The Russians want their plane operational by 2020, which doesn't seem particularly realistic — we are talking about five times the speed of sound here, and Russia is just starting engine development. The U.S., meanwhile, has been investing in its Waverider program since 2004, and the last test of the X-51A scramjet-powered missile failed after just 15 seconds.
Maybe they'll be funding computer hacking/espionage methods instead of scramjet or hypersonic airplane development- that way, they'll have a hypersonic bomber (plans, at least) soon after we do, at a fraction of the development costs.
You're wrong in two ways- First, you're thinking of the laws of Logic, not Physics. Second, the problem is not that the laws of Logic don't apply to politicians, it's that politicians are unable to apply the laws of Logic.
There's a strong argument to be made that drugs should be decriminalized due to the societal costs of keeping them illegal. As with Prohibition in the US, this only enriches the criminals and does little to decrease availability. Money is then spent on searching for illegal drugs, pursuing the distributors and users, putting them on trial, and keeping them in jail. Money that could be far better spent elsewhere. If even a fraction of the budget for drug enforcement were instead spent on educating people about the dangers of drugs, and research to provide safer alternatives, society would benefit greatly. If the profit motive were removed from drugs, what would happen to the gangs and cartels? They wouldn't all disappear, but they would certainly be greatly reduced. There's no good reason the laws regarding distribution and use of marijuana shouldn't be similar to those for tobacco and alcohol. Drugs with more severe effects or higher levels of addiction should have more controls, but there should still be some method to obtain them legally. At least if use/possession were decriminalized, users could seek help without fear of punishment.
Abortion is a poor choice for an analogy. As vaccines offer protection, a better analogy might be the "choice" of wearing clothes. You wear clothes to protect your body from the elements (vaccines:diseases). Wearing clothes also protects the rest of society from seeing your ugly butt parading around (vaccines:herd immunity). Now, there are places you can go without clothes, such as your home (vaccines:home) or a nudist colony (vaccines:home schooling). There are also places you should not expect to go without clothing, such as schools (vaccines:schools). This is not a perfect analogy, because if someone does accidentally see you unclothed, they may be able to eventually erase the horrible image from their mind. But if someone catches a disease from you because you thought you knew better than hordes of medical professionals, they might be permanently injured or killed. So please consider putting clothes on (vaccines:get an inoculation) before you make someones eyeballs explode (vaccines:give someone a disease that disfigures or kills them).
Scientists have already discovered genes that allow animals to become bioluminescent. Combine these genes with the photosynthesis genes in livestock and no one will ever be hungry again!
Most people would get more benefit from the Abs class. Even if they only remember how to do a plank afterwards. What good does one day do? If you need to learn programming, you need to spend more time at it than this. It might make for a good intro to something, but it won't teach a newbie how to do anything useful as it seems to claim.
See? Even the Wright Parents realized that education can be overrated.
Wilbur didn't go to Yale because of depression over a disfiguring injury, and to care for his sick mother. I don't see how this supports your argument.
I'm guessing that someone along the shipping route wanted a TV, took the label off this guys TV box and stuck it on the next available box- which happened to have this terrible WMD in it. They should be able to find the last location where the rifle box was scanned, and it won't be too many hops before they fund the culprit.
When you split the asteroid in half, you are using a lot of energy just to break it apart. That energy would be better spent changing the vector of the asteroid. A surface blast would also waste a lot of the energy, as noted. One solution might be to detonate the bomb at an intermediate point between the surface and the middle. Ideally, it would break off a reasonable amount, and eject it at a decent velocity. If the asteroid is spinning, this would change the center of gravity and might cause more pieces to fall off. Also, instead of straddling the Earth with the pieces it might make more sense to speed up or slow down the asteroid so it reaches the Earths orbit before or after the Earth is where it crosses.
Why would he have to land? I thought one glance from him would make the asteroid realize it had better places to be. If needed, a second glance could be used to quarter it (halves are for pussies).
Just curious- was it MS directly, or their hired thugs the BSA? Note that Apple is also a member of the BSA. Also- did you consider any of the free, Linux-based alternatives?
I'm surprised they didn't throw in any Solar Thermal power generation. Especially at such a low latitude, it seems like it would really complement the PV. Are they too small to get a cost effective utility-size installation? The article mentions The solar power systems will be capable of providing 150 per cent of the annual electricity demand without increasing diesel demand. so they're already building over current demand.
Maybe they should use a giant urn instead of a coffin, to represent the result of the giant flaming failure of the future ahead of us under proposed budget cuts to basic scientific research? It would symbolically include the future economy as we fall further and further behind other countries in scientific knowledge and capability.
One of these phones (the bottom-right one) became the Samsung F700 - a product Apple once included as an infringing product, but later withdrew once it learned Samsung created it and brought it to market before the iPhone
It seems the F700 was a Samsung design. Is the article incorrect in this claim?
Apple had already established it's iPhone design and has images of such from 2005. This unfulfilled prototype was from 2006.
From the article again:
This is what Samsung was considering putting to market in the summer of 2006, six months before the unveiling of the iPhone.
It would seem reasonable to assume that if they were considering putting it to market in 2006, they would have had the design well before then. The article is lacking in enough details on the dates to determine who which was actually first, but the first quote above implies that Apple thought the F700 predated the iPhone
How exactly does this award help anyone? He's given a prize to a bunch of professors who already have tenure. They do not need incentives to do original work.
But they do need funding to hire post docs and students to help/do the work with/for them, and to buy equipment.
Meanwhile, grad students and postdocs (who do most of the real work in the field and are the most capable, and motivated) live hand to mouth, have no sense of job stability, and no possibility to pursue truly creative work.
Oh, hey, maybe they can make some type of connection here... I doubt these professors will be spending their awards on caviar and beach houses. That may just be wishful thinking.
Instead they live under the thumb of just those kind of people that received this award. They're forced to pursue old, dead ideas that have not gone anywhere (but are favorites of their advisers/supervisors). Theoretical physics has been stagnating for decades. The Higgs boson is a 40-50 year old idea, and virtually all new ideas in the meantime have been utter bullshit (string theory, supersymmetry, extra dimensions, etc). The field is grasping at straws because the majority of the people working cannot pursue long-term goals, or risky ideas.
Yes, these awards will not solve these problems.
A better award would be to give say $500k to 54 promising postdocs who do not have tenure, to encourage them to go in new directions.
That was actually pretty much my first thought too- it would be better spread further.
You forgot the part about how the RIAA/MPAA will be monitoring the sounds in your car to make sure that you are not listening to songs or movies that you haven't purchased the CD/DVD/download for according to their database. If they detect an unauthorized song or movie, that's when the police drone launches its missiles. If you're lucky.
Yes. If they are listening to a properly equipped iPhone or Android device, the cars computer will instruct the device to play Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.
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The Russians want their plane operational by 2020, which doesn't seem particularly realistic — we are talking about five times the speed of sound here, and Russia is just starting engine development. The U.S., meanwhile, has been investing in its Waverider program since 2004, and the last test of the X-51A scramjet-powered missile failed after just 15 seconds.
Maybe they'll be funding computer hacking/espionage methods instead of scramjet or hypersonic airplane development- that way, they'll have a hypersonic bomber (plans, at least) soon after we do, at a fraction of the development costs.
Or maybe they'll just think they have the plans.
You're wrong in two ways- First, you're thinking of the laws of Logic, not Physics.
Second, the problem is not that the laws of Logic don't apply to politicians, it's that politicians are unable to apply the laws of Logic.
There's a strong argument to be made that drugs should be decriminalized due to the societal costs of keeping them illegal. As with Prohibition in the US, this only enriches the criminals and does little to decrease availability. Money is then spent on searching for illegal drugs, pursuing the distributors and users, putting them on trial, and keeping them in jail. Money that could be far better spent elsewhere. If even a fraction of the budget for drug enforcement were instead spent on educating people about the dangers of drugs, and research to provide safer alternatives, society would benefit greatly. If the profit motive were removed from drugs, what would happen to the gangs and cartels? They wouldn't all disappear, but they would certainly be greatly reduced. There's no good reason the laws regarding distribution and use of marijuana shouldn't be similar to those for tobacco and alcohol. Drugs with more severe effects or higher levels of addiction should have more controls, but there should still be some method to obtain them legally. At least if use/possession were decriminalized, users could seek help without fear of punishment.
Abortion is a poor choice for an analogy. As vaccines offer protection, a better analogy might be the "choice" of wearing clothes. You wear clothes to protect your body from the elements (vaccines:diseases). Wearing clothes also protects the rest of society from seeing your ugly butt parading around (vaccines:herd immunity). Now, there are places you can go without clothes, such as your home (vaccines:home) or a nudist colony (vaccines:home schooling). There are also places you should not expect to go without clothing, such as schools (vaccines:schools). This is not a perfect analogy, because if someone does accidentally see you unclothed, they may be able to eventually erase the horrible image from their mind. But if someone catches a disease from you because you thought you knew better than hordes of medical professionals, they might be permanently injured or killed. So please consider putting clothes on (vaccines:get an inoculation) before you make someones eyeballs explode (vaccines:give someone a disease that disfigures or kills them).
Scientists have already discovered genes that allow animals to become bioluminescent. Combine these genes with the photosynthesis genes in livestock and no one will ever be hungry again!
Shouldn't the Edison museum just take the money from the Tesla museum fundraiser?
Most people would get more benefit from the Abs class. Even if they only remember how to do a plank afterwards. What good does one day do? If you need to learn programming, you need to spend more time at it than this. It might make for a good intro to something, but it won't teach a newbie how to do anything useful as it seems to claim.
See? Even the Wright Parents realized that education can be overrated.
Wilbur didn't go to Yale because of depression over a disfiguring injury, and to care for his sick mother. I don't see how this supports your argument.
Whatever they mean, it's a big step up from their previous motto, which was similar but missing the word 'epic'.
That very big gun, capable of mowing down, well...just about anything, ...
Damn, I could use a gun like that for my lawn. Anyone know what kind of TV he ordered?
I'm guessing that someone along the shipping route wanted a TV, took the label off this guys TV box and stuck it on the next available box- which happened to have this terrible WMD in it. They should be able to find the last location where the rifle box was scanned, and it won't be too many hops before they fund the culprit.
Excellent. Why just watch violence on TV when you can make your own?
When you split the asteroid in half, you are using a lot of energy just to break it apart. That energy would be better spent changing the vector of the asteroid. A surface blast would also waste a lot of the energy, as noted. One solution might be to detonate the bomb at an intermediate point between the surface and the middle. Ideally, it would break off a reasonable amount, and eject it at a decent velocity. If the asteroid is spinning, this would change the center of gravity and might cause more pieces to fall off. Also, instead of straddling the Earth with the pieces it might make more sense to speed up or slow down the asteroid so it reaches the Earths orbit before or after the Earth is where it crosses.
Maybe the class can figure that out next weekend.
Why would he have to land? I thought one glance from him would make the asteroid realize it had better places to be. If needed, a second glance could be used to quarter it (halves are for pussies).
I call BS. How would someone get into grade school, let alone MIT, without having a name?
Just curious- was it MS directly, or their hired thugs the BSA? Note that Apple is also a member of the BSA.
Also- did you consider any of the free, Linux-based alternatives?
My first thought was that April fools day would be appropriate.
I'm surprised they didn't throw in any Solar Thermal power generation. Especially at such a low latitude, it seems like it would really complement the PV. Are they too small to get a cost effective utility-size installation? The article mentions
The solar power systems will be capable of providing 150 per cent of the annual electricity demand without increasing diesel demand.
so they're already building over current demand.
Maybe they should use a giant urn instead of a coffin, to represent the result of the giant flaming failure of the future ahead of us under proposed budget cuts to basic scientific research? It would symbolically include the future economy as we fall further and further behind other countries in scientific knowledge and capability.
Do you have a reference for that claim?
From TFA:
One of these phones (the bottom-right one) became the Samsung F700 - a product Apple once included as an infringing product, but later withdrew once it learned Samsung created it and brought it to market before the iPhone
It seems the F700 was a Samsung design. Is the article incorrect in this claim?
Apple had already established it's iPhone design and has images of such from 2005. This unfulfilled prototype was from 2006.
From the article again:
This is what Samsung was considering putting to market in the summer of 2006, six months before the unveiling of the iPhone.
It would seem reasonable to assume that if they were considering putting it to market in 2006, they would have had the design well before then. The article is lacking in enough details on the dates to determine who which was actually first, but the first quote above implies that Apple thought the F700 predated the iPhone
How exactly does this award help anyone? He's given a prize to a bunch of professors who already have tenure. They do not need incentives to do original work.
But they do need funding to hire post docs and students to help/do the work with/for them, and to buy equipment.
Meanwhile, grad students and postdocs (who do most of the real work in the field and are the most capable, and motivated) live hand to mouth, have no sense of job stability, and no possibility to pursue truly creative work.
Oh, hey, maybe they can make some type of connection here... I doubt these professors will be spending their awards on caviar and beach houses. That may just be wishful thinking.
Instead they live under the thumb of just those kind of people that received this award. They're forced to pursue old, dead ideas that have not gone anywhere (but are favorites of their advisers/supervisors). Theoretical physics has been stagnating for decades. The Higgs boson is a 40-50 year old idea, and virtually all new ideas in the meantime have been utter bullshit (string theory, supersymmetry, extra dimensions, etc). The field is grasping at straws because the majority of the people working cannot pursue long-term goals, or risky ideas.
Yes, these awards will not solve these problems.
A better award would be to give say $500k to 54 promising postdocs who do not have tenure, to encourage them to go in new directions.
That was actually pretty much my first thought too- it would be better spread further.
You forgot the part about how the RIAA/MPAA will be monitoring the sounds in your car to make sure that you are not listening to songs or movies that you haven't purchased the CD/DVD/download for according to their database. If they detect an unauthorized song or movie, that's when the police drone launches its missiles.
If you're lucky.
Yes. If they are listening to a properly equipped iPhone or Android device, the cars computer will instruct the device to play Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.
Why? Which company did he upset?