I don't think they'll know with any certainty until the product has been in widespread use for many years. Individual sensitivity varies dramatically between people, some folks need to be hospitalized after a whiff of parathion, while my dad had a neighbor who inhaled so much of it while spraying his cherry orchards that more than once he was found staggering intoxicated down the middle of the road but who lived into his late 80s.
I take it you've never used a megapixel camera, a microscope, a sailboat, or a microphone, and have never watched paragliders soar. We do a fuck of a lot of things better than nature has managed to do in a few billion years.
No, the galaxies on the far side of the universe are receding from us (and us from them) at a speed exceeding c, so we'll never see them because at 300000 kilometers/second the light will never catch up with us. Well, I suppose it could be considered a technical limitation in a way, since we currently can't carry telescopes far enough that direction to ever run into their light.
No, the OPERA group was right. They said, "We have this result, which makes no sense. We've looked at A, B, C, D and E, and still get the same results. We've recalibrated F, G and H multiple times and it makes no difference. We've replaced I and J, but the equipment seems fine. Anyone got any ideas?" When you think you've done everything right and still get surprising results it's time to let others know, not time to hide the evidence. Do that and every piece of research you do in the future is tainted, no one will ever be certain that you aren't covering up problematic research to promote whatever theory you're working on. Eventually someone said, "Check the path between J and F" and they found the issue. Now they can proceed to do the cutting-edge research that they had planned on.
If the advanced civilization arose in a gas giant they might think chucking it at a "useless" rocky planet a more reasonable solution. And if they stuffed it in an asteroid that rock may have crashed into Africa at some point.
No, nuclear rockets are banned because of short-sighted politicians signing treaties they don't understand about technologies they have no comprehension of. There is no reason that a nuclear rocket couldn't be made as safe as an RTG.
You're thinking like a scientist or a researcher, not like a businessman. Which system is cheaper? That's going to be the main criteria for something like SpaceX. How likely is it that we will ever need better data, and if we have better data will it actually make us more money? Privatization of space operations is all well and good, as long as everyone keeps in mind their rather strict limitation: the need to make money all the time no matter what.
In all the historical reading that I've done over the years I have found only two societies that were essentially crime-free; the Inca and medieval Japan. In both the penalty for pretty much all lawbreaking was death, delivered swiftly and without appeal. Got any contrary evidence?
Huh? The value of Bitcoin is driven exclusively by speculation, it has no intrinsic real-world value. The professional speculators like Soros and the slime at Goldman/Sachs have no interest in controlling the supply of rice, corn, tin, or Bitcoin, their stock in trade is running up the price of something, then crashing its value, buying up supplies at the new value, running up the value again and then selling as it peaks and then crashes again. They have hundreds of billions of dollars to play with and so far outclass the herd of Bitcoin fans that there isn't a chance in hell of the miners ever regaining control of their currency once the pros enter the market.
I still remember when respectable astronomers were phoo-phooing the idea that we would ever be able to detect planets in other stellar systems. This is incredibly cool. I wonder what we'll know about these systems in another 20 years.
People claim that "studies" show that the death penalty doesn't work, but really what it shows is that the death penalty **as instituted in the US** doesn't work. If you ever go to Cusco, Peru, you will never have a gun or knife pulled on you. You may get your purse snatched or your pocket picked, but you will never be threatened with a weapon. Every five or ten years some young punk from Lima decides that he's going to rob tourists, and the local thieves are just too old fashioned and chickenshit to use weapons. Two or three tourists get held up, and then the punk shows up dead on the bank of the Huatanay River and the tourists are safe for several more years. No one actually seems to know whether it's the police or other thieves, but it works very well and keeps the tourism industry healthy.
Of course it's a troll argument, sometimes they're just too obvious to resist:-)
What in the world is scientific about Bitcoin though? Just because something is documented doesn't make it science. Just because it uses mathematics doesn't make it science. I suppose one could make the argument that it might be a sociology experiment created by a guy who worked on classified military programs, but that's kind of dubious.
When Soros and the other currency speculator swine blow it up to a trillion dollars and convince all the 401k managers to invest, and then short it and collapse it to $1.15 it won't affect you? Let me guess, you thought the mortgage bubble wouldn't affect you because you didn't have a mortgage and weren't invested in them, right?
Unless you live in a shack in the mountains and grow your own food pretty much everything that happens everywhere on the planet is going to have an effect on you. I really don't understand why that is so hard for Libertarians to understand.
Silver was for werewolves, not vampires. At least until Hollyweird got hold of it, now sunlight make vampires sparkle and most of the monsters are good guys.
Windows 3.1 - 5-6 floppies for DOS + 6 for Windows
Windows 3.11 - Above + 2 for networking + 1 for TCP/IP
Win95 - 15
NT 3.51 - 16
NT 4.0 - 18 or 19
Office 4.3 - 28 floppies
Imagine my pleasure when I found you could just expand all of the floppies into a single network folder. Then I could boot off a floppy, sys and format the HD, and copy the folder to the local drive before running Setup off the hard drive. If I used NetBEUI instead of TCP/IP I didn't even need a second floppy.
Frelling Libertardians have no concept of economy or community. Lost in their own little fantasy of independence and self sufficiency, they're utterly oblivious to the concept that what happens in the larger society will affect them whether they like it or not.
Whoops, yeah, that's right. Had to go back and look it up, memory is going.
"I invite members of the FARC to visit the New York Stock Exchange so that they can get to know the market personally." . . . Grasso told reporters that he was bringing "a message of cooperation from U.S. financial services."
Drug dealers? Who do you think has been feeding the stock market rise for the last two decades? It's the best and easiest way to launder a billion dollars at a time. Why do you think Charles Grassley made a personal visit to the FARC in Colombia when he was CEO of the NYSE, and then retired with the most enormous bonus of any executive in the Exchange's history? Why do you think US Treasury Secretaries leave "public service" to go lead the money laundering, err, 'private banking' divisions of the mega-banks?
It's an enormous amount of money that needs washing every year, around half of it from drug sales, the entire worldwide Bitcoin pseudo-economy couldn't even begin to touch it. This is just to make it easier for the currency speculators to play with.
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He's a failed something anyway, if he thinks that stocks have "intrinsic value".
I don't think they'll know with any certainty until the product has been in widespread use for many years. Individual sensitivity varies dramatically between people, some folks need to be hospitalized after a whiff of parathion, while my dad had a neighbor who inhaled so much of it while spraying his cherry orchards that more than once he was found staggering intoxicated down the middle of the road but who lived into his late 80s.
I take it you've never used a megapixel camera, a microscope, a sailboat, or a microphone, and have never watched paragliders soar. We do a fuck of a lot of things better than nature has managed to do in a few billion years.
No, the galaxies on the far side of the universe are receding from us (and us from them) at a speed exceeding c, so we'll never see them because at 300000 kilometers/second the light will never catch up with us. Well, I suppose it could be considered a technical limitation in a way, since we currently can't carry telescopes far enough that direction to ever run into their light.
No, the OPERA group was right. They said, "We have this result, which makes no sense. We've looked at A, B, C, D and E, and still get the same results. We've recalibrated F, G and H multiple times and it makes no difference. We've replaced I and J, but the equipment seems fine. Anyone got any ideas?" When you think you've done everything right and still get surprising results it's time to let others know, not time to hide the evidence. Do that and every piece of research you do in the future is tainted, no one will ever be certain that you aren't covering up problematic research to promote whatever theory you're working on. Eventually someone said, "Check the path between J and F" and they found the issue. Now they can proceed to do the cutting-edge research that they had planned on.
If the advanced civilization arose in a gas giant they might think chucking it at a "useless" rocky planet a more reasonable solution. And if they stuffed it in an asteroid that rock may have crashed into Africa at some point.
No, nuclear rockets are banned because of short-sighted politicians signing treaties they don't understand about technologies they have no comprehension of. There is no reason that a nuclear rocket couldn't be made as safe as an RTG.
You're thinking like a scientist or a researcher, not like a businessman. Which system is cheaper? That's going to be the main criteria for something like SpaceX. How likely is it that we will ever need better data, and if we have better data will it actually make us more money? Privatization of space operations is all well and good, as long as everyone keeps in mind their rather strict limitation: the need to make money all the time no matter what.
Redundant systems are only for taxpayer funded projects. Commercial systems save pennies without them, adding dollars to executive bonuses.
In all the historical reading that I've done over the years I have found only two societies that were essentially crime-free; the Inca and medieval Japan. In both the penalty for pretty much all lawbreaking was death, delivered swiftly and without appeal. Got any contrary evidence?
Huh? The value of Bitcoin is driven exclusively by speculation, it has no intrinsic real-world value. The professional speculators like Soros and the slime at Goldman/Sachs have no interest in controlling the supply of rice, corn, tin, or Bitcoin, their stock in trade is running up the price of something, then crashing its value, buying up supplies at the new value, running up the value again and then selling as it peaks and then crashes again. They have hundreds of billions of dollars to play with and so far outclass the herd of Bitcoin fans that there isn't a chance in hell of the miners ever regaining control of their currency once the pros enter the market.
I still remember when respectable astronomers were phoo-phooing the idea that we would ever be able to detect planets in other stellar systems. This is incredibly cool. I wonder what we'll know about these systems in another 20 years.
People claim that "studies" show that the death penalty doesn't work, but really what it shows is that the death penalty **as instituted in the US** doesn't work. If you ever go to Cusco, Peru, you will never have a gun or knife pulled on you. You may get your purse snatched or your pocket picked, but you will never be threatened with a weapon. Every five or ten years some young punk from Lima decides that he's going to rob tourists, and the local thieves are just too old fashioned and chickenshit to use weapons. Two or three tourists get held up, and then the punk shows up dead on the bank of the Huatanay River and the tourists are safe for several more years. No one actually seems to know whether it's the police or other thieves, but it works very well and keeps the tourism industry healthy.
Of course it's a troll argument, sometimes they're just too obvious to resist :-)
What in the world is scientific about Bitcoin though? Just because something is documented doesn't make it science. Just because it uses mathematics doesn't make it science. I suppose one could make the argument that it might be a sociology experiment created by a guy who worked on classified military programs, but that's kind of dubious.
Like Scientology?
When Soros and the other currency speculator swine blow it up to a trillion dollars and convince all the 401k managers to invest, and then short it and collapse it to $1.15 it won't affect you? Let me guess, you thought the mortgage bubble wouldn't affect you because you didn't have a mortgage and weren't invested in them, right?
Unless you live in a shack in the mountains and grow your own food pretty much everything that happens everywhere on the planet is going to have an effect on you. I really don't understand why that is so hard for Libertarians to understand.
Silver was for werewolves, not vampires. At least until Hollyweird got hold of it, now sunlight make vampires sparkle and most of the monsters are good guys.
When George Soros and the other currency speculator scum get done with Bitcoin the holders of coins will end up owing money.
(Working from failing memory)
Windows 3.1 - 5-6 floppies for DOS + 6 for Windows
Windows 3.11 - Above + 2 for networking + 1 for TCP/IP
Win95 - 15
NT 3.51 - 16
NT 4.0 - 18 or 19
Office 4.3 - 28 floppies
Imagine my pleasure when I found you could just expand all of the floppies into a single network folder. Then I could boot off a floppy, sys and format the HD, and copy the folder to the local drive before running Setup off the hard drive. If I used NetBEUI instead of TCP/IP I didn't even need a second floppy.
Nope, and no kids, and my wife has her own laptop she uses.
We had answers all right. If my co-irkers didn't know they'd just make shit up. May not be the right answer, but it was an answer.
Frelling Libertardians have no concept of economy or community. Lost in their own little fantasy of independence and self sufficiency, they're utterly oblivious to the concept that what happens in the larger society will affect them whether they like it or not.
Whoops, yeah, that's right. Had to go back and look it up, memory is going.
"I invite members of the FARC to visit the New York Stock Exchange so that they can get to know the market personally." . . . Grasso told reporters that he was bringing "a message of cooperation from U.S. financial services."
RC plane with a couple of ropes trailing behind should be enough, especially for the helicopter drones.
Drug dealers? Who do you think has been feeding the stock market rise for the last two decades? It's the best and easiest way to launder a billion dollars at a time. Why do you think Charles Grassley made a personal visit to the FARC in Colombia when he was CEO of the NYSE, and then retired with the most enormous bonus of any executive in the Exchange's history? Why do you think US Treasury Secretaries leave "public service" to go lead the money laundering, err, 'private banking' divisions of the mega-banks?
It's an enormous amount of money that needs washing every year, around half of it from drug sales, the entire worldwide Bitcoin pseudo-economy couldn't even begin to touch it. This is just to make it easier for the currency speculators to play with.