Or maybe we're just lately treating people who think a little bit different as having a "disorder".
Odd & quirky people have always existed. It's only lately that it's fashionable to throw labels and pills at them to get them to act like boring people.
>1) Wealth is neither created nor destroyed - it only changes hands
Pray tell, where was the wealth of Silicon Valley during the Dark Ages?
Also pray tell, how do you account for a gold miner who finds a large gold nugget in a river. His personal wealth has undeniably & vastly increased. Who did he rob to get that new wealth?
You keep your mindset on fighting over your tiny slice of a tiny pie. I'll keep making newer, bigger pies.
Now talk to someone from Greece or Venezuela. Ask them how that government pension is going. What's the ROI for your lifetime Social Security contributions? (I'd wager dollars to donuts that it's a negative percentage.)
I'll manage my own resources, thank you very much.
Pro tip: take Warren Buffet's advice, be lazy, and invest in Index funds. The S&P500 has a 20 year average of over 9%. There is no 30 year period, including these spanning the great depression, where the index didn't make a profit.
Nope. I have ComCast Business, and I bought my own modem.
Payback was (as I recall) 6 months. Makes good business sense financially, and turning off any "xfinity hot spots" is great for reducing liability. My Internet service is mine, and any schmuck walking by. Plus my own modem is more reliable. Haven't had to reset the modem yet- contrasted with the monthly routine with theirs.
Modems are a commodity item. There are dozens of flavors on Amazon for crying out loud. Installation was trivial - literally plug & play. The modem I got had a handy install cheat sheet - but didn't need it.
This. I've fought HOA's over this and won with a single page letter. They can't argue with Federal law. Mount your dish wherever the heck you want to, and tell them to take a hike.
Side note: stuff like this is why I'll never move to an area with a HOA again. Too many unemployed, busybody, control freaks telling me what I can & can't do on my own property.
It's been that way for a decade. I gave up trying to contribute long ago.
It's now a battleground, and the winners are the ones who are most persistent. It's like a home owners association - the place is run by people with not enough to do, and a desire to control others.
Or you can have the best of both worlds: a phone case that is a battery, with a pass-though charge port. Plug in the charge cord at night, and both the phone and case are charged.
If at any point during the day I get below 20%, I hit the case "charge" button, and my phone charges to 100% in my pocket.
So handy, it really ought to be a manufacture option - if they are unwilling to put a proper (not a little super thin) battery.
China, being one of the largest sources of spying threats, recommends a specific phone. That they happen to make. They assure us that they can evesdrop on every other phone, except the one designed & made in their country, with no outside audits.
Power hungry? I'd bet dollars to donuts that this is a mirror. You'd need a little power to orient the mirror, but hey, a little solar pannel would do that.
I'd also presume that this thing will be in geo-sync orbit, making it a un-moving "moon" in the sky. If so, it too would go dark for a short time around midnight, when the earth's shadow blocks it.
The point was to test if life could be detected from space. We tested that idea using the only place we know life exists. The test worked. We now have a positive test result. We now know, for a fact, that life can be detected from space -because we did it.
Now the hard part - look for it elsewhere, and may, just maybe, get a positive result there too.
The larger point of the article is that while we're using tests for planet surface based life, when there's a decent chance for non-surface life. Therefore we need to expand the toolset we use, because we've become biased based on our test data (Earth).
It would be news because Facebook never ever deletes accounts. As has been shown on multiple times on multiple platforms, social media companies never actually delete any data. At the most, they flag it not to be displayed.
Ferengi Rule of Data #1: Once you have their data, never let go of it.
Thinking more about your comment about the Lunar Laser Ranging Reflector...
You say that if I have not personally used it, it's therefore a myth. If I have used it, I'm part of a conspiracy indenting it. All evidence leads to the same conclusion, regardless of evidence.
I'm wondering what you'd say if you spend the weekend with a skilled hobbist, building and testing a laser and sensor aimed at the moon. You would then have all the critera for experiencing something yourself, subject to all the scrutiny you'd want. WOuld that be enough, or does your conclusion remain regardless of any facts from reality?
On another point... the USA landing on the moon was a huge political and scientific embarrassment for the Russians. There is no shortage of nations and groups that would love to embarrass the USA and discredit our scientific achievements. You honestly think that in the nearly 50 years since the manned moon landings that NONE of these motivated groups, totally ourside of US influence, couldn't come up with something bad? Why would the Chinese be, even now, working on a manned moon landing program - if it would be cheaper and grander to demonstrate that their biggest enemy is a fraud?
Sure, conspiracies exist - but I have a hard time believing a conspiracy that involves so many people coordinating that literally want to kill each other...
So nothing exists until I have personally experienced it? With that world view, the uneducated, inexperienced, untraveled person cannot believe in anything but himself, or that which he assumes exists despite his rules.
Do you wash your hands? I bet you've never seen a germ.
Even better- have you personally met one of "them" from the government who is masterminding this conspiracy? If not, then they don't exist- and you are the one inventing it.
Spacesuits are not hard to design. They only need to hold 1 atmosphere of pressure. Heck, the descent module of Apollo 13 was basically a foil skin, and held up for days and days of habitable pressure.
If you did a little research, you'd run across a type of thin, skin-tight space suit. (Think spiderman with a face mask) You don't even need a full atmosphere of pressure to live, and outside of breathing, the human body can withstand living in a tiny fraction of pressure.
We have decades of experience in much tougher environments - pressurized diving suits.
And stop and think for a second - you think that maybe, just maybe, the folks designing this may have tested it once or twice?
Empathy is a good thing. Those without it are call sociopaths or psychopaths.
Put another way - how easy is it for a person to *stop* viewing a certain category of person as a human, and therefore able to not empathize? If [[race | age | QI-level | ideology]] people aren't fully human, no harm in killing them, right?
This gives me hope. Better to be too empathetic than not enough.
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Or maybe we're just lately treating people who think a little bit different as having a "disorder".
Odd & quirky people have always existed. It's only lately that it's fashionable to throw labels and pills at them to get them to act like boring people.
>1) Wealth is neither created nor destroyed - it only changes hands
Pray tell, where was the wealth of Silicon Valley during the Dark Ages?
Also pray tell, how do you account for a gold miner who finds a large gold nugget in a river. His personal wealth has undeniably & vastly increased. Who did he rob to get that new wealth?
You keep your mindset on fighting over your tiny slice of a tiny pie. I'll keep making newer, bigger pies.
Now talk to someone from Greece or Venezuela. Ask them how that government pension is going.
What's the ROI for your lifetime Social Security contributions? (I'd wager dollars to donuts that it's a negative percentage.)
I'll manage my own resources, thank you very much.
Pro tip: take Warren Buffet's advice, be lazy, and invest in Index funds. The S&P500 has a 20 year average of over 9%. There is no 30 year period, including these spanning the great depression, where the index didn't make a profit.
>I have ComCast Business. Nope, you must rent it.
Nope. I have ComCast Business, and I bought my own modem.
Payback was (as I recall) 6 months. Makes good business sense financially, and turning off any "xfinity hot spots" is great for reducing liability. My Internet service is mine, and any schmuck walking by. Plus my own modem is more reliable. Haven't had to reset the modem yet- contrasted with the monthly routine with theirs.
Modems are a commodity item. There are dozens of flavors on Amazon for crying out loud. Installation was trivial - literally plug & play. The modem I got had a handy install cheat sheet - but didn't need it.
Stop making excuses and just do it.
This. I've fought HOA's over this and won with a single page letter.
They can't argue with Federal law. Mount your dish wherever the heck you want to, and tell them to take a hike.
Side note: stuff like this is why I'll never move to an area with a HOA again. Too many unemployed, busybody, control freaks telling me what I can & can't do on my own property.
It's been that way for a decade. I gave up trying to contribute long ago.
It's now a battleground, and the winners are the ones who are most persistent.
It's like a home owners association - the place is run by people with not enough to do, and a desire to control others.
Using the example from TFA/TFS: "$8.5 million settlement between Google and 129 million class members"
8.5/129 = $0.065 per person
How do the authors propose to distribute those six-and-a-half-cents? Via a postcard check, with $0.20 of postage?
Nuts, just the administration overhead to find & verify each class members would be more than six cents.
Lots of lawsuits are about "stop doing that", not about "pay me money".
If a lawsuit makes a company stop doing something bad to millions of people, isn't that a good thing?
Now, if you want to talk about what's fair & reasonable in lawyer fees, that's another conversation...
Or you can have the best of both worlds: a phone case that is a battery, with a pass-though charge port.
Plug in the charge cord at night, and both the phone and case are charged.
If at any point during the day I get below 20%, I hit the case "charge" button, and my phone charges to 100% in my pocket.
So handy, it really ought to be a manufacture option - if they are unwilling to put a proper (not a little super thin) battery.
I prefer the off-brands,but this is a good random example:
https://www.amazon.com/d/Cell-...
I want my darn headphone jack. And I'm keeping it until my phone is unrepairable.
China, being one of the largest sources of spying threats, recommends a specific phone. That they happen to make.
They assure us that they can evesdrop on every other phone, except the one designed & made in their country, with no outside audits.
Sure. We'll get right on that.
Power hungry? I'd bet dollars to donuts that this is a mirror.
You'd need a little power to orient the mirror, but hey, a little solar pannel would do that.
I'd also presume that this thing will be in geo-sync orbit, making it a un-moving "moon" in the sky. If so, it too would go dark for a short time around midnight, when the earth's shadow blocks it.
The point was to test if life could be detected from space.
We tested that idea using the only place we know life exists.
The test worked.
We now have a positive test result. We now know, for a fact, that life can be detected from space -because we did it.
Now the hard part - look for it elsewhere, and may, just maybe, get a positive result there too.
The larger point of the article is that while we're using tests for planet surface based life, when there's a decent chance for non-surface life. Therefore we need to expand the toolset we use, because we've become biased based on our test data (Earth).
This. This is why we can't have nice things.
Somebody's got a bad case of perpetual Debbie Downer.
It would be news because Facebook never ever deletes accounts. As has been shown on multiple times on multiple platforms, social media companies never actually delete any data. At the most, they flag it not to be displayed.
Ferengi Rule of Data #1: Once you have their data, never let go of it.
Unplugging it is easy.
I'd be more concerned about "lost" devices, and an unrelated flood of eBay listings...
Thinking more about your comment about the Lunar Laser Ranging Reflector...
You say that if I have not personally used it, it's therefore a myth. If I have used it, I'm part of a conspiracy indenting it. All evidence leads to the same conclusion, regardless of evidence.
I'm wondering what you'd say if you spend the weekend with a skilled hobbist, building and testing a laser and sensor aimed at the moon. You would then have all the critera for experiencing something yourself, subject to all the scrutiny you'd want. WOuld that be enough, or does your conclusion remain regardless of any facts from reality?
On another point... the USA landing on the moon was a huge political and scientific embarrassment for the Russians. There is no shortage of nations and groups that would love to embarrass the USA and discredit our scientific achievements. You honestly think that in the nearly 50 years since the manned moon landings that NONE of these motivated groups, totally ourside of US influence, couldn't come up with something bad? Why would the Chinese be, even now, working on a manned moon landing program - if it would be cheaper and grander to demonstrate that their biggest enemy is a fraud?
Sure, conspiracies exist - but I have a hard time believing a conspiracy that involves so many people coordinating that literally want to kill each other...
So nothing exists until I have personally experienced it?
With that world view, the uneducated, inexperienced, untraveled person cannot believe in anything but himself, or that which he assumes exists despite his rules.
Do you wash your hands? I bet you've never seen a germ.
Even better- have you personally met one of "them" from the government who is masterminding this conspiracy? If not, then they don't exist- and you are the one inventing it.
So... how do you explain the Lunar Laser Ranging Reflector?
Countless independent researchers from many nations use it on a regular basis.
Or Japan's lunar orbiter photos of USA landing sites, complete with rover tracks?
Spacesuits are not hard to design. They only need to hold 1 atmosphere of pressure. Heck, the descent module of Apollo 13 was basically a foil skin, and held up for days and days of habitable pressure.
If you did a little research, you'd run across a type of thin, skin-tight space suit. (Think spiderman with a face mask) You don't even need a full atmosphere of pressure to live, and outside of breathing, the human body can withstand living in a tiny fraction of pressure.
We have decades of experience in much tougher environments - pressurized diving suits.
And stop and think for a second - you think that maybe, just maybe, the folks designing this may have tested it once or twice?
Empathy is a good thing. Those without it are call sociopaths or psychopaths.
Put another way - how easy is it for a person to *stop* viewing a certain category of person as a human, and therefore able to not empathize?
If [[race | age | QI-level | ideology]] people aren't fully human, no harm in killing them, right?
This gives me hope. Better to be too empathetic than not enough.
That used to be true. You're a few years out of date on your stats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"... They take about 20 minutes to charge to 50%, 40 minutes to charge to 80%, and 75 minutes to 100% on the original 85 kWh Model S. "
And this is exactly why the US has the Electoral College.
>The unwashed masses on the right that oppose "wasting" money on science like
Slashdot isn't exactly a bastion of conservative thought, and the vast majority of comments here are "but muh tax dolarz!"
Name calling someone who disagrees with your views doesn't help.
Perhaps you'd be better off attacking the click-bait title of TFA.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...