Powered missiles with a substantial cryogenic coolant deployed on the enemy-facing side to make it as cold as background. Time from launch to impact is weeks.
There are rumors that there are already 'barnacle' satellite parasites existing today. That is, small enemy satellites, which, over time (weeks/months) saddle up to somebody else's capital satellite (usually communication/surveillance) and just stick on, and listen in. In the event of hostilities.....
"Turning everything into a massive conspiracy theory is not going to help you do this."
One side promotes the idea that there has been a massive global conspiracy by scientists, across a number of disciplines and organizations, lasting over decades, to lie about a central scientific result in their field. There is no sensible organizational backing or motivation to this.
Scientists try to "engage people" by doing as good science as they can and working hard over decades to produce consensus estimates of the best known status from high-quality experimental and theoretical research, and work to explain it in (highly educated) laymens' terms as well as they can.
The other side yells that they're lying scumbags out to attack freedom.
The other side promotes the idea that there is a small political conspiracy to gain by people who have previously been known to engage in political conspiracies of a a similar nature. There is a well known organizational consistency and economic motivation to this.
"Libertarian system: big company poisons people, executives are held personally liable and all their possessions are confiscated as part of the settlement.
Pure libertarianism may have problems (pure anything is likely to have problems) but I think the executives would be more careful in such a system than in the limited liability corporation system."
Correct. They would act deceptively through anonymous proxies and not be identifiable for prosecution.
"The bad guy can outspend the victims 100:1 in court, but how can he change the facts? If the facts are that he put poison in the water, how does outspending by 100:1 save him?"
"1) You can't be put in jail for losing a civil case. Ask O.J."
In countries with English-style law. In others, not necessarily.
I have an in-law who lives in a South American country. He and his wife are facing (entirely bogus) criminal penalties from a private contract lawsuit. It's been dismissed and laughtd out of court every time it comes up before a non-crony-of-plaintiff judge but it gets revived and reallocated. The system is so corrupt that being sentenced to hard time is a possibility from a business collaboration gone bad.
When you physically take your car into your German Authorized Dealer, you will get one of a small number of service advisors who will talk with you and perhaps remember you. You can call up and make an appointment with Mr Blow for 9AM as well.
A real exchange (e.g. like the CME) has the following important property: all participants have the exchange as an economic counterparty, not each other. That is you take on the credit risk of the exchange, which is presumably better than any individual participant.
This means that if X trades with Y on the CME, and X (as a broker) goes bankrupt before the money settles, the CME will pay Y, and then attempt to get money back from X. This actually matters sometime (cf MF Global). The exchange then has standards and capital requirements for its primary members.
This is the difference between an exchange and a price-matching OTC market, which facilitates individual point to point contracts.
"PC's are ultimately about millions of instructions per second.... and there is no way that anyone, new or old, can come along this year or next year and beat us on instructions per second."
This is about funding inefficient rocketry and aerospace development program through traditionally red-state and red-senator-funding Big Aerospace, when an alternative is new freer-market innovative and much lower overhead producers. And that is bloody red Pork.
OK, that's a French-derived word which isn't acceptable, so lets rename it to Aero-Swine.
True story, I had a relative in with an important job in NASA. He was testifying/discussing issues in a Congressional committee. The topic was about improving NASA's operational cost-efficiency; said Congressdroid said all the right things about lean and smarter, acting more like an intelligent business and not a bureaucracy etc etc. After it was over, Congressdroid said, in confidence to this administrator while walking down the hallway, "if you cut anything in my district I'll cut your fucking balls off!"
Style guide to Microsoft: don't use words in a way such the lexical representation of "type", commonly called its name, means something entirely different from "typename".
they're hinged. They take lots of space vertically, not so much horizontally. In most parking lots, you have more room up than on the side.
Where I work I see plenty of mall mommies with a Porsche Cayenne 4S SUV (and sometimes Turbo) or something ridiculous like that. There's a market for these proportional to Tesla's production capacity.
15 years or more ago, I had a friend in a high-level consulting company (as in contract programming stars, not powerpoint pushers). Their usual m.o. was to pay 2x the going rate and expect 5x to 10x the productivity and brains.
They had a contract with IBM fixing bugs in I think AIX or something (lucrative and endless). They shared the bug data base with IBM's own workers, who were working on the same project.
Clever gits that they are, they mined the bug data base algorithmically to look for old bugs which were opened, had many people work on them unsuccessfully, but were eventually closed. They identified one IBM employee (out of dozens/hundreds) who was able to fix demonstrably hard bugs (that other employees had tried and failed to address) consistently.
That's a lie, meant to make people give up on a difficult but feasible task.
Changes to the tax code to tax the "rich", actually work some of the time. If they are designed sufficiently lawyer-proof which requires determination and will.
One thing that works is personal criminal penalties: notice how many people who defrauded the government out of money they owed (in Swiss banks) are coming back now that the pressure
"If I was facing a $2 Billion tax bite, you better damn well believe I'd spend some fraction of that money to find a way to get out of paying the rest."
So since the rich are powerful, we should be nice to them and instead tax the poor shlubs who can't outsource a few thousand hours of professional fees? (note that when there's a national debt, not taxing rich means that either present or future poorer workers are being taxed)
How about a tax code that doesn't have a whole bunch of legal workarounds and so people actually pay up?
"Even the so-called "Buffet Tax" isn't actually designed to go after the places Mr Buffet himself actually hides his cash from the taxman, it's just a feelgood measure to stir up populist votes while screwing those middle class folks who suddenly find themselves "rich" but don't have enough cash to pay for the accountants needed to skate."
How does that work exactly? If, for instance, the income tax rate was equalized for all forms of income, AND, the payroll tax was eliminated, both sides (worker and employee), and its required revenue transferred to the income tax, Mr Buffet and people of his wealth and without his ethics will be paying more and virtually all of us will be paying less (when you include lower deficit/debts). Of course there will be attempts to exploit loopholes but that doesn't mean at all that every one of these people can eliminate 50% of their tax.
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(especially if you surround your rock with a black, radar-absorbing balloon).
it's harder to surround your rock of kilometer size with a heat-absorbing balloon. Smaller things, you can use liquid helium for a finite time.
stealth.
Powered missiles with a substantial cryogenic coolant deployed on the enemy-facing side to make it as cold as background. Time from launch to impact is weeks.
There are rumors that there are already 'barnacle' satellite parasites existing today. That is, small enemy satellites, which, over time (weeks/months) saddle up to somebody else's capital satellite (usually communication/surveillance) and just stick on, and listen in. In the event of hostilities.....
Name something they have published in a journal which is "discredited".
"Turning everything into a massive conspiracy theory is not going to help you do this."
One side promotes the idea that there has been a massive global conspiracy by scientists, across a number of disciplines and organizations, lasting over decades, to lie about a central scientific result in their field. There is no sensible organizational backing or motivation to this.
Scientists try to "engage people" by doing as good science as they can and working hard over decades to produce consensus estimates of the best known status from high-quality experimental and theoretical research, and work to explain it in (highly educated) laymens' terms as well as they can.
The other side yells that they're lying scumbags out to attack freedom.
The other side promotes the idea that there is a small political conspiracy to gain by people who have previously been known to engage in political conspiracies of a a similar nature. There is a well known organizational consistency and economic motivation to this.
"Libertarian system: big company poisons people, executives are held personally liable and all their possessions are confiscated as part of the settlement.
Pure libertarianism may have problems (pure anything is likely to have problems) but I think the executives would be more careful in such a system than in the limited liability corporation system."
Correct. They would act deceptively through anonymous proxies and not be identifiable for prosecution.
"The bad guy can outspend the victims 100:1 in court, but how can he change the facts? If the facts are that he put poison in the water, how does outspending by 100:1 save him?"
Facts are irrelevant. Testimony matters.
the first wasn't a problem from the professionals actually operating it (they were average level of competence).
"1) You can't be put in jail for losing a civil case. Ask O.J."
In countries with English-style law. In others, not necessarily.
I have an in-law who lives in a South American country. He and his wife are facing (entirely bogus) criminal penalties from a private contract lawsuit. It's been dismissed and laughtd out of court every time it comes up before a non-crony-of-plaintiff judge but it gets revived and reallocated. The system is so corrupt that being sentenced to hard time is a possibility from a business collaboration gone bad.
Rutger Hauer has really been letting himself go
Funny thing, Samsung's and HTC's customers don't care about Android being open source, they care;
That it's cheap.
Has anybody bought a Samsung or HTC because they liked one's crufty skin better than the others? No.
The WindowMaker look and UI (being NeXTSTEP and not some hacker's idea) is pretty good.
well while you're getting your curry you can drop off your mac at the iStore.
If you have a Carlyfied computer, good luck.
When you physically take your car into your German Authorized Dealer, you will get one of a small number of service advisors who will talk with you and perhaps remember you. You can call up and make an appointment with Mr Blow for 9AM as well.
A real exchange (e.g. like the CME) has the following important property: all participants have the exchange as an economic counterparty, not each other. That is you take on the credit risk of the exchange, which is presumably better than any individual participant.
This means that if X trades with Y on the CME, and X (as a broker) goes bankrupt before the money settles, the CME will pay Y, and then attempt to get money back from X. This actually matters sometime (cf MF Global). The exchange then has standards and capital requirements for its primary members.
This is the difference between an exchange and a price-matching OTC market, which facilitates individual point to point contracts.
Do the bitcoin exchanges have that property?
"PC's are ultimately about millions of instructions per second. ... and there is no way that anyone, new or old, can come along this year or next year and beat us on instructions per second."
These already go on the well-funded and expensive United Space Alliance rockets which get funded much better than NASA's.
Do you think Mission Control is pork?
No, it isn't, and that's not what this is about.
This is about funding inefficient rocketry and aerospace development program through traditionally red-state and red-senator-funding Big Aerospace, when an alternative is new freer-market innovative and much lower overhead producers. And that is bloody red Pork.
OK, that's a French-derived word which isn't acceptable, so lets rename it to Aero-Swine.
True story, I had a relative in with an important job in NASA. He was testifying/discussing issues in a Congressional committee. The topic was about improving NASA's operational cost-efficiency; said Congressdroid said all the right things about lean and smarter, acting more like an intelligent business and not a bureaucracy etc etc. After it was over, Congressdroid said, in confidence to this administrator while walking down the hallway, "if you cut anything in my district I'll cut your fucking balls off!"
Style guide to Microsoft: don't use words in a way such the lexical representation of "type", commonly called its name, means something entirely different from "typename".
they're hinged. They take lots of space vertically, not so much horizontally. In most parking lots, you have more room up than on the side.
Where I work I see plenty of mall mommies with a Porsche Cayenne 4S SUV (and sometimes Turbo) or something ridiculous like that. There's a market for these proportional to Tesla's production capacity.
15 years or more ago, I had a friend in a high-level consulting company (as in contract programming stars, not powerpoint pushers). Their usual m.o. was to pay 2x the going rate and expect 5x to 10x the productivity and brains.
They had a contract with IBM fixing bugs in I think AIX or something (lucrative and endless). They shared the bug data base with IBM's own workers, who were working on the same project.
Clever gits that they are, they mined the bug data base algorithmically to look for old bugs which were opened, had many people work on them unsuccessfully, but were eventually closed. They identified one IBM employee (out of dozens/hundreds) who was able to fix demonstrably hard bugs (that other employees had tried and failed to address) consistently.
So, they made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
That's a lie, meant to make people give up on a difficult but feasible task.
Changes to the tax code to tax the "rich", actually work some of the time. If they are designed sufficiently lawyer-proof which requires determination and will.
One thing that works is personal criminal penalties: notice how many people who defrauded the government out of money they owed (in Swiss banks) are coming back now that the pressure
"If I was facing a $2 Billion tax bite, you better damn well believe I'd spend some fraction of that money to find a way to get out of paying the rest."
So since the rich are powerful, we should be nice to them and instead tax the poor shlubs who can't outsource a few thousand hours of professional fees?
(note that when there's a national debt, not taxing rich means that either present or future poorer workers are being taxed)
How about a tax code that doesn't have a whole bunch of legal workarounds and so people actually pay up?
"Even the so-called "Buffet Tax" isn't actually designed to go after the places Mr Buffet himself actually hides his cash from the taxman, it's just a feelgood measure to stir up populist votes while screwing those middle class folks who suddenly find themselves "rich" but don't have enough cash to pay for the accountants needed to skate."
How does that work exactly? If, for instance, the income tax rate was equalized for all forms of income, AND, the payroll tax was eliminated, both sides (worker and employee), and its required revenue transferred to the income tax, Mr Buffet and people of his wealth and without his ethics will be paying more and virtually all of us will be paying less (when you include lower deficit/debts). Of course there will be attempts to exploit loopholes but that doesn't mean at all that every one of these people can eliminate 50% of their tax.
It's true, but we didn't know that going in.
The real prize is learning what are, and how to manipulate the carriers of dark matter and dark energy.
What do you mean "missing word"? Looks like good ol perl to me.
if it acts like a psychopath, and if it bills like a psychopath, it's a .....
Chewie I've got a bad feeling about this.