I believe the article meant NASA's budget is 86 billion over a 5 year period. It doesn't state that in very clear language, but this document, from NASA states the agency's FY 2004 budget is roughly 15.5 billion rather clearly.
by the time such a robot can be developed will people still need to have their heads butchered to cure baldness? I wouldn't invest stock in them just yet.
The efficiencey of private industry over the federal government. If NASA had developed that satelite it would have had to have waited until it got into space to be destroyed.
Kurzweil is insane. Predicting the future is really hard stuff. Jules Verne tried it with mixed results as have many others. I'm afraid his ideas seem a little too optimistic.
but it's the man without a past problem if the universe is created by something that can only be created by the creation of the universe, so it's impossible.
a horse is a horse of course of course and no one can talk to a horse of course That is of course, unless the horse is a clone of a horse with human genes spliced in
the spectre of communism - well, maybe not, but this is appaling.
The main thing that upsets me about this is that managment can ask you to do these insane hours with a straight face. This may be legal but it is undeniably immoral. If someone pulled this shit on me i would first ask what the compensation would be, then if there is none i would merely ask managment "do you believe that is reasonable?", if they answer yes, or bs the answer, you need to start looking for a new job. Slavery was abolished in this country over a century ago and work without pay or compensation is definitely slavery. One might try to reason that it is not because you have the ability to quit but that's bull and they know it. If you quit you have to worry about the consequences of that (can i make rent?, etc.) i.e. - they have your ass in a sling.
In your heart and mind you know this is disgusting, don't allow yourself to be taken advantage of!
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Just make the city a big parking lot. With roads that lead to nowhere?
They didn't suffer long.
I can rest easy at night now.
I believe the article meant NASA's budget is 86 billion over a 5 year period. It doesn't state that in very clear language, but this document, from NASA states the agency's FY 2004 budget is roughly 15.5 billion rather clearly.
Here he comes, here comes X-43a
He's a demon with a scramjet
He's a demon and he gets his own oxygen from the atmosphere
He's gainin' on you so you better look alive
He's busy traveling at a powerful Mach5! (or seven, or ten)
And when the odds are against him because they cuuuuuut his funding
You bet your life X-43a, will end up dead in a hanger some where.
Go X-43a, go X-43a, go X-43a, goooooooo.
Remember, "Mars is teh suck" isn't constructive criticism.
why are some areas of the world so ridiculously over populated? seriously.
You have to watch Slashdot repeat itself a hundred trillion times. (lower estimate)
by the time such a robot can be developed will people still need to have their heads butchered to cure baldness? I wouldn't invest stock in them just yet.
I don't know. I liked their one and only album "Songs from the Singularity".
The efficiencey of private industry over the federal government. If NASA had developed that satelite it would have had to have waited until it got into space to be destroyed.
The diameter of that one is 1/5 a kilometer though. That's not nearly as bad as 1.0+ km.
Kurzweil is insane. Predicting the future is really hard stuff. Jules Verne tried it with mixed results as have many others. I'm afraid his ideas seem a little too optimistic.
washing clothes wasn't invented until 5,000 years ago.
if you need to get hammered that quickly drink everclear. for the rest of us, i think we can wait the extra ten seconds.
funny...
but it's the man without a past problem if the universe is created by something that can only be created by the creation of the universe, so it's impossible.
hey brother, i'm an agnostic as well, but we rarely get psychotic over that issue.
this is interesting and yet...
now everytime i see a cosmology thread i sit and count the seconds till it erupts into an atheist vs theist debate.
a horse is a horse of course of course
and no one can talk to a horse of course
That is of course, unless the horse
is a clone of a horse with human genes spliced in
Why do physicists smoke so much pot?
Of course...
This is coming from someone who doesn't believe HIV causes AIDS.
It's about frigin' time.
Catholics don't nessecarily believe in creationism. As a matter of fact, a catholic preist was the first man to propose the big bang theory.
Doesn't seem like the "MOST" to me.
Those Canadians have good reason to be "humble"
at least the lightning can get it up :'(
the spectre of communism - well, maybe not, but this is appaling.
The main thing that upsets me about this is that managment can ask you to do these insane hours with a straight face. This may be legal but it is undeniably immoral. If someone pulled this shit on me i would first ask what the compensation would be, then if there is none i would merely ask managment "do you believe that is reasonable?", if they answer yes, or bs the answer, you need to start looking for a new job. Slavery was abolished in this country over a century ago and work without pay or compensation is definitely slavery. One might try to reason that it is not because you have the ability to quit but that's bull and they know it. If you quit you have to worry about the consequences of that (can i make rent?, etc.) i.e. - they have your ass in a sling.
In your heart and mind you know this is disgusting, don't allow yourself to be taken advantage of!