1. Find 500,000 kilogram solid-gold asteroid
2. Tow into moon orbit for $2.6 billion
3....
4. Sell for current market price of $26 billion
5. Profit!
4.5. Misunderstand macro-economics and intoduce more supply than could possibly be consumed by the demand and cause a collapse of gold prices as a precious metal.
really? check out the history of san francisco in the 1800's
they would entrap young men, drug them...
I think they still do that.
Yeah, but men threatening other young men with dumping in San Francisco now is mostly related to a clash over Lady Gaga and not you know, indentured servitude.
They did say the hard way. If someone wanted to learn the easy way they'd have installed Ubuntu... which I assume would have:
booted up
connected to the closest availble wifi ...cracking the password if needed
googled for stories relevant to itself
posted this witty comment
became self aware
Skynet.
updated Unity
became unusably cluttered and bloated, thereby saving the human race. ...
Profit??? I mean, that's the MS did it, right?...getting cluttered and unusable?
First: I'm not saying buckshot doesn't do a lot of damage, it does. Just to single targets (firing into a group tends to make them scatter so you're not getting too many shots on multiple people at once, even if they're scared kids). Having 6-8 shots, and pumping a new round in between them gives people time to scatter and hide or whatever people do. Reload time is higher as well, limiting how fast you can do anything. Having 15 shots (or whatever he had), and multiple magazines on the other hand... well... many, many more shots could be fired. This all assumes the shooter knows what they're doing of course.
Second: I think we agree but we're just wording it differently. Having access to a weapon didn't/wouldn't/couldn't change the intent. Only mental health help could do that.
Not to attempt to derail an otherwise well thought out comment but your understanding of firearms seems a bit limited... no one (sane) would ever, ever assume that you could do more damage to multiple small targets just because you're using a "12-gauge." By 12 gauge, I assume you mean something like what you see in video games because there's "high damage" up close.
Take it from me, from first hand experience: More shots, more bullets, shot faster almost always will equal more kills. There's a reason the US Military just throws lead downrange. It's effective.
Side note: don't you think that your friend would have been able to accomplish more damage with a semi-automatic rifle? A hammer isn't particularly efficent at killing.
Translated for people who don't spend time grumbling at politcal blogs: "You found someone who doesn't conform to my preconceived notions of the way things are so instead of conceding to the fact that even though it's not my ideal, it's the closest I can get so now I'm going to get haughty over the internet. What another awesome day."
Seriously though, how many people ever consider that when they say, "there's no truly left (or right) wingers anymore" that it's really just relative to them no one is on the fringe. I'm not saying it's inherently wrong... I'm just saying that even though Bernie isn't as liberal as you doesn't mean he's not the farthest left you're going to get. We live in a democratic republic, our politicians are elected by a process specifically designed to represent as homogeneous a belief system as possible.
...readily available real names and profile photos to attach to their fake users. I'd much rather they nicked my spur-of-the-moment snaps than used me to defraud lonely and desperate people.
Speak for yourself, for some of us defrauding lonely and desperate people using an online profile only loosely grounded in reality is still the best way to get dates.
Why, they dont need to have straight line of sight from any single drone because they plan to blot the sky out with drones so they have floating network of wireless ad-hoc access points!
...then turn it off.
Are you seriously complaining about a feature because it's on by default?
Welcome to Slashdot. You must be new here.
You're seriously asking that question on a site where a simple search will reveal dozens of articles in the last few months where there's literally thousands of dissenting/agreeing commenters debating 'on by default' as a thing.
It's called Functional Obsolescensce and it's been a design method since GM pioneered it back in the early days of Detroit. It's worked out pretty well for those businesses (bailouts aside.)
Replying to myself with the wiki excerpt... First 4 astronauts will cost 6 billion.
Mars One plans to establish the first human settlement on Mars. According to their schedule, the first crew of four astronauts would arrive on Mars in 2023, after a seven month journey from Earth. Further teams would join their settlement every two years, with the intention that by 2033 there would be over twenty people living and working on Mars.
As of June 2012, the mission plan is as follows:[4]
2013: The first 40 astronauts will be selected;[14] a replica of the settlement will be built for training purposes.[9]
2014: The first communication satellite will be produced.
2016: A supply mission will be launched during January (arriving October) with 2,500 kilograms (5,500 lb) of food in a 5 metres (16 ft) diameter variant of the SpaceX Dragon.[9] The fallback if this is not ready in time is either to use a 3.8 metres (12 ft) Dragon or to delay by two years.[17]
2018: An exploration vehicle will launch to pick the location of the settlement.[9]
2021: Six additional Dragon capsules and another rover will launch with two living units, two life support units and two supply units.[9]
2022: A SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch with the first group of four colonists.[9]
2023: The first colonists will arrive on Mars in a modified Dragon capsule.[9]
2025: A second group of four colonists will arrive.[9]
2033: The colony will reach 20 settlers.[1]
I wouldn't dispute that contamination is inevitable. I was simply being snarky on the internet and pointing out that you started with "it would contaminate nothing." and then proceded to inform everyone of the ways that it would contaminate the soil, atmosphere and minerals not one full thought later.
That would be an incredibly heavy load to first get to a space station. Even with commercial space flight taking off (teehee), you're still looking at a roughly estimated LEO payload cost per lb (kg) = $4,729 right now. So if you figure an even split between 25 men (180lbs) and 25 women (115lbs) all of whom should be physically fit so they conform to averages, you're bringing 4500lbs of male flesh, and 2875lbs of female flesh. To bring all 7375lbs of that to space you're looking at $34.876 mil just to bring the bodies up!
That doesn't include food, water, clothing, essentials, toiletries, and all the other crap that even the most realist of people would bring knowing that they're never, ever going to see their home world again.
Bas Lansdorp (Mars One's main entrepenure) has stated they'd use the Falcon Heavy launcher from SpaceX... a 125mil ship in its own right... that only gives them 117,000 pounds of total load just to get to LEO! Side note, he said that while talking about a reality TV show based on the 'astronauts'...
I'm just saying... this is a pipe dream still for private enterprise, a government could (and should) fund this... but I'm doubting this happens. Here's to hoping I'm wrong.
I'd watch the 3 act play that begins with Robert Kardashian protecting the innocent ex-football star, falling from grace, and then the drone that fails to kill him before the time vortex allows him to unleash his spawn upon the world...
Oh wait, only Iran is allowed to make shit up on the internet?
That doesn't necessarily mean they're gay. There's a different social custom in that culture where that is acceptable. I honestly thought that as well when I got to Afghanistan until someone explained it to me.
I told you, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting.
But if you do burn, it proves that you are made of wood. And if you're made of wood, it proves that you float. And if you float you weigh as much as a duck... therefore... logically...
Slashdot Mirror
The thing about Arsenal is, they always try an' walk it in.
What are immigrants going to do with all that gold? ... I'll stop now. I'm sorry. :(
1. Find 500,000 kilogram solid-gold asteroid ...
2. Tow into moon orbit for $2.6 billion
3.
4. Sell for current market price of $26 billion
5. Profit!
4.5. Misunderstand macro-economics and intoduce more supply than could possibly be consumed by the demand and cause a collapse of gold prices as a precious metal.
really? check out the history of san francisco in the 1800's
they would entrap young men, drug them...
I think they still do that.
Yeah, but men threatening other young men with dumping in San Francisco now is mostly related to a clash over Lady Gaga and not you know, indentured servitude.
They did say the hard way. If someone wanted to learn the easy way they'd have installed Ubuntu... which I assume would have:
...cracking the password if needed
... ...getting cluttered and unusable?
booted up
connected to the closest availble wifi
googled for stories relevant to itself
posted this witty comment
became self aware
Skynet.
updated Unity
became unusably cluttered and bloated, thereby saving the human race.
Profit??? I mean, that's the MS did it, right?
Well, the guy DID have a penis with him when he got drunk a the bar...
And he didn't later?!? Jesus, those DWI punishments have gotten steep.
First: I'm not saying buckshot doesn't do a lot of damage, it does. Just to single targets (firing into a group tends to make them scatter so you're not getting too many shots on multiple people at once, even if they're scared kids). Having 6-8 shots, and pumping a new round in between them gives people time to scatter and hide or whatever people do. Reload time is higher as well, limiting how fast you can do anything. Having 15 shots (or whatever he had), and multiple magazines on the other hand... well... many, many more shots could be fired. This all assumes the shooter knows what they're doing of course.
Second: I think we agree but we're just wording it differently. Having access to a weapon didn't/wouldn't/couldn't change the intent. Only mental health help could do that.
Not to attempt to derail an otherwise well thought out comment but your understanding of firearms seems a bit limited... no one (sane) would ever, ever assume that you could do more damage to multiple small targets just because you're using a "12-gauge." By 12 gauge, I assume you mean something like what you see in video games because there's "high damage" up close.
Take it from me, from first hand experience: More shots, more bullets, shot faster almost always will equal more kills. There's a reason the US Military just throws lead downrange. It's effective.
Side note: don't you think that your friend would have been able to accomplish more damage with a semi-automatic rifle? A hammer isn't particularly efficent at killing.
Translated for people who don't spend time grumbling at politcal blogs: "You found someone who doesn't conform to my preconceived notions of the way things are so instead of conceding to the fact that even though it's not my ideal, it's the closest I can get so now I'm going to get haughty over the internet. What another awesome day."
Seriously though, how many people ever consider that when they say, "there's no truly left (or right) wingers anymore" that it's really just relative to them no one is on the fringe. I'm not saying it's inherently wrong... I'm just saying that even though Bernie isn't as liberal as you doesn't mean he's not the farthest left you're going to get. We live in a democratic republic, our politicians are elected by a process specifically designed to represent as homogeneous a belief system as possible.
Food for thought...
This is a bit above my head... do you think you could make this into a car analogy? This is Slashdot, after all.
...readily available real names and profile photos to attach to their fake users. I'd much rather they nicked my spur-of-the-moment snaps than used me to defraud lonely and desperate people.
Speak for yourself, for some of us defrauding lonely and desperate people using an online profile only loosely grounded in reality is still the best way to get dates.
Why, they dont need to have straight line of sight from any single drone because they plan to blot the sky out with drones so they have floating network of wireless ad-hoc access points!
...then turn it off. Are you seriously complaining about a feature because it's on by default?
Welcome to Slashdot. You must be new here.
You're seriously asking that question on a site where a simple search will reveal dozens of articles in the last few months where there's literally thousands of dissenting/agreeing commenters debating 'on by default' as a thing.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/09/08/1755259/no-opt-out-for-ads-on-new-kindle-fires
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/08/12/057241/utorrent-adds-featured-torrents-ads-with-no-opt-out-yet
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/10/30/2054237/eff-wants-ubuntu-to-disable-online-search-by-default
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/10/12/183247/mozilla-details-how-old-plugins-will-be-blocked-in-firefox-17
And for good measure, here's everyone excited that an option is now required on with a healthy smattering of, "why wasn't it default before?"
http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/11/19/2359205/facebook-switching-to-https-by-default
Shall I go on...?
It's called Functional Obsolescensce and it's been a design method since GM pioneered it back in the early days of Detroit. It's worked out pretty well for those businesses (bailouts aside.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolescence#Functional_obsolescence
Replying to myself with the wiki excerpt... First 4 astronauts will cost 6 billion.
Mars One plans to establish the first human settlement on Mars. According to their schedule, the first crew of four astronauts would arrive on Mars in 2023, after a seven month journey from Earth. Further teams would join their settlement every two years, with the intention that by 2033 there would be over twenty people living and working on Mars.
As of June 2012, the mission plan is as follows:[4]
2013: The first 40 astronauts will be selected;[14] a replica of the settlement will be built for training purposes.[9]
2014: The first communication satellite will be produced.
2016: A supply mission will be launched during January (arriving October) with 2,500 kilograms (5,500 lb) of food in a 5 metres (16 ft) diameter variant of the SpaceX Dragon.[9] The fallback if this is not ready in time is either to use a 3.8 metres (12 ft) Dragon or to delay by two years.[17]
2018: An exploration vehicle will launch to pick the location of the settlement.[9]
2021: Six additional Dragon capsules and another rover will launch with two living units, two life support units and two supply units.[9]
2022: A SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch with the first group of four colonists.[9]
2023: The first colonists will arrive on Mars in a modified Dragon capsule.[9]
2025: A second group of four colonists will arrive.[9]
2033: The colony will reach 20 settlers.[1]
I wouldn't dispute that contamination is inevitable. I was simply being snarky on the internet and pointing out that you started with "it would contaminate nothing." and then proceded to inform everyone of the ways that it would contaminate the soil, atmosphere and minerals not one full thought later.
That would be an incredibly heavy load to first get to a space station. Even with commercial space flight taking off (teehee), you're still looking at a roughly estimated LEO payload cost per lb (kg) = $4,729 right now. So if you figure an even split between 25 men (180lbs) and 25 women (115lbs) all of whom should be physically fit so they conform to averages, you're bringing 4500lbs of male flesh, and 2875lbs of female flesh. To bring all 7375lbs of that to space you're looking at $34.876 mil just to bring the bodies up!
That doesn't include food, water, clothing, essentials, toiletries, and all the other crap that even the most realist of people would bring knowing that they're never, ever going to see their home world again.
Bas Lansdorp (Mars One's main entrepenure) has stated they'd use the Falcon Heavy launcher from SpaceX... a 125mil ship in its own right... that only gives them 117,000 pounds of total load just to get to LEO! Side note, he said that while talking about a reality TV show based on the 'astronauts'...
I'm just saying... this is a pipe dream still for private enterprise, a government could (and should) fund this... but I'm doubting this happens. Here's to hoping I'm wrong.
All you'd be left with after a few years would be minerals from the bones and teeth.
In other words... contamination?
I'd watch the 3 act play that begins with Robert Kardashian protecting the innocent ex-football star, falling from grace, and then the drone that fails to kill him before the time vortex allows him to unleash his spawn upon the world...
Oh wait, only Iran is allowed to make shit up on the internet?
Also, I smell a Tony.
What do you call a rootkit that is put there by the OS maker?
Sony, we're looking at you for the answer.
Someone Google'd the word, Google? Quick, get up to the top of the Syrian version of Big Ben to get their internet back online!
This is why no one takes the Elders of the Internet seriously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
That doesn't necessarily mean they're gay. There's a different social custom in that culture where that is acceptable. I honestly thought that as well when I got to Afghanistan until someone explained it to me.
I told you, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting.
But if you do burn, it proves that you are made of wood. And if you're made of wood, it proves that you float. And if you float you weigh as much as a duck... therefore... logically...
I could never get off on ASCII art, the kerning was always off.
Give me something steamy typed in a lovely Comic Sans font and what that does to my eyes won't be the obscene act.