Search results

I'm not arguing with the example you give, nor the conclusion you draw from it. I also am troubled by the matter of how corporate governance allows what seem to be irrationally high rewards to a few people whose performance does not seem to correlate to their compensation. But my question is...

Ahh, but Caesar's cook was almost certainly a slave, which we may say is a matter of justice, as the slave was a person, and the rights of persons are the subject of justice.

I don't disagree with you (although I wonder whether a metaphor of comparing people -- workers -- to plants may be unsound). What you've described may be stupid. In fact, it probably is. But is it "unjust"? If so, how is this stupidity a matter of "justice"?

Is it "good"? Of course not. Is it "unjust"? Only if the former stole their money from the latter. Did they?

On one level, I suppose it's like sports. Do you follow sports? I don't, but a lot of people do. It's a contest, it has drama. Monkeys like to watch that sort of thing. On another level, once in a while, political contests end up being relevant to real people's actual lives -- they can end...

OKEY DOKEY ... the informed criticism of Ares has NOTHING to do with an absence of "cool" and everything to do with: 1. Ares I is a NASA jobs program to build a rocket that won't do anything that existing RLVs either already can do or could have done for a lot less money. 2. Ares V is a...

My friend, I'd love to agree with you. On even-numbered days, I'm tempted to suspend my doubts and believe that those donuts on a rope mean something ... but then on odd-numbered days, I remove my tin-foil hat ... :lol:

uhmmm ... one can find pages and pages and pages of detailed criticism of Constellation here on this forum alone that many here believe substantiates this characterization. Look beyond the forum and you'll find volumes and volumes of criticisms. And, yes, many have much better ideas.

I'm not by any means arguing with you here, but I wonder if you think there was a realistic possibility of opposing Soviet occupation of Poland after the war. After all, Poland was covered in Soviet troops at the time, and Stalin doesn't seem like kind of fellow who would have accommodated a...

I have to go off to the real world -- that cruel, capitalist world of unbridled competition -- to try to eke out a living, so only time for one, cryptic, parting shot: "Social justice" -- what could it possibly MEAN? What does that term actually, really MEAN?

I'm sorry, my humor missed the mark. My point was that EVEN IF such a thing were to be found -- irrefutable evidence that Obama in fact shares Ayers political ideology -- it would have no effect on the election at this point. FWIW, I suspect that Obama may well have shared those radical...

Not if you depend on the New York Times for information: http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2008/10/the-times-ha-sp.html

Hey -- I'm not "arguing" by using those examples. I'm just pointing out that there's been seven and half years of white-hot hate rhetoric aimed at Bush. What that may mean, I couldn't say, and at this point, it doesn't matter. Polling right now indicates that it wouldn't matter to the results...

Prepare yourself for more suckage.

Bummer: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3ab47b5367-e89d-4b6d-bd47-5e05016f7e32 ... not surprising given the budget blood...

Yeah -- those terrible right-wing hate-mongers, with their inflamed rhetoric and nasty images. Nothing like this: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/12/crush-the-obamedia-narrative-look-whos-gripped-by-insane-rage/ ... sounds like a one-way mirror to me ...

... whistling as I stroll past the graveyard, I'm struck by a certain asymmetry. Back in 2000 and 2004 we heard deafening howls about a stolen election and rigged voting. Mounting evidence indicates that systematic voter registration fraud on a scale of at least hundreds of thousands of votes...

Some folks in China think the Shenzhou VII EVA was fake: http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/chinese-space-spacewallk-china-bloggers-5326.html It appears China is not immune to its own native brand of "Moon Hoax" thinking. Whenever there's an ISS EVA and I'm at home, I keep the video feed on...

Here's a nice video of ESA's IXV reentry technology development & demonstrator vehicle: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola/2008/10/video-esas-intermediate-experi.html This would make a great addon!

With the success of SpaceX's fourth Falcon 1 flight, even a bitter old curmudgeon like me has occasional, brief flashes of hope. I thought I'd start a thread devoted to the general topic of the prospects for "New Space" with a link to a short little blog post I came across that discusses the...