WHAT? You have literally no idea what you are talking about.
Some ridiculous number of cars on the road in Cuba have been on the road since before the embargo started. You think 33+% of all car owners on that island do that?
In flight? No, it's more like repairing a ship while at sea (because the satellite doesn't have to maneuver itself while it is being repaired). Ships are repaired at sea on a fairly regular basis, at least enough for them to limp back to port. If there were no ports available, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to fully repair and resupply them with floating drydocks. It would help if there were humans there, of course.
I love how you are so anti-space biased that you can't see that it is possible for the people of Earth to do more than one thing at once. As if, somehow, everyone in the world only works on the single most productive thing at any given time, rather than pursuing multiple paths, ensuring supply in the face of any and all forms of disruption.
See, one thing you utterly fail to understand is that filtering seawater takes an ENORMOUS amount of energy applied on a CONTINUOUS basis. It's not worth it, or so the market says. People have crunched the numbers and found that it doesn't make sense. But there are vast mineral resources just sitting on the surface on Mars, and one could build a space elevator there to cheaply extract them and return them to Earth, nevermind using them THERE to support a new colony.
But hey, you feel free to continue being the guy who says "you can't". You will look exactly as stupid as every other idiot in history who said the same thing.
Or just write a letter to them telling them that you would like to sign up, but you are deaf and so you can't understand what is going on, and that they are probably missing a fairly large and easy to access market by failing to provide CCs. Why does everyone jump straight to the most forceful solution compatible with their ideology?
Yeah, and everywhere I go, there are dozens of empty handicapped spaces. Though they are slowly filling up with fat-asses who pretend to be disabled because they are fat.
Nothing but another way to impose more costs on new businesses so that older, larger ones don't get any new competition.
Therefore, sue them. Don't bother writing them a letter or getting all your deaf friends and deaf allies to write letters. Yeah, lets just FORCE them to do it, and if they can't, then force them to cut down on the amount of content they offer or shut down completely!
If "exploitation" means they do the work we agreed on for the price agreed on without stealing my money, then yes, I want to exploit everyone, just as I agree to be exploited at my own job.
Southern and Eastern Europeans were generally not considered to be "white". Hispanics will be considered to be white given another hundred years, IF we still use such silly concepts to divide ourselves against one another.
I love it when people generalize the characteristics of another group of people. And get it 100% WRONG.
Most illegal immigrants are here to make money. They want to return home, not live forever in a country that hates them. They have no interest in what America does or doesn't do, so long as they can work and send their money home. Yes, I know this because I know several, and actually bothered to talk to them.
People with options go where they are treated best. Though the US is now treating a lot of people like shit, they still give them money and protect property rights, meaning the US is still the place to go to earn money.
Their home countries could retain their best minds simply by liberalizing both socially and economically.
Further question: how will you deal with the inevitability of childbirth on Mars? Note that if you don't send women, the men will be much more likely to fall into depression and refuse to work, even if it means their death.
Keeping it to one question per post: how will you avoid the pitfalls of early American settlements, where those the desires of those funding the colonization conflicted with the basic psychological needs of the colonists, ie how to avoid depression which could quickly lead to death in such a hostile environment?
It seems to me that a mission of this type which is meant to be permanent must by necessity focus on the production of those things which are necessary for survival on Mars. This means that your colonists, and they should be called colonists, will need to focus on the production of air, water, food, living space, and manufactured goods, in that order. Media spectacle or no, that is the order that things must take, prior to wasting time with research (wasting time in the hunter-gatherer sense).
I think that the only way you are going to be able to get your colonists to do what you want them to do will be to have them earn money with their scientific research/media nonsense such that it funds resupply missions.
That said, what is your business plan with regards to production of goods on Mars, and resupply missions?
They aren't paying 30% more for the hardware, they are paying 30% more for an OS that wasn't cobbled together by retarded monkeys in India.
It's not that Mac is so great, it's just that Microsoft sucks donkey balls, and Linux takes too long to learn. If a company made an OS that had the ease of use, functionality, and security of Mac combined with the versatility of Windows and the price of Linux, you can bet that would come to dominate the world quite quickly. But that is HARD to do.
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WHAT? You have literally no idea what you are talking about.
Some ridiculous number of cars on the road in Cuba have been on the road since before the embargo started. You think 33+% of all car owners on that island do that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yank_tank
In flight? No, it's more like repairing a ship while at sea (because the satellite doesn't have to maneuver itself while it is being repaired). Ships are repaired at sea on a fairly regular basis, at least enough for them to limp back to port. If there were no ports available, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to fully repair and resupply them with floating drydocks. It would help if there were humans there, of course.
Same way everyone else does it, we borrow freshly printed money from our central bank at interest.
Tell that to Cuba. They don't seem to have gotten the memo.
I suspect it would be easier to get new cars to Cuba than it is to launch a satellite. But what do I know?
I love how you are so anti-space biased that you can't see that it is possible for the people of Earth to do more than one thing at once. As if, somehow, everyone in the world only works on the single most productive thing at any given time, rather than pursuing multiple paths, ensuring supply in the face of any and all forms of disruption.
See, one thing you utterly fail to understand is that filtering seawater takes an ENORMOUS amount of energy applied on a CONTINUOUS basis. It's not worth it, or so the market says. People have crunched the numbers and found that it doesn't make sense. But there are vast mineral resources just sitting on the surface on Mars, and one could build a space elevator there to cheaply extract them and return them to Earth, nevermind using them THERE to support a new colony.
But hey, you feel free to continue being the guy who says "you can't". You will look exactly as stupid as every other idiot in history who said the same thing.
Too bad it applies to non-corporate businesses as well.
Or just write a letter to them telling them that you would like to sign up, but you are deaf and so you can't understand what is going on, and that they are probably missing a fairly large and easy to access market by failing to provide CCs. Why does everyone jump straight to the most forceful solution compatible with their ideology?
Yeah, and everywhere I go, there are dozens of empty handicapped spaces. Though they are slowly filling up with fat-asses who pretend to be disabled because they are fat.
Nothing but another way to impose more costs on new businesses so that older, larger ones don't get any new competition.
Therefore, sue them. Don't bother writing them a letter or getting all your deaf friends and deaf allies to write letters. Yeah, lets just FORCE them to do it, and if they can't, then force them to cut down on the amount of content they offer or shut down completely!
That's the ticket!
If "exploitation" means they do the work we agreed on for the price agreed on without stealing my money, then yes, I want to exploit everyone, just as I agree to be exploited at my own job.
Southern and Eastern Europeans were generally not considered to be "white". Hispanics will be considered to be white given another hundred years, IF we still use such silly concepts to divide ourselves against one another.
Is that Hitler?
I love it when people generalize the characteristics of another group of people. And get it 100% WRONG.
Most illegal immigrants are here to make money. They want to return home, not live forever in a country that hates them. They have no interest in what America does or doesn't do, so long as they can work and send their money home. Yes, I know this because I know several, and actually bothered to talk to them.
Somehow I get the impression that your cousin's strawberry picking job equates to supervising migrant laborers.
Trivially as in having background checks and means tests versus having neither?
Been in the bath salts lately?
You have it quite backwards. They pay their taxes, but are unable to collect the benefits, for the most part.
Most grad students are paid for their labors. Slave wages, sure, but they are paid. Not the other way around.
People with options go where they are treated best. Though the US is now treating a lot of people like shit, they still give them money and protect property rights, meaning the US is still the place to go to earn money.
Their home countries could retain their best minds simply by liberalizing both socially and economically.
An entire planet of untaped mineral resources==nothing. Gotcha.
You make it sound as though this is an either/or proposition.
Further question: how will you deal with the inevitability of childbirth on Mars? Note that if you don't send women, the men will be much more likely to fall into depression and refuse to work, even if it means their death.
Keeping it to one question per post: how will you avoid the pitfalls of early American settlements, where those the desires of those funding the colonization conflicted with the basic psychological needs of the colonists, ie how to avoid depression which could quickly lead to death in such a hostile environment?
It seems to me that a mission of this type which is meant to be permanent must by necessity focus on the production of those things which are necessary for survival on Mars. This means that your colonists, and they should be called colonists, will need to focus on the production of air, water, food, living space, and manufactured goods, in that order. Media spectacle or no, that is the order that things must take, prior to wasting time with research (wasting time in the hunter-gatherer sense).
I think that the only way you are going to be able to get your colonists to do what you want them to do will be to have them earn money with their scientific research/media nonsense such that it funds resupply missions.
That said, what is your business plan with regards to production of goods on Mars, and resupply missions?
Please expound. I have only seen Android on tablets and Netbooks. I would be quite willing to consider it if it really is that versatile.
They aren't paying 30% more for the hardware, they are paying 30% more for an OS that wasn't cobbled together by retarded monkeys in India.
It's not that Mac is so great, it's just that Microsoft sucks donkey balls, and Linux takes too long to learn. If a company made an OS that had the ease of use, functionality, and security of Mac combined with the versatility of Windows and the price of Linux, you can bet that would come to dominate the world quite quickly. But that is HARD to do.