Perhaps Arianespace will have an uncharacteristic attack of good sense, and build Skylon instead of just another Ariane rocket? (the company designing it have no intention of building it themselves; they are looking for someone like Arianespace to do it for them)
"Commercial enterprises are excellent at making a proper risk assessment" - like assessing the risk of a loan or mortgage defaulting, for example?
SpaceX is doing well, but lets please drop this ideological bullshit about markets being some magic diving mechanism. They aren't - they are a clumsy metaphor for the random noise generated by transactions. Not magic.
Its already been done - by amongst others, the UK Pirate Party:
https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/
Now, they could in theory demand that domain by shut down, but taking legal action against a registered political party will mostly serve to give the PPUK the national publicity they lack at the moment.
I suspected this; much hype about gene sequencing appears to come from Silicon Valley types, who sense that Moore's law is on borrowed time and want something else to provide exponentially increatnig returns - to show that such growth is some kind of law (see "Singularity") rather than an empirically observeed temporary phenomenom.
Thing is, we just haven't seen returns from gene sequencing getting cheaper, that we have from transitor density. Sure, its getting cheaper quicker - but even now its cheap enough that a hospital can afford to sequence patients genes, but they don't. Why? Perhaps it is because most medical conditions (even the ones made more likely by genetics) aren't more easily treated if you know the pateints DNA?
The EDL don't target Abu Hamza (whose level of physical threat can be assessed based on the fact he blew off both his hands through his inept bomb making attempts) - they target law-abiding UK citizens who happen to look different, wear different clothes, or generally look at the fucking psychos in the EDL the wrong way.
In the UK this is going to be reminiscent, for a lot of people, of the English Defence League - a bunch of neo-nazi football hooligans who stage rallies against 'Islamists' in English town centres, as a shallow pretext to harass and attack people with dark skin.
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Perhaps Arianespace will have an uncharacteristic attack of good sense, and build Skylon instead of just another Ariane rocket? (the company designing it have no intention of building it themselves; they are looking for someone like Arianespace to do it for them)
"Commercial enterprises are excellent at making a proper risk assessment" - like assessing the risk of a loan or mortgage defaulting, for example?
SpaceX is doing well, but lets please drop this ideological bullshit about markets being some magic diving mechanism. They aren't - they are a clumsy metaphor for the random noise generated by transactions. Not magic.
Its already been done - by amongst others, the UK Pirate Party:
https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/
Now, they could in theory demand that domain by shut down, but taking legal action against a registered political party will mostly serve to give the PPUK the national publicity they lack at the moment.
I suspected this; much hype about gene sequencing appears to come from Silicon Valley types, who sense that Moore's law is on borrowed time and want something else to provide exponentially increatnig returns - to show that such growth is some kind of law (see "Singularity") rather than an empirically observeed temporary phenomenom.
Thing is, we just haven't seen returns from gene sequencing getting cheaper, that we have from transitor density. Sure, its getting cheaper quicker - but even now its cheap enough that a hospital can afford to sequence patients genes, but they don't. Why? Perhaps it is because most medical conditions (even the ones made more likely by genetics) aren't more easily treated if you know the pateints DNA?
The EDL don't target Abu Hamza (whose level of physical threat can be assessed based on the fact he blew off both his hands through his inept bomb making attempts) - they target law-abiding UK citizens who happen to look different, wear different clothes, or generally look at the fucking psychos in the EDL the wrong way.
In the UK this is going to be reminiscent, for a lot of people, of the English Defence League - a bunch of neo-nazi football hooligans who stage rallies against 'Islamists' in English town centres, as a shallow pretext to harass and attack people with dark skin.