That's right, and it's a shitload of meaningless drivel as presented.
Points 1 and 2 per se are not outlining any presumed threat at all; just stating facts. Point 3, 7, and 9 are speculative and provides no hint of any foundation for fears at all. Points 4, 5 and 6 are pretty much a statement that anything man does could possibly go wrong and have consequences. Point 8 is irrational and not explained.
Actually the fuel is pretty much the same as "what NASA was using in the 60s": RP-1 + LOX. RP-1 is just a fancy name for a controlled formulation of plain old kerosene, and liquid oxygen a cold and pure form of what every animal uses in their respiratory process.
Ironically, your link points to no meaningful and pertinent research at all, but nothing more than a bullshit bunch of speculative fear mongering. "OMG, things could go wrong; therefore it's not worth evaluating gains and needs against risks; there is no possible justification and the whole thing is out of the question."
There's a difference between actual productive jobs that produce wealth by by building useful things from raw materials, and service jobs that just move existing wealth around.
The difference is that Microsoft can deliberately drop support for the older Windows operating system, forcing users to migrate to newer, vastly inferior Windows operating systems. And since their shit is proprietary, no one can "adopt" redevelopment of the abandonware they don't want any more.
But with open source systems, the codebase for Gnome2 can't be made to disappear just because the original developers have developed collective insanity and moved on to the execrable Gnome3. In fact, Gnome2 has indeed been adopted by a new set of developers. Or people can just use a perfectly good replacement. Because with open source systems you're not locked into an official One Way of doing things.
What has Iran done -- not talked about, not nationalist tough guy rhetoric, I'm talking real military action -- that suggests they are irrational enough to attack Tel Aviv under the clear and present threat of getting twice what we gave Saddam?
OK, I'll bite. How about financing proxies Hezbollah and Hamas to conduct terrorist attacks against Israel? They are pretty brazen about this. See for example here. So yeah, they have been attacking Israel for a long time and getting away with very light consequences.
Yeah, damned the government for keeping the actual date and location of D-Day as a state secret </stupid>
Operational security during during a declared war is hardly the same thing as carrying on clandestine hostilities without declaring war. But I hardly think you're so stupid you don't know that.
I am puzzled by your thought sequence. Nothing could be a clearer incitement to violence than the site described. If you want to try a test cite to see which one of us is right, feel free. It's about the last thing I would risk, even if I believed the drivel.
I believe that it is evident that continuing events, allegiances, and beliefs in the region are at odds with what you think (and perhaps what I would like to think), although I suppose the absolute number could be "many" and the proportion still be a very small minority.
Obviously not "every" Afghan is an extremist, but it is at least arguable that a large majority owe allegiance to an extreme philosophy in the form of Islam as understood in the region, judged by that particular Islam's own definition; i.e., the way Islam defines itself by its regional practicing hierarchy.
Well, the WW-II C-47 Skytrain was used in Vietnam in both electronic warfare and gunship configurations. Other WW-II military equipment which saw use in the Vietnam war (by the US) included the M-3 submachine gun, the M2A1 105 mm howitzer, the M1 Garand rifle, the M1911A1 pistol, the Thompson submachine gun, WW II era ships. Peripheral to the Vietnam war, lots of old planes were used by Air America in and around Vietnam.
22 GW of power produced during very favorable periods. I would be MUCH more interested to find how much the MEAN power over the course of a full year is, and how large a fraction of 22 GW is. I imagine a pretty goddam small fraction. For half of every day, solar power is zero. For many days of the year that are completely overcast, solar power is reduced to a very small part of nominal noonday.
I.e., annual solar energy production is a much more meaningful measurement than PEAK solar power production.
Why do these anecdotal "people" find it easier to visualize "energy per unit of time" than "power"?
One joule is one watt times one second? It's more relatable for most people to visualize one watt for one hour than one watt for one second. A joule is a ridiculously small unit of energy. One joule is 2.78x1E-7 kWh - if the electric bill they receive says they used 1000 kWh, that's 3.6 million joules. If they pay for electricity, they're more used to the unit kWh.
That is indeed corporatism, but that's what capitalism has become; what it had to become. I don't see a free market without the corporatism as really capitalism.
Capitalism isn't just a free market. Capitalism is the concept that those with money are entitled to make more money from their money, not from their labor. As such it is an unstable model, since the money becomes more and more concentrated in a few hands. And we know what the problems with socialism are.
There needs to be a brilliant new champion of distributism; somebody who can popularize it and figure out how to institute it. It is the answer. Instead of the means of production being concentrated in a privileged elite (capitalism), or gathered together in an all encompassing state (socialism), distributism works by distributing the means of production as widely and fairly as possible among the people.
Yeah, I recently bought four more so-called "Samsung" 2TB (I already have eight REAL Samsung 2TBs) quick, hoping to get some before the invevitable slide in quality got too bad. And it's GOING to happen. Seagate's corporate policies are going to gut QC and make manufacturing and redesign shortcuts. It's only a matter of time; probably not very much time. When my drives arrived, they had ST part numbers next to the old "HD204UI" designation - and they say "Made in China". I'm crossing my fingers. So far, so good. But I have no idea what I'll do in the future.
An optimist would say that at least some of Samsung's superior design and QC derived reliability will hopefully rub off on the new Seagate. I'm not an optimist. I'm afraid I think your five-year estimate is optimistic. In point of fact, I don't know of any assurance or even indication that they are using the same final assembly plants that Samsung did. For all we know, they are buying the same components (until they can swap in shittier components), and then slapping them together in some inferior jobbed-out Chinese plant.
... both drive companies have cut their warranties on consumer drives. Seagate to 1 year an WD to 2. A damn rip off if you ask me. I'd say don't buy a new drive unless you absolutely have to. I have no idea why seagate thought cutting it's drives to 1 year warranty was a great thing. It just pushed me over to WD easily. Not having a 3 warranty _at least_ IMHO is a big drawback.
So you left Seagate in favor of the manufacturer with even shittier quality drives? Not so smart.
Warranty periods are not the only thing that matters. When you get a warranty replacement, it's gonna be somebody else's return, either refurbished, or just turned around and sent to you as-is cynically hoping you won't notice any problem with it, or the other guy might have jumped to a conclusion. Don't laugh. That's how they operate. So your replacement is very unlikely to last.
Not only is the competition pre-empted by two megacorps buying all the other outfits, it's a race to the bottom in quality too. By far the best quality drives were Samsung - just look at the ratings on Newegg. - followed by Hitachi Global Storage.
Now Samsung is Seagate; the drives are starting to come throught with ST model numbers. And Hitachi is WD. The quality of both Seagate and WD has been pure shit for a long time. No one is going to be able to get a drive better than garbage quality anywhere any more.
(not addressing you directly Vicarius) OK, you capitalism fan bois, worshipful eyes blazing with faith, how come your favorite shitty system brings us to this sorry state?
It is hard for me to see why it would be unconstitutional. Fits within the Commerce Clause. Remember, as far as laws are concerned, stupid doesn't mean unconstitutional.
IMHO, this goes to show how moronic the modern day absurdly loose interpretation of the Commerce Clause is. Everyone knows what interstate and foreign commerce was understood to mean in 1787 - somebody in state A buying something from state B or foreign power C, the good being therefore transported between the states or internationally. Nowadays the feds have encroached ravenously in all kinds of areas they should have no business invading.
If they wanted things the way they have made them, the correct way to do it would have been to amend the Constitution to put in a new clause to encompass all the stuff they are messing with which is not really commerce. Of course, they would have known they would not have gotten such an amendment passed without brainwashing everyone in the states.
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Of course they are needed. Doctors, barbers, etc perform needed services for other people, and in return wealth is distributed. Not created.
That ludicrous statement indicates that remedial economics 101 is needed.
That's right, and it's a shitload of meaningless drivel as presented.
Points 1 and 2 per se are not outlining any presumed threat at all; just stating facts.
Point 3, 7, and 9 are speculative and provides no hint of any foundation for fears at all.
Points 4, 5 and 6 are pretty much a statement that anything man does could possibly go wrong and have consequences.
Point 8 is irrational and not explained.
Actually the fuel is pretty much the same as "what NASA was using in the 60s": RP-1 + LOX. RP-1 is just a fancy name for a controlled formulation of plain old kerosene, and liquid oxygen a cold and pure form of what every animal uses in their respiratory process.
Ironically, your link points to no meaningful and pertinent research at all, but nothing more than a bullshit bunch of speculative fear mongering. "OMG, things could go wrong; therefore it's not worth evaluating gains and needs against risks; there is no possible justification and the whole thing is out of the question."
There's a difference between actual productive jobs that produce wealth by by building useful things from raw materials, and service jobs that just move existing wealth around.
The difference is that Microsoft can deliberately drop support for the older Windows operating system, forcing users to migrate to newer, vastly inferior Windows operating systems. And since their shit is proprietary, no one can "adopt" redevelopment of the abandonware they don't want any more.
But with open source systems, the codebase for Gnome2 can't be made to disappear just because the original developers have developed collective insanity and moved on to the execrable Gnome3. In fact, Gnome2 has indeed been adopted by a new set of developers. Or people can just use a perfectly good replacement. Because with open source systems you're not locked into an official One Way of doing things.
What has Iran done -- not talked about, not nationalist tough guy rhetoric, I'm talking real military action -- that suggests they are irrational enough to attack Tel Aviv under the clear and present threat of getting twice what we gave Saddam?
OK, I'll bite. How about financing proxies Hezbollah and Hamas to conduct terrorist attacks against Israel? They are pretty brazen about this. See for example here. So yeah, they have been attacking Israel for a long time and getting away with very light consequences.
Yeah, damned the government for keeping the actual date and location of D-Day as a state secret </stupid>
Operational security during during a declared war is hardly the same thing as carrying on clandestine hostilities without declaring war. But I hardly think you're so stupid you don't know that.
I am puzzled by your thought sequence. Nothing could be a clearer incitement to violence than the site described. If you want to try a test cite to see which one of us is right, feel free. It's about the last thing I would risk, even if I believed the drivel.
I believe you are mistaken. The proposed site is clearly hate speech and an incitement to violence.
Why does one have to be greater than the other for you? They are both great, period.
But note that science has to figure things out come before engineering can implement them.
Actually, and i3 has 2 cores with 4 threads.
Actually, these days even an Atom has 2 cores, 4 threads, and 64 bit code capability now. And all in 10 watts. Blew my mind.
I believe that it is evident that continuing events, allegiances, and beliefs in the region are at odds with what you think (and perhaps what I would like to think), although I suppose the absolute number could be "many" and the proportion still be a very small minority.
Obviously not "every" Afghan is an extremist, but it is at least arguable that a large majority owe allegiance to an extreme philosophy in the form of Islam as understood in the region, judged by that particular Islam's own definition; i.e., the way Islam defines itself by its regional practicing hierarchy.
Actually, I *CAN* shoot them. But I *MAY* not.
Well, the WW-II C-47 Skytrain was used in Vietnam in both electronic warfare and gunship configurations. Other WW-II military equipment which saw use in the Vietnam war (by the US) included the M-3 submachine gun, the M2A1 105 mm howitzer, the M1 Garand rifle, the M1911A1 pistol, the Thompson submachine gun, WW II era ships. Peripheral to the Vietnam war, lots of old planes were used by Air America in and around Vietnam.
Absolutely correct. Dropped the 1000 there.
22 GW of power produced during very favorable periods. I would be MUCH more interested to find how much the MEAN power over the course of a full year is, and how large a fraction of 22 GW is. I imagine a pretty goddam small fraction. For half of every day, solar power is zero. For many days of the year that are completely overcast, solar power is reduced to a very small part of nominal noonday.
I.e., annual solar energy production is a much more meaningful measurement than PEAK solar power production.
Why do these anecdotal "people" find it easier to visualize "energy per unit of time" than "power"?
One joule is one watt times one second? It's more relatable for most people to visualize one watt for one hour than one watt for one second. A joule is a ridiculously small unit of energy. One joule is 2.78x1E-7 kWh - if the electric bill they receive says they used 1000 kWh, that's 3.6 million joules. If they pay for electricity, they're more used to the unit kWh.
That is indeed corporatism, but that's what capitalism has become; what it had to become. I don't see a free market without the corporatism as really capitalism.
Capitalism isn't just a free market. Capitalism is the concept that those with money are entitled to make more money from their money, not from their labor. As such it is an unstable model, since the money becomes more and more concentrated in a few hands. And we know what the problems with socialism are.
There needs to be a brilliant new champion of distributism; somebody who can popularize it and figure out how to institute it. It is the answer. Instead of the means of production being concentrated in a privileged elite (capitalism), or gathered together in an all encompassing state (socialism), distributism works by distributing the means of production as widely and fairly as possible among the people.
For background, see the brilliant G. K. Chesterton's book What's Wrong With the World.
Yeah, I recently bought four more so-called "Samsung" 2TB (I already have eight REAL Samsung 2TBs) quick, hoping to get some before the invevitable slide in quality got too bad. And it's GOING to happen. Seagate's corporate policies are going to gut QC and make manufacturing and redesign shortcuts. It's only a matter of time; probably not very much time. When my drives arrived, they had ST part numbers next to the old "HD204UI" designation - and they say "Made in China". I'm crossing my fingers. So far, so good. But I have no idea what I'll do in the future.
An optimist would say that at least some of Samsung's superior design and QC derived reliability will hopefully rub off on the new Seagate. I'm not an optimist. I'm afraid I think your five-year estimate is optimistic. In point of fact, I don't know of any assurance or even indication that they are using the same final assembly plants that Samsung did. For all we know, they are buying the same components (until they can swap in shittier components), and then slapping them together in some inferior jobbed-out Chinese plant.
So you left Seagate in favor of the manufacturer with even shittier quality drives? Not so smart.
Warranty periods are not the only thing that matters. When you get a warranty replacement, it's gonna be somebody else's return, either refurbished, or just turned around and sent to you as-is cynically hoping you won't notice any problem with it, or the other guy might have jumped to a conclusion. Don't laugh. That's how they operate. So your replacement is very unlikely to last.
Price fixing? YA THINK?
Not only is the competition pre-empted by two megacorps buying all the other outfits, it's a race to the bottom in quality too. By far the best quality drives were Samsung - just look at the ratings on Newegg. - followed by Hitachi Global Storage.
Now Samsung is Seagate; the drives are starting to come throught with ST model numbers. And Hitachi is WD. The quality of both Seagate and WD has been pure shit for a long time. No one is going to be able to get a drive better than garbage quality anywhere any more.
(not addressing you directly Vicarius) OK, you capitalism fan bois, worshipful eyes blazing with faith, how come your favorite shitty system brings us to this sorry state?
IMHO, this goes to show how moronic the modern day absurdly loose interpretation of the Commerce Clause is. Everyone knows what interstate and foreign commerce was understood to mean in 1787 - somebody in state A buying something from state B or foreign power C, the good being therefore transported between the states or internationally. Nowadays the feds have encroached ravenously in all kinds of areas they should have no business invading.
If they wanted things the way they have made them, the correct way to do it would have been to amend the Constitution to put in a new clause to encompass all the stuff they are messing with which is not really commerce. Of course, they would have known they would not have gotten such an amendment passed without brainwashing everyone in the states.