Apparently you don't even know what the majority of people think. I'd love to send you to the world you want just to see the expression of horror on your face.
Drug War
Was supported by a clear majority, even legalizing Marijuana has only now reached roughly 50% support.
PATRIOT Act
Had majority support in polls and still does.
War in Iraq
Had clear majority support from 2003 to 2005.
Vietnam War
Had majority support for the first four or so years.
Bank Bailouts
First bailouts had public support.
The Department of Homeland Security
Has public support, illusion of safety is worth more than anything to people.
Why even have a network, safer to have everything on paper since then no one can break in at all. Right?
It's your job to get things to work securely, do it. All I'm hearing is a bunch of moaning about how it will make your job harder and you don't want to do that. Many companies have no trouble getting iphones and other devices to work on their network. Maybe your employer should be looking for a new IT guy.
If you don't realize how being able to access email 24/7 via an iPhone is going to increase productivity then you shouldn't be allowed near any decision ever.
A Blackberry, btw, does not cut it. A Blackberry would cost the company money (so they won't provide it to everyone) and would likely not be carried everywhere (since the user likely has an iPhone already).
The fact that so many tools around here have turned on him is pretty indicative that anybody that takes that job is probably going to suffer a similar fate.
I thought he was a giant douche bag from the beginning, everything else only made it a lot clearer. The rape charge may be character assassination. Everything else? That's just him.
If you think public education has anything to do with that or that their parents (not that they'd have time to actually raise them) would do any better then you're delusional.
It will be cheaper and you will likely have a better social life.
No it may not be cheaper. Top private schools provide very very good financial aid options, to the point of costing less than state schools for many students. Free ride if parents make under $100k and all that stuff.
The real advantage of top schools however is connections and networking. What you know never mattered. Who you know is what really matters. Followed by what you can convince them that you know.
You are describing having two satellites traveling at different velocity impact each other without utterly destroying either fragile device. Just because two satellites are in the same location at the same time does not mean one can realistically "grab" the other.
Kaiser is considered one of the better health insurance companies in the US (this from people who deal with health plans for a living) and their plans in fact cost less than those of competitors. So yes, they're very efficient.
Plus they actually give a damn about preventive care.
You already have a lot of radioactive particles in you, have fun panicking. The body does have mechanisms for dealing with genetic damage.
Essentially you spend time and effort worrying about things that will never impact you and ignore all the things that do impact you. Then you try to claim that you're being prudent rather than a hypocritical moron. In that case, there's a lot more you should be concerned about. I mean, I hope you avoid living or being anywhere near a coal power plant as well, lots of uranium being put in the air by those. And mercury. Fish have a bunch of that mercury as well, never eat any. Don't forget to avoid any places with smog or that may have pesticides sprayed. Peanut butter also contains a tiny amount of aflatoxin, one of the most carcinogenic substances known. Also avoid most buildings as according to the state of California they generally contain chemicals that are linked to cancer.
Our body has mechanisms to deal with cellular and genetic damage to a certain extent. Eventually something will kill you, worry about what is likely to kill you and not what kills out guy out of fifty million.
So how can you know that the alternative preservative won't cause health problems? How can you know every single path that the chemicals take inside the body?
Mercury is a neurotoxin that accumulates in the body.
Not all forms of mercury are identical, the half life for ethylmercury is something like a week. Of course, people like you thrive in ignorance so I doubt you ever bothered to look into any of this.
Actually, we have 30 years of history demonstrating that centrally-managed economies and monetary policy produce horrendous boom/bust business cycles;
And we've had all of the 1800s to show us that lack of government interventions leads to even more frequent cycles. Except back the things were decentralized enough that such a cycle couldn't take out the whole economy. Now they can.
Remove the government and the next depressions will have your head on a pike as some charismatic communist leader takes over by killing everyone else. Or some corporation would upgrade itself into a government and you'd get corporate feudalism. Even the Romans understood that bread and circuses are needed to keep a concentrated society stable.
If cutting the $700 billion defense budget doesn't fix it then cutting the less than $15 billion programs listed definitely won't fix it. Neither will cutting the $200 billion in all those departments.
Interestingly enough a large majority of the Department of Energy spending is related to nuclear weapons. I guess Ron Paul wants us to just dump all those nukes in a Nevada field.
SciFi is the extrapolation of technology based on science. It's fiction because it's not a true story, but it's still an educated guess based on fact.
No it's not, most of science fiction either doesn't bother or doesn't bother that much. The magic is simply called technology and no sane person would call it plausible technology. Hell, some very famous sci-fi novels could just as well have been fantasy since the science fiction is merely a device for the author to write about an aspect of humanity.
Except bitcoin is ultimately a deflationary currency, the optimal long term strategy is to hoard bitcoins. When 90+% of your currency is liquid but not in circulation stability is going to be a dream. When someone decides to cash out their hoard for another asset then you get inflation spikes and prices of everything jump out. You may even get a run on the hoard that causes massive inflation and instability.
Also, the US never built a rocket that could get to Mars for $100 million dollars.
Fail.
The Delta 2 costs around or under $100 million (going up with time it seems) and has sent eight missions to Mars.
Cute how you think the Falcon 9 costs amazingly less than the alternatives. $2600/lb to LOE. Soyuz costs the same and has been available for a few decades at that price asfaik. Granted the Falcon 9 is cheaper than the $5000/lb US rockets and space shuttles but nothing amazing in the grand scheme of things.
Basically, competition has existed for quiet some time. Also, the Delta II was itself designed by a private company.
The point is that the free market takes what is possible and lowers the price until individuals or collections of individuals can afford it.
No it doesn't, the laws of physics and practical limitations of engineering do not magically go away. The failure of supersonic commercial air travel being a great example.
You can blather on about how they "never could have done it" without NASA, but that is an unprovable, religious assertion.
Which differs from your Utopian view of us colonizing Mars by now if NASA hadn't existed how exactly?
What the fuck are you talking about? There are quintillions of dollars of mineral wealth up there! multiple private companies would have competed against each other until the price was low enough that they could do it with just a few big investors.
The cost of going into space has not decreased in some time, none of the private space corporations are making it much cheaper. Building rockets and fueling them doesn't magically get cheaper just cause you wish they did. Unlike you I can in fact read numbers.
Going into space is expensive and difficult even with modern technology. It was even more expensive and difficult 50 years ago.
No one invests tens of billions, more like hundreds of billions to be honest, in something that may give them some return on the money in 20 year. They'll spend it on something that will give them a return in three years.
You are doing nothing but talking out of your ass.
Kettle meet pot.
You can take your nothing arguments and shove them up your ass while you watch the amazing progress coming down the pike that will rip your stupid, ugly face off.
You're the one who started with insane assertions not me.
Interesting thing however is that I never said a word about the future only about your idiotic clinically insane views on "what ifs" about the past. Seek help before you kill someone, you seriously sound like you need it.
This "the private sector couldn't do it" business is nothing but BS. There is NOTHING that private industry can't do, and I can guarantee you that if it had been private industry running Apollo, we would still be on the Moon to this day, and would likely be colonizing Mars AND the asteroids.
You're clinically insane, get help. No one would pay for any of that (the costs would have been insane for the energy alone) and so no private company would do it. Even now they're doing it either for government contracts or tourism.
Private companies don't spend fifty billion on high risk ventures, they do well by not being that stupid.
In the six years since private spaceflight has been legalized, the private sector has done what it took the government 30 years to do,
By taking advantage of all the work that has been done by the government for 40 years.
My question is why you think it's so important that government sent some bureaucrats into space well before it made any financial sense? Would the world really have come to an end if people were only just now able to fly into orbit?
The same reason the government pays for basic scientific research instead of waiting till it's cheap enough for any company to do so. If not for NASA then we wouldn't be spending people into space right now private or not. The private ventures build on top of the initial research work done by the government. Hell, some are still getting funded by the government.
they've already proven the Dragon works.
So you're using a rocket being paid for by a government contract to supply a government funded space station as an example of pure private space travel?
This is information wise identical to me giving two sealed envelopes to Alice and Bob. Each contains an identical sheet of paper with either a 0 or a 1 written on it. Bob opens his envelope and sends the number to Alice. Alice then opens hers and after a minute notes it's the same as what Bob sent her.
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Apparently you don't even know what the majority of people think. I'd love to send you to the world you want just to see the expression of horror on your face.
Drug War
Was supported by a clear majority, even legalizing Marijuana has only now reached roughly 50% support.
PATRIOT Act
Had majority support in polls and still does.
War in Iraq
Had clear majority support from 2003 to 2005.
Vietnam War
Had majority support for the first four or so years.
Bank Bailouts
First bailouts had public support.
The Department of Homeland Security
Has public support, illusion of safety is worth more than anything to people.
Why even have a network, safer to have everything on paper since then no one can break in at all. Right?
It's your job to get things to work securely, do it. All I'm hearing is a bunch of moaning about how it will make your job harder and you don't want to do that. Many companies have no trouble getting iphones and other devices to work on their network. Maybe your employer should be looking for a new IT guy.
If you don't realize how being able to access email 24/7 via an iPhone is going to increase productivity then you shouldn't be allowed near any decision ever.
A Blackberry, btw, does not cut it. A Blackberry would cost the company money (so they won't provide it to everyone) and would likely not be carried everywhere (since the user likely has an iPhone already).
The fact that so many tools around here have turned on him is pretty indicative that anybody that takes that job is probably going to suffer a similar fate.
I thought he was a giant douche bag from the beginning, everything else only made it a lot clearer. The rape charge may be character assassination. Everything else? That's just him.
Exactly. Hell, after he shuts down the Department of Energy it's not like there'll even be anyone to judge the safety of those new rectors.
1) He is giving away his money. When he becomes president he will lower the president's income from the $400,000 it is, to the annual income: ~$39k.
And so lower the salary for everyone else in the government if I remember my laws. Government by the rich for the rich, sounds like a real good idea.
If you think public education has anything to do with that or that their parents (not that they'd have time to actually raise them) would do any better then you're delusional.
It will be cheaper and you will likely have a better social life.
No it may not be cheaper. Top private schools provide very very good financial aid options, to the point of costing less than state schools for many students. Free ride if parents make under $100k and all that stuff.
The real advantage of top schools however is connections and networking. What you know never mattered. Who you know is what really matters. Followed by what you can convince them that you know.
You are describing having two satellites traveling at different velocity impact each other without utterly destroying either fragile device. Just because two satellites are in the same location at the same time does not mean one can realistically "grab" the other.
Kaiser is considered one of the better health insurance companies in the US (this from people who deal with health plans for a living) and their plans in fact cost less than those of competitors. So yes, they're very efficient.
Plus they actually give a damn about preventive care.
You already have a lot of radioactive particles in you, have fun panicking. The body does have mechanisms for dealing with genetic damage.
Essentially you spend time and effort worrying about things that will never impact you and ignore all the things that do impact you. Then you try to claim that you're being prudent rather than a hypocritical moron. In that case, there's a lot more you should be concerned about. I mean, I hope you avoid living or being anywhere near a coal power plant as well, lots of uranium being put in the air by those. And mercury. Fish have a bunch of that mercury as well, never eat any. Don't forget to avoid any places with smog or that may have pesticides sprayed. Peanut butter also contains a tiny amount of aflatoxin, one of the most carcinogenic substances known. Also avoid most buildings as according to the state of California they generally contain chemicals that are linked to cancer.
Our body has mechanisms to deal with cellular and genetic damage to a certain extent. Eventually something will kill you, worry about what is likely to kill you and not what kills out guy out of fifty million.
So how can you know that the alternative preservative won't cause health problems? How can you know every single path that the chemicals take inside the body?
Thimerosal is not methylmercury.
So congratulations on writing a lot of utter gibberish.
Mercury is a neurotoxin that accumulates in the body.
Not all forms of mercury are identical, the half life for ethylmercury is something like a week. Of course, people like you thrive in ignorance so I doubt you ever bothered to look into any of this.
Actually, we have 30 years of history demonstrating that centrally-managed economies and monetary policy produce horrendous boom/bust business cycles;
And we've had all of the 1800s to show us that lack of government interventions leads to even more frequent cycles. Except back the things were decentralized enough that such a cycle couldn't take out the whole economy. Now they can.
Remove the government and the next depressions will have your head on a pike as some charismatic communist leader takes over by killing everyone else. Or some corporation would upgrade itself into a government and you'd get corporate feudalism. Even the Romans understood that bread and circuses are needed to keep a concentrated society stable.
If cutting the $700 billion defense budget doesn't fix it then cutting the less than $15 billion programs listed definitely won't fix it. Neither will cutting the $200 billion in all those departments.
Interestingly enough a large majority of the Department of Energy spending is related to nuclear weapons. I guess Ron Paul wants us to just dump all those nukes in a Nevada field.
So, congratulations on utterly failing.
SciFi is the extrapolation of technology based on science. It's fiction because it's not a true story, but it's still an educated guess based on fact.
No it's not, most of science fiction either doesn't bother or doesn't bother that much. The magic is simply called technology and no sane person would call it plausible technology. Hell, some very famous sci-fi novels could just as well have been fantasy since the science fiction is merely a device for the author to write about an aspect of humanity.
Except bitcoin is ultimately a deflationary currency, the optimal long term strategy is to hoard bitcoins. When 90+% of your currency is liquid but not in circulation stability is going to be a dream. When someone decides to cash out their hoard for another asset then you get inflation spikes and prices of everything jump out. You may even get a run on the hoard that causes massive inflation and instability.
Stop retroactively changing your statements as your idiocy is pointed out. It just makes you look like an even bigger idiot and not anyone else.
Why don't you point me out to a private company than has sent astronauts to Mars for $100 million, well?
Also, the US never built a rocket that could get to Mars for $100 million dollars.
Fail.
The Delta 2 costs around or under $100 million (going up with time it seems) and has sent eight missions to Mars.
Cute how you think the Falcon 9 costs amazingly less than the alternatives. $2600/lb to LOE. Soyuz costs the same and has been available for a few decades at that price asfaik. Granted the Falcon 9 is cheaper than the $5000/lb US rockets and space shuttles but nothing amazing in the grand scheme of things.
Basically, competition has existed for quiet some time. Also, the Delta II was itself designed by a private company.
The point is that the free market takes what is possible and lowers the price until individuals or collections of individuals can afford it.
No it doesn't, the laws of physics and practical limitations of engineering do not magically go away. The failure of supersonic commercial air travel being a great example.
You can blather on about how they "never could have done it" without NASA, but that is an unprovable, religious assertion.
Which differs from your Utopian view of us colonizing Mars by now if NASA hadn't existed how exactly?
What the fuck are you talking about? There are quintillions of dollars of mineral wealth up there! multiple private companies would have competed against each other until the price was low enough that they could do it with just a few big investors.
The cost of going into space has not decreased in some time, none of the private space corporations are making it much cheaper. Building rockets and fueling them doesn't magically get cheaper just cause you wish they did. Unlike you I can in fact read numbers.
Going into space is expensive and difficult even with modern technology. It was even more expensive and difficult 50 years ago.
No one invests tens of billions, more like hundreds of billions to be honest, in something that may give them some return on the money in 20 year. They'll spend it on something that will give them a return in three years.
You are doing nothing but talking out of your ass.
Kettle meet pot.
You can take your nothing arguments and shove them up your ass while you watch the amazing progress coming down the pike that will rip your stupid, ugly face off.
You're the one who started with insane assertions not me.
Interesting thing however is that I never said a word about the future only about your idiotic clinically insane views on "what ifs" about the past. Seek help before you kill someone, you seriously sound like you need it.
This "the private sector couldn't do it" business is nothing but BS. There is NOTHING that private industry can't do, and I can guarantee you that if it had been private industry running Apollo, we would still be on the Moon to this day, and would likely be colonizing Mars AND the asteroids.
You're clinically insane, get help. No one would pay for any of that (the costs would have been insane for the energy alone) and so no private company would do it. Even now they're doing it either for government contracts or tourism.
Private companies don't spend fifty billion on high risk ventures, they do well by not being that stupid.
In the six years since private spaceflight has been legalized, the private sector has done what it took the government 30 years to do,
By taking advantage of all the work that has been done by the government for 40 years.
My question is why you think it's so important that government sent some bureaucrats into space well before it made any financial sense? Would the world really have come to an end if people were only just now able to fly into orbit?
The same reason the government pays for basic scientific research instead of waiting till it's cheap enough for any company to do so. If not for NASA then we wouldn't be spending people into space right now private or not. The private ventures build on top of the initial research work done by the government. Hell, some are still getting funded by the government.
they've already proven the Dragon works.
So you're using a rocket being paid for by a government contract to supply a government funded space station as an example of pure private space travel?
This is information wise identical to me giving two sealed envelopes to Alice and Bob. Each contains an identical sheet of paper with either a 0 or a 1 written on it. Bob opens his envelope and sends the number to Alice. Alice then opens hers and after a minute notes it's the same as what Bob sent her.
No informational FTL just quantum weirdness.