Non-IT News Thread
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12 cylinders, 11,000rpm: Aston Martin’s new engine is a monster
Cosworth Engineering is responsible for the V12, and it should be very special.
The world of ultra-high-performance cars is an odd one. Stratospheric prices and tiny production runs mean few people will ever see one on the move; fewer still will experience one from the driver's seat. The relentless march of progress pushes their specs further and further to the edge; 400hp might have seemed more than you'd ever need in the 1970s but would now be barely adequate in a sporting sedan. And these cars often act as harbingers for impending global catastrophe—just look at the timing of the Ferrari Daytona or McLaren F1.
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Oakland official: “We want to get Americans out of their cars and solve racism”
Oakland is just one of many cities across America that is trying to sort out how it will manage the rapid influx of shared electric scooters on its streets.
These companies—Lime and Bird being the largest among them—seem to be repeating the same business tactic that Uber and Lyft pioneered years ago. The startups are flooding cities with cheap rides, dominating the market, and making their presence unstoppable.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Oakland official: “We want to get Americans out of their cars and solve racism”
Oakland is just one of many cities across America that is trying to sort out how it will manage the rapid influx of shared electric scooters on its streets.
These companies—Lime and Bird being the largest among them—seem to be repeating the same business tactic that Uber and Lyft pioneered years ago. The startups are flooding cities with cheap rides, dominating the market, and making their presence unstoppable.
Chicago is in trial mode for these right now in a small part of south Chicago.
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@JaredBusch Dallas, too.
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Virgin Galactic just flew to 82.68 kilometers—is this space?
A little informal polling finds little support for an 80km line for space.
On a clear and cold Thursday morning in the Mojave Desert, Virgin Galactic's White Knight Two aircraft took off. It carried the VSS Unity spacecraft, which on its fourth powered flight, sought to make the company's highest and fastest flight ever. It succeeded.
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@mlnews Is it space? Well there is no answer.
The Karmen (sp?) line is made up.
The new push for 80km has some kind of science behind it, but I never looked into it.
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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews Is it space? Well there is no answer.
The Karmen (sp?) line is made up.
The new push for 80km has some kind of science behind it, but I never looked into it.
According to a cached page on the Brazilian government's page (yeah, weird) 80km is the line used for the US gov't to award astronaut wings.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews Is it space? Well there is no answer.
The Karmen (sp?) line is made up.
The new push for 80km has some kind of science behind it, but I never looked into it.
According to a cached page on the Brazilian government's page (yeah, weird) 80km is the line used for the US gov't to award astronaut wings.
Yes. Air Force in the 60's awarded astronaut wings to the test pilots that hit that. No idea if they still do, or if the Air Force even has a plane capable of that altitude right now.
There were articles on this subject in my news feed the last couple weeks. Something I find interesting, but don't honestly care about.
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Brexit: No visa but Britons will pay €7 to travel to EU countries
Britons will have to pay €7 (£6.30) every three years to travel to EU countries, as a consequence of Brexit.
The European Commission has confirmed that while UK travellers will not need a visa, they will need to apply for and buy another document from 2021.
It is called an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) and although not launched yet, is expected to come into force in 2021.
The travel requirement is not just for the UK but for many non-EU countries.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Brexit: No visa but Britons will pay €7 to travel to EU countries
Britons will have to pay €7 (£6.30) every three years to travel to EU countries, as a consequence of Brexit.
The European Commission has confirmed that while UK travellers will not need a visa, they will need to apply for and buy another document from 2021.
It is called an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) and although not launched yet, is expected to come into force in 2021.
The travel requirement is not just for the UK but for many non-EU countries.
Yeah - as I was reading this - I was wondering, Does this mean that US citizens will need to buy this as well?
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Brexit: No visa but Britons will pay €7 to travel to EU countries
Britons will have to pay €7 (£6.30) every three years to travel to EU countries, as a consequence of Brexit.
The European Commission has confirmed that while UK travellers will not need a visa, they will need to apply for and buy another document from 2021.
It is called an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) and although not launched yet, is expected to come into force in 2021.
The travel requirement is not just for the UK but for many non-EU countries.
Yeah - as I was reading this - I was wondering, Does this mean that US citizens will need to buy this as well?
No, US has nothing to do with the UK. The UK losing special status in no way influences the relationship between the US and the EU.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Brexit: No visa but Britons will pay €7 to travel to EU countries
Britons will have to pay €7 (£6.30) every three years to travel to EU countries, as a consequence of Brexit.
The European Commission has confirmed that while UK travellers will not need a visa, they will need to apply for and buy another document from 2021.
It is called an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) and although not launched yet, is expected to come into force in 2021.
The travel requirement is not just for the UK but for many non-EU countries.
Yeah - as I was reading this - I was wondering, Does this mean that US citizens will need to buy this as well?
No, US has nothing to do with the UK. The UK losing special status in no way influences the relationship between the US and the EU.
So you're saying this is an FU tax?
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Brexit: No visa but Britons will pay €7 to travel to EU countries
Britons will have to pay €7 (£6.30) every three years to travel to EU countries, as a consequence of Brexit.
The European Commission has confirmed that while UK travellers will not need a visa, they will need to apply for and buy another document from 2021.
It is called an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) and although not launched yet, is expected to come into force in 2021.
The travel requirement is not just for the UK but for many non-EU countries.
Yeah - as I was reading this - I was wondering, Does this mean that US citizens will need to buy this as well?
No, US has nothing to do with the UK. The UK losing special status in no way influences the relationship between the US and the EU.
So you're saying this is an FU tax?
No? It's a standard means for non-EU countries. IIRC the US and EU have an agreement for how citizens can move around in respective jurisdictions.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Brexit: No visa but Britons will pay €7 to travel to EU countries
Britons will have to pay €7 (£6.30) every three years to travel to EU countries, as a consequence of Brexit.
The European Commission has confirmed that while UK travellers will not need a visa, they will need to apply for and buy another document from 2021.
It is called an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) and although not launched yet, is expected to come into force in 2021.
The travel requirement is not just for the UK but for many non-EU countries.
Yeah - as I was reading this - I was wondering, Does this mean that US citizens will need to buy this as well?
No, US has nothing to do with the UK. The UK losing special status in no way influences the relationship between the US and the EU.
So you're saying this is an FU tax?
This is exactly what it sounds like... the UK leaving their current deal without making a new one. It's the same process that all friendly countries without a special deal have to pay for being processed into the EU. They just aren't "special" anymore. The UK voluntarily severed their "special" deals with the EU.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Brexit: No visa but Britons will pay €7 to travel to EU countries
Britons will have to pay €7 (£6.30) every three years to travel to EU countries, as a consequence of Brexit.
The European Commission has confirmed that while UK travellers will not need a visa, they will need to apply for and buy another document from 2021.
It is called an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) and although not launched yet, is expected to come into force in 2021.
The travel requirement is not just for the UK but for many non-EU countries.
Yeah - as I was reading this - I was wondering, Does this mean that US citizens will need to buy this as well?
No, US has nothing to do with the UK. The UK losing special status in no way influences the relationship between the US and the EU.
So you're saying this is an FU tax?
No? It's a standard means for non-EU countries. IIRC the US and EU have an agreement for how citizens can move around in respective jurisdictions.
Correct, the US and 60 other countries have made "special" one on one deals with the EU to avoid this fee and the necessary "non-visa, visa." Since the UK declined to do so, they aren't one of those 61 special countries now.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Brexit: No visa but Britons will pay €7 to travel to EU countries
Britons will have to pay €7 (£6.30) every three years to travel to EU countries, as a consequence of Brexit.
The European Commission has confirmed that while UK travellers will not need a visa, they will need to apply for and buy another document from 2021.
It is called an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) and although not launched yet, is expected to come into force in 2021.
The travel requirement is not just for the UK but for many non-EU countries.
Yeah - as I was reading this - I was wondering, Does this mean that US citizens will need to buy this as well?
No, US has nothing to do with the UK. The UK losing special status in no way influences the relationship between the US and the EU.
So you're saying this is an FU tax?
No? It's a standard means for non-EU countries. IIRC the US and EU have an agreement for how citizens can move around in respective jurisdictions.
Correct, the US and 60 other countries have made "special" one on one deals with the EU to avoid this fee and the necessary "non-visa, visa." Since the UK declined to do so, they aren't one of those 61 special countries now.
exactly - non-visa, visa...
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Brexit: No visa but Britons will pay €7 to travel to EU countries
Britons will have to pay €7 (£6.30) every three years to travel to EU countries, as a consequence of Brexit.
The European Commission has confirmed that while UK travellers will not need a visa, they will need to apply for and buy another document from 2021.
It is called an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) and although not launched yet, is expected to come into force in 2021.
The travel requirement is not just for the UK but for many non-EU countries.
Yeah - as I was reading this - I was wondering, Does this mean that US citizens will need to buy this as well?
No, US has nothing to do with the UK. The UK losing special status in no way influences the relationship between the US and the EU.
So you're saying this is an FU tax?
No? It's a standard means for non-EU countries. IIRC the US and EU have an agreement for how citizens can move around in respective jurisdictions.
Correct, the US and 60 other countries have made "special" one on one deals with the EU to avoid this fee and the necessary "non-visa, visa." Since the UK declined to do so, they aren't one of those 61 special countries now.
exactly - non-visa, visa...
With is required of everyone that doesn't require a real visa, but didn't make a special deal to avoid it.
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse just became your must-see December film
3D-animated film piles on the insanity—yet wins with family, heart, and stakes.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is right up there with Black Panther and Deadpool 2 as one of the best comic book adaptations in theaters this year. What's more, it's easily the best comic-nerd film in years to warmly embrace the kinds of viewers who know their comics canon front and back, all without intimidating the inevitable kid and newbie viewers attracted to this incredibly family-friendly adventure.
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Spock smiles in the face of danger in new trailer for Star Trek: Discovery S2
We learn more about the mysterious "red angel" appearing to Spock in visions.
Everyone's favorite sober-minded Vulcan, Spock, cracks a rare smile in a new, action-packed trailer for Star Trek: Discovery's upcoming second season. This go-round, the crew of the USS Discovery will be facing its greatest threat yet: a being or entity intent on wiping out all sentient beings in the Universe.
