One major emphasis of the TPP was expanding US copyright and patent "protection" internationally, provisions which large-corporate globalists desperately wanted. All sorts of copyright terms would be extended, generic drugs would be more expensive and harder to get. Go ahead and support Hollywood and Big Pharma now that Trump was the one to kill it. Had Clinton or Sanders been the newly elected president to kill it, we would be hearing from a different set of critics.
The TPP was that treaty that was such a Christmas tree of special corporate interests that it was kept secret until the last possible moment. The WaPo represents its big business backers in this issue, while all the major 2016 candidates opposed it.
Then why 'buy' them at all? Preventing people from repairing cars is going to be a massive incentive for people to switch over to ridesharing services, starting with urban drivers who have been used to keeping a second car. Let Ford and Uber fight over the DMCA.
The cost of terrestrial mining is going up fast as near-surface materials are exhausted, requiring us to dig deeper, and because of steadily more restrictive environmental policies. Here in Arizona, a new multibillion dollar copper deposit is about to go unexploited because it's in the territory of one endangered species.
Robots are getting better, access to space is getting cheaper, while terrestrial mining is getting more expensive. It is inevitable that at some point the lines on the graph will cross.
Robocallers know that many people block all no-ID numbers, so they now fake a local number to get through. I would like to see the Caller ID information for each phone frozen at the time of provisioning. The only reason it isn't is pressure from large companies that want to be able to assign their own Caller IDs to in-house phones. Is the current populist wave strong enough to overcome this lobby?
If we assume that Psyche itself is a purely metallic 'cannonball', we will go to chondrite and carbonaceous chondrite asteroids for the other material we would need to grow your trees and build your iPhone. Since chondrites are 75% of all asteroids, Psyche was highlighted as being a particularly good place for metals mining.
"Now if I had an asteroid in my back yard worth $10 quadrillion, do you think I'll just sell it on the open market at once?"
Yes you would, because as soon as the technology exists to exploit asteroidal materials, any rise in market price of your product will cause other asteroids to be mined. Even if Phyche is the exact best place to mine because of its status as a planetary core, there are plenty of other bodies in the same region of space that are almost as good.
Which is why you want to do the refining and as much of the manufacturing as possible in place. Then you change the orbit of your undersea tunnel tubes or solar array scaffolding as needed.
"The asteroid belt is 3 AU from the sun, so the sunlight would be 1/9th as bright as the light that reaches earth. You would need a big mirror, but in the vacuum of space, the only heat loss would be radiant."
If you can mine from asteroids, you can build a big anything you want in space.
My 20% figure was the ultimate fraction of real generation - not the cumulative theoretical nameplate values for wind and solar - that most countries will be able to claim from renewables. Greens will continue to brag about Norway and Switzerland running mostly on renewables, when all the other days of the year they will go on opposing hydro in these countries.
I include hydro in renewables, which wind and solar fans do only when they want to brag about the percentage of renewables in a given country's generation mix. The rest of the time, they oppose dams.
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I have been personally bitten by this.
Nobody expects the Spanish skin printer!
And somebody on Stormfront is sure to download the lampshade design from Thingiverse.
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One major emphasis of the TPP was expanding US copyright and patent "protection" internationally, provisions which large-corporate globalists desperately wanted. All sorts of copyright terms would be extended, generic drugs would be more expensive and harder to get. Go ahead and support Hollywood and Big Pharma now that Trump was the one to kill it. Had Clinton or Sanders been the newly elected president to kill it, we would be hearing from a different set of critics.
The TPP was that treaty that was such a Christmas tree of special corporate interests that it was kept secret until the last possible moment. The WaPo represents its big business backers in this issue, while all the major 2016 candidates opposed it.
Then why 'buy' them at all? Preventing people from repairing cars is going to be a massive incentive for people to switch over to ridesharing services, starting with urban drivers who have been used to keeping a second car. Let Ford and Uber fight over the DMCA.
Sheldon already has one. Minor planet 246247 Sheldoncooper
That's his spot, and don't forget it.
": sorry, can't pay for the drinks, meine Pflichtversicherungen, Kraftfahrzeugsteuer- und Gebühreneinzugszentralle already took all the money."
And Slashdot's crappy character encoding has made off with your umlauts.
The cost of terrestrial mining is going up fast as near-surface materials are exhausted, requiring us to dig deeper, and because of steadily more restrictive environmental policies. Here in Arizona, a new multibillion dollar copper deposit is about to go unexploited because it's in the territory of one endangered species.
Robots are getting better, access to space is getting cheaper, while terrestrial mining is getting more expensive. It is inevitable that at some point the lines on the graph will cross.
Robocallers know that many people block all no-ID numbers, so they now fake a local number to get through. I would like to see the Caller ID information for each phone frozen at the time of provisioning. The only reason it isn't is pressure from large companies that want to be able to assign their own Caller IDs to in-house phones. Is the current populist wave strong enough to overcome this lobby?
If we assume that Psyche itself is a purely metallic 'cannonball', we will go to chondrite and carbonaceous chondrite asteroids for the other material we would need to grow your trees and build your iPhone. Since chondrites are 75% of all asteroids, Psyche was highlighted as being a particularly good place for metals mining.
Do you have any idea how much mass would have to be transferred to Earth before this effect even becomes measurable on the homeopathic scale?
"Potentially as large as Mars"? According to Wikipedia: Psyche16: 200km in diameter. Mars: 6800km in diameter
The journalism curriculum needs a lot more basic science in it.
"Now if I had an asteroid in my back yard worth $10 quadrillion, do you think I'll just sell it on the open market at once?"
Yes you would, because as soon as the technology exists to exploit asteroidal materials, any rise in market price of your product will cause other asteroids to be mined. Even if Phyche is the exact best place to mine because of its status as a planetary core, there are plenty of other bodies in the same region of space that are almost as good.
"Dragging an asteroid into orbit isn't cheap..."
Which is why you want to do the refining and as much of the manufacturing as possible in place. Then you change the orbit of your undersea tunnel tubes or solar array scaffolding as needed.
"The asteroid belt is 3 AU from the sun, so the sunlight would be 1/9th as bright as the light that reaches earth. You would need a big mirror, but in the vacuum of space, the only heat loss would be radiant."
If you can mine from asteroids, you can build a big anything you want in space.
"I have never met anybody that thinks we should give unlimited amounts of money to colleges and health insurance companies."
Then you must not work for the government.
You're right about CNN. During this campaign it became an explicit party mouthpiece channel, morphing into the mirror image of Fox News.
"He probably should have ignored Meryl Streep, for example."
After all, this worked for the rest of us.
LOL. OK, I'll keep that in mind the next time a liberal walks into a bible study group and shoots 9 people in cold blood.
Style is everything. A liberal would walk into a Bible study group and write a strongly worded column for the New York Review of Books.
EU to the Swiss timekeeping sector: Folks, this is not what we meant by a grand complication!
CNN will doubtless spin this as Trump starving the vital Washington party planning industry ("See! Homophobic!").
My 20% figure was the ultimate fraction of real generation - not the cumulative theoretical nameplate values for wind and solar - that most countries will be able to claim from renewables. Greens will continue to brag about Norway and Switzerland running mostly on renewables, when all the other days of the year they will go on opposing hydro in these countries.
The preferred alternative of pure monitor plus streaming box could be marketed as 'modular TV'.
I include hydro in renewables, which wind and solar fans do only when they want to brag about the percentage of renewables in a given country's generation mix. The rest of the time, they oppose dams.