c6gunner - you just described the United States foreign policy in the Middle East - Irag, Libya, etc. How's that working out? The ongoing civil war in Libya is causing oil disruptions - it might even push gas prices up above $4.00 this summer. That might dent your pocket book due to your rebel flag adorned pickup truck that gets 8 miles per gallon. How sad.
And how the f**k did your ignorant, racist, historical lie get modded up? You must be a clever little sock puppet.
Any reasonable person can't really blame the Native Americans for trying to defend their home and way of life against lying, savage barbarians with no respect for any way of life other than their own.
Fortunately there are still a few Native Americans left alive. They aren't exactly prospering, but at least their story is being told
And none of the surviving descendants of those tribes that you just unilaterally and sanctimoniously judged are guilty of anything today. They don't need to have the racism and bigotry that defined your ancestors thrown in their face at every turn. That's called hate speech today. And I doubt their ancestors were any less evil than yours. They were simply different.
History should never be censored or re-written. However, Facebook is not a historical archive or public education service. They are free to censor as they see fit, and their appropriate labeling of hate speech is both interesting and laudable.
I agree with you 100%. I was just pointing out that we seem to be in the minority, and it makes me a bit uncomfortable. Like we're surrounded by... genocidal savages.
We won. Fuck off. You know what? The next group that wins won't give a shit either. No nation has ever been built on self pity. I stand behind victory and building great things. You go ahead and stand behind being a victim. It may make you feel better for yourself, but it really does cut into long term survival rates. The universe doesn't give a fuck about what you feel.
My link to the SCOTUS ruling in favor of the Sioux has everything to do with the now established legal fact that Native Americans have been treated unjustly by the United States of America, and that this is evidenced in the very language of the Declaration of Independence, properly identified by Facebook's algorithm.
Conflicts between the Utes and Navajo, for example, were no different than conflicts between the Germans and the French, or the Mongolians and the Chinese.
Thank you for helping point out that savagery is savagery, and that such failings are a universal failure of humanity.
Universal, but hopefully not inevitable. Dear God(s), please let it not be inevitable.
The Declaration of Independence does contain hate speech against Native Americans. These are the same Native Americans that the SCOTUS has sided with regarding US violation of multiple treaties. Here's one:
The language in that document regarding Native Americans was hateful, racist and unjust then, and it still is now.
Facebook's algorithm was right.
This doesn't mean Facebook hates the US, or freedom, or white people. This does mean that our past, present, and future are full of moral choices that define us.
Yes, nuclear has the potential to offset a lot of energy use today that currently emits carbon, and it should be investigated in realistic ways. Especially thorium. However, keep in mind that nuclear, just like solar, still has waste products - environmental waste products, and social waste products. There's never a free lunch, and trash comes in many forms.
Also keep in mind, anything nuclear, just like solar, is a terrible energy carrier. You are not likely to power airplanes, cars, houses, medium sized ships directly with nuclear. At least not in a responsible way.
However, with an abundance of sustainable energy, we can economically convert, store and transport it in all kinds of ways. Batteries have a niche market. Biofuels (Butanol & oils from algae) can and should have a broader niche market, especially since they can be constructed by extracting carbon from the air, thus they can be carbon neutral. And, they can used by our existing infrastructure - cars, airplanes, and distributions systems, with little or no change. This is huge. We don't need to replace trillions upon trillions of dollars of human engineering and infrastructure to be sustainable. Really.
Let me re-state this: we are not on a path to ruin, unless a path to ruin is all we choose to see. We have so many options that avoid and prevent death on a massive scale.
There is not likely to be any one answer, and we must all keep an open, objective and scientific approach to energy. And we must all be especially diligent to recognize special interest forces at work to preserve a status quo. Coal, nuclear, oil - all have entrenched and evil lobbies that need to be rooted out from their dark corners and recognized and dealt with. If they bring something to market that is economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable then great.
No NASA rating is needed for SpaceX to fly humans anywhere in any of their rockets, unless those humans include NASA astronauts. However, NASA may get snippy and not allow any of their launch facilities for a SpaceX 'experimental' rocket, depending on the details of their lease agreement. If SpaceX were to have their own private launch facilities, then they'd have no significant restrictions.
The short version is that SpaceX only needs to file a flight plan to 60,000 feet and man their rocket with an IFR rated 'pilot' and any other 'essential' crew. Above 60,000 feet is class 'E' airspace. The 'experimental rocket' pilot could simply cancel their IFR flight plan above 60,000 and continue 'flying'. The minor details would be transponder requirements and potentially RVSM certification, which is rather humorous.
In a nutshell: World populations grew faster than land based plants can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. The natural carrying capacity of this planet using sustainable traditional agriculture is about 2 billion humans. Oddly enough, about the time that the world population level reached 2 billion humans, the most technically advanced society at that time created a process to make large scale artificial fertilizers (and explosives) and a major engine of the industrial revolution. Both powered by fossil fuels. Farming commenced on a massive scale. And war, but that's just entertainment for idiots and of no real importance.
Fast forward to 1973. A new world power (USA) pisses off the a little Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and finds itself with insufficient energy to function. Everybody scrambled to find a way to fuel airplanes, cars, and tractors. Monsanto discovers that a chemical chelator that removes calcium, manganese, magnesium, copper and zinc (trace elements essential for most forms of life on earth), also kills weeds. Go figure. This seems to suggest a way to conduct large scale farming without having to till the earth, which greatly reduces the fuel needed to farm. Fast forward a bit, and now we have GMO crops that survive occasional applications of this new miracle herbicide. And then there's the unregulated application of this new herbicide on wheat. Because Profit.. And it seemsto beeverywhere.
GMO foods today have their origin in a lack of energy and environmental planning. These are contributing to CO2 levels and a whole collection of ensuing health and environmental disasters.
Stop spewing carbon, stop processing food with short sighted techniques that result only profit for some and misery and death for most. And please realize that messing with plants has the potential to cause death and misery on a truly global scale. Do you really want to go there, for profit?
A bit of system engineering discipline, FMEA , might have prevented this. It helps when innovators are trained to manage complexity, capability, and risk.
Or common sense, but such things can be on short supply on large projects run by program managers who have an 'MBA' mentality: https://www.inc.com/nathan-fur...
They did kill the industry, by influencing FAA regulations to make commercial operations with small airplanes and small operators all but impossible.
Have you taken an Uber or Lyft airplane trip yet? Why is that?
Yes, astronomically expensive Cessnas and Mooneys are still made, but they are only used in a dwindling market of increasingly specialized and deep pocket applications.
I'm a pilot, been flying for 30 years, and I've flown with other pilots with varying skill and experience levels.
The most experienced pilot I've flown with never took his left hand off the control yoke. I watched him for hours while I was in the co-pilot and jump seats. He'd visit, configure radios, adjust power, but if his left hand ever came off that yoke it went right back on it as soon as the immediate task was done.
I'll drive my Tesla autopilot the same way that gray haired old pilot flew an autopilot, and with any luck I'll live to be just as old.
As for your second link, while I abhor the Muslim penalties for apostasy, they don't apply to non-Muslims, and I can find lots of death penalties in the past for relatively small crimes. As far as a biased web site goes, that's not going to convince anybody.
Look, I don't like Islam, and governments, but Islam is not nearly as bad as some people claim.
Please provide a reference for your claim that apostasy doesn't apply to non-Muslims. Include historical references of such interpretations, please.
Perhaps Muslims twist their own guiding documents to justify whatever horrors they committed in the past. So what in their guiding documents steer them away from such creative interpretation? What is their current social trajectory? What will appeasement achieve?
Perhaps Islam is far worse than most realize, along with most other -isms.
Hello Mr. Anonymous Coward. Please launch your own, as in designed, built and productized electric car, on your own designed, built, and commercially successful line of rockets, and then your claim that a man who has done all of these things is a flim-flamm man and huckster might actually be credible.
The grownups in the room do understand that Musk bought Tesla when it was having trouble producing a viable prototype.
We also understand that SpaceX's Merlin rocket engine is a re-worked Apollo era motor that was further improved by Northrop Grumman under contract to NASA, and that Musk hired away the best and brightest engineers from that program.
We also understand that bitter little aerospace defense and auto industry executives will attempt to cultivate their sour grapes anywhere they can.
The old way was to incentivize contractors to bill as many hours as possible. What we got was the space shuttle and the AMC Gremlin.
The new way is to produce things that are directly incentivized by what the taxpaying consumers want.
I don't usually read or reply to ACs, but I believe you are trying to state something fundamental, yet your command of English may not be quite up to the task:
Stop relating religion to nation!!!...
..snip..
As political doctrine isliam proclaim that all Muslim are "one nation" this is the first place why other religions can't live together with muslims!!!
I think this is what you intended:
Islam proclaims that all Muslim are "one nation". This is why a non-Muslim minority cannot live in peace with a Muslim majority.
In other words, the Muslim will kill any other culture or belief system with "death by a thousand cuts", until they have the numbers to simply destroy all others.
The engineers were probably thinking that the automated rain sensors on the model 3 would take over manual operation of the windshield wipers. Detecting rain on a windshield should be a little easier than automated driving.
You can still use the lever behind the steering wheel to control momentary wipers.
Heaven forbid that a truly innovative car company question the status quo of windshield wiper operation.
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c6gunner - you just described the United States foreign policy in the Middle East - Irag, Libya, etc. How's that working out? The ongoing civil war in Libya is causing oil disruptions - it might even push gas prices up above $4.00 this summer. That might dent your pocket book due to your rebel flag adorned pickup truck that gets 8 miles per gallon. How sad.
And how the f**k did your ignorant, racist, historical lie get modded up? You must be a clever little sock puppet.
European invaders were the real bioweapons and knowingly used smallpox to wipe out Native Americans.
Any reasonable person can't really blame the Native Americans for trying to defend their home and way of life against lying, savage barbarians with no respect for any way of life other than their own.
Fortunately there are still a few Native Americans left alive. They aren't exactly prospering, but at least their story is being told
And none of the surviving descendants of those tribes that you just unilaterally and sanctimoniously judged are guilty of anything today. They don't need to have the racism and bigotry that defined your ancestors thrown in their face at every turn. That's called hate speech today. And I doubt their ancestors were any less evil than yours. They were simply different.
History should never be censored or re-written. However, Facebook is not a historical archive or public education service. They are free to censor as they see fit, and their appropriate labeling of hate speech is both interesting and laudable.
I agree with you 100%. I was just pointing out that we seem to be in the minority, and it makes me a bit uncomfortable. Like we're surrounded by... genocidal savages.
Bruce, this article and it's entire thread remind me of a Johnny Cash song, recorded live: "Folsom Prison Blues".
When I was just a baby
My Mama told me, "Son
Always be a good boy
Don't ever play with guns, "
But I shot a man in Reno
Just to watch him die...
At that point in the recording the audience of prison inmates cheers wildly.
I feel like I'm in the middle of that crowd.
And because there are canine teeth in your head you think it's in your best interest to act like a dog, to justify your own savagery?
Your self-congratulatory back-patting may cause you to pull something. Be careful.
We won. Fuck off. You know what? The next group that wins won't give a shit either. No nation has ever been built on self pity. I stand behind victory and building great things. You go ahead and stand behind being a victim. It may make you feel better for yourself, but it really does cut into long term survival rates. The universe doesn't give a fuck about what you feel.
Are you sure?
My link to the SCOTUS ruling in favor of the Sioux has everything to do with the now established legal fact that Native Americans have been treated unjustly by the United States of America, and that this is evidenced in the very language of the Declaration of Independence, properly identified by Facebook's algorithm.
Conflicts between the Utes and Navajo, for example, were no different than conflicts between the Germans and the French, or the Mongolians and the Chinese.
Thank you for helping point out that savagery is savagery, and that such failings are a universal failure of humanity.
Universal, but hopefully not inevitable. Dear God(s), please let it not be inevitable.
... wasn't invented until the late 20th century? Are you sure about that?
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Come out from the shadows, Anonymous Coward. Show yourself.
Competition for scarce resources does that to humans. All humans.
Sometimes these resources are land, water, cattle, or fertile women. Here are some examples from your past:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Exterminating a native population because you don't want to deal with them is savage.
What do you see when you look in the mirror?
The Declaration of Independence does contain hate speech against Native Americans. These are the same Native Americans that the SCOTUS has sided with regarding US violation of multiple treaties. Here's one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The language in that document regarding Native Americans was hateful, racist and unjust then, and it still is now.
Facebook's algorithm was right.
This doesn't mean Facebook hates the US, or freedom, or white people. This does mean that our past, present, and future are full of moral choices that define us.
Yes, nuclear has the potential to offset a lot of energy use today that currently emits carbon, and it should be investigated in realistic ways. Especially thorium. However, keep in mind that nuclear, just like solar, still has waste products - environmental waste products, and social waste products. There's never a free lunch, and trash comes in many forms.
Also keep in mind, anything nuclear, just like solar, is a terrible energy carrier. You are not likely to power airplanes, cars, houses, medium sized ships directly with nuclear. At least not in a responsible way.
However, with an abundance of sustainable energy, we can economically convert, store and transport it in all kinds of ways. Batteries have a niche market. Biofuels (Butanol & oils from algae) can and should have a broader niche market, especially since they can be constructed by extracting carbon from the air, thus they can be carbon neutral. And, they can used by our existing infrastructure - cars, airplanes, and distributions systems, with little or no change. This is huge. We don't need to replace trillions upon trillions of dollars of human engineering and infrastructure to be sustainable. Really.
Let me re-state this: we are not on a path to ruin, unless a path to ruin is all we choose to see. We have so many options that avoid and prevent death on a massive scale.
There is not likely to be any one answer, and we must all keep an open, objective and scientific approach to energy. And we must all be especially diligent to recognize special interest forces at work to preserve a status quo. Coal, nuclear, oil - all have entrenched and evil lobbies that need to be rooted out from their dark corners and recognized and dealt with. If they bring something to market that is economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable then great.
But please, no more oil wars.
I'd up this as 'Funny' if I had anymod points ;-)
No NASA rating is needed for SpaceX to fly humans anywhere in any of their rockets, unless those humans include NASA astronauts. However, NASA may get snippy and not allow any of their launch facilities for a SpaceX 'experimental' rocket, depending on the details of their lease agreement. If SpaceX were to have their own private launch facilities, then they'd have no significant restrictions.
The short version is that SpaceX only needs to file a flight plan to 60,000 feet and man their rocket with an IFR rated 'pilot' and any other 'essential' crew. Above 60,000 feet is class 'E' airspace. The 'experimental rocket' pilot could simply cancel their IFR flight plan above 60,000 and continue 'flying'. The minor details would be transponder requirements and potentially RVSM certification, which is rather humorous.
References:
Instrument Flight Rules
US Airspace diagram
You wanted references:
https://detoxproject.org/glyph...
https://www.wellnessresources....
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
https://www.cornucopia.org/201...
http://glyphosate.news/2017-01...
Nuclear power and GMO foods are going to save us? Really?
Solar is dwarfing nuclear.
As for GMO crops, um, no. Just no.
Do you realize the connection between the nitrogen cycle, fossil fuels, and the 1973 oil embargo?
In a nutshell: World populations grew faster than land based plants can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. The natural carrying capacity of this planet using sustainable traditional agriculture is about 2 billion humans. Oddly enough, about the time that the world population level reached 2 billion humans, the most technically advanced society at that time created a process to make large scale artificial fertilizers (and explosives) and a major engine of the industrial revolution. Both powered by fossil fuels. Farming commenced on a massive scale. And war, but that's just entertainment for idiots and of no real importance.
Fast forward to 1973. A new world power (USA) pisses off the a little Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and finds itself with insufficient energy to function. Everybody scrambled to find a way to fuel airplanes, cars, and tractors. Monsanto discovers that a chemical chelator that removes calcium, manganese, magnesium, copper and zinc (trace elements essential for most forms of life on earth), also kills weeds. Go figure. This seems to suggest a way to conduct large scale farming without having to till the earth, which greatly reduces the fuel needed to farm. Fast forward a bit, and now we have GMO crops that survive occasional applications of this new miracle herbicide. And then there's the unregulated application of this new herbicide on wheat. Because Profit.. And it seems to be everywhere.
Sadly, many forms of animal life that come in contact with Monsanto's creation get cancer, have the epithelial lining of their intestines die, and get misdiagnosed as having Celiac disease. And those that aren't so lucky end up morbidly ill and dying prematurely due to complications of a diet high in high fructose corn syrup (high cholesterol, heart disease, etc.)
Now connect the dots... stay with me here:
GMO foods today have their origin in a lack of energy and environmental planning. These are contributing to CO2 levels and a whole collection of ensuing health and environmental disasters.
Stop spewing carbon, stop processing food with short sighted techniques that result only profit for some and misery and death for most. And please realize that messing with plants has the potential to cause death and misery on a truly global scale. Do you really want to go there, for profit?
Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Blend
https://youtu.be/KWqw5SpITg8
A bit of system engineering discipline, FMEA , might have prevented this. It helps when innovators are trained to manage complexity, capability, and risk.
Or common sense, but such things can be on short supply on large projects run by program managers who have an 'MBA' mentality: https://www.inc.com/nathan-fur...
They did kill the industry, by influencing FAA regulations to make commercial operations with small airplanes and small operators all but impossible.
Have you taken an Uber or Lyft airplane trip yet? Why is that?
Yes, astronomically expensive Cessnas and Mooneys are still made, but they are only used in a dwindling market of increasingly specialized and deep pocket applications.
I'm a pilot, been flying for 30 years, and I've flown with other pilots with varying skill and experience levels.
The most experienced pilot I've flown with never took his left hand off the control yoke. I watched him for hours while I was in the co-pilot and jump seats. He'd visit, configure radios, adjust power, but if his left hand ever came off that yoke it went right back on it as soon as the immediate task was done.
I'll drive my Tesla autopilot the same way that gray haired old pilot flew an autopilot, and with any luck I'll live to be just as old.
As for your second link, while I abhor the Muslim penalties for apostasy, they don't apply to non-Muslims, and I can find lots of death penalties in the past for relatively small crimes. As far as a biased web site goes, that's not going to convince anybody.
Look, I don't like Islam, and governments, but Islam is not nearly as bad as some people claim.
Please provide a reference for your claim that apostasy doesn't apply to non-Muslims. Include historical references of such interpretations, please.
Perhaps Muslims twist their own guiding documents to justify whatever horrors they committed in the past. So what in their guiding documents steer them away from such creative interpretation? What is their current social trajectory? What will appeasement achieve?
Perhaps Islam is far worse than most realize, along with most other -isms.
Hello Mr. Anonymous Coward. Please launch your own, as in designed, built and productized electric car, on your own designed, built, and commercially successful line of rockets, and then your claim that a man who has done all of these things is a flim-flamm man and huckster might actually be credible.
The grownups in the room do understand that Musk bought Tesla when it was having trouble producing a viable prototype.
We also understand that SpaceX's Merlin rocket engine is a re-worked Apollo era motor that was further improved by Northrop Grumman under contract to NASA, and that Musk hired away the best and brightest engineers from that program.
We also understand that bitter little aerospace defense and auto industry executives will attempt to cultivate their sour grapes anywhere they can.
The old way was to incentivize contractors to bill as many hours as possible. What we got was the space shuttle and the AMC Gremlin.
The new way is to produce things that are directly incentivized by what the taxpaying consumers want.
I don't usually read or reply to ACs, but I believe you are trying to state something fundamental, yet your command of English may not be quite up to the task:
Stop relating religion to nation!!! ...
..snip..
As political doctrine isliam proclaim that all Muslim are "one nation" this is the first place why other religions can't live together with muslims!!!
I think this is what you intended:
Islam proclaims that all Muslim are "one nation". This is why a non-Muslim minority cannot live in peace with a Muslim majority.
In other words, the Muslim will kill any other culture or belief system with "death by a thousand cuts", until they have the numbers to simply destroy all others.
It does seem that Christianity is tolerated significantly better than Islam in Myanmar.
The fact that Christianity in Myanmar is tolerated at all is significant, since this is right next door to some horrible atrocities involving Christianity (Taiping Rebellion).
A citation, really? Do you habitually stick your head in the sand?
A specific example of attempted genocide by Islamic invaders. ...with the Muslim camps being described as building "towers of skulls of the infidels" on hillocks.
Here's another reference for your citation list.
another one.
Agreed. However, I do enjoy watching rich early adopters pay for economies of scale for new technology that helps benefit me.
The engineers were probably thinking that the automated rain sensors on the model 3 would take over manual operation of the windshield wipers. Detecting rain on a windshield should be a little easier than automated driving.
You can still use the lever behind the steering wheel to control momentary wipers.
Heaven forbid that a truly innovative car company question the status quo of windshield wiper operation.