Maybe so, but Babe Ruth was probably hitting against pitchers who were also mostly whoring drinking fatsos, while Barry Bonds hits against his fellow steroid gobbling supermen. So it all evens out.
It depends on your frame of reference. For example, in the frame of reference of the photons we're detecting from this event, the photon hits the telescope on earth the same instant that it emerges from the galactic jet.
Do you really like the idea, or is it just easier than admitting that the left was full of cowards who stabbed their own country in the back and abandoned our ally?
And the failure of the military to achieve its goals after more than 10 years had nothing to do with it? Face it, the plug got pulled because of FAILURE. People eventually get sick and tired of pouring money and lives into a black hole. It's not cowardice to fire someone and cancel their project when they are incompetent and cannot complete the task to which they have been assigned.
So you think there was still a "light at the end of the tunnel". Sorry, but if you still haven't achieved victory after over 10 years and more explosives than used in WWII, then you lost. You were never going to win. Game over.
That's easy to fix. All they have to do is put a comment at the top of the CPU source code:
/* Assumed main clock frequency: 25MHz */
But seriously, this design info is just about useless without a $Billion fab full of equipment that these countries also aren't supposed to get. But why would they bother with all that when they can just buy quad core consumer PCs that rival the performance of these chips, and which are available to them on the open market from most any country other than the USA?
As in Sahara desert, right? Because warmer conditions promote desertification.
All that carbon used to be in the air
Not all at once. BTW, there's enough carbon locked up in limestone to make this planet's atmosphere rival Venus, and most all of that was in the air at one time or another. That doesn't mean that it would be a good idea to release it all at once. Basically, it's clear that you know nothing at all about the carbon cycle. You're just pulling a stream of ignorant statements out of your ass.
ownership of the copyright the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute/sell copies is what is as issue
So you're saying that we won't need a new police force unless roving gangs of rogue publishers start forcing people to sign over their copyrights at gunpoint? Makes sense to me.
I think that before sending humans to Mars, it would make more sense to set up a robot Mars base, complete with a small nuclear power plant, multiple rovers, and general-purpose utility robots for repair and maintenance. To do this, multiple missions would be sent every launch window over a period of a decade or more. This would allow for gaining incremental experience on long term, and it would almost certainly be an order of magnitude less expensive than a Hail Mary style human mission.
If after extensive robotic exploration the site still looks favorable, and we still think that it's worth visiting, then the robots could be used to help preconstruct support for human habitation. Life support goods could be stocked, return fuel could be manufactured and a redundant return ship could be prepositioned. Once everything is in place, tested and verified, then the humans can swoop in to plant their flags and pose for photos. They'd be much more likely to make it back home alive as well.
Remove unreasonable restrictions on space exploration by businesses and private citizens, and you'll see a boom in space exploration funding!
Not in this case you won't. There's nothing on Mars with a commercial value anywhere near the transportation cost. Nor will it make sense to use any of the very crappy real estate on Mars until after the much better real estate in Antarctica is all used up.
The only reason South Vietnam collapsed was the US Congress decided to stop funding the war.
There's no question at all that we could easily have "won" the war at any time. The only problem is that overunning North Vietnam would have likely triggered WWIII. Since that would have been a bad idea, congress wisely pulled the plug rather than continue the pointless pissing contest in the south.
By your logic, we decisively won the war in Vietnam.
The Iraqi insurgents don't look so dumb when the US will have had to spend upwards of $1 Trillion to kill those 20,000. That's $50 million per dead insurgent.
According to its wikipedia article:
The B-58 typically carried a single nuclear weapon in a streamlined MB-1C pod under the fuselage. From 1961 to 1963 it was retrofitted with two tandem stub pylons under each wing, inboard of the engine pod, for B43 or B61 nuclear weapons for a total of five nuclear weapons per airplane
No mention of an internal bomb bay. I don't think that the pod was permanently attached either. IIRC, I've seen pictures of the plane without any external attachments.
I disagree. AFAICT, you actually use your early subscription privileges to compulsively scan every new article on slashdot to find those that are in any way critical of centralized government authority. Then, no matter what the particulars of the issue, no matter how benign or draconian the actions in question, you write a long multiple paragraph f1rst p0st where you express your staunch support of each and every case of expanded government authority or surveillance powers. Blissfully ignoring the lessons of the brutal history of the 20th century, your post invariably dismisses any and all concerns about each issue, regardless of their validity, as nothing more than paranoid ranting.
27MW continuous thermal output from something the size of a 'hot tub' is totally unrealistic.
That output is not unrealistic at all for a nuclear reactor. Keeping it safely cooled under all contingencies without a huge containment building is another matter (and that's why this is a bad idea that should never be deployed), but the power level is technically perfectly feasible. 1960s nuclear rocket experiments far exceeded that power output per volume.
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Most helicopters can't carry enough washed up Hollywood stars to make such a procedure worth using to save helicopters anyway.
That's correct. The Standard Operational Procedure in such cases is to lower Charlton Heston into the cockpit on a wire, then safely land the plane.
History.
Maybe so, but Babe Ruth was probably hitting against pitchers who were also mostly whoring drinking fatsos, while Barry Bonds hits against his fellow steroid gobbling supermen. So it all evens out.
It depends on your frame of reference. For example, in the frame of reference of the photons we're detecting from this event, the photon hits the telescope on earth the same instant that it emerges from the galactic jet.
That's right, because it's true.
Do you really like the idea, or is it just easier than admitting that the left was full of cowards who stabbed their own country in the back and abandoned our ally?And the failure of the military to achieve its goals after more than 10 years had nothing to do with it? Face it, the plug got pulled because of FAILURE. People eventually get sick and tired of pouring money and lives into a black hole. It's not cowardice to fire someone and cancel their project when they are incompetent and cannot complete the task to which they have been assigned.
So you think there was still a "light at the end of the tunnel". Sorry, but if you still haven't achieved victory after over 10 years and more explosives than used in WWII, then you lost. You were never going to win. Game over.
He's entitled to statutory damages of something like $150,000 per copy. He hit the jackpot.
But seriously, this design info is just about useless without a $Billion fab full of equipment that these countries also aren't supposed to get. But why would they bother with all that when they can just buy quad core consumer PCs that rival the performance of these chips, and which are available to them on the open market from most any country other than the USA?
This is a slashdot thread, not a masters thesis.
And having even the slightest knowledge of a topic before you start pontificating might increase your credibility.
As in Sahara desert, right? Because warmer conditions promote desertification.
All that carbon used to be in the airNot all at once. BTW, there's enough carbon locked up in limestone to make this planet's atmosphere rival Venus, and most all of that was in the air at one time or another. That doesn't mean that it would be a good idea to release it all at once. Basically, it's clear that you know nothing at all about the carbon cycle. You're just pulling a stream of ignorant statements out of your ass.
Some Free Agent drives have a SATA interface, and some are USB only. The ones with dual interfaces cost more.
ownership of the copyright the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute/sell copies is what is as issue
So you're saying that we won't need a new police force unless roving gangs of rogue publishers start forcing people to sign over their copyrights at gunpoint? Makes sense to me.
So we can conclude that if he spent his money on software instead, then he'd be stealing income from the music equipment manufacturers.
If after extensive robotic exploration the site still looks favorable, and we still think that it's worth visiting, then the robots could be used to help preconstruct support for human habitation. Life support goods could be stocked, return fuel could be manufactured and a redundant return ship could be prepositioned. Once everything is in place, tested and verified, then the humans can swoop in to plant their flags and pose for photos. They'd be much more likely to make it back home alive as well.
Not in this case you won't. There's nothing on Mars with a commercial value anywhere near the transportation cost. Nor will it make sense to use any of the very crappy real estate on Mars until after the much better real estate in Antarctica is all used up.
How in good conscious do you let yourself post messages via this unconstitutional Internet?
Ironically, the FBI might not even exist today if its illustrious founder had been subject to these same background checks.
There's no question at all that we could easily have "won" the war at any time. The only problem is that overunning North Vietnam would have likely triggered WWIII. Since that would have been a bad idea, congress wisely pulled the plug rather than continue the pointless pissing contest in the south.
The Iraqi insurgents don't look so dumb when the US will have had to spend upwards of $1 Trillion to kill those 20,000. That's $50 million per dead insurgent.
No mention of an internal bomb bay. I don't think that the pod was permanently attached either. IIRC, I've seen pictures of the plane without any external attachments.
The B-58 carried its bomb externally.
I disagree. AFAICT, you actually use your early subscription privileges to compulsively scan every new article on slashdot to find those that are in any way critical of centralized government authority. Then, no matter what the particulars of the issue, no matter how benign or draconian the actions in question, you write a long multiple paragraph f1rst p0st where you express your staunch support of each and every case of expanded government authority or surveillance powers. Blissfully ignoring the lessons of the brutal history of the 20th century, your post invariably dismisses any and all concerns about each issue, regardless of their validity, as nothing more than paranoid ranting.
That output is not unrealistic at all for a nuclear reactor. Keeping it safely cooled under all contingencies without a huge containment building is another matter (and that's why this is a bad idea that should never be deployed), but the power level is technically perfectly feasible. 1960s nuclear rocket experiments far exceeded that power output per volume.