Please not, that "trickle down" economics has failed every single time it has been tried on Earth.
Good thing I'm not proposing it then. You can't just fly up there and start building cities in space, you have to finance each step as you go progressively, and you do so by first returning raw ores, then refined ores, then basic manufactured goods, then larger manufactured goods and ultimately agricultural/medical products.This stuff is wildly expensive, beyond belief, even if you disregard the fact that the technology doesn't exist to enable your randian outposts. Do you imagine some cabal of rich guys taking over the solar system and then chortling over the rims of their bubbly glasses at the rest of us below?
You really, really don't understand the scale of what we're talking about here.
The asteroid Eros has more metals including precious and semi precious than ever have been or ever could be extracted from the earth's crust, tons of gold for every man, woman and child on earth, and we have a giant nuclear reactor sitting there just waiting to help us take it apart. That's just one single asteroid out of millions, and not a very big one either. An embarrasment of riches doesn't begin to cover it. Once space manufacturing takes off do you know what happens to a global economy flooded with everything? I don't, but I'm looking forward to finding out. This is what's known as a 'post scarcity society'. I suspect it will start to look like Western Europe on steroids, with a very good basic standard of living guaranteed while still allowing options for those who want to excel.
Hell, they'll need to place restrictions on how many cars you can buy in a year just to stop the place being flooded with trash. Growth industry of the longest term future? Waste disposal.
You've got it backwards. The unfathomable amount of raw materials and energy available in space will act as a great leveller, ushering in an age of post scarcity undreamed of. I'm not saying it's going to happen tomorrow, but it is inevitable, and while the first movers may make a lot of money in the process, ultimately when we've got deep orbit factories being fed an endless stream of ores by automated refinerminers that will hardly matter.
It's like an Americanised eclair. Pastry on the outside, cream on the inside. I don't think they usually put chocolate on the top either. Damn now I have a mad craving for eclairs.
On that note the geek culture of eating shit needs to stop, I mean this stuff combined with a sedentary lifestyle is basically slow or not so slow suicide. Eat small amounts of healthy food, cut back on the coffee and cut out the booze, get regular exercise. Being fat isn't fun or smart and sugar rushes wreck anyone's concentration. Diabetes, no thanks. I'm not a fitness freak but come on, take a half hour at the start of the day to prepare some sushi or maybe a ham and sundried tomato bagel with a touch of cheese for a treat, delicious and filling. Have a cup of green tea.
I can see a lot of potential insofar as P2P browsergames go. Cut out the middleman so to speak. You could have decentralised discussion forums, exchanges, anywhere people need to collaborate. Things get kind of weird at that stage though, many websites would become much more like torrent indexes than a centrally served resource. Who knows, maybe the security risks will exceed the value created, to say nothing of efficiency, we'll see.
Spammers have been trying to sneak past filters since the dawn of the internet, and have forgotten more about it than most people will ever know. Your best bet is probably to mix up words so they are still legible but don't match word recognition algorithms, and only then until the NSA catch on that this is being widely used. Assuming you don't just get snagged on spam filters.
We already have machines that are smarter than humans, if you mean 'better at one particular job than humans'. We call them tools. If by smarter you mean 'more intelligent' I'm afraid you've got a lot longer to wait since we don't even have a bare definition for intelligence never mind serious attempts to recreate it.
No, that's a troll. Trolling was invented here on slashdot, I don't care what 4chan might have to say on the matter, or some usenet post. We even dedicated organisations (the GNAA) who made trolling their raison d'etre, people who put significant time and effort into trolling (like setting up an image gallery mirror that randomly displayed offensive pictures, that one even got a few solid members modded into oblivion), frosty piss remains a cherished goal. 90% of the misogyny in these discussions is from the same people who will try to rick roll you into clicking on a goatse picture.
Never blame malice when incompetence is sufficient, and never blame incompetence when some halfwit getting their kicks from people clutching their pearls is sufficient.
Why did he steal her property on the way out though? That doesn't fit.
I'm leaning very much towards her end of things at this stage. Rape is about power, taking her phone and passport as he left very much fits the profile.
Yet not only is he aware of the secret spying programs, he is actively defending them.
If it had happend on the watch of any previous president they would have done the same thing. The game isn't us against the terrorists, it's us against the new aristocracy.
Obama Obama Obama. Enough with this partisan nonsense. Watch the documentary 'Enemy of the State', what 16 years old now or more, this surveillance is nothing new. You don't get to call yourselves the land of the free when you're being monitored around the clock in case you might say or do something upsetting to your betters. And no I don't care if terrorists are the excuse, if you're going to put the USA on a pedestal, hold yourselves to a higher standard than totalitarians.
Sorry but what the fuck is exascale and HPC? Mega mechs controlled by handheld PCs? I should be able to read the news without needing to consult the Acronymicon, the only volume more likely to induce severe brain damage than the Necronomicon.
Almost nothing in this comment makes any sense. What is a 'wider distribution'? You mean men are more versatile than women, more random, more prone to doing things, what?
Anytime I hear the phrase 'men are' or 'women are' I know the stupid isn't far behind, because making generalisations about the personalities and proclivities of three and a half billion people from an enormous variety of different backgrounds, cultures, and educational levels is not possible.
What makes you think pirates won't rip off independent authors? They aren't on a 'reform the publishers' kick, they're on a 'get free stuff' kick. This tactic is to allow publishers or authors or whoever to track back pirated copies to whoever first shared them out. All they need it to automate the system so each book sold has a unique and all but invisible 'watermark', a comma in an odd place, whatever.
And you know what maybe they have a point; arguments can be made that musicians can earn from live performances, and that movies can earn at the box office. Where do authors make money if their works are pirated? Live readings and ebook signings? Please. This is a pretty low form of piracy.
Yeah I can't get behind the whole superheroes thing in general. Look, it's an unkillable one dimensional godling dressed in spandex, swanning around far above the common herd. I'm not going to say wish fulfilment here but...
Obviously some incarnations of batman and wolverine are exempt from this criticism.
I think the general theory is that the government should be cheaper than the private sector since they don't have a profit motive, all else being equal.
I support equality, equality of opportunity, equality of rights, and equality of compensation, let every man or woman stand on their own merits. As long as feminism supports that goal, I will support feminism.
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Please not, that "trickle down" economics has failed every single time it has been tried on Earth.
Good thing I'm not proposing it then. You can't just fly up there and start building cities in space, you have to finance each step as you go progressively, and you do so by first returning raw ores, then refined ores, then basic manufactured goods, then larger manufactured goods and ultimately agricultural/medical products.This stuff is wildly expensive, beyond belief, even if you disregard the fact that the technology doesn't exist to enable your randian outposts. Do you imagine some cabal of rich guys taking over the solar system and then chortling over the rims of their bubbly glasses at the rest of us below?
You really, really don't understand the scale of what we're talking about here.
The asteroid Eros has more metals including precious and semi precious than ever have been or ever could be extracted from the earth's crust, tons of gold for every man, woman and child on earth, and we have a giant nuclear reactor sitting there just waiting to help us take it apart. That's just one single asteroid out of millions, and not a very big one either. An embarrasment of riches doesn't begin to cover it. Once space manufacturing takes off do you know what happens to a global economy flooded with everything? I don't, but I'm looking forward to finding out. This is what's known as a 'post scarcity society'. I suspect it will start to look like Western Europe on steroids, with a very good basic standard of living guaranteed while still allowing options for those who want to excel.
Hell, they'll need to place restrictions on how many cars you can buy in a year just to stop the place being flooded with trash. Growth industry of the longest term future? Waste disposal.
You've got it backwards. The unfathomable amount of raw materials and energy available in space will act as a great leveller, ushering in an age of post scarcity undreamed of. I'm not saying it's going to happen tomorrow, but it is inevitable, and while the first movers may make a lot of money in the process, ultimately when we've got deep orbit factories being fed an endless stream of ores by automated refinerminers that will hardly matter.
It's like an Americanised eclair. Pastry on the outside, cream on the inside. I don't think they usually put chocolate on the top either. Damn now I have a mad craving for eclairs.
On that note the geek culture of eating shit needs to stop, I mean this stuff combined with a sedentary lifestyle is basically slow or not so slow suicide. Eat small amounts of healthy food, cut back on the coffee and cut out the booze, get regular exercise. Being fat isn't fun or smart and sugar rushes wreck anyone's concentration. Diabetes, no thanks. I'm not a fitness freak but come on, take a half hour at the start of the day to prepare some sushi or maybe a ham and sundried tomato bagel with a touch of cheese for a treat, delicious and filling. Have a cup of green tea.
I can see a lot of potential insofar as P2P browsergames go. Cut out the middleman so to speak. You could have decentralised discussion forums, exchanges, anywhere people need to collaborate. Things get kind of weird at that stage though, many websites would become much more like torrent indexes than a centrally served resource. Who knows, maybe the security risks will exceed the value created, to say nothing of efficiency, we'll see.
Two words, my friend. "Secret laws".
Bingo, the tech community is doing it all wrong. Fight back through educating politicians and voters. Make the government work for you.
Spammers have been trying to sneak past filters since the dawn of the internet, and have forgotten more about it than most people will ever know. Your best bet is probably to mix up words so they are still legible but don't match word recognition algorithms, and only then until the NSA catch on that this is being widely used. Assuming you don't just get snagged on spam filters.
We already have machines that are smarter than humans, if you mean 'better at one particular job than humans'. We call them tools. If by smarter you mean 'more intelligent' I'm afraid you've got a lot longer to wait since we don't even have a bare definition for intelligence never mind serious attempts to recreate it.
No, that's a troll. Trolling was invented here on slashdot, I don't care what 4chan might have to say on the matter, or some usenet post. We even dedicated organisations (the GNAA) who made trolling their raison d'etre, people who put significant time and effort into trolling (like setting up an image gallery mirror that randomly displayed offensive pictures, that one even got a few solid members modded into oblivion), frosty piss remains a cherished goal. 90% of the misogyny in these discussions is from the same people who will try to rick roll you into clicking on a goatse picture.
Never blame malice when incompetence is sufficient, and never blame incompetence when some halfwit getting their kicks from people clutching their pearls is sufficient.
Mod parent up.
Why did he steal her property on the way out though? That doesn't fit.
I'm leaning very much towards her end of things at this stage. Rape is about power, taking her phone and passport as he left very much fits the profile.
There's more blood on the hands of those at the top of private industry than the elected officials.
Seriously?
I can throw away all of those heavy telephoto lenses!
Why not, you can always ask the NSA for higher resolution images if you need them.
Yet not only is he aware of the secret spying programs, he is actively defending them.
If it had happend on the watch of any previous president they would have done the same thing. The game isn't us against the terrorists, it's us against the new aristocracy.
Who knew, all this time the tinfoil hats were right.
Obama Obama Obama. Enough with this partisan nonsense. Watch the documentary 'Enemy of the State', what 16 years old now or more, this surveillance is nothing new. You don't get to call yourselves the land of the free when you're being monitored around the clock in case you might say or do something upsetting to your betters. And no I don't care if terrorists are the excuse, if you're going to put the USA on a pedestal, hold yourselves to a higher standard than totalitarians.
Sorry but what the fuck is exascale and HPC? Mega mechs controlled by handheld PCs? I should be able to read the news without needing to consult the Acronymicon, the only volume more likely to induce severe brain damage than the Necronomicon.
No, really, wut?
This is like an arts student trying to be relevant to IT.
I've nothing against arts students but stick to your competency eh.
Do you know why our dicks have a mushroom head? That shape works to pump out competing sperm.
Yes, and a cat's penis is hook shaped in case any fish swam up the female cat's vagina.
Almost nothing in this comment makes any sense. What is a 'wider distribution'? You mean men are more versatile than women, more random, more prone to doing things, what?
Anytime I hear the phrase 'men are' or 'women are' I know the stupid isn't far behind, because making generalisations about the personalities and proclivities of three and a half billion people from an enormous variety of different backgrounds, cultures, and educational levels is not possible.
What makes you think pirates won't rip off independent authors? They aren't on a 'reform the publishers' kick, they're on a 'get free stuff' kick. This tactic is to allow publishers or authors or whoever to track back pirated copies to whoever first shared them out. All they need it to automate the system so each book sold has a unique and all but invisible 'watermark', a comma in an odd place, whatever.
And you know what maybe they have a point; arguments can be made that musicians can earn from live performances, and that movies can earn at the box office. Where do authors make money if their works are pirated? Live readings and ebook signings? Please. This is a pretty low form of piracy.
Yeah I can't get behind the whole superheroes thing in general. Look, it's an unkillable one dimensional godling dressed in spandex, swanning around far above the common herd. I'm not going to say wish fulfilment here but...
Obviously some incarnations of batman and wolverine are exempt from this criticism.
I think the general theory is that the government should be cheaper than the private sector since they don't have a profit motive, all else being equal.
That makes perfect sense to me.
I support equality, equality of opportunity, equality of rights, and equality of compensation, let every man or woman stand on their own merits. As long as feminism supports that goal, I will support feminism.