To continue your analogy... a car in the junkyard likely has nobody keeping an eye on it and has no alarms to go off if you try to force entry. A car on the street likely has the owner not too far away and will probably have some kind of alarm (if not security, then something operational that will scream if interfered with).
I'm from the place where people are responsible for locking their own doors, not relying on a building inspector coming around to make sure all of the locks are working properly.
I agree that religion is outdated and has long outlived any purpose. Just pointing out to the parent poster that regular run-of-the-mill thinking (as opposed to analytical) won't dismantle religion because it created. And I used to be the town idiot until I moved to a larger town, the competition here is much too fierce:-p
Thinking is what created religion in the first place. All those deities came from the minds of people seeking to explain what they could not. Religion was the world's first science.
Not a surprise considering Google's history. I don't see it much different than what they do with what you do with any other Google services. When I still used Gmail, I found it humorous that it would display ads for Viagra whenever the odd male enhancement spam slipped through.
I think the fear is less about the plane crashing and more about where it crashes. People accept there's a certain amount of risk when they board a plane or even when you go to an airport which you might associate with some of the same risks, but you don't generally think about risks to your life when you go to your 9-to-5 office job. It's the realization that a hijacked plane can hit almost anywhere that the real terror starts.
Terrorists, as the name implies, operate more on the psychological impact of what they do than the physical impact. Hijacking a plane and then crashing it wherever they want has a significantly higher psychological impact on the populace than just bombing an airport (not to say that doesn't have an impact, just less of one). So even if that were the only effect, it'd still be disincentive for a terrorist act because they have limited resources and need every strike to count for it to be effective. However, the TSA has an abysmal record of preventing people that should be suspects from getting on the plane anyway.
650 million tons of ice sounds impressive, but it's really not a lot considering how much we use.
650,000,000 - tons of ice estimated on the moon's north pole 27,000,000,000,000,000 - tons of ice estimated on Antarctica 5,400,000,000,000,000 - tons freshwater on Earth excluding Antarctica 90 - tons of residential water use per American per year
An anonymous remailer is a server that receives messages with embedded instructions on where to send them next, and that forwards them without revealing where they originally came from.
My parent's TV doesn't have any general web browser that I've been able to find on it. All you can download are various apps (some of which give you the functionality of sites like YouTube and Google Maps).
That's pretty short sighted. That's like saying inter-city travel is pretty useless because the trains hauling the goods can be automated so people will never ever need to go to another city. Just because in the short term, unmanned travel will be better doesn't mean we don't need to start planning and building the infrastructure to expand beyond our little blue rock someday.
Eventually we'll have to declutter our orbit and we might just find a way to recycle most of it, although I'm sure there's a lot that's just easier to nudge into the atmosphere to burn up. But like you said, the amount of material up there is insignificant from the perspective of reusing it for something is. Some of the low cost ways to get it includes nets, inflatables and lasers so you don't need to catch up to every little piece.
The machines may be doing the mining themselves, but once things are underway there will probably still be maintenance and operations stationed in space not too far from the asteroids. The raw materials mined from the roids can be used elsewhere in space as well - such as a permanent lunar settlement.
My psych prof in college had to be careful not to use "Dr." as a title on anything in NYS, even though he had a valid doctorate in psychology. I believe it had something to do with the doctorate not being in clinical psychology or somesuch.
Although I can see these rules being for consumer protection, many of them are poorly implemented.
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To continue your analogy... a car in the junkyard likely has nobody keeping an eye on it and has no alarms to go off if you try to force entry. A car on the street likely has the owner not too far away and will probably have some kind of alarm (if not security, then something operational that will scream if interfered with).
I'm from the place where people are responsible for locking their own doors, not relying on a building inspector coming around to make sure all of the locks are working properly.
I stopped using Hotmail long before Gmail ever came out, but from what I hear they largely fixed their spam problems so it's on par with Gmail now.
You're one of those people that thinks cars should all be limited to 65mph and ISPs should block all websites they find distasteful, aren't you?
I agree that religion is outdated and has long outlived any purpose. Just pointing out to the parent poster that regular run-of-the-mill thinking (as opposed to analytical) won't dismantle religion because it created. And I used to be the town idiot until I moved to a larger town, the competition here is much too fierce :-p
Thinking is what created religion in the first place. All those deities came from the minds of people seeking to explain what they could not. Religion was the world's first science.
Part of the patent is replacing ads in applications with ads that send money to Apple instead.
Not a surprise considering Google's history. I don't see it much different than what they do with what you do with any other Google services. When I still used Gmail, I found it humorous that it would display ads for Viagra whenever the odd male enhancement spam slipped through.
I think the fear is less about the plane crashing and more about where it crashes. People accept there's a certain amount of risk when they board a plane or even when you go to an airport which you might associate with some of the same risks, but you don't generally think about risks to your life when you go to your 9-to-5 office job. It's the realization that a hijacked plane can hit almost anywhere that the real terror starts.
The agent takes you out to see a movie, buys you dinner and then gets frisky. Without the movie and dinner.
Terrorists, as the name implies, operate more on the psychological impact of what they do than the physical impact. Hijacking a plane and then crashing it wherever they want has a significantly higher psychological impact on the populace than just bombing an airport (not to say that doesn't have an impact, just less of one). So even if that were the only effect, it'd still be disincentive for a terrorist act because they have limited resources and need every strike to count for it to be effective. However, the TSA has an abysmal record of preventing people that should be suspects from getting on the plane anyway.
The TSA... where the agents are pedophiles, the supervisors are thieves and the ones pointing out flaws in the system are unemployed.
There's no liquid water or gas either. Does all the whooshing make your ears pop?
650 million tons of ice sounds impressive, but it's really not a lot considering how much we use.
650,000,000 - tons of ice estimated on the moon's north pole
27,000,000,000,000,000 - tons of ice estimated on Antarctica
5,400,000,000,000,000 - tons freshwater on Earth excluding Antarctica
90 - tons of residential water use per American per year
An anonymous remailer is a server that receives messages with embedded instructions on where to send them next, and that forwards them without revealing where they originally came from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer
Considering the majority of matter on the planet, including life, is from the remnants of a supernova, I'd say it helped quite a lot.
My parent's TV doesn't have any general web browser that I've been able to find on it. All you can download are various apps (some of which give you the functionality of sites like YouTube and Google Maps).
Sort of like flying to Japan didn't used to be feasible?
That's pretty short sighted. That's like saying inter-city travel is pretty useless because the trains hauling the goods can be automated so people will never ever need to go to another city. Just because in the short term, unmanned travel will be better doesn't mean we don't need to start planning and building the infrastructure to expand beyond our little blue rock someday.
My parents recently got a 52" Internet connected Samsung TV. Any way I could use this to replace the crap Samsung apps with something better?
No worse than a rogue satellite causing damage.
Eventually we'll have to declutter our orbit and we might just find a way to recycle most of it, although I'm sure there's a lot that's just easier to nudge into the atmosphere to burn up. But like you said, the amount of material up there is insignificant from the perspective of reusing it for something is. Some of the low cost ways to get it includes nets, inflatables and lasers so you don't need to catch up to every little piece.
The machines may be doing the mining themselves, but once things are underway there will probably still be maintenance and operations stationed in space not too far from the asteroids. The raw materials mined from the roids can be used elsewhere in space as well - such as a permanent lunar settlement.
This allows bigger construction in space.
Which is needed for ... ?
Orbiting whore-houses for the miners?
Space stations, moonbases, interplanetary travel... for starters?
My psych prof in college had to be careful not to use "Dr." as a title on anything in NYS, even though he had a valid doctorate in psychology. I believe it had something to do with the doctorate not being in clinical psychology or somesuch.
Although I can see these rules being for consumer protection, many of them are poorly implemented.