Dog hit the Post button.
some sort of hero or defender of civilization. if you remove traffic accidents, caused mostly because they drive like assholes, they fall considerably lower on the list too.
Indeed, I've done several of those jobs and never insisted that society treat me as some sort of
The fun thing in this story was right at the end. They're going to allow the Flock license to expire, but unless they pay extra to remove them the cameras still stay and they're still collecting data 24x7.
Low paid profession? Average police salary is over $76,000/year, well above the US average.
Reagan and Stockman made much of the 'multiplier effect' to justify their bloated military spending, but actually NASA has the highest multiplier effect of anything the US gov't does, something like 7 to 1. This would indicate NASA's R&D generates enough in taxes that they actually **MAKE MONEY** off the organization. Gerard O'Neil's university class did a study in the late '70s and found, to everyone's astonishment, that just the taxes of the advances in telecommunications generated by the space program would have paid for the entire Apollo program by the mid-'80s.
By all the gods, conservatives are the biggest frelling cowards on the planet. We spend more than the next ten countries COMBINED, eight of which are our frelling ALLIES, and it's still not enough to calm their fears of the boogieman under the bed.
The US military has two uses currently, as a protection racket for multinational corporations and dictatorships which reward our high officials sufficiently and as mercenaries against the powerless who attempt to resist them.
NASA isn't allowed to "launch something better, cobbled together with modern tech", they can only do what the herd of technophobic lawyers in Congress allow them to do. Unfortunately they put a far, far higher priority on killing people around the world than advancing our species into the future.
2025 Pentagram budget - $750 billion
All NASA budgets since creation combined, including Apollo - $650 billion
2025 Space Farce budget - $32 billion
2025 NASA budget - $25 billion
This is why we can't have nice things.
It's becoming a booming industry in China. They achieved 6N9-grade purity hydrogen from their natural gas fields, which have a content of less than 0.05 percent (other exploited fields have content of 1.0-7 percent), at a commercially viable cost a year ago. That's your "rubbish quality helium". Now there are a dozen companies replicating their work.
It's become a major industry in China, it's large enough that they've managed to reduce their imports even while consumption rises. Of course they have the cheapest electricity on Earth.
At this point a lot of Ukrainians would welcome the latter as well.
Their track record of determining what actually is "waste", however, is not nearly so great.
The joy of letting lawyers and generals with no real-world experience run a society and an economy they don't understand and have no interest in learning about.
Space Farce (spelling deliberate) budget - $32 billion
NASA budget - $24 billion
2026 Pentagram budget - $780 billion (without the Black Budget, nuclear weapons, 18 intel agencies, or mercenary scum hired by Sec of State)
All NASA budgets combined since foundation - $670 billion (including Apollo, ISS, and *much* R&D for the military)
This is why we can't have nice things.
As we used to say in the security profession, the weakest link is not the software, or the hardware, it's always the wetware.
Just be evil . . .
I find it difficult to believe that you are quite so uninformed about the real situation on the ground, but if you're a professional troll you're really bad at it.
Radar installations:
"Blinding the US? How Iran destroyed the $1.1-billion American missile radar in Qatar"
https://www.firstpost.com/expl...
Bases in Middle East:
"13 U.S. Bases in Middle East Nearly Uninhabitable After Iran Missile Strike"
https://defencesecurityasia.co...
Ship transits:
"commercial ship transits of the Strait of Hormuz per month"
https://www.globalmilitary.net...
I find it difficult to believe that you are quite so uninformed about the real situation on the ground, but if you're a professional troll you're really bad at it.
each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary,
Exactly.
The rate at which a disease spreads through a corn field is a precise measurement of the speed of blight.
