The B-29 had magnetos to run the engines' electrical systems, which are pretty brute-force electrical systems. I'd be pretty surprised if EMP did anything bad to them. Could it happen? Sure...anything could happen. Clearly, it did NOT happen.
I'll read more about EMP. It's an interesting phenomenon, and not one I understand well. Thanks for the link.
After months and months of sometimes ineffective testing and validating (their patches still break a LOT of stuff), they charge you insane $$ for lousy support.
I pay for the OS, which allegedly includes updates.
I should say that I don't pay for squat...I buy Macs for my own use. Their updates seem to work just fine, and there are far fewer of them (both in number and scope).
I agree with your point, but not your example. The B-29 would have been unaffected by EMP because its flight controls were levers, pulleys, and hydraulics. I think it had electric trim tabs, but the primary flight controls were all boring ol' mechanical gear.
I also submit that the bombs dropped over Japan were a rather different animal than modern thermonuclear weapons, and wouldn't have the same EMP "performance". This is an area I'm not well informed about, but nevertheless I'd hesitate to draw parallels.
but it seems to me that the game producers are free to make whatever kind of game they want, Wal Mart is free to stock whatever kind of games they want, and the customers are free to shop at Wal Mart or not, as they please.
If the game producers are surrendering to Wal Mart's sensibilities, that's the producers' problem.
I don't like Wal Mart very much, which is why I don't shop there. What's the problem?
You can afford Avid, but you can't afford a Mac? Wow. Guess you're hosed.
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I've read the Constitution, and the principle of "Stare Decisis" does not appear. I know what you're talking about, and I acknowledge that it is a substantial component of the modern legal system, but I do not agree that it is Constitutional.
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"but the problem with many autobiographies is that they show you just one side of a person"
It's an AUTOBIOGRAPHY. You should proceed from the assumption that the story is told from the perspective, and with the preconceptions, of the subject.
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Well said.
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Oh Jesus...you again.
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What part of "Congress shall make no law..." was unclear?
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Depends. What's your integrity worth to you?
"People who disagree with global warming lack imagination"
People who make gross overgeneralizations look kinda silly.
"Then he goes on to discuss "those who make the most outlandish claims of alarm" as if they represent everyone who is worried about climate change."
Kinda like you dismiss anybody who disagrees with your conclusions as lacking imagination? Hmm.
If you think that's a valid parallel, you don't understand the problem.
One thing that climates are not is simple to understand.
Well, that's easy. Didn't Napster come out somewhere around 1998? More pirates, less global warming. Duh!
If I wanted to blow the tread off a tank, I wouldn't be throwing grenades, I'd be trying to stick 'em in the treads.
That's a hard throw.
A regular hand-thrown grenade is no threat to a tank.
Yeah, that'd work. We'll just have the UN have a Department of Designating Legitimate Popular Rebellions. What an elegant solution!
What part of "Free Software" was unclear to you?
I wonder if the designers of the system thought that it might be a good idea to exclude targets moving at a thrown-rock sort of velocity?
Astonishing notion, that.
The B-29 had magnetos to run the engines' electrical systems, which are pretty brute-force electrical systems. I'd be pretty surprised if EMP did anything bad to them. Could it happen? Sure...anything could happen. Clearly, it did NOT happen.
I'll read more about EMP. It's an interesting phenomenon, and not one I understand well. Thanks for the link.
After months and months of sometimes ineffective testing and validating (their patches still break a LOT of stuff), they charge you insane $$ for lousy support.
I pay for the OS, which allegedly includes updates.
I should say that I don't pay for squat...I buy Macs for my own use. Their updates seem to work just fine, and there are far fewer of them (both in number and scope).
So these highly paid developers have developed something that they can't support.
And I'm supposed to give them money, why exactly?
Ummm...which "boost phase" did you think it operated in, apart from the one that happens right after "launch"?
The first time I read that, I thought it said "will the mirrors make the economy look fat?" I thought that my subconscious might have a point...
I agree with your point, but not your example. The B-29 would have been unaffected by EMP because its flight controls were levers, pulleys, and hydraulics. I think it had electric trim tabs, but the primary flight controls were all boring ol' mechanical gear.
I also submit that the bombs dropped over Japan were a rather different animal than modern thermonuclear weapons, and wouldn't have the same EMP "performance". This is an area I'm not well informed about, but nevertheless I'd hesitate to draw parallels.
Um, it's QWERTY.
Same as 99.99% of the keyboards on Earth.
What was your point again?
but it seems to me that the game producers are free to make whatever kind of game they want, Wal Mart is free to stock whatever kind of games they want, and the customers are free to shop at Wal Mart or not, as they please.
If the game producers are surrendering to Wal Mart's sensibilities, that's the producers' problem.
I don't like Wal Mart very much, which is why I don't shop there. What's the problem?
You can afford Avid, but you can't afford a Mac? Wow. Guess you're hosed.
I've read the Constitution, and the principle of "Stare Decisis" does not appear. I know what you're talking about, and I acknowledge that it is a substantial component of the modern legal system, but I do not agree that it is Constitutional.
If the end result is the same, so what?
"but the problem with many autobiographies is that they show you just one side of a person"
It's an AUTOBIOGRAPHY. You should proceed from the assumption that the story is told from the perspective, and with the preconceptions, of the subject.
Well said.
Oh Jesus...you again.
What part of "Congress shall make no law..." was unclear?
"the cost of reducing greenhouse emissions is relatively low"
I'm so glad to hear that. You'll be taking care of the bill then, will you?