Why is being American made an advantage? Russian and European designs are proven and a similar price. Who would in their right minds go with an unproven launcher because it has an American flag on it?
Sorry. Falcon 9 is just another member of a rather crowded ~20t launchers, so no lunar capability beyond what we have now. I can see it being a commercial flop myself, because it doesn't have tremendous price advantages over much more proven launchers such as Proton and Ariane 5.
Let me go ever further. Creators don't have a 'right' to make a living at all.
Free association is essential. Free speech is essential. Individual industries are not. There is nothing to say that an artist of any kind is owed a living, if that living requires fundamental rights to be curtailed. If we have to choose between Holywood and free speech, it isn't any kind of choice at all.
If you want to make money as a musician, you will have to do it the old fashioned way and actually perform, instead of charging people for distributing recordings of your performances. Movies are in the shit a bit - maybe its time for the theatre to make a comeback, as a medium for actors to make a living without dangerous encroachments on their audiences liberty.
As for books? I suppose you can make a living through signings/conventions/after dinner speaking if you are good, but otherwise you are kind of screwed. Still, it will stop WH Smiths being filled floor to ceiling with insipid ghost-written biographies of Z-list celebrities and crappy Stephen King novels.
Screw the salvation army! Those brass-playing, subversive pinkos are maliciously assaulting poor, put upon entrepreneurs, and hiding their anticapitalist malovelence behind their quaint uniforms and Christmas carols.
It could be argued then, that shifting emphasis from one distro to another relatively frequently helps keep Linux free, by only allowing the more flexible development model to persevere.
Why is that a problem? It isn't like all things developed for Redhat were utterly useless on Ubuntu. I think its good that Linux doesn't get attached to one particular distribution - It allows it to continue to develop and avoid stagnation.
Please don't quote that idiotic bint with regard to freedom. The only freedom she understands is the bogus 'freedom' of middle and upper class landowners to be left alone to exploit their slaves.
I hear a chap called David Braben has a space trading game, that uses just this technique, in the pipeline. Its amazing what they can do with computers these days isn't it?
spare us the libertarian ideological claptrap. Your beloved 'free market' is way behind on space exploration because (as the recent crisis has shown) its ability to price things up, especially risks, is actually quite weak - as opposed to being omniscient as you lot claim it is.
Global capitalism kills around 10 million per year, who die of hunger in a world with enough food production to feed everyone. This dwarfs even the politically motivated, inflated death tolls for 'communism' that you use to justify any excess of capitalism.
He said 'maybe its free' because he 'think[s] these two problems have been corrected'. He doesn't know if its free, because he doesn't know for sure they've removed the unfree elements. It is hardly rocket science. Stop trying to make innocuous statements of his sound radical.
Bollocks to that. The commitment to free speech in the US has always been shallow, as has your commitment to other freedoms. Remember always that your 'land of the free' was founded by slave owners.
Aside from the troll, he has sort of a point. India has massive inequality problems, is still haunted by the caste system (perhaps the only advantage of Mao was he got rid of equivalent crap from China, at quite steep a cost).
Its possible space technology will filter down and help the poorest people, but somehow I doubt it. If you want to look beyond the western media fawning over India's neoliberal development, look up the 'Naxalite' and 'Salwa Judum'. It isn't all roses and tech support over there.
Probably the same way 'Brazillian electricians' got clubbed in with 'Arab suicide bombers'. Our police states understanding of ethnic background is hardly nuanced. It consists of 'us' and 'wogs'
The worst conceit of this bureaucratic police state is that it is a democracy, a lie only enforced when you participate in the absurd ritual of putting a piece of paper in a box to indicate your choice of which haircut is going to curtail your rights next.
Bullshit Tory propaganda. Stop reading the fucking telegraph and get a clue you retarded yuppie. She came into office promising to curb inflation and unemployment - but both of them went up under her regime, thanks to her bullshit monetarist policies. She destroyed social cohesion, social mobility, workers rights, and left us with a hollow shell of a society.
Unfortunately, countries that have some direct democracy (Switzerland I believe does some) don't seem to have any better respect for privacy.
The problem is that it isn't an issue for 99% of the population. The reason the government wants to spy on you is to determine if you are outside what society considers 'normal' and then harass you for it. Normal people think this is just fine, because they don't trust 'wierdos' either. Thus democracies, and democracies, have a tendency towards enforcing banality at gunpoint.
I once heard a quote that sums this up; 'Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom is an armed sheep contesting the issue'
From what I understand of the situation, going to Australia from the UK to escape the new fascism is like going from Italy to Germany to escape the old fascism.
Whilst Americans are celebrating the voting in of a (supposedly) more humane and liberal President, we are continuing our hunched shuffle towards a police state. As much as the Tories complain about this, they would do the exact same if they were in power and not in opposition. Both parties have roughly equivalent agendas. They oppose these agendas when they are in opposition in order to preserve the facade of democracy, and promote them when in power. I am 27 and have never known a change in government.
Don't pin your hopes on the Lib Dems either. The only way they will get into power is by becoming the same as the ruling parties, as Labour did in the 80s and 90s.
Our democracy is a sham, our freedom is moribund. The British public is so indoctrinated and obedient they will continue to vote for carbon copies of the exact same politicians from now until eternity. The worst thing is, our country deserves no better. The racist, petty minded, selfish bean counters that populate this island have done nothing to earn freedom. I'm no better for staying.
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Why would the Waco tribune have an interest in making Waco residents seem backwards?
Why is being American made an advantage? Russian and European designs are proven and a similar price. Who would in their right minds go with an unproven launcher because it has an American flag on it?
Sorry. Falcon 9 is just another member of a rather crowded ~20t launchers, so no lunar capability beyond what we have now. I can see it being a commercial flop myself, because it doesn't have tremendous price advantages over much more proven launchers such as Proton and Ariane 5.
...are concerned about this new 'fire' fad. On the heels of flying machines and horseless carriages its just too much culture shock for them.
Let me go ever further. Creators don't have a 'right' to make a living at all.
Free association is essential. Free speech is essential. Individual industries are not. There is nothing to say that an artist of any kind is owed a living, if that living requires fundamental rights to be curtailed. If we have to choose between Holywood and free speech, it isn't any kind of choice at all.
If you want to make money as a musician, you will have to do it the old fashioned way and actually perform, instead of charging people for distributing recordings of your performances. Movies are in the shit a bit - maybe its time for the theatre to make a comeback, as a medium for actors to make a living without dangerous encroachments on their audiences liberty.
As for books? I suppose you can make a living through signings/conventions/after dinner speaking if you are good, but otherwise you are kind of screwed. Still, it will stop WH Smiths being filled floor to ceiling with insipid ghost-written biographies of Z-list celebrities and crappy Stephen King novels.
Screw the salvation army! Those brass-playing, subversive pinkos are maliciously assaulting poor, put upon entrepreneurs, and hiding their anticapitalist malovelence behind their quaint uniforms and Christmas carols.
Well said.
It could be argued then, that shifting emphasis from one distro to another relatively frequently helps keep Linux free, by only allowing the more flexible development model to persevere.
Why is that a problem? It isn't like all things developed for Redhat were utterly useless on Ubuntu. I think its good that Linux doesn't get attached to one particular distribution - It allows it to continue to develop and avoid stagnation.
Please don't quote that idiotic bint with regard to freedom. The only freedom she understands is the bogus 'freedom' of middle and upper class landowners to be left alone to exploit their slaves.
I hear a chap called David Braben has a space trading game, that uses just this technique, in the pipeline. Its amazing what they can do with computers these days isn't it?
spare us the libertarian ideological claptrap. Your beloved 'free market' is way behind on space exploration because (as the recent crisis has shown) its ability to price things up, especially risks, is actually quite weak - as opposed to being omniscient as you lot claim it is.
Global capitalism kills around 10 million per year, who die of hunger in a world with enough food production to feed everyone. This dwarfs even the politically motivated, inflated death tolls for 'communism' that you use to justify any excess of capitalism.
He said 'maybe its free' because he 'think[s] these two problems have been corrected'. He doesn't know if its free, because he doesn't know for sure they've removed the unfree elements. It is hardly rocket science. Stop trying to make innocuous statements of his sound radical.
Bollocks to that. The commitment to free speech in the US has always been shallow, as has your commitment to other freedoms. Remember always that your 'land of the free' was founded by slave owners.
I've not had one catastrophically fail (such that it would make a noise I could hear) but I have had old ones constantly become corrupted.
Aside from the troll, he has sort of a point. India has massive inequality problems, is still haunted by the caste system (perhaps the only advantage of Mao was he got rid of equivalent crap from China, at quite steep a cost).
Its possible space technology will filter down and help the poorest people, but somehow I doubt it. If you want to look beyond the western media fawning over India's neoliberal development, look up the 'Naxalite' and 'Salwa Judum'. It isn't all roses and tech support over there.
Guess you've never watched ITV then
Probably the same way 'Brazillian electricians' got clubbed in with 'Arab suicide bombers'. Our police states understanding of ethnic background is hardly nuanced. It consists of 'us' and 'wogs'
Now you can be ignored by politicians faster and more efficiently than ever before!
I don't vote at all. It only encourages them.
The worst conceit of this bureaucratic police state is that it is a democracy, a lie only enforced when you participate in the absurd ritual of putting a piece of paper in a box to indicate your choice of which haircut is going to curtail your rights next.
Bullshit Tory propaganda. Stop reading the fucking telegraph and get a clue you retarded yuppie. She came into office promising to curb inflation and unemployment - but both of them went up under her regime, thanks to her bullshit monetarist policies. She destroyed social cohesion, social mobility, workers rights, and left us with a hollow shell of a society.
Unfortunately, countries that have some direct democracy (Switzerland I believe does some) don't seem to have any better respect for privacy.
The problem is that it isn't an issue for 99% of the population. The reason the government wants to spy on you is to determine if you are outside what society considers 'normal' and then harass you for it. Normal people think this is just fine, because they don't trust 'wierdos' either. Thus democracies, and democracies, have a tendency towards enforcing banality at gunpoint.
I once heard a quote that sums this up; 'Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom is an armed sheep contesting the issue'
They throw the letter in the bin, and continue on their merry way.
From what I understand of the situation, going to Australia from the UK to escape the new fascism is like going from Italy to Germany to escape the old fascism.
Whilst Americans are celebrating the voting in of a (supposedly) more humane and liberal President, we are continuing our hunched shuffle towards a police state. As much as the Tories complain about this, they would do the exact same if they were in power and not in opposition. Both parties have roughly equivalent agendas. They oppose these agendas when they are in opposition in order to preserve the facade of democracy, and promote them when in power. I am 27 and have never known a change in government.
Don't pin your hopes on the Lib Dems either. The only way they will get into power is by becoming the same as the ruling parties, as Labour did in the 80s and 90s.
Our democracy is a sham, our freedom is moribund. The British public is so indoctrinated and obedient they will continue to vote for carbon copies of the exact same politicians from now until eternity. The worst thing is, our country deserves no better. The racist, petty minded, selfish bean counters that populate this island have done nothing to earn freedom. I'm no better for staying.