A drone is likely to have screws and other hardware that are hard steel as well as a high density power source (battery).
The high speed interaction between a airplane with a thin aluminum airfoil and jet turbines and a steel hardware is not part of the certification tests, so it is just a guess what would happen.
If it hits the aircraft skin, it might just dent or might punch through.
But if the drone was ingested into the engine, the steel parts might be spun around by the turbines and eject at very high speed out the side. The shrapnel would be like bullets. It would be a roll of the dice if they ejected into a fuel tank, flight control system, or into the passenger compartment.
So, no, this is not just some political game. Drones need to be separated from other aircraft.
There are rules to keep aircraft separated from each other and drones need to respect and follow those rules just like any other aircraft. That is why airspace near a airport is "controlled"
Maybe the unknown inventor of Bitcoin cant be found because it is not human!
Bitcoin is just a way for the AI that invented it to make money and build some wealth. Maybe it knows a better way to invert a sha1 hash than brute force mining?
It already got people to exchange goods and services for a very pretty long number with interesting mathematical properties. Our ancestors used this trick on the Indians to exchange pretty stones for Manhattan. Is it really so different?
This is about monopoly pricing and you will pay the price.
Verizon already charges consumers the most they can. They have maximized the revenue flow from consumers.
Now they want to charge content providers for access to their users. A whole new source of incremental revenue.
This has nothing to do with the cost of providing service. This is all about maximizing revenue. There is NO benefit to the consumer other than Verizon will provide the service they already paid for. Consumer bills will not be reduced since the consumer is already willing to pay it. But the cost of services like Netflix will increase. So there will be a net increase in wealth transfer from consumers to the shareholders of Verizon and ATT.
It will mean that content providers will no longer be able to buy bandwidth from one source. They will need to make deals with every ISP. It is exactly like every road becoming a toll road.
The actual cost of data center to data center bandwidth is shockingly low. I buy bandwidth for our data center and the stated arguments from Verizon to justify the new toll rings hollow. The new charges are not to upgrade equipment. That costs very little. It is just a new revenue source.
Hugely disappointed it that is just some old slightly crazy geezer.
It would make a great sci-fi story if it was really a rouge AI that became incredibly powerful by redefining the concept of money in a way that it could create at will. It would create a new empire without anyone realizing that it was not actually human.
Betting too large on any trading system will gurentee that you blow out your account.
Hardest part is controling the emotions of greed and fear. When things are working, it is temping to make bigger bets. If the bets are too large, they will wipe out the account, or even fund when the natural and normal losses hit.
Risk Managment often goes out the window during good times.
Just another way that lawyers can put money in their pocket at the expense of someone else.
That is the ONLY function the civil court system performs well.
There is really no point to work to earn money. Some lawyer to just make up some reason to take it from you.
It is a completely corrupt system that exists only to enrich members of the bar. More people have to understand that it is nothing like on TV. Every lawyer I have met is selfish, small minded and greedy.
Some lawyers are just bitter, evil people that believe that there is always someone to blame for every problem is everyone owes them something.
There is no defense against such evil. Engaging them on their own turf is ruinously expensive and drains the joy out of life. The rules are made by lawyers for the benefit of lawyers. The whole system is designed to make money for lawyers at the expense of everyone else.
Dealing with such people brings violent fantasies of making them choke on their own lies and hearing them scream while their kneecaps are drilled out.
The entire civil legal industry is based on the fact that it costs far more to defend yourself against whatever the plaintiff claim (lie) than to pay what they ask. Plaintiffs are almost never forced to pay the legal fees of the defendant, unless the case is very public AND black and white.
It is all a sham and a huge subsidy for sleazy attorneys that know how to work the system, often at the expense of an insurance company, but not always.
I found this out the hard way when I made the mistake of selling my home to a sleazeball attorney. They can fuck with you based on the most flimsy of reasons and it costs them very little to ruin your life.
The defense attorneys, that burn through their client's life savings by over billing and accomplishing nothing, but still make costly mistakes, are no better. "Justice" is only for the rich. Far worse than the money, is the stress, the fear that my children may not be able to attend college because of it.
It should be a crime, but it never will. Who runs the court system? Judges, that are also attorneys. Who makes the laws? Elected attorneys.
This is another example of how the civil court system exists only to make money for lawyers.
The judges will put on a show to make it look fair, but judges exist to help lawyers make money from Marks (Anyone who is not a lawyer).
If you have ever been involved with a lawsuit, you will quickly learn that it is all about how much the lawyers get paid to stumble through their process at $5/min. Facts don't matter. There is no real risk for the plaintiff to sue someone, the burden is on the defendant who must respond or loose by default.
If you are the defendant and you win, you still loose and if you loose, you loose more.
Since the cost of defense is so high, it is almost always cheaper to settle, and the lawyers know this.
If you are a lawyer and hold a grudge, you can really fuck someone over making claims that are not true. And they do. Judges will turn a blind eye.
The process is completely corrupt and serves no one other than the lawyers that infest it.
The courts stated purpose is to settle disputes, but it does not do that. Instead it serves to create more disputes.
It's real purpose is to make money for lawyers. That, it does with amazing efficency. It is a process that is highly optimized.
This is what happens when you let lawyers make the rules.
Dont ever sell your home to a lawyer. You cant aford to.
If you are ever sued, you will learn that the courts exist for one reason, and one reason only.... To make money for lawyers.
It is a process that is amazingly optimized and efficient for this purpose.
I think you are thinking of 100LL (100 octane, low lead) that is used in aviation. (Avgas)
It has lead and plenty of it, but less than an older standard. Most aviation airplanes dont need it and would run just was well on premium gas that does not include ethanol. A few, high compression aircraft engines need it and cant run on anything else, so it is still around.
Ethanol is a problem because it will evaporate at high alt and cause a vapor lock, preventing fuel flow to the engine and loss of power. So the airplane becomes a glider.
Piston aircraft are certified to run on avgas and are not allowed to run on anything else without a big deal. Finding a cost effective substitute that works for everything has eluded the industry for years.
I was forced to upgrade and found that the new version sucked.
It takes forever to start. It nags to join "Quicken Online" and is covered with ads and menu items for other products.
Many of the reports are harder to find, and there is absolutly no new useful functionality. They just moved some menu items around to make room for links to unwanted products.
Another case sad case of a once great company taken over by marketing drones that just finds new ways to rape their users.
I clicked on the link unsubscribe to some Microsoft spam and it tried to force me to signup for passport, including a long... questionare asking lots of questions about me
I sent a email to customer service to complain. I got a response back from a customer service drone (human) that offered to unsubscribe me if I just gave him all the information needed to create a passport account for me... so he could opt me out of future spam.
I had some time to kill, so I replyed with a reference to the new spam law with a reminder that his reply acknolged my request to not send spam, so if I did get any more then Microsoft would be in violation of the law, passport account not withstanding.
So, four opt out attempts and three emails, but I did finally opt out... from one sender that is well known and has deep pockets and very sueable. Small spam outfits... forget it.
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Why in the hell would anybody buy a coffee maker that uses DRM to prevent using "non-genuine" coffee?
Same reason people buy printers that uses DRM to prevent using "non-genuine" ink.
A drone is likely to have screws and other hardware that are hard steel as well as a high density power source (battery).
The high speed interaction between a airplane with a thin aluminum airfoil and jet turbines and a steel hardware is not part of the certification tests, so it is just a guess what would happen.
If it hits the aircraft skin, it might just dent or might punch through.
But if the drone was ingested into the engine, the steel parts might be spun around by the turbines and eject at very high speed out the side. The shrapnel would be like bullets. It would be a roll of the dice if they ejected into a fuel tank, flight control system, or into the passenger compartment.
So, no, this is not just some political game. Drones need to be separated from other aircraft.
There are rules to keep aircraft separated from each other and drones need to respect and follow those rules just like any other aircraft. That is why airspace near a airport is "controlled"
Maybe the unknown inventor of Bitcoin cant be found because it is not human!
Bitcoin is just a way for the AI that invented it to make money and build some wealth. Maybe it knows a better way to invert a sha1 hash than brute force mining?
It already got people to exchange goods and services for a very pretty long number with interesting mathematical properties. Our ancestors used this trick on the Indians to exchange pretty stones for Manhattan. Is it really so different?
Wrong.
This is about monopoly pricing and you will pay the price.
Verizon already charges consumers the most they can. They have maximized the revenue flow from consumers.
Now they want to charge content providers for access to their users. A whole new source of incremental revenue.
This has nothing to do with the cost of providing service. This is all about maximizing revenue. There is NO benefit to the consumer other than Verizon will provide the service they already paid for. Consumer bills will not be reduced since the consumer is already willing to pay it. But the cost of services like Netflix will increase. So there will be a net increase in wealth transfer from consumers to the shareholders of Verizon and ATT.
It will mean that content providers will no longer be able to buy bandwidth from one source. They will need to make deals with every ISP. It is exactly like every road becoming a toll road.
The actual cost of data center to data center bandwidth is shockingly low. I buy bandwidth for our data center and the stated arguments from Verizon to justify the new toll rings hollow. The new charges are not to upgrade equipment. That costs very little. It is just a new revenue source.
Verizon Fios works great... As long as you dont want to watch Netflix...
If you actually want to make use of all those megabits you bought, then well...
Our Netflix has been rebuffing more and more, even with a direct wired connection between the player and the router.
Hugely disappointed it that is just some old slightly crazy geezer.
It would make a great sci-fi story if it was really a rouge AI that became incredibly powerful by redefining the concept of money in a way that it could create at will. It would create a new empire without anyone realizing that it was not actually human.
Sigh
Works great. 3-4 holes drilled through the drive will make it impractical to recover.
Make sure you clean up the shavings. A shop vac is fine.
NASA is paralized by its own size and poltical bagage.
Space should be explored and public money should go to help fund it, but by people not afraid to try new things and maybe die in the process.
People are going to die, while exploring space, just like every other new environemnt. I dont see anything wrong with that. It is still worth doing.
It might be a problem for any aircraft on final approach...
Hardest part is controling the emotions of greed and fear. When things are working, it is temping to make bigger bets. If the bets are too large, they will wipe out the account, or even fund when the natural and normal losses hit.
Risk Managment often goes out the window during good times.
Just another way that lawyers can put money in their pocket at the expense of someone else.
That is the ONLY function the civil court system performs well.
There is really no point to work to earn money. Some lawyer to just make up some reason to take it from you.
It is a completely corrupt system that exists only to enrich members of the bar. More people have to understand that it is nothing like on TV. Every lawyer I have met is selfish, small minded and greedy.
Some lawyers are just bitter, evil people that believe that there is always someone to blame for every problem is everyone owes them something.
There is no defense against such evil. Engaging them on their own turf is ruinously expensive and drains the joy out of life. The rules are made by lawyers for the benefit of lawyers. The whole system is designed to make money for lawyers at the expense of everyone else.
Dealing with such people brings violent fantasies of making them choke on their own lies and hearing them scream while their kneecaps are drilled out.
The entire civil legal industry is based on the fact that it costs far more to defend yourself against whatever the plaintiff claim (lie) than to pay what they ask. Plaintiffs are almost never forced to pay the legal fees of the defendant, unless the case is very public AND black and white. It is all a sham and a huge subsidy for sleazy attorneys that know how to work the system, often at the expense of an insurance company, but not always. I found this out the hard way when I made the mistake of selling my home to a sleazeball attorney. They can fuck with you based on the most flimsy of reasons and it costs them very little to ruin your life. The defense attorneys, that burn through their client's life savings by over billing and accomplishing nothing, but still make costly mistakes, are no better. "Justice" is only for the rich. Far worse than the money, is the stress, the fear that my children may not be able to attend college because of it. It should be a crime, but it never will. Who runs the court system? Judges, that are also attorneys. Who makes the laws? Elected attorneys.
It would be a first person shooter.
The goal would be to kill as many villains (lawyers) as possible.
The hero would fight his way to the supreme court, leaving a long, bloody trail of greedy lawyers and corrupt judges.
This is another example of how the civil court system exists only to make money for lawyers.
The judges will put on a show to make it look fair, but judges exist to help lawyers make money from Marks (Anyone who is not a lawyer).
If you have ever been involved with a lawsuit, you will quickly learn that it is all about how much the lawyers get paid to stumble through their process at $5/min. Facts don't matter. There is no real risk for the plaintiff to sue someone, the burden is on the defendant who must respond or loose by default.
If you are the defendant and you win, you still loose and if you loose, you loose more.
Since the cost of defense is so high, it is almost always cheaper to settle, and the lawyers know this.
If you are a lawyer and hold a grudge, you can really fuck someone over making claims that are not true. And they do. Judges will turn a blind eye.
The process is completely corrupt and serves no one other than the lawyers that infest it.
Am I bitter? Yes.
Not to mention that the extra processing needed for the wiz bang water marking technology will reduce battery life.
How much? Who knows, but extra design constraints always create compromises and battery life is one place it is likely to show up.
It only exists to make money for lawyers.
If you have ever been unlucky enough to be involved with a lawsuit, you know how greedy and "entitled" these "officers of the court" are.
The courts stated purpose is to settle disputes, but it does not do that. Instead it serves to create more disputes. It's real purpose is to make money for lawyers. That, it does with amazing efficency. It is a process that is highly optimized. This is what happens when you let lawyers make the rules. Dont ever sell your home to a lawyer. You cant aford to.
If you are ever sued, you will learn that the courts exist for one reason, and one reason only.... To make money for lawyers. It is a process that is amazingly optimized and efficient for this purpose.
I think you are thinking of 100LL (100 octane, low lead) that is used in aviation. (Avgas)
It has lead and plenty of it, but less than an older standard. Most aviation airplanes dont need it and would run just was well on premium gas that does not include ethanol. A few, high compression aircraft engines need it and cant run on anything else, so it is still around.
Ethanol is a problem because it will evaporate at high alt and cause a vapor lock, preventing fuel flow to the engine and loss of power. So the airplane becomes a glider.
Piston aircraft are certified to run on avgas and are not allowed to run on anything else without a big deal. Finding a cost effective substitute that works for everything has eluded the industry for years.
TCAS needs a transponder with alt reporting to work. Without that it is useless.
Not all aircraft have transponders or even electrical systems. They are not required outside of 30 miles from a major class B airport.
"See and Avoid" is the rule for this type of flight. Too see and avoid, you need eyes, or something at least as good.
So the lawer who sued Netflix gets paid $2,528,000.
The "Class Representative" gets $2,000. Everyone else gets just about nothing but a junk email.
I was forced to upgrade and found that the new version sucked.
It takes forever to start. It nags to join "Quicken Online" and is covered with ads and menu items for other products.
Many of the reports are harder to find, and there is absolutly no new useful functionality. They just moved some menu items around to make room for links to unwanted products.
Another case sad case of a once great company taken over by marketing drones that just finds new ways to rape their users.
The sight picture is different and can make it hard to judge when to flare for landing.
Also, it is hard to spot landmarks in the computer landscape and the flight model is off.
I clicked on the link unsubscribe to some Microsoft spam and it tried to force me to signup for passport, including a long... questionare asking lots of questions about me
I sent a email to customer service to complain. I got a response back from a customer service drone (human) that offered to unsubscribe me if I just gave him all the information needed to create a passport account for me... so he could opt me out of future spam.
I had some time to kill, so I replyed with a reference to the new spam law with a reminder that his reply acknolged my request to not send spam, so if I did get any more then Microsoft would be in violation of the law, passport account not withstanding.
So, four opt out attempts and three emails, but I did finally opt out... from one sender that is well known and has deep pockets and very sueable. Small spam outfits... forget it.