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Comment Re:Hey ICE (Score 1) 146

The world isn't such a black-and-white place. Some people live in towns where the job market absolutely sucks. If your choice was watching your own children starve or taking a job at ICE, what would you do?

Yes, there are some truly awful people who work for ICE, but there are also some people who took the job out of desperation and need the paycheck to put food on the table. Let's also not lose sight of the fact that the problem isn't ICE itself, but the administration that has ordered ICE to behave like a Gestapo.

Nuremburg defense - aka "just following orders", is a failed justification for indefensible actions.

Comment Re:Here's an idea (Score 2) 265

Gun control is like sex: We need to teach safe practices, not try to make abstinence mandatory. Neither gun ownership nor sex is inherently wrong or shameful. Those who wish to partake need to learn how to do so safely and respectfully to avoid harming themselves or others.

Comment Two things can be true (Score 1) 265

There's no consensus over why women and couples have shifted their behavior so significantly. Some experts point to economic factors, others say cultural influences, and better access to education and contraception for women are driving the change.

Who says there has to be just ONE reason? The actual consensus is that there are multiple contributing factors, rather than a single reason.

We have not yet reached peak population, but we have passed peak population growth. Accept the fact that we cannot run a society based on infinite growth. Plan now for a future of lower population. Design for more efficient processes that do not require so many humans to function. Socially. Economically. Manufacturing. Politics. Healthcare. Food.

Plan for the future that is happening. You cannot hold back the tide by willing it to stop.

Comment Re:bent pipe (Score 1) 39

Say you want to detect aircraft entering airspace. They are difficult to detect with radar, so you want to do it optically. You need decent resolution to capture small drone sized ones, and you need multiple images to help with camouflage, false positives, and determining flight path.

That's a lot of data. The data rate is likely to be the limiting factor on what resolution and how frequently you can image an area. Being able to do the detection on the satellite, and only send reports or images that suggest further investigation is worthwhile, is going to be very useful.

That is unsafe engineering. A failure condition where the presumption is "All Clear" for aircraft entering an airspace.

Neither civilian or military can afford to assume that a space is clear unless told otherwise -the presumption must always be not safe until confirmed clear. The risk from a false negative is too high.

Comment Congrats AECC (Score 1) 63

I have long said that Hydrogen as a combustible fuel is a poor choice for automotive use but a potential good choice for aeronautical use.*

Good job China for continuing to follow this path. Keep at it, and -maybe- it will work out.

*Reasons include difficulties in production, storage, transport, explosive consequences of fuckups, toxicity of spills, etc. -all of which are easier to mitigate under higher security of aeronautical use than everyday/everywhere automotive use. Current production is from fossil fuels, but production is possible using renewable electricity sources to split water. Weight is less than battery electric (which matters a lot more in a plane than a car).

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