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by Teahive
Sat Jul 26, 2014 5:42 pm
Forum: News
Topic: SpaceX News
Replies: 2324
Views: 1154922

Re: SpaceX News

Bad conditions could prevent them from landing but I doubt they'd make the launch depend on it.
They could learn a thing or two from trying a pinpoint splashdown in poor weather.
by Teahive
Sat May 24, 2014 12:16 am
Forum: General
Topic: Go Forth And Prosper
Replies: 26
Views: 6345

Re: Go Forth And Prosper

I'm not saying algebraic notation is not convenient, but just that it does not reflect the way any machine actually operates. True, but mainstream CPU architectures don't operate on a stack either but use a directly addressable register file. And they will try to execute multiple independent operat...
by Teahive
Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:38 am
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1335382

Re: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker

1 m³ of water raised by 10m is 27.3Wh of stored energy, that's about an iPad battery. A few kWh of Li-ion batteries seem like a better option than a water tower.

Pumped hydro storage only makes sense where you have the potential for huge (and deep) natural reservoirs.
by Teahive
Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:49 am
Forum: General
Topic: Latest drug addict loons.
Replies: 679
Views: 265639

Re: Latest drug addict loons.

The WoD ought to have as its standard for success a net positive outcome for society. It doesn't meet that standard.
by Teahive
Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: "Conservatives" adopt Progressive Principles
Replies: 21
Views: 4112

Re: "Conservatives" adopt Progressive Principles

Ah, the myth of "rational" people...
by Teahive
Sun Dec 22, 2013 12:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: Social Conservatism Is Dieing
Replies: 20
Views: 5842

Re: Social Conservatism Is Dieing

And it's silly to argue that Human nature isn't the issue of relevance. Yeah, we know how humans do in different environments. We have the history, and we wrote it down. We can certainly learn lessons from history. Lesson one: The environment changes. We don't live like people did a few thousand ye...
by Teahive
Sat Dec 21, 2013 2:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Social Conservatism Is Dieing
Replies: 20
Views: 5842

Re: Social Conservatism Is Dieing

Social Conservatism always wins the long game, because it is an evolutionarily derived system of societal structure. It's based on long experience with what works. The one thing that survives in the long run is adaptability to a changing environment. Human nature changes at the speed of biological ...
by Teahive
Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Social Conservatism Is Dieing
Replies: 20
Views: 5842

Re: Social Conservatism Is Dieing

Diogenes wrote:Social Conservatism always wins the long game, because it is an evolutionarily derived system of societal structure. It's based on long experience with what works.
The one thing that survives in the long run is adaptability to a changing environment.
by Teahive
Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Why druggies don't work
Replies: 54
Views: 11933

Re: Why druggies don't work

I think that website is satire. Either that, or they're nuts. Maybe from cannabis? Who knows...
by Teahive
Thu Dec 12, 2013 2:21 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Libertarians Are Coming
Replies: 86
Views: 46098

Re: The Libertarians Are Coming

I'm saying the graphs are a poor starting point to find out. Incarceration rate is not crime rate (and even crime rate isn't equivalent to the number of lifetime criminals). A stacked area graph makes it difficult to properly see the magnitude and change of all but the bottom data series. And the wa...
by Teahive
Wed Dec 11, 2013 5:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Libertarians Are Coming
Replies: 86
Views: 46098

Re: The Libertarians Are Coming

Diogenes wrote:"Vague"? That bastard Children will grow up and commit crimes is a "vague" prediction?
Yes, that's vague. There are plenty of children born outside marriage who don't commit crimes.

If you wanted to show correlation your graphs are poorly chosen.
by Teahive
Wed Dec 11, 2013 12:47 am
Forum: General
Topic: Why druggies don't work
Replies: 54
Views: 11933

Re: Why druggies don't work

Maybe there should be a mandatory dose for politicians, then. :D
by Teahive
Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:30 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Libertarians Are Coming
Replies: 86
Views: 46098

Re: The Libertarians Are Coming

The only way to test Atheism as a moral system [...] There is no such test because atheism is not a system of morality, in the same way theism isn't. There are various atheistic moral systems, just as there are theistic moral systems. Western atheists are mostly infused with Christian morality – So...
by Teahive
Sun Dec 08, 2013 11:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Libertarians Are Coming
Replies: 86
Views: 46098

Re: The Libertarians Are Coming

You invoke "Precrime" because you are really stuck on favoring that "anything goes in the bedroom" opinion you have developed. It doesn't take a great powers of prognostication to realize that creating fatherless children is a recipe for social deconstruction. The problem with Libertarians is that ...
by Teahive
Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Libertarians Are Coming
Replies: 86
Views: 46098

Re: The Libertarians Are Coming

Some people really like to use the word "Control" because it's loaded with their preconceived bias. I like to use the word "Defense" as in not letting people screw me over by their foolish or reckless behavior. Talking about words loaded with bias, the problem with that kind of "defense" which take...