Good for you being able to avoid responsibility to the point where you can- I've got a mortgage and a family to pay for.
You spineless worm.
If you really cared about keeping a roof over your family's heads you would be looking for a new job that paid more, not hiding where you can follow the path of least resistance to keep the paychecks coming in.
Getting a new job doesn't mean quitting and then looking for a job. Since when did it hurt anyone to start looking on their own time? Find something with better pay and prospects, skill up, sack up, and get out there and work for your family.
It's a free labor market (for now and thank god). Get out there and start acting like it instead of making excuses.
Besides, corporations fight against each other. That's called competition. When corporations collude to manipulate prices that's a crime punishable by anti-trust action.
So to recap, when corporations collude to fix prices: criminal act. When unions collude to fix prices and reduce competition in the labor market: blue collar heroes.
I've heard this union=!statism argument before. Now while that's true, it does end up with the same problems, namely constraints on the market and poor central planning.
Collective bargaining is great if all you bargain for is your marginal product. However, due to greed and general boneheadedness, unions almost always go for way more than that. That ends up killing the industry that they infect and hurting the workers they're trying to protect. It's taking a short term benifit for long term loss.
The other bad things that unions do is form labor cartels. They end up basically price fixing salaries and screwing the industry in the same way that collusion between companies can use prices to screw the consumer. Without prices of labor that accurately reflect what they're worth, the industries that they serve will suffer from those price distortions.
Unions are always a hair's bredth from becoming market failures and very often they end up that way.
Space based solutions sound pretty neat but considering the outlandish costs of getting something out of our gravity well, I think surface based solutions are a better approach. After all, land in the middle of nowhere is cheap, reflective material is also cheap (or free if you scavange) and you can bounce sunlight back into space at 1kW per square meter.
So you can spend $1 to bounce a kilowatt or you can spend thousands to do it in space. Seems obvious to me. Isn't Navada mostly federal land anyway?
If anything, 6 uses in 4 years should tell you that this wasn't a needed law to begin with. By the way, could you back your claim of 6 uses with a single link?
Nice specious reasoning by the way. I've got a can of elephant repellent for sale of you want.
This letter is regarding the current status of the license to practice law currently granted to Jack Thompson through the Florida Bar Association.
Jack Thompson is a very controversial lawyer, more often than not resorting to political matters to solve his own personal disputes rather than through the legal system. However, in recent months, it has become clear to me that Thompson is not merely a controversial individual, but is also a very corrupt, callous, and often rude individual who, in my own estimation, does not exemplify the ethical and moral principles for which a lawyer should hold, and I believe that the Florida Bar Association, in holding with the claim that "One of the primary purposes of The Florida Bar is to assure the highest standards of professionalism in the practice of law for the benefit of members and the public.", must organize a referendum to determine if Jack Thompson should be able to continue practicing law as a licensed attorney. Evidence for this need is widespread and incriminating. Examples of this unprofessional and unethical behavior are detailed below, and I urge those who this concerns to properly review these actions by this callous individual carefully.
Recently, he has engaged in a very callous, unprovoked and irresponsible tirade with the creator of the popular VGCats online web comic (http://www.vgcats.com/ and evidence of this encounter is available here: http://www.vgcats.com/jack.php. During this exchange, Jack Thompson made a number of references questioning Scott Ramsoomair's sexuality, intelligence, and his use of psychotropic drugs, all of which are unsubstantiated and irrelevant to the discourse (which Mr. Thompson initiated), and then proceeded to threaten legal action in an irresponsible manner.
During this discourse, after initiating contact with Mr. Ramsoomair and proceeding to insult him, he then claimed that he had not initiated contact, despite the fact that it is verifiable that Mr. Thompson did initiate contact.
This kind of conversational process is not uncommon with Mr. Thompson, and a simple search can uncover literally dozens of people and organizations who have had incredibly negative and often dishonest discourse with Mr. Thompson, commonly initiated by Mr. Thompson himself.
"(c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation;"
Furthermore, Mr. Thompson has made claims that the creators of the extremely popular online webcomic Penny Arcade (http://www.penny-arcade.com/ Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, were "criminally harassing" him. However, this harassment allegation was made in response to a single e-mail sent to Mr. Thompson which responded to a proposal made by Mr. Thompson (where he requested that someone make an extraordinarily violent video game directed at a specific individual in exchange for $10,000 donated to a charity [source: http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5883%5D ). In this response, it was explained that his proposal had been carried out by a programmer [source: http://hellfish.gtajunkies.com/Story.html%5D. Mr. Thompson responded to this civil e-mail by calling the creators of Penny Arcade, spouting vulgarities at them and rudely explaining that the proposal was entirely in jest and that no money would be donated to a charity. Therefore, the o
"An outfit in Seattle called "Think Geek" is marketing a t-shirt emblazoned across the front of which are the words "I Hate Jack Thompson." That kind of tells us where they are on the subject of me.
The parent company is an outfit called Penny Arcade."
Correct me if I'm wrong but Think Geek isn't owned my PA right? But when did facts ever stop this guy.
I'm a bit of a Mars but so most of this actually sounds ok. Mining Mars and using local resources from the air, ground and frozen water. The only problem with the business model is this.
1. Sell tours of prototype settlement 2. ??? 3. Establish 21st century East India Company 4. Profit!
You know what those ??? are?
2. Fund multibillion dollar launch and trip to Mars.
Even by Zubrin's rosiest estimates, it would be in the tens of billions and probably hundreds if too much government pork roots it way in. That's a pretty big "step two". Lots of tours perhaps? Lots of venture capital?
Don't get me wrong, I'd love more than anything to see it happen but, you know, the multibillion dollar trip...
Unless the core spins to shield the planet from the solar winds then anything done will only be temporary. The sun will simply blow off any thick atmosphere.
If you're willing to wait a few million years, sure.
Why would this be a non-profit company? This seems like it would be the first instance of asteroid mining. Wouldn't they want to profit from the chunks they get? I mean, it's mining. When has that ever been done for anything but earning money off the stuff being mined?
Perhaps they plan on giving all the money to some charity but I don't think regular companies are restricted from spending profit whoever they want.
Getting tax breaks is the only thing I can think of. I hope some other entity beats them to it and makes a fortune. That would work wonders to boost private space.
Of course it is but you have to make a call on if it's worth it or not for that particular mission. from the money point of view, the training and value of the expertise of the crew is pricy. From a political point of view, can we risk looking like fools sending a crew to their deaths to repair an outdated telescope?
If this was a groundbreaking mission, it's debatable but this is a maintenance mission for a piece of hardware that's beyond it's usefulness.
plus, how much data do we need on this? We've been gathering it for decades now. The result: eat right, excersize, take it easy for a few days when you re-enter a gravity well.
while it's not using antimatter or fusion or something, it makes use of "off the shelf" components to strap together a powerful rocket.
If you want more power, just bundle another couple on. You couldn't really do this with the shuttle or the Saturn. Plus, if you have different mission parameters, you can use basically the same hardware without the need to do R&D for years for a new rocket.
Yeah, it's still chemical propulsion but it seems like a better way of thinking to me. This is something that can actually get some economy of scale.
So what reason is there for the space shuttle now? all the heavy lifting can be done by these things and the personnel can get up in a Soyuz. These things seem "cheap" and from what I've read, this paradigm can be used to just strap on a few more rockets to get to the Moon or Mars.
Can anyone cite a reason for continued shuttle lifetime that isn't political?
Thank God/. gave another plug to Child's Play. It's a great cause and if you forgot about it after the initial./ announcement, get out there and buy a gift or two for some sick kids who could really use the cheer.
right but this turns it from "we can prove that it was him" to "we're pretty sure it was him because we trust the cops more". That seems like a big legal difference to me.
To use the cocaine example, imagine that in one case, the cocaine had your prints al over it and had a picture of you holding it. In another case, there's a kilo of coke in your trunk that doesn't have any prints or any other indications that you ever saw it in your life. If you go to court for having a kilo of coke in your trunk, you're in trouble but there are different degrees.
Of course, they could use writing and misspelling patterns to strongly suggest that it was you but this takes away the mathematical certainty thing.
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Good for you being able to avoid responsibility to the point where you can- I've got a mortgage and a family to pay for.
You spineless worm.
If you really cared about keeping a roof over your family's heads you would be looking for a new job that paid more, not hiding where you can follow the path of least resistance to keep the paychecks coming in.
Getting a new job doesn't mean quitting and then looking for a job. Since when did it hurt anyone to start looking on their own time? Find something with better pay and prospects, skill up, sack up, and get out there and work for your family.
It's a free labor market (for now and thank god). Get out there and start acting like it instead of making excuses.
Um, capital doesn't organize, people do.
Besides, corporations fight against each other. That's called competition. When corporations collude to manipulate prices that's a crime punishable by anti-trust action.
So to recap, when corporations collude to fix prices: criminal act.
When unions collude to fix prices and reduce competition in the labor market: blue collar heroes.
I've heard this union=!statism argument before. Now while that's true, it does end up with the same problems, namely constraints on the market and poor central planning.
Collective bargaining is great if all you bargain for is your marginal product. However, due to greed and general boneheadedness, unions almost always go for way more than that. That ends up killing the industry that they infect and hurting the workers they're trying to protect. It's taking a short term benifit for long term loss.
The other bad things that unions do is form labor cartels. They end up basically price fixing salaries and screwing the industry in the same way that collusion between companies can use prices to screw the consumer. Without prices of labor that accurately reflect what they're worth, the industries that they serve will suffer from those price distortions.
Unions are always a hair's bredth from becoming market failures and very often they end up that way.
Pfft, Stephen Hawking has had this beat for years.
Space based solutions sound pretty neat but considering the outlandish costs of getting something out of our gravity well, I think surface based solutions are a better approach. After all, land in the middle of nowhere is cheap, reflective material is also cheap (or free if you scavange) and you can bounce sunlight back into space at 1kW per square meter.
So you can spend $1 to bounce a kilowatt or you can spend thousands to do it in space. Seems obvious to me. Isn't Navada mostly federal land anyway?
...am not Sarah Connor.
If anything, 6 uses in 4 years should tell you that this wasn't a needed law to begin with. By the way, could you back your claim of 6 uses with a single link?
Nice specious reasoning by the way. I've got a can of elephant repellent for sale of you want.
The FBA's "contact us" page is here.
From the PA boards:
To Whom It May Concern:
This letter is regarding the current status of the license to practice law currently granted to Jack Thompson through the Florida Bar Association.
Jack Thompson is a very controversial lawyer, more often than not resorting to political matters to solve his own personal disputes rather than through the legal system. However, in recent months, it has become clear to me that Thompson is not merely a controversial individual, but is also a very corrupt, callous, and often rude individual who, in my own estimation, does not exemplify the ethical and moral principles for which a lawyer should hold, and I believe that the Florida Bar Association, in holding with the claim that "One of the primary purposes of The Florida Bar is to assure the highest standards of professionalism in the practice of law for the benefit of members and the public.", must organize a referendum to determine if Jack Thompson should be able to continue practicing law as a licensed attorney. Evidence for this need is widespread and incriminating. Examples of this unprofessional and unethical behavior are detailed below, and I urge those who this concerns to properly review these actions by this callous individual carefully.
Recently, he has engaged in a very callous, unprovoked and irresponsible tirade with the creator of the popular VGCats online web comic (http://www.vgcats.com/ and evidence of this encounter is available here: http://www.vgcats.com/jack.php. During this exchange, Jack Thompson made a number of references questioning Scott Ramsoomair's sexuality, intelligence, and his use of psychotropic drugs, all of which are unsubstantiated and irrelevant to the discourse (which Mr. Thompson initiated), and then proceeded to threaten legal action in an irresponsible manner.
During this discourse, after initiating contact with Mr. Ramsoomair and proceeding to insult him, he then claimed that he had not initiated contact, despite the fact that it is verifiable that Mr. Thompson did initiate contact.
This kind of conversational process is not uncommon with Mr. Thompson, and a simple search can uncover literally dozens of people and organizations who have had incredibly negative and often dishonest discourse with Mr. Thompson, commonly initiated by Mr. Thompson himself.
"(c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation;"
[source: http://www.floridabar.org/divexe/rrtfb.nsf/FV/DE51 D6D9608C634A85256BBC00558300%5D
Furthermore, Mr. Thompson has made claims that the creators of the extremely popular online webcomic Penny Arcade (http://www.penny-arcade.com/ Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, were "criminally harassing" him. However, this harassment allegation was made in response to a single e-mail sent to Mr. Thompson which responded to a proposal made by Mr. Thompson (where he requested that someone make an extraordinarily violent video game directed at a specific individual in exchange for $10,000 donated to a charity [source: http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5883%5D ). In this response, it was explained that his proposal had been carried out by a programmer
[source: http://hellfish.gtajunkies.com/Story.html%5D. Mr. Thompson responded to this civil e-mail by calling the creators of Penny Arcade, spouting vulgarities at them and rudely explaining that the proposal was entirely in jest and that no money would be donated to a charity. Therefore, the o
"An outfit in Seattle called "Think Geek" is marketing a t-shirt emblazoned across the front of which are the words "I Hate Jack Thompson." That kind of tells us where they are on the subject of me.
The parent company is an outfit called Penny Arcade."
Correct me if I'm wrong but Think Geek isn't owned my PA right? But when did facts ever stop this guy.
Mars nut. Not Mars but. Damn spellchecker not reading my mind.
I'm a bit of a Mars but so most of this actually sounds ok. Mining Mars and using local resources from the air, ground and frozen water. The only problem with the business model is this.
1. Sell tours of prototype settlement
2. ???
3. Establish 21st century East India Company
4. Profit!
You know what those ??? are?
2. Fund multibillion dollar launch and trip to Mars.
Even by Zubrin's rosiest estimates, it would be in the tens of billions and probably hundreds if too much government pork roots it way in. That's a pretty big "step two". Lots of tours perhaps? Lots of venture capital?
Don't get me wrong, I'd love more than anything to see it happen but, you know, the multibillion dollar trip...
Entry Number 1, Mr Michael Jac...
Jefferson! Jefferson.
That's just ignorant.
Uhrm ... where? I haven't been able to find any code on any on of the pages mentioned. I agree it's essential to disclose all data and source code ...
Unless I'm mistaken...
Source Data
Unless the core spins to shield the planet from the solar winds then anything done will only be temporary. The sun will simply blow off any thick atmosphere.
If you're willing to wait a few million years, sure.
warning, I didn't RTFA.
Why would this be a non-profit company? This seems like it would be the first instance of asteroid mining. Wouldn't they want to profit from the chunks they get? I mean, it's mining. When has that ever been done for anything but earning money off the stuff being mined?
Perhaps they plan on giving all the money to some charity but I don't think regular companies are restricted from spending profit whoever they want.
Getting tax breaks is the only thing I can think of. I hope some other entity beats them to it and makes a fortune. That would work wonders to boost private space.
People have been using Froogle to look at product pictures rather than to buy I think:
1. bikini
2. mini skirt
3. prom dresses
4. lingerie
5. little black dress
6. poncho
7. t-shirt
8. sports bra
9. red dress
10. low-rise jeans
mmmmm...
poncho
fair point but now I'd ask this:
is it more expensive to modify the cargo portion of a heavy lift rocket like this to hold onto the ISS components, or to get the shuttles back up.
Since this demo launch cost $145 million, I'll take a wild guess that the former is cheaper. Shuttle launches are something like half a billion a pop.
Of course it is but you have to make a call on if it's worth it or not for that particular mission. from the money point of view, the training and value of the expertise of the crew is pricy. From a political point of view, can we risk looking like fools sending a crew to their deaths to repair an outdated telescope?
If this was a groundbreaking mission, it's debatable but this is a maintenance mission for a piece of hardware that's beyond it's usefulness.
exactly. and aside from that, what does the shuttle do?
HST? You've got to ask yourself if it's really worth the billions to get the shuttle back up there and possibly the lives of the crew.
so put them in the space station with Soyuz.
plus, how much data do we need on this? We've been gathering it for decades now. The result: eat right, excersize, take it easy for a few days when you re-enter a gravity well.
This is a new approach.
while it's not using antimatter or fusion or something, it makes use of "off the shelf" components to strap together a powerful rocket.
If you want more power, just bundle another couple on. You couldn't really do this with the shuttle or the Saturn. Plus, if you have different mission parameters, you can use basically the same hardware without the need to do R&D for years for a new rocket.
Yeah, it's still chemical propulsion but it seems like a better way of thinking to me. This is something that can actually get some economy of scale.
if your goal is lifting a manned habitat to a Mars intersecting trajectory it's pretty damn sexy.
Or if you want to put up some crazy, ineffective missile shield, it looks pretty good too.
I don't think that people in the market for rockets of this scale are swayed by a name.
Yeah, I know. I should get a sense of humor.
So what reason is there for the space shuttle now? all the heavy lifting can be done by these things and the personnel can get up in a Soyuz. These things seem "cheap" and from what I've read, this paradigm can be used to just strap on a few more rockets to get to the Moon or Mars.
Can anyone cite a reason for continued shuttle lifetime that isn't political?
Thank God /. gave another plug to Child's Play. It's a great cause and if you forgot about it after the initial ./ announcement, get out there and buy a gift or two for some sick kids who could really use the cheer.
Time's getting short!
right but this turns it from "we can prove that it was him" to "we're pretty sure it was him because we trust the cops more". That seems like a big legal difference to me.
To use the cocaine example, imagine that in one case, the cocaine had your prints al over it and had a picture of you holding it. In another case, there's a kilo of coke in your trunk that doesn't have any prints or any other indications that you ever saw it in your life. If you go to court for having a kilo of coke in your trunk, you're in trouble but there are different degrees.
Of course, they could use writing and misspelling patterns to strongly suggest that it was you but this takes away the mathematical certainty thing.