The larger problem is that even the Han arent safe. It's not a racism issue, its a rights issue.
Bullcrap. It is racism, and that is very much the "larger problem". Most of the racism doesn't even come from the government. It comes from the Han immigrants to Xinjiang. But in disputes between the Han and Uyghurs, the government will always side with the Han. If you walk down the street in Urumqi and look at the "Help Wanted" signs in the windows, 90% of them will say "Han Only" . The same is true for rental housing, and even schools. The Uyghurs are economically marginalized, and the government is complicit in keeping them that way.
Some guy in the 19th century always saw a different place where those people would be needed.
No they didn't. The farms were automating at the same time that the factories were becoming more efficient as well. Many many people thought there was no place for the displaced people to go. Back in the 1890s, very few people predicted that their grandkids would be software developers, graphic artists, and pizza delivery guys.
We don't have industries like the nascent auto industry in the late 19th and early 20th century
Before there were car factories, cars were assembled one-by-one in garages. Car factories automated the process, and GREATLY REDUCED the labor to assemble each car. So obviously the car factories should have been banned to save jobs.
I'm also curious how much more fuel this uses than subsonic commercial airliners.
As a general rule of thumb, fuel consumption goes up as the square of the speed. Double the speed, and you quadruple the fuel consumption.
But there are a lot of other considerations. For instance, faster planes can fly higher, where air density is much lower, and jet engines can be designed to work better at high speeds and high altitudes, but with the tradeoff that they work worse during the low speed take-off and landing.
On the other side, big planes are much more efficient per passenger-mile than small planes. The Concorde had a narrow body, and just couldn't carry enough passengers to make it cost effective. But it is questionable if there is really a mass market for fast and expensive air travel. Would you pay an extra $2000 to shave 3 hours off a trans-Atlantic flight? I certainly would not. I'll just download an extra book to my Kindle.
Every single financial institution that I deal with requires this. If I want to transfer money, or use a new device to login, they require that I confirm with a passcode sent to my cellphone.
The solution is better education, especially in math, science, and critical thinking. Once we have done that, people will no longer be stupid enough to believe that the "bird problem" is a real issue.
The best estimate for bird deaths from wind turbines is between 140,000 to 328,000 in North America
... and 3.7B birds are killed annually by domestic and feral cats in America. That is at least 10,000 times more.
They are. This wind farm is being built by Statoil, the Norwegian state oil company. Their expertise in building floating oil platforms, and their existing construction infrastructure, made them the obvious choice. The platforms are being built in a Norwegian fiord and then towed across the North Sea to Scotland.
Shouldn't all politicians seek to find policies which resonate with their constituents?
No. Politicians should have principles, and stick to them. They should stand up for things they believe in, and try to convince voters that they are right. What they should NOT do is find out what a plurality of voters want, and then just bend their principles to give it to them.
You also aren't permitted to carry more than a small pocket knife unless you have a good reason
This is also true in America. Carrying a concealed knife is illegal in California. California bans some types of knives entirely, such as a knife that is balanced and can be thrown, so even having a knife in your kitchen is illegal unless it is asymmetrical.
The fact that fake "scientific journals" exist to scam money out of the gullible does not mean that real science does not exist.
The fake journals do not scam money from the gullible. The scientists publishing in these journals know exactly what they are doing. They are paying to build their publication record, and they know that the quality of their work is too low for "real" journals. It is the institutions that look at these publication records that are being "scammed", but they are not paying for the publishing.
Exactly. You pay them, and they publish your paper. So TFA is reporting that someone paid them, and they published his paper. The exact same thing has been done many times before. Why is this news?
I put a page full of fake news on my photocopier, pushed the button, and the copier printed it without fact checking it. Outrageous!
An experienced event planner would likely have made the situation worse. At a typical event, maybe 10-20% are on their cell at any time, mostly using low bandwidth voice and text. At this event, maybe 80-90% were trying to use the network, and at much higher bandwidths. The normal heuristics would not have worked.
Many offices have people writing Excel macros, Quickbooks plug-ins, VBA scripts, and web forms. That is programming, even if programming isn't their main job.
Python has a gentle learning curve. It is a good language for beginners.
A sense of community is easier in a homogeneous society. People are more willing to help their neighbors if their neighbors look and think like they do.
Scandinavians are not as happy to help the poor when they are Syrian and Somali refugees.
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The larger problem is that even the Han arent safe. It's not a racism issue, its a rights issue.
Bullcrap. It is racism, and that is very much the "larger problem". Most of the racism doesn't even come from the government. It comes from the Han immigrants to Xinjiang. But in disputes between the Han and Uyghurs, the government will always side with the Han. If you walk down the street in Urumqi and look at the "Help Wanted" signs in the windows, 90% of them will say "Han Only" . The same is true for rental housing, and even schools. The Uyghurs are economically marginalized, and the government is complicit in keeping them that way.
Some guy in the 19th century always saw a different place where those people would be needed.
No they didn't. The farms were automating at the same time that the factories were becoming more efficient as well. Many many people thought there was no place for the displaced people to go. Back in the 1890s, very few people predicted that their grandkids would be software developers, graphic artists, and pizza delivery guys.
We don't have industries like the nascent auto industry in the late 19th and early 20th century
Before there were car factories, cars were assembled one-by-one in garages. Car factories automated the process, and GREATLY REDUCED the labor to assemble each car. So obviously the car factories should have been banned to save jobs.
Heck, my wife gets pregnant if I look at her too long.
I don't think so. You might want to get a paternity test done on "your" kids.
I'm also curious how much more fuel this uses than subsonic commercial airliners.
As a general rule of thumb, fuel consumption goes up as the square of the speed. Double the speed, and you quadruple the fuel consumption.
But there are a lot of other considerations. For instance, faster planes can fly higher, where air density is much lower, and jet engines can be designed to work better at high speeds and high altitudes, but with the tradeoff that they work worse during the low speed take-off and landing.
On the other side, big planes are much more efficient per passenger-mile than small planes. The Concorde had a narrow body, and just couldn't carry enough passengers to make it cost effective. But it is questionable if there is really a mass market for fast and expensive air travel. Would you pay an extra $2000 to shave 3 hours off a trans-Atlantic flight? I certainly would not. I'll just download an extra book to my Kindle.
Mine doesn't. Change your financial institution if you are worried.
I'm not worried. I like the extra layer of security.
That would mean _every_ 4 people family has one cat.
In other words 1 cat per 4 persons of population.
My neighbor and her husband (2 people) have 6 cats.
It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands
Then the obvious solution to appease the Biblical literalists is to put the chips in the left hand.
Except nobody is proposing that (so far).
Every single financial institution that I deal with requires this. If I want to transfer money, or use a new device to login, they require that I confirm with a passcode sent to my cellphone.
Could chip implants become required?
Unlikely. Face, iris, and fingerprint recognition have improved so much that the chips are no longer necessary.
It is not floating as it is tied to the bottom.
So do ships stop floating when they drop anchor?
Is there a solution to repel birds?
The solution is better education, especially in math, science, and critical thinking. Once we have done that, people will no longer be stupid enough to believe that the "bird problem" is a real issue.
The best estimate for bird deaths from wind turbines is between 140,000 to 328,000 in North America
... and 3.7B birds are killed annually by domestic and feral cats in America. That is at least 10,000 times more.
Build it like an oil drilling platform.
They are. This wind farm is being built by Statoil, the Norwegian state oil company. Their expertise in building floating oil platforms, and their existing construction infrastructure, made them the obvious choice. The platforms are being built in a Norwegian fiord and then towed across the North Sea to Scotland.
If this is true, these things a gigantic...
There are indeed gigantic. There are several big advantages to hugeness:
1. The winds are steadier and stronger the higher you go. Since power production goes up as the cube of the wind speed, this makes a big difference.
2. There is a lot less salt up high. It drops off nearly exponentially.
3. Much of the maintenance scales less than linearly with turbine size, so it is more cost effective with big turbines.
Shouldn't all politicians seek to find policies which resonate with their constituents?
No. Politicians should have principles, and stick to them. They should stand up for things they believe in, and try to convince voters that they are right. What they should NOT do is find out what a plurality of voters want, and then just bend their principles to give it to them.
You also aren't permitted to carry more than a small pocket knife unless you have a good reason
This is also true in America. Carrying a concealed knife is illegal in California. California bans some types of knives entirely, such as a knife that is balanced and can be thrown, so even having a knife in your kitchen is illegal unless it is asymmetrical.
We do registration and licencing for cars/driving
No registration or license is needed to own or drive a car. These are only needed for use on public roads.
The fact that fake "scientific journals" exist to scam money out of the gullible does not mean that real science does not exist.
The fake journals do not scam money from the gullible. The scientists publishing in these journals know exactly what they are doing. They are paying to build their publication record, and they know that the quality of their work is too low for "real" journals. It is the institutions that look at these publication records that are being "scammed", but they are not paying for the publishing.
A vanity press, if you will.
Exactly. You pay them, and they publish your paper. So TFA is reporting that someone paid them, and they published his paper. The exact same thing has been done many times before. Why is this news?
I put a page full of fake news on my photocopier, pushed the button, and the copier printed it without fact checking it. Outrageous!
An experienced event planner would likely have made the situation worse. At a typical event, maybe 10-20% are on their cell at any time, mostly using low bandwidth voice and text. At this event, maybe 80-90% were trying to use the network, and at much higher bandwidths. The normal heuristics would not have worked.
It is not a scripting language.
Scripting languages are:
1. Interpreted
2. Run directly from source
3. Tend to be dynamically typed
4. Can often be embedded in applications
Python is 4 for 4. It is a scripting language ... and there is nothing wrong with that.
Disclaimer: I spent my morning writing Python scripts for FreeCAD.
Most offices don't have a bullpen of programmers.
Many offices have people writing Excel macros, Quickbooks plug-ins, VBA scripts, and web forms. That is programming, even if programming isn't their main job.
Python has a gentle learning curve. It is a good language for beginners.
Have the hipsters taken over even the southwest?
No. The true hipsters have moved on to worshipping Elon Musk.
A sense of community is easier in a homogeneous society. People are more willing to help their neighbors if their neighbors look and think like they do.
Scandinavians are not as happy to help the poor when they are Syrian and Somali refugees.
"Well, we'd really love to give you a raise, but we'd have problems if everyone saw how much more you're making..."
That is a Good Thing. If two people are doing equal work, one should not get a raise just for being more assertive.