So we actually learn more about our own media from this story than the story itself. A responsible media wouldn't publish a story like this until they actually had the FACTS. What did the kid really say? He is obviously lying in the quote. This is a biased one sided story with no fact checking or research. It's an inflammatory headline grab trying to manipulate their audience. They are just looking to grab eyes with headlines that have no meaning.
Was I the only one who hoped this was an effort to address the real issue of pirates off the coast of Somalia? Millions of dollars in ransoms being funneled into black markets and mafias. That sounds to me like a bigger problem for our security.
Somehow that seems like a more important issue for the Federal Government to deal with. You know, provide for the common defense and all.
My mistake, its just a power grab by big corporations.
Oh, I see. My mistake. I thought it was a tax/fee but only because I thought the cost of electricity was the cost to get the coal/gas out of the ground and make it into electricity. I didn't realize the government was subsidizing this cost artificially. Your right, the true cost of electricity is much much higher. How much more will it cost when we have to get all the CO2 back out of the air (5x, 20x, 1000x). It's not like CO2 collectors grow on trees.
This sounds like a great idea. Government can fix our demand problem by raising taxes and fees. Its a win win. The government will have more money, we all have less annoying choice of what we want. And with all the new money the government can do things like have free bread days. We can just line up and get our free bread. Heck, this world sounds so good, I think I'll quit my job now and get in line. Utopia achieved.
Seriously, this game was epic. The game concept of discovering a new world and exploring the entire continent, meeting natives, gathering resources. All with simple graphics. A reboot could bring a much richer combat system and even include multiplayer cooperative/competitive modes.
What is the government going to do with this money?
It seems to me they should pay it back to the consumers who were ripped off. But we all know they are just going to put it into the general fund and spend it on some pet project or political pay back to one of their cronies.
Thanks government, you've helped to keep us safer by taking money from one bad guy and giving it to another.
Yes, but by providing network connectivity to your home computer that is hosting a web site, the ISP is not hosting anything. Just acting as a gateway for your computer to connect into the internet.
Now if we were talking about a hosting company. That might be a different thing. If they are talking about hosted computers, this is a different matter. But an ISP should be a communication provider not a content provider and it should not matter what I provide as content on their network. The content I provide is my responsibility.
But adding $20 Trillion in resources won't actually create $20 Trillion in value. It will instead just crash the price of the items it is competing with. Our world only needs $50-$100 Billion worth of that resource yearly. If you try to suddenly unload 200 years of inventory, you'll just destroy the market. Prices will drop and the final result will be that you capture 100% of the $50-$100 Billion that the marking was already planning on spending.
Numbers like $20 Trillion or inflated. Its like saying I have a super tanker full of crack worth $100 Trillion street value. There is no way you'll ever see any of that money.
I remember a story from my youth (The Great Bunjee Venture) about an elephant like dinosaur that had a vacuum trunk, was semi-translucent and had suction cup feet. It could even fly (well gently glide down) by inflating its trunk.
All though, we could use the unlimited power to solve our polution problem. You know, like by collecting the problem gasses and venting them into space. Or by collecting them into a black rock we could call "new-coal".
Power give us options. Power from rocks is a power source not from the sun (directly but from super nova billions of years ago). More available energy, gives us more options and would be better.
I've heard of this before the new twenties. Just get a RFID chip that is still active and insert it into someones wallet and presto, every time they walk though a scanner they will set it off. Good for years of fun. Just drop the little metal strip to the bottem and they will never find it. Better yet, drop it into someone's purse, who knows whats inside those things. A small mettle strip will never be found.
Looks like in this case the metal strip was between a few folds of money.
I give them my $1000 and they loan it to you. I still have a $1000 deposit earning interst and you have $1000 to buy your plazma TV with. Then the TV company pays my salary of $1000 and I put that in the bank again. Pooof, another $1000 is created.
The Fed limits how much money the banks can create by requiring them to have "Reserves" to cover loans. These reserves only allow the bank to loan out $970 and not the entire $1000.
Yes, the government can "Print" money, but how would they get it out to the poeple? Just give away bags of "new" money? I don't think so. What happens is banks take in "old" worn out money and exchange it for new money. This doesn't create money, only keeps it usuable.
High priced musicians will die out. We'll return to the erra when musicians are people who love their music and are not out expecting to become "Super Stars". They will be people with day jobs, who make music for fun. They will be happy making the music wether or not anybody likes it or pays for it. To make money they will Perform for local sponsors.
Artists throughout time have never been rich and their works never worth much until they were dead. Yet we still had great art. But with the RIAA, we get crap and all the good music is stiffeled by Payola.
Whats wrong with exploiting a loop hole. It worked for OJ. It works for Enron. Big business is always exploiting loopholes to avoid taxes and jail. Its about time that the common man begins to exploit loopholes.
NEO objects already have sufficent centrifugal force to over come the suns gravity otherwise they would have crashed into the sun 4 billion years ago.
Any object that orbits another body is using centrifugal force (pushing it away from the center) to ballance the gravitational force (pulling it toward the center). By giving any object a small push faster around in its orbit you increase its centrifugal and cause the object to move to out to a farther orbit.
So yes, adding solar sails to a NEO would help push it away into a farther orbit. On the othe hand solar sails generate only a tine ammount of force (not even enough move it through air). That said, I doubt that solar sails would help move an object the size (pronounced mass) of mount everest away for an Earth bound collision in under 10 billion years of constant work.
Although, I small space probe might be moved quite a bit. Not at first, but over time it could get going quite fast.
Come on, its not the bandwidth that is expensive its the hardward and maintance. It only costs penneys to run the electricity on the routers, hubs and bridges. These prices based on bandwidth are just artifical prices like long distance rates. The company that owns and maintains the fiber should have a fixed price to maintain it.
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So we actually learn more about our own media from this story than the story itself. A responsible media wouldn't publish a story like this until they actually had the FACTS. What did the kid really say? He is obviously lying in the quote. This is a biased one sided story with no fact checking or research. It's an inflammatory headline grab trying to manipulate their audience. They are just looking to grab eyes with headlines that have no meaning.
Insert Hansolo joke here.
Was I the only one who hoped this was an effort to address the real issue of pirates off the coast of Somalia? Millions of dollars in ransoms being funneled into black markets and mafias. That sounds to me like a bigger problem for our security. Somehow that seems like a more important issue for the Federal Government to deal with. You know, provide for the common defense and all. My mistake, its just a power grab by big corporations.
Right, so when you type "hunter32" all we can see is "********". It's really quite cleaver don't you think.
Oh, I see. My mistake. I thought it was a tax/fee but only because I thought the cost of electricity was the cost to get the coal/gas out of the ground and make it into electricity. I didn't realize the government was subsidizing this cost artificially. Your right, the true cost of electricity is much much higher. How much more will it cost when we have to get all the CO2 back out of the air (5x, 20x, 1000x). It's not like CO2 collectors grow on trees.
This sounds like a great idea. Government can fix our demand problem by raising taxes and fees. Its a win win. The government will have more money, we all have less annoying choice of what we want. And with all the new money the government can do things like have free bread days. We can just line up and get our free bread. Heck, this world sounds so good, I think I'll quit my job now and get in line. Utopia achieved.
If your password is even remotely similar to those listed, you should change it.
Seriously, this game was epic. The game concept of discovering a new world and exploring the entire continent, meeting natives, gathering resources. All with simple graphics. A reboot could bring a much richer combat system and even include multiplayer cooperative/competitive modes.
What is the government going to do with this money? It seems to me they should pay it back to the consumers who were ripped off. But we all know they are just going to put it into the general fund and spend it on some pet project or political pay back to one of their cronies. Thanks government, you've helped to keep us safer by taking money from one bad guy and giving it to another.
That's simple. Just tell us where you keep your ATM card and . . .
Yes, but by providing network connectivity to your home computer that is hosting a web site, the ISP is not hosting anything. Just acting as a gateway for your computer to connect into the internet. Now if we were talking about a hosting company. That might be a different thing. If they are talking about hosted computers, this is a different matter. But an ISP should be a communication provider not a content provider and it should not matter what I provide as content on their network. The content I provide is my responsibility.
But adding $20 Trillion in resources won't actually create $20 Trillion in value. It will instead just crash the price of the items it is competing with. Our world only needs $50-$100 Billion worth of that resource yearly. If you try to suddenly unload 200 years of inventory, you'll just destroy the market. Prices will drop and the final result will be that you capture 100% of the $50-$100 Billion that the marking was already planning on spending. Numbers like $20 Trillion or inflated. Its like saying I have a super tanker full of crack worth $100 Trillion street value. There is no way you'll ever see any of that money.
I remember a story from my youth (The Great Bunjee Venture) about an elephant like dinosaur that had a vacuum trunk, was semi-translucent and had suction cup feet. It could even fly (well gently glide down) by inflating its trunk.
http://www.amazon.com/Bunjee-Venture-Stan-McMurtry/dp/0590301624/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195235967&sr=8-1
It's a story about time travel. Perhaps it's really a documentary
All though, we could use the unlimited power to solve our polution problem. You know, like by collecting the problem gasses and venting them into space. Or by collecting them into a black rock we could call "new-coal".
Power give us options. Power from rocks is a power source not from the sun (directly but from super nova billions of years ago). More available energy, gives us more options and would be better.
Yea, I think that is what makes the parent poster a Troll.
I've heard of this before the new twenties. Just get a RFID chip that is still active and insert it into someones wallet and presto, every time they walk though a scanner they will set it off. Good for years of fun. Just drop the little metal strip to the bottem and they will never find it. Better yet, drop it into someone's purse, who knows whats inside those things. A small mettle strip will never be found. Looks like in this case the metal strip was between a few folds of money.
I give them my $1000 and they loan it to you. I still have a $1000 deposit earning interst and you have $1000 to buy your plazma TV with. Then the TV company pays my salary of $1000 and I put that in the bank again. Pooof, another $1000 is created.
The Fed limits how much money the banks can create by requiring them to have "Reserves" to cover loans. These reserves only allow the bank to loan out $970 and not the entire $1000.
Yes, the government can "Print" money, but how would they get it out to the poeple? Just give away bags of "new" money? I don't think so. What happens is banks take in "old" worn out money and exchange it for new money. This doesn't create money, only keeps it usuable.
I tried the transition, but I found that I had grown too accustomed to Yahoo. So I guess I"m stuck.
You mean like "Fox News, fair and ballanced."
Artists throughout time have never been rich and their works never worth much until they were dead. Yet we still had great art. But with the RIAA, we get crap and all the good music is stiffeled by Payola.
Come on how much is music really worth?
Whats wrong with exploiting a loop hole. It worked for OJ. It works for Enron. Big business is always exploiting loopholes to avoid taxes and jail. Its about time that the common man begins to exploit loopholes.
Any object that orbits another body is using centrifugal force (pushing it away from the center) to ballance the gravitational force (pulling it toward the center). By giving any object a small push faster around in its orbit you increase its centrifugal and cause the object to move to out to a farther orbit.
So yes, adding solar sails to a NEO would help push it away into a farther orbit. On the othe hand solar sails generate only a tine ammount of force (not even enough move it through air). That said, I doubt that solar sails would help move an object the size (pronounced mass) of mount everest away for an Earth bound collision in under 10 billion years of constant work.
Although, I small space probe might be moved quite a bit. Not at first, but over time it could get going quite fast.
I'm sorry, but isn't true ROT13 only defined for the 26 characters (A-Z). I don't know how to ROT13 a paren. This looks like a binary shift.
Come on, its not the bandwidth that is expensive its the hardward and maintance. It only costs penneys to run the electricity on the routers, hubs and bridges. These prices based on bandwidth are just artifical prices like long distance rates. The company that owns and maintains the fiber should have a fixed price to maintain it.