No, you are. Telsa price out of range of most people, the batteries are too damn expensive
Are you a typcial progressive-liberal shithead that can't understand hard economonics and engineering?
Exactly, I thought otherwise - and wrongly, when a friend gave me teh lecture while we were tooling down the road in his F-450 Platinum edition Pickup truck. The base model starts at 65 thousand.
A true vehicle for the masses.
And don't say it's a rare bird. I've seen several tooling around in my neck of the woods. Well, actually I've never seen one off the road. It's a really nice truck. But remarkably expensive once you add in the options.
And you don't need to be your "typical liberal progressive shithead" to look up prices on the internet. Parts of that invective might be applicable to some folks who can't be bothered to verify their memes.
A group of native Hawaiians object on the grounds that the land has historic and spiritual significance. IMHO, both sides have standing, and I hope they work something out that preserves both of their interests.
There are two possibilities. Either these lands are public or they are private (or could be sold to a private group). If I build a telescope on my private land, you have no right to interfere with that even if it offends your religious beliefs. If the lands are public, then trying to maintain them in a way that caters to the religious feelings of any group amounts to an establishment of religion; that's unacceptable as well.
And, of course, "native Hawaiian" is an ill-defined and corrupt concept to begin with, so "native Hawaiians" ought not to have any legal standing as a group at all. That isn't just a question of justice; if you let people retroactively interfere with property and ownership rights based on their membership in some racial group, you create so much risk and uncertainty that you scare away investments and business. Any sane businessman and investor is going to ask: if we build a new power plant or factory or dock or shopping center, how much risk do we face that some "native Hawaiian group" is going to claim that we are treading on their sacred ground and kill the project halfway through, or demand pay-offs?
That isn't just a question of justice; if you let people retroactively interfere with property and ownership rights based on their membership in some racial group, you create so much risk and uncertainty that you scare away investments and business. Any sane businessman and investor is going to ask: if we build a new power plant or factory or dock or shopping center, how much risk do we face that some "native Hawaiian group" is going to claim that we are treading on their sacred ground and kill the project halfway through, or demand pay-offs?
Especially since the Mauna Kea Telescope is just a proxy fight. This group of Hawaiians at core do not want white people on "their" islands at all. The native Hawaiians refer to anyone not of their race as Haole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , although it is mostly used as a racial epithet against Europeans.
From the article:
In 1944, Hawaiian scholar Charles Kenn wrote, "In the primary and esoteric meaning, haole indicates a race that has no relation to one's own; an outsider, one who does not conform to the mores of the group; one that is void of the life element because of inattention to natural laws which make for the goodness in man. In its secondary meaning, haole... implies a thief, a robber, one not to be trusted.
In likewise manner, in Hawaiian schools, on the last day of school, they have "Kill Haole day", where natives are supposed to harass and attack the white students. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has this to say about the incredibly racist Hawaiians:
So sorry Hawaiians, I consider you to be just as racist as the southern preacher in the 1859's preaching how the bible condones owning black people, as racist as any group of KKK members, who lynch and burn crosses on lawns. As racist as any southern state you care to name.
And do not even attempt to hand me the idea that since some white people have been racist, that its okay with you being racist, because you are then condoning their racism. You are 100 percent as big a collection of racist scum as they were.
I started out programming in basic with the "hello world! program.
As did millions of others.
I guess we were devastated, depressed, and had our self esteem destroyed when we found out that not everything was as easy as "hello world!"?
Oh.... wait.... we didn't. We were interested, plowed in, and learned the harder stuff because we were interested.
If mommy and daddy want to protect their precious little snowflakes from the hard stuff by learning the hard stuff at the beginning - like that even makes sense - they need to just have them all go into women's studies or whatever it is boys are supposed to go into these days.
An accurate answer to any question should be the standard.
And I'll believe Cortana is a woman when I can see her vagina. Or penis if she's transgendered. Until then I suspect the people who are worried about "her" sexuality are the same ones who beat off while watching "MacPlaymate" in the early 90's
If I build a telescope on my private land, you have no right to interfere with that even if it offends your religious beliefs.
My neighbors objected to my building an unshielded reactor on my private property. This is why America is going to hell. No respect for private property.
No avoidance at all, I'd provide you a link, but I can only access that on my W10 computer. They might block it from other browsers/OS'. They say they collect information about you, and say they collect keystroking. If that doesn't say keylogging to you, your Check is waiting for you.
Performance wise yes with enough resources it was fine. But the oem's never sold stock systems with "enough" for the entire time vista was on the market.
Well, was that Microsoft lying about minimum requirements, or OEMs ignoring them?
Having lived through the Vista debacle, It was Microsoft's fault. A group I was working with decided over my strenuous objections to buy several Vista Basic laptops. Toshiba Satellites. Then they didn't really fit the definition of working. The mantra at that time was that RAM was the issue. So they maxed out the RAM in each laptop. That made them sorta work, as long as you didn't mind really slow.
Turning off indexing helped, but in general, the machines simply lacked the basic horsepower to run VIsta, and extra RAM didn't bring them to any true level of acceptable behavior.
Anticipating that the same people who over-rode my objections would decide I was incompetent, I bought a similar Toshiba laptop, only with a much faster processor, similar amount of RAM, and Vista Pro. That machine actually worked pretty well with Vista.
But Microsoft had that little well glued on sticker that read "Vista Basic". They could have demanded that it be taken off. But they had said that level of hardware would run Vista Basic.
Fortunately, all but one of those horrible little machines developed a mobo problem that ended everyone's misery.
You want to block MS spying, fine - but you'll also lost OneDrive, Cortana and even Bing. Skype still seems ok though.
Fortunately, I use none of those, nor the office suite. I long ago moved to AO, OO before that, because MS Office isn't compatible between Mac and Windows versions, and no version for linux. And Skype is already a big security issue.
I'd like to see stuff like figlet, write, wall, mutt natively in powershell so it becomes more of a destination than a mere dull workhorse of productivity.
Be patient - they have to get the keylogger working correctly first.
>Your reply is nice, but I'm trying hard to parse it, because it doesn't make sense to me.
Genetic flaws happen, they occur to a rare few individuals, who rarely procreate, and they have limited impact on the species as whole.
We aren't eve talking about the same thing - But you are still wrong.
Perfection rapidly becomes dominant, and then prevents the forces of competition from keeping population growth in check - result the entire species goes extinct.
ANd here is why you are wrong. There is no such thing as perfection. If you look at the vagus nerve for example, in humans and mammals it is a mess. It was adapted from a gill structure, and does loops and turns in teh body to get to the throat. It's one of the many defects we have.
Survial is the metric, not perfection. Your ideas read like a strange cross between creationism and Darwinism.
There's not any realistic budgeting scenario where it's even remotely cheaper, all capital costs included, to get your water from the moon in the remotely near future than to just launch it from the earth on existing rockets. But, if your goal is to advance the tech of reusable rockets, space mining, in-situ propellant production, etc, then by all means go ahead. Just don't pretend like you're doing it as a "cost saving measure" for a Mars mission.
This! Ive been accused of naysaying regarding the Spacex landings on a barge.
I think it is a similar issue. If teh main purpose is to do barge landing, and enough resources are applied, yep, it's possible.
Likewise, setting up a moonbase to mine water to produce fuel is probably a 50+ year project in and of itself, and no assured success. It's an entire program, and back of the envelope math tells me that it will treble or quadruple the costs.
It would be cool, but is the most expensive option of the two.
Two cavemen sitting across from each other, and one says : "Something's just not right - our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free-range, and yet nobody lives past 30."
Perfection is more guaranteed extinction than any flaw could be.
Your reply is nice, but I'm trying hard to parse it, because it doesn't make sense to me.
So what you are saying is that if we tweak the calcium phosphate in humans to be a little more durable, humanity will go extinct?
So tell me, let's say you have a genetic flaw like Huntingdon's You fear that gentic manipulation to avoid all of the fun you'll be going through as it kills you is bad?
If not, what sort of genetic modification do you have in mind that will force extinction on humans?
>Wow - that escalated quickly. I'd like bones that would resist osteoarthritis, and tendons/ligaments that would be stronger, ad you're going on a planet of the Apes scenario.
Eat properly and move your body more than scratching your ass.
Actually, I've had a long life of extreme amounts of activity. I wore myself out doing all the "Right things". I'd still be doing them if I could.
May you live to be 120 years old, and enjoy my bodilty pain every day of your life.
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No, you are. Telsa price out of range of most people, the batteries are too damn expensive
Are you a typcial progressive-liberal shithead that can't understand hard economonics and engineering?
Exactly, I thought otherwise - and wrongly, when a friend gave me teh lecture while we were tooling down the road in his F-450 Platinum edition Pickup truck. The base model starts at 65 thousand.
A true vehicle for the masses.
And don't say it's a rare bird. I've seen several tooling around in my neck of the woods. Well, actually I've never seen one off the road. It's a really nice truck. But remarkably expensive once you add in the options.
And you don't need to be your "typical liberal progressive shithead" to look up prices on the internet. Parts of that invective might be applicable to some folks who can't be bothered to verify their memes.
There are two possibilities. Either these lands are public or they are private (or could be sold to a private group). If I build a telescope on my private land, you have no right to interfere with that even if it offends your religious beliefs. If the lands are public, then trying to maintain them in a way that caters to the religious feelings of any group amounts to an establishment of religion; that's unacceptable as well.
And, of course, "native Hawaiian" is an ill-defined and corrupt concept to begin with, so "native Hawaiians" ought not to have any legal standing as a group at all. That isn't just a question of justice; if you let people retroactively interfere with property and ownership rights based on their membership in some racial group, you create so much risk and uncertainty that you scare away investments and business. Any sane businessman and investor is going to ask: if we build a new power plant or factory or dock or shopping center, how much risk do we face that some "native Hawaiian group" is going to claim that we are treading on their sacred ground and kill the project halfway through, or demand pay-offs?
That isn't just a question of justice; if you let people retroactively interfere with property and ownership rights based on their membership in some racial group, you create so much risk and uncertainty that you scare away investments and business. Any sane businessman and investor is going to ask: if we build a new power plant or factory or dock or shopping center, how much risk do we face that some "native Hawaiian group" is going to claim that we are treading on their sacred ground and kill the project halfway through, or demand pay-offs?
Especially since the Mauna Kea Telescope is just a proxy fight. This group of Hawaiians at core do not want white people on "their" islands at all. The native Hawaiians refer to anyone not of their race as Haole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , although it is mostly used as a racial epithet against Europeans.
From the article:
In 1944, Hawaiian scholar Charles Kenn wrote, "In the primary and esoteric meaning, haole indicates a race that has no relation to one's own; an outsider, one who does not conform to the mores of the group; one that is void of the life element because of inattention to natural laws which make for the goodness in man. In its secondary meaning, haole ... implies a thief, a robber, one not to be trusted.
In likewise manner, in Hawaiian schools, on the last day of school, they have "Kill Haole day", where natives are supposed to harass and attack the white students. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has this to say about the incredibly racist Hawaiians:
https://www.splcenter.org/figh...
So sorry Hawaiians, I consider you to be just as racist as the southern preacher in the 1859's preaching how the bible condones owning black people, as racist as any group of KKK members, who lynch and burn crosses on lawns. As racist as any southern state you care to name.
And do not even attempt to hand me the idea that since some white people have been racist, that its okay with you being racist, because you are then condoning their racism. You are 100 percent as big a collection of racist scum as they were.
Wow... what religion prohibits building unshielded reactors?
The church of Christ, nonScientist?
As did millions of others.
I guess we were devastated, depressed, and had our self esteem destroyed when we found out that not everything was as easy as "hello world!"?
Oh.... wait.... we didn't. We were interested, plowed in, and learned the harder stuff because we were interested.
If mommy and daddy want to protect their precious little snowflakes from the hard stuff by learning the hard stuff at the beginning - like that even makes sense - they need to just have them all go into women's studies or whatever it is boys are supposed to go into these days.
An accurate answer to any question should be the standard.
And I'll believe Cortana is a woman when I can see her vagina. Or penis if she's transgendered. Until then I suspect the people who are worried about "her" sexuality are the same ones who beat off while watching "MacPlaymate" in the early 90's
If I build a telescope on my private land, you have no right to interfere with that even if it offends your religious beliefs.
My neighbors objected to my building an unshielded reactor on my private property. This is why America is going to hell. No respect for private property.
Sockpuppet of mongoloid cretin gstoddart = Ol Olsoc obviously. Quit projecting that fact gstoddart.
Meth is a dangerous drug AC.
And you are avoiding the question, Olsoc.
No avoidance at all, I'd provide you a link, but I can only access that on my W10 computer. They might block it from other browsers/OS'. They say they collect information about you, and say they collect keystroking. If that doesn't say keylogging to you, your Check is waiting for you.
telemetry communicates back at various settings, the information is all out there for you.
Where? Where is the specific information? The Microsoft Privacy policy is so vague it is laughable.
You have a Donald Trump Level of denialism, coward.
Microsoft lying about minimum requirements.
The question is why?
It doesn't really cost msft anything to change the arbitrary requirements. They ought to have been upped to 4GB years ago.
1. Because the problem wasn't just RAM -Horsepower in a Vista Basic spec machine was too low.
2. For the same reason Windows 8 is a tremendous Operating System.
They don't admit mistakes. Wasn't until Nutella admitted in 2014 that W8 was a mistake - sorta. http://www.businessinsider.com...
Easy of course, since it was the man who never admits he's wrong, but throws a mean chair - Ballmer's mistake.
Well, was that Microsoft lying about minimum requirements, or OEMs ignoring them?
Having lived through the Vista debacle, It was Microsoft's fault. A group I was working with decided over my strenuous objections to buy several Vista Basic laptops. Toshiba Satellites. Then they didn't really fit the definition of working. The mantra at that time was that RAM was the issue. So they maxed out the RAM in each laptop. That made them sorta work, as long as you didn't mind really slow.
Turning off indexing helped, but in general, the machines simply lacked the basic horsepower to run VIsta, and extra RAM didn't bring them to any true level of acceptable behavior.
Anticipating that the same people who over-rode my objections would decide I was incompetent, I bought a similar Toshiba laptop, only with a much faster processor, similar amount of RAM, and Vista Pro. That machine actually worked pretty well with Vista.
But Microsoft had that little well glued on sticker that read "Vista Basic". They could have demanded that it be taken off. But they had said that level of hardware would run Vista Basic.
Fortunately, all but one of those horrible little machines developed a mobo problem that ended everyone's misery.
Sycraft-fu says that you are an idiotic, paranoid, conspiracy theorist for daring to state that Windows 10 contains spyware.
He's just practicing the latest version of denialism.
You want to block MS spying, fine - but you'll also lost OneDrive, Cortana and even Bing. Skype still seems ok though.
Fortunately, I use none of those, nor the office suite. I long ago moved to AO, OO before that, because MS Office isn't compatible between Mac and Windows versions, and no version for linux. And Skype is already a big security issue.
I'd like to see stuff like figlet, write, wall, mutt natively in powershell so it becomes more of a destination than a mere dull workhorse of productivity.
Be patient - they have to get the keylogger working correctly first.
If someone could point me towards some quality malware to infect my Linux box with, I'd be grateful.
Dual boot with Windows - that should do it.
You mean you're expecting Windows 10 will actually OBEY it's own hosts file?
Awww, that's so cute!
Re read the post, he's talking about blocking at the router.
By the way, windows does ignore certain hostfile entries.
I'd do a Linux hardware firewall myself.
gstoddart spare us your unoriginal mongoloid cretin scribblings!
I've been happy to disagree with gstoddart in the past, but he is 100 percent correct, and you dear AC - have gone full potato.
Is anybody surprised by this?
It's a repeat story, and one that needs repeating.
What is amazing is the folk here that claim Microsoft isn't doing it - even when you can read the Microsoft documents saying they are doing it.
Time for a linux based hardware firewall (don't even trust a commercial one)
So they know for a fact that there is enough water there to send ships to Mars, as well as support the needed infrastructure?
I assume this means enough for More than one or two missions, or is NASA still in Apollo -do it and ditch it - mode?
That message is a troll? Dis place be gotten a liddle weeeeeerd sometimes..
>Your reply is nice, but I'm trying hard to parse it, because it doesn't make sense to me.
Genetic flaws happen, they occur to a rare few individuals, who rarely procreate, and they have limited impact on the species as whole.
We aren't eve talking about the same thing - But you are still wrong.
Perfection rapidly becomes dominant, and then prevents the forces of competition from keeping population growth in check - result the entire species goes extinct.
ANd here is why you are wrong. There is no such thing as perfection. If you look at the vagus nerve for example, in humans and mammals it is a mess. It was adapted from a gill structure, and does loops and turns in teh body to get to the throat. It's one of the many defects we have.
Survial is the metric, not perfection. Your ideas read like a strange cross between creationism and Darwinism.
There's not any realistic budgeting scenario where it's even remotely cheaper, all capital costs included, to get your water from the moon in the remotely near future than to just launch it from the earth on existing rockets. But, if your goal is to advance the tech of reusable rockets, space mining, in-situ propellant production, etc, then by all means go ahead. Just don't pretend like you're doing it as a "cost saving measure" for a Mars mission.
This! Ive been accused of naysaying regarding the Spacex landings on a barge.
I think it is a similar issue. If teh main purpose is to do barge landing, and enough resources are applied, yep, it's possible.
Likewise, setting up a moonbase to mine water to produce fuel is probably a 50+ year project in and of itself, and no assured success. It's an entire program, and back of the envelope math tells me that it will treble or quadruple the costs.
It would be cool, but is the most expensive option of the two.
Sharks are perfect predators and are not in danger of going extinct. They have been around for 450 Million years.
This reminds me of anti GMO freaks, anti vaxxers and global warming deniers.
Probably is, one of those short sighted people who believe that early humans were perfect, and all we've done since is mess ourselves up.
A New Yorker cartoon says it best. http://www.damnedheretics.com/...
Two cavemen sitting across from each other, and one says : "Something's just not right - our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free-range, and yet nobody lives past 30."
Perfection is more guaranteed extinction than any flaw could be.
Your reply is nice, but I'm trying hard to parse it, because it doesn't make sense to me.
So what you are saying is that if we tweak the calcium phosphate in humans to be a little more durable, humanity will go extinct?
So tell me, let's say you have a genetic flaw like Huntingdon's You fear that gentic manipulation to avoid all of the fun you'll be going through as it kills you is bad? If not, what sort of genetic modification do you have in mind that will force extinction on humans?
I assume this means enough for More than one or two missions, or is NASA still in Apollo -do it and ditch it - mode?
>Wow - that escalated quickly. I'd like bones that would resist osteoarthritis, and tendons/ligaments that would be stronger, ad you're going on a planet of the Apes scenario.
Eat properly and move your body more than scratching your ass.
Actually, I've had a long life of extreme amounts of activity. I wore myself out doing all the "Right things". I'd still be doing them if I could.
May you live to be 120 years old, and enjoy my bodilty pain every day of your life.