It's honestly funny and sad to see how far the TDS goes. People like you actually deny that people are commonly used as bargaining chips by US. Even a cursory check will show you countless cases of negotiations with Talibs for example, where people were used as bargaining chips as a matter of routine. "We got this commander of yours, he will be returned in exchange for these concessions" is a norm.
You can find similar cases in pretty much every relationship, across many states. Even small states that press heavily for rules based international order like Estonia practice this (see Kohver's case for example).
But because Trump does it, it automatically becomes something that is outlandish and that hasn't been done. Because Trump Derangement Syndrome.
This precedent was set in stone age if not earlier. You must be living under a rock to think that power politics didn't exist until Trump.
The main problem with post Bush Sr. age, is that none of the presidents until Trump understood power politics. So every time they needed to act in accordance of principles of power politics, they lost by default. On the bright side, there are plenty of people in natsec community in US who do understand power politics, and were able to limit the damage caused by presidential post being occupied by people ignorant of one of the most basic skills one must have to be successful in that post.
Those who backed Oculus got way more than what they initially paid for. Not only did they get the RC2 version of the headset, which is what was promised, but they also got the final version. So backers got a really good deal.
But the facebook deal really soured a lot of people on the company. And for a good reason.
I like how you claim I'm ignorant while espousing utter BS. The reason this thing is still operating is because it's largely paid by federal government rather than utility itself. It's near free from utility's point of view, while running inconsequential distance of about a kilometre. So free vs massive investment that is laying HVDC transformers. Yeah, free is better, since someone else is paying for deployment.
This cable installation was built in 2008. This is 2018. There are grand total of zero plans to expand this, while HVDC lines are being laid for thousands of kilometres. If anything about economics that you typed out was anywhere in the ballpark of observable reality, utility would be putting down money for more such cabling. Instead, they're putting down money for HVDC lines.
So what we know is that once someone else invests a ridiculous amount of money for you, you can maintain the ~1km line more economically than tearing it out and putting completely new infrastructure in. That's it.
Which claims specifically? Massive deployment costs? That can be directly derived from the fact that utility paid zero for this ~1km of a line. It was fully funded by federal government as an experiment. The fact that utility itself paid for zero metres of the line since tells you everything you need to know about economics side.
That's literally what I said. Electricity losses are loss of a concern on supraconductive cable. The problem is that the assembly itself is far more expensive for any kind of long range deployment than HVDC line.
Which is why they haven't installed any more in ten years since, while HVDC rollout is happening as we speak on thousands of kilometres.
Have you ever heard of small scale turboprops? They serve that exact market. This aircraft is in no way competitive with them for numerous reasons I already listed in this very thread.
That cable is half a mile long. The costs to make it superconduct are so much higher than electricity losses in comparable HVDC line of that length, it's not even funny. The sheer amount of zeroes involved in that multiplier after the meaningful number is hilarious.
Also this doesn't interact with renewable energy in any way. You need actually functional superconductivity at near environmental temperature (and pressure) to get anything like what you suggest. As far as we know, that doesn't exist. At all. What does work however, and works today is HVDC lines. They cost quite a bit to install, but their maintenance isn't that horrible compared to benefits they provide, as long as transfer distance is long enough.
You know, unlike that half a mile installation you cited.
"Dear representative, surely you're not trying to apply pressure from position of governmental authority on me, the private entity in violation of my first amendment rights? Are you at all aware of the principles outlined in constitution, and why they were put there?"
You do actually. Many if not most disk failures have clearly predictable markers. This has been true for quite a long time at this point, to the level where my last two HDD failures in home machine were diagnosable with no tools beyond SMART reader. Better yet, they weren't "instant" failures, but signs of impeding failure of the drive started appearing months in advance with clear cut warnings on SMART readout. This resulted in sufficient time to buy a new drive and migrate all the data with no problems.
With SSDs, failure has a problem with being utterly opaque and sudden. This is likely more of a function of lack of expertise due to lack of time through, as it took us decades to get hard drive monitoring systems to where they are now.
To my understanding, there were several pilot projects like HY4 and FCD. All of them ran into what has proven to be currently unsolvable issues with onboard storage of liquefied H2 used as fuel in fuel cells.
I defeated your anti-scientific dogma using logic, therefore I'm a nazi and you desperately trying to stalk me across slashdot posts is being anti-nazi.
We've come a long way folks. And this appears to be the destination. The batshit levels of insanity are real.
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It's honestly funny and sad to see how far the TDS goes. People like you actually deny that people are commonly used as bargaining chips by US. Even a cursory check will show you countless cases of negotiations with Talibs for example, where people were used as bargaining chips as a matter of routine. "We got this commander of yours, he will be returned in exchange for these concessions" is a norm.
You can find similar cases in pretty much every relationship, across many states. Even small states that press heavily for rules based international order like Estonia practice this (see Kohver's case for example).
But because Trump does it, it automatically becomes something that is outlandish and that hasn't been done. Because Trump Derangement Syndrome.
This precedent was set in stone age if not earlier. You must be living under a rock to think that power politics didn't exist until Trump.
The main problem with post Bush Sr. age, is that none of the presidents until Trump understood power politics. So every time they needed to act in accordance of principles of power politics, they lost by default. On the bright side, there are plenty of people in natsec community in US who do understand power politics, and were able to limit the damage caused by presidential post being occupied by people ignorant of one of the most basic skills one must have to be successful in that post.
The secret can also be that the location is used for natsec purposes. Blurring out such location gives that fact out.
Those who backed Oculus got way more than what they initially paid for. Not only did they get the RC2 version of the headset, which is what was promised, but they also got the final version. So backers got a really good deal.
But the facebook deal really soured a lot of people on the company. And for a good reason.
I like how you claim I'm ignorant while espousing utter BS. The reason this thing is still operating is because it's largely paid by federal government rather than utility itself. It's near free from utility's point of view, while running inconsequential distance of about a kilometre. So free vs massive investment that is laying HVDC transformers. Yeah, free is better, since someone else is paying for deployment.
This cable installation was built in 2008. This is 2018. There are grand total of zero plans to expand this, while HVDC lines are being laid for thousands of kilometres. If anything about economics that you typed out was anywhere in the ballpark of observable reality, utility would be putting down money for more such cabling. Instead, they're putting down money for HVDC lines.
So what we know is that once someone else invests a ridiculous amount of money for you, you can maintain the ~1km line more economically than tearing it out and putting completely new infrastructure in. That's it.
Which claims specifically? Massive deployment costs? That can be directly derived from the fact that utility paid zero for this ~1km of a line. It was fully funded by federal government as an experiment. The fact that utility itself paid for zero metres of the line since tells you everything you need to know about economics side.
That's literally what I said. Electricity losses are loss of a concern on supraconductive cable. The problem is that the assembly itself is far more expensive for any kind of long range deployment than HVDC line.
Which is why they haven't installed any more in ten years since, while HVDC rollout is happening as we speak on thousands of kilometres.
Why would I justify an absurd claim I didn't make, just because you are claiming otherwise?
Do you have any idea how expensive it is to maintain thousands of kilometers of liquid nitrogen cooled system?
There's a reason why these "deployments" being cited rarely reach even a kilometre. It's incredibly expensive.
Have you ever heard of small scale turboprops? They serve that exact market. This aircraft is in no way competitive with them for numerous reasons I already listed in this very thread.
I can't really answer in seven words or less.
That cable is half a mile long. The costs to make it superconduct are so much higher than electricity losses in comparable HVDC line of that length, it's not even funny. The sheer amount of zeroes involved in that multiplier after the meaningful number is hilarious.
Also this doesn't interact with renewable energy in any way. You need actually functional superconductivity at near environmental temperature (and pressure) to get anything like what you suggest. As far as we know, that doesn't exist. At all. What does work however, and works today is HVDC lines. They cost quite a bit to install, but their maintenance isn't that horrible compared to benefits they provide, as long as transfer distance is long enough.
You know, unlike that half a mile installation you cited.
Polar opposite. Do you know where most of the noise in turboprop comes from?
Edges of blades going too fast. The smaller the blade, the slower the edges go.
I'm genuinely amazed how few people answering my post cannot even read two sentences before typing out a reply.
Have you tried reading the second sentence in my initial post yet? It addresses this particular line of demagoguery.
Attention span too short to be able to read the second sentence?
Second sentence pre-empted this line of demagoguery.
I should be believed because I'm so right, that one of the people who was wrong is butthurt enough to stalk me on slashdot obviously.
Which is why the second follow up question is in my opener:
>Are you at all aware of the principles outlined in constitution, and why they were put there?
Do you see the word "principles" in that sentence? It's there for a reason specifically to pre-empt the very angle of demagoguery you're engaging in.
"Dear representative, surely you're not trying to apply pressure from position of governmental authority on me, the private entity in violation of my first amendment rights? Are you at all aware of the principles outlined in constitution, and why they were put there?"
Just out of interest, how much time in your day is spent stalking me on slashdot after your anti-science drivel got exposed in that one argument?
Not very literate, are you? Here's a link to said reply.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
You do actually. Many if not most disk failures have clearly predictable markers. This has been true for quite a long time at this point, to the level where my last two HDD failures in home machine were diagnosable with no tools beyond SMART reader. Better yet, they weren't "instant" failures, but signs of impeding failure of the drive started appearing months in advance with clear cut warnings on SMART readout. This resulted in sufficient time to buy a new drive and migrate all the data with no problems.
With SSDs, failure has a problem with being utterly opaque and sudden. This is likely more of a function of lack of expertise due to lack of time through, as it took us decades to get hard drive monitoring systems to where they are now.
To my understanding, there were several pilot projects like HY4 and FCD. All of them ran into what has proven to be currently unsolvable issues with onboard storage of liquefied H2 used as fuel in fuel cells.
I defeated your anti-scientific dogma using logic, therefore I'm a nazi and you desperately trying to stalk me across slashdot posts is being anti-nazi.
We've come a long way folks. And this appears to be the destination. The batshit levels of insanity are real.