Why the hell SHOULDNT we give you a per capita figure? hmm?.
Because Americans have a natural right to personally pollute more than others? Head buried in the sand much? Perhaps we should therefore hold america up the the emission levels of say New Zealand, because the problem is absolute, right? Lets see: 2014 figures (easily on hand) USA: 6673Mt, New Zealand: 75Mt I hope you are ready to drop your use by 90 times... Hell, why not Fiji? 2.7Mt, I doubt you can have cooking fires by now, but hey, its an ABSOLUTE problem, so I'm sure you wont mind. Better not look at Nauru, or you will all have to stop breathing I suspect.
You just keep thinking that, as china sails past you economically, socially, and at the rate they are researching modern nuclear, environmentally.. Denial is such a wondering thing, isnt it.
And yet nuclear power has killed FAR LESS people than ANY other significant form of power, including wind and solar.. No, you are right, nuclear power is SO dangerous, we had better kneejerk ban it...
After all, the more people killed, the better for the planet, right? right?
It specifically has a motor. In much the same way a jet does. It uses stated charge to accelerate the air instead of heat, however it is still a motor. Just a very inefficient one. A propellor/standard electric motor would have accelerated the air much more efficiently on the same amount of electricity.
That is how an engineer would abs should look at it.
And how do you think the ions are generated? Most of its weight was battery, and yes the flight time was very short. It used to its electrical potential to make the ions.
Ah, but you are not supposed to notice the moving parts in the catapult that launched it;)
And anyway, its far from the first. A water rocket has 'no moving parts' in the same way, and in summer thousands of them get launched by children daily... And they dont need a catapult or a perfectly still air environment.
So, the ticket prices should go up to reflect the increased cost of operation, so then the people using the transport will either stay away, or the employers/retainers will need to adjust to make it worth their effort to travel..
If you just start taxing selected targets to fund it - what has already happened will continue, and that is the 'Other peoples money' problem where operating costs just continue to escalate - which is the real problem here.
If the service would just focus on providing what it is supposed to - transportation as cheaply and efficiently as possible - then they would have little issue.
However, like most similar 'services' they keep adding more and more costs, many of which are actually making customers travel harder, and then they complain about not enough funding.
Excellent, now they can harvest all that vertical wind...
Unfortunately this is not their design, it was designed a long time ago and even tested on a NASA Rover toy..
More unfortunately, itcoversion efficiency, it's mass efficiency AND it's area efficiency all suck, and the idea of a 25cm model generating anything more than trivial power is a joke. A standard self directing propeller is much better efficiency.
It's only 'special' feature is dealing with non horizontal wind, which it does at even lower efficiency and which doesn't exist with any useful level of energy.
It could perhaps be deserving of a high school science fair win.. Maybe. It winning any sorry if international award? If this was the best submission they should have just rolled the award over for next year.
So we need much MOAR yummy juicy goverment PORK deals, because private industry will never be able to supply a working space launch system.
Dont worry you know its a good deal, because its cost+, so we only make a guaranteed profit as a %age of your cost, no matter how badly we run. Also dont worry about the cost blowouts, thats just what it takes to consume quality PORK!
They found that a cyclist is faster than a motorbike. A motorbike can do all the same 'squeeze through spaces' things a bike can (at least within 90%). It is also significantly faster (in the situations where that would count).
So no, the difference is not the ability to split lanes.
That pretty much leaves breaking the law.. Which motorcyclists get pinged for, and bicyclists generally dont..
Perhaps he asked because by his consideration you may have made a sudden and unsignaled change of direction (to swerve around the badly parked truck) and therefore entered the path of the other vehicle in a way that the other driver could not have predicted?
There are few defenses to hitting someone from behind, however that is one, and it would be quite reasonable for him to be asking.
I am of course assuming he asked you why you were driving IN the street, not on the street, since the the second would be a nonsensical question, but hey.
However yes I get it, in your world cyclists are incapable of making mistakes, causing accidents, etc.
I saw one once. Horrific. A cyclist was doing his best 'Tour de France' impersonation coming down a steep windy bit of highway, cut right out into the opposing traffic around a corner (at HIGH speed) and ended up clipping the side of an oncoming bus, and collecting the front of a car (without going under either..) - however died.
The car driver still wont drive.. Thanks to the trauma. It took them over a year to be cleared of the investigation.
I had been doing about 40 mph down the hill when the cyclist had gone around the outside of me (again in the opposing traffic lane) on a straight.
Every weekend the top of the hill is still full of lycra heros doing the same thing.. It seems they consider a public road to be a suitable place for high speed racing...
Watch out, your bias is showing (yes, ALL motorists sit on their smartphones at the front of lights when they go green)
I will match you with an actual anecdote.
Today, a pair of cyclists filtered to the front of the cars at a stop light (nothing wrong with that). Got to the front and decided to form up side by side in front o me (I was at the front, and there was no cycle bay, they were out in the intersection). They then started talking, light turned green, they just chatted away as they didnt bother checking. I gave them a (very short) beep to get their attention, at which point the woman turned around, gave me the bird, and they SLOWLY cycled away blocking the whole road...
And they wonder why cyclists are generally despised.
Not Science... You are asking far FAR too much of such a department (and probably too much of both the administration and a science department also, sadly..).
They should however not be doing this on the basis that there is little or no cost/return benefit over using a standard camera/big screen (ie: video conferencing).
This is just gimmickry.. not the BEST thing to be promoting to business students (or perhaps it is, teach them how to extract money from over-funded universities with BS ideas..)
Actually in the current environment of semi-totalitarian governments looking hard for new bogeymen to scare their middle classes with, there is a huge payout.
Do you not understand that?
Its the same reason there were WMDs in Iraq, until they looked for them. Its the same reason bad people go to Hell in pretty much every religion.
You control people by making them scared of something big they cannot do anything about, but a larger power can..
Yes, and radioactive water also flows out of almost every mountain range in the world? Can you guess why?
Hint: we are VERY good at measuring radiation, VERY good. 2 billion bequerels a day (which is from your linked fright-article) is about the equivalent of around 54 milliCurie. yes, that is why they love to use bequerels?
And many MANY things are radioactive, including basalt.
Actually its the best location on US soil, but hey, if thats what you consider earth...
The Antarctic has some pretty major advantages (and challenges), however has a somewhat restricted view.. Tibet has a few locations that are outstanding.. The Atacama Desert and Equador have some pretty good (better than Hawaii) locations.
However this is a good location, and the people blocking it should be denied medical science, since they want to live without progress.. (Of course thats rarely the locals, they just get caught up in it, its a bunch of nothing-better-to-do whackjobs who travel around trying to block science 'because' )
Why would it be heavier? It only needs to carry the fuel and a refueling mechanism, a replacement needs to carry the fuel and a telescope. I would imagine a refueling mechanism could be quite a bit smaller/lighter..
Except these platforms claim protections given to them as in effect 'common carrier' services - where they claim that it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to vet and control their content. In return they are not responsible for ot prosecuted for that content.
However, they are controlling their content. So, when will they be prosecuted for it?
Part of the requirement for common carrier type protections is to not restrict (legal) use....
unfortunately that may be what you THINK they mean by it, however it is not reflected in how they word the terms. And that is really what matters. these terms will have been written by lawyers, and any wiggle room (for them_) left in there will be intentional. Lawyers work pretty damn hard to be specific where they want to be, and if they leave things vague, it is almost certainly because they want room there.
I suspect the most likely outcome of this would just be for AWS or similar to fork the whole project, and give incentives for developers work work on the fork, rather than license it - if there really is much value.
But, if you think they have specific wording limiting this to such types of use - perhaps you would like to point it out. 'I dont think they would bother enforcing it unless....' is not what is needed here though.
I, for one, am not, and I don't particularly want either super power spying on me, but if I had to choose one... It would be a tough call. The Chinese seems to drone-kill one hell of a lot less foreign nationals for example.
Very much so, this could easily be read as 'anything that provides a service to a user, and accesses mongodb as a backend' ie: 'software that uses mongodb'
Which pretty much means 'run far far away unless you want your WHOLE system to be OSS'
Perhaps thats their intention, however I doubt they have thought it through much..
You havnt been looking around you at the current youth who call themselves 'Liberals' have you.
You know, the ones violently 'opposing' other views, screaming down anyone not in their groupthink, and accusing anyone not virtue signaling strongly enough of being racist, sexist, and any other ist they can think up today - while trying to 'save' the smallest and loudest minority they can find, thinking that increases their personal worth.
I think you will find its THOSE kinds of 'liberals' who are causing others to have such an issue with the word. Which is a great pity, speaking as an actual liberal, as they are almost exactly the opposite of what I believe in.
It appears that the young Neo-liberal believes in THEIR personal freedom, and perhaps their small group of besties - but no one elses.
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Why the hell SHOULDNT we give you a per capita figure? hmm?.
Because Americans have a natural right to personally pollute more than others? Head buried in the sand much?
Perhaps we should therefore hold america up the the emission levels of say New Zealand, because the problem is absolute, right?
Lets see: 2014 figures (easily on hand)
USA: 6673Mt, New Zealand: 75Mt
I hope you are ready to drop your use by 90 times...
Hell, why not Fiji? 2.7Mt,
I doubt you can have cooking fires by now, but hey, its an ABSOLUTE problem, so I'm sure you wont mind.
Better not look at Nauru, or you will all have to stop breathing I suspect.
You just keep thinking that, as china sails past you economically, socially, and at the rate they are researching modern nuclear, environmentally..
Denial is such a wondering thing, isnt it.
And yet nuclear power has killed FAR LESS people than ANY other significant form of power, including wind and solar..
No, you are right, nuclear power is SO dangerous, we had better kneejerk ban it...
After all, the more people killed, the better for the planet, right? right?
Ah.. No.
It specifically has a motor. In much the same way a jet does.
It uses stated charge to accelerate the air instead of heat, however it is still a motor.
Just a very inefficient one. A propellor/standard electric motor would have accelerated the air much more efficiently on the same amount of electricity.
That is how an engineer would abs should look at it.
And how do you think the ions are generated?
Most of its weight was battery, and yes the flight time was very short. It used to its electrical potential to make the ions.
Which, it seems, is very very very inefficient..
Ah, but you are not supposed to notice the moving parts in the catapult that launched it ;)
And anyway, its far from the first.
A water rocket has 'no moving parts' in the same way, and in summer thousands of them get launched by children daily...
And they dont need a catapult or a perfectly still air environment.
So no, hardly the first.
So, the ticket prices should go up to reflect the increased cost of operation, so then the people using the transport will either stay away, or the employers/retainers will need to adjust to make it worth their effort to travel..
If you just start taxing selected targets to fund it - what has already happened will continue, and that is the 'Other peoples money' problem where operating costs just continue to escalate - which is the real problem here.
If the service would just focus on providing what it is supposed to - transportation as cheaply and efficiently as possible - then they would have little issue.
However, like most similar 'services' they keep adding more and more costs, many of which are actually making customers travel harder, and then they complain about not enough funding.
Excellent, now they can harvest all that vertical wind...
Unfortunately this is not their design, it was designed a long time ago and even tested on a NASA Rover toy..
More unfortunately, itcoversion efficiency, it's mass efficiency AND it's area efficiency all suck, and the idea of a 25cm model generating anything more than trivial power is a joke. A standard self directing propeller is much better efficiency.
It's only 'special' feature is dealing with non horizontal wind, which it does at even lower efficiency and which doesn't exist with any useful level of energy.
It could perhaps be deserving of a high school science fair win.. Maybe.
It winning any sorry if international award? If this was the best submission they should have just rolled the award over for next year.
So we need much MOAR yummy juicy goverment PORK deals, because private industry will never be able to supply a working space launch system.
Dont worry you know its a good deal, because its cost+, so we only make a guaranteed profit as a %age of your cost, no matter how badly we run.
Also dont worry about the cost blowouts, thats just what it takes to consume quality PORK!
Signed: ULA.
They found that a cyclist is faster than a motorbike.
A motorbike can do all the same 'squeeze through spaces' things a bike can (at least within 90%).
It is also significantly faster (in the situations where that would count).
So no, the difference is not the ability to split lanes.
That pretty much leaves breaking the law.. Which motorcyclists get pinged for, and bicyclists generally dont..
No problem..
Perhaps he asked because by his consideration you may have made a sudden and unsignaled change of direction (to swerve around the badly parked truck) and therefore entered the path of the other vehicle in a way that the other driver could not have predicted?
There are few defenses to hitting someone from behind, however that is one, and it would be quite reasonable for him to be asking.
I am of course assuming he asked you why you were driving IN the street, not on the street, since the the second would be a nonsensical question, but hey.
However yes I get it, in your world cyclists are incapable of making mistakes, causing accidents, etc.
I saw one once. Horrific. A cyclist was doing his best 'Tour de France' impersonation coming down a steep windy bit of highway, cut right out into the opposing traffic around a corner (at HIGH speed) and ended up clipping the side of an oncoming bus, and collecting the front of a car (without going under either..) - however died.
The car driver still wont drive.. Thanks to the trauma.
It took them over a year to be cleared of the investigation.
I had been doing about 40 mph down the hill when the cyclist had gone around the outside of me (again in the opposing traffic lane) on a straight.
Every weekend the top of the hill is still full of lycra heros doing the same thing.. It seems they consider a public road to be a suitable place for high speed racing...
Watch out, your bias is showing (yes, ALL motorists sit on their smartphones at the front of lights when they go green)
I will match you with an actual anecdote.
Today, a pair of cyclists filtered to the front of the cars at a stop light (nothing wrong with that).
Got to the front and decided to form up side by side in front o me (I was at the front, and there was no cycle bay, they were out in the intersection).
They then started talking, light turned green, they just chatted away as they didnt bother checking.
I gave them a (very short) beep to get their attention, at which point the woman turned around, gave me the bird, and they SLOWLY cycled
away blocking the whole road...
And they wonder why cyclists are generally despised.
Not Science... You are asking far FAR too much of such a department (and probably too much of both the administration and a science department also, sadly..).
They should however not be doing this on the basis that there is little or no cost/return benefit over using a standard camera/big screen (ie: video conferencing).
This is just gimmickry.. not the BEST thing to be promoting to business students (or perhaps it is, teach them how to extract money from over-funded universities with BS ideas..)
Actually in the current environment of semi-totalitarian governments looking hard for new bogeymen to scare their middle classes with, there is a huge payout.
Do you not understand that?
Its the same reason there were WMDs in Iraq, until they looked for them.
Its the same reason bad people go to Hell in pretty much every religion.
You control people by making them scared of something big they cannot do anything about, but a larger power can..
Yes, and radioactive water also flows out of almost every mountain range in the world?
Can you guess why?
Hint: we are VERY good at measuring radiation, VERY good.
2 billion bequerels a day (which is from your linked fright-article) is about the equivalent of around 54 milliCurie.
yes, that is why they love to use bequerels?
And many MANY things are radioactive, including basalt.
Actually its the best location on US soil, but hey, if thats what you consider earth...
The Antarctic has some pretty major advantages (and challenges), however has a somewhat restricted view..
Tibet has a few locations that are outstanding..
The Atacama Desert and Equador have some pretty good (better than Hawaii) locations.
However this is a good location, and the people blocking it should be denied medical science, since they want to live without progress..
(Of course thats rarely the locals, they just get caught up in it, its a bunch of nothing-better-to-do whackjobs who travel around trying to block science 'because' )
Why would it be heavier?
It only needs to carry the fuel and a refueling mechanism, a replacement needs to carry the fuel and a telescope. I would imagine a refueling mechanism could be quite a bit smaller/lighter..
Except these platforms claim protections given to them as in effect 'common carrier' services - where they claim that it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to vet and control their content.
In return they are not responsible for ot prosecuted for that content.
However, they are controlling their content.
So, when will they be prosecuted for it?
Part of the requirement for common carrier type protections is to not restrict (legal) use....
I say 'Congratulations, you have just proven yourself to be racist, and sexist', and I'm not even white.
BTW, you continue to live in America - so stop trying to signal virtue, its like smoking a cigar while explaining to children how to live healthy..
Hard solid facts tell US the US has actively intercepted most of the worlds internet usage.
'Sources' also told you about WMDs in a country you them bombed into the stoneage, from memory.
Do you mean -1 shilling?
unfortunately that may be what you THINK they mean by it, however it is not reflected in how they word the terms.
And that is really what matters.
these terms will have been written by lawyers, and any wiggle room (for them_) left in there will be intentional.
Lawyers work pretty damn hard to be specific where they want to be, and if they leave things vague, it is almost certainly because they want room there.
I suspect the most likely outcome of this would just be for AWS or similar to fork the whole project, and give incentives for developers work work on the fork, rather than license it - if there really is much value.
But, if you think they have specific wording limiting this to such types of use - perhaps you would like to point it out.
'I dont think they would bother enforcing it unless....' is not what is needed here though.
Who on earth said they were American?
I, for one, am not, and I don't particularly want either super power spying on me, but if I had to choose one... It would be a tough call.
The Chinese seems to drone-kill one hell of a lot less foreign nationals for example.
Very much so, this could easily be read as 'anything that provides a service to a user, and accesses mongodb as a backend'
ie: 'software that uses mongodb'
Which pretty much means 'run far far away unless you want your WHOLE system to be OSS'
Perhaps thats their intention, however I doubt they have thought it through much..
Most of them have business degrees, with a smattering of STEM exposure.
VERY few of them are actually particularly technical.
They wave that flag around a lot, but no, they are almost always business/management majors.
You havnt been looking around you at the current youth who call themselves 'Liberals' have you.
You know, the ones violently 'opposing' other views, screaming down anyone not in their groupthink, and accusing anyone not virtue signaling strongly enough of being racist, sexist, and any other ist they can think up today - while trying to 'save' the smallest and loudest minority they can find, thinking that increases their personal worth.
I think you will find its THOSE kinds of 'liberals' who are causing others to have such an issue with the word.
Which is a great pity, speaking as an actual liberal, as they are almost exactly the opposite of what I believe in.
It appears that the young Neo-liberal believes in THEIR personal freedom, and perhaps their small group of besties - but no one elses.