The cabbie definitely knows which road to take; he's taking the road for customers who demand a lower rate even though they're a rich asshole foreigner!
The thing about your sob story, you could anticipate that you're in a place with bad traffic and arrive at the airport 3 hours early anyways, if you wanted to. None of your excuses are valid excuses.
And yet, attempting to fine you before you get to your destination would like cause you to argue, and they'd have to just kick you off the flight anyways. Fining you at the destination means that you'll be encouraged to allocate a sufficient time window next time, without creating any kerfuffle.
It could dovetail nicely with the program in the story; just bill anybody that gets to use the service, unless they're elderly, disabled, or a local. They'd make their flights, and without any moral hazard.
It seems kinda obvious that a small country with a lot of visitors and a huge airport that serves more connecting traffic than local traffic would not really be a likely source of "dystopian complete monitoring." If they were using it for that, they'd be controlling people who are staying there, not people who are leaving or passing through. That control sure wouldn't last long if the person just left on an airplane.
Even if a person is worried about it being installed on the streets and chooses not to visit that place, it seems silly to also avoid connecting flights at their airport.
If the nazis want to whine that it isn't fair, they should consider the possibility that perhaps people who join antifa are genetically superior to them and it is natural for them to defeat the whiny little nazis.
No man, you're whining about mods, you should really not try to defend that like an idiot. You got mad because you down-modded and your joke wasn't funny, fucking deal with it.
Whining about getting downmodded is exactly the same as getting mad because people didn't laugh at your joke.
You're new here. You're being an idiot. So figure it out. Moderation is the right of the moderator, when you're wrong and whine about their choice that's just you not understanding moderation. Don't be that guy.
Right. Good work. It has nothing to do with the shielding.
It has to do with giving the voltage spike that results from successful shielding somewhere to go.
Like in a device plugged into the wall with a three-prong plug: If you dump the noise back onto neutral, it pushes noise into everything else plugged into the same supply circuit. If you dump the noise to Earth, then that doesn't happen.
So for example, take an old, simple electric kitchen blender with a metal body, and a two prong plug with no Earth connection. Now, plug an old analog AM radio into the nearest other plug, and turn it on. When you turn the blender on, you'll likely hear a bunch of noise in the signal from the radio. Now, touch the blender chassis with one hand, and touch a metal part of the kitchen sink or faucet. Most of the noise disappears.
Electricity doesn't take the shortest path, it takes all the paths. Adding an Earth connection gives noise an alternate place to go, and if you can make it a low-impedance path then most of the noise will go that way. Otherwise where does it go? Into a capacitor until it leaks out? The battery isn't going to accept it, the electrical system will already be at charging voltage.
You could also use a giant capacitor bank with different value capacitors, maybe add an inductor too, to filter it out, and just use a diode to protect the rest of the circuit.
That's silly, selling oil for Euros is way worse for the US than bartering for it. If foreigners barter for oil that makes no difference to the US. Foreigners using dollars to pay each other doesn't benefit the US. Small countries bartering has no effect on the US currency position and its benefits for banking and finance. But trading on open markets using Euros, that is a bit of a challenge. Most oil transactions are already being done with Euros; surely the US would be happy for OPEC nations to choose bartering instead.
Assuming you have to trade goats for the gold, what is the goat:oil price ratio?
It isn't a very realistic scenario, if you look at the history of Korea they would not do that other than in dire circumstances. Possession of Seoul is the prize of war, the only reason why the North would ever risk starting one.
Being a defense contractor does not automatically imply that you avail yourself of any specific knowledge outside of your technical specialty.
And to be honest, it is rather shocking for a person to claim to have never heard that, while trying at the same time to establish themselves as an Authoritay.
While I'm sure it did piss China off, if that was China's real concern it seems they would just have pressured them to move it to a site farther from the border. They'd have to dig a new blast tunnel anyways, so it isn't that much more work to build it somewhere else. They surely did geological work on numerous sites before selecting one, so they'd have the needed data.
More likely, they don't actually need to do any more tests, and so that nothing to do with it. They've completed the same number of tests that India and Pakistan did. There is no need to do continuous testing after you're able to predict the yield accurately.
It seems that they finished their nuclear testing, and only had missile testing remaining to be completed. And completing that missile testing would likely trigger instant war with the US.
If they wanted to use it to get peace, the only way that works out for them is if they now give up the weapons when their threat is greatest but still just shy of causing war. They can't hope to keep them as a deterrent, because then Japan will also nuclearize. China would rather give up North Korea as an ally than have a nuclear Japan.
Why is it so hard to understand what the blast tunnel is for, and if it would be a major setback if one of them collapsed? It isn't really complicated, and it is easy to look up.
Your concept even of what the site is seems pretty fuzzy. If all their weapons were stored at the same "site," they would have been in the buildings outside, or in a separate bunker, they wouldn't be inside the tunnel used to detonate nuclear devices! LOLOLOL
So nothing would have been damaged. The case where it would set them back is if they wanted to do another test right away, and needed more time to prep another tunnel; the worst case regarding their actual nuclear work is only a couple months of delay, and that delay only even exists if they wanted to do another live test immediately.
In the US it would set things back, because we have civil society that gets upset at radiation leaks. North Korea does not have civil society, they have an absolute dictatorship. The workers who work in those blast tunnels are not provided with any protection. They die young. Their families don't complain. The other option if they don't like it would be a prison labor camp, with an even shorter lifespan. Some of those people died in a tunnel collapse. That does not cause any significant delay, they're not skilled workers, and unskilled workers are not a limiting resource for North Korea.
They don't even have the fuel to get to Japan, much less the ships, or ship defenses. It is complete absurdity.
Most of their weapons are Soviet models. The metallurgy in most of their equipment isn't very good, for economic reasons.
Meanwhile, South Korea has one of the most modern militaries in the world! The US only has 30k troops in S. Korea. The US is there on the border mostly for political reasons to guarantee that if war starts, the US is one of the combatants. It isn't because the US is physically protecting South Korea from North Korea; South Korea has a capable military, with all the best American tech.
The North Koreans could overrun some land with their numbers, but the South Koreans would easily retreat and counter-attack and destroy them. It would not be a long war.
The lesson from Libya is that if you make a big agreement with the US, and then violate it by bringing home a convicted terrorist and treating them as a hero when you'd actually agreed to admit responsibility for their terrorist act, then you get blasted. Don't pull that shit. The involvement with terrorism was a bigger part of the problem than Libya's nuclear program, because they didn't have a very serious nuclear program but they did have a lot of active field agents with a history of terrorist activity.
Also, if you're a small country like Libya, and you got some sort of security deal with the US, don't try to act like you're some sort of superpower engaging in a "cold war" against the US. The US will just heat it before serving. Duh.
It was just a tunnel that collapsed, it isn't something that sets the program back in a country with a government that has absolute power.
The tunnel is where they make the things go "boom," it isn't where they build any of the things, and it isn't where the people who design or build the things work.
We don't know what happened in the meeting between DPRK and PRC, but we do know that afterwards they made a joint public statement; North Korea had agreed to give up their weapons program, and China had agreed to remain allies with North Korea. That's not a subtle statement IMO, and it isn't really the same thing as not knowing what happened unless it was a ruse. We might have the answer in just a couple months, too.
People can blather about "Trump," but he already made it clear he doesn't understand the military and lets the generals make most of the decisions about war stuff. To the extent that China has become concerned about US military action, the US military has been clear for decades that if the North Koreans actually build an ICBM that can reach the US, that will result in war. The main part that Trump has been involved in so far is that he's sitting in the chair that the media talks about when they talk about the subject. This exact conflict has been building to happen right now, for decades. This is the exact moment where peace is most likely to be achieved, because failure to achieve it means almost instant war. Not because of the personalities sitting in their respective chairs today, but because past leaders have left the conflict to come to a head at this time.
If you have to take along a 300kW gasoline-powered turbine and a copy machine-sized unit, isn't it easier to just throw this stuff in the path of the car you want to stop?
I suggest that would mean there wouldn't be an excuse to deploy microwave weapons within civilian populations.
Almost everywhere the military operates already has a civilian population. Wars aren't conducted safely off-planet, or whatever. If you're well-enough educated you can tell which civilians it will be used on based on which part of the government is operating it.;)
If you have to take along a 300kW gasoline-powered turbine and a copy machine-sized unit, isn't it easier to just throw this stuff in the path of the car you want to stop?
No, you park it right next to the road to stop cars at the checkpoint, if you put the equipment out in the road without turning it on they'll just hit it with a suicide bomber.
This is to stop the car a few feet farther back, keeping most of the checkpoint outside of the blast radius, and allowing a way to kill less civilians who don't stop at the right time.
Another technical achievement that can be defeated by aluminum foil.;)
True, that. Just make sure to wrap it well enough to get under the car's wheels, because the car is already shielded and the only workable theory of operation is to create a path to Earth to dump the transient.
If they pull out my gun and shoot my tires, I already stopped caring about my car when whatever happened immediately before that happened that caused me to be outside my car, and them to be holding my gun.:)
A more likely use case would probably be when a car is approaching a checkpoint and doesn't slow down or stop at the correct spot. The correct military decision is to destroy the threat, but it is more often a civilian idiot or phone zombie than some sort of attacker, and it is unpopular to shoot people for being stupid. So with this they have an extra chance not to kill an idiot and their family. That's why it doesn't matter that it is easy to harden a car against this; cars that are hardened against it can still just be destroyed, if this works on regular family cars it could save a lot of lives.
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The cabbie definitely knows which road to take; he's taking the road for customers who demand a lower rate even though they're a rich asshole foreigner!
The thing about your sob story, you could anticipate that you're in a place with bad traffic and arrive at the airport 3 hours early anyways, if you wanted to. None of your excuses are valid excuses.
And yet, attempting to fine you before you get to your destination would like cause you to argue, and they'd have to just kick you off the flight anyways. Fining you at the destination means that you'll be encouraged to allocate a sufficient time window next time, without creating any kerfuffle.
It could dovetail nicely with the program in the story; just bill anybody that gets to use the service, unless they're elderly, disabled, or a local. They'd make their flights, and without any moral hazard.
It seems kinda obvious that a small country with a lot of visitors and a huge airport that serves more connecting traffic than local traffic would not really be a likely source of "dystopian complete monitoring." If they were using it for that, they'd be controlling people who are staying there, not people who are leaving or passing through. That control sure wouldn't last long if the person just left on an airplane.
Even if a person is worried about it being installed on the streets and chooses not to visit that place, it seems silly to also avoid connecting flights at their airport.
If the nazis want to whine that it isn't fair, they should consider the possibility that perhaps people who join antifa are genetically superior to them and it is natural for them to defeat the whiny little nazis.
The story is about Singapore. The plan is probably to make sure anybody that brings a durian onto the bus pays a fine before leaving the country. /s
You do know terrorists are bad, right? Maybe you had an additional concern that would make more sense to focus on.
No man, you're whining about mods, you should really not try to defend that like an idiot. You got mad because you down-modded and your joke wasn't funny, fucking deal with it.
Whining about getting downmodded is exactly the same as getting mad because people didn't laugh at your joke.
You're new here. You're being an idiot. So figure it out. Moderation is the right of the moderator, when you're wrong and whine about their choice that's just you not understanding moderation. Don't be that guy.
Right. Good work. It has nothing to do with the shielding.
It has to do with giving the voltage spike that results from successful shielding somewhere to go.
Like in a device plugged into the wall with a three-prong plug: If you dump the noise back onto neutral, it pushes noise into everything else plugged into the same supply circuit. If you dump the noise to Earth, then that doesn't happen.
So for example, take an old, simple electric kitchen blender with a metal body, and a two prong plug with no Earth connection. Now, plug an old analog AM radio into the nearest other plug, and turn it on. When you turn the blender on, you'll likely hear a bunch of noise in the signal from the radio. Now, touch the blender chassis with one hand, and touch a metal part of the kitchen sink or faucet. Most of the noise disappears.
Electricity doesn't take the shortest path, it takes all the paths. Adding an Earth connection gives noise an alternate place to go, and if you can make it a low-impedance path then most of the noise will go that way. Otherwise where does it go? Into a capacitor until it leaks out? The battery isn't going to accept it, the electrical system will already be at charging voltage.
You could also use a giant capacitor bank with different value capacitors, maybe add an inductor too, to filter it out, and just use a diode to protect the rest of the circuit.
That's silly, selling oil for Euros is way worse for the US than bartering for it. If foreigners barter for oil that makes no difference to the US. Foreigners using dollars to pay each other doesn't benefit the US. Small countries bartering has no effect on the US currency position and its benefits for banking and finance. But trading on open markets using Euros, that is a bit of a challenge. Most oil transactions are already being done with Euros; surely the US would be happy for OPEC nations to choose bartering instead.
Assuming you have to trade goats for the gold, what is the goat:oil price ratio?
It isn't a very realistic scenario, if you look at the history of Korea they would not do that other than in dire circumstances. Possession of Seoul is the prize of war, the only reason why the North would ever risk starting one.
It's a much bigger threat to Japan, Guam, etc.
Being a defense contractor does not automatically imply that you avail yourself of any specific knowledge outside of your technical specialty.
And to be honest, it is rather shocking for a person to claim to have never heard that, while trying at the same time to establish themselves as an Authoritay.
I'd still keep thinking about other theories of operation. ;)
The United States removed all our nuclear weapons from Korea in 1991 you idiot.
Buy yourself a time machine if you want to change which nations are allowed to have them at home.
While I'm sure it did piss China off, if that was China's real concern it seems they would just have pressured them to move it to a site farther from the border. They'd have to dig a new blast tunnel anyways, so it isn't that much more work to build it somewhere else. They surely did geological work on numerous sites before selecting one, so they'd have the needed data.
More likely, they don't actually need to do any more tests, and so that nothing to do with it. They've completed the same number of tests that India and Pakistan did. There is no need to do continuous testing after you're able to predict the yield accurately.
It seems that they finished their nuclear testing, and only had missile testing remaining to be completed. And completing that missile testing would likely trigger instant war with the US.
If they wanted to use it to get peace, the only way that works out for them is if they now give up the weapons when their threat is greatest but still just shy of causing war. They can't hope to keep them as a deterrent, because then Japan will also nuclearize. China would rather give up North Korea as an ally than have a nuclear Japan.
Why is it so hard to understand what the blast tunnel is for, and if it would be a major setback if one of them collapsed? It isn't really complicated, and it is easy to look up.
Your concept even of what the site is seems pretty fuzzy. If all their weapons were stored at the same "site," they would have been in the buildings outside, or in a separate bunker, they wouldn't be inside the tunnel used to detonate nuclear devices! LOLOLOL
So nothing would have been damaged. The case where it would set them back is if they wanted to do another test right away, and needed more time to prep another tunnel; the worst case regarding their actual nuclear work is only a couple months of delay, and that delay only even exists if they wanted to do another live test immediately.
In the US it would set things back, because we have civil society that gets upset at radiation leaks. North Korea does not have civil society, they have an absolute dictatorship. The workers who work in those blast tunnels are not provided with any protection. They die young. Their families don't complain. The other option if they don't like it would be a prison labor camp, with an even shorter lifespan. Some of those people died in a tunnel collapse. That does not cause any significant delay, they're not skilled workers, and unskilled workers are not a limiting resource for North Korea.
All of the US nuclear weapons were withdrawn from South Korea in 1991 .
Nuclear deterrent is provided by submarines and forces stationed on US territories in the Pacific.
They don't even have the fuel to get to Japan, much less the ships, or ship defenses. It is complete absurdity.
Most of their weapons are Soviet models. The metallurgy in most of their equipment isn't very good, for economic reasons.
Meanwhile, South Korea has one of the most modern militaries in the world! The US only has 30k troops in S. Korea. The US is there on the border mostly for political reasons to guarantee that if war starts, the US is one of the combatants. It isn't because the US is physically protecting South Korea from North Korea; South Korea has a capable military, with all the best American tech.
The North Koreans could overrun some land with their numbers, but the South Koreans would easily retreat and counter-attack and destroy them. It would not be a long war.
If oil put them in danger of being invaded, it would be China invading in that scenario.
And no, nobody would try to stop them.
Comparing an apple to an orange and a banana isn't exactly an improvement over the simple apple vs orange comparison.
The lesson from Libya is that if you make a big agreement with the US, and then violate it by bringing home a convicted terrorist and treating them as a hero when you'd actually agreed to admit responsibility for their terrorist act, then you get blasted. Don't pull that shit. The involvement with terrorism was a bigger part of the problem than Libya's nuclear program, because they didn't have a very serious nuclear program but they did have a lot of active field agents with a history of terrorist activity.
Also, if you're a small country like Libya, and you got some sort of security deal with the US, don't try to act like you're some sort of superpower engaging in a "cold war" against the US. The US will just heat it before serving. Duh.
It was just a tunnel that collapsed, it isn't something that sets the program back in a country with a government that has absolute power.
The tunnel is where they make the things go "boom," it isn't where they build any of the things, and it isn't where the people who design or build the things work.
We don't know what happened in the meeting between DPRK and PRC, but we do know that afterwards they made a joint public statement; North Korea had agreed to give up their weapons program, and China had agreed to remain allies with North Korea. That's not a subtle statement IMO, and it isn't really the same thing as not knowing what happened unless it was a ruse. We might have the answer in just a couple months, too.
People can blather about "Trump," but he already made it clear he doesn't understand the military and lets the generals make most of the decisions about war stuff. To the extent that China has become concerned about US military action, the US military has been clear for decades that if the North Koreans actually build an ICBM that can reach the US, that will result in war. The main part that Trump has been involved in so far is that he's sitting in the chair that the media talks about when they talk about the subject. This exact conflict has been building to happen right now, for decades. This is the exact moment where peace is most likely to be achieved, because failure to achieve it means almost instant war. Not because of the personalities sitting in their respective chairs today, but because past leaders have left the conflict to come to a head at this time.
If you have to take along a 300kW gasoline-powered turbine and a copy machine-sized unit, isn't it easier to just throw this stuff in the path of the car you want to stop?
I suggest that would mean there wouldn't be an excuse to deploy microwave weapons within civilian populations.
Almost everywhere the military operates already has a civilian population. Wars aren't conducted safely off-planet, or whatever. If you're well-enough educated you can tell which civilians it will be used on based on which part of the government is operating it. ;)
If you have to take along a 300kW gasoline-powered turbine and a copy machine-sized unit, isn't it easier to just throw this stuff in the path of the car you want to stop?
No, you park it right next to the road to stop cars at the checkpoint, if you put the equipment out in the road without turning it on they'll just hit it with a suicide bomber.
This is to stop the car a few feet farther back, keeping most of the checkpoint outside of the blast radius, and allowing a way to kill less civilians who don't stop at the right time.
The foil changes the temperature of your testes the whole time you wear the foil, the microwaves only heat them for a 10ms burst.
Another technical achievement that can be defeated by aluminum foil. ;)
True, that. Just make sure to wrap it well enough to get under the car's wheels, because the car is already shielded and the only workable theory of operation is to create a path to Earth to dump the transient.
If they pull out my gun and shoot my tires, I already stopped caring about my car when whatever happened immediately before that happened that caused me to be outside my car, and them to be holding my gun. :)
A more likely use case would probably be when a car is approaching a checkpoint and doesn't slow down or stop at the correct spot. The correct military decision is to destroy the threat, but it is more often a civilian idiot or phone zombie than some sort of attacker, and it is unpopular to shoot people for being stupid. So with this they have an extra chance not to kill an idiot and their family. That's why it doesn't matter that it is easy to harden a car against this; cars that are hardened against it can still just be destroyed, if this works on regular family cars it could save a lot of lives.
"Surface" in this case would be something like the top 12cm, though, right?