Also a lot of these companies and the people that work for them always chanting "Hoo rah for private enterprise! Down with gubmint socialism!" But yet they have just one customer: The Government.
Actually it was LBJ, however JFK was better at delivering inspirational speeches. Incidently things like space, civil rights were not on JFK's campaign agenda (for LBJ to get his civil rights measures through congress, he made lots of deals with Southern Democrats, i.e. big spending in Huntsville, Alabama which also provided good jobs for blacks*). These matters became things JFK had to deal with when he became president.
However, this go around we ain't going to put a man on Mars (yeah, it's scheduled 20 years from now, it's always been 20 years for the past 50 years). Budgets are being cut (except for military) that involves infrastructure, government workers i.e. NASA people are continually being blasted for being excess baggage. JFK had advantage of huge domestic industrial infrastructure, lots of technical people from German rocket scientists, laid off engineers from Avro Canada, and countless veterans educated by the GI Bill after WWII.
*Richard Paul and Steven Moss talked about their book, We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program, about 10 African Americans who broke the color barrier at NASA. They also spoke about the use of the space program by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to advance social change. https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
I think Americans first need to change their mindset. Unlike developed countries around the world that view trains as transportation systems (called high speed rails), Americans view trains as those clackety-clack things their grandparents rode. And those things that cause gates to come down and block traffic.
be able to tell us what he really thinks. I wonder if 30 years from now he will say, "None of you understood the situation and some of the [insert scenerio here] that I was facing and all the [insert list of dirty laundry here]."
it is send us more money! Regarding asteroid laws, Moon Treaty, etc. first gotta have capability to have Moon travel routinely. Right now it is really hard just to get there, "GAO: NASA Human Space Exploration: Delay Likely for First Exploration Mission" http://spaceref.com/news/views...
Boeing and Lockheed are free to spend their profits as how they see fit, nobody stopping them. Right now they get money from NASA. They can do what Musk and Bezos are doing... though these guys get some money from NASA. It's funny, people want to deregulate and get rid of govt but they just love that govt money.
Pay fair share of taxes and then governments can deal with problems like fixing schools, roads, high speed internet for everyone (I heard in Seattle broadband internet is the pits). But then if give guvmint money it gets squandered due to special interests (driven by people that have money to influence politicians). Contributions to noble causes also reminds me of Richard Branson who contributes to providing good drinking water to places in Africa (almost all the wars there began when water supply goes bad or dry). But then he has armies of accountants and lawyers to stash his money in various places around the world to avoid taxes.
Deregulate all you want, wind and solar are still going to be cheaper.
Unless politicians go the other way and regulate it out of business like some states outlawing municipalities setting up their own internet for the town's residents.
Ah yes, watching that movie few months ago and like "Inner Space" to see what Silicon Valley and SF was like back in the days even hyped by the movies.
But wait, this is not the first airship to be based at Moffett in the 21st century. There was a Zeppelin regular people can buy rides though expensive in order of $500. The "Eureka" was debuted at 75th anniversary of Moffett Field in 2008 and at the time it was the only airship you can buy tickets to ride in (others like Goodyear blimp you have to be a crew member). This startup only lasted a few years. I wished I plunked down some money because this thing would slowly cruise around the bay area and you can walk around and get a good aerial view. Can't do that with airliners as you only get a 30 seconds of view. Or if rich enough for your own airplane or helicopter (but kind of noisy). SETI people rented it for scouting Sierra Nevada foothills for meteoroid remains in 2012. Airship can take its time slowly cruising over the area. Helicopters are short duration, fixed wing too fast. Overall, airships have a niche market but maybe too small to scale up to huge numbers.
I must have been spending too much time on the forums to noticed this Google airship has been around as described in this 2015 article of Hanger 2, http://www.mercurynews.com/201...
The easiest way to see price discrimination is to go to the rich side of town and go to the grocery store. Observe the price of milk, hamburger, cheese and gasoline. Now to to the poor side of town, repeat.
I have not done this (actual data collection and comparison), my casual observations is grocery stores in poorer parts of town have less quality fruits and vegetables (if they carry these). For rich people it is not so much the price of groceries but convenience, though some are I think many probably have better things to do than spend a lot of time haggling over getting the cheapest price.
Perhaps rather than focus on just price, look at quality. Good food leads to better living, this is a big gotcha for poor people as they have limited means to get healthy foods and end up more health problems, further aggravated by dismal health care system.
Buy online or at a brick-n-mortar store? In many ways it comes down to what is possible. Here in Silicon Valley it can be more convenient to stop at a store, find some gadget/part/device in real life to examine and compare to other items. However this has issues of many places have closed down or significantly reduced, or don't seem to stock variety like they used to. Also a big factor is the traffic is a huge time killer. Driving on El Camino, Lawrence Expy, other roads takes a lot of time (I seem to hit ***every*** red light). Man, I don't want to spend so much time in a damn car. So I will order online. But wait, not go for the cheapest item otherwise it will be crap and will then make its way to the landfill.
As gtall implied, yes it will cost tons of money but since this is Gulf of Mexico that is causing coastlines disappear, people will then make Mexico pay for it! And I like that comment of "climate change is a buncha bullshblublublub^C LOST CARRIER"
from the 2-way radio world (both Part 90 and 97), PTT is push-to-talk meaning think about what you are going to say before you hit the PTT button. Don't want, "uhmm, ah, yeah, ok, like we need another bulldozer to help with additional snow if there will be more as to not further exasperate the situation."
OK, now back on this FB typing with your brain article (no I did not read it, first comment like everyone else) I'm thinking I'd never use that function myself because I'm thinking all sorts of stuff (some which I don't want to post on FB or even here under AC).
What do you expect? Like they do in other movies with spacecraft of superluminal speeds and radio comms that propagate faster than lightspeed (with broadcast quality audio) with directed energy weapons but still have to aim like a 18th century cannon, but miss much of the time?
Does anyone look at their W2s? I guess not, maybe many do jobs that don't have W2s. This shows gross salary, money withheld for taxes, money withheld for Social Security, money withheld for Medicare. This clearly shows that SS and Medicare are ***not*** the same as taxes. Taxes are collected and spent, the other is put into separate accounts and you are entitled to get this back when you get old. But damn everyone lumps it all in same bucket. Other mischief is when they borrow money out of SS accounts to make up for deficits because cannot collect enough revenue from taxes.
We need to roll the Federal government back to what it was prior to 1913.
First, have high child mortality rate then no need for so many public schools and have to deal with too many adults entering work force. Second, have people die an early age so Medicare and Social Security programs are moot. Someone gets disabled (lose a leg, arm, or paralyzed as result of unsafe working conditions) then dump them to unknown state hospital with no means of recuperating. Yeah, sounds great until you or a loved one are in one of those categories slated for the chute.
I always find it a classic when the two physicians talking about how Klatu recovered from gunshot wounds quickly, young healthy body for his age, and how backwards he makes modern earth medicine. And then pulls out a cigarette.
Did you also see the movie at Century theatres with the panoramic screen, stereophonic sound, snazzafrazza seats, and poppaphonic popcorn? I'll check out those youtube vids later.
yes, Bruce Dern plays the perfect environmental activist with intensity where you'd think in real life he will actually slug anyone anti-environmental in the mouth. Also this movie has the cute little robots before Star Wars.
What is interesting or frustrating was Kubrick had all sets and props destroyed to prevent a sequel, I think (he may be right as 2010 was not great). What is interesting is HAL9000 singing "Daisy" was based on early IBM researchers doing synthetic voice and had their computer sing this song. Kubrick also consulted with fashion designers to get insight on what people will wear in 2001 (fashion is probably the most difficult to predict). Another breakthrough were the apes (early mankind) which at the time I thought those were trained apes because they were so realistic looking (unlike most films you can tell they were people in gorilla suits). There was Planet of the Apes costume design that was recognized at the Oscars (did they think Kubrick used real apes?), but then that film's costume design was creative because each ape had its own recognizable character (like the actors) and there was hierarchal status (gorilla, orangatan, chimpazee) where some were more equal than others.
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Also a lot of these companies and the people that work for them always chanting "Hoo rah for private enterprise! Down with gubmint socialism!" But yet they have just one customer: The Government.
Actually it was LBJ, however JFK was better at delivering inspirational speeches. Incidently things like space, civil rights were not on JFK's campaign agenda (for LBJ to get his civil rights measures through congress, he made lots of deals with Southern Democrats, i.e. big spending in Huntsville, Alabama which also provided good jobs for blacks*). These matters became things JFK had to deal with when he became president.
However, this go around we ain't going to put a man on Mars (yeah, it's scheduled 20 years from now, it's always been 20 years for the past 50 years). Budgets are being cut (except for military) that involves infrastructure, government workers i.e. NASA people are continually being blasted for being excess baggage. JFK had advantage of huge domestic industrial infrastructure, lots of technical people from German rocket scientists, laid off engineers from Avro Canada, and countless veterans educated by the GI Bill after WWII.
*Richard Paul and Steven Moss talked about their book, We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program, about 10 African Americans who broke the color barrier at NASA. They also spoke about the use of the space program by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to advance social change.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
Sounds like Putin in terms of the Russian space program.
I think Americans first need to change their mindset. Unlike developed countries around the world that view trains as transportation systems (called high speed rails), Americans view trains as those clackety-clack things their grandparents rode. And those things that cause gates to come down and block traffic.
be able to tell us what he really thinks. I wonder if 30 years from now he will say, "None of you understood the situation and some of the [insert scenerio here] that I was facing and all the [insert list of dirty laundry here]."
discussion of that at NASAwatch, http://nasawatch.com/archives/...
it is send us more money! Regarding asteroid laws, Moon Treaty, etc. first gotta have capability to have Moon travel routinely. Right now it is really hard just to get there, "GAO: NASA Human Space Exploration: Delay Likely for First Exploration Mission" http://spaceref.com/news/views...
Perhaps someone should fake a video of Jinping pounding his shoe on a table promoting a long march to the Moon.
Boeing and Lockheed are free to spend their profits as how they see fit, nobody stopping them. Right now they get money from NASA. They can do what Musk and Bezos are doing... though these guys get some money from NASA. It's funny, people want to deregulate and get rid of govt but they just love that govt money.
Pay fair share of taxes and then governments can deal with problems like fixing schools, roads, high speed internet for everyone (I heard in Seattle broadband internet is the pits). But then if give guvmint money it gets squandered due to special interests (driven by people that have money to influence politicians). Contributions to noble causes also reminds me of Richard Branson who contributes to providing good drinking water to places in Africa (almost all the wars there began when water supply goes bad or dry). But then he has armies of accountants and lawyers to stash his money in various places around the world to avoid taxes.
Deregulate all you want, wind and solar are still going to be cheaper.
Unless politicians go the other way and regulate it out of business like some states outlawing municipalities setting up their own internet for the town's residents.
Ah yes, watching that movie few months ago and like "Inner Space" to see what Silicon Valley and SF was like back in the days even hyped by the movies.
But wait, this is not the first airship to be based at Moffett in the 21st century. There was a Zeppelin regular people can buy rides though expensive in order of $500. The "Eureka" was debuted at 75th anniversary of Moffett Field in 2008 and at the time it was the only airship you can buy tickets to ride in (others like Goodyear blimp you have to be a crew member). This startup only lasted a few years. I wished I plunked down some money because this thing would slowly cruise around the bay area and you can walk around and get a good aerial view. Can't do that with airliners as you only get a 30 seconds of view. Or if rich enough for your own airplane or helicopter (but kind of noisy). SETI people rented it for scouting Sierra Nevada foothills for meteoroid remains in 2012. Airship can take its time slowly cruising over the area. Helicopters are short duration, fixed wing too fast. Overall, airships have a niche market but maybe too small to scale up to huge numbers.
I must have been spending too much time on the forums to noticed this Google airship has been around as described in this 2015 article of Hanger 2, http://www.mercurynews.com/201...
most people have no access to farm fields. vast majority live in cities and poor people have limited mobility.
The easiest way to see price discrimination is to go to the rich side of town and go to the grocery store. Observe the price of milk, hamburger, cheese and gasoline. Now to to the poor side of town, repeat.
I have not done this (actual data collection and comparison), my casual observations is grocery stores in poorer parts of town have less quality fruits and vegetables (if they carry these). For rich people it is not so much the price of groceries but convenience, though some are I think many probably have better things to do than spend a lot of time haggling over getting the cheapest price.
Perhaps rather than focus on just price, look at quality. Good food leads to better living, this is a big gotcha for poor people as they have limited means to get healthy foods and end up more health problems, further aggravated by dismal health care system.
Buy online or at a brick-n-mortar store? In many ways it comes down to what is possible. Here in Silicon Valley it can be more convenient to stop at a store, find some gadget/part/device in real life to examine and compare to other items. However this has issues of many places have closed down or significantly reduced, or don't seem to stock variety like they used to. Also a big factor is the traffic is a huge time killer. Driving on El Camino, Lawrence Expy, other roads takes a lot of time (I seem to hit ***every*** red light). Man, I don't want to spend so much time in a damn car. So I will order online. But wait, not go for the cheapest item otherwise it will be crap and will then make its way to the landfill.
Speaking of cheap crap, "Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion" https://www.amazon.com/Overdre...
As gtall implied, yes it will cost tons of money but since this is Gulf of Mexico that is causing coastlines disappear, people will then make Mexico pay for it! And I like that comment of "climate change is a buncha bullshblublublub^C LOST CARRIER"
from the 2-way radio world (both Part 90 and 97), PTT is push-to-talk meaning think about what you are going to say before you hit the PTT button. Don't want, "uhmm, ah, yeah, ok, like we need another bulldozer to help with additional snow if there will be more as to not further exasperate the situation."
OK, now back on this FB typing with your brain article (no I did not read it, first comment like everyone else) I'm thinking I'd never use that function myself because I'm thinking all sorts of stuff (some which I don't want to post on FB or even here under AC).
What do you expect? Like they do in other movies with spacecraft of superluminal speeds and radio comms that propagate faster than lightspeed (with broadcast quality audio) with directed energy weapons but still have to aim like a 18th century cannon, but miss much of the time?
"Lets have some music in here, Boiler" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Does anyone look at their W2s? I guess not, maybe many do jobs that don't have W2s. This shows gross salary, money withheld for taxes, money withheld for Social Security, money withheld for Medicare. This clearly shows that SS and Medicare are ***not*** the same as taxes. Taxes are collected and spent, the other is put into separate accounts and you are entitled to get this back when you get old. But damn everyone lumps it all in same bucket. Other mischief is when they borrow money out of SS accounts to make up for deficits because cannot collect enough revenue from taxes.
We need to roll the Federal government back to what it was prior to 1913.
First, have high child mortality rate then no need for so many public schools and have to deal with too many adults entering work force. Second, have people die an early age so Medicare and Social Security programs are moot. Someone gets disabled (lose a leg, arm, or paralyzed as result of unsafe working conditions) then dump them to unknown state hospital with no means of recuperating. Yeah, sounds great until you or a loved one are in one of those categories slated for the chute.
I always find it a classic when the two physicians talking about how Klatu recovered from gunshot wounds quickly, young healthy body for his age, and how backwards he makes modern earth medicine. And then pulls out a cigarette.
Did you also see the movie at Century theatres with the panoramic screen, stereophonic sound, snazzafrazza seats, and poppaphonic popcorn? I'll check out those youtube vids later.
yes, Bruce Dern plays the perfect environmental activist with intensity where you'd think in real life he will actually slug anyone anti-environmental in the mouth. Also this movie has the cute little robots before Star Wars.
not a fav but I dreamed how great it would be to have all that Textronix test equipment.
What is interesting or frustrating was Kubrick had all sets and props destroyed to prevent a sequel, I think (he may be right as 2010 was not great). What is interesting is HAL9000 singing "Daisy" was based on early IBM researchers doing synthetic voice and had their computer sing this song. Kubrick also consulted with fashion designers to get insight on what people will wear in 2001 (fashion is probably the most difficult to predict). Another breakthrough were the apes (early mankind) which at the time I thought those were trained apes because they were so realistic looking (unlike most films you can tell they were people in gorilla suits). There was Planet of the Apes costume design that was recognized at the Oscars (did they think Kubrick used real apes?), but then that film's costume design was creative because each ape had its own recognizable character (like the actors) and there was hierarchal status (gorilla, orangatan, chimpazee) where some were more equal than others.