That was fifty years ago. To put it in perspective, fifty years before the F-4 people were still using biplanes and the synchronized machine gun was the latest killer technology.
Things have changed. There's no reason to include a gun any more - it's a waste of space and weight.
As long as the enemy has superior dogfighters that are outclassed in other modes of combat, the dogfighting capabilities of your planes will be forced into relevancy.
Not unless they're faster than you. Which they're not. and the F-35's stealth capabilities pretty much ensure it's going to get the first shot at BVR.
The F-22 wasn't "killed". They just decided not to make as many as they originally intended. That happens with every big ticket military program - they always pad the numbers so they can divide out the development costs over more units to make it look cheaper than it really is.
International corporations are in an impossible position with it comes to bribes. I don't know if it's the case in Panama, but in many countries refusing to pay bribes is the same thing as refusing to do business in that country. If all your competitors are paying bribes, what are you supposed to do?
When the US Congress passed a law making it illegal for domestic companies to pay bribes to foreign government officials US companies were shut out of billions of dollars in African contracts. Is the world a better place? I don't see it.
This doesn' t square with the experience of my extended family. It's pretty common to be pulled over in Mexico and be offered the choice of following the cop to the station twenty miles away or "paying your ticket here".
If one of the biggest growth industries in the UK is computer games, doesn't that imply the Spotty Nerds are already doing it right, and that the games "nobody wants to buy" are being bought?
In addition to the largest arsenal of dubious patents, IBM has a huge arsenal of non-dubious patents, some of them quite revolutionary (like the 1997 patent for copper interconnects). I don't begrudge them patents on the wheel as long as they don't start to bully other companies.
That's how I feel. Email chains store all sorts of information you may not think you need but end up being critical at some later date. And you don't have to rely on the memory of both parties when there's a misunderstanding.
Why does your employer need to track you? If it's really about your health, why wouldn't they just give you a fitbit account as part of your compensation?
For employers reducing health care costs isn't about making employees healthier. It's about getting rid of the employees who are going to cost money.
As erice points out, Japan can't import electricity. They have no domestic supplies of fossil fuels, either, which makes nuclear attractive for strategic reasons. In the early days following 2011 they got by running peakers around the clock, which explains why their electricity is so expensive.
Ultimately the advantage of something like this is better charge times. If you wanted to charge a Tesla in five or ten minutes you'd need a cable that's too heavy and unwieldy for manual use.
Also as the GP pointed out many other civilized countries offer vastly more leave, and it hasn't overly detracted from worker productivity.
Worker productivity is a horrible measure for the consequences for this policy. What happens when you make it harder for companies to employ people is they replace people with machines, which raises the productivity of the people who are left. That's why theses "many other civilized countries" tend to have higher unemployment on average and very high youth unemployment.
At my company we used to get eight days of sick leave every year, and then they transitioned to "unlimited". But what they don't tell you is if you take more than five days off it triggers HR procedures wherein they start demanding notes from your doctor and "record it in your personnel file." Most people start burning vacation days if they go over five.
It doesn't bother me that we get, effectively, five sick days. I've been places with less. But they could be less sleazy about it.
The most efficient plants are combined cycle, which sort of rules out nuclear (at least for LWRs), and combined cycle coal plants are very rare.
Also, I'm not sure heat efficiency is a hugely important metric for nuclear plants. With nuclear you generally have more heat than you know what to do with (sometimes literally).
There's nothing wrong with ceding a few seats (out of hundreds) to "fringe nutters". The whole point of a milti-party parliamentary system is for people who aren't in the majority (or the largest plurality) to get their say, and the district-type systems always short parties that aren't based on regional pork-peddling.
Ahem... that would be an _ostensible_ propulsion device, the working principle for which is (according to mainstream physicists) poorly described and violates commonly accepted physical principles
History is replete with examples of commonly accepted physical principles undergoing revision in response to unexpected discoveries. I expect, along with nearly everyone else, this is the result of bad experimentation. But you never know.
You're like one of those cartoon characters that has an angry defensive outburst whenever someone disagrees with him, tsotha.
We call that "projection".
And then gets particularly petulant and childish, screaming and stomping around, when it's pointed out -- how defensive, petulant and childish you're behaving.
That too.
I'm surprised to find someone so socially awkward she doesn't realize how other people see her. This article isn't about you, is it?
I see. You assumed you'd find certain kinds of comments and shot your mouth off before checking to see if they were actually there. That may fly in your women's studies class, but next time why don't you check first and save us all some trouble.
I'll give you a little hint for next time: You're not gonna find too many guys under 45 on slashdot, so even if there were actually something to your fantasies about what young men say and do, if they actually behaved like you imagine, you wouldn't see much of it here. The only person here acting like a child is you.
And you'd have to be using your own private definition of "petulant" to find it in my comments. It's true I've lost patience for the kind of transparent bullshit you're peddling, but that's not the same thing.
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That was fifty years ago. To put it in perspective, fifty years before the F-4 people were still using biplanes and the synchronized machine gun was the latest killer technology.
Things have changed. There's no reason to include a gun any more - it's a waste of space and weight.
Not really, no. That would be the F-22. The F-35 is a multirole fighter - if history is any guide its primarily use will be for bombing.
Not unless they're faster than you. Which they're not. and the F-35's stealth capabilities pretty much ensure it's going to get the first shot at BVR.
The F-22 wasn't "killed". They just decided not to make as many as they originally intended. That happens with every big ticket military program - they always pad the numbers so they can divide out the development costs over more units to make it look cheaper than it really is.
International corporations are in an impossible position with it comes to bribes. I don't know if it's the case in Panama, but in many countries refusing to pay bribes is the same thing as refusing to do business in that country. If all your competitors are paying bribes, what are you supposed to do?
When the US Congress passed a law making it illegal for domestic companies to pay bribes to foreign government officials US companies were shut out of billions of dollars in African contracts. Is the world a better place? I don't see it.
This doesn' t square with the experience of my extended family. It's pretty common to be pulled over in Mexico and be offered the choice of following the cop to the station twenty miles away or "paying your ticket here".
If one of the biggest growth industries in the UK is computer games, doesn't that imply the Spotty Nerds are already doing it right, and that the games "nobody wants to buy" are being bought?
In addition to the largest arsenal of dubious patents, IBM has a huge arsenal of non-dubious patents, some of them quite revolutionary (like the 1997 patent for copper interconnects). I don't begrudge them patents on the wheel as long as they don't start to bully other companies.
That's how I feel. Email chains store all sorts of information you may not think you need but end up being critical at some later date. And you don't have to rely on the memory of both parties when there's a misunderstanding.
Being able to make phone calls when you're not by a land line is pretty handy.
Why does your employer need to track you? If it's really about your health, why wouldn't they just give you a fitbit account as part of your compensation?
For employers reducing health care costs isn't about making employees healthier. It's about getting rid of the employees who are going to cost money.
I would much rather live near a nuclear plant than a fossil fuel plant or a wind farm.
They made the regulatory process so expensive building approved 40 year old designs makes mores sense than trying to develop something new.
As erice points out, Japan can't import electricity. They have no domestic supplies of fossil fuels, either, which makes nuclear attractive for strategic reasons. In the early days following 2011 they got by running peakers around the clock, which explains why their electricity is so expensive.
Ultimately the advantage of something like this is better charge times. If you wanted to charge a Tesla in five or ten minutes you'd need a cable that's too heavy and unwieldy for manual use.
Worker productivity is a horrible measure for the consequences for this policy. What happens when you make it harder for companies to employ people is they replace people with machines, which raises the productivity of the people who are left. That's why theses "many other civilized countries" tend to have higher unemployment on average and very high youth unemployment.
At my company we used to get eight days of sick leave every year, and then they transitioned to "unlimited". But what they don't tell you is if you take more than five days off it triggers HR procedures wherein they start demanding notes from your doctor and "record it in your personnel file." Most people start burning vacation days if they go over five.
It doesn't bother me that we get, effectively, five sick days. I've been places with less. But they could be less sleazy about it.
The most efficient plants are combined cycle, which sort of rules out nuclear (at least for LWRs), and combined cycle coal plants are very rare.
Also, I'm not sure heat efficiency is a hugely important metric for nuclear plants. With nuclear you generally have more heat than you know what to do with (sometimes literally).
Yep. He might manage to wipe out porn hosting in the UK, but he's not going to make it any harder for kids to get access to porn.
There's nothing wrong with ceding a few seats (out of hundreds) to "fringe nutters". The whole point of a milti-party parliamentary system is for people who aren't in the majority (or the largest plurality) to get their say, and the district-type systems always short parties that aren't based on regional pork-peddling.
This is an embarrassing process. It's the justice of the mob.
History is replete with examples of commonly accepted physical principles undergoing revision in response to unexpected discoveries. I expect, along with nearly everyone else, this is the result of bad experimentation. But you never know.
It's not like you'll be around to see the dead batteries after you hit a mote of dust at 0.7c.
We call that "projection".
That too.
I'm surprised to find someone so socially awkward she doesn't realize how other people see her. This article isn't about you, is it?
I see. You assumed you'd find certain kinds of comments and shot your mouth off before checking to see if they were actually there. That may fly in your women's studies class, but next time why don't you check first and save us all some trouble.
I'll give you a little hint for next time: You're not gonna find too many guys under 45 on slashdot, so even if there were actually something to your fantasies about what young men say and do, if they actually behaved like you imagine, you wouldn't see much of it here. The only person here acting like a child is you.
And you'd have to be using your own private definition of "petulant" to find it in my comments. It's true I've lost patience for the kind of transparent bullshit you're peddling, but that's not the same thing.