There's really no reason for any optimism. No advanced propulsion ever has or ever will be invented by accident by a random guy whose own theory for how his magic box works was self-falsified. The process of finding out where the tiny measurement error comes from may be scientifically interesting and may result in more peer reviewed papers, but there's no chance it's going to make the magic trick real.
"It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory." - Sir Arthur Eddington
Even an infinitesimal propulsion could get a micro-probe up to near light speed if it could be generated for free. Unfortunately, that remains about as likely as the odds of that SETI signal being aliens.
That's only an issue with "Login with Facebook" (or the "Login with Google" equivalent) for users who aren't already logged into Facebook(/Google). If they're logged in all the time like most people, there's never a login prompt so they may think twice when they see one. Likewise people should be extra skeptical when redirected to a failed login page for an openid-type login.
It should simply park itself on the shoulder the same way you would if you had a breakdown. That's the only safe way, in the event that driver is unable to respond due to passing out or having a seizure or some such issue.
There's absolutely nothing remarkable about somebody that age smoking. Everybody did for most of their lives. And no doctor has ever claimed that smoking is 100% fatal.
There's always a relative who wants to cash in. The documentation in most of the world wasn't very good in the 19th century so it's likely that somebody has lived longer than the verified oldest, but 23 years longer isn't really statistically plausible.
Except for RMS, no one uses the strict form of GPL for shared libraries and such.
Businesses occasionally use GPL for a library for which they require copyright assignment of any contributions, so that they can use the GPL tactically as a way to encourage their clients to pay them to dual-license the library for commercial use.
The install process for every distro is different. The only way that could work is if the boot disk overwrites most of itself with the latest ISO that it downloads, and then reboots and somehow defers to the ISO (a bootloader that gives you a choice between booting the newly-download distro's installer or booting the meta-installer?). That might work but would be more sensible to do with a USB stick.
I'm as liberal as they come. I like GMO crops, eat them and hope they continue to improve, though I don't like Monsanto too much as a company. Couldn't care less about Sanger, but it's hardly a surprise that someone from her era was racist and believed in eugenics -- almost everybody was racist and eugenics were extremely popular in that era. But who cares, outside of historical curiosity?
It's simpler than that. These are dolls. Girls who play with baby dolls have always been more likely to want a baby. Then they add a game aspect (having to feed and change) to make it even more fun. Of course they don't worry about having a baby so much after that when you've taught them it'll just be a fun game.
If you want to make them consider the consequences, take them to an alley to talk to a homeless teenage single mother crackhead about her regrets.
I couldn't find a source for "people use their iOS devices more than people use Android", can you cite that?
I'm sure it's true if you count all Android phones, since some of those are $20 phones purchased to sit in a drawer for occasional use, and many of them don't come with a data plan so can't be used away from wifi.
According to google, 14.5% of Americans are below the poverty line and 56% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings. I'm talking about the people in that gap, not the people below the poverty line. That's a very, very, very wide gap to explain. Medical expenses sound like a likely cause for a good fraction of that, maybe half, but I can't see it being the majority unless Americans are sicker than I realize.
walking requires either a treadmill or a sidewalk or trail and tolerable weather.
Or a mall. Mall-walking is pretty common, I hear.
In my part of the USA, gas and insurance are actually a lot cheaper than taking a bus. Perhaps someone in a big city who never intends to go outside the city would find a bus pass more economical though.
What's your theory for how people with incomes way above the poverty line end up living paycheck to paycheck? Is it entirely tens of thousands of dollars of taxi rides to work and the need to spend $30 a month to do pull ups?
That or they can comprehend being threatened with imprisonment when city codes ban gardens [time.com].
I didn't mean growing your own food in a garden. That's taking economy way further than 99.9% of people need to. I meant buying food from a grocery store and preparing it in your kitchen instead of eating out at restaurants, which are a prime way that many middle class people waste thousands of dollars a year.
That depends on weather and on how strict the local police are about giving children priority on public playgrounds.
It really doesn't, if you're simply trying to lose some weight and not training to be a pro athlete. Your body is capable of moving without spending a cent or even going outside. There's plenty of exercises you can do in your living room. Personally I've never set foot in a gym in my life.
What should they do instead? Ride the bus?
The vast majority of the middle class people I'm talking about have a car. They can choose to not go out drinking unless they have a designated driver (bars themselves are a big waste of money too). I've never taken a taxi in my life. If you're too poor to get a $1000 loan for a car and that causes you to have to take taxis to work which cost you thousands over time, then you're a genuinely poor person caught in a trap... but that's a rare situation.
It's not at all difficult for automated cars to detect when they've gone off the road, or onto an unexpected dirt road, or when they encounter a locked gate. They'll probably pull over and ask their human to pick an alternate route, which is exactly what the humans navigating by GPS already do.
There's no reason to give punitive damages to the person who sues the corporation. Let people designate a charity from an approved list to which their winnings (beyond a reasonable amount) will go. I say charity instead of sending the money to the government just so that the government doesn't have a vested interest in more lawsuits.
So you want to make it entirely impossible for poor people to ever sue? Even if you know you're right, you're not going to take the no money down option knowing that some random technicality could bankrupt you. Also, law firms wouldn't be willing to offer the "no money down" option since the people who would take it would be the people who are impossible to collect from if they lose because they don't have money.
Almost all US household statistics greatly under report the income of the poor. They don't take into account things like the EIT for example.
Presuming you mean the earned income tax credit, that's like ~$200 a year for an individual. Not significant.
I don't see income being misrepresented. What I see is a bunch of middle class and wealthy people who manage to live paycheck to paycheck despite their hefty incomes, because they can't comprehend making their own food or exercising without equipment or living without netflix or getting around without a taxi. That's just a cultural issue.
We're presently approaching the Proxima Centauri system at 22.4 km/s, which is significantly faster than any spacecraft we've launched (New Horizons was about 15 km/s). Unfortunately we won't be headed that way forever, closest approach will be 3.11 light years in 26,700 years. Perhaps we can take maximal advantage by launching an interstellar mission in the year 28,716. Assuming no new administration comes along to alter NASA's priorities, we should be ready in time if we start preparing now.
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Satellites are already required to be able to de-orbit.
There's really no reason for any optimism. No advanced propulsion ever has or ever will be invented by accident by a random guy whose own theory for how his magic box works was self-falsified. The process of finding out where the tiny measurement error comes from may be scientifically interesting and may result in more peer reviewed papers, but there's no chance it's going to make the magic trick real.
"It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory."
- Sir Arthur Eddington
Even an infinitesimal propulsion could get a micro-probe up to near light speed if it could be generated for free. Unfortunately, that remains about as likely as the odds of that SETI signal being aliens.
Chromecast adds zero UI complexity because it doesn't appear to anyone who doesn't own a chromecast device.
That's only an issue with "Login with Facebook" (or the "Login with Google" equivalent) for users who aren't already logged into Facebook(/Google). If they're logged in all the time like most people, there's never a login prompt so they may think twice when they see one. Likewise people should be extra skeptical when redirected to a failed login page for an openid-type login.
It should simply park itself on the shoulder the same way you would if you had a breakdown. That's the only safe way, in the event that driver is unable to respond due to passing out or having a seizure or some such issue.
There's absolutely nothing remarkable about somebody that age smoking. Everybody did for most of their lives. And no doctor has ever claimed that smoking is 100% fatal.
There's always a relative who wants to cash in. The documentation in most of the world wasn't very good in the 19th century so it's likely that somebody has lived longer than the verified oldest, but 23 years longer isn't really statistically plausible.
It's not as if they were allowed to sell it for the only purpose someone would buy that domain for. That'd be facilitating further illegal activity.
You mean FreeDOS. The equivalent of DOSbox is Wine.
Businesses occasionally use GPL for a library for which they require copyright assignment of any contributions, so that they can use the GPL tactically as a way to encourage their clients to pay them to dual-license the library for commercial use.
What will the life support systems do beyond maintaining atmospheric pressure, temperature, and power? CO2 scrubbing?
The install process for every distro is different. The only way that could work is if the boot disk overwrites most of itself with the latest ISO that it downloads, and then reboots and somehow defers to the ISO (a bootloader that gives you a choice between booting the newly-download distro's installer or booting the meta-installer?). That might work but would be more sensible to do with a USB stick.
I'm as liberal as they come. I like GMO crops, eat them and hope they continue to improve, though I don't like Monsanto too much as a company. Couldn't care less about Sanger, but it's hardly a surprise that someone from her era was racist and believed in eugenics -- almost everybody was racist and eugenics were extremely popular in that era. But who cares, outside of historical curiosity?
It's simpler than that. These are dolls. Girls who play with baby dolls have always been more likely to want a baby. Then they add a game aspect (having to feed and change) to make it even more fun. Of course they don't worry about having a baby so much after that when you've taught them it'll just be a fun game.
If you want to make them consider the consequences, take them to an alley to talk to a homeless teenage single mother crackhead about her regrets.
I'm sure it's true if you count all Android phones, since some of those are $20 phones purchased to sit in a drawer for occasional use, and many of them don't come with a data plan so can't be used away from wifi.
According to google, 14.5% of Americans are below the poverty line and 56% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings. I'm talking about the people in that gap, not the people below the poverty line. That's a very, very, very wide gap to explain. Medical expenses sound like a likely cause for a good fraction of that, maybe half, but I can't see it being the majority unless Americans are sicker than I realize.
Or a mall. Mall-walking is pretty common, I hear.
In my part of the USA, gas and insurance are actually a lot cheaper than taking a bus. Perhaps someone in a big city who never intends to go outside the city would find a bus pass more economical though.
What's your theory for how people with incomes way above the poverty line end up living paycheck to paycheck? Is it entirely tens of thousands of dollars of taxi rides to work and the need to spend $30 a month to do pull ups?
I didn't mean growing your own food in a garden. That's taking economy way further than 99.9% of people need to. I meant buying food from a grocery store and preparing it in your kitchen instead of eating out at restaurants, which are a prime way that many middle class people waste thousands of dollars a year.
It really doesn't, if you're simply trying to lose some weight and not training to be a pro athlete. Your body is capable of moving without spending a cent or even going outside. There's plenty of exercises you can do in your living room. Personally I've never set foot in a gym in my life.
The vast majority of the middle class people I'm talking about have a car. They can choose to not go out drinking unless they have a designated driver (bars themselves are a big waste of money too). I've never taken a taxi in my life. If you're too poor to get a $1000 loan for a car and that causes you to have to take taxis to work which cost you thousands over time, then you're a genuinely poor person caught in a trap... but that's a rare situation.
It's not at all difficult for automated cars to detect when they've gone off the road, or onto an unexpected dirt road, or when they encounter a locked gate. They'll probably pull over and ask their human to pick an alternate route, which is exactly what the humans navigating by GPS already do.
There's no reason to give punitive damages to the person who sues the corporation. Let people designate a charity from an approved list to which their winnings (beyond a reasonable amount) will go. I say charity instead of sending the money to the government just so that the government doesn't have a vested interest in more lawsuits.
So you want to make it entirely impossible for poor people to ever sue? Even if you know you're right, you're not going to take the no money down option knowing that some random technicality could bankrupt you. Also, law firms wouldn't be willing to offer the "no money down" option since the people who would take it would be the people who are impossible to collect from if they lose because they don't have money.
Presuming you mean the earned income tax credit, that's like ~$200 a year for an individual. Not significant.
I don't see income being misrepresented. What I see is a bunch of middle class and wealthy people who manage to live paycheck to paycheck despite their hefty incomes, because they can't comprehend making their own food or exercising without equipment or living without netflix or getting around without a taxi. That's just a cultural issue.
We're presently approaching the Proxima Centauri system at 22.4 km/s, which is significantly faster than any spacecraft we've launched (New Horizons was about 15 km/s). Unfortunately we won't be headed that way forever, closest approach will be 3.11 light years in 26,700 years. Perhaps we can take maximal advantage by launching an interstellar mission in the year 28,716. Assuming no new administration comes along to alter NASA's priorities, we should be ready in time if we start preparing now.