The question is, what is the tangible benifit of sending people to the moon/Mars/Jupiter/Proxima Centauri?
Because we can. More serious: to spread the human genome and getting better survival chances if some catastrophe sterilizes the solar system or it reaches an equilibrium state with no entropy gradient left. So that some human can carry on the real purpose (IMHO) of being here: finding out how the universe works (before it reaches heat death - yes, i demand you silly gamers turn off your gaming machines NOW;)).
Citation needed. I never heard about 200 rockets (more like a dozen or so) and not everyday in the news.
You might argue that some of the people in Gaza
don't fire rockets at Israel every day. True, but
they clearly support it. We know this not only
from their own mouths, but also from the fact that
they sit by while it happens.
Similar: if you let a friend run a meth lab in
your house, do not be surprised if the cops
arrest you and take your house. Blaming your
friend will not significantly help your defense.
You let shit happen in your house, you face the
consequences.
Your analogy is broken. My own house != the country i live in. Not even your last paragraph stands if i live in an apartment.
My bank uses numbered TANs (sent by snail-mail) and asks for a TAN (on transaction) via number in a captcha. I don't see what's so bad about that method.
Well, this article is not solely on sick babies. It's also about tests for breast cancer gene mutations which the corporation in question threatens to stop if these hospitals would conduct the test (for epilepsy) in-house (and by that action infringe on IP of that corp.).
It's just the latest example I found why IP on DNA is bad for healthcare. Maybe this doesn't mix well with the rest of my comment, but I was just too lazy. Furthermore, this article just isn't plain black/white (they chose a bad headline, agreed).
I don't have to watch the whole video to judge it as propaganda. Just watch how he repeats his initial claim about how GM crops save lives over and over again without any facts to base it on (BTW, i stopped watching after he pulled of this ridicolous card game stunt). And FYI, a story why patents on, espececially human, genetic code are a really bad idea: Sick babies denied treatment in DNA row
To build hypotheses, true. But am I the only one who thinks that an "estimated(sic!) 20%" isn't much of a difference for the uncertainties involved in this study?
Ubuntu isn't as well suited for mobile devices as fedora is?
It just goes to show that Ubuntu being popular has nothing to do with it's packaging system OR anything to do with it being any good as a distribution. Mark Shuttleworth really knows how to market things..
You think? I use Ubuntu because Debian stable is outdated most of the time. And for me one major reason for Debian is it's package managment system. Just look how many distros are based on Debian vs. how many are based on fedora or openSuSe (distrowatch).
I didn't even understand the description on the mainsite. Does it actually have anything to do with speech recognition? Only thing i understood was "telephony" and "creation of voice"...
IANAMM (mirror maker), but isn't grinding the mirror into shape not the task you spend most of the time with? I think that's a little bit more complicated in a lunar environment than on earth.
On the moon he can still only lift 3 times his earth weight. Perhaps you meant mass.
What would be really interesting: how does he lift this mass? If his technique depends on lifting fast, he may be in trouble. Inertia is still the same.
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The question is, what is the tangible benifit of sending people to the moon/Mars/Jupiter/Proxima Centauri?
Because we can. More serious: to spread the human genome and getting better survival chances if some catastrophe sterilizes the solar system or it reaches an equilibrium state with no entropy gradient left. So that some human can carry on the real purpose (IMHO) of being here: finding out how the universe works (before it reaches heat death - yes, i demand you silly gamers turn off your gaming machines NOW ;)).
If you want to know where the exit is, just ask.
they fire 200 rockets per day
Citation needed. I never heard about 200 rockets (more like a dozen or so) and not everyday in the news.
You might argue that some of the people in Gaza don't fire rockets at Israel every day. True, but they clearly support it. We know this not only from their own mouths, but also from the fact that they sit by while it happens.
Similar: if you let a friend run a meth lab in your house, do not be surprised if the cops arrest you and take your house. Blaming your friend will not significantly help your defense. You let shit happen in your house, you face the consequences.
Your analogy is broken. My own house != the country i live in. Not even your last paragraph stands if i live in an apartment.
"You mess with a TLA and you will define CLM to OED levels"
What?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Definitions
WTH is this funny?
Why? It's already on that list: Firefox aka Iceweasel (Debian "fork" of Firefox).
The problem is not that the aren't enough options. The problem is, that these options yield the same result.
Or, maybe, you're just getting old. ;)
Every physicist you ask will know these guys and recommend they're work: Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz
My bank uses numbered TANs (sent by snail-mail) and asks for a TAN (on transaction) via number in a captcha. I don't see what's so bad about that method.
Well, this article is not solely on sick babies. It's also about tests for breast cancer gene mutations which the corporation in question threatens to stop if these hospitals would conduct the test (for epilepsy) in-house (and by that action infringe on IP of that corp.).
It's just the latest example I found why IP on DNA is bad for healthcare. Maybe this doesn't mix well with the rest of my comment, but I was just too lazy. Furthermore, this article just isn't plain black/white (they chose a bad headline, agreed).
I don't have to watch the whole video to judge it as propaganda. Just watch how he repeats his initial claim about how GM crops save lives over and over again without any facts to base it on (BTW, i stopped watching after he pulled of this ridicolous card game stunt). And FYI, a story why patents on, espececially human, genetic code are a really bad idea: Sick babies denied treatment in DNA row
and if we can't see it or taste it, who cares if it's there?
X-Rays FTW!
If this was a reference, i didn't get it. Care to explain?
To build hypotheses, true. But am I the only one who thinks that an "estimated(sic!) 20%" isn't much of a difference for the uncertainties involved in this study?
Something tells me that tanks with corner cube reflectors will be easily detected and fall prey to conventional weapons...
Use a lightsaber or sth. similar. Cauterizing the wound while cutting the finger off should do the trick.
Standard deviation = 0
It took off like a rocket and then Intel dumped it for an RPM-based distro.
Go figure.
Ubuntu isn't as well suited for mobile devices as fedora is?
It just goes to show that Ubuntu being popular has nothing to do with it's packaging system OR anything to do with it being any good as a distribution. Mark Shuttleworth really knows how to market things..
You think? I use Ubuntu because Debian stable is outdated most of the time. And for me one major reason for Debian is it's package managment system. Just look how many distros are based on Debian vs. how many are based on fedora or openSuSe (distrowatch).
I didn't even understand the description on the mainsite. Does it actually have anything to do with speech recognition? Only thing i understood was "telephony" and "creation of voice"...
The german government increased funding for CERN projects by about 90 million EUR for the next 3 years just a few days ago.
You simply could stop reading /. at all if you have to get drunk before reading, you know.
IANAMM (mirror maker), but isn't grinding the mirror into shape not the task you spend most of the time with? I think that's a little bit more complicated in a lunar environment than on earth.
What would be really interesting: how does he lift this mass? If his technique depends on lifting fast, he may be in trouble. Inertia is still the same.