We all know where this is going; combined with brain-machine interfacing this technology will be used to trap millions of humans in a nightmare world where everyone is forced to walk down the middle of the road, nobody can go indoors, and the population is terrorised by giant flying pliers.
You also need to understand that the Shuttle is rebuilt to a considerable extend each time it flies. Its not a reusable craft, its a rebuildable one. Yes, it would be harder, but I wanted to make the point that it is still very hard to change the fairing size on a rocket, particularly as moving the CoP forward by adding a larger fairing makes the rocket more unstable in atmospheric flight. Nevermind the extra weight requirements and the extra forces you have to content with at Max-Q...
My point is; although the internet hobbyist may be able to take stats from various rocket components and bolt them together for some kind of fantasy launcher, real life doesn't work like that. Changing the fairing of a rocket is a very serious modification; almost as much as changing the size of the Shuttles cargo bay is. This is why it is almost never done after the rocket has been designed.
Or if you want to send a repair mission, or retrieve something from space, or send crew and cargo in one shot (instead of a complicated rendezvous, and two launches nearly at the same time which is not trivial). You could even assemble a Mars ship with the Shuttle. It isn't the Shuttle's fault that its capabilities were never really capitalized upon.
Don't forget to add in 25t of cargo launched alongside the crew (so no rendezvous needed for a crew+cargo mission). Furthermore, the shuttle payload bay is BIG and can accommodate payloads too large for any other currently flying vehicle.
'Troll' seems harsh but I really don't think this is a valid comparison. Whereas its still a specialist tool for the desktop, free software is a roaring success in industry (especially the web industry, where I have worked) and is generally not delivered 'broken' like a communist telly. I don't know where you've been, but Ubuntu works out of the box for most hardware these days.
My personal experience of people is that few are blindly motivated by gain - I strongly suspect that apathy amongst Soviet workers probably had many other causes that everybody thinking 'if only I could become an entrepreneur' because few workers in western countries want to take that option.
Its their home, as well as a battlefield. But of course you forgot that; all you see of it is the video-game version of Iraq shown from a helicopter or a tank.
Unlike you, Stallman recognises the difference between sharing for personal use and taking for commercial expoitation. He is also aware of how free licenses depend on copyright law and that a complete abandonment of such law would screw free software. In fact, he spoke at length to the Pirate Party UK about it, a conversation that had a fair influence on our final manifesto, which now includes special provisions for FOSS.
They were walking down a road, you inhuman prick. They weren't "acting like insurgents" and there is no way that camera could be mistaken for an RPG. Look at some fucking pictures. Even if the Apache crew were as idiotic as you are, that still doesn't excuse them gleefully opening up on a van which had just stopped to help the wounded, and had two children in it. Go to hell, you bloodthirsty redneck apologist.
Because pirates already *are* customers. Classifying the world into 'criminal' pirates and paying customers is idiotic, and with such a faulty premise, then no matter how well thought out this plan is, it is doomed.
Economists don't really study chaos, as most economics courses never go beyond linear equations - and you can't get chaotic behavior from a linear system.
The worth of something is not handed down from on high by your god, the 'Invisible Hand'. The worth of things cannot always be quantified in monetary terms.
Furthermore, the notion that your mythical 'market' can correctly assign prices seems to have been blown out of the water by the recent failure of that market to correctly price financial derivatives. Which is why mainstream economics doesn't actually take your kind of market-worship seriously anymore.
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We all know where this is going; combined with brain-machine interfacing this technology will be used to trap millions of humans in a nightmare world where everyone is forced to walk down the middle of the road, nobody can go indoors, and the population is terrorised by giant flying pliers.
You also need to understand that the Shuttle is rebuilt to a considerable extend each time it flies. Its not a reusable craft, its a rebuildable one. Yes, it would be harder, but I wanted to make the point that it is still very hard to change the fairing size on a rocket, particularly as moving the CoP forward by adding a larger fairing makes the rocket more unstable in atmospheric flight. Nevermind the extra weight requirements and the extra forces you have to content with at Max-Q...
Does who that AC is have any bearing on whether what he is saying is true or not?
Comparing the PPUK to Jonestown because they wouldn't give you all the power you wanted? Congrats on not sounding like a nut there pal.
My point is; although the internet hobbyist may be able to take stats from various rocket components and bolt them together for some kind of fantasy launcher, real life doesn't work like that. Changing the fairing of a rocket is a very serious modification; almost as much as changing the size of the Shuttles cargo bay is. This is why it is almost never done after the rocket has been designed.
From what I understand, the unpleasantness between Jez and the PPUK was largely Jez's fault.
You know nothing of British food
Gastropub food > your bar food (yes, I've had it)
Fruit - ours is more strictly regulated by the EU, can't put so much toxic crap on it
Beer - You are comparing Boddingtons with microbrew? Idiot. Traditional English ale, hand pulled, rules the roost.
Beef - two words for you: 'aberdeen angus'
Pizza - You can accurately simulate american pizza by deep frying a real pizza in HFCS
Bacon - Yeah, you probably do kick our arses at bacon. Thats why we import ours from Denmark. And then we have the one true sauce to have on it.
Bread - the bread I've had in America, its not especially nice.
You sound like someone who has never visited the UK, and is just making shit up from the Internet.
And do you think you can arbitrarily swap out payload fairings? That sounds like lego-brick space science to me...
What is 'forceful' debate? To me, that sounds like someone being arrogant and bullying.
There is a whole new market to be claimed in no-win-no-fee IP chasers spitting out takedown notices like machinegun bullets.
Time to vote for the pirate party guys.
Or if you want to send a repair mission, or retrieve something from space, or send crew and cargo in one shot (instead of a complicated rendezvous, and two launches nearly at the same time which is not trivial). You could even assemble a Mars ship with the Shuttle. It isn't the Shuttle's fault that its capabilities were never really capitalized upon.
Don't forget to add in 25t of cargo launched alongside the crew (so no rendezvous needed for a crew+cargo mission). Furthermore, the shuttle payload bay is BIG and can accommodate payloads too large for any other currently flying vehicle.
'Troll' seems harsh but I really don't think this is a valid comparison. Whereas its still a specialist tool for the desktop, free software is a roaring success in industry (especially the web industry, where I have worked) and is generally not delivered 'broken' like a communist telly. I don't know where you've been, but Ubuntu works out of the box for most hardware these days. My personal experience of people is that few are blindly motivated by gain - I strongly suspect that apathy amongst Soviet workers probably had many other causes that everybody thinking 'if only I could become an entrepreneur' because few workers in western countries want to take that option.
The communism 'we' had? Did you live in the USSR? Or are you just reading stuff off Wikipedia?
Its their home, as well as a battlefield. But of course you forgot that; all you see of it is the video-game version of Iraq shown from a helicopter or a tank.
You are wrong.
Unlike you, Stallman recognises the difference between sharing for personal use and taking for commercial expoitation. He is also aware of how free licenses depend on copyright law and that a complete abandonment of such law would screw free software. In fact, he spoke at length to the Pirate Party UK about it, a conversation that had a fair influence on our final manifesto, which now includes special provisions for FOSS.
They were walking down a road, you inhuman prick. They weren't "acting like insurgents" and there is no way that camera could be mistaken for an RPG. Look at some fucking pictures. Even if the Apache crew were as idiotic as you are, that still doesn't excuse them gleefully opening up on a van which had just stopped to help the wounded, and had two children in it. Go to hell, you bloodthirsty redneck apologist.
Nice job not desensitizing Apache pilots...
That classification is also flawed. What if people sometimes pay, sometimes pirate? You can classify the activity, but not the person.
Because pirates already *are* customers. Classifying the world into 'criminal' pirates and paying customers is idiotic, and with such a faulty premise, then no matter how well thought out this plan is, it is doomed.
Economists don't really study chaos, as most economics courses never go beyond linear equations - and you can't get chaotic behavior from a linear system.
The reaction of the true market fundementalist; all dissent from the glory of the Invisible Hand is pure stalinism. You guys are truly pathetic.
If your magical 'market' had correctly determined the price of derivatives, they would not have sold so well in the first place. You fail.
You are a fucking retard for comparing economics to physics. Physics is a science, economics is basically guesswork.
Market fundamentalism is funny.
The worth of something is not handed down from on high by your god, the 'Invisible Hand'. The worth of things cannot always be quantified in monetary terms.
Furthermore, the notion that your mythical 'market' can correctly assign prices seems to have been blown out of the water by the recent failure of that market to correctly price financial derivatives. Which is why mainstream economics doesn't actually take your kind of market-worship seriously anymore.