KBJ has undergrad and JD degrees from Harvard, where she edited the Law Review, clerked for Breyer, and was a distinguished federal district and circuit court judge on the D.C. Circuit, the country's "second highest court." THAT'S who you're using as your example of an underqualified diversity hire?
Actually, academia and political appointments tend to work very different from NASA. So that's not quite an all other things being equal comparison.
Bahrain and Dubai
Given domestic production levels and an interruption of international deliveries from Amazon, Bacon and Liquor prices must be sky rocketing.
Spacecraft haven't flown to the moon though. You need air to fly.
NASA disagrees.
"For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts on a NASA mission are bound to fly around the Moon after successfully completing a key burn of Orion’s main engine."
https://www.nasa.gov/news-rele...
We need to increase the penalties
I think we first need to be sure that the lawyers actually paid the penalty themselves, and not passed it on to the client as some sort of expense. And if not passed on to the client, ensure that the penalty is not a business expense they can deduct.
The above is subject to misinterpretation. The copyright owner must demonstrate its a derivative and win in court. Owner must prove guilt, publisher does not need to prove innocence.
It a civil case you don't need to prove "guilt", just that it is more likely than not that they looked at your source.
No, it more like "preponderance of the evidence". Which is certainly looser than "beyond a reasonable doubt", but far more than "more likely than not".
For that reason, any competitive proprietary project coded with an LLM can be credibly accused of being a derivative work, as the preponderance of circumstantial evidence would point to the LLM being "tainted" by the OSS project, unless you could demonstrate that it was excluded from the training data.
It's not quite that simple. One would need to establish that the AI has not learned general concepts from its training, rather that it is directly transforming the copyrighted source code. Like a human, an AI, will be able to learn concepts from copyrighted material and then be able to write their own unique implementations of those concepts. All of our data structures textbooks are copyrighted works, yet we are free to implement the concepts we have learned.
I am glad for every cent that does not fuel Exxon and the likes and the corruption of democracy that follows from that dependency.
Better renewables than fossil fuels, but better Exxon than Putin. Hopefully Germany learned from that mistake.
Also, Exxon is an energy company, they will be happy to sell you renewable energy in the future, so you are likely not done with them.These energy companies just want to make money. While fossil fuels are the most profitable that will be their focus. However when renewables are more profitable these same energy companies will switch their focus to renewables. Its about the money, not the energy source that gets them that money.
So? Anybody can get a master's degree, and being of the right identity gives you a leg up in getting accepted to the degree program in the first place. Also, why does anyone need three masters degrees? That in itself is rather suspect.
Not really. In one case Systems Engineering and Flight Test Engineering. One more general, one more specific.
And outside of NASA you often find one masters in STEM and another in Business. In this case complementary rather than general/focused.
Multiple masters happen all the time. Also when you toss in a military career you will also find masters in things like Military Operation Art and Science. Which is the 3rd in the case above.
More generally, multiple masters may be a better option than a PhD for some career paths.
The ignorance is not realizing that solar sails are a thing, they have been used numerous times.
The’ve been talked about since the 80s and used twice in the near-century long history of spaceflight.
Actually it's more than that. But the count is irrelevant being non-zero.
The ignorance is trying to claim that spacecraft sail to their destination instead of fly there. You’re only wrong 99% of the time when you say that.
Thank you for tripping down on your ignorance. The percentage does not matter. The number of craft that has used solar sales is about the same as the number of craft that has flown to the moon. Using your logic we should not say spacecraft have flown to the moon because it was such a rare occurrence. The rarity does not matters. What matters is that it was done, multiple times.
The person of color has 3 masters degrees in engineering and science, and is a naval aviator who flew F/A-18 and E/A-18, a served on the International Space Station. The woman has a masters in EE and 328 days of space flight logged.
so, just because it's a person of color, or a woman, we have to list their degrees and qualifications when they get a job?
NASA's crew website high lights their qualifications. The politicized post you made mentioned only diversity, potentially creating a misleading impression. I corrected that.
These are not diversity hires.
I never made such a stupid statement.
Your politicized post would leave some readers with that impression. I corrected that.
The primary stated goal of NASA's Artemis program for several years was to land the first woman and person of color on the moon. It was emphasized repeatedly, trumpeted, and openly stated on NASA's website for years (before it was taken down in March 2025). While I certainly understand your attempt to strawman the point, this doesn't logically mean the woman and person of color on the crew are necessarily unqualified.
It's not s straw man, it is a statement of fact. Something that the original politicized poster omitted. Writing only of the diversity of the crew in a politicized manner creates a false impression. I corrected that.
That fact that reasonable non-political people assume NASA astronauts are highly qualified does not change the deficiencies of the original politicized post.
The person of color has 3 masters degrees in engineering and science, and is a naval aviator who flew F/A-18 and E/A-18, and served on the International Space Station.
The woman has a masters in EE and 328 days of space flight logged.
These are not diversity hires.
Really? Could have fooled me
Well that's seems quite easy. You can't tell the difference between PR drones and Astronaut Selection folks.
Sure as shit would have been nice to lead off with those actual professional accomplishments
The Artemis crew website does that.
Dude doesn't like naval analogy.
Or realize spacecraft could have solar sails.
Who here has a problem with the word “fly”,
No one has a problem with fly, nor do the informed have a problem with the word sail.
The terminology really is THAT ignorant when talking about space travel,
The ignorance is not realizing that solar sails are a thing, they have been used numerous times.
... no matter what the Trekkie is bitching about.
Thank you for doubling down on displaying your ignorance and thinking solar sails are just a Star Trek thing.
It was the most diverse lunar crew ever with the first woman, person of color and non-U.S. citizen riding in NASA's new Orion capsule.
Stephen Miller is gonna have a tremendous fit.
The person of color has 3 masters degrees in engineering and science, and is a naval aviator who flew F/A-18 and E/A-18, a served on the International Space Station.
The woman has a masters in EE and 328 days of space flight logged.
These are not diversity hires.
A dummy load and some chemistry to use oxygen would do the same job with zero human risk.
Like the Artemis 1 mission in 2022?
If they're not putting boots on the Moon, they shouldn't have their asses in the rocket.
Like they did in 1968 and 1969 with the Apollo 8 and 10 missions? Going to the moon but not landing.
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