Silly as the idea is, the wall doesn't need to be as solid as the Hoover dam and just has to be strong enough to not blow away in normal storms. I also don't understand why it has to be a wall and not a line of Mesas that cut down enough airflow. There's been success with far less extreme windy weather in one case of just planting lines of trees along roads to break up the air flow and cut down on minor storms. I wonder if some lines of much shorter obstacles would have a similar effect to this idea of an enormous wall - especially "soft" obstacles like trees that are moved by the wind and remove energy? Multiple lines of millions of cacti sound almost as ridiculous as 20,000 Hoover Dams but probably stand more chance of getting past a Science Fiction editor:)
The US governement can't even get off their ass to build a 30ft high fence along our southern border
Easy, just build it with cheap illegal immigrants doing the work. The top less than 1% really like those cheap illegal immigrants and some of them make money out of prisons as well. They get to set policy until bribery carries less influence than votes.
Are you suggesting that it was some sort of unlabelled attempt at a joke or some other reason to put forward a view you see as ridiculous?
Had you actually understood what I wrote
You should keep in mind that reading comprehension relies on what is written and is not mind reading. I strongly suggest you improve your writing skills before attempting to lecture people for reacting to what you wrote instead of what you may have meant.
Ah yes - the "take one sentence from someone's argument and ignore the rest"
"It's not fair, just one donkey years ago yet they still call me the donkeyf-r"
Why should I give you leeway because only one thing showed you don't have a clue instead of several? That little bit in your post was a bit of a warning that you are considering the issue from a very narrow and unrealistic viewpoint.
which I don't think it is
That bit showed you are not even trying to think about it very hard. Are you an example of a generation with a distorted view of the world and a lack of empathy for the less well off due to growing up with servants? If not, exactly what is your damage, and why are you passing it off as acceptable and the values that built the USA as "communism"?
then the obvious thing to do is to exploit that and become an employwhere if people are working for shit money in unsafe coal mines becaer
Ah yes - the "libertarian" answer - just get Daddy to put up the money to start a business, stop whining, and if your Daddy isn't rich then you are nobody so you don't matter. It's posts like the one above that just give yet another petty little insight into a flawed human nature but provide no other useful information. Banks may as well not exist for people starting in the workforce so most people can forget about anything other than capital from family.
Actually been there, done that, and some fuckwits put a forklift tine through my server when it was sent to Georgia (close enough to Alabama) to be repaired with replacement Chinese parts.
This was probably something in the pipeline from before Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia
Why did you write that? Surely you know that Elop infested Nokia for a few years before returning the Microsoft and he repeatedly declared that there would be nothing other than "windows phone" on the Nokia products. This is something new after Elop has returned to the Microsoft fold after his one and only CEO gig.
Toyoda for example has done this repeatedly and been able to produce cars more cheaply in the US then many of their American competitors using the same labor.
Considering what the US car industry became with the protection of a 20% tariff and no need to innovate or operate efficiently that is no surprise. Even GM and Ford were managing their overseas operations far better than their US ones - old process lines, obsolete designs and poor work practices in the US while their overseas operations were competitive and producing better products without that 20% of protection - even in places with much higher wages and more militant unions. The US car industry is a prime example of what happens when you stop seeing Henry Ford as a good manager and instead think trust fund babies that do not want to change anything (eg. Edsel Ford) are good managers - even if they need government help to protect their poor management against well managed competition. Because it's nearly impossible to go broke selling cars to Americans no matter how badly you run things it was seen as a success and something to emulate. Sadly that cancer spread throughout US industry which resulted in the clueless MBA culture that seems to be based on attention deficit disorder.
a big reason why Argentinian noise right now, when Britain has no carriers at all, is troubling
Not really. Thatcher's massive cuts and a rapid transition from a manufacturing economy to a financial services one was a change that gave the Argentinians that the UK was militarily finished and without the manufacturing base to sustain a prolonged war, so they thought the UK would just roll over without a fight over the islands. Argentina also had leading figures in the US government on their side so thought there was zero risk. After all, what was some shopkeeper's daughter going to do without US help to the big macho Junta? There has been no sudden changes recently so nobody in under the impression that the UK has suddenly become "weak".
and the total lack of recent development on the Australian hypersonic engine
There is still stuff going on - slowly - due to the same low levels of funding that meant that the scramjet model I saw in 1986 that went in a shock tunnel is not very different from the one that got some time on a rocket a couple of years back. NASA funded some of it back in the 1980s but I'm not sure where the money came from since. I could be wrong but the US military only seems to have been running their experiments in the last decade.
You are looking at my example the wrong way. The lead in that glass is vitrified and as hard to get out of the glass as in the drinking glasses. The lead on the boards, or in batteries, is not, and can more easily be transported as dust or in water to where it can be metabolised.
Am I the only one who thinks many of the quality control issues and failed projects in the tech industry can be attributed to age discrimination?
I think those problems are due to poor management, but it could be said that filling a workplace exclusively with inexperienced people is a sign of poor management in itself. That can be seen especially where there is non-technical management and nobody with enough skills to advise them to put resources into quality checking or other items that are not immediately obvious to someone coming in from another field.
Leaded glass is not a big deal - one example is those "crystal" drinking glasses. Lead on the printed circuit boards is the much bigger deal, especially if the things are burnt for gold recovery.
I remember it wasn't very long ago that we were all making fun of the Japanese throwaway culture where foreign students could get a lot of decent electronic gear from the curb simply because a newer model had a shiny new feature. Now we act in a similar way and those Africans are probably looking at us the same way.
Russia has been trying to build a "Silicon Valley" outside of Moscow
Everyone has been trying to build a Silicon Valley with their own people for decades. What they don't get (and the last few US governments don't get) is that Silicon Valley worked because it was about providing opportunities for people from everywhere instead of tightly controlling it. A shining example is the early days of Intel. When the best in the world can, and want to, set up shop instead of merely the best from California or wherever you get better results than a planned operation with a chosen few.
This one says 225km: http://www.zelectricvehicle.com/18.html
The benchmarks for range are touring and sport-touring bikes with large tanks
That's a niche even among fuel driven bikes so you shouldn't expect electric bike manufacturers to go for that before even gaining traction in the mainstream.
I do not know because I went to a high school in a different country to you where we read textbooks instead of watching movies, so you'll have to explain the point you are attempting to make in some way that I can understand.
US solar was IMHO hampered from being commercialized by being a political whipping boy so the US paid for the R&D and China got to make a profit from it. Best in the world doesn't matter if a bank is not going to lend you money to build a process line due to scaremongering.
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Silly as the idea is, the wall doesn't need to be as solid as the Hoover dam and just has to be strong enough to not blow away in normal storms. I also don't understand why it has to be a wall and not a line of Mesas that cut down enough airflow. :)
There's been success with far less extreme windy weather in one case of just planting lines of trees along roads to break up the air flow and cut down on minor storms. I wonder if some lines of much shorter obstacles would have a similar effect to this idea of an enormous wall - especially "soft" obstacles like trees that are moved by the wind and remove energy? Multiple lines of millions of cacti sound almost as ridiculous as 20,000 Hoover Dams but probably stand more chance of getting past a Science Fiction editor
Easy, just build it with cheap illegal immigrants doing the work.
The top less than 1% really like those cheap illegal immigrants and some of them make money out of prisons as well. They get to set policy until bribery carries less influence than votes.
You should keep in mind that reading comprehension relies on what is written and is not mind reading. I strongly suggest you improve your writing skills before attempting to lecture people for reacting to what you wrote instead of what you may have meant.
"It's not fair, just one donkey years ago yet they still call me the donkeyf-r"
Why should I give you leeway because only one thing showed you don't have a clue instead of several? That little bit in your post was a bit of a warning that you are considering the issue from a very narrow and unrealistic viewpoint.
That bit showed you are not even trying to think about it very hard. Are you an example of a generation with a distorted view of the world and a lack of empathy for the less well off due to growing up with servants? If not, exactly what is your damage, and why are you passing it off as acceptable and the values that built the USA as "communism"?
Ah yes - the "libertarian" answer - just get Daddy to put up the money to start a business, stop whining, and if your Daddy isn't rich then you are nobody so you don't matter. It's posts like the one above that just give yet another petty little insight into a flawed human nature but provide no other useful information. Banks may as well not exist for people starting in the workforce so most people can forget about anything other than capital from family.
You could have saved a lot of time by just writing a three word post: "I've got mine."
Toyota.
Actually been there, done that, and some fuckwits put a forklift tine through my server when it was sent to Georgia (close enough to Alabama) to be repaired with replacement Chinese parts.
Someone too small to screw their customer base over and still survive. Of course even then short term thinking produces a few duds.
I remember seeing the gcc compiler on an MSDN disk just before the "open source is a cancer" marketing thing happened from MS.
Why did you write that? Surely you know that Elop infested Nokia for a few years before returning the Microsoft and he repeatedly declared that there would be nothing other than "windows phone" on the Nokia products. This is something new after Elop has returned to the Microsoft fold after his one and only CEO gig.
Most of the time, but on leap years there's an entire day when it can't count or do anything else.
Considering what the US car industry became with the protection of a 20% tariff and no need to innovate or operate efficiently that is no surprise. Even GM and Ford were managing their overseas operations far better than their US ones - old process lines, obsolete designs and poor work practices in the US while their overseas operations were competitive and producing better products without that 20% of protection - even in places with much higher wages and more militant unions.
The US car industry is a prime example of what happens when you stop seeing Henry Ford as a good manager and instead think trust fund babies that do not want to change anything (eg. Edsel Ford) are good managers - even if they need government help to protect their poor management against well managed competition. Because it's nearly impossible to go broke selling cars to Americans no matter how badly you run things it was seen as a success and something to emulate. Sadly that cancer spread throughout US industry which resulted in the clueless MBA culture that seems to be based on attention deficit disorder.
Hundreds of years. Meanwhile the stuff on the boards is metallic and highly mobile.
Not really. Thatcher's massive cuts and a rapid transition from a manufacturing economy to a financial services one was a change that gave the Argentinians that the UK was militarily finished and without the manufacturing base to sustain a prolonged war, so they thought the UK would just roll over without a fight over the islands. Argentina also had leading figures in the US government on their side so thought there was zero risk. After all, what was some shopkeeper's daughter going to do without US help to the big macho Junta?
There has been no sudden changes recently so nobody in under the impression that the UK has suddenly become "weak".
It would make perfect sense in a world with less capable missiles.
There is still stuff going on - slowly - due to the same low levels of funding that meant that the scramjet model I saw in 1986 that went in a shock tunnel is not very different from the one that got some time on a rocket a couple of years back.
NASA funded some of it back in the 1980s but I'm not sure where the money came from since. I could be wrong but the US military only seems to have been running their experiments in the last decade.
You are looking at my example the wrong way. The lead in that glass is vitrified and as hard to get out of the glass as in the drinking glasses. The lead on the boards, or in batteries, is not, and can more easily be transported as dust or in water to where it can be metabolised.
I think those problems are due to poor management, but it could be said that filling a workplace exclusively with inexperienced people is a sign of poor management in itself. That can be seen especially where there is non-technical management and nobody with enough skills to advise them to put resources into quality checking or other items that are not immediately obvious to someone coming in from another field.
Leaded glass is not a big deal - one example is those "crystal" drinking glasses. Lead on the printed circuit boards is the much bigger deal, especially if the things are burnt for gold recovery.
I remember it wasn't very long ago that we were all making fun of the Japanese throwaway culture where foreign students could get a lot of decent electronic gear from the curb simply because a newer model had a shiny new feature. Now we act in a similar way and those Africans are probably looking at us the same way.
Everyone has been trying to build a Silicon Valley with their own people for decades.
What they don't get (and the last few US governments don't get) is that Silicon Valley worked because it was about providing opportunities for people from everywhere instead of tightly controlling it.
A shining example is the early days of Intel.
When the best in the world can, and want to, set up shop instead of merely the best from California or wherever you get better results than a planned operation with a chosen few.
http://www.zelectricvehicle.com/18.html
That's a niche even among fuel driven bikes so you shouldn't expect electric bike manufacturers to go for that before even gaining traction in the mainstream.
I do not know because I went to a high school in a different country to you where we read textbooks instead of watching movies, so you'll have to explain the point you are attempting to make in some way that I can understand.
US solar was IMHO hampered from being commercialized by being a political whipping boy so the US paid for the R&D and China got to make a profit from it. Best in the world doesn't matter if a bank is not going to lend you money to build a process line due to scaremongering.