And overnight I went from not being able to stream 3D content from Netflix over my Comcast 50mbps service, to it streaming just fine. So it was nothing to do with hardware, just greedy politics.
We have a system in which controlling parties manipulate who is their candidate (by the time Pennsylvania got to vote in the primaries in 2008 and 2012. Both candidates had already been selected - we NEVER go to vote), while simultaneously passing legislation that prevents outside parties from being able to access the ballot.
So no....that's not really government by the people. Furthermore, you can try to speak to your selected officials. Even if 90% oppose something, they'll still pass it based on who is giving them money.
Evolution is the same, isn't it? Survival of the fittest. Eventually only one species should remain on earth. And no, symbiosis is a merely a transitional stage to accomplishment.
So eventually we'll either have humans that can photosynthesize and dwell in air and water....or cockroaches. One of the two.
That's because conservatives and progressive liberals and libertarians in fact agree on a lot, and oppose much of our current system - which is in fact a fascist economic system.
Truth is, Comcast has been !@#$% us over for years. And really should be split into two companies. One which offers television services and one that offers internet.
Sure, I am for this, with a 100% guarantee of coverage. What does that mean? It means at my house I get poor wireless reception. So I have to use a microcell piggybacked on my Comcast broadband internet connection. And I'm within a few hundred feet of one of the main routes in the area.
As such, if this is going to be passed, then the telecoms need to put up a crapload more cell towers. Furtheremore, we all know what will happen.
The telecoms will grease our selected officials to vote for their cause. They'll be freed from the need to run copper. While at the same time get to keep ALL the fees for expansion, which of course they'll never do...just pocketing the funds.
I can't even get DSL over copper. I'm not that far in the boonies, but go figure. Once Comcast signed it's wireless spectrum transfer deal with Verizon. All expansion ceased.
The truth of the matter is that more and more skilled labor is more aptly replaced by machine. Computers replaced a crap load of skilled labor already. How much manufacturing that was once "skilled" is now done by machine?
How much menial labor is easily replaced by technology?
How much skilled and professional labor can be replaced by machine? As computers and programming advance, how much is supplemented. We can eliminate 97% of the teachers through technology. How many CPAs have been replaced by TurboTax? Cars will soon drive themselves....there goes your cab driver. How long until police brutality calls for demands of robot-cops? how much automation has reduced the crew of modern naval vessels and aircraft? how long until doctors are largely replaced by machines. I wager soon that computers will provide far more accurate diagnosis. And some surgeries are already done by robotic machines.
So I ask you, what "skilled competents" do you see existing in an automated future? Because there are not many that I see which cannot be replaced by computer and machine.
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Seriously, a mod down?
Did anyone actually watch Star Trek? Prune juice.... was specifically called a warrior's drink on TNG.
To me, this suit seems extremely bulky, with poor visibility. The accent lighting, as presented seems rather useless and a waste of precious energy reserves. And I know it doesn't, but it sure looks like it is forcing the astronaught's head to be contorted forward.
Is it sad that I could create a far better suit design in one day? (Engineering aside)
So if I was to design a suit, I would first look at the human body, visibility and safety.
- structure the suit for a relaxed body position, especially for space walks and low gravity (think more like the Craftmatic Contour bed)
- increase the dome size, come on we should be able to give our astronaughts good periphereal vision (why not a larger and closer to whole hemisphere dome)
- add display screens in front of the astronaught's portal, these would be hooked up to cameras that give a full 360 degree coverage and a location map of all parties (other astronaughts, shuttles, station, satellites, etc)
- illumination, sure, have a light source, thats a given. But if we're going to do LED wires and such they should involve the following. 1) Display a color for identification purposes (perhaps around helmet) 2) display state and well being of the astronaught. (in this case a pattern that is color coded, and can display from green to red the current oxygen reserves, energy reserves, pressure levels, and basic 'naught vitals)
- functionality...hands are great, but there are times you need a third hand. The suit seems to have nothing for assisting tasks. I'd add a Kangaroo pouch on the belly. This would allow the astronaught to essentially have a pouch that can be expanded to contain things. I'd equip each forearm with a grasping clasp. Say I need a wrench, I can just set it on my forearm and it will clamp down and hold it. I see very little design in this suit to assist with functionality.
- feet, these should be adaptable. If I am in space free floating, something with magnetic or even suck type system makes more sense. Versus a suit to explore say an asteroid or Mars, in which a different foot pattern would be beneficial. So I'd make a sort of replaceable sole - like horseshoes.
- tethering? I see nothing to facilitate tethering amongst astronaughts
- utility/mission hardpoints, I'd want a suit that easily allowed dockable modules. Extended oxygen supplies, etc. Not sure the design pictured would be easily modified to support such.
- plasma cannons, clearly the suit should be equipped with plasma cannons or an extended range particle projection cannon.
If you replace a burger flipper with an automated machine, there is a replacement tax. Every device that eliminates a job is taxed. Eventually, maybe robots will replace all the jobs, but if they do - and eventually they probably will - all those taxes fund the utopia Star Trek state.
The problem is we never implemented a replacement tax. If a machine does the job of 10 workers, surely a small added tax that is equivalent to 5%-10% of the labor saved. Goes to fund society. Then this way eventually humanity can relegate itself to the arts and pursuit of knowledge.
(until we get into the war with the machines, blot out the sky, and get turned into coppertops)
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Kind of funny that you cast two "programs" (TRON - & CROM, Bruce Boxleitner & Peter Jurasik) in Babylon 5.
The first 1986 TRON was one the biggest imaginative influences for me as a child. I'd love to know your thoughts regarding both the original TRON, and the more recent sequel.
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If I'm paying $70 for internet, I should be able to access what I please.
Was a registered Democrat who ran for both governor and state senator a number of times. Almost won too.
And overnight I went from not being able to stream 3D content from Netflix over my Comcast 50mbps service, to it streaming just fine. So it was nothing to do with hardware, just greedy politics.
Should have it's TV and internet business split into two companies. (And probably a third to own the wires.)
Heck, I'm not even all that rural. Just on the very outskirts, about 10 houses down from one of the main routes in the region. I can't even get DSL.
So I am locked into Comcast or no broadband.
We have a system in which controlling parties manipulate who is their candidate (by the time Pennsylvania got to vote in the primaries in 2008 and 2012. Both candidates had already been selected - we NEVER go to vote), while simultaneously passing legislation that prevents outside parties from being able to access the ballot.
So no....that's not really government by the people. Furthermore, you can try to speak to your selected officials. Even if 90% oppose something, they'll still pass it based on who is giving them money.
Amish probably come closest to implementing Communism....and they're still not perfect.
Evolution is the same, isn't it? Survival of the fittest. Eventually only one species should remain on earth. And no, symbiosis is a merely a transitional stage to accomplishment.
So eventually we'll either have humans that can photosynthesize and dwell in air and water....or cockroaches. One of the two.
Actually, in combat, semi-automatics are usually more effective than fully automatics. Though the most effective is likely the 3-round burst mode.
At $70/month for internet. I am sure Comcast could afford to lay down some cable.
Tear up street once, lay down "conduit"...
That's because conservatives and progressive liberals and libertarians in fact agree on a lot, and oppose much of our current system - which is in fact a fascist economic system.
Government subsidies?
We the customers?
Truth is, Comcast has been !@#$% us over for years. And really should be split into two companies. One which offers television services and one that offers internet.
What our government SHOULD be doing, is laying conduit....then anyone can run cables through said conduits.
That tax is NOT going to go away. It'll just be converted to even more profit for the telcos.
You're an idiot...
Sure, I am for this, with a 100% guarantee of coverage. What does that mean? It means at my house I get poor wireless reception. So I have to use a microcell piggybacked on my Comcast broadband internet connection. And I'm within a few hundred feet of one of the main routes in the area.
As such, if this is going to be passed, then the telecoms need to put up a crapload more cell towers. Furtheremore, we all know what will happen.
The telecoms will grease our selected officials to vote for their cause. They'll be freed from the need to run copper. While at the same time get to keep ALL the fees for expansion, which of course they'll never do...just pocketing the funds.
I can't even get DSL over copper. I'm not that far in the boonies, but go figure. Once Comcast signed it's wireless spectrum transfer deal with Verizon. All expansion ceased.
Laser AMS System ..... hoorah!
The unskilled will just watch TV and eat....
The truth of the matter is that more and more skilled labor is more aptly replaced by machine. Computers replaced a crap load of skilled labor already. How much manufacturing that was once "skilled" is now done by machine?
How much menial labor is easily replaced by technology?
How much skilled and professional labor can be replaced by machine? As computers and programming advance, how much is supplemented. We can eliminate 97% of the teachers through technology. How many CPAs have been replaced by TurboTax? Cars will soon drive themselves....there goes your cab driver. How long until police brutality calls for demands of robot-cops? how much automation has reduced the crew of modern naval vessels and aircraft? how long until doctors are largely replaced by machines. I wager soon that computers will provide far more accurate diagnosis. And some surgeries are already done by robotic machines.
So I ask you, what "skilled competents" do you see existing in an automated future? Because there are not many that I see which cannot be replaced by computer and machine.
- artist
- knowledge seeker
- psychologist
- politicians
Seriously, a mod down?
Did anyone actually watch Star Trek? Prune juice.... was specifically called a warrior's drink on TNG.
To me, this suit seems extremely bulky, with poor visibility. The accent lighting, as presented seems rather useless and a waste of precious energy reserves. And I know it doesn't, but it sure looks like it is forcing the astronaught's head to be contorted forward.
Is it sad that I could create a far better suit design in one day? (Engineering aside)
So if I was to design a suit, I would first look at the human body, visibility and safety.
- structure the suit for a relaxed body position, especially for space walks and low gravity (think more like the Craftmatic Contour bed)
- increase the dome size, come on we should be able to give our astronaughts good periphereal vision (why not a larger and closer to whole hemisphere dome)
- add display screens in front of the astronaught's portal, these would be hooked up to cameras that give a full 360 degree coverage and a location map of all parties (other astronaughts, shuttles, station, satellites, etc)
- illumination, sure, have a light source, thats a given. But if we're going to do LED wires and such they should involve the following. 1) Display a color for identification purposes (perhaps around helmet) 2) display state and well being of the astronaught. (in this case a pattern that is color coded, and can display from green to red the current oxygen reserves, energy reserves, pressure levels, and basic 'naught vitals)
- functionality...hands are great, but there are times you need a third hand. The suit seems to have nothing for assisting tasks. I'd add a Kangaroo pouch on the belly. This would allow the astronaught to essentially have a pouch that can be expanded to contain things. I'd equip each forearm with a grasping clasp. Say I need a wrench, I can just set it on my forearm and it will clamp down and hold it. I see very little design in this suit to assist with functionality.
- feet, these should be adaptable. If I am in space free floating, something with magnetic or even suck type system makes more sense. Versus a suit to explore say an asteroid or Mars, in which a different foot pattern would be beneficial. So I'd make a sort of replaceable sole - like horseshoes.
- tethering? I see nothing to facilitate tethering amongst astronaughts
- utility/mission hardpoints, I'd want a suit that easily allowed dockable modules. Extended oxygen supplies, etc. Not sure the design pictured would be easily modified to support such.
- plasma cannons, clearly the suit should be equipped with plasma cannons or an extended range particle projection cannon.
Huh what?
Why not a tax...
If you replace a burger flipper with an automated machine, there is a replacement tax. Every device that eliminates a job is taxed. Eventually, maybe robots will replace all the jobs, but if they do - and eventually they probably will - all those taxes fund the utopia Star Trek state.
The problem is we never implemented a replacement tax. If a machine does the job of 10 workers, surely a small added tax that is equivalent to 5%-10% of the labor saved. Goes to fund society. Then this way eventually humanity can relegate itself to the arts and pursuit of knowledge.
(until we get into the war with the machines, blot out the sky, and get turned into coppertops)
You bear me by just a few seconds to the post...
Qapla
Prune juice....a real warriors drink!!!!
Kind of funny that you cast two "programs" (TRON - & CROM, Bruce Boxleitner & Peter Jurasik) in Babylon 5.
The first 1986 TRON was one the biggest imaginative influences for me as a child. I'd love to know your thoughts regarding both the original TRON, and the more recent sequel.