If the wealth created is captured by the rich.

If the current generation of solar powered drone stays up for more than a day, the next generation might stay up for weeks. Basically, what this shows is that we're pretty close to the threshhold where incoming photovoltaic energy over 24 hours matches the energy needs to keep the thing flying. Just a bit more optimization could mean that the thing takes in more energy than it uses, and then it can basically fly until something wears out. All kinds of interesting things then become possible.

I actually think this is great. After all, the patent expires in what, 25 years? I doubt a single engine will be built in that time, but forever afterwards, this idea in the public domain. Consider the alternative, if someone waited to patent this thing until applications were actually ready. Then the patent would prevent competitors from entering the market. But because Boeing hasn't waited, it has basically ensured that nobody will use patent law to put the brakes on innovation when we get around to actually making serious spaceships - which is what this propulsion system is obviously for.

For anybody still reading these exchanges, although there are exclusionary conditions, most people can tolerate high strength IV vitamin C.

Typically they will quickly get and feel better. The stuffs KILLS acute viruses. Even overrun, terminal cancer patients within a few days of death. The IV vitamin C likely will allow them to temporarily eliminate pain and to be energetic for a day or so.

From the description is sounds like the monkeys were doing Agile programming.

Some people think that we should send someone to Mars as soon as possible, even if they can't do much before they return home. Simply leaving a human bootprint would be worth it. Others think that unmanned missions should first build up enough Martian infrastructure to support human "colonists" with a reasonable level of comfort. Only then should people be sent. Where would you put yourself on this continuum? What sort of activities should Martian astronauts be able to do before you would think the expensive trip there was worth it?

I'm not a liberal. I'm a socialist. Big difference you anonymous cunt.

Come and get me you anonymous coward.

Not sure I can duplicate, due to the other strangeness I'm dealing with (It's a cross-database query and the other database doesn't have a primary key, just sets of fields with unique constraints). It may have also been a Select Distinct that I thought I had applied but didn't; the one row that was duplicating did have two in the parent table.

Duplicate of one of the four, aside from the identity field that was not part of the insert.

Yep. What gave me the clue was copying the exact same code *out* of the stored procedure, where I got 4.

C was invented on a PDP-6, IIRC, and most of the language constructs mimic PDP-6 assembly. Including Increment and Decrement.

Speaking of automotive "why is this shit even legal?", how come motorcycles don't have to have mufflers?
 
Added safety feature- so you can hear them coming. I have a major problem with that issue on my electric bike......

Who needs industrial scale when you can do household scale?