I am not absolutely sure of this, but I understand that in Spain there is a special tax for blank storage media under the rationale that the most common statistical reason of purchase is to use it to copy copyrighted multimedia over- I think this stems from the cassette tape era.
Again, I am not exactly sure of this but, if true, handling it on an international level is a very interesting approach indeed. The idea here is that even though assuming that citizens are a priori guilty of infringement they can go on and enjoy, while on the same time funds gathered from said tax are given to the copyright holders in a "here is some money, now shut your blowhole already" fashion.
There is a ridiculously enormous amount of data. Numerous cameras, totaling to almost 100Mpixels 'blinking' every 6 seconds. Assuming a minimum of 4 bits per pixel, that would be at least 720 Gb every 24h, that somehow have to be transmitted to a station on Earth from wherever the hell Kepler is. And nor that traffic includes flight and error control, neither the maintenance and diagnostics on the on-board computer is included in the former calculation. Plus, for some reason, there is not enough bandwidth to accommodate all available throughput.
As for post-retrieval data processing, what does it tell you that mission officials are seeking civilian help in interpreting data?
I note that your post is the first I find to be on topic (and not +'Funny')
TFA does not really say much. In addition, when I follow suggested links in its hosting webpage, "Read more:", as they put it, I am informed that I have not clearance enough, something that can be altered if I will part with my personal information and/or credit card number.
And all that just to read insufficiently technical articles like this? Are the restricted articles more technical? I am puzzled- Is this a lifestyle tabloid?
Furthermore, in favor of the "drop it like it's Pluto" argument, Pluto and Charon may very well shove themselves up in Neptune, but never on Urectum.
I mean Uranus.
You are right, and we are both off-topic, and I will answer to you, even though your arguments refer to my 'blah blah' section;
The government and, to some extent, MegaCorp 'steal' because they are the ones that actually issue the money. Look how many types of money are there, if you see it as a science. So in a sense, that's a goner- it is a token that MegaBank & MegaCorp steal, and if you're not part of them, you have to otherwise adapt. What really counts is production.
When a disaster hits, you're screwed anyway; things will 'cost' whatever the one who sells you to them wishes so. If the government, any government, 'decides' you are a terrorist, you are also screwed -even though innocent until proved guilty. You see the problem here is, again, corruption, one of its worst forms being abuse of power.
The current monetary system is not even close to being just or perfect or even fully functional, but is the one currently being used. All I am saying is that the more non-physical money gets -and the technology to expand that way is already available- the more a barrier will be to thugs all around the world to buy their 'respect' and condos and jacuzzis and hoes on the expense of tormented souls- and there are so many of them. Somali pirate leaders that execute children and mutilate villagers to make an example out of them, will have a much, much harder time to visit the US for holidays and act like they are the noble and just Prince of Africa or whatever.
As for controlling the pyramid, it all boils down to justice, as it always had. A thug can be part of a functional government, but still a thug.
Both of them promote and encourage crime because, simply put, I can punch you in the face and take it from you. On the other hand, a virtual form of money with a 'where did you get this' type of control in place, would make it much much harder, if not impossible, for mobsters, murderers, extortionists and other similar scum to do what they do, and then move to another country enjoying their criminally obtained goods and living like kings, just because money has a physical form.
I know, who controls the controllers, what about cybercrime and blah blah- gimme a break; I'd gladly part that 'freedom' of mine, in order for a world-wide change like this.
It's just that, you know, about FORTY (40) years ago, the US was apparently just dropping by on the Moon for the weekends, to play golf. One would extrapolate that US spacecraft would be halfway to prox Centauri by now.
You certainly sound certain- most of that traffic though is commercial, and I can assure you that all projects I've worked with and heard of have been insured.
.. but not government.
Perhaps your statement is correct in the government domain, but where is the line between government and commercial in this case? A big project usually has several contractors involved (the ones that get to handle the data first), in many an occasion each one building an instrument for the observatory that gets a ride along the main "government project", if you will. If one of them was mine, I would make it damn sure to insure it.
Nope- the idea is that it expanded at an exponentially increasing speed, far, far, far faster than the speed of light. Look up the theory of inflation for more
The only way I can make this sound as non-sci talk as possible, is to say that space itself expanded. Then again, "expanded" is not exactly the correct word, because we would expand with it and not have a clue. More like, when space expands (and it does so for reasons unknown) then more space is created in between to fill the, uhm, gap.
These things are insured. Yup, there is insurance for space missions- lots of money, but it pays back to have one.
In the unlucky event of an accident, a significant amount of the cost will be returned- sure, they won't launch again on the next day, but it's far better than loosing the craft and the money.
Is it really that different? Any data as to how many times the FBI (or similar) is denied a 4th (or Nth) amendment-breaching request?
In practice, and given the "parallel" justice system that is being employed and growing in the USA, it seems like it is very simple to circumvent authority by invoking "enemy of the state" or "national security" arbitrarily. So why should it matter anyway?
This is one of the stuff that least resembles the stuff it's named after and supposed to be resembling.
The Horse Head nebula looks so much more like a horse head; like a cute little horse chess piece.
Maybe an often seen product of sarcasm, given to illustrate how much it actually does not resemble the anticipated properties? Like, f.i. "The Sky Mountain" in Denmark, or "The Pacific Ocean"?
Agreed that he, as you point out, might be. The issue with such of authors is that they usually get arguments out of their asses, tailored to support their theories and mostly circumventing scientific methods. Not that I mind, but it makes them all more difficult to be taken seriously.
More specific- how does one determine the age of such things? 75.000 is too paradigm shifty to get away with not explaining it enough. As I understand it, egyptologists still have lots of trouble getting accurate answers on similar questions (and they have been around quite a while, and I am under the assumption that they are practicing science and not guessing & witchcraft).
The second they reach human mental parity they'll already have every resource they'll need to just take over.
Though this scenario apparently is apparently highly popular, it will never happen. Robots will never take over, because they don't want to. In fact, they don't want anything, for they are not sentient.
Unless, of course, we are talking about the Geth. Don't mess with the Geth.
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It is as realistic looking as a duplicate made out of wax.
Seriously, it can only fool you for a few moments, and only if it's sitting down- it changes expressions as realistically as Jim Carey does.
You should take a real barbie with you as well.
I am not absolutely sure of this, but I understand that in Spain there is a special tax for blank storage media under the rationale that the most common statistical reason of purchase is to use it to copy copyrighted multimedia over- I think this stems from the cassette tape era.
Again, I am not exactly sure of this but, if true, handling it on an international level is a very interesting approach indeed. The idea here is that even though assuming that citizens are a priori guilty of infringement they can go on and enjoy, while on the same time funds gathered from said tax are given to the copyright holders in a "here is some money, now shut your blowhole already" fashion.
That's lame, even within their already lame marketing speech.
There is a ridiculously enormous amount of data. Numerous cameras, totaling to almost 100Mpixels 'blinking' every 6 seconds. Assuming a minimum of 4 bits per pixel, that would be at least 720 Gb every 24h, that somehow have to be transmitted to a station on Earth from wherever the hell Kepler is. And nor that traffic includes flight and error control, neither the maintenance and diagnostics on the on-board computer is included in the former calculation. Plus, for some reason, there is not enough bandwidth to accommodate all available throughput.
As for post-retrieval data processing, what does it tell you that mission officials are seeking civilian help in interpreting data?
I note that your post is the first I find to be on topic (and not +'Funny')
TFA does not really say much. In addition, when I follow suggested links in its hosting webpage, "Read more:", as they put it, I am informed that I have not clearance enough, something that can be altered if I will part with my personal information and/or credit card number.
And all that just to read insufficiently technical articles like this? Are the restricted articles more technical? I am puzzled- Is this a lifestyle tabloid?
Furthermore, in favor of the "drop it like it's Pluto" argument, Pluto and Charon may very well shove themselves up in Neptune, but never on Urectum. I mean Uranus.
You are right, and we are both off-topic, and I will answer to you, even though your arguments refer to my 'blah blah' section;
The government and, to some extent, MegaCorp 'steal' because they are the ones that actually issue the money. Look how many types of money are there, if you see it as a science. So in a sense, that's a goner- it is a token that MegaBank & MegaCorp steal, and if you're not part of them, you have to otherwise adapt. What really counts is production.
When a disaster hits, you're screwed anyway; things will 'cost' whatever the one who sells you to them wishes so. If the government, any government, 'decides' you are a terrorist, you are also screwed -even though innocent until proved guilty. You see the problem here is, again, corruption, one of its worst forms being abuse of power.
The current monetary system is not even close to being just or perfect or even fully functional, but is the one currently being used. All I am saying is that the more non-physical money gets -and the technology to expand that way is already available- the more a barrier will be to thugs all around the world to buy their 'respect' and condos and jacuzzis and hoes on the expense of tormented souls- and there are so many of them. Somali pirate leaders that execute children and mutilate villagers to make an example out of them, will have a much, much harder time to visit the US for holidays and act like they are the noble and just Prince of Africa or whatever.
As for controlling the pyramid, it all boils down to justice, as it always had. A thug can be part of a functional government, but still a thug.
That's why fiat currency is so great
Nope, it's crap. So is gold.
Both of them promote and encourage crime because, simply put, I can punch you in the face and take it from you. On the other hand, a virtual form of money with a 'where did you get this' type of control in place, would make it much much harder, if not impossible, for mobsters, murderers, extortionists and other similar scum to do what they do, and then move to another country enjoying their criminally obtained goods and living like kings, just because money has a physical form.
I know, who controls the controllers, what about cybercrime and blah blah- gimme a break; I'd gladly part that 'freedom' of mine, in order for a world-wide change like this.
It was rhetorical --my bad for not clarifying it
It's just that, you know, about FORTY (40) years ago, the US was apparently just dropping by on the Moon for the weekends, to play golf. One would extrapolate that US spacecraft would be halfway to prox Centauri by now.
You certainly sound certain- most of that traffic though is commercial, and I can assure you that all projects I've worked with and heard of have been insured.
.. but not government.
Perhaps your statement is correct in the government domain, but where is the line between government and commercial in this case? A big project usually has several contractors involved (the ones that get to handle the data first), in many an occasion each one building an instrument for the observatory that gets a ride along the main "government project", if you will. If one of them was mine, I would make it damn sure to insure it.
we won't be able to go visit it and repair it.
Why not?
Nope- the idea is that it expanded at an exponentially increasing speed, far, far, far faster than the speed of light. Look up the theory of inflation for more
The only way I can make this sound as non-sci talk as possible, is to say that space itself expanded. Then again, "expanded" is not exactly the correct word, because we would expand with it and not have a clue. More like, when space expands (and it does so for reasons unknown) then more space is created in between to fill the, uhm, gap.
I don't know man, I didn't do it.
At least I'm pretty sure I didn't.
Really? How about "The Large Hardon Collider" ?
These things are insured. Yup, there is insurance for space missions- lots of money, but it pays back to have one.
In the unlucky event of an accident, a significant amount of the cost will be returned- sure, they won't launch again on the next day, but it's far better than loosing the craft and the money.
Is it really that different? Any data as to how many times the FBI (or similar) is denied a 4th (or Nth) amendment-breaching request?
In practice, and given the "parallel" justice system that is being employed and growing in the USA, it seems like it is very simple to circumvent authority by invoking "enemy of the state" or "national security" arbitrarily. So why should it matter anyway?
This is one of the stuff that least resembles the stuff it's named after and supposed to be resembling.
The Horse Head nebula looks so much more like a horse head; like a cute little horse chess piece.
Maybe an often seen product of sarcasm, given to illustrate how much it actually does not resemble the anticipated properties? Like, f.i. "The Sky Mountain" in Denmark, or "The Pacific Ocean"?
Best way to hack a server:
Use an axe, at the point of origin.
How about a vegetarian line, for their New Age clientele?
What are they going to do, send thugs over? [pumps shotgun]
it's the bang for the buck that's important. Soviet space program was cheaper than US one as well.
Very good point- I'm pretty sure that this "one fifth" buys a whole lot more that fivefold in China that it does in the US of A
Does the furniture also crap?
Well, the guy might be a bit of a loon.
Agreed that he, as you point out, might be. The issue with such of authors is that they usually get arguments out of their asses, tailored to support their theories and mostly circumventing scientific methods. Not that I mind, but it makes them all more difficult to be taken seriously.
More specific- how does one determine the age of such things? 75.000 is too paradigm shifty to get away with not explaining it enough. As I understand it, egyptologists still have lots of trouble getting accurate answers on similar questions (and they have been around quite a while, and I am under the assumption that they are practicing science and not guessing & witchcraft).
The second they reach human mental parity they'll already have every resource they'll need to just take over.
Though this scenario apparently is apparently highly popular, it will never happen. Robots will never take over, because they don't want to. In fact, they don't want anything, for they are not sentient.
Unless, of course, we are talking about the Geth. Don't mess with the Geth.
"Do not look at mirror with remaining eye"