I don't think a humanity that doesn't care about "useless" things like space exploration is worth saving...
To put that another way, natural selection favors species that explore, colonize, invade, and use up resources. The endangered species of the world are the koalas that will eat nothing but eucalyptus leaves and lack the self-awareness it takes to even grow more eucalyptus trees.
"We should be solving humanity's problems, not catering to the space exploration fetish that some of you have."
Had this principle been applied in earlier times, we would never have left the Olduvai Gorge. We still haven't solved some of the problems that plagued us there.
So far, Trump has not taken positions on most major issues, so his appeal is based on the idea that he is using his own money. How far he goes in the 2016 campaign depends on whether corporate influence shows up. It's the defining issue of 2016.
It's different in hotel conference facilities. Charging your organization $50,000 and up just to turn on the WiFi while your conference is in session are routine. Conferees find it pays to use their own cellular data plans to run a personal hotspot that several other conferees can share. The hotels being discussed here will run jammers to prevent this from happening.
This is the same approach Netflix is taking. Hollywood is trying to force it to geoblock movie and TV content by preventing people from using VPNs, but everyone knows that any day now, some simple workaround will be published online, and Netflix will just respond "Gee, we tried, didn't we?"
"It better not be my tax or insurance dollars that pay for these damn things."
$80K is the early-adopter price, which like the early-adopter price of anything else, will come down rapidly as manufacturers jump into the market. But whoops, it touches the human body, so as with hearing aids the FDA has jurisdiction over it. The price will stay ridiculous for generations to come.
"Can anyone explain to me why Islam is considered a religion of peace? Most of the terror in the world today is committed by Muslims"
Islam has no central authority, so over the years it has developed many branches based on minor differences in the interpretation of doctrine, much like Protestant sects. The death-cult Wahhabi interpretation that arose in the nineteenth century happened to have been rooted in a dirt poor desert tribe called the Saudis. When the Saudis became wealthy in the twentieth century, Wahhabism gained power and prestige along with them.
Imagine what a world we would live in if the Koch brothers had decided that the Westboro Baptists had the moral right to speak for all of Christianity, and poured their money into this one cult.
Because the FBI could accomplish any of the above tasks by contracting with workers freely, trying to establish a power to force workers to do these things is nothing but dick-waving.
Even flippers will generally keep the house rented for a little extra income, allowing them to at the same time keep it listed for an above-market price. If the market moved their way and the place sells, so much the better. Then there are the fix-and flip investors, who will put a few months of sweat equity into improving the marketability of the house to get their higher price.
An investor can make money by holding a bar of gold and eventually selling it for a higher price, but houses don't work that way. All houses bought as investments are lived in by someone, or they deteriorate fast and become magnets for thugs and partying teenagers. A real estate investor evaluates a property like a bondholder, by the rate of return expressed as rental minus overhead plus depreciation.
Once on a tour of the Nevada Test Site I got to handle a chunk of pure U-238. Dark gray, the size of a common brick and insanely heavy. They use it for shielding.
It's a problem of culture, not physics. Most of us feel safe flying despite knowing that about once a year, somewhere in the world, a planeload of about 200-300 people will be lost. Furthermore, those who do fear flying just keep quiet and take the train. You never see them protesting around airports or filing suits to prevent Boeing from building the next model. I used to explain this as aviation being grandfathered in before the liberal fear factory decided to start hating science, but recently we have seen them start a campaign against vaccination, which has been settled medicine for two hundred years.
Artists have a long history of colonizing places that nobody else wants, and then adding value. Locally, we have an abandoned copper mining town that artists reclaimed and made their own, with galleries and restaurants that attract locals and tourists. Displaced artists will move on to the next ghost town.
Because the problem centers around housing in a city with limited living space, let the assembled minds of Silicon Valley come up with...residential barges. Not the fake offshore pipe-dream country in the middle of the ocean kind of barge, but floating condo developments that could be built in a shipyard and then anchored to any suitable place in San Francisco Bay where they could become part of the city's housing stock without pushing anyone out of their homes.
Because barges full of techies would add to the city's tax and business base without displacing anyone from it, they would be a win-win for the San Francisco housing problem. After all, a miniature version of this solution has already been a success in Sausalito. Once the system is ironed out, condo barges would become an exportable idea to other places in the world with a housing squeeze. Social justice warriors, we're calling your bluff with this one. Either admit that you hate techies because they represent the evils of science, or forever hold your peace.
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I don't think a humanity that doesn't care about "useless" things like space exploration is worth saving...
To put that another way, natural selection favors species that explore, colonize, invade, and use up resources. The endangered species of the world are the koalas that will eat nothing but eucalyptus leaves and lack the self-awareness it takes to even grow more eucalyptus trees.
"We should be solving humanity's problems, not catering to the space exploration fetish that some of you have."
Had this principle been applied in earlier times, we would never have left the Olduvai Gorge. We still haven't solved some of the problems that plagued us there.
"Space programs should concentrate on how to begin exploiting the resources of the planets in our solar system."
Which is exactly what this orbiter will do.
It's Austrialian for being dishonest.
So far, Trump has not taken positions on most major issues, so his appeal is based on the idea that he is using his own money. How far he goes in the 2016 campaign depends on whether corporate influence shows up. It's the defining issue of 2016.
It's different in hotel conference facilities. Charging your organization $50,000 and up just to turn on the WiFi while your conference is in session are routine. Conferees find it pays to use their own cellular data plans to run a personal hotspot that several other conferees can share. The hotels being discussed here will run jammers to prevent this from happening.
The 300 includes IT layoffs in other locations nationally. The 230 was for Okla. Hertz increased the number.
In case anyone was wondering where all those Trump voters are coming from, it's from scenes like this.
This is the same approach Netflix is taking. Hollywood is trying to force it to geoblock movie and TV content by preventing people from using VPNs, but everyone knows that any day now, some simple workaround will be published online, and Netflix will just respond "Gee, we tried, didn't we?"
"I want to patent credit cards made out of aluminium, cos we all know the bugs will get loose."
This bacterium is natural, not a GMO, so it doesn't have a GMO's magical powers to thrive in every environment and gobble up everything.
"It better not be my tax or insurance dollars that pay for these damn things."
$80K is the early-adopter price, which like the early-adopter price of anything else, will come down rapidly as manufacturers jump into the market. But whoops, it touches the human body, so as with hearing aids the FDA has jurisdiction over it. The price will stay ridiculous for generations to come.
"Can anyone explain to me why Islam is considered a religion of peace? Most of the terror in the world today is committed by Muslims"
Islam has no central authority, so over the years it has developed many branches based on minor differences in the interpretation of doctrine, much like Protestant sects. The death-cult Wahhabi interpretation that arose in the nineteenth century happened to have been rooted in a dirt poor desert tribe called the Saudis. When the Saudis became wealthy in the twentieth century, Wahhabism gained power and prestige along with them.
Imagine what a world we would live in if the Koch brothers had decided that the Westboro Baptists had the moral right to speak for all of Christianity, and poured their money into this one cult.
"I don't believe the bubble will pop this time."
As soon as someone says that, it's your cue to RUNNNNN!
" somehow powder that stuff without dying from five or more times lethal dose exposure,"
The likely suspects don't care about sacrificing large numbers of their own to build something like this.
"There's a whole bunch of people who want to gut the entire bill of rights and beyond, like the 13th and 14th amendments."
Relax. Of late, his base is turning to Hillary.
Because the FBI could accomplish any of the above tasks by contracting with workers freely, trying to establish a power to force workers to do these things is nothing but dick-waving.
Think of all the cheap apartments that will become available once the bubble pops.
Even flippers will generally keep the house rented for a little extra income, allowing them to at the same time keep it listed for an above-market price. If the market moved their way and the place sells, so much the better. Then there are the fix-and flip investors, who will put a few months of sweat equity into improving the marketability of the house to get their higher price.
The next step might be a "Pact of Steel" with Trump.
Russian users just got hit with their first ransomware attack?
An investor can make money by holding a bar of gold and eventually selling it for a higher price, but houses don't work that way. All houses bought as investments are lived in by someone, or they deteriorate fast and become magnets for thugs and partying teenagers. A real estate investor evaluates a property like a bondholder, by the rate of return expressed as rental minus overhead plus depreciation.
Once on a tour of the Nevada Test Site I got to handle a chunk of pure U-238. Dark gray, the size of a common brick and insanely heavy. They use it for shielding.
It's a problem of culture, not physics. Most of us feel safe flying despite knowing that about once a year, somewhere in the world, a planeload of about 200-300 people will be lost. Furthermore, those who do fear flying just keep quiet and take the train. You never see them protesting around airports or filing suits to prevent Boeing from building the next model. I used to explain this as aviation being grandfathered in before the liberal fear factory decided to start hating science, but recently we have seen them start a campaign against vaccination, which has been settled medicine for two hundred years.
Artists have a long history of colonizing places that nobody else wants, and then adding value. Locally, we have an abandoned copper mining town that artists reclaimed and made their own, with galleries and restaurants that attract locals and tourists. Displaced artists will move on to the next ghost town.
Okay, I'll bite. Why would foreign investors buy residential properties without either living in them or renting them out?
Because the problem centers around housing in a city with limited living space, let the assembled minds of Silicon Valley come up with...residential barges. Not the fake offshore pipe-dream country in the middle of the ocean kind of barge, but floating condo developments that could be built in a shipyard and then anchored to any suitable place in San Francisco Bay where they could become part of the city's housing stock without pushing anyone out of their homes.
Because barges full of techies would add to the city's tax and business base without displacing anyone from it, they would be a win-win for the San Francisco housing problem. After all, a miniature version of this solution has already been a success in Sausalito. Once the system is ironed out, condo barges would become an exportable idea to other places in the world with a housing squeeze. Social justice warriors, we're calling your bluff with this one. Either admit that you hate techies because they represent the evils of science, or forever hold your peace.