As long as there's one person who is willing to resort to force to get what they want, everybody needs to be able to use force to defend their interests.
Yeah, because your iPod is the very first techno-geek gadget that is replaced by something better, faster, and cheaper a couple months later. Stop the damn presses.
That's a meaningless comparison, unless you also specify the distance from your eye to the media. I guarantee that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 300 dpi and 1200 dpi on a movie theater screen that you're sitting 30' from. (Yes, I know that nobody would ever try those absurdly ridiculously crazy high resolutions with video)
I've seen large-screen presentations of modest-resolution data, and it looks pretty OK. Your brain interprets moving pictures differently from text.
Is there a threshhold beyond which you can't discern? Absolutely. For video, it's a heck of a lot lower than 300dpi, even for home theater applications.
Taxes from industries that would not exist except for satellite communications pay NASA's budget dozens of times over. Who's to say where the next breakthrough economic windfall will occur?
Space is hard. Doing hard things creates interesting solutions to problems. Doing that a lot is a good idea.
I'm with you, I think the moon is a waste of time.
Mars, however, is the place humans will go to live next. Most of the problems you describe are either a) indelible aspects of the human condition and b) mitigated by the availability of a frontier.
Don't you think that somebody who lives on Mars is going to become a King Kong Jedi badass sustainability engineer? Don't you think that some of those techniques will be exportable back to Earth?
NASA's budget is peanuts. The return on investment is literally incalculable.
In principle, I agree with you. Small, well-managed programs can have dramatic effects. What exactly does the Federal government have to do with small, well-managed programs?
I sometimes wish we were an imperialistic nation. That way, we wouldn't have to listen to all these hostile governments opposing our interests.
Since you can't go ANYWHERE without encountering governments hostile to the United States, I think it's pretty clear that the "imperialism" charge doesn't have any teeth. Either the US is not imperialistic, or else it's not very good at it.
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Only problem is this:
As long as there's one person who is willing to resort to force to get what they want, everybody needs to be able to use force to defend their interests.
I question the intelligence of anybody who thinks any one thing is the only thing that matters.
Intelligence is important. Inability to deal with other humans makes intelligence less valuable.
Saab is GM.
Volvo is Ford.
Nissan Renault and Citroen are the same company.
I believe Daewoo was acquired by GM.
There aren't as many as you think.
*bows graciously*
"iPod users aren't generally independent thinkers"
And you know, because you've talked to a significant number of them.
"our hated enemy groupthink"
I want you to read this phrase over and over until you get the irony.
"cheaper players out there that have better UI"
Name three.
"psychotic DRM"
That word doesn't mean what you think it means. I've got around 10,000 tracks. No DRM. All MP3s. Work great. Zero issues. What are you babbling about?
Yeah, because your iPod is the very first techno-geek gadget that is replaced by something better, faster, and cheaper a couple months later. Stop the damn presses.
Tool.
Just because somebody disagrees with you doesn't make them stupid.
Thinking that people who disagree with you are stupid, indicates that you are stupid.
Go ahead...work it out. I'll wait.
So, um, back up your valuable data, and learn how to burn a CD.
This is a problem how exactly?
What planet are you from? Did you seriously think that Apple would NOT release a new iPod?
Right, because people can't think for themselves. But YOU should be allowed to tell Apple when they should or should not release products.
Never mind that this is a RUMOR.
I knew they were on the wrong side of patents when they successfully sued Handspring for having a small keyboard.
I'd have much rather watched RIM crash and burn. Live by the sword, die by the sword...
That's a meaningless comparison, unless you also specify the distance from your eye to the media. I guarantee that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 300 dpi and 1200 dpi on a movie theater screen that you're sitting 30' from. (Yes, I know that nobody would ever try those absurdly ridiculously crazy high resolutions with video)
I've seen large-screen presentations of modest-resolution data, and it looks pretty OK. Your brain interprets moving pictures differently from text.
Is there a threshhold beyond which you can't discern? Absolutely. For video, it's a heck of a lot lower than 300dpi, even for home theater applications.
Seems to me that if you can't fill the offices with competent people, you shouldn't be elected.
I'd rather skip the goldfish and the uranium and just work on a scramjet. Oh yeah, NASA is.
Since you're free to price your mushrooms however you like, and Batali is free to buy them from you or buy them from somebody else, yes.
Since I have one and only one option for high-speed internet access, the situation is different.
Taxes from industries that would not exist except for satellite communications pay NASA's budget dozens of times over. Who's to say where the next breakthrough economic windfall will occur?
Space is hard. Doing hard things creates interesting solutions to problems. Doing that a lot is a good idea.
I'm with you, I think the moon is a waste of time.
Mars, however, is the place humans will go to live next. Most of the problems you describe are either a) indelible aspects of the human condition and b) mitigated by the availability of a frontier.
Don't you think that somebody who lives on Mars is going to become a King Kong Jedi badass sustainability engineer? Don't you think that some of those techniques will be exportable back to Earth?
NASA's budget is peanuts. The return on investment is literally incalculable.
"What is the scientific end game of sending people to Mars?"
Living there.
In principle, I agree with you. Small, well-managed programs can have dramatic effects. What exactly does the Federal government have to do with small, well-managed programs?
Just a note: Doing the polar opposite of what the herd does is still lettting the herd run your life. Just sayin'.
"SHOULDN'T have these programs"
Because they cost too much and do too little. Is that clear enough?
"Any questions?"
Yeah. Did you know that they took "gullible" out of the dictionary?
...what?
I sometimes wish we were an imperialistic nation. That way, we wouldn't have to listen to all these hostile governments opposing our interests.
Since you can't go ANYWHERE without encountering governments hostile to the United States, I think it's pretty clear that the "imperialism" charge doesn't have any teeth. Either the US is not imperialistic, or else it's not very good at it.