Mission director: "And if we see damage what then?"
Engineering team: "Um."
When the first shuttle was launched, there was a big uproar about the fragility of the tiles, so much so that they declassified a high power space surveillance telescope in Hawaii to show the public photos of the shuttle's underbelly. I seem to recall that the shuttle crew had a repair device, which looked like a fat caulking gun with an upholstery brush attached to it, which would dispense an ablative gel into the hole left by a missing tile. I can't find any pictures of it though.
I believe that all happened in response to this accident. In the next couple of flights they did have a slight scare with some protruding material from between the tiles and undertook a much publicized space walk to look at and remove the material.
For the issue at hand, i think the one line pretty well sums it up:
I can't help but laugh at the idea that Blizzard will probably get a ton of people paying them to not play their game.
.... and that really sums it up.
Thing is, I've played their game. I have four Loremaster characters. All at at least 80, because I had to do vanilla classic loremaster and then go in and do the new classic (or is it the new vanilla?) with Cataclysm for both Alliance and Horde. I have many more characters of varying levels. There were times when there simply were no more yellow exclamation points to find. I still want/need some maxed out crafters though. I've done everything so many times, and some of it I like more than others, that I'm about to the point that I'd buy maxed out new characters. After all, in the real world $60 is like two billable hours for me versus somewhere around 40 of grinding through stuff I am tired of seeing.
That aside, they probably do not want to risk their already shrinking budget getting stuck with the cleanup. Instead, once it changes hands to another government entity, congress will allocate money through the superfund process already in place to deal with stuff like this. Its a wash to the tax payers as it would only be an accounting gimmack.
More likely, if it is like similar instances in WA, they are trying to push it off on the state and thus it is a fight between the state and federal governments as to who gets to pay for it.
The US Constitution is a very old piece of paper sitting in a museum.
The Supreme Court is a group of people.
A piece of paper is an inanimate object - it can't do anything.
Better to say that the US Constitution means what The Supreme Court says it means. The idea that everybody is working on the same set of rules is what keeps the three branches of government and the millions of people they represent working together.
All theist communities are like that. Actually, that's what theism is about in the first place! The sooner we get rid of this crap, the better for everyone.
But it gives plus one happiness and two gold and culture for every religious building.
Jobs was worth every penny after what he brought to Apple.
Of course it was, Jobs' salary was $1/year. He said he only got that to get the health benefits.
Still, he also got a jet out of the deal, and I believe he also got some stocks also. Which just shows that if you regulate the CEO's salary, they'll find other ways to get their money.
While not impossible, the text that remains is 240 pages (each page roughly 6.3 x 9 inches). Being as it seems to have some coherent themes across sections, it seems rather unlikely that a disturbed person could have written it on a whim.
Never underestimate outsider art, especially if crazy outsider art. Look at the works of Henry Darger and his book The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion which is over 15,000 typed pages. Along with that he has countless artworks associated with it, a 10,000 page handwritten sequel, and some other books including The Story of my Life which after 200 pages of talking about his life goes into almost 5000 more in a fiction story about a tornado he probably saw. Nobody even knew this otherwise unremarkable guy was doing this till he died and they found all this stuff in his apartment. It probably isn't too far that somebody could have done something similar but in their own secret code that only made sense to themselves.
I seem to remember the main idea in 1984 to be the reduction of language in order to limit possible thought. While there appears to be some original parent posts I'm not seeing, it seems what we are talking about in this case is increasing the language in order to spur further thought.
You know, concepts like socialism and even communism actually sound pretty good.. on paper, but in reality they forget one ineffable truth: Human beings like power and being in control.
Sounds like Capitalism, democracy, and about every other thing people have come up with on paper.
The economics of Star Trek never made any kind of sense to me, which is, I suppose, why the various series and movies never real dove into them that deeply.
Why are Ferengi obsessed with gold-pressed latinum if you can just replicate anything you might need to acquire? Why, in Undiscovered Country, DS9 and others do you see people working menial jobs? If there's no notion of pay why would you do something menial and boring? Why, other than Data, do we see virtually zero automation via robots? Why do people crawl around outside spaceships welding them together?....and don't get me started on the holodeck. If everything is 'free' I'd just move in there.
I think you are forgetting culture. Such economics in our culture probably would end up like you think. However, from what I remember of the Starfleet, if not Earth, culture is that it was geared towards being a productive member of society. Sure, you get everything for free and are told you don't have to do anything for it if you don't want to, but in reality, you've grown up being told you need to be a productive part of society, all your friends are becoming productive parts of society, and if you don't become a productive part of society, not only does everybody treat you strangely but counselors start coming by to see what is wrong. Inn extreme cases like a person that locks themselves in a holodeck, they will probably declare them unwell, pull them out, and put them in some program. It's easier to go fix food or wash dishes in the local cafe, probably along with your friends, a few shifts a week than to fight peer and social pressure. Meanwhile, others find artistic hobbies, work jobs, and volunteer at jobs that interest them. There are probably the guys that pride themselves on taking jobs others don't want.
Even without culture, people tend to get bored and want things to do. There are reasons besides alturism that retired people find volunteer jobs to do. I know plenty of people that even if they had everything supplied for them, would still be out working a job like welding on starships in space (then again, I know a lot of metalworkers).
Actually China is happy to manufacture whatever the market wants.
Yep, I'm sure we had companies wanting poisonous baby formula, lead paint, and dog food imported. Markets don't get what they want and are willing to pay for from China, they seem to get whatever China can get away with passing off.
Seriously, who's going to buy a Nokia Android phone when you know they've been bought by Microsoft and won't care one bit about supporting it?
Since when has Android products been supported by anybody? Seems like if you want an upgrade from the OS you bought with your phone, it normally has to be done by the owner because the manufacterer isn't going to put out an upgrade. Then again, most people don't seem to keep phones long enough to make a difference anyhow.
Well, defining the problem away certainly makes your difficult issues much easier to solve. That's why the term RINO is so laughable. If the party doesn't stop disavowing itself so often, it might deny that it even exists.
What's funny is that the people calling others RINOs are usually conservative Southern state's rights people who are upset there is a black man in office. They can mostly be tracked back to the Dixiecrats who left when the Democrats decided to support Civil Rights. To win, Nixon invited them to the Republican party and Regan cultivated them for their money and votes. Now they think they are the true Republicans when the Republican party has traditionally be about civil rights (Lincoln), big government (Johnson), environmentalism (Teddy Roosevelt), and if not ok with unions against corruption in big business (Roosevelt again).
What's even more interesting is the spectrum of solutions to managing the signal-to-noise ratio, from no comments, to moderated, to the fabulous disaster that is/.'s moderation system.
/.'s moderation system is the worst form of moderation, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Some places that used to have snow will no longer have snow. No places that don't currently have snow will get snow. this, the total amount of snow will be reduced, making it less rare. Anywhere can have snow if you really want it to, but it gets mighty expensive mighty fast.
Actually, most reports I've heard say that snow should increase in some places. Hotter average temperatures in the oceans result in more moisture in the air. That's more cloud cover over mainland and will mean colder temps and more snowfall inland in some places. When talking about the giant heat sinks that are the Earth's oceans, what happens on land is largely irrelevant to the average.
Fusion isn't some magic free energy source. Fuel is not the major cost of energy. Infrastructure and maintenance are the main source of energy. Fusion, let alone any free energy source, wouldn't actually lower the cost of energy much. People would still need to have to build desalination plants, power lines, roads, etc. Hydroponics will use just as much if not more chemicals than normal. Vertical gardens and robots are a pipe dream that would cause more enviromental damage in building them than our current growing methods. Energy has nothing to do with people dumping their garbage. We could get the same benefits from nuclear energy if it would actually solve anything.
No, what you'd actually like, is a system of health care in which the price of the simplest medical procedures is not gigantically inflated by profit margins. There is no way an xray costs a thousand dollars.
Keep in mind, that any time you see US medical prices, they are inflated because insurance only pays 33 - 66 cents on the dollar. The hospital charges $1000, but only ends up getting $333 from insurance in most cases to apply to costs, and part of that has to go to helping pay for those that won't or can't pay their own bills.
I never saw the fascination of Amazon Prime. I figured that, like most people on/., I'm not in the target demographic. I'm quite happy to wait 3-5 days for a package to arive. In addition, when I buy a movie, I like to hold the disc in my hand.
Prime is for the people that must have what they bought now. Whatever happened to delaying gratification?
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Mission director: "And if we see damage what then?"
Engineering team: "Um."
When the first shuttle was launched, there was a big uproar about the fragility of the tiles, so much so that they declassified a high power space surveillance telescope in Hawaii to show the public photos of the shuttle's underbelly. I seem to recall that the shuttle crew had a repair device, which looked like a fat caulking gun with an upholstery brush attached to it, which would dispense an ablative gel into the hole left by a missing tile. I can't find any pictures of it though.
I believe that all happened in response to this accident. In the next couple of flights they did have a slight scare with some protruding material from between the tiles and undertook a much publicized space walk to look at and remove the material.
Probably more like 40 hours of leveling with heirlooms and such.
For the issue at hand, i think the one line pretty well sums it up:
I can't help but laugh at the idea that Blizzard will probably get a ton of people paying them to not play their game.
Thing is, I've played their game. I have four Loremaster characters. All at at least 80, because I had to do vanilla classic loremaster and then go in and do the new classic (or is it the new vanilla?) with Cataclysm for both Alliance and Horde. I have many more characters of varying levels. There were times when there simply were no more yellow exclamation points to find. I still want/need some maxed out crafters though. I've done everything so many times, and some of it I like more than others, that I'm about to the point that I'd buy maxed out new characters. After all, in the real world $60 is like two billable hours for me versus somewhere around 40 of grinding through stuff I am tired of seeing.
The navy isn't a public servant.
That aside, they probably do not want to risk their already shrinking budget getting stuck with the cleanup. Instead, once it changes hands to another government entity, congress will allocate money through the superfund process already in place to deal with stuff like this. Its a wash to the tax payers as it would only be an accounting gimmack.
More likely, if it is like similar instances in WA, they are trying to push it off on the state and thus it is a fight between the state and federal governments as to who gets to pay for it.
I may not be a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure the Seventh Amendment trumps the Supreme Court
Nope.
The US Constitution is a very old piece of paper sitting in a museum.
The Supreme Court is a group of people.
A piece of paper is an inanimate object - it can't do anything.
Better to say that the US Constitution means what The Supreme Court says it means. The idea that everybody is working on the same set of rules is what keeps the three branches of government and the millions of people they represent working together.
All theist communities are like that. Actually, that's what theism is about in the first place! The sooner we get rid of this crap, the better for everyone.
But it gives plus one happiness and two gold and culture for every religious building.
Jobs was worth every penny after what he brought to Apple.
Of course it was, Jobs' salary was $1/year. He said he only got that to get the health benefits.
Still, he also got a jet out of the deal, and I believe he also got some stocks also. Which just shows that if you regulate the CEO's salary, they'll find other ways to get their money.
While not impossible, the text that remains is 240 pages (each page roughly 6.3 x 9 inches). Being as it seems to have some coherent themes across sections, it seems rather unlikely that a disturbed person could have written it on a whim.
Never underestimate outsider art, especially if crazy outsider art. Look at the works of Henry Darger and his book The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion which is over 15,000 typed pages. Along with that he has countless artworks associated with it, a 10,000 page handwritten sequel, and some other books including The Story of my Life which after 200 pages of talking about his life goes into almost 5000 more in a fiction story about a tornado he probably saw. Nobody even knew this otherwise unremarkable guy was doing this till he died and they found all this stuff in his apartment. It probably isn't too far that somebody could have done something similar but in their own secret code that only made sense to themselves.
Until each electron, proton, and neutron needs an address......and each quark....etc.
You forget that each different quantum state may need it's own address once we get into quantum computing.
I seem to remember the main idea in 1984 to be the reduction of language in order to limit possible thought. While there appears to be some original parent posts I'm not seeing, it seems what we are talking about in this case is increasing the language in order to spur further thought.
The US has the unique advantage of being a place that not many people want to emigrate from.
Well, to anywhere that will take us anyway.
You know, concepts like socialism and even communism actually sound pretty good.. on paper, but in reality they forget one ineffable truth: Human beings like power and being in control.
Sounds like Capitalism, democracy, and about every other thing people have come up with on paper.
The economics of Star Trek never made any kind of sense to me, which is, I suppose, why the various series and movies never real dove into them that deeply. Why are Ferengi obsessed with gold-pressed latinum if you can just replicate anything you might need to acquire? Why, in Undiscovered Country, DS9 and others do you see people working menial jobs? If there's no notion of pay why would you do something menial and boring? Why, other than Data, do we see virtually zero automation via robots? Why do people crawl around outside spaceships welding them together? ....and don't get me started on the holodeck. If everything is 'free' I'd just move in there.
I think you are forgetting culture. Such economics in our culture probably would end up like you think. However, from what I remember of the Starfleet, if not Earth, culture is that it was geared towards being a productive member of society. Sure, you get everything for free and are told you don't have to do anything for it if you don't want to, but in reality, you've grown up being told you need to be a productive part of society, all your friends are becoming productive parts of society, and if you don't become a productive part of society, not only does everybody treat you strangely but counselors start coming by to see what is wrong. Inn extreme cases like a person that locks themselves in a holodeck, they will probably declare them unwell, pull them out, and put them in some program. It's easier to go fix food or wash dishes in the local cafe, probably along with your friends, a few shifts a week than to fight peer and social pressure. Meanwhile, others find artistic hobbies, work jobs, and volunteer at jobs that interest them. There are probably the guys that pride themselves on taking jobs others don't want.
Even without culture, people tend to get bored and want things to do. There are reasons besides alturism that retired people find volunteer jobs to do. I know plenty of people that even if they had everything supplied for them, would still be out working a job like welding on starships in space (then again, I know a lot of metalworkers).
Everybody needs a hobby.
I imagine that 1000 years into the future some 20th century English runologist will crack the code of pig latin.
Or ubbi dubbi.
Actually China is happy to manufacture whatever the market wants.
Yep, I'm sure we had companies wanting poisonous baby formula, lead paint, and dog food imported. Markets don't get what they want and are willing to pay for from China, they seem to get whatever China can get away with passing off.
Seriously, who's going to buy a Nokia Android phone when you know they've been bought by Microsoft and won't care one bit about supporting it?
Since when has Android products been supported by anybody? Seems like if you want an upgrade from the OS you bought with your phone, it normally has to be done by the owner because the manufacterer isn't going to put out an upgrade. Then again, most people don't seem to keep phones long enough to make a difference anyhow.
Well, defining the problem away certainly makes your difficult issues much easier to solve. That's why the term RINO is so laughable. If the party doesn't stop disavowing itself so often, it might deny that it even exists.
What's funny is that the people calling others RINOs are usually conservative Southern state's rights people who are upset there is a black man in office. They can mostly be tracked back to the Dixiecrats who left when the Democrats decided to support Civil Rights. To win, Nixon invited them to the Republican party and Regan cultivated them for their money and votes. Now they think they are the true Republicans when the Republican party has traditionally be about civil rights (Lincoln), big government (Johnson), environmentalism (Teddy Roosevelt), and if not ok with unions against corruption in big business (Roosevelt again).
What's even more interesting is the spectrum of solutions to managing the signal-to-noise ratio, from no comments, to moderated, to the fabulous disaster that is /.'s moderation system.
/.'s moderation system is the worst form of moderation, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Some places that used to have snow will no longer have snow. No places that don't currently have snow will get snow. this, the total amount of snow will be reduced, making it less rare. Anywhere can have snow if you really want it to, but it gets mighty expensive mighty fast.
Actually, most reports I've heard say that snow should increase in some places. Hotter average temperatures in the oceans result in more moisture in the air. That's more cloud cover over mainland and will mean colder temps and more snowfall inland in some places. When talking about the giant heat sinks that are the Earth's oceans, what happens on land is largely irrelevant to the average.
Fusion isn't some magic free energy source. Fuel is not the major cost of energy. Infrastructure and maintenance are the main source of energy. Fusion, let alone any free energy source, wouldn't actually lower the cost of energy much. People would still need to have to build desalination plants, power lines, roads, etc. Hydroponics will use just as much if not more chemicals than normal. Vertical gardens and robots are a pipe dream that would cause more enviromental damage in building them than our current growing methods. Energy has nothing to do with people dumping their garbage. We could get the same benefits from nuclear energy if it would actually solve anything.
No, what you'd actually like, is a system of health care in which the price of the simplest medical procedures is not gigantically inflated by profit margins. There is no way an xray costs a thousand dollars.
Keep in mind, that any time you see US medical prices, they are inflated because insurance only pays 33 - 66 cents on the dollar. The hospital charges $1000, but only ends up getting $333 from insurance in most cases to apply to costs, and part of that has to go to helping pay for those that won't or can't pay their own bills.
It's not clear why a Mac user is lecturing Windows users on the virtues of Windows 8/Metro.
It's called trolling.
I never saw the fascination of Amazon Prime. I figured that, like most people on /., I'm not in the target demographic. I'm quite happy to wait 3-5 days for a package to arive. In addition, when I buy a movie, I like to hold the disc in my hand.
Prime is for the people that must have what they bought now. Whatever happened to delaying gratification?
You sound old. Do you live in Korea?
If you say so. It's been my experience that most anyone who brings up their atheism is very vocal in their gnosticism...
In my experience, people who bring up their atheism are very vocal in calling religious people stupid, usually through straw man attacks.