I seriously think this judge is just an idiot, or maybe he is an Apple fanboy. The first mistake you are making is to expect judges to not be biased. Every one of them is. All you have to do is look at US court cases to see rulings in favor of special interests that blatantly violate our rights or previous rulings.
That judge is an idiot. They look nothing alike, and this is coming from someone that likes Apple products. It boggles my mind why morons are always in positions of power.
Give me a break. Tablets that resemble an iPad existed in SciFi movies and real life way before iPad even existed. This is a clear case of Apple pulling legal bullshit to make the market uncompetitive to them and frankly, this sort of thing was never meant to happen when people drafted patent and other laws. Fanboy's just don't like to admit that Apple is a big greedy corporation without good ethics, regardless if they make good products. If the iPad is so superior, then people would buy it instead of the other tablets anyway.
If that's true; Well, the majority of people I text use Android phones through no fault of my own. I guess I won't buy Apple mobile products because they do not care to take the upper road and do whats right by placing the greedy cell services SMS scam straight. They could have had a great opportunity to try to be consumer friendly but they just proved they really don't give a shit since assholes keep buying their products no matter what they do.
How are you supposed to send SMS messages without cell towers? Its clearly a superior option because you can send text messages over cell towers using the data connection (NOT SMS) and also over wifi.
As much as I hate Apple fanboys for blowing Apple's horn when other equivalent or superior options exist, I have to admit that Apple products are streamlined. They tend to save you a bit of money over the longer term which this IP based text seems to be doing. They have a significant mark-up when you buy their computers, but offering you 30-40 dollar upgrades on the OS and the other cheap software you can get like iWork sort of makes up for it. The only problem may be iPhone based service will increase in price to make it up. Also, how does this iOS 5 SMS-like service work with plans that are on devices other than Apple products?
Yes, it does. Even if that means manipulating the entire universe. Theoretically its completely possible, however the energy requirements may be nearly impossible. Furthermore, physicists have already succeeded in sending information FTL, so you could technically send a probe slower than light somewhere, have it make robot bodies for us or clone with cybernetic brains, then transfer our consciousness (if you call it that) FTL using more advanced technology than the aforementioned. Some day it will be possible to upload your memories and personality to a machine, whether or not we are still human or just simulations of ourselves is a separate point.
One thing I forgot to mention. This is all assuming we survive long enough to develop the technology.
Yes, it does. Even if that means manipulating the entire universe. Theoretically its completely possible, however the energy requirements may be nearly impossible. Furthermore, physicists have already succeeded in sending information FTL, so you could technically send a probe slower than light somewhere, have it make robot bodies for us or clone with cybernetic brains, then transfer our consciousness (if you call it that) FTL using more advanced technology than the aforementioned. Some day it will be possible to upload your memories and personality to a machine, whether or not we are still human or just simulations of ourselves is a separate point.
Like I said, as a supported student during my MS I was paid 1k a month, and had the option of health insurance out of my own pocket which would have cost 1/4 of my paycheck. My tuition was about 12000 a year. So even with your calculation I cost them about half that. Most places Ive checked out to become a supported graduate student while I looked for a place for my PhD pay between 1k and 1.7k and will match about 200 of your health insurance. Its basically the reason I chose to work full time and pursue a PhD at the same time since I get much better pay and benefits.
I'd be happy with a couple colonies in our own solar system, such as on Mars, Titan and/or Callisto, sort of like Cowboy Bepop. In that series, only our Solar system has been colonized by terraforming Venus, Mars, and some Jovian and Saturnian moons. How cool would it be to actually be able to buy a ticket to Titan? Once something like that happens we could eventually reach out further after the tech catches up to the needs of interstellar flight. Needless to say, I doubt a base on the Moon will happen in my life time at the rate things are going.
Antimatter is not technically the most powerful stuff in the universe. Its its interaction with matter (complete annihilation of both particles as they convert to energy) that makes it have spectacular results.
I only made 12k a year as a supported student, and my health care was NOT included. My tuition came to about 5000 a semester so I guess you could say I made 22k.
I don't know where you get your figures. I was only paid 1000 a month as a supported grad student and my health care would have been taken out of that had I chosen to accept it. Top it off with sub-par hand me down computers and furniture, Im pretty sure I didn't cost them 100,000 a year.
The key would be to bootstrap off of some sort of near-Earth asteroid mining industry. It would require an infrastructure to repair ships in orbit, which can eventually lead to manufacturing in orbit (or maybe on the Moon since the delta-v is less). Refineries in orbit or on the moon would be economical since it doesn't make sense to lob large unrefined rocks at or transport worthless materials to the Earth. Since minerals would be mined near-Earth, these minerals can be transported to orbital or moon refineries, then used to build larger and larger structures in space. Eventually there would be enough manufacturing capacity in space to construct research stations we could transport to places like Mars or Moons of Jupiter. Basically, you keep taking one baby step at at time and you will get a Solar transport network with some bases on various moons and planets in place. From there you could eventually build large enough ships to leave the system, or probes to do so. Meanwhile, propulsion technology would advance to advance the efficiency of transporting things in space. We'd have to start dealing with time dilation once it got fast enough, however I suspect humans will develop technology to extend our lives more and more to where it won't be as big of a deal at least in our own Solar system.
If interstellar travel were fast enough, and on large enough scale I don't see why there couldn't be some economic advantage of colonizing other places. The problem, like you said, is that the initial investment would be huge and probably wouldn't pay off for a couple hundred to a thousand years. Near term I think people need to focus on mining near Earth asteroids of rare minerals or the Moon for He3 which we don't have in abundance on Earth. If we get some near-Earth industry working full swing it would be a hell of a lot easier to push further and further from Earth since undoubtedly we would need to create star docks to repair and/or build space ships. Off these efforts we could feasibly start manufacturing in Earth orbit with materials brought from asteroids rather than from the surface of Earth. That would enable the construction of science research bases stuffed in ships we could send to Mars and maybe a moon of Jupiter. With that we could eventually start to build more permanent colonies and a Solar transport network to make it easier to get around. Its all a matter of bootstrapping off of more economical things. No doubt this post will get hit by a bunch of people denying it will ever be possible.
Pretty much everything you do impacts on the rights of others so everything you do has to, to a greater or lesser extent, be governed by the will of the many overriding the will of the few, and government is self creating due to its inherent efficiency.
Don't you understand that what you do doesn't HAVE to affect anyone else. Getting a headache, or feeling "hurt" doesn't count towards violating rights. Violating rights means stealing someone else's effort or possessions. Violating rights means preventing someone from speaking through force. Violating rights means taking someones life. If people weren't such wusses it wouldn't matter what you do with your own life, they would just shrug their shoulders and be like "well, I disagree with them and I really don't care what they think or what they did. Im just going to continue living my life". I do this on a regular basis, and even though I am not perfect and bitch sometimes I NEVER let it interfere with other peoples lives. BTW, Government is only as efficient as the people who run it, same is true of any corporation or organization. You cannot say it is inherently efficient because I can find plenty of counterexamples of failed governments littering human history.
Morality is a joke when religion based, and evolutionary when looked at through science. Any intellectual will realize that. Fairness is another matter, and it does not apply to things you do that do not adversely affect other people in tangible ways.
Texas has a 8.25 percent sales tax on EVERYTHING including food. One reason I moved out of there. In spite of rent/groceries appearing more expensive here up in Colorado, its actually less. I noticed it on my first trip to the grocery store.
Libertarianism isn't about "good business", its about being free to pursue your own path within some social construct. Typically that means no murdering, no stealing, etc. http://www.lp.org/platform
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Anyone that thinks the iPad and iPhone were original inventions is an idiot.
I seriously think this judge is just an idiot, or maybe he is an Apple fanboy. The first mistake you are making is to expect judges to not be biased. Every one of them is. All you have to do is look at US court cases to see rulings in favor of special interests that blatantly violate our rights or previous rulings.
That judge is an idiot. They look nothing alike, and this is coming from someone that likes Apple products. It boggles my mind why morons are always in positions of power.
The problem is the judge did not even hear Samsung's case at all when they issued their ruling. The EU is a big joke.
Give me a break. Tablets that resemble an iPad existed in SciFi movies and real life way before iPad even existed. This is a clear case of Apple pulling legal bullshit to make the market uncompetitive to them and frankly, this sort of thing was never meant to happen when people drafted patent and other laws. Fanboy's just don't like to admit that Apple is a big greedy corporation without good ethics, regardless if they make good products. If the iPad is so superior, then people would buy it instead of the other tablets anyway.
If that's true; Well, the majority of people I text use Android phones through no fault of my own. I guess I won't buy Apple mobile products because they do not care to take the upper road and do whats right by placing the greedy cell services SMS scam straight. They could have had a great opportunity to try to be consumer friendly but they just proved they really don't give a shit since assholes keep buying their products no matter what they do.
How are you supposed to send SMS messages without cell towers? Its clearly a superior option because you can send text messages over cell towers using the data connection (NOT SMS) and also over wifi.
As much as I hate Apple fanboys for blowing Apple's horn when other equivalent or superior options exist, I have to admit that Apple products are streamlined. They tend to save you a bit of money over the longer term which this IP based text seems to be doing. They have a significant mark-up when you buy their computers, but offering you 30-40 dollar upgrades on the OS and the other cheap software you can get like iWork sort of makes up for it. The only problem may be iPhone based service will increase in price to make it up. Also, how does this iOS 5 SMS-like service work with plans that are on devices other than Apple products?
Perhaps you are right. I got about 50 years left if I stay healthy and the average death age doesn't change.
Yes, it does. Even if that means manipulating the entire universe. Theoretically its completely possible, however the energy requirements may be nearly impossible. Furthermore, physicists have already succeeded in sending information FTL, so you could technically send a probe slower than light somewhere, have it make robot bodies for us or clone with cybernetic brains, then transfer our consciousness (if you call it that) FTL using more advanced technology than the aforementioned. Some day it will be possible to upload your memories and personality to a machine, whether or not we are still human or just simulations of ourselves is a separate point.
One thing I forgot to mention. This is all assuming we survive long enough to develop the technology.
Yes, it does. Even if that means manipulating the entire universe. Theoretically its completely possible, however the energy requirements may be nearly impossible. Furthermore, physicists have already succeeded in sending information FTL, so you could technically send a probe slower than light somewhere, have it make robot bodies for us or clone with cybernetic brains, then transfer our consciousness (if you call it that) FTL using more advanced technology than the aforementioned. Some day it will be possible to upload your memories and personality to a machine, whether or not we are still human or just simulations of ourselves is a separate point.
Like I said, as a supported student during my MS I was paid 1k a month, and had the option of health insurance out of my own pocket which would have cost 1/4 of my paycheck. My tuition was about 12000 a year. So even with your calculation I cost them about half that. Most places Ive checked out to become a supported graduate student while I looked for a place for my PhD pay between 1k and 1.7k and will match about 200 of your health insurance. Its basically the reason I chose to work full time and pursue a PhD at the same time since I get much better pay and benefits.
I'd be happy with a couple colonies in our own solar system, such as on Mars, Titan and/or Callisto, sort of like Cowboy Bepop. In that series, only our Solar system has been colonized by terraforming Venus, Mars, and some Jovian and Saturnian moons. How cool would it be to actually be able to buy a ticket to Titan? Once something like that happens we could eventually reach out further after the tech catches up to the needs of interstellar flight. Needless to say, I doubt a base on the Moon will happen in my life time at the rate things are going.
It has to be possible to travel FTL somehow. However, this may require the technology of a civilization a million years more advanced than us.
Bussard Ramjet?
Antimatter is not technically the most powerful stuff in the universe. Its its interaction with matter (complete annihilation of both particles as they convert to energy) that makes it have spectacular results.
I only made 12k a year as a supported student, and my health care was NOT included. My tuition came to about 5000 a semester so I guess you could say I made 22k.
I don't know where you get your figures. I was only paid 1000 a month as a supported grad student and my health care would have been taken out of that had I chosen to accept it. Top it off with sub-par hand me down computers and furniture, Im pretty sure I didn't cost them 100,000 a year.
The key would be to bootstrap off of some sort of near-Earth asteroid mining industry. It would require an infrastructure to repair ships in orbit, which can eventually lead to manufacturing in orbit (or maybe on the Moon since the delta-v is less). Refineries in orbit or on the moon would be economical since it doesn't make sense to lob large unrefined rocks at or transport worthless materials to the Earth. Since minerals would be mined near-Earth, these minerals can be transported to orbital or moon refineries, then used to build larger and larger structures in space. Eventually there would be enough manufacturing capacity in space to construct research stations we could transport to places like Mars or Moons of Jupiter. Basically, you keep taking one baby step at at time and you will get a Solar transport network with some bases on various moons and planets in place. From there you could eventually build large enough ships to leave the system, or probes to do so. Meanwhile, propulsion technology would advance to advance the efficiency of transporting things in space. We'd have to start dealing with time dilation once it got fast enough, however I suspect humans will develop technology to extend our lives more and more to where it won't be as big of a deal at least in our own Solar system.
If interstellar travel were fast enough, and on large enough scale I don't see why there couldn't be some economic advantage of colonizing other places. The problem, like you said, is that the initial investment would be huge and probably wouldn't pay off for a couple hundred to a thousand years. Near term I think people need to focus on mining near Earth asteroids of rare minerals or the Moon for He3 which we don't have in abundance on Earth. If we get some near-Earth industry working full swing it would be a hell of a lot easier to push further and further from Earth since undoubtedly we would need to create star docks to repair and/or build space ships. Off these efforts we could feasibly start manufacturing in Earth orbit with materials brought from asteroids rather than from the surface of Earth. That would enable the construction of science research bases stuffed in ships we could send to Mars and maybe a moon of Jupiter. With that we could eventually start to build more permanent colonies and a Solar transport network to make it easier to get around. Its all a matter of bootstrapping off of more economical things. No doubt this post will get hit by a bunch of people denying it will ever be possible.
Pretty much everything you do impacts on the rights of others so everything you do has to, to a greater or lesser extent, be governed by the will of the many overriding the will of the few, and government is self creating due to its inherent efficiency.
Don't you understand that what you do doesn't HAVE to affect anyone else. Getting a headache, or feeling "hurt" doesn't count towards violating rights. Violating rights means stealing someone else's effort or possessions. Violating rights means preventing someone from speaking through force. Violating rights means taking someones life. If people weren't such wusses it wouldn't matter what you do with your own life, they would just shrug their shoulders and be like "well, I disagree with them and I really don't care what they think or what they did. Im just going to continue living my life". I do this on a regular basis, and even though I am not perfect and bitch sometimes I NEVER let it interfere with other peoples lives. BTW, Government is only as efficient as the people who run it, same is true of any corporation or organization. You cannot say it is inherently efficient because I can find plenty of counterexamples of failed governments littering human history.
Morality is a joke when religion based, and evolutionary when looked at through science. Any intellectual will realize that. Fairness is another matter, and it does not apply to things you do that do not adversely affect other people in tangible ways.
Texas has a 8.25 percent sales tax on EVERYTHING including food. One reason I moved out of there. In spite of rent/groceries appearing more expensive here up in Colorado, its actually less. I noticed it on my first trip to the grocery store.
Libertarianism isn't about "good business", its about being free to pursue your own path within some social construct. Typically that means no murdering, no stealing, etc. http://www.lp.org/platform
Nice belief system. Care to educate yourself and actually be able to claim you know what you are talking about? http://www.lp.org/platform