If your argument is Trump is the only leader wise enough to see that the agreement's problems are worse than its benefits...
Nah, it's safe to say that most of them see it. The question isn't who sees it; the question is which ones are willing to ignore public perceptions and do what they believes is right. Most politicians are quite happy to sign an agreement which does nothing, but makes the masses feel warm and fuzzy.
You can spout off about globalist vs nationalist policies all you want, but even the hermit nation of North Korea understood this issue was important enough to show solidarity with the rest of the world on. When Kim Jong-un can work with other nations better than your President, that is a problem.
North Korea signed an agreement which doesn't require them to do anything? Oh wow! We better jump on board then!
Objective evidence is hard to come by when it comes to bigfoot, too; doesn't mean I'm going to believe eyewitness claims just because you vouch for the witness. In the absence of evidence a reasonable person withholds judgement.
Air resistance slows a bullet significantly more than gravity does. Actual ballistics vary greatly, but we can say as a broad generalization that a bullet loses about 1/3rd of it's speed in the first half second of flight. For a muzzle velocity of 2700 fps, that's 900 fps lost in half a second. In metric that's a deceleration of about 550 m/s^2. Firing it straight up would add another 10 m/s^2 to that loss.
To put it another way, fired in a vacuum straight up, the bullet would travel more than 35 km before gravity finally stopped it. Air resistance does the same job in about 10 km.
Obviously during latter stages of flight gravity is a larger component of deceleration, so It's true that a bullet won't "go as far up as [it does] laterally", but the difference isn't as large as you think it is.
It's more like using a 3d printer to print a clone of itself.
Sure, and that would also be patent infringement. You can't make copies of someone else's product and claim that it's your right to do so because you bought the original.
That being said, I heard they made progress on a DRM seed product. A seed that grows an infertile product so no further seed can be yield from a crop. That sounds like a terrible idea to me but it seems like the only logical recourse Monsanto could take.
They haven't "made progress"; we've had the ability to do that for decades. Monsanto has stated that they have no plans to ever use it. Nobody uses it because it's not really necessary, and it's just bad PR. It's much better to rely on patents and just sue anyone who engages in a gross violation of their contract.
One thing I always found hilarious was that the same anti-GMO people who are always going on about "the risk" of genetically engineered plants spreading into the wild also tend to lose their minds about the idea that Monsanto might create infertile plants. It seems that, if they're really worried about the former, they should be ecstatic about the latter.
This may be a precedent-setter in the cases of the farmers who save seed and are then sued for by "patent infringement" by Monsanto.
That's pretty unlikely. The issue with saving seeds isn't that you're saving them, it's that you're growing a bunch of new plants.
A loose analogy to printer cartridges would be if you bough one cartridge and then claimed the right to make and sell thousands more. That's a whole different thing than just refilling the existing cartridge with ink from another source.
The new windows UI works just fine as a tablet. It's about the same as a typical Android tablet. Of course that only holds as long as you stick to "metro" apps; if you expect to use a standard windows desktop on a touchscreen, then yeah, it's going to be suboptimal.
Yes, the maximum effective range of both of these weapons is about 2km, but not if they have to go upwards. Stinger missile might do some damage, but still survivable.
You're confused. In military parlance "maximum effective range" means the distance at which you can't use the weapon effectively. For a.50 cal that means your bullets are going to be spread out too far apart to be useful against a truck or a few soldiers. It does not mean that the bullet can't go any further, or do any damage to a soft target.
The actual maximum range for a.50 is more like 10km. And given that this airship is significantly larger than a truck, hitting it wouldn't exactly require great marksmanship, even if it were up at 3km like you suggest. Snipers have hit man-sized targets at 2.4 km with a.50; a massive blimp at that range is a sitting duck.
Nonsense. When's the last time you heard about a terror attack carried out by destitute orphans?
Terrorism is a tool of political organisations. The poor have other concerns; little things like where their next meal will come from, where they'll spend the night, or how to keep their leg from rotting off due to a lack of antibiotics. It's not like they're going to put all their worldly belongings in a cardboard box and trade them in for an AK-47.
The police were paid to enforce the law. Do you seriously see that as being equivalent to protesters being paid to disrupt a construction project and ham it up for the news crews?
The physics is not there yet, but 5 or 10 or 15 years in the future we might well be there. Batteries are improving but the manufacturing cost of the batteries themselves still make the cost of electricity to charge them a round off error.
Costs for the battery pack is now down to about $145 per kwh. That puts the cost of the Tesla 85 kwh battery pack at about $12,350. At the calculate saving of 0.0811 cents per km, it would take 151,972 km to break even. Even if there were no other advantages to electric vehicles, the battery would still pay for itself and return a profit within the lifetime of the vehicle.
I don't really get why you're focusing on the cost of the battery though when the cost of the vehicle as a whole is the important factor. Electric vehicles are simpler, have fewer components, and are cheaper. The high cost of the battery pack is offset by the cheaper cost of the engine (motor) and the complete removal of a complex transmission. It's also offset by lower lifetime maintenance costs (brakes/rotors last longer with regenerative braking, no oil changes, no drive belt, water pump, starter, or alternator to replace, etc).
There's no doubt that the lifetime cost to own and operate an EV would be far lower than the lifetime cost of an ICE vehicle, if it weren't for the fact that EVs have thusfar cost significantly more upfront. However their price has already dropped and is continuing to go down.
After viewing the link I must say that, while I understand the point you're trying to make, I think that there probably IS more than just a passing correlation between the number of people who drowned after falling out of fishing boats, and the marriage rate in Kentucky.
Did anyone read this article? [space.com]. "Geoff Marcy....
Yep. Summary: famous astronomer resigns because a few people accused him of stuff. Like one guy says he saw him rubbing a girls shoulders. Scary stuff.
Or how about this one? [cnn.com] "Results from a recent AAS survey...
Yep. Summary: Incredibly low number of people in astronomy say that at some point in their lives they've heard a co-worker or superior say something sexist. Actual rates of sexual harassment remain unknown because the survey focused on compiling superficially scary sounding numbers rather than useful information.
You can't claim that all of this stuff is so unusual that it is newsworthy and then a paragraph afterwards say that it's so common that men everywhere are actively avoiding women. Pick a story and stick to it.
He didn't say it was common, and it doesn't have to be common. Our fear of something is a combination of both the likelihood of occurrence and the extent of possible harm were it to occur. Parents are constantly telling their children not to talk to strangers, and we have a whole system of procedures which kick in when a child goes missing, even though actual kidnappings by strangers are incredibly rare.
Employees know that a harassment complaint can ruin a good working environment, as well as result in the termination of an otherwise promising career. Employers know it can cost them millions of dollars. Everyone is worried about it, even if it's not particularly common. Basically, at this point, having female employees is an unnecessary risk with severe repercussions and no tangible benefits.
Actually, incorrect. While some awards (e.g. the Bronze Star, Medal of Honor) are given for unusual behavior (e.g. heroism), the military has the worlds' original badge system. There are badges for everything.
This is true as long as you're speaking about the US military. It seems like you guys get 9 medals before even completing basic. The same cannot be said for other countries. Most Commonwealth nations are much more stingy with medals - if you end up with 5 or 6 in your whole career, you've done well.
While I do not expect complex answers from simple carbohydrates, did you at any point consider explaining why you disagree with his statement rather than just making a dubious assertion about the popularity of such opinions?
The fact that I would like a bigger screen and that the browser with Android 2.3 Gingerbread is starting to have problems with todays website might actually just get me to do it.
Bigger screens are overrated. As for the rest, just install Android 5.1,
Yeah, didn't care enough to RTFA, and am familiar enough with the quality of "reporting" on that website to not bother. Thanks for the explanation though.
I AM "The White Man," you shiteating fuckwad! What, you think because I have the shred of basic human decency necessary to admit the truth I can't possibly be white?!
No, it's quite obvious from your comments that a shred of decency is well beyond your grasp.
Now you're lying, too. Tamir Rice never reached for a damn thing.
That's funny, the police report and all reporting on the case claim that he did. But I'm sure you have access to information that the rest of us don't. Let me guess - the ghost of Bob Marley came to you in a dream, and told you The White Man Executed Tamir, who was sitting there licking a lollipop at the time?
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If your argument is Trump is the only leader wise enough to see that the agreement's problems are worse than its benefits ...
Nah, it's safe to say that most of them see it. The question isn't who sees it; the question is which ones are willing to ignore public perceptions and do what they believes is right. Most politicians are quite happy to sign an agreement which does nothing, but makes the masses feel warm and fuzzy.
You can spout off about globalist vs nationalist policies all you want, but even the hermit nation of North Korea understood this issue was important enough to show solidarity with the rest of the world on. When Kim Jong-un can work with other nations better than your President, that is a problem.
North Korea signed an agreement which doesn't require them to do anything? Oh wow! We better jump on board then!
Objective evidence is hard to come by when it comes to bigfoot, too; doesn't mean I'm going to believe eyewitness claims just because you vouch for the witness. In the absence of evidence a reasonable person withholds judgement.
It seems to me like what the courts actually decided is that, when your child dies, Facebook has more rights to their personal property than you do.
I'm sure the people you trust are paragons of truth and virtue. However I still tend to rely on evidence rather than anecdote.
Air resistance slows a bullet significantly more than gravity does. Actual ballistics vary greatly, but we can say as a broad generalization that a bullet loses about 1/3rd of it's speed in the first half second of flight. For a muzzle velocity of 2700 fps, that's 900 fps lost in half a second. In metric that's a deceleration of about 550 m/s^2. Firing it straight up would add another 10 m/s^2 to that loss.
To put it another way, fired in a vacuum straight up, the bullet would travel more than 35 km before gravity finally stopped it. Air resistance does the same job in about 10 km.
Obviously during latter stages of flight gravity is a larger component of deceleration, so It's true that a bullet won't "go as far up as [it does] laterally", but the difference isn't as large as you think it is.
It's more like using a 3d printer to print a clone of itself.
Sure, and that would also be patent infringement. You can't make copies of someone else's product and claim that it's your right to do so because you bought the original.
That being said, I heard they made progress on a DRM seed product. A seed that grows an infertile product so no further seed can be yield from a crop. That sounds like a terrible idea to me but it seems like the only logical recourse Monsanto could take.
They haven't "made progress"; we've had the ability to do that for decades. Monsanto has stated that they have no plans to ever use it. Nobody uses it because it's not really necessary, and it's just bad PR. It's much better to rely on patents and just sue anyone who engages in a gross violation of their contract.
One thing I always found hilarious was that the same anti-GMO people who are always going on about "the risk" of genetically engineered plants spreading into the wild also tend to lose their minds about the idea that Monsanto might create infertile plants. It seems that, if they're really worried about the former, they should be ecstatic about the latter.
This may be a precedent-setter in the cases of the farmers who save seed and are then sued for by "patent infringement" by Monsanto.
That's pretty unlikely. The issue with saving seeds isn't that you're saving them, it's that you're growing a bunch of new plants.
A loose analogy to printer cartridges would be if you bough one cartridge and then claimed the right to make and sell thousands more. That's a whole different thing than just refilling the existing cartridge with ink from another source.
The new windows UI works just fine as a tablet. It's about the same as a typical Android tablet. Of course that only holds as long as you stick to "metro" apps; if you expect to use a standard windows desktop on a touchscreen, then yeah, it's going to be suboptimal.
Yes, the maximum effective range of both of these weapons is about 2km, but not if they have to go upwards. Stinger missile might do some damage, but still survivable.
You're confused. In military parlance "maximum effective range" means the distance at which you can't use the weapon effectively. For a .50 cal that means your bullets are going to be spread out too far apart to be useful against a truck or a few soldiers. It does not mean that the bullet can't go any further, or do any damage to a soft target.
The actual maximum range for a .50 is more like 10km. And given that this airship is significantly larger than a truck, hitting it wouldn't exactly require great marksmanship, even if it were up at 3km like you suggest. Snipers have hit man-sized targets at 2.4 km with a .50; a massive blimp at that range is a sitting duck.
Nonsense. When's the last time you heard about a terror attack carried out by destitute orphans?
Terrorism is a tool of political organisations. The poor have other concerns; little things like where their next meal will come from, where they'll spend the night, or how to keep their leg from rotting off due to a lack of antibiotics. It's not like they're going to put all their worldly belongings in a cardboard box and trade them in for an AK-47.
Yeah, I remember the time Rosa Parks burned down a city bus and threw improvised explosives at police. Fiesy old broad, she was ...
The police were paid to enforce the law. Do you seriously see that as being equivalent to protesters being paid to disrupt a construction project and ham it up for the news crews?
What reason do you have for believing that these genetic changes will reduce taste?
The physics is not there yet, but 5 or 10 or 15 years in the future we might well be there. Batteries are improving but the manufacturing cost of the batteries themselves still make the cost of electricity to charge them a round off error.
Costs for the battery pack is now down to about $145 per kwh. That puts the cost of the Tesla 85 kwh battery pack at about $12,350. At the calculate saving of 0.0811 cents per km, it would take 151,972 km to break even. Even if there were no other advantages to electric vehicles, the battery would still pay for itself and return a profit within the lifetime of the vehicle.
I don't really get why you're focusing on the cost of the battery though when the cost of the vehicle as a whole is the important factor. Electric vehicles are simpler, have fewer components, and are cheaper. The high cost of the battery pack is offset by the cheaper cost of the engine (motor) and the complete removal of a complex transmission. It's also offset by lower lifetime maintenance costs (brakes/rotors last longer with regenerative braking, no oil changes, no drive belt, water pump, starter, or alternator to replace, etc).
There's no doubt that the lifetime cost to own and operate an EV would be far lower than the lifetime cost of an ICE vehicle, if it weren't for the fact that EVs have thusfar cost significantly more upfront. However their price has already dropped and is continuing to go down.
.... usually results in findings like this:
http://tylervigen.com/spurious... [tylervigen.com]
After viewing the link I must say that, while I understand the point you're trying to make, I think that there probably IS more than just a passing correlation between the number of people who drowned after falling out of fishing boats, and the marriage rate in Kentucky.
Did anyone read this article? [space.com]. "Geoff Marcy ....
Yep. Summary: famous astronomer resigns because a few people accused him of stuff. Like one guy says he saw him rubbing a girls shoulders. Scary stuff.
Or how about this one? [cnn.com] "Results from a recent AAS survey ...
Yep. Summary: Incredibly low number of people in astronomy say that at some point in their lives they've heard a co-worker or superior say something sexist. Actual rates of sexual harassment remain unknown because the survey focused on compiling superficially scary sounding numbers rather than useful information.
You can't claim that all of this stuff is so unusual that it is newsworthy and then a paragraph afterwards say that it's so common that men everywhere are actively avoiding women. Pick a story and stick to it.
He didn't say it was common, and it doesn't have to be common. Our fear of something is a combination of both the likelihood of occurrence and the extent of possible harm were it to occur. Parents are constantly telling their children not to talk to strangers, and we have a whole system of procedures which kick in when a child goes missing, even though actual kidnappings by strangers are incredibly rare.
Employees know that a harassment complaint can ruin a good working environment, as well as result in the termination of an otherwise promising career. Employers know it can cost them millions of dollars. Everyone is worried about it, even if it's not particularly common. Basically, at this point, having female employees is an unnecessary risk with severe repercussions and no tangible benefits.
Actually, incorrect. While some awards (e.g. the Bronze Star, Medal of Honor) are given for unusual behavior (e.g. heroism), the military has the worlds' original badge system. There are badges for everything.
This is true as long as you're speaking about the US military. It seems like you guys get 9 medals before even completing basic. The same cannot be said for other countries. Most Commonwealth nations are much more stingy with medals - if you end up with 5 or 6 in your whole career, you've done well.
While I do not expect complex answers from simple carbohydrates, did you at any point consider explaining why you disagree with his statement rather than just making a dubious assertion about the popularity of such opinions?
The fact that I would like a bigger screen and that the browser with Android 2.3 Gingerbread is starting to have problems with todays website might actually just get me to do it.
Bigger screens are overrated. As for the rest, just install Android 5.1,
Yeah, didn't care enough to RTFA, and am familiar enough with the quality of "reporting" on that website to not bother. Thanks for the explanation though.
The VIDEO proves he didn't.
lol. That's cute.
I AM "The White Man," you shiteating fuckwad! What, you think because I have the shred of basic human decency necessary to admit the truth I can't possibly be white?!
No, it's quite obvious from your comments that a shred of decency is well beyond your grasp.
Now you're lying, too. Tamir Rice never reached for a damn thing.
That's funny, the police report and all reporting on the case claim that he did. But I'm sure you have access to information that the rest of us don't. Let me guess - the ghost of Bob Marley came to you in a dream, and told you The White Man Executed Tamir, who was sitting there licking a lollipop at the time?
The police report, asshole.
You know, you can't just make shit up and then claim you read it in a police report.