Wasn't there a bus from a company called something like green tortise tours that was taking people to and from Burning Man for many years? I know it's the land that invented the drive-thru but surely you can apply a bit of alternative thinking and leave that SUV at home to get to an alternative festival. Even cutting the number of vehicles by a quarter would make a difference.
The "perfect" example in use seems to be some sort of jelly based confectionary that's made in China and a barter token for an underground economy in North Korea. The world is strange before you even go anywhere near ponzi scams like Bitcoin.
Don't worry, your manufacturing sector instead of just services and resources with save you from... hang on, there was a manufacturing sector there a while ago, where did it go? China? OK, so you are all fucked and the best hope is to be mercenaries for hire for China.
they spend all their time denigrating and belittling.
That's what they got themselves put onto the committee to do. They are deliberate saboteurs put in place so that this administration has less positive examples to point to when elections come up. However, for some reason such people call Snowden and similar traitors without a hint of irony.
Do you seriously expect many people that depend on a big pyramid of supporters and funding to risk that by voting against something with "Patriot" in the name when they have not had time to read it? US politics is a popularity contest after all.
To some of these people project funding is about gaining influence and whether the project works or not does not matter. In that situation experts just get in the way. That's where such idiocy as "define our own reality" comes from.
Such stuff actually works for a while in business until some shark like Rupert Murdoch that actually listens to his experts comes in and swallows the "define our own reality" idiots whole. In US politics there are less sharks, globally there are people like Putin who came in while the people running Ukraine was messing about and losing touch with reality.
Except for water vapor. That's why it's so important to get the cloud response models right
Which is why the students of the guy that said 30 years ago one thing about clouds that the deniers keep rolling out are saying that the refined model says no such thing.
What I find immensely funny is from one end there are idiots saying it's not science because the models "don't change" and from the other there are people saying it's not established science because the models are changing. It all comes down to the equivalent of professional ditch diggers arguing about how best way to do an oil painting. You don't know shit about the subject and I only know enough to recognise that, so we are both better off letting the experts discuss it instead of pretending that experts are in some way worthless. There's no point moving goalposts to esoteric fields that are minor contributors to a larger system.
I'll add to that: Bruce, since you seem to have considered it OK to violate the bitkeeper licence (correct me if I'm wrong) why do you consider it not OK to violate the GPL?
Since people are bound to go for an attack on me I'd better state my view that if you use software you should stick to whatever rules the people who wrote it want and if you don't like them use something else. I prefer the GPL, but consider the bitkeeper, qt, iceweasel and other licence debacles very stupid storms in teacups.
Easy to prove - try a place where there isn't much of a government and see the differences in safety and freedom.
It's also disturbing to see such ignorance dismiss an actual informed view as "cute". It's a "jock" bashing "geek" sort of situation just because the "jock" wants to make fun of someone that actually spends time thinking.
The test flights show your premise is utter bullshit. If they were willing to accept such losses there would have been no point doing the tests. Who fed you this 50% line or did you just make it up?
If I was in NASA I'd say - correct me if I'm wrong, but you want us to spend a lot of money that we don't have on a mission that a lot of people would vehemently hate and our funding is at the whim of people in politics? Given THAT do you think we are even going to listen? I hear that Iran is working on a space program. Maybe you should talk to them.
The depressing thing is that NASA as a body already knew but they needed to excise some tumours that were preventing proper action from being taken and were attempting a high profile coverup to preserve their place in NASA. The inquiry only heard about the problem due to people doing an end run around the chain of command and presenting the evidence to a person that had too good a reputation to challenge and nothing to lose.
Of course it didn't help that all of the shuttle parts had to be made the right size, and assemble-able, to fit through railroad tunnels and other barriers from factory to launch pad, rather than one state getting all of the benefit from the space program by building everything in one neighborhood.
"We built the best possible rocket that humans can make"
Which is why the Saturn V was built where large parts could be shipped by barge to Florida and why the launch site was chosen to be where barges could land instead of all that messing about with railway tunnels.
It's disgusting where NASA could get to the point where some idiot in politics could use it as a high profile place to reward his young catamite and put him in charge of hundreds of scientists - after all "political science" makes him a scientist too doesn't it?
Foreign media seem to often forget or ignore that the disaster was the earthquake and tsunami
Please be serious - EVERYONE knows about the tsunami and it was in ALL of the media. The only difference here is the nuclear aspect is a new story that the press is talking about for a lot longer than than this tsunami or any of the others. I really do not get why you are pretending the tsunami was not big news that everyone heard about. Pretending we are all idiots to push some "don't pick on the nukes" barrow is unpleasant. It's real, people are talking about it, get used to it. If you want to push the "nuclear is not so dangerous as this makes it look" perhaps focus on the bad choices made in this place that made it worse than it could have been. The entire tsunami damage to nuclear plant incident could have been a non-event or a dodged bullet. However it wasn't, so that is why it is still news.
The 1970s called and said they got that mercury thing under control with scrubbers. There's not that many places where mercury is found at all and even fewer where it's with coal - the USA and those countries they exported coal to (eg. Japan in the 1960s) are lucky I guess:)
There's a band called the Bee Gees - some of the older slashdotters may have heard of them, but if not they were mostly responsible for the music in "Grease". Anyway, they flew into Brisbane where a couple of them grew up. "How's it feel to be home" asked a journalist. "Home is this airport - home is buried under the end of that runway" answered one of the band. The entire suburb where he grew up was demolished for the airport. As the saying goes, the past is a foreign country.
BTW - the "parking lot" bit above is sadly understating the problem. What do you do with something like enough radioactive topsoil to cover Manhatten may be more like it. At the scale being considered there's no point thinking about moving it (it becomes a large scale shallow mining operation) and instead in-situ solutions should be considered.
Very bad analogy since those colonies were clearly capable of sustaining life and people went nearly that far and back to catch cod every year back then. I think your "never expected to come back" may be correct in some cases but in general it is very unlikely. Also this would be a suicide mission for reasons of the very harsh environment so that makes things very different.
See now? Simplistic tax systems suck for those that are stuck paying for everyone else so things get more complex than "pay for a huge military and everything else by making importers pay for the lot".
That means any exports that have an imported component are at a disadvantage in comparison with other places. Protectionism is a blunt instrument that hurts while it is trying to help. Are you guys starting to get the point that successful governments tend to feed across a wide range of an economy instead of hitting one area hard and killing the golden goose?
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Wasn't there a bus from a company called something like green tortise tours that was taking people to and from Burning Man for many years?
I know it's the land that invented the drive-thru but surely you can apply a bit of alternative thinking and leave that SUV at home to get to an alternative festival. Even cutting the number of vehicles by a quarter would make a difference.
And the even more annoying habit of flights being overbooked in the hope that someone will cancel.
The "perfect" example in use seems to be some sort of jelly based confectionary that's made in China and a barter token for an underground economy in North Korea. The world is strange before you even go anywhere near ponzi scams like Bitcoin.
Don't worry, your manufacturing sector instead of just services and resources with save you from ... hang on, there was a manufacturing sector there a while ago, where did it go? China? OK, so you are all fucked and the best hope is to be mercenaries for hire for China.
That's what they got themselves put onto the committee to do. They are deliberate saboteurs put in place so that this administration has less positive examples to point to when elections come up. However, for some reason such people call Snowden and similar traitors without a hint of irony.
Doubleplusgood word goalpost shift Comrade. The Party would be proud of you.
Do you seriously expect many people that depend on a big pyramid of supporters and funding to risk that by voting against something with "Patriot" in the name when they have not had time to read it? US politics is a popularity contest after all.
To some of these people project funding is about gaining influence and whether the project works or not does not matter. In that situation experts just get in the way.
That's where such idiocy as "define our own reality" comes from.
Such stuff actually works for a while in business until some shark like Rupert Murdoch that actually listens to his experts comes in and swallows the "define our own reality" idiots whole. In US politics there are less sharks, globally there are people like Putin who came in while the people running Ukraine was messing about and losing touch with reality.
Which is why the students of the guy that said 30 years ago one thing about clouds that the deniers keep rolling out are saying that the refined model says no such thing.
What I find immensely funny is from one end there are idiots saying it's not science because the models "don't change" and from the other there are people saying it's not established science because the models are changing. It all comes down to the equivalent of professional ditch diggers arguing about how best way to do an oil painting.
You don't know shit about the subject and I only know enough to recognise that, so we are both better off letting the experts discuss it instead of pretending that experts are in some way worthless. There's no point moving goalposts to esoteric fields that are minor contributors to a larger system.
It's like having idiot sons put in charge of Feudal Fiefs due to the network of friends their fathers have.
I'll add to that:
Bruce, since you seem to have considered it OK to violate the bitkeeper licence (correct me if I'm wrong) why do you consider it not OK to violate the GPL?
Since people are bound to go for an attack on me I'd better state my view that if you use software you should stick to whatever rules the people who wrote it want and if you don't like them use something else. I prefer the GPL, but consider the bitkeeper, qt, iceweasel and other licence debacles very stupid storms in teacups.
Easy to prove - try a place where there isn't much of a government and see the differences in safety and freedom.
It's also disturbing to see such ignorance dismiss an actual informed view as "cute". It's a "jock" bashing "geek" sort of situation just because the "jock" wants to make fun of someone that actually spends time thinking.
Already done with instruments like MODIS. Next question?
The test flights show your premise is utter bullshit. If they were willing to accept such losses there would have been no point doing the tests.
Who fed you this 50% line or did you just make it up?
If I was in NASA I'd say - correct me if I'm wrong, but you want us to spend a lot of money that we don't have on a mission that a lot of people would vehemently hate and our funding is at the whim of people in politics? Given THAT do you think we are even going to listen?
I hear that Iran is working on a space program. Maybe you should talk to them.
The depressing thing is that NASA as a body already knew but they needed to excise some tumours that were preventing proper action from being taken and were attempting a high profile coverup to preserve their place in NASA. The inquiry only heard about the problem due to people doing an end run around the chain of command and presenting the evidence to a person that had too good a reputation to challenge and nothing to lose.
Which is why the Saturn V was built where large parts could be shipped by barge to Florida and why the launch site was chosen to be where barges could land instead of all that messing about with railway tunnels.
It's disgusting where NASA could get to the point where some idiot in politics could use it as a high profile place to reward his young catamite and put him in charge of hundreds of scientists - after all "political science" makes him a scientist too doesn't it?
Any RC control model plane is a "drone" these days just as fine powder in your toothpaste or sunscreen is "nanotechnology".
Please be serious - EVERYONE knows about the tsunami and it was in ALL of the media. The only difference here is the nuclear aspect is a new story that the press is talking about for a lot longer than than this tsunami or any of the others.
I really do not get why you are pretending the tsunami was not big news that everyone heard about. Pretending we are all idiots to push some "don't pick on the nukes" barrow is unpleasant.
It's real, people are talking about it, get used to it. If you want to push the "nuclear is not so dangerous as this makes it look" perhaps focus on the bad choices made in this place that made it worse than it could have been. The entire tsunami damage to nuclear plant incident could have been a non-event or a dodged bullet. However it wasn't, so that is why it is still news.
The 1970s called and said they got that mercury thing under control with scrubbers. :)
There's not that many places where mercury is found at all and even fewer where it's with coal - the USA and those countries they exported coal to (eg. Japan in the 1960s) are lucky I guess
There's a band called the Bee Gees - some of the older slashdotters may have heard of them, but if not they were mostly responsible for the music in "Grease".
Anyway, they flew into Brisbane where a couple of them grew up. "How's it feel to be home" asked a journalist. "Home is this airport - home is buried under the end of that runway" answered one of the band. The entire suburb where he grew up was demolished for the airport.
As the saying goes, the past is a foreign country.
BTW - the "parking lot" bit above is sadly understating the problem. What do you do with something like enough radioactive topsoil to cover Manhatten may be more like it. At the scale being considered there's no point thinking about moving it (it becomes a large scale shallow mining operation) and instead in-situ solutions should be considered.
Yes.
They had technology far more suitable for colonising America than we have to colonise Mars.
They were ready. We've had a few experiments but we are nowhere near ready.
Very bad analogy since those colonies were clearly capable of sustaining life and people went nearly that far and back to catch cod every year back then. I think your "never expected to come back" may be correct in some cases but in general it is very unlikely.
Also this would be a suicide mission for reasons of the very harsh environment so that makes things very different.
See now? Simplistic tax systems suck for those that are stuck paying for everyone else so things get more complex than "pay for a huge military and everything else by making importers pay for the lot".
That means any exports that have an imported component are at a disadvantage in comparison with other places. Protectionism is a blunt instrument that hurts while it is trying to help.
Are you guys starting to get the point that successful governments tend to feed across a wide range of an economy instead of hitting one area hard and killing the golden goose?