I work for the NGC. On the helpdesk even. IT isn't it's own seperate division. It's it own seperate multi-billion dollar a year comany...with it's own sub-divisions. NGC is a BIG company
GNU was supposed to be a drop in replacement for Unix. Plan9 was supposed to be the successor. But what would the FSF replacement for Plan9 be? GNP- Gnp's Not Plan9? But then we'd run into endless jokes about GNP being incomplete, and no-one would get the joke, because it would be incomplete. Or GNI - GNI's Not Inferno? At least you can pronounce GNI...it sounds like Genie. And you could have a little magic deamon comming out of a bottle for a mascot.
Thus concentration of wealth, which is *always* due to becoming a parasite on the system
Sorry, but no it isn't. Consider the Wilt Chamberlain paradox. First, everything is spread evenly among everybody. This gives everyone say $10,000 to with as they please. Now consider a million people want spend a dollar to watch Wilt Chamberlain play basketball. Mr Chamberlain now has a million dollars, and all the people that paid him the money are only short a buck. An amount they probably could have lost in thier sofa cushions. What if Wilt then decides to build a place for his fans to sit comfortably while he plays? A stadium of sorts. Now the contractors he hires to build the statium have more money than thier fellow citizens. This attracts more fans, and Wilt is even richer than before. But no-one is out more than a handfull of dollars, and Wilt is the richest person on the planet. The point being, that there is a concentration of wealth with no exploitation. No parasitic behavior. No enslaving your fellow man. Wilt just wanted to play basketball, the others saw a value in that and chipped in some money. The ones that didn't care, didn't give any money.
Also, economics isn't a zero sum game. For instance we can turn worthess dirt into valuable bricks or earthenware. Combine the non zero sum with that Wilt Chamberlain thing and we can be free, and have rich people.
I'm not saying that exploitation doesn't happen, but the getting rich doesn't necessarily mean robbing the poor.
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I work for the NGC. On the helpdesk even. IT isn't it's own seperate division. It's it own seperate multi-billion dollar a year comany...with it's own sub-divisions. NGC is a BIG company
Seen any steam engines lately?
They're in powerplants. Mostly they're steam turbines.
Those guys are getting busy. There's this and a Falcon 1 launch any day now. I'm all giddy with excitement.
They must be doing something right, cause apparently, the rocket is on the pad right now going through dress rehearsals.
clickenzie here.
Sing...and tell tall tales.
We come in peace. Shoot to kill.
You owe me a new keyboard. And a coke.
Heh, this may explain why geniuses stop being productive after they get married. The wife keeps interrupting thier thought processes...intentionally.
Also, here's a site that has 15 points against using hydrogren as fuel. Number 7 is really interesting.
According to this site, a gallon of liquid hydrogen has about as much energy as a pint of gas.
Shaving cream, whipped cream, whatever.
*burp*
What the hell. Most of the Wiccans I've met are perfectly ok people. Wierd, but nice.
It's like looking at the four horsemen of the apocolypse or something.
I fucked HTML once. It was unsatisfying and messy.
*rolls up newspaper*
No! *smack* Bad 6Yankee, bad! No pun for you!
might not another substance prove to be more suitable?
How about mercury vapor?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_vapour_turbine
To avoid another Scribd-like fiasco, do they have permission from Heilien's estate to do this?
I'd say that was funny, except I swear that's how some people actually think.
Yeah, the stargate is really just a ring teleportation system that transmits through a wormhole.
(my geek is naked before the world)
GNU was supposed to be a drop in replacement for Unix. Plan9 was supposed to be the successor. But what would the FSF replacement for Plan9 be? GNP- Gnp's Not Plan9? But then we'd run into endless jokes about GNP being incomplete, and no-one would get the joke, because it would be incomplete. Or GNI - GNI's Not Inferno? At least you can pronounce GNI...it sounds like Genie. And you could have a little magic deamon comming out of a bottle for a mascot.
Thus concentration of wealth, which is *always* due to becoming a parasite on the system
Sorry, but no it isn't. Consider the Wilt Chamberlain paradox. First, everything is spread evenly among everybody. This gives everyone say $10,000 to with as they please. Now consider a million people want spend a dollar to watch Wilt Chamberlain play basketball. Mr Chamberlain now has a million dollars, and all the people that paid him the money are only short a buck. An amount they probably could have lost in thier sofa cushions. What if Wilt then decides to build a place for his fans to sit comfortably while he plays? A stadium of sorts. Now the contractors he hires to build the statium have more money than thier fellow citizens. This attracts more fans, and Wilt is even richer than before. But no-one is out more than a handfull of dollars, and Wilt is the richest person on the planet. The point being, that there is a concentration of wealth with no exploitation. No parasitic behavior. No enslaving your fellow man. Wilt just wanted to play basketball, the others saw a value in that and chipped in some money. The ones that didn't care, didn't give any money.
Also, economics isn't a zero sum game. For instance we can turn worthess dirt into valuable bricks or earthenware. Combine the non zero sum with that Wilt Chamberlain thing and we can be free, and have rich people.
I'm not saying that exploitation doesn't happen, but the getting rich doesn't necessarily mean robbing the poor.
Wasn't it renamed to "Dame Liberty" for a short while?
You win, with the Nausica reference.
Check out this one from 2 years earlier on mother earth news:
They get a large chunk of the way there, by using 1920's era tech. Tech that's apparently available now, just needing to be bolted into cars.