Although the atmosphere of Venus above a floating station would be a much better radiation shield than the Martian atmosphere, that missing 5m of water equivalent would still present a problem, and using regolith as shielding would not be an option. Neither would bringing the 5m of water, or its shielding equivalent in something denser, along be viable, because you would then have a lead balloon. We would have to do something like generate a strong, local magnetic field.
Look at the energy plank in Sanders' platform. No natural gas, no nukes. Even the Commies supported industrial civilization, not going back to the Stone Age.
Thiel represents a significant Republican demographic who would have in a saner political year supported Rand Paul. When the party hierarchy decided to shut out Paul before letting the people decide, Thiel and company say, "Let Trump burn the system down."
These are nations whose warmaking power, conventional or terroristic, is purely dependent on their oil revenues. Take away most of that revenue, and they have to spend what they have left on scrambling for basic supplies, rather than anything resembling WW III.
Yessiree, here's an example of one of those prestigious Elsevier journals: http://www.journals.elsevier.c... Small wonder that scientists line up to pay this buggy-whip publisher $3000 per research paper for the privilege of having their copyright stolen.
"How about just pricing fossil fuels to take into account extant and future climate change"
One approach could be to tariff imported oil to keep the gasoline price in the US at, say, $3.50/gal. If a Republican is elected this year, we can include Canadian production in the 'domestic' side of the tariff area. This will cause several good things to happen at once, videlicet:
1. The Ay-rab world is screwed and will go bankrupt. Good riddance as funding for international terrorism disappears. 2. Domestic oil production is encouraged, and employment in the oil patch maintained. 3. A somewhat higher but stable gas price encourages electric vehicle proliferation. 4. The revenue can be earmarked for carbon-free energy independence infrastructure. Our Navajo would no longer have to sell most of their uranium to France. 5. If we can replace enough domestic oil usage with carbon-free energy, we might even export domestic oil. Everybody wins except for OPEC.
Zug is a small canton noted for its techie-libertarian politics, low taxes (almost all taxation in Switzerland is at the local level) and willingness to try innovative economic ideas. Companies like to register there. BItcoin would fit right in to this political environment, presuming that agencies accepting it can deal with the volatility of BTC.
If the country changes its course from being a financial haven to being a data haven, Zug is where the movement will start.
We're not talking about a candy bar from the 7-11 here, but the personal data and financial information of large batches of people. Strangle them with their own intestines.
Ride-sharing companies should have no objection to safety and environmental regulations, so long as they appply to all drivers for hire in the area. The line on the asphalt that Uber/Lyft must draw is any regulation restricting the number of cabs.
If a prosecutor can prove that money is being laundered in support of some specific crime, then by all means file charges for that crime. But if he has no idea whether a crime has been committed, charge with "handling money that I think is suspicious."
This is the transmission line that for years was supposed to bring power from solar and wind projects in desert Imperial County to San Diego. Like every other project that might do some good, the flat-earth lobby has fought it every step of the way, imposing court delays to make it as ludicrously overpriced as everything else in California. That is, after all, their whole strategy. Look this game plan up under "California high speed rail."
"I think these guys are smart enough to avoid helping out drug addicts and other undesirable trash."
If only you were smart enough to know that on a darknet, you have no idea who you might be helping out. Those encrypted bits could be an open-source research paper, or they may be child porn.
"But why does Slashdot feel that criminal activity is justified and publish this blatant attack on IP rights?"
Because IP rights properly belong to the creators of work. Elsevier creates nothing, which is why we have no respect whatever for the IP it stole from researchers. That it got access to the American court system to sue people in Azerbaijan is why all my votes are going to outsider candidates this year.
And yet Elsevier has no respect itself for intellectual property. It steals the IP of authors and makes them pay for it. A boycot by universities is the only cure.
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Although the atmosphere of Venus above a floating station would be a much better radiation shield than the Martian atmosphere, that missing 5m of water equivalent would still present a problem, and using regolith as shielding would not be an option. Neither would bringing the 5m of water, or its shielding equivalent in something denser, along be viable, because you would then have a lead balloon. We would have to do something like generate a strong, local magnetic field.
Anyway, kudos for the detailed analysis.
We are all criminals in someone's eyes.
More specifically, we can all be made to look like criminals in the eyes of a sufficiently overzealous prosecutor.
Look at the energy plank in Sanders' platform. No natural gas, no nukes. Even the Commies supported industrial civilization, not going back to the Stone Age.
Thiel represents a significant Republican demographic who would have in a saner political year supported Rand Paul. When the party hierarchy decided to shut out Paul before letting the people decide, Thiel and company say, "Let Trump burn the system down."
It's not faaaaaaaaaair!
We need a safe space for kids who can't spell. Other than the comment threads at Salon.com, that is.
These are nations whose warmaking power, conventional or terroristic, is purely dependent on their oil revenues. Take away most of that revenue, and they have to spend what they have left on scrambling for basic supplies, rather than anything resembling WW III.
"The magazine is owned and run by Elsevier B.V."
Yessiree, here's an example of one of those prestigious Elsevier journals: http://www.journals.elsevier.c...
Small wonder that scientists line up to pay this buggy-whip publisher $3000 per research paper for the privilege of having their copyright stolen.
"How about just pricing fossil fuels to take into account extant and future climate change"
One approach could be to tariff imported oil to keep the gasoline price in the US at, say, $3.50/gal. If a Republican is elected this year, we can include Canadian production in the 'domestic' side of the tariff area. This will cause several good things to happen at once, videlicet:
1. The Ay-rab world is screwed and will go bankrupt. Good riddance as funding for international terrorism disappears.
2. Domestic oil production is encouraged, and employment in the oil patch maintained.
3. A somewhat higher but stable gas price encourages electric vehicle proliferation.
4. The revenue can be earmarked for carbon-free energy independence infrastructure. Our Navajo would no longer have to sell most of their uranium to France.
5. If we can replace enough domestic oil usage with carbon-free energy, we might even export domestic oil. Everybody wins except for OPEC.
This is why populist Republicans have become increasingly unstuck from the Bible-thumpers.
This is just journalism majors being journalism majors. It's why we can't get decent coverage of science stories.
Soon they'll be banning anything written by a man!
Hey, that would be discriminatory against feminists with body dysmorphia who have been converted into men!
Same as the ancient problem of aiming a gun, but without windage and air resistance.
Zug is a small canton noted for its techie-libertarian politics, low taxes (almost all taxation in Switzerland is at the local level) and willingness to try innovative economic ideas. Companies like to register there. BItcoin would fit right in to this political environment, presuming that agencies accepting it can deal with the volatility of BTC.
If the country changes its course from being a financial haven to being a data haven, Zug is where the movement will start.
We're not talking about a candy bar from the 7-11 here, but the personal data and financial information of large batches of people. Strangle them with their own intestines.
"US prisons are a systematic violation of basic human rights. They are barbaric, full of horrific atrocities,"
That's because of the low quality of people we have in them.
Ride-sharing companies should have no objection to safety and environmental regulations, so long as they appply to all drivers for hire in the area. The line on the asphalt that Uber/Lyft must draw is any regulation restricting the number of cabs.
If a prosecutor can prove that money is being laundered in support of some specific crime, then by all means file charges for that crime. But if he has no idea whether a crime has been committed, charge with "handling money that I think is suspicious."
So is this Stasi stuff going to get better under Trump, or worse?
No lines here meanwhile, because we can't afford most of our own technology.
This is the transmission line that for years was supposed to bring power from solar and wind projects in desert Imperial County to San Diego. Like every other project that might do some good, the flat-earth lobby has fought it every step of the way, imposing court delays to make it as ludicrously overpriced as everything else in California. That is, after all, their whole strategy. Look this game plan up under "California high speed rail."
"I poop now."
Why not do it right here in this thread like the other people?
"I think these guys are smart enough to avoid helping out drug addicts and other undesirable trash."
If only you were smart enough to know that on a darknet, you have no idea who you might be helping out. Those encrypted bits could be an open-source research paper, or they may be child porn.
"But why does Slashdot feel that criminal activity is justified and publish this blatant attack on IP rights?"
Because IP rights properly belong to the creators of work. Elsevier creates nothing, which is why we have no respect whatever for the IP it stole from researchers. That it got access to the American court system to sue people in Azerbaijan is why all my votes are going to outsider candidates this year.
And yet Elsevier has no respect itself for intellectual property. It steals the IP of authors and makes them pay for it. A boycot by universities is the only cure.
Probably one of those stream-only productions.