Tracking customers doesn't actually add anything. Knowing someone bought a spade does NOT mean they want adverts for spades.
Actually, it does add value. Knowing someone just bought a spade should tell you they're not in the market for a spade, so don't waste time advertising them to the customer.
If your ship is crewed by on-site staff, they may work an 8 hour shift, but they're basically on-call the other 16 hours.
Umm, no. The crew of a ship seldom has time to goof off for 16 hours straight, what with eight hours on watch, followed by eight hours of PM, followed by sleep and everything else you have to do (eat, shower, that sort of thing) in whatever time is left.
Hedging his bets? Or just avoiding controversy while alive?
Avoiding controversy is my bet.
I must admit that I wonder what the science is behind the statement "there is no God". It's not like there's any way to prove it. It's always seemed to me that a hypothetical God (Creator Of All That Is sort of God, not one of those petty inlaws sorts of Gods like the ancient Greeks had) could, if he existed, make damn sure that there's no paper trail leading back to him (her? it?)....
1) We're not talking slow, we're talking fast, as such things go.
2) But yes, we live on a very cold planet. All of human civilization has happened during an interglcial in the ongoing Ice Age that this planet has been in for better than two megayears. Note that if the temps went up 2C, we'd still be below average temps over the last 100 megayears. That said, note (1) above - a slow change is one thing, a fast one is another....
Okay, three things: going from a glaciation to an interglacial (or vice versa) happens fast too. Perhaps not as fast as AGW seems to be happening, but really fast in geological terms....
And 3 of those 400 went boom. Several others nearly went boom.
Umm, no. None of them "went boom". No, there have been no nuclear explosions in any nuclear power plants, ever.
Note that of the three, one had no (zero) casualties, one had one (1) casualty, and the third had a hundred or so (mostly firefighters).
Note that the one that had a hundred or so casualties was a result of a deliberate attempt to simulate a meltdown. So they tried really hard to get to a condition that acted like a meltdown, succeeded in getting a real meltdown, and still had casualties that make any particular day's traffic fatalities look good (note that the world loses three thousand people DAILY in traffic accidents - we haven't had three hundred deaths as a result of nuclear power in all the time we've had nuclear power (70 years or so)....
Where do you think that the U-235 for the first nuclear weapons came from?
First nuclear weapon. Only one (1) nuclear weapon has ever been made using U235. That was the Hiroshima bomb. The rest have been made with Plutonium, which requires a specially designed reactor to make. Which is why there are so few countries with nukes. Civilian reactors won't get you there....
likely to lead to another major accident such as Fukushima.
Yeah, Fukushima was such a major accident that it killed almost as many people as died on the morning commute in most any major city today. Even Chernobyl didn't kill as many people as died in traffic on any average day in the USA....
$320 billion that could have been spent for well-baby programs for everyone born in the US, or for improved infrastructure, or for paying down the national debt.
$320 billion over 18+ years. Depending on whether we count development time or not.
So, less than $18B per year. If we'd spent all of that on paying down the national debt, the national debt would have grown slightly slower (note that in 2014 alone, the federal deficit was larger than the entire cost of the F35 program from inception to present).
Your hypothetical well baby programs might be possible under the Constitution. Or not, there's a good argument that that's a State level issue. Note that using the General Welfare clause to justify it essentially means that General Welfare can be used for ANYTHING. Which is really a bad idea, in the long run.
Or do you really like the Fed's take on Net Neutrality? Because it could also be justified under the General Welfare clause, and thus supersede any State laws that might disagree....
resembles the note that left my grandma on the fridge
So, how, exactly, did this "note" leave your grandma on the fridge? And was that the cause of death? Or was she already dead when the "note" left her on the fridge?
And did anyone contact the police when they found grandma on the fridge?
Isn't it also ignorant to assume that terrorist groups and organized criminals are going to stop using encrypted communications just because somebody passed a law?
Or they'll go back to the good old, reliable, Code Book. "Jean has a long mustache" can mean anything from "Get me some hummus while you're out casing the joint" to "kill the President's Analyst".
Even better, it can mean different things to different people, since not every member of your terrorist organization has to have exactly the same codebook....
Have you ever considered that many people who don't vote do so consciously because they don't like any of the available choices?
Yeppers. I decided about 40 years ago to never vote AGAINST a candidate. I will vote FOR someone, but I won't do the "lesser of two evils" thing. The Lesser of Two Evils is still evil.
Which is why I didn't, in the last Presidential Election, vote for either candidate....
A quick check finds that bees don't tend to fly at night (absent a variety of parasites that screw up their lives to the point of killing them).
Do night and solar eclipses have anything in common? Oh, yeah! It's dark then!
So perhaps the bees aren't flying because their tiny little bee-brains are looking out, seeing darkness, checking core programming, and stopping the whole flying thing till it's not so dark....
Meh. Get all these bitches who scream "1% for NASA!!!!!1111!!!" to write a check for that 1% of their income and send it off to SpaceX. If that would happen the mission would be fully funding in under 2 years. I guarantee it.
That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. You can't just write NASA on the check and put "FOR MARS ONLY!!!" in the memo field and get your Mars mission funded. Congress has to allocate the funding to the Mars mission.
Did you see anything in the comment you're responding to about sending a check to NASA? I only saw reference to sending a check to SpaceX (from private citizens, not the Gov...). Give SpaceX the money to go to Mars, and I'd bet on us being there while NASA is still saying "but...but...that was supposed to be OUR Mars mission...."
Even without meat, we can't even support current population.
Oh? Have there been some recent famines that I managed to miss?
Note that when I was a kid, famines in India and such places were fairly common. Now? Not so much. Don't recall reading about widespread lack of food for millions in 30 years or so....
Either the ULA is really lucky or they lobbied to ensure specific requirements that SpaceX FH and BFR weren't certified for yet.
Or ULA's rocket has more than 1100 contractors spread over 43 States. 43 States means a lot of Senators get a warm fuzzy come reelection time. 1100 contractors means a lot of Congresscritters of both types get that same warm fuzzy come reelection time....
What is wrong with converting decommissioned Nuclear reactors to Gas?
Umm, shifting from a power source that produces ZERO greenhouse gasses to one that produces any amount greater than zero (and Gas power plants are only good in comparison to coal, really) doesn't actually move you toward a "greener" future. It's a step backwards to go from nuclear power (zero carbon emissions) to NatGas (non-zero carbon emissions - note that for every 16kg of NatGas burned, you get 44kg of CO2)....
Turns out not. IQ-wise, we are much smarter now. They have to continuously recalibrate IQ tests to keep the average at 100. (Google the Flynn Effect)
My thanks, sir!
I never knew this before your post.
Fascinating! And with moderately enormous implications for the future, even if we (in the advanced nations) have reached a plateau, since most of the world's population won't be anywhere near that plateau yet.
even though Germany had a moratorium on nuclear energy after Fukushima-Daiishi in 2011, the share of coal (including lignin) generated electricity had just a small uptick until 2013 and is even faster declining [wikipedia.org] since (from 62% in 1990 to 52% today).
So, they're only running 52% coal, as compared to the USA's 30%? Yep, much greener in Germany....
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Adminstrate? Are you sure you didn't want "administrationize"?
Or maybe, this is a wild thought, "administer"?
Actually, it does add value. Knowing someone just bought a spade should tell you they're not in the market for a spade, so don't waste time advertising them to the customer.
Umm, no. The crew of a ship seldom has time to goof off for 16 hours straight, what with eight hours on watch, followed by eight hours of PM, followed by sleep and everything else you have to do (eat, shower, that sort of thing) in whatever time is left.
Avoiding controversy is my bet.
I must admit that I wonder what the science is behind the statement "there is no God". It's not like there's any way to prove it. It's always seemed to me that a hypothetical God (Creator Of All That Is sort of God, not one of those petty inlaws sorts of Gods like the ancient Greeks had) could, if he existed, make damn sure that there's no paper trail leading back to him (her? it?)....
Nope. "Cromulent" is from 1994. "Copypasta" might go as far back as 2006....
Oddly enough, the things most likely to go extinct are the things we don't eat....
A couple things:
1) We're not talking slow, we're talking fast, as such things go.
2) But yes, we live on a very cold planet. All of human civilization has happened during an interglcial in the ongoing Ice Age that this planet has been in for better than two megayears. Note that if the temps went up 2C, we'd still be below average temps over the last 100 megayears. That said, note (1) above - a slow change is one thing, a fast one is another....
Okay, three things: going from a glaciation to an interglacial (or vice versa) happens fast too. Perhaps not as fast as AGW seems to be happening, but really fast in geological terms....
With a net population growth of 0.1% per year, it'll be less than 5000 years.
For 10k years, it'll require a net population growth of 0.05% per year.
So, absent some factor limiting our population (being unable to get off this rock comes to mind), it won't be "many millenia" till we hit a trillion.
Umm, no. None of them "went boom". No, there have been no nuclear explosions in any nuclear power plants, ever.
Note that of the three, one had no (zero) casualties, one had one (1) casualty, and the third had a hundred or so (mostly firefighters).
Note that the one that had a hundred or so casualties was a result of a deliberate attempt to simulate a meltdown. So they tried really hard to get to a condition that acted like a meltdown, succeeded in getting a real meltdown, and still had casualties that make any particular day's traffic fatalities look good (note that the world loses three thousand people DAILY in traffic accidents - we haven't had three hundred deaths as a result of nuclear power in all the time we've had nuclear power (70 years or so)....
First nuclear weapon. Only one (1) nuclear weapon has ever been made using U235. That was the Hiroshima bomb. The rest have been made with Plutonium, which requires a specially designed reactor to make. Which is why there are so few countries with nukes. Civilian reactors won't get you there....
Yeah, Fukushima was such a major accident that it killed almost as many people as died on the morning commute in most any major city today. Even Chernobyl didn't kill as many people as died in traffic on any average day in the USA....
Two things:
1) if they don't want to be part of it, then they can always leave MS for some other company...
2) "There message" --- their message? where message?
$320 billion over 18+ years. Depending on whether we count development time or not.
So, less than $18B per year. If we'd spent all of that on paying down the national debt, the national debt would have grown slightly slower (note that in 2014 alone, the federal deficit was larger than the entire cost of the F35 program from inception to present).
Your hypothetical well baby programs might be possible under the Constitution. Or not, there's a good argument that that's a State level issue. Note that using the General Welfare clause to justify it essentially means that General Welfare can be used for ANYTHING. Which is really a bad idea, in the long run.
Or do you really like the Fed's take on Net Neutrality? Because it could also be justified under the General Welfare clause, and thus supersede any State laws that might disagree....
So, how, exactly, did this "note" leave your grandma on the fridge? And was that the cause of death? Or was she already dead when the "note" left her on the fridge?
And did anyone contact the police when they found grandma on the fridge?
No Facebook means no Facebook problem....
Or they'll go back to the good old, reliable, Code Book. "Jean has a long mustache" can mean anything from "Get me some hummus while you're out casing the joint" to "kill the President's Analyst".
Even better, it can mean different things to different people, since not every member of your terrorist organization has to have exactly the same codebook....
Yeppers. I decided about 40 years ago to never vote AGAINST a candidate. I will vote FOR someone, but I won't do the "lesser of two evils" thing. The Lesser of Two Evils is still evil.
Which is why I didn't, in the last Presidential Election, vote for either candidate....
A quick check finds that bees don't tend to fly at night (absent a variety of parasites that screw up their lives to the point of killing them).
Do night and solar eclipses have anything in common? Oh, yeah! It's dark then!
So perhaps the bees aren't flying because their tiny little bee-brains are looking out, seeing darkness, checking core programming, and stopping the whole flying thing till it's not so dark....
Did you see anything in the comment you're responding to about sending a check to NASA? I only saw reference to sending a check to SpaceX (from private citizens, not the Gov...). Give SpaceX the money to go to Mars, and I'd bet on us being there while NASA is still saying "but...but...that was supposed to be OUR Mars mission...."
Oh? Have there been some recent famines that I managed to miss?
Note that when I was a kid, famines in India and such places were fairly common. Now? Not so much. Don't recall reading about widespread lack of food for millions in 30 years or so....
The need for 1100 contractors to get the required votes in Congress for the budget for space is why space is as expensive as it is today.
Note SpaceX, which doesn't depend on Congress for its R&D budget....
Or ULA's rocket has more than 1100 contractors spread over 43 States. 43 States means a lot of Senators get a warm fuzzy come reelection time. 1100 contractors means a lot of Congresscritters of both types get that same warm fuzzy come reelection time....
Umm, shifting from a power source that produces ZERO greenhouse gasses to one that produces any amount greater than zero (and Gas power plants are only good in comparison to coal, really) doesn't actually move you toward a "greener" future. It's a step backwards to go from nuclear power (zero carbon emissions) to NatGas (non-zero carbon emissions - note that for every 16kg of NatGas burned, you get 44kg of CO2)....
My thanks, sir!
I never knew this before your post.
Fascinating! And with moderately enormous implications for the future, even if we (in the advanced nations) have reached a plateau, since most of the world's population won't be anywhere near that plateau yet.
And that's assuming that there is a plateau....
So, they're only running 52% coal, as compared to the USA's 30%? Yep, much greener in Germany....
How about not?
Seems to me that that sort of thing very quickly becomes the first step on a very slippery slope....