If I get cucumber flavored coke from Japan and sell it in Europe, the bottles are still going to say "CUCUMBER FLAVORED" on them. It's clearly not regular Coke. People who don't like the flavor will have a disincentive to buy it. Nobody's getting fooled.
The average consumer needs protection from dangerous things: poisons, sharp pokey things, and electric shock. Consumers also need protection from getting dicked over by megacorporations. What consumers *don't* need is "protection" from a harmless yucky flavor. Sheesh!
Why all the effort to fight homebrew, instead of the rampant online cheating? They don't need to lock the platform down, just some freakin' checksums would be a step in the right direction.
Does this mean that ALL tactile controls will soon be verboten in New Zealand? Think of it: no more buttons and knobs for the radio and the air conditioning. Holy crap... if this slippery slope keeps up they're going to ban steering wheels and foot pedals!
I for one commend New Zealand for taking such a bold step towards telepathic drive-by-wire vehicles.
Nail it with what? Glyphosate (Roundup) will get the job done, but it takes out _everything_ and is toxic to fish and amphibians.
If cogongrass starts choking out a crop in the middle of growing season, you can't really nuke it. Likewise, infestations in wetlands or near ponds would be tricky.
Pound for pound, goats also produce milk more efficiently than dairy cattle. That reminds me, I've got some goat ribs in the freezer I've been meaning to cook up.
But this study showed that dead salmon can show just as much brain activity as Terri Schaivo. I don't mean to disparage what she went through or anything. Unconscious people still have active brains, too. This study just shows that a "dead" organism with a brain that hasn't yet decomposed can still support some processes. I bet if you dry out the organism, or heat it or freeze it, or inject foreign chemicals, the dead fish brain won't respond the same way.....and OF COURSE they killed a human being. When people say "she's a vegetable" that doesn't literally mean she is undergoing photosynthesis and putting down roots.
Wherever humans end up going outside LEO, we're going to need good radiation shielding. The ISS is protected by Earth's magnetic field. Moon and the Lagrange points aren't.
There's also the problem of bone loss. ISS was originally supposed to have CAM, the centrifuge accomodation module. This would have been a dedicated lab that could spin to simulate lunar or martian gravity. Current medical science can only guess as to how 1/6th or 1/3rd gravity will affect bone mass. If it's as bad as zero gravity, human spaceflight is going to be even more challenging, but bottom line is we just don't know yet. With CAM on ISS, we could have at least collected some data points.
It's like a software project where very 4 years the boss tells you to halt all your work, archive it, and start all over on a different project.
Augustine is telling the very people who allocate our resources that NASA is pursuing goals that cannot be met with said resources. Well, if the government gives NASA orders to do something and then fails to back it up with realistic funding, whose fault is that? We're talking a paltry 18 billion dollars. If you think that's a lot, look up how much the War on Terror costs, or how much has been doled out in economic bailout money.
Actual NASA guy here. Back when I was a starving grad student, I contracted a bit with a big oil company. News had just come out about the hydrocarbons on Titan, and my boss asked me if those crazy astronomers were serious. I looked into and confirmed that indeed, those planetary geologists (ahem) had evidence of BIGNUM barrels of cryogenic liquid petroleum gas just laying around on the surface of Titan.
I actually did some back of the envelope estimates for what it would cost to bring some of it back to Earth and burn it here in our atmosphere. It was too long term, and several orders of magnitude bigger than even the most ambitious terrestrial oil production project. Not to mention what burning all of Titan's carbon would do to Earth's atmosphere, if it did ever happen.
I'm glad they didn't go for it, 'cause hydrocarbon fuels aren't exactly the awesomest reason to go to Saturn's moons. Some day though, something will come up that DOES pass the cost/benefit test, and there's going to be new wave of pioneers leaving Earth to earn their fortunes.
In the mean time, I'm working to make Ares I as safe as possible with smart sensors and abort logic. If it gets canned, we'll have to do the same thing with the next rocket... and the one after that, too, and....
No way we'd purchase foreign engines, though they are very nice ones.
Instead, I'd restart the RS-84 program and use that for a first stage Ares I without thrust oscillations. For heavy lift, simply cluster a number of Ares I common cores, optionally recovering or even flying back the strap-ons for reuse.
Part of the problem is that every new president to come along insists on throwing out the last 4-8 years' worth of work and starting over. NASA can't see any projects through without orders from the commander-in-chief and budget from congress.
So remember that whatever Augustine says, it's merely a recommendation. The death of Constellation, if it comes, will be at the hands of Obama and Congress.
I would trust composites. Sure it will take some engineering to make it work, but you'd have to engineer metallic structures, too. FWIW, I develop advanced sensors and structural health systems at MSFC.
So does that mean they have non-criminal acts in the UK which are also illegal? 'Course in the Queen's English they'd "criminalise" it, but y'all know what I mean.
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The Coca Cola analogy doesn't work.
If I get cucumber flavored coke from Japan and sell it in Europe, the bottles are still going to say "CUCUMBER FLAVORED" on them. It's clearly not regular Coke. People who don't like the flavor will have a disincentive to buy it. Nobody's getting fooled.
The average consumer needs protection from dangerous things: poisons, sharp pokey things, and electric shock. Consumers also need protection from getting dicked over by megacorporations. What consumers *don't* need is "protection" from a harmless yucky flavor. Sheesh!
THIS.
Why all the effort to fight homebrew, instead of the rampant online cheating? They don't need to lock the platform down, just some freakin' checksums would be a step in the right direction.
How about some anti-cheat measures? Playing online Mario Kart is still fun, but it is less fun when there's some griefer with infinite red shells.
Does this mean that ALL tactile controls will soon be verboten in New Zealand? Think of it: no more buttons and knobs for the radio and the air conditioning. Holy crap... if this slippery slope keeps up they're going to ban steering wheels and foot pedals!
I for one commend New Zealand for taking such a bold step towards telepathic drive-by-wire vehicles.
"Really says to me that any speed limit over 40 mph on any single-carriage way road is just insane."
Typical nanny-state goodthink from the UK, amirite?
Well I'm certainly keeping an eye out for cogongrass now. My home is right on the edge between an infested county and a clear one.
The kudzu and fire ants are bad enough! What's next, Chinese needle snakes?
If I had mod points I'd give this whole thread +1, Reductio ad Simpsonum
Nail it with what? Glyphosate (Roundup) will get the job done, but it takes out _everything_ and is toxic to fish and amphibians.
If cogongrass starts choking out a crop in the middle of growing season, you can't really nuke it. Likewise, infestations in wetlands or near ponds would be tricky.
Pound for pound, goats also produce milk more efficiently than dairy cattle. That reminds me, I've got some goat ribs in the freezer I've been meaning to cook up.
Ahh, good old Japanese porn. I can always tell if it's Japanese by the pixels (and from having seen quite a few in my day).
i stand corrected, kind AC.
But this study showed that dead salmon can show just as much brain activity as Terri Schaivo. I don't mean to disparage what she went through or anything. Unconscious people still have active brains, too. This study just shows that a "dead" organism with a brain that hasn't yet decomposed can still support some processes. I bet if you dry out the organism, or heat it or freeze it, or inject foreign chemicals, the dead fish brain won't respond the same way. ....and OF COURSE they killed a human being. When people say "she's a vegetable" that doesn't literally mean she is undergoing photosynthesis and putting down roots.
"It's OK to eat fish cause they don't have any feelings."
-- K. Cobain
Wherever humans end up going outside LEO, we're going to need good radiation shielding. The ISS is protected by Earth's magnetic field. Moon and the Lagrange points aren't.
There's also the problem of bone loss. ISS was originally supposed to have CAM, the centrifuge accomodation module. This would have been a dedicated lab that could spin to simulate lunar or martian gravity. Current medical science can only guess as to how 1/6th or 1/3rd gravity will affect bone mass. If it's as bad as zero gravity, human spaceflight is going to be even more challenging, but bottom line is we just don't know yet. With CAM on ISS, we could have at least collected some data points.
It's like a software project where very 4 years the boss tells you to halt all your work, archive it, and start all over on a different project.
Augustine is telling the very people who allocate our resources that NASA is pursuing goals that cannot be met with said resources. Well, if the government gives NASA orders to do something and then fails to back it up with realistic funding, whose fault is that? We're talking a paltry 18 billion dollars. If you think that's a lot, look up how much the War on Terror costs, or how much has been doled out in economic bailout money.
Actual NASA guy here. Back when I was a starving grad student, I contracted a bit with a big oil company. News had just come out about the hydrocarbons on Titan, and my boss asked me if those crazy astronomers were serious. I looked into and confirmed that indeed, those planetary geologists (ahem) had evidence of BIGNUM barrels of cryogenic liquid petroleum gas just laying around on the surface of Titan.
I actually did some back of the envelope estimates for what it would cost to bring some of it back to Earth and burn it here in our atmosphere. It was too long term, and several orders of magnitude bigger than even the most ambitious terrestrial oil production project. Not to mention what burning all of Titan's carbon would do to Earth's atmosphere, if it did ever happen.
I'm glad they didn't go for it, 'cause hydrocarbon fuels aren't exactly the awesomest reason to go to Saturn's moons. Some day though, something will come up that DOES pass the cost/benefit test, and there's going to be new wave of pioneers leaving Earth to earn their fortunes.
In the mean time, I'm working to make Ares I as safe as possible with smart sensors and abort logic. If it gets canned, we'll have to do the same thing with the next rocket... and the one after that, too, and....
NASA is not LockMart. Besides, we have the RS-84.
No way we'd purchase foreign engines, though they are very nice ones.
Instead, I'd restart the RS-84 program and use that for a first stage Ares I without thrust oscillations. For heavy lift, simply cluster a number of Ares I common cores, optionally recovering or even flying back the strap-ons for reuse.
That would have been the RS-84. Killed in 2004 by Bush and friends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_Initiative
Part of the problem is that every new president to come along insists on throwing out the last 4-8 years' worth of work and starting over. NASA can't see any projects through without orders from the commander-in-chief and budget from congress.
So remember that whatever Augustine says, it's merely a recommendation. The death of Constellation, if it comes, will be at the hands of Obama and Congress.
...he probably wants to use cloud computing to fight against DRM. Or maybe as a repository for steampunk, hobos, and videos of girls playing ukuleles.
If those annoying advertisements are "your business", my filtering them guarantees that you'll never get business from me.
Maybe you should change your approach. Or go bankrupt. Hey, it's your business.
Hey it's my web browser. What I filter with it is my own business. For that matter, my choice of user-agent string is my business as well.
Stick to spamming IE users and illiterates. It's more profitable and less annoying to those who might threaten your existence.
In my country there is problem, and that problem is transport. It take very very long, because Kazakhstan is big.
I would trust composites. Sure it will take some engineering to make it work, but you'd have to engineer metallic structures, too. FWIW, I develop advanced sensors and structural health systems at MSFC.
So does that mean they have non-criminal acts in the UK which are also illegal? 'Course in the Queen's English they'd "criminalise" it, but y'all know what I mean.