Kneel before Zod! Now, lay down before Zod. Now using your lower abdominals, raise your legs and hold on a five count before Zod! One before Zod! Two before Zod!
Just as well, because if they ever did get off their planet they would be able to beat us.
(their ships would out maneuver ours , they would have faster reflexes, and we wouldn't have a chance in hand to claw combat
Would they? Maybe their biochemistry makes it more efficient for them to have extremely slow reflexes. Maybe their movements would be as fast as grass growing. We could round up their entire invasion force and give them all anal probes and alien autopsies before they even knew what happened.
Seems pretty unlikely to cause so many reports. Especially since most amateur astronomers know of the dangers and illegality of shining green lasers at planes.
he has no clue about computing even while he is already 40, cough cough.
At that age I would expect some mainframe assembly experience, some old school languages like fortran or cobol, perhaps smalltalk, but certainly C or Pascal or Modula 2.
Dude. Mainframes? Fortran? Cobol? I'm 39, started coding professionally in 96.... I haven't touched anything but Turbo Pascal, VB, C#, C++, and a few scripting languages since then. We had PCs and internet connections and everything back then....sorry i've never touched a punch card or cobol or a mainframe before.
Where to begin. Technology has constantly enabled us to keep up with population. We're turning food into fuel for chrissakes. We can afford more people. Lot's more.
An industry that's heavily reliant on oil. So what happens when oil becomes too expensive to support our food production infrastructure? Less production. Food riots. Famine? War? We should be holding back population growth now.
Your "entire history" starts a little late. The Native Americans know the facts are different. Their land is still occupied by terrorist religious zealots.
So what you're saying is Native Americans never fought each other and took each others land?
Because then we just have people driving 90-100 mph in an 85. People speed because they can get away with it.
No. People speed because they are more comfortable driving at certain speeds. The speed limit is typically set 5 to 15 mph slower than the comfortable speed. Lots of factors affect it: your age, your cars capabilities, tires, road surface quality, traffic density, etc. Just because the speed limit is 85, doesn't mean the majority of people drive that fast. When they increased speed limits to 75 around here...the majority of people still traveled at the same speed they drove at when it was 65. If they set the speed limit to 100 mph...people would not start driving 110. They'd drive at whatever speed they're comfortable driving at. Most people get uncomfortable long before 100mph.
Military is not about war making, it is about protecting our liberty.
Can't we have a discussion without using ridiculous emotionally charged non words like liberty. I think having a strong military is a good thing. But let's be honest...the US military is the world's pitbull. Very wealthy and powerful people lighting cigars with million dollar bills sick that pitbull on anything that threatens their revenue streams. Call that "protecting our interests" if you will, but that's just candy coating what it is: kicking the smaller kid's ass and taking their lunch money
I'm assuming you met those Persians outside of Iran, because Iran seems like the kind of place that "intelligent, passionate, vocal and idealistic" people would be better off emigrating from.
Several years ago we had an Iranian engineer working at our office. He was a nice guy. Seemed smart. Although I don't think he felt better off as he emptied our trashcans and cleaned our bathroom.
Many famous books had been written. Books like "Animal Farm", "World and Peace", "1984" did have their effects on their readers - unfortunately they too, have failed to change the world
The effects are impossible to quantify, but most definitely have an effect on the world. If not for the movie War Games for example, I probably wouldn't have become a computer junkie. My life would have been totally different. That probably holds true for a lot of people. So that would be a change. Maybe the world has too much momentum in one direction for any single piece of fiction to radically change things, but then again, maybe not. We have no way of knowing.
Yeah, but the emergency switch would probably include some kind of extra functionality....like giving police the ability to monitor your network traffic, kill your network, or even just allow them to park outside your house and surf the net while eating donuts.
Private, public, it really doesn't matter. The citizens (in theory, at least) control the government, and they should be able to stop them from trying this nonsense.
I think we're way beyond that at this point. We don't control the government anymore...if we ever did.
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Kneel before Zod! Now, lay down before Zod. Now using your lower abdominals, raise your legs and hold on a five count before Zod! One before Zod! Two before Zod!
What percentage of the population was actually literate? Compare that to today.
That explains the Kardashians.
Yeah, what the heck were they thinking allying themselves with the Dominion like that? Never bet against Star Fleet.
I read somewhere that 99% of everything is bullshit.
All this has happened before, and all this will happen again
Why would anyone seek treatment for a non-fatal disease when doing so puts you in debt for decades.
Just as well, because if they ever did get off their planet they would be able to beat us. (their ships would out maneuver ours , they would have faster reflexes, and we wouldn't have a chance in hand to claw combat
Would they? Maybe their biochemistry makes it more efficient for them to have extremely slow reflexes. Maybe their movements would be as fast as grass growing. We could round up their entire invasion force and give them all anal probes and alien autopsies before they even knew what happened.
I don't understand. Are you saying this is bad grammar and that adding an adjective to industry will make it correct?
You actually took him seriously, didn't you?
Seems pretty unlikely to cause so many reports. Especially since most amateur astronomers know of the dangers and illegality of shining green lasers at planes.
he has no clue about computing even while he is already 40, cough cough. At that age I would expect some mainframe assembly experience, some old school languages like fortran or cobol, perhaps smalltalk, but certainly C or Pascal or Modula 2.
Dude. Mainframes? Fortran? Cobol? I'm 39, started coding professionally in 96.... I haven't touched anything but Turbo Pascal, VB, C#, C++, and a few scripting languages since then. We had PCs and internet connections and everything back then....sorry i've never touched a punch card or cobol or a mainframe before.
Where to begin. Technology has constantly enabled us to keep up with population. We're turning food into fuel for chrissakes. We can afford more people. Lot's more.
An industry that's heavily reliant on oil. So what happens when oil becomes too expensive to support our food production infrastructure? Less production. Food riots. Famine? War? We should be holding back population growth now.
Your "entire history" starts a little late. The Native Americans know the facts are different. Their land is still occupied by terrorist religious zealots.
So what you're saying is Native Americans never fought each other and took each others land?
Because then we just have people driving 90-100 mph in an 85. People speed because they can get away with it.
No. People speed because they are more comfortable driving at certain speeds. The speed limit is typically set 5 to 15 mph slower than the comfortable speed. Lots of factors affect it: your age, your cars capabilities, tires, road surface quality, traffic density, etc. Just because the speed limit is 85, doesn't mean the majority of people drive that fast. When they increased speed limits to 75 around here...the majority of people still traveled at the same speed they drove at when it was 65. If they set the speed limit to 100 mph...people would not start driving 110. They'd drive at whatever speed they're comfortable driving at. Most people get uncomfortable long before 100mph.
What makes you think they don't already have FB's data?
Military is not about war making, it is about protecting our liberty.
Can't we have a discussion without using ridiculous emotionally charged non words like liberty. I think having a strong military is a good thing. But let's be honest...the US military is the world's pitbull. Very wealthy and powerful people lighting cigars with million dollar bills sick that pitbull on anything that threatens their revenue streams. Call that "protecting our interests" if you will, but that's just candy coating what it is: kicking the smaller kid's ass and taking their lunch money
I'm assuming you met those Persians outside of Iran, because Iran seems like the kind of place that "intelligent, passionate, vocal and idealistic" people would be better off emigrating from.
Several years ago we had an Iranian engineer working at our office. He was a nice guy. Seemed smart. Although I don't think he felt better off as he emptied our trashcans and cleaned our bathroom.
Many famous books had been written. Books like "Animal Farm", "World and Peace", "1984" did have their effects on their readers - unfortunately they too, have failed to change the world
The effects are impossible to quantify, but most definitely have an effect on the world. If not for the movie War Games for example, I probably wouldn't have become a computer junkie. My life would have been totally different. That probably holds true for a lot of people. So that would be a change. Maybe the world has too much momentum in one direction for any single piece of fiction to radically change things, but then again, maybe not. We have no way of knowing.
You aren't paying 'rent' you are paying a pretty cheap transaction (by credit card standards) fee to move in and out of the mainstream economy.
You call a $1.50 ATM fee per transaction pretty cheap?
Yeah, but the emergency switch would probably include some kind of extra functionality....like giving police the ability to monitor your network traffic, kill your network, or even just allow them to park outside your house and surf the net while eating donuts.
Private, public, it really doesn't matter. The citizens (in theory, at least) control the government, and they should be able to stop them from trying this nonsense.
I think we're way beyond that at this point. We don't control the government anymore...if we ever did.
Ah bummer. The article made it sound like this was a giant piece of rock that you could walk on. That would be nifty.
Furthermore, I'm not even sure there is a right way to write it.
Ah yes, the mythical good coder who writes it "right" the first time. Yeah...haven't met one yet. I don't think they exist.
What is this number compared against? A bugless program may still be a piece of shit.