recently opened white space spectrum which has roughly 3 mile range
Range is a function of a lot more than mere wavelength, if I'm not mistaken (things like transmitting power, antenna height/placement and topography come to mind...).
not the idiocy that the US government destroyed 2 buildings in NYC and killed a lot of people
How ironic that you only mention two of the buildings, considering the WTC report fails to mention (much less attempt to explain!) Building 7 as well!
Seriously, who am I supposed to listen to; you or the tens of thousands of architects, demolition experts, pilots, high-rise firefighters, engineers and physicists around the world who literally laugh out loud at the pathetic "official explanation?"
Ever heard of the Reichstag Fire?? None of this is new, genius; it's all SOP. Take your [gullible+naive or traitorous, you tell me] trolling elsewhere.
On paper, definitely. In reality, the various software needed [to manage an incredibly complicated aircraft-wide network of disparate systems] makes today's aircraft vulnerable to a vast array of potentially unpredictable problems that the aircraft of yesteryear weren't plagued with.
Your numbers are probably as valid as any other but you said "mankind," not "the English-speaking world." With all the various whaling cultures around the world (Norse, Finns, Russkies, Innuit, etc), I would guess that "a few dozen whales per year" is off by one or even two orders of magnitude...
Auto manufacturing, aviation manufacturing, nautical manufacturing, space manufacturing, and high tech manufacturing. Grain production, dairy production, meat production, fruit production, and vegetable production. Software, movies, books, websites, music, and television.
And it all sucks. Yes, I generalize... but my point is valid:
Our automobiles are a total and outright embarrassment.
We're making evolutionary (rather than revolutionary) advances in aviation (if you call over-complicating them an advance - fly by wire, anyone?) but who's going to buy them, who wouldn't already be manufacturing their own?
Nautical manufacturing? For, pleasure boats? No; that chapter is clearly coming to a close as there'll soon be no middle class left to sustain that. Commercial fishing? Right! Cargo freighters and oil tankers? Perhaps for a little longer, but it's hardly a growth industry; the days of cheap goods and affordable oil (subsidized by the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency) are coming to an end and anyone with a brain cell can see that.
Our food production? Sure... if you call that pesticide-ridden, nutritionally-devoid, utterly-without-flavor sludge "food," then you're absolutely right.
Books, movies, software? Pfft. How much do you think those "industries" are actually contributing to this country (as opposed to the corporate coffers conveniently located in tax shelters?)
No, we're fucked... and anyone who says otherwise is either a total moron or has an agenda.
Figure you're plunking down at least $10k at the end of that 8 year warranty to replace your battery.
Considering the rate at which LiPo and LiFePO4 batteries have been dropping in price (I just ordered some 2S 7.4v 1700mah packs for nine bucks apiece with shipping included), I'd venture to guess that not only should you be able to replace your battery for a fraction of that in 8 years time but that it will have far more capacity as well (of course, this presupposes that China's manufacturing tendencies continue on on their current course, which is certainly debatable...).
But nearly all guns are used for exclusively lawful activities, so it is not reasonable to treat all guns as if they are obviously going to be used for crime.
And this argument works great... as long as we ignore the simple fact that a "crime" is whatever the people who control the government want to define it as.
The thing about guns (vs other weapons) is that they truly are "the great equalizer." Unlike with blunt or edged weapons (which can be anything from your bare hands or a butter knife to a samurai sword), you don't need anywhere as much physical strength, prowess or training to be able to defend yourself with a gun. Hell, even for just deterrence, they're remarkably more effective; which would be more intimidating, a little lady old lady assuming a defensive "martial arts" stance... or that same little old lady holding a sawed-off?!
Shit, no wonder all the sociopaths in positions of power are always trying to prevent everyone else from possessing guns (and to think they just want to "protect us from ourselves" - ROFL!!!).
I got a new laptop just over three years ago. It had a 2.4GHz processor. I got my next new laptop a few weeks ago. It has a... 2.5GHz processor. Clock speeds have become almost irrelevant.
Processor speeds are very much relevant - and proportional to - processor performance. Your claim that they've become irrelevant is like claiming that the rpm's of an automobile engine have become irrelevant because a a car you just bought has a similar redline to one you bought decades ago. Logical fallacy?
Disclaimer: sorry for the car analogy; I thought I wasn't supposed to have to resort to those here.:P
I have a hard time recommending AMD with a straight face nowadays for desktops...
Sure, they're getting their asses handed to them on the bleeding edge... but what kind of imbecile recommends bleeding edge, anyhow?! A four or six core Phenom II coupled with a cheap AM3 board BLOWS THE DOORS off anything from Intel in terms of value...
...just goes to show that government has no clue what it's doing
Perhaps not but rest assured, the select few above them most certainly know what they're doing. You could even argue that they're doing a damn good job of it...
And on the shelf just below the modem are a package of styrofoam cups and some twine, to hold him over while he's waiting for the phone line to get hooked up (hint: paper cups work better)...
I lost count of the number of errors in this post. Kimchee predominantly consists of cabbage, not lettuce... and contains no naturally-occurring carcinogens of any significance. However, it's quite likely that Korean produce, like our own, tends to be full of cancer-causing pesticides and so forth. If anything, the acidophilus-type bacterial cultures in kimchee are extremely good for the digestive (and immune) systems and either play no role in the number of incidents of stomach cancer in Korea, or else are actually unknowingly reducing them.
If anything, Koreans fondness for tea (the link between tea drinking and stomach cancer has been known for decades) and booze is your culprit...
The simple fact is that none of Hitler's circle were aristocratic, and he was known to have actively detested the aristocracy all his life. Aristocrats not only in Germany but in all the occupied territories were stripped of their assets which were then redistributed to those within, or sympathetic to, the party.
So the demonstrably aristocracy-backed puppet actually detested aristocrats... well, that changes everything! (/not)
Nazism was a revolutionary movement that overthrew the Weimar Republic and cleared away the last vestiges of power held by the German aristocracy.
This is a gross oversimplification, to say the least. Nazism as a "populist movement" actually served to remove power from the German people (among other things) and place it into the hands of a select few who were partly comprised of and backed by aristocrats, including the British royalty and our own "aristocrats" on this side of the ocean (wealthy Connecticut and Rhode Islands families, the Rockefellers, etc). Mind you, this involved a transfer of power within the aristocracy but to suggest that Nazism was a grassroots movement that was inherently anti-aristocracy would be to perpetuate the same lie that a lot of German people fell for.
The real goals of Nazism (and WWII) were consolidation of power, population reduction and bringing closer a return to Feudalism:
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recently opened white space spectrum which has roughly 3 mile range
Range is a function of a lot more than mere wavelength, if I'm not mistaken (things like transmitting power, antenna height/placement and topography come to mind...).
not the idiocy that the US government destroyed 2 buildings in NYC and killed a lot of people
How ironic that you only mention two of the buildings, considering the WTC report fails to mention (much less attempt to explain!) Building 7 as well!
Seriously, who am I supposed to listen to; you or the tens of thousands of architects, demolition experts, pilots, high-rise firefighters, engineers and physicists around the world who literally laugh out loud at the pathetic "official explanation?"
Ever heard of the Reichstag Fire?? None of this is new, genius; it's all SOP. Take your [gullible+naive or traitorous, you tell me] trolling elsewhere.
Germany may have better feature sets, but don't have the same reliability as even an American automobile.
Greetings, Slashdot user from a parallel universe!
Is E-Learning a Viable Option?
In a word, no.
On paper, definitely. In reality, the various software needed [to manage an incredibly complicated aircraft-wide network of disparate systems] makes today's aircraft vulnerable to a vast array of potentially unpredictable problems that the aircraft of yesteryear weren't plagued with.
Your numbers are probably as valid as any other but you said "mankind," not "the English-speaking world." With all the various whaling cultures around the world (Norse, Finns, Russkies, Innuit, etc), I would guess that "a few dozen whales per year" is off by one or even two orders of magnitude...
...or does it reach out with a rough, calloused hand?
This'll give added meaning to the term "Oklahoma Edition..."
Auto manufacturing, aviation manufacturing, nautical manufacturing, space manufacturing, and high tech manufacturing. Grain production, dairy production, meat production, fruit production, and vegetable production. Software, movies, books, websites, music, and television.
And it all sucks. Yes, I generalize... but my point is valid:
Our automobiles are a total and outright embarrassment.
We're making evolutionary (rather than revolutionary) advances in aviation (if you call over-complicating them an advance - fly by wire, anyone?) but who's going to buy them, who wouldn't already be manufacturing their own?
Nautical manufacturing? For, pleasure boats? No; that chapter is clearly coming to a close as there'll soon be no middle class left to sustain that. Commercial fishing? Right! Cargo freighters and oil tankers? Perhaps for a little longer, but it's hardly a growth industry; the days of cheap goods and affordable oil (subsidized by the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency) are coming to an end and anyone with a brain cell can see that.
Our food production? Sure... if you call that pesticide-ridden, nutritionally-devoid, utterly-without-flavor sludge "food," then you're absolutely right.
Books, movies, software? Pfft. How much do you think those "industries" are actually contributing to this country (as opposed to the corporate coffers conveniently located in tax shelters?)
No, we're fucked... and anyone who says otherwise is either a total moron or has an agenda.
and mankind only captured a few dozen whales per year, things were cool
And when, exactly, was this?
It tends to help...
Los Alamos in Albuquerque
Los Alamos is in Los Alamos (go figure, right?). Sandia National Lab is in Albuquerque (50 to 75mi south of Los Alamos, rough guess...)
Figure you're plunking down at least $10k at the end of that 8 year warranty to replace your battery.
Considering the rate at which LiPo and LiFePO4 batteries have been dropping in price (I just ordered some 2S 7.4v 1700mah packs for nine bucks apiece with shipping included), I'd venture to guess that not only should you be able to replace your battery for a fraction of that in 8 years time but that it will have far more capacity as well (of course, this presupposes that China's manufacturing tendencies continue on on their current course, which is certainly debatable...).
But nearly all guns are used for exclusively lawful activities, so it is not reasonable to treat all guns as if they are obviously going to be used for crime.
And this argument works great... as long as we ignore the simple fact that a "crime" is whatever the people who control the government want to define it as.
Shit, no wonder all the sociopaths in positions of power are always trying to prevent everyone else from possessing guns (and to think they just want to "protect us from ourselves" - ROFL!!!).
I got a new laptop just over three years ago. It had a 2.4GHz processor. I got my next new laptop a few weeks ago. It has a... 2.5GHz processor. Clock speeds have become almost irrelevant.
Processor speeds are very much relevant - and proportional to - processor performance. Your claim that they've become irrelevant is like claiming that the rpm's of an automobile engine have become irrelevant because a a car you just bought has a similar redline to one you bought decades ago. Logical fallacy?
Disclaimer: sorry for the car analogy; I thought I wasn't supposed to have to resort to those here. :P
I have a hard time recommending AMD with a straight face nowadays for desktops...
Sure, they're getting their asses handed to them on the bleeding edge... but what kind of imbecile recommends bleeding edge, anyhow?! A four or six core Phenom II coupled with a cheap AM3 board BLOWS THE DOORS off anything from Intel in terms of value...
I am sure that back when the Russians were developing MiG fighters the US "hacked" into their computers...
Yep, I can just picture a 60's-era NSA math nerd trying hacking into an abacus, using nothing more than a slide rule...
massive amounts of rusty hard drives? :p
Look at Obama. He's honest...
This is a career politician we're talking about here, isn't it? (Just checking.)
smart...
Undoubtedly.
He wasted most of his first two years trying to negotiate with people who had no intention of ever working with him.
Actually, he succeeded completely - in part by making anyone think that he wasted those two years. If only!
...just goes to show that government has no clue what it's doing
Perhaps not but rest assured, the select few above them most certainly know what they're doing. You could even argue that they're doing a damn good job of it...
And on the shelf just below the modem are a package of styrofoam cups and some twine, to hold him over while he's waiting for the phone line to get hooked up (hint: paper cups work better)...
If anything, Koreans fondness for tea (the link between tea drinking and stomach cancer has been known for decades) and booze is your culprit...
The simple fact is that none of Hitler's circle were aristocratic, and he was known to have actively detested the aristocracy all his life. Aristocrats not only in Germany but in all the occupied territories were stripped of their assets which were then redistributed to those within, or sympathetic to, the party.
So the demonstrably aristocracy-backed puppet actually detested aristocrats... well, that changes everything! (/not)
Nazism was a revolutionary movement that overthrew the Weimar Republic and cleared away the last vestiges of power held by the German aristocracy.
This is a gross oversimplification, to say the least. Nazism as a "populist movement" actually served to remove power from the German people (among other things) and place it into the hands of a select few who were partly comprised of and backed by aristocrats, including the British royalty and our own "aristocrats" on this side of the ocean (wealthy Connecticut and Rhode Islands families, the Rockefellers, etc). Mind you, this involved a transfer of power within the aristocracy but to suggest that Nazism was a grassroots movement that was inherently anti-aristocracy would be to perpetuate the same lie that a lot of German people fell for.
The real goals of Nazism (and WWII) were consolidation of power, population reduction and bringing closer a return to Feudalism:
The Nazi Roots of the House of Windsor
the Bush family & the Nazis
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
Documents: Bush's Grandfather Directed Bank Tied to Man Who Funded Hitler
how the Bush family wealth is linked to the holocaust
ROCKEFELLER AND MASS MURDER
The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
Rockefeller Associates
Standard Oil Fuels World War II