I would suggest making it legal to shoot those little fuckers out of the sky. If people behaved with them it would be great, but they don't. People don't want government spying on them but have no problem flying their drones over to the neighbor's pool to see if the can pick up a few nude bathers. Let me use the drones as target practice and I'll be fine.
This is so funny. Here comes Musk--again--makes a big boast "Battery in 100 days or it is free!" Beats his own goal, turns on the battery, and some people here just can't stand it. Musk wins. You lose. Get over yourselves.
He's just full of Doom Porn these days. 1. AI will kill us. 2. The planet will become uninhabitable. 3. Aliens are going to find us and snuff us out. It's just one thing after another with him. How about some good, old-fashioned theoretical physics for a change?
A little bit of lighter fluid spilled out and caused a small fire on the deck which was put out within seconds. Meanwhile the entire Internet has its panties in a twist proclaiming a "failed mission" when the satellite it launched is now in geo-stationary orbit and functioning as it was designed at a launch cost that is half what anyone else could do it for. Ask the Koreans if they think this launch was a failure.
It is what I would consider a success. They got the satellite into orbit at half the price anyone else could do. No one else has been able to land boosters AT ALL. That one of them landed a bit toasty is immaterial to the overall success of the mission.
I'm so impressed. With all this sophisticated data science they know exactly where it is. The only problem is that they haven't found the airplane. They know where it is. They really do. It's just that they haven't found it. Another:"WIN" for science!
Don't tell that to the plants. Carbon dioxide helps plants grow. That's why in times past when CO2 levels were high we had bracken ferns that were 60 feet tall. Increased carbon will certainly change things, but the planet has changed before. Seas have risen and fallen. Continents have merged and separated, the climate has warmed and cooled--all with no help from us.
Do you realize how many gazillion laws in this country have no constitutional basis? I hate unions for a variety of reasons, but the AC here is correct. You do have the right to organize.
You're arguing about how many angels can exist on the head of a pin. "Tech" is not just about a newly invented thing. It's also about availability. William Gibson once said, "The future is already here; it's just unevenly distributed." A lot of "tech advancement" is about mainstreaming what we already have. As an example, I have a three terabyte disk drive parked behind my TV that serves as my personal cloud backup system for all the devices in my house. It cost a little over $100. A few years ago, certainly within my working lifetime because I bought them, a 300MB drive was the size of a washing machine and cost $40,000. The disk pack alone cost $1200. Those drives would take up my entire living room and cost millions of dollars to duplicate that three terabyte drive's capacity. Your argument is that we had disk drives in the sixties, so that's not really advanced tech because the basic tech (platters and read heads) has not changed all that much. I would maintain that these changes constitute a leap forward in tech and not only that, tech advancement is exponential because really, we've been using bits and bytes since 1890. Advancements are so fast today that we can't even imagine what we will have in ten years.
Yet someone else taking advantage of Woz, I'm guessing, getting him to invest in an IT Tech University scam knowing full-well he would be enthusiastic about such an endeavor. He certainly won't be managing or really 'heading up' such a project in any meaningful way, having said more than once that he is not a 'managerial type.' I have always had the fear that one day I would awaken to the news that Woz was completely broke, having trusted glib promoters with his entire fortune.
If there's anything pundits, so-called experts, and know-nothing journalists should know by now it is to underestimate Elon Musk is a losing proposition. Everything these scoffers said could not be done---ever, has been done by Musk.
Doesn't matter. The Captain of the ship is responsible for the safe operation of the ship--even if he's sleeping in his bunk (Exxon Valdez & USS McCain.)
Electric cars are the perfect commuter car. Most trips are not "long trips." They are to the grocery store or to work. Electric cars can be "re fueled" at home with solar panels, which are getting cheaper by the day. They are hardly a "rich man's toy." They are the working man's salvation. And BTW, how many ties have you been without electricity in the last year? you plug the sucker in when you get home. We will all be driving the within ten years. And when the do-gooder governments prevent ICEs from being sold, that's the practical end of them.
Agreed, but the issue is which religions are PC to criticize, and which are protected from any and all criticism. Right now it's open season on Christianity, but every other religion gets a pass. If it were Christianity objecting to this telescope on "sacred ground" people would be waiting in line for hours to throw their two cents of derision Christianity's way. But if this is "sacred ground" to "indigenous people" (they are not) suddenly we have to respect and revere these ancient traditions and protest against this scientific endeavor. If we were consistent we'd call BS on all religious mumbo jumbo instead of reserving whipping boy status only for Christianity.
We have this lofty idea that FOIA request are a lynch pin of democracy and open government, but there's another side to this that bears examination. Public records requests are often used to harass local government entities. I'm aware of a public library near by that was inundated with requests because the requestor was against the library's policy on internet access. They did not filter ALL their PCs for pornography BECAUSE it's a free speech issue. It isn't illegal, therefore the government cannot prevent a citizen from accessing it. Libraries have largely resolved this issue today by allowing "free access" to a limited number of PCs in adult-only areas, so the controversy is not what it was twenty years ago. Nevertheless, the tactic used was to request nearly every record the library possessed. Meeting minutes, budget records, financial data--basically anything they could think of. Were these "protestors" actually interested in this data? Nope. They had no intention of using it. The just wanted to cost the library time and effort, which they did. This particular library hired a full-time clerk whose ONLY job was to respond to these requests "in a timely manner" as required by law. This is public money being spent on responses to these requests, and just so you know. Libraries aren't rich. Having to spend an entire FTE on responding to these "requests" basically means a cut in service hours somewhere else in the system.
What this kind of protesting does is divert government from its mission to provide services and do the business of government and turn it into an agency whose only job is to respond to ever more ludicrous requests for "information" that has NOTHING to do with government, will not result in any sort of "open" government,will divulge no juicy secrets, and simply paralyzes the institution so attacked. When FOIA laws are used in this manner, i's like patent trolls harassing a company. I'm all for open government and access to information, but when it is used as a political weapon it makes a mockery of the entire process. So bully for these governmental entities fighting back against these assholes.
It's better than begging on the streets for school supplies because your school district "can't afford" them. Seriously. Teachers around here have gone to cardboard signs at intersections begging for funds to buy supplies.
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I would suggest making it legal to shoot those little fuckers out of the sky. If people behaved with them it would be great, but they don't. People don't want government spying on them but have no problem flying their drones over to the neighbor's pool to see if the can pick up a few nude bathers. Let me use the drones as target practice and I'll be fine.
Career killer par excellance
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This is so funny. Here comes Musk--again--makes a big boast "Battery in 100 days or it is free!" Beats his own goal, turns on the battery, and some people here just can't stand it. Musk wins. You lose. Get over yourselves.
Well, they won the Battle of New Orleans. 2459 to 333. Pretty lopsided. Too bad they all got there late.
Consider moving.
First World Problem. Took a few seconds so had to have been pre-downloaded. Differences are not worth the energy to worry about. Meh? Don't care.
He's just full of Doom Porn these days. 1. AI will kill us. 2. The planet will become uninhabitable. 3. Aliens are going to find us and snuff us out. It's just one thing after another with him. How about some good, old-fashioned theoretical physics for a change?
A little bit of lighter fluid spilled out and caused a small fire on the deck which was put out within seconds. Meanwhile the entire Internet has its panties in a twist proclaiming a "failed mission" when the satellite it launched is now in geo-stationary orbit and functioning as it was designed at a launch cost that is half what anyone else could do it for. Ask the Koreans if they think this launch was a failure.
It is what I would consider a success. They got the satellite into orbit at half the price anyone else could do. No one else has been able to land boosters AT ALL. That one of them landed a bit toasty is immaterial to the overall success of the mission.
I'm so impressed. With all this sophisticated data science they know exactly where it is. The only problem is that they haven't found the airplane. They know where it is. They really do. It's just that they haven't found it. Another :"WIN" for science!
Don't tell that to the plants. Carbon dioxide helps plants grow. That's why in times past when CO2 levels were high we had bracken ferns that were 60 feet tall. Increased carbon will certainly change things, but the planet has changed before. Seas have risen and fallen. Continents have merged and separated, the climate has warmed and cooled--all with no help from us.
Do you realize how many gazillion laws in this country have no constitutional basis? I hate unions for a variety of reasons, but the AC here is correct. You do have the right to organize.
You're arguing about how many angels can exist on the head of a pin. "Tech" is not just about a newly invented thing. It's also about availability. William Gibson once said, "The future is already here; it's just unevenly distributed." A lot of "tech advancement" is about mainstreaming what we already have. As an example, I have a three terabyte disk drive parked behind my TV that serves as my personal cloud backup system for all the devices in my house. It cost a little over $100. A few years ago, certainly within my working lifetime because I bought them, a 300MB drive was the size of a washing machine and cost $40,000. The disk pack alone cost $1200. Those drives would take up my entire living room and cost millions of dollars to duplicate that three terabyte drive's capacity. Your argument is that we had disk drives in the sixties, so that's not really advanced tech because the basic tech (platters and read heads) has not changed all that much. I would maintain that these changes constitute a leap forward in tech and not only that, tech advancement is exponential because really, we've been using bits and bytes since 1890. Advancements are so fast today that we can't even imagine what we will have in ten years.
Yet someone else taking advantage of Woz, I'm guessing, getting him to invest in an IT Tech University scam knowing full-well he would be enthusiastic about such an endeavor. He certainly won't be managing or really 'heading up' such a project in any meaningful way, having said more than once that he is not a 'managerial type.' I have always had the fear that one day I would awaken to the news that Woz was completely broke, having trusted glib promoters with his entire fortune.
If there's anything pundits, so-called experts, and know-nothing journalists should know by now it is to underestimate Elon Musk is a losing proposition. Everything these scoffers said could not be done---ever, has been done by Musk.
Yes. They are husband and wife.
Doesn't matter. The Captain of the ship is responsible for the safe operation of the ship--even if he's sleeping in his bunk (Exxon Valdez & USS McCain.)
Umm, it's neither hysterical nor irrational.
Electric cars are the perfect commuter car. Most trips are not "long trips." They are to the grocery store or to work. Electric cars can be "re fueled" at home with solar panels, which are getting cheaper by the day. They are hardly a "rich man's toy." They are the working man's salvation. And BTW, how many ties have you been without electricity in the last year? you plug the sucker in when you get home. We will all be driving the within ten years. And when the do-gooder governments prevent ICEs from being sold, that's the practical end of them.
Agreed, but the issue is which religions are PC to criticize, and which are protected from any and all criticism. Right now it's open season on Christianity, but every other religion gets a pass. If it were Christianity objecting to this telescope on "sacred ground" people would be waiting in line for hours to throw their two cents of derision Christianity's way. But if this is "sacred ground" to "indigenous people" (they are not) suddenly we have to respect and revere these ancient traditions and protest against this scientific endeavor. If we were consistent we'd call BS on all religious mumbo jumbo instead of reserving whipping boy status only for Christianity.
That's like saying Navy SEALS are bad at underwater demolition.
Mod parent up.
We have this lofty idea that FOIA request are a lynch pin of democracy and open government, but there's another side to this that bears examination. Public records requests are often used to harass local government entities. I'm aware of a public library near by that was inundated with requests because the requestor was against the library's policy on internet access. They did not filter ALL their PCs for pornography BECAUSE it's a free speech issue. It isn't illegal, therefore the government cannot prevent a citizen from accessing it. Libraries have largely resolved this issue today by allowing "free access" to a limited number of PCs in adult-only areas, so the controversy is not what it was twenty years ago. Nevertheless, the tactic used was to request nearly every record the library possessed. Meeting minutes, budget records, financial data--basically anything they could think of. Were these "protestors" actually interested in this data? Nope. They had no intention of using it. The just wanted to cost the library time and effort, which they did. This particular library hired a full-time clerk whose ONLY job was to respond to these requests "in a timely manner" as required by law. This is public money being spent on responses to these requests, and just so you know. Libraries aren't rich. Having to spend an entire FTE on responding to these "requests" basically means a cut in service hours somewhere else in the system.
What this kind of protesting does is divert government from its mission to provide services and do the business of government and turn it into an agency whose only job is to respond to ever more ludicrous requests for "information" that has NOTHING to do with government, will not result in any sort of "open" government,will divulge no juicy secrets, and simply paralyzes the institution so attacked. When FOIA laws are used in this manner, i's like patent trolls harassing a company. I'm all for open government and access to information, but when it is used as a political weapon it makes a mockery of the entire process. So bully for these governmental entities fighting back against these assholes.
It's better than begging on the streets for school supplies because your school district "can't afford" them. Seriously. Teachers around here have gone to cardboard signs at intersections begging for funds to buy supplies.