Once you get out past the pollution of earth orbit, space is pretty empty. There's just practically nothing to hit in the interplanetary void. Radiation, however, would be an issue. The only way to protect against that is with a lot of mass, and that's very expensive. The astronauts, assuming they got back alive, would have substantially reduced life expectancy on earth.
The technology to go to mars exists right now. It would just be ridiculously expensive. The technology to colonise mars almost exists now too, the only reason no-one is seriously proposing that is because doing so would probably be the single most expensive project in all of human history.
They are not so bad as they used to be. If you want to see a country with a real lack of labor laws, check out Vietnam. It's the place companies move their manufacturing to when China is too expensive.
China aren't really third world any more - they have a capable space program now. But they have industrialised at such a rapid pace, it's created sharp differences in level of development. They've got modern mega-cities, high-tech factories and some very well-respected research done at universities - but elsewhere they've got farming villages where life has barely changed in a thousand years. The modernisation process is continuing fast.
Apple have, in a way, shot themselves in the foot: They made some really good phones. So good that customers don't want to buy new ones now. There are no new must-have features in the latest model. Much like Microsoft's desperate attempt to kill off Windows XP and then Seven, they struggle to compete with their own past self.
Or they could just take along a few hard drives. With modern storage you can cram a lot of entertainment onto a pair of 8TB drives, and by the time the ship is built there will be much larger drives available. Sufficient to hold enough entertainment to last many years. The most difficult part would be copyright negotiations. I don't think any copyright lawyers have had to negotiate interplanetary distribution rights before.
It's not that unreasonable a proposal. Removing the return trip would hugely reduce the cost of the mission, and there are plenty of volunteers who would still go even knowing their life expectancy would be no more than a few years. Better to die young serving mankind and advancing scientific knowledge than to lead an unremarkable life and die forgotten in the retirement home.
I don't know why entertainment would have to be that limited. A mars mission is going to have a radio link. Even at that distance, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a connection peaking at 2Mbit/s under good conditions, and a manned ship could carry a larger receive antenna and more powerful transmitter. That's enough to send ebooks, audiobooks, music, and even TV programs and movies. They might have to wait a few days for the latest movies and TV though, as it would have to be a low-priority task when the transmitter isn't needed for more important things.
I must make a small correction in their defence: Unless the price has changed in the last couple of days, it's $300. They are usually sold in boxes of two, for a total price of $600.
I'd like to see some statistics for this. I've read that the industry is in something of a crisis because, while consumption is higher than ever, margins are very thin and competition intense, but I don't know how true this it. I imagine porn shops are suffering because porn is very much impulse media: If you want it then you want it right now, and if you don't want it then you don't much care about securing a future supply for when you do.
Yes, and the the FDA has only approved on such injector. Those 1970's designs are no longer approved. Only the latest revision, which is patented. This is a common practice in medicine: Companies introduce a new variation, which needs a specific recent patent, just so they can discontinue the previous version and so prevent it going generic.
The drug is generic, but the delivery mechanism isn't. The EpiPen is is a specialised injector designed so that a person can use it safely upon themself, with one hand, and minimal training, possibly while writhing in pain. The FDA has only approved one such injector, and it is patented.
I've lost count of how many congressional investigations have been run on that subject now, and none of them have ever found any concrete evidence she mishandled the situation, but just being under perpetual investigation can hurt.
In the presidential election, it's winner-takes-all. Voting for anyone other than the R or D is essentially a non-vote: It cannot possibly impact the outcome at all.
The public has a short memory. There is still time for him to reinvent himself - throw away the offensive persona that served him well in the primary, bring on a new moderate one that will stop talking about or outright change position on all his worst primary stances.
There are certainly harder games to play legally. This game, for one. Or Fighting is Magic, which faced very similar legal issues. For both these there is no way to play them legally at all.
That is indeed a crock. It's also not what was actually done - it got mangled in the process of translating from paper to snappy headline clickbait.
"The MIMO model verified that specific CA3-to-CA1 firing patterns were critical for successful encoding of Sample phase information on more difficult DMS trials. This was validated by delivery of successful MIMO-derived encoding patterns via electrical stimulation to the same CA1 recording locations during the Sample phase which facilitated task performance in the subsequent delayed Match phase on difficult trials that required more precise encoding of Sample information."
Brain-to-brain copying was in rats, but the memory improvement was in primates and used a different technique - I'm having a hard time following, but it looks like they mapped out which areas were active during a trial then stimulated those during subsequent trials and were able to improve performance. The headline implies some rat-to-primate brain translation engine was involved. It was not. They didn't manage to copy memories brain-to-brain either. What they did manage was to boost the brain's ability to form and recall memories, at least in a very specific trial.
The offending official is Sophie Linden, Deputy Mayor - at least, that's the name on the funding application. There's a twitter handle where your messages can be ignored, @SophieKLinden. I couldn't find an easy address, but you can probably reach her via the mayor's office - that way a higher-ranking secretary will ignore your letter.
The CoLP and the Met are not the same entity. They often work together on local policing matters, as their jurisdictions are adjacent, but that's it. The Met is just another police force like any other in the UK, only bigger.
The CoLP have physical jurisdiction over a very small area, and specialise mostly on financial crime. Fraud, identity theft, insider trading, counterfeiting, that sort of thing - other police forces often consult them on such crimes. They are also home to the much-hated PIPCU, the internet copyright agency you appear quite aware of, known for having a very lax interpretation of where their authority ends.
This, however, is a Met initiative. Which means it has nothing to do with the CoLP at all. While the CoLP is tiny, the Met is huge. Really huge. Around fifty thousand staff, policing the largest population of any police district in the UK.
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Once you get out past the pollution of earth orbit, space is pretty empty. There's just practically nothing to hit in the interplanetary void. Radiation, however, would be an issue. The only way to protect against that is with a lot of mass, and that's very expensive. The astronauts, assuming they got back alive, would have substantially reduced life expectancy on earth.
The technology to go to mars exists right now. It would just be ridiculously expensive. The technology to colonise mars almost exists now too, the only reason no-one is seriously proposing that is because doing so would probably be the single most expensive project in all of human history.
They are not so bad as they used to be. If you want to see a country with a real lack of labor laws, check out Vietnam. It's the place companies move their manufacturing to when China is too expensive.
China aren't really third world any more - they have a capable space program now. But they have industrialised at such a rapid pace, it's created sharp differences in level of development. They've got modern mega-cities, high-tech factories and some very well-respected research done at universities - but elsewhere they've got farming villages where life has barely changed in a thousand years. The modernisation process is continuing fast.
Apple have, in a way, shot themselves in the foot: They made some really good phones. So good that customers don't want to buy new ones now. There are no new must-have features in the latest model. Much like Microsoft's desperate attempt to kill off Windows XP and then Seven, they struggle to compete with their own past self.
Perhaps both communism and free-market capitalism are only abstract ideals that can never be fully demonstrated in the real world?
Removing voter registration prevents some attacks, but it makes others much easier.
Or they could just take along a few hard drives. With modern storage you can cram a lot of entertainment onto a pair of 8TB drives, and by the time the ship is built there will be much larger drives available. Sufficient to hold enough entertainment to last many years. The most difficult part would be copyright negotiations. I don't think any copyright lawyers have had to negotiate interplanetary distribution rights before.
Guns would also be a useful trade good. So would ammo.
That depends if China gets there first.
It's not that unreasonable a proposal. Removing the return trip would hugely reduce the cost of the mission, and there are plenty of volunteers who would still go even knowing their life expectancy would be no more than a few years. Better to die young serving mankind and advancing scientific knowledge than to lead an unremarkable life and die forgotten in the retirement home.
I don't know why entertainment would have to be that limited. A mars mission is going to have a radio link. Even at that distance, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a connection peaking at 2Mbit/s under good conditions, and a manned ship could carry a larger receive antenna and more powerful transmitter. That's enough to send ebooks, audiobooks, music, and even TV programs and movies. They might have to wait a few days for the latest movies and TV though, as it would have to be a low-priority task when the transmitter isn't needed for more important things.
I must make a small correction in their defence: Unless the price has changed in the last couple of days, it's $300. They are usually sold in boxes of two, for a total price of $600.
I'd like to see some statistics for this. I've read that the industry is in something of a crisis because, while consumption is higher than ever, margins are very thin and competition intense, but I don't know how true this it. I imagine porn shops are suffering because porn is very much impulse media: If you want it then you want it right now, and if you don't want it then you don't much care about securing a future supply for when you do.
Yes, and the the FDA has only approved on such injector. Those 1970's designs are no longer approved. Only the latest revision, which is patented. This is a common practice in medicine: Companies introduce a new variation, which needs a specific recent patent, just so they can discontinue the previous version and so prevent it going generic.
How? Their high prices may by unethical, but they haven't done anything that's actually illegal.
The drug is generic, but the delivery mechanism isn't. The EpiPen is is a specialised injector designed so that a person can use it safely upon themself, with one hand, and minimal training, possibly while writhing in pain. The FDA has only approved one such injector, and it is patented.
I'd be less worried about copyright than about patents.
There's also the Bengazi smeer:
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investigate('Bengazi');
}until(Hillary.guilty);
I've lost count of how many congressional investigations have been run on that subject now, and none of them have ever found any concrete evidence she mishandled the situation, but just being under perpetual investigation can hurt.
Why would anyone bother with a smear campaign against the Greens? It's wasted effort, they pose no threat.
In the presidential election, it's winner-takes-all. Voting for anyone other than the R or D is essentially a non-vote: It cannot possibly impact the outcome at all.
The public has a short memory. There is still time for him to reinvent himself - throw away the offensive persona that served him well in the primary, bring on a new moderate one that will stop talking about or outright change position on all his worst primary stances.
There are certainly harder games to play legally. This game, for one. Or Fighting is Magic, which faced very similar legal issues. For both these there is no way to play them legally at all.
The memory tests were in primates, not rats. Rhesus.
That is indeed a crock. It's also not what was actually done - it got mangled in the process of translating from paper to snappy headline clickbait.
"The MIMO model verified that specific CA3-to-CA1 firing patterns were critical for successful encoding of Sample phase information on more difficult DMS trials. This was validated by delivery of successful MIMO-derived encoding patterns via electrical stimulation to the same CA1 recording locations during the Sample phase which facilitated task performance in the subsequent delayed Match phase on difficult trials that required more precise encoding of Sample information."
Brain-to-brain copying was in rats, but the memory improvement was in primates and used a different technique - I'm having a hard time following, but it looks like they mapped out which areas were active during a trial then stimulated those during subsequent trials and were able to improve performance. The headline implies some rat-to-primate brain translation engine was involved. It was not. They didn't manage to copy memories brain-to-brain either. What they did manage was to boost the brain's ability to form and recall memories, at least in a very specific trial.
The offending official is Sophie Linden, Deputy Mayor - at least, that's the name on the funding application. There's a twitter handle where your messages can be ignored, @SophieKLinden. I couldn't find an easy address, but you can probably reach her via the mayor's office - that way a higher-ranking secretary will ignore your letter.
The CoLP and the Met are not the same entity. They often work together on local policing matters, as their jurisdictions are adjacent, but that's it. The Met is just another police force like any other in the UK, only bigger.
The CoLP have physical jurisdiction over a very small area, and specialise mostly on financial crime. Fraud, identity theft, insider trading, counterfeiting, that sort of thing - other police forces often consult them on such crimes. They are also home to the much-hated PIPCU, the internet copyright agency you appear quite aware of, known for having a very lax interpretation of where their authority ends.
This, however, is a Met initiative. Which means it has nothing to do with the CoLP at all. While the CoLP is tiny, the Met is huge. Really huge. Around fifty thousand staff, policing the largest population of any police district in the UK.