There's no app for amazon's streaming content but can't you just watch with the browser pop out widget? I got a first gen Fire free with opening a bank account so it's not a big deal if it completely bricks up; I'll have to try this out.
This again reinforces my position that any Dyson-sphere-building civilization isn't going to feel the need to bother cloaking themselves from detection.
Exactly; and never mind the needs and desires of the invaders; what would it take to invade something that far away from whereever the invaders come from? Look what a giant logistical feat it was to invade Europe from England in WW2. That was just across a few miles of ocean. And then there's the size. Invading a sphere around a star would take the term "theatre-wide operations" to a whole new level.
Horsepower lets us visualize 80,000 horses and the manure that they produce. Now, since each of the 80,000 horses is limited in speed, you still have to figure out how to put them in series to get the desired 1,000 mph (they can't pull but they could push), but, still, it's important to some to think of the problem in this way.
They could be on a big treadmill that turns a drive train with a really high gear ratio.
So what exactly is special about Mars that it doesn't have even more problems? About the only thing its extremely thin atmosphere does is make the dust airborne which is even worse for getting into things. You'd have to wear a almost a space suit to do anything outside and any structure's access ports would have the same problem with wear on their seals except with added airborne dust. At least if you're on the Moon emergency supplies can be hustled up a lot faster than to Mars. Nevermind this bickering though, I suggest colonizing both.
1. Construct moon base 2. Bottle moon water 3. Ship to Earth 4. Sell in fancy boutiques 5. Profit!!!
Given that specialty water from here on Earth frequently sells for absurd markups, "Pure Moon Water" would be like liquid gold. You could launch Fiji water back up for the Moonies to drink and have buckets of money left over.
It doesn't become active until the legislature funds it? How free is that? Perhaps some experts on the subjects in question could volunteer time to write intro level textbooks (with the idea of writing advanced books for sale)? That would be "free". Seriously, the use of the word free is much abused lately, much like spending cuts have long since meant less increases in spending.
Steve Martin made a movie about this. It contains all you need to know.
The word 'jerk' has gone through a transformation from when it started. First it was someone cool, then it was someone who behaves strangely (when that movie was made) and now it means someone completely rude and annoying.
I don't have any problem with the Chinese government keeping its internal workings as secret as it wants to; that's between them and their citizens. But the great firewall is preventing the citizens from outside ideas in general which is the problem there. Blocking freedom of thought is pretty different than keeping inter-governmental communication secret.
Whistle-blowing is NOT a terrorist action in any way, shape or form. Information cannot hurt anyone.
Whistle-blowing is "here is the proof of a specific incident or on-going malfeasance". Whistle-blowing is not "here are all the documents and communications that we could get hold of." That's just espionage.
Information cannot hurt anyone just like guns have never hurt anyone. But it seems that just maybe, once in a while, a person uses a gun to hurt someone; and sometimes they used information that never hurt anyone to know where to point their gun that never hurt anyone.
I mean, every version control system I've used in the past ten years has been free
Cost is not always measured solely in software costs. You typically need servers to support the software and last time I checked they cost money. Also, employee time is not free for setup of the repository, for training and for documentation of the process.
It's at a university - they have servers laying around and "employees" AKA "work-study students" are for all practical purposes free.
The last sentence of my comment was heavy on the sarcasm to counter whatever was going on in the last two sentences of the comment to which I was responding. Does he expect pregnant women to be dragged in for prenatal care by the prenatal care police or was whatever he reading spun in such a way as to give home the mistaken impression low income pregnant women didn't already have a government provided means for prenatal care?
During the recent healthcare debates in the USA I was stunned to read how many American women deliver babies with zero prenatal care - They present at emergency in labour and it's the first time they see a doc. Blew my mind that that sort of thing could go on in 'the greatest nation on earth.' Sounded more like The Sudan to me.
During the recent healthcare debates I was stunned to read that despite every state (not "most", "every") already having a Medicaid program including prenatal care a lot of low income people just don't know any better and show up at the emergency room during labor to see a doc for the first time. Yes, the USA definitely needs to address this serious problem by adopting a nationalized health care system.
The real problem with that part you quoted is that the logic is completely backwards. How do people I want to connect with know to try to find me? If I wanted to connect with them, it should be my problem to go find them, not their problem to come find me.
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There's no app for amazon's streaming content but can't you just watch with the browser pop out widget? I got a first gen Fire free with opening a bank account so it's not a big deal if it completely bricks up; I'll have to try this out.
What in hell is "chemical" meant to signify there?
It's totally wrong unless he really thinks the contents of a Red Bull can are absolutely pure and uniform.
This again reinforces my position that any Dyson-sphere-building civilization isn't going to feel the need to bother cloaking themselves from detection.
Exactly; and never mind the needs and desires of the invaders; what would it take to invade something that far away from whereever the invaders come from? Look what a giant logistical feat it was to invade Europe from England in WW2. That was just across a few miles of ocean. And then there's the size. Invading a sphere around a star would take the term "theatre-wide operations" to a whole new level.
Horsepower lets us visualize 80,000 horses and the manure that they produce. Now, since each of the 80,000 horses is limited in speed, you still have to figure out how to put them in series to get the desired 1,000 mph (they can't pull but they could push), but, still, it's important to some to think of the problem in this way.
They could be on a big treadmill that turns a drive train with a really high gear ratio.
$51M space ticket > Net worth of $45M . Someone was listening to another wild internet rumor when they submitted this story.
Heck, $45M may sound like a lot but you could only get the third biggest Gulfstream for that and then you'd be tapped out.
So what exactly is special about Mars that it doesn't have even more problems? About the only thing its extremely thin atmosphere does is make the dust airborne which is even worse for getting into things. You'd have to wear a almost a space suit to do anything outside and any structure's access ports would have the same problem with wear on their seals except with added airborne dust.
At least if you're on the Moon emergency supplies can be hustled up a lot faster than to Mars.
Nevermind this bickering though, I suggest colonizing both.
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I think even on the moon you could get a maintenance guy to come around on a schedule to replace parts that wear out.
1. Construct moon base
2. Bottle moon water
3. Ship to Earth
4. Sell in fancy boutiques
5. Profit!!!
Given that specialty water from here on Earth frequently sells for absurd markups, "Pure Moon Water" would be like liquid gold. You could launch Fiji water back up for the Moonies to drink and have buckets of money left over.
Toilets. Nothing worse than having too few toilets for too many people.....
Just make sure none of the toilets on the next floor up are over the server room.
Tell it to the people running Khan Academy.
It doesn't become active until the legislature funds it? How free is that? Perhaps some experts on the subjects in question could volunteer time to write intro level textbooks (with the idea of writing advanced books for sale)? That would be "free". Seriously, the use of the word free is much abused lately, much like spending cuts have long since meant less increases in spending.
No, Sinatra was never "the boss"; he was "the chairman of the board".
Steve Martin made a movie about this. It contains all you need to know.
The word 'jerk' has gone through a transformation from when it started. First it was someone cool, then it was someone who behaves strangely (when that movie was made) and now it means someone completely rude and annoying.
I don't have any problem with the Chinese government keeping its internal workings as secret as it wants to; that's between them and their citizens. But the great firewall is preventing the citizens from outside ideas in general which is the problem there. Blocking freedom of thought is pretty different than keeping inter-governmental communication secret.
Whistle-blowing is NOT a terrorist action in any way, shape or form. Information cannot hurt anyone.
Whistle-blowing is "here is the proof of a specific incident or on-going malfeasance". Whistle-blowing is not "here are all the documents and communications that we could get hold of." That's just espionage.
Information cannot hurt anyone just like guns have never hurt anyone. But it seems that just maybe, once in a while, a person uses a gun to hurt someone; and sometimes they used information that never hurt anyone to know where to point their gun that never hurt anyone.
I mean, every version control system I've used in the past ten years has been free
Cost is not always measured solely in software costs. You typically need servers to support the software and last time I checked they cost money. Also, employee time is not free for setup of the repository, for training and for documentation of the process.
It's at a university - they have servers laying around and "employees" AKA "work-study students" are for all practical purposes free.
Time to buy a new oven if it takes 20 minutes to heat to 350.
Umm, no. A lot of modern items are the result of clever marketing of previously unused material but bacon is not one of them: http://homecooking.about.com/od/foodhistory/a/baconhistory.htm
The last sentence of my comment was heavy on the sarcasm to counter whatever was going on in the last two sentences of the comment to which I was responding. Does he expect pregnant women to be dragged in for prenatal care by the prenatal care police or was whatever he reading spun in such a way as to give home the mistaken impression low income pregnant women didn't already have a government provided means for prenatal care?
Is there a coffee maker attachment?
During the recent healthcare debates in the USA I was stunned to read how many American women deliver babies with zero prenatal care - They present at emergency in labour and it's the first time they see a doc. Blew my mind that that sort of thing could go on in 'the greatest nation on earth.' Sounded more like The Sudan to me.
During the recent healthcare debates I was stunned to read that despite every state (not "most", "every") already having a Medicaid program including prenatal care a lot of low income people just don't know any better and show up at the emergency room during labor to see a doc for the first time. Yes, the USA definitely needs to address this serious problem by adopting a nationalized health care system.
The real problem with that part you quoted is that the logic is completely backwards. How do people I want to connect with know to try to find me? If I wanted to connect with them, it should be my problem to go find them, not their problem to come find me.
Why is everybody dropping their phones? How does this happen?
I know someone in China who had his iphone in his back pocket when he went to use one of those squat style toilets. Time to buy a new iphone...
I'd rather it were the same thickness as the old model if the battery would last longer. Who exactly is it that thinks so they're so horribly thick?
The students will only get mad if a factory churns out test-taking robots who take up all the admissions slots.