The government stranglehold on space travel is crippling research, it's only in recent years that a little sanity has prevailed, and commercial ventures are starting to make their mark on a bold new horizon for humanity.
Retards like you have DESTROYED the space program.
What's the matter, is your GOOGLE broken?
The "advanced research" they do as part of their "rocket science" *always* flows down to "the common people, in their every day lives" - ever heard of The Microwave Oven, Memory Foam, Insoles for Shoes, Ear Thermometers, Medical Imaging, CORDLESS TOOLS?
Even assuming what you're saying is 100% true, the implication of that is that the current scheme of subsidies MAINTAINS THE STATUS QUO and DOES NOTHING to encourage development of renewable energy sources.
If you want to *encourage* something, you need to MASSIVELY weight the equations EITHER FOR OR AGAINST. A policy of "weighting" (via subsidies) things equally is literally a waste of money, while *appearing* to do something for renewable (look see how much money we spend subsidizing it)?.
So you're completely ignoring the many and various wars that the US is currently involved in, which THE PRESIDENT (er, at the time) characterized as "securing ongoing access to oil resources".
THAT, dear reader, is WHY "military expenses" are considered to be a subsidy for fossil fuels.
The first thing mentioned on that wikipedia page is "Punctuation Chess"..... Which , when you think about it, totally explains whee this "sarcasm mark" comes from.
The quote is actually fairly accurate - debate arising from the content of the document WOULD be premature and unnecessary if they end up going "nah, screw this idea".
You, sir, are an irresponsibly optimistic MORON.
WITHOUT the debate, the powers-that-be will rapidly storm forward with any kind of idiocy their rampantly power-obsessed delusional minds can encompass.
Already we see where "let the government have time to think about it" leads to. The Great Internet Censorship Project is just such a madness which our government has decided to impose.
NO DEBATE is allowed, no alternate opinion will be considered.
"IF YOU ARE ANTI-FILTERING THEN YOU MUST BE A PAEDOPHILE" is the only thing the government has to say on the matter.
WITHOUT "debate arising from the content of the document" the only SCREWING the government will be doing is THE PEOPLE.
You know, I know this is in the context of a business, but if you're going to name your political party the Sex Party, do you even stop and think about it? Are they allowed to run ads during prime time? Are you going to have 8-year-old asking, "Daddy, what does sex mean?" I'm not sure I'd vote for a party that put me through that kind of hassle.
And see THIS kind of retardedness is EXACTLY why THE GOVERNMENT thinks it's OK to censor the internet.
oh look it says "SEX" - WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
(ie insert knee-jrek reaction here)
The FUNNY thing is, supposedly this is all about *stopping* those people who are constantly thinking about children (ie the paedophiles).
My favorite is http://www.powergenitalia.com/ - in a splash of irony, they do actually sell "specialized battery products", just not the kind your filthy mind is currently imagining.
For those of you who are saying "this is just a private organization so it does not matter" I have to say you are all missing the point.
Irrespective of *why* A_FIlter is being applied, this is a CLEAR EXAMPLE of why filters are stupid, pointless, destructive and MUST never be government mandated.
Never. Absolutely Never. Not for ANY reason should the government FORCE EVERYONE to submit to "a filtered internet".
why?Because stupid shit like THIS INCIDENT will happen, and whether that is accidental or deliberate is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT.
And this CLEARLY demonstrates the TRUE attitude of these mega-rich multinational news companies. It's NOT about getting paid fairly for their content, it's about how hard you can SCREW the customer before they bleed to death.
Billing someone *full price* for the same articles just in a different format is HIGHWAY ROBBERY. There should be some cross-medium pricing model -> "and for only one dollar more, you get full subscriber access to the website".
You could have the best damned reporters in the world and some percentage of people will settle on reading a headline off of Slashdot or Google News that reads: "Murdoch Loses 90% of Readers with Times Paywall" instead of going to the source that called the Times and got that datum.
Your argument is ignoring the real facts of the matter. The readers who got all they needed from the well-crafted headline would never pay for your content, no matter what form it was presented in. Those headline-sniffers are the same people who DO NOT purchase newspapers, but merely browse the front-pages while purchasing a latte at their local cafe.
So, implying that 'the internet' somehow (magically) "ruined" those potential customers of yours is UTTER RUBBISH.
You know what KILLS "the news" in the internet? 1KB of "reported news" and ten megabytes of CSS, images, logos, branding, cross-promotion of other sites by the same parent-company, and HUGE FLASHY INTERACTIVE PAGE GRABBING IN YOUR FACE ADVERTISING.
Page STARTS with *cannot see the content till you click-past this flashy attention grabber* -> website blocked *forever* I'll *NEVER* go back here again
Video *STARTS WITH* 30 second advertising that cannot be skipped -> website blocked *forever* I'll *NEVER* go back here again
When will all the multinational megacorps understand that *forcing* me to download GIGABYTES of crap from your website is THEFT, pure and simple. That bandwidth costs ME money, every time you PUSH TONS of CRAP at me, YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
HOW on earth do you IMAGINE I can *afford* to *subscribe to* (ie , purchase, like as in with MONEY) your *content* when you FORCE me to spend all my hard-earned cash paying my ISP for MORE BANDWIDTH simply to load the front page of your bloated and crapalicious website?
Seriously folks, stop BLAMING everyone else for your own rampant greed and incessant stupidity, it's YOUR OWN FAULT.
Of course, if real world science was as good as comics and speculative fiction have left us dreaming of , re-entry vehicles would be cooled by
Heat-Pump Lasers
or perhaps
Cryptoanalysis*
Seriously folks, scientifically speaking it takes *energy* to "do work", so for any given method of converting heat-energy into "work", if you give the problem enough *work* to do, it should pretty much initiate the next ice-age were said experiment to be conducted on a planetary surface.
Of course, todays heat (as input) to work (as output) conversion technologies are , sadly, inadequate/inefficient and generally distinguishable-from-magic. However, having said that... that (efficiency) is only a problem in *engineering*.
In other news - water is (usually) wet, deserts are (usually) dry, and The TaxMan Cometh!
The world is FULL of idiots.
Even rich ones.
Lemme give the man a (free, even) clue: On the one side, he wants to *get paid* for all the Free News his "papers" are putting onto "the web". On the other hand he completely ignores all the FREE EYEBALLS that search engines like Google bring to his website.
While incessantly whining about people who 'want something for nothing', what he actually does is treat "free eyeball traffic" as being "worth nothing". Small Wonder His Website No Longer Gets Eyeballs.
Murdock: HEY GOOGLE, STOP SENDING EYEBALLS TO MY WEBSITE without paying me for my content Google: You had me at "stop sending eyeballs to my website" - all you had to do was ask.
Slashdot Mirror
Just because a world-famous scientist is absolutely right, doesn't mean the whole world will not completely ignore him.
Still true today.
The government stranglehold on space travel is crippling research, it's only in recent years that a little sanity has prevailed, and commercial ventures are starting to make their mark on a bold new horizon for humanity.
Retards like you have DESTROYED the space program.
What's the matter, is your GOOGLE broken?
The "advanced research" they do as part of their "rocket science" *always* flows down to "the common people, in their every day lives" - ever heard of The Microwave Oven, Memory Foam, Insoles for Shoes, Ear Thermometers, Medical Imaging, CORDLESS TOOLS?
The answer to government abuses is not to kill the government
Really?
Is this not what your constitutional right to armed bears is all about?
For the philestines , and/or wikipedia-deficient.
Can you see the fnords?
Your Government lied to you.
No! Really?
ya! rly!
Glowing-Green Ham, and Eggs!
Even assuming what you're saying is 100% true, the implication of that is that the current scheme of subsidies MAINTAINS THE STATUS QUO and DOES NOTHING to encourage development of renewable energy sources.
If you want to *encourage* something, you need to MASSIVELY weight the equations EITHER FOR OR AGAINST. A policy of "weighting" (via subsidies) things equally is literally a waste of money, while *appearing* to do something for renewable (look see how much money we spend subsidizing it)?.
So you're completely ignoring the many and various wars that the US is currently involved in, which THE PRESIDENT (er, at the time) characterized as "securing ongoing access to oil resources".
THAT, dear reader, is WHY "military expenses" are considered to be a subsidy for fossil fuels.
Seriously NOT!
The first thing mentioned on that wikipedia page is "Punctuation Chess"..... Which , when you think about it, totally explains whee this "sarcasm mark" comes from.
mmmm, pound of burned steak
Does not Display on Slashdot
Sarcasm Detector Fail? On Slashdot?
No! Really?
Gah! NO!
Then you just look like a clueless spaniard.
Adios amigos!
The quote is actually fairly accurate - debate arising from the content of the document WOULD be premature and unnecessary if they end up going "nah, screw this idea".
You, sir, are an irresponsibly optimistic MORON.
WITHOUT the debate, the powers-that-be will rapidly storm forward with any kind of idiocy their rampantly power-obsessed delusional minds can encompass.
Already we see where "let the government have time to think about it" leads to. The Great Internet Censorship Project is just such a madness which our government has decided to impose.
NO DEBATE is allowed, no alternate opinion will be considered.
"IF YOU ARE ANTI-FILTERING THEN YOU MUST BE A PAEDOPHILE" is the only thing the government has to say on the matter.
WITHOUT "debate arising from the content of the document" the only SCREWING the government will be doing is THE PEOPLE.
You know, I know this is in the context of a business, but if you're going to name your political party the Sex Party, do you even stop and think about it? Are they allowed to run ads during prime time? Are you going to have 8-year-old asking, "Daddy, what does sex mean?" I'm not sure I'd vote for a party that put me through that kind of hassle.
And see THIS kind of retardedness is EXACTLY why THE GOVERNMENT thinks it's OK to censor the internet.
oh look it says "SEX" - WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
(ie insert knee-jrek reaction here)
The FUNNY thing is, supposedly this is all about *stopping* those people who are constantly thinking about children (ie the paedophiles).
or something.
My favorite is http://www.powergenitalia.com/ - in a splash of irony, they do actually sell "specialized battery products", just not the kind your filthy mind is currently imagining.
For those of you who are saying "this is just a private organization so it does not matter" I have to say you are all missing the point.
Irrespective of *why* A_FIlter is being applied, this is a CLEAR EXAMPLE of why filters are stupid, pointless, destructive and MUST never be government mandated.
Never. Absolutely Never. Not for ANY reason should the government FORCE EVERYONE to submit to "a filtered internet".
why?Because stupid shit like THIS INCIDENT will happen, and whether that is accidental or deliberate is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT.
Sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from journalism. (forgive me, Arthur)
If you have a better suggestion, I am sure they'd love to hear it.
I have a better suggestion -> "Evolve or die like the retarded dinosaurs you are".
The format/methods/mechanisms they have chosen for online advertising DO NOT WORK. They irritate, frustrate, confuse customers.
How many brick-n-mortar stores would succeed in business if they dusted new customers with *itching powder* when they walked in the front door?
How can "big media" NOT understand this is EXACTLY what they are currently doing online?
And this CLEARLY demonstrates the TRUE attitude of these mega-rich multinational news companies. It's NOT about getting paid fairly for their content, it's about how hard you can SCREW the customer before they bleed to death.
Billing someone *full price* for the same articles just in a different format is HIGHWAY ROBBERY. There should be some cross-medium pricing model -> "and for only one dollar more, you get full subscriber access to the website".
You could have the best damned reporters in the world and some percentage of people will settle on reading a headline off of Slashdot or Google News that reads: "Murdoch Loses 90% of Readers with Times Paywall" instead of going to the source that called the Times and got that datum.
Your argument is ignoring the real facts of the matter. The readers who got all they needed from the well-crafted headline would never pay for your content, no matter what form it was presented in. Those headline-sniffers are the same people who DO NOT purchase newspapers, but merely browse the front-pages while purchasing a latte at their local cafe.
So, implying that 'the internet' somehow (magically) "ruined" those potential customers of yours is UTTER RUBBISH.
You know what KILLS "the news" in the internet? 1KB of "reported news" and ten megabytes of CSS, images, logos, branding, cross-promotion of other sites by the same parent-company, and HUGE FLASHY INTERACTIVE PAGE GRABBING IN YOUR FACE ADVERTISING.
When will all the multinational megacorps understand that *forcing* me to download GIGABYTES of crap from your website is THEFT, pure and simple. That bandwidth costs ME money, every time you PUSH TONS of CRAP at me, YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
HOW on earth do you IMAGINE I can *afford* to *subscribe to* (ie , purchase, like as in with MONEY) your *content* when you FORCE me to spend all my hard-earned cash paying my ISP for MORE BANDWIDTH simply to load the front page of your bloated and crapalicious website?
Seriously folks, stop BLAMING everyone else for your own rampant greed and incessant stupidity, it's YOUR OWN FAULT.
or perhaps
Seriously folks, scientifically speaking it takes *energy* to "do work", so for any given method of converting heat-energy into "work", if you give the problem enough *work* to do, it should pretty much initiate the next ice-age were said experiment to be conducted on a planetary surface.
Of course, todays heat (as input) to work (as output) conversion technologies are , sadly, inadequate/inefficient and generally distinguishable-from-magic. However, having said that... that (efficiency) is only a problem in *engineering*.
Use the heat to generate electricity (stirling engine/thermopile/?)
Use the electricity to generate a charge on the outside of the vehicle
Excessive heat generates a plasma in the atmosphere on the leading edge
Plasma is repulsed by the external charge.
?? Surely that leads to at least a non-trivial amount of heat being avoided?
In other news - water is (usually) wet, deserts are (usually) dry, and The TaxMan Cometh!
The world is FULL of idiots.
Even rich ones.
Lemme give the man a (free, even) clue: On the one side, he wants to *get paid* for all the Free News his "papers" are putting onto "the web". On the other hand he completely ignores all the FREE EYEBALLS that search engines like Google bring to his website.
While incessantly whining about people who 'want something for nothing', what he actually does is treat "free eyeball traffic" as being "worth nothing". Small Wonder His Website No Longer Gets Eyeballs.
Murdock: HEY GOOGLE, STOP SENDING EYEBALLS TO MY WEBSITE without paying me for my content
Google: You had me at "stop sending eyeballs to my website" - all you had to do was ask.