Depends what aviation. Paragliding is pretty much metric all worlds around ('muricans don't fly that much, Brittons don't fly that much in UK). Airspace zones are computed in advance and either avoided or ignored by idiots
It's still a downgrade. The only thing you can do with these shitty, 1$ manufacturing cost, 20$ retail price earbuds is put them in a fucking iPhone. You can't put them in a fucking computer. You can't put them is a fucking portable gaming console
But then the government bureaucracy and bloat increases the cost of that trip to $15
And you think large transport companies don't have bureaucracy and bloat? And marketing. And dividends. And CEO salaries.
In Belgium we combine both: transport companies are public but split in geographical fiefdoms managed by boards of directors coming directly from political parties, generally those apparatchiks so bad they could not get elected to public office. As with any proportional elections, there's always more than one party in these boards, but instead of controlling each other they typically cover each other. A huge part of the budget is then spent for "study trips" like "studying public transportation in Miami, Florida"
That was one of my main interrogations with The Martian: would growing potatoes be the best way to avoid starvation on Mars, or is there a way to bypass the potato phase?
True, but it could all be solved in software. Film vertically ? Your video should either be pan & scanned (more or less intelligently), or just explicitly take an horizontal frame.
. Can you imagine being arrested on suspicion of a serious crime because 30 minutes prior to the crime, in the "walking distance" proximity, you bought a pack of gum with your implant (or your debit card, or your smartphone)?
That would be proof of exactly nothing. It could lead police to a potential suspect, that's all
Let's examine the 4 quadrants.
You're innocent and no such trace exists = nothing new
You're guilty and no such trace exists = nothing new
You're innocent and such trace exists = it proves you were around. They still need to seek dirt on you, and possibly dozens of other people. You have no real reason to lie about being out of town. You're guilty and such trace exist = they still need to find the dirt. At least they have a lead. You can't lie about being out of town.
It's a fricking social network account. If it may be important (hint: it's not that important) for a third party to have access to the fricking account, just leave the password somewhere where it can be retrieved. It's not like Facebook is notified instantly of your death. Oh wait, they probably know it moments after it happened, but because of false positives they can't shut it down anyway. Heck, I just checked for someone who died 10 months ago, and he's still alive on Facebook
There are lots of interesting English words used only in foreign langage speaking world; in France, words like "relooking" (makeover) , "footing" (jogging), or "smoking" (tuxedo) come to mind
I am a huge fan of the EU. Not only because it's a bringing prosperity to my city (Brussels), is a net contributor to local and world peace, allows me to travel and pay more easily in a territory 50x as large as my own country, the Microsoft and Google lawsuits and many more reasons, but I truly despise the way they design the consumer protection laws. Instead of punishing technology's abuses, they are really trying to make people's lives miserable.
Visiting a web site ? half of your screen is covered by the cookie warnings, even though 99,99% of website owners only actually use cookies for session management. And it would have taken very few effort for the lawmakers to add a "ignore and hide cooking warnings" general setting, which on EU scale would have made it to all browsers. This instead of just banning cookie tracking
Travelling across the border ? You'll get a SMS telling you that the tariff is....the same as home, which is nice, but that SMS / Tariff info was only relevant when operators were taking outrageous roaming fees. The message, though, is still mandatory.
Entering your car and want some navigation ? A stupid warning "driving while operating this device' is dangerous" (granted, that one may be even worse in the US)
And now GDPR: 99,99% of customer / subscriber information IS relevant, and is NOT used in abusive way. As a small non-profit sport club structure, it took us 2 months of iterative work to make ourselves minimally compliant, including a web site migration towards EU (on US owned servers). There is exactly zero gain for our members, whom we can not service if we don't have that minimum info from them, and which we have zero incentive to abuse. Of course, the have absolutely zero manpower to actually control/enforce the compliance in the millions of businesses and associations having files
All this while the ones most inclined to abuse their customers will still get away with it, and for which well-targeted raids might actually be cost effective.
The Belgian government is actually elected, and in fact, enjoys a much better electoral system than say the United States where your authoritarian tyrant had fewer votes than his opponents, and his petty sycophants were often elected in rigged districts that make the entire process suspect,.
Except parties put whatever disgusting asshole on top of their lists, and even if you carefully skip the disgusting assholes in the list, once the acceptable people have the necessary number of votes to be elected, the remaining nominative votes are devolved to the disgusting assholes on top of the list you didn't want to see elected. Except for half of the politicians (Michel, Tobback, Whatelet, Lutgen, Van Den Bossche,...), including our prime minister, who are sons of the previous generation (some of whom were convicted for corruption, and who themselves are suspected of corruption (Mathot, Daerden)) of politicians because of this system of electoral nomination. Except for the vast majority of politicians being appointed to high paying corporate administration of (semi-)public companies, only to create more intermediate level boards whose only purpose is to get more money from these companies. But I guess yes our political system is less corrupt than the US one
Yet James Webb is credited for forging the NASA capable of landing on the Moon - not only by turning NASA's loosely organized (and often fractious) centers into a cooperative and coordinated enterprise, but by gaining and maintaining a solid base of support in Congress.
T
So you're admitting NASA landing on the Moon is a forgery ?
I do have to point out that Elon Musk missed out on another historic opportunity he could have pulled off with this launch. It they can put a Tesla Roadster in orbit around the Sun, then they could have just as easily launched a tea pot into orbit as well, thereby totally ruining the Russell's Teapot Argument as a philosophical debate point.
Well, maybe they have. In fact I, grand priest of the Saturn Tea Pot, tell you they have. It's only too small to see.
I think Musk's shiny Tesla is far better than a broken down Chevy because somebody, to make their own space statement, might launch a mission to get the Tesla back.
That would even be a nice KSP challenge. They're probably waiting for the actual ephemerids to be published to play them in RSS.
The big technological leap was the transition from a turbojet to a turbofan. A turbojet relies on throwing the exhaust gases backward at high velocity to generate thrust. A turbofan uses part of the exhaust gases to spin a ducted fan blade which pushes non-exhaust air backward to generate thrust. Basically the same thing as a turboprop (a propeller driven by a jet engine, instead of a piston engine), except the propeller is ducted. IIRC, nowadays close to 90% of the thrust comes from the bypass fans, only about 10% from the exhaust jet
I'm not a fluid dynamics engineer, but as you seem knowledgeable: could you or someone else explain me why using the exhaust to drive a ducted fan or propeller has an advantage over just using the exhaust as direct reaction mass? Newton's 3rd law and Thermodynamics's first law *seem* to indicate me one can break even at best.
In Belgium, they enforce that on ISP level by sending DNS response redirecting to a site from the ministry of justice telling you that piracy is bad mmkay.
Thanks to Google Public DNS it's only an issue for unrooted phones, which are not the best device for piracy anyway...
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Depends what aviation. Paragliding is pretty much metric all worlds around ('muricans don't fly that much, Brittons don't fly that much in UK). Airspace zones are computed in advance and either avoided or ignored by idiots
It's still a downgrade. The only thing you can do with these shitty, 1$ manufacturing cost, 20$ retail price earbuds is put them in a fucking iPhone. You can't put them in a fucking computer. You can't put them is a fucking portable gaming console
But then the government bureaucracy and bloat increases the cost of that trip to $15
And you think large transport companies don't have bureaucracy and bloat? And marketing. And dividends. And CEO salaries.
In Belgium we combine both: transport companies are public but split in geographical fiefdoms managed by boards of directors coming directly from political parties, generally those apparatchiks so bad they could not get elected to public office. As with any proportional elections, there's always more than one party in these boards, but instead of controlling each other they typically cover each other. A huge part of the budget is then spent for "study trips" like "studying public transportation in Miami, Florida"
It is not his fault that his son was a moron.
isn't the moral thing to do to public tell your son is a moron, if he's about to cause a war?
Let's not got to Venus. Do we really need to add a fourth country to the list of those who can't switch to bloody medieval measurement units?
Barak Obama likes little boys, and everyone knows it.
that's ridiculous, why did he have 2 girls then ?
That was one of my main interrogations with The Martian: would growing potatoes be the best way to avoid starvation on Mars, or is there a way to bypass the potato phase?
True, but it could all be solved in software. Film vertically ? Your video should either be pan & scanned (more or less intelligently), or just explicitly take an horizontal frame.
. Can you imagine being arrested on suspicion of a serious crime because 30 minutes prior to the crime, in the "walking distance" proximity, you bought a pack of gum with your implant (or your debit card, or your smartphone)?
That would be proof of exactly nothing. It could lead police to a potential suspect, that's all
Let's examine the 4 quadrants.
You're innocent and no such trace exists = nothing new
You're guilty and no such trace exists = nothing new
You're innocent and such trace exists = it proves you were around. They still need to seek dirt on you, and possibly dozens of other people. You have no real reason to lie about being out of town.
You're guilty and such trace exist = they still need to find the dirt. At least they have a lead. You can't lie about being out of town.
It's a fricking social network account. If it may be important (hint: it's not that important) for a third party to have access to the fricking account, just leave the password somewhere where it can be retrieved.
It's not like Facebook is notified instantly of your death. Oh wait, they probably know it moments after it happened, but because of false positives they can't shut it down anyway. Heck, I just checked for someone who died 10 months ago, and he's still alive on Facebook
There are lots of interesting English words used only in foreign langage speaking world; in France, words like "relooking" (makeover) , "footing" (jogging), or "smoking" (tuxedo) come to mind
I am a huge fan of the EU. Not only because it's a bringing prosperity to my city (Brussels), is a net contributor to local and world peace, allows me to travel and pay more easily in a territory 50x as large as my own country, the Microsoft and Google lawsuits and many more reasons, but I truly despise the way they design the consumer protection laws.
Instead of punishing technology's abuses, they are really trying to make people's lives miserable.
Visiting a web site ? half of your screen is covered by the cookie warnings, even though 99,99% of website owners only actually use cookies for session management. And it would have taken very few effort for the lawmakers to add a "ignore and hide cooking warnings" general setting, which on EU scale would have made it to all browsers. This instead of just banning cookie tracking
Travelling across the border ? You'll get a SMS telling you that the tariff is....the same as home, which is nice, but that SMS / Tariff info was only relevant when operators were taking outrageous roaming fees. The message, though, is still mandatory.
Entering your car and want some navigation ? A stupid warning "driving while operating this device' is dangerous" (granted, that one may be even worse in the US)
And now GDPR: 99,99% of customer / subscriber information IS relevant, and is NOT used in abusive way. As a small non-profit sport club structure, it took us 2 months of iterative work to make ourselves minimally compliant, including a web site migration towards EU (on US owned servers). There is exactly zero gain for our members, whom we can not service if we don't have that minimum info from them, and which we have zero incentive to abuse. Of course, the have absolutely zero manpower to actually control/enforce the compliance in the millions of businesses and associations having files
All this while the ones most inclined to abuse their customers will still get away with it, and for which well-targeted raids might actually be cost effective.
(not to speak of the election of Laurent Louis). Next to that, the electoral college is very straightforward.
The Belgian government is actually elected, and in fact, enjoys a much better electoral system than say the United States where your authoritarian tyrant had fewer votes than his opponents, and his petty sycophants were often elected in rigged districts that make the entire process suspect, .
Except parties put whatever disgusting asshole on top of their lists, and even if you carefully skip the disgusting assholes in the list, once the acceptable people have the necessary number of votes to be elected, the remaining nominative votes are devolved to the disgusting assholes on top of the list you didn't want to see elected.
Except for half of the politicians (Michel, Tobback, Whatelet, Lutgen, Van Den Bossche,...), including our prime minister, who are sons of the previous generation (some of whom were convicted for corruption, and who themselves are suspected of corruption (Mathot, Daerden)) of politicians because of this system of electoral nomination.
Except for the vast majority of politicians being appointed to high paying corporate administration of (semi-)public companies, only to create more intermediate level boards whose only purpose is to get more money from these companies.
But I guess yes our political system is less corrupt than the US one
God's particle...The Pillars of Creation...
There's not way we shouldn't call it God's cockring
That's still 50 dB higher than the level that will be tolerated in most NIMBY neigborhoods
Yet James Webb is credited for forging the NASA capable of landing on the Moon - not only by turning NASA's loosely organized (and often fractious) centers into a cooperative and coordinated enterprise, but by gaining and maintaining a solid base of support in Congress.
T
So you're admitting NASA landing on the Moon is a forgery ?
Exactly, what Nestlé is doing to water supply worldwide could only happen in dirty commie shitholes
I do have to point out that Elon Musk missed out on another historic opportunity he could have pulled off with this launch. It they can put a Tesla Roadster in orbit around the Sun, then they could have just as easily launched a tea pot into orbit as well, thereby totally ruining the Russell's Teapot Argument as a philosophical debate point.
Well, maybe they have. In fact I, grand priest of the Saturn Tea Pot, tell you they have. It's only too small to see.
I didn't see two parts of a Saturn V come in under rocket power for a simultaneous landing.
LM descent and ascent stage, on top of each other
I think Musk's shiny Tesla is far better than a broken down Chevy because somebody, to make their own space statement, might launch a mission to get the Tesla back.
That would even be a nice KSP challenge. They're probably waiting for the actual ephemerids to be published to play them in RSS.
The big technological leap was the transition from a turbojet to a turbofan. A turbojet relies on throwing the exhaust gases backward at high velocity to generate thrust. A turbofan uses part of the exhaust gases to spin a ducted fan blade which pushes non-exhaust air backward to generate thrust. Basically the same thing as a turboprop (a propeller driven by a jet engine, instead of a piston engine), except the propeller is ducted. IIRC, nowadays close to 90% of the thrust comes from the bypass fans, only about 10% from the exhaust jet
I'm not a fluid dynamics engineer, but as you seem knowledgeable: could you or someone else explain me why using the exhaust to drive a ducted fan or propeller has an advantage over just using the exhaust as direct reaction mass? Newton's 3rd law and Thermodynamics's first law *seem* to indicate me one can break even at best.
With no desert
In the long run Malthus is ALWAYS right
In Belgium, they enforce that on ISP level by sending DNS response redirecting to a site from the ministry of justice telling you that piracy is bad mmkay.
Thanks to Google Public DNS it's only an issue for unrooted phones, which are not the best device for piracy anyway...