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by Josh Cryer
Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Future Of The Internet
Replies: 1
Views: 2215

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...
by Josh Cryer
Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: And the Porker of the Month is...
Replies: 15
Views: 6354

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...
by Josh Cryer
Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: And the Porker of the Month is...
Replies: 15
Views: 6354

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...
by Josh Cryer
Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:39 am
Forum: General
Topic: What do the little people think?
Replies: 5
Views: 3170

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, ...
by Josh Cryer
Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
Replies: 111
Views: 62154

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 ...
by Josh Cryer
Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:30 am
Forum: General
Topic: Oil Spill Victims - No Money For You
Replies: 3
Views: 2477

Uh, that's why they appointed the new guy to dole out the escrow money. The question is what happens when that money runs out.

Note: fraud prevention is going to have to happen here, you can't just file a claim unless you're legitimately affected. Katrina had a lot of false claims.
by Josh Cryer
Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:50 am
Forum: General
Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
Replies: 111
Views: 62154

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...
by Josh Cryer
Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:28 am
Forum: General
Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
Replies: 111
Views: 62154

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...
by Josh Cryer
Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:22 am
Forum: General
Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
Replies: 111
Views: 62154

DeltaV wrote:A deeply-planted Tsar Bomba might consume the reservoir.
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.
by Josh Cryer
Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
Replies: 111
Views: 62154

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...
by Josh Cryer
Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: There Actually Are some Bridge Engineers Who Haven't Seen
Replies: 14
Views: 5992

MSimon wrote: Better to live with the occasional failure.
That sums up the for profit mentality, absolutely. Sea Dragon was an engineered rocket with margins so high that it would have worked regardless. Ahh, I miss the days when over-engineering things was considered the norm.
by Josh Cryer
Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:53 am
Forum: General
Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
Replies: 111
Views: 62154

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...
by Josh Cryer
Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:46 am
Forum: General
Topic: There Actually Are some Bridge Engineers Who Haven't Seen
Replies: 14
Views: 5992

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...
by Josh Cryer
Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:40 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Hard Truth; From Pravda
Replies: 3
Views: 2675

Heh, there was a recent article showing how America's rail has saved us economically and helped us fair better than most during this global recession. I can't find it though.
by Josh Cryer
Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: Suicide is painless...
Replies: 11
Views: 4954

Re: Suicide is painless...

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.
Let's hear your crackpot theories. I wonder if you also wonder how we could have evolved homosexuality.