Just saying that they aren't shying from good ideas. And Saturn V was a good record (and comparison to the Falcon) because it was a new thing. The falcon being built by a new company with a new design, the Saturn V being a first for all kinds of shit. So from that view the Saturn was wildly successful. The shuttle from a safety POV was a new weird design and wildly successful at that but it failed everywhere else which is why I avoided the comparison.
Yep I'm sure there are many more contentious launches but I'm not well versed on the few hundred launches listed to sort them out more than that. It is FAIRLY accurate though.
Yeah. And space shuttle was 126/128... but 127 completed the mission... just they all died on the way back sooooo. I'd personally call a round trip, complete mission and no deaths a success.
You are right, and I agree with the application of law of course. But I think that if a court finds that he was leaking information about the military doing something illegal he should get whistleblower status and not get punished. That way people giving away intel and such would be punished as to be expected. But militaries would working fucking hard to avoid cover ups or committing/allowing crimes since they know they'll get told on. Ethical was the wrong word entirely and I apologize for that.
I believe going public with information is a better system than a regulatory authority in many/most cases. Situational to be sure. In this case the us military outright lied/denied anything to do with the Reuters reporters and ignored requests for information and so on. Oversight isn't functioning in this case and it should go public for 'the people' to decide. (though I don't think this really made mainstream media anyways)
Photography is easy. Seriously really easy. It is to art like golf is to physical sports. Sure there are a lot of extra things you can learn to get a great photo BUT to get a pretty nice photo it really doesn't take much talent at all. Often an eye for art and colour a little info on composition and you are there, buy a nice camera and learn some Photoshop touch up techniques.
There is only room in the world for a handful of full time photographers. And the majority of the reason they are the people making money isn't intrinsic ability but the skill to sell BS. There are 4.7 billion pictures on Flickr. That more than faaar more than covers the need for most photographs. Need a picture of stonehenge? You have 32,200 pictures to choose from. Look at only the top 1% of those, assume the rest is garbage. You've got 322 to choose from for the angle/lighting you want. Maybe there will be 5% of them in the right set up. You have 15 artists now with similar pics to compete on price. One of them likely took it without really giving a shit and will let you use it for a buck or nothing.
Photography is going to die. As everyone gets cameras the law of a million monkeys comes into play (AND old pictures aren't going anywhere). Within 10years flickr will probably have 20billion pictures to chose from.
You are dealing with supply and demand here. Supply is increasing exponentially while demand is very slowly moving upwards. Get over it.
OT: Music will follow this trend eventually given a big enough population and people in wealthy enough positions to spend time learning instruments. (Youtube music is the start of this trend). Only a tiny fraction of people that can play an instrument will make money. Likely a much higher % than photographers due to logistics but the trend will happen.
Buy her her own computer and have a clean version to reset it too when she fucks it up too much. Sharing a computer with a non-tech person would probably hurt the relationship more than a few hundred dollars to get another one.
"there isn't even an auto install option, unlike Windows."
I love that mac users point out missing options with pride. Like the lack of the option is a feature. And I think Parent was referring to 'trojan' security patches... he patches one thing through Mac updater and something else he didn't want comes in.
Thats stupid. Unless you are building a nuclear reactor or a spacecraft you can't/don't make a perfectly stable 100% bug free system. An OS even a patch is far more complex programming than either of those devices mostly due to the fact that they have to interact with things and usage/input is farrrr less predictable. Bugs are guaranteed to get through and your product being used by millions of different people in billions of possible configurations for god knows how many different uses assures that some of these will be found.
Don't act like Mac's shiny outer shell protects it from the messy world of computers. It is no different.
The only thing you can really do is quick repairs of bugs and an attempt to have LESS bugs to begin with not having bugs is not an option.
What? being the rocket with the best safety record of any launch vehicle (with over 50 launches) is now bad??? NASA fucked up a lot of things w/ the shuttle but safety was pretty damn good. It just was stupidly expensive and had shitty launch capability.
Also, looking at a company's record Space-X is doing really well. 3/6 might sound bad but every group starting out has had failures.
Lockheed Martin was a missile company for decades. Was building ICBMs and their first launch vehicle was a modified one of these missiles. That is a pretty unfair comparison. They got to launch the things to test tons of times before they put a launch vehicle sticker on it. They also built spacecraft for many years before their 1st launch vehicle. And they still had failures (17% on their most popular vehicle).
Boeing as well aka 'Boeing Defense, Space & Security' is built up from ICBMs and military history. The Delta I is built up from a PGM-17 Thor missile.
Doing so much from scratch is hard but paybacks could be high. Space-X is doing everything right. In the Falcon-9 they have tons of redundancy, hoping for a repeat of the Saturn-V's 12/12 record, they basically have copied what made them successful. They have copied from the recent Delta heavy-lift vehicles for their own (Take a medium lift vehicle and replicate the first stage on the sides, it is cheaper and simpler (therefore safer)). And they've taken things further hope to recover more of the craft. They've added redundancy by making the stages even more similar reusing as many parts as they can. And they have used the same engine in both stages just more of them in the 1st stage.
They might not have a track record yet but they are a good bet. Why do you think everyone has their eyes on them. Why are they getting juicy contracts?
The whole concept of a startup space company going nothing -> Launch in 6 years is crazy, they only had 160~ employees until 2005. And they have been profitable and they only needed 120Million initial investments.
Unless things go horribly wrong Space-X is a BIG TIME game changer.
IT ISNT A FUCKING WAR ZONE and you show why. This should be a police operation. With people on the ground building things up and keeping CRIME low. I'm not even questioning the motivations of being in Iraq atm. But you CANNOT wage war on NO ONE. There is no enemy military, no bases, no lines of battle, nothing. Treat it like a country with a lot of well armed murders. Would you declare war on murderers and have heli's shooting people that may have guns w/ out provocation? Of course not, that would be retarded nd only make the problem worse!
BTW you are blaming people that were albeit foolishly trying to rescue a dieing man for getting shot by a helicopter that came there from a different country to help them. Foolish maybe but talk about blaming the victim.
Maybe they shouldn't be in shitty wars no one wants. TBH militaries of the world NOT wanting to go to wars everyone disagrees with is a fucking good thing.
And individuals have a moral obligation to stop things they feel are wrong. Even if they are grunts. I think in these situations there should be a court which determines whether he was being ethical in his actions. Not simply whether or not he was breaking military rules.
Otherwise it simply discourages leaks and whistle blowers. Which may be good from a military POV. But we should be working towards what is good from a countries POV.
You pay Belgian taxes? Not that that would matter. IMEC is an independent research facility so no taxes were paid. Perhaps one of their forsight-less idiot partners paid for it... like Samsung or Intel.
If you are cheap school supplies cost ~$5/yr....$300/yr is a fuck of a lot more. And if you can't afford notebooks the vast majority of schools will find a way to get you some free.
For a new spacecraft making it into space without breaking or exploding is a huge success. It IS rocketscience. But only time will tell how reliable this vehicle really is, I doubt that the issues you mentioned are an irreparable design flaw.
A shitty prius can pull a trailer. A van/minivan is better at pulling a soccer team than a truck, is it even legal to leave a bunch of kids in the flatbed? And you could probably put 2 kayaks on a prius just fine. 3 would be doable but more difficult. But seriously you don't need a f9000 for any of that.
Hilariously for the Katrina thing, in my neighbourhood and those around me all of the buses WERE driven to New Orleans w/e to move people out. And it was very successful, they were some of the first to move people out of the area. Worked way better than leaving people in the disaster zone.
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We don't live in a movie. Killing a bunch of RIAA execs would be stupid and public and lend them support fuck that.
Just saying that they aren't shying from good ideas. And Saturn V was a good record (and comparison to the Falcon) because it was a new thing. The falcon being built by a new company with a new design, the Saturn V being a first for all kinds of shit. So from that view the Saturn was wildly successful. The shuttle from a safety POV was a new weird design and wildly successful at that but it failed everywhere else which is why I avoided the comparison.
Yep I'm sure there are many more contentious launches but I'm not well versed on the few hundred launches listed to sort them out more than that. It is FAIRLY accurate though.
Yeah. And space shuttle was 126/128 ... but 127 completed the mission ... just they all died on the way back sooooo. I'd personally call a round trip, complete mission and no deaths a success.
You are right, and I agree with the application of law of course. But I think that if a court finds that he was leaking information about the military doing something illegal he should get whistleblower status and not get punished. That way people giving away intel and such would be punished as to be expected. But militaries would working fucking hard to avoid cover ups or committing/allowing crimes since they know they'll get told on. Ethical was the wrong word entirely and I apologize for that.
I believe going public with information is a better system than a regulatory authority in many/most cases. Situational to be sure. In this case the us military outright lied/denied anything to do with the Reuters reporters and ignored requests for information and so on. Oversight isn't functioning in this case and it should go public for 'the people' to decide. (though I don't think this really made mainstream media anyways)
Photography is easy. Seriously really easy. It is to art like golf is to physical sports. Sure there are a lot of extra things you can learn to get a great photo BUT to get a pretty nice photo it really doesn't take much talent at all. Often an eye for art and colour a little info on composition and you are there, buy a nice camera and learn some Photoshop touch up techniques.
There is only room in the world for a handful of full time photographers. And the majority of the reason they are the people making money isn't intrinsic ability but the skill to sell BS. There are 4.7 billion pictures on Flickr. That more than faaar more than covers the need for most photographs. Need a picture of stonehenge? You have 32,200 pictures to choose from. Look at only the top 1% of those, assume the rest is garbage. You've got 322 to choose from for the angle/lighting you want. Maybe there will be 5% of them in the right set up. You have 15 artists now with similar pics to compete on price. One of them likely took it without really giving a shit and will let you use it for a buck or nothing.
Photography is going to die. As everyone gets cameras the law of a million monkeys comes into play (AND old pictures aren't going anywhere). Within 10years flickr will probably have 20billion pictures to chose from.
You are dealing with supply and demand here. Supply is increasing exponentially while demand is very slowly moving upwards. Get over it.
OT: Music will follow this trend eventually given a big enough population and people in wealthy enough positions to spend time learning instruments. (Youtube music is the start of this trend). Only a tiny fraction of people that can play an instrument will make money. Likely a much higher % than photographers due to logistics but the trend will happen.
Buy her her own computer and have a clean version to reset it too when she fucks it up too much. Sharing a computer with a non-tech person would probably hurt the relationship more than a few hundred dollars to get another one.
"there isn't even an auto install option, unlike Windows."
I love that mac users point out missing options with pride. Like the lack of the option is a feature. And I think Parent was referring to 'trojan' security patches... he patches one thing through Mac updater and something else he didn't want comes in.
Thats stupid. Unless you are building a nuclear reactor or a spacecraft you can't/don't make a perfectly stable 100% bug free system. An OS even a patch is far more complex programming than either of those devices mostly due to the fact that they have to interact with things and usage/input is farrrr less predictable. Bugs are guaranteed to get through and your product being used by millions of different people in billions of possible configurations for god knows how many different uses assures that some of these will be found.
Don't act like Mac's shiny outer shell protects it from the messy world of computers. It is no different.
The only thing you can really do is quick repairs of bugs and an attempt to have LESS bugs to begin with not having bugs is not an option.
Anecdotal evidence is logically a valid argument in this case as you are using proof by contradiction. No need to shy from it.
Because those two things are perfectly logically connected and that isn't at all a poor argument.
What? being the rocket with the best safety record of any launch vehicle (with over 50 launches) is now bad??? NASA fucked up a lot of things w/ the shuttle but safety was pretty damn good. It just was stupidly expensive and had shitty launch capability.
Records of launch vehicles w/ over 50 launches:
Small:
Atlas-Centaur (Lockheed) = 51/61
Kosmos-3M (Russia) = 422/442
Medium:
Tsyklon-2 (Soviet/Ukraine)= 105/106
Delta II (Boeing) = 65/67
Soyuz-U2 (Soviet) = 90/92
Voskhod (Soviet) = 277/300
Vostok-2M (Soviet) = 92/94
Heavy:
Proton (Soviet/Russia) = 294/335
Shuttle(NASA)= 126/128
Also, looking at a company's record Space-X is doing really well. 3/6 might sound bad but every group starting out has had failures.
Lockheed Martin was a missile company for decades. Was building ICBMs and their first launch vehicle was a modified one of these missiles. That is a pretty unfair comparison. They got to launch the things to test tons of times before they put a launch vehicle sticker on it. They also built spacecraft for many years before their 1st launch vehicle. And they still had failures (17% on their most popular vehicle).
Boeing as well aka 'Boeing Defense, Space & Security' is built up from ICBMs and military history. The Delta I is built up from a PGM-17 Thor missile.
Doing so much from scratch is hard but paybacks could be high. Space-X is doing everything right. In the Falcon-9 they have tons of redundancy, hoping for a repeat of the Saturn-V's 12/12 record, they basically have copied what made them successful. They have copied from the recent Delta heavy-lift vehicles for their own (Take a medium lift vehicle and replicate the first stage on the sides, it is cheaper and simpler (therefore safer)). And they've taken things further hope to recover more of the craft. They've added redundancy by making the stages even more similar reusing as many parts as they can. And they have used the same engine in both stages just more of them in the 1st stage.
They might not have a track record yet but they are a good bet. Why do you think everyone has their eyes on them. Why are they getting juicy contracts?
The whole concept of a startup space company going nothing -> Launch in 6 years is crazy, they only had 160~ employees until 2005. And they have been profitable and they only needed 120Million initial investments.
Unless things go horribly wrong Space-X is a BIG TIME game changer.
GP said Bradley Manning... the guy that leaked the video.
Shooting Reuters reporters and a van of civilians is a secret that should be kept now?
IT ISNT A FUCKING WAR ZONE and you show why. This should be a police operation. With people on the ground building things up and keeping CRIME low. I'm not even questioning the motivations of being in Iraq atm. But you CANNOT wage war on NO ONE. There is no enemy military, no bases, no lines of battle, nothing. Treat it like a country with a lot of well armed murders. Would you declare war on murderers and have heli's shooting people that may have guns w/ out provocation? Of course not, that would be retarded nd only make the problem worse!
BTW you are blaming people that were albeit foolishly trying to rescue a dieing man for getting shot by a helicopter that came there from a different country to help them. Foolish maybe but talk about blaming the victim.
Maybe they shouldn't be in shitty wars no one wants. TBH militaries of the world NOT wanting to go to wars everyone disagrees with is a fucking good thing.
And individuals have a moral obligation to stop things they feel are wrong. Even if they are grunts. I think in these situations there should be a court which determines whether he was being ethical in his actions. Not simply whether or not he was breaking military rules.
Otherwise it simply discourages leaks and whistle blowers. Which may be good from a military POV. But we should be working towards what is good from a countries POV.
You pay Belgian taxes? Not that that would matter. IMEC is an independent research facility so no taxes were paid. Perhaps one of their forsight-less idiot partners paid for it ... like Samsung or Intel.
If you are cheap school supplies cost ~$5/yr ....$300/yr is a fuck of a lot more. And if you can't afford notebooks the vast majority of schools will find a way to get you some free.
Insurance not doctors. Doctors get paid w/ public option either way. TBH I think many of them would prefer it.
For a new spacecraft making it into space without breaking or exploding is a huge success. It IS rocketscience. But only time will tell how reliable this vehicle really is, I doubt that the issues you mentioned are an irreparable design flaw.
Don't use snow. Many countries get much more snow and they all use less SUVs/Trucks.
A shitty prius can pull a trailer. A van/minivan is better at pulling a soccer team than a truck, is it even legal to leave a bunch of kids in the flatbed? And you could probably put 2 kayaks on a prius just fine. 3 would be doable but more difficult. But seriously you don't need a f9000 for any of that.
Hilariously for the Katrina thing, in my neighbourhood and those around me all of the buses WERE driven to New Orleans w/e to move people out. And it was very successful, they were some of the first to move people out of the area. Worked way better than leaving people in the disaster zone.
BTW, I live in Canada.