Re:It's not just about going to Mars
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Let's Not Go To Mars
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There is an important, often overlooked reason we aren't going back to the moon...
There is an alien base on the far side, that is used to monitor Earth. The leaders of Earth know this, and have been warned to stay away.
Mars also has an alien base, but being so far from Earth, they're lonely and wouldn't mind some company.
Don't worry, soon enough your job will be outsourced to high productivity systems, robots, etc;
This change and pace of technological change is inevitable, and is what should really be discussed now while we still have a chance.
There seems to be this smug self importance to many that post on this site thinking they can't be touched by the oncoming wave.
They are planning on having computer systems do air traffic control. No that won't remove all the human jobs in that area, but most of them. Pilots? Fast-Food cooks and cashiers? Trash collectors?
When self driving tech really gets going in 10-20 years from now think about how many delivery and driving jobs will disappear?
When agriculture harvesting tech really gets going think about how many immigrant farm workers will be out of work?
The real question is, how will human society deal with millions or billions permanently out of work?
How could Gygax approve of a script that rarely if ever mentions anything from the actual game?
Imagine if any of the Marvel films that weren't anything remotely like the comics?
Having a someone not familiar with the game write the script is akin to the TSR move of giving the reins to a CEO who hated D&D and gamers in general.
If this film had been made it would have achieved the following:
1) Infuriated D&D fans.
2) Confused and bored non D&D fans.
Someone familiar with the game should have written the outline, and then later had that script redone professionally. At least that way there would be some tie in that fans of the game could appreciate, and then non-fans who would go on to try the game after seeing the film wouldn't be confused or disappointed by a film that was nothing like the game.
From TFA:
"They meet the flying piranha-like stekkers-which fortunately eat only one another-then are pursued by a vicious creature with the head of a dugong and the body of a sea elephant, and finally encounter a floor coated with bagguts, a sort of leech. When Fearless accidentally sticks his hand on them, Odo heals it with an application of Keoghtom's Ointment: one of the few direct appropriations from D&D rules in the film."
now the government comes along and tells the car makers that they must improve gas mileage and they must improve safety. now suddenly safety and gas mileage are important to consumers! why? because they were programmed to like safety and gas mileage
Wrong.
You need to read up on what happened in 1973-74 with OPEC. Go ahead, it won't hurt.
Security concerns in the cloud are overblown by those trying to save their jobs.
Wow, really?
Your post was interesting until I read this.
Depending on what you are putting on someone elses servers/infrastructure I guess security isn't a priority.
And yes, I support and configure systems that run on "cloud" infrastructure.
To make such a blanket statement about offsite resources(as I like to call it) is naive.
I think in general there is hostility towards consumers, and not just with things like consumer electronics.
Digital media such as music, books, video or films?
While there is an immense catalog of choice with what we can consume, we are are getting less and less able to have control over their choices, due to how "rights holders" and others corral us into their vision of how to consume and deliver this media.
The only chasm is the one you create for yourself by not reading enough on the subject. It really isn't that hard to get a pretty good picture of:
1. How humans have dumped A LOT of carbon into the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
2.What this carbon is doing the climate and the biological systems that depend on that climate
3. Why we should try to rein in our carbon dumping into the atmosphere and oceans.
I always get a kick out of posts like yours, which you aptly describe yourself as "people wring their hands". Your post is typical of the usual obfuscation and sort of "deer in the headlights" panic and immobility that has plagued any real attempt to address this problem.
I'll do you a favor and point out the obvious. This isn'r really rocket science, as complicated a subject as it is. The Earths atmosphere is a closed system. If you really want the scientific nuts and bolts read up on the data and models guys like James Hansen have come up with. Hell, he was predicting this back in the early 80's. How long does the hand wringing have to go on for?
Match is full of fake profiles and bots that email from all corners of the known world.
I was getting winks and emails from women all over the place, and after I looked at their profiles I realized they were created.
I would occasionally respond and ask why someone not in my age range, and with nothing in common with me, and who lives in Pensacola(or Poughkeepsie, or any other location hundreds or thousands of miles away!) would contact me...
They never replied.
I started to see an emerging pattern to the fakery that Match had turned into.
Sure, there are real women on there, but I can assure you, back at Match headquarters there are daily quotas for creating/updating and emailing/winking from FAKE profiles.
Any counterculture gathering that doesn't attract FBI watchers just isn't trying hard enough. I used to think it was insidious. Now, I think the feds just want a cushy week or two watching the scantily clad.
...and that the guys from the Reno office always wanted to have a MDMA fueled spooning session in their custom turn-key camp at BM.
No, more like China.
We have our Konsumer based economy with our toys, phones and fast food.
And we will be allowed to continue having access to those as long as we don't rock the boat...
Yes, that is one of the "weirdest" things about the FF, that none of them wanted to take full control.
Washington voluntarily giving up power was nothing short of a miracle and an amazing precedent for this country.
God bless him!
>> I can't really think of any other of the founding fathers as being weird, tho.
That's the strange thing about modern times. Guys who risked their lives, their families and everything they had on an idea are now considered stodgy and mainstream, whereas some random dude with tattoos, dreads and an iPhone working a zero-risk job at Taco John's is considered to be a "free thinker."
Yea, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico five years ago didn't really do much to stir the consciousness of Americans.
That was the environmental 9/11 or Pearl Harbor you're looking for.
People know we are on the downward spiral.
People have known since the 1970s that the environment is in bad shape, and that as long as we continue our selfish ways not much will change.
It's like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
I have put some things online that could be embarrassing. Nothing really earthshattering, nothing I could lose a job over. Back when the "anonymous" nature of the web first started, I was always wary. Maybe not as smart as I should have been, but smart enough. Accounts, posts, passwords, etc. These things are all ephemeral and all can be compromised. I always understood that.
The real question here is why people continue to think of the internet, "the web", and the myriad of online services as secure. I'm not apologizing for what those who have compromised these accounts have done, but really, at this point everyone should know nothing that is done online is secure. There have been too many compromises.
Who has inspired this trust?
Why do millions continue to put faith in something that proves over and over again to be untrustworthy?
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There is an important, often overlooked reason we aren't going back to the moon...
There is an alien base on the far side, that is used to monitor Earth. The leaders of Earth know this, and have been warned to stay away.
Mars also has an alien base, but being so far from Earth, they're lonely and wouldn't mind some company.
Don't worry, soon enough your job will be outsourced to high productivity systems, robots, etc;
This change and pace of technological change is inevitable, and is what should really be discussed now while we still have a chance.
There seems to be this smug self importance to many that post on this site thinking they can't be touched by the oncoming wave.
They are planning on having computer systems do air traffic control. No that won't remove all the human jobs in that area, but most of them. Pilots? Fast-Food cooks and cashiers? Trash collectors?
When self driving tech really gets going in 10-20 years from now think about how many delivery and driving jobs will disappear?
When agriculture harvesting tech really gets going think about how many immigrant farm workers will be out of work?
The real question is, how will human society deal with millions or billions permanently out of work?
Who needs space exploration when you have ubiquitous hi-speed internet, Facebook, Netflix and pizza delivering drones? You're living in the past!
How could Gygax approve of a script that rarely if ever mentions anything from the actual game?
Imagine if any of the Marvel films that weren't anything remotely like the comics?
Having a someone not familiar with the game write the script is akin to the TSR move of giving the reins to a CEO who hated D&D and gamers in general.
If this film had been made it would have achieved the following:
1) Infuriated D&D fans.
2) Confused and bored non D&D fans.
Someone familiar with the game should have written the outline, and then later had that script redone professionally. At least that way there would be some tie in that fans of the game could appreciate, and then non-fans who would go on to try the game after seeing the film wouldn't be confused or disappointed by a film that was nothing like the game.
From TFA:
"They meet the flying piranha-like stekkers-which fortunately eat only one another-then are pursued by a vicious creature with the head of a dugong and the body of a sea elephant, and finally encounter a floor coated with bagguts, a sort of leech. When Fearless accidentally sticks his hand on them, Odo heals it with an application of Keoghtom's Ointment: one of the few direct appropriations from D&D rules in the film."
now the government comes along and tells the car makers that they must improve gas mileage and they must improve safety. now suddenly safety and gas mileage are important to consumers! why? because they were programmed to like safety and gas mileage
Wrong.
You need to read up on what happened in 1973-74 with OPEC. Go ahead, it won't hurt.
You've got to admit it was funny.
Mod points bro.
Yours is the best post in here.
I'm a SA, and I agree totally with your analysis.
Security concerns in the cloud are overblown by those trying to save their jobs.
Wow, really?
Your post was interesting until I read this.
Depending on what you are putting on someone elses servers/infrastructure I guess security isn't a priority.
And yes, I support and configure systems that run on "cloud" infrastructure.
To make such a blanket statement about offsite resources(as I like to call it) is naive.
Specific applications are hugely appropriate for "cloud", particularly e-mail (and I say this as an Exchange Administrator).
Have fun migrating to (cough...)Office 365(cough...)!
I think in general there is hostility towards consumers, and not just with things like consumer electronics.
Digital media such as music, books, video or films?
While there is an immense catalog of choice with what we can consume, we are are getting less and less able to have control over their choices, due to how "rights holders" and others corral us into their vision of how to consume and deliver this media.
The only chasm is the one you create for yourself by not reading enough on the subject. It really isn't that hard to get a pretty good picture of:
1. How humans have dumped A LOT of carbon into the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
2.What this carbon is doing the climate and the biological systems that depend on that climate
3. Why we should try to rein in our carbon dumping into the atmosphere and oceans.
I always get a kick out of posts like yours, which you aptly describe yourself as "people wring their hands". Your post is typical of the usual obfuscation and sort of "deer in the headlights" panic and immobility that has plagued any real attempt to address this problem.
I'll do you a favor and point out the obvious. This isn'r really rocket science, as complicated a subject as it is. The Earths atmosphere is a closed system. If you really want the scientific nuts and bolts read up on the data and models guys like James Hansen have come up with. Hell, he was predicting this back in the early 80's. How long does the hand wringing have to go on for?
Here is my approximate timeline for these opinions:
1) There is no such thing as climate change
1988 - 2005
2) Climate change exists, but it isn't happening now.
Late 90's - Mid 2000's
3) The climate is changing, but it isn't being caused by humans
Early 2000's - Early 2010's
4) The climate is being changed by humans, but we can't (or shouldn't) do anything about it.
2005 - Present Day
5) We could have averted climate change, but it is too late now.
2005 - Present Day
Match is full of fake profiles and bots that email from all corners of the known world.
I was getting winks and emails from women all over the place, and after I looked at their profiles I realized they were created.
I would occasionally respond and ask why someone not in my age range, and with nothing in common with me, and who lives in Pensacola(or Poughkeepsie, or any other location hundreds or thousands of miles away!) would contact me...
They never replied.
I started to see an emerging pattern to the fakery that Match had turned into.
Sure, there are real women on there, but I can assure you, back at Match headquarters there are daily quotas for creating/updating and emailing/winking from FAKE profiles.
Any counterculture gathering that doesn't attract FBI watchers just isn't trying hard enough. I used to think it was insidious. Now, I think the feds just want a cushy week or two watching the scantily clad.
...and that the guys from the Reno office always wanted to have a MDMA fueled spooning session in their custom turn-key camp at BM.
No, more like China.
We have our Konsumer based economy with our toys, phones and fast food.
And we will be allowed to continue having access to those as long as we don't rock the boat...
You think they don't have one on you?
Yes, that is one of the "weirdest" things about the FF, that none of them wanted to take full control.
Washington voluntarily giving up power was nothing short of a miracle and an amazing precedent for this country.
God bless him!
>> I can't really think of any other of the founding fathers as being weird, tho.
That's the strange thing about modern times. Guys who risked their lives, their families and everything they had on an idea are now considered stodgy and mainstream, whereas some random dude with tattoos, dreads and an iPhone working a zero-risk job at Taco John's is considered to be a "free thinker."
Read up 'em - you might be surprised.
Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant!
Yea, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico five years ago didn't really do much to stir the consciousness of Americans.
That was the environmental 9/11 or Pearl Harbor you're looking for.
People know we are on the downward spiral.
People have known since the 1970s that the environment is in bad shape, and that as long as we continue our selfish ways not much will change.
It's like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Who needs Stanford?
Dave Mustaine declared this in 1992!
I have put some things online that could be embarrassing. Nothing really earthshattering, nothing I could lose a job over. Back when the "anonymous" nature of the web first started, I was always wary. Maybe not as smart as I should have been, but smart enough. Accounts, posts, passwords, etc. These things are all ephemeral and all can be compromised. I always understood that.
The real question here is why people continue to think of the internet, "the web", and the myriad of online services as secure. I'm not apologizing for what those who have compromised these accounts have done, but really, at this point everyone should know nothing that is done online is secure. There have been too many compromises.
Who has inspired this trust?
Why do millions continue to put faith in something that proves over and over again to be untrustworthy?
That is the real question.
I hit every system looking for platinum and other metals.
I was addicted...
Perhaps someone should come up with a MMORPG for space mining/colonizing.
So my WWII era flamethrower is ok then?
Good call.
Wish I had points, you'g get em.