You only have "freedom" where there are "police" to control those trying to "restrict" your freedom or "abuse" you.
It is not the invisible hand of the free market that is ensuring your food has accurate use-by-dates, correct ingredients listed and accurate nutritional information.
Do you think the free market would have stopped using lead in paints and asbestos in construction all by itself?
Do you think the free market would abolish insider trading all by itself or do we need a policeman called the SEC with teeth to enforce the "rules"
Except if a hacker slanders or vilifies someone or uploads child porn in your name and you then have to defend yourself. The burden of proof is then upon you.
Plus, remember Elon's other full time job is send rockets to space and BACK. His guys know quite a lot about telemetry, data and safety. I'd believe a Tesla records data better than any other car.
What if life actually started on Earth and found it's why to Europa due to meteor bombardment on Earth before the dinosaurs. Wouldn't you like to know if you have neighbours and if those neighbours are related?
Just remember that wifi that you most likely used to post your comment was created by Astronomers to do obscure star stuff, and it netted CSIRO 450$M of royalties, because it changed people's lives. http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
The internet itself was "something that won't change anyone's life" when it was built in the 1970's.
That is what basic science is all about. Discovery for curiosity's sake. If your child is dying of zika or malaria or ebola and a cure is found you might be grateful for the scientist who stumbled upon the answer by doing something completely different, or because they used software built by geologists or astronomers. Astronomy has also influenced cancer research, because software to identify stars can also be used to identify tumours. Astronomy is always valuable. New weather satellites that will better predict storms and flooding will save many lives in years to come.
The poor country Bolivia now has a satellite, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., which enables Andean farmers to communicate with each other and their markets - improving their personal income by helping them bypass expensive middle merchants.
I challenge you to compare your own country's research spending and compare it to spending on pet food or candy. You should be horrified at the result.
Astronomy created wifi, which you may have used to post your nonsense. Exoplanet hunting is immensely valuable. Why was James Cook sent to Tahiti to measure the transit of Venus so some stuffy elitist astronomers in Europe could know the distance to the Sun. He discovered New Zealand along the way...
Maybe looking at 1000's of other earths through telescopes will give us the clues we need to solve global warming if we have to do massive geoengineering.
Maybe the tech needed to see these planets will diagnose cancer in a family member of yours in 10 years time and save their life.
Those telescopes might incidentally see the asteroid that will destroy your community in 2032 in time to divert it...
What if those telescopes find LIFE on another planet. Are you going to say that makes no difference to all of humanity??
What IF the emdrive, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., really works on quantized momentum and reaching exoplanets becomes realistic?
You may have learnt at school that inner planets are small and rocky and outer planets are gas giants. We know that is wrong now. Our solar system is not the norm.
I'll stop now, but there are many more possibilities...
PS. You don't belong on this website.
SpaceX is owned by Elon Musk, who owns Tesla. He has two goals in life: "Save Earth" and "Make Mankind a multiplanetary species". The goal of Tesla is to fix global warning - go and watch Elon's introduction of the Model 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Yes, go and watch the first few minutes - you see that he really cares about global warming more than his cars. So yes, this guy is putting everything into saving Earth and saving Mankind. His Gigafactory is about bringing down cost of batteries. and TODAY, he was slamming the fossil fuel industry publicly at SpaceX. Name one other person doing as much single handedly to stop global warming. He might win a Nobel Prize for stopping war in the Middle East by getting us all off our addiction to oil.
And what are the environmental and ethical costs of those Sam's club meats? I suggest it is hard for you to trace that back and know, because the indusry obscures it. Have a look at this: http://www.salon.com/2014/05/2... I had an organic milk man tell me his milk comes from cows in Barstow, California. I was amazed. What quality of life and environment do milk-giving cows get in Barstow, California with negligable rain and temperatures about 100 F for many, many months? Maybe the milk is great, but what are the hidden environmental and energetic costs of fodder, water, health and temperature?
I thought it was up to the prosecution to provide evidence rather than force the defendent to provide that evidence? Why should he have to prove his own guilt or innocence? The burden of proof is on the prosecution. Isn't what he said the same as "no comment"?
I didn't get a pop-up at 5 minutes asking me if I wanted to cancel. NOR could I see on the display how many minutes ago I requested the driver.
And my driver took a wrong turn coming to me making him even later.
And my driver took 3-4 minutes AFTER the trip before he closed it. Did I pay for that too?
When a company buys back it owns stock it means they are convinced (or want to convince the market) that they are undervalued and that that can earn more by doing this and waiting for the market to catch up than by acquisitions and that they have convinced the stockholders that this is a better idea than paying it out to the stockholders=owners as dividends. It does not necessarily mean that they don't know how to invest.
I am sure that as we know more we will remove these singularities and find that black holes are actually "black smears", even if that smear has a radius of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... and then maybe all the information is still there. Things maybe simpler than we hope.
then look at this data please http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/c... . That's clearly not volcanic.
and this data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Something IS happening over the scale of decades.
I don't care about AN extreme heat event in the 1930's. I do care if there are extreme heat events in 2035-38, 2045-46, 2048-50, 2053-57....
uh no. This billionaire is spending his own money and money of others who approve what he is doing. We wants the country to then spend trillions on improving the life of billions. Commendable and he puts his money where his mouth is. What did you do this year to improve the world for other humans?
And now consider ocean acidification and the ability of phytoplankton that create the oxygen you breath to do their work. It's not just about warming. And its not about geological changes that the Earth has time to respond to. It is about humans changing things so fast we create positive feedback that natural systems cannot counter. We have now officially entered the Anthropocene - meaning that there is so much evidence laid down in the Earth since the 1950's that will persist for Gigayears.
He should have had a talk with his son about his impending death, and asked him what kind of funeral he wanted, who to give his toys to, who should get his iphone password, etc.... and they should have written this onto a piece of paper sealed into an envelope with the promise that he would only open if in the presence of persons A,B & C after his death.
Apple shouldn't do have to do something thing because he didn't prepare his son for death.
I'd be quite happy. When i go to a restaurant in California the waiter is usually fawning over me to get tips or simply begging for money, or spitting in my food when he knows no tip is coming. I go out to eat, not to get involved with his personal sob story.
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You only have "freedom" where there are "police" to control those trying to "restrict" your freedom or "abuse" you.
It is not the invisible hand of the free market that is ensuring your food has accurate use-by-dates, correct ingredients listed and accurate nutritional information.
Do you think the free market would have stopped using lead in paints and asbestos in construction all by itself?
Do you think the free market would abolish insider trading all by itself or do we need a policeman called the SEC with teeth to enforce the "rules"
Except if a hacker slanders or vilifies someone or uploads child porn in your name and you then have to defend yourself. The burden of proof is then upon you.
Plus, remember Elon's other full time job is send rockets to space and BACK. His guys know quite a lot about telemetry, data and safety. I'd believe a Tesla records data better than any other car.
What if life actually started on Earth and found it's why to Europa due to meteor bombardment on Earth before the dinosaurs. Wouldn't you like to know if you have neighbours and if those neighbours are related?
Just remember that wifi that you most likely used to post your comment was created by Astronomers to do obscure star stuff, and it netted CSIRO 450$M of royalties, because it changed people's lives. http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
The internet itself was "something that won't change anyone's life" when it was built in the 1970's.
That is what basic science is all about. Discovery for curiosity's sake. If your child is dying of zika or malaria or ebola and a cure is found you might be grateful for the scientist who stumbled upon the answer by doing something completely different, or because they used software built by geologists or astronomers. Astronomy has also influenced cancer research, because software to identify stars can also be used to identify tumours. Astronomy is always valuable. New weather satellites that will better predict storms and flooding will save many lives in years to come.
The poor country Bolivia now has a satellite, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., which enables Andean farmers to communicate with each other and their markets - improving their personal income by helping them bypass expensive middle merchants.
I challenge you to compare your own country's research spending and compare it to spending on pet food or candy. You should be horrified at the result.
.. is too busy making sure that north Pakistani and Afghan children never get polio, to be available to be killed.
please stop using wifi, laptops or smart phone. You obviously don't want such benefits.
If every car on the road is radaring/lidaring everything within 100m/yards, won't the spectrum just become a clogged mess?
Astronomy created wifi, which you may have used to post your nonsense. Exoplanet hunting is immensely valuable.
Why was James Cook sent to Tahiti to measure the transit of Venus so some stuffy elitist astronomers in Europe could know the distance to the Sun. He discovered New Zealand along the way...
Maybe looking at 1000's of other earths through telescopes will give us the clues we need to solve global warming if we have to do massive geoengineering.
Maybe the tech needed to see these planets will diagnose cancer in a family member of yours in 10 years time and save their life.
Those telescopes might incidentally see the asteroid that will destroy your community in 2032 in time to divert it...
What if those telescopes find LIFE on another planet. Are you going to say that makes no difference to all of humanity??
What IF the emdrive, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., really works on quantized momentum and reaching exoplanets becomes realistic?
You may have learnt at school that inner planets are small and rocky and outer planets are gas giants. We know that is wrong now. Our solar system is not the norm.
I'll stop now, but there are many more possibilities...
PS. You don't belong on this website.
SpaceX is owned by Elon Musk, who owns Tesla. He has two goals in life: "Save Earth" and "Make Mankind a multiplanetary species". The goal of Tesla is to fix global warning - go and watch Elon's introduction of the Model 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Yes, go and watch the first few minutes - you see that he really cares about global warming more than his cars. So yes, this guy is putting everything into saving Earth and saving Mankind. His Gigafactory is about bringing down cost of batteries. and TODAY, he was slamming the fossil fuel industry publicly at SpaceX. Name one other person doing as much single handedly to stop global warming. He might win a Nobel Prize for stopping war in the Middle East by getting us all off our addiction to oil.
And what are the environmental and ethical costs of those Sam's club meats? I suggest it is hard for you to trace that back and know, because the indusry obscures it.
Have a look at this: http://www.salon.com/2014/05/2...
I had an organic milk man tell me his milk comes from cows in Barstow, California. I was amazed. What quality of life and environment do milk-giving cows get in Barstow, California with negligable rain and temperatures about 100 F for many, many months? Maybe the milk is great, but what are the hidden environmental and energetic costs of fodder, water, health and temperature?
I thought it was up to the prosecution to provide evidence rather than force the defendent to provide that evidence? Why should he have to prove his own guilt or innocence? The burden of proof is on the prosecution. Isn't what he said the same as "no comment"?
My spine doctor's xray display had the same popup this morning.
I didn't get a pop-up at 5 minutes asking me if I wanted to cancel. NOR could I see on the display how many minutes ago I requested the driver.
And my driver took a wrong turn coming to me making him even later.
And my driver took 3-4 minutes AFTER the trip before he closed it. Did I pay for that too?
When a company buys back it owns stock it means they are convinced (or want to convince the market) that they are undervalued and that that can earn more by doing this and waiting for the market to catch up than by acquisitions and that they have convinced the stockholders that this is a better idea than paying it out to the stockholders=owners as dividends. It does not necessarily mean that they don't know how to invest.
I am sure that as we know more we will remove these singularities and find that black holes are actually "black smears", even if that smear has a radius of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... and then maybe all the information is still there. Things maybe simpler than we hope.
this exists https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
then look at this data please http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/c... . That's clearly not volcanic.
and this data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Something IS happening over the scale of decades.
I don't care about AN extreme heat event in the 1930's. I do care if there are extreme heat events in 2035-38, 2045-46, 2048-50, 2053-57....
uh no. This billionaire is spending his own money and money of others who approve what he is doing. We wants the country to then spend trillions on improving the life of billions. Commendable and he puts his money where his mouth is. What did you do this year to improve the world for other humans?
Deep Learning. Tesla autopilot. SpaceX rockets landing on barges in the ocean. Google beating the world best Go player.
Tell me what you think of CO2 level changes and ocean acidification measurements and why you think they may not be anthropogenic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And now consider ocean acidification and the ability of phytoplankton that create the oxygen you breath to do their work. It's not just about warming. And its not about geological changes that the Earth has time to respond to. It is about humans changing things so fast we create positive feedback that natural systems cannot counter. We have now officially entered the Anthropocene - meaning that there is so much evidence laid down in the Earth since the 1950's that will persist for Gigayears.
He should have had a talk with his son about his impending death, and asked him what kind of funeral he wanted, who to give his toys to, who should get his iphone password, etc.... and they should have written this onto a piece of paper sealed into an envelope with the promise that he would only open if in the presence of persons A,B & C after his death.
Apple shouldn't do have to do something thing because he didn't prepare his son for death.
because his business model was based on exploiting his loyal employees.
I'd be quite happy. When i go to a restaurant in California the waiter is usually fawning over me to get tips or simply begging for money, or spitting in my food when he knows no tip is coming. I go out to eat, not to get involved with his personal sob story.
Elon will save us!