Activists used to stand under high voltage transmission lines waving around a glowing florescent tube talking about headaches, cancer, erection problems and post nasal drip.
Then there were the people who experienced these things because Starbucks had WiFi.
Now we'll be seeing them again, this time because of wireless changing.
Just wait. When we finally develop Transporter technology, those same people will be there complaining they can't get it up because of all the Transporting going on.
To believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe is arrogance of the highest order.
To believe that faster than light travel is not possible is putting yourself into the same boat as primitives who didn't believe man could fly.
Do we know HOW to travel faster than light? Nope. But the primitives didn't know how to build a plane either.
Can we travel faster than light? Not according to what we know. And what do we know about ourselves? That we don't know very much.
Of course there will only proof beyond reasonable doubt when an actual alien spaceship lands on the Pentagon Lawn and they come out, laughing their asses off at how stupid and primitive we are.
On a gold-gray morning in Mitchell County, Iowa, Christina Dreier sends her son, Keagan, to school without breakfast. He is three years old, barrel-chested, and stubborn, and usually refuses to eat the free meal he qualifies for at preschool. Faced with a dwindling pantry, Dreier has decided to try some tough love: If she sends Keagan to school hungry, maybe he’ll eat the free breakfast, which will leave more food at home for lunch.
Dreier knows her gambit might backfire, and it does. Keagan ignores the school breakfast on offer and is so hungry by lunchtime that Dreier picks through the dregs of her freezer in hopes of filling him and his little sister up. She shakes the last seven chicken nuggets onto a battered baking sheet, adds the remnants of a bag of Tater Tots and a couple of hot dogs from the fridge, and slides it all into the oven.
So her little brat kid won't eat the free meals. But wait, she was feeding him breakfast at home too?
And she's buying frozen chicken nuggets and Tater tots? A dozen eggs cost $1.50. Potatoes even less per pound. Iceberg Lettuce is sometimes also $1,.50 cents a head.
On this particular afternoon Dreier is worried about the family van, which is on the brink of repossession. She and Jim need to open a new bank account so they can make automatic payments instead of scrambling to pay in cash. But that will happen only if Jim finishes work early.
And they own a Van. OK. Seems like a Corolla would have been a better choice. And apparently she is incapable of opening a bank account by herself? BTW, most banks have Sat hours.
Either this article is poorly made up bullshit or these people are the victims of their own idiocy.
I'd be happy if Outlook simply respected the fucking quotes when you search for something so that searching for "Cloud Admin & Security" didn't return every fucking email with, "&" in it.
These people are like the stinky hippie who knocks at your door trying to convince you to not support some kind of infrastructure project on the ballot.
Really, Just shut the fuck up already with the, "Environmental costs of (something)".
Over the last two centuries, the only reason people have starved is because some asswipes thought they had a better idea on how to run society and they had to eliminate excess people in order to implement their, "better idea".
Well, on the one hand, that's the entire point of this kind of endeavor, no? Take Sci Fi and turn it into reality? That's happened pretty much with Apollo.
On the other hand, Ion engines are a thing. Experimental, but functional. Still on a shoestring budget. So I expect those could really be ramped up with 50 megawatts of power available.
We don't need to be shooting people through space in tin cans.
At this point we have three options.
1. Continue pissing in the wind with half funded programs, then cancelling them partway through. 2. Go Full Robotic. 3. Build an for real spaceship.
I vote #3
A For Real Spaceship is...
1. Multi megawatt reactor for power. 2. Magnetic shielding. 3. Rotating living and working section for artificial gravity 4. Complete closed loop environmental system. 5. Non-chemical engines.
I would also throw in a descent and ascent module, but they can be added later since they will required chemical rockets regardless.
Every one of these required technologies (except 3...a NASA engineer told me they've done it already) would spur innovation on the same level as the Apollo program. When complete, we could then jump in and go where we want...among the moon and Mars at least.
Being a manager implicitly means you aren't in the trenches anymore.
You are filling out evaluations, time cards, attending endless meetings, setting priorities in your group, counseling employees if necessary, etc. etc.
I sit next to an Engineering manager with 30 people in his group. He hasn't done actual Engineering in years.
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Activists used to stand under high voltage transmission lines waving around a glowing florescent tube talking about headaches, cancer, erection problems and post nasal drip.
Then there were the people who experienced these things because Starbucks had WiFi.
Now we'll be seeing them again, this time because of wireless changing.
Just wait. When we finally develop Transporter technology, those same people will be there complaining they can't get it up because of all the Transporting going on.
To believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe is arrogance of the highest order.
To believe that faster than light travel is not possible is putting yourself into the same boat as primitives who didn't believe man could fly.
Do we know HOW to travel faster than light? Nope. But the primitives didn't know how to build a plane either.
Can we travel faster than light? Not according to what we know. And what do we know about ourselves? That we don't know very much.
Of course there will only proof beyond reasonable doubt when an actual alien spaceship lands on the Pentagon Lawn and they come out, laughing their asses off at how stupid and primitive we are.
When are they going to release a tool that lets you see if you have been exposed to domestic propaganda?
Bitcoin is no different than Pork Bellies.
Except it makes lousy bacon.
What if this reporter included the code to someone's Garage Door Keypad.
Is that protected speech?
What if it was the code to gain entry into a government facility?
Protected?
Bitcoin is nothing more than Pork Bellies, except you can't make bacon out of them.
Apple is now just another Sony, IBM, Microsoft, etc.
The drive provided by Steve has left the company. Their target is no longer innovation or excellence, but next quarter's earnings reports.
The Shine if off the Apple.
As someone who still has a Fat Mac in his garage, it is just sad.
As another poster said:
"I make people get well"
- Doctor
"I build bridges and buildings"
- Engineer
"I write articles"
- Writer.
"What do you do?"
"I'm in computers"
"Ahh...ok"
Then the conversation proceeds about other, more important stuff, like what to have for dinner, what time to meet for the movie, trip, etc.
Nobody really wants to know what other people do in detail unless they are considering a career change into that field.
"By setting ourselves up as an ownerless, advertiser-less, non-profit media organization, the editorial team will be able to do what they do best.
Does that mean the editors can be sued individually?
It would be a special kind of Karma to turn that pond scum into homeless people.
Perhaps the US should adopt the Canadian Immigration policies.
What a concept!
On a gold-gray morning in Mitchell County, Iowa, Christina Dreier sends her son, Keagan, to school without breakfast. He is three years old, barrel-chested, and stubborn, and usually refuses to eat the free meal he qualifies for at preschool. Faced with a dwindling pantry, Dreier has decided to try some tough love: If she sends Keagan to school hungry, maybe he’ll eat the free breakfast, which will leave more food at home for lunch.
Dreier knows her gambit might backfire, and it does. Keagan ignores the school breakfast on offer and is so hungry by lunchtime that Dreier picks through the dregs of her freezer in hopes of filling him and his little sister up. She shakes the last seven chicken nuggets onto a battered baking sheet, adds the remnants of a bag of Tater Tots and a couple of hot dogs from the fridge, and slides it all into the oven.
So her little brat kid won't eat the free meals. But wait, she was feeding him breakfast at home too?
And she's buying frozen chicken nuggets and Tater tots? A dozen eggs cost $1.50. Potatoes even less per pound. Iceberg Lettuce is sometimes also $1,.50 cents a head.
On this particular afternoon Dreier is worried about the family van, which is on the brink of repossession. She and Jim need to open a new bank account so they can make automatic payments instead of scrambling to pay in cash. But that will happen only if Jim finishes work early.
And they own a Van. OK. Seems like a Corolla would have been a better choice. And apparently she is incapable of opening a bank account by herself? BTW, most banks have Sat hours.
Either this article is poorly made up bullshit or these people are the victims of their own idiocy.
Pretty much.
Yet the SJWs will use it to rail on America.
Just see the first thread.
I'd be happy if Outlook simply respected the fucking quotes when you search for something so that searching for "Cloud Admin & Security" didn't return every fucking email with, "&" in it.
I think the new arrangement is that they are given a gun and then they kill themselves.
These people are like the stinky hippie who knocks at your door trying to convince you to not support some kind of infrastructure project on the ballot.
Really, Just shut the fuck up already with the, "Environmental costs of (something)".
EVERYTHING has costs, even stinky hippies.
Over the last two centuries, the only reason people have starved is because some asswipes thought they had a better idea on how to run society and they had to eliminate excess people in order to implement their, "better idea".
"129 million" is a pretty huge market just waiting to be taken over by a pro-neutrality company
Free Navy sounds very familiar...help me here. It's been a while since my Sci Fi reading days.
We didn't know how to do a lot of things in 1962 that we eventually did in 1969.
Well, on the one hand, that's the entire point of this kind of endeavor, no? Take Sci Fi and turn it into reality? That's happened pretty much with Apollo.
On the other hand, Ion engines are a thing. Experimental, but functional. Still on a shoestring budget. So I expect those could really be ramped up with 50 megawatts of power available.
We don't need to be shooting people through space in tin cans.
At this point we have three options.
1. Continue pissing in the wind with half funded programs, then cancelling them partway through.
2. Go Full Robotic.
3. Build an for real spaceship.
I vote #3
A For Real Spaceship is...
1. Multi megawatt reactor for power.
2. Magnetic shielding.
3. Rotating living and working section for artificial gravity
4. Complete closed loop environmental system.
5. Non-chemical engines.
I would also throw in a descent and ascent module, but they can be added later since they will required chemical rockets regardless.
Every one of these required technologies (except 3...a NASA engineer told me they've done it already) would spur innovation on the same level as the Apollo program. When complete, we could then jump in and go where we want...among the moon and Mars at least.
Climate research doesn't really belong in a Space program.
Not everyone aspires to be a manager.
Being a manager implicitly means you aren't in the trenches anymore.
You are filling out evaluations, time cards, attending endless meetings, setting priorities in your group, counseling employees if necessary, etc. etc.
I sit next to an Engineering manager with 30 people in his group. He hasn't done actual Engineering in years.