In the fantasy world of the wingnut maybe. Here in reality, just over the course of my lifetime, the need for manual labor has dropped dramatically. When I was a kid, ditch digging was a widely available last resort job. Now two guys with a small backhoe accomplish the job. In construction, a guy with a nailgun can outperform four guys with hammers. Someone with a power saw can outperform ten guys with handsaws. (Etc... etc...)
When will the wingnuts grasp that the world has changed? When will they grasp that it no longer resembles in any significant way their fantasy of what the world 'used to be like'?
But you can get financing on the basis of the income stream you can show you are going to have on the basis of the pre-orders.
And if you can convince prospective lenders you can actually produce them at a cost where you'll have sufficient profit to repay them when you do receive the income. And convince the lenders that you're competent enough to do so. Etc... etc...
$5/month for what has to be an incredibly thin selection with only 1,000 titles is just not a good deal. Maybe if they were financing a bunch of their own series this would make sense, but as is there are much better options out there for Anime fans.
Their current selection is thin - but with their exclusive contract with Fuji to distribute shows from the noitaminA block... there's quite a few hotly anticipated shows that Amazon is going to be the sole legal source for.
It will be interesting to see if they can manage to pull people away from Netflix and Crunchyroll.
Probably not, as Amazon only carries a fraction of the content. But I suspect a lot of people are in the same boat as me - having cancelled their Funi subscription in wake of last years quasi-merger, adding Strike on top of our Prime subscription doesn't sound like a bad idea.
FFS, you had $34 million dollars in your pocket and couldn't ship one fucking product?
IIRC there are legal limits on when you take that money out of (what is essentially) escrow. That is, the $34 million wasn't actually in their pocket and they (legally) couldn't put it in their pocket until they had a product to ship. That's one of the reasons why Kickstarter brands products to be delivered in the future as 'rewards' rather than 'pre-orders'. (Which doesn't stop people from seeing or using those rewards as pre-orders though.)
There is truly some disgusting pornography that will make me gag - but if I were watching it professionally as a job, I imagine I'd get inured to it, the same way that sanitation workers, septic cleaners, etc get accustomed to the sensory unpleasantness that they are exposed to.
There's a difference between sensory unpleasantness - and the depths of human depravity. In normal human beings, it's almost impossible to unsee the latter and it gets inside your head in ways chest thumper he men like yourself can't seem to imagine or grasp. And this isn't the first time this has been reported among image moderators, or (and the individual above comments) among jurors for trials concerning this material.
I've been in two wars fuckers. I've been shot, I've killed, I've had friends killed - I know PTSD. Complaining that you get PTSD from watching porn (even fucked up porn) is like saying that watching Saving Private Ryan entitles you to entrance to American Legion and VA benefits.
I know several people with PTSD (not just combat vets but other vets from high stress positions, as well as cops and and emergency room medical professionals). One thing they all have in common is they don't brag about it. Nor do they use it as an excuse to put other people down. (And that's setting aside the idiocy of the false equivalency you set up.)
"Why are they changing the pieces?" is not the issue. "Why are they still producing this?" is the more pressing question.
Only to someone not stupid enough to already know the answer - because it's still selling in significant numbers.
Played by the rules as written, it's a mediocre game at best. Played how most people want to play it from sketchy childhood memories, it's fairly dire. Either way, if you want to play boardgames with your family, pick one of the many thousands of titles available that are better than Monopoly.
Exaggeration, hyperbole, and confusing a personal opinion with a law of nature... Man, you hit the trifecta there.
My instructor, a retired police officer, knew that being in possession of child porn regardless of the source is going to be problematic.
Yup. There was a case a few years back where a person found a bag full of unmarked CD's... took 'em home, stuck 'em in his computer, and found child porn. He turned them into the local PD, who eventually found and arrested the perp.
For being a good citizen, the finder was rewarded by being convicted for possessing child porn and sent to prison.
It should be noted that we're not in a real hurry about getting an asteroid into Earth orbit. So ion drives (Isp a holy hell of a lot higher than 450 - we've already built them in the Isp 5000 range) would be fine for the purpose.
You only use ion drives when you're really not in a hurry - if you have, say, a millennia or three in which to accomplish the project.
So what exactly is your problem here? Is your problem that the government was party to the contract? Does that somehow make the contract void in the name of your personal view of "liberty"?
The problem is - it's Google, who routinely gets a free pass for behavior that if any other company tried it would result in a tar-and-feather brigade.
If this is correct, there's a number of things they could do to remedy it; I'd think the most likely would be to fill the COPVs before loading LOX.
Which undoes the primary reason for loading the helium after the LOX, and the primary reason why the helium tanks are in the LOX tank in the first place - cooled to LOX temperatures, the helium tanks can hold more helium than at ambient. What they'll probably do is control the helium pressure more carefully prior to and during LOX loading to prevent the tanks from buckling. Which will be a major PITA, as the supercooled LOX is loaded so late in the sequence.
Not using supercooled LOX isn't an option, 1st stage recovery demands absolute maximum performance (and a larger than usual 2nd stage), otherwise the max payload weight goes all to hell.
Still, there's a massive amount of engineering and testing that would be needed to make such a thing. And a lot of in-situ demo missions as well for each aspect of the technology
That's true of pretty much every scheme currently on offer for surface operations on Mars.
There is an immense effort right now to make us take mental shortcuts, to skip certain events in our memories, to forget that certain misdeeds were done not by Russians but by Americans.
And honestly, that's the single most frightening thing about this whole affair - the degree to which the Left are ignoring the things raised in your point #3.
No matter how much smoke you blow, Trump won the election. By the rules of our system, Clinton lost.
Seriously, it's just as simple the g'grandparent poster put it - Clinton and the DNC screwed the pooch in ways almost to numerous to list. And, as you accurately point out, we're going to pay steeply for their fuckups.
With Uber's complete disrespect for the law and their unwillingness to abide by licensing and regulation in mind, I wonder how long they will last under the iron fist of the US DOT.
That was my thought too... Taking on the odd city, county, or state is one thing. Taking on the feds is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command - and extended look at the evolution of tactical and communications doctrine from Trafalgar to Jutland, and it's effects on the Battle of Jutland.
The article's interviewees seemingly try to imply that the group is going away because it is no longer necessary - but, to even an occasional user of Wikipedia, it is obvious there's plenty of that sort of work to do, were anyone willing to do so. That's the problem... it's hard to keep unpaid volunteers interested in doing the drudge work for any length of time.
Yep. As I've explained many times, the key limit on Wikipedia isn't (and never was) disk space - but editor eyeballs. There's tons of articles on Wikipedia that are "abandoned" (not brought up-to-date in a very long time) that contain statements like "X intends toY in 2011"... All over Wikipedia there's plenty of articles that were obviously translated from another language via Google Translate that need considerable editing to complete the translation process into reasonable English. Etc... etc... But on top of all this being drudge work, a large percentage are ruled by squatters and even though the problem is obvious to all but the most casual reader... any attempt at cleanup gets reverted, or you risk getting drawn into a long session of Wikipedia:The Role Playing Game on the talk page when trying to fix even the simplest thing. Folks interested in editing aren't going to put up with the crap for long.
The prosperity of the modern world wasn't created by people giving away their money.
That's funny. Every how-to book on becoming wealthy recommends starting a charitable foundation.
Those foundations are created after becoming wealthy for tax breaks, positive publicity, and to make statements - not to become wealthy. You've got cause and effect completely reversed.
Yup. When my cousin ran for County Commissioner - the first thing she did, even before announcing anything, was to lock down and clean out all of her social media accounts. Sad but true, it's a necessity nowadays.
Yeah, agreed. Recreational divers shouldn't be messing around at that depth, but technical divers do it all the time. Just have to have decompression facilities available.
However, those divers and all their support personnel and equipment are pretty pricey. I'd be willing to bet this robot is going to be much cheaper.
The article goes on to illustrate where the idea apparently came from, in a probably-misheard question during a rally.
The "idea" came in because when repeatedly and directly asked to refute the idea - he hem and hawed and waffled and refused to do so. He may not have directly and openly advocated for such a thing, be he did his very level best to give the impression that he didn't find such violations of civil rights at all unattractive. And this isn't something that happened once, at a rally say, it's something that happened multiple times over a span of days.
Seriously, how much of your own kool-aide can you drink?
Someone repeating the propaganda quote rather than addressing the facts and issues raised in the rest of the article (which it doesn't appear you actually read, or understood) should ask that question of the man in the mirror.
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No, complete idiots like yourself display the point of the insults. (Hint: The construction trades are *not* unskilled.)
What part of "less and less as the years go by" was too complicated for that wad of half rotten cabbage you carry between your ears?
In the fantasy world of the wingnut maybe. Here in reality, just over the course of my lifetime, the need for manual labor has dropped dramatically. When I was a kid, ditch digging was a widely available last resort job. Now two guys with a small backhoe accomplish the job. In construction, a guy with a nailgun can outperform four guys with hammers. Someone with a power saw can outperform ten guys with handsaws. (Etc... etc...)
When will the wingnuts grasp that the world has changed? When will they grasp that it no longer resembles in any significant way their fantasy of what the world 'used to be like'?
And if you can convince prospective lenders you can actually produce them at a cost where you'll have sufficient profit to repay them when you do receive the income. And convince the lenders that you're competent enough to do so. Etc... etc...
Their current selection is thin - but with their exclusive contract with Fuji to distribute shows from the noitaminA block... there's quite a few hotly anticipated shows that Amazon is going to be the sole legal source for.
Probably not, as Amazon only carries a fraction of the content. But I suspect a lot of people are in the same boat as me - having cancelled their Funi subscription in wake of last years quasi-merger, adding Strike on top of our Prime subscription doesn't sound like a bad idea.
IIRC there are legal limits on when you take that money out of (what is essentially) escrow. That is, the $34 million wasn't actually in their pocket and they (legally) couldn't put it in their pocket until they had a product to ship. That's one of the reasons why Kickstarter brands products to be delivered in the future as 'rewards' rather than 'pre-orders'. (Which doesn't stop people from seeing or using those rewards as pre-orders though.)
Uh huh. Ten years in the Submarine Service and I lack moral fiber. Sorry, try again. You don't even get a copy of the home game.
There's a difference between sensory unpleasantness - and the depths of human depravity. In normal human beings, it's almost impossible to unsee the latter and it gets inside your head in ways chest thumper he men like yourself can't seem to imagine or grasp. And this isn't the first time this has been reported among image moderators, or (and the individual above comments) among jurors for trials concerning this material.
I know several people with PTSD (not just combat vets but other vets from high stress positions, as well as cops and and emergency room medical professionals). One thing they all have in common is they don't brag about it. Nor do they use it as an excuse to put other people down. (And that's setting aside the idiocy of the false equivalency you set up.)
Only to someone not stupid enough to already know the answer - because it's still selling in significant numbers.
Exaggeration, hyperbole, and confusing a personal opinion with a law of nature... Man, you hit the trifecta there.
Yup. There was a case a few years back where a person found a bag full of unmarked CD's... took 'em home, stuck 'em in his computer, and found child porn. He turned them into the local PD, who eventually found and arrested the perp.
For being a good citizen, the finder was rewarded by being convicted for possessing child porn and sent to prison.
But only so long as you argue on pedantic nitpicky points. In the eyes of the consumer, the ultimate judge, said products aren't arguably inferior.
You only use ion drives when you're really not in a hurry - if you have, say, a millennia or three in which to accomplish the project.
The problem is - it's Google, who routinely gets a free pass for behavior that if any other company tried it would result in a tar-and-feather brigade.
Which undoes the primary reason for loading the helium after the LOX, and the primary reason why the helium tanks are in the LOX tank in the first place - cooled to LOX temperatures, the helium tanks can hold more helium than at ambient. What they'll probably do is control the helium pressure more carefully prior to and during LOX loading to prevent the tanks from buckling. Which will be a major PITA, as the supercooled LOX is loaded so late in the sequence.
Not using supercooled LOX isn't an option, 1st stage recovery demands absolute maximum performance (and a larger than usual 2nd stage), otherwise the max payload weight goes all to hell.
That's true of pretty much every scheme currently on offer for surface operations on Mars.
And honestly, that's the single most frightening thing about this whole affair - the degree to which the Left are ignoring the things raised in your point #3.
Is that won the effing election.
No matter how much smoke you blow, Trump won the election. By the rules of our system, Clinton lost.
Seriously, it's just as simple the g'grandparent poster put it - Clinton and the DNC screwed the pooch in ways almost to numerous to list. And, as you accurately point out, we're going to pay steeply for their fuckups.
That was my thought too... Taking on the odd city, county, or state is one thing. Taking on the feds is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
You own an old encyclopedia, so the fuck what?
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command - and extended look at the evolution of tactical and communications doctrine from Trafalgar to Jutland, and it's effects on the Battle of Jutland.
Yep. As I've explained many times, the key limit on Wikipedia isn't (and never was) disk space - but editor eyeballs. There's tons of articles on Wikipedia that are "abandoned" (not brought up-to-date in a very long time) that contain statements like "X intends toY in 2011"... All over Wikipedia there's plenty of articles that were obviously translated from another language via Google Translate that need considerable editing to complete the translation process into reasonable English. Etc... etc... But on top of all this being drudge work, a large percentage are ruled by squatters and even though the problem is obvious to all but the most casual reader... any attempt at cleanup gets reverted, or you risk getting drawn into a long session of Wikipedia:The Role Playing Game on the talk page when trying to fix even the simplest thing. Folks interested in editing aren't going to put up with the crap for long.
Those foundations are created after becoming wealthy for tax breaks, positive publicity, and to make statements - not to become wealthy. You've got cause and effect completely reversed.
Yup. When my cousin ran for County Commissioner - the first thing she did, even before announcing anything, was to lock down and clean out all of her social media accounts. Sad but true, it's a necessity nowadays.
However, those divers and all their support personnel and equipment are pretty pricey. I'd be willing to bet this robot is going to be much cheaper.
The "idea" came in because when repeatedly and directly asked to refute the idea - he hem and hawed and waffled and refused to do so. He may not have directly and openly advocated for such a thing, be he did his very level best to give the impression that he didn't find such violations of civil rights at all unattractive. And this isn't something that happened once, at a rally say, it's something that happened multiple times over a span of days.
Someone repeating the propaganda quote rather than addressing the facts and issues raised in the rest of the article (which it doesn't appear you actually read, or understood) should ask that question of the man in the mirror.