The discussions on the F35 often center around its capabilities as a fighter. I think it is important to remember that neither the Navy nor the Marine core want a plane that is primarily a fighter. Most previous jets in service for the Navy and Marine's have been designed as fighters for the Air Force and have been repurposed. The Air Force already has a air-superioirty fighter in the F22. With the F35 the Air Force for the first time has had to make some concessions and the result the Navy and Marine's are getting a jet that is vastly more capable for their needs than the repurposed fighters they have had in the past
The Chinese are, seriously. Yes, this would only be in response to certain types of actions in NK, notably appearing to be trying to reunify with SK, but the Chinese have a contingency plan for that possibility, bank on it.
Also, NK doesn't really know that we won't attack them. They know we CAN win a war with them, possibly even if the Chinese rush to their defense, they really only have the deterrent of massive civilian casualties in SK. The problem with a democracy is some who want to invade your country just might be elected, so you can never be sure.
NK has been nothing but a thorn on China's behind. Its clandestine weapons programs and erratic behavior are giving the U.S a very good excuse to deploy Missile defense systems to SK which would blunt the perceived threat posed by China's own missiles just as China is trying to asserts its dominance over the region. The attempt to assertion of dominance also implies that China feels that its military is quite capable of taking on its foes and unlikely to view the NK as necessary buffer from attack. With reunification the U.S would no longer have a good reason for its large military presence in Korea. South Korea would be burdened for decades with the massive reconstruction effort needed to rebuild the North and military spending is likely to shrink. In the long term a Unified Korea is still nowhere near the size of the Chinese juggernaut.
I'm not a math major, but I would like to know how many parking spots will a 20 megaton US nuclear bomb yield?
The US doesn't have any 20 megaton bombs. The last weapons in that range were decommissioned 40 years ago. Most US strategic warheads are 200KT or less. That is still 10 Nagasakis, but only 1% of 20MT. Nuclear arsenals today are vastly smaller than they were at the height of the cold war.
As a weapon of sheer terror the 50 Megaton Tzar bomba is, well Tzar. As far as actual destruction goes most of the energy of a air-blast actually goes up into space rather then to the ground. If your target is a sprawling city rather then a fortified bunker a large number of smaller warheads will do more damage to your target then a larger bomb. Today's ICBM's are designed to carry multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles , each of which carries a separate nuclear warhead
There is no real risk of a nuclear strike coming out of NK. The real deterrent they have is the massed conventional artillery pointed at Seuol. Any attack on NK would have to be so overwhelming as to destroy the artillery in a minute. If not millions of civilians die.
Nobody is seriously considering a first strike on North Korea. All their bolstering about their enemies threatening attack is for domestic consumption. With the new sanctions imposed life in North Korea is about to get even harder and injecting a new dose of fear in the populace helps to keep them under control. The truth is that what South Korea fears as well as China fear most is a rapid collapse of the regime and millions of immigrants making a mad-dash for the borders
North Korea is now all-in on their nuclear-weapons gambit. What North Korea's endgame might be remains unknown, least of all to its young, inexperienced leader Kim Jong UnKim
Sony has sold nearly double the PS4 consoles worldwide then Microsoft's Xbox one. This puts Microsoft at a huge disadvantage when it comes to getting exclusive titles. Sony has a much higher number of 3'd party exclusives which in tern help it sell even more consoles. The only way Microsoft can get exclusives is by buying development-studios which it has done several times, or offering money-loosing sweetheart deals. By bringing PC's in the Xbox ecosystem Microsoft can add 100Million+ gaming-capable PC's to the number of potential customers. Of course this depends on how successfully Microsoft can unify development for the different platforms. The Xbox ones super-fast cache memory and slow main-memory makes it a rather unique architecture which poses challenges to unified code. The control system is also a very large headache. There is no easy way unify controller/TV to mouse/keyboard/monitor. Most ports to PC from consoles suffer with terrible controls and many practically require a game-controller to be actually be enjoyable by anyone but a masochist. Microsoft could take the easy route and simply sell its controllers at give-away prices but most PC gamer's still prefer the precision, freedom and customization of the keyboard, mouse combo and might simply avoid those titles
There isn't a single manufacturer that has any sort of a road-map for a 20-25 years time-span. When the manufacturers themselves don't even have the faintest of plans laid down, this prediction of where the market will be heading is a wild speculation at best
Considering that we ourselves have not even begun attempting to colonize our own solar system, I find the notion that a sufficiently advanced society is bound to spread across a galaxy like fire ant colonies, almost laughable.
It would be trivial for Apple to disable all IPSW image installations without a unlock code making what the FBI requested technically impossible, however if the FBI were to prevail in court the Judiciary is likely to take a dim view of Apples actions
ive been a samsung fan for a few generations now however I personally am looking forwards to the LG G5. They are giving us a removable battery whereas samsung has decided we dont want it ( I blame tech journalists who wants smaller and smaller handsets) Same chip as this phone but more versatile IMO
Removable batteries come with the trade-off of a bulkier device and/or reduced battery capacity. The G5 is slightly larger then the S7 (149.4 x 73.9 x 7.7mm vs 142.4 x 69.9 x 7.9mm) , slightly heavier (159g vs 152g) and has a battery that holds a slightly lower charge (2800mAh vs 3000mAh). Personally I prefer a sleeker device with a higher battery capacity to removable batteries. Fortunately unlike the IOS ecosystem, Android is a open platform and there is a plethora of devices out there to satisfy most anyones needs and budgets
The gender pay gap in today advance societies can largely be attributed to men generally being more aggressive when it comes to negotiations, be it the pricing of wares on ebay or negotiations on salary, raises or contracts. Aggressive tactics do come with risk and women seems to be more averse to risk then men. Youtube videos of people hurting themselves with ill-advised acts are largely men. As the saying goes No Guts, No Glory, thou much of the time the quest for Glory end with a rather painful punch to the gut
From what I understand the Judge specifically instructed Apple to provide the FBI with a custom IPSW image to aid their efforts. Iphones will install any singed IPSW for which apple still providing the keys thru its network. IPhones have no mechanism to disable the installation of signed images. It remains unclear how much the FBI or Apple can tamper with secure enclave from root but having remote root shell access definitely opens up avenues of attack.
The brain uses a complex risk/reward/loss model to figure out whether to cheat. When reaping the benefits of a previous victory, those rewards now go in the model in the loss column as well as the rewards column. Because of people's tendency to loss aversion the model gets skewed towards cheating more so than for people that only have the benefits in the rewards category of the model
I would not buy a phone without a microSD slot, and the Nexus line fails by not including such an essential feature.
But, more important than that: Google definitely should put more pressure on manufacturers and carriers to keep the phones' OS updated for longer.
One persons essential features are another's rarely used amenities. Features such as microSD slots or removable batteries take space and as such they come with the trade-offs of added bulk or smaller battery. Fortunately unlike apple's iPhone family the android ecosystem is open and there are a plethora of devices out there to satisfy most peoples needs and budgets
It's a right to own a gun, not to be a gun dealer. There is also no constitutional right that buying a gun has to be easy. Subtle but important difference.
Liberals decry restrictions the GOP dreams up on abortions designed to make it hard or impossible to use one's Constitutional right to Choice but applaud any restrictions the Democrats dream up on doing the same to the Constitutional right to gun ownership. The inverse is true for Conservatives. What is even more amusing is that each side recognizes the Supreme Courts right to interpret the constitution when it has ruled for them and slam it when is has ruled against them. Only the Supreme Court has the Constitutional right to judge what is a "14th amendment protection" and what "well organized militia" means on the 2nd
Some US states have retail energy markets, where they can shop for the energy portion of their bill. The transmission and distribution is through the utility. What is cropping up more and more are companies seeking regulatory bailouts for generation plants even in markets where they receive capacity payments.
I live in NY which has a deregulated market. Out of curiosity I just checked the rates of every ESCO provider and out of 35+ only a handful had better rates than the distribution company for either regular or green energy, variable or long term. I suspected as much because despite being on the NO call registry I regularly get calls from ESCO salespeople which never identify whom they are working for or provide information on pricing or terms, instead they make it sound as they are from the distribution company and are informing me I could be saving money if I sign up for a program. I have had even a few of them show up at my door asking to look at my bill so they could get the account number.
Cuba is still a very oppressive place to live. Why are we rewarding that behavior?
While the sanctions were successful in keeping Cuba weak and underdeveloped, with the USSR long gone Communism and Cuba are no longer credible threats. The Cuban regime has been largely successful at squashing decent and there is no credible opposition we could back instead. The continuation of the Collective-punishment in the form of trade sanctions are really nothing more than feel good measures when it comes to easing oppression. Sanctions are not successful at toppling or compelling a repressive regime to improve conditions. Even the economic impact of lifting sanctions is likely to be small considering how unlikely it is for the Cuban government to quickly open up its markets or welcome a large number foreign investments
I'd love to see you try to prove that. But you can't, so you won't, because that is patently false.
more than %90 of the staples crops corn and soy are GMO. High fructose corn syrup alone is in the majority of products on a supermarket shelf.
Trends in GE Adoption
If we weren't tricked into buying it because it's not labeled, that might help a bit. The deception alone is enough to ruin trust, and then how do we know this study refuting the other studies aren't again, manipulated by the pro-GMO side?
Whether someone chooses GMO or not based on health reasons, philosophical ones, or simply just to save the small farmers from the big Farm Corporations, we ought to have that choice. Having that choice removed through deception and treachery won't win any confidence.
When the majority of products on supermarkets shelves contain GMO's why in the world does it make sense to label those as GMO, when you can simply label the few that don't as GMO Free
That's the huge difference in scale we're talking about when comparing these technologies. How many people died installing and maintaining all those PV installations throughout the world? If it's more than 1/6th what Fukushima killed, then PV solar in regular operation kills more people than half-century-old nuclear technology on its worst day.
It is not about the actual number of people killed, rather the threat your average person feels from the technology. To your average person not involved in construction or maintenance, the threat posed by PV/Turbines is negligible, meanwhile average people living withing several miles from nuclear reactors fear the release of radioactive material.
Studies on centennials have found they don't live particularly healthy lifestyles. Many ate unhealthy diets, some drank alcohol and a few were even life-long smokers. The strongest correlation they could find among them was the number of centennials in their own family history. In other words, living a very long life mostly comes down to your genes.
After 3 years of using my High end Sony Smart TV for internet video streaming, I bought a Stream Box because the TV's software was never updated and some services like YouTube actually stopped functioning because of end of support for whatever streaming method the device was using.Someone really needs to explain to Executives at TV manufacturers than nobody goes out to Replace a TV just so the SmartTV functions can get updated. Not when one can go buy a stream Device for a fraction of the price and get updates and a much better interface and function.
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The discussions on the F35 often center around its capabilities as a fighter. I think it is important to remember that neither the Navy nor the Marine core want a plane that is primarily a fighter. Most previous jets in service for the Navy and Marine's have been designed as fighters for the Air Force and have been repurposed. The Air Force already has a air-superioirty fighter in the F22. With the F35 the Air Force for the first time has had to make some concessions and the result the Navy and Marine's are getting a jet that is vastly more capable for their needs than the repurposed fighters they have had in the past
The Chinese are, seriously. Yes, this would only be in response to certain types of actions in NK, notably appearing to be trying to reunify with SK, but the Chinese have a contingency plan for that possibility, bank on it. Also, NK doesn't really know that we won't attack them. They know we CAN win a war with them, possibly even if the Chinese rush to their defense, they really only have the deterrent of massive civilian casualties in SK. The problem with a democracy is some who want to invade your country just might be elected, so you can never be sure.
NK has been nothing but a thorn on China's behind. Its clandestine weapons programs and erratic behavior are giving the U.S a very good excuse to deploy Missile defense systems to SK which would blunt the perceived threat posed by China's own missiles just as China is trying to asserts its dominance over the region. The attempt to assertion of dominance also implies that China feels that its military is quite capable of taking on its foes and unlikely to view the NK as necessary buffer from attack. With reunification the U.S would no longer have a good reason for its large military presence in Korea. South Korea would be burdened for decades with the massive reconstruction effort needed to rebuild the North and military spending is likely to shrink. In the long term a Unified Korea is still nowhere near the size of the Chinese juggernaut.
I'm not a math major, but I would like to know how many parking spots will a 20 megaton US nuclear bomb yield?
The US doesn't have any 20 megaton bombs. The last weapons in that range were decommissioned 40 years ago. Most US strategic warheads are 200KT or less. That is still 10 Nagasakis, but only 1% of 20MT. Nuclear arsenals today are vastly smaller than they were at the height of the cold war.
As a weapon of sheer terror the 50 Megaton Tzar bomba is, well Tzar. As far as actual destruction goes most of the energy of a air-blast actually goes up into space rather then to the ground. If your target is a sprawling city rather then a fortified bunker a large number of smaller warheads will do more damage to your target then a larger bomb. Today's ICBM's are designed to carry multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles , each of which carries a separate nuclear warhead
There is no real risk of a nuclear strike coming out of NK. The real deterrent they have is the massed conventional artillery pointed at Seuol. Any attack on NK would have to be so overwhelming as to destroy the artillery in a minute. If not millions of civilians die.
Nobody is seriously considering a first strike on North Korea. All their bolstering about their enemies threatening attack is for domestic consumption. With the new sanctions imposed life in North Korea is about to get even harder and injecting a new dose of fear in the populace helps to keep them under control. The truth is that what South Korea fears as well as China fear most is a rapid collapse of the regime and millions of immigrants making a mad-dash for the borders
North Korea is now all-in on their nuclear-weapons gambit. What North Korea's endgame might be remains unknown, least of all to its young, inexperienced leader Kim Jong UnKim
Sony has sold nearly double the PS4 consoles worldwide then Microsoft's Xbox one. This puts Microsoft at a huge disadvantage when it comes to getting exclusive titles. Sony has a much higher number of 3'd party exclusives which in tern help it sell even more consoles. The only way Microsoft can get exclusives is by buying development-studios which it has done several times, or offering money-loosing sweetheart deals. By bringing PC's in the Xbox ecosystem Microsoft can add 100Million+ gaming-capable PC's to the number of potential customers. Of course this depends on how successfully Microsoft can unify development for the different platforms. The Xbox ones super-fast cache memory and slow main-memory makes it a rather unique architecture which poses challenges to unified code. The control system is also a very large headache. There is no easy way unify controller/TV to mouse/keyboard/monitor. Most ports to PC from consoles suffer with terrible controls and many practically require a game-controller to be actually be enjoyable by anyone but a masochist. Microsoft could take the easy route and simply sell its controllers at give-away prices but most PC gamer's still prefer the precision, freedom and customization of the keyboard, mouse combo and might simply avoid those titles
There isn't a single manufacturer that has any sort of a road-map for a 20-25 years time-span. When the manufacturers themselves don't even have the faintest of plans laid down, this prediction of where the market will be heading is a wild speculation at best
And this model is infallible just like the hundreds of thousands of computer models before it. GIGO Garbage in garbage out.
GIGO is like multiplication by 0. If any of your input data or model parameters is Garbage then you will always end up with Garbage
Considering that we ourselves have not even begun attempting to colonize our own solar system, I find the notion that a sufficiently advanced society is bound to spread across a galaxy like fire ant colonies, almost laughable.
It would be trivial for Apple to disable all IPSW image installations without a unlock code making what the FBI requested technically impossible, however if the FBI were to prevail in court the Judiciary is likely to take a dim view of Apples actions
ive been a samsung fan for a few generations now however I personally am looking forwards to the LG G5. They are giving us a removable battery whereas samsung has decided we dont want it ( I blame tech journalists who wants smaller and smaller handsets) Same chip as this phone but more versatile IMO
Removable batteries come with the trade-off of a bulkier device and/or reduced battery capacity. The G5 is slightly larger then the S7 (149.4 x 73.9 x 7.7mm vs 142.4 x 69.9 x 7.9mm) , slightly heavier (159g vs 152g) and has a battery that holds a slightly lower charge (2800mAh vs 3000mAh). Personally I prefer a sleeker device with a higher battery capacity to removable batteries. Fortunately unlike the IOS ecosystem, Android is a open platform and there is a plethora of devices out there to satisfy most anyones needs and budgets
The gender pay gap in today advance societies can largely be attributed to men generally being more aggressive when it comes to negotiations, be it the pricing of wares on ebay or negotiations on salary, raises or contracts. Aggressive tactics do come with risk and women seems to be more averse to risk then men. Youtube videos of people hurting themselves with ill-advised acts are largely men. As the saying goes No Guts, No Glory, thou much of the time the quest for Glory end with a rather painful punch to the gut
From what I understand the Judge specifically instructed Apple to provide the FBI with a custom IPSW image to aid their efforts. Iphones will install any singed IPSW for which apple still providing the keys thru its network. IPhones have no mechanism to disable the installation of signed images. It remains unclear how much the FBI or Apple can tamper with secure enclave from root but having remote root shell access definitely opens up avenues of attack.
The brain uses a complex risk/reward/loss model to figure out whether to cheat. When reaping the benefits of a previous victory, those rewards now go in the model in the loss column as well as the rewards column. Because of people's tendency to loss aversion the model gets skewed towards cheating more so than for people that only have the benefits in the rewards category of the model
I would not buy a phone without a microSD slot, and the Nexus line fails by not including such an essential feature.
But, more important than that: Google definitely should put more pressure on manufacturers and carriers to keep the phones' OS updated for longer.
One persons essential features are another's rarely used amenities. Features such as microSD slots or removable batteries take space and as such they come with the trade-offs of added bulk or smaller battery. Fortunately unlike apple's iPhone family the android ecosystem is open and there are a plethora of devices out there to satisfy most peoples needs and budgets
It's a right to own a gun, not to be a gun dealer. There is also no constitutional right that buying a gun has to be easy. Subtle but important difference.
Liberals decry restrictions the GOP dreams up on abortions designed to make it hard or impossible to use one's Constitutional right to Choice but applaud any restrictions the Democrats dream up on doing the same to the Constitutional right to gun ownership. The inverse is true for Conservatives. What is even more amusing is that each side recognizes the Supreme Courts right to interpret the constitution when it has ruled for them and slam it when is has ruled against them. Only the Supreme Court has the Constitutional right to judge what is a "14th amendment protection" and what "well organized militia" means on the 2nd
Some US states have retail energy markets, where they can shop for the energy portion of their bill. The transmission and distribution is through the utility. What is cropping up more and more are companies seeking regulatory bailouts for generation plants even in markets where they receive capacity payments.
I live in NY which has a deregulated market. Out of curiosity I just checked the rates of every ESCO provider and out of 35+ only a handful had better rates than the distribution company for either regular or green energy, variable or long term. I suspected as much because despite being on the NO call registry I regularly get calls from ESCO salespeople which never identify whom they are working for or provide information on pricing or terms, instead they make it sound as they are from the distribution company and are informing me I could be saving money if I sign up for a program. I have had even a few of them show up at my door asking to look at my bill so they could get the account number.
Cuba is still a very oppressive place to live. Why are we rewarding that behavior?
While the sanctions were successful in keeping Cuba weak and underdeveloped, with the USSR long gone Communism and Cuba are no longer credible threats. The Cuban regime has been largely successful at squashing decent and there is no credible opposition we could back instead. The continuation of the Collective-punishment in the form of trade sanctions are really nothing more than feel good measures when it comes to easing oppression. Sanctions are not successful at toppling or compelling a repressive regime to improve conditions. Even the economic impact of lifting sanctions is likely to be small considering how unlikely it is for the Cuban government to quickly open up its markets or welcome a large number foreign investments
I think the only real issue people have with this is that if the FBI can justify such tactics then whats to stop them from doing the same to WikiLeaks
Perhaps they should define what 5G is before pledging to build it
"majority of products"
I'd love to see you try to prove that. But you can't, so you won't, because that is patently false.
more than %90 of the staples crops corn and soy are GMO. High fructose corn syrup alone is in the majority of products on a supermarket shelf. Trends in GE Adoption
If we weren't tricked into buying it because it's not labeled, that might help a bit. The deception alone is enough to ruin trust, and then how do we know this study refuting the other studies aren't again, manipulated by the pro-GMO side?
Whether someone chooses GMO or not based on health reasons, philosophical ones, or simply just to save the small farmers from the big Farm Corporations, we ought to have that choice. Having that choice removed through deception and treachery won't win any confidence.
When the majority of products on supermarkets shelves contain GMO's why in the world does it make sense to label those as GMO, when you can simply label the few that don't as GMO Free
That's the huge difference in scale we're talking about when comparing these technologies. How many people died installing and maintaining all those PV installations throughout the world? If it's more than 1/6th what Fukushima killed, then PV solar in regular operation kills more people than half-century-old nuclear technology on its worst day.
It is not about the actual number of people killed, rather the threat your average person feels from the technology. To your average person not involved in construction or maintenance, the threat posed by PV/Turbines is negligible, meanwhile average people living withing several miles from nuclear reactors fear the release of radioactive material.
Studies on centennials have found they don't live particularly healthy lifestyles. Many ate unhealthy diets, some drank alcohol and a few were even life-long smokers. The strongest correlation they could find among them was the number of centennials in their own family history. In other words, living a very long life mostly comes down to your genes.
After 3 years of using my High end Sony Smart TV for internet video streaming, I bought a Stream Box because the TV's software was never updated and some services like YouTube actually stopped functioning because of end of support for whatever streaming method the device was using.Someone really needs to explain to Executives at TV manufacturers than nobody goes out to Replace a TV just so the SmartTV functions can get updated. Not when one can go buy a stream Device for a fraction of the price and get updates and a much better interface and function.