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zapkitty commented on the diary post Dumb Rich People by Alan Grayson.
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zapkitty commented on the diary post Dumb Rich People by Alan Grayson.
… wow… what a mess of non-agreeing tenses… I really do miss the edit function…
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zapkitty commented on the diary post Dumb Rich People by Alan Grayson.
I understand now… … in fact the Grayson drivel is currently right under another of RHRealityCheck’s attempts at Obama apologia… So the question would seem to be this: does the articles on the My FDL page reflect solely the rec list automation? Or do myfdl editors actually promote myfdl diaries to the myfdl page? If that is [...]
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zapkitty commented on the diary post Dumb Rich People by Alan Grayson.
… what?… you mean
a staffer’sGrayson’s profound expositions on topics such as the proper way to conduct budget warfare in small Mideastern countries and why the rich are so much better of under Obama wouldn’t be popular in their own right? I mean, slaughtering brown people on the cheap and exalting the ascendancy of the [...] -
zapkitty commented on the diary post Dumb Rich People by Alan Grayson.
Or, more precisely, one or more of Grayson’s staff has a diary on the rec list… the disconnect from reality is tangible.
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zapkitty commented on the diary post Dumb Rich People by Alan Grayson.
“Promote” has a definite meaning in the kossesque style of diary blogs — it means the diary is promoted by the editors to the front page… an occurence which, for some reason, doesn’t happen to Grayson’s driveling nowadays. What Grayson does have at this moment is a diary on the rec list… which is an automated [...]
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zapkitty commented on the blog post Lakeside Diner
Perhaps it will even out if some parts lean in one direction and some other parts lean in the opposite direction… kinda like Jenga with cesium-137…
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zapkitty commented on the blog post Lakeside Diner
ISS has a Dragon by the tail :)
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zapkitty commented on the blog post Lakeside Diner
You have to consider the ecological considerations as well… what would happen to the internet if all those LOLcats kept multiplying and building up with no place to go?
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zapkitty commented on the blog post Lakeside Diner
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zapkitty commented on the blog post Lakeside Diner
Back after changing laundry… Ecahn, you weren’t being snarkish?
There’s money in LEO.
Big money.
Even the Russians know that.
The problem has been NASA desperately trying to maintain control. It has never recovered from the glory days of the Moon race, never gotten into the mindset of being an enabler of commercial spaceflight as its predecessor, NACA, was for commercial aviation.
At several points in the past NASA has acted deliberately and with malice aforethought to cripple commercial spaceflight attempts.
If it helps, you might consider where the banksters are on this: they’ve sunk their funds into provoking NASA into trying to build the biggest launcher ever…. Ares. (under Bush)
A somewhat more sane NASA launcher was undertaken after that monstrosity of a project imploded, that new one’s called the SLS, but the future of launch services lies with commercial ships.
It’s time for NASA to get back to scouting the way rather than trying to be all things to all people… and all markets.
Sounds randian-like… but this is a case where government really does need to get out of the way.
… and thus the banksters would prefer not.
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zapkitty commented on the blog post Lakeside Diner
As a place for the shuttle to go, of course.
… you’d rather that the money went to the banksters instead?
ISSt now serves several other purposes, but perhaps the most forward-looking one is as a forerunner of the commercial space stations now being built.
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zapkitty commented on the blog post Lakeside Diner
For the non-space-geeks: Spacex is a 100% private company that builds its own ships and charges a flat rate for spaceflights to a given orbit… and it’s much cheaper than what NASA could do.
For decades NASA has needed to get out of the LEO launch business in order to concentrate on actually going places again.
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zapkitty commented on the blog post Lakeside Diner
How much more did it cost than if NASA had done it itself?
Your snark is duly noted :)
Who paid for it?
NASA. Astronauts gots to eat.
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zapkitty commented on the blog post Lakeside Diner
A bit of history happening.
As of now (8:15 a.m. EST) a commercial spacecraft, a Spacex Dragon, is the ISS in preparation for berthing… the first commercial spacecraft to be allowed to do so with a NASA asset.
… it’s an historic event that’s only about 50 years overdue…
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zapkitty commented on the diary post Research: Observations Decisively Indicate External Forcing Cause of Arctic Sea Ice Loss by WeatherDem.
Sorry, but CO2-induced climate change is the most likely cause of the current warming trend.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm
Will the <1% take any and all advantages they can from the oncoming disasters that they are responsible for? Of course they will. They are the ultimate opportunists.
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zapkitty commented on the diary post Research: Observations Decisively Indicate External Forcing Cause of Arctic Sea Ice Loss by WeatherDem.
Actually… not :) First, understand that I agree that permanent growth is impossible. Indeed, it is a logical absurdity. Our differences lie in the estimations of how much margin we have left and where carbon lies on the scale of threats facing us as compared to overall population growth. That 1.2 acres per person comes [...]
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zapkitty commented on the diary post Research: Observations Decisively Indicate External Forcing Cause of Arctic Sea Ice Loss by WeatherDem.
… errr… climate projections are coming true now, not in some nebulous future. And the rate of population growth for any given demographic sector declines as the standard of living rises. Add clean energy sources and advanced agricultural techniques (I’m not talking about Monsanto) and the population can comfortably level out at 1.5 to 2 times [...]
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zapkitty commented on the blog post Late Night: Resistance Is Futile
They just want to make what they’re already doing retroactively legal.
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zapkitty commented on the blog post Occupy Journalists Stopped, Searched, Handcuffed & Interrogated at Gunpoint
Corps -> Pols -> Wars-> NATO -> Corps
Really, it doesn’t get any purer than this.
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