Why does it even need to send a week number? Don't they just do the time and satellite number, and they are all in as fixed a position as they can be so you just get 3+ signals and triangulate. Easy peasy. Where does week number come in and why is it relevant?
This bandershatch shit was some of the worst shit ever invented. THere has been "choose your path" since way back on DVDs, and never were any sold because it is a morronic idea
It kind of almost nearly worked with those kids book back in the day.
California is too much their lapdog for them to leave. That state has everything a tech giant wants, be it a burgeoning H-1B population, control of housing, amenities that no other state offers, and the best gun safety laws in the US, ensuring children stay safe.
The governor and state congress will go before the tech companies do.
Will that be before or after the san andreas fault opens up and swallows the whole lot?
Isn't that just called talking? What you do when you hang out with your friends. Or by friends do you mean people you've never met and are happy with 240 characters of detail?
No it doesn't. From the quotes given the scammer is quite obviously being complimentary trying to appear friendly or whatever to try and make the victim trust them more. Taken out of context sure it looks like a vague mafioso threat but this was a guy in jamaica which is probably why he said precious instead of pretty or another word. Where is the actual threat? I have seen pictures of trumps wife, I'm aware of her existence and she is pretty hot. Does that make me a threat to her?
"You're a great man," the scammer cajoled. "You was a judge, you was an attorney, you was a basketball player, you were in the U.S. Navy, homeland security. I know everything about you. I even seen your photograph, and I seen your precious wife.
I would have taken that to be complimentary designed to lower the defences of the potential victim. He's just saying he's looked into they guy obviously that would include photos and from the context he is saying the guys wife is pretty, thats it. Sure it sounds vaguely threatening out of context and written down but that doesn't make it a threat. And seeing as the guy was apparently in Jamaica where is the threat?
According to that other guy the payload is 100,000kg/100 metric tons so that's $4,200,000,000 worth per trip if the price doesn't change. Ok the once was an exaggeration but that itself is going to have an impact and they are unlikely to do it just once or even with one ship for a full on operation. But I also wonder how much goldmine you could setup for the price of a BFR? It doesn't even seem like it would even be too economical to bother with bringing it back to earth at all.
If you heat it up in the microwave, you get very little nitrosamines.
Yeah but then you've got a whole different set of problems, chiefly being what the fuck happened to me that I think it's acceptable to microwave bacon? Fucking philistines man.
Gold is selling for $42k/kilogram at the moment. At $1million wholesale per BFR launch, that'd mean ~50kilos of gold is the breakeven point.
What do you think is going to happen to the price of gold when you bring a whole bunch of it back from space? It won't stay at that price, thats for sure. It might be profitable, once.
I would love to buy me some platinum from where you're buying it. Apparently it must be super cheap compared to the price of some methane and oxygen.
While platinum is way more expensive than some methane and oxygen I wonder how it compares to the cost of a spaceship and all the other bits you need to to go to an asteroid, find one with platinum, mine it, refine it and get it back to earth in a reasonable time frame. That probably bumps the cost at least a little bit.
They still got paid the asking price, what does it matter if the passenger is actually there or not? Surely if anything that would save the airline a tiny bit of fuel costs.
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I am a religious person
Why?
Maybe replace him with Allah. What do you think would happen next?
Same person. Or god. Or whatever.
It would be difficult to write such a comic though that wouldn't fall into one of three traps: Preachy, Blasphemous, or Boring.
It would be hard to write one that didn't fall in to all three of those.
Not at all, you just need to declare all evidence contrary to your beliefs as being "fake".
You have be very creative to explain a sunset as "fake" when you can witness it yourself.
But then you just fall back on nasa as if that solves all problems or is even an answer to anything.
Most of those are probably they same few of you who seem to have an unhealthy obsession with the guy. Seek professional help.
Why does it even need to send a week number? Don't they just do the time and satellite number, and they are all in as fixed a position as they can be so you just get 3+ signals and triangulate. Easy peasy. Where does week number come in and why is it relevant?
This bandershatch shit was some of the worst shit ever invented. THere has been "choose your path" since way back on DVDs, and never were any sold because it is a morronic idea
It kind of almost nearly worked with those kids book back in the day.
Don't worry, someone impersonating you filled in all the data for them. They'll just use that for the ad targeting instead.
They can advertise whatever the fuck they want. I ain't buying it.
Can you imagine how bad the S/N ratio would be on the wider net without them?
Good point. Similar to fortnite i guess, while its a shit game it keeps all the kids busy so the rest of the games are better for the rest of us lol.
I wondered how far we'd get into t6his before someone pulled the "I have an anecdote that refutes your scientific survey" bullshit.
While you're at it, care to refute climate change with a picture of snow on your lawn?
All that's missing is a car analogy.
California is too much their lapdog for them to leave. That state has everything a tech giant wants, be it a burgeoning H-1B population, control of housing, amenities that no other state offers, and the best gun safety laws in the US, ensuring children stay safe.
The governor and state congress will go before the tech companies do.
Will that be before or after the san andreas fault opens up and swallows the whole lot?
Isn't that just called talking? What you do when you hang out with your friends. Or by friends do you mean people you've never met and are happy with 240 characters of detail?
Yeah, I thought twitter was for just farting your thoughts into the wind, not actual discourse.
No it doesn't. From the quotes given the scammer is quite obviously being complimentary trying to appear friendly or whatever to try and make the victim trust them more. Taken out of context sure it looks like a vague mafioso threat but this was a guy in jamaica which is probably why he said precious instead of pretty or another word. Where is the actual threat? I have seen pictures of trumps wife, I'm aware of her existence and she is pretty hot. Does that make me a threat to her?
"You're a great man," the scammer cajoled. "You was a judge, you was an attorney, you was a basketball player, you were in the U.S. Navy, homeland security. I know everything about you. I even seen your photograph, and I seen your precious wife.
I would have taken that to be complimentary designed to lower the defences of the potential victim. He's just saying he's looked into they guy obviously that would include photos and from the context he is saying the guys wife is pretty, thats it. Sure it sounds vaguely threatening out of context and written down but that doesn't make it a threat. And seeing as the guy was apparently in Jamaica where is the threat?
According to that other guy the payload is 100,000kg/100 metric tons so that's $4,200,000,000 worth per trip if the price doesn't change. Ok the once was an exaggeration but that itself is going to have an impact and they are unlikely to do it just once or even with one ship for a full on operation. But I also wonder how much goldmine you could setup for the price of a BFR? It doesn't even seem like it would even be too economical to bother with bringing it back to earth at all.
If you heat it up in the microwave, you get very little nitrosamines.
Yeah but then you've got a whole different set of problems, chiefly being what the fuck happened to me that I think it's acceptable to microwave bacon? Fucking philistines man.
It is in Glasgow.
Yeah but most fresh meat is fried in glasgow too, and veg, and sweets and probably drinks too.
In exactly the same way? The beginning and the end are always going to be the same, just the middle part is longer.
The middle is where all the interesting stuff happens. Just ask the crew of the challenger all about the middle part.
Gold is selling for $42k/kilogram at the moment. At $1million wholesale per BFR launch, that'd mean ~50kilos of gold is the breakeven point.
What do you think is going to happen to the price of gold when you bring a whole bunch of it back from space? It won't stay at that price, thats for sure. It might be profitable, once.
I would love to buy me some platinum from where you're buying it. Apparently it must be super cheap compared to the price of some methane and oxygen.
While platinum is way more expensive than some methane and oxygen I wonder how it compares to the cost of a spaceship and all the other bits you need to to go to an asteroid, find one with platinum, mine it, refine it and get it back to earth in a reasonable time frame. That probably bumps the cost at least a little bit.
Yeah but even accounting for any amount of hubris, 50% is too high. You need some new term like "Hubrosity" or "Exo-Hubris".
They probably actually think they are being quite generous.
Makes perfect sense to have lots of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, violence but have no tolerance for nipples.
Only female nipples though. Big no no.
You don't get as much money as they have by doing the work. You skip the work and just collect the cash.
They still got paid the asking price, what does it matter if the passenger is actually there or not? Surely if anything that would save the airline a tiny bit of fuel costs.