More seriously, envelope, lawyer, retainer, instructions to return if you are in a serious accident. Or several lawyers, each with part.
Or cheaper but less reliably tell two or three independent friends a part of the answer, and ask them to come and tell you the information if you ever get amnesia. Such as, "The password is in the book"; "Moby Dick"; "Page 27, Line 6". Don't tell them who the others are, and try to use people from different social circles.
The problem is that Mars makes a terrible lifeboat. It will absorb all resources from other HSF (as Mars research is increasingly doing to planetary exploration at NASA). And it can provide no resources back to other settlement or exploration. And it'd be a century or more of dependence on Earth, at minimum, before it could survive the loss of Earth.
OTOH, by "colonising" asteroids (and moons) and associated space-stations, you scatter your people around the entire solar system. Each step outwards provides resources for further exploration. (Even for later Mars settlement.) In the beginning, providing say air/water/fuel, expanding into raw materials for construction, eventually entire settlements. Meaning that they can be profit centres; and, once established, expansion becomes largely commercially driven rather than entirely funded and resourced by governments.
Each asteroid "settlement" is too small to survive, but collectively they create sufficient resilience to survive losses (eventually including the loss of Earth), require less funding to establish, and will expand more organically. A thousand small self-funding caches, rather than one big expensive cache.
I for one, do not want the mouse following my eye around. Have you ever played an FPS? or RTS? Do you really want the selection cursor/targeting reticule following your eyes?
Why would you need a cursor icon following your eyes? The cursor is there to provide a visual feedback for your hand movements. If the cursor was your eye, the icon is redundant.
The only reason you would need a visible cursor icon in a eye-tracking system is if the eye-tracking is crappy or laggy, and you need to give the user a way of seeing when it has arrived. In which case, few people who aren't paralysed would really want to use such a system, and certainly not gamers.
Again, you're stuck on the idea that theism and gnosticism are marks along the same scale.
They describe two different things. Belief in the existence of a deity or deities, and the belief in your ability to know about the nature of deity or deities. Two different things. Semi-independent variables. Role for character creation.
Now, statistically, the chances of mosquitoes evolving twice... That's a doozy.
Insects are common. Flying insects are common. Blood-sucking is an obvious niche. So it seems reasonably likely that a mosquito-like insect would have evolved. (Blood-sucking also evolved in bats, and even amongst Darwin's finches on the Galapagos.)
I would guess that nine out of ten people in the UK, who know who the Democrats and Republicans are, would guess Lincoln was a Democrat.
It makes more sense if you think of it as north vs south. The old Democrats were a southern dominated party. The Republicans were entirely a northern creation. When enough of the northern Democrats supported civil rights in the '60s, the nastier arm of the Republican party saw a wedge issue to gain southern votes through the '70s and '80s. It worked spectacularly well, and the old "Dixicrat" voters in the south shifted entirely over to the Republicans, while the more decent of the northern Republicans reluctantly drifted to the corrupt old Democrats.
The old Confederate states continue to be an albatross around the US's neck, whatever party they currently vote for. I wish people would take modern secession more seriously. Both groups would be so much happier.
Yet you assume a high correlation between poverty and low IQ, even amongst illegal immigrants. OTOH, it seems likely that illegal migration selects for higher IQ individuals (at least high motivation) from their home country. Therefore you'd want these ambitious, motivated people to have loads of kids.
Perhaps "IQ" is just a cover-word for what you really want to attack? After all, "Welfare moms & illegals" is a pretty standard code for non-whites amongst your fellow travellers.
Matthew 7:1&2, "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you"? [Ie, "Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."]
Matthew 7:12, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." [Ie, "In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you."]
War on terror:
Romans 2:1, "Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that." [Ie, "You who pass judgment on someone else, therefore have no excuse, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things."]
Luke 6:41, "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
Drone strikes:
John 8:7, "So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
atheism is specifically the belief that no deities exist
No. It's the absence of belief that deities exist. It may extend to active disbelief, but it isn't required. Someone who's never heard of the concept of god(s) is an atheist.
Agnosticism is the absence of the belief that knowledge of god(s) is possible. The two terms are referring to different things. Ie, there is not a scale running Atheist < Agnostic < Believer < Gnostic; gnosticism and theism are not on the same scale.
So an agnostic can believe there "must be something, some Being, responsible for it all, a Prime agent" and is therefore weakly theistic, even though they disclaim any possibility of religion knowing anything about the Prime Being. Or they can believe that "no one can know", but they happen to not believe there "must be something", so they are a simple atheist. They accept the possibility that there might be "something", but they don't believe in it currently, so they are an atheist.
Many political atheists are what's called "strong atheists" or even "anti-theists". That's an active disbelief in the possibility of god(s).
Actually, Venus is better for roasting. The sulphuric acid helps tenderise the meat. You can customise the temperature by floating the meat at a specific altitude. Diners themselves float at about 55km.
The expanded Trust Fund was intended to pay for the "population bubble" of the retiring baby boomers. That means it gained value for decades (something like $3 trillion), until the number of retiring boomers outweighs the current workers paying in, then it is intended to decline until the boomers die out. In accounting terms, it's an accumulating asset, but it's also a future liability (and it's a revenue item and an expense). Then the Trust invests in US Treasuries, so it's both an investment asset, and a debt liability. How you account for that clearly matters when discussing the budget. (And there are lots of games people play, and knots that people twist themselves into.) But how you account for the Trust in the budget clearly doesn't affect the function of the Trust itself. (Unless people make stupid decisions based of those accounting games. "Ohnoes, Social Security will be "bankrupt" by...2025...2030...2050...! We must cut payments, or else we risk possibly having to... ummm... cut payments!")
The most honest thing, IMO, when talking about the US budget in general, is to simply recognise the Trust Fund as a stand-alone entity with its own revenue and expense streams, disconnected from the ordinary budget, and leave it out of the discussion entirely.
The religious impulse seems to be an evolutionary adaption.
Dawkins and co generalise it as "magical thinking", rather than just "religion". It's a stage of childhood development, and we're all prone to elements of it as adults, but some people (a minority) see it as an type of mistake. Others see it as a positive and celebrate it.
So, if this religious impulse is such a wide-spread evolutionary adaption then it stands to reason that it has a net positive value to the human species.
You mean like our attraction to sugar/fat/salt? Just because something was appropriate when we lived in small stone age tribes, doesn't mean it works in a technological civilisations of 7 billion people.
He was at the Armstrong Centre, Kennedy City, here at Tranquillity.
Lovell was visiting to help open the new "giant baseline" optical array, at the Lovell Dark-Sky Park over on farside. On his way home, he apparently decided to do the broadcast from here. TFS doesn't mention but this month is also the 30th anniversary of our first permanent dome, so they made it a bit of a thing; and there were quite a few of the old-timers visiting.
My apartment is nearby but I didn't go. Busy working at bójin kuàng. I had it on the crawler's radio, but honestly it's all so typically American, wallowing in the past while the rest of us are out here working -- then bitching because the magnetic flux from the big cargo launches are messing up their precious footprints. Gorram groundhugging báichi yóukè...
Eventually the sky will come down to meet the Earth and they will briefly become one in fire. When the fire dims, there will be nothing but night. Until the night itself fades and then there is nothing. Whether that nothing will last forever is an interesting question.
Have a read up on how El Niño and La Niña cycles work.
Essentially, oceans are thousands of miles across, but only a few miles deep. Small changes to wind patterns across the thousands of miles can change the apparent depths of different layers in the oceans. In some cycles, heat is absorbed by surface currents, in other cycles it is absorbed by deeper currents.
Under normal circumstances, this process alternatively heats and cools the surface (and cooling/heating deep water). Moving heat around, but not increasing or decreasing the overall heat content. Under current circumstances, the surface continues to warm, but at a reduced rate; and the overall heat content continues to increase.
Your link is broken. But quoting from the site: "Our results show that the current hiatus is part of natural climate variability, tied specifically to a La-Nina-like decadal cooling. Although similar decadal hiatus events may occur in the future, the multi-decadal warming trend is very likely to continue with greenhouse gas increase."
Which is pretty close to what I've said in this thread. The supposed "pause" is actually a sharp surface cooling trend caused by a La Niña dominated decade. The lack of expected cooling is due to underlying warming; the two trends not quite cancelling each other out (there's still a small surface warming over the last decade).
Subtract this variation, which is flat overall (there's a nice graph on the website and in the quoted paper), from the surface temp graphs and you are left with a nice smooth upward trend. Some kind of warming. Of the Globe.
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Relying on a password that nobody else knows sounds like "security through obscurity" to me.
You haven't seen my password.
If you have amnesia:
1) How would you remember where you put it?
2) How would you know if it's been taken?
3) How would you remember that you used a sealed envelope (or one-time lock, or similar trick)?
"The password is in the book"; "Moby Dick"; "Page 27, Line 6"
Oops. Heh.
"unlock his bridegroom clasp--yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly"
Oh Queequeg...
More seriously, envelope, lawyer, retainer, instructions to return if you are in a serious accident. Or several lawyers, each with part.
Or cheaper but less reliably tell two or three independent friends a part of the answer, and ask them to come and tell you the information if you ever get amnesia. Such as, "The password is in the book"; "Moby Dick"; "Page 27, Line 6". Don't tell them who the others are, and try to use people from different social circles.
The problem is that Mars makes a terrible lifeboat. It will absorb all resources from other HSF (as Mars research is increasingly doing to planetary exploration at NASA). And it can provide no resources back to other settlement or exploration. And it'd be a century or more of dependence on Earth, at minimum, before it could survive the loss of Earth.
OTOH, by "colonising" asteroids (and moons) and associated space-stations, you scatter your people around the entire solar system. Each step outwards provides resources for further exploration. (Even for later Mars settlement.) In the beginning, providing say air/water/fuel, expanding into raw materials for construction, eventually entire settlements. Meaning that they can be profit centres; and, once established, expansion becomes largely commercially driven rather than entirely funded and resourced by governments.
Each asteroid "settlement" is too small to survive, but collectively they create sufficient resilience to survive losses (eventually including the loss of Earth), require less funding to establish, and will expand more organically. A thousand small self-funding caches, rather than one big expensive cache.
The problem with putting men on mars is: why? Why go there? Why spend $1T to send a few guys to their deaths on Mars
Something people wondered about the war in Iraq too.
I for one, do not want the mouse following my eye around. Have you ever played an FPS? or RTS? Do you really want the selection cursor/targeting reticule following your eyes?
Why would you need a cursor icon following your eyes? The cursor is there to provide a visual feedback for your hand movements. If the cursor was your eye, the icon is redundant.
The only reason you would need a visible cursor icon in a eye-tracking system is if the eye-tracking is crappy or laggy, and you need to give the user a way of seeing when it has arrived. In which case, few people who aren't paralysed would really want to use such a system, and certainly not gamers.
What rule did he violate?
[Interesting also that your principle apparently doesn't apply to the inspectors and officials themselves.]
Again, you're stuck on the idea that theism and gnosticism are marks along the same scale.
They describe two different things. Belief in the existence of a deity or deities, and the belief in your ability to know about the nature of deity or deities. Two different things. Semi-independent variables. Role for character creation.
Do they have a belief in a deity? If so, then they are theists. If they do not, they are not theists.
Now if only there was a word for "not theist". Something rooted in Greek, I'd imagine.
Now, statistically, the chances of mosquitoes evolving twice... That's a doozy.
Insects are common. Flying insects are common. Blood-sucking is an obvious niche. So it seems reasonably likely that a mosquito-like insect would have evolved. (Blood-sucking also evolved in bats, and even amongst Darwin's finches on the Galapagos.)
It makes more sense if you think of it as north vs south. The old Democrats were a southern dominated party. The Republicans were entirely a northern creation. When enough of the northern Democrats supported civil rights in the '60s, the nastier arm of the Republican party saw a wedge issue to gain southern votes through the '70s and '80s. It worked spectacularly well, and the old "Dixicrat" voters in the south shifted entirely over to the Republicans, while the more decent of the northern Republicans reluctantly drifted to the corrupt old Democrats.
The old Confederate states continue to be an albatross around the US's neck, whatever party they currently vote for. I wish people would take modern secession more seriously. Both groups would be so much happier.
Yet you assume a high correlation between poverty and low IQ, even amongst illegal immigrants. OTOH, it seems likely that illegal migration selects for higher IQ individuals (at least high motivation) from their home country. Therefore you'd want these ambitious, motivated people to have loads of kids.
Perhaps "IQ" is just a cover-word for what you really want to attack? After all, "Welfare moms & illegals" is a pretty standard code for non-whites amongst your fellow travellers.
is there anything in the Bible about spying
Matthew 7:1&2, "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you"? [Ie, "Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."]
Matthew 7:12, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." [Ie, "In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you."]
War on terror:
Romans 2:1, "Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that." [Ie, "You who pass judgment on someone else, therefore have no excuse, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things."]
Luke 6:41, "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
Drone strikes:
John 8:7, "So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
No. It's the absence of belief that deities exist. It may extend to active disbelief, but it isn't required. Someone who's never heard of the concept of god(s) is an atheist.
Agnosticism is the absence of the belief that knowledge of god(s) is possible. The two terms are referring to different things. Ie, there is not a scale running Atheist < Agnostic < Believer < Gnostic; gnosticism and theism are not on the same scale.
So an agnostic can believe there "must be something, some Being, responsible for it all, a Prime agent" and is therefore weakly theistic, even though they disclaim any possibility of religion knowing anything about the Prime Being. Or they can believe that "no one can know", but they happen to not believe there "must be something", so they are a simple atheist. They accept the possibility that there might be "something", but they don't believe in it currently, so they are an atheist.
Many political atheists are what's called "strong atheists" or even "anti-theists". That's an active disbelief in the possibility of god(s).
Next up, how to cook a burger on Venus...
Actually, Venus is better for roasting. The sulphuric acid helps tenderise the meat. You can customise the temperature by floating the meat at a specific altitude. Diners themselves float at about 55km.
(Mercury is for burgers.)
The expanded Trust Fund was intended to pay for the "population bubble" of the retiring baby boomers. That means it gained value for decades (something like $3 trillion), until the number of retiring boomers outweighs the current workers paying in, then it is intended to decline until the boomers die out. In accounting terms, it's an accumulating asset, but it's also a future liability (and it's a revenue item and an expense). Then the Trust invests in US Treasuries, so it's both an investment asset, and a debt liability. How you account for that clearly matters when discussing the budget. (And there are lots of games people play, and knots that people twist themselves into.) But how you account for the Trust in the budget clearly doesn't affect the function of the Trust itself. (Unless people make stupid decisions based of those accounting games. "Ohnoes, Social Security will be "bankrupt" by...2025...2030...2050...! We must cut payments, or else we risk possibly having to... ummm... cut payments!")
The most honest thing, IMO, when talking about the US budget in general, is to simply recognise the Trust Fund as a stand-alone entity with its own revenue and expense streams, disconnected from the ordinary budget, and leave it out of the discussion entirely.
The religious impulse seems to be an evolutionary adaption.
Dawkins and co generalise it as "magical thinking", rather than just "religion". It's a stage of childhood development, and we're all prone to elements of it as adults, but some people (a minority) see it as an type of mistake. Others see it as a positive and celebrate it.
So, if this religious impulse is such a wide-spread evolutionary adaption then it stands to reason that it has a net positive value to the human species.
You mean like our attraction to sugar/fat/salt? Just because something was appropriate when we lived in small stone age tribes, doesn't mean it works in a technological civilisations of 7 billion people.
Some sites mislead by excluding mandatory spending to distort the burden of social welfare spending versus defense spending.
And some sites mislead by including the stand-alone SS Trust Fund as if it were a regular budget item.
He was at the Armstrong Centre, Kennedy City, here at Tranquillity.
Lovell was visiting to help open the new "giant baseline" optical array, at the Lovell Dark-Sky Park over on farside. On his way home, he apparently decided to do the broadcast from here. TFS doesn't mention but this month is also the 30th anniversary of our first permanent dome, so they made it a bit of a thing; and there were quite a few of the old-timers visiting.
My apartment is nearby but I didn't go. Busy working at bójin kuàng. I had it on the crawler's radio, but honestly it's all so typically American, wallowing in the past while the rest of us are out here working -- then bitching because the magnetic flux from the big cargo launches are messing up their precious footprints. Gorram groundhugging báichi yóukè...
Eventually the sky will come down to meet the Earth and they will briefly become one in fire. When the fire dims, there will be nothing but night. Until the night itself fades and then there is nothing. Whether that nothing will last forever is an interesting question.
Put something funny/quirky/stupid on your IRL headstone, the internet will then rediscover you over and over until the words can't be read.
Have a read up on how El Niño and La Niña cycles work.
Essentially, oceans are thousands of miles across, but only a few miles deep. Small changes to wind patterns across the thousands of miles can change the apparent depths of different layers in the oceans. In some cycles, heat is absorbed by surface currents, in other cycles it is absorbed by deeper currents.
Under normal circumstances, this process alternatively heats and cools the surface (and cooling/heating deep water). Moving heat around, but not increasing or decreasing the overall heat content. Under current circumstances, the surface continues to warm, but at a reduced rate; and the overall heat content continues to increase.
Your link is broken. But quoting from the site: "Our results show that the current hiatus is part of natural climate variability, tied specifically to a La-Nina-like decadal cooling. Although similar decadal hiatus events may occur in the future, the multi-decadal warming trend is very likely to continue with greenhouse gas increase."
Which is pretty close to what I've said in this thread. The supposed "pause" is actually a sharp surface cooling trend caused by a La Niña dominated decade. The lack of expected cooling is due to underlying warming; the two trends not quite cancelling each other out (there's still a small surface warming over the last decade).
Subtract this variation, which is flat overall (there's a nice graph on the website and in the quoted paper), from the surface temp graphs and you are left with a nice smooth upward trend. Some kind of warming. Of the Globe.
So he's a Solar Max?