Well the funny thing about trends is the starting point and the ending point makes a big difference, Ice used to be a few kilometers thick over where my house is now. When I was a teenager I used to work at a ski-area and ride my snowmobile, now I have to drive to 45 degrees north to get decent snow, now that was in the later 1960's and early 1970's, Now in the 1990's the temperatures seem to have peaked, and in the 2010's the temple have been flat and now, Some data like UAH satelite measured lower atmosphere temps are hinting at a downward trend, the evidence isn't strong enough to bet the farm on, yet I don't consider any temp data strong enough to bet the farm on.
Planes can get into serious trouble when the date handling routines are FUBARed.
Maj. Gen. Don Sheppard (ret.): ”...At the international date line, whoops, all systems dumped and when I say all systems, I mean all systems, their navigation, part of their communications, their fuel systems. They were—they could have been in real trouble. They were with their tankers. The tankers – they tried to reset their systems, couldn’t get them reset. The tankers brought them back to Hawaii. This could have been real serious. It certainly could have been real serious if the weather had been bad. It turned out OK. It was fixed in 48 hours. It was a computer glitch in the millions of lines of code, somebody made an error in a couple lines of the code and everything goes. F-22 Squadron Shot Down by the International Date Line
Y2K might have been exaggerated some, but at least that problem was real; Apocalyptic Global Warming, not so much.
Personally I think that was the main thing EU wanted when they moved to get rid of Gaddafi, not the Oil but the open desert for solar installations complete with molten salt storage. It doesn't work in Germany but it works in Libia.
p>Also consider that Germany is densely populated compared to the USA, and not very large either. A nuclear accident would be a severe blow to Germany, as well as a failure to properly store nuclear waste.
So we either deal with Nuclear Waste, or Murcury in our waters.
No, either we deal with nuclear waste from Nuclear Reactors, or we deal with Nuclear Waste, mercury, lead, particulates and creosote from coal burning plants. A ton of coal usually has as much energy available in the contained thorium and uranium as it does from the coal proper.
That 5% will effectively decay away in 300 years leaving those fuel rods better than new; future generations will think we were a bunch of Flat-Earthers, little better the medieval alchemists for burying it in the first place.
The worst thing in nuclear waste is Cs-137 which has a half-life of 30.17 years, so after 3 centuries Yucca Mountain will be the World's largest Plutonium mine!
The problem is it would set a bad precedent to retroactively pardon people who were convicted in the past under democratic laws just because the laws were unfair
Since a pardon is
A pardon is the forgiveness of a crime and the cancellation of the relevant penalty; it is usually granted by a head of state (such as a monarch or president) or by a competent church authority. Pardon
how would it be possible to not apply it retroactively? Would you rather have it applied proactively; Nixon could have pardoned John Dean, John Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldeman, E. Howard Hunt, Egil Krogh, G. Gordon Liddy, Jeb Magruder, John N. Mitchell before anybody even left for the Watergate!
I think the point is, Adolf Hitler is ultimately responsible for the deaths of 11 Million people who chose to be born into the wrong religion or ethnic group, and Alan Turing probably did as much as any single person to defeat the Nazi's for the reward of being killed for the offense of being born with the wrong sexual orientation; therefore the difference between the Nazi's in Germany and the British is quantitative not qualitative.
Your referring to the Dawes's resolution limit [arc sec] = 116 / Aperture Diameter [mm] (for green light), it's actually the edges that contribute the most to resolution, where the glass in the middle increases the light gathering ability more and the glass in the center usually doesn't do anything. As the glass gets bigger, the cost increases exponentially. The lack of light gathering is easy to compensate by increasing the exposure time.
I think one of the causes for the difference is most European Countries are on a form of Parliamentary Government, and in a Parliamentary Government minority parties can wield power through coalitions; right now this happens mainly in the conventions. Now if we moved to a system where a portion of our House of Representatives were elected by popular party votes and you would start see Libertarians, Greens, Socialists and Communists sitting in congress with Democrats and Republicans, now that would considerably change the way power worked in our country. The Tea Party and Occupy might even become full fledged political parties. Democrats really aren't as anti-war as you think, to me it seems their anti-Big Business leanings teaming up with the competitions of their beloved social programs for tax money makes them more anti defense-contractor than anti-war.
My suspicion is that the Taliban hasn't had enough first aid training to make much difference. Beside all military ammo is full metal jacket things like hollow points are a violation of the Geneva conventions so through and through wounds are fairly common. I've seen 7.62 mm military ball ammo go through a 12 inch maple tree at close range.
Of course, the laser (even IR) will give away the spotter's position. This is no sniper weapon. I wonder, then, what applications the technology does have.
Drones, the ultimate sniper weapon, Long distance, the next best thing to being there. You can spoil somebodies whole day from half a world away and not have any of the messy collateral damage that a Hellfire's big splash can make.
Can't snipers already hit a target a mile out, without needing million dollar bullets?
You can't put a sniper in a MQ-1 Predator or a MQ-9 Reaper, but you certainly put a weapons pod on one. If the bullets aren't too pricey, I could easily see them being used against a wide range of point targets where a Hellfire missile at $68,000.00 a shot would not only be more expensive but a lot less surgical. Right now the Taliban is pretty good at jumping the arrow when a Hellfire missile is fired at a group of them on foot so we usually only get one person, with these we could hunt down the individuals in the group as they ran.
Technically your correct, the bullet isn't laser guided, as in the MIM-14 Nike-Hercules was a radar guide missile, and the MIM-23 Hawk is a Semi-active radar homing missile, likewise the AGM-114 Hellfire is primarily Semi-Active Laser Homing up until the terminal phase of the flight and then can revert to millimeter wave radar seeker; but that's way more pedantic than most people will tolerate.
When I was in AIT at Redstone, there was a detachment of Marines going to school with us and those guys would pass out at attention and hit the ground at attention; a perfect three point landing two toes and a nose.
In fifth grade reading my teacher had a stripfilm projector with a variable shutter on it. She would flash words on the screen for us to learn to read, by the end of the year I could read words flashed for so short a time that we couldn't consciously see them. That of course was well before phonics and even now I'm much more of a holistic reader, reading the whole word as a single word rather than a string of characters to be deciphered.
The problem is actually getting through the class in the first place.. not only in terms of being able to keep up. Since everyone tends to fall asleep after 30-45 minutes, we need to have shorter lessons. Since everyone falls asleep after lunch, we should have labs after lunch.
My microbiology classes lecturer had an incredibly boring voice, the was class after lunch and the morning was 4 hrs worth of clinicals, half the class was either asleep or throwing paper-wads at each other and the other half had a funny glazed stare, mostly daydreaming. I aced the class because I paid attention using an Army technique, if you can't stay awake sitting down in class, stand up in the back of the room; nobody falls asleep standing up.
These conditions may also simply be incorporated into the structure of the argument itself, in which case the form may look like this:[2] X holds that A is true X is a legitimate expert on the subject. The consensus of experts agrees with X. Therefore, there's a presumption that A is true. Argument from authority
I think the valid points are presumption that A is true and X is a legitimate expert on the subject a presumption of truth is not as strong as a proof of truth or even an absence of disproof after a rigorous investigation, and the legitimacy of Madoff's expertise is certainly now questionable.
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I've noticed that in the past but now not so much, the Warmistas must have gone off their ritalin and decided that other causes are more kewl.
Well the funny thing about trends is the starting point and the ending point makes a big difference, Ice used to be a few kilometers thick over where my house is now. When I was a teenager I used to work at a ski-area and ride my snowmobile, now I have to drive to 45 degrees north to get decent snow, now that was in the later 1960's and early 1970's, Now in the 1990's the temperatures seem to have peaked, and in the 2010's the temple have been flat and now, Some data like UAH satelite measured lower atmosphere temps are hinting at a downward trend, the evidence isn't strong enough to bet the farm on, yet I don't consider any temp data strong enough to bet the farm on.
It's also been down to 180 PPM, at 150PPM, the plants die because they can't fix CO2 from the air and no plants means no animals.
Actually a survey of 3146 Earth Scientists resulted in 75 out of the 77 active climatologists saying Yes to "Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?"; the question didn't even say anything about warming or CO2!
Planes can get into serious trouble when the date handling routines are FUBARed.
Y2K might have been exaggerated some, but at least that problem was real; Apocalyptic Global Warming, not so much.
Personally I think that was the main thing EU wanted when they moved to get rid of Gaddafi, not the Oil but the open desert for solar installations complete with molten salt storage. It doesn't work in Germany but it works in Libia.
p>Also consider that Germany is densely populated compared to the USA, and not very large either. A nuclear accident would be a severe blow to Germany, as well as a failure to properly store nuclear waste.
Yes it dense, most towns are only 15 Kt's apart!
So we either deal with Nuclear Waste, or Murcury in our waters.
No, either we deal with nuclear waste from Nuclear Reactors, or we deal with Nuclear Waste, mercury, lead, particulates and creosote from coal burning plants. A ton of coal usually has as much energy available in the contained thorium and uranium as it does from the coal proper.
That 5% will effectively decay away in 300 years leaving those fuel rods better than new; future generations will think we were a bunch of Flat-Earthers, little better the medieval alchemists for burying it in the first place.
The worst thing in nuclear waste is Cs-137 which has a half-life of 30.17 years, so after 3 centuries Yucca Mountain will be the World's largest Plutonium mine!
Just go to Government Liquidation and get a surplus MRI , those bad-boys will erase those pesky hard-drives.
Well fiber was made out of glass about 6000 years ago maybe, nowadays we use plastic, it's much clearer than glass.
The problem is it would set a bad precedent to retroactively pardon people who were convicted in the past under democratic laws just because the laws were unfair
Since a pardon is
how would it be possible to not apply it retroactively? Would you rather have it applied proactively; Nixon could have pardoned John Dean, John Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldeman, E. Howard Hunt, Egil Krogh, G. Gordon Liddy, Jeb Magruder, John N. Mitchell before anybody even left for the Watergate!
I think the point is, Adolf Hitler is ultimately responsible for the deaths of 11 Million people who chose to be born into the wrong religion or ethnic group, and Alan Turing probably did as much as any single person to defeat the Nazi's for the reward of being killed for the offense of being born with the wrong sexual orientation; therefore the difference between the Nazi's in Germany and the British is quantitative not qualitative.
Your referring to the Dawes's resolution limit [arc sec] = 116 / Aperture Diameter [mm] (for green light), it's actually the edges that contribute the most to resolution, where the glass in the middle increases the light gathering ability more and the glass in the center usually doesn't do anything. As the glass gets bigger, the cost increases exponentially. The lack of light gathering is easy to compensate by increasing the exposure time.
I think one of the causes for the difference is most European Countries are on a form of Parliamentary Government, and in a Parliamentary Government minority parties can wield power through coalitions; right now this happens mainly in the conventions. Now if we moved to a system where a portion of our House of Representatives were elected by popular party votes and you would start see Libertarians, Greens, Socialists and Communists sitting in congress with Democrats and Republicans, now that would considerably change the way power worked in our country. The Tea Party and Occupy might even become full fledged political parties. Democrats really aren't as anti-war as you think, to me it seems their anti-Big Business leanings teaming up with the competitions of their beloved social programs for tax money makes them more anti defense-contractor than anti-war.
My suspicion is that the Taliban hasn't had enough first aid training to make much difference. Beside all military ammo is full metal jacket things like hollow points are a violation of the Geneva conventions so through and through wounds are fairly common. I've seen 7.62 mm military ball ammo go through a 12 inch maple tree at close range.
Of course, the laser (even IR) will give away the spotter's position. This is no sniper weapon. I wonder, then, what applications the technology does have.
Drones, the ultimate sniper weapon, Long distance, the next best thing to being there. You can spoil somebodies whole day from half a world away and not have any of the messy collateral damage that a Hellfire's big splash can make.
Can't snipers already hit a target a mile out, without needing million dollar bullets?
You can't put a sniper in a MQ-1 Predator or a MQ-9 Reaper, but you certainly put a weapons pod on one. If the bullets aren't too pricey, I could easily see them being used against a wide range of point targets where a Hellfire missile at $68,000.00 a shot would not only be more expensive but a lot less surgical. Right now the Taliban is pretty good at jumping the arrow when a Hellfire missile is fired at a group of them on foot so we usually only get one person, with these we could hunt down the individuals in the group as they ran.
I was thinking the Dumdums from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Technically your correct, the bullet isn't laser guided, as in the MIM-14 Nike-Hercules was a radar guide missile, and the MIM-23 Hawk is a Semi-active radar homing missile, likewise the AGM-114 Hellfire is primarily Semi-Active Laser Homing up until the terminal phase of the flight and then can revert to millimeter wave radar seeker; but that's way more pedantic than most people will tolerate.
When I was in AIT at Redstone, there was a detachment of Marines going to school with us and those guys would pass out at attention and hit the ground at attention; a perfect three point landing two toes and a nose.
In fifth grade reading my teacher had a stripfilm projector with a variable shutter on it. She would flash words on the screen for us to learn to read, by the end of the year I could read words flashed for so short a time that we couldn't consciously see them. That of course was well before phonics and even now I'm much more of a holistic reader, reading the whole word as a single word rather than a string of characters to be deciphered.
The problem is actually getting through the class in the first place .. not only in terms of being able to keep up. Since everyone tends to fall asleep after 30-45 minutes, we need to have shorter lessons. Since everyone falls asleep after lunch, we should have labs after lunch.
My microbiology classes lecturer had an incredibly boring voice, the was class after lunch and the morning was 4 hrs worth of clinicals, half the class was either asleep or throwing paper-wads at each other and the other half had a funny glazed stare, mostly daydreaming. I aced the class because I paid attention using an Army technique, if you can't stay awake sitting down in class, stand up in the back of the room; nobody falls asleep standing up.
I think the valid points are presumption that A is true and X is a legitimate expert on the subject a presumption of truth is not as strong as a proof of truth or even an absence of disproof after a rigorous investigation, and the legitimacy of Madoff's expertise is certainly now questionable.