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25 days agoActual piracy involves a lot of corpses of mostly innocent sailors, IP violations are a victimless crime.
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48·1 month agoRussia’s border defense turned out to be mostly conscripts who got the fuck out of the way and/or surrendered the minute the fighting got remotely serious. And behind them is a whole lot of nothing until they hit the secondary lines which are, one would assume, a little more solid and based on natural obstacles like rivers and cities.
The contract soldiers are better, but they’re also on the frontline.
Ah 2006, the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
True, but so does not being locked up, so its kinda moot
Oh, most people in the Netherlands who know about this think it’s completely absurd and it shouldn’t have happened.
But for some reason the Olympic Committee disagrees.
Oh no, 15 days of not getting shot at?
It’s… Something like Furiosa yes.
How weird is that?
Especially in Australia, where there’s an insane amount of empty nothing to place wind turbines. Northern Australia gets twice as much solar irradiation as western Europe, it’s absolutely ideal for (rooftop) solar.
Economies of scale and “high density” power generation make sense for some places, but even a place with the population density of the Netherlands can cram in enough wind turbines to get a significant fraction of renewable energy. It should be a total no-brainer for Australia.
Roughly the odds of flipping heads 17 times in a row
11·4 months agoDo yourself a favor and quickly google “who uses the F-22”
Israel mostly uses f-22s
Lolno
Quite a lot by Israel right now.
How many times has a defense minister said they’re not going to use the F35 because it’s too expensive?
T-14 is a new design that’s currently being tested,
https://defence-blog.com/russia-abandons-armata-tank-due-to-its-high-cost/
It was never real buddy. All its achievements are as fake as the T95 it’s based on.
21·4 months agoIt’s a really well-trained parrot. It responds to what you say, and then it responds to what it hears itself say.
But despite knowing which sounds go together based on which sounds it heard, it doesn’t actually speak English.
Basically, a material can be more or less “translucent” in certain frequencies. I’d like to look lead up for you, but Google isn’t cooperating today. But basically, there are frequencies that lead will be more and less susceptible to.
For macroscopic objects, there really isn’t a single answer. Something as generic as “a plate of lead(oxide)” can be all over the spectrum depending on texture, exact composition, oxidation levels, etc etc. there’s a reason why lab-grade filters and mirrors cost so much money, it’s hard to get a narrow frequency range.
It also rapidly changes as the material heats up, melts, breaks down, reacts with the air, etc.
171·5 months agoYeah, it happens everywhere, all the time. And the main cause of it is, surprise surprise, people who have no technical understanding of the subject matter.
What? Are you telling me that “baby one more time.mp3.exe” I got off of Napster isn’t actually reliable? Gasp!