Low-level supersonic flights are fairly violent events. High altitude flights would be vastly less so, but the noise would be much worse than current airliners.
Wow. I figured out that Hubbard's books weren't fit to line bird cages when I was about 14, so I wasn't at all surprised to find out that his synthetic religion was cuckoo, too.
I mean, if he created his religion as a Discordian-esqe "You all are so stupid, wait till you get a load of THIS!" scenario, then my hat's off to him.
But I think he was reading his own press, and drinking his own kool-aid.
You're conflating a criminal case with a civil matter. I am unconvinced that you have a good enough grasp on the situation to productively continue this discussion.
Er, you're getting a little excited here. Settle down.
I don't know if she should be a Supreme Court justice or not. I haven't formed an opinion. Her defense of Microsoft will inform my opinion, which is, of course, utterly without value to anybody other than me. I didn't assert whether her defense was good or bad, only that I think she's accountable for it. I also (in my fantasy dream world) think she's accountable to me, because I am an American citizen, but then again, accountability of our government to its citizens went out of fashion in 1865 or so.
Did you really think Senators are going to be asking me what I think? Yeah right.
Right, because her boss stood behind her with a gun to her head.
I am accountable for my actions. You are accountable for your actions. This person who is being nominated for the Supreme Court is accountable to ALL OF US for HER actions, because the job she is in the hunt for right now is a job serving We the People.
How about the disaster wiki that went together in about 20 minutes, where people were posting status reports of New Orleans properties?
I think you're damning with faint praise. Google, at least, consistently builds superb offerings, and the price is right. Not quite sure what you're grousing about...
1) Because lots of authors are dead, and dead people are hard to talk to.
2) " problem is google will make money from the click only that does not even generate a sale."
So? That click, and that sale, wouldn't exist anyway. The authors are exchanging almost nothing (IE their tacit permission) for a chance at making more sales than they otherwise would.
3) "They will moan and graon about because I am sure the pay will be as pathetic as adsense or even worse"
More than zero is more than zero.
4) "Heh Heh..Yeah google will make writer millionares"
If it breaks the bestseller monopoly the publishers currently have, it'll make more writer millionaires than currently exist.
Way to not let facts get in the way of your opinion.
1) Making money is not inherently evil. Note that Google's scheme will also make money for authors. Google's scheme takes nothing from authors at all.
2) The click on a link also only brings 2-3 sentences (not pages, Sparky...) of text.
3) The virtue of libraries is not that they pay for books, it is that they make as much information as possible available to as many people as possible.
4) See 2.
When the copyright holders start remembering that the purpose of copyright is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, not to build walled gardens, their objections might be a little more persuasive. Until then...
"but unless we create a worldwide civil society that is robust, honest, and representative"
Seriously: Spaceships is way easier.
On the other hand, I think that radical experiments in social engineering (like the American Constitution, the Magna Carta, stuff like that) only occur on frontiers, or in small nation-states (Athens, etc.). So, by going other places and establishing new societies, we will have the opportunity to apply what we've learned from (lowercase l) liberal democratic government, and maybe take another crack at it.
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Right, because when you win a lawsuit, the judge hands you a sack full of cash. Perfectly reasonable assumption.
Wow. A 5 centimeter handgun. You're talking rounds a little smaller than a soup can...in a handgun.
Ten of them.
Unless you're driving a giant battle robot, I think you're high.
Do YOU have any idea what YOU are saying?
Think earthquake.
Low-level supersonic flights are fairly violent events. High altitude flights would be vastly less so, but the noise would be much worse than current airliners.
I'm very glad that you have nothing whatsoever to do with airline flight planning, because your vast lack of understanding is showing...
Wow. I figured out that Hubbard's books weren't fit to line bird cages when I was about 14, so I wasn't at all surprised to find out that his synthetic religion was cuckoo, too.
I mean, if he created his religion as a Discordian-esqe "You all are so stupid, wait till you get a load of THIS!" scenario, then my hat's off to him.
But I think he was reading his own press, and drinking his own kool-aid.
Who needs TV channels anymore?
It's very easy for me to imagine Firefly being the first wildly successful pay-for-online-download "TV show".
Or, hell...release straight to DVD and make wheelbarrows full of money.
The TV studios just don't know that they're dead yet.
You're a jackass.
I know that. YOU know that. The audiophiles? Those guys is crazy.
: )
Every night, I go to sleep thanking my lucky stars that I am neither an audiophile nor a videophile.
Good enough is good enough for me. You go ahead with your $2000/foot virgin silver de-oxy-ozonated hand rolled +2 vs. lousy sound speaker cables.
I'll use some nice heavy gauge lamp cord and be just fine.
How long does it take you to start your car in the morning?
"more gentile fashion"
Wait a second. "Gentile"? Like, as in, non-Jewish?
You're conflating a criminal case with a civil matter. I am unconvinced that you have a good enough grasp on the situation to productively continue this discussion.
Er, you're getting a little excited here. Settle down.
I don't know if she should be a Supreme Court justice or not. I haven't formed an opinion. Her defense of Microsoft will inform my opinion, which is, of course, utterly without value to anybody other than me. I didn't assert whether her defense was good or bad, only that I think she's accountable for it. I also (in my fantasy dream world) think she's accountable to me, because I am an American citizen, but then again, accountability of our government to its citizens went out of fashion in 1865 or so.
Did you really think Senators are going to be asking me what I think? Yeah right.
Right, because her boss stood behind her with a gun to her head.
I am accountable for my actions. You are accountable for your actions. This person who is being nominated for the Supreme Court is accountable to ALL OF US for HER actions, because the job she is in the hunt for right now is a job serving We the People.
What part of this is unclear?
Gee, I thought that it led me to believe that she was formerly a lawyer for Microsoft. Is that not the case?
It was her own preference to work for Microsoft. Or are you arguing that she was coerced?
"very few new features come out"
Have you seen Google Earth?
How about the disaster wiki that went together in about 20 minutes, where people were posting status reports of New Orleans properties?
I think you're damning with faint praise. Google, at least, consistently builds superb offerings, and the price is right. Not quite sure what you're grousing about...
1) Because lots of authors are dead, and dead people are hard to talk to.
2) " problem is google will make money from the click only that does not even generate a sale."
So? That click, and that sale, wouldn't exist anyway. The authors are exchanging almost nothing (IE their tacit permission) for a chance at making more sales than they otherwise would.
3) "They will moan and graon about because I am sure the pay will be as pathetic as adsense or even worse"
More than zero is more than zero.
4) "Heh Heh..Yeah google will make writer millionares"
If it breaks the bestseller monopoly the publishers currently have, it'll make more writer millionaires than currently exist.
Way to not let facts get in the way of your opinion.
1) Making money is not inherently evil. Note that Google's scheme will also make money for authors. Google's scheme takes nothing from authors at all.
2) The click on a link also only brings 2-3 sentences (not pages, Sparky...) of text.
3) The virtue of libraries is not that they pay for books, it is that they make as much information as possible available to as many people as possible.
4) See 2.
When the copyright holders start remembering that the purpose of copyright is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, not to build walled gardens, their objections might be a little more persuasive. Until then...
Him too.
You need a hug, a blankie, and a nice cup of cocoa.
"Speed is subsittute fo accurancy."
No it isn't.
"need fewer idiotic press releases"
Oh, OK. I'll pass that to the Department of Redundancy Department.
You're right. For the good of the species, you should kill yourself.
"Nice idea, but total bullshit."
Mmmkay. How do you figure? There were no "good old days". Basic sanitation is a transformative technology, and it's becoming reasonably widespread.
"but unless we create a worldwide civil society that is robust, honest, and representative"
Seriously: Spaceships is way easier.
On the other hand, I think that radical experiments in social engineering (like the American Constitution, the Magna Carta, stuff like that) only occur on frontiers, or in small nation-states (Athens, etc.). So, by going other places and establishing new societies, we will have the opportunity to apply what we've learned from (lowercase l) liberal democratic government, and maybe take another crack at it.
That's what I hope, anyhow.