3) The US really wanted Assange, it's quite plausible they Swedish authorities simply wanted to get Assange into the country to extradite him to the US.
Useful clue:
If the USA wanted Assange, it would have been easier to get him extradited from the UK than from Sweden.
Personally, I think he hid in the embassy because of a much greater threat than extradition to Sweden or extradition to the USA - he was afraid he was rapidly becoming ignorable. And he desperately wants to feel important....
But I LIKE walking. I get in 5-10 miles a day routinely. It's the one thing I do that gets me away from this silly keyboard so I have time to really think....
I carry one on my belt. It agrees pretty closely with expected results for known-distance walks (distance measured with a GPS tracker).
Though it is possible to game the device - just tap it repeatedly, and it'll count the jolts as steps. Hardly worth the bother though, since it's easier to do the walking than to tap it 10000 times....
and tritium isn't that hazardous of a material compared to most radioactive elements.
Umm, no.
Tritium has a halflife of 12.3 years. Even U235 has a half life of 700 megayears. In other words, tritium is intensely radioactive compared to uranium (or most natural radioactives).
Note also that uranium is an alpha emitter. You can protect yourself from it by wrapping it in old newspaper. It takes (slightly) more to keep tritium from being a problem (say, three sheets of newspaper)....
I guess they only wanted inflation directed the "right" players in the economy, ie people instead of businesses.
Price increases, in and of themselves, are NOT a sign of inflation.
Essentially, inflation is an increase in the money supply not supported by a corresponding increase in "stuff you can spend money on".
While electricity certainly qualifies as "stuff you can spend money on", nothing that can be done to the supply of electricity signifies inflation in and of itself.
Remember, while price increases may be a sign of inflation, price increases are not necessarily a result of inflation. Sometimes it's just more demand than supply....
Using a significant percentage of the workforce to shuttle around women that are perfectly capable of driving themselves, is a big economic inefficiency.
Wait, what?!
I thought that owning your own vehicle was one of those evil things that only Americans did, certainly not something we wanted to encourage in another country. Mass Transit is GOOD, personal autos are EVIL.
Suggesting that encouraging Saudi women to own their own cars can't be a good thing, can it?
He was also very angry that technical assistance to the Soviet Union was limited; heavy bombers and other large war machines were not sent to the Soviet Union.
A couple of things:
The USA sent more tanks to the USSR than they did to the UK.
Oddly, even though the USSR built an enormous number of reasonably well-designed tanks (T-34/76 had some really superior features, as well as a couple of really sucky ones, such as the commander having to load the gun, T-34/85 fixed most of those problems, but introduced its own set of issues (the chassis really wasn't up to supporting the enlarged turret)), they never sent any of them to the UK in the early part of the war when it would have been easier for the USSR to do so than it was for the USA to do so...
The USSR had no real use for heavy bombers, since it requires an enormous amount of trained manpower to make them effective, which the Russians never had. Note that it was enormously difficult for US to do it, and we had the industrial base already in place. As is, we DID send them some tens of thousands of ground-attack planes.
Oddly, even though the Russians produced some pretty decent Frontal Aviation (ground attack) planes themselves, they never sent any to the UK.
In other words, frankly, the logic that said that we owed the Russians support in their war against Germany is...interesting. But it's a pile of steaming...something.
9 months of the year here, you're heating at night. 7 months of the year, you're heating 24x7. Much of the rest of the year, A/C isn't a biggie.
Nine months of the year where I live, you're running your A/C. And you may find yourself running the A/C during the day a couple times in the remaining three months. Heating is for January (well, parts of December and February, but mostly January).
I can expect that firing straight up into the air, my shot will only reach about 30 meters (or yards). Maybe 40.
Umm, no. Your shot will reach considerably higher than 30 feet straight up.
Muzzle speed from a 12ga is on the order of 1500 fps (call it 450m/s for the metric types). For it to have a ceiling of 30 feet (10 meters) straight up, the shot would have to be decelerating at ~50G's.
And that isn't happening unless you're shooting through a wall/ceiling.
Note that the problem with taking things out when shooting straight up is that human's are really pretty crappy at judging distance directly overhead. Which makes judging the lead you give the target pretty much guesswork...
Note that if the prosecutors don't have enough evidence to convict (their reason for overturning the first Grand Jury decision), all that's going to happen is a show-trial followed by an acquittal. It'll waste some time, some money (for both the hypothetical villains and the government), and otherwise do nothing meaningful.
Or are we expecting them to start fabricating evidence, just to ensure a conviction?
I'm sure that's partly true, but I would bet it's more due to the fact that cars last longer than they used to.
This.
When I was a kid (40 years ago or so), my dad would replace the car every three or four years, after it got to about 75K miles. Car I'm driving now is north of 130K, and still going strong. I'm expecting it to hit 200K before I have to even think hard about replacing it....
we'll never know the truth about the long-term health effects of eating GMO foods until if and when a pattern emerges.
It should, perhaps, be noted that if we were to keep the stuff in the lab until we'd tested it thoroughly for 1000 years, we STILL would "never know the truth about the long-term health effects of eating GMO foods until if and when a pattern emerges".
Or anything else, either. Patterns are what we use to decide that something is real or imaginary.
Luckily, you're on a news site where I'm sure this fact has been reported many times.
Opinion. Not fact.
Note that if NSA is doing its job properly, you'll never hear about its successes. So it could be 99.9% successful and fail 0.1% of the time, and you'd still hear about nothing but its failures in the news.
Likewise, of course, for 0.1% success and 99.9% failure.
Which is why any information about the NSA's functionality is an opinion. Even if it's promulgated by Congress, President, NSA head, whatever (since all of them have reasons to lie about it - if you KNOW it's doing it's job well, telling everyone it's not is a GOOD thing, not a bad thing)...
Plus, it is possible for people or property to be struck before it slows to terminal velocity.
Not if you're aiming at a drone more or less directly overhead. It'll slow down on the way up, and then accelerate back up to...terminal velocity on the way back down.
Is it my imagination or is the US government/society incapable of functioning without an imaginary boogeyman?
It's your imagination.
Admittedly, it's been pretty much true since WW2, and more or less true since WW1. But before that, the US spent a lot of time using the "ignore and be ignored" theory of nationhood.
Oddly enough, it was getting dragged into a European war that cured us of that notion....
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Useful clue:
If the USA wanted Assange, it would have been easier to get him extradited from the UK than from Sweden.
Personally, I think he hid in the embassy because of a much greater threat than extradition to Sweden or extradition to the USA - he was afraid he was rapidly becoming ignorable. And he desperately wants to feel important....
Because the company that makes them is owned by a close friend of the guy who decided to use them? ;-)
But I LIKE walking. I get in 5-10 miles a day routinely. It's the one thing I do that gets me away from this silly keyboard so I have time to really think....
I carry one on my belt. It agrees pretty closely with expected results for known-distance walks (distance measured with a GPS tracker).
Though it is possible to game the device - just tap it repeatedly, and it'll count the jolts as steps. Hardly worth the bother though, since it's easier to do the walking than to tap it 10000 times....
Umm, no.
Tritium has a halflife of 12.3 years. Even U235 has a half life of 700 megayears. In other words, tritium is intensely radioactive compared to uranium (or most natural radioactives).
Note also that uranium is an alpha emitter. You can protect yourself from it by wrapping it in old newspaper. It takes (slightly) more to keep tritium from being a problem (say, three sheets of newspaper)....
I'm curious - what do you have to teach the fabric to keep it from flapping around?
OH, you meant "taut"...my bad.
Price increases, in and of themselves, are NOT a sign of inflation.
Essentially, inflation is an increase in the money supply not supported by a corresponding increase in "stuff you can spend money on".
While electricity certainly qualifies as "stuff you can spend money on", nothing that can be done to the supply of electricity signifies inflation in and of itself.
Remember, while price increases may be a sign of inflation, price increases are not necessarily a result of inflation. Sometimes it's just more demand than supply....
Wait, what?!
I thought that owning your own vehicle was one of those evil things that only Americans did, certainly not something we wanted to encourage in another country. Mass Transit is GOOD, personal autos are EVIL.
Suggesting that encouraging Saudi women to own their own cars can't be a good thing, can it?
They may have more important things to do, but since schools are State-level, getting better schools isn't one of those things.
If you're concerned about the quality of your elementary/high schools, look to your State government for fixes.
EMP and fallout are completely unrelated. Presence of fallout doesn't have any impact on EMP effects, and vice versa.
A couple of things:
The USA sent more tanks to the USSR than they did to the UK.
Oddly, even though the USSR built an enormous number of reasonably well-designed tanks (T-34/76 had some really superior features, as well as a couple of really sucky ones, such as the commander having to load the gun, T-34/85 fixed most of those problems, but introduced its own set of issues (the chassis really wasn't up to supporting the enlarged turret)), they never sent any of them to the UK in the early part of the war when it would have been easier for the USSR to do so than it was for the USA to do so...
The USSR had no real use for heavy bombers, since it requires an enormous amount of trained manpower to make them effective, which the Russians never had. Note that it was enormously difficult for US to do it, and we had the industrial base already in place. As is, we DID send them some tens of thousands of ground-attack planes.
Oddly, even though the Russians produced some pretty decent Frontal Aviation (ground attack) planes themselves, they never sent any to the UK.
In other words, frankly, the logic that said that we owed the Russians support in their war against Germany is...interesting. But it's a pile of steaming...something.
What, you can't "record actual events" in such a way as to distort "actual events" beyond all recognition?
Note that this is true for pretty much any legal system that is not arbitrary and capricious.
If the government can nail you for anything that is not explicitly allowed, then you have a lot bigger problems than a few billionaires.
As an example, did you know that there's not a law in the USA that explicitly states that you're allowed to own a home?
Nine months of the year where I live, you're running your A/C. And you may find yourself running the A/C during the day a couple times in the remaining three months. Heating is for January (well, parts of December and February, but mostly January).
Umm, no. Your shot will reach considerably higher than 30 feet straight up.
Muzzle speed from a 12ga is on the order of 1500 fps (call it 450m/s for the metric types). For it to have a ceiling of 30 feet (10 meters) straight up, the shot would have to be decelerating at ~50G's.
And that isn't happening unless you're shooting through a wall/ceiling.
Note that the problem with taking things out when shooting straight up is that human's are really pretty crappy at judging distance directly overhead. Which makes judging the lead you give the target pretty much guesswork...
But the definition of "child" varies quite a bit throughout the world....
You mispelled "stupid".
Note that if the prosecutors don't have enough evidence to convict (their reason for overturning the first Grand Jury decision), all that's going to happen is a show-trial followed by an acquittal. It'll waste some time, some money (for both the hypothetical villains and the government), and otherwise do nothing meaningful.
Or are we expecting them to start fabricating evidence, just to ensure a conviction?
This.
When I was a kid (40 years ago or so), my dad would replace the car every three or four years, after it got to about 75K miles. Car I'm driving now is north of 130K, and still going strong. I'm expecting it to hit 200K before I have to even think hard about replacing it....
Haven't made a car payment in a decade. It's actually possible to live without buying a new car every few years....
Current charge times make "recharge when the driver stops for breaks" impossible.
And frankly, current ranges on EV's make them pretty much useless for trucks. Who really wants to stop for a couple hours a couple times a day?
It should, perhaps, be noted that if we were to keep the stuff in the lab until we'd tested it thoroughly for 1000 years, we STILL would "never know the truth about the long-term health effects of eating GMO foods until if and when a pattern emerges".
Or anything else, either. Patterns are what we use to decide that something is real or imaginary.
Opinion. Not fact.
Note that if NSA is doing its job properly, you'll never hear about its successes. So it could be 99.9% successful and fail 0.1% of the time, and you'd still hear about nothing but its failures in the news.
Likewise, of course, for 0.1% success and 99.9% failure.
Which is why any information about the NSA's functionality is an opinion. Even if it's promulgated by Congress, President, NSA head, whatever (since all of them have reasons to lie about it - if you KNOW it's doing it's job well, telling everyone it's not is a GOOD thing, not a bad thing)...
Not if you're aiming at a drone more or less directly overhead. It'll slow down on the way up, and then accelerate back up to...terminal velocity on the way back down.
It's your imagination.
Admittedly, it's been pretty much true since WW2, and more or less true since WW1. But before that, the US spent a lot of time using the "ignore and be ignored" theory of nationhood.
Oddly enough, it was getting dragged into a European war that cured us of that notion....
Frankly, "his conviction" that they do this isn't really all that damning. Does he have any actual, you know, PROOF that this is true?
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