Each child born in a developed nation consumes up to thirty-three times more resources than does a child born in the third world.
For example, that means that if the US currently has a population growth of 1% (from births only) the amount of resources this birth rate consumes is equivalent to a birth rate of 33% in the third world!
There is no third world nation that has such a birth rate so the real issue is the developed nations drain on world resources rather than the population growth of third world nations.
All measurements were done in English (American, Imperial, whatever you want to call them) measurements. This means that there are not only redundant components of the ISS, but even redundant toolboxes -- metric and English.
I suspect most aerospace companies have similar practices.
With the statement:
Give me private companies (Armadillo Aerospace, Burt Rutan's projects) any day. They're the ones who'll finally get us into space reliably.
What, Boeing and Lockhead aren't private companies?
Yeah, thank the Russian army for that. They did all the heavy lifting against the Nazi army. We Americans more or less waltz in just to make sure we could claim, "We helped too!"
Now as far as the Pacific campaign is concerned, yeah America practically did that alone. But please, don't make the mistake of thinking the US defeated the Nazis. That ain't even close to the truth.
AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!! NO THEY DON'T!! This is the most anti-scientific piece of tripe that Sagan has ever said!
The hallmark of science is measurement, how f*ck do you measure "extraordinariness"?
Is claim X 2x more "extraordinary" than claim Y, or the other way around. What's the SI units for this quality?
STOP REPEATING THIS BULLSH*T!
BTW, I'm in no way saying that the parent poster is correct in believing those sand dunes are organic, but please drop this anti-scientific quote from your repertoire!
I have to take issue with your claim that "X-Rays have no color". Strickly speaking, color is just our cognitive perception of a particular region of the EM radiation. If human eyes could register X-ray radiation as well then yes, objects that differentially reflected x-ray radiation would have a particular color.
Sorry about the hair-splitting, but this is Slashdot...;-)
Honestly, what's with all this wild ass guessing that it was "evil greenies" that prevented poor defenseless NASA from putting RTGs/SRGs on the rovers?
Did any of you "smart" people think that the reason they didn't put them on the rovers is because they had a limited budget and couldn't afford the cost?
Naaah! It's much easier to blame imaginary modern day luddites influencing NASA policy than to think of something more mundane...and correct...
My financial activities created those bank records, by your definition above I own the bank records.
And even if the banks machines make note of those financial activities doesn't that fall under the same catagory as the phone company's machines making making possible my phone conversations?
...deep in the woods EVERY activity you undertake will have one or more other people involved or knowledgable about it. When you have sex with your wife/girlfriend at least one other person has knowledge about it, right? So does that mean you have no right to privacy about it?
Let me ask you a question, where do you draw the line? What IS protected by the fourth admendment?
...if it's in the Gusev crater or if something else happened to it.
Still it's a moot point since I'm sure there are thousands of miles of extremely rugged terrain between the two landing sites.:-(
I wonder if NASA plans on sending a really rugged rover to Mars sometime in the near future? Something that could navigate some of those canyon bottoms etc.?
It would probably have to be radiothermically powered instead of using solar cells, but it would be damn cool!!!!
I think most of us are in agreement that it's sad the Beagle 2 didn't make it. That being said, does anyone know how far Spirit and the landing site of the Beagle 2 are? I'm just guessing, but probably waaaaay to far for the rover to take a gander at what might have happened to the Beagle 2.
But you seem to resent the very same attitude on the part of perspective employees.
In other words, they want to work for a company that provides them with the very best job that there is. And that might not be you, but they still have to pay the rent, right?
I bet you'd hire someone that didn't quite fit your needs knowing fully that you'd fire them later if a better suited individual came along if your company couldn't otherwise function without someone in the position.
So why is it o.k. for you to put your company's needs ahead of your employees and not o.k. for them to do the very same thing?
Spoken like someone who has never done it.
I have, twice. Both times I did very well, as long as the economy was good. During the good times, you can get hourly wages equal to 4-10 times what you would get as a wage slave. Problem is, you *need* to make this much as a consultant. First, you've got to pay all your own expenses, like medical, etc. Next, you've got paperwork to handle that you don't get paid for (taxes, accounting, billing, etc). And, last of all, it's not possible to get paid for all of your "workable hours". There's gaps between gigs, and there's the time you spend schmoozing and networking trying to find the next gig.
During the high times, this wasn't a problem for me. The gigs tended to be long-term, minimum 20 hours/week. Word of mouth was getting me more work than I could accept (even so, only one out of six proposals would pan out.) When the economy got tight, so did the hours, and so did the jobs. I was spending much more time drumming up the next job, the proposal acceptance rate dropped like a stone, and the lead-time even when the job was accepted went from two weeks to eight weeks. Many of the folks who had been recommending/hiring me for jobs were themselves either looking for jobs, or were trying to cut expenses so they *wouldn't* lose thier jobs.
And, on top of all of that, you've got to be one seriously self-motivated person to keep it going. The temptation to slack off can be very strong.
Yup, I'm going to have to close shop on my consulting business after two years at it because of the economy. Plus a one person contractor is extremely limited in the contracts that s/he is capable of seriously bidding on and completing.
Sorry college boy, but its true of many more companies than you realize. Cisco has the exact same policy AND if someone "bends" the rules they get sued for violating their contracts (because management contracts contain a clause stating they will uphold the "no references" policy). So stick that in your pipe dumb-ass.
Here in Illinois it's illegal to photograph or film police even on your own property. There was a story in our local newspaper about a woman who had an abusive ex-boyfriend that she had a restraining order against.
He showed up at her house and so she called the cops. While they were arresting him she came out with a camcorder and started videotaping. The cops arrested her too. When I read this I thought, "What fucked up politician thought of this piece of shit legislation?" Now the cops have video cameras in their patrol cars (which apprently can be switched on or off by the cop), but we can't film them. Lovely, huh?
Actually the Earth's magnetic field is very, very weak. It strength is only 0.5 gauss. A typical refrigerator magnet is 35 to 50 gauss or ten times as strong!
"Deflectors just snapped on! Solar flare detected!"
I think an electromagnetic shield is perfectly feasible and should protect against even strong charged particles. Non-electrically charged particles (like x-rays, gamma radiation) and extremely high strength charged particles could probably be filtered out by a water barrier.
Corporations, and companies (let's not lend creadence to the myth that only corporations are irresponsible) have had private police forces in the US as late as the 1920s. These private police forces had the ability to arrest and jail people, just like the US government.
Oh, for those trolls who might want to respond, "Yeah, but that was a hundred years ago..." might do well to read this link.
Here's a short excerpt;
For the first time, an American judge has ordered a U.S. corporation to stand trial for alleged human-rights violations committed by a joint-venture partner overseas.
In a case with potentially far-reaching implications, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney ruled from the bench Monday that Unocal Corp. may be held liable for the conduct of the government of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, Unocal's partner in the Yadana gas field in southern Myanmar. A trial is scheduled for September on the allegations raised in the suit, which was filed by several Myanmar villagers in 1996. They charge that they were forced to work on the oil project in slave-like conditions by Myanmar's military.
So governments are NOT the only organization that oppresses people!
If I send email to more than five people then the mail that was cc'd to someone with a RR account gets bounced. Apparently RR thinks if your mailing more than five people your running a mailing list and they want the person receiving it to verify they agreed to the mailing list to them, (that is, Road Runner).
I object to this for several reasons:
I come from a family of eleven children most of whom have five or more children so if we try to arrange things via email for the holidays we end up having much of our email bounced.
Why should I, or anyone else, have to let RR know what email lists we subscribe to? Sorry, this is too big brotherish for me.
Finally, there has to be better ways to stop spam. This seems too "designed by a committee" stupid.
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For example, that means that if the US currently has a population growth of 1% (from births only) the amount of resources this birth rate consumes is equivalent to a birth rate of 33% in the third world!
There is no third world nation that has such a birth rate so the real issue is the developed nations drain on world resources rather than the population growth of third world nations.
With the statement:
What, Boeing and Lockhead aren't private companies?
What a load of shit.
Too bad it ain't true.
[Insert evil laugh]
...I'd wet my pants with joy. I think I wouldn't be alone, either.
Now as far as the Pacific campaign is concerned, yeah America practically did that alone. But please, don't make the mistake of thinking the US defeated the Nazis. That ain't even close to the truth.
The hallmark of science is measurement, how f*ck do you measure "extraordinariness"?
Is claim X 2x more "extraordinary" than claim Y, or the other way around. What's the SI units for this quality?
STOP REPEATING THIS BULLSH*T!
BTW, I'm in no way saying that the parent poster is correct in believing those sand dunes are organic, but please drop this anti-scientific quote from your repertoire!
Sorry about the hair-splitting, but this is Slashdot... ;-)
It's very good and it's also quite short. But in a nutshell:
1. Yes, he's completely frozen and when the sun sets on Pluto it's pretty near absolute zero.
2. He's sorta undead. He doesn't breathe at all but because his brain is superconducting he still has consciousness when the sun sets.
Really, read the story and you'll understand.
Did any of you "smart" people think that the reason they didn't put them on the rovers is because they had a limited budget and couldn't afford the cost?
Naaah! It's much easier to blame imaginary modern day luddites influencing NASA policy than to think of something more mundane...and correct...
There was a white supremecist group in Texas (with a cyanide bomb, 500,000 rounds of ammo and lotsa of other WMD) who ONLY got caught by accident!
This was just a few weeks ago and BTW, they haven't caught all the members. Here's the link.
And even if the banks machines make note of those financial activities doesn't that fall under the same catagory as the phone company's machines making making possible my phone conversations?
Let me ask you a question, where do you draw the line? What IS protected by the fourth admendment?
Still it's a moot point since I'm sure there are thousands of miles of extremely rugged terrain between the two landing sites. :-(
I wonder if NASA plans on sending a really rugged rover to Mars sometime in the near future? Something that could navigate some of those canyon bottoms etc.?
It would probably have to be radiothermically powered instead of using solar cells, but it would be damn cool!!!!
I think most of us are in agreement that it's sad the Beagle 2 didn't make it. That being said, does anyone know how far Spirit and the landing site of the Beagle 2 are? I'm just guessing, but probably waaaaay to far for the rover to take a gander at what might have happened to the Beagle 2.
In other words, they want to work for a company that provides them with the very best job that there is. And that might not be you, but they still have to pay the rent, right?
I bet you'd hire someone that didn't quite fit your needs knowing fully that you'd fire them later if a better suited individual came along if your company couldn't otherwise function without someone in the position.
So why is it o.k. for you to put your company's needs ahead of your employees and not o.k. for them to do the very same thing?
Sorry college boy, but its true of many more companies than you realize. Cisco has the exact same policy AND if someone "bends" the rules they get sued for violating their contracts (because management contracts contain a clause stating they will uphold the "no references" policy). So stick that in your pipe dumb-ass.
Doesn't everyone have the right to work at one job with an eye toward bettering themselves at another?
Or are all us lowly wage slaves merely here for the greater glory of the business class and their corporate flags?
He showed up at her house and so she called the cops. While they were arresting him she came out with a camcorder and started videotaping. The cops arrested her too. When I read this I thought, "What fucked up politician thought of this piece of shit legislation?" Now the cops have video cameras in their patrol cars (which apprently can be switched on or off by the cop), but we can't film them. Lovely, huh?
Who could possibly not like:
Kill Dr. Lucky! and
Save Dr. Lucky!
"Deflectors just snapped on! Solar flare detected!"
I think an electromagnetic shield is perfectly feasible and should protect against even strong charged particles. Non-electrically charged particles (like x-rays, gamma radiation) and extremely high strength charged particles could probably be filtered out by a water barrier.
Oh, for those trolls who might want to respond, "Yeah, but that was a hundred years ago..." might do well to read this link. Here's a short excerpt;
So governments are NOT the only organization that oppresses people!Actually I think that's the problem. I'm CC'ing them and your BCC'ing them. I think that might solve my problem, thanks!
I object to this for several reasons: