"Dictatorships all over the world have to rely on people who "only do their job"" In a democratic society the employees are supposed to be answerable to the elected government and the elected government to the people. It is dangerous when go outside the law. Do you think a murderer should go free if a police officers finds the evidence with an illegal search? Maybe you feel that the answer is yes because a police officer has to follow the law no matter what because you see a lot of danger if the police get's to decide when to follow the law and when not to. The same is true in the case of Snowden and Manning. Those two do not have the right to override the policies and laws of the elected government. Of course if you really feel that Snowden was in the right because the government is out of control you had better be calling for the impeachment of President Obama at the same time.
Because it is great when employees of the federal government take matters into their own hands and over ride the elected government? What could possible go wring with that?
The fire does seem to have started in the car. Cars should not burst into flame the the Tesla is breaking a lot of new ground so it is to be expected for it to have some brand new issues that we really have not seen before.
I have seen wiring harnesses and they do not weigh as much as an engine in most cases. I have not seen an engine that weighs less than 100lbs or a wiring harness that weighs as much.
It can be made to work but it is probably not worth doing. 1. One large motor is cheaper than four small motors. 2. More points of failure and if one motor on a side fails it may not be safe to drive the car so you get nothing from the redundancy. 3. The added unsprung weight of the motors will cause the car to handle and ride less well. 4. Just plan added weight. Again four small motors will weigh more than one larger motor.
hub motors also mean unsprung weight and other issues. For example if you have a car with four hub motors driving all the wheels and three of the wheels loose traction you then only have 1/4 power available even if your one wheel with good traction could take more power.
Funny but I am pretty sure Sweden is the nation that is after Assange in this case. He really should just go to France, they have a long history of protecting famous rapists.
Every website will be US heavy. Slashdot is not just a tech website but a US based tech website so of course it will be US centric. You want less US centric go to Slashdot.jp. Really complaining that Slashdot is US centric is as dumb as complaning that http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada is too Canadian centric.
The pilot is deciding to take the risk and since we are talking about sailplanes and private pilots the passenger is as well. I would not want them to relax the rules for ATP or even possible commercial pilots but for private pilots the risks are really no worse than for driving a car.
Every tech site is going to be US news heavy for the simple reason that Microsoft, Google, Intel, Apple, AMD, Cisco, and so on are all US based companies. CNN has an International version btw just as the BBC does. I will agree with you that the BBC is a great news service. As a Canadian all I can say is you guys suck. You should have made more episodes of Little Mosque, but you should have kept Reverand McGee and not had Yasar and Sarah divorce.
Got to love the idea of someone that is so concerned about freedom using an all Chinese laptop. Buying an all Chinese computer because you are worried about US spying is like feeling the US to Nazi Germany because you were worried about anti-semites.
HURD was the signature project for GNU. The whole point of the GNU project was a Free Open Source Unix like operating system. GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix. I don't have a problem with HURD as a project. I am all for grand experiments and now that we have Linux as a production FOSS operating system HURD can fill that roll. HURD may not now be GNUs signature project but at one time it really was. I will add that I find Minix 3.0 to be very interesting project that is not getting the attention that it deserves.
Seems like this is jus not a big danger honestly. I did not know that Canada had stricter rules on sailplanes. The danger of a heart attack crash in Canada killing someone on the ground seems even less likely to happen in Canada.
No one said that "furriners" sic had to leave. They should just not be any more shocked that a US based website is going to be heavy on US centric news. It would be as silly as if I complained that BBC is too UK centric.
No, Simple reason is Google, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Oracle, Amazon, the FSF, IBM, and NASA. Not to mention Slashdot is a US based website, in english, and owned by a US based company. Your complaint is as dumb as if I went to France and complained about the lack of TV shows in english.
Actually an SV650 is not a terrible first bike and a KLR650 is also a fine first bike if you are tall enough. If you are looking for a good 250 the CBR 250, Ninja 250 are both good bikes. The TU250x is also a good bike if you want a standard motorcycle. Stick to smallish twins and singles and you will be fine. If you can find a good one the old Ninja 500r is also a good first bike. Stay clear of the 4s and you should be fine.
That building is not a missile factory, it is a maintenance and check out building. North Korea has bad weather so using a building for check out would make a lot of sense.
You did not need a medical exam for a glider license in the 1980s they where and still are self certifying. Actually if you look at all the light aircraft crashes that happen and the number of deaths caused on the ground you will see that it is rare for a plane to crash and kill someone on the ground. You see the earth really is mostly empty space vs roads which have a lot of cars and people near them. The new Sport Pilots license does not require a medical and they are working to have the same system for private pilots.
"Motorcycles and aviation catered to a certain demographic of people looking to get out there and do something interesting, something crazy" Interesting yes crazy not really. It really is the cost that is the issue for aviation. I would say the same for motorcycles. Motorcycles got to specialized and in some segments performance actually got out of hand. You had cruisers which are just not that great at going around a corner or going long distances, you had sports bikes which where really fast and good about going around corners but where just not that comfortable and frankly scary fast, and you had touring bikes which are good at going for long distances. You also had sport tourers and adventure tourers but very few just plan motorcycles that did everything okay. That is now changing and we are seeing less expensive and more flexible motorcycles that seem to be increasing sales.
You can buy a used Cessna 120 for not much more than a nice boat. It is all the other costs that really drive it up. The problem is simple fewer people flying the more FBOs have to charge for tie downs, hangers, and so on to stay in business so even fewer people fly. What really hurts are all the lost manufacturing jobs at companies like Piper, Money, Cessna, Beechcraft, Lake, and Maule, not to mention all the jobs at FBOs and other aviation based businesses.
So you are stuck with Intel with their FOSS drivers but terrible GPUs. AMD also was all proprietary and their FOSS drivers are not as feature rich as the closed source. So you are made about them not supporting FOSS in the past... But they are doing it now and you are still mad.... Seems counter productive to keep complaining after a company goes FOSS.
The big problem with the Ouya was not the idea but the execution. It wasn't that good and had a small store. If Amazon can get not have the controller lag that is an issue with the Ouya they could have a good gaming console. The new Tegra from nVidia is a pretty powerful chip and will be good enough for a lot of games.
If the Tesla in Norway was having trouble charging at 0k then the sun must have gone out. Actually the Tesla can not charge at 0k because one can not reach 0k.
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"Dictatorships all over the world have to rely on people who "only do their job""
In a democratic society the employees are supposed to be answerable to the elected government and the elected government to the people. It is dangerous when go outside the law. Do you think a murderer should go free if a police officers finds the evidence with an illegal search? Maybe you feel that the answer is yes because a police officer has to follow the law no matter what because you see a lot of danger if the police get's to decide when to follow the law and when not to. The same is true in the case of Snowden and Manning. Those two do not have the right to override the policies and laws of the elected government. Of course if you really feel that Snowden was in the right because the government is out of control you had better be calling for the impeachment of President Obama at the same time.
Because it is great when employees of the federal government take matters into their own hands and over ride the elected government? What could possible go wring with that?
The fire does seem to have started in the car. Cars should not burst into flame the the Tesla is breaking a lot of new ground so it is to be expected for it to have some brand new issues that we really have not seen before.
I have seen wiring harnesses and they do not weigh as much as an engine in most cases. I have not seen an engine that weighs less than 100lbs or a wiring harness that weighs as much.
It can be made to work but it is probably not worth doing.
1. One large motor is cheaper than four small motors.
2. More points of failure and if one motor on a side fails it may not be safe to drive the car so you get nothing from the redundancy.
3. The added unsprung weight of the motors will cause the car to handle and ride less well.
4. Just plan added weight. Again four small motors will weigh more than one larger motor.
You also have a problem with the unsprung weight.
hub motors also mean unsprung weight and other issues. For example if you have a car with four hub motors driving all the wheels and three of the wheels loose traction you then only have 1/4 power available even if your one wheel with good traction could take more power.
Funny but I am pretty sure Sweden is the nation that is after Assange in this case. He really should just go to France, they have a long history of protecting famous rapists.
Every website will be US heavy.
Slashdot is not just a tech website but a US based tech website so of course it will be US centric. You want less US centric go to Slashdot.jp.
Really complaining that Slashdot is US centric is as dumb as complaning that http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada is too Canadian centric.
The pilot is deciding to take the risk and since we are talking about sailplanes and private pilots the passenger is as well. I would not want them to relax the rules for ATP or even possible commercial pilots but for private pilots the risks are really no worse than for driving a car.
Every tech site is going to be US news heavy for the simple reason that Microsoft, Google, Intel, Apple, AMD, Cisco, and so on are all US based companies. CNN has an International version btw just as the BBC does. I will agree with you that the BBC is a great news service. As a Canadian all I can say is you guys suck. You should have made more episodes of Little Mosque, but you should have kept Reverand McGee and not had Yasar and Sarah divorce.
Got to love the idea of someone that is so concerned about freedom using an all Chinese laptop. Buying an all Chinese computer because you are worried about US spying is like feeling the US to Nazi Germany because you were worried about anti-semites.
HURD was the signature project for GNU. The whole point of the GNU project was a Free Open Source Unix like operating system. GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix. I don't have a problem with HURD as a project. I am all for grand experiments and now that we have Linux as a production FOSS operating system HURD can fill that roll. HURD may not now be GNUs signature project but at one time it really was.
I will add that I find Minix 3.0 to be very interesting project that is not getting the attention that it deserves.
Seems like this is jus not a big danger honestly. I did not know that Canada had stricter rules on sailplanes. The danger of a heart attack crash in Canada killing someone on the ground seems even less likely to happen in Canada.
No one said that "furriners" sic had to leave. They should just not be any more shocked that a US based website is going to be heavy on US centric news. It would be as silly as if I complained that BBC is too UK centric.
No, Simple reason is Google, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Oracle, Amazon, the FSF, IBM, and NASA. Not to mention Slashdot is a US based website, in english, and owned by a US based company. Your complaint is as dumb as if I went to France and complained about the lack of TV shows in english.
Actually an SV650 is not a terrible first bike and a KLR650 is also a fine first bike if you are tall enough. If you are looking for a good 250 the CBR 250, Ninja 250 are both good bikes. The TU250x is also a good bike if you want a standard motorcycle.
Stick to smallish twins and singles and you will be fine. If you can find a good one the old Ninja 500r is also a good first bike.
Stay clear of the 4s and you should be fine.
That building is not a missile factory, it is a maintenance and check out building. North Korea has bad weather so using a building for check out would make a lot of sense.
I suggest you look at storable liquid fueled rockets. The Titan II and SS-18 are two examples of liquid fueled rockets that could be stored fueled.
You did not need a medical exam for a glider license in the 1980s they where and still are self certifying. Actually if you look at all the light aircraft crashes that happen and the number of deaths caused on the ground you will see that it is rare for a plane to crash and kill someone on the ground. You see the earth really is mostly empty space vs roads which have a lot of cars and people near them.
The new Sport Pilots license does not require a medical and they are working to have the same system for private pilots.
"Motorcycles and aviation catered to a certain demographic of people looking to get out there and do something interesting, something crazy"
Interesting yes crazy not really.
It really is the cost that is the issue for aviation. I would say the same for motorcycles. Motorcycles got to specialized and in some segments performance actually got out of hand. You had cruisers which are just not that great at going around a corner or going long distances, you had sports bikes which where really fast and good about going around corners but where just not that comfortable and frankly scary fast, and you had touring bikes which are good at going for long distances.
You also had sport tourers and adventure tourers but very few just plan motorcycles that did everything okay.
That is now changing and we are seeing less expensive and more flexible motorcycles that seem to be increasing sales.
You can buy a used Cessna 120 for not much more than a nice boat. It is all the other costs that really drive it up. The problem is simple fewer people flying the more FBOs have to charge for tie downs, hangers, and so on to stay in business so even fewer people fly. What really hurts are all the lost manufacturing jobs at companies like Piper, Money, Cessna, Beechcraft, Lake, and Maule, not to mention all the jobs at FBOs and other aviation based businesses.
So you are stuck with Intel with their FOSS drivers but terrible GPUs. AMD also was all proprietary and their FOSS drivers are not as feature rich as the closed source. So you are made about them not supporting FOSS in the past... But they are doing it now and you are still mad.... Seems counter productive to keep complaining after a company goes FOSS.
The big problem with the Ouya was not the idea but the execution. It wasn't that good and had a small store. If Amazon can get not have the controller lag that is an issue with the Ouya they could have a good gaming console. The new Tegra from nVidia is a pretty powerful chip and will be good enough for a lot of games.
If the Tesla in Norway was having trouble charging at 0k then the sun must have gone out. Actually the Tesla can not charge at 0k because one can not reach 0k.