People are the same all over. Assholes come from all over. We American's are generally quite ashamed of both are assholes and our politics. However we find it best to send most assholes into politics. Now if only other countries would realize what to do now that we have centralized the assholes.
The classification of Turkey as European has much more to due with historical social developement then it has to do with geographic boundaries and religion of a given population. These social/political ties are much more important, as you can see by the Canadian ties to the EU, to the Union members. Two problems I see exist to Turkish entry into the EU.
1) Fears of allying with a predominently Muslim nation opens thier borders up to the Muslim world.
2) More importantly, it opens up an incrediblely cheep labor force to the EU markets. Turkey has a very cheep and mobile population that many EU members seem to be concerned about "invading thier country. (My personal opinion is that these nations have to worry about immigration less and competitive production more.)
The Economist recently (few months back) had a very good article on this subject. The discussion of labor is covered in many books such as Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers.
This discussion seems to be turning into a political debate on financing technology vs. human interest. I for one see the U.S. doing to much of this financing on useless projects; See the money flows between the US and the old central Asian Republics (or at least their mob connected dictators); and such high profile projects such as Wars to remove dangerous dictators.
I for one am looking forward to the death of many of the 70's and 80's financial mega-millioniares and billionaires. Given modern medical technology they are quite likely to go senile before they die. This gives them a chance to become technological philanthrpists and start massive projects with their name on them. Hopefully Bill Gates will build his own Linear City like that Malayasia planned in the 1990's and name it Gatesopolis. To counter this threat to fame Warren Buffet creates a city sized subterranian city; not to be left out thousands of less wealthy and more ludicrious E-commerce guru's build an orbital hotel, and of course to protect themselves from assassination by disgruntalled ex-Enron employees, Anderson execs and Ken Laye build an secret underwater hide-out. Doesn't that sound like fun?
Just what the US needs to import. (sarcasm) Just what we need to do is keep the aging baby boomer population mobile for 20 years after senility kicks in. I just hope my parents don't become early adaptors. Unless they have a special golfing retrofit for the suits. That would keep them busy.
Secondly why is it working exosuits are introduced first for work in helping the elderly. I can see a number of other entirely valid places for them to have been used before this!! Seriously the world is going to have serious problems when we are all employed upkeeping our parents from retirement to death.
"A consumer must be exposed to a stimulas at least 7 times before he will act on the given stimulas." Damn that marketing teacher will have that stuck in my brain till the end of time.
This likely indicates the number of brian cells left in the average consumer.
Hence, in the reasoning of the US military, it is best to invent the worst possible version of it and spend billions of dollars trying to find ways to circumvent the technology
Actually this is a very interesting topic of discussion. The future of robotics in Star Trek seems to have moved in two directions, nano-robotics and a single acapella singing, tap dancing android. Star Wars technology see's robotics on differant levels. The movies seem to have extensive military and civillian applications on the scale of 1 to 25 meters, and "programmed" for a certian type of job, see killbot 3000. Only the extended universe (books) show technology on the macro and Nano extreme's.
I must say I like the way SW portray's robots. Robots, Droids, are not supose to be humansk. That would do nothing but freak out humans. However if the average consumer was able to have a "valet robot" most consumers would bitch loud enough to have programmers spend decades trying to produce robots with more personallities and fewer skills. (This explains the lack of mobility SW droids have.)
But think of the B to B marketing implications of this. Wiether we tag these animals on the ear, useing RFID tags, retinal images, or through radio isometric quantum anal tagging; we are in an age that is going to allow us to make huge leaps in the area of animal husbandry, tracking production, and one day we might even be able to have these primary identifiers make economic decisions for farmers. Cow 39 has stopped producing quota supplies of milk, send in the Slaughterbot 9000.
After the manditory search for possible resue of these electronics these three proccesses seem to be being done manually from what I read of the article. Can't these tasks all be acomplished by one well controlled set of furnaces and conveyors, and automated sorters? Much like an oil refinery sorts out differant types of hydrocarbons? Through heat control and filtering?
Actually, faulting NASA over the Chinese military over being a bureaucratic organization is rather silly. The Chinese have as much or more bureaucratic nonsense then the US government mostly due to lower level coruption and extensive regulation regarding the exchange and communication of information.
Actually getting in touch with the leaders of any country is really getting difficult.
My last letter to Bill Clinton was also completely ignored, though followed closely by that Simpsons episode were he calls himself a "pretty bad president" and Lisa says "No I do not want to speak to Al Gore." Both of which are quite funny. This has alot to do with the executive branch of the government (all branches of every government) being unable to here everyones opinion regardless of current technology. The best answer I have seen to this is the blogs being used by menbers of the House and Senete here in the States and by two members of the House of Commons in England.
Of course all else held true politicians in S. Korea probably have fully avantar staffed political offices on a number of online worlds. If not they should, "Player: Excuse me could I meet with Mr. Sun. Secretary: It'll be about 15 minutes. He is in with a amazon warrior at the moment then has a 5:00 with a Mr. Zarac the Conquerer of Pleblaqz IIV, then a short informative speech by..." Damn if only that were the US. We could lobby them with online currency..
Seems to me that the orbital space planes have a problem of carrying rocket fuel and orbital propellant for the ride from LEO to HEO.
Could this problem be eleviated by an automated "Tug" that the plane would dock with in LEO and then be moved to HEO? Seems to me such an orbital vehicle could also greatly help with gathering up larger pieces of space junk and do the job of Orbital Recovery Corporations SLES for government projects... Maybe also bring down the price or increase possible payloads by other orbital launch systems to help supply ISS.
The marketing implications involved in those tags are truely amazing. Advert-placement personalized to the vunerabilities of the individual consumers... White trash rocket lovers beware you could end up with a Energia Rocket on blocks in your backyard...
Brought to you by EBay.
With the recent Chinese boasting about going to orbit and going to the moon in the next decade; do you think we could start another pissing contest. Most money vs. Most people. Sounds like fun. This time we can do it without nuclear weapons and just nasty your mom jokes between political leaders!!
Seriously, could a Chinese upsurge in space travel scare the US public into a space frenzy. Would national media feed this frenzy to Kennedy administration levels?
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All those who took PoliSci Classes raise their hands...
All those slashdot readers who know more then those stupid PoliSci guys anyway raise thier hands...
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Interesting very interesting...
It's that damned metric system again.
"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!" -Abe Simpson
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People are the same all over. Assholes come from all over. We American's are generally quite ashamed of both are assholes and our politics. However we find it best to send most assholes into politics. Now if only other countries would realize what to do now that we have centralized the assholes.
The classification of Turkey as European has much more to due with historical social developement then it has to do with geographic boundaries and religion of a given population. These social/political ties are much more important, as you can see by the Canadian ties to the EU, to the Union members. Two problems I see exist to Turkish entry into the EU.
1) Fears of allying with a predominently Muslim nation opens thier borders up to the Muslim world.
2) More importantly, it opens up an incrediblely cheep labor force to the EU markets. Turkey has a very cheep and mobile population that many EU members seem to be concerned about "invading thier country. (My personal opinion is that these nations have to worry about immigration less and competitive production more.)
The Economist recently (few months back) had a very good article on this subject. The discussion of labor is covered in many books such as Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers.
This discussion seems to be turning into a political debate on financing technology vs. human interest. I for one see the U.S. doing to much of this financing on useless projects; See the money flows between the US and the old central Asian Republics (or at least their mob connected dictators); and such high profile projects such as Wars to remove dangerous dictators.
I for one am looking forward to the death of many of the 70's and 80's financial mega-millioniares and billionaires. Given modern medical technology they are quite likely to go senile before they die. This gives them a chance to become technological philanthrpists and start massive projects with their name on them. Hopefully Bill Gates will build his own Linear City like that Malayasia planned in the 1990's and name it Gatesopolis. To counter this threat to fame Warren Buffet creates a city sized subterranian city; not to be left out thousands of less wealthy and more ludicrious E-commerce guru's build an orbital hotel, and of course to protect themselves from assassination by disgruntalled ex-Enron employees, Anderson execs and Ken Laye build an secret underwater hide-out. Doesn't that sound like fun?
Just what the US needs to import. (sarcasm) Just what we need to do is keep the aging baby boomer population mobile for 20 years after senility kicks in. I just hope my parents don't become early adaptors. Unless they have a special golfing retrofit for the suits. That would keep them busy.
Secondly why is it working exosuits are introduced first for work in helping the elderly. I can see a number of other entirely valid places for them to have been used before this!! Seriously the world is going to have serious problems when we are all employed upkeeping our parents from retirement to death.
Maybe now we will finally be able to see that exact duplicate of the earth orbiting opposite us.
Maybe thier they will all spell just like me.
Could it be the Planet of the Apes?
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"A consumer must be exposed to a stimulas at least 7 times before he will act on the given stimulas." Damn that marketing teacher will have that stuck in my brain till the end of time.
This likely indicates the number of brian cells left in the average consumer.
I wonder if I can get it fitted to a 5 1/4 front bezel. Now that cooling system has a duel purpose.
When asked for a reply,"What the hell was that."
Hence, in the reasoning of the US military, it is best to invent the worst possible version of it and spend billions of dollars trying to find ways to circumvent the technology
Actually this is a very interesting topic of discussion. The future of robotics in Star Trek seems to have moved in two directions, nano-robotics and a single acapella singing, tap dancing android. Star Wars technology see's robotics on differant levels. The movies seem to have extensive military and civillian applications on the scale of 1 to 25 meters, and "programmed" for a certian type of job, see killbot 3000. Only the extended universe (books) show technology on the macro and Nano extreme's.
I must say I like the way SW portray's robots. Robots, Droids, are not supose to be humansk. That would do nothing but freak out humans. However if the average consumer was able to have a "valet robot" most consumers would bitch loud enough to have programmers spend decades trying to produce robots with more personallities and fewer skills. (This explains the lack of mobility SW droids have.)
Thoughts?
Shouldn't /. have a seperate area for all the Letterman esk Top Ten lists.
But think of the B to B marketing implications of this. Wiether we tag these animals on the ear, useing RFID tags, retinal images, or through radio isometric quantum anal tagging; we are in an age that is going to allow us to make huge leaps in the area of animal husbandry, tracking production, and one day we might even be able to have these primary identifiers make economic decisions for farmers. Cow 39 has stopped producing quota supplies of milk, send in the Slaughterbot 9000.
After the manditory search for possible resue of these electronics these three proccesses seem to be being done manually from what I read of the article. Can't these tasks all be acomplished by one well controlled set of furnaces and conveyors, and automated sorters? Much like an oil refinery sorts out differant types of hydrocarbons? Through heat control and filtering?
Actually, faulting NASA over the Chinese military over being a bureaucratic organization is rather silly. The Chinese have as much or more bureaucratic nonsense then the US government mostly due to lower level coruption and extensive regulation regarding the exchange and communication of information.
Think before typing.
Actually getting in touch with the leaders of any country is really getting difficult.
My last letter to Bill Clinton was also completely ignored, though followed closely by that Simpsons episode were he calls himself a "pretty bad president" and Lisa says "No I do not want to speak to Al Gore." Both of which are quite funny. This has alot to do with the executive branch of the government (all branches of every government) being unable to here everyones opinion regardless of current technology. The best answer I have seen to this is the blogs being used by menbers of the House and Senete here in the States and by two members of the House of Commons in England.
Of course all else held true politicians in S. Korea probably have fully avantar staffed political offices on a number of online worlds. If not they should, "Player: Excuse me could I meet with Mr. Sun. Secretary: It'll be about 15 minutes. He is in with a amazon warrior at the moment then has a 5:00 with a Mr. Zarac the Conquerer of Pleblaqz IIV, then a short informative speech by..." Damn if only that were the US. We could lobby them with online currency..
Seems to me that the orbital space planes have a problem of carrying rocket fuel and orbital propellant for the ride from LEO to HEO.
Could this problem be eleviated by an automated "Tug" that the plane would dock with in LEO and then be moved to HEO? Seems to me such an orbital vehicle could also greatly help with gathering up larger pieces of space junk and do the job of Orbital Recovery Corporations SLES for government projects... Maybe also bring down the price or increase possible payloads by other orbital launch systems to help supply ISS.
Any idea's or am I just way off?
The main question is how can we reinvent the air races that died when planes became to fast to be able to watch.
The marketing implications involved in those tags are truely amazing. Advert-placement personalized to the vunerabilities of the individual consumers... White trash rocket lovers beware you could end up with a Energia Rocket on blocks in your backyard... Brought to you by EBay.
With the recent Chinese boasting about going to orbit and going to the moon in the next decade; do you think we could start another pissing contest. Most money vs. Most people. Sounds like fun. This time we can do it without nuclear weapons and just nasty your mom jokes between political leaders!! Seriously, could a Chinese upsurge in space travel scare the US public into a space frenzy. Would national media feed this frenzy to Kennedy administration levels?
All those who are PoliSci Proffessors raise their hands... All those who took PoliSci Classes raise their hands... All those slashdot readers who know more then those stupid PoliSci guys anyway raise thier hands... All those conspiricacy theorists on slashdot who believe that the Reagan administration was nothing but a CIA plot to teach terrorists to blow things up so they could attack U.S. targets and the CIA could then justify taking away civil liberties and clone J Edgar Hoover to become are everliving supreme dictator raise thier hands... Interesting very interesting...
Isn't Comeandavaagoifyouthingyourehardenuff a Welsh village? tilt head turn and laugh..
It's that damned metric system again. "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!" -Abe Simpson