I think when your ultimate goal is to slaughter and consume.. an animal stops being a "pet".
Indeed if you are raising animals for food it's advised that you don't treat them as pets...
I mean.. it's an interesting report.. but I don't think anything realistic has been proposed here. They may as well have proposed we treat our cars as pets..
Some people already do.
Why even bother looking at this stuff.. there's all kinds of other areas that could realistically be addressed. For example phone books! The amount of resources spent printing and distributing something that 70% of the time probably ends up in a land fill untouched is astounding. I saw some documentary where they were taking core samples at junk yards.. there were literally layers of phone books.. they used it to date the segments..
Regular books and newspapers have also been found in old landfills and remain readable after nearly a century. Paper is far better recycled. If you want to compost it then it needs to be cut into small bits (e.g. with a cross cut shredder or even a woodchipper) and well mixed with with other organic materials.
The Earth would have lots of craters too, if it wasn't volcanically active. Your sense of geological perspective is broken.
Dosn't Venus have plenty of impact craters? Even though it has a dense atmosphere. Liquid water on Earth (even living organisms) also erase impact craters...
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Seriously though - I wonder what would be the best kind of sensors/instrumentation to map underground caves and tunnels on the Moon from orbit? Isn't there supposed to be something called "cavern sensing radar" or "ground penetrating radar" that can do this stuff?
Such radar typically used on Earth tends to be in contact with the ground. So you'd need to land a vehicle. Also IIRC it is difficult to get a stable Lunar orbit, due to both the Earth being nearby and the Moon not being of uniform density.
So if we pump a bunch of air into it and wear wings can we fly around?
IIRC quite a few authors have suggested that this could be an olympic sport should there be large scale Lunar settlement.
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Sorry I can't find a better link, but you don't really need a lava tube for settlement, it just makes it cheaper and easier. You're still going to need an inflatable habitat
The obvious problem with an inflatable habitat is that anything the size of dust is going to make at least one hole in it. Patching is likely to take up quite a bit of someone's time.
or similar (honestly, what else makes sense?) to sit in the tube.
Install two bulkheads some distance apart and pressurize the space in between to 75 kPa.
Events of that type are pretty rare and hell, if something can smash through solid rock it'll probably smash through the ceiling of your surface moonbase too.
A lot of things which are going to be an issue with a surface structure are not going to make it through several metres of solid rock though. Also using a cave may well mean that you can get your base to a state where you don't need its builders to be wearing moonsuits in less time. Even a better design than the A7L is likely to be heavy and restrict movement.
Some people are never going to be satisfied - they say "oh you can't be married, that's against our holy sacrament" so Washington state says "OK, let's leave marriage (and religion) out of this and create a CIVIL recognition of partnerships" and these people still can't leave it be.
The bigger issue is that without a constitutional ammendment "Washington" has has no business recognising anyone's "holy sacrament" in the first place.
Evidently these people's grasp on heterosexuality is quite frail, and even the slightest suggestion or perhaps a Kylie Minogue song is going to make them switch to the other team.
Signing a petition does not mean that you agree with the views of the petitioner,
Unless the petition specifically states this.
it just means that you agree that the issue should be brought to a wider vote to decide the matter. I've known plenty of people who would sign pretty much any referendum or initiative in the states that have that process.
A person signing such a petition need have no strong views either way about the issue in question. Just that they want it drawn to the attention of people who do. Similarly someone may sign multiple petitions to nominate someone as a candidate on the basis of "the more the better".
So what was the point of the web site then? Would you hold the same position if an evangelical Christian organization published a web site containing the names of people who signed a pro-gay marriage petition, or would that somehow be different?
A petition to have something put to a public vote dosn't tell you have many of the petitioners are pro, how many are anti or how many are undecided but think the issue should be decided by some form of public vote.
And I haven't even asked how you are going insert back into earth orbit. Atmospheric re-entry from the Moon was very tricky. And we were only falling from 1/4 million miles.
The only part of Apollo which came back to Earth was the command module. You only need to get the ship back into Earth orbit. Then you either have parts of the crew accomodation serve as suitable capsules or you send up some Soyuz-TMA craft to dock.
Oh, come on. Microsoft released a patch to their software that extended support to an additional browser.
Something which they had no business doing in the first place. If they wanted to offer a Firefox/Thunderbird/etc add-on they should have used the same method as everyone else.
If you don't like it, don't install the.NET framework.
The.NET framework is required for certain applications to run. They'd still run without.NET doing anything with any web browser.
The.NET installer/updater that forces this addon into Firefox is running as administrator or even system rights. How should a non-running app protect itself against a code injection in their home directory done by a process with system privileges?
This is more something for anti-malware systems to be dealing with. Yet the likes of Symantec and McAfee appear to have been beaten by Mozilla.
Either overtly, or in practice, this demand for private surveillance powers would cover them putting spyware on my machine; but not my putting spyware on their machines....
Even if you've caught them infringing your copyright
The registry also suffers from the common problem of all single-use binary formats: you can't examine or manage it with existing tools. For example, how would you go about comparing two copies of the registry for incremental changes (without first exporting both to plain text)?
There are tools to do this. But it isn't so easy if you are only interested in changes related to application X...
The mass of plain-text configuration files used on Unix systems may have some flaws--they could certainly be made more uniform--but at least you have a wide variety of general-purpose tools available to help manage the complexity.
Having lots of different files also means that it is considerably harder to break the whole OS by altering things.
With the registry you have... RegEdit. That's fine for reading and writing specific keys, but not much else.
Must be one of the few "editors" which lacks a find/replace feature:)
Too many movies makes you think strange things. For instance most people see the CIA as a bunch of bad asses with cell phone watches that project holograms of your dossier into thin air while sending you messages via ESP. Real life: rotary phones, paperwork in triplicate, and a gigantic fucking bureaucracy that thinks pagers are still useful.
How exactly does that stop them being "bad asses"? They didn't need any of that movie technology to cause all sorts of problems the world still has to live with.
Regedit does have command line arguments. But Microsoft seemingly has not learned that conventions help with this kind of thing. Running regedit.exe/help on this Windows XP system doesn't do anything (it doesn't start regedit, unlike other switches/arguments) and it doesn't give any help either.
They apparently like the idea of the registry being treated with mystique:)
Well they don't really need to send a blinding light at the camera.. they can just project (near-)IR light from the projection booth,
In which case it can be a quite high intensity since people won't be able to see it!
make it vary randomly in intensity, and all but the most well-equipped cameras (with a *very* decent IR blocker that can at least block the frequency used by the theatre; no, the standard IR blocker does not cover this, as pointing a TV remote at your camera will show) record utter junk.
Some cameras can also "see" near UV too. Anyway plenty of security systems make use of the ability for cameras to use "invisible light".
But in the end, it still only takes 1 person - a projectionist not adhering to policy, a print shop that has a mysterious 'leak', a review board member wanting some extra crash - to get a transfer to a format that distribution groups can use, and the whole world will have access in no time.
There's also the issue of it being very difficult to secure things once you start pressing DVDs.
I think the idea is they put the laptop on the floor and have a decent camera clipped to their hat or something.
With most "decent cameras" there's little point having a laptop. Since the recording mechanism comes with the camera anyway. Also this only makes sense where this is amongst the first places in the world showing the movie. If it's already been shown weeks/months before in some other place then bootlegs are likely to come from there.
The idiot lawyers then tried to prevent a newspaper from reprinting those statements, bringing into doubt the entire system of freedom of speech and press in the UK.
In the process ignoring the well known that that trying to ban something is a very good way to ensure that lots of people know about it. As well as drawing attention to whoever wanted the information banned. Right now probably the last thing Trafigura wants would be more negative publicity. They've not so much "shot themselves in the foot" as "emptied a whole magazine into each foot":)
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I think when your ultimate goal is to slaughter and consume .. an animal stops being a "pet".
Indeed if you are raising animals for food it's advised that you don't treat them as pets...
I mean.. it's an interesting report.. but I don't think anything realistic has been proposed here. They may as well have proposed we treat our cars as pets..
Some people already do.
Why even bother looking at this stuff.. there's all kinds of other areas that could realistically be addressed. For example phone books! The amount of resources spent printing and distributing something that 70% of the time probably ends up in a land fill untouched is astounding. I saw some documentary where they were taking core samples at junk yards.. there were literally layers of phone books.. they used it to date the segments..
Regular books and newspapers have also been found in old landfills and remain readable after nearly a century. Paper is far better recycled. If you want to compost it then it needs to be cut into small bits (e.g. with a cross cut shredder or even a woodchipper) and well mixed with with other organic materials.
The Earth would have lots of craters too, if it wasn't volcanically active. Your sense of geological perspective is broken.
Dosn't Venus have plenty of impact craters? Even though it has a dense atmosphere. Liquid water on Earth (even living organisms) also erase impact craters...
Seriously though - I wonder what would be the best kind of sensors/instrumentation to map underground caves and tunnels on the Moon from orbit? Isn't there supposed to be something called "cavern sensing radar" or "ground penetrating radar" that can do this stuff?
Such radar typically used on Earth tends to be in contact with the ground. So you'd need to land a vehicle. Also IIRC it is difficult to get a stable Lunar orbit, due to both the Earth being nearby and the Moon not being of uniform density.
So they finally found out where Osama has been hiding....
:)
A cave on the moon!!! That bastard probably runs around calling it a "Death Star"
Well that's one way to get a bigger budget for manned space exploration
So if we pump a bunch of air into it and wear wings can we fly around?
IIRC quite a few authors have suggested that this could be an olympic sport should there be large scale Lunar settlement.
Sorry I can't find a better link, but you don't really need a lava tube for settlement, it just makes it cheaper and easier. You're still going to need an inflatable habitat
The obvious problem with an inflatable habitat is that anything the size of dust is going to make at least one hole in it. Patching is likely to take up quite a bit of someone's time.
or similar (honestly, what else makes sense?) to sit in the tube.
Install two bulkheads some distance apart and pressurize the space in between to 75 kPa.
Events of that type are pretty rare and hell, if something can smash through solid rock it'll probably smash through the ceiling of your surface moonbase too.
A lot of things which are going to be an issue with a surface structure are not going to make it through several metres of solid rock though. Also using a cave may well mean that you can get your base to a state where you don't need its builders to be wearing moonsuits in less time. Even a better design than the A7L is likely to be heavy and restrict movement.
When I was in the USAF they called the electricians "spark chasers".
Another common term is "sparkys/sparkies".
Some people are never going to be satisfied - they say "oh you can't be married, that's against our holy sacrament" so Washington state says "OK, let's leave marriage (and religion) out of this and create a CIVIL recognition of partnerships" and these people still can't leave it be.
The bigger issue is that without a constitutional ammendment "Washington" has has no business recognising anyone's "holy sacrament" in the first place.
Evidently these people's grasp on heterosexuality is quite frail, and even the slightest suggestion or perhaps a Kylie Minogue song is going to make them switch to the other team.
Maybe they are a bunch of insecure bisexuals.
Name one intellectually honest reason for someone to oppose same-sex marriage that isn't rooted in hate.
Someone who is against state involvement in people's relationships might well oppose all marriage.
Signing a petition does not mean that you agree with the views of the petitioner,
Unless the petition specifically states this.
it just means that you agree that the issue should be brought to a wider vote to decide the matter. I've known plenty of people who would sign pretty much any referendum or initiative in the states that have that process.
A person signing such a petition need have no strong views either way about the issue in question. Just that they want it drawn to the attention of people who do.
Similarly someone may sign multiple petitions to nominate someone as a candidate on the basis of "the more the better".
So what was the point of the web site then? Would you hold the same position if an evangelical Christian organization published a web site containing the names of people who signed a pro-gay marriage petition, or would that somehow be different?
A petition to have something put to a public vote dosn't tell you have many of the petitioners are pro, how many are anti or how many are undecided but think the issue should be decided by some form of public vote.
And I haven't even asked how you are going insert back into earth orbit. Atmospheric re-entry from the Moon was very tricky. And we were only falling from 1/4 million miles.
The only part of Apollo which came back to Earth was the command module. You only need to get the ship back into Earth orbit. Then you either have parts of the crew accomodation serve as suitable capsules or you send up some Soyuz-TMA craft to dock.
Oh, come on. Microsoft released a patch to their software that extended support to an additional browser.
.NET framework.
.NET framework is required for certain applications to run. They'd still run without .NET doing anything with any web browser.
Something which they had no business doing in the first place. If they wanted to offer a Firefox/Thunderbird/etc add-on they should have used the same method as everyone else.
If you don't like it, don't install the
The
If the add-on was made available and advertised to me, I would never have sought it out.
Is this add-on even available as a regular xpi file?
The .NET installer/updater that forces this addon into Firefox is running as administrator or even system rights. How should a non-running app protect itself against a code injection in their home directory done by a process with system privileges?
This is more something for anti-malware systems to be dealing with. Yet the likes of Symantec and McAfee appear to have been beaten by Mozilla.
Either overtly, or in practice, this demand for private surveillance powers would cover them putting spyware on my machine; but not my putting spyware on their machines....
Even if you've caught them infringing your copyright
The registry also suffers from the common problem of all single-use binary formats: you can't examine or manage it with existing tools. For example, how would you go about comparing two copies of the registry for incremental changes (without first exporting both to plain text)?
... RegEdit. That's fine for reading and writing specific keys, but not much else.
:)
There are tools to do this. But it isn't so easy if you are only interested in changes related to application X...
The mass of plain-text configuration files used on Unix systems may have some flaws--they could certainly be made more uniform--but at least you have a wide variety of general-purpose tools available to help manage the complexity.
Having lots of different files also means that it is considerably harder to break the whole OS by altering things.
With the registry you have
Must be one of the few "editors" which lacks a find/replace feature
Too many movies makes you think strange things. For instance most people see the CIA as a bunch of bad asses with cell phone watches that project holograms of your dossier into thin air while sending you messages via ESP. Real life: rotary phones, paperwork in triplicate, and a gigantic fucking bureaucracy that thinks pagers are still useful.
How exactly does that stop them being "bad asses"? They didn't need any of that movie technology to cause all sorts of problems the world still has to live with.
Handy - but for me the Java plugin wasn't there.
Not a problem though - I don't mind Java. It's certainly more secure than anything dotNet.
The annoyance with Java is the installation of "Quickstarter" bits
Regedit does have command line arguments. But Microsoft seemingly has not learned that conventions help with this kind of thing. Running regedit.exe /help on this Windows XP system doesn't do anything (it doesn't start regedit, unlike other switches/arguments) and it doesn't give any help either.
:)
They apparently like the idea of the registry being treated with mystique
Well they don't really need to send a blinding light at the camera.. they can just project (near-)IR light from the projection booth,
In which case it can be a quite high intensity since people won't be able to see it!
make it vary randomly in intensity, and all but the most well-equipped cameras (with a *very* decent IR blocker that can at least block the frequency used by the theatre; no, the standard IR blocker does not cover this, as pointing a TV remote at your camera will show) record utter junk.
Some cameras can also "see" near UV too. Anyway plenty of security systems make use of the ability for cameras to use "invisible light".
But in the end, it still only takes 1 person - a projectionist not adhering to policy, a print shop that has a mysterious 'leak', a review board member wanting some extra crash - to get a transfer to a format that distribution groups can use, and the whole world will have access in no time.
There's also the issue of it being very difficult to secure things once you start pressing DVDs.
I think the idea is they put the laptop on the floor and have a decent camera clipped to their hat or something.
With most "decent cameras" there's little point having a laptop. Since the recording mechanism comes with the camera anyway.
Also this only makes sense where this is amongst the first places in the world showing the movie. If it's already been shown weeks/months before in some other place then bootlegs are likely to come from there.
It's funny they had no problems with mobile phones that certainly have good cameras now a days, but with a laptop.
:)
As well as it being more common for a phone to have a camera than a laptop. You can even get cameras which look like phones minus the telephone part
The idiot lawyers then tried to prevent a newspaper from reprinting those statements, bringing into doubt the entire system of freedom of speech and press in the UK.
:)
In the process ignoring the well known that that trying to ban something is a very good way to ensure that lots of people know about it. As well as drawing attention to whoever wanted the information banned.
Right now probably the last thing Trafigura wants would be more negative publicity. They've not so much "shot themselves in the foot" as "emptied a whole magazine into each foot"