Seconded. My 11 year old chevy, the bumpers are just plastic over foam, pop right off, and if they're scratched they can go into the paint shop in one piece. My wife's newer VW, the bumpers have reflectors that need to be masked off and electronics that need to be disconnected, even if they're not broken. More labor cost for the cosmetic portion of the repair even if none of the fancy widgets need fixing.
Because there's no such thing as external security threats. Eastern Ukraine is being overrun with vacationers and the 38th parallel on the Korean Peninsula is just a big nature preserve.
All the MSM outlets are publishing fluff these days. Takes the heat of the Dems for caving on the shutdown, off the Deep State's latest embarrassments re: election shenanigans, and avoids having to acknowledge the economy is improving.
TLDR version: the 75 percent of them that aren't between the earth and the sun at any point in time will reflect sunlight into the Earth that wasn't going to hit it. This is a net gain in solar heating.
TLDR 2: Unless you literally fill the sky with these things, you can't keep them between the Earth and the sun at all times of the year.
TLDR 3: If you do fill the sky with them, say goodbye to geostationary communication satellites, which you will no longer be able to communicate with because of all the chaff in the way.
TLDR 4: It'll fuck with astronomy from the ground and from low orbit. In practice, that means a blind spot in asteroid search.
Your last sentence makes my entire point. There is no reason to make any projections for the future that are predicated on a technology that does not exist, and in my opinion cannot exist as described.
Let's take something from up in this thread: driverless delivery vehicles. First of all they don't exist outside of a few publicity stunts. Second of all, even if they were all they were cracked up to be, a whole class of delivery jobs are protected from automation by virtue of not just being about driving. Long-haul hub-to-hub trucking might be more automated, but urban delivery requires human intervention as much as it requires driving. In fact, there might be more delivery jobs if the truck drives itself and several delivery guys sit in the back and do their thing when the truck stops. If it automates at all.
Factory assembly work: machines need to be reprogrammed to do different tasks. Assembly machines don't just need to be reprogrammed, they need to be redesigned and rebuilt to do different tasks. Humans don't. Humans win. That's why there will always be humans in the loop in any industry where designs change faster than assembly machines can keep up with them. Even electronics assembly. There aren't many through-hole connectors on most things anymore because surface mount stuff can be entirely automated, but occasionally you still need the sturdiness of a through-hole connector and a human is going to be the one to put it in, especially on lower-volume production runs.
ATMs have been around for decades and so has online banking, but most all banks still have physical branches and multiple tellers behind the window.
Facebook continues to cower behind a broken concept that the company is a neutral platform where all of its participants are equally weighted.
Are the phone companies accountable for what conversations you hold over their networks? Is the US Postal Service responsible for the content of letters? Come off it guys. You don't get to play thought police in politics and you don't get to play thought police in business. In fact, you don't get to play thought police at all. If you don't like the way people are voting, convince them otherwise or suck it up and deal with it. Don't wrap yourself in flag and scripture and purple robes to tell us what we should and should not be saying to each other.
This is not true. There is no way that this statement can be true while there are millions of middle-skill job openings and low unemployment in the US. There are even fewer ways it can be true when low-skill assembly work in China is all done by tens of millions of human beings. Those facts on the ground and the idea that human work is on its way out are mutually exclusive. The latter idea is not grounded in reality. It presupposes science-fiction levels of machine capability that just don't exist in real life. Not only do those machines not exist, they aren't even close to existing. Stop believing the hype and start understanding reality.
When the Russians actually fund Communist and Green parties and generally support left-wing agitation, there's nothing to see here. But when people vote right-of-center, it must be a Russian conspiracy!
I guess...but no one's been able to "launch first" since the early 60's, given that all the nuclear powers have had second strike capability since the start of the space age. So I don't see how this changes anything in practice. MAD still holds and nuclear weapons remain a deterrence weapon and not an offensive weapon.
So this thing is slow, can only get at the coasts, and with a boom that big, there'd be no doubt the Russians did it. Thus, 40 minutes later, they die.
Oh, it's worse than that. Reagan signed an amnesty for ~3 million illegals during his time in office and Trump's looking like he's going to cave on DACA.
I'm afraid you've lost the train of your own argument. But let's keep going with it. Star Trek teleporters are an even better alternative than cars, planes, or trains. We should legislate the use of teleporters instead of wasteful personal vehicles for all transportation. They'd meet the needs of everyone everywhere all the time, not a mere 95% of the time. But people aren't using them. Not because they don't meet they're needs, because they don't exist. Like electric cars don't exist other than publicity stunts and like electric planes don't exist other than a few publicity stunts, the most technologically advanced of which has no payload capacity beyond its own batteries, flies along slower than most cars drive, and is fragile to the point where a bit of unexpected wind sheer tears it apart.
Today no. In ten or twenty years, who knows? Three decades ago, California was a solidly red state that had Republican governors and voted Republican in nearly every presidential election. A few decades of demographic churn pulled it the other way. Who's to say a few more decades of demographic changes won't do the opposite. It's getting pretty damned expensive to live in much of California and people will move away. Are the people most likely to move because of housing prices likely to vote Democrat or Republican? Hard to say. Time will tell.
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Attention-seeking peaceniks is more like it.
Seconded. My 11 year old chevy, the bumpers are just plastic over foam, pop right off, and if they're scratched they can go into the paint shop in one piece. My wife's newer VW, the bumpers have reflectors that need to be masked off and electronics that need to be disconnected, even if they're not broken. More labor cost for the cosmetic portion of the repair even if none of the fancy widgets need fixing.
Because there's no such thing as external security threats. Eastern Ukraine is being overrun with vacationers and the 38th parallel on the Korean Peninsula is just a big nature preserve.
Now why the hell should I buy anything from you if it's just going to be discontinued?
All the MSM outlets are publishing fluff these days. Takes the heat of the Dems for caving on the shutdown, off the Deep State's latest embarrassments re: election shenanigans, and avoids having to acknowledge the economy is improving.
TLDR version: the 75 percent of them that aren't between the earth and the sun at any point in time will reflect sunlight into the Earth that wasn't going to hit it. This is a net gain in solar heating.
TLDR 2: Unless you literally fill the sky with these things, you can't keep them between the Earth and the sun at all times of the year.
TLDR 3: If you do fill the sky with them, say goodbye to geostationary communication satellites, which you will no longer be able to communicate with because of all the chaff in the way.
TLDR 4: It'll fuck with astronomy from the ground and from low orbit. In practice, that means a blind spot in asteroid search.
What's more, now he's developing an awful habit that will bite him and someone else in the jugular the moment he sits behind the wheel of another car.
Weren't they all in for net neutrality when it was a democrat regulation?
Your last sentence makes my entire point. There is no reason to make any projections for the future that are predicated on a technology that does not exist, and in my opinion cannot exist as described.
Let's take something from up in this thread: driverless delivery vehicles. First of all they don't exist outside of a few publicity stunts. Second of all, even if they were all they were cracked up to be, a whole class of delivery jobs are protected from automation by virtue of not just being about driving. Long-haul hub-to-hub trucking might be more automated, but urban delivery requires human intervention as much as it requires driving. In fact, there might be more delivery jobs if the truck drives itself and several delivery guys sit in the back and do their thing when the truck stops. If it automates at all.
Factory assembly work: machines need to be reprogrammed to do different tasks. Assembly machines don't just need to be reprogrammed, they need to be redesigned and rebuilt to do different tasks. Humans don't. Humans win. That's why there will always be humans in the loop in any industry where designs change faster than assembly machines can keep up with them. Even electronics assembly. There aren't many through-hole connectors on most things anymore because surface mount stuff can be entirely automated, but occasionally you still need the sturdiness of a through-hole connector and a human is going to be the one to put it in, especially on lower-volume production runs.
ATMs have been around for decades and so has online banking, but most all banks still have physical branches and multiple tellers behind the window.
Facebook continues to cower behind a broken concept that the company is a neutral platform where all of its participants are equally weighted.
Are the phone companies accountable for what conversations you hold over their networks? Is the US Postal Service responsible for the content of letters? Come off it guys. You don't get to play thought police in politics and you don't get to play thought police in business. In fact, you don't get to play thought police at all. If you don't like the way people are voting, convince them otherwise or suck it up and deal with it. Don't wrap yourself in flag and scripture and purple robes to tell us what we should and should not be saying to each other.
This is not true. There is no way that this statement can be true while there are millions of middle-skill job openings and low unemployment in the US. There are even fewer ways it can be true when low-skill assembly work in China is all done by tens of millions of human beings. Those facts on the ground and the idea that human work is on its way out are mutually exclusive. The latter idea is not grounded in reality. It presupposes science-fiction levels of machine capability that just don't exist in real life. Not only do those machines not exist, they aren't even close to existing. Stop believing the hype and start understanding reality.
When the Russians actually fund Communist and Green parties and generally support left-wing agitation, there's nothing to see here. But when people vote right-of-center, it must be a Russian conspiracy!
I guess...but no one's been able to "launch first" since the early 60's, given that all the nuclear powers have had second strike capability since the start of the space age. So I don't see how this changes anything in practice. MAD still holds and nuclear weapons remain a deterrence weapon and not an offensive weapon.
So this thing is slow, can only get at the coasts, and with a boom that big, there'd be no doubt the Russians did it. Thus, 40 minutes later, they die.
Oh, it's worse than that. Reagan signed an amnesty for ~3 million illegals during his time in office and Trump's looking like he's going to cave on DACA.
I'm afraid you've lost the train of your own argument. But let's keep going with it. Star Trek teleporters are an even better alternative than cars, planes, or trains. We should legislate the use of teleporters instead of wasteful personal vehicles for all transportation. They'd meet the needs of everyone everywhere all the time, not a mere 95% of the time. But people aren't using them. Not because they don't meet they're needs, because they don't exist. Like electric cars don't exist other than publicity stunts and like electric planes don't exist other than a few publicity stunts, the most technologically advanced of which has no payload capacity beyond its own batteries, flies along slower than most cars drive, and is fragile to the point where a bit of unexpected wind sheer tears it apart.
Today no. In ten or twenty years, who knows? Three decades ago, California was a solidly red state that had Republican governors and voted Republican in nearly every presidential election. A few decades of demographic churn pulled it the other way. Who's to say a few more decades of demographic changes won't do the opposite. It's getting pretty damned expensive to live in much of California and people will move away. Are the people most likely to move because of housing prices likely to vote Democrat or Republican? Hard to say. Time will tell.
Not tired enough to be petitioning to split.
That's conjecture, to put it charitably. EVs aren't even .95% of sales, much less the whole passenger vehicle fleet.
Make the insulation out of good old-fashioned petrochemicals, the way God intended.
Yeah. What could go wrong if the critters chew through the insulation on some double-0's plugged into a lithium battery.
Huge number of small props, PV cells on every surface, the best batteries money can buy and barely able to break even on weight and power.
Given how demonstrably impractical electric is for automobiles, who in his right mind thinks it's even remotely possible for passenger aircraft?
Your insistence on your flight not exploding in a burst of lithium fire mid-air is just a personal bias. It's not where we are as a society.
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