Yeah, well, you get better press showing when you reveal your boring electronics geek stuff in Hawaii than you would if you held the same event in a windowless lab or a raining dreary place.
I'm trying to stay concise, but I'll spell it out for you.
NYC has a TON of underground infrastructure that goes down as deep as 600-800 ft (depending on where you are and how you measure). For a train traveling 700MPH, you are going to need to pick a depth and more or less stick to it over a distance as small as Manhattan (maybe 3 miles wide at most?). The higher you go, the more trouble you will have finding a clear straight run. You can't get too close to the infrastructure above, or the rock will not support the weight and you'll have to make expensive reinforcements. For instance, when putting the LIRR (Long Island Railroad) connection in at Grand Central ("East Side Access" if you want to Google it), they opted to dig 140 feet down so that they would not have to reinforce the foundations of the station above. The F train is about 100 feet down so it can pass under the other subways. I can tell you from experience that the escalator ride is no fun down to the F train, and I would avoid it if I could. Sometimes the escalator would be out of service and you got to use them as stairs. Fun. There is an infamous subway entrance at Washington Heights 180ft deep that is accessible only by elevator (well, also stairs). The elevators are troublesome and one of them has - I shit you not - a human operator who just sits there and presses the automatic buttons. The other (identical) elevators are fully automatic, they just still hire this one guy. Sorry, tangent.
Finally, there is the water infrastructure. It is the deepest as far as I know, down something like 600ft. Maybe there is some way to "thread the needle" and get the hyperloop tunnel between the water infrastructure and the subway infrastructure. That'd be great, but it's still really far down. If he can dig all the way from Washington to NYC it will seem like a relatively minor thing, but lets not pretend it's trivial. It took them 4 decades to dig the water tunnel.
The move to play stuff natively comes from the role that Flash once played and our collective horrified reaction. We did the "let the OS handle it" and we got Quicktime. We did the "let the browser load plugins" and we got Flash and the horrifying Acrobat plugins, and some more Quicktime.
Compared to that hot mess, the vulnerabilities allowed by the javascript PDF rendering code have been fairly mild.
Yeaaaahh, that's true. But it's _really_ deep. The water tunnels are 600 ft down, and there are subway stations as far down as 180ft (with very trouble-prone elevators).
Even if it were effective, I would imagine that it would undermine other stealthy features. Plus I imagine it is possible to weaponize more than one frequency of laser, which would mean that your coating would need to be effective at more than one wavelength.
I consider myself a fiscal conservative as well. All things being equal, I'd rather have smaller government, but in the absence of that I'd at least like no deficit spending on recurring costs (deficits for infrastructure is OK).
With that said, the only reasons Clinton balanced the books were a combination of Bush I tax increases, paralyzed government, and the dot-com bubble. It really taught me how great a divided, paralyzed government is in holding down spending somewhat. And sure enough, as soon as Bush II got a Republican congress, he signed the largest increase is Medicare ever. Same with Obama - he got a friendly congress and immediately went even further than Bush II. The amazing thing is that this congress has failed to open up the coffers so far despite having a friendly president. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll remain completely dysfunctional until midterms.
Actually, from the anti-tax Republicans/Libertarians it would be: "I don't think the government should be in the business of providing these benefits."
And the pro-environment types would be like: "I want the government to encourage environmentally-friendly transportation by subsidizing it."
So both groups are being quite rational. Neither is thinking like the way you've set up your straw man.
I have nothing to base this on, but if I were a betting man, I'd say it goes something like this: To build a robot and travel to the US from Afghanistan means these girls come from some means. Having money in Afghanistan by purely savory means cannot be easy, given the recent turmoil. My guess is that one or more of their daddy's has either done some unsavory things, or has dealt with some pretty sketchy characters. That doesn't necessarily make them "bad" or dangerous, but it is probably what happened... bureaucrats are good at playing CYA.
Probably in part, but they also make a hybrid version of their other cars, and they are quite competitive. The hybrid drivetrain is very similar to the regular ICE drivetrain, with a small electric motor and a small battery taking up trunk space. My personal, completely unjustified opinion of the Prius is that they kept it hybrid-only for purely marketing reasons. If they had released a non-hybrid ICE only version of the Prius, it would still benefit from the narrow tires and very low resistance shape. This creates the perception that the hybrid drivetrain is solely responsible for the improved efficiency of the car.
How? The prices are right on the shelves. If you mean online, what makes you think that Amazon is sharing their data with Walmart or Newegg? In either event, I use price shopping plugins, so it wouldn't really bother me if Amazon tried to jack the price on me - I just wouldn't buy it from them.
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Yeah, well, you get better press showing when you reveal your boring electronics geek stuff in Hawaii than you would if you held the same event in a windowless lab or a raining dreary place.
It sounds silly when they say "fiddle".
A really _useful_ engine.
I'm trying to stay concise, but I'll spell it out for you.
NYC has a TON of underground infrastructure that goes down as deep as 600-800 ft (depending on where you are and how you measure). For a train traveling 700MPH, you are going to need to pick a depth and more or less stick to it over a distance as small as Manhattan (maybe 3 miles wide at most?). The higher you go, the more trouble you will have finding a clear straight run. You can't get too close to the infrastructure above, or the rock will not support the weight and you'll have to make expensive reinforcements. For instance, when putting the LIRR (Long Island Railroad) connection in at Grand Central ("East Side Access" if you want to Google it), they opted to dig 140 feet down so that they would not have to reinforce the foundations of the station above. The F train is about 100 feet down so it can pass under the other subways. I can tell you from experience that the escalator ride is no fun down to the F train, and I would avoid it if I could. Sometimes the escalator would be out of service and you got to use them as stairs. Fun. There is an infamous subway entrance at Washington Heights 180ft deep that is accessible only by elevator (well, also stairs). The elevators are troublesome and one of them has - I shit you not - a human operator who just sits there and presses the automatic buttons. The other (identical) elevators are fully automatic, they just still hire this one guy. Sorry, tangent.
Finally, there is the water infrastructure. It is the deepest as far as I know, down something like 600ft. Maybe there is some way to "thread the needle" and get the hyperloop tunnel between the water infrastructure and the subway infrastructure. That'd be great, but it's still really far down. If he can dig all the way from Washington to NYC it will seem like a relatively minor thing, but lets not pretend it's trivial. It took them 4 decades to dig the water tunnel.
Trains hate it when you anthropomorphize them.
Adobe, Adobe, Adobe (and a little Apple) :)
The move to play stuff natively comes from the role that Flash once played and our collective horrified reaction. We did the "let the OS handle it" and we got Quicktime. We did the "let the browser load plugins" and we got Flash and the horrifying Acrobat plugins, and some more Quicktime.
Compared to that hot mess, the vulnerabilities allowed by the javascript PDF rendering code have been fairly mild.
Even the subway is up to 180 ft down. Try 600ft.
And NYC continues to construct subways, train tunnels, and water tunnels - at incredible expense.
Yeaaaahh, that's true. But it's _really_ deep. The water tunnels are 600 ft down, and there are subway stations as far down as 180ft (with very trouble-prone elevators).
Yeahhhh, that was sarcasm. I thought NYC was associated enough with subways, tunnels, and aqueducts to make it blatant.
Fortunately, there is almost nothing underground in NYC.
The Puerto Ricans didn't consult British slang dictionaries when they named their city.
Even if it were effective, I would imagine that it would undermine other stealthy features. Plus I imagine it is possible to weaponize more than one frequency of laser, which would mean that your coating would need to be effective at more than one wavelength.
I consider myself a fiscal conservative as well. All things being equal, I'd rather have smaller government, but in the absence of that I'd at least like no deficit spending on recurring costs (deficits for infrastructure is OK).
With that said, the only reasons Clinton balanced the books were a combination of Bush I tax increases, paralyzed government, and the dot-com bubble. It really taught me how great a divided, paralyzed government is in holding down spending somewhat. And sure enough, as soon as Bush II got a Republican congress, he signed the largest increase is Medicare ever. Same with Obama - he got a friendly congress and immediately went even further than Bush II. The amazing thing is that this congress has failed to open up the coffers so far despite having a friendly president. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll remain completely dysfunctional until midterms.
If you don't stop with your misleading marketing, you'll cannibalize sales of your nano-tech TP.
That's probably true vs market rates, but when government employees are driving those buses it's a different story.
I guess it is a sign of our toxic politics that I can't figure out which one is being called names.
Actually, from the anti-tax Republicans/Libertarians it would be: "I don't think the government should be in the business of providing these benefits."
And the pro-environment types would be like: "I want the government to encourage environmentally-friendly transportation by subsidizing it."
So both groups are being quite rational. Neither is thinking like the way you've set up your straw man.
"Maths" is the UK style shortening of "mathematics". We use "math" in N. America. Poe-tay-toe, poe-tah-toe.
I'm fully aware how politically incorrect that statement is, and I even was very upfront with how I have no information at all to support my bias.
I have nothing to base this on, but if I were a betting man, I'd say it goes something like this: To build a robot and travel to the US from Afghanistan means these girls come from some means. Having money in Afghanistan by purely savory means cannot be easy, given the recent turmoil. My guess is that one or more of their daddy's has either done some unsavory things, or has dealt with some pretty sketchy characters. That doesn't necessarily make them "bad" or dangerous, but it is probably what happened... bureaucrats are good at playing CYA.
That's nice except it has nothing to do with Afghanistan, which is not one of the 6 countries in Trump's ban.
Probably in part, but they also make a hybrid version of their other cars, and they are quite competitive. The hybrid drivetrain is very similar to the regular ICE drivetrain, with a small electric motor and a small battery taking up trunk space. My personal, completely unjustified opinion of the Prius is that they kept it hybrid-only for purely marketing reasons. If they had released a non-hybrid ICE only version of the Prius, it would still benefit from the narrow tires and very low resistance shape. This creates the perception that the hybrid drivetrain is solely responsible for the improved efficiency of the car.
How? The prices are right on the shelves. If you mean online, what makes you think that Amazon is sharing their data with Walmart or Newegg? In either event, I use price shopping plugins, so it wouldn't really bother me if Amazon tried to jack the price on me - I just wouldn't buy it from them.