PS. And as I said, McCarthyism didn't even really work - didn't root out much of any spies. This "with us or against" very possible harmed the US / we can wonder about influence on sputnik moment.
Korea was just an unfortunate expression of approach at least very related to McCarthyism. How it, unfortunately, happened in Korea (and not far off in time elsewhere, I linked to quite a few other examples) was probably more a case of opportunities than anything else - especially since only a few years earlier US demontsrated to not have too much qualms about similar approach in Europe (Morgenthau plan). Abandoning it also when possibility of one risk was realized... spread of communism on the merits of how people are better off
(I'll so something useful while trying to pass heavy hangover, after going through notifications in mailbox... apologies for how late and how slightly incoherent this might be)
To be honest, when making the first comment I only had a superficial knowledge of what McCarthysm entailed (I thought it was just mostly anti-communist propaganda, and stricter security clearances)
You possibly hit the key issue here, without realizing. People, societies, have generally quite superficial knowledge about such issues. Not to be unexpected... they just want to carry on with their lives. Don't really want to be bothered (heck, our minds are even simply unable to really track more than few dozen individuals).
breaching due process, and baseless accusations and blacklists
I'm sure that does sound similar to you, from ex-communist Hungary, right?
I'm not sure I would categorize the war crimes in Korea as McCarthysm.
To me it's largely symptomatic, of what society... of what humans can easily be (and don't get me wrong, US very possibly did quite near to best achievable way... that's not much of consolation), of what is bad in us / pack animal / we depend greatly on "we're the best, others are subpar" to feel good about ourselves... also to do horrible things... but it's also, paradoxically, about what is good (our need to believe in Just World... unfortunately easily derailed just by self-marvel and seeing others as evil; we must get pass this, to make the world really just)
Because... it's working so-so at this point, for example (and how many people are even aware of thisbackground for one of most just wars in recent history? If we can be upfront even with such one...). Have your pick (strangely, not a lot about Operation Condor - designed not only to get rid of left extremism, but to destroy left... check Sister Dianna Ortiz, that's 89)
McCarthy was a symptom of that, of "we can do no wrong" / "you must be commie sympathizer if you;re against" / "you're either with us or against us" (remember who said the last one?)
Yes, it's also playing Devil's advocate of course... oh well, there's enough of bad stuff on the Russians.
Hm, yes; but maybe it's even broader example of speculative execution - sort of like Z3 can be theoretically Turing complete if (also) executing all instructions and afterwards discarding unneeded ones. Or...something in-between: after all, once we pinpoint exceptional specimens, we can not only take closer look at their already existing offspring - but also use them again in breeding. Which could perhaps speed things up a bit.
Still rather slow, unfortunately. Almost certainly way beyond lifespans of everybody involved, quickly hitting our limits with execution of long term projects;/
But there might be some hope... if we ever seriously venture into space, what other cuddly pet could be possibly better?;p (not only agility or hygiene, also how they are chosen already when the space is scarce and conditions hard... and an environment where planning is of paramount importance; where intelligence and gripping paws could be even more useful)
Rich-poor... that might be seen as another problem; of hiccups here and there in how the generation of parents or grandparents supports their children with their, also, accumulated goods (not by idling; they were also of "most productive" age); probably fairly isolated (come on, people know better than to piss off their future caregiver & consolation, I would think; plus the ages of "separation" move way upward for some time now). Overall - still, how society works, and for a long time. Of course, I've heard that useless folks were often pretty much abandoned, left to die, in the past... (well, we didn't really get rid of places of isolation, to push aside unsightly elders - but those places are a bit different now)
Hey, I live in one of European US allies too... and let's face it, truth is - our populations are at large marveled by them, generally; don't try to realize all the dirt. And marveled by themselves of course, which is also unsubstantiated to a saddening degree. It's...human (and in the end irrelevant how much it's a case of our known cognitive hiccups...)
People "lie" to themselves that such concepts of social animal are based on superstitious belief in something (...another evolutionary determined construct; having oversensitive alertness, internalizing the world around, or perpetration of social constructs increasing the chances of a coherent & stable group, working together - was beneficial for a long, long time to survival & chances of offspring)
Cellphone towers / networks are typically in rather tight sync, time-wise. NTP, base stations synchronized to one another, et al (it's somewhat necessary for the network to work). When it comes to traces in the mobile system, the time on the phone doesn't matter (though they also tend to be synchronized often)
And you know, another type of trace in the mobile systems, how both cellphones stopped moving in relation to towers (probably not only the two of them, there usually tends to be at least momentary gridlock of most motorists nearby) could be not too bad in pinpointing the time of accident. Another - will show if it was the cellphone which updated the FB.
We give up a lot of info while carrying those small devices, and probably will give up even more, to more and more (Google Maps nav + Adsense?) - and hey, if it would help clear things up with accidents...
Below you've demonstrated you have no idea (or choose to have "no idea", choose to invent "problems" for approaches which might possibly get in the way of your pet ones) about the absolute basics of rocketry, indeed of Newtonian physics... that's not a good position to start lecturing me about history of the field.
Especially if on the basis of "we would be awesome, we promise! It was just this pesky reality..." - STS history is full of such promises (but if you'd want something even more wild... if you think how something more expensive and complex to develop would do the trick - lowering costs was supposed to be the point, that includes development costs; don't treat reality which hit as some unfortunate circumstance) Or we might look at another piece - when Soviet engineers (vs. politburo) were saying "no way in hell we want to build something like it" (opting instead for small lifting body launched as a dumb payload... that's basically even how they did their shuttle, when pushed)
Nicely applies to HOTOL (or every other spaceplane which was looked at rigorously), with marginal gains at best (for a cost). Even better to dynamically suspended megastructures (current body of evidence supports them, really?). Putting a blind eye on practical side of things was the problem.
You asked somebody who chooses to not bother with the equations... but for whom "intrepid imagination" seems crucial.
(generally, the simplest ~Newtonian equations for speed after acceleration, kinetic energy, work required give some large scales (last time I toyed around with the calculations, it looked practical enough for a very small projectile; and a track of preferably at least two dozen km, in the style of V-3 cannon), like coupled with few dozen km "aerial maglev" (start to see the problem?); "non-decaying orbit" is just... orbit - there's no "catching" at multi-km/s approach velocities, look at relative speeds of tanker and fighter when coupling / decoupling during aerial refueling... even when landing on a carrier, or even when using Fulton, the speeds are still negligibly slow; it's not even about equations, not even wrong... as far as wondering goes, our capabilities have very few limits - but that isn't carried over to RL)
Yeah, not getting near / driving 100+ m behind those people is fine (sometimes they are even involved in unexpected gifts - say, in a ~50m fog, when one of them overtakes you and continues at unsafe speed... but has remarkably visible back fog light, enabling you to follow at matching speed & safe distance; worst case, you would notice soon enough if something bad is happening near your...ram) - especially since often even at 100 m the torch mode of their GPS appears brighter, more noticeable than their back lights... (though that might be also a part of "warning! be careful!" reflex in my visual processing, when seeing a white spot of light ahead, one which can mean an incoming car)
(and for a second there my internal EN interpreter was erroneously leading me to ask - why posting from a car, especially such relatively long post, especially right next to presumably home?;p At least your car somewhat matches the nick in a creepy way, so the jokes not only on me;). But you know, if some piece of electronics probably isn't designed for 24/7/365 operation...)
"You're too put-here-qualities-we-lack for us" seems like a more apt case of our craziness. Comedian OTOH was ambiguous enough to be universally adored by the circle of my friends...
Its also a means of giving himself immortality in the minds of all genetic researchers.
Or free future heads up on health/etc. predictions from this sample of his genome... (though the little public secret is how a very large part of it can be concluded, and for a long time, when looking at family health history)
I came across them few times already... on one hand - commendable effort (even if some early plans raised an eyebrow, like appearing to dismiss gravity turn / dynamics of stability). But on the other - they seem to be aiming for a mostly solved problem.
Yes, small (no way around it, not with practical balloons) indigenous launcher could be nice... they might even manage to end up with something pretty inexpensive. Probably still not far from few available inexpensive launchers.
And with an awfully low mass budget to LEO, especially as far as requirements for trans lunar injection and landing there are concerned. And... apparently not working on the lander.
Don't bring utlity into what looks very much like veblen / giffen / experience goods / bandwagon effect. Into "touchy-feely" (nothing bad with that, that is the whole point of music, but...) artistic expression which we share to most striking degree with animals, even when diverged from our lineage 250+ million years ago.
Not quite, Enigma now can hardly serve its purpose... which was keeping things secret, not merely "encrypting and decrypting messages"
The thing is - by your original criteria for it, absolutely any physical or cultural artifact that we're aware of... is still in use. It's certainly of interest to historians (or archeologists; that's what they do), often to enthusiasts. Anything we're aware of is used as a learning tool.
Ah but you didn't really have to wait for a show to start, too (plus it's not like times of airing can be ignored now, even with p2p; and when via "legal" routes - from what I hear, getting any random ep whenever you want on Hulu, etc. often has some limits... not to mention extreme geographic limitation of the service)
it was a fairly common symbol, although maybe not in the US
Probably further - maybe it was fairly common... in very few places (among them, apparently, the UK(?)). Anyway, I just checked and I certainly can't see it on by far the most popular keyboard type at my place in '80s (and well into the '90s) - mechanical typowriter;p
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PS. And as I said, McCarthyism didn't even really work - didn't root out much of any spies. This "with us or against" very possible harmed the US / we can wonder about influence on sputnik moment.
Korea was just an unfortunate expression of approach at least very related to McCarthyism. How it, unfortunately, happened in Korea (and not far off in time elsewhere, I linked to quite a few other examples) was probably more a case of opportunities than anything else - especially since only a few years earlier US demontsrated to not have too much qualms about similar approach in Europe (Morgenthau plan). Abandoning it also when possibility of one risk was realized... spread of communism on the merits of how people are better off
To be honest, when making the first comment I only had a superficial knowledge of what McCarthysm entailed (I thought it was just mostly anti-communist propaganda, and stricter security clearances)
You possibly hit the key issue here, without realizing. People, societies, have generally quite superficial knowledge about such issues. Not to be unexpected... they just want to carry on with their lives. Don't really want to be bothered (heck, our minds are even simply unable to really track more than few dozen individuals).
breaching due process, and baseless accusations and blacklists
I'm sure that does sound similar to you, from ex-communist Hungary, right?
I'm not sure I would categorize the war crimes in Korea as McCarthysm.
To me it's largely symptomatic, of what society ... of what humans can easily be (and don't get me wrong, US very possibly did quite near to best achievable way... that's not much of consolation), of what is bad in us / pack animal / we depend greatly on "we're the best, others are subpar" to feel good about ourselves... also to do horrible things ... but it's also, paradoxically, about what is good (our need to believe in Just World ... unfortunately easily derailed just by self-marvel and seeing others as evil; we must get pass this, to make the world really just)
Because... it's working so-so at this point, for example (and how many people are even aware of this background for one of most just wars in recent history? If we can be upfront even with such one...). Have your pick (strangely, not a lot about Operation Condor - designed not only to get rid of left extremism, but to destroy left... check Sister Dianna Ortiz, that's 89)
McCarthy was a symptom of that, of "we can do no wrong" / "you must be commie sympathizer if you;re against" / "you're either with us or against us" (remember who said the last one?)
Yes, it's also playing Devil's advocate of course... oh well, there's enough of bad stuff on the Russians.
Hm, yes; but maybe it's even broader example of speculative execution - sort of like Z3 can be theoretically Turing complete if (also) executing all instructions and afterwards discarding unneeded ones. Or...something in-between: after all, once we pinpoint exceptional specimens, we can not only take closer look at their already existing offspring - but also use them again in breeding. Which could perhaps speed things up a bit.
;/
;p (not only agility or hygiene, also how they are chosen already when the space is scarce and conditions hard... and an environment where planning is of paramount importance; where intelligence and gripping paws could be even more useful)
Still rather slow, unfortunately. Almost certainly way beyond lifespans of everybody involved, quickly hitting our limits with execution of long term projects
But there might be some hope... if we ever seriously venture into space, what other cuddly pet could be possibly better?
Rich-poor... that might be seen as another problem; of hiccups here and there in how the generation of parents or grandparents supports their children with their, also, accumulated goods (not by idling; they were also of "most productive" age); probably fairly isolated (come on, people know better than to piss off their future caregiver & consolation, I would think; plus the ages of "separation" move way upward for some time now). Overall - still, how society works, and for a long time. Of course, I've heard that useless folks were often pretty much abandoned, left to die, in the past... (well, we didn't really get rid of places of isolation, to push aside unsightly elders - but those places are a bit different now)
Hey, I live in one of European US allies too... and let's face it, truth is - our populations are at large marveled by them, generally; don't try to realize all the dirt. And marveled by themselves of course, which is also unsubstantiated to a saddening degree. It's...human (and in the end irrelevant how much it's a case of our known cognitive hiccups...)
Shit itself doesn't seem to matter too much - mostly just what color of shit it is, to which PR it's attached.
Hm, all economies of scale seem to revolve around humans.
People "lie" to themselves that such concepts of social animal are based on superstitious belief in something (...another evolutionary determined construct; having oversensitive alertness, internalizing the world around, or perpetration of social constructs increasing the chances of a coherent & stable group, working together - was beneficial for a long, long time to survival & chances of offspring)
Cellphone towers / networks are typically in rather tight sync, time-wise. NTP, base stations synchronized to one another, et al (it's somewhat necessary for the network to work). When it comes to traces in the mobile system, the time on the phone doesn't matter (though they also tend to be synchronized often)
And you know, another type of trace in the mobile systems, how both cellphones stopped moving in relation to towers (probably not only the two of them, there usually tends to be at least momentary gridlock of most motorists nearby) could be not too bad in pinpointing the time of accident. Another - will show if it was the cellphone which updated the FB.
We give up a lot of info while carrying those small devices, and probably will give up even more, to more and more (Google Maps nav + Adsense?) - and hey, if it would help clear things up with accidents...
Below you've demonstrated you have no idea (or choose to have "no idea", choose to invent "problems" for approaches which might possibly get in the way of your pet ones) about the absolute basics of rocketry, indeed of Newtonian physics... that's not a good position to start lecturing me about history of the field.
... that's basically even how they did their shuttle, when pushed)
Especially if on the basis of "we would be awesome, we promise! It was just this pesky reality..." - STS history is full of such promises (but if you'd want something even more wild... if you think how something more expensive and complex to develop would do the trick - lowering costs was supposed to be the point, that includes development costs; don't treat reality which hit as some unfortunate circumstance) Or we might look at another piece - when Soviet engineers (vs. politburo) were saying "no way in hell we want to build something like it" (opting instead for small lifting body launched as a dumb payload
Nicely applies to HOTOL (or every other spaceplane which was looked at rigorously), with marginal gains at best (for a cost). Even better to dynamically suspended megastructures (current body of evidence supports them, really?). Putting a blind eye on practical side of things was the problem.
You asked somebody who chooses to not bother with the equations... but for whom "intrepid imagination" seems crucial.
... even when landing on a carrier, or even when using Fulton, the speeds are still negligibly slow; it's not even about equations, not even wrong ... as far as wondering goes, our capabilities have very few limits - but that isn't carried over to RL)
(generally, the simplest ~Newtonian equations for speed after acceleration, kinetic energy, work required give some large scales (last time I toyed around with the calculations, it looked practical enough for a very small projectile; and a track of preferably at least two dozen km, in the style of V-3 cannon), like coupled with few dozen km "aerial maglev" (start to see the problem?); "non-decaying orbit" is just... orbit - there's no "catching" at multi-km/s approach velocities, look at relative speeds of tanker and fighter when coupling / decoupling during aerial refueling
Yeah, not getting near / driving 100+ m behind those people is fine (sometimes they are even involved in unexpected gifts - say, in a ~50m fog, when one of them overtakes you and continues at unsafe speed ... but has remarkably visible back fog light, enabling you to follow at matching speed & safe distance; worst case, you would notice soon enough if something bad is happening near your...ram) - especially since often even at 100 m the torch mode of their GPS appears brighter, more noticeable than their back lights... (though that might be also a part of "warning! be careful!" reflex in my visual processing, when seeing a white spot of light ahead, one which can mean an incoming car)
;p At least your car somewhat matches the nick in a creepy way, so the jokes not only on me ;). But you know, if some piece of electronics probably isn't designed for 24/7/365 operation...)
(and for a second there my internal EN interpreter was erroneously leading me to ask - why posting from a car, especially such relatively long post, especially right next to presumably home?
But if you're just hosting cat pictures, you're probably fine.
Has you seen cats with cheeseburgers & theyr poplurity?
What is pretty much the case in so called "real world"?... (with standards for "bad guys" even similarly - or more - lax)
Yup, apt for our craziness.
"You're too put-here-qualities-we-lack for us" seems like a more apt case of our craziness. Comedian OTOH was ambiguous enough to be universally adored by the circle of my friends...
Its also a means of giving himself immortality in the minds of all genetic researchers.
Or free future heads up on health/etc. predictions from this sample of his genome... (though the little public secret is how a very large part of it can be concluded, and for a long time, when looking at family health history)
Hopefully it won't come to pass, no astronomer (practitioner of any field, really) would have any time left...
(there's plenty of good info on the web, if one really cares)
I came across them few times already... on one hand - commendable effort (even if some early plans raised an eyebrow, like appearing to dismiss gravity turn / dynamics of stability). But on the other - they seem to be aiming for a mostly solved problem.
Yes, small (no way around it, not with practical balloons) indigenous launcher could be nice... they might even manage to end up with something pretty inexpensive. Probably still not far from few available inexpensive launchers.
And with an awfully low mass budget to LEO, especially as far as requirements for trans lunar injection and landing there are concerned. And... apparently not working on the lander.
Don't bring utlity into what looks very much like veblen / giffen / experience goods / bandwagon effect. Into "touchy-feely" (nothing bad with that, that is the whole point of music, but...) artistic expression which we share to most striking degree with animals, even when diverged from our lineage 250+ million years ago.
In a world of loudness war, dynamics compression, bass boosts, or (a bit different area) over-saturated default TV settings. With reasons for choosing vacuum tubes also touching on Price tag can change the way people experience wine or Price of a Medication May Affect How Well It Works. Valued "natural" diamonds because of their...flaws.
Not quite, Enigma now can hardly serve its purpose... which was keeping things secret, not merely "encrypting and decrypting messages"
The thing is - by your original criteria for it, absolutely any physical or cultural artifact that we're aware of... is still in use. It's certainly of interest to historians (or archeologists; that's what they do), often to enthusiasts. Anything we're aware of is used as a learning tool.
Ah but you didn't really have to wait for a show to start, too (plus it's not like times of airing can be ignored now, even with p2p; and when via "legal" routes - from what I hear, getting any random ep whenever you want on Hulu, etc. often has some limits ... not to mention extreme geographic limitation of the service)
Ahh... "typowriter"... irony meter implodes (yes, typewriter ;) )
it was a fairly common symbol, although maybe not in the US
Probably further - maybe it was fairly common... in very few places (among them, apparently, the UK(?)). Anyway, I just checked and I certainly can't see it on by far the most popular keyboard type at my place in '80s (and well into the '90s) - mechanical typowriter ;p
More or less; though that's not the only language with quite common "sz" ;p (strangely, "sz" and "s" seem to work opposite...)
Too bad it's probably way to late to inquire "why?" and get an answer... (well, some better one than quick googling)