Bats have it worse than birds, for some reason that's still not understood. Since bats are one of the most important insect predators, this means more pesticides are needed to protect crops.
Speech recognition would be a great feature if they could put it in phones. You know how it is when you are texting, you have to use both hands and keep your eyes on the phone.
Someone should invent a phone that you can just talk to.
I'm of the mind that a right is something which requires action to deny, but exists without any intervention by others
In that case, the US Constitution is intrinsically wrong. As in "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed". How can I have a right to keep and bear Arms if I don't have an Arm to begin with?
Anyone who lacks $1,000,000 in their bank account will fall behind their more moneyed peers. Is being rich now a right?
No, but being allowed to use money is. Having $1 million in the bank is like having a 10 gbps connection, you are better off than other less fortunate people, but at least you are allowed to play the game.
So if I find an insufficiently secured WiFi access point, the government can't stop my access? I can't be arrest for theft of service?
No, it means if you are willing to use an access point according to a contract with the provider the government cannot stop you. Same as they cannot stop you from reading a book you bought, but they can arrest you if you steal a book.
Remember how it was leaked that u.s. govt. bullied spain govt. to passing such a bill, and how it unanimously got rejected when bullying was leaked.
I believe it was rejected because it's a totally unenforceable law.
How do you control who has access to the internet? Would you require ID for using a cyber cafe? How do you control that, put a police officer everywhere there is a public computer? How do you control WiFi networks? Make it a crime to have a weak password in your wireless router? What about dial-up? Require ID for everyone who makes an international call because there might be a modem at the other end?
These proposals are so fucking stupid that I wonder how come no one raises these points more often.
we might have to face the awful reality of it not bursting (in any reasonable time period)
Other than fucking your privacy in exchange for some petty gossip, facebook delivers no measurable value. It's just light entertainment, an interactive soap opera. There's no reason to believe this bubble won't burst.
If you're after a social network that may bring some monetary rewards, look for linkedin, that's where you go to when you need a job.
You bet it is! Imagine the mess when you need to replace anything. Not to mention finding the fault. The first thing you do is unplug and plug again the cables just to see if it's just a bad contact problem. Now try to do that when everything is in an oil bath.
It all starts when the will to benefit everyone in the long term turns into the will to make short term personal profit at all costs.
That "at all costs" is what makes me distrustful of any government intervention. It seems that people who favor such intervention believe everyone who has any doubt about such intervention is a greedy bastard who wants to kill widows and orphans to fleece them and sell their skins in the OMG!!! PLEASE NO!! FREE MARKET, ARGGHH!!!
See how ridiculous you become when you try to mock free market? Here's some advice: don't overdo it...
I believe we should always try to maximize personal liberty. I see nothing wrong with letting everyone do anything that does not harm others. That includes letting people buy and sell goods and services freely. I don't agree with taxing people to create goods and services that could be provided voluntarily.
There's a long, long, long distance from this point of view to "make short term personal profit at all costs".
Please, try to understand how other people feel before judging them from your own prejudices. Perhaps it's yourself who would like to make short term personal profit at all costs.
And write this down carefully, read it and try to understand it: It's only through GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION that copyrights and patents exist. It was through LEGISLATION that copyright extensions have been applied time and time again. If legislators are corrupt (and they are!) that's just one more reason to be distrustful of government intervention.
Let me FTFY: fearmongers will continue to disagree.
Apart from the usual "OMG, it's nuclear!!!" there are no valid arguments against nuclear power.
Let's have a reality check: it was the worst earthquake that ever hit Japan, the estimated material damage is $300 billion, the death count at this point is 12000 plus 13000 other people unaccounted for, presumably their bodies are either buried under the rubble or were washed to the sea.
All this, and all you hear about in the press is about four power plants???!!!??
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved." -- Benjamin Franklin
Erle Stanley Gardner mentioned an obvious corollary to this:
"For every innocent person convicted a guilty person walks away free"
There are time dilation effects from acceleration alone, independent of speed. This can be proved by a thought experiment: imagine you are at the rear end of an accelerating car. At the front end a light flashes exactly once per second. According to your measurements, the flashes occur at shorter intervals than one second, because between each pair of pulses you are moving faster than between the former pair.
Note that this has nothing to do with Lorenz time dilation, since you and the clock are always moving at the same speed, the only difference is that you are at different positions in an accelerating frame.
Using this thought experiment and assuming that inertial and gravitational masses are the same, Einstein was able to generalize the theory of relativity to accelerated frames.
The "thought experiment" above is notable because physicists found a way to actually perform it, today it's an actual physical experiment, Rudolf Moessbauer got the Nobel prize in 1961 for that.
If anything, I see the blurring of this boundary as being quite destructive to privacy because it erodes the logical distinction between activities that take place inside a private space and ones outside. That is, attempts to extend the privacy of the home outside by making false equivalences are just as likely to erode the protections inside as they are to bolster protections outside.
An excellent point! We need to defend privacy because it's a private place. If we try to defend privacy everywhere, it will be reasonable to accept some exceptions.
Let's say you accept surveillance cameras in a bank. If there's no distinction between public and private places we would also have to accept cameras in private places for the same reason. Do you work in a bank? You would have cameras watching you at home. Do you live near a bank? There would be cameras at your home to see that you aren't building a tunnel to rob the bank.
It's much better for everyone to keep public places public and private places private, with no exceptions.
If there are neutrons the exhaust is going to be radioactive, unless the gas is pure helium-4, in which case the whole gas vortex UV thing is irrelevant
If the gas is hydrogen it will not become radioactive. When a hydrogen nucleus captures a neutron it becomes non-radioactive deuterium.
Hydrogen has the added benefit that it's the best gas for a propellant, so it would be used anyway.
There is at least one hobbyist that has measured it by taking a surplus rubidium oscillator up mt. Rainier. "It was the best extra 22 nanoseconds I've ever spent with the kids,"
how does the universe know which of us is moving in the near-light-speed vehicle so that person's clock runs slower than the stay-at-home's?
The person who traveled accelerated to change his relative speed.
If you travel to a distant planet and get back, you will have accelerated to near light speed, braked down, accelerated back again, and braked down to get back to your twin's side, while he was at rest all the time.
However, if you travel to a distant planet, and then your twin follows you there, you will both have the same age in the end, because you suffered the same accelerations.
You're actually arguing welfare via military service?
No. Just pointing out that (1) even eliminating ALL military spending wouldn't be enough to reduce the deficit by half and (2) a lot of military spending goes to expenses that would have to be met by Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security anyhow.
I was proposing nothing, just pointing out the fact that people who know how to solve all the problems of the world too often cannot do the simple math operations of addition and subtraction.
If you climb up a mountain you'll be higher up in the gravity well and time will run faster than for people down below. The app should be integrated with GPS readings to take that into account.
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is expected to generate 392 MW of solar power
FTFY
No, it's expected to collect solar power.
Bats have it worse than birds, for some reason that's still not understood. Since bats are one of the most important insect predators, this means more pesticides are needed to protect crops.
That's 14.57 square kilometers, the size of a small to medium-sized town, maybe 20000 to 50000 inhabitants.
Speech recognition would be a great feature if they could put it in phones. You know how it is when you are texting, you have to use both hands and keep your eyes on the phone.
Someone should invent a phone that you can just talk to.
I'm of the mind that a right is something which requires action to deny, but exists without any intervention by others
In that case, the US Constitution is intrinsically wrong. As in "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed". How can I have a right to keep and bear Arms if I don't have an Arm to begin with?
Anyone who lacks $1,000,000 in their bank account will fall behind their more moneyed peers. Is being rich now a right?
No, but being allowed to use money is. Having $1 million in the bank is like having a 10 gbps connection, you are better off than other less fortunate people, but at least you are allowed to play the game.
So if I find an insufficiently secured WiFi access point, the government can't stop my access? I can't be arrest for theft of service?
No, it means if you are willing to use an access point according to a contract with the provider the government cannot stop you. Same as they cannot stop you from reading a book you bought, but they can arrest you if you steal a book.
Remember how it was leaked that u.s. govt. bullied spain govt. to passing such a bill, and how it unanimously got rejected when bullying was leaked.
I believe it was rejected because it's a totally unenforceable law.
How do you control who has access to the internet? Would you require ID for using a cyber cafe? How do you control that, put a police officer everywhere there is a public computer? How do you control WiFi networks? Make it a crime to have a weak password in your wireless router? What about dial-up? Require ID for everyone who makes an international call because there might be a modem at the other end?
These proposals are so fucking stupid that I wonder how come no one raises these points more often.
we might have to face the awful reality of it not bursting (in any reasonable time period)
Other than fucking your privacy in exchange for some petty gossip, facebook delivers no measurable value. It's just light entertainment, an interactive soap opera. There's no reason to believe this bubble won't burst.
If you're after a social network that may bring some monetary rewards, look for linkedin, that's where you go to when you need a job.
maintenance is a nightmare
You bet it is! Imagine the mess when you need to replace anything. Not to mention finding the fault. The first thing you do is unplug and plug again the cables just to see if it's just a bad contact problem. Now try to do that when everything is in an oil bath.
It all starts when the will to benefit everyone in the long term turns into the will to make short term personal profit at all costs.
That "at all costs" is what makes me distrustful of any government intervention. It seems that people who favor such intervention believe everyone who has any doubt about such intervention is a greedy bastard who wants to kill widows and orphans to fleece them and sell their skins in the OMG!!! PLEASE NO!! FREE MARKET, ARGGHH!!!
See how ridiculous you become when you try to mock free market? Here's some advice: don't overdo it...
I believe we should always try to maximize personal liberty. I see nothing wrong with letting everyone do anything that does not harm others. That includes letting people buy and sell goods and services freely. I don't agree with taxing people to create goods and services that could be provided voluntarily.
There's a long, long, long distance from this point of view to "make short term personal profit at all costs".
Please, try to understand how other people feel before judging them from your own prejudices. Perhaps it's yourself who would like to make short term personal profit at all costs.
And write this down carefully, read it and try to understand it: It's only through GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION that copyrights and patents exist. It was through LEGISLATION that copyright extensions have been applied time and time again. If legislators are corrupt (and they are!) that's just one more reason to be distrustful of government intervention.
The formula since the mid-'70s in almost every Western country has been as follows:
Make service bureaucratic and inefficient
That's correct, it all starts with making it a state-provided service.
We can count ourselves lucky that in Western countries, differently from other places, not every service has been provided by the state.
How appropriate is the name of OrigaMIT president, Jason Ku.
In Portuguese the word for asshole is "cu". In this context, his interest for toilet paper seems entirely natural.
Education == Statism
Good libertarians OPPOSE all forms of education, particularly education about economics.
Your propaganda is stupid. Therefore you are uneducated. My conclusion is that you are a libertarian.
Please turn in your bust of Keynes and your autographed first editions of "Das Kapital" and Mao's Red Book.
And another that's 4500 years old
Reality will continue to disagree.
Let me FTFY: fearmongers will continue to disagree.
Apart from the usual "OMG, it's nuclear!!!" there are no valid arguments against nuclear power.
Let's have a reality check: it was the worst earthquake that ever hit Japan, the estimated material damage is $300 billion, the death count at this point is 12000 plus 13000 other people unaccounted for, presumably their bodies are either buried under the rubble or were washed to the sea.
All this, and all you hear about in the press is about four power plants???!!!??
And since when do women have a right to not have their behinds or cleavage photographed while they bend over to pick something up in public?
I mean, anyone can see it...
A Frenchman and a Spaniard walk down the street when a woman slips and falls revealing everything.
The Frenchman helps her up saying
-"C'est la vie, madam!"
The Spaniard says indignantly
-"Hombre, yo tambien se la vi, pero no se lo digo porque soy un caballero!"
(OT: the Spanish punctuation and accents don't work on /.)
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved." -- Benjamin Franklin
Erle Stanley Gardner mentioned an obvious corollary to this:
"For every innocent person convicted a guilty person walks away free"
There are time dilation effects from acceleration alone, independent of speed. This can be proved by a thought experiment: imagine you are at the rear end of an accelerating car. At the front end a light flashes exactly once per second. According to your measurements, the flashes occur at shorter intervals than one second, because between each pair of pulses you are moving faster than between the former pair.
Note that this has nothing to do with Lorenz time dilation, since you and the clock are always moving at the same speed, the only difference is that you are at different positions in an accelerating frame.
Using this thought experiment and assuming that inertial and gravitational masses are the same, Einstein was able to generalize the theory of relativity to accelerated frames.
The "thought experiment" above is notable because physicists found a way to actually perform it, today it's an actual physical experiment, Rudolf Moessbauer got the Nobel prize in 1961 for that.
If anything, I see the blurring of this boundary as being quite destructive to privacy because it erodes the logical distinction between activities that take place inside a private space and ones outside. That is, attempts to extend the privacy of the home outside by making false equivalences are just as likely to erode the protections inside as they are to bolster protections outside.
An excellent point! We need to defend privacy because it's a private place. If we try to defend privacy everywhere, it will be reasonable to accept some exceptions.
Let's say you accept surveillance cameras in a bank. If there's no distinction between public and private places we would also have to accept cameras in private places for the same reason. Do you work in a bank? You would have cameras watching you at home. Do you live near a bank? There would be cameras at your home to see that you aren't building a tunnel to rob the bank.
It's much better for everyone to keep public places public and private places private, with no exceptions.
If there are neutrons the exhaust is going to be radioactive, unless the gas is pure helium-4, in which case the whole gas vortex UV thing is irrelevant
If the gas is hydrogen it will not become radioactive. When a hydrogen nucleus captures a neutron it becomes non-radioactive deuterium.
Hydrogen has the added benefit that it's the best gas for a propellant, so it would be used anyway.
There is at least one hobbyist that has measured it by taking a surplus rubidium oscillator up mt. Rainier. "It was the best extra 22 nanoseconds I've ever spent with the kids,"
how does the universe know which of us is moving in the near-light-speed vehicle so that person's clock runs slower than the stay-at-home's?
The person who traveled accelerated to change his relative speed.
If you travel to a distant planet and get back, you will have accelerated to near light speed, braked down, accelerated back again, and braked down to get back to your twin's side, while he was at rest all the time.
However, if you travel to a distant planet, and then your twin follows you there, you will both have the same age in the end, because you suffered the same accelerations.
You're actually arguing welfare via military service?
No. Just pointing out that (1) even eliminating ALL military spending wouldn't be enough to reduce the deficit by half and (2) a lot of military spending goes to expenses that would have to be met by Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security anyhow.
I was proposing nothing, just pointing out the fact that people who know how to solve all the problems of the world too often cannot do the simple math operations of addition and subtraction.
If you climb up a mountain you'll be higher up in the gravity well and time will run faster than for people down below. The app should be integrated with GPS readings to take that into account.
Both of these were single hop's, a trip to Mars is likely to be a staged journey
Apollo flights were not single hops, those were considered and rejected, in favor of the dual-module mission with lunar orbit rendez-vous concept.