Birds are not people and therefore can not be regulated. As someone else said "We don't ticket deer for jaywalking". We make regulations where we can to safeguard people. By your logic we should not have laws against hunting out of season because wolves hunt all year around.
Also, there are millions spent to mitigate bird interaction especially around airports.
There are two kinds of zones in that Quiet Zone. There is a 10 mile radius WV Radio Astronomy Zoning Act around the telescopes which is very strict. It involves all electrical equipment sources. The other, much larger zone, is much less restrictive. In the Quiet Zone only require coordination of new or modified, permanent, fixed, licensed transmitters. "Coordination" means that plans must be submitted to NRAO and possibly modified so that emissions are directed away from the telescope. There are cellular towers in the Quiet Zone. Please note that since home WiFi is not licensed it is not coordinated.
Therr numbers don't even match their references. Form this;
The study estimates that wind farms and nuclear power stations are responsible each for between 0.3 and 0.4 fatalities per gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity while fossil fueled power stations are responsible for about 5.2 fatalities per GWh.
That is higher than the 0.269 in the graph. Note the article refers to "birds and avian wildlife";
The paper concludes that further study is needed, but also that fossil fueled power stations appear to pose a much greater threat to birds and avian wildlife than wind farms and nuclear power plants.
Notice that there is a range of estimated deaths for wind turbines,.02 to 0.57. What value did they use to calculate the estimated deaths per GWh? If they used the low value the high value would calculate to 7.6 deaths/GWh. Going from a range to a single number is not valid.
Except when someone says "devone" and someone else tries to type that in a search and does not find anything. Pronounce "Oneders". If you stared out with a number you are in the minority. Devuan a could also be pronounced in three syllables as "Dev" "u" "an". Relying on a pronunciation of a made up word is not a good idea.
There is also an issue with that graph in that it gives raw numbers of bird deaths. It does not take into account the number of different installations of each type and the energy produced by each installation. For example, if twice as much energy is produced by nuclear than by wind then there are half as many birds killed per unit energy produced.
Coal is, of course, terrible and no-one wants it.
Coal produce a lot more electricity than wind or nuclear.
According to this a defendant must be present at the beginning of a trial except under certain circumstances. Dotcom's charges do not fall under these exceptions.
I am not an aerospace engineer but there is an obvious advantage; drag. Normally drag is a bad thing but when you are trying to slow the decent of an object drag is a very good thing. The more drag they can produce the easier it will be to slow the decent.
There are SpaceX videos showing it doing just that,
Care to reference anything showing that? All the videos I can find are of first stage touchdowns. Do you see any landing legs on the second stage?
Again, the plan appears to be to switch to a powered landing on land,
The Dragon 2, the personnel carrying version, is planned to have a powered landing but the Dragon 1, the cargo version, is not. The difference is payload weight. The Dragon 2 will have a much smaller payload than Dragon 1. Dragon 2 will also be much more expensive as it must include life support. Remember, every pound that you us in fuel to bring the capsule to ground safely is one less pound of supplies you can leave in space.
Because X-Wings are associated with the future and are cool. Being associated with a cool future is a great PR move. This seems to me to be the an indication that Musk is going more for style than content.
What to X-Wings have to do with the actual technology used? Nothing.
That would've been cool, but I guess they decided it was too hard.
I have not seen any evidence that the second stage has ever been designed to soft land. I believe the issue about land touchdown is get approval to do so. I bet few government bodies trust the technology that much. Sure there have been a few short flights that have touched down on land but that is very different than a post-reentry touchdows. The problem being that if something goes wrong a hundred kelometers up the rocket stage could land in a populated area.
An autonomous barge and precision landing would still be a lot cheaper than deploying a dozen US Navy ships and thousands of sailors looking for a capsule.
Any Dragon capsule will still splash down in the ocean. The barge will be used to land the, now fuel empty, first stage rocket.
I also note that some cities, such as Copenhagen, have had self-driving subway trains for years.
From the article that you posted;
The entire metro system and the trains are run by a fully automated computer system, located at the Control and Maintenance Center south of Vestamanger Station.
Since all command and control functions are located at the Control and Maintenance Center a more accurate description would be remote controlled trains. The trains themselves have no "smarts".
Such as roundup-ready corn spreading in the wild, and passing some of its modified genes to other plants, when it wasn't supposed to.
Care to cite anything that supports this statement? All I can fined is a specific experiment with rice where the GMO rice passed the gene to non-GMO weed rice. The fact that both are species of rice may mean that their pollen is compatible. I believe that is called cross pollination. Can you cite any research where GMO genes have jumped species? I do not believe there are any weed corn varieties so cross pollination can not occur.
The European forecast of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was so far ahead of U.S. models in predicting the storm's path that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was called before Congress to explain how it happened.
According to this NOAA predicted the landfall four days ahead while the European system predicted it seven days ahead. While a longer warning is nice the real question is whether or not the three extra days are necessary. If they are not necessary then the NOAA computers are fine and we don't need expensive new computers. If it is, new computers need to be speced and purchased. Even then the speced computer may not be the fastest in the world.
It is not a question of being "First" but having the equipment to do the job. This also goes into a change in world philosophy. Instead of countries competing why don't we pool our resources and go much farther than any one country can on its own.
They're basically putting the cart before the horse, and saying "he's guilty because we say so, and since he won't come here and confess, we'll just take all his stuff".
Not quite. Since Dotcom was indited by a Grand Jury here is a more accurate description.
A Grand Jury has found that there is sufficient evidence to to bring to trial charges for activities of Megaupload which is controlled in part by Kim Dotcom. As it is illegal to benefit from illegal activities and Kim Dotcom's assets are proceeds of the activities under charge these assets are seized. Kim Dotcom may present himself and defend himself against these charges. If found not guilty the assets will be returned. Please note that these assets may be used in defence against the charges.
So, despite violating his rights, the spirit of the law, and perverting the justice system.
Capone had a lot of money and didn't pay taxes on it. That is simple tax law. Even if where he got the money was legitimate he still would have committed tax evasion. I don't see how it violates his rights, the spirit of the law or perverted the justice system. Capone has no right to get away with tax evasion. The spirit of the tax evasion law is to ensure people pay taxes on income. Capone did not do that. The justice system is tasked to uphold those laws.
Capone just plead the fifth when asked where he got the money and was convicted of tax evasion because he did not show that his income was tax exempt.
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Fine motor skill, as used in playing music, is very different than gross motor skill, as used in driving. THC will effect them differently.
Planes hit birds all the time.
Birds are not people and therefore can not be regulated. As someone else said "We don't ticket deer for jaywalking". We make regulations where we can to safeguard people. By your logic we should not have laws against hunting out of season because wolves hunt all year around.
Also, there are millions spent to mitigate bird interaction especially around airports.
There are two kinds of zones in that Quiet Zone. There is a 10 mile radius WV Radio Astronomy Zoning Act around the telescopes which is very strict. It involves all electrical equipment sources. The other, much larger zone, is much less restrictive. In the Quiet Zone only require coordination of new or modified, permanent, fixed, licensed transmitters. "Coordination" means that plans must be submitted to NRAO and possibly modified so that emissions are directed away from the telescope. There are cellular towers in the Quiet Zone. Please note that since home WiFi is not licensed it is not coordinated.
It is a "Quiet Zone" not a "Silent Zone".
Therr numbers don't even match their references.
Form this;
The study estimates that wind farms and nuclear power stations are responsible each for between 0.3 and 0.4 fatalities per gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity while fossil fueled power stations are responsible for about 5.2 fatalities per GWh.
That is higher than the 0.269 in the graph. Note the article refers to "birds and avian wildlife";
The paper concludes that further study is needed, but also that fossil fueled power stations appear to pose a much greater threat to birds and avian wildlife than wind farms and nuclear power plants.
Another example from another reference;
I estimated 888,000 bat and 573,000 bird fatalities/year (including 83,000 raptor fatalities)
So the high should be 1.46 million avian deaths.
Notice that there is a range of estimated deaths for wind turbines, .02 to 0.57. What value did they use to calculate the estimated deaths per GWh? If they used the low value the high value would calculate to 7.6 deaths/GWh. Going from a range to a single number is not valid.
Except when someone says "devone" and someone else tries to type that in a search and does not find anything. Pronounce "Oneders". If you stared out with a number you are in the minority. Devuan a could also be pronounced in three syllables as "Dev" "u" "an". Relying on a pronunciation of a made up word is not a good idea.
There is also an issue with that graph in that it gives raw numbers of bird deaths. It does not take into account the number of different installations of each type and the energy produced by each installation. For example, if twice as much energy is produced by nuclear than by wind then there are half as many birds killed per unit energy produced.
Coal is, of course, terrible and no-one wants it.
Coal produce a lot more electricity than wind or nuclear.
From the Wikipedia page.
Major Ebola virus outbreaks by country and by date – 3 September to most recent WHO / Gov update
Wikipedia's source is valid.
The important part being that in all US cases the defendant appeared at an arraignment.
How about using real data from what was actually produced in Germany instead of theoretical data?
They guy should have had a bullet in his chest before his feet even touched the ground on the other side of the fence.
I am sure glad you don't run security. Setting foot on the Whit House lawn should not be an instant death penalty.
Astroturfing deals with opinions and not facts. What the Koch Brothers might be doing is just "muddying the waters".
Even if NZ does not grant extradition he is still a fugitive from the US justice system.
The DoJ is claiming that following a treaty that the US government itself established is criminal.
No, the seizing of assets is not based on being a criminal but a fugitive.
They might as well bring up the NZ courts for aiding a fugitive, since the NZ courts are processing the extradition request.
Since US law does not cover foreign countries and international law allows countries to refuse extradition your supposition is incorrect.
He is on the run from justice in the US. Whether or not he is going through extradition in another country is a separate issue.
According to this a defendant must be present at the beginning of a trial except under certain circumstances. Dotcom's charges do not fall under these exceptions.
I am not an aerospace engineer but there is an obvious advantage; drag. Normally drag is a bad thing but when you are trying to slow the decent of an object drag is a very good thing. The more drag they can produce the easier it will be to slow the decent.
There are SpaceX videos showing it doing just that,
Care to reference anything showing that? All the videos I can find are of first stage touchdowns. Do you see any landing legs on the second stage?
Again, the plan appears to be to switch to a powered landing on land,
The Dragon 2, the personnel carrying version, is planned to have a powered landing but the Dragon 1, the cargo version, is not. The difference is payload weight. The Dragon 2 will have a much smaller payload than Dragon 1. Dragon 2 will also be much more expensive as it must include life support. Remember, every pound that you us in fuel to bring the capsule to ground safely is one less pound of supplies you can leave in space.
So, what's this got to do with X-Wings?
Because X-Wings are associated with the future and are cool. Being associated with a cool future is a great PR move. This seems to me to be the an indication that Musk is going more for style than content.
What to X-Wings have to do with the actual technology used? Nothing.
That would've been cool, but I guess they decided it was too hard.
I have not seen any evidence that the second stage has ever been designed to soft land. I believe the issue about land touchdown is get approval to do so. I bet few government bodies trust the technology that much. Sure there have been a few short flights that have touched down on land but that is very different than a post-reentry touchdows. The problem being that if something goes wrong a hundred kelometers up the rocket stage could land in a populated area.
An autonomous barge and precision landing would still be a lot cheaper than deploying a dozen US Navy ships and thousands of sailors looking for a capsule.
Any Dragon capsule will still splash down in the ocean. The barge will be used to land the, now fuel empty, first stage rocket.
I also note that some cities, such as Copenhagen, have had self-driving subway trains for years.
From the article that you posted;
The entire metro system and the trains are run by a fully automated computer system, located at the Control and Maintenance Center south of Vestamanger Station.
Since all command and control functions are located at the Control and Maintenance Center a more accurate description would be remote controlled trains. The trains themselves have no "smarts".
Such as roundup-ready corn spreading in the wild, and passing some of its modified genes to other plants, when it wasn't supposed to.
Care to cite anything that supports this statement? All I can fined is a specific experiment with rice where the GMO rice passed the gene to non-GMO weed rice. The fact that both are species of rice may mean that their pollen is compatible. I believe that is called cross pollination. Can you cite any research where GMO genes have jumped species? I do not believe there are any weed corn varieties so cross pollination can not occur.
I just love quotes like the following;
The European forecast of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was so far ahead of U.S. models in predicting the storm's path that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was called before Congress to explain how it happened.
According to this NOAA predicted the landfall four days ahead while the European system predicted it seven days ahead. While a longer warning is nice the real question is whether or not the three extra days are necessary. If they are not necessary then the NOAA computers are fine and we don't need expensive new computers. If it is, new computers need to be speced and purchased. Even then the speced computer may not be the fastest in the world.
It is not a question of being "First" but having the equipment to do the job. This also goes into a change in world philosophy. Instead of countries competing why don't we pool our resources and go much farther than any one country can on its own.
They're basically putting the cart before the horse, and saying "he's guilty because we say so, and since he won't come here and confess, we'll just take all his stuff".
Not quite. Since Dotcom was indited by a Grand Jury here is a more accurate description.
A Grand Jury has found that there is sufficient evidence to to bring to trial charges for activities of Megaupload which is controlled in part by Kim Dotcom. As it is illegal to benefit from illegal activities and Kim Dotcom's assets are proceeds of the activities under charge these assets are seized. Kim Dotcom may present himself and defend himself against these charges. If found not guilty the assets will be returned. Please note that these assets may be used in defence against the charges.
So, despite violating his rights, the spirit of the law, and perverting the justice system.
Capone had a lot of money and didn't pay taxes on it. That is simple tax law. Even if where he got the money was legitimate he still would have committed tax evasion. I don't see how it violates his rights, the spirit of the law or perverted the justice system. Capone has no right to get away with tax evasion. The spirit of the tax evasion law is to ensure people pay taxes on income. Capone did not do that. The justice system is tasked to uphold those laws.
Capone just plead the fifth when asked where he got the money and was convicted of tax evasion because he did not show that his income was tax exempt.
As none of the countries who have charges against these people have requested extradition I don't see your point.