They didn't try that idea in the US. It became a totalitarian hellhole, before it collapsed.
Now you don't have healthcare, you don't have trade unions, you have "at will" employment and private industry runs nearly all your mission-critical infrastructure.
Got sick? Couldn't come into work? Sorry, you're fired. Can't have lazy bums getting sick all the time.
Got sick? No insurance? No credit card? No medicine for you!
If Stephen Hawking had been an American, he'd have been left to die of his illness. What would be the point in patching up a student with a poor prognosis and no real chance of having a well-paid career? Where's the profit?
How many people do you know who would be willing to go into space in a craft with a "Made in China" sticker on the side?
More than would be willing to go into space in a craft with a "Made in America" sticker on the side. I mean, have you seen American cars? Imagine what it would be like if they ever tried to make a spacecraft!
Something I'm getting from asking that question is that in the US it seems to be normal to come to a complete stop on a freeway onramp and then accelerate to traffic speed from a standstill.
This is something I have never done, in nearly 20 years of driving.
The thought occurs that by fixing your onramps to be less of a pain in the arse, you could pretty much double the fuel economy of the entire US car fleet, without anyone having to buy a new car...
Possibly, and then I pass them in my diesel van somewhat less than 100 miles later when their battery is dead. I'd rather have 500+ miles range than my head stuck to the back doors.
If Linux had a platform share of 50% of the hardware market, they'd have sufficient grounds for biting the bullet and betting on staying ahead of the competition by being the best at doing the hardware part of their architecture.
The thing is, they could open their specs, wait a couple of months until open-source driver support catches up or even exceeds their closed-source drivers, and take pretty close to 100% of the Linux market.
Now, because Linux has at that point got as good or better accelerated video support than Windows, it will overtake Windows even faster than it's already doing for things like home theatre PCs. Valve will be happy, since their Linux-based console will be able to rock the cheap, powerful NVidia chips, and they will port more games to Linux since it's a pish easy job because of the improved 3D acceleration.
Ah, okay. So in the UK the motorway speed limit is 70mph, with even little twisty narrow mountain roads normally being 60mph. The police don't bother you up to about 15-20mph over the limit unless you're clearly being a dick.
Now I have a better idea of why the Chevy Z28 I borrowed for a week had - with its 6.something litre engine - acceleration that would laminate your arse to the rear numberplate, but a woeful top speed that meant that if you tried to take it on a motorway you'd end up as a thin smear across the front of some old lady's Yugo.
My old Mercedes van had a 6-speed box and a 2.2 litre 120bhp turbodiesel. Burbling along at 2200rpm and 70mph, all you could hear was wind and tyre noise, and the odd rumble from the engine as you fed in more power on hills. It's the same engine as in the E-class diesels, but with different firmware - I could have changed over to that, and got 140bhp at the expense of a lot of low-end torque.
We have those here but they only use the traffic lights on the ramp when traffic on the motorway is at about 30mph or below in heavy rush-hour traffic. Otherwise, they would be dangerous.
In what possible circumstances would you be accelerating from a standstill to 60mph on a slip road? I mean, unless you're one of those annoying people that stops completely at the white line then refuses to merge in until the inside lane has a good quarter of a mile clear.
Merging onto motorways is more about 40-70 acceleration time than 0-60. It doesn't necessarily hold true that a car that can accelerate from 0 to 60 quickly can go from 60 to 80 quickly. Quite a few of the imported American cars I've driven run out of puff at about 80mph, making them frankly horrible to drive on UK roads.
And therein lies a question, what the absolute fuck is a "JC Penney"?
I keep getting spam for coupons for JC Penneys but I have no idea what one is, whether or not I'd want one, or what I'd do with it. Is it big? Like, will it fit on a shelf or do I need to gut out the tractor shed?
Even Google isn't much help since googling for it just ends up with millions of sites offering coupons for JC Penneys but no real information on what they are.
That's an interesting idea. You'd need a large corpus of toxic numbers, though, and you'd need to keep them secret from the phishers.
One trick you could use would be for the phishfarmer to collude with a bank to generate not just fake-but-valid credit card numbers but also a toxic CVV2 by using a bogus CVV2 encryption key on the generated "card number". A transaction processed with a generated number and a toxic CVV2 would be detectable by checking to see if an invalid CVV2 decrypted with one of the "phishfarm" keys - which would again need to be kept secret.
About 15 years ago I wrote a script for populating "phishing" forms with plausible-but-fake names, addresses and credit card numbers that pass simple validation checks. I can't remember what I called it, possibly "phishfood" or "phishfarm". It's probably still on sourceforge.
Maybe they just don't want to rush it and take chances. In the 1960s the US and the USSR were competing to be the first to space and the first to the moon. The Chinese are going to be the third country to reach the moon (second, for manned missions since the Russians didn't bother) whichever way you slice it.
There's no point going at it in a hurry and risking the lives of astronauts any more than they have to. Back when the Apollo missions were flying, the US and the USSR had an attitude of "get someone up there and maybe back down if they survive, and get it done now". The Chinese don't need to do that.
Hard drives are both the most valuable, and the most fragile part. Do not load them in a stiff suspension vehicle like a truck, as this bounces the drives. Choose a soft-suspension normal car.
I know someone who uses a Citroen Xantia estate with the hydraulic suspension modified to be slightly softer than normal for moving delicate optical instruments. It just comes down to a little adjustment of sphere pressure and damper ports.
Even unmodified, if the suspension is in good condition you can't even feel speed humps at 60mph, just hear the "ba-dunk" as you go over them.
It's actually the US that has the most CCTV per capita, *and* armed police everywhere ready to shoot you if you cross the road in the wrong place, or say something bad about the president.
I live in the UK, and there isn't a CCTV camera within 50 miles of this place. I wish there was, it might stop manky bastards dumping rubbish at the foot of our road every other night.
Well yeah, exactly. I mean, I have a lovely wee cat but I'm under no illusions about how nature works. Of all our domesticated animals, cats are probably the closest to wild. For a cat, "domesticated" means "turn up at mealtimes and purr and look cute, and pee outside, and things become very easy".
Even if I was quick enough to get to it, I don't think I'd want to try to get a mouse away from my cat. I've got enough scratches and injuries, and my kevlar gloves are pretty knackered as it is.
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They didn't try that idea in the US. It became a totalitarian hellhole, before it collapsed.
Now you don't have healthcare, you don't have trade unions, you have "at will" employment and private industry runs nearly all your mission-critical infrastructure.
Got sick? Couldn't come into work? Sorry, you're fired. Can't have lazy bums getting sick all the time.
Got sick? No insurance? No credit card? No medicine for you!
If Stephen Hawking had been an American, he'd have been left to die of his illness. What would be the point in patching up a student with a poor prognosis and no real chance of having a well-paid career? Where's the profit?
How many people do you know who would be willing to go into space in a craft with a "Made in China" sticker on the side?
More than would be willing to go into space in a craft with a "Made in America" sticker on the side. I mean, have you seen American cars? Imagine what it would be like if they ever tried to make a spacecraft!
Something I'm getting from asking that question is that in the US it seems to be normal to come to a complete stop on a freeway onramp and then accelerate to traffic speed from a standstill.
This is something I have never done, in nearly 20 years of driving.
The thought occurs that by fixing your onramps to be less of a pain in the arse, you could pretty much double the fuel economy of the entire US car fleet, without anyone having to buy a new car...
Possibly, and then I pass them in my diesel van somewhat less than 100 miles later when their battery is dead. I'd rather have 500+ miles range than my head stuck to the back doors.
If Linux had a platform share of 50% of the hardware market, they'd have sufficient grounds for biting the bullet and betting on staying ahead of the competition by being the best at doing the hardware part of their architecture.
The thing is, they could open their specs, wait a couple of months until open-source driver support catches up or even exceeds their closed-source drivers, and take pretty close to 100% of the Linux market.
Now, because Linux has at that point got as good or better accelerated video support than Windows, it will overtake Windows even faster than it's already doing for things like home theatre PCs. Valve will be happy, since their Linux-based console will be able to rock the cheap, powerful NVidia chips, and they will port more games to Linux since it's a pish easy job because of the improved 3D acceleration.
Yes, that's a bit idealistic.
Ah, okay. So in the UK the motorway speed limit is 70mph, with even little twisty narrow mountain roads normally being 60mph. The police don't bother you up to about 15-20mph over the limit unless you're clearly being a dick.
Now I have a better idea of why the Chevy Z28 I borrowed for a week had - with its 6.something litre engine - acceleration that would laminate your arse to the rear numberplate, but a woeful top speed that meant that if you tried to take it on a motorway you'd end up as a thin smear across the front of some old lady's Yugo.
My old Mercedes van had a 6-speed box and a 2.2 litre 120bhp turbodiesel. Burbling along at 2200rpm and 70mph, all you could hear was wind and tyre noise, and the odd rumble from the engine as you fed in more power on hills. It's the same engine as in the E-class diesels, but with different firmware - I could have changed over to that, and got 140bhp at the expense of a lot of low-end torque.
We have those here but they only use the traffic lights on the ramp when traffic on the motorway is at about 30mph or below in heavy rush-hour traffic. Otherwise, they would be dangerous.
In what possible circumstances would you be accelerating from a standstill to 60mph on a slip road? I mean, unless you're one of those annoying people that stops completely at the white line then refuses to merge in until the inside lane has a good quarter of a mile clear.
Merging onto motorways is more about 40-70 acceleration time than 0-60. It doesn't necessarily hold true that a car that can accelerate from 0 to 60 quickly can go from 60 to 80 quickly. Quite a few of the imported American cars I've driven run out of puff at about 80mph, making them frankly horrible to drive on UK roads.
I have actually looked at Priuses, but they're too small and far too thirsty. They get about 40mpg, which for a car that size is a joke.
It could use a less powerful motor, and concentrate on 50-70mph acceleration by picking more appropriate gearing and motor drive characteristics.
See, that's getting there. It still wouldn't get me to my mum's house and back in less than a weekend, but it's getting there.
It doesn't need to do 0-60 in 5.6 seconds. It does need to go further on a fully-charged set of batteries.
Why the hell do people obsess about 0-60 time? How often do you ever accelerate flat out from 0 to 60?
It's right there, "Nanny". If you're going to pay someone else to raise your children for you, why bother having them at all?
Children aren't some kind of exotic pet that you can stick into kennels when you don't feel like looking after them.
"Multi-pupil relocation module" - how's that?
There is no reason to go back to the Moon or to Mars.
We will do it for the lulz.
And therein lies a question, what the absolute fuck is a "JC Penney"?
I keep getting spam for coupons for JC Penneys but I have no idea what one is, whether or not I'd want one, or what I'd do with it. Is it big? Like, will it fit on a shelf or do I need to gut out the tractor shed?
Even Google isn't much help since googling for it just ends up with millions of sites offering coupons for JC Penneys but no real information on what they are.
That's an interesting idea. You'd need a large corpus of toxic numbers, though, and you'd need to keep them secret from the phishers.
One trick you could use would be for the phishfarmer to collude with a bank to generate not just fake-but-valid credit card numbers but also a toxic CVV2 by using a bogus CVV2 encryption key on the generated "card number". A transaction processed with a generated number and a toxic CVV2 would be detectable by checking to see if an invalid CVV2 decrypted with one of the "phishfarm" keys - which would again need to be kept secret.
About 15 years ago I wrote a script for populating "phishing" forms with plausible-but-fake names, addresses and credit card numbers that pass simple validation checks. I can't remember what I called it, possibly "phishfood" or "phishfarm". It's probably still on sourceforge.
No, I was testing to see if it was true, and judging by the speed at which the post was admin-modded down it appears to be true.
Presumably, samzenpus also thinks that everyone has to obey FCC regulations, too. Silly USians. Learn some geography.
I'm pretty sure another country did that, within living memory. Now let me think, who was it...?
Maybe they just don't want to rush it and take chances. In the 1960s the US and the USSR were competing to be the first to space and the first to the moon. The Chinese are going to be the third country to reach the moon (second, for manned missions since the Russians didn't bother) whichever way you slice it.
There's no point going at it in a hurry and risking the lives of astronauts any more than they have to. Back when the Apollo missions were flying, the US and the USSR had an attitude of "get someone up there and maybe back down if they survive, and get it done now". The Chinese don't need to do that.
Hard drives are both the most valuable, and the most fragile part. Do not load them in a stiff suspension vehicle like a truck, as this bounces the drives. Choose a soft-suspension normal car.
I know someone who uses a Citroen Xantia estate with the hydraulic suspension modified to be slightly softer than normal for moving delicate optical instruments. It just comes down to a little adjustment of sphere pressure and damper ports.
Even unmodified, if the suspension is in good condition you can't even feel speed humps at 60mph, just hear the "ba-dunk" as you go over them.
It's actually the US that has the most CCTV per capita, *and* armed police everywhere ready to shoot you if you cross the road in the wrong place, or say something bad about the president.
I live in the UK, and there isn't a CCTV camera within 50 miles of this place. I wish there was, it might stop manky bastards dumping rubbish at the foot of our road every other night.
Well yeah, exactly. I mean, I have a lovely wee cat but I'm under no illusions about how nature works. Of all our domesticated animals, cats are probably the closest to wild. For a cat, "domesticated" means "turn up at mealtimes and purr and look cute, and pee outside, and things become very easy".
Even if I was quick enough to get to it, I don't think I'd want to try to get a mouse away from my cat. I've got enough scratches and injuries, and my kevlar gloves are pretty knackered as it is.