The rights holders are the problem and will never allow this.
They probably will. Apple here is talking about this being a UI issue. Sounds like they are coming up with a new AppleTV type device except instead of searching each individual service for something individually, it will search all of them. Or rather, it will search the ones that cooperate with Apple and those that don't will lose out. I bet one of those bits of cooperation will be being able to buy a subscription to a service you don't already have or even getting something ad hoc, when the search finds something you want on a service you don't already own.
When I saw the video of the "7 minutes of Terror" and the crazy landing system for Curiosity, I thought, "Seriously, all of these mechanisms are required?".
Then I saw the Schiaparelli, landing, and I thought, "can the do this successfully in what appeared to be a more 'straight-forward' approach?"
We now, it appears, know why Curiosity had the landing system designed the way they did. Only thing crazier, would be to put balloons around a lander and let it bounce to a landing. Could you even imaging such a thing?
Yes, that's the trouble with the Martian atmosphere, enough to make landing by rockets problematic but not enough to slow things down. I remember reading an article where a guy that works specifically on parachutes for re-entry vehicles said that a parachute only landing on Mars was not possible. Keep making the parachute bigger and you end up with deminishing returns for weight and other reasons before it will slow things down enough. Likewise, supersonic entry into an atmosphere with rocket tech at the time wasn't possible either. Also, this is just for fairly small craft of just a one ton. When dealing with a human landing on Mars and you are talking something like 40 tons and much, much harder to land. Currently, the hope is that SpaceX can use their technology for first stage re-entry and landing to Mars and use it there for similar rocket based re-entry.
The Culture series are pretty good. It's a civilization of post scarcity AIs and trans-humans humanity. Lots of weirdness and neat Ideas I think. However, we rarely see the normal people much as the books follow the ones actually doing stuff, typically stuff that the Culture isn't even supposed to be doing. If you like that sort of things also check out Charles Stross and Aliester Reynolds.
"European Lifestyle" also means single payer medicine, 4 or more weeks vacation, and an efficient mass transit system.
Reminds me of when I went to Germany for a week to attend a music festival in Leipzig. I was talking to the Germans and the typical reaction was along the lines of "You rich Americans who can afford to fly to a different continent for a week to attend a music festival." My answer was "you rich Europeans that can afford to take more than a week off of work. I have to get back to pay for all this." There is certainly a difference in vacation idealologies that I observed. Europeans cut costs, stay in hostels, camp even in major cities, etc. They'll take their several weeks and backpack around Europe with barely enough money to buy food and beer. This seems because they have lots of vacation time and somewhat less money. Americans work a lot, as evidenced by this article, and get just a fraction of a European's vacation. In such a case, the American idea of a vacation is typically "money is no object" so while they are vacation, they splurge because although they'll have to work hard to pay it all back, they'll probably do so before they get another vacation. This probably contributes some of the American image abroad.
Or, it could be more like Star Trek. Where we essentially have reached a post scarcity society and people work for the self-actualization aspect of a job rather than the desperate need to struggle to survive. You might then have children who are raised by parents who have devoted their lives to perfecting some art form, advanced mathematics as a hobby, cooking or woodworking for the bliss of it. Then hey-lets-go-to-Mars because we haven't been there and I would like a challenge since I am not worried about a sickness putting my family in the poor-house for the next ten generations...
I'm sure that Star Trek has their slackers. Even if the vast majority of society was based on enriching yourself and the social and cultural expectation was to do so. There would still be those that simply would or could not do it. There would be that one guy that would be content to sit at home in his holosuite all day long. Sure, his parents and any friends would try and get him out, and counselor will come by and ask awkward questions and try and manipulate him into wanting to be a productive member of society, but they'll still fail with a percentage of people. Eventually, society will just have to be ok with that, however if human nature results in or society can't cope with that percentage past a certain point, the system may collapse. Sure, the Federation has tons of great people and can manage a huge star spanning civilization, but I bet there are still block upon block of buildings full of people who just do nothing. In the Culture books, most of humanity sits around having sex and doing drugs all the time and the few are the ones actually doing stuff.
The country in question is the uk. Brits seldom bother to learn foreign languages, after all, even in another country the foreigners are everybody else.
In large, this is because English is the default language of travelers. Specifically, British english as most other countries mark such with the British flag. I've even heard French travelers asking Germans if anybody spoke English so they could ask questions on several occasions when in Germany.
Netflix could buy the rights for any show in any area. They just choose not to.
Shit. There's a lot of movies that haven't even made it from VHS to DVD yet because of licensing issues. Regional and other issues besides simple licenser greed prevent Netflix from getting "any show in any area".
The US is almost 50 years behind the US at this point. How long would it take the US to launch a manned moon mission?
Depends on how long it will take for SpaceX to get the Falcon Heavy up and running (~2017) and then man rated or for the ULA/Blue Origin to get their kit up and running (~2018) and man rated (perhaps further along than SpaceX)
Ya, Lord Kelvin gets quoted a lot so I looked up that but took the time to actually hunt down what seem to be actual quotes with citations. Further more, he expresses that he thinks things might eventually be invented in one quote but not others. So, if I wanted to post unverified or singular quotes, I could have, but instead post the selection with link so people can read for themselves. I would bet that if I wanted to spend more time to do fact checking, that I could find similar evidence of notable people of the day expressing doubts for all sorts of things, but, while I am interested in it, it's not really might fight. That great and learned people call something impossible right on or even just past their discovery is certainly reasonable as it happens almost all the time well into the present era with most great discoveries.
(I find it amusing that dark matter is handwaving why big things don't fly apart and dark energy is handwaving why bigger things do:) But I'm weird:)
Galactic rotation curves was just the first bit of observational evidence that we saw over 80 years ago. Since then, every other explaination has been shown not to be the case. Since then, there have been many other observed evidence such as gravitational lensing, fluctuations in the CBR, etc. which is all under Observational Evidence under the Dark Matter Wikipedia page. All have been pointing more and more towards matter than only interacts via gravity, while all other competing theories fail to explain other observations. Furthermore, it tends to be called dark matter, and dark energy, energy, because they end up with unknowns that have specific units, and when those units are those of mass or energy, they get called mass and energy.
How do you get from a velocity of "a bit" to a velocity of "a fucking fucking bastard fucking lot" without accelerating?
Well, as velocity is the change of location according to time, not speed which is affected by acceleration, what people are usually saying is that they get from point A to point B in a time faster than light can through a vacuum through Minkowski space (flat space). If you are talking about raw speed, it could be that particles could be created going faster than the speed of light, therefore never need to accelerate. Those would be tachyons and the only real serious talk about them was in a Michael Kaku book saying that somebody figured out they were possible, but only in a universe that was at a false vacuum and this probably happened at the beginning of the universe but such things would cause instability and for the universe to fall to a more stable vacuum state. Beyond that, there is the idea of warping space such as the Alcubierre drive as while the speed of an object through local space cannot get to or go beyond light speed, a section of space can move fast enough for the effect with something inside of it or by shrinking space ahead stepping across and then letting it re-expand. However, space is really, really hard to get to bend even though we know it does, taking planet or sun sized chunks of matter just to do it a little. The other ways such as hyperspace or worm holes are assuming that there is a separate path to where you want to go that is shorter than normal space. In hyperspace it would be other dimensions (such as those string theorists keep talking about) that are still connected to our normal space or drastic bits of Riemannian space (curved space). We can see a similar example of this in gravitational lensing where two paths both follow light like paths to a single point, but one can be shorter than the other. It is also possible that if there are other dimensions, such as possibly where our space and universe was born from, that the laws of physics would be different and there might not even be a lightspeed limit.
I mean, it's literally only 120 years since people were saying things like "heavier than air flight is impossible, we know the physics, we know the materials, it's just not feasible"
Who the fuck ever said that? Are birds lighter than air?
You said "literally" so I expect a quote backing your bullshit up.
"I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of... I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society." [Source]
"The air-ship, on the plan of those built by Santos-Dumont, is a delusion and a snare. A gas balloon, paddled around by oars, is an old idea, and can never be of any practical use. Some day, no doubt, some one will invent a flying machine that one will be able to navigate without having to have a balloon attachment. But the day is a long way off when we shall see human beings soaring around like birds." [TLWT, vol. 2, p. 1168]
"They never will be able to use dirigible balloons as a means of conveying passengers from place to place. There never was and never can be any commercial value to any such affair. It is all a delusion and a snare. Santos-Dumont is a very bright young man, but an air ship as planned by him is not practicable." [Said to reporters after having arrived in New York on April 19, 1902. Quoted in the New York Times, p.2, the next day.]
You would think that with their AI computer system, they could at least store some preferences so that if he asked for Tea, without any other qualifiers, it would just give him his usual. Or since it is supposed to be an AI, ask if it sensed he might want something different.
Frankly, early Hyundais were terrible. You were lucky. It's not hard to find people who got screwed on them.
I'm one of those. Bought a used early Hyundai (must have been pre '92) and everything seemed to fall apart. had less than 80k miles but it was in the shop ever other month for something. Turn signals, transmission, engine, etc. When I finally traded it in, the odometer and speedometer didn't work. Neither did 2nd or 4th gear. The only good thing about it was it was easy to change headlights, which was good because they burned out every 6 months. It was the cause of so much frustration that I'll never buy another Hyundai no matter how good they are currently.
Of course, for my next car, I did more research and I can tell you that I went to every used car dealer in a 30 mile radius in a large city and literally every small economic car they had was on the Consumer Reports lemon list. It's the only time I've ever seen a Yugo and when I was sitting it in bits were coming off in my hand just by trying to close the door and roll up the window. I bought a brand new Toyota car in '94 and it still hasn't been in the shop for anything.
Paying for licenses is expensive, but if you can make money doing it then of course you would. So either Netflix is making a terrible mistake, or there is a difficulty in turning a profit with these license costs in an all-you-can-eat sort of plan that Netflix offers its customers.
Or the license holders simply aren't allowing movies to be licensed for streaming because their math shows it they would lose money by those movies distracting people from other movies they are letting stream. Could also be that the legal stuff isn't there to allow for streaming, especially for older movies. Hell, there are a lot of movies that made it to VHS but not DVD because the legal stuff isn't there, let alone streaming.
When did we start measuring 1/10th miles as a physical achievement?
I suspect that we'd be surprised to how many people walking a few 10ths of a miles would be. When I got put on blood pressure medicine, the pharmacist asked if I could try walking and even just a few blocks would make a difference. I had to let her down by telling her I walk a mile and a half to work each way every day already. Yet, that there is attention to 1/10s of a mile or just a few blocks for ordinary walking, makes me think that it does matter for a significant slice of Americans.
Every generation says this. "Our parents really messed things up, but we're better than them and we will make the world a wonderful place." Wait a few years and see how that works out. Your children will be saying the same thing.
Screw that! I'm a Gen Xer and we looked at the world and what we were told and a large part of us decided that the optimism of our parents generation was self delusion and we were all going to die in a nuclear war. Well, we didn't and arguably got to the same point they did by not giving a rat's ass about making the world a wonderful place because it would never work anyhow.
Given that they force you to buy 8 channels of dreck just to get the one channel you want, it's not surprising. One of the many reasons why I cut the cord.
I can't even do that. The cheapest internet cable I can get comes with TV channels bundled with it.
Hey Obama, I though you told us last election the cold war was over.
The Cold War is over. We are back to Russia wanting to play The Great Game as after the fall of the Soviet Union they want to once again continue to be a colonial Great Power and are moving forward accordingly with their annexation of Crimea, other attempts using any Russian population as an excuse, and increasing their influence over other countries by any means necessary seeing world politics as a zero sum game they must win against the US and the rest of Europe.
Explain how and why based on the leaks so far that Hillary HAS NOT BEEN INDICTED.
For me, it basically comes down to this: After nearly three decades of trying to pin something on her and all the screaming and yelling, we basically have nothing. Despite of ninja like death squads that seem to kill everybody days before they are set to testify, nobody seems to have found any actual evidence. Bengazi seems to be unremarkable from the events of any past administration. We finally comes to this latest thing and quite honestly, I have Hillary bashing fatigue. All this just seems to be more frothing and bluster by partisan action. While I don't like her, I don't like what she does, but I'm much more likely to believe that as an intelligent lawyer acting with the power of Secretary of State, she probably played the line as close as it could go, and probably crossed it, but that she probably never went past a point that would be defensible in court and by the law and by past presedent in Common Law, is probably at a point where even if found guilty the punishment and result aren't seen as worth it by the legal system. Basically, she hasn't done anything that past administrations dating back to Reagan haven't done.
I didn't rtfa but why does it have to be NASA? Seems we have a few private companies that are working towards that goal independent of NASA.
NASA is the part of the government who will decide which private company gets that money even if they are pretty much told what to do by congress. They after all the ones with the knowledge and experience to decide what needs to be done and who can best fulfill that need.
Whatever became of the whole helium-3 thing? Not that many years ago helium-3 was a common enough thought that it even made it into "Iron Sky". Haven't heard spit about it, lately.
Helium-3 is pretty much only good for 2nd or 3rd generation fusion power and we are still working on 1st generation fusion power.
If a third party gets 5% of the vote, they get funding for the next election. That's certainly important, beyond sending the immediate message.
Ya, just watch. I bet the same thing will happen that happened in the state I came from. Once the third party got 5%, the Democrats and republicans came together and raised the bar for 15% for the next election.
Because saying "fuck you" by voting for the Libertarian or Green candidates is like saying "fuck you" while you're standing out in the middle of the woods with nobody listening. The vote is lost.
As a long time Libertarian voter, I would disagree. Voting third party is well worth it for the next four years of sitting back and being able to say "not my fault, I didn't vote for them" no matter who won.
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The rights holders are the problem and will never allow this.
They probably will. Apple here is talking about this being a UI issue. Sounds like they are coming up with a new AppleTV type device except instead of searching each individual service for something individually, it will search all of them. Or rather, it will search the ones that cooperate with Apple and those that don't will lose out. I bet one of those bits of cooperation will be being able to buy a subscription to a service you don't already have or even getting something ad hoc, when the search finds something you want on a service you don't already own.
When I saw the video of the "7 minutes of Terror" and the crazy landing system for Curiosity, I thought, "Seriously, all of these mechanisms are required?".
Then I saw the Schiaparelli, landing, and I thought, "can the do this successfully in what appeared to be a more 'straight-forward' approach?"
We now, it appears, know why Curiosity had the landing system designed the way they did. Only thing crazier, would be to put balloons around a lander and let it bounce to a landing. Could you even imaging such a thing?
Yes, that's the trouble with the Martian atmosphere, enough to make landing by rockets problematic but not enough to slow things down. I remember reading an article where a guy that works specifically on parachutes for re-entry vehicles said that a parachute only landing on Mars was not possible. Keep making the parachute bigger and you end up with deminishing returns for weight and other reasons before it will slow things down enough. Likewise, supersonic entry into an atmosphere with rocket tech at the time wasn't possible either. Also, this is just for fairly small craft of just a one ton. When dealing with a human landing on Mars and you are talking something like 40 tons and much, much harder to land. Currently, the hope is that SpaceX can use their technology for first stage re-entry and landing to Mars and use it there for similar rocket based re-entry.
My feelings/fear is that they'll just give up on the desktop versions and go strictly laptops.
The Culture series are pretty good. It's a civilization of post scarcity AIs and trans-humans humanity. Lots of weirdness and neat Ideas I think. However, we rarely see the normal people much as the books follow the ones actually doing stuff, typically stuff that the Culture isn't even supposed to be doing. If you like that sort of things also check out Charles Stross and Aliester Reynolds.
"European Lifestyle" also means single payer medicine, 4 or more weeks vacation, and an efficient mass transit system.
Reminds me of when I went to Germany for a week to attend a music festival in Leipzig. I was talking to the Germans and the typical reaction was along the lines of "You rich Americans who can afford to fly to a different continent for a week to attend a music festival." My answer was "you rich Europeans that can afford to take more than a week off of work. I have to get back to pay for all this." There is certainly a difference in vacation idealologies that I observed. Europeans cut costs, stay in hostels, camp even in major cities, etc. They'll take their several weeks and backpack around Europe with barely enough money to buy food and beer. This seems because they have lots of vacation time and somewhat less money. Americans work a lot, as evidenced by this article, and get just a fraction of a European's vacation. In such a case, the American idea of a vacation is typically "money is no object" so while they are vacation, they splurge because although they'll have to work hard to pay it all back, they'll probably do so before they get another vacation. This probably contributes some of the American image abroad.
Or, it could be more like Star Trek. Where we essentially have reached a post scarcity society and people work for the self-actualization aspect of a job rather than the desperate need to struggle to survive. You might then have children who are raised by parents who have devoted their lives to perfecting some art form, advanced mathematics as a hobby, cooking or woodworking for the bliss of it. Then hey-lets-go-to-Mars because we haven't been there and I would like a challenge since I am not worried about a sickness putting my family in the poor-house for the next ten generations...
I'm sure that Star Trek has their slackers. Even if the vast majority of society was based on enriching yourself and the social and cultural expectation was to do so. There would still be those that simply would or could not do it. There would be that one guy that would be content to sit at home in his holosuite all day long. Sure, his parents and any friends would try and get him out, and counselor will come by and ask awkward questions and try and manipulate him into wanting to be a productive member of society, but they'll still fail with a percentage of people. Eventually, society will just have to be ok with that, however if human nature results in or society can't cope with that percentage past a certain point, the system may collapse. Sure, the Federation has tons of great people and can manage a huge star spanning civilization, but I bet there are still block upon block of buildings full of people who just do nothing. In the Culture books, most of humanity sits around having sex and doing drugs all the time and the few are the ones actually doing stuff.
The country in question is the uk. Brits seldom bother to learn foreign languages, after all, even in another country the foreigners are everybody else.
In large, this is because English is the default language of travelers. Specifically, British english as most other countries mark such with the British flag. I've even heard French travelers asking Germans if anybody spoke English so they could ask questions on several occasions when in Germany.
Netflix could buy the rights for any show in any area. They just choose not to.
Shit. There's a lot of movies that haven't even made it from VHS to DVD yet because of licensing issues. Regional and other issues besides simple licenser greed prevent Netflix from getting "any show in any area".
The US is almost 50 years behind the US at this point. How long would it take the US to launch a manned moon mission?
Depends on how long it will take for SpaceX to get the Falcon Heavy up and running (~2017) and then man rated or for the ULA/Blue Origin to get their kit up and running (~2018) and man rated (perhaps further along than SpaceX)
Ya, Lord Kelvin gets quoted a lot so I looked up that but took the time to actually hunt down what seem to be actual quotes with citations. Further more, he expresses that he thinks things might eventually be invented in one quote but not others. So, if I wanted to post unverified or singular quotes, I could have, but instead post the selection with link so people can read for themselves. I would bet that if I wanted to spend more time to do fact checking, that I could find similar evidence of notable people of the day expressing doubts for all sorts of things, but, while I am interested in it, it's not really might fight. That great and learned people call something impossible right on or even just past their discovery is certainly reasonable as it happens almost all the time well into the present era with most great discoveries.
(I find it amusing that dark matter is handwaving why big things don't fly apart and dark energy is handwaving why bigger things do :) But I'm weird :)
Galactic rotation curves was just the first bit of observational evidence that we saw over 80 years ago. Since then, every other explaination has been shown not to be the case. Since then, there have been many other observed evidence such as gravitational lensing, fluctuations in the CBR, etc. which is all under Observational Evidence under the Dark Matter Wikipedia page. All have been pointing more and more towards matter than only interacts via gravity, while all other competing theories fail to explain other observations. Furthermore, it tends to be called dark matter, and dark energy, energy, because they end up with unknowns that have specific units, and when those units are those of mass or energy, they get called mass and energy.
How do you get from a velocity of "a bit" to a velocity of "a fucking fucking bastard fucking lot" without accelerating?
Well, as velocity is the change of location according to time, not speed which is affected by acceleration, what people are usually saying is that they get from point A to point B in a time faster than light can through a vacuum through Minkowski space (flat space). If you are talking about raw speed, it could be that particles could be created going faster than the speed of light, therefore never need to accelerate. Those would be tachyons and the only real serious talk about them was in a Michael Kaku book saying that somebody figured out they were possible, but only in a universe that was at a false vacuum and this probably happened at the beginning of the universe but such things would cause instability and for the universe to fall to a more stable vacuum state. Beyond that, there is the idea of warping space such as the Alcubierre drive as while the speed of an object through local space cannot get to or go beyond light speed, a section of space can move fast enough for the effect with something inside of it or by shrinking space ahead stepping across and then letting it re-expand. However, space is really, really hard to get to bend even though we know it does, taking planet or sun sized chunks of matter just to do it a little. The other ways such as hyperspace or worm holes are assuming that there is a separate path to where you want to go that is shorter than normal space. In hyperspace it would be other dimensions (such as those string theorists keep talking about) that are still connected to our normal space or drastic bits of Riemannian space (curved space). We can see a similar example of this in gravitational lensing where two paths both follow light like paths to a single point, but one can be shorter than the other. It is also possible that if there are other dimensions, such as possibly where our space and universe was born from, that the laws of physics would be different and there might not even be a lightspeed limit.
I mean, it's literally only 120 years since people were saying things like "heavier than air flight is impossible, we know the physics, we know the materials, it's just not feasible"
Who the fuck ever said that? Are birds lighter than air? You said "literally" so I expect a quote backing your bullshit up.
Lord Kelvin said some things along those lines within ten years of the Wright Brothers. He also said lots of other silly things on other topics like calling x-rays a "hoax". This page cites sources and has links to scans and such.
"I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of ... I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society." [Source]
"The air-ship, on the plan of those built by Santos-Dumont, is a delusion and a snare. A gas balloon, paddled around by oars, is an old idea, and can never be of any practical use. Some day, no doubt, some one will invent a flying machine that one will be able to navigate without having to have a balloon attachment. But the day is a long way off when we shall see human beings soaring around like birds." [TLWT, vol. 2, p. 1168]
"They never will be able to use dirigible balloons as a means of conveying passengers from place to place. There never was and never can be any commercial value to any such affair. It is all a delusion and a snare. Santos-Dumont is a very bright young man, but an air ship as planned by him is not practicable." [Said to reporters after having arrived in New York on April 19, 1902. Quoted in the New York Times, p.2, the next day.]
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot, fuzzbucket.
You would think that with their AI computer system, they could at least store some preferences so that if he asked for Tea, without any other qualifiers, it would just give him his usual. Or since it is supposed to be an AI, ask if it sensed he might want something different.
Frankly, early Hyundais were terrible. You were lucky. It's not hard to find people who got screwed on them.
I'm one of those. Bought a used early Hyundai (must have been pre '92) and everything seemed to fall apart. had less than 80k miles but it was in the shop ever other month for something. Turn signals, transmission, engine, etc. When I finally traded it in, the odometer and speedometer didn't work. Neither did 2nd or 4th gear. The only good thing about it was it was easy to change headlights, which was good because they burned out every 6 months. It was the cause of so much frustration that I'll never buy another Hyundai no matter how good they are currently.
Of course, for my next car, I did more research and I can tell you that I went to every used car dealer in a 30 mile radius in a large city and literally every small economic car they had was on the Consumer Reports lemon list. It's the only time I've ever seen a Yugo and when I was sitting it in bits were coming off in my hand just by trying to close the door and roll up the window. I bought a brand new Toyota car in '94 and it still hasn't been in the shop for anything.
You gotta spend money to make money.
Paying for licenses is expensive, but if you can make money doing it then of course you would. So either Netflix is making a terrible mistake, or there is a difficulty in turning a profit with these license costs in an all-you-can-eat sort of plan that Netflix offers its customers.
Or the license holders simply aren't allowing movies to be licensed for streaming because their math shows it they would lose money by those movies distracting people from other movies they are letting stream. Could also be that the legal stuff isn't there to allow for streaming, especially for older movies. Hell, there are a lot of movies that made it to VHS but not DVD because the legal stuff isn't there, let alone streaming.
When did we start measuring 1/10th miles as a physical achievement?
I suspect that we'd be surprised to how many people walking a few 10ths of a miles would be. When I got put on blood pressure medicine, the pharmacist asked if I could try walking and even just a few blocks would make a difference. I had to let her down by telling her I walk a mile and a half to work each way every day already. Yet, that there is attention to 1/10s of a mile or just a few blocks for ordinary walking, makes me think that it does matter for a significant slice of Americans.
Every generation says this. "Our parents really messed things up, but we're better than them and we will make the world a wonderful place." Wait a few years and see how that works out. Your children will be saying the same thing.
Screw that! I'm a Gen Xer and we looked at the world and what we were told and a large part of us decided that the optimism of our parents generation was self delusion and we were all going to die in a nuclear war. Well, we didn't and arguably got to the same point they did by not giving a rat's ass about making the world a wonderful place because it would never work anyhow.
Given that they force you to buy 8 channels of dreck just to get the one channel you want, it's not surprising. One of the many reasons why I cut the cord.
I can't even do that. The cheapest internet cable I can get comes with TV channels bundled with it.
Hey Obama, I though you told us last election the cold war was over.
The Cold War is over. We are back to Russia wanting to play The Great Game as after the fall of the Soviet Union they want to once again continue to be a colonial Great Power and are moving forward accordingly with their annexation of Crimea, other attempts using any Russian population as an excuse, and increasing their influence over other countries by any means necessary seeing world politics as a zero sum game they must win against the US and the rest of Europe.
Explain how and why based on the leaks so far that Hillary HAS NOT BEEN INDICTED.
For me, it basically comes down to this: After nearly three decades of trying to pin something on her and all the screaming and yelling, we basically have nothing. Despite of ninja like death squads that seem to kill everybody days before they are set to testify, nobody seems to have found any actual evidence. Bengazi seems to be unremarkable from the events of any past administration. We finally comes to this latest thing and quite honestly, I have Hillary bashing fatigue. All this just seems to be more frothing and bluster by partisan action. While I don't like her, I don't like what she does, but I'm much more likely to believe that as an intelligent lawyer acting with the power of Secretary of State, she probably played the line as close as it could go, and probably crossed it, but that she probably never went past a point that would be defensible in court and by the law and by past presedent in Common Law, is probably at a point where even if found guilty the punishment and result aren't seen as worth it by the legal system. Basically, she hasn't done anything that past administrations dating back to Reagan haven't done.
I didn't rtfa but why does it have to be NASA? Seems we have a few private companies that are working towards that goal independent of NASA.
NASA is the part of the government who will decide which private company gets that money even if they are pretty much told what to do by congress. They after all the ones with the knowledge and experience to decide what needs to be done and who can best fulfill that need.
Whatever became of the whole helium-3 thing? Not that many years ago helium-3 was a common enough thought that it even made it into "Iron Sky". Haven't heard spit about it, lately.
Helium-3 is pretty much only good for 2nd or 3rd generation fusion power and we are still working on 1st generation fusion power.
If a third party gets 5% of the vote, they get funding for the next election. That's certainly important, beyond sending the immediate message.
Ya, just watch. I bet the same thing will happen that happened in the state I came from. Once the third party got 5%, the Democrats and republicans came together and raised the bar for 15% for the next election.
Because saying "fuck you" by voting for the Libertarian or Green candidates is like saying "fuck you" while you're standing out in the middle of the woods with nobody listening. The vote is lost.
As a long time Libertarian voter, I would disagree. Voting third party is well worth it for the next four years of sitting back and being able to say "not my fault, I didn't vote for them" no matter who won.