Do any American troops ever consider the fact that people might be LIVING in that regions after the war ends? (That is what you are fighting for, isn't it, the right to live?)
This is one of the reasons the US is not welcomed with open arms when they're coming to liberate a country.
They should have thought of that when they provoked us into attacking them.
of chrome would probably rule out using it as a coating/shield. Its tough enough getting EPA approval to use chromium coatings on stuff that isn't going to go BOOM (such as bearings/anti-corrosive coatings, etc), let alone a proposal that says "We'd like to put chrome on artillery rounds so there are lots of opportunities to leach into water supplies, cause cancer, etc."
Is the EPA headquarters armored against cruise missile attack? Just saying...
Or, as Stalin, asked, "How many divisions does the Pope have?
(Without Jobs' return, Apple would be what HP/Compaq are today - shitty printer ink companies.)
Comments like those just demonstrate the typical ignorance of a Mac fanatic. HP had $104 billion in revenues in 2007, Apple had $24 billion. HP had 309000 employees in 2007, Apple had 17000.
So are you trying to say that Apple would then be a shitty company with a lot of income and a lot of employees?
Free enterprise does not equal megacorps. Megacorps, especially in collusion with government, are in fact the antithesis of true free enterprise. They choke competition by forming virtual monopolies and oligopolies, using what amounts to thuggery, threatening small competitors with restraint via patents.
Small operators can't afford their own patents. They can't afford a trial to prove the megacorp's patent is spurious, either.
By "small", I don't mean your typical 200 employee "small" business so much as five guys in a garage, or one man in a basement.
A small point, which does not automatically invalidate your reasoning, but helps to explain mine: some of us can't afford to wait 20 years for relief. We're at a point in life where we're unlikely to be around in 20 years.
companies have spent billions of dollars to register patents, only for the PTO to say "Oops, just kidding. Jokes on you.
I don't know about you, but I'm sure laughing. With the unholy collusion of Big Business + Government that has spread round the world, I can't think of a better way to _begin_ to reverse the process.
From a psychological perspective, humans have difficulties with numbers
Perceptionally challenged humans do. Please don't degrade the experience of the mainstream in favor of the experience of the fringe of dum^H^H^H perceptionally challenged.
As you say, you left out the fact that Hindenburg loaded about 60,000 kg of diesel fuel on takeoff and usually had almost half that left on landing. There was also about 15,000 kg of flammable fabric and doping compound (your "paint"). Doped cotton fabric similar to that on Hindenburg has been tested many times and is hardly astonishingly flammable, despite Dr. Bain's sensational claims*.
I would put the two craft fairly equal in readily liberated energy content; however, Hindenburg landed literally at zero speed.
It's true that hydrogen, once liberated, will disperse rapidly. This is due more to its high molecular mobility than to the lightness per se. It is the ready ignitability of the hydrogen-air mix at the point of leak in the thin fabric gas cells which make it so dangerous.
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*) Links which lead to a balanced and exhaustive expert treatment of this subject are to be found Here
This could be a factor of my faulty memory, but a quick bit of googling didn't turn up anything useful. Is it just me, or has the rate at which storage capacity increases been slowing in recent years? It seems like we had a very rapid run-up to the 300gig mark (in a 3.5inch drive) then a much slower crawl to a terabyte and beyond.
It's not just you. We have passed Peak Hard Drive Development.
Is it possible that they paid the jury and/or judge?
I'd like to think so, but I think it's more likely they paid a fancy lawyer while the defendant couldn't possibly come close to matching their investment in the expensive machinery of "justice.". Juries are easily swayed by such, and judges are part of a corrupt system, even if they are not personally corrupt in the sense of having a hand out.
You're the dumbass. It's immoral, stupid, hateful, vindictive, corrupt, and absurd to even have the option for a penalty this severe in a case like this. Under any sane legal system, this would be a CIVIL case, not a criminal one.
Death was "only the maximum" sentence for witchcraft too at one time, dumbass.
Excuse the language, guys, but I'm replying to a witless anonymous coward. Anything goes in this case.
Either your cruising speed is faster than theirs in which case you won't have the tailgating problem, or their speed is faster than yours in which case you should just let them past instead of being a prick about it. In an ideal world, one in which all drivers were rational and reasonably skilled, you would be right. However, tailgaters are very often so stupid that they will by nature pull up behind somebody, tailgate them, and never pass, NO MATTER WHAT SPEED THE GUY AHEAD OF THEM IS DRIVING! And, if you slow down enough that they finally do pass, and they don't see anyone ahead of them, they will then very often slow down ahead of YOU, either out of spite, or total carefree selfish lack of attention.
Every 80 years or so a generation in the United States is called to defend freedom. 1780, 1860, 1940 and 2020. 1780: yep. 1860: freedom lost; slavery was on the way out anyway. 1940: USA had no dog in the fight and was dragged in 1941-12-07 through its own incompetence. The war in Europe started via what would have been a comedy of errors if it wasn't so tragic - just like 1914.
And hey NSA: Why are you wasting time logging and reading my message? Why aren't you looking in the caves of North Pakistan for you-know-who? You guys get heaps of cash. Please spend it sensibly. What makes you think the power structure regards OBL as an enemy? He has done more to cement their power beyond their wildest dreams than anyone else. Regardless of whether or not OBL is their own creation, he is their greatest ally. For he is an enemy of their enemy: their own public.
Three major air crashes is probably about a thousand deaths.
I don't know what your definition of "major" air crash is, but there were 24 accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft worldwide in 2007. Three of these resulting in the loss of 100 or more lives, and one more nearly so. The total loss in the three accidents was 403 out of 403 on board(1).
Taking all 24 accidents and incidents, 697 of 1955 aboard were killed - no more than 36% of those aboard on average.
If we can cure the pedestrian-death problem - cars would be close to equaling planes right now.
That's just crazy. Statistically, if you drove 100 million miles during the period 1989-2004, you would have an 83% chance of dying. For the same period, if you flew 100 million miles, you would have a 2 percent chance of dying. Furthermore, from 1989 to 2004, the death expectancy for driving dropped about one third, but that for flying dropped to only about 2%. Flying is much safer now, and is getting even safer at a much faster rate than driving is getting safer.(2)
You can't know that. In fact, there is no viable alternative for me, and lots of users are in my predicament. Cable is practically always a monopoly in a given town. DSL is not offered to my address. Verizon has no idea in what century they may or may not get FiOS to my area, let alone my address. Satellite is a joke.
Creation of ethanol also requires a great deal of heat and electricity. Most of that electricity is from coal-powered plants...
Unless you live in a country where the politicians are not beholden to anti-nuclear luddites and lobbies... like, oh I don't know... France, which produces 80% of its electricity by nuclear power.
The patent office pooped big time when this patent was granted. As long as there are patents, that problem will never be solved, but there are other ways it might be dealt with.
In some jurisdictions, "loser pays costs" is a way of inhibiting frivolous lawsuits. I'm not inclined to favor this, because one may too easily lose a case that has real merit, but...
How about a provision where, if the case is duly found to be unusually frivolous, or glaringly without merit, loser pays triple the costs of the defendant and court?
Stupid Russians aside (and trust me, Chernobyl wasn't an accident--it was the direct, foreseeable result of extreme stupidity.
Not only Russians are stupid. You could say exactly the same thing about US Three Mile Island and not be wrong.
It's a HUMAN FAULT to make stupid decisions. That's never going to completely go away. All you can do is minimize it by employing not only strict training, but STRICT RULES, and see to it that the wrath of the Almighty be upon those who purposely or carelessly break the rules without clearing it, all the way to the top. And even then... Bad things are going to happen if we consider a long enough time period and a large enough employment of perilous devices.
My knee is not jerking against nuclear power (I actually favor it), but I think you're underplaying the potential for peril. You can't compare a CRT that's inherently limited to beta emission (beta rays do not penetrate more than a few mm of tissue and do not radioactivate other substances) to potentially extremely strong sources of gamma rays, which penetrate the entire body, and can radioactivate many substances. As for sunburn, it's scarcely possible (absent being cast away on a desert island) for someone who strongly wants to avoid one to be subjected to one, unlike all the innocents who just happened to live in the general vicinity of Chernobyl.
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The troops just follow the orders of the generals.
And the generals just follow the directives of the Commander in Chief. And the Commander in Chief just follows the dictates of that voice in his head.
Do any American troops ever consider the fact that people might be LIVING in that regions after the war ends?
(That is what you are fighting for, isn't it, the right to live?)
This is one of the reasons the US is not welcomed with open arms when they're coming to liberate a country.
They should have thought of that when they provoked us into attacking them.
/sarcasm ... I think ...
of chrome would probably rule out using it as a coating/shield. Its tough enough getting EPA approval to use chromium coatings on stuff that isn't going to go BOOM (such as bearings/anti-corrosive coatings, etc), let alone a proposal that says "We'd like to put chrome on artillery rounds so there are lots of opportunities to leach into water supplies, cause cancer, etc."
Is the EPA headquarters armored against cruise missile attack? Just saying ...
Or, as Stalin, asked, "How many divisions does the Pope have?
The third link in the summary is performing very well. Either nobody's interested, or it's running on some pretty impressive hardware.
So are you trying to say that Apple would then be a shitty company with a lot of income and a lot of employees?
Interesting points.
Free enterprise does not equal megacorps. Megacorps, especially in collusion with government, are in fact the antithesis of true free enterprise. They choke competition by forming virtual monopolies and oligopolies, using what amounts to thuggery, threatening small competitors with restraint via patents.
Small operators can't afford their own patents. They can't afford a trial to prove the megacorp's patent is spurious, either.
By "small", I don't mean your typical 200 employee "small" business so much as five guys in a garage, or one man in a basement.
A small point, which does not automatically invalidate your reasoning, but helps to explain mine: some of us can't afford to wait 20 years for relief. We're at a point in life where we're unlikely to be around in 20 years.
I hope it _is_ retroactive!
I don't know about you, but I'm sure laughing. With the unholy collusion of Big Business + Government that has spread round the world, I can't think of a better way to _begin_ to reverse the process.
Choke on it, megacorps!
Huh? System cooling makes far more noise than the disk drive in just about every system I've been near.
+100, makes mincemeat out of the opposing argument.
From a psychological perspective, humans have difficulties with numbers
Perceptionally challenged humans do. Please don't degrade the experience of the mainstream in favor of the experience of the fringe of dum^H^H^H perceptionally challenged.
But the latency blows. Milliseconds? Hours! First you've got to go wake up the pilot ...
For every packet.
As you say, you left out the fact that Hindenburg loaded about 60,000 kg of diesel fuel on takeoff and usually had almost half that left on landing. There was also about 15,000 kg of flammable fabric and doping compound (your "paint"). Doped cotton fabric similar to that on Hindenburg has been tested many times and is hardly astonishingly flammable, despite Dr. Bain's sensational claims*.
I would put the two craft fairly equal in readily liberated energy content; however, Hindenburg landed literally at zero speed.
It's true that hydrogen, once liberated, will disperse rapidly. This is due more to its high molecular mobility than to the lightness per se. It is the ready ignitability of the hydrogen-air mix at the point of leak in the thin fabric gas cells which make it so dangerous.
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*) Links which lead to a balanced and exhaustive expert treatment of this subject are to be found Here
This could be a factor of my faulty memory, but a quick bit of googling didn't turn up anything useful. Is it just me, or has the rate at which storage capacity increases been slowing in recent years? It seems like we had a very rapid run-up to the 300gig mark (in a 3.5inch drive) then a much slower crawl to a terabyte and beyond.
It's not just you. We have passed Peak Hard Drive Development.
Is it possible that they paid the jury and/or judge?
I'd like to think so, but I think it's more likely they paid a fancy lawyer while the defendant couldn't possibly come close to matching their investment in the expensive machinery of "justice.". Juries are easily swayed by such, and judges are part of a corrupt system, even if they are not personally corrupt in the sense of having a hand out.
It's the maximum sentence, dumbass.
You're the dumbass. It's immoral, stupid, hateful, vindictive, corrupt, and absurd to even have the option for a penalty this severe in a case like this. Under any sane legal system, this would be a CIVIL case, not a criminal one.
Death was "only the maximum" sentence for witchcraft too at one time, dumbass.
Excuse the language, guys, but I'm replying to a witless anonymous coward. Anything goes in this case.
I've seen cases of murderers getting less than this.
This is the United States of Corporate Tool America here. Exactly what did you expect?
1860: freedom lost; slavery was on the way out anyway.
1940: USA had no dog in the fight and was dragged in 1941-12-07 through its own incompetence. The war in Europe started via what would have been a comedy of errors if it wasn't so tragic - just like 1914.
Taking all 24 accidents and incidents, 697 of 1955 aboard were killed - no more than 36% of those aboard on average.That's just crazy. Statistically, if you drove 100 million miles during the period 1989-2004, you would have an 83% chance of dying. For the same period, if you flew 100 million miles, you would have a 2 percent chance of dying. Furthermore, from 1989 to 2004, the death expectancy for driving dropped about one third, but that for flying dropped to only about 2%. Flying is much safer now, and is getting even safer at a much faster rate than driving is getting safer.(2)
References:
(1) List of commercial aviation accidents and incidents by year
(2) Comparative death rate by year for driving vs flying
The patent office pooped big time when this patent was granted. As long as there are patents, that problem will never be solved, but there are other ways it might be dealt with.
...
In some jurisdictions, "loser pays costs" is a way of inhibiting frivolous lawsuits. I'm not inclined to favor this, because one may too easily lose a case that has real merit, but
How about a provision where, if the case is duly found to be unusually frivolous, or glaringly without merit, loser pays triple the costs of the defendant and court?
It's a HUMAN FAULT to make stupid decisions. That's never going to completely go away. All you can do is minimize it by employing not only strict training, but STRICT RULES, and see to it that the wrath of the Almighty be upon those who purposely or carelessly break the rules without clearing it, all the way to the top. And even then
My knee is not jerking against nuclear power (I actually favor it), but I think you're underplaying the potential for peril. You can't compare a CRT that's inherently limited to beta emission (beta rays do not penetrate more than a few mm of tissue and do not radioactivate other substances) to potentially extremely strong sources of gamma rays, which penetrate the entire body, and can radioactivate many substances. As for sunburn, it's scarcely possible (absent being cast away on a desert island) for someone who strongly wants to avoid one to be subjected to one, unlike all the innocents who just happened to live in the general vicinity of Chernobyl.