Not quite, the Moon is the stuff, the boss...I'm thinking all the Rubes that seem to get in the way of human progress. In simple terms, we, as a species could coordinate efforts to gain access to needed resources or we could fight against each other, potentially losing all. In a strange way, we are the Boss and t he team, depends on how its played.
True statement about the high ground, but as another post mentioned, the moom is pretty far away. A laser fired at the Earth would be hard to defend against, but the power requirements would be damn high I figure (IANAS). Simply limiting to amount og power generation in one spot (or combined) could help contain that threat. I found this on a quick search
There are astronomical centers that actually make use of laser (very powerful ones) that are aimed precisely at a very specific part of the moon, and a very (really very tiny, because by the time the beam hits the moon it is several km wide)
I'm not to worried about lasers.
Now missiles could be a problem. But I see again that pesky distance thing. We'd certainly see either a launch or a object coming back from the Moon pretty soon after launch (I'd be looking all the time). Best possible time I found was this:
Record breaking, fast-track to the Moon: 8 hours, 35 minutes
But it was a fly by. Seems like the average is @ 5 days. That is plenty of time to set up a missile defense. Also, the missile has to survive dropping into a good sized gravity well without burning up.
So in terms of defense, the Earth feels generally safe because of distance and we have a gravity well with am atmosphere. The moon, for defense, also has distance, but might be more vulnerable to orbital lasers and a missile attack since there is no friction to deal with upon arrival. From a military point of view, there seems to be less strategic value then one would think. Now orbital platforms around Earth...that is more worrisome. I'd also worry about colonists living in the asteroid belt getting a wad about something and directing BIG boulders at the planet. That could be a bigger issue.
Isn't lovely how we can think of so many different ways to destroy mankind (sigh).
I feel like we (us humans) are playing this D&D game. We get to a level, we need to spend some time acquiring EXP and stuff before we can level up. Your comment makes me think we just found a dungeon run that would really require a larger cooperative party to beat it and get the prize (H3). Once we get that prize our energy production goes up, civilization continues and we level up.
Now the scary part is that (1) we're not doing so well at cooperative game playing (2) the bosses are starting to get harder and harder to beat because of (1) and I feel (3) that *We* could suffer a major loss in this current game run and we don't get a life restore option. We fail, we are done.
All good sources, but not visible to the masses. Unless ABC, NBC, CNN, even FOX come out and say "that was crap" most people wont get it. As those stations have much to lose calling out a major government agency, doubtful they will run with this story.
You took a huge magical leap from one point to another. I was with you, in spirit, up to the ellipsis, then you just don't make sense.
Sure, it is crazy that after a few thousand years we still fight each other as a species, though I put some of that blame on religion (not Faith). That we spend trillions on "security" be it internal or otherwise is just plain nuts when we could do so much more with our capital including getting more hjumans off this rock. But then you have to go and make a point about the ACA that makes you sound nuts, negating the better points before.
The ACA does nothing to hook people on drugs any more then the EPA makes us all compost and ride bicycles. The ACA sets standards for Insurance companies to provide health insurance to the citizens of the US of A. It increases medicaid requirements so more people who could not afford to even see a doctor for a minor issue can now do so. You want hooked on narcotics, point a finger at the Cigarette manufacturers who legally push the most addictive drug upon our species.
SO let's just say you didn't make that last statement. That you are an insightful person that had a momentary lapse and press on with the notion that we really do not need agencies like the NSA sucking the dollars and the privacy away from people of this world.
I'd take it one step more. In settings, list all available permissions and allow the user to set a "default" settings or other settings so that they do not need to always go through all permissions. This way when the app is being installed they can apply the template of their choice then adjust for any custom issues.
Honestly, I am surprised that this is even an issue. I've only started into the smartphone world recently, but find it disconcerting that I have to allow so much access to what should be my system. A free app that wants to dish up ads I can accept though why they need contacts location etc etc etc no I don't. But an app I paid for scrapping my personal data without any way for me to say no...bad. I've not downloaded/paid for a number of apps for just that reason. In the end, it is still a phone, like my old dialer and I'm okay not having the world at my fingertips 24/7 if it means the world does not know so much about me.
That type of thinking never crossed my mind till I started hauling horses. Before, I would consider doing "something" to avoid hitting some small animal. Now when I am going down the road with @ 4000 lbs of horse and trailer (and another 1500 lbs of truck) and I see a small animal in the road I say a quick prayer for it as I am not doing anything but continuing straight ahead.
One day this idiot passes me on a double yellow section of secondary road. The car then pulls in front of me and then has to hit the brakes. As I can't just "slam em on" I braked as safely as I could, but figured "We're gonna hit his ass". Thank goodness he roared off (idiot) and I only had to change my pants. Times like that I think autonomous cars would not be a bad idea; they would at least subscribe to the rules of the road.
how about the associated hunger that may go along with that money loss. How about the alteration of essential dietary needs as food becomes costlier and less diverse. I am not interested in a Soylent diet. Money is just the surface.
Wait what? Mud dripping down from a ceiling eventually builds a pile of mud that eventually meets the mud dripping down from the ceiling and this is evidence of intelligent design and the reduction of entropy?
Had I only known before I accepted physics, geology and evolution...(sigh).
If there are more evolved beings out there observing us, I feel they may just, at times, shake their heads (what ever it may be). I know I do.
way off topic, but cool video. I love seeing different parts of the world and that was one cool experience. Now had those asshats been able to take that down other people could not see such a beautiful place.
If that is the case you better patent this quick, you'll make millions...or would it be copyright and you can nail any one who uses that exact wording in a response without paying you [kidding]
Seriously, were that the case would it not have been considered by now? It does seem rather straight forward, if a human didn't process the request it is bogus and can be ignored. Is the counter to that, well a human wrote the bot that was sent out to find such content thus there was good faith in the development and a digital signature was represented by the originator of the program.
I love the internet, but shit like this makes me wish we went back to pre-network days of sharing mix tapes and/or cds. Now it's all about money and it just makes the whole thing ugly.
"which organism in nature has developed an unassailable position, from which it cannot be dislodged?"
Cats.
Consider, they domesticated mankind thousands of years ago, having discovered just how weak our minds can be, We feed them, care for them, provide them shelter and in return they give nothing back, but disdain or the occasional brush up. Sure there are exceptions to the rule, individual cats being harmed, but when looked in total, they have become the true, dominate species on the planet. One day it will be Cats that go into space, using their human drones to establish the infrastructure and means to propel them out into a galaxy ripe for conquest.
(I have to go, my overlords are coming towards me, pray they don't see what I wrote)
How about the austerity measures, put into place across Europe. Perhaps the stress countries are coming under is spreading to peoples health to the point were it is a negative response. Happy people live longer and in many EU countries, people are not happy.
Wait, how's that? You base this on broad stroke statements from the power companies?
"reduce the reliability of every appliance and electronics gadget in your home,"
Come on? From what I understand of solar electrical systems, they are run through either a UPS or battery bank to help smooth out any "spikes". Appliances may be better off under this system compared to the spikes that can occur when riding bareback with the utilities. The PCs also seem to not want to pay a "fair price" for energy created while at the same time trying to charge more for what they make...wtf?
What I read is the the PCs, the utilities are trying to hold onto an failing power/business model that is going through change. if more people can hook up and provide local power, thus reducing the demand on power companies then as a whole, we win. Their job in the future is to focus on managing the network that ties systems together and not so much on power generation.
Did you miss that part where utilities where lobbying politicians to punish people who switch over to solar? is that not just them playing at winners and losers as well? if utilities (or petro companies) can't compete against solar then they deserve to fade away and not be propped up by the Government.
Good point. I'll amend that when I watched a show with James Taylor and Carol King I loved it. They made their old stuff sound fresh in more intimate way which I enjoyed. At the least it will be something to see.
You mean like a Rolling Stones Concert or watching [80's Super band] run through their standards?
Last time I want to a concert featuring a band I loved in the late 70/80s it was a shock (yeah, talking about you CSN). It would have been better to put speakers outside and listen with my eyes closed to a playlist of their songs. I don't want to see old guys overwriting the memories of when they were young guys. Even when I saw Springsteen, and he almost never ages, it was not the same.
I'd almost prefer a show where five old farts talk about their time together, pull out clips of their favorites, maybe adlib a bit and allow us into their "living room" for a great chat.
opt-in: your good opt-out: at some point, you're screwed
Pretty clear message to me. The only bump in the road, that pesky Hippocratic Oath. Some doctors will still try to save an "opt-out" so you may want to add a clause to the hospital one "and any doctor helping an opt-out will assume all their medical bills till patient is fully healed or dies.". That might make people think longer than today.
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I have mod points, but could not figure out Insightful, funny, or interesting so I post for all three and hope others mod you up.. Well said.
Not quite, the Moon is the stuff, the boss...I'm thinking all the Rubes that seem to get in the way of human progress. In simple terms, we, as a species could coordinate efforts to gain access to needed resources or we could fight against each other, potentially losing all. In a strange way, we are the Boss and t he team, depends on how its played.
True statement about the high ground, but as another post mentioned, the moom is pretty far away. A laser fired at the Earth would be hard to defend against, but the power requirements would be damn high I figure (IANAS). Simply limiting to amount og power generation in one spot (or combined) could help contain that threat. I found this on a quick search
There are astronomical centers that actually make use of laser (very powerful ones) that are aimed precisely at a very specific part of the moon, and a very (really very tiny, because by the time the beam hits the moon it is several km wide)
I'm not to worried about lasers.
Now missiles could be a problem. But I see again that pesky distance thing. We'd certainly see either a launch or a object coming back from the Moon pretty soon after launch (I'd be looking all the time). Best possible time I found was this:
Record breaking, fast-track to the Moon: 8 hours, 35 minutes
But it was a fly by. Seems like the average is @ 5 days. That is plenty of time to set up a missile defense. Also, the missile has to survive dropping into a good sized gravity well without burning up.
So in terms of defense, the Earth feels generally safe because of distance and we have a gravity well with am atmosphere. The moon, for defense, also has distance, but might be more vulnerable to orbital lasers and a missile attack since there is no friction to deal with upon arrival. From a military point of view, there seems to be less strategic value then one would think. Now orbital platforms around Earth...that is more worrisome. I'd also worry about colonists living in the asteroid belt getting a wad about something and directing BIG boulders at the planet. That could be a bigger issue.
Isn't lovely how we can think of so many different ways to destroy mankind (sigh).
I feel like we (us humans) are playing this D&D game. We get to a level, we need to spend some time acquiring EXP and stuff before we can level up. Your comment makes me think we just found a dungeon run that would really require a larger cooperative party to beat it and get the prize (H3). Once we get that prize our energy production goes up, civilization continues and we level up.
Now the scary part is that (1) we're not doing so well at cooperative game playing (2) the bosses are starting to get harder and harder to beat because of (1) and I feel (3) that *We* could suffer a major loss in this current game run and we don't get a life restore option. We fail, we are done.
(use to play too much WoW)
All good sources, but not visible to the masses. Unless ABC, NBC, CNN, even FOX come out and say "that was crap" most people wont get it. As those stations have much to lose calling out a major government agency, doubtful they will run with this story.
Oh if NPR cold do a report...
You took a huge magical leap from one point to another. I was with you, in spirit, up to the ellipsis, then you just don't make sense.
Sure, it is crazy that after a few thousand years we still fight each other as a species, though I put some of that blame on religion (not Faith). That we spend trillions on "security" be it internal or otherwise is just plain nuts when we could do so much more with our capital including getting more hjumans off this rock. But then you have to go and make a point about the ACA that makes you sound nuts, negating the better points before.
The ACA does nothing to hook people on drugs any more then the EPA makes us all compost and ride bicycles. The ACA sets standards for Insurance companies to provide health insurance to the citizens of the US of A. It increases medicaid requirements so more people who could not afford to even see a doctor for a minor issue can now do so. You want hooked on narcotics, point a finger at the Cigarette manufacturers who legally push the most addictive drug upon our species.
SO let's just say you didn't make that last statement. That you are an insightful person that had a momentary lapse and press on with the notion that we really do not need agencies like the NSA sucking the dollars and the privacy away from people of this world.
I'd take it one step more. In settings, list all available permissions and allow the user to set a "default" settings or other settings so that they do not need to always go through all permissions. This way when the app is being installed they can apply the template of their choice then adjust for any custom issues.
Honestly, I am surprised that this is even an issue. I've only started into the smartphone world recently, but find it disconcerting that I have to allow so much access to what should be my system. A free app that wants to dish up ads I can accept though why they need contacts location etc etc etc no I don't. But an app I paid for scrapping my personal data without any way for me to say no...bad. I've not downloaded/paid for a number of apps for just that reason. In the end, it is still a phone, like my old dialer and I'm okay not having the world at my fingertips 24/7 if it means the world does not know so much about me.
That type of thinking never crossed my mind till I started hauling horses. Before, I would consider doing "something" to avoid hitting some small animal. Now when I am going down the road with @ 4000 lbs of horse and trailer (and another 1500 lbs of truck) and I see a small animal in the road I say a quick prayer for it as I am not doing anything but continuing straight ahead.
One day this idiot passes me on a double yellow section of secondary road. The car then pulls in front of me and then has to hit the brakes. As I can't just "slam em on" I braked as safely as I could, but figured "We're gonna hit his ass". Thank goodness he roared off (idiot) and I only had to change my pants. Times like that I think autonomous cars would not be a bad idea; they would at least subscribe to the rules of the road.
how about the associated hunger that may go along with that money loss. How about the alteration of essential dietary needs as food becomes costlier and less diverse. I am not interested in a Soylent diet. Money is just the surface.
Jenny Jenny, who can I turn too....sigh....same.
I'll break down and just listen to it for real to get it over with otherwise my brain wont move on....
Damn you fermento, damn you to Rick Roll Hell.
Wait what? Mud dripping down from a ceiling eventually builds a pile of mud that eventually meets the mud dripping down from the ceiling and this is evidence of intelligent design and the reduction of entropy?
Had I only known before I accepted physics, geology and evolution...(sigh).
If there are more evolved beings out there observing us, I feel they may just, at times, shake their heads (what ever it may be). I know I do.
I, for one, enjoyed it
I had to take a moment and look this up Quadrupel as I had no idea what that was when I read it.
You can say that name 5 times after one of those? I tip my hat sir, well done. Now where can I find that fine brew, is my question.
As you like time-lapse photography, this came to my attention this morning. Not a well traveled environment so it is really something to watch. Enjoy.
A different view
way off topic, but cool video. I love seeing different parts of the world and that was one cool experience. Now had those asshats been able to take that down other people could not see such a beautiful place.
If that is the case you better patent this quick, you'll make millions...or would it be copyright and you can nail any one who uses that exact wording in a response without paying you [kidding]
Seriously, were that the case would it not have been considered by now? It does seem rather straight forward, if a human didn't process the request it is bogus and can be ignored. Is the counter to that, well a human wrote the bot that was sent out to find such content thus there was good faith in the development and a digital signature was represented by the originator of the program.
I love the internet, but shit like this makes me wish we went back to pre-network days of sharing mix tapes and/or cds. Now it's all about money and it just makes the whole thing ugly.
"which organism in nature has developed an unassailable position, from which it cannot be dislodged?"
Cats.
Consider, they domesticated mankind thousands of years ago, having discovered just how weak our minds can be, We feed them, care for them, provide them shelter and in return they give nothing back, but disdain or the occasional brush up. Sure there are exceptions to the rule, individual cats being harmed, but when looked in total, they have become the true, dominate species on the planet. One day it will be Cats that go into space, using their human drones to establish the infrastructure and means to propel them out into a galaxy ripe for conquest.
(I have to go, my overlords are coming towards me, pray they don't see what I wrote)
How about the austerity measures, put into place across Europe. Perhaps the stress countries are coming under is spreading to peoples health to the point were it is a negative response. Happy people live longer and in many EU countries, people are not happy.
Wait, how's that? You base this on broad stroke statements from the power companies?
"reduce the reliability of every appliance and electronics gadget in your home,"
Come on? From what I understand of solar electrical systems, they are run through either a UPS or battery bank to help smooth out any "spikes". Appliances may be better off under this system compared to the spikes that can occur when riding bareback with the utilities. The PCs also seem to not want to pay a "fair price" for energy created while at the same time trying to charge more for what they make...wtf?
What I read is the the PCs, the utilities are trying to hold onto an failing power/business model that is going through change. if more people can hook up and provide local power, thus reducing the demand on power companies then as a whole, we win. Their job in the future is to focus on managing the network that ties systems together and not so much on power generation.
Did you miss that part where utilities where lobbying politicians to punish people who switch over to solar? is that not just them playing at winners and losers as well? if utilities (or petro companies) can't compete against solar then they deserve to fade away and not be propped up by the Government.
I remember reading that as a kid. Creeped me out when the burn marks are mentioned.
Actually....Kentucky may disagree
Good point. I'll amend that when I watched a show with James Taylor and Carol King I loved it. They made their old stuff sound fresh in more intimate way which I enjoyed. At the least it will be something to see.
You mean like a Rolling Stones Concert or watching [80's Super band] run through their standards?
Last time I want to a concert featuring a band I loved in the late 70/80s it was a shock (yeah, talking about you CSN). It would have been better to put speakers outside and listen with my eyes closed to a playlist of their songs. I don't want to see old guys overwriting the memories of when they were young guys. Even when I saw Springsteen, and he almost never ages, it was not the same.
I'd almost prefer a show where five old farts talk about their time together, pull out clips of their favorites, maybe adlib a bit and allow us into their "living room" for a great chat.
to be clear....
opt-in: your good
opt-out: at some point, you're screwed
Pretty clear message to me. The only bump in the road, that pesky Hippocratic Oath. Some doctors will still try to save an "opt-out" so you may want to add a clause to the hospital one "and any doctor helping an opt-out will assume all their medical bills till patient is fully healed or dies.". That might make people think longer than today.