35 years ago they hit the jackpot with MS DOS as a near complete ripoff of Gary Kildall's CP/M who btw died from a blunt force trauma to his head in a biker bar early 90s. The also did great copying the look and feel of Apple, and he courts excused them on it, just like pretty much everything else they've come up with other people came up with it and got "embrace, extend, extinguish"ed by Microsoft on everything, operating systems, office software, gaming, everything. And they bitch and moan about intellectual property violations the most of anybody in the world. Megabillions of dollars lost, boo hoo hoo. Piracy rampant here, piracy rampant there. Crock of shit! Their biggest issue is the lack of anything good to embrace extend extinguish anymore, except GPL stuff, which is like a poisoned pill they hate and want outlawed. Lowest fucking scum crawling on the surface of this planet, together with Monsanto "seed intellectual property" biotech, insurance forced gambling law pimpers like Obamacare, and corrupt politicians all chickens without a backbone, fucking cocksuckers all over the place. Intellectual property this, intellectual property that, human decency my ass. Hail the Microsoft cunts for subverting almost completely a modern technology we call computer science! Fucking cocksuckers.
I'd even go as far as say because chips cannot be trusted in life and death situations, instead of gimme liberty or gimme death, please gimme a car without any fucking chips in it, let alone software.
Which shows that even the greatest minds that ever lived struggle with the unknown, and have only been momentarily blessed with discoveries only disclosed to them through divine revelation, like a message or mental imprint from God. Some are lucky with more blessings, some get less. You can even showcase a family tree of pure Nobel laureates that you're descended from, and bend over backward and piss yourself overexerting yourself trying to be smarter, and steadfast hammering with an inquisitive mind helps, like Euler's persistence and relentless perseverance in computing, (almost all great mathematicians back in his day they had fun and joy computing log tables without exception, mind numbing rote like that was entertainment to them), but acquiring ultimate knowledge does not happen by brute force alone, or even genetics, but instead, you have to be a bit more fluid and just go with the flow (a teaching very important in Eastern religions and philosophy, and even places like Karate Kid, or Feel the Force, Luke), and just be thankful and gracious for the bits of knowledge that are disclosed to you by Nature, like after a dream when you wake up, while always being aware of your own limitations when it comes to the power to know things as they are Just be happy with the mere inklings that you can attain.
I'm both happy and unhappy about this. Yay they are shooting asteroids, interplanetary ping pong that may lead to Venus being habitable, colonized with cheap farming acreage on it. I'd volunteer to go. But nay, why they had to pick a binary system that's relatively rare? That's like something special, and might need to be studied later, such as trying to get better measurements of the Newton-Cavendish-Eotvos gravitational constant, hunting for gravitational waves, etc, and it might be the closest such heavy weight object with easily movable masses to us. Why not shoot a solitary asteroid, there's gotta be tons of those, as each August is shooting star month on Earth, and you can get your practice on with would be shooting stars, at much closer range to Earth, which, if they go on the wrong trajectory, they still burn up as shooting stars anyway. Then scale up on size later. When Nasa can achieve a year with August free of any shooting stars, that would be proof they are getting somewhere, and it's only a matter of scaling up. Why travel so far for such a thing to get practice with, and most importantly why destroy a unique and exquisite thing in the world, that could come in handy later. Hindsight is 20/20 300 years from now when they need to run a gravitational wave measuring experiment, thinking we could have done in in 2020 with this binary asteroid system by jerking one very fast and measuring the reaction time of the other, but we destroyed it, and now it's expensive to make another one like it from stuff like Saturn's rings. Could have would have but didn't (protect, preserve for a possible future need) is hindsight.
The obvious solution is to upgrade upgrade upgrade constantly to better hardware and software that promises more security, performance etc, but never delivers, because security is a vague concept. That's the only way computing business makes money nowadays, but it drives progress, or sometimes regress.
The other solution would be to provide the customer with something sleek, simple, efficient and secure, by charging monthly rental fees. The downside of that is that you're forever stuck at a certain level of technology, and there is no incentive to improve on it, which though, might be a blessing in cases like XP vs. Vista where the progress was starkly a regress.
But the money got to be made by computing professionals, else the money does not get made. Or at least not as much. But right now having perpetual security and hacker issues are vital to profitability, and it does not look like it will stop anytime soon, because it dives sales of newer and better, which may no mean is worse than old one though
also technology is neutral and amoral yeah, but a tiger in a jungle is high tech and makes me uncomfortable, unless i have technology, such as motion detect and a gun.. but not too much technology, such as AI that's better than both me and the tiger, which is amoral and neutral but if it decides I'm lunch i have no good ways to argue with it.. such as a good defensive weapon.. herein lies the eternal dilemma in pushing technology relentlessly forward, in hopes of a better world, but in fear of being hurt by it.. i still love and admire tigers and want to share the world with them.. just because one can sneak up on me in a jungle, and has faster reflexes than me when it attacks me, trying to turn me into his lunch.. that does not mean i want all tigers gone from the word, and similar things go for snakes, sharks, wolves, or pretty much any life form that depends on feeding on other life forms.. i like the multitude of life, the genetic diversity and richness as opposed to one species of say predators, and one species of photosynthetic benign life form used as food... yeah that's safe but who wants to live like that.. without the richness of beauty and love of nature? whoever does, they are welcome to go live on space stations, but please don't destroy the variety down here by ruthless extermination campaigns with things like pesticides and lawnmowers.. please leave the kitchen if you can't take the heat, i told you much of last year how to make it out there, in the nothingness of space, on a space station where you can finally be "safe", at least safe from diseases and other nontechnological life forms, not from other humans that can shoot you because you're a sitting duck, so you might wanna think about hiding on the other side of the Moon, at least.. ultimately nowhere is safe.. but you can be safe from the things that you're trying to relentlessly exterminate with pesticides and lawnmowers.. and leave my fucking grass alone
there is something great and awesome, in the sense of liberty, about anonimity on the internet.. but like with the money supply, there is a way to track originators and recipients.. on the internet it's called an ip address, and technically everyone is responsible for packets originating from them, in some abstract way to find somebody, you need an ip address and a date time, and you can track who did what through isp logs.. if they are kept
however, it is possible to forge a packet, and pretend it came from Terroristan or Ungabungaville, pretending you are forwarding it from origin to destination. As the internet is based on multi path forwarding of packets, and they sometimes go round a couple times before reaching destination (which is silly, but the CIA or NSA loves tricks like that to make it confusing or hide their eavesdropping) it's hard to tell why someone from Antarctica or Greenland would be forwarding a packet coming from Terroristan, when there should be a more direct path between the different continents. Sometimes though cost of bandwidth fluctuates in various directions, and is purchased through off the beaten tracks like your internet protocol packet might end up in Antarctica before it goes to Asia from America, because the main pipes via the direct path are saturated. Kinda like off roads during a highway congestion, people take the route of least resistance. So the internet is very open and free environment, and you often wonder who's got your packet. If you worry about that, you can probably get a private dedicated telco line for an assraping fee, off and away from the internet. But the internet is the internet, aint nothing else like it, and anybody might have your packets, you hope not, but that's the way we live life.
in the end this is the pivotal point where the buck stops: it is not in the interests of powers that be that we have a safe and reliable internet, to where they can no longer make money by telling people they've got something better, more secure.. on the other hand it's also not in their interest to create such a devastating world where people stop using the internet altogether.. and just give up on technology for good, cutting their profit off hard.. so their profit scenario graph looks like a seesaw, a 45degree ramp with a sudden vertical precipice fall, where going that extra cent up the increased profit graph runs the severe risk of losing everything you're already making.. such as pimping minimum charges by utilities.. or DRM in the intellectual property world.. my attitude is that when you become abusive toward your customer like that, the customer is ultimately in charge, and he can bend over backward living his life down without having to put up with your bullshit, and cuts you off hard.. for instance i intend to never watch a DVD movie, because it has DRM.. yeah i know, they used to deal with piracy, and DRM helps them while it makes my life stink.. but ultimately I'm the fucking customer, and I decide how i live my life.. until Obama passes a law that makes me purchase a certain quota of Hollywood DVD's even if I don't feel like it.. like he does with his stupid fucking retarded insurance bullshit.. hey, all i know I don't owe anybody an existence fee, for being alive... nor do i owe anyone a dime for the breath of air I take, or the sunlight that I use to see.. these folks pent up on pushing the boundaries of what constitutes property just to they can sit back and collect, by claiming they own math, or air, or sunlight can all go fuck themselves with a huge cuke.. no it is not your air i'm breathing, you don't own the atmosphere, and if you say you invested a billion dollars into purchasing that atmosphere so you can own it, take care of and license it to me i call you a fucking retard.. same goes for the Sun, the Sun cannot be owned by a cartel making everyone pay for sunlight.. same goes for math, basic human knowledge is everybody's.. or organic chemistry.. yeah we had these intellectual property laws installed when the US was created, copyright
It changes my behavior. I speed on cameras while carrying a cellphone, so they know it's not a fluke, just because I know they can monitor it and want to send a message, like, look, you wanna see me go crazy? Trying all day desperately to piss me off at work. Here, I can do it, it's not that hard, I can act like a total idiot, do not assume you can keep pushing somebody to extreme limits because they are pussies and never stick up for themselves. If that subliminal monitoring were not in place though, there'd be no useful purpose to going nuts under camera and cellphone monitoring, while endangering anyone who running a red light right into your face when you're speeding through a green. I also sometimes leave my cellphone home while going shopping, or to work, sometimes on purpose, sometimes I simply forget. I have been sent home from work before simply over forgetting the phone at home, at least that's what my best guess was why I was sent home. Nowadays I even pull the battery from the cellphone sometimes, cuz I know them bitches eavesdrop even when powered off. I know some people who still don't have a cellphone, and there are pluses and minuses to that too.
I would never buy a house without a fully underground basement, because of xrays. Other than that, I might be interested in one of these IKEA refugee things, and when asked what am I a refugee from, I'd be like, duh, I'm performing what's called "white flight" from inner cities to the suburbs, and my personal excuse would be constant personal attack with infections and having to recover all the time, as they trying to undermine me financially, to make me go on government aid too, and breed out of control on it too, like a bunch of inner city folk do. Hell no. Fuck all you.
Fuck Monsanto Labs. Fuck Roundup. Fuck all biotech companies, infecting people with genetically modified diseases on purpose with secret antidotes, to make money. Fuck Obamacare infecting people on purpose to scare them into buying, to make money.
Also there is no such thing as absolute security, only obstacles of varying difficulty. Like putting a lock on a door is not a guarantee. Like RC4, it's better than nothing, against casual entry, but it's not a castle surrounded by a pond with pull up bridges, which in turn is not as secure as a fort, like Masada, built on solid rock mountain top with vertical precipice surrounding, because a tunnel can be dug under the pond, and given enough dedication and effort, even Masada was taken by the Romans. I still lock my car and house, which is a defense equivalent to RC4, in hat it's or tamper proof, but an obstacle, that requires effort, and I live like that, without spending on armed security guards, because of cost.
Or more like, come on people, it's okay to misbehave and not worry about getting caught, the lack of recent terrorist events makes it unwarranted to oppress the people so much by surveying every last detail (well, except the Tsarnaev's, but they did it with the very deliberate purpose to sustain this surveillance, and keep other people down with it, because we lacked recent terrorist events.) So we repealed the Patriot Act, and we will no longer do surveillance of cell phones, so you should not keep them at home while you go shopping to not be tracked, nor should you watch your speed limit near traffic cameras, we stopped watching those too. Go ahead. Now it's okay to speed on traffic cameras, (those are gonna come down we just haven't got to it yet due to budget constraints, but we stopped watching those), or it's okay cheat on your wife with another woman, we will no longer snoop and tell who is with who by two cell phone's geolocation being at the same point at the same time inside some motel, hotel, or apartment.
If we all lived like yeoman farmers, self sufficient, making our own food, electric, sewer treatment, etc, and only engage in jobs and economic activity as far as necessary or we feel like, not being slaves to bills, then these above arguments would be irrelevant. Justice and liberty for all does not require jobs, nor automated machines that displace humans from jobs, because they will be irrelevant, because your ultimate existence is not dependent on having a job, or finding a way to peel another dollar out of a sucker (and there is a sucker born every minute), but you can always fall back to and exist just find self sufficient, without a job, or any bills. That should be like a human right. The right to exist DIY and without any bills whatsoever, or any job whatsoever. The way some Amish live comes to mind as closest to that ideal, except they too have to put up with property tax harassment, I think, but they don't have to pay social security, because they take care of their elderly and don't take out a pension when they retire, the community supports the elderly. They pull their own weight. It gets complicated though, and if you really want to fuck with somebody, it's easy to fuck anybody up given sufficient dedication and effort.
I Love myself I ain't shit Fuck yo' self Cause you let fakes and snakes And them impostors sit back and make an ass out ya Fitzroy Jamal ask about ya... etc.
Hahaha. Monsanto is in the business of making money. I take any opportunity to bitch at them and their principle of no food shall be grown on this planet that we do not own and control, either via intellectual pushing the limits of what constitutes property, or via pimping infertile seeds and animals, genetically modified. As part of this quest we promote urban sprawl and relentless extermination of flowers, as every natural wild fruit and vegetable, which cannot be claimed as intellectual property, is based on pollinators and flowers, and their existence as a food source option endangers our quest to later blackmail the world by jacking up infertile seed prices that already drive failed farmers to suicide in poor countries like India. Also bioweapon creation, that's one mutation away from the antidote not working. To all this I say Fuck Monsanto, however I would not want them to go out business, such as from lawsuits, because they can and do create or have the potential to create good things too in the world, such as cheap insulin making lifeforms, or even, later, cotton that makes spider silk, or biodegradable plastic for shopping bags, like spider silk IS biodegradable, it's only how they go about their business what matters, the devil is in the details, and because of the threats they are dealing with, like nuclear or even more dangerous technology, their guiding principle as a business should be not maximum profit to th shareholders, but minimal interference and minimal genetic modification in the world, only as much as necessary, where the good in the world created by performing a genetic modification far outweighs the costs and simple risks of having such technology and tools and abilities at hand in the first place. The situation is analogous to the field of nuclear technology, if not even starker, where the most pressing topics on the minds of world leaders are a nuclear Iran, or North Korea, and even the Fukushima reactor accidents are almost a blessing, and nuclear power that's green and environmentally friendly but otherwise a great danger if a war erupts in a resource tense world, is only relied on as much as necessary, and if it could be replaced by renewables of solar and wind, by each household, and decentralized, we would not be having nuclear power plants for electricity generation in the first place and Iran would lose their arguments for wanting nuclear power plants for energy production purposes, because we could show the way that it's possible to live without it. For instance Monsanto does not need to create an infertile seed tomato that grows 10% larger or even 200% larger than preexisting tomatoes that are not genetically modified, unless making such a tomato non-infertile is acceptable and has no foreseen risks. They should only engage in genetic modification of the world around us at as minimum as possible, and only where such a change, or even having skills and technology in place to enact such a change, where the risks of such an alteration are compensated by a good created in the world above a certain imaginary thresh hold, greater than the free market is simply willing to buy it. It's like just because a hospital were willing to purchase a mini nuke station, and there is market demand, the risks involved suggests it may not be such a good idea, and any such activity should be supervised fully by the military, providing protection, and overruling and managing things only as far as necessities go, far and above any kind of free market and profitability considerations. Insulin, fertile spider silk biodegradable plastics creating cotton would be such things in my mind, while roundup resistant tomatoes and corn, ehh, and all this massive push for roundup as a weed killer for lawns, for mere purposes of beauty, and not for food production, not a matter of survival, exterminating wild flora and fauna, Fuck Monsanto for all that lawn mowing and brain washing people into what's pretty. Where are all the flowers? Where are all the butterflies? Kids growing up never catching a butterfly or watching
And btw I've seen a purely yeoman farmer type world before, but it lacked abundance of good cars, technology, computers, phones, but you had TV's and radios, still, it's like you don't get the good thins in life without sustaining a parasite layer, like even the Aztec's with a booming irrigation culture sustained priests that invented zero and had the most accurate timekeeping and astronomical record in the world at the time they flourished, not to be surpassed until later in Europe post Renaissance, so it's like without trying to support priests or artists or car manufacturers similar other-than-yeoman-farmer people, you don't get the good life either. But it's a never ending battle between those on top, or their slave drivers saying look at these lazy union workers, they don't like to work, and the workers are like look at these bean counters up at corporate, they never have to work, and neither understands the other because they haven't walked a mile in each other's shoes. I bitch on here assuming I know what other people are sometimes thinking, but they are scared to show it, or speak up, because they worry about their own and kids safety, but without being told in the open the ones on top don't realize what's going on in people's minds, and they think they are smarter and they are getting away with some sneaky shit and other people are just dumb and stupid. No they are not. Millions of them all know, but are not crazy enough to say it or rebel as a group in unison, until the push or squeeze becomes stronger. And Da Man on top constantly thinks he's watching all traffic on camera, recording phone conversations and texts and locations, he knows who's cheating with whose wife, and he can push it to the limit of maximum profitability for himself when it comes to squeezing others, and controlling them, without any effects, and that's a very dangerous game to play. But they are like yeah, we know it, and we like dangerous. But when the shit hits the fan and the crying begins - I told you. What's so unexpected about it?
Monsanto does good things too, once in a while. Such as producing insulin by gene insertion into something else, whose supply previously was exclusively butcher shop guts - beef, pork, difficult to extract small quanties. That's a welcome addition to the world, and whatever sacrifice it demands it's more than worth it. However their attack on almost all life as a whole, especially the food sources first, and to intellectually own and provide only infertile seeds or farm animals, in the name of profit, together with pimping excessive lawn mowing as appropriate style of what's beautiful, is despicable. You can mow, just don't overdo it. Live and let live, is a first principle of Life, respecting the variety of the jungle. Cut only half of your lawn, leave the back of the lot for nature, if it's not a crowded city: wildflowers, butterflies, grasshoppers, birds, etc. Live and let live. Coexist with other life without constantly worrying about only harm can come from other life. Keep your distance. That's all.
How about some conduct, saying: Do something strange for a little piece of change and hop up on that dick for me. As long as movies and other people get away talking crap constantly, and freely viewable everywhere online, like pretty much all hip hop videos with big female ass shaking, constantly saying nigga this, nigga that, it's like literally quoting other people has become a crime, but I don't really see how they are gonna regulate speech other than based on color, and in that, if you're a colored person you get a free ticket to say anything, but everybody else watch your language. How about the conduct of healthcare professionals and Obamacare about making a dollar by infecting people on purpose, or threaten them with it. On TV. Talking about how they are soft tissue experts, with a grin on their face how they are gonna make you sick. The Hippocratic Oath doctors take is "do no harm." Sick fucks, it's like they are hopeless of ever becoming a decent human being.
But it's like you gotta make it worthwhile to go to a nearby star, and the reason you'd go is to find matter in orbit, like lots of planets and asteroids, matter that you can make babies out of. No point going to a brown dwarf if it has nothing orbiting around it, might as well just stay in empty space and be limited by the total matter you already hoarded up and whatever star-light energy you're getting. Unless the brown dwarf emits usable amounts of energy, or you can even land on it and mine it for stuff like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, to make more babies out of. (Or cats, farm animals like Elephants, or plants like trees.) Or nuclear fuel to make artificial heat and lighting out of.
Well, it's like this. Mars is too small to hold a decent atmospher, but it's got a whole lot more rock than our Moon does, and we can rip that bitch to pieces and make comfy rotating space stations out of it and make it disappear, while we don't want to have our Moon disappear, because a lot of natural things are tied to it, like tides, or women pmsing go based on lunar cycles, and it's got to be controlled by whatever minor gravitational or light effect the moon has, at least in its origin, even if there might be a biological clock inside that does the actual counting. So you can take some material from the Moon - such as dig to the cold lava free nonmolten core and hope to find some gold, nickel and platinum you could dump to earth, or just use rocks from the surface to build a megagiga flippable solar panel shade system against global warming near the Earth-Sun Lagrange point, controllable via a remote down here, so that we can dump all the carbon back into the atmosphere from underground where it went during the carboniferous, jurassic and palezoic and the like, and give it back to lifeforms to use, via an increase of CO2 from 0.03% to say 0.1% in the air, which is like a limiting nutrient to all green plants growing, that filter their own carbon content - carbohydrate, fat and protein - directly from the 0.03% in the atmosphere and it takes a long time to filter huge volumes of air for a little bit of carbon, so global warming this global warming that we should dump all fossil fuels into the atmosphere as long as we can guarantee a shading over say the sahara or diffuse over some less reflective than sahara Ocean regions - and this means they'd have to flip open and close on the clock - so if we can drop temperatures back, you might even get things like the Levant becoming fertile grounds like it was 2000 years ago and it's pretty much desert these days, but of course the climate behavior of the Earth is complicated and all that, so it would be nice to have shades up there, as solar panels, as long as you can guarantee that if things go haywire and it naturally falls away from lack of yearly fuel delivery that keeps it up there, because some apocalypse took over down here, or the retards took over and they can't make a delivery, so you have to consider the ramifications of putting the carbon back into the atmosphere, so even before then the prime concern is self sufficient sustainable rotating cylinder space stations via full recycling from Moon materials, and a whole lot of people living in space sustainably, such as China is running out of room, but there is a lot of room in space, and they make great astronauts because of smaller body size and they are not heavy to lift up, so you can put a lot of people up there first, before you install shades, and you can do it from lunar materials - but you should keep most of the Moon intact and instead go for Mars (which is faaaaaaaaaar, but not too far), and you are welcome to rip Mars to pieces to make homes and space stations out of it and almost everyone could live down here on Earth if they get to keep the Moon intact, yet have not 7 billion, but 100 trillion humans living happily in outer space on space stations made from Mars, and 5 billion kept down here as a museum and natural reservation, while Venus is getting terraformed by a shade system, or by banging comets into it on their trip back from the Sun, over millions of years, to lift Venus higher into orbit away from the Sun, to make it naturally colder in case the shade system fails, but hopefully not interfering much gravitationally with the orbit of Earth by coming too close. If anything the shade system, which is required to be superhuge for Venus compared to modifying merely 1% or so of Earth's total solar dose, with Venus you're probably talking covering 30-50% or even more of the total surface area with shades before the sulfuric falls onto the ground as a big ocean, and Venus starts filtering and gabbing oxygen at 32, and oxygen reacted hydrogen as water at 18 on its surface, ultimately the sulfates en
Dude, all I got to say is finafuckingly! Now if they just put up some shades at the Lagrange point that'd be groovy, cuz down here I really don't like getting stuck with another stupid government mandated carbon tax bill, I'm fed up enough with the Obamacare tax penalty bullshit. As in how is this fella in the white house helpin me out? I could have bought insurance previously if I wanted to, what's this tax penalty crap? Ahh, he wants me to go on welfare so he can control my spending habits, he sends his King Kong into my budget to take over control of my budget. Bullshit! Like Timothy McVeigh Invictus, I'm the captain of my soul, not the fucking government. I'm giving the muthafucka the finger over it. All I know I will do whatever it takes including dying not to step foot inside a hospital as long as they got this stupid law on the books, and then I can claim that if I refuse service, you can't charge me, motherfucker. Bitch.
I think they are confusing wind erosion with water erosion. Moisture gets absorbed in rocks even in vacuum - probably the Moon might have some crystal water in some silicates too - , but Mars probably never had a temperature/gravity pressure to sustain liquid water on the surface, unless solar output was much different. The atmosphere is extremely thin, but because of low gravity, 1/3 of Earth's dust flies up easier too. Otherwise the temperature/pressure is probably at the solid/gas transition. Here, the pressure ranges from 0.0044 psi(0.003 atm) on Olympus Mons's peak to over 0.1675 psi (0.011 atm) in the depths of Hellas Planitia, so it's between 0.3% and 1.1% of the atmospheric pressure we have on Earth. The triple point of water is 0 degrees C (more like 0.01) and 0.006 atm, or 0.6% of that on Earth. So in theory, there might have been liquid water extremely close to the triple point, but the temperature would have to be above 0 (which is probably rare) and under 20C or so (under room temperature.) Just cuz you could have a puddle of liquid water physically existing in the open atmosphere of Mars, it does not mean that it would not evaporate away super fast, as even iced over frozen clothes hung out to dry in the winter eventually dry even under the freezing point in the sun (and you have to be careful not to break your jeans or underwear when frozen and brittle, they are very fragile), so a puddle of liquid water would evaporate very fast unless the atmosphere is at 100% humidity or close to it, under such pressure, and then once in the atmosphere, the gravity of Mars is so weak that it would easily reach terminal velocity and escape. And you can tell that it would, from the atmospheric composition of Mars which is 96% CO2 at molecular weight 44, 1.9% Argon, 1.9% Nitrogen, and traces of oxygen, carbon monoxide, methane, water, etc. Molecular weight of water is 18, and much lighter than 28 for nitrogen and 32 for oxygen or 44 for CO2. Planets with cold enough surface and high enough gravity capture hydrogen too from the solar wind, including all the gas giants like Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus, with a molecular weight of 2, but Mars is too weak gravitationally to go as low as 18, and Venus is too hot to go as low as 18, and they boil off hydrogen at 2, water at 18, nitrogen at 28, oxygen at 32, and only have CO2 and H2SO4 and the like remaining in the leftover distillate, while Jupiter boils off nothing, but earth boils off hydrogen at 2, helium at weight 4, but does not boil off methane at 16, water at 18, nor nitrogen 28, oxygen at 32, etc. So liquid water does not exist on Mars under present circumstances because it boils off fast from the surface pond and then boils off fast from the atmosphere into outer space. If in the past the temperature were colder, by ether lower solar output (like ice age on earth), or by Mars being in a farther away orbit, and then getting knocked closer by something else, but farther away it was just the proper amount of cold to hold water on its surface atmosphere, at least you could have had a saturated water vapor atmosphere on Mars, but it might have been under zero celsius, to where yes, you have water, but it's all ice, like at the poles, and never liquid, simply because Mars lacks the gravity to hold it in the atmosphere under enough pressure where it can stay there over 0 degrees required by liquid water, otherwise the only water on Mars is in the solid/gas transition range in the graph below: http://www.sv.vt.edu/classes/M... I think they are confusing wind erosion with water erosion, or maybe ice/glacier erosion remotely possible if you fly off on a tangent of coincidences and luck, but never liquid water. Mars is too small for water. Venus is a whole lot of different story, about the same size as Earth, and all it would need to get life on it pronto is that at its Lagrange point it needs to wear some huge ass shades to be cool.
The GOP is the party of military perverts, hunters, WWF fans, and they don't like artsy fartsy movies, but love a good Hollywood flick full of sex, guns, violence, car chases, and action. They also love gassing foreginers as labrats as they push the boundaries and ask questions about OSHA and EPA regulations, and do secret tests where the rubber meets the road. I made really good money being a guinea pig for them and getting gassed by their less than lethal chemical weapon's research things, and it was employment at will where they just let me leave when I wanted to, I was not obligated to work there by other than messing up my job stability and work history and such. But I too learned valuable lessons in real life, and they too. Like, when handling chlorine gas, they used to dress up in astronaut gear for safety, and when one of the chlorine reaction cylinders got stuck and they had an incident, that they could not fix, they called the supplier, and watch him do it, while they stood in their astronaut self contained breathing apparatus gear. So the supplier guy, while eatin a sandwich with one hand, asked what's the problem, they told him, so he held his breath, walked up to the leaky cylinder, and turned it off with his hand, and came back asking anything else? And kept eating his sandwich. That's what republicans like. Some real life cut the crud macho shit, as opposed to the artsy fartsy oh lets be safe no matter how expensive and retarded democrat crap. And the real answer is somewhere in between, some kind of balance, because, after all, the dense and heavy chlorine gas was the first chemical weapon used to flood the French and German trenches during WWI, with mass casualties of pneumonia but in the end the kill rate was much less than bullets and other ammo, so what's preferable to disable an enemy, a full kill or less than lethal? It's reeeally reaaally complicated, and there is no easy answer, and neither too macho idiots getting themselves sick left and right, like lemmings jumping to the sea, are right, nor artsy fartsy pussies scared to get a whiff of bleach and dressing up as astronauts with self contained scuba diving breathing apparatus while they pour the bleach from walmart into their washing machine. Yeah, that's the kind of stuff they are secretly studying. Pollution, safety, health, less than lethal weapons, etc, and it kinda sucks being a guinea pig for them, and they try to use criminals or ex criminals or terrorist suspects, also the pay is decent, but it's like making minimum wage at a clean job is much preferable to getting gassed with chemical weapons research gases, that, hopefully have been through the animal testing stage of gassing rats first and none died, but still its like there is no amount of money that makes it worthwhile to get pneumonia on a job, or shorter life expectancy, or mental/brain nerve damage, as a lot of chemical weapons are nerve agents. What's right and wrong? The most important part is to not be forced to do it, like a prisoner, or obligated by a contract like debt, or having to raise kids, also there might be something about reproductive issues such as those Spartans who have already sired a son in the movie 300 participated in the suicide mission, so coupled with a life insuance/workman's comp policy it might be a different ballgame too for fathers, ethics is really really complicated. Also people that apply for military duty accept that they are willing to risk their own welfare in service of the greater good, like the country, but then you have to be careful with the research not to be a mere waste, by either not getting any information because there is not enough effect, nor by getting too much effect and destruction like brain damage or nerve damage. It was like I was immune to the treatement for a long time, then suddenly quit, without seemingly being sick enough, and then I'd get like job interviews in other places, next to a police station talking to 3 guys that look like police officers, or more like military people, and they test me on the basics, includin
If you could create partial wave function collapses, or partial interactions, in that a particle spread out to the other end of the galaxy interacts with something there partially, without fully collapsing the whole wave function there, and based on that interaction whatever is left over over here would have different leftover properties, then superluminal velocity communication would be possible, even if matter and energy transport such as a ship would still be stuck limited by the speed of light. As in, your body and ships could get around only so fast, but you could do communication like telepathy instantly back and forth to the other branches of this galaxy without a lag that interaction via transmitted and modulated photons and the like would suffer from. Have they ever come across partial wavefunction collapses, that leave the quantum wave's ("quantum particle's") state tainted? If you could figure out how to trigger a collapse reproducibly, including how to trigger a partial wavefunction collapse, reproducibly, than watch the other collapse transmit data that way, you would break the speed limit of light on communications like Internet and satellite. Who likes speed limits anyway?
PS. Sigh, I only get 2 posts per day so I have to save it in a text file and wait for the time before I can post other than anonymous coward. But the above are some more ideas I had when I wrote that other post. I'm out of that train of thought now, other than, imaging ping times of 2 milliseconds to Pluto and playing an Internet game with them, or 2 millisecond ping times to Alpha Centauri or halfway across the galaxy. Would be nice, right? Reality shows, video conversations, etc. For now a roundtrip pingtime from Earth to Sun is 16 minutes, and if there were a spaceship near opposite of Earth in the same orbit as Earth, it would have an Internet ping time of 32 minutes. I'm too lazy to look up Mars, but for now you can't really play an online game with people from Mars, other than a correspondence chess, where you mail the next move, it arrives in an envelope, they look at it, and then mail you back a move. People used to play chess like that.
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35 years ago they hit the jackpot with MS DOS as a near complete ripoff of Gary Kildall's CP/M who btw died from a blunt force trauma to his head in a biker bar early 90s. The also did great copying the look and feel of Apple, and he courts excused them on it, just like pretty much everything else they've come up with other people came up with it and got "embrace, extend, extinguish"ed by Microsoft on everything, operating systems, office software, gaming, everything. And they bitch and moan about intellectual property violations the most of anybody in the world. Megabillions of dollars lost, boo hoo hoo. Piracy rampant here, piracy rampant there. Crock of shit! Their biggest issue is the lack of anything good to embrace extend extinguish anymore, except GPL stuff, which is like a poisoned pill they hate and want outlawed. Lowest fucking scum crawling on the surface of this planet, together with Monsanto "seed intellectual property" biotech, insurance forced gambling law pimpers like Obamacare, and corrupt politicians all chickens without a backbone, fucking cocksuckers all over the place. Intellectual property this, intellectual property that, human decency my ass. Hail the Microsoft cunts for subverting almost completely a modern technology we call computer science! Fucking cocksuckers.
I'd even go as far as say because chips cannot be trusted in life and death situations, instead of gimme liberty or gimme death, please gimme a car without any fucking chips in it, let alone software.
Which shows that even the greatest minds that ever lived struggle with the unknown, and have only been momentarily blessed with discoveries only disclosed to them through divine revelation, like a message or mental imprint from God. Some are lucky with more blessings, some get less. You can even showcase a family tree of pure Nobel laureates that you're descended from, and bend over backward and piss yourself overexerting yourself trying to be smarter, and steadfast hammering with an inquisitive mind helps, like Euler's persistence and relentless perseverance in computing, (almost all great mathematicians back in his day they had fun and joy computing log tables without exception, mind numbing rote like that was entertainment to them), but acquiring ultimate knowledge does not happen by brute force alone, or even genetics, but instead, you have to be a bit more fluid and just go with the flow (a teaching very important in Eastern religions and philosophy, and even places like Karate Kid, or Feel the Force, Luke), and just be thankful and gracious for the bits of knowledge that are disclosed to you by Nature, like after a dream when you wake up, while always being aware of your own limitations when it comes to the power to know things as they are Just be happy with the mere inklings that you can attain.
I'm both happy and unhappy about this. Yay they are shooting asteroids, interplanetary ping pong that may lead to Venus being habitable, colonized with cheap farming acreage on it. I'd volunteer to go. But nay, why they had to pick a binary system that's relatively rare? That's like something special, and might need to be studied later, such as trying to get better measurements of the Newton-Cavendish-Eotvos gravitational constant, hunting for gravitational waves, etc, and it might be the closest such heavy weight object with easily movable masses to us. Why not shoot a solitary asteroid, there's gotta be tons of those, as each August is shooting star month on Earth, and you can get your practice on with would be shooting stars, at much closer range to Earth, which, if they go on the wrong trajectory, they still burn up as shooting stars anyway. Then scale up on size later. When Nasa can achieve a year with August free of any shooting stars, that would be proof they are getting somewhere, and it's only a matter of scaling up. Why travel so far for such a thing to get practice with, and most importantly why destroy a unique and exquisite thing in the world, that could come in handy later. Hindsight is 20/20 300 years from now when they need to run a gravitational wave measuring experiment, thinking we could have done in in 2020 with this binary asteroid system by jerking one very fast and measuring the reaction time of the other, but we destroyed it, and now it's expensive to make another one like it from stuff like Saturn's rings. Could have would have but didn't (protect, preserve for a possible future need) is hindsight.
The obvious solution is to upgrade upgrade upgrade constantly to better hardware and software that promises more security, performance etc, but never delivers, because security is a vague concept. That's the only way computing business makes money nowadays, but it drives progress, or sometimes regress.
The other solution would be to provide the customer with something sleek, simple, efficient and secure, by charging monthly rental fees. The downside of that is that you're forever stuck at a certain level of technology, and there is no incentive to improve on it, which though, might be a blessing in cases like XP vs. Vista where the progress was starkly a regress.
But the money got to be made by computing professionals, else the money does not get made. Or at least not as much. But right now having perpetual security and hacker issues are vital to profitability, and it does not look like it will stop anytime soon, because it dives sales of newer and better, which may no mean is worse than old one though
also technology is neutral and amoral
yeah, but a tiger in a jungle is high tech and makes me uncomfortable, unless i have technology, such as motion detect and a gun.. but not too much technology, such as AI that's better than both me and the tiger, which is amoral and neutral but if it decides I'm lunch i have no good ways to argue with it.. such as a good defensive weapon.. herein lies the eternal dilemma in pushing technology relentlessly forward, in hopes of a better world, but in fear of being hurt by it..
i still love and admire tigers and want to share the world with them.. just because one can sneak up on me in a jungle, and has faster reflexes than me when it attacks me, trying to turn me into his lunch.. that does not mean i want all tigers gone from the word, and similar things go for snakes, sharks, wolves, or pretty much any life form that depends on feeding on other life forms.. i like the multitude of life, the genetic diversity and richness as opposed to one species of say predators, and one species of photosynthetic benign life form used as food... yeah that's safe but who wants to live like that.. without the richness of beauty and love of nature? whoever does, they are welcome to go live on space stations, but please don't destroy the variety down here by ruthless extermination campaigns with things like pesticides and lawnmowers.. please leave the kitchen if you can't take the heat, i told you much of last year how to make it out there, in the nothingness of space, on a space station where you can finally be "safe", at least safe from diseases and other nontechnological life forms, not from other humans that can shoot you because you're a sitting duck, so you might wanna think about hiding on the other side of the Moon, at least.. ultimately nowhere is safe.. but you can be safe from the things that you're trying to relentlessly exterminate with pesticides and lawnmowers.. and leave my fucking grass alone
there is something great and awesome, in the sense of liberty, about anonimity on the internet..
but like with the money supply, there is a way to track originators and recipients..
on the internet it's called an ip address, and technically everyone is responsible for packets originating from them, in some abstract way
to find somebody, you need an ip address and a date time, and you can track who did what through isp logs.. if they are kept
however, it is possible to forge a packet, and pretend it came from Terroristan or Ungabungaville, pretending you are forwarding it from origin to destination. As the internet is based on multi path forwarding of packets, and they sometimes go round a couple times before reaching destination (which is silly, but the CIA or NSA loves tricks like that to make it confusing or hide their eavesdropping) it's hard to tell why someone from Antarctica or Greenland would be forwarding a packet coming from Terroristan, when there should be a more direct path between the different continents. Sometimes though cost of bandwidth fluctuates in various directions, and is purchased through off the beaten tracks like your internet protocol packet might end up in Antarctica before it goes to Asia from America, because the main pipes via the direct path are saturated. Kinda like off roads during a highway congestion, people take the route of least resistance. So the internet is very open and free environment, and you often wonder who's got your packet. If you worry about that, you can probably get a private dedicated telco line for an assraping fee, off and away from the internet. But the internet is the internet, aint nothing else like it, and anybody might have your packets, you hope not, but that's the way we live life.
in the end this is the pivotal point where the buck stops: it is not in the interests of powers that be that we have a safe and reliable internet, to where they can no longer make money by telling people they've got something better, more secure.. on the other hand it's also not in their interest to create such a devastating world where people stop using the internet altogether.. and just give up on technology for good, cutting their profit off hard.. so their profit scenario graph looks like a seesaw, a 45degree ramp with a sudden vertical precipice fall, where going that extra cent up the increased profit graph runs the severe risk of losing everything you're already making.. such as pimping minimum charges by utilities.. or DRM in the intellectual property world.. my attitude is that when you become abusive toward your customer like that, the customer is ultimately in charge, and he can bend over backward living his life down without having to put up with your bullshit, and cuts you off hard.. for instance i intend to never watch a DVD movie, because it has DRM.. yeah i know, they used to deal with piracy, and DRM helps them while it makes my life stink.. but ultimately I'm the fucking customer, and I decide how i live my life.. until Obama passes a law that makes me purchase a certain quota of Hollywood DVD's even if I don't feel like it.. like he does with his stupid fucking retarded insurance bullshit.. hey, all i know I don't owe anybody an existence fee, for being alive... nor do i owe anyone a dime for the breath of air I take, or the sunlight that I use to see.. these folks pent up on pushing the boundaries of what constitutes property just to they can sit back and collect, by claiming they own math, or air, or sunlight can all go fuck themselves with a huge cuke.. no it is not your air i'm breathing, you don't own the atmosphere, and if you say you invested a billion dollars into purchasing that atmosphere so you can own it, take care of and license it to me i call you a fucking retard.. same goes for the Sun, the Sun cannot be owned by a cartel making everyone pay for sunlight.. same goes for math, basic human knowledge is everybody's.. or organic chemistry.. yeah we had these intellectual property laws installed when the US was created, copyright
It changes my behavior. I speed on cameras while carrying a cellphone, so they know it's not a fluke, just because I know they can monitor it and want to send a message, like, look, you wanna see me go crazy? Trying all day desperately to piss me off at work. Here, I can do it, it's not that hard, I can act like a total idiot, do not assume you can keep pushing somebody to extreme limits because they are pussies and never stick up for themselves. If that subliminal monitoring were not in place though, there'd be no useful purpose to going nuts under camera and cellphone monitoring, while endangering anyone who running a red light right into your face when you're speeding through a green. I also sometimes leave my cellphone home while going shopping, or to work, sometimes on purpose, sometimes I simply forget. I have been sent home from work before simply over forgetting the phone at home, at least that's what my best guess was why I was sent home. Nowadays I even pull the battery from the cellphone sometimes, cuz I know them bitches eavesdrop even when powered off. I know some people who still don't have a cellphone, and there are pluses and minuses to that too.
I would never buy a house without a fully underground basement, because of xrays.
Other than that, I might be interested in one of these IKEA refugee things, and when asked what am I a refugee from, I'd be like, duh, I'm performing what's called "white flight" from inner cities to the suburbs, and my personal excuse would be constant personal attack with infections and having to recover all the time, as they trying to undermine me financially, to make me go on government aid too, and breed out of control on it too, like a bunch of inner city folk do. Hell no. Fuck all you.
Fuck Monsanto Labs. Fuck Roundup.
Fuck all biotech companies, infecting people with genetically modified diseases on purpose with secret antidotes, to make money.
Fuck Obamacare infecting people on purpose to scare them into buying, to make money.
Also there is no such thing as absolute security, only obstacles of varying difficulty. Like putting a lock on a door is not a guarantee. Like RC4, it's better than nothing, against casual entry, but it's not a castle surrounded by a pond with pull up bridges, which in turn is not as secure as a fort, like Masada, built on solid rock mountain top with vertical precipice surrounding, because a tunnel can be dug under the pond, and given enough dedication and effort, even Masada was taken by the Romans. I still lock my car and house, which is a defense equivalent to RC4, in hat it's or tamper proof, but an obstacle, that requires effort, and I live like that, without spending on armed security guards, because of cost.
Or more like, come on people, it's okay to misbehave and not worry about getting caught, the lack of recent terrorist events makes it unwarranted to oppress the people so much by surveying every last detail (well, except the Tsarnaev's, but they did it with the very deliberate purpose to sustain this surveillance, and keep other people down with it, because we lacked recent terrorist events.) So we repealed the Patriot Act, and we will no longer do surveillance of cell phones, so you should not keep them at home while you go shopping to not be tracked, nor should you watch your speed limit near traffic cameras, we stopped watching those too. Go ahead. Now it's okay to speed on traffic cameras, (those are gonna come down we just haven't got to it yet due to budget constraints, but we stopped watching those), or it's okay cheat on your wife with another woman, we will no longer snoop and tell who is with who by two cell phone's geolocation being at the same point at the same time inside some motel, hotel, or apartment.
If we all lived like yeoman farmers, self sufficient, making our own food, electric, sewer treatment, etc, and only engage in jobs and economic activity as far as necessary or we feel like, not being slaves to bills, then these above arguments would be irrelevant. Justice and liberty for all does not require jobs, nor automated machines that displace humans from jobs, because they will be irrelevant, because your ultimate existence is not dependent on having a job, or finding a way to peel another dollar out of a sucker (and there is a sucker born every minute), but you can always fall back to and exist just find self sufficient, without a job, or any bills. That should be like a human right. The right to exist DIY and without any bills whatsoever, or any job whatsoever. The way some Amish live comes to mind as closest to that ideal, except they too have to put up with property tax harassment, I think, but they don't have to pay social security, because they take care of their elderly and don't take out a pension when they retire, the community supports the elderly. They pull their own weight. It gets complicated though, and if you really want to fuck with somebody, it's easy to fuck anybody up given sufficient dedication and effort.
Ok, here we go, from M.O.P Marxmen:
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Love myself
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Fuck yo' self
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Fuck all you!
Hahaha. Monsanto is in the business of making money. I take any opportunity to bitch at them and their principle of no food shall be grown on this planet that we do not own and control, either via intellectual pushing the limits of what constitutes property, or via pimping infertile seeds and animals, genetically modified. As part of this quest we promote urban sprawl and relentless extermination of flowers, as every natural wild fruit and vegetable, which cannot be claimed as intellectual property, is based on pollinators and flowers, and their existence as a food source option endangers our quest to later blackmail the world by jacking up infertile seed prices that already drive failed farmers to suicide in poor countries like India. Also bioweapon creation, that's one mutation away from the antidote not working. To all this I say Fuck Monsanto, however I would not want them to go out business, such as from lawsuits, because they can and do create or have the potential to create good things too in the world, such as cheap insulin making lifeforms, or even, later, cotton that makes spider silk, or biodegradable plastic for shopping bags, like spider silk IS biodegradable, it's only how they go about their business what matters, the devil is in the details, and because of the threats they are dealing with, like nuclear or even more dangerous technology, their guiding principle as a business should be not maximum profit to th shareholders, but minimal interference and minimal genetic modification in the world, only as much as necessary, where the good in the world created by performing a genetic modification far outweighs the costs and simple risks of having such technology and tools and abilities at hand in the first place. The situation is analogous to the field of nuclear technology, if not even starker, where the most pressing topics on the minds of world leaders are a nuclear Iran, or North Korea, and even the Fukushima reactor accidents are almost a blessing, and nuclear power that's green and environmentally friendly but otherwise a great danger if a war erupts in a resource tense world, is only relied on as much as necessary, and if it could be replaced by renewables of solar and wind, by each household, and decentralized, we would not be having nuclear power plants for electricity generation in the first place and Iran would lose their arguments for wanting nuclear power plants for energy production purposes, because we could show the way that it's possible to live without it. For instance Monsanto does not need to create an infertile seed tomato that grows 10% larger or even 200% larger than preexisting tomatoes that are not genetically modified, unless making such a tomato non-infertile is acceptable and has no foreseen risks. They should only engage in genetic modification of the world around us at as minimum as possible, and only where such a change, or even having skills and technology in place to enact such a change, where the risks of such an alteration are compensated by a good created in the world above a certain imaginary thresh hold, greater than the free market is simply willing to buy it. It's like just because a hospital were willing to purchase a mini nuke station, and there is market demand, the risks involved suggests it may not be such a good idea, and any such activity should be supervised fully by the military, providing protection, and overruling and managing things only as far as necessities go, far and above any kind of free market and profitability considerations. Insulin, fertile spider silk biodegradable plastics creating cotton would be such things in my mind, while roundup resistant tomatoes and corn, ehh, and all this massive push for roundup as a weed killer for lawns, for mere purposes of beauty, and not for food production, not a matter of survival, exterminating wild flora and fauna, Fuck Monsanto for all that lawn mowing and brain washing people into what's pretty. Where are all the flowers? Where are all the butterflies? Kids growing up never catching a butterfly or watching
And btw I've seen a purely yeoman farmer type world before, but it lacked abundance of good cars, technology, computers, phones, but you had TV's and radios, still, it's like you don't get the good thins in life without sustaining a parasite layer, like even the Aztec's with a booming irrigation culture sustained priests that invented zero and had the most accurate timekeeping and astronomical record in the world at the time they flourished, not to be surpassed until later in Europe post Renaissance, so it's like without trying to support priests or artists or car manufacturers similar other-than-yeoman-farmer people, you don't get the good life either. But it's a never ending battle between those on top, or their slave drivers saying look at these lazy union workers, they don't like to work, and the workers are like look at these bean counters up at corporate, they never have to work, and neither understands the other because they haven't walked a mile in each other's shoes. I bitch on here assuming I know what other people are sometimes thinking, but they are scared to show it, or speak up, because they worry about their own and kids safety, but without being told in the open the ones on top don't realize what's going on in people's minds, and they think they are smarter and they are getting away with some sneaky shit and other people are just dumb and stupid. No they are not. Millions of them all know, but are not crazy enough to say it or rebel as a group in unison, until the push or squeeze becomes stronger. And Da Man on top constantly thinks he's watching all traffic on camera, recording phone conversations and texts and locations, he knows who's cheating with whose wife, and he can push it to the limit of maximum profitability for himself when it comes to squeezing others, and controlling them, without any effects, and that's a very dangerous game to play. But they are like yeah, we know it, and we like dangerous. But when the shit hits the fan and the crying begins - I told you. What's so unexpected about it?
Monsanto does good things too, once in a while. Such as producing insulin by gene insertion into something else, whose supply previously was exclusively butcher shop guts - beef, pork, difficult to extract small quanties. That's a welcome addition to the world, and whatever sacrifice it demands it's more than worth it. However their attack on almost all life as a whole, especially the food sources first, and to intellectually own and provide only infertile seeds or farm animals, in the name of profit, together with pimping excessive lawn mowing as appropriate style of what's beautiful, is despicable. You can mow, just don't overdo it. Live and let live, is a first principle of Life, respecting the variety of the jungle. Cut only half of your lawn, leave the back of the lot for nature, if it's not a crowded city: wildflowers, butterflies, grasshoppers, birds, etc. Live and let live. Coexist with other life without constantly worrying about only harm can come from other life. Keep your distance. That's all.
How about some conduct, saying: Do something strange for a little piece of change and hop up on that dick for me. As long as movies and other people get away talking crap constantly, and freely viewable everywhere online, like pretty much all hip hop videos with big female ass shaking, constantly saying nigga this, nigga that, it's like literally quoting other people has become a crime, but I don't really see how they are gonna regulate speech other than based on color, and in that, if you're a colored person you get a free ticket to say anything, but everybody else watch your language.
How about the conduct of healthcare professionals and Obamacare about making a dollar by infecting people on purpose, or threaten them with it. On TV. Talking about how they are soft tissue experts, with a grin on their face how they are gonna make you sick. The Hippocratic Oath doctors take is "do no harm." Sick fucks, it's like they are hopeless of ever becoming a decent human being.
But it's like you gotta make it worthwhile to go to a nearby star, and the reason you'd go is to find matter in orbit, like lots of planets and asteroids, matter that you can make babies out of. No point going to a brown dwarf if it has nothing orbiting around it, might as well just stay in empty space and be limited by the total matter you already hoarded up and whatever star-light energy you're getting. Unless the brown dwarf emits usable amounts of energy, or you can even land on it and mine it for stuff like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, to make more babies out of. (Or cats, farm animals like Elephants, or plants like trees.) Or nuclear fuel to make artificial heat and lighting out of.
Well, it's like this. Mars is too small to hold a decent atmospher, but it's got a whole lot more rock than our Moon does, and we can rip that bitch to pieces and make comfy rotating space stations out of it and make it disappear, while we don't want to have our Moon disappear, because a lot of natural things are tied to it, like tides, or women pmsing go based on lunar cycles, and it's got to be controlled by whatever minor gravitational or light effect the moon has, at least in its origin, even if there might be a biological clock inside that does the actual counting. So you can take some material from the Moon - such as dig to the cold lava free nonmolten core and hope to find some gold, nickel and platinum you could dump to earth, or just use rocks from the surface to build a megagiga flippable solar panel shade system against global warming near the Earth-Sun Lagrange point, controllable via a remote down here, so that we can dump all the carbon back into the atmosphere from underground where it went during the carboniferous, jurassic and palezoic and the like, and give it back to lifeforms to use, via an increase of CO2 from 0.03% to say 0.1% in the air, which is like a limiting nutrient to all green plants growing, that filter their own carbon content - carbohydrate, fat and protein - directly from the 0.03% in the atmosphere and it takes a long time to filter huge volumes of air for a little bit of carbon, so global warming this global warming that we should dump all fossil fuels into the atmosphere as long as we can guarantee a shading over say the sahara or diffuse over some less reflective than sahara Ocean regions - and this means they'd have to flip open and close on the clock - so if we can drop temperatures back, you might even get things like the Levant becoming fertile grounds like it was 2000 years ago and it's pretty much desert these days, but of course the climate behavior of the Earth is complicated and all that, so it would be nice to have shades up there, as solar panels, as long as you can guarantee that if things go haywire and it naturally falls away from lack of yearly fuel delivery that keeps it up there, because some apocalypse took over down here, or the retards took over and they can't make a delivery, so you have to consider the ramifications of putting the carbon back into the atmosphere, so even before then the prime concern is self sufficient sustainable rotating cylinder space stations via full recycling from Moon materials, and a whole lot of people living in space sustainably, such as China is running out of room, but there is a lot of room in space, and they make great astronauts because of smaller body size and they are not heavy to lift up, so you can put a lot of people up there first, before you install shades, and you can do it from lunar materials - but you should keep most of the Moon intact and instead go for Mars (which is faaaaaaaaaar, but not too far), and you are welcome to rip Mars to pieces to make homes and space stations out of it and almost everyone could live down here on Earth if they get to keep the Moon intact, yet have not 7 billion, but 100 trillion humans living happily in outer space on space stations made from Mars, and 5 billion kept down here as a museum and natural reservation, while Venus is getting terraformed by a shade system, or by banging comets into it on their trip back from the Sun, over millions of years, to lift Venus higher into orbit away from the Sun, to make it naturally colder in case the shade system fails, but hopefully not interfering much gravitationally with the orbit of Earth by coming too close. If anything the shade system, which is required to be superhuge for Venus compared to modifying merely 1% or so of Earth's total solar dose, with Venus you're probably talking covering 30-50% or even more of the total surface area with shades before the sulfuric falls onto the ground as a big ocean, and Venus starts filtering and gabbing oxygen at 32, and oxygen reacted hydrogen as water at 18 on its surface, ultimately the sulfates en
Dude, all I got to say is finafuckingly!
Now if they just put up some shades at the Lagrange point that'd be groovy, cuz down here I really don't like getting stuck with another stupid government mandated carbon tax bill, I'm fed up enough with the Obamacare tax penalty bullshit. As in how is this fella in the white house helpin me out? I could have bought insurance previously if I wanted to, what's this tax penalty crap? Ahh, he wants me to go on welfare so he can control my spending habits, he sends his King Kong into my budget to take over control of my budget. Bullshit! Like Timothy McVeigh Invictus, I'm the captain of my soul, not the fucking government. I'm giving the muthafucka the finger over it. All I know I will do whatever it takes including dying not to step foot inside a hospital as long as they got this stupid law on the books, and then I can claim that if I refuse service, you can't charge me, motherfucker. Bitch.
I think they are confusing wind erosion with water erosion. Moisture gets absorbed in rocks even in vacuum - probably the Moon might have some crystal water in some silicates too - , but Mars probably never had a temperature/gravity pressure to sustain liquid water on the surface, unless solar output was much different. The atmosphere is extremely thin, but because of low gravity, 1/3 of Earth's dust flies up easier too. Otherwise the temperature/pressure is probably at the solid/gas transition. Here, the pressure ranges from 0.0044 psi(0.003 atm) on Olympus Mons's peak to over 0.1675 psi (0.011 atm) in the depths of Hellas Planitia, so it's between 0.3% and 1.1% of the atmospheric pressure we have on Earth. The triple point of water is 0 degrees C (more like 0.01) and 0.006 atm, or 0.6% of that on Earth. So in theory, there might have been liquid water extremely close to the triple point, but the temperature would have to be above 0 (which is probably rare) and under 20C or so (under room temperature.) Just cuz you could have a puddle of liquid water physically existing in the open atmosphere of Mars, it does not mean that it would not evaporate away super fast, as even iced over frozen clothes hung out to dry in the winter eventually dry even under the freezing point in the sun (and you have to be careful not to break your jeans or underwear when frozen and brittle, they are very fragile), so a puddle of liquid water would evaporate very fast unless the atmosphere is at 100% humidity or close to it, under such pressure, and then once in the atmosphere, the gravity of Mars is so weak that it would easily reach terminal velocity and escape. And you can tell that it would, from the atmospheric composition of Mars which is 96% CO2 at molecular weight 44, 1.9% Argon, 1.9% Nitrogen, and traces of oxygen, carbon monoxide, methane, water, etc. Molecular weight of water is 18, and much lighter than 28 for nitrogen and 32 for oxygen or 44 for CO2. Planets with cold enough surface and high enough gravity capture hydrogen too from the solar wind, including all the gas giants like Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus, with a molecular weight of 2, but Mars is too weak gravitationally to go as low as 18, and Venus is too hot to go as low as 18, and they boil off hydrogen at 2, water at 18, nitrogen at 28, oxygen at 32, and only have CO2 and H2SO4 and the like remaining in the leftover distillate, while Jupiter boils off nothing, but earth boils off hydrogen at 2, helium at weight 4, but does not boil off methane at 16, water at 18, nor nitrogen 28, oxygen at 32, etc. So liquid water does not exist on Mars under present circumstances because it boils off fast from the surface pond and then boils off fast from the atmosphere into outer space. If in the past the temperature were colder, by ether lower solar output (like ice age on earth), or by Mars being in a farther away orbit, and then getting knocked closer by something else, but farther away it was just the proper amount of cold to hold water on its surface atmosphere, at least you could have had a saturated water vapor atmosphere on Mars, but it might have been under zero celsius, to where yes, you have water, but it's all ice, like at the poles, and never liquid, simply because Mars lacks the gravity to hold it in the atmosphere under enough pressure where it can stay there over 0 degrees required by liquid water, otherwise the only water on Mars is in the solid/gas transition range in the graph below: http://www.sv.vt.edu/classes/M...
I think they are confusing wind erosion with water erosion, or maybe ice/glacier erosion remotely possible if you fly off on a tangent of coincidences and luck, but never liquid water. Mars is too small for water. Venus is a whole lot of different story, about the same size as Earth, and all it would need to get life on it pronto is that at its Lagrange point it needs to wear some huge ass shades to be cool.
Yeah.
The GOP is the party of military perverts, hunters, WWF fans, and they don't like artsy fartsy movies, but love a good Hollywood flick full of sex, guns, violence, car chases, and action. They also love gassing foreginers as labrats as they push the boundaries and ask questions about OSHA and EPA regulations, and do secret tests where the rubber meets the road. I made really good money being a guinea pig for them and getting gassed by their less than lethal chemical weapon's research things, and it was employment at will where they just let me leave when I wanted to, I was not obligated to work there by other than messing up my job stability and work history and such. But I too learned valuable lessons in real life, and they too. Like, when handling chlorine gas, they used to dress up in astronaut gear for safety, and when one of the chlorine reaction cylinders got stuck and they had an incident, that they could not fix, they called the supplier, and watch him do it, while they stood in their astronaut self contained breathing apparatus gear. So the supplier guy, while eatin a sandwich with one hand, asked what's the problem, they told him, so he held his breath, walked up to the leaky cylinder, and turned it off with his hand, and came back asking anything else? And kept eating his sandwich. That's what republicans like. Some real life cut the crud macho shit, as opposed to the artsy fartsy oh lets be safe no matter how expensive and retarded democrat crap. And the real answer is somewhere in between, some kind of balance, because, after all, the dense and heavy chlorine gas was the first chemical weapon used to flood the French and German trenches during WWI, with mass casualties of pneumonia but in the end the kill rate was much less than bullets and other ammo, so what's preferable to disable an enemy, a full kill or less than lethal? It's reeeally reaaally complicated, and there is no easy answer, and neither too macho idiots getting themselves sick left and right, like lemmings jumping to the sea, are right, nor artsy fartsy pussies scared to get a whiff of bleach and dressing up as astronauts with self contained scuba diving breathing apparatus while they pour the bleach from walmart into their washing machine. Yeah, that's the kind of stuff they are secretly studying. Pollution, safety, health, less than lethal weapons, etc, and it kinda sucks being a guinea pig for them, and they try to use criminals or ex criminals or terrorist suspects, also the pay is decent, but it's like making minimum wage at a clean job is much preferable to getting gassed with chemical weapons research gases, that, hopefully have been through the animal testing stage of gassing rats first and none died, but still its like there is no amount of money that makes it worthwhile to get pneumonia on a job, or shorter life expectancy, or mental/brain nerve damage, as a lot of chemical weapons are nerve agents. What's right and wrong? The most important part is to not be forced to do it, like a prisoner, or obligated by a contract like debt, or having to raise kids, also there might be something about reproductive issues such as those Spartans who have already sired a son in the movie 300 participated in the suicide mission, so coupled with a life insuance/workman's comp policy it might be a different ballgame too for fathers, ethics is really really complicated. Also people that apply for military duty accept that they are willing to risk their own welfare in service of the greater good, like the country, but then you have to be careful with the research not to be a mere waste, by either not getting any information because there is not enough effect, nor by getting too much effect and destruction like brain damage or nerve damage. It was like I was immune to the treatement for a long time, then suddenly quit, without seemingly being sick enough, and then I'd get like job interviews in other places, next to a police station talking to 3 guys that look like police officers, or more like military people, and they test me on the basics, includin
If you could create partial wave function collapses, or partial interactions, in that a particle spread out to the other end of the galaxy interacts with something there partially, without fully collapsing the whole wave function there, and based on that interaction whatever is left over over here would have different leftover properties, then superluminal velocity communication would be possible, even if matter and energy transport such as a ship would still be stuck limited by the speed of light. As in, your body and ships could get around only so fast, but you could do communication like telepathy instantly back and forth to the other branches of this galaxy without a lag that interaction via transmitted and modulated photons and the like would suffer from. Have they ever come across partial wavefunction collapses, that leave the quantum wave's ("quantum particle's") state tainted? If you could figure out how to trigger a collapse reproducibly, including how to trigger a partial wavefunction collapse, reproducibly, than watch the other collapse transmit data that way, you would break the speed limit of light on communications like Internet and satellite. Who likes speed limits anyway?
PS. Sigh, I only get 2 posts per day so I have to save it in a text file and wait for the time before I can post other than anonymous coward. But the above are some more ideas I had when I wrote that other post. I'm out of that train of thought now, other than, imaging ping times of 2 milliseconds to Pluto and playing an Internet game with them, or 2 millisecond ping times to Alpha Centauri or halfway across the galaxy. Would be nice, right? Reality shows, video conversations, etc. For now a roundtrip pingtime from Earth to Sun is 16 minutes, and if there were a spaceship near opposite of Earth in the same orbit as Earth, it would have an Internet ping time of 32 minutes. I'm too lazy to look up Mars, but for now you can't really play an online game with people from Mars, other than a correspondence chess, where you mail the next move, it arrives in an envelope, they look at it, and then mail you back a move. People used to play chess like that.