That's a great idea, but you have to make sure that it's shiny-side out. You only make it shiny-side in if you're trying to keep your thoughts from leaking out where other people can read them.
Right now, they don't know if their technique can be scaled up far enough to get us controlled fusion, so they're just being cautious about claiming more than they know they can do. And, if they had said "when" instead of "if," I'm sure that there are a lot of people out there who'd jump all over them for promising something that they don't even know is possible.
You may very well not know just what communism is, but those of us who stayed awake during our Social Studies or Civics classes (depending on where and when you went to school) know what it is in theory and what it always turns into sooner or later in practice.
To answer the question in your first paragraph, it's both. We're all familiar with stories based on extrapolating science into the future, but we somehow forget about those that talk about social issues, such as 1984, Animal Farm, and The Marching Morons. The problem here wasn't that the two Puppy factions wanted to award stories that focused on social issues, it's that they tried to make that the only criterion, ignoring the quality of the stories, which is what the Hugo Awards are supposed to be about.
Presumably, those people who register are the ones who are most interested in scifi.
One would hope so, and most of the time you'd be right. Not always, though. Back in '84 I knew some of the people who put on LACon II, and heard stories about an attempt by scientologists to buy L. Ron Hubbard a Hugo for Battlefield Earth by paying members to get supporting memberships and cast ballots that only listed that one work. It was rather obvious what was being done (Too many of the checks were from the same account, in numeric order.) so all of them were rejected and returned to sender. True? I can't say for sure, but I have no reason to think that the convention's treasurer would have lied about it.
I know that TV shows have somebody to watch over continuity because I've seen it in action. Many years ago, I was in the audience for a sitcom, and the session ended with a retake of a scene from an earlier show. As the actors were coming onto the set, the woman watching out for continuity spotted that one of the stars had on a tie that was a different color than the one he'd worn in the previous scene so he went back to his dressing room to change it. It may sound like a little thing, but it's just the type of thing the viewers will spot.
Of course, but unless our theories are very, very wrong, we should also be seeing at least a few, coming in from directions that make it unlikely that they came from anywhere in our galaxy, and it's nice to have that confirmed. However, I doubt that anybody really expected any other results and that's what my original post was talking about.
Again, if you stop and think about it, you'll realize that we should expect most of the neutrinos detected to come from the Sun, because it's the nearest significant source. As I wrote above, all this experiment really does is confirm that what we expected is what's really happening, but that's not a bad thing.
No, you're the one who doesn't get it. Having them concentrated in the plane of the Milky Way would mean that almost all of them were coming from this galaxy and that few, if any, were being emitted by the rest of the universe, and that would be rather hard to explain. What we're actually seeing is exactly what we'd see if the simplest explanation (all stars and galaxies emit neutrinos at about the same rate, relative to their size) were correct.
If some of them are produced by our sun, they should be produced by all mainstream stars in and outside of our galaxy. And, if the core of our galaxy is emitting them, so should the cores of other galaxies. To me, at least, that implies that at least a few of those we detect should be of extra-galactic origin, but it's still nice to have it confirmed. (Actually, it would be much more interesting if we weren't detecting extra-galactic neutrinos because then astrophysicists would have to work out why.)
There's no possible way that it could ever make economic sense to mine the asteroids for iron to be used here on Earth. Considering how much of it we have, and how good we are at recycling it, it's always going to be cheaper to use what we've got than to get more from space. No, if and when we start mining space for iron, we'll be using it up there because that way we won't have to boost it up into orbit.
Yes, I understand that you need to back everything up with hard evidence, but did anybody seriously doubt that some of the neutrinos we were observing came from outside out galaxy?
You're assuming we'll go from the current scarcity to kilotons of the stuff raining from the sky.
No. I was pointing out the long-term effects of finding new sources of platinum group metals on both the price and the ability to use it for something other than jewelry.
One of the reasons metals from the Platinum Group are precious is that they're scarce. If we recover as much of those elements as he's talking about, they won't be scarce any longer, which means that they won't be that precious. Of course, that's not a bad thing because there are lots and lots of other uses for them besides jewelry.
Other than military police, what militia related activity would involve stunning an opponent?
How about if they're trying to take prisoners for interrogation? How about cases where the militia is called out to subdue rioters? Wouldn't it have been a lot better if the National Guard unit (The Guard is part of the militia, you know.) at Kent State had been armed with some sort of non-lethal weapons?
Hint: The Militia Act defines the Militia. The definition is basically "every adult male in the USA".
To be precise, all able-bodied men between ages 17 and 45. I don't know about anybody else here, but I haven't been part of the Militia for almost 21 years.
The problem of salt-water corrosion is an old, well-understood one and to a large extent, it's mostly a matter of applying the standard solutions to it. As an example, there are bronze alloys specifically designed to resist salt water that are used for plumbing that needs to carry sea water. To a large extent, you can minimize the problems by using that for the external half of a heat exchange unit, and something far less corrosive for the internal half.
...all the major DE versions starts with feature regression, rough edges and lots of bugs...
Maybe the problem is that they need to spend more time on beta testing, or go the Release Candidate route. It's not unreasonable for users, especially users who don't understand how programming and program development work to be upset when the newest release isn't as complete as they expect. Telling them it's still in beta, or only an RC release might help them have more reasonable expectations.
Wearing pointless glasses, or riding old bikes or being a "lumbersexual" is just a style, not a hobby or an interest.
No. A style is something that you do or wear that tells the world what you are and shows your individuality. All of that is just a fashion; it's people saying, "Me too!"
Right now, I'd say that we'll have a home robot that lives up to the hype in about twenty more years. Of course, twenty years from now I expect to be saying the same thing, but that's just because no matter how good we get, the hype will be even better. It's about the ultimate in constantly-moving goalposts.
If he changed his DL address, why didn't the DMV update the voter registrar?
Because that would cost more money than doing it this way and people are already complaining about how high their taxes are. Besides, if you're old enough to vote, you're presumed to be an adult, and able to take care of things like this for yourself.
Was that what the law required? Did you check addresses on ID?
No. At that time, California didn't require photo ID to vote so it wasn't an issue. In fact, I only knew about that one case because the man told us that he'd moved away.
If memory serves, the people who insisted that "intentions counted" were trying to change the outcome of the election by changing the rules after the votes were cast, something that's explicitly forbidden by Federal law. And, what that man who wanted to vote after he moved away tried to do was more than "just a simple mistake" because there'd been ample time for him to have registered again and he should have known there was something wrong when he didn't receive a sample ballot. I'm not accusing him of fraud, just of laziness.
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That's a great idea, but you have to make sure that it's shiny-side out. You only make it shiny-side in if you're trying to keep your thoughts from leaking out where other people can read them.
There's another one in Los Angeles: Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.
Right now, they don't know if their technique can be scaled up far enough to get us controlled fusion, so they're just being cautious about claiming more than they know they can do. And, if they had said "when" instead of "if," I'm sure that there are a lot of people out there who'd jump all over them for promising something that they don't even know is possible.
You may very well not know just what communism is, but those of us who stayed awake during our Social Studies or Civics classes (depending on where and when you went to school) know what it is in theory and what it always turns into sooner or later in practice.
To answer the question in your first paragraph, it's both. We're all familiar with stories based on extrapolating science into the future, but we somehow forget about those that talk about social issues, such as 1984, Animal Farm, and The Marching Morons. The problem here wasn't that the two Puppy factions wanted to award stories that focused on social issues, it's that they tried to make that the only criterion, ignoring the quality of the stories, which is what the Hugo Awards are supposed to be about.
Presumably, those people who register are the ones who are most interested in scifi.
One would hope so, and most of the time you'd be right. Not always, though. Back in '84 I knew some of the people who put on LACon II, and heard stories about an attempt by scientologists to buy L. Ron Hubbard a Hugo for Battlefield Earth by paying members to get supporting memberships and cast ballots that only listed that one work. It was rather obvious what was being done (Too many of the checks were from the same account, in numeric order.) so all of them were rejected and returned to sender. True? I can't say for sure, but I have no reason to think that the convention's treasurer would have lied about it.
Fanmail from some flounder?
Yes, I know, which is why I pointed out that there were a lot of other things it could be used for if the price weren't so high.
I know that TV shows have somebody to watch over continuity because I've seen it in action. Many years ago, I was in the audience for a sitcom, and the session ended with a retake of a scene from an earlier show. As the actors were coming onto the set, the woman watching out for continuity spotted that one of the stars had on a tie that was a different color than the one he'd worn in the previous scene so he went back to his dressing room to change it. It may sound like a little thing, but it's just the type of thing the viewers will spot.
Of course, but unless our theories are very, very wrong, we should also be seeing at least a few, coming in from directions that make it unlikely that they came from anywhere in our galaxy, and it's nice to have that confirmed. However, I doubt that anybody really expected any other results and that's what my original post was talking about.
Again, if you stop and think about it, you'll realize that we should expect most of the neutrinos detected to come from the Sun, because it's the nearest significant source. As I wrote above, all this experiment really does is confirm that what we expected is what's really happening, but that's not a bad thing.
No, you're the one who doesn't get it. Having them concentrated in the plane of the Milky Way would mean that almost all of them were coming from this galaxy and that few, if any, were being emitted by the rest of the universe, and that would be rather hard to explain. What we're actually seeing is exactly what we'd see if the simplest explanation (all stars and galaxies emit neutrinos at about the same rate, relative to their size) were correct.
If some of them are produced by our sun, they should be produced by all mainstream stars in and outside of our galaxy. And, if the core of our galaxy is emitting them, so should the cores of other galaxies. To me, at least, that implies that at least a few of those we detect should be of extra-galactic origin, but it's still nice to have it confirmed. (Actually, it would be much more interesting if we weren't detecting extra-galactic neutrinos because then astrophysicists would have to work out why.)
There's no possible way that it could ever make economic sense to mine the asteroids for iron to be used here on Earth. Considering how much of it we have, and how good we are at recycling it, it's always going to be cheaper to use what we've got than to get more from space. No, if and when we start mining space for iron, we'll be using it up there because that way we won't have to boost it up into orbit.
Yes, I understand that you need to back everything up with hard evidence, but did anybody seriously doubt that some of the neutrinos we were observing came from outside out galaxy?
You're assuming we'll go from the current scarcity to kilotons of the stuff raining from the sky.
No. I was pointing out the long-term effects of finding new sources of platinum group metals on both the price and the ability to use it for something other than jewelry.
One of the reasons metals from the Platinum Group are precious is that they're scarce. If we recover as much of those elements as he's talking about, they won't be scarce any longer, which means that they won't be that precious. Of course, that's not a bad thing because there are lots and lots of other uses for them besides jewelry.
Other than military police, what militia related activity would involve stunning an opponent?
How about if they're trying to take prisoners for interrogation? How about cases where the militia is called out to subdue rioters? Wouldn't it have been a lot better if the National Guard unit (The Guard is part of the militia, you know.) at Kent State had been armed with some sort of non-lethal weapons?
Hint: The Militia Act defines the Militia. The definition is basically "every adult male in the USA".
To be precise, all able-bodied men between ages 17 and 45. I don't know about anybody else here, but I haven't been part of the Militia for almost 21 years.
The problem of salt-water corrosion is an old, well-understood one and to a large extent, it's mostly a matter of applying the standard solutions to it. As an example, there are bronze alloys specifically designed to resist salt water that are used for plumbing that needs to carry sea water. To a large extent, you can minimize the problems by using that for the external half of a heat exchange unit, and something far less corrosive for the internal half.
...all the major DE versions starts with feature regression, rough edges and lots of bugs...
Maybe the problem is that they need to spend more time on beta testing, or go the Release Candidate route. It's not unreasonable for users, especially users who don't understand how programming and program development work to be upset when the newest release isn't as complete as they expect. Telling them it's still in beta, or only an RC release might help them have more reasonable expectations.
Wearing pointless glasses, or riding old bikes or being a "lumbersexual" is just a style, not a hobby or an interest.
No. A style is something that you do or wear that tells the world what you are and shows your individuality. All of that is just a fashion; it's people saying, "Me too!"
Right now, I'd say that we'll have a home robot that lives up to the hype in about twenty more years. Of course, twenty years from now I expect to be saying the same thing, but that's just because no matter how good we get, the hype will be even better. It's about the ultimate in constantly-moving goalposts.
If he changed his DL address, why didn't the DMV update the voter registrar?
Because that would cost more money than doing it this way and people are already complaining about how high their taxes are. Besides, if you're old enough to vote, you're presumed to be an adult, and able to take care of things like this for yourself.
Was that what the law required? Did you check addresses on ID?
No. At that time, California didn't require photo ID to vote so it wasn't an issue. In fact, I only knew about that one case because the man told us that he'd moved away.
If memory serves, the people who insisted that "intentions counted" were trying to change the outcome of the election by changing the rules after the votes were cast, something that's explicitly forbidden by Federal law. And, what that man who wanted to vote after he moved away tried to do was more than "just a simple mistake" because there'd been ample time for him to have registered again and he should have known there was something wrong when he didn't receive a sample ballot. I'm not accusing him of fraud, just of laziness.