maybe you're looking at figures the same way that the government does... - calculating unemployment by excluding those unemployed that have become discouraged and stopped looking for work - calculating the cpi by excluding food and energy items
like most democrats and even some in the gop, president obama is a big government socialist... only the tea party, libertarian movements and independents are drumming up an ever increasing level of support for reducing government spending and powers back to that envisaged by the founding fathers.
so if you trip over a huge gold nugget after SHTF you'll just leave it?
also, in SHTF scenario, all fiat currencies would be wiped out and unless you had something of real value to barter you would starve... pound for pound, gold has been one of the most highly valued commodies in the world since before the ancient egyptians... no action by any NWO will change that
meh... the "new world order" will be broke soon anyway... what's the point of hoarding a fuckload of cash that isn't worth anything?...unless by "new world order" you mean the chinese government, which has been hoarding gold.
If my car crashes, no engineer is going to be sued.
engineers are responsible for design, not generally construction... if the cause of the car crash is found to be a design flaw, the engineer could (and probably would) be sued... even if not by the passengers, by the insurance firm.
except it won't apply to politicians... of course:-p
mobile phones may have been a problem for aircraft in the past, but the regulations for certifying avionics since 2007 are much stricter. older aircraft designs of course aren't subject to current rules which is a pity (since the rules are designed to increase safety) but majority of airline aircraft would be fitted with upgraded avionics anyway, and any upgrades would be subject to current rules (including their integration into existing aircraft electrical and flight control systems).
even if you fly in smaller aircraft, if it has avionics installed post-2007 you're likely covered by a similar rule; FAR23.1308 - High-intensity Radiated Fields (HIRF) Protection http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/te...
its not laws or lack thereof that is preventing nasa from mining the moon... they simply don't have the funding
remember the only reason why nasa got the funding to go to the moon in the first place was because the military industrial complex was involved in a cold war with the soviet union.
the funding for the space race was never allocated for scientific purposes, it was always primarily a military operation dressed in civilian clothing.
you are a sad, sad little man... and if it comes time when beta is forced on me i'll just write a php script to strip all the shit out... at the moment i'm still using the good ol' version.
if you don't like my rantings of wisdom, you're free to gtfo yourself... you won't because you're the troll, but unfortunately for slashdot you're just not intelligent enough to come up with a half-decent argument... you poor douchebag.
what do you think nasa mostly does? how many rockets does it launch? how many people dows it employ? what does it actually do? when you track down the answers to those questions (for yourself) the answer to your question will be staring you in the face.
there are already plenty of moon exercises alone, including manned mission studies and research into missions to mars (with prototype habs etc already developed)
it's just another excuse to waste more taxpayer money... nothing will actually get to the moon
nasa is full of bureaucrats and academics desperately trying to hold onto their cushy government salaries so these crackpot academic exercises come out occasionally... they might even build a prototype (at huge expense)
But when you go making black boxes, you are hiding the exact details that you would benefit from visualising.
this:
$variable = somefunction($some_parameter);
is also a black box... it doesn't tell you any more about what goes on inside somefunction that a flow chart rectangle.
i think we're sort of on the same wavelength though. you don't seem to value flowcharts for programs (i'm the same) but you see their value in data structures (as i also do). i guess i'm just trying to expand the argument a bit by suggesting that if we had an efficient input method (nobody could pay me enough to program graphically with a mouse) and there was a visual language that was well defined and as flexible as Pascal or C, then I might give it a shot. i think one possible advatage that can't be overlooked is that a lot of humans analyze simple images easier than a bunch of symbols (which is basically a more complex image), and someone trained in developing software using flowcharts may be able to spot bugs more efficiently than debugging text. not saying this is true, but it may be a possibility in future. again, i think the biggest setback to any visual flowchart type programming language is the reliance on the mouse, which for most people would be much less efficient than using a keyboard. who knows, maybe down the track we will be able to program a flowchart type language using our thoughts? the future is both exciting and scary, and anyone who ignores it is destined to be left behind.
But at least BitCoin is an upgrade from the fiat fiasco currencies
i wouldn't be so sure bitcoin is any different
yes bitcoin has a lot of neat features that other currencies don't...
but no matter which way you look at bitcoin... it isn't backed by anything with intrinsic value (meaning that its not valued for anything other than currency, same as any other fiat currency)
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Republican-Libertarian: same shit different name
way to prove your own ignorance... dipshit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/pe...
maybe you're looking at figures the same way that the government does...
- calculating unemployment by excluding those unemployed that have become discouraged and stopped looking for work
- calculating the cpi by excluding food and energy items
like most democrats and even some in the gop, president obama is a big government socialist... only the tea party, libertarian movements and independents are drumming up an ever increasing level of support for reducing government spending and powers back to that envisaged by the founding fathers.
i'll be only too happy to take any gold off your hands for you :-)
gold was widely valued for jewellery and money long before the age of electronics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
so if you trip over a huge gold nugget after SHTF you'll just leave it?
also, in SHTF scenario, all fiat currencies would be wiped out and unless you had something of real value to barter you would starve... pound for pound, gold has been one of the most highly valued commodies in the world since before the ancient egyptians... no action by any NWO will change that
meh... the "new world order" will be broke soon anyway... what's the point of hoarding a fuckload of cash that isn't worth anything? ...unless by "new world order" you mean the chinese government, which has been hoarding gold.
If my car crashes, no engineer is going to be sued.
engineers are responsible for design, not generally construction... if the cause of the car crash is found to be a design flaw, the engineer could (and probably would) be sued... even if not by the passengers, by the insurance firm.
but what would i know... i'm just an engineer
in engineering if no one dies, the defects will continue forever, whereas in software development, lawsuits can result from minor cosmetic problems
i think you'll find it's the other way 'round
engineers don't have the luxury of disclaiming away liability
large company responsible for developing raw land into finished houses
also sometimes just called a developer
i wonder if bmw offers x-foils as an option?
...apparently skrillex is popular in europe
except it won't apply to politicians... of course :-p
mobile phones may have been a problem for aircraft in the past, but the regulations for certifying avionics since 2007 are much stricter. older aircraft designs of course aren't subject to current rules which is a pity (since the rules are designed to increase safety) but majority of airline aircraft would be fitted with upgraded avionics anyway, and any upgrades would be subject to current rules (including their integration into existing aircraft electrical and flight control systems).
refer FAR25.1317 - High-intensity Radiated Fields (HIRF) Protection
http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/te...
even if you fly in smaller aircraft, if it has avionics installed post-2007 you're likely covered by a similar rule;
FAR23.1308 - High-intensity Radiated Fields (HIRF) Protection
http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/te...
What could be more fair than that?
i'm sure he won't think it's fair when the government can't afford his food stamps... or when his food stamps aren't enough to buy anything
But I'm not getting a refund for putting money into a business
if you sold your stocks, you might get less than your original investment or more, depending on the performance of the company you invested in
it's called risk and reward... and unfortunately big government dipshits (democrats and republicans alike) have no concept of it
hope you enjoying your food stamps... fool
its not laws or lack thereof that is preventing nasa from mining the moon... they simply don't have the funding
remember the only reason why nasa got the funding to go to the moon in the first place was because the military industrial complex was involved in a cold war with the soviet union.
the funding for the space race was never allocated for scientific purposes, it was always primarily a military operation dressed in civilian clothing.
no cold war... no moon... it's as simple as that
you are a sad, sad little man... and if it comes time when beta is forced on me i'll just write a php script to strip all the shit out... at the moment i'm still using the good ol' version.
if you don't like my rantings of wisdom, you're free to gtfo yourself... you won't because you're the troll, but unfortunately for slashdot you're just not intelligent enough to come up with a half-decent argument... you poor douchebag.
what do you think nasa mostly does? how many rockets does it launch? how many people dows it employ? what does it actually do? when you track down the answers to those questions (for yourself) the answer to your question will be staring you in the face.
there are already plenty of moon exercises alone, including manned mission studies and research into missions to mars (with prototype habs etc already developed)
I need NASA's permission to mine the moon now?
it's more likely you need vladimir putin's actually... even nasa uses russian rocket motors
it's just another excuse to waste more taxpayer money... nothing will actually get to the moon
nasa is full of bureaucrats and academics desperately trying to hold onto their cushy government salaries so these crackpot academic exercises come out occasionally... they might even build a prototype (at huge expense)
But when you go making black boxes, you are hiding the exact details that you would benefit from visualising.
this:
$variable = somefunction($some_parameter);
is also a black box... it doesn't tell you any more about what goes on inside somefunction that a flow chart rectangle.
i think we're sort of on the same wavelength though. you don't seem to value flowcharts for programs (i'm the same) but you see their value in data structures (as i also do). i guess i'm just trying to expand the argument a bit by suggesting that if we had an efficient input method (nobody could pay me enough to program graphically with a mouse) and there was a visual language that was well defined and as flexible as Pascal or C, then I might give it a shot. i think one possible advatage that can't be overlooked is that a lot of humans analyze simple images easier than a bunch of symbols (which is basically a more complex image), and someone trained in developing software using flowcharts may be able to spot bugs more efficiently than debugging text. not saying this is true, but it may be a possibility in future. again, i think the biggest setback to any visual flowchart type programming language is the reliance on the mouse, which for most people would be much less efficient than using a keyboard. who knows, maybe down the track we will be able to program a flowchart type language using our thoughts?
the future is both exciting and scary, and anyone who ignores it is destined to be left behind.
Might as well jump on the future primary international currency
the chinese yuan?
there's an interesting table @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... that you might want to take a look at
Suppose I gave you 5 tonnes of gold and you could not exchange it to money. You'd be a stuck with a pile of metal.
it would be stolen before long unless i invested huge in security... that's just what you have to do with something as valuable as gold
People value whatever they value
and EVERYONE on the entire planet values gold
if someone put $1,000,000 worth of gold and $1,000,000 worth of bitcoins on a table (hypothetically) which would you choose?
even if you were a hardcore bitcoin fetishist, it would be difficult to resist the gold
"value" is defined by demand for something... if there is plenty of demand for bitcoin, then it will become valuable
there will ALWAYS be demand for gold... not only for reserves, but for electronics, jewellery, etc.
same with silver, rare earths, oil, wheat, etc.
even bottle caps have more intrinsic value than bitcoin because they contain metals than can be recycled into other more valuable things
But at least BitCoin is an upgrade from the fiat fiasco currencies
i wouldn't be so sure bitcoin is any different
yes bitcoin has a lot of neat features that other currencies don't...
but no matter which way you look at bitcoin... it isn't backed by anything with intrinsic value (meaning that its not valued for anything other than currency, same as any other fiat currency)