The situation _is_ catastrophic. We _are_ in big trouble.
Read the actual scientific papers that are peer reviewed. The view is not even close to that bad, at worst is "well... some stuff could happen.. maybe" in any peer reviewed paper. The OMG the sky is falling crap is a product of non peer review political reports in which citations don't even back up the assertions, the media and scientists that are really bad job at playing politician.
Some Steels IIRC are not just soft at 600C, but 1/3 their room temperature strength (tensile yield). I guess that makes it even worse if the main mode of failure is buckling.
Now try and feed the world with them rather than half a dozen villages. Its all fine and dandy for people with so much disposable income that they can throw money at feel good food. Even worst is that there is really not data to even back up the feel good claims.
Where does this come from. Organic farming has never been about that. Organic farms use pesticide and fungicides, how else do you think that crops doing get naturally eaten before harvest otherwise?
Err no. How can you tell if its a political document rather than a science. First sign is it came from a political organization. The second is that its not peer reviewed.
Try reading some of the citations in the report. See how well they match suggested claims in the report. Yea i know several scientists that where involved with the last IPCC report and vowed never again.
Who is buying all this oil and coal? You are! When you buy some new car, or computer or cellphone, how the hell do you think it was made. When you turn on the lights your your laptop that your using on/. you are a big oil/coal consumer. You can't get rid of them without massive changes for yourself. Planes, cars whatever its all dependent on big oil. Just look at the rage coming out of the US every time the gas price goes up.
This is not an art project where you can paint a solar panel and wind turbine on the hill and claim "completely green and self sufficient".
I would show you the stats. But you are clearly unqualified to read them, or participate in the debate. Please present verifiable credentials first. Mr AC.
I didn't say normal. I said happened twice. There is a dogma out there that RAID is backup. Clearly from replies this is not the case. Even once if that is your backup is the end of your business if your into data storage.
Love the comment "disks aren't that expensive anymore". Do you know what RAID was when it came out, what the 4 letters stand for? I was working in a job in previous life where would go through a room full of RAID drives pull out the ones with red lights, swap for the fresh drives and shipped the ones we pulled out back to SUN.
I currently live in Switzerland. There is almost no CC. Its mostly compulsorily assault rifles that every Swiss man is suppose to have in his house, under lock and key. They no longer are allowed ammo. There are other countries with very low gun ownership and low violent crime rates. There are examples and counter examples. There is no correlation.
The US has a gun problem. You don't believe facts, but they are there if you would bother looking for them.
We have had RAID failure twice now. The idea is that even with things like SMART, the errors in the second disk (or 3rd etc) don't become apparent till you try and recover and thrash the disk properly.
Some of your claims are backed up buy some statistics. I can't be bothered digging them up. And gun nuts won't believe them anyway.
1). In the US, owning a pistol or similar sidearm that is loaded in the house for "self defense", means you are something like 47 times more likely to get shot.
Almost all of these are accidents and "domestic escalations", its not always easy to tell the difference. That is having a loaded firearm in the house is just not as safe as not having one, and for most people far more dangerous than some sort of violent B&E. In some countries like NZ where i owned firearms, we must have them secured with ammo and bolts under separate locks and keys. This makes it hard to steal, and makes heat of the moment cases harder because you have probably calmed down with the 10mins it takes to get your gun ready to shoot. Not so much if you have a loaded pistol in the top draw.
2). This seems to be quite specific to the US. I don't quite understand the ridiculously rare case where having a firearm would save you rather than just cause an escalation. They come in at night when your sleeping? They car jack you? they whatever. Its not TV, it doesn't end up being some quick draw Mexican standoff every time. The one in a million case, is well up there with getting hit on the head with a meteor. That can happen of course. But that doesn't mean you don't go outside.
3). This is very true. Also one reason why non lethal weapons appeal to me for law enforcement. I don't think anyone is trained for that. In the military some collateral damage is acceptable. And if some percentage all pull out their side arm and add to the mix. Yea can't see this helping at all really.
4) Ok this is a non sequitur or whatever its called. We all also think we are awesome drivers and its everyone else that is bad:D.
5) This is rather subjective and i think even collecting a statistics on this would be pretty impossible. The US people i know that own firearms are not in this category. I wouldn't put collectors in this either. Proud gun owners may just like guns. Like some people like cars. Don't think there is anything wrong with that.
6) I think the hard fact is that even a self defense nut will with almost zero probability ever have a situation where being armed is going to make a difference. Leaving guns primarily as a increased risk situation. You may think the risk is worth it. But the math does not agree.
So long story short. The case where a firearm would help is so rare that its not worth arming yourself for, since now a accident is far more likely. Of course many people are not making the argument that it makes you safer. Just that its a constitutional right.
It won't matter how many guns you have. Unless you have some tanks, the government will win. Well at least the Generals. If its all about militia and revolutions or illegal wars, its just completed outdated and not applicable to modern warfare. Even if tanks etc are legal there is no way you could afford them.
The RD-180 engines had performance spec much better than anything the US has produced that burns RP-1. Also it has a very high thrust to weight ratio. The shuttle engine is not the same. The preburner is hydrogen rich for both the LOX and LH turbo pumps. While the RD-180 is oxygen rich and burns RP-1 as fuel. They are completely different. The space shuttle engine is a economic failure and has a good bit to do with the 500M per launch cost.
The F1 engine uses a gas generator cycle and thus as lower performance and use fuel rich gas generator for the turbo pumps. Again different. Different metallurgy, different everything. The Raptor engine is full flow *fuel rich* staged combustion. Again different.
The only thing that is the same with all these engines is that they are all liquid fuel rocket engines. Mite as well dumb it down to "Buy US made otherwise you support the commies".
Trade secrets don't protect ideas. Ideas are only kinda protected via patents, and even then only specific implementation of an idea. The idea of VR with low latency and different sensors for head orientation is not new. In fact i don;t see anything new that wasn't done years ago. The difference is that the technology has become cheap enough to be mainstream and fast enough to realistically deal with latency issues.
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The situation _is_ catastrophic. We _are_ in big trouble.
Read the actual scientific papers that are peer reviewed. The view is not even close to that bad, at worst is "well... some stuff could happen.. maybe" in any peer reviewed paper. The OMG the sky is falling crap is a product of non peer review political reports in which citations don't even back up the assertions, the media and scientists that are really bad job at playing politician.
That is not what a hypothesis test tells you. Especially considering you can't even get a handle systematic error. Or just plain incorrect models.
Some Steels IIRC are not just soft at 600C, but 1/3 their room temperature strength (tensile yield). I guess that makes it even worse if the main mode of failure is buckling.
Oh come on. It was the chemtrials in the airliners that wakened the steal just enough that the burning of such evidence had any effect at all.
Now try and feed the world with them rather than half a dozen villages. Its all fine and dandy for people with so much disposable income that they can throw money at feel good food. Even worst is that there is really not data to even back up the feel good claims.
Where does this come from. Organic farming has never been about that. Organic farms use pesticide and fungicides, how else do you think that crops doing get naturally eaten before harvest otherwise?
You should go visit an organic farm. It is clearly not what you think it is.
Err no. How can you tell if its a political document rather than a science. First sign is it came from a political organization. The second is that its not peer reviewed.
Try reading some of the citations in the report. See how well they match suggested claims in the report. Yea i know several scientists that where involved with the last IPCC report and vowed never again.
I prefer to read the actual science, not that politicized piece of bullshit.
..losers will be big oil/coal companies
Who is buying all this oil and coal? You are! When you buy some new car, or computer or cellphone, how the hell do you think it was made. When you turn on the lights your your laptop that your using on /. you are a big oil/coal consumer. You can't get rid of them without massive changes for yourself. Planes, cars whatever its all dependent on big oil. Just look at the rage coming out of the US every time the gas price goes up.
This is not an art project where you can paint a solar panel and wind turbine on the hill and claim "completely green and self sufficient".
How do you measure utility in a video game? Fun? Tears? Rage? All of the above?
As far as i can tell, if there was no Snowden there wouldn't be any discussion at all.
I would show you the stats. But you are clearly unqualified to read them, or participate in the debate. Please present verifiable credentials first. Mr AC.
I didn't say normal. I said happened twice. There is a dogma out there that RAID is backup. Clearly from replies this is not the case. Even once if that is your backup is the end of your business if your into data storage.
Love the comment "disks aren't that expensive anymore". Do you know what RAID was when it came out, what the 4 letters stand for? I was working in a job in previous life where would go through a room full of RAID drives pull out the ones with red lights, swap for the fresh drives and shipped the ones we pulled out back to SUN.
Yes, we suspected this also.
I currently live in Switzerland. There is almost no CC. Its mostly compulsorily assault rifles that every Swiss man is suppose to have in his house, under lock and key. They no longer are allowed ammo. There are other countries with very low gun ownership and low violent crime rates. There are examples and counter examples. There is no correlation.
The US has a gun problem. You don't believe facts, but they are there if you would bother looking for them.
We have had RAID failure twice now. The idea is that even with things like SMART, the errors in the second disk (or 3rd etc) don't become apparent till you try and recover and thrash the disk properly.
Glock is an Austrian gun manufacture. Austria also has very low gun crime despite the fact it has fairly lose gun control laws.
Some of your claims are backed up buy some statistics. I can't be bothered digging them up. And gun nuts won't believe them anyway.
:D.
1). In the US, owning a pistol or similar sidearm that is loaded in the house for "self defense", means you are something like 47 times more likely to get shot.
Almost all of these are accidents and "domestic escalations", its not always easy to tell the difference. That is having a loaded firearm in the house is just not as safe as not having one, and for most people far more dangerous than some sort of violent B&E. In some countries like NZ where i owned firearms, we must have them secured with ammo and bolts under separate locks and keys. This makes it hard to steal, and makes heat of the moment cases harder because you have probably calmed down with the 10mins it takes to get your gun ready to shoot. Not so much if you have a loaded pistol in the top draw.
2). This seems to be quite specific to the US. I don't quite understand the ridiculously rare case where having a firearm would save you rather than just cause an escalation. They come in at night when your sleeping? They car jack you? they whatever. Its not TV, it doesn't end up being some quick draw Mexican standoff every time. The one in a million case, is well up there with getting hit on the head with a meteor. That can happen of course. But that doesn't mean you don't go outside.
3). This is very true. Also one reason why non lethal weapons appeal to me for law enforcement. I don't think anyone is trained for that. In the military some collateral damage is acceptable. And if some percentage all pull out their side arm and add to the mix. Yea can't see this helping at all really.
4) Ok this is a non sequitur or whatever its called. We all also think we are awesome drivers and its everyone else that is bad
5) This is rather subjective and i think even collecting a statistics on this would be pretty impossible. The US people i know that own firearms are not in this category. I wouldn't put collectors in this either. Proud gun owners may just like guns. Like some people like cars. Don't think there is anything wrong with that.
6) I think the hard fact is that even a self defense nut will with almost zero probability ever have a situation where being armed is going to make a difference. Leaving guns primarily as a increased risk situation. You may think the risk is worth it. But the math does not agree.
So long story short. The case where a firearm would help is so rare that its not worth arming yourself for, since now a accident is far more likely. Of course many people are not making the argument that it makes you safer. Just that its a constitutional right.
It won't matter how many guns you have. Unless you have some tanks, the government will win. Well at least the Generals. If its all about militia and revolutions or illegal wars, its just completed outdated and not applicable to modern warfare. Even if tanks etc are legal there is no way you could afford them.
The 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees that each citizen has the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.
I was under the impression that that it was for against the government and that it does not say anything about self defense.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Yep, nothing about self defense at all. Of course to take on the government your probably going to need tanks. Good luck affording to buy even one.
So someone has a gun to your head. Please explain how the gun in your holster is going to make any difference at all?
Fact is that violent crime is not correlated with gun ownership. It neither perpetuates violent crime nor prevents it.
The RD-180 engines had performance spec much better than anything the US has produced that burns RP-1. Also it has a very high thrust to weight ratio. The shuttle engine is not the same. The preburner is hydrogen rich for both the LOX and LH turbo pumps. While the RD-180 is oxygen rich and burns RP-1 as fuel. They are completely different. The space shuttle engine is a economic failure and has a good bit to do with the 500M per launch cost.
The F1 engine uses a gas generator cycle and thus as lower performance and use fuel rich gas generator for the turbo pumps. Again different. Different metallurgy, different everything. The Raptor engine is full flow *fuel rich* staged combustion. Again different.
The only thing that is the same with all these engines is that they are all liquid fuel rocket engines. Mite as well dumb it down to "Buy US made otherwise you support the commies".
Trade secrets don't protect ideas. Ideas are only kinda protected via patents, and even then only specific implementation of an idea. The idea of VR with low latency and different sensors for head orientation is not new. In fact i don;t see anything new that wasn't done years ago. The difference is that the technology has become cheap enough to be mainstream and fast enough to realistically deal with latency issues.
later should be laser.