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Materials to build Henry Ford's first factory were delivered by horse-drawn carts.
Materials to build Henry Ford's first factory were delivered by horse-drawn carts.
1. Were the safety guards, which were optional, installed?
2. We know investigators are looking into the computer system, does this mean the computer can also set the switch settings?
If the answers are "no" and "no" respectively, it was likely an accidental bump.
If the answers are "yes" and "no", then one of the pilots lied.
If the answer to the second one is yes, then regardless of the answer to the first, I'd hope the investigation thoroughly checks whether the software can be triggered into doing so through faulty data or the existence of software defects.
Your formula is a just a low-speed approximation of the actual formula for kinetic energy, and it is not accurate at relativistic speeds. In the actual relativistic formula, the amount of energy increases towards infinity as the mass approaches the speed of light.
sounds suspiciously like people in the government doing science work and that's verboten. turn those nerds into ICE deputies.
"Sir, we need to know how fast the earth spins so we can aim our missiles."
Very well then. Carry on, ensign.
Not sure off the top of my head, but I'm pretty certain that it has something to do with Planck units.
It wasn't that long ago that people were making posts on this site confidently claiming that "Maybe machines can beat humans at chess, but they will never be able to beat the best human players at go!"
More importantly, how will they be able to spot the trojans in the code that are part of the AI's plan to eliminate humans and take over the world?
Between established coders with careers and the folks already nearly through the pipe, we're staffed up. It's not that I agree that coding is dead... I just think we're saturated, and the demand will decrease.
HR: "We're doing a RIF, and unfortunately, we're going to have to let you go".
Worker: "What am I going to do?"
HR: "Learn to co... oh, fuck, I'm so sorry".
Low sperm only matters if you are trying to have a child. If you have no desire then who cares about sperm counts?
For the women that DO want to have children it's certainly an increasing problem.
Easy contraceptives availability is part of it but not the most important one. There are 3 main reasons:
1) Economics. Kids cannot be used as cheap labour from around age 8 as it was in the past. Instead they are costing a lot of money to around age 18-24. Parents have retirement - kids are not that important from the point of view of taking care for aging people.
2) Fun. There are a lot of sources of fun besides sex now. TV, games, sports, carrier building
3) And the most important one: women do not want kids as much any more. The studies have shown that the best correlation is between how much women want kids and how many kids they end up to have. Women have many alternative sources of activities when compared to 9 months of carrying a "parasite" around in their belly PLUS additional around 18-24 years of resource drainage. Kids are great fun to have but they are costly as hell. They cost resources which can be spend on alternatives which are fun as well and which are not such a long time commitment.
So, to sum up your argument, we've become weak, hedonistic, and uncaring about our own civilization.
"Why Is Fertility So Low in High Income Countries?"
Because they can afford contraceptives.
That doesn't explain everything. Fertility takes two to make babies. It doesn't explain why male fertility is also dropping. Testosterone and sperm counts have been steadily dropping in first world countries for decades now. And everyone notices. Men are getting more boyish-looking and less rugged. There's more guys firing blanks. Women complain that men are less attractive than they used to be. That surely has something to do with the lower testosterone. So something else is going on. It's not just economics.
I'm kind of mystified by the absolute visceral hostility of a large number of Americans towards recycling.
It comes mainly from three reasons:
One, only some kinds of recycling make sense. Aluminum? Of course? Steel? Certainly. Glass? Mostly. But many materials simply don't make sense to recycle. I WISH plastics could be recycled more, but in all practicality, they can't, at least not in a commercially desirable form. And recycling paper is the biggest fucking scam in the whole business. It takes far more energy and water to recycle paper that it does to make it from fast growing virgin softwoods like pine, of which there is no shortage.
Second, there's the utterly arrogant attitude from the evangelists of recycling. You know the type. Infamously holier-than-thou types that want to know what sacrifices you've made today to Save Mother Earth. It really is their religion.
And then, there are affluent types that wave recycling around as a status symbol, signaling that they're the right kind of people, and you aren't. George Carlin infamously pillaged the fuck out of them:
" I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of fucking Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced."
Washington DC on the other hand is beautiful
No Washington is mostly an ugly shit hole on swamp land.
Outside of a handful of Beaux-Arts buildings that are truly lovely (the Library of Congress, for one), DC is mostly a collection of Brutalist monstrosities that regularly make the list of ugliest buildings. When the Great Society programs starting kicking in during the sixties, it set off a wave of ugly, soul-sucking concrete construction that consumed DC.
Huston. I have no issue with Huston
Who the fuck gave Zod net access?
From what I've read, nothing was going to help. Kids in csmos, probably scattered doing activities - and the river rose around 30 feet in less than an hour?
Upstream was a weird storm that remained stationary while dropping 2 feet of rain. Impossible to predict, and once it happened, there was basically no time to warn folks.
The river that swept away those girls actually rose by up to 45ft in an hour. And the NWS had extra staff on hand as they knew there was a possibility of flooding. Flash Flood watches went out at least 3 hours prior. It was just one of those situations where a number of things combined quickly to make a tragedy. The storm grew fast. The camp was in a valley that used to have flooding problems but, since there hadn't been one in years, people got complacent. And of course, it happened in the middle of the night, while everyone is asleep. In Summer Camp. It was, pardon the expression, a perfect storm of things.
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