But the first thing you should ask a police officer is "Am I detained, sir/ma'am?"
I'd ditch the sir/ma'am. It immediately puts you in a position of showing respect to the individual (even if you only meant it to their uniform) and while I wouldn't show contempt, I think it's important to demonstrate that they have no superiority over you.
My interactions with the police (in the UK, Germany, America and Morocco) have all been respectful and relaxed, without use of honorifics. Even when I've broken the law, an opening smile and relaxed greeting has massively helped the subsequent conversation.
No. The police work for an agreed sum, and they have already earned their retirement income. Do not steal from them.
If they're breaking the law then arrest and prosecute the individuals involved. If they're not breaking the law then change the law or accept that they're acting legally, in which case there is no case to answer.
So tow it behind the sub. Grab onto it with external brackets. Launch it from a large surface ship. Drop it in the water in Murmansk and let it drive to New York.
2) How far away from the launching submarine would 100 Mt warhead need to be?
6200 miles is probably enough.
3) How is an 'intercontinental torpedo' propelled? It seems the propulsion system would add more weight to an already heavy concept
I'm guessing they put an engine of some form onto it.
Weight is less of a concern in the sea. Things weighing 97000 tons float on top of it, I'm guessing this will come in a bit lighter.
4) How is it guided? GPS won't work because it's underwater. Submarines use all sorts of subtle techniques like passive sonar to avoid revealing their location and ultra low frequency radio transmissions. A human crew on a sub can do this. It's far from clear a drone submarine is viable
With a 100MT detonation you don't need to be terribly precise. Not to mention ease with which you could just float up a GPS receiver (or other radio based navigation device) every few hundred miles to confirm position and course-correct.
5) Why salt the bomb? That would poison the oceans over a vast area.
At last a sensible question. I don't know the answer to this one.
Note also that it's never been tested. And I'm not talking about the bomb, I'm talking about the torpedo. Until it goes through a real test, it's not worth wasting time with.
How do you know? It's not exactly hard to test. Launch it in the South Atlantic, see if it gets home.
He didn't use capable at all. That word isn't in his entire memo; you may need to read it as there is distressingly little accurate reporting of its contents anywhere on major news sites.
the largely untapped labor pool of female software engineers. There's a dirty joke in there somewhere
Yes, the joke being that this supposed pool exists.
Convince women to enter programming jobs instead of medical ones, or to become software engineers instead of teachers, and maybe that pool will exist.
As a side benefit there'll be a shortage of doctors, nurses and teachers so more men will enter those professions, reducing the male demand for programming jobs.
It's a win in both directions. Except for the poor fuckers now working in a job entirely unsuited to their individual needs and expectations.
Opinions can create a toxic culture that hurts collaboration and diversity.
So can actions and policies. As evidence, I give you Google. The insights into that company's working environment portray a very toxic environment, especially if you're unfortunate enough to be white and male.
Attempting to prove that individuals or a class within a company may be inferior helps contribute to a toxic culture.
Who did that? It sounds like Google management attempted to create an inferior class within the company by giving training and opportunities only to members of privileged classes, but I wasn't aware that anybody had tried to prove that individuals or a class may be inferior.
While Google may have made mistakes and may legally be in trouble, the memo reeked.
If we're lucky we'll get a court ruling on whether Google made mistakes.
However, how did the memo reek? Are you saying that promoting diversity and suggesting ways to make a less toxic and more welcoming workplace are a bad thing? Just that, that's what the memo did..
I'm fucking bewildered by all this BMW hate. You and a dozen others, all spouting bullshit that doesn't match my experience, or that of people I know.
I owned a 1 series BMW. It was fucking awesome. By far the best car I've owned.
It ran well, it didn't break down, it handled beautifully, it was just an excellent car. It was also relatively economical to run, fun to drive and didn't depreciate any faster than other cars.
I can't get an equivalent Japanese, Korean or American car. My BMW wasn't cheap but it was good value for money.
He was rather good at leading a country at war though. Indeed, it could be an interesting debate whether Gallipoli was actually the greatest success of the first world war, because it helped develop the man that contributed so much to winning the second.
Hmm. Most/all of the people I've worked for have had lower IQ than me. Several of them have stated this themselves.
I still valued the good ones for the work they did, the help they gave me and the outcomes we delivered.
I've worked with people that have comparable or superior intelligence and they've exhibited all of the personality variances of everybody else. Some are joyfully self aware, others almost need a full time carer. I haven't known any of them complain that their manager for being less intelligent.
I do want seriously intelligent leaders at the organisation, but they don't have to be running the show, and they don't have to be my manager. CEO is a communication and coordination role, not a thinking one; they can pay the intelligent people to do the thinking for them.
Also very frightening. If the claim is that Clinton is hyper intelligent that she must have known she was talking utter shit and that proves she was being malicious, rather than merely deluded.
Yeah, my professional life is Step 1 - spot the opportunity Step 2 - work out how to deliver on that opportunity Step 3 - try and convey that in ways that others can comprehend
It's why I mostly stopped programming. Programming is steps 1 and 2, where step 3 is generally the difficult bit. Difficult means it's fun, and getting it right is very rewarding.
My intellect means I can produce outputs from step 2 that a lot of people couldn't, but that's worthless without step 3. I've had to get scarily good at that too - and faking compassion, empathy and EQ definitely comes into it.
Yeah, maybe I'm underestimating nine year olds but I'd go for something like:
Einstein is famous because he was bloody intelligent, did a lot of thinking about stuff nobody had thought about before, and shared his thoughts with people. They found this useful, thanked him for it and invited him to lots of parties.
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I don't think that was his argument.
The loss of his bike is also likely to be significantly higher impact to him than the impact from the loss of the phones to the company.
I'm also confused why you mentioned where he lives?
The phones alone weigh 52kg, and I'd double that to cover the packaging, chargers, etc. This isn't a slim box you can tuck under your arm.
Thieves stealing GPS-equipped gadgets activating one with all the loot nearby, do not exist anymore.
You seriously overestimate the intelligence of thieves.
Don't forget, if they were in the upper echelons of the intelligence spectrum they'd be making far more with lower risk white collar crimes.
But the first thing you should ask a police officer is "Am I detained, sir/ma'am?"
I'd ditch the sir/ma'am. It immediately puts you in a position of showing respect to the individual (even if you only meant it to their uniform) and while I wouldn't show contempt, I think it's important to demonstrate that they have no superiority over you.
My interactions with the police (in the UK, Germany, America and Morocco) have all been respectful and relaxed, without use of honorifics. Even when I've broken the law, an opening smile and relaxed greeting has massively helped the subsequent conversation.
No. The police work for an agreed sum, and they have already earned their retirement income. Do not steal from them.
If they're breaking the law then arrest and prosecute the individuals involved. If they're not breaking the law then change the law or accept that they're acting legally, in which case there is no case to answer.
While true, that's the mechanical effect. What's the geopolitical strategy here?
Apparently someone's done a 10 minute lap of the Nurburgring in a Tesla. So only two minutes slower than a Ford Transit van.
I believe the main benefit is that the US can no longer launch first, relying on its ABM defences to prevent retaliation.
With this thing around, they can still launch first, but only if they're willing to wave goodbye to major US coastal cities.
It's enormous. Way larger than a torpedo tube.
So tow it behind the sub. Grab onto it with external brackets. Launch it from a large surface ship. Drop it in the water in Murmansk and let it drive to New York.
2) How far away from the launching submarine would 100 Mt warhead need to be?
6200 miles is probably enough.
3) How is an 'intercontinental torpedo' propelled? It seems the propulsion system would add more weight to an already heavy concept
I'm guessing they put an engine of some form onto it.
Weight is less of a concern in the sea. Things weighing 97000 tons float on top of it, I'm guessing this will come in a bit lighter.
4) How is it guided? GPS won't work because it's underwater. Submarines use all sorts of subtle techniques like passive sonar to avoid revealing their location and ultra low frequency radio transmissions. A human crew on a sub can do this. It's far from clear a drone submarine is viable
With a 100MT detonation you don't need to be terribly precise. Not to mention ease with which you could just float up a GPS receiver (or other radio based navigation device) every few hundred miles to confirm position and course-correct.
5) Why salt the bomb? That would poison the oceans over a vast area.
At last a sensible question. I don't know the answer to this one.
Note also that it's never been tested. And I'm not talking about the bomb, I'm talking about the torpedo. Until it goes through a real test, it's not worth wasting time with.
How do you know? It's not exactly hard to test. Launch it in the South Atlantic, see if it gets home.
Well, it'll benefit them more than most people, in that many of them struggle to understand facial expressions at any level.
Sure, it might lead to others misunderstanding them, but fuck it, that already happens.
He didn't use capable at all. That word isn't in his entire memo; you may need to read it as there is distressingly little accurate reporting of its contents anywhere on major news sites.
the largely untapped labor pool of female software engineers. There's a dirty joke in there somewhere
Yes, the joke being that this supposed pool exists.
Convince women to enter programming jobs instead of medical ones, or to become software engineers instead of teachers, and maybe that pool will exist.
As a side benefit there'll be a shortage of doctors, nurses and teachers so more men will enter those professions, reducing the male demand for programming jobs.
It's a win in both directions. Except for the poor fuckers now working in a job entirely unsuited to their individual needs and expectations.
Opinions can create a toxic culture that hurts collaboration and diversity.
So can actions and policies. As evidence, I give you Google. The insights into that company's working environment portray a very toxic environment, especially if you're unfortunate enough to be white and male.
Attempting to prove that individuals or a class within a company may be inferior helps contribute to a toxic culture.
Who did that? It sounds like Google management attempted to create an inferior class within the company by giving training and opportunities only to members of privileged classes, but I wasn't aware that anybody had tried to prove that individuals or a class may be inferior.
While Google may have made mistakes and may legally be in trouble, the memo reeked.
If we're lucky we'll get a court ruling on whether Google made mistakes.
However, how did the memo reek? Are you saying that promoting diversity and suggesting ways to make a less toxic and more welcoming workplace are a bad thing? Just that, that's what the memo did..
While happy to use internet search engines, 'the mission' is hardly a unique fucking term.
Be very fucking glad people aren't asking where the shithole called San Francisco is.
Cost too much. Works like crap.
I'm fucking bewildered by all this BMW hate. You and a dozen others, all spouting bullshit that doesn't match my experience, or that of people I know.
I owned a 1 series BMW. It was fucking awesome. By far the best car I've owned.
It ran well, it didn't break down, it handled beautifully, it was just an excellent car. It was also relatively economical to run, fun to drive and didn't depreciate any faster than other cars.
I can't get an equivalent Japanese, Korean or American car. My BMW wasn't cheap but it was good value for money.
That's strange, I could swear the French and British military leadership won a world war.
Pershing had the advantage of several years of other people learning the hard way on his behalf.
He was rather good at leading a country at war though. Indeed, it could be an interesting debate whether Gallipoli was actually the greatest success of the first world war, because it helped develop the man that contributed so much to winning the second.
The lying, misogyny, insensitivity, bellicosity, narcissism and over-compensated inferiority complex have nothing to do with intelligence
We're still talking about Churchill, yeah?
Hmm. Most/all of the people I've worked for have had lower IQ than me. Several of them have stated this themselves.
I still valued the good ones for the work they did, the help they gave me and the outcomes we delivered.
I've worked with people that have comparable or superior intelligence and they've exhibited all of the personality variances of everybody else. Some are joyfully self aware, others almost need a full time carer. I haven't known any of them complain that their manager for being less intelligent.
I do want seriously intelligent leaders at the organisation, but they don't have to be running the show, and they don't have to be my manager. CEO is a communication and coordination role, not a thinking one; they can pay the intelligent people to do the thinking for them.
Also very frightening. If the claim is that Clinton is hyper intelligent that she must have known she was talking utter shit and that proves she was being malicious, rather than merely deluded.
You're digging into the differences between management and leadership.
Too few managers (and their employees) do this.
Good leaders don't need to be a manager to get someone to change what they're doing, how they're doing it or why they do it.
Yeah, my professional life is
Step 1 - spot the opportunity
Step 2 - work out how to deliver on that opportunity
Step 3 - try and convey that in ways that others can comprehend
It's why I mostly stopped programming. Programming is steps 1 and 2, where step 3 is generally the difficult bit. Difficult means it's fun, and getting it right is very rewarding.
My intellect means I can produce outputs from step 2 that a lot of people couldn't, but that's worthless without step 3. I've had to get scarily good at that too - and faking compassion, empathy and EQ definitely comes into it.
Shame about all the military action undertaken under his purview, and he flat out lied about closing the torture camp in Cuba.
Biggest way to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize imaginable. It now has no worth at all.
Yeah, maybe I'm underestimating nine year olds but I'd go for something like:
Einstein is famous because he was bloody intelligent, did a lot of thinking about stuff nobody had thought about before, and shared his thoughts with people. They found this useful, thanked him for it and invited him to lots of parties.