In fact, I spent an entire day there on a short film shoot including back in their warehouse and calling it a junkyard is not very fair to a place so amazingly well-organized. There aren't many other places in the world where you will see orderly shelved nose cones of various sizes.
You honestly think that pumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere has no effect? And even if you don't think it's human-created, you think the earth doesn't go through massive temperature changes in its history?
It's calling the whole thing 'bullshit' that is the problem. Whether humans are the cause or not, it's happening. Sea levels are noticably rising, glaciers are definitely melting, weather is getting much worse. To claim that the Earth is not warming up is simply being blind to science. That's why no one takes such people seriously.
And you think most computer users have that problem? Considering how few people use Linux in the first place and how many just use the default text ap- Textpad, Wordpad, whatever- again, I think that is a problem for a select group of people. Grandma isn't going to be worried about obscure document formats.
Totally with you there. The Commodore-64 sacrificed quality for price and many of us have very fond memories of it despite that. People pay a lot of money for hardware because they think they're supposed to.
Yeah, no kidding. In the end, why the hell does it matter which OS you use if it gets the job done? I mean great, if you're a geek and into all this you'll be interested in tweaking and so on, but for probably 90% of computer users who just want to check their e-mail, surf the web and write a few letters, they could run Amiga Workbench 1.0 and be satisfied.
I think a bigger question is- How the hell can creatures intelligent enough to travel across light years of space not understand basic camouflage? I mean what kind of idiot flies a saucer with a bunch of blinky lights at night if they want to stay hidden? Also, since they can watch all of our broadcasts, wouldn't they kind of know that a fairly large number of people believe they exist? Are they such stupid intergalactic megabrains that they don't understand when the jig is up either?
Questioning is fine. He didn't question, he stated... and saying that global warming and other disasters are the cause of an evil environmentalist cabal isn't especially scientific.
Do you really think the TSA would stop all of Maine from flying? The feds rely on the taxpayers for income. Pissing off a state's worth of them is not a good plan.
Yep. He got the whistle that way, but he called himself Captain Crunch, not Cap'n Crunch. I think he's entitled to spell his own handle the way he feels like... or do you not think people intentionally misspell words in their handles?
I was going to draw little ones and zeroes with a stick in the mud, but what with being old skool, my people have not discovered the zero yet, but I appreciate the thought.
Slashdot Mirror
They just now noticed, did they?
Wow. Under 40ms. That's almost not totally unusable.
Please don't verb like that. Next thing you'll be doing things adverbly.
Now we get to look forward to the day when 'coop' becomes a verb.
Philip K. Dick proves to be remarkably prescient.
I suggest "nerd rage."
In fact, I spent an entire day there on a short film shoot including back in their warehouse and calling it a junkyard is not very fair to a place so amazingly well-organized. There aren't many other places in the world where you will see orderly shelved nose cones of various sizes.
I don't care if it's caused by humans or not. If it is happening, it is a threat to our survival.
You honestly think that pumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere has no effect? And even if you don't think it's human-created, you think the earth doesn't go through massive temperature changes in its history? It's calling the whole thing 'bullshit' that is the problem. Whether humans are the cause or not, it's happening. Sea levels are noticably rising, glaciers are definitely melting, weather is getting much worse. To claim that the Earth is not warming up is simply being blind to science. That's why no one takes such people seriously.
And you think most computer users have that problem? Considering how few people use Linux in the first place and how many just use the default text ap- Textpad, Wordpad, whatever- again, I think that is a problem for a select group of people. Grandma isn't going to be worried about obscure document formats.
This guy actually believes he's targeted for death? When scientists on his side of the spectrum start dying off mysteriously, I'll care.
Totally with you there. The Commodore-64 sacrificed quality for price and many of us have very fond memories of it despite that. People pay a lot of money for hardware because they think they're supposed to.
Yeah, no kidding. In the end, why the hell does it matter which OS you use if it gets the job done? I mean great, if you're a geek and into all this you'll be interested in tweaking and so on, but for probably 90% of computer users who just want to check their e-mail, surf the web and write a few letters, they could run Amiga Workbench 1.0 and be satisfied.
I think a bigger question is- How the hell can creatures intelligent enough to travel across light years of space not understand basic camouflage? I mean what kind of idiot flies a saucer with a bunch of blinky lights at night if they want to stay hidden? Also, since they can watch all of our broadcasts, wouldn't they kind of know that a fairly large number of people believe they exist? Are they such stupid intergalactic megabrains that they don't understand when the jig is up either?
Unless I do not recall correctly, Michael Crichton is a pathologist.
I thought we were talking about scientists, not spokespeople. Sorry.
How did Al Gore come into this? I know I didn't mention him. He's not even a scientist so I fail to see how it's even relevant?
Questioning is fine. He didn't question, he stated... and saying that global warming and other disasters are the cause of an evil environmentalist cabal isn't especially scientific.
Do you really think the TSA would stop all of Maine from flying? The feds rely on the taxpayers for income. Pissing off a state's worth of them is not a good plan.
Yep. He got the whistle that way, but he called himself Captain Crunch, not Cap'n Crunch. I think he's entitled to spell his own handle the way he feels like... or do you not think people intentionally misspell words in their handles?
Draper is Captain Crunch. Cap'n Crunch is the guy on the cereal box.
The current Earth shows are kind of dull. I can't wait to see Everybody Loves Gaschlongithorbintoninflubbertimont from Zeta III.
will do things like, oh, I don't know, load a wall image BEFORE you run into it?
This will be worse than the end of the horse-drawn zeppelin! Mark my words!
I was going to draw little ones and zeroes with a stick in the mud, but what with being old skool, my people have not discovered the zero yet, but I appreciate the thought.