We've managed to get by for centuries without the Ministry of Truth(tm) "verifying" what is and isn't "news". We really don't want to go down the path of "government approved" news.
If for no other reason because, sooner or later, the guys making the decisions about what is "fake news" won't agree with "our side" (no matter which side is "our side")....
And do we really want to give "those people" (being the guys who don't agree with us) the power to control the news?
Obviously what they claim is impossible, there is no way to determine a person's height from one or two photos that only show the guy from the waist up.
Depends on what they're wearing, I am thinking.
As an example, buttons on men's shirts tend to be a set distance apart for a given style (polo shirts aren't the same as dress shirts, but pretty much all polo shirts (or all dress shirts) are alike.
While I doubt seriously you could get a really accurate height using button spacing, you should be able to get close enough to say "no, this guy isn't really 6'3", more like 5'9" to 5'11"..."
12km. The guesstimate isn't based on its size out in space, since we have no way to even imagine getting a clue about that.
How quickly would it burn?
Escape speed is 11km/s. Which is the MINIMUM speed it could have been moving relative to the ground. Assuming it was not in a retrograde orbit, and that it was coming from the vicinity of the Asteroid Belt (more likely it came from farther out, possibly even interstellar), we're talking closer to Solar Escape Speed, so in the time zone of 40-50km/s.
How big was the atmosphere back then?
Based on the birds and pterosaur wings, pretty much the same as now. Which means a two to three second transit from the edge of atmosphere to the ground.
Remember that for a sufficiently large object (and the dinokiller fit that definition of "sufficiently large"), the atmosphere doesn't matter at all, except to give you a really spectacular lightshow during the last few minutes of your existance....
allowing local governments the option to impose a 5-cent fee on paper bags
And there it is, politicians funding their little pork barrel projects.
That was my first thought as well. What a racket! Charge a fee for paper bags, then make using anything else illegal!
Though, to be fair, it's not just local governments. The State government gets 60% of the take from the paper bags, the locals the remaining 40%....
Glad I don't live there, since walking my dog uses up a lot of (soon to be illegal) plastic bags - one or two a day to keep from leaving dog crap in yards around the neighborhood. Oh, well, it's New York's problem to keep the dog crap under control while raising the price tag for doing so....
In CA PG&L is closing three natural gas plants replacing them with batteries.
Which is pretty much what FL is doing. Note that what is closing is NOT coal plants. They're replacing one (relatively) clean system with another (cleaner) system, NOT replacing a dirty system with a clean one....
Which, interestingly, is something I saw predicted a few months ago - that solar isn't going to be replacing coal, but natural gas,,,,
To put that in perspective, there are rather more than 1.4M injuries (not necessarily serious) resulting from auto accidents in the EU per year right now.
Doing a bit of math, we see that this new technology will reduce the injury rate by 0.5%.
I'm skeptical that this is going to be worthwhile, given that the reduction in injuries is going to be down there in the noise level, or just barely detectable....
I'm also curious whether the police and emergency services are going to be required to be so limited. Or is this change just meant for the riff-raff?
Because it'll annoy the Air Force to have done to them what they did to the Army - split off a branch into a separate Service, which can then ignore the parent Service, except to squelch any attempts by same to do anything that infringes on their turf....
- give us more money. Give us half of the budget allocated to the military.
They don't need that much money, and couldn't spend it if they had it.
Given Falcon9 as a launch vehicle (with a lot of on-orbit rendezvous to get the pieces in place for any given mission), they could probably assemble something comparable to Apollo for $5B or so. Quite likely a lot less than that. Renting enough Falcon9's to boost the parts to LEO shouldn't cost more than half a billion per mission....
Google, Facebook et al are going to just drop all EU content
Yeppers. Shame that Google news won't ever refer to EU newspapers/magazines/etc anymore. Which was about the only way I ever saw EU news for the past few years. Alas, it's not worth subscription fees for EU papers/magazines, since there's so little EU news I care about.
And before you get all excited about me not caring about anything outside the USA, I don't care all that much about most US news either....
No, allowing each member State to decide whether to have permanent Standard Time, permanent Summer Time, or continue to switch as always is NOT "ending DST".
If you want to end DST, then you need to find a set of choices that does NOT include "change clocks twice a year"....
This makes me think of a robot pushing a human worker off a cliff.
It makes me think of farmers in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. 80% of the workforce in 1850, 5% by 1950. Society didn't collapse then, won't now.
It'll change, of course. But then, without that movement from the farms to industry back then, we'd not be typing this stuff at each other, since most of us would be working dawn to dusk on farms....
If you're going to take away my ability to control a vehicle, then it has to be absolutely guaranteed to never get me killed. NO COMPROMISES.
So, you don't use a bus, train, or airplane? Because in each of those cases, you have NO ability to control the vehicle, but a non-zero probability of death.
For that matter, when you're driving a car, you have a non-zero probability of death. Even if you never make mistakes on your own, the guy driving the car next to you could change lanes and knock you off the road into a tree at 70+ mph....
The brainless muppet that senile old lecher Donald Trump put in charge of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in the process of allowing Florida to completely ruin two common anti-biotics and create yet more antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains...
From this comment, you'd almost think that spraying antibiotics on FL citrus hasn't been happening since, well, the previous Administration.
Yeppers, this was first done during the Obama Administration (under "emergency rules", rather than on a "non-emergency" basis). For years. It was pretty much stopped in '17 after the hurricane season that year....
Ivanka and Jared may be pulling the same BS, but one could argue that they are not official employees.
The question is not "are they official employees", but rather "are they covered by the FOIA?"
If they're not covered by the FOIA, then they've broken no laws, unless they've discussed classified information on their private server, in which case they should be nailed to a tree for mishandling classified information.
If they ARE covered by the FOIA, then they've broken the same law Hillary did, in the same way. And should be punished in the same way Hillary was.
That flight was saved by the third pilot (non-flying) who was in a jump seat and could afford the luxury of observation from the side. The two flying pilots were busy with instruments and plane systems. It has nothing to do with experience.
Y'know, rereading the post you're responding to, I couldn't find anywhere the OP said that "experience" had anything to do with it....
Existing laws are vague and contradict each other.
A later law automagically supersedes earlier law, so contradictions are meaningless - just check the dates the laws passed, and the contradictions vanish....
As to vague, that's what juries are for, come the trial for breaking the law in question....
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And yet...
We've managed to get by for centuries without the Ministry of Truth(tm) "verifying" what is and isn't "news". We really don't want to go down the path of "government approved" news.
If for no other reason because, sooner or later, the guys making the decisions about what is "fake news" won't agree with "our side" (no matter which side is "our side")....
And do we really want to give "those people" (being the guys who don't agree with us) the power to control the news?
Depends on what they're wearing, I am thinking.
As an example, buttons on men's shirts tend to be a set distance apart for a given style (polo shirts aren't the same as dress shirts, but pretty much all polo shirts (or all dress shirts) are alike.
While I doubt seriously you could get a really accurate height using button spacing, you should be able to get close enough to say "no, this guy isn't really 6'3", more like 5'9" to 5'11"..."
Young whipper-snapper - get off my lawn!
In my kids' day, they had EQ. And DAoC, of course....
12km. The guesstimate isn't based on its size out in space, since we have no way to even imagine getting a clue about that.
Escape speed is 11km/s. Which is the MINIMUM speed it could have been moving relative to the ground. Assuming it was not in a retrograde orbit, and that it was coming from the vicinity of the Asteroid Belt (more likely it came from farther out, possibly even interstellar), we're talking closer to Solar Escape Speed, so in the time zone of 40-50km/s.
How big was the atmosphere back then?
Based on the birds and pterosaur wings, pretty much the same as now. Which means a two to three second transit from the edge of atmosphere to the ground.
Remember that for a sufficiently large object (and the dinokiller fit that definition of "sufficiently large"), the atmosphere doesn't matter at all, except to give you a really spectacular lightshow during the last few minutes of your existance....
That was my first thought as well. What a racket! Charge a fee for paper bags, then make using anything else illegal!
Though, to be fair, it's not just local governments. The State government gets 60% of the take from the paper bags, the locals the remaining 40%....
Glad I don't live there, since walking my dog uses up a lot of (soon to be illegal) plastic bags - one or two a day to keep from leaving dog crap in yards around the neighborhood. Oh, well, it's New York's problem to keep the dog crap under control while raising the price tag for doing so....
Which is pretty much what FL is doing. Note that what is closing is NOT coal plants. They're replacing one (relatively) clean system with another (cleaner) system, NOT replacing a dirty system with a clean one....
Which, interestingly, is something I saw predicted a few months ago - that solar isn't going to be replacing coal, but natural gas,,,,
Over the next 20 years, if this is done.
To put that in perspective, there are rather more than 1.4M injuries (not necessarily serious) resulting from auto accidents in the EU per year right now.
Doing a bit of math, we see that this new technology will reduce the injury rate by 0.5%.
I'm skeptical that this is going to be worthwhile, given that the reduction in injuries is going to be down there in the noise level, or just barely detectable....
I'm also curious whether the police and emergency services are going to be required to be so limited. Or is this change just meant for the riff-raff?
This year. Next year, who knows?
Because it'll annoy the Air Force to have done to them what they did to the Army - split off a branch into a separate Service, which can then ignore the parent Service, except to squelch any attempts by same to do anything that infringes on their turf....
They don't need that much money, and couldn't spend it if they had it.
Given Falcon9 as a launch vehicle (with a lot of on-orbit rendezvous to get the pieces in place for any given mission), they could probably assemble something comparable to Apollo for $5B or so. Quite likely a lot less than that. Renting enough Falcon9's to boost the parts to LEO shouldn't cost more than half a billion per mission....
Yeppers. Shame that Google news won't ever refer to EU newspapers/magazines/etc anymore. Which was about the only way I ever saw EU news for the past few years. Alas, it's not worth subscription fees for EU papers/magazines, since there's so little EU news I care about.
And before you get all excited about me not caring about anything outside the USA, I don't care all that much about most US news either....
No, allowing each member State to decide whether to have permanent Standard Time, permanent Summer Time, or continue to switch as always is NOT "ending DST".
If you want to end DST, then you need to find a set of choices that does NOT include "change clocks twice a year"....
Because those individuals don't have gobs of money....
It makes me think of farmers in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. 80% of the workforce in 1850, 5% by 1950. Society didn't collapse then, won't now.
It'll change, of course. But then, without that movement from the farms to industry back then, we'd not be typing this stuff at each other, since most of us would be working dawn to dusk on farms....
My first thought was "how could I frame a post so that any response looks stupid and/or evil if my post were removed from the thread?"
So, how long before someone realizes this can now be done trivially?
to REIN in. It's about controlling horses, not which country someone is king of...
That aside, we have the First Amendment for a reason. And the reason is not "to rein in the worst elements of their community".
Trust me, you'll only make some really bad ideas more popular by forbidding people to talk about them in public....
So, you don't use a bus, train, or airplane? Because in each of those cases, you have NO ability to control the vehicle, but a non-zero probability of death.
For that matter, when you're driving a car, you have a non-zero probability of death. Even if you never make mistakes on your own, the guy driving the car next to you could change lanes and knock you off the road into a tree at 70+ mph....
Because the anti-nuke hysterics scream bloody murder whenever the idea is floated?
And do note that this is not about waste storage from a normal reactor. This is about waste storage from a reactor designed to produce Pu-239....
Seriously, how do you define "ethics" so that it would be an acceptable definition to, well, everyone?
Because it won't be accepted as "ethical" unless its decisions agree with you (for all values of "you", including "me").
From this comment, you'd almost think that spraying antibiotics on FL citrus hasn't been happening since, well, the previous Administration.
Yeppers, this was first done during the Obama Administration (under "emergency rules", rather than on a "non-emergency" basis). For years. It was pretty much stopped in '17 after the hurricane season that year....
The question is not "are they official employees", but rather "are they covered by the FOIA?"
If they're not covered by the FOIA, then they've broken no laws, unless they've discussed classified information on their private server, in which case they should be nailed to a tree for mishandling classified information.
If they ARE covered by the FOIA, then they've broken the same law Hillary did, in the same way. And should be punished in the same way Hillary was.
Y'know, rereading the post you're responding to, I couldn't find anywhere the OP said that "experience" had anything to do with it....
A later law automagically supersedes earlier law, so contradictions are meaningless - just check the dates the laws passed, and the contradictions vanish....
As to vague, that's what juries are for, come the trial for breaking the law in question....
Whose connected? Her connected? His connected? My connected?
And this conclusion is based on what, exactly?
Is there any science at all that indicates they're unsafe? Or is it just that word "cigarette" that makes them unsafe?