You want the projectile to detonate before passing the target so that the target gets showered with many high velocity shards. Imagine trying to shoot a ping-pong ball out of the air with a rifle; it's a hard target to hit. Now replace your rifle with a shotgun and it just got a lot easier.
A dumb kinetic projectile would have a low chance of striking the target, especially if the satellite has avoidance. A high velocity release in the right general direction would be handy, but the ordinance should be able to steer, and it would be best if it also accelerates to diminish avoidance effectiveness and detonates in front of the target to spray the target with many kinetic projectiles.
It would be perfect for doing CAD/CAM work at a customer's site. Dual screens are a huge plus when doing that sort of work (graphics window on one side, part print, parameter windows, and communications on the other), and it's rather awkward to set up a desktop in someone else's machine shop. Hey, with one of those I could do my work sipping mohitos on the beach. Might need a car battery and inverter to keep it going though.
Auto mechanics have to be certified in some jurisdictions and you can bet there are laws in place in those locations that make it a crime to pretend to be an auto mechanic...
Auto mechanics hire lawyers to make laws about the quality of auto mechanics. Lawyers make laws about the quality of lawyers. Notice the difference?
The problem comes when we're all waiting on someone to pay us so that we can pay the next guy. All it takes is for one person to drop the ball and it all comes crashing down.
What you're saying is that if the smallest denomination of dollar were a $100 bill, very few people would use them as a medium of exchange. That may be true. Fortunately Bitcoins can be divided into very small pieces with the appropriate amount of value. With deflation, something that could be bought next year for.01 BC may go for.0001 BC in another ten years. I don't see that as a problem.
You say it would encourage people to "hoard currency". So it would encourage people to save instead of spending themselves into debt? How horrible!
The massive fluctuations are because it's new and becoming vastly more popular. Exchange rates between all currencies fluctuate, which is something that people speculate on in an attempt to profit, yet people will still actually exchange currencies for the purpose of making purchases. The fluctuations will diminish over time to be on par with those of other currencies.
You don't seem to understand the difference between "inherent value" and "perceived value". "Inherent value" means having value apart from being used as a medium of exchange. Bonds, Dollars and Bitcoins (along with every other major modern currency I'm aware of) all share the property of having no inherent value, with the possible exception of bonds and Dollars having an infinitesimal value as pieces of paper which may have some use apart from the "money" they represent. Nickles are a notable exception in that the value of the metal in a nickle is actually worth around five cents give or take. Gold does have some intrinsic value as a useful material, though its perceived value far exceeds its intrinsic value.
The problem is in rewarding the system for convicting people. The more people are convicted and imprisoned, the more almost free labor the companies get, which gives them an unfairly high profit margin when compared to their competition. They then give kickbacks to legislators to be "tough on crime" and support legislation that results in a higher conviction rate and longer sentences with no regard for true justice or what's actually good for society.
A big part of the problem is that it isn't free; we're all paying for it. Do you know how much those machines cost? Do you know how much the manufacturer lobbied to get them mandated?
You don't have to go in to blow it up. This would be equivalent to advocating that people should have been scanned before being allowed into the WTC buildings. That sure would have helped, right? And are they going to scan the maintenance crew? The security guards? The players? No, of course not, they'll only scan the public. It isn't about security, it's about selling expensive scanners to the taxpayer.
I'd like to add that much of the "security" being sold to the American people is not demand side driven, it's sales driven. You want to make money? Develop a product or service for security, then scare people into buying it. No one asked for X-ray backscatter scanners, someone developed them and then spent a huge amount of time and money lobbying to get them mandated. We're not going out and shopping for "security", we have high-pressure tactic salesmen giving us the hard sell every time we watch the news. The news TOLD us to be scared after 9-11, even though it was statistically insignificant.
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You want the projectile to detonate before passing the target so that the target gets showered with many high velocity shards. Imagine trying to shoot a ping-pong ball out of the air with a rifle; it's a hard target to hit. Now replace your rifle with a shotgun and it just got a lot easier.
A dumb kinetic projectile would have a low chance of striking the target, especially if the satellite has avoidance. A high velocity release in the right general direction would be handy, but the ordinance should be able to steer, and it would be best if it also accelerates to diminish avoidance effectiveness and detonates in front of the target to spray the target with many kinetic projectiles.
It would be perfect for doing CAD/CAM work at a customer's site. Dual screens are a huge plus when doing that sort of work (graphics window on one side, part print, parameter windows, and communications on the other), and it's rather awkward to set up a desktop in someone else's machine shop. Hey, with one of those I could do my work sipping mohitos on the beach. Might need a car battery and inverter to keep it going though.
They all represent as a six foot stick of rattan, so what's the difference?
Distilled water FTW.
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Auto mechanics have to be certified in some jurisdictions and you can bet there are laws in place in those locations that make it a crime to pretend to be an auto mechanic...
Auto mechanics hire lawyers to make laws about the quality of auto mechanics. Lawyers make laws about the quality of lawyers. Notice the difference?
Where are you going to find lawyers who would support that? It's not in their best interest.
"What's an Aluminum falcon"?
The problem comes when we're all waiting on someone to pay us so that we can pay the next guy. All it takes is for one person to drop the ball and it all comes crashing down.
Which IIRC can be found in common dirt. It only produces the toxin when operating in anaerobic metabolism mode though.
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What you're saying is that if the smallest denomination of dollar were a $100 bill, very few people would use them as a medium of exchange. That may be true. Fortunately Bitcoins can be divided into very small pieces with the appropriate amount of value. With deflation, something that could be bought next year for .01 BC may go for .0001 BC in another ten years. I don't see that as a problem.
You say it would encourage people to "hoard currency". So it would encourage people to save instead of spending themselves into debt? How horrible!
The massive fluctuations are because it's new and becoming vastly more popular. Exchange rates between all currencies fluctuate, which is something that people speculate on in an attempt to profit, yet people will still actually exchange currencies for the purpose of making purchases. The fluctuations will diminish over time to be on par with those of other currencies.
Investing life savings in any one thing is patently stupid. Diversity = security.
The encryption could last until quantum computers hit the market, then it will poof. How long will that be, 20 or 40 years?
You don't seem to understand the difference between "inherent value" and "perceived value". "Inherent value" means having value apart from being used as a medium of exchange. Bonds, Dollars and Bitcoins (along with every other major modern currency I'm aware of) all share the property of having no inherent value, with the possible exception of bonds and Dollars having an infinitesimal value as pieces of paper which may have some use apart from the "money" they represent. Nickles are a notable exception in that the value of the metal in a nickle is actually worth around five cents give or take. Gold does have some intrinsic value as a useful material, though its perceived value far exceeds its intrinsic value.
The problem is in rewarding the system for convicting people. The more people are convicted and imprisoned, the more almost free labor the companies get, which gives them an unfairly high profit margin when compared to their competition. They then give kickbacks to legislators to be "tough on crime" and support legislation that results in a higher conviction rate and longer sentences with no regard for true justice or what's actually good for society.
But, its free in america.
A big part of the problem is that it isn't free; we're all paying for it. Do you know how much those machines cost? Do you know how much the manufacturer lobbied to get them mandated?
Even if they're perfectly safe they're still completely useless, a huge waste of money, AND unwarranted search. But, that's America.
You know they brought a lot more attention to it by trying to hide it. I never would have known otherwise.
You don't have to go in to blow it up. This would be equivalent to advocating that people should have been scanned before being allowed into the WTC buildings. That sure would have helped, right? And are they going to scan the maintenance crew? The security guards? The players? No, of course not, they'll only scan the public. It isn't about security, it's about selling expensive scanners to the taxpayer.
Fine, as long as they obtain a separate search warrant for every man, woman, and child in the country.
I'd like to add that much of the "security" being sold to the American people is not demand side driven, it's sales driven. You want to make money? Develop a product or service for security, then scare people into buying it. No one asked for X-ray backscatter scanners, someone developed them and then spent a huge amount of time and money lobbying to get them mandated. We're not going out and shopping for "security", we have high-pressure tactic salesmen giving us the hard sell every time we watch the news. The news TOLD us to be scared after 9-11, even though it was statistically insignificant.
No need for any more...