You realize that space stations like Skylab, Mir, and the ISS all count as spacecraft, right?
Given that there's always a spare Soyuz capsule docked with the ISS for emergency, I'd say that there's been two spacecraft in the "air" at all times for what, a decade now? Sometimes even three or four.
Plus, if you want to get technical, both the Apollo command module and the lunar lander were spacecraft in their own right.
"aw gee, my government is infected with lobbyists, might as well have a revolution!"
seriously wtf is wrong with some people? the solution is to throw everything out rather than repair?
Look at it this way. If you're in charge of trying to sanitize a city that has been completely overrun with zombies, are you gonna pointlessly send men into that city to try to clean it up one by one, dooming a large percentage of your men to become zombies themselves, or are you going to set up a perimeter around the city, put on your sunglasses, and call in a nuclear strike on what used to be a great city but is now little more than a shell of its former self and serves only to house the very cancerous elements that killed it?
Unfortunately the fairness culture in America sent those kids to college along with the people who actually should have gone, and now degrees are completely devalued to the point where people with bachelor's degrees are competing for the same jobs as high school dropouts.
Meanwhile the trades, where the less academically gifted used to go to earn a good living wage, are pretty much completely ignored in favor of sending everyone to college regardless of if they actually belong there and there's now a fairly large deficit of tradesmen.
Reloading ammo fired from other guns won't affect anything. You have to replace the primer to reload a round, and the primer is what would be stamped. Taking casings from other shooters would at best give you a few extra sets of prints to confuse forensics with. It wouldn't affect microstamping in the least.
Now if you were to simply discard recovered casings at the scene of a shooting, that would do it, but only if they're the same caliber and assumes that the cops wouldn't just seize each gun matched to a print and then run a ballistics test to figure out which one fired the bullet in question.
tl;dr stop suggesting reloading as a solution. It has absolutely nothing to do with microstamping
Now all we need to do is start using the private sector to launch astronauts into space and we can finally do something about the bureaucratic nightmare that is NASA.
If a bunch of tinpot shithole countries that don't even have widespread indoor plumbing were whining to my company about how we mapped disputed borders, I'd tell them to eat shit.
The main reason we'd want unmanned aircraft is if there's a real possibility that China can deny us the use of air bases or aircraft carriers in the region.
First of all, China's navy is a joke and our navy is pretty much built explicitly to obliterate any enemy air assets within 500 miles. They can't deny us the use of our carriers at all.
Secondly, the US has more military assets in Japan than most countries have in their entire military. We're also so closely tied to Japan's military that they may as well be considered a branch of ours. China, for all of its cannon fodder, could never hope to prevent flights from Japan.
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You realize that space stations like Skylab, Mir, and the ISS all count as spacecraft, right?
Given that there's always a spare Soyuz capsule docked with the ISS for emergency, I'd say that there's been two spacecraft in the "air" at all times for what, a decade now? Sometimes even three or four.
Plus, if you want to get technical, both the Apollo command module and the lunar lander were spacecraft in their own right.
Due process doesn't necessarily mean courts, especially when we're talking about unlawful combatants in a war zone.
"aw gee, my government is infected with lobbyists, might as well have a revolution!"
seriously wtf is wrong with some people? the solution is to throw everything out rather than repair?
Look at it this way. If you're in charge of trying to sanitize a city that has been completely overrun with zombies, are you gonna pointlessly send men into that city to try to clean it up one by one, dooming a large percentage of your men to become zombies themselves, or are you going to set up a perimeter around the city, put on your sunglasses, and call in a nuclear strike on what used to be a great city but is now little more than a shell of its former self and serves only to house the very cancerous elements that killed it?
Usually a lot more than non-organic crops.
Genes shouldn't be patentable in the first place. Neither should the vague bullshit that plagues the IT industry.
...But the only bones that sharks have are their jaws. Everything else is cartilage.
Unfortunately the fairness culture in America sent those kids to college along with the people who actually should have gone, and now degrees are completely devalued to the point where people with bachelor's degrees are competing for the same jobs as high school dropouts.
Meanwhile the trades, where the less academically gifted used to go to earn a good living wage, are pretty much completely ignored in favor of sending everyone to college regardless of if they actually belong there and there's now a fairly large deficit of tradesmen.
Gotta love political correctness.
Reloading ammo fired from other guns won't affect anything. You have to replace the primer to reload a round, and the primer is what would be stamped. Taking casings from other shooters would at best give you a few extra sets of prints to confuse forensics with. It wouldn't affect microstamping in the least.
Now if you were to simply discard recovered casings at the scene of a shooting, that would do it, but only if they're the same caliber and assumes that the cops wouldn't just seize each gun matched to a print and then run a ballistics test to figure out which one fired the bullet in question.
tl;dr stop suggesting reloading as a solution. It has absolutely nothing to do with microstamping
I just pick up brass at the police range and reload it when I murder people.
You realize that you have to replace the primer when you reload ammunition, right?
If it's Verizon, tell the assholes in charge of the data plans to throttle speed after hitting the cap instead of charging extra for it.
Mr. Wizard should be first on the list.
I can't say that I know anything about the chemistry required for dying things, but I'd imagine it's fairly complex once you get past the basics.
Either way, I doubt it could compare to the chemistry required for metallurgy and smithing.
Blacksmiths probably couldn't read well as a population, yet they were still experts in applied chemistry.
I don't see anyone out there making a case for war with Russia.
Social Security is insurance. A safety net. Not a retirement plan.
If you use it as a retirement plan, you deserve to die alone in a gutter.
Except that the TSA is more government and not part of the private sector at all.
Now all we need to do is start using the private sector to launch astronauts into space and we can finally do something about the bureaucratic nightmare that is NASA.
If a bunch of tinpot shithole countries that don't even have widespread indoor plumbing were whining to my company about how we mapped disputed borders, I'd tell them to eat shit.
That's not how the NES works. Just blow in the slot/cartridge, and if that doesn't work smack the NES until it works properly.
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Second. We lose more money by letting Congress kill projects than by actually finishing them in the first place.
The main reason we'd want unmanned aircraft is if there's a real possibility that China can deny us the use of air bases or aircraft carriers in the region.
First of all, China's navy is a joke and our navy is pretty much built explicitly to obliterate any enemy air assets within 500 miles. They can't deny us the use of our carriers at all.
Secondly, the US has more military assets in Japan than most countries have in their entire military. We're also so closely tied to Japan's military that they may as well be considered a branch of ours. China, for all of its cannon fodder, could never hope to prevent flights from Japan.
We have an aircraft carrier the size of California just off the Chinese coast.
Either way, if we want to get pedantic, there are a lot of navigable rivers in the world that subs can sail up.
We have the second amendment for a reason. It is the right that upholds all other rights. Your friend should have used it.