Couldn't agree more. Now if you can convince our politicians and their constituents of your wise words, we'll be getting somewhere. If you can do this calmly, then, Ultranova for President!
any highly irrational person who wants to shout something out to the world. To be heard, you now have to shout louder and 10x more irrationally than everyone else. Rational discourse died with the words "Hello, world".
His thesis does not appear to considers current political and economic realities. The current situation is that governments (esp. the US gov) cannot spend another dime on fanciful spaceflights until everyone is fully insured, police brutality is stamped out through omnipresent surveillance of police, the terrorist state is pacified, females have equal access to STEM training and jobs, soc sec and medicare are fully funded, and any manner of other social welfare institutions are fully operational and ready for battle.
Until then, a trip to Mars is only available to people or corporations or the founders of corporations who have a dream and enough money to make it happen.
If asteroid mining ever yields precious metals or unlimited energy (could you steer asteroids to impact earth in a specific place and generate net energy gains??), then you'll see governments going to war over the rights to mine them.
The Social Justice crowd has fully convinced me (and pretty much everyone else) that we (the US people/government) don't have a dime to spare on anything that isn't directly going to the eradication of social injustices. Maybe someone gets creative and funds an all female/minority version of NASA to go to Mars, thereby creating opportunities that alleviate a few situations and still goes to space. But I don't see that as the path of least resistance for solving those problems, with nearly all the resistance being political.
None of this should surprise anyone for whom/. is a primary source of news.
I'm sure California already has a government branch dedicated to scrutinizing text books. Texas should just send someone over to L.A. and see what books the kids are walking out of class with, then mandate everybody use those pre-vetted texts.
Sorry for the self reply, but I want a Pay Wall option on my Phone that says if you're not on the white list and you want to donate $0.50 to my phone bill, you have to have pre-funded an account that lets you Pay the $0.50 to my bill if I pick it up.
If a phone company wants to rule the world, make this an option.
Just give me a way to white list the #'s I want to talk to and send everybody else directly to Voice Mail. They call all they want. No need to make any laws.
Why isn't this the standard way it works already?
Property Rental is not the evil that you're making it out to be. It is actually very beneficial to a large number of people since it allows them live in places where they would not otherwise be able to afford to live (Check out Reasons to Rent section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...). San Francisco and Manhattan would still be well out of the price range of the vast majority of American's to buy in, even if renting were illegal.
Property Rental is not the engine that enriched the majority of people living in Manhattan. Wall Street bankers would still run up the prices of property beyond the means of normal people. Forcing people to buy in Manhattan would reduce the prices to the point where people "rich enough" to buy the property would buy it and then you force all the people who can't afford to buy to move out. You have created an even greater division in the classes than you started with.
The issue of property prices is one of supply and demand.
I recently drove from St. Louis to Colorado. There were places in Kansas where the local government was advertising that they would give you 10+ acres of land if you would just move there to live! Rent isn't the problem. Whether your buy or rent, Supply & Demand is the problem. You can't make more beach front property unless you're Saudi Arabia.
I'm pretty sure the purpose of trailers is to help you form an opinion, so the only thing it says about me is that I am susceptible to advertising. Thanks for the vote of confidence:-)
want to puke! It's rated R and doesn't need to be so cutesy. All the wonderment, all the "oh, I've got feelings!" Data pulled it off much better in TNG. Even the name Chappie is a too sickly syrupy. I'm sure he turns into an amazing warrior for justice and the downtrodden and my heart would swell with his humanity, but I don't want to see this.
Give me Data with his emotion chip and the his crazy laughter/break down when he and Geordi were scouting that ship...that was hard enough to watch. Give me Short Circuit. Heck even Earth to Echo was consumable.
Maybe I'm just too American and can't quite stomach this Australian aesthetic. Just one guy's opinion...I'm sure you've got one too.
we don't outlaw people from speaking their minds. That doesn't mean there won't be consequences, big, small, or other, whether it's Mitt Romney wanting to put electric windows on airplanes (evidently unashamed of his religion), or Obama and the religion that he evidently professes (but somehow escapes persecution for), or Linus displaying his apathy for what people think of his civility and creativity for insults, or the people here who find great sport and a common sense of moral and intellectual superiority in making fun of religion and religious people.
Thankfully, our forefathers were intelligent enough (religious, though many of them were) to secure our rights to speak our minds (slander aside), and to secure our rights to practice religion (or not) as we see fit. They were also smart enough not to think they could protect us from ourselves, but they did try to protect us from each other and from an oppressive government. I'm glad to be an American and a Christian.
I have a theory that the geek brain requires more glucose than the average brain. This allows me to rationalize my Mt. Dew addiction and my undying devotion to Swiss Cake Rolls. Don't try to kill my buzz with facts about sugar -> glucose conversion. Little Debbie for President!
Focus on making it feel less like hauling a boat anchor out of the mud when it's starting up would a good beginning.
By the time FF chugs to life, I've fired up Chrome and am half way through the article.
I do use FF for web development almost exclusively. Chrome's Inspect Element doesn't compare to FireBug...yet.
To hear Apple tell it, you don't need any IT support if you're on a Mac. Shouldn't be a problem....but if there is, there's always the Genius Bar down at the mall.
btw...i r fanboi (>2 macs at home)
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Couldn't agree more. Now if you can convince our politicians and their constituents of your wise words, we'll be getting somewhere. If you can do this calmly, then, Ultranova for President!
any highly irrational person who wants to shout something out to the world. To be heard, you now have to shout louder and 10x more irrationally than everyone else. Rational discourse died with the words "Hello, world".
His thesis does not appear to considers current political and economic realities. The current situation is that governments (esp. the US gov) cannot spend another dime on fanciful spaceflights until everyone is fully insured, police brutality is stamped out through omnipresent surveillance of police, the terrorist state is pacified, females have equal access to STEM training and jobs, soc sec and medicare are fully funded, and any manner of other social welfare institutions are fully operational and ready for battle. Until then, a trip to Mars is only available to people or corporations or the founders of corporations who have a dream and enough money to make it happen. If asteroid mining ever yields precious metals or unlimited energy (could you steer asteroids to impact earth in a specific place and generate net energy gains??), then you'll see governments going to war over the rights to mine them. The Social Justice crowd has fully convinced me (and pretty much everyone else) that we (the US people/government) don't have a dime to spare on anything that isn't directly going to the eradication of social injustices. Maybe someone gets creative and funds an all female/minority version of NASA to go to Mars, thereby creating opportunities that alleviate a few situations and still goes to space. But I don't see that as the path of least resistance for solving those problems, with nearly all the resistance being political. None of this should surprise anyone for whom /. is a primary source of news.
I'm sure California already has a government branch dedicated to scrutinizing text books. Texas should just send someone over to L.A. and see what books the kids are walking out of class with, then mandate everybody use those pre-vetted texts.
Only way to stop robocalls is a White List.
Sorry for the self reply, but I want a Pay Wall option on my Phone that says if you're not on the white list and you want to donate $0.50 to my phone bill, you have to have pre-funded an account that lets you Pay the $0.50 to my bill if I pick it up. If a phone company wants to rule the world, make this an option.
Just give me a way to white list the #'s I want to talk to and send everybody else directly to Voice Mail. They call all they want. No need to make any laws. Why isn't this the standard way it works already?
Property Rental is not the evil that you're making it out to be. It is actually very beneficial to a large number of people since it allows them live in places where they would not otherwise be able to afford to live (Check out Reasons to Rent section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...). San Francisco and Manhattan would still be well out of the price range of the vast majority of American's to buy in, even if renting were illegal. Property Rental is not the engine that enriched the majority of people living in Manhattan. Wall Street bankers would still run up the prices of property beyond the means of normal people. Forcing people to buy in Manhattan would reduce the prices to the point where people "rich enough" to buy the property would buy it and then you force all the people who can't afford to buy to move out. You have created an even greater division in the classes than you started with. The issue of property prices is one of supply and demand. I recently drove from St. Louis to Colorado. There were places in Kansas where the local government was advertising that they would give you 10+ acres of land if you would just move there to live! Rent isn't the problem. Whether your buy or rent, Supply & Demand is the problem. You can't make more beach front property unless you're Saudi Arabia.
I'm pretty sure the purpose of trailers is to help you form an opinion, so the only thing it says about me is that I am susceptible to advertising. Thanks for the vote of confidence :-)
Sorry, South African aesthetic...
want to puke! It's rated R and doesn't need to be so cutesy. All the wonderment, all the "oh, I've got feelings!" Data pulled it off much better in TNG. Even the name Chappie is a too sickly syrupy. I'm sure he turns into an amazing warrior for justice and the downtrodden and my heart would swell with his humanity, but I don't want to see this. Give me Data with his emotion chip and the his crazy laughter/break down when he and Geordi were scouting that ship...that was hard enough to watch. Give me Short Circuit. Heck even Earth to Echo was consumable. Maybe I'm just too American and can't quite stomach this Australian aesthetic. Just one guy's opinion...I'm sure you've got one too.
we don't outlaw people from speaking their minds. That doesn't mean there won't be consequences, big, small, or other, whether it's Mitt Romney wanting to put electric windows on airplanes (evidently unashamed of his religion), or Obama and the religion that he evidently professes (but somehow escapes persecution for), or Linus displaying his apathy for what people think of his civility and creativity for insults, or the people here who find great sport and a common sense of moral and intellectual superiority in making fun of religion and religious people. Thankfully, our forefathers were intelligent enough (religious, though many of them were) to secure our rights to speak our minds (slander aside), and to secure our rights to practice religion (or not) as we see fit. They were also smart enough not to think they could protect us from ourselves, but they did try to protect us from each other and from an oppressive government. I'm glad to be an American and a Christian.
Who would have thought the reality would get here before the movie.
I have a theory that the geek brain requires more glucose than the average brain. This allows me to rationalize my Mt. Dew addiction and my undying devotion to Swiss Cake Rolls. Don't try to kill my buzz with facts about sugar -> glucose conversion. Little Debbie for President!
Focus on making it feel less like hauling a boat anchor out of the mud when it's starting up would a good beginning. By the time FF chugs to life, I've fired up Chrome and am half way through the article. I do use FF for web development almost exclusively. Chrome's Inspect Element doesn't compare to FireBug...yet.
To hear Apple tell it, you don't need any IT support if you're on a Mac. Shouldn't be a problem....but if there is, there's always the Genius Bar down at the mall. btw...i r fanboi (>2 macs at home)
This oughtta be rich!