Recent content by ls612

Its more like you have to prove it has no known limitations that would violate an FAR regulation about certification. And even then you can have some things compromise in one area if you beef up another area to compensate. For instance the plane can fly with certain equipment known to be not...

This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, the 787 has been flying en masse for 11 years now without any serious incidents other than their early teething problems with lithium batteries. That would seem to prove that the design is sufficient to meet current safety standards in general.

Idk about the axis of evil but ISIS definitely hates Shias. So they have plenty of motive for that attack.

The US Claims that ISIS was responsible and that furthermore they warned the Russian government in advance about the attack.

It's not a threat to Russia's internationally recognized sovereign territorial integrity. It is a threat to Russia's future territorial ambitions under Vladimir Putin.

The WSJ is now reporting that its likely the LATAM incident was caused by a flight attendant accidentally bumping a switch. Which would be an even stranger explanation but WSJ doesn't usually make stuff up whole cloth.

I'd still want to see more evidence on the sudden dive incident it seems very similar to other instances of sudden clear air turbulence that I've seen. The pilot might have thought the displays had gone blank for a second (which is a really strange thing to happen) due to suddenly experiencing a...

SpaceX effectively has demonstrated they now have an expendable rocket with more payload to orbit than a Saturn V. That is absolutely incredible! Hopefully they can figure out landing faster for this than for the Falcon 9.

As a practical matter this seems unlikely. Remember on J6 the number of republicans willing to object to the count was far less than a majority. And Democrats don't even have a majority in the house as it stands. I don't foresee any "reverse J6" nonsense occurring.

DMCA 1201 is effectively the end of personal property that can be made to use electricity.

An interesting corollary to this is recent discussion about Poland wanting to participate in nuclear sharing agreements with the US. The quiet part of this is that if NATO guarantees were to suddenly lose a lot of their deterrent power (however could this happen :dunno:) that Poland would...

That isn’t what happened in the case you are describing so I don’t think that that should be a huge worry.

idk it's one thing to make modchips its another thing to develop software. And plenty of countries won't extradite you for this sort of thing. With two mature codebases out there I'd have to imagine that development will continue in some form or another.

Most of the arguments I have heard about eugenics make the claim that eugenics is wrong because of coercion on the part of outsiders on the reproductive choice of the individual. On the other hand if an individual wishes to make that same choice for themselves the ethical concerns now become...

The issue is not every place has laws like DMCA 1201 and yuzu is open source so even if Nintendo won, yuzu development could likely shift to other people in other countries which don't have these awful laws.