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- Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:48 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Future Of The Internet
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2235
Here's some commie propaganda for your ass: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Eben_Moglen http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen :) (Favorite modern day philosopher.) edit: point of posting this is the necessity for "free spectrum." As long as it's being tightly controlled this sort of future i...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:12 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: And the Porker of the Month is...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6416
You also have to consider what was gained: a generation of engineers who are now energizing private space. Nah, Cx was almost wholly based on military space and status quo cost plus contracts. Many of these people have been in the business for decades , their employee base has not changed significa...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:50 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: And the Porker of the Month is...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6416
Shelby isn't a porker, he's a frick moron . The new direction benefits his state more than any other state . MSFC is in AL, Atlas and Delta are built in AL. His state is poised to receive more jobs than any other state thanks to Obama's budget for NASA. It's absurd. He needs to lose his job. Alabama...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:39 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: What do the little people think?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3214
Nah, the money will be doled out appropriately. If it's not you can expect a really nasty PR backlash from it. CEOs and elites don't really think about the consequences of their actions. At least Obama chose to play golf on an air force base rather than some course up in Vermont. Little known fact, ...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
- Replies: 111
- Views: 62773
BP saying the regulators slacked off is excuse making. It's likely that the regulators were just too overwhelmed by how many rigs are going up, so BP decided to skirt the law. They were 100% aware that their blowout preventer was not up to par, I can 100% guarantee that. The blame game is BP saying ...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:30 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Oil Spill Victims - No Money For You
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2500
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:50 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
- Replies: 111
- Views: 62773
Isn't gas more permeable than liquid? Correct me if I'm wrong. If it is then I'd argue it does make a case for a (small) nuke. And FYI the "squeezing the bores shut" explanation was for public consumption, I doubt very seriously they thought "we'll just pinch the pipe closed with a nuke" it was more...
- Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:28 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
- Replies: 111
- Views: 62773
MSimon , I see no contradiction in what I said and the Wikipedia article you linked. If anything it illustrates why I am an anti-capitalist. Read a contract sometime. You will not find any these days that doesn't give the contractor some major leverage in the vein of "rent seeking." BTW, I was wron...
- Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:22 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
- Replies: 111
- Views: 62773
You don't need a Tsar Bomba (in fact I'd argue that it would just rip open the whole reservoir to the ocean). But I reckon a nuke would work, a small one, placed adjacent to the piping. Worked quite well for the Russians.DeltaV wrote:A deeply-planted Tsar Bomba might consume the reservoir.
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:56 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
- Replies: 111
- Views: 62773
OK. According to you capitalist = rent seeker. Yes, the foundation of capitalism is rent and contract. No capitalist, not even a Randian crazy will say that they are against rent. Only a small minority of anarcho-capitalists, might be against rent seeking but even the ancaps against rent are a mino...
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:46 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: There Actually Are some Bridge Engineers Who Haven't Seen
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6052
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:53 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
- Replies: 111
- Views: 62773
Uh. You paint with too broad a brush. A capitalist is one who deploys resources in the hopes of supplying some human want or desire at a profit. A rent seeker is one who uses government guns to profit without regard to want or need. Capitalists are not ones to refuse rent, and are happy to hire thu...
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:46 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: There Actually Are some Bridge Engineers Who Haven't Seen
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6052
Most likely the engineers involved in the project were told to cut corners for profit, and so they did so to the best of their knowledge. The resonance is clearly no where near as bad as Gertie. Could last quite a while longer, even, and may actually be fixed at the taxpayer dime (probably in the en...
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:40 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Hard Truth; From Pravda
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2702
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Suicide is painless...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4994
Re: Suicide is painless...
Let's hear your crackpot theories. I wonder if you also wonder how we could have evolved homosexuality.Diogenes wrote:How could a species evolve suicide? I have my own crazy crackpot theories, but it would be interesting to hear what other people think.