Thousands of tons of equipment put together in microgravity and practically no atmosphere hurtling at hundreds of miles an hour through 50+ miles of substantial atmosphere, into water that's hard as concrete at that impact speed. Then all that metal designed for no atmosphere soaks in seawater, probably under extreme pressures at the bottom rather than zero pressure for which it was designed.
I don't think your assumption is worth anything more than as a SCUBA fantasy. But what a SCUBA fantasy! It's probably worth it to build a replica just to dive it:).
Unfortunately, a "Fox News update" posted by an Anonymous Coward, that cites its counterspin as:
"This isn't the first time I've seen Russia come out with a statement that seems to be coming out of their own stovepipes," one congressional representative told FoxNews.com. "I would give it no credence at all."
From an anonymous source in Congress who talks to Fox News (therefore certainly Conservative/Republican) who has no facts, just their "gut", merely denying something they don't like.
That all sounds like the most total BS possible. Even if it's true, that Fox story has as less credibility than a stopped clock that's right twice a day - at least it's a consistent source.
I'd prefer the international coalition boosted the ISS orbit to orbit the Moon, or even try to land it on the Moon. Or just crash it onto the Moon. We don't need the space junk in our ocean. But orbiting the Moon it could do useful service. Even crashed on the Moon it could be useful as parts or materials, or just an experiment to see what bounces from it. At least it would be out of our hair.
I mean, the US paid off Russia bigtime to build this thing together for over a decade, and after less than a decade complete Russia says it's litter? What the hell.
What would be awesome would be an international geek contingent hiring the emerging private space launchers to intercept it after it's decommissioned and sent down, reversing its trajectory into a more interesting orbit. Space salvage/piracy launches the real space biz of the 21st Century! I'm in; where do I donate money, development and management time?
Physics is "not metaphysics", since Aristotle at latest. Information theory is physics. Sociology is not - yet. It's perhaps a "protophysics", at least according to Aristotle's librarian.
Haven't you seen the hideous state of business for the past 5-10 years? Running a business like China runs its country is just like that. Corporatism administered by a mafia government, the biggest profits (literally) greased with the worst pollution (energy) and mass murder (military/intel).
I don't want Symbian, but I do want the kind of IPC I described. I don't want it to be insanely complex, nor need it be - which I guess is one reason I don't want Symbian.
Actually Android's permissioning sounds similar to what I want, but not quite good enough. I'll have to look into it. Install time is the time to ask for permission to IPC to other apps/processes, but the GUI should describe it by service role rather than app/data, because users can make sense of roles rather than the techical implementations of them. And it's got to mediate all IPC at all runtime.
The US still has many advantages. But indeed the strongest is that as stupid losers as we are, we're not nearly the stupidest loserest. When the bear is chasing you, you don't have to be the fastest - just not the slowest. Our foreign competition's negatives are indeed our positives. Though our global cooperation suffers by summing all the negatives together.
Sure, you're pulling numbers from 2007, and so getting them wrong. In 2007 the actual distribution left the top 1% with 43% of wealth; the next 4% with 29%; the next 5% with 11%; that's the top 10% with 83% of wealth. The next 10% (80-90%ile) with 10%, and the bottom 80% with 7% of the wealth. The bottom 20% owns something like 0.1%; the 20% above the bottom owns something like 0.2%; that's the bottom 40% owning maybe 0.3%. And that's 2007. But even then, top 20% owning 83% of the wealth (and a top 20%er owns 554 times a bottom 40%er) is pretty disproportionate, and extraordinary among nations.
Since 2007 the Financial Crisis (4+ years now) deleted much of the wealth below the top tiers, but added it back to the top tiers. The richest get bailed out; the poorer lose their jobs, pensions and investments.
You're just another person picking numbers that support their totally skewed image of how wealth is distributed here. Look at that page I linked to for Figure 4, the summary of research by Norton & Airely and Johnston in 2010 showing how wrong people are about how wealth is distributed, grouped by their income and other related factors.
If there's one thing that can keep the US hanging on to our advantages over China, it's China doing whatever its mafia government can to keep its people down and divided.
We've certainly got enough of our own action along those lines. But China is far more ruthless and stupid about it, giving the us a relative advantage. Go China!
I'd like to see the OS, especially one like Android in the hands of unsupported, naive, and promiscuous users, require permissions for InterProcess Communication the it does for files. And for DB access. All strongly typed. Those kinds of familiar patterns in combination, upon every access between processes on objects. Mediated by an OS capable of supporting the user and using a support Internet to warn others when threats (or patterns that represent threats) appear to correlate to risky objects of the same kind.
The OS and Internet should act as an integrated immune system bathing our objects, not just a special case intervention when opening the first file from an email. Dedicate one or two cores of these multicore CPUs (and prefilter at servers for smaller/mobile devices). Attacks are now the norm, not the exception. The network and OS infrastructure design should recognize the new reality.
No, the elections are run by the state they're in, not "locally". In Ohio, they're run by the Secretary of State, who was Ken Blackwell. That's why Blackwell is the defendant in this court case. Blackwell was also simultaneously the Bush/Cheney 2004 Ohio Campaign Manager, the clearest possible conflict of interest. Evidently that conflict itself is not illegal in Ohio, though it's probably up to the SoS (Blackwell) whether that conflict is prohibited. But in this case the conflict evidently saw the Bush/Cheney campaign manager to change the votes cast to hand Bush/Cheney the state's Electoral Votes. Not to mention how the conflict saw Blackwell short poor/Black (Democratic) neighborhoods of machines in which to cast original votes.
And of course Ken Blackwell executed directly to whatever plans Karl Rove dictated to him. That's what state campaign managers' jobs are. And both of them have lied about it for years now.
The real question is why you are lying about how elections are run. You're a Republican, right? And don't tell me you're a "Libertarian", or an "independent". Did you vote for Bush in 2004? 2000?
Yes, because in English the word "free" means either "without (important) restriction" as in GPL, and "without paying for it". When you say "free" it's ambiguous whether you mean one, the other, or both. So people continue to use "free/libre" to mean both.
Evidently you are not keeping up with advances in English, which has many words taken from other languages to indicate meanings more precisely.
How about if we're going the other way, and want all of Netflix, Blockbuster, Amazon Prime streaming subscriptions, even at the crappy total price of all of them per month? Is there a single app that runs on Linux or Android (Google TV) with a consistent GUI that's TV-easy (or close), even if each remote library has its own "style" of presenting titles (but all in-movie controls are the same)? That combo would seem to be worth dropping cable TV, especially when cable TV costs $50+ and doesn't have nearly as much worthwhile (and certainly not on demand) content included at that price.
Archive.org has over 2600 feature films in addition to many more other kinds of videos. All public domain, all $free, to their webpage embedded player or download as MPEG4, Ogg Video or WMV.
Donate to this 501(c)(3) nonprofit and deduct the gift from your taxes.
If not Linux, the Android is just fine, too. Practically any HW running Linux can instead run Android. Google TV is Android, and is HW designed for exactly this kind of app. And it's cheap and relatively easy for just TV/movies/websurfing.
So how about a streaming movie service with as good or better a selection as Netflix (which might be hard, but not impossible)?
Some Texas Republican wants to spend money on something? But this week Texas Republicans are smashing the US economy against the debt they ran up for 30 years. Who's going to pay for their insanity?
Geometric proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem are not the kind of proof that they're talking about. To accept the kinds of proofs you're offering, you have to accept the abstraction of a triangle. They're talking about a proof that is directly experienced. To prove that for this theorem, people would have to measure every possible right triangle. Or creationist types would claim there's some even larger/smaller or differently proportioned triangle yet to be provided that doesn't fit the theorem's descriptions.
FWIW, I had lego-like blocks making triangles to play with to prove that the two smaller squares equaled the size of the larger square, for any triangle I cared to try with. That convinced me, but I was about 5-6 years old. After a while I learned how to believe facts without having to test them all directly myself, and how to tell the difference between facts/fantasies, and between honest investigators and bullshitters.
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Thousands of tons of equipment put together in microgravity and practically no atmosphere hurtling at hundreds of miles an hour through 50+ miles of substantial atmosphere, into water that's hard as concrete at that impact speed. Then all that metal designed for no atmosphere soaks in seawater, probably under extreme pressures at the bottom rather than zero pressure for which it was designed.
I don't think your assumption is worth anything more than as a SCUBA fantasy. But what a SCUBA fantasy! It's probably worth it to build a replica just to dive it :).
Unfortunately, a "Fox News update" posted by an Anonymous Coward, that cites its counterspin as:
From an anonymous source in Congress who talks to Fox News (therefore certainly Conservative/Republican) who has no facts, just their "gut", merely denying something they don't like.
That all sounds like the most total BS possible. Even if it's true, that Fox story has as less credibility than a stopped clock that's right twice a day - at least it's a consistent source.
I'd prefer the international coalition boosted the ISS orbit to orbit the Moon, or even try to land it on the Moon. Or just crash it onto the Moon. We don't need the space junk in our ocean. But orbiting the Moon it could do useful service. Even crashed on the Moon it could be useful as parts or materials, or just an experiment to see what bounces from it. At least it would be out of our hair.
I mean, the US paid off Russia bigtime to build this thing together for over a decade, and after less than a decade complete Russia says it's litter? What the hell.
What would be awesome would be an international geek contingent hiring the emerging private space launchers to intercept it after it's decommissioned and sent down, reversing its trajectory into a more interesting orbit. Space salvage/piracy launches the real space biz of the 21st Century! I'm in; where do I donate money, development and management time?
Just because we're used to it doesn't mean MS's monopoly practices aren't treating us badly.
Why are people still buying Microsoft shit? Especially on Slashdot?
Haven't they learned anything about how Microsoft treats its customers?
Caught between the devil and the deep Blue SOD.
Physics is "not metaphysics", since Aristotle at latest. Information theory is physics. Sociology is not - yet. It's perhaps a "protophysics", at least according to Aristotle's librarian.
Just one of the many ways in which countries are not like businesses, for better and for worse.
Haven't you seen the hideous state of business for the past 5-10 years? Running a business like China runs its country is just like that. Corporatism administered by a mafia government, the biggest profits (literally) greased with the worst pollution (energy) and mass murder (military/intel).
I don't want Symbian, but I do want the kind of IPC I described. I don't want it to be insanely complex, nor need it be - which I guess is one reason I don't want Symbian.
Actually Android's permissioning sounds similar to what I want, but not quite good enough. I'll have to look into it. Install time is the time to ask for permission to IPC to other apps/processes, but the GUI should describe it by service role rather than app/data, because users can make sense of roles rather than the techical implementations of them. And it's got to mediate all IPC at all runtime.
The US still has many advantages. But indeed the strongest is that as stupid losers as we are, we're not nearly the stupidest loserest. When the bear is chasing you, you don't have to be the fastest - just not the slowest. Our foreign competition's negatives are indeed our positives. Though our global cooperation suffers by summing all the negatives together.
Sure, you're pulling numbers from 2007, and so getting them wrong. In 2007 the actual distribution left the top 1% with 43% of wealth; the next 4% with 29%; the next 5% with 11%; that's the top 10% with 83% of wealth. The next 10% (80-90%ile) with 10%, and the bottom 80% with 7% of the wealth. The bottom 20% owns something like 0.1%; the 20% above the bottom owns something like 0.2%; that's the bottom 40% owning maybe 0.3%. And that's 2007. But even then, top 20% owning 83% of the wealth (and a top 20%er owns 554 times a bottom 40%er) is pretty disproportionate, and extraordinary among nations.
Since 2007 the Financial Crisis (4+ years now) deleted much of the wealth below the top tiers, but added it back to the top tiers. The richest get bailed out; the poorer lose their jobs, pensions and investments.
You're just another person picking numbers that support their totally skewed image of how wealth is distributed here. Look at that page I linked to for Figure 4, the summary of research by Norton & Airely and Johnston in 2010 showing how wrong people are about how wealth is distributed, grouped by their income and other related factors.
If there's one thing that can keep the US hanging on to our advantages over China, it's China doing whatever its mafia government can to keep its people down and divided.
We've certainly got enough of our own action along those lines. But China is far more ruthless and stupid about it, giving the us a relative advantage. Go China!
I'd like to see the OS, especially one like Android in the hands of unsupported, naive, and promiscuous users, require permissions for InterProcess Communication the it does for files. And for DB access. All strongly typed. Those kinds of familiar patterns in combination, upon every access between processes on objects. Mediated by an OS capable of supporting the user and using a support Internet to warn others when threats (or patterns that represent threats) appear to correlate to risky objects of the same kind.
The OS and Internet should act as an integrated immune system bathing our objects, not just a special case intervention when opening the first file from an email. Dedicate one or two cores of these multicore CPUs (and prefilter at servers for smaller/mobile devices). Attacks are now the norm, not the exception. The network and OS infrastructure design should recognize the new reality.
Thanks for that clear, concise and cited explanation ("cexplanation"? ;).
The top 2% of Americans own 80% of the wealth. That's 99% "poor" compared to the vastly richer people at the top. The bottom 20% own less than 1%.
The ratios aren't precisely 100:1, but the actual ratios are bad enough.
No, the elections are run by the state they're in, not "locally". In Ohio, they're run by the Secretary of State, who was Ken Blackwell. That's why Blackwell is the defendant in this court case. Blackwell was also simultaneously the Bush/Cheney 2004 Ohio Campaign Manager, the clearest possible conflict of interest. Evidently that conflict itself is not illegal in Ohio, though it's probably up to the SoS (Blackwell) whether that conflict is prohibited. But in this case the conflict evidently saw the Bush/Cheney campaign manager to change the votes cast to hand Bush/Cheney the state's Electoral Votes. Not to mention how the conflict saw Blackwell short poor/Black (Democratic) neighborhoods of machines in which to cast original votes.
And of course Ken Blackwell executed directly to whatever plans Karl Rove dictated to him. That's what state campaign managers' jobs are. And both of them have lied about it for years now.
The real question is why you are lying about how elections are run. You're a Republican, right? And don't tell me you're a "Libertarian", or an "independent". Did you vote for Bush in 2004? 2000?
The definition of "unshakable" seems self-selecting, and perhaps even tautological.
FWIW, I note the fortune at the bottom of the page in which I'm editing my comment says:
Yes, because in English the word "free" means either "without (important) restriction" as in GPL, and "without paying for it". When you say "free" it's ambiguous whether you mean one, the other, or both. So people continue to use "free/libre" to mean both.
Evidently you are not keeping up with advances in English, which has many words taken from other languages to indicate meanings more precisely.
Oh, so they're totally nuts. If only they'd learned about basic human decency in, say, kindergarten.
How about if we're going the other way, and want all of Netflix, Blockbuster, Amazon Prime streaming subscriptions, even at the crappy total price of all of them per month? Is there a single app that runs on Linux or Android (Google TV) with a consistent GUI that's TV-easy (or close), even if each remote library has its own "style" of presenting titles (but all in-movie controls are the same)? That combo would seem to be worth dropping cable TV, especially when cable TV costs $50+ and doesn't have nearly as much worthwhile (and certainly not on demand) content included at that price.
Archive.org has over 2600 feature films in addition to many more other kinds of videos. All public domain, all $free, to their webpage embedded player or download as MPEG4, Ogg Video or WMV.
Donate to this 501(c)(3) nonprofit and deduct the gift from your taxes.
If not Linux, the Android is just fine, too. Practically any HW running Linux can instead run Android. Google TV is Android, and is HW designed for exactly this kind of app. And it's cheap and relatively easy for just TV/movies/websurfing.
So how about a streaming movie service with as good or better a selection as Netflix (which might be hard, but not impossible)?
Some Texas Republican wants to spend money on something? But this week Texas Republicans are smashing the US economy against the debt they ran up for 30 years. Who's going to pay for their insanity?
How do you say that in Norwegian?
Geometric proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem are not the kind of proof that they're talking about. To accept the kinds of proofs you're offering, you have to accept the abstraction of a triangle. They're talking about a proof that is directly experienced. To prove that for this theorem, people would have to measure every possible right triangle. Or creationist types would claim there's some even larger/smaller or differently proportioned triangle yet to be provided that doesn't fit the theorem's descriptions.
FWIW, I had lego-like blocks making triangles to play with to prove that the two smaller squares equaled the size of the larger square, for any triangle I cared to try with. That convinced me, but I was about 5-6 years old. After a while I learned how to believe facts without having to test them all directly myself, and how to tell the difference between facts/fantasies, and between honest investigators and bullshitters.