Just curious, have you ever tried a "hunter/gatherer" lifestyle? Gone to a wilderness area, ditched the trappings of civilization (clothes, cellphone, computer, canteen, all that stuff), and tried living on what you could hunt down or gather (and no, I'm not referring to what you can gather at the local Mcdonald's...)...
I said hunter-gatherer, not living all by myself. They had things called tribes and families, you know. See Dances with Wolves sometime.
And another one decribed that lifetyle as "nasty, brutish, and short".
Again, you seem to equate hunting/gathering with lawless anarchy where it's every man for himself. Ice Age hunters formed groups and undoubtedly worked well with each other.
than today? Sometimes I think Africa would be doing a lot better if white man had never existed.
(I'm including middle eastern people when I say "white man". They invented a pesky thing called agriculture and allowed populations to grow enormously)
I kinda like the hunter-gatherer lifestyle myself. Agriculture is overrated.
And no I'm not being racist, a noteworthy scholar had commented once that a hunter-gatherer from 100,000 BC lived better than the average man in 19th century London.
Wouldn't simply stripping out " Like, whatever the user posted doesn't have to look properly formatted or anything, he's trying to inject malicious javascript... the Wordpress site owner will be deleting the comment as soon as it's discovered, right?
Tech, agriculture, service industries, foot services, etc. all benefit from the well behaved illegals.
It's true, if by x_industries you mean "the business owners and shareholders of that industry". Flood of cheap labor drives down wages, so it wouldn't benefit existing laborers.
I heard the same screwing the american worker and milking entitlements myths repeatedly.
Correct, illegals are not milking entitlements currently. It's a myth, only a tiny percentage of illegals have the means to forge documents in order to receive welfare and other benefits.
But Obama just made them legal, so they will be collecting entitlements in the near future.
I understand the liberal mindset. I am not a cold hearted monster and I can sympathize with the plight of the poor migrant laborer. However what liberals need to learn is use their brains more and stop acting on emotion alone.
A cherished liberal concept is wage equality (Gini coefficient). Now think what happens when you import large numbers of poor laborers.The rich get richer and the working class get lower wages. Income inequality rises. Liberals can rationalize this by saying the children of illegals will go to school and become doctors and engineers and become wealthy. But look around in the real world and see if this really happens. Are you really creating a more equal and just society, or are you just creating a bigger underclass when you already have a sizable underclass dependent on public entitlements?
Keep in mind that everything discussed above refer to well behaved illegals (as you put it). I don't know where you live but here in the border states, large percentage (often the majority) of the prison population is Hispanic, and a large percentage of that are illegals.
Think back to the old days before large scale illegal immigration and compare the wage inequality to today. Note the difference, and add it to the current figure to project the future.
Yep, it cost a lot of money to put all that mass up there. Seems like an awful waste to deorbit it just because the warranty expired and the rubber gaskets are getting brittle.
Maybe next time around, build it with self-healing materials or at least with some foreplanning into reusing metal panels that get pitted over time from micrometeorites.
For the past several years the city leaders of Toronto have been afraid to go after Uber, allowing it to operate unlicensed out of fear that the CEO and CFO of Uber will bash their heads in with baseball bats.
They're getting close to finishing the passenger-pigeon DNA sequence. That's the easy part though, next they will have to inscribe the genome into a living cell and produce a viable embryo, and from that a living offspring.
Keep in mind the passenger pigeon only became extinct in 1914, which is fairly recent compared to the wooly mammoth.
Internet tough guy wants to remove my phone from my pocket? You do know that a cellphone located inside a pocket cannot record any useful video, right? It must be taken out, turned on, and aimed at your tough face before I can record you. At which point it will be obvious to anyone that I'm recording.
On the other hand, a Google Glass wearer is in position to record at any time and it's impossible for others to tell whether they're being videoed or not, aside from an indicator light (which may or may not be inactivated, be too dim to be noticed in direct sunlight, etc)
Yeah my understanding was that you had to jailbreak your iphone first with Cydia or some such tool before you can buy apps from someplace other than Apple.
Two things. Yes, NASA selling cheap fuel to Google may not illegal but it's unethical to some observers. Can you or I buy fuel cheap fuel from NASA? No. It's favoritism, pure and simple.
Second, a 60 year lease is basically forever. Everyone currently working at NASA or Google will be long dead when the lease is over. So NASA is basically saying they don't need the land anymore. What would've been a more transparent action for a government agency? A. partition off the few buildings they want preserved as a museum and sell/lease the remainder of the 1000 acres in a public auction, or B. give it to the same guys that some have accused you of giving preferential treatment in what seems to be a sweetheart deal (995 acres in Silicon Valley is pretty pricey).
It doesn't help that Google has been flying NASA execs to gala events and seen hobnobbing with them. Replace Google with Monsanto or Microsoft and the same situation would likely provoke a different response from Slashdot readers.
Submitter here. I only linked one article (the parabolicarc.com one). The editor added the second CNBC article (which I didn't know about). To be honest, the CNBC article has more info so it wasn't a bad call. Maybe what they should've done is replace my link with the CNBC link, or just reject my submission and write a new one.
1. It helps small/startup internet merchants. (big ones like Amazon got dragged into paying money to individual states)
2. It helps poor(er) people. Rich obviously do not benefit much from the few meager dollars saved buying stuff on ebay, and the very poor don't do online shopping. So the main beneficiary are lower middle-class people.
I thought it was just a harmless enthusiast group promoting space travel and stuff.
If they're actually taking people's money as a fee (rather than a charitable donation) when they have no launcher no lander no habitat no nothing, they're selling snake oil.
In China a lot of dinosaur fossils are sold in medicine shops. For some reason most Chinese still believe eating them cures disease and give you manly vigor.
One of the first things paleontologists do when they go to China is check out the pharmacies. Some good discoveries have been made by buying dino bones from pharmacies.
military does this kind of stuff a lot. Anti war demonstrators like to insult the military saying it's stupid and "military intelligence" is an oxymoron, etc. But actually the military has many forward thinkers and they do a lot of planning and debating "what if" scenarios.
Back in the 60's they did a lot of strategizing about a possible moon base, in the 80's they did thought exercises on the possible implications of a Soviet meltdown, what would happen to our military capabilities in a worldwide AIDS/Anthrax pandemic, and so on. Now AGW is all over the news and they're doing contingency plans for that. No big deal, really.
However, you missed an important part of the feather problem. The pilot erroneously unlocked it, but DID NOT deploy it. That is clearly an engineering problem.
It could be that I'm being too hopeful and trying to put the best light on things, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a major engineering problem.
It's possible they never did a simulation of what would happen if the feather was accidentally unlocked during early phase of the ascent stage because... it simply never occurred to them. Or maybe they did simulate it, but got a different result from real life (as in, the simulation showed aerodynamic forces weren't enough to move the feather, when in real life it was). You gotta remember that the copilot unlocked the feather at the worst possible time, it must've been at or near max-Q when it happened.
The fix could be as simple as a new pilot procedure, or a mechanism to keep the feather locked when the engine is firing.
We won't know for sure until the investigation is complete, but I'm just trying to see all the ways the program can still succeed.
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Just curious, have you ever tried a "hunter/gatherer" lifestyle? Gone to a wilderness area, ditched the trappings of civilization (clothes, cellphone, computer, canteen, all that stuff), and tried living on what you could hunt down or gather (and no, I'm not referring to what you can gather at the local Mcdonald's...)...
I said hunter-gatherer, not living all by myself. They had things called tribes and families, you know. See Dances with Wolves sometime.
And another one decribed that lifetyle as "nasty, brutish, and short".
Again, you seem to equate hunting/gathering with lawless anarchy where it's every man for himself. Ice Age hunters formed groups and undoubtedly worked well with each other.
than today? Sometimes I think Africa would be doing a lot better if white man had never existed.
(I'm including middle eastern people when I say "white man". They invented a pesky thing called agriculture and allowed populations to grow enormously)
I kinda like the hunter-gatherer lifestyle myself. Agriculture is overrated.
And no I'm not being racist, a noteworthy scholar had commented once that a hunter-gatherer from 100,000 BC lived better than the average man in 19th century London.
I never heard of any of those sites listed in TFA. And since it's doubtful anyone in China cares about the Colts, that leaves Mozilla.
it's likely many people are still just starting to discover what's happened and the economic impact is yet to be fully realized
Economic impact would be probably close to zero.
Wouldn't simply stripping out "
Like, whatever the user posted doesn't have to look properly formatted or anything, he's trying to inject malicious javascript... the Wordpress site owner will be deleting the comment as soon as it's discovered, right?
they should create their own GNU/Linux search engine, maybe out of Finland. Surely they'd be good at it.
Tech, agriculture, service industries, foot services, etc. all benefit from the well behaved illegals.
It's true, if by x_industries you mean "the business owners and shareholders of that industry". Flood of cheap labor drives down wages, so it wouldn't benefit existing laborers.
I heard the same screwing the american worker and milking entitlements myths repeatedly.
Correct, illegals are not milking entitlements currently. It's a myth, only a tiny percentage of illegals have the means to forge documents in order to receive welfare and other benefits.
But Obama just made them legal, so they will be collecting entitlements in the near future.
I understand the liberal mindset. I am not a cold hearted monster and I can sympathize with the plight of the poor migrant laborer. However what liberals need to learn is use their brains more and stop acting on emotion alone.
A cherished liberal concept is wage equality (Gini coefficient). Now think what happens when you import large numbers of poor laborers.The rich get richer and the working class get lower wages. Income inequality rises. Liberals can rationalize this by saying the children of illegals will go to school and become doctors and engineers and become wealthy. But look around in the real world and see if this really happens. Are you really creating a more equal and just society, or are you just creating a bigger underclass when you already have a sizable underclass dependent on public entitlements?
Keep in mind that everything discussed above refer to well behaved illegals (as you put it). I don't know where you live but here in the border states, large percentage (often the majority) of the prison population is Hispanic, and a large percentage of that are illegals.
Think back to the old days before large scale illegal immigration and compare the wage inequality to today. Note the difference, and add it to the current figure to project the future.
Yep, it cost a lot of money to put all that mass up there. Seems like an awful waste to deorbit it just because the warranty expired and the rubber gaskets are getting brittle.
Maybe next time around, build it with self-healing materials or at least with some foreplanning into reusing metal panels that get pitted over time from micrometeorites.
lol I didn't realize sharing vacation photos was such a problem that BT had to come up with a solution better than FB, Picasa etc.
But then I'm guessing if you were there in person while they made the announcement, you would've seen a "wink wink" after mention of vacation photos.
It can't happen to Apple because there's nothing special about the hardware of ipads. The secret sauce is iOS and the itunes ecosystem.
For the past several years the city leaders of Toronto have been afraid to go after Uber, allowing it to operate unlicensed out of fear that the CEO and CFO of Uber will bash their heads in with baseball bats.
A team called Revive & Restore is in the process of cloning the extinct passenger pigeon.
They're getting close to finishing the passenger-pigeon DNA sequence. That's the easy part though, next they will have to inscribe the genome into a living cell and produce a viable embryo, and from that a living offspring.
Keep in mind the passenger pigeon only became extinct in 1914, which is fairly recent compared to the wooly mammoth.
Ok, time to use the "Ask the Audience" lifeline: How does one shoot 3D in 360 without it needing an infinite amount of film?
It's not 3D in 360. It's stereoscopy in 360.
You know Google street view where you can rotate around 360 degrees? Well it's like that but shot with 2 cameras for 3D effect.
Internet tough guy wants to remove my phone from my pocket? You do know that a cellphone located inside a pocket cannot record any useful video, right? It must be taken out, turned on, and aimed at your tough face before I can record you. At which point it will be obvious to anyone that I'm recording.
On the other hand, a Google Glass wearer is in position to record at any time and it's impossible for others to tell whether they're being videoed or not, aside from an indicator light (which may or may not be inactivated, be too dim to be noticed in direct sunlight, etc)
Apple makes most of its money from iphone and ipad sales. Software sales is a tiny percentage of their revenue.
Yeah my understanding was that you had to jailbreak your iphone first with Cydia or some such tool before you can buy apps from someplace other than Apple.
if he had a Chromebook while he was in school, he might've learned how to spell Hear Hear properly...
The problems you describe have _absolutely_nothing_ to do with the underlying chip instruction set architecture.
Then what is it? Android OS problem?
Two things. Yes, NASA selling cheap fuel to Google may not illegal but it's unethical to some observers. Can you or I buy fuel cheap fuel from NASA? No. It's favoritism, pure and simple.
Second, a 60 year lease is basically forever. Everyone currently working at NASA or Google will be long dead when the lease is over. So NASA is basically saying they don't need the land anymore. What would've been a more transparent action for a government agency? A. partition off the few buildings they want preserved as a museum and sell/lease the remainder of the 1000 acres in a public auction, or B. give it to the same guys that some have accused you of giving preferential treatment in what seems to be a sweetheart deal (995 acres in Silicon Valley is pretty pricey).
It doesn't help that Google has been flying NASA execs to gala events and seen hobnobbing with them. Replace Google with Monsanto or Microsoft and the same situation would likely provoke a different response from Slashdot readers.
Submitter here. I only linked one article (the parabolicarc.com one). The editor added the second CNBC article (which I didn't know about). To be honest, the CNBC article has more info so it wasn't a bad call. Maybe what they should've done is replace my link with the CNBC link, or just reject my submission and write a new one.
1. It helps small/startup internet merchants. (big ones like Amazon got dragged into paying money to individual states)
2. It helps poor(er) people. Rich obviously do not benefit much from the few meager dollars saved buying stuff on ebay, and the very poor don't do online shopping. So the main beneficiary are lower middle-class people.
I thought it was just a harmless enthusiast group promoting space travel and stuff.
If they're actually taking people's money as a fee (rather than a charitable donation) when they have no launcher no lander no habitat no nothing, they're selling snake oil.
In China a lot of dinosaur fossils are sold in medicine shops. For some reason most Chinese still believe eating them cures disease and give you manly vigor.
One of the first things paleontologists do when they go to China is check out the pharmacies. Some good discoveries have been made by buying dino bones from pharmacies.
military does this kind of stuff a lot. Anti war demonstrators like to insult the military saying it's stupid and "military intelligence" is an oxymoron, etc. But actually the military has many forward thinkers and they do a lot of planning and debating "what if" scenarios.
Back in the 60's they did a lot of strategizing about a possible moon base, in the 80's they did thought exercises on the possible implications of a Soviet meltdown, what would happen to our military capabilities in a worldwide AIDS/Anthrax pandemic, and so on. Now AGW is all over the news and they're doing contingency plans for that. No big deal, really.
Triton was a Kuiper belt object. Now it's not.
How long must the discrimination go on? Surely a billion years is enough to qualify for Neptunian citizenship?
However, you missed an important part of the feather problem. The pilot erroneously unlocked it, but DID NOT deploy it. That is clearly an engineering problem.
It could be that I'm being too hopeful and trying to put the best light on things, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a major engineering problem.
It's possible they never did a simulation of what would happen if the feather was accidentally unlocked during early phase of the ascent stage because... it simply never occurred to them. Or maybe they did simulate it, but got a different result from real life (as in, the simulation showed aerodynamic forces weren't enough to move the feather, when in real life it was). You gotta remember that the copilot unlocked the feather at the worst possible time, it must've been at or near max-Q when it happened.
The fix could be as simple as a new pilot procedure, or a mechanism to keep the feather locked when the engine is firing.
We won't know for sure until the investigation is complete, but I'm just trying to see all the ways the program can still succeed.