According to most, Snowden did his patriotic duty. You don't even have the sack to post with a registered account, yet you're going to be judge jury and executioner for this man? If even a small fraction of the world had half the courage of this man our collective western society would be much better. Like it used to be.
You are remarkably restrained in the face of imbecility. As well as lucid. I admire you.
He has escaped to a country that we cannot extradite him from to face charges that he has committed against the US government. In short, he is a criminal and a fugitive. We should not be celebrating his gloating and continuing flouting against American justice.
Hopefully, the NSA will be able to lean on twitter to geolocate his posts, and drop a bunker buster on him.
Fuck you. Eat shit and die, you disgusting foul tool.
He's basically just a pawn at this point. Putin keeps him around because it embarrasses the US Government. He'll probably find himself extradited in a heartbeat if Putin can get something valuable in trade. I'm also guessing he's not exactly a prisoner, but that he would find it to be very difficult to leave Russia if he wanted to. You know, pawn stuff.
Utterly unfounded crap. The actual reason he can't leave is that he would be intercepted extralegally by U.S. agents acting on behalf of an illegitimate rogue government violating its own goddam Constitution.
Diesel engines haven't produced visible amounts of soot for over thirty years years.
The following is US-centric, but I believe is the case worldwide; at least in the west.
As the owner of a diesel passenger car bought new 33 years ago, I can dispute this categorically. It is no more than partially sort-of true. They did not make any smoke at idle, or much smoke at all in steady state, even cruising at 60+ mph, but at WOT they belched. The same was true of trucks, with the difference that WOT was frequently an extended condition in trucks, but only transient in cars.
My 1999 Golf has always smoked on WOT, too. Not as much, and mostly only after carbon had accumulated due to putting around for an extended period, and it would only last a second or two until the built-up carbon would be cleared out. Only a useless weenie could claim to be bothered by it. But smoke there always has been.
The difference with the 2009+ models is that they don't smoke, period, at all, ever. The inside of the tailpipe stays shiny. There is no dispute on this particular point.
Hitler was baptised and confirmed a Catholic. Some consider that Christian, and some don't. However, he was not religiously driven. In adulthood he was disainful of Christianity. Only a mental defective would see any compatibility between Hitler's philosophy with the teachings of Jesus. The most you can say is that Hitler never publicly and formally repudiated the Church, nor was he excommunicated (which latter is itself damning, but off point).
Goebbels wrote that Hitler "hates Christianity, because it has crippled all that is noble in humanity." Scholars agree that Hitler was anti-Christian. But he was opportunistic and pragmatic, and took care never to be seen as atheistic.
Alfred Rosenberg, the appointed Nazi ideologist, rejected and scorned Christianity and embraced paganism and mysticism. He planned that the Bible would be banned and replaced on the altars with Mein Kampf, and the cross replaced with the swastika. A National Reich Church of Germany would take over all churches.
Research with primary sources is good. Now learn to tell the difference between opportunism and facile writing, and actual motivation and conduct.
the ease in which the Clinton's tell bold faced lies
You may not be a native english speaker, so please take this as helpful information. The expression is "bald-faced lie" or "bare-faced lie", not "bold-faced lie"; a gem brought to you by the world's most mystifying language. Most likely the origin of "bald-faced lie"/"bare-faced lie" refer to (figuratively) wearing no mask.
You can rest easy, though. So many illiterate people have taken up "bold-faced" in lieu of "bald-faced"/"bare-faced" that it is rapidly becoming perfectly accepted. Thus in tiny pieces a language is corrupted. Apologies to Mark Twain's observations.
Slashdot is hosted and based in the US. The most represented country on slashdot - in terms of which country most readers are from - is the US as well. It is understood that on slashdot a reference to "this country" is referring to the US unless there is context to imply otherwise.
Bullshit to the last point. On the internet you can't get away with those kind of bullshit assumptions any more. The audience here is the world, baby. Yeah, Slashdot is run by an American company. Very likely the most represented country in the readership is the US. It may (or may not) even exceed the total of all other readership distributed in all other countries. But that doesn't mean squat. It is accessable and accessed by people everywhere. Get used to thinking in terms outside the conditions of the 19th century, when travel to other countries was a big deal and a slow deal, and even communications with people in other countries was extremely limited in volume.
Jaguar and BMW are two brands that sell Diesel fairly regularly in Europe but not at all in this country.
Oopsie. BMW MY 2016 X3 and 5 Series diesels are sold in the US. If it matters, MY 2016 Range Rover, MY 2016 Mercedes E Class, MY 2016 Porsche Cayenne, MY 2016 Audi A6, A8, and Q5, all diesels, are also sold in the US.
You missed the point entirely, genius. There are places where the government will compute your income taxes for you and send you a bill or debit your account. I know it's hard to understand for an American, but not every place extorts the citizen's time (which is money) to make them individually figure out a tax code seven times the length of the bible. US Rep. Rob Portman (R-OH) says the income tax racket extorts 5.4 billion hours a year from US taxpayers.
if you do somebody a small favor and they give you $5, you're supposed to report that [as income]
The HELL you are. Imagine they show their appreciation by giving you a doll for your daughter instead of a five dollar bill, and try to tell me THAT would be "income". It's the same thing. That is nothing more than a double instance of personal favors or gifts. Gifts are not taxable to the recipient; they are payable by the giver, and only if they give more than $14,000 to any individual per year.
God help us the day your wet dream becomes a reality and doing your neighbor a favor like fixing his front steps is tried to be made out as work for hire.
Stop making apologies for lunacy, and stop being a doormat.
It wouldn't be all that hard to impress with the tech if the producer cares. Just get the basics right. 1) Do the thrusters go "chuffff", "chuffff" out in space when they activate? 2) Do you hear the rocket motors out in space? 3) Does it avoid Magic Gravity inside the space ship in space? 4) Are there stupid fins to support fake maneuvering in space? 5) Does the rocket motor thrust all the time, and if it stops, does the space ship act about to crash?
Some; far from all; of the early space opera was surprisingly accurate. Anything Heinlein was involved with tended to be pretty realistic. 2001 A Space Odyssey was the first film to absolutely nail everything. Then it went absolutely to hell, notably with Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica (the REAL 1978 BG, obviously, not the silly 2003 soap opera).
Yep. Someone who is NOT full of shit. Thank you. To the morons: you can cruise all day at 100 mph with the original unmodified 90 hp 1998-2003 diesel. Cruising at 65 on the level you are using maybe 15-20 hp. Just how much of the time do you think the guy with the souped-up engine is actually putting out 180+ hp? Brief sprints; no more.
I could bury the 85 mph speedo on my 1982 slushbox Audi 5000 Turbo Diesel (a damn decent size car like a palace inside) with the stock 84 hp engine and there was still more left. Yeah, my foot had to be planted on the floor and it took a while to get there, but the engine was purring sublimely and contentedly.
if the engine computer is working normally during the emissions test and in "High power" mode otherwise, then every internal engine part is being stressed beyond its design and you will see premature timing chain failures and premature main bearing failures.
WTF are you on about? As well as your whole fantasy being pure bullshit, there are NO VW diesel engines in the US that use timing "chains". They are all belt driven. There used to be a very rare V-10 diesel that had gear-driven timing.
Seems like you've never had an emissions test done. No, they don't interface with your vehicle's ECU; they stick a probe up it's ass
STFU with the bullshit. You don't know crap. I've NEVER had a tailpipe test in my 1999 Golf diesel since the day I bought it to the present. For a few years they claimed to be doing a visual-only smoke observation (at idle!); then for a while they did an OBD-II-only test which basically just makes sure there are no fault codes; and since a couple of years ago when I hit 15 model years old there has been no emissions test whatsoever. They tell me it wouldn't keep me from passing any more even if I had a check-engine light glaring on the dash.
This is in eastern Massachusetts, one of the most disgusting ultra-leftie ultra-greenie-weenie big-brother hellholes in the country.
The bottom line: nobody cares what all-encompassing universal rules you want to infer from your own tiny experience. News flash. Emissions testing standards and methodologies vary throughout the country. Not everybody has a gasoline-powered heap.
Xenix was licenced from the then SCO to Microsoft:) It was therefore a rebadged SCO Unix it wasn't made by MS.
Just No. Microsoft licensed Unix v7 from AT&T in 1978 and announced in 1980 that they would make it available for 16 bit micros. Microsoft's license did not allow it to use the UNIX name, so they came up with Xenix as a name. Microsoft did not choose to sell it directly to end users. They licensed it to OEMs IBM, Intel, Tandy, Altos, SCO, and Siemens.
SCO was originally farting around with their own port of v7, Dynix. In 1982 they made a deal with Microsoft to jointly develop Xenix.
A point to fancy, as long as we're talking about the atmosphere, is that it already contains fully-formed fuel, ready to use if you can extract it: 1.79 ppmv (volume concentration) of methane and 0.55 ppmv of hydrogen. Now, rare as those portions are, there is a hell of a lot of atmosphere; 5.15x10^18 kg. Methane and hydrogen are less dense than air, so the mass concentration works out to around 0.9 ppmm for methane and 0.04 ppmm for hydrogen, but still there are many billions of tons of them in the atmosphere.
The Nazis could easily have won the war, if Hitler wasn't insane and had settled for controlling mainland Europe west of Stalin.
No they couldn't. Not even close. They made a miserable failure out of trying to defeat a tiny force of Spitfires with their vaunted Luftwaffe in 1940 after the fall of France, when Britain stood alone. They didn't have a clue how to fully mobilize their economy on a war footing. They were ideologically opposed to harnessing the 50% of the potential economy that females represented: females were only supposed to spend their time bearing and raising teutonic warriors. Britain's blockade was strangling them. Their idea of efficiently harnessing workers in conquered territories was to beat and starve them to death wastefully and stupidly, as well as evilly. Their economy was not put on a full war footing until 1943, after they had lost the war.
German naval power on the surface was a sick joke, and the U-boats, even with gigantic industrial effort, fell short, even with Japan diverting much of the US's navy.
If Hitler hadn't gone for Stalin's throat, the reverse would have happened, and the situation would have been even worse for Germany.
Only the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Idiots invades Russia during the winter.
Arguably so, but Hitler Invaded the USSR in June 1941, not the winter. The invasion went spectacularly well, and by September, despite stupid decisions to divert forces at the critical period, German forces approached to within 11 km of Moscow, reaching streetcar lines in the suburbs.
If he had not declared war after Pearl Harbor, but had let Japan fight the United States alone, the war would have dragged for an extra decade.
No way in hell. Britain plus the USSR would have finished it without us. Maybe one extra year at the utmost. And the US would have devastated Japan much faster without our own second front (which actually had priority). Then we would have swarmed into Europe in full undiverted force by 1944 or 1945.
800 volts, which is what this car is, should not be in the same class as 15 kV. It is closer to 120 V than it is to 15 kV.
The maximum air gap 800 volts DC will jump is 1/10 of a mm. Hmmph. Big deal. It requires respect because the consequences of coming within an air distance equal to the thickness of a few sheets of paper of it - or much more likely, touching it, are SEVERE, but it's not a big bad magic monster.
If lay people (drivers) when charging at quick charge stations are dealing with several hundred volts now every day (a Tesla supercharger is 400 V), then there is no deep dark reason why 800 volts should suddenly become a priesthood-only matter. Time was, not that long ago, ordinary drivers weren't allowed to pump their own gasoline either.
I think you will find that the insulation on a charging cable is made literally many hundreds of times thicker than the barely required dielectric strength, and the connector is designed so that you can't come anywhere near the contact. I bet it has some super effective GFI protection, too. It sure as hell is not live when being connected.
To put it in perspective, ordinary hookup wire with teflon class E insulation is rated at 600 volts. The insulation is 0.25 mm thick but clearly has a gigantic safety factor. The dielectric strength of extruded teflon is 19.7 MV/m, which is 19.7 kV/mm, so if the insulation on that wire is in perfect condition it will actually withstand 5 kV. I'll bet the insulation on a high voltage charging cable is a minum of 50 times as thick; probably more.
Pushing 300kW would mean 1300 amperes at 230V. Or 750 amperes with 3-phase 400V. Which is quite a lot (to waaaay understate). My whole apartment has 60 amperes terminal.
Or, more to the point, 375 amps at 800 volts, since it is an 800 volt car. To put it in perspective, 300 amp service is nothing out of the ordinary for a US single-family home (of course not at 800 volts, but the voltage is just the pontential; the demand on the conductor is strictly the amps of current).
You can take it as a given that supplying 300 kW would be duty for a charging station, not anything feasible at home (1250 amps at 240 V 3-phase, anyone? I don't THINK so!). But 10 kW, which would recharge in 8 hours, would be entirely feasible with a special circuit wired up to the garage. Thats only 42 amps at 240 V 3-phase. It's a bit more than a fair size electric oven/range with the oven and all burners working full, but not crazy more.
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You are remarkably restrained in the face of imbecility. As well as lucid. I admire you.
Fuck you. Eat shit and die, you disgusting foul tool.
Utterly unfounded crap. The actual reason he can't leave is that he would be intercepted extralegally by U.S. agents acting on behalf of an illegitimate rogue government violating its own goddam Constitution.
How do you illegally expose illegal practices, you goddam nattering anonymous tool?
The following is US-centric, but I believe is the case worldwide; at least in the west.
As the owner of a diesel passenger car bought new 33 years ago, I can dispute this categorically. It is no more than partially sort-of true. They did not make any smoke at idle, or much smoke at all in steady state, even cruising at 60+ mph, but at WOT they belched. The same was true of trucks, with the difference that WOT was frequently an extended condition in trucks, but only transient in cars.
My 1999 Golf has always smoked on WOT, too. Not as much, and mostly only after carbon had accumulated due to putting around for an extended period, and it would only last a second or two until the built-up carbon would be cleared out. Only a useless weenie could claim to be bothered by it. But smoke there always has been.
The difference with the 2009+ models is that they don't smoke, period, at all, ever. The inside of the tailpipe stays shiny. There is no dispute on this particular point.
Yes, it has been confirmed. All current VW models in the US do now use urea injection, by the way.
Why the hangup over this particular emissions control technique?
Hitler was baptised and confirmed a Catholic. Some consider that Christian, and some don't. However, he was not religiously driven. In adulthood he was disainful of Christianity. Only a mental defective would see any compatibility between Hitler's philosophy with the teachings of Jesus. The most you can say is that Hitler never publicly and formally repudiated the Church, nor was he excommunicated (which latter is itself damning, but off point).
Goebbels wrote that Hitler "hates Christianity, because it has crippled all that is noble in humanity." Scholars agree that Hitler was anti-Christian. But he was opportunistic and pragmatic, and took care never to be seen as atheistic.
Alfred Rosenberg, the appointed Nazi ideologist, rejected and scorned Christianity and embraced paganism and mysticism. He planned that the Bible would be banned and replaced on the altars with Mein Kampf, and the cross replaced with the swastika. A National Reich Church of Germany would take over all churches.
Research with primary sources is good. Now learn to tell the difference between opportunism and facile writing, and actual motivation and conduct.
You may not be a native english speaker, so please take this as helpful information. The expression is "bald-faced lie" or "bare-faced lie", not "bold-faced lie"; a gem brought to you by the world's most mystifying language. Most likely the origin of "bald-faced lie"/"bare-faced lie" refer to (figuratively) wearing no mask.
You can rest easy, though. So many illiterate people have taken up "bold-faced" in lieu of "bald-faced"/"bare-faced" that it is rapidly becoming perfectly accepted. Thus in tiny pieces a language is corrupted. Apologies to Mark Twain's observations.
Caen. Completely different place from Cannes.
I would have phrased it "No compromise with treason and murder".
Bullshit to the last point. On the internet you can't get away with those kind of bullshit assumptions any more. The audience here is the world, baby. Yeah, Slashdot is run by an American company. Very likely the most represented country in the readership is the US. It may (or may not) even exceed the total of all other readership distributed in all other countries. But that doesn't mean squat. It is accessable and accessed by people everywhere. Get used to thinking in terms outside the conditions of the 19th century, when travel to other countries was a big deal and a slow deal, and even communications with people in other countries was extremely limited in volume.
Oopsie. BMW MY 2016 X3 and 5 Series diesels are sold in the US. If it matters, MY 2016 Range Rover, MY 2016 Mercedes E Class, MY 2016 Porsche Cayenne, MY 2016 Audi A6, A8, and Q5, all diesels, are also sold in the US.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Seriously, "equate" and "equivocate" have entirely different meanings.
Mine is 127.0.0.1 and I've had it for ages.
What the hell are you on about? All current VW diesel vehicles in the US are using urea exhaust treatment.
"I don't care if you die, I need to make an OBSCENE profit!".
FTFY.
You missed the point entirely, genius. There are places where the government will compute your income taxes for you and send you a bill or debit your account. I know it's hard to understand for an American, but not every place extorts the citizen's time (which is money) to make them individually figure out a tax code seven times the length of the bible. US Rep. Rob Portman (R-OH) says the income tax racket extorts 5.4 billion hours a year from US taxpayers.
The HELL you are. Imagine they show their appreciation by giving you a doll for your daughter instead of a five dollar bill, and try to tell me THAT would be "income". It's the same thing. That is nothing more than a double instance of personal favors or gifts. Gifts are not taxable to the recipient; they are payable by the giver, and only if they give more than $14,000 to any individual per year.
God help us the day your wet dream becomes a reality and doing your neighbor a favor like fixing his front steps is tried to be made out as work for hire.
Stop making apologies for lunacy, and stop being a doormat.
It wouldn't be all that hard to impress with the tech if the producer cares. Just get the basics right.
1) Do the thrusters go "chuffff", "chuffff" out in space when they activate?
2) Do you hear the rocket motors out in space?
3) Does it avoid Magic Gravity inside the space ship in space?
4) Are there stupid fins to support fake maneuvering in space?
5) Does the rocket motor thrust all the time, and if it stops, does the space ship act about to crash?
Some; far from all; of the early space opera was surprisingly accurate. Anything Heinlein was involved with tended to be pretty realistic. 2001 A Space Odyssey was the first film to absolutely nail everything. Then it went absolutely to hell, notably with Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica (the REAL 1978 BG, obviously, not the silly 2003 soap opera).
Yep. Someone who is NOT full of shit. Thank you. To the morons: you can cruise all day at 100 mph with the original unmodified 90 hp 1998-2003 diesel. Cruising at 65 on the level you are using maybe 15-20 hp. Just how much of the time do you think the guy with the souped-up engine is actually putting out 180+ hp? Brief sprints; no more.
I could bury the 85 mph speedo on my 1982 slushbox Audi 5000 Turbo Diesel (a damn decent size car like a palace inside) with the stock 84 hp engine and there was still more left. Yeah, my foot had to be planted on the floor and it took a while to get there, but the engine was purring sublimely and contentedly.
WTF are you on about? As well as your whole fantasy being pure bullshit, there are NO VW diesel engines in the US that use timing "chains". They are all belt driven. There used to be a very rare V-10 diesel that had gear-driven timing.
STFU with the bullshit. You don't know crap. I've NEVER had a tailpipe test in my 1999 Golf diesel since the day I bought it to the present. For a few years they claimed to be doing a visual-only smoke observation (at idle!); then for a while they did an OBD-II-only test which basically just makes sure there are no fault codes; and since a couple of years ago when I hit 15 model years old there has been no emissions test whatsoever. They tell me it wouldn't keep me from passing any more even if I had a check-engine light glaring on the dash.
This is in eastern Massachusetts, one of the most disgusting ultra-leftie ultra-greenie-weenie big-brother hellholes in the country.
The bottom line: nobody cares what all-encompassing universal rules you want to infer from your own tiny experience. News flash. Emissions testing standards and methodologies vary throughout the country. Not everybody has a gasoline-powered heap.
Just No. Microsoft licensed Unix v7 from AT&T in 1978 and announced in 1980 that they would make it available for 16 bit micros. Microsoft's license did not allow it to use the UNIX name, so they came up with Xenix as a name. Microsoft did not choose to sell it directly to end users. They licensed it to OEMs IBM, Intel, Tandy, Altos, SCO, and Siemens.
SCO was originally farting around with their own port of v7, Dynix. In 1982 they made a deal with Microsoft to jointly develop Xenix.
A point to fancy, as long as we're talking about the atmosphere, is that it already contains fully-formed fuel, ready to use if you can extract it: 1.79 ppmv (volume concentration) of methane and 0.55 ppmv of hydrogen. Now, rare as those portions are, there is a hell of a lot of atmosphere; 5.15x10^18 kg. Methane and hydrogen are less dense than air, so the mass concentration works out to around 0.9 ppmm for methane and 0.04 ppmm for hydrogen, but still there are many billions of tons of them in the atmosphere.
No they couldn't. Not even close. They made a miserable failure out of trying to defeat a tiny force of Spitfires with their vaunted Luftwaffe in 1940 after the fall of France, when Britain stood alone. They didn't have a clue how to fully mobilize their economy on a war footing. They were ideologically opposed to harnessing the 50% of the potential economy that females represented: females were only supposed to spend their time bearing and raising teutonic warriors. Britain's blockade was strangling them. Their idea of efficiently harnessing workers in conquered territories was to beat and starve them to death wastefully and stupidly, as well as evilly. Their economy was not put on a full war footing until 1943, after they had lost the war.
German naval power on the surface was a sick joke, and the U-boats, even with gigantic industrial effort, fell short, even with Japan diverting much of the US's navy.
If Hitler hadn't gone for Stalin's throat, the reverse would have happened, and the situation would have been even worse for Germany.
Arguably so, but Hitler Invaded the USSR in June 1941, not the winter. The invasion went spectacularly well, and by September, despite stupid decisions to divert forces at the critical period, German forces approached to within 11 km of Moscow, reaching streetcar lines in the suburbs.
No way in hell. Britain plus the USSR would have finished it without us. Maybe one extra year at the utmost. And the US would have devastated Japan much faster without our own second front (which actually had priority). Then we would have swarmed into Europe in full undiverted force by 1944 or 1945.
800 volts, which is what this car is, should not be in the same class as 15 kV. It is closer to 120 V than it is to 15 kV.
The maximum air gap 800 volts DC will jump is 1/10 of a mm. Hmmph. Big deal. It requires respect because the consequences of coming within an air distance equal to the thickness of a few sheets of paper of it - or much more likely, touching it, are SEVERE, but it's not a big bad magic monster.
If lay people (drivers) when charging at quick charge stations are dealing with several hundred volts now every day (a Tesla supercharger is 400 V), then there is no deep dark reason why 800 volts should suddenly become a priesthood-only matter. Time was, not that long ago, ordinary drivers weren't allowed to pump their own gasoline either.
I think you will find that the insulation on a charging cable is made literally many hundreds of times thicker than the barely required dielectric strength, and the connector is designed so that you can't come anywhere near the contact. I bet it has some super effective GFI protection, too. It sure as hell is not live when being connected.
To put it in perspective, ordinary hookup wire with teflon class E insulation is rated at 600 volts. The insulation is 0.25 mm thick but clearly has a gigantic safety factor. The dielectric strength of extruded teflon is 19.7 MV/m, which is 19.7 kV/mm, so if the insulation on that wire is in perfect condition it will actually withstand 5 kV. I'll bet the insulation on a high voltage charging cable is a minum of 50 times as thick; probably more.
Or, more to the point, 375 amps at 800 volts, since it is an 800 volt car. To put it in perspective, 300 amp service is nothing out of the ordinary for a US single-family home (of course not at 800 volts, but the voltage is just the pontential; the demand on the conductor is strictly the amps of current).
You can take it as a given that supplying 300 kW would be duty for a charging station, not anything feasible at home (1250 amps at 240 V 3-phase, anyone? I don't THINK so!). But 10 kW, which would recharge in 8 hours, would be entirely feasible with a special circuit wired up to the garage. Thats only 42 amps at 240 V 3-phase. It's a bit more than a fair size electric oven/range with the oven and all burners working full, but not crazy more.