I used to know an "anarchist" at school. No rules, no laws, etc. When I asked him what he was going to do when someone bigger and more violent took all his stuff, and as there were no rules, there would be no-one to stop it but him, he changed his mind.
The US government as it is right now, is basically what you're describing. It's a system that permits a small number of people to take the lunch money of a large number of people.
Could be that 'anarchist' is just one label that stupid, uneducated, violent people who are nonetheless bright enough to want to label themselves as being something better than 'garden variety scumbag'?
It could be that stupid, uneducated, and educated people label political radicals they don't like as anarchists.
Well if you guys can handle 45c without AC...you're way bigger men than me. At that temperature (without AC), I'd just lie down somewhere and be unable to move.
Are you so sure that white people have retained all of the cooling mechanisms? Or that they are as efficient? White people have narrow noses, which helps to warm the air entering the lungs. That's one thing against us in warm climates. White people have more hair...to help stay warm in cold climates...also not an advantage. And of course they have the melanin differences you noted. Why do you assume those are the only differences? For many thousands of years, white people lived without the necessity of having an efficient cooling system. I would expect that any trait that becomes useless for survival, gradually degrades. The same mechanism in black people would have been absolutely critical for survival in Africa. I'm not saying I know for certain that these differences are real, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility. Far too many people won't even touch this subject because it's so controversial...but it makes sense.
Men is adapted to hunt kudus in the scorching heat of the southern African plains and should be able to deal with this.
Correction: Black people are adapted to hunting kudus of southern African plains. White people are adapted to hunting mammoths along the frozen wastes of glaciated europe.
I think a lot of you guys make stupid generalizations about people based on what languages someone is most experienced with. The scary thing is, some of you guys are probably interviewing potential employees and you're dismissing perfectly fine engineers based on these beliefs.
Is there something I'm missing that would make it difficult to have a kiosk with an imaged system that's been certified, locked down, and can print out results, without it being easy to tamper with or easy to fudge the numbers of?
Yes. What you're missing is that the people making them/buying them didn't want secure machines. They wanted something they could tamper with.
The question of whether there is life on Mars is still open, and once you have a group setting up a settlement, the planet is potentially contaminated forever with Earth bacteria, which might even kill off native bacteria, if any.
A ridiculous argument if you ask me. Any place the least bit hospitable to man could potentially harbor life. The more suitable to humans, the more likely there "could" be life. If there is life, it's most likely far under the surface and probably won't be found until well after humans have been there a while. Let's face it, the search for life of Mars is just an excuse to keep sending probes up there. It's probably not there. The small chance that it is there is no reason to stop colonization.
There's nothing to colonize over there as you pointed out yourself. Might as well call people who want to live in a volcano's caldera "colonists" as long as they bring giant air conditioners and everything else they need to live there. It makes no sense,
I know. Where are you going to get food if there aren't any grocery stores? How are you going to build stuff if there aren't any hardware stores?
If we're going to colonize space, we must first find a planet with these basic necessities of life.
Because by international treaties, the planets belongs to humanity, and are not subject to exploitation.
Also, any hope of finding traces of life on Mars might be shot if we ship life there.
How is barely surviving on Mars considered exploitation? And if there's any life on Mars, it'll still be there regardless of contamination by Earth life. And seriously, these two arguments are totally ridiculous.
If you are a Christian--and you realize these people are totally nuts--my advice would be to rename your faith to dissociate yourself from them...because they seem to be in the majority.
Cub Scouts seemed to be more of an afterschool daycare/social club to me. Didn't do anything useful there....but I did have to memorize: I promise to do my duty to God and my country, to help other people and obey the law of the pack. Yeah...I get a merit badge now. Way to go cub scouts, I'm now a middle aged, atheist, social phobic, chain smoking, code monkey with no friends.
Hmm. At my company, roughly 95% of the developers are men. My boss is a woman. The HR department is all women. The documentation department is all women. Greater than 50% of the business analysts are women. The accounting department is all women. 80% of the DBAs are women. Yet, I hear women complaining that all us computer guys are misogynists and lecherous oafs and that's why they're not in computer science. Surely they realize that going into another field is not going to separate them from us, the spawn of Satan. Or maybe...just maybe... women don't go into CS because they aren't interested in programming. Call me crazy.
Armadillo Aerospace, XCOR, and some others of whom you (should) have heard, are already working with the FAA and they report that the experience has not been too painful.
That's because the risks have been low. When you start putting people on top of thousands of tons of explosive propellant, that's when the government starts stepping in and messing everything up.
First, they need to make sure they prevent junking up low earth orbits by making sure there are a minimum number of bits coming off anything that might end up in orbit, something NASA has the most experience with.
I expect this is already quite high on their list of things to take into account even without the government imposing stacks of paperwork on them. Can't get customers if they're all afraid of getting shotgunned to death in orbit.
Second, they need to make sure launch and recovery operations are properly coordinated with air traffic, which is of concern to the FAA.
They're already required to work with the FAA in this regard.
Its far better to define reasonable regulations right now than wait for poorly thought out ones to be implemented later when it becomes clear they're necessary.
Yes, assuming *reasonable* regulations are made. I don't have much faith in that.
Question:? How do we kill off this emerging commercial space flight industry
Answer: "...establish a framework for the emerging commercial US space industry to help streamline requirements and multiple sets of standards and ultimately to regulate public and crew safety."
Computer Science? Snooze. I already do that. I want an online degree program in physics, or geology, or something. I want to study the interesting stuff that I didn't do in school because I sold out and went the path that would make me shitloads of money instead of shitloads on happiness and intellectual fulfillment.
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I used to know an "anarchist" at school. No rules, no laws, etc. When I asked him what he was going to do when someone bigger and more violent took all his stuff, and as there were no rules, there would be no-one to stop it but him, he changed his mind.
The US government as it is right now, is basically what you're describing. It's a system that permits a small number of people to take the lunch money of a large number of people.
Could be that 'anarchist' is just one label that stupid, uneducated, violent people who are nonetheless bright enough to want to label themselves as being something better than 'garden variety scumbag'?
It could be that stupid, uneducated, and educated people label political radicals they don't like as anarchists.
I would be extremely surprised if all 85% of other web users actually knew how to install another browser.
Well if you guys can handle 45c without AC...you're way bigger men than me. At that temperature (without AC), I'd just lie down somewhere and be unable to move.
Are you so sure that white people have retained all of the cooling mechanisms? Or that they are as efficient? White people have narrow noses, which helps to warm the air entering the lungs. That's one thing against us in warm climates. White people have more hair...to help stay warm in cold climates...also not an advantage. And of course they have the melanin differences you noted. Why do you assume those are the only differences? For many thousands of years, white people lived without the necessity of having an efficient cooling system. I would expect that any trait that becomes useless for survival, gradually degrades. The same mechanism in black people would have been absolutely critical for survival in Africa. I'm not saying I know for certain that these differences are real, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility. Far too many people won't even touch this subject because it's so controversial...but it makes sense.
Trollland. My bullshit detector is going off.
Men is adapted to hunt kudus in the scorching heat of the southern African plains and should be able to deal with this.
Correction: Black people are adapted to hunting kudus of southern African plains. White people are adapted to hunting mammoths along the frozen wastes of glaciated europe.
You're basing that on a picture?
I think a lot of you guys make stupid generalizations about people based on what languages someone is most experienced with. The scary thing is, some of you guys are probably interviewing potential employees and you're dismissing perfectly fine engineers based on these beliefs.
Is there something I'm missing that would make it difficult to have a kiosk with an imaged system that's been certified, locked down, and can print out results, without it being easy to tamper with or easy to fudge the numbers of?
Yes. What you're missing is that the people making them/buying them didn't want secure machines. They wanted something they could tamper with.
The question of whether there is life on Mars is still open, and once you have a group setting up a settlement, the planet is potentially contaminated forever with Earth bacteria, which might even kill off native bacteria, if any.
A ridiculous argument if you ask me. Any place the least bit hospitable to man could potentially harbor life. The more suitable to humans, the more likely there "could" be life. If there is life, it's most likely far under the surface and probably won't be found until well after humans have been there a while. Let's face it, the search for life of Mars is just an excuse to keep sending probes up there. It's probably not there. The small chance that it is there is no reason to stop colonization.
There's nothing to colonize over there as you pointed out yourself. Might as well call people who want to live in a volcano's caldera "colonists" as long as they bring giant air conditioners and everything else they need to live there. It makes no sense,
I know. Where are you going to get food if there aren't any grocery stores? How are you going to build stuff if there aren't any hardware stores? If we're going to colonize space, we must first find a planet with these basic necessities of life.
Because by international treaties, the planets belongs to humanity, and are not subject to exploitation. Also, any hope of finding traces of life on Mars might be shot if we ship life there.
How is barely surviving on Mars considered exploitation? And if there's any life on Mars, it'll still be there regardless of contamination by Earth life. And seriously, these two arguments are totally ridiculous.
If you are a Christian--and you realize these people are totally nuts--my advice would be to rename your faith to dissociate yourself from them...because they seem to be in the majority.
My guess is that then they could argue that the fossil record is inaccurate.
How does this text book author sleep at night?
Cub Scouts seemed to be more of an afterschool daycare/social club to me. Didn't do anything useful there....but I did have to memorize: I promise to do my duty to God and my country, to help other people and obey the law of the pack. Yeah...I get a merit badge now. Way to go cub scouts, I'm now a middle aged, atheist, social phobic, chain smoking, code monkey with no friends.
Hmm. At my company, roughly 95% of the developers are men. My boss is a woman. The HR department is all women. The documentation department is all women. Greater than 50% of the business analysts are women. The accounting department is all women. 80% of the DBAs are women. Yet, I hear women complaining that all us computer guys are misogynists and lecherous oafs and that's why they're not in computer science. Surely they realize that going into another field is not going to separate them from us, the spawn of Satan. Or maybe...just maybe... women don't go into CS because they aren't interested in programming. Call me crazy.
Armadillo Aerospace, XCOR, and some others of whom you (should) have heard, are already working with the FAA and they report that the experience has not been too painful.
That's because the risks have been low. When you start putting people on top of thousands of tons of explosive propellant, that's when the government starts stepping in and messing everything up.
First, they need to make sure they prevent junking up low earth orbits by making sure there are a minimum number of bits coming off anything that might end up in orbit, something NASA has the most experience with.
I expect this is already quite high on their list of things to take into account even without the government imposing stacks of paperwork on them. Can't get customers if they're all afraid of getting shotgunned to death in orbit.
Second, they need to make sure launch and recovery operations are properly coordinated with air traffic, which is of concern to the FAA.
They're already required to work with the FAA in this regard.
Its far better to define reasonable regulations right now than wait for poorly thought out ones to be implemented later when it becomes clear they're necessary.
Yes, assuming *reasonable* regulations are made. I don't have much faith in that.
Question:? How do we kill off this emerging commercial space flight industry
Answer: "...establish a framework for the emerging commercial US space industry to help streamline requirements and multiple sets of standards and ultimately to regulate public and crew safety."
Interesting. Thanks
Computer Science? Snooze. I already do that. I want an online degree program in physics, or geology, or something. I want to study the interesting stuff that I didn't do in school because I sold out and went the path that would make me shitloads of money instead of shitloads on happiness and intellectual fulfillment.
Management guys are not geek guys.