(though . . . we're entering some really strange new territory on both the A380 AND the 787. For the A380, we've got double-deckerness. So there's all the questions of structural integrity that nag at us. They've been flying long enough now, and have been through a round of proving - I think I feel comfortable about them. but for the 787 - the Carbon Fiber airframe on a jumbo-scale, is something that's really new, and never really been done before. Except maybe the B2? I don't think we really know what happens when these airframes age. We don't know if they fail gracefully or catastrophically. (I've seen some fairly catastrophic carbon-fiber fails on bicycle frames - it is terrifying to transfer that to aircraft). I guess we're just going to have to see how this pans out - but I have no illusions. The first 5-years worth of passengers are guinea-pigs, IMO.)
uh - no. This is FoxNews fantasy. The way the USSR was brought down was: Their party mukity-muks were getting rich off of illegally selling Soviet oil on the black market, and rigging prices by manipulating OPEC. (1970's). The US did the same with KSA, getting them to open the spigots; (by playing Iraq and Iran off of each-other, dating back to 1953, and Operation AJAX - and keeping KSA, UAE, and Kuwait, terrified that Iraq was going to come in and invade them and take over. . . as long as the US protected KSA, UAE, Kuwait - they did our bidding). So when KSA opened up oil production in the 1980's, oil prices collapsed, Soviet revenues collapsed, and their economy collapsed. The problem of how to pay their massive army while they were engaged in the ongoing occupation of Afghanistan, and operations in Chechnya, became a practical issue, and elements began to desert (and rebel).
This is what caused the USSR to fail.
Those same corrupt party members who were privately profitting off of selling Soviet oil? They became the heads of the privatized oil industry in the 1990's. Some of them actually went to jail; (but this was the result of political infighting, not actual law enforcement - the LOSERS went to jail). The winners - well some of them went on to con Iceland into privatizing their national banking system in the 2000's. They walked away with billions, and Iceland's economy collapsed. Julian Assange has information to expose these guys; but guess what happened to Julian Assange?
um. Not millions. Trillions. (when you factor-in Iraq, and Af-Pak; beyond the initial overthrow of the Taliban and when we could have taken-out bin Laden.)
And we BORROWED this money.
And we rigged our whole credit system to even make it possible. (well - to sustain it for a couple more years).
And now we're (congress is) debating on whether we're going to pay back the lenders. We really do not have the means. A few of us do. But in general, the broader working, middle-class American public do not.
At least in Greece, a lot of pensioners got a nice cushy lifestyle out of it. All we got was a bunch of bedwetting and killing.
Dr. Gerard O'Neill worked on the Mass Driver. (also invented the precursor system to GPS).
He ran up against congressional funding constraints (including one congressman who said that the idea of colonizing space was proof that congress should cut all funding for NASA entirely. This was in the 1980's.)
In the 1970's (and 80's) He sought private funding for development of the Mass Driver - the plan was to install it on the moon, mine materials on the moon, use solar power to electromagnetically launch materials into earth orbit for construction of orbital solar power stations, use the solar power to beam down electricity to earth, and fund the whole project on sales of electrical power. It was brilliant. Until the price of oil (energy) collapsed.
He achieved limited success;
the system relied on switching push/pull electromagnetic coils using optical triggers as the mass flew down the track. When he started experimenting with superconducting magnets, then things got pretty expensive.
This is because we vote for PEOPLE (representatives) not POLICIES.
It's a freaking popularity contest.
Yeah - we (on the left, or center) all hated dubya. What about his POLICIES. Notice how bama's opponents all hate HIM. Their biggest issue? The supposed invalidity of his birth certificate.
I don't even know where to begin, with this country.
but try to implement this - and every person has their own "favorite" bug-tracker and source-control system. (not bugzilla and git). And good luck to you trying to integrate dozens of bug-trackers rcs's into the rest of your org's infrastructure. (not to harp specifically on rcs's and bug-trackers, but it seems to be one of the real sore points that developers can't agree on. . . tools-wise. - - - oh, I guess we all like to agree-to-disagree on IDE's as well. . . . )
There are times when most developers working on a small chunk of the project don't NEED to know all the details of all the other parts of the project. You can boil down a meeting to 5 minutes, for this small component, instead of 2 hours. Too bad for the lead.
Yes - the line devs also need big-picture updates, especially when it's going to impact them. But not *every*. *freaking*. *day*.
I've had managers who know when to break down the daily tag-up, and they're a special kind of nice.
This is why one mus ALWAYS use anonymous throwaway accounts.
And often edit, after you are done; rephrase things, and replace some words with strange synonyms. Do not establish patterns, and cover your tracks. QED.
Like James Holmes who rigged some fairly complex Breaking-Bad-type bombs in his apartment, would probably also be able to circumvent such countermeasures in his guns. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't buy a bunch of guns and then sit at home going "oh, shoot, I can't use these to blast-up a theater full of people. Dang!"
. . . same here - PLUS: I got a degree, and my income DID NOT INCREASE in any perceptible fashion. (perhaps my job security increased - hard to tell, empirically, you know).
It has not been culturally "cool" to be smart, for many decades.
There was an improvement in this situation during the 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's - but our culture, particularly in the USA, has shifted back towards macho posturing, and money-earning, as the primary values. Much of "being smart" has to do with whether an individual nurtures an inherent intellectual capability, or whether they focus their time and energy on "other priorities" (social, religious, family, financial, athletic, etc.).
I think that a huge amount of intellectual talent in this country is wasted, because of this shift in priorities. Ultimately - people should have the right to choose an interest that they want. I don't think that it's possible or constructive to try to "Engineer" our culture. I think that most of our past idolization of intellectualism came out of our cold-war fear of being technically inferior to the Soviet Union and the Cold War.
(and also - as demonstrated by Germany, the Nazis).
We spent a HUGE amount of effort trying to specifically ENGINEER this cultural change. (and we were successful, in the short-term, but in the long-term, there has been a backlash. Hasn't there?) - We created NASA, DARPA, we had guys like Von Braun and Disney collaborating on publicly-funded propaganda films on educating our population about our future in space exploration and colonization. This inspired two generations of Americans to become scientists and engineers. We leapt so far forward, so quickly. But obviously, we were unable to sustain that. (there is no technical reason for that.)
Engineers and scientists have proposed solutions to these issues; sustainable energy, population control - but the "cool" people objected. Now, we abdicate control back to Nature. Maybe the females, who seem to no longer be constrained by the "macho" socialization, will figure this shit out.
So - in scoping this problem, recognize that this is a political problem, not an engineering problem. You are likely an engineer. So basically, I'm saying that you are fucked. Yes, 20 years of industry experience. IMNSHO - you just can't win this. Ever. If you think you've won, you're just waiting for some backstabbing motherfucker to do you in. These guys are ruthless and brutal, and they do not give a shit about doing what is technically "right" - or even what is "right" for the customer, or better for the company in the long run. They want THIS quarter's numbers to look good. Period. The best you can do is to understand the coin-operated nature of the MBA, and use that to try to manipulate them.
. . . and how would you even GRADE such a project? It's kind of a tall request. To grade one student. To grade 20 students - in the last week at the end of the semester . . . this would be very very difficult to do objectively.
So - this guy takes off from the USA so he can dodge paying American Taxes on his fortune (John Galt style!) - then he's shocked SHOCKED! to find out that governments in third-world countries are run like gangs, and will extort money from him. Now he's crying to get back into the US eh?
At the very least, you forward the photo to someone you trust to remove the metadata before publishing anonymously: and you CAN'T do that FROM your iPhone, afaik. If someone told me I could, I wouldn't believe it anyway.
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exactly.
I say: use the electricity to spin-up a cyclotron generating antiprotons during the day.
At night, annihilate those antiprotons, and suck-off the waste heat.
Or use them to create terrifying antimatter weapons to enslave all humanity.
yeah - this.
(though . . . we're entering some really strange new territory on both the A380 AND the 787.
For the A380, we've got double-deckerness. So there's all the questions of structural integrity that nag at us. They've been flying long enough now, and have been through a round of proving - I think I feel comfortable about them. but for the 787 - the Carbon Fiber airframe on a jumbo-scale, is something that's really new, and never really been done before. Except maybe the B2? I don't think we really know what happens when these airframes age. We don't know if they fail gracefully or catastrophically. (I've seen some fairly catastrophic carbon-fiber fails on bicycle frames - it is terrifying to transfer that to aircraft). I guess we're just going to have to see how this pans out - but I have no illusions. The first 5-years worth of passengers are guinea-pigs, IMO.)
uh - no.
This is FoxNews fantasy.
The way the USSR was brought down was:
Their party mukity-muks were getting rich off of illegally selling Soviet oil on the black market, and rigging prices by manipulating OPEC. (1970's).
The US did the same with KSA, getting them to open the spigots; (by playing Iraq and Iran off of each-other, dating back to 1953, and Operation AJAX - and keeping KSA, UAE, and Kuwait, terrified that Iraq was going to come in and invade them and take over. . . as long as the US protected KSA, UAE, Kuwait - they did our bidding).
So when KSA opened up oil production in the 1980's, oil prices collapsed, Soviet revenues collapsed, and their economy collapsed. The problem of how to pay their massive army while they were engaged in the ongoing occupation of Afghanistan, and operations in Chechnya, became a practical issue, and elements began to desert (and rebel).
This is what caused the USSR to fail.
Those same corrupt party members who were privately profitting off of selling Soviet oil? They became the heads of the privatized oil industry in the 1990's. Some of them actually went to jail; (but this was the result of political infighting, not actual law enforcement - the LOSERS went to jail). The winners - well some of them went on to con Iceland into privatizing their national banking system in the 2000's. They walked away with billions, and Iceland's economy collapsed. Julian Assange has information to expose these guys; but guess what happened to Julian Assange?
um. Not millions. Trillions. (when you factor-in Iraq, and Af-Pak; beyond the initial overthrow of the Taliban and when we could have taken-out bin Laden.)
And we BORROWED this money.
And we rigged our whole credit system to even make it possible. (well - to sustain it for a couple more years).
And now we're (congress is) debating on whether we're going to pay back the lenders. We really do not have the means. A few of us do. But in general, the broader working, middle-class American public do not.
At least in Greece, a lot of pensioners got a nice cushy lifestyle out of it.
All we got was a bunch of bedwetting and killing.
Mass drivers are practical on the Moon because of the low gravity and no atmosphere.
. . . . and weapons applications. . .
Dr. Gerard O'Neill worked on the Mass Driver. (also invented the precursor system to GPS).
He ran up against congressional funding constraints (including one congressman who said that the idea of colonizing space was proof that congress should cut all funding for NASA entirely. This was in the 1980's.)
In the 1970's (and 80's) He sought private funding for development of the Mass Driver - the plan was to install it on the moon, mine materials on the moon, use solar power to electromagnetically launch materials into earth orbit for construction of orbital solar power stations, use the solar power to beam down electricity to earth, and fund the whole project on sales of electrical power. It was brilliant. Until the price of oil (energy) collapsed.
He achieved limited success;
the system relied on switching push/pull electromagnetic coils using optical triggers as the mass flew down the track. When he started experimenting with superconducting magnets, then things got pretty expensive.
This is because we vote for PEOPLE (representatives) not POLICIES.
It's a freaking popularity contest.
Yeah - we (on the left, or center) all hated dubya.
What about his POLICIES.
Notice how bama's opponents all hate HIM. Their biggest issue? The supposed invalidity of his birth certificate.
I don't even know where to begin, with this country.
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(and extremely critical part of the design that NACA had figured out decades ago)
FTFY. . .
yes.
but try to implement this - and every person has their own "favorite" bug-tracker and source-control system. (not bugzilla and git). And good luck to you trying to integrate dozens of bug-trackers rcs's into the rest of your org's infrastructure. (not to harp specifically on rcs's and bug-trackers, but it seems to be one of the real sore points that developers can't agree on. . . tools-wise. - - - oh, I guess we all like to agree-to-disagree on IDE's as well. . . . )
there's also the issue of "big project" meetings.
There are times when most developers working on a small chunk of the project don't NEED to know all the details of all the other parts of the project. You can boil down a meeting to 5 minutes, for this small component, instead of 2 hours. Too bad for the lead.
Yes - the line devs also need big-picture updates, especially when it's going to impact them. But not *every*. *freaking*. *day*.
I've had managers who know when to break down the daily tag-up, and they're a special kind of nice.
This is why one mus ALWAYS use anonymous throwaway accounts.
And often edit, after you are done; rephrase things, and replace some words with strange synonyms. Do not establish patterns, and cover your tracks. QED.
Like James Holmes who rigged some fairly complex Breaking-Bad-type bombs in his apartment, would probably also be able to circumvent such countermeasures in his guns. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't buy a bunch of guns and then sit at home going "oh, shoot, I can't use these to blast-up a theater full of people. Dang!"
. . . same here - PLUS: I got a degree, and my income DID NOT INCREASE in any perceptible fashion. (perhaps my job security increased - hard to tell, empirically, you know).
It has not been culturally "cool" to be smart, for many decades.
There was an improvement in this situation during the 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's - but our culture, particularly in the USA, has shifted back towards macho posturing, and money-earning, as the primary values. Much of "being smart" has to do with whether an individual nurtures an inherent intellectual capability, or whether they focus their time and energy on "other priorities" (social, religious, family, financial, athletic, etc.).
I think that a huge amount of intellectual talent in this country is wasted, because of this shift in priorities.
Ultimately - people should have the right to choose an interest that they want. I don't think that it's possible or constructive to try to "Engineer" our culture. I think that most of our past idolization of intellectualism came out of our cold-war fear of being technically inferior to the Soviet Union and the Cold War.
(and also - as demonstrated by Germany, the Nazis).
We spent a HUGE amount of effort trying to specifically ENGINEER this cultural change. (and we were successful, in the short-term, but in the long-term, there has been a backlash. Hasn't there?) - We created NASA, DARPA, we had guys like Von Braun and Disney collaborating on publicly-funded propaganda films on educating our population about our future in space exploration and colonization. This inspired two generations of Americans to become scientists and engineers. We leapt so far forward, so quickly. But obviously, we were unable to sustain that. (there is no technical reason for that.)
Engineers and scientists have proposed solutions to these issues; sustainable energy, population control - but the "cool" people objected. Now, we abdicate control back to Nature. Maybe the females, who seem to no longer be constrained by the "macho" socialization, will figure this shit out.
This - fucking THIS.
So - in scoping this problem, recognize that this is a political problem, not an engineering problem. You are likely an engineer. So basically, I'm saying that you are fucked. Yes, 20 years of industry experience. IMNSHO - you just can't win this. Ever. If you think you've won, you're just waiting for some backstabbing motherfucker to do you in. These guys are ruthless and brutal, and they do not give a shit about doing what is technically "right" - or even what is "right" for the customer, or better for the company in the long run. They want THIS quarter's numbers to look good. Period. The best you can do is to understand the coin-operated nature of the MBA, and use that to try to manipulate them.
. . . and how would you even GRADE such a project? It's kind of a tall request. To grade one student. To grade 20 students - in the last week at the end of the semester . . . this would be very very difficult to do objectively.
expensive? Who's paying? Doesn't matter as long as the printing presses keep rollin'
pro-fit
FTFY
Grappling.
(grab opponent's arm, punch them in the face before they can defend themselves)
But thousands of species of primate and ape find them handy for grasping things.
(reposting - logged on - lol)
. . . get off my lawn
So - this guy takes off from the USA so he can dodge paying American Taxes on his fortune (John Galt style!) - then he's shocked SHOCKED! to find out that governments in third-world countries are run like gangs, and will extort money from him. Now he's crying to get back into the US eh?
Who is John Galt, and where are his back-taxes?
At the very least, you forward the photo to someone you trust to remove the metadata before publishing anonymously: and you CAN'T do that FROM your iPhone, afaik. If someone told me I could, I wouldn't believe it anyway.
oh yeah dude. If you're over 50, we're going to eat you.