Going on past experiences of asymmetric, ideological wars (Northern Ireland (1967-present), Vietnam (1941-1976), the reconstruction of China (1927-1949, ignoring Taiwan/ROC), the Jewish-Arab war (1947-present)), hoping that the US-Arab war will end in thirty years is a bit optimistic.
Of course, the US could try getting out of the war. But most likely that would just result in the war being relocated from the Levant to the mainland US. Oh dear. What a pity. never mind.
So, he's someone who has written some sound shit (totally uninteresting) and is screaming about shit that goes on below the level at which I want to care about the system.
[Shrug] Maybe I'll remember his name for long enough to ignore the next stuff that he writes about.
Recreational sex between a fertile man and woman is procreational sex.
So?
It's not as if it's hard to become infertile. Easier for a man than a woman, in fact. Don't they teach kid's anything in sex education classes these days? I'd rather have thought that was the whole point of starting the programme.
Many readers recognized the joke but were thinking "who the f*** is Hans Reiser?"
I'm still trying to work out who the fuck thins Lemming Potsherd guy is, and why I should care about his opinions. Something to remember when WritingTFS, before people refuse to RTFS or even RTFA.
and is trying to save the inumerate from an expensive failure (;-))
If you can get some fool of a company PHB to pay you to develop an application that will never work in the real world, then as long as you cash the pay cheques before they get cancelled, then it's an expensive success for you and and expensive failure for them.
Just make sure that you set out your project roadmap so that you get paid for delivering a system that works in the workshop, and let the client discover that it doesn't work in the real world.
Great - just when the boss is planning to fire people, you hire a bunch of gun nuts so that when they go postal, they know what they're doing and kill lots and lots of people.
Since the Baffin Island camps at least lasted until the 17th century
[citation needed]
I know of the South Greenland settlements - with stone/ turf huts rather than the tents that "camp" implies - but ISTR that they died out or merged into the Inuit by around 1500.
17th century is considerably later than the archaeological record that I've heard of, and Baffin Island is a long way from South Greenland (*) ; neither extension is incredible, but claims like that do need to be defended.
(*) Even in modern boats, it took a colleague several days to sail up to Disko a couple of years ago, though that was early in the season to get positioned for the ice-free weather window.
Children are and should be a decision made by a woman,
I have never given a woman a choice over whether or not she's going to get pregnant with me. She can forget all the pills she wants to, use oil-based lubricants to cause the condoms to break, and fuck on her most fertile days. She can try every trick in the book, but it's still not going to de-cauterise and re-join the ends of my vasa deferens.
Women aren't the only people involved in the choice to have children. The men have a say too. The only people who don't get a say are the children (who don't exist).
Actually, all the cited examples (and many others) eat the young of other members of their own species, but not generally their own young. Even in the case of a parasitic wasp eating it's brood mate, they still on average only share 50% of their genes with Joe Random Broodmate. Or do you know of a parasitic wasp which injects it's eggs into a member of it's own species?
It would be important (if the editors are actually reading, which is unlikely) to note whether someone participating in the poll comes from a country that has easy, legal access to guns. (Outside specialist shooting clubs, for example, or with a special license for vermin control. In Britain, I'd be able to get a gun, but only after several months of paperwork and interviews with the police, and I'd be strongly encouraged to keep it under lock and key inside a gun club rather than locked into a gun safe bolted through a structural wall inside my house. and subject to random inspection by the police.)
founder of Ecomom, one of the most prominent Vegas tech-funded startups, shot himself while in his car.
I sincerely hope that he stopped the car first. Otherwise, he could have hurt a number of other people.
Another consequence of the US's stupid attitude to guns. With them being so readily available, many people use them for suicide with a high rate of success, where if they'd had to try less effective methods they may well have had time for second thoughts.
How did Dorothy Parker put it?
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns arenâ(TM)t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
The net effect is solar will continue to get cheaper, and oil more expensive, exponentially on both.
The increase in costs in oil exploration is steep, but I don't think it's exponential. It's somewhat steeper than general inflation, but since inflation is variable anyway, that's not actually exponential either.
The amount of physical and human resources needed to extract oil is only going to skyrocket. The base cost behind producing oil is only going to increase from here. The days of easy oil are long over.
Just to put that into context, the first oil wells I worked on in the late 1980s cost 2-3 million dollars. The last two wells I worked on came in at around 150 million dollars each.
The comparison isn't precise - the recent wells would have been world record breakers when I started in the Patch - but costs and the effort necessary to make a discovery are going up, rapidly. One of my colleagues, who I was having lunch with yesterday, worked on a job in Greenland where a billion dollars was sunk into the ground for no returns.
Unless you've got a pretty incompetent lab administering the tests, the window for "silent" infection (one that doesn't show up during a test) is closer to 6 weeks than 6 months. There is often such a window, which is why tests really should be repeated at least once, with the two test samples separated by the duration of the window.
they'll get a job in which if they refused to use the internet to look up answers, they'd be fired.
And which jobs would those be?
The only jobs I can think of where that would apply would be those where your responsibility is for reporting events that take place on the Internet. e.g. "timothy", "samzenpus" and "soulskill" might potentially be subject to such sanctions.
If you're talking about other sorts of jobs, e.g. software coding, then the most effective tool might be to look for appropriate code on the Internet, but surely your employer's metric is going to be "can she do the job?", not "how does the job get done?" ; if you pass the first test, few employers I know of would give a flying shit about the second test.
Actually, I'd revise that last bit - copying code from external sources certainly has the potential to expose the company to charges of plagiarism and/ or IP theft.
I agree on most points, though the mobile interface stops me from reading them as I fat - finger. Increasing prices do make previously dead prospects live again. I'm on the train for exactly such a meeting. But that will have a limit, and we are already close to 50% use of the hydrocarbon resource. Within the industry, that's not contentious (c.f. economics : the dismal science).
Can we afford to burn that hydrocarbon resource? Of course we can't. So, stop buying it, and tax carbon dioxide releases appropriately. And I'll perfectly happily move on to drilling sinks for CCS. Shrug- same difference to me.
Sack politicians (if you can) who have been paid to fight de - carbonisation of the economy. I try to. It's in the interest of any children you choose to have.
Disentangling those sets of figures (I'm mobile. Shit displays and connectivity.) would suggest a 33% -ish boost in non - religiousness in selecting/training to be a scientist (UK irreligion is close to 50% ; 50*1.33 ~=65). So if Indian scientists are 6% irreligious, that suggests about 4.5% irreligion in general Indian society. Which doesn't sound wildly wrong, given that religion in India is decidedly different to what is thought in the west (e.g. ritual being more important than creed). But there's a lot of sociology in there, while I hit rocks for money.
Your water chamber "floors" "ceilings" and "walls", plus several levels of interlinkage can be made to uniform design. It's a trick called "mass production". Given that, manufacture comes by robotic production, followed by assembly with humanoids to gasket between units and apply sealant.
Having most of your shielding as solid most of the time eases the sealing problems considerably. (Spend a year maintaining gas test equipment. You'll grow to love solids and the way they don't go through holes.)
These are issues of industrial design. Look at the way that shipbuilding costs and times have fallen as one - off craft design has been replaced by prefabrication (e.g. riveting plates together as opposed to building slices of a ship in a yard and welding them together). The same methodology changes are needed in space. If that implies a step change in launch costs and QC... well, it does.
The only downsides I can think of would be the low tensile strength, so a water shield couldn't spin with a rotating ship, and the fact that if the ship overheats then its radiation shield sublimates away...
I don't really see that as being an issue of any import. The marine industries have lots of experience of moving fluids around. We (I work at sea) uniformly stow and move fluids in multiple tanks of relatively small cross-sectional area. It reduces (as you seem to be worried about) "slosh" effects as the vessel accelerates, turns, decellerates etc. So in the spaceship context, you'd have multiple shells of (relatively) small tanks with plumbing between them and pump manifolds so that you can choose which tanks to fill at which time. You'd also probably need a set of plumbing for pumping steam around too (it's an effective way of moving heat).
Overheat such a radiation shield and at worst some of the liquid melts. Oh, you'd need to incorporate some expansion tanks for managing the volume changes on freezing / melting. Having spent enough nights of my life trying to clear sample lines plugged with ice, I've been looking at how to get around this for ages, and have a little dream of sample lines with strips of bubble-wrap type material along their interior to avoid splitting the damned things. The same sort of concept could accommodate the volume changes in your "ice shell shielding".
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The Vikings did get as far as Baffin Island. But I haven't foiund any evidence of them remaining there later than the 14th century.
Of course, the US could try getting out of the war. But most likely that would just result in the war being relocated from the Levant to the mainland US. Oh dear. What a pity. never mind.
[Shrug] Maybe I'll remember his name for long enough to ignore the next stuff that he writes about.
So?
It's not as if it's hard to become infertile. Easier for a man than a woman, in fact. Don't they teach kid's anything in sex education classes these days? I'd rather have thought that was the whole point of starting the programme.
I'm still trying to work out who the fuck thins Lemming Potsherd guy is, and why I should care about his opinions. Something to remember when WritingTFS, before people refuse to RTFS or even RTFA.
If you can get some fool of a company PHB to pay you to develop an application that will never work in the real world, then as long as you cash the pay cheques before they get cancelled, then it's an expensive success for you and and expensive failure for them.
Just make sure that you set out your project roadmap so that you get paid for delivering a system that works in the workshop, and let the client discover that it doesn't work in the real world.
Cynical? Moi?
Oh, it's a Samsung. Well, that concern is negated then.
It'll save on pension payments, I suppose.
[citation needed]
I know of the South Greenland settlements - with stone/ turf huts rather than the tents that "camp" implies - but ISTR that they died out or merged into the Inuit by around 1500.
17th century is considerably later than the archaeological record that I've heard of, and Baffin Island is a long way from South Greenland (*) ; neither extension is incredible, but claims like that do need to be defended.
(*) Even in modern boats, it took a colleague several days to sail up to Disko a couple of years ago, though that was early in the season to get positioned for the ice-free weather window.
I have never given a woman a choice over whether or not she's going to get pregnant with me. She can forget all the pills she wants to, use oil-based lubricants to cause the condoms to break, and fuck on her most fertile days. She can try every trick in the book, but it's still not going to de-cauterise and re-join the ends of my vasa deferens.
Women aren't the only people involved in the choice to have children. The men have a say too. The only people who don't get a say are the children (who don't exist).
Actually, all the cited examples (and many others) eat the young of other members of their own species, but not generally their own young. Even in the case of a parasitic wasp eating it's brood mate, they still on average only share 50% of their genes with Joe Random Broodmate. Or do you know of a parasitic wasp which injects it's eggs into a member of it's own species?
Now there's a subject for a poll.
It would be important (if the editors are actually reading, which is unlikely) to note whether someone participating in the poll comes from a country that has easy, legal access to guns. (Outside specialist shooting clubs, for example, or with a special license for vermin control. In Britain, I'd be able to get a gun, but only after several months of paperwork and interviews with the police, and I'd be strongly encouraged to keep it under lock and key inside a gun club rather than locked into a gun safe bolted through a structural wall inside my house. and subject to random inspection by the police.)
I sincerely hope that he stopped the car first. Otherwise, he could have hurt a number of other people.
Another consequence of the US's stupid attitude to guns. With them being so readily available, many people use them for suicide with a high rate of success, where if they'd had to try less effective methods they may well have had time for second thoughts.
How did Dorothy Parker put it?
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns arenâ(TM)t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
The increase in costs in oil exploration is steep, but I don't think it's exponential. It's somewhat steeper than general inflation, but since inflation is variable anyway, that's not actually exponential either.
Just to put that into context, the first oil wells I worked on in the late 1980s cost 2-3 million dollars. The last two wells I worked on came in at around 150 million dollars each.
The comparison isn't precise - the recent wells would have been world record breakers when I started in the Patch - but costs and the effort necessary to make a discovery are going up, rapidly. One of my colleagues, who I was having lunch with yesterday, worked on a job in Greenland where a billion dollars was sunk into the ground for no returns.
Dry?
Unless you've got a pretty incompetent lab administering the tests, the window for "silent" infection (one that doesn't show up during a test) is closer to 6 weeks than 6 months. There is often such a window, which is why tests really should be repeated at least once, with the two test samples separated by the duration of the window.
FTFY. No, hang on ...
FTFY. No, hang on ...
FTFY. No, hang on ...
FTFY. No, hang on ...
And which jobs would those be?
The only jobs I can think of where that would apply would be those where your responsibility is for reporting events that take place on the Internet. e.g. "timothy", "samzenpus" and "soulskill" might potentially be subject to such sanctions.
If you're talking about other sorts of jobs, e.g. software coding, then the most effective tool might be to look for appropriate code on the Internet, but surely your employer's metric is going to be "can she do the job?", not "how does the job get done?" ; if you pass the first test, few employers I know of would give a flying shit about the second test.
Actually, I'd revise that last bit - copying code from external sources certainly has the potential to expose the company to charges of plagiarism and/ or IP theft.
Can we afford to burn that hydrocarbon resource? Of course we can't. So, stop buying it, and tax carbon dioxide releases appropriately. And I'll perfectly happily move on to drilling sinks for CCS. Shrug- same difference to me.
Sack politicians (if you can) who have been paid to fight de - carbonisation of the economy. I try to. It's in the interest of any children you choose to have.
Disentangling those sets of figures (I'm mobile. Shit displays and connectivity.) would suggest a 33% -ish boost in non - religiousness in selecting /training to be a scientist (UK irreligion is close to 50% ; 50*1.33 ~=65). So if Indian scientists are 6% irreligious, that suggests about 4.5% irreligion in general Indian society. Which doesn't sound wildly wrong, given that religion in India is decidedly different to what is thought in the west (e.g. ritual being more important than creed). But there's a lot of sociology in there, while I hit rocks for money.
Having most of your shielding as solid most of the time eases the sealing problems considerably. (Spend a year maintaining gas test equipment. You'll grow to love solids and the way they don't go through holes.)
These are issues of industrial design. Look at the way that shipbuilding costs and times have fallen as one - off craft design has been replaced by prefabrication (e.g. riveting plates together as opposed to building slices of a ship in a yard and welding them together). The same methodology changes are needed in space. If that implies a step change in launch costs and QC. .. well, it does.
I know it's Godwin. I was trying to make a joke. I believe the relevant meme on Slashdot is "woosh"?
I don't really see that as being an issue of any import. The marine industries have lots of experience of moving fluids around. We (I work at sea) uniformly stow and move fluids in multiple tanks of relatively small cross-sectional area. It reduces (as you seem to be worried about) "slosh" effects as the vessel accelerates, turns, decellerates etc. So in the spaceship context, you'd have multiple shells of (relatively) small tanks with plumbing between them and pump manifolds so that you can choose which tanks to fill at which time. You'd also probably need a set of plumbing for pumping steam around too (it's an effective way of moving heat).
Overheat such a radiation shield and at worst some of the liquid melts. Oh, you'd need to incorporate some expansion tanks for managing the volume changes on freezing / melting. Having spent enough nights of my life trying to clear sample lines plugged with ice, I've been looking at how to get around this for ages, and have a little dream of sample lines with strips of bubble-wrap type material along their interior to avoid splitting the damned things. The same sort of concept could accommodate the volume changes in your "ice shell shielding".
Rocket science, it ain't.
Not encouraging. Cheers for the summary.