All of these comments are petty arguments over politics and race, when the real issue here is that technology has been getting developed specifically for intrusive use by the government. Where do we draw the line? Obviously, the crime this kid did brings little sympathy...
When you've already tossed "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law" overboard... Your concern about civil rights and government intrusion rings more than a little hollow.
I would also argue that it isn't with out their consent. You have a choice. Stay in jail till your trial, or wear this monitor and mostly get on with your life.
I would argue that you're an idiot who doesn't understand that the threat of jail represents coercion and duress - and that consent obtained under such situations is legally questionable (at best).
I do not know what has held up development for this kind of suit.
The same thing that holds up the development of many things - making a skinsuit has turned out to a Very Hard Task and the slender advantages aren't worth the amount of money it would take to solve the engineering issues.
My friend the airline mechanic told me that accident reports are designed to protect profits. The pilot will always be blamed.
Any suggestion of bad design, poor construction or mismanaged maintenance has dire consequences for manufacturers, airlines and others including politicians who depend upon political donations.
Your friend the airline mechanic should actually read the accident reports. I do, and I regularly see not suggestions but flat out pronouncements of "bad design, poor construction or mismanaged maintenance".
Longer answer: Gold rushes start when someone finds an easily and cheaply accessible lode of commercially valuable ore... And a bunch of other people rush in to get their piece of the action. Almost always, they're short lived and the only people who actually make money are the folks selling supplies to would-be miners.
There is no material on the Lunar surface that's easily and cheaply available - even if you use it on orbit rather than returning it to Earth.
I think that's the end game of this moon rush. It's not for tourism, or finding metals. It's to be somewhere that has 1/7th the gravity of the earth, meaning 1/7th the amount of fuel to launch. Future missions, like building a deep space manned craft to go to mars will need the moon.
"Why do we need to spend trillions of dollars to establish lunar mining? Why, to save billions of dollars on assembling things in orbit!"
Yep... I knew you'd get there eventually. Every starry-eyed space fanboy eventually does.
In a lot of cases, it's failure to market the thing correctly. Kodak had a digital camera about 20 years too early (1975) but with very low quality and high price and nothing like the camera's we're used to today, they simply saw no market and didn't continue developing it.
They saw no market because in 1975 there was no market. Digital photography had to wait on the microprocessor and memory revolutions of the 80's to become practical. Even so, it had to wait for home computers to become practically ubiquitous in the 90's for it to become widespread.
the real issue is this guy and his wife went through the steps to document the crime and get the FBI involved early on
That they just happened to be well connected is only slightly tangential.
o.O Are you serious? If the average Joe or Jane called the FBI, they'd reach a call center and a perfunctory report would be taken - and nothing would ever happen. (BTDT) That he's well connected (understatement of the year), isn't tangential at all. It's why he was able to have the FBI on the case the very next day.
The point of this bill is not to actually implement something RIGHT NOW. The point is to hold a vote which can then be used to shape future elections.
The point of the bill is allowing AOC to demonstrate to her base that she is Doing Something. It's not a plan. It's not a policy. It's not a position paper that can be used to shape planning or policy. It reads like a random collection of Facebook posts and poorly thought out comments on the same because that's largely what it is. It's vague manifesto for the Progressive Left to rally around. For all the logic and sense in it, she might as well have printed out a copy of the most popular image memes on the various topics.
The frightening part is that so many on the Left are hailing it exactly as you are - as though it were something it isn't.
If we're very lucky, it will go down in flames. But it's much more likely the House will pass it to spite the Republicans, and we'll be stuck with this albatross around our collective necks and preventing sensible policy and planning for decades.
On net, we are a fossil fuel exporter now, are we not?
No, we are not - as you could have easily found out yourself by clicking on the link I provided.
Yes, we still use the old supply lines, but this is quickly changing with domestic supplies being favored due to lower transportation costs.
Wrong again! Domestic supplies are favored where they are equivalent to or better than foreign supplies and are cheaper. Not all petroleum is the same. Again, you could easily find that out for yourself with a little research.
Apart from fracking making more oil and natural gas available for recovery, thus reducing the cost and increasing fossil fuel use, what environmental damage are you thinking it causes? (if any).
0.o Poisoning of water supplies. Subsidence and earthquakes. Etc... etc.. Again, something you could easily find out yourself.
Was this just another box that streams torrents off the net and pretends that it was legal?
Pretty much. Though more accurately they tried to pretend that providing hardware and software to do while charging a fee for the same was legal.
Did they honestly think their defense ("Honest Your Honor - the customer pushes the buttons to activate our systems, it's Not Our Fault") was gonna fly? How do people this clueless manage to walk and breathe at the same time?
Yes, we can thank fracking. For untold damage to the environment. For ever increasing damage to the world's climate. For putting billions of dollars more in the hands of the 1%.
We got dropped into IV with pretty much zero backstory for any character. We're vaguely introduced to different planets, yet there's not even a discussion of where they are. There are no maps to tell you what else is on any given planet. We literally get 1-3 scenes on a given planet, then it's off to the next one.
And nobody cared. Even today, nobody cares but the most obsessed of idiots. I mean seriously, who the fuck cares if there's a source novel or not?
I can't think of any other fantasy movies that have gotten away with forgoing any coherent description of the universe or world that the story happens in.
Back when Star Wars came out, we didn't give a flying fuck about those things. All we care about was whether or not the movie was fun to watch. (It was. Great gobs of fun.)
An orbital launch vehicle is just a more capable ICBM. As anybody with an aerospace background knows, if you can accurately place a large payload into orbit, you can more easily place a nuclear warhead on a sub-orbital launcher and hit any city on Earth.
That's what people with an aerospace background with Dunning-Kruger and no actual knowledge "knows". In reality, launch vehicles and ICBM's are very different beasts - launch vehicles can't be readied on a moment's notice and when they are ready, can't stand ready indefinitely. Both of these things are critical for an ICBM.
What happened to the big dreams of space exploration?
Those dreams came from people who either bought into the propaganda, or who were generally clueless of the economics to start with. In reality, we're doing flat out amazing things with space exploration, only we're doing 'em unmanned because that's much easier, cheaper, and sensible than sending fragile meatbags.
Nah. It's probably on the Falcon and Merlin production side of the house - the shift to reuseability means they don't need to produce as many of either.
"Do today's technological gadgets manage to live up to how you imagined tech around the year 2020 would be, or do they fall short of what you hoped/imagined might exist by today?
I'm a child of the 60's and 70's...
I think my view is best established by quoting something I wrote a couple of years ago to accompany a post I made to FB about a video from the ISS:
"I was a sci-fi nut and nerd extraordinaire back in the 70's... But if you'd told me that one day I'd be able to share super high resolution footage from a freakin' space station with friends across the globe using what amounts to a supercomputer that I carry in my pocket... I'd have thought you crazy. But here it is, just an average Tuesday and my supercomputer needs charging once I'm done posting."
So, yeah, way cooler. Most of the people who think it isn't, the basic problem is they made shit up and are now holding reality at fault for not living up to what they pulled from their asses in the first place.
I don't recall this level of fear mongering when the government was shut down for 16 days in 2013, or the 21 days between 1995 and 1996.
In 1895/96 and in 2013, both sides were bargaining (more-or-less) in good faith to find a way to end the shutdown. Here in 2018/19, there is no bargaining - one party has announced he won't settle for anything less than getting his way and is willing to extend the shutdown indefinitely in order to get it.
Like Roosevelt did, create a new CCC, or you could use community service sentences to do the work.
In order for those to work - you still need federal employees to manage the program, supervise it's execution, etc... etc... And in case you haven't noticed - the federal government is shut down.
Of course this only works if you completely gloss over that the unions had valid contracts that GM chose to enter into and then renege on as much as possible.
Of course, your statement only works if you gloss over and ignore inconvenient reality.
Sure, the contracts were legally valid... But it's not as if GM had free choice. They're legally required (by Federal and State laws) to negotiate with the union and hire it's members. They have very little (if any) ability to hire and maintain any significant number of non-union workers.
For the longest time, the law also basically allowed the union to hold the company hostage. This limited their ability to negotiate.
To believe that the unions had no effect on the company, and to handwave away those effects as you do, is to live in a hallucinogenic fantasy world.
Seriously - the "Super Blood Wolf Moon" is bullshit. Not science. Not News for Nerds. (The idea of a "Super Moon" was invented by an astrologer for $DIETY's sake!)
When an administration changes in the US NASA is frequently told to stop what they have been working on and focus on something new.
That's the belief of folks who don't actually pay any attention to NASA except the headlines. In reality, yeah it does happen, but the majority of programs continue regardless of Administration.
Surely the glaciers would be thinner at the equator?
The distribution of land was very different then - what's at the equator now wasn't at the equator then. So, first, locate the landmass that was under the equator then and check it's layers - assuming they survived.
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When you've already tossed "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law" overboard... Your concern about civil rights and government intrusion rings more than a little hollow.
I would argue that you're an idiot who doesn't understand that the threat of jail represents coercion and duress - and that consent obtained under such situations is legally questionable (at best).
The same thing that holds up the development of many things - making a skinsuit has turned out to a Very Hard Task and the slender advantages aren't worth the amount of money it would take to solve the engineering issues.
Your friend the airline mechanic should actually read the accident reports. I do, and I regularly see not suggestions but flat out pronouncements of "bad design, poor construction or mismanaged maintenance".
Short answer: nope!
Longer answer: Gold rushes start when someone finds an easily and cheaply accessible lode of commercially valuable ore... And a bunch of other people rush in to get their piece of the action. Almost always, they're short lived and the only people who actually make money are the folks selling supplies to would-be miners.
There is no material on the Lunar surface that's easily and cheaply available - even if you use it on orbit rather than returning it to Earth.
"Why do we need to spend trillions of dollars to establish lunar mining? Why, to save billions of dollars on assembling things in orbit!"
Yep... I knew you'd get there eventually. Every starry-eyed space fanboy eventually does.
They saw no market because in 1975 there was no market. Digital photography had to wait on the microprocessor and memory revolutions of the 80's to become practical. Even so, it had to wait for home computers to become practically ubiquitous in the 90's for it to become widespread.
o.O Are you serious? If the average Joe or Jane called the FBI, they'd reach a call center and a perfunctory report would be taken - and nothing would ever happen. (BTDT) That he's well connected (understatement of the year), isn't tangential at all. It's why he was able to have the FBI on the case the very next day.
The point of the bill is allowing AOC to demonstrate to her base that she is Doing Something. It's not a plan. It's not a policy. It's not a position paper that can be used to shape planning or policy. It reads like a random collection of Facebook posts and poorly thought out comments on the same because that's largely what it is. It's vague manifesto for the Progressive Left to rally around. For all the logic and sense in it, she might as well have printed out a copy of the most popular image memes on the various topics.
The frightening part is that so many on the Left are hailing it exactly as you are - as though it were something it isn't.
If we're very lucky, it will go down in flames. But it's much more likely the House will pass it to spite the Republicans, and we'll be stuck with this albatross around our collective necks and preventing sensible policy and planning for decades.
No, we are not - as you could have easily found out yourself by clicking on the link I provided.
Wrong again! Domestic supplies are favored where they are equivalent to or better than foreign supplies and are cheaper. Not all petroleum is the same. Again, you could easily find that out for yourself with a little research.
0.o Poisoning of water supplies. Subsidence and earthquakes. Etc... etc.. Again, something you could easily find out yourself.
Pretty much. Though more accurately they tried to pretend that providing hardware and software to do while charging a fee for the same was legal.
Did they honestly think their defense ("Honest Your Honor - the customer pushes the buttons to activate our systems, it's Not Our Fault") was gonna fly? How do people this clueless manage to walk and breathe at the same time?
o.0
Oh? US Goverment statistics say we're importing 10.14 million barrels a day.
Yes, we can thank fracking. For untold damage to the environment. For ever increasing damage to the world's climate. For putting billions of dollars more in the hands of the 1%.
Thank you fracking!
Since nobody claimed they were self sufficient (except in energy) your point is... what exactly?
(Seriously, how did this drivel get modded up?)
And nobody cared. Even today, nobody cares but the most obsessed of idiots. I mean seriously, who the fuck cares if there's a source novel or not?
Back when Star Wars came out, we didn't give a flying fuck about those things. All we care about was whether or not the movie was fun to watch. (It was. Great gobs of fun.)
That's what people with an aerospace background with Dunning-Kruger and no actual knowledge "knows". In reality, launch vehicles and ICBM's are very different beasts - launch vehicles can't be readied on a moment's notice and when they are ready, can't stand ready indefinitely. Both of these things are critical for an ICBM.
Those dreams came from people who either bought into the propaganda, or who were generally clueless of the economics to start with. In reality, we're doing flat out amazing things with space exploration, only we're doing 'em unmanned because that's much easier, cheaper, and sensible than sending fragile meatbags.
Nah. It's probably on the Falcon and Merlin production side of the house - the shift to reuseability means they don't need to produce as many of either.
I'm a child of the 60's and 70's...
I think my view is best established by quoting something I wrote a couple of years ago to accompany a post I made to FB about a video from the ISS:
"I was a sci-fi nut and nerd extraordinaire back in the 70's... But if you'd told me that one day I'd be able to share super high resolution footage from a freakin' space station with friends across the globe using what amounts to a supercomputer that I carry in my pocket... I'd have thought you crazy. But here it is, just an average Tuesday and my supercomputer needs charging once I'm done posting."
So, yeah, way cooler. Most of the people who think it isn't, the basic problem is they made shit up and are now holding reality at fault for not living up to what they pulled from their asses in the first place.
In 1895/96 and in 2013, both sides were bargaining (more-or-less) in good faith to find a way to end the shutdown. Here in 2018/19, there is no bargaining - one party has announced he won't settle for anything less than getting his way and is willing to extend the shutdown indefinitely in order to get it.
In order for those to work - you still need federal employees to manage the program, supervise it's execution, etc... etc... And in case you haven't noticed - the federal government is shut down.
Of course, your statement only works if you gloss over and ignore inconvenient reality.
Sure, the contracts were legally valid... But it's not as if GM had free choice. They're legally required (by Federal and State laws) to negotiate with the union and hire it's members. They have very little (if any) ability to hire and maintain any significant number of non-union workers.
For the longest time, the law also basically allowed the union to hold the company hostage. This limited their ability to negotiate.
To believe that the unions had no effect on the company, and to handwave away those effects as you do, is to live in a hallucinogenic fantasy world.
Super Blood Wolf Moon?' Now We're Just Making Shit Up
Seriously - the "Super Blood Wolf Moon" is bullshit. Not science. Not News for Nerds. (The idea of a "Super Moon" was invented by an astrologer for $DIETY's sake!)
A) That generalizing from your singular experience is generally a bad idea.
B) Not all college students are good planners, nor are all college students poor.
That's the belief of folks who don't actually pay any attention to NASA except the headlines. In reality, yeah it does happen, but the majority of programs continue regardless of Administration.
The distribution of land was very different then - what's at the equator now wasn't at the equator then. So, first, locate the landmass that was under the equator then and check it's layers - assuming they survived.