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Greatbacon posted:Haha, thos e wacky milienials are disrupting a storied culture in place since the great dipression, built on misery and poverty. What will they do next? this, but ironically
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-19/bmw-brings-back-old-school-goggles-with-a-twistBloomberg posted:If someone texts while you're driving, a small warning appears onscreen and gives you the option of having the car read the message aloud. yes i want useless poo poo shoved in front of my limited vision when driving, taking away attention please... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF5FbGM6p9g
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Luigi Thirty posted:http://www.newsweek.com/homeless-millennials-are-transforming-hobo-culture-323151 what's the hobo code symbol for free wifi?
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Apr 20, 2015 13:35
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kwinkles posted:what's the hobo code symbol for free wifi? i like how most of the article is about them being cool and tech-savvy and using Reddit to share ideas and skills and then he refuses to share his new special secret code for free wifi. a chunk of it was about tragic people who seemed to not have a choice and were doing things like squatting in abandoned buildings to try to maybe have a house eventually though so that's pretty sad 
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kwinkles posted:what's the hobo code symbol for free wifi? lol
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refleks posted:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-19/bmw-brings-back-old-school-goggles-with-a-twist instead of just displaying a blind spot view when you look to the side it should also turn on the turn signal. but it is all a dream because it is not like BMW could make electronics that work anyway
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Apr 20, 2015 14:01
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Shifty Pony posted:instead of just displaying a blind spot view when you look to the side it should also turn on the turn signal. i like how they barely pretend to show what it actually looks like from his view and it's 100% just made up poo poo in aftereffects.
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refleks posted:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-19/bmw-brings-back-old-school-goggles-with-a-twist huds seem to work pretty well for airplanes, now whether that translates to much busier driving conditions I don't know. looks just like a specialized version of glass though I guess.
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Lyon posted:huds seem to work pretty well for airplanes, now whether that translates to much busier driving conditions I don't know. airplanes also have $infinity budget so the wearable hud poo poo that like, the F-35 has basically makes you superhuman and gives you crazy radar-vision and
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Apr 20, 2015 14:12
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:airplanes also have $infinity budget so the wearable hud poo poo that like, the F-35 has basically makes you superhuman and gives you crazy radar-vision and yeah, f-35 electronics are so great it'll probably electrocute you if it rains
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Apr 20, 2015 14:37
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huds are only just making it into airliners, they won't see use in cars for ages yet
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kwinkles posted:what's the hobo code symbol for free wifi? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warchalking
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Apr 20, 2015 14:48
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f-35 crashes into ground when crossing international date line it tries to asphyxiate pilots its maintenance required per flight hour is on par with North Korean MiGs it doesn't work in the rain it can't fuel from trucks that are too hot its radar guidance doesn't work it will get struck by lightning if it "flies twice in 12 hours" unless the fuel tanks are purged with nitrogen
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Luigi Thirty posted:f-35 crashes into ground when crossing international date line This is why we will never make it to space as a species. We can't even make an airplane properly.
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I don't think nasa and idiot defense contractor trying to bilk the military out of billions of dollars are the same thing
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Luigi Thirty posted:I don't think nasa and idiot defense contractor trying to bilk the military out of billions of dollars are the same thing who do you think is making the things for NASA
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nasa's budget isn't high enough to make the bilking worthwhile
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Luigi Thirty posted:nasa and idiot defense contractor but you repeat yourself? (nasa is an aerospace jobs program for southern states)
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PCjr sidecar posted:but you repeat yourself? not to start a poo poo-flinging fight about NASA or anything but "it exists to soak up an ever-increasing budget and not get anything useful done" doesn't really describe it, but does describe the F-35 quite well. i mean at this point NASA's entire plan has been cut down to "let's tape our tin can to the ESA's tin can and launch it on old shuttle parts and hope it gets to MARS sometime in the 2040's"
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idk why i capitalized MARS
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they aren't using used lovely shuttle parts, they're making new lovely shuttle parts to prevent bidding or loss of business to the old lovely defense contractors.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:i like how they barely pretend to show what it actually looks like from his view and it's 100% just made up poo poo in aftereffects. yeah having watched the video now (gotta  first dammit) anything approaching that level of capability is lol in a consumer device.Lyon posted:huds seem to work pretty well for airplanes, now whether that translates to much busier driving conditions I don't know. the price of the holographic sheet of glass used to reflect the hud display in an aircraft is more than a mini cooper.
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Luigi Thirty posted:f-35 crashes into ground when crossing international date line i remember watching some 20/20 or Frontline investigative report about it that had some general in charge of the project showing them how great and fantastic and wonderful it is and at the end they go "is this really worth $xxx it's going to take to finish it when it has all these problems and we don't really do air superiority warfare anymore?" and the general dude leans in and gets a very scary serious face on and looks directly into the camera and goes "the project WILL be funded to completion and we WILL be using the F-35." and then he refused to talk about the subject after that.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:i remember watching some 20/20 or Frontline investigative report about it that had some general in charge of the project showing them how great and fantastic and wonderful it is and at the end they go "is this really worth $xxx it's going to take to finish it when it has all these problems and we don't really do air superiority warfare anymore?" and the general dude leans in and gets a very scary serious face on and looks directly into the camera and goes "the project WILL be funded to completion and we WILL be using the F-35." and then he refused to talk about the subject after that. I'm the MIC
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Shaggar posted:they aren't using used lovely shuttle parts, they're making new lovely shuttle parts to prevent bidding or loss of business to the old lovely defense contractors. a big chunk of those defense contractors only exist in the first place because NASA had to cut chunks of itself off, like USA. i mean I'm not gonna say NASA's perfect and a big part of it is a jobs program for southern states and corporate welfare for aerospace companies but gently caress do i hate Elon Musk's smug self-satisfaction and evil libertarian-ism so I'm hella torn.
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Citizen Tayne posted:I'm the MIC wish I could drop you
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:i remember watching some 20/20 or Frontline investigative report about it that had some general in charge of the project showing them how great and fantastic and wonderful it is and at the end they go "is this really worth $xxx it's going to take to finish it when it has all these problems and we don't really do air superiority warfare anymore?" and the general dude leans in and gets a very scary serious face on and looks directly into the camera and goes "the project WILL be funded to completion and we WILL be using the F-35." and then he refused to talk about the subject after that. lol
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:a big chunk of those defense contractors only exist in the first place because NASA had to cut chunks of itself off, like USA. letting space x do all the resupply missions is the best thing nasa has done wrt new rocket programs. the next working nasa rocket designs are all 30 years out.
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Shaggar posted:letting space x do all the resupply missions is the best thing nasa has done wrt new rocket programs. the next working nasa rocket designs are all 30 years out. idk they just tested the SRB's and first test flights are scheduled for 2018 (meaning will probably actually happen in the early 2020's). I mean I'm fine with delegating the boring every-day poo poo to SpaceX it's just that's not Elon's plan, Elon wants to be NASA. gently caress i know we're gonna wind up with a highly-corpratized space whose benefits are only reaped by the rich eventually I was just hoping we could pretend it was just about science and for everyone's benefit for a little bit longer before we start raping the space-asteroids and building resort getaways on the moon
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the only thing nasas new rockets will ever do is shuttle people to the ISS
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Luigi Thirty posted:f-35 crashes into ground when crossing international date line the first two happened to the f-22 too, we have two expensive boondoggle aircraft now
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Shaggar posted:they aren't using used lovely shuttle parts, they're making new lovely shuttle parts to prevent bidding or loss of business to the old lovely defense contractors. pretty sure if i remember right NASA was planning on using up all the old shuttle main engines on the first few SLS flights to save a few bucks. all the engines you see on the orbiters in museums are just lookalikes. Shaggar posted:the only thing nasas new rockets will ever do is shuttle people to the ISS SLS is way too big and expensive for that and honestly by the time they're in 'regular service' (lol they're planning on flying one like once every three years or some insane poo poo like that) there's a good chance ISS will no longer be operational
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Dolomite posted:the first two happened to the f-22 too, we have two expensive boondoggle aircraft now man i remember when people were all "f-22 is so useless we should just buy more f-35!!" huge, huge lols
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they should just buy more a10s and then design some a10-like drones and make a shitload of those.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:gently caress i know we're gonna wind up with a highly-corpratized space whose benefits are only reaped by the rich eventually I was just hoping we could pretend it was just about science and for everyone's benefit for a little bit longer before we start raping the space-asteroids and building resort getaways on the moon making asteroid mining profitable would be an amazing development that i would welcome with open arms. it means either there's such a huge demand for material in space that it's become more practical to do manufacturing in orbit (which means we're doing a shitload of stuff up there) or they've somehow managed to make it price-competitive with terrestrial mining and we can start getting people out of the terrible business of blasting huge gouges in the earth and asphyxiating to death in our man-made caves.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:i remember watching some 20/20 or Frontline investigative report about it that had some general in charge of the project showing them how great and fantastic and wonderful it is and at the end they go "is this really worth $xxx it's going to take to finish it when it has all these problems and we don't really do air superiority warfare anymore?" wrong Dolomite posted:the first two happened to the f-22 too, we have two expensive boondoggle aircraft now wrong Shaggar posted:they should just buy more a10s and then design some a10-like drones and make a shitload of those. egregiously wrong most of the usaf is pushing ~20 years old on average. they need something to replace the current planes. and you don't build for the war you're fighting, you build for the war you expect to fight (russia or china or maybe india) so you might as well try to push the evelope; most current us designs barring the lockmart abortions are a gen out of date, the russians and indians are putting stuff together that beats them. as for the a-10 it's shithouse. it's not particularly good at tank killing and it's too much plane for bombing terrists. but herp herp it's goes braap so goons like it. also, drones atm are really expensive if you want anything near the capability of a manned plane. atm the current philosophy for using them is as basically missile carriers for a manned fighter or recon or smth that doesn't really risk it.
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Forums Terrorist posted:wrong Nice!
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:asphyxiating to death in our man-caves.
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Forums Terrorist posted:wrong "The war you're expecting to fight" is apparently the cold war, then. also I'm pretty sure if we sank that $1.5 trillion into drones they'd be better than manned planes with squishy pilots full of self-preservation instincts and stuff. or we could have the defense department actually focus on defense instead of world policing and having a big dick fight with China and Russia but lol if that will ever happen.
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