It's e-books, not e-readers. You can read an e-book on practically any device with a screen, from a $30 e-reader to a cell phone or a 10 year-old computer.
Same difference. There are libraries filled with books you can read for free. It's a sunk cost. What specific problem are ebooks going to solve?
You mean like this?
Exactly. Now take the money wasted on ebooks and fund that instead.
By definition the middle class can AFFORD things, the poor and lower class need help MORE than the middle-class does.
So we're blowing money on e-readers when, last time I checked, libraries still exist? How about $250 million worth of more free pre-school for underprivileged kids, which has been proven to lead to better outcomes?
Thanks!
Brian Webb isn't listing this on his Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule yet. I think he's going to wait until someone official tells him a date.
With some optimism that might only be thousands of years rather than hundreds of Millions.
But it's only necessary for Earth to be uninhabitable for a short time to end the Human race. And that can happen due to man or nature, today. If people aren't somewhere else during that process, that's the end.
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Seriously, I've never seen mechanical energy expressed in BTUs, and I'm in the US. I know a few automotive engineers and they use W/h when calculating engine efficiency.
Why is energy here measured in BTUs? I've usually seen total energy use expressed in Watts, especially in the mechanical realm.
I've yet to have anyone explain clearly why having the internet under the same regulatory regime as the telephone system would be a, net, positive thing. Title II explicitly permits a lot of bad behavior. To me, it fixes one problem and introduces a few dozen others.
The company I work for has only ever hired one H-1B worker, because he was literally the only qualified candidate. That's one worker over a ten year period.
The H-1B program is useful, but I don't see why it needs to be expanded.
Your argument is like saying "OMG! The Prosecutor can seek charges whenever he wants! Clearly he will abuse this power to arrest millions for years!"
That may not be the best example for alleging hyperbole.
Actually I was thinking nuclear power rather than magic.
I agree with the other commenter, there will be lots of people living in space if they can only get there. Mars is a good start.
Obviously I am missing something, then. Please fill me in on your better information sources. Email to bruce at perens dot com if you don't want to put them on Slashdot.
It's time to start planning another trip to Lompoc. The Motel 6 was sort of yukky last time. Maybe I'll try something else. There was an official visitor observation site that I found and got into last time, but that was for the Delta, and it was on Pad 4 if I remember correctly. This one is all the way on the other side of the base on Pad 7 or 8, isn't it? There are some farm roads that might be good observation sites if they are open.
LOL regulatory capture
EPA: We need to see that study.
Researcher B: Sure, it uses a novel Beysian quantitative analysis based on 3 dimensional heat maps of multivariate data. I'm sure you have a team of domain-specific PhDs to go over the statistical methodology.
EPA: No, we're going to need more evidence...
Researcher B: What's that? I can't hear you over the screaming Greenpeace and Audubon Society protesters. Seriously, you need to do something about this industrial toxin poisoning our biosphere!
I am not confident that the world will remain a hospitable place for life until we are ready by your standard.
Getting the resources and people there is very close to being within our technical capability. The task ourselves, if we perform it, will take care of the remaining gaps.
Creating a self-sustaining colony outside of the Earth's environment is going to need a lot of work, but it is not work that can ever be achieved on this earth. We have to actually put people in space to achieve this. Our best experience so far is with submarines. Academic research has so far yielded only farcial frauds like Biosphere II.
Technically, making transceivers work when there are 30 of them in vehicles next to each other can get difficult. People wonder why you can buy a dual-band walkie talkie for $60 but the one in the police car costs much more. If it's well engineered, the one in the police car has some RF plumbing that isn't in the $60 walkie talkie.
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