What do you think will happen, really ? We'll all live the Star Trek utopia ? Earth has been our cradle, it will be out coffin. Everything which happen in-between is irrelevant.
greatest achievements of humankind ? are you kidding me ? We have been (40 years ago) sending a few men of the moon, but haven't fixed any of mankind's problem here on earth. The moon landing was a political race to show the Russians that Americans had the biggest.
It might has well had been solved by having Khrushchev and Nixon in a contest about who was pissing the further away...
But democracy doesn't scale. It might works for a city the size of ancient Athens (ie. about 60k citizens), but it is deemed to fails for a a 300 millions inhabitants country.
And who decide about "general improvements to society" ? Who decide about resource affectation ? Most of the time, it's unelected officials. There was a poll in BC about increasing tax to fund for public transportation but it failed, because the current sentiment that the current [monopolistic] company handling public transportation sucks. That's the problem with publicly funded project, most of the time, they have a very low value efficiency.
To the contrary, I do believe that communism is, ethically wise, the most perfect system, however, when accounting for human nature, capitalism is the less worst. I'd love to live in a free energy infinite resource star-trek utopia, where nobody has to work. However, even such system is imperfect, as certain things humans need are not quantifiable by materialism, and it's certainly far from a free (as in "libre") world.
Democracy might not evolve to socialism, but it would require people to be informed and well-educated. Socialism is merely driven by emotion, which is unfortunately where most democracy tends to go to, which is what fuel Democrats.
There isn't much technical limits to remotely fly a C-130. But to answer your question, some existing drones have a 3T payload (see http://www.kaman.com/aerospace...).
For the sake of it, if you can fly a Predator on the other side of the earth to send HellFire missile to kill people, how hard can it be to have a few remote operated drone to put fire out ?
But I guess people prefer to have their taxes go to war machine to kill other people of a different culture, rather than real public safety machines which would make a change...
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What do you think will happen, really ? We'll all live the Star Trek utopia ? Earth has been our cradle, it will be out coffin. Everything which happen in-between is irrelevant.
Wait, that's gonna be for the third target increase.
Through reinforcement of US nationalism / patriotism.
greatest achievements of humankind ? are you kidding me ? We have been (40 years ago) sending a few men of the moon, but haven't fixed any of mankind's problem here on earth. The moon landing was a political race to show the Russians that Americans had the biggest.
It might has well had been solved by having Khrushchev and Nixon in a contest about who was pissing the further away...
Now, it became $851.5, and yes, they can afford it.
Citizen of Earth ? Where's that paperwork with would allow me to travel and work anywhere I want ?
Manufacturing a safe full-auto is harder than you think...
If you are offended by p0rn, don't look at it.
Calling out-of-state christian bakery to frame them is not what I call "live and let live".
On the same idea, what's the truck factor of AWS ?
We just had a pride celebration after the Supreme Court decision, and an annual pride parade before that, ...
Sounds like a bad place to have any kind of old-school religious faith.
However, KKK do have a right to free speech. http://www.acluohio.org/assets...
No, they crashed because they borrowed to buy seconds hands and newly manufactured military equipment to the west.
That's a problem of regulatory capture of the copyright regulations by the entertainment industry.
But democracy doesn't scale. It might works for a city the size of ancient Athens (ie. about 60k citizens), but it is deemed to fails for a a 300 millions inhabitants country.
And who decide about "general improvements to society" ? Who decide about resource affectation ? Most of the time, it's unelected officials. There was a poll in BC about increasing tax to fund for public transportation but it failed, because the current sentiment that the current [monopolistic] company handling public transportation sucks. That's the problem with publicly funded project, most of the time, they have a very low value efficiency.
To the contrary, I do believe that communism is, ethically wise, the most perfect system, however, when accounting for human nature, capitalism is the less worst. I'd love to live in a free energy infinite resource star-trek utopia, where nobody has to work. However, even such system is imperfect, as certain things humans need are not quantifiable by materialism, and it's certainly far from a free (as in "libre") world.
Democracy might not evolve to socialism, but it would require people to be informed and well-educated. Socialism is merely driven by emotion, which is unfortunately where most democracy tends to go to, which is what fuel Democrats.
Versus the leftist ideal of allowing the most incompetent but most popular at controlling by force others.
FTFY
Given the awfully broad "rape" law in Sweden, I don't mind.
They don't. [born & raised frog here]
Do you have a source about this whole blob stuff ?
There isn't much technical limits to remotely fly a C-130. But to answer your question, some existing drones have a 3T payload (see http://www.kaman.com/aerospace...).
For the sake of it, if you can fly a Predator on the other side of the earth to send HellFire missile to kill people, how hard can it be to have a few remote operated drone to put fire out ?
Oh, wait, it already exist... http://www.kaman.com/aerospace...
But I guess people prefer to have their taxes go to war machine to kill other people of a different culture, rather than real public safety machines which would make a change...
Then don't fly manned choppers, fly fire-extinguishing drones.