I agree with everything except the gravity thing. Mars is 38% as massive as Earth, so you would weigh a little less than half what you do now. I'd weigh about 68 pomnds, I bet I could break most Olympic records! I think we'd do quite well without all that weight.
Of course, I could be wrong but I think the big problem with having.38 of Earth gravity is it makes it hard to maintain air pressure.
'm not sure off the top of my head what the longest recorded period for a sub to stay submerged is, but my understanding is they can self-supply everything the crew needs to survive except food and sanity.
If they had any sanity to begin with they'd never be on a sub in the first place!
It doesn't really matter whether we go there as bio-organic humans, or as electro-inorganic ones, as we'll still like the idea of sitting next to a lake, with a gentle warming breeze making waves in grass, and sharing it all with a pretty girl.
Most people, including most cyborgs, don't realise how many people are cyborgs now. I'm one, as is anyone else who has had a heart stint, (some) cataract surgery, implanted pacemeker, artificial joint, etc.
Brazil is burning the rain forests. That's a hell of a lot worse than burning oil; you're destroying a carbon sink as you release carbon.
One tree at a time (e.g. in your wood stove) is OK but burning down the whole jungle to grow sugar doesn't make a lot of sense, especially since they aren't managing the soil very well.
O'Reilly claims that the reason for America's still being dependent on foreign oil is that Washington is in the pockets of Big Oil: ExxonMobile, Chevron, and Shell.
Er, has O'Reilly nooticed that the President, the Vice President, and all their friends and families are OIL MEN? And jas no one noticed that the price of gasoline has tripled since they took office? Yeah, it's $2.48 today but it was $3.10 two weeks ago. Hmm, must be an election coming up.
it is obviously that we shouldn't be keeping all our eggs in one basket
Plus, we're going to have to learn how to terraform the Earth, it looks like. Maybe we should colonoze Venus instead, it appears that's what Earth will be like in a few hundred years.
Every time there's an article about Bigelow Aerospace here, there's a dozen or so commenters who are convinced that because the modules are self-expanding, they must therefore be delicate and vulnerable to space debris.
Fucking in outer space will be quite a mess unless you like the idea of jism floating by your head
And that'd be different from waking up in a puddle of it exactly how? Plus, it seems that it wouldn't be floating past your head, but toward the air intake.
Well yes, you're right. The Constitution doesn't affirm it like it does for speech or guns. But what I was trying to say was that just because the Constitution doesn't say it's your right doesn't mean it isn't.
But statute (not the Constitution) says they have to guarantee mail delivery and that it can't be opened, it's not that much of a stretch to imagine that you should have the right to have email as well, and that if encrypted you should have the right to privacy.
You're also right in that you only have such rights as you or your government or other organization like the EFF, etc are prepared to defend. I guess that's why they stuck that 2nd amendment in there, good luck trying to defend your Constitutional right to a fully automatic 50mm.
censor/snsr/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[sen-ser] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation -noun
1. an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
2. any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
3. an adverse critic; faultfinder.
4. (in the ancient Roman republic) either of two officials who kept the register or census of the citizens, awarded public contracts, and supervised manners and morals.
5. (in early Freudian dream theory) the force that represses ideas, impulses, and feelings, and prevents them from entering consciousness in their original, undisguised forms.
-verb (used with object) 6. to examine and act upon as a censor. 7. to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor. [Origin: 1525-35; L cnsor, equiv. to cns(re) to give as one's opinion, recommend, assess + -tor -tor; -sor for *-stor by analogy with derivatives from dentals, as tnsor barber (see tonsorial)]
Except, of course, you only have such rights as you can enforce. I wouldn't be able to hire enough lawyers to fight them no matter what the contract said. If you're Bill Gates or Larry Ellison YMMV.
Wow, I didn't realise my provider (Insight) was so good! They emailed me a couple of weeks ago apologising that they were upgrading their mail service and service would be unavailable for two hours in the middle of the night!
I had to call them after the tornado last March to find out why my internet service was still down (2 weeks after the power came back on) and they apologised profusely; somebody goofed and unhooked me by mistake. They not only apologized, they gave me a month free!
Now they're talking about AT&T's giving us free wireless (note: the link will die tomorrow). I think I'll stick to my broadband though, I doubt the wifi will be very fast.
You misunderstand teh Constitution. It doesn't grant you rights; your rights are assumed. It only enumerates what powers the government may have. Many folks in the Constitutional Congress were against the bill of rights because they wisely forsaw that people like you wouldn't understand that. We have to tal a Constitution test in high school in Illinois, doesn't your state do that?
You sell it on a physical medium, as art was always sold before computers came around. Nobody ever bought "music", they either bought sheet music, a recording of music, or hired musicians. In 1944 you didn't buy a song; you bought a 45 or a 78 that had a song recorded on it. You didn't buy a novel, you bought a book with the novel printed on its pages.
DRM for audio DOES NOT WORK. There has never been true DRM for music, yet folks still buy CDs. I could always copy records and tapes, and did so. The only difference now is I don't have to be in the same room; nothing has really changed.
The record industry blames copying for its sales decline, but the true reasons are that there is a boycott against them, and they aren't producing much that people want to buy. My dad doesn't listen to the radio any more, he says the country music sounds like rock, and I listen to indie music because the "rock" they play on the radio isn't rock; it's wimpy whiney minor key pablum obviously produced by formula. It has no soul. Plus, even if the music didn't suck people percieve that the price of a CD is way too high considering (as you said) manufacturing costs. Drop the price of a CD to five bucks, there is still profit there.
Give the songs away as incentive to buy the physical medium. The song itself is worthless.
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I agree with everything except the gravity thing. Mars is 38% as massive as Earth, so you would weigh a little less than half what you do now. I'd weigh about 68 pomnds, I bet I could break most Olympic records! I think we'd do quite well without all that weight.
.38 of Earth gravity is it makes it hard to maintain air pressure.
Of course, I could be wrong but I think the big problem with having
'm not sure off the top of my head what the longest recorded period for a sub to stay submerged is, but my understanding is they can self-supply everything the crew needs to survive except food and sanity.
If they had any sanity to begin with they'd never be on a sub in the first place!
It doesn't really matter whether we go there as bio-organic humans, or as electro-inorganic ones, as we'll still like the idea of sitting next to a lake, with a gentle warming breeze making waves in grass, and sharing it all with a pretty girl.
Most people, including most cyborgs, don't realise how many people are cyborgs now. I'm one, as is anyone else who has had a heart stint, (some) cataract surgery, implanted pacemeker, artificial joint, etc.
Technology to the rescue again! OK, well, for one teensy part...
Brazil is burning the rain forests. That's a hell of a lot worse than burning oil; you're destroying a carbon sink as you release carbon.
One tree at a time (e.g. in your wood stove) is OK but burning down the whole jungle to grow sugar doesn't make a lot of sense, especially since they aren't managing the soil very well.
O'Reilly claims that the reason for America's still being dependent on foreign oil is that Washington is in the pockets of Big Oil: ExxonMobile, Chevron, and Shell.
Er, has O'Reilly nooticed that the President, the Vice President, and all their friends and families are OIL MEN? And jas no one noticed that the price of gasoline has tripled since they took office? Yeah, it's $2.48 today but it was $3.10 two weeks ago. Hmm, must be an election coming up.
it is obviously that we shouldn't be keeping all our eggs in one basket
Plus, we're going to have to learn how to terraform the Earth, it looks like. Maybe we should colonoze Venus instead, it appears that's what Earth will be like in a few hundred years.
You young people are lucky.
Every time there's an article about Bigelow Aerospace here, there's a dozen or so commenters who are convinced that because the modules are self-expanding, they must therefore be delicate and vulnerable to space debris.
They're probably confusing them with these guys.
You can go via Soyuz for $20 million, or you can go Virgin Galactic for $200,000. Whatever your budget, there's a space trip just for you.
I've got twenty bucks- what'll that get me?
A blow job. From an alien.
Fucking in outer space will be quite a mess unless you like the idea of jism floating by your head
And that'd be different from waking up in a puddle of it exactly how? Plus, it seems that it wouldn't be floating past your head, but toward the air intake.
Well yes, you're right. The Constitution doesn't affirm it like it does for speech or guns. But what I was trying to say was that just because the Constitution doesn't say it's your right doesn't mean it isn't.
But statute (not the Constitution) says they have to guarantee mail delivery and that it can't be opened, it's not that much of a stretch to imagine that you should have the right to have email as well, and that if encrypted you should have the right to privacy.
You're also right in that you only have such rights as you or your government or other organization like the EFF, etc are prepared to defend. I guess that's why they stuck that 2nd amendment in there, good luck trying to defend your Constitutional right to a fully automatic 50mm.
I couldn't agree more!
I think it's covered under the "pursuit of happiness" clause.
The following is not moral or ethical
I disagree. If they didn't want a bloody nose they shouldn't have bitchslapped you.
There are many 3rd party anti-spam services whom people pay to do that.
I've found that the (free) Thunderbird email client is very good at learning what you consider "spam". Go to "tools", "Junk Mail Controls".
I don't need no steenkin' ISP email filters!
Yes, the solution is simple, but implimenting it would be a bitch. They can probably buy more laws than we can.
Except, of course, you only have such rights as you can enforce. I wouldn't be able to hire enough lawyers to fight them no matter what the contract said. If you're Bill Gates or Larry Ellison YMMV.
Wow, I didn't realise my provider (Insight) was so good! They emailed me a couple of weeks ago apologising that they were upgrading their mail service and service would be unavailable for two hours in the middle of the night!
I had to call them after the tornado last March to find out why my internet service was still down (2 weeks after the power came back on) and they apologised profusely; somebody goofed and unhooked me by mistake. They not only apologized, they gave me a month free!
Now they're talking about AT&T's giving us free wireless (note: the link will die tomorrow). I think I'll stick to my broadband though, I doubt the wifi will be very fast.
No it wouldn't. it goes INSIDE the quote. Period.
singular: "netizen's"
plural: "netizens'"
You misunderstand teh Constitution. It doesn't grant you rights; your rights are assumed. It only enumerates what powers the government may have. Many folks in the Constitutional Congress were against the bill of rights because they wisely forsaw that people like you wouldn't understand that. We have to tal a Constitution test in high school in Illinois, doesn't your state do that?
I used top do that, until the spammers started making up addresses and attaching to my domain.
You sell it on a physical medium, as art was always sold before computers came around. Nobody ever bought "music", they either bought sheet music, a recording of music, or hired musicians. In 1944 you didn't buy a song; you bought a 45 or a 78 that had a song recorded on it. You didn't buy a novel, you bought a book with the novel printed on its pages.
DRM for audio DOES NOT WORK. There has never been true DRM for music, yet folks still buy CDs. I could always copy records and tapes, and did so. The only difference now is I don't have to be in the same room; nothing has really changed.
The record industry blames copying for its sales decline, but the true reasons are that there is a boycott against them, and they aren't producing much that people want to buy. My dad doesn't listen to the radio any more, he says the country music sounds like rock, and I listen to indie music because the "rock" they play on the radio isn't rock; it's wimpy whiney minor key pablum obviously produced by formula. It has no soul. Plus, even if the music didn't suck people percieve that the price of a CD is way too high considering (as you said) manufacturing costs. Drop the price of a CD to five bucks, there is still profit there.
Give the songs away as incentive to buy the physical medium. The song itself is worthless.
You forgot steps 6 and 7
6. ?????????
7. Even more profit!!!!!