I don't mind the concept of a personel carrier into space, specifically for use to meet with and deal with the ISS. However, unless they plan to add problems in one area in exchange for another, seperating the kinds of cargo the Shuttle carries isn't going to be something that safely happens.
I would like to point out that it is appropriate to substitute one problem for another, if the problem you're going to end up with is easier to solve than the original problem. It's never a first move, but after you've tried to solve the problem other ways, it becomes a more attractive alternative.
The real problem is convincing those with the purse strings that there's a tangible benefit in doing this, and with the U.S. economy like it is, and the 'President' we've currently got, I just don't see that happening anytime soon.
It's simple. It's so insanely fucking simple that I can't believe no one's suggested it. Instead of shipping expensive equipment up there, let's send ROCKS. Instead of bombing 3rd-world countries, we'll drop rocks on 'em. The rocks might be more expensive, in the end, but you'll do a lot more damage without having all the other people in the world in a fit about holocaust and fallout and so forth. You satisfy the warmongers while still being able to explore space. Given enough time it'll be so much cheaper to ship rocks into orbit than to build an ICBM or whatever that the short-term investment will pay off in the long term. I think the main problem here is that the warmonger won't be in office long enough to use this stuff. Maybe that's a good thing, eh?
Have you saluted your flag today? Were you sure to say "Under God"?
Um, no? My allegiance isn't to the flag of the united states of america, it's to the whole crapload of stupid fucking idiots we got living here that my allegiance is pledged. I could give a rat's salted ass what carpet is hung on a pole.
So if the personnel and cargo missions would be seperate, if you were rescuing someone from a Russian space station, would you take the Cosmonauts or the vodka?
The cosmonauts. Vodka doesn't suck the same way that cosmonauts do...
Unfortunately merging is one of the maneuvers that requires the most communication; in busy traffic you really have to negotiate with the other people on the road--signal and move over a little, watch to see if the approaching driver acknowledges you, and then, depending on the reaction, either move over a little more or retreat and wait for the next gap.
How about a radar? I'd like a radar, personally. It'd be a heck of a lot more useful than mirrors, and could be really helpful when vision is impaired for some reason or other (fog, busy street, etc).
I'm sorry you're subscribing to a service that doesn't give you what you need, but that's no reason for the government to get involved.
The National do not call list is a way to post a "no soliciting" sign on your telephone. That's all it is. Otherwise, the fact that there's a law there is semantically identical to the laws regarding soliciting private residences door-to-door. Before this, we had no way to do it. And it *is* somethig that needs to be independent of phone service providers who make a certain amount of money selling their own call lists.
I'm sorry that you chose to subscribe to a phone service and purchase a phone that interfere with your life so much, but you can't blame the callers for that.
If I don't want door-to-door salesmen, I can put up a sign that says "no soliciting". Then, if a door-to-door salesman shows up, I can call the cops and have him arrested for trespassing. In some states, I can shoot him, and as long as he stays on my property after I shoot him, it's fine. I can put up a fence around my house with barbed wire and spikes, and a gate. I can lock the gate so that unwanted visitors can't enter.
In all of these choices I have, I always have the freedom to allow visitors that I do want. Nothing stops me from letting in my dad, or my mom, brothers, sister, etc. Friends. They can all come in, no matter what solution I pick to keep out unwanted visitors.
I don't have that choice with my phone. The blocking technology doesn't block out all telemarketers, and it does block some wanted calls (such as relatives that depend on calling cards for their long distance service). If I unplug my phone, I've blocked out everybody, and there's not much point to having the phone in the first place. I can get callerID ad only answer when I recognize the number, but a few of my relatives that call occasioanlly call from phone numbers that aren't transmitted or aren't consistently the same. Besides, that method only works on specific phones, not specific people. What if my wife calls from a pay phone because she just got broadsided into a ditch? And I, of course, wouldn't answer a number I don't recognize. Right?
It's a sad, sad day when the federal government steps in to interfere with the agreements willingly forged between telemarketing companies and phone companies.
It was an even sadder day when commercial telemarketers were able to trump individuals' freedom to chose. I've been woken up at all hours of the day by telemarketers (I sleep at weird times, generally, and that's my choice). I've been called while cooking, eating, changing diapers, shitting, etc. I get so fucking sick of people I don't know calling me and interrupting my life just because they want to sell me something I don't want. As a professional marketing consultant, I can tell you that there are better ways to attract business, and that there's better ways to collect phone numbers that you can call, with permission, and realize a much higher call-to-sale ratio. Of course, as a professional marketing consultant, if you want me to tell you, you'll have to give me money.
This troll has shown us all how few slashdotters actually have any sense of humor.:) Look at all the responses talking all the trash to this guy. No wonder he posted as AC. Of course, i wouldn't have.:) Anonymity for registered users, I say!
Caller ID, man. My wife is amazed at how every single last time her mom calls and she's not home to take the call, I'm in the can. I think she's starting to worry about my digestive issues.
That's alright, dude, at least you get out of it. 5 out of 6 times my idiot mother-in-law calls my wife isn't home, and the woman drips with disbelief when I tell her "They're not home right now." Then I tell my wife, and my wife says "I don't want to talk to that bitch." So we go through this cycle where every 3-4 months her mother accuses me of trying to get between her and her daughter by not telling my wife when the bitch calls. But I tell her every time! Get it through your head, stupid lady, your daughter doesn't like you. I don't like you either! You just watch yourself. We're wanted men. I have the death sentence on 12 star systems.
How did you file a complaint? The page for filing complaints doesn't even do anything, it just says that telemarketers must stop calling you on October 1st and that complaints may begin being filed at that time.
If you read the fucking post, you'd see he was talking about the State of Colorado's do not call list.
Of course, I'm just feeling a little bitchy because there's Paula Abdul singing in my living room, the little tramp.
Oh...I just noticed, the poster is a proud Republican...that explains it. Anyone who feels the need to brag about their conservatism generally has a soft spot for Joe McCarthy.
Anyone who needs to point out someone elses political leanings in order to denigrate them generally has a soft spot for Chairman Mao.
There's not any fundamental difference between Joe McCarthy and Chairman Mao.
No matter how good your software is, you're going to need brute force to get the vehicle into space in the first place. Putting three men into space is going to require a significant amount of energy, and no amount of programming genius will change that fact. More importantly, you're going to need a good bit more brute force than Armadillo Aerospace has been testing with so far.
The challenge is to do it specifically for the lowest possible cost. That means running your rocket damn efficient. That means programming. Carmack is well-suited to this task because he's a capable project manager, experienced with skyrocketing development costs, and the perspective he brings in from the world of software is very fresh. Software, compared to rocket science (and almost everything else), is still a very young art. This software developer turned rocket scientist has the potential to revolutionize both businesses.
No, nor have I read any of the books (are there books?). But I do know that Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency gave us serious proof that Douglas Adams doesn't always write good stuff.
Europa is in a constant state of being squished and stretched by the tidal forces of Jupiter's gravity. Because of that, Europa's size has little bearing on how much internal heat it generates.
And here I thought the reason Denmark was warm was because of the jet stream. Silly me.
If they want to see the programmes they should subscribe to BBC World or BBC Prime.
Or we could just go P2P, where I got all the Hitchhiker's, all the Red Dwarf's, and a couple of Python movies (haven't gone after the rest + tv show yet). I don't know if the BBC is in the same class of evil that the MPAA is, though, I'll admit.
Those doing the complaining are only dogmatic liberals and johnny-come-latelies who would twist the meaning of the constitution to fit their own world view. A world view where God has no authority, nothing is forbidden and everything is permitted.
Maybe, maybe not. I happen to know of at least one system of morality that is based on Freedom, and Freedom alone. The most important thing to keep in mind when we discuss freedom is that freedom does not come without responsibilities. Having the freedom to murder requires the responsibility not to do so wantonly. Having the freedom to throw trash on the highways requires the responsibility not to trash the environment. While some of your points are correct, I don't think that rules out the possibility that the founding fathers recognized that there are likely other religions and other systems that do not depend on religion whose participants can behave in a socially-conscious way without causing harm to society, the government, and individual liberties. Just because all they knew was christianity (a point to be debated, but conceded for now) doesn't mean they were unaware of their ignorance. Christianity is an old religion, but it is not the oldest available, and morality has been around for a long time. Current, modern American morality has quite a strong foot standing in Freedom, independent of religion. Too bad it's only one foot, with the one soaked in Christian fundamentalist shit.
Interestingly, the Puritans who fled religious persecution (and, like one of my ancestors, the vengeful son of an executed king) weren't very tolerant of people with different beliefs to their own. They were quite happy to persucute Quakers, for instance.
Let's not forget the mormons, who fled persecution, only to commit it in their own lands. (I cite my mother as my source of this information, and until the w3c comes up with a way to link to actual people, I cannot provide a link)
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IIRC Women aren't allowed to serve on Submarines yet, at least Ballistic Missle ones with their long duration missions.
Can't have women disrupting all those couples out there...
I don't mind the concept of a personel carrier into space, specifically for use to meet with and deal with the ISS. However, unless they plan to add problems in one area in exchange for another, seperating the kinds of cargo the Shuttle carries isn't going to be something that safely happens.
I would like to point out that it is appropriate to substitute one problem for another, if the problem you're going to end up with is easier to solve than the original problem. It's never a first move, but after you've tried to solve the problem other ways, it becomes a more attractive alternative.
The real problem is convincing those with the purse strings that there's a tangible benefit in doing this, and with the U.S. economy like it is, and the 'President' we've currently got, I just don't see that happening anytime soon.
It's simple. It's so insanely fucking simple that I can't believe no one's suggested it. Instead of shipping expensive equipment up there, let's send ROCKS. Instead of bombing 3rd-world countries, we'll drop rocks on 'em. The rocks might be more expensive, in the end, but you'll do a lot more damage without having all the other people in the world in a fit about holocaust and fallout and so forth. You satisfy the warmongers while still being able to explore space. Given enough time it'll be so much cheaper to ship rocks into orbit than to build an ICBM or whatever that the short-term investment will pay off in the long term. I think the main problem here is that the warmonger won't be in office long enough to use this stuff. Maybe that's a good thing, eh?
Have you saluted your flag today? Were you sure to say "Under God"?
Um, no? My allegiance isn't to the flag of the united states of america, it's to the whole crapload of stupid fucking idiots we got living here that my allegiance is pledged. I could give a rat's salted ass what carpet is hung on a pole.
So if the personnel and cargo missions would be seperate, if you were rescuing someone from a Russian space station, would you take the Cosmonauts or the vodka?
The cosmonauts. Vodka doesn't suck the same way that cosmonauts do...
Unfortunately merging is one of the maneuvers that requires the most communication; in busy traffic you really have to negotiate with the other people on the road--signal and move over a little, watch to see if the approaching driver acknowledges you, and then, depending on the reaction, either move over a little more or retreat and wait for the next gap.
How about a radar? I'd like a radar, personally. It'd be a heck of a lot more useful than mirrors, and could be really helpful when vision is impaired for some reason or other (fog, busy street, etc).
I'm sorry you're subscribing to a service that doesn't give you what you need, but that's no reason for the government to get involved.
The National do not call list is a way to post a "no soliciting" sign on your telephone. That's all it is. Otherwise, the fact that there's a law there is semantically identical to the laws regarding soliciting private residences door-to-door. Before this, we had no way to do it. And it *is* somethig that needs to be independent of phone service providers who make a certain amount of money selling their own call lists.
I'm sorry that you chose to subscribe to a phone service and purchase a phone that interfere with your life so much, but you can't blame the callers for that.
If I don't want door-to-door salesmen, I can put up a sign that says "no soliciting". Then, if a door-to-door salesman shows up, I can call the cops and have him arrested for trespassing. In some states, I can shoot him, and as long as he stays on my property after I shoot him, it's fine. I can put up a fence around my house with barbed wire and spikes, and a gate. I can lock the gate so that unwanted visitors can't enter.
In all of these choices I have, I always have the freedom to allow visitors that I do want. Nothing stops me from letting in my dad, or my mom, brothers, sister, etc. Friends. They can all come in, no matter what solution I pick to keep out unwanted visitors.
I don't have that choice with my phone. The blocking technology doesn't block out all telemarketers, and it does block some wanted calls (such as relatives that depend on calling cards for their long distance service). If I unplug my phone, I've blocked out everybody, and there's not much point to having the phone in the first place. I can get callerID ad only answer when I recognize the number, but a few of my relatives that call occasioanlly call from phone numbers that aren't transmitted or aren't consistently the same. Besides, that method only works on specific phones, not specific people. What if my wife calls from a pay phone because she just got broadsided into a ditch? And I, of course, wouldn't answer a number I don't recognize. Right?
It's a sad, sad day when the federal government steps in to interfere with the agreements willingly forged between telemarketing companies and phone companies.
It was an even sadder day when commercial telemarketers were able to trump individuals' freedom to chose. I've been woken up at all hours of the day by telemarketers (I sleep at weird times, generally, and that's my choice). I've been called while cooking, eating, changing diapers, shitting, etc. I get so fucking sick of people I don't know calling me and interrupting my life just because they want to sell me something I don't want. As a professional marketing consultant, I can tell you that there are better ways to attract business, and that there's better ways to collect phone numbers that you can call, with permission, and realize a much higher call-to-sale ratio. Of course, as a professional marketing consultant, if you want me to tell you, you'll have to give me money.
"Why would I do that? I don't WANT to live in a police state!"
Didn't you say you live in Wisconsin? I don't find those two statements to be consistent... Perhaps you don't like Wisconsin?
This troll has shown us all how few slashdotters actually have any sense of humor. :) Look at all the responses talking all the trash to this guy. No wonder he posted as AC. Of course, i wouldn't have. :) Anonymity for registered users, I say!
Caller ID, man. My wife is amazed at how every single last time her mom calls and she's not home to take the call, I'm in the can. I think she's starting to worry about my digestive issues.
That's alright, dude, at least you get out of it. 5 out of 6 times my idiot mother-in-law calls my wife isn't home, and the woman drips with disbelief when I tell her "They're not home right now." Then I tell my wife, and my wife says "I don't want to talk to that bitch." So we go through this cycle where every 3-4 months her mother accuses me of trying to get between her and her daughter by not telling my wife when the bitch calls. But I tell her every time! Get it through your head, stupid lady, your daughter doesn't like you. I don't like you either! You just watch yourself. We're wanted men. I have the death sentence on 12 star systems.
Most real police officers have better things to do with their time.
Yeah, like beating up niggers.
This is flamebait. Please, flame me, someone!
How did you file a complaint? The page for filing complaints doesn't even do anything, it just says that telemarketers must stop calling you on October 1st and that complaints may begin being filed at that time.
If you read the fucking post, you'd see he was talking about the State of Colorado's do not call list.
Of course, I'm just feeling a little bitchy because there's Paula Abdul singing in my living room, the little tramp.
I'm failing to see why eliminating the jobs of people whose job it is to annoy other people is a bad thing. I'm just not seeing the downside, here.
Yeah, I really don't wanna have to resort to a B ark, especially since I'm a marketing consultant.
Oh...I just noticed, the poster is a proud Republican...that explains it. Anyone who feels the need to brag about their conservatism generally has a soft spot for Joe McCarthy.
Anyone who needs to point out someone elses political leanings in order to denigrate them generally has a soft spot for Chairman Mao.
There's not any fundamental difference between Joe McCarthy and Chairman Mao.
No matter how good your software is, you're going to need brute force to get the vehicle into space in the first place. Putting three men into space is going to require a significant amount of energy, and no amount of programming genius will change that fact. More importantly, you're going to need a good bit more brute force than Armadillo Aerospace has been testing with so far.
The challenge is to do it specifically for the lowest possible cost. That means running your rocket damn efficient. That means programming. Carmack is well-suited to this task because he's a capable project manager, experienced with skyrocketing development costs, and the perspective he brings in from the world of software is very fresh. Software, compared to rocket science (and almost everything else), is still a very young art. This software developer turned rocket scientist has the potential to revolutionize both businesses.
My name is Jeremy and I have an I.Q. of 6,000; the same I.Q. as 6,000 P.E. teachers!
Um, don't you mean your name is Holly? And wouldn't it be nice to give credit where it's due?
Then you obviously have never seen Doctor Who
No, nor have I read any of the books (are there books?). But I do know that Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency gave us serious proof that Douglas Adams doesn't always write good stuff.
(*ducks*)
I thought they were just eating the asparagus.
You grow asparagus? Do you actually eat it? Are you bipolar or something?
Europa is in a constant state of being squished and stretched by the tidal forces of Jupiter's gravity. Because of that, Europa's size has little bearing on how much internal heat it generates.
And here I thought the reason Denmark was warm was because of the jet stream. Silly me.
And of course if we we do make contact with an intellegent species we would then need to share with them the truth of Jesus.
As always, at the barrel of a gun.
Actually, I can't spread the truth of Jesus anymore, Jesus thinks I'm a jerk.
If they want to see the programmes they should subscribe to BBC World or BBC Prime.
Or we could just go P2P, where I got all the Hitchhiker's, all the Red Dwarf's, and a couple of Python movies (haven't gone after the rest + tv show yet). I don't know if the BBC is in the same class of evil that the MPAA is, though, I'll admit.
Those doing the complaining are only dogmatic liberals and johnny-come-latelies who would twist the meaning of the constitution to fit their own world view. A world view where God has no authority, nothing is forbidden and everything is permitted.
Maybe, maybe not. I happen to know of at least one system of morality that is based on Freedom, and Freedom alone. The most important thing to keep in mind when we discuss freedom is that freedom does not come without responsibilities. Having the freedom to murder requires the responsibility not to do so wantonly. Having the freedom to throw trash on the highways requires the responsibility not to trash the environment. While some of your points are correct, I don't think that rules out the possibility that the founding fathers recognized that there are likely other religions and other systems that do not depend on religion whose participants can behave in a socially-conscious way without causing harm to society, the government, and individual liberties. Just because all they knew was christianity (a point to be debated, but conceded for now) doesn't mean they were unaware of their ignorance. Christianity is an old religion, but it is not the oldest available, and morality has been around for a long time. Current, modern American morality has quite a strong foot standing in Freedom, independent of religion. Too bad it's only one foot, with the one soaked in Christian fundamentalist shit.
Interestingly, the Puritans who fled religious persecution (and, like one of my ancestors, the vengeful son of an executed king) weren't very tolerant of people with different beliefs to their own. They were quite happy to persucute Quakers, for instance.
Let's not forget the mormons, who fled persecution, only to commit it in their own lands. (I cite my mother as my source of this information, and until the w3c comes up with a way to link to actual people, I cannot provide a link)