Yep. He promised to commit treason (although as the President, he says he can't commit treason) and then pardon himself, just to show that it can be done and he can do it.
...but you think a way to get NOWHERE will have a market? Beyond novelty?
Nearly every vacation I've ever taken has ended in the same place it started. Sometimes those trips are just to go take in a view. People go to the Grand Canyon & Carlsbad Caverns all the time and they're just big holes in the ground. Why is making a trip to see one of those so different than wanting to see the Earth from a distance?
Not only that but a Mars trip which Musk is really wanting to do, would require a deep space module, and a trip around the moon would be a perfect test for that and probably have to be done anyway. Still need radiation shielding, artificial gravity, much better seals, better food and water conservation, etc before a two
year Mars trip will be ready to go.
It has about the same range as a $20 harbor freight propane torch used to kill weeds, which is a couple feet. If yours only does a few inches you got ripped off.
Yep, and if you take a 3/32" drill bit to make the nozzle wider and flip the propane tank upside down so the pressure is blowing out liquid instead of gas, then you get a lot more range and BTUs out of them.
People who are sticking to film (other than the hipsters) are probably using medium format equipment. 35mm stuff in good shape is available at garage sales cheap. The larger format gear prices are holding up quite nicely.
Lots of Medium and large format going around but also lots of artist film photographers too in my experience. It does have a certain look and feel and they even tweak that by shooting with ten or twenty year old expired film to give weird effects. There is cachet in the art world that certainly includes getting into shows and even selling by being able to say you shoot film and everything is done in camera or developing. Film photography will probably always be around, much as oil painting will also always still be around.
I'm sure they were. Photography generally isn't known for such elitist crap...
Ha! Ya, right. The first thing that usually happens between photographers is they look to see if you have Canon or Nikon and if that matches the brand they have chosen. Unless you're into medium or large format and then it gets into more obscure brands.
This lesson should be applied to a lot more capital-intensive industries than just rocketry. Thinking of capital barriers to entry as your uncrossable moat is a dangerous attitude.
The lesson that came to my mind when I read TFA, was "develop a product to canabalize your own market, because if you don't, somebody else will."
It's what this professor does anyway. That he can do it in Loch Ness and mention the monster to gain some headlines and perhaps some funding is just something to add spice to his normal research career.
I think it's just how many allies does Putin have left to gain? Russia had nowhere near the reputation that the USSR had as a world power and foil to the USA. Now, after all the SSRs decided to flee, I think Putin sees a greater reputation in being foil to the USA once again and is building up on that, and constructing a sphere of influence based on being the center of anti-US interests once again. They have Belarus, joined up with Iran, playing off Turkish interests to include them and Syria. I'm surprised we don't hear Russia and North Korea in the same sentence more often.
In theory, Russia could have just tried to join the EU and NATO itself even after the USSR fell and become part of greater Europe. However, as seen by the desertion of all the SSRs away, it shows that they are more the abusive uncle of Europe, never content to be equals, always wanting to be better and commanding. There are plenty of metaphors such as wishing to rather be a big fish in a small pond, or perhaps better to rule in Hell rather than what they see as serving in Heaven, which is probably the better one as I think they see themselves as the adversary of the USA and perhaps Europe.
Or is this really about you not liking SpaceX for essentially extraneous reasons?
There are a lot of entrenched interests that stand to lose a lot of money and power if SpaceX or Tesla get a firm foothold. SpaceX threatens to kick out many parts of the military industrial complex with ULA. Tesla is changing the field for the car industry, and if anything, the US car industry has shown it can't handle change very well. This is the only reason I can really parse all the anti-SpaceX and anti-Tesla propaganda that comes out of nowhere and is mostly just quickly fabircated lies. I figure somebody is paying them.
Um, Why hasn't a concerted effort been made to build a berm uphill from the power plant to divert the lava?
Soon after the eruption started, there was an article that discussed this and the answer is probably that it wouldn't do any good. Lava is more like a wall of rock coming at you than a wave of water. It will push through or over most anything in its way. The amount of work needed to build a berm that would have a suitable enough chance to divert the lava flow is probably not possible in the time given or worth the effort needed.
"Dark" side of the moon? In this day and age, seriously?? Even the translation of China's press release correctly refers to it as the FAR side of the moon, which actually gets slightly MORE light than the near side!
Dark side of the moon also refers to the far side of the moon because it is dark as to our ability to see it since it is always facing away from us. I may not have read this article, but the ones I have read this is very appropriate because the satellite in question has the purpose of being a relay and communicating with the next probe which will land on the far side of the moon that could otherwise not communicate with Earth.
Do you have a problem with their sending your queue items out of order?
Only when the disk at the top was listed as having a wait. Then the disk they sent me usually didn't count against my limit. So instead of my normal 3, I'd have four disk sitting around until they sent me the one that I was waiting for. I do stagger my series so I never have more than one disk of a series at a time, so once it shows up, I have two and am back to normal rotation.
Having been in Whole Foods before, I can tell you that taking 10% off “hundreds of sale items” is not bringing its prices anywhere near those at my local Winco Foods nor those of our local Fred Meyer - the two grocery stores we generally shop at.
From my being in Whole Foods, it's all about location. They're downtown and between the CBD and nice suburbs. It's on the way home for lots of people for which 10% savings is not worth the extra 30 minutes it would take to drive to a different neighborhood on the way home to buy groceries at a non-Whole Foods. Sort of like how my local QFC is more expensive than the cheap grocery store in the poor neighborhood next to mine. Not worth my time to go there unless I need a lot of non-organic non-free range chicken which is several dollars a pound cheaper than what I can find at my QFC.
For that matter, you can't change just any old Latin singular to plural by changing -us to -i.
Correct. It must be an American English word for an animal that ends in -us to be changed to -i for plural denotation. Octopus -> Octopi. Hippopotamus -> Hippopotami. Pegasus -> Pegasi.
One thing I haven't heard anyone mention is a third hearing for the word. When I listen to the 'Yanny' version what it sounds like to me is 'Yarry' (starts with Y, rhymes with 'Larry').
"Future societies will most likely pay women to be mothers."
Interesting. So you believe in the future we will return to the traditional working father and stay at home mother model of parenthood. Personally I'd bet more on Confucian extended family model - but who knows!
OP makes no mention on who will raise the kid or the family model, just that women will probably need economic reason to have children, at least till we can grow them in vats.
I've always found US customs officers decent, and UK customs officers nice on my return (albeit a little fucking dense), I've found Canadian customs officers to be universally complete arseholes in Ottawa and Montreal, but usually pretty nice in Toronto and Vancouver. Across the rest of the globe it's always been a mixed bag - nice and laid back in the Caribbean, corrupt and dodgy in Egypt for example.
I've found most customs everywhere is about answering their questions without setting off any flags, which mostly involves knowing where you are going to be staying and what you are going to be doing. If they ask you some question that lets you ramble on enthusiastically about what you are going to be doing or have done, they'll usually tell you to shut up, finish your paperwork, and get you on your way. Personally, I've found the easiest way to get through customs is to wear the leather jacket with the studs, the offensive band t-shirt, big boots, and all the metal accessories I have to take off for security, and tell them I'm going to/coming from a music festival. They usually never even give me an opportunity to ramble on to one of their questions. The one exception tot hat seems to be crossing the physical border into Canada. Then they want to see cash. I didn't have $50 cash in my pocket because I was planning to withdraw local money from an ATM once in country for best exchange rate like I always do, and had me park to the side and go talk to some woman who was litterally explaining how they are not responsible for the damage done to my car when they take it apart, when I pulled out a ATM slip with my bank balance on it showing I had money, and then they let me go and waved me through without any more questions.
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Donald Trump promised to commit treason?
Yep. He promised to commit treason (although as the President, he says he can't commit treason) and then pardon himself, just to show that it can be done and he can do it.
...but you think a way to get NOWHERE will have a market? Beyond novelty?
Nearly every vacation I've ever taken has ended in the same place it started. Sometimes those trips are just to go take in a view. People go to the Grand Canyon & Carlsbad Caverns all the time and they're just big holes in the ground. Why is making a trip to see one of those so different than wanting to see the Earth from a distance?
Not only that but a Mars trip which Musk is really wanting to do, would require a deep space module, and a trip around the moon would be a perfect test for that and probably have to be done anyway. Still need radiation shielding, artificial gravity, much better seals, better food and water conservation, etc before a two year Mars trip will be ready to go.
> Have they never heard "If it aint broke, don't fix it"?
You obviously don't remember Hotmail; before gates and company sank their fangs into it, that is.
Let's talk about Danger and the Sidekick.
It has about the same range as a $20 harbor freight propane torch used to kill weeds, which is a couple feet. If yours only does a few inches you got ripped off.
Yep, and if you take a 3/32" drill bit to make the nozzle wider and flip the propane tank upside down so the pressure is blowing out liquid instead of gas, then you get a lot more range and BTUs out of them.
I'm curious to know what a 3rd camera would offer a phone?
Huawei's already done it. Looks like their as well as Apple's third camera will be for zoom features.
People who are sticking to film (other than the hipsters) are probably using medium format equipment. 35mm stuff in good shape is available at garage sales cheap. The larger format gear prices are holding up quite nicely.
Lots of Medium and large format going around but also lots of artist film photographers too in my experience. It does have a certain look and feel and they even tweak that by shooting with ten or twenty year old expired film to give weird effects. There is cachet in the art world that certainly includes getting into shows and even selling by being able to say you shoot film and everything is done in camera or developing. Film photography will probably always be around, much as oil painting will also always still be around.
I'm sure they were. Photography generally isn't known for such elitist crap...
Ha! Ya, right. The first thing that usually happens between photographers is they look to see if you have Canon or Nikon and if that matches the brand they have chosen. Unless you're into medium or large format and then it gets into more obscure brands.
We JUST had this posted less than 24 hours ago? https://news.slashdot.org/stor... You're still posting politics / identity politics warfare here?
Sure. You're still posting to them too.
You've clearly never been to China.
Here, I can stereotype too. All Americans are fat, lazy and materialistic.
Hey now! We're not all lazy!
Wookie vs. Predator (hairy action)
OK, you sold me. I'm in.
This lesson should be applied to a lot more capital-intensive industries than just rocketry. Thinking of capital barriers to entry as your uncrossable moat is a dangerous attitude.
The lesson that came to my mind when I read TFA, was "develop a product to canabalize your own market, because if you don't, somebody else will."
Why bother.
It's what this professor does anyway. That he can do it in Loch Ness and mention the monster to gain some headlines and perhaps some funding is just something to add spice to his normal research career.
There is no giant monster.
True. It's not that big. Barely the size of an elephant.
I think it's just how many allies does Putin have left to gain? Russia had nowhere near the reputation that the USSR had as a world power and foil to the USA. Now, after all the SSRs decided to flee, I think Putin sees a greater reputation in being foil to the USA once again and is building up on that, and constructing a sphere of influence based on being the center of anti-US interests once again. They have Belarus, joined up with Iran, playing off Turkish interests to include them and Syria. I'm surprised we don't hear Russia and North Korea in the same sentence more often.
In theory, Russia could have just tried to join the EU and NATO itself even after the USSR fell and become part of greater Europe. However, as seen by the desertion of all the SSRs away, it shows that they are more the abusive uncle of Europe, never content to be equals, always wanting to be better and commanding. There are plenty of metaphors such as wishing to rather be a big fish in a small pond, or perhaps better to rule in Hell rather than what they see as serving in Heaven, which is probably the better one as I think they see themselves as the adversary of the USA and perhaps Europe.
Or is this really about you not liking SpaceX for essentially extraneous reasons?
There are a lot of entrenched interests that stand to lose a lot of money and power if SpaceX or Tesla get a firm foothold. SpaceX threatens to kick out many parts of the military industrial complex with ULA. Tesla is changing the field for the car industry, and if anything, the US car industry has shown it can't handle change very well. This is the only reason I can really parse all the anti-SpaceX and anti-Tesla propaganda that comes out of nowhere and is mostly just quickly fabircated lies. I figure somebody is paying them.
Um, Why hasn't a concerted effort been made to build a berm uphill from the power plant to divert the lava?
Soon after the eruption started, there was an article that discussed this and the answer is probably that it wouldn't do any good. Lava is more like a wall of rock coming at you than a wave of water. It will push through or over most anything in its way. The amount of work needed to build a berm that would have a suitable enough chance to divert the lava flow is probably not possible in the time given or worth the effort needed.
"Dark" side of the moon? In this day and age, seriously?? Even the translation of China's press release correctly refers to it as the FAR side of the moon, which actually gets slightly MORE light than the near side!
Dark side of the moon also refers to the far side of the moon because it is dark as to our ability to see it since it is always facing away from us. I may not have read this article, but the ones I have read this is very appropriate because the satellite in question has the purpose of being a relay and communicating with the next probe which will land on the far side of the moon that could otherwise not communicate with Earth.
Do you have a problem with their sending your queue items out of order?
Only when the disk at the top was listed as having a wait. Then the disk they sent me usually didn't count against my limit. So instead of my normal 3, I'd have four disk sitting around until they sent me the one that I was waiting for. I do stagger my series so I never have more than one disk of a series at a time, so once it shows up, I have two and am back to normal rotation.
Having been in Whole Foods before, I can tell you that taking 10% off “hundreds of sale items” is not bringing its prices anywhere near those at my local Winco Foods nor those of our local Fred Meyer - the two grocery stores we generally shop at.
From my being in Whole Foods, it's all about location. They're downtown and between the CBD and nice suburbs. It's on the way home for lots of people for which 10% savings is not worth the extra 30 minutes it would take to drive to a different neighborhood on the way home to buy groceries at a non-Whole Foods. Sort of like how my local QFC is more expensive than the cheap grocery store in the poor neighborhood next to mine. Not worth my time to go there unless I need a lot of non-organic non-free range chicken which is several dollars a pound cheaper than what I can find at my QFC.
For that matter, you can't change just any old Latin singular to plural by changing -us to -i.
Correct. It must be an American English word for an animal that ends in -us to be changed to -i for plural denotation. Octopus -> Octopi. Hippopotamus -> Hippopotami. Pegasus -> Pegasi.
For myself, I think octopuses are a dead giveaway that the Flying Spaghetti Monster has been punking us.
Is a single strand off his noodely head called a spaghettus?
One thing I haven't heard anyone mention is a third hearing for the word. When I listen to the 'Yanny' version what it sounds like to me is 'Yarry' (starts with Y, rhymes with 'Larry').
Does anyone else hear it that way?
I hear "Yammy".
"Future societies will most likely pay women to be mothers."
Interesting. So you believe in the future we will return to the traditional working father and stay at home mother model of parenthood. Personally I'd bet more on Confucian extended family model - but who knows!
OP makes no mention on who will raise the kid or the family model, just that women will probably need economic reason to have children, at least till we can grow them in vats.
I've always found US customs officers decent, and UK customs officers nice on my return (albeit a little fucking dense), I've found Canadian customs officers to be universally complete arseholes in Ottawa and Montreal, but usually pretty nice in Toronto and Vancouver. Across the rest of the globe it's always been a mixed bag - nice and laid back in the Caribbean, corrupt and dodgy in Egypt for example.
I've found most customs everywhere is about answering their questions without setting off any flags, which mostly involves knowing where you are going to be staying and what you are going to be doing. If they ask you some question that lets you ramble on enthusiastically about what you are going to be doing or have done, they'll usually tell you to shut up, finish your paperwork, and get you on your way. Personally, I've found the easiest way to get through customs is to wear the leather jacket with the studs, the offensive band t-shirt, big boots, and all the metal accessories I have to take off for security, and tell them I'm going to/coming from a music festival. They usually never even give me an opportunity to ramble on to one of their questions. The one exception tot hat seems to be crossing the physical border into Canada. Then they want to see cash. I didn't have $50 cash in my pocket because I was planning to withdraw local money from an ATM once in country for best exchange rate like I always do, and had me park to the side and go talk to some woman who was litterally explaining how they are not responsible for the damage done to my car when they take it apart, when I pulled out a ATM slip with my bank balance on it showing I had money, and then they let me go and waved me through without any more questions.
The true key to stopping a vast majority of attacks is making the key geeky references that most other people won't get.