Opportunity took 15 years to travel 28 miles, a human runner can do it in under 3 hours
Hold on there, Speedy Gonzalez. Elite marathon runners can complete a marathon in under 3 hours. There is no way an astronaut in full gear can do the same on Mars, even with its lower gravity.
Further, you are forgetting Opportunity wasn't moving for all 28 miles. It had to stop, get commands from Earth, perform commands, send back data, and figure out where to go next. Even a human would have to stop to perform experiments.
Next to religion, insurance is the biggest scam going, especially health insurance. As one comedian put it:
Insurance companies are like the mafia. It sure would be a shame if something happened to your family.
What this guy is doing is essentially the same thing. He wants you to pay more on the off chance the person you went to see (what about the rest of the team?) isn't there. In both instances, whether the person is there or not, they keep this premium and only pay out in exceptionally rare circumstances.
I'm sure there will be people gullible enough to hand over their money. It's how scams work.
All I want to know is how to get rid of the three extraneous bars which appear below the address bar when I start typing an address. First started in version shitty 65 (it was forced on me at work) and the documentation for it doesn't say what these bars are for.
And yet, somehow, this is exactly what the con artist does every single day. Obama, Hillary, Democrats, the news media, nothing is every his fault. It's always somebody else.
It's not like this wasn't foretold. All Loeb had to do was read the three books by Arthur C. Clarke (two co-written with Gentry Lee).
The problem is, we didn't have any spacecraft able to intercept the object and have people land on it when they found the docking port. We missed our first opportunity with alien technology.
Now we'll have to wait until the next one comes round and answers some of our questions. We need to get ready now so when the next opportunity presents itself, it won't be wasted.
There are instruments left on the Moon, and the laser reflector is used till this day to measure the distance, with proper equipment might be done by an amateur.
I'm pretty sure when you signed up for these services that somewhere in the agreement they say you are not allowed to give your information to one million of your closest friends, or use the service in any other than for your personal enjoyment (i.e. no streaming it to the world).
If your next statement is along the lines, "I don't care what the agreement says", then you're the reason these companies are taking these steps.
In their grand hunt for more profits, Apple is killing the golden goose. The blunder of the latest iPhone rollouts, their continued irrelevance of their iPad/Book/Pro lines with similarly high prices and underperformance, combined with their entire abandonment of anything desktop related, Apple will, unless there is a huge shakeup, fade back into the backwaters of computing history.
While there will always be people gullible enough to shell out $1,000 for a phone which plays music, the inflection point of people waking up to the reality of how much money they're wasting on phones is coming due. With only incremental "improvements", justifying exorbitant costs for meager gains will and is starting to come into play.
At this point, there isn't a good justification to buy an Apple phone other than its supposed exclusivity and for its fanboys. There isn't even a reason to buy their overpriced laptops which require multiple adapters to get it to work.
Apple needs to get its act together, and soon. The goose is getting long in the tooth and its ability to continue laying golden eggs is becoming doubtful. There is a huge market for people who are tired of Microsoft's crap, yet Apple seems vowed and determined to ignore those tens of millions of potential customers, all because they can make a few bucks now on a phone.
When farmers purchase a patented seed variety, they sign an agreement that they will not save and replant seeds produced from the seed they buy from us. More than 325,000 farmers a year buy seed under these agreements in the United States. Other seed companies sell their seed under similar provisions. They understand the basic simplicity of the agreement, which is that a business must be paid for its product. The vast majority of farmers understand and appreciate our research and are willing to pay for our inventions and the value they provide. They donâ(TM)t think it's fair that some farmers donâ(TM)t pay.
A very small percentage of farmers do not honor this agreement. Monsanto does become aware, through our own actions or through third-parties, of individuals who are suspected of violating our patents and agreements. Where we do find violations, we are able to settle most of these cases without ever going to trial. In many cases, these farmers remain our customers. Sometimes however, we are forced to resort to lawsuits. This is a relatively rare circumstance, with 147 lawsuits filed since 1997 in the United States. This averages about 8 per year for the past 18 years. To date, only 9 cases have gone through full trial. In every one of these instances, the jury or court decided in our favor.
The Bowman case has come about after the 75-year-old farmer bought soybeans from a grain elevator near his farm in Indiana and used them to plant a late-season second crop. He then used some of the resulting seeds to replant such crops in subsequent years. Because he bought them from a third party which put no restrictions on their use, Bowman has argued he is legally able to plant and replant them and that Monsanto's patent on the seeds' genes does not apply.
Monsanto, which has won its case against Bowman in lower courts, vociferously disagrees. It argues that it needs its patents in order to protect its business interests and provide a motivation for spending millions of dollars on research and development of hardier, disease-resistant seeds that can boost food yields.
, they have the responsibility to help them. It may not be their job, but they own it now.
No. It is not the responsibility of the JS to do anything for people. Their sole job is, as I said before, to punish people for breaking the law.
There are a multitude of other groups whose job it is to find people with problems and help them. They are the ones who should be working in coordination with the JS.
That said, someone like this doesn't deserve to get out of their situation. It was all on them.
The biggest problem is the Justice Systems will more likely punish people for breaking laws, vs trying to get them out of the catch 22 situations.
The purpose of the Justice System is punish those who break laws. Sometimes the punishment is harsh, others time you're let off with a warning. Regardless, it is not the responsibility of the Justice System to get people out of their situation. The JS can make recommendations on how to improve the person's life, but it is up to the person to act.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but why not just take the stairs if you're in a hurry?
Because people are lazy. They think running up a crowded escalator is faster than taking open stairs. I have tried this on several occasions. Pick someone on the escalator and walk up the stairs. Without exception I always arrive ahead of them. If I take the stairs faster, I'm already on my way while they're still stuck.
The same with parking lots. People will slowly drive around, looking for a close spot while I park further away. While I'm on my way into the building, they're just pulling into a spot or getting out of their car.
Laziness short circuits common sense in some situations. Going up a crowded escalator rather than using open stairs is one of those.
if they can plant sleepers and train them as pilots and have them take over airplanes and fly them into things, they can probably manage a couple of drones...
If the master race can steal explosives, manufacture a 7,000 pound bomb and detonate it next to a building, they can probably manage a couple of drones.
At least you're running something stable and quick. Having to wait for software to open on my W10 work machine is downright annoying. *double-click* Wait. Wait. Wait. Processing... Wait. Wait. Wait. Open. Wait. Now we're ready to go.
Defense spending is 15% of all federal spending and the largest category of discretionary spending. It accounts for $610 billion (as of the time of the graphic) of all federal spending.
You are correct in that there would still be an annual deficit. Current projections for 2018 show a deficit of $810 billion. That would be mean cutting defense spending in half would account for a 38% reduction in our yearly deficit.
I don't know about you, but if I could reduce my deficit by one third, that seems like a pretty good idea.
The only thing I could think of to make it better would be to have a small CO2 canister (like for BB guns), which sends the glitter flying everywhere rather than just around the box.
Other than that, maybe something even more smelly.
Thank you. I have said this (to myself) innumerable times when using Google Maps on my PC (I don't have a "smart" phone). There is no need to know where I'm at right now. All I asked for was where something else is located. That's all.
This same nonsense occurs when, on those rare occasions, I use the iPhone issued to me and use their mapping service. Apple does not need to know where I'm at when I ask for the location of an address. Just give me what I ask for.
Have to agree. For all his batshit crazy Scientology, from the little I have read, he doesn't push it on anyone.
Further, as the article alluded to, he does almost all of, it not all, his own stunts. Rappelling down buildings, skydiving, driving cars, leaping here and there, he's the one doing it. Not a stunt double.
Also, on those rare occasions I have seen him in an interview, he seems like a nice person. Maybe it's the Scientology, but he doesn't come off as stuck up or demeaning.
Give the man his due. He is accomplished. More than most likely anyone who posts here.
On a regular basis, when the "updates" and "patches" are pushed out, we invariably have people whose drivers have been replaced by these supposedly universal drivers.
Then we have to go back and put in the original drivers we use in our images to get them up and running.
I wonder how many end users will be afflicted by this bug and not have any clue how to correct things?
until a crime is committed, a person hasn't done anything wrong and should not be harrassed
And yet, if I were to fly, I would be both harassed and treated as a criminal by the TSA even though I haven't done anything.
Unfortunately, the TSA doesn't like this argument and would of course detain me because I objected to being treated like a criminal even though I hadn't yet done anything.
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The man single-handedly planted a 550 hectare forest over a period of 30 years which, oddly enough, brought back animals and even a stream to the barren land.
He has gone on to plant another 150 hectares of land nearby.
In 2016, India planted 50 million trees (saplings of various types) as part of its deal with the Paris Climate Accord.
Opportunity took 15 years to travel 28 miles, a human runner can do it in under 3 hours
Hold on there, Speedy Gonzalez. Elite marathon runners can complete a marathon in under 3 hours. There is no way an astronaut in full gear can do the same on Mars, even with its lower gravity.
Further, you are forgetting Opportunity wasn't moving for all 28 miles. It had to stop, get commands from Earth, perform commands, send back data, and figure out where to go next. Even a human would have to stop to perform experiments.
Next to religion, insurance is the biggest scam going, especially health insurance. As one comedian put it:
Insurance companies are like the mafia. It sure would be a shame if something happened to your family.
What this guy is doing is essentially the same thing. He wants you to pay more on the off chance the person you went to see (what about the rest of the team?) isn't there. In both instances, whether the person is there or not, they keep this premium and only pay out in exceptionally rare circumstances.
I'm sure there will be people gullible enough to hand over their money. It's how scams work.
All I want to know is how to get rid of the three extraneous bars which appear below the address bar when I start typing an address. First started in version shitty 65 (it was forced on me at work) and the documentation for it doesn't say what these bars are for.
And yet, somehow, this is exactly what the con artist does every single day. Obama, Hillary, Democrats, the news media, nothing is every his fault. It's always somebody else.
What about the medical arms which eviscerated the commander? Who would have thought putting useless commands into the queue could be so deadly?
It's not like this wasn't foretold. All Loeb had to do was read the three books by Arthur C. Clarke (two co-written with Gentry Lee).
The problem is, we didn't have any spacecraft able to intercept the object and have people land on it when they found the docking port. We missed our first opportunity with alien technology.
Now we'll have to wait until the next one comes round and answers some of our questions. We need to get ready now so when the next opportunity presents itself, it won't be wasted.
There are instruments left on the Moon, and the laser reflector is used till this day to measure the distance, with proper equipment might be done by an amateur.
There was a short blurb about some folks doing this very thing.
I'm pretty sure when you signed up for these services that somewhere in the agreement they say you are not allowed to give your information to one million of your closest friends, or use the service in any other than for your personal enjoyment (i.e. no streaming it to the world).
If your next statement is along the lines, "I don't care what the agreement says", then you're the reason these companies are taking these steps.
In their grand hunt for more profits, Apple is killing the golden goose. The blunder of the latest iPhone rollouts, their continued irrelevance of their iPad/Book/Pro lines with similarly high prices and underperformance, combined with their entire abandonment of anything desktop related, Apple will, unless there is a huge shakeup, fade back into the backwaters of computing history.
While there will always be people gullible enough to shell out $1,000 for a phone which plays music, the inflection point of people waking up to the reality of how much money they're wasting on phones is coming due. With only incremental "improvements", justifying exorbitant costs for meager gains will and is starting to come into play.
At this point, there isn't a good justification to buy an Apple phone other than its supposed exclusivity and for its fanboys. There isn't even a reason to buy their overpriced laptops which require multiple adapters to get it to work.
Apple needs to get its act together, and soon. The goose is getting long in the tooth and its ability to continue laying golden eggs is becoming doubtful. There is a huge market for people who are tired of Microsoft's crap, yet Apple seems vowed and determined to ignore those tens of millions of potential customers, all because they can make a few bucks now on a phone.
Right. Because Mozilla has done such a great job not screwing up Firefox.
You mean the myth of reality?
Here is one such case:
, they have the responsibility to help them. It may not be their job, but they own it now.
No. It is not the responsibility of the JS to do anything for people. Their sole job is, as I said before, to punish people for breaking the law.
There are a multitude of other groups whose job it is to find people with problems and help them. They are the ones who should be working in coordination with the JS.
That said, someone like this doesn't deserve to get out of their situation. It was all on them.
The biggest problem is the Justice Systems will more likely punish people for breaking laws, vs trying to get them out of the catch 22 situations.
The purpose of the Justice System is punish those who break laws. Sometimes the punishment is harsh, others time you're let off with a warning. Regardless, it is not the responsibility of the Justice System to get people out of their situation. The JS can make recommendations on how to improve the person's life, but it is up to the person to act.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but why not just take the stairs if you're in a hurry?
Because people are lazy. They think running up a crowded escalator is faster than taking open stairs. I have tried this on several occasions. Pick someone on the escalator and walk up the stairs. Without exception I always arrive ahead of them. If I take the stairs faster, I'm already on my way while they're still stuck.
The same with parking lots. People will slowly drive around, looking for a close spot while I park further away. While I'm on my way into the building, they're just pulling into a spot or getting out of their car.
Laziness short circuits common sense in some situations. Going up a crowded escalator rather than using open stairs is one of those.
if they can plant sleepers and train them as pilots and have them take over airplanes and fly them into things, they can probably manage a couple of drones ...
If the master race can steal explosives, manufacture a 7,000 pound bomb and detonate it next to a building, they can probably manage a couple of drones.
At least you're running something stable and quick. Having to wait for software to open on my W10 work machine is downright annoying. *double-click* Wait. Wait. Wait. Processing... Wait. Wait. Wait. Open. Wait. Now we're ready to go.
Defense spending is 15% of all federal spending and the largest category of discretionary spending. It accounts for $610 billion (as of the time of the graphic) of all federal spending.
You are correct in that there would still be an annual deficit. Current projections for 2018 show a deficit of $810 billion. That would be mean cutting defense spending in half would account for a 38% reduction in our yearly deficit.
I don't know about you, but if I could reduce my deficit by one third, that seems like a pretty good idea.
The only thing I could think of to make it better would be to have a small CO2 canister (like for BB guns), which sends the glitter flying everywhere rather than just around the box.
Other than that, maybe something even more smelly.
Thank you. I have said this (to myself) innumerable times when using Google Maps on my PC (I don't have a "smart" phone). There is no need to know where I'm at right now. All I asked for was where something else is located. That's all.
This same nonsense occurs when, on those rare occasions, I use the iPhone issued to me and use their mapping service. Apple does not need to know where I'm at when I ask for the location of an address. Just give me what I ask for.
By your logic, every Catholic should be burned at the stake because they're a backer of the world's largest pedophile ring.
Have to agree. For all his batshit crazy Scientology, from the little I have read, he doesn't push it on anyone.
Further, as the article alluded to, he does almost all of, it not all, his own stunts. Rappelling down buildings, skydiving, driving cars, leaping here and there, he's the one doing it. Not a stunt double.
Also, on those rare occasions I have seen him in an interview, he seems like a nice person. Maybe it's the Scientology, but he doesn't come off as stuck up or demeaning.
Give the man his due. He is accomplished. More than most likely anyone who posts here.
and trade your cash for a pre-paid "credit-card" anytime.
Or, and I'm just spitballing here, one could simply use the cash they have in hand rather than jump through hoops.
I realized the KISS principle isn't valued any more, but oddly enough, simple is usually better.
On a regular basis, when the "updates" and "patches" are pushed out, we invariably have people whose drivers have been replaced by these supposedly universal drivers.
Then we have to go back and put in the original drivers we use in our images to get them up and running.
I wonder how many end users will be afflicted by this bug and not have any clue how to correct things?
until a crime is committed, a person hasn't done anything wrong and should not be harrassed
And yet, if I were to fly, I would be both harassed and treated as a criminal by the TSA even though I haven't done anything.
Unfortunately, the TSA doesn't like this argument and would of course detain me because I objected to being treated like a criminal even though I hadn't yet done anything.