Where does it say in the American Constitution that Congress can pass laws limiting speech? I'm aware of the 1st amendment which is pretty simple and bans Congress from limiting speech and I don't know of any later amendments that create exceptions.
You can always take a dollar bill to the bank and convert it to pennies or nickels. A penny is worth a few cents in copper and a nickel has value of over 5 cents for the copper and nickel.
Actually getting to Saturn isn't much harder then getting to the Moon, at least if you don't mind spending a lot of time, getting back I'm not so sure of but probably not that much harder.. The time thing isn't too bad if you treat it like a pipeline, once the flow starts you keep it flowing. Either source in large amounts of tens of tons is going to be expensive and involve new engineering techniques which means lots of unknowns. Most people who talk about harvesting resources in space haven't put much thought into it and seem to think it'll be much like working on Earth with the addition of space suits. I think that all kinds of new engineering challenges are going to crop up and take time and money to learn to engineer around. Quite possible but a positive return on investment is likely to take a while. According to wiki the current US demand is 60,000 litres a year. Not sure what that would mass, probably somewhat less then a ton. 10's of tons would be required for large scale fusion plants which is what I consider impractical to mine on the Moon. With the price shooting up to $60,000+ a litre, small scale mining might be somewhat profitable but it still seems it would be simpler to create it here on Earth through nuclear synthesis. Of course if you're really just interested in going to the Moon then He3 might offset the costs but large scale production...
It would probably be cheaper to mine it from the atmosphere of Saturn. Processing 150 million tons of lunar regolith (remembering it is only in the top layer) for a ton of He3 does not seem simple or cheap.
Helium 3 isn't really that common on the Moon, just more so then on Earth. According to wiki
The abundance of helium-3 is thought to be greater on the Moon (embedded in the upper layer of regolith by the solar wind over billions of years),[1] though still low in quantity (28 ppm of lunar regolith is helium-4 and from one ppb to 50 ppb is helium-3)
And while I understand the psychological need of political rivals to talk trash about the Tea Party movement, I don't understand at all the need to just make up wild shit. What is it about fiscal responsibility, honoring the Constitution (for those who care, a real "social contract"), and reduction in government power that brings out such "hate speech" to use the term of the day?
This is a strawman. The tea party doesn't want to honour the constitution, they just want their interpretation of it. Examples are the 1st amendment, tea partiers seem to be fine with repressing speech if they label it national security, child porn or various other talking points. 2nd amendment, tea party has no problem having a whole class of people barred from owning firearms, they just maintain the medieval concept of felon to deny basic rights rather then like in my country where a judge has to order that someone can't own firearms due to misuse of firearms usually, not having a joint in their possession 40 years before. Fiscal responsibility? More like decreasing spending on things they don't like while increasing spending on their pet projects and causes. My government is very tea like and they've blown the surplus and put us into debt while cutting like hell but increasing spending on other things all the while screaming about how they're fiscally responsible, bastards. Reducing power of government? More like getting rid of things they don't like like science, environmental stuff and such while drastically increasing governments power to spy on its citizens, jail them for anything they don't like, take away basic rights like having fair elections and so much more. And to stay sort of on topic, they're much worse for political correct speech, just that instead of hatred, it is economic. Try labeling the bitimous sands as tar sands and they'll come down on you way worse then liberals ever enforced hate speech.
Many of the Founders were land speculators who were pissed that the government was planning to stop them from stealing property to sell and get richer. They were also pissed about having to pay taxes to protect their stolen property from those they stole it from. Thieves often put the benefits of their crime on a pedestal so they can feel all moral and demonize those they steal from, in their case they were stealing from pagan savages so it was ok.
I've been to the States a few times and have spent a good part of my life within sight of the US. In response to your list, In America the police can summarily beat or execute you by claiming resistance to arrest or just being in the way when the para-military police force kicks in your door. In America student protests have been broken up, including students shot to death by the national guard, a form of military (Kent State) In America you are allowed to search but often need to know the search terms as the press doesn't report to much on things like free speech zones or massive anti-war protests. In America massive resources are put into tracking phone calls, email messages, and web site visits with the courts routinely ruling that adding cell phone or internet to something traditionally considered illegal for government to suddenly be legal. In America it is (was?) simply illegal to belong to the Communist Party and you better be prepared to be a member of a mainstream religion to get anywhere in the main political party[ies]. While China is much worse in many ways then the USA the big difference is where they're coming from and going. China has always repressed its people to the point where they're currently the freest they have ever been whereas America was founded by people who were pissed off that their natural rights as Englishmen were being repressed and set out to come up with a system of government that recognized certain rights and now only one of the rights spelled out in the Bill of Rights is respected (3rd amendment) That is the problem with the States, an unfounded belief that they're the freest, greatest people ever while the evidence says otherwise.
The history of the ball point pen goes back a lot further then that. It just took a long time to perfect with the Biro brothers making an important step in the ink department and having luck like meeting the President of Argentina on an ocean liner and American pilots discovering it. Really it was Bich who ended up perfecting it and managed to sell it which was hard as so many ball point pens had leaked and ruined shirts.
Yes, I was talking about hydro as it is cheap (the grand-parent was arguing that nuclear was the cheapest) though limited and if built in the wrong place can cause lots of deaths through a bad failure. The same can be said about nuclear, a nuclear power plant in Manhattan having a really bad failure can also kill a lot of people. Nuclear has a slight advantage as it only needs lots of water instead of lots of water uphill. The damn that supplies my power was built by private enterprise with the only government help being perhaps cheap water rights. I'm not aware of any nuclear plants built by private enterprise without massive government subsidies beyond cheap water rights.
The Orwellian part might be inaccurate but the police state is quite accurate. There are millions of Americans in jail with a large percentage in jail to prop up failed business methods. Your government isn't much different then China's, alternating between progressive and conservative every 8 years though the people do have slightly more input and the capability of throwing out a (perceived) weak ruler after only 4 years. The smart thing about Americas rulers is that they let the plebs bitch and even let them have some weapons. Note that they still have the feudal ideas of whole segments of society with diminished rights allowing a type of segregation that the honest American backs whole heartily without even considering that it is wrong that political criminals shouldn't be allowed to change things through the vote. America is a very successful police state with the people honestly thinking they're free.
A lot of Americans think of the American Revolution when they consider revolution. In reality no American revolutionary got within a 1000 miles of the King or Imperial Parliament and the revolution morphed into a (very successful) war of separation. Real bloody revolutions hardly ever actually resort in an improvement whereas non-bloody revolutions sometimes do result in an improvement.
So another 1% fee. I'm not in the USA and it would still be cheaper to use US$ then bitcoins. 1% here and 1% there adds up and only stupid people go "only 0.99%"
More likely he is talking about the economic hypothesis that you need inflation an economy to work. Inflationary currency is a relatively new thing that came about a few decades ago but the entire fiat currency system of the world works on it. Prior to that the entire world was filled with deflationary economies, some booming, some weak. So while the inflationary requirement is taught as economics 101 it is relatively untested while deflation has several thousand years of working just fine backing it up. There are talking points for both sides of that debate.
Funny, just the other day I was reading about inflation in the Roman empire and a while back I was reading about how inflation killed the Spanish empire, inflation caused by large amounts of gold and silver being found in the new world. Then there is 19th century America where differing rates of silver and gold entering the economy caused all kinds of problems, eg silver inflating faster then gold. Seems that bitcoin has a certain type of builtin inflation too, in the form of splitting. I wouldn't have much faith in a currency where an external group can decide to split the currency on a whim. Personally after dinner tonight, I have to consider the benefits of a chicken economy. Intrinsic value in the form of a chicken dinner. With investment in the form of grain your investment grows. Dividends in the form of eggs for breakfast and as I mentioned, at the worst you end up with chicken stew and slightly better outcome is roast chicken.
My electricity source ran for over 75 years with the minor expenses of employing operators and a couple of times a year cleaning up some drift wood. Before that it ran for a dozen years but was somewhat smaller (actually the 5 generators came on line over a dozen + 1 years) . Now after some earthquake proofing and replacing the power house to almost double the power it will probably run for a few more centuries with only minor expenses. I can't find any figures what it cost to construct in 1909-1912 but I bet it was cheaper then a nuclear plant and its operating costs have been much cheaper. Very worst failure (multiple bombs being detonated to create the maximum damage) would result in much fewer deaths and property damage compared to a nuclear plant as well.
It takes quite a bit of intelligence to be born to rich parents and even more intelligence to be born to the correct type of Christian parents. Some people are so stupid that they're born to poor junkies and the really stupid people are born into situations where they never even hear of the bible. These are the kind of faithless stupid sinners who deserve to go to hell and suffer as obviously God is loving and fair and people choosing to be born into a faithless hunter gatherer culture in the Amazon are obviously bad people and people choosing to be born in the USA deserve ever lasting life for God is great and infallible and gave man free will.
Doesn't reload the page here, just get the "working" thing at the bottom of the page and then it expands. Probably be quicker if I wasn't on crappy dial-up (currently 16.8 connection) but still fairly quick. Making the max length displayed a per-user configuration does sound good.
Like you, I also always browse at -1 and am getting really irritated at these posts. Still I don't agree that these posts should be removed as who knows where that might lead. A better solution would be to be more aggressive with using Read the rest of this comment... thing. Reduce the post to a couple of lines and it is easy to skim over and if anyone chooses they can read the whole post.
You need to compile this compiler with a compiler which begs the question....
Sigh. It raises the question. To "beg the question" means something completely different. Here is a simple rule of thumb of when that phrase should be used: never.
Nice comment. Language evolves. This makes it nice and raises the question of what I mean by "nice comment" From http://etymonline.com/?term=nice, nice (adj.) Look up nice at Dictionary.com
late 13c., "foolish, stupid, senseless," from Old French nice (12c.) "careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish," from Latin nescius "ignorant, unaware," literally "not-knowing," from ne- "not" (see un-) + stem of scire "to know" (see science). "The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj." [Weekley] -- from "timid" (pre-1300); to "fussy, fastidious" (late 14c.); to "dainty, delicate" (c.1400); to "precise, careful" (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to "agreeable, delightful" (1769); to "kind, thoughtful" (1830).
Well NT was actually 32 bit unlike Win95 which was mostly 16 bit. This was really obvious if you ran them on a Pentium Pro with NT getting a 50% speedup compared to similar clocked Pentium and WIn95 not getting any speedup. Seems Microsoft had told Intel that everything would be 32 bit so Intel focused on speeding up 32 bit software. Interestingly OS/2 got the same speedup as NT even though it was partially 16 bit.
I had a 386DX/33 with 16kb cache. When I swapped in a 486DLC the speed doubled. Probably the your 386 had a cache and the 486SX didn't. That cache made a lot of difference when memory had wait states. Even then IRQs weren't too bad. Disable COM2 (COM1 was the mouse) and set the modem to the same, my video card didn't use an IRQ and for a sound card I had a Pro Audio Spectrum which could set its IRQs with software (config.sys entry) and came with a program to test IRQs and DMA so you could find some that worked (it also had a sound blaster clone on board). I was running OS/2 so you also had to be careful to have the same settings in DOS and OS/2.
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Where does it say in the American Constitution that Congress can pass laws limiting speech? I'm aware of the 1st amendment which is pretty simple and bans Congress from limiting speech and I don't know of any later amendments that create exceptions.
You can always take a dollar bill to the bank and convert it to pennies or nickels. A penny is worth a few cents in copper and a nickel has value of over 5 cents for the copper and nickel.
Actually getting to Saturn isn't much harder then getting to the Moon, at least if you don't mind spending a lot of time, getting back I'm not so sure of but probably not that much harder.. The time thing isn't too bad if you treat it like a pipeline, once the flow starts you keep it flowing. Either source in large amounts of tens of tons is going to be expensive and involve new engineering techniques which means lots of unknowns. Most people who talk about harvesting resources in space haven't put much thought into it and seem to think it'll be much like working on Earth with the addition of space suits. I think that all kinds of new engineering challenges are going to crop up and take time and money to learn to engineer around. Quite possible but a positive return on investment is likely to take a while.
According to wiki the current US demand is 60,000 litres a year. Not sure what that would mass, probably somewhat less then a ton. 10's of tons would be required for large scale fusion plants which is what I consider impractical to mine on the Moon.
With the price shooting up to $60,000+ a litre, small scale mining might be somewhat profitable but it still seems it would be simpler to create it here on Earth through nuclear synthesis. Of course if you're really just interested in going to the Moon then He3 might offset the costs but large scale production...
It would probably be cheaper to mine it from the atmosphere of Saturn. Processing 150 million tons of lunar regolith (remembering it is only in the top layer) for a ton of He3 does not seem simple or cheap.
Helium 3 isn't really that common on the Moon, just more so then on Earth. According to wiki
The abundance of helium-3 is thought to be greater on the Moon (embedded in the upper layer of regolith by the solar wind over billions of years),[1] though still low in quantity (28 ppm of lunar regolith is helium-4 and from one ppb to 50 ppb is helium-3)
and is also much harder to fuse then isotopes of Hydrogen or Lithium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_3
And while I understand the psychological need of political rivals to talk trash about the Tea Party movement, I don't understand at all the need to just make up wild shit. What is it about fiscal responsibility, honoring the Constitution (for those who care, a real "social contract"), and reduction in government power that brings out such "hate speech" to use the term of the day?
This is a strawman. The tea party doesn't want to honour the constitution, they just want their interpretation of it. Examples are the 1st amendment, tea partiers seem to be fine with repressing speech if they label it national security, child porn or various other talking points. 2nd amendment, tea party has no problem having a whole class of people barred from owning firearms, they just maintain the medieval concept of felon to deny basic rights rather then like in my country where a judge has to order that someone can't own firearms due to misuse of firearms usually, not having a joint in their possession 40 years before.
Fiscal responsibility? More like decreasing spending on things they don't like while increasing spending on their pet projects and causes. My government is very tea like and they've blown the surplus and put us into debt while cutting like hell but increasing spending on other things all the while screaming about how they're fiscally responsible, bastards.
Reducing power of government? More like getting rid of things they don't like like science, environmental stuff and such while drastically increasing governments power to spy on its citizens, jail them for anything they don't like, take away basic rights like having fair elections and so much more.
And to stay sort of on topic, they're much worse for political correct speech, just that instead of hatred, it is economic. Try labeling the bitimous sands as tar sands and they'll come down on you way worse then liberals ever enforced hate speech.
Many of the Founders were land speculators who were pissed that the government was planning to stop them from stealing property to sell and get richer. They were also pissed about having to pay taxes to protect their stolen property from those they stole it from. Thieves often put the benefits of their crime on a pedestal so they can feel all moral and demonize those they steal from, in their case they were stealing from pagan savages so it was ok.
Here in Canada businesses get refunded their sales tax (GST/HST). If you're rich, usually you operate as a business so pay very little sales tax.
I've been to the States a few times and have spent a good part of my life within sight of the US. In response to your list,
In America the police can summarily beat or execute you by claiming resistance to arrest or just being in the way when the para-military police force kicks in your door.
In America student protests have been broken up, including students shot to death by the national guard, a form of military (Kent State)
In America you are allowed to search but often need to know the search terms as the press doesn't report to much on things like free speech zones or massive anti-war protests.
In America massive resources are put into tracking phone calls, email messages, and web site visits with the courts routinely ruling that adding cell phone or internet to something traditionally considered illegal for government to suddenly be legal.
In America it is (was?) simply illegal to belong to the Communist Party and you better be prepared to be a member of a mainstream religion to get anywhere in the main political party[ies].
While China is much worse in many ways then the USA the big difference is where they're coming from and going. China has always repressed its people to the point where they're currently the freest they have ever been whereas America was founded by people who were pissed off that their natural rights as Englishmen were being repressed and set out to come up with a system of government that recognized certain rights and now only one of the rights spelled out in the Bill of Rights is respected (3rd amendment)
That is the problem with the States, an unfounded belief that they're the freest, greatest people ever while the evidence says otherwise.
The history of the ball point pen goes back a lot further then that. It just took a long time to perfect with the Biro brothers making an important step in the ink department and having luck like meeting the President of Argentina on an ocean liner and American pilots discovering it.
Really it was Bich who ended up perfecting it and managed to sell it which was hard as so many ball point pens had leaked and ruined shirts.
Only the surface heats up during the short trip through the atmosphere with the inside still being very cold.
People don't do the same thing to escape the wonderful capitalistic democracies of Mexico and various Central American states?
Yes, I was talking about hydro as it is cheap (the grand-parent was arguing that nuclear was the cheapest) though limited and if built in the wrong place can cause lots of deaths through a bad failure. The same can be said about nuclear, a nuclear power plant in Manhattan having a really bad failure can also kill a lot of people. Nuclear has a slight advantage as it only needs lots of water instead of lots of water uphill.
The damn that supplies my power was built by private enterprise with the only government help being perhaps cheap water rights. I'm not aware of any nuclear plants built by private enterprise without massive government subsidies beyond cheap water rights.
The Orwellian part might be inaccurate but the police state is quite accurate. There are millions of Americans in jail with a large percentage in jail to prop up failed business methods. Your government isn't much different then China's, alternating between progressive and conservative every 8 years though the people do have slightly more input and the capability of throwing out a (perceived) weak ruler after only 4 years.
The smart thing about Americas rulers is that they let the plebs bitch and even let them have some weapons. Note that they still have the feudal ideas of whole segments of society with diminished rights allowing a type of segregation that the honest American backs whole heartily without even considering that it is wrong that political criminals shouldn't be allowed to change things through the vote.
America is a very successful police state with the people honestly thinking they're free.
A lot of Americans think of the American Revolution when they consider revolution. In reality no American revolutionary got within a 1000 miles of the King or Imperial Parliament and the revolution morphed into a (very successful) war of separation.
Real bloody revolutions hardly ever actually resort in an improvement whereas non-bloody revolutions sometimes do result in an improvement.
So another 1% fee. I'm not in the USA and it would still be cheaper to use US$ then bitcoins.
1% here and 1% there adds up and only stupid people go "only 0.99%"
More likely he is talking about the economic hypothesis that you need inflation an economy to work. Inflationary currency is a relatively new thing that came about a few decades ago but the entire fiat currency system of the world works on it. Prior to that the entire world was filled with deflationary economies, some booming, some weak. So while the inflationary requirement is taught as economics 101 it is relatively untested while deflation has several thousand years of working just fine backing it up. There are talking points for both sides of that debate.
Funny, just the other day I was reading about inflation in the Roman empire and a while back I was reading about how inflation killed the Spanish empire, inflation caused by large amounts of gold and silver being found in the new world.
Then there is 19th century America where differing rates of silver and gold entering the economy caused all kinds of problems, eg silver inflating faster then gold.
Seems that bitcoin has a certain type of builtin inflation too, in the form of splitting. I wouldn't have much faith in a currency where an external group can decide to split the currency on a whim.
Personally after dinner tonight, I have to consider the benefits of a chicken economy. Intrinsic value in the form of a chicken dinner. With investment in the form of grain your investment grows. Dividends in the form of eggs for breakfast and as I mentioned, at the worst you end up with chicken stew and slightly better outcome is roast chicken.
My electricity source ran for over 75 years with the minor expenses of employing operators and a couple of times a year cleaning up some drift wood. Before that it ran for a dozen years but was somewhat smaller (actually the 5 generators came on line over a dozen + 1 years) . Now after some earthquake proofing and replacing the power house to almost double the power it will probably run for a few more centuries with only minor expenses.
I can't find any figures what it cost to construct in 1909-1912 but I bet it was cheaper then a nuclear plant and its operating costs have been much cheaper. Very worst failure (multiple bombs being detonated to create the maximum damage) would result in much fewer deaths and property damage compared to a nuclear plant as well.
It takes quite a bit of intelligence to be born to rich parents and even more intelligence to be born to the correct type of Christian parents. Some people are so stupid that they're born to poor junkies and the really stupid people are born into situations where they never even hear of the bible. These are the kind of faithless stupid sinners who deserve to go to hell and suffer as obviously God is loving and fair and people choosing to be born into a faithless hunter gatherer culture in the Amazon are obviously bad people and people choosing to be born in the USA deserve ever lasting life for God is great and infallible and gave man free will.
Where do you banish people to now a days? Banishment worked fine when there was a wildness to banish them to. Now not so much.
Doesn't reload the page here, just get the "working" thing at the bottom of the page and then it expands. Probably be quicker if I wasn't on crappy dial-up (currently 16.8 connection) but still fairly quick.
Making the max length displayed a per-user configuration does sound good.
Like you, I also always browse at -1 and am getting really irritated at these posts. Still I don't agree that these posts should be removed as who knows where that might lead. A better solution would be to be more aggressive with using Read the rest of this comment... thing. Reduce the post to a couple of lines and it is easy to skim over and if anyone chooses they can read the whole post.
You need to compile this compiler with a compiler which begs the question....
Sigh. It raises the question. To "beg the question" means something completely different. Here is a simple rule of thumb of when that phrase should be used: never.
Nice comment.
Language evolves. This makes it nice and raises the question of what I mean by "nice comment" From http://etymonline.com/?term=nice,
nice (adj.) Look up nice at Dictionary.com
late 13c., "foolish, stupid, senseless," from Old French nice (12c.) "careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish," from Latin nescius "ignorant, unaware," literally "not-knowing," from ne- "not" (see un-) + stem of scire "to know" (see science). "The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj." [Weekley] -- from "timid" (pre-1300); to "fussy, fastidious" (late 14c.); to "dainty, delicate" (c.1400); to "precise, careful" (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to "agreeable, delightful" (1769); to "kind, thoughtful" (1830).
Well NT was actually 32 bit unlike Win95 which was mostly 16 bit. This was really obvious if you ran them on a Pentium Pro with NT getting a 50% speedup compared to similar clocked Pentium and WIn95 not getting any speedup. Seems Microsoft had told Intel that everything would be 32 bit so Intel focused on speeding up 32 bit software. Interestingly OS/2 got the same speedup as NT even though it was partially 16 bit.
I had a 386DX/33 with 16kb cache. When I swapped in a 486DLC the speed doubled. Probably the your 386 had a cache and the 486SX didn't. That cache made a lot of difference when memory had wait states.
Even then IRQs weren't too bad. Disable COM2 (COM1 was the mouse) and set the modem to the same, my video card didn't use an IRQ and for a sound card I had a Pro Audio Spectrum which could set its IRQs with software (config.sys entry) and came with a program to test IRQs and DMA so you could find some that worked (it also had a sound blaster clone on board). I was running OS/2 so you also had to be careful to have the same settings in DOS and OS/2.