I still have my Canon A-1 and numerous lenses. It was a real workhorse. I suppose I really did get my money's worth out of it. I used it to make slides for presentations before there was Powerpoint. I can't quite get myself t toss it. It doesn't take up all that much room, so it stays.
A long time ago I saw a joke in either Car & Driver or maybe it was Road & Track. In the background were several bespectacled men in white lab coats with clipboards making notes as cars were being driven off a cliff. In the foreground are two guys. One says to the other, "Oh, that's just Consumer Reports testing cars again"
And as for their "statistical analyses" they are a joke. They only survey CR subscribers. They won't disclose their numbers. They won't disclose their methodology. They seem to feel it is all proprietary. And it goes without saying they have no numbers at all on the Model 3. It's too bad people take these jokers seriously.
Gates: "Trump is so dumb he doesn't know the difference between floating point and integer BASIC! I'm so smart."
Really, why SHOULD he know a priori? It's silly to ding someone on an esoteric point of science. Trump probably doesn't understand regression equations either.
Hear hear. Other close by cities are already suggesting a move to their city would benefit Amazon. Bellevue, just across Lake Washington, says they are "open for business." And Bellevue's quality of life is a whole lot nicer, not to mention safer. The thing is, this isn't just about Amazon, though you would never know it from the news. Several low profit margin businesses in Seattle technically qualify for this tax and will likely move or go out of business. Seattle was once a nice place, but sadly, it's not my father's Seattle any longer.
Amen. I use it, but the bugs are so bad I live in frustration. I need to get off my butt and get something else. I guess it's just not quite broke enough to fix it.
"If you don't live in California, you wish you lived in California."
What are you smoking? The weather is nice if the state is not on fire. Otherwise you have endless freeways with endless traffic, endless taxes, endless welfare, endless regulations, endless people, and endless stress. A large GDP has NOTHING to do with quality of life. California is to America what America is to the rest of the world, a place of masturbatory excess best to be avoided.
No, but it is not necessary. I don't pay shipping at all because I accumulate to the minimum and change to "free delivery" for everything. Sure, it takes a few more days. I am capable of anticipating need and do not need anything immediately. Needing to use Prime just shows a lack of planning on your part. To me it is a complete waste of money. .
The only reason ULA is in the game at all is because the market IS rigged--for them. SpaceX's launch cost is half that of ULA, yet ULA still gets massive contracts. How is that even possible in a competitive environment? Answer: It is not a competitive environment. If it were, ULA would lose those contracts or lower the price to within SpaceX price points.
Sure. I get it. You, too, can be an iron worker while your buddies go to college. (You better not be afraid of heights, but still.) A lot of the trades pay well. Hell, my barber makes $90.00 an hour. It's possible to do well, but if "doing well" means working at a 40 hour a week job all your life so you, too, can make $60K as a high school graduate, then I think some serious points are being missed. The attitude is myopic because it concentrates on "getting a job" and near-term gains.
That kind of thing happened to me. I did a very stupid thing. I got a B.A. in anthropology. While it was interesting, it has an even lesser market value than an English degree. I managed to get a minimum wage job at a bookstore. Things didn't go well for several years. But because I was literate and could write, things turned around. I got one of the first Apple ][ computers in the world, learned to program it, and went on from there with a career in IT that allowed me to comfortably retire at 55 with enough funding to do whatever I wanted. I was the only one in my peer group to attend college. My friends went into the trades. But look at them now. If they're lucky they are on disability. If not, they can't retire and now struggle. The tradesman lifestyle has not been kind to them. Meanwhile I bought a new corvette for cash and still have plenty of money for the nursing home--eventually. (I'd rather die of a heart attack. I'm just trying to be responsible.)
It's not that a trades profession cannot get you a "high paying" job, it's just that this is not looking up enough. What you want is to increase your net worth enough to set yourself up. If you think of "work" as an hourly wage, you'll be thinking $30.00 an hour is big money when you ought to be thinking $300K in the bank tax paid is a good start. And even if you have a useless B.A. in liberal arts like anthropology, you are still set up to get to graduate school and a decent profession instead of wallow in the trades from year to year. You have versatility where someone in the trades faces such an uphill battle that they literally will never get there.
So where i understand the lure of "big money" trades, a little patience and early sacrifice will allow you to do better for the long haul.
If you have actually read "The age of Intelligent Machines,' please raise your hand. if you have actually read "The Age of Spiritual Machines," please raise your hand. If you have actually read 'The Singularity is Near," please raise your hand. See the problem here? A whole lot of critical comments, but very few raised hands. The man has a phenomenal success rate when it comes to his predictions, but overall you (plural) have no idea what he actually said. You just read what someone else said about what he said, and from those comments, you draw your conclusions. If you had actually read what Kurzweil wrote and observed his success rate (near 90%) you might come to different conclusions. Of course, if you actually knew what you were talking about when it comes to economics you might come to different conclusions, too.
There is a serious savings when they re use a booster, but few of the existing recovered boosters will be saved in the future due to the advent of the Block 5 series which are slightly bigger, have retractable landing gears (rather than removable) and other improvements. Those are the more valuable boosters to save and re use. . The earlier ones are effectively out of date. They may very well use the older used boosters they do have on those missions where recovery is not an issue and they intentionally ditch them.
With cookies. And they're stupid cookies. If you research a product online and buy it, the cookies follow you around for months afterwards. Sorry, too late. Why is that creepy? It's not as if they are AI. .
This reaction is expected here. You have a bunch of empiricists who can't fathom anything other than the physical and will go to great lengths to explain away such things as NDE's, etc. Science as practiced today is one of the most intolerant religions ever. My favorite Tesla quote is:"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence." Slashdot, as a whole, is not there yet. Most of them will have to wait until they are dead, and when they wake up with their consciousness intact, will be forced to face the fact that they were wrong. Meanwhile, we will have to bear their intolerance awhile longer. Note that no references to religious fables such as Jesus or 72 virgins was necessary in this post. Science has simply replaced one intolerant dogma with another one. Sadly, it is not necessary. Science COULD figure out Reality if it wanted to.
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I still have my Canon A-1 and numerous lenses. It was a real workhorse. I suppose I really did get my money's worth out of it. I used it to make slides for presentations before there was Powerpoint. I can't quite get myself t toss it. It doesn't take up all that much room, so it stays.
Kilaeua has spewed out more junk into the atmosphere in its latest eruption that everything saved by Prius cars in a year. So sue the volcano.
OK. "Broadcast" then. Happy now? Good Lord Read my sig.
How much money is going into Loch Ness monster research? It's ONE guy. Pick another example.
I'm guessing the K/T asteroid has humanity beat by a long shot.
A long time ago I saw a joke in either Car & Driver or maybe it was Road & Track. In the background were several bespectacled men in white lab coats with clipboards making notes as cars were being driven off a cliff. In the foreground are two guys. One says to the other, "Oh, that's just Consumer Reports testing cars again"
And as for their "statistical analyses" they are a joke. They only survey CR subscribers. They won't disclose their numbers. They won't disclose their methodology. They seem to feel it is all proprietary. And it goes without saying they have no numbers at all on the Model 3. It's too bad people take these jokers seriously.
Gates: "Trump is so dumb he doesn't know the difference between floating point and integer BASIC! I'm so smart."
Really, why SHOULD he know a priori? It's silly to ding someone on an esoteric point of science. Trump probably doesn't understand regression equations either.
Hear hear. Other close by cities are already suggesting a move to their city would benefit Amazon. Bellevue, just across Lake Washington, says they are "open for business." And Bellevue's quality of life is a whole lot nicer, not to mention safer. The thing is, this isn't just about Amazon, though you would never know it from the news. Several low profit margin businesses in Seattle technically qualify for this tax and will likely move or go out of business. Seattle was once a nice place, but sadly, it's not my father's Seattle any longer.
Right next door to Hawaii.
| The Alabama was an Ohio class submarine....
Still is: SSBN-731
Amen. I use it, but the bugs are so bad I live in frustration. I need to get off my butt and get something else. I guess it's just not quite broke enough to fix it.
OK. I just snorted wine out my nose. Thanks, guys, for my laugh of the day.
"If you don't live in California, you wish you lived in California."
What are you smoking? The weather is nice if the state is not on fire. Otherwise you have endless freeways with endless traffic, endless taxes, endless welfare, endless regulations, endless people, and endless stress. A large GDP has NOTHING to do with quality of life. California is to America what America is to the rest of the world, a place of masturbatory excess best to be avoided.
No, but it is not necessary. I don't pay shipping at all because I accumulate to the minimum and change to "free delivery" for everything. Sure, it takes a few more days. I am capable of anticipating need and do not need anything immediately. Needing to use Prime just shows a lack of planning on your part. To me it is a complete waste of money. .
"Congenital"? I don't think that word means what you think it means, but tanks for the laugh. P.S. Try "conjugal"
The only reason ULA is in the game at all is because the market IS rigged--for them. SpaceX's launch cost is half that of ULA, yet ULA still gets massive contracts. How is that even possible in a competitive environment? Answer: It is not a competitive environment. If it were, ULA would lose those contracts or lower the price to within SpaceX price points.
Sure. I get it. You, too, can be an iron worker while your buddies go to college. (You better not be afraid of heights, but still.) A lot of the trades pay well. Hell, my barber makes $90.00 an hour. It's possible to do well, but if "doing well" means working at a 40 hour a week job all your life so you, too, can make $60K as a high school graduate, then I think some serious points are being missed. The attitude is myopic because it concentrates on "getting a job" and near-term gains.
That kind of thing happened to me. I did a very stupid thing. I got a B.A. in anthropology. While it was interesting, it has an even lesser market value than an English degree. I managed to get a minimum wage job at a bookstore. Things didn't go well for several years. But because I was literate and could write, things turned around. I got one of the first Apple ][ computers in the world, learned to program it, and went on from there with a career in IT that allowed me to comfortably retire at 55 with enough funding to do whatever I wanted. I was the only one in my peer group to attend college. My friends went into the trades. But look at them now. If they're lucky they are on disability. If not, they can't retire and now struggle. The tradesman lifestyle has not been kind to them. Meanwhile I bought a new corvette for cash and still have plenty of money for the nursing home--eventually. (I'd rather die of a heart attack. I'm just trying to be responsible.)
It's not that a trades profession cannot get you a "high paying" job, it's just that this is not looking up enough. What you want is to increase your net worth enough to set yourself up. If you think of "work" as an hourly wage, you'll be thinking $30.00 an hour is big money when you ought to be thinking $300K in the bank tax paid is a good start. And even if you have a useless B.A. in liberal arts like anthropology, you are still set up to get to graduate school and a decent profession instead of wallow in the trades from year to year. You have versatility where someone in the trades faces such an uphill battle that they literally will never get there.
So where i understand the lure of "big money" trades, a little patience and early sacrifice will allow you to do better for the long haul.
If you have actually read "The age of Intelligent Machines,' please raise your hand. if you have actually read "The Age of Spiritual Machines," please raise your hand. If you have actually read 'The Singularity is Near," please raise your hand. See the problem here? A whole lot of critical comments, but very few raised hands. The man has a phenomenal success rate when it comes to his predictions, but overall you (plural) have no idea what he actually said. You just read what someone else said about what he said, and from those comments, you draw your conclusions. If you had actually read what Kurzweil wrote and observed his success rate (near 90%) you might come to different conclusions. Of course, if you actually knew what you were talking about when it comes to economics you might come to different conclusions, too.
There is a serious savings when they re use a booster, but few of the existing recovered boosters will be saved in the future due to the advent of the Block 5 series which are slightly bigger, have retractable landing gears (rather than removable) and other improvements. Those are the more valuable boosters to save and re use. . The earlier ones are effectively out of date. They may very well use the older used boosters they do have on those missions where recovery is not an issue and they intentionally ditch them.
That's the name of my network. The only person who ever noticed it (and told me) was my grandson.
With cookies. And they're stupid cookies. If you research a product online and buy it, the cookies follow you around for months afterwards. Sorry, too late. Why is that creepy? It's not as if they are AI. .
It's under NOAA because when the law was passed, jurisdiction was given to NOAA. Yes, it;s very stupid, and it's not rocket science either.
Oh, you mean the rape thing that he makes a joke about? You know: "I wasn't wearing a condom; I was wearing you!" Ha ha! What a comedian!
Oh, you mean like "Chelsea" Manning? Hard life, that.
This reaction is expected here. You have a bunch of empiricists who can't fathom anything other than the physical and will go to great lengths to explain away such things as NDE's, etc. Science as practiced today is one of the most intolerant religions ever. My favorite Tesla quote is:"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence." Slashdot, as a whole, is not there yet. Most of them will have to wait until they are dead, and when they wake up with their consciousness intact, will be forced to face the fact that they were wrong. Meanwhile, we will have to bear their intolerance awhile longer. Note that no references to religious fables such as Jesus or 72 virgins was necessary in this post. Science has simply replaced one intolerant dogma with another one. Sadly, it is not necessary. Science COULD figure out Reality if it wanted to.