But unless you put cameras up there and shorten up the timing of yellow lights, how can you be expected to make money on traffic tickets to fund the roads?
Even if we manage to pepper the Alpha Centauri system with these things, around a million or so, the odds of actually hitting a planet are? You would have better luck repeatedly winning the lottery every day for a year straight than hitting something over on the other side.
If these are space born, intelligent creatures on the other side, they will most likely respond with a serious, WTF?, rather than retaliate. That is if they are advanced and actually have quite an established presence(Thousands of Stations). If they aren't space-faring, then the odds of them knowing that we are peppering their system with wafer sized bullets traveling at 0.2 C is even less because we will likely hit their planet's atmosphere at increase velocity. Basically the most they would see is a little high speed poof ball, if anything at all.
Unfortunately, we still can't confirm that planets even exist in this little cluster of stars.
Call me when they hack his social media accounts and start posting pro-Bernie announcements or publish his tax returns. I would even be entertained with the amount of money he spends to maintain that rug on his head.
Let's be honest, if they are going to do something, let's make it entertaining and worthwhile.
I agree. I think now is the time to go underground, train, and enhance our skills. This megalomaniac seems to feed on attention. Attacking him will only vindicate his authority. Once he steps out of line, we must infiltrate and dismantle his operation from inside.
Until then, we use every legal method to keep him out of power. Vote! Encourage others to vote. Don't let anyone stay home on the day of the election. We must have lots of power to subvert these angry masses and bring an end to the few who feel that this hate monger needs to be in power.
If your moment has past, your state cast their ballots; go and beef up every skill you have available. If he takes office, war is coming and the U.S. is not going to be on the right side of history on this one.
While this would be where we insert slippery slope argument, this is probably one of those rare places where slippery slope is best represented. Say they release a patch, patch finds itself in the wild, patch is reverse engineered, new patches can be used and built off of future versions of iOS.
Ethan's a pretty good guy and friends of friends of mine. I have been following their circles has been entertaining over the years. Every one of them has their points and almost all of them should be taken into consideration when "finding" a new planet.
There is a large community of astrophysicists who want Pluto reclassified as a planet. Mike Brown being the Pluto killer, finding a new planet only adds to the frustration.
Yet we know there to be a difference between sensational findings and actual findings.
Two years ago someone claimed they found a large object in the Kuiper Belt. Mike Brown tried to discredit them and failed. As more eyes start to look at where this gravametric distortion exists, the scientific community will validate the existence of the object.
Meanwhile, I am going to watch this conversation between geniuses try and not devolve into name calling.
I think I have stated this over and over and yet, many conservatives don't seem to care. They would rather wrap their hands around their long hard objects rather than worry about the deep probing they are getting from the federal government.
Albert Einstein, Wernher Von Braun, Enrico Fermi, Alexander Graham Bell, Niels Bohr, Edward Teller and so many more.
Many outsiders saw the US as the country to get science done. After some of the damage we have done in the last 15 years, I don't know if that's still the case.
Khan Academy is probably the first thing I would choose.
An election year is always a good year to look at statistics because Nate Silver is always looking for trends.
Basic Statistics, you could use sports easily. Take the local high school teams and compare how they do to others and what their ratio of hits or misses are for their sport of choice.
Use their own past history in courses to determine how they will do in future courses. A history professor was pointing out that of those students in her class, those who looked at a specific resource had performed the best.
Using something that relates to the students in their day to day lives or at least something they find interesting to teach statistics will most likely yield the best results.
A good gym has pretty much become a staple to being part of healthcare. I pay taxes because this gym provides services to the community as giving courts for kids to play basketball or volleyball, a track for running, and wellness programs.
Paying taxes for a gym gives some access to resources to help them maintain happy and healthy lives. There are fees with membership to the gym, but they pale in comparison to the private gym. The private gym offers 24 hour access as well as some resources and less crowding than the public gym does. They don't have the basketball courts, or some of the other amenities of the public gym, but they compete very well.
I go to a private gym because I can afford access to that gym. Yet, I have been on my health kick long enough to say that I would rather pay hundreds of dollars on a gym rather than thousands of dollars on medicines for Medicaid and Medicare that could have been resolved with proper education and physical activity.
I pay taxes for public education, yet I have no children and if I did have children, I would probably do what I could to send them to a private school. I don't see how municipal broadband is any different.
I live in a town with a gym that was paid for with tax dollars and a gym that was paid for privately. They compete. There are no problems. If you don't like one, go to the other. Same goes for education.
I don't see the problem, but then again, I don't have a problem competing with the government. Only a protectionist claiming to be a capitalist would.
Various experiments have taught us what the effects of micro gravity on humans as well as several other species. Just this year, we have started to grow and consume food in space. We are trying to get more species up there and for longer iterations. These studies allow us to extrapolate what potential long term effects of micro gravity will have as we try to explore other planets and asteroids. I look forward to continued experimentation and exploration.
Who crapped in your cereal this morning? I mean seriously, someone had to have taken a dump on your bowl of cornflakes for you to be such a fowl individual. I know I am irritable if I don't have my morning coffee, but I can only gather that someone had loaded your fruit loops with a fecal surprise.
I have seen several cases of conspiracy theorists trying to point to that as evidence. Clearly if they can't see the rod through the top and take in account that gravity will wave a flag as it's being moved around and planted, then you probably shouldn't take the time to explain to them. Stop paying attention to the crazies, that only gives them unneeded attention!
On the contrary, there was an article about companies like ImBev who were trying to use vertical integration to reduce the amount of choices a customer had in order to sell additional beer. They saw it as the fact that if customers had less to select from, then they would buy more. Then again, these are monopolistic practices.
I disagree with this on some measure. There are some items which sell more than others and really wish shelving space would address these needs especially in the food industry.
Yet there are companies like Lenovo that built in lots of product diversity. That boded well for them for a bit, but later started to show up in production costs. Capitalism more than communism wants to keep production costs low though. They will fight to reduce choice in what ever market they can to reduce costs. Competing companies will push for innovation and create market diversity.
Again with companies such as Ford, General Motors and Chrysler; we have companies that had very diverse markets but decided to cut several product lines in order to stay relevant and get in line for those fat government bailouts.
Not if the hackers aren't aware of what they are doing. If someone were to mask their intent as a game of sorts, we could enlist some of the most skilled individuals normally incapable of doing anything outside of standard orders.
Think like giving a soldier a weapon and orders to kill defenseless children, only wrapping up killing children under the premise that they are just playing a sick and twisted version of Grand Theft Auto.
If that doesn't work, we just keep layering the attacks until the system trying to predict its attack is no longer possible.
Ultimately the problem with modelling is that not all variables are accounted for. Most of the variables are accounted for, but who guards for the outliers. Japan built a wall for a tsunami resistant wall which worked until they had an earthquake that was a 9.0 They built a nuclear power plant on a fault line which would have worked except too many systems failed at once. We launched shuttles from Florida thinking that the temperature was never below freezing, so we never tested parts at below freezing temperatures. Was a great cost savings until January of 1986.
This list goes on of miscalculations of the worst possible scenario. Eventually the planets line up all at once,and gravity gets just a little more wonky than normal.
Because our Cold War Propaganda built a world of allies and didn't do anything like prop up lousy dictators like Castro, Hussein, and the rest of the bunch. Our Anti-Communist policies set back the world in so many ways, yet kept the U.S. sheltered. Along came the Information Age and ended much of that seclusion. We are now seeing the rest of the world for what it is: Pissed at us for decades of mindless meddling.
While taking over a desert to lay out a giant solar power farm, roof top units are probably more ideal. A large portion of power is lost through transit. I have heard calculations from 65% to 84% of power produced being lost from generation to the time where a device is powered. I don't much care for those kind of losses. Smaller and distributed sources of power generation help to create a more robust power grid.
Garmin has already started down this path, although they have a lot of room for growth.
Currently my company uses the vivofits as wellness programs where participation is optional. But so much participation is expected out of the employee to minimize health care costs. An employee can fudge what they do, take a bunch of tests and save about $100 a month on their health insurance. Otherwise they don't have to do much at all and pay the extra. Now there are ways to get out of the extra work, such as if your blood work shows your numbers are good, then great. You pretty much don't have to do anything.
There are aspects that I don't like about this, but being in the Midwest and having to pay for Billy Bob and his second helping of gravy covered fries, three 20oz Mountain Dews, and three cheeseburgers during a 20 minute lunch break; I find taking care of myself and a little encouragement isn't a bad thing.
My company is self-insured, so any tubby decides to clog his arteries and require a septuple bypass, some how that seems to affect the profit sharing. I guess that all depends on what you want to get out of life, but since I started this wellness kick this last year, I think I would rather spend the time and effort slimming down and improve my quality of life a bit rather than require my own personal morning noon and night pillbox for every day.
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But unless you put cameras up there and shorten up the timing of yellow lights, how can you be expected to make money on traffic tickets to fund the roads?
Even if we manage to pepper the Alpha Centauri system with these things, around a million or so, the odds of actually hitting a planet are? You would have better luck repeatedly winning the lottery every day for a year straight than hitting something over on the other side.
If these are space born, intelligent creatures on the other side, they will most likely respond with a serious, WTF?, rather than retaliate. That is if they are advanced and actually have quite an established presence(Thousands of Stations).
If they aren't space-faring, then the odds of them knowing that we are peppering their system with wafer sized bullets traveling at 0.2 C is even less because we will likely hit their planet's atmosphere at increase velocity. Basically the most they would see is a little high speed poof ball, if anything at all.
Unfortunately, we still can't confirm that planets even exist in this little cluster of stars.
Call me when they hack his social media accounts and start posting pro-Bernie announcements or publish his tax returns. I would even be entertained with the amount of money he spends to maintain that rug on his head.
Let's be honest, if they are going to do something, let's make it entertaining and worthwhile.
I agree. I think now is the time to go underground, train, and enhance our skills. This megalomaniac seems to feed on attention. Attacking him will only vindicate his authority. Once he steps out of line, we must infiltrate and dismantle his operation from inside.
Until then, we use every legal method to keep him out of power. Vote! Encourage others to vote. Don't let anyone stay home on the day of the election. We must have lots of power to subvert these angry masses and bring an end to the few who feel that this hate monger needs to be in power.
If your moment has past, your state cast their ballots; go and beef up every skill you have available. If he takes office, war is coming and the U.S. is not going to be on the right side of history on this one.
While this would be where we insert slippery slope argument, this is probably one of those rare places where slippery slope is best represented. Say they release a patch, patch finds itself in the wild, patch is reverse engineered, new patches can be used and built off of future versions of iOS.
Ethan's a pretty good guy and friends of friends of mine. I have been following their circles has been entertaining over the years. Every one of them has their points and almost all of them should be taken into consideration when "finding" a new planet.
There is a large community of astrophysicists who want Pluto reclassified as a planet. Mike Brown being the Pluto killer, finding a new planet only adds to the frustration.
Yet we know there to be a difference between sensational findings and actual findings.
Two years ago someone claimed they found a large object in the Kuiper Belt. Mike Brown tried to discredit them and failed. As more eyes start to look at where this gravametric distortion exists, the scientific community will validate the existence of the object.
Meanwhile, I am going to watch this conversation between geniuses try and not devolve into name calling.
I think I have stated this over and over and yet, many conservatives don't seem to care. They would rather wrap their hands around their long hard objects rather than worry about the deep probing they are getting from the federal government.
Albert Einstein, Wernher Von Braun, Enrico Fermi, Alexander Graham Bell, Niels Bohr, Edward Teller and so many more.
Many outsiders saw the US as the country to get science done. After some of the damage we have done in the last 15 years, I don't know if that's still the case.
I actually caught that shortly into reading the description. Felt a bit burned to find out they accepted this.
Fiction becoming reality is scary when involving dystopian novels. Here I was oping for a bit more of an optimistic view of the future.
Khan Academy is probably the first thing I would choose.
An election year is always a good year to look at statistics because Nate Silver is always looking for trends.
Basic Statistics, you could use sports easily. Take the local high school teams and compare how they do to others and what their ratio of hits or misses are for their sport of choice.
Use their own past history in courses to determine how they will do in future courses. A history professor was pointing out that of those students in her class, those who looked at a specific resource had performed the best.
Using something that relates to the students in their day to day lives or at least something they find interesting to teach statistics will most likely yield the best results.
A good gym has pretty much become a staple to being part of healthcare. I pay taxes because this gym provides services to the community as giving courts for kids to play basketball or volleyball, a track for running, and wellness programs.
Paying taxes for a gym gives some access to resources to help them maintain happy and healthy lives. There are fees with membership to the gym, but they pale in comparison to the private gym. The private gym offers 24 hour access as well as some resources and less crowding than the public gym does. They don't have the basketball courts, or some of the other amenities of the public gym, but they compete very well.
I go to a private gym because I can afford access to that gym. Yet, I have been on my health kick long enough to say that I would rather pay hundreds of dollars on a gym rather than thousands of dollars on medicines for Medicaid and Medicare that could have been resolved with proper education and physical activity.
I pay taxes for public education, yet I have no children and if I did have children, I would probably do what I could to send them to a private school. I don't see how municipal broadband is any different.
I live in a town with a gym that was paid for with tax dollars and a gym that was paid for privately. They compete. There are no problems. If you don't like one, go to the other. Same goes for education.
I don't see the problem, but then again, I don't have a problem competing with the government. Only a protectionist claiming to be a capitalist would.
Various experiments have taught us what the effects of micro gravity on humans as well as several other species. Just this year, we have started to grow and consume food in space. We are trying to get more species up there and for longer iterations. These studies allow us to extrapolate what potential long term effects of micro gravity will have as we try to explore other planets and asteroids. I look forward to continued experimentation and exploration.
Who crapped in your cereal this morning? I mean seriously, someone had to have taken a dump on your bowl of cornflakes for you to be such a fowl individual.
I know I am irritable if I don't have my morning coffee, but I can only gather that someone had loaded your fruit loops with a fecal surprise.
I hope your day goes better.
I have seen several cases of conspiracy theorists trying to point to that as evidence. Clearly if they can't see the rod through the top and take in account that gravity will wave a flag as it's being moved around and planted, then you probably shouldn't take the time to explain to them. Stop paying attention to the crazies, that only gives them unneeded attention!
On the contrary, there was an article about companies like ImBev who were trying to use vertical integration to reduce the amount of choices a customer had in order to sell additional beer. They saw it as the fact that if customers had less to select from, then they would buy more. Then again, these are monopolistic practices.
I disagree with this on some measure. There are some items which sell more than others and really wish shelving space would address these needs especially in the food industry.
Yet there are companies like Lenovo that built in lots of product diversity. That boded well for them for a bit, but later started to show up in production costs.
Capitalism more than communism wants to keep production costs low though. They will fight to reduce choice in what ever market they can to reduce costs. Competing companies will push for innovation and create market diversity.
Again with companies such as Ford, General Motors and Chrysler; we have companies that had very diverse markets but decided to cut several product lines in order to stay relevant and get in line for those fat government bailouts.
Only if they happen to look Latino. Others will only be briefly detained.
Not if the hackers aren't aware of what they are doing. If someone were to mask their intent as a game of sorts, we could enlist some of the most skilled individuals normally incapable of doing anything outside of standard orders.
Think like giving a soldier a weapon and orders to kill defenseless children, only wrapping up killing children under the premise that they are just playing a sick and twisted version of Grand Theft Auto.
If that doesn't work, we just keep layering the attacks until the system trying to predict its attack is no longer possible.
Ultimately the problem with modelling is that not all variables are accounted for. Most of the variables are accounted for, but who guards for the outliers.
Japan built a wall for a tsunami resistant wall which worked until they had an earthquake that was a 9.0
They built a nuclear power plant on a fault line which would have worked except too many systems failed at once.
We launched shuttles from Florida thinking that the temperature was never below freezing, so we never tested parts at below freezing temperatures. Was a great cost savings until January of 1986.
This list goes on of miscalculations of the worst possible scenario. Eventually the planets line up all at once,and gravity gets just a little more wonky than normal.
He was getting in the way and had to be dealt with. He was also an advocate for pardoning Snowden. He had to go.
Because our Cold War Propaganda built a world of allies and didn't do anything like prop up lousy dictators like Castro, Hussein, and the rest of the bunch. Our Anti-Communist policies set back the world in so many ways, yet kept the U.S. sheltered. Along came the Information Age and ended much of that seclusion. We are now seeing the rest of the world for what it is: Pissed at us for decades of mindless meddling.
Yes there is a problem, and yes there needs to be a solution.
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While taking over a desert to lay out a giant solar power farm, roof top units are probably more ideal. A large portion of power is lost through transit. I have heard calculations from 65% to 84% of power produced being lost from generation to the time where a device is powered. I don't much care for those kind of losses. Smaller and distributed sources of power generation help to create a more robust power grid.
I can't. I swear, yesterday we were at war with Eurasia, but that must have been a lie for Eurasia have always been our allies.
We were always at war with East Asia!
Garmin has already started down this path, although they have a lot of room for growth.
Currently my company uses the vivofits as wellness programs where participation is optional. But so much participation is expected out of the employee to minimize health care costs. An employee can fudge what they do, take a bunch of tests and save about $100 a month on their health insurance. Otherwise they don't have to do much at all and pay the extra. Now there are ways to get out of the extra work, such as if your blood work shows your numbers are good, then great. You pretty much don't have to do anything.
There are aspects that I don't like about this, but being in the Midwest and having to pay for Billy Bob and his second helping of gravy covered fries, three 20oz Mountain Dews, and three cheeseburgers during a 20 minute lunch break; I find taking care of myself and a little encouragement isn't a bad thing.
My company is self-insured, so any tubby decides to clog his arteries and require a septuple bypass, some how that seems to affect the profit sharing.
I guess that all depends on what you want to get out of life, but since I started this wellness kick this last year, I think I would rather spend the time and effort slimming down and improve my quality of life a bit rather than require my own personal morning noon and night pillbox for every day.