Setting norms for industry is not "nanny state". Are you glad that the pilot of your airline has a license, the mechanics who work on the plane are certified, etc or is that "nanny state"? Maybe I should buy a plane and start flying people around. I have a history of heart disease and haven't actually flown anything apart from my dad's piper when I was a kid and he let me take the controls, but I have plenty of simulator time. I should start my own airline.
Private industry being the mentally unstable guy who will charge you a fee for sitting in his disgusting car which he has an expired license for, while you pray not to die from the fumes and that the car actually holds together long enough to get you to your destination. Laws exist to regulate private industry because private industry too easily focuses on the "my profit" part of the equation and not enough on the "quality of service" part. The race to low prices is a race to the bottom unless artificial floors are put in place. While those floors (such as vehicle inspections and standards, licensing, insurance, etc) might look like a barrier to entry into the industry, they are really defining the minimum level of service acceptable. Anyone who generates profits by circumventing the rules is trading passenger safety for dollars.
No, not only China. Uber's business model is illegal in most of the world where there are already laws governing charging fares to passengers in your car.
Comparing an attack SSN with something the size of an aircraft carrier. Well done. How fast do you think this thing would be and what kind of spike would it give on say, a magnetic anomaly detector? You can't make a small city "stealthy" and quiet underwater. Even SSN's and SSBN's can be tracked. Imagine your carrier. Also, troll does not mean "someone who disagrees".
Yeah but when your 12 (or however many) missiles are gone, reloading is a bit of a PITA and takes quite a while, unlike a carrier... Plus there's only so much mass of explosive you can put on the tip of a missile compared to a bomb carried by a plane.
You still have to get the physical dollars into the country. That will cost you. Bitcoin does not magically turn into dollars. You need the middleman to provide you with the actual paper. You can't get around him - unless you're keeping the funds outside of Argentina - in which case it doesn't help the local economy now does it?
There's already a healthy black market to get around that 30% - as there is in any country where the currency is artificially pegged. You can't say bitcoin is bigger than the black market or is affecting things more than that black market.
It's a terrible idea. Funds would be better allocated (and HAVE been allocated) to researching mid-air refuelling techniques and increasing the range of existing aircraft. Placing your striking power in a vulnerable and relatively defenseless position (underwater, where no planes can be launched) is not a good idea. At least on the surface carriers can be escorted by the rest of their strike group and they have a chance at launching sorties and sinking the enemy first. An underwater carrier would be a big fat magnet for torpedoes/depth charges...
Anti sub warfare or not it would not have mattered. Japan's problem is that it was an island and thus 100% dependent on maritime trade. If allied subs proved ineffective then more aircraft would have been assigned to bomb the ships, or more raiding surface groups would go after shipping. Lack of effective ASW did not make Japan any more vulnerable since this vulnerability was a strategic, geographic one. The US on the other hand had no such vulnerability. Of course it had to keep its front line bases supplied but with a secure industrial base it didn't matter how much shipping the Japanese managed to sink if the US could produce more than it lost then victory was certain.
It's silly - in order to affect the economy someone sooner or later HAS to change their bitcoin to US dollars and the net result is exactly the same as if they had bought US dollars in the first place. Except perhaps getting around the tax.
Planets and suns aren't sure things, you know. We sort of take ours for granted, but there is the evidence of the sky around us. And the ominous silence of a galaxy that should be filled with intelligent life...
Well unless you're planning to live underground and powering your colony by magic, there's nowhere even near hospitable in this solar system. And you can forget traveling to any other star system. So yeah, we sort of ARE stuck here.
Corruption and deceit run deep in Chinese industries.
They also don't hesitate to shoot people, especially when something public and embarrassing happens. I'd think that there wouldn't be all that much dishonesty in the space program as opposed to say, dog food for export.
Why the GP was merely commenting on how tolerant islam is, especially about women. After all our politicians say no insist that we be completely tolerant of all muslim demands.
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Setting norms for industry is not "nanny state". Are you glad that the pilot of your airline has a license, the mechanics who work on the plane are certified, etc or is that "nanny state"? Maybe I should buy a plane and start flying people around. I have a history of heart disease and haven't actually flown anything apart from my dad's piper when I was a kid and he let me take the controls, but I have plenty of simulator time. I should start my own airline.
Are you seriously comparing transportation with human sacrifice?
Private industry being the mentally unstable guy who will charge you a fee for sitting in his disgusting car which he has an expired license for, while you pray not to die from the fumes and that the car actually holds together long enough to get you to your destination. Laws exist to regulate private industry because private industry too easily focuses on the "my profit" part of the equation and not enough on the "quality of service" part. The race to low prices is a race to the bottom unless artificial floors are put in place. While those floors (such as vehicle inspections and standards, licensing, insurance, etc) might look like a barrier to entry into the industry, they are really defining the minimum level of service acceptable. Anyone who generates profits by circumventing the rules is trading passenger safety for dollars.
No, not only China. Uber's business model is illegal in most of the world where there are already laws governing charging fares to passengers in your car.
First they came for the kiddie porn...
Comparing an attack SSN with something the size of an aircraft carrier. Well done. How fast do you think this thing would be and what kind of spike would it give on say, a magnetic anomaly detector? You can't make a small city "stealthy" and quiet underwater. Even SSN's and SSBN's can be tracked. Imagine your carrier. Also, troll does not mean "someone who disagrees".
Yeah but when your 12 (or however many) missiles are gone, reloading is a bit of a PITA and takes quite a while, unlike a carrier... Plus there's only so much mass of explosive you can put on the tip of a missile compared to a bomb carried by a plane.
Yeah something as large as an aircraft carrier will be completely stealthy. Just put it underwater. /facepalm
You still have to get the physical dollars into the country. That will cost you. Bitcoin does not magically turn into dollars. You need the middleman to provide you with the actual paper. You can't get around him - unless you're keeping the funds outside of Argentina - in which case it doesn't help the local economy now does it?
There's already a healthy black market to get around that 30% - as there is in any country where the currency is artificially pegged. You can't say bitcoin is bigger than the black market or is affecting things more than that black market.
It's a terrible idea. Funds would be better allocated (and HAVE been allocated) to researching mid-air refuelling techniques and increasing the range of existing aircraft. Placing your striking power in a vulnerable and relatively defenseless position (underwater, where no planes can be launched) is not a good idea. At least on the surface carriers can be escorted by the rest of their strike group and they have a chance at launching sorties and sinking the enemy first. An underwater carrier would be a big fat magnet for torpedoes/depth charges...
200 rounds is impressive as most large artillery pieces must be re-machined or re-bored at around such a usage level.
Anti sub warfare or not it would not have mattered. Japan's problem is that it was an island and thus 100% dependent on maritime trade. If allied subs proved ineffective then more aircraft would have been assigned to bomb the ships, or more raiding surface groups would go after shipping. Lack of effective ASW did not make Japan any more vulnerable since this vulnerability was a strategic, geographic one. The US on the other hand had no such vulnerability. Of course it had to keep its front line bases supplied but with a secure industrial base it didn't matter how much shipping the Japanese managed to sink if the US could produce more than it lost then victory was certain.
It's silly - in order to affect the economy someone sooner or later HAS to change their bitcoin to US dollars and the net result is exactly the same as if they had bought US dollars in the first place. Except perhaps getting around the tax.
Inflation is constant
The number of Bitcoin users in Argentina is relatively small; it barely registers on most charts of global Bitcoin usage.
Both from TFS.
I too can make extravagant claims in the subject line of my post, only to actually disprove the claim in my message. God has not been proven to exist.
For the loss, that's a lot of cash and cargo.
Every ounce of it insured. Sucks for the insurance company but hey, they'll adjust the premiums accordingly.
So a failure rate of 11% or so....
Ahh numbers. Yeah, as far as the crew of Apollo 1 is concerned, the failure rate was 100%.
Planets and suns aren't sure things, you know. We sort of take ours for granted, but there is the evidence of the sky around us. And the ominous silence of a galaxy that should be filled with intelligent life...
Well unless you're planning to live underground and powering your colony by magic, there's nowhere even near hospitable in this solar system. And you can forget traveling to any other star system. So yeah, we sort of ARE stuck here.
Corruption and deceit run deep in Chinese industries.
They also don't hesitate to shoot people, especially when something public and embarrassing happens. I'd think that there wouldn't be all that much dishonesty in the space program as opposed to say, dog food for export.
"Outside experts" of course being another name for "lobbyists".
It's not a business it's a collection of bad debt. They'd need to be a bank in order to con people into buying that.
They stop making floppy disks, bugs eat your manuals, your hard drive crashes. Oh no!
Why the GP was merely commenting on how tolerant islam is, especially about women. After all our politicians say no insist that we be completely tolerant of all muslim demands.
I see you avoided answering the question.
US congress cannot subvert international law.