The Mustang has always had a wide range of engine options targeted at different market segments. On day one in 1964, the Mustang was available with an anemic ~100hp straight-6 budget engine.
What good is being pedantic if you're still using arbitrary anthropocentric units? Let's really fix the summary:
yyzmcleod sends news that AeroVelo, a Canadian team of engineers and students, has built a bike that successfully broke the human-powered land speed record. (This is the same group that built a human-powered helicopter 1.1e51 tp before present.) The team's Eta recumbent speed bike managed a speed of 1.2779283e-07 c. The previous record was 1.2391581e-07 c.
What were you hoping for? A crashed alien spaceship?
That bright smudge looks a whole lot like the splattered contents of a warp core to me.
I bet some aliens planned to safely jump out of hyperspace in the large gap between planets in our solar system, but it just wasn't their day, and they ended up leaving that huge crater. Probably their last words were something like: "That's no moon... It's a frigging dwarf planet! Hard to starboard!"
Indeed. The that's why this nation's founders defined the three major functions of the federal government: 1. National defense 2. International relations 3. Assisting the foreign high-end liquor industry in any way possible
No, the major reason the B-70 program was cancelled was the increasing range (altitude) of SAMs.
Exactly. If your bombers are going to be shot down by SAMs anyway, it makes no economic sense to use supersonic ones. You'd just be wasting fuel and limiting payload. Instead, you stick with subsonic (or barely supersonic, if you want to count the B1).
Flying higher and faster was always the right thing to be doing.
Says who?
Not if it takes an order of magnitude more fuel in an era where the airlines are nickel-and-diming you for each goddamned bag of peanuts.
If you think that supersonic airliners are so lucrative, why haven't you started a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new startup? You're sure to make buckets of coin.
In one day, the Concorde went from the statistically safest aircraft per passenger-mile to the statistically most dangerous aircraft per passenger-mile. Kind of similar to the Space Shuttle: They both worked until they didn't, and comparatively few people ever flew on either vehicle.
Even towards the end of its career it made money and for a lot of people in the world
Only if you ignore the astronomical sunken costs that had already been shouldered by British and French taxpayers.
The US experience with the XB-70 led us to realize that extreme supersonic speeds don't make economic sense even for waging thermonuclear war. So we wisely avoided this supersonic transport boondoggle.
The reason they're doing better than taxi and limousine industries is because they're not involved with unions and tons of bureaucracy. Simple as that. Been proven time and time again, unions and red tape kills productivity and innovation. SOLVED. You're welcome.
...and you don't think that it has anything to do at all with the fact that the new business involves a convenient app connected to an efficient centralized planning service, whereas the old business usually involves things like trying to wave down any empty yellow cars that might happen to pass by? Either approach could be implemented with or without unions.
Other than superficial UI bullshit, does Windows 10 have any features? Was there any kernel development? If so, what was produced?
Yes, they've now added an "Ex" suffix to every system call. You now have to specify an average of 17 flag constants each with a name that averages of 30 upper-case characters, as well as initialize and provide "long pointers" to an average of five large C structures for each request you make to the OS.
Hmmm, $10,000 so I can get to 60 mph.4 seconds faster than before. Unless I'm street racing or having a douche-driver-day, I'm not sure i see the value when it's acceleration is already way past anything else available.
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport supposedly does 0-100km/h (62mph) in 2.2 seconds. So you can get substantially faster acceleration than this Tesla, for a premium of a couple of $million. (I guess that makes this battery pack look like a bargain.)
As another thought experiment, imagine that there was a horse with the following properties: - Pink in color - Of appealing physical proportions - Has a single long, straight horn projecting from its forehead. - Possesses the ability to fly.
It would undoubtedly have significant value to collectors, and I would certainly want one.
If you're concerned about delays, then for an annual fee you could sign up to be PreWeighed by the TSA. Then you could breeze right by the passengers waiting in line at the scale.
Desalinization costs around $2000 per acre-foot. Beef production uses around 1800 gallons per pound. Feeding cows from California-grown crops would therefore tack more than $11 per pound onto the price of beef. Almonds use a similar amount of water per pound as beef, so would face a similar markup.
Rice needs 300 gal/pound, which would add $1.84 per pound to its price. Maybe Israelis pay these kinds of prices for their food. However, that's simply not realistic for this country. We'd shift to imports or food grown in other states before paying for staple crops grown with desalinized water.
Because in the real world, it's NOT simple to move water around at all. Moving water around has involved some of the most expensive undertakings this country has ever attempted, and has been responsible for massive environmental damage and the disruption of the livelihoods of countless people.
Moreover, the water has to come from somewhere. If you hadn't noticed, the entire western US has almost no extra water. Precipitation is simply not refilling the original sources of Western water supplies. Maybe you think it's cheap and easy to pipe it over the continental divide, after somehow wresting water rights from people in the East. If so, you're an ignoramus.
And desalinization is totally unrealistic to address anything but urban water use, which is a drop in the bucket.
I don't know why you're surprised by "weird nastiness" over water rights. Civilizations all over the world have been highly protective of their water rights for millennia, and many wars have been fought over water. Fresh water is probably the single most important resource on the planet, and nobody is going to give up their water without a fight, even if they're not using all of it at this exact moment. There is simply not going to be any Kumbaya solution to these issues.
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The Mustang has always had a wide range of engine options targeted at different market segments. On day one in 1964, the Mustang was available with an anemic ~100hp straight-6 budget engine.
What good is being pedantic if you're still using arbitrary anthropocentric units? Let's really fix the summary:
yyzmcleod sends news that AeroVelo, a Canadian team of engineers and students, has built a bike that successfully broke the human-powered land speed record. (This is the same group that built a human-powered helicopter 1.1e51 tp before present.) The team's Eta recumbent speed bike managed a speed of 1.2779283e-07 c. The previous record was 1.2391581e-07 c.
What were you hoping for? A crashed alien spaceship?
That bright smudge looks a whole lot like the splattered contents of a warp core to me.
I bet some aliens planned to safely jump out of hyperspace in the large gap between planets in our solar system, but it just wasn't their day, and they ended up leaving that huge crater. Probably their last words were something like: "That's no moon... It's a frigging dwarf planet! Hard to starboard!"
The number of distinct microprocessor SKUs on the market doubles every 18 months.
When I was in school, I was taught that 2014 MU69 was a full-fledged comet.
I'm never going to go along with these self-appointed revisionists attempting to demote it to a mere "ice chunk". It will always be a comet.
Indeed. The that's why this nation's founders defined the three major functions of the federal government:
1. National defense
2. International relations
3. Assisting the foreign high-end liquor industry in any way possible
It's valuable technology spinoffs like this zero-g whiskey that justify the taxpayers shelling out over $100B on the ISS.
If it weren't for our robust support of manned space flight, mankind might never get the benefits of zero-g wiskey, and that would be a shame.
No, the major reason the B-70 program was cancelled was the increasing range (altitude) of SAMs.
Exactly. If your bombers are going to be shot down by SAMs anyway, it makes no economic sense to use supersonic ones. You'd just be wasting fuel and limiting payload. Instead, you stick with subsonic (or barely supersonic, if you want to count the B1).
Flying higher and faster was always the right thing to be doing.
Says who?
Not if it takes an order of magnitude more fuel in an era where the airlines are nickel-and-diming you for each goddamned bag of peanuts.
If you think that supersonic airliners are so lucrative, why haven't you started a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new startup? You're sure to make buckets of coin.
In one day, the Concorde went from the statistically safest aircraft per passenger-mile to the statistically most dangerous aircraft per passenger-mile. Kind of similar to the Space Shuttle: They both worked until they didn't, and comparatively few people ever flew on either vehicle.
Even towards the end of its career it made money and for a lot of people in the world
Only if you ignore the astronomical sunken costs that had already been shouldered by British and French taxpayers.
The US experience with the XB-70 led us to realize that extreme supersonic speeds don't make economic sense even for waging thermonuclear war. So we wisely avoided this supersonic transport boondoggle.
I never knew people were made of lead and cadmium.
People are really high on the food chain. Similar to swordfish and sharks, humans tend to accumulate high concentrations of heavy metals.
The FDA recommends that pregnant women avoid eating people at all, and most others should limit themselves to one or two servings per week.
The reason they're doing better than taxi and limousine industries is because they're not involved with unions and tons of bureaucracy. Simple as that. Been proven time and time again, unions and red tape kills productivity and innovation. SOLVED. You're welcome.
...and you don't think that it has anything to do at all with the fact that the new business involves a convenient app connected to an efficient centralized planning service, whereas the old business usually involves things like trying to wave down any empty yellow cars that might happen to pass by? Either approach could be implemented with or without unions.
Other than superficial UI bullshit, does Windows 10 have any features? Was there any kernel development? If so, what was produced?
Yes, they've now added an "Ex" suffix to every system call. You now have to specify an average of 17 flag constants each with a name that averages of 30 upper-case characters, as well as initialize and provide "long pointers" to an average of five large C structures for each request you make to the OS.
Let me guess: It was a '67 Chevy Impala?
Hmmm, $10,000 so I can get to 60 mph .4 seconds faster than before. Unless I'm street racing or having a douche-driver-day, I'm not sure i see the value when it's acceleration is already way past anything else available.
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport supposedly does 0-100km/h (62mph) in 2.2 seconds. So you can get substantially faster acceleration than this Tesla, for a premium of a couple of $million. (I guess that makes this battery pack look like a bargain.)
Yes, because our food was not being directly soaked in the chemicals. Now it is.
So what?
Farmers used to have to be careful to not poison their crops with whatever chemicals they used. Not so any more.
Or was that so that smaller amounts of safer varieties of pesticide/herbicide can be used?
Nope.
It was so that massive quantities of glyphosate and 2,4-D could be dumped directly onto the crops with impunity.
As another thought experiment, imagine that there was a horse with the following properties:
- Pink in color
- Of appealing physical proportions
- Has a single long, straight horn projecting from its forehead.
- Possesses the ability to fly.
It would undoubtedly have significant value to collectors, and I would certainly want one.
If you're concerned about delays, then for an annual fee you could sign up to be PreWeighed by the TSA. Then you could breeze right by the passengers waiting in line at the scale.
No, maybe you should show me your plan to produce rice that is profitable at $1.29 per pound retail using only desalinated water.
Desalinization costs around $2000 per acre-foot. Beef production uses around 1800 gallons per pound. Feeding cows from California-grown crops would therefore tack more than $11 per pound onto the price of beef. Almonds use a similar amount of water per pound as beef, so would face a similar markup.
Rice needs 300 gal/pound, which would add $1.84 per pound to its price. Maybe Israelis pay these kinds of prices for their food. However, that's simply not realistic for this country. We'd shift to imports or food grown in other states before paying for staple crops grown with desalinized water.
Looks like it replaced the esc key.
Now what?
You'll have to use "Ctl+[".
Why not?
Because in the real world, it's NOT simple to move water around at all. Moving water around has involved some of the most expensive undertakings this country has ever attempted, and has been responsible for massive environmental damage and the disruption of the livelihoods of countless people.
Moreover, the water has to come from somewhere. If you hadn't noticed, the entire western US has almost no extra water. Precipitation is simply not refilling the original sources of Western water supplies. Maybe you think it's cheap and easy to pipe it over the continental divide, after somehow wresting water rights from people in the East. If so, you're an ignoramus.
And desalinization is totally unrealistic to address anything but urban water use, which is a drop in the bucket.
I don't know why you're surprised by "weird nastiness" over water rights. Civilizations all over the world have been highly protective of their water rights for millennia, and many wars have been fought over water. Fresh water is probably the single most important resource on the planet, and nobody is going to give up their water without a fight, even if they're not using all of it at this exact moment. There is simply not going to be any Kumbaya solution to these issues.