the major problem is that it takes years of special training to do even basic manual labor in 0 G. You can ship a construction worker up to space to work in 1/6 G for a fraction of the training cost, I would think. Seems like 1/6 G would be easier for people who learned their trade on earth to adjust to. At least they can stand on something.
In blue-collar trades, that exact thing happens. Ask one of your local home builders what he thinks of out-of-town, nationally-marketed contractors, for example.
People who build houses, for better or worse, often can't go when the jobs are. We tech folks can, and in some businesses seemingly are expected to. Thus, when it comes down to it, our job market is the entire USA.
Moving to Georgia from Chicago is in no way similar to moving from Chicago to Bangladesh. If I were to move to Atlanta, yeah, the culture would be a bit different, and there would be some new laws to get used to, but it wouldn't be a complete change of everything like moving to another country is.
I'm going to be bluntly honest and say that suffering does matter less, to me, if it's not in the USA. I am an American. I'm sorry that people have to live like pigs anywhere, but my people are what I concern myself with. I don't have the energy or the heart to worry about anyone else.
I meant there would be death in the streets of the USA, not Bangladesh.
it's a feedback loop. The rich get richer by paying the poor less. Eventually the poor can't afford what the rich are selling, and then the rich have to either pay them more or lower prices.
This stuff about the standard of living balancing out is a crock. There is a class system in all the nations of the world, a ruling class, at least one working class, and a criminal class. It's been that way since the dawn of time. It's/human nature/.
And if you want to 'level out' the economy of the world by distributing the wealth, think about this - do you know just how POOR a country like Bangladesh is? Go look up the GDP of Bangladesh in the CIA World Factbook. Compare that to the GDP of the United States. Add together and divide by two. That's what you get with globalism, sir.
I don't like the world of have and have-not, but that's the way life is. I grew up as a have-not, or at least in a place with that mentality, and I'll be damned if I or my kids live like that.
as a capitalist that wants to increase my profit at the expense of others, and who is selling my services to an employer, I say, YES, they are inferior because they're not me. this is not Socialism or Nazi-ism, this is looking out for #1. This is taking care of my own goddamn country before I take care of theirs. Has the globalism police taken away even your sense of self-preservation?
What happens when we're all flipping burgers and the real work gets done in whatever country is the cheapest? Imagine a slum the size of Chicago or New York. Imagine people dying in the streets because they can't afford to go to the hospital, like the rich people that farmed jobs out to Bangla-fucking-desh. Do YOU want to be go around on body detail for that? Sounds like you would, and "thank you Mr. Bush, may I have another?"
I hope you have all the worst in life, because with this attitude you deserve it.
Flourescent lights and CRTs have been causing interference in electric guitars for many years. Not to mention the 60hz harmonic from the wall that causes 'pickup hum'.
I like the thought of Java having a challenger. That might force it to evolve beyond a cash cow for tool developers and "architects" who know how to connect the dots in Rose or Visio but know jack shit about anything else.
wrong. Java is popular because managers like it. it promotes a clear delegation of work - one architect and X code monkeys. pure object orientation has to be a concept thought up by MBAs just for this purpose...
they must have been Damian Conway fans. Ever seen Lingua::Romana::Perligata? That guy's... unique.
That's such a waste of talent. Someone smart enough to pull that off ought to be working on a cure for cancer or AIDS instead of writing joke modules for an open source scripting language.
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the major problem is that it takes years of special training to do even basic manual labor in 0 G. You can ship a construction worker up to space to work in 1/6 G for a fraction of the training cost, I would think. Seems like 1/6 G would be easier for people who learned their trade on earth to adjust to. At least they can stand on something.
According to some of the people in the tinfoil hats, this has already been done
Alternative 3, anyone?
The Moon would make an excellent staging area for interplanetary trips.
1) The low gravity offers tons of advantages, including a way to simulate, say, the gravity on a moon of Jupiter.
2) The low gravity also allows boosters to be much smaller since they don't need to escape earth's atmosphere/gravity, and thus cheaper.
3) You can build much bigger things in 1/6 G since you've got 1/6th of the forces to deal with.
4) more volatile and thus more powerful fuels can be used because in the lack of an atmosphere, the threat of explosion is much, much lower.
Just some thoughts.
Engine swaps used to be routine before computers took over cars. Go to your local dirt track and see what I mean :)
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check out Jedi Knight II for the PC, I bet the FPS Metroid game will be similar.
Katz gets trashed a lot for his more pedantic stuff, but this is a great article. Well done.
In blue-collar trades, that exact thing happens. Ask one of your local home builders what he thinks of out-of-town, nationally-marketed contractors, for example.
People who build houses, for better or worse, often can't go when the jobs are. We tech folks can, and in some businesses seemingly are expected to. Thus, when it comes down to it, our job market is the entire USA.
Moving to Georgia from Chicago is in no way similar to moving from Chicago to Bangladesh. If I were to move to Atlanta, yeah, the culture would be a bit different, and there would be some new laws to get used to, but it wouldn't be a complete change of everything like moving to another country is.
I'm going to be bluntly honest and say that suffering does matter less, to me, if it's not in the USA. I am an American. I'm sorry that people have to live like pigs anywhere, but my people are what I concern myself with. I don't have the energy or the heart to worry about anyone else.
I meant there would be death in the streets of the USA, not Bangladesh.
/human nature/.
it's a feedback loop. The rich get richer by paying the poor less. Eventually the poor can't afford what the rich are selling, and then the rich have to either pay them more or lower prices.
This stuff about the standard of living balancing out is a crock. There is a class system in all the nations of the world, a ruling class, at least one working class, and a criminal class. It's been that way since the dawn of time. It's
And if you want to 'level out' the economy of the world by distributing the wealth, think about this - do you know just how POOR a country like Bangladesh is? Go look up the GDP of Bangladesh in the CIA World Factbook. Compare that to the GDP of the United States. Add together and divide by two. That's what you get with globalism, sir.
I don't like the world of have and have-not, but that's the way life is. I grew up as a have-not, or at least in a place with that mentality, and I'll be damned if I or my kids live like that.
you been to Detroit lately?
their world might as well HAVE ended.
as a capitalist that wants to increase my profit at the expense of others, and who is selling my services to an employer, I say, YES, they are inferior because they're not me. this is not Socialism or Nazi-ism, this is looking out for #1. This is taking care of my own goddamn country before I take care of theirs. Has the globalism police taken away even your sense of self-preservation?
What happens when we're all flipping burgers and the real work gets done in whatever country is the cheapest? Imagine a slum the size of Chicago or New York. Imagine people dying in the streets because they can't afford to go to the hospital, like the rich people that farmed jobs out to Bangla-fucking-desh. Do YOU want to be go around on body detail for that? Sounds like you would, and "thank you Mr. Bush, may I have another?"
I hope you have all the worst in life, because with this attitude you deserve it.
Flourescent lights and CRTs have been causing interference in electric guitars for many years. Not to mention the 60hz harmonic from the wall that causes 'pickup hum'.
speaking of 1969, don't eat that much acid ever again, man.
They'll just ship in cheap foreign labor to do the work. Your superiority in knowledge will still be ignored. Go Dubya.
when humanity outgrows religion is when war will end. Political issues can be reasoned through, but religion can't be.
why do people keep talking about Perl in the movies? I knew it could do everything, but still...
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I want to know who the programmer is that is unethical enough to write shit like this.
I wonder how much smoke his hand gave off when it touched the Bible :D
I dunno, but I think he just gave Linux the bird :D
so YOU wrote xinetd?
I'll service her. I'll probably do a better job anyway.
I wholeheartedly agree. All this frivolous reparsing stuff that Damian Conway writes is a total waste of an incredible talent.
What possible use does anyone have for writing Perl in Latin? So you can compile the Easter Mass? shit...
I like the thought of Java having a challenger. That might force it to evolve beyond a cash cow for tool developers and "architects" who know how to connect the dots in Rose or Visio but know jack shit about anything else.
wrong. Java is popular because managers like it. it promotes a clear delegation of work - one architect and X code monkeys. pure object orientation has to be a concept thought up by MBAs just for this purpose...
they must have been Damian Conway fans. Ever seen Lingua::Romana::Perligata? That guy's... unique.
That's such a waste of talent. Someone smart enough to pull that off ought to be working on a cure for cancer or AIDS instead of writing joke modules for an open source scripting language.
aw hell, I'm offtopic... bye now