Both hurricane charlie and godzilla are classified as natural disasters that totally screw up whatever city they wander into, but only one of them will fight off the other kaiju and then go take a multiyear nap in the ocean.;)
Not specifically the government, but rather one of the two leading parties (if not both to some degree) that has an interest in that, and actively takes steps to disenfranchise those groups it sees as being primarily against it whenever it thinks it can get away with it. For example, the black communities almost exclusively vote Democrat in certain states, and in several of those states, the Republicans have instituted various voting changes that make it very difficult for the black communities to vote. This isn't actually legal, but they do their best to try and squeeze it into a grey legal area so they can keep at it, and they use their own political influence to run interference on any attempts to investigate or prosecute such attempts to stop it.
There has been a lot of contention over that since they started. It's not as clear cut as the scanning machines that the TSA was using that were supplied by a company a bigwig in the TSA was tied into heavily, but it's still seen as questionable ethics. I don't remember the details, but I'm sure you can google it, there was plenty of talk about it around 10-15 years ago.
It's not really the clinton campaign, it's other people that wanted her to win that are calling for her to contest the results. She hasn't agreed to, and without something very concrete being found, I doubt she will.
For a couple of decades now (more or less), I've seen discussions of using supercapacitors as batteries, but it always fails to happen because of the same major flaw, leakage. Supercapacitors lose their power rather rapidly, so you can't just recharge them and come back later and expect them to still be charged. That seconds to charge, and last for days isn't how long it'll run a device, it's how long it'll still be charged without even being used. There are a lot of really good researchers trying to make a supercapacitor that doesn't have that huge level of leakage, but the last improvement I saw on the science sites was several years ago, and it still wasn't enough to bring them anywhere close to being able to replace batteries are real power storage.
He isn't, he's a short sighted narcissistic fuck that doesn't give a damn about tomorrows outlook if he can scrape a buck out of it today by any means at all.
You'd be amazed at how much of that exact thing we lost, including the infrastructure, after they axed our old heavy lifters so long ago. Just do a search on it and you'll see how much trouble they've been having trying to do another heavy lifter rocket now.
Funny thing, unless you're massively and independently wealthy, no can do. Business won't fund it, especially our current short sighted ones, since it doesn't directly make them bling today. So that leaves the government. Why do it? It's for the common good and overall improvement. Sure, it may not be all that obvious, but it does shore up a lot of stuff that we rely on, even if it's F-N invisible to you. In some ways it's kind of like the interstate system of highways. People said it was a worthless boondoggle before they made it, and it quickly became the mostly ignored backbone of commerce and transportation. And still they don't pay much attention to, except maybe when a bridge collapses or the like.
The rest of the research at NASA is also of the unnoticed in your life but definitely a huge influence, though indirect. So just because you can't see what it's doing to benefit you doesn't matter, because it does, even if plenty of it is only in the long term and some kind of instant jackpot.
Science that is 'settled' is usually proven to be wrong and the ones that decided there was nothing else to it were incompetent. Even gravity is looking at changes and possibly completely new theories to explain the many discrepancies, not to mention wedding it to quantum gravity.
Nothing in science is ever really settled as even the best and least seeming unchanging parts of it just fits the facts so perfectly we haven't found a crack to delve deeper yet. When those cracks are found and changes to, or even completely new rules are found, there's more than a few beers both in mourning for the loss of a cherished theory that has finally been torn down, as well as for the excitement of new discoveries to be made and new more perfect theories.:)
Something it seems a lot of people don't seem to understand is that science isn't perfect and it knows it, but it keeps striving to make itself better and more accurate with every turn.
Actually they have a significant amount of climatological data going back far beyond written history. Sure, it's not as detailed as the more recent recorded observations, and it's taken us a while to recover it, but it is there to be found and deciphered, which they've done. By the way, meteorology is not climatology.
China didn't want any part of the talk about reducing emissions as I recall. Something about you've already done this, now it's our turn to build an industrial base, F-U.
It makes no sense to use a simulated nuke shape that actually has a radioactive, dangerous, and expensive restricted component when it can easily be simulated by replacing it with a safe, inert, and cheap substance.
You get the volume of the entire device, the weight, and balance correct. You don't give a flying F about what the actual guts are, as you aren't building a real nuclear weapon, just something that can do the physical not explody testing part, like sitting around and dropping with the same characteristics.
So yeah, the entire story sounds like total b.s. crafted by someone that doesn't know which way to go to get their head out of their ass and assumes the public is too stupid to pick up on the stink in that story.
They all saw the success of Steam and want as big a portion of that pie as they can get. Along those lines they decided that baking their own pie was the best way to do that. Too bad they don't seem to understand that they didn't bake a better pie, and the crowds that make the demand just don't fall over themselves to try something different from what they already know they like.
Ok, to damn many pie references, now I'm hungry. CYA, I'm off to find some food. (Followed by gaming)
Hmmm... Doesn't that PS4 have actual usb ports that you can plug a normal mouse or keyboard into? I've been told it does, but I don't have a PS4. Or maybe that was the PS3. I don't recall exactly, but one of the console jockeys out there can clarify that for us.
Agreed, the warthog still flies. It would be funny to watch a competition between the two on the A-10s role as close support. I wonder how many of their F35s would even complete the test.
I'm on the west coast, and I definitely noticed several things weren't working right. I did some testing and determined it wasn't in my system, so it seemed likely it was another stupid douche running a dns attack somewhere.
Actually the creator of phrenology was just misguided and wrong, as opposed to (no longer a doctor) Andrew Jeremy Wakefield who was intentionally running a scam to attempt to make bank with his alternate vaccine by trying to discredit other vaccines by using falsified data and conclusions. (This is documented and verified, just go look it up.)
Nope, that's no where near "McCarthyism". It's more like the National Football League banning a player that keeps digging huge holes in the pitch. (A pitch is another word for the gamefield you play on, if any readers aren't aware of that particular term.)
Medical care and science are not matters of opinion. You may be of the opinion that snakeoil cures cancer, but if you try to sell it as such, you will be on the receiving end of a whole lot of legal action. Why do you think intentionally spreading falsehoods regarding medical treatments by a member of the medical community would get an less strict of a response when they endanger multiple lives with their bullshit?
And we have people suing bicycle manufacturers because they didn't warn the person that they can't eat the bicycle.
At least we lost the need for such things as polio wards and hospitals. Though if this antivaxxer crap keeps up, I see those making a comeback as well, the diseases certainly are.:(
Ah. So you don't care if an arsonist sets fire to his own car in the public parking downtown then. The problem isn't that the ignorant and gullible are risking their own health and well being, it's that they are risking everyone elses. They are breaking down herd immunity and creating disease reservoirs that increase the infection rates and prevent the suppression of the diseases.
(That's the short version. For the long version, there's a lot of it on both medical sites, and science aggregator sites. Just search their archives.)
Getting warrents isn't exactly hard either. Some of the examples of how difficult it is include a judge that kept a pad of signed but otherwise blank warrants on his desk for the cops to just take when they wanted one without bothering him if he's not in his office. Which of course completely wipes out the oversight that judges are supposed to use on granting warrants, but that's how screwed up things can get.
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Both hurricane charlie and godzilla are classified as natural disasters that totally screw up whatever city they wander into, but only one of them will fight off the other kaiju and then go take a multiyear nap in the ocean. ;)
Not specifically the government, but rather one of the two leading parties (if not both to some degree) that has an interest in that, and actively takes steps to disenfranchise those groups it sees as being primarily against it whenever it thinks it can get away with it.
For example, the black communities almost exclusively vote Democrat in certain states, and in several of those states, the Republicans have instituted various voting changes that make it very difficult for the black communities to vote. This isn't actually legal, but they do their best to try and squeeze it into a grey legal area so they can keep at it, and they use their own political influence to run interference on any attempts to investigate or prosecute such attempts to stop it.
There has been a lot of contention over that since they started. It's not as clear cut as the scanning machines that the TSA was using that were supplied by a company a bigwig in the TSA was tied into heavily, but it's still seen as questionable ethics. I don't remember the details, but I'm sure you can google it, there was plenty of talk about it around 10-15 years ago.
It's not really the clinton campaign, it's other people that wanted her to win that are calling for her to contest the results. She hasn't agreed to, and without something very concrete being found, I doubt she will.
For a couple of decades now (more or less), I've seen discussions of using supercapacitors as batteries, but it always fails to happen because of the same major flaw, leakage. Supercapacitors lose their power rather rapidly, so you can't just recharge them and come back later and expect them to still be charged.
That seconds to charge, and last for days isn't how long it'll run a device, it's how long it'll still be charged without even being used.
There are a lot of really good researchers trying to make a supercapacitor that doesn't have that huge level of leakage, but the last improvement I saw on the science sites was several years ago, and it still wasn't enough to bring them anywhere close to being able to replace batteries are real power storage.
He isn't, he's a short sighted narcissistic fuck that doesn't give a damn about tomorrows outlook if he can scrape a buck out of it today by any means at all.
You'd be amazed at how much of that exact thing we lost, including the infrastructure, after they axed our old heavy lifters so long ago.
Just do a search on it and you'll see how much trouble they've been having trying to do another heavy lifter rocket now.
Funny thing, unless you're massively and independently wealthy, no can do.
Business won't fund it, especially our current short sighted ones, since it doesn't directly make them bling today.
So that leaves the government.
Why do it? It's for the common good and overall improvement. Sure, it may not be all that obvious, but it does shore up a lot of stuff that we rely on, even if it's F-N invisible to you. In some ways it's kind of like the interstate system of highways. People said it was a worthless boondoggle before they made it, and it quickly became the mostly ignored backbone of commerce and transportation. And still they don't pay much attention to, except maybe when a bridge collapses or the like.
The rest of the research at NASA is also of the unnoticed in your life but definitely a huge influence, though indirect. So just because you can't see what it's doing to benefit you doesn't matter, because it does, even if plenty of it is only in the long term and some kind of instant jackpot.
Science that is 'settled' is usually proven to be wrong and the ones that decided there was nothing else to it were incompetent.
:)
Even gravity is looking at changes and possibly completely new theories to explain the many discrepancies, not to mention wedding it to quantum gravity.
Nothing in science is ever really settled as even the best and least seeming unchanging parts of it just fits the facts so perfectly we haven't found a crack to delve deeper yet. When those cracks are found and changes to, or even completely new rules are found, there's more than a few beers both in mourning for the loss of a cherished theory that has finally been torn down, as well as for the excitement of new discoveries to be made and new more perfect theories.
Something it seems a lot of people don't seem to understand is that science isn't perfect and it knows it, but it keeps striving to make itself better and more accurate with every turn.
Actually they have a significant amount of climatological data going back far beyond written history. Sure, it's not as detailed as the more recent recorded observations, and it's taken us a while to recover it, but it is there to be found and deciphered, which they've done.
By the way, meteorology is not climatology.
China didn't want any part of the talk about reducing emissions as I recall.
Something about you've already done this, now it's our turn to build an industrial base, F-U.
It makes no sense to use a simulated nuke shape that actually has a radioactive, dangerous, and expensive restricted component when it can easily be simulated by replacing it with a safe, inert, and cheap substance.
You get the volume of the entire device, the weight, and balance correct. You don't give a flying F about what the actual guts are, as you aren't building a real nuclear weapon, just something that can do the physical not explody testing part, like sitting around and dropping with the same characteristics.
So yeah, the entire story sounds like total b.s. crafted by someone that doesn't know which way to go to get their head out of their ass and assumes the public is too stupid to pick up on the stink in that story.
They all saw the success of Steam and want as big a portion of that pie as they can get. Along those lines they decided that baking their own pie was the best way to do that. Too bad they don't seem to understand that they didn't bake a better pie, and the crowds that make the demand just don't fall over themselves to try something different from what they already know they like.
Ok, to damn many pie references, now I'm hungry. CYA, I'm off to find some food. (Followed by gaming)
Hmmm... Doesn't that PS4 have actual usb ports that you can plug a normal mouse or keyboard into? I've been told it does, but I don't have a PS4. Or maybe that was the PS3. I don't recall exactly, but one of the console jockeys out there can clarify that for us.
Agreed, the warthog still flies.
It would be funny to watch a competition between the two on the A-10s role as close support. I wonder how many of their F35s would even complete the test.
I'm on the west coast, and I definitely noticed several things weren't working right. I did some testing and determined it wasn't in my system, so it seemed likely it was another stupid douche running a dns attack somewhere.
Naw, trump was never smart enough to rake in the big bucks by starting his own religion. Also, hubbard wrote his own books, unlike trump.
It may not be the greatest turn of phrase around, but it's not like we're professional writers either.
Actually the creator of phrenology was just misguided and wrong, as opposed to (no longer a doctor) Andrew Jeremy Wakefield who was intentionally running a scam to attempt to make bank with his alternate vaccine by trying to discredit other vaccines by using falsified data and conclusions. (This is documented and verified, just go look it up.)
Don't forget Whooping Cough and Scarlet Fever that are both apparently making comebacks because of those bastards.
Nope, that's no where near "McCarthyism". It's more like the National Football League banning a player that keeps digging huge holes in the pitch. (A pitch is another word for the gamefield you play on, if any readers aren't aware of that particular term.)
Medical care and science are not matters of opinion. You may be of the opinion that snakeoil cures cancer, but if you try to sell it as such, you will be on the receiving end of a whole lot of legal action. Why do you think intentionally spreading falsehoods regarding medical treatments by a member of the medical community would get an less strict of a response when they endanger multiple lives with their bullshit?
And we have people suing bicycle manufacturers because they didn't warn the person that they can't eat the bicycle.
:(
At least we lost the need for such things as polio wards and hospitals.
Though if this antivaxxer crap keeps up, I see those making a comeback as well, the diseases certainly are.
Ah. So you don't care if an arsonist sets fire to his own car in the public parking downtown then.
The problem isn't that the ignorant and gullible are risking their own health and well being, it's that they are risking everyone elses.
They are breaking down herd immunity and creating disease reservoirs that increase the infection rates and prevent the suppression of the diseases.
(That's the short version. For the long version, there's a lot of it on both medical sites, and science aggregator sites. Just search their archives.)
Getting warrents isn't exactly hard either. Some of the examples of how difficult it is include a judge that kept a pad of signed but otherwise blank warrants on his desk for the cops to just take when they wanted one without bothering him if he's not in his office. Which of course completely wipes out the oversight that judges are supposed to use on granting warrants, but that's how screwed up things can get.