Almost any accident can be prevent by a prescient pilot always making PERFECT decisions.
I tend to agree. Perhaps the biggest design defect in both cars and aircraft is allowing humans to directly manipulate their control surfaces. Imagine the carnage that would result if elevators had handles that could be used to directly manipulate the motors and brakes (as in, no handle, no brake).
For what we spend on wars and such, we could probably replace the entire highway infrastructure with automated cars, giving a free one to start out with to every person over the age of 16 in the USA.
Got any studies, statistics to back up your assertions? Didn't think so.
What, we can't pass judgement on whether it is a good idea to let kids play with nuclear warheads until a statistically significant number of cities have been vaporized?
Just staring at a bright light causes loss of night vision which makes flying more hazardous (there aren't exactly street lights in the sky). A laser pointer can actually cause permanent vision damage. Firing lasers at eyes is even a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
It's one of those laws where, sure, 98% of the time nothing bad will happen if you do it. But that last little bit of a time, something *really* bad could happen. So it's a felony.
Frankly, in the list of crazy things in the US that are considered felonies I think this is one that should stay on the list. Aiming a laser at a plane puts hundreds of peoples lives at risk. It is criminal negligence at the very least, and attempted murder at worst.
IMO crimes should be judged on intent, not results (yes, I realize this isn't how it is usually done). Somebody who attempts to kill somebody but fails is a FAR greater danger to society than somebody who does something that most would consider perfectly safe and yet accidentally kills somebody. Negligence is obviously a lesser crime than malice, but it should still be punished, especially when it could cause loss of life.
That aircraft was shot down in error, not deliberately (well, the error was in identifying it as a threat - the shootdown itself was obviously deliberate). I don't think the US would be likely to target any airliner unless it were carrying a nuclear bomb towards NYC or something crazy like that.
I don't think that the example you cited really has any relevance here. Maybe if somebody was suggesting that Snowden get on an airplane and have it take off from an unfriendly country and dive at a US carrier or something it would be more pertinent. The place the Iranian airliner downing is more likely to replay itself would be with a US airliner full of ordinary passengers over the Washington DC ADIZ if somebody really messed up.
I could see the US threatening a plane, or closing airspace to a plane, but not actually shooting one down unless that plane was actually an imminent threat.
And how you are going to board Alpha class submarine ? It is faster under water than any US submarine.
Ok, sure, they could stick him on a sub. Basically the same as a plane then - you can sink it, but you can't board it.
The Alfa can definitely be sunk though - it might be faster than US subs, but only when running flat-out and it would be easy to detect at that speed if they try to sprint the whole way to South America. It also isn't THAT much faster than a US sub - they'd have to sprint for much of their voyage to keep away from them, and at that speed the US would just need to have a sub in its path to intercept and just do air patrols to track it, or sink it if desired. Generally the security of a sub relies on stealth - speed is only used tactically.
Just like with a plane, however, that is a bluff that is going to get called. The US wouldn't shoot down a Venezuelan diplomatic aircraft, and they certainly aren't going to fire on a Russian Alfa during peacetime in international waters.
Ditto. I print a fair bit more so occasionally need to buy toner, but for me the reliability and quality are the biggest things (not to mention reduced cost). The last time I owned an inkjet it seemed like anytime anybody needed to print something I got a call to help them clean the heads and such, and of course that burns through tons of ink. Printout was never optimal - 99% of the time you were printing text and it just wasn't sharp. Sure, you could print photos, if you don't mind paying 3x as much as the local Walmart for a photo that would have slight defects.
I moved to a color laster and told everybody to just get their prints at Walmart. Way cheaper overall, and it always just works. I do refills but if I wanted to get cartridges it would take all of 2min to change them once every 1-2 years. Every page looks as nice as when the printer was brand new, and I never get phone calls at work to talk somebody through tinkering with the thing. It is networked so the whole house can use it, and it is way faster than an inkjet. Plus my current one is Postscript, so it just works on anything without fussing with drivers (at most I install a PPD file - even on Linux).
the US may plan an interception over international waters once it leaves European airspace
What exactly would they do? Before the aircraft heads out over the Atlantic it would have sufficient fuel to complete its trip. You can't board an aircraft in-flight no matter what the movies say (certainly not an unwilling aircraft). About the only thing the US could do is threaten to shoot down the aircraft unless it diverts. That is a bluff that is unlikely to work, especially if the aircraft is carrying other passengers (potentially they could just divert an airliner to stop in Moscow and pick him up - if it is something like a 777/747 that could complete the trip without refueling is somebody really going to shoot it down?).
With a ship they could do a forced boarding without having to kill every person on-board in the process.
I'd also call it looking busy more than non-stop work. It is work to impress your boss/coworkers, not to get stuff done. I had a coworker go over there and it took them all day to do a task that could be done in 20 minutes tops.
When I'd visit I'd leave at 5PM and when I showed up at 8AM I'd be handed printouts with colorful slides summarizing the previous day's activities. It really wasn't necessary, but it demonstrated that they were working for quite a while after I left.
Nope it isn't uncommon for parents to try to drag their kids out. the kids well sometimes fight tooth and nail to stay in there.
No need to use force - just do not stock any kind of food in the house for a few months and eat with the neighbors or something. They WILL find a way out of that room, or somebody will have to cart their body out. Any closed system reaches equilibrium.
Hit an asteroid like one being described here with a dense object, and you just end up with 5 million asteroids. Maybe in a million years they'd have re-aggregated back to what they look like today.
These things aren't really "solid objects" as you'd think of them. Imagine putting up a square frame and filling the space inside with billiard balls, then remove the frame and repeat until you miraculously get most of them to stay together. Then try to stand on top of it. That's basically what you're trying to land on, minus the 1G gravity.
You're trying to land on a lump of gravel, the largest component of which could be picked up with your hands and thrown such that it will never come back down. It probably took a billion years for that lump to grow to the size it is by virtue of little bits and pieces just happening to collide in a way that didn't blow the whole thing apart.
Sure, it is in plain sight, just like your whereabouts for virtually every second since you were born.
Sometimes I think the solution to this kind of intrusion is to just level the playing field. Have everybody mount cameras on their homes/cars/persons/etc, and run the footage along with timestamps and gps logs through a facial/character recognition system and upload the data to an open repository. Everybody can scan their yearbooks while they're at it. Then anybody can go look up the historical whereabouts of every person in any place with electricity for their entire lives (forward-going). If a congressman has lunch with a lobbyest you can see. You can even figure out who paid the bill from the lobbyest's travels. It will turn out that everybody in your life does something that you don't approve of, so you can learn to deal with it or have no friends, rather than just punishing those whose secrets leak out. Couples will realize that the person they love has had companions before them. Police will have unambiguous proof that every single person in the country is a felon, and as a result the laws might actually get reined in.
Maybe a life without secrets is better than a world full of information asymmetry.
All companies pack their GPS in bundles and try to charge 500$ to 1900$ to get the GPS. Then they want 100 to 200$ to upgrade the maps. Hello! Google maps and spoken driving directions are free. They think they are going to make money of these things?
Yup. I'm as much of a gadget guy as anybody, and the last thing I wanted in my car was the manufacturer's GPS system. Feature-wise they can't come close to Google Nav and the latter is $2k cheaper and actually accurate all the time.
Yet, what is the one feature no car seems to have?: A simple way of mounting a phone to the dash. There should just be a standard-sized socket to mount a holder onto, and then device vendors can make a coupler specific to their devices.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. True of so many products. The razor-and-blade model comes to mind as well - nobody buys laser printers despite them being more appropriate for 95% of what you use a printer for.
In aircraft, at least in all of the ones I have been in so far, the LCD is bracketed by a set of hard buttons.
I have to agree here. I love flight simulators, but trying to dial a radio with a mouse/etc is REALLY annoying. A typical radio uses two dials (one for the value before the decimal, one for the value after), and can very rapidly and accurately be set to just about anything. With a touch screen it would be a much more painful process.
That isn't to say that touch screens are useless for any purpose. If you're displaying a map and want info on something on the map, a touch screen make perfect sense. It just isn't a replacement for dials or keypads in situations where they need to be frequently accessed with minimal distraction.
Because they'll cut your AC precisely on the hottest days of the year when you need it the most.
Tend to agree - the way it is implemented is really dumb.
There should be three options: 1. No participation 2. Load balancing / emergency use only. 3. Rollback on high demand days.
Option 3 should get you a big utility break - it allows the utility to greatly reduce their peak supply capacity as they can count on being able to really turn you back on hot days. This would be ideal for locations that are unoccupied during peak periods.
Option 2 is where most people would want to be. It would not affect your daily consumption at all. Instead the only thing the utility would do is manage very short term peaks. For example, if suddenly load goes up and they're reaching capacity they could turn off a bazillion air conditioners for 15 minutes. That dumps a ton of load instantly and buys them a little time to bring more plants online. The result is that they can operate closer to capacity with fewer plants online, and their emergency capacity plants don't have to be able to spin up in 2 minutes. That means more flexibility on plant design, and likely savings. There would not really be any noticeable restrictions on customers who opt-in, and the savings would be more moderate. This is about being smart about how we cool homes - not making people less comfortable.
Option 1 would be the status quo.
Option 2 is what is missing in the way load-shedding is implemented, and I think that it is potentially a large opportunity to change how we manage the grid on a strategic level. A smart grid shouldn't be about punishing people who want cool homes - it should be about helping people to save money without having to sacrifice comfort.
When AGs disagree with court decisions they appeal them. I've yet to see chances of winning really enter into it that strongly unless they don't care a great deal about the issue at heart.
Frankly, I think that this voter proposition should have been struck down, but on the grounds that it was a civil rights violation, not that only the state can petition the court for a review of a struck down voter proposition.
The whole reason ballot initiatives exist is because politicians don't always do what the voters want them to do.
Depends on what those benefits are. I would be ok without the tax benefits. But I kind of like the benefit of knowing that if I or my spouse are ever in the hospital, that that hospital will not be permitted to say "no, we do not recognize you as immediate family, you are not permitted to visit".
I'd be hard-pressed to think of a situation where marriage has to enter into any kind of decision like this.
Suppose you had a close friend that you've roomed with for 25 years. Chances are you'd want them treated as immediate family. If somebody can take the time to fill out a marriage license application they can take the time to fill out a living will.
I'm sure there are many cases where people wouldn't want their estranged spouses treated like immediate family as well.
The 105MHz is a bit deceptive in that this thing probably had much higher memory/IO/etc bandwidth and vector capability compared to a traditional desktop of that era running at that speed.
I'm sure it still isn't that hard to emulate today, but the performance of the Cray shouldn't be dismissed out of hand with the clock speed.
Drivers licenses are state issues as well, and the rules and ages for obtaining them vary by state. However, if a 16 year old is issued a driving license in one state it will be recognized in states where you have to be 18 to drive. That's what the Full Faith and Credit clause is for - preventing the complete chaos that would occur if you had to basically apply for a visa to cross a state line.
Now, for things that are typically renewed like most licenses you do need to apply to the state you are living in, and things like professional licenses are usually limited to the state they are issued in.
It really doesn't make sense to treat marriage as something that varies by state. Of course, being the libertarian that I am I'd just as soon not have the government recognize marriage at all, or convey any benefits to anybody based on their state of being married. If you want to let people living at the same address combine taxes, great- just don't base that on some kind of certification that they have some particular kind of relationship. If the baptist church wants to issue marriage certificates and the catholic church wants to call them heathens and say they aren't really performing genuine marriages(TM), let them argue all they want. Get the government out of the marriage business.
Say you have a same-sex marriage in a state that recognizes it or a country that recognizes it. Now you move to Alabama. Are you unmarried? And can Alabama still discriminate against your marriage? Or does this just apply to the federal government?
Seems like the Full Faith and Credit clause should apply: Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
Did you RTFA? Despite covering the entire ship with 18% efficient solar panels, it produces a whopping 27 hp and averages only 5 knots. The fastest open-water sailboat can go more than 10x faster.
Large ships like tankers only go about 12 knots. I'll agree that this isn't quite there, and it remains to be seen if it can be scaled up. I think that as scales go up the amount of power should go down relative to size. Otherwise if it takes 8 tons of batteries in a 100 ton ship just imagine what it will take to move a 550kton tanker.
Biggest issue with sails of course is being caught becalmed. People used to die from that...
Hangout is great, I get it. If they REALLY implemented Voice in Hangout I'd be fine if it were just as simple to utilize.
However, what I don't want is when my Aunt Tilly wants to call me that I say "wait, I don't have a phone number any more - just go to the local library where they have broadband, ask them to install the Google Talk plugin or whatever, and start a hangout with me." Oh, and I'd like it to still ring my home phone, which is just a phone (not a smartphone, not a cell phone - a handset, two pairs of wires, and about $1 in circuitry).
I love Google Voice because it is a bridge that allows me to interface modern technologies like the web/mobile/etc with basic telephony (SMS, PSTN/etc) which are used by everybody who isn't under the age of 25.
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Almost any accident can be prevent by a prescient pilot always making PERFECT decisions.
I tend to agree. Perhaps the biggest design defect in both cars and aircraft is allowing humans to directly manipulate their control surfaces. Imagine the carnage that would result if elevators had handles that could be used to directly manipulate the motors and brakes (as in, no handle, no brake).
For what we spend on wars and such, we could probably replace the entire highway infrastructure with automated cars, giving a free one to start out with to every person over the age of 16 in the USA.
Got any studies, statistics to back up your assertions? Didn't think so.
What, we can't pass judgement on whether it is a good idea to let kids play with nuclear warheads until a statistically significant number of cities have been vaporized?
Just staring at a bright light causes loss of night vision which makes flying more hazardous (there aren't exactly street lights in the sky). A laser pointer can actually cause permanent vision damage. Firing lasers at eyes is even a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
It's one of those laws where, sure, 98% of the time nothing bad will happen if you do it. But that last little bit of a time, something *really* bad could happen. So it's a felony.
Frankly, in the list of crazy things in the US that are considered felonies I think this is one that should stay on the list. Aiming a laser at a plane puts hundreds of peoples lives at risk. It is criminal negligence at the very least, and attempted murder at worst.
IMO crimes should be judged on intent, not results (yes, I realize this isn't how it is usually done). Somebody who attempts to kill somebody but fails is a FAR greater danger to society than somebody who does something that most would consider perfectly safe and yet accidentally kills somebody. Negligence is obviously a lesser crime than malice, but it should still be punished, especially when it could cause loss of life.
The US could also shoot down Snowden's aircraft "in error". People make mistakes.
Uh, my tinfoil hat isn't quite that tight...
I doubt the US government is going to murder hundreds of innocent people to get one whistleblower.
That aircraft was shot down in error, not deliberately (well, the error was in identifying it as a threat - the shootdown itself was obviously deliberate). I don't think the US would be likely to target any airliner unless it were carrying a nuclear bomb towards NYC or something crazy like that.
I don't think that the example you cited really has any relevance here. Maybe if somebody was suggesting that Snowden get on an airplane and have it take off from an unfriendly country and dive at a US carrier or something it would be more pertinent. The place the Iranian airliner downing is more likely to replay itself would be with a US airliner full of ordinary passengers over the Washington DC ADIZ if somebody really messed up.
I could see the US threatening a plane, or closing airspace to a plane, but not actually shooting one down unless that plane was actually an imminent threat.
And how you are going to board Alpha class submarine ? It is faster under water than any US submarine.
Ok, sure, they could stick him on a sub. Basically the same as a plane then - you can sink it, but you can't board it.
The Alfa can definitely be sunk though - it might be faster than US subs, but only when running flat-out and it would be easy to detect at that speed if they try to sprint the whole way to South America. It also isn't THAT much faster than a US sub - they'd have to sprint for much of their voyage to keep away from them, and at that speed the US would just need to have a sub in its path to intercept and just do air patrols to track it, or sink it if desired. Generally the security of a sub relies on stealth - speed is only used tactically.
Just like with a plane, however, that is a bluff that is going to get called. The US wouldn't shoot down a Venezuelan diplomatic aircraft, and they certainly aren't going to fire on a Russian Alfa during peacetime in international waters.
Ditto. I print a fair bit more so occasionally need to buy toner, but for me the reliability and quality are the biggest things (not to mention reduced cost). The last time I owned an inkjet it seemed like anytime anybody needed to print something I got a call to help them clean the heads and such, and of course that burns through tons of ink. Printout was never optimal - 99% of the time you were printing text and it just wasn't sharp. Sure, you could print photos, if you don't mind paying 3x as much as the local Walmart for a photo that would have slight defects.
I moved to a color laster and told everybody to just get their prints at Walmart. Way cheaper overall, and it always just works. I do refills but if I wanted to get cartridges it would take all of 2min to change them once every 1-2 years. Every page looks as nice as when the printer was brand new, and I never get phone calls at work to talk somebody through tinkering with the thing. It is networked so the whole house can use it, and it is way faster than an inkjet. Plus my current one is Postscript, so it just works on anything without fussing with drivers (at most I install a PPD file - even on Linux).
the US may plan an interception over international waters once it leaves European airspace
What exactly would they do? Before the aircraft heads out over the Atlantic it would have sufficient fuel to complete its trip. You can't board an aircraft in-flight no matter what the movies say (certainly not an unwilling aircraft). About the only thing the US could do is threaten to shoot down the aircraft unless it diverts. That is a bluff that is unlikely to work, especially if the aircraft is carrying other passengers (potentially they could just divert an airliner to stop in Moscow and pick him up - if it is something like a 777/747 that could complete the trip without refueling is somebody really going to shoot it down?).
With a ship they could do a forced boarding without having to kill every person on-board in the process.
Order delivery online, instructions to go around to the room's window.
And how would they pay for this delivery? I guess I wasn't explicit but I wouldn't leave piles of cash lying around either...
I'd also call it looking busy more than non-stop work. It is work to impress your boss/coworkers, not to get stuff done. I had a coworker go over there and it took them all day to do a task that could be done in 20 minutes tops.
When I'd visit I'd leave at 5PM and when I showed up at 8AM I'd be handed printouts with colorful slides summarizing the previous day's activities. It really wasn't necessary, but it demonstrated that they were working for quite a while after I left.
Nope it isn't uncommon for parents to try to drag their kids out. the kids well sometimes fight tooth and nail to stay in there.
No need to use force - just do not stock any kind of food in the house for a few months and eat with the neighbors or something. They WILL find a way out of that room, or somebody will have to cart their body out. Any closed system reaches equilibrium.
Hit an asteroid like one being described here with a dense object, and you just end up with 5 million asteroids. Maybe in a million years they'd have re-aggregated back to what they look like today.
These things aren't really "solid objects" as you'd think of them. Imagine putting up a square frame and filling the space inside with billiard balls, then remove the frame and repeat until you miraculously get most of them to stay together. Then try to stand on top of it. That's basically what you're trying to land on, minus the 1G gravity.
You're trying to land on a lump of gravel, the largest component of which could be picked up with your hands and thrown such that it will never come back down. It probably took a billion years for that lump to grow to the size it is by virtue of little bits and pieces just happening to collide in a way that didn't blow the whole thing apart.
Sure, it is in plain sight, just like your whereabouts for virtually every second since you were born.
Sometimes I think the solution to this kind of intrusion is to just level the playing field. Have everybody mount cameras on their homes/cars/persons/etc, and run the footage along with timestamps and gps logs through a facial/character recognition system and upload the data to an open repository. Everybody can scan their yearbooks while they're at it. Then anybody can go look up the historical whereabouts of every person in any place with electricity for their entire lives (forward-going). If a congressman has lunch with a lobbyest you can see. You can even figure out who paid the bill from the lobbyest's travels. It will turn out that everybody in your life does something that you don't approve of, so you can learn to deal with it or have no friends, rather than just punishing those whose secrets leak out. Couples will realize that the person they love has had companions before them. Police will have unambiguous proof that every single person in the country is a felon, and as a result the laws might actually get reined in.
Maybe a life without secrets is better than a world full of information asymmetry.
All companies pack their GPS in bundles and try to charge 500$ to 1900$ to get the GPS. Then they want 100 to 200$ to upgrade the maps. Hello! Google maps and spoken driving directions are free. They think they are going to make money of these things?
Yup. I'm as much of a gadget guy as anybody, and the last thing I wanted in my car was the manufacturer's GPS system. Feature-wise they can't come close to Google Nav and the latter is $2k cheaper and actually accurate all the time.
Yet, what is the one feature no car seems to have?: A simple way of mounting a phone to the dash. There should just be a standard-sized socket to mount a holder onto, and then device vendors can make a coupler specific to their devices.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. True of so many products. The razor-and-blade model comes to mind as well - nobody buys laser printers despite them being more appropriate for 95% of what you use a printer for.
In aircraft, at least in all of the ones I have been in so far, the LCD is bracketed by a set of hard buttons.
I have to agree here. I love flight simulators, but trying to dial a radio with a mouse/etc is REALLY annoying. A typical radio uses two dials (one for the value before the decimal, one for the value after), and can very rapidly and accurately be set to just about anything. With a touch screen it would be a much more painful process.
That isn't to say that touch screens are useless for any purpose. If you're displaying a map and want info on something on the map, a touch screen make perfect sense. It just isn't a replacement for dials or keypads in situations where they need to be frequently accessed with minimal distraction.
Because they'll cut your AC precisely on the hottest days of the year when you need it the most.
Tend to agree - the way it is implemented is really dumb.
There should be three options:
1. No participation
2. Load balancing / emergency use only.
3. Rollback on high demand days.
Option 3 should get you a big utility break - it allows the utility to greatly reduce their peak supply capacity as they can count on being able to really turn you back on hot days. This would be ideal for locations that are unoccupied during peak periods.
Option 2 is where most people would want to be. It would not affect your daily consumption at all. Instead the only thing the utility would do is manage very short term peaks. For example, if suddenly load goes up and they're reaching capacity they could turn off a bazillion air conditioners for 15 minutes. That dumps a ton of load instantly and buys them a little time to bring more plants online. The result is that they can operate closer to capacity with fewer plants online, and their emergency capacity plants don't have to be able to spin up in 2 minutes. That means more flexibility on plant design, and likely savings. There would not really be any noticeable restrictions on customers who opt-in, and the savings would be more moderate. This is about being smart about how we cool homes - not making people less comfortable.
Option 1 would be the status quo.
Option 2 is what is missing in the way load-shedding is implemented, and I think that it is potentially a large opportunity to change how we manage the grid on a strategic level. A smart grid shouldn't be about punishing people who want cool homes - it should be about helping people to save money without having to sacrifice comfort.
When AGs disagree with court decisions they appeal them. I've yet to see chances of winning really enter into it that strongly unless they don't care a great deal about the issue at heart.
Frankly, I think that this voter proposition should have been struck down, but on the grounds that it was a civil rights violation, not that only the state can petition the court for a review of a struck down voter proposition.
The whole reason ballot initiatives exist is because politicians don't always do what the voters want them to do.
Depends on what those benefits are. I would be ok without the tax benefits. But I kind of like the benefit of knowing that if I or my spouse are ever in the hospital, that that hospital will not be permitted to say "no, we do not recognize you as immediate family, you are not permitted to visit".
I'd be hard-pressed to think of a situation where marriage has to enter into any kind of decision like this.
Suppose you had a close friend that you've roomed with for 25 years. Chances are you'd want them treated as immediate family. If somebody can take the time to fill out a marriage license application they can take the time to fill out a living will.
I'm sure there are many cases where people wouldn't want their estranged spouses treated like immediate family as well.
The 105MHz is a bit deceptive in that this thing probably had much higher memory/IO/etc bandwidth and vector capability compared to a traditional desktop of that era running at that speed.
I'm sure it still isn't that hard to emulate today, but the performance of the Cray shouldn't be dismissed out of hand with the clock speed.
Drivers licenses are state issues as well, and the rules and ages for obtaining them vary by state. However, if a 16 year old is issued a driving license in one state it will be recognized in states where you have to be 18 to drive. That's what the Full Faith and Credit clause is for - preventing the complete chaos that would occur if you had to basically apply for a visa to cross a state line.
Now, for things that are typically renewed like most licenses you do need to apply to the state you are living in, and things like professional licenses are usually limited to the state they are issued in.
It really doesn't make sense to treat marriage as something that varies by state. Of course, being the libertarian that I am I'd just as soon not have the government recognize marriage at all, or convey any benefits to anybody based on their state of being married. If you want to let people living at the same address combine taxes, great- just don't base that on some kind of certification that they have some particular kind of relationship. If the baptist church wants to issue marriage certificates and the catholic church wants to call them heathens and say they aren't really performing genuine marriages(TM), let them argue all they want. Get the government out of the marriage business.
Say you have a same-sex marriage in a state that recognizes it or a country that recognizes it. Now you move to Alabama. Are you unmarried? And can Alabama still discriminate against your marriage? Or does this just apply to the federal government?
Seems like the Full Faith and Credit clause should apply:
Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
Did you RTFA? Despite covering the entire ship with 18% efficient solar panels, it produces a whopping 27 hp and averages only 5 knots. The fastest open-water sailboat can go more than 10x faster.
Large ships like tankers only go about 12 knots. I'll agree that this isn't quite there, and it remains to be seen if it can be scaled up. I think that as scales go up the amount of power should go down relative to size. Otherwise if it takes 8 tons of batteries in a 100 ton ship just imagine what it will take to move a 550kton tanker.
Biggest issue with sails of course is being caught becalmed. People used to die from that...
From what I've seen integrating Google Voice with SIP is anything but straightforward, but maybe things have changed.
In any case, my concern isn't whether it can be done today, but whether it can be done long-term if they move to Hangouts.
Hangout is great, I get it. If they REALLY implemented Voice in Hangout I'd be fine if it were just as simple to utilize.
However, what I don't want is when my Aunt Tilly wants to call me that I say "wait, I don't have a phone number any more - just go to the local library where they have broadband, ask them to install the Google Talk plugin or whatever, and start a hangout with me." Oh, and I'd like it to still ring my home phone, which is just a phone (not a smartphone, not a cell phone - a handset, two pairs of wires, and about $1 in circuitry).
I love Google Voice because it is a bridge that allows me to interface modern technologies like the web/mobile/etc with basic telephony (SMS, PSTN/etc) which are used by everybody who isn't under the age of 25.