It's a bit of pity, really. There was a day when some dreamed that Thunderbird could be developed into an Outlook killer, as the front end of some of the Open Source mail/scheduling projects. Inevitably, i suppose, any of these projects with any longevity put their efforts into an Outlook plugin.
Who among the majority of the old tyme Slashdot posters wouldn't jump at the chance to be on MST3K. Oswalt in his way is one of us; one of the geeky crowd who came of age in the late 80s or early 90s and watched stuff like MsT3K and Kids In The Hall, and get jokes about 80s hair bands. Everything I've seen Oswalt do since he made it big with King of Queens and Young Adult (where a geek actually gets to hop in the sack with Charlize Theron) has been in two categories; 1. paycheck, and 2. 'cause I got lots of money and can do cool shit!
I think he just likes to work on interesting projects, and has enough big paycheck projects in the pipe that he can afford to work on some second tier stuff just for fun.
I'm actually pretty interested to see how he does at this. He's a major movie fanatic and a pretty good comedian and writer to boot, so I think his credentials as far as mocking bad films goes is pretty high. He's the king of cultural references, so I think, all things being equal, the reboot might have a chance.
There's no utopia on Earth, and there won't be in space either. The same economic conditions that have driven human progress since we first walked out Africa 100,000 years ago are still in play today, and will be into the future.
It takes more than just flag-planting to make a territorial claim. A nation has to be able to demonstrate some sort of permanent control of the territory, usually in the form of colonization or economic exploitation. That's like trying to say that we need to ask the Danish, Norwegians and Swedes if Canadians can live in Newfoundland.
Before any nation can make claim to any extraterrestrial territory, it's going to have to be able to actually hold that territory, and we're still decades away from that.
And when we get to that point, we'll worry about it. Heck, various nations claim chunks of Antarctica, in one way or another, and thus far it's been meaningless flag planting.
But when we do get to the point where we can mine other bodies in the solar system, we'll have to come up with some sort of system of claims. The UN isn't going to be mining, it's going to be commercial and state players doing the mining, and we'll have to come up with a new treaty that will inevitably recognize the rights of those players to make what amount to territorial claims.
Probably the biggest concern, in my view, is privately-owned entities making claims independent of any national or international body.
The Great Powers are going to be the ones licensing the mining. The answer to the threat isn't to nuke a competing nation's privately contracted asteroid mining installation, but rather to build your own.
Any treaty that is unenforceable isn't worth a damn. If the US, China, Russia or anyone else wants to go mine an asteroid, there's precious little anyone else can do about it.
Believe it or not, there is some embedded hardware out there that still uses DOS variants. The messaging module of our phone system uses an embedded version of DOS.
I loved the Pascal family of languages. I did a lot of work in TurboPascal and Basic-09. The latter was basically Pascal with a bit more BASIC-like syntax. I still prefer Pascal style variable declarations.
The Church of England is supposed to be wishy-washy. It was built that way from the Elizabethan Compromise forward. It's a big wishy washy mishmash that's supposed to attract everyone from near-Nonconformist types to Crypto-Catholics.
I would like BMG to sue the atmosphere, because just yesterday I heard pirated music being played on somebody's stereo. Let's drag that piracy-helping fucker Yahweh into court!!!!!
And their colony failed. The Spanish, Portuguese, English and French colonies in the New World succeeded because the governments that ran those colonies backed them financially and militarily. At least in the case of the English, owners/shareholders of colonials often received economic monopolies, giving them substantial impetus to make colonies economically viable in fairly short order.
And even though colonies could obviously become self-sustaining in pretty short order, they still required a significant amount of protection from the colonial power, and the colonial powers served as the route to accessing markets.
The Vikings experiments in colonization as private endeavors were mixed successes at best, and ultimately only Iceland survived as a successful colonial enterprise by the early Modern era, with the North American and Greenland colonies failing (though the Greenland colony did manage to hang on for several centuries).
There are probably any number of reasons; less than hospitable sites for colonization that were vulnerable to climactic changes at the top, but also the more limited means of making such colonies economically viable. At least in the North American attempts, the native peoples may have played a roll as well. The Norse simply didn't have the resources at their disposal that the Colonial Powers could bring to bear when they started seizing the New World. The Norse were hardly better equipped than the Inuit and Native Americans they encountered, whereas the Spaniards, French and English had firearms and much larger numbers.
But no one says it doesn't exist locally. Quite the opposite, everyone thinks it does. It's just fucking hard to see.
It's not that cosmologists aren't willing to look at GR, and certainly are, but no potential quantum theory of gravity suggests an alternative to dark matter. And considering we all know there is physics beyond the Standard Model, and the potential for currently only hypothetical or even unpredicted particles, the idea that we should just toss out one of the most successful scientific theories in history because we're confronted with what looks like a lot of extra mass seems absurd.
But I get it. There is a certain type of person, underachievers mainly, whose only contribution to any discussion is to find the gaps in our knowledge and then proclaim researchers in those fields retards. It's pathetic, and contributes absolutely nothing.
In the very long run, probably. But I think there's probably a route to increasing space exploration and utilization by explicitly avoiding the cost of Earth-to-orbit transport costs. The plan I've seen that has some promise goes as follows:
1. Find some metal-rich and volatiles-rich asteroids and comets (not exactly rare in the Asteroid Belt). Tow these asteroids into a near-Earth orbit and begin extraction and smelting. 2. Set up manufacturing facilities in Earth orbit to build spacecraft and satellites. 2a. We could even "grow" plastics with bacteria or genetically-engineered plants. 3.... 4. Profit!
In all seriousness, if you created a parallel space-based economy whose sole purpose is to make transporting anything but humans into space, then the whole question of how to make Earth-to-orbit transport cheaper ceases to be an issue. Obviously the startup costs and R&D for such a project are monumental, but in the long run, the rewards would be huge. The whole point of commercial spaceflight is to find a way to make it economically feasible, and this is about actually creating a space-based economy.
They're not manipulating anything. They are observing that there are numerous objects which appear to have a lot more mass than is visible. Unless you think there is something wrong with our Classical view of gravity, then the obvious answer is that there is a lot more matter out there than we can directly observe.
Fucking hell, there's nothing worse than some self-appointed anonymous poster on the Internet who is some fucking arrogant and stupid that he thinks he understands something better than the scientists. And why is it that such arrogant fucktards always end up on/, trying to make themselves look oh so smart.
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The Mozilla Foundation should be renamed the "Google's Ward Off A DOJ Monopoly Investigation Foundation" these days.
It's a bit of pity, really. There was a day when some dreamed that Thunderbird could be developed into an Outlook killer, as the front end of some of the Open Source mail/scheduling projects. Inevitably, i suppose, any of these projects with any longevity put their efforts into an Outlook plugin.
Anybody who doubts his ability to improvise brilliant dialogue out of thin air watch his Parks and Rec Star Wars rant:
https://youtu.be/5BBhNkywMJY
Who among the majority of the old tyme Slashdot posters wouldn't jump at the chance to be on MST3K. Oswalt in his way is one of us; one of the geeky crowd who came of age in the late 80s or early 90s and watched stuff like MsT3K and Kids In The Hall, and get jokes about 80s hair bands. Everything I've seen Oswalt do since he made it big with King of Queens and Young Adult (where a geek actually gets to hop in the sack with Charlize Theron) has been in two categories; 1. paycheck, and 2. 'cause I got lots of money and can do cool shit!
I think he just likes to work on interesting projects, and has enough big paycheck projects in the pipe that he can afford to work on some second tier stuff just for fun.
I'm actually pretty interested to see how he does at this. He's a major movie fanatic and a pretty good comedian and writer to boot, so I think his credentials as far as mocking bad films goes is pretty high. He's the king of cultural references, so I think, all things being equal, the reboot might have a chance.
In the future we'll have to purchase a license to breathe, as Rightscorp will have bought perpetual rights to oxygen.
Need for resources drives expansion. That's been true since the first self replicating molecules evolved.
There's no utopia on Earth, and there won't be in space either. The same economic conditions that have driven human progress since we first walked out Africa 100,000 years ago are still in play today, and will be into the future.
It takes more than just flag-planting to make a territorial claim. A nation has to be able to demonstrate some sort of permanent control of the territory, usually in the form of colonization or economic exploitation. That's like trying to say that we need to ask the Danish, Norwegians and Swedes if Canadians can live in Newfoundland.
Before any nation can make claim to any extraterrestrial territory, it's going to have to be able to actually hold that territory, and we're still decades away from that.
Ask the American Indians how ridiculous it was that nations projected their power far outside their original sphere of influence.
And when we get to that point, we'll worry about it. Heck, various nations claim chunks of Antarctica, in one way or another, and thus far it's been meaningless flag planting.
But when we do get to the point where we can mine other bodies in the solar system, we'll have to come up with some sort of system of claims. The UN isn't going to be mining, it's going to be commercial and state players doing the mining, and we'll have to come up with a new treaty that will inevitably recognize the rights of those players to make what amount to territorial claims.
Probably the biggest concern, in my view, is privately-owned entities making claims independent of any national or international body.
The Great Powers are going to be the ones licensing the mining. The answer to the threat isn't to nuke a competing nation's privately contracted asteroid mining installation, but rather to build your own.
Any treaty that is unenforceable isn't worth a damn. If the US, China, Russia or anyone else wants to go mine an asteroid, there's precious little anyone else can do about it.
That's why you make batteries and other forms.of storage technology.
Three Mile Island played its part, as Elmo as the fact that nuclear energy leaves since pretty nasty waste behind.
Believe it or not, there is some embedded hardware out there that still uses DOS variants. The messaging module of our phone system uses an embedded version of DOS.
I loved the Pascal family of languages. I did a lot of work in TurboPascal and Basic-09. The latter was basically Pascal with a bit more BASIC-like syntax. I still prefer Pascal style variable declarations.
The Church of England is supposed to be wishy-washy. It was built that way from the Elizabethan Compromise forward. It's a big wishy washy mishmash that's supposed to attract everyone from near-Nonconformist types to Crypto-Catholics.
I would like BMG to sue the atmosphere, because just yesterday I heard pirated music being played on somebody's stereo. Let's drag that piracy-helping fucker Yahweh into court!!!!!
The ability to legally install it on any hardware I want.
And their colony failed. The Spanish, Portuguese, English and French colonies in the New World succeeded because the governments that ran those colonies backed them financially and militarily. At least in the case of the English, owners/shareholders of colonials often received economic monopolies, giving them substantial impetus to make colonies economically viable in fairly short order.
And even though colonies could obviously become self-sustaining in pretty short order, they still required a significant amount of protection from the colonial power, and the colonial powers served as the route to accessing markets.
The Vikings experiments in colonization as private endeavors were mixed successes at best, and ultimately only Iceland survived as a successful colonial enterprise by the early Modern era, with the North American and Greenland colonies failing (though the Greenland colony did manage to hang on for several centuries).
There are probably any number of reasons; less than hospitable sites for colonization that were vulnerable to climactic changes at the top, but also the more limited means of making such colonies economically viable. At least in the North American attempts, the native peoples may have played a roll as well. The Norse simply didn't have the resources at their disposal that the Colonial Powers could bring to bear when they started seizing the New World. The Norse were hardly better equipped than the Inuit and Native Americans they encountered, whereas the Spaniards, French and English had firearms and much larger numbers.
A whole helluva lot of money. But if gravity is your enemy, why fight it?
But no one says it doesn't exist locally. Quite the opposite, everyone thinks it does. It's just fucking hard to see.
It's not that cosmologists aren't willing to look at GR, and certainly are, but no potential quantum theory of gravity suggests an alternative to dark matter. And considering we all know there is physics beyond the Standard Model, and the potential for currently only hypothetical or even unpredicted particles, the idea that we should just toss out one of the most successful scientific theories in history because we're confronted with what looks like a lot of extra mass seems absurd.
But I get it. There is a certain type of person, underachievers mainly, whose only contribution to any discussion is to find the gaps in our knowledge and then proclaim researchers in those fields retards. It's pathetic, and contributes absolutely nothing.
In the very long run, probably. But I think there's probably a route to increasing space exploration and utilization by explicitly avoiding the cost of Earth-to-orbit transport costs. The plan I've seen that has some promise goes as follows:
1. Find some metal-rich and volatiles-rich asteroids and comets (not exactly rare in the Asteroid Belt). Tow these asteroids into a near-Earth orbit and begin extraction and smelting. ....
2. Set up manufacturing facilities in Earth orbit to build spacecraft and satellites.
2a. We could even "grow" plastics with bacteria or genetically-engineered plants.
3
4. Profit!
In all seriousness, if you created a parallel space-based economy whose sole purpose is to make transporting anything but humans into space, then the whole question of how to make Earth-to-orbit transport cheaper ceases to be an issue. Obviously the startup costs and R&D for such a project are monumental, but in the long run, the rewards would be huge. The whole point of commercial spaceflight is to find a way to make it economically feasible, and this is about actually creating a space-based economy.
They're not manipulating anything. They are observing that there are numerous objects which appear to have a lot more mass than is visible. Unless you think there is something wrong with our Classical view of gravity, then the obvious answer is that there is a lot more matter out there than we can directly observe.
Fucking hell, there's nothing worse than some self-appointed anonymous poster on the Internet who is some fucking arrogant and stupid that he thinks he understands something better than the scientists. And why is it that such arrogant fucktards always end up on /, trying to make themselves look oh so smart.