Do established geniuses need a prize to fund their work? When Einstein created GR he was also director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. By age 40 Gates was a billionaire. By 27 Ben Franklin was publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac". Every one of my examples had plenty of backers (or no longer needed them) by the time they were in their mid-thirties. Well established geniuses have the Noble prize. IFA This new idea is for a prize for the budding genius, and geniuses always start budding before age thirty.
it's give up your work (which requires you to travel) or give up on that holiday/vacation that you've been waiting for for so many months. These are VERY large sacrifices for no guaranteed success.
If you consider those to be "VERY large sacrifices" then you have become the coddled little sheep your masters want you to be. What would Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, or Churchill have to say about the size of these sacrifices. Part of the reason we see freedoms disappearing so quickly in the western world is because modern western people think an inconvenience is too great a sacrifice. All progress and change carry a large measure of inconvenience in their early stages.
Same problem here in the States. I wonder if the various parties stopped offering real differences in policies around the same time the most powerful political action committees started contributing to both candidates of a single election? I wonder how long nearly meaningless elections will continue to make people believe that they actually have some kind of voice in their government?
There is only no point if you still believe that all this new "security" is actually about terrorists. If you view it from the idea of making people used to the idea of being bullied and controlled then it makes perfect sense. "A society will remain as free or as enslaved as the conscious dispositions of individuals determine it shall be. Just as the roots of oppression are found in passivity, the foundations of our liberty reside in highly energized and focused minds that insist upon their independence. There are no shortcuts, no structures or doctrines that can be erected, no hallowed documents to be revered, to save us the effort of continually challenging those who would presume to exercise authority over our lives."
-- Butler Shaffer
Translation: Civilians are suppose to take it like good little bitches.
If this is such a regular occurrence that the dude had the time to build a robot to deal with the problem, it's a pretty safe bet that the local police know about the problem and haven't done anything about it. Sure they might have some bullshit line about using the smaller dealers to get to the big criminal bossman, but look at what is actually effecting the lives of the people in that precinct. This guy needs to setup cameras recording the activity not only of the dealers, but the lack of activity by the police department. At what point have the police so completely voided the social contract, that the powers usually assigned to the police are defaulted to the average citizen?
The problem isn't so much a matter of retrieving the robot safely, as it is him getting home from his bar safely. Criminal organizations are usually plenty willing to make an example of someone who brings unwanted attention their way. Now that this genius had his picture put in the paper his wife and kids had best hire bodyguards, and he'd better have a shotgun beside the register at his bar.
How about taking some of the Homeland Security money and putting it into alternate crime prevention programs, instead of trying to deal with situations where kids have already been turned into criminals?
Because the kinds of people who's careers and businesses are tied police, military, and incarceration programs are very different from the kinds of people who are social workers. Guess which personality types run DHS?
So you're saying that you owe society nothing for providing the stimulus to your amazing brain?
I thought he was saying that he owes the estate of Aristotle for his use of that idea, and he owes some money to various Germanic tribes for their contributions to the English language. I'd imagine that is keyboard is illegal, as it didn't include any payment to the estate of Christopher Sholes, inventor of the QWERTY keyboard layout. Does his power company pay rights to Tesla's decedents for their use of alternating current to power that computer? Is there anything that we as humans can make or do that doesn't utilize the ideas of other people?
I wasn't trying to suggest that the shuttle had a lower fatality rate, just being astronauts being mounted on the top vs on the side wasn't a superior design. Of course a design with an escape plan has superior survivability in the event of an accident, that's pretty obvious. I was pointing out the frequency which such an escape plan would need to be used. I wasn't dealing with fatalities, but with how often the launch actually made it to space. Yes, the space shuttle is now an outdated piece of shit, but that doesn't mean that the area where it was actually superior should be ignored.
The problem is, how do you find and train an individual that will die on schedule?
Take a page out of the McDonald's business plan, and design your technology so that there is a bare minimum of training necessary. The First Martian will have 200 days to study up once they are in the sky. It gives them something to do while they wait, and the more they study the longer they will likely live when they get there. Hella motivation, and an opportunity for someone to truly maximize the last days of their life. But cancer or not, I'm sure there will be volunteers.
none of the big concert halls would let them perform if they weren't already with a major label.
I know nothing about EU business law, but wouldn't that kind of thing be a violation of Anti-competitive practice laws? They are locking bands out of purchasing the use of the concert venue, because they aren't buying services from the "right" people in the distribution market. Any business that refuses to sell you their product because you aren't buying a different product from an outside company(which they have had a longstanding profitable relationship with) has got to be violating some kind of business law.
The fact that they removed the watermark and made a fake contract shows that there was serious dishonest intent here. Putting thought, planning, and effort into a crime makes it a more serious offense. Yes it is a civil not criminal case, but I think the punitive damages were far too lenient in light of the bald faced deception and brazen counter suit on top of the original violation of the copyright. The judge should have broken them. At 20k it's just the cost of doing business.
Nader has done more good for this country than Gore (or most others in politics.)
But in securing Dubya's win he did enough harm to over shadow all the good he has done. It's a safe assumption that if Nader had not run, that the vast majority of those who voted for Nader would have voted for Gore, and Gore would have won Florida and the election. Sure 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan may well still have happened, but the Iraq war and the abuse of signing statements and Gitmo and the DHS and the Patriot Act 1&2 and wiretapping would not have happened under Gore. Nader has done a lot of good, but also a lot of damage, he should get back to doing good instead of following his ego and "paving the road with good intentions."
The effect of this curving is what we call gravity.
So is this the stuff that is being curved by gravity? Is the Higgs Bosun what "the fabric of space" is made of? These are honest questions, IANAPhysicist.
Does that fact that the money goes to US citizens magically make warmongering for profit acceptable? It is largely the attitude of: "It's OK to drop bombs in foreign countries if it allows me to buy a big screen HD and luxury SUV" that is responsible for much of the anti-American sentiment in the world.
there are a lot more cost-effective and better risk/benefit alternatives out there for the black-hats.......is there any rational reason (besides placating the tax-paying/voting masses who buy into media-sponsored post-9/11 fear-mongering) for the huge focus on the damned planes?
Yes, a rather important one in fact. If people stopped thinking about the big scary planes and started thinking about the zero security at their town's water reservoir or there child's elementary school or the mall or the movie theater or train station or office building or anyone one of the millions of potential targets, then they might suddenly want to reduce the terrorist threat through some means that doesn't a war guaranteeing new generations of terrorist recruits. That war is making some people a lot of money.
Contracts to the Pentagon's top ten contractors jumped from $46 billion in 2001 to $80 billion in 2003, an increase of nearly 75%. Halliburton's contracts jumped more than nine times their 2001 levels by 2003, from $400 million to $3.9 billion. Northrop Grumman's contracts doubled, from $5.2 billion to $11.1 billion, over the same time frame; and the nation's largest weapons contractor, Lockheed Martin, saw a 50% increase, from $14.7 billion to $21.9 billion.
I recently worked on a gig where many high profile business and political figures were attending. I walked through a SecureScan system. I'm a stagehand, so I had tools on me. I the scan operator could tell the difference between my 8" crescent wrench, my multi-tool, and my Spyderco knife as I walked through at a normal pace. I know because he only asked about my knife, not the other tools.
either I'm having to lift 10 pounds 5 times every time I want to light the lamp, or I'm lifting 50 pounds.
Unless you are weakened by some medical condition lifting 10 pounds, 4 feet, 5 times in a row, every four waking hours isn't enough of a demand to be an issue. On the contrary I think this regular weight bearing movement might be a very good thing for the elderly or physically frail.This could be viewed as an in-home several-times-a-day physical therapy light. Maybe a moveable stop, which could allow for the weight to start higher off the floor, but would need to be rest more often would be good addition for those with bad backs or knees that can't reach low to the ground. But to force people to get off the couch every two to four hours and move a few ten pound weights can really only be a benefit for the majority of the western world.
"Consumers can't have a clue what they're signing up to when some terms and conditions run to 10 or more pages. There's a significant imbalance between the rights of the consumer and the rights of the holder.'"
So on a fundamental level this is a move against overly complex, lengthy, technically worded agreements. Which I think is a good thing. I have to wonder what happens if we apply this to other overly complex, lengthy things that should be knowledge that is accessible to the average citizen. While part of me has little sympathy for anyone who signed up for an Adjustable Rate Mortgage, or a crappy cellphone contract there is some indication that they didn't really understand what they were getting into. Or take this principle to our legislatures and ask if it is possible for any legislator to actually understand a 700 page bill that came out in it's final form three days prior to voting. While lawyers may try to tell you that all that wording is necessary in order to be clear, I think in more and more cases it has the exact opposite effect.
Seems like they are putting the cart before the horse...
Why do you say that? Setting up cell service on the moon will be much easier and faster than setting up even a single habitation module. On top of that, having easy communications between the people working on the moon and in near space will make it much faster, easier, and safer to work there. Just giving everyone walkie-talkies isn't gonna do much good if there are more than about four people trying to communicate there, aside form the much lower sound quality of hand held radios. Yeah half the comments here are about calls between the Earth and the Moon, but I think in reality the vast majority of the calls will be Moon-to-Moon. having astronauts on the lunar surface be able to communicate with one another seems a pretty fundamental step. I would also expect a Loran style lunar navigation system to follow as soon as lunar work was needed to be done outside of line-of-sight with the colony.
Bots are a fine place to start, they should just include a notice sent to the site owner that let's them know they have been flagged and provides them an opportunity to object to explain their content's legality. That's where you bring in the humans to investigate further. A site blocked for a day or two isn't oppressive censorship, but when a reasonable, verifiable explanation is made and the site is still blocked then you have oppression.
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Do established geniuses need a prize to fund their work?
When Einstein created GR he was also director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. By age 40 Gates was a billionaire. By 27 Ben Franklin was publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac". Every one of my examples had plenty of backers (or no longer needed them) by the time they were in their mid-thirties. Well established geniuses have the Noble prize. IFA This new idea is for a prize for the budding genius, and geniuses always start budding before age thirty.
Once you hit 30 you aren't worth as much.
When you are speaking of making a major contribution to the world, it's true. If you are over 30 and you aren't a shining star in your field, you never will be. Pascal wrote "Pascal's Theorem" at 16. Ben Franklin was writing noted newspaper articles at 15. Louise Braille invented writing for the blind at age 15. Alexander Graham Bell was working with mechanical speech at age 16. Westinghouse was 19 when he patented a rotary steam engine. Farnsworth had the first steps towards a working television built and working at age 19. Bill Gates founded Microsoft when he was 21. Einstien wrote "The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields" at 15.
So in the realm of groundbreaking works: If you are over 30 and no breakthroughs has surfaced so far then likely they never will.
it's give up your work (which requires you to travel) or give up on that holiday/vacation that you've been waiting for for so many months. These are VERY large sacrifices for no guaranteed success.
If you consider those to be "VERY large sacrifices" then you have become the coddled little sheep your masters want you to be. What would Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, or Churchill have to say about the size of these sacrifices. Part of the reason we see freedoms disappearing so quickly in the western world is because modern western people think an inconvenience is too great a sacrifice. All progress and change carry a large measure of inconvenience in their early stages.
Same problem here in the States. I wonder if the various parties stopped offering real differences in policies around the same time the most powerful political action committees started contributing to both candidates of a single election? I wonder how long nearly meaningless elections will continue to make people believe that they actually have some kind of voice in their government?
There is only no point if you still believe that all this new "security" is actually about terrorists. If you view it from the idea of making people used to the idea of being bullied and controlled then it makes perfect sense. "A society will remain as free or as enslaved as the conscious dispositions of individuals determine it shall be. Just as the roots of oppression are found in passivity, the foundations of our liberty reside in highly energized and focused minds that insist upon their independence. There are no shortcuts, no structures or doctrines that can be erected, no hallowed documents to be revered, to save us the effort of continually challenging those who would presume to exercise authority over our lives." -- Butler Shaffer
Civilians are not suppose to escalate force.
Translation: Civilians are suppose to take it like good little bitches.
If this is such a regular occurrence that the dude had the time to build a robot to deal with the problem, it's a pretty safe bet that the local police know about the problem and haven't done anything about it. Sure they might have some bullshit line about using the smaller dealers to get to the big criminal bossman, but look at what is actually effecting the lives of the people in that precinct. This guy needs to setup cameras recording the activity not only of the dealers, but the lack of activity by the police department. At what point have the police so completely voided the social contract, that the powers usually assigned to the police are defaulted to the average citizen?
The problem isn't so much a matter of retrieving the robot safely, as it is him getting home from his bar safely. Criminal organizations are usually plenty willing to make an example of someone who brings unwanted attention their way. Now that this genius had his picture put in the paper his wife and kids had best hire bodyguards, and he'd better have a shotgun beside the register at his bar.
How about taking some of the Homeland Security money and putting it into alternate crime prevention programs, instead of trying to deal with situations where kids have already been turned into criminals?
Because the kinds of people who's careers and businesses are tied police, military, and incarceration programs are very different from the kinds of people who are social workers. Guess which personality types run DHS?
So you're saying that you owe society nothing for providing the stimulus to your amazing brain?
I thought he was saying that he owes the estate of Aristotle for his use of that idea, and he owes some money to various Germanic tribes for their contributions to the English language. I'd imagine that is keyboard is illegal, as it didn't include any payment to the estate of Christopher Sholes, inventor of the QWERTY keyboard layout. Does his power company pay rights to Tesla's decedents for their use of alternating current to power that computer? Is there anything that we as humans can make or do that doesn't utilize the ideas of other people?
I wasn't trying to suggest that the shuttle had a lower fatality rate, just being astronauts being mounted on the top vs on the side wasn't a superior design. Of course a design with an escape plan has superior survivability in the event of an accident, that's pretty obvious. I was pointing out the frequency which such an escape plan would need to be used. I wasn't dealing with fatalities, but with how often the launch actually made it to space. Yes, the space shuttle is now an outdated piece of shit, but that doesn't mean that the area where it was actually superior should be ignored.
The problem is, how do you find and train an individual that will die on schedule?
Take a page out of the McDonald's business plan, and design your technology so that there is a bare minimum of training necessary. The First Martian will have 200 days to study up once they are in the sky. It gives them something to do while they wait, and the more they study the longer they will likely live when they get there. Hella motivation, and an opportunity for someone to truly maximize the last days of their life. But cancer or not, I'm sure there will be volunteers.
Glad we've once again remembered it's a better idea to have the astronauts at the TOP of the stack rather than stuck to the SIDE of the stack.
On the side wouldn't have been so bad if it would have been in a vehicle with emergency escape capability. After all "The US Space Shuttle has a lower failure rate (1.6%) than the other launchers. The failure rates range from 5% for the Russian R-7 Soyuz and European Ariane 1-4 to 14% for the US Atlas." Perhaps in this round of launch design we can manage to cut the accident rate to one third again. A 0.53% failure rate isn't bad considering what is being attempted, but with (hopefully only) a 1 in 200 chance of disaster, an escape plan is always a good idea.
none of the big concert halls would let them perform if they weren't already with a major label.
I know nothing about EU business law, but wouldn't that kind of thing be a violation of Anti-competitive practice laws? They are locking bands out of purchasing the use of the concert venue, because they aren't buying services from the "right" people in the distribution market. Any business that refuses to sell you their product because you aren't buying a different product from an outside company(which they have had a longstanding profitable relationship with) has got to be violating some kind of business law.
We really need to bring these people up to speed with the 21st century.
Pakistanis really need to bring Pakistan up to speed with the 21st century.
- Fixed that for you.
Nader has done more good for this country than Gore (or most others in politics.)
But in securing Dubya's win he did enough harm to over shadow all the good he has done. It's a safe assumption that if Nader had not run, that the vast majority of those who voted for Nader would have voted for Gore, and Gore would have won Florida and the election. Sure 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan may well still have happened, but the Iraq war and the abuse of signing statements and Gitmo and the DHS and the Patriot Act 1&2 and wiretapping would not have happened under Gore. Nader has done a lot of good, but also a lot of damage, he should get back to doing good instead of following his ego and "paving the road with good intentions."
The effect of this curving is what we call gravity.
So is this the stuff that is being curved by gravity? Is the Higgs Bosun what "the fabric of space" is made of? These are honest questions, IANAPhysicist.
Does that fact that the money goes to US citizens magically make warmongering for profit acceptable? It is largely the attitude of: "It's OK to drop bombs in foreign countries if it allows me to buy a big screen HD and luxury SUV" that is responsible for much of the anti-American sentiment in the world.
Yes, a rather important one in fact. If people stopped thinking about the big scary planes and started thinking about the zero security at their town's water reservoir or there child's elementary school or the mall or the movie theater or train station or office building or anyone one of the millions of potential targets, then they might suddenly want to reduce the terrorist threat through some means that doesn't a war guaranteeing new generations of terrorist recruits. That war is making some people a lot of money.
I recently worked on a gig where many high profile business and political figures were attending. I walked through a SecureScan system. I'm a stagehand, so I had tools on me. I the scan operator could tell the difference between my 8" crescent wrench, my multi-tool, and my Spyderco knife as I walked through at a normal pace. I know because he only asked about my knife, not the other tools.
either I'm having to lift 10 pounds 5 times every time I want to light the lamp, or I'm lifting 50 pounds.
Unless you are weakened by some medical condition lifting 10 pounds, 4 feet, 5 times in a row, every four waking hours isn't enough of a demand to be an issue. On the contrary I think this regular weight bearing movement might be a very good thing for the elderly or physically frail.This could be viewed as an in-home several-times-a-day physical therapy light. Maybe a moveable stop, which could allow for the weight to start higher off the floor, but would need to be rest more often would be good addition for those with bad backs or knees that can't reach low to the ground. But to force people to get off the couch every two to four hours and move a few ten pound weights can really only be a benefit for the majority of the western world.
"Consumers can't have a clue what they're signing up to when some terms and conditions run to 10 or more pages. There's a significant imbalance between the rights of the consumer and the rights of the holder.'"
So on a fundamental level this is a move against overly complex, lengthy, technically worded agreements. Which I think is a good thing. I have to wonder what happens if we apply this to other overly complex, lengthy things that should be knowledge that is accessible to the average citizen. While part of me has little sympathy for anyone who signed up for an Adjustable Rate Mortgage, or a crappy cellphone contract there is some indication that they didn't really understand what they were getting into. Or take this principle to our legislatures and ask if it is possible for any legislator to actually understand a 700 page bill that came out in it's final form three days prior to voting. While lawyers may try to tell you that all that wording is necessary in order to be clear, I think in more and more cases it has the exact opposite effect.
Seems like they are putting the cart before the horse...
Why do you say that? Setting up cell service on the moon will be much easier and faster than setting up even a single habitation module. On top of that, having easy communications between the people working on the moon and in near space will make it much faster, easier, and safer to work there. Just giving everyone walkie-talkies isn't gonna do much good if there are more than about four people trying to communicate there, aside form the much lower sound quality of hand held radios. Yeah half the comments here are about calls between the Earth and the Moon, but I think in reality the vast majority of the calls will be Moon-to-Moon. having astronauts on the lunar surface be able to communicate with one another seems a pretty fundamental step.
I would also expect a Loran style lunar navigation system to follow as soon as lunar work was needed to be done outside of line-of-sight with the colony.
..that's just fucking retarded.
Unless you or a friend owns stock in the patent troll, then it's fuckin' brilliant.
Bots are a fine place to start, they should just include a notice sent to the site owner that let's them know they have been flagged and provides them an opportunity to object to explain their content's legality. That's where you bring in the humans to investigate further. A site blocked for a day or two isn't oppressive censorship, but when a reasonable, verifiable explanation is made and the site is still blocked then you have oppression.