I think you should be tried, found guilty and sentenced to death by stoning. Hmm, is that a death threat?
This woman publicly stated that Iran should be allowed to stone women to death. She doesn't live in Iran, but in the comfort of the UK. I find it in extremely bad taste that she is allowed to take a comment from a low level nobody politician and act as if it is an actual threat when there are women in Iran who will actually be stoned to death.
Where does her freedom to swing words stop? His words are going to feed the 24 hour news cycle and then wither on the vine, her words are giving cover to a regime that actually does the things she is now so alarmed about.
MS is just waiting for the technology to mature, using their large XBox360 install base as their beta testers. V2.0 will not have the lag and will have solved a lot of other problems. V3.0 will be integrated into all of the next versions of Windows.
I, for one, would love to be able to use the voice commands and also the use of gestures. The 3 fingered salute could be simplified to one finger.
There are cancer treatments today that did not exist a few years ago. Cancers that were once fatal are now routinely survived. Sorry to brighten your cloudy day.
That would be a shame for anyone heavily invested into gold. Probably the market would take that into consideration long before it ever became an issue.
More than likely, once a successful mining operation is established, most of the resources would stay in space. The price of heavy lifting any resource is going to ensure that there is a huge benefit in keeping it out of the Earth's gravity well. They will make a killing the first year, but prices on Earth will drop quickly and demand for resources in space will be immense due to them making a killing and everyone else wanting to get in on the action.
Worrying about the commodities market at this point is just an insane mix of both optomism and pessimism. Reminds me of the Whiners http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkggyqUWDME.
Like everything else in life, the resources on the moon will belong to whoever gets a mining operation there first. The rest is all paperwork. There is so much stuff out in space and we are so far from getting it, that trying to make it a political football now is just completely counter productive.
Whoever does get a mining opertation setup on the moon is not going to sit on it, they are going to sell it to other people willing to spend currency. The money from the sale of the gold will be spent, probably to make another mine. Even the people who aren't involved directly will eventually benefit from the increase in resources, not to mention the technological advances that would have to proceed said mining operations.
"Haliburton and Exxon", hmm, maybe time to up your meds?
Obama put it very clearly. He would raise taxes even if it meant a decrease in tax receipts to the government. Like you, he is more concerned with some perverted idea of justice then actually doing the right thing.
You are a troll, and not even a very good one. You throw around insults and talk a big game, but you crack under pressure. "Corporate mon/oligopoly is the most inefficient way to distribute resources or run anything". Well who is advocating that straw man position? Oh, that's right, it's the evil millionaires and billionaires that have the unwashed masses dancing to their tune.
The millionaires and billionaires have a tiger by the tail, not on a leash.
People who advocate government austerity in the face of a deep recession are asking for the recession to deepen, and for the deficit to get worse.
As opposed to what has happened over the last 2 years? Unfortunately, the stimulus spending was not properly done. It was haphazard and at times looked to be more of a kick back to Obama supporters then stimulus designed to promote growth. We would be better off today if Obama had used the stimulus to have a pay roll tax holiday for half the year. The actual working class would benefit the most and it would have cost a lot less.
It remains to be seen what will happen after the next election, but the idea that Republicans are responsible for deficits and debt ignores the fact that it was a Republican congress that balanced the budget in the first place and that it was a Republican president ("Read my hips") that signed off on the tax increases that made it possible.
Your accounting for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is way off. Maybe you should spend some time outside of the echo chamber.
Huh, what?!? Who ever said anything about changing the lowest brackets so that they're greater than 0%?
I think most Tea Partiers would be happy if the taxes for the bottom 50% were at 0% but then a lot of people would have to stop getting payments from the government for that to be the case. Most Tea Partiers would like to see the government stop paying farmers not to grow, stop paying artists to piss on crosses, stop paying toll booth workers 6 figures, stop paying for Brazil and Mexico to drill for oil, stop choosing winners and losers, etc, etc, etc. Most Tea Partiers would like to see the government start spending less then it takes in, start reducing inefficiency and graft, start defending our borders, start favoring it's own citizens just a little, etc, etc, etc.
Personally, I would like to see a tax starting around 1 million that taxes all income above that point at a higher rate. This tax should apply to individuals and corporations. Add another at 10 million that adds another couple of percentage points to the 1 million tax. It would be better then what we have, and yet I'm sure there will be many people complaining that even this is not fair.
As my Commander in Chief once said... "Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem."
I had a laptop stolen out of my garage that had about 6 months worth of work. I wish the thief had returned the data. I had a replacement laptop, better then the one stolen, by that afternoon.
It was a silly project (http://download.cnet.com/BabyCell/3000-10440_4-10578953.html?tag=mncol;1), but the work was starting to produce results and I had planned to go even further with it. Live and learn.
The issue is about 'federal scientists'. The government of Canada is within their rights to setup rules regarding how their employees are talking to the media. It is no different then any large organization. There are numerous reasons why a large organization would want to control their public image. Imagine if you were an employer and one of your employees thought they had the right to hold press conferences that disagree with how you are running things.
These 'federal scientists' are free to work elsewhere if they disagree with these rules. The citizens of Canada can pressure their current pols and/or elect new ones if they are unhappy with these rules.
The President could nationalize the border and then the Posse Comitatus Act would not apply. The Obama administration has already made the argument that the states are not allowed to enforce the border in suing Arizona, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch.
I think you are on to something there. Opening one of the doors still leaves the contestant with 2 choices, one they picked and one they didn't. How does switching at that point improve their odds? There is a 50% chance that either door has the prize. Monty might as well just open one of the doors at the beginning and then let the contestant choose.
If you change the problem and just open the remaining doors randomly, the problem becomes rather uninteresting. More like 'Deal or No Deal' then 'Let's Make a Deal'. At least in DoND, there is the offer, which does affect the outcome. If you have 1 million and 1 cent left, you make the deal. If you have 500k and 750k left, you can choose to gamble.
Bayesian logic is one of those ideas that some people really get excited about. I'm sure it is usefull for somethings.
I'm talking more about gravitational pull. The farther away from our sun, the less tug of gravity, the closer to the next star, the more tug of gravity. Most of the closest stars are multiple systems, so I assume that you don't have to get as close to feel the effects. You could probably argue that traversing the shock wave at the edge of our solar system would be exiting our system, but it is a moot point.
Being able to live in space is the key, moving outward and onward would be a natural result.
That's nice of you to share. Good luck to you too.
Although I think that tying itself to the Republicans might be a mistake long term, the Democrats certainly are not the party of small government. I hope that after the election, whatever the results, the Tea Party doesn't blindly support any of their candidates that happen to win but actually hold them accountable. If they don't, then I expect their membership to decrease significantly.
Government jobs are public liabilities. That is why when the stimulus was passed so many people said it would not work. Manufacturing a government job and funding it for one year does not create a job, just another burden on the people.
"And if their a Tea Bagger...then they're truly ignorant."
Ignoring the grammar (although funny), what exactly is wrong with wanting a smaller, more effective government? That's what 99% of the Tea Party wants. These grandiose progressive schemes have been nothing but abject failures and have brought this country to the same place that all progressive governments end up, in debt with a citizenry that feels it is entitled.
You spout a bunch of elitist nonsense about what is wrong with this country and point to the latest up and coming nation as a counterpoint. 20 years ago you would have said the same crap about Japan, 10 years ago it would be South Korea, today China. Do you really want your country to be more like China (cause that's what you're talking about, they aint gonna let you immigrate)? Well, that would get rid of all of the non-issues you listed: Gay rights good riddance, abortion only a choice for the first child, religion pretty much outlawed and Xtians, not sure what that is, but probably not allowed either. Gee, dictatorships sure do get the trains running on time.
I hope you teach your kid a little humility, as it sounds like you are raising a little monster who is going to think, like you, that they are vastly superiour.
There is no gap between stars. By the time you get close to exiting our solar system, you will already be closer to a neighboring star then you will be to Sol.
The idea that we will build a ship to go to another star on a direct route is a child's fantasy, much like terraforming Mars. We need to figure out how to live in space. Once we have figured that out, we can go anywhere or nowhere. The resources in space that are close to the Earth dwarf the resources that exist on this planet.
What we need to be working on is automated fabricators and such. Propulsion is over-rated. Just start seeding the path with resources from our automated fabs and then when we do want to go somewhere, we can take our time and not have to bring everything with us.
Gene Roddenberry had it right. We need a wagon train to the stars.
I doubt there is any burning anger over at MS directed towards Sony. They should be happy that they are in second and that they have a yearly revenue stream from millions of people. XBox is an investment that they would love to duplicate with their other consumer devices. XBox also keeps the company in the news.
I think maybe you are a troll or your post was very acute sarcasm. Sony just released their Wii copycat controllers. At least MS has an innovative motion control scheme.
What is funny is that both companies, and Nintendo as well, can make money and provide great products. Sony is seeding BluRay, so it is hard to argue with their strategy. MS is in a surprising second in console sales, close to the top in game sales and undoubtably number one in subscription revenues.
I'm looking forward to the PC version of kinnect as I do not own an XBox.
That's the beauty of my plan. We aren't zipping by, we're stopping and picking up mass. Maybe we seed the outer solar system with smelters and fabricators. By the time humans get there, we'll have everything we could need.
I don't understand what you are saying about not dying, but like MLK, I will not live to see the promised land. I have a 5 and 1 yo and they probably won't see it either. I think the human race has come a long way and I am bullish on our future. There will always be bumps along the way, but we have a track record of overcoming adversity.
"I agree with him about that. Actively hunting for species that make us look like chimpanzes by comparison doesn't seem like the smartest thing we can do."
We don't need to hunt for the type of ET that both of you are afraid of finding. We put out enough signals that they or their drones are already on their way. SETI is a passive monitoring for radio signals. Aliens would have to be god-like to be able to detect someone listening for transmissions.
Maybe he is going on record so that after his demise people won't be qouting him out of context. What he has said here is not exactly controversial. It might turn out that there is no unifying theory. I think what he is saying is that space time and quantum space are orthogonal or share an edge. Or maybe he is saying something completely different.
I'll wait for the movie. Contact was a pretty good movie, so I have very high expectations for Stephen Hawking. I'm sure they will find a sciency director and screenwriter. I'd hate for future generations to only know him from Futurama.
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I think you should be tried, found guilty and sentenced to death by stoning. Hmm, is that a death threat?
This woman publicly stated that Iran should be allowed to stone women to death. She doesn't live in Iran, but in the comfort of the UK. I find it in extremely bad taste that she is allowed to take a comment from a low level nobody politician and act as if it is an actual threat when there are women in Iran who will actually be stoned to death.
Where does her freedom to swing words stop? His words are going to feed the 24 hour news cycle and then wither on the vine, her words are giving cover to a regime that actually does the things she is now so alarmed about.
Maybe he is a supporter of decriminalization of marijuana? People who support throwing rocks to kill another person probably need to light up.
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MS is just waiting for the technology to mature, using their large XBox360 install base as their beta testers. V2.0 will not have the lag and will have solved a lot of other problems. V3.0 will be integrated into all of the next versions of Windows.
I, for one, would love to be able to use the voice commands and also the use of gestures. The 3 fingered salute could be simplified to one finger.
There are cancer treatments today that did not exist a few years ago. Cancers that were once fatal are now routinely survived. Sorry to brighten your cloudy day.
That would be a shame for anyone heavily invested into gold. Probably the market would take that into consideration long before it ever became an issue.
More than likely, once a successful mining operation is established, most of the resources would stay in space. The price of heavy lifting any resource is going to ensure that there is a huge benefit in keeping it out of the Earth's gravity well. They will make a killing the first year, but prices on Earth will drop quickly and demand for resources in space will be immense due to them making a killing and everyone else wanting to get in on the action.
Worrying about the commodities market at this point is just an insane mix of both optomism and pessimism. Reminds me of the Whiners http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkggyqUWDME.
Like everything else in life, the resources on the moon will belong to whoever gets a mining operation there first. The rest is all paperwork. There is so much stuff out in space and we are so far from getting it, that trying to make it a political football now is just completely counter productive.
Whoever does get a mining opertation setup on the moon is not going to sit on it, they are going to sell it to other people willing to spend currency. The money from the sale of the gold will be spent, probably to make another mine. Even the people who aren't involved directly will eventually benefit from the increase in resources, not to mention the technological advances that would have to proceed said mining operations.
"Haliburton and Exxon", hmm, maybe time to up your meds?
Obama put it very clearly. He would raise taxes even if it meant a decrease in tax receipts to the government. Like you, he is more concerned with some perverted idea of justice then actually doing the right thing.
You are a troll, and not even a very good one. You throw around insults and talk a big game, but you crack under pressure. "Corporate mon/oligopoly is the most inefficient way to distribute resources or run anything". Well who is advocating that straw man position? Oh, that's right, it's the evil millionaires and billionaires that have the unwashed masses dancing to their tune.
The millionaires and billionaires have a tiger by the tail, not on a leash.
People who advocate government austerity in the face of a deep recession are asking for the recession to deepen, and for the deficit to get worse.
As opposed to what has happened over the last 2 years? Unfortunately, the stimulus spending was not properly done. It was haphazard and at times looked to be more of a kick back to Obama supporters then stimulus designed to promote growth. We would be better off today if Obama had used the stimulus to have a pay roll tax holiday for half the year. The actual working class would benefit the most and it would have cost a lot less.
It remains to be seen what will happen after the next election, but the idea that Republicans are responsible for deficits and debt ignores the fact that it was a Republican congress that balanced the budget in the first place and that it was a Republican president ("Read my hips") that signed off on the tax increases that made it possible.
Your accounting for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is way off. Maybe you should spend some time outside of the echo chamber.
Huh, what?!? Who ever said anything about changing the lowest brackets so that they're greater than 0%?
I think most Tea Partiers would be happy if the taxes for the bottom 50% were at 0% but then a lot of people would have to stop getting payments from the government for that to be the case. Most Tea Partiers would like to see the government stop paying farmers not to grow, stop paying artists to piss on crosses, stop paying toll booth workers 6 figures, stop paying for Brazil and Mexico to drill for oil, stop choosing winners and losers, etc, etc, etc. Most Tea Partiers would like to see the government start spending less then it takes in, start reducing inefficiency and graft, start defending our borders, start favoring it's own citizens just a little, etc, etc, etc.
Personally, I would like to see a tax starting around 1 million that taxes all income above that point at a higher rate. This tax should apply to individuals and corporations. Add another at 10 million that adds another couple of percentage points to the 1 million tax. It would be better then what we have, and yet I'm sure there will be many people complaining that even this is not fair.
As my Commander in Chief once said... "Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem."
I had a laptop stolen out of my garage that had about 6 months worth of work. I wish the thief had returned the data. I had a replacement laptop, better then the one stolen, by that afternoon.
It was a silly project (http://download.cnet.com/BabyCell/3000-10440_4-10578953.html?tag=mncol;1), but the work was starting to produce results and I had planned to go even further with it. Live and learn.
The issue is about 'federal scientists'. The government of Canada is within their rights to setup rules regarding how their employees are talking to the media. It is no different then any large organization. There are numerous reasons why a large organization would want to control their public image. Imagine if you were an employer and one of your employees thought they had the right to hold press conferences that disagree with how you are running things.
These 'federal scientists' are free to work elsewhere if they disagree with these rules. The citizens of Canada can pressure their current pols and/or elect new ones if they are unhappy with these rules.
Welcome to the real world.
The President could nationalize the border and then the Posse Comitatus Act would not apply. The Obama administration has already made the argument that the states are not allowed to enforce the border in suing Arizona, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch.
I think you are on to something there. Opening one of the doors still leaves the contestant with 2 choices, one they picked and one they didn't. How does switching at that point improve their odds? There is a 50% chance that either door has the prize. Monty might as well just open one of the doors at the beginning and then let the contestant choose.
If you change the problem and just open the remaining doors randomly, the problem becomes rather uninteresting. More like 'Deal or No Deal' then 'Let's Make a Deal'. At least in DoND, there is the offer, which does affect the outcome. If you have 1 million and 1 cent left, you make the deal. If you have 500k and 750k left, you can choose to gamble.
Bayesian logic is one of those ideas that some people really get excited about. I'm sure it is usefull for somethings.
I'm talking more about gravitational pull. The farther away from our sun, the less tug of gravity, the closer to the next star, the more tug of gravity. Most of the closest stars are multiple systems, so I assume that you don't have to get as close to feel the effects. You could probably argue that traversing the shock wave at the edge of our solar system would be exiting our system, but it is a moot point.
Being able to live in space is the key, moving outward and onward would be a natural result.
That's nice of you to share. Good luck to you too.
Although I think that tying itself to the Republicans might be a mistake long term, the Democrats certainly are not the party of small government. I hope that after the election, whatever the results, the Tea Party doesn't blindly support any of their candidates that happen to win but actually hold them accountable. If they don't, then I expect their membership to decrease significantly.
Government jobs are public liabilities. That is why when the stimulus was passed so many people said it would not work. Manufacturing a government job and funding it for one year does not create a job, just another burden on the people.
"And if their a Tea Bagger...then they're truly ignorant."
Ignoring the grammar (although funny), what exactly is wrong with wanting a smaller, more effective government? That's what 99% of the Tea Party wants. These grandiose progressive schemes have been nothing but abject failures and have brought this country to the same place that all progressive governments end up, in debt with a citizenry that feels it is entitled.
You spout a bunch of elitist nonsense about what is wrong with this country and point to the latest up and coming nation as a counterpoint. 20 years ago you would have said the same crap about Japan, 10 years ago it would be South Korea, today China. Do you really want your country to be more like China (cause that's what you're talking about, they aint gonna let you immigrate)? Well, that would get rid of all of the non-issues you listed: Gay rights good riddance, abortion only a choice for the first child, religion pretty much outlawed and Xtians, not sure what that is, but probably not allowed either. Gee, dictatorships sure do get the trains running on time.
I hope you teach your kid a little humility, as it sounds like you are raising a little monster who is going to think, like you, that they are vastly superiour.
Experts disagree with each other. You are an idiot and believe me, I'm an expert at spotting them.
You might want to consider what will happen if their neighbors got one first...
There is no gap between stars. By the time you get close to exiting our solar system, you will already be closer to a neighboring star then you will be to Sol.
The idea that we will build a ship to go to another star on a direct route is a child's fantasy, much like terraforming Mars. We need to figure out how to live in space. Once we have figured that out, we can go anywhere or nowhere. The resources in space that are close to the Earth dwarf the resources that exist on this planet.
What we need to be working on is automated fabricators and such. Propulsion is over-rated. Just start seeding the path with resources from our automated fabs and then when we do want to go somewhere, we can take our time and not have to bring everything with us.
Gene Roddenberry had it right. We need a wagon train to the stars.
Sounds like the quote is accurate.
I doubt there is any burning anger over at MS directed towards Sony. They should be happy that they are in second and that they have a yearly revenue stream from millions of people. XBox is an investment that they would love to duplicate with their other consumer devices. XBox also keeps the company in the news.
I think maybe you are a troll or your post was very acute sarcasm. Sony just released their Wii copycat controllers. At least MS has an innovative motion control scheme.
What is funny is that both companies, and Nintendo as well, can make money and provide great products. Sony is seeding BluRay, so it is hard to argue with their strategy. MS is in a surprising second in console sales, close to the top in game sales and undoubtably number one in subscription revenues.
I'm looking forward to the PC version of kinnect as I do not own an XBox.
That's the beauty of my plan. We aren't zipping by, we're stopping and picking up mass. Maybe we seed the outer solar system with smelters and fabricators. By the time humans get there, we'll have everything we could need.
I don't understand what you are saying about not dying, but like MLK, I will not live to see the promised land. I have a 5 and 1 yo and they probably won't see it either. I think the human race has come a long way and I am bullish on our future. There will always be bumps along the way, but we have a track record of overcoming adversity.
"I agree with him about that. Actively hunting for species that make us look like chimpanzes by comparison doesn't seem like the smartest thing we can do."
We don't need to hunt for the type of ET that both of you are afraid of finding. We put out enough signals that they or their drones are already on their way. SETI is a passive monitoring for radio signals. Aliens would have to be god-like to be able to detect someone listening for transmissions.
Maybe he is going on record so that after his demise people won't be qouting him out of context. What he has said here is not exactly controversial. It might turn out that there is no unifying theory. I think what he is saying is that space time and quantum space are orthogonal or share an edge. Or maybe he is saying something completely different.
I'll wait for the movie. Contact was a pretty good movie, so I have very high expectations for Stephen Hawking. I'm sure they will find a sciency director and screenwriter. I'd hate for future generations to only know him from Futurama.