As I posted previously (er... "DUP")...
Do they generate enough power now to be able to usefully use it in an Ion engine to help keep the ISS on station (or indeed move it further out)?
I'm guessing they don't generate anywhere enough power, and also don't have an "ion" engine attached anywhere, but could they generate enough power to use an Ion engine to help sustain (or even over time "change") their orbit - ie remain where they are or move further out?
>>The $20 bill has a fixed value.
>Huh? Ever heard of inflation?
But I think what the GP is refering to is that even with inflation, the $20 bill will ALWAYS purchase $20 's worth of goods. In the case of a CD containing music, when it is first released, and assuming it is someone currently popular, it may sell for £15+ (in the UK). Give it 6 months or more and you will likely find it selling for £10, and another six months and it might in the Woolworths bargain bin for £5 or less!
>>It's rather assinine to attempt to conflate counterfeiting of ANY consumer product and money.
>Why? Money isn't real either - you can't walk into a Federal Reserve Bank, for example, and redeem it... so, by definition it has no inherent value, only that which we ascribe to it.
It certainly used to be the case that bank notes would state "I promise to pay the bearer on demand...", and this used to refer to gold (maybe that was just in the UK?).
The idea was that cash would only be printed to cover the value of the gold reserves. I believe this is no longer the case after a "run on Gold" starting in the '60s... from the article...
On August 15 (1971), with only $2.23 in gold available to redeem every $100 of U.S. paper promises, President Nixon declared international bankruptcy by closing the gold window. After that Sunday, as former Congressman Ron Paul and Lewis Lehrman have explained: "There were now absolutely no checks on the ability of the United States to inflate." And inflate the Fed has. By all measures, the money supply has increased by 400% since 1971.
... and it's possible when here details are checked next time we have same name, and D-o-B month (why only the month?), and hey look... mySpace think she's guilty - so she must be guilty!
There's even a "news" trail with her actual name and probably full D-o-B now with "pedophile" in the headlines! She may well have shot herself in the foot by going to the news people as now it's really her that comes up in the search, claiming she's innocent... but we all know there's no smoke without fire, right?
It's basically a modern-day witch hunt and the end result is probably less safety for children as adults think twice before helping children in distress.
It's a bit like all the discussions over the years about whether the UK should take the Euro. It keeps cropping up, and eventually it will happen. Once it has happened, will there then be discussions about whether we should move back to Pounds Sterling?
We had a biology teacher at school who didn't believe Evolution was true because of his religous beliefs. Interestingly, he still taught the subject, and taught it very well, but he would start the Evolution course by stating that he didn't believe it was true.
Must have been tough for him to shine the light so effectively on his religion!
... if we start exposing religions for being racist, sexist, and overflowing with evil anti-social ideologies, they will all crumble, not just extremist Islam.
Certainly, if I were a renter in such apartments I would get my own connection.
A mate of mine moved to a new block of flats ("apartment" sounds a bit fancy!) and found 5 or 6 unsecured networks, which he used until his own connection was installed. He then contacted the other people in the block to see if any wanted to share his connection, and a couple signed up. He now has control of his connection (which is important if it is your work) and has a few other people chipping in to help cover some of the costs!
He paid for any equipment that was required so he can do the same thing again if/when he moves!
If you're in a block of flats it must make sense to pool resources and share a large connection.
My wife used to be one of the head honchos at The Electronic Telegraph and took sort of voluntary redundancy a couple of years ago. She's just finishing a course in Horticulture at Merrist Wood, just outside Guildford which has meant being at the college 4 days a week, doing work experience 2 days a week, and doing homework/assignments from when she gets home in the evening until 10 or 11 at night. And doing assignments on Saturdays and during the holidays. I've never seen her work so hard! For example, learning 30 or more latin names of plants each month and being tested by being shown a leaf or a twig!
When she worked up in London she'd get home usually after 8 in the evening and be swearing about the commute, the office politics, everything. Always angry. We used to have to go on winter holidays to get some sun as she seemed to be affected by SAD. Now, she can be working outside in the rain all day and when she gets home she's smiling from ear to ear! Never been happier. Best thing she ever did!
I also have a mate who was a programmer and is now a Corgi Registered Gas Engineer. He says the money is about the same and there's less stress. You also get to meet different people all the time!
I reckon I might become an electrician when my current contract ends. Or perhaps learn a few building skills and help the wife with her gardening - build a few walls, put in garden lighting, water features, pergolas, that sort of thing!
Given the number of teachers/parents who've been busted of late giving/allowing their school age kids access to alcohol, this isn't exactly shocking. And no, I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, simply saying that you have to look at the context in order to start to understand why the officials are thinking the way they are.
They are talking about changing the law in the UK to make it illegal to provide alcohol to kids at home now - or at least the anti-drinking lobbies are making some noise about it! Just plain stupid I think! It's got to be better to allow kids to have alcohol in a controlled environment to learn about the effects etc, when the parents/guardians are around to make sure you don't do anything really stupid, than for kids to wander off to the local bus stop/shopping centre and guzzle their alcopops on their own! Not to mention that most kids are going to get hold of alcohol anyway, so what good does criminalising them do? Rant and rave all you like about the evils of alcohol and you're more likely to drive the kids to the off-licence, whereas if you just treat it like no big deal they'll be cool about it too.
So you go get aftermarket security for your windows and doors. What Schneier is saying is that for IT, the ADT-equivalent in your analogy will be introduced into products pre-market. It's like the builders of your home automatically installed ADT and Sloman...
Actually, I'm not sure that's what he's saying at all. To continue with the building analagy, what (I think!) he's saying is that the current OS's (well, OK, those from M$) are like buying a house but it not having any windows or doors. The whole thing about installing XP and as soon as it connects to the internet (to pick up the waiting updates and patches) it gets hacked because, by default, it has the ports open!
So the Linux/Unix distros are like getting your house 'delivered' with doors and windows in place. Sure, people can still attack you, but it requires you to decide to leave a door or window unlocked/open for them to succeed.
Oh, I'm sorry, this is Slashdot, you wanted Arguments, that's the next door on the right.
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... or just retire and live self-sufficient after I accumulated enough money
If people end up living to 200 or 250 (obviously, whilst retaining their faculties) why would they necessarily "work-then-retire"?
Why not work until you have enough put by to have 5/10/15 years doing something you like doing, then work a bit more, then have more time off. This way you wouldn't have to work until you are 100 before you could enjoy yourself! Much better to work until you are, say, 30, then have 5 years off, then work some more. Rinse Lather Repeat, er, Profit?
even with 'prefect' cells god enough to run a house or SUV
SUV? Is that the generic name for a car now? Good help us!
It might be that 'prefect' cells might be god enough to run a small car? Maybe something like a Ford Perfect perhaps?
It kinda implies that it's OK for you to run an SUV, and it's the Petrol/Energy Companies fault they guzzle gas? There was the statistic I saw a few years back that suggested that an average increase of something like 4 MPG in US vehicles would be the equivalent of finding the Alaska oil fields EVERY YEAR, and yet US-ians still seem as welded to their inefficient IC engines as they apparently are to their guns!
I think it might be a tiny bit shortsighted to think we can continue pumping this crap into the atmosphere at ever increasing rates, then capture it and stick it underground along with the nuclear waste and other garbage that we bury.
I'd agree if that's all we do, but as another weapon in our armoury it absolutely makes sense! Sure, we should be trying, where feasible, to cut down on our emissions so we don't make it worse, but it also makes sense to try and clean up the mess we already made so we can try and make it better!
Well, Giant Redwood, amongst others, has bark is that is (from the link) "fibrous, furrowed, and may be 60 cm (2 ft) thick at the base of the columnar trunk. It provides significant fire protection for the trees".
From the 2nd link "The thick, tannin-rich bark, combined with foliage that starts high above the ground provides good protection from both fire and insect damage".
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>Huh? Ever heard of inflation?
But I think what the GP is refering to is that even with inflation, the $20 bill will ALWAYS purchase $20 's worth of goods. In the case of a CD containing music, when it is first released, and assuming it is someone currently popular, it may sell for £15+ (in the UK). Give it 6 months or more and you will likely find it selling for £10, and another six months and it might in the Woolworths bargain bin for £5 or less!
>>It's rather assinine to attempt to conflate counterfeiting of ANY consumer product and money.
>Why? Money isn't real either - you can't walk into a Federal Reserve Bank, for example, and redeem it... so, by definition it has no inherent value, only that which we ascribe to it.
It certainly used to be the case that bank notes would state "I promise to pay the bearer on demand ...", and this used to refer to gold (maybe that was just in the UK?).
The idea was that cash would only be printed to cover the value of the gold reserves. I believe this is no longer the case after a "run on Gold" starting in the '60s ... from the article ...
On August 15 (1971), with only $2.23 in gold available to redeem every $100 of U.S. paper promises, President Nixon declared international bankruptcy by closing the gold window. After that Sunday, as former Congressman Ron Paul and Lewis Lehrman have explained: "There were now absolutely no checks on the ability of the United States to inflate." And inflate the Fed has. By all measures, the money supply has increased by 400% since 1971.
Close, but no cigar?
There's even a "news" trail with her actual name and probably full D-o-B now with "pedophile" in the headlines! She may well have shot herself in the foot by going to the news people as now it's really her that comes up in the search, claiming she's innocent ... but we all know there's no smoke without fire, right?
It's basically a modern-day witch hunt and the end result is probably less safety for children as adults think twice before helping children in distress.
Waterproof? I've not heard it called that before.
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Must have been tough for him to shine the light so effectively on his religion!
It's like some game of pissemoff Poker ...
I see your Holocaust deniers, and raise you Evolution!
Especially if they looked like Hitler!
A mate of mine moved to a new block of flats ("apartment" sounds a bit fancy!) and found 5 or 6 unsecured networks, which he used until his own connection was installed. He then contacted the other people in the block to see if any wanted to share his connection, and a couple signed up. He now has control of his connection (which is important if it is your work) and has a few other people chipping in to help cover some of the costs!
He paid for any equipment that was required so he can do the same thing again if/when he moves!
If you're in a block of flats it must make sense to pool resources and share a large connection.
When she worked up in London she'd get home usually after 8 in the evening and be swearing about the commute, the office politics, everything. Always angry. We used to have to go on winter holidays to get some sun as she seemed to be affected by SAD. Now, she can be working outside in the rain all day and when she gets home she's smiling from ear to ear! Never been happier. Best thing she ever did!
I also have a mate who was a programmer and is now a Corgi Registered Gas Engineer. He says the money is about the same and there's less stress. You also get to meet different people all the time!
I reckon I might become an electrician when my current contract ends. Or perhaps learn a few building skills and help the wife with her gardening - build a few walls, put in garden lighting, water features, pergolas, that sort of thing!
They are talking about changing the law in the UK to make it illegal to provide alcohol to kids at home now - or at least the anti-drinking lobbies are making some noise about it! Just plain stupid I think! It's got to be better to allow kids to have alcohol in a controlled environment to learn about the effects etc, when the parents/guardians are around to make sure you don't do anything really stupid, than for kids to wander off to the local bus stop/shopping centre and guzzle their alcopops on their own! Not to mention that most kids are going to get hold of alcohol anyway, so what good does criminalising them do? Rant and rave all you like about the evils of alcohol and you're more likely to drive the kids to the off-licence, whereas if you just treat it like no big deal they'll be cool about it too.
Actually, I'm not sure that's what he's saying at all. To continue with the building analagy, what (I think!) he's saying is that the current OS's (well, OK, those from M$) are like buying a house but it not having any windows or doors. The whole thing about installing XP and as soon as it connects to the internet (to pick up the waiting updates and patches) it gets hacked because, by default, it has the ports open!
So the Linux/Unix distros are like getting your house 'delivered' with doors and windows in place. Sure, people can still attack you, but it requires you to decide to leave a door or window unlocked/open for them to succeed.
It seems to me he has a point!
Oh, I'm sorry, this is Slashdot, you wanted Arguments, that's the next door on the right.
If people end up living to 200 or 250 (obviously, whilst retaining their faculties) why would they necessarily "work-then-retire"?
Why not work until you have enough put by to have 5/10/15 years doing something you like doing, then work a bit more, then have more time off. This way you wouldn't have to work until you are 100 before you could enjoy yourself! Much better to work until you are, say, 30, then have 5 years off, then work some more. Rinse Lather Repeat, er, Profit?
SUV? Is that the generic name for a car now? Good help us!
It might be that 'prefect' cells might be god enough to run a small car? Maybe something like a Ford Perfect perhaps?
It kinda implies that it's OK for you to run an SUV, and it's the Petrol/Energy Companies fault they guzzle gas? There was the statistic I saw a few years back that suggested that an average increase of something like 4 MPG in US vehicles would be the equivalent of finding the Alaska oil fields EVERY YEAR, and yet US-ians still seem as welded to their inefficient IC engines as they apparently are to their guns!
Or Doggers! There'd be no problems because there aren't any car parks between here and Mars!
Apart from the occasional "Menage a un" of course.
Houston: We are "GO" on the hand shandy!
I'm thinking some sort of webcam?
they should take a pornstar or two on the mission and licence the movie footage to one of the major porn labels
I'd agree if that's all we do, but as another weapon in our armoury it absolutely makes sense! Sure, we should be trying, where feasible, to cut down on our emissions so we don't make it worse, but it also makes sense to try and clean up the mess we already made so we can try and make it better!
Well, Giant Redwood, amongst others, has bark is that is (from the link) "fibrous, furrowed, and may be 60 cm (2 ft) thick at the base of the columnar trunk. It provides significant fire protection for the trees".
From the 2nd link "The thick, tannin-rich bark, combined with foliage that starts high above the ground provides good protection from both fire and insect damage".
Oh well. I suppose they might rot.