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Comment low frontier (Score 2) 30

I have never understood the "high frontier" concept. Why spend trillions going to Mar ( which hates us and makes astroboiz eat toothpaste  ) ...  instead of spending millions  at off-shore Hawaii where every lunch is lobster or maimai .  And snorkling 1st class. We don't even talk of  sufacing into  sunny afternoons spent surfing, instead of hiding in a  gawdforsaken  ( -80 F ) cave while dust-storms rage just feet away. And does kevlar/teflon astro-sheik compare to  palm-frond hula-babe dancing ? What's the perv against our low frontier with all the untapped minerals 1000 generations of humans would crave ?   I just don't understand current priorities.

Comment Re:Dark energy discovered 27 years ago?? (Score 1) 79

Space itself ... if a self exists ... but if it doesn't exist how can you bend it? .  The "aether" assumption was well motivated. Maxwell believed it, Lorentz believed it. I suspect the  Aharanov/Bohm effect implies it. How to get-around the Michaelson/Morley result I have no idea. 

Comment Re:Not the dumbest of ideas. (Score 1) 224

"...  Tech is moving so fast,...". Yes, the gap between ignorance and maliciousness is closing at a rate faster than the speed-of-light. Goto Palantirs' website  1st-page and they will show you their warp-drive ... it's labeled ...   'AI will make all decisions ' .   You will pay them for the hallucination, and no Scotty appears to "beam me up".

Comment Re:Innovative Products, Not Financial Instruments (Score 1) 46

"People who are scared for their jobs will not innovate "I believe the current industrial employee  model  is that of Stalins WW2 gulags. He sent lots of engineers and scientists to Siberia, with the threat ... if their projects failed they would freeze in the tundra. It was a fear-driven model of innovation -- Stalin loved instilling fear --  and by all reports quite successful in developing new aircraft and light weapons. Modern western capitalists get woodies fantasizing they have Stalins power and drive. A well-maintained modern  (re)public of-course crushes out such scabs and ( sans bank-accounts ) migrates them to China. 

Comment Re:UNIONS (Score 1) 41

"Unions push the cost up for everyone!" As it should be. Increased worker wages more than make up for the extra expense "entitled" buyers are willing to pay. Those priced out of that specific market ... just don't consume that product --- I mean, you have no RIGHT to consume anything , but subsistence. OTOH increased worker wages means those workers will consume more of their own production ... if the product is worthwhile  --- unlike computer games/most services/EVs. More business for the company means more business for everyone ... I am excluding addictives like sugar/cocaine/"spice" ...

Comment Re:Mine's always been dumb and RELIABLE. (Score 1) 155

You will pay for that battery back-up with acid stains on the floor of the bedroom your daughter grew up in and left empty for college, but expects to be perfect whenever she returns. But,  next time she might bring her purple-haired boyfriend with her, so ... best to buy three acid-lead batteries that fume like Mt Vesuvius.

Comment Re:State machines (Score 1) 155

Not so fast.  Enocean brags on their own website that they are enamored by  IOT. And they pimp it with glee. So much for radio and its glowing orange/red/yellow  tubes, which used to promote great music thru Macintosh amps. Oh yeah ... I could never get my Philips multi-color light to glow any color, but white. I guess their bulbs have radically quantized eigenvalues.

Comment Re:There is nothing illegal about this. (Score 0) 66

A capitalist/investor/manager  for  whom this fraud-laced GOFUNDME behavior is acceptable needs be removed from our culture.  The high value I place on local  guild/craft production mechanisms prompts me to send GFM executives to forced hard-labor camps  in that Utah gulag ( usually reserved for leftist CMYK-pedofiles ) where iron-hammer  stone-breaking is interspersed with mud-brick iron-ore / iron  extraction and milking the local rattlesnake population. Teach the bitches ... that real work will set you free.

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