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I would suggest two downvotes for this, the first for using the National Review as a source, and the second for bringing in a completely unrelated point .

I see this as a case that there is are ongoing updates to any reference and as language undergoes shifts so do the references.

I must admit, it took me a bit of time to understand how a billboard with 'any' traffic sign would be in my expected range of vision. Then I remembered that where I live has quite strict rules about billboards near highways (and regional secondary roads) that force the signs to be hundreds of metres from a highway and that would allow stereoscopic vision to discount them.

I'm also curious to see if reproduction of traffic signage is allowed on those or on the backs of transport trailers as mentioned above.

Ummm... Wordperfect is still around, sold by Corel.

www.wordperfect.com

It seems to be popular with the legal profession for some reason, probably due to early add-ons for generating boilerplate documents.

Horseshit.

At 3 weeks the blastocyst is several hundred cells, by 6 weeks you'll see some structural differentiation and development of the brain and nervous system. Early neuron firing around 7 weeks on a random basis. There isn't even a connection between 'hemispheres' (I use that term loosely) before week 14.

Even until 4 months in there is no actual brain stem function as we know it.

Well, what you're looking for is the RADARSAT Constellation.

Already in orbit and functioning, with daily revisit of 95% of the planet's surface. Fishing boats aren't the fastest critters out there, so a combination of historical AIS data matched to satellite radar would let you easily figure who, when and where.

Whoosh, most of it seemed to go right over you.

Boomers aren't my grandparents, nor my parents. They're my older siblings and the folks in senior positions in my workplace.

I'm actively trying to help my kids out, but thanks for suggesting that I'm not. Systemic failures take a group effort to fix, and as long as self-centered folks out number the rest it;'s tough to get things done.

Gen X is one of the smallest cohorts around, so it is much more likely that the group that takes the reins and starts fxing things is the Millenials. Funny thing about them, they don't seem to hate us folks in Generation X. Most millenials I engage with realise who and what's driving the problems, and those are folks in their late 50s and up. Otherwise know as Boomers.

So who the hell has been driving the Alt-Right racists, union busting, 'right-to-work' laws and the rest?

Seriously, some civil rights have crept forwards but there's a bunch of backsliding.

OK boomer.

Funny thing here, you are a boomer. And as somebody who was born at the end of the 60s, I'm a Gen X. So what.

What matters is you haven't realized that even with the challenges you faced, it's not the same world out there. I remember the 80s when you could put your head down and work hard and get ahead. That doesn't exist anymore. The 'good' jobs (read: well-paying) are gone, or only available via nepotism. My children, all born in the early 90s, are out there trying to make a go of it. And it sucks. Bully bosses, shit wages, companies pack up and relocate because they get a 2% tax break somewhere else. You and I had advantages we didn't even know were advantages. Yes, you had shit luck with your family, and I had shit luck to get medically crippled by the military but the system actually kinda worked for us.

I'm sorry, but from my personal interations, the Boomers are the most ignorant, crass, bigoted and paternalistic buch out there. Second on that list goes to a subset of the farming comunity. (Fscking proud-to-be-a-redneck, but that's a different rant.) They didn't actually invent 'greed is good', but goddamn did they run with it.

And now the Gen Y's and Millenials and the Tidepodders and all the rest have to deal with the mess left behind by this giant cohort of assholes.

[rant off]

You keep talking about this 'draft document'; great big [Citation Needed] on that.

From the government's own website: 'ban harmful single-use plastics as early as 2021 (such as plastic bags, straws, cutlery, plates, and stir sticks) where supported by scientific evidence and warranted, and take other steps to reduce pollution from plastic products and packaging' 'Warranted' is a very big stick, and means that medical equipment will not be treated the same way as plastic shopping bags and plastic straws.

You then go on about banning all natural gas distribution in the province (of Ontario), which is also not true. Hell, even the Globe and Mail (May 27, 2016) had a realist view on it. (For non-Canadian readers, the G&M is a center-right newspaper, quite focussed on business.)

Your post contain inflamatory falsehoods, common from the right wing commentators Canada seems have currently. I'd suggest you need to get out of your echo chamber and start interacting with actual Ontarians.

Holy fuck people...

From the linked journal:
temperature: 450 C
pressure: 23 Mpa

It is not 2300 bar, it's 230 bar.

Standard propane burns at 1980 C in air and thats the same pressure as a scuba tank. So temperature and pressure are easy to achieve. This can reduce solid plastics waste and potentially reduce the consuption of crude oil.

And maybe we can stop dumping plastics in the ocean and killing all the damned sea life.

Oh yeah, stop burning plastics. The extraneous chemicals in there are going to kill you and the surrounding environment.

Hacking anything that falls under health/life safety is really not a good idea.

Imagine how much faster I could get things done if I hacked the light curtain on the guillotine paper cutter at work!

Yeah, lets not go there.

There is a lot of blather and wild-ass-guessing in this forum today, I see. First of all, there is piracy in a fair number of spots in the world, but if you stay above 40 N and below 40 S, you aren't going to see any pirates. As well the UN suggests to sail at least 50 nautical miles off shore to prevent contact with maritime piracy. There are a few spots where that is not applicable, but they are in a minority: Offshore of Somalia, Malacca Straits, pretty well anywhere near Indonesia. Beyond 50 NM, there is really only commercial shipping and fishing.

As for finding and stealing the sailboats, they are only 23' in length, and the sail looks to be about 12' in height. There is no legal requirement for an AIS transmitter. From a (large) surface vessel, you'd need to be within 15 nautical miles to see it, or less for radar. It's not going to be cost effective to stop and try and wrangle one onboard, not to mention the potential legal issues if the shipping company find out. No commercial master or officer will risk a career over one of these.

I do think that this and the Argo float program could be ground breaking for our understanding of the sea. My only concern is figuring out how a startup will profit off of this without holding all of the data and selling it to the highest bidder. It might be cheaper for the NOAA to just buy him out and start using the boats.

I know that the /. crowd has moved to twitter length replies these days, but how about a real discussion?

There are plenty of failure modes that would be completely survivable, in fact with little or no chance of injury. Tube loses vacuum? Unit slows down and stops. Loss of mains power? Same. Capsule loses pressure integrity? Masks from the ceiling time.

Yes, a catastrophic failure of the tube structure could result in deaths, but I can see the emergency shutdown being engaged system wide in such a case, resulting in only a few affected capsules/trains. Mind you, there are advantages to the many capsules/fewer passengers per capsule. A single failure is unlikely to approach aviation disaster numbers. Wiki Aviation Accidents.

Most of the risks are similar to high speed rail, and those seem to have been well mitigated by current operators in Europe and Japan. Now, the chances of the system getting built at all? I don't see it surviving contact with investors, incumbent system operators or property owners.

I agree with your assessment of the situation with regards to traffic volume, time of day and location.

However, the JSM was not required to be the give-way vessel, as per rule 10(a). Rule 10(c) states 'A vessel shall, so far as practicable, avoid crossing traffic lanes' but does not change the status of give-way or stand-on with a crossing vessel ahead and to starboard.

Unfortunately, I believe that this was another case of a merchant vessel not maintaining proper watch and failing to maneuver correctly, and a naval vessel failing to properly monitor to actions of surrounding vessels.