It's difficult to sympathize with the economic plight of a government that wouldn't even let me board their national airline because of who I was born to.
We can't take away encryption without taking away simple digital logic. I'm going to refrain from saying more about that, because I don't want to point out better techniques for Daesh.
We can, however, take away firearms without doing similar harm. And although there will always be someone with a machine shop, if you look at the UK they've done really well with handgun prohibition. Very big difference in deaths/year and most police don't carry a handgun.
There is a subtle difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty means you can act as you please. Freedom means you are not subject to domination. The problem with firearms is that they are an instrument for dominating others or removing the ultimate civil right of life itself. Every society arrives at a balance between individual liberty and collective freedom. My judgement continues to be that everyone is better off if they are not surrounded by others who have tools with which to dominate or kill them at whim. Including police, I've been to enough nations where most of them go without firearms. So, I feel my position is indeed one that maximizes your freedom.
It's ironic that this discussion comes to the story of a very capable and admired person who, sadly, flipped out once in a while in a way that hurt others and himself. As I told you previously, everyone has a crazy day in their life. I don't want people to have guns handy when that day comes.
There seen to be a few people who believe that Ian died as a result of police abuse, and some theorize that he didn't write the messages archived from Twitter. My favorite is the one who theorizes that he was murdered by the US Government for refusing to add an NSA back-door.
Obviously I don't wish to let that stuff stand.
I'm happy to discuss mental illness when it can be helpful. It isn't really helpful to go further into specifics after someone's dead, except to dissuade the few conspiracy theorists. I would have much preferred they find someone else's death to theorize about.
Of course it was sarcastic. I reject the concept that to be an Open Source or Free Software evangelist, I also must stand for your "Freedom" to put holes in everyone around you with your guns, which obviously deprives them of their freedom.
If you could not see the sarcasm in my comment to you, that's your problem, not mine. A belief in Freedom is not coupled to a belief that everybody should have guns to shoot holes in their neighbors, depriving them of their Freedom.
Ian was someone we should mourn, and we should not be discussing his problems due to this Daniel person. We can't help Ian now, although we can help other people who have his problems.
I was not Ian's employer. I was, however, the chairman of the board of Progeny Linux Systems for a while, and my company arranged the initial $5 Million capitalization of Progeny. I had no real control of the company, the investors were the Simon group, known for their shopping malls.
I will give you one sad fact about Ian which is concrete. Ian was arrested in Indianapolis in 2009 for three counts of battery, one of criminal confinement, one of public intoxication.
The encounter with police before his death was a continuation of Ian's previous behavior. The guy is dead, he did some great stuff, he had problems. Let's not drag him through the gutter further.
Others have mentioned bringing the engines to space for reuse in orbit. This is not a practical plan because of the weight of the fuel which would have to be lifted to feed them. The various electric propulsion schemes make more sense once you're in space because there is less mass to be lifted.
No, the second stage really gets to orbit and is beyond propulsive re-entry. It would need a heat-shield and would have to dissipate a lot of speed through heat and ablation. SpaceX has a really good phenolic heat shield technology which they use on Dragon, it's capable of direct ballistic re-entry from Moon or Mars transfer orbits, and can be re-used after the lower-energy re-entry from LEO. But obviously lifting one and the other necessary components reduces the payload weight to orbit.
Musk continues to talk about re-use being the difference between 100% and 1% of vehicle cost. He doesn't get those economics without second-stage re-use. So, obviously he thinks it's in the future for SpaceX.
A lot of the mission profiles don't work for return-to-launch-site. Heavy payloads to geosynchronous transfer orbit will not leave enough fuel, but they can still reach the barge. The center booster of F9 heavy goes too far downrange but not high or fast enough to make an orbit. So it must use the barge. We haven't heard of them planning to use any conveniently-placed land like San Nicolas Island from Vandenberg.
It would be more fair to compare Bezos effort with Scaled Composites Spaceship One, another reusable sub-orbital space tourist effort. Which probably got more publicity.
It's bottom-heavy when it comes home with the fuel mostly gone. It's a bunch of heavy engines at the bottom and all empty tanks above that. And they vent the remaining LOX right after they land, so there is nothing in the upper tank. They will come aboard and weld shoes over the landing legs, but they don't expect it to fall over before that.
Salvage law is actually much more complicated than that. The key issue here is that the returned space hardware is not abandoned, so just taking it would be theft or piracy. But the main reason SpaceX doesn't want itts rocket in the water is the same reason you don't want to give your car a few hours dip in salt water.
SRBs were firecrackers. No control once you start them. The Falcon 9 first stage has engines capable of throttle and relight and a computer that can bring it back autonomously. So, there is a lot besides the rocket in the Falcon that was not in the SRBs.
Essentially, it is an argument that the sunk costs of infrastructure and the factory are greater than those of the rocket, and that building a rocket 30% larger that can return undamaged is more expensive than the ULA plan of ejecting the engines alone and having them descend under a hang-glider and then be caught mid-air by a helicopter.
Because of their analysis, I am thinking of asking for a brand-new airliner every time I take a flight:-)
The full economics of re-use can't be achieved in full until the second stage comes back too. But they can, for example, cut the cost in half pretty easily if they get a lot of boosters back.
I figure that there isn't an end to demand for less-expensive space flight. What are presently Billion dollar satellites will become 10 Million dollar ones that are replaced every year. Etc.
Two. One of the Marmac 300 series barges went back to the owner and the modifications were moved to another one which has been seen in the port of San Pedro, California.
can you please investigate what happened to Ian Murdock?
Ian was a really bright and capable guy with a dark side. Unfortunately, at times he had difficulty dealing with anger, debilitating depression, and blame projection. He was arrested for battery and illegal confinement in 2009, this event with SFPD wasn't the first time.
I was his friend once, although that was more than a decade ago. I absolutely hate that he died without a friend left in the world to help him and in such an undignified, unfair, senseless way. But that's what happened. The police were not to blame.
Did you not read all the way to the end of the article? I point out a problem similarity to the reason we integrated schools in the '60's, and suggest a potential solution. The only problem is that this solution takes a generation to work.
No doubt the problem is not unique to Free Software projects. That's just the community that I have to work with.
Really? I'm paying Cloudflare real money for that. Is it still gone?
Regarding the rest of your argument, I think we all end up in a socially unhealthy environment if women have to start segregated women's projects as you suggest or if we don't get them into our communities. It's bad for men too if that continues to happen. Nor is the problem minor, I would post a link to some of the more repulsive stuff but I don't want to promote it. You don't have to be at all precious to be grossed out by it.
Consider weev to be a stand-in for the folks in our community who I don't want to name because this would turn into a personal attack if I did. You probably know of them although certainly none are friends.
It might even be that the folks who drove Telsa out weren't really community members. I didn't investigate. But I have had no trouble finding misogynistic stuff written on the web about women who were or are participating in Open Source projects. Someone got close enough to our community to do that.
You're right about him not being part of our community. I was just referring to him as the archetype of the misogynistic troll. So many people know of him simply because he has made himself so grotesque.
Also, I don't want to refer to specific names in our community and convert this into a personal attack. You might know a few and I've met them.
We had a whole lot of social pressure for women to stay at home with the kids which went by the wayside during World War II, where Rosie went to be a welder (not a riveter) in the Kaiser shipyard. Then the war ended and we sent the women back to the home for a generation. But it's not really the same today, nobody blinks at women in the workplace. So, is that socialized because of a need to protect childbearing women centuries past, or is it inbuilt?
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It's difficult to sympathize with the economic plight of a government that wouldn't even let me board their national airline because of who I was born to.
We can't take away encryption without taking away simple digital logic. I'm going to refrain from saying more about that, because I don't want to point out better techniques for Daesh.
We can, however, take away firearms without doing similar harm. And although there will always be someone with a machine shop, if you look at the UK they've done really well with handgun prohibition. Very big difference in deaths/year and most police don't carry a handgun.
There is a subtle difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty means you can act as you please. Freedom means you are not subject to domination. The problem with firearms is that they are an instrument for dominating others or removing the ultimate civil right of life itself. Every society arrives at a balance between individual liberty and collective freedom. My judgement continues to be that everyone is better off if they are not surrounded by others who have tools with which to dominate or kill them at whim. Including police, I've been to enough nations where most of them go without firearms. So, I feel my position is indeed one that maximizes your freedom.
It's ironic that this discussion comes to the story of a very capable and admired person who, sadly, flipped out once in a while in a way that hurt others and himself. As I told you previously, everyone has a crazy day in their life. I don't want people to have guns handy when that day comes.
There seen to be a few people who believe that Ian died as a result of police abuse, and some theorize that he didn't write the messages archived from Twitter. My favorite is the one who theorizes that he was murdered by the US Government for refusing to add an NSA back-door.
Obviously I don't wish to let that stuff stand.
I'm happy to discuss mental illness when it can be helpful. It isn't really helpful to go further into specifics after someone's dead, except to dissuade the few conspiracy theorists. I would have much preferred they find someone else's death to theorize about.
Of course it was sarcastic. I reject the concept that to be an Open Source or Free Software evangelist, I also must stand for your "Freedom" to put holes in everyone around you with your guns, which obviously deprives them of their freedom.
If you could not see the sarcasm in my comment to you, that's your problem, not mine. A belief in Freedom is not coupled to a belief that everybody should have guns to shoot holes in their neighbors, depriving them of their Freedom.
Hi Bill,
Ian was someone we should mourn, and we should not be discussing his problems due to this Daniel person. We can't help Ian now, although we can help other people who have his problems.
I was not Ian's employer. I was, however, the chairman of the board of Progeny Linux Systems for a while, and my company arranged the initial $5 Million capitalization of Progeny. I had no real control of the company, the investors were the Simon group, known for their shopping malls.
I will give you one sad fact about Ian which is concrete. Ian was arrested in Indianapolis in 2009 for three counts of battery, one of criminal confinement, one of public intoxication.
The encounter with police before his death was a continuation of Ian's previous behavior. The guy is dead, he did some great stuff, he had problems. Let's not drag him through the gutter further.
Others have mentioned bringing the engines to space for reuse in orbit. This is not a practical plan because of the weight of the fuel which would have to be lifted to feed them. The various electric propulsion schemes make more sense once you're in space because there is less mass to be lifted.
No, the second stage really gets to orbit and is beyond propulsive re-entry. It would need a heat-shield and would have to dissipate a lot of speed through heat and ablation. SpaceX has a really good phenolic heat shield technology which they use on Dragon, it's capable of direct ballistic re-entry from Moon or Mars transfer orbits, and can be re-used after the lower-energy re-entry from LEO. But obviously lifting one and the other necessary components reduces the payload weight to orbit.
Musk continues to talk about re-use being the difference between 100% and 1% of vehicle cost. He doesn't get those economics without second-stage re-use. So, obviously he thinks it's in the future for SpaceX.
A lot of the mission profiles don't work for return-to-launch-site. Heavy payloads to geosynchronous transfer orbit will not leave enough fuel, but they can still reach the barge. The center booster of F9 heavy goes too far downrange but not high or fast enough to make an orbit. So it must use the barge. We haven't heard of them planning to use any conveniently-placed land like San Nicolas Island from Vandenberg.
It would be more fair to compare Bezos effort with Scaled Composites Spaceship One, another reusable sub-orbital space tourist effort. Which probably got more publicity.
The new one might remain JRTI, or could get another Iain Banks spaceship name like Very Little Gravitas Indeed.
It's bottom-heavy when it comes home with the fuel mostly gone. It's a bunch of heavy engines at the bottom and all empty tanks above that. And they vent the remaining LOX right after they land, so there is nothing in the upper tank. They will come aboard and weld shoes over the landing legs, but they don't expect it to fall over before that.
Salvage law is actually much more complicated than that. The key issue here is that the returned space hardware is not abandoned, so just taking it would be theft or piracy. But the main reason SpaceX doesn't want itts rocket in the water is the same reason you don't want to give your car a few hours dip in salt water.
SRBs were firecrackers. No control once you start them. The Falcon 9 first stage has engines capable of throttle and relight and a computer that can bring it back autonomously. So, there is a lot besides the rocket in the Falcon that was not in the SRBs.
It's lying with statistics.
Essentially, it is an argument that the sunk costs of infrastructure and the factory are greater than those of the rocket, and that building a rocket 30% larger that can return undamaged is more expensive than the ULA plan of ejecting the engines alone and having them descend under a hang-glider and then be caught mid-air by a helicopter.
Because of their analysis, I am thinking of asking for a brand-new airliner every time I take a flight :-)
The full economics of re-use can't be achieved in full until the second stage comes back too. But they can, for example, cut the cost in half pretty easily if they get a lot of boosters back.
I figure that there isn't an end to demand for less-expensive space flight. What are presently Billion dollar satellites will become 10 Million dollar ones that are replaced every year. Etc.
Two. One of the Marmac 300 series barges went back to the owner and the modifications were moved to another one which has been seen in the port of San Pedro, California.
It's what you got milk from when you were a baby :-)
There are no ads on my blog. This issue is sufficiently far from my business that it does me no good. It's just something I care about.
Ian was a really bright and capable guy with a dark side. Unfortunately, at times he had difficulty dealing with anger, debilitating depression, and blame projection. He was arrested for battery and illegal confinement in 2009, this event with SFPD wasn't the first time.
I was his friend once, although that was more than a decade ago. I absolutely hate that he died without a friend left in the world to help him and in such an undignified, unfair, senseless way. But that's what happened. The police were not to blame.
Did you not read all the way to the end of the article? I point out a problem similarity to the reason we integrated schools in the '60's, and suggest a potential solution. The only problem is that this solution takes a generation to work.
No doubt the problem is not unique to Free Software projects. That's just the community that I have to work with.
Really? I'm paying Cloudflare real money for that. Is it still gone?
Regarding the rest of your argument, I think we all end up in a socially unhealthy environment if women have to start segregated women's projects as you suggest or if we don't get them into our communities. It's bad for men too if that continues to happen. Nor is the problem minor, I would post a link to some of the more repulsive stuff but I don't want to promote it. You don't have to be at all precious to be grossed out by it.
Consider weev to be a stand-in for the folks in our community who I don't want to name because this would turn into a personal attack if I did. You probably know of them although certainly none are friends.
It might even be that the folks who drove Telsa out weren't really community members. I didn't investigate. But I have had no trouble finding misogynistic stuff written on the web about women who were or are participating in Open Source projects. Someone got close enough to our community to do that.
You're right about him not being part of our community. I was just referring to him as the archetype of the misogynistic troll. So many people know of him simply because he has made himself so grotesque.
Also, I don't want to refer to specific names in our community and convert this into a personal attack. You might know a few and I've met them.
Postmoderrn man is Homo Sapiens Abnego, eh?
No, you are just exasperated with political debate. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, but we make progress slowly.
We had a whole lot of social pressure for women to stay at home with the kids which went by the wayside during World War II, where Rosie went to be a welder (not a riveter) in the Kaiser shipyard. Then the war ended and we sent the women back to the home for a generation. But it's not really the same today, nobody blinks at women in the workplace. So, is that socialized because of a need to protect childbearing women centuries past, or is it inbuilt?