So the cars are stopped, almost as though they were in one big tool booth.
Hire a few of the huge oversupply of men to become toll collectors, parachute them to various points along the road with supplies and plenty of ammo, inform the folks on the road that they can avoid a toll only if they get off the road, and then start randomly picking stopped vehicles, stopped for even a second, to toll. Soon enough the road would clear out. And just think of the money they could donate to the preservation of Tibetan culture! Oh, wait, they'd probably just use the money to widen the road.
Clearly NASA could have done the same thing for a billion dollars, thereby creating much-needed high tech jobs for H-1b guest workers looking for a better life here in the US. I don't understand how anyone could celebrate this economic and humanitarian travesty.
Real humans -- creatures who are not basically components of incorporations such as civilization -- are, like other sexual species, reliant on male individual combat to the death for limiting population. This will prevent incorporations (most primitively, kings that can escape challenge to individual combat from upstart young men) from existing. Individuals have very specific needs for limited resources and absent technologies supported by incorporations, tend to become very rooted in particular locations with . They'll not tolerate, let alone be able to support, mass agriculture. All you need to do is kill any incorporation that establishes presence in the biosphere, and let nature take its course.
The space transhumanists may take on the responsibility of preventing incorporations on Earth if there is no other way.
The way to fix the problem is the Netflix Prize algorithms:
If a cabal forms then they'll benefit by being shown what they want shown. No one else will be hurt. Indeed the "bury" signal from such a cabal is useful to the opponents of the cabal because the Netflix Prize algorithms just strengthen the a negative correlation. In other words, if you hate the cabal, a "bury" signal from them is a "like" signal to you and others similar to you.
Of course, this kind of relativistic prediction of preferences has been obvious for many years now. The only question is: Why has it taken so long for collaborative content sites to realize it is not just "a" solution -- it is "the" solution?
I have my ideas about the answer to that question, but suffice it to say, the vast majority of collaborative content sites have priorities that aren't really about collaborative content.
Do the math:
It is far faster, more energy efficient and easy on the environment, to fly out of the atmosphere in a suborbital trajectory, reentering near your destination.
Oh, but we have to wait for NASA to develop that and they are mothballing the shuttle program so it must be a non-starter.
Right?
If Eisenhower hadn't created NASA, we'd now have solar power satellites instead of nuclear waste and oil spills, space settlements and access to space as routine as is air passenger flight.
One of the co-founders of the ITER program (when it was starting as the Tokamak program under the Atomic Energy Commission) wrote a letter to Congress before he died, detailing why the ITER program should be canceled and replaced with a series of prize awards.
There is a class of people who can take advantages of intellectual property rights and that class of people rarely includes programmers or even engineers. The few times it happens can be likened to the noises that casinos make whenever someone wins.
That is the entire impetus behind open source.
Let's adopt the earth's inertial frame. If the wind velocity relative to the ground is higher before, than after the vehicle passes through it, then there is missing energy. Where did that energy go, "skeptics"?
Although it's true that Title VII is the primary source of hate in the US and Obama supports it, its kind of hard get really worked up and call him a "racist crazy" when he promotes a policy that will get middle class southern whites off the technosocialist welfare dole and create honest work for them in the private sector. He's hardly the only one promoting hate via Title VII and he'd be sticking his neck out pretty far to come out against it. Just look at what they did to Rand Paul! With this space transportation policy he's doing yeoman's work for race relations.
Mr.
Chairman and Distinguished Members of the Subcommittee:
I am James Bowery, Chairman
of the Coalition for Science and Commerce. We greatly appreciate the
opportunity to address the subcommittee on the critical and historic
topic of commercial incentives to open the space frontier.
The Coalition for Science
and Commerce is a grassroots network of citizen activists supporting
greater public funding for diversified scientific research and
greater private funding for proprietary technology and services. We
believe these are mutually reinforcing policies which have been
violated to the detriment of civilization. We believe in the
constitutional provision of patents of invention and that the
principles of free enterprise pertain to intellectual property. We
therefore see technology development as a private sector
responsibility. We also recognize that scientific knowledge is our
common heritage and is therefore a proper function of government. We
oppose government programs that remove procurement authority from
scientists, supposedly in service of them. Rather we support the
inclusion, on a per-grant basis, of all funding needed to purchase
the use of needed goods and services, thereby creating a
scientist-driven market for commercial high technology and services.
We also oppose government subsidy of technology development. Rather
we support legislation and policies that motivate the intelligent
investment of private risk capital in the creation of commercially
viable intellectual property.
In 1990, after a 3 year
effort with Congressman Ron Packard (CA) and a bipartisan team of
Congressional leaders, we succeeded in passing the Launch Services
Purchase Act of 1990, a law which requires NASA to procure launch
services in a commercially reasonable manner from the private sector.
The lobbying effort for this legislation came totally from taxpaying
citizens acting in their home districts without a direct financial
stake -- the kind of political intended by our country's founders,
but now rarely seen in America.
We ask citizens who work
with us for the most valuable thing they can contribute: The
voluntary and targeted investment of time, energy and resources in
specific issues and positions which they support as taxpaying
citizens of the United States. There is no collective action, no
slush-fund and no bureaucracy within the Coalition: Only citizens
encouraging each other to make the necessary sacrifices to
participate in the political process, which is their birthright and
duty as Americans. We are working to give interested taxpayers a
voice that can be heard above the din of lobbyists who seek ever
increasing government funding for their clients.
Introduction
Americans need a frontier,
not a program.
Incentives open frontiers,
not plans.
If this Subcommittee hears
no other message through the barrage of studies, projections and
policy recommendations, it must hear this message. A reformed space
policy focused on opening the space frontier through commercial
incentives will make all the difference to our future as a world, a
nation and as individuals.
Americans Need a Frontier
When Neil Armstrong stepped
foot on the moon, we won the "space race" against the
Soviets and entered two decades of diminished expectations.
The Apollo program elicited
something deep within Americans. Something almost primal. Apollo was
President Kennedy's "New Frontier." But when Americans
found it was terminated as nothing more than a Cold War contest, we
felt betrayed in ways we are still unable to articulate -- betrayed
right down to our pioneering souls. The result is that Americans will
never again truly believe i
And Seymour Cray had his own full time staff running around doing his bidding in his own little kingdom with hundreds of millions of dollars in business -- and he couldn't do any better than a third world call girl can today. So much for Cray's "genius"! Moreover, I think we can safely say that the rinky-dink bike shop of the Wright Brothers producing a glorified kite with a lawn mower engine when compared to the Saturn V demonstrates that retrograde idiocy of those who claim that independent yeoman inventors are the real contributors to technological advance.
Humans evolved these big brains because they paid for themselves in terms of acquisition of food calories. Now, those brains have inundated us with food calories and rather than burning them to do other useful stuff, the stupid lazy brains just sit there grinding away at the same old, pre-agricultural, power levels and yelling at the rest of our bodies "go exercise you stupid muscles!".
Hey BRAINS, if you're so smart, why don't you come up with a supercharger to ram more oxygen into those idle neurons that need firing up?
HUH?
You think technological civilization has all the intelligence it needs or something?
The effect of flight to Mach 1 produces large changes in the air pressures that support, retard, twist, pitch, roll, and yaw an airplane. But man edged past this speed into the realm of supersonic flight, and by the time Mach 1.5 was attained, airplanes had undergone a vast transition in technology. Some men saw in this transition the basis for pushing much farther up the flight corridor. In the early 1950's, a few visionary men looked far up that corridor and became intrigued by a goal much closer than the theoretical limit at the speed of light. They saw that the corridor flared dramatically upward at orbital speed (Mach 24), leading out of the Earth's atmosphere into space, defining the start of a path to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Now, I suppose Mr. Pedant is going to point out that Mach 22 is off by a whole 1539.35 mph.
From the FX claim Sorb currently trading at a 10% chance of coming true:
Suborbital transportation will exceed high-mach air transportation by the year 2020. "Suborbital" means any high-mach, non-orbital flight where the majority of the distance is covered without benefit of locally available gasses as the primary propulsion reaction mass. "High-mach" means the majority of the distance is covered at a speed of mach 2.5 or greater. "Non-orbital" means the total flight path distance is less than the circumfrence of the earth. "Locally available" excludes gasses that have been stored within the vehicle for more than 3 minutes. The metric for comparison will include passenger, luggage and cargo ton-miles over the entirety of the year 2020 as published in standard industry surveys.
The drill and practice engine driving the vocabulary lessons of virtually all language courses was built around a model of short term vs long term memory where an erroneous answer would provide the negative feedback along with the correct answer and then almost immediately re-present the vocabulary term but a series of correct answers would shift that term further and further back in the queue so that the next time it appeared would help drive it into long term memory.
It was quite effective and actually made something that could be somewhat tedious actually entertaining.
PLATO I was born 50 years ago and PLATO IV was the first version that had anything resembling "social networking" (although PLATO III running on Cray's first computer -- Cyber 1604 -- did have real time multiuser games).
Slashdot Mirror
Hire a few of the huge oversupply of men to become toll collectors, parachute them to various points along the road with supplies and plenty of ammo, inform the folks on the road that they can avoid a toll only if they get off the road, and then start randomly picking stopped vehicles, stopped for even a second, to toll. Soon enough the road would clear out. And just think of the money they could donate to the preservation of Tibetan culture! Oh, wait, they'd probably just use the money to widen the road.
NEVER MIND...
Colonialist pig should have stayed in South Africa to be hung upside down, tenderized and bled to death. Its only justice.
Clearly NASA could have done the same thing for a billion dollars, thereby creating much-needed high tech jobs for H-1b guest workers looking for a better life here in the US. I don't understand how anyone could celebrate this economic and humanitarian travesty.
Ooops... make that Carver Mead, Addison Wesley 1989
The space transhumanists may take on the responsibility of preventing incorporations on Earth if there is no other way.
See Bringing Life to the Stars by David Duemler for some discussion of this kind of potential.
If a cabal forms then they'll benefit by being shown what they want shown. No one else will be hurt. Indeed the "bury" signal from such a cabal is useful to the opponents of the cabal because the Netflix Prize algorithms just strengthen the a negative correlation. In other words, if you hate the cabal, a "bury" signal from them is a "like" signal to you and others similar to you.
Of course, this kind of relativistic prediction of preferences has been obvious for many years now. The only question is: Why has it taken so long for collaborative content sites to realize it is not just "a" solution -- it is "the" solution?
I have my ideas about the answer to that question, but suffice it to say, the vast majority of collaborative content sites have priorities that aren't really about collaborative content.
Do the math: It is far faster, more energy efficient and easy on the environment, to fly out of the atmosphere in a suborbital trajectory, reentering near your destination. Oh, but we have to wait for NASA to develop that and they are mothballing the shuttle program so it must be a non-starter. Right?
Are the guys teaching this stuff the same ones that failed to predict the financial bubble?
If Eisenhower hadn't created NASA, we'd now have solar power satellites instead of nuclear waste and oil spills, space settlements and access to space as routine as is air passenger flight.
Read all about it here.
There is a class of people who can take advantages of intellectual property rights and that class of people rarely includes programmers or even engineers. The few times it happens can be likened to the noises that casinos make whenever someone wins. That is the entire impetus behind open source.
At the point the vehicle's velocity exactly matches the wind's velocity, the vertical axis turbine is imparting no thrust vector.
Let's adopt the earth's inertial frame. If the wind velocity relative to the ground is higher before, than after the vehicle passes through it, then there is missing energy. Where did that energy go, "skeptics"?
Although it's true that Title VII is the primary source of hate in the US and Obama supports it, its kind of hard get really worked up and call him a "racist crazy" when he promotes a policy that will get middle class southern whites off the technosocialist welfare dole and create honest work for them in the private sector. He's hardly the only one promoting hate via Title VII and he'd be sticking his neck out pretty far to come out against it. Just look at what they did to Rand Paul! With this space transportation policy he's doing yeoman's work for race relations.
Necessity and Incentives Opening the Space Frontier
Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Space
by James Bowery, Chairman
Coalition for Science and Commerce
July 31, 1991
Mr. Chairman and Distinguished Members of the Subcommittee:
I am James Bowery, Chairman of the Coalition for Science and Commerce. We greatly appreciate the opportunity to address the subcommittee on the critical and historic topic of commercial incentives to open the space frontier.
The Coalition for Science and Commerce is a grassroots network of citizen activists supporting greater public funding for diversified scientific research and greater private funding for proprietary technology and services. We believe these are mutually reinforcing policies which have been violated to the detriment of civilization. We believe in the constitutional provision of patents of invention and that the principles of free enterprise pertain to intellectual property. We therefore see technology development as a private sector responsibility. We also recognize that scientific knowledge is our common heritage and is therefore a proper function of government. We oppose government programs that remove procurement authority from scientists, supposedly in service of them. Rather we support the inclusion, on a per-grant basis, of all funding needed to purchase the use of needed goods and services, thereby creating a scientist-driven market for commercial high technology and services. We also oppose government subsidy of technology development. Rather we support legislation and policies that motivate the intelligent investment of private risk capital in the creation of commercially viable intellectual property.
In 1990, after a 3 year effort with Congressman Ron Packard (CA) and a bipartisan team of Congressional leaders, we succeeded in passing the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990, a law which requires NASA to procure launch services in a commercially reasonable manner from the private sector. The lobbying effort for this legislation came totally from taxpaying citizens acting in their home districts without a direct financial stake -- the kind of political intended by our country's founders, but now rarely seen in America.
We ask citizens who work with us for the most valuable thing they can contribute: The voluntary and targeted investment of time, energy and resources in specific issues and positions which they support as taxpaying citizens of the United States. There is no collective action, no slush-fund and no bureaucracy within the Coalition: Only citizens encouraging each other to make the necessary sacrifices to participate in the political process, which is their birthright and duty as Americans. We are working to give interested taxpayers a voice that can be heard above the din of lobbyists who seek ever increasing government funding for their clients.
Introduction
Americans need a frontier, not a program.
Incentives open frontiers, not plans.
If this Subcommittee hears no other message through the barrage of studies, projections and policy recommendations, it must hear this message. A reformed space policy focused on opening the space frontier through commercial incentives will make all the difference to our future as a world, a nation and as individuals.
Americans Need a Frontier
When Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon, we won the "space race" against the Soviets and entered two decades of diminished expectations.
The Apollo program elicited something deep within Americans. Something almost primal. Apollo was President Kennedy's "New Frontier." But when Americans found it was terminated as nothing more than a Cold War contest, we felt betrayed in ways we are still unable to articulate -- betrayed right down to our pioneering souls. The result is that Americans will never again truly believe i
And Seymour Cray had his own full time staff running around doing his bidding in his own little kingdom with hundreds of millions of dollars in business -- and he couldn't do any better than a third world call girl can today. So much for Cray's "genius"! Moreover, I think we can safely say that the rinky-dink bike shop of the Wright Brothers producing a glorified kite with a lawn mower engine when compared to the Saturn V demonstrates that retrograde idiocy of those who claim that independent yeoman inventors are the real contributors to technological advance.
Humans evolved these big brains because they paid for themselves in terms of acquisition of food calories. Now, those brains have inundated us with food calories and rather than burning them to do other useful stuff, the stupid lazy brains just sit there grinding away at the same old, pre-agricultural, power levels and yelling at the rest of our bodies "go exercise you stupid muscles!".
Hey BRAINS, if you're so smart, why don't you come up with a supercharger to ram more oxygen into those idle neurons that need firing up?
HUH?
You think technological civilization has all the intelligence it needs or something?
Now that we have Mr. Pedant's "critique" at (Warp:5, Informative), get a load of what NASA says about the X-15 program:
Now, I suppose Mr. Pedant is going to point out that Mach 22 is off by a whole 1539.35 mph.
The orbital velocity of the year 2025, what else?
Boy, ya learn something every day, don'cha?
Mach 6 is still a long way from Mach 22. Mach 22 is orbital velocity.
From the FX claim Sorb currently trading at a 10% chance of coming true:
You obviously didn't work in the language lab.
The drill and practice engine driving the vocabulary lessons of virtually all language courses was built around a model of short term vs long term memory where an erroneous answer would provide the negative feedback along with the correct answer and then almost immediately re-present the vocabulary term but a series of correct answers would shift that term further and further back in the queue so that the next time it appeared would help drive it into long term memory.
It was quite effective and actually made something that could be somewhat tedious actually entertaining.
PLATO I was born 50 years ago and PLATO IV was the first version that had anything resembling "social networking" (although PLATO III running on Cray's first computer -- Cyber 1604 -- did have real time multiuser games).
TFA: "and the ability to fuel with algae, protecting our environment"
All I can say is "short this now".
Literally anything can have "the ability to fuel with algae".
These guys are really reaching for the dumb money. That's a sign of desperation and/or a con.
Of course, I may be unfair to these guys given the kinds of people the capital markets have put in charge of investments...