An even better solution would be everyone living at first world levels but that's not going to happen for a half dozen generations minimum (~200 years), so in the meantime here we are. No protection is really possible here, you can't stop or really apply tarriffs to someone paying cash over the internet to someone else for perfectly legal services.
This is what a directly competitive global market looks like my friend, when you have people with living expenses in double digit dollars competing with those who have triple digit expenses (at least), a disparity in acceptable wages begins to appear.
Of course a programmer worth their salt will have worked hard enough that they should perhaps be willing to accept no less than a certain minimum, but that is nonetheless a competitive advantage they have in developing countries - why would they compete fairly when they don't have to? Would it even be fair to cut themselves off at the feet like that?
There is no solution to this quandry. Just pick your battles and keep your customers, really, lots of businesses value security and reliability over low cost.
Most cancers from cigarettes are I believe caused because the layer of tar prevents the body from repairing itself normally. After a couple of years off them the tar and other negative effects should have dispersed for the most part.
What I don't get about this research is why they don't just stick a few geiger counters and recorders on planes and fly them near thunderstorms, surely that would be the best way to test the theory? Also, is there any chance this could lead to the return of zeppelins, because that would be awesome.
Depends how deep you go. Most cave systems are far more hospitable to humans than the world outside, once you aren't worried about food and in some cases clean water. Stable temperatures, little chance of exposure, no heavy rains or winds, a nice cave makes a good hidey hole if you're stuck.
Yes, and for pity's sake no more frameworks. You know those things have started to become part of job application requirements? You can know the underlying codebase back to front but if you aren't familiar with whatever arbitrary shorthand the developers mashed together for the latest and greatest, you're out of luck. And rarely do they add much to any project except bloat, with a few notable exceptions like jquery-style interpretations. Bootstrap: CSS made simple! How in the name of god can you make CSS any simpler? Argh!
Is that Dutch looks like german, in which everything seems angry. The web page seemed very very angry about my lack of cookies. I never knew a web page could look so angry.
It's probably asking your permission to use cookies, as per the recent EU rulings on cookie use in websites.
The propaganda fell apart quickly enough in the Eastern European bloc and East Germany. I know it wasn't quite as severe as NK but I'd expect similar results.
No this isn't like Iraq, I seriously doubt there'd be any insurgency since North and South Korea are culturally very similar, speak the same language, and are the same people basically. Once the usual postwar troublespots quiet down, it would be "free TVs for everyone", there aren't any major religious schisms or historical reasons for North and South to hate one another beyond the recent unpleasantness.
It's a form of tribal behaviour, you can see it all over, whether about football teams or political parties or products or whatever, same exact instinct. That people can't objectively weigh up the pros and cons of any given product objectively and make decisions on that basis is baffling to me, but I'm no psychologist...
Correct, genocidal tendencies are not difficult to spot. For one thing a large segment of the population is regularly talking about killing, imprisoning or deporting a smaller segment of the population. Genocide by its nature requires the involvement of lots and lots of people, and they won't be shy about giving you their opinion. For example pre world war 2 Germany was riddled with anti-semitism, that's a hazardous situation. It's not something that appears from a vacuum nor a spontaneous event.
I'd be very wary of this initiative as another effort to water down terms which describe truly horrendous crimes by assigning them to lesser actions, like the incessant use of 'rape' by hardline misandrists.
Dark Matter is not made of atoms nor does it have any electrical charges. You cannot do chemistry with it - it is fundamentally different from any normal form of matter. What you propose is in direct contradiction to the know properties of Dark Matter.
So you're saying it's impossible that science will ever be able to create the conditions to cause dark matter to come into being? It's a strange substance, not magical.
Take a high school physics course and then do the maths. To get up to 10% of light speed (30,000 km/s), assuming your planetoid was Earth-sized and neglecting relativistic effects you would need a mass 22 times that of the sun. Now explain to me again how sticking a mass 22 times larger than the sun anywhere near our solar system would not severely impair the orbits of the planets?
Twice as many would be needed because you have to slow down too. You don't aggregate the gravity on a single point because it's not in a single point, it is stretched over a half dozen light years. This is not a new concept, one variation is the Dyson Slingshot. The only question I'm wondering about is whether or not dark matter offers advantages in this regard. The unique properties of dark matter strike me as something that could have many uses. And keep in mind I'm just wondering, not making assertions, despite the entertaining hysterics it appears to have caused some anonymous posters.
If you include relativity the mass you need will increase and, even if you get to 10% of c we are still talking 30-40 years to get to the nearest star. Although this travel time will soon decrease as the line of 22 solar mass planetoids you'll need to sustain this speed will rapidly collapse into a blackhole with a mass so large that us and all the nearby stars will get pulled into it. Technically at this point travel to the matter which used to be Alpha Centauri might be possible but since we will all be being ripped to shreds by the tidal forces in the black hole's accretion disc I doubt anyone will appreciate it.
Stars many times larger than 22 solar masses exist, if it were even relevant.
That it does - huge, massive structures on a galactic and cosmic scale. The reason for this is that it interacts via gravity and, perhaps, the weak force. I agree that we can say very little about it at all at the moment but I do think that we can say that it will not form structures on a stellar scale which can generate a large enough gravitational field to accelerate an object to close to light speed in a reasonable length of time.
People are good at taking otherwise inoffensive substances and concentrating them into all sorts of volatile configurations. I'm not making any assertions, just blue skying it, but it's too early to say yea or nay at this point.
You cannot stop a gravitational field at the edge of the solar system - gravitational fields are infinite in extent. In order to have feasible interstellar travel you would need to have a reasonably rapid acceleration. Any gravitational field capable of generating that would disrupt planetary orbits.
Gravity gets stronger the closer you are to its source. A chain of dark matter 'planetoids' stretching between stars wouldn't have much of an effect on the endpoints, particularly since they wouldn't be in a straight line, or at least not that straight. The idea relies on small pushes over the length of the gargantuan distances between stars, even those closest to us.
First the energy limit on interstellar travel is not getting out of the gravitational well of the sun it is getting up to a large fraction of the speed of light. If your intention was achieve that sort of velocity with a gravitational field then please try this is someone else's solar system because a gravitational field of that magnitude - think black hole - will do nasty things to planetary orbits.
Yes, if you read the rest of the comments the concept isn't within the solar system nor is it a single large gravitational field.
Second Dark Matter is incredibly diffuse, far more so than normal matter because it only interacts via gravity and - possibly - the weak force. So there it no way to make small, dense concentrations of it like you can with normal matter.
It does form structures, so I'd say it's too early to make definitive statements about what can and can't be done with it.
It's now being repeated with the 2012 data so stay tuned...
Two false assertions displaying complete ignorance of the topic, a couple of dollops of personal abuse, and a sprinkling of complete misunderstanding. Buh bye now.
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An even better solution would be everyone living at first world levels but that's not going to happen for a half dozen generations minimum (~200 years), so in the meantime here we are. No protection is really possible here, you can't stop or really apply tarriffs to someone paying cash over the internet to someone else for perfectly legal services.
I don't think that's a yacht, it's a research boat.
I wonder could you do the same with a piece of software? Risky business having it be the only version on earth mind you...
This is what a directly competitive global market looks like my friend, when you have people with living expenses in double digit dollars competing with those who have triple digit expenses (at least), a disparity in acceptable wages begins to appear.
Of course a programmer worth their salt will have worked hard enough that they should perhaps be willing to accept no less than a certain minimum, but that is nonetheless a competitive advantage they have in developing countries - why would they compete fairly when they don't have to? Would it even be fair to cut themselves off at the feet like that?
There is no solution to this quandry. Just pick your battles and keep your customers, really, lots of businesses value security and reliability over low cost.
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Most cancers from cigarettes are I believe caused because the layer of tar prevents the body from repairing itself normally. After a couple of years off them the tar and other negative effects should have dispersed for the most part.
What I don't get about this research is why they don't just stick a few geiger counters and recorders on planes and fly them near thunderstorms, surely that would be the best way to test the theory? Also, is there any chance this could lead to the return of zeppelins, because that would be awesome.
Depends how deep you go. Most cave systems are far more hospitable to humans than the world outside, once you aren't worried about food and in some cases clean water. Stable temperatures, little chance of exposure, no heavy rains or winds, a nice cave makes a good hidey hole if you're stuck.
Yes, and for pity's sake no more frameworks. You know those things have started to become part of job application requirements? You can know the underlying codebase back to front but if you aren't familiar with whatever arbitrary shorthand the developers mashed together for the latest and greatest, you're out of luck. And rarely do they add much to any project except bloat, with a few notable exceptions like jquery-style interpretations. Bootstrap: CSS made simple! How in the name of god can you make CSS any simpler? Argh!
I thought it would look like a pebble. That would have been cool. Instead it just looks like a standard issue watch.
Is that Dutch looks like german, in which everything seems angry. The web page seemed very very angry about my lack of cookies. I never knew a web page could look so angry.
It's probably asking your permission to use cookies, as per the recent EU rulings on cookie use in websites.
Bizarre, you would have thought none of these things were in the remit of NASA. One is education and the other two are diplomacy.
The propaganda fell apart quickly enough in the Eastern European bloc and East Germany. I know it wasn't quite as severe as NK but I'd expect similar results.
No this isn't like Iraq, I seriously doubt there'd be any insurgency since North and South Korea are culturally very similar, speak the same language, and are the same people basically. Once the usual postwar troublespots quiet down, it would be "free TVs for everyone", there aren't any major religious schisms or historical reasons for North and South to hate one another beyond the recent unpleasantness.
It's a form of tribal behaviour, you can see it all over, whether about football teams or political parties or products or whatever, same exact instinct. That people can't objectively weigh up the pros and cons of any given product objectively and make decisions on that basis is baffling to me, but I'm no psychologist...
I note there isn't any submitter here. Is Timmeyah pulling a solo run?
It's better than your hexamech.
Haters gonna hate.
Correct, genocidal tendencies are not difficult to spot. For one thing a large segment of the population is regularly talking about killing, imprisoning or deporting a smaller segment of the population. Genocide by its nature requires the involvement of lots and lots of people, and they won't be shy about giving you their opinion. For example pre world war 2 Germany was riddled with anti-semitism, that's a hazardous situation. It's not something that appears from a vacuum nor a spontaneous event.
I'd be very wary of this initiative as another effort to water down terms which describe truly horrendous crimes by assigning them to lesser actions, like the incessant use of 'rape' by hardline misandrists.
I totally read that in Dr Steel's voice.
Dark Matter is not made of atoms nor does it have any electrical charges. You cannot do chemistry with it - it is fundamentally different from any normal form of matter. What you propose is in direct contradiction to the know properties of Dark Matter.
So you're saying it's impossible that science will ever be able to create the conditions to cause dark matter to come into being? It's a strange substance, not magical.
Take a high school physics course and then do the maths. To get up to 10% of light speed (30,000 km/s), assuming your planetoid was Earth-sized and neglecting relativistic effects you would need a mass 22 times that of the sun. Now explain to me again how sticking a mass 22 times larger than the sun anywhere near our solar system would not severely impair the orbits of the planets?
Twice as many would be needed because you have to slow down too. You don't aggregate the gravity on a single point because it's not in a single point, it is stretched over a half dozen light years. This is not a new concept, one variation is the Dyson Slingshot. The only question I'm wondering about is whether or not dark matter offers advantages in this regard. The unique properties of dark matter strike me as something that could have many uses. And keep in mind I'm just wondering, not making assertions, despite the entertaining hysterics it appears to have caused some anonymous posters.
If you include relativity the mass you need will increase and, even if you get to 10% of c we are still talking 30-40 years to get to the nearest star. Although this travel time will soon decrease as the line of 22 solar mass planetoids you'll need to sustain this speed will rapidly collapse into a blackhole with a mass so large that us and all the nearby stars will get pulled into it. Technically at this point travel to the matter which used to be Alpha Centauri might be possible but since we will all be being ripped to shreds by the tidal forces in the black hole's accretion disc I doubt anyone will appreciate it.
Stars many times larger than 22 solar masses exist, if it were even relevant.
They're talking about privacy being washed away. This has to stop.
Have you ever been right once in your life?
That it does - huge, massive structures on a galactic and cosmic scale. The reason for this is that it interacts via gravity and, perhaps, the weak force. I agree that we can say very little about it at all at the moment but I do think that we can say that it will not form structures on a stellar scale which can generate a large enough gravitational field to accelerate an object to close to light speed in a reasonable length of time.
People are good at taking otherwise inoffensive substances and concentrating them into all sorts of volatile configurations. I'm not making any assertions, just blue skying it, but it's too early to say yea or nay at this point.
You cannot stop a gravitational field at the edge of the solar system - gravitational fields are infinite in extent. In order to have feasible interstellar travel you would need to have a reasonably rapid acceleration. Any gravitational field capable of generating that would disrupt planetary orbits.
Gravity gets stronger the closer you are to its source. A chain of dark matter 'planetoids' stretching between stars wouldn't have much of an effect on the endpoints, particularly since they wouldn't be in a straight line, or at least not that straight. The idea relies on small pushes over the length of the gargantuan distances between stars, even those closest to us.
First the energy limit on interstellar travel is not getting out of the gravitational well of the sun it is getting up to a large fraction of the speed of light. If your intention was achieve that sort of velocity with a gravitational field then please try this is someone else's solar system because a gravitational field of that magnitude - think black hole - will do nasty things to planetary orbits.
Yes, if you read the rest of the comments the concept isn't within the solar system nor is it a single large gravitational field.
Second Dark Matter is incredibly diffuse, far more so than normal matter because it only interacts via gravity and - possibly - the weak force. So there it no way to make small, dense concentrations of it like you can with normal matter.
It does form structures, so I'd say it's too early to make definitive statements about what can and can't be done with it.
It's now being repeated with the 2012 data so stay tuned...
Will do.
Two false assertions displaying complete ignorance of the topic, a couple of dollops of personal abuse, and a sprinkling of complete misunderstanding. Buh bye now.
Look, if you just want to ignore science, fine, believe whatever
That's rich coming from the guy that said dark matter didn't form structures. Again, spare your keyboard the wear and tear.