Two aircraft flying in V formation are more efficient than two aircraft flying 500 metres apart side-by-side.
One larger aircraft is more efficient than two aircraft.
But feel free to construct a model, build a wind tunnel and do some testing - if you're right, there's an entire industry interested in buying your idea from you.
How much are those boxes? What's the cost to install them everywhere? What's our likelihood of a lawsuit?
Multiply by the 78 other devices that might save a life one flight in 400 million.
Or just accept that airline travel is already exceedingly safe, and surprisingly cheap, and choose to fly or not.
should a giant plane smacking into the water allow for such a thing.
Technically, yes - see the Hudson river landing for a fine example. But see my point above, and accept that sometimes you hit the sea so hard you die from the impact, sometimes you drown, and sometimes - if you're lucky, just like 28 million other people that day - you land safely at your destination.
I haven't seen evidence that the population wants to be part of Russia.
Why should they have to abandon their homes because of some international treaty with a government that no longer exists.
Who is making them abandon homes? Must be something the UK media isn't reporting. I hadn't heard of any ethnic (or nationalistic) cleansing taking place.
Incidentally, the treaty still exists - it's with the nation, not the government of the time.
Given the attitude of Russians to gay people, I'd say propaganda is alive and kicking there.
You don't need propaganda everywhere for a world war, just enough success within the aggressors. Or do you expect the rest of the world to lie down and roll over?
ignore the neo-fascist coup in Kyev, and worse, encourage fascist to violate the NPT and arm themselves with nukes, lovely
You don't have to invade the Crimea to query the validity of the government in Kiev. The easiest way to avoid the "neo-fascists" arming themselves with nukes is to withdraw from the Crimea.
Calling what's happening in Crimea an occupation is like saying the US is occupying Japan, Jordan, Saudi and dozens of others due to Okinawa and its other military bases- the Black Sea Fleet has been stationed in Sevastopol even before there was a Ukraine. Further, Russia's military presence in Crimea is in line with the terms agree upon by Russia, Ukraine, The Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Semi-Autonomous Special Region of Sevastopol.
Bullshit. The terms agreed by Russia and Ukraine do not include laying siege and threatening assault on Ukrainian military bases, which is what Russian troops are doing.
Incidentally, what the fuck is this mythical 'Autonomous Republic of Crimea'?
Plopping down missile systems on Russia's doorstep and trying to encircle it is an act of aggression.
Building strong defences is an act of aggression only to the paranoid.
Some of us remember who crushed the fascist when Europe turned a blind eye last time, and what it cost us.
Who the fuck turned a blind eye last time? And yes, it cost us the world's largest and greatest Empire.
Now, fuck off with your blatant propaganda. Maybe this works in Russia but the rest of us have the advantage of an education.
These are not school exams, these are external exams that the school administers.
All the students are sitting exactly the same are they not?
No. Subjugated girls being kept in ignorance by religious fuckwits are sitting an exam with fewer questions than well educated students at other schools.
Otherwise it's the same exam, but the girls at that particular school will fail to get the top marks, because they automatically score 0 for the questions that were removed from their papers.
I haven't checked with my current employer, but at my previous company (a bank) their MITM attacks had a whitelist that they would ignore.
Major UK banks were on the whitelist. I could log into my bank site through a secure HTTPS link, with no corporate inspection of my packets.
Of course, people worrying about the MITM attack on their bank details are all ignoring the other obvious vector: Your employer can use (and often has pre-installed, ready for activation) keyloggers and/or screen capture software to monitor your activity. They don't need to 'sniff' your banking details, they can capture them at source.
It's the employer's network, the employer's PC, the employer's choice what to do with it. Use your own devices on your own networks if you want any security.
I'm sure it was all a bit more violent in Call of Duty. Guess the game got it wrong.
Defacing some websites and such is just part of the show, and is probably the nature of things to come
Settling the future of the Crimea with a face-off between graffiti artists may sound juvenile but it's probably better than mobiling a million soldiers and wrecking a couple of thousand tanks.
I'm impressed that both sides have avoided a hot war so far. If I were Ukrainian I'd be using force to retake those strategic centres as a point of principle.
Getting bored and losing concentration isn't a lack of 'want', it's getting bored and losing concentration.
Incidentally, I'd get bored and lose concentration, and that makes the problem hard. I'd make it easy by finding a way of automating it.
That's less boring and therefore more engaging, and I'm less likely to lose concentration and fuck it up. You also gain a repeatable solution, so it's better too.
Intelligent people make poor production line workers. They lose concentration and fuck up.
Every company I've worked for (since, and including bar work and waiting on tables) has had female management, and only once ever have I seen any disrespect on gender grounds - and technically that was less disrespect and more inappropriate admission of lust.
a non-trivial segment of men in her industry/department have a problem with women in charge
No, re-reading it still feels weird. Where are you, Saudi Back-in-the-Middle-Ages Arabia or somewhere?
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A quick google search says a cheap satellite is $300 million. I'm not sure how many we would need, but it would not be a small number.
Nah. A cheap satellite is £50k, maybe £80k including deployment into orbit.
For $300m you can build a fucking big, fucking complex satellite and it's fucking expensive.
Two aircraft flying in V formation are more efficient than two aircraft flying 500 metres apart side-by-side.
One larger aircraft is more efficient than two aircraft.
But feel free to construct a model, build a wind tunnel and do some testing - if you're right, there's an entire industry interested in buying your idea from you.
Plus, technically they weren't lost. We know where they ended up. In landfill.
I mean, in the wreckage of the two-towers.
How much are those boxes? What's the cost to install them everywhere? What's our likelihood of a lawsuit?
Multiply by the 78 other devices that might save a life one flight in 400 million.
Or just accept that airline travel is already exceedingly safe, and surprisingly cheap, and choose to fly or not.
should a giant plane smacking into the water allow for such a thing.
Technically, yes - see the Hudson river landing for a fine example. But see my point above, and accept that sometimes you hit the sea so hard you die from the impact, sometimes you drown, and sometimes - if you're lucky, just like 28 million other people that day - you land safely at your destination.
Once again, the free market fails where regulation would succeed - the former can only correct for the future AFTER everyone's dead and un-buried.
They'd be just as fucking dead even if you knew where to find the bodies.
Apple are acting like total cunts.
Whether they're in the right or wrong, under current patent law, they're still acting like total cunts.
No comment on how that compares to their customers.
Georgia? Come on, at least pretend to be credible.
They are effective deterrents. "Withdraw or lose Moscow, St Petersburg, Sochi and all of your naval bases"
it is hardly surprising that the Crimea is running with open arms to Russia
You say 'running with open arms', I say 'prodded with bayonet equipped guns'. Funny how things can look differently depending who you believe.
I haven't seen evidence that the population wants to be part of Russia.
Why should they have to abandon their homes because of some international treaty with a government that no longer exists.
Who is making them abandon homes? Must be something the UK media isn't reporting. I hadn't heard of any ethnic (or nationalistic) cleansing taking place.
Incidentally, the treaty still exists - it's with the nation, not the government of the time.
Given the attitude of Russians to gay people, I'd say propaganda is alive and kicking there.
You don't need propaganda everywhere for a world war, just enough success within the aggressors. Or do you expect the rest of the world to lie down and roll over?
Astroturfing.
ignore the neo-fascist coup in Kyev, and worse, encourage fascist to violate the NPT and arm themselves with nukes, lovely
You don't have to invade the Crimea to query the validity of the government in Kiev. The easiest way to avoid the "neo-fascists" arming themselves with nukes is to withdraw from the Crimea.
Calling what's happening in Crimea an occupation is like saying the US is occupying Japan, Jordan, Saudi and dozens of others due to Okinawa and its other military bases- the Black Sea Fleet has been stationed in Sevastopol even before there was a Ukraine. Further, Russia's military presence in Crimea is in line with the terms agree upon by Russia, Ukraine, The Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Semi-Autonomous Special Region of Sevastopol.
Bullshit. The terms agreed by Russia and Ukraine do not include laying siege and threatening assault on Ukrainian military bases, which is what Russian troops are doing.
Incidentally, what the fuck is this mythical 'Autonomous Republic of Crimea'?
Plopping down missile systems on Russia's doorstep and trying to encircle it is an act of aggression.
Building strong defences is an act of aggression only to the paranoid.
Some of us remember who crushed the fascist when Europe turned a blind eye last time, and what it cost us.
Who the fuck turned a blind eye last time? And yes, it cost us the world's largest and greatest Empire.
Now, fuck off with your blatant propaganda. Maybe this works in Russia but the rest of us have the advantage of an education.
I think your scenario fails around the Polish factors.
The rest is plausible.
I've never been in a job since university where I have a 'supervisor'. I've had managers, but their role has never been to supervise me.
I don't want a supervisor. I want someone I can work with, not for. Generally I achieve this.
I worry that I _am_ that layer of ineffective management.
These are not school exams, these are external exams that the school administers.
All the students are sitting exactly the same are they not?
No. Subjugated girls being kept in ignorance by religious fuckwits are sitting an exam with fewer questions than well educated students at other schools.
Otherwise it's the same exam, but the girls at that particular school will fail to get the top marks, because they automatically score 0 for the questions that were removed from their papers.
I haven't checked with my current employer, but at my previous company (a bank) their MITM attacks had a whitelist that they would ignore.
Major UK banks were on the whitelist. I could log into my bank site through a secure HTTPS link, with no corporate inspection of my packets.
Of course, people worrying about the MITM attack on their bank details are all ignoring the other obvious vector: Your employer can use (and often has pre-installed, ready for activation) keyloggers and/or screen capture software to monitor your activity. They don't need to 'sniff' your banking details, they can capture them at source.
It's the employer's network, the employer's PC, the employer's choice what to do with it. Use your own devices on your own networks if you want any security.
No more boxes / discs
Digital Convenience
Retail games stores close
Portal 1 isn't free.
My copy of Portal was given to me for free by Valve.
They haven't revoked my ownership even though they currently charge for it.
Russia knows its hold on the bases is a bit like the US at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base or the UK in Gibraltar or the Falkland Islands.
Will people keep stopping with this bullshit.
Gibralter and the Falklands are not leased military bases. They're self-governing British overseas territories, which is very different.
The Falklands barely had a military presence until the Argies got uppity about it.
This is what modern warfare looks like.
I'm sure it was all a bit more violent in Call of Duty. Guess the game got it wrong.
Defacing some websites and such is just part of the show, and is probably the nature of things to come
Settling the future of the Crimea with a face-off between graffiti artists may sound juvenile but it's probably better than mobiling a million soldiers and wrecking a couple of thousand tanks.
I'm impressed that both sides have avoided a hot war so far. If I were Ukrainian I'd be using force to retake those strategic centres as a point of principle.
Technically four, if you include Afghanistan. Well, bits of it.
Getting bored and losing concentration isn't a lack of 'want', it's getting bored and losing concentration.
Incidentally, I'd get bored and lose concentration, and that makes the problem hard. I'd make it easy by finding a way of automating it.
That's less boring and therefore more engaging, and I'm less likely to lose concentration and fuck it up. You also gain a repeatable solution, so it's better too.
Intelligent people make poor production line workers. They lose concentration and fuck up.
It's a fair point. I don't use my telephone when I'm driving, hands-free or otherwise, because it would be too distracting.
I find that fascinating. Where do you live?
Every company I've worked for (since, and including bar work and waiting on tables) has had female management, and only once ever have I seen any disrespect on gender grounds - and technically that was less disrespect and more inappropriate admission of lust.
a non-trivial segment of men in her industry/department have a problem with women in charge
No, re-reading it still feels weird. Where are you, Saudi Back-in-the-Middle-Ages Arabia or somewhere?