No, the one in front of HQ is the first of the Version 1.2 boosters, which would make it a Block 3.
The first block 4 didn't fly until a year and a half later. It then flew again this April in an expendable configuration, so it is currently at the bottom of the ocean. Maybe that means it's parked outside Elons mad-scientist lair?
By all accounts Soyuz is still cheaper than Falcon.
By which accounts? The Soyuz costs between $40 and $60 million per launch, while the Falcon 9 costs about $62 million. But the Falcon 9 can lift twice as much payload in reusable mode as a Soyuz can when being written off, so that $62 million get you a lot more stuff in orbit. It can lift even more in expendable mode, but that will cost you extra.
Of course the question isn't "which one is cheaper" to the customer; the question is which one is cheaper to actually operate. SpaceX doesn't need to underbid the competition by much since there really isn't that much competition, but you can bet that their profit margin per launch is significantly higher than that of their competitors.
If a space elevator breaks, the parts that are high up (and thus have high energy) disintegrate in the atmosphere
It's neat how you know absolutely everything about the physical properties of this not-yet-invented miracle material. Lighter than spider silk, but strong enough to lift massive load, yet conveniently fragile enough to burn up in the atmosphere. Now you just have to invoke for it the ability to provide free energy and we can call it unobtanoum!
The Aussie government has still not dealt with the fact that tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were outright kidnapped from their families for a variety of purposes.
What exactly does "dealt with" mean?
It took a band, namely Midnight Oil, to hammer this stuff into the consciousness of the Aussie public, and most still ignored the blatant atrocities.
It's cardboard, which isn't a big issue. In many places you can recycle it (which is of dubious value, but that's a different topic) and even if it ends up in a landfill, it's biodegradable. Trees are a renewable resource, so no resource depletion. There's a non-zero energy cost to cutting down the trees and producing the cardboard, but it's pretty small in the grand scheme of things.
Plastic packaging is a different issue. It would be nice if Amazon could get manufacturers to switch to simple cardboard packaging for things sold on Amazon. After all, the reason they have shiny colourful boxes is so they'll look nice on a store shelf, and the reason they use plastic is usually to make the item tamper-proof while it's sitting on that shelf. Neither of those things are applicable to goods sold online, so they could simplify the packaging significantly.
I've got the worst of both worlds; the postal service won't deliver parcels to my house so I have to drive 10 miles to pick up the thing I ordered online.
I've tried to get Amazon to use only FedEx/UPS/etc but apparently there's no option to completely block a carrier, so even after multiple emails to their CSRs the best that they could do was promise to "deprioritize" the standard mail system "if possible".
Their problem isn't lack of electricity; it's lack of stable government combined with an excess of corruption. That's why so much of the aid we send them ends up wasted. You're probably not going to fix that without sending in troops, and nobody has any interest in doing that.
The drive records if it was properly ejected or not.
No, it doesn't. The filesystem on the drive might, though, depending on which filesystem it's formatted with.
This used to be an issue with many Linux distributions and NTFS in the past. If you tried to mount an NTFS filesystem which wasn't cleanly dismounted, it would throw an error at you and fail. For other filesystems it didn't matter.
The camera was confused for a second RPG and initiated an immediate request to fire because it looked as if it was being aimed at the humvee down the road. There was a different RPG spotted much earlier; about a minute before the cameraman takes up his position you can see a different guy walking around with what appears to be an RPG. The followup army investigation claims that 2 RPGs were recovered at the scene, and the camera recovered from the photographer contained several pictures of a humvee positioned about 100 metres away. All of which, in an area of active ongoing combat operations, makes it pretty clear that the helicopter pilots had a legitimate reason to suspect their targets were insurgents preparing to engage American troops with AK and RPG fire.
Now, you're free to claim that the army is lying about what they recovered, as I'm sure you will, but if you're going to speak on the matter at least inform yourself about it first rather than just drawing asinine conclusions based on total ignorance. Even Assange later admitted that they were probably "armed with AKs and RPGs" but then said that he's "not sure that it matters".
Whatever happened to 'Confirm the target before murdering it'? Or were the US orders on the day to shoot journalists and civilians?
The initial target was confirmed as well as can be expected under the circumstances. Further delay would not have been reasonable. The van is a separate matter; if you were a reasonable person rather than a total jackass you might have made a distinction between the two attacks and argued that while the former was clearly justified the latter seems unnecessarily rushed. But that's far more nuance than I would expect from a nitwit running around screaming about murder.
The rest of you are retarded, then, since the rest of his comment bangs on about assault rifles and not about the word "insurgent". Either he is really shit at communicating his point and you happen to be the same kind of stupid as him ("great minds" think alike), or he really was suggesting that having assault rifles doesn't make you armed because helicopters have armour. Either way, neither of you is taking home any Nobel prizes any time soon.
Oh, and as to your "armed security" idea, they also had RPGs, and were standing at a location from which US forces had received incoming fire. But I'm sure you're totally right; they couldn't be insurgents. They were just walking around with AKs and RPGs in an active battle area because they wanted to show them off. "Look my american friend! I cleaned them up real nice! You want buy? I give special deal!"
I've got no disagreement there... but regardless of whether they're doing a shit job at rehabilitation, keeping the repeat offenders locked up still makes more sense than catch and release. It's not an either/or proposition though; they certainly should be trying to lower recidivism rates.
I think you meant to write "innocent angels begging desperately for their lives while a busload of nuns swoops in to shield them". If you're going to make up nonsense about what was actually visible and what they reasonably believed, you may as well go all out.
I love how you see a brown guy in grainy footage from a helicopter and imemedaitely know that Iraq is his country. Never mind the thousand of foregin fighters swarming into Iraq in order to start their new caliphate. Never mind the difference between the dozens of various factions of Iraqis fighting each other over control of the country. If they're brown they're all the same; just poor innocent Iraqi freedom fighters bravely resisting the foreign pigdogs!
If only the military hired racist cunts like you to do video analysis they would never have any problems!
I tend to agree, but, remember that the US has a much higher murder rate than most western nations, and those generally do quite often receive life sentences, unlike in many other countries.
Also the US tends to be much harsher on those who comit violent crimes while using a firearm, regardless of whether or not anyone is killed. And, again, the US has a lot more firearms.
Lastly the US tends to be much harsher on repeat offenders, which I tend to agree with. Yes, we should be trying to rehabilitate people, but if they keep doing the same thing over and over again they're probably not prime candidates for rehabilitation.
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That's what they charge NASA. Because they can, and because it's embarrassing. Nobody else pays those rates.
No, the one in front of HQ is the first of the Version 1.2 boosters, which would make it a Block 3.
The first block 4 didn't fly until a year and a half later. It then flew again this April in an expendable configuration, so it is currently at the bottom of the ocean. Maybe that means it's parked outside Elons mad-scientist lair?
By all accounts Soyuz is still cheaper than Falcon.
By which accounts? The Soyuz costs between $40 and $60 million per launch, while the Falcon 9 costs about $62 million. But the Falcon 9 can lift twice as much payload in reusable mode as a Soyuz can when being written off, so that $62 million get you a lot more stuff in orbit. It can lift even more in expendable mode, but that will cost you extra.
Of course the question isn't "which one is cheaper" to the customer; the question is which one is cheaper to actually operate. SpaceX doesn't need to underbid the competition by much since there really isn't that much competition, but you can bet that their profit margin per launch is significantly higher than that of their competitors.
If a space elevator breaks, the parts that are high up (and thus have high energy) disintegrate in the atmosphere
It's neat how you know absolutely everything about the physical properties of this not-yet-invented miracle material. Lighter than spider silk, but strong enough to lift massive load, yet conveniently fragile enough to burn up in the atmosphere. Now you just have to invoke for it the ability to provide free energy and we can call it unobtanoum!
"At some point, our playing God is going to catch up to us."
- Ogg the regressive caveman, 50,000 BC
The Aussie government has still not dealt with the fact that tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were outright kidnapped from their families for a variety of purposes.
What exactly does "dealt with" mean?
It took a band, namely Midnight Oil, to hammer this stuff into the consciousness of the Aussie public, and most still ignored the blatant atrocities.
Hooray for consciousness! Problem solved, right?
The excess packaging part I agree with.
It's cardboard, which isn't a big issue. In many places you can recycle it (which is of dubious value, but that's a different topic) and even if it ends up in a landfill, it's biodegradable. Trees are a renewable resource, so no resource depletion. There's a non-zero energy cost to cutting down the trees and producing the cardboard, but it's pretty small in the grand scheme of things.
Plastic packaging is a different issue. It would be nice if Amazon could get manufacturers to switch to simple cardboard packaging for things sold on Amazon. After all, the reason they have shiny colourful boxes is so they'll look nice on a store shelf, and the reason they use plastic is usually to make the item tamper-proof while it's sitting on that shelf. Neither of those things are applicable to goods sold online, so they could simplify the packaging significantly.
I've got the worst of both worlds; the postal service won't deliver parcels to my house so I have to drive 10 miles to pick up the thing I ordered online.
I've tried to get Amazon to use only FedEx/UPS/etc but apparently there's no option to completely block a carrier, so even after multiple emails to their CSRs the best that they could do was promise to "deprioritize" the standard mail system "if possible".
Their problem isn't lack of electricity; it's lack of stable government combined with an excess of corruption. That's why so much of the aid we send them ends up wasted. You're probably not going to fix that without sending in troops, and nobody has any interest in doing that.
Encrypted data is not information.
Why would they need you to change it?
I don't think you understood what he was talking about ...
If by "very old" you mean Windows 7, and by "odd FS choice" you mean FAT32 and NTFS, then yeah, sure.
I get that message all the time on the work computers because nobody ever bothers properly dismounting the damn flash drives.
The drive records if it was properly ejected or not.
No, it doesn't. The filesystem on the drive might, though, depending on which filesystem it's formatted with.
This used to be an issue with many Linux distributions and NTFS in the past. If you tried to mount an NTFS filesystem which wasn't cleanly dismounted, it would throw an error at you and fail. For other filesystems it didn't matter.
What fucking RPGs? The cameraman had a camera.
The camera was confused for a second RPG and initiated an immediate request to fire because it looked as if it was being aimed at the humvee down the road. There was a different RPG spotted much earlier; about a minute before the cameraman takes up his position you can see a different guy walking around with what appears to be an RPG. The followup army investigation claims that 2 RPGs were recovered at the scene, and the camera recovered from the photographer contained several pictures of a humvee positioned about 100 metres away. All of which, in an area of active ongoing combat operations, makes it pretty clear that the helicopter pilots had a legitimate reason to suspect their targets were insurgents preparing to engage American troops with AK and RPG fire.
Now, you're free to claim that the army is lying about what they recovered, as I'm sure you will, but if you're going to speak on the matter at least inform yourself about it first rather than just drawing asinine conclusions based on total ignorance. Even Assange later admitted that they were probably "armed with AKs and RPGs" but then said that he's "not sure that it matters".
Whatever happened to 'Confirm the target before murdering it'? Or were the US orders on the day to shoot journalists and civilians?
The initial target was confirmed as well as can be expected under the circumstances. Further delay would not have been reasonable. The van is a separate matter; if you were a reasonable person rather than a total jackass you might have made a distinction between the two attacks and argued that while the former was clearly justified the latter seems unnecessarily rushed. But that's far more nuance than I would expect from a nitwit running around screaming about murder.
The rest of you are retarded, then, since the rest of his comment bangs on about assault rifles and not about the word "insurgent". Either he is really shit at communicating his point and you happen to be the same kind of stupid as him ("great minds" think alike), or he really was suggesting that having assault rifles doesn't make you armed because helicopters have armour. Either way, neither of you is taking home any Nobel prizes any time soon.
Oh, and as to your "armed security" idea, they also had RPGs, and were standing at a location from which US forces had received incoming fire. But I'm sure you're totally right; they couldn't be insurgents. They were just walking around with AKs and RPGs in an active battle area because they wanted to show them off. "Look my american friend! I cleaned them up real nice! You want buy? I give special deal!"
I'm sure he'd find some way to phrase it in a way that did.
I've got no disagreement there ... but regardless of whether they're doing a shit job at rehabilitation, keeping the repeat offenders locked up still makes more sense than catch and release. It's not an either/or proposition though; they certainly should be trying to lower recidivism rates.
This is why I come to Slashdot; for the clever repartee. We have only the finest of people!
please tell me which of them is not true
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and which of them is not fucking obvious to the murderers in the helicopter
2, 3, 4, 5
He uses Ruby on Rails, obviously.
I think you meant to write "innocent angels begging desperately for their lives while a busload of nuns swoops in to shield them". If you're going to make up nonsense about what was actually visible and what they reasonably believed, you may as well go all out.
I'm not the racust cunt who was claiming to be able to tell nationality from a helicopter; you were.
If you're comparing bottles of wine to corn, you're a special kind of ignorant.
I love how you see a brown guy in grainy footage from a helicopter and imemedaitely know that Iraq is his country. Never mind the thousand of foregin fighters swarming into Iraq in order to start their new caliphate. Never mind the difference between the dozens of various factions of Iraqis fighting each other over control of the country. If they're brown they're all the same; just poor innocent Iraqi freedom fighters bravely resisting the foreign pigdogs!
If only the military hired racist cunts like you to do video analysis they would never have any problems!
I tend to agree, but, remember that the US has a much higher murder rate than most western nations, and those generally do quite often receive life sentences, unlike in many other countries.
Also the US tends to be much harsher on those who comit violent crimes while using a firearm, regardless of whether or not anyone is killed. And, again, the US has a lot more firearms.
Lastly the US tends to be much harsher on repeat offenders, which I tend to agree with. Yes, we should be trying to rehabilitate people, but if they keep doing the same thing over and over again they're probably not prime candidates for rehabilitation.