Not sure if it is relevant but in the UK there are several things:
Property taxes (council tax) you get a 25% discount if there is only one person there.
Various forms of welfare. You get more if you live alone and do not declare you are living with somebody (same for some pensions).
Homes of multiple occupancy. There have been various slum lords turning small houses into 8+ flats/apartments without licences and safety regulations. As such places in London stuff 30 people into a house designed for 3 at most.
Prostitution also. In the UK sex work is completely legal (not in NI though) subject to various restrictions. Street solicitation and one sex worker per residence. Therefore if you have one sex worker working in a house it is completely fine. Add in (or a non prostitute friend who visits I'm serious) a maid or muscle/pimp/security and it suddenly becomes a brothel even though there is only one sex worker there. As such many skirt the law by building self contained apartments inside a single house. So you get 31a 31b 31c 31d which is deemed to be separate residences. Local government gets to charge 4 lots of property taxes etc.
Can't be kept. Many of the companies that made parts for the A-10 no longer exist.
Which means you either have to cannibalise old airframes or you have to machine a part from scratch.
They did this in the UK with a TV program called race swap (along with gender swap)
A short clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They were very unhappy at how they were treated when they changed.
What happens with shop lifters too?
I think they will probably have one/two people per store who switch roles through the day. Lidl and Aldi have this. The check outs are not staffed all the time the staff are moving stock in and out on pallets and you ring a buzzer if you want somebody to serve you at the check out.
But real huge one man stores have been operating for a while. Big tiles/carpets/furniture stores are often run by one person as the stock is hard to steal and the customer service is non existent.
This reminds me a lot of Japan. In the 100Yen Kaitan (conveyor Sushi) places they don't have on site managers.
They have the master (the chef) and a waitress. To keep costs low they have one manager who watched the stores via Webcams placed everywhere. The manager directs multiple stores via what they seen on the webcams and if there is a complaint they're connected via a video call.
Robots can stack shelves.
There is a 7-11 in Hong Kong on the corner of Kimberley Road and Canarevon road. It is a tiny retail space the shelves are stacked from behind by a sort of reverse vending machine mechanism. It looks strange because the fridges are quite shallow holding 3 layers of canned drinks. You take one out and you hear a faint whirring and the 2nd can gets pushed forward with another drink from behind. Of course it can't do everything.
The government works for the people? since when? A recent study demonstrated that the voters have NO power whatsoever. The corporates who pay the bribes... I mean donations are the ones that hold the power.
Exactly the same happens in the UK. UK workers have their own accommodation and generally know the law.
So farmers and businesses slate the UK population as lazy scum. When it is a case of exploitation, arbitrage and ability to exploit workers.
So farmers hire Eastern Europeans to pick fruit and harvest food. They pay them the minimum wage but subject them to truck acts. Where sure we'll pay you £6.50 an hour (UK min wage) but we're going to have to charge £5/h for the caravan you have to stay in. Oh and we'll pay you in tokens which coincidentally can only be spent in the farm shop. As such workers end up on almost nothing.
I've witnessed this when I went wild camping around Lincolnshire.
I remember 2 decades ago in high school they had distilled water squirty bottles to use in experiments. If you got it in your mouth it tasted rather bad.
Since this is a kind of distillation shouldn't the water taste foul?
Cheque guarantee was worthless. I had a bounced cheque about 7 years ago with a guarantee card. He had closed his account yet not surrendered his cards to the bank on closing.
Was only £22 but I was quite annoyed.
£36 can get a weekday travel lodge / premier inn type room.
Decent bed, clean sheets working bathrooms. Walls are a tad thin as they are all prefabricated dropped in on a crane on the back of a lorry. But the parking is free. Food is bad though as it is all microwaved. Minimal staff.
Years ago you could stay in an F1 hotel in France. Private rooms but shared bathroom facilities. Favourite of bikers and truckers.
15Euro + 3 for breakfast. You got a double bed and a bunk bed above it, TV, sink + 3euro for wifi
The EU will welcome whatever or whoever gives them the most money in the form of brown envelopes.
You see this in cars. Under the guise of safety new EU laws are introduced for certain safety and emissions limits. It just so happens that BMW/Mercedes are the ones that can provide vehicles which meet those regs...
Skipper torpedoes were from Wing Commander III (1994), IIRC it was mission 3 or 4 of the campaign you had do this escort mission (I hate escort missions) and you had to escort a transport which suddenly had a skipper torpedo fired at it, it uncloaked three times.
IIRC you could but it was a hold down this button rather than a toggle as in 1. Also the stealth mission required the cold gas thrusters upgrade which were limited.
It's not so much oil running out.
It is the easy oil running out, i.e. oil which has a high energy return on energy input. As humans we like to pick the low hanging fruit first. Coal mining is a good example, we go for the stuff on the surface, then open cast, then dig shafts.
Ghawar field in Saudi is an excellent example, it is 150 or so metres down on dry land. You can shift big machines on dry land.
Deep water horizon gulf of Mexico is an excellent example too the oil was in deep water, which presents logistical challenges and deeper down meaning more work is required to get it to the surface.
The Russian find is 300 or so metres down and thus it is easy oil.
Why?
Exxon isn't the only oil big oil company. There is BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Total SA.
Who says those companies won't go into partnership with the Russians? The French recently sold a warship to the Russians.
I'm not so sure missiles would dictate battle range.
On Earth we have dedicated weapon platforms to shoot down anti ship missiles. USN has the AEGIS cruisers, the Russians the Kirov battle cruisers.
The horizon means the really really fast ones give about 10-20 seconds notice before you have a massive hole in the side of your ship. Weapons firms claim they can shoot down missiles (I'm not so sure about the claims). To extent the interception time they use airborne radar.
However if space battles are fought at 10,000,0000km then you have quite a lot of notice of the missile coming as there is no horizon to hide behind and no sea to skim. If the missiles manoeuvre, you can see it and it is telegraphing its attack and movement direction with hours if not days and weeks.
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Er Sony is a Japanese corporation with overseas subsidiaries.
Oh sure its a dumb reason... which they will correct by saying to solve this problem we need to run this radar all the time!
Pfft thats what no knock warrants are for. More pork barrelling?
Not sure if it is relevant but in the UK there are several things: Property taxes (council tax) you get a 25% discount if there is only one person there. Various forms of welfare. You get more if you live alone and do not declare you are living with somebody (same for some pensions). Homes of multiple occupancy. There have been various slum lords turning small houses into 8+ flats/apartments without licences and safety regulations. As such places in London stuff 30 people into a house designed for 3 at most. Prostitution also. In the UK sex work is completely legal (not in NI though) subject to various restrictions. Street solicitation and one sex worker per residence. Therefore if you have one sex worker working in a house it is completely fine. Add in (or a non prostitute friend who visits I'm serious) a maid or muscle/pimp/security and it suddenly becomes a brothel even though there is only one sex worker there. As such many skirt the law by building self contained apartments inside a single house. So you get 31a 31b 31c 31d which is deemed to be separate residences. Local government gets to charge 4 lots of property taxes etc.
Can't be kept. Many of the companies that made parts for the A-10 no longer exist. Which means you either have to cannibalise old airframes or you have to machine a part from scratch.
A less efficient pork barrelling machine that's what!
You will get your wish... After they've added three or four zeros to the cost of the project.
They did this in the UK with a TV program called race swap (along with gender swap) A short clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?... They were very unhappy at how they were treated when they changed.
What happens with shop lifters too? I think they will probably have one/two people per store who switch roles through the day. Lidl and Aldi have this. The check outs are not staffed all the time the staff are moving stock in and out on pallets and you ring a buzzer if you want somebody to serve you at the check out. But real huge one man stores have been operating for a while. Big tiles/carpets/furniture stores are often run by one person as the stock is hard to steal and the customer service is non existent.
This reminds me a lot of Japan. In the 100Yen Kaitan (conveyor Sushi) places they don't have on site managers. They have the master (the chef) and a waitress. To keep costs low they have one manager who watched the stores via Webcams placed everywhere. The manager directs multiple stores via what they seen on the webcams and if there is a complaint they're connected via a video call.
Robots can stack shelves. There is a 7-11 in Hong Kong on the corner of Kimberley Road and Canarevon road. It is a tiny retail space the shelves are stacked from behind by a sort of reverse vending machine mechanism. It looks strange because the fridges are quite shallow holding 3 layers of canned drinks. You take one out and you hear a faint whirring and the 2nd can gets pushed forward with another drink from behind. Of course it can't do everything.
My money is on the nuclear war scenario.
The government works for the people? since when? A recent study demonstrated that the voters have NO power whatsoever. The corporates who pay the bribes... I mean donations are the ones that hold the power.
Exactly the same happens in the UK. UK workers have their own accommodation and generally know the law. So farmers and businesses slate the UK population as lazy scum. When it is a case of exploitation, arbitrage and ability to exploit workers. So farmers hire Eastern Europeans to pick fruit and harvest food. They pay them the minimum wage but subject them to truck acts. Where sure we'll pay you £6.50 an hour (UK min wage) but we're going to have to charge £5/h for the caravan you have to stay in. Oh and we'll pay you in tokens which coincidentally can only be spent in the farm shop. As such workers end up on almost nothing. I've witnessed this when I went wild camping around Lincolnshire.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-wo... Here, no such thing as a STEM shortage only the desire to suppress wages.
I remember 2 decades ago in high school they had distilled water squirty bottles to use in experiments. If you got it in your mouth it tasted rather bad. Since this is a kind of distillation shouldn't the water taste foul?
Cheque guarantee was worthless. I had a bounced cheque about 7 years ago with a guarantee card. He had closed his account yet not surrendered his cards to the bank on closing. Was only £22 but I was quite annoyed.
£36 can get a weekday travel lodge / premier inn type room. Decent bed, clean sheets working bathrooms. Walls are a tad thin as they are all prefabricated dropped in on a crane on the back of a lorry. But the parking is free. Food is bad though as it is all microwaved. Minimal staff. Years ago you could stay in an F1 hotel in France. Private rooms but shared bathroom facilities. Favourite of bikers and truckers. 15Euro + 3 for breakfast. You got a double bed and a bunk bed above it, TV, sink + 3euro for wifi
The EU will welcome whatever or whoever gives them the most money in the form of brown envelopes. You see this in cars. Under the guise of safety new EU laws are introduced for certain safety and emissions limits. It just so happens that BMW/Mercedes are the ones that can provide vehicles which meet those regs...
Skipper torpedoes were from Wing Commander III (1994), IIRC it was mission 3 or 4 of the campaign you had do this escort mission (I hate escort missions) and you had to escort a transport which suddenly had a skipper torpedo fired at it, it uncloaked three times.
IIRC you could but it was a hold down this button rather than a toggle as in 1. Also the stealth mission required the cold gas thrusters upgrade which were limited.
Well it seems playing quake in the 1990s on a 36K modem and learning to lag shoot was useful after all!
It's not so much oil running out. It is the easy oil running out, i.e. oil which has a high energy return on energy input. As humans we like to pick the low hanging fruit first. Coal mining is a good example, we go for the stuff on the surface, then open cast, then dig shafts. Ghawar field in Saudi is an excellent example, it is 150 or so metres down on dry land. You can shift big machines on dry land. Deep water horizon gulf of Mexico is an excellent example too the oil was in deep water, which presents logistical challenges and deeper down meaning more work is required to get it to the surface. The Russian find is 300 or so metres down and thus it is easy oil.
Why? Exxon isn't the only oil big oil company. There is BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Total SA. Who says those companies won't go into partnership with the Russians? The French recently sold a warship to the Russians.
I'm not so sure missiles would dictate battle range. On Earth we have dedicated weapon platforms to shoot down anti ship missiles. USN has the AEGIS cruisers, the Russians the Kirov battle cruisers. The horizon means the really really fast ones give about 10-20 seconds notice before you have a massive hole in the side of your ship. Weapons firms claim they can shoot down missiles (I'm not so sure about the claims). To extent the interception time they use airborne radar. However if space battles are fought at 10,000,0000km then you have quite a lot of notice of the missile coming as there is no horizon to hide behind and no sea to skim. If the missiles manoeuvre, you can see it and it is telegraphing its attack and movement direction with hours if not days and weeks.