Did you know that I don't give a shit how things are on average? Where exactly is my benefit if internet speeds just got higher for corporations?
In other words, since this is probably a crowd that does give a shit or two about internet and its speed, could we have a show of hands whose internet actually got faster since the repeal of rules? And while we're at it, how did prices develop?
You are aware that by having a mainframe, you will basically just have a "dumb" terminal at your disposal, which intrinsically means that whoever controls that mainframe decide if and when you get whatever upgrades, right?
Well, maybe it helps teach people not to buy (sorry, rent) their software in stores that can revoke the privilege of using software you paid for at a whim?
The difference between having government handouts under the democrats and having to work 3 jobs to make ends meet under the reps is that in the former case I have more spare time on my hands, I'm broke either way.
The XKCD image shows the time that I care about: The time humans populate the planet. Ya know, in the Hadean period the earth was mostly still made of molten lava, and certainly hotter than today, with LOTS more CO2 and practically no O2 in the atmosphere. But guess what: No humans tried to survive on that planet.
Aside of that, I don't care. I'm on my way out and I don't have kids. If you do, well, I'd prepare some sort of good excuse if I was you. You'll need it.
Intentional? Nah. Oil companies are not run by mustache-twirling evil overlords hellbent on destroying earth. They're just run by people who care about profit. If it was profitable to protect the environment, they'd do that, unfortunately it's profitable to turn the planet into an uninhabitable hellhole. That's basically all there is to it.
You know what? I don't even have to read the funny pages anymore. Just launch a story about climate change on Slashdot, grab a bag of popcorn, lean back and enjoy. It's hilarious. Well, it would be, if it wasn't so terribly sad.
And yes, I'm beyond caring. I tried to care. I really did. But I simply don't anymore. I have no kids. And the planet will stay habitable for the maybe 20 years I have left. Why should I care about this ball being habitable for you or your kids if even you can't be assed to?
On what? Considering our superior success with the "War on drugs", the "War on poverty" and the "War on terror", we should probably declare a "War on climate change".
Or... maybe not. All those wars got us was MORE of the thing we warred against...
Enjoy the view while it lasts. In a couple of years your plains will be flooded with refugees trying to escape the southern parts that have temperatures above 100 in Winter and becomes uninhabitable.
I went through all the rocket fuel I am aware of and the only one feasible I can come up with is H2/O2. If you have any other that you can get out of asteroids, post it. If not, the discussion ends here.
Then that "prospector" needs to have fuel for the return trip, or you make it a single trip ship that you consider a loss, either way, you need insane amounts of fuel. Again: You plan to put a vessel on a hyperbolic trajectory AND THEN back to a lunar orbit. And all that has to be achieved with a rocket that has quite a bit of ISP which usually entails a very poor fuel efficiency.
Concerning the fuel: What is that magical fuel? Let me put it clearly and unambiguous: What magical fuel is that? Tell me!
Launching in bits and pieces does reduce the amount of material you have to lift per launch, but it entails the problem of having to reconnect them. In orbit. Which makes whatever you put there heavier and less stable. That's fine for an orbital station that is supposed to be mostly stationary, with very little stress due to acceleration. It's certainly not an option for rockets that have to be accelerated with quite a bit of impulse simply because making modular setups stress resistant makes them heavy. And heavy is not an option for something you want to accelerate twice for orbital changes from lunar orbit to hyperbolic.
Back when I was young, MS was what rescued us from the clutches of IBM and their mainframes. MS was the alternative, the one that gave us the option to tell IBM to go suck a donkey dick when they came with their "you can't avoid us, eat our shit and call it ice cream" attitude.
Today's MS is not what our father's MS was. Today's MS is what our father's IBM was.
What's happening? Jack shit is happening. A bunch of people finally woke up and noticed that we're fucked. But hey, since we're fucked, why bother trying to do anything? It's just so simple, no matter where you are in the realization chain, you can simply continue as usual with no reason to change your behaviour.
At first it's "there is no climate change" so there is no reason to do anything. Then, when it's no longer possible to deny it, it's "well, climate has always changed", and since that's still nothing that I could possibly be blamed for, no reason to change anything. Then we get to "well, we do affect it, but it's not gonna have any impact" which again gives you no reason to change anything, only to finally arrive at "well, we did fuck up, but now it's too late anyway", which again is no reason to do anything since you can't do anything anyway anymore.
Ain't it great? No matter where we are in the climate change timeline, we have no reason to stop fucking the planet.
Stone age living? Yeah, it's horrible that you might have to drive in a car instead of a land cruiser when you go pick up your mail, teh horrorz of stone age transportation!
Let's be honest here, it's not like anything is gonna change with the discussion here. You'll have two sides yell at each other and the ones they're trying to convince stopped caring either way a long time ago.
It's a bit like US politics, now that I think about it.
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Grab the popcorn, folks, we're about to see a roundup of the best conspiracy theories and fake news apologetics of the year!
Did you know that I don't give a shit how things are on average? Where exactly is my benefit if internet speeds just got higher for corporations?
In other words, since this is probably a crowd that does give a shit or two about internet and its speed, could we have a show of hands whose internet actually got faster since the repeal of rules? And while we're at it, how did prices develop?
You are aware that by having a mainframe, you will basically just have a "dumb" terminal at your disposal, which intrinsically means that whoever controls that mainframe decide if and when you get whatever upgrades, right?
Yes, I'm old. Old enough to remember the MCP when he was just a chess program. He started small, and he'll end small.
Or at least allow us to do it?
And while you're at it, could we get rid of Cortana, too?
XP64 suffered from anemic driver support. Otherwise it would have been a great OS.
Well, maybe it helps teach people not to buy (sorry, rent) their software in stores that can revoke the privilege of using software you paid for at a whim?
The difference between having government handouts under the democrats and having to work 3 jobs to make ends meet under the reps is that in the former case I have more spare time on my hands, I'm broke either way.
What the fuck are you talking about? I don't know whether you have noticed it, but the world's moving right, not left.
The XKCD image shows the time that I care about: The time humans populate the planet. Ya know, in the Hadean period the earth was mostly still made of molten lava, and certainly hotter than today, with LOTS more CO2 and practically no O2 in the atmosphere. But guess what: No humans tried to survive on that planet.
Aside of that, I don't care. I'm on my way out and I don't have kids. If you do, well, I'd prepare some sort of good excuse if I was you. You'll need it.
Intentional? Nah. Oil companies are not run by mustache-twirling evil overlords hellbent on destroying earth. They're just run by people who care about profit. If it was profitable to protect the environment, they'd do that, unfortunately it's profitable to turn the planet into an uninhabitable hellhole. That's basically all there is to it.
You know what? I don't even have to read the funny pages anymore. Just launch a story about climate change on Slashdot, grab a bag of popcorn, lean back and enjoy. It's hilarious. Well, it would be, if it wasn't so terribly sad.
And yes, I'm beyond caring. I tried to care. I really did. But I simply don't anymore. I have no kids. And the planet will stay habitable for the maybe 20 years I have left. Why should I care about this ball being habitable for you or your kids if even you can't be assed to?
On what? Considering our superior success with the "War on drugs", the "War on poverty" and the "War on terror", we should probably declare a "War on climate change".
Or ... maybe not. All those wars got us was MORE of the thing we warred against...
You'll be happy 'til your pool is full of refugees from areas that already had year-round summer and now have year-round deserts.
So ... the Earth has trouble passing wind?
This has fuck all to do with the topic. What did you do, open the Bible on some random page and quote it?
In other words, fuck the planet if I can't have my SUV, I'm not going to drive a smaller car just 'cause it might let my kids live!
Enjoy the view while it lasts. In a couple of years your plains will be flooded with refugees trying to escape the southern parts that have temperatures above 100 in Winter and becomes uninhabitable.
I went through all the rocket fuel I am aware of and the only one feasible I can come up with is H2/O2. If you have any other that you can get out of asteroids, post it. If not, the discussion ends here.
Then that "prospector" needs to have fuel for the return trip, or you make it a single trip ship that you consider a loss, either way, you need insane amounts of fuel. Again: You plan to put a vessel on a hyperbolic trajectory AND THEN back to a lunar orbit. And all that has to be achieved with a rocket that has quite a bit of ISP which usually entails a very poor fuel efficiency.
Concerning the fuel: What is that magical fuel? Let me put it clearly and unambiguous: What magical fuel is that? Tell me!
Launching in bits and pieces does reduce the amount of material you have to lift per launch, but it entails the problem of having to reconnect them. In orbit. Which makes whatever you put there heavier and less stable. That's fine for an orbital station that is supposed to be mostly stationary, with very little stress due to acceleration. It's certainly not an option for rockets that have to be accelerated with quite a bit of impulse simply because making modular setups stress resistant makes them heavy. And heavy is not an option for something you want to accelerate twice for orbital changes from lunar orbit to hyperbolic.
Back when I was young, MS was what rescued us from the clutches of IBM and their mainframes. MS was the alternative, the one that gave us the option to tell IBM to go suck a donkey dick when they came with their "you can't avoid us, eat our shit and call it ice cream" attitude.
Today's MS is not what our father's MS was. Today's MS is what our father's IBM was.
What's happening? Jack shit is happening. A bunch of people finally woke up and noticed that we're fucked. But hey, since we're fucked, why bother trying to do anything? It's just so simple, no matter where you are in the realization chain, you can simply continue as usual with no reason to change your behaviour.
At first it's "there is no climate change" so there is no reason to do anything.
Then, when it's no longer possible to deny it, it's "well, climate has always changed", and since that's still nothing that I could possibly be blamed for, no reason to change anything.
Then we get to "well, we do affect it, but it's not gonna have any impact" which again gives you no reason to change anything,
only to finally arrive at "well, we did fuck up, but now it's too late anyway", which again is no reason to do anything since you can't do anything anyway anymore.
Ain't it great? No matter where we are in the climate change timeline, we have no reason to stop fucking the planet.
Shut up, Kiwi, Europe is about to cook off.
Let's talk in February, ok?
Stone age living? Yeah, it's horrible that you might have to drive in a car instead of a land cruiser when you go pick up your mail, teh horrorz of stone age transportation!
Let's be honest here, it's not like anything is gonna change with the discussion here. You'll have two sides yell at each other and the ones they're trying to convince stopped caring either way a long time ago.
It's a bit like US politics, now that I think about it.