I was literally scratching my head as I read this, wondering if they never heard about polarizing sunglasses. It's true that they fell out of vogue in middle to late 2000s, specifically because LCD screens finally made their breakthrough then. But if you go do anything related to sea, you still want them to reduce glare from the surface.
It tells you just how gullible people are that this thing is already funded on kickstarter. The "inventor" is going to cash in well, considering polarizing glasses can be had for next to nothing from manufacturers.
Compare it to people in US receiving medical care rather than entirety of population, so you can compare apples to apples - people receiving care to people receiving care. You'll find result flipped. US is one of the best places on the planet to get best care, if you can afford to pay for it. And most people in US can in fact afford to pay for it. They don't have to wait three years and six months for their next dental check like I do in finnish public sector.
This BS arguing based on weird extreme ideologies omnipresent in US is really strange from European view. Of course everyone should be covered publicly. But to pretend that this is going to give median person better care is just utterly wrong. It's going to make median person's care worse, unless they opt for a private option anyway. What it will ensure is that outliers on the lower end of the distribution will be much better off, which lifts the average.
I've seen hell dear shill. It's what you call Chechen warriors practising their ancient craft. It was fucked up when they did it to Dagestani and Russians forcing Russian Federation to put them down. It was still fucked up when they were doing it to Russians and Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine.
See, I have this thing you lack called "moral compass", that keeps pointing at "this action is wrong regardless of who is on which side". It allows me to navigate the realm of ethics based on actions, rather than just racial factors. In absence of it, mentally impaired people like you have to default to "well it's this side that I define as evil, and actions don't matter".
Gotta say, the doublethink required to go from "Chechnya wars were evil" to "Ukrainian conflict is the same evil" makes me crack a smile. Apparently the only thing that defines "evil" is "Russia". Everything else? Oh, that can go 180 degrees as needed by the narrative.
Haven't seen the state of health care in many places in Europe, have you? The sorry state of NHS is well documented, French one is coming apart at the seams and even here in Finland, the system that is considered among the best in the world both in terms of cost efficiency and outcomes in case of difficult diseases has parents in Helsinki openly state that if you don't have private insurance for your child, that's child abuse because it's child abuse to subject your child to the public healthcare sector.
But you can pretend "everything is fine on the Eastern Front". Wouldn't be the first time.
What the fuck did I just read? Usage of tactical nukes on biggest and most important ship in the fleet of peer competitor isn't a declaration of war in a world of MAD?
Are you insane? Are you utterly stupid and ignorant? All of the above?
Heck, even all of the above isn't enough to make that statement. What in the actual fuck?
The "chopping" noise that helicopters make comes from collision of air from main rotor with air from the tail rotor. Since most of air taxis do not have tail rotors and instead use various kinds of multiple main rotor systems, they're fairly quiet.
They already are helicopters. Just google "flying car" and any major manufacturer like Bell or Airbus. You'll see demonstrations of what is essentially helicopters, and in case of Bell their speciality, tiltrotors.
They're literally available now. It's called "helicopter with autopilot". Problem being that autopilot still needs someone to give it orders and troubleshoot potential problems, which is solved with introduction of "pilot" into the system. Not to mention space needed for take-off and landing, and that elephant in the room called "costs".
Pretty much all major aerospace companies that function in helicopter sector have their version of a "flying car". Essentially all of them are light helicopters of some kind. Bell and Airbus talked and to a limited extent demonstrated their ambitions recently. I guess this is Boeing's declaration that they also have a foot in the potential market.
The "golden kerosene" does indeed exist as an option. USN has a process that extracts it from salt water for example.
As for "but we can just extract different amounts of kerosene from same oil", I keep hearing this myth, and asked about it from old friends I used to study with in university who went into hydrocarbon field several times. The answer has been universally the same across last two decades: "hypothetically possible, not realistically workable".
Of course I have, mr "professional in field of energy generation and transmission who thinks that Germany controls wind".
Unless this is what some people pointed out some time ago, a PR account with multiple people manning it, and not knowing what the other employee ended up saying. In which case, fuck off.
Call MS things that it deserves to be called, but don't lie about the issue. Microsoft has in fact grown under Nadella. Semi-forcibly extracting additional value from users does in fact do wonders to company bottom line if users lack the meaningful alternative to company's products.
The weirdest part of the whole is forced updates, which are now watched by something like three separate processes who seem to just monitor Windows Update service and re-enable it if its disabled in versions aimed at consumers.
So it's not enough that you screw over everyone with forced updates, the few who figure out they'll just enable update service when they're ready to update and got enough data on the newest updates to believe they're not going to screw with their work are increasingly out of luck. That's just strangely heavy handed from microsoft which used to just ignore power users to large extent.
Of course. Venus' atmosphere has an insulating impact on the Venus surface. It can't just convect/radiate thermal energy into space the way Mercury surface can. It can only convect it into the atmosphere, which provides effective insulation layers, which in turn concentrates thermal energy close to surface. And radiation passage out of the Venus' atmosphere gets hampered by atmosphere itself as well as the greenhouse effect within it.
So less energy input, but even less energy output as well leads to higher temperatures on Venus surface vs Mercury surface. Again, this is not a novel concept, and something people understand instinctively since the time before they invented fire, and long before they knew that air existed, much less basics of astronomy. Which is why the analogy is just too flawed to be in any way useful. You may as well just argue "furs provide isolation layer, just like atmosphere does, so convection and radiation doesn't vent energy directly into space, but into atmosphere around it, from which it then in turn has to rise up a portion of it can vent into space".
So, P-8? About the only way to develop that sort of arrogance is to be the sonar guy on that aircraft. It's so much better than P-3, you can develop a feeling you're just able to do miracles, because all too often you're given mission profiles intended for P-3.
Which is where harsh reality check comes in. You still need a track provided by intelligence on approximate location of submarine you're looking for to actually go hunt it. Even with the speed P-8 can scan the area it's given, it's a needle in a haystack, that sits in a field full of haystacks, that sits in the middle of Ukrainian wheat belt, which is the largest of its kind in the world. You may be good at searching your given sector, but chance of the sub you're looking for being there without the tracking provided by hydrophone networks that track it as it exists Yulin and heads for the Pacific is between zero and number with so many meaningful zeroes after the decimal point of the percentage, you're just not going to do anything useful.
Which is why ships like Impeccable and those private operators of various hydrographic vessels have been in a quasi-literal tug of war in SCS around Yulin for last two decades. They're there to give you data on where to conduct the sweep. Without them, you may be very well equipped to see, but you have no idea where to look.
I have no idea what field you're in either. You never provided me with any information on any of those, so I can't make a judgement on either one.
I can only talk about things I know about, such as public information available about events in SCS between PLAN and USN/USN contractors in last two decades.
I have no idea who "we" is, but considering the relevant clashes between PLAN and USN in the SCS over last two decades, both PLAN and USN clearly agree with me and disagree with you.
Accurate and reliable things that can provide constant cover over large area vs inaccurate and unreliable things that can cover barely a tiny fraction of area that would be needed to covered to provide comparable detection rates.
Because you want to be able to play the game. Kids who just want to play games and who study for 12-14 hours a day under constant supervision from their parents and grandparents don't have time to learn (about) the things you're talking about, especially with regulated Chinese internet routinely making access to such things hard in the first place.
Works in the shallows. Open oceans, not so much. The primary reason for South China Sea brouhaha is literally this. SCS is shallow, and Chinese ballistic missile subs need to run the shallows gauntlet to vanish into the Pacific. It's choke full of USN and allied hydrophones. That's why Chinese grabbed the drone that was doing water temperature measurements, and why previous pushing around was about USNS Impeccable. For the hydrophone network to operate, you need solid data on thermal conditions of various layers of the sea where it is.
Once China succeeds in pushing USN out of SCS, it can deny it ability to maintain the observation capacity of hydrophone networks, granting its subs unfettered access to depths of the Pacific where hydrophone networks are not operable.
Overwhelming majority of waters around Japan are very deep.
Thank you for venting your ignorance. That's not the way it works in any of the states I mentioned, because you can't purge the entire bureaucracy. Even Stalin couldn't do it at his peak of power. There are a tens of thousands of bureaucrats, in some cases hundreds of thousands who participate in decision making in these states and they are the only people who can keep the system running. At best you can hang one guy on the top, which incidentally, Xi tried to do over last few years.
It had no impact. Chinese bureaucracy keeps going.
You watch too much propaganda. What will happen is that leadership at workplace of the parents will have a talk with parents, causing them to lose face. Who will make a call to grandparents, who are raising the kid. Who will beat the kid senseless for making parents lose face.
Slashdot Mirror
I was literally scratching my head as I read this, wondering if they never heard about polarizing sunglasses. It's true that they fell out of vogue in middle to late 2000s, specifically because LCD screens finally made their breakthrough then. But if you go do anything related to sea, you still want them to reduce glare from the surface.
It tells you just how gullible people are that this thing is already funded on kickstarter. The "inventor" is going to cash in well, considering polarizing glasses can be had for next to nothing from manufacturers.
Better than what? US?
Compare it to people in US receiving medical care rather than entirety of population, so you can compare apples to apples - people receiving care to people receiving care. You'll find result flipped. US is one of the best places on the planet to get best care, if you can afford to pay for it. And most people in US can in fact afford to pay for it. They don't have to wait three years and six months for their next dental check like I do in finnish public sector.
This BS arguing based on weird extreme ideologies omnipresent in US is really strange from European view. Of course everyone should be covered publicly. But to pretend that this is going to give median person better care is just utterly wrong. It's going to make median person's care worse, unless they opt for a private option anyway. What it will ensure is that outliers on the lower end of the distribution will be much better off, which lifts the average.
I've seen hell dear shill. It's what you call Chechen warriors practising their ancient craft. It was fucked up when they did it to Dagestani and Russians forcing Russian Federation to put them down. It was still fucked up when they were doing it to Russians and Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine.
See, I have this thing you lack called "moral compass", that keeps pointing at "this action is wrong regardless of who is on which side". It allows me to navigate the realm of ethics based on actions, rather than just racial factors. In absence of it, mentally impaired people like you have to default to "well it's this side that I define as evil, and actions don't matter".
Gotta say, the doublethink required to go from "Chechnya wars were evil" to "Ukrainian conflict is the same evil" makes me crack a smile. Apparently the only thing that defines "evil" is "Russia". Everything else? Oh, that can go 180 degrees as needed by the narrative.
Haven't seen the state of health care in many places in Europe, have you? The sorry state of NHS is well documented, French one is coming apart at the seams and even here in Finland, the system that is considered among the best in the world both in terms of cost efficiency and outcomes in case of difficult diseases has parents in Helsinki openly state that if you don't have private insurance for your child, that's child abuse because it's child abuse to subject your child to the public healthcare sector.
But you can pretend "everything is fine on the Eastern Front". Wouldn't be the first time.
What the fuck did I just read? Usage of tactical nukes on biggest and most important ship in the fleet of peer competitor isn't a declaration of war in a world of MAD?
Are you insane? Are you utterly stupid and ignorant? All of the above?
Heck, even all of the above isn't enough to make that statement. What in the actual fuck?
The "chopping" noise that helicopters make comes from collision of air from main rotor with air from the tail rotor. Since most of air taxis do not have tail rotors and instead use various kinds of multiple main rotor systems, they're fairly quiet.
They already are helicopters. Just google "flying car" and any major manufacturer like Bell or Airbus. You'll see demonstrations of what is essentially helicopters, and in case of Bell their speciality, tiltrotors.
They're literally available now. It's called "helicopter with autopilot". Problem being that autopilot still needs someone to give it orders and troubleshoot potential problems, which is solved with introduction of "pilot" into the system. Not to mention space needed for take-off and landing, and that elephant in the room called "costs".
Pretty much all major aerospace companies that function in helicopter sector have their version of a "flying car". Essentially all of them are light helicopters of some kind. Bell and Airbus talked and to a limited extent demonstrated their ambitions recently. I guess this is Boeing's declaration that they also have a foot in the potential market.
The "golden kerosene" does indeed exist as an option. USN has a process that extracts it from salt water for example.
As for "but we can just extract different amounts of kerosene from same oil", I keep hearing this myth, and asked about it from old friends I used to study with in university who went into hydrocarbon field several times. The answer has been universally the same across last two decades: "hypothetically possible, not realistically workable".
Of course I have, mr "professional in field of energy generation and transmission who thinks that Germany controls wind".
Unless this is what some people pointed out some time ago, a PR account with multiple people manning it, and not knowing what the other employee ended up saying. In which case, fuck off.
Call MS things that it deserves to be called, but don't lie about the issue. Microsoft has in fact grown under Nadella. Semi-forcibly extracting additional value from users does in fact do wonders to company bottom line if users lack the meaningful alternative to company's products.
The weirdest part of the whole is forced updates, which are now watched by something like three separate processes who seem to just monitor Windows Update service and re-enable it if its disabled in versions aimed at consumers.
So it's not enough that you screw over everyone with forced updates, the few who figure out they'll just enable update service when they're ready to update and got enough data on the newest updates to believe they're not going to screw with their work are increasingly out of luck. That's just strangely heavy handed from microsoft which used to just ignore power users to large extent.
Of course. Venus' atmosphere has an insulating impact on the Venus surface. It can't just convect/radiate thermal energy into space the way Mercury surface can. It can only convect it into the atmosphere, which provides effective insulation layers, which in turn concentrates thermal energy close to surface. And radiation passage out of the Venus' atmosphere gets hampered by atmosphere itself as well as the greenhouse effect within it.
So less energy input, but even less energy output as well leads to higher temperatures on Venus surface vs Mercury surface. Again, this is not a novel concept, and something people understand instinctively since the time before they invented fire, and long before they knew that air existed, much less basics of astronomy. Which is why the analogy is just too flawed to be in any way useful. You may as well just argue "furs provide isolation layer, just like atmosphere does, so convection and radiation doesn't vent energy directly into space, but into atmosphere around it, from which it then in turn has to rise up a portion of it can vent into space".
Shouldn't you go back to claiming that Germany controls wind?
So, P-8? About the only way to develop that sort of arrogance is to be the sonar guy on that aircraft. It's so much better than P-3, you can develop a feeling you're just able to do miracles, because all too often you're given mission profiles intended for P-3.
Which is where harsh reality check comes in. You still need a track provided by intelligence on approximate location of submarine you're looking for to actually go hunt it. Even with the speed P-8 can scan the area it's given, it's a needle in a haystack, that sits in a field full of haystacks, that sits in the middle of Ukrainian wheat belt, which is the largest of its kind in the world. You may be good at searching your given sector, but chance of the sub you're looking for being there without the tracking provided by hydrophone networks that track it as it exists Yulin and heads for the Pacific is between zero and number with so many meaningful zeroes after the decimal point of the percentage, you're just not going to do anything useful.
Which is why ships like Impeccable and those private operators of various hydrographic vessels have been in a quasi-literal tug of war in SCS around Yulin for last two decades. They're there to give you data on where to conduct the sweep. Without them, you may be very well equipped to see, but you have no idea where to look.
And zero self awareness on top of it. Ok.
I have no idea what field you're in either. You never provided me with any information on any of those, so I can't make a judgement on either one.
I can only talk about things I know about, such as public information available about events in SCS between PLAN and USN/USN contractors in last two decades.
I have no idea who "we" is, but considering the relevant clashes between PLAN and USN in the SCS over last two decades, both PLAN and USN clearly agree with me and disagree with you.
Accurate and reliable things that can provide constant cover over large area vs inaccurate and unreliable things that can cover barely a tiny fraction of area that would be needed to covered to provide comparable detection rates.
Because you want to be able to play the game. Kids who just want to play games and who study for 12-14 hours a day under constant supervision from their parents and grandparents don't have time to learn (about) the things you're talking about, especially with regulated Chinese internet routinely making access to such things hard in the first place.
Works in the shallows. Open oceans, not so much. The primary reason for South China Sea brouhaha is literally this. SCS is shallow, and Chinese ballistic missile subs need to run the shallows gauntlet to vanish into the Pacific. It's choke full of USN and allied hydrophones. That's why Chinese grabbed the drone that was doing water temperature measurements, and why previous pushing around was about USNS Impeccable. For the hydrophone network to operate, you need solid data on thermal conditions of various layers of the sea where it is.
Once China succeeds in pushing USN out of SCS, it can deny it ability to maintain the observation capacity of hydrophone networks, granting its subs unfettered access to depths of the Pacific where hydrophone networks are not operable.
Overwhelming majority of waters around Japan are very deep.
No. That is the primary advantage of nuclear propulsion in submarines. Range.
The primary downside is extra cost/size and noise from having to keep reactor cooled at all times.
Thank you for venting your ignorance. That's not the way it works in any of the states I mentioned, because you can't purge the entire bureaucracy. Even Stalin couldn't do it at his peak of power. There are a tens of thousands of bureaucrats, in some cases hundreds of thousands who participate in decision making in these states and they are the only people who can keep the system running. At best you can hang one guy on the top, which incidentally, Xi tried to do over last few years.
It had no impact. Chinese bureaucracy keeps going.
You watch too much propaganda. What will happen is that leadership at workplace of the parents will have a talk with parents, causing them to lose face. Who will make a call to grandparents, who are raising the kid. Who will beat the kid senseless for making parents lose face.