>> As if there wasn't enough junk to try to monitor in space and worry about >> falling to earth, now we're going to have private enterprise try to make >> a buck or two off of going to space. > > I would imagine that once private industry is up there all the time, that > "space junk" will become a valuable resource and won't be allowed to just > de orbit and burn up. They'll do something with it.
Never let a capitalist solution get in the way of a good old-fashioned socialist hate-on.
> We're also looking to make amateur Zero Gravity Football tournaments
Amateur? Amateur? With the money required to get people into space, you're not even gonna pay 'em a token amount? They're supposed to help you profit on their own dime? Methinks the hotel will set up such a league and sell it directly to some network, if anyone cares.
Wait! I have a better idea.
1. Invent space travel 2. Make cost effective for tourists 3. Pr0n... Profit!
Great. Now the first space hotel will bring to mind a Rob Schneider movie (and one ripped off of Dan Akroyd's concept, at that.)
"Attention please. May I have your attention, please. Will all guests please report to the 'It's Pat!' room for flamenco tube floatdancing. Also, remember that at 8 o'clock, we will be showing a movie in the 'What is that thing? Oh, I know what that thing is......what the hell is that thing?' theater on the Promenade."
> In fact, AIseek guarantees that with its coprocessor NPCs > will always be able to find the optimal path in any title using the processor.
It has been mathematically demonstrated there is no general pathfinding solution significantly better than trying all possibilities (though pretty much only in degenerate cases could the best path be difficult not to find by a hill-climbing heuristic.)
Still, it should be trivial to whip up a case that would require these dedicated processors longer than the known age of the universe to find the optimal path.
> Or, were the cock and balls in your mouth blocking your view of the rest of the screen?
Technically the torso would be blocking the view. Unless he were in a seated 69 position and the ass weren't too fat, which, being male, probably would not be the case.
> "The New York Times reports that the communist government in the >Indian state of Kerala is trying to remove Microsoft from its public institutions
Ummm, India:
1. Isn't doing so well with their own economic models. For a minister to pretend he's suddenly concerned is beyond belief.
2. India is home to massive governmental-guaranteed (i.e. government-owned) monopolies in hundreds of major industries. If India's primary software were provided by a government-owned company, and had a greater market share than MS, with more quality and security problems, this buffoon rail against privatization with every fiber of his being.
They had better not change the look of the Enterprise one iota, although I do admit giant Apollo, the "hand" grabbing enterprise, and shooting to death "Gol" or whatever that dragon head Mr. Fusion maw was called, could all use a lot of improvement.
Any amount of titanium brought back that's less than hundreds of tons would sell better as a novelty item than as the commodity titanium. "Here, buy this Eiffel Tower keychain charm made of titanium from the Mooooooooon!"
Until some joker selling a book or looking for political power decides the AIDS vaccine is actually causing AIDS, or autism, or some other idiocy, that is...
I'm willing to bet you could pump a vaccinated woman full of HIV, and it wouldn't affect her, and it wouldn't affect the fetus because it would be killed off before anything could statistically reach it.
The "no vaccine for woman who might get pregnant" is just a preventative measure until it's studied. However, it is not a chemical per se, and probably would not behave in a manner that alters cellular activity, which is the source of drugs-n-birth defects.
Something like thalidomide, which works by altering growth in fine blood vessels, probably wasn't the brightest thing to use in pregnant women. But a vaccine should be no problem.
> Try another doctor. Or another health care system (Move to Canada! It's great up here.:)
Heavy socialization removes profit motive, which reduces the rate of technological development for cures and treatments. This, in turn, adds up, year after year, decade after decade, until, congratulations! You're getting "free" health care that is technologically years behind where it otherwise would have been. Net effect: The People's average life and health is actually harmed because of the socialized health care.
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On the upside, your 275-lb. wife, if you can afford to launch here, is now spinner-class!
Watch out for the jumblies!
"This picture shows some of the fun items..."
They included in their already launched, literal, not figurative "toy box", a car with wheels on it for rolling on the ground .
IDIOTS!
>> As if there wasn't enough junk to try to monitor in space and worry about
>> falling to earth, now we're going to have private enterprise try to make
>> a buck or two off of going to space.
>
> I would imagine that once private industry is up there all the time, that
> "space junk" will become a valuable resource and won't be allowed to just
> de orbit and burn up. They'll do something with it.
Never let a capitalist solution get in the way of a good old-fashioned socialist hate-on.
> We're also looking to make amateur Zero Gravity Football tournaments
...
Amateur? Amateur? With the money required to get people into space, you're not even gonna pay 'em a token amount? They're supposed to help you profit on their own dime? Methinks the hotel will set up such a league and sell it directly to some network, if anyone cares.
Wait! I have a better idea.
1. Invent space travel
2. Make cost effective for tourists
3. Pr0n
Profit!
Oh yeah, right. Name me one Christian who's blown up a building in the US causing mass casualties.
> Bigelow Aerospace
...what the hell is that thing?' theater on the Promenade."
Great. Now the first space hotel will bring to mind a Rob Schneider movie (and one ripped off of Dan Akroyd's concept, at that.)
"Attention please. May I have your attention, please. Will all guests please report to the 'It's Pat!' room for flamenco tube floatdancing. Also, remember that at 8 o'clock, we will be showing a movie in the 'What is that thing? Oh, I know what that thing is...
> In fact, AIseek guarantees that with its coprocessor NPCs
> will always be able to find the optimal path in any title using the processor.
It has been mathematically demonstrated there is no general pathfinding solution significantly better than trying all possibilities (though pretty much only in degenerate cases could the best path be difficult not to find by a hill-climbing heuristic.)
Still, it should be trivial to whip up a case that would require these dedicated processors longer than the known age of the universe to find the optimal path.
> How about captchas that require cultural background knowledge to solve?"
Joe Dimaggio, how little we knew ye.
"How many testicles did Tu-pac have?"
> Seasoned Slashdot readers would call it "a-not-so-hard-to-crack-password".
Like "Superman" for Lois Lane!
Signed,
A Slashdot Reader
> Or, were the cock and balls in your mouth blocking your view of the rest of the screen?
Technically the torso would be blocking the view. Unless he were in a seated 69 position and the ass weren't too fat, which, being male, probably would not be the case.
Wow! Now they have those guys and the guys who wrote the Ash movies working for them!
Oh, baby! I can't wait!
> "The New York Times reports that the communist government in the
>Indian state of Kerala is trying to remove Microsoft from its public institutions
Ummm, India:
1. Isn't doing so well with their own economic models. For a minister to pretend he's suddenly concerned is beyond belief.
2. India is home to massive governmental-guaranteed (i.e. government-owned) monopolies in hundreds of major industries. If India's primary software were provided by a government-owned company, and had a greater market share than MS, with more quality and security problems, this buffoon rail against privatization with every fiber of his being.
Oh, the temerity of politicians.
> at EPA regional libraries
Uhhh, our government is wasting money paying for "EPA regional libraries?!?!?" FTW!
Get rid of it all, and take the National Endowment for the Arts with you.
They had better not change the look of the Enterprise one iota, although I do admit giant Apollo, the "hand" grabbing enterprise, and shooting to death "Gol" or whatever that dragon head Mr. Fusion maw was called, could all use a lot of improvement.
Fry, lamenting that his brother, 1000 years before, was the first man on Mars: I should have been the first man on Mars! Now I'll never get there.
Leela: You went there this morning. For donuts.
Let's face it: Warforged are a sub-standard, wimpy golem that can be easily mass-produced.
Any amount of titanium brought back that's less than hundreds of tons would sell better as a novelty item than as the commodity titanium. "Here, buy this Eiffel Tower keychain charm made of titanium from the Mooooooooon!"
I think you mean Andy Griffiths. Ernest Borgnine played "Cabbie" in "Escape from New York".
Yes, of course, the exception proves the rule. :rollseyes
Until some joker selling a book or looking for political power decides the AIDS vaccine is actually causing AIDS, or autism, or some other idiocy, that is...
I'm willing to bet you could pump a vaccinated woman full of HIV, and it wouldn't affect her, and it wouldn't affect the fetus because it would be killed off before anything could statistically reach it.
The "no vaccine for woman who might get pregnant" is just a preventative measure until it's studied. However, it is not a chemical per se, and probably would not behave in a manner that alters cellular activity, which is the source of drugs-n-birth defects.
Something like thalidomide, which works by altering growth in fine blood vessels, probably wasn't the brightest thing to use in pregnant women. But a vaccine should be no problem.
>> Gay people (blah blah blah)
>
> Yes they do assfuck.
Why yes, many of them do, in fact, assfuck. Mod -1: Redundant
Why not? You can't get safe and effective speed-like weight-loss drugs in the US because addicts [b]might [i]illegally[/i] get ahold of them.[/b]
> Try another doctor. Or another health care system (Move to Canada! It's great up here. :)
Heavy socialization removes profit motive, which reduces the rate of technological development for cures and treatments. This, in turn, adds up, year after year, decade after decade, until, congratulations! You're getting "free" health care that is technologically years behind where it otherwise would have been. Net effect: The People's average life and health is actually harmed because of the socialized health care.
But it seems great, doesn't it?