World of Warcrack runs on linux. Put it on there and there's nothing else you need the computer for. Someone emailed? Who cares, who needs an email program, there's a raid coming up.
So it's now NASA's responsibility to pay for the ESA's Mars probes?
No, I just gave an example of what happened when NASA pulled out of a collaborative effort. The extra baggage is yours. Don't blame me for it.
Why didn't the Europeans "pay their fair share" for the design of their own space probe?
I do not know. I do know that a lot of the IP (remember, spacecraft are full of stuff patented by Lockheed etc) was licenced to NASA and that the ESA couldn't use it without NASA's involvement.
It's not really interesting, it's just that I cared more about the veto situation than about someone picking the wrong faction in China in WWII and still being hung up about it today. I really don't see the hair splitting as relevant, the most populous country in the world was going to get a veto if anyone else was.
Thus cementing communist China's place in the world as a major political power.
Seriously? You think being on a commitee in the U.N. made China a major political power? You've got it backwards, they got the spot because they WERE a major political power.
Why did you phrase those leading statements as questions? We are all behind handles instead of real names here so there is no need to play weasel games like the politicians and shock-jocks do - just write what you think.
Trump's stance on the role of NATO and hence the future of the entire alliance still unclear
He's an isolationist that was bankrolled by Russian banks. He's also said he'd like NATO to just go away. Normally that would make things very clear, but it's Trump, he'll do all kinds of shit to get attention.
A historic one - The UN permitting China to retain veto power
It was the USA that pushed for a veto power in the first place, and it was the USA that accepted that if they were going to have a veto then China and the USSR had it as well. Don't go blaming the UN for that deliberate breakage of the UN process.
It does not participate in electromagnetic interactions THAT WE CAN CURRENTLY DETECT FROM MANY LIGHT YEARS AWAY. That is a very important distinction to make.
we would really need a maximum of international cooperation
Remember the ESA lander that crashed on Mars this year? Initially they were partnered with NASA for their landing system, but NASA's budget was cut so they backed out and the intellectual property that had been shared up to that point was not usable. Hence an untried landing system when others have worked on Mars in the past. It would be nice to have international cooperation but congresscritters have other ideas.
The difference is that freight legislation is not rooted in money, it's rooted in blood.
Something the people in politics care far less about until there is a high profile death or a large cluster of deaths.
The federal department of transportation won't let Uber ignore anything
Indeed, just like the taxi regulation bodies didn't, but Uber went around them. I think they'll try the same again and possibly even get away with it for long enough. I think the department of transportation will get overruled just like the NASA engineers were over the o-ring failure. People in politics are demanding far more power these days and are happy to put the "little people" in their place to help out a donor. I hope I'm being too cynical, but I really doubt that I am.
There is less money for governments via freight laws that taxi ones. I think Uber cracked the hard one first.
Either way I think Uber is going to cuddle up to politicians again but this time convince them that all those "tedious safety laws" just do not matter and are getting in the way of jobs (or hookers and blow for the politicians). The truly scary thing is that Banana Republic corruption shit that Uber has been pulling has worked just about everywhere with taxis and it probably will with freight as well.
Uber trying to disrupt the freight industry in the same way they disrupted the taxi industry is a disaster for Uber, and for the unfortunate fatalities to come.
In the long term it could be a disaster for everyone including Uber, but there could be a huge IPO and cashing out in the middle.
Problem for them is that there's so much legislation
They have either been ignoring that, buying their way around it or going for direct influence on politicians. Remember last weeks story of them telling California to fuck off about licences for self-driving vehicles? They didn't win that one but they have won plenty of others. You may have a point that with freight it will be harder to ignore the legislation as with taxis, but I doubt it. A lot of governments had a serious revenue stream from taxi licences but Uber has just rolled over a lot of them with almost no ill effects. IMHO freight legislation will be easier for Uber to ignore since governments make less money from it. Get ready for third world style "traffic safety". Overloading, low bridges, whatever, rules are for other people.
It's a gold rush mentality. It's a very long way from normal reality while the boom holds. Consider for example how Uber has gotten away with breaking laws all around the world which would have landed established taxi companies in court. Should those laws exist? Perhaps not, a lot of them are truly anti-capitalist purchased monopolies, but still Uber getting around it by influencing political figures directly is not going to help us in the long run even if they are in the right on a few occasions, and Uber getting away with it doesn't help anyone else. It's not as if the person on the street can offer anything to people in politics to look the other way when laws are being broken.
You and I must have very different definitions of "hysteria
The act of framing it like the climate change denial situation then attempting to write it off as a "joke", shock-jock style, comes across that way, as well as the bits sowing seeds of doubt later. There has been a massive amount of science denial on this site and it's got to the point where the most ridiculous joke you can think of on a scientific subject is somebody else's serious conspiracy theory.
What's with the hysteria and the "joke"? All dark matter signifies is that there is a lot of stuff that we cannot currently see electromagnetically. Space is big. Space is dark. Why the hubris that we can see everything with our current technology?
Thank you. That rant at least now shows where he is coming from instead of being indecipherable. WTF is it with those angry "alt-right" woman hating gays?
The record and movie companies are such Luddites that won't even try to explore new technologies and models
Here's an example of what happened when one did, but then found that they answered to Luddites.
Some years before Slashdot, when CD-burners were new and cost over a thousand, there was an "indie" record company that decided to let consumers choose from a list of any songs released by that company and have them burned to a CD. The artists got their fair cut per track and actually liked the idea (or so some said at the launch anyway). The day after the launch it was cancelled. It turned out that the "indie" record label was not so independent after all and piggybacked on a major label's distribution network, and the major label told them to cancel the idea or be driven out of business almost overnight. The luddites won.
I have no idea what you are thinking but blaming ISIS in 2016 on Obama in 2011 is more than a little bit like the people who blamed Nixon for the Vietnam war.
Also - WTF is a "virtue signal"? I have honestly never heard of that before and since you have used it so often there is no way I can make any sense of your post without knowing. Could we have that again in English please?
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World of Warcrack runs on linux. Put it on there and there's nothing else you need the computer for. Someone emailed? Who cares, who needs an email program, there's a raid coming up.
NASA didn't know. They had unexpected budget cuts partway through the project.
No, I just gave an example of what happened when NASA pulled out of a collaborative effort. The extra baggage is yours. Don't blame me for it.
I do not know. I do know that a lot of the IP (remember, spacecraft are full of stuff patented by Lockheed etc) was licenced to NASA and that the ESA couldn't use it without NASA's involvement.
Seriously? You think being on a commitee in the U.N. made China a major political power? You've got it backwards, they got the spot because they WERE a major political power.
Why did you phrase those leading statements as questions? We are all behind handles instead of real names here so there is no need to play weasel games like the politicians and shock-jocks do - just write what you think.
He's an isolationist that was bankrolled by Russian banks. He's also said he'd like NATO to just go away. Normally that would make things very clear, but it's Trump, he'll do all kinds of shit to get attention.
It was the USA that pushed for a veto power in the first place, and it was the USA that accepted that if they were going to have a veto then China and the USSR had it as well. Don't go blaming the UN for that deliberate breakage of the UN process.
It does not participate in electromagnetic interactions THAT WE CAN CURRENTLY DETECT FROM MANY LIGHT YEARS AWAY.
That is a very important distinction to make.
Remember the ESA lander that crashed on Mars this year? Initially they were partnered with NASA for their landing system, but NASA's budget was cut so they backed out and the intellectual property that had been shared up to that point was not usable. Hence an untried landing system when others have worked on Mars in the past.
It would be nice to have international cooperation but congresscritters have other ideas.
Something the people in politics care far less about until there is a high profile death or a large cluster of deaths.
Indeed, just like the taxi regulation bodies didn't, but Uber went around them. I think they'll try the same again and possibly even get away with it for long enough. I think the department of transportation will get overruled just like the NASA engineers were over the o-ring failure. People in politics are demanding far more power these days and are happy to put the "little people" in their place to help out a donor.
I hope I'm being too cynical, but I really doubt that I am.
The bit to add to that is that consideration of safety fades over time so if nobody has died recently things slip. Sad, but I see it a lot.
The sad thing is just like with the taxis it's probably just going to depend on who they donate to.
I think Uber cracked the hard one first.
Either way I think Uber is going to cuddle up to politicians again but this time convince them that all those "tedious safety laws" just do not matter and are getting in the way of jobs (or hookers and blow for the politicians). The truly scary thing is that Banana Republic corruption shit that Uber has been pulling has worked just about everywhere with taxis and it probably will with freight as well.
In the long term it could be a disaster for everyone including Uber, but there could be a huge IPO and cashing out in the middle.
They have either been ignoring that, buying their way around it or going for direct influence on politicians.
Remember last weeks story of them telling California to fuck off about licences for self-driving vehicles? They didn't win that one but they have won plenty of others.
You may have a point that with freight it will be harder to ignore the legislation as with taxis, but I doubt it. A lot of governments had a serious revenue stream from taxi licences but Uber has just rolled over a lot of them with almost no ill effects. IMHO freight legislation will be easier for Uber to ignore since governments make less money from it.
Get ready for third world style "traffic safety". Overloading, low bridges, whatever, rules are for other people.
It's a gold rush mentality. It's a very long way from normal reality while the boom holds. Consider for example how Uber has gotten away with breaking laws all around the world which would have landed established taxi companies in court. Should those laws exist? Perhaps not, a lot of them are truly anti-capitalist purchased monopolies, but still Uber getting around it by influencing political figures directly is not going to help us in the long run even if they are in the right on a few occasions, and Uber getting away with it doesn't help anyone else. It's not as if the person on the street can offer anything to people in politics to look the other way when laws are being broken.
The act of framing it like the climate change denial situation then attempting to write it off as a "joke", shock-jock style, comes across that way, as well as the bits sowing seeds of doubt later.
There has been a massive amount of science denial on this site and it's got to the point where the most ridiculous joke you can think of on a scientific subject is somebody else's serious conspiracy theory.
What's with the hysteria and the "joke"? All dark matter signifies is that there is a lot of stuff that we cannot currently see electromagnetically.
Space is big. Space is dark. Why the hubris that we can see everything with our current technology?
Thank you.
That rant at least now shows where he is coming from instead of being indecipherable. WTF is it with those angry "alt-right" woman hating gays?
Here's an example of what happened when one did, but then found that they answered to Luddites.
Some years before Slashdot, when CD-burners were new and cost over a thousand, there was an "indie" record company that decided to let consumers choose from a list of any songs released by that company and have them burned to a CD. The artists got their fair cut per track and actually liked the idea (or so some said at the launch anyway). The day after the launch it was cancelled. It turned out that the "indie" record label was not so independent after all and piggybacked on a major label's distribution network, and the major label told them to cancel the idea or be driven out of business almost overnight. The luddites won.
News just in - Syria is not Iraq!
Please stop roleplaying your handle and act like a human being instead of a nutjob.
I have no idea what you are thinking but blaming ISIS in 2016 on Obama in 2011 is more than a little bit like the people who blamed Nixon for the Vietnam war.
The Pixel I was stuck with had Sandler in it
Ah yes, "disagreement is treason" from the fascist list.
The South of England is doing OK. The UK, not so much.
Also - WTF is a "virtue signal"? I have honestly never heard of that before and since you have used it so often there is no way I can make any sense of your post without knowing. Could we have that again in English please?