The most major problem stopping exploitation of outer space is the legal issues. You can't just fly to an asteroid and take ownership of it, profiting from what you find. You can't "colonize" space regions like the Europeans colonized the "new world". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_law
Assume the following; * I build a spaceship with the billions I made off my new internet venture * I then fly to the moon with a bunch of friends and setup a permanent space station, using my own funds
Question; * What legal jurisdiction would me and my friends be living under? * Would we have to pay taxes on the profits from the rare minerals that we were selling to Earth based corporations? * Would we be able to broadcast any music we felt like, ignoring copyrights? * Would we be able to ignore the patent systems of all Earth bound countries?
Until these questions are clearly resolved, why would any corporation invest in space resource exploitation?
I rent a locker at a local storage locker company. The guy with the locker next to mine, fills his with drugs... and gets caught. Police put a crime scene tape around the entire facility and block my access to my stuff. Police want to verify that there isn't any drugs in my locker.
My image has been more in line with a MMORPG concept. You select your Avatar and explorer your Avatar's world, which may/may not include facebook, gmail, etc... In fact, that was my first impression of Second Life (http://lindenlab.com/). Unfortunately, that didn't work out. Enthropia was another attempt that didn't quite make it. (http://www.entropiauniverse.com/).
After all, why must the user interface be a keyboard?
My point is that one can refuse the pat-down and leave. Our rights have been eroded, but we can still do that much.
Given that I have a pacemaker ensures that I only have two options; * never fly again * submit to a pat-down. Not much of a choice in a country the size of ours.
Based on its contents, that article was written sometime late 2001, but nowhere does PCW show any indication of its original publication date! Now that is true bogosity in action.
I did not read anything in TFA that even implied that there were no future plans to support other platforms. Could this not be a proof of concept exercise?
Or, better than a regular paper newspaper delivered to the front door.
Have to check back next year and see if this one went anywhere......
I get the paper delivered daily. Often I will read an article that I would like to quote or reference online. Unfortunately, when I go to the publisher's online venue, the article is hard to find and often not the same.
IFF this is truly equivalent to a normal newspaper, and IFF the articles are easy to quote or reference, my hardcopy newspaper subscription will become part of history.
PS - $52 per year is less than the cost of a normal newspaper.
PSS - My paper, with the sucky website is the S.J. Mercury News -- which advertises itself as the Silicon Valley paper. Too bad they don't know how to use the technology they write about.
All they need to do is bring back the draft. Then it is no longer someone else's kid, who volunteered, but "my" kid. It is no longer the kid down the street, but ME, who is going overseas to die. I suspect that will change the dynamics a wee bit.
And what is to prevent Big Daddy from sitting on your head, while reviewing your votes, to ensure that you give all the right answers. After all, Big Daddy doesn't want you to hurt yourself by voting for the wrong people. He'll even escort you to the polling place, to ensure that no one bothers you. Big Daddy cares deeply for you... and your vote.
> we have a VPN between the console and Siemens directly. No full internet access required.
Hmmm... Correctly me if I am wrong, but that implies an internet gateway with some level of access to the internet. If one application can find a route out that gateway, then there is always the possibility that other applications will also "escape".
There is a problem currently with laws that were written with humans in mind, being interpreted to cover corporations.
For example; California's property tax reform a few decades back, was written to protect older citizen's from being taxed out of their family homes. It limits the amount your property tax can go up, unless you sell your property or perform a major upgrade. Now, however, there is a problem. Corporations also own property, but quite often they never sell it or transfer it... and they don't die of old age. There is simply no mechanism in place to allow Corporations to have the value of their property reassessed on a periodic basis to adjust their property tax to reflect current value.
Whether this is good or bad is not the point. The point I am making is that corporations are not human beings and thus laws written for human beings might not work as intended when applied to corporations.
I was posting photos taken at events run by an organization where I was a volunteer for 16 years. I couldn't remember the name of the bands in a couple of the photos, so I went back to the web site. Only, the new management had completely deleted all the detailed band information!
It wasn't captured in the Wayback machine either.
That is why I would support an archive, but given how sites are built today, that may be difficult to do.
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Yes, a reference please. Google did not help on this one.
The problem is that you are both right!
Just look at the new California high speed rail system and how it went from a simple concept to a bloated monster.
Both teams are screwing up and they will both blame the other team for the failure.
The most major problem stopping exploitation of outer space is the legal issues. You can't just fly to an asteroid and take ownership of it, profiting from what you find. You can't "colonize" space regions like the Europeans colonized the "new world".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_law
Assume the following;
* I build a spaceship with the billions I made off my new internet venture
* I then fly to the moon with a bunch of friends and setup a permanent space station, using my own funds
Question;
* What legal jurisdiction would me and my friends be living under?
* Would we have to pay taxes on the profits from the rare minerals that we were selling to Earth based corporations?
* Would we be able to broadcast any music we felt like, ignoring copyrights?
* Would we be able to ignore the patent systems of all Earth bound countries?
Until these questions are clearly resolved, why would any corporation invest in space resource exploitation?
And, of course, no one has developed any packet sniffing tools that work in a switched environment......
Here is an analogy;
I rent a locker at a local storage locker company. ... and gets caught.
The guy with the locker next to mine, fills his with drugs
Police put a crime scene tape around the entire facility and block my access to my stuff.
Police want to verify that there isn't any drugs in my locker.
What happens next?
> This petrol emits all the same harmful crap as regular petrol.
It it doesn't contain "harmful crap", why would it emit it?
FTFA: "We don't have any of the additives and nasty bits found in conventional petrol, and yet our fuel can be used in existing engines,"
My image has been more in line with a MMORPG concept. You select your Avatar and explorer your Avatar's world, which may/may not include facebook, gmail, etc... In fact, that was my first impression of Second Life (http://lindenlab.com/). Unfortunately, that didn't work out. Enthropia was another attempt that didn't quite make it. (http://www.entropiauniverse.com/).
After all, why must the user interface be a keyboard?
Storage space! Space for spare computers and monitors, spare parts, cable, etc. etc. etc.
May I point you to Hanlon's razor?
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
I wish I had mod points --- I am 100% in agreement with you. Very well written.
Shock - I'm in agreement with an AC!
My point is that one can refuse the pat-down and leave. Our rights have been eroded, but we can still do that much.
Given that I have a pacemaker ensures that I only have two options;
* never fly again
* submit to a pat-down.
Not much of a choice in a country the size of ours.
Based on its contents, that article was written sometime late 2001, but nowhere does PCW show any indication of its original publication date! Now that is true bogosity in action.
Medicare pays for hearing aids.
Is that supposed to be a good thing?
Do you have a radio to turn on?
I did not read anything in TFA that even implied that there were no future plans to support other platforms. Could this not be a proof of concept exercise?
Yeah.
Or, better than a regular paper newspaper delivered to the front door.
Have to check back next year and see if this one went anywhere......
I get the paper delivered daily. Often I will read an article that I would like to quote or reference online. Unfortunately, when I go to the publisher's online venue, the article is hard to find and often not the same.
IFF this is truly equivalent to a normal newspaper, and IFF the articles are easy to quote or reference, my hardcopy newspaper subscription will become part of history.
PS - $52 per year is less than the cost of a normal newspaper.
PSS - My paper, with the sucky website is the S.J. Mercury News -- which advertises itself as the Silicon Valley paper. Too bad they don't know how to use the technology they write about.
All they need to do is bring back the draft. Then it is no longer someone else's kid, who volunteered, but "my" kid. It is no longer the kid down the street, but ME, who is going overseas to die. I suspect that will change the dynamics a wee bit.
And what is to prevent Big Daddy from sitting on your head, while reviewing your votes, to ensure that you give all the right answers. After all, Big Daddy doesn't want you to hurt yourself by voting for the wrong people. He'll even escort you to the polling place, to ensure that no one bothers you. Big Daddy cares deeply for you ... and your vote.
Which is why I am constantly arguing against the current move to get everyone to vote by mail.
And this is different from today's massive push for voting by mail in what way?
1) Request Vote By Mail ballot
2) Hand signed VBM paperwork to evil boss
3) After review it is mailed in to be counted
* * *
4) Evil boss profits
I loved your proposed signature... so I stole it.
> we have a VPN between the console and Siemens directly. No full internet access required.
Hmmm... Correctly me if I am wrong, but that implies an internet gateway with some level of access to the internet. If one application can find a route out that gateway, then there is always the possibility that other applications will also "escape".
There is a problem currently with laws that were written with humans in mind, being interpreted to cover corporations.
For example; California's property tax reform a few decades back, was written to protect older citizen's from being taxed out of their family homes. It limits the amount your property tax can go up, unless you sell your property or perform a major upgrade. Now, however, there is a problem. Corporations also own property, but quite often they never sell it or transfer it... and they don't die of old age. There is simply no mechanism in place to allow Corporations to have the value of their property reassessed on a periodic basis to adjust their property tax to reflect current value.
Whether this is good or bad is not the point. The point I am making is that corporations are not human beings and thus laws written for human beings might not work as intended when applied to corporations.
Not all planes are where they are supposed to be 100% of the time.
Not all planes carry equipment that is fully functional 100% of the time.
Relying on GPS means relying on the aircraft's equipment.
Relying on Radar means relying on your own equipment.
And, don't forget, UFOs won't have their GPS enabled ... and not all UFOs are from outer space.
I was posting photos taken at events run by an organization where I was a volunteer for 16 years. I couldn't remember the name of the bands in a couple of the photos, so I went back to the web site. Only, the new management had completely deleted all the detailed band information!
It wasn't captured in the Wayback machine either.
That is why I would support an archive, but given how sites are built today, that may be difficult to do.