Natural selection is not just the individual but also the group. Your example is just natural selection doing a little pruning of ba few branches off the family tree.
Here are the magnets we should let kids play with. If they manage to hurt themselves by swallowing one of these the goverment should swoop in and sterilize their entire family.
Holy Shit I just got the reference "First my beloved Viper fighter, now this".
I remember being so pissed because my mom turned my original ones in that could shoot the little red plastic piece to be replaced by the dumb ones that were retained.
And kids should be able to make mistakes. And suffer some consequences, but not the same level of consequences for a younger kid versus a teenager versus an adult.
That is what the parents are for. It is IMPOSSIBLE to Fisher Price the entire world by removing all the small parts and sharp corners.
Children die due to the ignorance and laziness of their parents. Sounds like natural selection is alive and well as it should be.
We don't need to have parents be active in kids lives what we really need is a re-introduction of large predatory cats in North America and Europe and make it illegal to drive your kids to school or for them to ride the bus.
Nature will work out most of our social problems in a decade or so and then we can shut down most of the government programs that keep these mouth breathers breeding and ruining it for the rest of us.
You are right human existence would be impossible at those attrition rates for a static population, but the US did not have a static population. You have newly arrived immigrants and infants making up a large chunk of that number. The infant mortality rate alone was 10-20% until 1900.
The overal death rate was in very incredibly high for the first 300 years of the American experience.
First off anything would work for their first stage which was to simply go up to 100,000ft and then release. A cube, a sphere, a crappy little homebuilt aircraft, just about anything would work. They don't need anything fancy for their initial testing and customers. Even later on their little shuttle is overkill with what their early business model entails.
The space shuttle re-enters around 17,000mph orbital speed from 500miles up. They're little ship will go up and down maybe 50-60 miles, no orbit involved, no real re-entry involved, even with the booster. There biggest issue will be keeping the aircraft oriented so it doesn't end up tumbling or spinning. They are looking at 1000-3000 mph tops, sub 1000mph if they deploy a drogue chute. Something made out of composites could handle that fairly easily.
I work on aircraft and ~7psi (18,000ft) cabin presure pretty much bone head easy to maintain. Most light aircraft aren't designed for it for performance reasons as in the engine, prop, and wings, not due to some difficultly with keeping the cabin sealed and presurized.
Wait if I get a Masters degree I'm automatically entitled to a great paying job regardless of my actual work load??!!!
Maybe they should goto Khan Academy and do little basic math review.
Like this example. As a teacher you get paid 9 paycheckes, one for every month you work during the year. You multiply 9 times the monthly paycheck and then divide by 12 to find out your actual monthly pay that you can spend so you don't go hungry during the summer.
If you have job that doesn't pay the bills, it's not a job it's called a "hobbie" and no one owes you a damn paycheck to do a hobbie.
I don't understand all the hate towards teachers. They aren't paid a lot for all the bullshit they have to deal with....
Maybe because most of us had to spend decades as students putting up their bullshit (if I recall correctly we weren't paid a dime) , and to add insult to injury once we reached a real job in adulthood to have to pay ever increasing property taxes for a piss poor product coupled with the endless whining from the teachers/unions about how stingy we all are with our money.
Both of you are idiots. All you are really complaining about is having to sit through the entire video just so you can get the green check mark next to the video and earn your badges. If you are such an amazing learner I would think you'd be smart enough to start another video with the volume muted on the 1st once you have the concept down or find some other way to entertain yourself for the remaining three minutes
We aren't running out of fossil fuels. How much further would our fuels last us if suddenly no one had to commute to go to "work" any more, most items are just made from recycled materials from the local area, and the same for food.
pretty funny, that here in the States most criminals have given up on crime since one alot more people have guns these days, and two it's easier to just get a welfare check and buy your own crap because the stuff you steal from the "rich" isn't worth anything anymore.
A billionare all the way up to the 80's couldn't have spent any amount of money to get what the typical college student has in their appartment and in their backpack these days. So exactly how are we not rich?
Big capital items such prized areas of land and mega-yachts are out of reach for most of us, but most technology is dirt cheap these days and if you are willing to live outside a major city so is the land.
The cities already pick up yard waste to take the dump where it is composted. How much more expensive will it be to do that with people?
Seriously though, what you will see is the price of alot of items dropping drastically. Companies enjoy some pretty good price points in the short term when they switch over to new manufacturing tech. Eventually though the prices drop out. When I was in college a shitty compact florecent light bulb would set you back $30. These days you can find a 5 pack on sale for under $10.
The biggest chunk of unrest is going to be patent holders, manufactures, and resellers going to battle with the general public to preserve their business model which is going to evaporate once industrial grade 3d printers get under $1,000. Parts that would be available forever for just about anything you can think of. Open or pirated sourced plans for just about any product. Using small CNC & 3D manufacturing tools to make large versions. A recycling device that can grind up your old junk and use it to make new stuff. Once you have a basic amount of general materials you would be basically set for life.
Really the biggest problem once that fight is over is what do we do with ourselves once labor is worth zero, and wealth becomes a question of logistics rather than scarcity. (You need help gathering up 25 tons of steel to make a kick ass zombie proof RV to go camping in, but all your friends just want to spend all their free time jerking off and getting high.) I think games like minecraft and eveonline spell it out pretty clearly. People will spend all their time being creative, playing games, helping others, work towards something cool, or just simply griefing for the sake of griefing.
you get a fictional -1 mod point for being well....stupid.
If you are going to 100,000 feet by balloon, exactly how aerodynamic and structurally stout does it need to be? They could have just made their first one a big cube for all it would matter. Go up look around, enough structure to have a 18,000 ft cabin pressure (suplimental O2 for the passengers would be required), insulation to keep the temperature above 0C, and to survive a 700-800mph "re-entry" with a parachute landing.
Even a small boost by a rocket to a higher elevation still wouldn't result in more than a 1000-2000mph "re-entry".
You aren't talking about 17,000 mph de-orbits from 2,600,000 feet like the shuttle. A very modest craft could do the job. At that altitude they could even keep balloon attached to their craft not having to worry about the drag to use it slow them down at the other end of their balistic arc if they could find a way to keep it from bursting, say some sort of fast pumping system to store the He to be re-released later, or skip that all together and just use the burst balloon as a drag strip.
Considering the first two coloneys had a 90-100% fatalty rate once they made it over the Atlantic, even with a 75-90% survival rate..
The death rate due to disease, the cold, and starvation was still in the 20-30% every year by the time the Constitution was signed.
We've become highly alergic to losses in this day and age. The ancient concept of the volunteer or the unwilling volunteer (aka convicts who owe society a debt) even does not hold water with those with the resources to put together such a project.
Yes those rare incidents of violence. Like the public riots in England and France and Spain and Greece and the government shooting people in Syria, Egypt, and Libia, not to mention the many terrorist bombings and acts.
Those kind of common incidents for Europe and the Middle East that almost never happen in the US?
I think Khan summed it up best during one of his talks on what education was supposed to be and where he was going with his academy.
He talked about some of his great teachers in the past and some of the historical greats like Isaac Newton, what if they had made videos? A one time effort and it would affect generations far into the future by giving them access to these poeple.
No one takes 10K resumes for 1 position. At that point they either hire the cheapest guy who shows up first and then offer him even less, since there are 9999 waiting in the wings to take the job. You are right though they will stratify the applicants by immediately throwing out anyone without the minimums, but these days that just means you'll have have 9993 applicants instead of 10000
Now if it's a job like, who wants to be the first deep space starship captian and crew which would literly generate millions of applicants I think that would be more along the lines of a hiring team who invite people to come work for them. Those with just mere resumes need not aply. They are going to hire the rockstars of the respective fields and that is going to be by reputation only.
That's exactly the point. If just any old person could go out and start doing something they learned without paying their dues we would have anarchy as far as the establishment was concerned, that and very low prices.
It's much better if people would just sit quietly in their seats and wait for the police to show up is what you are saying?
The real question would be: If you were in the theater with the smoke grenades going off and you were lucky/unlucky enough to find your self standing within 10 feet of the shooter, would having a gun made a difference to you? I dare you to answer no to that question.
Having and carrying a gun has absolutely nothing to do with protecting the public and everything to do with the right of the individual to protect themselves. The public derives benefit as a byproduct of that right because once the invidual is protected the public is protected.
The argument that the public should be protected by the police results in the individual becoming expendable and then all kinds of nasty things happen. Just look at history.
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Natural selection is not just the individual but also the group. Your example is just natural selection doing a little pruning of ba few branches off the family tree.
http://www.tmcmagnetics.com/cow_magnets.html
I remember being so pissed because my mom turned my original ones in that could shoot the little red plastic piece to be replaced by the dumb ones that were retained.
That is what the parents are for. It is IMPOSSIBLE to Fisher Price the entire world by removing all the small parts and sharp corners.
Children die due to the ignorance and laziness of their parents. Sounds like natural selection is alive and well as it should be.
And what exactly is wrong with NATURAL selection? It's 100% natural so that makes it good.
You can have my super industrial strength magnets only if you can manage to pry them off of my refridgerator.
Nature will work out most of our social problems in a decade or so and then we can shut down most of the government programs that keep these mouth breathers breeding and ruining it for the rest of us.
Greenland has a massive ice melt off every 150 years or so. Nothing new to see here, move along.
The overal death rate was in very incredibly high for the first 300 years of the American experience.
The space shuttle re-enters around 17,000mph orbital speed from 500miles up. They're little ship will go up and down maybe 50-60 miles, no orbit involved, no real re-entry involved, even with the booster. There biggest issue will be keeping the aircraft oriented so it doesn't end up tumbling or spinning. They are looking at 1000-3000 mph tops, sub 1000mph if they deploy a drogue chute. Something made out of composites could handle that fairly easily.
I work on aircraft and ~7psi (18,000ft) cabin presure pretty much bone head easy to maintain. Most light aircraft aren't designed for it for performance reasons as in the engine, prop, and wings, not due to some difficultly with keeping the cabin sealed and presurized.
Maybe they should goto Khan Academy and do little basic math review.
Like this example. As a teacher you get paid 9 paycheckes, one for every month you work during the year. You multiply 9 times the monthly paycheck and then divide by 12 to find out your actual monthly pay that you can spend so you don't go hungry during the summer.
If you have job that doesn't pay the bills, it's not a job it's called a "hobbie" and no one owes you a damn paycheck to do a hobbie.
Maybe because most of us had to spend decades as students putting up their bullshit (if I recall correctly we weren't paid a dime) , and to add insult to injury once we reached a real job in adulthood to have to pay ever increasing property taxes for a piss poor product coupled with the endless whining from the teachers/unions about how stingy we all are with our money.
Abysmally low compared to a doctor maybe, but compared to what they manage to deliver, highly overpaid.
Both of you are idiots. All you are really complaining about is having to sit through the entire video just so you can get the green check mark next to the video and earn your badges. If you are such an amazing learner I would think you'd be smart enough to start another video with the volume muted on the 1st once you have the concept down or find some other way to entertain yourself for the remaining three minutes
We aren't running out of fossil fuels. How much further would our fuels last us if suddenly no one had to commute to go to "work" any more, most items are just made from recycled materials from the local area, and the same for food.
A billionare all the way up to the 80's couldn't have spent any amount of money to get what the typical college student has in their appartment and in their backpack these days. So exactly how are we not rich?
Big capital items such prized areas of land and mega-yachts are out of reach for most of us, but most technology is dirt cheap these days and if you are willing to live outside a major city so is the land.
Seriously though, what you will see is the price of alot of items dropping drastically. Companies enjoy some pretty good price points in the short term when they switch over to new manufacturing tech. Eventually though the prices drop out. When I was in college a shitty compact florecent light bulb would set you back $30. These days you can find a 5 pack on sale for under $10.
The biggest chunk of unrest is going to be patent holders, manufactures, and resellers going to battle with the general public to preserve their business model which is going to evaporate once industrial grade 3d printers get under $1,000. Parts that would be available forever for just about anything you can think of. Open or pirated sourced plans for just about any product. Using small CNC & 3D manufacturing tools to make large versions. A recycling device that can grind up your old junk and use it to make new stuff. Once you have a basic amount of general materials you would be basically set for life.
Really the biggest problem once that fight is over is what do we do with ourselves once labor is worth zero, and wealth becomes a question of logistics rather than scarcity. (You need help gathering up 25 tons of steel to make a kick ass zombie proof RV to go camping in, but all your friends just want to spend all their free time jerking off and getting high.) I think games like minecraft and eveonline spell it out pretty clearly. People will spend all their time being creative, playing games, helping others, work towards something cool, or just simply griefing for the sake of griefing.
If you are going to 100,000 feet by balloon, exactly how aerodynamic and structurally stout does it need to be? They could have just made their first one a big cube for all it would matter. Go up look around, enough structure to have a 18,000 ft cabin pressure (suplimental O2 for the passengers would be required), insulation to keep the temperature above 0C, and to survive a 700-800mph "re-entry" with a parachute landing.
Even a small boost by a rocket to a higher elevation still wouldn't result in more than a 1000-2000mph "re-entry".
You aren't talking about 17,000 mph de-orbits from 2,600,000 feet like the shuttle. A very modest craft could do the job. At that altitude they could even keep balloon attached to their craft not having to worry about the drag to use it slow them down at the other end of their balistic arc if they could find a way to keep it from bursting, say some sort of fast pumping system to store the He to be re-released later, or skip that all together and just use the burst balloon as a drag strip.
The death rate due to disease, the cold, and starvation was still in the 20-30% every year by the time the Constitution was signed.
We've become highly alergic to losses in this day and age. The ancient concept of the volunteer or the unwilling volunteer (aka convicts who owe society a debt) even does not hold water with those with the resources to put together such a project.
Those kind of common incidents for Europe and the Middle East that almost never happen in the US?
He talked about some of his great teachers in the past and some of the historical greats like Isaac Newton, what if they had made videos? A one time effort and it would affect generations far into the future by giving them access to these poeple.
Now if it's a job like, who wants to be the first deep space starship captian and crew which would literly generate millions of applicants I think that would be more along the lines of a hiring team who invite people to come work for them. Those with just mere resumes need not aply. They are going to hire the rockstars of the respective fields and that is going to be by reputation only.
That's exactly the point. If just any old person could go out and start doing something they learned without paying their dues we would have anarchy as far as the establishment was concerned, that and very low prices.
is 8 dead 13 wounded. Close enough?
The real question would be: If you were in the theater with the smoke grenades going off and you were lucky/unlucky enough to find your self standing within 10 feet of the shooter, would having a gun made a difference to you? I dare you to answer no to that question.
Having and carrying a gun has absolutely nothing to do with protecting the public and everything to do with the right of the individual to protect themselves. The public derives benefit as a byproduct of that right because once the invidual is protected the public is protected.
The argument that the public should be protected by the police results in the individual becoming expendable and then all kinds of nasty things happen. Just look at history.