steve19

It is a nice thought but that could not happen. When an event like this happens it is because of huge structural failure.

Corruption would have played a part. If you brought a tanker or free oil, whose business interest, or tax revenue, would be impacted by an influx of cheap oil?

Who is being incentivized not to solve the issue?

Where do you dock the ship?

Who gets the oil for free but then charges the next user down the supply chain?

How can you be sure the majority of the oil does not end up on the black market, exported or not used for grid energy?

Twenty years ago the most advanced economy in the world, California, had blackouts due to fraud and corruption. If it can happen in CA it can happen anywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...

Turkish MIT graduate who played a central role in the development

I am sure being Erdoğan's son in law helped more to obtain his position than being an MIT graduate.

Nobody know's what is not declared. The Pentagon had a problem with defense contractors getting around the rules by instead holding elaborate dinner parties. They since cracked down on it. The rules still allow some scope for these kind of gifts. [0]

In the private sector it is not unheard of for a salesperson to drop 5 figures on champagne. If salesman from firm A is willing to give an exec or buyer a night to remember once or twice a year, with booze costing one or two weeks salary before tax, and the salesperson from firm B simply sends a "happy holidays" card once a year, it can easily sway that exec even if they believe they are unbiased.

[0] https://dodsoco.ogc.osd.mil/Portals/102/gifts.pdf

It seems like you're hijacking this thread to make a your own political point

No I am not. I was making a salient legal point. The OP recommended visiting and making up your own mind. I pointed out that for many people that would be dangerous and illegal.

I have sympathy for the Iranian people who have a wonderful culture but are held captive by a repressive fanatical regime.

It is simple descriptive term that means a trans person who has not had gender reassignment surgery. It is legal to be a post-operative transsexual person, but not a non-operative transsexual in Iran.

In any event the debate is which letters were or were not written by Paul. There is no reason to suspect he wrote none of them, or at least none were transcribed them to secretary. The debate is which was written by him and which were not.

Your father may have claimed it was very obvious, but nobody else thinks so.

Can you clarify? Because the Gospels are largely the accounts of a man who spent the most impactful years of His life disputing Judaism as it existed at the time.

He disputed current practices of certain groups/sects, and his law superseded the "old" law. The key point is that Jesus did not "back date" his laws. He did not claim they applied to the ancient Hebrews and that they should be judged according to them.

Also Christianity cannot be an offshoot of the religion now called Judaism

I make a point of noting that I was talking about Judaism as it was at 0 BC/AD.

today it remains controversial for Christian theologians to go on the record saying they’re one and the same.

You are incorrect. That is not controversial. In a sermon delivered by Apostle Paul in Athens, he even tells the pagans they may be worshiping the same God but not know it. [0] Paul was probably the least flexible or accommodating of the first Christian teachers.

What is controversial is the details. While Muhammad was inspired by Christian teachings, specifically Nestorianism [1], later Islamic scholars declared that Christian teachings were corrupted [2] thereby nullifying any contradictions between Jewish, Christian and Islamic teachings.

So yes, a Muslim theologian might truthfully say Islam is a superset of Christianity and Judaism, but they are not referring to any known version of Christianity or Judaism.

Christians on the other hand consider themselves a superset of Judaism. For the most part they don't dispute Judaism (as it existed before 0AD) and think of Christianity are an updated/evolved version.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areopagus_sermon

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahira

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrif

Things are frequently buggy, unreliable and disjointed. I’d almost be able to forgive it but unfortunately the support is really terrible too.

This is my experience. After years of paying for the service, for multiple users, using tools that seemed to have been forgotten by the dev team, my credit card failed to process one month.

Support was not interested in helping me. Not at all. Ended up having to move my team's workflow off Zoho. I had been begging them to bill my card, but they just kept sending me generic emails asking me to try again. Phone support was even less helpful.

Given the extreme wealth in the bay area, I am astonished you find it astonishing. Billionaires and multi millionaires would have funded these churches. Most churches and other religious organisations run on a tight budget and deter important costs like building maintenance because of lack of funds.

I have seen crumbling Catholic churches, and I have seen the Vatican Meusum. Two extremes of wealth.

The 80s

Lost could just mean expended in training but with slightly poor recording keeping that added up over time.

60,000 artillery shells would be surprising, but 60k rounds of rifle or pistol ammunition is not much.

That is one pallet, at a cost of maybe $20,000 at bulk retail in the USA.

Also, he developed "doctrinal differences" with the CIA.

Were you or your siblings shoulder tapped in college by recruiters? If not that may have been why.

I have been prescribed it a number of times. You are supposed to take it for a while after being in a maleria area, or at least I was told to do so. The dreams persisted back home.

The area I was visiting was not so different from other places I had visited or worked, just with a greater chance of maleria and lower chance of getting quick treatment.

Are any black swans going to be black swans in hindsight?

Did anyone anticipate it enough to put their money where their mouth was? A fortune, and a major service to humanity, could have been made by a private individuals stockpiling PPE in vast quantities.

You say anyone with half a brain anticipated it. I didn't. Did you buy 500k N95 masks and put them in a warehouse?

Knowing someone will happen is easy. I know for sure that a large meatorite will hit the earth and cause mass deaths and crop failure, but I have no idea in how many 100s, 1000s or millions of year it will happen. If it happens tomorrow it would be a black Swan *

* an example only, we would get plenty of advanced warning.

If the feds did centralize acquisition and distribution all hell would break loose. Every allocation would be disputed and every allocation would be blamed on partisan allegiances.

The solution would be the states deciding among themselves who should get what, with the richer states being OK with getting less than they would otherwise get.

which seems counter to the general tenets of Stoicism.

Not at all. It is neither against nor required by Stoicism.

Stoicism is broadly compatible with theism, and Neo-Stoicism was a movement specifically about finding common ground between Christianity with Classical Stoicism, rooted in the fact that both developed around the same time and that Seneca's brother had a meaningful interaction with Paul the Apostle described in the Book of Acts.

The Stoics mention Zeus. In The Enchiridion [1], Epictetus says Zeus has fixed his destiny. In this sense Zeus is much like Fate, and the Stoics generally acknowledged fate. There is no implication that what happens to us is "good". Stoicism is about accepting whatever happens and not worrying about it.

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45109/45109-h/45109-h.htm

Very good point about peak wattage.

Do you have a powermeter on your CF bike? If not get one. Apart from being the ultimate training aid, you might find your gf is putting out more watts than bike's manual claims it is. Clipless pedals may help as well allowing faster acceleration by putting more power into the initial pedal stroke.

I would say the average commuter can put out 300w for 10 seconds. They would hate it but everytime you see a commuter straining up a hill, they are putting that kind of wattage. In practice they probably don't because they don't like the strain.

This misses the point. All large DoD contract are usually followed by a lawsuit from the loser. I have seen this happens so many times. If MSFT lost, they would have probably sued.

I can't speak for gun dealers but for defense companies that also sell to consumers, think high end gun optics, there is fraud. And law enforcement is just an interested in investigating it as any other business ( Not at all) But I don't think any more fraud than any other online business.

I think China is also looking at building a starlink-type network, although I don't have a link on hand.

OneWeb are partnered with Airbus although post-brexit they are no longer headquartered within EU (London and other cities around the world).

SES, an EU firm, is developing a medium earth orbit satellite network and would be well positioned to develop a LEO network.

Within the context, this is about the spying and signals intelligence. We don't usually talk about an foreign agency being pure evil when they tap fiber lines, we do when they murder or massacre.

The waste heat from the inefficieny is an environmental issue if cooling with sea, lake or river water.

The article talks about the advantage of not needing steam cooling apparatus. The stations could be located in urban areas.

If the prize "winners" came ahead with a dollar more than taxes they came out ahead.

He was smart, he took a decent amount of money but didn't risk his banker questioning where millions of dollars in his bank account came from.

The hit you are taking seems larger than it should be. Have you tried different speedtest severs?

It was not snark. The article says they are banning hardware and software.

Does this mean Nvidia can't export GPUs to China?

The interface is slower.

https://www.howtogeek.com/196541/emmc-vs.-ssd-not-all-solid-...