I still don't buy the suicide angle - if someone is serious about ending their life, they're going to find a way. A gun might be convenient, but I don't see a huge call for razor blade control due to suicide incidents.
If you have a toddler in the house, and you're not a complete fucking idiot, you would at the very least not keep a round in the chamber. The less idiotic would at least have it out of reach, or use a locking container or trigger lock.
Of course, if it's a revolver, the "don't keep one in the pipe" part is a bit harder, but the rest still applies.
You're forgetting about the inefficiencies of dividing up a tanker ship of gasoline into God knows how many diesel trucks that then burn fuel to transport a big heavy tank of the stuff to fueling stations everywhere, and then the electricity needed to pump it out of the underground tanks into cars. That's non-trivial as well.
Yeah, because Honda and Toyota have absolutely dismal reputations for engine failure on their 4 cylinder gasoline engines.
Nope, they are among the most reliable engines ever built, and still have many models from the early 80s running today without any problem whatsoever. Example: basically any Toyota 22RE motor installed, ever.
The only recycling of exhaust that a turbocharger does, is that it uses the pressure of exhaust gasses to spin a turbine to compress the intake air. No exhaust gas is ever re-introduced into the intake, as that would completely coat the charge pipe in soot, ruin any O2 sensors, coat the inside of any intercooler that is present and decrease it's operating efficiency, and deprive the engine of oxygen for combustion per unit volume.
Correct. Typical diesel fuel / air mix compression is somewhere in the 15:1 to 23:1 range. The newest BMW twin-scroll turbo gasoline inline-6 motor is at a ratio of 10.2:1.
You are forgetting that even a petroleum-fired generating station will get more energy out of an equal volume of petroleum than a car will, because it can always run at optimal temperature and RPM.
There would actually be a reduction in pollution if all mobile transport was electric, and all the amps generated to do that came from petroleum-based generation.
So rather than being responsible, he gives his password to his son. Then he bitches when his son uses the password.
Sounds like a problem that is easily solvable: don't give your password to your son, and instead monitor what he is doing. Note, this applies to many things outside the scope of this conversation - it's called "responsible parenting."
Yes, the Soviets accomplished a lot in a little time, but it's amazing what you can do when you treat human life as a commodity to be used up and thrown away.
You do know that's why they are doing a static test with it right?
Basically nobody would want to put a payload on top of it as is - they want to make sure it would light and burn without spontaneous unplanned disassembly. Which is exactly what they are doing.
So instead of refuting what he said, you're going to make some idiot remark about his 'Slashdot ID' while posting from anonymous coward, and then make some idiot remark about him 'sounding Millenial' whatever that means.
You do know that writing off an entire generation of people as incapable of worthwhile ideas is pretty stupid, right?
So charging a price that hundreds of millions of people think is fair (thus, their repeated purchases) is somehow deception now.
What's your solution to that? Some kind of government mandated gross margin law where someone can only charge x% more than the total cost of good sold? Because I'm sure that wouldn't completely collapse any companies or entire sectors of industry at all.
That will never play with the rabid anti-corporation crowd around here. Don't you know that every corporation, no matter how big or small, is a freeloading parasite on the side of the economy they create and maintain?
Well, unless you expose the thing to hard vacuum, it's essentially a bomb. And, you still have issues with hydrogen embrittlement of the metal it's made out of.
Plus, we're not talking about a Saturn V, as we don't have any of those. We're talking about SLS, and using the LH / LOx motor in the upper stage is only "interim" right now, so they could go with something completely different.
The reason why SkyLab worked is because they already had the hardware for planned Moon launches that were scrapped. So, because they didn't need an S-IVB to inject them into cislunar space, they could pump out the fuel / oxidizer of that nice cavernous structure and mount a bunch of stuff to the walls, and cut in a docking port on the end where the engine normally would be.
Doing this with something that contains incredibly toxic rocket fuel at launch time is far more challenging, though it was postulated in a concept referred to as a "wet workshop" for a Venus flyby mission.
You have to remember that with Apollo, the starting point was basically a pad of paper. They had to build the boosters. They had to build the lander. They had to build the pressure suits. They had to figure out if long duration spaceflight was going to kill people. They had to build launch facilities. They had to build communications hardware and networks. They had to invent ways to navigate. They had to invent procedure lists and tests and simulations. They had to invent computing technologies and materials that were feasible for the job.
Now we just need to build a bit of hardware and light the fuse. And everyone bitches about how it's too hard.
Is Mars easy? Absolutely not. But we aren't starting from nothing - we have an absurdly huge lead on the starting position of the Gemini program.
Of course nobody really cares if it's x86 or ARM, but that basic architectural choice brings along with it the baggage of each architecture. With x86, you have a power hog of a CPU, though it's far less today with what Intel has been doing. You have legacy bloated software primarily written for a UI paradigm you don't have on a phone.
With ARM, you have fantastic power management, but very little in the way of user-installable 3rd party applications without cultivating some kind of ecosystem or bridge to an existing one.
Microsoft has already shown that they are incapable of going the ARM route - the Surface RT was a grease fire because they artificially limited what they allowed you to do with that version of Windows (no GPOs, no Active Directory - DOA for business), and put way too many restrictions on what they would allow developers to do. So, it was still-born.
Do you really think any developers are going to say "Aw shucks, let's take another spin on the board to see if Microsoft learned anything from their hubris" ? They haven't in over 30 years, why would they start now?
Their next phone will have an Intel Atom in it, and it will be running a stripped down Windows 10, where they will still likely enforce Metro-only apps, and it will get the same ~3% market that they have with Windows Phone 8, or whatever the current version is. Android will still dominate market share numbers, Apple will still dominate mobile device revenue share. The world keeps turning.
Note: I'd love to see a healthy Windows Phone ecosystem just for the honesty that 3-way competition creates. It would keep Google and Apple on their toes if Microsoft would move the needle a little bit; however, Microsoft has been trying this phone thing for like 15 years already and every single version has been a piece of shit that has a lot of answers for questions nobody is asking.
Yeah, because the TSA is going to shut down 29 states worth of airports on some arbitrary date, if the states go to the brink on this.
Never going to happen, and the states know it. You thought the last government shutdown made Congress look stupid? That would look like a minor traffic jam in the middle of nowhere because of a few idiot rubbernecks in comparison. Not accepting 29 states worth of drivers' licenses would leave millions stranded, and result in untold number of cancelled airline tickets and billions in tourist revenue lost.
Far easier for the States to remain in status quo, and if people can't fly through their airports on some arbitrary date, then it becomes a massive fuck you to the Federal government.
No way the TSA ever completely shuts down a major airport over an ID pissing match with a state, much less 29 of them. There would be an executive order issued to "extend" the deadline well before that's allowed to happen.
This is an inter-governmental pissing match, and the States will win, because if the Feds had the balls to enforce it, the airlines and the port authorities would be bankrupted overnight from lost business and gate fees.
True, but the passport is a very quick way to get past the jack-booted thug^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H TSA screener before you go into the porn imager^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H back-scatter X-ray machine. I've seen them eyeball my drivers license for an obscene amount of time, where a US passport only gets a few seconds of glance before they let me pass.
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I still don't buy the suicide angle - if someone is serious about ending their life, they're going to find a way. A gun might be convenient, but I don't see a huge call for razor blade control due to suicide incidents.
It's seems like a convenient pile-on.
If you have a toddler in the house, and you're not a complete fucking idiot, you would at the very least not keep a round in the chamber. The less idiotic would at least have it out of reach, or use a locking container or trigger lock.
Of course, if it's a revolver, the "don't keep one in the pipe" part is a bit harder, but the rest still applies.
You're forgetting about the inefficiencies of dividing up a tanker ship of gasoline into God knows how many diesel trucks that then burn fuel to transport a big heavy tank of the stuff to fueling stations everywhere, and then the electricity needed to pump it out of the underground tanks into cars. That's non-trivial as well.
Yeah, because Honda and Toyota have absolutely dismal reputations for engine failure on their 4 cylinder gasoline engines.
Nope, they are among the most reliable engines ever built, and still have many models from the early 80s running today without any problem whatsoever. Example: basically any Toyota 22RE motor installed, ever.
The guys that were on the platform when it exploded died. But I don't think that's what you mean.
The only recycling of exhaust that a turbocharger does, is that it uses the pressure of exhaust gasses to spin a turbine to compress the intake air. No exhaust gas is ever re-introduced into the intake, as that would completely coat the charge pipe in soot, ruin any O2 sensors, coat the inside of any intercooler that is present and decrease it's operating efficiency, and deprive the engine of oxygen for combustion per unit volume.
Correct. Typical diesel fuel / air mix compression is somewhere in the 15:1 to 23:1 range. The newest BMW twin-scroll turbo gasoline inline-6 motor is at a ratio of 10.2:1.
You are forgetting that even a petroleum-fired generating station will get more energy out of an equal volume of petroleum than a car will, because it can always run at optimal temperature and RPM.
There would actually be a reduction in pollution if all mobile transport was electric, and all the amps generated to do that came from petroleum-based generation.
Probably patented =-P
So rather than being responsible, he gives his password to his son. Then he bitches when his son uses the password.
Sounds like a problem that is easily solvable: don't give your password to your son, and instead monitor what he is doing. Note, this applies to many things outside the scope of this conversation - it's called "responsible parenting."
All the available flavors, and you chose salty...
Total troll, but I'll bite.
Yes, the Soviets accomplished a lot in a little time, but it's amazing what you can do when you treat human life as a commodity to be used up and thrown away.
You do know that's why they are doing a static test with it right?
Basically nobody would want to put a payload on top of it as is - they want to make sure it would light and burn without spontaneous unplanned disassembly. Which is exactly what they are doing.
So instead of refuting what he said, you're going to make some idiot remark about his 'Slashdot ID' while posting from anonymous coward, and then make some idiot remark about him 'sounding Millenial' whatever that means.
You do know that writing off an entire generation of people as incapable of worthwhile ideas is pretty stupid, right?
So charging a price that hundreds of millions of people think is fair (thus, their repeated purchases) is somehow deception now.
What's your solution to that? Some kind of government mandated gross margin law where someone can only charge x% more than the total cost of good sold? Because I'm sure that wouldn't completely collapse any companies or entire sectors of industry at all.
There you go, being logical.
That will never play with the rabid anti-corporation crowd around here. Don't you know that every corporation, no matter how big or small, is a freeloading parasite on the side of the economy they create and maintain?
Well, unless you expose the thing to hard vacuum, it's essentially a bomb. And, you still have issues with hydrogen embrittlement of the metal it's made out of.
Plus, we're not talking about a Saturn V, as we don't have any of those. We're talking about SLS, and using the LH / LOx motor in the upper stage is only "interim" right now, so they could go with something completely different.
The reason why SkyLab worked is because they already had the hardware for planned Moon launches that were scrapped. So, because they didn't need an S-IVB to inject them into cislunar space, they could pump out the fuel / oxidizer of that nice cavernous structure and mount a bunch of stuff to the walls, and cut in a docking port on the end where the engine normally would be.
Doing this with something that contains incredibly toxic rocket fuel at launch time is far more challenging, though it was postulated in a concept referred to as a "wet workshop" for a Venus flyby mission.
You have to remember that with Apollo, the starting point was basically a pad of paper. They had to build the boosters. They had to build the lander. They had to build the pressure suits. They had to figure out if long duration spaceflight was going to kill people. They had to build launch facilities. They had to build communications hardware and networks. They had to invent ways to navigate. They had to invent procedure lists and tests and simulations. They had to invent computing technologies and materials that were feasible for the job.
Now we just need to build a bit of hardware and light the fuse. And everyone bitches about how it's too hard.
Is Mars easy? Absolutely not. But we aren't starting from nothing - we have an absurdly huge lead on the starting position of the Gemini program.
Of course nobody really cares if it's x86 or ARM, but that basic architectural choice brings along with it the baggage of each architecture. With x86, you have a power hog of a CPU, though it's far less today with what Intel has been doing. You have legacy bloated software primarily written for a UI paradigm you don't have on a phone.
With ARM, you have fantastic power management, but very little in the way of user-installable 3rd party applications without cultivating some kind of ecosystem or bridge to an existing one.
Microsoft has already shown that they are incapable of going the ARM route - the Surface RT was a grease fire because they artificially limited what they allowed you to do with that version of Windows (no GPOs, no Active Directory - DOA for business), and put way too many restrictions on what they would allow developers to do. So, it was still-born.
Do you really think any developers are going to say "Aw shucks, let's take another spin on the board to see if Microsoft learned anything from their hubris" ? They haven't in over 30 years, why would they start now?
Their next phone will have an Intel Atom in it, and it will be running a stripped down Windows 10, where they will still likely enforce Metro-only apps, and it will get the same ~3% market that they have with Windows Phone 8, or whatever the current version is. Android will still dominate market share numbers, Apple will still dominate mobile device revenue share. The world keeps turning.
Note: I'd love to see a healthy Windows Phone ecosystem just for the honesty that 3-way competition creates. It would keep Google and Apple on their toes if Microsoft would move the needle a little bit; however, Microsoft has been trying this phone thing for like 15 years already and every single version has been a piece of shit that has a lot of answers for questions nobody is asking.
Yeah, because the TSA is going to shut down 29 states worth of airports on some arbitrary date, if the states go to the brink on this.
Never going to happen, and the states know it. You thought the last government shutdown made Congress look stupid? That would look like a minor traffic jam in the middle of nowhere because of a few idiot rubbernecks in comparison. Not accepting 29 states worth of drivers' licenses would leave millions stranded, and result in untold number of cancelled airline tickets and billions in tourist revenue lost.
Never going to happen.
The good news is that voter registration is public information, so that article was a story about public information being made public.
Oh noes!
A Title 18 suit against the TSA would make me giggle like a little kid, because it's actually rather appropriate.
Far easier for the States to remain in status quo, and if people can't fly through their airports on some arbitrary date, then it becomes a massive fuck you to the Federal government.
No way the TSA ever completely shuts down a major airport over an ID pissing match with a state, much less 29 of them. There would be an executive order issued to "extend" the deadline well before that's allowed to happen.
This is an inter-governmental pissing match, and the States will win, because if the Feds had the balls to enforce it, the airlines and the port authorities would be bankrupted overnight from lost business and gate fees.
True, but the passport is a very quick way to get past the jack-booted thug^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H TSA screener before you go into the porn imager^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H back-scatter X-ray machine. I've seen them eyeball my drivers license for an obscene amount of time, where a US passport only gets a few seconds of glance before they let me pass.