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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3767212 times)

Akura

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« Reply #4740 on: July 08, 2011, 04:47:26 pm »

I was looking at an old receipt, and noticed they charged me a 5¢ "bottle deposit" on a bottle of soda I bought. Okay, I'm supposed to get back 5¢ when recycling a plastic bottle(in some states), not the store I bought it from. What the holy fuck?

Sure, it's only 5¢, but the idea that they can do something like that pisses me off.



@Political rage: Yeah, we(as in, computer users in general) definitely need to organize large-scale protests to these kinds of laws. This is the fucking Information Age, after all. Information be free!
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« Reply #4741 on: July 08, 2011, 04:50:30 pm »

Want change? Paint two tools on your sheet and raise it in protest, make an effort, don't cuss on the internet and say people are stupid, go out on the street and wake them up.

Damn you for actually making me consider this.

Of course, the entire math department would run me over with tractors (because they got to "enjoy" the Soviet period something close and personal), but I want to.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread - Healthcare Edition
« Reply #4742 on: July 08, 2011, 04:53:05 pm »

Want change? Paint two tools on your sheet and raise it in protest, make an effort, don't cuss on the internet and say people are stupid, go out on the street and wake them up.

Damn you for actually making me consider this.

Of course, the entire math department would run me over with tractors (because they got to "enjoy" the Soviet period something close and personal), but I want to.

Had Lenin lived longer and Stalin never gotten power, I would've begged the Soviets personally to incorporate my country.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread - Healthcare Edition
« Reply #4743 on: July 08, 2011, 06:18:59 pm »

Phone rings, I rush to get it, knock over a display thingy my mom's got mounted on the wall in a hallway. Managed to catch the bastard before it hit the ground, so the glass cover didn't shatter, but I broke off a drawer knob in the process and snapped one of the hooks on the wall. Quick fixes, if I can get the right stuff to do it with, but my mom's gonna be pissed.

Also, it was a telemarketer.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread - Healthcare Edition
« Reply #4744 on: July 08, 2011, 06:22:50 pm »

Goodbye, space program. You did many cool things, and you will be missed.
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« Reply #4745 on: July 08, 2011, 06:29:04 pm »

Ah yea, last shuttle went up today.  Kinda surprising considering it was raining all day.   Pardon my ignorance for being both an American and a east coast Florida resident and not knowing this, but that new space thing is still going to take a while right?  Don't we have some obligation to these other countries to have a functional space program so we can contribute?   It seems quite a bit like we're ignoring our promises or something, am I just missing something?
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« Reply #4746 on: July 08, 2011, 06:31:02 pm »

I'm pretty sure that we followed through with what we promised to the ISS, but I could be wrong.
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« Reply #4747 on: July 08, 2011, 06:36:56 pm »

Pfft.  Those manned missions in low earth orbit never accomplished much anyway.  I'd rather us focus on building deep space probes and fancy telescopes.
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« Reply #4748 on: July 08, 2011, 06:51:37 pm »

Pretty sure we're still fulfilling our commitments to the ISS by funding it and providing logistics and I think even cargo? This isn't the end of low earth orbit operations, I think this is just the end of the classic shuttle program where we send 4 guys up to see what it's like to have a head cold in space. A lot of what they were doing up there was zero-g laboratory experiments. 
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« Reply #4749 on: July 08, 2011, 06:52:31 pm »

Pfft.  Those manned missions in low earth orbit never accomplished much anyway.  I'd rather us focus on building deep space probes and fancy telescopes.

Except a shitload of research in the health field. I'm really curious as to why bone density goes south when in microgravity, and if someone like me can change the
layout of their body (and possibly distribution of calcium deposits) to be able to live a more normal life. We still need folks in space to conduct research.

I, for one, would be happy to stop policing the world with our military, cut down to a "defend the country" force, and spend the rest of the money on space research.
I'd make a terrible president. :P
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« Reply #4750 on: July 08, 2011, 06:58:46 pm »

Pfft.  Those manned missions in low earth orbit never accomplished much anyway.  I'd rather us focus on building deep space probes and fancy telescopes.
We might not be doing that for much longer either...  :-[
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« Reply #4751 on: July 08, 2011, 07:54:41 pm »

Pfft.  Those manned missions in low earth orbit never accomplished much anyway.  I'd rather us focus on building deep space probes and fancy telescopes.
We might not be doing that for much longer either...  :-[

Bluh!? 
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« Reply #4752 on: July 08, 2011, 08:08:23 pm »

Ah yea, last shuttle went up today.  Kinda surprising considering it was raining all day.   Pardon my ignorance for being both an American and a east coast Florida resident and not knowing this, but that new space thing is still going to take a while right?  Don't we have some obligation to these other countries to have a functional space program so we can contribute?   It seems quite a bit like we're ignoring our promises or something, am I just missing something?
Most likely a good chunk, if not all of it, will be done through SpaceX in the future when it comes to the US's ISS stuff. By the looks of it, they already have 4 flights planned by the end of 2012, one of which may take place at some point this year. The craft is also being designed to be human-capable, although it won't get full certification for all that stuff until awhile after the first few ISS resupply missions. And with a price tag currently set at under 60 million per launch, compared to 450m for the shuttle; though it will have a much lower payload capacity (falcon 9 will have 10k kg compared to 25k kg for the shuttle; future spacex variants will have higher capacity than the shuttle)

And best of all, SpaceX has webcasts with live video from onboard cameras looking downward in every launch. :D

Honestly, I'm not worried both because of their pretty good record and the company and its founder's stances stated in the past, many of which can be found in this article from shortly before the most recent launch: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/06/5600599-spacex-gets-set-for-next-giant-leap

Between all the various companies aiming to make space travel viable, the part of NASA I'm most concerned about are the aforementioned unmanned projects. Various data collection missions are getting axed left and right; mostly due to cost overruns in bigger projects like the James Webb telescope; which from what I've heard has become quite the boondoggle of late. Although I can't quite say whether or not I agree with it being cancelled; on the one hand, it should have been cancelled years ago, and on the other, it should have been cancelled years ago. Thus is the problem with letting bad decisions go unopposed... the costs balloon until cancelling it and for the most part dumping the spent money become unthinkable. >_<
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« Reply #4753 on: July 09, 2011, 12:32:24 pm »

Meant to post this the other day, and I've probably complained about it before, but...

I see it all the time, people running through traffic, despite a perfectly fine crossing signal 50ft away. So why is it that I, the guy who crosses at the light, am the one people try to run over? The next asshole who tries to cut me off as I cross(note, pedestrians have right of way) I'm going to jump right at their car and sue their ass, or at least inflict as much damage as a 260lb meatsack can cause.
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« Reply #4754 on: July 09, 2011, 01:36:39 pm »

ProTip: Moving Car > Human
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