"The claim being made is that religion causes these conflicts. Im pretty sure Pol Pot didnt start his movement for the sake of a religious belief, but a political one."
And how is that a different thing ? A religion is nothing more than a bunch of people telling they've got the Truth. Quite like politics to me.
"French Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry Ministry.
What are we going to do with all of these ministries? Are IT staff going to spend the weekend in a massive cleaning to remove traces of 'spectacular' redundancy, too?"
My preferred one is : "Secretaire d'Etat aupres de la ministre de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie, charge du Commerce, de l'Artisanat, des Petites et Moyennes entreprises, du Tourisme, des Services, des Professions liberales et de la Consommation"
That's ONE guy (no need to translate, most of the words are english-ready, apart from 'small and middle sized companies'). And they *really* call him like that *everytime* it appears in the senate (often).
" I don't believe for a second that (...) disagreeing with a law morally entitles somebody to break it."
So you are a state-robot. The law says this, so you do this. That's part of a bigger problem of our system : noone is responsible of anything anymore. "That was the order !". Can't you just assume what you do ? I respect the law, most of the time, for a stupid-simple reason : that's logical. I stop at "stop" signs, I pay my taxes, etc. But I smoke pot, too. That's illegal where I live, and I can't think of *one* reason not to do so if I like to.
So I break the law, should I go to prison because that's not moral to you ? Fuck no. It does not concern you, at all, ever.
Be clever, and stop mixing "moral" with "law", that's stupid.
I'd design it so it had just enough thrust to get back in Mars Orbit. Then I'd send a 2nd craft from Earth to ferry it back. I figure there is a lot of problems that could be solved by reducing that added fuel weight from it.
So, roughtly counting :
1.1/ Get spacecraft1 outside Earth gravity field
1.2/ Go to Mars.
1.3/ Descend.
1.4/ Go back to mars orbit.
2.1/ Get spacecraft2 oustide Earth gravity field
2.2/ Go to Mars and Get payload of spacecraft1
2.3/ Go to Earth
2.4/ Descend
Not counting the fact you are doubling the technical staff needed, you'll need to escape Earth attraction 2 times, Mars's 1 time, you'll have to make the trip 2 times, and descend to earth or mars 2 times. This seems a bit overenginnered to me. What about :
1.1/ Get spacecraft1 outside Earth gravity field
1.2/ Get to Mars
1.3/ Descent
1.4/ Get outside Mars gravity field
1.5/ Get to Earth
1.6 Descent
That's 2 escapes, 2 trips, 2 descents, 1 spacecraft, 1 staff.
The spacecraft will certainly be bigger, heavier, more complicated, but that's nothing side by side with your proposition, to me.
Pardon me, but I'm not that aware of taxes and such in the US, so what's left to the guy which earns say $100k/year ?
That $8300/month (~6500euros), and in Europe (France especially) 6500 is a *lot* (average salary is somewhere between 25ke and 30ke per year).
I'm working for ~50ke (~$65k) per year, and that's a good salary (especially for someone without any diploma (hence my english skills). It costs my company about twice this amount (so ~120ke before taxes), and I get, after taxes, 80% of this (so ~3200e/month) (and I owe about one month of salary for general taxes, per year, but we never take this into account when talking about salaries).
To summarize, I earn 50ke, divide per 12, remove 20%, that's ~3200e/month in my pocket (and that's something like two times the average salary). So, what's really left for the pocket of an american earning $100k/month ?
(I'm aware that you have to pay for medical insurances and such, and, besides 'normal' taxes, that's about 100e/month in my case).
What if you don't have any usable driver for it in the VM ?
For instance, you could have an Xbox360 peripheral with no Windows drivers, so no luck to sniff anything usefull even plugged on a Windows VM. Having an hardware device plugged between the device and the Xbox will permit you to actually know what's going on without even having a PC nearby (at a friend's or in a mall or wherever).
Blinking some LEDs doesn't require 8Mhz. Nor 4Mhz. Actually, it requires something like blinking_time*2Hz. Performances are *not* a problem here. Why do you think so many people program in Java or.NET stuff ? Because nowadays it's good enough, and it saves days, weeks, months, or years worth of salaries. Hardware is cheap, brain is expensive.
My question is : Why the hell do you want them to code in C (or assembly, if I follow your path) to blink some LEDs ??
(And remember that Arduino language is nothing else that preprocessed C, it is in fact compiled with avr-gcc).
(Ho, and I code in assembly at least once a week, I code embedded C for a living, so I'm hardly saying that because I don't like low level stuff. Coding for performance in this kind of project is just not relevant)
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"The claim being made is that religion causes these conflicts. Im pretty sure Pol Pot didnt start his movement for the sake of a religious belief, but a political one." And how is that a different thing ? A religion is nothing more than a bunch of people telling they've got the Truth. Quite like politics to me.
The "professions liberales" are the independant ones (like physicians, lawyers, etc.), where you can freely chose how much you'll ask (so that's not a salary). "Liberal" has a very, very (very) different usage in France. It just means you are free to do what you want, as in "liberté" (liberty / freedom). Economically, at least.
"French Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry Ministry.
What are we going to do with all of these ministries? Are IT staff going to spend the weekend in a massive cleaning to remove traces of 'spectacular' redundancy, too?"
My preferred one is :
"Secretaire d'Etat aupres de la ministre de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie, charge du Commerce, de l'Artisanat, des Petites et Moyennes entreprises, du Tourisme, des Services, des Professions liberales et de la Consommation"
That's ONE guy (no need to translate, most of the words are english-ready, apart from 'small and middle sized companies'). And they *really* call him like that *everytime* it appears in the senate (often).
"In both scenarios you're removing an unwanted being from your life at your own desire.
The term 'being' seems a bit philosophical to me. From when exactly does it become a 'being' ? (that's all the fun, I know)
The sun does not shine 24hours/day... at least not on our planet.
Actually yes, it is, at the poles. Both of them beeing part of the same planet.
"I would have sex with her too"
She's 238 by now you gross !
Yes there is, for ... retards, specifically. That's a general notion, not just "sometimes it applies, sometime not".
" I don't believe for a second that (...) disagreeing with a law morally entitles somebody to break it."
So you are a state-robot. The law says this, so you do this. That's part of a bigger problem of our system : noone is responsible of anything anymore. "That was the order !". Can't you just assume what you do ? I respect the law, most of the time, for a stupid-simple reason : that's logical. I stop at "stop" signs, I pay my taxes, etc. But I smoke pot, too. That's illegal where I live, and I can't think of *one* reason not to do so if I like to.
So I break the law, should I go to prison because that's not moral to you ? Fuck no. It does not concern you, at all, ever.
Be clever, and stop mixing "moral" with "law", that's stupid.
They just fortified the positions of those they're trying to scare off.
Don't resist or they will bite harder, that is. No way.
something that generates enough revenue to be self-sustaining
Like capable of generating $30 per month ? Seems hard.
I'd design it so it had just enough thrust to get back in Mars Orbit. Then I'd send a 2nd craft from Earth to ferry it back. I figure there is a lot of problems that could be solved by reducing that added fuel weight from it. So, roughtly counting : 1.1/ Get spacecraft1 outside Earth gravity field 1.2/ Go to Mars. 1.3/ Descend. 1.4/ Go back to mars orbit. 2.1/ Get spacecraft2 oustide Earth gravity field 2.2/ Go to Mars and Get payload of spacecraft1 2.3/ Go to Earth 2.4/ Descend Not counting the fact you are doubling the technical staff needed, you'll need to escape Earth attraction 2 times, Mars's 1 time, you'll have to make the trip 2 times, and descend to earth or mars 2 times. This seems a bit overenginnered to me. What about : 1.1/ Get spacecraft1 outside Earth gravity field 1.2/ Get to Mars 1.3/ Descent 1.4/ Get outside Mars gravity field 1.5/ Get to Earth 1.6 Descent That's 2 escapes, 2 trips, 2 descents, 1 spacecraft, 1 staff. The spacecraft will certainly be bigger, heavier, more complicated, but that's nothing side by side with your proposition, to me.
I like Sesame Street so much, too.
Maybe because there is no sun indoor ... ?
No shit, Sherlock ?
Sun warms the air. Air melts the snow. There we are, Sun melted the snow.
You laugh because you have evidently never traveled to Portugal.
Pardon me, but I'm not that aware of taxes and such in the US, so what's left to the guy which earns say $100k/year ?
That $8300/month (~6500euros), and in Europe (France especially) 6500 is a *lot* (average salary is somewhere between 25ke and 30ke per year).
I'm working for ~50ke (~$65k) per year, and that's a good salary (especially for someone without any diploma (hence my english skills). It costs my company about twice this amount (so ~120ke before taxes), and I get, after taxes, 80% of this (so ~3200e/month) (and I owe about one month of salary for general taxes, per year, but we never take this into account when talking about salaries).
To summarize, I earn 50ke, divide per 12, remove 20%, that's ~3200e/month in my pocket (and that's something like two times the average salary). So, what's really left for the pocket of an american earning $100k/month ?
(I'm aware that you have to pay for medical insurances and such, and, besides 'normal' taxes, that's about 100e/month in my case).
Weapons ? Rap music ? Silly sports ?
0.03e here in France (country wide). That's about $0.02, so I guess I won't be wearing pants anytime soon.
"Don't you guys read articles and look at infographics?"
You must be really new here.
4G *is* marketing bullshit like 3G is marketing bullshit for UMTS, CDMA2000. There is no such thing as "real 4G".
Swiss is not France (even if the document is in french).
What if you don't have any usable driver for it in the VM ?
For instance, you could have an Xbox360 peripheral with no Windows drivers, so no luck to sniff anything usefull even plugged on a Windows VM.
Having an hardware device plugged between the device and the Xbox will permit you to actually know what's going on without even having a PC nearby (at a friend's or in a mall or wherever).
X-Window, actually.
Blinking some LEDs doesn't require 8Mhz. Nor 4Mhz. Actually, it requires something like blinking_time*2Hz. Performances are *not* a problem here. Why do you think so many people program in Java or .NET stuff ? Because nowadays it's good enough, and it saves days, weeks, months, or years worth of salaries. Hardware is cheap, brain is expensive.
My question is : Why the hell do you want them to code in C (or assembly, if I follow your path) to blink some LEDs ??
(And remember that Arduino language is nothing else that preprocessed C, it is in fact compiled with avr-gcc).
(Ho, and I code in assembly at least once a week, I code embedded C for a living, so I'm hardly saying that because I don't like low level stuff. Coding for performance in this kind of project is just not relevant)