I don't even see the big deal about people living there. We currently have a 15 year habitated station with microgravity. The moon at least has way stronger gravity, and is only three days away by a tiny rocket (if I recall correctly from Apollo 13). It isn't like people would be permanently living on the moon, though eventually we might get to that point.
There is your citation, it is listed in TFS, and is apparently a freely available paper (no charge like I initially thought and replied elsewhere to you).
You should write detailed rebuttals of the actual paper instead of speculating on what the paper says, as rebutting human colonies when they aren't even in the paper makes it look like you maybe don't know what the paper was about.
I can't get TFP without paying for it, so I can't say for sure. It looks like you might be arguing against a strawman. The paper's abstract specifically talks about AI and robotics, so what is to stop humanity from building a supply chain with teleoperated robots shipped to the moon?
You are arguing against humans mining on the moon when clearly our robots can do it now with minutes of lag between commands (Mars rovers), so in the future?
Thank you for the reply. I wouldn't have been so calm or detailed about it, but felt that ACs comment couldn't go unchallenged.
ACs comment above is much like APKs constant assertion that because I admitted I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome as a child, I must be brain damaged, which is utter garbage, but that is what some people think. It seems that this ignorance can only be fought with information that proves the contrary.
It looks like I was correctly thinking of the ones I mentioned. It isn't so much that I don't know the picture, more that I don't know the story that makes them important.
Why was the monk burning himself? What is the story behind the Afghan woman?
It is possible it was discussed some in history class, but it really wasn't my prefered subject. I am finding as I get older though, that I am more interested in history, but it could just be a difference in the exposure, I always found history class boring. It seems that in history, they wanted you to memorize facts, not understand the material. Knowing what date the Mongols attacked China is much less important than understanding why, and the effects it had on China and the Mongols, but this seems to be the type of thing that history class missed.
I do remember having a good teacher though and the difference it made. I remember quite well the why how what... of the New Deal, and what led to it, and what it did. So perhaps it is just a matter of public school education and the crap shoot it is with good/bad teachers.
Many of those pictures I had seen, but didn't realize what they were. But I cannot say I have ever seen the monk, or Tienanmen Square before.
There is nothing in science that isn't "just a theory". Nothing can conclusively be proven, that is not how science works.
We could tomorrow discover that Newton's "laws" of motion can be totally ignored in a single circumstance, and that is enough to disprove those laws. We know that they are not exact, and don't work in certain circumstances, even though they work so well on Earth. Any Theory can be disproven, but good luck with that as the Dark Matter theories have lots of evidence, and you would have to have a theory to explain all the evidence, and then you are just refining the theory, not really disproving it.
Anyways, the whole linchpin of the Dark Matter theory is that this stuff is non baryonic. We know this as much as we know anything in science. Black Holes are baryonic, and so cannot replace dark matter.
Did Muhammad have anything to say about Allah's feelings on birth control? I wasn't aware of anything that says that followers of Islam cannot use condoms. Can you point to this directive of Allah's?
Because there have been suspicious deaths around Hillary already?
If you read what the FBI Director wrote/said, you will find that he actually details exactly what laws she broke, and how she broke them, then said no prosecutor would prosecute her for it. There is a significant difference between that statement and that she did nothing wrong. Other people have gone to prison for unintentionally breaking the exact same laws, and others have been fined and given probation for breaking them. Her "I don't remember the training" is utter bullshit trying to cover up for her mistakes, as the training is given on a yearly basis, and there are records she took it.
Frankly, if you fault Gary for that, you would also have to fault Trump for not knowing who David Duke is. That also happened, and when he found out who it was, he denounced him.
Where do you live? Uber carries commercial insurance policies on their drivers in the US and Ontario at least. This no insurance thing keeps persisting, despite evidence to the contrary.
Nope, no different in Canada. That is at least Ontario, you may need to check if they do in your section of Canada. Though I can't imagine it would be different for some reason.
But but but, voter ID laws are racist, and we have no proof that anyone is cheating...despite all the collateral evidence./s
Those people speaking out against Voter ID laws are pretty terrible citizens. They don't care if people cheat in the elections, as long as it is their people who are benefiting from the cheating.
As one of those people who doesn't know, what is the significance of the green eyed Afghan girl. I have seen the picture, and known she was Middle Eastern, but don't know any of the history of that one.
I can't say that I knew anything about Napalm girl, I had to look up the picture. I have no idea what the burning monk is, haven't seen that Jack Ruby picture, or Tienanmen Square. The rest I think I know about, the Iwo Jima one has a monument in DC that I have been to and read the plaque, Marilyn Monroe is hard to miss, and the V-J day kiss, is that the one in times square?
When I was in high school (graduated in 98), there wasn't much emphasis on the cultural side of these things, they were just mentioned in passing. It was taught about the protests, and that we essentially gave up due to the mood back home. I am aware of how returning GIs were treated, and that many people felt bad about that, and so treated the returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan better (that was emphasised in the news, we don't disagree with the soldiers, but with the war). I also know about Jane Fonda and what she did, but that is mostly from my Grandfather who was a B-52 pilot, and so had to endure the baby killer comments because of what she did.
I wasn't even aware it was a secret that the US was in the Vietnam war (I wasn't alive at the time either, but I am Gen X, not Millenial). Now, I know that China tried to hide the fact that they were on the other side of the Vietnam war, and acted like it was just the North that was fighting the US.
Or he just had never encountered a windable watch and simply didn't know how to wind it.
I used to have one, and it wasn't exactly obvious that you pulled out the crown one detent to wind and two detents to set the watch. It required reading the directions.
Nobody can edit, that is one of the primary design choices made on Slashdot from the very beginning. It prevents someone editing their post after people flame it.
Or collapsing randomly, forgetting yearly training she received, talking about events that never happened (getting shot at), making poor decisions (buying EV cars for the European ambassadors while ignoring basic security concerns of the Libyan ambassador).
I have seen many things to make me concerned about her. It seems though that people who still support her just don't get how big a deal the shit she has done is, and nothing that she does or says will ever disqualify her in their minds.
If that were to become routine, I think younger presidents would be more common. I wouldn't know much about it as I am in my 30s, but my understanding is that your body starts falling apart at around 50, and just gets worse as you get older.
I have always wondered why the requirements to be president include >35, perhaps when the constitution was written, a 35 year old would be pretty much done with child rearing, and would have more time to dedicate to running the country?
Same kind of things happened here in Baltimore during the riots. They looted the local CVS, where their friends worked, and which provided services for the local community.
They also looted a check cashing place, that helped people without the ability to get bank accounts get their paychecks cashed...a real horrible place that totally deserved it.
When people talk about the terrible things that happened to the African people in the US, I think they forget that the Chinese immigrants and Irish went through much the same things. Yet you don't have issues with the Irish (those evil red heads?) or Chinese doing these things, despite all the racism and slavery they dealt with.
I think, and I could be wrong here, that you might have missed a step in your assertion.
1. Racism is prejudice plus power. 2. White people have power, 3. -missing step of prejudice-
therefore by the transitive property of racism all white people are racist. Q.E.D.
You seem to have missed the fact that not everyone is prejudiced. Also, racism requires no power, which is why "No White Trash Racists" would not be able to be racist according to your formula, as by definition, white trash people have no power.
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I don't even see the big deal about people living there. We currently have a 15 year habitated station with microgravity. The moon at least has way stronger gravity, and is only three days away by a tiny rocket (if I recall correctly from Apollo 13). It isn't like people would be permanently living on the moon, though eventually we might get to that point.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.007...
There is your citation, it is listed in TFS, and is apparently a freely available paper (no charge like I initially thought and replied elsewhere to you).
You should write detailed rebuttals of the actual paper instead of speculating on what the paper says, as rebutting human colonies when they aren't even in the paper makes it look like you maybe don't know what the paper was about.
I can't get TFP without paying for it, so I can't say for sure. It looks like you might be arguing against a strawman. The paper's abstract specifically talks about AI and robotics, so what is to stop humanity from building a supply chain with teleoperated robots shipped to the moon?
You are arguing against humans mining on the moon when clearly our robots can do it now with minutes of lag between commands (Mars rovers), so in the future?
Thank you for the reply. I wouldn't have been so calm or detailed about it, but felt that ACs comment couldn't go unchallenged.
ACs comment above is much like APKs constant assertion that because I admitted I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome as a child, I must be brain damaged, which is utter garbage, but that is what some people think. It seems that this ignorance can only be fought with information that proves the contrary.
It looks like I was correctly thinking of the ones I mentioned. It isn't so much that I don't know the picture, more that I don't know the story that makes them important.
Why was the monk burning himself?
What is the story behind the Afghan woman?
It is possible it was discussed some in history class, but it really wasn't my prefered subject. I am finding as I get older though, that I am more interested in history, but it could just be a difference in the exposure, I always found history class boring. It seems that in history, they wanted you to memorize facts, not understand the material. Knowing what date the Mongols attacked China is much less important than understanding why, and the effects it had on China and the Mongols, but this seems to be the type of thing that history class missed.
I do remember having a good teacher though and the difference it made. I remember quite well the why how what ... of the New Deal, and what led to it, and what it did. So perhaps it is just a matter of public school education and the crap shoot it is with good/bad teachers.
Many of those pictures I had seen, but didn't realize what they were. But I cannot say I have ever seen the monk, or Tienanmen Square before.
There is nothing in science that isn't "just a theory". Nothing can conclusively be proven, that is not how science works.
We could tomorrow discover that Newton's "laws" of motion can be totally ignored in a single circumstance, and that is enough to disprove those laws. We know that they are not exact, and don't work in certain circumstances, even though they work so well on Earth. Any Theory can be disproven, but good luck with that as the Dark Matter theories have lots of evidence, and you would have to have a theory to explain all the evidence, and then you are just refining the theory, not really disproving it.
Anyways, the whole linchpin of the Dark Matter theory is that this stuff is non baryonic. We know this as much as we know anything in science. Black Holes are baryonic, and so cannot replace dark matter.
You cannot change Physics.
You need to understand the distances involved.
Oh? And you need some basic physics classes, since you seem to not understand physics basics.
They don't like the phallus symbology in use in rocket design, and would like more feminine shaped rockets.
Did Muhammad have anything to say about Allah's feelings on birth control? I wasn't aware of anything that says that followers of Islam cannot use condoms. Can you point to this directive of Allah's?
I say vote for Alice Cooper:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/19/...
http://www.nbcwashington.com/n...
Because there have been suspicious deaths around Hillary already?
If you read what the FBI Director wrote/said, you will find that he actually details exactly what laws she broke, and how she broke them, then said no prosecutor would prosecute her for it. There is a significant difference between that statement and that she did nothing wrong. Other people have gone to prison for unintentionally breaking the exact same laws, and others have been fined and given probation for breaking them. Her "I don't remember the training" is utter bullshit trying to cover up for her mistakes, as the training is given on a yearly basis, and there are records she took it.
Frankly, if you fault Gary for that, you would also have to fault Trump for not knowing who David Duke is. That also happened, and when he found out who it was, he denounced him.
Where do you live? Uber carries commercial insurance policies on their drivers in the US and Ontario at least. This no insurance thing keeps persisting, despite evidence to the contrary.
https://newsroom.uber.com/cana...
https://newsroom.uber.com/5646...
https://newsroom.uber.com/5646...
Uber insures all drivers in the US under a commercial insurance policy, and always has. Are you trying to claim that they work differently in Canada?
https://newsroom.uber.com/cana...
Nope, no different in Canada. That is at least Ontario, you may need to check if they do in your section of Canada. Though I can't imagine it would be different for some reason.
But but but, voter ID laws are racist, and we have no proof that anyone is cheating...despite all the collateral evidence. /s
Those people speaking out against Voter ID laws are pretty terrible citizens. They don't care if people cheat in the elections, as long as it is their people who are benefiting from the cheating.
As one of those people who doesn't know, what is the significance of the green eyed Afghan girl. I have seen the picture, and known she was Middle Eastern, but don't know any of the history of that one.
I can't say that I knew anything about Napalm girl, I had to look up the picture. I have no idea what the burning monk is, haven't seen that Jack Ruby picture, or Tienanmen Square. The rest I think I know about, the Iwo Jima one has a monument in DC that I have been to and read the plaque, Marilyn Monroe is hard to miss, and the V-J day kiss, is that the one in times square?
When I was in high school (graduated in 98), there wasn't much emphasis on the cultural side of these things, they were just mentioned in passing. It was taught about the protests, and that we essentially gave up due to the mood back home. I am aware of how returning GIs were treated, and that many people felt bad about that, and so treated the returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan better (that was emphasised in the news, we don't disagree with the soldiers, but with the war). I also know about Jane Fonda and what she did, but that is mostly from my Grandfather who was a B-52 pilot, and so had to endure the baby killer comments because of what she did.
I wasn't even aware it was a secret that the US was in the Vietnam war (I wasn't alive at the time either, but I am Gen X, not Millenial). Now, I know that China tried to hide the fact that they were on the other side of the Vietnam war, and acted like it was just the North that was fighting the US.
Or he just had never encountered a windable watch and simply didn't know how to wind it.
I used to have one, and it wasn't exactly obvious that you pulled out the crown one detent to wind and two detents to set the watch. It required reading the directions.
You will buy a Mac, because we are cool and hip, and know about this 1984 book.
Nobody can edit, that is one of the primary design choices made on Slashdot from the very beginning. It prevents someone editing their post after people flame it.
Or collapsing randomly, forgetting yearly training she received, talking about events that never happened (getting shot at), making poor decisions (buying EV cars for the European ambassadors while ignoring basic security concerns of the Libyan ambassador).
I have seen many things to make me concerned about her. It seems though that people who still support her just don't get how big a deal the shit she has done is, and nothing that she does or says will ever disqualify her in their minds.
If that were to become routine, I think younger presidents would be more common. I wouldn't know much about it as I am in my 30s, but my understanding is that your body starts falling apart at around 50, and just gets worse as you get older.
I have always wondered why the requirements to be president include >35, perhaps when the constitution was written, a 35 year old would be pretty much done with child rearing, and would have more time to dedicate to running the country?
Same kind of things happened here in Baltimore during the riots. They looted the local CVS, where their friends worked, and which provided services for the local community.
http://www.pharmacytimes.com/n...
They also looted a check cashing place, that helped people without the ability to get bank accounts get their paychecks cashed...a real horrible place that totally deserved it.
When people talk about the terrible things that happened to the African people in the US, I think they forget that the Chinese immigrants and Irish went through much the same things. Yet you don't have issues with the Irish (those evil red heads?) or Chinese doing these things, despite all the racism and slavery they dealt with.
because there's fewer (insert minority group here) degree holders
Unfortunately, in college degrees, it is white males who are the minority, so it is perfectly socially acceptable to disclude them from things.
I think, and I could be wrong here, that you might have missed a step in your assertion.
1. Racism is prejudice plus power.
2. White people have power,
3. -missing step of prejudice-
therefore by the transitive property of racism all white people are racist. Q.E.D.
You seem to have missed the fact that not everyone is prejudiced. Also, racism requires no power, which is why "No White Trash Racists" would not be able to be racist according to your formula, as by definition, white trash people have no power.