Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

But all those extra costs count toward GDP, so in a strictly economic sense the 'value' of your exports have increased

>You forgot to mention that it was to stop African and Asian immigration too

Unless you were campaigning in an Asian or African populated area where Brexit was all about being able to control your own immigration policy and so let in more Asian and African relatives rather than all these Poles

But under the heel of the Brussels jackboot we were forced to offer the contract to the best bidder irrespective of nationality.

Now, as a free sovereign national we are able to just hire the French without any foreign interference

Re: Sand in the gear(s)

I'm picturing wrist mounted mil-spec Apple watch, but with GB602 Aquaddie proof 55way metal Amphenol connectors

Re: Aye, right !

>"A meteor shower is like a normal rain shower,

But with hypersonic rocks surrounded by plasma falling like raindrops on roses

Re: We keep doing Russians favors

>it's the primary cause of Russian's appalling life expectancy.

Cue Putin, 'I have a cunning plan'

Re: Pariah State?

>Russian economy and inflation numbers are better than USA.

That's pretty easy if you don't allow trade.

The inflation in YAANC bucks is 0% because nobody trades in YAANC bucks and I set the official value. In fact since I set the official exchange rate at $1M USD to 1 YAANC buck my GDP is doing very well

Re: We keep doing Russians favors

So the best plan would have been to get SAP deeply embedded in the Russian military-industrial complex and then NOT impose sanctions?

>Isn't this the guy who decided to get rid of experienced people because they were too old?

No that would.be illegal (in civilized countries), he got rid of experienced people because they were expensive and helped customers.

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

Re: Patents and Copyright are privileges, not rights

Originally it was because inventions would be kept secret. So if the inventor died or went out of business the secret of the everlasting gobstopper, or obstetrics forceps, would be lost.

More recently it's so an inventor of one component of a system can offer their invention to makers of the rest of the system without it being stolen.

Microsoft also went after the cross platform wxwindows, forcing a rename to wxwidgets, and then went after X-Windows which predates Windows

Re: Old Confused Person Here

Because you can then arrest anyone for using encryption.

If child abusers use encryption then anybody using encryption is a child abuser, and you don't support child abusers do you ?

Re: Those are rookie numbers

>And what exactly do those quad-thingies replace?

Helicopters

For now just air-taxi services but once drones get to the size/payload of helicopters and become as cheap to operate and maintain they will get a lot more uses.

Re: Battery materials???

The 50+% includes heat recovery to electric energy.

2stroke diesels are more efficient, but unlikely to power aircraft

Re: Those are rookie numbers

Swappable battery packs aren't necessarily a problem designed in from scratch. We manage it with industrial vehicles.

But for short <30 min flights with a similar turn around time - like shuttles - a DC fast charger would work.

A lot of an electrical aircraft is simpler than a car. There us no regen charging. The load is a lot more constant, especially if it had supercaps for take off.

The lack of swappable batteries in cars is purely economics/infrastructure

Re: Those are rookie numbers

>yes, but you land, spend a few minutes pumping kerosene in to the tanks, then take off again

Then spend hours servicing the engines

Battery power isn't going to replace plant-goop for 737s but it could enable a lot of quadcopter airport-city centre taxi services with short ranges and strict noise / pollution limits

Re: "Problematic, racist, and pornographic web content"

I've got a water-powered car.