The go-getters with boundless energy who are hyperactive and constantly burning through huge amounts of energy are the first to starve to death when the next famine rolls around. Whereas the fat and lazy survive.
Anyways I agree that even without human drivers, this is going to introduce some huge risks.
You misunderstand. This is actually a facade for a population-control program. The subsequent reduced population will use less net energy, more than making up for the energy costs of lifting these into the air high enough to euthanize their occupants (and sometimes others for bonus points).
You forgot the possibility of dirigibles propelled by teams of men rowing wind-oars. The skin of the dirigible can be made of a photovoltaic material in order to power fans used to cool off the rowers.
The main benefit to 'flying cars' is that you can have 'layers' of 'roadways' to help alleviate traffic. However, a more-obvious solution that has the same effect is having layers of actual roadways (overpasses), or tracks for trains/monorails. Or a rat's-nest of above-ground hyperloops. Or just put people in pods and use a railgun to launch the pods to the destination (parachute optional).
Perhaps he should've sent the memo through some kind of service that automatically self-destructs messages once they are read, maybe on some kind of timer. Someone ought to suggest that idea to him.
Unless you have an arrangement, a 3-way is unlikely to save your marriage. Unless you mean that in a "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" kind of way.
So they contacted the FBI without going through Legal first? Or are you saying the anonymous source in the Legal department isn't talking because of the National Security Order (an NSL is only a request for information). Furthermore, Apple and other tech companies now have permission to give annual reports of how many NSO's they've received in the past year, so they all should've received one in 2015/16, that's easy to check.
France tends to piss off Muslims (remember the Charlie Hebdo attack?) and Iran holds the reins of Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. There have been several Islamic terrorist attacks in France in the past few years, I haven't done research but it wouldn't surprise me if some of the attackers had ties to Iran. I suspect it's less "Iran sicced its dogs" so much as "didn't keep their dogs on a short enough leash." Also, countries go after their biggest trade partners *cough* China and USA *cough* all the time.
And if they were fed a fake story, then they mea culpa later and Bloomberg loses face. Now who might want to damage Bloomberg's reputation AND make people wary of Chinese tech companies?
They'd find a loophole, like shutting down their campus, but leaving the website operational because the website is owned by a holding company created yesterday.
I prefer the explanation that sexually-transmitted retroviruses modified Human DNA to make us super-mutants. Either that or their coupling affected the morphogenetic field.
It's been known for a while that interbreeding with Neanderthals gave Europeans various genetic benefits. It'd stand to reason that'd include immune system benefits.
Blue Origin of course has no near-term plans for Moon-launch capability, thus why they're courting other companies to develop this. However this got me thinking... SpaceX's plan is for other companies to develop the various tech which will be deployed to Mars, for habitats, fuel production, automated machinery et cetera. This makes me wonder if Blue Origin is planning on developing some of said equipment, and putting it on the Moon first, giving up on making heavy-lift rockets and pivoting to making interesting cargo to put in space.
He wasn't born in the USA so don't think he's even eligible for VP. I'm sure he'd rather not get bogged down in politics any more than the time it takes to tell a lobbying group what he wants.
The price of constructing EVs might be low enough that they could be sold for $10k, but without competition they'll be sold for the price people expect to pay for a vehicle. Also at the annual 3% battery improvements, the weight/kWh should only come down by ~17% total, so I don't see how $20k will be shaved off just due to that (compared to a base Model 3).
Some of your comments are brilliant and others just make me scratch my head. It sounds like you like the pork-barrel spending directed towards NASA. Other agencies receive federal funding and do basic research and other cool things. There are larger programs like Social Security that are much closer to being socialist programs. Right now, you have to be in the military and be lucky to be chosen to be an astronaut, dollars don't get you into space. A couple space tourists went to the ISS, but not recently, and not often. The cost is about to enter the "billionaires can afford to do it regularly" range, rather than the "given the blessings of Congress" range. Soon it's promised to enter the "millionaires can afford it once in their life" range, and if you count sub-orbital, it's claimed it will thereabouts be in the "plebes can afford it once a decade" range.
I skimmed through that study. It found that neotame disrupted the balance of the microbiome, metabolism of certain vitamins and other nutrients, and the metabolic pathways. However, body weight of the experimental and control groups were the same after 4 weeks, which was buried in the end although it'd been predicted that body weight should've dropped. I'm unsure if the disruption is enough to potentially lead to malnutrition, although metabolic syndrome and various gut disorders are specifically mentioned in the paper as possible effects. Also, apparently it's considered humane to euthanize mice with CO2? I'd think that'd cause painful asphyxiation.
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The go-getters with boundless energy who are hyperactive and constantly burning through huge amounts of energy are the first to starve to death when the next famine rolls around. Whereas the fat and lazy survive.
Wait still Uber drivers start showing up in one (or something similar). Don't have to own one to ride in one.
This means that natural selection will weed out all the ICE vehicles' drivers over time, right? Electric car master race!
The devil's in the details though. Literally in this case.
Damn Satan, messing with our space telescopes! Clearly we didn't sacrifice enough Slashdot virgins to appease him.
I see these gyroscopes are made by Seagate.
Anyways I agree that even without human drivers, this is going to introduce some huge risks.
You misunderstand. This is actually a facade for a population-control program. The subsequent reduced population will use less net energy, more than making up for the energy costs of lifting these into the air high enough to euthanize their occupants (and sometimes others for bonus points).
You forgot the possibility of dirigibles propelled by teams of men rowing wind-oars. The skin of the dirigible can be made of a photovoltaic material in order to power fans used to cool off the rowers.
The main benefit to 'flying cars' is that you can have 'layers' of 'roadways' to help alleviate traffic. However, a more-obvious solution that has the same effect is having layers of actual roadways (overpasses), or tracks for trains/monorails. Or a rat's-nest of above-ground hyperloops. Or just put people in pods and use a railgun to launch the pods to the destination (parachute optional).
So Snapchat is to Instagram as Digg is to Reddit?
Perhaps he should've sent the memo through some kind of service that automatically self-destructs messages once they are read, maybe on some kind of timer. Someone ought to suggest that idea to him.
Unless you have an arrangement, a 3-way is unlikely to save your marriage. Unless you mean that in a "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" kind of way.
So they contacted the FBI without going through Legal first? Or are you saying the anonymous source in the Legal department isn't talking because of the National Security Order (an NSL is only a request for information). Furthermore, Apple and other tech companies now have permission to give annual reports of how many NSO's they've received in the past year, so they all should've received one in 2015/16, that's easy to check.
Or the journalist's phone line was rerouted and he talked to 17 different spooks. No matter how it shakes out, there's way more to this story.
France tends to piss off Muslims (remember the Charlie Hebdo attack?) and Iran holds the reins of Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. There have been several Islamic terrorist attacks in France in the past few years, I haven't done research but it wouldn't surprise me if some of the attackers had ties to Iran. I suspect it's less "Iran sicced its dogs" so much as "didn't keep their dogs on a short enough leash." Also, countries go after their biggest trade partners *cough* China and USA *cough* all the time.
And if they were fed a fake story, then they mea culpa later and Bloomberg loses face. Now who might want to damage Bloomberg's reputation AND make people wary of Chinese tech companies?
These newfangled 'aeroplanes' don't count as 'big tech'? They look pretty big to me...
They'd find a loophole, like shutting down their campus, but leaving the website operational because the website is owned by a holding company created yesterday.
I prefer the explanation that sexually-transmitted retroviruses modified Human DNA to make us super-mutants. Either that or their coupling affected the morphogenetic field.
It's been known for a while that interbreeding with Neanderthals gave Europeans various genetic benefits. It'd stand to reason that'd include immune system benefits.
Blue Origin of course has no near-term plans for Moon-launch capability, thus why they're courting other companies to develop this. However this got me thinking...
SpaceX's plan is for other companies to develop the various tech which will be deployed to Mars, for habitats, fuel production, automated machinery et cetera. This makes me wonder if Blue Origin is planning on developing some of said equipment, and putting it on the Moon first, giving up on making heavy-lift rockets and pivoting to making interesting cargo to put in space.
They misread 'LOUISIANA' as 'LUNA'.
He wasn't born in the USA so don't think he's even eligible for VP. I'm sure he'd rather not get bogged down in politics any more than the time it takes to tell a lobbying group what he wants.
The price of constructing EVs might be low enough that they could be sold for $10k, but without competition they'll be sold for the price people expect to pay for a vehicle. Also at the annual 3% battery improvements, the weight/kWh should only come down by ~17% total, so I don't see how $20k will be shaved off just due to that (compared to a base Model 3).
Some of your comments are brilliant and others just make me scratch my head.
It sounds like you like the pork-barrel spending directed towards NASA. Other agencies receive federal funding and do basic research and other cool things. There are larger programs like Social Security that are much closer to being socialist programs. Right now, you have to be in the military and be lucky to be chosen to be an astronaut, dollars don't get you into space. A couple space tourists went to the ISS, but not recently, and not often. The cost is about to enter the "billionaires can afford to do it regularly" range, rather than the "given the blessings of Congress" range. Soon it's promised to enter the "millionaires can afford it once in their life" range, and if you count sub-orbital, it's claimed it will thereabouts be in the "plebes can afford it once a decade" range.
I skimmed through that study. It found that neotame disrupted the balance of the microbiome, metabolism of certain vitamins and other nutrients, and the metabolic pathways. However, body weight of the experimental and control groups were the same after 4 weeks, which was buried in the end although it'd been predicted that body weight should've dropped. I'm unsure if the disruption is enough to potentially lead to malnutrition, although metabolic syndrome and various gut disorders are specifically mentioned in the paper as possible effects.
Also, apparently it's considered humane to euthanize mice with CO2? I'd think that'd cause painful asphyxiation.