Nonsense. We can reduce the reelection rates in congress every two years.
I'll put this in the good-luck-with-that dept. Even though congress has approval rating that extremely low (I'd say with ratings like this congress and govt are becoming unsustainable), just about everyone is re-elected (go figure).
The hard sciences, math, writing and music classes did more for me.
I'm thinking the same. It seems the best computer people have excellent reading/writing/math/organizing/managing/whatever skills. In fact the best of these start companies or create new things rest of the masses follow. It bugs me to read all these Silicon Valley types push coding as if it is the most important where these same people became successful because they had the "hard stuff" skills. And I suspect many started coding when they were working on on their startups.
won't be able to use their phones for a few minutes/hours.
perhaps this means they can experience the moment of a total eclipse. See how all of sudden it gets very dark, feel temperature of air cool down, see this distinct bright thing in the sky (use proper viewing goggles), notice a band of brightness along the horizon. Put away the stupid phone and seize the moment. Next time it happens in America, you will be worm food.
I mean we need a new space alien look instead of the same retread from 20th century big eyes, small mouth, big head with slender body. We need diversity instead of same little green men. Also why are all space aliens naked? It seems anyone that travels interstellar distances at superluminal speeds would want a flight suit with cool patches.
The last thing NASA would possibly want to do is hide the existence of ETs from us.
I read someplace that designing a spacecraft with goal to determine if there is life at [insert planet/moon here], then problem would be if none found then no follow up mission. i.e. Project Viking in 1970s goal was to find life on Mars. It found none and we never went back until 20 years later. Nowadays it is endless Mars mission but it seems nobody wants to have detecting life as a requirement (if none found, end of funding for future missions). But then there's more to detecting life than just a yes/no answer besides looking for plants or animals. Of course finding a fossil on Mars would be interesting (forget sending humans to Mars, it will never happen). Or more exciting is video of the little fishes in oceans of Europa (speculation at this point but fun to think about).
hey, that would be Westerns Plot #1 by Frank Gruber: "1. THE UNION PACIFIC STORY. Into this classification fall all stories that have to do with the construction of a railroad, telegraph, or stage-coach line. Stories of wagon trains crossing the plains and mountains, accounts of building toll roads, also come into this grouping."
maybe I'm too lazy to watch any new stuff, some of it I just don't get (maybe I'm too old). It seems to me when Roddenberry came up with his ST idea, it was new stuff. Space travel was new, having a command staff where not everyone is a white guy whose native language is english was new.
Previous decades the big thing for TV and movies was westerns. Someone wrote in 1957 TV Guide there are only seven plots to a western. I wonder for space stuff, how many plots?
it's land, man, land. Ain't gonna get anything right unless there is more land. Inherent problem is limited amounts of land unless govt sells Moffett Field, gets rid of the runways which will provide lots of land for new housing, oh wait maybe want to review this https://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sf...
Someone buys a house in Silicon Valley, they completely remodel with new landscape (the land is the expensive part). You can see in comparison of original owner from 1970s still in same house, lawn is crummy, chipped paint, roof in need of repair, old cars in driveway as garage filled with useless junk.
I see your score is a "0" which I figured you don't get it, but then reading rest of your post is insightful (cmon you guys, give rsilvergun some points). i.e. "I'm still seeing people blame rising minimum wage on the death of the American class." as reminds me your 2016 comment of "There is no left" (Austerity are practically gospel in American media.)
Cars and culture are not like as in 20th century, "American Graffiti" is as distant as the Roaring 20s. Back then a teenager can get a junker for $100. Maybe not good enough for 3 to 4 hour commutes (nobody did that back then) but great for dating at the Drive-In (ask an old-timer what those are).
I'm old enough to remember when as a teenager "I gotta get a car" and driving endless miles was action and adventure. These days I just want something reliable to get me from point A to B. I hate ***all*** car commercials because they all portray driving their latest model is as much excitement as flying a F16.
I think all young people want a car but for many it is too expensive an option so they do something else. For me I'd love to have an airplane but it is too expensive so I will do something else.
Although we've never been in a shooting war with Russia/USSR (exception of early skirmish of US troops on Russian soil in parts of WWI, dogfights with Mig15s and F86s, shootdown of recon planes in 1950s plus U2 in 1960) I wonder as they say tensions are increasing even though Trump and his cronies are buddy buddies with Putin and his cronies. We scream about hacks and cyberwar, can we say things will get serious if Trump pulls ABM missiles and F22s out of Poland?
Still no hacking of voting machines, still no manipulation of vote counts. In other words, still no 'hacking the election'.
Don't need to hack the machines, actually Clinton's campaign was on self-destruct and Trump would have won without help from the Russians. And to think Bernie could have won by a landslide... There is also various barriers preventing people from voting i.e. Voter ID laws, no option for mail-in ballot, sparse polling places in certain districts. Sorry there's no evidence of huge voter fraud. But then much of the problem is simply getting people to vote!
Yes, Russians, USSR, other countries all do some kind of manipulation with US elections either propaganda (the good ones are those that don't look like propaganda) or leaking certain emails and letters. But hey the US does the same to other countries (it sucks when they do it to us). Reminds me the old joke when we want to learn of another country's activities, we employ intelligence agents. When another country does the same to us, we accuse them of using spies.
It is what being a country is all about. You have govt officials, military, roads dept, water dept, garbage depts, schools, currency, diplomats, spies, etc.
If I didn't post earlier I'd mod you up. We do have flying cars but they are called roadable airplanes, not many as that is a small niche market. We don't have any fusion reactors except those that make a huge boom. I don't know what people will do there, many constantly working on life support equipment. I see no land rush to the Gobi Desert even though it is a 10000 times easier to settle there. We just romanticize about Mars because it is so far away.
His Interplanetary (Mars) Colonial Transport is so much more economical than the other proposed alternatives
maybe. The real question is what will people do when they are there? I believe it was Buzz that asked Elon that question, Elon replied something "I'll have to think of that." In summary, Musk is a transportation guy not a settlement guy.
if you had asked me 10 years ago if he could get a 10 story booster to fly back to its launch pad and land...
Yes, great accomplishments. Not sure of cost savings of flyback boosters, probably biggest accomplishments is the option and experience (I think some time in the future a flyback booster will have other markets. Analogy is the Avrocar was a flop but it paved the way for hovercraft). Going to Mars is a much greater order of magnitude. First show me routine trips to the Moon (it is only three days away where Mars is always 20 years away). Right now it is still tough to get to LEO (and everyone does it at govt expense).
Whenever I read these articles it gets me thinking about when water wells are poisoned. Even after they are cleaned up there is always suspicion about how safe is it to drink the water. Even a rumor casts doubts, it then becomes nobody uses it unless other options have been exhausted (i.e. you will die in a matter of hours unless you drink this water now).
Besides issues of Net Neutrality, what about telecommunications and broadcasters? If they don't follow FCC regs, will there be consequences? What about companies that sell radios? Is there someone competent they meet Part 90, 95, 15 (and other applicable Parts)? All these items from cellphone jammers to wireless video transmitters that operate in same freq band as aircraft transponders, are we confident FCC will properly deal with these mischief makers?
Hanford. I remember friend and I drove to the road adjacent to this property to view the total eclipse in 1979 (wide open flat area). Looks like have to find another location to view total eclipse this August.
I'm thinking winged space vehicles have some advantages like returning high value items to an air force base with a hard surface so it can easily be towed to a building. No need to call the Navy to fetch out of water or drag item out of a dusty desert. Or do a high risk mid-air retrieval like in the early days of film return recon sats. However, scaling up to Shuttle size increases costs way beyond anyone wants to pay for it.
same reason the first group that arrives to a Shuttle orbiter after wheels stop. Decontamination suits protects them from any leaky hydrazine or nitrogen tetroxide fumes from reaction control jets. One whiff of those gases and you are dead. Notice these guys in decontamination suits carry a sniffer detector.
Not really automation but in 1970s I remember a news story of a paralegal got into trouble for practicing law without the degree and passing the Bar. She started a small business that does mundane legal services, very basic stuff (things like name changes, basic agreed divorce settlements) that is simply filling in forms and submitting to courts. She claimed these tasks where just one party is filing something or both parties agree to really minor stuff, she did a lot of tasks like this at a lawyer's office, the lawyer never signs anything or does any work but charges huge fees. So she started this business as these tasks are fast and easy (for her, someone outside the legal profession will not have a clue where to begin). Story went on that lawyers jumped on this business, "Oh no, not so fast. You gotta pass the Bar." (hmmm, if you pass the Bar with no degree, can you still practice law?).
Fast forward to 17% into the 21st century, here we are.
Because we live in the Land of the Free...free to gorge yourself on Chick-fil-A and Burger King, that is. And with the fast food industry essentially using an addiction model to sell their poison, is it any surprise that kids (and their parents) would choose to eat a high-fat, high-salt, high-sugar diet?
Exactly. Do these people actually have a free choice? Can they afford a healthy choice? Also most Americans are at the mercy of powerful sales and marketing forces, someone with a basic education is no match against highly educated in advertisement and persuasive skills. Reminds me of municipalities banning sales of 20oz sodas (they make people fat) but those ordinances get shot down with the battle cry, "I have my freedom to buy a big gulp anytime I please!" Did you really have that freedom or was it a well timed sales pitch?
I wonder if this can scale up in quantities that are not so expensive, can data be sufficiently organized to allow early warnings and no false positives? As Jason Levine points out in previous comment wearing this bra once a week to warn early on of possible cancer (earlier detection, better treatment options), his wife would be overjoyed. As compared to once a year or so of enduring being squashed between two plates.
Other day on PBS a panel discussion or the Newshour with presenters talking about political situations, one said something like "Nobody is addressing the 800 lbs gorilla that is automation which is expected to reduce large numbers of jobs in retail, insurance, groceries, etc. in the next 10 to 20 years."
Which technological changes, people and the politicians they elect tend to react to the results of those changes rather than dealing with implementation. Also much of the wealth in SF bay area is difficult to tax, so go after easy stuff like sales tax and gas tax. I'm not sure how you would tax a robot, first have to define a robot (Roombas, traffic lights, urinals?), is the robot doing revenue producing work or some thing else not financially related?
I think if you substitute Porsche for Mac, PC, BeanieBabies, whatever... only conclusion are like celebrities for their fans which is emotional (i.e. I'm a Connie Francis fan but lots of luck for me trying to provide an objective explanation). I have both Mac and PC, one works good for some things, the other for other things. It can also be someone is quite familiar with all the esoteric commands and structure. Kind of like some ham radio people only go with one brand (Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood, whatever) because they are already use to the menu structure.
I would like people like you to stop calling people "denialists".. They are not in denial, they just state that there is not enough evidence to prove it...
but these denialists want to shutdown the means to gather data, i.e. earth climate satellites.
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Nonsense. We can reduce the reelection rates in congress every two years.
I'll put this in the good-luck-with-that dept. Even though congress has approval rating that extremely low (I'd say with ratings like this congress and govt are becoming unsustainable), just about everyone is re-elected (go figure).
The hard sciences, math, writing and music classes did more for me.
I'm thinking the same. It seems the best computer people have excellent reading/writing/math/organizing/managing/whatever skills. In fact the best of these start companies or create new things rest of the masses follow. It bugs me to read all these Silicon Valley types push coding as if it is the most important where these same people became successful because they had the "hard stuff" skills. And I suspect many started coding when they were working on on their startups.
won't be able to use their phones for a few minutes/hours.
perhaps this means they can experience the moment of a total eclipse. See how all of sudden it gets very dark, feel temperature of air cool down, see this distinct bright thing in the sky (use proper viewing goggles), notice a band of brightness along the horizon. Put away the stupid phone and seize the moment. Next time it happens in America, you will be worm food.
I mean we need a new space alien look instead of the same retread from 20th century big eyes, small mouth, big head with slender body. We need diversity instead of same little green men. Also why are all space aliens naked? It seems anyone that travels interstellar distances at superluminal speeds would want a flight suit with cool patches.
The last thing NASA would possibly want to do is hide the existence of ETs from us.
I read someplace that designing a spacecraft with goal to determine if there is life at [insert planet/moon here], then problem would be if none found then no follow up mission. i.e. Project Viking in 1970s goal was to find life on Mars. It found none and we never went back until 20 years later. Nowadays it is endless Mars mission but it seems nobody wants to have detecting life as a requirement (if none found, end of funding for future missions). But then there's more to detecting life than just a yes/no answer besides looking for plants or animals. Of course finding a fossil on Mars would be interesting (forget sending humans to Mars, it will never happen). Or more exciting is video of the little fishes in oceans of Europa (speculation at this point but fun to think about).
hey, that would be Westerns Plot #1 by Frank Gruber: "1. THE UNION PACIFIC STORY. Into this classification fall all stories that have to do with the construction of a railroad, telegraph, or stage-coach line. Stories of wagon trains crossing the plains and mountains, accounts of building toll roads, also come into this grouping."
yet new ground continues to be broken.
maybe I'm too lazy to watch any new stuff, some of it I just don't get (maybe I'm too old). It seems to me when Roddenberry came up with his ST idea, it was new stuff. Space travel was new, having a command staff where not everyone is a white guy whose native language is english was new.
Previous decades the big thing for TV and movies was westerns. Someone wrote in 1957 TV Guide there are only seven plots to a western. I wonder for space stuff, how many plots?
it's land, man, land. Ain't gonna get anything right unless there is more land. Inherent problem is limited amounts of land unless govt sells Moffett Field, gets rid of the runways which will provide lots of land for new housing, oh wait maybe want to review this https://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sf...
Someone buys a house in Silicon Valley, they completely remodel with new landscape (the land is the expensive part). You can see in comparison of original owner from 1970s still in same house, lawn is crummy, chipped paint, roof in need of repair, old cars in driveway as garage filled with useless junk.
except cry when they take my PC away
I see your score is a "0" which I figured you don't get it, but then reading rest of your post is insightful (cmon you guys, give rsilvergun some points). i.e. "I'm still seeing people blame rising minimum wage on the death of the American class." as reminds me your 2016 comment of "There is no left" (Austerity are practically gospel in American media.)
Cars and culture are not like as in 20th century, "American Graffiti" is as distant as the Roaring 20s. Back then a teenager can get a junker for $100. Maybe not good enough for 3 to 4 hour commutes (nobody did that back then) but great for dating at the Drive-In (ask an old-timer what those are).
I'm old enough to remember when as a teenager "I gotta get a car" and driving endless miles was action and adventure. These days I just want something reliable to get me from point A to B. I hate ***all*** car commercials because they all portray driving their latest model is as much excitement as flying a F16.
I think all young people want a car but for many it is too expensive an option so they do something else. For me I'd love to have an airplane but it is too expensive so I will do something else.
Although we've never been in a shooting war with Russia/USSR (exception of early skirmish of US troops on Russian soil in parts of WWI, dogfights with Mig15s and F86s, shootdown of recon planes in 1950s plus U2 in 1960) I wonder as they say tensions are increasing even though Trump and his cronies are buddy buddies with Putin and his cronies. We scream about hacks and cyberwar, can we say things will get serious if Trump pulls ABM missiles and F22s out of Poland?
you get marginalized and bombarded with talking points.
Excellent post especially all the trolls that responded to you.
Still no hacking of voting machines, still no manipulation of vote counts. In other words, still no 'hacking the election'.
Don't need to hack the machines, actually Clinton's campaign was on self-destruct and Trump would have won without help from the Russians. And to think Bernie could have won by a landslide... There is also various barriers preventing people from voting i.e. Voter ID laws, no option for mail-in ballot, sparse polling places in certain districts. Sorry there's no evidence of huge voter fraud. But then much of the problem is simply getting people to vote!
Yes, Russians, USSR, other countries all do some kind of manipulation with US elections either propaganda (the good ones are those that don't look like propaganda) or leaking certain emails and letters. But hey the US does the same to other countries (it sucks when they do it to us). Reminds me the old joke when we want to learn of another country's activities, we employ intelligence agents. When another country does the same to us, we accuse them of using spies.
It is what being a country is all about. You have govt officials, military, roads dept, water dept, garbage depts, schools, currency, diplomats, spies, etc.
If I didn't post earlier I'd mod you up. We do have flying cars but they are called roadable airplanes, not many as that is a small niche market. We don't have any fusion reactors except those that make a huge boom. I don't know what people will do there, many constantly working on life support equipment. I see no land rush to the Gobi Desert even though it is a 10000 times easier to settle there. We just romanticize about Mars because it is so far away.
His Interplanetary (Mars) Colonial Transport is so much more economical than the other proposed alternatives
maybe. The real question is what will people do when they are there? I believe it was Buzz that asked Elon that question, Elon replied something "I'll have to think of that." In summary, Musk is a transportation guy not a settlement guy.
if you had asked me 10 years ago if he could get a 10 story booster to fly back to its launch pad and land...
Yes, great accomplishments. Not sure of cost savings of flyback boosters, probably biggest accomplishments is the option and experience (I think some time in the future a flyback booster will have other markets. Analogy is the Avrocar was a flop but it paved the way for hovercraft). Going to Mars is a much greater order of magnitude. First show me routine trips to the Moon (it is only three days away where Mars is always 20 years away). Right now it is still tough to get to LEO (and everyone does it at govt expense).
Whenever I read these articles it gets me thinking about when water wells are poisoned. Even after they are cleaned up there is always suspicion about how safe is it to drink the water. Even a rumor casts doubts, it then becomes nobody uses it unless other options have been exhausted (i.e. you will die in a matter of hours unless you drink this water now).
Besides issues of Net Neutrality, what about telecommunications and broadcasters? If they don't follow FCC regs, will there be consequences? What about companies that sell radios? Is there someone competent they meet Part 90, 95, 15 (and other applicable Parts)? All these items from cellphone jammers to wireless video transmitters that operate in same freq band as aircraft transponders, are we confident FCC will properly deal with these mischief makers?
Hanford. I remember friend and I drove to the road adjacent to this property to view the total eclipse in 1979 (wide open flat area). Looks like have to find another location to view total eclipse this August.
I'm thinking winged space vehicles have some advantages like returning high value items to an air force base with a hard surface so it can easily be towed to a building. No need to call the Navy to fetch out of water or drag item out of a dusty desert. Or do a high risk mid-air retrieval like in the early days of film return recon sats. However, scaling up to Shuttle size increases costs way beyond anyone wants to pay for it.
same reason the first group that arrives to a Shuttle orbiter after wheels stop. Decontamination suits protects them from any leaky hydrazine or nitrogen tetroxide fumes from reaction control jets. One whiff of those gases and you are dead. Notice these guys in decontamination suits carry a sniffer detector.
Not really automation but in 1970s I remember a news story of a paralegal got into trouble for practicing law without the degree and passing the Bar. She started a small business that does mundane legal services, very basic stuff (things like name changes, basic agreed divorce settlements) that is simply filling in forms and submitting to courts. She claimed these tasks where just one party is filing something or both parties agree to really minor stuff, she did a lot of tasks like this at a lawyer's office, the lawyer never signs anything or does any work but charges huge fees. So she started this business as these tasks are fast and easy (for her, someone outside the legal profession will not have a clue where to begin). Story went on that lawyers jumped on this business, "Oh no, not so fast. You gotta pass the Bar." (hmmm, if you pass the Bar with no degree, can you still practice law?).
Fast forward to 17% into the 21st century, here we are.
Because we live in the Land of the Free...free to gorge yourself on Chick-fil-A and Burger King, that is. And with the fast food industry essentially using an addiction model to sell their poison, is it any surprise that kids (and their parents) would choose to eat a high-fat, high-salt, high-sugar diet?
Exactly. Do these people actually have a free choice? Can they afford a healthy choice? Also most Americans are at the mercy of powerful sales and marketing forces, someone with a basic education is no match against highly educated in advertisement and persuasive skills. Reminds me of municipalities banning sales of 20oz sodas (they make people fat) but those ordinances get shot down with the battle cry, "I have my freedom to buy a big gulp anytime I please!" Did you really have that freedom or was it a well timed sales pitch?
I wonder if this can scale up in quantities that are not so expensive, can data be sufficiently organized to allow early warnings and no false positives? As Jason Levine points out in previous comment wearing this bra once a week to warn early on of possible cancer (earlier detection, better treatment options), his wife would be overjoyed. As compared to once a year or so of enduring being squashed between two plates.
Other day on PBS a panel discussion or the Newshour with presenters talking about political situations, one said something like "Nobody is addressing the 800 lbs gorilla that is automation which is expected to reduce large numbers of jobs in retail, insurance, groceries, etc. in the next 10 to 20 years."
Which technological changes, people and the politicians they elect tend to react to the results of those changes rather than dealing with implementation. Also much of the wealth in SF bay area is difficult to tax, so go after easy stuff like sales tax and gas tax. I'm not sure how you would tax a robot, first have to define a robot (Roombas, traffic lights, urinals?), is the robot doing revenue producing work or some thing else not financially related?
I think if you substitute Porsche for Mac, PC, BeanieBabies, whatever... only conclusion are like celebrities for their fans which is emotional (i.e. I'm a Connie Francis fan but lots of luck for me trying to provide an objective explanation). I have both Mac and PC, one works good for some things, the other for other things. It can also be someone is quite familiar with all the esoteric commands and structure. Kind of like some ham radio people only go with one brand (Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood, whatever) because they are already use to the menu structure.
I would like people like you to stop calling people "denialists".. They are not in denial, they just state that there is not enough evidence to prove it...
but these denialists want to shutdown the means to gather data, i.e. earth climate satellites.