What does 'air superiority' mean to you? Is it taken by bomber sized aircraft?
I don't know who put the drone/military spin on this. IMHO it reflects internal Chinese politics, we aren't the intended audience, but it's interesting.
China getting into the salt cooled reactor research business is generally good news. Actual, practical, military applications are pretty few and far between. If anybody can get fast breeders to work, it will be good for the world. And sure, _maybe_ future carriers and subs will be powered by them.
I wish someone would give me a bunch of old shuttle parts. I bet I could make a car scoot with the engine from a turbo pump.
With all the greenie 'progress' I might even be able to find Hydrogen, but LOX is a problem. Noise might be an issue, I've got cool neighbors and all, but that's a little beyond breaking in a hopped up V8. Tires...drivetrain, gonna cost a fortune, top fuel parts, maybe tank parts, gonna break them. Still worth a try.
For the street of course. They wouldn't allow that monstrosity on the track.
It's hard to say what a remade Saturn V would cost per flight. But the original Apollo program had an average cost of 1.5 billion $/Saturn V launch (in, IIRC, about 2010 dollars). Including test flights in the denominator and 'full'* dev cost.
* Government contracting accounting, so take with grain of salt. But don't assume it will be any better.
USA has layers and layers of taxation of booze. Federal, state and sometimes local taxes. Some states require that all alcohol be sold via three independent layers (production, wholesale and retail) all of which have to blow a politician regularly to keep their gravy trains going. The really insane states have all booze sold only via state stores, which are not allowed to compete on price, employ useless politician nieces and nephews and open for about 3 hours every second Wednesday.
Bottom line: What you pay 9-10 euro for (10 liters of Beck's, one german case), we pay about $30 (5 American 'six packs').
I will say the made in St Louis Becks is indistinguishable from the German, same as American made Lowenbrau. But you'll also note they don't let the other AB breweries make it. In CA, east bay Budweiser is actually _much_ worse than St Louis Bud, which isn't by any stretch good. Both taste roughly like Alka Seltzer, but the Fairfield bud tastes like Alka Seltzer 'gone bad'.
I'm willing to bet the German beer tax is much much lower than the American one and that politicians that want to raise it, find themselves bouncing down the outside stairs of their government building after the next election.
Germany makes good mass produced beer using relatively cheap ingredients.
Micro breweries make some good beer (and some awful shit), all using expensive two row barley and the fanciest hops they can put their hands on. Ingredient cost is certainly higher than retail cost for German Lager.
Sure some micro brews are great. Then you have all the near identical brown ales, pumpkin ales (spit) and all the 'beer' that's better called a 'hop smoothy'.
And, as always, the best beer doesn't travel far. Europe also has small breweries. Many don't even bottle their beer. Until you've staggered down the Strasser, you can't know.
In Germany a case of good beer costs under 10 euro (plus bottle deposit) and is 20 half liter bottles. We're horribly overtaxed on alcohol in America. I'm guessing suggesting beer taxes is a good way to not get reelected in Germany. As it should be in the USA.
That was about the quality of their water. The wine they drank back then would give a wine snob a stroke.
A few years ago, makers of cheap frog wine threatened to 'go on strike' because box wine was putting small makers of 'vin ordinaire' out of business. Gallo and the rest of the world, had gotten their act together. Cheap frog wine still averaged 3 flies per bottle in the sediment. The french really don't get the whole 'striking' thing. Owners of small business can't go on strike to force their customers to come back...
You can't avoid a water based liquid containing gasses. Not carbonation but partial pressures of a variety of gases. In the bottle those are typically products of fermentation, which need to diffuse out and let air in for the wine to taste right.
Also reds that are bottled for long term storage need much longer breathing times. More tannin protects the wine, but needs time to escape. Most reds made these days are bottled to be drunk young.
IMHO all regions produce some damn good wine these days, except India, the few bottles I've seen from there have been uniformly _awful_. The science of picking grapes has come a long long way. Grapes grown in too warm regions (e.g. the CA central valley, 'E&J') are now picked early (based on sugar content) and blended with grapes from altitude to make wine that would have been top shelf 100 years ago. The Sierra Nevada is filling with vineyards to supply the 'sour altitude' grapes to make these blends work.
Craigslist is killing newspapers. They used to make bank off classified ads. That's never coming back.
A lot of papers add _no_ value, (e.g. the McClatchy newspapers, the NY Times). They just repeat their sides talking points, reprint press releases and AP stories.
Content producers that do add value (e.g. Craigslist) have no reason to even be on dead tree anymore. People that used to get power by buying ink by the barrel are now just weighted down by ink bills, and they just don't get it. Think they are 'special', their sites should be treated differently.
There would be inevitable defectors on the news side. They _need_ traffic.
I'll grant that the good sources have an advantage. But that's 5% of the market that's even trying to be anything other than niche echo chamber? Very little of which is in France, where they like to be told what they want to hear.
When the Germanys were reunited, all of Europe was discussing what to call the 'new Germany'. Except Germany, they were discussing what to call France (Western Greater Germany) and Poland (Eastern Greater Germany).
Oxidation bad! You're letting the wine degas when you let it 'breath', not oxidize.
You can rush degas reds with vacuum stoppers. Pour out a glass, put in the stopper, pull a vacuum. Shake gently, remove stopper, it will be, more or less, ready.
The real breakthrough has been in testing the grapes in the fields to select ideal harvest time. That's why cheap wine is so much better. 100 years ago, the only consistently good wine came from France. Germany and Italy has some hit and miss, but the rest of the world's wine tasted like Indian wine today (OMFG that shit was terrible, never again. Worse than _bad_ aussie wine, not saying it's all bad BTW.)
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What does 'air superiority' mean to you? Is it taken by bomber sized aircraft?
I don't know who put the drone/military spin on this. IMHO it reflects internal Chinese politics, we aren't the intended audience, but it's interesting.
China getting into the salt cooled reactor research business is generally good news. Actual, practical, military applications are pretty few and far between. If anybody can get fast breeders to work, it will be good for the world. And sure, _maybe_ future carriers and subs will be powered by them.
I wish someone would give me a bunch of old shuttle parts. I bet I could make a car scoot with the engine from a turbo pump.
With all the greenie 'progress' I might even be able to find Hydrogen, but LOX is a problem. Noise might be an issue, I've got cool neighbors and all, but that's a little beyond breaking in a hopped up V8. Tires...drivetrain, gonna cost a fortune, top fuel parts, maybe tank parts, gonna break them. Still worth a try.
For the street of course. They wouldn't allow that monstrosity on the track.
It's hard to say what a remade Saturn V would cost per flight. But the original Apollo program had an average cost of 1.5 billion $/Saturn V launch (in, IIRC, about 2010 dollars). Including test flights in the denominator and 'full'* dev cost.
* Government contracting accounting, so take with grain of salt. But don't assume it will be any better.
Many electronic locks contain an old school relay. These can almost all be opened by putting a good strong magnet it the right spot.
Hotels should keep a supply of rare earth magnets, as backup keys.
USA has layers and layers of taxation of booze. Federal, state and sometimes local taxes. Some states require that all alcohol be sold via three independent layers (production, wholesale and retail) all of which have to blow a politician regularly to keep their gravy trains going. The really insane states have all booze sold only via state stores, which are not allowed to compete on price, employ useless politician nieces and nephews and open for about 3 hours every second Wednesday.
Bottom line: What you pay 9-10 euro for (10 liters of Beck's, one german case), we pay about $30 (5 American 'six packs').
I will say the made in St Louis Becks is indistinguishable from the German, same as American made Lowenbrau. But you'll also note they don't let the other AB breweries make it. In CA, east bay Budweiser is actually _much_ worse than St Louis Bud, which isn't by any stretch good. Both taste roughly like Alka Seltzer, but the Fairfield bud tastes like Alka Seltzer 'gone bad'.
I'm willing to bet the German beer tax is much much lower than the American one and that politicians that want to raise it, find themselves bouncing down the outside stairs of their government building after the next election.
Germany makes good mass produced beer using relatively cheap ingredients.
Micro breweries make some good beer (and some awful shit), all using expensive two row barley and the fanciest hops they can put their hands on. Ingredient cost is certainly higher than retail cost for German Lager.
Sure some micro brews are great. Then you have all the near identical brown ales, pumpkin ales (spit) and all the 'beer' that's better called a 'hop smoothy'.
And, as always, the best beer doesn't travel far. Europe also has small breweries. Many don't even bottle their beer. Until you've staggered down the Strasser, you can't know.
Helps if the women are Irish. The drunker the better.
Until they puke, then it's off.
'Pardon me miss, would you think I was too forward if I asked you to sit on my face?'
'In total and complete darkness, I look just like Brad Pitt.'
Low % lines.
That's good German beer too. Becks and better. No American can piss.
Netflix wanted free rackspace at all ISPs. ISPs said: 'What makes you special? Pay up, like everybody else that want's servers in the ISPs racks.'
Netflix parses it as 'We offered free servers to the ISPs, but they refused to let us install them (for free).'
You could buy unlocked phones before NN was signed and will continue to be able to buy them in future. Try again.
That's what they get for being allies of the Nazis first.
By today's American definition of liberal, yes absolutely.
In Germany a case of good beer costs under 10 euro (plus bottle deposit) and is 20 half liter bottles. We're horribly overtaxed on alcohol in America. I'm guessing suggesting beer taxes is a good way to not get reelected in Germany. As it should be in the USA.
That was about the quality of their water. The wine they drank back then would give a wine snob a stroke.
A few years ago, makers of cheap frog wine threatened to 'go on strike' because box wine was putting small makers of 'vin ordinaire' out of business. Gallo and the rest of the world, had gotten their act together. Cheap frog wine still averaged 3 flies per bottle in the sediment. The french really don't get the whole 'striking' thing. Owners of small business can't go on strike to force their customers to come back...
You can't avoid a water based liquid containing gasses. Not carbonation but partial pressures of a variety of gases. In the bottle those are typically products of fermentation, which need to diffuse out and let air in for the wine to taste right.
Also reds that are bottled for long term storage need much longer breathing times. More tannin protects the wine, but needs time to escape. Most reds made these days are bottled to be drunk young.
IMHO all regions produce some damn good wine these days, except India, the few bottles I've seen from there have been uniformly _awful_. The science of picking grapes has come a long long way. Grapes grown in too warm regions (e.g. the CA central valley, 'E&J') are now picked early (based on sugar content) and blended with grapes from altitude to make wine that would have been top shelf 100 years ago. The Sierra Nevada is filling with vineyards to supply the 'sour altitude' grapes to make these blends work.
Craigslist is killing newspapers. They used to make bank off classified ads. That's never coming back.
A lot of papers add _no_ value, (e.g. the McClatchy newspapers, the NY Times). They just repeat their sides talking points, reprint press releases and AP stories.
Content producers that do add value (e.g. Craigslist) have no reason to even be on dead tree anymore. People that used to get power by buying ink by the barrel are now just weighted down by ink bills, and they just don't get it. Think they are 'special', their sites should be treated differently.
There would be inevitable defectors on the news side. They _need_ traffic.
I'll grant that the good sources have an advantage. But that's 5% of the market that's even trying to be anything other than niche echo chamber? Very little of which is in France, where they like to be told what they want to hear.
Good luck with your quarter watt pirate AM station. Hint: Nobody listens, nobody cares.
That's not CB. 'CItizens band' has a meaning.
The diaper heads aren't looking to attract unwanted attention and generally don't like 'godless commies'. I suggest you look elsewhere.
Calling everybody you disagree with a Nazi is sure to help spread your impotent rage. Keep it up.
Oxidation bad! You're letting the wine degas when you let it 'breath', not oxidize.
You can rush degas reds with vacuum stoppers. Pour out a glass, put in the stopper, pull a vacuum. Shake gently, remove stopper, it will be, more or less, ready.
The real breakthrough has been in testing the grapes in the fields to select ideal harvest time. That's why cheap wine is so much better. 100 years ago, the only consistently good wine came from France. Germany and Italy has some hit and miss, but the rest of the world's wine tasted like Indian wine today (OMFG that shit was terrible, never again. Worse than _bad_ aussie wine, not saying it's all bad BTW.)
Feel the impotence burn inside you...revel in your anger, it won't turn back on you, no sir.
The headset display is basically a phone screen, but the screen doesn't turn off when using VR. So more.
The 1080ti gets hot enough to cook on, not so much for VR videos/porn, but for gaming.
Porn is one thing that cardboard etc are good enough for. If you have a teenage kid, don't go snooping around the phone's storage.