I believe Mr. Trump will likely be a train-wreck in foreign policy, offending leaders and countries far and wide, perhaps triggering wars.
So, exactly like the Obama administration then?
One thing to consider: "crazy" is the best deterrence, and deterrence is always better than combat. So Trump has that going for him, while Obama's "show weakness on every issue" hashtag diplomacy only invites attack.
He talks about how much his stuff is worth, such as a golf course, yet his accountants value the same property at 1/10 what he says, thus depriving the community of taxes.
I don't much like Trump, but I like this. Everyone should pay the least taxes they legally can.
In it he openly describes how he deceived and lied to banks to get his loans for the casinos in Atlantic City.
I don't much like Trump, but I like this, mostly because I despise banks in general.
will dissuade those who are pissed a black guy is in office
Ahh, there it is. 7 years of failing economy and disastrous foreign policy, but of course the only reason anyone could dislike Obama is because he's black. Glad you outed yourself as a troll before anyone took you seriously.
IIRC, Bernie's plan was "significantly increase taxes on the middle class", which might actually work, assuming the economy doesn't tank as a result of the taxes. I like his honesty. When politicians say "tax the rich" what they always mean is "increase taxes on the middle class", but people keep falling for that lie.
Your entire argument is flawed: WalMart should give that money to me, not anyone else. I mean, if we're going to start telling companies what to do with their money, any option other than "give it all to lgw" is clearly the wrong option. Stop being so greedy!
I wouldn't be so negative about Uber (it's not like taxi drivers are particularly better drivers), but for airplanes the need is very clear for the different tiers of pilot licenses (there are a bunch).
Flying strangers for money is flying strangers for money. Existing airplane sharing services, while higher-end (e.g., Net Jets) cope with this fine. The higher bar for commercial pilots isn't mere turf-protecting by an entrenched industry.
Not really a coincidence. Islam demands men seek retribution for their honor. It's one thing Muslim men take seriously.
Over-generalization is always a bad idea.;)
Many recent shootings have been clearly tied to this sort of BS, no argument there, but those were accompanied by declarations of faith - the motivation wasn't at all unclear. This one is different (so far, anyway, it's still early days). Not everyone who lists a religion on a form actually cares about the tenets of their religion - heck, I'd bet most don't. I'm suspicious given the recent pattern, but let's go with facts as they emerge over assumption.
Because speech that nobody hears is pretty much useless and twitter and facebook are where the readers are these days
Social media is where the narcissists and hate mobs are. That's different. The realization that that's not a very nice place, and taking your eyeballs elsewhere makes you happier, has been spreading for years.
Over here in the dextrosphere, conservatives have largely dropped Twitter, and are weaning themselves off Facebook. But it's not just a conservative thing, it's a mental health thing.
Ah, so what you're saying is, if it wasn't for human nature we could all share and all be happy? Where have I heard that before. We'll just change human nature so that communism works?
There's nothing really technically or even economically preventing it,
The extended 0-G time and radiation exposure is a real hurdle. I don't see us setting foot within a decade unless those who go are just accepting lifelong disability as a consequence.
Other than that, though, it does seem to be a problem we could solve with a large enough budget. I doubt that budget will materialize, however, unless Gates and Buffet also take an interest in Mars.
The UCLA shooter, Mainak Sarkar, apparently had a list he was working his way down. His ex girlfriend has been found dead, and was on his list. He's a Muslim from India, BTW, though Islam seems to be a coincidence for once.
Of course, it's still early, and more details always come to light in the week following a shooting, but this really looks like a guy settling all his grudges on his way out.
I give 0 fucks about whether we're "embarassing ourselves"; it's all about whether we're happy and successful. Reputation barely figures into that. Sadly, we've had a recent trend of trying to emulate Europe, which has been making us less happy and successful, like Europe.
There are already asteroids at the Earth-Moon Lagrange points, and some others quite nearby. They don't all live together in a belt. And, BTW, fuel in high orbit is basically the worlds most valuable commodity-style product.
But I'm sure your right, the whole idea is Sci-Fi garbage, like self-driving cars and combat robots and supercomputers that fit in your pocket and spaceships that land on their tail.
Oh, automation will need to be essentially all of it. 10 years ago I thought it wouldn't be practical in my lifetime. Now I think it 's coming fast. There are some asteroids quite close by (as space goes), BTW, though Rei (/.'s resident rocket scientist) can give better details on that sort of thing than I can.
Sure, you'd need to get a non-trivial payload of robots and solar panels out to an asteroid, but just enough to bootstrap. You can, after all, burn half the first asteroid to make to power to process the other half. (Realistically, you'd set up some sort of fuel processing where you landed on the asteroid to give you the fuel to move it to where you wanted it.)
Nothing's easy. But easy isn't a requirement. Smelting on Earth isn't easy either, but it's all straightforward these days, other than the power cost.
Getting bootstrapped will be a particular challenge. Once you're churning out aluminum structures, building radiators the size of Hoover Dam is actually practical, but you have to get there from nothing. Fortunately, at the very beginning, you have this handy asteroid made of aluminum to use as a heatsink. Perhaps you'll want a few cubic kilometers of ice as well (but you'll have that long before there's any point in dragging an Al asteroid over).
Not easy, but no harder than inventing the toolchain for heavy industry was the first time around, relative to the technology of the day. We couldn't do it in a few decades, but in a few centuries? Doesn't seem farfetched.
ep, that's the problem. Plus everything has to be hermetically sealed, radiation hard, protected from micro satellites, etc etc. Doing things on Earth is much easier and cheaper than doing things in space.
None of that applies if what you need is thermal power - which is most of heavy industry (something like 1/4 of the US's total power consumption is direct thermal use of burning fuels in heavy industry). Refining aluminum or iron from asteroids made of the stuff? A polished Al reflector 100m square gives you 10MW, 1 km on a side and you've got 1 GW, and you've got basically unlimited Al to work with.
Doing things on Earth is much easier and cheaper than doing things in space.
Today, yes. But we're not talking about today. Think about what you can do with effectively free fuel in high orbit. Lots of heavy industry makes sense in orbit, once the fuel cost to de-orbit the result isn't a concern.
Plus, what about stuff we want to use in space. Colonizing other planets becomes practical if you get multi-kiloton structures for nearly free in orbit, plus the fuel to move them around nearly free, plus the fuel to move a million tons of ice to the surface of Mars, etc.
The only things we should need to lift off the surface are people and computer chips (and similar lightweight, long toolchain stuff, but chips are the big one).
Anything organic? Pretty much no (trace amounts at best). Therefore petroleum, oils, etc. are out of the question.
Entire asteroids made of CHON, some quite nearby. Given the atoms and power, you can make the chains as long as you like. And solar power is quite something in space.
Aluminum is a very useful metal for building stuff out of in space. Again, entire asteroids of the stuff are available, some nearby. The energy to refine the Al is almost free, since a solar furnace works nicely (eventually you have arbitrarily-sized polished aluminum reflectors to work with).
Silicon chips are the longest toolchain known to man, plus just about the highest value-to-mass ratio - no reason to ever do that in orbit. But heavy industry? Makes perfect sense.
Step 1: get launch costs down to 1/4 or so of what they are today. Ongoing, with multiple competitors. SpaceX aims for 10%.
Step 2: drag a CHON asteroid into orbit, and make a fuel station through automated mining. We could start that project today, given the rapid advancement in automation. That brings down the cost of everything above LEO to something practical.
Step 3: drag an aluminum asteroid into orbit. Heavy industry begins. Large reflectors make the power needs trivial (melting aluminum is easy in a solar furnace, when you start with 1300 kW/m^2 free). Aluminum foam panels let you build large structures in orbit with no heavy lifting.
The rest is just toolchain - one step at a time figuring out how to make the next link nearly free in orbit. Not in my lifetime, sure, but in a few hundred years? Fairly straightforward.
The only upgrade from plasma will be OLED. I'm not writing off Samsung entirely yet, as this news may be over-sensationalized, but I'm not automatically choosing them for my next TV as I would have been. I figure 2 years for OLED 4K to come down from showpiece to merely expensive, so there's time to see how this all plays out.
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I believe Mr. Trump will likely be a train-wreck in foreign policy, offending leaders and countries far and wide, perhaps triggering wars.
So, exactly like the Obama administration then?
One thing to consider: "crazy" is the best deterrence, and deterrence is always better than combat. So Trump has that going for him, while Obama's "show weakness on every issue" hashtag diplomacy only invites attack.
He talks about how much his stuff is worth, such as a golf course, yet his accountants value the same property at 1/10 what he says, thus depriving the community of taxes.
I don't much like Trump, but I like this. Everyone should pay the least taxes they legally can.
In it he openly describes how he deceived and lied to banks to get his loans for the casinos in Atlantic City.
I don't much like Trump, but I like this, mostly because I despise banks in general.
will dissuade those who are pissed a black guy is in office
Ahh, there it is. 7 years of failing economy and disastrous foreign policy, but of course the only reason anyone could dislike Obama is because he's black. Glad you outed yourself as a troll before anyone took you seriously.
IIRC, Bernie's plan was "significantly increase taxes on the middle class", which might actually work, assuming the economy doesn't tank as a result of the taxes. I like his honesty. When politicians say "tax the rich" what they always mean is "increase taxes on the middle class", but people keep falling for that lie.
There's no regulation dodging in the Net Jets case - their pilots have the same licensing requirements as any other commercial airline.
You reap what you sew.
You reap what you sow.
You rieve what you sew.
(Rieve once meant "to pull a thread through a hole" - OK, that usage is about 4 centuries out of date, but it's the only joke I have here.)
Your entire argument is flawed: WalMart should give that money to me, not anyone else. I mean, if we're going to start telling companies what to do with their money, any option other than "give it all to lgw" is clearly the wrong option. Stop being so greedy!
I wouldn't be so negative about Uber (it's not like taxi drivers are particularly better drivers), but for airplanes the need is very clear for the different tiers of pilot licenses (there are a bunch).
Flying strangers for money is flying strangers for money. Existing airplane sharing services, while higher-end (e.g., Net Jets) cope with this fine. The higher bar for commercial pilots isn't mere turf-protecting by an entrenched industry.
He self-identifies as Muslim. Stop guessing.
Not really a coincidence. Islam demands men seek retribution for their honor. It's one thing Muslim men take seriously.
Over-generalization is always a bad idea. ;)
Many recent shootings have been clearly tied to this sort of BS, no argument there, but those were accompanied by declarations of faith - the motivation wasn't at all unclear. This one is different (so far, anyway, it's still early days). Not everyone who lists a religion on a form actually cares about the tenets of their religion - heck, I'd bet most don't. I'm suspicious given the recent pattern, but let's go with facts as they emerge over assumption.
Because speech that nobody hears is pretty much useless and twitter and facebook are where the readers are these days
Social media is where the narcissists and hate mobs are. That's different. The realization that that's not a very nice place, and taking your eyeballs elsewhere makes you happier, has been spreading for years.
Over here in the dextrosphere, conservatives have largely dropped Twitter, and are weaning themselves off Facebook. But it's not just a conservative thing, it's a mental health thing.
Ah, so what you're saying is, if it wasn't for human nature we could all share and all be happy? Where have I heard that before. We'll just change human nature so that communism works?
So what you're saying is, you're a different kind of special goofball?
There's nothing really technically or even economically preventing it,
The extended 0-G time and radiation exposure is a real hurdle. I don't see us setting foot within a decade unless those who go are just accepting lifelong disability as a consequence.
Other than that, though, it does seem to be a problem we could solve with a large enough budget. I doubt that budget will materialize, however, unless Gates and Buffet also take an interest in Mars.
The UCLA shooter, Mainak Sarkar, apparently had a list he was working his way down. His ex girlfriend has been found dead, and was on his list. He's a Muslim from India, BTW, though Islam seems to be a coincidence for once.
Of course, it's still early, and more details always come to light in the week following a shooting, but this really looks like a guy settling all his grudges on his way out.
Ugh, people saying "we're not happy and successful, but at least we have this arbitrary thing X that we've decided is important" strike again.
I give 0 fucks about whether we're "embarassing ourselves"; it's all about whether we're happy and successful. Reputation barely figures into that. Sadly, we've had a recent trend of trying to emulate Europe, which has been making us less happy and successful, like Europe.
There are already asteroids at the Earth-Moon Lagrange points, and some others quite nearby. They don't all live together in a belt. And, BTW, fuel in high orbit is basically the worlds most valuable commodity-style product.
But I'm sure your right, the whole idea is Sci-Fi garbage, like self-driving cars and combat robots and supercomputers that fit in your pocket and spaceships that land on their tail.
Oh, automation will need to be essentially all of it. 10 years ago I thought it wouldn't be practical in my lifetime. Now I think it 's coming fast. There are some asteroids quite close by (as space goes), BTW, though Rei (/.'s resident rocket scientist) can give better details on that sort of thing than I can.
Sure, you'd need to get a non-trivial payload of robots and solar panels out to an asteroid, but just enough to bootstrap. You can, after all, burn half the first asteroid to make to power to process the other half. (Realistically, you'd set up some sort of fuel processing where you landed on the asteroid to give you the fuel to move it to where you wanted it.)
You can actually power a car with a windmill (well, very lightweight test equipment) given a brisk headwind. Fun with physics.
Nothing's easy. But easy isn't a requirement. Smelting on Earth isn't easy either, but it's all straightforward these days, other than the power cost.
Getting bootstrapped will be a particular challenge. Once you're churning out aluminum structures, building radiators the size of Hoover Dam is actually practical, but you have to get there from nothing. Fortunately, at the very beginning, you have this handy asteroid made of aluminum to use as a heatsink. Perhaps you'll want a few cubic kilometers of ice as well (but you'll have that long before there's any point in dragging an Al asteroid over).
Not easy, but no harder than inventing the toolchain for heavy industry was the first time around, relative to the technology of the day. We couldn't do it in a few decades, but in a few centuries? Doesn't seem farfetched.
You wouldn't push asteroids into LEO, no. High orbit or one of the Lagrange points. (Home home on Lagrange, where the robots and asteroids roam).
ep, that's the problem. Plus everything has to be hermetically sealed, radiation hard, protected from micro satellites, etc etc. Doing things on Earth is much easier and cheaper than doing things in space.
None of that applies if what you need is thermal power - which is most of heavy industry (something like 1/4 of the US's total power consumption is direct thermal use of burning fuels in heavy industry). Refining aluminum or iron from asteroids made of the stuff? A polished Al reflector 100m square gives you 10MW, 1 km on a side and you've got 1 GW, and you've got basically unlimited Al to work with.
Doing things on Earth is much easier and cheaper than doing things in space.
Today, yes. But we're not talking about today. Think about what you can do with effectively free fuel in high orbit. Lots of heavy industry makes sense in orbit, once the fuel cost to de-orbit the result isn't a concern.
Plus, what about stuff we want to use in space. Colonizing other planets becomes practical if you get multi-kiloton structures for nearly free in orbit, plus the fuel to move them around nearly free, plus the fuel to move a million tons of ice to the surface of Mars, etc.
The only things we should need to lift off the surface are people and computer chips (and similar lightweight, long toolchain stuff, but chips are the big one).
Anything organic? Pretty much no (trace amounts at best).
Therefore petroleum, oils, etc. are out of the question.
Entire asteroids made of CHON, some quite nearby. Given the atoms and power, you can make the chains as long as you like. And solar power is quite something in space.
Aluminum is a very useful metal for building stuff out of in space. Again, entire asteroids of the stuff are available, some nearby. The energy to refine the Al is almost free, since a solar furnace works nicely (eventually you have arbitrarily-sized polished aluminum reflectors to work with).
Silicon chips are the longest toolchain known to man, plus just about the highest value-to-mass ratio - no reason to ever do that in orbit. But heavy industry? Makes perfect sense.
Yup.
Step 1: get launch costs down to 1/4 or so of what they are today. Ongoing, with multiple competitors. SpaceX aims for 10%.
Step 2: drag a CHON asteroid into orbit, and make a fuel station through automated mining. We could start that project today, given the rapid advancement in automation. That brings down the cost of everything above LEO to something practical.
Step 3: drag an aluminum asteroid into orbit. Heavy industry begins. Large reflectors make the power needs trivial (melting aluminum is easy in a solar furnace, when you start with 1300 kW/m^2 free). Aluminum foam panels let you build large structures in orbit with no heavy lifting.
The rest is just toolchain - one step at a time figuring out how to make the next link nearly free in orbit. Not in my lifetime, sure, but in a few hundred years? Fairly straightforward.
The only upgrade from plasma will be OLED. I'm not writing off Samsung entirely yet, as this news may be over-sensationalized, but I'm not automatically choosing them for my next TV as I would have been. I figure 2 years for OLED 4K to come down from showpiece to merely expensive, so there's time to see how this all plays out.