There's a quote from Cardinal Richlieu: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him". That's what's vaguely spooky about all this - I can just see her getting into legal trouble and the FBI painting her as a brilliant, if twisted mastermind who had set up a huge batch of aliases many years in advance of her cunning scheme. If they knew about her secret lair under the volcano, it would probably be even worse...
In that vein, there are two youtubevideos about talking to the cops. Basically, if someone wants you bad enough, they can find something.
On paper, eliminating profits saves money for the hypothetical society. In reality, however, eliminating profit also eliminates self-interest, which very effectively stagnates or degrades the enterprise... be it at the level of a single supermarket, or the economy of the wealthiest country on Earth.
Do you really want to encourage people to go into HMO billing? Also, this is a NASA thread - please leave your Health Care Rant at the door.
Hardly. GPS is accomplished via a process that, while abstract, is verifiable. Cosmology is a bit different - we can make predictions and confirm them (or not), but our perspective is so limited as to be a point source. We will probably require significant revisions in our theory once we have the ability to move to other parts of our spiral arm at the least.
I can wrap my head around supercluster scale objects, but it's fairly clear that we have a lot of things that are poorly defined, and that's largely informed by our being stuck in one place.
As for the observable universe, please review your definition of "universe" because I fear we're not on the same page and don't have much of a basis for a meaningful discussion.
Well, let's see, the universe is everything, and the observable part is what we can possibly interact with. We're pretty sure that we aren't seeing the whole thing, and we won't be able to change that without Ancient-class FTL tech and a lot of time. The edge is 50B light years or so off, and that's a lot, even if you can get to the next galaxy over in a year or two.
I dunno - it was a while, and 10k years is sufficiently longer than we've been able to make something last to be really impressive. I'm waiting for the good doctor to get himself killed through some stupid callous remark - he just can't talk to people.
France doesn't extradite its citizens, especially to the US. Apparently, this is due to our death penalty. But hey, why bring Polansky into a thread about paid blogger reviews?
I'm calling it speculation because we as a species don't really have the perspective to know what's really going on at this scale and probably won't know until we have outposts that span the galaxy. I don't follow your reasoning about the observable universe being a misconception - current cosmology assumes light speed as the absolute limit for us humans, so discovering FTL in some form could extend our ability to observe past the stated 50B ly.
cite. Of course, the stuff past the edge of the universe (such as that means anything) is a complete unknown - the big bang theory is speculation and without FTL and a lot of time, we simply don't have any idea if we're right about a lot of things. It may be that the universe we know is 15B years old and that it's simply something that happens from time to time - could be that 100B light years in some direction, there's another big bang forming now.
In Startrek physics, Ek would be close to 0 at warp since space-time moves rather than the ship. However, causing a warp field to transect a vessel rather than form around it would likely cause the wholesale destruction you seek.
Back to SG:U - The opening shots documented the ship turning parts of itself on to receive the people coming through the wormhole. Engineers who could design an intergalactic vessel would not design the CO2 scrubbers to be always on for tens of thousands of years (much less maintain atmospheric pressure), but to activate based on atmospheric composition or life-signs sensors. So, why don't the human engineers/scientists realize this and ask what else has been respiring on the ship? Also, why would such a vessel go into space without all internal hatches sealed?
Trek: I'm sure the borg would have something to say about you taking half their ship to warp 3.
SGU: I expect to see the question asked and possibly answered sometime this season. Meanwhile, the unsealed hatches have so far been a result of damage. The ancients build a ship that can run on autopilot for 10,000 years - you think they'd forget to close the door?
Last I checked, most places won't extradite you for things that aren't crimes in their legal code, especially when you did the deed in that country in the first place.
The DOT doesn't own those lines, so good luck with that. If it were my call, I'd build new lines specifically for Amtrak (no freight), put high speed rail on that built to euro spec, and increase ridership. We already have decent intracity transit on the east coast, so regional links make sense. West coast gets funding for intracity transit if they can come up with a decent plan. I don't really see california as having good transit now - they tore it all down in the 50s.
What happens is that every once in a while the idiot will strike it big (Jeff Bezos).
Bezos strikes me as more of a conservative/forward thinker - he spotted a market hole and exploited it, then expanded it to leverage item identity and third parties, and it worked. Sure, then e3 stuff is a little goofy, but there's only so much you can do with the model of 'sell stuff online'. Also, the focus on durable competitive advantage is anything but stupid.
1. There would still be demand for childcare workers, perhaps lower demand, but you make it sound like they survive an entire year on what they earn over a summer.
No, I said that it would shift demand to a higher skill job. Basically, you'd end up with a surplus and a shortage.
2. Actually, most school systems are starting in mid to late August, when it is very hot anyway. Sure there is a cost of operating through the summer, but I wouldn't consider it a deal breaker.
You can deal with hot weather for a few weeks without AC - we did where I went to HS. Try that for 3 months and see what happens.
3. I am sure your one of those people who never learned anything from others and instead locked yourself in a room full of books, but most children are actually taught at school. Sure it's not the most productive way to learn, but few family's can afford private tutors.
No they're not, and keeping them in doors for longer won't change things. Most kids today are taught to take a test. Real learning is frequently frowned upon.
Yes, currently they are cutting back on recess and PE because they are finding that they do not have enough classroom time to cover all of the required material adequately
Which is insane - now you have more time with peoiple who can't sit still because they never get a chance to run around. If they weren't teaching to a test, things would be different - the material hasn't really increased in 20 years.
The point of summer vacation, if you want to call it one, is to allow children to help work on the family farm through the summer.
The point of summer vacation is to allow kids to be kids. It allows lots of things, and I see no value in removing it.
Sure those that are already active and have safe environments to play do, but those who need to be motivated to play, or have no safe places to play, typically spend their summers being lazy.
Most kids don't live in the ghetto and even there it isn't any more dangerous than being outside anyways. Probably safer than school.
. I agree that school is not an ideal solution, however there is no system that works better for society as a whole.
This is called a joke - if you're interested in learning, schools aren't the best place for it, even if you're a poor kid.
Nah, just hold the jock accountable if they're a jerk. Most of the problems with bullying is that it's either ignored, actively encouraged, or only looked at when the victim takes down the aggressor. Fix that and keep your $1000
Granted, a little luck never hurts. I'm thinking of Edison and Einstein, Jordan and Woods.
Are you fucking with me? Einstein was an unmitigated genius, Woods was coached by his father from childhood. Jordan was a normal kid who trained hard and worked like a dog. I'll give you Edison - his life reads like a penny dreadful.
No, it doesn't count. How often does Homer go to work? How often has he been fired? They've got a McMansion and three kids; I can't imagine that someone with Homer's work ethic has the income to sustain that sort of a family.
Marge also works occasionally, but that hardly fills in the gaps.
Well, they've already made that joke (In any other country, Homer would've starved to death years ago), but it's a 2 story 1500sf house in a crappy part of town. Lisa has a sax and there's only occasionally one (1) computer in the house - homer and marge drive old ass cars and only have the house because of grandpa. How is this unrealistic? If you want that, then bitch about homer going into space.
If you stand to make 20M by offing some guy, that's pretty good incentive to hire a professional; most people would prefer not to have a price on their head. Additionally, setting expiry as death + N years means that it's easier to plan for expiry. You have that large buffer of time to make money and adjust your finances instead of one day finding that the books in your warehouse are no longer in copyright.
I think wife + kids addon and games are incompatible. You could try installing a different distribution of gf but I haven't had any successes yet.
Plenty of wives out there that don't demand every waking moment of your attention. Also, once the kids get bigger, they probably want to play games too.
seriously, 10 years and still we have people (the same people!) who can't figure out outlook? If you can't manage that ina decade, how smart can you be?
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There's a quote from Cardinal Richlieu: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him". That's what's vaguely spooky about all this - I can just see her getting into legal trouble and the FBI painting her as a brilliant, if twisted mastermind who had set up a huge batch of aliases many years in advance of her cunning scheme. If they knew about her secret lair under the volcano, it would probably be even worse...
In that vein, there are two youtube videos about talking to the cops. Basically, if someone wants you bad enough, they can find something.
On paper, eliminating profits saves money for the hypothetical society. In reality, however, eliminating profit also eliminates self-interest, which very effectively stagnates or degrades the enterprise... be it at the level of a single supermarket, or the economy of the wealthiest country on Earth.
Do you really want to encourage people to go into HMO billing? Also, this is a NASA thread - please leave your Health Care Rant at the door.
Hardly. GPS is accomplished via a process that, while abstract, is verifiable. Cosmology is a bit different - we can make predictions and confirm them (or not), but our perspective is so limited as to be a point source. We will probably require significant revisions in our theory once we have the ability to move to other parts of our spiral arm at the least.
I can wrap my head around supercluster scale objects, but it's fairly clear that we have a lot of things that are poorly defined, and that's largely informed by our being stuck in one place.
As for the observable universe, please review your definition of "universe" because I fear we're not on the same page and don't have much of a basis for a meaningful discussion.
Well, let's see, the universe is everything, and the observable part is what we can possibly interact with. We're pretty sure that we aren't seeing the whole thing, and we won't be able to change that without Ancient-class FTL tech and a lot of time. The edge is 50B light years or so off, and that's a lot, even if you can get to the next galaxy over in a year or two.
I dunno - it was a while, and 10k years is sufficiently longer than we've been able to make something last to be really impressive. I'm waiting for the good doctor to get himself killed through some stupid callous remark - he just can't talk to people.
France doesn't extradite its citizens, especially to the US. Apparently, this is due to our death penalty. But hey, why bring Polansky into a thread about paid blogger reviews?
I'm calling it speculation because we as a species don't really have the perspective to know what's really going on at this scale and probably won't know until we have outposts that span the galaxy. I don't follow your reasoning about the observable universe being a misconception - current cosmology assumes light speed as the absolute limit for us humans, so discovering FTL in some form could extend our ability to observe past the stated 50B ly.
cite. Of course, the stuff past the edge of the universe (such as that means anything) is a complete unknown - the big bang theory is speculation and without FTL and a lot of time, we simply don't have any idea if we're right about a lot of things. It may be that the universe we know is 15B years old and that it's simply something that happens from time to time - could be that 100B light years in some direction, there's another big bang forming now.
In Startrek physics, Ek would be close to 0 at warp since space-time moves rather than the ship. However, causing a warp field to transect a vessel rather than form around it would likely cause the wholesale destruction you seek.
Back to SG:U - The opening shots documented the ship turning parts of itself on to receive the people coming through the wormhole. Engineers who could design an intergalactic vessel would not design the CO2 scrubbers to be always on for tens of thousands of years (much less maintain atmospheric pressure), but to activate based on atmospheric composition or life-signs sensors. So, why don't the human engineers/scientists realize this and ask what else has been respiring on the ship? Also, why would such a vessel go into space without all internal hatches sealed?
Trek: I'm sure the borg would have something to say about you taking half their ship to warp 3.
SGU: I expect to see the question asked and possibly answered sometime this season. Meanwhile, the unsealed hatches have so far been a result of damage. The ancients build a ship that can run on autopilot for 10,000 years - you think they'd forget to close the door?
Last I checked, most places won't extradite you for things that aren't crimes in their legal code, especially when you did the deed in that country in the first place.
The DOT doesn't own those lines, so good luck with that. If it were my call, I'd build new lines specifically for Amtrak (no freight), put high speed rail on that built to euro spec, and increase ridership. We already have decent intracity transit on the east coast, so regional links make sense. West coast gets funding for intracity transit if they can come up with a decent plan. I don't really see california as having good transit now - they tore it all down in the 50s.
And what can I do now that I couldn't do before with an airplane?
Carry a soda bottle to your seat. Get there without 2 hours of security theatre. Not pay $50 for your luggage.
What's with the choices for emission? are they common spectra for hydrogen or something?
What happens is that every once in a while the idiot will strike it big (Jeff Bezos).
Bezos strikes me as more of a conservative/forward thinker - he spotted a market hole and exploited it, then expanded it to leverage item identity and third parties, and it worked. Sure, then e3 stuff is a little goofy, but there's only so much you can do with the model of 'sell stuff online'. Also, the focus on durable competitive advantage is anything but stupid.
1. There would still be demand for childcare workers, perhaps lower demand, but you make it sound like they survive an entire year on what they earn over a summer.
No, I said that it would shift demand to a higher skill job. Basically, you'd end up with a surplus and a shortage.
2. Actually, most school systems are starting in mid to late August, when it is very hot anyway. Sure there is a cost of operating through the summer, but I wouldn't consider it a deal breaker.
You can deal with hot weather for a few weeks without AC - we did where I went to HS. Try that for 3 months and see what happens.
3. I am sure your one of those people who never learned anything from others and instead locked yourself in a room full of books, but most children are actually taught at school. Sure it's not the most productive way to learn, but few family's can afford private tutors.
No they're not, and keeping them in doors for longer won't change things. Most kids today are taught to take a test. Real learning is frequently frowned upon.
Yes, currently they are cutting back on recess and PE because they are finding that they do not have enough classroom time to cover all of the required material adequately
Which is insane - now you have more time with peoiple who can't sit still because they never get a chance to run around. If they weren't teaching to a test, things would be different - the material hasn't really increased in 20 years.
The point of summer vacation, if you want to call it one, is to allow children to help work on the family farm through the summer.
The point of summer vacation is to allow kids to be kids. It allows lots of things, and I see no value in removing it.
Sure those that are already active and have safe environments to play do, but those who need to be motivated to play, or have no safe places to play, typically spend their summers being lazy.
Most kids don't live in the ghetto and even there it isn't any more dangerous than being outside anyways. Probably safer than school.
. I agree that school is not an ideal solution, however there is no system that works better for society as a whole.
This is called a joke - if you're interested in learning, schools aren't the best place for it, even if you're a poor kid.
Nah, just hold the jock accountable if they're a jerk. Most of the problems with bullying is that it's either ignored, actively encouraged, or only looked at when the victim takes down the aggressor. Fix that and keep your $1000
Yeah, and House is a doctor, a DOCTOR. What better rolemodel could our children have?
A good doctor?
If she doesn't know math, what business does she have teaching it?
PUBLIC schools should be funded by the number of students, federally without any strings other than they must be public schools.
Why are you so hot to give the fed even more power over the states? I don't see anything authorizing federally controlled education.
Granted, a little luck never hurts. I'm thinking of Edison and Einstein, Jordan and Woods.
Are you fucking with me? Einstein was an unmitigated genius, Woods was coached by his father from childhood. Jordan was a normal kid who trained hard and worked like a dog. I'll give you Edison - his life reads like a penny dreadful.
No, it doesn't count. How often does Homer go to work? How often has he been fired? They've got a McMansion and three kids; I can't imagine that someone with Homer's work ethic has the income to sustain that sort of a family. Marge also works occasionally, but that hardly fills in the gaps.
Well, they've already made that joke (In any other country, Homer would've starved to death years ago), but it's a 2 story 1500sf house in a crappy part of town. Lisa has a sax and there's only occasionally one (1) computer in the house - homer and marge drive old ass cars and only have the house because of grandpa. How is this unrealistic? If you want that, then bitch about homer going into space.
If you stand to make 20M by offing some guy, that's pretty good incentive to hire a professional; most people would prefer not to have a price on their head. Additionally, setting expiry as death + N years means that it's easier to plan for expiry. You have that large buffer of time to make money and adjust your finances instead of one day finding that the books in your warehouse are no longer in copyright.
Try reading the Silmarillion - whenever I have trouble sleeping, I try to get through 20 pages of that stuff: out like a light.
I think wife + kids addon and games are incompatible. You could try installing a different distribution of gf but I haven't had any successes yet.
Plenty of wives out there that don't demand every waking moment of your attention. Also, once the kids get bigger, they probably want to play games too.
seriously, 10 years and still we have people (the same people!) who can't figure out outlook? If you can't manage that ina decade, how smart can you be?