All he ever did was chant "hope and change". While I'm sure that there are some people who are vacuous enough to be inspired by that, I wouldn't call him inspirational by any stretch of the imagination. It's every bit as meaningless as "drain the swamp".
He didn't win because he was black.
Funny enough, having a black man running for the presidency was probably the most inspirational aspect of his campaign.
Ahhh yes, you're another one of those 90% of people who think they are above average drivers.
No, I'm one of those 90% of people who don't suffer from dementia. Since you appear to be in the other 10% I think it's best that you stay off the road.
Yeah, the article is confused. There's not much point in "rounding to the nearest 5" if you're then just going to drop the five.
The easiest way to think about it is that you divide the heading by 10, them round to the nearest whole number. Eg. 173 degrees becomes 17.3, round down to 17.
The main problem with Japanese cars is that their infotainment tech is usually behind the others.
Frankly at this point that's a feature rather than a problem. All of the various "infotainment" solutions from all of the manufacturers are so crap that I would much rather rip them out and install an aftermarket solution. Not only are aftermarket decks better, and provide more choice, but they're cheaper too.
With Japanese cars this tends to be easy, while American automakers have started making it more and more difficult.
I wish. That thing looks way more useful than the current piece of crap which barely has enough battery life to make it through the day and breaks in half if you look at it wrong.
I have a better one for you: Don't use a shitty interface that demands a lot of attention while you're using your car.
It requires a lot of attention if you're a 90 year old Florida woman trying to remember which icon to push to deactivate your turn signal. For everyone without dementia it takes essentially zero attention. He's not talking about browsing Slashdot while driving; he's talking about being able to look at GPS instructions on his in-car display.
Nobody suggested using the atmosphere for cooling; read what the other guy wrote. You're going to need to heat your habitat. You're going to need to heat up water. On a planet which averages -55 degrees, there's really no such thing as "waste heat"; all of it is useful.
It's safe to say he did very little. I like the guy on a personal level, despite the race baiting and some of his foolhardy decisions. He seems like a good person. I don't think he was a horrible president; just a largely irrelevant one. The DNC pulled his strings and he pretended to be a real boy.
He was smart enough to out-maneuver Bill and Hillary Clinton to secure the Democratic nomination.
Maybe. Or maybe the DNC conlagomarate thought "gee, it sure would appeal to our core voting group if we ran a minority candidate", and Barack happened to be the right guy with the right skin colour at the right time.
Those are all great details, but the range of the sugar maple is still more than wide enough that warming hasn't affected production and even much greater warming will still allow harvesting in more northerly locales. Plus there's nothing preventing the maple from spreading further north as the climate warms.
More importantly, thought, TFA posits that lack of water will be the real issue rather than warming itself. This is doubly silly. Irrigation is a problem which we worked out millennia ago, and it can be used in especially dry regions. The majority of the sugar maple crop shouldn't require irrigation at all, though, meaning that the worst case scenario here is that Michigan maple syrup becomes slightly more expensive to produce than Quebec maple syrup.
Getting people to think about how something will affect their lives is great. But when they find out that you lied to them, they tend to get a bit mad.
Tyrants always pull the "we have to shape the truth for the public good" thing, but it's never convincing. It's an especially stupid thing to do when you're dealing with an undeniably true problem like climate change. Why piss people off with stupid lies when the truth is enough of a problem on it's own? Even if you're the kind of immoral shitbag who doesn't mind knowlngly lying to millions of people you should at least stop and consider that, tactically speaking, it's a shit approach.
Fair enough, and I wouldn't have been surprised by your comment if someone had suggested that Canada could pick up the slack on Banana production, but come on... Maple Syrup? If there's one thing I expect people to know about us it's that we're all a bunch of maple syrup swilling lumberjacks.
Ontario and Quebec are literally covered in maple trees. Maple syrup productions is practically a cultural tradition in Quebec. The whole Canada/Maple Syrup thing is one of the stereotypes which is actually true.
How are you seriously wondering if CANADA, the country with a maple leaf on it's flag, will be able to grow maple trees??
I'm not ignoring anything; I'm well aware of how long such a turn would take. I'm also aware of how far ahead you would have to launch a missile if you actually hoped to intercept such an aircraft. If you do the math, under pretty much any circumstance your missile ends up chasing the plane. The only circumstance in which you get a head-on hit is one in which the pilot is drunk, blind, and unconscious.
Of course the standard evasive manoeuvre for the SR-71 was never to turn 90 degrees; it was to climb, which makes your missile's job even more difficult. Their record of success speaks for itself.
So, tell me... when you launch a missile at an approaching airplane, and then that airplane turns 90 degrees, how likely is your missile to "strike it as it is approaching"?
How successful are you going to be at "using the vehicle's own kinetic energy against it"?
Now, none of these actually shot down an SR-71, because the U.S. had the good sense not to put an SR-71 within range of one while over-flying Soviet territory.
I've never beat the shit out of Mike Tyson because he had the good sense to avoid me. But I like totally could.
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He inspires people.
All he ever did was chant "hope and change". While I'm sure that there are some people who are vacuous enough to be inspired by that, I wouldn't call him inspirational by any stretch of the imagination. It's every bit as meaningless as "drain the swamp".
He didn't win because he was black.
Funny enough, having a black man running for the presidency was probably the most inspirational aspect of his campaign.
Ahhh yes, you're another one of those 90% of people who think they are above average drivers.
No, I'm one of those 90% of people who don't suffer from dementia. Since you appear to be in the other 10% I think it's best that you stay off the road.
Oh I see.
Yeah, the article is confused. There's not much point in "rounding to the nearest 5" if you're then just going to drop the five.
The easiest way to think about it is that you divide the heading by 10, them round to the nearest whole number. Eg. 173 degrees becomes 17.3, round down to 17.
Anyone who talks about "Judeo-Christian morals" should be given a stack of history books and then flogged every hour until they've read them all.
Isn't everything from 127.51 to 137.4 represented as 13?
What? No. I have no clue how you got those numbers.
Anything between 125 and 135 is 13.
The main problem with Japanese cars is that their infotainment tech is usually behind the others.
Frankly at this point that's a feature rather than a problem. All of the various "infotainment" solutions from all of the manufacturers are so crap that I would much rather rip them out and install an aftermarket solution. Not only are aftermarket decks better, and provide more choice, but they're cheaper too.
With Japanese cars this tends to be easy, while American automakers have started making it more and more difficult.
I wish. That thing looks way more useful than the current piece of crap which barely has enough battery life to make it through the day and breaks in half if you look at it wrong.
I have a better one for you: Don't use a shitty interface that demands a lot of attention while you're using your car.
It requires a lot of attention if you're a 90 year old Florida woman trying to remember which icon to push to deactivate your turn signal. For everyone without dementia it takes essentially zero attention. He's not talking about browsing Slashdot while driving; he's talking about being able to look at GPS instructions on his in-car display.
Nobody suggested using the atmosphere for cooling; read what the other guy wrote. You're going to need to heat your habitat. You're going to need to heat up water. On a planet which averages -55 degrees, there's really no such thing as "waste heat"; all of it is useful.
It's safe to say he did very little. I like the guy on a personal level, despite the race baiting and some of his foolhardy decisions. He seems like a good person. I don't think he was a horrible president; just a largely irrelevant one. The DNC pulled his strings and he pretended to be a real boy.
He was smart enough to out-maneuver Bill and Hillary Clinton to secure the Democratic nomination.
Maybe. Or maybe the DNC conlagomarate thought "gee, it sure would appeal to our core voting group if we ran a minority candidate", and Barack happened to be the right guy with the right skin colour at the right time.
the first symptom of corruption is arrogance
No, you can't eat the lead paint.
No, dammit, take it out of your mouth.
For fuck's sake, listen ... it's bad for you OK? It causes brain damage.
Whattayamean "if it tastes good it can't be bad"? Seriously? Were you dropped on your head as a child?
I'm a "corrupt elitist"? ....
Fuck ... fine ... whatever .... let me get you some salt.
Yeah, no shit. The guy is worried about producing heat on a planet where the average temperature is negative 55 degrees celcius.
Somehow I don't think it's going to be a problem.
I'm pretty sure you missed his joke.
Either that or he's more retarded than I would think possible ...
Those are all great details, but the range of the sugar maple is still more than wide enough that warming hasn't affected production and even much greater warming will still allow harvesting in more northerly locales. Plus there's nothing preventing the maple from spreading further north as the climate warms.
More importantly, thought, TFA posits that lack of water will be the real issue rather than warming itself. This is doubly silly. Irrigation is a problem which we worked out millennia ago, and it can be used in especially dry regions. The majority of the sugar maple crop shouldn't require irrigation at all, though, meaning that the worst case scenario here is that Michigan maple syrup becomes slightly more expensive to produce than Quebec maple syrup.
Getting people to think about how something will affect their lives is great. But when they find out that you lied to them, they tend to get a bit mad.
Tyrants always pull the "we have to shape the truth for the public good" thing, but it's never convincing. It's an especially stupid thing to do when you're dealing with an undeniably true problem like climate change. Why piss people off with stupid lies when the truth is enough of a problem on it's own? Even if you're the kind of immoral shitbag who doesn't mind knowlngly lying to millions of people you should at least stop and consider that, tactically speaking, it's a shit approach.
Fair enough, and I wouldn't have been surprised by your comment if someone had suggested that Canada could pick up the slack on Banana production, but come on ... Maple Syrup? If there's one thing I expect people to know about us it's that we're all a bunch of maple syrup swilling lumberjacks.
wtf?
Ontario and Quebec are literally covered in maple trees. Maple syrup productions is practically a cultural tradition in Quebec. The whole Canada/Maple Syrup thing is one of the stereotypes which is actually true.
How are you seriously wondering if CANADA, the country with a maple leaf on it's flag, will be able to grow maple trees??
I'm not ignoring anything; I'm well aware of how long such a turn would take. I'm also aware of how far ahead you would have to launch a missile if you actually hoped to intercept such an aircraft. If you do the math, under pretty much any circumstance your missile ends up chasing the plane. The only circumstance in which you get a head-on hit is one in which the pilot is drunk, blind, and unconscious.
Of course the standard evasive manoeuvre for the SR-71 was never to turn 90 degrees; it was to climb, which makes your missile's job even more difficult. Their record of success speaks for itself.
So, tell me ... when you launch a missile at an approaching airplane, and then that airplane turns 90 degrees, how likely is your missile to "strike it as it is approaching"?
How successful are you going to be at "using the vehicle's own kinetic energy against it"?
Now, none of these actually shot down an SR-71, because the U.S. had the good sense not to put an SR-71 within range of one while over-flying Soviet territory.
I've never beat the shit out of Mike Tyson because he had the good sense to avoid me. But I like totally could.
He watched this movie and figured that it made him an expert on soviet aviation.
I'm sure that at mach 5 speeds it's only viable to fly in a straight line.
I don't know why you would be sure of such a ridiculous thing.
This might come as a surprise to you, but planes can change course.
I'm on the verge of dumping wireless entirely in fact
Good plan, Rick. Just stick to that paper and pencil.