and the other guy was implying that the IRS doesn't give a rats ass unless you're breaking tax laws. They don't get the money in any case, the ones that want the money aren't the IRS but the congress and president, because they're the ones that divy it up in the end.
i think they're wondering why the people that think there is a need for an all-female computer camp don't think that there is a need for an all-female computer camp that isn't more expensive than college.
the escape velocity is nearly negligible, and you're saving yourself a lot of headaches.
some things i can think of, that make the moon better than free floating:
if you drop a tool, it doesn't just float off into space with you EVAing after it in a vain hopes of catching it again.
EVAs won't be necessary.
you can just point supplies at the moon, and send em in, you don't need to be super precise with it, and your people can use people power to collect the supplies.
walking around and living, even in mediocre gravity is probably a lot more convenient than in microgravity. Don't get me wrong, free fall is awesome and all, but would you really want to have to deal with all the crap that entails day in, day out while doing your job? you can't even take a shit normally because the shit doesn't know which way to go unless you vacuum it.
on the moon you can take a shit in a normal toilet if you wanted to.... or suit limitations permitting, take a dookie on a moon rock. The moon would be very attractive to you dookie... gravitationally speaking.
... have you actually ever watched one of these speed runs?
these works were very much not intended to be played like this. The speed runners will pixel hunt to glitch through a wall, make their character do a rain-dance if it'll shave off a couple seconds. You're talking about figuring out a game to a degree that's absurd, toward the ultimate goal of bypassing as much of the game as possible.
These people are playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in all the right order.
the problem being, that many times the newer versions will patch out existing glitches, or be slightly to significantly different from existing versions. It'd be like trying to have speed records if they modified the length of the track slightly every other year. or changed the speed of a second.
i think on different versions of symphony of the night, the speed runners have to contend with the different load speeds between the different systems.
well the question there is, are you worried about you, worried about your descendants or worried about the human race in total.
for the first two, no, nothing to worry about, for the last, almost certainly nothing to worry about.
We're barely changing carbon dioxide, 2ppm per year out of a total of running total of about 400 ppm CO2.
and we've been like, super dedicated to that. I don't imagine we'll make much of an impact on hydrogen loss by the time we move on to something better.
also, you underestimate how much hydrogen is in the oceans.
i'm inclined to believe that intelligence is going to be tried at some point, on every planet. but it's such a sea change, that realistically you'll ever only see it once per planet. Every other change in survival is based in near geologic time, we've gone from the caves to you know, everywhere in the time scale of 100s of thousands of years.
give the dolphins a couple hundred million more years, and they'd probably get there, but we're here now. and an intelligent species on the planet kinda just fucks with everything else way too much.
that's the beauty of natural selection. all you need is things being dicks to each other, and time. lots of time. Also the universe being a dick and screwing with your copies occasionally helps kick it in gear.
some people underestimate the amount of time, the sheer space and numbers involved.
someone said of seti, all the concerted efforts of seti are akin to taking a single glass of water out of the oceans and "...no one would decide that the ocean was without fish on the basis of one glass of water."
if you assume that the probability of a star having intelligence form at some point around it is one in a trillion trillion.
that still puts you at something like a million intelligent species.
don't think many people would play those odds.
we're first, which means we're alone, after 13 billion years, of which we basically hit the reset button on our planet a bunch of times in the 4 billion we used.
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So an article i've written that references you, is yours now? glad to know it.
i don't think they're OK with it, so much as they can't do anything about it.
hey, that post about you is my intellectual property.
google is anti-competitive.
they're delisting my articles and not those of my competitors.
i think you meant a
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and the other guy was implying that the IRS doesn't give a rats ass unless you're breaking tax laws. They don't get the money in any case, the ones that want the money aren't the IRS but the congress and president, because they're the ones that divy it up in the end.
those rights were already protected under defamation laws weren't they?
even if they weren't, google still wasn't the correct target to go after in that regard.
i think they're wondering why the people that think there is a need for an all-female computer camp don't think that there is a need for an all-female computer camp that isn't more expensive than college.
949*52 is 49000.
and no profit-motive to greed-motivate people.
i'd say moon over space.
the escape velocity is nearly negligible, and you're saving yourself a lot of headaches.
some things i can think of, that make the moon better than free floating:
if you drop a tool, it doesn't just float off into space with you EVAing after it in a vain hopes of catching it again.
EVAs won't be necessary.
you can just point supplies at the moon, and send em in, you don't need to be super precise with it, and your people can use people power to collect the supplies.
walking around and living, even in mediocre gravity is probably a lot more convenient than in microgravity. Don't get me wrong, free fall is awesome and all, but would you really want to have to deal with all the crap that entails day in, day out while doing your job? you can't even take a shit normally because the shit doesn't know which way to go unless you vacuum it.
on the moon you can take a shit in a normal toilet if you wanted to.... or suit limitations permitting, take a dookie on a moon rock. The moon would be very attractive to you dookie... gravitationally speaking.
... have you actually ever watched one of these speed runs?
these works were very much not intended to be played like this. The speed runners will pixel hunt to glitch through a wall, make their character do a rain-dance if it'll shave off a couple seconds. You're talking about figuring out a game to a degree that's absurd, toward the ultimate goal of bypassing as much of the game as possible.
These people are playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in all the right order.
the problem being, that many times the newer versions will patch out existing glitches, or be slightly to significantly different from existing versions. It'd be like trying to have speed records if they modified the length of the track slightly every other year. or changed the speed of a second.
i think on different versions of symphony of the night, the speed runners have to contend with the different load speeds between the different systems.
meh, hazing, and at worst a dead pig head.
i was expecting more "farmyard bride", and less "dumb 20 year old puts his twig and berries on random objects to one up his idiot friends"
YAY for conspiracies, that all made a lot of sense, then i stopped making sense entirely.
i feel like that was a bait and switch on me.
also, you know, turtle physiology probably isn't your forte.
well the question there is, are you worried about you, worried about your descendants or worried about the human race in total.
for the first two, no, nothing to worry about, for the last, almost certainly nothing to worry about.
We're barely changing carbon dioxide, 2ppm per year out of a total of running total of about 400 ppm CO2.
and we've been like, super dedicated to that. I don't imagine we'll make much of an impact on hydrogen loss by the time we move on to something better.
also, you underestimate how much hydrogen is in the oceans.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/
obligatory xkcd.
doesn't look like a d to me, because d's have that bit on the bottom and are very right heavy.
all that garbage is nearly centered on top of the circle, and it doesn't have that bit popping out of the bottom right.
i usually use a smaller font size
i wouldn't worry about it, we're losing plenty of mass, and gaining plenty of mass too.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
curious, can she adequately differentiate her pronunciations of
pull pool poll and poe?
don't know what that O looking thing is, but if he thought it was a smudge, he most likely thought it was an O too. which makes 4 vowels in a row?
only pee on others if they pee on you.
when you got that many vowels in a row, you're in for some foreign language fun.
shhhhhh. he was on a roll. let him expound on the idea that combusting hydrogen destroys matter.
i'm inclined to believe that intelligence is going to be tried at some point, on every planet. but it's such a sea change, that realistically you'll ever only see it once per planet. Every other change in survival is based in near geologic time, we've gone from the caves to you know, everywhere in the time scale of 100s of thousands of years.
give the dolphins a couple hundred million more years, and they'd probably get there, but we're here now. and an intelligent species on the planet kinda just fucks with everything else way too much.
that's the beauty of natural selection. all you need is things being dicks to each other, and time. lots of time. Also the universe being a dick and screwing with your copies occasionally helps kick it in gear.
some people underestimate the amount of time, the sheer space and numbers involved.
someone said of seti, all the concerted efforts of seti are akin to taking a single glass of water out of the oceans and "...no one would decide that the ocean was without fish on the basis of one glass of water."
if you assume that the probability of a star having intelligence form at some point around it is one in a trillion trillion.
that still puts you at something like a million intelligent species.
don't think many people would play those odds.
we're first, which means we're alone, after 13 billion years, of which we basically hit the reset button on our planet a bunch of times in the 4 billion we used.