And advocating that others be forced to pay extra for something that you didn't have so you can pay less for a service that is no longer necessary for you but was in the past is hypocrisy. That's the problem with Randroids like you're all about 'personal responsibility' just so long as it's someone else getting screwed over.
Did you go to a public school? Did you use your diploma? THEN SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU WHINY LIBERTARIAN DOUCHEBAG!
You're now paying for others to receive an education just as others payed for you to receive yours. If you don't like the idea of government taking money as taxes and using it to fund socially beneficial programs that would not receive sufficient funding if it was voluntary for people to do so feel free to move to a libertarian 'paradise' like, say, Somalia. I'm sure you won't have to pay for public schools there...
You know if you think about it it's quite the lovely little racket they have going. The auto lobby (carmakers, insurance companies, aaa etc) do their best to ensure that there's insufficient public transit/public transit of insufficient quality, forcing people to buy cars to get around (and give heaps of money to this lobby in the process) some of this money then gets 're-invested' back into the legislature to make sure it stays that way...
Evolution is random. Maybe this mutation just never occurred in the wild, or it did but the animals with it all unluckily died off or maybe it has happened but it didn't/hasn't yet spread to the whole population, after all: how would we know that a wild rat's memory was better than that of it's peers?
Actually it's not quite the holy grail of energy. The best possible energy densities, as far as I understand the science of the situation, would come from converting matter directly to energy. Right now the only thing I know of that could do that is a matter/antimatter annihilation reactor. Of course considering how hard fusion is proving to master and given that figuring out how to generate usable amounts of antimatter makes fusion look like child's play...
Actually if anything a fusion powered ship could, theoretically (given a reactor light and efficient enough), have significantly superior performance to a fission powered ship, what with not having to cart around superheavy elements and the superior energy output of fusion as compared to fission. But yeah that kind of shit is a ways off. We have all the technology to build fission ships today with the major obstacles to such not being technical but ideological (just how much should we worry about the contamination issue, where would we send the fucking things etc).
log stands for logarithm and is the inverse of raising something to a power. When it's written without indicating a base it's assumed that the base is 10 so when you just see it as log(x) then the result is whatever power 10 would need to be raised by to equal x. A fixed constant after a certain population size is exactly what it sounds like, for populations smaller than a certain size the number of scientists needed to function rises as the population rises until you hit a certain point where you no longer need any more scientists no matter how much bigger your population gets. Simple enough or do you require further clarification?
Also, I'm a science major and I make art, write poetry and short prose, play the guitar and use recreational drugs (all the shit you liberal arts folks are supposed to be good at). Why can't any of you bastards bother to learn some basic math and science terminology?
And there's nothing wrong with that. But I think that this should be made more clear because it's pretty common to hear "go to college or you won't be able to get a good job" and it's a little disingenuous to allow people to sink years of their life into study, taking on massive debt in the process, and then once it's over be like "btw, there's no jobs you can get with this degree, but you learned a lot and it will sure look pretty hanging on your wall. Give you something nice to look at while you're thinking about how baddly you're fucked..."
Space based nuclear reactors aren't that far fetched. We can do fission now but for politics and fusion does seem to be making legitimate progress towards net energy gain out of fusion and after that it's just a matter of scaling the technology. So possibly within my lifetime (I'm 20) we'll see space based fusion. We could see fission too but there are legal challenges and a huge public opposition to overcome and then we'd still have to develop a good ship with a useful purpose to use the technology...
Yes but Star Wars tech has technologies with much higher energy densities than nuclear power. Otherwise there's no way the Death Stars could function the way they did and there's no way a single ISD could BDZ a planet...
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And advocating that others be forced to pay extra for something that you didn't have so you can pay less for a service that is no longer necessary for you but was in the past is hypocrisy. That's the problem with Randroids like you're all about 'personal responsibility' just so long as it's someone else getting screwed over.
Did you go to a public school? Did you use your diploma? THEN SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU WHINY LIBERTARIAN DOUCHEBAG!
You're now paying for others to receive an education just as others payed for you to receive yours. If you don't like the idea of government taking money as taxes and using it to fund socially beneficial programs that would not receive sufficient funding if it was voluntary for people to do so feel free to move to a libertarian 'paradise' like, say, Somalia. I'm sure you won't have to pay for public schools there...
You know if you think about it it's quite the lovely little racket they have going. The auto lobby (carmakers, insurance companies, aaa etc) do their best to ensure that there's insufficient public transit/public transit of insufficient quality, forcing people to buy cars to get around (and give heaps of money to this lobby in the process) some of this money then gets 're-invested' back into the legislature to make sure it stays that way...
I like to think of the sparks as a safety feature. They let you know it's live ;).
Well I guess Bill O'Reilly had some mod points...
Evolution is random. Maybe this mutation just never occurred in the wild, or it did but the animals with it all unluckily died off or maybe it has happened but it didn't/hasn't yet spread to the whole population, after all: how would we know that a wild rat's memory was better than that of it's peers?
I'd rather have government subsidized media than Faux New's constant sucking of corporate and/or republican cock...
Well it depends on just what sports you watch and just what kind of pop you listen to and how much of an a-hole you are about it really...
But that begs the question, do you have enough minerals?
Protip: if you're going to troll do it as AC. Retard.
People actually pay for photoshop?
Actually it's not quite the holy grail of energy. The best possible energy densities, as far as I understand the science of the situation, would come from converting matter directly to energy. Right now the only thing I know of that could do that is a matter/antimatter annihilation reactor. Of course considering how hard fusion is proving to master and given that figuring out how to generate usable amounts of antimatter makes fusion look like child's play...
Actually if anything a fusion powered ship could, theoretically (given a reactor light and efficient enough), have significantly superior performance to a fission powered ship, what with not having to cart around superheavy elements and the superior energy output of fusion as compared to fission. But yeah that kind of shit is a ways off. We have all the technology to build fission ships today with the major obstacles to such not being technical but ideological (just how much should we worry about the contamination issue, where would we send the fucking things etc).
Well looking back frosty piss is probably not a serious poster but I'm sure someone needed it explained so I don't feel too bad...
log stands for logarithm and is the inverse of raising something to a power. When it's written without indicating a base it's assumed that the base is 10 so when you just see it as log(x) then the result is whatever power 10 would need to be raised by to equal x. A fixed constant after a certain population size is exactly what it sounds like, for populations smaller than a certain size the number of scientists needed to function rises as the population rises until you hit a certain point where you no longer need any more scientists no matter how much bigger your population gets. Simple enough or do you require further clarification?
Also, I'm a science major and I make art, write poetry and short prose, play the guitar and use recreational drugs (all the shit you liberal arts folks are supposed to be good at). Why can't any of you bastards bother to learn some basic math and science terminology?
Yeah. You'd better get packing. You can take the company car, it's a blazer.
And there's nothing wrong with that. But I think that this should be made more clear because it's pretty common to hear "go to college or you won't be able to get a good job" and it's a little disingenuous to allow people to sink years of their life into study, taking on massive debt in the process, and then once it's over be like "btw, there's no jobs you can get with this degree, but you learned a lot and it will sure look pretty hanging on your wall. Give you something nice to look at while you're thinking about how baddly you're fucked..."
If you were working at an AIDS Factory would you be pissed if the government developed a vaccine?
Radians or degrees?
Space based nuclear reactors aren't that far fetched. We can do fission now but for politics and fusion does seem to be making legitimate progress towards net energy gain out of fusion and after that it's just a matter of scaling the technology. So possibly within my lifetime (I'm 20) we'll see space based fusion. We could see fission too but there are legal challenges and a huge public opposition to overcome and then we'd still have to develop a good ship with a useful purpose to use the technology...
You're going to love my space nuts!
I use a Zune you insensitive clod! Brown for me...
You mean the fractional reserve system?
I heard you like retards so we put twitter in your twitter so you can read stupid crap while you read stupid crap!
Yes but Star Wars tech has technologies with much higher energy densities than nuclear power. Otherwise there's no way the Death Stars could function the way they did and there's no way a single ISD could BDZ a planet...