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Whoa there dude! Check your keyboard, somebody might have slipped you a Dvorak.
Yeah, there are regulations concerning the rights to your own picture. That is beside the point, though - If I pulled the same thing right here, I wouldn't have my servers seized and I damn sure wouldn't have the secret service come after me. Worst that would happen would be a cease and desist letter from someone depicted that didn't like it.
That's a valid issue. We need to give these guys (and they're guys) in law enforcement some anti testosterone treatments (or just buy them some MacBooks, I suppose). Not everyone has a closet full of assault rifles and grenades. You don't need to deconstruct this guys hard drives at a molecular level.
America is quickly becoming what used to be known as a third world nation. Our space program is now below the Russians and Chinese in terms of capability. We are selling our roads, power plants, ports and other basic infrastructure. So it goes.
Oh really? The Russians have Soyuz - a 1960's design launched on upgraded 1970's military boosters. Not to denigrate them - they've done an impressive yeoman's job of tossing stuff up in the air and getting it back. They are the number 2 contributor to the ISS. But they have done little else (in the manned spacecraft sector). The Chinese have, wait for it, a copy of the Soyuz and some Grand Ambitions (these are pretty inexpensive, I can sell you a couple at a big discount if you are interested).
I don't think anyone wishes or imagined that the situation would have been this bleak coming into the 21st Century, but there you have it. Reality is a bitch. Yep, we've got enormous problems with infrastructure in the US and we should be doing much better. However, to call us a 'third world nation' in space is really pretty stupid. Even for an AC.
You mean billionaire's toys. There is no short-term profit to be had in space. The private 'Space Industry' will be deader than Nasa in under 10 years.
Perhaps we should just run with that and see what happens (not that we have much of a choice). During the past 10 years, NASA hasn't done much for the manned space program (unmanned is a different story). And rather recently we have seen this weird development of isolated billionaire nerds. Maybe that's what we need. Don't forget, the Chinese are creating a similar class of uber wealthy individuals as are the Indians. A couple of these people locked in a competition for the first Space Lord could be very interesting indeed.
I hope the Russians can keep the ISS up on their own. As soon as Atlantis pulls away from it to return to Earth, the betting pool opens.
You now, If somebody at NASA had some big balls this could work to it's advantage.
Congresscritter: "We're shutting off funding for the ISS, the James Web Telescope and further research on Tang - we don't have the money."
Guido from NASA: "That's a nice city you have there. Shame for something to happen to it. You know, those reentry calculations are really quite difficult and it's easy to mess up the numbers. Better if we had enough money to ensure that sort of thing could never, ever happen."
Unfortunately, the next statement from the politician would be something along the line of "look, a pony!" - I doubt they would even begin to understand the concept. But it's a pleasant enough thought.
It would be fun to be part of the Space Enforcers....
What's the matter, AC? Hit a nerve or something? The complex issue of how we power this technological terror we've created is very much a geek subject. Various branches of science, lots of engineering, some biology and unhappily politics and social studies all fold together in a giant sticky mess.
But if it bothers you too much, just hang out on the "what's the best Linux distro" thread. It's a good question and doesn't require peering into your soul all that much. And log in if you're going to complain, will you?
You're trying to imply that since I am not getting filthy rich buying oil futures (maybe I am, you don't know) that oil scarcity isn't an issue. However, the point you seem to be missing is the realization that oil cannot get too expensive (for extensive references on this, go back to the Oil Drum). At some point (probably just north of $100 / barrel, but that's debatable) demand drops off so trying to keep it in the ground only goes so far.
You are also missing the concept that oil producers are pretty much running flat out now - not to gouge the market, but because they need the money. Saudi Arabia needs to crank out lots of Petrodollars to keep their population sedated. Russia needs the money NOW. And so does Alaska and everybody else.
So oil (and coal and tar sands, etc) are not really amenable to just leaving them in place and waiting for the market to shower gold at you at some unspecified time in the future. Doesn't work that way. But fossil fuels are not being sold at replacement value because the economies that depend on FF can't take that number. What happens when the easy oil runs out - fairly soon if it hasn't already happened - is unclear but it doesn't look like roses and kisses to me.
He's got a point on wasting money on ethanol subsidies though. That crap needs to stop. I found a station near me that sells pure gasoline and my fuel economy jumped about 3% after switching. Not much, I know, but over the course of a work week that's worked out to an extra day of driving before I have to fill up.
And you're giving money to those Godless heathens in the Middle East (or Norway, whatever) instead of paying to support American farmers.
Here is the base problem: It's not that everything else is too expensive, it's that fossil fuels are too cheap. Too cheap in the long run. We've had a something like 100 year run on FF and we're going to run out of cheap versions of it (the Peak Oil concept). We're too stupid and spoiled as a culture to really put the money down for the next base power technology so we're going to run up the credit card now and really have to change our minds on how we live in the not so distant future.
There is plenty of power around. We waste a perfectly enormous amounts of it and we know how not to, but it's not easy changing the way that billions of people do things.
So the invisible hand will slap the ever living crap out of us in about 50-60 years. Our grandkids will wake up with one hella hangover.
1. Batteries and other storage forms
2. Transmission lines
3. There has to be some good that came from stealing Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah from the Mexicans a couple of centuries ago.
Things like solar and will will eventually become economical, but not in the immediate future.
As opposed to nuclear and it's ability to operate in the free economic market without government handouts, protections and subsidies? Ah, I get it. Or, rather not.
While at some level I agree with Gates that nuclear has the best chance of serving our near term (20-40 year) base load generation AND that we're better served putting a bunch more money in R&D (or at least getting rid of the remaining Gen I BWRs and the like an figuring out what to do with those neat glowing blue pools of spent fuel rods), it's not like anything other than fossil fuels can 'compete with the market'.
Now, we can argue about how fossil fuels don't count for external costs like running out of fossil fuels. pollution, gbobal warming^Hclimate change^Herrnevermind, but then we get into a discussion about economics and I don't want to ruin a perfectly good morning with that sort of unpleasantness.
Or, a perfectly cromulent explanation from an AC above:
I normally don't post on slashdot, but since this is related to my field (I am a chemist) and there have been a lot of comments about how bad this must be because of the possibility of building resistance, I felt obligated to clarify this after looking into it.
As far as anti-microbial substances work, this is about as simple as it gets. All bacteria have cell membranes consisting of a lipid bilayer - it's basically two layers of negatively-charged water-loving stuff attached to a fatty part in the middle that stays away from water. This treatment uses a polymer that can pass through the cell membrane, with positively-charged bits making it inside the membrane. The positively-charged parts on the polymer attract the negatively-charged parts on the membrane and cause it to come apart enough for the cell to die.
Many other antibiotics are based on small molecules that interrupting some metabolic process of bacteria. Bacteria develop resistance by making enzymes that will break down these small molecules once inside the cell. This new method attacks the outside of the cell directly, not something inside the cell. It wouldn't be impossible for bacteria to develop immunity to this, but it would be comparably very improbable.
No wonder you don't normally post on Slashdot. You demonstrate a reasonable comprehension of the concepts discussed and furthermore can explain your thoughts in perfectly comprehensible English.
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Storp it with your heterosexist bungholibg on thiscpompiupter I DEMAND ityou to apoiligive! Ifnthe the one thins hiujwqikj Poop the to sensitivityuir itis th=e male assholes who are alwaqyasnmtallkinghere aout their stipqoiojnrke ppoojbvytwq. So fiuck that! No no no no npo no np andNO! ass
Whoa there dude! Check your keyboard, somebody might have slipped you a Dvorak.
OK, you quaff down a bunch of those 'energy drinks' and see if your relationship to space, time (and the bathroom) don't change.
An interesting tale about the HDMI spec.
No kidding? The IMF is the banker's bank: Of the banks, by the banks, for the banks.
It seems more like
"One Bank to rule them all, One Bank to find them,
One Bank to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"
"For all your dinosaur needs"
Don't anyone tell Randall
Yeah, there are regulations concerning the rights to your own picture. That is beside the point, though - If I pulled the same thing right here, I wouldn't have my servers seized and I damn sure wouldn't have the secret service come after me. Worst that would happen would be a cease and desist letter from someone depicted that didn't like it.
That's a valid issue. We need to give these guys (and they're guys) in law enforcement some anti testosterone treatments (or just buy them some MacBooks, I suppose). Not everyone has a closet full of assault rifles and grenades. You don't need to deconstruct this guys hard drives at a molecular level.
Save you breath for truly important cases.
So you don't actually know what the Secret Service is, right? That's what you're saying your actual, real problem is.
Nobody knows what the Secret Service is. They're secret. Sheesh.
What is a papatatzi?
Paparazzi with a tattoo?
America is quickly becoming what used to be known as a third world nation. Our space program is now below the Russians and Chinese in terms of capability. We are selling our roads, power plants, ports and other basic infrastructure. So it goes.
Oh really? The Russians have Soyuz - a 1960's design launched on upgraded 1970's military boosters. Not to denigrate them - they've done an impressive yeoman's job of tossing stuff up in the air and getting it back. They are the number 2 contributor to the ISS. But they have done little else (in the manned spacecraft sector). The Chinese have, wait for it, a copy of the Soyuz and some Grand Ambitions (these are pretty inexpensive, I can sell you a couple at a big discount if you are interested).
I don't think anyone wishes or imagined that the situation would have been this bleak coming into the 21st Century, but there you have it. Reality is a bitch. Yep, we've got enormous problems with infrastructure in the US and we should be doing much better. However, to call us a 'third world nation' in space is really pretty stupid. Even for an AC.
You mean billionaire's toys. There is no short-term profit to be had in space. The private 'Space Industry' will be deader than Nasa in under 10 years.
Perhaps we should just run with that and see what happens (not that we have much of a choice). During the past 10 years, NASA hasn't done much for the manned space program (unmanned is a different story). And rather recently we have seen this weird development of isolated billionaire nerds. Maybe that's what we need. Don't forget, the Chinese are creating a similar class of uber wealthy individuals as are the Indians. A couple of these people locked in a competition for the first Space Lord could be very interesting indeed.
(Cue evil laughter).
I hope the Russians can keep the ISS up on their own. As soon as Atlantis pulls away from it to return to Earth, the betting pool opens.
You now, If somebody at NASA had some big balls this could work to it's advantage.
Congresscritter: "We're shutting off funding for the ISS, the James Web Telescope and further research on Tang - we don't have the money."
Guido from NASA: "That's a nice city you have there. Shame for something to happen to it. You know, those reentry calculations are really quite difficult and it's easy to mess up the numbers. Better if we had enough money to ensure that sort of thing could never, ever happen."
Unfortunately, the next statement from the politician would be something along the line of "look, a pony!" - I doubt they would even begin to understand the concept. But it's a pleasant enough thought.
It would be fun to be part of the Space Enforcers....
I guess there are a couple of mods old enough to understand that. Let's all meet for shuffleboard!
What's the matter, AC? Hit a nerve or something? The complex issue of how we power this technological terror we've created is very much a geek subject. Various branches of science, lots of engineering, some biology and unhappily politics and social studies all fold together in a giant sticky mess.
But if it bothers you too much, just hang out on the "what's the best Linux distro" thread. It's a good question and doesn't require peering into your soul all that much. And log in if you're going to complain, will you?
You're trying to imply that since I am not getting filthy rich buying oil futures (maybe I am, you don't know) that oil scarcity isn't an issue. However, the point you seem to be missing is the realization that oil cannot get too expensive (for extensive references on this, go back to the Oil Drum). At some point (probably just north of $100 / barrel, but that's debatable) demand drops off so trying to keep it in the ground only goes so far.
You are also missing the concept that oil producers are pretty much running flat out now - not to gouge the market, but because they need the money. Saudi Arabia needs to crank out lots of Petrodollars to keep their population sedated. Russia needs the money NOW. And so does Alaska and everybody else.
So oil (and coal and tar sands, etc) are not really amenable to just leaving them in place and waiting for the market to shower gold at you at some unspecified time in the future. Doesn't work that way. But fossil fuels are not being sold at replacement value because the economies that depend on FF can't take that number. What happens when the easy oil runs out - fairly soon if it hasn't already happened - is unclear but it doesn't look like roses and kisses to me.
...why do I get the feeling that ol' Bob here is relating the beginnings of his idea of the ultimate porn flick?
Because that's about the only thing on your mind, perhaps?
He's got a point on wasting money on ethanol subsidies though. That crap needs to stop. I found a station near me that sells pure gasoline and my fuel economy jumped about 3% after switching. Not much, I know, but over the course of a work week that's worked out to an extra day of driving before I have to fill up.
And you're giving money to those Godless heathens in the Middle East (or Norway, whatever) instead of paying to support American farmers.
Why do you hate America?
2. Even if you felt that way before the article, did he actually come off as a man who didn't know what he was talking about?
Had you asked me that in the waning days of the 20th Century, I would have said exactly that.
Here is the base problem: It's not that everything else is too expensive, it's that fossil fuels are too cheap. Too cheap in the long run. We've had a something like 100 year run on FF and we're going to run out of cheap versions of it (the Peak Oil concept). We're too stupid and spoiled as a culture to really put the money down for the next base power technology so we're going to run up the credit card now and really have to change our minds on how we live in the not so distant future.
There is plenty of power around. We waste a perfectly enormous amounts of it and we know how not to, but it's not easy changing the way that billions of people do things.
So the invisible hand will slap the ever living crap out of us in about 50-60 years. Our grandkids will wake up with one hella hangover.
Solar only works when the sun is out.
I present to you several interesting concepts:
1. Batteries and other storage forms
2. Transmission lines
3. There has to be some good that came from stealing Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah from the Mexicans a couple of centuries ago.
BBQ attracts life.
Not sure how this is a valid comment on Slashdot since we're mostly running away from it here.
Why on earth is this under idle? Isn't this the type of thing that everyone on here cries about not being on Slashdot?
We're talking about Barbecue here son. This is serious. Now, run along and go bother somebody's cable modem, kid.
Things like solar and will will eventually become economical, but not in the immediate future.
As opposed to nuclear and it's ability to operate in the free economic market without government handouts, protections and subsidies? Ah, I get it. Or, rather not.
While at some level I agree with Gates that nuclear has the best chance of serving our near term (20-40 year) base load generation AND that we're better served putting a bunch more money in R&D (or at least getting rid of the remaining Gen I BWRs and the like an figuring out what to do with those neat glowing blue pools of spent fuel rods), it's not like anything other than fossil fuels can 'compete with the market'.
Now, we can argue about how fossil fuels don't count for external costs like running out of fossil fuels. pollution, gbobal warming^Hclimate change^Herrnevermind, but then we get into a discussion about economics and I don't want to ruin a perfectly good morning with that sort of unpleasantness.
Darinbob's point, I believe, was that it is not the responsibility of the Police to keep up the bizarre hobbies of members of the public.
Remember, the Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam.
I normally don't post on slashdot, but since this is related to my field (I am a chemist) and there have been a lot of comments about how bad this must be because of the possibility of building resistance, I felt obligated to clarify this after looking into it.
As far as anti-microbial substances work, this is about as simple as it gets. All bacteria have cell membranes consisting of a lipid bilayer - it's basically two layers of negatively-charged water-loving stuff attached to a fatty part in the middle that stays away from water. This treatment uses a polymer that can pass through the cell membrane, with positively-charged bits making it inside the membrane. The positively-charged parts on the polymer attract the negatively-charged parts on the membrane and cause it to come apart enough for the cell to die.
Many other antibiotics are based on small molecules that interrupting some metabolic process of bacteria. Bacteria develop resistance by making enzymes that will break down these small molecules once inside the cell. This new method attacks the outside of the cell directly, not something inside the cell. It wouldn't be impossible for bacteria to develop immunity to this, but it would be comparably very improbable.
No wonder you don't normally post on Slashdot. You demonstrate a reasonable comprehension of the concepts discussed and furthermore can explain your thoughts in perfectly comprehensible English.
This is a pretty lonely place for folks like you.