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Comment: Seems easy (Score 4, Insightful) 150

by Thanshin (#43113973) Attached to: Moon Mining Race Under Way

I must see too much SF because this seems intuitively too easy.

500m and HD video is an hdpro in a transparent sphere with springs. The landing itself will make it move more than 500m.

I rationally know that sending a 300g mass to the moon isn't trivial, but it does look easy.

Now that I think on it, GoPro (the company) should try shooting a couple thousand of their cameras to the moon just for PR reasons.

Comment: Re:It uses EXIF location data. (Score 1) 119

Oh I forgot, a smartphone is the biggest ego-boosting gadget out there.

You're living in the past. They are no longer smartphones, they're just phones. And to boost your ego you'd need something not every seven year old has.

The consensus is that a tablet is expensive enough and big enough to have an excuse to show it at all times.

Comment: Re:easy solution (Score 4, Insightful) 119

Just don't post location data or activities if you're engaging in protests... disable location services on your phone. You're giving data to a public database and then crying about privacy... just don't give them information.

How can you be sure that everyone who's participating in that same protest followed your advice?

They don't need the information you post if they already have the information other people post about you.

Comment: Re:I hate her now (Score 1) 451

by Thanshin (#40626363) Attached to: Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception

I repeat: If you don't have arms and legs and you are in a coma, you continue being a human

That's right. You "CONTINUE" being human, if you ever were one.

If you don't have arms nor legs and you're in a coma, but you alse were never born, you're not a human.

Exactly the same as if you have no arms legs no consciousness and are a story character.

Being born is really kind of a big point in the "unBORN" argument, you know?

Comment: Re:Buying Windows does some good in the world! (Score 1) 451

by Thanshin (#40626349) Attached to: Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception

Sounds like you need some medical attention if you think a company producing a bunch of ones and zeros is equivalent to any of that.

Don't play dumb. He's saying they are equivalent in the "stealing a lot and then giving a little back" and if you don't want to address that argument you have the option of not replying..

The majority of the world will continue to rightly look at Bill Gates as a successful businessman doing charity work with his (for the most part) deserved riches.

We agree in that the majority of the world believes that. We disagree in the part about the deserved riches.

Next time, you could just reduce your argument to "He's not robbing because he deserves the riches he has for these reasons: ..."

Comment: Re:I'm for it. (Score 3, Interesting) 262

by Thanshin (#40476287) Attached to: Senator Pushes For Tougher H-1B Enforcement

It would be a big incentive to attraact the best of the best from around the world to the United States. It would go hand-in-hand with smart immigration policies that tried to retain that talent.

The problem is that a fraction of what the immigrant earns is sent out of the country. Thus only part of the benefit to the corporation stays.

Deeper still, the problem is that the corporation's interests aren't aligned with the country, nor has it any pressure to make them so.

Deeper still, the problem is that the corporation is just a product of the economical system. Society cannot specify how to create businesses following a certain set of rules and then claim that the resulting corporation is bad.

A solution would be to have the state control the corporate behaviours that harm the country, however that doesn't work because the state is not the country, just a subset of individuals who are vulnerable to corporation power, which was given by the rules decided by society.

A solution to that would be society removing that power from the corporation, but the corporation was made following rules that society itself imposed, so its the rules that would have to be changed first.

And we don't know what other set of rules works better than the current one, nor whether the new corporate-like entity crerated by them would have even stronger power over the state.

My idea of roughing it is when room service is late.

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