Serious flaw eh? Tell me about it. I bought my laptop in June 2007 and it failed once in April 2008 and again just three days ago. The culprit? MY 8600M GS both times.
I'm not going to pay $400 for a new motherboard...
Actually watching Power Rangers (the original, mind you) had a large effect on the person I am today.
I don't remember much of the theme song, but the part about only using their powers for defense is still suck in my mind.
You can have all these wonderful strengths, but if you would unjustly harm others with them... I have zero respect for such people.
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Actually we can call it a preemptive attack. I mean they don't like us and are developing nuclear facilities for whatever reason, right?
I think we've fucked things up enough for now, don't you?
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Oh, and lets not mention the whole nuclear weapon transport thing from a couple months ago and how our actions are effecting our standing with Iran. I hear they don't like us too much. We should kill them.
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You realize that we've gained FAR more enemies because of the course of action the nation chose right?
How exactly do you declare war against a concept? Terrorism has been going on since we started killing each other back when we lived in caves.
How many civilians have we killed? Well I'll tell you one thing - once a civilian is slain by our forces then you're guaranteed that their families are going to hate the US because of it. So how many thousands have we slain? Are we going to kill their angry family members too? This is one hell of a slippery situation the leadership of this country has gotten us into.
It's justifiable to fight back after what happened on 9/11 (and there is, quite honestly, a lot of distrust about what actually happened. Personally I believe the govt knew the attack was going to take place and didn't do anything to stop it, as it served as the catalyst for our current war) but what the hell are we doing?! I sure as hell don't believe in an eye for an eye so I defiantly don't believe in multiple lives for an eye. As the GGD have said, "And its falling all around us. Is this some kind of joke they're trying to play on us?"
And on the falling all around us note, even if ideas about global warming are wrong, we're still screwed the moment we run out of oil, unless we really get on developing a new power source. Well we'll know what path humanity has chosen regarding the energy issue within 10 years or so.
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example:
116,750 / 115 = 1,015.21739
$116,750 dollars is roughly 1000 times larger than $115.
Notice that these are essentially the same numbers that I used above.
We'd need SETI to be 1000 times more costly before its lifetime cost equaled the cost of one year in Iraq.
So I guess it'd be.1%, thanks.
Good to know someone was interested enough to check the math.
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While I'm certain there's intelligent life out there (take a look at the size of the universe), I'd sure like to see proof before we kill ourselves. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason we've been unable to find other life is because it's also failed at the exact point we're failing now - Changing from non-renewable energy sources to renewable resources.
I'm both laughing and crying right now.
This is true on so many levels.
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Let me put it like this:
SETI costs us, at most, $5,000,000 a year to fund.
The war against Boogiemen, in Iraq alone, is costing us ~$116,750,000,000 a year to fund.
SETI's lifetime cost thus far has been 115,000,000 (assuming 5million/year. 5mil is the most it costs per year, 4 million the least)
Let me put it like this:
SETI costs us, at most, $5,000,000 a year to fund.
The war against Boogiemen, in Iraq alone, is costing us ~$116,750,000,000 a year to fund.
SETI's lifetime cost thus far has been 115,000,000 (assuming 5million/year. 5mil is the most it costs per year, 4 million the least)
Mathtime! 115,000,000 / 116,750,000,000 = 0.000985010707
Yes, the lifetime cost of SETI has been but 0.000985010707% of the cost of ONE YEAR in Iraq..001% of the cost of one year of a bullshit war to fund a search for proof that we're not alone in the universe?
Hell yes.
Hell
Yes
Hell
Fucking
Yes
Sources:
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_faq.htmlhttp://www.nationalpriorities.org/Cost-of-War/Cost-of-War-3.html
Do what works best for you. Due to personal reasons my performance was limited in highschool, severely damaging my grades. I got into a local college's IT program (before even taking the SAT mind you) and after proving myself over the first year, I intend to make the jump to their software engineering (CS) program. The great thing about the two programs here is that the first year of each is pretty much the same.
Here's a decent rule of thumb when it comes to eating food:
If you don't know understand what the ingredients are when you may not want to consume it. Pick up any random piece of junk food and read the ingredient panel. Kudos to you if you can even pronounce everything correctly.
Speculation is a great thing, but it quickly loses its luster when stated as fact. The little disclaimer you stuck on the bottom should be right under the headline.
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Serious flaw eh? Tell me about it. I bought my laptop in June 2007 and it failed once in April 2008 and again just three days ago. The culprit? MY 8600M GS both times. I'm not going to pay $400 for a new motherboard...
Actually watching Power Rangers (the original, mind you) had a large effect on the person I am today.
I don't remember much of the theme song, but the part about only using their powers for defense is still suck in my mind.
You can have all these wonderful strengths, but if you would unjustly harm others with them... I have zero respect for such people.
Actually we can call it a preemptive attack. I mean they don't like us and are developing nuclear facilities for whatever reason, right?
I think we've fucked things up enough for now, don't you?
Oh, and lets not mention the whole nuclear weapon transport thing from a couple months ago and how our actions are effecting our standing with Iran. I hear they don't like us too much. We should kill them.
[rant]
You realize that we've gained FAR more enemies because of the course of action the nation chose right?
How exactly do you declare war against a concept? Terrorism has been going on since we started killing each other back when we lived in caves. How many civilians have we killed? Well I'll tell you one thing - once a civilian is slain by our forces then you're guaranteed that their families are going to hate the US because of it. So how many thousands have we slain? Are we going to kill their angry family members too? This is one hell of a slippery situation the leadership of this country has gotten us into.
It's justifiable to fight back after what happened on 9/11 (and there is, quite honestly, a lot of distrust about what actually happened. Personally I believe the govt knew the attack was going to take place and didn't do anything to stop it, as it served as the catalyst for our current war) but what the hell are we doing?! I sure as hell don't believe in an eye for an eye so I defiantly don't believe in multiple lives for an eye.
As the GGD have said,
"And its falling all around us.
Is this some kind of joke they're trying to play on us?"
And on the falling all around us note, even if ideas about global warming are wrong, we're still screwed the moment we run out of oil, unless we really get on developing a new power source. Well we'll know what path humanity has chosen regarding the energy issue within 10 years or so.
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example:
.1%, thanks.
116,750 / 115 = 1,015.21739
$116,750 dollars is roughly 1000 times larger than $115.
Notice that these are essentially the same numbers that I used above.
We'd need SETI to be 1000 times more costly before its lifetime cost equaled the cost of one year in Iraq.
So I guess it'd be
Good to know someone was interested enough to check the math.
While I'm certain there's intelligent life out there (take a look at the size of the universe), I'd sure like to see proof before we kill ourselves. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason we've been unable to find other life is because it's also failed at the exact point we're failing now - Changing from non-renewable energy sources to renewable resources.
I'm both laughing and crying right now. This is true on so many levels.
Let me put it like this:
.001% of the cost of one year of a bullshit war to fund a search for proof that we're not alone in the universe?
SETI costs us, at most, $5,000,000 a year to fund.
The war against Boogiemen, in Iraq alone, is costing us ~$116,750,000,000 a year to fund.
SETI's lifetime cost thus far has been 115,000,000 (assuming 5million/year. 5mil is the most it costs per year, 4 million the least)
Mathtime! 115,000,000 / 116,750,000,000 = 0.000985010707
Yes, the lifetime cost of SETI has been but 0.000985010707% of the cost of ONE YEAR in Iraq.
Hell yes.
Hell
Yes
Hell
Fucking
Yes
Sources:
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_faq.html
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/Cost-of-War/Cost-of-War-3.html
Let me put it like this: SETI costs us, at most, $5,000,000 a year to fund. The war against Boogiemen, in Iraq alone, is costing us ~$116,750,000,000 a year to fund. SETI's lifetime cost thus far has been 115,000,000 (assuming 5million/year. 5mil is the most it costs per year, 4 million the least) Mathtime! 115,000,000 / 116,750,000,000 = 0.000985010707 Yes, the lifetime cost of SETI has been but 0.000985010707% of the cost of ONE YEAR in Iraq. .001% of the cost of one year of a bullshit war to fund a search for proof that we're not alone in the universe?
Hell yes.
Hell
Yes
Hell
Fucking
Yes
Sources:
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_faq.html
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/Cost-of-War/Cost-of-War-3.html
Thanks for perpetuating that CS elitist stereotype.
Do what works best for you. Due to personal reasons my performance was limited in highschool, severely damaging my grades. I got into a local college's IT program (before even taking the SAT mind you) and after proving myself over the first year, I intend to make the jump to their software engineering (CS) program. The great thing about the two programs here is that the first year of each is pretty much the same.
Here's a decent rule of thumb when it comes to eating food: If you don't know understand what the ingredients are when you may not want to consume it. Pick up any random piece of junk food and read the ingredient panel. Kudos to you if you can even pronounce everything correctly.
Speculation is a great thing, but it quickly loses its luster when stated as fact. The little disclaimer you stuck on the bottom should be right under the headline.