If you consider minerals, I would imagine that asteroid mining will certainly be less cost-effective than mining them on Earth. So there's no way they're going to be able to compete with Earth-bound mining. Short of some kind of unobtainium deposit, you're losing money. You could conceivably sell the minerals in orbit for building things up there, but that technology doesn't really exist yet and that's going to be pretty tricky to come up with.
If you consider mining ice/water for rocket fuel, you've conceivably got a chicken-or-the-egg problem. The idea is that you mine the ice and then break it up into hydrogen (a very good propellant source) and oxygen (something we humans need for breathing) and sell that. But who will buy it? Perhaps people looking to make money mining asteroids. And what's the only way to make money mining asteroids? Mining ice/water for rocket fuel! So it becomes sort of a pyramid scheme where the first people make money and suddenly there's a lot more competition, the price drops, and the bottom falls out of the market.
I like the idea, but I'm not sure I'd be investing any money in it...
Again, though, it is not illegal to have a monopoly. The issue is whether or not Apple is using it's monopoly in music distribution to hurt rivals in another market.
How would you fake a radio signal going behind the moon and coming back ?
Uh...how about you put it in a rocket going around the Moon?
One thing I've never really heard from the Moon landing conspiracy theorists is what missions were faked? There were plenty of missions to the Moon, both manned and unmanned. The Apollo program did some manned missions in Earth orbit (Apollo 7 and 9, I believe). Were those faked? Apollo 8 and 10 actually went to the Moon. Were those faked? What about the Surveyor missions, which landed probes on the Moon?
Assuming we could actually get rockets to the Moon, it would be fairly simple to have a rocket which took the transmissions on one channel coming from Earth and rebroadcast them back on another channel. So fake astronauts on Earth could appear to be broadcasting from the craft in orbit around the Moon.
As an aside, what to me is entertaining about this whole thing is not whether the Moon landings were faked--they weren't--but how could you fake it?
The part you are missing is "monopoly". Apple doesn't have a monopoly in computers, phones or tablets...
Keep in mind, it depends on what the FTC decides what the "market" is.
For example, Microsoft maintained that they did not have a monopoly in personal computer operating systems because of Apple. However, the FTC ruled that they did have a monopoly in operating systems for Intel-based computers. Since Apple, at the time, used PowerPC processors, Microsoft couldn't use Apple's market share to claim they didn't have a monopoly.
While Apple does not have a monopoly in computers, phones, or tablets, it might be more difficult to maintain that Apple does not have a monopoly in the sale of music.
Can't speak for a cost, but I thought this one was funny...
A company I used to work for used Lotus Notes. For some reason, and I don't remember exactly what the reason was, I set up my e-mail to copy my mail to another account. I think it was just a "hey, I can do this" thing, playing with the e-mail system. Unfortunately, I made a typo in the name of the account to forward to.
When I came in the next morning, the e-mail system was running really slowly. Everyone was complaining about it. I logged into my e-mail and, low-and-behold, there's all sorts of e-mails in my account complaining about how it couldn't send this message to the other account and, of course, the contents of the e-mail was a message that it couldn't send this message to the other account, and the contents of that message was a complaint that...you get the idea.
I turned off the script and deleted all the e-mails. And, suddenly, from the office next door, I hear, "Hey! E-mail is working again!"
From the sounds of it, you need a gasoline powered truck. Enjoy it in good health.
What always bothers me is the whole, "Everybody should be driving electric cars!" There are those who need the range of a gas powered vehicle. I have no problem with these people.
My attitude is that it's worth taking a look at. In my case, for example, I'd be a perfect candidate except for personal preferences regarding vehicles (I like convertibles and the closest thing to a an electric convertible is a Tesla roadster and I don't have $100,000 to spend on one). But I drive about 15-30 miles per day. About the only issue I'd have would be remembering to plug it in, but I can probably manage to deal with it (hang a sign on the door from the garage to the kitchen saying, "Plug in your car!").
Yeah, okay, I have an outlet in the garage at home. But at work? I'm going to run an extension cord out the window and down to the parking lot? I don't think so.
While I have seen charging stations in parking garages, I've also seen them taken up by electric cars. So now I have to get to work at 6:00AM if I want to be able to charge my car during the day? Uh-uh.
No one is harmed. If I drive down an empty freeway at 110 MPH, I'm not harming anyone, either. But that's not what this is about, much like your example.
This is about Apple basically contacting all the publishers and having all of them and Apple collude together to set up prices in such a way that screws a competitor. Sorry--can't do that.
Since you seem to like conspiracies, though, it's kind of like how the oil companies get together to set the price of gasoline...
This actually sounds like a good thing--namely a Secure Internet of Things. But I think that might be a large undertaking. Perhaps they should start smaller with an Internet of Secure Things.
Anything useful a human can do on Mars can be done by a robot for much less money and loss of life.
Citation, please.
I have a somewhat different opinion. I agree with you regarding the much less money. If your goal is to see the view from the top of Mons Olympus, a probe is the obviously far less expensive than sending a man to climb it. If your goal is to study the rocks along the way, though, a robot probe is a bit more limited than a human being and quite a bit less efficient. As others have pointed out, Opportunity has spent 11 years to go 26 miles. Apollo 17 astronauts covered nearly the same distance (22 miles) in less than 22 hours.
In other words, if you're seeking knowledge, I think a human being is the most efficient. The problem is a human being is really expensive. And, let's face it, Mars isn't going anywhere. While it would be awesome to know the composition of Martian soil, we don't need to know it right now.
Actually, as I understand it--and I may be wrong--she owns her own label and, thus, can do whatever she wants with her music. For us older folks, it's kind of like Joan Jett and Blackheart records.
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Do you have anything to back up your claim that the Apple Ad agency is selling data?
Do you have anything to back up your claim that Google is selling data?
This is actually a real question--not entirely facetious.
It's my understanding that Google doesn't sell your data--it's actually pretty valuable stuff. They sell access to you, much like Apple does with iAd.
Well, if the whole rocket launching thing doesn't work out, you can open up a bird restaurant. "Flash cooked in flight" and all.
There's no risk!
I haven't quite figured out the economics yet.
If you consider minerals, I would imagine that asteroid mining will certainly be less cost-effective than mining them on Earth. So there's no way they're going to be able to compete with Earth-bound mining. Short of some kind of unobtainium deposit, you're losing money. You could conceivably sell the minerals in orbit for building things up there, but that technology doesn't really exist yet and that's going to be pretty tricky to come up with.
If you consider mining ice/water for rocket fuel, you've conceivably got a chicken-or-the-egg problem. The idea is that you mine the ice and then break it up into hydrogen (a very good propellant source) and oxygen (something we humans need for breathing) and sell that. But who will buy it? Perhaps people looking to make money mining asteroids. And what's the only way to make money mining asteroids? Mining ice/water for rocket fuel! So it becomes sort of a pyramid scheme where the first people make money and suddenly there's a lot more competition, the price drops, and the bottom falls out of the market.
I like the idea, but I'm not sure I'd be investing any money in it...
Ski and Hooper? Is that you?
One could say that the Heath is at it's Zenith.
Maybe of the DOWNLOADED music business; but certainly not of the sale of CD/DVD media (in which they simply don't get involved),
Uh...digital music sales beat CDs a long time ago. And Apple themselves says that they are the largest distributor of music in the US, including physical media distributors.
So, nice try.
Again, though, it is not illegal to have a monopoly. The issue is whether or not Apple is using it's monopoly in music distribution to hurt rivals in another market.
How would you fake a radio signal going behind the moon and coming back ?
Uh...how about you put it in a rocket going around the Moon?
One thing I've never really heard from the Moon landing conspiracy theorists is what missions were faked? There were plenty of missions to the Moon, both manned and unmanned. The Apollo program did some manned missions in Earth orbit (Apollo 7 and 9, I believe). Were those faked? Apollo 8 and 10 actually went to the Moon. Were those faked? What about the Surveyor missions, which landed probes on the Moon?
Assuming we could actually get rockets to the Moon, it would be fairly simple to have a rocket which took the transmissions on one channel coming from Earth and rebroadcast them back on another channel. So fake astronauts on Earth could appear to be broadcasting from the craft in orbit around the Moon.
As an aside, what to me is entertaining about this whole thing is not whether the Moon landings were faked--they weren't--but how could you fake it?
But on a planet of dwarves, the short man is king.
The part you are missing is "monopoly". Apple doesn't have a monopoly in computers, phones or tablets...
Keep in mind, it depends on what the FTC decides what the "market" is.
For example, Microsoft maintained that they did not have a monopoly in personal computer operating systems because of Apple. However, the FTC ruled that they did have a monopoly in operating systems for Intel-based computers. Since Apple, at the time, used PowerPC processors, Microsoft couldn't use Apple's market share to claim they didn't have a monopoly.
While Apple does not have a monopoly in computers, phones, or tablets, it might be more difficult to maintain that Apple does not have a monopoly in the sale of music.
maybe if nasa didnt stop its rocket development [...]
I assume you've never heard of the Space Launch System being developed by NASA.
Can't speak for a cost, but I thought this one was funny...
A company I used to work for used Lotus Notes. For some reason, and I don't remember exactly what the reason was, I set up my e-mail to copy my mail to another account. I think it was just a "hey, I can do this" thing, playing with the e-mail system. Unfortunately, I made a typo in the name of the account to forward to.
When I came in the next morning, the e-mail system was running really slowly. Everyone was complaining about it. I logged into my e-mail and, low-and-behold, there's all sorts of e-mails in my account complaining about how it couldn't send this message to the other account and, of course, the contents of the e-mail was a message that it couldn't send this message to the other account, and the contents of that message was a complaint that...you get the idea.
I turned off the script and deleted all the e-mails. And, suddenly, from the office next door, I hear, "Hey! E-mail is working again!"
Shhhhh...
From the sounds of it, you need a gasoline powered truck. Enjoy it in good health.
What always bothers me is the whole, "Everybody should be driving electric cars!" There are those who need the range of a gas powered vehicle. I have no problem with these people.
My attitude is that it's worth taking a look at. In my case, for example, I'd be a perfect candidate except for personal preferences regarding vehicles (I like convertibles and the closest thing to a an electric convertible is a Tesla roadster and I don't have $100,000 to spend on one). But I drive about 15-30 miles per day. About the only issue I'd have would be remembering to plug it in, but I can probably manage to deal with it (hang a sign on the door from the garage to the kitchen saying, "Plug in your car!").
I gotta admit, that one caught my eye, too.
Yeah, okay, I have an outlet in the garage at home. But at work? I'm going to run an extension cord out the window and down to the parking lot? I don't think so.
While I have seen charging stations in parking garages, I've also seen them taken up by electric cars. So now I have to get to work at 6:00AM if I want to be able to charge my car during the day? Uh-uh.
the last thing i want is to get *targeted* ads to me over my...not saying what my problem is. Get the drift?
Cheep V1agra!
No one is harmed. If I drive down an empty freeway at 110 MPH, I'm not harming anyone, either. But that's not what this is about, much like your example.
This is about Apple basically contacting all the publishers and having all of them and Apple collude together to set up prices in such a way that screws a competitor. Sorry--can't do that.
Since you seem to like conspiracies, though, it's kind of like how the oil companies get together to set the price of gasoline...
This actually sounds like a good thing--namely a Secure Internet of Things. But I think that might be a large undertaking. Perhaps they should start smaller with an Internet of Secure Things.
If I had a 3D Printer,
I'd be 3D printin' in the morning,
I'd be 3D printing' in the evening,
all over this land...
Sorry. It just came to me. Now that I think of it...
If I had a 3D printer, some son-of-a-bitch would die...
Well, it's obvious that private industry never fails. Only the Government fails. Just ask FOX News.
Not aliens--Nazis.
The movie "Iron Sky" was a disinformation campaign.
So now we have a right out of thin air that has been left to the states in every form since the founding of our country.
Actually, we've had that "right" since 1967.
Anything useful a human can do on Mars can be done by a robot for much less money and loss of life.
Citation, please.
I have a somewhat different opinion. I agree with you regarding the much less money. If your goal is to see the view from the top of Mons Olympus, a probe is the obviously far less expensive than sending a man to climb it. If your goal is to study the rocks along the way, though, a robot probe is a bit more limited than a human being and quite a bit less efficient. As others have pointed out, Opportunity has spent 11 years to go 26 miles. Apollo 17 astronauts covered nearly the same distance (22 miles) in less than 22 hours.
In other words, if you're seeking knowledge, I think a human being is the most efficient. The problem is a human being is really expensive. And, let's face it, Mars isn't going anywhere. While it would be awesome to know the composition of Martian soil, we don't need to know it right now.
Actually, as I understand it--and I may be wrong--she owns her own label and, thus, can do whatever she wants with her music. For us older folks, it's kind of like Joan Jett and Blackheart records.
It's like some dickwad whining about people having guns yet has armed guards on the payroll.
...or, conversely, some politician claiming people should be able to carry guns anywhere--except where he works.
I gotta admit, I thought that was funny...
'we have received an e-mail asking us how to submit a subpoena to us which we haven’t received yet.
"Oh...you want to subpoena me and you don't know where to send it? Sure, I'll help. My address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC..."
They're an intelligence agency and they don't know where to send the subpoena?
They didn't have online dating sites back in the 1960s. You had Computer Dating.