Maybe they did, but you can download wikipedia and run it locally, they even zip it up for you in one big file.
Actually considering the amount of data there (some would say it's the sum of human knowledge) it's still small enough to fit on my phone.
Way cool, I like this! I am going to start posting pics of myself on Mars or something, starting with training and stuff, with photoshopped pics of me with astronauts and stuffs. Lets see how smart FB's auto tagging algo's really are. Since I suck at photoshop I doubt I would fool a human, but then I am not trying to!
Precisely my point, the only reason Trump won was because people felt they HAD to vote either democrat or republican. If both candidates sucked (which they did, Trump just sucked less) they should have voiced it by voting for one of the underdogs instead. To be honest, without googling (and I am not American) I don't even know the names of anyone else running for president, do they even exist or have a chance at winning if they do? I had hopes Trump would shake things up (and I suppose he has) and break America away from the shackles of the corporations who actually run and own America, but alas, every time he tries he gets lambasted and shot down in flames in the senate or in court, I wonder who is paying for all that? Companies like Montesanto et al, that's who. Americans are already being forced to grow and eat food that would not be allowed anywhere near the EU, and no one in the US seems inclined to ask WHY. Because they are being brainwashed by mainstream media which is owned by... the corporations. The big mega farms growing this crud, owned by corporations whose only interest is to maximize profits, long term health effects be damned since they will be almost impossible to prove and the corps have more lawyers which would tie up the case for years, if not decades. Which doesn't matter because the Judge sitting in attendance has political ambitions and needs to get his cut of the corporate pie so he can pay another corporate to brainwash people into thinking he is the best candidate.
To start an alternative way to trade oil - currently it's done exclusively in America dollars. It's part of what keeps the currency so strong. Take that away and all of a sudden the dollar is going to be worth a lot less. So I suppose in a way it is a form of financial warfare, but one that America started years ago and Russia and China have been trying to break for decades, which is why mainstream media are casting it in such a negative light, without actually saying why it will be a problem.
Guess who would be holding the bag would Venezuela finally implodes?
Erm, the Venezuelan's? Why should America be left with the bag, unless it's the bag you are holding out to collect their oil.
In ANY country you can find a group of people (dissidents) who do not like the current political setup. America is fond of arming these people and sending them in to topple the evil regime, and when these terrorists / freedom fighters get their ass handed to them the USA intervenes directly to help the terrorists / freedom fighters to further America's agenda, it has nothing to do with Freedom or Democracy.
Agreed, and what makes it even more suspect is that America only seems to care about overthrowing governments with oil. Where was America during Bobs rein of tyranny and violence in "democratic" Zimbabwe? The ethnic cleansing that has occurred all over central Africa? There is no profit in that.
So fucking what, at least they will have food and medicine. Do you honestly think you are making friends of the innocent people suffering because you want to force your brand of government on them. In fact, why do you not have sanctions against China? They are communist after all, is it because they own half of America? Or is it because you have to buy 90% of everything from them because you no longer have the manufacturing facilities? So, pick on Venezuela instead. What about Zimbabwe, or all the other little countries with dictators. Oh wait, they don't have oil.
Papers please Comrade
That would be Venezuela, fair enough.
This IS America today
Papers please, oh and your facebook password, and twitter and since you look slightly shifty we are going to xray the crap out of you, and your wife is pretty hot, so she gets a strip and cavity search, and then because you got annoyed about me groping your wife we are going to lock you in a room for hours and question you about your political affiliations and religious beliefs. Then if we think you might be a terrorist we are going to send you to a detention center without arresting or charging you with anything and hold you indefinitely. But not to worry, we have some lovely watersports called waterboarding that we play to keep us entertained, YOU probably won't enjoy it much though. Welcome to AMERICA! Although you won't BE in America, because this shit is illegal there.
I know which one I would prefer, but then you Americans have your head so far up your ass you probably don't mind the cavity search.
Because oil is traded in dollars internationally. Russia and China want to end that monopoly (ie control) by introducing another way to trade oil. This has been in the works for a while, looks like it's finally coming into fruition. It will be interesting to see what the value of the dollar is when countries start dump it back into circulation instead of keeping it to buy oil. Hyperinflation here we come! Just a pity that it's going to cause chaos worldwide when it's cheaper to wipe your ass with a hundred dollar bill than use toilet paper.
Who gave America the right to overthrow dictators? The puppet government that gets installed afterwards by the US is not exactly democratic anyway. "But the people voted!" you say, well if all it took was some Russians spamming stuffs on the internet to alter the US election I don't have much faith in the vote of the "sheeple". Maybe what the world needs is a couple more dictators, instead of ass lickers who start wars to get votes. Libya was a paradise under Gaddafi compared to the "democratic" shit hole it is now. Children getting raped and forced into militant groups, death and disease and starvation. But hey, at least they got to vote!
And America needs to be constantly at war to help support its failed Democracy.
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have. - Winston Churchill
Although I have trouble understanding how only having two political parties to vote for makes a "Democracy".
Especially since your guvment have been slowly chipping away at your own constitution for decades, next will be the right to bear arms. Most (if not all) of your nutters who shoots up a school was flagged as a potential risk, but NOTHING was done. WHY? So they can point at the violence and deaths and say, "See, guns are bad, only we the guvment should have them".
America, the land of the not so free.
Reagan shut down a LOT of mental institutions and all those nut jobs have been roaming the streets, it's a recipe for massacres as has been proved again and again, yet NOTHING is done. WHY?
WTF has Trump got to do with this? There might be Russian trolls out there influencing opinion etc. etc. but all you have to do is look at any mainstream media hype about Trump to see that the US of A was leading the curve on mass indoctrination ages ago, albeit through TV and newspapers etc. Although I am pretty sure the US has their own army of trolls by now.
A prime example is all the hype about the Nerve gas attack in the UK. Fuck all evidence other than "someone" saying it was a Russian nerve agent that is 10x more powerful than any other nerve agent (how do they know that?) yet somehow the people attacked are still alive?
America and it's largest air craft carrier (the UK) are hell bent on starting another war (or cold war) and everyone is just lapping up the crap spewed out by mainstream media without stopping to think for themselves.
WHY would Russia want to kill a *British* spy they traded for some of their sleeper agents 6 fucking years ago?
WHY use a supposed Russian nerve agent to do it, when a "mugging" gone wrong in the same park would have worked better?
WHY won't the Brits give a sample of the nerve agent to the Russians. Is it maybe because they cooked up the batch themselves and it would be obvious if inspected (especially since it turned out to be 1000x less lethal than a cup of water held over your nose and mouth)?
WHY would Assad in Syria use chemical weapons in a war he is winning, when using said weapons would cause international outrage. Also, where the fuck did he get the chemical weapons when he willingly allowed his stockpiles to be destroyed?
WHY is America arming "moderate rebels" in the first place, especially since the line between moderate rebels and ISIS (or whatever they are fucking called today) is so blurred that the weapons end up in ISIS possession?
WHY does Russia have sanctions for annexing Crimea AFTER they were ASKED to by the people in Crimea, when the US has invaded country after country without UN permission and fuck all is done about it? In fact the invasion of Iraq was done without senate permission, so it was done without US permission either, but no sanctions for the US? On that note, at least Russia was invited into Syria, the US being there is illegal, where are the sanctions?
Just reread some of my above list, seems like I am bashing the states and defending the Russians, perhaps I am. But that is not the point of this long ass diatribe. My main concern is the fact that to find ANY dissenting opinion from the crap main stream media is pushing out you have to dig into dark dingy sites that have Elvis and UFO sightings as part of their forums.
WHY is mainstream media NOT asking these questions?
WHY ARE YOU NOT ASKING FOR ANSWERS?
I mean these are pretty straight forward questions, but I bet I will be modded into oblivion about three seconds after I post this, and that just proves America has it's own army of trolls throwing crap into the internet. Stop drinking the coolaid and wake the fuck up.
Agreed, the entire argument is like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. I am not a network guy, I am a programmer, but I have done a fair amount of network related programming and to find your own bugs you have to know how everything fits together and so I have read a fair amount of literature. In my experience there has NEVER been an uncapped internet. Priority has always been given to certain ports depending on requirements. That is not net neutrality. Fine, what they are arguing about now is whether certain servers / companies should be given higher priority than others, slight difference, but basically the same thing since the "web" is mostly on port 80, or 443. Personally I don't see the big fuss, it never existed anyway.
You are not wrong here, where I am you can get perfect Netflix streaming and Facebook browsing but everything else is slow as shit. NN died here long ago, by popular demand no less. Oh yeah, Youtube usually works fine as well, even when a local news site is timing out. Not many people here would be interested in an ISP which did not give those "essential" services priority. So in my mind NN died a long time ago anyways, they are just trying to make it legal to make more money.
Someone I worked with had switched careers to business analyst and she said pretty much the same thing. As a programmer you pretty much read some data, change some data, write some data. Rinse, wash, repeat. She said she got bored and moved on. I have to admit I am there as well, bored. The previous company I worked for was more interesting, they would ask me to hack things on occasion. I often wonder if I should let my morale standard drop a bit and go to the dark side. I "decompiled" the melissa virus back in the day (it was VBScript, not exactly hard) and it was a horribly written piece of code which did a lot of damage. I often wonder what the result would be if a properly trained programmer decided to go bad? Probably happened already I suppose.
Erm, it's a LOT of effort to scan a book on a regular scanner. 99% of people have flatbed scanners, and if you are the 1% who have self feeding scanners you would have to separate all the pages first (destroying the book in the process). That being said people are doing it, there is a place on IRC (internet relay chat) where you can pretty much find any work of fiction produced (google it, I would rather not have the details indexed by google and associated with me). What I have trouble getting my grubby paws on are non fiction books. Still haven't found a central place for those, end up having to fire up a VM and dig through 20 million dodgy websites before I can find what I am looking for. Oh yeah, be warned - a LOT of the books have OCR errors, some have been proofread and corrected, but not a lot. Some have loaded the text into word or some other spell checker and clicked "Autofix spelling and grammer", and we all know how well that works.
Remember, always remember that HR is NOT there to protect employees.
Wholeheartedly agree on that, found that out the hard way. HR is there to protect the company, not the employees.
but I've never met one this stupid
Agree again, but I get the feeling that a company like Tesla would not be hiring moron HR managers, which makes you wonder how much of this is actually true.
I was working for a company and one of the developers was having a hard time at home, marriage issues, new born keeping him up at night, money problems etc. and his performance was slipping at work (getting to work late, tired, leaving early the usual kinda stuff in that situation) and one of the managers decided to fire him.
HR said there were no grounds for a dismissal, a disciplinary perhaps, but not dismissal. But he insisted, so HR fired him. He took them to labor court and won the case. So sometimes it might seem like it's HR being the douche, but actually it's upper management forcing them.
Same here, a friend suggested it to me, when I saw the list of permissions it was requesting I shut it down. I fail to see why a messaging application needs that many permissions to send a message. Reminds me of blackberry back in the day when it was still popular, needed a torch app quick, but every single one I tried wanted god rights on my phone! For a torch? Eventually got up and went and found a real torch.
Heh, and here all this time I thought it was because it doesn't break down easily and builds up in the water table and therefore is potentially harmful to humans, well that is mentioned in the Wikipedia entry, but it's not the main reason. Thanks, I learned something new today, I can go home now:-)
I suppose a lot would depend on how many people are replaced at a time, attrition is only economically feasible if you have something productive for the person to do, having people sitting around twiddling their thumbs is really bad for morale. Otherwise it's mass retrenchments, which while also bad for morale is at least over quicker.
Erm, endless meetings, political maneuvering, backstabbing, that's pretty much what they do, oh and golf. Going to be a while before they can be replaced by a bot. My wife works at a major bank in my country, they are busy implementing "bots" to automate stuffs. I worked at another company and we rewrote their logistics system, the looks on some of the staffs face when we gave a demo and they realized we had automated their jobs away still bugs me to this day. My sister works for a major retailer and they have just finished the first phase of a project which will automate all the picking (loading trucks). But I hate to break it to you, that's what we do (programmers) we replace people with code. That's what we have been doing right from the start, I just think the pace is increasing and we are replacing more and more complex tasks with code. It's not new.
Yes, yes it has been a huge fucking problem. When I used to read physical books my favorite place to read was in the bath, couldn't do that with a kindle (at least not for long). And no, I have never dropped a book into the water, and would probably not drop the kindle into it either, but the moisture would fuck it up in time. Going to the beach or lounge around the pool and you have to stick the kindle in a sandwich bag which is annoying, so for me it was a huge problem. Pity they are not shipping to my country (yet). Although to be honest, I do most of my reading on my phone anyways, your phone is always with you, so if I get stuck in a line somewhere I can read a few pages while waiting. I generally only use the kindle when I am going away for a weekend, especially if it's in the middle of nowhere (which is the whole point in going camping). Although all things considered solar powered battery banks kinda make the long battery life of the kindle pointless.
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Maybe they did, but you can download wikipedia and run it locally, they even zip it up for you in one big file.
Actually considering the amount of data there (some would say it's the sum of human knowledge) it's still small enough to fit on my phone.
Way cool, I like this! I am going to start posting pics of myself on Mars or something, starting with training and stuff, with photoshopped pics of me with astronauts and stuffs. Lets see how smart FB's auto tagging algo's really are. Since I suck at photoshop I doubt I would fool a human, but then I am not trying to!
Precisely my point, the only reason Trump won was because people felt they HAD to vote either democrat or republican. If both candidates sucked (which they did, Trump just sucked less) they should have voiced it by voting for one of the underdogs instead. To be honest, without googling (and I am not American) I don't even know the names of anyone else running for president, do they even exist or have a chance at winning if they do? I had hopes Trump would shake things up (and I suppose he has) and break America away from the shackles of the corporations who actually run and own America, but alas, every time he tries he gets lambasted and shot down in flames in the senate or in court, I wonder who is paying for all that? Companies like Montesanto et al, that's who. Americans are already being forced to grow and eat food that would not be allowed anywhere near the EU, and no one in the US seems inclined to ask WHY. Because they are being brainwashed by mainstream media which is owned by... the corporations. The big mega farms growing this crud, owned by corporations whose only interest is to maximize profits, long term health effects be damned since they will be almost impossible to prove and the corps have more lawyers which would tie up the case for years, if not decades. Which doesn't matter because the Judge sitting in attendance has political ambitions and needs to get his cut of the corporate pie so he can pay another corporate to brainwash people into thinking he is the best candidate.
To start an alternative way to trade oil - currently it's done exclusively in America dollars. It's part of what keeps the currency so strong. Take that away and all of a sudden the dollar is going to be worth a lot less. So I suppose in a way it is a form of financial warfare, but one that America started years ago and Russia and China have been trying to break for decades, which is why mainstream media are casting it in such a negative light, without actually saying why it will be a problem.
Erm, the Venezuelan's? Why should America be left with the bag, unless it's the bag you are holding out to collect their oil.
In ANY country you can find a group of people (dissidents) who do not like the current political setup. America is fond of arming these people and sending them in to topple the evil regime, and when these terrorists / freedom fighters get their ass handed to them the USA intervenes directly to help the terrorists / freedom fighters to further America's agenda, it has nothing to do with Freedom or Democracy.
Agreed, and what makes it even more suspect is that America only seems to care about overthrowing governments with oil. Where was America during Bobs rein of tyranny and violence in "democratic" Zimbabwe? The ethnic cleansing that has occurred all over central Africa? There is no profit in that.
That would be Venezuela, fair enough.
This IS America today
I know which one I would prefer, but then you Americans have your head so far up your ass you probably don't mind the cavity search.
Because oil is traded in dollars internationally. Russia and China want to end that monopoly (ie control) by introducing another way to trade oil. This has been in the works for a while, looks like it's finally coming into fruition. It will be interesting to see what the value of the dollar is when countries start dump it back into circulation instead of keeping it to buy oil. Hyperinflation here we come! Just a pity that it's going to cause chaos worldwide when it's cheaper to wipe your ass with a hundred dollar bill than use toilet paper.
Who gave America the right to overthrow dictators? The puppet government that gets installed afterwards by the US is not exactly democratic anyway. "But the people voted!" you say, well if all it took was some Russians spamming stuffs on the internet to alter the US election I don't have much faith in the vote of the "sheeple". Maybe what the world needs is a couple more dictators, instead of ass lickers who start wars to get votes. Libya was a paradise under Gaddafi compared to the "democratic" shit hole it is now. Children getting raped and forced into militant groups, death and disease and starvation. But hey, at least they got to vote!
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have. - Winston Churchill
Although I have trouble understanding how only having two political parties to vote for makes a "Democracy".
Especially since your guvment have been slowly chipping away at your own constitution for decades, next will be the right to bear arms. Most (if not all) of your nutters who shoots up a school was flagged as a potential risk, but NOTHING was done. WHY? So they can point at the violence and deaths and say, "See, guns are bad, only we the guvment should have them".
America, the land of the not so free.
Reagan shut down a LOT of mental institutions and all those nut jobs have been roaming the streets, it's a recipe for massacres as has been proved again and again, yet NOTHING is done. WHY?
TDSers? Trump Doom Sayers?
Also love the way they always seem to post as anon, so much for their conviction.
WTF has Trump got to do with this? There might be Russian trolls out there influencing opinion etc. etc. but all you have to do is look at any mainstream media hype about Trump to see that the US of A was leading the curve on mass indoctrination ages ago, albeit through TV and newspapers etc. Although I am pretty sure the US has their own army of trolls by now.
A prime example is all the hype about the Nerve gas attack in the UK. Fuck all evidence other than "someone" saying it was a Russian nerve agent that is 10x more powerful than any other nerve agent (how do they know that?) yet somehow the people attacked are still alive?
America and it's largest air craft carrier (the UK) are hell bent on starting another war (or cold war) and everyone is just lapping up the crap spewed out by mainstream media without stopping to think for themselves.
WHY would Russia want to kill a *British* spy they traded for some of their sleeper agents 6 fucking years ago?
WHY use a supposed Russian nerve agent to do it, when a "mugging" gone wrong in the same park would have worked better?
WHY won't the Brits give a sample of the nerve agent to the Russians. Is it maybe because they cooked up the batch themselves and it would be obvious if inspected (especially since it turned out to be 1000x less lethal than a cup of water held over your nose and mouth)?
WHY would Assad in Syria use chemical weapons in a war he is winning, when using said weapons would cause international outrage. Also, where the fuck did he get the chemical weapons when he willingly allowed his stockpiles to be destroyed?
WHY is America arming "moderate rebels" in the first place, especially since the line between moderate rebels and ISIS (or whatever they are fucking called today) is so blurred that the weapons end up in ISIS possession?
WHY does Russia have sanctions for annexing Crimea AFTER they were ASKED to by the people in Crimea, when the US has invaded country after country without UN permission and fuck all is done about it? In fact the invasion of Iraq was done without senate permission, so it was done without US permission either, but no sanctions for the US? On that note, at least Russia was invited into Syria, the US being there is illegal, where are the sanctions?
Just reread some of my above list, seems like I am bashing the states and defending the Russians, perhaps I am. But that is not the point of this long ass diatribe.
My main concern is the fact that to find ANY dissenting opinion from the crap main stream media is pushing out you have to dig into dark dingy sites that have Elvis and UFO sightings as part of their forums.
WHY is mainstream media NOT asking these questions?
WHY ARE YOU NOT ASKING FOR ANSWERS?
I mean these are pretty straight forward questions, but I bet I will be modded into oblivion about three seconds after I post this, and that just proves America has it's own army of trolls throwing crap into the internet. Stop drinking the coolaid and wake the fuck up.
Agreed, the entire argument is like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. I am not a network guy, I am a programmer, but I have done a fair amount of network related programming and to find your own bugs you have to know how everything fits together and so I have read a fair amount of literature. In my experience there has NEVER been an uncapped internet. Priority has always been given to certain ports depending on requirements. That is not net neutrality. Fine, what they are arguing about now is whether certain servers / companies should be given higher priority than others, slight difference, but basically the same thing since the "web" is mostly on port 80, or 443. Personally I don't see the big fuss, it never existed anyway.
You are not wrong here, where I am you can get perfect Netflix streaming and Facebook browsing but everything else is slow as shit. NN died here long ago, by popular demand no less. Oh yeah, Youtube usually works fine as well, even when a local news site is timing out. Not many people here would be interested in an ISP which did not give those "essential" services priority. So in my mind NN died a long time ago anyways, they are just trying to make it legal to make more money.
Someone I worked with had switched careers to business analyst and she said pretty much the same thing. As a programmer you pretty much read some data, change some data, write some data. Rinse, wash, repeat. She said she got bored and moved on. I have to admit I am there as well, bored. The previous company I worked for was more interesting, they would ask me to hack things on occasion. I often wonder if I should let my morale standard drop a bit and go to the dark side. I "decompiled" the melissa virus back in the day (it was VBScript, not exactly hard) and it was a horribly written piece of code which did a lot of damage. I often wonder what the result would be if a properly trained programmer decided to go bad? Probably happened already I suppose.
Heh, and here I thought my wife and myself (also a programmer) were being "odd" that we wanted to go off grid and become farmers.
Erm, it's a LOT of effort to scan a book on a regular scanner. 99% of people have flatbed scanners, and if you are the 1% who have self feeding scanners you would have to separate all the pages first (destroying the book in the process). That being said people are doing it, there is a place on IRC (internet relay chat) where you can pretty much find any work of fiction produced (google it, I would rather not have the details indexed by google and associated with me). What I have trouble getting my grubby paws on are non fiction books. Still haven't found a central place for those, end up having to fire up a VM and dig through 20 million dodgy websites before I can find what I am looking for. Oh yeah, be warned - a LOT of the books have OCR errors, some have been proofread and corrected, but not a lot. Some have loaded the text into word or some other spell checker and clicked "Autofix spelling and grammer", and we all know how well that works.
Wholeheartedly agree on that, found that out the hard way. HR is there to protect the company, not the employees.
Agree again, but I get the feeling that a company like Tesla would not be hiring moron HR managers, which makes you wonder how much of this is actually true.
I was working for a company and one of the developers was having a hard time at home, marriage issues, new born keeping him up at night, money problems etc. and his performance was slipping at work (getting to work late, tired, leaving early the usual kinda stuff in that situation) and one of the managers decided to fire him. HR said there were no grounds for a dismissal, a disciplinary perhaps, but not dismissal. But he insisted, so HR fired him. He took them to labor court and won the case. So sometimes it might seem like it's HR being the douche, but actually it's upper management forcing them.
Same here, a friend suggested it to me, when I saw the list of permissions it was requesting I shut it down. I fail to see why a messaging application needs that many permissions to send a message. Reminds me of blackberry back in the day when it was still popular, needed a torch app quick, but every single one I tried wanted god rights on my phone! For a torch? Eventually got up and went and found a real torch.
Heh, and here all this time I thought it was because it doesn't break down easily and builds up in the water table and therefore is potentially harmful to humans, well that is mentioned in the Wikipedia entry, but it's not the main reason. Thanks, I learned something new today, I can go home now :-)
I suppose a lot would depend on how many people are replaced at a time, attrition is only economically feasible if you have something productive for the person to do, having people sitting around twiddling their thumbs is really bad for morale. Otherwise it's mass retrenchments, which while also bad for morale is at least over quicker.
Erm, endless meetings, political maneuvering, backstabbing, that's pretty much what they do, oh and golf. Going to be a while before they can be replaced by a bot. My wife works at a major bank in my country, they are busy implementing "bots" to automate stuffs. I worked at another company and we rewrote their logistics system, the looks on some of the staffs face when we gave a demo and they realized we had automated their jobs away still bugs me to this day. My sister works for a major retailer and they have just finished the first phase of a project which will automate all the picking (loading trucks). But I hate to break it to you, that's what we do (programmers) we replace people with code. That's what we have been doing right from the start, I just think the pace is increasing and we are replacing more and more complex tasks with code. It's not new.
True, but they are a lot more moisture resistant than a kindle.
Yes, yes it has been a huge fucking problem. When I used to read physical books my favorite place to read was in the bath, couldn't do that with a kindle (at least not for long). And no, I have never dropped a book into the water, and would probably not drop the kindle into it either, but the moisture would fuck it up in time. Going to the beach or lounge around the pool and you have to stick the kindle in a sandwich bag which is annoying, so for me it was a huge problem. Pity they are not shipping to my country (yet). Although to be honest, I do most of my reading on my phone anyways, your phone is always with you, so if I get stuck in a line somewhere I can read a few pages while waiting. I generally only use the kindle when I am going away for a weekend, especially if it's in the middle of nowhere (which is the whole point in going camping). Although all things considered solar powered battery banks kinda make the long battery life of the kindle pointless.
Erm, for what purpose exactly? Why have all these little space stations floating around?