> This isn't intended to be a troll, but I just don't get space exploration. I mean, there are a lot of good causes that all these dollars could be going to right here on Earth: stopping wars, battling diseases, increasing literacy, fighting pollution.
Better yet, why not use the money we spend on wars for all that good stuff, and maybe we'll have enough left to do some space exploration anyway.
Mathematics aside, it's a bit late to be asking whether global warming is happening or not. The question for us now is whether we can stop the ongoing meltdown. The arctic, Antartica, the Greenland ice sheet, Glacier National Park, the Alps - all melting before our eyes.
> How does this get modded insightful? Of course its security. What else could you use a huge airship like this for, as a government, that serves any purpose?
The question isn't whether this is a security measure, but whether it is money well spent. How often do you hear on the news that intelligence intercepts are sitting untranslated, mandated civic readiness and response preparations are unfunded, cargo containers are entering the country unscreened, passenger jets lack defenses against shoulder-mount missles, US troops in combat lack body armor and vehicle protection upgrades, etc.
> The end result is that the Linux kernel has no market value what so ever. The developers won't sell it at the market's price, and the market won't buy it at the developers price.
Yeah, I'm waiting for SCOX to come down off its high horse before I buy it, too.
> Getting the energy out in a controllable stream, not all at once. It's not the storage of energy that is ever the issue: Capacitors and high-explosives store lots. It's just getting it out the way you want it that is the trick.
Maybe they should make the crystals out of lithium-2 instead of nitrogen.
> Porn is an accessory to masturbation, the safest sex: no STDs, no conception. With China facing ongoing crises in both those human conditions, isn't porn the State's best comrade?
Presumably their accountants were dismayed at the productivity loss when 1,000,000,000 take time out to play with themselves, even if it's only for a few minutes a day.
>..in all seriousness, what happens if the AI system malfunctions?
There's another AI to monitor the sanity of the AI. And another AI to monitor the sanity of the AI that monitors the sanity of the AI. And another AI to monitor the sanity of the AI that monitors the sanity of the AI that monitors the sanity of the AI. And another AI...
It's stupid to fire someone for running this on company/institutional computers (whatever happened to warnings?), but it's also stupid to just decide to run it on the assumption that your boss isn't stupid.
> Then what do you think it was? Do you really want us to think that the Government that has the technology to put a cruise missile into your bedroom window couldn't come up with a small enough receiver that wouldn't show up on a tv camera in the small of your back?
a) His handlers would have to be careful where they got the hardware. Since he has been trying to get the intelligence community to take the fall for his decision to invade Iraq, the people who could furnish the best hardware might have a motive to furnish it and then out him on it.
b) There weren't supposed to be any cameras behind him.
FWIW, I don't find the evidence very compelling... but I don't find the rebuttals very compelling either.
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But what about most by seriousness of the problem?
> If it's not anthropogenic, there's real reason to question whether we can do anything about it
So what should we do? Shrug our shoulders and watch our garden paradise go to hell in a handbasket while we try to maximize short-term profits?
> This isn't intended to be a troll, but I just don't get space exploration. I mean, there are a lot of good causes that all these dollars could be going to right here on Earth: stopping wars, battling diseases, increasing literacy, fighting pollution.
Better yet, why not use the money we spend on wars for all that good stuff, and maybe we'll have enough left to do some space exploration anyway.
Mathematics aside, it's a bit late to be asking whether global warming is happening or not. The question for us now is whether we can stop the ongoing meltdown. The arctic, Antartica, the Greenland ice sheet, Glacier National Park, the Alps - all melting before our eyes.
> Unless this is done in a very entertaining way, it won't get much of a viewership.
How 'bout if they put the silhouettes of a guy and two robots at the bottom of the screen, and had them riff the show as it ran?
Or else have the shows narrated by babes in bikinis, or maybe female sumo wrestlers.
> "shiny veneer of stupid..."
> Then you wouldn't be watching the Presidential debates, would you?
No, that was a dull veneer of stupid.
...from Star Trek.
"Not recommended for use near airports or presidential motorcades."
> How does this get modded insightful? Of course its security. What else could you use a huge airship like this for, as a government, that serves any purpose?
The question isn't whether this is a security measure, but whether it is money well spent. How often do you hear on the news that intelligence intercepts are sitting untranslated, mandated civic readiness and response preparations are unfunded, cargo containers are entering the country unscreened, passenger jets lack defenses against shoulder-mount missles, US troops in combat lack body armor and vehicle protection upgrades, etc.
...the workaday needs of security and counterterrorism continue to go underfunded.
My favorite kernel is:
> The end result is that the Linux kernel has no market value what so ever. The developers won't sell it at the market's price, and the market won't buy it at the developers price.
Yeah, I'm waiting for SCOX to come down off its high horse before I buy it, too.
> This movie almost got an NC-17 for having simulated oral sex between the marionettes. [...] I actually ended up endorsing a different position
Which position would that be?
> Getting the energy out in a controllable stream, not all at once. It's not the storage of energy that is ever the issue: Capacitors and high-explosives store lots. It's just getting it out the way you want it that is the trick.
Maybe they should make the crystals out of lithium-2 instead of nitrogen.
> The apes thought they were going after a wounded antelope, when they realized they had been tricked, they ran away.
Curiously, when the explorers returned to camp they found that their beds had been short-sheeted.
"to go ogle for it"
> Porn is an accessory to masturbation, the safest sex: no STDs, no conception. With China facing ongoing crises in both those human conditions, isn't porn the State's best comrade?
Presumably their accountants were dismayed at the productivity loss when 1,000,000,000 take time out to play with themselves, even if it's only for a few minutes a day.
>
There's another AI to monitor the sanity of the AI. And another AI to monitor the sanity of the AI that monitors the sanity of the AI. And another AI to monitor the sanity of the AI that monitors the sanity of the AI that monitors the sanity of the AI. And another AI...
> Maybe Tom won't be the only one 'beamed' out of the building.
Funnier yet if the long sought ET's abduct Hayes for a weekend of hot recreational probing.
> The police were able to track down the owner - it's not that big of a town.
I was wondering how they caught me, you jerk.
If you had a slower internet connection I might have made it across the border.
> The cops USE Google, but they still have to be the ones that put 2 and 2 together to get a conclusion.
That's what the psychic consultants are for.
> Google will soon be starring in TV's CSI
LoL. "CSI:Google"
It's stupid to fire someone for running this on company/institutional computers (whatever happened to warnings?), but it's also stupid to just decide to run it on the assumption that your boss isn't stupid.
> I realize this is going to get them attention
If the media bother to notice...
> Then what do you think it was? Do you really want us to think that the Government that has the technology to put a cruise missile into your bedroom window couldn't come up with a small enough receiver that wouldn't show up on a tv camera in the small of your back?
a) His handlers would have to be careful where they got the hardware. Since he has been trying to get the intelligence community to take the fall for his decision to invade Iraq, the people who could furnish the best hardware might have a motive to furnish it and then out him on it.
b) There weren't supposed to be any cameras behind him.
FWIW, I don't find the evidence very compelling... but I don't find the rebuttals very compelling either.