They're both doing the same thing, leading consumers to believe that more is happening in the USA than really is, or that some kind of good technical job is created by the manufacture of the device.
The reality is, final assembly is menial work at minimal pay. There really isn't a shortage of menial work at minimal pay in the US right now, it's more a case of a shortage of people who will work at those terms.
Even if 100% of the device was "made in the USA", there still wouldn't be any noticeable "good technical jobs" created. Mass production, by it's very nature, is menial (and rote) for minimal pay. My (now ex) brother in law worked in both a chip fab and an automobile assembly plant - and used to note that the only difference between them was how he dressed at work.
I get tired of hearing this (rote) trite response as a way of dismissing such question.
Asking such questions, and then finding the answers, are part and parcel of both science and progress. Dismissing such questions isn't insightful, it's ignorance.
More like.998 by the figures the OP gave if you want to get picky.
See, if this were a backwater republic in the steppes of Africa (no offense intended, Africa!) then sure, what can you expect? But the US is supposed to be an advanced and modern nation
If backwater republics in Africa got up to.5 they'd declare a national holiday. You're an idiot without a clue and with an overinflated sense of self entitlement.
Nature happens. You guys are knee'jerk reacting. Next story.
Pretty much. It was a big effin storm, there was lots of damage - and it takes time to repair it. No utility staffs for these emergencies for the same reason businesses don't staff for the Christmas rush year 'round.... it's just too expensive. (And the folks howling about the slow response would howl even louder if their rates were raised to pay for that staff.)
There's probably more, but it's late and I'm tired. These 61 flights (out of 135) will have to do for showing just how wrong you are.
The Russians have been using designs like this for over 50 years and their manned space program is TONS cheaper than ours, and you cant say that they cut safety corners to save money since their record over the last 20 years is FAR better.
It's telling that you limit it to the last twenty years - thus neatly hiding Soyuz's two fatal accidents, and most of their non fatal ones. (Though they've had a string of serious landing incidents over the last decade.) Nor is there any particular reason to chose twenty years.... as that falls in the middle of the Soyuz-T flight sequence.
Until Begins, NO ONE captured *that particular* Batman on the big screen properly.
TFTFY
What you young'uns don't seem to realize is that there isn't "a" Batman to capture - there's a whole string of different interpretations across the years. As with so much else, there never was a golden age.
When you're 60+ years old and have tons of money, but not that much time left on the Earth
Here in the 21st century, if you live in the developed world and have that kind of money... you have plenty of time left on Earth. Heck, even without that kind of money the odds are you still have plenty of time left on Earth.
However, in this and all other terrorist plots covered in this book, the authors never offer any evidence that TSA's use of its borrowed intelligence ever allowed TSA to disrupt any specific, credible, and imminent threat.
Which is pretty much about as surprising as the Sun coming up in the east to anyone with any knowledge of security. That's not how security measures work, or how they're meant to work, or anything but an assumption created of whole cloth by armchair experts.
I didn't double check the locks on my doors when I left this morning because I knew a specific burglar was coming to my door today - but because further up my semi rural road, their has been a string of break in's and closer down to me a car has been spotted prowling. Nor am I under any illusion that locks will stop someone determined - but they will deter the less determined. Simple, basic, bog standard security theory and practice.
Also, anyone with work supplied health care doesn't have to pay this
Well, bully for you. You're in a privileged position if none of your health care comes out of your paycheck. (Though really, if your employer pays it, it does come out of your paycheck whether you see it on your check stub or not.) Most American's aren't so lucky.
With everyone having insurance now, there would no longer be a need for the state to collect and disperse the funds.
No, instead the insurance companies collect and disburse the funds.
I would think that your premiums should go down.
How on earth can anyone possibly come to that conclusion? Insurance companies are now required to keep people on who they previously would have stopped covering. They're also now required to take people on they wouldn't have accepted previously. They're also no longer allowed to limit coverage.
Premiums are going to go nowhere but up because the insurance companies are now forbidden by law to manage risks or to cut costs.
Also, stuff can still crust on them, it just won't be salt. It'll be life.
Yep, when I was in the Navy, my sub would come back from a three month patrol pretty much covered in algae and young barnacles. In the summer sunshine in King's Bay, the smell was... impressive.
Do I really have to do the math for you? Or can you multiply the number of episodes of Friends by "several million" and compare that total to six billion without taking off your shoes and socks or asking your mother for help?
Except the fact that everything has been done and tested in a scale or another atleast few times before.
Well, in the real world of engineering, scale matters. As does the difference between a piece of laboratory experimental equipment and a piece of reliable production equipment.
they specifically chose only the kind of technologies that exists today and is purchaseable NOW.
Um, no. The equipment required for in situ resource utilization doesn't exist. Long duration closed loop environmental control systems don't exist. Etc... etc... In both cases the *technology* barely exists, not having been seriously and rigorously tested.
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Yet, despite that, the US's manufacturing sector would be something like the fifth or sixth largest economy in the world if taken on it's own.
Even if 100% of the device was "made in the USA", there still wouldn't be any noticeable "good technical jobs" created. Mass production, by it's very nature, is menial (and rote) for minimal pay. My (now ex) brother in law worked in both a chip fab and an automobile assembly plant - and used to note that the only difference between them was how he dressed at work.
I get tired of hearing this (rote) trite response as a way of dismissing such question.
Asking such questions, and then finding the answers, are part and parcel of both science and progress. Dismissing such questions isn't insightful, it's ignorance.
Seriously? What is the point?
More like .998 by the figures the OP gave if you want to get picky.
If backwater republics in Africa got up to .5 they'd declare a national holiday. You're an idiot without a clue and with an overinflated sense of self entitlement.
Keep in mind that solid carbon is flammable as hell....
From TFS(ummary):
Here's two things...
So, what you're saying is that you have just shy of .999 reliability. That sounds pretty dang good to me.
Pretty much. It was a big effin storm, there was lots of damage - and it takes time to repair it. No utility staffs for these emergencies for the same reason businesses don't staff for the Christmas rush year 'round.... it's just too expensive. (And the folks howling about the slow response would howl even louder if their rates were raised to pay for that staff.)
No shit Sherlock.
It's still alive - and just like it always was, the activity of a minority. Not everyone has the skills or the stomach for it.
Almost never did?
There's probably more, but it's late and I'm tired. These 61 flights (out of 135) will have to do for showing just how wrong you are.
It's telling that you limit it to the last twenty years - thus neatly hiding Soyuz's two fatal accidents, and most of their non fatal ones. (Though they've had a string of serious landing incidents over the last decade.) Nor is there any particular reason to chose twenty years.... as that falls in the middle of the Soyuz-T flight sequence.
TFTFY
What you young'uns don't seem to realize is that there isn't "a" Batman to capture - there's a whole string of different interpretations across the years. As with so much else, there never was a golden age.
Yeah. After all, you won't miss your family, or your friends, or.. you're a clueless idiot.
Here in the 21st century, if you live in the developed world and have that kind of money... you have plenty of time left on Earth. Heck, even without that kind of money the odds are you still have plenty of time left on Earth.
So this 'excuse' is bogus.
Your "fix" just makes my point for me. Thanks!
From TFR(eview):
Which is pretty much about as surprising as the Sun coming up in the east to anyone with any knowledge of security. That's not how security measures work, or how they're meant to work, or anything but an assumption created of whole cloth by armchair experts.
I didn't double check the locks on my doors when I left this morning because I knew a specific burglar was coming to my door today - but because further up my semi rural road, their has been a string of break in's and closer down to me a car has been spotted prowling. Nor am I under any illusion that locks will stop someone determined - but they will deter the less determined. Simple, basic, bog standard security theory and practice.
Well, bully for you. You're in a privileged position if none of your health care comes out of your paycheck. (Though really, if your employer pays it, it does come out of your paycheck whether you see it on your check stub or not.) Most American's aren't so lucky.
No, instead the insurance companies collect and disburse the funds.
How on earth can anyone possibly come to that conclusion? Insurance companies are now required to keep people on who they previously would have stopped covering. They're also now required to take people on they wouldn't have accepted previously. They're also no longer allowed to limit coverage.
Premiums are going to go nowhere but up because the insurance companies are now forbidden by law to manage risks or to cut costs.
I wonder what you'd have said about heavier-than-air flight in 1890. Or rocketry in 1938. Or... just about any technological advance.
Yep, when I was in the Navy, my sub would come back from a three month patrol pretty much covered in algae and young barnacles. In the summer sunshine in King's Bay, the smell was... impressive.
Yes, you were supporting my point. My apologies, I was having a *very* bad morning.
Do I really have to do the math for you? Or can you multiply the number of episodes of Friends by "several million" and compare that total to six billion without taking off your shoes and socks or asking your mother for help?
Real life names aren't unique - and many people on Facebook are using their real life names.
Well, in the real world of engineering, scale matters. As does the difference between a piece of laboratory experimental equipment and a piece of reliable production equipment.
Um, no. The equipment required for in situ resource utilization doesn't exist. Long duration closed loop environmental control systems don't exist. Etc... etc... In both cases the *technology* barely exists, not having been seriously and rigorously tested.