NOW that they - that is 98% of them- have checked, double checked, reaffirmed and reaffirmed their reaffirmation that the theory that carbon emitted by human activity is causing the temperature to rise faster and will reach a point where civilization cannot be sustained, NOW they are sounding the alarm.
Not one SINGLE climatologist has EVER said that even the worst possible projections of climate change will result in reaching the point "where civilization cannot be sustained". Spreading that bullshit propaganda does nothing but harm to the attempt to make the public aware of this problem. Climate change is a problem, but it is NOT going to end civilization and only someone without a fucking clue about what climate change is, why it's happening and how to prevent it would even suggest that.
Not only that but you go off the deep end and try to argue that even suggesting that it's not world ending it is a crime punishable by death.
I'll also point out that Newtonian Physics and Relativity are in Harmony within the speed range hypothesized and studied by Newton. Einstein's special relativity can be seen as a correction to the original theory that at low speeds the correction factor is essentially zero. In fact there is a way to present the Newtonian equations of motion and gravity with the Relativistic correction attached that shows that Newton's theory's were never invalidated, just didn't cover speeds that are whole digit percentages of C where the % of C correction that Einstein discovered come into play.
So in Summary, Einstein didn't prove Newton wrong, he in fact added to the Newtonian equations a correction that hadn't been discovered because Newton was limited very low speed study.
And that fear is an irrational fear of the science behind it. Many of the crops have been in use for several decades and proven not only safe but in the case of corn, highly effective at reducing pesticide use yet they are still banned in Europe. Not because there is any evidence showing that they are bad, but because the public at large fears them. In fact there has been lots of studies showing a complete lack of harm and not a single study showing harm yet they are still banned.
They were erring on the safe side in the first 5 years this stuff was used, 20 years down the road they aren't on the safe side anymore, they are on irrational side. And yes it is most certainly anti-science (anti crop science), it's just a different variety than the kind in the US.
Early? Were in beta right now. It's supposed to be released in May of 2012, that's 4 months away if you can't count. It's not early, at 4 months to release they aren't changing anything but bugs at this point. Performance is a pretty fixed metric at this point.
I can guarantee there are professions ranging from mcdonalds cashier all the way to civil engineers, marketing droids, HR representatives and car salesmen and everyone in between that read this website.
Although everyone may be a geek at heart not everyone picked their hobby for their profession. Speaking only for myself, computers are my hobby, it would ruin my hobby to work with them as a profession so I chose a different field to work in.
There is a better analogy than a wrench. How about a rag stuffed into the exhaust pipe between the engine and the catalytic converter. You aren't going to see it, you won't know it's there until you try to start engine. The more correct analogy would be a rag stuffed into the fuel line.
I'd wager the main question is why the engines aren't test fired before they vehicle is in space.
That's the mistake people make when thinking any kind of UN document provides guarantee's. Anything produced by the UN by definition has input from the worst regimes in the world. This means even in something like the UN declaration of human rights there is an out if it's deemed "in the public order". This is why in a charter that talks about religious freedom there are exceptions that allow theocratic regimes to outright ban everything but the majority religion and imprison and execute those that violate their rules.
And IMO it means those documents aren't worth the paper they are printed on. The UN is body that's needed for political discussion and world threating issues where there is consensus (such as an extra terrestrial invasion, the only issue that springs to mind was the ban on CFC's). Otherwise anything produced by the UN is going to be worthless on it's face and generally unenforceable anyway. As a species we can't even agree on basic human rights, what's the point in even putting anything to paper when document will be riddled with exceptions.
This is why people have suggested creating another UN type body where membership is conditioned on common values, but I'm not even sure that where there is strong commonality (US, Europe, Japan, Etc) that we could agree on basic things let alone complex issues.
Apparently you don't know what SLR means, nor the difference between a mirror and prism. SLR stands for Single Lens Reflex. It means the viewfinder looks through the shooting lens. The mirror is how this is accomplished in cheap DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) by redirecting light from the lens up to the viewfinder rather than straight back to the sensor, in higher end pro-sumer and professional cameras there isn't a mirror, but a penta-prism. The prism allows light redirection to either the viewfinder or sensor (or both in some cases). The loud click of a cheap SLR is the mirror being flipped up to allow the pictures, high end SLR cameras with pentaprisms have a much quieter click in that it's just the lens shutter (and the prism rotating in some cases).
As a side note, the mirror systems have much shorter lives due to the limited number of times the mirror can be flipped before the springs and mechanics wear out.
I'd wager they agreed to hear the case not because they think the Columbia district ruling disagrees with the constitution, but more likely because there is a disagreement between the district courts. Several have ruled it's ok, and a couple have ruled it's not. Currently it's legal in some districts and illegal in others, that makes an issue ripe for review by the Supreme court to level the playing field.
Personally I think it should be illegal or that you should own it if you find it attached to your car. We can't have a bullshit world where it's legal for them to attach it, and illegal for you to remove it and throw it away.
So just to be clear. You support the idea that a white jury could nullify a murder conviction against a white man accused of killing a black man because the members of the jury think it's ok for a white man to kill a black man? Because that's exactly what happened numerous times in the south during the civil rights movement. Jury nullification sounds good on the surface until you turn around and apply it to the ugly situations that you don't want to talk about. And the reality is that those ugly situations are going to be far more common than the just situations.
We shouldn't be nulifying laws in the jury box, it's should be done at the ballot box, if more people took seriously their electoral responsibility and communicated with their elected representatives and worked inside the system these things would change. But when the only ones talking about copyright policy are those groups who benefit most from an authoritarian version then don't be surprised when that's what you get.
Closing an international waterway is an official act of war. The UN, Russians and Chinese couldn't say a thing if Iran closes the straight because Iran will have committed an official act of war against any nation that uses that straight. Not to mention Oman, Saudi and a dozen all the other nations that have territorial waters or rights that overlap the straight would have a legitimate claim to retaliation.
Closing the straight would be akin to using a nuclear weapon as it something that's going to be dealt with very harshly. It would give the US and the US Navy a free hand to take Iran down. The US navy already has a operation manual for reopening the straight including an attack strategy that should keep them out of harms way for the majority of the fighting (keep the big ships in the Arabian sea and clear the Iranian coast along the straight of all military emplacements using subs, missiles and attack aircraft, then work up the coast systematically destroying every hostile force, this happens at the same time the US bases in the gulf begin offensive action against the nuclear sites and major military bases). I'm sure at this point the US has mapped the location of every sea worthy vessel in Iran. I wonder if Iran even knows how many attack vessels the US has in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf. I'd bet there could be as many as a dozen Los Angeles class attack subs sitting on the bottom of the gulf (they can stay submerged for a year) waiting for Iran to do something stupid.
Fiona got rid of the calculator division a decade ago. The last good calculator that HP ever developed was the HP48 and that was more than 20 years ago. They still sell a few of the old good models but for the most part they don't have a calculator division anymore.
That depends on whether you consider your privacy a physical item. They routinely sell access to user accounts, their content and their connections to others. They make a pretty penny selling all your personal information, who you know and what you think and do to anyone willing to pay for that access. The Governments of the world are some of their biggest clients. For example, the US government may be bared from collecting this information without a warrant but they aren't bared from purchasing it from a private business. Facebook gives them the loophole they need to routinely spy on every American and the best part is that the people themselves are participating and assisting in the spying.
The F-35 was and still is poised to be the best investment in fighter aircraft the US has ever made. It will simplify supply chains, parts management and the best part of all is that we are selling a boat load of them to every Tier1 ally we have thus spreading the immense R&D costs (which are already spent) out over thousands of planes.
The problem with the F-35 isn't Lockheed, the plane or cost, it's Congress. That's the story that everyone's missing. It's crap like Congress forcing the military to design and test a second engine (that DOD didn't want and repeatedly asked Congress to kill) for the F-35 because a well connected defense contractor didn't win the original engine contract. After spending 3 BILLION dollars they finally got Congress to kill it after it was revealed another 30 billion dollars would be needed to finish the design (which finally got the other congress critters to kill it over the objections of the ones pushing it). The worst part is that the second engine didn't just waste money, it delayed the whole project and increased costs because of the inflation and additional delays to the production line.
Yes there have been technical challenges that have increased costs, such as the Class C VTOL variant that was extremely difficult to design. But the cost escalations on the F-35 tie almost completely to Congress, such as scaling back the total number purchased (which spreads R&D over fewer planes increasing unit cost), the second engine and a dozen other areas where Congress has deliberately fucked with the procurement process. The F-35 will likely be the last major fighter aircraft the US ever designs and builds. That it will replace more than a dozen different and aging aircraft with a single airframe and parts chain and in addition will be shared among every branch was the smartest decision DOD ever made. Not only that but it puts the US and it's allies ahead of the international competition by a significant margin and the only nation with the funding and R&D to ever compete is China (and I consider that very debatable).
People forget that the F-15, F-16, F-18, F-117, B1-B and all the aircraft in the US arsenal were designed or produced more than 30 years ago (the first flights of the F-117 Stealth were in the 70's). Even with modern avionics the craft are showing their age, most have no stealth capability at all, little to no mach capability and massive fuel usage. The F-35 closes the gap, equalizes all the aircraft in the arsenal with equivalent capability, unifies the supply chain (greatly simplifying things were a major conflict ever to break out), provides stealth capabilities to the entire fleet, improved fuel usage, mach speed cruise, stand-off firepower and most importantly of all provides a modern airframe to every branch of the military and puts almost every Tier 1 ally into the same airframe.
Although the F-22 might not be needed, the unification of the air power of the US into a single (I'd like to see the A-10 retained as it's a very sturdy close combat airframe that's very effective against Armor) more powerful airframe used across all branches should NOT be squandered and it would be a terrible mistake to kill it. The defense department spends far to much money we don't have, the budget should be cut but those cuts should come from personal, not R&D and purchase of the new weapons system underway. The F-35 and New DDX Naval Ships are critical components of defense of the mainland US. Lets cut the ground troops and streamline the US fighting force, not squander the defense of the US itself. Consider that salary for active and reserve military members accounts for the vast majority of the DOD expenses. Clinton and the Republican Congress balanced the budget by cutting active military personal about 10%, something Bush Jr and his neoCon Congress immediately reversed.
Europeans in general place energy conservation pretty high, they turn off their cars at stop lights for gods sake.
The body fat issue is just plain asinine assumption on your part. Cold or heat tolerance has little to do with that. I've spent my entire life in the high mountain desert. I can not sleep at all unless the room is cooler than 70F (21C) and Preferably 65F or less (18C). This is my accustomed temperature for sleeping and I simply cannot sleep at all if the temperature is higher and it wouldn't matter if I was 300lbs or 100lbs, though if I had to endure it for a period of time (probably a month or more) I could adjust to higher temps and still sleep. Most Americans in general are accustomed to centralized air conditioning being on at all times during warm weather (and sometimes not). I'd wager that in most European cities rather than turn on the air conditioning they simply open a window due to how far north they are.
I've got the most sure fired way for you to make money. I can practically guarantee that if you follow this investment path that you will make more money than you will ever need if your initial investment is big enough.
What is that bet? Bet that Energy prices will go up (more than inflation) over the next 20 years. Fossil fuels are declining in production year over year (there is a small short term spike in gas production currently, but don't judge a long term trend by short term movements) but long term energy prices will continue to go up at rates that exceed inflation significantly. You make a bet that Energy prices will continue to grow and I'm betting ROI exceeds inflation by 10% over a 20 year time frame. The era of cheap energy is over.
The solution given the reality of Siemens is to simply disconnect these SCADA systems from the internet. Why anyone would hook up industrial controls to the wider network. And yes I mean every single workstation that has access to the SCADA machinery should be disconnected from the broader internet. If that means people need two computers on their desk that's the solution. If that means you have to dispatch someone to the office to fix things, that's better than some hacker causing a massive failure by mis-configuring valves intentionally or through ignorance.
I'll tell you something, these local municipalities can afford a little overtime and computers far more than destroyed infrastructure.
Pardon me but I won't believe the government report out of the gate, the DOD has a tendency to blame personal off the cuff before the real facts are in.
They made similar bullshit claims about pilot error on the F-16 until the guy survived the crash and reported blacking out and then they put cameras in the cockpit and recorded the pilots blacking out. I'm old enough to remember those crashes (half of them were in my state) and all the blame they heaped on the pilots until the real facts came out and AFAIK they never retracted the allegations of pilot misconduct.
So I'm going to wait a while and see what really develops before I believe a report whose purpose appears to be to blame the pilot.
The crashes of the early F-16 that they couldn't figure out were related to a similar situation but it was blood deprivation of the brain in High G Turns. They didn't actually figure out what the problem was until a pilot woke up from the blackout and bailed out before his plane crashed. It's because of those crashes that pilots today where flight suits that constrict the legs to keep blood in the upper body and there's now a significant warning system when the pilot pulls turns that exceed the G-rating of the human body.
The F-16 was the first US aircraft that could easily make turns the human body couldn't and I wouldn't be surprised if they've discovered another area where pilots are incapable of doing what the aircraft can with the F-22. The end result will likely be automated systems that kick in when these situations are within the parameters of occurring according to the instruments or a specialized computer will be installed and blood oxygen monitors will be added to the flight suits.
It's just a simple reality that as we push the aircraft engineering to the edge of our capabilities that they will find areas where the body can't keep up, just like with the F-16.
We know A LOT about the cores of the planets in the solar system from extensive study (including molten, material and other stuff that can be determined from external study). It appears you are talking about examining extrasolar planets. We don't have the capability, and it's doubtful we will, at least in our lifetime. Voyager1 just left the solar system and it's moving at ~35k MPH and it was launched in the 70's, most of the people that designed it are retired or dead and Voyager1 will be dead long before it reaches any other star.
I passed 3 kidney stones. One was 3mm (the max limit before they try to break them with ultrasound (very dangerous). I've felt pain that intense, but not that sharp. The onset is so fast too that it just takes your breath away. I went from mild back pain to the hot knife stabbing in about 10 minutes and it just keeps building. Once I got to the emergency room I had to wait due to patient load, I finally begged them to just give me a shot of morphine while I waited and they stuck me on a gurney in a hallway and dosed me. I'd wager it was about 1.5 hours from onset to the injection. The pain is just unbelievable. I've been told by a woman that's had 8 kids that kidney stones are far more painful than child birth and they at least give you an epidural for that!
I didn't know fiscal responsibility was called tax-cut and spend. IMO that's worse than tax and spend.
We had a balanced budget during the final 2 years of the Clinton administration. That's a centrist democrat president with a republican congress. They spent so much time wondering who was sucking Clinton's dick that they couldn't fuck the rest of America over. Bush Jr. Fixed that.
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Not one SINGLE climatologist has EVER said that even the worst possible projections of climate change will result in reaching the point "where civilization cannot be sustained". Spreading that bullshit propaganda does nothing but harm to the attempt to make the public aware of this problem. Climate change is a problem, but it is NOT going to end civilization and only someone without a fucking clue about what climate change is, why it's happening and how to prevent it would even suggest that.
Not only that but you go off the deep end and try to argue that even suggesting that it's not world ending it is a crime punishable by death.
Welcome to Fascism, population you. Seek help.
I'll also point out that Newtonian Physics and Relativity are in Harmony within the speed range hypothesized and studied by Newton. Einstein's special relativity can be seen as a correction to the original theory that at low speeds the correction factor is essentially zero. In fact there is a way to present the Newtonian equations of motion and gravity with the Relativistic correction attached that shows that Newton's theory's were never invalidated, just didn't cover speeds that are whole digit percentages of C where the % of C correction that Einstein discovered come into play.
So in Summary, Einstein didn't prove Newton wrong, he in fact added to the Newtonian equations a correction that hadn't been discovered because Newton was limited very low speed study.
And that fear is an irrational fear of the science behind it. Many of the crops have been in use for several decades and proven not only safe but in the case of corn, highly effective at reducing pesticide use yet they are still banned in Europe. Not because there is any evidence showing that they are bad, but because the public at large fears them. In fact there has been lots of studies showing a complete lack of harm and not a single study showing harm yet they are still banned.
They were erring on the safe side in the first 5 years this stuff was used, 20 years down the road they aren't on the safe side anymore, they are on irrational side. And yes it is most certainly anti-science (anti crop science), it's just a different variety than the kind in the US.
Early? Were in beta right now. It's supposed to be released in May of 2012, that's 4 months away if you can't count. It's not early, at 4 months to release they aren't changing anything but bugs at this point. Performance is a pretty fixed metric at this point.
I can guarantee there are professions ranging from mcdonalds cashier all the way to civil engineers, marketing droids, HR representatives and car salesmen and everyone in between that read this website.
Although everyone may be a geek at heart not everyone picked their hobby for their profession. Speaking only for myself, computers are my hobby, it would ruin my hobby to work with them as a profession so I chose a different field to work in.
There is a better analogy than a wrench. How about a rag stuffed into the exhaust pipe between the engine and the catalytic converter. You aren't going to see it, you won't know it's there until you try to start engine. The more correct analogy would be a rag stuffed into the fuel line.
I'd wager the main question is why the engines aren't test fired before they vehicle is in space.
I still remember when NASA employees had written most of the Ethernet drivers in Linux.
That's the mistake people make when thinking any kind of UN document provides guarantee's. Anything produced by the UN by definition has input from the worst regimes in the world. This means even in something like the UN declaration of human rights there is an out if it's deemed "in the public order". This is why in a charter that talks about religious freedom there are exceptions that allow theocratic regimes to outright ban everything but the majority religion and imprison and execute those that violate their rules.
And IMO it means those documents aren't worth the paper they are printed on. The UN is body that's needed for political discussion and world threating issues where there is consensus (such as an extra terrestrial invasion, the only issue that springs to mind was the ban on CFC's). Otherwise anything produced by the UN is going to be worthless on it's face and generally unenforceable anyway. As a species we can't even agree on basic human rights, what's the point in even putting anything to paper when document will be riddled with exceptions.
This is why people have suggested creating another UN type body where membership is conditioned on common values, but I'm not even sure that where there is strong commonality (US, Europe, Japan, Etc) that we could agree on basic things let alone complex issues.
Apparently you don't know what SLR means, nor the difference between a mirror and prism. SLR stands for Single Lens Reflex. It means the viewfinder looks through the shooting lens. The mirror is how this is accomplished in cheap DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) by redirecting light from the lens up to the viewfinder rather than straight back to the sensor, in higher end pro-sumer and professional cameras there isn't a mirror, but a penta-prism. The prism allows light redirection to either the viewfinder or sensor (or both in some cases). The loud click of a cheap SLR is the mirror being flipped up to allow the pictures, high end SLR cameras with pentaprisms have a much quieter click in that it's just the lens shutter (and the prism rotating in some cases).
As a side note, the mirror systems have much shorter lives due to the limited number of times the mirror can be flipped before the springs and mechanics wear out.
It was a cappuccino button, not a light switch button.
I'd wager they agreed to hear the case not because they think the Columbia district ruling disagrees with the constitution, but more likely because there is a disagreement between the district courts. Several have ruled it's ok, and a couple have ruled it's not. Currently it's legal in some districts and illegal in others, that makes an issue ripe for review by the Supreme court to level the playing field.
Personally I think it should be illegal or that you should own it if you find it attached to your car. We can't have a bullshit world where it's legal for them to attach it, and illegal for you to remove it and throw it away.
So just to be clear. You support the idea that a white jury could nullify a murder conviction against a white man accused of killing a black man because the members of the jury think it's ok for a white man to kill a black man? Because that's exactly what happened numerous times in the south during the civil rights movement. Jury nullification sounds good on the surface until you turn around and apply it to the ugly situations that you don't want to talk about. And the reality is that those ugly situations are going to be far more common than the just situations.
We shouldn't be nulifying laws in the jury box, it's should be done at the ballot box, if more people took seriously their electoral responsibility and communicated with their elected representatives and worked inside the system these things would change. But when the only ones talking about copyright policy are those groups who benefit most from an authoritarian version then don't be surprised when that's what you get.
Closing an international waterway is an official act of war. The UN, Russians and Chinese couldn't say a thing if Iran closes the straight because Iran will have committed an official act of war against any nation that uses that straight. Not to mention Oman, Saudi and a dozen all the other nations that have territorial waters or rights that overlap the straight would have a legitimate claim to retaliation.
Closing the straight would be akin to using a nuclear weapon as it something that's going to be dealt with very harshly. It would give the US and the US Navy a free hand to take Iran down. The US navy already has a operation manual for reopening the straight including an attack strategy that should keep them out of harms way for the majority of the fighting (keep the big ships in the Arabian sea and clear the Iranian coast along the straight of all military emplacements using subs, missiles and attack aircraft, then work up the coast systematically destroying every hostile force, this happens at the same time the US bases in the gulf begin offensive action against the nuclear sites and major military bases). I'm sure at this point the US has mapped the location of every sea worthy vessel in Iran. I wonder if Iran even knows how many attack vessels the US has in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf. I'd bet there could be as many as a dozen Los Angeles class attack subs sitting on the bottom of the gulf (they can stay submerged for a year) waiting for Iran to do something stupid.
Nokia's world ended in mid-2010. They are just in the prolonged slide into bankruptcy at this point.
Fiona got rid of the calculator division a decade ago. The last good calculator that HP ever developed was the HP48 and that was more than 20 years ago. They still sell a few of the old good models but for the most part they don't have a calculator division anymore.
That depends on whether you consider your privacy a physical item. They routinely sell access to user accounts, their content and their connections to others. They make a pretty penny selling all your personal information, who you know and what you think and do to anyone willing to pay for that access. The Governments of the world are some of their biggest clients. For example, the US government may be bared from collecting this information without a warrant but they aren't bared from purchasing it from a private business. Facebook gives them the loophole they need to routinely spy on every American and the best part is that the people themselves are participating and assisting in the spying.
The F-35 was and still is poised to be the best investment in fighter aircraft the US has ever made. It will simplify supply chains, parts management and the best part of all is that we are selling a boat load of them to every Tier1 ally we have thus spreading the immense R&D costs (which are already spent) out over thousands of planes.
The problem with the F-35 isn't Lockheed, the plane or cost, it's Congress. That's the story that everyone's missing. It's crap like Congress forcing the military to design and test a second engine (that DOD didn't want and repeatedly asked Congress to kill) for the F-35 because a well connected defense contractor didn't win the original engine contract. After spending 3 BILLION dollars they finally got Congress to kill it after it was revealed another 30 billion dollars would be needed to finish the design (which finally got the other congress critters to kill it over the objections of the ones pushing it). The worst part is that the second engine didn't just waste money, it delayed the whole project and increased costs because of the inflation and additional delays to the production line.
Yes there have been technical challenges that have increased costs, such as the Class C VTOL variant that was extremely difficult to design. But the cost escalations on the F-35 tie almost completely to Congress, such as scaling back the total number purchased (which spreads R&D over fewer planes increasing unit cost), the second engine and a dozen other areas where Congress has deliberately fucked with the procurement process. The F-35 will likely be the last major fighter aircraft the US ever designs and builds. That it will replace more than a dozen different and aging aircraft with a single airframe and parts chain and in addition will be shared among every branch was the smartest decision DOD ever made. Not only that but it puts the US and it's allies ahead of the international competition by a significant margin and the only nation with the funding and R&D to ever compete is China (and I consider that very debatable).
People forget that the F-15, F-16, F-18, F-117, B1-B and all the aircraft in the US arsenal were designed or produced more than 30 years ago (the first flights of the F-117 Stealth were in the 70's). Even with modern avionics the craft are showing their age, most have no stealth capability at all, little to no mach capability and massive fuel usage. The F-35 closes the gap, equalizes all the aircraft in the arsenal with equivalent capability, unifies the supply chain (greatly simplifying things were a major conflict ever to break out), provides stealth capabilities to the entire fleet, improved fuel usage, mach speed cruise, stand-off firepower and most importantly of all provides a modern airframe to every branch of the military and puts almost every Tier 1 ally into the same airframe.
Although the F-22 might not be needed, the unification of the air power of the US into a single (I'd like to see the A-10 retained as it's a very sturdy close combat airframe that's very effective against Armor) more powerful airframe used across all branches should NOT be squandered and it would be a terrible mistake to kill it. The defense department spends far to much money we don't have, the budget should be cut but those cuts should come from personal, not R&D and purchase of the new weapons system underway. The F-35 and New DDX Naval Ships are critical components of defense of the mainland US. Lets cut the ground troops and streamline the US fighting force, not squander the defense of the US itself. Consider that salary for active and reserve military members accounts for the vast majority of the DOD expenses. Clinton and the Republican Congress balanced the budget by cutting active military personal about 10%, something Bush Jr and his neoCon Congress immediately reversed.
ASSumptions only make you look like an ass.
Europeans in general place energy conservation pretty high, they turn off their cars at stop lights for gods sake.
The body fat issue is just plain asinine assumption on your part. Cold or heat tolerance has little to do with that. I've spent my entire life in the high mountain desert. I can not sleep at all unless the room is cooler than 70F (21C) and Preferably 65F or less (18C). This is my accustomed temperature for sleeping and I simply cannot sleep at all if the temperature is higher and it wouldn't matter if I was 300lbs or 100lbs, though if I had to endure it for a period of time (probably a month or more) I could adjust to higher temps and still sleep. Most Americans in general are accustomed to centralized air conditioning being on at all times during warm weather (and sometimes not). I'd wager that in most European cities rather than turn on the air conditioning they simply open a window due to how far north they are.
I've got the most sure fired way for you to make money. I can practically guarantee that if you follow this investment path that you will make more money than you will ever need if your initial investment is big enough.
What is that bet? Bet that Energy prices will go up (more than inflation) over the next 20 years. Fossil fuels are declining in production year over year (there is a small short term spike in gas production currently, but don't judge a long term trend by short term movements) but long term energy prices will continue to go up at rates that exceed inflation significantly. You make a bet that Energy prices will continue to grow and I'm betting ROI exceeds inflation by 10% over a 20 year time frame. The era of cheap energy is over.
The solution given the reality of Siemens is to simply disconnect these SCADA systems from the internet. Why anyone would hook up industrial controls to the wider network. And yes I mean every single workstation that has access to the SCADA machinery should be disconnected from the broader internet. If that means people need two computers on their desk that's the solution. If that means you have to dispatch someone to the office to fix things, that's better than some hacker causing a massive failure by mis-configuring valves intentionally or through ignorance.
I'll tell you something, these local municipalities can afford a little overtime and computers far more than destroyed infrastructure.
Pardon me but I won't believe the government report out of the gate, the DOD has a tendency to blame personal off the cuff before the real facts are in.
They made similar bullshit claims about pilot error on the F-16 until the guy survived the crash and reported blacking out and then they put cameras in the cockpit and recorded the pilots blacking out. I'm old enough to remember those crashes (half of them were in my state) and all the blame they heaped on the pilots until the real facts came out and AFAIK they never retracted the allegations of pilot misconduct.
So I'm going to wait a while and see what really develops before I believe a report whose purpose appears to be to blame the pilot.
The crashes of the early F-16 that they couldn't figure out were related to a similar situation but it was blood deprivation of the brain in High G Turns. They didn't actually figure out what the problem was until a pilot woke up from the blackout and bailed out before his plane crashed. It's because of those crashes that pilots today where flight suits that constrict the legs to keep blood in the upper body and there's now a significant warning system when the pilot pulls turns that exceed the G-rating of the human body.
The F-16 was the first US aircraft that could easily make turns the human body couldn't and I wouldn't be surprised if they've discovered another area where pilots are incapable of doing what the aircraft can with the F-22. The end result will likely be automated systems that kick in when these situations are within the parameters of occurring according to the instruments or a specialized computer will be installed and blood oxygen monitors will be added to the flight suits.
It's just a simple reality that as we push the aircraft engineering to the edge of our capabilities that they will find areas where the body can't keep up, just like with the F-16.
We know A LOT about the cores of the planets in the solar system from extensive study (including molten, material and other stuff that can be determined from external study). It appears you are talking about examining extrasolar planets. We don't have the capability, and it's doubtful we will, at least in our lifetime. Voyager1 just left the solar system and it's moving at ~35k MPH and it was launched in the 70's, most of the people that designed it are retired or dead and Voyager1 will be dead long before it reaches any other star.
I passed 3 kidney stones. One was 3mm (the max limit before they try to break them with ultrasound (very dangerous). I've felt pain that intense, but not that sharp. The onset is so fast too that it just takes your breath away. I went from mild back pain to the hot knife stabbing in about 10 minutes and it just keeps building. Once I got to the emergency room I had to wait due to patient load, I finally begged them to just give me a shot of morphine while I waited and they stuck me on a gurney in a hallway and dosed me. I'd wager it was about 1.5 hours from onset to the injection. The pain is just unbelievable. I've been told by a woman that's had 8 kids that kidney stones are far more painful than child birth and they at least give you an epidural for that!
I didn't know fiscal responsibility was called tax-cut and spend. IMO that's worse than tax and spend.
We had a balanced budget during the final 2 years of the Clinton administration. That's a centrist democrat president with a republican congress. They spent so much time wondering who was sucking Clinton's dick that they couldn't fuck the rest of America over. Bush Jr. Fixed that.