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Comment With Trump president? (Score 1, Troll) 46

Our intelligence agencies are going to be leaking like a sieve. The last time Trump was President the number of captured and killed intelligence assets skyrocketed. I haven't been monitoring at this time but I'm sure it's shot up again. Never mind the fact that we found out Trump was taking classified documents related to his businesses.

What pisses me off is the Democrats kept putting Republicans in charge of prosecuting Trump because they were so desperate to appear unbiased. Fuck that shit look where it got us. Tons of dead soldiers and we are probably going to put boots on the ground and do a draft soon. Because Iran isn't Iraq. We do not have the troops to occupy Iran. That's based on the pentagon's own math and that math is well tested and well understood.

Not that it matters to any of the old farts around here. None of us are going to get drafted and we know it.

Submission + - Canadia to force companies to simplify police wiretapping (www.cbc.ca)

An anonymous reader writes: The Liberal government's second attempt at giving police and spies easier access to Canadians' information includes what's anticipated to be costly demands on a range of private businesses to change how they manage data. The government says it doesn't yet know how much the companies, or Canadian taxpayers, would have to pay.

Comment Are we the baddied? (Score 2) 46

SS Officer #2: Er, Hans?
        SS Officer #1: Have courage, my friend.
        SS Officer #2: Yeah. Er, Hans, I've just noticed something...
        SS Officer #1: [Looking through binoculars] These communists are all cowards.
        SS Officer #2: Have you looked at our caps recently?
        SS Officer #1: Our caps?
        SS Officer #2: The badges on our caps, have you looked at them?
        SS Officer #1: What? No. A bit.
        SS Officer #2: They've got skulls on them. Have you noticed that our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them?
        SS Officer #1: Uh, I don't...
        SS Officer #2: Hans... are we the baddies?

Comment Re:"have left Earth orbit" ?! (Score 1) 78

Pardon? Have you not seen the barge landings?

There are many aspects of a flight profile. Some are based on where you put the payload when it is in orbit. Others are the weight of the payload. As an example, 9's Payload for a GTO orbit is 5.5t when recovered on barge, and 8.3t for an expended mission. LEO orbit, 17.5 t if recovered, 22.8t expendable.

Just because some flight profiles can land at a pad or on a barge, does not mean that this happens in all cases.

References from paper :

A Survey of Launch Vehicle Recovery Techniques

Shraddha C.

Pankaj Priyadarshia

and Devendra Prakash Ghate

Institutes:

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, 695022, Kerala, India

Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695547, Kerala, India

A pretty good read if you have the academic credentials to access it. Clear, at a reasonably high level so not too deep in the weeds, with all manner of different flight profiles for many rockets - including StarShip. And a lot more. Otherwise, I think it is a little premature to claim the success of Starship. The Falcon's are good reliable Rockets. Starship might end up a tad problematic.

Comment No it won't (Score 0) 49

Robots are coming no matter what. There's no accelerating it anymore than it can be. The ruling class, the Epstein class is tired of being dependent on employees and they don't give a rats buttered behind what it costs. The only thing stopping them from automating everything is they haven't quite worked out how to do it yet. Cost is not a factor anymore. They don't want you. They don't want you as a consumer and they especially don't want you as an employee.

The Old Kings had a Divine right. The Epstein class wants that back.

Comment Oh fuck off (Score 1) 49

Ai and robots are coming no matter what because the ruling class doesn't like being dependent on us filthy filthy consumers and employees.

They will spend any amount of money to eliminate you from the economy. And we gave them all the money because of sentiments like yours.

I get that you are trolling because it's fun but the thing is they are coming for you and all of us. The sooner you come to terms with that the better.

Assuming you're not ancient Boomer trash. In which case you get to die leaving everybody else to deal with the mess you made. I'm not exactly happy with older Gen x either. They gave us war in Iran along with the help of the boomers...

Comment Ironically, tech bros are into fitness now (Score 1) 120

Imagine if a bunch of tech bros said: "Hey, you don't need exercise. It's totally fine if your muscles atrophy. After all, we have technology to move you around and it can do so much more quickly than your muscles ever could!" We'd laugh them out of town.

Well, guess what? If you don't exercise your brain, it atrophies. If you outsource your thinking, you eventually become unable to think.

I've been into working out since I was a child...was born with the obesity gene and have to workout hard to be less of a fatty. Now all the execs are into biohacking, fitness, MMA, etc and won't shut up about it...quoting Huberman, Attia, and everyone else on Rogan. The most obnoxious is Pavel Tsatsouline...if another annoying exec talks to me about kettlebells, I'll fucking throw one at him.

It's fucking depressing...these guys used to see the hope and promise in technology and devices and making the world a better place with our actual skills and making small details of our life better. Now they're more excited by pipe dreams of longevity, flirting with MAHA beliefs, and largely unattainable dreams and wishful thinking of immortality and looking like male models while being tech execs and engineers.

Some of it is personal...I liked not having many coworkers at my gym, my quiet space, that thing that made me a little different...and I don't like being gym-splained by someone 1/4 my size in hallway conversation. But on the bright side, it brings costs down for protein powder and lots of new research into performance enhancing drugs.

That aside, what is additionally depressing about AI, if it actually worked, is they cede their skills to this magic box. Instead of solving their problems, they want the AI to do it for them, like their mommy. But regardless, 8 years ago, we were all trying to build things, with our skills, to make the world a better place. Now most of us are unsure how much longer our jobs will be relevant...and instead of building tangible change with tech, like clever devices, they're escalating to impossible dreams...AGI, eternal youth, drugs that mimic exercise (yeah, there is a promising one being evaluated), and whatever bullshit MAHA fans are pushing.

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