That's right, Mike Pence, the young Earth creationist, wants us to go to the Moon by 2024. This is a man who doesn't understand science or history of us getting to the Moon. He doesn't understand money either because NASA had 5% of the budget at that time. Currently NASA has what, half a percent of the budget?
Senator Shelby isn't alone. There is a reason why the Space Shuttle was built from parts from 49 states. There is a reason why SLS and Orion likely have a similar distribution of vendors.
Our government loves to espouse their hate of socialism but when finding ways to create jobs back in their states or districts, they gladly distribute military and other large programs across the US.
This was of a small sample size of eighteen. Even if this study ended up being 100% conclusive based on the samples, we are talking about eighteen people. If this were a clinical trial of a medication, you would be asked to replicate it another 100 times before going to market.
This is a nice start, basically "Further Research Needed to Confirm" should be put in the headline of this article.
He could always be a professional film critic. Rotten Tomatoes does allow film review of professional critics to post in advance of the release of the film.
Your comment mirror's my thoughts on the matter. The shows themselves weren't that bad. They were entertaining, but not always trying to set the bar to some world ending adventure. They were closer to home, far more local, and a bit more personal. You managed to get to know the character and develop a sort of understanding with them instead of the rushed CGI drivel you get with a big screen adaptation.
I cancelled Netflix some time ago though, back when they started raising their prices. I think I am going to leave the television to my wife and focus on reading or developing. I will say that the quality of television is far better than it was a decade ago, but I don't like how I lose track of time watching shows when binging. I feel unproductive and I want a better use of my time.
Remember that coworker that tries to keep everything secretive about their work to protect their job? Then the world comes along and changes without them, forcing them on the street because they were so focused on protecting what they have that they didn't invest time in learning anything new. This is literally how that sounds.
The problem is that regardless of automation, there will always be something else pushing us forward, new skills to learn, more problems to solve. Curing illnesses would be great in that perhaps we could learn how to cure them better or focus on curing other things, or prolonging life. One of the single impactful innovations at the end of the twentieth century was a boner pill.
If you build your business model around prolonging a problem instead of fixing it, the hope is that capitalism would suggest otherwise. Yet this is where one of the inherent evils of capitalism pops up its ugly head and says, "No, we need more money, keep things broken just a bit longer."
To conclude, you can say that curing something is less profitable, but that's a busted business model that's designed to fail unless you can ensure that no one will come up with a cure on the cheap.
That's my biggest issue and yes that's a slippery slope argument.
I do think that algorithms for videos should work to push scientifically backed counter videos. I know this is possible because this is already done with advertisements. The difference is they have to make this decision based on morality and not advertising dollars. That can be tough for a billion dollar corporation to do.
I attended a private school. That school is now closed because it churned out the lowest quality product it could, flooding the market with under skilled employees.
A drop in college quality right now has a lot to deal with trying to run colleges like a business which cuts into the ethos of how a college is supposed to operate. I have some college teachers who run their classes like businesses and I do have to say that they have a proper ethos in that, class is cancelled, but assignments are still due. Granted my professor is the exception, not the rule, but that person left the business world because education was more fulfilling.
I am now in a public university and the difference can be noted between private for profit colleges and public universities. I would be far more willing to work with public university students. Teachers are more focused on making certain the students grasp the knowledge instead of trying to pass the student to the next course because tuition is everything. I think if we are to get quality students from quality public colleges, we need to properly fund our colleges so that they are less reliant on tuition and can focus on only passing students that put forward the effort.
Ordinary Americans? I find bigoted Americans as deplorable. If you think being gay is yucky, or that an individual who happens to have a bit of extra skin pigmentation should be arrested for existing, or people with unfamiliar accents should be deported, then you are a deplorable person.
Ordinary Americans are fine. I have several friends who are ordinary Americans.
As far as the new Borat Show, punching down? He is typically engaged with powerful people in powerful positions. Occasionally he draws out some crowds of "ordinary" people who seem to have some extremely anti-Islamic views. Sasha Baron Cohen did have on Bernie Sanders and he tried to make a fool out of him. Unfortunately Bernie didn't exactly fall for the shtick.
Back in the day when Slashdot was a new thing and I recently purchased a 5 GB drive, my friend and I would bring over a collection of media and we would see how quickly we could fill the new drive. Less than a few hours.
We repeated the experiment when I upgraded to a 13 GB drive and again when I moved up to a 20 GB drive and later to a 250 GB drive. I haven't done such an experiment in a long long time, but to do such again would be tempting.
I doubt my cable provider would like me if I did this over the wire.
Yes, one of the things that is maddening about many social media platforms. They are trying to steer you into conversations you don't care to engage. The value of social media has dropped significantly since I took a hiatus this year. Reason enough for me to continue to step away.
The Management of my feeds has been a primary reason that I have used Firefox over other browsers since.....
I am deeply disappointed in the loss of this feature. I am not ready to shift to Chrome and I don't want to shift to Chrome. Yet moves like this are deeply frustrating.
Is this a feature that others don't use? Am I unique? What's going on?
Presently we have a sample size of one. We have some samples from locations that give us information that life presently is not likely in locations such as Mars, Venus, or any of the other major planetary bodies. We presently know that we have two very large planets with moons that look like there might be a hint of possibility that they could have life. Even if they do, we can't say much without proper research.
This is an early working theory. Ten million years is a very slim window. Considering the rate at which bacteria developed on Earth, we are talking about a very limited window. At which case, if we did actually find traces of life on the Moon, that would lead credence to the Panspermia Theory. If we don't find evidence of life then we have four other potential locations that I know of in our own solar system to look for that life. Yet, I can't help but think that we really didn't know about extremophiles until less than forty years ago. The idea of life existing in acidic or basic environments is still relatively new. They weren't even in the taxonomy chart when I graduated school in the nineties.
This does give us a solid reason to return men to the Moon for a potential endurance run rather than the short term stints we had in the sixties and seventies. I just hope the United States takes this opportunity instead of deciding to walkaway from the manned space program.
If Big Oil had shifted their focus decades ago to renewable energy, who knows how much further we would be advanced on that subject. Perhaps we would have only pushed back global warming a few years, perhaps decades. We will never new because Oil companies would rather use that information for increasing the height of their oil rigs and protect their investment.
DACA recipients and victims of torture from Gina Haspel beg to differ.
Not saying that Kim is not nuts, but Trump isn't as far away from his level of crazy as you may think. Just give him time to continue to exert himself.
The fact that for a long time so many societies had shorter lifespans seems to be irrelevant, doesn't it?
Violent Crime dropped in the US after removing lead from gasoline. After research, we have found out how lead affects the chemistry in the brain. The link actually exists and the science backs it up. Lead does nasty things over a lifetime.
I heard about some of the retraining programs setup under the Obama Administration that are finding their funding cut as well as students no longer showing up because those lucrative coal jobs are coming back.
While I support the idea of vocational jobs getting their due value, I also see this as any one particular area becoming too flooded is likely to devalue that job. Over supply and lack of demand will destroy any industry.
That being said, I am aware of some areas where not enough technical jobs exist and companies would rather pay more in an urban area than to pay the same amount and bring high paying jobs to a rural area. Don't ask why this is, I don't get it. I am just saying I have witnessed this and have yet to reconcile why such happens.
Apple has had a couple of innovative products, but nothing that really changed the way we live like the iPhone. The touch bar isn't happening or if it is, it's not happening quick enough. Thunderbolt/USB3 is not happening soon enough. The iPhone X has slow adoption rates, but that's fine. Other products are picking up the slack Apple is trying to shift the iPad into the consumer/entry level developer world and that's just not happening.
Steve Jobs had probably a four year road map when he departed. They have exceeded that for more than a year which is about how long it has been since we have seen anything even remotely innovative.
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That's right, Mike Pence, the young Earth creationist, wants us to go to the Moon by 2024. This is a man who doesn't understand science or history of us getting to the Moon. He doesn't understand money either because NASA had 5% of the budget at that time. Currently NASA has what, half a percent of the budget?
Senator Shelby isn't alone. There is a reason why the Space Shuttle was built from parts from 49 states. There is a reason why SLS and Orion likely have a similar distribution of vendors.
Our government loves to espouse their hate of socialism but when finding ways to create jobs back in their states or districts, they gladly distribute military and other large programs across the US.
Ironic that they use projection?
As with Donald Trump's hiding of his grades when asking for Obama to show his, yeah, that's a conservative trait.
This was of a small sample size of eighteen.
Even if this study ended up being 100% conclusive based on the samples, we are talking about eighteen people. If this were a clinical trial of a medication, you would be asked to replicate it another 100 times before going to market.
This is a nice start, basically "Further Research Needed to Confirm" should be put in the headline of this article.
He could always be a professional film critic. Rotten Tomatoes does allow film review of professional critics to post in advance of the release of the film.
Your comment mirror's my thoughts on the matter. The shows themselves weren't that bad. They were entertaining, but not always trying to set the bar to some world ending adventure. They were closer to home, far more local, and a bit more personal. You managed to get to know the character and develop a sort of understanding with them instead of the rushed CGI drivel you get with a big screen adaptation.
I cancelled Netflix some time ago though, back when they started raising their prices. I think I am going to leave the television to my wife and focus on reading or developing. I will say that the quality of television is far better than it was a decade ago, but I don't like how I lose track of time watching shows when binging. I feel unproductive and I want a better use of my time.
Remember that coworker that tries to keep everything secretive about their work to protect their job? Then the world comes along and changes without them, forcing them on the street because they were so focused on protecting what they have that they didn't invest time in learning anything new. This is literally how that sounds.
The problem is that regardless of automation, there will always be something else pushing us forward, new skills to learn, more problems to solve. Curing illnesses would be great in that perhaps we could learn how to cure them better or focus on curing other things, or prolonging life. One of the single impactful innovations at the end of the twentieth century was a boner pill.
If you build your business model around prolonging a problem instead of fixing it, the hope is that capitalism would suggest otherwise. Yet this is where one of the inherent evils of capitalism pops up its ugly head and says, "No, we need more money, keep things broken just a bit longer."
To conclude, you can say that curing something is less profitable, but that's a busted business model that's designed to fail unless you can ensure that no one will come up with a cure on the cheap.
That's my biggest issue and yes that's a slippery slope argument.
I do think that algorithms for videos should work to push scientifically backed counter videos. I know this is possible because this is already done with advertisements. The difference is they have to make this decision based on morality and not advertising dollars. That can be tough for a billion dollar corporation to do.
I attended a private school. That school is now closed because it churned out the lowest quality product it could, flooding the market with under skilled employees.
A drop in college quality right now has a lot to deal with trying to run colleges like a business which cuts into the ethos of how a college is supposed to operate.
I have some college teachers who run their classes like businesses and I do have to say that they have a proper ethos in that, class is cancelled, but assignments are still due.
Granted my professor is the exception, not the rule, but that person left the business world because education was more fulfilling.
I am now in a public university and the difference can be noted between private for profit colleges and public universities. I would be far more willing to work with public university students. Teachers are more focused on making certain the students grasp the knowledge instead of trying to pass the student to the next course because tuition is everything. I think if we are to get quality students from quality public colleges, we need to properly fund our colleges so that they are less reliant on tuition and can focus on only passing students that put forward the effort.
AC, go pop out a couple of sex trophies so you can take advantage if you think it's such a savings.
Ordinary Americans? I find bigoted Americans as deplorable. If you think being gay is yucky, or that an individual who happens to have a bit of extra skin pigmentation should be arrested for existing, or people with unfamiliar accents should be deported, then you are a deplorable person.
Ordinary Americans are fine. I have several friends who are ordinary Americans.
As far as the new Borat Show, punching down? He is typically engaged with powerful people in powerful positions. Occasionally he draws out some crowds of "ordinary" people who seem to have some extremely anti-Islamic views. Sasha Baron Cohen did have on Bernie Sanders and he tried to make a fool out of him. Unfortunately Bernie didn't exactly fall for the shtick.
Back in the day when Slashdot was a new thing and I recently purchased a 5 GB drive, my friend and I would bring over a collection of media and we would see how quickly we could fill the new drive. Less than a few hours.
We repeated the experiment when I upgraded to a 13 GB drive and again when I moved up to a 20 GB drive and later to a 250 GB drive.
I haven't done such an experiment in a long long time, but to do such again would be tempting.
I doubt my cable provider would like me if I did this over the wire.
Ryan?
Yes, one of the things that is maddening about many social media platforms. They are trying to steer you into conversations you don't care to engage. The value of social media has dropped significantly since I took a hiatus this year. Reason enough for me to continue to step away.
The Management of my feeds has been a primary reason that I have used Firefox over other browsers since.....
I am deeply disappointed in the loss of this feature. I am not ready to shift to Chrome and I don't want to shift to Chrome. Yet moves like this are deeply frustrating.
Is this a feature that others don't use? Am I unique? What's going on?
Those sound like two very odd extremes.
Presently we have a sample size of one. We have some samples from locations that give us information that life presently is not likely in locations such as Mars, Venus, or any of the other major planetary bodies. We presently know that we have two very large planets with moons that look like there might be a hint of possibility that they could have life. Even if they do, we can't say much without proper research.
This is an early working theory. Ten million years is a very slim window. Considering the rate at which bacteria developed on Earth, we are talking about a very limited window. At which case, if we did actually find traces of life on the Moon, that would lead credence to the Panspermia Theory. If we don't find evidence of life then we have four other potential locations that I know of in our own solar system to look for that life. Yet, I can't help but think that we really didn't know about extremophiles until less than forty years ago. The idea of life existing in acidic or basic environments is still relatively new. They weren't even in the taxonomy chart when I graduated school in the nineties.
This does give us a solid reason to return men to the Moon for a potential endurance run rather than the short term stints we had in the sixties and seventies. I just hope the United States takes this opportunity instead of deciding to walkaway from the manned space program.
If Big Oil had shifted their focus decades ago to renewable energy, who knows how much further we would be advanced on that subject. Perhaps we would have only pushed back global warming a few years, perhaps decades. We will never new because Oil companies would rather use that information for increasing the height of their oil rigs and protect their investment.
How does the expansion of the Sun factor into this?
DACA recipients and victims of torture from Gina Haspel beg to differ.
Not saying that Kim is not nuts, but Trump isn't as far away from his level of crazy as you may think. Just give him time to continue to exert himself.
The transfer was done at a Snail's Pace.
The individual who perpetrated these crimes might be non-white, hence, they are going to throw the book at him.
I could be wrong, but this just seems to fit a narrative. If the perpetrator is white, well then, the person will likely get lenient sentencing.
The fact that for a long time so many societies had shorter lifespans seems to be irrelevant, doesn't it?
Violent Crime dropped in the US after removing lead from gasoline. After research, we have found out how lead affects the chemistry in the brain. The link actually exists and the science backs it up. Lead does nasty things over a lifetime.
Won't someone think of due process?
I heard about some of the retraining programs setup under the Obama Administration that are finding their funding cut as well as students no longer showing up because those lucrative coal jobs are coming back.
While I support the idea of vocational jobs getting their due value, I also see this as any one particular area becoming too flooded is likely to devalue that job. Over supply and lack of demand will destroy any industry.
That being said, I am aware of some areas where not enough technical jobs exist and companies would rather pay more in an urban area than to pay the same amount and bring high paying jobs to a rural area. Don't ask why this is, I don't get it. I am just saying I have witnessed this and have yet to reconcile why such happens.
Apple has had a couple of innovative products, but nothing that really changed the way we live like the iPhone.
The touch bar isn't happening or if it is, it's not happening quick enough.
Thunderbolt/USB3 is not happening soon enough.
The iPhone X has slow adoption rates, but that's fine. Other products are picking up the slack
Apple is trying to shift the iPad into the consumer/entry level developer world and that's just not happening.
Steve Jobs had probably a four year road map when he departed. They have exceeded that for more than a year which is about how long it has been since we have seen anything even remotely innovative.