Challenger blew up because one of the O-ring seals failed in a SRB due to an unexpected susceptability to prolonged low-temperature conditions. Nothing to do with asbestos.
Hydrazine isn't used for heavy lifting rockets. It's for monopropellant thrusters. Satellite positioning, lifting and attitude control. The shuttle manouvering thrusters (Until recent retirement). That sort of thing. Very important in moving satellites around once they are up there.
You make the mistake of using facts against an emotional narrative. It rarely works. The 'Damn gaia-worshiping liberals endangered the astronauts lives to save a few trees' narrative is a powerful one, and thanks to the exceptionally divisive left-vs-right nature of US politics it is one that a lot of people really want to believe in.
Makes perfect sense, though. Would you trust the FBI to run background checks on politicians? I imagine that if they did, you would find any that promise to increase FBI funding get a cursory skim through their history, while any that threaten to reduce funding have every detail of their lives examined under the microscope to find any excuse to keep them out of office... and *no-one* is completly without some dirt that could be used against them.
Youtube goes one better than that: It uses an audio fingerprinting system as well to try to recognise copyrighted music. That's going beyond what the law requires. The technology has faced some abuse though, from fclaimed copyright holders registering works that they don't actually own in order to get the ad-money. I've had to appeal one of those myself: The procedure involved me contacting them, waiting two months for a reply while intermittantly contacting them again, then closing my account in protest.
Even Megaupload complied with the DMCA: They'd take down any infringing file as soon as they were notified. They were just shut down because merely complying with the law isn't deemed enough any more. DMCA takedowns don't work on user-submitted content sites, because minutes after a video is taken down someone else will just submit it again.
And what would do they do if they did find something? There is nothing in the constitution allowing someone to be kicked out or denied office for failing a background check. Unless they find a crime they can prosecute, the best the FBI could do is go public and let the voters decide.
Ideally, get some devs on it too. It's such a great project, but marred by a few awkward bugs and lack of support for non-windows OS. No-one I know ever got wxwaste to work.
Best case: ReactOS remains a toy of little practical use.
Worst case: ReactOS succeeds, Microsoft sues either the devs or the users for infringing several thousand patents.
Which makes it perfect. Try this new approach on the eye, because you already know what results you should get. If what comes out is completly wrong, you know the method has failed. If it mostly-matches what is already known then the method is validated, and it's time to try something a little more unfamiliar.
In a sense, correct. Human-induced climate change threatens to happen far faster than natural climate change, over a period of decades or centuries rather than tens of millenia. That type of sudden shift doesn't occur naturally short of a globally significent event like a supervolcano eruption.
The ship was on fire, listing heavily, and took on so much water the stern was lower than the bow. True, the ship was scuttled... but if it hadn't been, it would have sunk. Even if it stayed afloat in that shape, the next torpedo would have done it, or the one after. Bismark was in no shape to fight back - steam catapult out of operation, engines dead, all four main gun batteries dead. Sitting duck. That ship was going down, one way or another.
You offer a rational solution to an irrational problem. Do that, and the local self-appointed guardians of public morals would just get outraged that the library is deliberatly acting to encourage pornography viewing.
But this is a debate that cannot be had in the US, because of the paralysing fear of pedophiles. To so much as suggest that children wouldn't be traumatised by the sight of a penis is dangerous. It exposes the one making the claim to accusations.
Actually? You underestimate the sensitivity of some parts of the US to anything involving sex and minors. There is no need for harm to be proven: Many people wouldn't think to question the claim that it is.
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... when labels argued that there was no right of resale for customers.
Challenger blew up because one of the O-ring seals failed in a SRB due to an unexpected susceptability to prolonged low-temperature conditions. Nothing to do with asbestos.
Some schools no longer permit chemistry students to handle copper sulphate, because it is classed as a potential carcinogen.
Hydrazine isn't used for heavy lifting rockets. It's for monopropellant thrusters. Satellite positioning, lifting and attitude control. The shuttle manouvering thrusters (Until recent retirement). That sort of thing. Very important in moving satellites around once they are up there.
You make the mistake of using facts against an emotional narrative. It rarely works. The 'Damn gaia-worshiping liberals endangered the astronauts lives to save a few trees' narrative is a powerful one, and thanks to the exceptionally divisive left-vs-right nature of US politics it is one that a lot of people really want to believe in.
Makes perfect sense, though. Would you trust the FBI to run background checks on politicians? I imagine that if they did, you would find any that promise to increase FBI funding get a cursory skim through their history, while any that threaten to reduce funding have every detail of their lives examined under the microscope to find any excuse to keep them out of office... and *no-one* is completly without some dirt that could be used against them.
Youtube goes one better than that: It uses an audio fingerprinting system as well to try to recognise copyrighted music. That's going beyond what the law requires. The technology has faced some abuse though, from fclaimed copyright holders registering works that they don't actually own in order to get the ad-money. I've had to appeal one of those myself: The procedure involved me contacting them, waiting two months for a reply while intermittantly contacting them again, then closing my account in protest.
Even Megaupload complied with the DMCA: They'd take down any infringing file as soon as they were notified. They were just shut down because merely complying with the law isn't deemed enough any more. DMCA takedowns don't work on user-submitted content sites, because minutes after a video is taken down someone else will just submit it again.
And what would do they do if they did find something? There is nothing in the constitution allowing someone to be kicked out or denied office for failing a background check. Unless they find a crime they can prosecute, the best the FBI could do is go public and let the voters decide.
Ideally, get some devs on it too. It's such a great project, but marred by a few awkward bugs and lack of support for non-windows OS. No-one I know ever got wxwaste to work.
That's basically what a torrent site is today. Before the torrents, it was ed2k sites. Sharereactor used to be huge.
But not so many developers, or users, or corporate sponsors.
Best case: ReactOS remains a toy of little practical use.
Worst case: ReactOS succeeds, Microsoft sues either the devs or the users for infringing several thousand patents.
Which makes it perfect. Try this new approach on the eye, because you already know what results you should get. If what comes out is completly wrong, you know the method has failed. If it mostly-matches what is already known then the method is validated, and it's time to try something a little more unfamiliar.
In a sense, correct. Human-induced climate change threatens to happen far faster than natural climate change, over a period of decades or centuries rather than tens of millenia. That type of sudden shift doesn't occur naturally short of a globally significent event like a supervolcano eruption.
The past is no guide - the modern world is like nothing that has been seen before.
The ship was on fire, listing heavily, and took on so much water the stern was lower than the bow. True, the ship was scuttled... but if it hadn't been, it would have sunk. Even if it stayed afloat in that shape, the next torpedo would have done it, or the one after. Bismark was in no shape to fight back - steam catapult out of operation, engines dead, all four main gun batteries dead. Sitting duck. That ship was going down, one way or another.
Ships tend to do that once you've hit them with two torpedoes.
Here in the UK, the ship is better known than it's namesake. Probably because we are still rather proud of blowing it up.
You offer a rational solution to an irrational problem. Do that, and the local self-appointed guardians of public morals would just get outraged that the library is deliberatly acting to encourage pornography viewing.
Not to someone who considers it their duty to be the moral compass of a community. To them, nothing can be ignored.
But this is a debate that cannot be had in the US, because of the paralysing fear of pedophiles. To so much as suggest that children wouldn't be traumatised by the sight of a penis is dangerous. It exposes the one making the claim to accusations.
Actually? You underestimate the sensitivity of some parts of the US to anything involving sex and minors. There is no need for harm to be proven: Many people wouldn't think to question the claim that it is.
Such as? Is it that important to have your quote marks angled?