Standard flat-earther response is to scornfully deny the existence of gravity. It's all density/buoyancy you see... Gravity is a hoax promulgated by the notorious cabalist Newton, in service to his Illuminati/Papal masters, etc, etc.
That link rather misses the problem in only considering the total population. The graphs under https://www.population-trends-asiapacific.org/data/JPN give a more nuanced view of the problem; graph 5 shows that the proportion of the population that is past child-bearing age is steadily increasing. In 1990 the 0-14 and 65+ age groups were equally large, today 65+ is three times larger. In essence the increase in longevity is somewhat masking the decline of the young.
Generally having fewer than four wheels reduces stability while not offering compensating substantial advantages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-wheeler#Configurations). And more than four disjoint wheels means adding further axles and coping with the problem that on a bumpy road a wheel pair may entirely lose contact with the road.
As for headlights, a single central one would still be notably face-like given widely spaced turning indicators. And having two headlights gives redundancy: "one-eyed monsters" at night are preferable to cars lacking any lights.
FWIW I just reserved a room at the first Vegas hotel that Google served up (MGM Grand Las Vegas) and clicking through to the "Reservation Terms & Conditions" includes:
Room Status. MGM Grand reserves the right to check the status of all rooms/suites at any time.
which sounds like it covers these sorts of inspections
Can you dig out a reference for that? WP describes it as evolving from a representation of handwriting, initially used for informal or intimate writing, later being employed for emphasis.
That officer will have been Major Neuheim, a blustering and venial SS bureaucrat played with panache by Ian Richardson (not unlike his role as Mr Warrenn in "Brazil"). I'm also puzzled how little-known the series has become, since I remember it fondly.
That sounds like something that works best in company? Or can you also enjoy them alone, and if so, would you enjoy them that way if you'd never earlier performed that observance in company?
For me, of a perforce-alone evening I can sometimes toast myself with: "nur ein Schwein trinkt allein" (only a pig drinks alone), but it's in memory of times the blessing was conjoint, so joyous not melancholic.
That's not quite correct. The first (public) brute-forcing of DES was done in 1997 by the DESCHALL project distributing the search across tens of thousands of volunteer's computers for weeks [1]. The EFF then spent $250,000 to build a dedicated DES cracker ("Deep Crack") which required an average of four days per key found [2]
Be careful about looking as if they're abusing that dominant position. Back at the highwater of the "Wintel" dominance, early 2000s, Intel staff reportedly found Microsoft hair-raising, boasting openly of crushing the competition, choking off their air supply, undercutting then till they bled to death, etc. Intel had already had the antitrust stick brandished at it and had made sure the troops all understood the importance of the marketplace at least looking like a fair fight.
What help could they realistically send? Poland was between the two nations that were invading it and the UK was only just introducing a bomber (Wellington) with the range for a direct return flight to Warsaw (and such a flight was impossible since it passes over Germany). Marine access means a long Baltic voyage past the main German navy bases. An assault on Germany would have been via the neighbouring countries and so needed their cooperation, and would still have come too late to save Poland.
Rather depends upon what you consider "long" to mean. The sun moves about 15 degrees per hour and the angular field of view on a zoomed iPhone 13 shot is about 23 degrees (according to a blog). 12MP resolution so crudely moves about one pixel per second. A ten second exposure is certainly long compared to the light gathering drive by the eye, but a ten pixel elongation of the blob of a bright star won't be very obvious, may be rather less than the smearing caused by atmospheric "seeing"
Except that apparently they had such warnings for individual trades, but the bundle was implemented as "for(trade in bundle) transact(trade)". Which design has a certain appeal, standing on the shoulders of the peculiar handling of each trade, but with the terrible flaw that the bundle is never considered in its totality.
It doesn't seem that this would have helped here: the trader entered exactly the number that they intended to, just that their intent was misconceived.
So long as they do a gag where the dummy's suit is depressurised and he continues to protest but now silently, then I'm all for it. If Man is truly to live along the stars then vaudeville humour shall be part of it
NASA had only contracted for 15 Saturn V stacks, and in 1968 declined to start the second production run. Nixon only assumed office in 1969, at which point the only question was how many of the remaining ten stacks would fly as part of Apollo. Under Nixon the final three Apollo lunar missions were cancelled, with one of those Saturn V stacks being used for Skylab instead. But even if all three had flown to the moon stagnation was inevitable as NASA's focus had already been directed to the shuttle.
NASA had only contracted for 15 Saturn V stacks, and in 1968 declined to start the second production run. That was still under Johnson - although Nixon was doubtless happy with the decision it had already become obvious that Congress wasn't going to approve sustaining the NASA budget at that level once the moon was in the bag.
I'm similarly haunted by the question of an avuncular Anglo-Indian office manager some thirty years ago who upon learning that I had no kids exclaimed "How do you know that you're not just shooting blanks?!" I've wondered ever since how is have explained to that putative first-born that really they were just the pipe-cleaning debugging trial run, just making sure that the baby-batter cannon didn't need a rebore before settling down to a proper production run. (I'm sure that he'd have regarded my eventual brood of two as being confirmation of my lack of earnestness...a dilettante of the dong department)
But the (horrifying) maths checks out: say he got the Gameboy at the age of 12 when it launched in 1989, had a first child at twenty in 1997, that child has a child of its own also at the age of twenty in 2017, grandchild aged six or seven now excited to find granddad's Gameboy. Twenty is merely youngish for a first child, not the stuff of shotgun-wedding backblocks.
But what control input could a pilot make that abruptly produces significant negative gees for just a couple of seconds? Other than the bland references to "technical issue" it sounds like clear air turbulence. (Although one possible mistake could be that the weather radar did warn of it and the pilot didn't react?)
Certainly not true for almost all stars visible to the naked eye. Consider Alpha Centauri, well known to all southern hemisphere inhabitants and just four light years away.
But where did they say they only used each device for 1.5 years? That seemed like your assumption based on the quoted dozen laptops across twenty years; I certainly have a number of devices concurrently, with the oldest now being 14 years (still working though only on a power supply as the battery is badly degraded). That said I also strongly prefer a replaceable drive, but more because I don't want to buy the capacity at today's price that I'll only truly need in a few years time, if ever.