Aren't a couple of the main benefits of centralized power centralized pollution control and centralized upgrades?
I keep hearing that 1 large electric plant is better to power transportation than a million tiny gasoline powered generators. In fact, I hear that in here quite regularly.
If your 'job' involves hauling a few people, and large bits of machinery, at the same time, then a 'truck' is likely a good option. No matter how you wish it to be true, the Hubble, for instance, could not have been launched via Soyuz.
Soyuz is great for what it does. It does not do everything, however.
My personal banking info My vacation pics My resignation letter My will
All these, and more, I do not necessarily want on some other guys server. My banking info? Here, and at the bank. Not with some 3rd party. My vacation pics? All of them? Well...some, I want to keep local. My will? Here, and at the lawyers office. Again, not a copy on some other guys hard drive. Some guy I have zero control over.
A LOT of things could be used and kept online. But an awful lot of other things I want to keep very, very local.
It is a short term solution to a specific transportation problem. i.e. Get people and small loads back and forth to the ISS. It is not a Shuttle replacement, it is not a permanent solution.
It's akin to buying a clunker when your primary SUV breaks. Either you can limp along with something old and small, or you can walk to work while you save up for a new car.
Hunting.
You know, killing a large animal for food>
WHAT? Killing and eating animals? Nonsense! Barbaric! I get my food from the grocery store. It comes in nice little packets, with a clear plastic top, so you can see whats in it.
Some of it is called 'beef', and some is called various varieties of 'pork'. I even think they have some 'chicken'.
I don't know where it comes from (and I'd rather not know), but it in no way involves actual 'killing'. I think it comes from somewhere called a 'meat processing plant'. Not a 'meat killing plant'.
1. Ghetto terrorists are not the only problem out there. Especially if you look farther out than next summer. 2. Ghetto terrorists DO have satellites. Phones, GPS, and their prime intel source, CNN.
Among your friends is one thing. That has always happened, since music (and then movies) was first recorded.
This is an intermediary between that, and regular P2P. You're still (supposedly) swapping the physical medium, but amongst a far wider group of pseudofriends.
There have been similar deals with books for ages.
The problem with this scenario is where, when and who. Several states could have been as close as Ohio was last time. So you need to plant your troops in all of those.
Next is when. Listen to the exit polls? Notoriously inaccurate, as we have seen. So when do you trigger your troops in the key state(s)?
Lastly, we have 'who'. This would involve waaaay too many people. Someone would have talked by now.
hm...where have I heard this before? Something called 'class action lawsuit', maybe?
Where the losing company pays out millions in damages, the lawyers (on both sides) split a few million, and the thousands of individuals that won each get a pittance.
The RIAA lost one of those a couple of years ago, for price fixing CD prices. IIRC, we each got $13 and change. Wheee!
And on the flip side, no individual would EVER sue a company, just in case they lost.
Say you thought you had a case against, say, Toyota. Would you sue them, and risk the possibility of having to pay their expenses? Even if you had what you thought was an iron clad case....it sometimes doesn't work out that way.
Fewer lawsuits is a good thing. But I'm not so sure 'loser pays' is.
Being physically fit is but one requirement. And a necessary one. Spaceflight is NOT akin to sitting in your lazyboy, looking out the window. Serious G forces and vibration on takeoff and reentry, the whole weightless thing in the middle, ability to handle different atmosphere environments. And the ability to keep functioning while under all that stress.
That's one of the main reasons NASA chose military test pilots for the initial cadre of astronauts. They already had experience in all those regimes.
A horse jockey may be able to do the basic running thing, but would he pass all the other requirements? Yes, we sent up John Glenn when he was old. But he started out as the best of the best.
The Royal Malaysian Air Force flies F-18's and MiG-29's. Surely there's a few of those guys who would qualify. If not, their Air Force is in serious trouble. From fighter pilot to astronaut is not that big a leap. From horse jockey to astronaut is a far bigger one.
In other words, when you find yourself trapped in a burning building, it's not wise pump a barrel of gasoline into the flames.
We may be in a warmer cycle, but it is a firm fact that we've pumped up the methane, CO2 and CO in the atmosphere. We are pumping a tanker of gasoline onto a raging inferno.
Or, another analogy might be: If you're in an Olympic size pool, don't spit in it. You'll raise the water level and drown.
What magnitude, as compared to natural cycles, is OUR contribution to global warming? I'm NOT saying we shouldn't reduce, or that mankind has zero effect on the environment. But what, really, is the level of that effect?
Actually, it does. Home users, and regular users at work, don't see all the behind the scenes stuff that IT does to keep the network and the PC's running. They don't see the firewall, the spam filters, the restricted ports.
They turn the machine on, and it works.
At home...they don't have that IT layer to keep them out of trouble.
So your assertation is that if Israel didn't 'upset' any of its neighbors, they wouldn't have any problems? If you truly believe that, I have a couple of bridges you may be interested in.
As for the US...surely you haven't forgotten WHY there were so many western military troops in the middle east (prior to 2000), which is a main objection of OBL. Something about one country attacking another country. And the rest of the region asking the US and the UN for help. I seem to remember something like that. It's OK if you don't remember...it WAS quite a while ago.
- they are the real cause of the terror threat. when we had remained neutral there would have been no threat.
Yeah...terrorism started with the current US administration. There never were any attacks on civilians, anywhere, before Jan 2001. Similarly, there were never any overt military agressions prior to GWB taking office. Yes...Remaining 'neutral' is a sure way to guarantee no one ever, ever tries to roll over your country with tanks.
Neither is it the games industry's place to subvert parental control.
Yeah, yeah...I hear all of you saying "keep control of your kids!" or "Don't let your kids buy it!" Well...tis is one tool to help parents do just that.
No one is removing this from shelves, but rather giving parents a little more of a choice in what their kids do and see.
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You say that as though it is unusual.
I keep hearing that 1 large electric plant is better to power transportation than a million tiny gasoline powered generators. In fact, I hear that in here quite regularly.
Why the dichotomy?
Soyuz is great for what it does. It does not do everything, however.
My personal banking info
My vacation pics
My resignation letter
My will
All these, and more, I do not necessarily want on some other guys server. My banking info? Here, and at the bank. Not with some 3rd party. My vacation pics? All of them? Well...some, I want to keep local. My will? Here, and at the lawyers office. Again, not a copy on some other guys hard drive. Some guy I have zero control over.
A LOT of things could be used and kept online. But an awful lot of other things I want to keep very, very local.
And SpaceX has flown how many orbital missions, exactly?
It's akin to buying a clunker when your primary SUV breaks. Either you can limp along with something old and small, or you can walk to work while you save up for a new car.
You know, killing a large animal for food>
WHAT? Killing and eating animals? Nonsense! Barbaric! I get my food from the grocery store. It comes in nice little packets, with a clear plastic top, so you can see whats in it.
Some of it is called 'beef', and some is called various varieties of 'pork'. I even think they have some 'chicken'.
I don't know where it comes from (and I'd rather not know), but it in no way involves actual 'killing'. I think it comes from somewhere called a 'meat processing plant'. Not a 'meat killing plant'.
Right, but I don't want the first notification to the cockpit crew to be a dead flight attendant.
1. Ghetto terrorists are not the only problem out there. Especially if you look farther out than next summer.
2. Ghetto terrorists DO have satellites. Phones, GPS, and their prime intel source, CNN.
And terrify/panic the passengers, get the hijackers all worked up, and possibly kill the flight attendant who screamed.
Yes, as a last recourse, maybe. But I'd also want a different system to notify the cockpit. Something the bad guys might not notice right away.
This is an intermediary between that, and regular P2P. You're still (supposedly) swapping the physical medium, but amongst a far wider group of pseudofriends.
There have been similar deals with books for ages.
How are we sure this hasn't happened? A company is unlikely to publicise such an event.
Next is when. Listen to the exit polls? Notoriously inaccurate, as we have seen. So when do you trigger your troops in the key state(s)?
Lastly, we have 'who'. This would involve waaaay too many people. Someone would have talked by now.
Where the losing company pays out millions in damages, the lawyers (on both sides) split a few million, and the thousands of individuals that won each get a pittance.
The RIAA lost one of those a couple of years ago, for price fixing CD prices. IIRC, we each got $13 and change. Wheee!
Say you thought you had a case against, say, Toyota. Would you sue them, and risk the possibility of having to pay their expenses? Even if you had what you thought was an iron clad case....it sometimes doesn't work out that way.
Fewer lawsuits is a good thing. But I'm not so sure 'loser pays' is.
That's one of the main reasons NASA chose military test pilots for the initial cadre of astronauts. They already had experience in all those regimes.
A horse jockey may be able to do the basic running thing, but would he pass all the other requirements? Yes, we sent up John Glenn when he was old. But he started out as the best of the best.
The Royal Malaysian Air Force flies F-18's and MiG-29's. Surely there's a few of those guys who would qualify. If not, their Air Force is in serious trouble. From fighter pilot to astronaut is not that big a leap. From horse jockey to astronaut is a far bigger one.
The DoD and DoE has had this for years.
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Still...not too shabby.
DARPA already knows.
We may be in a warmer cycle, but it is a firm fact that we've pumped up the methane, CO2 and CO in the atmosphere. We are pumping a tanker of gasoline onto a raging inferno.
Or, another analogy might be:
If you're in an Olympic size pool, don't spit in it. You'll raise the water level and drown.
What magnitude, as compared to natural cycles, is OUR contribution to global warming? I'm NOT saying we shouldn't reduce, or that mankind has zero effect on the environment. But what, really, is the level of that effect?
How much?
They turn the machine on, and it works.
At home...they don't have that IT layer to keep them out of trouble.
And why do you think your HD went corrupt? I think it is smarter than you are. It KNOWS what is good and what is crap.
As for the US...surely you haven't forgotten WHY there were so many western military troops in the middle east (prior to 2000), which is a main objection of OBL. Something about one country attacking another country. And the rest of the region asking the US and the UN for help. I seem to remember something like that. It's OK if you don't remember...it WAS quite a while ago.
Uh huh. Neutrality works, as long as you're making a profit from the main aggressor, and his military depends on you for vital materials.
Yeah...terrorism started with the current US administration. There never were any attacks on civilians, anywhere, before Jan 2001. Similarly, there were never any overt military agressions prior to GWB taking office.
Yes...Remaining 'neutral' is a sure way to guarantee no one ever, ever tries to roll over your country with tanks.
Look how well it has worked in the past.
Yeah, yeah...I hear all of you saying "keep control of your kids!" or "Don't let your kids buy it!"
Well...tis is one tool to help parents do just that.
No one is removing this from shelves, but rather giving parents a little more of a choice in what their kids do and see.