It's shocking to me because it seems like every DC politician has forgotten that voters even exist, except to occasionally mock them. A candidate that actually campaigns? That doesn't act like she entitled to the office? It's a refreshing change, to be sure.
Trump could have been defeated by any credible Dem candidate. One who would actually campaign. One who would give speeches to non-donors. One who would have town halls (not packed with pre-vetted supporters) and accept criticism. One who seemed the least bit interested in the concerns of the common voter. But the Dem political machine chose... poorly.
Yes. I believe the Constitution is a work of great wisdom. The more we've subverted it in recent decades, the more our standard of living has stopped improving.
Trump won because Hillary was the most corrupt politician since the robber barons. That's where the fault lies. Pick a better candidate next time - one whose deep corruption isn't so well known!
Do you believe that the people in actual power in the US want actual democracy? Do you think their pet senators see these vulnerabilities as a bug, or as a feature?
Typical: Someone in power shows signs of getting it and the response is to shit all over them. Nice job.
She's the one with the history, sorry bub. Like I said, though, better her than no-one.
It's a smart move for her if she' s running in 2020. I actually find it shocking to see a candidate make an "appeal to the grass roots" move like this. It's the only way to beat Trump.
They don't call her "Shitting Bull" for nothing. Still, it's great that someone in DC is championing right to repair, even if it has to be Fauxcahontas. Better Liawatha than no one.
"Space" is the existing term of art in the military, as is (sadly) "cyber". The US military thinks of combat as happening in 5 domains: air, land, sea, space, and cyber.
One good reason to have a different name is to do away with the space-based-arms-race-provoking nature of "Space Force,"
The point of the military is to present strength, and thus to deter attack. Anyway, too late, Russia already has a "space force", we're just playing catchup in the space-based-arms-race.
If any country feels that they absolutely must have a space-based weapons program despite all the good reasons not to
We already have plenty of space-based military equipment. I'm sure the US and Russia both have some weapons in orbit, but that's not really the point. The "space domain" is mostly about intelligence and communication. It's not obviously a useful place for weaponry, other than for ballistic missile defense.
But if space based weapons better enable our military to kill the enemy, then they get space based weapons too. The ability to kill the enemy is, after all, the point of a military, whether used to deter, to conquer, to influence trade negotiations, or for whatever other "extension of politics" might be needed.
The budget for the SLS has been huge, many billions. Plenty there to fund an upper stage design. Five years is a bit "optimistic", but of course politicians always set BS deadlines in hopes of it happening while they're in office.
crappy dilapidated buildings and heaving roads at Langley and see if THAT'S enough to build things in a compressed timeline.
SpaceX is building Starship in a field in south Texas, using a water tower company to build the fuselage for their prototypes. I'm betting Starship will see the moon before any NASA project. Funny how little budget you need when your priority is "men in space" instead of "pork in district". Heck, I suspect SpaceX is spending more on the "educational center" they're donating to Boca Chica Village to appease local government than they will on the facilities at their assembly center (namely, a tent and some cargo containers).
Nothing modern is parked in GEO - that's expensive real estate! There's a junkyard orbit above GEO, and sats are required to have reserve fuel to boost them up there at the end of their service life.
For an idea of longevity, the very first satellite ever shot into LEO is still there.
No, Sputnik's orbit decayed and it burned up in about 3 months. Sputnik 2 also burned up (poor Laika!). Explorer 1 stayed up for 12 years, but burned up in 1970.
There was some early sat that's still up there, can't remember which one, but it wasn't one of the first 3. Everything in LEO will eventually decay, though drag falls exponentially with altitude.
There is a bit of garbage in GEO, which is a far more lasting problem, but every modern sat in GEO is required to have enough reserve fuel to boost it into the junkyard orbit above GEO.
No, what they sacrifice is _money._ And the current presidential budget proposal does not match Pence's words.
Bullshit. The problem is NASA has been flushing billions down the toilet on the SLS, a total pork-barrel scam that will never fly. Even the director of NASA wants to end that boondoggle and switch to commercial launch platforms.
The budget is more than enough. It's the corruption by congress that keeps NASA from accomplishing anything in manned space flight. Congress just wants to send pork to their district, not men into orbit or beyond.
No, Hopefully what they will be abandoning is the hugely expensive launcher and capsule that senator Shelby Has been forcing NASA to use as a means of shoveling tens of billions of pork to his constituants. If NASA were able to at last abandon the go-nowhere jobs programs called SLS & Orion â" and if they used an equivalent amount of funding, missions to the moon would indeed be possible.
And just to be clear, the director of NASA said much the same in recent testimony to congress. Of course, he didn't say "the SLS is a shit program you're forcing us to waste money on" he said "it's important we keep our commitments and stay on schedule" in the context of "let's just buy a ride on SpaceX".
Sure, but there are still "email is text only dammit" Slashdotters living in caves and trying to get the hang of fire. While it would have been better if RTF had caught on, that would require people to know HTML and something, rather than just HTML, which was never going to happen.
HTML as the markup language for email is not the devil, is my point.
And, well, you might be surprised. Memcpy, for example, used to be a very elaborate function, handling word alignment, page alignment, and so so for maximum performance. Now in most compiler libraries it's back to the obvious 1 line of code. Why? Because now everywhere the compiler detects that your copying memory around, it generates the full implementation of memcpy, or a slimmer version if it knows alignment boundaries at compile time.
Also, why would object initialization be unexpected?
Thankfully, people realized this, and probably 90% of the email I see now is just text. Maybe with a logo or something,but that's all.
I find it useful to have a standardized markup for email. Indenting something I'm quoting without using a bunch of ">"s is nice. Seeing a picture inline instead of as an attachment is nice. "Mostly text" is ideal.
This is not case of "externalized costs" either. The consumer pays for the electricity if he chooses a less efficient bulb. This is the sort of situation where the market works well.
Some lightbulbs are on whenever I'm home and awake. Those were quickly replaced with LEDs. Some are really just decorative, and seldom on. Energy efficiency isn't important there, but the look of the light is, and LED doesn't always work.
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It's shocking to me because it seems like every DC politician has forgotten that voters even exist, except to occasionally mock them. A candidate that actually campaigns? That doesn't act like she entitled to the office? It's a refreshing change, to be sure.
Trump could have been defeated by any credible Dem candidate. One who would actually campaign. One who would give speeches to non-donors. One who would have town halls (not packed with pre-vetted supporters) and accept criticism. One who seemed the least bit interested in the concerns of the common voter. But the Dem political machine chose ... poorly.
People will believe anything to denigrate the US, I guess.
Yes. I believe the Constitution is a work of great wisdom. The more we've subverted it in recent decades, the more our standard of living has stopped improving.
Trump won because Hillary was the most corrupt politician since the robber barons. That's where the fault lies. Pick a better candidate next time - one whose deep corruption isn't so well known!
Do you believe that the people in actual power in the US want actual democracy? Do you think their pet senators see these vulnerabilities as a bug, or as a feature?
Typical: Someone in power shows signs of getting it and the response is to shit all over them. Nice job.
She's the one with the history, sorry bub. Like I said, though, better her than no-one.
It's a smart move for her if she' s running in 2020. I actually find it shocking to see a candidate make an "appeal to the grass roots" move like this. It's the only way to beat Trump.
They don't call her "Shitting Bull" for nothing. Still, it's great that someone in DC is championing right to repair, even if it has to be Fauxcahontas. Better Liawatha than no one.
Fourth satellite, but yes. "But the fourth one stayed up!"
"Space" is the existing term of art in the military, as is (sadly) "cyber". The US military thinks of combat as happening in 5 domains: air, land, sea, space, and cyber.
One good reason to have a different name is to do away with the space-based-arms-race-provoking nature of "Space Force,"
The point of the military is to present strength, and thus to deter attack. Anyway, too late, Russia already has a "space force", we're just playing catchup in the space-based-arms-race.
If any country feels that they absolutely must have a space-based weapons program despite all the good reasons not to
We already have plenty of space-based military equipment. I'm sure the US and Russia both have some weapons in orbit, but that's not really the point. The "space domain" is mostly about intelligence and communication. It's not obviously a useful place for weaponry, other than for ballistic missile defense.
But if space based weapons better enable our military to kill the enemy, then they get space based weapons too. The ability to kill the enemy is, after all, the point of a military, whether used to deter, to conquer, to influence trade negotiations, or for whatever other "extension of politics" might be needed.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
The budget for the SLS has been huge, many billions. Plenty there to fund an upper stage design. Five years is a bit "optimistic", but of course politicians always set BS deadlines in hopes of it happening while they're in office.
crappy dilapidated buildings and heaving roads at Langley and see if THAT'S enough to build things in a compressed timeline.
SpaceX is building Starship in a field in south Texas, using a water tower company to build the fuselage for their prototypes. I'm betting Starship will see the moon before any NASA project. Funny how little budget you need when your priority is "men in space" instead of "pork in district". Heck, I suspect SpaceX is spending more on the "educational center" they're donating to Boca Chica Village to appease local government than they will on the facilities at their assembly center (namely, a tent and some cargo containers).
Nothing modern is parked in GEO - that's expensive real estate! There's a junkyard orbit above GEO, and sats are required to have reserve fuel to boost them up there at the end of their service life.
Why a different name? Air Force; Space Force. Sounds better than Space Corps or Space Guard.
For an idea of longevity, the very first satellite ever shot into LEO is still there.
No, Sputnik's orbit decayed and it burned up in about 3 months. Sputnik 2 also burned up (poor Laika!). Explorer 1 stayed up for 12 years, but burned up in 1970.
There was some early sat that's still up there, can't remember which one, but it wasn't one of the first 3. Everything in LEO will eventually decay, though drag falls exponentially with altitude.
There is a bit of garbage in GEO, which is a far more lasting problem, but every modern sat in GEO is required to have enough reserve fuel to boost it into the junkyard orbit above GEO.
No, what they sacrifice is _money._ And the current presidential budget proposal does not match Pence's words.
Bullshit. The problem is NASA has been flushing billions down the toilet on the SLS, a total pork-barrel scam that will never fly. Even the director of NASA wants to end that boondoggle and switch to commercial launch platforms.
The budget is more than enough. It's the corruption by congress that keeps NASA from accomplishing anything in manned space flight. Congress just wants to send pork to their district, not men into orbit or beyond.
No, Hopefully what they will be abandoning is the hugely expensive launcher and capsule that senator Shelby Has been forcing NASA to use as a means of shoveling tens of billions of pork to his constituants. If NASA were able to at last abandon the go-nowhere jobs programs called SLS & Orion â" and if they used an equivalent amount of funding, missions to the moon would indeed be possible.
And just to be clear, the director of NASA said much the same in recent testimony to congress. Of course, he didn't say "the SLS is a shit program you're forcing us to waste money on" he said "it's important we keep our commitments and stay on schedule" in the context of "let's just buy a ride on SpaceX".
Sure, but there are still "email is text only dammit" Slashdotters living in caves and trying to get the hang of fire. While it would have been better if RTF had caught on, that would require people to know HTML and something, rather than just HTML, which was never going to happen.
HTML as the markup language for email is not the devil, is my point.
Except macros.
And, well, you might be surprised. Memcpy, for example, used to be a very elaborate function, handling word alignment, page alignment, and so so for maximum performance. Now in most compiler libraries it's back to the obvious 1 line of code. Why? Because now everywhere the compiler detects that your copying memory around, it generates the full implementation of memcpy, or a slimmer version if it knows alignment boundaries at compile time.
Also, why would object initialization be unexpected?
Thankfully, people realized this, and probably 90% of the email I see now is just text. Maybe with a logo or something,but that's all.
I find it useful to have a standardized markup for email. Indenting something I'm quoting without using a bunch of ">"s is nice. Seeing a picture inline instead of as an attachment is nice. "Mostly text" is ideal.
This is not case of "externalized costs" either. The consumer pays for the electricity if he chooses a less efficient bulb. This is the sort of situation where the market works well.
Some lightbulbs are on whenever I'm home and awake. Those were quickly replaced with LEDs. Some are really just decorative, and seldom on. Energy efficiency isn't important there, but the look of the light is, and LED doesn't always work.
Which is fine, let's just stops changing it every few months when we're just getting used to the new number again!
Or maybe you just can't see past your own bigotry.
Why? In a couple of months it will seem normal that that's what the clock reads when you wake up. It's just a number.