He didn't produce anything. He got $600,000 taken from someone else and redistributed to himself and his client.
There was no net increase in societal wealth - it has the same net value after the money is moved as it does before. Now, if he skinned a beaver and produced a pelt, that would have actually made for an increase in net value of material goods.
Actually, there's no net increase in societal wealth in your example, either. The beaver is out a pelt. Unless you're some sort of looney that doesn't consider beavers a part of society.
Dear multibillion dollar corporations: with today's abysmal economy, I'd sure like to get in on some of that lush gelt. Normally, I troll for the lulz, but I'll be more than happy to shill for the $$$$<--(that's four monies, there...)
ok, now your "generate antimatter with the power" seems like a really attractive idea.
you don't upset your neighbors by building an orbital deathbeam
anti-matter can be used as starship fuel
it can be stored (just a minor engineering detail, right?)
assuming you can package it, you can ship it planetside to use in generators
you always still have the option to turn it into bombs if your neighbors are jerks
Although, if you're interested in industrial use of antimatter, you might actually be concerned about the conversion efficiency of you solar wind harvester.
It's only like two pages and not very technical. The main gist of it is that the author isn't proposing this as a project for supplying energy to Earth. He is proposing that this is something someone else might plausibly build that we can look for in SETI. (Although I think he misses a trick here in that this is obviously how the Motie power the solar-sail spacecraft that are headed our way).
They could store the energy in really big springs and bring them back to Earth in the space shuttle.
Actually all these SPSS plans are all a big shuck. They tell the groundhogs that they're going to send back orders of magnitude more energy than civilization needs. When really, it makes more sense to use the power in situ and build space colonies to take advantage of it. It's all just a stalking horse to get the flatlanders to pay for their zero-G love hotels.
This was a movie about the genius that made teh Facebook! It's got a guaranteed audience on n(facebook users), 99.9% of which are too shallow to have any problem with what a epitome of douchebaggery the main character is.
Personally, I'd prefer some magic beans that sprout a carbon-nanotube space beanstalk. Actually, that seems like it would take a lot of carbon, would it be so much as to push the climate too far in the other direction?
alternately, 1. buy up land in the great plains in areas experiencing population flight 2. give people jobs planting & maintaining hardwood forests 3. wait (40 years? 100 years?) 4. nice hardwood floors for all there is no????? ! 6. profit!!!!!
Actually, considering the reported behavior of UFOnauts, my suspicion is that, if they're real, they're really not that bright. It'll probably turn out that however they're traveling here from wherever they're coming from isn't very hard. Most of their "starships" seem to be little more than shoddy props made to convince schoolchildren. There's probably just some simple trick to interdimensional travel that we've just managed to overlook -- it probably takes two batteries, a paperclip, a rubber band and XXXXXXXX.
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Those damn kryptonite tasers are a bitch . Seriously, they're a real problem.
He didn't produce anything. He got $600,000 taken from someone else and redistributed to himself and his client.
There was no net increase in societal wealth - it has the same net value after the money is moved as it does before.
Now, if he skinned a beaver and produced a pelt , that would have actually made for an increase in net value of material goods.
Actually, there's no net increase in societal wealth in your example, either. The beaver is out a pelt.
Unless you're some sort of looney that doesn't consider beavers a part of society.
X-37B? Oh, wait, they found that already. holy crap, there really is an app for that...
the ride is only free if you're foolhardy enough to get on version 1.0, err, 2.0...
Get you facts straight. Christine O'Donnell is running in Delaware, not Virginia.
hey, we should, like, totally form a social group for people who aren't on facebook. Here, I'll pencil you in...
Dear multibillion dollar corporations: with today's abysmal economy, I'd sure like to get in on some of that lush gelt. Normally, I troll for the lulz, but I'll be more than happy to shill for the $$$$<--(that's four monies, there...)
I find someone who needs the threat of eternal torment to justify ethical behavior to be of questionable character.
bite.me is still available.
I'm not sure if the picture of the chick on the parking page is sharia-compliant or not. (SFW, though).
just virtualize RFID tags. hilarity^Wchaos ensues.
ok, so this would require some sort of RFID <-> network bridge, but just imagine the fun things that could be done with such a device...
Although, if you're interested in industrial use of antimatter, you might actually be concerned about the conversion efficiency of you solar wind harvester.
It's only like two pages and not very technical. The main gist of it is that the author isn't proposing this as a project for supplying energy to Earth. He is proposing that this is something someone else might plausibly build that we can look for in SETI. (Although I think he misses a trick here in that this is obviously how the Motie power the solar-sail spacecraft that are headed our way).
how do you successfully attack someone who controls a 30 million billion jiggiewatt deathray?
It never fails to give my inner 12-year old the giggles to contemplate that Kamikaze is commonly translated as " divine wind "
They could store the energy in really big springs and bring them back to Earth in the space shuttle.
Actually all these SPSS plans are all a big shuck. They tell the groundhogs that they're going to send back orders of magnitude more energy than civilization needs. When really, it makes more sense to use the power in situ and build space colonies to take advantage of it. It's all just a stalking horse to get the flatlanders to pay for their zero-G love hotels.
actually, maggots get rid of gangrene quite effectively, no MD needed.
Are you particularly dense, or something?
This was a movie about the genius that made teh Facebook!
It's got a guaranteed audience on n(facebook users), 99.9% of which are too shallow to have any problem with what a epitome of douchebaggery the main character is.
This is the moneies in the bank, man!1!!
Personally, I'd prefer some magic beans that sprout a carbon-nanotube space beanstalk. Actually, that seems like it would take a lot of carbon, would it be so much as to push the climate too far in the other direction?
alternately,
1. buy up land in the great plains in areas experiencing population flight
2. give people jobs planting & maintaining hardwood forests
3. wait (40 years? 100 years?)
4. nice hardwood floors for all
there is no ????? !
6. profit!!!!!
What are commercials?
You mean like when watching teevee at an old person's house?
yeah, Bell labs & Xerox PARC never happened.
The bigger question, is what changed in our business environment since the 70's that made places like that no longer viable?
George Lucas is no Stanley Kubrick, "AI" being clear proof of that.
Actually, I have it on good authority that it Art Clokey was the mastermind behind all of this...
some would argue that software is real, chemistry isn't.
This guy's been trying to kill Flash since 1938 !
Actually, considering the reported behavior of UFOnauts, my suspicion is that, if they're real, they're really not that bright. It'll probably turn out that however they're traveling here from wherever they're coming from isn't very hard. Most of their "starships" seem to be little more than shoddy props made to convince schoolchildren. There's probably just some simple trick to interdimensional travel that we've just managed to overlook -- it probably takes two batteries, a paperclip, a rubber band and XXXXXXXX.
Actually, we realized you were doing it wrong as soon as we saw the word Windows.
But apparently, it's more a case of your whole industry putting empty-headed convenience over sane^Hresponsible architecture.