Really, the engineering to make and guide a missile is not formidable these days. Iran is more than capable, though testing is probably hard for them being landlocked. A good machine shop and a knowledge of F=ma is all that is really needed. The rest is detail, easily accessible on Wikipedia.
The nuclear capability is a bit harder, but only a bit harder, than missile technology. Again, testing is probably the hard part. But Pakistan figured it out. Iran certainly has the capability.
Iran is (or soon will be) a state capable of nuclear weapons delivered by missiles. The genie is out of the bottle. Life sucks, deal.
Either Iran nukes Israel or Israel nukes Iran (or both) within the next 10 years. Place your bets.
+1. If the transportation goes where people need to go when they need to go there, they will use if. If it complicates people's schedules to use public transit and does not compensate in time or money, no one will use it.
I live in Massachusetts, but unfortunately I don't commute into or out of Boston, but along I-495 (one of the major loops around Metro Boston). I've done a lot of homework on public transportation commute options and they all suck. There are lots of train or subway options to get into or out of Boston radially, but nothing directly along the I-495 corridor. Some buses run that route, but they are not cost effective and the schedules don't usually align with my work schedule. I teach so I absolutely have to make it in by class time, so reliability is a problem.
On paper I *could* take trains to where I work, but I'd have to take one into Boston (~1 hr), get off and switch to a different line (~30 min, maybe less, maybe more), and take another train out to my destination (~1 hr 30 min). 6 hrs daily commute by train if I was so inclined. And I'd be at the mercy of the infrequent but not uncommon delays.
My commute by car is 35 minutes one way, all highway. With gas and maintenance (not counting my time), the cost is less than paying the train fare. Ride share options are not great as there are few other businesses near where I work. Bus is an occasionally possible option, but the schedule conflicts with my teaching and the cost is no better than driving myself. Bike is a no-go because of the distance and winter.
I would give away my car in a heartbeat if there was a sensible alternative to get to work, but there simply isn't one.
Just updated to Mint 17.2 and use MATE. Nice - it is a bit snappier. The only aggravation is the start menu still lags on first opening (a "paper cut" issue, but it's been around for a while).
I am a Windows XP EOL refugee that transitioned to Linux Mint last year (but I have used UNIX and Fedora at work for some time). At the time I had no idea what would be the best home desktop distro for me out of all the Linux distros available. Mint with MATE behaves a lot like XP; UI is similar enough that the transition from XP was very painless. I put a lot of different distros on a stick and checked them all out, and Mint/MATE worked for me.
This is one of the bigger problems preventing Linux desktop adoption IMO; there is an overwhelming number of Linux flavors, and very little guidance available as to what are the pros and cons of each, so casual users just suffer on with Windows because it is a simpler decision. Few really want to put in the effort to explore that whole ecosystem to find one that they like (and fewer know that they can even test the variants without installing), so Windows is the default experience.
We've been through this before. Computers and automation were supposed to decrease everyone's workload. Keynes predicted we would have a 15-hr work week by 2030. It hasn't happened yet, and likely won't, because the bean counters and CEOs will simply see the untapped 25-hr/week as lost potential growth and will do all they can to exploit it to maximizing profits.
We live in a society that demands growth, not steady-state. Trekonomics does not account for the fact that humans are inherently greedy, some so addicted to shiny things that they are willing to struggle to horde so much wealth that they cannot possibly spend it in a lifetime. Until that mentality is erased I wouldn't make extended vacation plans just yet.
The new 234m facility, one of the world’s largest, will concentrate its research to optimize growth recipes for leafy vegetables, strawberries and herbs.
You go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.
Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.
EVs right now are a product that people need to pay a premium for, but don't get any advantage from it (they get several disadvantages, in fact). The only people who buy them are ones who have enough free cash to do frivolous things with their money. U.S. middle class folks trying to run a household aren't going to be buying EVs anytime soon.
Right now the effective range of EVs would just barely get me to work and back in summer. In winter, forget it, not enough range. Fail
If a charging station was available at or near work, it would work (range anxiety would go away). But they aren't available, because people don't have EVs. Fail
Even if the range issue could be resolved, it is nearly impossible to say whether purchasing an EV will pay in the long run compared to a gasoline fueled vehicle. Gas is really cheap right now, and EVs are very expensive compared to gasoline vehicles. Fail
The only way it would make economic sense to buy an EV is if the cost of gasoline skyrockets. Perhaps that will happen during the lifetime of my next vehicle, maybe it will not. You also need to think about where your electricity is coming from. Locally ~65% of the electricity is produced using natural gas. Unless that percentage decreases soon, if gasoline gets expensive, natural gas will probably get expensive too, so EVs would not necessarily insulate me from swings in energy costs.
So certain psychoactive drugs have an influence on moral judgment. OK, cool science...I guess.
But damn, whoever is designing these experiments is a sadistic mo-fo who needs a freaking intervention! WTF people!
Scientist: "Oh, I know...we can pay grant money to people to let us give them painful shocks!" (scientist's leg starts twitching, obviously aroused). "Yes...yessss...pain..so much pain, and pleasure. Too bad we couldn't get funding for the ball gags and leather straps."
Mod parent up...OP is a fuckwit who wears a hockey helmet in public outings who doesn't know shit about nuclear plant operations.He sure-as-hell ain't a GM of a nuclear plant.
Safety is the life blood of nuclear plant operations as we're keenly aware that public perception is against nuclear power. A GM with the above attitude would be shot by the plant engineers in the parking lot for gross stupidity.
NASA is in a strange place right now. Commercial launch capability is growing quickly, but the recent SpaceX failure underlines the fact that they may not be ready for prime time just yet. So the question is - does NASA spend these dollars to develop a heavy launch capability, or do they wait, cross their fingers, and hope that there is a commercial capability in place during the desired timeline?
At best, they spend the money and have a redundant launch capability. At worst, they don't spend the money AND commercial launch capability dies on the vine, and we are then left with no heavy lift capability at all.
And for the anti-NASA crowd that will be chanting "Pork! Pork! Pork!" - note that NASA is also trying to slow a massive brain drain of experience and knowledge from the shuttle program (yeah, which happens to keep the district congress-critters happy). Not having a project to work will mean watching all that experience walking out the door, gutting NASA's capability to do anything in the future.
NASA has a lot of judgements to make, several of which in hindsight will be seen to be redundant and costly, but without a crystal ball they need to make the decisions based not on cost-efficiency, but what will leave them with a exploration lift capability. That sucks, but that is not NASA's fault; they have to ride the waves (with a period T of 4 years) of the political seas.
Really, why don't we put some effort into unfucking Earth before we start fucking with another planet? Should be much easier as Earth is still very hospitable.
Strangely enough, they never caught on. Maybe because for the number of troops you could deploy with the same sound footprint, you could actually use helicopters accompanied by gunships? And the troops are therefore not encumbered with their own transportation?
Giving everyone in the platoon their own hoverbike means that you have a bunch of hoverbikes that you have to keep and maintain. And the Ewoks can still kick your ass because they are unencumbered with such hardware.
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Zip up your skirt, hot house orchid. You don't know what cold is.
Pucker up. Winter is coming.
The image shows the implant which appears to have gaps resembling skull sutures. It does look like this implant will permit growth of the cranium.
Really, the engineering to make and guide a missile is not formidable these days. Iran is more than capable, though testing is probably hard for them being landlocked. A good machine shop and a knowledge of F=ma is all that is really needed. The rest is detail, easily accessible on Wikipedia.
The nuclear capability is a bit harder, but only a bit harder, than missile technology. Again, testing is probably the hard part. But Pakistan figured it out. Iran certainly has the capability.
Iran is (or soon will be) a state capable of nuclear weapons delivered by missiles. The genie is out of the bottle. Life sucks, deal.
Either Iran nukes Israel or Israel nukes Iran (or both) within the next 10 years. Place your bets.
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday Mr President
Happy birthday to you
Thanks, Mr President
For all the things you've done
The battles that you've won
The way you deal with U.S. Steel
And our problems by the ton
We thank you so much
Everybody, happy birthday
So you're not going to install Linux, is that what you are saying?
Someone with a sense of humor. Thanks for replying.
Seriously - no sense of humor at all in Slashdot anymore. Conform citizen!
Hmmm...modded to Troll -1. I suggested lynching a Gungan, and all the Gungan rights activists pounced on me.
Just install Linux.
+1. If the transportation goes where people need to go when they need to go there, they will use if. If it complicates people's schedules to use public transit and does not compensate in time or money, no one will use it.
I live in Massachusetts, but unfortunately I don't commute into or out of Boston, but along I-495 (one of the major loops around Metro Boston). I've done a lot of homework on public transportation commute options and they all suck. There are lots of train or subway options to get into or out of Boston radially, but nothing directly along the I-495 corridor. Some buses run that route, but they are not cost effective and the schedules don't usually align with my work schedule. I teach so I absolutely have to make it in by class time, so reliability is a problem.
On paper I *could* take trains to where I work, but I'd have to take one into Boston (~1 hr), get off and switch to a different line (~30 min, maybe less, maybe more), and take another train out to my destination (~1 hr 30 min). 6 hrs daily commute by train if I was so inclined. And I'd be at the mercy of the infrequent but not uncommon delays.
My commute by car is 35 minutes one way, all highway. With gas and maintenance (not counting my time), the cost is less than paying the train fare. Ride share options are not great as there are few other businesses near where I work. Bus is an occasionally possible option, but the schedule conflicts with my teaching and the cost is no better than driving myself. Bike is a no-go because of the distance and winter.
I would give away my car in a heartbeat if there was a sensible alternative to get to work, but there simply isn't one.
...but if anybody deserved a death by lynching, it is Jar Jar Binks.
Just updated to Mint 17.2 and use MATE. Nice - it is a bit snappier. The only aggravation is the start menu still lags on first opening (a "paper cut" issue, but it's been around for a while).
I am a Windows XP EOL refugee that transitioned to Linux Mint last year (but I have used UNIX and Fedora at work for some time). At the time I had no idea what would be the best home desktop distro for me out of all the Linux distros available. Mint with MATE behaves a lot like XP; UI is similar enough that the transition from XP was very painless. I put a lot of different distros on a stick and checked them all out, and Mint/MATE worked for me.
This is one of the bigger problems preventing Linux desktop adoption IMO; there is an overwhelming number of Linux flavors, and very little guidance available as to what are the pros and cons of each, so casual users just suffer on with Windows because it is a simpler decision. Few really want to put in the effort to explore that whole ecosystem to find one that they like (and fewer know that they can even test the variants without installing), so Windows is the default experience.
Every time I see some of these crazy machinations to try to jam more and more people into less and less space, I can't help but think of this diagram:
Description of a Slave Ship
The economic motives are even similar, more bodies per craft = more profit.
Why don't the airlines just sedate all the passengers and stack them like cord wood in a pressurized cargo container and be done with it?
We've been through this before. Computers and automation were supposed to decrease everyone's workload. Keynes predicted we would have a 15-hr work week by 2030. It hasn't happened yet, and likely won't, because the bean counters and CEOs will simply see the untapped 25-hr/week as lost potential growth and will do all they can to exploit it to maximizing profits.
We live in a society that demands growth, not steady-state. Trekonomics does not account for the fact that humans are inherently greedy, some so addicted to shiny things that they are willing to struggle to horde so much wealth that they cannot possibly spend it in a lifetime. Until that mentality is erased I wouldn't make extended vacation plans just yet.
The new 234m facility, one of the world’s largest, will concentrate its research to optimize growth recipes for leafy vegetables, strawberries and herbs.
Hmm, what kind of herbs ?
Greece owes something like 660 Euros per citizen of the EU for the bailouts to date.
To compensate them, maybe Greece should offer a one-week, all-expenses paid vacation for each of them to ... Greece?
Unlimitied retsina and ouzo allowance, of course.
Greece will be in ruins afterwards, but it already has a lot of ruins.
You go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.
Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.
EVs right now are a product that people need to pay a premium for, but don't get any advantage from it (they get several disadvantages, in fact). The only people who buy them are ones who have enough free cash to do frivolous things with their money. U.S. middle class folks trying to run a household aren't going to be buying EVs anytime soon.
Right now the effective range of EVs would just barely get me to work and back in summer. In winter, forget it, not enough range. Fail
If a charging station was available at or near work, it would work (range anxiety would go away). But they aren't available, because people don't have EVs. Fail
Even if the range issue could be resolved, it is nearly impossible to say whether purchasing an EV will pay in the long run compared to a gasoline fueled vehicle. Gas is really cheap right now, and EVs are very expensive compared to gasoline vehicles. Fail
The only way it would make economic sense to buy an EV is if the cost of gasoline skyrockets. Perhaps that will happen during the lifetime of my next vehicle, maybe it will not. You also need to think about where your electricity is coming from. Locally ~65% of the electricity is produced using natural gas. Unless that percentage decreases soon, if gasoline gets expensive, natural gas will probably get expensive too, so EVs would not necessarily insulate me from swings in energy costs.
So certain psychoactive drugs have an influence on moral judgment. OK, cool science...I guess.
But damn, whoever is designing these experiments is a sadistic mo-fo who needs a freaking intervention! WTF people!
Scientist: "Oh, I know...we can pay grant money to people to let us give them painful shocks!" (scientist's leg starts twitching, obviously aroused). "Yes...yessss...pain..so much pain, and pleasure. Too bad we couldn't get funding for the ball gags and leather straps."
Mod parent up...OP is a fuckwit who wears a hockey helmet in public outings who doesn't know shit about nuclear plant operations.He sure-as-hell ain't a GM of a nuclear plant.
Safety is the life blood of nuclear plant operations as we're keenly aware that public perception is against nuclear power. A GM with the above attitude would be shot by the plant engineers in the parking lot for gross stupidity.
NASA is in a strange place right now. Commercial launch capability is growing quickly, but the recent SpaceX failure underlines the fact that they may not be ready for prime time just yet. So the question is - does NASA spend these dollars to develop a heavy launch capability, or do they wait, cross their fingers, and hope that there is a commercial capability in place during the desired timeline?
At best, they spend the money and have a redundant launch capability. At worst, they don't spend the money AND commercial launch capability dies on the vine, and we are then left with no heavy lift capability at all.
And for the anti-NASA crowd that will be chanting "Pork! Pork! Pork!" - note that NASA is also trying to slow a massive brain drain of experience and knowledge from the shuttle program (yeah, which happens to keep the district congress-critters happy). Not having a project to work will mean watching all that experience walking out the door, gutting NASA's capability to do anything in the future.
NASA has a lot of judgements to make, several of which in hindsight will be seen to be redundant and costly, but without a crystal ball they need to make the decisions based not on cost-efficiency, but what will leave them with a exploration lift capability. That sucks, but that is not NASA's fault; they have to ride the waves (with a period T of 4 years) of the political seas.
After 3 months of no views, just replace them with a goatse image.
Dear God, there is more than one!?!
Really, why don't we put some effort into unfucking Earth before we start fucking with another planet? Should be much easier as Earth is still very hospitable.
The AirGeep (1957)
Strangely enough, they never caught on. Maybe because for the number of troops you could deploy with the same sound footprint, you could actually use helicopters accompanied by gunships? And the troops are therefore not encumbered with their own transportation?
Giving everyone in the platoon their own hoverbike means that you have a bunch of hoverbikes that you have to keep and maintain. And the Ewoks can still kick your ass because they are unencumbered with such hardware.