My feeling on this is simple... bring it on. Those of you who live near MSU, show up and start asking hard questions. We will only extinguish this stupidity if we stand our ground and refuse to them these people get away with spouting bullshit.
Clearly, we need to start a eugenics program that would create humans that have the following traits: - Petite in stature - Ultra efficient metabolism. Just increasing our intestines efficiency by 1 or 2 percent would save huge amounts of food. - Highly intelligent. - More efficient gas exchange (Humans in the Himalayans already have this trait) so they could function in lower pressure, lower O2 levels.
Great, so we're still having a competition to see who's shittier... Hopefully Lockheed will get on with it and we can replace all these nasty polluting ICE engines in these ships with fusion reactors...
Last I knew these mega ships emit staggering amounts of CO2 because their giant engines burn the cheapest dirtiest fuel possible. I think it's time to rethink civilian nuclear power for mega ships.
Odd, because it seems to be going the other way... State by state Telsa is challenging the antiquated archaic franchising laws and winning. Michigan doesn't surprise me.... I can only imagine the lobbyist money that flowed from Detroit to make this happen...
My parents (who live in Auburn (a suburb of Worcester)) have Charter and even compared to Verizon they've had great service. They had an issue with one of their boxes and Charter came out same day, replaced it, a second box and then proceeded to replace the wiring in the house, all at no cost. As an ISP they're not world class, but their reliable and responsive when problems crop up.
Is Charter a panache? No. They're just a bit better than the average which oddly makes them pretty damn good.. which is really sad.
I guess that's cool until the moment some crazy terrorist engineers some crazy strain of the spanish flu and kills half the population. Or Yellow Stone erupts and the world is thrown into climatic chaos Or an asteroid hits, etc...
Why don't we do both? Make Earth a paradise and build the technologies to go to mars and make it a paradise too.
Firstly, There needs to be better education about what happens when you take a picture with your phone and where it ends up. I've had conversations where the person doesn't get that once the picture is on facebook if they delete it from their phone it's still on facebook. We don't have to go into the gory details, but there needs to be better understanding about the causality of posting a picture, even as a text.
Secondly, the person should clearly understand that if they post a nude picture to something like apples cloud what the permanent ramifications of that are.
Thirdly, (I know this is already happening) device manufacturers need to start implementing two factor authentication and key management systems.
Thus if [insert random person] wants to send a nude photograph to someone... a) the file is encrypted on the server use the persons private key and the recipient is using a separate revocable key to look at it. Thus in the future if things don't work out, the first person take that recipient off their allowed list and presto the pictures aren't viewable.
This doesn't prevent the recipient at the time from making copies or forwarding the pictures, but it would mitigate some of the danger of the persons phone getting hacked.
Nothing is perfect other than not taking pictures, but in the social age we're in, that behavior isn't going to suddenly change so technology should keep up to protect people as best as possible.
Whose writing programs in PL/1 these days? What about Delphi? Whose writing Delphi apps these days? How about Cold Fusion? What about ActionScript. After standing up the Air platform they've basically abandoned it as a language.
I have many friends who are post docs who are now out of their field doing other stuff for a simple reason. Their jobs stopped being about doing research and became about getting money to do research. They spent 95% of their time writing an endless stream of grant proposals for an ever vanishing slice of the pie. Moreover, many of them were frustrated by the fact that it seemed that some institutions vacuumed up huge amounts of grant money leaving other labs high and dry. The system is clearly broken and basic science is suffering for it.
Please provide a list of cases where you can demonstrate that this capacity was effectively used to stop a crime in progress. Exactly. This is pure fear mongering on the guise of "Think of the children."
Conversely, if the government can covertly install spyware on any device it wants anyway, why would the encryption matter in the first place. Wouldn't the government just falsely embrace it claiming it's good for privacy knowing full well they can subvert it.
I agree. For assholes like these who don't have any air defenses, the B-52, the A-10 and a AC-130 are perfect. If we decide we'd like to take out Assad the F-22 and the B-2 will be what's needed to eliminate the air defenses.
However, GM is a publicly traded company... What else could they say? "Wow, the Tesla's a really great car..." How does that help their stock price? GM is in the business of selling cars and in doing so making their stock worth more. You're finding fault when someone is merely towing the party line and confusing a news story for a press blurb.
I agree, now that we've got the shuttle out of the way we should start investing money in reliable, reuseable man rated launch systems. Maybe we could get that guy whose making those fancy electric cars to do it!
Maybe we should build a space station and man it continuously and learn tons about spending months at a time in space. I know, we'll talk to the Russians! We'll call it the "International Space Station!" It'll be awesome!
You know what would be really awesome? We should send a bunch of rovers to Mars to learn about it's geology and ecology, maybe figure out why it doesn't have an atmosphere. We could learn all about the long term effects of materials on Mars so when we want to send people we'll know what to build the habitats out of.
On a serious note, we've got a HUGE jump on everybody else. The Chinese are easily 20 years behind us, the Russians are quickly falling behind. In the near future we're going to have at least one totally man rated launch system (Dragon) with another CST-100 coming along behind them. NASA has plans for the HLV as does SpaceX. My money is on SpaceX actually launching a HLV first.
As for the moon, the question is why would we go there? The argument is that setting up a long term settlement on the moon would require that we engineer materials and technologies to shield humans from cosmic rays and figure out food production, long term habitation, etc. with the safety net of being able to bail back to Earth.
My feeling is that if we were to settle the moon it would be merely as a stepping stone to Mars and then outward to Ganymede, etc.
As for the third point... The US is now a net energy producer. As for oil imports we get most of our oil from CA and are drastically reducing our reliance on oil from the middle east. It dropped to something like 33% of our net need last year. Needless to say this is going to have serious long term consequences for the oil dependent economies in these countries. Their capacity to spread their radical form of Islam is going to be highly curtailed when the money runs out and their own crazies turn on them.
As for the fourth point. The bigoted paranoid demagogues aren't really mass marketable. Someone like that wouldn't get out of a primary here in Massachusetts. Maybe in some other state, but I won't disparage.
However, at some point you need to acknowledge that these people are specifically deranged because of their radicalized religious beliefs. These unhinged beliefs are a direct result of their (mis)education. So many people try to turn this into a political or economic conversation... it isn't.
Quite likely spaceX didn't know how much money was on the table. They worked up a proposal to get the DragonRider completely flight ready and said "This is how much we think we'll need plus some padding." I'm sure if you went digging for the RFP you'd see that these milestones were set out by NASA with the percentages attached to each milestone.
SpaceX has been building, flying and recovering Dragon modules for a couple of years now. Boeing has not. That extra couple of billion dollars that Boeing got was to get their program off the ground. Considering that SpaceX has a current contract to send cargo to the ISS that seed money was already given to SpaceX.
I'm glad that both companies got a contract. Currently we've got 3 non man rated launch systems and hopefully soon 2 man rated launch systems.
Don't get me started on the HLV Frankensteinian monster thing NASA is building out of left over shuttle and Orion parts... I think that is a boondoggle.
Knowing that Musk is going ahead anyway, you'd have to imagine there's a pullout/cancel clause in the Boeing contract.
When Boeing completely goes overbudget and out of time frame NASA will jump ship to SpaceX.
OR...
NASA will chose SpaceX since they've already got a good partnership going with them. SpaceX people are already down in FL modifying the ground systems for Falcon rockets, etc.
Which means, very quickly ISIS won't have any M1A1's for anything other than stationary artillery. I doubt they've got the people to keep these systems maintained. The Abrams is amazing but it needs serious TLC...
Telsa should be able to operate showrooms where it wants and their competitors will either improve their business practices or perish, period. Let the free market sort this out.
Whenever I see a dealership invoking some obscure franchise law, what I hear is: "We're a dinosaur that can't compete against Telsa."
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My feeling on this is simple... bring it on. Those of you who live near MSU, show up and start asking hard questions. We will only extinguish this stupidity if we stand our ground and refuse to them these people get away with spouting bullshit.
Clearly, we need to start a eugenics program that would create humans that have the following traits:
- Petite in stature
- Ultra efficient metabolism. Just increasing our intestines efficiency by 1 or 2 percent would save huge amounts of food.
- Highly intelligent.
- More efficient gas exchange (Humans in the Himalayans already have this trait) so they could function in lower pressure, lower O2 levels.
A human with those traits would be perfect.
Great, so we're still having a competition to see who's shittier... Hopefully Lockheed will get on with it and we can replace all these nasty polluting ICE engines in these ships with fusion reactors...
Last I knew these mega ships emit staggering amounts of CO2 because their giant engines burn the cheapest dirtiest fuel possible.
I think it's time to rethink civilian nuclear power for mega ships.
Odd, because it seems to be going the other way... State by state Telsa is challenging the antiquated archaic franchising laws and winning. Michigan doesn't surprise me.... I can only imagine the lobbyist money that flowed from Detroit to make this happen...
My parents (who live in Auburn (a suburb of Worcester)) have Charter and even compared to Verizon they've had great service. They had an issue with one of their boxes and Charter came out same day, replaced it, a second box and then proceeded to replace the wiring in the house, all at no cost. As an ISP they're not world class, but their reliable and responsive when problems crop up.
Is Charter a panache? No. They're just a bit better than the average which oddly makes them pretty damn good.. which is really sad.
I guess that's cool until the moment some crazy terrorist engineers some crazy strain of the spanish flu and kills half the population.
Or Yellow Stone erupts and the world is thrown into climatic chaos
Or an asteroid hits, etc...
Why don't we do both? Make Earth a paradise and build the technologies to go to mars and make it a paradise too.
Firstly, There needs to be better education about what happens when you take a picture with your phone and where it ends up. I've had conversations where the person doesn't get that once the picture is on facebook if they delete it from their phone it's still on facebook. We don't have to go into the gory details, but there needs to be better understanding about the causality of posting a picture, even as a text.
Secondly, the person should clearly understand that if they post a nude picture to something like apples cloud what the permanent ramifications of that are.
Thirdly, (I know this is already happening) device manufacturers need to start implementing two factor authentication and key management systems.
Thus if [insert random person] wants to send a nude photograph to someone... a) the file is encrypted on the server use the persons private key and the recipient is using a separate revocable key to look at it. Thus in the future if things don't work out, the first person take that recipient off their allowed list and presto the pictures aren't viewable.
This doesn't prevent the recipient at the time from making copies or forwarding the pictures, but it would mitigate some of the danger of the persons phone getting hacked.
Nothing is perfect other than not taking pictures, but in the social age we're in, that behavior isn't going to suddenly change so technology should keep up to protect people as best as possible.
Nice :-) I stated it as a question, so if someone knows who this "Whose" person is, we should ask if they're still writing programs in PL/1...
Whose writing programs in PL/1 these days?
What about Delphi? Whose writing Delphi apps these days?
How about Cold Fusion?
What about ActionScript. After standing up the Air platform they've basically abandoned it as a language.
I have many friends who are post docs who are now out of their field doing other stuff for a simple reason. Their jobs stopped being about doing research and became about getting money to do research. They spent 95% of their time writing an endless stream of grant proposals for an ever vanishing slice of the pie. Moreover, many of them were frustrated by the fact that it seemed that some institutions vacuumed up huge amounts of grant money leaving other labs high and dry. The system is clearly broken and basic science is suffering for it.
I guess I was surprised that Adobe has an ereader app. Yet another reason to not use Adobe's products.
Our house went windows free years ago and hasn't looked back.
Viva la Linux.
Dear Attorney General,
Please provide a list of cases where you can demonstrate that this capacity was effectively used to stop a crime in progress.
Exactly. This is pure fear mongering on the guise of "Think of the children."
Conversely, if the government can covertly install spyware on any device it wants anyway, why would the encryption matter in the first place. Wouldn't the government just falsely embrace it claiming it's good for privacy knowing full well they can subvert it.
I agree. For assholes like these who don't have any air defenses, the B-52, the A-10 and a AC-130 are perfect. If we decide we'd like to take out Assad the F-22 and the B-2 will be what's needed to eliminate the air defenses.
Note: I'm a very happy Volt owner...
However, GM is a publicly traded company... What else could they say? "Wow, the Tesla's a really great car..." How does that help their stock price? GM is in the business of selling cars and in doing so making their stock worth more. You're finding fault when someone is merely towing the party line and confusing a news story for a press blurb.
I agree, now that we've got the shuttle out of the way we should start investing money in reliable, reuseable man rated launch systems. Maybe we could get that guy whose making those fancy electric cars to do it!
Maybe we should build a space station and man it continuously and learn tons about spending months at a time in space. I know, we'll talk to the Russians! We'll call it the "International Space Station!" It'll be awesome!
You know what would be really awesome? We should send a bunch of rovers to Mars to learn about it's geology and ecology, maybe figure out why it doesn't have an atmosphere. We could learn all about the long term effects of materials on Mars so when we want to send people we'll know what to build the habitats out of.
On a serious note, we've got a HUGE jump on everybody else. The Chinese are easily 20 years behind us, the Russians are quickly falling behind. In the near future we're going to have at least one totally man rated launch system (Dragon) with another CST-100 coming along behind them. NASA has plans for the HLV as does SpaceX. My money is on SpaceX actually launching a HLV first.
As for the moon, the question is why would we go there? The argument is that setting up a long term settlement on the moon would require that we engineer materials and technologies to shield humans from cosmic rays and figure out food production, long term habitation, etc. with the safety net of being able to bail back to Earth.
My feeling is that if we were to settle the moon it would be merely as a stepping stone to Mars and then outward to Ganymede, etc.
I *think* this was the first use of the F-22 in combat. It's also on Slashdot because these people are anti education, anti enlightenment, etc.
tl;dr: If war planes have a purpose it's to bomb assholes like them.
I'm already blocking *.ru and entire IP blocks assigned to russia at the firewall.
If they want to have their own internet with hookers and blackjack... have at it!
I don't disagree on the first two points.
As for the third point... The US is now a net energy producer. As for oil imports we get most of our oil from CA and are drastically reducing our reliance on oil from the middle east. It dropped to something like 33% of our net need last year. Needless to say this is going to have serious long term consequences for the oil dependent economies in these countries. Their capacity to spread their radical form of Islam is going to be highly curtailed when the money runs out and their own crazies turn on them.
As for the fourth point. The bigoted paranoid demagogues aren't really mass marketable. Someone like that wouldn't get out of a primary here in Massachusetts. Maybe in some other state, but I won't disparage.
However, at some point you need to acknowledge that these people are specifically deranged because of their radicalized religious beliefs. These unhinged beliefs are a direct result of their (mis)education. So many people try to turn this into a political or economic conversation... it isn't.
I think you're mistaken here... Odin is clearly the one true God. Not one of your false Greek or christian gods.
Quite likely spaceX didn't know how much money was on the table. They worked up a proposal to get the DragonRider completely flight ready and said "This is how much we think we'll need plus some padding." I'm sure if you went digging for the RFP you'd see that these milestones were set out by NASA with the percentages attached to each milestone.
SpaceX has been building, flying and recovering Dragon modules for a couple of years now. Boeing has not. That extra couple of billion dollars that Boeing got was to get their program off the ground. Considering that SpaceX has a current contract to send cargo to the ISS that seed money was already given to SpaceX.
I'm glad that both companies got a contract. Currently we've got 3 non man rated launch systems and hopefully soon 2 man rated launch systems.
Don't get me started on the HLV Frankensteinian monster thing NASA is building out of left over shuttle and Orion parts... I think that is a boondoggle.
Knowing that Musk is going ahead anyway, you'd have to imagine there's a pullout/cancel clause in the Boeing contract.
When Boeing completely goes overbudget and out of time frame NASA will jump ship to SpaceX.
OR...
NASA will chose SpaceX since they've already got a good partnership going with them. SpaceX people are already down in FL modifying the ground systems for Falcon rockets, etc.
Which means, very quickly ISIS won't have any M1A1's for anything other than stationary artillery. I doubt they've got the people to keep these systems maintained. The Abrams is amazing but it needs serious TLC...
Telsa should be able to operate showrooms where it wants and their competitors will either improve their business practices or perish, period. Let the free market sort this out.
Whenever I see a dealership invoking some obscure franchise law, what I hear is: "We're a dinosaur that can't compete against Telsa."