Like I said. When AMSAT actually gets something launched for that cost, I will believe it. Until then, it's just advertising. AMSAT has lots of FOX cubesats that it could put up for that price.

Note that most small satellites are launched into low Earth orbit and that the orbit decays quickly. There is not a continuing issue of space junk for such payloads, nor do they cross the Van Allen radiation belts so rad-hardness is not as much of an issue.

It'll be very nice when we can launch one for $30K, but that day is not here. When I see AMSAT getting launches at that price, I will believe it.

Follow-up...

My exit is in ten miles... I'll just close my eyes for a bit... And then 200 miles later...

IKR!?

>going to new job
>see road sign "welcome to new hampshire"

I was supposed to be in Uxbridge MA.

From Rhode Island.

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How will the car know when to wake the driver up

You mean as opposed to now?

I used to fall asleep every morning on the way to work because I had two jobs and school. Without rumble strips I'd be dead.

Semi-autonomous driving would have been safer.

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The struggle now is how to keep people from destroying things. FireFox is a disaster. Gnome is useless. Seems like people take over these projects and tear them to pieces.

I don't think the Open Source community is entirely free of the Peter Principle and politics for all the talk of meritocracy and organic growth. Especially when we have companies that subvert those goals for their own agenda despite their original lofty goals at founding.

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You can't have enforcement of contracts without laws and the power of government behind them.

Remind me to never sign a contract with you.

Because seriously, you and people like you are what is wrong with libertarianism.

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Contracts are only valid when both parties negotiate on good faith and without undue pressure.

Contracts are also only valid when they're enforceable.

Without any power behind a contract (i.e., some sort of laws and force of government, e.g., regulations), contracts are nothing more than "damn pieces of paper" and your "word," whatever that is at the time.

This is where the libertarian fantasy drives off a cliff - that we can have contracts without The Man.

That only worked when your tribe was > 300 people and you could do ad-hoc "trial by combat."

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Woosh... xOra's point was, government's intervention causes harm.

And what you don't get is not whether government regulation is a bad or good thing, but what kind of effort do we put into *good* governance. You know, like what everyone else on the planet does, from countries to corporations. Ever hear about "corporate governance"? Ever think of countries as just large corporations? It's an over-simplification (by far) but I think it's the only way to illustrate the "all regulation is bad" idea as lunacy.

The way broadband is sold in this country, the legality of what ISPs do in their contracts are just shy of outright fraud.

But hey, all regulation is bad.

You people want to toss out everything and leave anarchy behind. Forget about good governance, let's just have more burning rivers, consumer fraud, and land-grabs using private armies.

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Right, but net-neutrality is good for the NSA because it decreases peering points and allows for mandatory government decryption, so his positions are quite contradictory. This may be a good indication that he's just reading talking points.

Nice. I have a deal with my kids that if they can learn the next grade's materials over the summer (with as much support as they need but relying on their own dedication) then they can homeschool next year. They're specifically interested in the homesteading kinds of opportunities they can't get at a government school or at home when government school dominates 9-10 hours of their day (for 2-3 hours of learning).

constitutes a "law ... abridging the freedom of speech

Well, it only abridges if there is a punishment or consequence for doing so. The headline says "demands". Demands usually contain threats, otherwise they're request. If there is a threat, then of course it's an abridgement.

if it is, the protest will probably be carefully filed away in the roughly-cylindrical filing cabinet on the side of the desk of the person at the Patent Office receiving it.

Which is a completely legitimate response to an illegitimate filing.

So much shilling in one post.

>uttering C++ and C# in the same sentence as if they are equivalent

Just... no.

>no need for other languages

Uh huh.

It seriously sounds like you've got only two tools in your toolbox and are looking at the guy with the loaded Gerstner box and telling him all those things are useless, which as a machinist and toolmaker, I have to say that you're delusional.

There is room in the world for C, Lisp, Go, Rust, COBOL, C#, and literal jokes like Brainfuck. Because no one language is perfect for all use cases.

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An Easter Egg, in the construction sense that you describe, would be more like the time a construction crew opened up the wall in my apartment to fix a leak in a pipe and found a lunchbox that someone left behind when the building was built in 1928 with a note inside reading "Hello."

Sometimes it's a singing frog.

Don't bother trying to put the frog on Broadway, though.

http://static.comicvine.com/up...

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The purpose of government is to privatize gains and socialize losses. Whenever they think they can get away with it anyway.

In this case, they did. The folklore schools teach about rulers as moral betters is starting to wear quite thin. Dynamic systems undergo state changes rapidly. Be aware.

$230 per kilowatt-hour is a completely meaningless number. How much is it going to cost me to replace the battery pack. $1,000? $5,000? $10,000?

I realize you may wish to be spoon fed, but 10 seconds googling "tesla battery capacity" will tell you the Model S battery is 85 kWh. At $230/kWh that is $19,550. Seems to me the economics stays utterly prohibitive except for rich pricks.