IS will ignore Anonymous, military, cops, and intelligence services in favor of unsuspecting theatergoers and people out for an evening at a cafe. Military and cops shoot back, and Anonymous is simply impotent against an organization like IS.
When you have an armed citizenry you're not going to have instances where three people manage to kill 100 by just lining them up and executing them one at a time. No, a gun doesn't turn you into John McClain. But it is a confounding factor for people who try to pull off these kinds of attacks.
Being present in the country is a civil offense. But entering the country illegally is a criminal offense. This is in Title 8, Section 1325 (U.S.C). You can go to jail for six months and pay a fine for the first attempt, and the penalties go up each time you get caught. If you enter the country illegally after being deported for a crime you can get a twenty year prison sentence just for the attempt.
Most licenses and EULAs that I've actually read contain verbiage that says something on the order of "License holder retains the right to revoke this license at any time," though I can't say if this one did.
except in the U.S., immigration laws are considered civil, not criminal, matters. persons here without immigration authorization are not criminals, by the actual definitions used in the law.
No, this is not true. You can be arrested for entering the country illegally. It's a criminal offense. As is overstaying your visa.
Whether or not the CEO could be automated, I'm pretty sure there's a cheaper Chinese management team that would do just as well as that at your average F500 company.
It's not just the political class. There's also a coordinated push in the media. Every time the H-1b cap comes up for discussion the media is full of "How will we ever find the STEM graduates to fill the bazillion open positions" articles. The perception of a skilled labor shortage is deliberately generated.
In the past It's been both much warmer and much cooler than it is today. You could just as easily have headlined the article "Global Temperature Set To Reach 1 Degree C Under Pre-Industrial Levels".
If I remember correctly, Reaction Engines got severely dicked by the UK government (pulling funding declaring the engines covered by the Official Secrets Act), effectively ending private development.
That's a BAE/Rolls Royce project called HOTOL, which was co-created by the same designer. After HOTOL was canceled he started REL.
It's only stupid if they can't pull it off. Having a single engine that can do both is an enormous advantage. Hell, even designing a carrier aircraft to launch non-trivial payloads is an enormous headache. As far as I'm aware, there's one production system that uses an air launch, and its payload to LEO is about half a ton. That's 1/30th the payload REL is planning for Skylon.
Horizontal takeoff makes this quite a bit cheaper, though, from an engineering perspective. The TWR you need at takeoff is much lower - a 747 has something like a 0.27 TWR, which wouldn't even budge a rocket. Lower TWR means smaller engines, less weight, less drag. It also means less stress on the spacecraft, too, which should keep the wear and tear a bit lower. The plan is to go up to 28 km at mach 5.5 before cutting over to LOX. Assuming they can actually get the performance they expect out of the engines, and keep the dry mass to what they expect, this is a doable flight profile.
Sure, at this stage of any project it's easy to be "looking at" very low costs. They haven't done anything yet. The nature of these kinds of projects is there are a whole bunch of costs, technical an regulatory, that aren't apparent until you actually start building something. The X-33 is actually pretty instructive - like REL, Lockheed Martin tried to pack a whole bunch of new technologies into a single program, and the failure of any of them would doom the program. And no, the X-33 didn't fail because it was tail heavy. It failed because the unobtainim we needed for the stupid multi-lobed LH2 tank simply wasn't available.
The risks for large cost overruns grow as you add brand new technology. For Skylon It's not just the SABRE pre-cooler. A craft with a fully carbon fiber frame, ceramic skin, and active cooling gets a big Marge Simpson "Hrrmmmm, okaaaaaaay". Sure, it's probably doable. But that's not at all an easy thing to design, and cost estimates are likely to be optimistic.
This thing is going to be a whole lot more expensive than the sums they've penciled out. The only question is how much more. Don't get me wrong - I'd love to see them succeed. I'd love to see an honest-to-God SSTO that dramatically cuts costs to orbit. I'd even settle for a failure that lit the way to a follow-on success since I'm, you know, more of an enthusiast than an investor. It's just way too early to get excited, though. When they have a full-power SABRE engine reliably propelling a test bed from the runway to Mach 5.5 at 26 km, one that comes in at the weight they need, one that doesn't break the bank, then it's time to get excited.
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IS will ignore Anonymous, military, cops, and intelligence services in favor of unsuspecting theatergoers and people out for an evening at a cafe. Military and cops shoot back, and Anonymous is simply impotent against an organization like IS.
Meh. Us violence is mostly drug dealers shooting each other. That's going to happen whether or not guns are illegal.
I have no idea what you could mean by that.
Ah, I see. For someone who applies such a strict interpretation to the Bush banner you seem surprisingly flexible in this case.
Out of context, is it? Apparently one of the guys they caught claims to be working for IS.
If IS is killing people in France... would you say that's a sign they're "contained" in the Levant?
Unsurprisingly, you don't seem to understand. Do you understand what the words "new testament" mean?
Yeah, but just this morning Obama told us IS is "contained", so... we have that going for us.
When you have an armed citizenry you're not going to have instances where three people manage to kill 100 by just lining them up and executing them one at a time. No, a gun doesn't turn you into John McClain. But it is a confounding factor for people who try to pull off these kinds of attacks.
Actually, there's this thing they call "The New Testament". Did you ever wonder what that means?
Being present in the country is a civil offense. But entering the country illegally is a criminal offense. This is in Title 8, Section 1325 (U.S.C). You can go to jail for six months and pay a fine for the first attempt, and the penalties go up each time you get caught. If you enter the country illegally after being deported for a crime you can get a twenty year prison sentence just for the attempt.
Yes, this guy is quite the nutter.
My favorite part is the way he blames the US for Turkish and Pakistani immigrants to Germany.
Most licenses and EULAs that I've actually read contain verbiage that says something on the order of "License holder retains the right to revoke this license at any time," though I can't say if this one did.
No, this is not true. You can be arrested for entering the country illegally. It's a criminal offense. As is overstaying your visa.
Whether or not the CEO could be automated, I'm pretty sure there's a cheaper Chinese management team that would do just as well as that at your average F500 company.
It's not just the political class. There's also a coordinated push in the media. Every time the H-1b cap comes up for discussion the media is full of "How will we ever find the STEM graduates to fill the bazillion open positions" articles. The perception of a skilled labor shortage is deliberately generated.
In the past It's been both much warmer and much cooler than it is today. You could just as easily have headlined the article "Global Temperature Set To Reach 1 Degree C Under Pre-Industrial Levels".
Oh, aren't you a genius for pointing out I've pointed out the obvious? Your parents must be very proud!
There's something about engineers and rockets. Franklin Chang-Diaz has been plugging away at VASIMR since 1977.
Heh. A caseless rocket engine.
That's a BAE/Rolls Royce project called HOTOL, which was co-created by the same designer. After HOTOL was canceled he started REL.
It's only stupid if they can't pull it off. Having a single engine that can do both is an enormous advantage. Hell, even designing a carrier aircraft to launch non-trivial payloads is an enormous headache. As far as I'm aware, there's one production system that uses an air launch, and its payload to LEO is about half a ton. That's 1/30th the payload REL is planning for Skylon.
Horizontal takeoff makes this quite a bit cheaper, though, from an engineering perspective. The TWR you need at takeoff is much lower - a 747 has something like a 0.27 TWR, which wouldn't even budge a rocket. Lower TWR means smaller engines, less weight, less drag. It also means less stress on the spacecraft, too, which should keep the wear and tear a bit lower. The plan is to go up to 28 km at mach 5.5 before cutting over to LOX. Assuming they can actually get the performance they expect out of the engines, and keep the dry mass to what they expect, this is a doable flight profile.
As the AC pointed out above, they're planning to get a mass factor out of the structure that nobody's been able to get in the past.
Sure. They're on the one yard line. Only 99 to go!
Sure, at this stage of any project it's easy to be "looking at" very low costs. They haven't done anything yet. The nature of these kinds of projects is there are a whole bunch of costs, technical an regulatory, that aren't apparent until you actually start building something. The X-33 is actually pretty instructive - like REL, Lockheed Martin tried to pack a whole bunch of new technologies into a single program, and the failure of any of them would doom the program. And no, the X-33 didn't fail because it was tail heavy. It failed because the unobtainim we needed for the stupid multi-lobed LH2 tank simply wasn't available.
The risks for large cost overruns grow as you add brand new technology. For Skylon It's not just the SABRE pre-cooler. A craft with a fully carbon fiber frame, ceramic skin, and active cooling gets a big Marge Simpson "Hrrmmmm, okaaaaaaay". Sure, it's probably doable. But that's not at all an easy thing to design, and cost estimates are likely to be optimistic.
This thing is going to be a whole lot more expensive than the sums they've penciled out. The only question is how much more. Don't get me wrong - I'd love to see them succeed. I'd love to see an honest-to-God SSTO that dramatically cuts costs to orbit. I'd even settle for a failure that lit the way to a follow-on success since I'm, you know, more of an enthusiast than an investor. It's just way too early to get excited, though. When they have a full-power SABRE engine reliably propelling a test bed from the runway to Mach 5.5 at 26 km, one that comes in at the weight they need, one that doesn't break the bank, then it's time to get excited.