I totally agree. However at the US Army Rape Loot and Pillage training centers they distinctly instruct the soon to be rapists/looters/pillagers to NOT destroy the infrastructure so that there will more something to rape/loot/pillage on the next go 'round.
Having supported both aircraft for NASA (NASA calls their U-2 the ER-2) I can tell you why the ER-2 is less expensive.... and it isn't unit cost.
A typical Global Hawk mission will have 10 - 12 aircraft operators in the Dryden GHOC (pilots, navigation, mision commander, IT support, comms guy.... you name it). This is not including mission scientists, who sit in a partitioned off area in the GHOC separate from the "air"crew.
A typical ER-2 mission (flown out of Palmdale about an hours drive away) has a pilot, and a few guys for mechanical and ground support. Along with the mission scientists. They generally setup shop in a room along side the hangar, about 50 feet from where the aircraft sits.
Now generally the GH flies many more sensors than the ER-2 at a time, but this does not offset the much larger personnel footprint required for the aircraft.
I have read rebuttals to the ramscoop concept. Not sure if they are valid or not. One thing however that seems right: the amount of radiation produced by such a system is thought to be deadly to life. So such ships would have to be unmanned.
What it is, is a royal pain in the ass. So where is your unified API that wraps all of the Android, Kindle, iOS, and Windows devices allowing a body to write once and deploy everywhere, having said app look and act like a native app?
Oh, that's right. I should have figured: up your ass. Right there beside your head.
We can (and will) do the same to them. It will be humorous to see the howls of how "Amewicans canna innovrate" from the Chinese here on Slashdot when Apple simply copies the cool new Chinese gadget (and has it manufactured in Brazil).
The United States breaking up? That would require that nations still existed. Companies will have taken over the role of national governments long before 2112.
Actually, the British and French plead for us to become the world police back in WW2... a war incidentally that most in the US wanted nothing to do with.
It would be a lot easier to address piracy if the entertainment industry wasn't making money hand over fist.
Nobody has a problem with them making a profit... even a big profit.... but when they pay an A-list star $25 million to act in a movie and still make enough money to fund private jets and private islands... well let's just say maybe the price should come down.
Clearly technology has put a whole new aspect into capitalism with respect to entertainment... after all even with piracy Hollywood is raking in huge bucks.... but it is also cutting off a revenue stream by forcing some into piracy. But not all: some folks pirate just because they can.
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Becuase they play ball.
I totally agree. However at the US Army Rape Loot and Pillage training centers they distinctly instruct the soon to be rapists/looters/pillagers to NOT destroy the infrastructure so that there will more something to rape/loot/pillage on the next go 'round.
Seriously. Please.
Having supported both aircraft for NASA (NASA calls their U-2 the ER-2) I can tell you why the ER-2 is less expensive.... and it isn't unit cost.
A typical Global Hawk mission will have 10 - 12 aircraft operators in the Dryden GHOC (pilots, navigation, mision commander, IT support, comms guy.... you name it). This is not including mission scientists, who sit in a partitioned off area in the GHOC separate from the "air"crew.
A typical ER-2 mission (flown out of Palmdale about an hours drive away) has a pilot, and a few guys for mechanical and ground support. Along with the mission scientists. They generally setup shop in a room along side the hangar, about 50 feet from where the aircraft sits.
Now generally the GH flies many more sensors than the ER-2 at a time, but this does not offset the much larger personnel footprint required for the aircraft.
Wealth will be measured using much different metrics.
Like how many canoes you own.
And Apple has the gall to claim they don't use slave labor?
This is not story about manufacturing agility - this is a story about oppression and exploitation.
Damn and to think I was going to get an iPhone.
However I doubt that my Droid is innocent either.
...and incidentally every time one of their products flies over my house to land at the DC area airport I live close to.
Yet I don't demand to audit their code.
I have read rebuttals to the ramscoop concept. Not sure if they are valid or not. One thing however that seems right: the amount of radiation produced by such a system is thought to be deadly to life. So such ships would have to be unmanned.
Clearly you are either unfamiliar with Project Orion, or you didn't read the article.
That's exactly what you get - my load in your mouth.
Name another life bearing planet.
By default, your argument is 100% correct.
Interestingly, those are by far the best navies on the planet.
It has been a long time since I have seem someone so throughly pwned on /.
Who said it was hard?
What it is, is a royal pain in the ass. So where is your unified API that wraps all of the Android, Kindle, iOS, and Windows devices allowing a body to write once and deploy everywhere, having said app look and act like a native app?
Oh, that's right. I should have figured: up your ass. Right there beside your head.
They simply stole ours.
We can (and will) do the same to them. It will be humorous to see the howls of how "Amewicans canna innovrate" from the Chinese here on Slashdot when Apple simply copies the cool new Chinese gadget (and has it manufactured in Brazil).
The United States breaking up? That would require that nations still existed. Companies will have taken over the role of national governments long before 2112.
I hated AOL way before you owned a computer.
Actually, the British and French plead for us to become the world police back in WW2... a war incidentally that most in the US wanted nothing to do with.
Better, cheaper, faster... pick none.
OK fine, I'm old as dirt.
It would be a lot easier to address piracy if the entertainment industry wasn't making money hand over fist.
Nobody has a problem with them making a profit... even a big profit.... but when they pay an A-list star $25 million to act in a movie and still make enough money to fund private jets and private islands... well let's just say maybe the price should come down.
Clearly technology has put a whole new aspect into capitalism with respect to entertainment... after all even with piracy Hollywood is raking in huge bucks.... but it is also cutting off a revenue stream by forcing some into piracy. But not all: some folks pirate just because they can.
And in one fell swoop you abolish the entertainment industry.
Keep your eyes open for a better gig in the mean time.
HA! You have described me to a T!
This American fascination with fairness is killing us.
Life is not fair. Life is about competition. This who compete best prevail.
We used to be capitalists. Now we are fair.