The "reliability of aerospace" is in no small part due to regimes of inspection and maintenance far more strict than given Joe Sixpacks shitbox beatermobile.
I've worked on fighters for a living as well as truck/cars/motorcycles. Even with reliability like that of a modern attack jet, because the driver won't have to pay attention the cost of failures will be considerable. Pilots use autopilot etc to assist them but are trained to be alert to problems. The average slug on the street won't do that and won't be ready to respond professionally to malfunctions. What is deliberately ignored by self-driving car zealots is that BOTH operation and now-much-more-critical maintenance will be in the hands of Bubba and LaQueefa. They don't take care of their cars now.
Build an elevated, reinforced concrete shell around it. Have proper sump pumps etc for seepage, have doors you can seal, and bunker down. Build it tough enough and no storm surge will bother it, but you might lose your connectivity to the outside world. Bunker tech isn't rocket surgery. Lose the idea that conventional structures will protect your stuff, build bunkers with internal systems (such as ISO containerised data centers) you can upgrade relatively easily, and you are protected. Don't build weak support systems, or you get "Fukushima". There is zero reason that whole plant couldn't have been built like the German U-boat pens at St Nazaire except that it wasn't built for safety.
NOLA shouldn't have residential areas below sea level. No reason other than sentiment exists to rebuild them there.
I have the option not to live in areas absolutely guaranteed to get hammered by hurricane storm surge. Not living there is part of my "disaster prep". The US is vast and so are ones choices of domicile.
Puppy Linux is one excellent option for older hardware and is wonderfully easy to configure. Even if you want to retain XP for some things, Puppy runs nicely off live USB keys (and you want one of those if you ever have to rescue your lappy).
I use it to setup basic PCs for friends. No malware, good performance, easy for them to use with no Linux expertise.
"This is a real big-boy computer I use to get real work done on,"
I hear ya, but it shouldn't need a web browser. I support XP boxes for my buds machine shop. He doesn't need to buy a newer CAM program ($$) and what he has barfs on Windows 7. We don't connect those machines to the internet. If I need to I can boot Puppy Linux off USB, do whatever, then reboot into XP.
Ubuntu isn't a replacement for XP as its a RAM hog by comparison. I quit distro-churning long ago and use CentOS because it just works.
XP machines will be around for decades, but they can live in isolation.
I don't know if W7 Ultimate XP mode will work with your lab control card but it might be worth a look for giggles.
"Why don't the east and west coasts have high speed rail,"
Old established rail that can't be taken out of service, and NIMBY. The Northeast in particular would benefit from HSR, and note that rail made the 'burbs practical LONG before automobiles were available, but there isn't room for a buildout.
A walk through Seoul demonstrates ordinary building codes enforcement is pretty casual. My favorite example was a small paint store where the proprietor and wife lived among the stock. It reeked of solvent and would likely have gone up if a smoker walked into the place. You could smell it from the street.
Fixing the culture will be like fixing the SAME indifferent-to-safety culture we had in the US. Give it a couple or three generations.
"Amazon opting to be flat, effectively at 0% margin, is a game other businesses don't have the will to do, and Amazon doesn't have the will to do so indefinitely."
Keyword, "will". Other businesses CAN do it, it could be greatly to their competitive advantage, but not doing it is their CHOICE.
I'd like to see more businesses compete to serve me.
The US has no Left worth mentioning, but plenty of people who would be centrists in the rest of the world are a bit peeved that what the voted for was not what they got, and what they got was Bush III, the sequel.
We have a one Party state with two different socially-branded products. It maintains the illusion of difference.
f the NSA wants your shit it will have it, but that doesn't mean you cannot protect against lesser threats.
No matter how much we remind people of the many tools available, often Free and Open, at their disposal, some folks insist on being stupid and will be LARTed by events.
My machinst bud had one he used for years, it popped a particular failure code, and Brother replaced it free. He said interacting with support was smooth, and he was just asking for troubleshooting advice when they offered the replacement.
The NRA (I'm a member) defends the Second Amendment. The ACLU defends all the others.
Unfortunately, we have no group dedicated to defending the entire Constitution because Conberals and Libservatatives insist in picking and choosing the bits they prefer with an eye to disempowering their political opponents.
Either you defend the freedoms of people you don't like, or you aren't defending freedom itself.
There are no "Conservatives" any more who matter. There exist religious fanatics and pimps for big business, and between the two there is plenty of overlap.
It's time to stop regarding "Conservatism" as having any sort of positive contribution to the US beyond the preservation of the Second Amendment, and if Democrats would embrace that Amendment they'd gain massively in the polls. The Cold War is over, the US and China won, and the US has no effective enemies left. "Defense" now only means "perpetual globalist wars" but the Democrats are down with those too so not even the globalists need "Conservatives" as they own both Parties.
Nobody is being "forced". Internet use is voluntary.
Unplug the fucking computer or enforce parental discipline. If your kid gets to do anything it wants it will have much worse issues than seeing a few Cartel or Muslim neck shortenings.
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Since scrubbers cost more than simpler systems, this helps ensure those who do build coal plants don't build clean ones.
Nice gesture....
The "reliability of aerospace" is in no small part due to regimes of inspection and maintenance far more strict than given Joe Sixpacks shitbox beatermobile.
I've worked on fighters for a living as well as truck/cars/motorcycles.
Even with reliability like that of a modern attack jet, because the driver won't have to pay attention the cost of failures will be considerable. Pilots use autopilot etc to assist them but are trained to be alert to problems. The average slug on the street won't do that and won't be ready to respond professionally to malfunctions. What is deliberately ignored by self-driving car zealots is that BOTH operation and now-much-more-critical maintenance will be in the hands of Bubba and LaQueefa. They don't take care of their cars now.
Build an elevated, reinforced concrete shell around it. Have proper sump pumps etc for seepage, have doors you can seal, and bunker down. Build it tough enough and no storm surge will bother it, but you might lose your connectivity to the outside world.
Bunker tech isn't rocket surgery. Lose the idea that conventional structures will protect your stuff, build bunkers with internal systems (such as ISO containerised data centers) you can upgrade relatively easily, and you are protected.
Don't build weak support systems, or you get "Fukushima". There is zero reason that whole plant couldn't have been built like the German U-boat pens at St Nazaire except that it wasn't built for safety.
NOLA shouldn't have residential areas below sea level. No reason other than sentiment exists to rebuild them there.
I have the option not to live in areas absolutely guaranteed to get hammered by hurricane storm surge. Not living there is part of my "disaster prep". The US is vast and so are ones choices of domicile.
Puppy Linux is excellent on older hardware and fast on more recent boxes.
Puppy Linux is one excellent option for older hardware and is wonderfully easy to configure. Even if you want to retain XP for some things, Puppy runs nicely off live USB keys (and you want one of those if you ever have to rescue your lappy).
I use it to setup basic PCs for friends. No malware, good performance, easy for them to use with no Linux expertise.
"This is a real big-boy computer I use to get real work done on,"
I hear ya, but it shouldn't need a web browser. I support XP boxes for my buds machine shop. He doesn't need to buy a newer CAM program ($$) and what he has barfs on Windows 7. We don't connect those machines to the internet. If I need to I can boot Puppy Linux off USB, do whatever, then reboot into XP.
Ubuntu isn't a replacement for XP as its a RAM hog by comparison. I quit distro-churning long ago and use CentOS because it just works.
XP machines will be around for decades, but they can live in isolation.
I don't know if W7 Ultimate XP mode will work with your lab control card but it might be worth a look for giggles.
"Why don't the east and west coasts have high speed rail,"
Old established rail that can't be taken out of service, and NIMBY.
The Northeast in particular would benefit from HSR, and note that rail made the 'burbs practical LONG before automobiles were available, but there isn't room for a buildout.
As contrasted with the Good Old Days of the Industrial Revolution.
Oh....
A walk through Seoul demonstrates ordinary building codes enforcement is pretty casual. My favorite example was a small paint store where the proprietor and wife lived among the stock. It reeked of solvent and would likely have gone up if a smoker walked into the place. You could smell it from the street.
Fixing the culture will be like fixing the SAME indifferent-to-safety culture we had in the US. Give it a couple or three generations.
Semites are not a "race", nor is "Judaism" a race.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews
"Amazon opting to be flat, effectively at 0% margin, is a game other businesses don't have the will to do, and Amazon doesn't have the will to do so indefinitely."
Keyword, "will". Other businesses CAN do it, it could be greatly to their competitive advantage, but not doing it is their CHOICE.
I'd like to see more businesses compete to serve me.
ISO containers of ready-to-use supplies won't require time to produce onsite because they are, wait for it, ready to use.
Welcome to Vendor Lock.
Enjoy your stay.
Slashdot management have a serious car-boner for this tech so you'll read lots about it here. Also, page hits.
The US has no Left worth mentioning, but plenty of people who would be centrists in the rest of the world are a bit peeved that what the voted for was not what they got, and what they got was Bush III, the sequel.
We have a one Party state with two different socially-branded products. It maintains the illusion of difference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ4SSvVbhLw
Worse, he kept them unencrypted. I
f the NSA wants your shit it will have it, but that doesn't mean you cannot protect against lesser threats.
No matter how much we remind people of the many tools available, often Free and Open, at their disposal, some folks insist on being stupid and will be LARTed by events.
My machinst bud had one he used for years, it popped a particular failure code, and Brother replaced it free. He said interacting with support was smooth, and he was just asking for troubleshooting advice when they offered the replacement.
I bought one and am delighted with it.
"The real pain comes when they integrate things you need, like maintenance calculators and schedules"
Who needs those? One sheet of (gasp) paper in the glove box is enough for many years of maintenance.
Since autos last decades but computers are junk in a few years, do as with audio components and have a standard form-factor to facilitate swaps.
Not likely given automaker desire for vendor lock.
The NRA (I'm a member) defends the Second Amendment.
The ACLU defends all the others.
Unfortunately, we have no group dedicated to defending the entire Constitution because Conberals and Libservatatives insist in picking and choosing the bits they prefer with an eye to disempowering their political opponents.
Either you defend the freedoms of people you don't like, or you aren't defending freedom itself.
Next time I'll vote Demublican!
If the bastards fail me then that proves the Repocrats were right.
There are no "Conservatives" any more who matter. There exist religious fanatics and pimps for big business, and between the two there is plenty of overlap.
It's time to stop regarding "Conservatism" as having any sort of positive contribution to the US beyond the preservation of the Second Amendment, and if Democrats would embrace that Amendment they'd gain massively in the polls. The Cold War is over, the US and China won, and the US has no effective enemies left. "Defense" now only means "perpetual globalist wars" but the Democrats are down with those too so not even the globalists need "Conservatives" as they own both Parties.
Nobody is being "forced". Internet use is voluntary.
Unplug the fucking computer or enforce parental discipline. If your kid gets to do anything it wants it will have much worse issues than seeing a few Cartel or Muslim neck shortenings.
I'd suggest it does. My father's generation fought WWII and many of them grew up on farms which meant killing your own dinner.
They by and large didn't turn into sadists. Death was understood not to be glamorous.