This is pretty much the first world right now. Very few people freeze or starve in 1st world countries. There would very much be a need and desire for money to get things that weren't part of the standard government handout.
Old Star Trek episode where they thaw out 1990s era people that were frozen. Can't quite recall why they were found and regenerated, but the housewife is sad because everyone she know is dead, the country singer figures he can go right back to singing and drinking, and the business tycoon type is having hard time dealing with the new United Planets Federation where "no one needs money, everyone's needs are met". I *SO* wanted that guy to go "Really? Cool. Give me a starship please"
Beta is not as bad as chlorine, but worse than mustard gas. Or IOW, not as bad as getting both eyes gouged out but on level with maybe one eye, a nose, and both legs.
Everything goes end of life sooner or later. But I will not be part of some revenue stream to pay them to fix their products. Even a decade later or more I exepct to see the patches available online, even if active support ended years earlier.
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I have a Netgear router at home. I get firmware updates every now and then that fix various issues. It costs Netgear *nothing* but traffic for me to download them. At some point I expect the support to end and have no more patches. That is normal. Making me PAY for patches would ensure I would never ever buy their shit again.
I can "disprove" Noah's Ark with DNA showing that all existing animals did not all come from single breeding pair a few thousand years ago. Makes no impact because "God can do anything" including getting a really slow pig of a boat design from Turkey (where the Ark ended up IIRC) to Australia and back very quicky (roll eyes emoticon goes here)
Say a "designer" visited a long time ago and let some simple single celled organisms loose. Say he came back and tweaked some hominid DNA to give homo sapiens a little push in the right direction. Why does this have to be the Christian God? Why can't it be the Vulcan Genetic Institute or the Klingon Speciation Company or what-the-hell-else? The literal claims of the Bible are SO far off what we observe they seem to be the LEAST likely way to be Intelligent Designing.
I have never been to the sun. No one else has been there. No person has seen the core of the sun and lived to tell the tale AFAIK. But somehow I tend to think what I learned in astronomy class about fusion and the life cycle of stars is likely correct and have no need of folk tales or ancient creation myths to tell me what the sun is made of. Limiting science to what you personally can see in front of your face is consigning us back to the dark ages. OTOH we could all be a lab experiment done by supernatural beings to win the Divine Being and All Powerful Gods of Creation 3rd grade science fair for all I know and we could never prove it ISN'T true. That is not science however.....
Ah...because it takes some dedicated hunters with shotguns sometimes less than a human lifespan to kill something off forever and speciation happens every few thousand/ten thousand/million years? Or were you expecting a trash-eating 3 headed zombie rat-snake-raccoon thing to evolve in your backyard next week?
Agree. Why limit it to Christian origin myths? Why not debate the "big turtle in the sky" and the FSM? I am sure His Noodleness has some reps that would love to debate. It gives folk tales equal weight to science.
This is like saying a football team can beat a fencing team. They are NOT THE SAME GAME! A Creationist starts from the premise God Did It! Anything that does not fall in line with this is something God planted for some reason. You can never disprove this. Science has no answer for God Made Oil to look old or anything else because it is a belief in a supernatural actor that is by definition able to do anything at all.
BS. If you are a US Citizen there are services available to you all over the world. If you REALLY want to be in NZ living like a New Zealander, paying NZ taxes, never voting in USA elections, and totally renouncing any benefit from the USA then do the simple thing and be a citizen there. Also note that unless things changed, your *first $90,000* of income are tax free if earned abroad. Not a bad chunk of change.
I always thought *nix was kind of a hipster affection and not really a useful OS for a desktop. But then I got a laptop with Windows 8 and I cannot tell you how much I hate that useless cell phone OS. So I tried Linux Mint and guess what - I like it!:) It looks just like Windows 7 thank God and it loaded with no issues at all. So far it seems really quite useful. The only glitches so far are playing "hunt the patches" to get Netflix to work, LibreOffice seems to be missing the Outlook equivalent, and printer setup is a trip back in time to the old days of Linux experiments. All a price I am willing to pay to get away from 8.
I am a pilot and no not rely on NOAA. I do not need the government telling me what the weather is. Hey - can you wait - I am getting a call from my insurance company. They seem to be mad about the three airplanes I wrecked last year. WTF is up with them?
One of the reason we "won" the cold war is Reagan and Company were the first leaders in a long time to actually put a scare into the Soviets. They actually thought Reagan was crazy enough to try something and then Chernobyl made a huge mess and that wasn't even a bomb at all, just an industrial accident. Of courese we had the amazing good luck to have Gorbachev on the other side, who was pretty rational and a good guy as far as Soviet leaders went. It could have ended badly with some others at the helm.
He would be happy to know the current Porsche 918 is quite the performer on battery power, if not exactly a long range car. In pure electric mode, the 918 Spyder accelerates from 0 to 62 mph in seven seconds and can reach speeds of up to 93 mph. Then you start the engine and go REALLY fast:) It also gets around 70+ MPG in city mode if it has been charged up.
Gasoline was SO much better as a transportation fuel there is no comparison. Also the invention of the electric starter allowed women and less-than-burly-men to drive gasoline cars easily. 20 gallons of gasoline weigh 120 pounds. They will take the average car around 250-400 miles at highway speeds will running heat or air conditioning. 120 pounds of batteries have a small fraction of that range at best and a dead battery car is hours away from being useable again.
I rebuilt and raced a Porsche, so I know a bit about cars.
External combustion engines are not the way to go. That extra step of putting steam between the fuel and the engine is a waste in a car.
Electrical power is not yet the way to go for many/most uses. I'll use the snowstorm issue to illustrate. I recently had to drive about 250 miles in horrible weather. Much of it was slow plodding in snow. A battery car could never have kept up with the heat and defrost needs of the human cargo.
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Ah.....well............ah.........we have Disney World... On second thought, is there room in Canada for one more?
This is pretty much the first world right now. Very few people freeze or starve in 1st world countries. There would very much be a need and desire for money to get things that weren't part of the standard government handout.
A friend had a Pontiac burn up for unknown reasons in the driveway. This happens to cars in general every now and then.
One motor going whacky will steer your car right off the road. BTW - I think Porsche used a hub motor design back in 1899 or something like that.
Old Star Trek episode where they thaw out 1990s era people that were frozen. Can't quite recall why they were found and regenerated, but the housewife is sad because everyone she know is dead, the country singer figures he can go right back to singing and drinking, and the business tycoon type is having hard time dealing with the new United Planets Federation where "no one needs money, everyone's needs are met". I *SO* wanted that guy to go "Really? Cool. Give me a starship please"
Beta is not as bad as chlorine, but worse than mustard gas. Or IOW, not as bad as getting both eyes gouged out but on level with maybe one eye, a nose, and both legs.
Everything goes end of life sooner or later. But I will not be part of some revenue stream to pay them to fix their products. Even a decade later or more I exepct to see the patches available online, even if active support ended years earlier.
Yes! +1 I have a Netgear router at home. I get firmware updates every now and then that fix various issues. It costs Netgear *nothing* but traffic for me to download them. At some point I expect the support to end and have no more patches. That is normal. Making me PAY for patches would ensure I would never ever buy their shit again.
I can "disprove" Noah's Ark with DNA showing that all existing animals did not all come from single breeding pair a few thousand years ago. Makes no impact because "God can do anything" including getting a really slow pig of a boat design from Turkey (where the Ark ended up IIRC) to Australia and back very quicky (roll eyes emoticon goes here)
Say a "designer" visited a long time ago and let some simple single celled organisms loose. Say he came back and tweaked some hominid DNA to give homo sapiens a little push in the right direction. Why does this have to be the Christian God? Why can't it be the Vulcan Genetic Institute or the Klingon Speciation Company or what-the-hell-else? The literal claims of the Bible are SO far off what we observe they seem to be the LEAST likely way to be Intelligent Designing.
I have never been to the sun. No one else has been there. No person has seen the core of the sun and lived to tell the tale AFAIK. But somehow I tend to think what I learned in astronomy class about fusion and the life cycle of stars is likely correct and have no need of folk tales or ancient creation myths to tell me what the sun is made of. Limiting science to what you personally can see in front of your face is consigning us back to the dark ages. OTOH we could all be a lab experiment done by supernatural beings to win the Divine Being and All Powerful Gods of Creation 3rd grade science fair for all I know and we could never prove it ISN'T true. That is not science however.....
Ah...because it takes some dedicated hunters with shotguns sometimes less than a human lifespan to kill something off forever and speciation happens every few thousand/ten thousand/million years? Or were you expecting a trash-eating 3 headed zombie rat-snake-raccoon thing to evolve in your backyard next week?
Agree. Why limit it to Christian origin myths? Why not debate the "big turtle in the sky" and the FSM? I am sure His Noodleness has some reps that would love to debate. It gives folk tales equal weight to science.
This is like saying a football team can beat a fencing team. They are NOT THE SAME GAME! A Creationist starts from the premise God Did It! Anything that does not fall in line with this is something God planted for some reason. You can never disprove this. Science has no answer for God Made Oil to look old or anything else because it is a belief in a supernatural actor that is by definition able to do anything at all.
BS. If you are a US Citizen there are services available to you all over the world. If you REALLY want to be in NZ living like a New Zealander, paying NZ taxes, never voting in USA elections, and totally renouncing any benefit from the USA then do the simple thing and be a citizen there. Also note that unless things changed, your *first $90,000* of income are tax free if earned abroad. Not a bad chunk of change.
Also - in other news - war is dangerous. Details at 11.
I always thought *nix was kind of a hipster affection and not really a useful OS for a desktop. But then I got a laptop with Windows 8 and I cannot tell you how much I hate that useless cell phone OS. So I tried Linux Mint and guess what - I like it! :) It looks just like Windows 7 thank God and it loaded with no issues at all. So far it seems really quite useful. The only glitches so far are playing "hunt the patches" to get Netflix to work, LibreOffice seems to be missing the Outlook equivalent, and printer setup is a trip back in time to the old days of Linux experiments. All a price I am willing to pay to get away from 8.
Hate Windows 8. Hate it! Go the latest Ubuntu. Hated it. Looks like Windows 8 . WTF? Got Mint. Looks like Windows 7. Very happy now :)
If you think about it, the only reason any USAian is alive is the reliability of *Russian* ICBM command and control.
Right now they are leveraging technology pioneered for laptops and cell phones, neither one of which were common in 1915 ;)
I am a pilot and no not rely on NOAA. I do not need the government telling me what the weather is. Hey - can you wait - I am getting a call from my insurance company. They seem to be mad about the three airplanes I wrecked last year. WTF is up with them?
One of the reason we "won" the cold war is Reagan and Company were the first leaders in a long time to actually put a scare into the Soviets. They actually thought Reagan was crazy enough to try something and then Chernobyl made a huge mess and that wasn't even a bomb at all, just an industrial accident. Of courese we had the amazing good luck to have Gorbachev on the other side, who was pretty rational and a good guy as far as Soviet leaders went. It could have ended badly with some others at the helm.
He would be happy to know the current Porsche 918 is quite the performer on battery power, if not exactly a long range car. In pure electric mode, the 918 Spyder accelerates from 0 to 62 mph in seven seconds and can reach speeds of up to 93 mph. Then you start the engine and go REALLY fast :) It also gets around 70+ MPG in city mode if it has been charged up.
Gasoline was SO much better as a transportation fuel there is no comparison. Also the invention of the electric starter allowed women and less-than-burly-men to drive gasoline cars easily. 20 gallons of gasoline weigh 120 pounds. They will take the average car around 250-400 miles at highway speeds will running heat or air conditioning. 120 pounds of batteries have a small fraction of that range at best and a dead battery car is hours away from being useable again.
I rebuilt and raced a Porsche, so I know a bit about cars. External combustion engines are not the way to go. That extra step of putting steam between the fuel and the engine is a waste in a car. Electrical power is not yet the way to go for many/most uses. I'll use the snowstorm issue to illustrate. I recently had to drive about 250 miles in horrible weather. Much of it was slow plodding in snow. A battery car could never have kept up with the heat and defrost needs of the human cargo.