Hm, should I believe the calm coherent argument or the aggressive drunk with a one line assertion who seems very afraid of engaging in a mutual discussion? Tough decision?
What makes *this* perpetual motion machine different enough from all the others that it's worth a look?
The fact that it has been harder to figure out how it doesn't work than most of the others makes it an interesting enough party trick to be worth a look. It's even possible that we'll learn something probably-unrelated-but-valuable from discovering exactly how it doesn't work. It could teach us how to avoid certain types of measurement errors that may have been messing up other experiments, for example.
In short: people who think the status quo is a horrible disgrace will vote for anything that'll tear it down. That's also why some liberals are voting for Trump, they hate the system and want it to go down in flames. How one can hate the status quo that much while living in one of the world's wealthiest countries, I'm not sure (speaking as an American below the poverty line who would much rather change the system gradually than have a revolution).
Ounces vs. grams and liters vs. gallons is all a matter of marketing. We use both widely, whichever one makes it sound like we're getting more for our dollar for the product.
There's a lot more than the president on the line. Every vote matters in state elections. That said, of course they'll run the promotion in the areas with the highest population density because that's how their business works... and it so happens that places with high population density are democratic.
"Meet" can be interpreted to include any form of communication. For two sufficiently advanced cultures, there's even the theoretical possibility of transmitting the information necessary to construct the alien at the other end.
You seem to be making a completely baseless assumption that all solar systems are the same size. The planets around an M-dwarf orbit much closer than those around our sun. It's observed fact, not theory.
I probably shouldn't respond to someone who's being willfully ignorant for the purposes of racism, but do you know why the Haiti slave revolt you're lamenting succeeded? Because the "prosperous" Haiti you speak of was 95% slaves (half a million slaves working for around 30,000 whites). It's easy to have a "prosperous" society when you ignore the 95% of society who are suffering the most cruel tortures imaginable (slavery there was known for being far more cruel even than slavery in other countries) and count only the 5% who are sitting back benefiting from the fruits of the 95%'s forced labor.
And do you know one of the big reasons Haiti has continued to fail? Because forced labor remained a major feature of their economy into the 20th century, under a new black elite who saw the same prosperity you speak of and thought it looked pretty tempting. The same thing happened in post-colonial Africa of course: the powerful noticed how comfy the colonial system looked for the whites, and found it easy and desirable to put themselves in that privileged position instead of making real fundamental changes to how the economy was designed by the colonial powers.
The day Chrome prevents ad-blocking is the day they lose their dominant market share. Personally I'm very pleased with the new devil, because this devil is cross-platform and well-maintained. The problem with MSIE's dominance was that it didn't work on Linux and it was for a long time basically abandonware holding back progress and making web developers waste tons of time.
Sell the Peshmerga real weapons and Iraq won't touch them. It's not as if Iraq has any of their oil right now, it's being sold by Kurdistan to... Turkey. The problem for the KRG is their only choices to sell to as a land-locked region are Turkey, Iran or Iraq.
I'm living on the planet of people who aren't wealthy. None of my smartphones have ever had GPS. Only one of the 3 had a gyro. None of them can fit as many apps as I'd like, the most internal storage they've had is 1 GB and the vast majority of that is filled with unremovable crap.
If a phone only has enough disk space to install 5 custom apps, it's not very usable. If the CPU isn't fast enough to run the app you want well, it's not very usable. If you plan to use it for VR but the phone doesn't have a gryo, it's not usable. If you plan to use it for driving directions and it doesn't have GPS, it's not usable. Etc.
They only switched to the supercooled fuel recently. They were launching fine before that. Seems wiser to me to go back to the regular old way for manned launches.
Objectively, I think the no-ads Opera versions were failures. they gained only a small amount of marketshare while losing a lot of revenue. If it'd bumped Opera to 5-10% marketshare it would've been a clear success, but going from 1% to 1.5% or whatever it was isn't worth giving up the revenue. Later Opera versions were technically more popular yes, because they were free without ads, but they weren't really ahead of the innovation curve for long after that.
Opera was actually the last desktop software I ever purchased, shortly before it went completely free. The browser is where I spend most of my time, so (as a Linux user where my other regular needs are free) it's really the one thing I am willing to pay for if I get a superior experience for my money.
Do you really think Afghanistan wouldn't have been happier if the Russian occupation in the early 80s had been unopposed by the USA and had successfully prevented their government from collapsing?
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Hm, should I believe the calm coherent argument or the aggressive drunk with a one line assertion who seems very afraid of engaging in a mutual discussion? Tough decision?
What makes *this* perpetual motion machine different enough from all the others that it's worth a look?
The fact that it has been harder to figure out how it doesn't work than most of the others makes it an interesting enough party trick to be worth a look. It's even possible that we'll learn something probably-unrelated-but-valuable from discovering exactly how it doesn't work. It could teach us how to avoid certain types of measurement errors that may have been messing up other experiments, for example.
In short: people who think the status quo is a horrible disgrace will vote for anything that'll tear it down. That's also why some liberals are voting for Trump, they hate the system and want it to go down in flames. How one can hate the status quo that much while living in one of the world's wealthiest countries, I'm not sure (speaking as an American below the poverty line who would much rather change the system gradually than have a revolution).
What it'd really be useful for is an interstellar probe. Propellant-less acceleration can get you near the speed of light in a few years.
Ounces vs. grams and liters vs. gallons is all a matter of marketing. We use both widely, whichever one makes it sound like we're getting more for our dollar for the product.
A smartphone capable of hailing an uber is $30. Show those people a $30 car and they'll buy it.
How many people go from a bar to vote or live in a VFW hall?
There's a lot more than the president on the line. Every vote matters in state elections. That said, of course they'll run the promotion in the areas with the highest population density because that's how their business works... and it so happens that places with high population density are democratic.
"Meet" can be interpreted to include any form of communication. For two sufficiently advanced cultures, there's even the theoretical possibility of transmitting the information necessary to construct the alien at the other end.
You seem to be making a completely baseless assumption that all solar systems are the same size. The planets around an M-dwarf orbit much closer than those around our sun. It's observed fact, not theory.
I probably shouldn't respond to someone who's being willfully ignorant for the purposes of racism, but do you know why the Haiti slave revolt you're lamenting succeeded? Because the "prosperous" Haiti you speak of was 95% slaves (half a million slaves working for around 30,000 whites). It's easy to have a "prosperous" society when you ignore the 95% of society who are suffering the most cruel tortures imaginable (slavery there was known for being far more cruel even than slavery in other countries) and count only the 5% who are sitting back benefiting from the fruits of the 95%'s forced labor.
And do you know one of the big reasons Haiti has continued to fail? Because forced labor remained a major feature of their economy into the 20th century, under a new black elite who saw the same prosperity you speak of and thought it looked pretty tempting. The same thing happened in post-colonial Africa of course: the powerful noticed how comfy the colonial system looked for the whites, and found it easy and desirable to put themselves in that privileged position instead of making real fundamental changes to how the economy was designed by the colonial powers.
The day Chrome prevents ad-blocking is the day they lose their dominant market share. Personally I'm very pleased with the new devil, because this devil is cross-platform and well-maintained. The problem with MSIE's dominance was that it didn't work on Linux and it was for a long time basically abandonware holding back progress and making web developers waste tons of time.
Nothing like that ever happens to me, even though I have 40 tabs open and am using a dinosaur low-end 2011 PC.
If Firefox would change their application icon to match Chrome's and would label it "Google Chrome", they'd see a rapid rise in market share.
In 20 years, if not taxed, oil will probably be cheaper than it is today thanks it becoming much easier to access in the arctic.
Sell the Peshmerga real weapons and Iraq won't touch them. It's not as if Iraq has any of their oil right now, it's being sold by Kurdistan to... Turkey. The problem for the KRG is their only choices to sell to as a land-locked region are Turkey, Iran or Iraq.
I'm living on the planet of people who aren't wealthy. None of my smartphones have ever had GPS. Only one of the 3 had a gyro. None of them can fit as many apps as I'd like, the most internal storage they've had is 1 GB and the vast majority of that is filled with unremovable crap.
If a phone only has enough disk space to install 5 custom apps, it's not very usable. If the CPU isn't fast enough to run the app you want well, it's not very usable. If you plan to use it for VR but the phone doesn't have a gryo, it's not usable. If you plan to use it for driving directions and it doesn't have GPS, it's not usable. Etc.
The funding was cancelled at one point. Lots of political starts and stops.
Why don't you loan your magic car to the government so it can be used to geoengineer the planet to a useful and stable climate?
Afghanistan of the 1970s wasn't that different from those countries, Islamic extremism was a result of the war.
They only switched to the supercooled fuel recently. They were launching fine before that. Seems wiser to me to go back to the regular old way for manned launches.
Objectively, I think the no-ads Opera versions were failures. they gained only a small amount of marketshare while losing a lot of revenue. If it'd bumped Opera to 5-10% marketshare it would've been a clear success, but going from 1% to 1.5% or whatever it was isn't worth giving up the revenue. Later Opera versions were technically more popular yes, because they were free without ads, but they weren't really ahead of the innovation curve for long after that.
Opera was actually the last desktop software I ever purchased, shortly before it went completely free. The browser is where I spend most of my time, so (as a Linux user where my other regular needs are free) it's really the one thing I am willing to pay for if I get a superior experience for my money.
Both are properly called adware. Nagware is shareware that nags you to pay to register it.
Do you really think Afghanistan wouldn't have been happier if the Russian occupation in the early 80s had been unopposed by the USA and had successfully prevented their government from collapsing?