Comment Re:DON'T PANIC (Score 4, Insightful) 98
How can you say that and yet still buy such devices? It's not like one doesn't have a choice...
Yes, they could buy Android instead. Or Windows.
Oh, hang one...
How can you say that and yet still buy such devices? It's not like one doesn't have a choice...
Yes, they could buy Android instead. Or Windows.
Oh, hang one...
Sigh all you want. If people like you were willing to pay extra for the human touch, then there would be two tiers of tickets offered by airlines: self-checkin and human check-in. Human check-in would of course be an extra $100 or so. Still interested?
Yes, it's called 'Business Class'. I walk straight up to the checkin counter, hand over my bags, and they do the rest, so I don't have to worry about what passport I'm supposed to use this time, or whatever other nonsense has changed since I last flew.
I bought a Windows 8 laptop, pulled the HDD, tossed it back in the box, pugged in an SSD, and installed Mint.
Yeah, let's all spend $1,000 on a 'smart' dryer to save $10 in electricity. Makes total sense.
Right, and eliminating every single government in the world will result in fewer people killing each other? Excellent hypothesis.
Governments murdered a couple of hundred million people in the last century, and threatened to murder billions on a few minutes' notice. Free market murderers would have to work pretty darn hard to keep up with that.
Dude, you might want to actually learn something about the case.
But they have apparently 'fixed' the code that allowed a developer to ensure this never happened... by making it a no-op.
Would be more exciting to go all the way to the winged, manned, flyback Saturn V first stage proposal.
There was only 1 loss on ascent and 1 loss on decent with too few flights to show if those single losses had a probability of greater than 1 in 500.
Now you're really getting into wacko-world.
Actually it's quite hard. That's why only 3 countries have managed to do it.
I believe that would be 'all three countries thave have actually launched astronauts'? Or have I forgotten any?
It wasn't on the Shuttle's
Yes it was.
The Shuttle was never 'man rated'. It kiled its crew one time in sixty and had long periods during launch when an abort was not survivable. There's no way in Heck that NASA would put astronauts a SpaceX launcher that was as dangerous as the Shuttle.
"Man-rated" is not on SpaceX's advertising brochure. Yet.
It wasn't on the Shuttle's, either. But killing the crew less than one time in sixty can't really be that hard, can it?
Again, SpaceX spent about the same amount of money to build a new rocket engine and two new rockets and launch them into orbit as NASA did to put a fake upper stage onto a Shuttle SRB and launch it into the ocean. They've also probably spent less developing their stage recovery system than NASA has spent over the years on studies of how they might think about recovering rocket stages.
But, yeah, it's all Reagan's fault. Or something.
Here's an idea.
Imagine you go back in time, and you ask Jefferson, Washington, Franklin and friends whether it would be OK if the government was keeping a record of who sent every letter and who they sent it to. Just to protect us, obviously.
Just imagine that for a moment.
Then tell us, with all seriousness, that you really, actually, imagine they would say 'yeah, sure, that's fine, and totally Constitutinal'.
The FEDERAL Aviation Authority has any Constitutional basis for telling people they can't fly a drone around a house that doesn't cross state lines?
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