Why don't government contracts count as private sector? Likely this is how it will work:
Incentives are made available to increase funding for R&D and decrease the cost to get into space. Then as the industry grows NASA will arbitrarily create a marketplace by purchasing missions from the private sector. This is already how it works to a small degree. Increasing it isn't shocking because having a competing industry is very effective at dropping costs. It also shifts risk (a slight degree) to the corporations, away from the government.
NASA can put up carrots here and there to mold the industry into what it needs. Want a martian lander? Put up a billion dollars rather than spending a few billion figuring it out yourself. Industry can find a way to launch it with perhaps a private industry probe to cut costs, who knows.
It isn't a bad idea it is just.... untestable, so until it is provable it will be dismissed. The reason scientists get mad at pseudo-scientists or quacks w/e is the persistence. An idea that disagrees with current theory is simply dismissed without aggression. Pseudo-science is something like homeopathy, it has been around for decades. Their claims have been repeatedly disproved yet they use the same claims.
Offtopic but the reason scientists get mad at the religious although their beliefs are unprovable is that well... lots of things in religious arguments have been disproved for centuries and yet are repeated.
Were that applied consistently I think that would be great. I sincerely doubt it is. In a ford you are worth $200,000 but in a plane? 10million.
To a coal power plant your life is often worth under 100k. If the government enforced them to calculate lives at 7million you would see nuclear power take over REAL fast. Minimum, you would see coal companies spend a lot more on filters and safety features.
What about policy decisions? How often do you see: "There is a 5% chance that 30 people will die. The cost to avoid this is 12million. We therefore shouldn't bother because the death figure is only worth 10.5million."
This, while perfectly logical is completely vacant from decision making. You could spend that 12million dollars saving lives more efficiently for sure.
If it were followed through with on a governmental level then it would call into question the military assuming foreign lives are worth anything near american lives.
Even civil engineers the people that really drove for these figures don't really get to use them. They often are stuck with meeting a certain requirement level regardless of whether the cost is justifiable. That said, I'd be happy if all fields actually took the numbers into account as much as civvies.
That figure is rarely deferred to while making policy decisions or other decisions where it would be useful. Also, poor paying jobs ie factory work often have a high chance of death or health issues. So I'm not sure how they worked that out.
Glad you lucked into help. Beyond that it is interesting that you chose to be helped! I think many people would find it irresistible; to give up that kind of added richness.... Like a greater sense of 'real'. I suppose it could harm things that ACTUALLY matter though.
And yeah, things that effect that part of your brain directly feel completely real because it bypasses your higher functions, directly feeding you hormones and such to give you the no holds barred experience.
I think it seems completely reasonable that lighter versions of TLE got labeled from a very young age as highly spiritual, prophetic kid and raised from there to be a religious leader.
Epilepsy isn't exactly subtle. So yeah, it was recorded.
And I imagine the books are based in fact or have chunks of fact in them. There probably was some jesus type guy and mohamed guy. Doesn't say much for there being magical gods and all but still. Ancient religious texts are often referenced by archaeologists due to their accurate dates (for certain leaders and events).
So it is interesting to note that the leaders the stories are based on had epilepsy... And seems to be a reasonable explanation, while clearly not conclusive.
I wish people logically applied statistics to all of these decisions. It always horrifies me that people state that human lives are invaluable and then go making decisions to that end. Which does of course put a value on a life but it does so at pretty much random. Some safety features or systems could save lives at a few hundred bucks each. But often we get safety laws put in place where it saves lives at the cost of trillions of dollars each (aka, it will likely never save a single life), certain types of chemical bans is an example of that.
Stating that human lives are invaluable is a demonstrably false statement that nearly everyone has heard and the vast majority accept (though they won't practice it). Were it true, it'd be near impossible to leave the house due to the risk of death clearly not being worth whatever job you might have, cars would be horrifying death traps, yaddayadda, we'd all end up being terrified paranoid hermits. With hospitals blanketing the countryside.
Neuroscientist VC Ramachandran (sp?) a bunch of years ago was dealing with patients that had temporal lobe epilepsy. The temporal lobe is in control of 'meaning', it is the part of your brain that recognizes objects for their significance. He found that after an episode the patients had overwhelming feeling of spirituality. The idea is that they were seeing meaning and importance in everything down to individual blades of grass. One of his patients refused any support since he believed he was a prophet and that it was his link to god. (I since have read that many prophets historically have been epileptics such as Ezekiel and Mohamed).
You can find the guy in NOVA (secrets of the mind). He also gave a talk or two on www.TED.com .
True, but if you use words properly whilst knowing the people you are addressing will completely misunderstand you then you are being plain stubborn. ie. I doubt you'd put that you do lots of linux hacking in your spare time on a resume...
Everyone runs planned drills and they are important. Perhaps after running regular planned drills for a little bit it would be useful to run some unwarned ones. As it I'm pretty sure they simply aren't prepared to handle one without warning very well.
The 3ms ping time tells me that your ISP is the same as the place you speed tested at and they unlocked caps. Try a city over?
From the site: "Som standard opkobling har du mulighed tilslutninger fra 2 Mbit/s og op til over 10 Mbit/s " for 49dkk, or 9usd/mnth... Obviously you didn't buy their standard line but I can't find offerings for 500Mbps on their site.
Cutting ping time further seems technically infeasible though. Being Google they can mirror their shit everywhere to drop ping as much as physically possible, but don't expect further decreases without a change in the field of physics.
Also, the feeling of speed is much controlled by ping... FOR NOW. Google is running this experiment to see how they can utilize super high speed lines. It is something that we haven't really touched on much. We'll see if there is a good reason for it, I think as 1gbps becomes common we'll find all kinds of things to do with it. And I agree, we need something remotely symmetric to be able to grow. Web 2.0, hands of the people and all that crap.
Rape is illegal and harmful like statutory rape. Watching a video or possessing a video depicting child porn is illegal. Possessing a video of an older woman being raped is not unless it is falling under obscenity laws. Or snuff films? I believe they are legal to possess in all cases but interestingly filming murder is only illegal when done with the intent for resale, possession clearly legal. So Saddam's hanging and such can be put online. Along such lines then filmed child nudity should be legal so long as the intention isn't for profit. So if it were private then lost or posted for any reason but profit it'd be legal. Surely there is a disconnect at some point here.
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Why don't government contracts count as private sector? Likely this is how it will work:
Incentives are made available to increase funding for R&D and decrease the cost to get into space. Then as the industry grows NASA will arbitrarily create a marketplace by purchasing missions from the private sector. This is already how it works to a small degree. Increasing it isn't shocking because having a competing industry is very effective at dropping costs. It also shifts risk (a slight degree) to the corporations, away from the government.
NASA can put up carrots here and there to mold the industry into what it needs. Want a martian lander? Put up a billion dollars rather than spending a few billion figuring it out yourself. Industry can find a way to launch it with perhaps a private industry probe to cut costs, who knows.
If NASA became a customer it would create the market to do such things... So that part isn't much of an issue.
My school recently removed the ability to forward or use imap. huzzah, trapped.
Making fun of ignorance is always accepted.
Why would we do things that are enjoyable then? We couldn't afford to since there always ways to be safer.
Doubly offtopic: Wow... re-reading this I come off sounding like a preaching douchebag. Didn't mean to come off that way @_@
It isn't a bad idea it is just.... untestable, so until it is provable it will be dismissed. The reason scientists get mad at pseudo-scientists or quacks w/e is the persistence. An idea that disagrees with current theory is simply dismissed without aggression. Pseudo-science is something like homeopathy, it has been around for decades. Their claims have been repeatedly disproved yet they use the same claims.
BTW an idea that has been around for decades and hasn't been disproved (due to it being impossible to disprove) is simply philosophy. And science has nothing against that at all! Your point fits perfectly under: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)#Types_of_mind-body_dualism
Offtopic but the reason scientists get mad at the religious although their beliefs are unprovable is that well... lots of things in religious arguments have been disproved for centuries and yet are repeated.
When you put off your 200$ car tune up you are probably valuing your life at under 7million. Value proven.
Were that applied consistently I think that would be great. I sincerely doubt it is. In a ford you are worth $200,000 but in a plane? 10million.
To a coal power plant your life is often worth under 100k. If the government enforced them to calculate lives at 7million you would see nuclear power take over REAL fast. Minimum, you would see coal companies spend a lot more on filters and safety features.
What about policy decisions? How often do you see: "There is a 5% chance that 30 people will die. The cost to avoid this is 12million. We therefore shouldn't bother because the death figure is only worth 10.5million."
This, while perfectly logical is completely vacant from decision making. You could spend that 12million dollars saving lives more efficiently for sure.
If it were followed through with on a governmental level then it would call into question the military assuming foreign lives are worth anything near american lives.
Even civil engineers the people that really drove for these figures don't really get to use them. They often are stuck with meeting a certain requirement level regardless of whether the cost is justifiable. That said, I'd be happy if all fields actually took the numbers into account as much as civvies.
That figure is rarely deferred to while making policy decisions or other decisions where it would be useful. Also, poor paying jobs ie factory work often have a high chance of death or health issues. So I'm not sure how they worked that out.
Glad you lucked into help. Beyond that it is interesting that you chose to be helped! I think many people would find it irresistible; to give up that kind of added richness.... Like a greater sense of 'real'. I suppose it could harm things that ACTUALLY matter though.
And yeah, things that effect that part of your brain directly feel completely real because it bypasses your higher functions, directly feeding you hormones and such to give you the no holds barred experience.
I think it seems completely reasonable that lighter versions of TLE got labeled from a very young age as highly spiritual, prophetic kid and raised from there to be a religious leader.
Epilepsy isn't exactly subtle. So yeah, it was recorded.
And I imagine the books are based in fact or have chunks of fact in them. There probably was some jesus type guy and mohamed guy. Doesn't say much for there being magical gods and all but still. Ancient religious texts are often referenced by archaeologists due to their accurate dates (for certain leaders and events).
So it is interesting to note that the leaders the stories are based on had epilepsy... And seems to be a reasonable explanation, while clearly not conclusive.
I wish people logically applied statistics to all of these decisions. It always horrifies me that people state that human lives are invaluable and then go making decisions to that end. Which does of course put a value on a life but it does so at pretty much random. Some safety features or systems could save lives at a few hundred bucks each. But often we get safety laws put in place where it saves lives at the cost of trillions of dollars each (aka, it will likely never save a single life), certain types of chemical bans is an example of that.
Stating that human lives are invaluable is a demonstrably false statement that nearly everyone has heard and the vast majority accept (though they won't practice it). Were it true, it'd be near impossible to leave the house due to the risk of death clearly not being worth whatever job you might have, cars would be horrifying death traps, yaddayadda, we'd all end up being terrified paranoid hermits. With hospitals blanketing the countryside.
Neuroscientist VC Ramachandran (sp?) a bunch of years ago was dealing with patients that had temporal lobe epilepsy. The temporal lobe is in control of 'meaning', it is the part of your brain that recognizes objects for their significance. He found that after an episode the patients had overwhelming feeling of spirituality. The idea is that they were seeing meaning and importance in everything down to individual blades of grass. One of his patients refused any support since he believed he was a prophet and that it was his link to god. (I since have read that many prophets historically have been epileptics such as Ezekiel and Mohamed).
You can find the guy in NOVA (secrets of the mind). He also gave a talk or two on www.TED.com .
True, but if you use words properly whilst knowing the people you are addressing will completely misunderstand you then you are being plain stubborn. ie. I doubt you'd put that you do lots of linux hacking in your spare time on a resume...
Everyone runs planned drills and they are important. Perhaps after running regular planned drills for a little bit it would be useful to run some unwarned ones. As it I'm pretty sure they simply aren't prepared to handle one without warning very well.
The 3ms ping time tells me that your ISP is the same as the place you speed tested at and they unlocked caps. Try a city over?
... Obviously you didn't buy their standard line but I can't find offerings for 500Mbps on their site.
From the site:
"Som standard opkobling har du mulighed tilslutninger fra 2 Mbit/s og op til over 10 Mbit/s " for 49dkk, or 9usd/mnth
Ugh... did you just hope Google massively oversells their lines like /. complains about all ISPs doing for years....And get modded up?
Cutting ping time further seems technically infeasible though. Being Google they can mirror their shit everywhere to drop ping as much as physically possible, but don't expect further decreases without a change in the field of physics.
Also, the feeling of speed is much controlled by ping... FOR NOW. Google is running this experiment to see how they can utilize super high speed lines. It is something that we haven't really touched on much. We'll see if there is a good reason for it, I think as 1gbps becomes common we'll find all kinds of things to do with it. And I agree, we need something remotely symmetric to be able to grow. Web 2.0, hands of the people and all that crap.
Rape is illegal and harmful like statutory rape. Watching a video or possessing a video depicting child porn is illegal. Possessing a video of an older woman being raped is not unless it is falling under obscenity laws. Or snuff films? I believe they are legal to possess in all cases but interestingly filming murder is only illegal when done with the intent for resale, possession clearly legal. So Saddam's hanging and such can be put online. Along such lines then filmed child nudity should be legal so long as the intention isn't for profit. So if it were private then lost or posted for any reason but profit it'd be legal. Surely there is a disconnect at some point here.
There is the slight chance the guy is biased ... he has iMovie in his sig.
http://news.cnet.com/i/tim/20090414/iRobot_Warrior_PackBot_270x203.jpg -- seems pretty close
I think that is acutally a depiction of the iRobot Warrior. Same company that makes roombas.
GJ, it is better than Iran's recent oppressive ideas, that MUST mean it is good.
Removing all the untrusting folks would certainly increase the average level of trust....