Even the house under a rock got satellite TV.

I didn’t mean it’s like a conspiracy. Military accidents is just something that happens almost every week. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_(2000–2009)

Good luck then! Actually curious to see how it will work out.

Almost all taxes are collected from the paycheck before you even get your hands on it. The filing is mostly for the tax return on the overpayment. They’ve already thought of it. How you gonna stop paying?

this many stories

You get whatever the media is focused on. Hundreds of F16s have been lost to non-combat accidents throughout history, yet somehow we have no memory of them.

The helicopter route at the time of the collision allowed the Black Hawk to fly as close as 75 feet below planes descending to land on runway 33 at Reagan National Airport, according to the NTSB. With allowable errors in the helicopter’s altimeters and other equipment as well as Army rules expecting aviators to hold their altitude within 100 feet, it could end up being much closer.

“How much tolerance should we have for aviation safety whenever civilian lives are at risk?” asked Todd Inman, NTSB board member. “How much is that tolerance,” he continued. “I think it should be zero.”

Sounds like the tolerances weren’t big enough! Odd interaction putting those two paragraphs next to each other. NTSB demanding zero margin for safety…

End of Eternity (1955) by Isaac Asimov (and its reimagining in Palimpsest (2009) by Charles Stross) involve a time-traveling secret organization that has its headquarters hidden away in time/outside of time. They don’t so much drain resources though as manipulate history to ensure a safe course.

The very wiki article quoted says average to mean mean (made explicit later). OP showerthought was calculating life expectancy in a way different than commonly understood. The first nitpick was correct.

1 life-year saved per 900 vaccine doses administered

To flip the ratio, you getting the vaccine extends your life by 1/3 of a day. This might even be a wash if you had to take a day off work or wait on line for several hours. More effective if you’re elderly, but then also you got fewer life-years to save. Hmm.

The numbers in the meme are off. One sperm is 750MB, or about 1 CD, so full human is 2 CDs. Or a couple 1.4MB floppies if you only store the diff from the reference genome.

fraud

Sabotage. Property made unusable. Passengers were literally stranded in the middle of a journey.

It’s worse. They are saying that the EU copyright law, as written, only allows decompiling/reverse engineering to “fix bugs”. A bug fix would involve a software patch of some sorts. But the security researchers did not have time to write a patch yet, what they did is tell the customer “Yep, it’s fucked. Your vendor put in a killswitch to make the trains brick themselves.” So that does tell them where the problem is, but it is not a bona fide bug fix from the Bugfix region of France, and therefore illegal.

he started firing, [Police Commissioner] Tisch said, killing a police officer working a corporate security detail

“He was doing the job that we asked him to do. He put himself in harm’s way. He made the ultimate sacrifice,” Tisch said.

Off-duty police officers working as private security are not doing the job we the public asked them to do! During the time they are getting paid, they are protecting corporate interests, not the public in general. Frankly, “corporate security detail” is a corrupt impersonation of a police officer - they wear their official police uniform, they act under the color of law, but they are not serving the police or the public. Fucking Cyberdyne Systems/Omni Corporation privatized police cyberpunk shit. Irks me how this police “impersonator” is getting full honors from the police commissioner, and photos in the AP of police and medical staff standing at attention in respect of the ambulance carrying the body, and meanwhile the other security guard killed who did not daylight as police during their off-the-clock hours doesn’t even get a name mentioned.

shot a guard at a security desk

Only their gang members matter to them.

Newag [train maker] claims that the Dragon Sector [whitehat hacker] team endangered passengers’ safety by modifying the software without proper experience. But Newag then turns right around and claims that Dragon Sector did not modify the software at all. They point out that EU law only allows reverse engineering of software in order to fix bugs. And if Dragon Sector did not actually modify the software, it cannot have fixed any bugs, in which case their reverse-engineering must be illegal.

I ended up doing a recheck. On the plus side, the verification found several instances of bitrot from the old failing SSD. Fortunately, all the 99%-complete torrents quickly re-downloaded themselves. The whole internet is my backup!

Robin Hanson is in the house!

Yep, that right here is the kind of pattern-matching you have to be careful about! Read what you wrote carefully:

cooling effect … temperature gradient

The vat is literally cooler. You put a thermometer in it, will show a lower temperature than thermometer in air. This is not a fake effect “only shows lower because it’s wet”, it’s a real temperature. You put your stirling engine cool coil in the vat and hot coil in the air, you got yourself a temperature gradient. A small one, maybe 10 degrees C, but more than zero.

The people saying Maxwell’s demon/“cannot separate” are mistaken. They’ve pattern-matched to the wrong concept. This is possible and is the way swamp coolers operate. They exploit the difference between ambient temperature and dew temperature of the liquid, say water. As long as relative humidity is below 100%, some water will evaporate, leaving your vat colder than environment. The separation is simple - the wind carries away the 100% humid water vapors, replacing it with fresh low-humidity air. You can then use the temperature difference to drive a stirling engine or something.

The point where your free energy ends is when you run out of water. You need to take your 100% humid air and cool it down somewhere else to get the water back by condensing it. In nature this happens automatically at nighttime when the heat radiates into the cold of space and air temperatures drop. If you are running a closed-loop cycle though, like on a spaceship, you need to provide your own source of environmental heat (the Sun) and your own heat sink (the cold of space), and at that point you should just be using a regular high-efficiency heat engine instead of this swamp cooler.

What you smoking? No one in New York is ever charged with vehicular manslaughter. It’s all an “accident”.You can even flee the scene like happened here, and if you are found you will still not be charged (leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death is a crime but never enforced for some reason, a small traffic fine at worst). Just look, if they ever find this driver, all they’ll do is ask some questions and let them go. You can even drive drunk, kill someone with the car, flee the scene, evade capture for days, and then maybe you’ll be charged, but the charges will be dismissed anyway because now days later you being drunk cannot be definitely proven.

It’s got all the details right - the twin engines, the glass front dome, the tricycle gear, the tail turret. Post this on Warthunder forums and you got a credible secret leak. Sure it looks like a scribble, but you try to draw a random plane from memory any better!