The only wacko here are you. I am a very much left leaning social democrat. Obama and US Democratic party is centre-right. US Green party is centre-left. KPUSA is far left. Republicans are somewhere between the far right and the crazy right. You are probably beyond crazy right.
Well, actually it is reasonable to expect that a ship might wreck so carrying lifeboats is a good idea. Expecting the unexpected would be carrying space suits just in case the ship would fly.
Well, in fact people in Germany more and more break up compound words in their parts by inserting spaces between them. Which not only looks stupid but also makes the meaning very ambiguous sometimes.
I have written about "did" and "was" two posts ago. Soviet scientists were redirected to different fields and or became soldiers.
If you want names, I can provide you with some prominent ones: Kurchatov for example. Before the war he was a leading nuclear scientist and was one of the creators of Europe's first cyclotron. During the war he was redirected to a project for demagnetizing ship hulls. Flyorov - one of the discoverers of nuclear fission - was drafted as an airplane technician in 1941 and was only able to go back to science in 1943. More examples? This is exactly the kind of waste that occurs due to wars.
Roman empire's technology was advancing in the civilian sector, not in the military one. These advances stagnated due to war efforts and the constant strain to keep the empire together and stopped long before Roman empire fell.
And about F22 I think you have read too many advertisement leaflets. Aviation processor design - even of advanced war planes - is not ahead but somewhat behind civilian use for various safety reasons. If you take the long development times for such projects into account, all the hardware is usually obsolete by the time of release. In this case, the development times were even longer and the airplane is already 20 years old. Nothing useful will spin off from there.
Oh, I also remember the computers crashing at the IDL, problems with the oxygen system, no Link16 capability.
Risk taking my fat arse. The US was the first for the sole reason of being mostly untouched by the war. Anyway, the point is, war does not speed up scientific and technical advance. Without the war, the first commercial nuclear power plant (which incidentally was built in the USSR) could have been built in early forties instead of 1954.
Actually you are wrong. USSR has started nuclear research way before the war, but stopped doing it due to war efforts when the scientists had to be redelegated to different fields, different jobs or became soldiers. The rocket theory was developed even before the first world war, only the material science was behind. And so on.
That has nothing to do with Carter. Breeder reactors are notoriously difficult to operate. I know only one commercial breeding reactor that is still operational and it was built in the USSR.
Well, that is my point exactly - saying that airline security annoyances have actively killed people is an ass-pull even if it rings right to some ears. The statistics disagree, but they aren't very conclusive.
2008/2009 was the first time since 1974 when miles traveled went down, and the first time since WW2 that the miles travelled went down in two consecutive years, but in 2010 the numbers go up again and even in either 2008 or 2009 there were more miles traveled than in any year < 2006.
You operate under the assumption that people who avoid flying would drive instead. What if they just stay at home? An increase of road deaths since 2001 but it doesn't look like it. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year> the amount of road deaths in 2010 was the lowest since 1950, so not so sure about that.
GP was talking about the text book definition. You aren't. Single party rule cannot be communism by the very definition of communism. Besides, what hasn't been militaristic by nature?
Not really. The better grades of even black tea taste better when they are brewed at 90-95C. You would murder the taste of a green tea with boiling water, 90C is the absolute maximum you should use and that only for the cheapest kind out there. The best ones should be brewed at 60C!
Well, USSR could have been around for a while longer, but then Chernobyl happened and the cleanup cost was almost as high as the yearly military budget.
Well, don't forget, Nazi Germany begun in 1933, but the exterminations started about a decade later. First there was "just" a Nazi boycott of Jewish shops and banning the Jews from certain professions, then gradually went to ghettos, concentration camps and extermination camps.
Well, I used to fly to Finland every year, so I've got a lot of experience with Finnish security checks. It ranged from a complete search of my hand luggage to just an unfriendly "pÃivÃÃ". I love that country anyway.
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The only wacko here are you. I am a very much left leaning social democrat. Obama and US Democratic party is centre-right. US Green party is centre-left. KPUSA is far left. Republicans are somewhere between the far right and the crazy right. You are probably beyond crazy right.
Well, technically, a drone is a male bee.
Geographics fail. Georgia is in Western Asia, not Europe.
Well, actually it is reasonable to expect that a ship might wreck so carrying lifeboats is a good idea. Expecting the unexpected would be carrying space suits just in case the ship would fly.
How do you expect the unexpected? By the very definition of these words it would be an oxymoron.
Interestingly enough, UK has abolished slavery 30ish years earlier than "the land of the free". And without violence as well.
Just saying...
Well, in fact people in Germany more and more break up compound words in their parts by inserting spaces between them. Which not only looks stupid but also makes the meaning very ambiguous sometimes.
I have written about "did" and "was" two posts ago. Soviet scientists were redirected to different fields and or became soldiers.
If you want names, I can provide you with some prominent ones: Kurchatov for example. Before the war he was a leading nuclear scientist and was one of the creators of Europe's first cyclotron. During the war he was redirected to a project for demagnetizing ship hulls. Flyorov - one of the discoverers of nuclear fission - was drafted as an airplane technician in 1941 and was only able to go back to science in 1943. More examples? This is exactly the kind of waste that occurs due to wars.
Roman empire's technology was advancing in the civilian sector, not in the military one. These advances stagnated due to war efforts and the constant strain to keep the empire together and stopped long before Roman empire fell.
And about F22 I think you have read too many advertisement leaflets. Aviation processor design - even of advanced war planes - is not ahead but somewhat behind civilian use for various safety reasons. If you take the long development times for such projects into account, all the hardware is usually obsolete by the time of release. In this case, the development times were even longer and the airplane is already 20 years old. Nothing useful will spin off from there.
Oh, I also remember the computers crashing at the IDL, problems with the oxygen system, no Link16 capability.
Risk taking my fat arse. The US was the first for the sole reason of being mostly untouched by the war. Anyway, the point is, war does not speed up scientific and technical advance. Without the war, the first commercial nuclear power plant (which incidentally was built in the USSR) could have been built in early forties instead of 1954.
Actually you are wrong. USSR has started nuclear research way before the war, but stopped doing it due to war efforts when the scientists had to be redelegated to different fields, different jobs or became soldiers. The rocket theory was developed even before the first world war, only the material science was behind. And so on.
That has nothing to do with Carter. Breeder reactors are notoriously difficult to operate. I know only one commercial breeding reactor that is still operational and it was built in the USSR.
Well, that is my point exactly - saying that airline security annoyances have actively killed people is an ass-pull even if it rings right to some ears. The statistics disagree, but they aren't very conclusive.
Only after a fashion.
2008/2009 was the first time since 1974 when miles traveled went down, and the first time since WW2 that the miles travelled went down in two consecutive years, but in 2010 the numbers go up again and even in either 2008 or 2009 there were more miles traveled than in any year < 2006.
You operate under the assumption that people who avoid flying would drive instead. What if they just stay at home?
An increase of road deaths since 2001 but it doesn't look like it.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year> the amount of road deaths in 2010 was the lowest since 1950, so not so sure about that.
GP was talking about the text book definition. You aren't. Single party rule cannot be communism by the very definition of communism. Besides, what hasn't been militaristic by nature?
The reason is more due to strict driving exams.
German trucks are actually limited to 80 kph.
About the only rights people had before asshat politicians came along and started making laws were the "might makes right" kinds of rights.
Not really. The better grades of even black tea taste better when they are brewed at 90-95C. You would murder the taste of a green tea with boiling water, 90C is the absolute maximum you should use and that only for the cheapest kind out there. The best ones should be brewed at 60C!
The CPU prices were higher because it was more expensive to make CPUs back then. With the past technology you couldn't put as many dies on the wafer.
Well, USSR could have been around for a while longer, but then Chernobyl happened and the cleanup cost was almost as high as the yearly military budget.
I actually do, ever now and then. Not very often, though.
If I remember correctly, Dachau was specialising in imprisoning communists and social democrats at first and moved to Jews in 1938 or so.
Well, don't forget, Nazi Germany begun in 1933, but the exterminations started about a decade later. First there was "just" a Nazi boycott of Jewish shops and banning the Jews from certain professions, then gradually went to ghettos, concentration camps and extermination camps.
Well, I used to fly to Finland every year, so I've got a lot of experience with Finnish security checks. It ranged from a complete search of my hand luggage to just an unfriendly "pÃivÃÃ". I love that country anyway.