The police is certainly not a threat of death, not in my country. Here the coppers aren't nearly as trigger happy and well trained in unarmed combat (I have seen some violent arrests, they were very efficient). When police actually shoots someone it is always in the news - it happens maybe 6 or 8 times a year in a country of 80 millions. I definitely don't want to live in a country where the police is a threat of death.
Sort of. Aircraft manufacturers try to avoid repairing their design flaws as long as they can, even if people may die. Case in point: McDonnel Douglas cargo door, ATR-72 wing icing (still not fully corrected after more than 20 years), the deep stall tendency of Tupolev 154, Boeing's 737 rudder problems, A380 wing cracks (that one was a chance find when investigating the Qantas engine fire).
Not quite. In many countries the amount of force used in self defense must be proportional to the threat and I agree with that. Shooting down an RC toy helicopter is, in my opinion, overly excessive even if it is trespassing. Using your example, it would be like shooting somebody standing on my lawn watching me, but not threatening me otherwise. I'd ask the person to leave and call the police in a case of a failure to comply with it. If just invading my privacy from public space, violence is even less called for.
Flying over a property is only trespassing below a certain altitude. If the drone flies higher than 150 metres above the property then it is in public airspace.
And your first 6 words already run contrary to what I have written. Breaking into my house is damaging my property. The drone never did that. What happened was more akin to a peeping Tom climbing a public road tree with a pair of binoculars (think back to the future 1). While unpleasant, but I don't think self defense is really in order.
English is my fourth foreign language, thank you very much. Still, even while your point might be valid generally, you have explicitly mentioned "notably Russia". Since Chechenia is a part of Russia, the more correct analogy would be "the city of Anytown, USA is having financial difficulties, as, notably, USA." Well, duh.
My guess is, you didn't know that Chechenia is not a country, and now you are just trying to cover that up by trying to sound condescending.
It is not self defense because neither life nor property was in any danger. It is self defense, though, if the drone owner is threatened by an armed wacko and shoots him. It is maybe even a good idea to arm drones so they can defend themselves.
If there is no road sign that marks a road built especially for high speed motorized vehicles (like a freeway) then the road is built for general use, not just for cars.
As a cyclist, I am okay with that. But then the drivers ought to pay for their actual road and environment damage and for their parking as well. Would make driving completely prohibitive, though.
It is about registered accounts, not users. And because Google tries to shoehorn a G+ registration into any Google service, they have far less users than accounts.
If there is not enough water in the canalisation system then all sorts of problems start to arise, so wasteful toilets are fine for a water rich country.
And saying that any language is unlikely to spread beyond its native region is stupid as well. No lingua franca stays forever. Chinese used to be the trade language in the whole Southeast Asian region and it might very well become that again in the next 100 years - even now people in Europe are encouraged to learn Mandarin because China is where the money is. Russian is still a trade language in countries bordering Russia and German used to be the language of science not very long ago, so quite a lot of scientific terms in English are of German origin (say hello to Bremsstrahlung), French is the international postal language. A lingua franca can easily change within a human lifespan.
Hindi and Mandarin aren't even in the same language family. They are as different as two languages can ever be.
There are more than enough Russian speakers in the west. I, for one, speak Russian as a second language. Same goes for Spanish and Arabic, by the way, so you are definitely talking out of your arse. Your provincialism is really showing, except that even in your own country 13% of the population speaks Spanish.
And this "exposing them to modern western culture" is laughable.
Hm, even my pretty buggy implementation of YModem in C# can transfer files over a USB converter in 115200 with only an occasional block resend that barely slows down the transmission and besides one can just use a PC and a PCIe RS232 card (have a Sunix SER6437A in my PC at work), they aren't nearly as quirky as USB to serial converters.
There was a local investment firm that had an AMAG access control system running on a Win98 box that hadn't been powered down since 2008 because they didn't think it would come back up. No way to get data off as it had no network connection, no USB ports, the floppy drive was dead and the CD drive was read-only. It finally failed last year and they had to rebuild the whole environment from scratch, to the tune of $30,000.
What about a modem on a RS232 port? Hyperterminal was bundled with Windows 98 if I remember correctly.
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The police is certainly not a threat of death, not in my country. Here the coppers aren't nearly as trigger happy and well trained in unarmed combat (I have seen some violent arrests, they were very efficient). When police actually shoots someone it is always in the news - it happens maybe 6 or 8 times a year in a country of 80 millions. I definitely don't want to live in a country where the police is a threat of death.
Sort of. Aircraft manufacturers try to avoid repairing their design flaws as long as they can, even if people may die.
Case in point: McDonnel Douglas cargo door, ATR-72 wing icing (still not fully corrected after more than 20 years), the deep stall tendency of Tupolev 154, Boeing's 737 rudder problems, A380 wing cracks (that one was a chance find when investigating the Qantas engine fire).
Not quite. In many countries the amount of force used in self defense must be proportional to the threat and I agree with that. Shooting down an RC toy helicopter is, in my opinion, overly excessive even if it is trespassing. Using your example, it would be like shooting somebody standing on my lawn watching me, but not threatening me otherwise. I'd ask the person to leave and call the police in a case of a failure to comply with it. If just invading my privacy from public space, violence is even less called for.
Flying over a property is only trespassing below a certain altitude. If the drone flies higher than 150 metres above the property then it is in public airspace.
Not really. There is nothing about "soylent green" in the actual book. All this "made of people" is only in the movie.
And your first 6 words already run contrary to what I have written. Breaking into my house is damaging my property. The drone never did that. What happened was more akin to a peeping Tom climbing a public road tree with a pair of binoculars (think back to the future 1). While unpleasant, but I don't think self defense is really in order.
English is my fourth foreign language, thank you very much. Still, even while your point might be valid generally, you have explicitly mentioned "notably Russia". Since Chechenia is a part of Russia, the more correct analogy would be "the city of Anytown, USA is having financial difficulties, as, notably, USA." Well, duh.
My guess is, you didn't know that Chechenia is not a country, and now you are just trying to cover that up by trying to sound condescending.
Officially it was socialism with communism as a long-term goal.
Must be very long ago last time you looked. Chechenia has belonged to Russia for what, 150 years?
It is not self defense because neither life nor property was in any danger. It is self defense, though, if the drone owner is threatened by an armed wacko and shoots him. It is maybe even a good idea to arm drones so they can defend themselves.
If there is no road sign that marks a road built especially for high speed motorized vehicles (like a freeway) then the road is built for general use, not just for cars.
As a cyclist, I am okay with that. But then the drivers ought to pay for their actual road and environment damage and for their parking as well. Would make driving completely prohibitive, though.
Depardieu is Russian now, so you are barking up the wrong tree.
Only if you install it from ISO. If you update from that media creation tool, it won't ask for the key.
No legs?
It is about registered accounts, not users. And because Google tries to shoehorn a G+ registration into any Google service, they have far less users than accounts.
Thanks for the explanation. This is not a joke then, just a quip.
Not on my core i5. And nope, no liquid cooling either.
If there is not enough water in the canalisation system then all sorts of problems start to arise, so wasteful toilets are fine for a water rich country.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Uber isn't that, because
1) a friend wanting gas money is a non-profit operation
2) ridesharing is when the destination is already set before the gas money offer is made
Oh, but I know you are.
And saying that any language is unlikely to spread beyond its native region is stupid as well. No lingua franca stays forever. Chinese used to be the trade language in the whole Southeast Asian region and it might very well become that again in the next 100 years - even now people in Europe are encouraged to learn Mandarin because China is where the money is. Russian is still a trade language in countries bordering Russia and German used to be the language of science not very long ago, so quite a lot of scientific terms in English are of German origin (say hello to Bremsstrahlung), French is the international postal language. A lingua franca can easily change within a human lifespan.
*facepalm* the stupid is strong in this one.
Hindi and Mandarin aren't even in the same language family. They are as different as two languages can ever be.
There are more than enough Russian speakers in the west. I, for one, speak Russian as a second language. Same goes for Spanish and Arabic, by the way, so you are definitely talking out of your arse. Your provincialism is really showing, except that even in your own country 13% of the population speaks Spanish.
And this "exposing them to modern western culture" is laughable.
Hm, even my pretty buggy implementation of YModem in C# can transfer files over a USB converter in 115200 with only an occasional block resend that barely slows down the transmission and besides one can just use a PC and a PCIe RS232 card (have a Sunix SER6437A in my PC at work), they aren't nearly as quirky as USB to serial converters.
What about a modem on a RS232 port? Hyperterminal was bundled with Windows 98 if I remember correctly.