>> terrestrial reference point(s) to correct for orbital drift > No it does not.
OP's assumption is more accurate than your response. What is interesting is you go ahead and explain how the system compensates for drift, after saying it doesn't. Ground based stations correct the satellite's internal position, the satellite then sends that to the receivers. so where those ground based control systems are located is going to be the GPS reference. 2 SOPS contacts each GPS satellite regularly with a navigational update using dedicated or shared (AFSCN) ground antennas"
Then you missed the second place where it happens, maps are in X/Y coordinates, GPS is in lat/long. So a second ground reference point is chosen, and the GPS receiver decides which region it is in to decide which reference point it will use, then converts the GPS position to a local reference.
It is really bad etiquette to DOC innocent people. IE you should at least make sure their are not home addresses, SSN, phone numbers, credit card numbers, etc before you release. It would also be polite to remove innocent but embarrassing details: things like sickness, illness, VD's, victims names of things like rape, phishing...
> Tesla is doing all the hard work and running the cars seems to be just going 5% extra.
I think your selling that short to say it is 5% extra. You need chargers, parking, inventory, insurance, maintenance, advertising.
It did seam obvious Tesla is wanting to manage fleets of rentals, and include owners cars in them. But Uber has the app, the advertising, the eyeballs, the insurance all in the works.
>Well, since their current electric cars way out-perform current gas cars (comparably priced ones), it wouldn't be a shocker at all.
That is a bit of a misnomer, they can out accelerate performance cars; all those cars out brake, handle, higher top speed, and have more range.
Other than that, they can out range cars costing half as much.
They beat everyone to the cruise system, but now need to play catchup to Ford and GM, in that their systems detect drowsy drivers, and force their customers to keep their hands on the wheel.
They pushed the envelop of electric cars, but they are mostly just doing a better job of out hyping them at the moment.
Thanks, that is a good one. A little short on details, since it was never prosecuted...
Since he was about to plead out to a misdemeanor, with this one and the other ones referenced above do point to that she did get a executive privilege of not being formally charged. But even without this it would have likely been a small fine, as she had left the job already, and little else (of course she would also be pardoned after she wasn't running anymore.)
Of course that path would have likely ended her campaign...
Don't all of those articles support the Clinton decision? The lawyers in each of the cases basically say, the normal punishment: "almost always dealt with through what the military calls "nonjudicial punishment" or Captain's Mast. Those involved were demoted and docked some pay, but didn't face a felony record or the prospect of years behind bars, the retired sailor said."
Petraeus was trading confidential information for considerations, nothing of the same was shown for Hillary. In both of the military examples the people were shown to have lost control of the information because those who shouldn't have had access, did access the information, that couldn't be shown for Clinton. For her another had access, but found no evidence anyone accessed any information they weren't allowed.
Sounds like this was at the top of a hill. The problem Tesla identified is one that happens because radar doesn't identify the road. So the radar could (sounds like it did) tell them (for example) the object is 15 foot above the cars elevation, but they would have no way (with radar alone) to know if the sign is past the crest of the hill, IE the car was climbing a hill, so when a 100 feet away the radar hit was likely 20 foot above the tesla, but because the tesla was going up the hill, when it was 50 feet away, it could be 12 foot above, but at 20 foot from the car, it had to know that it only had 4 feet. Sounds like Tesla had categorized this return, and because it never moved, Tesla never re-evaluated it, or it would have at least hit the breaks in the last few feet. Lidar also maps the road, so the moment it got a scan of the road surface under the truck, it could calculate the height of the "sign" from the road, and know if it was going to impact. We ran both lidar and radar, the lidar has issues with rain/snow/fog, the radar with these issues, and a lack of precision (misses smaller dark objects) But in this case, the lidar would know the road height, so even if the truck had been all black, the radar hit would have been combined with the lidar, to know it's elevation wasn't far from the road surface.
> So the owner is still responsible whether he allows his neighbor to drive, or himself, or if it was stolen or whatever.
Responsible was not correctly used here. The important part about having to show financial backing is that if something goes wrong the money is immediately available to start fixing the problems before assigning blame. If I loan my car to someone without insurance and they cause a accident and are at fault, they are still responsible (legally and financially). It is just setup so that the insurance companies involved will be the one to pay the bills, that insurance company is then responsible for suing and collecting from the truly responsible. This minimizes the harm to the victims, they don't have to find lawyers and sue everyone involved. For minor cases my insurance company will likely find it cheaper to eat the cost than to sue, but that doesn't change the fact that legally the one who caused the harm is still responsible.
Thousands of people have built working electric drive cars. The idea is had each of them learned from the others, then the cost to develop a better version is not a billion or even millions more, but thousands. Musk spent millions developing manufacturing, and the processes and methods likely more than on the car it's self. If the improvements of all can be shared, he stands to better compete with conventional autos, his real goal.
This likely isn't a selfless move, If the auto maker takes responsibility they expect to make a profit off that liability. >Really, who else could be liable? those who provide the map, the maintenance, the inspections, the tires, the route... So all of those will need to be provided by someone willing to take the liability. So basically Google or Volvo will likely require they are paid to provide all of these processes. Of course not all directly, but they will be the authority, that certifies those allowed to provide all of these services. Fixed the car yourself, your responsible. Wait how do we prove that, well we justified DRM on every component by taking responsibility. This is probably the best route, even with the obvious down sides. I for one hope their is a reasonable way to get a developers license to be able to get affordable insurance, yet still be able to make modifications. (For things like adapting the tech to new vehicles/functions like offroad applications, not triciking the car into going faster...)
>far less serious security violations than Queen Hillary and were prosecuted and punished.
Any reference to someome being prosecuted, for "far less"? So far their is zero evidence that any intellegence was compromised. So a single prosecution, beyond simple administrative action like losing security clearence, where no compromise actually occured, and no intentional disclosure was intended in their actions.
>You don't count (almost) all the other countries on the planet being metric as a huge push?
I don't think a single country has gone full metric. A good example is minutes and hours are not metric, so any country using Km/hr or anything besides m/s or km/s isn't full metric. Most have other exceptions, be it PSI for pressures, F for temps... For most things non scientific, like building with wood (houses, etc) the Imperial system is well designed and the long history figured it out better. numbers divisible by 2, and fractions of inches just works. So nice that you can get 4'x8' sheet of plywood, and because of the conversion of 12" to a foot, I have nice even stud distances of 12, 16, and 24" will all line up with the dimensions of both ends of the plywood being on a stud. the metric equivilent lumber all ends up with odd numbers to mess with, and basically a non standard outside the US when it comes to building. Similar with bolts and nuts, the US system is much more standardized, be it the markings on the head, and the size of the head to bolt diameter, is all much more standardized than the metric equivalent.
>But: Free Speech should protect companies as well.
Sure, but for profit speech must be accurate and follow local laws. I can proclaim snake oil as a cure for cancer, but I cannot sell it as a cure for cancer. I also cannot be legaly paid, or otherwise make a profit for selling snake oil as a cure, without some proof. You cannot have businesses profiting from illegal actions and hiding behind free speech. If you are sold a product for a purpose, you expect it to be safe, effective and legal. If it is not; you should be able to report it, and the government should be allowed to stop that company or person from continuing in that activity.
I do think their is often a misunderstanding of what protected free speech is. Free speech has never meant (in the US) no cost to speak, and it has never meant that all locations and media are protected from private interests impeding on all speech. At least constitutionally protected free speech is only guaranteed for individuals from government intrusion (and civil court judgments are generally not counted as government intrusion). It especially hasn't meant that commercial speech is protected (citizens united rulling excepted.)
In your example, Google does have the ability to post copyrighted works, but not without cost. Especially since that is commercial speech for profit, it may be free speech but it is not protected free speech. So they do need to pay the creators of that value, and avoid contributing to criminal acts, if they don't want to be sued out of existence. You as a individual should be able to post a link to a torrent, without fear of criminal prosecution. But google as a commercial for profit company can be required to not host your free speech. Just like I don't have to allow the Jehovah Witness into my house to talk about his beliefs, I don't have to give him a platform, but if he provides his own platform (his temple) then while their I cannot stop him.
> They showed a police car driving right up to the kid I was curious about that one. No one would think that was a good idea. I was wondering if the driver was still looking for the suspect, and wasn't aware he was driving right up to him. Or if the driver saw it correctly as a kid with a toy, just pull up and yell at him for being stupid, but the cop in the passenger seat panicked.
The Ferguson one was even worse in that respect. How the F* does a cop, without backup end up trying to tackle a robbery suspect of that size (who was with a accomplish), when the cop had a safe barrier to start with (the car.) And it doesn't appear the suspect was a major flight risk. (IMHO) I am guessing the large officer and badge was historically intimidating enough that he dropped solid technique long ago (or never practiced.)
Only at 3-4* the cost. Although I do think electric cars with a add on gen makes sense. If the electric car works for my commute let me remove the weight, add it only when I may need more range. Or share the gen set with other use (all hybrids should have 112 volt outlet in my opinion.)
>How feasible would it be to tow an aerodynamic battery 'trailer' for extended range? Battery would be 1000 pounds, more than the towing capacity of most cars (Tesla has no towing capacity listed.) Towing a 5kW generator and 3 gallons of fuel ( 3 gallon of gas is equivalent to 100 kwhr battery.) would be more like 50 pounds, easily in the range of what a car could carry. Now, if you can get the car to charge while moving...
Term Drone encompasses so many things. I would think stage one is a glider drone: So a cargo plane takes off with a series of pallets with fold out auto-gyro style blades built into each palette. The plane flies over the small warehouse, and instead of landing and taking off, it unfolds and shoves out the pallet and it lands in the truck hub, and is loaded on a truck and away it goes to the destination. Stage 2 is you order something light weight and small but time sensitive, DVD's, repair parts (auto/home)... If you order after all the trucks are all out delivering, drone is sent and lands on the delivery truck, and the driver takes it to your house. Stage 3, is the warehouse is located at altitude, so they must only fly down to the customers, they are power launched, and only have enough power to sustain flight while loaded and maybe return, maybe just land on delivery trucks to be hauled back up.
Economic theory agrees with you. The cost of living in a high rent location is a benefit to the employee, for the most part wages in Iowa for the same job should be the same as in California for the majority of jobs that don't require a resource not available in the other location. Of course a company considers the whole cost, so if the founder is worth $20 million but is willing to work for $10 million in California but won't move to Iowa for less the wage savings of others, then that $10 million savings spread out to extra wages to other employees could justify the location. Like you say, if he is worth that much to inspire the employees, his remote inspiration (at least in his/her mind) wouldn't be enough to make the move work. So in this case is Jimmy Wales the foundation that thinks he is required to be hands on for wikipedia to work...
>modern diesel engines emit more NO2 than they used to. While it is true that Modern Diesiel engines produce more NOx than they used to, it doesn't matter, because now they are using DEF to remove N02 converting it to water and pure nitrogen. > standards seem to be worse for your health that is completly wrong especially in the US, the exhaust standards significantly restrict (like 50x reduction in the last 10 years) emissions of carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), particulate matter (PM), formaldehyde (HCHO), and non-methane organic gases (NMOG) or non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC) emissions.
small correction, should be "Defend the rights of accused pedophiles" Once proven guilty of a crime, the law (mostly) and most people then (and only then) support taking away many rights of the individual. We are different than many countries in the stage of protecting the accused from things like self incrimination... But the apple decision (and my support of the direction) is more driven from the lax oversight of subpoena's. If that process was rare, and rigorous enough, then I would support a method of pulling phone data... based on sufficient evidence. But it appears were talking over 20k requests per year for these records from just one company, that tells me this is likely being abused, and now is the time for it to be closed.
Pretty sure a airbag broke my finger, but saved my life (or at least quality of life) while I was seat-belted. I rolled my car at over 60 mph and hit a 6 ton bolder upside down, the bolder cut open the top of my car right above the drivers seat. The car normally had about 4" from roof clearance to my head. Something kept everything that came past the windshield and through the roof separated from my head, and it was allot. The only thing that could have done that was the airbag, or a guardian angel.
When you give everyone guns they will find someone to shoot. And if you listen to the NRA, then you know that just isn't true. So your statement can't be true either.
I think the issue is more the "giving" part. Because the police departments were given the military weapons, when they have a 1000 people protesting, they look at the tools on hand, a pistol, a machine gun, and a assault tank. They are then given the task of breaking up the protesters, stopping and apprehending looters, and not taught how to do that. Had they not been given the military weaponry, they would have had to gone to their accounting dept, local legislators... and said we need military weapons to handle rioters. Then the question would be asked, are military weapons the correct path, or should we buy batons and shields instead? If they needed the M-16, the accountants would likely point out, we need money for training... to go with them. When someone gives the weapons to the dept, even if they do ask accounting for riot shields, their response is more likely to be, can't you use the weapons you have? The civilian equivalent would be if I want a old bard torn down, and I offer 2 teenagers a couple AR's and box's of ammo in exchange for tearing down the shed while I leave for the weekend (and don't allow them to sell the weapons), and then hand them the weapons, it is allot more likely to be real ugly when I come back on Monday. While it is true If I instead give them $5000 to do the same job, they could go buy the AR's, but are much more likely to rent the correct tools, or buy a sledge hammer.
>deliberately targetted the school Israel just bombed.
I am not a fan of Israel, but that was the one for me as well. When you here the propaganda from the Pro-gaza/hamas reporters. They acknowledge that Hamas put a rocket launcher at the UN school when UN security was no longer present and that the students were hidden in the shadows from satellite imagery. So they were able to force Gaza parents (or they voluntarily sacrificed their children) to place their students into a school stacked up next to a rocket launcher, all for a PR blitz to show how Israel "targeted" a school. When you stack up children next to your military equipment, thinking it is a no lose situation, either your children protect the rocket launcher, or the enemy kills your children and you are happy to be able to use them for PR, it is clear Hamas has no morals. Now I realize this is Hamas doing this, not all of those in Gaza, but they are overwhelmingly OK with Hamas doing this on their behalf.
>the economy is actually more stable after we left the gold standard.
of course it is, and it had all signs of getting worse if kept on the gold standard. That fiat currency problem is so born out in human history, that most religions of any size has rules against being a lender or a borrower, or hoarder of money because banking with a fiat currency guarantees endless bust/boom cycles, with a regulated banking and flexible money supply the inevitable crash in money supply can be reduced or illuminated.
It is odd that proponents of going to a fiat currency, thing that a gold standard is a fix to fractional reserve, but in reality it is what originally cause fractional reserve banking. IE it is a pain to carry gold, and to try and verify it's value over each transaction (people slugging gold coins, trimming edges...) The fix was banking, take your gold in and trade it for a paper IOU that is easier to trade/carry... Then the bank realizes it can loan out that gold in it's vault for money, and you have fractional reserve banking. Same is true of bitcoin, also since it is a pain for me to walk to the neighbor, hand him a USB chain, then force him to get online and verify it for a cost. So it will inevitably have offline paper IOU's as well (or rather already existed, and are coming back, see Casascius coins)
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>> terrestrial reference point(s) to correct for orbital drift
> No it does not.
OP's assumption is more accurate than your response. What is interesting is you go ahead and explain how the system compensates for drift, after saying it doesn't. Ground based stations correct the satellite's internal position, the satellite then sends that to the receivers. so where those ground based control systems are located is going to be the GPS reference. 2 SOPS contacts each GPS satellite regularly with a navigational update using dedicated or shared (AFSCN) ground antennas"
Then you missed the second place where it happens, maps are in X/Y coordinates, GPS is in lat/long. So a second ground reference point is chosen, and the GPS receiver decides which region it is in to decide which reference point it will use, then converts the GPS position to a local reference.
It is really bad etiquette to DOC innocent people. IE you should at least make sure their are not home addresses, SSN, phone numbers, credit card numbers, etc before you release. It would also be polite to remove innocent but embarrassing details: things like sickness, illness, VD's, victims names of things like rape, phishing...
> Tesla is doing all the hard work and running the cars seems to be just going 5% extra.
I think your selling that short to say it is 5% extra. You need chargers, parking, inventory, insurance, maintenance, advertising.
It did seam obvious Tesla is wanting to manage fleets of rentals, and include owners cars in them. But Uber has the app, the advertising, the eyeballs, the insurance all in the works.
>Well, since their current electric cars way out-perform current gas cars (comparably priced ones), it wouldn't be a shocker at all.
That is a bit of a misnomer, they can out accelerate performance cars; all those cars out brake, handle, higher top speed, and have more range.
Other than that, they can out range cars costing half as much.
They beat everyone to the cruise system, but now need to play catchup to Ford and GM, in that their systems detect drowsy drivers, and force their customers to keep their hands on the wheel.
They pushed the envelop of electric cars, but they are mostly just doing a better job of out hyping them at the moment.
Thanks, that is a good one. A little short on details, since it was never prosecuted...
Since he was about to plead out to a misdemeanor, with this one and the other ones referenced above do point to that she did get a executive privilege of not being formally charged. But even without this it would have likely been a small fine, as she had left the job already, and little else (of course she would also be pardoned after she wasn't running anymore.)
Of course that path would have likely ended her campaign...
Don't all of those articles support the Clinton decision? The lawyers in each of the cases basically say, the normal punishment: "almost always dealt with through what the military calls "nonjudicial punishment" or Captain's Mast. Those involved were demoted and docked some pay, but didn't face a felony record or the prospect of years behind bars, the retired sailor said."
Petraeus was trading confidential information for considerations, nothing of the same was shown for Hillary. In both of the military examples the people were shown to have lost control of the information because those who shouldn't have had access, did access the information, that couldn't be shown for Clinton. For her another had access, but found no evidence anyone accessed any information they weren't allowed.
Sounds like this was at the top of a hill. The problem Tesla identified is one that happens because radar doesn't identify the road. So the radar could (sounds like it did) tell them (for example) the object is 15 foot above the cars elevation, but they would have no way (with radar alone) to know if the sign is past the crest of the hill, IE the car was climbing a hill, so when a 100 feet away the radar hit was likely 20 foot above the tesla, but because the tesla was going up the hill, when it was 50 feet away, it could be 12 foot above, but at 20 foot from the car, it had to know that it only had 4 feet. Sounds like Tesla had categorized this return, and because it never moved, Tesla never re-evaluated it, or it would have at least hit the breaks in the last few feet.
Lidar also maps the road, so the moment it got a scan of the road surface under the truck, it could calculate the height of the "sign" from the road, and know if it was going to impact. We ran both lidar and radar, the lidar has issues with rain/snow/fog, the radar with these issues, and a lack of precision (misses smaller dark objects) But in this case, the lidar would know the road height, so even if the truck had been all black, the radar hit would have been combined with the lidar, to know it's elevation wasn't far from the road surface.
> So the owner is still responsible whether he allows his neighbor to drive, or himself, or if it was stolen or whatever.
Responsible was not correctly used here. The important part about having to show financial backing is that if something goes wrong the money is immediately available to start fixing the problems before assigning blame. If I loan my car to someone without insurance and they cause a accident and are at fault, they are still responsible (legally and financially). It is just setup so that the insurance companies involved will be the one to pay the bills, that insurance company is then responsible for suing and collecting from the truly responsible. This minimizes the harm to the victims, they don't have to find lawyers and sue everyone involved. For minor cases my insurance company will likely find it cheaper to eat the cost than to sue, but that doesn't change the fact that legally the one who caused the harm is still responsible.
Thousands of people have built working electric drive cars. The idea is had each of them learned from the others, then the cost to develop a better version is not a billion or even millions more, but thousands. Musk spent millions developing manufacturing, and the processes and methods likely more than on the car it's self. If the improvements of all can be shared, he stands to better compete with conventional autos, his real goal.
This likely isn't a selfless move, If the auto maker takes responsibility they expect to make a profit off that liability.
>Really, who else could be liable?
those who provide the map, the maintenance, the inspections, the tires, the route... So all of those will need to be provided by someone willing to take the liability. So basically Google or Volvo will likely require they are paid to provide all of these processes. Of course not all directly, but they will be the authority, that certifies those allowed to provide all of these services. Fixed the car yourself, your responsible. Wait how do we prove that, well we justified DRM on every component by taking responsibility.
This is probably the best route, even with the obvious down sides. I for one hope their is a reasonable way to get a developers license to be able to get affordable insurance, yet still be able to make modifications. (For things like adapting the tech to new vehicles/functions like offroad applications, not triciking the car into going faster...)
>far less serious security violations than Queen Hillary and were prosecuted and punished.
Any reference to someome being prosecuted, for "far less"? So far their is zero evidence that any intellegence was compromised. So a single prosecution, beyond simple administrative action like losing security clearence, where no compromise actually occured, and no intentional disclosure was intended in their actions.
>You don't count (almost) all the other countries on the planet being metric as a huge push?
I don't think a single country has gone full metric. A good example is minutes and hours are not metric, so any country using Km/hr or anything besides m/s or km/s isn't full metric. Most have other exceptions, be it PSI for pressures, F for temps... For most things non scientific, like building with wood (houses, etc) the Imperial system is well designed and the long history figured it out better. numbers divisible by 2, and fractions of inches just works. So nice that you can get 4'x8' sheet of plywood, and because of the conversion of 12" to a foot, I have nice even stud distances of 12, 16, and 24" will all line up with the dimensions of both ends of the plywood being on a stud. the metric equivilent lumber all ends up with odd numbers to mess with, and basically a non standard outside the US when it comes to building. Similar with bolts and nuts, the US system is much more standardized, be it the markings on the head, and the size of the head to bolt diameter, is all much more standardized than the metric equivalent.
>But: Free Speech should protect companies as well.
Sure, but for profit speech must be accurate and follow local laws. I can proclaim snake oil as a cure for cancer, but I cannot sell it as a cure for cancer. I also cannot be legaly paid, or otherwise make a profit for selling snake oil as a cure, without some proof. You cannot have businesses profiting from illegal actions and hiding behind free speech. If you are sold a product for a purpose, you expect it to be safe, effective and legal. If it is not; you should be able to report it, and the government should be allowed to stop that company or person from continuing in that activity.
I do think their is often a misunderstanding of what protected free speech is. Free speech has never meant (in the US) no cost to speak, and it has never meant that all locations and media are protected from private interests impeding on all speech. At least constitutionally protected free speech is only guaranteed for individuals from government intrusion (and civil court judgments are generally not counted as government intrusion). It especially hasn't meant that commercial speech is protected (citizens united rulling excepted.)
In your example, Google does have the ability to post copyrighted works, but not without cost. Especially since that is commercial speech for profit, it may be free speech but it is not protected free speech. So they do need to pay the creators of that value, and avoid contributing to criminal acts, if they don't want to be sued out of existence.
You as a individual should be able to post a link to a torrent, without fear of criminal prosecution. But google as a commercial for profit company can be required to not host your free speech. Just like I don't have to allow the Jehovah Witness into my house to talk about his beliefs, I don't have to give him a platform, but if he provides his own platform (his temple) then while their I cannot stop him.
> They showed a police car driving right up to the kid
I was curious about that one. No one would think that was a good idea. I was wondering if the driver was still looking for the suspect, and wasn't aware he was driving right up to him. Or if the driver saw it correctly as a kid with a toy, just pull up and yell at him for being stupid, but the cop in the passenger seat panicked.
The Ferguson one was even worse in that respect. How the F* does a cop, without backup end up trying to tackle a robbery suspect of that size (who was with a accomplish), when the cop had a safe barrier to start with (the car.) And it doesn't appear the suspect was a major flight risk. (IMHO) I am guessing the large officer and badge was historically intimidating enough that he dropped solid technique long ago (or never practiced.)
Only at 3-4* the cost. Although I do think electric cars with a add on gen makes sense. If the electric car works for my commute let me remove the weight, add it only when I may need more range. Or share the gen set with other use (all hybrids should have 112 volt outlet in my opinion.)
>How feasible would it be to tow an aerodynamic battery 'trailer' for extended range?
Battery would be 1000 pounds, more than the towing capacity of most cars (Tesla has no towing capacity listed.)
Towing a 5kW generator and 3 gallons of fuel ( 3 gallon of gas is equivalent to 100 kwhr battery.) would be more like 50 pounds, easily in the range of what a car could carry. Now, if you can get the car to charge while moving...
Term Drone encompasses so many things. I would think stage one is a glider drone: So a cargo plane takes off with a series of pallets with fold out auto-gyro style blades built into each palette. The plane flies over the small warehouse, and instead of landing and taking off, it unfolds and shoves out the pallet and it lands in the truck hub, and is loaded on a truck and away it goes to the destination.
Stage 2 is you order something light weight and small but time sensitive, DVD's, repair parts (auto/home)... If you order after all the trucks are all out delivering, drone is sent and lands on the delivery truck, and the driver takes it to your house.
Stage 3, is the warehouse is located at altitude, so they must only fly down to the customers, they are power launched, and only have enough power to sustain flight while loaded and maybe return, maybe just land on delivery trucks to be hauled back up.
Economic theory agrees with you. The cost of living in a high rent location is a benefit to the employee, for the most part wages in Iowa for the same job should be the same as in California for the majority of jobs that don't require a resource not available in the other location. Of course a company considers the whole cost, so if the founder is worth $20 million but is willing to work for $10 million in California but won't move to Iowa for less the wage savings of others, then that $10 million savings spread out to extra wages to other employees could justify the location. Like you say, if he is worth that much to inspire the employees, his remote inspiration (at least in his/her mind) wouldn't be enough to make the move work.
So in this case is Jimmy Wales the foundation that thinks he is required to be hands on for wikipedia to work...
>modern diesel engines emit more NO2 than they used to.
While it is true that Modern Diesiel engines produce more NOx than they used to, it doesn't matter, because now they are using DEF to remove N02 converting it to water and pure nitrogen.
> standards seem to be worse for your health
that is completly wrong especially in the US, the exhaust standards significantly restrict (like 50x reduction in the last 10 years) emissions of carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), particulate matter (PM), formaldehyde (HCHO), and non-methane organic gases (NMOG) or non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC) emissions.
>defend the rights of pedophiles
small correction, should be "Defend the rights of accused pedophiles" Once proven guilty of a crime, the law (mostly) and most people then (and only then) support taking away many rights of the individual. We are different than many countries in the stage of protecting the accused from things like self incrimination... But the apple decision (and my support of the direction) is more driven from the lax oversight of subpoena's. If that process was rare, and rigorous enough, then I would support a method of pulling phone data... based on sufficient evidence. But it appears were talking over 20k requests per year for these records from just one company, that tells me this is likely being abused, and now is the time for it to be closed.
Pretty sure a airbag broke my finger, but saved my life (or at least quality of life) while I was seat-belted. I rolled my car at over 60 mph and hit a 6 ton bolder upside down, the bolder cut open the top of my car right above the drivers seat. The car normally had about 4" from roof clearance to my head. Something kept everything that came past the windshield and through the roof separated from my head, and it was allot. The only thing that could have done that was the airbag, or a guardian angel.
When you give everyone guns they will find someone to shoot. And if you listen to the NRA, then you know that just isn't true. So your statement can't be true either.
I think the issue is more the "giving" part. Because the police departments were given the military weapons, when they have a 1000 people protesting, they look at the tools on hand, a pistol, a machine gun, and a assault tank. They are then given the task of breaking up the protesters, stopping and apprehending looters, and not taught how to do that. Had they not been given the military weaponry, they would have had to gone to their accounting dept, local legislators... and said we need military weapons to handle rioters. Then the question would be asked, are military weapons the correct path, or should we buy batons and shields instead? If they needed the M-16, the accountants would likely point out, we need money for training... to go with them. When someone gives the weapons to the dept, even if they do ask accounting for riot shields, their response is more likely to be, can't you use the weapons you have? The civilian equivalent would be if I want a old bard torn down, and I offer 2 teenagers a couple AR's and box's of ammo in exchange for tearing down the shed while I leave for the weekend (and don't allow them to sell the weapons), and then hand them the weapons, it is allot more likely to be real ugly when I come back on Monday. While it is true If I instead give them $5000 to do the same job, they could go buy the AR's, but are much more likely to rent the correct tools, or buy a sledge hammer.
>deliberately targetted the school Israel just bombed.
I am not a fan of Israel, but that was the one for me as well. When you here the propaganda from the Pro-gaza/hamas reporters. They acknowledge that Hamas put a rocket launcher at the UN school when UN security was no longer present and that the students were hidden in the shadows from satellite imagery. So they were able to force Gaza parents (or they voluntarily sacrificed their children) to place their students into a school stacked up next to a rocket launcher, all for a PR blitz to show how Israel "targeted" a school. When you stack up children next to your military equipment, thinking it is a no lose situation, either your children protect the rocket launcher, or the enemy kills your children and you are happy to be able to use them for PR, it is clear Hamas has no morals. Now I realize this is Hamas doing this, not all of those in Gaza, but they are overwhelmingly OK with Hamas doing this on their behalf.
>the economy is actually more stable after we left the gold standard.
of course it is, and it had all signs of getting worse if kept on the gold standard. That fiat currency problem is so born out in human history, that most religions of any size has rules against being a lender or a borrower, or hoarder of money because banking with a fiat currency guarantees endless bust/boom cycles, with a regulated banking and flexible money supply the inevitable crash in money supply can be reduced or illuminated.
It is odd that proponents of going to a fiat currency, thing that a gold standard is a fix to fractional reserve, but in reality it is what originally cause fractional reserve banking. IE it is a pain to carry gold, and to try and verify it's value over each transaction (people slugging gold coins, trimming edges...) The fix was banking, take your gold in and trade it for a paper IOU that is easier to trade/carry... Then the bank realizes it can loan out that gold in it's vault for money, and you have fractional reserve banking. Same is true of bitcoin, also since it is a pain for me to walk to the neighbor, hand him a USB chain, then force him to get online and verify it for a cost. So it will inevitably have offline paper IOU's as well (or rather already existed, and are coming back, see Casascius coins)