USD is common in Iran... Converted on every street corner, you could post for things such as your hotel bill with USD direct.
I'm sure not state supported, but that goes to demonstrate that if the state got rid of hard currency, it would just be replaced by someone elses hard currency.
However the USD is not unique or even preferable as a getaway currency. Due to the high number of counterfeit notes out there, US notes are subject to more scrutiny. Americans I know who travel a lot tend to go to banks specifically to get late series of notes that aren't popular for counterfeiting.
If you were fleeing the law or whatever, you'd be just as safe, if not safer by taking Euro, GB Pound, Japanese Yen or even Australian Dollars or Yuan Renminbi. In fact if you were being smart about it you'd take several currencies.
eh, where is the USD not accepted? It's preferred over local currency in many of the third world places I've been.
I have never been to a nation that prefers USD over a local currency. The only one I can even think of is Argentina. Anywhere else you always pay more when paying in foreign currency.
Given the high occurrences of counterfeit US notes, merchants tend to reject them in most countries and you have to change them at a bank or cambio/FX office. You might be able to pay with USD in somewhere like the Philippines where a lot of Americans travel, but you'll be paying a lot more than if you changed it and paid in PH Pesos.
Most countries you'll find almost all merchants will refuse to accept USD notes. Same with trying to use Euro in Australia or even British Pounds in France.
But to answer your question, Iran, North Korea.. Just about anyone the US has put on their shit list.
I take it you haven't actually seen the final episode of BSG. I couldn't decide if it was cheesy, lazy writing or just plain crap. The writers had definitely given up after the first half of the season and were just continually pulling Deus Ex Machina out of the backsides (the series tended to skirt that a lot, but it just became too obvious after they found (fake) earth).
1984 was made about a Collectivist (Leftist) dystopia.
Here you demonstrate you dont know what Leftist is... or have actually read Nineteen Eighty-Four (the title is in words, not numbers).
Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell's diatribe against Nazism and Fascism, which is far right. Animal Farm was his diatribe against Stalinist Communism.
The society in Nineteen Eighty-Four was definitely not collectivist. The society was clearly separated into 3 groups, Inner party members, Outer party members and the proles. Each group had a different level of rights. The idea of mass surveillance was to demonstrate how quickly people turned against each other and became isolationist under an oppressive state. It was akin to Nazism which tried to control everything in their citizens lives in order to mould them into what the Nazi's considered to be the ideal German. IngSoc which was doublespeak because it was neither English or Socialist was a play on National Socialist which was also not socialist by modern or 1930-50's definitions. It was a clever use of words to demonstrate the hypocrisy of such a state.
And Islamic
Ironically, the other central theme of was the perpetual war and the type of propaganda that followed it. The propaganda was deliberately designed to dehumanise and make people irrationally afraid of their enemy du jour. A bit like you're trying to do with Islam, but the book was much better at it.
Also, you should know that theocratic depositions, such as the one in Iran are far from collectivist. In fact they're pretty much the epitome of extreme right-wing governments. The few (religious leaders) hold the power whilst the masses are expected to follow and are punished for questioning. Collectivist societies like the Soviets or Khmer Rouge always tried to eliminate or reduce the role of religion. Pol Pot raided ancient Buddhist and Hindu temples to fund his state.
In my 20s I downloaded a copy of the big book of mischief. I never tried to make anything from the book, probably good I didn't or I might not be here now, however by the logic that convicted this guy I could have faced years in prison... for curiosity.
No matter which way you cut it this is wrong.
This.
I also downloaded that book you spoke of in my teens. As well as possessing a lot of other literature that certain groups (mostly religious) would happily have seen me locked up for if they had their way.
BTW, I did make bombs when I was young, but I had plenty of empty bush to set them off in. Just a bit of common sense really, if you're going to do something a bit silly, go somewhere where no-one is going to be bothered by you.
The blame should be equally split between the company that creates the hype and the consumers who eat the hype.
This is why I never buy a game that I produces too much hype, it doesn't matter if it's a good game or not, it can never live up to the hype.
Its the same with TV series, I refuse to watch a lot of popular ones in case they end like Lost or Battlestar Galactica (TWD is pretty much a given it ends with everyone you like dead).
Moore's Law is dead. Lone gone and buried. There is no compelling reason to replace your PC at this point.
This and bad economies are to blame.
You no longer need to upgrade your PC or laptop every 2-3 years to run basic software... Hell, you barely need to upgrade your gaming rig every 3 years to play the latest game. I just built a new rig in 2016, the last one was made in 2009 between then I only upgraded the graphics card and to an SSD.
But the larger cause are businesses, they are deferring upgrades because of shrinking budgets. Businesses that would upgrade every 2 years in the 00's are now upgrading every 3-5 years.
Well, I just decided to get a console. I use it more than my dual-boot computer. You put a game disc in and it works.
Housemates tried playing FIFA16 on the Xbox.
1. It had to connect to Xbox live.
2. It had to download an update.
3. It had to verify the disk.
4. It had to download another update.
5. Then it started the game.
6. Unstoppable into videos.
7. Logging into Xbox Live.
8. Now they have a start menu.
In the same time I downloaded an entire game from Steam.
Some of us cannot turn off our phones at night. I had to deal with my Father dying of leukemia for 3 years or so, then an over-anxious Mother who was having panic attacks and then we found she was developing Alzheimer's. For 10 years, I had to be on call 24/7 because I never knew what would happen or if that out-of-town phone call was a friend or an EMT or someone calling on their cell phone to tell me she needed help or was in serious trouble.
It must be a wonderful privilege to live in a world where it's easy to imagine not having to be on call 24/7.
Imagine what we did before the rise of mobile phones... If we were on call and didn't get to the phone on time, they'd leave a message or call us back in 10/30/60 minutes.
So get your whinging arse off my lawn.
If your employer is abusing your off time... that is because YOU have not set limits with your employer.
isnt canada still technically ruled by the queen of england??, and didnt the UK just institute draconian surveillance laws
Canada, like England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the Commonwealth, is a constitutional monarchy.
This means we are ruled by an elected government.
The Queen and royals are entirely figureheads. People who throw charity balls and make Christmas statements once a year, I don't expect Americans to understand this, but it's nice to have a leader who you dint have to be disappointed in all the time.
Uber and Air B&B really had turned into something different than their initial business.
These were for people who wanted to do some Parttime work. Rent out their home when they are away. Drive additional people when commuting to work. The the Recession hit, and this became more of a source of income, vs just getting extra spending changes. It didn't help with these companies changing their buisness structure to compete against Hotels and Taxis.
Not really, Uber was always a scam and BNB's always worked that way.
In places were Bed and Breakfasts are legal like England, AirBNB just became a new method of booking them.
Uber only started out in other countries after the GFC, they operate the same. Uber advertises to their drivers that they'll make money, they use examples of 10-12 hour days earning hundreds of dollars. It is definitely not advertised as a part time job (probably has something to do with part timers dropping off after a few weeks). As Uber has been targeting the taxi industry, many of their drivers are taxi drivers who have been forced out of their job. As such, this kind of thing is to be expected.
Actually, it won't ruin many engines. Certainly none built after the late 90's.
Most people don't know that the only difference between an eco-fuel ford car and its non eco-fuel badged - is a software setting.
I used to be one of the people that thought the increased alcohol content would ruin gaskets, hoses, and cylinder walls, but the auto industry has already addressed it years ago.
Also, for around 150 bucks - most cars can be converted to run on ethanol, e-85, or methanol.
Yep, the big problem with switching from leaded fuels to unleaded fuels then to E10 fuels were the fact that before the 90's, a lot of cars were still built without knock sensors and ECU's that couldn't adjust for variations in detonation temperatures (RON). In fact, many were still using carburetors instead of EFI.
Then the 90's came along and your cheapest Hyundai were fitted with EFI, modern ECU's. so on and so forth.
Maybe, but you know what? Trump actually spoke directly to the beaten down American worker. He acknowledged his pain and suffering and promised to help him recover.
Trump is a part of the anti (or dis-) establishment.
Trump is as establishment as you can get. He is big business personified. All the fools thinking he stands for the average guy and is anti-establishment have been conned big time. He'll ignore everything he said in the election and pursue his own agenda which will be entirely for himself with some scraps for his pals.
You'd be lucky if he was just a Dubya 2.0, he's likely to be more destructive.
Dude, I'm not flying the bomb to your house while holding the transmitter, I'm turning on the auto pilot, letting it sit there for an hour, then take off and bomb you while I'm 2 states away. Oh, and I'm doing this on software thats a couple years old (ArduPilot from a few years ago) so...
This is useful for taking down your DJI phantom... but as far as taking down a weaponized toy? Yea, no, you're going to need to hit inertial management and GPS based on what I can build for a hundred bucks. Give me 200 and I'll start doing optical guidance.
According to the article they're targeting the signal rather than the drone by interfering with the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. All you'd need to do is build your drone to use a different frequency and you'll be golden. You can do that for well under US$200.
I do have to ask if this is any more effective than a rifle?
The military will already have more effective tools, but they will also be going up against far more sophisticated drones.
Also, the GIF looks like a bad infomercial rather than a weapons test.
It seems that the current generation just can't handle defeat
Wait, what you're suggesting is that they simply roll over and accept whatever you want to do to them.
Not giving up is a good thing... Only a delusional Trump supporter could possibly twist it into a bad thing. If you think your candidate is right, get out there and fight for them. However you dont think Trump is right, you just hate the other team. That is the real problem in politics, no matter how bad your team captain is, you still vote for them because you cant support the other team because they're the other team.
For anyone who argues Trump supporters would be doing the same thing were the situation reversed, I call out your bullshit and will say
it's pure speculation on your part
Given the bollocks we've received from the Republican supporters over the last 8 years of Obama being elected by both the collage and the popular vote. I call you bullshit and will say that you've spent 8 years doing exactly what you've claimed is speculation. It's not speculation, it's backed up with 8 years of you doing exactly that... Still want to talk about that birth certificate... or emails. I can guarantee you if Hillary won you'd be ranting about fucking emails instead of just rolling over and accepting it.
So, other than dealing with the most coddled, spoiled, insulated and catered-to generation of all time
You mean the baby boomers... Because they're 10 times worse than so called millennials. They got everything handed to them on a silver platter and never cared about the next generations. Your post is an ideal argument as to why we should restrict old people from voting. BTW, I'm Gen X... I've seen both sides and the arrogance from the older generations is far worse.
It will probably never happen, mostly because running a truly nation-wide presidential campaign would be even more expensive than fighting it out in a handful of battleground states. It would cost tens of billions of dollars to run months of 24/7 attack ads against your competitor in all 50 states, and even the biggest of the big money donors don't want to foot that bill.
That's a benefit, not a drawback.
The US spends too much on attack ads, not enough on actually campaigning. In fact, limits need to be put on political advertising and political donations so that politicians have to leave their echo chambers and deal with real people.
Another echo of the dubious 99.7. It shouldn't take 2 seconds to realize what nonsense that is. Did you also believe the reports of Fidel's popularity?
Why is the statistic dubious?
Well obviously it goes against his preconceptions and biases.
I'm inclined to believe that Cuba has a high level of adult literacy, but that just means they can read and write the native language (Spanish in Cuba's case) at an acceptable standard.
The problem with Cuba's education system is not basic education, but advanced education. A collage degree from Cuba is worth less than a high school diploma from any western nation. Castro once joked that one of the good things about communism was "even our prostitutes have college degrees".
And its not just Cuba, this kind of problem is common problem with third world nations including the extremely capitalistic ones like India and the Philippines. A Filipina nurse with a degree from a Filipino university will struggle to find work in Hong Kong as anything but a maid, however is she has one from a western university she'll have no trouble finding work in any number of developed nations as nursing staff are in demand almost everywhere.
Most Filipinos can read and write English to a reasonable level (as well as Tagalog, Visyan or another Filipino language) but higher education is a lot more rare. What separates developed nations like the UK or Australia from developing nations isn't adult literacy, its higher education. We may have a lower rate of adult literacy but we have a much higher rate and quality of collage and university graduates.
Unfortunately there isn't really a way to capture that information in a report because there are too many factors to consider. That was kind of my point about aftermarket vs genuine parts. There's a lot of factors regarding parts prices, next day vs next week delivery, local and national stock availability, so on and so forth.
My latest fix on my Toyota involved a simple radiator swap and the entire AC unit had to be removed for access. This made a quick and cheap repair quite expensive.
The starter motor in my BM required the engine to be lifted. Replacing that cost 90 quid in parts, but 190 quid in labour (3.5 hours at 60 pounds an hour). Cars sometimes have these little surprises.
I'm also not looking forward to replacing the roof motor (its not dead yet, but its going). The part is 300 quid but 400 quid for labour as it's a 2 man job. I'm thinking that I'll try to DYI that one.
Depends whether they like you or not. The corrupt masonic twats confiscated my kubotan when I lamped a car driver who'd knocked me off my bike and made the mistake of getting out to try and finish the job.
Actually, that one is explained in the book. OK, but I'll save you the 2 quid and explain it.
It didn't matter if you used your Kubotan for defence, you were carrying a weapon so the plod had to seize it regardless. If you had of used it, you still wouldn't have been in any more trouble if you could demonstrate that you felt you needed to use it for defence (he attacked you, so yes you would have been justified). That's the crux of self defence laws in the UK, its based on what you, the victim felt was threatening at the time. Of course they still would have taken it off you.
A Kubotan doesn't really have any other purpose besides being a weapon, unlike say a heavy cane, umbrella, golf bat, cricket stick, big arse steel maglite or Leatherman. Heck, you could even get away with a crow bar as they have legit purposes.
If your attacker wants to claim you used excessive force (as opposed to reasonable force) then they'll need significant evidence that you used far more force than was required to subdue an opponent. Where most people fail to grasp this is that excessive does not mean any more force than is required, but significantly more force. I.E. if you were to strike an opponent once they were down 2 or 3 times that will easily be written off by the judge as the heat of the moment. However if you did it 7-10 times more, its clear that you had time to see the opponent was no longer a threat. Also if you were to break their arm in the struggle, that would also be easily explained as reasonable, if you kicked out 3 of their teeth whilst they were on the ground, that would be excessive.
this isnt going to be a very popular opinion here, but the reason for the historic thaw is surprising. Typically the united states is content to hold trade embargos indefinitely against any nation that so much as thinks of challenging unfettered capitalism.
Actually I'd say the US will hold indefinite embargo against any nation who has defied or disobeyed them. The US supported Batista over the communists in Cuba, the US supported the Shah over the Islamist's in Iran. There are a lot of bad things you can say about the Theocratic despotism that is the Iranian government... but they're far from socialist.
Conversely the US maintains a lot of trade with nations that are significantly more socialist than Iran... Like Sweden or Norway.
Whilst I've got no particular love for Iran, Cuba or the DPRK, the embargoes are based on "You've pissed us off in the past and we're not going to get over it" rather than any economic rationalisation.
Add to this that they do not consider the cost of the repair - a Chevy might have an alternator that is less reliable than a Honda, but also costs half as much to replace.
The problem is, the Chevy will probably break in 4-6 years but the Honda part will last for 20.
Also any calculation will only involve OEM parts, whilst Genuine Honda parts are extremely expensive, anyone with an ounce of intelligence will just by the same part from Bosch or whoever makes it avoiding the OEM tax. Add to that the fact you can get cheaper 3rd party parts for a Honda.
I've had Japanese and European cars, My parents owned Holdens (Chevy in Australia). The Japanese cars was the cheapest to repair, my Euro the most expensive... but both didn't break nearly as much as the Holdens, they didn't cost a bomb to fix like my BMW, but they needed to be fixed more often. As the old joke goes, 97% of Chevys are still on the road... only 3% made it home.
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In related news, productivity of workers in the UK was up 455% today.
Not if you were working from home. BTW, internet is fine here in Surrey, No shortage of cat videos.
USD is common in Iran... Converted on every street corner, you could post for things such as your hotel bill with USD direct.
I'm sure not state supported, but that goes to demonstrate that if the state got rid of hard currency, it would just be replaced by someone elses hard currency.
However the USD is not unique or even preferable as a getaway currency. Due to the high number of counterfeit notes out there, US notes are subject to more scrutiny. Americans I know who travel a lot tend to go to banks specifically to get late series of notes that aren't popular for counterfeiting.
If you were fleeing the law or whatever, you'd be just as safe, if not safer by taking Euro, GB Pound, Japanese Yen or even Australian Dollars or Yuan Renminbi. In fact if you were being smart about it you'd take several currencies.
Is this because people are being forced to sit and watch Facebook videos?
They're incapable of averting their own eyes?
So you've never been fooled into seeing a Goatse claiming it was Natalie Portman naked with hot gritz?
Same thing happens with video.
Besides, who is forcing you to go to Facebook. Instead of whinging about it, why don't you just ignore what Facebook is doing.
eh, where is the USD not accepted? It's preferred over local currency in many of the third world places I've been.
I have never been to a nation that prefers USD over a local currency. The only one I can even think of is Argentina. Anywhere else you always pay more when paying in foreign currency .
Given the high occurrences of counterfeit US notes, merchants tend to reject them in most countries and you have to change them at a bank or cambio/FX office. You might be able to pay with USD in somewhere like the Philippines where a lot of Americans travel, but you'll be paying a lot more than if you changed it and paid in PH Pesos.
Most countries you'll find almost all merchants will refuse to accept USD notes. Same with trying to use Euro in Australia or even British Pounds in France.
But to answer your question, Iran, North Korea.. Just about anyone the US has put on their shit list.
Actually, the new BSG was pretty good
I take it you haven't actually seen the final episode of BSG. I couldn't decide if it was cheesy, lazy writing or just plain crap. The writers had definitely given up after the first half of the season and were just continually pulling Deus Ex Machina out of the backsides (the series tended to skirt that a lot, but it just became too obvious after they found (fake) earth).
1984 was made about a Collectivist (Leftist) dystopia.
Here you demonstrate you dont know what Leftist is... or have actually read Nineteen Eighty-Four (the title is in words, not numbers).
Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell's diatribe against Nazism and Fascism, which is far right. Animal Farm was his diatribe against Stalinist Communism.
The society in Nineteen Eighty-Four was definitely not collectivist. The society was clearly separated into 3 groups, Inner party members, Outer party members and the proles. Each group had a different level of rights. The idea of mass surveillance was to demonstrate how quickly people turned against each other and became isolationist under an oppressive state. It was akin to Nazism which tried to control everything in their citizens lives in order to mould them into what the Nazi's considered to be the ideal German. IngSoc which was doublespeak because it was neither English or Socialist was a play on National Socialist which was also not socialist by modern or 1930-50's definitions. It was a clever use of words to demonstrate the hypocrisy of such a state.
And Islamic
Ironically, the other central theme of was the perpetual war and the type of propaganda that followed it. The propaganda was deliberately designed to dehumanise and make people irrationally afraid of their enemy du jour. A bit like you're trying to do with Islam, but the book was much better at it.
Also, you should know that theocratic depositions, such as the one in Iran are far from collectivist. In fact they're pretty much the epitome of extreme right-wing governments. The few (religious leaders) hold the power whilst the masses are expected to follow and are punished for questioning. Collectivist societies like the Soviets or Khmer Rouge always tried to eliminate or reduce the role of religion. Pol Pot raided ancient Buddhist and Hindu temples to fund his state.
In my 20s I downloaded a copy of the big book of mischief. I never tried to make anything from the book, probably good I didn't or I might not be here now, however by the logic that convicted this guy I could have faced years in prison... for curiosity. No matter which way you cut it this is wrong.
This.
I also downloaded that book you spoke of in my teens. As well as possessing a lot of other literature that certain groups (mostly religious) would happily have seen me locked up for if they had their way.
BTW, I did make bombs when I was young, but I had plenty of empty bush to set them off in. Just a bit of common sense really, if you're going to do something a bit silly, go somewhere where no-one is going to be bothered by you.
To be fair, I blame the hype.
The blame should be equally split between the company that creates the hype and the consumers who eat the hype.
This is why I never buy a game that I produces too much hype, it doesn't matter if it's a good game or not, it can never live up to the hype.
Its the same with TV series, I refuse to watch a lot of popular ones in case they end like Lost or Battlestar Galactica (TWD is pretty much a given it ends with everyone you like dead).
Moore's Law is dead. Lone gone and buried. There is no compelling reason to replace your PC at this point.
This and bad economies are to blame.
You no longer need to upgrade your PC or laptop every 2-3 years to run basic software... Hell, you barely need to upgrade your gaming rig every 3 years to play the latest game. I just built a new rig in 2016, the last one was made in 2009 between then I only upgraded the graphics card and to an SSD.
But the larger cause are businesses, they are deferring upgrades because of shrinking budgets. Businesses that would upgrade every 2 years in the 00's are now upgrading every 3-5 years.
Well, I just decided to get a console. I use it more than my dual-boot computer. You put a game disc in and it works.
Housemates tried playing FIFA16 on the Xbox.
1. It had to connect to Xbox live.
2. It had to download an update.
3. It had to verify the disk.
4. It had to download another update.
5. Then it started the game.
6. Unstoppable into videos.
7. Logging into Xbox Live.
8. Now they have a start menu.
In the same time I downloaded an entire game from Steam.
Some of us cannot turn off our phones at night. I had to deal with my Father dying of leukemia for 3 years or so, then an over-anxious Mother who was having panic attacks and then we found she was developing Alzheimer's. For 10 years, I had to be on call 24/7 because I never knew what would happen or if that out-of-town phone call was a friend or an EMT or someone calling on their cell phone to tell me she needed help or was in serious trouble.
It must be a wonderful privilege to live in a world where it's easy to imagine not having to be on call 24/7.
Imagine what we did before the rise of mobile phones... If we were on call and didn't get to the phone on time, they'd leave a message or call us back in 10/30/60 minutes.
So get your whinging arse off my lawn.
If your employer is abusing your off time... that is because YOU have not set limits with your employer.
isnt canada still technically ruled by the queen of england??, and didnt the UK just institute draconian surveillance laws
Canada, like England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the Commonwealth, is a constitutional monarchy.
This means we are ruled by an elected government.
The Queen and royals are entirely figureheads. People who throw charity balls and make Christmas statements once a year, I don't expect Americans to understand this, but it's nice to have a leader who you dint have to be disappointed in all the time.
Uber and Air B&B really had turned into something different than their initial business. These were for people who wanted to do some Parttime work. Rent out their home when they are away. Drive additional people when commuting to work. The the Recession hit, and this became more of a source of income, vs just getting extra spending changes. It didn't help with these companies changing their buisness structure to compete against Hotels and Taxis.
Not really, Uber was always a scam and BNB's always worked that way.
In places were Bed and Breakfasts are legal like England, AirBNB just became a new method of booking them.
Uber only started out in other countries after the GFC, they operate the same. Uber advertises to their drivers that they'll make money, they use examples of 10-12 hour days earning hundreds of dollars. It is definitely not advertised as a part time job (probably has something to do with part timers dropping off after a few weeks). As Uber has been targeting the taxi industry, many of their drivers are taxi drivers who have been forced out of their job. As such, this kind of thing is to be expected.
Actually, it won't ruin many engines. Certainly none built after the late 90's.
Most people don't know that the only difference between an eco-fuel ford car and its non eco-fuel badged - is a software setting.
I used to be one of the people that thought the increased alcohol content would ruin gaskets, hoses, and cylinder walls, but the auto industry has already addressed it years ago.
Also, for around 150 bucks - most cars can be converted to run on ethanol, e-85, or methanol.
Yep, the big problem with switching from leaded fuels to unleaded fuels then to E10 fuels were the fact that before the 90's, a lot of cars were still built without knock sensors and ECU's that couldn't adjust for variations in detonation temperatures (RON). In fact, many were still using carburetors instead of EFI.
Then the 90's came along and your cheapest Hyundai were fitted with EFI, modern ECU's. so on and so forth.
No, he didn't.
He paid lip service based on hate and fear.
And you believed him.
Trump is a part of the anti (or dis-) establishment.
Trump is as establishment as you can get. He is big business personified. All the fools thinking he stands for the average guy and is anti-establishment have been conned big time. He'll ignore everything he said in the election and pursue his own agenda which will be entirely for himself with some scraps for his pals.
You'd be lucky if he was just a Dubya 2.0, he's likely to be more destructive.
And basic business logic is you need to ensure that you have multiple ways to accept payment (also IT logic, single point of failure and all that).
Dude, I'm not flying the bomb to your house while holding the transmitter, I'm turning on the auto pilot, letting it sit there for an hour, then take off and bomb you while I'm 2 states away. Oh, and I'm doing this on software thats a couple years old (ArduPilot from a few years ago) so ...
This is useful for taking down your DJI phantom ... but as far as taking down a weaponized toy? Yea, no, you're going to need to hit inertial management and GPS based on what I can build for a hundred bucks. Give me 200 and I'll start doing optical guidance.
According to the article they're targeting the signal rather than the drone by interfering with the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. All you'd need to do is build your drone to use a different frequency and you'll be golden. You can do that for well under US$200.
I do have to ask if this is any more effective than a rifle?
The military will already have more effective tools, but they will also be going up against far more sophisticated drones. Also, the GIF looks like a bad infomercial rather than a weapons test.
Wait, what you're suggesting is that they simply roll over and accept whatever you want to do to them.
Not giving up is a good thing... Only a delusional Trump supporter could possibly twist it into a bad thing. If you think your candidate is right, get out there and fight for them. However you dont think Trump is right, you just hate the other team. That is the real problem in politics, no matter how bad your team captain is, you still vote for them because you cant support the other team because they're the other team.
For anyone who argues Trump supporters would be doing the same thing were the situation reversed, I call out your bullshit and will say it's pure speculation on your part
Given the bollocks we've received from the Republican supporters over the last 8 years of Obama being elected by both the collage and the popular vote. I call you bullshit and will say that you've spent 8 years doing exactly what you've claimed is speculation. It's not speculation, it's backed up with 8 years of you doing exactly that... Still want to talk about that birth certificate... or emails. I can guarantee you if Hillary won you'd be ranting about fucking emails instead of just rolling over and accepting it.
So, other than dealing with the most coddled, spoiled, insulated and catered-to generation of all time
You mean the baby boomers... Because they're 10 times worse than so called millennials. They got everything handed to them on a silver platter and never cared about the next generations. Your post is an ideal argument as to why we should restrict old people from voting. BTW, I'm Gen X... I've seen both sides and the arrogance from the older generations is far worse.
It will probably never happen, mostly because running a truly nation-wide presidential campaign would be even more expensive than fighting it out in a handful of battleground states. It would cost tens of billions of dollars to run months of 24/7 attack ads against your competitor in all 50 states, and even the biggest of the big money donors don't want to foot that bill.
That's a benefit, not a drawback.
The US spends too much on attack ads, not enough on actually campaigning. In fact, limits need to be put on political advertising and political donations so that politicians have to leave their echo chambers and deal with real people.
Another echo of the dubious 99.7. It shouldn't take 2 seconds to realize what nonsense that is. Did you also believe the reports of Fidel's popularity?
Why is the statistic dubious?
Well obviously it goes against his preconceptions and biases.
I'm inclined to believe that Cuba has a high level of adult literacy, but that just means they can read and write the native language (Spanish in Cuba's case) at an acceptable standard.
The problem with Cuba's education system is not basic education, but advanced education. A collage degree from Cuba is worth less than a high school diploma from any western nation. Castro once joked that one of the good things about communism was "even our prostitutes have college degrees".
And its not just Cuba, this kind of problem is common problem with third world nations including the extremely capitalistic ones like India and the Philippines. A Filipina nurse with a degree from a Filipino university will struggle to find work in Hong Kong as anything but a maid, however is she has one from a western university she'll have no trouble finding work in any number of developed nations as nursing staff are in demand almost everywhere.
Most Filipinos can read and write English to a reasonable level (as well as Tagalog, Visyan or another Filipino language) but higher education is a lot more rare. What separates developed nations like the UK or Australia from developing nations isn't adult literacy, its higher education. We may have a lower rate of adult literacy but we have a much higher rate and quality of collage and university graduates.
My latest fix on my Toyota involved a simple radiator swap and the entire AC unit had to be removed for access. This made a quick and cheap repair quite expensive.
The starter motor in my BM required the engine to be lifted. Replacing that cost 90 quid in parts, but 190 quid in labour (3.5 hours at 60 pounds an hour). Cars sometimes have these little surprises.
I'm also not looking forward to replacing the roof motor (its not dead yet, but its going). The part is 300 quid but 400 quid for labour as it's a 2 man job. I'm thinking that I'll try to DYI that one.
Depends whether they like you or not. The corrupt masonic twats confiscated my kubotan when I lamped a car driver who'd knocked me off my bike and made the mistake of getting out to try and finish the job.
Actually, that one is explained in the book. OK, but I'll save you the 2 quid and explain it.
It didn't matter if you used your Kubotan for defence, you were carrying a weapon so the plod had to seize it regardless. If you had of used it, you still wouldn't have been in any more trouble if you could demonstrate that you felt you needed to use it for defence (he attacked you, so yes you would have been justified). That's the crux of self defence laws in the UK, its based on what you, the victim felt was threatening at the time. Of course they still would have taken it off you.
A Kubotan doesn't really have any other purpose besides being a weapon, unlike say a heavy cane, umbrella, golf bat, cricket stick, big arse steel maglite or Leatherman. Heck, you could even get away with a crow bar as they have legit purposes.
If your attacker wants to claim you used excessive force (as opposed to reasonable force) then they'll need significant evidence that you used far more force than was required to subdue an opponent. Where most people fail to grasp this is that excessive does not mean any more force than is required, but significantly more force. I.E. if you were to strike an opponent once they were down 2 or 3 times that will easily be written off by the judge as the heat of the moment. However if you did it 7-10 times more, its clear that you had time to see the opponent was no longer a threat. Also if you were to break their arm in the struggle, that would also be easily explained as reasonable, if you kicked out 3 of their teeth whilst they were on the ground, that would be excessive.
this isnt going to be a very popular opinion here, but the reason for the historic thaw is surprising. Typically the united states is content to hold trade embargos indefinitely against any nation that so much as thinks of challenging unfettered capitalism.
Actually I'd say the US will hold indefinite embargo against any nation who has defied or disobeyed them. The US supported Batista over the communists in Cuba, the US supported the Shah over the Islamist's in Iran. There are a lot of bad things you can say about the Theocratic despotism that is the Iranian government... but they're far from socialist.
Conversely the US maintains a lot of trade with nations that are significantly more socialist than Iran... Like Sweden or Norway.
Whilst I've got no particular love for Iran, Cuba or the DPRK, the embargoes are based on "You've pissed us off in the past and we're not going to get over it" rather than any economic rationalisation.
Add to this that they do not consider the cost of the repair - a Chevy might have an alternator that is less reliable than a Honda, but also costs half as much to replace.
The problem is, the Chevy will probably break in 4-6 years but the Honda part will last for 20.
Also any calculation will only involve OEM parts, whilst Genuine Honda parts are extremely expensive, anyone with an ounce of intelligence will just by the same part from Bosch or whoever makes it avoiding the OEM tax. Add to that the fact you can get cheaper 3rd party parts for a Honda.
I've had Japanese and European cars, My parents owned Holdens (Chevy in Australia). The Japanese cars was the cheapest to repair, my Euro the most expensive... but both didn't break nearly as much as the Holdens, they didn't cost a bomb to fix like my BMW, but they needed to be fixed more often. As the old joke goes, 97% of Chevys are still on the road... only 3% made it home.