An untrained person isn't pure chance. Pure chance is rolling a die. Untrained person is common sense.
That would be a good point if common sense were common.
For every person who applies logic and reason to a case (I.E. shows remorse, now has steady job, impetus for theft no longer present) there are 2 or 3 people who apply batshit insane rules (I.E. He's Ginger, so he'll steal again).
Then it shouldn't be considered cheating to use whatever data the server sends you to build your view.
By that logic, rearranging a couple of pieces on a chess board while your opponent steps away momentarily to grab a beer from the fridge shouldn't be considered cheating because you still had physical access to the board the whole time.
Drinking chess requires two timers, one for the turn, one for the pre turn drink. If any less than 1/6 of a standard European 35 cl beer is drunk, the drinker receives a time penalty on their turn.
private insurance was. Your premiums are going up because medical care isn't something that should be paid for by the private sector. It's too complex. You can't 'shop around' for a heart transplant like you can for a breakfast sandwich. Also, you can go without the breakfast sandwich. You can't go without the heart transplant.
The ACA was a bad law. But it was the best we could get with a Congress full of Republicans and Blue Dog Dems. We already know the solution, which is Single Payer. Bernie Sander's has a townhall meeting coming up to discuss it. Hopefully it gets some traction and we can join the rest of the civilized world (who pay 1/2 what we do for better results).
As much as I agree with single payer... it's not the magic bullet for the US's health woes.
The problem is the amount of profiteering going on. Unless you fix the corruption in the private sector, they'll just charge the government as much as they want to... and it's not like the US isn't already paying almost twice as much as the UK per person in tax money (and then the individual pays more from their own pocket).
They don't need a moderate Republican. Given the current state of the involved politics, what they need is a pissed off Republican who isn't interested in continuing in public service and who will vote to hurt Trump... OK, and who is also somewhat moderate by the standards of Trumpism.
Or one republican who's worried about their chances of re-election.
And there are minimal laws around minicab services as well... Just about anyone with a crappy 1.2 Citroen Saxo can become a minicabber (although most decent ones have repmobiles like a Vauxhall Insignia). You just have to sit a license (which the driver pays for) and have commercial insurance (which the driver arranges and pays for). All the minicab company needs to do is ensure they comply with these laws... and Uber cant even do that.
I think the main reason why english became so popular world-wide is because it's one of the easiest language to learn.
You're joking right? English is widely considered to be one of the hardest languages to learn because of all the irregular rules.
Two things made English the international language (much to the chagrin of the French).
1. It is very adaptable and fault tolerant. I can use completely the wrong sausage and you still know exactly what I meant. As such, there are a lot of cultures that have adopted English to use non-English grammar and syntax (I.E. Indian English, Chinglish), yet it is able to be understood by almost all English speakers.
2. The British Empire. Much like the Romans spreading Latin across Europe, the British used it's empire to spread English to the leaders and diplomats of foreign nations over hundreds of years, sending their own envoys to translate local languages to English and if you wanted to get good deals from the British, you spoke English.
Stop the infect people from wondering around globally and such issues stay more local.
You're assuming you're dealing with rational actors. You aren't. People will deny their sick just to get away from a quarantine area.
Also quarantines need to be enforced by people, you cans ask soldiers to shoot civilians because they might carry a communicable disease.
However it's not necessary with the Bubonic plague. Modern isolation and sanitation techniques are enough. It was nowhere near as infectious or deadly as Ebola, the main issue was that we didn't know about pathogens in the 14th century, there were no hospitals (plague houses were no substitute) and cleanliness wasn't anywhere near what it should be. We've known for a long time that humans spread the plauge as much as rats because of the poor handling of both infected and dead as well as the deceased's possessions. I remember this from a documentary I watched on it 20 odd years ago.
BTW, we already issue flight bans from areas with outbreaks of deadly diseases, like we did during the last Ebola outbreak. IR cameras are set up at any airport considered to be a destination for anyone infected (I.E. so not likely to be LAX, but Kuala Lumpur definitely sees them).
Maybe if America stopped being such a global dick, it wouldn't have to worry about hostile nations. Maybe try not being a dick? Not bombing the shit out of countries? You'd be surprised how angry and hostile people get when American drones are killing innocent civilians in the pursuit of terrorists that American policies created in the first place. I'm just saying, maybe give it a try.
So Syria and Russia aren't an issue? Plus they don't break down which countries in the international coalition actually did the killing. The US leads to coalition but other countries are involved.
ISIS was forced out of Syria by Russian involvement. The correct choice was not choosing a side in that conflict because we had the choice between supporting Assad's despotic but somewhat stable regime and ISIS's unstable and completely batshit insane desire for an Islamic state.
Unfortunately Trump couldn't keep his limp dick out of it.
The Russians are also prime examples of not sticking your dick in when it's not wanted. Because of Syria, Russia is facing a much increased risk of terrorist attacks (and it's not like they had a shortage of pissed off extremist enemies before Syria either).
In part. Satellites are conveniently cheap(when amortized across the amount of area they cover; and how long they cover it; they are not 'cheap' in terms of sticker price); but don't fly any lower than earth orbit and are predictable against any vaguely competent adversary(tracking satellite launches is a hobbyist thing; and downloading their conclusions to know when you are being over-flown is easier still); and continuous coverage requires either lots of satellites to blanket one of the lower orbits; or satellites in geostationary orbits which are quite distant and have the accompanying challenges to getting good image quality.
Satellites were also hard to detect and shoot down. ASAT weapons are relatively expensive.
The SR-72 was not undetectable, quite the contrary, anything travelling at Mach 5 will show up on weather radar (even if it's just the wake turbulence). Its main defence was that it flew so fast that by the time you've targeted and launched your fastest missile at it, the SR-72 was out of range. This can be countered in the same way they've countered stealth bombers, by launching missiles into its flight path in advance. Any modern integrated defence system can do this with ground or air based missiles.
Manoeuvring whilst travelling at 1,500m/s isn't easy either.
Where I live all the kids are listening to the same autotuned R&B cr@p either with some mysogynistic neanderthal with his pants down by his knees rapping out some teenage wannabe bullshit or else some wailing woman in her knickers putting it out there.
So basically its all fronted by people who cant wear trousers properly.
Rappers, Dubsteppers and Electronic "artists"* are cheap and require zero talent making them easily replaceable if they ever get delusions of having power over their corporate masters. As for pop stars who are little more than soft pornography with autotune... Harvey Weinstein has taken care of that, these people only get hired because they slept with enough people to make it happen, that cant happen any more.
However Asian countries have taken this to 11. Pop groups are essentially just soft porn shows and "members" are replaced on a regular basis (like the Korean group Girls Generation). In fact because Asian countries generally don't have an issue with women having sex with producers to get work, they're going to still be producing pop in 10 years instead of increasingly crappy Rap/Electronica.
* These people are less of an artist than someone who works at Subway.
I dunno what the real estate market is like in Helsinki but 140 euro a week would be lucky to pay the rent on a 1 bedroom apartment where I live, a decent sized industrialised city in the Southern Hemisphere.
Australia is stupidly expensive.
I recently moved from Australia to the UK, rents are slightly more expensive for what you get and the bottom fell out of the pound a while ago... but I'm still saving more money living here than I was in Perth when I was being paid about 15% more. I'm able to do a full shop for £30 a week and we're not talking about Sainsbury's Basics for everything either. Aside from rent, insurance and fuel, almost everything else is cheaper. Being able to go to the pub and get a pint for less than £3 is brilliant. Australia is nice, but fuck is it expensive.
140 Euro wouldn't get you a place in London, but it would get you a room in a share house in a nice town in England's south. It gets cheaper the further north you go, but the wages drop as well.
Far-right in Europe is generally still left of the GOP. My guess is 90% of our parties would be chased off as "commies" with pitchforks in the US.
Far-right is still far-right in Europe but they have very little mainstream support. Make no mistake, there are people over here that are more extreme than the GOP, such as the EDL and Britain First in the UK but their number is few. Most mainstream parties are a lot more centrist that the US. Also when the far-right gets a tiny bit of power, they tend to self destruct like AfD did in Germany in 2017 with their leader, Frauke Petry walking out on the party on the first day. Extremist parties need extreme leaders or they balkanise and bicker amongst themselves.
Also, our extremist parties are better at propaganda than the US.
> We also know that a segment of the population, given the option to do nothing WILL DO NOTHING.
Do we actually know that?
I think it's good of them to try it out in small scale just to be sure.
Its pretty much well tested, the argument is about what percentage of the population will do nothing.
There are a certain amount of people who only want to do the minimum they have to. In countries like the UK they're on welfare, in countries without welfare they're petty criminals. I dislike "benefits scroungers" as we call them here in the UK but I'd rather pay the small cost of welfare than pay the major cost of increased petty crime. Either they can buy their own cheap flatscreens... or they'll steal mine and that means I have to pay more for public services like the police, courts, prison system and then pay more for insurance.
Someone on benefits costs less than £15,000 per year, a prisoner costs £65,000 per year. If one in four benefits scroungers needs to be locked up, there goes all the savings without even considering the cost of extra police, judges or the rise in my insurance premiums and cost of having my locks replaced.
Also, houses here in the UK are lovely to look at... I'd rather we all didn't have to surround them in razor-wire and bar all the windows and doors like they have to in Cape Town (No offence to any Saffa's on/.).
I dunno about YOU, but I'm going to see MORE back on my tax returns.
And I'm not some billionaire.
This is a standard tactic used by politicians the world over.
Its a temporary tax cut, taxes have been lowered for this year... but they are going to be put up progressively over the next few years.
However in his characteristic stupidity... he blew his load too soon, this should have been done in 2019 so that people would recognise it when they went to the polls. In 2019, you'll be paying more tax than you did in 2016.
I've always wondered what would happen if you dropped a bunch of tank seeking drones with a shaped charge warhead.
Likely the GPS and comms would immediately be jammed and they'd be entirely dependent on local processing which is not a good thing.
First off, this kind of image recognition is very processor intensive, the hardware alone needed to run this would be 4-5 KG on its own... possibly not even including sensors.
Also tanks are real easy to make them look like they're not tanks. Both the allies and the Germans did a lot of this during the war you know. False positives are going to be a huge nightmare, a drone mistakenly blowing up a truck of food is going to be handing victory to the enemy on a platter (because that truck of food was bound for starving orphans... wars are not won by martial might these days).
Shaped charge warheads are small and light and you could imagine building a drone which is just large enough to carry one which could knock out an MBT.
That's a 450 KG bomb. The drones in the article would likely have a carrying capacity measured in single digits (less than 10 KG). An MQ-9 Reaper has a carrying capacity of 1,400 KG and a wingspan of 26m for comparison.
Something like a B-52 could carry hundreds of them.
Solution looking for a problem. The B-52 needs to be retired as the heavy bomber has had it's day (70 years ago). A C17 could do the same job if you're looking for a deployment platform but we'd be better off using either a land base or naval launch systems (re purposing nuclear submarines, destroyers and helicopter landing ships).
A dedicated launch platform could carry thousands. And each one could be told which GPS coordinates to head to and use image recognition like the sensor fuzed weapon to find military targets - tanks, anti aircraft systems, APCs etc.
The big problem you'll have here is that weapon needs to be directed, it can hit the target once it's been identified and aimed, but cannot select it's own target. Again, going back to my first point, processing sensor information for something specific is very processor intensive, more so if you want results in anything resembling real time so if communications are jammed or unreliable, you're going to need a lot of processing power on board.
And they could fly low enough to hard to track with radar. And fast and erratic enough that they'd be hard to knock out with ZSU type guns.
For large drones, a ZSU (23 mm) is fine. Especially if it's mounted on an auto-tracking turret.
For the kind of drones mentioned in the article, a turret mounted 7.62 machine gun will be sufficient. You don't actually have to destroy an aircraft to knock it out, you just have to do enough damage to make it lose control and let it crash on its own. Most anti-fighter missiles are designed to destroy control surfaces making the aircraft un-flyable. Back in the war, British Meteor jet fighters found it more effective to use the wings of the Meteor to flip German V1 flying bombs than to use the machine guns to shoot it down (using the wingtip vortex so no actual contact was made). Once in a spin, the V1's couldn't recover and it was faster than trying to hit one with the guns.
So you'd unload them outside the country's airspace and they'd fly to their targets and nail anything which was on the target list.
Some would get shot down of course but if you kept unloading B-52 loads of them programmed to destroy anti aircraft systems they'd eventually destroy the air defence systems of a country. And a lot of other stuff too - all the tanks and fuel dumps for example.
And then of course more valuable aircraft could be sent in to destroy everything e
... a persistent Recent Posts First option, with a persistent option for family/friends only. I want facebook to stop messing with what I see because all they do is screw it up.
This... Just display what is posted in chronological order without ads.
So go on, join the polite fiction. And when all this shit gets uncovered, after enough people have been raped, robbed and murdered, you can then join the chorus of offended people who don't understand how the authorities let that happen again.
Because white people have never committed organised peadophelia and covered it up. No-siree, it's only those evil brown people.
To echo the long buried GGP... its not about race or religion. I can find cases of child rape from any culture. Being a part of any ethnic or religious group does not make one more predetermined towards it. The overwhelming majority of Muslims will be reviled by the thought of child rape... as will Christians, Buddhists, Atheists, LeVeyan Satanists or whomever else you care to mention.
Hey, but try to point that out and you'll be censored by the Daily Mail readers who need to believe that anything not white and christian is wrong.
Did you think PriceWaterhouse et al would just give you everything just because some lowly policeman has a piece of paper?
Absolutely they would .
That "lowly policeman" caries the authority of the entire court system with that "piece of paper" (oh how Chamberlainian of you... or maybe you were channelling Dubya). PwC's (Pricewaterhouse Cooper), et al. primary responsibility is to protect its own arse, just like everybody. Without handing over everything included in the warrant, they will become and be charged as an accessory. Even if they refuse to hand over pertinent information that was not expressly requested in a warrant but PwC knew was illegal and related to the requested information, they can still be tried as an accessory. Public prosecutors will try to nail anyone acting as an accessory for just this reason.
Imagine that. A communist country overtaking a capitalist country in terms of innovation and quality of living. This goes against many discussions I have had here.
Innovation... you may have a point (as the old joke goes, Chinese R&D: Remember and Duplicate).
However quality of life, a skilled engineer isn't a highly paid thing in the US. You can eek out a life and a career with an average house and car if you're smart and a little bit lucky. Engineers are not paid well, they aren't respected and aren't desired (by employers or the opposite sex).
Being a western level skilled engineer in China gives you a good house, nice car and makes you very desirable to the fairer sex.
Western educated Chinese engineers are moving back to China because they can have a meagre wage in the west or a kings wage in the east. Ex-pat packages used to be very good in China, as long as you could be happy living in China (Chinese people are great in general, but a few of their cultural traits take some getting used to for our western sensibilities... like queuing, the Chinese just don't do it).
I have thought it might work to have stores with a smaller storefront area, and mostly warehouse in the back.
Show room warehouses have been done before, Service Merchandise (68 years) and Best Products (40 years) still went out of business around the time of everyone else.
But there's always a chance a modern one will work.
You mean like IKEA.
The GP pretty much described IKEA and about every furniture superstore since. You have set up products in the front showing you what it looks like assembled and then flat packed wardrobes in the back you pick up for cheap. Same with car parts, Euro Car Parts (ECP) in the UK. Tiny store front with practically no merchandise in it and massive warehouse out the back. This business model is quite successful, especially in the age of online ordering. I can order a litre of oil from ECP and pick it up from the nearest store or have it delivered to me, or a chair from IKEA or Argos.
Given the success of this business model, I'm surprised a lot of traditional "stock on display" competitors are even still in business. Back on topic, I would have thought something like Circuit City would be best to come back as an online retailer, less overheads and you'd reach a wider audience that is already used to shopping online.
* Yes, I can buy bits for my Honda (S2000) at Euro Car Parts. This makes no lexical sense but we just accept it like British people can and carry on.
P.S. Why is IKEA capitalised like an acronym? Does it stand for something in Swedish?
We went through this with Rambus. They joined JEDEC (a consortium of memory manufacturers setting future memory standards) and agreed to its terms of membership - mainly, members are not allowed to patent the memory standards being discussed. DDR was being discussed within JEDEC. Rambus went ahead and patented it, and sued the other JEDEC members for violating "their" patents.
After years of legal battles, the courts found that yes Rambus was guilty of violating JEDEC's membership agreement, and they were subject to whatever punishment they agreed to when they joined JEDEC. But that had nothing to do with the law, so the patents were valid (Rambus being the first to file). Meanwhile, since the JEDEC membership agreement didn't outline any punishment for violating the agreement, the only thing JEDEC could do was kick Rambus out.
Same thing here. An EULA or ToS is just a contract. If you violate it, you become subject to whatever punishment you agreed to when agreed to the contract. That does not automatically make it a violation of law however. It's only a violation of the law if the act was otherwise illegal. In Rambus' case, patenting stuff freely presented to you is not illegal. In Remini's case, downloading stuff you've been authorized to download is not illegal.
In other words, you dont know what a contract is.
Rambus signed an agreement with JEDEC when they joined. The agreement was set out in full and agreed upon by all parties, Rambus had a chance to reveiw and negotiate that contract before signing and this included any penalty clauses. Beyond this, once signed the contract cannot be altered without all parties agreeing to it
A EULA or ToS are not considered contracts because you cannot negotiate them beforehand, they are not signed (I.E. identity verified, someone can accept a EULA, ToS or shrinkwrap contract without your express consent on your behalf) and they can be altered by one party after the fact without your knowledge, agreement or permission. This is why courts have ruled them non-binding, especially when it comes to penalty clauses.
I have an agreement with Vodafone that has terms and conditions, I pay them £10 and they give me phone service. They can update their ToS but will never be able to enforce it in law simply because I've never signed it.
I have a contract with BMW Financial services. I pay them for the car I use, if I, in any way violate the contract (I.E. fail to insure the vehicle) then I can be penalised because I had a negotiated contract I signed in full accordance with the Financial Services Guidelines (I.E. the contract was explained to me in full before signing, cooling off periods and what not). This is enforceable in law.
Vodafone would even have trouble terminating my service without me violating a law as they had agreed to provide a service. ToS's, EULA's and shrinkwrap contracts are not there to bind the customer to an agreement like a contract, they are there to cover the providers arse in case the customer does something wrong with their product. It's what protects gun manufacturers from being sued when some nutter goes on a rampage.
But you can still be dragged into court even if the court will eventually side with you.
In the UK, the court will barely entertain this kind of bollocks. The company who sued you will then have to pay your legal fees, that cuts down on this kind of thing a lot.
A EULA/T&C's/Shrinkwrap license has been ruled completely unenforceable before, even in the US however because the losing party still has to pay their own legal fees, its often profitable to threaten to sue or to go as far as to sue even though you'd lose.
Its the same kind of "speculative invoicing" extortion racket the RIAA and MPIAA used to run.
Outside the US, Yelp has never really been a thing.
Of course they are! Itâ(TM)s the number one resource for people searching for local businesses. And they are and have been hurting small businesses who donâ(TM)t submit to their extortion tactics FOR YEARS.
As an admin for two small business, I have a ton of first hand experience.
Why are people still shocked to learn this? All review sites who use advertising use standover tactics like this, Yelp, Trip Adviser, the lot. I've never heard anything nice about review sites from hoteliers but they're completely dependent on these con men (con sites?) for business.
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An untrained person isn't pure chance. Pure chance is rolling a die. Untrained person is common sense.
That would be a good point if common sense were common.
For every person who applies logic and reason to a case (I.E. shows remorse, now has steady job, impetus for theft no longer present) there are 2 or 3 people who apply batshit insane rules (I.E. He's Ginger, so he'll steal again).
By that logic, rearranging a couple of pieces on a chess board while your opponent steps away momentarily to grab a beer from the fridge shouldn't be considered cheating because you still had physical access to the board the whole time.
Drinking chess requires two timers, one for the turn, one for the pre turn drink. If any less than 1/6 of a standard European 35 cl beer is drunk, the drinker receives a time penalty on their turn.
private insurance was. Your premiums are going up because medical care isn't something that should be paid for by the private sector. It's too complex. You can't 'shop around' for a heart transplant like you can for a breakfast sandwich. Also, you can go without the breakfast sandwich. You can't go without the heart transplant.
The ACA was a bad law. But it was the best we could get with a Congress full of Republicans and Blue Dog Dems. We already know the solution, which is Single Payer. Bernie Sander's has a townhall meeting coming up to discuss it. Hopefully it gets some traction and we can join the rest of the civilized world (who pay 1/2 what we do for better results).
As much as I agree with single payer... it's not the magic bullet for the US's health woes.
The problem is the amount of profiteering going on. Unless you fix the corruption in the private sector, they'll just charge the government as much as they want to... and it's not like the US isn't already paying almost twice as much as the UK per person in tax money (and then the individual pays more from their own pocket).
They don't need a moderate Republican. Given the current state of the involved politics, what they need is a pissed off Republican who isn't interested in continuing in public service and who will vote to hurt Trump... OK, and who is also somewhat moderate by the standards of Trumpism.
Or one republican who's worried about their chances of re-election.
Uber is a minicab service in the UK
And there are minimal laws around minicab services as well... Just about anyone with a crappy 1.2 Citroen Saxo can become a minicabber (although most decent ones have repmobiles like a Vauxhall Insignia). You just have to sit a license (which the driver pays for) and have commercial insurance (which the driver arranges and pays for). All the minicab company needs to do is ensure they comply with these laws... and Uber cant even do that.
They can get back at us for "French Fries".
That is why every toilet is known as the American standard.
I think the main reason why english became so popular world-wide is because it's one of the easiest language to learn.
You're joking right? English is widely considered to be one of the hardest languages to learn because of all the irregular rules.
Two things made English the international language (much to the chagrin of the French).
1. It is very adaptable and fault tolerant. I can use completely the wrong sausage and you still know exactly what I meant. As such, there are a lot of cultures that have adopted English to use non-English grammar and syntax (I.E. Indian English, Chinglish), yet it is able to be understood by almost all English speakers.
2. The British Empire. Much like the Romans spreading Latin across Europe, the British used it's empire to spread English to the leaders and diplomats of foreign nations over hundreds of years, sending their own envoys to translate local languages to English and if you wanted to get good deals from the British, you spoke English.
Stop the infect people from wondering around globally and such issues stay more local.
You're assuming you're dealing with rational actors. You aren't. People will deny their sick just to get away from a quarantine area.
Also quarantines need to be enforced by people, you cans ask soldiers to shoot civilians because they might carry a communicable disease.
However it's not necessary with the Bubonic plague. Modern isolation and sanitation techniques are enough. It was nowhere near as infectious or deadly as Ebola, the main issue was that we didn't know about pathogens in the 14th century, there were no hospitals (plague houses were no substitute) and cleanliness wasn't anywhere near what it should be. We've known for a long time that humans spread the plauge as much as rats because of the poor handling of both infected and dead as well as the deceased's possessions. I remember this from a documentary I watched on it 20 odd years ago.
BTW, we already issue flight bans from areas with outbreaks of deadly diseases, like we did during the last Ebola outbreak. IR cameras are set up at any airport considered to be a destination for anyone infected (I.E. so not likely to be LAX, but Kuala Lumpur definitely sees them).
Maybe if America stopped being such a global dick, it wouldn't have to worry about hostile nations. Maybe try not being a dick? Not bombing the shit out of countries? You'd be surprised how angry and hostile people get when American drones are killing innocent civilians in the pursuit of terrorists that American policies created in the first place. I'm just saying, maybe give it a try.
So Syria and Russia aren't an issue? Plus they don't break down which countries in the international coalition actually did the killing. The US leads to coalition but other countries are involved.
http://www.iamsyria.org/syrian...
So ISIS wasn't an issue.
ISIS was forced out of Syria by Russian involvement. The correct choice was not choosing a side in that conflict because we had the choice between supporting Assad's despotic but somewhat stable regime and ISIS's unstable and completely batshit insane desire for an Islamic state.
Unfortunately Trump couldn't keep his limp dick out of it.
The Russians are also prime examples of not sticking your dick in when it's not wanted. Because of Syria, Russia is facing a much increased risk of terrorist attacks (and it's not like they had a shortage of pissed off extremist enemies before Syria either).
In part. Satellites are conveniently cheap(when amortized across the amount of area they cover; and how long they cover it; they are not 'cheap' in terms of sticker price); but don't fly any lower than earth orbit and are predictable against any vaguely competent adversary(tracking satellite launches is a hobbyist thing; and downloading their conclusions to know when you are being over-flown is easier still); and continuous coverage requires either lots of satellites to blanket one of the lower orbits; or satellites in geostationary orbits which are quite distant and have the accompanying challenges to getting good image quality.
Satellites were also hard to detect and shoot down. ASAT weapons are relatively expensive.
The SR-72 was not undetectable, quite the contrary, anything travelling at Mach 5 will show up on weather radar (even if it's just the wake turbulence). Its main defence was that it flew so fast that by the time you've targeted and launched your fastest missile at it, the SR-72 was out of range. This can be countered in the same way they've countered stealth bombers, by launching missiles into its flight path in advance. Any modern integrated defence system can do this with ground or air based missiles.
Manoeuvring whilst travelling at 1,500m/s isn't easy either.
Where I live all the kids are listening to the same autotuned R&B cr@p either with some mysogynistic neanderthal with his pants down by his knees rapping out some teenage wannabe bullshit or else some wailing woman in her knickers putting it out there.
So basically its all fronted by people who cant wear trousers properly.
Rappers, Dubsteppers and Electronic "artists"* are cheap and require zero talent making them easily replaceable if they ever get delusions of having power over their corporate masters. As for pop stars who are little more than soft pornography with autotune... Harvey Weinstein has taken care of that, these people only get hired because they slept with enough people to make it happen, that cant happen any more.
However Asian countries have taken this to 11. Pop groups are essentially just soft porn shows and "members" are replaced on a regular basis (like the Korean group Girls Generation). In fact because Asian countries generally don't have an issue with women having sex with producers to get work, they're going to still be producing pop in 10 years instead of increasingly crappy Rap/Electronica.
* These people are less of an artist than someone who works at Subway.
I dunno what the real estate market is like in Helsinki but 140 euro a week would be lucky to pay the rent on a 1 bedroom apartment where I live, a decent sized industrialised city in the Southern Hemisphere.
Australia is stupidly expensive.
I recently moved from Australia to the UK, rents are slightly more expensive for what you get and the bottom fell out of the pound a while ago... but I'm still saving more money living here than I was in Perth when I was being paid about 15% more. I'm able to do a full shop for £30 a week and we're not talking about Sainsbury's Basics for everything either. Aside from rent, insurance and fuel, almost everything else is cheaper. Being able to go to the pub and get a pint for less than £3 is brilliant. Australia is nice, but fuck is it expensive.
140 Euro wouldn't get you a place in London, but it would get you a room in a share house in a nice town in England's south. It gets cheaper the further north you go, but the wages drop as well.
Far-right in Europe is generally still left of the GOP. My guess is 90% of our parties would be chased off as "commies" with pitchforks in the US.
Far-right is still far-right in Europe but they have very little mainstream support. Make no mistake, there are people over here that are more extreme than the GOP, such as the EDL and Britain First in the UK but their number is few. Most mainstream parties are a lot more centrist that the US. Also when the far-right gets a tiny bit of power, they tend to self destruct like AfD did in Germany in 2017 with their leader, Frauke Petry walking out on the party on the first day. Extremist parties need extreme leaders or they balkanise and bicker amongst themselves.
Also, our extremist parties are better at propaganda than the US.
> We also know that a segment of the population, given the option to do nothing WILL DO NOTHING.
Do we actually know that?
I think it's good of them to try it out in small scale just to be sure.
Its pretty much well tested, the argument is about what percentage of the population will do nothing.
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There are a certain amount of people who only want to do the minimum they have to. In countries like the UK they're on welfare, in countries without welfare they're petty criminals. I dislike "benefits scroungers" as we call them here in the UK but I'd rather pay the small cost of welfare than pay the major cost of increased petty crime. Either they can buy their own cheap flatscreens... or they'll steal mine and that means I have to pay more for public services like the police, courts, prison system and then pay more for insurance.
Someone on benefits costs less than £15,000 per year, a prisoner costs £65,000 per year. If one in four benefits scroungers needs to be locked up, there goes all the savings without even considering the cost of extra police, judges or the rise in my insurance premiums and cost of having my locks replaced.
Also, houses here in the UK are lovely to look at... I'd rather we all didn't have to surround them in razor-wire and bar all the windows and doors like they have to in Cape Town (No offence to any Saffa's on
Raised our taxes?
I dunno about YOU, but I'm going to see MORE back on my tax returns.
And I'm not some billionaire.
This is a standard tactic used by politicians the world over.
Its a temporary tax cut, taxes have been lowered for this year... but they are going to be put up progressively over the next few years.
However in his characteristic stupidity... he blew his load too soon, this should have been done in 2019 so that people would recognise it when they went to the polls. In 2019, you'll be paying more tax than you did in 2016.
I've always wondered what would happen if you dropped a bunch of tank seeking drones with a shaped charge warhead.
Likely the GPS and comms would immediately be jammed and they'd be entirely dependent on local processing which is not a good thing. First off, this kind of image recognition is very processor intensive, the hardware alone needed to run this would be 4-5 KG on its own... possibly not even including sensors. Also tanks are real easy to make them look like they're not tanks. Both the allies and the Germans did a lot of this during the war you know. False positives are going to be a huge nightmare, a drone mistakenly blowing up a truck of food is going to be handing victory to the enemy on a platter (because that truck of food was bound for starving orphans... wars are not won by martial might these days).
Shaped charge warheads are small and light and you could imagine building a drone which is just large enough to carry one which could knock out an MBT.
That's a 450 KG bomb. The drones in the article would likely have a carrying capacity measured in single digits (less than 10 KG). An MQ-9 Reaper has a carrying capacity of 1,400 KG and a wingspan of 26m for comparison.
Something like a B-52 could carry hundreds of them.
Solution looking for a problem. The B-52 needs to be retired as the heavy bomber has had it's day (70 years ago). A C17 could do the same job if you're looking for a deployment platform but we'd be better off using either a land base or naval launch systems (re purposing nuclear submarines, destroyers and helicopter landing ships).
A dedicated launch platform could carry thousands. And each one could be told which GPS coordinates to head to and use image recognition like the sensor fuzed weapon to find military targets - tanks, anti aircraft systems, APCs etc.
The big problem you'll have here is that weapon needs to be directed, it can hit the target once it's been identified and aimed, but cannot select it's own target. Again, going back to my first point, processing sensor information for something specific is very processor intensive, more so if you want results in anything resembling real time so if communications are jammed or unreliable, you're going to need a lot of processing power on board.
And they could fly low enough to hard to track with radar. And fast and erratic enough that they'd be hard to knock out with ZSU type guns.
For large drones, a ZSU (23 mm) is fine. Especially if it's mounted on an auto-tracking turret.
For the kind of drones mentioned in the article, a turret mounted 7.62 machine gun will be sufficient. You don't actually have to destroy an aircraft to knock it out, you just have to do enough damage to make it lose control and let it crash on its own. Most anti-fighter missiles are designed to destroy control surfaces making the aircraft un-flyable. Back in the war, British Meteor jet fighters found it more effective to use the wings of the Meteor to flip German V1 flying bombs than to use the machine guns to shoot it down (using the wingtip vortex so no actual contact was made). Once in a spin, the V1's couldn't recover and it was faster than trying to hit one with the guns.
So you'd unload them outside the country's airspace and they'd fly to their targets and nail anything which was on the target list.
Some would get shot down of course but if you kept unloading B-52 loads of them programmed to destroy anti aircraft systems they'd eventually destroy the air defence systems of a country. And a lot of other stuff too - all the tanks and fuel dumps for example.
And then of course more valuable aircraft could be sent in to destroy everything e
... a persistent Recent Posts First option, with a persistent option for family/friends only. I want facebook to stop messing with what I see because all they do is screw it up.
This... Just display what is posted in chronological order without ads.
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So go on, join the polite fiction. And when all this shit gets uncovered, after enough people have been raped, robbed and murdered, you can then join the chorus of offended people who don't understand how the authorities let that happen again.
Because white people have never committed organised peadophelia and covered it up. No-siree, it's only those evil brown people.
Indeed, here is a case from Australia, the UK and Ireland that had no white catholic priests in it what so ever
To echo the long buried GGP... its not about race or religion. I can find cases of child rape from any culture. Being a part of any ethnic or religious group does not make one more predetermined towards it. The overwhelming majority of Muslims will be reviled by the thought of child rape... as will Christians, Buddhists, Atheists, LeVeyan Satanists or whomever else you care to mention.
Hey, but try to point that out and you'll be censored by the Daily Mail readers who need to believe that anything not white and christian is wrong.
Did you think PriceWaterhouse et al would just give you everything just because some lowly policeman has a piece of paper?
Absolutely they would .
That "lowly policeman" caries the authority of the entire court system with that "piece of paper" (oh how Chamberlainian of you... or maybe you were channelling Dubya). PwC's (Pricewaterhouse Cooper), et al. primary responsibility is to protect its own arse, just like everybody. Without handing over everything included in the warrant, they will become and be charged as an accessory. Even if they refuse to hand over pertinent information that was not expressly requested in a warrant but PwC knew was illegal and related to the requested information, they can still be tried as an accessory. Public prosecutors will try to nail anyone acting as an accessory for just this reason.
Imagine that. A communist country overtaking a capitalist country in terms of innovation and quality of living. This goes against many discussions I have had here.
Innovation... you may have a point (as the old joke goes, Chinese R&D: Remember and Duplicate).
However quality of life, a skilled engineer isn't a highly paid thing in the US. You can eek out a life and a career with an average house and car if you're smart and a little bit lucky. Engineers are not paid well, they aren't respected and aren't desired (by employers or the opposite sex).
Being a western level skilled engineer in China gives you a good house, nice car and makes you very desirable to the fairer sex.
Western educated Chinese engineers are moving back to China because they can have a meagre wage in the west or a kings wage in the east. Ex-pat packages used to be very good in China, as long as you could be happy living in China (Chinese people are great in general, but a few of their cultural traits take some getting used to for our western sensibilities... like queuing, the Chinese just don't do it).
I have thought it might work to have stores with a smaller storefront area, and mostly warehouse in the back.
Show room warehouses have been done before, Service Merchandise (68 years) and Best Products (40 years) still went out of business around the time of everyone else.
But there's always a chance a modern one will work.
You mean like IKEA.
The GP pretty much described IKEA and about every furniture superstore since. You have set up products in the front showing you what it looks like assembled and then flat packed wardrobes in the back you pick up for cheap. Same with car parts, Euro Car Parts (ECP) in the UK. Tiny store front with practically no merchandise in it and massive warehouse out the back. This business model is quite successful, especially in the age of online ordering. I can order a litre of oil from ECP and pick it up from the nearest store or have it delivered to me, or a chair from IKEA or Argos.
Given the success of this business model, I'm surprised a lot of traditional "stock on display" competitors are even still in business. Back on topic, I would have thought something like Circuit City would be best to come back as an online retailer, less overheads and you'd reach a wider audience that is already used to shopping online.
* Yes, I can buy bits for my Honda (S2000) at Euro Car Parts. This makes no lexical sense but we just accept it like British people can and carry on.
P.S. Why is IKEA capitalised like an acronym? Does it stand for something in Swedish?
We went through this with Rambus. They joined JEDEC (a consortium of memory manufacturers setting future memory standards) and agreed to its terms of membership - mainly, members are not allowed to patent the memory standards being discussed. DDR was being discussed within JEDEC. Rambus went ahead and patented it, and sued the other JEDEC members for violating "their" patents.
After years of legal battles, the courts found that yes Rambus was guilty of violating JEDEC's membership agreement, and they were subject to whatever punishment they agreed to when they joined JEDEC. But that had nothing to do with the law, so the patents were valid (Rambus being the first to file). Meanwhile, since the JEDEC membership agreement didn't outline any punishment for violating the agreement, the only thing JEDEC could do was kick Rambus out.
Same thing here. An EULA or ToS is just a contract. If you violate it, you become subject to whatever punishment you agreed to when agreed to the contract. That does not automatically make it a violation of law however. It's only a violation of the law if the act was otherwise illegal. In Rambus' case, patenting stuff freely presented to you is not illegal. In Remini's case, downloading stuff you've been authorized to download is not illegal.
In other words, you dont know what a contract is. Rambus signed an agreement with JEDEC when they joined. The agreement was set out in full and agreed upon by all parties, Rambus had a chance to reveiw and negotiate that contract before signing and this included any penalty clauses. Beyond this, once signed the contract cannot be altered without all parties agreeing to it
A EULA or ToS are not considered contracts because you cannot negotiate them beforehand, they are not signed (I.E. identity verified, someone can accept a EULA, ToS or shrinkwrap contract without your express consent on your behalf) and they can be altered by one party after the fact without your knowledge, agreement or permission. This is why courts have ruled them non-binding, especially when it comes to penalty clauses.
I have an agreement with Vodafone that has terms and conditions, I pay them £10 and they give me phone service. They can update their ToS but will never be able to enforce it in law simply because I've never signed it.
I have a contract with BMW Financial services. I pay them for the car I use, if I, in any way violate the contract (I.E. fail to insure the vehicle) then I can be penalised because I had a negotiated contract I signed in full accordance with the Financial Services Guidelines (I.E. the contract was explained to me in full before signing, cooling off periods and what not). This is enforceable in law.
Vodafone would even have trouble terminating my service without me violating a law as they had agreed to provide a service. ToS's, EULA's and shrinkwrap contracts are not there to bind the customer to an agreement like a contract, they are there to cover the providers arse in case the customer does something wrong with their product. It's what protects gun manufacturers from being sued when some nutter goes on a rampage.
But you can still be dragged into court even if the court will eventually side with you.
In the UK, the court will barely entertain this kind of bollocks. The company who sued you will then have to pay your legal fees, that cuts down on this kind of thing a lot.
A EULA/T&C's/Shrinkwrap license has been ruled completely unenforceable before, even in the US however because the losing party still has to pay their own legal fees, its often profitable to threaten to sue or to go as far as to sue even though you'd lose.
Its the same kind of "speculative invoicing" extortion racket the RIAA and MPIAA used to run.
The main utility of such a pill + phone app would be to let everyone else around me know when I'm about to fart. I will know anyway.
Also, it would make excuses like "It wasn't me!" completely moot.
The main utility of such a pill is to give you enough notice to move closer to the dog.
Besides, I can usually track my farts based on the sounds emitting from my arse... if not the smell.
Of course they are! Itâ(TM)s the number one resource for people searching for local businesses. And they are and have been hurting small businesses who donâ(TM)t submit to their extortion tactics FOR YEARS.
As an admin for two small business, I have a ton of first hand experience.
Why are people still shocked to learn this? All review sites who use advertising use standover tactics like this, Yelp, Trip Adviser, the lot. I've never heard anything nice about review sites from hoteliers but they're completely dependent on these con men (con sites?) for business.