, like the big fuel tank of the Space shuttle. Still, all get discarded without a problem.
I'm sorry if I am attacking you a little hard, but your argument makes no sense. You have to regard every mission from the place where stuff is launched (which is Earth, also if your intermediate location is L2).
If all the fuel comes from earth, you save nothing by going to L2 first. The only reason to assemble your Mars craft in space is that you can use multiple launch vehicles to get a larger total mass into space. But the logical assembly place is LEO, or some other orbit around Earth (geosynchronous if you like it higher up), not some far away L2 which has no direct contact with earth because it's blocked by the moon.
And if your craft isn't big enough yet, you just add another stage (either just another fuel tank, or a rocket) to your Mars rocket to get out of LEO.
Ok, I didn't know that (thanks). Why not put another station in low earth orbit, in the right orbital plane?
I still don't see the point of going all the way to L2 if we need to carry all the fuel there ourselves from earth anyway.
Why not put it in LEO (low earth orbit)? It's a hell of a lot easier to send supplies and astronauts. We have decades of experience with that.
Also, why not use the ISS? It has all you need, I think: astronaut habitat, power, docking ports. Add a few modules, and you're done.
All this talk about either the moon or L1, L2... unless there is a source of fuel (i.e. water, as well as a source of power like sunlight or nuclear), it's utterly pointless to drop yourself into another gravity well, not matter how tiny, if you're gonna have to carry all the fuel there yourself from earth. If the fuel comes from earth, your space station is nothing but an assembly point, and that might just as well be in low earth orbit.
The only reasonable alternative is one of those craters on the moon where they have found some water... but only if a station there can get sufficient power to convert that water to hydrogen and oxygen at conditions (temperature, pressure) that are necessary to be put into a large rocket.
Good job, Brazil: If they don't listen to the law, give them a fine high enough that it's relevant, and arrest the responsible people.
I'm not choosing sides whether this is good or bad censorship. I'm just delighted that they have the balls to stand up to large companies. Not every country does that... and in almost every case the responsible management get away with it without any punishment. Most punishments are fines, which will just slightly reduce profit. Arresting the management might get their attention.
A lack of bacon, a broken internet connection or a traffic jam at a bad time are human tragedies that are - at a personal level - far worse than climate change.
And that's why the climate, and the environment, are issues that should be dealt with by governments, not by the general public.
Yes. Aliens are watching us, but all they see at this moment is dinosaurs. Weird, eh?
That was true of the Roadster, but the Model-S is much cheaper.
Don't bother. Some people will just keep screaming that electric will never work. They will always find something else.
Range already increased so much that you need to take a break before you're empty anyway. The time loss while charging went to an acceptable amount of time. Prices have steadily gone down. Battery life increased. And now charging stations are appearing everywhere... so the skeptics complain about money.
This.
Many people just don't seem to care. It's either too difficult to understand, or they think they can find technological workarounds.
Those who do understand the implications and who don't think workarounds are the solution should make as much noise as possible. I have nothing to hide, but that doesn't mean I want my government to listen to me all the time. It's none of their business.
FOX News, 22 september 2012. The whole world is now at war with Sweden.
Don't listen to what they say. The things Swedish people say are harmful for your health, and bad for the Economy.
In June 2010, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said $557 billion was spent to subsidize fossil fuels globally in 2008, compared to $43 billion in support of renewable energy.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Federal_coal_subsidies
Well, some other folks are building storage facilities to store the electricity. It seems that the people running the infrastructure really believe in this wind energy... and they expect it to be big, together with solar energy.
I agree that Unity is actually a good desktop. But if they would add an optional taskbar at the bottom, it would be even better.