Would you rather someone post another eulogy for Steve Jobs? Ooh, ahh, he gave us the iPod. Blessed be his name.
Musk is a geek hero because he actually has some vision, and follows through on it. That's something that's sorely lacking these days, when Facebook is considered a brilliant innovation. We miss the 19th and early/mid 20th centuries, when real innovators created everything from railroads to exploring the solar system.
Space flight between two cities is quite fast, and doesn't require the huge tracts of land that this would.
Here's a suggestion for a proof of concept: buy a surplus ICBM and squeeze yourself into the re-entry vehicle. If it works for you, I'll try it. If it doesn't work, the re-entry will save your survivors the cost of burying you, as you'll already be a lot deeper than 6 feet.
If you hire competent executives and managers rather than a friend of a friend, you can get that.
It's a shame Musk doesn't know how to hire competent people.
I'm guessing this is either a case of NIH or an admission that the idea won't work in any sort of reasonable time frame.
That's Musk. No vision, not willing to take risks, and the sort of NIH guy who would never dream of building on something like the AC Propulsion tzero.
What's more, this is an idea that is likely to compete with SpaceX in the long run.
I know that some people have described San Francisco as inhabited by people who are not from this world, but I still think different modes of transportation are appropriate, depending on whether you want to go to SF or outer space.
Why bother? Everybody knows nothing is dangerous unless it's acquired via that Great Modern Evil, the dreaded "Internet". That explains why there were no terrorist bombings before the Internet.
in all my time living in the US (born here and with a couple of exceptions lived here all my life) I've never heard of anyone being arrested for downloading such material anyway
Which means that it's a say-so law. Normally it's not enforced, but if they want to go after somebody and can't make real charges stick, they'll charge them with this. Even if they aren't convicted and don't plead guilty to it, it's a sword to hold over their head. Think Aaron Swartz.
Worse is that I don't see how such a law can possibly be Constitutional, so it's a pure intimidation tactic. You could appeal a conviction all the way to the Supreme Court if you have millions for legal fees and are willing to gamble 20 years of your life on the outcome, or you could just plead guilty to the other charge with the 10 year sentence, and hope to get out in five. This isn't a law, it's a federal thuggery provision.
What did Smalltalk have to do with those problems? Whatever one thinks of Smalltalk, it does work. Maybe it's a little slow (I'm not even sure), but these don't seem like speed critical applications.
Obama bent over backwards to keep you from realizing that the intent is universal health care
How fiendishly clever of him - why didn't I realize this before! He said the intent was UHC, knowing that since he's a politician we'd think he was lying, but he really wasn't!
I wouldn't hold up the UK's socialised healthcare system as an example to follow.
Neither would I. The only country it seems to do better than is the US. Look at the "Expenditure on Health (% of GDP)" towards the bottom of this article. See the big outlier? That's the US. We have plenty of fraud too, including the institutionalized kind (aka for-profit health insurance companies and for-profit hospitals). We also kill lots of people by not giving them medical attention until they can justify going to the emergency room.
Scandinavia is magic! Of course nothing like UHC could work in US, any more than it could work in the rest of Western Europe, or Canada, or Japan or Australia or... uh wait, I meant it couldn't work in 'merica. Yeah, that's it, the rest of the developed world is magic. What a shame 'merica isn't.
That may be, but taxes pay for a lot more than healthcare. Total healthcare expenses in Denmark are less than 2/3 of what they are in the US (%/GDP). They also have universal coverage and few to no people going broke due to medical bills. Any way you slice it, it's we 'muricans who are getting ripped off. I'm in favor of "socialism" for health insurance not because of any ideological leanings, but because I'm a cheap bastard.
Oops, misread "Obamacare failing doesn't serve anyone's interests" as "Obamacare doesn't serve anyone's interests". That rather changes the GP. Must remember not to post before second cup of coffee.
Sure it does. The insurance companies love it. Why do you think their stocks went up immediately after it was passed? Who could complain about guaranteed customers?
So if you want socialized medicine...
Who wants socialized medicine? Socialized medical insurance would be nice though. Maybe it's why Canadians seem happy and friendly all the time (or maybe that's the effect of too much maple syrup).
Does that mean the supporters will have to ACTUALLY get support for their program this time instead of sneaking it through?
Sneak it through? The biggest political debate of that year, months and months of continual coverage and debate in the media, followed by votes in congress, is "sneaking it through"?
Obamacare is unfixable
In other words, you want to kill any type of UHC. Here's a better idea: put in the public option. If this kills medical insurers they won't be missed. As for the state exchanges, fix the problem by killing them. They won't do jack anyway.
Obama health care plan is less ambitious than the health care plan propose by Richard M Nixon in 1974.
Health care was a lot less ambitious in 1974. That predates open heart surgery, organ transplants, joint replacements, most cancer treatments, MRI, CAT scan, and even the discovery that ulcers were caused by H. pylori.
And your point is? If your point is that we'd have been much better off if we'd started UHC in 1974 I completely agree, but it's hard to change the past.
Tungsten. At 19.25 g/cc it's slightly denser than depleted uranium (19.1 g/cc), way denser than lead (11.34 g/cc) or silver (10.49 g/cc), and within a hair's breadth of gold (19.30 g/cc).
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Would you rather someone post another eulogy for Steve Jobs? Ooh, ahh, he gave us the iPod. Blessed be his name.
Musk is a geek hero because he actually has some vision, and follows through on it. That's something that's sorely lacking these days, when Facebook is considered a brilliant innovation. We miss the 19th and early/mid 20th centuries, when real innovators created everything from railroads to exploring the solar system.
Towns and cities have a say as to how fast speeding metal objects may go through their area.
If you have grade level crossings, which high speed rail can't. That's largely regulated by the Federal Railroad Administration, and to a lesser extent, the states.
Unless you bypass all the small towns and only go to major cities, in which case you arent going to get enough ridership to pay for it.
If you do stop at every small town, it won't be high speed. It's called an express train. Nothing new about that strategy.
Space flight between two cities is quite fast, and doesn't require the huge tracts of land that this would.
Here's a suggestion for a proof of concept: buy a surplus ICBM and squeeze yourself into the re-entry vehicle. If it works for you, I'll try it. If it doesn't work, the re-entry will save your survivors the cost of burying you, as you'll already be a lot deeper than 6 feet.
If you hire competent executives and managers rather than a friend of a friend, you can get that.
It's a shame Musk doesn't know how to hire competent people.
I'm guessing this is either a case of NIH or an admission that the idea won't work in any sort of reasonable time frame.
That's Musk. No vision, not willing to take risks, and the sort of NIH guy who would never dream of building on something like the AC Propulsion tzero.
What's more, this is an idea that is likely to compete with SpaceX in the long run.
I know that some people have described San Francisco as inhabited by people who are not from this world, but I still think different modes of transportation are appropriate, depending on whether you want to go to SF or outer space.
It's a highway of driverless cars
I believe it's called a "railroad". I wonder if it's ever been tried as a business model?
Just buy the hardcopy from Amazon.
Why bother? Everybody knows nothing is dangerous unless it's acquired via that Great Modern Evil, the dreaded "Internet". That explains why there were no terrorist bombings before the Internet.
in all my time living in the US (born here and with a couple of exceptions lived here all my life) I've never heard of anyone being arrested for downloading such material anyway
Which means that it's a say-so law. Normally it's not enforced, but if they want to go after somebody and can't make real charges stick, they'll charge them with this. Even if they aren't convicted and don't plead guilty to it, it's a sword to hold over their head. Think Aaron Swartz.
Worse is that I don't see how such a law can possibly be Constitutional, so it's a pure intimidation tactic. You could appeal a conviction all the way to the Supreme Court if you have millions for legal fees and are willing to gamble 20 years of your life on the outcome, or you could just plead guilty to the other charge with the 10 year sentence, and hope to get out in five. This isn't a law, it's a federal thuggery provision.
What did Smalltalk have to do with those problems? Whatever one thinks of Smalltalk, it does work. Maybe it's a little slow (I'm not even sure), but these don't seem like speed critical applications.
don't you need to learn German to work for IBM?
You think IBM likes assisting in genocide? Don't be ridiculous - they just don't care.
I've always found a baseball bat or pipe wrench very useful for building consensus.
Obama bent over backwards to keep you from realizing that the intent is universal health care
How fiendishly clever of him - why didn't I realize this before! He said the intent was UHC, knowing that since he's a politician we'd think he was lying, but he really wasn't!
which Americans do not want
Cite?
Exactly why the GP (me) advocated moving to a Canadian style system.
For one thing because we effectively subsides the rest of those systems
How generous of us. Being a cheap bastard though, I propose we adopt their system and stop getting ripped off.
I wouldn't hold up the UK's socialised healthcare system as an example to follow.
Neither would I. The only country it seems to do better than is the US. Look at the "Expenditure on Health (% of GDP)" towards the bottom of this article. See the big outlier? That's the US. We have plenty of fraud too, including the institutionalized kind (aka for-profit health insurance companies and for-profit hospitals). We also kill lots of people by not giving them medical attention until they can justify going to the emergency room.
Scandinavia is where things work.
Scandinavia is magic! Of course nothing like UHC could work in US, any more than it could work in the rest of Western Europe, or Canada, or Japan or Australia or ... uh wait, I meant it couldn't work in 'merica. Yeah, that's it, the rest of the developed world is magic. What a shame 'merica isn't.
the taxes in that country are untenable
That may be, but taxes pay for a lot more than healthcare. Total healthcare expenses in Denmark are less than 2/3 of what they are in the US (%/GDP). They also have universal coverage and few to no people going broke due to medical bills. Any way you slice it, it's we 'muricans who are getting ripped off. I'm in favor of "socialism" for health insurance not because of any ideological leanings, but because I'm a cheap bastard.
Which is the real intent in the first place.
I wish. Obama bent over backwards to kill a public option.
P.S. The GP said Medicaid, but it expanding Medicare is a better approach..
Oops, misread "Obamacare failing doesn't serve anyone's interests" as "Obamacare doesn't serve anyone's interests". That rather changes the GP. Must remember not to post before second cup of coffee.
Obamacare failing doesn't serve anyone's interests.
Sure it does. The insurance companies love it. Why do you think their stocks went up immediately after it was passed? Who could complain about guaranteed customers?
So if you want socialized medicine...
Who wants socialized medicine? Socialized medical insurance would be nice though. Maybe it's why Canadians seem happy and friendly all the time (or maybe that's the effect of too much maple syrup).
Does that mean the supporters will have to ACTUALLY get support for their program this time instead of sneaking it through?
Sneak it through? The biggest political debate of that year, months and months of continual coverage and debate in the media, followed by votes in congress, is "sneaking it through"?
Obamacare is unfixable
In other words, you want to kill any type of UHC. Here's a better idea: put in the public option. If this kills medical insurers they won't be missed. As for the state exchanges, fix the problem by killing them. They won't do jack anyway.
Obama health care plan is less ambitious than the health care plan propose by Richard M Nixon in 1974.
Health care was a lot less ambitious in 1974. That predates open heart surgery, organ transplants, joint replacements, most cancer treatments, MRI, CAT scan, and even the discovery that ulcers were caused by H. pylori.
And your point is? If your point is that we'd have been much better off if we'd started UHC in 1974 I completely agree, but it's hard to change the past.
13.5nm
No wonder the GP didn't see it - that's a really small font.
Steel is banned at many ranges because it can be more damaging to metallic target stands and steel targets.
Bullets damage things that they hit? Who would've thought.
Hint: get better stands and targets.
A comma simply isn't strong enough to separate the interjection when it precedes a list.
Considering the list, I'd suggest it's your knowledge of metallurgy that's lacking (although I have heard of some strange alloying substances).
What do you suggest be used as a substitute?
Tungsten. At 19.25 g/cc it's slightly denser than depleted uranium (19.1 g/cc), way denser than lead (11.34 g/cc) or silver (10.49 g/cc), and within a hair's breadth of gold (19.30 g/cc).
Gold of course.
Gold? But silver bullets are traditional (not to mention cheaper).