"Please give everyone else the same benefit of freedom to choose where and how they want to live
dude:
obarthelemy was talking about the state of technology (and how it applies to most people in the country), not about requiring you to buy a vehicle that doesn't make sense for your situation.
i'm curious: do people in rural areas think the "city people" are making them do things against their will? even though rural areas are STRONGLY (little html joke there, ha ha) represented in the Senate and the electoral college, and equally represented in the House on a per capita basis?
Even if a 1.5 light second long cable were feasible you'd still have to deal with the fact that, as far as I understand, the anchor would have to be in geosynchronous orbit. Since the Moon isn't in geosynchronous orbit, the surface moves relative to the Moon you'd end up winding the cable around the planet.
no, no! they would simply make the base of the elevator mobile, and put it onto a train that constantly runs around the equator at the speed of the earth's rotation, plus or minus (as appropriate) the speed of the moon's orbit.
think of the money we'd save getting things into orbit!
Read the parent and the Summary again. You seem to have missed something.
They're actually referring to a US law, the Iran NonProliferaction Act, not the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This law, without an exception such is currently in effect, would keep the US from paying for passage on Soyuz vehicles.
This has less to do with the international community as a whole and more to do with who the US wants to do business with.
The parent stated clearly that Russia's authority to launch their own vehicles is not in question. What will be in question is US lawful authority to pay for passage on these vehicles.
There's also the issue that if she can't blame someone else the only obvious alternative is to blame herself. Something few people would willingly face the possibility of doing.
I find it difficult to believe that the parent of an autistic child is to be "blamed." At this stage in the game, no one knows what causes autism so it is too early to asses blame. Read again; that post is not blaming the parent. Dachannien is stating that a parent can easily feel culpable for something wrong with her child, whether that feeling is rational or not. And people will go to lengths (including mental gymnastics) to avoid feeling blameworthy for something as bad as autism.
Except that as I understand it (and my understanding is limited, I grant you), this problem is solved by doling out chunks of address space. The holders of said chunks can advertise networks rather than individual IP addresses, making routing much easier. It seems to me that routing for unrelated, single IP addresses rather than for networks would be a huge pain.
The routing solution for a constantly changing bunch of unrelated devices or addresses would seem more complex. If I were to make up a name for such a solution, I would call it "cascading ad-hoc hierarchical addressing with automated router elections". Perhaps something like that already exists, or perhaps there is a much more elegant solution. Whether or not, I think I better patent the name.;)
Easier said than done. Such a decentralized scheme wouldn't lend itself very well to hierarchical addressing and routing. How would all those millions of devices decide how to route packets?
Random Trek bit... one line that they say got through the sensors...
There is no way I can express the funny moment that occurred when I mistook your meaning of censors for the Enterprise's sensors. (I don't mean to be a butt-wipe spelling Kommissar, by the way; i hate that sort of behavior, and i apologize. I'm just saying, is all.)
to me it seems pretty easy to stimulate a bare slice of brain (which uses electricity to transmit signals) with any kind of electromagnetic field, RF or no. A) those are both in vitro studies. where are the in vivo studies? B) How much of that RF is absorbed by the skin, muscle, bone, and non-hippocampus brain tissue? i don't buy it without better tests and methods.
(-1 offtopic) off the subject, but on the subject of wacky health concerns- today i heard an interview on NPR where people think a 25 microgram dose of mercury, or some similar amount, is causing autism. and they just won't accept that the cause might be something else. sure, mercury is poisonous. oxygen and water are poisonous too, in the right quantities. but 25mcg of mercury? how many times that have we all absorbed by being in the same room as a broken fluorescent light bulb? or my cousin, who broke a mercury thermometer by biting it?
teleportation of matter could do a lot for making the shipping industry more efficient. think of all the fossil fuels burned simply to bring oil to the US, let alone fake christmas trees, computers, car parts, vodka, bananas and clothes.
now, imagine the energy savings brought on by the teleportation of said goods to mars.
ansibles are from Ursula LeGuin (possibly the best sci-fi author EVAR due to her attention to character and the human condition in general), not Orson Scott Card. perish the thought.
by filling out a 27B-stroke-6.
in triplicate, of course. get in that line over there. oh, and don't mind the police jumping down through a hole in your ceiling. they're just going to ask a few questions about your eligibility for employment.
if the fruit flies' behavior matches up with an algorithm, that would seem to me to suggest that the flies in fact do NOT exhibit free will. sure, one can argue that making decisions is tantamount to free will, but such decision making could simply be a response to the environment. a tiger is trying to eat me so i will 'decide' to run.
multiple stimuli may, of course, suggest simultaneous contradictory responses. i want to see the end of the movie, but i REALLY have to pee. which do i do? the stronger desire (or response to the environment, within or without) will win, but it may take a moment to compute.
people will draw about any conclusion they like from any set of data. i, of course, am a determinist.
spending billions to kill people is more moral than spending billions to help people?
hmm.
is it more effective? for killing to be effective, you have to accomplish one of a few things:
A) instill fear in your enemy while NOT encouraging others to join their ranks, such as by blowing up their houses and relatives, even by accident, or destroying their economy and infrastructure so that they can't find a job and feed their children. and since our enemy is willing to kill himself to kill us, we're really only creating fear in civilians anyway.
B) kill enough of your enemy for them to not be effective anymore, without encouraging others to join up (as above). since al qaeda franchises have *increased* and since it probably took only a couple of people to blow up the parliament cafeteria anyway, this objective isn't happening any time soon either. again, we're just recruiting for the enemy.
is it smarter? i guess you already know what i think.
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depends how you figure size.
at 1000x their volume, the GP is probably about right.
at 1000x their length (1,000,000,000x their volume) they would be as you describe.
"Please give everyone else the same benefit of freedom to choose where and how they want to live
dude:
obarthelemy was talking about the state of technology (and how it applies to most people in the country), not about requiring you to buy a vehicle that doesn't make sense for your situation.
i'm curious: do people in rural areas think the "city people" are making them do things against their will? even though rural areas are STRONGLY (little html joke there, ha ha) represented in the Senate and the electoral college, and equally represented in the House on a per capita basis?
Even if a 1.5 light second long cable were feasible you'd still have to deal with the fact that, as far as I understand, the anchor would have to be in geosynchronous orbit. Since the Moon isn't in geosynchronous orbit, the surface moves relative to the Moon you'd end up winding the cable around the planet.
no, no! they would simply make the base of the elevator mobile, and put it onto a train that constantly runs around the equator at the speed of the earth's rotation, plus or minus (as appropriate) the speed of the moon's orbit.
think of the money we'd save getting things into orbit!
right you are. my apologies. it is i who have missed something; i somehow was looking at the wrong parent :)
Read the parent and the Summary again. You seem to have missed something.
I find it difficult to believe that the parent of an autistic child is to be "blamed." At this stage in the game, no one knows what causes autism so it is too early to asses blame. Read again; that post is not blaming the parent. Dachannien is stating that a parent can easily feel culpable for something wrong with her child, whether that feeling is rational or not. And people will go to lengths (including mental gymnastics) to avoid feeling blameworthy for something as bad as autism.
their grammar is better than ours, though ;)
I reckon you're right.
Except that as I understand it (and my understanding is limited, I grant you), this problem is solved by doling out chunks of address space. The holders of said chunks can advertise networks rather than individual IP addresses, making routing much easier. It seems to me that routing for unrelated, single IP addresses rather than for networks would be a huge pain.
The routing solution for a constantly changing bunch of unrelated devices or addresses would seem more complex. If I were to make up a name for such a solution, I would call it "cascading ad-hoc hierarchical addressing with automated router elections". Perhaps something like that already exists, or perhaps there is a much more elegant solution. Whether or not, I think I better patent the name. ;)
Easier said than done. Such a decentralized scheme wouldn't lend itself very well to hierarchical addressing and routing. How would all those millions of devices decide how to route packets?
nah, i don't need my isp to tell me how much porn i look at ;)
There is no way I can express the funny moment that occurred when I mistook your meaning of censors for the Enterprise's sensors. (I don't mean to be a butt-wipe spelling Kommissar, by the way; i hate that sort of behavior, and i apologize. I'm just saying, is all.)
so... germanic languages are like TCP/IP! and japanese is like... uh... a stream cipher?
i got nothin'.
i read that as "and keeps hitting your partner in the orbs."
that's why it took so long to build the pyramids.
And the fact is...
Everyone has an axe to grind!
to me it seems pretty easy to stimulate a bare slice of brain (which uses electricity to transmit signals) with any kind of electromagnetic field, RF or no. A) those are both in vitro studies. where are the in vivo studies? B) How much of that RF is absorbed by the skin, muscle, bone, and non-hippocampus brain tissue? i don't buy it without better tests and methods.
(-1 offtopic) off the subject, but on the subject of wacky health concerns- today i heard an interview on NPR where people think a 25 microgram dose of mercury, or some similar amount, is causing autism. and they just won't accept that the cause might be something else. sure, mercury is poisonous. oxygen and water are poisonous too, in the right quantities. but 25mcg of mercury? how many times that have we all absorbed by being in the same room as a broken fluorescent light bulb? or my cousin, who broke a mercury thermometer by biting it?
/raises hand
I immediately imagined some sort of covert FBI pot luck.
I wonder how much mass Io lost when that thing blew up.
one of the best games ever. i really (honestly!) miss the days spent swapping 5.25" disks in my apple IIc.
teleportation of matter could do a lot for making the shipping industry more efficient. think of all the fossil fuels burned simply to bring oil to the US, let alone fake christmas trees, computers, car parts, vodka, bananas and clothes.
now, imagine the energy savings brought on by the teleportation of said goods to mars.
:)
DOOOOD.
ansibles are from Ursula LeGuin (possibly the best sci-fi author EVAR due to her attention to character and the human condition in general), not Orson Scott Card. perish the thought.
OMG 23! 23! 2+3=May! it must mean something.
by filling out a 27B-stroke-6. in triplicate, of course. get in that line over there. oh, and don't mind the police jumping down through a hole in your ceiling. they're just going to ask a few questions about your eligibility for employment.
if the fruit flies' behavior matches up with an algorithm, that would seem to me to suggest that the flies in fact do NOT exhibit free will. sure, one can argue that making decisions is tantamount to free will, but such decision making could simply be a response to the environment. a tiger is trying to eat me so i will 'decide' to run.
multiple stimuli may, of course, suggest simultaneous contradictory responses. i want to see the end of the movie, but i REALLY have to pee. which do i do? the stronger desire (or response to the environment, within or without) will win, but it may take a moment to compute.
people will draw about any conclusion they like from any set of data. i, of course, am a determinist.
spending billions to kill people is more moral than spending billions to help people? hmm. is it more effective? for killing to be effective, you have to accomplish one of a few things: A) instill fear in your enemy while NOT encouraging others to join their ranks, such as by blowing up their houses and relatives, even by accident, or destroying their economy and infrastructure so that they can't find a job and feed their children. and since our enemy is willing to kill himself to kill us, we're really only creating fear in civilians anyway. B) kill enough of your enemy for them to not be effective anymore, without encouraging others to join up (as above). since al qaeda franchises have *increased* and since it probably took only a couple of people to blow up the parliament cafeteria anyway, this objective isn't happening any time soon either. again, we're just recruiting for the enemy. is it smarter? i guess you already know what i think.