NASA has a group wondering if we'd recognize alien life if we see it.
The Fermi Paradox... I have a really simple answer. the requirements for us to observe them: 1. they need to be located within range that we can detect. 2. they need to be a techological species, as we define "technology". 3. their tech needs to be within +/1 150 years of our current tech.
Otherwise, they're either too primitive to send aignals that we can observe with current tech, or too advanced. Quick: how many Victorians could have read this post, over the Net?
I'll also point out that we mostly stopped broadcasting 100,000 watt radio stations.
I read your post, and it strikes me that you don't know diddly about unions, other than what big business wants you to.
You pay dues, not some rep. And those dues go to, among other things, a strike fund, and the management (and lawyers) who negotiate contracts.
I've seen far too many computer people who think that they're such hot shit that they have leverage with management, and they can negotiate with them. The reality is that management's happy to outsource or offshore, and pay less, even though the work may not be anywhere near as good as what you do.
And working as a contractor... whoever's buying your services is *also* paying for your manager, and their manager, and your company to make a profit. You're a subcontractor, self-incorporated? Then all that, *and* you have to worry about quarterly payments, etc.
Yep, so many folks LOOOVVVVEEE 50, 60, 70 hour weeks, and having to respond to the boss 24x7x365.25. Who needs a life?
UNIONS are why we have benefits, weekends, holidays and vacations. No company did that out of the alleged kindness of their hearts.
But none of you here need them, they're *so* "ancient", never mind they could get you a 40 hour week and no being bothered off hours, no, enjoy your (non-) life.
... other than maybe folks are realizing that they really do NOT like be day labor, the way their grandparents and great-grandparents were, before unions came in in force.
But we don't need unions. We're happy to be fired at will, told to work "whatever it takes", even if that's 60, 70 or more hours a week, we don't need a life....
So it's silly to call the GOP Nazis. Now, fascists, yes, because they *are*. Hell, Barry Goldwater, in an interview before he died in the late eighties, said he was horrified by how far to the right the GOP had gone.
And then there's the neoConfederates. Go ahead, look up the teabagger policies... and then go read the Constitution of the Confederacy. Other than explicit reference to slaves (wage slavery is *so* much cheaper), they're the same. When they talk about "smaller government", they mean balkanizing the US.
You didn't think the multinational megamediacorps are interested in *art*, did you? All they want is to stamp out product, like laundry detergent. That's why they sound alike, that's why there are 15-book trilogies, and years-long "adaptations of complete-in-one-movie.
Screw 'em. Buy from musicians, don't just video them on your phone, so they don't get paid. And yes, I buy CDs from the musicians all the time, and *they* get the money to keep doing what I like, rather than the friggin' record companies taking most of it, and cooking the books. (Arlo said, a few years back, that it was THIRTY YEARS before he ever saw a penny of royalties on Alice's Restaurant, and Janis Ian was being charged $11 PER CD by her record company for her *own* CDs).
We *know* that he walked into the dressing room at one of his beauty contests, and that the young women in there were only semi-clothed or nude. We *know* he's got a yen for Ivanka. Why should we not believe Gates when he implies Trump is a creep?
If they needed any help, I would *NEVER* let that sexual predator near my daughters or granddaughter.
Movies have been made, now, for oever a century. How many does NEtflix have in its catalog... and what percentage of it is streamable?
A few years ago I looked for a number of titles, nope, nope, nope, DVD only. But then, I might want to see something other than Star Wars that was made more than 10 years ago.
The only "war" is on coal *miners*, by coal companies. Decades ago, they went from underground mines to open pit, and mountaintop removal, and can use huge trucks, etc.
Proof: 50 years ago, the coal industry employed well over 700,000 miners. Today, that's just over 78,000 - yes, one tenth as many.
I mean, who's really against a living minimum wage? Or companies having to follow the law on working conditions... other than trolls being paid for "social media" work by megacorps, and suckers, sorry, "libertarians", who think they have leverage with whoever they work for, and only believe that they've got theirs, screw the rest of you?
Quick, what was the tax rate on the top tax bracket in the US under (Republican) President Eisenhower in the mid-fifties?
Next: nice of you to write as though the only tax was a flat tax, so you can claim that's everyone's taxes.
How 'bout: 1. Double the corporate tax rate... so that it's 23% of the US federal revenue stream... 1% *less* than the US in 1972. 2. Eliminate capital gains and dividends and interest, and Schedules B and D. ROLL IT ALL INTO INCOME, which will, for example, triple Mitt Romney's taxes. 3. Make a tax bracket for incomes of $20M/year... and make that tax rate 90% (and deductions cannot get it down below 75%. Note that most of that money does *NOT* create jobs, it goes into the market, aka the "legal" Ponzi scheme... or else it goes to buy the government. 4. Then you can cut the rate for folks earning under 6 figures.
I'm *sure* this would hurt you, personally. I mean, of *course* millionaires post to slashdot.....
So, who's paying you, Russia, or the telecoms? I mean, you're not stupid enough to bite your nose to spite your face (or your wallet) for free, are you?
Do you *really* doubt that the Republicans are a wholly-owned subsidiary of billionaires? Really? Prove they're not.
Of *course* it will. They'll raise rates to pay for the costs of the merger, just to start.
Time to roll back the Telecom Deregulation Act of 1996, and reregulate the industry, to improve costs for those of us not running the companies.
And for the ignorant, governments don't put in regulation because some legislators were sitting in their offices, feet on desk, and decide to regulate. They create regulations and laws because us, their constituents, yell at them to do something about things like price gouging.
I assume you're deliberately pretending to be that stupid.
He's a big name, he's got a track record, he's friends with.... The phrase "just a girl" doesn't even reach the conscious level of the producers doing the selecting... and they're mostly male, too, and it's been this way forever, so why should they change?
And that's just off the top of my head. Perhaps you should toss your brain in the washer, drier, and then take it out and exercise it occasionally, rather than having Faux News, Breitbart, and MIcky Wienie "Savage" in your earbuds 24x7.
I mean, really, AI's going to deal with zillions of burner phones? And do they *really* think that what goes on in cafes, or close rooms, is actually all being recorded?
Maybe all us real humans should leave the planet, and then they can have the whole planet as a porr-quality game.....
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NASA has a group wondering if we'd recognize alien life if we see it.
The Fermi Paradox... I have a really simple answer. the requirements for us to observe them:
1. they need to be located within range that we can detect.
2. they need to be a techological species, as we define "technology".
3. their tech needs to be within +/1 150 years of our current tech.
Otherwise, they're either too primitive to send aignals that we can observe with current tech, or too advanced. Quick: how many Victorians could have read this post, over the Net?
I'll also point out that we mostly stopped broadcasting 100,000 watt radio stations.
I read your post, and it strikes me that you don't know diddly about unions, other than what big business wants you to.
You pay dues, not some rep. And those dues go to, among other things, a strike fund, and the management (and lawyers) who negotiate contracts.
I've seen far too many computer people who think that they're such hot shit that they have leverage with management, and they can negotiate with them. The reality is that management's happy to outsource or offshore, and pay less, even though the work may not be anywhere near as good as what you do.
And working as a contractor... whoever's buying your services is *also* paying for your manager, and their manager, and your company to make a profit. You're a subcontractor, self-incorporated? Then all that, *and* you have to worry about quarterly payments, etc.
Yep, so many folks LOOOVVVVEEE 50, 60, 70 hour weeks, and having to respond to the boss 24x7x365.25. Who needs a life?
UNIONS are why we have benefits, weekends, holidays and vacations. No company did that out of the alleged kindness of their hearts.
But none of you here need them, they're *so* "ancient", never mind they could get you a 40 hour week and no being bothered off hours, no, enjoy your (non-) life.
Gee, that was in the midst of Raygun and the Republicans' (not my cover band) onslaught of deregulation.
Btw, those of you who work for a living... has your company been bought lately by a bigger company? Mine's been *twice* in the last three years....
Meanwhile, the middle class is squeezed tighter and tighter.
But I can't guess why there are fewer startups....
Or does it get 1 d-4 of damage from the asteroid?
15 YEARS into its 90 DAY mission.
IthinkitcanIthinkitcanIthinkitcan.
...as he said when he was on campus a couple years ago, google's self-driving cars that have NO steering wheel and NO pedals.
... other than maybe folks are realizing that they really do NOT like be day labor, the way their grandparents and great-grandparents were, before unions came in in force.
But we don't need unions. We're happy to be fired at will, told to work "whatever it takes", even if that's 60, 70 or more hours a week, we don't need a life....
To fix Trump, or just replace him?
Can you even explain why you ever visit slashdot, aka "news for nerds"?
Your kind isn't wanted or needed here. Go away - you're mostly illiterate, anyway, since you clearly don't understand logic.
So it's silly to call the GOP Nazis. Now, fascists, yes, because they *are*. Hell, Barry Goldwater, in an interview before he died in the late eighties, said he was horrified by how far to the right the GOP had gone.
And then there's the neoConfederates. Go ahead, look up the teabagger policies... and then go read the Constitution of the Confederacy. Other than explicit reference to slaves (wage slavery is *so* much cheaper), they're the same. When they talk about "smaller government", they mean balkanizing the US.
Of course, evidence #1: Trumpolini.
You didn't think the multinational megamediacorps are interested in *art*, did you? All they want is to stamp out product, like laundry detergent. That's why they sound alike, that's why there are 15-book trilogies, and years-long "adaptations of complete-in-one-movie.
Screw 'em. Buy from musicians, don't just video them on your phone, so they don't get paid. And yes, I buy CDs from the musicians all the time, and *they* get the money to keep doing what I like, rather than the friggin' record companies taking most of it, and cooking the books. (Arlo said, a few years back, that it was THIRTY YEARS before he ever saw a penny of royalties on Alice's Restaurant, and Janis Ian was being charged $11 PER CD by her record company for her *own* CDs).
... will be available the day before the standard's officially released.
And when we send a probe to it, we know what we'll see... don't we, Mr. Clarke?
#insert "ThusSpakeZarathustra"
We *know* that he walked into the dressing room at one of his beauty contests, and that the young women in there were only semi-clothed or nude. We *know* he's got a yen for Ivanka. Why should we not believe Gates when he implies Trump is a creep?
If they needed any help, I would *NEVER* let that sexual predator near my daughters or granddaughter.
Movies have been made, now, for oever a century. How many does NEtflix have in its catalog... and what percentage of it is streamable?
A few years ago I looked for a number of titles, nope, nope, nope, DVD only. But then, I might want to see something other than Star Wars that was made more than 10 years ago.
100% true.
The only "war" is on coal *miners*, by coal companies. Decades ago, they went from underground mines to open pit, and mountaintop removal, and can use huge trucks, etc.
Proof: 50 years ago, the coal industry employed well over 700,000 miners. Today, that's just over 78,000 - yes, one tenth as many.
What's "unproven" about it? Yes, in that situation, it will kill you. That's a fact.
And about pain, etc? It's perfectly easy to have someone pass out with the setup, then supply oxygen and wake them up, and *ask* them how it felt.
I read a note from a FoaF years ago, there was an He leak from an MRI, and they got dizzy, and nearly passed out, no pain involved.
I mean, who's really against a living minimum wage? Or companies having to follow the law on working conditions... other than trolls being paid for "social media" work by megacorps, and suckers, sorry, "libertarians", who think they have leverage with whoever they work for, and only believe that they've got theirs, screw the rest of you?
Ah, a brainwashed ignorant idiot.
Quick, what was the tax rate on the top tax bracket in the US under (Republican) President Eisenhower in the mid-fifties?
Next: nice of you to write as though the only tax was a flat tax, so you can claim that's everyone's taxes.
How 'bout:
1. Double the corporate tax rate... so that it's 23% of the US federal revenue stream... 1% *less* than the US in 1972.
2. Eliminate capital gains and dividends and interest, and Schedules B and D. ROLL IT ALL INTO INCOME, which will, for example, triple Mitt Romney's taxes.
3. Make a tax bracket for incomes of $20M/year... and make that tax rate 90% (and deductions cannot get it down below 75%. Note that most of that money does *NOT* create jobs, it goes into the market, aka the "legal" Ponzi scheme... or else it goes to buy the government.
4. Then you can cut the rate for folks earning under 6 figures.
I'm *sure* this would hurt you, personally. I mean, of *course* millionaires post to slashdot.....
Dear troll,
So, who's paying you, Russia, or the telecoms? I mean, you're not stupid enough to bite your nose to spite your face (or your wallet) for free, are you?
Do you *really* doubt that the Republicans are a wholly-owned subsidiary of billionaires? Really? Prove they're not.
Of *course* it will. They'll raise rates to pay for the costs of the merger, just to start.
Time to roll back the Telecom Deregulation Act of 1996, and reregulate the industry, to improve costs for those of us not running the companies.
And for the ignorant, governments don't put in regulation because some legislators were sitting in their offices, feet on desk, and decide to regulate. They create regulations and laws because us, their constituents, yell at them to do something about things like price gouging.
That Kim might used his nuclear and missile program to force the US to stop threatening to invade, or to blow them to radioactive dust.
It might be noted that when people have guns pointed at you, you're not likely to become more kind and laid back....
I assume you're deliberately pretending to be that stupid.
He's a big name, he's got a track record, he's friends with.... The phrase "just a girl" doesn't even reach the conscious level of the producers doing the selecting... and they're mostly male, too, and it's been this way forever, so why should they change?
And that's just off the top of my head. Perhaps you should toss your brain in the washer, drier, and then take it out and exercise it occasionally, rather than having Faux News, Breitbart, and MIcky Wienie "Savage" in your earbuds 24x7.
Are his people pushing this idiocy?
I mean, really, AI's going to deal with zillions of burner phones? And do they *really* think that what goes on in cafes, or close rooms, is actually all being recorded?
Maybe all us real humans should leave the planet, and then they can have the whole planet as a porr-quality game.....