Self interest is what causes people to band together and form governments to help protect them from others who control vital resources and would otherwise take advantage of them, or who fraudulently or deceptively trade (as two examples).
Wow, can you imagine if a loved one was raped to death by a sea turtle. I mean, I don't care how somber you are, if someone looks at you all serious and they're like, "My Dad was raped to death by a sea turtle," you're not going to be able to stop yourself before at least a little giggle escapes.
I can't believe neither of you mentioned The Beatles.
I can. They sucked.
The Beatles are one of the most overrated pop-groups in history.
Oh, but they revolutionized music! It was amazing! Because they were doing the same thing as dozens of other bands, but they were popular so that makes them special and different!
It's the bone marrow who creates T-cells and I do believe they kill of that bone marrow in the proces. I assume it's not possible to store bone marrow outside of the body. Or I could be completely wrong.
You are. But hopefully Sam Wright will show up and save us with a car analogy to clear it all up.:)
You might say humor was an "alien" concept to him. Or maybe his idea of comedy is just "out of this world." His idea of a joke seems to be "a world apart."
So we are just the lousy MOR race like in most RPGs? Not the fastest, smartest, strongest, just plain vanilla average across the board. We're like the unseasoned mashed potatoes of races! We're Oatmeal with no cinnamon!
As for TFA, we care about this.....why exactly? Personally I find it depressing as hell, its like "Hey look, here is another bunch of planets we will never see in person nor step foot on isn't that great?". What is the point when our engine tech frankly isn't any better than what they had 50 years ago? Sorry to be a killjoy but we could find a bazillion planets loaded with gold, candy, and three titted hookers, but if they are all light years away from us all you are doing is teasing.
If we found those planets I think we'd see people voting enough funding into the space program to finally get Orion off the ground.
Actually, the one thing humans seem to have a knack for in the Uplift series is Uplifting things. Without being told we should be doing it we Uplifted two species to an almost independent level and got a third well on its way, all without having the Library to draw on.
The science is sound but the engineering isn't. The kind of problems that just the materials engineers have to cope with are stupendous for tokamak style high temp large scale reactors. The neutron bombardment of the structure holding the magnets makes it hard to figure out what material could stand up to the task. There are no known materials, last I checked in on this, that can do the job. So even if they get an energy sustaining reaction, they still have a bunch of engineering issues to solve which are very hard, if they want to build a commercial reactor that doesn't dissolve into dust after 5 years of operation. Much harder than the problems we solved for fission reactors..
Can't they just route the neutron pulse through the main deflector dish? And like, vent some drive plasma through the nacelles or something?
It charges less money but requires you pay in other ways. Services are limited to only those approved by the single payer system. Like all price controls there is rationing where people have to wait for service.
We have rationing in the for-profit space too. It's just that instead of waiting lists, the service goes to the person with the most money and everyone else gets bumped.
It is not right for the government to take resources from everyone in the form of taxes, and then use them to provide resources to individuals, even if it's to each individual. If groups of people want to band together voluntarily for that purpose, that's great. In fact, at the fundamental level that's what government is.
Yes, it's funny to hear people tell you to watch loud power tools and music until... your hearing is 1/2 gone!
Just curious, the doc says hearing aids only amplify the volume of sounds. I'm only deficient in hearing in a certain small range but it makes talking to certain people (usually women and kids) a chore. Isn't there _something_ that can shift the pitch of a certain frequency into another frequency so I can hear it without amplification?
Excuse me while I run to the patent office for a totally unrelated reason.
One's own? Only because geeks are carbon-based? Jock Science has proved that geeks aren't even human to begin with, so they're no more "of my own" as cockroaches are.
Or when they send Donald Rumsfeld over with the bill of lading to glad hand your dictator.:)
But yeah, generally if you're getting them it's because you're going to use them on people the US wants targeted, or because it's going to destabilize your country so they can put in someone more useful to American interests.
Whatever. Everyone knows Tunguska was really caused by an alien spacecraft losing antimatter containment.
That's what they want you to think. Everyone who really knows what's going on knows it was a microminiature black hole fired at us by the Greys, and in 2012 it will finally hit the sharp edge of the exponential curve and consume our entire planet.
I'd think it would just be cheaper to buy your WMDs from the US, like Iraq did. All you have to do is wave a little oil under their nose and the pigs in Washington will roll over and let you suckle at all the teats simultaneously.
In the real world we have a term for this, slavery and it's already illegal in most of the world. There's nothing magical about the abuse you mention, it would just a new variation of an old crime and already illegal in the developed world.
I generally agree, but here's a question: what if the augs you have are company property, and on termination you're required to return all company assets? You're not a slave, you're welcome to terminate your employment at any time, but you better have a surgical team and a pile of spare parts standing by.
Pi is just a shortcut, though, to express something that is a close approximation of what actually exists.
I'm not just questioning real numbers. In this thought experiment, we're throwing out circles too. There isn't any such thing anyways.
The real question is, how long until we have enough computronium to begin modeling the reality that underlies what we currently use circles to represent and make our models computable in a reasonable amount of time.
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Self interest is what causes people to band together and form governments to help protect them from others who control vital resources and would otherwise take advantage of them, or who fraudulently or deceptively trade (as two examples).
Wow, can you imagine if a loved one was raped to death by a sea turtle. I mean, I don't care how somber you are, if someone looks at you all serious and they're like, "My Dad was raped to death by a sea turtle," you're not going to be able to stop yourself before at least a little giggle escapes.
I can't believe neither of you mentioned The Beatles.
I can. They sucked.
The Beatles are one of the most overrated pop-groups in history.
Oh, but they revolutionized music! It was amazing! Because they were doing the same thing as dozens of other bands, but they were popular so that makes them special and different!
It's the bone marrow who creates T-cells and I do believe they kill of that bone marrow in the proces. I assume it's not possible to store bone marrow outside of the body. Or I could be completely wrong.
You are. But hopefully Sam Wright will show up and save us with a car analogy to clear it all up. :)
Thanks for the heads up on skyscanner, I've been looking for something like that.
You might say humor was an "alien" concept to him. Or maybe his idea of comedy is just "out of this world." His idea of a joke seems to be "a world apart."
So we are just the lousy MOR race like in most RPGs? Not the fastest, smartest, strongest, just plain vanilla average across the board. We're like the unseasoned mashed potatoes of races! We're Oatmeal with no cinnamon!
As for TFA, we care about this.....why exactly? Personally I find it depressing as hell, its like "Hey look, here is another bunch of planets we will never see in person nor step foot on isn't that great?". What is the point when our engine tech frankly isn't any better than what they had 50 years ago? Sorry to be a killjoy but we could find a bazillion planets loaded with gold, candy, and three titted hookers, but if they are all light years away from us all you are doing is teasing.
If we found those planets I think we'd see people voting enough funding into the space program to finally get Orion off the ground.
Actually, the one thing humans seem to have a knack for in the Uplift series is Uplifting things. Without being told we should be doing it we Uplifted two species to an almost independent level and got a third well on its way, all without having the Library to draw on.
Did he just claim that every tablet in the world, his own included, is "a rip-off product", to quote the quote?
Has Apple so completely won the mind-share fight that every tablet product, no matter how technically distinctive, is an iPad clone?
The RDF is strong with this one.
I don't think the Robotech Defense Force uses tablets.
But now that you mention it, I wonder if I can hack my color nook to run on protoculture.
The science is sound but the engineering isn't. The kind of problems that just the materials engineers have to cope with are stupendous for tokamak style high temp large scale reactors. The neutron bombardment of the structure holding the magnets makes it hard to figure out what material could stand up to the task. There are no known materials, last I checked in on this, that can do the job. So even if they get an energy sustaining reaction, they still have a bunch of engineering issues to solve which are very hard, if they want to build a commercial reactor that doesn't dissolve into dust after 5 years of operation. Much harder than the problems we solved for fission reactors..
Can't they just route the neutron pulse through the main deflector dish? And like, vent some drive plasma through the nacelles or something?
It charges less money but requires you pay in other ways. Services are limited to only those approved by the single payer system. Like all price controls there is rationing where people have to wait for service.
We have rationing in the for-profit space too. It's just that instead of waiting lists, the service goes to the person with the most money and everyone else gets bumped.
It is not right for the government to take resources from everyone in the form of taxes, and then use them to provide resources to individuals, even if it's to each individual. If groups of people want to band together voluntarily for that purpose, that's great. In fact, at the fundamental level that's what government is.
FTFY
Yes, it's funny to hear people tell you to watch loud power tools and music until... your hearing is 1/2 gone!
Just curious, the doc says hearing aids only amplify the volume of sounds. I'm only deficient in hearing in a certain small range but it makes talking to certain people (usually women and kids) a chore. Isn't there _something_ that can shift the pitch of a certain frequency into another frequency so I can hear it without amplification?
Excuse me while I run to the patent office for a totally unrelated reason.
Wow, pointless hostility towards one's own.
One's own? Only because geeks are carbon-based? Jock Science has proved that geeks aren't even human to begin with, so they're no more "of my own" as cockroaches are.
You had me at "jock science."
Brilliant troll there.
Or when they send Donald Rumsfeld over with the bill of lading to glad hand your dictator. :)
But yeah, generally if you're getting them it's because you're going to use them on people the US wants targeted, or because it's going to destabilize your country so they can put in someone more useful to American interests.
Whatever. Everyone knows Tunguska was really caused by an alien spacecraft losing antimatter containment.
That's what they want you to think. Everyone who really knows what's going on knows it was a microminiature black hole fired at us by the Greys, and in 2012 it will finally hit the sharp edge of the exponential curve and consume our entire planet.
The Mayans knew man!
You want to move Mars and Venus into Earth orbit?
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magnets...we gotta use a LOT of big fukin magnets!!!!
HOW DO THEY WORK!?
I'd think it would just be cheaper to buy your WMDs from the US, like Iraq did. All you have to do is wave a little oil under their nose and the pigs in Washington will roll over and let you suckle at all the teats simultaneously.
I hope I end up living in a country with a strong labor protection system like that when all this comes to pass in a few decades :)
In the real world we have a term for this, slavery and it's already illegal in most of the world. There's nothing magical about the abuse you mention, it would just a new variation of an old crime and already illegal in the developed world.
I generally agree, but here's a question: what if the augs you have are company property, and on termination you're required to return all company assets? You're not a slave, you're welcome to terminate your employment at any time, but you better have a surgical team and a pile of spare parts standing by.
I fail to see why we couldn't just send over ships, pick all our stuff up and go home, that would be pretty quick.
Law of unintended consequences would kick into overdrive.
Thanks for making sure I got my requisite baseless, pointless ad hominem.
Pi is just a shortcut, though, to express something that is a close approximation of what actually exists.
I'm not just questioning real numbers. In this thought experiment, we're throwing out circles too. There isn't any such thing anyways.
The real question is, how long until we have enough computronium to begin modeling the reality that underlies what we currently use circles to represent and make our models computable in a reasonable amount of time.
Damnit. In that last sentence, it should read "is just a shadow on the wall of"