The emacs psychotherapist doesn't even like me using the word 'hell'. I'm afraid feeding an AI with even a small subset of YouTube would drive it into a blind rage.
That depends on whether you have implemented some sort of feedback to engineering from QA. If you start to se some variance in the dimensions (or other parameters) from a manufacturing step, even if these are still within tolerances you can see if there is a correlation to increases in problems in service.
Being slapped with massive fines is usually pretty good motivation for a company.
Some years ago, Boeing was slapped with $500 million in fines by the DoJ. Within a few weeks, the Pentagon cut Boeing a check for.... $500 million for "additional expenses".
When you are the only source for some hardware, you don't pay fines. The taxpayer pays fines. And sometimes, you even make a profit on the transaction.
I mean imagine if you'd do this and that person went on to become a CEO?
The person you are standing in for is probably the son of some PLA general. And you still have relatives in China. So you will be returning and the general's idiot kid will be attending Harvard. And going on to be a CEO.
Punish these companies how exactly? Refuse to give them any more US contracts? Then they just move offshore and serve the Chinese, Russian, Indian and other markets openly. And that's one less source our military has. If you can identify individuals within these companies that knowingly sold to restricted customers, perhaps you could throw them in prison. But in my experience with DoD contractors, you'll either get a sacrificial goat or they will wreck their own companies defending the good old boy network.
Silly jokes aside, TFA said nothing and made no implications that increased spending on science and space would come out of any welfare programs. The idea that any potentially available tax funds automatically 'belong' to any one program and any allocation otherwise constitutes 'theft' is bizarre. Even muggers are willing to acknowledge that the money in my wallet is still mine up to the point that they relieve me of it and run. So your selfish attitude places the common criminal's morals above yours.
But I'm not sure TFA deals with it. Nothing can travel faster than c in a vacuum. Light travels at c (in a vacuum). However, light cannot escape from inside a black hole. This isn't due to classical speed limits, but the way space time curves near the black hole's event horizon.
However, gravity can escape a black hole. Otherwise, how would they exist and grow? So gravity is not constrained by the same space-time curvature as light. Therefore, over long distances, the curvature of space time (even a slight effect caused by the masses of nearby galaxies) would cause the vacuum velocities of gravity to excced that of light. Or, to put another way, the path through space time for light is slightly longer than that for gravity. So gravity gets there first.
Hint: Think about this effect as an alternative to dark matter/energy.
Thus for all intents and purposes, one can travel distances at faster than the speed of light. The theory of relativity does not prevent this.
Except for the little problem of Lorentz contraction. As you move faster and faster, to a fixed observer you are getting shorter and shorter in the direction of travel. The other side of this is that to you, fixed distances get longer and longer. So that star that was 100 ly away when you were on earth starts to get farther and farther away as you accelerate toward it.
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And it would be a hell of a psychologist.
The emacs psychotherapist doesn't even like me using the word 'hell'. I'm afraid feeding an AI with even a small subset of YouTube would drive it into a blind rage.
Be careful what you wish for.
Isn't that what QA is for?
That depends on whether you have implemented some sort of feedback to engineering from QA. If you start to se some variance in the dimensions (or other parameters) from a manufacturing step, even if these are still within tolerances you can see if there is a correlation to increases in problems in service.
We tried nuclear fission. But the really silly monkeys just started screaming and flinging poo.
A whole new meaning to "General Failure writing to device".
Do you have an references
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Being slapped with massive fines is usually pretty good motivation for a company.
Some years ago, Boeing was slapped with $500 million in fines by the DoJ. Within a few weeks, the Pentagon cut Boeing a check for .... $500 million for "additional expenses".
When you are the only source for some hardware, you don't pay fines. The taxpayer pays fines. And sometimes, you even make a profit on the transaction.
there is no free market, and there never has been,
Is that so?
If they detect a police car parked behind the billboard, they switch to a large picture of a policeman parked behind the billboard.
I mean imagine if you'd do this and that person went on to become a CEO?
The person you are standing in for is probably the son of some PLA general. And you still have relatives in China. So you will be returning and the general's idiot kid will be attending Harvard. And going on to be a CEO.
So, yes. This is typical executive behavior.
Well, there goes my weekend.
Doing business with unknown, shady companies
Otherwise known as a free market economy.
Punish these companies how exactly? Refuse to give them any more US contracts? Then they just move offshore and serve the Chinese, Russian, Indian and other markets openly. And that's one less source our military has. If you can identify individuals within these companies that knowingly sold to restricted customers, perhaps you could throw them in prison. But in my experience with DoD contractors, you'll either get a sacrificial goat or they will wreck their own companies defending the good old boy network.
Just think of a drone as a big mosquito.
If it carries a few ounces of anthrax or ricin, then yes.
Silly jokes aside, TFA said nothing and made no implications that increased spending on science and space would come out of any welfare programs. The idea that any potentially available tax funds automatically 'belong' to any one program and any allocation otherwise constitutes 'theft' is bizarre. Even muggers are willing to acknowledge that the money in my wallet is still mine up to the point that they relieve me of it and run. So your selfish attitude places the common criminal's morals above yours.
steal money from WIC
Yeah, its a shame. My 7 year old was just looking at her paycheck from the sneaker factory and complaining about how much the government takes out.
off-planet
To Pluto?
but I don't think IBM would pay a SW Engineer 7.2 Billion
Maybe the guy who wrote the payroll program.
so the distance to the star that is 100 ly away gets compressed by the gamma coefficient.
So, at .99c, what I saw as 100 ly standing still becomes 10 ly and I cover that in 10.1 years (my time). I just traveled at 9.9c (as I measure it).
I just traveled faster than light. Not the light coming out of my headlights. But in terms of distance divided by time (my time).
But I'm not sure TFA deals with it. Nothing can travel faster than c in a vacuum. Light travels at c (in a vacuum). However, light cannot escape from inside a black hole. This isn't due to classical speed limits, but the way space time curves near the black hole's event horizon.
However, gravity can escape a black hole. Otherwise, how would they exist and grow? So gravity is not constrained by the same space-time curvature as light. Therefore, over long distances, the curvature of space time (even a slight effect caused by the masses of nearby galaxies) would cause the vacuum velocities of gravity to excced that of light. Or, to put another way, the path through space time for light is slightly longer than that for gravity. So gravity gets there first.
Hint: Think about this effect as an alternative to dark matter/energy.
Thus for all intents and purposes, one can travel distances at faster than the speed of light. The theory of relativity does not prevent this.
Except for the little problem of Lorentz contraction. As you move faster and faster, to a fixed observer you are getting shorter and shorter in the direction of travel. The other side of this is that to you, fixed distances get longer and longer. So that star that was 100 ly away when you were on earth starts to get farther and farther away as you accelerate toward it.