It's obvious to anyone with half a brain that Trump is being played like a fiddle by Xi and Putin by way of their North Korean proxy.
Do you seriously think that this is somehow going to end up with NK just giving up its nukes right after all the decades of effort and pain they went through to obtain them?
AC imagine a city with the ability to pay for their own networks without having to consider federal NN monopoly telco rules.
Now imagine an already successful campaign by ALEC and other GOP types to create state-level laws that prevent cities from creating their own networks at all, for the benefit of monopoly telcos.
If you have a cluster of stars which are at most a light year away from each other and with many on the order of light months, the idea that one couldn't go from one to the other is the height of arrogant assumptions that technology isn't going to improve.
In areas where stars are packed that close together and interacting gravitationally, planetary orbits may not be stable enough to allow advanced civilizations to evolve in the first place.
There were no nasty hypergolic explosions with the TItan II.
No, in 1980 a Titan II exploded and its thermonuclear warhead was flung out into the Arkansas countryside because a service man accidentally dropped a wrench down the silo.
I'm sure that this guy treated this gag order with the same sincerity that his company treated all the material on their intranet going on about things like "our employees are our most important asset".
It's called revenge. If you were doublecrossed by an organization, then it's not unlikely that you would want to dish dirt on them *and* take their money.
Any incoming projectile with enough energy to cause global devastation is more than likely large enough to make it through the atmosphere mostly unscathed. That's because it's highly unlikely that an incoming solid object will have a velocity above that of high-speed comets relative to the earth, around 70 km/s.
If you could find some natural process that accelerates macroscopic objects to much higher speeds than that, then maybe your argument would have some relevance.
The problem today is: NASA probably isn't detecting many new objects falling towards the sun even at 70 km/s in time to do anything about it. And as the GP post pointed out, these can be much smaller than an ordinary 20 km/s asteroid for the same amount of damage.
Consolidating 3x management resources into one is mind boggling expensive, how exactly?
So now every satellite can use the same design process as the F-35, so they can attempt to surpass it as the most expensive military boondoggle in history.
Once again, and please read slowly because you seem to have a comprehension deficit, just because a couple of subsidized experiments exist (selling power or not), it doesn't mean that they have solved the issues I originally pointed out.
There's a little-known language hack that can help you feel less stressed out by things like this. It's called a homonym.
That's when different words with different meanings have both the same spelling and pronunciation. Strange, but true.
How can you tell them apart? Well, you have to use context:
If somebody is talking a about a "hack" that uses apple cider vinegar, then you know that it's some silly folk remedy.
If somebody is talking about a hack that involves breaking into a computer system, then you know that they're talking about cybercrime.
If somebody is talking about a hack that involves a clever and unorthodox programming method, then you know that some geek figured out a labor-saving way to solve a problem.
If somebody is talking about a hack and it involves felling a tree, then you know that they're wielding an ax.
The list goes on, but you get the idea. This is how human language works. If you accept that, then you will live a less stressful life.
I think the fact that nobody anywhere in the world has overcome the technological, economic or security issues involved with breeder reactors in the 40 years since his decision pretty much proves him correct.
maybe this one will be the one? can we really take that chance?
Your survivorship bias is showing. You're only here to make jokes about it because you happen to inhabit one of the one in 1e1000 universes where CERN hasn't already created a planet-devouring black hole.
People who believe that God created the world and expects us to act as care takers of His gift for the next generation of humanity should be shocked and appalled and take every responsible action to ensure the gift we have been given by God is preserved and passed down to the next generation.
Those same people tend to believe that these are the end times, so they don't need to worry about future generations.
Some modern commuter systems use regenerative braking and feed energy back into the power grid while slowing down, so there's not necessarily all that much waste.
Power required due to drag, OTOH, is proportional to the speed *cubed*. And you additionally have to multiply that by the number of pods vs. one train.
There's a simplified version of the Office Ribbon, which allows users to collapse it so it takes up less space and hides many options....
But that other five percent is different for every person, so Microsoft is adding an option to remove commands from the Ribbon, such as Archive, for example, and pin others to it, such as "Reply by IM.
Now this is Innovation!.
I think Microsoft should come up with memorable names for these new features, possibly something like "pulldown menu" and "customizable toolbar".
I think the USPTO is going to be busy poring over a bevy of new GUI filings in the upcoming months.
We should just declare one of the current schemes as "good enough", use it long enough for all relevant patents to expire, universally implement it on all devices, and serve it by default from almost all media sources.
It would be kind of like mp3 and jpg, and it would lower everybody's stress level.
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Man, are you gullible.
It's obvious to anyone with half a brain that Trump is being played like a fiddle by Xi and Putin by way of their North Korean proxy.
Do you seriously think that this is somehow going to end up with NK just giving up its nukes right after all the decades of effort and pain they went through to obtain them?
AC imagine a city with the ability to pay for their own networks without having to consider federal NN monopoly telco rules.
Now imagine an already successful campaign by ALEC and other GOP types to create state-level laws that prevent cities from creating their own networks at all, for the benefit of monopoly telcos.
If you have a cluster of stars which are at most a light year away from each other and with many on the order of light months, the idea that one couldn't go from one to the other is the height of arrogant assumptions that technology isn't going to improve.
In areas where stars are packed that close together and interacting gravitationally, planetary orbits may not be stable enough to allow advanced civilizations to evolve in the first place.
There were no nasty hypergolic explosions with the TItan II.
No, in 1980 a Titan II exploded and its thermonuclear warhead was flung out into the Arkansas countryside because a service man accidentally dropped a wrench down the silo.
I'm sure that this guy treated this gag order with the same sincerity that his company treated all the material on their intranet going on about things like "our employees are our most important asset".
It's called revenge. If you were doublecrossed by an organization, then it's not unlikely that you would want to dish dirt on them *and* take their money.
Any incoming projectile with enough energy to cause global devastation is more than likely large enough to make it through the atmosphere mostly unscathed. That's because it's highly unlikely that an incoming solid object will have a velocity above that of high-speed comets relative to the earth, around 70 km/s.
If you could find some natural process that accelerates macroscopic objects to much higher speeds than that, then maybe your argument would have some relevance.
The problem today is: NASA probably isn't detecting many new objects falling towards the sun even at 70 km/s in time to do anything about it. And as the GP post pointed out, these can be much smaller than an ordinary 20 km/s asteroid for the same amount of damage.
I thought that the UK was at the epicenter of the movement for real ale, which doesn't need any extraneous CO2.
It relies on GE's Current CityIQ sensors, which are powered with Intel IoT technology and use AT&T as the data carrier.
Given today's news, I don't know about the timing of that. Committing to that could be as wise as buying a bunch of Sears gift cards.
Consolidating 3x management resources into one is mind boggling expensive, how exactly?
So now every satellite can use the same design process as the F-35, so they can attempt to surpass it as the most expensive military boondoggle in history.
Yes. Exactly. Let me spell it out for you, since you seem so slow:
Are they making a profit? NO
If they were widely used throughout the world, would it be hard to divert materials to weapons production? NO
Once again, and please read slowly because you seem to have a comprehension deficit, just because a couple of subsidized experiments exist (selling power or not), it doesn't mean that they have solved the issues I originally pointed out.
There's a little-known language hack that can help you feel less stressed out by things like this. It's called a homonym.
That's when different words with different meanings have both the same spelling and pronunciation. Strange, but true.
How can you tell them apart? Well, you have to use context:
If somebody is talking a about a "hack" that uses apple cider vinegar, then you know that it's some silly folk remedy.
If somebody is talking about a hack that involves breaking into a computer system, then you know that they're talking about cybercrime.
If somebody is talking about a hack that involves a clever and unorthodox programming method, then you know that some geek figured out a labor-saving way to solve a problem.
If somebody is talking about a hack and it involves felling a tree, then you know that they're wielding an ax.
The list goes on, but you get the idea. This is how human language works. If you accept that, then you will live a less stressful life.
Those experimental government-sponsored reactors were/are trying to work out the problems I mentioned, but without success.
I think the fact that nobody anywhere in the world has overcome the technological, economic or security issues involved with breeder reactors in the 40 years since his decision pretty much proves him correct.
So you're saying that you, of all people, care even one iotoa about CO2 emissions?
maybe this one will be the one? can we really take that chance?
Your survivorship bias is showing. You're only here to make jokes about it because you happen to inhabit one of the one in 1e1000 universes where CERN hasn't already created a planet-devouring black hole.
Maybe because most of the shoreline is sheer cliffs?
Wouldn't they possibly want some kind of Internet connectivity there?
I have internet connectivity at my house, and it's continuously occupied (unlike that station). Why don't I get to have my own TLD?
People who believe that God created the world and expects us to act as care takers of His gift for the next generation of humanity should be shocked and appalled and take every responsible action to ensure the gift we have been given by God is preserved and passed down to the next generation.
Those same people tend to believe that these are the end times, so they don't need to worry about future generations.
The "concept" is 100% privately funded so no risk to Chicago.
If it works, it works. If it doesn't, Musk takes the hit.
Ironically, Chicago has already famously demonstrated that private tunnels can pose an enormous risk.
Some modern commuter systems use regenerative braking and feed energy back into the power grid while slowing down, so there's not necessarily all that much waste.
Power required due to drag, OTOH, is proportional to the speed *cubed*. And you additionally have to multiply that by the number of pods vs. one train.
There's a simplified version of the Office Ribbon, which allows users to collapse it so it takes up less space and hides many options ....
But that other five percent is different for every person, so Microsoft is adding an option to remove commands from the Ribbon, such as Archive, for example, and pin others to it, such as "Reply by IM.
Now this is Innovation!.
I think Microsoft should come up with memorable names for these new features, possibly something like "pulldown menu" and "customizable toolbar".
I think the USPTO is going to be busy poring over a bevy of new GUI filings in the upcoming months.
We should just declare one of the current schemes as "good enough", use it long enough for all relevant patents to expire, universally implement it on all devices, and serve it by default from almost all media sources.
It would be kind of like mp3 and jpg, and it would lower everybody's stress level.
Then it would seem that the solution to your problem would be to rig up a supercharger-to-USB3 adapter plug.
By my math, it looks like you could charge your phone in three seconds.