While you are broadly right, the Department of Energy has (AFAIK the only) classified materials that the President has no control over.
That is my understanding as well. Nuke info is just about the only thing he cannot unilaterally declassify.. But that's one thing out of a an awful lot.. So.. what? 99.99% of stuff?
Biden took his home when he was the VP. The VP has zero power to declassify documents. He's not the assistant President. The President could, should he choose, strip the VP of his security clearances or exclude him from everything. A perfect example is Truman. FDR kept that fucker in the dark about EVERYTHING. Truman didn't know about the Manhattan Project, only had two meetings with FDR for his entire 82-day Vice-Presidency (FDR died 83 days after his fourth election), and was excluded from the map room where the US war plan was being developed. The VP has only two jobs.. Wait for the President to die and cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate (which Vance did a few days ago). The VP used to preside over the Senate (a constitutional duty) but that stopped being a thing back in the 1950's.
Trump took his documents home while he was President. There's no crime there.. He is the highest authority (any sitting President is) on classification. He can un-classify a document by verbal decree. A VP can't change the classification on a fucking Fortune Cookie (yes, this applies to Vance - and I'd say the same thing if he got caught with classified documents at his home after he leaves office)
The point is, the difference was their jobs at the time.
....part of it owing to not understanding the physics of things, and part of it because the pilots of jets/planes and other high speed military craft are not scientists
No.. Most of them aren't scientists. If they're piloting a US military aircraft, you can bet your ass they have a degree, though. While the US military, in general, doesn't usually require that your degree matches the field you operate in, there are far more people who want to be a "fighter pilot" than they have slots for. i.e. they get to be quite choosy.. The USAF (for example) gives heavy consideration to applicants with degrees in STEM fields and even higher consideration to those folks with aeronautical related degrees. Most pilots are actually highly-educated individuals. I don't know what movies you're watching that have given rise to your delusion that pilots are ignorant about the physics and theory behind the planes they operate, at the limits of human endurance. Even if the person coming in doesn't have a great grasp of "science details" on shit like sonic booms and the shock waves created as a jet approaches Mach 1.0, you can bet your ass that student pilot is taught all of that before they are given command of a $100 million fighter jet.
USAF fighter pilot training takes roughly 2.5 to 4 years total after commissioning, including Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT, ~1 year), Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals (IFF, ~3 months), and the specific fighter aircraft's Basic Course (B-Course, ~9 months)
I'm actually stunned that you would even suggest such a thing... You know how I know? I was there. I enlisted as a technician in the USAF during the first Gulf War. Officers weren't stupid. Some were assholes. Some were inexperienced. Not one was uneducated. I think, even all the way back then, anybody with 2 stars or more had a doctorate degree. If you wanted a colonel's eagle, you better get yourself a master's degree...
That's why you don't see any commercial aircraft at M1+,........
#1. For the love of God, go read up on the CONCORDE. After that, do a quick search on Boom Supersonic's "Overture". For F's sake..... The Concorde is no longer a thing because of cost. Not because they couldn't figure out how to move a 100+ people faster than the speed of sound, without turning them into meat-paste, you goober.
....this is also why like "breaking the speed of light" is impossible, because if you could accelerate past Light Speed, stars would appear to stretch as you start seeing light go backwards toward the star.....
Yes. That's why it's impossible to accelerate past light speed. Because you couldn't see the stars or light would stretch backwards.. Or maybe a shock-wave would build up and damage your spacey-ship. Has nothing to do with E=MC2. (You know, Einstein's energy / mass equivalency equation.) Quantum mechanics in no way suggests that matter cannot equal or exceed light-speed because kinetic energy is real energy. The more kinetic energy an object possesses, the more that energy contributes to its inertia (resistance to changes in velocity). But hey, I was just an enlisted idiot who liked to read books on physics when there wasn't anything compelling on TV..
....Yet the average military person doesn't understand stuff like this.
As a lowly, non-degreed, formerly enlisted idiot, I understand enough to know you to say this: Ah, the irony
> no need to mine salt, it's everywhere
Most salt that we use is mined. Desalinization is expensive. It's cheaper and faster to use heavy machinery to dig it out of the ground. There's a mine in New York that produces 18,000 tons a day, and that's just one of several large mines in the US alone.
No, no. I'm not suggesting we obtain the salt by Desalinization. But my state has a lot of Desalinization plants ALREADY in operation for drinking water purposes. Rather than dumping all that salt back into the ocean.....That's where I was going with that..
My state can use THAT SALT rather than importing it from some state that mines it...
This is a really inappropriate joke. Especially considering the present track record of Boeing/Artemis.
These astronauts are at serious risk.
Oh, screw you and your outrage. Don't like the joke? Fine.. Everybody has different tastes in humor, but you don't get to decide what others find funny, assclown. Plenty of us like dark humor. I bet you're the kind of cunt that goes to comedy shows and say the same shit to comedians on stage.
Uh, have you ever handled sodium metal?
What does that have to do with anything?
Key Reasons for Lower Fire Risk in Sodium-Ion:
Lower Energy Density: Na-ion batteries store less energy in a given volume than Li-ion, reducing the intensity of a potential thermal event.
Higher Thermal Stability: Sodium chemistry is more stable; it doesn't undergo the same explosive decomposition as lithium when damaged or overheated, leading to gentler failure modes.
Higher Thermal Runaway Temperatures: Na-ion cells ignite at significantly higher temperatures (around 292C) compared to Li-ion, with slower temperature rise rates.
Less Flammable Electrolytes: Some Na-ion designs use nonflammable solvents, further reducing fire risk, unlike Li-ion batteries that often use flammable organic electrolytes.
Reduced Dendrite Formation: Sodium ions are less prone to forming dendrites (needle-like structures) that can pierce the separator and cause internal short circuits, a common failure point in Li-ion.
All of that is bullshit because you saw Sodium catch on fire?
....would be great. Unlike lithium, sodium is far more widely available, in the form of various salts.
Or just... regular old salt.. A resources that is in limitless supply as a waste product of desalinization.
If that becomes a thing, batteries could, in the long term, potentially become as inexpensive as silicon
Maybe... But what they can do, right now, is take demand out of the lithium supply. Sodium is great for applications where weight is a non-factor. It (supposedly) lasts longer, can recharge WAY faster (CATL is claiming recharge at up to 600 amps - Natron Energy claims 800 amps - LiFePO4 is capped at 100 amps IIRC), has a much wider working-temperature range ( -20C to 50C ) versus LiFePO4 ( 0C to 45C ), and is environmentally less damaging (no need to mine salt, it's everywhere) and the fire risk is either eliminated or at least greatly reduced.
Do you seriously expect us to believe that you have never had driver issues on Linux?
Yeah.. Cunt.. That's what we expect you to believe. It's not 2005 anymore. Pick a larger distro and you won't have many/any issues.
And double-fuck your mere implication that Windows never has driver issues... You fucking fuck....
How far down your throat is Gate's cock?
Who the fuck has to tweak Linux to get it to work anymore? Answer: Cunts who choose some obscure distro.
I haven't had to fiddle with ANYTHING to get Mint to detect / use all hardware in maybe.. 10 years.. And fuck your "real work" bullshit. Your piece of shit toy OS dominates a single market out of
What is real work, cunt? Enlighten the rest of us to what AmiMoJo thinks is "real work". An Excel spreadsheet? Yet another PowerPoint presentation whipped up by some degreed twat? Are those assholes who operate the 500 fastest supercomputers on Earth not engaged in real work? What about the back-end of the entire banking system? You one of those who think that's all running on your OS? C'mon, cunt, what constitutes real work? Give us some non-arbitrary definition.
I swear to
The big players will never accept being regulated and forced to follow engineering standards, and they have all the laws money can buy, so it's at best a fun speculative exercise, and little more.
You're an idiot. I don't recall big Oil or big Tobacco asking to be regulated and they had (proportionally) just as much money as the tech companies do today.
Where the fellow on foot can run as many blocks continuously since it's he's the only passenger.
True.. But when your mass transit is slower than using your own feet.....
"When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail." -- Abraham Maslow
