As if no 747s have ever crashed. Oh wait 3748 people have died [wikipedia.org] on 747s since they entered service.
You really want to go on making pointless comparisons between completely different planes?
I started out to make a comparison which you could not validly claim is pointless.
1510 Boeing 747s have been built. I was able to identify 29 crashes and (non homicidal) incidents involving fatalities. That's an accident rate of 1.9%. Or take your number killed. It computes to 2.5 per plane.
20 Concordes were built. One crashed. That's an accident rate rate of 5.0%. Or take the death count of 113 - that is 5.7 per plane.
In the end I was actually very surprised how close both statistics were. In actuality, the statistical basis for the Concorde is too limited. If the Concorde had been retired after 27 years instead of 30, both numbers would have been 0.0. Or look at the record of LZ 127 class rigid airships - only one was built, Graf Zeppelin - zero fatalities in slightly over one million miles. On the other hand, the record of LZ 129 class - two were built, Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin II - accident rate: 50%; killed: 18 per airframe.
Your criticism is part of the classic truism that there is no guarantee that all societal members are rational, wise, and reliable providers for offspring and other dependents. Your restricted debit card is worth considering, but I fear the bureaucracy that would likely become involved making the decisions on the split. Also, even within given regions, I have grave doubt that any one-split-fits-all scheme would be fair to all.
Another solution worth considering is simply replacing money with provisions for certain portions of the universal subsidy. For example, for housing, you provide the housing itself instead of money to buy housing. Yes, again, there would be a bureaucracy to construct and adminster the housing, but on the other hand you've cut out all the middlemen making a profit from housing in the present situation. The subsidized housing would be rather spartan, but it would only be a safety net. And there's no real way to scam the system. You're either signed up, living at some particular subsidized housing unit, or you forgo that particular benefit.
Food could be handled by having price-free dining centers. Anyone could just walk in and eat whenever they want to. The fare would be very plain, but nourishing. There's no real way to scam this.
Clothing is much harder. I guess you could have price-free clothing warehouses with plain garments in stock in all sizes. There would be enough plain money in the universal subsidy to allow buying a modest amount of fancier clothing (and food).
I see problems with both the restricted debit card, and with my system, but the plain unallocated cash subsidy has its own big problem, as you point out. I'm afraid providing fair and effective social welfare while at the same time avoiding a dystopia is a very difficult puzzle.
It only seems like a win, until more people quit their jobs and take the "free money". Pretty soon, all that free money is useless as nobody is working, and everyone is expecting a check every month. This is nothing short of foolishness dreamed up by people who love socialism. It won't work out at all like they expect.
Interesting theory. Not confirmed by reality. There are lots of societies in which people who could be getting "free money," and nonetheless prefer to work, because they want to do something productive and contribute to society. Most people enjoy productive work. Most of the scientists who make the greatest contributions aren't in it for the money. Look at Alexander Flemming.
I would like to believe that it's not confirmed by reality. I really would. But we have examples where the individual has indeed really been defeated by removing the motivation. The prime example would be the USSR. A more current one is Venezuela.
It depends on whether the prosecutors think they can get an easy pinch. Probably they were threatened with the wrath of Khan if they DIDN'T confess. The Man usually says something like "Look, we've got you dead to rights you know, we will squash you so thin like a bug if you make us take it to a trial. Or... you can get off much lighter if you just confess."
Faced with the choice between the ruination of their life, or basically a bad hair day for some months, or a very few years, and considering the expense of taking it to trial, guess what most people would do.
You put your finger on it. For consumers, SSDs are ALREADY way more than fast enough, and with way more than enough endurance. The only room for meaningful improvement is to make something at least about as fast and long-enduring (if not more so), but CHEAPER.
Reliability does not matter much, even the most reliable drives need to be in redundant RAID. And then the reliability does not matter anymore.
Have you ever actually worked with RAID? There is first of all the issue of all the redundancy failing before you realize it. Then poof, the next failure takes ALL of your data with it forever. There is also the issue of your redundancy failing, and while you're integrating replacement of the redundancy and the RAID is resilvering (which is a big strain on all the drives) a further failure occurs and... poof again.
RAID is a game of percentages, and reliability/lifetime of the drives DOES matter.
If they want VTOL, they ain't gettin' it from the F-35. F-35 VTOL development ran into trouble, sputtered, and they gave up. The F-35B is STOVL but that's the best you can get from it.
The Marines are very happy to be replacing the Harrier
On its best day the F-35 can't replace the Harrier. The Harrier was VTOL. The F-35 is only STOVL. So you can't put it anywhere that it has to take off straight up (like a tiny pad on a cargo ship or auxiliary).
They tried to make the F-35 VTOL-capable, but after hemmorhaging money out the ass for a long time, it was too hard, oh me oh my. So they gave up. So we won't have any VTOL at all.
The F-22 has all the same problems unfortunately and a totally misguided idea that stealth will solve everything.
Twit. Stealth is the LEAST of the advantages of the F-22. Stealth is mostly to impress stupid people in headlines.
Speed: F-22 Mach 2.25, F-35 (A, the better one) Mach 1.6 Thrust/weight: 1.08, 0.97 Range: 1600 nmi, 1200 nmi Gun: 6000 rpm with 480 rounds, 3000 rpm with 180 rounds
We fielded 187 F-22s for a total of $67 billion; so far we've built 115 F-35s for $320 billion[1]
The F-35 isn't even as fast as the F-104 was in 1958, or the superb F-4 Phantom was in 1960 - and the latter was hard-pressed to keep a 1:1 kill ratio against North Vietnamese interceptors.
But hell, air combat is all about training anyway. We learned in Vietnam when you don't teach and drill (let alone equip) for dogfighting, you embarrass yourself even with excellent airframes. Since then, notably in the Gulf War and Iraq War, we made minced meat out of enemies because our training has been completely out of the ballpark superb. The way defense has gone to pot, and with operations costs through the roof, that's not going to be sustainable.
[1] $320 billion is the actual cost to date for development + procurement. Higher figures are inane, including "operations and sustainment" and other categories, which while they definitely matter, have nothing to do with build cost.
Don't be silly. The OP should just release his video in the Public Domain, and send that public domain notice in.
And how precisely does he do that? State precisely what you mean by "release... in the public domain". I don't think you've thought this through.
"Public domain" is a negative legal construct. The method by which a copyrightable work enters the public domain is by the copyright expiring. The copyright (a positive legal construct) is automatically attached ipso facto to the work as soon as the work is expressed.
Now, if you own the copyright, you can certainly attach a license (such as the GPL or BSD or Creative Commons) allowing its free use under certain expressed conditions (up to and including completely permissive with absolutely no strings applied). That is about the closest you can come to making a work public. But you have to own it. You can't just pick up an arbitrary work and take it on yourself to "free" it. That would be anarchy.
The cartoon is either public domain, or it isn't. There is nothing you can, or need to, do to make it so. All you can do is conduct a diligent and effective search for rights holders, and establish a negative - that no one can be found who owns it.
I'm not saying I necessarily agree with this. It's just the way Things Are.
Oh yeah, it's probably pretty obvious, but IANAL - however, I have read some pretty lucid and informed writings on the subject.
Start w/the Dept. of Education. -- State & local control of schools worked just fine before Carter.
Absodamnlutely. Run over with a bulldozer all of the departments which do nothing. The Department of Agriculture doesn't grow a damn thing, and that's none of the Feds' business anyway - 134 billion. The Department of Labor doesn't get a single person a productive job, and that's none of the Feds' business anyway - 138 billion. The Department of Education doesn't educate anybody, and that's none of the Feds' business anyway - 45 billion. The Department of Homeland Security, hmph - 40 billion. The Department of Housing and Urban Development, Great Society bilge - 40 billion.
Each of the bird-brains heading those departments actually has an assigned place in the order of Presidential succession, believe it or not, but I've identified at least 400 billion dollars a year of waste, turf-building, and make-work.
In addition, departments which actually do have a legitimate place in governance nonetheless include all kinds of disgusting pork. * Interior, Office of International Affairs - isn't there a Department of State for that? * Interior, Office of Native Hawaiian Relations - snort * Interior, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization - crap * Interior, Office of Strategic Employee and Organizational Development - better justify that one * Interior, Office of Youth, Partnerships and Service - garbage * Interior, everything under the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology, Information and Business Services - highly suspicious * many, many more in various departments
This is by no means an exhaustive accounting of the cancer of runaway pork.
You have no idea of the amount of Federal subsidies for those things. Even the one million dollar new bike path in my town was built mostly with federal money
Thank you. You put your finger precisely on what enrages thinking people about runaway federal pork. Build your own goddam bike path.
We have all been very gentle, but it's time for a clue stick. W is a unit of power, an instantaneous quantity. Wh is a unit of energy, an integrated quantity.
If you push with 10 lb of force, do you really think you've pushed with 100 lb of force after 10 seconds, or 10 hours?
Apple... realized that the vast majority of people did not buy spare batteries for laptops...
Bullshit. Gross gooey bullshit. Apple found it easier and more profitable for THEM to make the batteries non-replaceable. They relied on idiot fanbois to keep buying their shit anyway, and on regulators not to give a fuck about doing their job and keeping waste minimized by REQUIRING all batteries in all consumer goods to be replaceable.
"Battleships", LOL. "Battleship" is not a synonym for "warship". Bismarck was a battleship. Hint - eight 15" guns, over 40,000 tons. Nobody has built a battleship in 70 years.
The Mistrals are "amphibious warfare ships". Puny in size, slower than shit, with next to no armament, they can carry 16-35 helicopters and no more than 450 troops except 900 for short duration.
That is a radical idea- that govt works best when it is completely broken and can't act at all.
Nice hyperbole. Some of us prefer the expression of a certain admirable thinker:
"That government is best which governs least..." -- Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience[*]
[*] Often attributed to Thomas Jefferson or Thomas Paine, but not found verbatim in their writings. It is found verbatim in Thoreau, and impressed both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. very favorably.
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I started out to make a comparison which you could not validly claim is pointless.
1510 Boeing 747s have been built. I was able to identify 29 crashes and (non homicidal) incidents involving fatalities. That's an accident rate of 1.9%. Or take your number killed. It computes to 2.5 per plane.
20 Concordes were built. One crashed. That's an accident rate rate of 5.0%. Or take the death count of 113 - that is 5.7 per plane.
In the end I was actually very surprised how close both statistics were. In actuality, the statistical basis for the Concorde is too limited. If the Concorde had been retired after 27 years instead of 30, both numbers would have been 0.0. Or look at the record of LZ 127 class rigid airships - only one was built, Graf Zeppelin - zero fatalities in slightly over one million miles. On the other hand, the record of LZ 129 class - two were built, Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin II - accident rate: 50%; killed: 18 per airframe.
Your criticism is part of the classic truism that there is no guarantee that all societal members are rational, wise, and reliable providers for offspring and other dependents. Your restricted debit card is worth considering, but I fear the bureaucracy that would likely become involved making the decisions on the split. Also, even within given regions, I have grave doubt that any one-split-fits-all scheme would be fair to all.
Another solution worth considering is simply replacing money with provisions for certain portions of the universal subsidy. For example, for housing, you provide the housing itself instead of money to buy housing. Yes, again, there would be a bureaucracy to construct and adminster the housing, but on the other hand you've cut out all the middlemen making a profit from housing in the present situation. The subsidized housing would be rather spartan, but it would only be a safety net. And there's no real way to scam the system. You're either signed up, living at some particular subsidized housing unit, or you forgo that particular benefit.
Food could be handled by having price-free dining centers. Anyone could just walk in and eat whenever they want to. The fare would be very plain, but nourishing. There's no real way to scam this.
Clothing is much harder. I guess you could have price-free clothing warehouses with plain garments in stock in all sizes. There would be enough plain money in the universal subsidy to allow buying a modest amount of fancier clothing (and food).
I see problems with both the restricted debit card, and with my system, but the plain unallocated cash subsidy has its own big problem, as you point out. I'm afraid providing fair and effective social welfare while at the same time avoiding a dystopia is a very difficult puzzle.
I would like to believe that it's not confirmed by reality. I really would. But we have examples where the individual has indeed really been defeated by removing the motivation. The prime example would be the USSR. A more current one is Venezuela.
Worst, most pathetic, stupidest attempt at sarcasm ever attempted.
All-time prize winning post.
Streisand Effect.
It depends on whether the prosecutors think they can get an easy pinch. Probably they were threatened with the wrath of Khan if they DIDN'T confess. The Man usually says something like "Look, we've got you dead to rights you know, we will squash you so thin like a bug if you make us take it to a trial. Or ... you can get off much lighter if you just confess."
Faced with the choice between the ruination of their life, or basically a bad hair day for some months, or a very few years, and considering the expense of taking it to trial, guess what most people would do.
You put your finger on it. For consumers, SSDs are ALREADY way more than fast enough, and with way more than enough endurance. The only room for meaningful improvement is to make something at least about as fast and long-enduring (if not more so), but CHEAPER.
Have you ever actually worked with RAID? There is first of all the issue of all the redundancy failing before you realize it. Then poof, the next failure takes ALL of your data with it forever. There is also the issue of your redundancy failing, and while you're integrating replacement of the redundancy and the RAID is resilvering (which is a big strain on all the drives) a further failure occurs and ... poof again.
RAID is a game of percentages, and reliability/lifetime of the drives DOES matter.
If they want VTOL, they ain't gettin' it from the F-35. F-35 VTOL development ran into trouble, sputtered, and they gave up. The F-35B is STOVL but that's the best you can get from it.
On its best day the F-35 can't replace the Harrier. The Harrier was VTOL. The F-35 is only STOVL. So you can't put it anywhere that it has to take off straight up (like a tiny pad on a cargo ship or auxiliary).
They tried to make the F-35 VTOL-capable, but after hemmorhaging money out the ass for a long time, it was too hard, oh me oh my. So they gave up. So we won't have any VTOL at all.
Twit. Stealth is the LEAST of the advantages of the F-22. Stealth is mostly to impress stupid people in headlines.
Speed: F-22 Mach 2.25, F-35 (A, the better one) Mach 1.6
Thrust/weight: 1.08, 0.97
Range: 1600 nmi, 1200 nmi
Gun: 6000 rpm with 480 rounds, 3000 rpm with 180 rounds
We fielded 187 F-22s for a total of $67 billion; so far we've built 115 F-35s for $320 billion[1]
The F-35 isn't even as fast as the F-104 was in 1958, or the superb F-4 Phantom was in 1960 - and the latter was hard-pressed to keep a 1:1 kill ratio against North Vietnamese interceptors.
But hell, air combat is all about training anyway. We learned in Vietnam when you don't teach and drill (let alone equip) for dogfighting, you embarrass yourself even with excellent airframes. Since then, notably in the Gulf War and Iraq War, we made minced meat out of enemies because our training has been completely out of the ballpark superb. The way defense has gone to pot, and with operations costs through the roof, that's not going to be sustainable.
[1] $320 billion is the actual cost to date for development + procurement. Higher figures are inane, including "operations and sustainment" and other categories, which while they definitely matter, have nothing to do with build cost.
And how precisely does he do that? State precisely what you mean by "release ... in the public domain". I don't think you've thought this through.
"Public domain" is a negative legal construct. The method by which a copyrightable work enters the public domain is by the copyright expiring. The copyright (a positive legal construct) is automatically attached ipso facto to the work as soon as the work is expressed.
Now, if you own the copyright, you can certainly attach a license (such as the GPL or BSD or Creative Commons) allowing its free use under certain expressed conditions (up to and including completely permissive with absolutely no strings applied). That is about the closest you can come to making a work public. But you have to own it. You can't just pick up an arbitrary work and take it on yourself to "free" it. That would be anarchy.
The cartoon is either public domain, or it isn't. There is nothing you can, or need to, do to make it so. All you can do is conduct a diligent and effective search for rights holders, and establish a negative - that no one can be found who owns it.
I'm not saying I necessarily agree with this. It's just the way Things Are.
Oh yeah, it's probably pretty obvious, but IANAL - however, I have read some pretty lucid and informed writings on the subject.
Absodamnlutely. Run over with a bulldozer all of the departments which do nothing. The Department of Agriculture doesn't grow a damn thing, and that's none of the Feds' business anyway - 134 billion. The Department of Labor doesn't get a single person a productive job, and that's none of the Feds' business anyway - 138 billion. The Department of Education doesn't educate anybody, and that's none of the Feds' business anyway - 45 billion. The Department of Homeland Security, hmph - 40 billion. The Department of Housing and Urban Development, Great Society bilge - 40 billion.
Each of the bird-brains heading those departments actually has an assigned place in the order of Presidential succession, believe it or not, but I've identified at least 400 billion dollars a year of waste, turf-building, and make-work.
In addition, departments which actually do have a legitimate place in governance nonetheless include all kinds of disgusting pork.
* Interior, Office of International Affairs - isn't there a Department of State for that?
* Interior, Office of Native Hawaiian Relations - snort
* Interior, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization - crap
* Interior, Office of Strategic Employee and Organizational Development - better justify that one
* Interior, Office of Youth, Partnerships and Service - garbage
* Interior, everything under the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology, Information and Business Services - highly suspicious
* many, many more in various departments
This is by no means an exhaustive accounting of the cancer of runaway pork.
Thank you. You put your finger precisely on what enrages thinking people about runaway federal pork. Build your own goddam bike path.
We have all been very gentle, but it's time for a clue stick. W is a unit of power, an instantaneous quantity. Wh is a unit of energy, an integrated quantity.
If you push with 10 lb of force, do you really think you've pushed with 100 lb of force after 10 seconds, or 10 hours?
Think. We know it's not easy, but try.
FAIL. Dimensional analysis. LEARN IT. A watt is not a watt hour.
25W * 24h = 600 Wh or 0.6 kWh
And that ain't much, BTW. 10 cents worth or less.
Non-replaceable batteries should be ILLEGAL, period.
Bullshit. Gross gooey bullshit. Apple found it easier and more profitable for THEM to make the batteries non-replaceable. They relied on idiot fanbois to keep buying their shit anyway, and on regulators not to give a fuck about doing their job and keeping waste minimized by REQUIRING all batteries in all consumer goods to be replaceable.
I once saw a clueless idiot write "University of Boston" for "Boston University".
Since when, and in what two-bit penny ante legal system, does a statute of limitation come into effect while the subject is a FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE?
They could have just used Qt and made it really portable - Windows, OSX, linux, BSD, ...
"Battleships", LOL. "Battleship" is not a synonym for "warship". Bismarck was a battleship. Hint - eight 15" guns, over 40,000 tons. Nobody has built a battleship in 70 years.
The Mistrals are "amphibious warfare ships". Puny in size, slower than shit, with next to no armament, they can carry 16-35 helicopters and no more than 450 troops except 900 for short duration.
You're not alone, man. But that's just the Republican wing of the Uniparty sellout corporate tool.
Nice hyperbole. Some of us prefer the expression of a certain admirable thinker:
"That government is best which governs least..."
-- Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience[*]
[*] Often attributed to Thomas Jefferson or Thomas Paine, but not found verbatim in their writings. It is found verbatim in Thoreau, and impressed both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. very favorably.