Things that were funded without public support:
Bank Bailouts while ignoring illegal foreclosures
Endless bombing of the Middle East and Africa
Logistics support for Saudi Arabia's war against Yemen
Ever increasing military budgets...
Maybe the modifications to the F-18 are only expected to fly quietly under certain conditions and perhaps fly poorly. The X-59 may be designed to test flight profiles required for commercial aircraft.
Dude, no one is cheering for the installment of a despot in the US.
"It requires a very oppressive regime, extremely deadly in every way. People are thrown into crazy houses, jails, shot, their property is confiscated because they find ways around your utopian society's ideology and methods."
Your libertarian worldview falls to pieces when there exist corrupt individuals. All the things you fear in your quote can and will happen in your libertarian society's ideology and methods. The only difference being they are perpetrated by oligarchs and corporations.
Michio Kaku sounds a lot like a crackpot on the subject of aliens/UFOs, and his anti-nuclear soundbites seemed irresponsible--or at least quite misleading.
People don't always do what is in their best interest. Taxation and government spending can get things done that people would not otherwise do of their own volition.
Air-conditioned in summer, heated in winter. Central heating and cooling is very very rare. Usually, only the rooms you are using climate controlled. A Scottish chap commented that his family's home's heating bill for heating their entire house 24 hours a day is equal or less than his wife's family's home's bill for heating only a few rooms part of the day.
From what I have seen, American insulation is leaps and bounds ahead of southern Japan's methods. Single pane windows with poor sealing, the walls are empty, covered with ~1/8th inch particle board, and the area between floors is ventilated to the outside.
But we are left with a problem: the kanji test that people take to get a certificate showing what they have learned (taken by students and others in Japan) will now become more difficult. This technology has allowed people to become more exposed and use a wider variety of kanji, but it has also become a crutch. Many people can read a lot of kanji, but are hard pressed to remember it and write it by hand (which is required for the test).
Think of individual molecules or atoms. They bump around and what not. Fans work by lessening the bounce back of air molecules on one side, and by increasing the bounce back on the other. Particles at the edge of the atmosphere have very little to collide with in order to change direction. As such, some particles do fly off into space.
50kmh zones are the highest for non-highway and non-by-pass roads (there may be a few exceptions where the limit is 60). I caught a glimpse of the video when it was on TV, it appeared to be country roads with no pedestrians (no walking friendly destinations). Also, the no passing zones are labeled for where cars cannot safely pass. Though motorcycles are still held to the same passing laws, it almost certainly was not a high-congestion pedestrian-filled street but generally a wide (for Japan) country road. Not trying to defend him, just trying to paint a more accurate picture.
Weren't many "atrocities" committed in World War II by avid listeners of classical music, and social movements formed that threw out classical arts? In 30 years, will they be blasting turn-of-the-millennium music?
My initial point is that the Army doesn't officially sanction any commercial games for use as a training tool. We have plenty of programs that use proprietary "games" (if you want to call them that) and the inclusion of something like America's Army (a recruiting tool, not a training tool) is ludicrous, wishful thinking on behalf of the slashdot readership.
There was even talk of modified (non-commercial) software which you completely ignored. You could have at least set the record straight with a more detailed post than "No they don't."
Since you have been making personal responses, maybe you will reply to this: Are not some of the proprietary software the basis for commercial software (or vice versa)? And if so, which commercial software are related (Op. Flashpoint, ArmA, ArmA2, AA, Arctic Fox, etc.)?
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Things that were funded without public support: Bank Bailouts while ignoring illegal foreclosures Endless bombing of the Middle East and Africa Logistics support for Saudi Arabia's war against Yemen Ever increasing military budgets ...
Maybe the modifications to the F-18 are only expected to fly quietly under certain conditions and perhaps fly poorly. The X-59 may be designed to test flight profiles required for commercial aircraft.
Are the pilots still on government support?
"go to my website", lol
Dude, no one is cheering for the installment of a despot in the US.
"It requires a very oppressive regime, extremely deadly in every way. People are thrown into crazy houses, jails, shot, their property is confiscated because they find ways around your utopian society's ideology and methods."
Your libertarian worldview falls to pieces when there exist corrupt individuals. All the things you fear in your quote can and will happen in your libertarian society's ideology and methods. The only difference being they are perpetrated by oligarchs and corporations.
How can they claim Big Soda is down 25%? Some of their best work is quite recent: http://big-soda.tumblr.com/
This Judge Emmet G. Sullivan was appointed by Bill Clinton.
How about Sony Online Entertainment management of Star Wars Galaxies?
The game went from Real Time RPG to 3rd Person Shooter after release.
Michio Kaku sounds a lot like a crackpot on the subject of aliens/UFOs, and his anti-nuclear soundbites seemed irresponsible--or at least quite misleading.
Japan has been using UAVs for agriculture for years. Pretty cool stuff.
http://benpheneverything.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/robotic-crop-dusting-in-japan/
http://www.gizmag.com/go/2440/
People don't always do what is in their best interest. Taxation and government spending can get things done that people would not otherwise do of their own volition.
By "UK roads" do you mean some kind of oval track?
Come on, the UK isn't that small.
This is what everyone should think about when they hear the name: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24n77GgRtrw
Air-conditioned in summer, heated in winter. Central heating and cooling is very very rare. Usually, only the rooms you are using climate controlled. A Scottish chap commented that his family's home's heating bill for heating their entire house 24 hours a day is equal or less than his wife's family's home's bill for heating only a few rooms part of the day.
From what I have seen, American insulation is leaps and bounds ahead of southern Japan's methods. Single pane windows with poor sealing, the walls are empty, covered with ~1/8th inch particle board, and the area between floors is ventilated to the outside.
But we are left with a problem: the kanji test that people take to get a certificate showing what they have learned (taken by students and others in Japan) will now become more difficult. This technology has allowed people to become more exposed and use a wider variety of kanji, but it has also become a crutch. Many people can read a lot of kanji, but are hard pressed to remember it and write it by hand (which is required for the test).
I think you have found a bodega.
Dwarf Fortress is, indeed, that epic.
Early modern: SI/metric system
Modern: Planck units
Post Modern: ???
Think of individual molecules or atoms. They bump around and what not. Fans work by lessening the bounce back of air molecules on one side, and by increasing the bounce back on the other. Particles at the edge of the atmosphere have very little to collide with in order to change direction. As such, some particles do fly off into space.
The road in question.
50kmh zones are the highest for non-highway and non-by-pass roads (there may be a few exceptions where the limit is 60). I caught a glimpse of the video when it was on TV, it appeared to be country roads with no pedestrians (no walking friendly destinations). Also, the no passing zones are labeled for where cars cannot safely pass. Though motorcycles are still held to the same passing laws, it almost certainly was not a high-congestion pedestrian-filled street but generally a wide (for Japan) country road. Not trying to defend him, just trying to paint a more accurate picture.
Weren't many "atrocities" committed in World War II by avid listeners of classical music, and social movements formed that threw out classical arts? In 30 years, will they be blasting turn-of-the-millennium music?
You're not alone.
My initial point is that the Army doesn't officially sanction any commercial games for use as a training tool. We have plenty of programs that use proprietary "games" (if you want to call them that) and the inclusion of something like America's Army (a recruiting tool, not a training tool) is ludicrous, wishful thinking on behalf of the slashdot readership.
There was even talk of modified (non-commercial) software which you completely ignored. You could have at least set the record straight with a more detailed post than "No they don't."
Since you have been making personal responses, maybe you will reply to this: Are not some of the proprietary software the basis for commercial software (or vice versa)? And if so, which commercial software are related (Op. Flashpoint, ArmA, ArmA2, AA, Arctic Fox, etc.)?