You stramanned first. (Is it ok if I verb that noun?)
What I was trying to say is that police powers are not arbitrary. So there is no point in asking if a citizen could go and do things a officer could not. To address the original point that "My liberty should ALWAYS exceed the police's" that was made earlier in the thread: There are lots of things an officer can do that citizens can not, and thus they should be held to a higher standard.
Exactly. Automation has allowed us to have a 40 hour work week and modern luxuries that people could not dream of 20 years ago, much less at the beginning of the industrial revolution.. A potential result of this might be that consumer goods for basic living will become so cheap that the average person will only need to work 20 or 10 hours a week.
I assume he was making a joke about "hollywood accounting" where people cook the books to make movies look like they do not make a profit, in order to cheat actors dumb enough to get paid out of the profits.
Certainly all government contracts in the US have the same kind of funny accounting going on. I had been thinking of SpaceX, who is quite up front about the real costs of their flights. But India might very well be like SLS in that there is no way to tell how many untold billions are blown on the thing. Obviously the $25M stated did not include development costs.
if they can really put this thing in orbit for $25M that would be one heck of a good deal. Wikipedia says the payload is 10,000kg to LEO, which would make it half the cost of a Falcon 9 with about 3/4ths of the payload. And even if this is understated, it still looks to be a pretty good $/kg rate.
Reminds me of the late 90's when I graduated. Got my first real job, pre-bubble, and the amount I was making wasn't really all that impressive, but a full time salary is a full time salary. My uncle exclaimed "You make THAT much? Man, how do I get into that industry?"
My reply was, and still is, "If you ask that question, you can't."
This isn't sunken cost as much as pork barrel. Someone promised a Senator from Mississippi that hey would get 300+ million dollars from NASA and by god he was going to get it regardless of how much of a waste of money it is.
Also not surprising that this was from the South where they are against big government, but pro pork barrel.
Then I will restate as: What is the point of comparing all European rockets to American rockets? Different people developed different rockets, so you can not make assumptions about quality by comparing rockets from different manufacturers.
I am a big fan of SpaceX but it is hard to compare this. You can't realistically lump in all of USA made boosters and compare them to a single rocket. But you can compare each company and rocket family individually.
Ariane 5 has been flying in various configurations since 1996, and after the first disastrous failure due to a software error, and 4 failures in its first 14 launches, it has over a decade without a single failure for 63 launches in a row.
Falcon 9 has a perfect record for 13 launches, but is much younger, only flying since 2010, so it is more difficult to compare reliability. However rockets tend to fail more early on. (see Ariane 5 for an example)
Both are excellent launch platforms, but it is likely that SpaceX's cost is less which makes it popular. Once they have the reusable system going, Falcon may become unmatched in price per launch.
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You stramanned first. (Is it ok if I verb that noun?)
What I was trying to say is that police powers are not arbitrary. So there is no point in asking if a citizen could go and do things a officer could not. To address the original point that "My liberty should ALWAYS exceed the police's" that was made earlier in the thread: There are lots of things an officer can do that citizens can not, and thus they should be held to a higher standard.
The police do not have this liberty either. They are not permitted to drive around and arresting anyone they please.
Does this mean anyone that deals in bitcoins in any way can now be sent to jail for drug trafficing?
Exactly. Automation has allowed us to have a 40 hour work week and modern luxuries that people could not dream of 20 years ago, much less at the beginning of the industrial revolution.. A potential result of this might be that consumer goods for basic living will become so cheap that the average person will only need to work 20 or 10 hours a week.
America will become a wasteland... just like it did when we sent most of our manufacturing jobs to China.
Wait, that did not happen? Sure, things are more unstable now, but it wasn't the end of history.
I assume he was making a joke about "hollywood accounting" where people cook the books to make movies look like they do not make a profit, in order to cheat actors dumb enough to get paid out of the profits.
Certainly all government contracts in the US have the same kind of funny accounting going on. I had been thinking of SpaceX, who is quite up front about the real costs of their flights. But India might very well be like SLS in that there is no way to tell how many untold billions are blown on the thing. Obviously the $25M stated did not include development costs.
Slightly more successful than this.
if they can really put this thing in orbit for $25M that would be one heck of a good deal. Wikipedia says the payload is 10,000kg to LEO, which would make it half the cost of a Falcon 9 with about 3/4ths of the payload. And even if this is understated, it still looks to be a pretty good $/kg rate.
There was Quantum Leap.
So... yes?
Huh, growing crops in a desert is not such a great idea, isn't it?
Agreed, "those that do not study history..."
But really, a Liberal Arts degree is useless. Liberal Arts classes can be quite useful.
But perhaps our AC friend should not not be in any higher education at all. It sounds like he can't (or couldn't) make the cut.
Reminds me of the late 90's when I graduated. Got my first real job, pre-bubble, and the amount I was making wasn't really all that impressive, but a full time salary is a full time salary. My uncle exclaimed "You make THAT much? Man, how do I get into that industry?"
My reply was, and still is, "If you ask that question, you can't."
This isn't sunken cost as much as pork barrel. Someone promised a Senator from Mississippi that hey would get 300+ million dollars from NASA and by god he was going to get it regardless of how much of a waste of money it is.
Also not surprising that this was from the South where they are against big government, but pro pork barrel.
Ahh good point.
Then I will restate as: What is the point of comparing all European rockets to American rockets? Different people developed different rockets, so you can not make assumptions about quality by comparing rockets from different manufacturers.
If only Napoleon III used Uranium utensils.
It was pick one, and they picked "impossible to use".
A graphene condom for me would be the same as a space elevator.
That is the most real, authentic, hysterical laugh of my entire life.
Nope, that wont help you.
Why would I include rockets from a different company when determining quality?
Do we lump Microsoft and Apple together when discussing quality of their software, since they are both from the USA?
Yeah right. They will just keep things as shitty as before except charge even higher prices once they get Uber and Lyft banned.
What makes you think they won't protest over that as well? Anything that hurts their regulatory capture will cause the same reaction.
I am a big fan of SpaceX but it is hard to compare this. You can't realistically lump in all of USA made boosters and compare them to a single rocket. But you can compare each company and rocket family individually.
Ariane 5 has been flying in various configurations since 1996, and after the first disastrous failure due to a software error, and 4 failures in its first 14 launches, it has over a decade without a single failure for 63 launches in a row.
Falcon 9 has a perfect record for 13 launches, but is much younger, only flying since 2010, so it is more difficult to compare reliability. However rockets tend to fail more early on. (see Ariane 5 for an example)
Both are excellent launch platforms, but it is likely that SpaceX's cost is less which makes it popular. Once they have the reusable system going, Falcon may become unmatched in price per launch.
I have never seen a bottle of beer overfoam at a bar before unless it was spilled.
Try not drinking shitty beer.
Ghost Writer, or Zombie Writer? :)