Just wait until 2038, and all the old Unix programmers in the US are dead due to lack of Health Care. Then you'll be sorry. Back to stone tools and smoke signals, you'll be.
We're at 64 bits, so the 32 bit seconds + 1970 is really now the end of the universe + 1970. Not a problem!
My point was that unless you personally, as a rational, self-sufficient person, plan on killing yourself instead of retiring, you have to plan for the future
I smoked a pack a day for 20 years and have a heart condition. I won't live that long, so I want every cent to go towards my son.
I'm a REpublican and gov't privatization is the biggest failure ever..
My rebuttal is simple. If privatizing SSA won't work, or security contractors in Iraq don't work, or any of the other things, then why would NASA?
My bet is that somewhere along the way, you've got some private space firms, read - Space X, funneling some big money to the Democrats, to kill NASA, which are in GOP leaning states anyway.
That's all this is, a big looting of the gov't in exchange for a bribe. NASA couldn't come up with enough patronage jobs, so Obama and the Dems are going to get rid of it.
Way to go with the strawman argument. How about if there's 1 dollar, and the choice is either split it between healthcare, education and a little defence, compared to just handing 99c to the Dod?
Ok, 1 cent for a shot to put the baby boomers to sleep, 10 cents for education, 20 cents for medical care, 30 cents for dod, 10 cents for nasa, and the rest to pay off boomer debt.
Old people do need money to eat and get health care
You assume that because they need it, they should get it. At the other end of the scale is a child that needs an education. If there's only one dollar out there, and the old guy wants it, versus the child, I'd say, give it to the child, and let the old guy die.
However, just as with fission, it's likely nothing will be built without massive amounts of subsidy, and it will pay off only in a span of decades
I think you would actually find a coalition of both democrats and republicans that could be for fusion subsidies. And, the whole lot will get cheaper as the much smaller free electron lasers replace the laser design in NIF.
No, but you can take a viable culture and exercise class and economic warfare
I agree with that completely. The deal is that the culture was vibrant, was in great shape, right up until free trade killed every manufacturing job in the northeast and knocked basically an important rung out of the middle class.
So what you have to do is, actually, what even Obama said in his own book. You have to separate out the bad elements, and then, lift up the economy for what's left, and then gradually bring those bad elements back in.
It can certainly be done, but we have to, as a nation, be mindful of the basic fact that not everyone is cut out to be in a desk job, that we need to have an economy with a spectrum of opportunity, so that everyone can have a chance to actually exert the very values we would expect them to have - to follow their talents to the best of their abilities.
It's like, at some point, conservative values about protecting society as a whole need to trump faux-conservative values about the supposed right to destroy a neighborhood in the name of economic progress. The supreme irony of our time is that there has been no greater cause of social change in the USA in the last 30 years than the right wing, which you would think is conservative, devotion to free trade. There's nothing more radical than free trade affecting the USA - even the civil rights movement is puny by comparison.
That changes the whole argument on the F-22 being killed now, doesn't it? We'll see calls coming out to restart F-22 production, but probably an F-22 B where some of the stealth stuff that drives up operational costs gets dropped in the interest of being just a good first line fighter.
Related stories note that this crime took place in an inner city area, where people are already breaking the law rampantly. What you have here is a bunch of ghetto people that are completely out of control, and the answer is what? Some other stupid law?
The entire culture is just ruined, the values, what these people think, are just a cancer on society and it has to be isolated and then ultimately cut out. You can't mandate dogs be good samaritans, you can only put them in concentration camps.
You'll have to enlighten me, I'm a computer geek not a lawyer, why does that make him a loser? So I assume you can do better?
Columbia is a breeding ground for left wing, extreme radicals. They may be well versed in law, but their politics and outlook on life is so much of a dramatic assault on mine that frankly I would as foolish as a Chamberlin if I tried to compromise or hear them out. I cannot have the luxury that they would be honest, as most radicals are not, nor believe that they are even handed. IT's just silly to even bother to listen to someone like that.
Is that, the Communist Revolution in China is essentially lawless. The whole idea of a corporation requires that laws actually exist and be consistently enforced. You have to have property rights, speech rights, indeed, human rights for corporations to happen, otherwise, they too can be randomly jailed and seized - witness what's going on in Venezuela. So, really, Microsoft and Walmart and other China collaborators are really just hoping that the current personalities in China will be consistent, and they are foolish if they think those hopes are anything more than risky hopes.
The USA is the bastion of freedom. The difference between the USA and China, is that, in the USA, you can say whatever you want. Like, you talk about Gitmo, but you are allowed to level your charges. Whether other people believe you is not the deal. In China, or Iran, or any other number of places, people are really being oppressed and really being killed. IT's just not the same to compare the real struggle for freedom in despotic regimes with the desire of some losers in the USA to get attention with outrageous blog posts.
The current president wants to focus on more immediate and practical objectives than putting a person on another planet years from now just for the sake of putting a person on a planet. --
No he doesn't. He just wants to end manned space flight because black america sees it as a white man's luxury. This nothing to do with academic or fiscal priorities and has everything to do with race.
Any more than I'm a Republican. If Obama was that,
"Well, I'm a pro-democracy, pro-personal freedom, pro-small (in terms of population) state, pro-nuclear, pro-space exploration and pro-gun ownership/self-defense rights leftie, and proud of it! ~"
I'd grumble about taxes and the muddling of the state in population, but, I'd at least say, well, the Democrats are onto something when the pictures come back from space or the under the sea. A bit of state oriented technocracy is a good deal imho.
In fact, space research done by the USSR is about the single most positive thing contributed by that country to humanity as a whole.
You have a point there.
It's just that, in the USA, our leftists are all just a bunch of "space is just a thing for white people" types that just want to kill it, and they did.
Gil Scott Heron gets his way. Yeah, American left! Let's take down mission control and dole out the government cheese!
Socialists don't want people to learn how to live in space so they can keep them slaves on earth. With this decision the Left Wing makes the Gravity Well our prison as much as it did the Berlin Wall.
In a sense, this should be giving Republicans what they want: less money spent by governmen
But we don't want this it all. Republicans aren't against all government spending. They are against things that could be done by private enterprise or not in the national interest. Building expertise in spaceflight is a strategic national interest, just as much as building an aircraft carrier is.
The amount of people happy with this decision are just either libertarian fruitcakes, or leftist fruitcakes on either side of the aisle.
I hate Obama and the Democrats and the Republicans that go along with this, with all of my heart and soul. They've ruined this country.
Let's face it, we've just got a bunch of homeboys up in DC now looting for every last federal cent to dole out to crackheads. That's great, instead of putting more people in space and on the moon, my tax dollars can now finance a bunch of crackwhores getting abortions and methadone.
We now officially have a government of the crooked, stealing on behalf of the useless.
Way to go, socialists, you win.
I hate you, I hate you,and I will teach my children to hate you.
What a dumb study. Of course you can pick a party affiliation by appearance. First off, if you always say a black guy is a Democrat, you'd be right 90% of the time, based on voting records. That would give you 60% overall correct, even if everything else was 50,50, assuming a sample set that roughly mirrors the population.
eh? why does a god need to exist for oppression to be wrong. I haven't believed in any sort of imaginary creature for a long time now but I am one the most anti-violence people I know
Because, absent religion, the most logical course for a human culture is to be NAZIs. I mean, why put up with all this multicultural nonsense and sharing to save the planet when you can just invade and exterminate your rivals, to the extent you can get away with it.
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Just wait until 2038, and all the old Unix programmers in the US are dead due to lack of Health Care. Then you'll be sorry. Back to stone tools and smoke signals, you'll be.
We're at 64 bits, so the 32 bit seconds + 1970 is really now the end of the universe + 1970. Not a problem!
My point was that unless you personally, as a rational, self-sufficient person, plan on killing yourself instead of retiring, you have to plan for the future
I smoked a pack a day for 20 years and have a heart condition. I won't live that long, so I want every cent to go towards my son.
It's the same percentage of the Afrian-Americans that voted for Clinton
Blacks always vote for Democrats. It's been that way for 50 years.
I'm a REpublican and gov't privatization is the biggest failure ever..
My rebuttal is simple. If privatizing SSA won't work, or security contractors in Iraq don't work, or any of the other things, then why would NASA?
My bet is that somewhere along the way, you've got some private space firms, read - Space X, funneling some big money to the Democrats, to kill NASA, which are in GOP leaning states anyway.
That's all this is, a big looting of the gov't in exchange for a bribe. NASA couldn't come up with enough patronage jobs, so Obama and the Dems are going to get rid of it.
Way to go with the strawman argument. How about if there's 1 dollar, and the choice is either split it between healthcare, education and a little defence, compared to just handing 99c to the Dod?
Ok, 1 cent for a shot to put the baby boomers to sleep, 10 cents for education, 20 cents for medical care, 30 cents for dod, 10 cents for nasa, and the rest to pay off boomer debt.
Old people do need money to eat and get health care
You assume that because they need it, they should get it. At the other end of the scale is a child that needs an education. If there's only one dollar out there, and the old guy wants it, versus the child, I'd say, give it to the child, and let the old guy die.
However, just as with fission, it's likely nothing will be built without massive amounts of subsidy, and it will pay off only in a span of decades
I think you would actually find a coalition of both democrats and republicans that could be for fusion subsidies. And, the whole lot will get cheaper as the much smaller free electron lasers replace the laser design in NIF.
A lot of pundits think the F-35 is too slow. You need to be in the Mach 2 club these days.
to keep Russia bankrupt trying to catch up to i
The only problem is, we're bankrupt due to entitlements.
No, but you can take a viable culture and exercise class and economic warfare
I agree with that completely. The deal is that the culture was vibrant, was in great shape, right up until free trade killed every manufacturing job in the northeast and knocked basically an important rung out of the middle class.
So what you have to do is, actually, what even Obama said in his own book. You have to separate out the bad elements, and then, lift up the economy for what's left, and then gradually bring those bad elements back in.
It can certainly be done, but we have to, as a nation, be mindful of the basic fact that not everyone is cut out to be in a desk job, that we need to have an economy with a spectrum of opportunity, so that everyone can have a chance to actually exert the very values we would expect them to have - to follow their talents to the best of their abilities.
It's like, at some point, conservative values about protecting society as a whole need to trump faux-conservative values about the supposed right to destroy a neighborhood in the name of economic progress. The supreme irony of our time is that there has been no greater cause of social change in the USA in the last 30 years than the right wing, which you would think is conservative, devotion to free trade. There's nothing more radical than free trade affecting the USA - even the civil rights movement is puny by comparison.
That changes the whole argument on the F-22 being killed now, doesn't it? We'll see calls coming out to restart F-22 production, but probably an F-22 B where some of the stealth stuff that drives up operational costs gets dropped in the interest of being just a good first line fighter.
Related stories note that this crime took place in an inner city area, where people are already breaking the law rampantly. What you have here is a bunch of ghetto people that are completely out of control, and the answer is what? Some other stupid law?
The entire culture is just ruined, the values, what these people think, are just a cancer on society and it has to be isolated and then ultimately cut out. You can't mandate dogs be good samaritans, you can only put them in concentration camps.
You'll have to enlighten me, I'm a computer geek not a lawyer, why does that make him a loser? So I assume you can do better?
Columbia is a breeding ground for left wing, extreme radicals. They may be well versed in law, but their politics and outlook on life is so much of a dramatic assault on mine that frankly I would as foolish as a Chamberlin if I tried to compromise or hear them out. I cannot have the luxury that they would be honest, as most radicals are not, nor believe that they are even handed. IT's just silly to even bother to listen to someone like that.
t is written by a Columbia Law School professor and human rights lawyer and appears to be very well researched.
columbia Law School professor, that is the epitomy of loser in my book.
Is that, the Communist Revolution in China is essentially lawless. The whole idea of a corporation requires that laws actually exist and be consistently enforced. You have to have property rights, speech rights, indeed, human rights for corporations to happen, otherwise, they too can be randomly jailed and seized - witness what's going on in Venezuela. So, really, Microsoft and Walmart and other China collaborators are really just hoping that the current personalities in China will be consistent, and they are foolish if they think those hopes are anything more than risky hopes.
The USA is the bastion of freedom. The difference between the USA and China, is that, in the USA, you can say whatever you want. Like, you talk about Gitmo, but you are allowed to level your charges. Whether other people believe you is not the deal. In China, or Iran, or any other number of places, people are really being oppressed and really being killed. IT's just not the same to compare the real struggle for freedom in despotic regimes with the desire of some losers in the USA to get attention with outrageous blog posts.
The current president wants to focus on more immediate and practical objectives than putting a person on another planet years from now just for the sake of putting a person on a planet.
--
No he doesn't. He just wants to end manned space flight because black america sees it as a white man's luxury. This nothing to do with academic or fiscal priorities and has everything to do with race.
Any more than I'm a Republican. If Obama was that,
"Well, I'm a pro-democracy, pro-personal freedom, pro-small (in terms of population) state, pro-nuclear, pro-space exploration and pro-gun ownership/self-defense rights leftie, and proud of it! ~"
I'd grumble about taxes and the muddling of the state in population, but, I'd at least say, well, the Democrats are onto something when the pictures come back from space or the under the sea. A bit of state oriented technocracy is a good deal imho.
In fact, space research done by the USSR is about the single most positive thing contributed by that country to humanity as a whole.
You have a point there.
It's just that, in the USA, our leftists are all just a bunch of "space is just a thing for white people" types that just want to kill it, and they did.
Gil Scott Heron gets his way. Yeah, American left! Let's take down mission control and dole out the government cheese!
Socialists don't want people to learn how to live in space so they can keep them slaves on earth. With this decision the Left Wing makes the Gravity Well our prison as much as it did the Berlin Wall.
The only answer left is civil war.
I'll probably attract a zillion flames for saying this, but I think this is great.
You sure will. I hate you. I curse you and everyone else that likes this decision for 10,000 years.
God damn you all to hell.
In a sense, this should be giving Republicans what they want: less money spent by governmen
But we don't want this it all. Republicans aren't against all government spending. They are against things that could be done by private enterprise or not in the national interest. Building expertise in spaceflight is a strategic national interest, just as much as building an aircraft carrier is.
The amount of people happy with this decision are just either libertarian fruitcakes, or leftist fruitcakes on either side of the aisle.
I hate Obama and the Democrats and the Republicans that go along with this, with all of my heart and soul. They've ruined this country.
Let's face it, we've just got a bunch of homeboys up in DC now looting for every last federal cent to dole out to crackheads. That's great, instead of putting more people in space and on the moon, my tax dollars can now finance a bunch of crackwhores getting abortions and methadone.
We now officially have a government of the crooked, stealing on behalf of the useless.
Way to go, socialists, you win.
I hate you, I hate you,and I will teach my children to hate you.
What a dumb study. Of course you can pick a party affiliation by appearance. First off, if you always say a black guy is a Democrat, you'd be right 90% of the time, based on voting records. That would give you 60% overall correct, even if everything else was 50,50, assuming a sample set that roughly mirrors the population.
eh? why does a god need to exist for oppression to be wrong. I haven't believed in any sort of imaginary creature for a long time now but I am one the most anti-violence people I know
Because, absent religion, the most logical course for a human culture is to be NAZIs. I mean, why put up with all this multicultural nonsense and sharing to save the planet when you can just invade and exterminate your rivals, to the extent you can get away with it.