And you can read about it. Jules Verne had an entire book published documenting an expedition by some of his acquaintances, which always gets mislabeled as Young-Adult Fiction. At least if you can believe the Steampunk books:-)
> I believe the GP's point is, if we're going to spend that kind of money, how about spending it on better ways of living that blowing shit up?
But killing people is Odin's Holy Work! Surely, a PhD in Religion cannot object to something just because his particular god claims not to like it (sometimes)?
Alas for your theory, biophysics (aka, Physics done by Manhattan Project veterans who decided to never deal with weapons ever again)(as they jokingly described it when I was interviewing colleges) has proven very useful, especially in better prosthetic limbs.
Physics may be the exception in the hard sciences and engineering, where you learn so much about so little, as you go on, that you know nothing about anything. OTOH, that may be physicists' bragging, like vampires bragging about destroying the world when they just want to enjoy Manchester United, dog-racing, and people going about like Happy Meals with legs.
Actually, "we" are not out of IP addresses, for large definitions of "we". Certain countries have grown (in IP usage terms) far faster than expected, and are running out, and all the available blocks have been allocated to countries and/or upper ISPs.
OTOH, no one has been told that nothing is available to the individual or, worse, to a company, yet. At least not anywhere "important" (sorry, Peoples Republic of China, but you aren't important to Comcast, just as the Chinese IP authority wouldn't care if Comcast ran out).
BTW, consumer-owned routers will not be the problem. The problem will be the ISP-owned cable and/or DSL modems, the vast majority of which are likely to be flaky with IPV6.
> Wouldn't plants in a single-star system also maximize energy absorption?
Why? Our plants do not maximize energy absorption. Green light reflectivity is actually one of the worst choices that evolution could have made, but it did, and it was good enough, and so filled the ecological niche before a pigment other than chlorophyll developed. Given that chloroplasts probably evolved during an epoch with less light than now, a wide-spectrum of chlorophyll-like light absorbing chemicals would have been even more useful, then, if evolution could have optimized the choice.
> I can't comprehend WHY this would seem enjoyable for anyone.
The only reason that I can see is that you can make all the pathetically stupid, awful mistakes that the more socially inclined made in Junior High or even grade school, and get them out of your system. Do too bad at dealing with girl#1, and just redo one's profile and try again, assuming that one cannot reset the memory of CloudGirl and start HER from scratch. That way, one can get to the point where one can at least text/chat/IM/etc. socially, well enough to consider an online relationship. And THAT seems a stretch.
Unless he comes back the way Darla did (ignoring when Wolfram & Hart brought her back for real), as the flashback portion of an episode. Seriously, you think that Zoe will be moving on anytime soon?
We made jokes about the French even when we were signing a separate peace with the British to end the American Revolution. After all, we might no longer be English, but the French were still the ancestral enemy from Edward III's time until the French and Indian War (Seven Years War, for Europeans).
You seem to have a stunning amount of faith in government, including 1800's feudal Japan, to accurately plan for catastrophes 130 years in advance.
1890's Japan was very well post-feudal. Remember, it was only ten years after they bought the incompatible GE equipment (I should make a nasty comment here, since my family worked for Westinghouse) to where they defeating the Russians in 1905.
Also, this dual grid prevents countrywide cascade failures:-)
Errr, I thought Bronze Age armies in Greece and whatnot had openly gay soldiers.
No, but gay meant allowing oneself to be buggered by someone of equal or lesser status; it was perfectly fine to ass-ream women, children, or younger males (let alone animals or slaves). The Theban Sacred Band was about 60% older soldiers screwing their recruits and PFC-equivalents. Read an annotated translation of Aristophanes' The Clouds for more on this (where it also points out that homosexuality was an upper class affectation considered silly by the lower classes).
Alan Turing was NOT a soldier, nor should he have been (since soldiers are potentially cannon fodder). There are almost certainly gay civilian employees in the DoD outside of the 5 services. Unit cohesion is not necessary on the civilian side of things (barring a repeat of the Pentagon attack of 9/11) even though vital for combat units.
Why is it up to "the military leaders" to decide whether or not to treat people with the rights they're granted under the constitution
No one has the right to go into the military if they are not what the military wants, or else all the differently-abled (or whatever the current term for "halt, deaf, or dumb" is) would volunteer, just for the free medical care. That is why my one-time office mate could not get into Air Force pilot training, due to less than 20/20 vision uncorrected.
Also, the Constitution doesn't grant rights, merely withholds them from the Federal Government, but that is just being picky.
Anyway, the logical thing would be to return to the rules from the time of that notoriously bisexual general, Gaius Julius Caesar, and ignore any supposed or claimed homosexual tendencies and execute those convicted of homosexual actions (and camping it up like Liberace doesn't count, unless there was buggering as well).
I think you mean the NKVD, in the Venona Transcripts (they reused pads some of the time, allowing about 1% of transmissions to be cracked).
Also, the Kriegsmarine did not use Enigma machines for military communications. They had to use it so that the local consulates could arrange for new supplies, since the Foreign Ministry *did* use Enigma, exclusively, so it did not matter in the end.
Pointing out that the best way to crack an uncrackable encryption is always to convince someone who has the key to decrypt it for you (or your little dog gets it, or via False Flag deception, or...). The best way to break a locked door is not to pick the lock, but blow the door or neighboring wall down.
> Why should I take the goods out of my shopping cart, only to put them back in the cart... ?
Because resource control is more important than mere efficiency in this case?
If the RFID chips could all be provably read at a reasonable distance at the register, then this would be solved (we'll ignore privacy concerns for now, as well as multi-line crosstalk).
Except that I trust gold to be real money, proven over thousands of years but I do NOT trust any fiat money.
Money to me is something that cannot be inflated
Alas for your thesis, gold and silver money DOES inflate -- take a look at the disaster that was Spain after a century of looting the Americas for bullion without matching production increases (and squandering huge amounts trying to retake the Netherlands and Austria). Alternately, rent Bullwhip Durham, Paint Your Wagon, Support Your Local Sheriff, or any other movie based on gold mining camp and boomtown economies. Also, "real money" inflates even without major gold or silver strikes; the Great Mutiny (of the British fleet) of 1798 was largely caused by pay rates not having increased in a century while the cost of living had doubled in that period.
BTW, inflation is a tax on un-invested and poorly invested money, not on net worth (as I remember too well from living through Jimmy Carter's term).
Just make sure that you carry enough money in your wallet at all times. After all, who wants to deal with an armed and dangerous thief, pissed off from putting in the time and effort to mug you with too low a payoff?
Also, I have seen ex-thieves recommend having a bunch of bills together so you can toss them at the mugger, while escaping in a different direction. It is a bit like an octopus shooting its ink in a pattern that looks vaguely octopuslike.
In fact, I believe that the antimatter was mostly gone before there were stable nuclei, and possibly even while the Universe was just a quark soup, well before the microwave background escaped, when neutral ions could first form.
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And you can read about it. Jules Verne had an entire book published documenting an expedition by some of his acquaintances, which always gets mislabeled as Young-Adult Fiction. At least if you can believe the Steampunk books :-)
> I believe the GP's point is, if we're going to spend that kind of money, how about spending it on better ways of living that blowing shit up?
But killing people is Odin's Holy Work! Surely, a PhD in Religion cannot object to something just because his particular god claims not to like it (sometimes)?
Alas for your theory, biophysics (aka, Physics done by Manhattan Project veterans who decided to never deal with weapons ever again)(as they jokingly described it when I was interviewing colleges) has proven very useful, especially in better prosthetic limbs.
Physics may be the exception in the hard sciences and engineering, where you learn so much about so little, as you go on, that you know nothing about anything. OTOH, that may be physicists' bragging, like vampires bragging about destroying the world when they just want to enjoy Manchester United, dog-racing, and people going about like Happy Meals with legs.
> while we are technically out of IPs
Actually, "we" are not out of IP addresses, for large definitions of "we". Certain countries have grown (in IP usage terms) far faster than expected, and are running out, and all the available blocks have been allocated to countries and/or upper ISPs.
OTOH, no one has been told that nothing is available to the individual or, worse, to a company, yet. At least not anywhere "important" (sorry, Peoples Republic of China, but you aren't important to Comcast, just as the Chinese IP authority wouldn't care if Comcast ran out).
BTW, consumer-owned routers will not be the problem. The problem will be the ISP-owned cable and/or DSL modems, the vast majority of which are likely to be flaky with IPV6.
> Wouldn't plants in a single-star system also maximize energy absorption?
Why? Our plants do not maximize energy absorption. Green light reflectivity is actually one of the worst choices that evolution could have made, but it did, and it was good enough, and so filled the ecological niche before a pigment other than chlorophyll developed. Given that chloroplasts probably evolved during an epoch with less light than now, a wide-spectrum of chlorophyll-like light absorbing chemicals would have been even more useful, then, if evolution could have optimized the choice.
> I can't comprehend WHY this would seem enjoyable for anyone.
The only reason that I can see is that you can make all the pathetically stupid, awful mistakes that the more socially inclined made in Junior High or even grade school, and get them out of your system. Do too bad at dealing with girl#1, and just redo one's profile and try again, assuming that one cannot reset the memory of CloudGirl and start HER from scratch. That way, one can get to the point where one can at least text/chat/IM/etc. socially, well enough to consider an online relationship. And THAT seems a stretch.
Unless he comes back the way Darla did (ignoring when Wolfram & Hart brought her back for real), as the flashback portion of an episode. Seriously, you think that Zoe will be moving on anytime soon?
Ender's Game on the other hand, that might cause a shudder.
Or saw The Last Starfighter (IMDB=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/ , wikipedia=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Starfighter).
We made jokes about the French even when we were signing a separate peace with the British to end the American Revolution. After all, we might no longer be English, but the French were still the ancestral enemy from Edward III's time until the French and Indian War (Seven Years War, for Europeans).
PETA should be made to understand that a cure for baldness is worth sacrificing a few mice for.
No, it is not.
That is why medical experimentation should be done on PETA members, only. Besides, they are much closer to humans, in the genetic sense.
OK, occasionally one can use lawyers, too, if there aren't enough PETA members available.
Obviously no relation to any of the more famous Pattons :-)
And what would be the point of throwing a firework at and enemy soldier versus a bullet?
The same point as using microwave ovens (with their doors removed and the interlock bypassed) against anti-radar missile attacks.
You seem to have a stunning amount of faith in government, including 1800's feudal Japan, to accurately plan for catastrophes 130 years in advance.
1890's Japan was very well post-feudal. Remember, it was only ten years after they bought the incompatible GE equipment (I should make a nasty comment here, since my family worked for Westinghouse) to where they defeating the Russians in 1905.
Also, this dual grid prevents countrywide cascade failures :-)
What about the reverse, where the E-4 is male sleeping with his female E-7 supervisor?
Errr, I thought Bronze Age armies in Greece and whatnot had openly gay soldiers.
No, but gay meant allowing oneself to be buggered by someone of equal or lesser status; it was perfectly fine to ass-ream women, children, or younger males (let alone animals or slaves). The Theban Sacred Band was about 60% older soldiers screwing their recruits and PFC-equivalents. Read an annotated translation of Aristophanes' The Clouds for more on this (where it also points out that homosexuality was an upper class affectation considered silly by the lower classes).
Alan Turing was NOT a soldier, nor should he have been (since soldiers are potentially cannon fodder). There are almost certainly gay civilian employees in the DoD outside of the 5 services. Unit cohesion is not necessary on the civilian side of things (barring a repeat of the Pentagon attack of 9/11) even though vital for combat units.
Why is it up to "the military leaders" to decide whether or not to treat people with the rights they're granted under the constitution
No one has the right to go into the military if they are not what the military wants, or else all the differently-abled (or whatever the current term for "halt, deaf, or dumb" is) would volunteer, just for the free medical care. That is why my one-time office mate could not get into Air Force pilot training, due to less than 20/20 vision uncorrected.
Also, the Constitution doesn't grant rights, merely withholds them from the Federal Government, but that is just being picky.
Anyway, the logical thing would be to return to the rules from the time of that notoriously bisexual general, Gaius Julius Caesar, and ignore any supposed or claimed homosexual tendencies and execute those convicted of homosexual actions (and camping it up like Liberace doesn't count, unless there was buggering as well).
I think you mean the NKVD, in the Venona Transcripts (they reused pads some of the time, allowing about 1% of transmissions to be cracked).
Also, the Kriegsmarine did not use Enigma machines for military communications. They had to use it so that the local consulates could arrange for new supplies, since the Foreign Ministry *did* use Enigma, exclusively, so it did not matter in the end.
Pointing out that the best way to crack an uncrackable encryption is always to convince someone who has the key to decrypt it for you (or your little dog gets it, or via False Flag deception, or ...). The best way to break a locked door is not to pick the lock, but blow the door or neighboring wall down.
> Why should I take the goods out of my shopping cart, only to put them back in the cart ... ?
Because resource control is more important than mere efficiency in this case?
If the RFID chips could all be provably read at a reasonable distance at the register, then this would be solved (we'll ignore privacy concerns for now, as well as multi-line crosstalk).
All the rich people would have to pay all their taxes.
All the rich people ALREADY pay all their taxes, except that they structure the tax system to shelter what they choose not to pay.
OK, not ALL the rich people, just the smart ones, as opposed to Al Capone and the like.
and commodity currencies aren't much better because they would exhaust the market too if everyone tried converting
Ask the Chinese and British about that (look up Chinese tea and the Opium Wars for a starter).
Which aus? And doesn't the plastic scratch when inserting it into the g-string?
Except that I trust gold to be real money, proven over thousands of years but I do NOT trust any fiat money.
Money to me is something that cannot be inflated
Alas for your thesis, gold and silver money DOES inflate -- take a look at the disaster that was Spain after a century of looting the Americas for bullion without matching production increases (and squandering huge amounts trying to retake the Netherlands and Austria). Alternately, rent Bullwhip Durham, Paint Your Wagon, Support Your Local Sheriff, or any other movie based on gold mining camp and boomtown economies.
Also, "real money" inflates even without major gold or silver strikes; the Great Mutiny (of the British fleet) of 1798 was largely caused by pay rates not having increased in a century while the cost of living had doubled in that period.
BTW, inflation is a tax on un-invested and poorly invested money, not on net worth (as I remember too well from living through Jimmy Carter's term).
Just make sure that you carry enough money in your wallet at all times. After all, who wants to deal with an armed and dangerous thief, pissed off from putting in the time and effort to mug you with too low a payoff?
Also, I have seen ex-thieves recommend having a bunch of bills together so you can toss them at the mugger, while escaping in a different direction. It is a bit like an octopus shooting its ink in a pattern that looks vaguely octopuslike.
In fact, I believe that the antimatter was mostly gone before there were stable nuclei, and possibly even while the Universe was just a quark soup, well before the microwave background escaped, when neutral ions could first form.