FYI - the Cessna 182s they use would struggle mightily to eek up to 20,000 feet if they could even get that high. I have flown them many times and my guess for their operating altitude over Baltimore is more like 3,000 feet or so. BTW - no law against anyone flying around taking photos of anything they can see. I do it all the time for my business of aerial photography;)
No I wouldn't. I have had 2 Mercedes, one BMW, one Porsche, and 2 VWs. "Owner Financed Development" was something I learned about the hard way. The modern 7 series and their ilk are cars you NEVER NEVER EVER want to own out of warranty.
I was the third owner of a BMW. First owner paid about $50,000 and drove 24,000 miles in two years. He sold it for $25,000 to the second owner, who drove 28,000 miles in two more years and sold it for $15,000 to me. I drove it 8 more years and sold it for $1800 with 240,000 miles on the clock. I would have got more except the tranny was beat and it had to get towed away. So....looks like the first owner got boned hard - real hard!
There was only one nuke-powered merchant vessel and she is now laid up in Baltimore and the reactor fuel is removed. NFW would anyone want $2/hr graduates of the Manila School For Engineers and Fry Cooks running a nuke plant!
I live on an island with a bridge. When the bridge back up the tourists fan out in the neighborhoods and pretty much bring the entire island to a halt. Our sheriff refuses to try and stop this because the roads are public and not only for residents. He is correct.
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watt-hour, kilowatt-hour, megawatt-hour, gigawatt-hour - all this is moving decimal places around. Consumers buy electricity by the kilowatt-hour, so that is the best unit to explain generation costs in.
Jeebus on a moped!
I used to sell generators. No one *ever* started out with a cost per hour. It was how many kW do you need and how much will that cost? We might then have moved into estimated cost per hour based on fuel used and expected lifespan of the equipment. In the end a power company will buy the power from your generator and you will sell it as a cost per watt/kW/mW per hour, but the very first thing you need to do is know how much power you need to produce to know what kind of plant you need to buy, and THEN you start working the kW/hr costs. Hydro might be cheap, but you won' be looking at it in a desert and solar is kind of pointless someplace it always rains.
Woosh!
With a basic income, you get $30K for sitting on your ass and $32k MORE money for your job! This eliminates the trap we have NOW where getting a job makes you lose all the welfare/food stamp/etc. benefits for a net benefit of about $0.25/hr.
My manager DID tell me to lie. The HR people added a ton of useless buzzwords to filter on that had nothing to do with the job. No word-search match, no job.
The 18th or 19th century version of the UK would have killed Ghandi and any number of his followers without a second thought. See "Sepoy Rebellion". They knew how to take care of business back then. The UK Ghandi was dealing with was a spent force,. They had no more balls to do anything and he knew it.
You are missing the point totally. I can provide myself and an aircraft for $250/hr and make a decent living. The drones cost a TON more than other ways to put a sensor platform in the same place.
Sorry - Nationalism VERY MUCH got us to the moon. The Nazi scientists may well have had their eyes on the stars, but their nationalist paymasters had their eyes on London with the goal of blowing it to hell.
We got those same scientists working overtime to get us to the Moon because otherwise those pesky commies would be there first. Can you imagine the national angst if the red sickle and hammer were flying on the moon while our rockets were still blowing up left and right?
Nah - the V2 rocked for its time. The first powered flight was in 1903 and 40 years later you have an ICBM! Well at least if I means Intra instead of Inter, you weren't crossing an ocean with it. It actually could have been a decent weapon with more of them made earlier with defensible launch sites. Don't underestimate the terror factor of suddenly getting blown up with no warning.
Eventually maybe. BTW, a HARM is utterly useless to shoot into a mix of civilian airplanes ALL transmitting on various frequencies, even assuming such a missile had a hope in hell of locking onto an intermittent burst signal like that.
Even better, I can make my plane NEVER violate any restricted area, speed restriction, crossing restriction, or anything else I don't want it to do. I can make it always be 500 feet left of where I really am. I can make it take off for LAX at 1500 knots if people complain about what I am doing. I can make myself the leader of a 500 plane formation that spells BITE ME.
I train my students ALL THE TIME to deal with bank angles past 45 degrees. It might not be everyday flying with passengers aboard, but anyone confused by it should never be at the controls of any kind of airplane.
I am one of those. I do *not like* how narcotics make me feel and generally will use Advil instead of the prescription the doctor gives me. I also know people that LOVE narcotics. Luck of the draw with brain wiring I guess.
GENERAL Electric officially unveiled its prototype hybrid road switcher at Los Angeles Union Station on May 24, one of the first outings of a locomotive which GE says has taken five years and $250m to develop.
Numbered 2010 to indicate the year when GE plans to roll out its first production hybrid loco, the 'Evolution Hybrid' looks and operates like a standard ES44 series loco but is equipped with on-board batteries to capture and store energy dissipated during dynamic braking. The stored energy is then at the disposal of the locomotive crew, and is able to provide an additional 2 000 hp for short periods before the batteries need recharging. GE estimates the stored energy should reduce fuel consumption and emissions by as much as 10% compared to the standard road switchers currently in production.
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FYI I used to fly a plane with "extra" antennas that we had a contract for to fly around the city looking for leaking cable TV signals.
FYI - the Cessna 182s they use would struggle mightily to eek up to 20,000 feet if they could even get that high. I have flown them many times and my guess for their operating altitude over Baltimore is more like 3,000 feet or so. BTW - no law against anyone flying around taking photos of anything they can see. I do it all the time for my business of aerial photography ;)
I would be all over Sprint's promotion if only I could use their service to make phone calls.....
True - a 1980s Honda is not very safe compared to a 1980s Mercedes. Now in 2016.....not so much.
No I wouldn't. I have had 2 Mercedes, one BMW, one Porsche, and 2 VWs. "Owner Financed Development" was something I learned about the hard way. The modern 7 series and their ilk are cars you NEVER NEVER EVER want to own out of warranty.
Yes - fail often fail fast is great for a HTML editor. For actual mechanical devices that cost more than $10 - not so much.
I was the third owner of a BMW. First owner paid about $50,000 and drove 24,000 miles in two years. He sold it for $25,000 to the second owner, who drove 28,000 miles in two more years and sold it for $15,000 to me. I drove it 8 more years and sold it for $1800 with 240,000 miles on the clock. I would have got more except the tranny was beat and it had to get towed away. So....looks like the first owner got boned hard - real hard!
There was only one nuke-powered merchant vessel and she is now laid up in Baltimore and the reactor fuel is removed. NFW would anyone want $2/hr graduates of the Manila School For Engineers and Fry Cooks running a nuke plant!
I live on an island with a bridge. When the bridge back up the tourists fan out in the neighborhoods and pretty much bring the entire island to a halt. Our sheriff refuses to try and stop this because the roads are public and not only for residents. He is correct.
In 1989 I flew to the UK from the USA and got a rental car for 7 days for $550. The flight was niche and the food was pretty good.
??? watt-hour, kilowatt-hour, megawatt-hour, gigawatt-hour - all this is moving decimal places around. Consumers buy electricity by the kilowatt-hour, so that is the best unit to explain generation costs in.
Jeebus on a moped! I used to sell generators. No one *ever* started out with a cost per hour. It was how many kW do you need and how much will that cost? We might then have moved into estimated cost per hour based on fuel used and expected lifespan of the equipment. In the end a power company will buy the power from your generator and you will sell it as a cost per watt/kW/mW per hour, but the very first thing you need to do is know how much power you need to produce to know what kind of plant you need to buy, and THEN you start working the kW/hr costs. Hydro might be cheap, but you won' be looking at it in a desert and solar is kind of pointless someplace it always rains.
Woosh! With a basic income, you get $30K for sitting on your ass and $32k MORE money for your job! This eliminates the trap we have NOW where getting a job makes you lose all the welfare/food stamp/etc. benefits for a net benefit of about $0.25/hr.
My manager DID tell me to lie. The HR people added a ton of useless buzzwords to filter on that had nothing to do with the job. No word-search match, no job.
The USA *had* a problem with slavery in the 19th century. WTF - Do you expect to see slaves out picking cotton in 2016?
The 18th or 19th century version of the UK would have killed Ghandi and any number of his followers without a second thought. See "Sepoy Rebellion". They knew how to take care of business back then. The UK Ghandi was dealing with was a spent force,. They had no more balls to do anything and he knew it.
Yes and the drone in question was shot down and this was reported here on slashdot and the judge rules the shooting justified.
You are missing the point totally. I can provide myself and an aircraft for $250/hr and make a decent living. The drones cost a TON more than other ways to put a sensor platform in the same place.
Sorry - Nationalism VERY MUCH got us to the moon. The Nazi scientists may well have had their eyes on the stars, but their nationalist paymasters had their eyes on London with the goal of blowing it to hell. We got those same scientists working overtime to get us to the Moon because otherwise those pesky commies would be there first. Can you imagine the national angst if the red sickle and hammer were flying on the moon while our rockets were still blowing up left and right?
Nah - the V2 rocked for its time. The first powered flight was in 1903 and 40 years later you have an ICBM! Well at least if I means Intra instead of Inter, you weren't crossing an ocean with it. It actually could have been a decent weapon with more of them made earlier with defensible launch sites. Don't underestimate the terror factor of suddenly getting blown up with no warning.
Eventually maybe. BTW, a HARM is utterly useless to shoot into a mix of civilian airplanes ALL transmitting on various frequencies, even assuming such a missile had a hope in hell of locking onto an intermittent burst signal like that.
Even better, I can make my plane NEVER violate any restricted area, speed restriction, crossing restriction, or anything else I don't want it to do. I can make it always be 500 feet left of where I really am. I can make it take off for LAX at 1500 knots if people complain about what I am doing. I can make myself the leader of a 500 plane formation that spells BITE ME.
I train my students ALL THE TIME to deal with bank angles past 45 degrees. It might not be everyday flying with passengers aboard, but anyone confused by it should never be at the controls of any kind of airplane.
I am one of those. I do *not like* how narcotics make me feel and generally will use Advil instead of the prescription the doctor gives me. I also know people that LOVE narcotics. Luck of the draw with brain wiring I guess.
GENERAL Electric officially unveiled its prototype hybrid road switcher at Los Angeles Union Station on May 24, one of the first outings of a locomotive which GE says has taken five years and $250m to develop. Numbered 2010 to indicate the year when GE plans to roll out its first production hybrid loco, the 'Evolution Hybrid' looks and operates like a standard ES44 series loco but is equipped with on-board batteries to capture and store energy dissipated during dynamic braking. The stored energy is then at the disposal of the locomotive crew, and is able to provide an additional 2 000 hp for short periods before the batteries need recharging. GE estimates the stored energy should reduce fuel consumption and emissions by as much as 10% compared to the standard road switchers currently in production.