Comment Re:The pathetic US space program (Score 1) 110
Well, obviously I meant minus the part where it, you know, was horribly unsafe and fell to pieces.
Well, obviously I meant minus the part where it, you know, was horribly unsafe and fell to pieces.
Well, I'm not sure about the "bitch" part seeing as I know pretty much nothing about her, but I wouldn't exactly call her fat.
It's all the weight he lost recently. He used to be healthier looking, but when you sign the contract and Belial, Lord of Lies rips your netherself from the husk that is left on the mortal coil, you drop about 26-27 lbs.
He's referring to modern Apple hardware, which some might call "overpriced."
While others might call it "rape."
Come on now, be fair. How could you "rape" someone with Apple hardware? Let's compare an iPhone to, say, a vibrator.
A vibrator is sleek, metallic, vibrates, and can be shoved up your ass. That's completely different from an iPhone which is sleek, metallic, vibrates, and can be-
Mother of god.
You would have a point if all NASA does is launch delivery ships.
You know, that's actually quite important. SpaceX has some pretty big incentives to improve here.
Any gains they can make in efficiency, size of the ship, etc. would be a huge boon for the company. As time goes by their fleet will grow.
In 10-20 years, LEO point-to-point flights will be the modern equivalent of the Concorde. All of the convenience and none of the sonic boom.
Is there ever going to be a time when the pols realize that throwing massive tax breaks at corporations is a bad idea for the state/city/country they're supposed to be representing?
Even if there is, it won't work.
Pennsylvania won't give tax breaks? I'll set up my company in New York!
East Coast won't give tax breaks? I'll set up my company in the Midwest!
U.S.won't give tax breaks? I'll set up my company in Canada!
Western Hemisphere won't give tax breaks? I'll set up my company in Laos!
A sci-fi short story I wrote has an element of surveillance with the police, but in a different sense than one thinks. They have cameras on each shoulder of their vest facing forwards, backwards, and to the sides. They also have a camera on their communication headset and one at the tip of their firearms. Everything is recorded at all times on their cruiser and uploaded to a secure database at all times. It's a high crime (on the order of tampering with evidence) to ever delete them.
Lofty sci-fi thinking ahead, this sort of technology pretty much exists today. Every cruiser and every cop should be loaded down with cameras. You'd save a hell of a lot of man hours "figuring out what really happened" because it was right there. Make the penalty for fucking with the camera in any way the same as if a cop somehow managed to lose his gun - deep, deep shit. We'd end a lot of the problems we have with law enforcement in a heartbeat.
In the meantime, though, we'll have to rely on good citizens to keep bad police in check.
The same can be said for, well, pretty much every country in the world.
Well, according to the latest laws in Vermont:
WHEREAS Vermont's milkshake has been proven to bring all the boys to that yard
WHEREAS Vermont asserts that damn right, it's better than yours
WHEREAS Vermont acknowledges the possibility of educating others on its milkshake as long as financial remuneration is achieved
WHEREAS Hydraulic fracking has been shown to endanger said milkshake
BE IT RESOLVED that Vermont hereby bans hydraulic fracking in all forms.
I haven't seen NYCL (NewYorkCountryLawyer, for the uninformed) in a while and I do terribly miss him. He's one of the nicer things about Slashdot. But, it looks like he started posting again in the last few days! Hello NYCL!
It's true. Honestly we can't get enough of those fantastic bovines.
I heard in 2015 MIT will invent cow-based bacon, and 94% of our population will die by 2041 as a result.
You have to consider other modern conveniences like Netflix. A family of two adults and two kids can go over the cap with Netflix alone.
One of my friends would play games but always ended up getting capped thanks to her sister being a nutter with downloading anything and everything on iTunes.
Weird, I didn't know you spelled Illinois as "N-E-W J-E-R-S-E-Y", because that's exactly how I feel living here.
SOPA
Failed to pass.
PIPA
Failed to pass.
ACTA
Failed to pass (as of yet), seems unlikely.
Trans Pacific Trade Agreement
If you're talking about this, well, it's still up in the air. My cursory read of the articles tells me that it would mainly be about eliminating tariffs between South Asia countries. The cynic in me says that it's all about setting up cheap and exploitable labor in those countries to reduce costs.
And okay, that's where we failed. Shit like NAFTA has, ironically, put the people it was supposed to help out of business (such as Mexican corn farmers, a lot of whom now grow something else entirely). But our government has always been pretty shitty about stuff like this, but what are you gonna do? It won't affect an everyday American's ordinary life like SOPA, PIPA, or ACTA would, so you won't really see any action against it build up any sort of momentum, unfortunately.
tl;dr: America writes up shitty laws just like nearly every other country in history, but on the ones mentioned we're 3 for 4 in keeping those shitty laws from passing.
There are a lot of Indians in very high places in many global technology companies. No matter what passport they are carrying, all of them are VERY VERY LOYAL to their homeland, India.
The influential Indian diaspora might just be the key for India to push its _Gag-the-Net_ agenda across the proposed global meeting in Geneva.
Solution: we employ guard cows in every server room. The Indians won't dare upset their sacred beasts. Problem solved!
Moreover, we hire people Dalits (Indian untouchable caste) as security. Now they can't even get into the building!
Hey, ain't nothin' wrong with using a country's ignorance against itself.
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson
