What do you think robots are? Hate to break it to you they are capital. Now once you can use robots to make robots capitalism will do what it has been trying to do since the beginning...drive costs to zero. The corporate/government types will not be pleased when you can get your first robot build it kit at age 12 and turn that into a robot army by 18. They won't appreciate the military or economic competition for power and control.
Really after robots all we need is some FTL drive and there wont be much to stop us from colonizing the galaxy.
He was Johnny on the spot for that one too.....some odd reason stuff sent to PR never actually made it past the truck driver union that decided the hurricane after part was a perfect time to go on strike for more pay. That and the various PR leadership were MIA during most of the event, other than the occasional sound bite, they weren't doing their job and actually running the response.
How tech companies respond? Who cares. What we care about is how do Nerds respond to a Hurricane.
What hurricane are you talking about??
.....WTF!!? why did the lights just go out?!. The Wi-Fi on the laptop is down. 17% power on the phone I can't hotspot for more than 10 minutes............runs around the house looking for a charged USB battery pack..............Fuck, fuck, fuck, FUUUCCCCCKKKK! What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? AAAAAAAAAAA SOMBODY HEEEEEELLLLLPPPPPP MMMEEEEE
Lights flicker back on. 3 minutes later..........sigh.....damn it now I need to log back on.....5 minutes after he gets logged back in that they go back out again for good.
nerd curls up into the fetal position. Rescuers find him 45 minutes later after the neighbors call them due to the sounds of a little girl sobbing/wailing coming from the house.
I'm all for the Air Force bombing California. Bomb everything that causes the problems related to the wild fires. They should start with Sacramento and work their way out from there.
"Huh? You think a rocket engine is going to be even remotely competitive with airline travel even if they cut the time taken down by a factor of 10?
Yes. You are forgetting, as everyone else that keeps going on and on about the price of what a ticket would cost, a ballistic flight would not be orbital. No reason to go up 500-700 miles and hit 17,000mph. It would be more on par with an ICBM which is less than 250 miles up and half that speed. With reusability and the much cheaper to burn methane fuel the tickets should be more on par with luxury 1st class accommodations rather than NASA's $10,000 per pound to orbit prices.
They re-invented a thermostat and a heating pad to combat cold climates. For their next trick they are going to re-invent a device known as a "fan" to help keep them cool.
I look forward to them crying when SpaceX starts trying to fly their rockets as commercial airliners and start stealing their lucrative overseas routes.
Sorry horse buggy whip makers of the world your time is over.
The last time I was a Verizon customer was for FIOS. Those idiots sold it to Frontier so that was the last of the money they get from me. As far as cell service went Metro PCS, then switched it to T-Mobile 4-5 years back.....So Verizon/AT&T pricing policy = zero fucks given.
We got the whole extended family on board ( I think we are up to 8 people on this plan) so extra lines are something like $10 a month for unlimited plans, may just get an extra phone just to stick in the car so I can be lazy and not even take my regular phone out of my pocket.
A 150/150MBit fiber connection backstops the service at home.
Cable, monthly contracts, phone leases, and other silly shit from the major players, thanks but no thanks.
Of course it will be funny when such a system turns into a circular firing squad resulting in the banning of feminists, SJWs, leftist political action committees, and the media from the internet for doing exactly what she is complaining about.
Some of the biggest trolls on the internet are not the kiddies on 4chan or the infamous "alt-right", but the leftists, progressives, and their minions.
BAAAAAAAHAHAAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA......You actually think we have a private insurance system.
I spent 20 years in the Air Force under a public/socialist health care system. It worked ok at times (dental was pretty good) other times it was pretty fucked up and useless (pretty much everything not dental).
Now that I retired from the AF and am back in the really, real world guess how different my health care is. The only difference is I have slightly more choice where I get to go, otherwise it is not much different.
If the health care system is 100% regulated by the government it is NOT a private healthcare system. It is a public healthcare system in all but name.
I lived in Europe I know what they pay in taxes over there. It is not a tax cut when your taxes are twice of what we pay on everything. Enjoy that while you can. Pretty sure Europe will have to start paying for their own military once the US cuts their funding and support and wont have much left over for socialized medicine.
Yeah because raising taxes to pay for that just works so well with the economy. Pretty sure we just spent the last 30 years testing that theory out and it isn't working all that well.
"And the degree-toting engineers coming out of those institutions are so clueless -- most of them never built anything more involved than LEGO"
That is so very true. I am a forty something retired Air Force aircraft mechanic that went back to school for a Mechanical Engineering degree for shits and grins. There are maybe 10-20 guys in my senior class that can crank out what I would call quality work. When ever we do a project the first thing I generally have to do is check to see if they know how to use basic metal or wood working tools, much less CNC or 3D printers. Usually they have zero clue and I end up doing nearly all the design and fabrication work.
I will be graduating this fall, anyone need a jack of all trades aircraft avionics technician/pilot, entry level Mechanical Engineer with skills in basic programing/automation, 3D design/printing, computer network admin, basic welding, automotive repair, wood working, photography, etc, etc?
You are starving, I have food. Do I have an obligation to feed you for free? No I do not. It doesn't mater if you have a valid need the simple truth is: I AM NOT YOUR SLAVE.
Same goes for the companies in the health care industry. If you want what they have you should have something to trade for it.
You have not invalidated anything that I said. All you tried to do is move the goal posts and redefine what is a coral reef to try to refute it.
Well biology cares not what you think. I am familiar with how corals work. I've been a scuba diver for the past 20 years and have raised corals by hand in aquariums. You want corals to grow, you plant them in the right spot either by hand, or by natural events such as wave actions during storms, or by natural spawning and you will have a healthy active reef in under 10 years. There is nothing particularly important about reefs being 10 years or a thousand years old as far as most fish are concerned. They will make a home out of a plastic milk crate or a pile of car tires if that is what is available.
A mature unspoiled reef is just more productive reef, than a unique thing. That is what sanctuaries are for since they don't do to well with tourists and 3rd worlder's stripping them bare.
This is where all the plugs come from that they use to try to revitalize areas. You can either break off pieces of an adult and glue them to a plug, or just pick up all the pieces naturally broken off that are on the bottom everywhere after a storm.
Been a while since I've read it, and there are much newer versions. This was back when I used to raise corals in aquariums in my house. They didn't take millions of years to grow more like 6 months to a year. Sure big coral heads that are forty feet across take a long time to form (hundreds/thousands of years), but again the main structure of those large corals are the dead skeletons. You could, this is something I used to do, is create a form out of concrete and reef sand, and glue (epoxy) clipping of corals to it. The corals would rapidly spread to cover the form, like an underwater Chia Pet. Growing corals is more like planting a lawn than regular gardening.
This is the entire point of sinking ships. Within a year they are covered by sponges and other inverts and a large number of fish move in for shelter. Within 5 years they are covered by various corals. Within 10 years, if the conditions are right they will be completely covered.
You are correct they were not the leftists. The leftists were the Communists. The Nazis were socialists and were to the "right" of the Communists.
If political ideology were a street the Nazis, Communists, and the Liberals/Progressive would all live a few doors down from one another on the left side of town. He Democrats and the Republicans would be on opposite sides of main street within a block of each other. The Conservatives a bit farther out the right side of town and the Libertarians would be living in their non-code tiny houses outside of city limits.
The police would be the most brutal on the left side of town. On the right side they would only call the cops after they shot the criminals.
The libertarians would either invite you in for a pot brownie or blow your head off with a 50 cal sniper rifle the moment you stepped onto their property uninvited.
The reef is nothing more than the dead skeletons of corals. It is not "alive" The living portion of the reef, is just the top few centimeters. They do not take millions of years to form, they take weeks/months/years to form, much like plants on land. They thrive where ever the conditions are right. When the conditions change the corals die, and the reef becomes barren. That is not the end of the story as the political eco opportunists would have you believe. The spawning methods of corals literally cast their offspring everywhere so there is always corals trying to establish new reefs in nearly every part of the ocean. As the conditions change new areas become habitable for the corals and their numbers will rapidly grow.
If things swing back the other way dead corals will bounce back within a year or two.
Now specific man-made problems such as silting, runoff, fishing, recreational diving, and anchor dragging and kill off corals in an area and should be addressed as solvable solutions. Trying fight climate change well that is just pissing into the wind. Even without the so called global warming caused by mankind the reefs were going to die off and relocated anyway.
Last time I checked it has never not been open season on bands of violent people that terrorize the community.
The only slippery slope is humanizing one group of animals (MS-13) and then other well know violent groups, until you humanize the general criminal to the point that it is impossible to uphold the rule of law and have a civil society.
Perfect example is in the UK you will get more time in prison defending your home with lethal force than the criminals that broke in and attacked your family with the intent of doing harm.
In a sane world you put those people down like the feral animals they are. Sorry you had a bad childhood and grew up on the shitty side of town, but that is neither my fault, and until you attacked me and mine, my problem. Criminals and bleeding hearts to do not get to have an input on how we deal with people once they make it our problem.
Ten years of prison, therapy, education, and then a high double digit chance of recidivism and back to jail after they hurt people. Better to just put 2-3 rounds of hollow point center mass and take care of the problem and get on with life.
They should have put it in Detroit (their water is already contaminated) or in New Orleans/Houston plenty of areas in both regions that would love less water around seeing as both groups of dumbasses built in active flood zones.
So in other words what they are saying is animal porn videos won't popup in kid's searches, but videos by the LGBTQQIP2SAA community on how they identify as a sheep and really are a sheep on the inside and like to fuck other sheep because that is natural and beautiful, and hey while we are at it here is a some footage of a guy covered in glued on cotton balls buggering a sheep, but you know YouTube aren't fascist bigots so that's ok, will show up in their search results.
I do laugh though. I have been alive long enough to hear this same argument over and over again for 35 years starting with the monochrome vs 4 color displays.
More is better. You may not appreciate it but your grandkids will love that 400" 8K "cheep" wall display you get them for Christmas in 2028 to play their games on.
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Really after robots all we need is some FTL drive and there wont be much to stop us from colonizing the galaxy.
He was Johnny on the spot for that one too.....some odd reason stuff sent to PR never actually made it past the truck driver union that decided the hurricane after part was a perfect time to go on strike for more pay. That and the various PR leadership were MIA during most of the event, other than the occasional sound bite, they weren't doing their job and actually running the response.
What hurricane are you talking about??
Lights flicker back on. 3 minutes later..........sigh.....damn it now I need to log back on.....5 minutes after he gets logged back in that they go back out again for good.
nerd curls up into the fetal position. Rescuers find him 45 minutes later after the neighbors call them due to the sounds of a little girl sobbing/wailing coming from the house.
I'm all for the Air Force bombing California. Bomb everything that causes the problems related to the wild fires. They should start with Sacramento and work their way out from there.
Yes. You are forgetting, as everyone else that keeps going on and on about the price of what a ticket would cost, a ballistic flight would not be orbital. No reason to go up 500-700 miles and hit 17,000mph. It would be more on par with an ICBM which is less than 250 miles up and half that speed. With reusability and the much cheaper to burn methane fuel the tickets should be more on par with luxury 1st class accommodations rather than NASA's $10,000 per pound to orbit prices.
How far we have fallen if this is news.
Sorry horse buggy whip makers of the world your time is over.
We got the whole extended family on board ( I think we are up to 8 people on this plan) so extra lines are something like $10 a month for unlimited plans, may just get an extra phone just to stick in the car so I can be lazy and not even take my regular phone out of my pocket.
A 150/150MBit fiber connection backstops the service at home.
Cable, monthly contracts, phone leases, and other silly shit from the major players, thanks but no thanks.
Some of the biggest trolls on the internet are not the kiddies on 4chan or the infamous "alt-right", but the leftists, progressives, and their minions.
I live down here, love the place, but the number of mouth breathers are as thick as the mosquitoes at times.
Been there done that for the past twenty years. After helping kill 1 million + I'm looking for something that will let me grow as a person.
I spent 20 years in the Air Force under a public/socialist health care system. It worked ok at times (dental was pretty good) other times it was pretty fucked up and useless (pretty much everything not dental).
Now that I retired from the AF and am back in the really, real world guess how different my health care is. The only difference is I have slightly more choice where I get to go, otherwise it is not much different.
If the health care system is 100% regulated by the government it is NOT a private healthcare system. It is a public healthcare system in all but name.
I lived in Europe I know what they pay in taxes over there. It is not a tax cut when your taxes are twice of what we pay on everything. Enjoy that while you can. Pretty sure Europe will have to start paying for their own military once the US cuts their funding and support and wont have much left over for socialized medicine.
Yeah because raising taxes to pay for that just works so well with the economy. Pretty sure we just spent the last 30 years testing that theory out and it isn't working all that well.
That is so very true. I am a forty something retired Air Force aircraft mechanic that went back to school for a Mechanical Engineering degree for shits and grins. There are maybe 10-20 guys in my senior class that can crank out what I would call quality work. When ever we do a project the first thing I generally have to do is check to see if they know how to use basic metal or wood working tools, much less CNC or 3D printers. Usually they have zero clue and I end up doing nearly all the design and fabrication work.
I will be graduating this fall, anyone need a jack of all trades aircraft avionics technician/pilot, entry level Mechanical Engineer with skills in basic programing/automation, 3D design/printing, computer network admin, basic welding, automotive repair, wood working, photography, etc, etc?
Same goes for the companies in the health care industry. If you want what they have you should have something to trade for it.
Well biology cares not what you think. I am familiar with how corals work. I've been a scuba diver for the past 20 years and have raised corals by hand in aquariums. You want corals to grow, you plant them in the right spot either by hand, or by natural events such as wave actions during storms, or by natural spawning and you will have a healthy active reef in under 10 years. There is nothing particularly important about reefs being 10 years or a thousand years old as far as most fish are concerned. They will make a home out of a plastic milk crate or a pile of car tires if that is what is available.
A mature unspoiled reef is just more productive reef, than a unique thing. That is what sanctuaries are for since they don't do to well with tourists and 3rd worlder's stripping them bare.
Check out reefbuilders.com for a more commercial approach.
https://reefbuilders.com/2015/...
This is where all the plugs come from that they use to try to revitalize areas. You can either break off pieces of an adult and glue them to a plug, or just pick up all the pieces naturally broken off that are on the bottom everywhere after a storm.
Been a while since I've read it, and there are much newer versions. This was back when I used to raise corals in aquariums in my house. They didn't take millions of years to grow more like 6 months to a year. Sure big coral heads that are forty feet across take a long time to form (hundreds/thousands of years), but again the main structure of those large corals are the dead skeletons. You could, this is something I used to do, is create a form out of concrete and reef sand, and glue (epoxy) clipping of corals to it. The corals would rapidly spread to cover the form, like an underwater Chia Pet. Growing corals is more like planting a lawn than regular gardening.
This is the entire point of sinking ships. Within a year they are covered by sponges and other inverts and a large number of fish move in for shelter. Within 5 years they are covered by various corals. Within 10 years, if the conditions are right they will be completely covered.
If political ideology were a street the Nazis, Communists, and the Liberals/Progressive would all live a few doors down from one another on the left side of town. He Democrats and the Republicans would be on opposite sides of main street within a block of each other. The Conservatives a bit farther out the right side of town and the Libertarians would be living in their non-code tiny houses outside of city limits.
The police would be the most brutal on the left side of town. On the right side they would only call the cops after they shot the criminals.
The libertarians would either invite you in for a pot brownie or blow your head off with a 50 cal sniper rifle the moment you stepped onto their property uninvited.
If things swing back the other way dead corals will bounce back within a year or two.
Now specific man-made problems such as silting, runoff, fishing, recreational diving, and anchor dragging and kill off corals in an area and should be addressed as solvable solutions. Trying fight climate change well that is just pissing into the wind. Even without the so called global warming caused by mankind the reefs were going to die off and relocated anyway.
The only slippery slope is humanizing one group of animals (MS-13) and then other well know violent groups, until you humanize the general criminal to the point that it is impossible to uphold the rule of law and have a civil society.
Perfect example is in the UK you will get more time in prison defending your home with lethal force than the criminals that broke in and attacked your family with the intent of doing harm.
In a sane world you put those people down like the feral animals they are. Sorry you had a bad childhood and grew up on the shitty side of town, but that is neither my fault, and until you attacked me and mine, my problem. Criminals and bleeding hearts to do not get to have an input on how we deal with people once they make it our problem.
Ten years of prison, therapy, education, and then a high double digit chance of recidivism and back to jail after they hurt people. Better to just put 2-3 rounds of hollow point center mass and take care of the problem and get on with life.
The type of trash the UN is made up of is much more damaging to the Earth than old Amazon kindles.
They should have put it in Detroit (their water is already contaminated) or in New Orleans/Houston plenty of areas in both regions that would love less water around seeing as both groups of dumbasses built in active flood zones.
So in other words what they are saying is animal porn videos won't popup in kid's searches, but videos by the LGBTQQIP2SAA community on how they identify as a sheep and really are a sheep on the inside and like to fuck other sheep because that is natural and beautiful, and hey while we are at it here is a some footage of a guy covered in glued on cotton balls buggering a sheep, but you know YouTube aren't fascist bigots so that's ok, will show up in their search results.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
More is better. You may not appreciate it but your grandkids will love that 400" 8K "cheep" wall display you get them for Christmas in 2028 to play their games on.
Its not just the screen being high resolution that is interesting, but the push in the video cards to be able to display those resolutions.
I'm holding out for wall sized touch screen monitors where 8K would be very handy.