For these people, I fully approve of skipping the vaccine. That's what herd immunity is for. However, it needs to be an actual medical condition and not "I'm not vaccinating my kids because they have Jenny-McCarthy-itis."
Then the question has to be... "or else what?"
So lets say that someone doesn't want it, just because... You don't approve of that, fair enough, but most people don't give a crap what you think.
Do you plan to try and use force? Strap people to tables against their will and inject them anyway?
Or else what should be let them get the disease, but they rarely do thanks to the herd which reinforces to them how they aren't needed.
Maybe not free but when they advertise unlimited data and I pay for unlimited data. I want unlimited fucking data, or at least a high enough limit that unless I'm properly taking the piss I ain't gunna hit.
This payload was light enough, and the upgraded F9 grunty enough, that it could do it, but larger payloads will require an ocean landing.
A barge landing can use the atmosphere for braking, but that means that you re-enter halfway across the Atlantic. Returning to the launch site takes a honking great boost-back maneuver.
What they should do is stick some flip out wings on it so it use it's own velocity to turn around, glide back then pull vertical to shed a massive chuck of energy before landing. I'm very much thinking of thunderbird one here.
You burn a lot of energy to send the rocket at high velocity in one direction,
then you have to burn more energy to stop it from moving it in that direction,
then you have to burn even more energy to get it moving in the other direction,
then you have to burn yet more energy to get it to stop moving again.
The sea platform landing only has the first two energy burns, so should represent a substantial increase in payload or delta-v. You'd better have a damn good reason to want your rocket back at the launch site that quickly to justify the additional fuel cost. I suspect returning to the launch site will be the exception, and the sea platform landing will be the norm.
And the last one because well, you don't want it landing at terminal velocity. It has to stop as it's hitting the ground. And probably at least a bit of the third unless the landing platform is on the exact trajectory the thing is going. I doubt it's gliding ability is up to much. Anyway, it's their energy, let them spend it how they want. What about the offset of energy to get the barge where it needs to be, when it needs to be there and get it back with a huge rocket standing on it? I don't know how much rocket fuel cost compared to barge fuel but you also get a nice static area to put down rather than one bobbing up and down and rocking like things at sea are known to do.
Except they don't "owe" it. They pay 100% of the taxes they owe.
Now, if you think that Apple is paying too little tax then you should lobby for changes to our tax laws (and they desperately need to be overhauled!), but Apple is completely in the right here.
If you have more money than apple et al you might get somewhere with that, but otherwise you might as well go shout at a wall. What they do is technically legal, a far cry from completely in the right.
They cheat by transferring the profits to countries with low taxes. It's disgusting behaviour.
Is your behavior disgusting when you buy your food from the store that offers it at the lowest price? Are you being disgusting when you shop around to find the airline which offers you the lowest fare for the family vacation you're planning? Are you disgusting when you buy your car from the dealer which gives you the best deal, even if he's out of town? Taxes are a cost of doing business, and it's perfectly reasonable to shop around for the forum that gives you the best deal.
Are you insane? Tax isn't like groceries or any other product. You pay your fucking taxes. Do people for example, say 'well income tax is 5% in country x but it's 20% where I live. I know. I'll get paid in that country and buy all my stuff from there but have it all here" it doesn't work like that, and rightly so. Companies shouldn't be allowed to set up an office that no one works in in a country with low tax and transfer all their profits there by renting their name from themselves for amounts that, wouldn't you know it, just happen to match up to their taxable income which is now zero or close to. Or any of the other tricks ranging from a bit shady to outright ludicrous.
In addition, none of the tax paid to these other countries helps your country it just leaves your country worse off and there's better. But hey, who cares? You got yours, right?
There's a reason Luxembourg has more companies than people.
"for failing to disconnect subscribers accused of online piracy." So what happened to the whole innocent until proven guilty and all that? Why do they expect to be able to take action against people based on accusations?
Puts a wind farm a mile from your house....
I am sure all the cynics and comedians here would to love have about a dozen of these 300 ft. tall monsters... roaring in the background behind their home.
But as long as they're somewhere else that's fine, right? Anywhere else just not where you can see them.
And when single player games that are paid for and downloaded can't be played without a monthly fee and there's no rioting in the streets?
What game's that then? I've got an xbox not a playstation but there isn't a game I'm aware of that requires a full subscription for single play, some will require an internet connection sure but you'll only be blocked out of multiplayer portions on a free account.
funny thing that... if no-one has guns, they're pretty hard to steal.
Funny that, in the UK they banned guns and yet the criminals still had no problem acquiring them from outside sources. It is even more useless when a city or state tries to ban guns. In no place that has "banned" guns is there a lack of guns for criminals.
Criminals with guns are rare, criminals with working guns are very rare and criminals with working guns that have ammunition are rarer still.
Funny - it didn't help San Bernardino. As far as I can tell, all those mass shootings happened in places with Gun Control, right?
So, when was the last time you heard of a shooting stopped by an armed civilian rather than after a big shootout with police? I mean a proper (for want of a better word) shooting that would have happened regardless of laws not ones that wouldn't have happened had no one had a gun to begin with? Serious question, because if it happens we never hear of it outside the us.
Look. Listen. If a pirate wanted to pay for it he wouldn't steal it in the first place. Don't fall for this mouthy group's agenda. It's like try to say I should let shoplifters get away with it since they are my best customers. Yeah, right. It keeps me buying ammo is what it does.
Get it through your fucking skull that copying is not the same as stealing. If it was then telling you you're an idiot is the same as shooting you in the face. Especially as that seems to be your preferred method.
But Apple offers their own free, ad-supported music streaming service, iTunes Radio. According to a quick Google search, it's more popular than Spotify -- which I find hard to believe, but several sites make the claim.
It's probably de facto installed with iTunes and they count every installation rather than use. Probably bundled with safari and quicktime too.
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For these people, I fully approve of skipping the vaccine. That's what herd immunity is for. However, it needs to be an actual medical condition and not "I'm not vaccinating my kids because they have Jenny-McCarthy-itis."
Then the question has to be... "or else what?"
So lets say that someone doesn't want it, just because... You don't approve of that, fair enough, but most people don't give a crap what you think.
Do you plan to try and use force? Strap people to tables against their will and inject them anyway?
Or else what should be let them get the disease, but they rarely do thanks to the herd which reinforces to them how they aren't needed.
Or at least, see if there's any small furry creatures living there.
Beware of the Leopard
Waah. I want unlimited data for FREE!!!
Want! WANT!!! WANT!!!!!
Maybe not free but when they advertise unlimited data and I pay for unlimited data. I want unlimited fucking data, or at least a high enough limit that unless I'm properly taking the piss I ain't gunna hit.
South Pole: low temperature survivable with heavy jacket. Moon: Bzzt.
Yeah, you try walking around the south pole with just a heavy jacket and see how long you last.
Really? Do you cheer when an airplane lands too?
They probably did the first time.
The reason that a carrier landing is harder is because the runway is shorter.
And moving,
And not lined up with the direction of travel of the ship.
Hooks negate the shortness, and reheat gets you back up if you miss the hooks.
This payload was light enough, and the upgraded F9 grunty enough, that it could do it, but larger payloads will require an ocean landing.
A barge landing can use the atmosphere for braking, but that means that you re-enter halfway across the Atlantic. Returning to the launch site takes a honking great boost-back maneuver.
What they should do is stick some flip out wings on it so it use it's own velocity to turn around, glide back then pull vertical to shed a massive chuck of energy before landing. I'm very much thinking of thunderbird one here.
You burn a lot of energy to send the rocket at high velocity in one direction,
then you have to burn more energy to stop it from moving it in that direction,
then you have to burn even more energy to get it moving in the other direction,
then you have to burn yet more energy to get it to stop moving again.
The sea platform landing only has the first two energy burns, so should represent a substantial increase in payload or delta-v. You'd better have a damn good reason to want your rocket back at the launch site that quickly to justify the additional fuel cost. I suspect returning to the launch site will be the exception, and the sea platform landing will be the norm.
And the last one because well, you don't want it landing at terminal velocity. It has to stop as it's hitting the ground. And probably at least a bit of the third unless the landing platform is on the exact trajectory the thing is going. I doubt it's gliding ability is up to much. Anyway, it's their energy, let them spend it how they want. What about the offset of energy to get the barge where it needs to be, when it needs to be there and get it back with a huge rocket standing on it? I don't know how much rocket fuel cost compared to barge fuel but you also get a nice static area to put down rather than one bobbing up and down and rocking like things at sea are known to do.
Apple also doesn't offshore their IP.
Designed in California
Made in China
Except they don't "owe" it. They pay 100% of the taxes they owe.
Now, if you think that Apple is paying too little tax then you should lobby for changes to our tax laws (and they desperately need to be overhauled!), but Apple is completely in the right here.
If you have more money than apple et al you might get somewhere with that, but otherwise you might as well go shout at a wall. What they do is technically legal, a far cry from completely in the right.
They cheat by transferring the profits to countries with low taxes. It's disgusting behaviour.
Is your behavior disgusting when you buy your food from the store that offers it at the lowest price? Are you being disgusting when you shop around to find the airline which offers you the lowest fare for the family vacation you're planning? Are you disgusting when you buy your car from the dealer which gives you the best deal, even if he's out of town? Taxes are a cost of doing business, and it's perfectly reasonable to shop around for the forum that gives you the best deal.
Are you insane? Tax isn't like groceries or any other product. You pay your fucking taxes. Do people for example, say 'well income tax is 5% in country x but it's 20% where I live. I know. I'll get paid in that country and buy all my stuff from there but have it all here" it doesn't work like that, and rightly so. Companies shouldn't be allowed to set up an office that no one works in in a country with low tax and transfer all their profits there by renting their name from themselves for amounts that, wouldn't you know it, just happen to match up to their taxable income which is now zero or close to. Or any of the other tricks ranging from a bit shady to outright ludicrous.
In addition, none of the tax paid to these other countries helps your country it just leaves your country worse off and there's better. But hey, who cares? You got yours, right?
There's a reason Luxembourg has more companies than people.
"for failing to disconnect subscribers accused of online piracy." So what happened to the whole innocent until proven guilty and all that? Why do they expect to be able to take action against people based on accusations?
Puts a wind farm a mile from your house.... I am sure all the cynics and comedians here would to love have about a dozen of these 300 ft. tall monsters... roaring in the background behind their home.
But as long as they're somewhere else that's fine, right? Anywhere else just not where you can see them.
You're not saying it right, he's Scottish, so he's Trrrrrrump.
Trump is NOT a true Scottsman. He's at best a wannabe.
Nobody wants to be Scottish, the Scottish only accept it to piss off the English.
And when single player games that are paid for and downloaded can't be played without a monthly fee and there's no rioting in the streets?
What game's that then? I've got an xbox not a playstation but there isn't a game I'm aware of that requires a full subscription for single play, some will require an internet connection sure but you'll only be blocked out of multiplayer portions on a free account.
funny thing that... if no-one has guns, they're pretty hard to steal.
Funny that, in the UK they banned guns and yet the criminals still had no problem acquiring them from outside sources. It is even more useless when a city or state tries to ban guns. In no place that has "banned" guns is there a lack of guns for criminals.
Criminals with guns are rare, criminals with working guns are very rare and criminals with working guns that have ammunition are rarer still.
If a president told them "eliminate ISIS, I really don't care how and I'll back you" they could probably get it done.
They probably could, and probably create 10 more similar groups in the process.
The only thing that would help is gun control.
Funny - it didn't help San Bernardino. As far as I can tell, all those mass shootings happened in places with Gun Control, right?
So, when was the last time you heard of a shooting stopped by an armed civilian rather than after a big shootout with police? I mean a proper (for want of a better word) shooting that would have happened regardless of laws not ones that wouldn't have happened had no one had a gun to begin with? Serious question, because if it happens we never hear of it outside the us.
The Gulf War clearly showed that stealth technology was clearly not needed.
Not needed after they went in the first night and blew up all the radar stations and C&C you mean.
I thought they were just a voice activated lmgtfy.
That's the whole root of the problem. Some people can only see the profit.
The guy I quoted said that.
Pirates OOOooo
Look. Listen. If a pirate wanted to pay for it he wouldn't steal it in the first place. Don't fall for this mouthy group's agenda. It's like try to say I should let shoplifters get away with it since they are my best customers. Yeah, right. It keeps me buying ammo is what it does.
Get it through your fucking skull that copying is not the same as stealing. If it was then telling you you're an idiot is the same as shooting you in the face. Especially as that seems to be your preferred method.
The MPAA and RIAA have no visible interest in changing.
Of course they do. As long and the change gets them more money for less work.
But Apple offers their own free, ad-supported music streaming service, iTunes Radio. According to a quick Google search, it's more popular than Spotify -- which I find hard to believe, but several sites make the claim.
It's probably de facto installed with iTunes and they count every installation rather than use. Probably bundled with safari and quicktime too.