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Quote from: Criptfeind on January 08, 2013, 08:03:34 pm

What do you mean by financial incentives? There already is financial incentives in the forum of crushing medical bills for most things. Do you want to add to that? Or what? As for forced sterilization. Well. That's a pretty fucking slippery slope. And it seems like a pretty bad solution when you can just kick the ethical ball into the geneticist court. Or at least will be able to in a few generations.

I mean no tax benefits for having kids, possibly tax hikes, or even a tax break for not having children. And forced sterilization would be so repulsive to the public at large that you can be sure that at best sterilizing those with lethal illnesses would be barely tolerated at best. It would take a dictatorship to expand it to anything beyond that, and we're already screwed if that happens.

Except we only recently stopped forced sterilizations in the US.

Just watch...

Here's the tl;dw
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3850056/qualcomms-insane-ces-2013-keynote-pictures-tweets

Fixed it mostly.  Slapped a 16 port unmanaged gigabit switch in there and cleaned up the wiring a lot.  The coax is still a mess, but I managed to zip tie it all away.  Only 2 coax jacks work, but we only have the modem and one Comcast box so that's fine for now.  I didn't have any tools for coax so I couldn't do much in that department other get it out of the way.

BTW, this is what it looked like before


I love the cabling guide sticker on the door.

I'm fixing the networking at my mom's house right now, and it's an utter hack job.  Every room is set up with an Ethernet jack, along with cable and telephone.  The person who installed the jacks and picked the equipment for the network cabinet wired at least 2 of the jacks incorrectly, and didn't label ANYTHING.  Confounding the matter, both Directv and Comcast technicians have had their grubby little fingers in it too, and there is now a mix of random, unlabeled coax from both networks.  There are 2 signal amplifiers, along with a few splitters.

To top it all off, the initial guy cheaped out and used a 8 port 100mbit switch.  There are 12 jacks in the house.   The modem and router are in a random upstairs bedroom right now.  I can't put them in the network closet yet because I need to sort out which of these random wall warts powering all the cable stuff can be removed safely.  I'm probably going to need to redo a lot of the terminations on the ethernet, and a few on the coax.  There's an 8 port splitter just sitting on the floor too, it looks like someone just cut the ends off the cables and left the connectors there.

My mom is going to be out a few hundred bucks by the end of it.  We need a new switch, and she already had to buy a new modem and router to replace the on that Comcast provided.  The Comcast one did not support more than 1 wireless client without crapping out, and they wanted $7 a month for the POS.

Meh, call me back when their desktop distribution stops being such a buggy mess.

Here are my thoughts on a realistic mars mission.  Critiques welcome.

We begin by building a vessel using the ISS.  That way you can take it up in pieces, and you can have "dry runs" where people can live in the exact same environment that they'll be making the trip in.  It seems a lot smarter than just building a huge rocket and launching it all at once like we did with the moon

Once everything is ready, we toss the Mars ship out of orbit towards Mars  Once we reach Mars, we don't attempt to land.  The ship/station orbits Mars while the astronauts drive rovers around and do other sciency stuff.  We don't have to worry about delay or bandwidth nearly as much, and images/other data can be analyzed instantly on the space station.  It might even be a good idea to toss a space telescope or two into orbit. 

Unmanned resupply ships could be sent every two years.  Eventually we'd have enough infrastructure to build a landing vehicle and support a crew on Mars.

We'd probably need a few things:
-A way to grow food reliably on a space station.  This probably isn't such a huge issue, we just haven't scaled it up as far as I'm aware
-Better unmanned spacecraft that we trust to dock with stations correctly.  Also probably not a huge issue, we just need to get a robust system in place. 
-More research on living in space long term (some people would be probably stuck on the station for years).

I'm not quite sure if you're not an English speaker or have dyslexia or something.  If you aren't a native English speaker, the solution is pretty easy.  Just read, write, speak, and listen to English at every opportunity.  Reading is especially helpful because you can go through it at your own pace, and you can pick up the spelling.

As for dyslexia, I'm at a loss.

I think Finkus sounds right.

That's because I am
The conveyer belt is a red herring.  The only parts of the plane that touch the conveyer belt are the wheels.  The wheels are, for the purpose of discussion, free spinning.  Picture pushing a model plane forward on a treadmill.  No matter how fast the treadmill moves, you'll still be able to push the plane forward.  The same thing happens with the plane, except instead of your hand, it uses its engines.