Royal Fleet Auxiliary:
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I think it would be easy to calculate the immigrant IQ trend (to which I would include some sort of a cultural development index)? I think that explains the phenomenon better than immigration alone.
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Presumably, they will have to be a subcontractor if a Boeing aircraft serves as the basis.
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As noted in the article:
Boeing’s defense unit lost $1.3 billion this year on fixed-price development programs, including NASA’s Starliner and the next-generation Air Force One. Such programs have resulted in $16.3 billion in losses since 2014 on fixed-price defense programs, according to a Reuters review of Boeing’s regulatory filings.
Boeing Chief Financial Officer Brian West indicated in October that the company is looking to move away from fixed-price contracts, saying, “Rest assured, we haven’t signed any fixed-price development contracts nor (do we) intend to.”
In other words, Boeing defense will only bid on “bottomless trough” cost-plus contracts which compensate strategic underbidding, incompetent execution, and bloated organisational overhead by picking taxpayers’ pockets.
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As long as oil gets pumped, no fancy ESG scheme will accomplish anything - to the contrary, it will penalize those with environmental inclinations, while subsidizing those without them. And oil will keep getting pumped:
Let’s knock these wishful thinking idiots off environmentalists’ backs?
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This is a United States Navy warship, USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10), a “littoral combat ship” (as opposed to a figurative combat ship), sent to defend “freedom of navigation” in the South China Sea.
Is it just me, or does this ship of the line look like the pry tool you use to remove staples from hundred page Pentagon “studies“ they print just in case Congress should let their PowerPoint subscription expire and threaten paralysis of Imperial Forces?
“Stand down, Chinese imperialists, lest I poke you with my pointy nose!”
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It’s a ship they can afford to lose. The LCSs were an interesting idea but an awful implementation (plus of course the lengthy development snafus). Last I checked they were scheduled to be retired early.
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Yes. In its defense (that’s “defence” to you pseudo Brits), the Independence Class trimaran configuration is a great way to create a deck wide enough to land a big helicopter (104 feet beam, that’s almost the 108 feet of an Iowa Class battleship, and almost twice the 57 feet of the Freedom Class LCS).
Otherwise, both classes are abominations.
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The key point is that the records show the bars were owned by the person accused of bribing Menendez.
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A woman was shot in the buttocks by her own gun when she brought it to her MRI appointment, according to a report filed with the Food and Drug Administration.
The unnamed 57-year-old woman had concealed the handgun when she entered the exam room on June 28, with the machine’s magnetic force triggering the weapon to fire. A physician examined her at the site, determining that the entry (in her right buttock) and exit wounds were “very small and superficial, only penetrating subcutaneous tissue.” The patient was admitted to the hospital and discharged when it was obvious she had no serious injuries, according to the filing.
Thank goodness the Food and Drug Administration is on the case!
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I wonder. This is the FIRST time I have ever heard of an MRI causing a firearm to fire. ?What would be the mechanism. Surely the magnetic field movement isn’t strong enough to overcome a 3+ lb trigger pressure, else it ought to be moving things like internal staples all over your body I would think.
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According to the article, there was an earlier reported case in Brazil which was fatal to the person carrying the weapon, who was not the patient.
A man in Brazil recently passed away of the injuries he sustained in an MRI suite when the magnet’s powerful pull caused his gun to involuntarily discharge and shoot him in the abdomen. After news of the event began to circulate, many questioned how such an accident could occur in an MRI suite in the first place.
Between screenings with MRI techs prior to exams, contraindication questionnaires and multiple warning signs prohibiting the presence of metal near the scanner, how did a loaded gun make its way into an MRI suite?
It is important to note that man involved in the accident was not a patient, but was instead assisting his mother, who was the patient. It also merits noting that the facility where the accident occurred followed safety precautions and screened both the man and his mother for the presence of metal, receiving signatures from both assuring that they understood the dangers of having metal within the magnet’s reach.
The danger of having metallic objects in the vicinity of an MRI magnet, which can have a magnetic field of 3 Tesla or more are well known.
There is also the issue of metal objects turning into projectiles in the suite. There have been several incidents throughout the years in which these projectiles have resulted in serious injury and even death. This is why facilities have restrictions on medical equipment like oxygen tanks, stretchers and wheelchairs in the exam room. MRI magnets are powerful enough to velocitize a steel oxygen tank and send it through a cinderblock wall.
My guess would be that the metallic parts of a striker fired gun, if magnetic, could be pulled by the strong magnetic field sufficiently to cause a discharge, especially in a gun with a polymer frame that did not shield the firing assembly from external magnetic fields. Another possibility is that heating from the magnetic field caused the primer to “cook off”. Heating due to the MRI fields is also a known phenomenon.
But what about less intimidating things like athletic shorts and yoga pants? At first glance, these items seem MRI-friendly, but some could contain metallic threading, which could heat up and burn patients during their scans.
Burns actually are the most common injury that occurs during MR imaging. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, between 2008 and 2017, such burns accounted for 59% of MRI safety events.
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Home many pounds of pressure do you think this would take?
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Student scholastic performance PISA results are in from OECD:
Does anyone else notice the innumeracy of the creators of this report?
Hint: if you’re going to talk about the impact of school closures, look at the difference in scores between 2022 and 2018.
If anything, this chart shows that numeracy is associated with fewer school closures (because of a better approach in China).
This is good data, though:
Massive drop over the past 5 years:
Here’s an analysis of immigrant performance, where we see high-IQ immigration to Qatar and Arab Emirates – and USA. In contrast, there’s low-IQ immigration to Europe.
A former NYC teacher wrote this:
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Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center, has trouble defining the word “woman” because “I’m not a scientist”. The bobble-head congressman asking the questions is Paul Gosar of Arizona.
“It is more complex than what you are saying.”
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Thanks for this, but I couldn’t bear to watch and listen for even an entire minute.
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