I have seen 3 safe motorcyclists, and all in the last year. The first one was a surprise, as I had not seen a motorcyclist actually obey a non-trivial portion of traffic laws in the prior two decades of driving.
It's always the guys that look like extras out of Sons of Anarchy riding the giant Harleys and Indians that tend to obey the laws while the assholes on the crotch rockets drive like, well, assholes.
Plant a bunch of troops near them and then start shit in Syria. But she wasn't elected, and they just did some training and then left. Peace broke out instead.
If 46,000+ dead (per Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) and 900,000 registered refugees(UNHCR) since January 2017, and 700,000 internally displaced in the first half of 2017 alone (Pew research) is "peace", I would really hate to see war.
But he's a billionaire so it's called "eccentric". Sort of like Elizabeth Holmes and her fraud.
And he apparently smoked pot during the interview...
The newswires are all ablaze right now about Musk smoking pot in public(*), noting that the stock is down 5% in pre-market trading, and sure enough the stock is down 16 points today.
I admit that seems pretty stupid on his part.
(*) Which is apparently legal in the time and place where he did it, but still...
The stock is really down because a CxO left after a month on the job, but the media seems to be playing it up like the weed smoking caused it.
So..the Russians wanted to make sure that the US elected a president that the majority of the country would hate. Guess they can still claim "mission accomplished".
Can things be different today?
The country has got a new leader this time, a millennial known for playing basketball and the Playstation 1 as a teen. Other things are different from decades past.
Well, he executed his uncle, had someone shot with an anti-aircraft cannon for falling asleep at a meeting, and his father was well known to like foreign films/tv and of course a big buyer of foreign liquor/food. So pretty much new boss, same as the old boss.
Your logic would be sound, but the Sony hack was in 2014, prior to all of the current negotiations.
That is correct, but it demonstrates a pattern. Couple that with other patterns that we've seen come from the DPRK such as vague promises, hollow and bombastic threats (mostly meant for internal consumption than anything else), and posturing and you come to the conclusion that the current "warming" of relations between the current US administration (well, maybe just a handful of individuals in the administration) and the Kim regime is simply more of the same and not destined to last very long or produce anything tangible.
Your Trump related pull quote has nothing to do with the story.
I believe the argument is that, considering the total control that the DPRK government has on internet access (very few people even get intranet access, much less internet), any attack done by a North Korean actor has to be state sanctioned and therefore is direct evidence that the Kim regime is still acting against Western companies and states, despite claims to the contrary.
This is a big problem with DoD contracts. The military "contract liaison officer" assigned to the project will spend years of his career working on it, and has a HUGE vested interest in seeing it not fail. Notice that I didn't say "succeed", just "not fail"... continuing indefinitely in limbo is good too, as long as the funding continues.
So the military officer assigned to oversee the project will never recommend that the project be cancelled.
It is not just his promotion at stake, but his "consulting" job with the contractor after he retires from the military. Military retirement is after 20 years of service. So if you sign up at age 18, you can retire with a pension at 38.
If it is a military officer like you say, it is unlikely they would be an officer at 18 years old.
No, that's 20-21 for Army assuming they go to West Point. So you could retire at 40-41 after 20 years, all as an officer.
Vast amount of electricity and specialized fossil fuels are used to cut down millions of trees, ship them thousands of miles to lumber mills all over the world, turned into paper, printed into "dollars" which are also shipped all over the world he prize for which is dollar coupons in exchange for labor.
US banknotes are made from 75% cotton and 25% linen. The EU and many other countries use banknotes made of polymers. Paper notes are on the way out.
1. That homing drone would be fried by the laser. (remember, laser has enough power to charge huge drone quickly, it can simply increase its output and point to the enemy)
We already have laser designators and laser guided bombs. And we have ARMs(anti-radiation missiles), used to destroy the radar for AA/SAM sites, radios, and jamming equipment. Build a bomb that can detect the wavelength of the laser powering the drones, hone in on the source of the laser which is presumably on the ground (this does not involve getting in the path of the laser), and then boom, no more laser.
These types of ships aren't generic, though. Look at the "bulk cargo ship" Wikipedia entry. There's no provision for stacking containerized cargo on deck. Containers could probably go in the holds but they obviously aren't designed for that and neither are the onboard cranes. Plus you would lose efficiency as you would inevitably have unused space between containers, plus the container walls themselves taking up space. Ships are very specialized these days with bulk vessels, container ships, tankers, RO/ROs, etc.
So running the holds bow to stern and stacking them port to starboard would solve that issue.
Changing loading / unloading practices internationally due to a handful of ships being lost a year is not something that will gain much traction, especially not when the changes affect the one party who is otherwise completely by the loss of a ship and cargo.
What's to change? They load from the top through hatches using cranes on the vessel. So, instead of 3 long holds make them 2, one port and one starboard with a bulkhead amidship making 4 total holds(port/forward, port/aft, starboard/forward, starboard/aft). Run the cranes amidship as well so they can service both holds. Problem solved.
Except that they have to load and unload the cargo through hatches. Think, for a moment, how you would arrange the hatches so that all of the cargo could be reached through them if the holds are running lengthwise, and for that matter, how the loaders and unloaders would need to change from the current setup.
They already load/unload these ships from the deck and down into the hold. What would change? At worst you just need more/bigger hatches.
I guess fitting baffles or compartments to bulk carriers costs more than the insurance when a ship goes down.
Retrofitting would be expensive, but I could see building new ships with a different hold layout. Instead of multiple holds aligned one in front of the other forward to aft, have them run forward to aft and be aligned side to side port to starboard. This way if the load shifts you still have weight to counterbalance.
Out of curiosity, do these bulk cargo vessels store their loads in one big hold, or are the holds compartmentalized? If the ships have multiple holds (say 3), each side by side and running lengthwise, then even if the loads in each hold liquefy and shift to port, the loads in the center and starboard holds may still have enough weight to counteract the shift.
A quick google search turns up this image, showing a stern to bow layout. So if the load in one hold shifts it is likely that all the others will shift too. So running the holds bow to stern and stacking them port to starboard would solve that issue. Given the size of these vessels I would assume that loads shifting forward or aft would be less of an issue or concern, but you could always make 6 holds by running 3 along the length of the ship and separating them midship.
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Newark airport is considered a NYC airport by airlines.
I have seen 3 safe motorcyclists, and all in the last year. The first one was a surprise, as I had not seen a motorcyclist actually obey a non-trivial portion of traffic laws in the prior two decades of driving.
It's always the guys that look like extras out of Sons of Anarchy riding the giant Harleys and Indians that tend to obey the laws while the assholes on the crotch rockets drive like, well, assholes.
When you hear "Irish Republican Army", you think of assholes in England??!
That was my thought. If you really wanted to rile up the IRA, just tell them they're in England not Ireland.
Plant a bunch of troops near them and then start shit in Syria. But she wasn't elected, and they just did some training and then left. Peace broke out instead.
If 46,000+ dead (per Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) and 900,000 registered refugees(UNHCR) since January 2017, and 700,000 internally displaced in the first half of 2017 alone (Pew research) is "peace", I would really hate to see war.
But he's a billionaire so it's called "eccentric". Sort of like Elizabeth Holmes and her fraud.
And he apparently smoked pot during the interview...
The newswires are all ablaze right now about Musk smoking pot in public(*), noting that the stock is down 5% in pre-market trading, and sure enough the stock is down 16 points today.
I admit that seems pretty stupid on his part.
(*) Which is apparently legal in the time and place where he did it, but still...
The stock is really down because a CxO left after a month on the job, but the media seems to be playing it up like the weed smoking caused it.
So..the Russians wanted to make sure that the US elected a president that the majority of the country would hate. Guess they can still claim "mission accomplished".
Just don't cross Putin or you'll get eaten by the GRU, as several of his enemies and critics have learned.
The troll in me wants to say that "nazi" probably has "troll" beat ;)
Can things be different today? The country has got a new leader this time, a millennial known for playing basketball and the Playstation 1 as a teen. Other things are different from decades past.
Well, he executed his uncle, had someone shot with an anti-aircraft cannon for falling asleep at a meeting, and his father was well known to like foreign films/tv and of course a big buyer of foreign liquor/food. So pretty much new boss, same as the old boss.
Your logic would be sound, but the Sony hack was in 2014, prior to all of the current negotiations.
That is correct, but it demonstrates a pattern. Couple that with other patterns that we've seen come from the DPRK such as vague promises, hollow and bombastic threats (mostly meant for internal consumption than anything else), and posturing and you come to the conclusion that the current "warming" of relations between the current US administration (well, maybe just a handful of individuals in the administration) and the Kim regime is simply more of the same and not destined to last very long or produce anything tangible.
Your Trump related pull quote has nothing to do with the story.
I believe the argument is that, considering the total control that the DPRK government has on internet access (very few people even get intranet access, much less internet), any attack done by a North Korean actor has to be state sanctioned and therefore is direct evidence that the Kim regime is still acting against Western companies and states, despite claims to the contrary.
If a newly elected president is so universally reviled, maybe that indicates the problem lies with him, not those reporting on him.
I would say that selling an asset that you have for billions of dollars would qualify as a good business transaction.
Wait, I've been here for 15 years and I'm just now hearing there's a buffet? Next you're going to tell me there's a pool too!
..as this story unfolds.
I'll see myself out, sorry.
A joke like that's either going to have people doubled over laughing or so angry they're bent out of shape.
This is a big problem with DoD contracts. The military "contract liaison officer" assigned to the project will spend years of his career working on it, and has a HUGE vested interest in seeing it not fail. Notice that I didn't say "succeed", just "not fail" ... continuing indefinitely in limbo is good too, as long as the funding continues.
So the military officer assigned to oversee the project will never recommend that the project be cancelled.
It is not just his promotion at stake, but his "consulting" job with the contractor after he retires from the military. Military retirement is after 20 years of service. So if you sign up at age 18, you can retire with a pension at 38.
If it is a military officer like you say, it is unlikely they would be an officer at 18 years old.
No, that's 20-21 for Army assuming they go to West Point. So you could retire at 40-41 after 20 years, all as an officer.
Vast amount of electricity and specialized fossil fuels are used to cut down millions of trees, ship them thousands of miles to lumber mills all over the world, turned into paper, printed into "dollars" which are also shipped all over the world he prize for which is dollar coupons in exchange for labor.
US banknotes are made from 75% cotton and 25% linen. The EU and many other countries use banknotes made of polymers. Paper notes are on the way out.
1. That homing drone would be fried by the laser. (remember, laser has enough power to charge huge drone quickly, it can simply increase its output and point to the enemy)
We already have laser designators and laser guided bombs. And we have ARMs(anti-radiation missiles), used to destroy the radar for AA/SAM sites, radios, and jamming equipment. Build a bomb that can detect the wavelength of the laser powering the drones, hone in on the source of the laser which is presumably on the ground (this does not involve getting in the path of the laser), and then boom, no more laser.
These types of ships aren't generic, though. Look at the "bulk cargo ship" Wikipedia entry. There's no provision for stacking containerized cargo on deck. Containers could probably go in the holds but they obviously aren't designed for that and neither are the onboard cranes. Plus you would lose efficiency as you would inevitably have unused space between containers, plus the container walls themselves taking up space. Ships are very specialized these days with bulk vessels, container ships, tankers, RO/ROs, etc.
So running the holds bow to stern and stacking them port to starboard would solve that issue.
Changing loading / unloading practices internationally due to a handful of ships being lost a year is not something that will gain much traction, especially not when the changes affect the one party who is otherwise completely by the loss of a ship and cargo.
What's to change? They load from the top through hatches using cranes on the vessel. So, instead of 3 long holds make them 2, one port and one starboard with a bulkhead amidship making 4 total holds(port/forward, port/aft, starboard/forward, starboard/aft). Run the cranes amidship as well so they can service both holds. Problem solved.
Except that they have to load and unload the cargo through hatches. Think, for a moment, how you would arrange the hatches so that all of the cargo could be reached through them if the holds are running lengthwise, and for that matter, how the loaders and unloaders would need to change from the current setup.
They already load/unload these ships from the deck and down into the hold. What would change? At worst you just need more/bigger hatches.
But what do they do?
Provide jobs for defense contractors and pad the resume for whoever is running the project when they are up for their next promotion.
Now the elderly will NEVER be able to find out how to pay off those student loans!
And with inevitable cuts to Medicare they need that access to CHEAP V1AGRA!, since those retirement communities are essentially giant orgies.
I guess fitting baffles or compartments to bulk carriers costs more than the insurance when a ship goes down.
Retrofitting would be expensive, but I could see building new ships with a different hold layout. Instead of multiple holds aligned one in front of the other forward to aft, have them run forward to aft and be aligned side to side port to starboard. This way if the load shifts you still have weight to counterbalance.
Out of curiosity, do these bulk cargo vessels store their loads in one big hold, or are the holds compartmentalized? If the ships have multiple holds (say 3), each side by side and running lengthwise, then even if the loads in each hold liquefy and shift to port, the loads in the center and starboard holds may still have enough weight to counteract the shift.
A quick google search turns up this image, showing a stern to bow layout. So if the load in one hold shifts it is likely that all the others will shift too. So running the holds bow to stern and stacking them port to starboard would solve that issue. Given the size of these vessels I would assume that loads shifting forward or aft would be less of an issue or concern, but you could always make 6 holds by running 3 along the length of the ship and separating them midship.