"I can aim that at any particular spot on a target, and disable and destroy as necessary" Moving targets can take a circuitous and rapidly change directions. The aiming system, presumably RADAR or some such, must be able to follow such a target and likely uses a mechanical motor driven gear system for that. Can the aiming system follow that spot during the target's travels?
I did quite a bit of SONAR systems back in the 1990s, for marine and riverine research. We built one unit that consisted of a split array (the SONAR head) mounted on two stepper-motor-driven gimbals. We were able to slew at 90 degrees per second, in water - a head that was 14 kg and about 40cm in diameter and 60cm in length. It was deployed in front of dams. We'd lock on to an individual salmon, then track it as it approached either the fish ladder (ideal), spillway (not as good) or turbine intake (bad). Data gathered was used to improve diversion techniques and spillway shapes.
We were able to do this in real time, with targets moving at 20-30 degrees per second, and in a fairly random movement shape as well (based upon fish direction and turbulence). Tracking a missile or other munitions or vehicle will be trivial - the further the range, the lower the radial movement of the target in terms of degrees per second of motion.
Check out the technology called "DLP" - Digital Light Processing. It's capable of dithering light over a wide arc at a rate of 120 Hz. Not many mechanical systems/projectiles will wobble or change course anywhere near that speed. And DLP is well understood - it's available in sub-$500 projectors...
It's not hard at all. You just have to be really quick on the trackball and not blow all your missiles too early in the sweep from one side to the other...
What if you miss? A laser beam is very coherent and will keep traveling until it hits something.
Most munitions of.50 cal or larger will tend to do the same thing, to the curvature of the Earth. Range of most rockets, shells, and heavy calibers is typically more than 7 miles.
In many countries, soliders are cheaper than the weapons and systems on the trucks... And pretty much all wars are wars of resources - who has the deeper resource pool to draw from (unless it's a war run as a political battle, much like Vietnam). Kill a truck driver, they get another one - 1 for 1. Destroy a missile, waste a lot more money and occupy another 100+ people to build the missile replacement.
How about Canada, the UK, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand? They all have a lower tax burden on workers... What would you consider their quality of life?
If you look back in the 50s, we see tax receipts were around $620 billion (in 2009 dollars). That was for about 161 million people. Federal tax receipts are now about $3,000 billion in 2009 dollars, and the population has roughly doubled to 330 million. Meaning taxes are up about 2.5 times per capita, versus the 50s. Is our quality of life that much better?
Look at the "big wartime" years of the 40s - you'll find the same thing, Government taxation (and spending) has exploded well beyond historical norms, and it seems our labor force participation rate is low, poverty is up, and crime is much higher. Is quality of life better? You be the judge...
Good for you! I lived in Shanghai for 6 years (Qibao town area), and met my wife there. We lived in a big, 80 sq meter apartment. Now we live back in the US, and she and I both greatly prefer having a nice, 220 sq meter house, a nice big backyard, and space around. So do all her friends and family when they come over to visit... Do not conflate "accepting" with "preferring"...
That is a GREAT Madison quote! I like this one, too!
"The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
-- James Madison, speech in the House of Representatives, January 10, 1794
But what did Madison know about the Constitution, he only wrote the thing...
Right now, the Federal Government is spending $12,000 per year per man, woman, and child in the US ($48,000 for a family of four). Do you think you are receiving that much benefit? The median income for families is just barely above that level of spending; is the Federal Government doubling the quality of their life?
About that volume thing... Look up EN50332. It's an EU directive (required in the EU) that limits maximum volume, or at least forces a "it's going to be too loud!" warning. That's not private industry/manufacturers limiting you - that's Government. Most of what we're forced to do - including all the disclaimers (like here in CA, everything causes cancer and must be warned against so now no one pays attention) is driven by regulation. And the manufacturers are the ones stuck with the choice of a pissed off/irritated customer, or hefty fines from the Government.
I seem to be able to make a good living by doing consulting - using Windows 10 and programs that are only available on Windows... Maybe it has little quirks some don't like - but please don't lump everyone in with "us".
His claim is wrong. Biodiversity is still extremely high. But hey - that scientific graph I linked doesn't really lend itself to a "doom and gloom/man is evil!" kind of mantra, does it?
I see Hungary, Germany, Malta, and the Czech Republic beating the US 4.4% unemployment rate. The official EU wide rate is nearly twice the US rate, and 24 of the 28 countries have a higher unemployment rate than the US. Is that really what you wanted to highlight?
Uh, the State removed 5500 NONCITIZEN registered voters, and at least 1,852 of those ILLEGAL VOTERS actually cast ballots. You keep trying to pitch this as a "right wing nut jobs" kind of thing, but this is hard, factual actions taken by States. Actual REAL illegal votes cast (7,000 in Virginia alone). Documented. Get off the "conservative nut job" talking points. Non-citizen voting is a real thing. Or do you want to disenfranchise your fellow citizens? Do you want it to be "it's not the votes that count, but who counts the vote"?
Four states have mandatory absentee/vote-by-mail: California (starting in 2018), Colorado, Washington and Oregon. What do those States also have in common? They vote Democrat (the last 3, overwhelmingly so). It would seem, therefore, if Democrats were really interested in fair and honest elections they would cheer for regular voting registration reviews and voter roll purges, so their easier-to-commit-fraud elections would be fair and above reproach. Yet the opposite happens... Why is that?
Its investigation found that Virginia removed more than 5,500 noncitizens from voter lists, including 1,852 people who had cast more than 7,000 ballots. The people volunteered their status, most likely when acquiring driver’s licenses. The Public Interest Legal Foundation said there are likely many more illegal voters on Virginia’s rolls who have never admitted to being noncitizens.
Perhaps scrubbing the voter rolls would be a good thing...
Artists make $0.0000955 per listener, per play on radio. Meaning it takes over 10,000 listeners/streams to earn that $1 - not just 1,000. Youtube is actually paying 10X the royalty that a performer would make on the radio... And Spotify/Pandora/etc. are paying even higher.
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"I can aim that at any particular spot on a target, and disable and destroy as necessary" Moving targets can take a circuitous and rapidly change directions. The aiming system, presumably RADAR or some such, must be able to follow such a target and likely uses a mechanical motor driven gear system for that. Can the aiming system follow that spot during the target's travels?
I did quite a bit of SONAR systems back in the 1990s, for marine and riverine research. We built one unit that consisted of a split array (the SONAR head) mounted on two stepper-motor-driven gimbals. We were able to slew at 90 degrees per second, in water - a head that was 14 kg and about 40cm in diameter and 60cm in length. It was deployed in front of dams. We'd lock on to an individual salmon, then track it as it approached either the fish ladder (ideal), spillway (not as good) or turbine intake (bad). Data gathered was used to improve diversion techniques and spillway shapes.
We were able to do this in real time, with targets moving at 20-30 degrees per second, and in a fairly random movement shape as well (based upon fish direction and turbulence). Tracking a missile or other munitions or vehicle will be trivial - the further the range, the lower the radial movement of the target in terms of degrees per second of motion.
Check out the technology called "DLP" - Digital Light Processing. It's capable of dithering light over a wide arc at a rate of 120 Hz. Not many mechanical systems/projectiles will wobble or change course anywhere near that speed. And DLP is well understood - it's available in sub-$500 projectors...
It's not hard at all. You just have to be really quick on the trackball and not blow all your missiles too early in the sweep from one side to the other...
What if you miss? A laser beam is very coherent and will keep traveling until it hits something.
Most munitions of .50 cal or larger will tend to do the same thing, to the curvature of the Earth. Range of most rockets, shells, and heavy calibers is typically more than 7 miles.
In many countries, soliders are cheaper than the weapons and systems on the trucks... And pretty much all wars are wars of resources - who has the deeper resource pool to draw from (unless it's a war run as a political battle, much like Vietnam). Kill a truck driver, they get another one - 1 for 1. Destroy a missile, waste a lot more money and occupy another 100+ people to build the missile replacement.
How about Canada, the UK, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand? They all have a lower tax burden on workers... What would you consider their quality of life?
If you look back in the 50s, we see tax receipts were around $620 billion (in 2009 dollars). That was for about 161 million people. Federal tax receipts are now about $3,000 billion in 2009 dollars, and the population has roughly doubled to 330 million. Meaning taxes are up about 2.5 times per capita, versus the 50s. Is our quality of life that much better?
Look at the "big wartime" years of the 40s - you'll find the same thing, Government taxation (and spending) has exploded well beyond historical norms, and it seems our labor force participation rate is low, poverty is up, and crime is much higher. Is quality of life better? You be the judge...
Hong Kong and Singapore. Switzerland is about the same tax burden but typically considered better quality of life.
It has an expiration date, too... Expiration dates really don't mean much...
Good for you! I lived in Shanghai for 6 years (Qibao town area), and met my wife there. We lived in a big, 80 sq meter apartment. Now we live back in the US, and she and I both greatly prefer having a nice, 220 sq meter house, a nice big backyard, and space around. So do all her friends and family when they come over to visit... Do not conflate "accepting" with "preferring"...
That is a GREAT Madison quote! I like this one, too!
"The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." -- James Madison, speech in the House of Representatives, January 10, 1794
But what did Madison know about the Constitution, he only wrote the thing...
Right now, the Federal Government is spending $12,000 per year per man, woman, and child in the US ($48,000 for a family of four). Do you think you are receiving that much benefit? The median income for families is just barely above that level of spending; is the Federal Government doubling the quality of their life?
Dammit, not Perl - LUA! LUA was the target! Oh well, start the port again...
No, I saw your part. I was simply pointing out we are already there.
But we're trying to move from C to Rust...
About that volume thing... Look up EN50332. It's an EU directive (required in the EU) that limits maximum volume, or at least forces a "it's going to be too loud!" warning. That's not private industry/manufacturers limiting you - that's Government. Most of what we're forced to do - including all the disclaimers (like here in CA, everything causes cancer and must be warned against so now no one pays attention) is driven by regulation. And the manufacturers are the ones stuck with the choice of a pissed off/irritated customer, or hefty fines from the Government.
I seem to be able to make a good living by doing consulting - using Windows 10 and programs that are only available on Windows... Maybe it has little quirks some don't like - but please don't lump everyone in with "us".
His claim is wrong. Biodiversity is still extremely high. But hey - that scientific graph I linked doesn't really lend itself to a "doom and gloom/man is evil!" kind of mantra, does it?
If your only choice was to talk with Facebook engineers or gibberish with another AI, the result seems obvious...
I see Hungary, Germany, Malta, and the Czech Republic beating the US 4.4% unemployment rate. The official EU wide rate is nearly twice the US rate, and 24 of the 28 countries have a higher unemployment rate than the US. Is that really what you wanted to highlight?
Uh, the State removed 5500 NONCITIZEN registered voters, and at least 1,852 of those ILLEGAL VOTERS actually cast ballots. You keep trying to pitch this as a "right wing nut jobs" kind of thing, but this is hard, factual actions taken by States. Actual REAL illegal votes cast (7,000 in Virginia alone). Documented. Get off the "conservative nut job" talking points. Non-citizen voting is a real thing. Or do you want to disenfranchise your fellow citizens? Do you want it to be "it's not the votes that count, but who counts the vote"?
Four states have mandatory absentee/vote-by-mail: California (starting in 2018), Colorado, Washington and Oregon. What do those States also have in common? They vote Democrat (the last 3, overwhelmingly so). It would seem, therefore, if Democrats were really interested in fair and honest elections they would cheer for regular voting registration reviews and voter roll purges, so their easier-to-commit-fraud elections would be fair and above reproach. Yet the opposite happens... Why is that?
From the link:
Its investigation found that Virginia removed more than 5,500 noncitizens from voter lists, including 1,852 people who had cast more than 7,000 ballots. The people volunteered their status, most likely when acquiring driver’s licenses. The Public Interest Legal Foundation said there are likely many more illegal voters on Virginia’s rolls who have never admitted to being noncitizens.
Perhaps scrubbing the voter rolls would be a good thing...
That is a lie. The left has never made a claim of voter fraud.
California Progressives Allege Voter Fraud in Democratic Party Election, Demand Voter ID. Oops. When you get it wrong right out of the gate, kind of deflates the rest of your post, doesn't it?
One source says you're wrong. Youtube pays 10X what radio does...
Artists make $0.0000955 per listener, per play on radio. Meaning it takes over 10,000 listeners/streams to earn that $1 - not just 1,000. Youtube is actually paying 10X the royalty that a performer would make on the radio... And Spotify/Pandora/etc. are paying even higher.