"Denialism" on the right is a political response to the left's politicization of the climate issue. When you use those Maoist tactics to force people to believe in your particular stance on the Arrhenius hypothesis, which before that existed as a point of peaceful scientific debate for 150 years, you're going to get pushback.
We need to let science resolve this issue using the proven methodology of science, not politics. This is not another tax bill or campus speech code.
Precisely. If they send you on your way without charges, they have the power to grab any money or other valuable asset they see on you before you go. There have been cases where someone walks up to an airline counter and buys a ticket with cash, the ticket agent reports them to the airport police for suspicious possession of cash (not for potential terrorist status, because then you would be arrested), and your cash is seized. The town of Tenaha, TX, was notorious for funding its entire city budget by grabbing cash from motorists who passed by on the highway. ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... )
There is no good reason, under any circumstances, for pretrial forfeiture. If you have probable cause (the Constitutional standard for police procedure in the field) to suspect a person of the crimes you describe, arrest and charge him. If he is subsequently found guilty, THEN taking his stuff can be a part of the punishment.
The reason police love civil forfeiture is that is is used only in situations where a suspect is not arrested. An arrest triggers a series of Constitutional protections, while civil forfeiture takes place outside of this legal firewall.
This Republican (Goldwater wing) praises Holder's action, the very first time I have ever done this. Let's just hope the announcement is for is real, and as far-reaching as the news reports claim. No police power has been more abused over the years than property seizure. Civil forfeiture is the reason why conservatives have hated cops for years, before police malpractice went racial and therefore attracted the attention of liberals.
I'm hoping that in 2017 President Paul makes them give every stolen dime back, with interest. Property seizure should in every case be the result if a court judgement, not police action for thoughtcrime.
The i-5 median is wide enough for most of the distance through the San Joaquin to comfoertably accommodate two tubes of ths diameter side by side, cut-and-covered to just under the surface. In Tokyo (where I once lived) which is ten times as earthquake prone as Californis, buried concrete tubes are the most robust of all manmade structures when a Big One hits. Go ahead and rise the line to columns where it crosses the tectonic plate boundary of the San Andreas, where a really significant horizontal displacement could occur. Bear in mind that the one place a buried transit tunnel pair in the state already does this, the BART engineers were okay with crossing the San Andreas on the bottom of San Francisco Bay.
This still doesn't address my question. I fully appreciate the value of columns in crossing private land and especially when entering cities, where it could cut costs an order of magnitude. But since Musk intends to use the I-5 median on the long straight San Joaquin stretch, why will he use columns that entire distance?
And given that he will be using columns to save cost in urban areas, why not come right imto the city? Bringing it to the vicinity of Union Station would be a powerful selling point.
Which brings up a question: why does Musk insist on running Hyperloop on columns down its entire route in California, even though a lrge portion of it is on the die-straight, perfectly flat median of I-5 through the San Joaquin Valley?
IT professionals tend to be people who at voir dire admit to supporting the concept of jury nullification. Therefore, they are always excused from juries.
All of these finished years ago before NIMBYs and lawyers stifled everything. Good for China on its new mega-projects. The value returned to their economy will more than pay the debt associated with construction, contrary to the New York Times weenie's assertions.
Yes, I'm assuming a smelter at the point where the metal is extracted. Such a refinery would of course not be cheap, but could take advantage of microgravity and baseload solar energy (no weather, no night, no bird poop, no environmental 'activists') to produce high-purity metal at perhaps a lower cost than accelerating unusable mass back to LEO.
I don't see us bringing back asteroidal metals in any sort of spacecraft, especially one launched from Earth! It's going to be more like sending back refined metal shaped into an aerodynamic reentry body wrapped in something ablative, perhaps made from slag generated during refining. We need to come up with a shape that is self-righting and which can be aimed with reasonable accuracy at a large unpopulated area, such as Mojave or Mauritania, for pickup.
The deorbiting problem is one of controlling the descent, while taking something to orbit requires an inescapable amount of applied energy. Over the years we have gotten good at controlling spacecraft much faster than we have gotten good at lifting heavy weights.
The most high-quality stream of photons we have ever received from space is PRODUCED IN SPACE. And keeping it going has required periodic servicing by human crews.
We never stopped building giant pyramids. Those specific structures were votive, like the European cathedrals we built later for a different style of worship. The Romans followed the Egyptians with concrete buildings, aqueducts and a highway system. The pyramids of today are undersea tunnels and ultra-tall buildings. Expansion into space is just a continuation of the same process.
I can see most of the base metals produced in space being used "locally," such as in structure for vast solar arrays. But as the cost of mining on Earth keeps on going up as we have to go deeper and weirder (under the ocean, etc.) for supply, the temptation to drop asteroidal metals down to Earth will become irresistible. Keep two things in mind: While it is and still will be blisteringly expensive to haul goods up the gravity well from Earth and then further out of the Sun's gravity well, sending anything the other way will be much cheaper. And space mining itself is not going to be anything like thousands of Chinese peasants hacking away at the hills of Placer County. It will be virtually all robotic.
We see this all the time on Slashdot. Nerds in technology field A can at the same time be total Greenpeace MSNBC-slurping luddites in technology fields B, C and D.
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When I run Windows, it's safely in a VM inside OS X.
"Denialism" on the right is a political response to the left's politicization of the climate issue. When you use those Maoist tactics to force people to believe in your particular stance on the Arrhenius hypothesis, which before that existed as a point of peaceful scientific debate for 150 years, you're going to get pushback.
We need to let science resolve this issue using the proven methodology of science, not politics. This is not another tax bill or campus speech code.
Precisely. If they send you on your way without charges, they have the power to grab any money or other valuable asset they see on you before you go. There have been cases where someone walks up to an airline counter and buys a ticket with cash, the ticket agent reports them to the airport police for suspicious possession of cash (not for potential terrorist status, because then you would be arrested), and your cash is seized. The town of Tenaha, TX, was notorious for funding its entire city budget by grabbing cash from motorists who passed by on the highway.
( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... )
Releasing Windows bugs is Microsoft's job.
No, if that scenario happens the environmentalists will be lynched for not letting us have nuclear power soon enough to replace man's carbon output.
You arrest and charge the driver. A trial will then answer those questions of yours.
There is no good reason, under any circumstances, for pretrial forfeiture. If you have probable cause (the Constitutional standard for police procedure in the field) to suspect a person of the crimes you describe, arrest and charge him. If he is subsequently found guilty, THEN taking his stuff can be a part of the punishment.
The reason police love civil forfeiture is that is is used only in situations where a suspect is not arrested. An arrest triggers a series of Constitutional protections, while civil forfeiture takes place outside of this legal firewall.
This Republican (Goldwater wing) praises Holder's action, the very first time I have ever done this. Let's just hope the announcement is for is real, and as far-reaching as the news reports claim. No police power has been more abused over the years than property seizure. Civil forfeiture is the reason why conservatives have hated cops for years, before police malpractice went racial and therefore attracted the attention of liberals.
I'm hoping that in 2017 President Paul makes them give every stolen dime back, with interest. Property seizure should in every case be the result if a court judgement, not police action for thoughtcrime.
The i-5 median is wide enough for most of the distance through the San Joaquin to comfoertably accommodate two tubes of ths diameter side by side, cut-and-covered to just under the surface. In Tokyo (where I once lived) which is ten times as earthquake prone as Californis, buried concrete tubes are the most robust of all manmade structures when a Big One hits. Go ahead and rise the line to columns where it crosses the tectonic plate boundary of the San Andreas, where a really significant horizontal displacement could occur. Bear in mind that the one place a buried transit tunnel pair in the state already does this, the BART engineers were okay with crossing the San Andreas on the bottom of San Francisco Bay .
This still doesn't address my question. I fully appreciate the value of columns in crossing private land and especially when entering cities, where it could cut costs an order of magnitude. But since Musk intends to use the I-5 median on the long straight San Joaquin stretch, why will he use columns that entire distance?
And given that he will be using columns to save cost in urban areas, why not come right imto the city? Bringing it to the vicinity of Union Station would be a powerful selling point.
Which brings up a question: why does Musk insist on running Hyperloop on columns down its entire route in California, even though a lrge portion of it is on the die-straight, perfectly flat median of I-5 through the San Joaquin Valley?
IT professionals tend to be people who at voir dire admit to supporting the concept of jury nullification. Therefore, they are always excused from juries.
So what was your friend's next move: check the glove box for the name of the person who was at that moment driving his car?
All of these finished years ago before NIMBYs and lawyers stifled everything. Good for China on its new mega-projects. The value returned to their economy will more than pay the debt associated with construction, contrary to the New York Times weenie's assertions.
Yes, I'm assuming a smelter at the point where the metal is extracted. Such a refinery would of course not be cheap, but could take advantage of microgravity and baseload solar energy (no weather, no night, no bird poop, no environmental 'activists') to produce high-purity metal at perhaps a lower cost than accelerating unusable mass back to LEO.
I don't see us bringing back asteroidal metals in any sort of spacecraft, especially one launched from Earth! It's going to be more like sending back refined metal shaped into an aerodynamic reentry body wrapped in something ablative, perhaps made from slag generated during refining. We need to come up with a shape that is self-righting and which can be aimed with reasonable accuracy at a large unpopulated area, such as Mojave or Mauritania, for pickup.
The deorbiting problem is one of controlling the descent, while taking something to orbit requires an inescapable amount of applied energy. Over the years we have gotten good at controlling spacecraft much faster than we have gotten good at lifting heavy weights.
A philosophical argument for those cheap Western Digital external disks.
A new space race? Asians!
The most high-quality stream of photons we have ever received from space is PRODUCED IN SPACE. And keeping it going has required periodic servicing by human crews.
He means escape velocity of the Earth, Sheldon.
We never stopped building giant pyramids. Those specific structures were votive, like the European cathedrals we built later for a different style of worship. The Romans followed the Egyptians with concrete buildings, aqueducts and a highway system. The pyramids of today are undersea tunnels and ultra-tall buildings. Expansion into space is just a continuation of the same process.
1,982 pounds, slightly less than 1 tonne.
I can see most of the base metals produced in space being used "locally," such as in structure for vast solar arrays. But as the cost of mining on Earth keeps on going up as we have to go deeper and weirder (under the ocean, etc.) for supply, the temptation to drop asteroidal metals down to Earth will become irresistible. Keep two things in mind: While it is and still will be blisteringly expensive to haul goods up the gravity well from Earth and then further out of the Sun's gravity well, sending anything the other way will be much cheaper. And space mining itself is not going to be anything like thousands of Chinese peasants hacking away at the hills of Placer County. It will be virtually all robotic.
We see this all the time on Slashdot. Nerds in technology field A can at the same time be total Greenpeace MSNBC-slurping luddites in technology fields B, C and D.