Your sniveling cowardice makes me want to vomit.You deserve to be stomped. Unfortunately, your disgusting weakness will only get OTHER people stomped. I have been raising hell about getting critical problems fixed for 20 years or so, occasionally WINNING those fights, and guess what? There have been NO destructive consequences to my life. None. Zero.
There was some violence in that book, yes. But was there anything sexually graphic? I can't think of anything. I don't even think there was an profanity. Can anyone think of anything that even comes close to being pornographic?
I'm genuinely surprised nobody has yet to pose for an Insightful mod by quoting Jeff Goldblum.
If you mean the Jurassic Park quote about nature selecting dinosaurs for extinction, I'm not sure that totally works here since the most likely explanation for mammoth extinction is because humans ate them all when they moved into North America.
Company (say, FreeDNAAnalysis.Com) starts offering free DNA sequencing so you can find out what diseases your predisposed to. But you have to accept an agreement that's so full of legalese that you don't read it/can't understand it. What it basically does is copyright your DNA and grant them the right to sell it to anyone. They acquire more DNA from other sources, such as law enforcement, or other government agencies who are collecting the data.
Then entities start buying this data. Insurance companies, or drug marketers, DHS, or whoever stands to make a profit from knowing that you have a family history of depression, ADHD, schizophrenia, heart disease, murder, whatever.
You, being a smart fellow, had the foresight to copyright your DNA beforehand. But your DNA was taken and sold off to FreeDNAAnalysis.Com because of a speeding ticket you had back in 2019.
Now the insurance company wants to jack up your rates because FreeDNAAnalysis.Com says your DNA makes you at risk to develop irritable bowel syndrome. You'll need an expensive lawyer in order to even be heard by anyone besides a call center drone in India. You'll need to give the lawyer your house to actually sue. And even then you'll probably lose. So you give up and just pay the extra $20 in insurance costs, which, when spread out of millions of people equates to a small rise in quarterly profits and bumps up the stock price of all of the companies involved.
You, unknowingly own some of the stock in your 401k, but it's not enough to amount to shit.
Back in 2003 I tried to use an HP scanner on a twenty. It wouldn't do it. It even opened up a browser window and sent me to a government anticounterfeiting site. Which could also give my IP address to the Secret Service...and potentially result in a nice little early morning raid. I decided I'd never try that EVER again.
apparently seeing faces where they aren't is a sign of a predisposition to schizofrenia
You have it backward there. Brains are experts at seeing patterns like this. That's what they do. In fact, if you don't see faces in clouds, there's probably something wrong with you.
Ha! I saw that immediately too. Still don't see the stupid triangle though. I see many triangle-ish shapes...but nothing that stands out as OMFG, a triangle!
Too bad anyone attempting to reach them would go blind given the time it would take to traverse the distance and the rate at which human eyeballs deform in space.
Yes. But when I tell some Christians that if God exists, he seems to work through processes that can be understood by humans, not miracles. They don't take this well. I gave up discussing it with them. The only people you can really reach...oddly enough...are teenagers.
Nor does it do the loading of the dishes part, or the cleaning of the dinner table part either....which is really what I'd like a robot to do...and if it looked like Lana Del Rey, that would be good too.
Honestly, the only thing keeping robots out of the home today is cost
What useful tasks can they perform in a house right now besides vacuuming? I haven't seen a robot yet that can come into a house and do the dishes or my laundry without screwing it up completely.
This is nonsense. There's nothing in space we need on Earth.
Except new frontiers. All we have to look forward to here is ever increasing numbers, ever more tyrannical governments, and the human equivalent of a rat overcrowding experiment.
No it's not. It lacks useful amounts of water, lacks radiation protection and lacks areas of stable high temperature. And it's been that way for a couple billion years.
The word "useful" is relative. It could be sufficient for sustaining whatever life could be left over from an earlier warming period. Under the surface of Mars, pressures and temperatures are currently adequate for liquid water, and the rock offers plenty of protection from radiation. So I stand by my statement that it's statistically more likely to find life on Mars. But I agree, we don't know much about the other two destinations and they're probably much more interesting to investigate at this point.
You were being so logical and practical right up until the Europa part. Mars isn't a barren rock. There is liquid water under it's radiationless surface. It has also had just as long a history as Earth, much of which were under conditions where it's atmosphere was denser and it's core was warmer. We know that bacteria can survive trips through space. If there is any body in the solar system likely to be sustaining transplanted earth life (from a terrestrial meteor impact), it's Mars. Europa and Enceladus are much further away, more hostile to life than Mars, and orbit planets that are notorious for scooping up debris. As for life evolving independently...yeah the moons of Saturn and Jupiter present possibilities but Mars presents even greater possibilities because it's far more Earth like now and in it's past than Europa and Enceladus.
Yes, let's toss families out of their houses, because hey, space cups.
What? You think that money spent on NASA is toss into a spaceship and blasted into space never to be seen again? No, that money is going right back into businesses here on earth, and back into people's pockets. And we have a cutting edge aerospace industry that makes those robotic probes possible. It's produces something useful. Banks do fine on their own. They're simply wringing money out of the American tax payer because they can simply buy the right people to make it legal. NASA puts men on the fucking moon when we give them money. When we give money to banks they create economic disasters and a handful of really rich guys.
I don't know. I've pulled apart a few bullets in my life to get at the powder (for fun) and you really have to work them out. I'm making an educated guess, but I'd say going from a pressurized saloon and then suddenly out into a vacuum with your six shooter probably wouldn't ruin your bullets.
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Your sniveling cowardice makes me want to vomit.You deserve to be stomped. Unfortunately, your disgusting weakness will only get OTHER people stomped. I have been raising hell about getting critical problems fixed for 20 years or so, occasionally WINNING those fights, and guess what? There have been NO destructive consequences to my life. None. Zero.
There was some violence in that book, yes. But was there anything sexually graphic? I can't think of anything. I don't even think there was an profanity. Can anyone think of anything that even comes close to being pornographic?
I'm not impatient to have a flying car crash through my roof or office window.
Stop giving the Jetson era terrorists ideas! Do you want the TSA to grope you every time you need to run to the corner store for milk?
I'm genuinely surprised nobody has yet to pose for an Insightful mod by quoting Jeff Goldblum.
If you mean the Jurassic Park quote about nature selecting dinosaurs for extinction, I'm not sure that totally works here since the most likely explanation for mammoth extinction is because humans ate them all when they moved into North America.
So let me imagine how this would work.
Company (say, FreeDNAAnalysis.Com) starts offering free DNA sequencing so you can find out what diseases your predisposed to. But you have to accept an agreement that's so full of legalese that you don't read it/can't understand it. What it basically does is copyright your DNA and grant them the right to sell it to anyone. They acquire more DNA from other sources, such as law enforcement, or other government agencies who are collecting the data.
Then entities start buying this data. Insurance companies, or drug marketers, DHS, or whoever stands to make a profit from knowing that you have a family history of depression, ADHD, schizophrenia, heart disease, murder, whatever.
You, being a smart fellow, had the foresight to copyright your DNA beforehand. But your DNA was taken and sold off to FreeDNAAnalysis.Com because of a speeding ticket you had back in 2019.
Now the insurance company wants to jack up your rates because FreeDNAAnalysis.Com says your DNA makes you at risk to develop irritable bowel syndrome. You'll need an expensive lawyer in order to even be heard by anyone besides a call center drone in India. You'll need to give the lawyer your house to actually sue. And even then you'll probably lose. So you give up and just pay the extra $20 in insurance costs, which, when spread out of millions of people equates to a small rise in quarterly profits and bumps up the stock price of all of the companies involved.
You, unknowingly own some of the stock in your 401k, but it's not enough to amount to shit.
Silly rabbit. Copyrights only work for rich people.
Back in 2003 I tried to use an HP scanner on a twenty. It wouldn't do it. It even opened up a browser window and sent me to a government anticounterfeiting site. Which could also give my IP address to the Secret Service...and potentially result in a nice little early morning raid. I decided I'd never try that EVER again.
apparently seeing faces where they aren't is a sign of a predisposition to schizofrenia
You have it backward there. Brains are experts at seeing patterns like this. That's what they do. In fact, if you don't see faces in clouds, there's probably something wrong with you.
Ha! I saw that immediately too. Still don't see the stupid triangle though. I see many triangle-ish shapes...but nothing that stands out as OMFG, a triangle!
Oh, I see the triangle now! ....it's his mouse pointer.
It's full of beeeellions and beeelions of star stuffs
Too bad anyone attempting to reach them would go blind given the time it would take to traverse the distance and the rate at which human eyeballs deform in space.
I don't get it. Due to excessive masturbation?
Yes. But when I tell some Christians that if God exists, he seems to work through processes that can be understood by humans, not miracles. They don't take this well. I gave up discussing it with them. The only people you can really reach...oddly enough...are teenagers.
Nor does it do the loading of the dishes part, or the cleaning of the dinner table part either....which is really what I'd like a robot to do...and if it looked like Lana Del Rey, that would be good too.
Honestly, the only thing keeping robots out of the home today is cost
What useful tasks can they perform in a house right now besides vacuuming? I haven't seen a robot yet that can come into a house and do the dishes or my laundry without screwing it up completely.
In all fairness, he did say the windmills added insignificant amounts of heat to the atmosphere.
This is nonsense. There's nothing in space we need on Earth.
Except new frontiers. All we have to look forward to here is ever increasing numbers, ever more tyrannical governments, and the human equivalent of a rat overcrowding experiment.
No it's not. It lacks useful amounts of water, lacks radiation protection and lacks areas of stable high temperature. And it's been that way for a couple billion years.
The word "useful" is relative. It could be sufficient for sustaining whatever life could be left over from an earlier warming period. Under the surface of Mars, pressures and temperatures are currently adequate for liquid water, and the rock offers plenty of protection from radiation. So I stand by my statement that it's statistically more likely to find life on Mars. But I agree, we don't know much about the other two destinations and they're probably much more interesting to investigate at this point.
You were being so logical and practical right up until the Europa part. Mars isn't a barren rock. There is liquid water under it's radiationless surface. It has also had just as long a history as Earth, much of which were under conditions where it's atmosphere was denser and it's core was warmer. We know that bacteria can survive trips through space. If there is any body in the solar system likely to be sustaining transplanted earth life (from a terrestrial meteor impact), it's Mars. Europa and Enceladus are much further away, more hostile to life than Mars, and orbit planets that are notorious for scooping up debris. As for life evolving independently...yeah the moons of Saturn and Jupiter present possibilities but Mars presents even greater possibilities because it's far more Earth like now and in it's past than Europa and Enceladus.
Damn it. Now I'm going to have to buy them.
ah, there you are my little space troll...right on queue.
Yes, let's toss families out of their houses, because hey, space cups.
What? You think that money spent on NASA is toss into a spaceship and blasted into space never to be seen again? No, that money is going right back into businesses here on earth, and back into people's pockets. And we have a cutting edge aerospace industry that makes those robotic probes possible. It's produces something useful. Banks do fine on their own. They're simply wringing money out of the American tax payer because they can simply buy the right people to make it legal. NASA puts men on the fucking moon when we give them money. When we give money to banks they create economic disasters and a handful of really rich guys.
yes after 40 years and billions of dollars, we now know its possible to drink from a cup in LEO, space .... the final frontier
It's better than giving it to banks to cover their lousy investments.
+1 Naivete
I don't know. I've pulled apart a few bullets in my life to get at the powder (for fun) and you really have to work them out. I'm making an educated guess, but I'd say going from a pressurized saloon and then suddenly out into a vacuum with your six shooter probably wouldn't ruin your bullets.