Dagnabit indeed. Maybe they should only pay the fees associated with their "home field" regardless of where they take off or land. I'm not sure if that closes all the loopholes. The devil's in the details; but their ought to be some way to structure fees so that it doesn't influence safety decisions in any way....
Take-off fees, yes; but not landing fees. We don't want pilots pressured into choosing a riskier landing due to fees. I'm picturing a scenario where they don't want to divert from bad weather because their alternative field has a high landing fee and management is breathing down their necks about it whenever they land there.
I literally wrote "they ride without helmets". If anything, I expected people to blast me for implying that Indians don't have sense. And the truth of the matter? It is indeed a nightmare but there are more people wearing helmets than I expected
Prices sound comparable to a motorcycle. I wonder how safety compares. You'd climb into the Nano wearing shorts and nothing on your head. You wear ATGATT on a motorcycle if you've got sense. ie, the Nano might lull you into a sense of complacency with what looks like a safety cage but really isn't.
It seems like a moot point anyway. If you want cheap (or can only afford cheap) transportation there and are willing to cut corners on safety, don't most Indians opt for a scooter anyway? And they ride without helmets, right? So what's the point?
In other words, Not a real car, way more expensive than a scooter so not serving either market very well.
The potential difference between the Earth and sky. Since opposites attract, it pulls them up until they reach equilibrium. After that, it's probably a slow parachute-like descent; but perhaps there's also some way for them to accumulate charge at one level of the atmosphere and get pulled to another.
In other words, same thing as lightning but not enough potential difference for a bolt to occur. Instead, the spiders "hair" stands on end and pulls them towards the opposite charge.
Googled. It looks to be electromagnetic, not electrostatic. They're using a conductor passing through a magnetic field as a motor/generator. The spiders are using a statically charged filament.
I think perhaps this is a fantastic example of something that "doesn't scale". If we tried to build a flying machine that used electrostatic forces, we'd just break down the air resistance and create lots of lightning bolts. The spider only needs a little force, because it's tiny. Electrostatic force is enough to fly a spider without throwing sparks.
It seems like drilling would be a bad idea. Their air pocket might collapse if you drilled into it. There's no practical way to guarantee that the hole stays sealed and pressurized while drilling. When the drill breaks into the chamber, it might suddenly flood all the way to the ceiling with insufficient time for them to get out. It's not like the Chilean mine incident where there was a lot of air below the miners.
San Francisco and Oakland: Oh please, let us sue the oil companies. Oh please let us sue them from our glass towers funded by hi-tech industry, fueled by the very energy we decry, birthed by the military-industrial complex we revile. Oh please, mr. judge we implore you! We're good liberals. Pay no attention to the prime mover behind the curtain.
LOL. I have no idea what the other AC is going on about. If anything, I thought somebody might call me out on CO2 also having oxygen, and that I should have specified O2 in particular. Just goes to show, you can't cover all the bases on how they might pick you apart.
I got "fired" by machine one time too, way back in the 90s when I worked support. I didn't go through too much hassle though. We noticed that I couldn't log in with my badge number or something. The first day, the manager joked "maybe you got fired". We were on very good terms so it was not a nervous laughter at all.
He thought maybe it was just a glitch and they could fix my hours later. The 2nd day it happened again, and he was like... "OK, I really have to look into this". Sure enough, word came back that I had been terminated by the system. Exactly *how* I don't know. Perhaps it was really a fat-finger by an operator, and somebody who was supposed to get the axe was still in the system.
The only way for them to fix it was to re-employ me! This actually worked out well in some ways, less well in others. I got all my accrued vacation hours as a "severance". Woohoo! Money! OTOH, I had to begin accumulating actual vacation hours again.
Because it was Homer, and that was a pretty decent episode of the Simpsons. Also, beer is actually good and Bitcoin just goes "bloop!" or something on a computer.
Just make it a social networking program. You log in, everybody sees your data. They're already half way to being FaceBook. Social is where it's at. Nobody wants real security. They want companionship. This company could be perfectly positioned to combine a new kind of security with a new kind of social network. They could call it Social Security.
I have Old Glory Robot Insurance. As long as I keep the premium payments up it'll be all good, especially when I get older. They eat old people's medicine, for food.
Namely, we wish to encode *argument from authority* into the Internet. If I were to post this as AC, you would be forced to evaluate my statement based purely on its content since AC could be anybody. OK, perhaps you might judge it based on your perception of the general attitudes of ACs, but that's about it. Next, by posting it under my pseudonym as I am now, you'll judge it a bit more based on possible prior experience with my pseudonym which doesn't really tell you very much about me unless you're a creepy stalker. Finally, I could be forced to post under my Real Name (TM), in which case you could pull in more judgey crap like bias against the ethnicity of my surname, my skin color, etc.
It is the final form of judgement that the UK wishes to encode onto the Internet--judgement based more on reputation than the content of what's being said.
The classic solution to undesirable content from anonymous sources is usually to ignore it if nobody is willing to stand by it. Usually anonymous content is garbage, but on rare and important occasions it shines. Then you must refute it based purely on logic. Historically this isn't something the Brits have handled well, so I don't suppose we American patriots should be terribly surprised.
That's exactly how it works with PG&E in California. I think it's 3 tiers of usage, with Summer having a different tier system because air conditioners are the biggest strain. I think I heard that at one point, indoor pot grows were estimated to be 3% of the draw from their grid. Bitcoin up there in Washington is making indoor pot grows look... welll... no pun intended but... greener.
AFAIK, cruise control works because there's an extra throttle cable leading to the servo. So ya' just wire an este's model rocket igniter and an M-80 next it. Put a nice little switch on the dash. Anything goes wrong, blow that sucker. Just kidding of course.
This is a country so dysfunctional that they don't even have their own currency. They "solved" their hyperinflation by letting people use foreign currency. Managing the money supply in some way is a core function of government, and they just totally outsourced it. You'd think they'd want to fix that among other things in order to get back on track as a well-run country. Nope. Hi tech surveillance system. Yeah. That's the priority. At least they got rid of Mugabe after all this time; but I guess they've got a really big hole full of insanity to dig themselves out of. It's going to be a while.
You got me to look at the thesaurus, and "correctness" seems like the best fit I could find for a merger of truth and justice in English. We have so many words, but you're probably right that we don't have anything that's truth+justice like that.
Would it be correct to assume that when native speakers hear "pravda", they think not only "this is true", but "this is true and we should do something about it"?
WTF? Any body old enough to remember the USSR will see "Pravda" and immediately associate it with the USSR's mouthpiece. It's Russian for "truth", and was the butt of many jokes in the USA during the Soviet era. What's Elon thinking here?
IMHO, if it's any spacecraft or probe it's Voyager not Apollo. Apollo had humans on board who could take over and manually control things if they had to. They did that on Apollo 13. Here's an interesting read about the Voyagers
They have to patch that stuff with light-hours of delay, and no humans on board. It's been running for decades. That's certainly some of the most *robust* code, if not the most sophisticated.
If you drain gasoline from a tank, the energy is still locked up in the gasoline.
The only way to drain a battery is to release the energy.
Getting the energy out of a mangled gas tank is fairly simple--just siphon what you can, and use kitty litter to soak up anything that's spilling on the pavement.
Getting energy out of a mangled battery pack means navigating past a bunch of damaged, exposed contacts that could shock you, then you have to safely discharge the individual cells, generating heat in the process.
Chemical fuels are relatively stable and not reacting much in the tank. Batteries are always reacting somewhat--self discharge, etc. A damaged battery pack can react in undesirable ways at any time, whereas chemical fuel is unlikely to blow up on you unless there's a source of ignition. You might say that a damaged battery pack is like a gasoline tank with random little lighters being flicked around it.
Don't get me wrong. I love EVs and can't wait until I can afford one; but safely handling these battery packs after accidents is definitely a challenging aspect to this new tech.
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Dagnabit indeed. Maybe they should only pay the fees associated with their "home field" regardless of where they take off or land. I'm not sure if that closes all the loopholes. The devil's in the details; but their ought to be some way to structure fees so that it doesn't influence safety decisions in any way....
Take-off fees, yes; but not landing fees. We don't want pilots pressured into choosing a riskier landing due to fees. I'm picturing a scenario where they don't want to divert from bad weather because their alternative field has a high landing fee and management is breathing down their necks about it whenever they land there.
I literally wrote "they ride without helmets". If anything, I expected people to blast me for implying that Indians don't have sense. And the truth of the matter? It is indeed a nightmare but there are more people wearing helmets than I expected
Prices sound comparable to a motorcycle. I wonder how safety compares. You'd climb into the Nano wearing shorts and nothing on your head. You wear ATGATT on a motorcycle if you've got sense. ie, the Nano might lull you into a sense of complacency with what looks like a safety cage but really isn't.
It seems like a moot point anyway. If you want cheap (or can only afford cheap) transportation there and are willing to cut corners on safety, don't most Indians opt for a scooter anyway? And they ride without helmets, right? So what's the point?
In other words, Not a real car, way more expensive than a scooter so not serving either market very well.
The potential difference between the Earth and sky. Since opposites attract, it pulls them up until they reach equilibrium. After that, it's probably a slow parachute-like descent; but perhaps there's also some way for them to accumulate charge at one level of the atmosphere and get pulled to another.
In other words, same thing as lightning but not enough potential difference for a bolt to occur. Instead, the spiders "hair" stands on end and pulls them towards the opposite charge.
Googled. It looks to be electromagnetic, not electrostatic. They're using a conductor passing through a magnetic field as a motor/generator. The spiders are using a statically charged filament.
I think perhaps this is a fantastic example of something that "doesn't scale". If we tried to build a flying machine that used electrostatic forces, we'd just break down the air resistance and create lots of lightning bolts. The spider only needs a little force, because it's tiny. Electrostatic force is enough to fly a spider without throwing sparks.
It seems like drilling would be a bad idea. Their air pocket might collapse if you drilled into it. There's no practical way to guarantee that the hole stays sealed and pressurized while drilling. When the drill breaks into the chamber, it might suddenly flood all the way to the ceiling with insufficient time for them to get out. It's not like the Chilean mine incident where there was a lot of air below the miners.
San Francisco and Oakland: Oh please, let us sue the oil companies. Oh please let us sue them from our glass towers funded by hi-tech industry, fueled by the very energy we decry, birthed by the military-industrial complex we revile. Oh please, mr. judge we implore you! We're good liberals. Pay no attention to the prime mover behind the curtain.
Judge: No.
LOL. I have no idea what the other AC is going on about. If anything, I thought somebody might call me out on CO2 also having oxygen, and that I should have specified O2 in particular. Just goes to show, you can't cover all the bases on how they might pick you apart.
I got "fired" by machine one time too, way back in the 90s when I worked support. I didn't go through too much hassle though. We noticed that I couldn't log in with my badge number or something. The first day, the manager joked "maybe you got fired". We were on very good terms so it was not a nervous laughter at all. He thought maybe it was just a glitch and they could fix my hours later. The 2nd day it happened again, and he was like... "OK, I really have to look into this". Sure enough, word came back that I had been terminated by the system. Exactly *how* I don't know. Perhaps it was really a fat-finger by an operator, and somebody who was supposed to get the axe was still in the system.
The only way for them to fix it was to re-employ me! This actually worked out well in some ways, less well in others. I got all my accrued vacation hours as a "severance". Woohoo! Money! OTOH, I had to begin accumulating actual vacation hours again.
They use CO2 in the packaging, because regular air has oxygen and would spoil it.
Because it was Homer, and that was a pretty decent episode of the Simpsons. Also, beer is actually good and Bitcoin just goes "bloop!" or something on a computer.
Just make it a social networking program. You log in, everybody sees your data. They're already half way to being FaceBook. Social is where it's at. Nobody wants real security. They want companionship. This company could be perfectly positioned to combine a new kind of security with a new kind of social network. They could call it Social Security.
I have Old Glory Robot Insurance. As long as I keep the premium payments up it'll be all good, especially when I get older. They eat old people's medicine, for food.
Namely, we wish to encode *argument from authority* into the Internet. If I were to post this as AC, you would be forced to evaluate my statement based purely on its content since AC could be anybody. OK, perhaps you might judge it based on your perception of the general attitudes of ACs, but that's about it. Next, by posting it under my pseudonym as I am now, you'll judge it a bit more based on possible prior experience with my pseudonym which doesn't really tell you very much about me unless you're a creepy stalker. Finally, I could be forced to post under my Real Name (TM), in which case you could pull in more judgey crap like bias against the ethnicity of my surname, my skin color, etc.
It is the final form of judgement that the UK wishes to encode onto the Internet--judgement based more on reputation than the content of what's being said.
The classic solution to undesirable content from anonymous sources is usually to ignore it if nobody is willing to stand by it. Usually anonymous content is garbage, but on rare and important occasions it shines. Then you must refute it based purely on logic. Historically this isn't something the Brits have handled well, so I don't suppose we American patriots should be terribly surprised.
Wow, doesn't that bring back the memories? It's like Ogg hit me with an Open Source CD or something.
If I were into that kind of thing, I'd use a botnet to do it.
That's exactly how it works with PG&E in California. I think it's 3 tiers of usage, with Summer having a different tier system because air conditioners are the biggest strain. I think I heard that at one point, indoor pot grows were estimated to be 3% of the draw from their grid. Bitcoin up there in Washington is making indoor pot grows look... welll... no pun intended but... greener.
AFAIK, cruise control works because there's an extra throttle cable leading to the servo. So ya' just wire an este's model rocket igniter and an M-80 next it. Put a nice little switch on the dash. Anything goes wrong, blow that sucker. Just kidding of course.
This is a country so dysfunctional that they don't even have their own currency. They "solved" their hyperinflation by letting people use foreign currency. Managing the money supply in some way is a core function of government, and they just totally outsourced it. You'd think they'd want to fix that among other things in order to get back on track as a well-run country. Nope. Hi tech surveillance system. Yeah. That's the priority. At least they got rid of Mugabe after all this time; but I guess they've got a really big hole full of insanity to dig themselves out of. It's going to be a while.
Truth, justice and the Slavic way?
You got me to look at the thesaurus, and "correctness" seems like the best fit I could find for a merger of truth and justice in English. We have so many words, but you're probably right that we don't have anything that's truth+justice like that.
Would it be correct to assume that when native speakers hear "pravda", they think not only "this is true", but "this is true and we should do something about it"?
WTF? Any body old enough to remember the USSR will see "Pravda" and immediately associate it with the USSR's mouthpiece. It's Russian for "truth", and was the butt of many jokes in the USA during the Soviet era. What's Elon thinking here?
IMHO, if it's any spacecraft or probe it's Voyager not Apollo. Apollo had humans on board who could take over and manually control things if they had to. They did that on Apollo 13. Here's an interesting read about the Voyagers
They have to patch that stuff with light-hours of delay, and no humans on board. It's been running for decades. That's certainly some of the most *robust* code, if not the most sophisticated.
If you drain gasoline from a tank, the energy is still locked up in the gasoline.
The only way to drain a battery is to release the energy.
Getting the energy out of a mangled gas tank is fairly simple--just siphon what you can, and use kitty litter to soak up anything that's spilling on the pavement.
Getting energy out of a mangled battery pack means navigating past a bunch of damaged, exposed contacts that could shock you, then you have to safely discharge the individual cells, generating heat in the process.
Chemical fuels are relatively stable and not reacting much in the tank. Batteries are always reacting somewhat--self discharge, etc. A damaged battery pack can react in undesirable ways at any time, whereas chemical fuel is unlikely to blow up on you unless there's a source of ignition. You might say that a damaged battery pack is like a gasoline tank with random little lighters being flicked around it.
Don't get me wrong. I love EVs and can't wait until I can afford one; but safely handling these battery packs after accidents is definitely a challenging aspect to this new tech.