You are making a PRESUMPTION that the transponders were turned off by hand. There is still the possibility of a fire or some other case. This is why recovery of the FDR's is so important. The pilots may not have been on the radio, but the FDR's record everything they say. The conversations between flight crew is crucial, along with all the airplane data.
This.
Until we have the flight recorder and the data is analysed no-one knows what is going on. Fire or equipment failure combined with a lack of oxygen (despite the atmosphere being fed by bleed air, if there was a plane wide electrical failure the air-conditioner pump/compressors would still fail) in light plane crashes, it's not uncommon for the cause to be oxygen starvation, the pilot passes out and the plane continues on auto until it runs out of fuel.
If the landlord needs to upgrade the piping in the building, you can't prevent him. And I'd bet you bottom dollar the same is true in Europe or anywhere else. Any other rule is patently stupid.
How much do you want to bet. In Australia a landlord or representative requires permission to enter, may not enter the premises without the landlord (or their representative) being present or providing their express permission if they are unable to be present. I believe we inherited this from Europe. Above this, a landlord must provide 7 days notice in writing.
One has very suphisticated air-to-air capability; the other has none.
Both fire missiles. That is all. The cheapest missile wins, and that's the drone. There hasn't been "dogfights" on any mass scale since Vietnam.
Odd that you mention Vietnam. When the US went into Vietnam with the F4 Phantom II, they weren't equipped with cannons because the US air force believed that the age of dogfighting was over due to missiles. Experiences in Vietnam proved this assumption false and the F4 Phantom was redesigned with a cannon.
Also, you're wrong.
- Arab-Israeli wars, F15 and 16's fought Mig 21 and 25's.
- Falklands War (1985) British sea harriers fought Argentine Mirage III and Daggers.
- Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), not only did it see many fixed wing dogfights, it was the first confirmed helicopter dogfight between an Iranian AH1 and Iraqi HIND.
- Desert Storm (1991).
- Balkans conflict (1999), to be fair, this was only 1 dogfight.
The advent of air to air and ground to air guided missiles didn't eliminate dogfights, it just changed the parameters. Aircraft still get in close combat (especially since missiles fired from long range are more susceptible to countermeasures.
Successful, groundbreaking products are loved at first sight.
You didn't think about that very well did you.
When cars were invented, the US govt limited their speed to 10 MPH as not to compete with horses.
Television - work of the devil, video games - work of the devil (some still believe this).
In fact it's quite the opposite, any disruptive technology will create a huge amount of resistance, this resistance builds up myths around it. Take mobile phones and radiation, despite it being conclusively proven that EM emitted from mobile phones is harmless and less powerful than EM generated in nature the myth that mobile phones cause harmful radiation continues unabated.
I expect that getting beaten up, arrested and the like will make even the worst glasshole realize that what they are doing is completely unacceptable.
It looks like you still believe people are rational. Stop that.
The Glasshole who gets beaten up will simply ascribe that behaviour to someone else flaw (well to be fair, they'd be half right, resorting to violence demonstrates that person has a problem) instead of analysing their own behaviour. It doesn't matter how much others try to link the violence to their behaviour with Google Glass, people who are sociopath enough to ignore polite requests will continue to deny that their behaviour is a problem no matter how bad it gets. In fact the more violence that's used against them, the more they will play the victim card.
I strongly recommend against violence for dealing with Glassholes because they'll never link it to their own bad behaviour. In fact I strongly recommend against violence for any reason, it should always be a last resort.
I like the concept of Google Glass, however I'm not a Glasshole and will gladly remove/deactivate the glasses when asked. I certainly understand why a lot of places don't want them used and if I frequent these places I'll comply with their wishes/policies. I like the concept, but I don't like the way some people will use them and it sucks that even polite Glass users will get labelled as Glassholes.
You do know that they are quite useless against ANPR systems. Most digital cameras can ignore or filter IR these days, even your cheap $75 point and shoot wont be stopped by it.
You don't have to be a Michael Straczynski to know that B5 had a "beginning of the story" and an "end of the story". One of the best decisions that Mr. Straczynski ever made was to allow the story to end (and end grandly I also have to say).
Too many cheap crap-hounds (*cough*couch*abrams*cough*) try to extend a story as long as they are able to squeeze money out of it and are eventually revealed to have no idea what they were doing or where they were going with it. Straczynski told a really great story that ended i a really great way. Live and art have to move on.
I think Stargate SG1 was a far better example of a show that dragged on far too long. Seasons 1-8 were good, then 9 turned to crap and they had to kill it in 10. They'd tied up all of the story lines and loose ends by the end of season 8. I wouldn't have minded a 6th season to Atlantis but to be honest, I'm happier it ended earlier on a high note than dragging on.
Sure, until the DNS steering comittee becomes headed by the representatives of Iran, North Korea, Pakistan and Jemen.
that would be a good thing.
Iran, Pakistan and North Korea would never even be able to agree on what to have for lunch. Hell, Iran and Pakistan would be at each others throats (Shiite Persians and Suni Arabs, so they'd block each other just because of that) and North Korea is completely ineffectual. It would be deadlock, leaving DNS implementers to their own devices.
Red rice yeast is as effective as statins at lowering cholesterol, without liver side effects statin pills. Yet FDA bans sale of supplements calibrated to have enough active components.
If people who believe vitamin supplements work were included in this study, that number would be a hell of a lot higher than "nearly 50%".
Psst. The FDA controls the import of Red Rice Yeast because it *contains a statin*. Any red rice yeast you can buy on the shelf has had the naturally occurring statin removed.
Erm... that does not mean vitamin supplements work, in fact your own post says the FDA prohibits substances that have an active ingredient powerful enough to have an effect.
It's like the morons who claim all gluten free foods are good for you whilst they ignore that polonium is gluten free.
If people understood the science behind nutrition, they'd see things like vitamin supplement as the scam they are. You get more vitamins out of fruit and vegetables then supplements with 3-4 times the dosage.
Sorry, there's too many reasons why not to get it and very little reason to get it.
I'm normally against technologies that are designed to make the driver dumber (lane assist, brake assist, parking assist) but in this case, I'm for it. Falling asleep at the wheel is dangerous. I once fell asleep behind the wheel, I managed to turn around two corners (and I drive a manual) before I woke up. I'm not sure if I was actually asleep but I cant remember how I got from street A to street B. Scared the living crap out of me and I stopped for a break as soon as I could find a park. Fatigue is the third biggest killer on Australian roads after Speed and Drug and Alcohol and unlike the other two, fatigue is hard for a driver to detect and manage.
Volvo is normally pretty good with safety features, but the one concern I have is that it will be ignored with all the blips, beep and bloops the average modern car bombards the driver with (one of the major reasons I rail against driver assist technologies is because it encourages bad drivers to ignore warning beeps and lights by flooding them with pointless beeps and lights). I test drove a new VW Polo with my GF last year, when I asked the dealer about the beeps he said "oh, you'll get used to that"... SWMBO ended up getting a Mazda 2 without all the crap (and probably dodged a bullet with the VW tranny problems) but she knows how to stay in her lane without assistance.
Red rice yeast is as effective as statins at lowering cholesterol, without liver side effects statin pills. Yet FDA bans sale of supplements calibrated to have enough active components.
If people who believe vitamin supplements work were included in this study, that number would be a hell of a lot higher than "nearly 50%".
[The Cigarette Industry] fought tooth and nail to hide, obfuscate, deny, gloss over, etc... the truth. And in the end, they REALLY got it in the ass because of their actions.
In 2010, the combined profits of the six leading tobacco companies was U.S. $35.1 billion, equal to the combined profits of Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and McDonald’s in the same year. (Tobacco Industry Profits) It looks like the tobacco industry is doing just fine. They made a lot of money while manipulating public perception, and they are making a lot of money after losing that battle. By holding out and making as much profits as they could for as long as they could, it doesn't look like they sacrificed their future profitability at all.
Helps when your product is addictive.
Also, future cancer victims, erm... I mean smokers in Oz always complain about tax forcing up the price of smokes... they never consider that the manufacturers are just as bad (except that the money that goes to Phillip Morris doesn't build hospitals).
... ah yes, but can you see the road, riding with it??:P
He's on a murdercycle making it a self correcting problem. If he's too busy paying attention to his phone to watch the road, someone will be getting a new heart, lung and kidney kidney in short order.
Putin can call the US hippocrites all he wants, but at least when the US invades someplace we don't plant evidence to justify it.
Yes, the US simply pretends the evidence exists, even when there's proof to the contrary (there are still some Americans who think there actually were chemical weapons in Iraq).
Whilst I agree that something needs to be done in regards to the Crimea, meeting the Russians with force is a huge mistake. From the Russian perspective, a US led invasion (they dont care if it's lead by the UK, Germany or even Belize, as long as the US i involved their propagandists will say it's US led) will be used to rally the people behind Putin against the imperialists. This only servs to solidify Putin's position and silences his dissenters by presenting an external threat.
Also Russia wont be a pushover like Iraq was, you wont be facing dilapidated T54's, Russia has T90's and on paper, they may not be a match for a Abrams or Challenger 2, they've got a lot more of them. Same with Airpower. Given that the Ukraine is right next door to Russia and they'll be able to mobilise their entire force much faster than the NATO allies could, it is likely to be a route.
However, if economic pressure was applied, it would affect Putin's popularity. Despite the perceptions of those who have a hard on for sending others off to war, economic sanctions are quite effective especially when there is already dissent. The US and USSR used them to topple quiet a few governments (Yugoslavia in 1968, Chile in 1973), economic sanctions imposed by the Commonwealth of Nations had a huge part in ending Apartheid in South Africa and the US and Canada used economic sanctions to enforce nuclear non-proliferation treaties in the 70's and 80's.
But we don't need to topple Putin's government, we just have to make it more expensive to stay then to go, Russia is very dependent on exports into the EU for a large portion of their GDP where as the EU doesn't depends exclusively on Russian Imports. By applying economic pressure, instead of galvanising the people behind Putin, we push them to blame Putin. It'll take time, but it wont cost millions of lives.
Sorry, what? Are you comparing defending of a sovereign state to staging of an election within an all-of-a-sudden-separatist region in order to justify an invasion?
Yes I'd nip it in the bud. Once the American colonies wanted to become separate and just look where that got us;-)
To be fair it was the Irish and Scots who started it... Look how that ended up.
So you are an advocate of Peace for our time? Splendid. I'm sure it will work out just as well now as it did then, just like the pacifist movement in Europe helped.... to keep the various nations from rearmament and at the mercy of the fascist powers.
So you're an advocate of war over any other form of deterrence. Splendid, we saw how that turned out in 1914, which directly lead to the Treaty of Versailles and the rise of Fascism in Europe.
As the OP said, feel free to go join the Ukrainian army. I'm sure they'd welcome a keyboard warrior with no grasp on the real world (or even history for that matter).
There's plenty of more recent examples of how rushing off to war to effect change only made things worse, Vietnam, Iraq part 2...
This whole post is exactly on point. If I were given the choice to be Chamberlain or Churchill, I'd pick Churchill every time.
Check the co-signatories on that piece of paper.
Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Chamberlains government. Churchill was an advocate of peace, to quote him "jaw jaw is better than war war".
You may also want to check who signed that declaration of war. Churchill wasn't Prime Minister until 1940.
It amazes me how little some Americans know about how WWII actually started...
If you're in rural America, SUVs do make sense, but suburbanites like the larger gas guzzler status of the SUV.
SUV's don't even make sense there as most SUV's are not 4 Wheel Drive, a lot are FWD (Front Wheel Drive) which really makes them an overweight hatchback. In rural areas you need actual 4WD capable cars with a proper low range gearbox. Something like a Nissan Patrol, Toyota Landcruiser or even a Land Rover Disco. Even Ford's F series Utes are likely to get bogged being RWD (all that torque is good for is digging a hole when you're stuck), a suburbanite SUV like a Chevy Captiva or BMW X series will have no chance on anything that is not sealed and slightly damp.
The S in SUV should really stand for Suburban, because they aren't sporty by any stretch of the imagination and that's the only place they're used.
The key problem with such an elegant vehicle is that it fails the "Gives better than it got" crash test. SUVs and pickup trucks are popular because people perceive that they are driving a tank and will fare better against the various pop-cans out there. Quite simply if you are in a BMW X5 and have a head on with a prius then you may very well limp away with the prius crew ending up in body bags. With this perception then a vehicle like this will not get much of an audience beyond a few hipsters.
Which is sad because it's incorrect. If you're in a BMW X5 and you have a head on with a Prius you're more likely to roll than the Prius as rolling causes more head and neck injuries and it's the head and neck injuries that are the big killer. So in a low speed crash, the Prius' low centre of gravity means lateral movement does not turn into a roll, where as the high centre of gravity in the X5 means it will. Sure the Prius will look worse for wear and the X5 will look less damaged, but the occupants in the Prius will have less chance of injury... one of the man reasons is because the Prius looks worse for wear, a lot warped and ablated off the car in the impact, taking kinetic energy with it (crumple zones are the second biggest life saver after the automatic seat belt tensioner).
I actually like this comment, because it brings up one of the major idiosyncrasies of how we buy cars. Specifically, we buy cars that meet all of our needs, as opposed to buying cars that meet our most frequent needs, and we can only really afford one vehicle per driver.
Consider my household growing up (I know, I know, plural of anecdote is not data, but this is just an example). Growing up we always had two vehicles - one minivan, and one smaller sedan. This was mostly fine - my dad took the car to work, and my mom had the van for driving the kids around, doing groceries, etc... The sedan got much more use, and the van mostly stayed in the driveway, except when it needed to be used for something a sedan can't handle. But when my mom went back to work, the van had to be used for the daily commute. And this eats gas like crazy. You shouldn't be driving a minivan with only one person in it, but because we couldn't afford a third car (a sedan to get my mom to and from work) and because we still needed the minivan for groceries & family trips, a huge amount of gas gets wasted hauling one person around.
This,
A lot of people have two cars, even if they don't have a family. They have a daily car that is used for going to work, doing the shopping and so forth. Then they have a weekend car that's used for driving you enjoy. I.E. you have Hatch or Sedan for it's practicality, then you have a sports car for the enjoyment, a Ferrari F430 isn't something you really want to be clocking up 20,000 KM a year on.
You're wrong. It's both feasible and, in many countries, legal.
AT&T in the US does it... If you have a foreign phone you need to get the IMEI registered with AT&T before you can use data on the device. I had a Galaxy Nexus (purchased legally and outright in Australia) and had to go into an AT&T store in Las Vegas to get it registered before it would work.
It's very feasible to block individual IMEI's, you just have a white list of allowed IMEI's and block everything else.
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You are making a PRESUMPTION that the transponders were turned off by hand. There is still the possibility of a fire or some other case. This is why recovery of the FDR's is so important. The pilots may not have been on the radio, but the FDR's record everything they say. The conversations between flight crew is crucial, along with all the airplane data.
This.
Until we have the flight recorder and the data is analysed no-one knows what is going on. Fire or equipment failure combined with a lack of oxygen (despite the atmosphere being fed by bleed air, if there was a plane wide electrical failure the air-conditioner pump/compressors would still fail) in light plane crashes, it's not uncommon for the cause to be oxygen starvation, the pilot passes out and the plane continues on auto until it runs out of fuel.
You'd think FDRs would float and be mounted in a section of the aircraft that detaches on impact (accelerometer+explosive bolts).
I wonder why they don't do that...
So when you have a rough landing, a black box (which is actually bright orange) isn't ejected into some passengers unsuspecting jacksie.
If the landlord needs to upgrade the piping in the building, you can't prevent him. And I'd bet you bottom dollar the same is true in Europe or anywhere else. Any other rule is patently stupid.
How much do you want to bet. In Australia a landlord or representative requires permission to enter, may not enter the premises without the landlord (or their representative) being present or providing their express permission if they are unable to be present. I believe we inherited this from Europe. Above this, a landlord must provide 7 days notice in writing.
Where can I collect on this bet.
They haven't named it yet. I'm guessing they won't be going with "Hindenburg II"
I prefer Hindenburg 2.0
One has very suphisticated air-to-air capability; the other has none.
Both fire missiles. That is all. The cheapest missile wins, and that's the drone. There hasn't been "dogfights" on any mass scale since Vietnam.
Odd that you mention Vietnam. When the US went into Vietnam with the F4 Phantom II, they weren't equipped with cannons because the US air force believed that the age of dogfighting was over due to missiles. Experiences in Vietnam proved this assumption false and the F4 Phantom was redesigned with a cannon.
Also, you're wrong.
- Arab-Israeli wars, F15 and 16's fought Mig 21 and 25's.
- Falklands War (1985) British sea harriers fought Argentine Mirage III and Daggers.
- Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), not only did it see many fixed wing dogfights, it was the first confirmed helicopter dogfight between an Iranian AH1 and Iraqi HIND.
- Desert Storm (1991).
- Balkans conflict (1999), to be fair, this was only 1 dogfight.
The advent of air to air and ground to air guided missiles didn't eliminate dogfights, it just changed the parameters. Aircraft still get in close combat (especially since missiles fired from long range are more susceptible to countermeasures.
Successful, groundbreaking products are loved at first sight.
You didn't think about that very well did you.
When cars were invented, the US govt limited their speed to 10 MPH as not to compete with horses.
Television - work of the devil, video games - work of the devil (some still believe this).
In fact it's quite the opposite, any disruptive technology will create a huge amount of resistance, this resistance builds up myths around it. Take mobile phones and radiation, despite it being conclusively proven that EM emitted from mobile phones is harmless and less powerful than EM generated in nature the myth that mobile phones cause harmful radiation continues unabated.
I expect that getting beaten up, arrested and the like will make even the worst glasshole realize that what they are doing is completely unacceptable.
It looks like you still believe people are rational. Stop that.
The Glasshole who gets beaten up will simply ascribe that behaviour to someone else flaw (well to be fair, they'd be half right, resorting to violence demonstrates that person has a problem) instead of analysing their own behaviour. It doesn't matter how much others try to link the violence to their behaviour with Google Glass, people who are sociopath enough to ignore polite requests will continue to deny that their behaviour is a problem no matter how bad it gets. In fact the more violence that's used against them, the more they will play the victim card.
I strongly recommend against violence for dealing with Glassholes because they'll never link it to their own bad behaviour. In fact I strongly recommend against violence for any reason, it should always be a last resort.
I like the concept of Google Glass, however I'm not a Glasshole and will gladly remove/deactivate the glasses when asked. I certainly understand why a lot of places don't want them used and if I frequent these places I'll comply with their wishes/policies. I like the concept, but I don't like the way some people will use them and it sucks that even polite Glass users will get labelled as Glassholes.
...to get/make an IR License Plate frame.
You do know that they are quite useless against ANPR systems. Most digital cameras can ignore or filter IR these days, even your cheap $75 point and shoot wont be stopped by it.
So you hated the Ori, huh?
No, I hated how they tried to pass off an entirely new show as SG1 _After_ SG1 was finished cleanly in the previous season.
So few shows finish cleanly and far too many leave an "insert sequel here" type of ending.
You don't have to be a Michael Straczynski to know that B5 had a "beginning of the story" and an "end of the story". One of the best decisions that Mr. Straczynski ever made was to allow the story to end (and end grandly I also have to say).
Too many cheap crap-hounds (*cough*couch*abrams*cough*) try to extend a story as long as they are able to squeeze money out of it and are eventually revealed to have no idea what they were doing or where they were going with it. Straczynski told a really great story that ended i a really great way. Live and art have to move on.
I think Stargate SG1 was a far better example of a show that dragged on far too long. Seasons 1-8 were good, then 9 turned to crap and they had to kill it in 10. They'd tied up all of the story lines and loose ends by the end of season 8. I wouldn't have minded a 6th season to Atlantis but to be honest, I'm happier it ended earlier on a high note than dragging on.
Sure, until the DNS steering comittee becomes headed by the representatives of Iran, North Korea, Pakistan and Jemen.
that would be a good thing.
Iran, Pakistan and North Korea would never even be able to agree on what to have for lunch. Hell, Iran and Pakistan would be at each others throats (Shiite Persians and Suni Arabs, so they'd block each other just because of that) and North Korea is completely ineffectual. It would be deadlock, leaving DNS implementers to their own devices.
Also, where the fsck is Jemen?
Red rice yeast is as effective as statins at lowering cholesterol, without liver side effects statin pills. Yet FDA bans sale of supplements calibrated to have enough active components.
If people who believe vitamin supplements work were included in this study, that number would be a hell of a lot higher than "nearly 50%".
Psst. The FDA controls the import of Red Rice Yeast because it *contains a statin*. Any red rice yeast you can buy on the shelf has had the naturally occurring statin removed.
Erm... that does not mean vitamin supplements work, in fact your own post says the FDA prohibits substances that have an active ingredient powerful enough to have an effect.
It's like the morons who claim all gluten free foods are good for you whilst they ignore that polonium is gluten free.
If people understood the science behind nutrition, they'd see things like vitamin supplement as the scam they are. You get more vitamins out of fruit and vegetables then supplements with 3-4 times the dosage.
Sorry, there's too many reasons why not to get it and very little reason to get it.
I'm normally against technologies that are designed to make the driver dumber (lane assist, brake assist, parking assist) but in this case, I'm for it. Falling asleep at the wheel is dangerous. I once fell asleep behind the wheel, I managed to turn around two corners (and I drive a manual) before I woke up. I'm not sure if I was actually asleep but I cant remember how I got from street A to street B. Scared the living crap out of me and I stopped for a break as soon as I could find a park. Fatigue is the third biggest killer on Australian roads after Speed and Drug and Alcohol and unlike the other two, fatigue is hard for a driver to detect and manage.
Volvo is normally pretty good with safety features, but the one concern I have is that it will be ignored with all the blips, beep and bloops the average modern car bombards the driver with (one of the major reasons I rail against driver assist technologies is because it encourages bad drivers to ignore warning beeps and lights by flooding them with pointless beeps and lights). I test drove a new VW Polo with my GF last year, when I asked the dealer about the beeps he said "oh, you'll get used to that"... SWMBO ended up getting a Mazda 2 without all the crap (and probably dodged a bullet with the VW tranny problems) but she knows how to stay in her lane without assistance.
Red rice yeast is as effective as statins at lowering cholesterol, without liver side effects statin pills. Yet FDA bans sale of supplements calibrated to have enough active components.
If people who believe vitamin supplements work were included in this study, that number would be a hell of a lot higher than "nearly 50%".
[The Cigarette Industry] fought tooth and nail to hide, obfuscate, deny, gloss over, etc ... the truth. And in the end, they REALLY got it in the ass because of their actions.
In 2010, the combined profits of the six leading tobacco companies was U.S. $35.1 billion, equal to the combined profits of Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and McDonald’s in the same year. (Tobacco Industry Profits) It looks like the tobacco industry is doing just fine. They made a lot of money while manipulating public perception, and they are making a lot of money after losing that battle. By holding out and making as much profits as they could for as long as they could, it doesn't look like they sacrificed their future profitability at all.
Helps when your product is addictive.
Also, future cancer victims, erm... I mean smokers in Oz always complain about tax forcing up the price of smokes... they never consider that the manufacturers are just as bad (except that the money that goes to Phillip Morris doesn't build hospitals).
I couldn't see riding without it...
... ah yes, but can you see the road, riding with it?? :P
He's on a murdercycle making it a self correcting problem. If he's too busy paying attention to his phone to watch the road, someone will be getting a new heart, lung and kidney kidney in short order.
Putin can call the US hippocrites all he wants, but at least when the US invades someplace we don't plant evidence to justify it.
Yes, the US simply pretends the evidence exists, even when there's proof to the contrary (there are still some Americans who think there actually were chemical weapons in Iraq).
Whilst I agree that something needs to be done in regards to the Crimea, meeting the Russians with force is a huge mistake. From the Russian perspective, a US led invasion (they dont care if it's lead by the UK, Germany or even Belize, as long as the US i involved their propagandists will say it's US led) will be used to rally the people behind Putin against the imperialists. This only servs to solidify Putin's position and silences his dissenters by presenting an external threat.
Also Russia wont be a pushover like Iraq was, you wont be facing dilapidated T54's, Russia has T90's and on paper, they may not be a match for a Abrams or Challenger 2, they've got a lot more of them. Same with Airpower. Given that the Ukraine is right next door to Russia and they'll be able to mobilise their entire force much faster than the NATO allies could, it is likely to be a route.
However, if economic pressure was applied, it would affect Putin's popularity. Despite the perceptions of those who have a hard on for sending others off to war, economic sanctions are quite effective especially when there is already dissent. The US and USSR used them to topple quiet a few governments (Yugoslavia in 1968, Chile in 1973), economic sanctions imposed by the Commonwealth of Nations had a huge part in ending Apartheid in South Africa and the US and Canada used economic sanctions to enforce nuclear non-proliferation treaties in the 70's and 80's.
But we don't need to topple Putin's government, we just have to make it more expensive to stay then to go, Russia is very dependent on exports into the EU for a large portion of their GDP where as the EU doesn't depends exclusively on Russian Imports. By applying economic pressure, instead of galvanising the people behind Putin, we push them to blame Putin. It'll take time, but it wont cost millions of lives.
Sorry, what? Are you comparing defending of a sovereign state to staging of an election within an all-of-a-sudden-separatist region in order to justify an invasion?
Yes I'd nip it in the bud. Once the American colonies wanted to become separate and just look where that got us ;-)
To be fair it was the Irish and Scots who started it... Look how that ended up.
So you're an advocate of war over any other form of deterrence. Splendid, we saw how that turned out in 1914, which directly lead to the Treaty of Versailles and the rise of Fascism in Europe.
As the OP said, feel free to go join the Ukrainian army. I'm sure they'd welcome a keyboard warrior with no grasp on the real world (or even history for that matter).
There's plenty of more recent examples of how rushing off to war to effect change only made things worse, Vietnam, Iraq part 2...
This whole post is exactly on point. If I were given the choice to be Chamberlain or Churchill, I'd pick Churchill every time.
Check the co-signatories on that piece of paper.
Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Chamberlains government. Churchill was an advocate of peace, to quote him "jaw jaw is better than war war".
You may also want to check who signed that declaration of war. Churchill wasn't Prime Minister until 1940.
It amazes me how little some Americans know about how WWII actually started...
If you're in rural America, SUVs do make sense, but suburbanites like the larger gas guzzler status of the SUV.
SUV's don't even make sense there as most SUV's are not 4 Wheel Drive, a lot are FWD (Front Wheel Drive) which really makes them an overweight hatchback. In rural areas you need actual 4WD capable cars with a proper low range gearbox. Something like a Nissan Patrol, Toyota Landcruiser or even a Land Rover Disco. Even Ford's F series Utes are likely to get bogged being RWD (all that torque is good for is digging a hole when you're stuck), a suburbanite SUV like a Chevy Captiva or BMW X series will have no chance on anything that is not sealed and slightly damp.
The S in SUV should really stand for Suburban, because they aren't sporty by any stretch of the imagination and that's the only place they're used.
The key problem with such an elegant vehicle is that it fails the "Gives better than it got" crash test. SUVs and pickup trucks are popular because people perceive that they are driving a tank and will fare better against the various pop-cans out there. Quite simply if you are in a BMW X5 and have a head on with a prius then you may very well limp away with the prius crew ending up in body bags. With this perception then a vehicle like this will not get much of an audience beyond a few hipsters.
Which is sad because it's incorrect. If you're in a BMW X5 and you have a head on with a Prius you're more likely to roll than the Prius as rolling causes more head and neck injuries and it's the head and neck injuries that are the big killer. So in a low speed crash, the Prius' low centre of gravity means lateral movement does not turn into a roll, where as the high centre of gravity in the X5 means it will. Sure the Prius will look worse for wear and the X5 will look less damaged, but the occupants in the Prius will have less chance of injury... one of the man reasons is because the Prius looks worse for wear, a lot warped and ablated off the car in the impact, taking kinetic energy with it (crumple zones are the second biggest life saver after the automatic seat belt tensioner).
I actually like this comment, because it brings up one of the major idiosyncrasies of how we buy cars. Specifically, we buy cars that meet all of our needs, as opposed to buying cars that meet our most frequent needs, and we can only really afford one vehicle per driver.
Consider my household growing up (I know, I know, plural of anecdote is not data, but this is just an example). Growing up we always had two vehicles - one minivan, and one smaller sedan. This was mostly fine - my dad took the car to work, and my mom had the van for driving the kids around, doing groceries, etc... The sedan got much more use, and the van mostly stayed in the driveway, except when it needed to be used for something a sedan can't handle. But when my mom went back to work, the van had to be used for the daily commute. And this eats gas like crazy. You shouldn't be driving a minivan with only one person in it, but because we couldn't afford a third car (a sedan to get my mom to and from work) and because we still needed the minivan for groceries & family trips, a huge amount of gas gets wasted hauling one person around.
This,
A lot of people have two cars, even if they don't have a family. They have a daily car that is used for going to work, doing the shopping and so forth. Then they have a weekend car that's used for driving you enjoy. I.E. you have Hatch or Sedan for it's practicality, then you have a sports car for the enjoyment, a Ferrari F430 isn't something you really want to be clocking up 20,000 KM a year on.
You're wrong. It's both feasible and, in many countries, legal.
AT&T in the US does it... If you have a foreign phone you need to get the IMEI registered with AT&T before you can use data on the device. I had a Galaxy Nexus (purchased legally and outright in Australia) and had to go into an AT&T store in Las Vegas to get it registered before it would work.
It's very feasible to block individual IMEI's, you just have a white list of allowed IMEI's and block everything else.
I was once thrown out of a IAU conference for reclassifying Neil DeGrasse Tyson's mother as a dwarf planet.