The problem with the unmanned probes is the remote control. You have to predict everything, and nothing can ever break. The failed missions are usually a result of losing contact with or something getting jammed.
With humans there who can fix most things that go wrong, the craft becomes self repeairing. So most problems that would have been fatal in an unmanned probe, are easily fixed in short time on a manned one.
The manned missions may fail too, but mostly for other reasons than the unmanned failed.
What I had in the back of my mind was probably neutrinos and similar cosmic radioation particles. Their problem is the opposite, in that they pass through earth much easier than xrays through paper, so you would need very sensitive instruments, or very long measurment times.
I'm not up on the latest in elementary particles, so I don't know if there is some exotic little species of them that could be more practical.
So this was done using seismic data. Why not do it the same way you do body scans of the body, where you shoot xrays through in all directions, and do some math magic to deduce the internal structures?
It's a big thing to scan, but with a few airplanes it could easily be done in a few years.
My best guess is that there is no radiation that works well for it. you need something that is strong enough to pass through the planet, but is weak enough to be partially stopped by features you're interested in.
Am I the only one who never notices these supposed self centered jerks who destroy everyone's lifes by rude cell phone usage?? I do see people use them all the time, of course, but it doesn't annoy me any more than people talking to someone present.
Maybe some people are just looking for something to be annoyed by?
I agree that people talking in a movie theatre would be a big problem. But that hasn't happened anytime I can remember. People talking to each other are a much bigger issue in my expereience.
Those who corrupt the legislatures, those who buy their own laws without heed to the damage they do to others, they have no moral right to live, much less to earn a profit.
I share your outrage, but mine is mainly directed at the legislators selling the lawmaking.
Though in a bigger picture both sides are trapped in the system. If company A doesn't influence legislation in their direction, someone else will influence it in the opposite. And if legislator B doesn't sell his services, he will lose the election to someone who does.
The problem is, as you point out, that it circumvents the political process. You say that when the power balance shifts it will swing back. But the point of it is to make it very hard for the power balance to shift, even if most of the electorate wants it.
It is fair between the parties in a sense, but democracy is not for the parties, it's for the voters, and they're the ones getting screwed, no matter who is doing the screwing for the moment.
But, as the submission says, Gerrymandering results in making almost all seats safe. So one elected, the politician will be reelected unless he act like Gary Condit and gets caught. And even that was a close race.
So it seems to me that it creates the exact opposite effect of what you complain about.
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In a system of proportional representation district size and shape does not affect the representation of the different parties. Each vote is mathematically worth exactly as much as any other.
So the problem is solved by just not existing...
Coming from such a country to the US, it's pretty bizarre how crappy and corrupt some of these things are done here.
Everybody is calling for an Open Source alternative to Diebold and their brethren, but is anyone bothering to actually write it?
If there actually was an alternative system, it would probably be more likely to outcompete Diebold than mere talk and complaining. Especially if it were written by unpaid volonteers and sold at a much lower price by a non profit foundation.
As many have said, it doesn't seem a terribly difficult task to count a few thousand events over a day in a secure and verifiable manner. Looks like a perfect Open Source project to me.
1. It is easier to store data on, and 2. It is harder to store data on
I suspect some people just like paper, and make up reasons as they go along...
One way to use the higher storage capacity of digital storage would be to store stuff in thousands of different places, different media, formats etc. Some may be lost, become unreadable etc, but hardly every single copy. And it would still just take 1/1000 of the space of paper copies.
Movie reviews are traditionally done for the purpose of letting people decide if a movie is worth seeing. That obviously has to be done before you see the movie to not be pointless.
If you've already decided to see a movie, I agree with you.
Yes, both Westerns and space SF have been made before. Combining both in the same show has not, to my knowledge, and I doubt it had even been considered, being such a bizarre concept and all.
By your criteria it's hard to think of anything that could possibly be considered innovative that involves actors talking and interacting.
Contrary to common perception, radioactive materials are not manufactured by humans, but are found lying about in nature. It is the natural state of our planet to be somewhat radioactive, very much so in certain spots.
You can even argue that by taking away radioactive materials from the natural habitat and using it in reactors etc, we are raping Mother Earth in yet an other way. Putting back the fuel where we found it when it's burned out is one way to try to make it right.
People have been complaining for at least 50 years that christmas shopping season starts earlier every year. If that was true, it would be back in at least September by now. Truth is, it still starts in mid November, like it always has.
The fact that people perceive it as starting earlier is pretty interesting. I read an article about it once, but I can't find it on the net in 5 minutes, so I'll just claim it emphatically for now!
I love how multi million dollar issues that set precedent possibly influencing the course of civilization can be decided on the stringent legal criteria equivalent to "that seems kinda fair to me"...
"Read and memorize the entire manual or your product will break" is the attitude that Apple made billions revolting against.
The old Apple would have gone an extra half mile and made iTunes recognize if an iPod is of the wrong kind, and popped up a nice little informative error message for it, rather than blindly proceed and destroy the iPod!
These things aren't really hard, yuo just have to have the right mentality to even think of them. Some say Jobs only cares about cool looks. This does nothing to dispel that notion.
Actually, the Hungarian cubes were the very best back then, and are considered the best by many even today. I don't know too much about the economy of it, but I heard that cubes were over half of Hungary's export income for a while, so I think they did pretty well, even if the knockoff also made a lot of money.
If you like CDs, there is nothing stopping you from burning your iTunes tracks onto CDs as much as you want. Blank CD-Rs are well under 25 cents each these days.
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Dude, $200 is 3 days rent for my one bedroom apartment in San Francisco.
If that's all that's between you and fast internet, pay it! And don't think for a moment that city dwellers get away cheaper than you in general.
There has to be a good swallow joke to be made from it too. If you know what I mean.
The problem with the unmanned probes is the remote control. You have to predict everything, and nothing can ever break. The failed missions are usually a result of losing contact with or something getting jammed.
With humans there who can fix most things that go wrong, the craft becomes self repeairing. So most problems that would have been fatal in an unmanned probe, are easily fixed in short time on a manned one.
The manned missions may fail too, but mostly for other reasons than the unmanned failed.
Thanx. That's good info.
What I had in the back of my mind was probably neutrinos and similar cosmic radioation particles. Their problem is the opposite, in that they pass through earth much easier than xrays through paper, so you would need very sensitive instruments, or very long measurment times.
I'm not up on the latest in elementary particles, so I don't know if there is some exotic little species of them that could be more practical.
So this was done using seismic data. Why not do it the same way you do body scans of the body, where you shoot xrays through in all directions, and do some math magic to deduce the internal structures?
It's a big thing to scan, but with a few airplanes it could easily be done in a few years.
My best guess is that there is no radiation that works well for it. you need something that is strong enough to pass through the planet, but is weak enough to be partially stopped by features you're interested in.
The IIT's immense quality is confirmed by BBC here.
If you consider it evidence depends on if you focus on the reliability of BBC news or the silliness of a cartoon.
Am I the only one who never notices these supposed self centered jerks who destroy everyone's lifes by rude cell phone usage?? I do see people use them all the time, of course, but it doesn't annoy me any more than people talking to someone present.
Maybe some people are just looking for something to be annoyed by?
I agree that people talking in a movie theatre would be a big problem. But that hasn't happened anytime I can remember. People talking to each other are a much bigger issue in my expereience.
Those who corrupt the legislatures, those who buy their own laws without heed to the damage they do to others, they have no moral right to live, much less to earn a profit.
I share your outrage, but mine is mainly directed at the legislators selling the lawmaking.
Though in a bigger picture both sides are trapped in the system. If company A doesn't influence legislation in their direction, someone else will influence it in the opposite. And if legislator B doesn't sell his services, he will lose the election to someone who does.
Have a nice day!
The problem is, as you point out, that it circumvents the political process. You say that when the power balance shifts it will swing back. But the point of it is to make it very hard for the power balance to shift, even if most of the electorate wants it.
It is fair between the parties in a sense, but democracy is not for the parties, it's for the voters, and they're the ones getting screwed, no matter who is doing the screwing for the moment.
But, as the submission says, Gerrymandering results in making almost all seats safe. So one elected, the politician will be reelected unless he act like Gary Condit and gets caught. And even that was a close race.
So it seems to me that it creates the exact opposite effect of what you complain about.
In a system of proportional representation district size and shape does not affect the representation of the different parties. Each vote is mathematically worth exactly as much as any other.
So the problem is solved by just not existing...
Coming from such a country to the US, it's pretty bizarre how crappy and corrupt some of these things are done here.
Everybody is calling for an Open Source alternative to Diebold and their brethren, but is anyone bothering to actually write it?
If there actually was an alternative system, it would probably be more likely to outcompete Diebold than mere talk and complaining. Especially if it were written by unpaid volonteers and sold at a much lower price by a non profit foundation.
As many have said, it doesn't seem a terribly difficult task to count a few thousand events over a day in a secure and verifiable manner. Looks like a perfect Open Source project to me.
So paper is better because
1. It is easier to store data on, and
2. It is harder to store data on
I suspect some people just like paper, and make up reasons as they go along...
One way to use the higher storage capacity of digital storage would be to store stuff in thousands of different places, different media, formats etc. Some may be lost, become unreadable etc, but hardly every single copy. And it would still just take 1/1000 of the space of paper copies.
Movie reviews are traditionally done for the purpose of letting people decide if a movie is worth seeing. That obviously has to be done before you see the movie to not be pointless.
If you've already decided to see a movie, I agree with you.
Mauretania has abolished slavery three times already.
Clearly, nothing can stop your endless complainaing!
Yes, both Westerns and space SF have been made before. Combining both in the same show has not, to my knowledge, and I doubt it had even been considered, being such a bizarre concept and all.
By your criteria it's hard to think of anything that could possibly be considered innovative that involves actors talking and interacting.
At least Vanilla Sky is very close to (some would say ripoff) Dick's Ubik. I would go into why, but it would be a spoiler for both the book and movie.
Haven't seen several of the others, and haven't read all of Dick either, so I won't comment on them.
Contrary to common perception, radioactive materials are not manufactured by humans, but are found lying about in nature. It is the natural state of our planet to be somewhat radioactive, very much so in certain spots.
You can even argue that by taking away radioactive materials from the natural habitat and using it in reactors etc, we are raping Mother Earth in yet an other way. Putting back the fuel where we found it when it's burned out is one way to try to make it right.
People have been complaining for at least 50 years that christmas shopping season starts earlier every year. If that was true, it would be back in at least September by now. Truth is, it still starts in mid November, like it always has.
The fact that people perceive it as starting earlier is pretty interesting. I read an article about it once, but I can't find it on the net in 5 minutes, so I'll just claim it emphatically for now!
I love how multi million dollar issues that set precedent possibly influencing the course of civilization can be decided on the stringent legal criteria equivalent to "that seems kinda fair to me"...
"Read and memorize the entire manual or your product will break" is the attitude that Apple made billions revolting against.
The old Apple would have gone an extra half mile and made iTunes recognize if an iPod is of the wrong kind, and popped up a nice little informative error message for it, rather than blindly proceed and destroy the iPod!
These things aren't really hard, yuo just have to have the right mentality to even think of them. Some say Jobs only cares about cool looks. This does nothing to dispel that notion.
I shouldn't have to point this out, but if an error is small enough to not be detected, it will probably not be detected.
Chances are that small errors are more common than big ones, so there could easily be plenty of these erroneous results going undetected.
I'm no frog expert, but I think that possibly if it can't jump out of the pot, the frog will stay in it?
Actually, the Hungarian cubes were the very best back then, and are considered the best by many even today. I don't know too much about the economy of it, but I heard that cubes were over half of Hungary's export income for a while, so I think they did pretty well, even if the knockoff also made a lot of money.
If you like CDs, there is nothing stopping you from burning your iTunes tracks onto CDs as much as you want. Blank CD-Rs are well under 25 cents each these days.