My BMW has a good old fashioned mechanical key inside the fob, with a good old fashioned lock cylinder inside the drivers door handle. This sounds like clueless South Florida douchebaggery to me.
Trying to work a project for 700 years would also inevitably land you in the position of launching something that is 300 years newer that would pass your 300 year old probe long before it got to it's destination, because propulsion tech is 300 years better.
I mean, 700 years ago was 150 years before Copernicus created his heliocentric model of the solar system, and was lambasted for it. Now we've got probes on their way out of the solar system that he was mostly correct about.
Yeah, we wouldn't want our high tech graduates to get jobs from a high tech company after all. Here comes some more engineering grads making coffee at Starbucks!
Or NeXT wouldn't have used FreeBSD as it's core to begin with, which means that Apple would have gone a different road for OS X, like BeOS which was also a contender.
However, the Regents of the University of California had a chance to do something that would foster innovation in the computer world for decades to come, properly recognized it, and created the BSD license. Let's be glad they did, rather than listen to people like you.
There is declassified YouTube video of a Minuteman-III test launch from Vandenberg AFB in California to hit a 55-gallon drum on an island in the South Pacific, and the launch crew is rated by how many feet they miss it by with the tungsten slug that is standing in for a warhead. I'd link it, but the proxy here blocks YouTube.
If you have a sub-100 Kt nuke and want it to be effective, you need to actually put it where you want it to be with guidance systems. Aiming for North America and turning the launch key isn't going to do anything but reduce your country into a glassy parking lot, because the US can put one 5x as powerful through your bedroom window, while you did a great job adding to the background radiation count in Nevada when you meant to hit Los Angeles.
Unfortunately, nuclear weapons are just heavy satellites that have an orbit that intersects with the Earth at a pre-determined point. If they are developing lift capacity, it's only a matter of time until they can strap whatever crude nuke they have on the front of it, and lob it somewhere.
Yes, they need better guidance systems, better lift, better everything. But getting something to orbital altitude is the first step, which the US and the USSR proved in the late 50s with Mercury / Redstone and Sputnik.
Yeah, the problem is there isn't increased wealth and education in North Korea. There is increased hunger and starvation while the ruling few place the national resources into a game of nuclear blackmail.
Coordination of space on a global stage is a fantastic idea, except that you have countries like North Korea that don't give a damn what the rest of the world wants, and does what they're going to do anyway.
See: countless UN Security Council resolutions telling North Korea to knock it off with the ballistic missile tests and nuclear bombs already.
Yeah. $425 billion for a continent-wide network of free-flowing (for the most part) freight and personal travel. As opposed to the California High Speed Rail which is estimated by the proponents to cost as much as $115B just for a line from San Francisco to Los Angeles (mostly). And that's probably lowballing the price, and definitely doesn't include the debt service costs.
One quarter of the entire Interstate Highway System for a HSR line that doesn't go half of where the parallel Interstate 5 goes, and doesn't carry any of the freight that Interstate 5 does, and doesn't include maintenance or operating expenses.
So in order to compare "Apples to Apples" we are to completely ignore one of the biggest advantages to air travel? If I want to go from LA to Boston, I don't want to stop at San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Des Moines, Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philidelphia, New York, Hartford, and finally Boston. If I wanted to do that, I'd drive on the Interstate.
I want to stop at Boston, or maybe one hub between like Minneapolis or Chicago (depending on the airline) so I can get a sandwich. And I don't want it to cost more in order to get there in 5 days rather than 6 hours, which Amtrak does.
Because high speed rail is powered by unicorn farts and rainbows? In the US, electric trains still are still coal powered steam trains - they just don't haul the coal and boiler with them anymore.
Oh, and the whole "air travel is subsidized" argument is laughable. Show me one passenger rail service in the US that isn't more heavily subsidized than the most subsidized airline. The reason why all those metro areas don't have subway systems is because those metro areas don't want to spend billions of dollars for a mass transit system that less than 10% of the population will use. The only places in the US where heavy rail works is in New York and Chicago, with an argument to be made for the DC metro system; but it would be a hard argument since the DC rail only works on paper due to the 20 years of deferred maintenance that is now derailing a train per year on average.
If the Constitution or it's amendments had to enumerate every single right, they still wouldn't be done writing it. Ever heard of natural laws?
Where, in the Constitution, does it enumerate the right to enjoy your tater tots with ketchup? Is there a Constitutional argument to be made there? Would the Federal Government be able to ban the use of Ketchup with fried potato nuggets without a Constitutional challenge, because it's not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights?
And now we see the real problem. It's fine if you don't like guns - the problem is that the gun control lobby not only doesn't like guns, they don't like people that DO like guns.
Lots of people want to make this analogy between guns and cars, and here's where it falls down:
The DMV still gives licenses to incredibly bad drivers who park their vehicles in the wrong places, like poles and other cars. Why do we feel that additional bureaucracy would weed out bad gun owners too?
From looking at the map, it looks like the I-95 corridor east of Greenwich looks like a good place to not get shot by a legally purchased and registered firearm.
First, define "lots". There are eight declared nuclear states, and one probable undeclared (denoted with *):
United States Russia China England France Pakistan India North Korea Israel*
Second, when you use a gun, you shoot a single bullet that can destroy a single target effectively with one trigger pull (unless you're talking about class-3 weapons). With a nuke, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of people with one "trigger pull". If a nation uses a nuclear weapon against another nation, or as you ridiculously claim, against your back yard, your nation (and the rest of the world) are going to pound that nation into dust. If someone jacks your car at gunpoint, the police aren't going to do a damn thing about it other than file a piece of paper and say how sorry they are.
If you had any idea how Oregon politics works, you would know that being replaced isn't going to happen. Senator Wyden won't face a primary challenger who is also a Democrat, because the Democratic Party is still pretty happy with his voting record. In a general election against a Republican, Wyden will only have to carry 4 or 5 counties in order to win re-election, and he'll carry them by ~77% of the vote because Portland and Eugene are wildly liberal, and unless a major political shift happens, they won't vote Republican for anything.
This is Wyden's seat until he retires, pisses off the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, or decides to officially move to New York. This is both good and bad - he's politically secure to "do the right thing" or "do whatever pays the most." So far, he's done the right thing.
I forgot the part where Facebook was running multiple data centers out of the goodness of their hearts, and didn't actually want to monetize any of that effort.
Facebook deserves this money, because they went out and got 900M+ users to sign up for their service. Just the same as NBC deserves advertising dollars because they get people to tune into the television shows they produce.
Why would you think that Facebook is any different? They aren't in the "we run this massive no-cost website for people to shoot the shit on for fun" business. They are in the advertising business.
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My BMW has a good old fashioned mechanical key inside the fob, with a good old fashioned lock cylinder inside the drivers door handle. This sounds like clueless South Florida douchebaggery to me.
Trying to work a project for 700 years would also inevitably land you in the position of launching something that is 300 years newer that would pass your 300 year old probe long before it got to it's destination, because propulsion tech is 300 years better.
I mean, 700 years ago was 150 years before Copernicus created his heliocentric model of the solar system, and was lambasted for it. Now we've got probes on their way out of the solar system that he was mostly correct about.
Yeah, we wouldn't want our high tech graduates to get jobs from a high tech company after all. Here comes some more engineering grads making coffee at Starbucks!
Or NeXT wouldn't have used FreeBSD as it's core to begin with, which means that Apple would have gone a different road for OS X, like BeOS which was also a contender.
However, the Regents of the University of California had a chance to do something that would foster innovation in the computer world for decades to come, properly recognized it, and created the BSD license. Let's be glad they did, rather than listen to people like you.
You're not kidding about anything you posted.
There is declassified YouTube video of a Minuteman-III test launch from Vandenberg AFB in California to hit a 55-gallon drum on an island in the South Pacific, and the launch crew is rated by how many feet they miss it by with the tungsten slug that is standing in for a warhead. I'd link it, but the proxy here blocks YouTube.
If you have a sub-100 Kt nuke and want it to be effective, you need to actually put it where you want it to be with guidance systems. Aiming for North America and turning the launch key isn't going to do anything but reduce your country into a glassy parking lot, because the US can put one 5x as powerful through your bedroom window, while you did a great job adding to the background radiation count in Nevada when you meant to hit Los Angeles.
Unfortunately, nuclear weapons are just heavy satellites that have an orbit that intersects with the Earth at a pre-determined point. If they are developing lift capacity, it's only a matter of time until they can strap whatever crude nuke they have on the front of it, and lob it somewhere.
Yes, they need better guidance systems, better lift, better everything. But getting something to orbital altitude is the first step, which the US and the USSR proved in the late 50s with Mercury / Redstone and Sputnik.
Yeah, the problem is there isn't increased wealth and education in North Korea. There is increased hunger and starvation while the ruling few place the national resources into a game of nuclear blackmail.
Coordination of space on a global stage is a fantastic idea, except that you have countries like North Korea that don't give a damn what the rest of the world wants, and does what they're going to do anyway.
See: countless UN Security Council resolutions telling North Korea to knock it off with the ballistic missile tests and nuclear bombs already.
Yeah, but can you drop it somewhere that counts?
Lift capacity is one thing, but guidance systems are what make ballistic missiles worth even talking about.
Yeah. $425 billion for a continent-wide network of free-flowing (for the most part) freight and personal travel. As opposed to the California High Speed Rail which is estimated by the proponents to cost as much as $115B just for a line from San Francisco to Los Angeles (mostly). And that's probably lowballing the price, and definitely doesn't include the debt service costs.
One quarter of the entire Interstate Highway System for a HSR line that doesn't go half of where the parallel Interstate 5 goes, and doesn't carry any of the freight that Interstate 5 does, and doesn't include maintenance or operating expenses.
Yeah, what a deal.
So in order to compare "Apples to Apples" we are to completely ignore one of the biggest advantages to air travel? If I want to go from LA to Boston, I don't want to stop at San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Des Moines, Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philidelphia, New York, Hartford, and finally Boston. If I wanted to do that, I'd drive on the Interstate.
I want to stop at Boston, or maybe one hub between like Minneapolis or Chicago (depending on the airline) so I can get a sandwich. And I don't want it to cost more in order to get there in 5 days rather than 6 hours, which Amtrak does.
Because high speed rail is powered by unicorn farts and rainbows? In the US, electric trains still are still coal powered steam trains - they just don't haul the coal and boiler with them anymore.
Oh, and the whole "air travel is subsidized" argument is laughable. Show me one passenger rail service in the US that isn't more heavily subsidized than the most subsidized airline. The reason why all those metro areas don't have subway systems is because those metro areas don't want to spend billions of dollars for a mass transit system that less than 10% of the population will use. The only places in the US where heavy rail works is in New York and Chicago, with an argument to be made for the DC metro system; but it would be a hard argument since the DC rail only works on paper due to the 20 years of deferred maintenance that is now derailing a train per year on average.
If the Constitution or it's amendments had to enumerate every single right, they still wouldn't be done writing it. Ever heard of natural laws?
Where, in the Constitution, does it enumerate the right to enjoy your tater tots with ketchup? Is there a Constitutional argument to be made there? Would the Federal Government be able to ban the use of Ketchup with fried potato nuggets without a Constitutional challenge, because it's not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights?
Get fucking serious.
And now we see the real problem. It's fine if you don't like guns - the problem is that the gun control lobby not only doesn't like guns, they don't like people that DO like guns.
Lots of people want to make this analogy between guns and cars, and here's where it falls down:
The DMV still gives licenses to incredibly bad drivers who park their vehicles in the wrong places, like poles and other cars. Why do we feel that additional bureaucracy would weed out bad gun owners too?
Clearly we need to ban the sale and transfer of Assault Hammers.
Because metal files absolutely do not exist, and even if they did, you could never use it to remove a serial number marking from the gun's frame.
Are you fucking stupid?
From looking at the map, it looks like the I-95 corridor east of Greenwich looks like a good place to not get shot by a legally purchased and registered firearm.
Yeah, and then step back to reality where there are 300M guns in my country alone.
Talk about a ridiculous argument.
First, define "lots". There are eight declared nuclear states, and one probable undeclared (denoted with *):
United States
Russia
China
England
France
Pakistan
India
North Korea
Israel*
Second, when you use a gun, you shoot a single bullet that can destroy a single target effectively with one trigger pull (unless you're talking about class-3 weapons). With a nuke, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of people with one "trigger pull". If a nation uses a nuclear weapon against another nation, or as you ridiculously claim, against your back yard, your nation (and the rest of the world) are going to pound that nation into dust. If someone jacks your car at gunpoint, the police aren't going to do a damn thing about it other than file a piece of paper and say how sorry they are.
I have shot one, my brother in Oregon has one. It's a fine weapon.
I prefer my Sig Sauer P229 though.
If you had any idea how Oregon politics works, you would know that being replaced isn't going to happen. Senator Wyden won't face a primary challenger who is also a Democrat, because the Democratic Party is still pretty happy with his voting record. In a general election against a Republican, Wyden will only have to carry 4 or 5 counties in order to win re-election, and he'll carry them by ~77% of the vote because Portland and Eugene are wildly liberal, and unless a major political shift happens, they won't vote Republican for anything.
This is Wyden's seat until he retires, pisses off the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, or decides to officially move to New York. This is both good and bad - he's politically secure to "do the right thing" or "do whatever pays the most." So far, he's done the right thing.
Yes, there's a way to opt out. Opt out of using Facebook.
I forgot the part where Facebook was running multiple data centers out of the goodness of their hearts, and didn't actually want to monetize any of that effort.
Are you fucking serious?
Facebook deserves this money, because they went out and got 900M+ users to sign up for their service. Just the same as NBC deserves advertising dollars because they get people to tune into the television shows they produce.
Why would you think that Facebook is any different? They aren't in the "we run this massive no-cost website for people to shoot the shit on for fun" business. They are in the advertising business.