Do you have any idea how many Cessna 172's are located in the US? A 12 gauge shotgun and a 172 would have those things in pieces. It be like goose season.
That, my friends, is why we have the Second Amendment.
Actually, capitalism on the whole, has been pretty darn good for the world.
(Looks around)
Checks CO2 levels. Checks water purity. Checks air pollution levels. Evaluates pesticides in food....
Looks at doctor's bill.
Yep, pretty good. If you define 'good' as maximal help for a limited class of human beings at the expense of large swaths of the population and the planet.
Current US Code addresses air travel specifically. In 49 U.S.C. 40103, "Sovereignty and use of airspace", the Code specifies that "A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace."
This comes out of the common law right to freedom of movement which includes the use of conveyances appropriate to the time. Our modern society operates on the assumption of a right to air travel.
The way I read it is that your are perfectly within your inalienable rights to flap your arms hard enough to take off. Getting on a commercial aircraft, well, not so much.
Despite numerous cataclysms in the past, most languages remained intact. The Rosetta Stone is basically the way forward, a translation key with all languages represented, as at least ONE modern language is sure to be comprehensible in the very distant, post-apocalyptic future.
Sounds like every 16 language foldout instruction sheet for various little electronic gizmos.
I would love a relatively inexpensive electric commuter car. I live in an environment that puts motorcycles at a disadvantage but I don't really need an engine that's a whole lot bigger. I would even be willing to sacrifice some crash worthiness - after all, I wouldn't plan on getting it past 35 mph. But to pass US Federal safety standards, it has to survive a high speed crash with a Hummer.
We need to rethink how we do vehicles. The little electric I envision would not be useful for a two week trip out into the hinterlands of Canada with the dogs and camping gear, but I only do that twice a year....
By your metrics, we should also be planning on fusion....
By all means, keep up the research. We really have no idea what future advances in materials sciences will bring. I don't see hydrogen as a near term prospect. It may, however, work well with holographic storage.
We don't want a single technology to win. That's largely what has gotten us into this mess. Once that technology turns out to be overly problematic, you're in a hole.
Do what nature does. Everything possible. You never know who's going to win.
The best camera is the one you have with you. And to be fair, iphone 4S produces images that would make my Sony Floppy-based digicam weep.
You still have a Floppy-based Sony? Do you work for a museum? IIRC those things were 640 x 480 x 256 colors. You can get those kind of cameras in cereal boxes.
What? Your rant makes little sense. We've had small, portable ultrasounds for years. Looking at TFA I'm not seeing much of a breakthrough - they're perhaps a bit cheaper, a bit better but I don't see the breakthrough. You can buy second hand portables for a couple of grand.... No, you don't need a really expensive or sophisticated machine to do routine obstetrics work and there are thousands of cheap, used and entirely functional ultrasounds running around. It's not the lack of technology that causes much of the 'third world' medical problems. It is the social, political and economic structures that limit creation of any sort of useful infrastructure to use the technology.
You can go buy one off the Internet without a medical degree - you just need a valid credit card. You can't charge people to have their gall bladders looked into. At that point you are 'practicing medicine'. But you can run around and impress your friends should you be so inclined. You can be as innovative as you like. That's not the problem at all.
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Because the lead time for these things is so long that you don't know what kind of jackass behavior politicians in the future will pull off.
Contingency planning.
Do you have any idea how many Cessna 172's are located in the US? A 12 gauge shotgun and a 172 would have those things in pieces. It be like goose season.
That, my friends, is why we have the Second Amendment.
Kinda sad if this is really news - it's just a minor engineering test. But I have to admit dropping multi ton objects in a pond would be a fun job.
Wow, I knew science funding was bad but this is incredible.
Can't they find you a pup tent or something?
Maybe you could sleep in your car?
Actually, capitalism on the whole, has been pretty darn good for the world.
(Looks around)
Checks CO2 levels. ...
Checks water purity.
Checks air pollution levels.
Evaluates pesticides in food.
Looks at doctor's bill.
Yep, pretty good. If you define 'good' as maximal help for a limited class of human beings at the expense of large swaths of the population and the planet.
Slashdot Post: 10:12AM
400 word response: @10:21AM
Your response: 10:19AM
Someone is traveling back in time and not telling the rest of us.
Like you think Slashcode can handle something as complex as time?
Meat Popsicles!!
You're doing it wrong.
Try looking at the closeup image. You know, the one that shows the nice, rounded stones. Just like the ones you'd find in a stream bed.
Don't worry. It said 'Address is Approximate' - they'll never be able to find you.
Flying is a privilege, not a right.
Wrong.
Current US Code addresses air travel specifically. In 49 U.S.C. 40103, "Sovereignty and use of airspace", the Code specifies that "A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace."
This comes out of the common law right to freedom of movement which includes the use of conveyances appropriate to the time. Our modern society operates on the assumption of a right to air travel.
The way I read it is that your are perfectly within your inalienable rights to flap your arms hard enough to take off. Getting on a commercial aircraft, well, not so much.
What about American exceptionalism?!?
Beer is cheap. What could be better than that!
USA! USA! USA!
Despite numerous cataclysms in the past, most languages remained intact. The Rosetta Stone is basically the way forward, a translation key with all languages represented, as at least ONE modern language is sure to be comprehensible in the very distant, post-apocalyptic future.
Sounds like every 16 language foldout instruction sheet for various little electronic gizmos.
We're saved.
And, as an archeologist, I'd just throw that into a junkpile with the modern version of 'tl;dr'.
I'm guessing you're willing to help every hamster out there replace their stock firmware, right? Mainly because they aren't as competent as you are.
Hamsters get smartphones these days? I don't even let my dog have a phone.
Some people and their pets.
Driving at 60 mph isn't a journey. It's a goddamned career.
I would love a relatively inexpensive electric commuter car. I live in an environment that puts motorcycles at a disadvantage but I don't really need an engine that's a whole lot bigger. I would even be willing to sacrifice some crash worthiness - after all, I wouldn't plan on getting it past 35 mph. But to pass US Federal safety standards, it has to survive a high speed crash with a Hummer.
We need to rethink how we do vehicles. The little electric I envision would not be useful for a two week trip out into the hinterlands of Canada with the dogs and camping gear, but I only do that twice a year....
By your metrics, we should also be planning on fusion....
By all means, keep up the research. We really have no idea what future advances in materials sciences will bring. I don't see hydrogen as a near term prospect. It may, however, work well with holographic storage.
We don't want a single technology to win. That's largely what has gotten us into this mess. Once that technology turns out to be overly problematic, you're in a hole.
Do what nature does. Everything possible. You never know who's going to win.
The best camera is the one you have with you. And to be fair, iphone 4S produces images that would make my Sony Floppy-based digicam weep.
You still have a Floppy-based Sony? Do you work for a museum? IIRC those things were 640 x 480 x 256 colors. You can get those kind of cameras in cereal boxes.
No, 300% markup on a BOM is pretty bog standard on an electronics device.
Get over it guys, the world isn't designed to give you your toys as cheaply as possible. That's what your parents were for.
My proctologist has been using his hose for acouple of decades and it nips small growths out of peoples. innards every day.
That was a hose. This is a snake.
Different.
I just read that the TSA is training their agents in this techniques.
Sorry to break this to you, those are the TSA agents.
What? Your rant makes little sense. We've had small, portable ultrasounds for years. Looking at TFA I'm not seeing much of a breakthrough - they're perhaps a bit cheaper, a bit better but I don't see the breakthrough. You can buy second hand portables for a couple of grand.... No, you don't need a really expensive or sophisticated machine to do routine obstetrics work and there are thousands of cheap, used and entirely functional ultrasounds running around. It's not the lack of technology that causes much of the 'third world' medical problems. It is the social, political and economic structures that limit creation of any sort of useful infrastructure to use the technology.
You can go buy one off the Internet without a medical degree - you just need a valid credit card. You can't charge people to have their gall bladders looked into. At that point you are 'practicing medicine'. But you can run around and impress your friends should you be so inclined. You can be as innovative as you like. That's not the problem at all.
I shit can it -- to me, they're no better than anti-vaxxers
Man, you seem to be really hung up on that old tech. Maybe you should consider playing around with microcomputers.
You need to stop basing your views on sitcom caricatures.
Fox News?
Fool, that's San Francisco.