Actually, OSP (done right, of course) would do better for not shoveling money at quasi-monopolies than the shuttle is currently, simply because it's potentially adaptable to a wide variety of carrier craft. Sure it'll probably start out strapped on top of a Delta or Atlas, but there's no reason why a more reusable booster couldn't be used down the road.
Well, that, and taking a page from the old MOL project and using the OSP as the emergency-escape/landing/etc. for larger spacecraft is my lofty blue-sky daydream.
I got number 1 in Google for "arianna huffington spammer" and number 6 for "arianna huffington spam" just with my slashdot sig, without spamming weblogs.
Now that the election's over and us Californians have the Guvernator, I hafta figure out what I'm going to googlebomb next -- preferebly something amusing this time. As I'm indecisive, I haven't changed it yet.
I do that, but this results me in not blocking the email that gets sent to that address so I can watch as the remove option doesn't work and the address spreads further.;)
The simple answer is we will need that waste more than the sun does down the road. Right now, it's cheaper and more politically sound to bury the stuff and dig up new uranium. At some point, it'll be cheaper to reprocess the stuff and less of a political no-no.
Hundereds, maybe thousands of years. Even better with reprocessing and neutron bombardment.
The more dangerous radioisotopes are the ones who emit the most radiation. What happens when a radioisotope emits radiation? It converts to a more stable element that emits less radiation.
After a few thousand years, it's less radioactive than the ore it came from.
The best part about S&T is that it's more interactive. I've got DSL and S&T is still faster. You can reroute the map if you *know* there's a better way. You can define multiple points on the journey and have a complete route. You can use it to print out *good* directions to meet up at some point.
Best part of all is portability. You can download a S&T map to your PDA (Ain't vendor-lockin grand?) or keep it on your laptop and view the directions that way.
Very true. Before the iBook, Wi-fi was only available as an expansion card for your pcmcia slot. And that wasn't particularly popular until after Apple started pushing it, either.
Integral Wi-fi was a great idea. Having the damn antenna sticking out sucks.
The biggest problem with Bluetooth is that it came out at the same time as Wifi. However, it does have many advantages over other technologies.
In the wireless space, you've got IrDA, Wifi, Bluetooth, and special purpose protocols (like your cordless phone)
IrDA is obnoxious and doesn't work especially well. You have to align things in order to make it work.
Special purpose protocols can conflict with each other and only do what they were intended for.
Wifi is great, but it has all of the baggage of TCP/IP, quite a lot of power consumption, and is designed to connect complete devices. Wifi isn't meant to attach your keyboard to your desktop, for example.
Bluetooth's real applications are for situations where you don't want to deal with cables and are on lowered power requirements. Wireless keyboards and mice, except that you don't need to think about the base station (thus being able to use one brand's wireless keyboard and another's mouse). Synching your PDA without needing the cradle. Connecting a GPS to your PDA without cables. Connecting your PDA and cellphone without cables. None of these will work especially well wireless using anything but bluetooth.
Cancer sucks far less if you catch it early. If you knew you were suceptable to a particular cancer, you would be far more proactive about getting tested for it. I think in quite a few cases, knowing something like a suceptability to cancer, anyurisms, etc. would end up being a net gain because you'd, in theory, be better able to prevent it, thus decreasing your total pay-out from insurance.
And remember, genes are generally not "known" future, they are a possibility. It's not like knowing you've got AIDS and are thus going to die, barring medical complications.
True. Although I'm not sure if anybody has yet established an information broker about your medical information. The big thing stopping this is patient privacy. Your records are very hard to dig up normally because of a series of laws including HIPPA, even for a private investigator.
The big advantage here is that folks who *may* have some sort of genetic disease are going be able to get tested for it without fear. Previously, because it was a legal gray area, they wouldn't be able to know for sure.
Apple's contribution to getting USB going was shipping systems where USB was *required* not optional. Sure your Packard Hell had the port, but what peripherals could you get for it? My computer had the port, but nobody made anything worth getting that had the port.
Notice Wireless Ethernet. It was available elsewhere, but Apple pushed AirPort out and marketed it as a reason why you'd want to buy Apple. They didn't invent it, they weren't first to have it, but they did manage to make it more popular than it would otherwise have been.
Of course they are going to *say* that to the press. Saying that you want loads of money isn't going to get you any mass publicity, except as a nutter.
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Actually, OSP (done right, of course) would do better for not shoveling money at quasi-monopolies than the shuttle is currently, simply because it's potentially adaptable to a wide variety of carrier craft. Sure it'll probably start out strapped on top of a Delta or Atlas, but there's no reason why a more reusable booster couldn't be used down the road.
Well, that, and taking a page from the old MOL project and using the OSP as the emergency-escape/landing/etc. for larger spacecraft is my lofty blue-sky daydream.
We sent a lot of probes to the moon. What do you think of when you think about exploring the moon? The astronauts, of course.
We found so much more just by putting folks there and letting them explore and catalog and bring stuff back.
Plus, you can't forget the good feelings and propiganda boosts. Men on the moon are part of our cultural mythos in ways that probes aren't.
Except that very few people got the runs. To the extent that warning notices are no longer necessary.
Dude, they already made low-cal fats. Ever hear of Olestra?
I use Speakeasy even though I get crappy transfer because I appreciate a quality connection.
;)
That's how good they are, I guess.
Very very very much truth, if done properly.
I got number 1 in Google for "arianna huffington spammer" and number 6 for "arianna huffington spam" just with my slashdot sig, without spamming weblogs.
Now that the election's over and us Californians have the Guvernator, I hafta figure out what I'm going to googlebomb next -- preferebly something amusing this time. As I'm indecisive, I haven't changed it yet.
I'm thinking that, lately, they either just ignore the removal requests or maybe remove you from one specific mailing.
;)
It's also the case that half of the removal URLs will return an error message.
The influx of spam to the address I've been testing the "remove me" option hasn't gone down appreciabley, but it hasn't gone up that much either.
See, mostly I wanted to collect evidence that spammers are tryly scum-of-the-earth.
I also discovered, once they picked up a few addresses, that the "remove me from this list" still doesn't do anything.
I need to summarize up the trends and write it up, but I haven't gotten to it yet.
I do that, but this results me in not blocking the email that gets sent to that address so I can watch as the remove option doesn't work and the address spreads further. ;)
I encode the IP address of whoever's requesting the email address and the current date and time. So each request gets a unique email address.
;)
The file is forbidden by the robots.txt file. I don't think that it surprises anybody that it still has gotten spambotted.
It's probably not even that interesting.
You don't even need weapons-grade uranium for a traditional nuclear weapon, just some creative design and lots of low-grade uranium.
Which really makes the anti-nuclear proliferation folks look a tad dumb.
I once wondered this.
The simple answer is we will need that waste more than the sun does down the road. Right now, it's cheaper and more politically sound to bury the stuff and dig up new uranium. At some point, it'll be cheaper to reprocess the stuff and less of a political no-no.
Far less than the 50,000 years you are quoting.
Hundereds, maybe thousands of years. Even better with reprocessing and neutron bombardment.
The more dangerous radioisotopes are the ones who emit the most radiation. What happens when a radioisotope emits radiation? It converts to a more stable element that emits less radiation.
After a few thousand years, it's less radioactive than the ore it came from.
Good points. ;)
The best part about S&T is that it's more interactive. I've got DSL and S&T is still faster. You can reroute the map if you *know* there's a better way. You can define multiple points on the journey and have a complete route. You can use it to print out *good* directions to meet up at some point.
Best part of all is portability. You can download a S&T map to your PDA (Ain't vendor-lockin grand?) or keep it on your laptop and view the directions that way.
True. The other PC manufacturers should be paying money to Apple for doing their research for them. ;)
Nice. Except that I already have 2 cards.
Brazil's craft was their first launch vehicle.
Quite a few countries have orbited their own satelites. So they won't be #4, they will probably be down in the teens,
Very true. Before the iBook, Wi-fi was only available as an expansion card for your pcmcia slot. And that wasn't particularly popular until after Apple started pushing it, either.
Integral Wi-fi was a great idea. Having the damn antenna sticking out sucks.
Not necessarily.
The biggest problem with Bluetooth is that it came out at the same time as Wifi. However, it does have many advantages over other technologies.
In the wireless space, you've got IrDA, Wifi, Bluetooth, and special purpose protocols (like your cordless phone)
IrDA is obnoxious and doesn't work especially well. You have to align things in order to make it work.
Special purpose protocols can conflict with each other and only do what they were intended for.
Wifi is great, but it has all of the baggage of TCP/IP, quite a lot of power consumption, and is designed to connect complete devices. Wifi isn't meant to attach your keyboard to your desktop, for example.
Bluetooth's real applications are for situations where you don't want to deal with cables and are on lowered power requirements. Wireless keyboards and mice, except that you don't need to think about the base station (thus being able to use one brand's wireless keyboard and another's mouse). Synching your PDA without needing the cradle. Connecting a GPS to your PDA without cables. Connecting your PDA and cellphone without cables. None of these will work especially well wireless using anything but bluetooth.
Not necessarily.
Cancer sucks far less if you catch it early. If you knew you were suceptable to a particular cancer, you would be far more proactive about getting tested for it. I think in quite a few cases, knowing something like a suceptability to cancer, anyurisms, etc. would end up being a net gain because you'd, in theory, be better able to prevent it, thus decreasing your total pay-out from insurance.
And remember, genes are generally not "known" future, they are a possibility. It's not like knowing you've got AIDS and are thus going to die, barring medical complications.
True. Although I'm not sure if anybody has yet established an information broker about your medical information. The big thing stopping this is patient privacy. Your records are very hard to dig up normally because of a series of laws including HIPPA, even for a private investigator.
The big advantage here is that folks who *may* have some sort of genetic disease are going be able to get tested for it without fear. Previously, because it was a legal gray area, they wouldn't be able to know for sure.
Apple's contribution to getting USB going was shipping systems where USB was *required* not optional. Sure your Packard Hell had the port, but what peripherals could you get for it? My computer had the port, but nobody made anything worth getting that had the port.
Notice Wireless Ethernet. It was available elsewhere, but Apple pushed AirPort out and marketed it as a reason why you'd want to buy Apple. They didn't invent it, they weren't first to have it, but they did manage to make it more popular than it would otherwise have been.
Of course they are going to *say* that to the press. Saying that you want loads of money isn't going to get you any mass publicity, except as a nutter.